Warwick Powell on Transition Protocol. The United States can't win the Iran war, and can't walk away from it. Powell explains the Vietnam-era trap Washington is in, and why Iran is ready for what comes next.
He argues the US cannot concede on the Strait of Hormuz, and that prestige, not ego, keeps Washington in the war. Vietnam-era logic, he says, pushes a losing war onto the next president. On 8 October, Trump posted there would be no attack on Iran before the 3 November midterms. Powell also covers the cost at home in diesel, freight, and power bills, and Australia's AUKUS dilemma.
Timeline:
00:15:08 The decent interval
00:22:43 They want a grand invasion — the host's sources in Tehran
00:42:27 Can America defend the Pacific?
Episode 2203. Trump and Putin have struck a surprise diesel deal, and Zelensky is furious, calling the US president weak. Alex breaks down the 90 minute Trump Putin phone call, the Russian diesel sanctions waiver running until April, what each side really gets out of it and why Europe was left out of the room, plus Merz versus Schroeder, Trump's Nobel Peace Prize snub and new US sanctions on the ICC. Is this the first real crack in the collective West sanctions wall, or just a midterm talking point?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Zelensky calls Trump weak
00:01:25 How big is the diesel deal really
00:03:14 Trump's Truth Social announcement
00:04:35 The 90 minute Trump Putin phone call
00:05:50 What Trump gets from the deal
00:07:30 What Putin gets, sanctions waiver until April
00:12:39 Refinery strikes send a message to Russia
00:15:10 Witkoff and Kushner brief Ukraine in Miami
00:19:20 Putin on resuming negotiations
00:21:59 Russia offers Iran uranium solution
00:23:14 Zelensky meltdown and Europe's anger
00:26:54 Zelensky vs Klitschko
00:28:53 Merz angry at Schroeder over Putin visit
00:31:24 Brussels protests, Nobel Prize snub, ICC sanctions
00:36:40 Clown World
SpaceWeatherNews on a mostly calm sun, with a departing flare-active group and new sunspots on the incoming southern limb. A CME due on October 9 left no clear shock in the solar wind, geomagnetic conditions stayed quiet, and the show expects at least one more impact, plus a coronal-hole stream early next week.
That coronal hole was the earthquake watch called on the October 8 show. A magnitude 7.7 struck Panama on October 9, with initial tsunami concerns, and the show says there were no casualties. Linked papers cover solar forcing of Pacific precipitation and northwest Pacific cyclones, and a lab study in which seeds germinated poorly when the geomagnetic field was removed.
The Houthis are advancing in Yemen and Saudi Arabia is facing its most dangerous crisis in a century. With Taiz reportedly encircled, MBS pleading for ground troops that Turkey, Pakistan and Syria will not send, and Trump still undecided on a new Iran operation, they argue the real Middle East flashpoint is no longer Iran or Hormuz but the stability of the Saudi kingdom itself. Can diplomacy with the US, Russia and China save MBS, or did his bet on Trump over BRICS cost him everything?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Iran, Yemen and reports of a new US operation
00:00:48 Hormuz tightens and the drift to confrontation
00:02:58 Yemen is the real crisis as Houthis advance
00:03:58 MBS needs boots on the ground
00:04:56 Taiz cauldron and the threat to Saudi stability
00:06:13 Would the US be forced to intervene
00:09:11 No diplomacy and an absent Rubio
00:10:47 How MBS failed to hedge
00:14:26 Can a deal with the Houthis save Saudi Arabia
00:15:53 Economic pressure on Iran and US bond yields
Following their recent trip to Russia, Professor John Mearsheimer joins former CIA analyst Larry Johnson to examine why Western hostility toward Moscow has intensified long after the Cold War.
Daniel Liszt presents Dark Journalist X-Series episode 240 on nightside forces, Nikola Tesla, Edgar Cayce, Rudolf Steiner, John Trump, the Apotheum mystery school, and a UFO file. The episode also covers the Apotheum effect, a moon buster, space wars, missing scientists, and CERN.
The host notes earlier reports on missing scientists after the death of MIT neutron-star merger scientist Nuno Laureiro in December 2025 and General William McCasland in February 2026.
Pepe Escobar and Larry Johnson with Zulfiqar Ali on Transition Protocol. A senior source in Pakistan's military establishment told the show, in answer to five questions, that no Pakistani aircraft entered Yemeni airspace — "None. Zero." — and that the foreigners inside Saudi Arabia's war are mostly American: 110 American advisors, two Pakistani radar specialists and two Turkish technicians.
CNN has separately reported more than 100 US military advisers supporting the Saudi campaign. On 8 October Pakistan's Information Ministry called a New York Times report of Pakistani jets "fake and fabricated". The source says every Pakistani unit is around Mecca and Medina, under Pakistani command, not Najran.
Escobar says any move toward the border would make Pakistani forces "legitimate targets". Also Saudi Arabia's money, Trump's pause on Iran until after 3 November, and what a senior Iranian source told the host two hours before recording.
The five answers and the 110 / 2 / 2 figures come from that Pakistani military source. The Iranian remarks are a senior Iranian source speaking to the host. Larry Johnson's account of damage at Abqaiq and on the East–West pipeline has not been independently confirmed.
Episode 2044. Kiev has been plunged into darkness after Russian drones knocked out the Kievska substation, halting the metro and disrupting the sewage system. Alexander analyses the campaign against Kiev's bridges, power grid and SBU sites, graphics of Zelensky's bunker now circulating online, Zelensky's complaints that Europe and the United States are abandoning Ukraine, and the collapse of the Kharkov cauldron as Russian forces advance in Sumy and Donbass. Europe is refusing to hand over its last air defenses, and diplomacy is at a dead end.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Kiev under a cat and mouse campaign
00:01:07 Bridges and SBU sites targeted
00:03:35 Kievska substation knocked out
00:05:26 Blackout, metro stops and sewage problems
00:07:13 Railways and the locomotive shortage
00:10:37 SBU strikes and control of Kiev
00:13:20 Zelensky bunker graphics appear online
00:16:20 Is Surovikin in charge
00:17:27 How long can Kiev go on
00:22:38 Signs of another massive strike
00:24:56 Zelensky blames Europe and the US
00:27:28 Europe refuses to hand over air defenses
00:33:28 Will Western embassies leave Kiev
00:36:09 Zaporozhye airstrikes and FAB 3000 bombs
00:41:58 Yevkurov says the old limits are gone
00:50:10 Dobropillia, Druzhkovka and Vivaldi failure
00:52:51 Kharkov cauldron collapses, Sumy advances
00:58:22 Diplomacy is over as Peskov agrees with Rubio
01:06:28 Gaza anniversary, Hormuz and Trump's Iran pledge
01:09:15 Yemen, MBS and rising energy prices
Episode 2202. Putin hosts Schroeder in Moscow on his birthday, and Alex asks whether he was sent to pitch a winter ceasefire. Surovikin is back, with Kiev's bridges as the target, and Klitschko says the city is in survival mode. Kushner and Witkoff meet the Ukraine team in Miami while Rubio and Peskov describe a diplomatic stalemate. Trump says there will be no Iran strike before the midterms. Also Hormuz oil and tanker strikes, Jolani weighing troops for Yemen, and Burnham answering a fuel crisis with Google Maps.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Trump on Clinton, Biden and Obama
00:00:50 Putin hosts Schroeder on his birthday
00:02:45 Was Schroeder sent to pitch a winter ceasefire
00:04:10 Kushner and Witkoff meet Ukraine team in Miami
00:09:40 Rubio and Peskov see a diplomatic stalemate
00:11:03 Surovikin returns to target Kiev bridges
00:14:30 Klitschko says Kiev is in survival mode
00:16:20 Trump says no Iran strike before midterms
00:18:45 Hormuz oil flows and tanker strikes
00:22:08 Jolani weighs sending troops to Yemen
00:24:10 Burnham answers fuel crisis with Google Maps
00:27:20 Pentagon may livestream Hasan execution
00:28:50 Clown World: superintelligence post and EU Trump statue
00:31:50 WSJ on Guilfoyle Amex request
Scott Ritter with Danny Haiphong on C-17 transports surging into Ben Gurion, a Trump-Israel war plan for Iran the show says is already underway, and an Iranian response that has left Washington and Tel Aviv panicking.
SpaceWeatherNews on Friday, October 9, still waiting on shock-wave impact, with a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coast. An M6.8 flare erupted in the last day and destabilized a filament: a wide, faint burst whose shock crossed about half the sun.
The show links an ASM Microbiology Spectrum paper on hypomagnetic conditions that recreate the loss of Earth's magnetic field. It says the harm was largest in the smallest insect groups and nearly absent in the largest, which it reads as close groups shielding one another, then jokes that the answer to the universe is 42. The linked EGUsphere preprint by Jia Jia and colleagues finds mesospheric ozone losses of about 30 to 80 percent in four Solar Cycle 25 storms, in May and October 2024, November 2025, and January 2026. The show notes those models did not reproduce the upper loss, says an 80 percent hit would not fit a normal magnetic field short of an extreme flare, and expects the daily ozone record to break again this weekend, with pollution controls helping lower down and the pole shift leaving the upper layers open to space energy.
I have a mission for you, should you choose to accept it. But be forewarned: it's not a glamorous mission and, given that it represents a real threat to the state, it might even become dangerous. But if we don't undertake this mission, there's little chance that we'll be able to form the mutual aid organizations that will see us through the coming years of turbulence. Are you ready? Your mission is: unvandalism. Join James for this week's edition of #SolutionsWatch as he explains this concept and how this seemingly trivial activity can have very large consequences.
On this episode of The Target with Robert Inlakesh, we dive into a staggering new admission: around 30,000 Israeli soldiers have been injured since October 7 according to Tel Aviv's own data, with this toll predicted to be much higher.
This is the true cost of American imperialism, Israeli expansionism and unconditional Western backing. Three years and thousands of personnel lost later & they still have failed to achieve a strategic victory on any front.
As Yemen blows up Saudi Aircraft, destroys oil facilities, and Iran expands its range of fire around the Strait of Hormuz, we take a look at Israel's current military predicament, its loss of soldiers, equipment, morale & inability to continue sustaining its "seven-front war".
While Tel Aviv grapples with this internal collapse, a strategic shockwave is building. Israel has identified Yemen as a "mini-Iran" that possesses tens of thousands of missiles, capable of hitting not only Saudi Arabia but also Israeli targets —with precision.
Israeli estimates are that since 2020 the IRGC have been aiding Yemen to develop a new generation of ballistic missiles & drones that are now achieving unprecedented military achievements.
Our American Alchemist this week is John S. Herrington, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Energy, who ran America's nuclear weapons complex at the height of the Cold War.
John joined Reagan as a volunteer advance man in the 1960s. He later served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, head of White House personnel, and Secretary of Energy from 1985 to 1989. In this episode, John takes us inside Reagan's cabinet: the stealth fighter he found hidden in his own budget, the Strategic Defense Initiative and Edward Teller's nuclear-powered space laser, Reagan's "throw deep" approval of the Superconducting Super Collider, and the secret Taiwanese nuclear weapons program the U.S. shut down. He also takes on the UFO question. He says the Navy's UAP videos are real, but calls a Reagan-era alien story "total B.S." and challenges David Grusch and others to show hard evidence.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:28 Brent Friedman's Story
00:04:26 Interview Preview
00:08:14 Meeting Ronald Reagan
00:10:11 Reagan and SDI Opposition
00:11:21 Reagan's Diaries and Speeches
00:13:02 Strategic Defense Initiative Explained
00:15:48 Edward Teller and Excalibur
00:17:33 Green Fireballs Document
00:18:47 UFOs, Navy Videos and Faith
00:21:28 Herrington Denies Brent's Story
00:24:49 The Greenbrier Bunker
00:27:26 Brent Friedman Responds
00:29:43 The 1981 Veranda Conversation
00:33:04 Underground Facilities in West Virginia
00:35:13 Polygraph and Money Questions
00:36:12 Why Brent Went Public
00:39:01 David Grusch
00:41:36 The Politico Journalist
00:44:32 UFOs at Nuclear Sites
00:46:09 Harald Malmgren's UFO Debris
00:49:06 A Secret Budget Item
00:50:59 F-117 and Skunk Works
00:52:30 UFOs as Spy Plane Cover
00:53:15 Oak Ridge Document
00:53:53 Garry Nolan's Ubatuba Sample
00:56:57 Reagan's 1974 UFO Sighting
00:58:26 Otherworldly or Man-Made
01:00:34 AI and Deepfakes
01:01:26 Stratton, Lacatski and Lazar
01:03:31 UFOs at Pantex and Fukushima
01:05:07 Bobby Ray Inman
01:06:06 UFOs and the Ocean Floor
01:07:26 CIA's Hollywood Liaison
01:09:00 Limits on Elected Leaders
01:10:32 Exotic Propulsion and Submarines
01:11:28 Nuclear Airplanes and Project Orion
01:12:43 Nuclear Tests and Roswell
01:13:37 The Question of Evidence
01:15:37 Palomar Observatory Transients
01:17:13 Parapsychology and Precognition
01:18:30 Trump and Disclosure
01:20:25 Cold Fusion
01:21:26 Spies at the Energy Department
01:22:38 PROMIS Software and Bill Richardson
01:24:09 Genesis Mission and Underfunded Programs
01:25:57 Public Fear of Nuclear Power
01:27:10 SAIC and Bobby Ray Inman
01:29:01 High-Energy Physics and UFOs
01:31:01 Marco Rubio on UAP
01:32:54 Atomic Energy Act and Rickover
01:35:13 Seafloor Recovery and Puthoff's Hypothesis
01:37:55 The CIA, Gaffney and Casey
01:40:17 Closing and Reagan Keepsakes
01:42:45 Brent on the Hazing Theory
01:44:18 DOE Roswell UFOs as an Initiation
01:47:43 Consciousness and Initiation
Trump is diving fully back into war mode with Iran as US & Israeli forces prepare for a massive offensive before the elections in both states. KJ Noh analyzes the geopolitical and global significance of the escalation and what the mainstream reports are leaving out.
Alexander examines why the largest NATO military delegation in eight years made an unannounced trip to Kiev just as the Dnieper bridges go down and the front lines buckle at Dobropillia and Lyman. Drawing on a trusted source, Alexander explains why Russia is weakening the bridges rather than destroying them, how that links to rumors of General Surovikin's return, and what Peskov, Lavrov and Rubio saying talks are pointless means for the months ahead. If the generals came to Kiev to be told all is well, who is left to tell them the truth?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction and Ukraine's cumulative crisis
00:01:46 NATO military delegation arrives in Kiev unannounced
00:06:25 Why the generals rushed: front lines are buckling
00:10:47 Wiesbaden headquarters and who really runs the campaign
00:14:41 Messages to Moscow and to Kiev
00:18:24 A tour of inspection to be reassured
00:23:47 Ukraine's drone strike on refineries and Yandex
00:27:52 Russian drones target SBU buildings in central Kiev
00:30:30 Dnieper bridges still out of operation
00:33:19 Rumors of General Surovikin's return
00:37:40 Source explains Russia's bridge strategy
00:45:22 Kiev substation and Kharkov power outages
00:49:29 Oreshnik, Yuzhmash and the buried Neptune project
00:54:55 Dobropillia cauldron tightens
00:56:53 Operation Vivaldi stalls near Lyman
01:00:43 Kharkov and Zaporozhye offensives continue
01:02:20 Will winter slow the Russian advance
01:09:17 France protests and Europe's economic stress
01:13:38 Yemen, Saudi Arabia and oil supply fears
01:16:58 Peskov, Lavrov and Rubio rule out talks; no Trump Putin call
All 32 NATO military chiefs just made a rushed trip to Kiev, and Alex explains why that signals panic as Operation Vivaldi fizzles near Lyman and the front line keeps slipping. Alex breaks down the reported Witkoff, Kushner and Dmitriev plan for the United States to run Russian gas through Nord Stream to Germany, Russia's new Rassvet rival to Starlink, the Houthis closing in on Taiz while blasts hit Riyadh, and Marco Rubio's Acropolis speech in Athens. With Trump weighing strikes on Iran, how much longer can the collective West hold all of this together?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:18 NATO military chiefs make rushed trip to Kiev
00:03:15 All 32 NATO representatives meet Syrskyi
00:06:12 Operation Vivaldi fizzles near Lyman
00:08:29 NATO drone and AI plan for the eastern flank
00:10:15 Ukraine drone strike on Yandex data center
00:12:09 US plan to run Russian gas through Nord Stream
00:15:39 Trump and Putin birthday call does not happen
00:16:04 Rassvet, Russia's rival to Starlink
00:18:56 Houthis close in on Taiz as Riyadh is hit
00:21:48 Trump weighs strikes on Iran
00:24:14 US 10 year yield tops 5.35 percent
00:24:49 Rubio's Acropolis speech and Greece deals
00:28:55 South Korea recalls ambassador to Ukraine
00:29:51 Clown World: Lithuania sends 100 soldiers to Kaliningrad border
Danny Haiphong on Israel at the edge of civil war and Iran striking US Navy escorts in Hormuz. He says the CIA calls Israel on the brink of collapse, and that the picture is worse, as Iran confronts the US Navy and claims of a strong US position in the war are challenged.
