Carl Zha and Warwick Powell on whether Washington is losing control across Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, Ukraine, and China.
Powell argues fuel and diesel prices show a gap between claims that Hormuz flows are back to normal and what oil markets, depleted strategic reserves, and continued attacks indicate.
The talk then covers an overstretched U.S. military, China's choice to avoid direct confrontation while tightening energy security and ties with the Global South, Beijing's limits on refined petroleum exports, and Europe copying Washington's trade stance toward China.
Jaime Maussan on the Kumburgaz case in Turkey, and Yalcin Yalman's 2007–2009 footage of craft and occupants over the Sea of Marmara.
On Interestelar, Maussan pays tribute to Yalman and reviews the case. The channel says optical close-ups showed structures with volume, open hatches, and the silhouette of occupants aboard the craft.
The episode revisits field work in Turkey with Haktan Akdogan, Antonio Urzi, and Dr. Roger Leir. The show says that analysis challenged science and confirmed the filmed objects were authentic.
SpaceWeatherNews on a solar storm and a hurricane this week.
The episode links an ALMA image of spiral galaxy M83, Webb's view of stellar jets in nebula NGC 7129, a Planetary Science Institute proposal to study a possible lunar cave under NASA's PRISM program, and a University of Texas finding that the Ames meteor impact in Oklahoma happened 100 million years later than previously thought.
Putin has rejected Modi's Ukraine ceasefire proposal, and the fallout could shake BRICS just as Brazil looks set to walk away from the bloc. On this episode we break down why India's peace plan irritated Moscow, how Zelensky has already burned through the EU's 90 billion euro loan, and why Brussels is once again eyeing the frozen Russian assets in Euroclear. With Ukraine's tax base collapsing and the drone campaign against Russian refineries losing its effect, how much longer can Europe keep the money flowing?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro: Diplomacy, BRICS and Ukraine's money problem
00:02:13 India's peace initiative and Putin's irritation with Modi
00:03:26 Russia rejects a freeze: Medvedev, Peskov and Istanbul plus
00:04:42 Why Modi made this move
00:06:19 Brazil election, Bolsonaro and a possible BRICS exit
00:10:00 Why India matters more to Russia than Brazil
00:11:50 EU's 90 billion loan already spent
00:13:09 Ukraine's budget hole and collapsing tax base
00:16:10 Frozen Russian assets and Euroclear back on the table
00:18:43 Drone campaign on Russian refineries losing effect
Iran has refused Trump's last counteroffer in full and decided that ships crossing Hormuz will pay in rials only, Transition Protocol's sources say — decisions taken hours before this recording and not yet announced.
Host Zulfiqar Ali and Pepe Escobar, speaking from Bangkok after midnight, on what Tehran just decided, why the last diplomatic channel may be dead four weeks before the US midterms, and why Pakistan's diplomats see the Yemen war as the biggest threat yet to the House of Saud.
Timeline:
00:03:13 The rial rule: nothing other than Iranian currency, cleared through China's CIPS
00:04:34 The refusal: the Qatari-carried counteroffer rejected categorically
00:06:34 The clock: Escobar says the channel is dead; four weeks to 3 November
00:12:15 The Mecca question: an alliance to defend Saudi Arabia, but none for Gaza?
00:19:21 Pakistan's troops near Yemen: defence only, the host's sources say
00:30:01 Brazil's 25 October runoff, after Flávio Bolsonaro's first-round lead
John Michael Greer returns to Legalise Freedom for a conversation sparked by his latest book, The Magical Writings of W.B. Yeats. Topics include what magic actually is, its overlap with New Thought (popularly known as manifesting), advertising and propaganda as mass hypnosis, and how building a psychic firewall can help lead a freer life.
Prof. Richard Wolff talks with Danny Haiphong about why Trump's biggest mistake in the Iran war keeps getting worse, and how this quarter-trillion-dollar nightmare is digging the petrodollar, and the US empire's, grave.
Trump tells a Nebraska crowd that losing Los Angeles or San Diego would be a small price to pay to stop Iran getting nuclear weapons, and Alex breaks down the remark alongside a bleak Financial Times report on Odessa and Project Ukraine. From 650 drones launched toward Moscow and Ukraine's vanishing locomotives to Germany's talk of conscription, a Merz and Macron trade kill switch for Brussels, and the so called Muslim NATO activating against the Houthis, the collective West looks increasingly rattled.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Trump: Let them take out Los Angeles
00:03:10 Ukraine launches 650 drones toward Moscow
00:05:06 Financial Times bleak report from Odessa
00:06:45 Ukraine running out of locomotives
00:08:10 Kiev data center goes offline
00:08:58 Pompeo and the Siberia outbreak narrative
00:10:55 Rada to remove NATO from Ukraine constitution
00:12:35 Wadephul on conscription and Lavrov meeting
00:15:30 German spy chief warns of conflict with Russia
00:18:30 Merz and Macron want EU trade kill switch
00:21:15 Muslim NATO activated against Houthis
00:23:40 Protests in France spread to Belgium
00:24:50 US trade deficit hits 17 month high
00:25:45 Clown World: Telegraph on Russian spies in Finland
00:29:45 Stubb blames Russia for Spain migrant crisis
Episode 2198. Saudi Arabia's offensive in Yemen has begun, yet the Houthis are encircling Taiz and closing in on Aden, and Alex explains why MBS is now asking the Trump administration to step in. Alex also covers the US pulling its bombers out of RAF Fairford, Iran's 7 day proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the Russian Ministry of Defense telling Ukraine to blame Zelensky, Medvedev's Starlink warning, and Flavio Bolsonaro beating Lula in the first round in Brazil. With Sanchez calling snap elections in Spain, is the Zelensky curse about to strike again?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Saudi backed Yemen offensive begins
00:02:11 Houthis encircle Taiz with Aden next
00:04:33 US bombers leave RAF Fairford
00:08:29 Iran 7 day proposal to reopen Hormuz
00:09:57 Russian MOD says blame Zelensky
00:14:20 Peskov says Russia will fight with full force
00:15:56 Kiev bridges and the Crimean Bridge double standard
00:21:42 Trump team pushes trilateral meeting
00:23:20 Medvedev warns on Rassvet and Starlink
00:26:05 Merz in Kiev on German Unity Day
00:30:40 Flavio Bolsonaro wins first round in Brazil
00:33:15 Sanchez calls snap elections in Spain
00:34:50 Siberia lab incident
00:35:50 Romania protests over Georgescu
00:36:40 Clown world: Estonia moves troops to Russian border
Vasily Prozorov, a former Ukrainian SBU officer who defected to Russia and survived two assassination attempts, has spent years tracking the network of foreign fighters and mercenaries operating inside Ukraine. His new book, "Ukraine: Murderers for Hire — Dogs of War Lured by Kiev," is a documentary investigation into who these fighters really are.
He sits down with Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector and Marine Corps intelligence officer, and DDGeopolitics to break it down.
He sorts foreign fighters into three categories: ideological neo-Nazis, mercenaries chasing a paycheck, and Western military professionals operating NATO systems under official deniability. British Afghanistan veterans could not answer how to defend a checkpoint against a tank. A Ukrainian officer had already faced that in 2014. By late 2023 most Western mercenaries had left Ukraine. The war was nothing like Afghanistan or Iraq.
The supply has shifted to Latin America. Colombians are now the dominant foreign mercenary group and are used as cannon fodder. Western countries are paying their own mercenaries through Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, with their own financial assistance. Colombian cartels are recruiting Ukraine-trained FPV drone operators. Prozorov says he has seen it firsthand. Ukrainian instructors have been sent to Colombia to train cartel members on FPV drones on the spot.
Israeli instructors were seen in the Dnipro battalion in 2014, a personal connection through Kolomoisky. On drone operators controlling strikes from European apartments, he says: "War criminals. Nothing but disgust." He calls Laura Loomer a soldier in information warfare, a foreign mercenary serving the Kiev regime. His next book is on weapon smuggling from Ukraine.
Darcy Weir is an independent documentary filmmaker focused on UFOs/UAPs, secret government programs, the paranormal, underground bases, and related unexplained subjects.
Timeline:
00:00 - Dinosaur Stargates in an alleged NSA file
08:05 - The claim Venezuela was invaded for a Stargate
15:58 - The Atacama mummy's human DNA test
22:29 - The whistleblower who called black triangles US tech
26:21 - NASA's sightings revealed in the UFO files
30:49 - The Air Force's 1958 plan to arm the Moon with nukes
34:02 - X-15 pilots reported saucers pacing their craft
38:24 - Gary McKinnon hacked NASA with blank passwords
43:50 - What Gary McKinnon says he saw inside NASA
47:36 - The Solar Warden Program
55:38 - Inspiration behind Project Stargate
01:01:15 - If the US has UFO tech, why not use it in Iran?
01:05:25 - Pascagoula alien abduction incident
01:12:07 - Corey Goode's abduction story
01:16:48 - Corey Goode's questionable copyright
01:27:34 - Could UFO encounters originate in consciousness?
01:34:52 - What NASA's ultraviolet cameras saw in space
01:39:12 - NASA shuttle crews spotted "alien spacecrafts"
01:43:33 - Buzz Aldrin's UFO confession
01:47:42 - Ultraterrestrial breakaway civilization theory
01:52:26 - The triangle UFO filmed over Tehran
01:59:24 - Tehran UFO incident of 1976
02:06:32 - "Fastmover" underwater UFOs
02:15:37 - Alleged 4K UFO satellite images
02:26:34 - Project Bluebeam's laser technology
02:30:56 - Annie Jacobsen's source on Roswell
02:37:22 - Why would Roswell's 'aliens' look human?
02:41:23 - Why the Nazca Mummies are a hoax
02:56:46 - Nazca Mummies have thumb joints
03:04:00 - The Chris Bledsoe orbs
03:10:22 - Why did NASA figures visit Chris Bledsoe?
03:14:03 - Darcy's biggest skepticism of Chris Bledsoe
03:18:56 - The Bledsoe neuralizer story Danny cut
Kiev is in panic as Russian Geran drones cut the Dnieper bridges and split the city in two, and in this episode we explain why this is a logistics crisis for the Ukrainian military in the east. They break down the rare Russian Ministry of Defense statement placing full personal responsibility on Zelensky, Peskov's warning that Russia will now use full force, and Friedrich Merz's surprise trip to Kiev with money, weapons and possibly the Taurus missile. With Western embassies drawing up plans to leave Kiev, how much longer can Zelensky hold on?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Kiev bridge strikes and Merz surprise visit
00:00:50 Panic in Kiev as Geran drones hit the Dnieper bridges
00:03:08 Why the Kiev bridges are critical to Ukraine military logistics
00:07:35 Russian MOD and Peskov warn of full force
00:11:12 Why Merz rushed to Kiev
00:12:46 Taurus missile and the FP9 question
00:16:38 AfD surges as Merz visits Kiev on German national day
00:19:07 Russia tells Western diplomats to leave Kiev
00:23:24 Russian MOD puts full responsibility on Zelensky
00:26:41 Trilateral meeting talk for end of October
Paul Stonehill on the early Celtic hillfort at Horné Orešany in western Slovakia, on Slepý vrch in the Little Carpathians, excavated under Karol Pieta. He reads the 5th–4th century BCE finds, then asks whether a bronze fibula of a horned figure on a horseless vehicle is an ancient Segway, and whether horned humanoids once lived in Central Europe.
SpaceWeatherNews on a day-long geomagnetic storm, with solar wind above 700 km/s after yesterday's surge from large dark coronal holes. No flares or eruptive events, sunspots stay exceptionally weak, and the show expects the wind to ease today with some storm reverberations still likely.
It returns to the 2015 paper with Kongpop U-Yen and Christopher Holloman, which it says showed the sun triggering the largest earthquakes, and notes that Wilcox Solar Observatory has stopped the polar-field record.
The linked Research Square preprint by Ivan Berezin and Andrey Tlatov tests whether the KMAS/STOP magnetograph can continue that series. A second report covers crustal magnetic anomalies and electrical resistivity outside the United States and Canada, as a step toward storm-time surge maps for power grids and pipelines.
Copernicus ozone monitoring shows the southern-hemisphere hole near another daily peak, already above the daily record several times this year. The show reads the next spike as particle input from the current storm at the top of the ozone layer, while lower down it is pollution controls against volcanoes, and says the pole shift is taking a toll up high.
