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A week after Russia's nuclear warning over Kaliningrad, The Duran says the Baltic states are again planning a blockade, starting with the gas pipeline into the exclave. The episode covers Nikolai Patrushev's claim of a NATO blockade plan, the view in Lithuania and Estonia that NATO could defeat Russia in a week, and why Moscow will not retreat on Kaliningrad.
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Robert Inlakesh, on The Target, says a report counts at least 135 Iranian strikes on Gulf infrastructure, and that the White House played them down. He also covers a Pentagon threat to use the MOAB, a covert Arab-Israeli alignment, Israeli warnings to Hezbollah, a Yemeni strike on Saudi-backed targets, and Ansarallah gains in Taiz.
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Andrei Martyanov says reports of a strike on Borisoglebsk, pushed by Boris Rozhin and Fighterbomber, are fake. He says the field had no aircraft, eight combat planes had already left, and a photo of a hit Tu-22M3 was already debunked. On the Ryazan refinery he cites the Russian Defense Ministry: four Flamingo cruise missiles and 69 drones were shot down, and a tank fire from falling debris was put out with no damage to the plant.
He says the situation in Kiev is dire, and that Pete Hegseth does not understand this war. He claims Russia makes more than 5.5 million FPV drones a year, while the United States reaches a fleet of 2 million only around 2028. He points to a Pacific training launch from a Yasen-M submarine, Onyx at 170 km and Kalibr at 1,200 km, and says twelve Zircons reached Kiev. He also says the US Treasury has lifted energy sanctions on Russia and that this will not be reported.
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Throwback interview from 2019. Joseph Farrell discusses the dark roots of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and the anti-human agenda.
Riyadh called Beijing. Trump called Putin for diesel. Nobody's coming to save Saudi Arabia — except 110 Americans.
("110 Americans in the Saudi war room" is per Transition Protocol's Pakistani military sources.) Here is why nobody is coming, what Beijing will actually do, and what the Russian diesel deal is really for — from a man who has lived in Beijing for almost three decades.
Einar Tangen joins host Zulfiqar Ali from Beijing as Houthi missiles hit Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport again.
Riyadh's calls: according to Transition Protocol's Pakistani military sources, 110 Americans were in the Saudi war room during the bombardment of Ansar Allah positions, even as Trump told Riyadh he wanted no new war. Pakistan will guard the holy sites only.
Beijing's answer: "very little," in Tangen's assessment — China will police dual-use parts flowing to the Houthis, will not arm anyone, and cannot project force from its single base in Djibouti. Reuters reported on 17 September that Saudi Arabia appealed to Beijing and that China privately urged Iran to rein in the Houthis.
Iran's choice: our sources say Tehran told Pakistani mediators it would not restrain the Houthis — it wanted Saudi losses.
The October surprise: why the Russian diesel deal (1.8 million tonnes from October to December) covers only days of US demand, and what Tangen thinks it is really for.
A gateway to a wider war? "Unfortunately, I do." And two ways this ends.
Sourcing note: "110 Americans" and the Iran–Pakistan exchange are the host's own reporting from Pakistani sources. Tangen's remark about discussions of tactical nuclear weapons has not been independently confirmed. On air, a figure of "510 to 525 million tons" of daily US diesel use is a misstatement; the US uses roughly half a million tonnes of distillate a day (EIA).
Larry Johnson on reports that Yemeni forces struck two Aramco headquarters in Saudi Arabia and published footage of a hit on a Saudi Typhoon, described as the second fighter jet after an F-15. He also recounts speaking at a Russian-chaired UN Security Council session in New York on civilian casualties in Ukraine, and says the US tone toward Russia has softened.
Has Iran just leaked US-Israeli war plans, which according to Iranian intel, could be carried at any moment? Fmr CIA analyst Larry Johnson and retired US Army Colonel and Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson react to a bombshell report that details the deep war preparations of Trump and Netanyahu when no one was watching, and give expert insights into the Yemen-Saudi war that cannot be ignored as Middle East oil comes under massive crisis.
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This week on Sunday(?) Update: it's Mission Un-Accomplished in the Middle East as Operation Epstein Fury continues to spin out of control.
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MBS is reportedly moving between bunkers as the Houthis push deeper into Yemen and warn Saudi civilians to evacuate oil installations. In this episode we break down why no ally will send ground troops, why Iran's mediation offer is a nonstarter, and why Trump faces enormous pressure to intervene despite Houthi warnings to stay out, before turning to Andy Burnham blaming Iran for the RAF Fairford incident. Is Saudi Arabia running out of options, and is Burnham turning out to be even worse than Starmer?
The Duran: Episode 2648
00:00:00 MBS in hiding as the Houthis advance in Yemen
00:00:50 No allies willing: Pakistan, Turkey and Syria say no
00:01:11 Houthis warn Saudis to evacuate oil installations
00:02:27 Riyadh airport strikes and Iran's offer to mediate
00:03:47 Why MBS can't send the Saudi army into Yemen
00:05:14 Putin, the UAE and Russian mediation
00:05:46 Houthis warn the US to stay out
00:07:08 Can Trump resist the pressure to intervene?
00:09:50 Burnham blames Iran for the RAF Fairford incident
00:11:26 Brexit, Russia and what Burnham is really doing
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Vijay Prashad, speaking from Beijing, says Yemen’s Ansar Allah now covers the Bab al-Mandab (Arabic for “Gate of Tears”) while the Strait of Hormuz remains restricted — leaving Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab states, he says, with no easy way out.
Status check: control of Mocha is contested. The Houthis seized the port city in September; Yemen’s government said on 5 October that it had retaken it, which Al Jazeera could not verify, and a Houthi spokesman denied it on 6 October. Prashad calls it “still contested”. Mayyun (Perim) Island is Prashad’s account; we could not confirm a change of control.
Host Zulfiqar Ali speaks with Prashad about what Beijing is seeing: the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab, the strikes on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, Iran–Saudi contacts that Beijing’s dialogue made possible, why he says Ansar Allah is “not a proxy of Iran”, and Xi Jinping’s proposed table for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
What you’ll learn: why Prashad says the Gulf’s two sea exits are both in other hands · what he says Ansar Allah gained at Mocha · why he argues Iran “does not speak for the Yemenis” · what he says the Iran–Saudi channel achieved · why Iran, he says, wants the Mecca pact left alone · why he asks whether Yemen could “collect” at the Bab al-Mandab as Iran does at Hormuz · what he expects from a Xi-hosted Trump–Putin meeting.
Chas Freeman, former US assistant secretary of defense and ambassador to Saudi Arabia, with Glenn Diesen on the quarrel between Trump and Zelensky after a US diesel deal with Russia. Freeman says the Trump administration does not share the Biden line of using Ukraine to pressure Russia, and discusses reports of reduced US intelligence sharing, including a degraded Starlink used to guide Ukrainian drones.
Did Ukraine's partners really go silent before Russia's latest missile strikes on Kiev? Alex breaks down Zelensky's claim that intelligence warnings were withheld, Trump's denial, the new Starlink speed cap, the Russian diesel deal angering Senator Blumenthal, Houthi strikes on Saudi Aramco, Kimberly Guilfoyle's exit as US ambassador to Greece, and the Nord Stream trial opening in Hamburg. Is Washington quietly tightening the screws on Kiev, or is this just good cop, bad cop?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro and Rutte on Russia and NATO
00:00:41 Zelensky heads to London to meet Burnham
00:01:53 Zelensky claims partners withheld missile warnings
00:03:42 Trump denies cutting off intel to Ukraine
00:06:16 Medvedev mocks Zelensky over intel
00:07:11 Starlink speed cap hits Ukraine's front line
00:09:24 Senators slam Trump's Russian diesel deal
00:10:49 Massive Russian strikes leave Kiev in blackout
00:13:25 Ukraine runs out of interceptors
00:14:13 Houthis strike Saudi Aramco
00:15:32 Iran's new tactics in the Strait of Hormuz
00:19:34 Guilfoyle asked to resign as ambassador to Greece
00:22:14 New press secretary's rocky first briefing
00:26:01 Nord Stream trial begins in Hamburg
00:28:21 Clown World: Rutte on hybrid threats
Scott Ritter with Nima Alkhorshid on reports that two ships are sinking, one in the Strait of Hormuz and one in the Gulf of Oman, after more than ten vessels were hit. They discuss an Ansarallah announcement of strikes on Aramco headquarters, an Aramco facility, and King Khalid International Airport, and Ritter's view that Iran controls the strait while Saudi attempts to divert oil to the Red Sea have failed.
Renowned analyst Alastair Crooke brings his decades of diplomatic and intelligence experience in West Asia to break down reports of a coming Israeli attack greenlit by Trump as Iran amasses troops on its borders for a major ground response. Yemen is hitting the nerve center of the petrodollar hard, and the Saudi regime is on brink of collapse despite US and Israeli support.
Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat and the Founder of the Conflicts Forum based in Beirut.
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Full lecture from the 2026 Snippy festival.
Dr. Robert M. Schoch is Director of the Institute for the Study of the Origins of Civilization (ISOC) at Boston University's College of General Studies, where he has been a faculty member since 1984.
He earned his Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics from Yale University in 1983. Schoch maintains that true civilization existed 12,000 years ago and was decimated by the cataclysmic events, initiated by our Sun, that ended the last ice age, circa 9700 BCE.
With John Anthony West, in the early 1990s Schoch uncovered geological evidence (water-weathering and water-erosion features) indicating the origins of the Great Sphinx date back millennia prior to its conventional dating of circa 2500 BCE. Subsequently, excavations of the 12,000-year-old megalithic site of Göbekli Tepe confirmed Schoch's assertions regarding the extreme antiquity of civilization.
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Martin Armstrong is the former chairman of Princeton Economics International Ltd., a former leading multinational corporate advisor with offices in Paris, London, Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo. He was hailed as Economist of the Decade and was named Hedge Fund Manager of the Year in 1998 after correctly forecasting the collapse of Russia.
