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Apr 20 2025 
The Coalescing Orange Chaos
The Panel: a bemused historian, diplomat, and soldier sift through the entrails of a near-decomposing but spastic and enraged behemoth.
Nima Alkhorshid of Dialogue Works interviews Mohammad Marandi, Larry Wilkerson & Chas Freeman as the clock ticks for Iran and U.S.: Talks or Total War? The constant changes of tack and talking points by Witkoff and… Continue reading
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Apr 08 2025 
Alastair Crooke : Trump Demands the Impossible from Iran
With Judge Nap.
This is a must listen interview as Alastair Crooke exposes the demands from the US to Iran, and it is not only to reduce nuclear activities. Yesterday in the Trump/Netanyahu public discussions (can one even call them discussions, or do we call them publicly announced kill plans?) Netanyahu proposed for Iran, the… Continue reading
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Apr 01 2025 
Hold My Beer
The bomber is NOT always going to get through. Several of them are going to end up in flaming debris on Iranian mountainsides.
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
Ok, right up front I want to make it clear that this post is simply an extended riff on the same theme I have been fixed upon in my… Continue reading
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Mar 27 2025 
Yemeni Missiles and the Anglo-Zionists
Geopolitical analyst and journalist Pepe Escobar joins the program from inside the country currently leading the way in standing up for human rights and peace worldwide: Yemen.
In this must-watch stream, we discuss the truth about how the people of this war-torn country have been able to remain steadfast in their support of Gaza with ongoing… Continue reading
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Mar 23 2025 
Scorch Marks in the Sand
“Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin”
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
Javelin, Stinger, M-777 howitzer, HIMARS, Excalibur, Switchblade, all manner of electronic warfare gizmos and counter-battery radars, Bradley IFVs, Stryker, Leopard, Challenger, Abrams, Patriot, JDAMs, HARMS, Storm Shadow, ATACMS … I’m sure I’m forgetting some.
Oh, yeah … remember in early 2022 when the unveiling of the Bayraktar strike drones… Continue reading
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Mar 19 2025 
A Hard Rain’s a-gonna Fall – from the West down to the East
In this incandescent juncture, what matters is off the record.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Let’s start with that phone call. The is quite sober – but it does reveal a few nuggets. There is no comprehensive deal – yet – between Moscow and Washington. Far from it: we are just in the initial tentative stage… Continue reading
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Mar 12 2025 
Current Affairs under the radar: China, Russia, Iran (aka, do whatever the hell you want!)
Warships from Iran, China and Russia kicked off their annual joint exercises in the Gulf of Oman on Monday.
According to Chinese state media, the “Security Belt-2025” drills, taking place near the Iranian port of Chabahar, are the fifth joint naval exercise Iran, China, and Russia have held since 2019.
Most of us know about these naval… Continue reading
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Feb 11 2025 
Keep on Trumpin’
Either Ukraine surrenders unconditionally – or the war show must go on. Meanwhile, let’s Keep on Trumpin’.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
Mr. Disco Inferno has reverted to his default mode of throwing tantrum after tantrum because nearly everybody in West Asia and beyond is sayin’ NO to the Gaza Riviera Resort and Casino scam.
Here’s a… Continue reading
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Feb 08 2025 
In Valdai, confronting the “American problem” in West Asia
While Trump runs riot with his global land grab projects, multipolar visionaries in Valdai were mapping out the actual, tangible territorial routes that will define this century’s geopolitics and geoeconomics.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
MOSCOW – The 14th Middle East Conference of the Valdai Club in Moscow was hit by a geopolitical bunker buster bomb right… Continue reading
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Jan 16 2025 
Russia and Iran Alliance Treaty: Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
A few important days are rolling in. The 19th is an important day. The day that ceasefire is supposed to kick in is Sunday, 19th and after the long wait for the signing of the Russia and Iran Alliance Treaty the day is here on Friday 17th.
Here is Dmitry Symes Jr and Prof. Marandi discussing… Continue reading
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Jan 08 2025 
Next Stop, Tehran
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard admitting a severe loss in Syria means what? What will it do to compensate?
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
The “fundamentalist” opposition forces, supported by the US and Turkey, have taken power, and attention is now turning not only to how to reorganise the Syrian house from within but also… Continue reading
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Dec 09 2024 
Russia’s Next Move
Pepe Escobar reviews the debacle and sordidness with Judge. And Russia’s Next Move
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Dec 03 2024 
Syria the Unfinished War
By Elijah J. Magnier
The Unfinished War and Its Long-Term Divisions: Syria’s Shifting Frontlines and the Limits of Diplomacy
The situation in Syria cannot be understood through the lens of a single event. Instead, it reflects a complex interplay of factors, motivations, and the interests of various states—some of which coordinate directly, while others act independently, relying… Continue reading
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Nov 27 2024 
Trump may be Oreshniked on Ukraine even before he gets to China
With Oreshnik now entering the picture, everywhere the Hegemon will try to harass China they will also have to face Russia.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
When it comes to state of the art Russian weaponry, what the inestimable Ray McGovern defines as the MICIMATT – the whole Hegemonic complex – seems to dwell in perpetual stupor.
They… Continue reading
