Larry Johnson: No Ultimatums, No Ceasefire – Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov Labels the US as Both Combatant and Interlocutor
by Larry Johnson(opens in new tab) [8-17-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio)(opens in new tab). Hey Mr. Trump? Are you paying attention? In a long interview broadcast on Russian state television on August 14, 2026, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov delivered Moscow’s sharpest characterization in months of where relations with Washington stand in the fifth year of the…
Larry Johnson: A Dependency Decades in the Making: How Washington Let Five Minerals — and China — Take the US Arsenal Hostage
by Larry Johnson(opens in new tab) [8-14-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio)(opens in new tab). There is a single sentence in a 2025 defense-industry study that ought to end a certain kind of complacency in Washington. Researchers at Govini, a firm that maps the Pentagon’s supply chains, found that more than 80,000 parts across roughly 1,900 weapon…
Pravin Sawhney, Zulfiqar Ali: EXCLUSIVE- UAE Paid Iran $3 Billion in Gold to Stop a War; Will the US and Iran War End This Week?
by Transition Protocol(opens in new tab) [8-16-2026]. UAE’s ruling family has secretly flown two metric tons of gold and $3 billion in cash to Tehran – a move independently confirmed within 48 hours by international financial reporting – as part of an urgent bid to keep Iran out of a wider war. In this Transition…
Pepe Escobar: What the Three RIC Musketeers, Russia-Iran-China, are really up to
by Pepe Escobar(opens in new tab) [8-14-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio)(opens in new tab). Hop on a new adventure: let’s look at RIC (Russia-Iran-China), the new Primakov triangle, as I have defined them, in a more playful way. These three civilization-states that are coordinating the new phase of Eurasia integration, and also established as full BRICS and…
Pepe Escobar, Zulfiqar Ali: EXCLUSIVE- UAE Flew GOLD SECRETLY to Tehran; Iran’s Warning: 2k ATTACK Boats Are Waiting
by Transition Protocol(opens in new tab) [8-15-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio)(opens in new tab). Iran has reportedly given Washington a matter of days – not weeks – to change course on the Strait of Hormuz, according to Pakistani and Iranian mediation sources detailed in this Transition Protocol special. In this breaking-news episode, Zulfiqar Ali and Pepe Escobar…
Vijay Prashad, Zulfiqar Ali: Is the Mecca Agreement Really Aimed at Israel? India’s Oil Options Are Vanishing
by Transition Protocol [8-14-2026] Vijay Prashad(bio). Days after Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement (Aug. 7, 2026), Transition Protocol goes beyond the headlines with Global South historian Vijay Prashad. Is the Mecca pact really aimed at Israel? Is it automatic like NATO, or does it only activate on invitation? Zulfiqar…
Alastair Crooke, Glenn Diesen: Iran & Russia Give Up on Diplomacy & Go on the Offensive
by Glenn Diesen [8-13-2026] Alastair Crooke(bio).
Pepe Escobar: The New Great Game, revisited
by Pepe Escobar [8-13-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio). It took only a few Yemeni missiles on Saudi refineries to wake up “leadership” vectors of the Ummah (an Arabic word meaning Muslim identity); not over 100,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the death cult. The Mecca Sunni NATO pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan remains a puzzle.…
Pravin Sawhney, Zulfiqar Ali:GULF DONE TRUSTING WASHINGTON; SAUDI BUILT A BACKUP ROAD; AMERICA OUT — NOW
by Transition Protocol [8-13-2026]. (RAD: This is another excellent discussion by Pravin Sawhney that helps us understand what is happening & where things are headed in Persian Gulf & wider region. – RAD) The Gulf wants America out – now. A new defense pact, a bypass trade route around the Strait of Hormuz, and a…
Pepe Escobar, Larry Johnson, Zulfiqar Ali: BREAKING- EXPOSES BESSENT’S DUMBEST CLAIM YET; Trump Says “Total Control”; Iran Says NO
by Transition Protocol [8-12-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio), Larry C. Johnson(bio). Strait of Hormuz irrelevant in two years? Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said so on Aug. 8, claiming pipelines will replace most Gulf oil flow – but existing bypass capacity covers less than a quarter of what actually crosses Hormuz. The same week, President Trump claimed “total…
Alex Krainer, Zulfiqa Ali:The Mecca Pact Is a Dollar Event; Saudi Arabia Is Buying Protection From Pakistan and Turkey; decline of PetroDollar
by Transition Protocol [8-11-2026]. (RAD: This is one of the most important discussions about world power structures and the position of the $petroDollar in the system that you will find. Take the time to listen carefully what is shared. Alex Krainer does an excellent job of describing the many parts of the system and the…
Pepe Escobar, Zulfiqar Ali: KHAMENEI PIVOTS; SECRET 6 HOUR MEETING With PEZESHKIAN; PAKISTAN’S MECCA PACT SHAKES EURASIA
by Transition Protocol [8-11-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio). TEHRAN SHAKES THE CHESSBOARD: In this emergency briefing of Transition Protocol, geopolitical analysts Pepe Escobar and Zulfiqar Ali break down exclusive intelligence regarding a secret 6-hour face-to-face summit between Iranian President Pezeshkian and Leader Mojtaba Khamenei. Discover how Tehran is restructuring its national security apparatus under IRGC veteran Mohsen…