Larry Johnson: The Promise of False Security in the Persian Gulf
by Larry Johnson [10-16-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). Karl Miller’s new report says the Gulf paid for protection it never got, and that it is time to walk away For years the Gulf monarchies have been told that the path to security runs through Washington and Tel Aviv. Sign the Abraham Accords, buy Israeli defense and…
John Mearsheimer, Glenn Diesen: The Rise of a Post-Western World & Russia’s Existential War in Ukraine
by Glenn Diesen [10-17-2026]. Professor John Mearsheimer argues that the liberal international order has collapsed because American unipolarity has given way to multipolarity, restoring great-power competition and exposing the limits of Western power. Russia’s war in Ukraine, the conflicts involving Iran and the Houthis, and the growing economic consequences of these wars demonstrate that the…
Pepe Escobar: Exclusive – Iran, a coiled cobra ready to strike
by Pepe Escobar [10-17-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio). Iran and Pakistan are deep into building a post-American financial order in the intersection between West Asia and South Asia. Let’s get right into the heart of the matter: carefully examining the chessboard, the political and military leadership in Tehran has already reached the conclusion that a joint U.S.-Israeli…
Alastair Crooke, Glenn Diesen: Insurrection & Regime Change Coming to Saudi Arabia – A New Middle East Emerging
by Alastair Crooke, Glenn Diesen [10-14-2026] Alastair Crooke(bio). Alastair Crooke, a former British diplomat and negotiator, argues that Saudi Arabia is facing a profound crisis of political legitimacy that could threaten the position of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and fundamentally reshape the Middle East. The greatest danger to MBS comes not from external…
Larry Johnson: Why Iran Didn’t Walk Away from the JCPOA that Trump tore up
by Larry Johnson [10-16-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). (RAD: This is an excellent analysis of why Iran kept the JCPOA alive for a year after Trump tore it up. Everyone should carefully study this analysis. Larry explains step by step how Iran gave every opportunity for the JCPOA to be restored, yet in the end it…
Pepe Escobar: Yemen goes for the (Saudi) jugular
by Pepe Escobar [10-14-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio). The House of Saud has received a stunning warning from Ansarallah and the Yemeni Armed Forces: if you continue to attack us, you will lose your oil infrastructure and your whole economy. That’s not a threat. That’s a fact. Cue the Ultimate Saudi Decider MbS and his coterie of…
Larry Johnson: My Latest Presentation to the UN Security Council
by Larry Johnson [10-14-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). I am back in NYC at the invitation of the Russian delegation to the United Nations. Unlike my previous appearance before the full UN Security Council, this was an Arria session. An Arria-formula meeting is an informal meeting called by one or more Security Council members to hear…
Mike Adams: I Just Witnessed the AI That Will Replace the Vast Majority of Human Desk Jobs — And It’s Running In My Data Center
by Mike Adams [10-5-2026]. Witness to Real AI Intelligence I am not theorizing about artificial intelligence replacing desk jobs. I just built it, deployed it, and watched it work. After weeks of sweating over custom thermal management, power delivery tuning, and RAM offloading across a multi-GPU rig in my own data center, I got an…
Larry Johnson: The Pipeline That Was Supposed to Save Saudi Arabia
by Larry Johnson [10-13-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). The East-West line to Yanbu is breaking down, and with it the kingdom’s last reliable route around Hormuz. When the Strait of Hormuz closed at the end of February, Saudi Arabia had what almost no other Gulf producer had: a way out at scale. The East-West pipeline, known…
Pepe Escobar, Zulfiqar Ali: Pakistani Officers – Israel Picks Saudi Targets; MBS Won’t Leave His Bunker
by Transition Protocol [10-13-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio). Pakistani officers in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh war room say they sit in the same room as CENTCOM and Israeli officers, and that target selection in the war on Yemen is done by CENTCOM and the Israelis. Host Zulfiqar Ali brings their account; Pepe Escobar, from Bangkok after midnight, brings…
Larry Johnson, Zulfiqar Ali: MbS Went Back to War With Yemen; Now He’s Paying for It Alone; OIL HIT; ALLIES OUT
by Transition Protocol [10-12-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). Saudi Arabia restarted its war with Yemen – and the Houthis answered at its oil heart, from Abqaiq to the pipeline to Yanbu. Now the money that bought its allies is running out, and Pakistan and Turkey won’t fight. Military and intelligence analyst Larry Johnson joins host Zulfiqar…
Alex Krainer, Zulfiqar Ali: “Led by a Lunatic”; Trump’s Enablers Are Looking for the Exit; HOLLOW SUIT TURNING COATS
by Transition Protocol [10-12-2026]. (RAD: Over my lifetime, I’ve had a lot of questions & observations about why various people do different things with their lives & what motivates them to do so. Alex Krainer’s insights has taken this discussion to a much higher level & he provides a framework that makes a lot of…
Larry Johnson: Diesel Is the Number That Will Decide November
by Larry Johnson [10-12-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). For four years Republicans had a simple message on energy: prices were higher under Joe Biden. It worked. Voters remembered $5 gasoline in the summer of 2022, and Donald Trump promised to bring it down. The war with Iran has turned that argument on its head, and the…
Larry Johnson: Saudi Arabia at the Breaking Point
by Larry Johnson [1012-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). (RAD: The more I learn about the ramifications of this unprovoked war against Iran that was started by Trump & Netanyahu, the more obvious it becomes that major corrections are needed after the November elections. Trump needs to be impeached & thrown out of office. All of the…
Larry Johnson: The Human Cost of The War Nobody Is Counting – Sulfur, Fertilizer and an Email from Florida
by Larry Johnson [10-8-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). For seven months, the coverage of the war with Iran has been about oil: tanker counts, the price of Brent, how much is left in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Hardly anyone outside the fertilizer trade has noticed that the Strait of Hormuz also carries close to half of…
Pepe Escobar: Exclusive – the Pakistan-Saudi-Yemen-Iran riddle
by Pepe Escobar [10-9-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio). The House of Saud is attacking Ansarallah to protect the death cult in West Asia, Pepe Escobar writes. Let’s start with exclusive intel. On Thursday, Yahya Ali al-Ra’i, speaker of the Sana’a-based House of Representatives under Ansarallah, delivered a letter to Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, the speaker of Pakistan’s National Assembly, requesting…