Larry Johnson: Hanging Out in Russia
by Larry Johnson(opens in new tab) [9-9-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio)(opens in new tab). My apologies for not being able to post the last couple of days. Pretty intense schedule and fortunate to be hanging out with John Mearsheimer, Judge Napolitano and Alastair Crooke. Monday was devoted to a heavily attended seminar at the the Higher School…
‘Dead’ US drone sub IRGC just got will give Iran a crash course in Anduril’s underwater secrets
by Geopolitics Prime(opens in new tab) [9-10-2026]. A CENTCOM spox did his best to downplay the significance of the Anduril Dive-LD (opens in new tab)surveillance, mine detection, seabed mapping and inspection drone’s capture by Iran, stressing that it was “older,” “defective,” “malfunctioning” and “essentially dead in the water” before the IRGC seized it. Leaving aside…
Larry Johnson, Zulfiqar Ali: US BASES IN JORDAN SUFFER SUSTAINED IRAN MISSILE ATTACK; US Power Just Cracked
by Transition Protocol(opens in new tab) [9-9-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio)(opens in new tab). Washington said it would answer tanker for tanker. Iran struck US bases in Jordan and hit ships in the Gulf. By the time this conversation was recorded in St Petersburg, the American answer still had not come. Zulfiqar Ali speaks with military…
Pepe Escobar: From Bishkek to New Delhi – Building a new Eurasia
by Pepe Escobar(opens in new tab) [9-7-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio)(opens in new tab). Imagine a Brave New World with up-and-running new global routes that circumvent all western chokepoints. Now imagine that all business on these routes is paid for in local currencies, through regional transaction platforms, with Eurasian-only investments. Asia is all about face-to-face meetings or…
Larry Johnson, Zulfiqar Ali: EXCLUSIVE- Iran Just Received Underwater Drones Built To Kill Carriers From North Korea
by Transition Protocol [9-8-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio(opens in new tab)). Iran’s leadership has concluded that this war cannot be settled at a negotiating table. In this episode, recorded 8 September 2026, Larry Johnson and Zulfiqar Ali lay out how every diplomatic off-ramp brokered by Pakistan collapsed, why Tehran has shifted from a defensive to an…
Pepe Escobar, Zulfiqar Ali: BREAKS- North Korea Just Delivered Carrier-Killer Drones To Iran
by Transition Protocol(opens in new tab) [9-8-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio)(opens in new tab). Iran’s leadership has concluded that this war cannot be settled at a negotiating table. In this episode, recorded 8 September 2026, Pepe Escobar – reporting from Seoul – and Zulfiqar Ali lay out how every diplomatic off-ramp brokered by Pakistan collapsed, why Tehran…
Pravin Sawhney, Zulfiqar Ali: Iran FIRES at US Carrier; Hormuz WAR Escalates; Warning Shot at America’s Carrier
by Transition Protocol(opens in new tab) [9-6-2026]. Iran fired anti-ship ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier and a destroyer in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran says they hit. US Central Command says they missed. Defence analyst Pravin Sawhney says the argument over damage is missing what actually happened – because the target was never…
Mike Adams: Trump’s 1980s Playbook Is Burning Down the Empire
by Mike Adams(opens in new tab) [9-4-2026]. Why I’m Not Surprised by the Chaos in West Asia The chaos engulfing West Asia isn’t a tragic accident of diplomacy. It is the inevitable result of a decaying empire led by men whose geopolitical understanding froze somewhere around 1985. Watching President Donald Trump’s administration blunder into a…
Kevin Barrett: Is Another 9/11-Scale False Flag Possible as Trump and Netanyahu Get Desperate?
by Kevin Barrett(opens in new tab) [9-5-2026]. The Genocidal Zionist Entity faces a crisis. Its Epstein-syndicate-blackmailed asset Trump is deep underwater in the polls. And Israel’s war on Iran, fought using the hijacked US military, is shaping up as a catastrophic defeat. The US desperately needs to end the Iran war and stop the bleeding.…
Larry Johnson: Reopening Is Not Restarting – Why Gulf Oil Won’t Come Back When the Strait Does
by Larry Johnson(opens in new tab) [9-4-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio)(opens in new tab). Karl Miller is out with another report on the state of the oil production infrastructure in the Persian Gulf and, as always, it is a must read. Unfortunately, it is behind a firewall but he has given me permission to summarize his…
Pepe Escobar: What the SCO is really up against
by Pepe Escobar(opens in new tab) [9-3-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio)(opens in new tab). The 25th annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, may not have been as flashy as last year’s show in Tianjin, China, but it was still remarkable in several key aspects. The final Bishkek Declaration(opens in new tab) may have been ultra-diplomatic.…
Larry Johnson: Sanctioning a Ghost – Europe’s Empty Gesture Against Iran
by Larry Johnson(opens in new tab) [9-3-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio)(opens in new tab). US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced today that the European Union has “officially joined” the American sanctions campaign against Iran – Operation Economic Outcast – and framed Tehran’s choice in the usual absolutes: complete global isolation and a subsistence economy, or a…