How BRICS Is Linking Payment Systems Without a Common Currency
by Geopolitics Prime [9-17-2026]. The New Delhi summit kept the focus on local-currency settlement and payment-system interoperability. The harder task is making domestic payment rails, foreign-exchange markets, and bank settlement work together across borders. In medieval Europe, a merchant trading between Genoa, Florence, Bruges, or Lyon did not always need to move a chest of…
Pepe Escobar, Zulfiqar Ali: China Threatened to Cut Off Rare Earths on Trump; Weapon China Is Bringing to Xi-Trump Summit
by Transition Protocol [9-19-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio). Iranian sources tell Transition Protocol that when Xi Jinping meets Donald Trump in Washington next week, he is expected to link China’s rare-earth exports to the American naval blockade of Iran. Pepe Escobar, recording from Moscow fifteen minutes after the information reached him, on what that would mean –…
The War Meant to Cripple Iran Is Rebuilding Its Industrial Base
by New Rules [9-18-2026]. (RAD: This is another example that illustrates how resilient and skilled Iranian workers are. I’ve seen other examples in diverse scientific fields where they have created breakthroughs in very advanced areas that no one in America seems to have solved. – RAD) The US-Israeli war damaged Iran’s oil and gas facilities.…
Rick Sanchez: ‘I feel more free’ reporting in Russia than when reporting in America
by RT [9-15-2026]. Sanchez has told aspiring journalists at the World Youth Festival that he lacked the freedom to control his own narrative working in the West. RT’s Rick Sanchez has said that he feels more free to control his own narrative reporting from Russia compared to his time working in Western mainstream media. Sanchez…
Douglas Macgregor, Glenn Diesen: Ukraine Endgame Is Here — West Will Fragment
by Glenn Diesen [9-16-2026] Douglas Macgregor(bio). (RAD: Douglas Macgregor has many very insightful observations about where many nations are situated at this time in their history. With a decorated military career & a student of history, especially the rise & fall of nations, his insights are very relevant. I highly recommend that everyone take the…
Larry Johnson: The Hashemite Endgame – The Case That Jordan Is Next
by Larry Johnson [9-15-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). Nine weeks before the Houthis stunned the region by breaking out of their northern strongholds, Karl Miller told me it was coming. In a private note dated July 1, he reasoned that Mohammed bin Salman was running his familiar balance-of-power game – placing bets around his perimeter to…
Larry Johnson, Zulfiqar Ali: Saudi Oil’s Escape Route Got Cut; Houthis Claim Saudi F-15 KILL as OIL Crisis Deepens
by Transition Protocol(opens in new tab) [9-16-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). Hormuz was already blocked. Now Saudi Arabia’s main escape route – the East-West pipeline to the Red Sea – is shut, the Houthis claim they shot down a Saudi F-15, and the Fed just raised rates. Military analyst Larry and host Zulfiqar Ali explain how…
Pepe Escobar, Zulfiqar Ali: Saudi Arabia Is Boxed In; The Yemen Intel They Won’t Reveal; Yemen Put Saudi on Back Foot
by Transition Protocol(opens in new tab) [9-15-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio)(opens in new tab). Iran holds the Strait of Hormuz. Yemen’s forces now hold the Bab al-Mandab. Saudi Arabia is boxed in on both coasts – and Transition Protocol says it knows why Yemen went all-in. Recorded after midnight in Moscow, Pepe Escobar and Zulfiqar Ali (Mr.…
John Mearsheimer: There’s no diplomatic way out of the Ukraine war
by Fyodor Lukyanov, RT(opens in new tab) [9-16-2026]. Fyodor Lukyanov(opens in new tab) is one of the most prominent Russian experts in the field of international relations and foreign policy. He has worked in journalism since 1990 and is the author of numerous publications on modern international relations and Russian foreign policy. Since 2002, he…
Larry Johnson: Dispatch from Moscow – The Collapse Narrative Keeps Missing the Real Russia
by Larry Johnson(opens in new tab) [9-16-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio)(opens in new tab). I am back in Moscow for the first time in ten months, and the first thing that strikes you is the distance between the city in front of you and the city as it is described five thousand miles away. Moscow and…
Pepe Escobar: Yemen Rocks the Gate of Tears
by Pepe Escobar(opens in new tab) [9-11-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio)(opens in new tab). Ansarallah now has the luxury of installing a toll gate, arguably multi-layered, in the Bab al-Mandab, if they want it. No less than 25 years after 9/11, the Angel of History once again delivers a powerful kick. Five years ago, we had the…
Pepe Escobar: History on a Roll – BRICS, Yemen, Hormuz, China
by Pepe Escobar(opens in new tab) [9-14-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio)(opens in new tab). In less than 72 hours, history accelerated through a convergence of events that would normally unfold over several years. Yemen’s Ansarallah, after a lightning offensive, now holds the entire Red Sea coast from the port of Hodeidah to the Bab al-Mandab, including Mayyun…