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• US Retreats. Multipolar War Escalates. | Prof. Saul Takahashi

  Saul Takahashi contends that recent Gulf and East Asian developments reveal a fracturing postwar security order in which U.S. alliances increasingly expose partners to risk rather than guarantying protection. Drawing on his experience in the UAE during missile alerts, he argues Gulf states face lega

• American Power Plunges Under Iran Shock | Prof. Radhika Desai

  Radhika Desai argues that recent US actions around Iran expose a brittle, declining American power caught in a Middle Eastern quagmire. She reads Trump’s Iran speech as incoherent political theater born of domestic failure: unable to deliver economic improvements, the administration resorts to milit

• Scientist Confirms Iran Is Unbeatable | Dr. Patrick Ringgenberg

  Patrick Ringgenberg contends that Western portrayals of Iran are deeply distorted by ideological frames, diaspora perspectives, and media simplifications. Drawing on 25 years of fieldwork, he emphasizes Iran’s social, cultural, and regional diversity—from cosmopolitan northern Tehran to traditional

• Eurocrats Trying To KILL This German Journalist (with his Family) | Hüseyin Dogru

  Hüseyin Doğru argues that EU sanctions have been repurposed as an extrajudicial tool to punish and silence a domestic journalist, producing a legal and humanitarian crisis for him and his family. Doğru details his inclusion on an EU Russia‑sanctions list without notice or evidentiary hearing, the re

• Iran War FALLOUT: It Gets Worse for USA | E. Mamedov and Dr. P. Shakarian

  Pascal Lottaz convenes Dr. Pietro Shakarian and Eldar Mamedov to reassess the South Caucasus after the Iran–Israel 2025 conflict, arguing that Iran is far more resilient and integrated than many Western narratives assume. Mamedov emphasizes that Iranian Azerbaijanis are deeply Iranian in identity, r

• Next US Crime Against Humanity: Caribbean Mass-Slaughter | Dr. Richard Byron-Cox

  Dr. Richard Byron-Cox contends that the United States is renewing a long-standing pattern of coercion across the Caribbean—extending from the Monroe Doctrine era to today's intensified blockade and sanctions—aimed at starving and destabilizing small states like Cuba and Haiti. He situates Cuba’s cri

• 🚨USA Plays for Time: Prepping Invasion, Gaming Markets, Loosing War | Larry C. Johnson

  Larry C. Johnson contends there is no coherent grand strategy behind the U.S.–Israeli campaign against Iran; instead policy is path‑dependent, reactive, and driven by political theater and market manipulation. He argues Trump’s public conciliatory signals are often timed to move markets, while force

• The Blind Empire: Why the West Can't See it's Failing so Hard | Prof. Dr. Irfan Ahmad

  Professor Irfan Ahmad argues that prominent Western intellectual traditions—exemplified by Jürgen Habermas and the Frankfurt School—display persistent colonial blind spots that distort moral and political judgement, particularly regarding Israel and Palestine. Ahmad contends Habermas’ late “Principl

• The Empire in Self-Destruction: Inevitable Collapse | Fabian Scheidler

  Fabian Scheidler argues that contemporary geopolitical and ecological crises reflect the unraveling of a 500‑year “megamachine” built on militarized states, capitalist accumulation, ideological control and linear thinking. He traces Western hegemony’s rise and current decline, noting the United Stat

• Iran Pushes USA Out of Gulf. This Changes Everything. | Rainer Rupp

  Rainer Rupp contends that recent events demonstrate Iran’s capacity to expel U.S. forces from the Gulf, challenging assumptions underpinning the U.S.–Israeli campaign. Drawing on his NATO intelligence background, he argues policymakers routinely filter or disregard sober analytic warnings, producing

• Psychiatrist EXPOSES the Sickness of Collective West Leadership | Niall McLaren

  At the heart of the conversation, Dr. Niall MacLaren applies his biocognitive model to international politics, arguing that a biologically rooted drive for dominance—mediated by a “testosterone economy”—underpins state behavior and systemic instability. He contends that humans’ dual drives to domina

• The Wars of the Epstein Class | Dr. Aaron Good

  At the heart of the conversation, Dr. Aaron Good argues that the United States functions as a tripartite regime: constitutional politics, a national security apparatus, and a deeper oligarchic–criminal layer that together sustain American global domination. He traces this “deep state” back through P

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