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 Download Audio. Scott interviews Kit Klarenberg about some reporting he’s done on the looming political shakeup in Bosnia. That leads to a broader discussion about how the foreign policy of the post-Cold War American empire set the conditions for its own decline. Discussed on the show: “Western Hegemony Unravels In Bosnia” (Global Delinquents) “The Day America’s Empire Died” (The Exiled) “Ukraine’s Secret Al Qaeda Invasion Of Africa” (Global Delinquents) Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. Subscribe to his Substack and follow him on Twitter @KitKlarenberg   Audio cleaned up…

President Donald Trump threatened large-scale strikes on Iran if Hezbollah does not halt attacks on Israeli forces that invaded Lebanon.  “Iran must immediately stop their highly paid PROXIES in Lebanon from causing trouble. If they don’t, we’ll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder!!!” the President wrote on Truth Social Sunday.  The post resulted in the Iranian negotiating team walking out of talks with the US. Tehran said talks will not resume unless Israel halts its war against Lebanon.  The post follows a week of Trump stating that Israel needed to halt attacks on…

But if they pop: There are only so many trillions that can vanish from portfolios before it triggers a recession. Trillions of dollars fly by so fast they’re hard to see. By now, 11 US companies have a market value of $1 trillion or more. Combined, they have a market cap of $29 trillion. Walmart [WMT] was already in the $1 trillion club for a few weeks, if barely, but recently fell off the wagon. If we add Walmart back into it, the 12 US companies have a market cap of $30 trillion – roughly 43% of the total market…

In an oped published by Israeli media, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote that Tel Aviv needed to crack down on Jewish terrorism against Palestinians in the West Bank.  “The fight against Jewish terrorism in the West Bank must advance to the next stage and be waged with greater determination,” the former Israeli leader said in an article that was published by Haaretz on Thursday. “The daily terrorism that is managed, directed, encouraged and supported by the Israeli government can no longer be tolerated.” Since the current Israeli government was formed in December of 2022, Tel Aviv has accelerated the…

US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz says that the White House is taking a “pragmatic approach” to Iran, but the President remains laser-focused on the nuclear issue.  “None of these senior members of this genocidal regime are good guys by any means,” Waltz Sunday said on Face the Nation. “They certainly wouldn’t pass an FBI background check. No one expects that. But, at the end of the day, the administration, our administration, is taking a pragmatic approach.” He added that the President remains “laser focused” on the nuclear issue.  Waltz is the former National Security Adviser, but was demoted…

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 Download Audio. Scott interviews Larry Johnson about the ongoing, frequently broken yet somehow still holding ceasefire between the US and Iran, the Trump administration’s effort to find some way out of the war they started and the Israeli’s muddled attempt to sabotage the process. Discussed on the show: “Persian Gulf Oil Shipping Crisis Deepens as Barnacle Fouling Hits Idled Supertanker Hulls” (Sonar21) Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and a former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. Follow his analysis at Sonar21.   Audio cleaned up with the Podsworth…