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Jeffrey Sachs: America’s “Legacy of Delusion” Fueling Financial Bubble & Iran Failure
Jeffrey Sachs joins Drop Site’s Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain to discuss how Washington’s delusions about American power are fueling wars abroad and a financial bubble at home.
Drawing on his firsthand experience advising Russia at the Soviet Union’s collapse and decades studying Asia’s economic rise, Sachs traces the roots of America’s belief that it can dominate the world. He explains why efforts to isolate Iran and Russia are failing, how U.S. sanctions are pushing countries toward alternatives to the dollar, and what he saw on a 15,000-kilometer road trip from Rome to Hong Kong this summer.
Sachs also argues that soaring U.S. stock valuations rest on a dangerous assumption: that American technological supremacy will endure. With China challenging that dominance, he warns of a “major financial correction” as Washington’s “geopolitical bubble” fuels a financial bubble that he argues is destined to burst.
0:00 Sitting Across From Yeltsin in 1991
1:44 The Gap Between Washington and Reality
6:00 European Dominance: A 200-Year Fluke
15:15 Yeltsin and the Unipolar Moment
17:00 Watching Asia Catch Up: From Rome to Hong Kong
32:07 Why Europe Rose & America’s Inherited Grandiosity
38:10 You Can’t Isolate Iran or 42% of the World
47:23 The Weaponized Dollar Is a Wasting Asset
58:07 The Global Bond Selloff: Where Is the Money Going?
1:00:13 The Geopolitical Bubble and the Coming Financial Correction
_________BREAKING: It’s back to war in the Persian Gulf
It started with the massacre of schoolgirls, now it’s wedding guests + What is America up to, except bringing the world’s end? + And Germany has declared war on Russia. How did that end last time?
INTERVIEW: America can’t win the war or accept the terms of the peace
Is Trump fooling enough of the people enough of the time? He seems to be in his MAGA base. Prof Glenn Diesen on the multi-volte face of the president’s ‘war today peace tomorrow’ cocktail of claims and counter-claims
China Just Revealed a Multipolar Plan to Challenge the West at the SCO (Einar Tangen) – TIO Talks 74
MONOLOGUE: The gang who couldn’t shoot straight.
Germany declares war on Russia with a cockamamie fit up scheme. Let them eat horsemeat! Trump Strait. And he keeps returning to war like a dog to its vomit
Epstein Files Fiasco Returns as DOJ Fakes Compliance and Judge Sullivan Loses Patience | Iran Lego
The Epstein Files fiasco is back — and this time the fight is not a rumor, a leak, or a “client list” drop. It is on the docket.
Title search: Epstein Files Fiasco Returns as DOJ Fakes Compliance and Judge Sullivan Loses Patience.
What the public record actually shows in Phang v. Blanche, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Case No. 1:26-cv-01417: a civil case under the Epstein Files Transparency Act. PACER. Checkable filings. Not a courtroom confession. Not a contempt ruling. A compliance war over redactions, a Federal Register letter, a missing entry-by-entry redaction log, handwritten notes behind four FBI FD-302 reports, a special-master request, and an appeal of pieces of a June court order.
If you searched Epstein files 2026, unredacted Epstein files, release the files, DOJ redaction log, Epstein list, Epstein client list, what’s missing from the Epstein files, Judge Sullivan Epstein, Todd Blanche DOJ, Katie Phang lawsuit, FBI 302 notes, or Federal Register Epstein, this is the filing-by-filing version.
In June the court already put noncompliance on paper. The Department’s own briefing was treated as a concession that gaps existed. That was an injunction, not a monologue: produce, unredact or show cause, and log the black bars. When this channel says the fiasco “returns,” that is the return — new paper on an old order, not a new verdict.
September 2: plaintiffs file again. Their claim is blunt. They say the Department dropped a letter — published in the Federal Register, sent to Congress — and called it compliance. They say that letter may answer Section 3 of the Act and still miss Section 2(c)(2): the public redaction log, document by document, line by line, with a legal basis for every redaction. Book report when the assignment was math. That is why the title uses “fakes compliance.” That is the argument in the reply. It is not a final finding until the judge rules on it.
Second track, separate fight: handwritten notes behind four FBI 302s. The interview reports are in the production. The notes underneath are the dispute. An allegation in a filing is not proof. Keep that line bright.
What you will not hear invented here: a transcript of the bench calling anyone a liar. A gavel quote that is not on the record. A perjury charge. A contempt order. “Loses patience” is the read of a judge who already wrote noncompliance, already ordered compliance, and is still watching a letter-versus-log argument land in the queue. Satire sits on top of that record. It does not replace it.Plaintiffs want a special master for a mountain of pages. That is an ask, not an appointment. The Department appealed parts of the June decree. Live case. Live briefing. Cable turns dockets into blogs. This video puts the docket back on screen.
Who is on the caption page: a journalist-attorney plaintiff, the Public Integrity Project, counsel of record, the Acting Attorney General in an official-capacity suit, a long-serving D.C. judge, and a statute Congress passed with near-unanimous support. Not anonymous. Not a tip line.
A real redaction log is not a six-page summary and it is not a courtesy letter to the Hill. Entry. Document. Line. What was blacked out. Why. Until the court says the filing meets that bar, nobody outside that courtroom gets to call the fight settled.Chapters
0:00 Cold open — PACER, case number, who sued whom
1:10 June order: conceded gaps, injunction, Transparency Act
3:00 Hook — fiasco means paperwork, not a new confession
3:40 September 2 reply — Federal Register letter vs. Section 2(c)(2) log
6:00 “Fakes compliance” decoded: Section 3 is not Section 2
7:20 Handwritten notes behind four 302sVerify before you comment cover-up or nothing-burger. Pull the June 25 order and memorandum. Pull the September 2 reply. Pull the Federal Register notice. Pull the public 302s and ask, separately, whether the notes behind them were produced and logged. No docket entry, no fact — only opinion.
If you care about survivors, you should want the log done right. If you care about due process, you should want a filing separated from a finding. If you only wanted a laminated client list, that is not what this docket is adjudicating today.
#EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFilesFiasco #ReleaseTheFiles #DOJ #JudgeSullivan #RedactionLog #PACER #EpsteinFilesTransparencyAct #Unredacted #FBI302 #FederalRegister #SpecialMaster #LegalNews #BreakingNews #GovernmentTransparency
Disclaimer: Satirical news commentary based on publicly filed documents in Phang v. Blanche, No. 1:26-cv-01417 (D.D.C.).
This video does not allege a criminal charge, a contempt finding, or a perjury ruling. “Fakes compliance” tracks the plaintiffs’ letter-versus-log argument. “Loses patience” is commentary on a judge who already ordered compliance. Victim identities stay protected. No graphic files.
Larry Johnson & Pepe Escobar:Iran Told Trump “GET LOST” 10-Day Ceasefire REJECTED Trump Begged Iran
Iran told Trump “get lost.” Sources with direct contact to Islamabad and Tehran tell Transition Protocol that Trump offered Iran a 10-day cessation of hostilities this week — and was refused. Then, through Qatar, the White House asked Iran to allow “performative strikes” with no retaliation. Iran refused again. Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir has stopped returning Trump’s calls after being sent to Tehran twice and reneged on twice. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed despite official claims it is “wide open,” CENTCOM has re-stood up a 24/7 battle staff, and Iran’s retaliation doctrine is now 2-to-1, 3-to-1, 5-to-1 with a war plan built to run through the US midterms.
Larry Johnson explains why the bond market — not the Pentagon — is forcing Trump to back down: Treasury yields are rising and, in his words, “nobody’s buying.” Pepe Escobar breaks down the tanker-for-tanker gamble that could detonate global shipping insurance, Ghalibaf’s warning that “if we cannot export oil, nobody will,” and the SCO development bank being built outside the US dollar at Bishkek and Vladivostok ahead of the BRICS summit in India. Zulfiqar Ali reports Tehran’s final position: diplomacy only through the Islamabad MOU — no more negotiations.
Guests: Larry Johnson, former CIA analyst and State Department counter-terrorism official; Pepe Escobar, veteran geopolitical correspondent covering BRICS, SCO and Eurasia from the ground; hosted by Zulfiqar Ali. Inside-source claims in this episode are attributed and identified on screen as developing; nothing unverified is presented as settled fact. Transition Protocol is a serious, source-driven geopolitical and economic analysis channel — evidence-based reporting on global power shifts and their financial consequences. Subscribe and join us on Substack for twice-weekly briefingsPete Hegseth Cyberbullies Canadian Cadets As Young As 12, Sparks Massive Backlash | Iran lego
The U.S. Secretary of War just picked a public fight with two Canadian teenagers — and the Pentagon’s official response was “the post speaks for itself.”
This week, Pete Hegseth reposted a photo of two young cadets from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre in British Columbia — a 1,821-follower youth leadership account for 12-to-18-year-olds — captioned “this is real” with a Canadian flag emoji. What followed was body-shaming replies, a bipartisan Canadian backlash, a former Alberta premier asking “what’s going on?”, and a U.S. senator calling it a security risk — all while Hegseth’s own department is dealing with an unpopular Iran war, a closed Strait of Hormuz, thinning munitions stockpiles, and the resignation of the Secretary of the Army just one day earlier.
This is a satirical commentary breakdown of the timeline, the reactions from both sides of the aisle, and what the timing says about where the Pentagon’s attention actually is right now.
A robot consultant glitches and suddenly ATTACKS its customer in Saratov City, Russia. The customer reportedly escaped in a traumatized state, while the robot, named Syoma, was sent for a reboot.
The incident raises a disturbing question: what happens when AI-powered robots and humanoid robots malfunction? As robots become increasingly advanced and are deployed in public spaces, stores, businesses, and customer service, unexpected failures could create new safety risks.
Is this just a robot malfunction — or a glimpse of the potential dangers of AI and autonomous robots? From robot fails and AI glitches to humanoid robots, Chinese robots, robotic assistants, and the future of artificial intelligence, the line between helpful technology and dangerous technology is becoming increasingly important.
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The US become paralyzed in FEAR: Russia for the First Time tested its New-Generation ‘CARBON WEAPON’
PEPE ESCOBAR:Iran Gave TRUMP a Way Out of WAR Return to the MOU or Hormuz Stays SHUT Why He Said NO
Trump called Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir repeatedly — “find me an off-ramp” — according to a source close to Munir cited by Zulfiqar Ali. Munir went to Tehran and, Zulfiqar reports, persuaded a reluctant Iran to offer Washington a way out; Trump rejected it because he could not present it as a victory. Days later the Strait of Hormuz tanker incident restarted the bombing. The call-level details are Zulfiqar’s sourced reporting and have not been independently verified; the 14-point Islamabad MOU is public (link below).
Pepe Escobar then lays out what Washington won’t: Iran’s actual terms (return to the MOU or Hormuz stays shut), the timeline Tehran is reported to be planning for, the endurance contest over interceptors and resupply, and why the global economy cannot sustain a forever war at the world’s most important chokepoint.
Then the story the West ignored this week: the SCO summit in Bishkek. The declaration on the attack on Iran and “indivisible security”; the proposed SCO energy consortium and development bank outside the dollar system; Mongolia and Afghanistan moving toward membership; Pakistan’s 2027 chairmanship; and the Saudi–Pakistan–Turkey Mecca Defence Agreement moving from paper to institution. What is confirmed, what is developing, and what it means for oil, the dollar and the next phase of the war.
Pepe Escobar is a veteran geopolitical analyst who has covered the SCO since its 2001 founding. Zulfiqar Ali’s reporting draws on sources inside Pakistan’s military and diplomatic leadership. Transition Protocol is an independent, source-driven channel; claims from insiders are labelled as such on screen. Subscribe and turn on notifications — tomorrow: Larry Johnson on Vladivostok and the Eastern Economic Forum.TRUMP Strike Hits Wedding? Iran Claims 5 Dead, 68 Injured in Kuhestak… What We Know | IRAN LEGO
IRAN vs U.S.: Wedding Strike Sparks Outrage Amid Escalating Middle East War 💥
A U.S. airstrike on IRGC military targets near the Strait of Hormuz has triggered
a fresh humanitarian controversy after Iranian officials say shrapnel from the
strike hit a wedding celebration in Kuhestak, Sirik County, Hormozgan Province —
killing 4 to 5 people, including a child, and injuring more than 68 others,
according to Iran’s Red Crescent and Hormozgan deputy governor Ahmad Nafisi.The strike was part of a renewed wave of U.S. attacks on Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps (IRGC) positions — air defense systems, radar sites, maritime
facilities, and mine-laying infrastructure — which U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)
says were launched in direct response to recent IRGC attacks on commercial
shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and on American forces in the region.CENTCOM has acknowledged the civilian casualty reports circulating through
Iranian state media but has not independently confirmed the wedding strike or
the exact death toll, maintaining that the U.S. military does not target civilians.This latest escalation follows months of hostilities between Washington and
Tehran — from Operation Epic Fury to the ongoing standoff over the Strait of
Hormuz — as oil prices spike and fears of wider regional war grow. Iranian
officials, including IRGC spokesperson Sardar Mohebi, have vowed retaliation,
warning the U.S. will “regret its new attacks.”Trump is in complete contempt of the law. He’s covered up the Epstein Files and defied a court order not to cut down cherry trees gifted by Japan in 1912. (He’s no George Washington either!) Why? To build yet another golf course
Tucker Carlson says Trump should be removed from office this day
Iran Conflict: The End of U.S. Dominance? How Washington Lost Control of Its Foreign Policy and the World’s Power Balance Shifted | Alastair Crook
Economist Professor Richard Wolff explains why he believes the American empire is in decline—and why China and Asia are shaping the future of the global economy. We discuss the history of U.S. colonialism, the failures of American capitalism, China’s hybrid economic model, the economic consequences of the Iran war, and the growing appeal of socialism in the United States. Professor Wolff also examines whether America and China can peacefully coexist, how the upcoming midterm elections could reshape American politics, and why both Republicans and Democrats may be unprepared for the dramatic changes ahead.
🔵 Follow Professor Wolff’s YouTube Here: / @richarddwolff
🔵 Follow Professor Wolff’s and Democracy Now here: https://x.com/democracynow00:00 – Intro to Professor Richard Wolff
00:30 – Can the United States Empire Survive?
01:59 – Why the US Empire Will Collapse
02:57 – The History of the US Colonialism
07:05 – The United States’s Biggest Mistake
08:28 – Why China and Asia is the Future
09:18 – Can the US and China Work Together?
10:25 – What is China Doing Better Than the US?
11:55 – How the US Lost China
12:45 – The Problem with US Capitalism
16:00 – Why the Chinese Hybrid Economy Will Win
17:55 – Why the Chinese Economy Outperforms the US
19:45 – How China Rose from Poverty
21:35 – How China Outperformed Every Other Country
23:15 – Is the Chinese Economy Slowing Down?
24:30 – Will the Iran War Dethrone the United States?
25:33 – How the US Lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan
26:45 – Why the Iran War is Different
27:45 – How Socialism is Growing in America
31:04 – How Will the Midterms Change America?
34:05 – Why the Republicans and Democrats Are in Trouble
36:50 – Why the Future Will Be Very Different
38:57 – Final ThoughtsIran RAZES US Marine Barracks! Trump’s FATAL Mistake | Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
Fmr CIA analyst Larry Johnson and Col Lawrence Wilkerson discuss the mass casualty event rocking Trump and the Pentagon as Iran retaliates hard against US bases following a horrific war crime on a wedding party in Southern Iran. A deployment of US Marine Corps just took heavy casualties and we break down exactly how devastating it all is in this must watch show.
