https://www.sott.net/topic/19-SOTT-Radio-Network Signs of the Times: The World for People who Think. Featuring independent, unbiased, alternative news and commentary on world events. en-us Original content Copyright 2026 by Signs of the Times/Sott.net. For other content, see our Fair Use Policy at www.sott.net. Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:39:02 +0000 https://www.sott.net/images/sottlogo_rss.jpg SOTT.net https://www.sott.net https://www.sott.net/article/505700-NewsReal-Trump-Card-US-Blockades-Irans-Blockade-to-Unblock-Strait-of-Hormuz If you were writing this for a Hollywood script, it would be rejected for being unrealistic. Trump's latest scheme to 'unblock the Strait of Hormuz' is almost certainly not going to work, but more importantly, what is the likelihood that hostilities will recommence between the US and Iran? Also, what really happened during that so-called 'rescue mission' south of Isfahan last week? And should we have sympathy for Trump? He seems to be at the mercy of forces he can neither placate nor out-maneuver... Running Time: 01:49:21 Download: MP3 — 100 MB https://www.sott.net/article/505700-NewsReal-Trump-Card-US-Blockades-Irans-Blockade-to-Unblock-Strait-of-Hormuz Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:48:35 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/505451-NewsReal-Trumps-D-Day-Do-or-Die A month into his "little excursion" in Iran, Trump's campaign of sustained airstrikes is yielding preposterous results: significant damage in Iran, but also in America's regional client-states, and also in key global supply chains. Every Monday he calms 'the markets' with assurances that the war is won and "very nearly over," and every Friday, when markets close, he threatens "TOTAL DEATH AND DESTRUCTION!" In the meantime, non-stop rumors of American troop movements suggest Trump is seriously considering a ground invasion of Iran, ostensibly to "reopen the Strait of Hormuz." Which actually is open, just now on Iran's terms. The US president apparently seeks to return shipping there to the status quo ante. But can he do it with a small landing force? And would such a move even work? It's D-Day for the West as we knew it: do, or die. Running Time: 01:37:39 Download: MP3 — 89.4 MB https://www.sott.net/article/505451-NewsReal-Trumps-D-Day-Do-or-Die Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:37:09 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/505274-NewsReal-Iran-War-Winding-Down-or-Escalating-Israel-Leading-Trump-Towards-Quagmire Trump's "short-term excursion" in Iran is going from bad to worse. And so are his incoherent positions on the situation and what to do about it. With gas prices jumping the world over, humanity is staring down the barrel of global food shortages and severe energy disruptions, while the US military is seriously considering direct military confrontation with Iranian forces to "free the Strait of Hormuz." In the midst of all this, rumors are flying about Netanyahu's whereabouts, and 'someone' is carrying out missile strikes, in Iran's name, against high-profile military sites like the US-UK military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, against energy infrastructure targets in neutral countries, and against important cultural sites like Jerusalem's Old City. 'They' seem determined to cause global FUBAR. Can Trump do anything to stop them? Or has he become their hostage? Running Time: 01:38:24 Download: MP3 — 90.1 MB https://www.sott.net/article/505274-NewsReal-Iran-War-Winding-Down-or-Escalating-Israel-Leading-Trump-Towards-Quagmire Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:52:59 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/505175-NewsReal-USA-Israel-Confident-of-Victory-Despite-Strong-Iranian-Resistance Something's gotta give. Iran is being practically carpet-bombed, resulting in widespread civilian destruction. Despite near-total regional censorship, satellite imagery and some video footage is documenting mild-to-strong 'hits' on US bases and other assets across the whole region. Trump assures us Iran's military is 'destroyed', yet he acknowledges Iran's de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the high risks this presents for the regional and thus global economy. The heavy criticism Trump has come under for 'blundering into war' overlooks something though: neither he nor the 'permanent govt' advisors he listens to is oblivious to the knock-on effects of what they're doing. However chaotic the situation appears - and the situation IS chaotic! - they're confident they can contain both Iran and the 'oil shock' situation they've created. They are, after all, "history's actors," and the rest of us are left, as usual, "to study what they do..." They may be losing public support,... https://www.sott.net/article/505175-NewsReal-USA-Israel-Confident-of-Victory-Despite-Strong-Iranian-Resistance Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:02:24 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/505058-NewsReal-Operation-Epic-Fury-What-Are-The-Americans-Furious-About One week into the US-Israeli attack on Iran, the mission has been extended from "4 days" to "4 weeks" to "4 months" to "as long as it takes." But what IS the mission? It was "regime change," but Iran is not "surrendering" despite its leadership being assassinated. In fact, surviving Iranian leadership is conveying that its counter-strikes will continue until ITS mission is accomplished. So, a war of attrition until one side blinks? In the meantime, damage to neighboring countries in the Middle East, and to the global economy, is already setting in. This missile war threatens to become a maelstrom of truly epic proportions. Which brings us to what is motivating the Americans to do this. We all know they're in lockstep with an Israeli regime that has been salivating at the prospect of "taking out Iran" since 1979. But why the desperation, extreme rhetoric, absurdity and gross risk-taking from the Americans? What, truly, made them furious enough with Iran to even name their operation... https://www.sott.net/article/505058-NewsReal-Operation-Epic-Fury-What-Are-The-Americans-Furious-About Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:50:30 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/504928-NewsReal-Historic-Miscalculation-US-Israel-Decapitate-Iranian-Regime-Yet-Iran-is-Striking-Back-HARD And so it begins. This time it isn't 'kayfabe' and 'negotiated strikes and counter-strikes'. The 'peace president', when announcing joint US-Israeli strikes against Iran on 28 February, said it would just take a few days, and gloated that he 'took out the regime' by targeting top Iranian leadership, including Ayatollah Khamenei. But Iran's swift and massive response - bombing 11 countries housing US and Israeli military bases and installations, including a British base in Cyprus, EU territory - now has Trump saying the war will 'last for weeks'... What did they think was going to happen, that Iranians would 'rise up and take power from their oppressors'? The Americans appear to have truly believed their own propaganda. In reality, Iranians are defiantly rallying in support of their country, and government, while Muslims across the region are preparing to potentially join the fray and do as Iran has always sought: remove all American military forces from the Persian Gulf, if not the... https://www.sott.net/article/504928-NewsReal-Historic-Miscalculation-US-Israel-Decapitate-Iranian-Regime-Yet-Iran-is-Striking-Back-HARD Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:14:31 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/504798-NewsReal-US-Iran-Stand-Off-Art-of-the-Trumpian-Deal-or-War-For-Oil-Israel The 'major build-up' of US military forces in and around the Middle East sure makes it look like D-Day for 'war with Iran' is imminent. What people are overlooking, however, is that this is Trump doing his 'maximum pressure' routine with a view to 'deal-making', not blowing the world up to kingdom come. The situation is certainly tense, a lot is at stake, and Trump is under tremendous pressure by Israel to 'commit', but the world has changed, and Iran is not Syria or Libya. There will almost certainly be 'kinetic action', but perhaps not the kind envisioned by most. Running Time: 02:03:28 Download: MP3 — 113 MB https://www.sott.net/article/504798-NewsReal-US-Iran-Stand-Off-Art-of-the-Trumpian-Deal-or-War-For-Oil-Israel Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:38:19 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/504651-NewsReal-Epstein-Epistemology-Why-Trump-Wants-Epstein-Files-To-Go-Away It seems as if everyone who is reading and discussing 'the Epstein Files', most of which are emails exchanged between Jeffrey Epstein and the 'great and powerful', is assuming the worst from them: that Epstein himself, and his co-conspirators, engaged in child sex-trafficking and indulged in the worst abuse of minors, including 'ritual sacrifice' and even cannibalism. While there is evidence for such dark practices in 'elite circles', the hard evidence for such in 'the Epstein Files' isn't there. When considering whether or not to 'assume the worst', consideration must also be given to the context in which these 'revelations' are occurring: Trump's second term and the major damage it can do to his intention of enacting the electoral mandate he was given by the American people. In the meantime, Trump is also under tremendous pressure to 'regime change Iran', an issue he has made clear he does not want to see result in a protracted bloody conflict, but which 'the deep state',... https://www.sott.net/article/504651-NewsReal-Epstein-Epistemology-Why-Trump-Wants-Epstein-Files-To-Go-Away Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:32:41 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/504519-NewsReal-What-People-Dont-Understand-About-The-Epstein-Files The Epstein Files, however redacted, selective, and incomplete they are, are sufficiently damning for all 'with eyes to see' to understand - properly, and, really, for the first time - that we are indeed lorded over by corrupt, knuckle-dragging, deranged 'elites'. As online sleuths connect dots, solve cold cases, and shine a light on the worst crimes committed by Epstein and company, the glaring 'elephant in the room' remains the near-total inactivity by Western governments to actually do any of this investigative legwork themselves. Why don't they? Well, because Epstein "belongs to intelligence," which means he did what he did FOR a strategic, long-term purpose. This week on NewsReal we lay out the case for 'the Epstein scandal' being deliberately 'exposed' - or, at minimum, once it 'organically came to light' in 2007, being instrumentalized - in order to inculcate mass complicity just through mere association with Epstein. And why would anyone go to such trouble? To 'buy' silence... https://www.sott.net/article/504519-NewsReal-What-People-Dont-Understand-About-The-Epstein-Files Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:09:51 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/504403-NewsReal-Epstein-Files-Pull-Back-Curtain-on-Sordid-World-of-Degenerate-Elites It isn't all of 'the files', and it certainly isn't the 'kompromat' Epstein collected on all the rich and famous he schmoozed with for three decades, but there's enough in the 'final tranche' of some three million US law enforcement documents spanning multiple investigations into Epstein and his corrupt dealings to conclude that the political class (the whole world over, but particularly in the 'West') is broken beyond repair. Quite how he gained and sustained access to the most important institutions and people in the world remains unclear, but it's nonetheless clear from his correspondences that he indeed had such top-tier access. While he was a tax-dodging 'financier' and a 'black market dealer', Epstein was first and foremost 'working for Israel', which means that his 'work' cannot be detached from the Israelis' current 'final solution' for Palestinians. If you're going to commit genocide and get away with it, you need to 'have the dirt' on anyone and everyone influential who... https://www.sott.net/article/504403-NewsReal-Epstein-Files-Pull-Back-Curtain-on-Sordid-World-of-Degenerate-Elites Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:06:48 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/504257-NewsReal-Trump-Unveils-Gaza-Beach-Resort-at-WEF-Weathers-Minneapolis-ICE-Storm-Back-Home Amidst growing protests in Minneapolis against the presence of "Trump's enforcers," more mayhem as ICE agents kill a SECOND local liberal disrupting their hunt for illegals. Are Americans losing their appetite for 'mass deportations'? Or will they 'follow the penguin to the mountains', as DHS seemed to suggest? Meanwhile, US support for extreme forms of 'disruption' in Iran has resulted in 3,100 deaths there in support of a manufactured 'revolution', but no American 'savior' airstrikes as yet. Also this week, Canadian PM Mark Carney's speech heralding the end of American hegemony stole the show at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and undermined Trump's attempt to platform his son-in-law's 'master vision' for turning Gaza into a 'world-class beach resort'. 'Daddy' Trump was apparently placated, however, when NATO Sec.-Gen. Mark Rutte got him to back down from annexing Greenland by promising him more bases and mineral rights on the Danish territory. Running Time: 02:05:18 Download:... https://www.sott.net/article/504257-NewsReal-Trump-Unveils-Gaza-Beach-Resort-at-WEF-Weathers-Minneapolis-ICE-Storm-Back-Home Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:15:14 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/504127-NewsReal-Does-Trumps-Scramble-for-Greenland-Spell-End-of-NATO Trump's Greenland grab has finally got the Euros asking geostrategic questions about the wisdom of over-dependence on American 'military protection'. But is it 'too little, too late'? They insist there's no way Greenland will become American territory, but Trump has issued tariffs against his erstwhile allies, and a June deadline. If NATO is coming apart at the seams, what about the 'Five Eyes' of the anglophone countries? Canada's abrupt shift towards "strategic partnership" with China signals that that 'Western alliance' is ending too. Meanwhile, as yet another Iranian 'color revolution' comes to a screeching halt thanks, perhaps, to Russian high-tech assistance with knocking out the protesters' Starlink internet access, it appears that American-Israeli 'humanitarian intervention' (read: decapitation strikes) in Tehran has been stalled, for now. As we've already seen this year, however, Trumpian 'regime change' isn't necessarily bloody: Venezuela's government was apparently in... https://www.sott.net/article/504127-NewsReal-Does-Trumps-Scramble-for-Greenland-Spell-End-of-NATO Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:17:06 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/503980-NewsReal-Desperate-Acts-Venezuela-Russia-China-Iran-America-Lashes-Out-as-Its-Empire-Falters The United States is truly 'off the leash' now. Those who were 'sleeping' before Trump came along and rudely shook them awake are horrified to discover that the US government is an aggressive, imperialistic machine that wants control over vast resources and is prepared to do whatever it takes to reach satiation. The abduction of Nicholas Maduro and Trump's brazen claim to 'now run' the country of Venezuela was followed last week with more seizures of oil tankers, preparations to annex Greenland, threats to bomb Iran, and hints that the US may soon 'run' other countries in 'its backyard'. Truth be told, however, the US has always been like this. The difference, under Trump, is one of degree, tempo, and the (reduced) extent of destructive 'collateral damage'. Dispensing with carefully-crafted narratives facilitated by CIA 'regime change operatives', Trump is far more inclined to tell it like it is: in a world changing from unipolar to multipolar, he's afraid the US will not only... https://www.sott.net/article/503980-NewsReal-Desperate-Acts-Venezuela-Russia-China-Iran-America-Lashes-Out-as-Its-Empire-Falters Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:01:40 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/503831-NewsReal-Trump-Abducts-Maduro-Takes-Venezuelas-Oil-Says-US-Will-Run-Country Can the US just do that? Yes, apparently, it can! It's regime change, but not quite as we know it. With the democratically-elected leader of Venezuela taken to the USA 'to answer for his crimes', Trump has dropped all pretense and admitted that he wants the US to 'run Venezuela' because he wants American oil companies to return in a big way and supplant all Iranian, Russian and Chinese interests there. It remains to be seen how exactly the Americans will manage Venezuela 'at-a-distance', but in the meantime it looks like a backroom deal was cut such that the Venezuelan military stood down and let American soldiers conduct their raid. The ramifications for Venezuela, as well as the larger geopolitical ramifications, are potentially huge. Running Time: 02:17:47 Download: MP3 — 126 MB https://www.sott.net/article/503831-NewsReal-Trump-Abducts-Maduro-Takes-Venezuelas-Oil-Says-US-Will-Run-Country Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:00:07 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/503595-NewsReal-TPUSAs-AmFest-2025-The-Battle-For-Christians-Souls The annual Turning Point USA 'America Fest' took place this week, complete with big name appearances from Right-wing pundits, pastors and politicians, celebrity cameos and gaudy spectacle. To the organization's credit, however, it honored Charlie Kirk's legacy by including Tucker Carlson on the roster - the very thing the organization's founder was pressured by "Jewish donors" to "cancel" during the summer. As something of a 'finale' to the 'American conservative calendar', AmFest2025 further accentuated the chasm that has been opening all year long up on the Right between those for and against 'special status' for Israel. Besides being a political dispute, this is also a theological one, with voices on each side articulating the merits, or otherwise, of maintaining belief in the peculiar evangelical interpretation of Christianity as 'Judeo-christianity'. Second hour of this NewsReal: The fallout from last week's atrocity at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, has seen the Canberra... https://www.sott.net/article/503595-NewsReal-TPUSAs-AmFest-2025-The-Battle-For-Christians-Souls Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:46:50 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/503492-NewsReal-Oil-Tanker-Attacks-on-Shadow-Fleets-Massacre-of-Jews-in-Sydney An Iranian/Venezuelan "shadow fleet" oil tanker seized by the US military somewhere off the coast of Venezuela. Five oil tankers, "part of the Russian shadow fleet," blown up, sunk, or badly damaged in the Black Sea and off the west African coast. "Ukraine" claims 3 of the latter, but who's behind the other two attacks? And is it mere coincidence that the US government has resorted to 'piracy' at a time when the Kiev regime has begun sinking tankers? Today, a mass shooting targeted Jews gathered at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, to mark Hanukkah, leaving 15 of them dead and many more injured. The deadliest mass shooting of Jews anywhere since the massacre by a right-winger at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, the Bondi Beach attack appears to have been carried out by two Australian Muslims of Pakistani origin. Was this spontaneous violence motivated by 'revenge for Gaza'? If so, it comes at the worst possible time for free speech in Australia. Finally, rare guilty confession... https://www.sott.net/article/503492-NewsReal-Oil-Tanker-Attacks-on-Shadow-Fleets-Massacre-of-Jews-in-Sydney Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:23:52 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/503382-NewsReal-New-US-National-Strategy-the-End-of-Global-Hegemony-and-Euro-Delusions "A pretty big turnaround," the Russian government called it. "Aligned with Russia," is how Atlanticist media is describing it. The updated US National Security Strategy is, on paper, something of a 'clean break' with the the United States' past . No longer seeking 'full-spectrum dominance' and stressing the impossibility of being 'policeman for the entire world', the US outlook on global affairs codifies Trump's vision of refocusing on 'the near-abroad', namely the Americas. It also explicitly calls for ending NATO expansion and seeking 'win-win outcomes' with US peer and near-peer competitors. Timely then, given the sharp spat last week between US and EU officials over censorship and the crackdown on political dissent in Europe, which erupted when the European Commission decided to fine Elon Musk's X platform for not agreeing to quietly censor European citizens on behalf of the Euro regime. The year 2025 is thus bookended by a second charged 'debate' between JD Vance and Musk and... https://www.sott.net/article/503382-NewsReal-New-US-National-Strategy-the-End-of-Global-Hegemony-and-Euro-Delusions Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:01:30 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/503243-NewsReal-Why-Does-Trump-Want-to-Regime-Change-Venezuela If it's not really about the drugs, and if it's not really the socialism that bothers him, why is Trump preparing to launch yet another American regime change war against Venezuela? The recent election of 'democratic socialist' Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor is nowhere near as 'shocking' as right-wing influencers would like you to believe, and Trump demonstrated that by inviting him to the White House for a convivial meeting last week. The US economy (and certainly its urban social values) is already rather 'socialist' in many respects. So what then is Trump's beef with the 'Chavista' regime of Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro? Why is Trump strongly signalling alignment with the CIA - his only real enemy - on this harebrained, and potentially massively destructive, foreign (mis)adventure? Running Time: 02:06:24 Download: MP3 — 116 MB https://www.sott.net/article/503243-NewsReal-Why-Does-Trump-Want-to-Regime-Change-Venezuela Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:17:05 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/503117-NewsReal-Trump-Peace-Plan-Shows-Ukraine-Wars-Still-a-Racket Trump's 28-point peace plan for Ukraine was announced last week. The Euros say it's "capitulation to Russia," Kiev says it's under pressure from the White House to accept it, "or else," and the Russians say they'll "consider it." Though more realistic than anything proffered by Western leaders thus far, it will likely fail because entrenched money interests want to keep the war going. Back in the US, Congressman Thomas Massie's Epstein Files Transparency Act has been passed surprisingly quickly. So, a 'win' for MAGA, despite Trump's months-long efforts to kill the bill. And yet, unexpectedly, Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced her sudden retirement from national politics, stating, "our government is broken beyond repair." A bad omen for 'Epstein transparency' and thus the remainder of Trump's term. Is MAGA dead in the water? Running Time: 01:51:04 Download: MP3 — 102 MB https://www.sott.net/article/503117-NewsReal-Trump-Peace-Plan-Shows-Ukraine-Wars-Still-a-Racket Sun, 23 Nov 2025 20:08:15 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/502982-NewsReal-Epstein-Files-Trump-Desperate-to-Put-America-First-Genie-Back-in-Bottle They say dead men tell no tales. Not true in this case. Epstein continues looming large over Trump's second term, with The Epstein Files™ - and specifically the demand to publish them, combined with the efforts to selectively 'massage' and 'tailor' them - practically dictating the schedule and tempo of US domestic politics. Left and Right have come together to force their release, squeezing Trump in the middle, who wants everyone to forget all about them. Most assume that that's because Trump himself is personally implicated in them. More likely, Israel is, so Trump wants to placate Israeli paranoia in order to focus on making 'big beautiful peace deals' and avoiding another smear campaign like Russiagate, and thus the political chaos of his first term. He thinks he's 'doing MAGA' the only way it can be done, but in the meantime his base is 'noticing' an awful lot and wants the US to completely decouple from Israel. The divergence is becoming extreme. Can the center hold? Running... https://www.sott.net/article/502982-NewsReal-Epstein-Files-Trump-Desperate-to-Put-America-First-Genie-Back-in-Bottle Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:09:07 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/502861-NewsReal-Fed-surrection-Jan-6th-Pipe-Bomber-Was-a-Female-COP In a development that should surprise no one, a Blaze investigation has discovered the (probable) identity of the person placing the pipe-bombs around the US Capitol building on the eve of the January 6th "insurrection" - a female United States Capitol Police officer (who subsequently joined the CIA). The mainstream media will ignore this, as will the Feds will, but at least we're clear on one thing: the terrorists are those in government. Meanwhile, a year on since Trump's re-election, how's the 'golden era' going? A record-long US government shutdown, record-high grocery prices, far-left candidates winning local elections, and sabre-rattling against the US' Caribbean neighbors. Everybody's feeling it. MAGA? Meh! Running Time: 01:52:54 Download: MP3 — 103 MB https://www.sott.net/article/502861-NewsReal-Fed-surrection-Jan-6th-Pipe-Bomber-Was-a-Female-COP Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:51:22 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/502734-NewsReal-Neutralize-Tucker-Berserker-Reactions-to-Carlson-Fuentes-Interview His surprise appearance on Tucker Carlson's show is something of a 'marker event' in the meteoric rise of polemic right-wing commentator Nicholas Fuentes to American political prominence. In the end it was a civil conversation fleshing out background to his controversial takes, and general agreement on what's been taking place in the US recently: growing, significant public backlash against Israel's wars and outsized influence in American politics. So, what pretty much everyone's talking about! But, for some reason, THESE TWO PEOPLE are apparently 'strictly verboten' from being allowed to meet, much less discuss the 'elephant in the room'. The 'guilty flee where none doth pursue', so the extreme - and childishly inane - reactions of mainstream pundits and politicians betray a sense of 'doom' on their part regarding this 'culture war' shift in the USA. How will 'the enforcers' respond? In their customary manner? Or do their regular tactics no longer work? Running Time: 02:04:27... https://www.sott.net/article/502734-NewsReal-Neutralize-Tucker-Berserker-Reactions-to-Carlson-Fuentes-Interview Mon, 03 Nov 2025 10:06:08 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/502596-NewsReal-War-Peace-The-Method-Behind-Trumps-Ukraine-And-China-Flip-Flops From "500% tariffs against China" and "Tomahawks for Ukraine" to "a comprehensive trade deal" and "imminent peace with Russia," a day is a long time in Trumpian politics. Besides driving us all mad with endlessly contradictory Truth Social posts, can we figure out what the American president really wants to achieve on the world stage? In the end it boils down to maximizing economic advantage for Americans, while minimizing death and destruction for everyone else. Worthy of the title "peacemaker"? Perhaps, but it's a messy business. Also on this NewsReal, is he serious about going to war against Venezuela? Probably not. And is he serious about not letting Israel "annex" the West Bank? Probably. But ask us again next week! Running Time: 02:08:40 Download: MP3 — 118 MB https://www.sott.net/article/502596-NewsReal-War-Peace-The-Method-Behind-Trumps-Ukraine-And-China-Flip-Flops Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:54:31 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/502460-NewsReal-Peacemaker-Trump-Ends-3000-Years-of-War-in-the-Mid-East Or so he'd like you to believe. Trump's bullsh*t reached unprecedented heights last week with his theatrical 'Mid-East Peace Deal' in Egypt, which was really just a declaration of intent signed by the leaders of parties other than Israel and Hamas, and in which they expressed their desire to see the conflict ended. That's it. Hamas has released all remaining Israeli hostages, while Israel has released a couple thousands Palestinian ones. But the fundamentally barbaric and illegal occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands continues. In the meantime, Trump's also been publicly bragging in Israel's Knesset (!) about Israeli money buying US foreign policy... Far from being 'resolved', Israel's 'Palestinian problem' is likely being shifted into the next phase: bloody civil war instigated by 'militias' funded and/or fully supported by the US and Israel. Running Time: 02:02:24 Download: MP3 — 112 MB https://www.sott.net/article/502460-NewsReal-Peacemaker-Trump-Ends-3000-Years-of-War-in-the-Mid-East Sun, 19 Oct 2025 17:25:49 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/502205-NewsReal-Trumps-Gaza-Peace-Plan-Doomed-to-Fail Here we go again. 2 years on from "Israel's 9/11," public and international pressure has once again brought pressure to bear on an immediate settlement of Israel's 'war against Hamas'. Netanyahu, on his 4th visit to Washington DC this year, has sort-of agreed to Trump's peace plan, which would see all remaining Israeli hostages released by Hamas, the IDF withdraw from what remains of Gaza's cities and settlements, and the Strip's functional management temporarily taken over by an 'international executive'. Sounds great, and sounds like it would end the mayhem for good. The problem, however, is that we've already been at this point on multiple occasions during the last 2 years - and, each time, Israel has cited one reason or another for why it disregarded its apparent commitment to 'solving the crisis' in favor of continuing to 'cleanse' Gaza... leaving skeptics with the impression that Israel doesn't want the war to end, and that its real goal is the removal of all Palestinians... https://www.sott.net/article/502205-NewsReal-Trumps-Gaza-Peace-Plan-Doomed-to-Fail Sun, 05 Oct 2025 21:24:48 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/502062-NewsReal-Kirk-Assassination-Solved-Lapel-Mic-Explosion-Explains-Neck-Wound-Reveals-Conspiracy It's gotta be the mic he was wearing on his shirt. This week we examine new, clearer footage of Charlie Kirk the moment he was assassinated at Utah Valley University on September 10th. His 'billowing t-shirt', the 'lack of an exit wound', and the unusual characteristics found in the gunfire sound's 'crack-bang' acoustics are all accounted for by something that's been right under our noses the whole time. Also on this NewsReal: the farcical 'Russian drone war' in Europe, Netanyahu's antics at the UN General Assembly, the wholesale buy-up of mainstream and social media platforms 'by Israel', Trump's apparent u-turn on supporting Ukraine 'to the last Ukrainian', and the revelation that there were in fact hundreds of feds among the crowd at the Capitol on January 6th 2021. Running Time: 02:07:35 Download: MP3 — 117 MB https://www.sott.net/article/502062-NewsReal-Kirk-Assassination-Solved-Lapel-Mic-Explosion-Explains-Neck-Wound-Reveals-Conspiracy Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:36:56 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/501932-NewsReal-Kirk-Assassination-Miracle-Martyr-of-The-American-Church-of-Latter-Day-Judeo-Christians Behold, a miracle! Charlie Kirk, they say, presented no exit wound because the large, high-velocity round that pierced his neck on 9/10 was 'absorbed by his supernatural body', thereby protecting others behind the great man from being killed, Kirk's last selfless act as an all-American Judeo-Christian. As the 'investigation' into Kirk's assassination continues, mostly taking place among a few million kooky conspiracy theorists online, officialdom has concluded that he was killed by a queer lone gunman who 'hated Kirk for things he said'. Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, has comprehensively extinguished all suspicion of Israeli involvement in Kirk's brutal murder, and welcomed 250 American state legislators to tour "America's Greatest Ally." Hanging in the air, however, is The Unspeakable. Though widely - and, for the most part, anonymously - expressed online, and darkly muttered in public from time to time, the undertone to this entire affair is unmistakable: the creeping large-scale... https://www.sott.net/article/501932-NewsReal-Kirk-Assassination-Miracle-Martyr-of-The-American-Church-of-Latter-Day-Judeo-Christians Sun, 21 Sep 2025 20:01:08 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/501808-NewsReal-Assassination-of-Charlie-Kirk-And-The-Trap-of-Accelerationism The brutal public assassination of American political activist and Trump ally Charlie Kirk has sparked intense anger in the US, 'activating' many Americans to double-down on their commitment to "taking back this country from... THEM!" It's too early to say for sure whether Kirk's assassin worked alone or was a 'patsy', but, either way, the mass emotional charge that's been unleashed will absolutely be used by vested interests to advance ideas and 'solutions' not aligned with the interests of the great majority of people. Placed in the context of a long sordid history of US 'deep state' institutional 'cointelpro' and 'counter-intelligence' programs - like conducting hundreds of fake FBI terror plots during the 2000s, and, more recently, fomenting 'accelerationist' terror cells on both the Left and Right - Kirk's assassination has 'psy-op' stamped all over it. Beware you don't fall into their trap... Running Time: 02:09:26 Download: MP3 — 119 MB https://www.sott.net/article/501808-NewsReal-Assassination-of-Charlie-Kirk-And-The-Trap-of-Accelerationism Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:41:11 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/501688-NewsReal-Dept-of-War-Trumps-Rebrand-Heralds-End-of-Pax-Americana Still salty from the sight of the leaders of China, India and Russia "conspiring" against him at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tianjin last week, Trump has launched a 'rebranding' of the US Department of Defense to its pre-WW2 name: the Department of War! A bad omen? A more honest name? It certainly heralds the end of an era. On this week's show, we discuss Americans' difficulties adjusting to the new multipolar global order, their apparent misconception that being 'the pole' country of the Western hemisphere gives them legal/moral right to bully Venezuela for control of its natural resources, and their chronic avoidance of rampant crime much closer to home. Running Time: 01:59:13 Download: MP3 — 109 MB https://www.sott.net/article/501688-NewsReal-Dept-of-War-Trumps-Rebrand-Heralds-End-of-Pax-Americana Sun, 07 Sep 2025 20:16:44 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/501572-NewsReal-Cant-Stop-This-SCO-Summit-Brings-Together-China-Russia-and-India What did Trump think was going to happen, slapping 50% sanctions tariffs on India?! Then again, power is draining away from US dollar hegemony anyway, so Trump is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. This week on NewsReal, we discuss the China-India rapprochement that undercuts US plans to 'contain China' by courting India, the 'secondary sanctions against Russian oil' that India ignored in favor of partnership with China, and the hapless doubling-down of Europe to 'absorb' Ukraine (and Moldova) 'before Putin can'. Meanwhile it's lights out for one of the primary instigators of the neo-Nazi founders of modern Ukraine, Russia continues targeting key Ukrainian military-industrial infrastructure, and Brussels turns a blind eye as Kiev deliberately targets the oil pipeline serving two EU countries. Israel continues slaughtering Gazans, and assassinating its neighbors leaders, and Washington continues covering for the genocidal state's crimes. All aboard the sinking ship of Western... https://www.sott.net/article/501572-NewsReal-Cant-Stop-This-SCO-Summit-Brings-Together-China-Russia-and-India Sun, 31 Aug 2025 20:20:42 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/501443-NewsReal-Big-Summits-Over-Whats-Next-For-Settling-Ukraine-War The upshot of the two big recent summits on the Ukraine War/SMO - the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska followed by the euro-lapdogs scurrying to Washington to yap loudly to 'daddy Trump' - is that Russia and Ukraine's positions remain, to surface appearances, impossible to reconcile. You cannot have a 'lasting' peace settlement where Ukraine is both 'intact within its 1991 borders' and 'cedes 5 regions to Russia', and both 'free of NATO weapons & troops' and 'armed & garrisoned by NATO troops'. And yet it seems that all parties to the conflict are content that a settlement is likely, indeed 'fairly imminent'?! This week on NewsReal, we lay out the most realistic, thus the most likely, scenario in which the Ukraine War/SMO is settled: by Zelensky's forced removal and his replacement with a regime Moscow approves. In short, a counter-Maidan to fix the roots of the damage done to that country by Western intelligence networks when they germinated and installed neo-Nazi figures... https://www.sott.net/article/501443-NewsReal-Big-Summits-Over-Whats-Next-For-Settling-Ukraine-War Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:07:59 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/501304-NewsReal-Niall-Visits-Russia-Trump-Putin-Talk-Peace-in-Alaska Niall returns to NewsReal to share some impressions he gleaned of life in Russia, where he recently spent time in Moscow and St Petersburg. Some of what Western media tells you about Russia is accurate, much of what it tells you misses nuances, and most of what it tells you is pure fiction. The short of it is: Russia is booming, and Russians, generally unaffected by the war, and mostly supportive of it, are prospering and getting on with living life. In the meantime, of course, Putin flew to Alaska, formerly 'Russian America', to meet Trump on US soil for the first time, in what was clearly a surprise move instigated by Trump, the quirky American president who continues to confound everyone with his 'deadlines'. It's clear the urgency to end the war is coming from the West, not Russia, which can continue doing this slow-burn proxy war in Ukraine for years to come if need be, so what is compelling the US to wrap it up ASAP? Is it incipient realization that the US will look to the... https://www.sott.net/article/501304-NewsReal-Niall-Visits-Russia-Trump-Putin-Talk-Peace-in-Alaska Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:52:24 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/501020-NewsReal-The-World-Unites-Against-Israel-except-MAGA-bros As the Israeli government continues to gaslight, shame and blackmail the entire world into ignoring its genocide against the people of Gaza, more and more ordinary people are standing up to the Zionist monster, and governments are being forced to take note (except Trump). This week we'll be explaining what's REALLY going on in the Middle East, and beyond. Running Time: 01:53:59 Download: MP3 — 104 MB https://www.sott.net/article/501020-NewsReal-The-World-Unites-Against-Israel-except-MAGA-bros Mon, 04 Aug 2025 08:59:27 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/500968-MindMatters-Nigel-Kerners-Chilling-Warning-AI-Is-Making-Us-Less-Human-with-Danielle-Silverman In this episode of Mind Matters, Harrison engages with Danielle Silverman, a collaborator of the late Nigel Kerner, author of Gray Aliens and Artificial Intelligence. They discuss Kerner's philosophical and metaphysical perspectives on UFOs, suggesting gray aliens are synthetic, non-sentient beings seeking to harvest human souls — a unique connection to a perfect, eternal state. Kerner's work, rooted in decades of inquiry sparked by his son's question about UFOs, posits that humanity is at risk of losing its capacity for meaning by merging with AI and technology, aligning with an alien agenda. Silverman emphasizes the importance of resisting this trajectory through human connection and awareness to preserve our sovereignty and spiritual essence. Running Time: 01:17:05 Download: MP3 — 106 MB https://www.sott.net/article/500968-MindMatters-Nigel-Kerners-Chilling-Warning-AI-Is-Making-Us-Less-Human-with-Danielle-Silverman Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:59:12 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/500892-NewsReal-Epstein-Saga-Weaponized-Against-Trump Trump tried to make the Epstein Saga go away by first pretending that no such 'Epstein Files' exist, then by saying they were all 'a Democrat hoax anyway'. You'd think, therefore, that the mainstream media - given the culpability of its corporate owners in this American upper class scandal - would have breathed a sigh of relief and obliged him by shutting up about it. But no. Instead, they (Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal in particular) keep on dredging up decades-old photos and other memoirs from Trump's past relationship with Epstein, thereby keeping the ASSOCIATION of Trump and 'the notorious serial pedophile' in the headlines, and thereby insinuating that Trump partook in Epstein's sex crimes. They've thereby turned what had been a powerful asset - disclosure/justice for 'the worst of crimes' - during Trump's re-election campaign... into a weapon against him. Running Time: 02:05:00 Download: MP3 — 114 MB https://www.sott.net/article/500892-NewsReal-Epstein-Saga-Weaponized-Against-Trump Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:31:54 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/500752-NewsReal-The-Epstein-Network-The-Great-Game-And-Why-We-re-All-Hostages-to-The-Devil Fallout from Trump's shock announcement that 'Epstein had no clients' continues, with the clamor for truth and justice from within his supporter base only growing. This week on NewsReal, we look at the meteoric and mythic rise of this ultra-wealthy 'money-manager', his obvious importance to Israeli interests, and note the impact mention of his very name is having on quelling dissent among Western leaders and influential people when it comes to speaking out about the genocide in Gaza, the single worst crime against humanity since WW2. Running Time: 01:49:29 Download: MP3 — 100 MB https://www.sott.net/article/500752-NewsReal-The-Epstein-Network-The-Great-Game-And-Why-We-re-All-Hostages-to-The-Devil Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:49:57 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/500626-NewsReal-Trumps-Epstein-U-turn-Why-Pedophile-Networks-Are-Always-Protected The Trump admin's memo last week stating conclusively that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein did not have a client list that could implicate VIPs, and that he did take his own life, has been roundly condemned as a cover-up and prompted many to speculate that Trump himself could be implicated. The additional dimension to this scandal, that Epstein and his chief accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell are Jews with strong ties to Israel, serves to reinforce the growing perception that US politics and government policies are substantially driven or 'guard-railed' by Israeli-led blackmail. But the recurring pattern in 'pedophile network' scandals across the West in recent decades is that the 'pimps', when exposed and caught, always wind up being cast as 'lone wolf actors', while the large elite clientele they served ALWAYS remain protected. It's one of the core brutal truths all must learn about life on planet Earth, and while it's disappointing to see Trump uphold this pattern, it's... https://www.sott.net/article/500626-NewsReal-Trumps-Epstein-U-turn-Why-Pedophile-Networks-Are-Always-Protected Sun, 13 Jul 2025 20:31:18 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/500503-NewsReal-Iran-War-Aint-Over-Trump-Pause-Delays-Goal-of-Thwarting-Eurasian-Integration Everybody knows it's a 'war for Israel', but is it so simple as the mighty US being so thoroughly blackmailed and bribed into another costly, bloody war? This week on NewsReal, we lay out the 'positive motivation' for the US: its strategic goal of thwarting Eurasian transport and trade integration between Chinese economic power, Russian military power and Iranian energy power. And yes, Israel expects to dominate the Middle East as a result, so ITS 'positive motivation' is to ensure the US remains fully committed. The transatlantic deep state consortium that dominates the US government certainly is, but whether Trump completely betrays the core promises that got him re-elected remains to be seen... Running Time: 01:55:23 Download: MP3 — 106 MB https://www.sott.net/article/500503-NewsReal-Iran-War-Aint-Over-Trump-Pause-Delays-Goal-of-Thwarting-Eurasian-Integration Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:41:10 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/500251-NewsReal-Trumps-Surprise-Strike-on-Iran-Its-NOT-About-Nukes The wave function of Trump's endless 'dancing' ("maybe tomorrow, maybe in two weeks!") about whether or not the US military would directly strike Iran's nuclear sites has collapsed. But was yesterday's "obliteration of Iran's nuclear program" really "a spectacular success"? Is this the opening act in direct war between the US and Iran? In the meantime, Iran continues sending wave after wave of missiles into Israel... This week on NewsReal, we look behind the bloviating propaganda and the official narratives to explore the real motives - for both Israel and the US - to "regime change" Iran and "secure the Middle East." Running Time: 02:13:12 Download: MP3 — 122 MB https://www.sott.net/article/500251-NewsReal-Trumps-Surprise-Strike-on-Iran-Its-NOT-About-Nukes Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:06:12 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/500130-NewsReal-Israel-Attacks-Iran-Seeks-Regime-Change-Will-Trump-Take-US-Into-War Israel's brazen attack against Iran on June 13th could result in the culmination of the NeoCons' plan for the 'New American Century': the toppling of the last regime resisting them in the Middle East. The US and Israel would thus fully control the world's primary 'energy spigot' and cement their joint role as global hegemon(s) for decades to come. Israel intends for this 'short war' to last a couple of weeks, after which Iran will be ruled by a new government with a new ideology, having submitted to US-raeli domination. Wishful thinking? Well, it depends on what capabilities Iran has to withstand Israel's onslaught, whether its population is psychologically committed to resisting, and whether the US will have to directly intervene to fully realize Netanyahu's dream of deposing the Ayatollah and defeating Iran's military. If the latter comes about, Trump will have shot MAGA - and his devoted followers, who are extremely hostile about the US engaging in another major Middle East war... https://www.sott.net/article/500130-NewsReal-Israel-Attacks-Iran-Seeks-Regime-Change-Will-Trump-Take-US-Into-War Mon, 16 Jun 2025 04:39:13 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/500008-NewsReal-Trouble-in-MAGA-Paradise-Trump-Musk-Feud-California-Riots Russia's retaliating. Elon's exploding. Trump's not backing down. And, somehow, a Tu-95 bomber, ICE riots, and Epstein's name are all in the same episode. We're breaking it all down: the Musk-Trump feud, the Ukraine death-count no one wants to talk about, and what the hell is going on in California. Running Time: 01:39:43 Download: MP3 — 91.3 MB https://www.sott.net/article/500008-NewsReal-Trouble-in-MAGA-Paradise-Trump-Musk-Feud-California-Riots Sun, 08 Jun 2025 22:02:26 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/499939-MindMatters-Artificial-Stone-Has-Marcell-Foti-Cracked-the-Megalithic-Code In this episode of Mind Matters, Marcell Foti shares his groundbreaking Natron Theory, challenging conventional explanations for the construction of ancient megalithic structures. Foti, an IT professional turned independent researcher, proposes that ancient civilizations used a chemical process involving natron — a carbonate mineral used in ancient Egypt for mummification and as a detergent — to etch and dissolve granite into a moldable "waterglass" slurry, which could then be cast into precise stone shapes. Demonstrating with small-scale experiments, he explains how this method accounts for the seamless, complex features of structures like those in Peru and Egypt, offering a compelling alternative to traditional theories of chiseling. Follow Marcel's ongoing experiments and insights on Twitter and check out his book, The Natron Theory, for a deeper dive into this revolutionary idea. Running Time: 01:11:29 Download: MP3 — 98.2 MB https://www.sott.net/article/499939-MindMatters-Artificial-Stone-Has-Marcell-Foti-Cracked-the-Megalithic-Code Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:29:02 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/499774-NewsReal-Gaza-Genocide-and-Why-Israel-Cant-be-a-Normal-Country "Free Palestine!" is "the new 'heil Hitler'!" says Israeli PM Netanyahu following the double-murder of Israeli embassy staff in Washington DC last week - a sickening development that fortuitously eased growing international pressure on the Israeli regime to stop starving the Palestinians in Gaza to death. Just how much pressure will Western leaders actually bring to bear on Israel though? Why don't they do more to restrain the Jewish State? Like, stop gifting it weapons and ammunition? And what about Palestinians' neighboring Arabs, what's their excuse for doing nothing? Finally, Israelis themselves: what IS their major malfunction? When you strip away the narratives and lies, what is the problem, really? Also in this NewsReal: Russia tightens the noose on the Kyiv regime, Germany announces "total rearmament, with a view to soon becoming Europe's best military" (gulp), the WHO's 'Pandemic Preparedness Treaty' comes into effect, and Trump makes a fool of himself in front of South... https://www.sott.net/article/499774-NewsReal-Gaza-Genocide-and-Why-Israel-Cant-be-a-Normal-Country Sun, 25 May 2025 20:47:10 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/499744-MindMatters-The-Dark-Side-of-Non-Human-Intelligence-with-Matt-Hurley Matt Hurley is the creator of badaliens.info, a website dedicated to exploring the darker aspects of the UFO phenomenon. In this episode of MindMatters, Hurley shares his journey into UFO research, sparked by reading Above Top Secret as a teenager, and his subsequent disillusionment with contradictory and overly optimistic narratives in ufology. With a focus on physical evidence over speculative theories, Hurley discusses disturbing topics like abductions, animal and human mutilations, and missing persons cases, emphasizing the need for transparency and caution regarding non-human intelligences. (See Matt's YouTube channel here.) Running Time: 01:12:58 Download: MP3 — 100 MB https://www.sott.net/article/499744-MindMatters-The-Dark-Side-of-Non-Human-Intelligence-with-Matt-Hurley Sat, 24 May 2025 16:36:14 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/499639-NewsReal-Mid-East-Horror-Show-Trumps-Yuge-YMCA-Tour-of-Arabia Trump's recent grand tour of the richest petro-states of the Middle East saw him feted as an emperor, make "trillion$ for America" in "yuge deals," and meet the "young, attractive," head-choppy leaders of the Arabian peninsula and "the new, free Syria." Speaking about the "dawn of a bright new day" for the region, the farce of Trump staging what amounted to a MAGA rally in the ostensibly ultra-conservative Saudi kingdom - complete with the YMCA soundtrack - was completed by Israelis literally blowing up his attempt to ease the suffering of starving Gazans when they launched "Operation Gideon's Chariots," another round of intense bombing of blockaded Gaza that UN officials say has turned the tiny enclave into a veritable "slaughterhouse." Whatever happened to MAGA being different from the House of Horrors that was the NeoCons' obliteration of most of the rest of the region? Were we naive for thinking things would turn out differently? Also in this NewsReal, the bizarre "neo-Nazi... https://www.sott.net/article/499639-NewsReal-Mid-East-Horror-Show-Trumps-Yuge-YMCA-Tour-of-Arabia Mon, 19 May 2025 06:40:17 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/499537-MindMatters-Three-Body-Problem-Soft-Disclosure-John-Carter-talks-ETs-and-UFOs Today MindMatters welcomes back John Carter to talk Cixin Liu's Three-Body Problem, science fiction in general, and to compare NHI theories. Do UAP represent extraterrestrials putting on a show to appear more advanced than actually are? Or super-advanced ultraterrestrials who may have their own weaknesses? What is the possible connection between tech and psi? And would humanity actually unite in the case of an ET threat, as Ronald Reagan so endearingly believed? Running Time: 01:56:57 Download: MP3 — 161 MB https://www.sott.net/article/499537-MindMatters-Three-Body-Problem-Soft-Disclosure-John-Carter-talks-ETs-and-UFOs Tue, 13 May 2025 01:46:59 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/499512-NewsReal-US-Israel-Split-Over-M-E-India-Pakistan-Provocation-Explained-And-Putins-Victory-Parade Rumors are swirling this week that Trump and Netanyahu 'aren't friends anymore', and that the breakdown in their relationship portends divergence in US-Israeli policy in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Trump has suddenly declared an end to the US military bombing of Yemen, just as yet another US fighter jet 'falls off' the USS Truman. And US and Iranian officials are again meeting in Oman to 'further discuss a (new) nuclear deal'. The 'wee war' between India and Pakistan appears have ended, for now, but what happened to kick it all off, who was likely really behind it, and why would they provoke a dangerous border conflict in that region? Joe Quinn explains the geoeconomics of pan-Asian integration - and why the US/UK/Israel/'West' will do whatever they can to prevent that happening. Finally, the spectacular 80th anniversary Victory Day parade in Moscow's Red Square went off without a hitch, despite the inane efforts of Ukrainians and Eurolanders to threaten it with drone attacks, and... https://www.sott.net/article/499512-NewsReal-US-Israel-Split-Over-M-E-India-Pakistan-Provocation-Explained-And-Putins-Victory-Parade Sun, 11 May 2025 20:35:20 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/499392-NewsReal-Pope-Trump-Spain-Blackout-Houthi-Hits-And-Plundering-Ukraine Trump's joke about being made the next pope hasn't gone down too well with Catholics, but it's his big policy ideas that are really falling flat - especially his 'Liberation Day' tariffs and his 'peace pressure' against Putin to end Russia's war in Ukraine. His Ukraine 'minerals deal' essentially rehashes the NeoCons' 'Iraq reconstruction deal' that did NOT rebuild that country and instead enriched American contractors, while his failure to 'annihilate' the Houthis' military capability doesn't augur well for preventing an Israel-Iran war. Meanwhile, all other Western countries' elections continue being rigged, and, despite vocal public statements in defense of democratic freedom from Trump officials, it appears that there's little they can do to prevent the continued disintegration of Western civilization under the feckless stewardship of its parallel 'shadow' government. Running Time: 01:59:37 Download: MP3 — 110 MB https://www.sott.net/article/499392-NewsReal-Pope-Trump-Spain-Blackout-Houthi-Hits-And-Plundering-Ukraine Sun, 04 May 2025 18:26:34 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/499354-MindMatters-Cutchinology-A-Decade-of-the-Paranormal-with-Joshua-Cutchin Joshua Cutchin is one of the most interesting thinkers on the paranormal alive. He is the author of 8 classic books on the subject, including highly focused investigations into the role of food in paranormal encounters, paranormal odors, and child abduction in folklore and contemporary culture. He has also produced wide-ranging analyses on Bigfoot, widening the conceptual aperture to include paranormal features ignored by many until now, and the relation of death to all things paranormal. His latest book deals with the overlap between fiction and the paranormal, and the flimsy boundary between fiction and reality. Joshua is also an accomplished musician and a cool dad. Running Time: 01:23:06 Download: MP3 — 114 MB https://www.sott.net/article/499354-MindMatters-Cutchinology-A-Decade-of-the-Paranormal-with-Joshua-Cutchin Fri, 02 May 2025 20:25:13 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/499269-NewsReal-Yemen-is-Trumps-War-Now-And-The-Houthis-Are-Fighting-Back The 'random' terror attack in disputed Kashmir last week has apparently brought the two nuclear-armed powers of India and Pakistan to the brink of war. It probably won't come to anything serious, but this isn't the first time a major international incident has been sparked by a 'previously-unknown terror group in Pakistan'. Meanwhile, in neighboring Iran, a gargantuan explosion at its largest port has gone largely unreported in the media - an explosion that looks remarkably similar to the one that decimated Lebanon's largest port 5 years ago. Hmmm, connection? Meanwhile, in neighboring Yemen, hundreds of US missile strikes in recent weeks against Houthi targets have intensified to the point that Trump has arguably lost his claim to being the first US president since Carter to not have started a war. The Houthis are giving as good as they've got, however, and what they've got packs a punch. Just how many US Navy ships have they hit so far? And have they sunk any? How many US sailors... https://www.sott.net/article/499269-NewsReal-Yemen-is-Trumps-War-Now-And-The-Houthis-Are-Fighting-Back Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:48:38 +0000