https://www.sott.net/editorials 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. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:55:19 +0000 https://www.sott.net/images/sottlogo_rss.jpg SOTT.net https://www.sott.net https://www.sott.net/article/508395-NewsReal-From-9-11-to-the-Strait-of-Hormuz-What-Went-Wrong 25 years since 9/11 - "the day that changed the world" - the world has indeed changed, but in whose image? Or according to which designs? Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in July 2006 that we were witnessing the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" toward a pro-Western regional order. But here we are 2 decades later, and the region is decidedly less pro-Western than it was before 9/11. Has Al-Qaeda won?! Osama bin Laden's 1996 fatwa sought to "expel the polytheists [US military forces] from the Arabian Peninsula." That hasn't happened, yet, although the current Houthi push to rid Yemen of Saudi occupation forces could yet impact the balance of power across the whole peninsula. Denigrated as 'proxies' of Iran, their successes mirror Iran's chokehold in the Strait of Hormuz on US 'reshaping ambitions'. 9/11 was meant to be the "catastrophic and catalyzing event" the US needed to 'lock down' the Middle East and "prevent the rise of competing powers," thus delivering... https://www.sott.net/article/508395-NewsReal-From-9-11-to-the-Strait-of-Hormuz-What-Went-Wrong Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:54:56 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/124498-Mossad-and-Moving-Companies-Masterminds-of-Global-Terrorism June 2, 2003: The other day I was scanning the news reports and came across a rather mundane item that really got me to thinking. Cloudcroft chief stops Israelis with suspicious cargo By Michael Shinabery Staff Writer Alamogordo Daily News Cloudcroft, New Mexico -- That they were speeding through the school zone first got his attention. That they had Israeli driver's licenses and expired passports made him suspicious. Cloudcroft Police Chief Gene Green stopped the 2-ton van on Thursday, for speeding. Initially, Green thought the truck was commercial because of exterior markings. But when he found it was out of Chicago, he asked for documentation such as logs books and manifests. "They said this is a U-Haul truck and handed me a rental agreement (for) in-town delivery only in Illinois, (which) had expired two days before," Green said. He called for backup, and Otero County Sheriff's Deputy Billy Anders, who patrols the Sacramento Mountains, arrived, along with Capt. Norbert Sanchez... https://www.sott.net/article/124498-Mossad-and-Moving-Companies-Masterminds-of-Global-Terrorism Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:43:09 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/413373-The-Dancing-Israelis-Newly-Released-FBI-Docs-Shed-Light-on-Apparent-Mossad-Foreknowledge-of-9-11-Attacks New information released by the FBI has brought fresh scrutiny to the possibility that the "Dancing Israelis," at least two of whom were known Mossad operatives, had prior knowledge of the attacks on the World Trade Center. For nearly two decades, one of the most overlooked and little known arrests made in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks was that of the so-called "High Fivers," or the "Dancing Israelis." However, new information released by the FBI on May 7th has brought fresh scrutiny to the possibility that the "Dancing Israelis," at least two of whom were known Mossad operatives, had prior knowledge of the attacks on the World Trade Center. Shortly after 8:46 a.m. on the day of the attacks, just minutes after the first plane struck the World Trade Center, five men - later revealed to be Israeli nationals - had positioned themselves in the parking lot of the Doric Apartment Complex in Union City, New Jersey, where they were seen taking pictures and filming the attacks... https://www.sott.net/article/413373-The-Dancing-Israelis-Newly-Released-FBI-Docs-Shed-Light-on-Apparent-Mossad-Foreknowledge-of-9-11-Attacks Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:04:38 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/124500-Evidence-That-a-Frozen-Fish-Didnt-Impact-the-Pentagon-on-9-11-and-Neither-Did-a-Boeing-757 Comment: As part of our commemoration of 9-11, the opening of 'the gates of hell' 23 years ago, we are running this infamous piece that invoked the ire of the COINTELPRO masters operating behind certain 'alternative media' forums, forcing us to move this article to a different server for 2 years. We sure must have hit a nerve! After the release of the QFG Pentagon Strike Flash Animation on August 23rd, 2004, a virtual deluge of new articles were published that sought to dismiss the "no plane at the Pentagon" theory. One such article, that is frequently referenced by certain '9/11 researchers' was authored by a member of the forum at the "Above Top Secret" (ATS) website. Interestingly, the article was written just a few weeks after the release of the Pentagon Strike Flash animation, which by then, was winging its way around the world and into the inboxes of millions of ordinary citizens. Perhaps you were one of them... https://www.sott.net/article/124500-Evidence-That-a-Frozen-Fish-Didnt-Impact-the-Pentagon-on-9-11-and-Neither-Did-a-Boeing-757 Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:02:01 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508294-SOTT-Earth-Changes-Summary-August-2026-Extreme-Weather-Planetary-Upheaval-Meteor-Fireballs August 2026 opened under the shadow of the Moon, as a total solar eclipse swept across Spain and North Africa on the 12th, sending eclipse-chasers into the path of totality from the ground and from 11,000 meters up in a transatlantic flight. The Sun staged its own show later in the month: sunspot region AR4513 rotated into Earth-view and produced an M8.1 flare on the 20th, the strongest of the month, then followed up five days later with a burst of five M-class flares in under 24 hours, capped by an M6.9-M7 event that pushed NOAA to post a G2 geomagnetic storm watch. No X-class flare arrived - forecasters put the odds at just 5 to 10 percent through the month's busiest stretch, but the monthly sunspot count still came in at 76, only a shade below July's 78.1. On August 13, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center reported the weekly Niño 3.4 index had reached +2.7°C and put the odds of a very strong El Niño this winter above 90 percent, with a 69 percent chance the event ends up stronger... https://www.sott.net/article/508294-SOTT-Earth-Changes-Summary-August-2026-Extreme-Weather-Planetary-Upheaval-Meteor-Fireballs Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:09:54 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508281-The-Plot-To-Stop-The-AfD-Germanys-Firewall-Is-Crumbling-In-Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt, in the western part of eastern Germany, is hardly the country's most important state: it accounts for only a fraction of Germany's GDP and is home to just two million people, half the population of Berlin. It is often described as a no-man's-land between east and west — the flat, monotonous backdrop to the final hour-long approach to Berlin. Yet Saxony-Anhalt is poised to become the stage for one of the biggest political showdowns in recent German history. State elections will be held there on 6 September, and the AfD is set for a sweeping victory. The party is currently polling at 43%, on track to secure an absolute majority of seats — though that outcome largely hinges on whether the parties currently polling close to the 5% threshold, primarily the Greens, make it in or not. A handful of votes could tip the outcome in the opposite direction, allowing the establishment parties to keep the AfD out of power once again, as they did in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg... https://www.sott.net/article/508281-The-Plot-To-Stop-The-AfD-Germanys-Firewall-Is-Crumbling-In-Saxony-Anhalt Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:25:49 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508277-NewsReal-US-Iran-War-Turns-Hot-Again-Russian-Drone-Plot-Overshadows-Key-German-Election Well, they're back at it again. The US and Iran last week conducted another round of strikes and counter-strikes, their first since mid-July. This time Iran claims to have targeted with ballistic missiles (and successfully damaged) a US Navy destroyer and aircraft carrier - presumably the USS George Washington. CENTCOM denied they were hit, but acknowledged the attempt, and obliterated 3 laden Iranian oil tankers as 'punishment'. While this situation remains very tense, and occasionally lethal, our read is that neither side is interested in 'crossing the line': if Iran really went for an aircraft carrier, they'd be backing Trump into a corner and forcing a massive response. If the US really goes for knocking out Iran's energy industry, Gulf energy exports will drop from whichever precarious percentage they're currently at... straight down to zero. And so the high-stakes game of chicken continues, with each side betting on 'attriting' the other's ability to withstand the economic... https://www.sott.net/article/508277-NewsReal-US-Iran-War-Turns-Hot-Again-Russian-Drone-Plot-Overshadows-Key-German-Election Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:22:03 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508204-From-Utukku-to-UFOs-Mesopotamian-Demons-Revisited From Babylonian Exorcists to Enoch's Angels to the Cassiopaeans — Two Traditions, One Choice: Diagnose or Pray Comment: First published on the author's Substack - 'Letters From The Edge of Reality' - 23 August 2026 The previous three articles were preparatory to what I want to write about today. Let me give a brief recap to jog everyone's memory and get us on the same page. Introduction and Review In the first piece, Giants, Omens, and Signs, I mentioned at the beginning that Henryk Drawnel's paper on the Mesopotamian background of the Enochic giants and evil spirits pinged several things in my mind as I read it. Drawnel argued that the violent giants of 1 Enoch were deliberately modeled on Mesopotamian demons, especially the utukku type found in the bilingual exorcistic series Utukkū Lemnūtu. So the first thing I thought about was Van de Mieroop's book "Philosophy Before the Greeks" where he describes the Omen Texts. But in order to really get a handle on the Omen Texts, one needs... https://www.sott.net/article/508204-From-Utukku-to-UFOs-Mesopotamian-Demons-Revisited Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:44:11 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/508020-SOTT-Earth-Changes-Summary-July-2026-Extreme-Weather-Planetary-Upheaval-Meteor-Fireballs July 2026 opened with the Sun marking its own Independence Day. On the 4th, Active Region 4479 produced an X1.3 flare, the strongest of the month, triggering an R3 radio blackout, and skywatchers across the northern US got aurora with their fireworks that same night. It was the leading edge of what turned out to be the busiest stretch of the month: Australia's space weather bureau logged 52 M-class flares and that single X-class event across all of July, with activity concentrated almost entirely in the first week before the pace eased. By the 23rd, sunspot region AR4493 had grown into the largest and most magnetically complex region but held at C-class through the month's end. Fifty-two M-class flares in a month most people would call "quiet" is what "post-maximum" actually looks like for this cycle. On July 9, NOAA's Climate Prediction Center reported El Niño strengthening fast enough to push the odds of a very strong event this winter from 63% to 81% in a single month. The... https://www.sott.net/article/508020-SOTT-Earth-Changes-Summary-July-2026-Extreme-Weather-Planetary-Upheaval-Meteor-Fireballs Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:54:49 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507966-NewsReal-Its-All-Going-Wrong-For-America 5 years after its ignominious departure from Afghanistan, 4 years after baiting Russia into Ukraine, and 3 years after 'partnering' with Israel's '7-front war', the United States finds itself in a quagmire. Brought into focus by its inability to enforce its will against Iran, the empire's usual methods for maintaining the 'exorbitant privilege' of the US dollar on the world stage are no longer working. Its rusty and fault-prone aircraft carriers find they no longer have safe harbor in the Middle East, its strategic oil reserves are running low, and other countries - vassals and foes alike - are adapting the 'new reality' the United States is inadvertently ushering in: a new world order without the US as 'global policeman'. Trump will go down as the architect of this demise. Despite the elderly president's formidable willpower to prevent it from happening, he is hemmed in on all sides by an Israel-CIA network that has him 'on the run' all the time - something clearly illustrated by... https://www.sott.net/article/507966-NewsReal-Its-All-Going-Wrong-For-America Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:29:24 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507853-NewsReal-New-World-Order-Arrives-No-Not-That-One The lack of any progress towards achieving its goals in Iran, and the pathetic attempts to paper over this fact by claiming that their goals have been achieved, is leaving the US regime badly exposed to the key factor that has sustained its position as the global hegemon: its reputation for always getting its way, be it in military or financial terms. As the weeks became months of indecision over "what to do to force Iran to re-open the Strait of Hormuz," it's increasingly clear that we have entered a 'new world order'. It's not the American Century the NeoCons gamed out thanks to their "catalyzing and catastrophic event, like a new Pearl Harbor." Instead, it's the "multipolar world" forecast by Russian and Chinese academics in the 1990s. Simultaneously, however, the other key elements of a 'new world order' predicted by so-called conspiracy theorists - one of a 'prison planet' in which ALL, no matter which country, or set of countries, is the dominant one - are also very much... https://www.sott.net/article/507853-NewsReal-New-World-Order-Arrives-No-Not-That-One Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:30:39 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507730-NewsReal-Trump-TACOs-for-the-5th-Time-Spain-Invaded-by-Morocco Yes, 'only' 5 times, even though it seems like most weeks since April has seen Trump flip from extreme aggression towards Iran back into a 'man of peace'. Last week he again threatened 'massive bombardment' only to revert to his tired claim that Iran and other Gulf countries 'called at the last minute and desperately want a deal'. Besides the fact that, the longer this goes on, the more the US will have to accept the new reality that its dreams of global hegemony are over, the burning question for the whole world is: how much longer before the loss of energy from the Strait of Hormuz translates into shortages and mass suffering? In the meantime, in Trump's 'near-abroad', a stunning case of 'directed mass migration' occurred in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, bordering Morocco in North Africa. More a stunt than a wave of genuine 'economic migrants' seeking entry into Europe proper, the provocative scenes have given the Spanish government a headache, and polarized Left-Right debate... https://www.sott.net/article/507730-NewsReal-Trump-TACOs-for-the-5th-Time-Spain-Invaded-by-Morocco Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:18:42 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507611-NewsReal-Global-Economic-Collapse-Coming Between the oil, gas, fertilizers, and other feedstocks not making it past a Strait of Hormuz now effectively closed for 5 months, along with the oil, gas, fertilizers and grain not making it out of both Russia and Ukraine's ports and into global markets, is a global economic crash headed our way? Does the West's leadership class understand how close this is? More to the point, do they care? Running Time: 01:37:09 Download: MP3 — 89 MB https://www.sott.net/article/507611-NewsReal-Global-Economic-Collapse-Coming Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:43:48 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507538-NewsReal-From-EuroMaidan-to-Regime-Change-in-Iran-The-Genesis-of-Todays-Global-Energy-War Barely 3 weeks old, the 'Memorandum of Understanding' between the US and Iran appears to have come to an end. The US military is targeting Iranian military and civilian sites daily, while Iran is attacking US bases and other assets across the Middle East. That this is occurring at the same time that Russia's energy exports suffer significantly due to 'Ukrainian' drone waves means the immediate, short-term winner is... American energy companies. Trump wants this of course, and is mindful of not going too far and sparking 'bedlam' in the global energy market by pinching it too tight. But is it his 'power' to wield? Could this run away from him? Running Time: 01:50:22 Download: MP3 — 101 MB https://www.sott.net/article/507538-NewsReal-From-EuroMaidan-to-Regime-Change-in-Iran-The-Genesis-of-Todays-Global-Energy-War Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:00:30 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507424-SOTT-Earth-Changes-Summary-June-2026-Extreme-Weather-Planetary-Upheaval-Meteor-Fireballs June 2026 gave Solar Cycle 25's so-called declining phase its loudest month yet, and the following four weeks kept proving that "post-maximum" is not the same as "quiet." On the 3rd, Active Region 4455 fired three major flares within about ten hours of each other (an M9.3, an M7.7, and finally an X1.0), each throwing off a coronal mass ejection, with the X-class event triggering an R3-strong radio blackout across the sunlit hemisphere. NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center answered with a G3-strong geomagnetic storm watch for June 4 and 5, warning that the combined CMEs could push aurora as far south as Illinois and Oregon. The region's magnetic complexity kept forecasters on edge for days afterward. That wasn't a one-off. AR4473 opened the solstice with an M3-class flare on June 21, and the month closed the way it began: on June 30, Region 4475 fired an M5.8, followed within hours by an X1.1 from neighboring Region 4479, causing a S1 minor radiation storm warning. NOAA's own... https://www.sott.net/article/507424-SOTT-Earth-Changes-Summary-June-2026-Extreme-Weather-Planetary-Upheaval-Meteor-Fireballs Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:49:52 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507389-NewsReal-Horns-of-a-Dilemma-Why-Trump-is-Damned-if-he-Does-Damned-if-he-Doesnt-Take-Out-Iran Two high-profile deaths of politicians in three days - one in the US and one in the UK - has the internet guessing as to what happened to US Senator Lindsey Graham, along with former Tory and British Reform party member Ann Widdecombe. Graham dropped dead 'after returning from his 10th visit to Ukraine', and Widdecombe was brutally murdered in her home and the suspect(s) is at large. The latter was a rare voice of reason in British politics, but the former most certainly will not be missed (by normal people). Meanwhile the US-Iran 'ceasefire' is definitely 'off again' and, while it remains to be seen if hostilities will explode to the levels they reached in March, the pressure Trump is under from the Israel First crowd means he's left with this choice: do nothing, get assassinated 'by Iran', then your successors 'finish the job anyway' while your legacy is left in tatters. Or, 'finish the job', tank the global economy, and your legacy will still be left in tatters. A horrible... https://www.sott.net/article/507389-NewsReal-Horns-of-a-Dilemma-Why-Trump-is-Damned-if-he-Does-Damned-if-he-Doesnt-Take-Out-Iran Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:44:14 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507312-MindMatters-Human-Predators-in-Power-How-They-Hide-in-Plain-Sight-Karen-Mitchell On this episode we discuss Dr. Karen Mitchell's new book Human Predators and her research on harmful people across settings such as business, law, medicine, media, religion, and politics. She argues that predators outside prison are common, often act covertly through emotional and social abuse, and share similar traits and tactics regardless of labels like narcissist or psychopath. We also discuss her view that the DSM can blur distinctions between predators and traumatized victims, especially in categories like borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. Karen describes how predators target vulnerable "prey," use gaslighting and coercion, and can cause severe psychological harm, while also pointing to behavioral red flags and the need for better awareness and screening in leadership roles. Running Time: 02:21:17 Download: MP3 — 129 MB https://www.sott.net/article/507312-MindMatters-Human-Predators-in-Power-How-They-Hide-in-Plain-Sight-Karen-Mitchell Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:38:51 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507270-NewsReal-America-at-250-What-Are-We-Celebrating On the surface, the USA is thriving and a "light unto the world", as Trump recited in his speeches marking the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence on July 4th 1776. But is this 'national mythos' still valid? Was it ever? Does the US live up to its claims of uniqueness with respect to 'freedom' and 'democracy'? If not, what is this exceptional nation's 'chief feature'? Excess? By extreme contrast, the country the US arguably just lost a war against, Iran, is undergoing possibly the largest funeral in world history, a grand send-off for its leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - who was also the religious figurehead for all Shia Muslims. Naturally, this commemoration is a somber, emotional and deeply religious event. The polar opposite of excess? Meanwhile, the clock is counting down for Ukraine, where Russian forces have broken through the last fortified line of defense at Konstantinovka in Donetsk. Ukrainian drone waves continue harassing Russian society, and... https://www.sott.net/article/507270-NewsReal-America-at-250-What-Are-We-Celebrating Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:16:31 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507135-NewsReal-Is-The-Iran-War-Really-Over-And-Why-Cant-Putin-Just-End-The-Ukraine-War-Already One week into the 'Peace Deal', the US and Iran are back to taking potshots at each other - both online and ballistically - over control of shipping through the strait of Hormuz. And, for all their recent criticism of Israel, US leaders this week gave Netanyahu something of a 'win' in Lebanon: a crooked deal between them and the official Lebanese leadership that sees the IDF withdraw from most of southern Lebanon, but permits it indefinite occupation of two 'security pockets', ostensibly to 'disarm Hezbollah' and end that country's bond with Iran. Realistically, can this issue be settled any other way than through another Lebanese civil war? Meanwhile, Western media (and social media) is going at full pelt with the message that a.) Russia has definitively lost the war and must therefore sue for a peace short of its SMO goals, and b.) Putin's imminent demise will occur either before or immediately afterwards. The man himself says "all is under control," but also admits that his... https://www.sott.net/article/507135-NewsReal-Is-The-Iran-War-Really-Over-And-Why-Cant-Putin-Just-End-The-Ukraine-War-Already Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:15:16 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/507085-The-Alien-Demon-Deception-How-Humanity-Gets-Herded-Laura-Knight-Jadczyk-Interview Join Jay Campbell, Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Harrison Koehli as they continue their discussions on the hyperdimensional nature of reality. In this video, Laura delves deeply into the idea that, though demons do exist, interfere, and in some cases possess human beings, much of the harm inflicted on human beings from other levels is NOT, in fact, due to them. Laura makes the case, based on her extensive research, experience and study - that those most responsible for the vast majority of negative paranormal events are hyperdimensional aliens; the cosmic apex predator. And why so many are now attributing things to the demonic, when they should be learning about the hyperdimensional framework of malevolent alien existence. https://www.sott.net/article/507085-The-Alien-Demon-Deception-How-Humanity-Gets-Herded-Laura-Knight-Jadczyk-Interview Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:41:29 +0000