Seems everywhere the US goes, chaos follows in our wake. Color revolutions, assassinations, and out right coups are the US stock and trade. NATO, guided by the US, invaded and is occupying a small part of Russia. Ukraine's front line is in collapse. The Gaza genocide continues, as Israel and Hezbollah lob missiles and drones at one another. Jake the snake Sullivan visits China to make threats of more sanctions. The selection show featured a puff interview with Kamala, which even with editing did her no favors. So it is divide and conquer abroad and at home...it makes people of slavelandia more pliable after all. Meanwhile BRICS+ hones in on a new means of exchange to by pass the USD. All this and more below the fold...

So the US has a two hot wars, one in the Middle East and the other in Ukraine/Russia. Larry Johnson does a good job covering both.

Larry C. Johnson: The US is Failing on Two Fronts? (41 min)

They begin their discussion talking about the hostage-taking of Pavel Durov.
The charges against Durov are not only draconian but also absurd. The notion of holding the owner of a social network platform as being responsible for or complicit in the content of the network is preposterous. Why not arrest the owners of telephone companies based on the same logic? It’s ridiculous and indicates an ulterior motive. Telegram was founded in 2013-2014 by Durov (and his older brother). He left Russia in 2014 because he refused to comply with Russian authorities on allowing access to the privacy of users. Over the years, Telegram has grown worldwide to become one of the major messaging apps with nearly one billion monthly users. It has gained a reputation for secure communications and fierce independence from governments.
Pavel told American journalist Tucker Carlson in an interview earlier this year that he has routinely been harassed by U.S. authorities to hand over the encryption keys of Telegram, which he has refused to do. By contrast, Western-based competitor apps such as WhatsApp and Western-controlled internet companies are known to have relented to pressure from the U.S. and European authorities on allowing “backdoor access” to supposedly private communications between individuals and groups. Having said that, however, the content of these Western apps is also tainted with crime networks and horrendously sordid material. Why shouldn’t Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk be arrested next on similar charges to those leveled at Pavel Durov? The difference is that Telegram has refused to comply with Western state intelligence services as it previously did with Russian counterparts. A case can be made that the Telegram owner is a “free speech absolutist”.
Much more important than the marginal criminal use of Telegram (as all apps are prone to), is the preponderant use of the platform for disseminating independent news and analysis. Telegram has gained an enviable reputation for its accurate information on the war in Ukraine. Numerous independent news channels have flourished on Telegram to bring reliable and critical information about the conflict. Unlike Western media and social network platforms that kowtow to Western governments and NATO propaganda, Telegram has enabled a much more informed view of the war that exposes the Western narratives as a sham. Defense of Ukrainian democracy? More like defense of a NeoNazi regime and defense of Western war economies. The fact is Telegram has become a globally important independent media network that is not controlled by Western regimes.

He is currently out on bail. Otherwise it is reminiscent of Julian's situation.
Larry asks Did the US Secretly Orchestrate the French Arresting of Pavel Durov? (14 min)

Pepe speaks about Western Asia, the crack down on Telegram and the information war, and concludes with the Kursk incursion. (1 hour)
Pepe Escobar: Israel Facing Inevitable Defeat? - Is the Ukraine War About to End?!
Pepe shaved and got a haircut. Took a bit to get used to his new look.
He also was on with the Judge.
Pepe Escobar : How Strong Is the Resistance? (25 min)

The situation in Israel
Alastair worked as a diplomat in the middle east and has excellent sources.

Alastair Crooke : Western Propaganda Wars (32 min)

Phil Giraldi: Israel Will Bleed US Dry

The Gaza Ceasefire Negotiations FRAUD w/Ambassador Chas Freeman (53 min)

Scott Ritter on Why Israel Could Face Total Collapse if This War Continues! (42 min)

The Project Has FAILED – w/ Chris Hedges (4 min)

75 years in and the Zionist project of a Jewish state in the heart of the Middle East has conclusively failed. So says investigative journalist and author Chris Hedges, who talks to Jimmy about just how devastating the recent war in Gaza has been for Israel, and how the nation’s inability or unwillingness to coexist peacefully with Palestinians will naturally lead to Israel’s downfall.

I think this question is on many minds. Will the war expand throughout the region?

(17 min)

Lavrov Draws Parallels Between Israel And Ukraine
Both Ukraine and Israel are trying to spark major regional wars to solve their own problems at the expense of others, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. The country’s senior diplomat made the remarks in an exclusive interview with RT’s Anna Knishenko, aired on Saturday. Asked about the prospects of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East devolving into a major regional war, Lavrov suggested Israel was effectively the only party seeking such conflict. “It seems that the only one who wants such a development is Israel. Probably the Israeli government, which is rather hard politics-wise, and they do not even hide that,” Lavrov stated. “Probably, they want to take advantage of this situation to once and for all try to solve all their problems with Hamas and with Hezbollah, and with pro-Iranian groups in Syria and Iraq,” the minister suggested, adding that Tehran seems to be avoiding such a conflict and “does not want to get involved in any large-scale military actions.”

Israel’s behavior shares striking similarities to Ukraine’s, with Kiev apparently seeking to drag its Western backers into a direct conflict with Moscow, Lavrov pointed out. “I’m seeing an interesting parallel there, [Vladimir] Zelensky too, who is fully controlled by the US as well, he wants roughly the same thing, only around Ukraine – to unleash a major war here, and to step aside himself, so that the Americans and other NATO members would start fighting for him,” the minister added. These are very similar situations when they want to provoke a big war in the Middle East and on the territory that is directly adjacent to us, and now part of [Russia’s] Kursk Region is under the control of Zelensky’s Nazi regime, with weapons supplied to him by NATO.

The Ukraine/Russia War

Col Doug Macgregor: Ukraine Front Collapses

(53 min)

Russia's Blitz: Kursk Offensive CRUSHES Ukraine – All-Out Destruction UNLEASHED!
Scott Ritter (36 min)

Doctorow thinks the incursion is more serious and a threat to Russia. He also gets his information from Russian TV talk shows.
Dr. Gilbert Doctorow Russia's Kursk Recovery: The Mission No One Saw Coming?

West Knew About The “Surprise” Invasion of Kursk
All those conflicts are in reality proxy wars incited by the West, which is now resulting in a “hot war” between Russia and the U.S. and its criminal NATO partners. Even before Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO) began in February 2022, Western media published photos sourced from the likes of FOG from the Donbass region of then-eastern Ukraine. The images attracted limited criticism for interviewing (extolling) members of the NeoNazi Azov Battalion. The Nazi insignia of the Azov troops were blatantly displayed and their Nazi affiliation was irrefutable. Western media association with the NeoNazi paramilitaries raised questions at the time about whether they were so-called documentary journalists or a party to the conflict. After the start of the SMO, the Western media whitewashed the NeoNazi image of the Azov Battalion and labeled them as the “good guys” fighting for the liberation of Ukraine.
The FOG group and other NATO private contractors are also active in obtaining medical supplies, equipment and money for Ukrainian fighters and foreign volunteers who have joined the International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine.

Scott Ritter: Ukrainian Conflict Escalation Can Lead to ‘Global-Ending’ Nuclear War
“This is a very dangerous escalation, one that could rapidly create the conditions conducive for not limited nuclear conflict, but a general nuclear war, a global-ending global disaster, the destruction of the US, the destruction of Russia, the destruction of Europe, the destruction of the world. Why? Because the US and NATO will not be honest about the state of affairs in Ukraine today,” laments Ritter. Ukraine has already “lost the war,” he adds, and nothing that Kiev might do to try and “tip the scales” in its favor is going to change that. “All it will do is provoke Russia into enlarging this conflict so that it’s not just Ukraine that pays the price, but Europe, the US, and the rest of the world,” Ritter says. “Hopefully, the Ukrainian Defense Minister Andrei Yermak will be received by the US, and have their recommendations regarding using long-range weapons to strike deep inside Russia rejected. Because there’s only one outcome if the US greenlights this escalation, and that is total nuclear war.”

It's the Economy, Stupid!

ANDY SCHECTMAN : PROJECT MBRIDGE LAUNCHES NEW GOLD-BACKED CURRENCY UNIT

(8 min)

Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: Russia Unveils New Crypto Exchanges? - Economic War (1.2 hour)

The BRICS trading system is already wiping out US farmers, as global price discovery is destroyed

(8 min) Millions of tons of annual agricultural trade is now being conducted outside the US dollar, and within the new BRICS framework. This represents a tectonic shift in global finance, as the dominant trading hubs of New York, Chicago, and London are replaced by a multipolar system of bilateral trades using national currencies and non-USD-denominated pricing and contracts.
The already huge volumes of trade in ag, energy, and raw materials are destroying price discovery in global markets. Decisionmakers and executives in Western companies are unable to see markets, nor can they know what parties are driving demand, nor which suppliers are emerging to meet that demand. Our senior-level business managers and planners are flying blind, and only after realizing giant losses we learn that we are now suppliers only of last resort: the BRICS countries and their allied countries across the world are producing and trading at prices far below our cost of production.

End the US Dollar Chokehold on the World
[..] central banks outside of the US centric system, China, India, Brazil, to an extent, Turkey etc, are trying to effectively grow their gold reserves again. Why are they trying to grow their gold reserves again? Because they’re looking at any way possible to diversify against the supremacy of the dollar in order to have that autonomy within the global system. It used to be the US, yes, and now China’s saying, Look, we’re developing more quickly the United States, we’re have more technological patents in the United States. We have more nuclear energy and advanced power plants and other forms of energy, and they’ve got negatives on cleanliness, but also are developing, and we’re just moving more quickly in terms of just the general move forward, and we’re going to do that with partners.

Gerald Celente: I’m Buying More Gold, Your Money Will be Seized As Economy Collapses (38 min)
Does Gerald Celente think the Gold is in Fort Knox and where does he see it headed? “Gold could soar to $3,000 an ounce this year,” predicts the legendary trend forecaster and publisher of the Trends Journal. In a no-nonsense interview with Daniela Cambone, he breaks down why it’s not complicated: When interest rates drop, the dollar tanks—and that sends gold prices soaring. "It’s not rocket science," he says. Celente goes even further, exposing why today’s economy is a fragile house of cards waiting to collapse. He also dives into the looming presidential elections, the harsh reality behind inflation, and why the average American is struggling more than ever. Don’t miss his bold predictions and insights in this conversation.

Bank of America Being “Set-Up” to Fail in Next Financial Crisis as Buffett Sells $1B Worth of Stock
"Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has problems, and I've been warning about this for years. They need a scapegoat, and it's going to be the Wall Street banks,” says Gregory Mannarino, founder of traderschoice.net and financial strategist. He argues that major Wall Street banks like Bank of America are set up to be "fall guys" in the event of a financial collapse. According to Mannarino, the central banks are deconstructing the current economic system to build a new one, and they need a scapegoat to blame for the fallout. "The middle class has been sucked dry. They don't have much left. People are being pushed to the lower rung."

Jimmy also weighs in on Buffett's BoA stock dump. (10 min)

Multibillionaire investment whiz Warren Buffett just dumped milllions of shares of Bank of America stock. Why? Well, some think Buffett knows that a crash is imminent and he wants to have plenty of cash on hand to swoop in and seize the opportunity to snap up an even bigger piece of the pie at rock bottom prices. Also famous TikTok star Ian Carroll breaks down the circular ownership of BlackRock and how Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is intimately involved in that ring of corporate self-dealing.

The Silly Season Selection Show

The big news this week was that Kamala finally gave an interview with Walz holding her hand.
Jimmy explains...Kamala’s CRINGE Interview On CNN Was A Disaster! (48 min)
After more than a month as the Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris finally sat down for an interview with the media — and even brought her “aw shucks” midwestern bear of a running mate Tim Walz along to help out. The two covered a range of issues, including the border, fracking, unemployment and Walz’s military record with CNN’s Dana Bash.
Jimmy and Kurt Metzger can’t get over just how terribly Harris comes across, that she seemed half-drunk or on barbiturates much of the time and that even with plenty of lead-in time to prepare the two nevertheless gave remarkably poor answers to even the most obvious questions.

Kamala's interview may have been a disaster, but Bobby gave a great interview to Tucker this week.

When Bobby Kennedy endorsed Donald Trump last week, he burned his bridges. There’s no turning back for him, or for American politics. Here’s his first interview since that happened.
(83 min) In the last 15 min or so he describes how spirituality is intertwined with nature in the all the world's major religions.

Tucker also had a long conversation with Jeffery Sachs this week.
Jeffrey Sachs: The Looming War With Iran, CIA Coups, and Warning of the Next Financial Crisis
(2.4 hours)

Tulsi also endorsed Trump last week. (8 min)
I’m Endorsing Donald Trump for President

Bobby claims Trump's second term will be different. I sure hope so.

(52 sec)

Vice President Kamala Harris has become the subject of an ongoing joke in political circles because her speech writers insist on burdening her with trite aphorisms aimed at highlighting her inspirational wisdom, but instead miss the mark so severely that the word ‘backfire’ is more appropriate. In part one, we established that the coup against Biden did not establish the overthrow of his regime of war and dementia, because he was not the central character or mover of the plot which his administration had been (and still is) executing. But in the wake of the failed assassination of Trump – which the FBI has still been silent about (or not; the mach speed cremation of Thomas Crooks’ body speaks quite loudly) – provided the true predicate that led to Biden’s decision to step down.
Had the assassination succeeded, it’s far more likely that Biden would have remained the candidate, and any transfer of nominal authority to Harris would have concluded sometime in 2025 after the presumed victory. But the notion that Harris provides a solution or even a bearable trade-off in the deep-state’s electoral ambitions is furthermore questionable. This attempt has backfired, and it is hard not to connect the near-miracle which was Trump somehow turning his head at just the right time, to the panic which swept across the DNC in the aftermath. Initial MSM headlines sought to question whether an attempt was even made. The subsequent endorsements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard have turned the panic into a hysteria.

I bet the dim selection committee/polit bureau is indeed in a panic. It will be difficult to cheat their way to victory.

It takes Guts
Let's wrap with a health message.

The Surprising Link Between All Chronic Diseases with Dr. William Davis (1 hour)
- The Hidden Link in Almost EVERY Modern Chronic Disease
- Two Extremely Advantageous Foods (and Recipes!) to Add to Your Diet
- Five Species of Beneficial Probiotics for High-Impact Health Habits
- Two MAJOR Risk Factors for Leaky Gut and Endotoxemia
- The #1 Tie Between Type II Diabetes, Neurodegeneration, & Fibromyalgia

We can't control the wars, politics, and international relationships, but we can choose to eat well to promote our own health. Vote with your fork!

Well another busy week on the news cycle. Lot's of stories I didn't cover this week. Perhaps you can add your favorites in the comments below. Have a great Sunday!