The Weekly Watch
"War is Our Business, and Business is Good"
We've been waiting for more war this week. Everyone seems to think it is coming in the near term. The ceasefire has been used by all sides to prepare for the next round of destruction in western Asia. What a foolish, destructive, unpopular, war of choice, but the Emperor is mad and the empire is destined to fall. Meanwhile the EU managed to finagle it's $90B "loan" (which doesn't have to be repaid) to Ukraine to keep that war going. The object of wars today is NOT to win, but just to keep the grift machine going on the spin cycle, and don't forget the 10% for the big guy. Lots of people in positions of power are making lots of money off our wars betting on the market and directly.
Today's title and quote was heard by Col. Larry Wilkerson
(26 min) The Iran War is about Money: Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
Lawrence Wilkerson, a former U.S. Army colonel and Chief of Staff to Colin Powell during the lead-up to the Iraq War, joins TMJ News for a breakdown of the Iran war, U.S. strategy, and why he believes America is repeating past mistakes with global consequences.
Last week's column EL correctly said was circular logic: War causes debt, and debt causes war. This week I want to emphasize the corruption which war breeds. Why would the profiting politicians want to stop the grift?
Robert Barnes has contacts within the White House and he provides insights on the madness of our Emperor Don.
(the interview is about an hour followed by another hour of questions and answers.)
Fractured Iran or fractured Trump? w/ Robert Barnes (Live)
He claims Vance had a peace deal lined up with Iran, but Trump torpedoed the agreement. He emphasizes all the warmongering wormtongues (like Lindsay and Susie) whispering nonsense in the mad emperor's ear.
Like most analysts, Doug Macgregor thinks the Iran war is about to escalate, and the negotiations were just performative to stall for time in order to re-equip
(42 min) Douglas Macgregor: Iran Negotiations Are a Hoax - U.S. Prepares for 'Total War'
Col. Macgregor argues that the US peace negotiations are as fraudulent as the previous negotiations, and the US is preparing for total war with Iran.
AMB. Chas Freeman : US Diplomacy Is Dead — And the World Knows It
(21 min) Why would anyone want to negotiate with the US. Like Israel we break all our agreements when it suits us.
This week we've seen a continuation of the blockade of the blockade in order to open the Strait of Hormuz. It sounds mad because it is. Larry J explains...
(53 min) Iran JUST Escorted Tankers Past US Blockade – Israel Waiting for Greenlight to ATTACK
Many suggests the war with Iran is aimed at China. Pepe explains why this is a sound idea...
(25 min) Pepe Escobar : What to Expect From China
He continues with Glenn Diesen explaining how our wars are wars to prevent connectivity corridors.
Pepe Escobar: The U.S. War on Eurasian Multipolarity (46 min)
Pepe's articles...
War on Iran Reshapes the 'War of Connectivity Corridors'
Iran at the center of Eurasian integration
But it is Iran’s ultra-strategic geography that has positioned it since the Ancient Silk Roads as the definitive crossroads between east and west; a role rekindled by the New Silk Roads/BRI launched by President Xi Jinping in 2013.
Iran-U.S.: The Strategic Limbo Breakdown
The blockade is going global. Next stop is the Strait of Malacca.
Cyrus explains the death of the petrodollar.
Iran Just Changed the Future of the Dollar Forever!
(14 min) fast forward through his embedded ad...
Iran is now charging ships up to $2 million to pass through the Strait of Hormuz - payable in Chinese yuan or crypto. No dollars accepted.
00:00 - How the Chinese Yuan is Changing the War
01:47 - Why Did Iran Choose the Chinese Yuan?
02:33 - Two Major Problems of the Iran War
02:52 - Why Gulf States Will Give Up the US Dollar
03:20 - How China is Using a Digital Currency
04:08 - China's Blockchain Trade Network
04:41 - Why the Chinese Yuan is Rising
05:21 - Why Iran Has Leverage
05:59 - BRON Sponsorship
07:26 - What is the Future of the US Dollar?
08:13 - Why US Sanctions Are Deadly
09:30 - Why Gulf States Are Moving Closer to China
10:41 - Why US Treasuries Are Falling
11:43 - Why Iran War is Different
12:08 - Why the Iran War Will Not End Soon
13:04 - Why Iran Deal Failed
14:03 - Final Thoughts
Israel’s Defeat Begins: Zionist Power Structure FALLING APART in the US
(49 min) Max Blumenthal suggests Zionism and the lobby are failing to sway the public especially in the under 50 crowd.
Jeff Sachs was on Tucker's show this week in a 2+ hour interview. Here's a summary...
From the 1953 Coup to Today: Jeffrey Sachs Explains America’s Endless War on Iran
Jeffrey Sachs doesn’t raise his voice — he doesn’t have to. In this wide‑ranging conversation with Tucker Carlson, Sachs lays out a devastating, historically grounded indictment of U.S. foreign policy, the manufactured “Iran threat,” and the decades‑long fusion of American empire with Israel’s regional ambitions. What emerges is not a hot take but a cold, clinical autopsy of a war machine that has slipped beyond democratic control.
From the 1953 coup to the present blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Sachs traces how Washington’s obsession with dominance — and Israel’s pursuit of permanent military supremacy — has pushed the world to the brink of a conflict that could collapse the global economy in weeks. He dismantles the nuclear‑weapons narrative, exposes the bipartisan addiction to sanctions and covert warfare, and warns that the U.S. is now trapped in a crisis of its own making.
This is one of Sachs’ clearest, most unflinching interviews to date — a map of how we got here, and a warning about what comes next if the “grown‑ups” don’t seize the wheel.
What about Ukraine?
The EU refuses to let go and have strong armed their $90B gift through the bureaucracy. More money for the grift machine!
EU's Russia Obsession: Nukes, Military Drills, and a Loan No One Can Explain
0:00 Introduction — €90B Loan to Ukraine
0:23 Europe Celebrates in Cyprus
1:18 NATO Nuclear Drills & St. Petersburg Strike Plans
1:44 UK Plans Against Kaliningrad
2:07 Questions About the €90B Loan Structure
3:47 Will the Money Come Straight From National Budgets?
5:09 Russia's Legal Challenge in the European Court of Justice
7:14 The Real Split: €30B Cash, €60B Weapons
9:08 Bypassing Parliaments — The Democratic Deficit
13:55 Europe's Flight From Reality: Militarization & Obsession
“Russian forces are beginning an offensive towards the Malinovka settlement near the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS.
Earlier, Chief of the Russian General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov, stated that forward units of the Russian army were seven kilometers from Kramatorsk.
According to Marochko, Russian forces are advancing southwest from the Nikiforovka settlement outside Kramatorsk. “Our troops are currently building on their success and are beginning the fight for the settlement of Malinovka,” he said.”
The Iran war has put Russia in a powerful energy trading position.
Russian Oil Resumes Flowing to Slovakia via Druzhba After Three-Month Halt
Oil flows from Russia to Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline resumed early on Thursday, Slovakia's Economy Ministry said, as supply via the infrastructure crossing Ukraine was restored after a nearly three-month halt.
Oil supply is currently flowing as per the agreed daily timetable and technical pumping parameters, Slovakia said.
Slovakia and Hungary are the last remaining EU member states receiving crude oil supply via the Druzhba pipeline.
I suspect the EU convinced Ukraine to halt the piped oil in order to hurt Orban who recently lost his re-election.
Let's circle back to the fall of the US empire...
American “Micro-Militarism: Or How Defeat in the Iran War Will Accelerate American Global Decline
There is mounting historical evidence that America is indeed an empire in steep decline, while President Donald Trump’s war of choice against Iran is becoming the sort of micro-military disaster that helped destroy successive empires over the past 2,500 years — from ancient Athens to medieval Portugal to modern Spain, Great Britain, and now the United States. And at the core of every such ill-fated war-making decision lay a problematic leader, often born into wealth and prestige, whose personal inadequacies reflected and ramified the many irrationalities that make imperial decline such a painful process.
During that demoralizing downward spiral, imperial armies, so lethal in an empire’s ascent, can err by plunging their countries into draining, even disastrous “micro-military” misadventures — psychologically compensatory efforts to salve the loss of imperial power by trying to occupy new territories or display awe-inspiring military might. Although such micro-militarism often chose targets that proved strategically unsustainable, the psychological pressures upon declining empires are so strong that they all too often gamble their prestige on just such misadventures. Not only did such disasters add financial pressures to a fading empire’s many troubles, but in a humiliating fashion, they also invariably exposed its eroding power while exacerbating the destabilizing impact of imperial decline in the capitals of empire (whether Athens, Lisbon, Madrid, London, or Washington, D.C.).
In our moment, when the bombs stop falling and the rubble is finally cleared from the streets of Tehran and Beirut, the impact on U.S. global power of such a de facto defeat will become all too clear — as alliances like NATO atrophy, American hegemony evaporates, legitimacy is lost, global disorder rises, and the world economy suffers.
I like the way Col. Wilkerson puts it,
"A dying elephant can tear up lots of grass in its final thrashing."
So here we are my friends. Waiting on more war which is sure to destroy the global economy and end the US empire. The mad emperor has no restraints and the sycophants he has gathered around him are merely agreeable pawns. Israel is likely to be destroyed in the process as well. You have to wonder why. Is it just because we are ruled by a mad man? Is it because Israel has purchased our congress critters? Is it simply pure greed and I'm making lots of money? Really doesn't matter why. What a fatal mess we've developed.
I hope your spring is unfolding and you are able to get out and enjoy the natural world, and escape the geopolitical turmoil. Perhaps now more than ever, we should treasure every day. I look forward to your thoughts, stories, and ideas in the comments below. The thread is open...
Comments
Someone inferred the shooting
Someone inferred the shooting at the dinner last night looked staged. If it was, looks like excellent campaign strategy cooked up by Susie Wiles & co. In any event, it worked perfectly to prevent what would’ve been, especially if Trump had been absent, an evening of mockery and bad publicity for him.
Anya
Hey, Anya!
Some coincidences, including the shooter being googled in Israel several times 3 days ago, numerous Republicans tweeting that we need the presidential ballroom construction ASAP, all those armed agents firing at the shooter at point blank range and they all missed...
Let's see, what are we being distracted from? Maybe Trump's plan to make passports a requirement to have a bank account in the US?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Seems staged to me...
Plus first time Trump has attended the event. Call me cynical, I guess. Smells funny like the Kirk murder and the 1st attempt on Trump.
Thanks for the visit and up date!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I think your next to last
paragraph pretty much encapsulates where we are. The concept of American democracy is shown to be a farce. Our government can be viewed as a boat. Elections, by us voting, decide who gets to sit where and who gets to steer. But that boat is not our boat. The boat is the status quo, and our government is your next to last paragraph, no matter who is steering.
Out of all the expenditures, so little benefits us, the not connected. When team blue gets back to power, I would be surprised to see much reform, it's just a bunch of hacks waiting their turn. I keep hoping that there will be some line that will be crossed to make us stand up, but it seems pretty bleak. The younger generation is so beat down, cynical and disillusioned. They watched their parents get cut off at the knees, played by the rules and get still get screwed over... they can't see a future with anything good in it.
My thought is what democrazy?
Has it always been a myth, or we're we all naive in our youth?
A post constitutional lawless pirate nation doesn't practice anything close to democracy.
Like you I doubt team blue would be better...perhaps worse? Thanks for coming by!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
My feeling
is post ww2 was the closest we got. Pre ww2 strikers would have the cops and bulls sic'd on them. After ww2 the cops or bulls were just as likely to have been in the next foxhole. Then there are all the returning vets trained in combat. I doubt industry would fuck with them. Sometime in the 60', 70's when the boat started to veer off course we started down this capitalist wet dream.
About the time...
The CIA mafia branch of the gov't came into existence and gains power, post JFK, perhaps.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
We are alleged to have a "Representative Democracy" -
the hoax and fraus is in the "representative" part, those who attain office almost never represent we the people nad we the people have no meaning recourse except to elect sombody wlse to not represent us. That exact knowledge drives a lot of non-voting and/or "voter apathy".
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I must admit...
I don't see the use in voting except for some local races. Hey, but each to their own.
Nice to "see" you.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Did Iran sink 3 carriers?
There's a Marandi AI video suggesting they did with NK missles
Spoiler alert: DISCLAIMER
This video presents a fictional hypothetical scenario created strictly for analytical, educational, and creative purposes only. All military operations, vessel names, casualty figures, weapons deployments, and strategic events described are entirely fabricated. No real events are depicted, implied, or predicted. This content does not represent the views of any government, military organization, or institution. Viewer discretion is advised.
Four hundred Hwasong-18 ICBMs launched. Three American carriers obliterated. Fifteen thousand sailors dead, wounded, or missing. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the Eisenhower, the Truman — all three on the seafloor of the Strait of Hormuz. The 5th Fleet has fled to the Arabian Sea. Washington is panicking. Gulf monarchies are suspending basing agreements. The global oil market is in freefall. Tonight's analysis goes inside the full operational architecture of Iran's Hwasong-18 strike, why American carrier defense doctrine failed completely, what Washington's panic reveals about forty-five years of strategic miscalculation, and what a world without American naval primacy at Hormuz actually looks like. Everything changed last night.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00: Three Carriers Gone — The Number Washington Won't Say Out Loud 05:45: Operation Final Calculation — How 400 Hwasong-18 ICBMs Sank Three U.S. Carriers
13:20: The Hwasong-18 — What Washington Knew, What Washington Ignored
21:00: Washington Panics — Every Retaliatory Option Leads to the Same Dead End
27:40: The Will Behind the Weapon — 45 Years of Pressure, One Night of Answer
31:30: The Morning After — What a World Without U.S. Naval Primacy Looks Like
Ain't AI fun?
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Who has 400 hwasong 18s?
This would be equivalent roughly to the Chinese nuclear strategic ICBM force.
Who would use a strategic ranged weapon system designed to carry nuclear warhead(s) to strike targets at far closer ranges?
Let's say one did use short-medium-intermediate range weapons delivery systems. With a nuclear warhead it would only take six. two on each for assured destruction. Of course a more advanced state like Russia would have to provide the targeting info. The initial air burst destroys all radar tracking capability.
What analysis? It seems there simply was none in this AI production. Or is it just propaganda without any intelligence whatsoever?
The strike/engagement scenarios envisaged are absurd.
"a level of technical confusion..." Indeed.
edit- this quote is from the channel's source: "U.S. Geopolitics Insight — Cutting through the noise of global affairs."
AI is noise.
己所不欲，勿施于人。
I realized fairly soon it was an AI fake...
...but how many didn't? I posted it as a warning to be careful what you watch and listen to.
Hope all is well!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Here is Deison interviewing Wolff about the dollar's decline
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
We better prepare...
..as best we can cause a storm is a comin'.
Larry J. says it's like a Tsunami ... all the water is flowing out, but it is about to come flooding in, impacting us all.
For those that want to get in the weeds on the economic repercussions:
CIA Analyst Larry Johnson LIVE: White House in CHAOS as Iran Crisis Explodes
Last night, events inside the White House sent shockwaves across global markets, raising serious questions about leadership, strategy, and what happens next. At the same time, tensions with Iran are reaching a critical breaking point, with new developments that could reshape the balance of power in the Middle East.
But here’s where it gets even more interesting…
Oil markets are collapsing.
After massive volatility driven by war fears, sudden policy shifts and conflicting signals out of Washington have triggered a dramatic reversal—leaving investors, governments, and analysts scrambling to understand what just happened.
In today’s episode of Let’s Talk Geopolitics, we break it all down:
What REALLY happened inside the White House last night
Why Iran is still at the center of this global crisis
The truth behind the oil crash—and who benefits
How this could impact the global economy moving forward
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
A dire warning
Alex spells out the oil and economic situation in such a clear and frightening way, it should motivate anyone to go into serious prepper mode ASAP.
Anya
Better to be aware that the crunch is coming...
Best of luck to us al. Take care and thanks for the comment!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
unless they radically changed the terms, the so-called
loan to ukiestan is not a loan but a gift. The giftee has no meaningful obligation to repay and it is alternatively to be repaid by redirection of payment stream that almost certainly will never occur and hence won't be repaid. It is putatively collateralized by assets to which neither the donor nor the donee have any title or even contingent interest.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Ahh, but the countries of the EU ...
...are on the hook, and must borrow money to chip in their share. How can they do that? Austerity measures that's how.
you can't make it up.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
signing out with this one...
Have a good night, and enjoy the spring!
Donovan The Lullaby Of Spring
[Verse 1]
Rain has showered far her drip
Splash and trickle running
Plant has flowered in the sand
Shell and pebble sunning
[Chorus]
So begins another spring
Green leaves and of berries
Chiffchaff eggs are painted by
Mother bird eating cherries
[Verse 2]
In a misty, tangled sky
Fast a wind is blowing
In a newborn rabbit's heart
River life is flowing
[Chorus]
So begins another spring
Green leaves and of berries
Chiffchaff eggs are painted by
Mother bird eating cherries
[Verse 3]
From a dark and whetted soil
Petals are unfolding
From the stony village kirk
Easter bells of old ring
[Chorus]
So begins another spring
Green leaves and of berries
Chiffchaff eggs are painted by
Mother bird eating cherries
[Verse 1]
Rain has showered far her drip
Splash and the trickle running
Plant has flowered in the sand
Shell and the pebble sunning
[Chorus]
So begins another spring
Green leaves and of berries
Chiffchaff eggs are painted by
Mother bird eating cherries
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Larry, Alex, and Cyrus
...this discussion was excellent!
Thanks for the WW Lookout! Look forward to watching the others. (we were tied up all day with household stuff).
己所不欲，勿施于人。
The derivatives Alex describes...
...look dire. Glad you enjoyed their conversation. I did too.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Very good mix of experts, diplomats, military strategists,
.... journalists, and retired spooks.
I particularly wanted to listen to Max Blumenthal's take on the Iran situation. He is very good at describing the different moving parts in conflicts. He also tends to weigh in on the risks involved, and the consequences of losing. There are certain outcomes that are inevitable in old, unresolved conflicts like that between Iran and the US. Because the core issue in the conflict is based on decades of irrational thinking and paranoid fantasies, there can be no resolutio on negotiation. The two sides can only fight to the death over Israel's paranoid fever dream. The US clearly has no business being in the Middle East at all. Win or lose, the dysfunctional US empire will return to the distant edges of the civilized world, and continue its endless deportations. It can hunker down in the Hand-Gun Nirvana that USians have created — where the US will always be Number One! In Mass Shootings, in Murder Suicides, and in Family Annihilations.
The US Military is stoked by their position of air superiority over Iran — no doubt imagining the Freedom and Liberty of blowing shit up, and destroying any civilian target that is still moving. Creating a military air force that thinks nothing of dropping a bomb on a girl's school below, is really not such a reach. Conversley, I noticed that Iran did not deploy their most advanced weapons in the early part of the conflict; did not display their strengths. Later on, however, military onlookers were stunned by Iran's uncanny marksmanship in their targeting. They launched precise and disabling missile strikes on a number of industrial targets in the UAE, and on every US military base across the region.
It was apparent, then, that Iran's military had made a full transition away from the old GPS positioning system made by the US — replacing it with China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) — a highly advanced global tracking and positioning technology. Plus, the BeiDou technology does so much more — particularly in a conflict situation. (See the short film, below.)
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Good morning...
I've heard from several analysts that China is providing excellent detailed satellite data to Iran. GPS is already outmoded it seems.
I caught this yesterday. You might enjoy it as well.
(16 min) In defense of Yugoslavia: Max Blumenthal on Michael Parenti's bravest work
On April 24, 2026, Max Blumenthal addressed a memorial for the late socialist scholar Michael Parenti at the Universal Unitarian Church in Berkeley, California.
Blumenthal emphasized to posthumous attacks on what he called Parenti's most courageous work: his book, To Kill A Nation, exposing the planned breakup of Yugoslavia and NATO's subsequent war on Serbia.
All the best!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thanks, Lookout. I've spent time in the former
... Yugoslavia. At the time, it was the most 'foreign' place I'd ever been. The children called me "Amerikanski."
I added the information about the new BeiDou Navigation system in Iran because people here were seeking opinions on how the war was going to end, and how far it would escalate. Understanding the new weaponized GPS system that is blanketing not only Iran, but also the entire South China Sea, could be helpful in predicting the outcomes of this conflict.
I believe this is the first time BeiDou technology was used in combat by Iran. It allowed Iran to push back against everyone in the region with terrifying accuracy. The US knew immediately that Iran had suddenly acquired significant capabilities.
This is probably why the US decided to abandon all nine of their military bases in the region. For now, at least. On one of those US bases, it is rumored that US personnel were unprotected and unprepared for the attacks. a number were killed or seriously injured. This was hushed up in the US. I assume that's why Trump went bezerk on Easter with his shocking rant.
BeiDou navigation and communications system offers a military force an array of powerful tools and services. Iran was using BeiDou's advanced satellites to acquire very specific vulnerabilities on those US bases. Then BeiDou's low altitude guidance system was deployed to steer Iranian missiles to the exact target.
Essentially, Iran was giving the US military a sneak-peek of a formidable Chinese weapon; one that the US did not have. The US has made no significant technology improvements to their current GPS system. US ships and bases will be a bit more vulnerable in and around China. Was this a shock? No idea. The US did immediately revert to Thug and Pirate mode — at a distance — to reinforce their threats and bluster against Iran.
It doesn't mean that the war is over, of course. Delusions and denial die hard.
We always stand ready to fight
the last war. Meanwhile, the management cadre within the MIC is drinking Cristal and eating bon-bons.
Perhaps the Cheeto will now try to un-mothball the remaining Iowa-class battlewagons from their museum berths to impress the world once last time (it’ll take too long to build new ones). The fact that we scrapped the last of the ammunition for their 16” naval rifles a while back isn’t really a problem: just seeing them suddenly appear off an enemy’s shoreline is certain to make them tremble in their boots, amirite?
The time for “Pax Americana” has passed. And let’s face it: “Pax Trumpicana” just sounds too dadgum Vegas to be taken seriously…
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Hahaha. The Chinese would be pointing, chatting,
.... and snapping pictures.
They would assume the old-style war ships sailing toward them were part of the entertainment. (This is the season of parades and pageants, in China.)