Iran is using new advanced missiles to target US warships & are engaging in clashes in the Strait of Hormuz as Tehran’s missile program expands to make Yemen the second largest missile power in the region.
In less than 72 hours, history accelerated through a convergence of events that would normally unfold over several years.
Yemen’s Ansarallah, after a lightning offensive, now holds the entire Red Sea coast from the port of Hodeidah to the Bab al-Mandab, including Mayyun Island, a volcanic rock outcrop smack in the middle of the “Gate of Tears”. (more…)
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Ansar Allah fighters in Mocha on Sept. 10 after taking the strategic Red Sea port. The movement went on to take Mayyun Island in Bab al-Mandab, gaining control of Yemen’s Red Sea coast and the southern exit from the route Saudi Arabia was using for its oil exports.
Tempest and Counterpunch recommend Ian Angus’s new book
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Tempest: “An important contribution to understanding and guiding a socialist response to these compounding ecological crises. … Metabolic Rifts connects modern science, history, and Marxism’s metabolic rift theory.”
Counterpunch: “Ian Angus unpacks the ecology, history, polity and science of the worsening ecological crisis … In ways small and large, the book is a scientific primer for non-specialists.”
Max Blumenthal follows the armed networks cultivated through the Afghan jihad into Al Qaeda, 9/11 and the permanent wars Washington claimed would finally destroy the forces its own imperial statecraft had helped bring into being. (more…)
The Iran war has become a regional catastrophe virtually overnight as Yemen enters the war with a massive victory over Saudi Arabia as Trump scrambles to hide the fallout. Saudi oil, the pillar of the petrodollar has been shut down and this is the weapon that Iran and Yemen are using is bigger than a nuke. Geopolitical analyst and military affairs expert Mark Sleboda discusses all of this and much more.
US politicians are promoting crypto rug pull scams, exploiting their own supporters. Trump and his wife Melania launched meme coins. Now Hunter Biden did, too. His Laptop token immediately crashed 99%
While posing as a defender of European security, Britain is in fact fuelling the fire: its military programmes and century-long partnership with Kyiv make peace with Moscow ever less attainable and militarise the continent for decades to come.
Is the world quietly reviving a plan the United States buried eighty years ago? Professor Michael Hudson joins me to revisit Keynes’ original Bretton Woods proposals, built on balance, capital controls, and the principle that bad debts should be written off rather than enforced into depression. Washington rejected all of it and built the dollar system instead, one designed to keep the world dependent on American credit and American rules. Now Russia, China and Iran are building the alternatives Keynes once imagined, from Lavrov’s proposed SCO development bank to China’s CIPS system shielding Iranian oil trade from US sanctions, while even the Netherlands has asked Washington to send its gold home. The dollar system is unraveling. The question is what replaces it, and whether the world has the will to build something more balanced this time.
Although the title of this commentary seems straight out of a tabloid, the reality is that the head of the U.S. State Department, the mythomaniac Marco Rubio, has developed a diabolical obsession with trying to overthrow the Cuban government.
El Niño can significantly shift rainfall patterns in different parts of the world. (Source: World Meteorolgical Organization)
(World Meteorological Organization, September 3, 2026). El Niño is firmly established and will intensify into a very strong event in the coming months, with big impacts on rainfall and temperature patterns and associated risks of floods, drought and extreme heat, according to a new update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Capitalism depends on precarious migrant labour to discipline workers, deepen division, and extract wealth while weaponising anti-immigrant rhetoric to obscure the neoliberal destruction of public services and social welfare.
Jiang Zhaohe (China), detail from Liumin Tu (Refugees), 1943.
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Hakeem Jeffries climbs the political ladder because he engages in dirty deeds with the world’s worst people. Being called a monkey gives him an easy out. The presence of a Black face in a high place is still rarely worth celebrating or defending.
Iran’s leadership has concluded that this war cannot be settled at a negotiating table. In this episode, recorded 8 September 2026, Pepe Escobar — reporting from Seoul — and Zulfiqar Ali lay out how every diplomatic off-ramp brokered by Pakistan collapsed, why Tehran has shifted from a defensive to an offensive posture, and what that means for the US naval blockade, the Strait of Hormuz and the wider Iran war.
Zulfiqar Ali reports, from sources inside Iran’s power structures, that North Korea has delivered a cache of stealth underwater attack drones to Iran through a corridor involving China and Pakistan — and that the decision to go on the offensive was cleared by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, President Pezeshkian, Speaker Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Araghchi. This is source-based reporting and is not independently verified; it is presented and labelled as such throughout. Escobar assesses what the American counter-response could look like, why Russia and China are now backing Iran with more than diplomacy, and what a strategic defeat in West Asia and Ukraine at the same time would mean for American power.
Pepe Escobar is a veteran geopolitical correspondent and a founder of this channel, reporting this week from Seoul and travelling to Moscow. Zulfiqar Ali is a commentator with long-standing sources across Iran and Pakistan. Transition Protocol is an independent, source-driven geopolitics and economics channel — we tell you what is confirmed, what is developing, and what is a single source, every time.
In a September 8, 2026 meeting, the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA’s) Risk Assessment Committee (RAC) concluded that glyphosate does not warrant a classification for carcinogenicity, even after reviewing new data from the Ramazzini Institute. ECHA’s conclusion reiterates the findings of RAC’s 2022 hazard assessment for the controversial herbicide. [GMW: The Ramazzini study found that low doses of glyphosate and Roundup cause multiple types of cancer in rats. We look forward to reading ECHA’s creative excuses for dismissing these findings when its opinion is published.] Food Safety Magazine
The GMO maize plan announced last week has sparked significant backlash, with agricultural stakeholders expressing concerns over what they call erosion of agricultural sovereignty, potential export failures, and bio-security threats. The national agriculture sector is heading for a major confrontation as in a rare show of unity, farmers, scientists, exporters, seed industry leaders and academia issued a blistering warning against the government’s proposed approval of GM corn cultivation. They are calling it a “suicide attack” on food security, human health and a multi-billion dollar export industry. Rice Exporters Association of Pakistan (REAP) and Basmati Growers Association warn that GMO corn, a highly cross-pollinating crop, will hurt $1 billion Basmati
exports and cause loss of EU and other international markets. The News Pakistan
Jiang Zhaohe (China), detail from Liumin Tu (Refugees), 1943.
The New Dark Age 