Sayer Ji | Biosecurity as Governance, and the Quiet Erosion of Sovereignty [This is Part 2. Read Part 1] Buried in the Epstein files is a 14-page JPMorgan proposal called Project Molecule—a formal partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to transform pandemic preparedness into a permanently governed, privately controlled, transnational system of vaccine procurement, surveillance, and global health finance—developed within the same institutional ecosystem in which a convicted sex offender operated as a connective broker between Wall Street, global health, and political power.

🚩 Pandemic simulation, vaccine gatekeeping, and STIs: Bill Gates’ Epstein ties (RT)
■ Epstein and Rothschilds sought to cash in on Ukraine’s Maidan coup (VIDEO) (RT)
✅ Epstein and Ukraine: a match made in hell (RT Newsroom)

Sergey Latyshev | “To attack, or not to attack, that is the question”🔺Negotiations between the US and Iran in Oman have ended in failure. Now the Americans will either have to launch a military campaign against Iran alongside Israel or retreat. Tehran has no intention of giving up its peaceful nuclear program, missile program, or allies in the region, and is only willing to discuss the issue of nuclear weapons with the US. This was confirmed by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arakchi 🔺The Americans have an aircraft carrier group, destroyers with more than 450 Tomahawk cruise missiles, and large air forces in the region. And now Trump, whose entourage is trying to count the chickens before they hatch, will have to decide which of the two options to choose. 🔺 Both options are bad. Backing down after spending so much money and making so many threats would mean losing face. But even if an attack were launched, the Iranian regime would not be overthrown. That would require two million soldiers. Since Iran is not Venezuela, and China and Russia have been able to strengthen its military machine in recent weeks, the US would suffer considerable losses. At the same time, according to polls, less than a third of Americans support a war with Iran, while half are against it. Everything could turn out for the US as in the Russian proverb: “If you chase two rabbits, you won't catch either.” Especially if one of them isn't a rabbit at all. (Translation: DeepL)

■ Mideast Source to Haaretz: U.S. Drops Demand for Iran Talks to Cover Ballistic Program, Proxies (Haaretz)

Simplicius | A new round of Iran talks has kicked off in Oman, with Trump claiming they are “going well”. | We’ve already established how it’s been clearly implied by Trump’s renewed threats against Iran’s “nuclear” capabilities that Operation Midnight Hammer was a total failure, or a con job. The US administration does not even attempt to keep its stories straight anymore, simply crafting narrative impromptu as necessary. ■ But what has become obvious is that the latest stunt is an attempt by the roi fainéant orange not to eliminate the threat of Iran’s nuclear capabilities, but rather to entirely neuter its conventional strike potential at the secret behest of Israel. ■ The main demand apparently being pushed by the US is for Iran to completely give up its long range ballistic missile capabilities, which would absurdly give Israel total leverage and dominion over its arch-nemesis: it is essentially calling for Iran’s complete surrender to Israel, given that this capability represents Iran’s only true asymmetric deterrence against the terrorist aggressor-colony.

Leo Hohman | The two-party system has all but shredded the First Amendment, which protects the rights of all Americans to speak out against their government without fear of censorship or political retribution. | Remember how Donald Trump prattled on about the evils of the Biden administration censoring Americans’ online activity and how he was going to restore free speech? ● He said he was going to make the internet free again for conservatives to express their views and opinions without fear of being censored or shadow banned like they were under Biden. ● That now seems like a distant memory. While X and Meta have marginally eased their censorship of conservative voices, the administration is taking a note from the Biden playbook and pressuring them to crack down on those who speak out against Trump policies. ● Like Biden before him, Trump apparently thinks the First Amendment only applies to those who support him politically. ● This week we found out that the Trump administration is working quietly behind the scenes to force online social-media platforms to turn over lists of people who post content critical of Trump.

■ US State Department Advises Citizens to Depart Iran Immediately (India News)
■ Evidence Of Mi-28 Havoc Attack Helicopters Delivered To Iran Grows (TWZ)
✅ The Guardian joins the cheerleading for a war of aggression against Iran (Jonathan Cook)

Caitlin Johnstone | Speaking before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explicitly stated that the US deliberately caused a financial crisis in Iran with the goal of fomenting civil unrest in the country. | Asked by Senator Katie Britt what more the US can be doing to place pressure on the Ayatollah and Iran, Bessent explained that the Treasury Department has implemented a “strategy” designed to undermine the Iranian currency which crashed the economy and sparked the violent protests we’ve seen throughout the country.

The US has been orchestrating plans to foment unrest in Iran by causing economic strife for years. In 2019 Trump’s previous secretary of state Mike Pompeo openly acknowledged that the goal of Washington’s economic warfare against Iran was to make the population so miserable that they “change the government”, cheerfully citing the “economic distress” the nation had been placed under by US sanctions.

■ US Treasury Secretary Says US Sanctions Crushed Iran’s Economy and Sparked Protests (antiwar.com)

Moon of Alabama | The first round of new talks between Iran and the United States in Muscat, Oman, has ended with satisfying results. | U.S. President Donald Trump very much needs the talks to chicken out from his threats to again attack Iran. Any attack on Iran would be retaliated for with missile which would cause massive damage to U.S. and Israeli assets. ■ There had been a little drama about the location, configuration and content of the meeting. ■ The U.S. at first insisted on talks in Turkey. It wanted the foreign ministers of other Middle Eastern countries to take part in them. It demanded to negotiate about nuclear issues, ballistic missiles, Iranian support for local militia and about the recognizance of Israel by Iran.

The deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council added that Europe fell into critical dependence on American gas and would do whatever it is told | Europe has driven itself into a "monstrous trap" and ended up in critical dependence on the United States by refusing Russian energy supplies, Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said.

On January 26, the Council of the European Union formally approved a full ban on supplies of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the EU effective January 1, 2027, and on pipeline gas effective September 30, 2027. The regulation enters into force upon its publication on February 2, 2026.

For the first time in over half a century, the US and Russia have no legally binding agreement limiting their strategic nuclear forces. Does the nuclear race begin now as the New START treaty expires on Thursday, or is it already under way? | The last remaining bilateral treaty between the United States and Russia limiting strategic nuclear arms expires on Thursday, leaving the two countries with no control over their nuclear arsenals. ● The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) was signed in 2010 by US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev. ● Under its provisions, the two countries committed to reducing strategic nuclear forces and opened the door to extensive on-site inspections to verify compliance. ● The pact between Washington and Moscow, formally known as the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, restricted each side to no more than 1,550 nuclear warheads on no more than 700 missiles and bombers — deployed and ready for use.

✅ Strategic stability now rests on fear (Dmitry Trenin)
✅ How Arms Control Went Out The Window (Moon of Alabama)

Moon of Alabama | The weekend has passed without a U.S. attack on Iran. | Yves Smith concludes that:

An attack is not imminent, American officials have told the outlet | The US is not ready to strike Iran as it needs to deploy more air defenses to the Middle East to be able to repel a possible retaliation, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing unnamed American officials. ● Over the past few weeks, Washington has dispatched what US President Donald Trump described as a “massive and beautiful armada” to the Middle East, led by the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, to pressure Tehran into accepting a new nuclear deal. ● Despite the buildup, American airstrikes on Iran “aren’t imminent” because Washington needs to make sure that Israel, its Arab allies and US forces in the region are properly protected, the WSJ said in an article on Sunday, citing its sources.

Iranian Army:

"We will not submit to America and Israel, and we are ready for any confrontation, whatever its level, even if it reaches the most dangerous forms of wars... 🇺🇸🇮🇱

— In an explicit indication of all extreme possibilities, including the nuclear scenario." pic.twitter.com/NfPtaHiaqp

— Global Insight Journal (@GlobalIJournal) January 30, 2026

The US president has dramatically escalated pressure on the government in Havana and its trade partners | US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency and threatened to impose steep tariffs on any country supplying oil to Cuba, dramatically escalating pressure on Havana after the US military operation in Venezuela already cut the island nation off from its most crucial energy source. ● After abducting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier this month, the US has set its sights on Cuba, which Trump claims is “ready to fall” next. In an executive order signed on Thursday, Trump branded Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security. [...] Trump predicted on Tuesday that the Cuban government would be “failing pretty soon,” boasting that the cutoff of Venezuelan oil and revenue has pushed Havana to the brink.

■ Nutjob signs [illegal] order allowing US to impose tariffs on countries supplying oil to Cuba (TASS)

Iran responded to the US move by calling US forces in the region ‘terrorist groups’, Iranian state TV reported. | President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United States is designating Iran‘s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a foreign “terrorist organisation”, marking the first time Washington has formally labelled another country’s military a “terrorist group”. Responding to the move, Iran immediately declared the US as “state sponsor of terrorism” and US forces in the region “terrorist groups”, state media reported.

■ Iranian officials: EU will regret 'servitude to US' over IRGC designation (Press TV)
■ US military ready for action against Iran – secretary of war (RT)
■ Iran responds in kind to Trump’s IRGC ‘terrorist’ designation (Al Jazeera)

Harold Turner | Diplomacy efforts About Iran by Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, have failed | Iran will NOT agree to limit its nuclear program, will NOT agree to stop Uranium enrichment which they say is for peaceful nuclear energy use, will NOT limit their Ballistic Missile production or the range of those missiles. ■ All of the demands being levied against Iran are within Iran's right to do as a sovereign country. Yet the US and Israel seem to think they can dictate terms to Iran under threat of heavy, destructive, military action. There is no basis in law, or in Treaty, and no authorization by the US Congress or the United Nations Security Council for the US or Israel to even make these demands, never mind do so while threatening military attack. Law and Treaties don't seem to matter in this situation; at least not to the likely aggressors.

■ China, Germany, Italy Tell Citizens "Leave Iran Immediately" (Hal Turner Show)
✅ Iran, China and Russia sign trilateral strategic pact (Ranjan Solomon)

Trump asegura que la flota enviada a Irán está "preparada para actuar salvo que quieran negociar"

▪️Ese acuerdo debe ser, en sus palabras, "justo y equitativo y que incluya la premisa de que Irán no tenga armas nucleares"

🎙️ @enriquemastor pic.twitter.com/BfEzQCdkpU

— Radio 5 (@radio5_rne) January 28, 2026

Trump exige a la República Islámica negociar ya sobre su programa nuclear. El Gobierno iraní cree "más probable" la guerra que la negociación. | El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ha expresado la amenaza más directa y clara hasta el momento de un ataque militar a Irán si el país no negocia inmediatamente un nuevo acuerdo para paralizar su programa nuclear. ● "Una Armada enorme se dirige a Irán. Se mueve rápidamente, con gran poder, entusiasmo y determinación. Es una flota más grande, encabezada por el gran portaaviones Abraham Lincoln, que la enviada a Venezuela. Como en Venezuela, está lista, dispuesta y capaz para cumplir rápidamente su misión, con velocidad y violencia, si fuera necesario", ha escrito Trump en su red social, Truth Social.

(Translation: DeepL) | Trump demands that the Islamic Republic negotiate immediately on its nuclear program. The Iranian government believes war is “more likely” than negotiation. | US President Donald Trump has issued his most direct and clear threat yet of a military attack on Iran if the country does not immediately negotiate a new agreement to halt its nuclear program. "A massive Navy is heading to Iran. It is moving fast, with great power, enthusiasm, and determination. It is a larger fleet, led by the great aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, than the one sent to Venezuela. As in Venezuela, it is ready, willing, and able to quickly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence, if necessary," Trump wrote on his social network, Truth Social.

■ Trump to Iran: Agree to Nuclear Deal Or the US Will Attack (antiwar.com)
■ US could ‘preemptively’ attack Iran – Rubio (RT)
■ Iran Parliament APPROVES Closure of the Strait of Hormuz (Core Insights)
■ IRGC: Iran has full control of the Strait of Hormuz (IDN Financials)

✅ Creative Energy Diplomacy Might Avert Another American Attack On Iran (Andrew Korybko)
✅ Covering His Tracks? Trump Hard-Pivots Once More to Iran (Simplicius)
✅ For Iran, another US–Israeli attack would be an 'existential war' (Seyed Hossein Mousavian)
✅ Iran's battle for survival is the Arab world's fight too (David Hearst)
✅ Trump Wants To Win – But Iran Is No Easy Target (Moon of Alabama)

Lula also condemned the recent US action in Venezuela that led to the capture of ruller Nicolás Maduro, questioning what he portrayed as a violation of territorial integrity. | Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Friday that global politics is entering a critical phase in which “multilateralism is being thrown out by unilateralism,” and argued that US President Donald Trump is effectively proposing “to create a new UN in which he alone is the owner,” referring to Washington’s plan to set up a Peace Council tied to the administration of Gaza. ● Lula spoke at the closing session of the 14th National Meeting of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Salvador, Bahia. He said the UN Charter was being “torn up” and reiterated Brazil’s long-standing call for UN reform—specifically, expanding permanent membership of the Security Council to include countries such as Brazil and Mexico, as well as African nations.

■ The architect of Gaza's destruction joins the 'Board of Peace' (Al Mayadeen)

Moon of Alabama | The false narrative coming from the White House turned out be a huge own-goal. It has become a complete unnecessary public relation disaster for the Trump administration. | Alex Pretti, the victim of the ICE assault, was killed on Saturday. It took until noon of Monday for Trump to acknowledge the mess and to attempt to chicken out. ■  After the Immigration and Custom Enforcement goons executed an unarmed man in the streets of Minnesota the Trump administration did a full court press to claim the man was a terrorist, had intended to kill officers and had been illegally carrying a weapon. ■ Vice President Vance, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, Trump policy leader for immigration Stephen Miller, FBI chief Kash Patel, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and others all made false claims about the case. Their words were an attack on constitutional rights under the 1st, 2nd and 4th amendment. ■ Multiple videos of the incident were out in the public and everyone was able to see that what really had happened were crimes committed by multiple ICE agents. Every newspaper and channel which discussed the video called out the lies by the Trump administration.

Derrick Broze | The US bombing of Venezuela and capture of Nicolás Maduro cannot be rationally explained as a drug enforcement operation, or even solely about recovering oil. The bigger picture is Technocracy. | In the early 20th century, a movement emerged around a political theory known as Technocracy—a system in which government and society would be managed by technical experts, often involving technology-focused solutions. Early proponents claimed that Technocracy would lead to better management of resources and the protection of the planet. However, this system of governance by technological experts and their technology would also involve a loss of privacy, as well as centralization of power and the management of all human behavior.

In the early morning hours of January 3, 2026, the United States military launched military strikes on Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Maduro and Flores have since been transported to the New York City to face charges relating to gun crimes and cocaine trafficking. ■ The move has divided the MAGA base—and the American public more generally—with a large portion of President Donald Trump’s base viewing it as a betrayal of the principles he claimed to champion. Specifically, Trump has claimed for years he would not start new wars of aggression. ■ While Trump has stated that taking out Maduro is not about launching new wars but instead a calculated attack to take out a man he blames for America’s fentanyl crisis, the facts tell another story.

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Frame by frame breakdown of this MURDER shows ICE is lying!

-ICE had ALREADY disarmed the man before shooting.

-The man NEVER drew his gun.

At the 0:06 second mark we see the man’s hands on the ground covered in large gloves.

His hands are empty. pic.twitter.com/o7flTX54Wd

— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) January 24, 2026

ICE clearly attacked this man and executed him. He didn’t even fight back. They started the whole thing. | I don’t know how America survives this level of willful, institutionalized savagery. By most counts, ICE pumped ten bullets into a ICU nurse, Alex Pretti, for the crime of filming them and trying to intercede on behalf of a woman they had shoved to the pavement. The evidence of the execution is clear cut. ICE has not just gunned down an innocent man, but is also successfully terminating what remained of the rule of law in the US. A sampling of the evidence. Video proves beyond a doubt that ICE murdered Alex Pretti in cold blood, he never unholstered his weapon, and was disarmed when the regime thugs shot and executed him. This was 100% intentional. It's a homicide.

■ How the whistle became an anti-ICE rallying cry in Minneapolis (Minnesota Star Tribune)
✅ CBP Agent Guns Down Minneapolis Nurse: Video Analysis (Meghnad Bose, Rana Roudi, and Ryan Grim) (VIDEO)
■ Man killed in Minneapolis immigration crackdown was intensive care nurse (01/25/26)

BREAKING: A witness who was just 5 feet from Alex Pretti filed an affidavit depicting what she saw.

She says he didn’t touch any of the officers and didn’t appear to be resisting. He was merely helping a woman who had been pepper-sprayed.

She’s is terrified that ICE is… pic.twitter.com/zMfecaZGF7

— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) January 25, 2026

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, had participated in protests following the killing of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer on 7 January. | Mr Pretti was a US citizen, born in Illinois. Like Renee Good, court records showed he had no criminal record and his family said he had never had any interactions with law enforcement beyond a handful of traffic tickets. In bystander videos of the shooting that emerged soon after, Pretti is seen with a phone in his hand but none appears to show him with a visible weapon. Family members said Mr Pretti owned a handgun and had a permit to carry a concealed handgun in Minnesota. They said they had never known him to carry it. They released a statement which read: “The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting." There have been daily protests in the Twin Cities since the shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE officer who fired into her vehicle. Mr Pretti was killed just over a mile away from where Good was shot.

Andrew Korybko | This final “Line of Effort” underpins the preceding three regarding the Western Hemisphere, the Indo-Pacific, and burden-sharing, all of which are being pursued in furtherance of Trump 2.0’s grand strategic goal of restoring the US’ predominant position over the world, including over China and Russia. | Trump 2.0 just released its National Defense Strategy (NDS) two months after its National Security Strategy (NSS), and as could be expected, they each preach the need to prioritize the Western Hemisphere. The “Trump Doctrine” that’s discernable within both, which was analyzed here, aims to restore the US’ predominant position (unipolarity) over the Americas and then the rest of the world. “Flexible, practical realism” will explicitly guide the implementation of this grand strategic goal. [...] [The] US will resume World War-like levels of military-industrial production in furtherance of Trump 2.0’s grand strategic goal of restoring the US’ predominant position (unipolarity) over the world. Although the US will try to avoid Great Power conflict with China and Russia, this will be very difficult to do given its attempt to establish strategic superiority over them through this new undeclared arms race, which risks a war breaking out by miscalculation.

✅ The US’ New National Defense Strategy Calls For A World War-Like Military Build-Up (Conor Gallagher)

The US president has renewed his threats against Tehran, warning “a lot of ships” are heading to the region | Washington is closely “watching” the situation in Iran, US President Donald Trump has said, apparently renewing his threats of using military force against the Islamic Republic over its handling of the violent unrest. ● Iran has been hit by mass protests lately over economic hardships and the collapse of the national currency. The protests grew political and violent, with Tehran blaming meddling by the US and Israel, as well as infiltration of “terrorist” elements, for the turmoil. ● According to the latest official figures, more than 3,000 people have been killed in the violence, including nearly 700 “terrorists.” Tehran has repeatedly alleged that organized groups of militants have received instructions, weaponry, and other equipment from abroad, as well as have been paid for acts of violence against government officials and public property. [...] While the Pentagon has not confirmed Trump’s statements on the fleet movements, multiple media reports have indicated that the aircraft carrier group led by USS Abraham Lincoln has been sent to the Middle East from the South China Sea. The group and associated vessels are currently in the Indian Ocean.

■ Iran certain to deliver decisive response to Trump’s threats: Senior commander (Press TV)
■ Military Buildup In The Middle East Continues, Including What Trump Describes As A “Big Flotilla” (Updated) (TWZ)
■ Israel to Call-up 280,000 Reserve Troops; Growing Signs of War with Iran (Hal Turner)

■ US Scales Directed-Energy Weapons - Pentagon (Sputnik)

The truth bombs are detonating louder than ever—the deep state Zionist cabal is crumbling under the weight of their own sins. | A retired CIA agent, John Homeston, just spilled the beans on global airwaves, confessing that the CIA and Mossad have been pulling the strings in the music industry since the 1980s as a massive psy-op to brainwash our youth, divide the nation, and crush American values. This isn't just influence—it's total domination, turning beats into weapons of mass deception! ■ But the real shocker? Mossad's iron grip on the whole industry, led by assets like Lyor Cohen, the tall Israeli spook who signed legends including Slick Rick, Will Smith, Eric B. & Rakim, De La Soul, Ludacris, A Tribe Called Quest, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Migos, and Young Thug. Some are unwitting tools, others full-blown operatives pushing the cabal's agenda to keep us numb, confused, and enslaved. The Zionist mafia at Sony and beyond floods streets with crack, rigs the charts, and silences dissenters.

Elena Panina | “We will start drilling very soon,” Trump told reporters. He was referring to drilling by American oil companies in Venezuela. Although earlier, representatives of the US oil industry had expressed skepticism about this. | News has also come from Venezuela itself. The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved, in the first reading, a law that completely opens up oil production to the private sector. Until now, this has been the exclusive prerogative of the state itself and joint ventures in which the state held a controlling stake, notes the TG channel Energy Today. Under the new law, “private companies registered in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela” will be able to produce oil after signing the relevant contracts. ■ It is obvious that these events are interrelated. We are witnessing a gradual transition from the operational success of the US (the capture of President Maduro) to a strategic one — gaining control over oil production in Venezuela. ■ The US already controls oil exports from Venezuela through a naval blockade. If only American companies are now extracting oil in this republic, then the need for a blockade will disappear. ■...Only 20 days have passed since January 3. (Translation: DeepL + Copyread: Grammarly)