Desperate Kiev’s Reckless Moscow Airport Drone Missile Attack Plan; Russia All Day Strike Dobropilia

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The Duran: Episode 961
France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Case Over Violating Hate Speech Laws
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PEPE: TRUMP'S "MAXIMUM PRESSURE" ON IRAN JUST GOT REJECTED 440kg Missing Trump Lost His Only Window

22 Aug 2026
440.9 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium are unaccounted for — and according to sources inside the Pakistani command, the only remaining channel with visibility into where it went runs through the mediator Donald Trump has just discarded. Pepe Escobar and Zulfiqar Ali report that Pakistan has taken a final decision: it will not close a single one of the six overland corridors keeping Iran supplied, it will not close Gwadar, and it does not regard Scott Bessent’s sanctions threats as reason to change course.

Transition Protocol can also report, for the first time anywhere, that Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar has met Wang Yi and secured a Chinese commitment to backstop Pakistan if it walks away from the $10 billion IMF programme. Iran’s internal calculation, confirmed through two separate channels, is that it can absorb maximum pressure until November — and if ...

Indonesia seeks expanded joint military exercises with China

Beijing agrees on technology transfer, defense industry cooperation with Jakarta

ISMI DAMAYANTI and REZHA HADYAN

August 21, 2026 14:12 JST

JAKARTA -- Indonesian Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin called for broader and more intensive joint military exercises with China during a bilateral meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Adm. Dong Jun, in Jakarta on Friday.

The two defense ministers also agreed on defense technology transfer and the joint development of munitions factories in Indonesia.

Sjamsoeddin told a joint news conference that he proposed the two nations "increase joint training, strengthen military education and expand personnel exchanges to include not only officers but also noncommissioned officers and enlisted personnel."

Later in the day, he separately told reporters that China had agreed to expand defense industry cooperation with Indonesia.

"This includes cooperation on developing factories for ammunition, missiles, rockets and other products that we haven't ...

Max Blumenthal, ADC sue the US gov't for seizing journalist's phones

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal is joined by his legal counsel, American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) President Jenin Younes, to explain why they're suing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin over the seizure of Blumenthal's phones after he returned from reporting in Iran.

Younes explains why the US government not only violated the Fourth Amendment and several federal court decisions by attempting an advanced search of Blumenthal's phones; she explains how it violated his First Amendment rights by apparently following marching orders from Laura Loomer, who boasted of lobbying key Trump officials to jail Blumenthal for his reporting.