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Every analyst on our roster who has appeared on the show, by how often we have cited them here.

Lawrence Wilkerson
Lawrence Wilkerson
Retired Army colonel · former Powell chief of staff
8
episodes
Douglas Macgregor
Douglas Macgregor
Retired US Army colonel · restraint hawk on American overreach
6
episodes
Steve Jermy
Steve Jermy
Retired Royal Navy Commodore · Energy-sector executive
5
episodes
Alastair Crooke
Alastair Crooke
Former MI6 · founder of Conflicts Forum, Beirut
4
episodes
Andrei Martyanov
Andrei Martyanov
Former Soviet naval officer · US military-decline author
4
episodes
Larry Johnson
Larry Johnson
Former CIA/State counterterrorism official · Sonar21
4
episodes
Mohammad Marandi
Mohammad Marandi
University of Tehran professor · Iran commentator and analyst
4
episodes
Patrick Henningsen
Patrick Henningsen
Founder and editor of 21st Century Wire · host of the Sunday Wire
4
episodes
Richard Sakwa
Richard Sakwa
Emeritus Kent professor · Russian & European politics
4
episodes
John Mearsheimer
John Mearsheimer
University of Chicago political scientist · realist IR theorist
3
episodes
Matt Bracken
Matt Bracken
Former Navy SEAL, novelist · Enemies Foreign and Domestic
3
episodes
Robert Barnes
Robert Barnes
US constitutional and criminal-tax attorney · Barnes Law
3
episodes
Scott Ritter
Scott Ritter
Former UN weapons inspector · former USMC intelligence officer
3
episodes
Alexander Mercouris
Alexander Mercouris
Former UK barrister · daily solo geopolitics briefing
2
episodes
Chas Freeman
Chas Freeman
Retired US ambassador · foreign-policy realist
2
episodes
Chris Martenson
Chris Martenson
Co-founder, Peak Prosperity · author of The Crash Course
2
episodes
Ian Proud
Ian Proud
Former British diplomat · Economic Counsellor in Moscow 2014 to 2019
2
episodes
Matthew Hoh
Matthew Hoh
Former Marine officer and State Department official · Eisenhower Media Network
2
episodes
Trita Parsi
Trita Parsi
Executive Vice President, Quincy Institute · Iran policy expert
2
episodes
Danny Haiphong
Danny Haiphong
Host and commentator · Contributing editor at Black Agenda Report
1
episode
Glenn Diesen
Glenn Diesen
Norwegian professor · Eurasian security & multipolarity
1
episode
Iuliia Mendel
Iuliia Mendel
Former press secretary to Zelensky, 2019 to 2021 · Sanctioned by Ukraine in September 2026
1
episode
Joe Kent
Joe Kent
Ex-NCTC director · Green Beret veteran
1
episode
Nima Alkhorshid
Nima Alkhorshid
Host of Dialogue Works · Iranian engineering professor in Brazil
1
episode
Stanislav Krapivnik
Stanislav Krapivnik
Russian-American analyst · former US Army officer
1
episode
Ted Postol
Ted Postol
Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology and International Security · MIT
1
episode

Episodes cited

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November 2026 · 9

  1. Nov 4
    The Stunning Rebuke of Trump in Midterms /Kelley Vlahos
  2. Nov 4
    Subpoenas, Vetoes & Iran: What a Democratic Congress Does to Trump /Robert Barnes
  3. Nov 4
    Can NATO Save Ukraine Without America? /Scott Ritter
  4. Nov 3
    Iran War: No Deal in Sight. Diplomacy is Dead /Col Lawrence Wilkerson
  5. Nov 3
    Broke Princes: Saudi Arabia’s Powder Keg
  6. Nov 2
    Any Strike on Iran Leads to Catastrophe / Lt Col Daniel Davis
  7. Nov 2
    Gulf Allies Told: Brace For Strikes! /Lt Col Daniel Davis
  8. Nov 2
    Fake Nuke Alerts Raise Risk of Deadly Miscalculation
  9. Nov 2
    Who Decides the Next Strike on Iran: Trump or Bibi?

October 2026 · 73

  1. Oct 31
    What Happens When Iran & Ukraine Wars Backfire?
  2. Oct 31
    Iran: We Decide How This War Ends
  3. Oct 30
    Iran & Ukraine Wars: What Missiles Make the Most Difference /Ted Postol
  4. Oct 30
    What A 'Countdown to War' Looks Like
  5. Oct 29
    FUTURE IRAN WAR PLAN - IT's INSANE
  6. Oct 29
    A Close Look at What's Unfolding on the Ground in Ukraine
  7. Oct 29
    The CIA is Fighting Russia in Ukraine /Larry Johnson
  8. Oct 28
    Houthis Target Saudi's Biggest Refinery /Chas Freeman
  9. Oct 28
    U.S Troops Pulled Out of Iran's Missile Range /Col Doug Macgregor
  10. Oct 27
    Russia Helping Build a New Middle East /Trita Parsi
  11. Oct 27
    No Ukraine Victory. Only Endure Russia's Attacks! /Glenn Diesen
  12. Oct 27
    Saudi Arabia, Nuclear-armed Pakistan & Turkey: Major Regional Power Play
  13. Oct 26
    The Lies Dragging US into Iran War Again
  14. Oct 26
    Iran FM Araghchi: "Hormuz Will No Longer Be the Same"
  15. Oct 26
    Putin's Winter Strategy: Break Ukraine From the Inside /Col Lawrence Wilkerson
  16. Oct 25
    Israel’s New War Doctrine: What's America Signing Up For?
  17. Oct 24
    Trump’s Two-Front Trap: Why Winning Iran and Leaving Ukraine Will Fail
  18. Oct 23
    How More War Reshapes the Middle East Forever
  19. Oct 23
    "Historic Russia": The Land Putin Will Not Give Back
  20. Oct 23
    The Dollar, Sanctions & Bombs Can't Bring it Back /Alastair Crooke
  21. Oct 22
    Cornered Leaders Make the Deadliest Moves
  22. Oct 22
    The Fatal Assumption That Tehran Will Break
  23. Oct 22
    Will Americans Die to Open the Strait of Hormuz? Seyed M. Marandi
  24. Oct 22
    The 2014 Decisions That Set the Stage for Today’s Crisis in Ukraine
  25. Oct 21
    Israel About to Ignite Entire Middle East?
  26. Oct 21
    Iran's Next Strike May Not Explode. It Could Shut You Down /Col Doug Macgregor
  27. Oct 21
    EXCLUSIVE: “Saudi Oil Not More Precious Than Yemeni Blood”
  28. Oct 20
    There's No Isolating Iran Now /Col Lawrence Wilkerson
  29. Oct 20
    Netanyahu Wants More War. What Did Hegseth Promise? /Andrei Martyanov
  30. Oct 19
    Zelensky's Next Offer May be Take It or Leave It
  31. Oct 19
    Bomb Pickaxe Mountain, Get a Nuclear Iran
  32. Oct 19
    Bigger Bombs Can't Fix Trump's Losing Strategy in Iran /John Mearsheimer
  33. Oct 18
    The West Destroys Itself & Perversely Elevates Russia
  34. Oct 17
    Missions Unaccomplished. Worse to Come?
  35. Oct 16
    Ukraine Wants $80 Billion for 2027. Will Europe Cough It Up?
  36. Oct 16
    MOAB Won't End Iran War /Scott Ritter
  37. Oct 16
    Trump’s MOAB Gambit: Ending the War or Restarting It?
  38. Oct 15
    Iran Sinking Ships to Make Trump Pay at the Polls
  39. Oct 15
    Europe Wants Russia's Blood. Trump Wants Out
  40. Oct 15
    Ukraine Betrayed - No Intel, No Starlink. Now What?
  41. Oct 14
    Tehran Using NEW Offensive Tactics
  42. Oct 14
    Trump Got Played. Iran Rebuilds While He Brags
  43. Oct 13
    A NATO Army in Yemen - What Could Go Wrong? /Geoffrey Roberts
  44. Oct 13
    Does Trump Join a War the Saudis Can't Finish? /Col Doug Macgregor
  45. Oct 12
    Trump's Wars Emptying Americans' Wallets. Voters Aren't Fooled /Robert Barnes
  46. Oct 12
    Saudi Arabia Can't Stop the Houthis. Guess Who Wants In? /Patrick Henningsen
  47. Oct 12
    Riyadh’s Airport Hit Again as Trump’s Ceasefire Runs Into Russian Fire /Col. Lawrence Wilkerson
  48. Oct 12
    A Diesel Payday, Then a Truce Moscow Never Signed
  49. Oct 11
    Trump Declares Energy Ceasefire… Because Diesel Is Killing Him at Home
  50. Oct 10
    Trump Runs His Mouth, You Pay at the Pump /Iran War Latest
  51. Oct 10
    BREAKING: Russian Refinery Strikes Put Trump and Ukraine on a Collision Course
  52. Oct 9
    Are Witkoff & Kushner Selling Out Ukraine? /Pascal Lottaz
  53. Oct 9
    Riyadh's Airport Burns, Tankers Next /Alastair Crooke
  54. Oct 8
    Trump's Ukraine Deal is Dying, Europe Inherits the War /Alexander Mercouris
  55. Oct 8
    Aramco's Warning: Two Years to Refill the Tank from Iran War
  56. Oct 8
    Europe's Next Flashpoint / Richard Sakwa
  57. Oct 8
    12 Tankers Hit in One Week, the Worst of the War
  58. Oct 8
    HIDE THE DAMAGE, ESCALATE THE WAR /Col Doug Macgregor
  59. Oct 7
    Houthis Don’t Have to Conquer Saudi Arabia to Make It Pay
  60. Oct 6
    Devastating Miscalculations in the War with Ukraine /Roger Koeppel
  61. Oct 6
    Fairford: Real Plot or Ready-Made Pretext for Round Two?
  62. Oct 6
    Israel Won’t Withdraw, Hamas Still Has Its Weapons /Chas Freeman
  63. Oct 5
    Will the U.S. Join the Yemen War? /Dave DeCamp
  64. Oct 5
    Ukraine Hitting Russian Refineries as Trump Pushes for Talks /Andrei Martyanov
  65. Oct 5
    Russia is Crushing Ukraine's Capacity to Fight / Iuliia Mendel
  66. Oct 3
    Iran War, Russia Hits Kyiv's Bridges
  67. Oct 3
    Diplomacy is Now a Crime in Britian /Ian Proud
  68. Oct 2
    10K More U.S. Troops Deploy as Trump Weighs New Iran Strikes /Suliaman Ahmed
  69. Oct 2
    Putin Admits Refinery Strikes Cost Moscow 1% of GDP /Larry Johnson
  70. Oct 1
    Putin Refuses to Ease Up on HItting Ukraine's Energy /John Mearsheimer
  71. Oct 1
    Rubio Kicks Out Iran's Araghchi From New York /Col Larry Wilkerson
  72. Oct 1
    Russia Warns NATO: Touch Kaliningrad, We Go Nuclear
  73. Oct 1
    Can the U.S. Afford to Annihilate Iran? /Seyed M. Marandi

September 2026 · 60

  1. Sep 30
    Pilot Tries to Crash Israel-Bound Jet — Was Iran Behind It?
  2. Sep 30
    Russia Pounds Kyiv as US Pushes Peace Talks /Patrick Henningsen
  3. Sep 30
    Iran Demands US Admit Defeat, 23 years Over in Iraq /Col Doug Macgregor
  4. Sep 29
    Washington Gave Iran the Leverage It Now Wants Back
  5. Sep 29
    Iran Offers to Open Hormuz. Trump Won’t Pay Up.
  6. Sep 28
    Every path out of the Iran war is closing (w/ Sarp Sinan Hacir)
  7. Sep 28
    Pentagon kept the Iran missile strike on Marines concealed
  8. Sep 28
    Iran keeps digging in; Trump's victory dissolving (w/ Pascal Lottaz)
  9. Sep 27
    Washington corners Iran and dares it to strike; physical constraints versus the White House line on Hormuz
  10. Sep 26
    Washington slams the door on an Iran ceasefire; Tucker Carlson's account; yields, mortgages and record diesel
  11. Sep 24
    Will Trump bomb his way to a deal Iran won't sign? (w/ Daniel Davis)
  12. Sep 24
    Europe fears Russia's next move (w/ Ian Proud)
  13. Sep 23
    Trump's Foreign Policy Up Against a World That Won't Bend (w/ Patrick Henningsen)
  14. Sep 23
    Washington Risking Another War for Israel
  15. Sep 23
    The Old World Order is Breaking - Trump Won't Let Go (w/ Alastair Crooke)
  16. Sep 22
    The next phase of both wars much harder to contain
  17. Sep 22
    The Houthis' Red Sea offensive drawing the West toward more war
  18. Sep 22
    Trump shreds US credibility before the entire world at the UN
  19. Sep 21
    Houthis Have Saudi Arabia Trapped (w/ Brian McGlinchey)
  20. Sep 21
    Trump Meets Zelensky as Both Sides Escalate Attacks (w/ Dave DeCamp)
  21. Sep 21
    Trump Exit Strategy Disappearing in Ukraine and the Middle East (w/ Col Lawrence Wilkerson)
  22. Sep 20
    Iran sets seven conditions for peace and warns of painful retaliation
  23. Sep 19
    Middle East expanding war, Trump weighs annihilating Iran, Ukraine being bled dry
  24. Sep 19
    The sham victory Ukraine is being promised against Russia
  25. Sep 18
    Ansar Allah's Red Sea advance exposes Saudi weakness (w/ Hussain Albukhaiti)
  26. Sep 18
    Ukraine and Iran war blowback is exploding (w/ John Mearsheimer)
  27. Sep 18
    Ukraine sets the stage for an incident that could pull NATO in (w/ Jim Jatras)
  28. Sep 18
    CNN and Politico banned from the White House
  29. Sep 17
    U.S. & the World Can't Fill the Gaps in Oil & Food!
  30. Sep 17
    Middle East wars hammering the global economy (w/ Alastair Crooke)
  31. Sep 17
    The Iran war has collided with America First (w/ Rich Baris)
  32. Sep 16
    Trump Picks Americans Pockets for $2.8 BILLION
  33. Sep 16
    Houthis Keep Advancing as the Red Sea Crisis Deepens
  34. Sep 16
    Macgregor: Iran Exposes Critical Weakness in U.S. Defenses
  35. Sep 15
    Russia & Ukraine Keep Bombing After Trump Said They'd Stop (w/ Robert Barnes)
  36. Sep 15
    The Longer Iran War Lasts, the More the World Changes for the Worse (w/ Mike Adams)
  37. Sep 15
    Iran & Its Allies Are Threatening Every Route for Saudi Oil (w/ Brian McGlinchey)
  38. Sep 15
    Striking Energy Targets Deepen Global Fuel Crisis
  39. Sep 14
    The US running out of ways to end the Iran war (w/ Mohammad Marandi)
  40. Sep 14
    Iran, Yemen and Saudi Arabia become one expanding conflict (w/ Richard Sakwa)
  41. Sep 13
    Who loses most in a world without diplomacy? (w/ Michael von der Schulenburg)
  42. Sep 12
    Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran war latest
  43. Sep 12
    The global order Putin is building beyond Ukraine
  44. Sep 11
    U.S. policy is radicalizing the Middle East (w/ Joe Kent)
  45. Sep 11
    Houthis seize more territory as the war turns against America (w/ Patrick Henningsen)
  46. Sep 10
    The war that reshapes the global order
  47. Sep 10
    Fighting escalates in Yemen (w/ Col. Larry Wilkerson)
  48. Sep 9
    Trump says the Iran war ends immediately after the election
  49. Sep 9
    The Real Prize Lies Beyond Ukraine for Putin and Trump (w/ Scott Ritter)
  50. Sep 9
    The myth of America’s military advantage is collapsing (w/ Steve Jermy)
  51. Sep 8
    Europe Talking Itself into War with Russia
  52. Sep 8
    Iran War Just Got Much Bigger (w/ Matt Bracken)
  53. Sep 8
    US Troops Disposable in Trump’s War of Choice with Iran
  54. Sep 7
    Besides ESCALATION in Iran, What is There?
  55. Sep 7
    Ukraine's War Outlasting NATO's Arsenal
  56. Sep 6
    New dangerous phase in the Iran war, while Putin endures the US envoys
  57. Sep 3
    NATO Backs Berlin Against Moscow, Ukraine Celebrates
  58. Sep 2
    Iran claims US hit a wedding party
  59. Sep 1
    Israel’s War, America’s Cost in Iran
  60. Sep 1
    IRGC in Iran under fire (w/ Robert Barnes)

August 2026 · 6

  1. Aug 31
    Tehran retaliates on US base in Jordan
  2. Aug 31
    Russia’s nonstop drones hit Kiev (w/ Andrei Martyanov)
  3. Aug 28
    Iran may beat the US to the punch (w/ Trita Parsi)
  4. Aug 27
    How China flipped the script of the Iran war (w/ Wilkerson)
  5. Aug 27
    Russia directly threatens British military bases (w/ Steve Jermy)
  6. Aug 24
    Putin: Ukraine's Opened Pandora's Box — hypernormalization, the Mecca pact & the war on Iran

Counts cover only what the Ledger cites, not everything the channel has published. For how the sourcing works, see the methodology.