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Has the world just stepped back from the brink of a major economic crisis?In this episode of the Silk & Steel Podcast, Carl Zha welcomes back Dr. Warwick Powell to examine the latest developments that surround the reported U.S.–Iran memorandum of understanding, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and what it could mean for global energy markets, regional security, and the future of the Middle East.The discussion explores whether this agreement represents a genuine breakthrough—or simply a temporary pause before renewed conflict.Topics include:• Trump's announced agreement with Iran • The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz • Oil markets and global economic consequences • Israel's regional strategy • The future of Iran-U.S. relations • China's vision for a new Middle East security architecture • Whether the current ceasefire can survive • The long-term implications for global geopoliticsWill diplomacy prevail—or is this merely the next chapter in a much longer conflict?► Join UK Column Live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm UK time or watch previous live recordings here: https://bit.ly/UKColumn_Live► [UK Column Website] Explore all our written and video content on the official UK Column website: https://www.ukcolumn.org/► [Support UK Column] Please donate to support our independent journalism & investigative journalism: https://support.ukcolumn.org/► [UK Column YouTube] Please subscribe to the UK Column News YouTube channel for more alternative news and independent news: https://bit.ly/ukcolumnofficialFollow #UKColumn on:► X: https://x.com/ukcolumn► Telegram: https://t.me/ukcolumn► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKColumnExtracts► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uk_column_news

The social credit system and fintech ‘crises’ in China were not home-grown but, rather, engineered by Anglo-American institutions which also fuelled the 2008 U.S. financial crisis, argues Cynthia Chung.These global entities utilised Big Tech companies like Alibaba and Tencent to establish predatory lending practices before the Chinese government intervened to regulate these platforms.https://cynthiachung.substack.com/p/the-true-origins-of-chinas-social► Join UK Column Live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm UK time or watch previous live recordings here: https://bit.ly/UKColumn_Live► [UK Column Website] Explore all our written and video content on the official UK Column website: https://www.ukcolumn.org/► [Support UK Column] Please donate to support our independent journalism & investigative journalism: https://support.ukcolumn.org/► [UK Column YouTube] Please subscribe to the UK Column News YouTube channel for more alternative news and independent news: https://bit.ly/ukcolumnofficialFollow #UKColumn on:► X: https://x.com/ukcolumn► Telegram: https://t.me/ukcolumn► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKColumnExtracts► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uk_column_news

Brian Gerrish and Patrick Henningsen present today's UK Column News.► Join UK Column Live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm UK time or watch previous live recordings here: https://bit.ly/UKColumn_Live► [UK Column Website] Explore all our written and video content on the official UK Column website: https://www.ukcolumn.org/► [Support UK Column] Please donate to support our independent journalism & investigative journalism: https://support.ukcolumn.org/► [UK Column YouTube] Please subscribe to the UK Column News YouTube channel for more alternative news and independent news: https://bit.ly/ukcolumnofficialFollow #UKColumn on:► X: https://x.com/ukcolumn► Telegram: https://t.me/ukcolumn► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKColumnExtracts► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uk_column_news00:00 Introduction00:43 Andy Burnham: Real ramifications of by-election win for UK. 16:16 Jury: Moog trial proves humans needed for law21:27 Dialogue: Elite guest list for ‘Davos/Burning Man’ event33:06 UK Column 20th Anniversary40:35 Gift of Life: Organ harvesting film. With special guest, film producer Jacqui Deevoy50:23 Iran Peace: Ceasefire is off54:20 Russian Frigate: Yacht skipper seamanship story stinks01:04:44 In Case You Missed It: Stories spotted by our UKC sleuths

David Rasnick argues that HIV is a harmless passenger virus that does not cause AIDS. He says the entire HIV/AIDS paradigm is fundamentally wrong. AIDS does not behave like a contagious disease; its pattern does not match what you would expect from a single infectious agent as it spreads through a population. Instead, he points to the real causes of immune collapse to be recreational drugs, malnutrition, poverty, and poor living conditions—and, most controversially, the antiretroviral drugs themselves. Rasnick says they are toxic and cause the immune destruction they are supposed to treat.Basically, HIV/AIDS is a hoax.https://www.davidrasnick.com► Join UK Column Live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm UK time or watch previous live recordings here: https://bit.ly/UKColumn_Live► [UK Column Website] Explore all our written and video content on the official UK Column website: https://www.ukcolumn.org/► [Support UK Column] Please donate to support our independent journalism & investigative journalism: https://support.ukcolumn.org/► [UK Column YouTube] Please subscribe to the UK Column News YouTube channel for more alternative news and independent news: https://bit.ly/ukcolumnofficialFollow #UKColumn on:► X: https://x.com/ukcolumn► Telegram: https://t.me/ukcolumn► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKColumnExtracts► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uk_column_news

UK Column presents an exclusive report following Brian Gerrish’s visit to Reiner Fuellmich in prison.Over the last 20 years, Brian Gerrish has visited a number of people in prison. Some he believed to be innocent, and some he knew to be guilty. Whatever the crime or punishment, meeting a person in the austere setting of prison is a definitive experience. In a one-hour meeting, the presence of a visitor is light in the darkness, and time goes very quickly indeed. Alongside greetings and basic human interaction, there is little time for deep conversation. There is, however, enough time to look into the eyes of somebody you have never met and make an instinctive human assessment as to whether you trust them or not. Thanks to the dedicated work of supporters of Reiner Fuellmich, Brian was able to travel to Bremervörde, Germany, to visit Reiner in prison.Reiner was the man who created the Corona Investigative Committee and to whom Brian gave formal evidence about the UK Government's use of political applied behavioural psychology to induce fear into the UK population. The Government's objective: to instil greater compliance of vaccine uptake and lockdowns by increasing fear of Covid and the accompanying social backlash for those challenging the system. Brian's visit to Reiner in prison, coupled with extensive interaction with Reiner supporters, has facilitated this exclusive and extended UK Column report into Reiner Fuellmich. He is the man who supporters say ‘took a bullet’ to help save mankind.► Join UK Column Live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm UK time or watch previous live recordings here: https://bit.ly/UKColumn_Live► [UK Column Website] Explore all our written and video content on the official UK Column website: https://www.ukcolumn.org/► [Support UK Column] Please donate to support our independent journalism & investigative journalism: https://support.ukcolumn.org/► [UK Column YouTube] Please subscribe to the UK Column News YouTube channel for more alternative news and independent news: https://bit.ly/ukcolumnofficialFollow #UKColumn on:► X: https://x.com/ukcolumn► Telegram: https://t.me/ukcolumn► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKColumnExtracts► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uk_column_news

For years, Western policymakers insisted China should embrace globalisation, free markets, and competition. Now that China dominates electric vehicles, solar panels, batteries, robotics, AI, and manufacturing, many of those same voices now call China's success a global threat.In this episode, Carl Zha and Daniel Dumbrill react to a series of articles from The Atlantic, The Economist, Reuters, and prominent China commentators that claim China's manufacturing boom, AI development, industrial policy, and technological rise are dangerous for the world.Topics include:• Why Western media suddenly says "overcapacity" is bad • China's AI strategy vs Silicon Valley's profit model • The EV revolution and energy independence • China's industrial policy and manufacturing dominance • The politics behind "China bad" narratives • Noah Smith's criticism of China's economy • Why patents, innovation, and subsidies are misunderstood • The history behind today's trade wars • China's poverty alleviation and public approval • Why more young people now question Western narratives Does China really create a global crisis—or does the world simply struggle to adjust to a new economic reality?Watch the full discussion and decide for yourself.► Join UK Column Live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm UK time or watch previous live recordings here: https://bit.ly/UKColumn_Live► [UK Column Website] Explore all our written and video content on the official UK Column website: https://www.ukcolumn.org/► [Support UK Column] Please donate to support our independent journalism & investigative journalism: https://support.ukcolumn.org/► [UK Column YouTube] Please subscribe to the UK Column News YouTube channel for more alternative news and independent news: https://bit.ly/ukcolumnofficialFollow #UKColumn on:► X: https://x.com/ukcolumn► Telegram: https://t.me/ukcolumn► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKColumnExtracts► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uk_column_news

David Rasnick, a biochemist of many decades, argues that cancer is caused by aneuploidy — an abnormal number or balance of chromosomes — not by individual gene mutations as mainstream medicine claims.When carcinogens disrupt how chromosomes are shared during cell division, the chromosomal imbalance which results is inherently unstable. This causes more errors each time the cell divides, which results in a snowball effect Rasnick calls "autocatalyed progression."Over time, this chaotic reshuffle produces a cell that grows out of control and becomes a tumour.Rasnick points out that gene mutation theory fails because many carcinogens do not damage DNA, no cancer-specific mutations have been consistently found, and virtually all solid tumours are aneuploid — something the mutationtheory can't explain.In short, cancer is a disease of chromosomes, not genes. Mainstream focus on gene mutation has looked in the wrong place for decades.https://www.davidrasnick.com► Join UK Column Live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm UK time or watch previous live recordings here: https://bit.ly/UKColumn_Live► [UK Column Website] Explore all our written and video content on the official UK Column website: https://www.ukcolumn.org/► [Support UK Column] Please donate to support our independent journalism & investigative journalism: https://support.ukcolumn.org/► [UK Column YouTube] Please subscribe to the UK Column News YouTube channel for more alternative news and independent news: https://bit.ly/ukcolumnofficialFollow #UKColumn on:► X: https://x.com/ukcolumn► Telegram: https://t.me/ukcolumn► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKColumnExtracts► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uk_column_news

Mike Robinson, Charles Malet, and Vanessa Beeley present today's UK Column News.Show notes for today's news broadcast, as well as all other news broadcasts, are available at the broadcast link on our website: https://ukcolumn.org► Join UK Column Live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm UK time or watch previous live recordings here: https://bit.ly/UKColumn_Live► [UK Column Website] Explore all our written and video content on the official UK Column website: https://www.ukcolumn.org/► [Support UK Column] Please donate to support our independent journalism & investigative journalism: https://support.ukcolumn.org/► [UK Column YouTube] Please subscribe to the UK Column News YouTube channel for more alternative news and independent news: https://bit.ly/ukcolumnofficialFollow #UKColumn on:► X: https://x.com/ukcolumn► Telegram: https://t.me/ukcolumn► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKColumnExtracts► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uk_column_news00:00 Introduction00:38 Shadow Fleet: Gratuitous Theatre doesn’t fool us10:36 Starmer Arson Trial: All to justify Russian hatred14:16 Jolani: Will intervene in Syria21:10 G7: Ghoulish gathering22:46 UK Column 20th Anniversary26:10 Defence Spending: Healey’s departure explained41:58 Palestine Action: Disingenuous judicial decision46:30 National Security: New bill very bad news51:12 Online Safety & Social Media: Government fudges U-16 ban explanation56:06 Assisted Dying: Proposals back from the dead

This conversation digs into the history and meaning of the 16 June uprising in South Africa, looking at what led to the protest against Afrikaans being forced as the language of teaching in schools.Simon Roche walks through the pivotal moments in South Africa's history, focusing on the downfall of apartheid and what the 16 June events really meant.He reflects on the poor judgement of the apartheid regime — forcing Afrikaans on black schools was an arrogant move that showed how out of touch they were. The uprising that followed on 16 June 1976 became a turning point, and the date is now commemorated as Youth Day, honouring the young people who stood up.Simon also gets into the controversial legacy of Hendrik Verwoerd, often called the architect of apartheid. There are lingering conspiracy theories about his assassination, with questions about whether there was more to the story than the official narrative. Either way, as the regime's brutality became impossible to ignore, apartheid supporters lost any credible moral standing.The discussion touches on the role of indigenous peoples and the influence of foreign agitators in shaping the narrative of the uprising.https://suidlanders.org► Join UK Column Live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm UK time or watch previous live recordings here: https://bit.ly/UKColumn_Live► [UK Column Website] Explore all our written and video content on the official UK Column website: https://www.ukcolumn.org/► [Support UK Column] Please donate to support our independent journalism & investigative journalism: https://support.ukcolumn.org/► [UK Column YouTube] Please subscribe to the UK Column News YouTube channel for more alternative news and independent news: https://bit.ly/ukcolumnofficialFollow #UKColumn on:► X: https://x.com/ukcolumn► Telegram: https://t.me/ukcolumn► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKColumnExtracts► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uk_column_news

This presentation by Albanian Dr Olsi Jazexhi was given at the late Ian R. Crane’s Alternative View 8 event in May 2018.The Albanian island of Sazan is hitting the headlines, and Albanian people are not happy.In light of these recent events, UK Column has decided to republish this presentation by Albanian academic Dr Olsi Jazexhi, which he gave at AV8 in 2018.Dr Jazexhi makes a solid case that migrants leaving his Balkan homeland are doing so solely because of Western globalists.He particularly focuses on Britain's Tony Blair and London School of Economics-trained George Soros. The following is from the description provided with UK Column’s 9 November 2022 airing of this presentation: In the current outrage over boat people — very many of them Albanian — arriving on the south coast of England in dinghies with much official connivance, UK Column decided that it would be timely to remind the public of a May 2018 presentation given to a British audience at the late Ian R Crane's Alternative View conference by an Albanian academic, Dr Olsi Jazexhi, who works at universities in both Albania and Canada. Dr Jazexhi makes a solid case that the culpability for the waves of desperate migrants leaving his Balkan homeland rests squarely with Western globalists, particularly Britain's own Tony Blair and the London School of Economics-trained George Soros — firm friends of the Edi Rama régime in Tirana—for rendering large parts of the country practically uninhabitable through economic despoiling and the carving-out of abysmally badly operated fracking concessions. Two years after this presentation, Rama's administration gave the country one of the world's most inhumane Covid lockdowns, which — as Dr Jazexhi reported for 21st Century Wire — the Albanian population defeated by unyielding resistance.This is a vital watch for anyone wishing to understand why Albania is in the headlines right now.► Join UK Column Live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm UK time or watch previous live recordings here: https://bit.ly/UKColumn_Live► [UK Column Website] Explore all our written and video content on the official UK Column website: https://www.ukcolumn.org/► [Support UK Column] Please donate to support our independent journalism & investigative journalism: https://support.ukcolumn.org/► [UK Column YouTube] Please subscribe to the UK Column News YouTube channel for more alternative news and independent news: https://bit.ly/ukcolumnofficialFollow #UKColumn on:► X: https://x.com/ukcolumn► Telegram: https://t.me/ukcolumn► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKColumnExtracts► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uk_column_news