We will be republishing some of our most-watched episodes over the next few weeks. We hope you find that they are still more than relevant.

Paul Jay says while the Russian invasion of Ukraine is illegal, brutal, and unnecessary for Russian national security, it takes place within the context of U.S. aims to suppress the growth of potential regional powers like Iran and Russia. Russia was not incorporated into Western Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union because it could have challenged U.S. dominance in the region.

Fresh off the war with Iran, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson tells theAnalysis.news that the U.S. military has burned through critical munitions, lost its mine-warfare capability in the Strait of Hormuz, and is led by flag officers he says are compromised by Israeli influence. Wilkerson and Paul Jay also unpack the new Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan "entente" — which, despite media framing, he says is aimed squarely at Israel, not Iran — and the danger of Saudi Arabia acquiring nuclear weapons technology on the heels of a war justified by Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions.

Documentary filmmaker Paul Jay (theAnalysis.news) joins Patrick Lovell for the 25th anniversary of 9/11 — not to recount the day, but to explain what it was used to justify. Within a year, the ABM Treaty was gone, the North Korea framework agreement was abrogated, and the spending demands the neocons had drawn up before Bush took office were unlocked. The neocons got their new Pearl Harbor.