New Order with Afshin Rattansi

On this episode of New Order, we speak to James Rickards, Former Pentagon Advisor and Editor of Strategic Intelligence. He discusses the US-Iran closure of the Strait of Hormuz and why it is likely to remain closed for the foreseeable future, why the global economic crisis will start unfolding including a risk of mass starvation, China’s vulnerability to the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz and why Donald Trump would want the Strait to remain shut, Trump’s plan to reinforce petrodollar hegemony through a duopoly of oil with Russia, India’s balancing act between Russia and the United States and why the dollar is likely to continue dominate, why the new BRICS currency is gold, his forecast for the price of gold, and much more. 

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Former Chief of Staff at the US State Department. He discusses the bombing of the China-Iran railway and the wider US priority to confront China, China’s global railway network strategy to ensure trade dominance, his belief that Iran has won against the US and Israel and whether Iran will pursue building nuclear weapons, why the negotiations in Pakistan and negotiations over Lebanon are just a cover for Donald Trump’s retreat, his advice for the global south and BRICS as the US continues to make threats and launch wars to protect its hegemony, China’s strategy to supplant the dollar and become the dominant financial power, the future of Israel, and much more. 

Finally, New Order’s Zarah Khan asks questions from you, the viewers, to Afshin Rattansi. You can send in your questions to be answered by @AfshinRattansi on X to be answered on next week’s episode! 

And a question for you, the viewers: Should Iran pursue the same strategy as North Korea in developing a nuclear deterrent?

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Dr. S. V. Anchan, Founder and Chairman of the Safesea Group. His crude oil tanker, Safesea Vishnu was fatally attacked by Iran, and one Indian crew member was killed. He discusses how the Iranian attack on the Safesea Vishnu was different from the attacks on other ships in the region, the fact that the attack on his ship was conducted inside the territorial waters of Iraq, the IRGC’s allegations that the ship’s crew refused to follow orders and cooperate, his assertion that seafarers stuck in the Strait of Hormuz are effectively prisoners of war, his anger at the lack of action by the IMO or any nation to protect seafarers and the maritime industry, the state of India’s development of Iran’s Chabahar Port, the potential for BRICS to bring peace to the region, the reports of Iran imposing tolls on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, and much more.

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia University’s Centre for Sustainable Development and Special Adviser to Three UN Secretaries-General. He discusses Donald Trump’s threats to ‘bomb Iran back to the stone age’ and Iran’s inevitable retaliation which will result in an out-of-control global economic crisis, the empowerment of the war machine in the United States and the absence of any attempt by Donald Trump to stop him, the dangerous personality traits of Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which led to this war, his belief that only Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Narendra Modi can stop the war on Iran, his advice for how India should position itself in the unfolding crisis, his appeal to India and China to not allow the border dispute created by the British Empire to hinder a multipolar world, and much more.

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Dennis Kucinich, former US Congressman for Ohio, and Former Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. He discusses the real reasons for the US-Israeli war on Iran and the ‘moral collapse’ which led to it, the Trump Administration’s bogus justifications for starting the war, the impact of the war on India and the wider global south and their working classes, his warning to Donald Trump that US troops could get massacred on Iran’s Kharg Island should boots on the ground be deployed, the impact of Trump’s war on BRICS and diversification away from the petrodollar, Iran’s devastating counter-strike options that have not been used yet, and much more.

On this premiere episode of Afshin Rattansi’s brand new show New Order, we speak to Prof. John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago as the US-Israeli War on Iran rages on, destabilising the entire region. How do Russia and China benefit from the US-Israeli War on Iran? How should India change its foreign policy calculus with regards to the United States? Why does Iran hold all the cards as the war turns into a war of attrition? What now as the Israel Lobby’s responsibility for this war is out in the open following Joe Kent’s resignation from the Trump Administration? What does this war mean for BRICS and multipolarity? We cover all this and more with Prof. John Mearsheimer. Finally New Order’s Zarah Khan reads out your questions asked on X, which Afshin Rattansi answers!