The Dismantling Of Global Energy And Food Infrastructure.

The Persian Gulf Is Never Coming Back — And That’s Exactly What They Want

Mike Adams

I believed — and you probably did too — that the Strait of Hormuz would eventually reopen and be restored to full operation. I believed that the fighting would stop, the tankers would flow again, and the world would return to some semblance of normalcy. But I was wrong, and so was everyone who held onto that hope.

The people in charge don’t want the world to work for human civilization, it turns out. They want collapse, and they are getting it by making sure the Persian Gulf is permanently taken offline.

This isn’t a war that merely got out of hand. It’s a deliberate, engineered dismantling of global energy and food infrastructure. As I detailed in March 2026, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is not a temporary disruption — it is a geopolitical and financial reality that has already snapped shut [1]. The assumption that problems will be solved because they always have been is a dangerous illusion [2]. We are watching the greatest crisis in human history unfold, and the very people who caused it may have no real desire to end it.

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and even the United States all have strong incentives to end the war and reopen the Strait. They need oil revenue, stable markets, and functional supply chains. But those incentives don’t matter at the highest levels of global control. The globalist agenda does not seek restoration — it seeks systemic collapse. 

The damage extends beyond oil. Desalination plants are now being targeted, raising fears that the next targets in the U.S.-Iran war will be the very facilities that make life possible in the Gulf. As Peter Zeihan noted, a wrecked Iranian client state is one that cannot be a springboard for future action [7]. But the wreckage doesn’t stop at Iran’s borders. The entire region’s infrastructure is being systematically dismantled, and there is no reasonable timeline for recovery.

Losing 20 million barrels of oil per day and 10 percent of global fertilizer production means global depression and famine. The Haber-Bosch process that feeds half the world is about to go offline because natural gas — the feedstock for nitrogen fertilizer — is no longer flowing from its best sources [8]. Oil prices will skyrocket, diesel rationing will hit food transport, and hundreds of millions will die.

The 10-year famine is about to be unleashed [9]. The real threat from the Iran war hits farmers, not fuel pumps, as diesel and fertilizer shortages cripple agriculture [10]. We are already seeing it: commercial crude oil stockpiles in the U.S. fell to a 22-year low as Gulf Coast exports drained inventories [11]. Without fertilizer, crop yields collapse. Without diesel, food cannot be harvested or transported. The system is gridlocked, and the elites are counting the bodies they hope will soon be stacked high.

Christian Persecution Is Spreading

Christian Persecution Is Spreading - Will The West Wake Up?

PNW STAFF

Somewhere today, a Christian will be arrested for attending a prayer meeting.

A pastor will preach knowing government agents may be listening. A family will be driven from its village because it refuses to renounce Christ. A young believer will hide a Bible beneath the floorboards. A church congregation will gather without signs, music or public announcements because discovery could mean imprisonment--or death.

For hundreds of millions of Christians, persecution is not an uncomfortable conversation or an occasional insult on social media. It is the daily cost of following Jesus.

International Christian Concern's newly released 2026 Global Persecution Index examines persecution in more than 20 countries and warns that the forces threatening Christians are not retreating. They are spreading, cooperating and becoming increasingly sophisticated. Meanwhile, Open Doors estimates that more than 388 million Christians--approximately one in seven believers worldwide--now face high levels of persecution or discrimination because of their faith.

Behind that number are real people.

They are mothers who have watched militants burn their homes. They are pastors who disappeared into prison systems. They are converts rejected by their families. They are children growing up in refugee camps because terrorists decided Christians no longer belonged in their ancestral communities.

Persecution Is Taking Many Forms

There is no single face of Christian persecution.

In parts of Africa, it arrives with rifles and machetes. Islamist militants raid villages, murder residents, kidnap women and force survivors from their land. Open Doors documented 4,849 faith-related Christian deaths during its latest reporting period. More than 4,400 occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, with Nigeria accounting for over 70 percent of the global total.

These attacks are not merely isolated outbursts of tribal violence. In many regions, they form a pattern: Christian communities are attacked repeatedly, government protection is inadequate or nonexistent, and displaced families discover that returning home may be impossible.

In North Korea, persecution comes through a totalitarian state that regards Christianity as a threat to the regime itself. Possessing a Bible, contacting a missionary or participating in secret worship can place an entire family in danger. North Korea remains the most dangerous country in the world in which to be identified as a Christian.

In China, persecution is increasingly technological and bureaucratic. The government does not need to burn every church when it can regulate sermons, monitor online activity, control religious appointments and steadily narrow the boundaries of permissible belief. Registered churches face pressure to align their teaching with Communist ideology, while house churches remain vulnerable to raids and closure.

In India and Nepal, Hindu nationalism is turning Christianity into a supposed foreign threat. Anti-conversion laws can be used to criminalize evangelism, baptism or even ordinary expressions of faith. A Christian accused of attempting to convert someone may face police action or mob violence before the facts are ever examined.

In Myanmar, Buddhist nationalism has helped create an atmosphere in which Christian villages can be destroyed and minority believers driven from their homes.

In Iran, converts from Islam risk surveillance, interrogation and imprisonment for participating in underground churches. Yet Christianity continues to spread through quiet relationships, house fellowships and digital networks that the government has been unable to eliminate completely.

In Algeria, the pressure has become so severe that Open Doors reports there are now no functioning Protestant churches in the country.

Even Syria, where Christians have endured civil war and the rise of ISIS, has become significantly more dangerous. Syria climbed from 18th to sixth place on the 2026 World Watch List, driven partly by instability and violence, including an attack on a Damascus church that killed 25 people.

The Persecutors Are Learning From One Another

Perhaps the most disturbing warning in the ICC report is that persecution is becoming more coordinated.

Authoritarian governments are sharing surveillance methods. Intelligence services are tracking religious dissidents beyond national borders. Exiled believers may escape their country without escaping the reach of the regime.

This "transnational repression" allows governments to threaten relatives, monitor diaspora communities, pressure foreign authorities and attempt to force asylum seekers back into danger.

Western technology can also become an instrument of oppression. Facial-recognition systems, artificial intelligence, phone monitoring, digital identity platforms and enormous databases give governments powers earlier dictators could only have imagined.

The persecutor of the future may not need to station a police officer outside every church. An algorithm could identify who attends, who donates, who downloads a Bible and who communicates with foreign Christians.

Persecution is therefore no longer limited to mobs, prisons and firing squads. It can be built into banking systems, travel permissions, employment records and access to public services.

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The Warning Lights Are Flashing: Is A Massive Strike On Iran Only Days Away?

The Warning Lights Are Flashing: Is A Massive Strike On Iran Only Days Away?

 PNW STAFF

It is impossible for anyone outside the highest levels of the White House and Pentagon to know whether a massive attack on Iran will begin within the next 72 hours.

But something is clearly happening.

The evidence is no longer based merely on anonymous social-media accounts tracking aircraft or interpreting unusual military movements. President Donald Trump has publicly confirmed that he is close to deciding whether to launch an attack on Iran that could be "bigger than ever before." American and Israeli officials have reportedly said expanded combat operations could begin within days.

Trump has also declared that the United States will attack Iran's deeply buried Pickaxe Mountain facility "very soon." The underground complex near Natanz is believed by Israeli intelligence to contain thousands of centrifuges moved into tunnels hundreds of feet beneath the mountain.

These are not vague warnings about unspecified future consequences. They are descriptions of targets, weapons and operations that appear to be under active consideration.

The Battlefield Is Being Prepared

For almost two weeks, American forces have conducted nightly attacks against Iranian air defenses, coastal radar installations, anti-ship missile positions, drone-launching facilities, military command centers and maritime infrastructure.

Reuters reported that these attacks were not simply retaliation for individual Iranian actions. They were also destroying capabilities the United States would want eliminated before undertaking more complicated operations deeper inside Iran.

That is what military planners call shaping the battlefield.

The arrival of the B-1B Lancer in the renewed campaign provides another important signal. A B-1 reportedly flew from a British base to strike Revolutionary Guard targets, marking its first use since the latest fighting began. The aircraft can carry up to 75,000 pounds of conventional weapons, including two dozen 2,000-pound bombs or up to 24 long-range JASSM cruise missiles.

A B-1 is not necessarily the weapon that would be used against Iran's deepest underground chambers. Its importance is volume. It can deliver an enormous number of precision weapons against command centers, missile sites, aircraft shelters, military industries and infrastructure during a single mission.

A strike against Pickaxe Mountain would probably require a different package. During the earlier attack on Iran's Fordow facility, the United States used B-2 stealth bombers carrying 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrators. Fighter aircraft suppressed Iranian air defenses while a submarine launched Tomahawk missiles against other targets. Decoy aircraft were sent in another direction to conceal the operation.

A new attack could follow a similar pattern, but on a much wider scale: stealth bombers attacking underground facilities, B-1s delivering large numbers of conventional weapons, fighters suppressing remaining air defenses, ships and submarines launching cruise missiles, and cyber and electronic-warfare operations attempting to blind Iranian communications.

Dozens of additional American refueling aircraft have also reportedly been positioned in Israel as the administration considers bombing Iran's nuclear and strategic infrastructure. Refueling aircraft are essential when large numbers of combat aircraft must remain over distant targets for extended operations.

The United States may therefore be preparing for something considerably larger than another night of limited retaliatory strikes.

What Would America Target?

The most likely opening targets would be those capable of threatening American aircraft, bases and ships: air-defense batteries, ballistic-missile launchers, drone facilities, coastal missile sites, Revolutionary Guard command centers and military communications.

A second wave could strike Iran's strategic infrastructure.

Trump has explicitly threatened to destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant for every additional commercial vessel attacked in the Strait of Hormuz. His administration has also discussed strikes against nuclear facilities, energy infrastructure and the fortified Pickaxe Mountain complex.

More dangerous options have reportedly included deploying American troops to seize Kharg Island, through which much of Iran's oil historically flows. That would be far more escalatory than an air campaign because it could require amphibious forces, special-operations troops and the continuing defense of captured Iranian territory.

A ground invasion of Iran still appears highly unlikely. A concentrated campaign intended to destroy strategic assets, punish the leadership and force Tehran to reopen shipping routes is much more plausible.

Iran has spent years developing what counterterrorism officials have described as a "homeland option." Researchers at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point identified at least 17 Iranian-linked plots disrupted in the United States during a five-year period. The potential pathways include Iranian intelligence operatives, Hezbollah members, criminal organizations hired as proxies and individuals inspired to act independently.

The FBI says Iran's global threat includes attempted terrorist attacks, kidnappings, assassination schemes, espionage, cyberattacks and operations against dissidents and current or former American officials.

If Tehran wanted retaliation without leaving obvious Iranian fingerprints, using criminal intermediaries, proxy organizations or inspired lone actors would offer plausible deniability. The immediate danger would not necessarily resemble a centrally commanded military operation. It could instead appear as attempted assassinations, sabotage, attacks against diplomatic or religious institutions, or opportunistic violence encouraged by Iranian propaganda.

Cyberattacks may be even more likely. American authorities have repeatedly warned that Iranian actors target government networks, businesses and critical infrastructure. A recently listed federal advisory concerns Iranian-affiliated actors exploiting programmable industrial-control equipment used in American infrastructure.

No credible source can guarantee that a massive attack will occur this weekend.

Diplomatic communications are reportedly continuing through Qatar, Oman and other intermediaries. Some of the military buildup and public threats may be intended to frighten Tehran into reopening the Strait of Hormuz and accepting American nuclear demands without another enormous battle.

But the warning lights are flashing.

The president says he is close to a decision. B-1 bombers have entered the renewed campaign. Additional refueling aircraft have been positioned. Iranian air defenses and coastal systems are being systematically reduced. Pickaxe Mountain has been publicly identified as a coming target. Iran is reinforcing the Houthis, threatening Gulf infrastructure and warning Britain that an airbase used by American bombers is now a legitimate target.

Taken individually, any one of these developments might be dismissed as signaling or psychological warfare.

Taken together, they describe a region preparing for the possibility that the current war is about to enter its most dangerous phase yet.

The Numbers Don’t Lie:

The Numbers Don’t Lie: Why People Die Every 73rd Day—and Why No One Is Talking About It

Madge Waggy

The figures you are about to read do not originate from obscure conspiracy websites. They are extracted from actuarial reports of major insurance companies, from databases of disease control centers, and from classified government documents that reached our possession over the past eighteen months. Every source has been verified through independent methods. Everything unconfirmable has been removed. What remains is disturbing enough that publishing this material represents the greatest editorial risk undertaken in twenty-three years of journalism.

Articles of this nature began disappearing from major platforms as early as 2023. Journalists who attempted to present this data have been fired, disavowed, or, in extreme cases, arrested on fabricated charges. The window for this type of reporting is closing rapidly. We publish now because in twelve to twenty-four months it will be too late — both for this article, and for you.

Mortality data from 2024 has been released in fragments across actuarial reports and public health databases that no mainstream outlet has assembled into a coherent picture. When the pieces are laid side by side and examined without the filter of official interpretation, the result is unmistakable: working-age populations in developed nations are dying at rates that have no precedent in peacetime history, and the institutions responsible for noticing have systematically refused to investigate.

In the United States, excess mortality among adults aged 18 to 64 remained elevated at 18% above baseline through Q3 2024. This is not COVID-19 mortality, which has declined to negligible levels in this demographic. These are deaths from cardiovascular events, aggressive cancers with no genetic markers, neurological failures, and conditions officially categorized as “unknown cause” that are killing people in their prime at rates that threaten the actuarial foundations of the global insurance industry. The Society of Actuaries confirmed in its January 2025 annual report what industry executives have discussed in closed meetings since 2022: the mortality assumptions that underpin pension funds, life insurance policies, and healthcare financing are no longer valid, and the divergence is accelerating.

The official response has been a masterclass in bureaucratic deflection. The CDC stopped publishing comprehensive excess mortality data in mid-2023, citing unspecified “data quality concerns.” The WHO redirected research funding away from long-term health trend analysis toward “emerging infectious disease preparedness,” a category broad enough to include anything and specific enough to explain nothing. Medical journals have rejected papers attempting to correlate mortality trends with environmental factors, not because the correlations lack evidence, but because acknowledging them would require reopening questions that powerful interests want permanently closed.

Hospital admission data from eleven European countries reveals a temporal signature that has no biological explanation but aligns precisely with technical infrastructure deployment schedules. Every 73 days, admissions for specific neurological symptoms spike in a wave that moves across time zones with mechanical precision. Not geographically clustered like infectious disease. Not randomly distributed like environmental exposure. Temporally synchronized like a scheduled broadcast, following the sun from east to west in a pattern that repeated with clockwork regularity for eighteen months between 2022 and 2024.

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Terry James: Approaching Apocalypse

Approaching Apocalypse

Terry James

The term “apocalypse” as related to the coming Tribulation (Daniel’s seventieth week) means the “unveiling” or “revelation.” Particularly, it is the revelation of Jesus Christ in all of His power and glory and in His judgeship over all of the world’s evil since Lucifer’s rebellion and the Fall of humankind in the Garden of Eden.

I’ve addressed many times the next step in Christ’s coming judgment over this fallen world. 

Jesus Himself used the word in giving what I believe is the most important prophecy for believers of this Church Age (Age of Grace):

“Also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed” (Luke 17:28-30).

According to the Lord’s own words, the Son of man will be revealed the very day that something occurs like it did in the days that Lot lived in the wicked city of Sodom. 

Again, the apocalypse—the unveiling or revealing of Jesus Christ—will take place when something happens just like it did in the days of Lot.

That “something” that brings about the revealing of Jesus in His power as Judge of the world’s evil has everything to do with Lot’s removal from Sodom. Here is what Lot was told in that regard before he and his family were taken from the doomed city:

“Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither” (Genesis 19:22a).

The angel charged with taking Lot and his family to safety because the city was about to be destroyed said they must be removed before the destruction could be carried out. 

Jesus is telling future believers in the Luke 17:28–30 prophecy that there is coming a time when we must be taken out of the wicked place we’re living in before He is revealed as Judge. The Lord said the place out of which we will be removed will be dealt with in judgment, just as Sodom and its left-behind residents.

Christ’s judgment–His revealing in his power as Judge—will begin at that very moment. The Apocalypse —that unveiling of power and authority—will begin the process of God destroying the present evil system of satanically inspired, humanistic government. 

In its place, through seven years of purging by twenty-one specific judgments—seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowls—will come the Second Advent of Christ, the King of all kings, and His thousand-year reign on a restored, Eden-like earth—the Millennium.

Each week, I receive emails and phone calls in which I’m told, “I’ve never felt like this before. There’s something that makes me think we might not even reach the November 5 election.”

That sense of impending something-or-the-other indeed seems on the minds of many believers who are paying attention. I must admit, I’ve had those “feelings” in recent days.

Of course, we can’t go too far down the road on “feelings” because such sensations most generally are a mere reflection of human emotion. We’re confronted with all sorts of troubled symptoms of these times. Like old Lot, whom the Bible tells us was “vexed from day to day” with the ungodliness all around him in Sodom, we sometimes can see only a bleak future for ourselves and those we love.

Certainly, there seems a time immediately ahead that is portentous. There are so many symptoms that look exactly like the Lord Jesus described when He answered His disciples’ question: “What shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the age?”

To the believer who observes from the pre-Trib view of Bible prophecy, it’s as if the time of the Apocalypse is very near indeed. God’s judgment–Jesus Christ revealed in His divine office of Judge—must be about to, like in the days of Lot prophecy, rain down a fire and brimstone-like cataclysm upon the ungodliness all around us.

We’re approaching Apocalypse, to be sure. Israel’s front-and-center positioning on this end-times geopolitical landscape isn’t happenstance or coincidence. The way the world is dealing with God’s chosen people makes it clear that this age of God’s grace and divine patience is about to end, and that the time of His apocalyptic judgment is poised above a planet ripe for the Almighty’s wrath.

So, in my estimation, it isn’t altogether beyond spiritual reasoning to look with trepidation at the very near future. It is an ominous picture, to be sure. However, it isn’t a picture filled with trepidation for believers. The darkening angst we rightfully have is for those who haven’t come to salvation.

As a matter of fact, for the believer in Christ’s sacrifice as the only Way to God the Father (John 14:6), the immediate future is bright with God’s glorious promise.

“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, the things God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9). 

We will, at any moment, in the “twinkling of an eye,” look into the eyes of our Lord and Savior. So, while we approach Apocalypse, let’s look at all the fearful signals happening in every direction as being but reminders of Jesus’ promise.

“And when ye shall see all these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your head, for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28).