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Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ November 10, 2026. The President said the war with Iran is effectively over. Reuters, reporting the same White House meeting the same day, said no deal is seen as imminent. Nothing has been signed and no text has been released, so we carry both descriptions and resolve neither. Also tonight: a Chinese naval and air concentration l...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ November 9, 2026. Tehran spent Sunday offering a deadline and a threat in the same sentence. Washington answered by extending its blockade of Iran to the overland routes of trade, while declining to say whether it had bombed an island in the Strait of Hormuz. Between the two positions sat a tanker on fire, an Aramco tower with shr...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ November 8, 2026. Three stories tonight have the same shape: something very large is happening and the party doing it will not put a name to it. Russia fired a ballistic volley into Kyiv and left more than six hundred thousand people without power, two days before its negotiators sit down in Abu Dhabi. China put more than a hundre...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ November 7, 2026. On Thursday evening Volodymyr Zelensky said his government held intelligence that Russia was preparing to strike the bridges across the Dnipro. Shortly before eleven that same night, missiles reached Kyiv, and by morning the Northern Bridge was closed both ways. In Asuncion a president who had offered to resign w...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ November 6, 2026. The President told reporters he may have to "destroy the rest" of Iran, and that "you'll know soon enough." He named no target and no date. Underneath the remark sits one verifiable step, and nobody announced it: on Monday an American official told the Associated Press that the United Stat...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ November 5, 1930s-style. The American electorate handed both chambers of Congress to the Democrats, and the President spent Wednesday telling three newsrooms and his own platform why. To The Wall Street Journal, of the war on Iran: "I did the right thing. I would have done it again." His Vice President, on X, was blunter...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ November 4, 2026. An election special. The Associated Press called control of the Senate for the Democratic Party. CBS News and NBC News projected a Democratic majority in the House. Control of both chambers of Congress has changed hands. This broadcast opens on a flash, which on the old teletype machines meant eleven bells and wa...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ November 4, 2026. The count came in through the night and moved the furniture in Washington. The AP called the Senate for the Democrats late Tuesday; by Wednesday the House had gone the same way, with no final seat total from anyone. Six Republican Senate seats turned, Kansas among them, where Al Jazeera reports it is the first De...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ November 3, 2026. Two things happened in the same stretch of water inside two days. Iran cut its offer to reopen the Strait of Hormuz from seven days to two. And the Wall Street Journal reported, on the word of American officials who would not be named, that the American military had bombed Qeshm Island at the mouth of it. Central...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ November 2, 2026 Two crude oil tankers are burning in the Strait of Hormuz, and the only account of why belongs to the force that controls the water. A Qatari gas carrier was struck on Friday by objects nobody has identified and nobody has claimed. In Jerusalem an election has produced a parliament that cannot assemble a governmen...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ November 1, 2026. Ukrenergo published hourly outage schedules for Ukraine this morning, 6:00 to 23:59 in certain regions, after strikes that President Zelensky said left 280,000 families without power. Walter Hartley opens on that timetable. Edward James Whitmore has 500 Patriot interceptors approved but not yet built, an OPEC+ de...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ October 31, 2026. Iran's Revolutionary Guard says four oil tankers burned and exploded in the Strait of Hormuz on unauthorised routes, naming no vessel and no crew. American Central Command says the lanes are clear and Iran's navy destroyed. Qatari mediators are back in Tehran. In New York, Intel took its worst single day...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ October 30, 2026, read in 1930s radio style. Binance confirmed that roughly 6.3 billion dollars left its wallets, in what the company itself calls the largest such theft in history. TRM Labs puts it at 6.36 billion across ten chains and attributes it to a North Korean unit. Two accounts of the method do not agree, and we print bot...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ October 29, 2026. At 8:53 on Wednesday morning a Renfe train struck a stationary Iryo train on Spain's Madrid to Andalusia high-speed line, near Urda in Toledo province. At least 68 people were killed and more than 100 injured. Spain's transport minister says a computer malfunction stopped every train on a 39-mile stretch...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ October 28, 2026. Israel voted for all 120 Knesset seats and neither bloc can show a majority: two exit polls put the Netanyahu and Eisenkot camps within three seats of each other, 600,000 soldiers' ballots are uncounted, and the Arab parties at a projected 19 seats may decide who governs. Central Command handed Congress a fig...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ October 27, 2026. Israel went to the polls with the last published surveys showing neither bloc at the 61 seats a majority requires, and with a UN commission of inquiry report landed on the eve of the vote. Two commissions reported in a single day, one on the West Bank and Gaza, one on Russian strikes against Ukraine's power s...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ October 26, 1930s-style radio news covering today's real world events. Two incumbents learned their fate this weekend and took it very differently. Brazil's electoral court declared Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva the winner of Sunday's runoff, and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro refused to acknowledge the count. In Belgrade, Aleks...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ October 25, 2026. The President voted early in Florida on Saturday, then told reporters the United States was "thinking about" striking Iran again, "and maybe tomorrow," while in the same breath holding out a "nice, big, beautiful agreement." His own White House said earlier this month there would be...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ October 24, 2026. The President told a crowd in Florida that another operation against Iran may be coming and that something would happen soon. His own ambassador to the United Nations told the Financial Times the standoff could run another year. Eight foreign ministers met in Istanbul to talk about a war whose two belligerents we...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ October 23, 2026. Two governments spent Thursday describing the same stretch of water and agreed on almost nothing in it. Iran's Revolutionary Guard counted seven oil tankers struck in the Strait of Hormuz in a single day, three disabled by mines. A US Central Command spokesman, who would not be named, called the mine claim in...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ October 22, 2026 Russia agreed on Wednesday to discuss ending its war, and then spent the night bombing Ukraine. Steve Witkoff sat with Vladimir Putin for three hours in Saint Petersburg and came away with agreement in principle to resume three-way talks around November 10. Hours later, missiles and 210 drones hit 32 locations acr...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ October 21, 2026. A drone struck the Amiet market in the disputed district of Abyei on Monday afternoon. Abyei's caretaker information minister, Yohana Akol Ngor, says 153 people were killed and expects the figure to rise. South Sudan blames Sudan and has summoned its ambassador. Sudan's army has not answered. The Rapid Su...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/October 20, 2026. A cost-of-living movement that began four weeks ago with schoolchildren complaining about their lycees has ended with partial curfews in Paris, Lille and Lyon, and five hundred army troops ordered into Milan. France reports 2,513 people taken into police custody since the weekend, 67 jailed, nearly a thousand memb...

https://winradradio.substack.com/ Monday, October 19, 2026. The Winrad Broadcasting Service brings you the day's world news in the manner of the golden age of radio, reporting real events as they stand tonight. In this bulletin: PARIS. The Elysee says President Macron has refused the resignation offered by his interior minister after the heaviest weekend of civil disorder France has seen in ye...

Subscribe to the Winrad Dispatch: https://winradradio.substack.com/ October 18, 2026. A fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta killed soldiers on Saturday. The Defence Minister confirmed fatalities and gave no number. The Prime Minister and the Premier gave no number. One figure is circulating, from unnamed military sources, and we print it with that label attached rather than pretendi...