"Asked by the press if he’s worried about US troops being targeted by Iran in the coming days, the president said “We’ll come down so hard if they do anything to our people. We’ll come down so hard. The gloves are off. I think they know not to touch our troops.”"
This is an entirely intentional pretext, like a barroom bully who has picked out a victim and is looking for any excuse to start a fight.
The troops came down so hard upon the peasants of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan, Iraq and lost. Iran is different. Iran has modern weapons and highly organized military units.
If the United States has learned nothing else since 2003, it has learned that nation-building is expensive and politically costly. Smashing things up, turning a functioning country into a failed state, and consequently, no threat to Israel, is cheap, politically neutral, and gets the desired results.
"I wonder how the western press who are currently deceiving the public to promote Israel’s information interests feel about this new rule that it’s okay to bomb media outlets if someone decides they’re propaganda?"
If we had that permission in the good ol' US of A, there'd not be ANY media outlets remaining.
Heck, the (news??) can't even get a 4 day weather report right.
But as William J. Casey, the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) once stated: "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false", which reflects a similar idea of manipulating public perception."
The leaders are machavellian, and can appear anyway they wish. The followers are the stupid ones. Never having consequences, they harm us all.
Amurdicans at it again. There economy built on the production of military products. They yell Free Free Free , yet most of their children can’t even spell it.
2003? Americans have learned nothing since 1948. US Politicians have been following the information and the plans provided by the CIA. This has led the USA to flounder like a bull in a china closet, from one ill conceived disaster to another.
Hubris, YES! Power? Real power? Not so much. Not like the USA once held, even looking back to the 1980-1990 era. America's "leaders" are living in a dream world when it comes to actual power and might.
"the United States" is an unnecessarily vague and deceptive term. Not in the way you're using it, but in the way it actually applies to this type of situation and how it's usually understood. To wit: "the United States" meaning the overworld FIRE and corporate energy sectors don't need to learn anything different. They win regardless. They will win hugely if Iran can be regime changed or balkanized into a fractious miasma of warring factions and rampant terrorism in Russia and China's backyard. IOW a huge blow to BRICS at large.
Besides wanting power and money, the people starting these wars are just sick people who want to see people they consider less than them suffer. Netanyahu and Trump are the main spokespeople for these sickos, but they are not the only ones. There seem to be many world leaders who really enjoy watching the genocide in Gaza and the threats on Iran.
And goddamit, Israeli inbreeding favors the appearance (called "penetrance" in genetics) of traits related to collections of recessive neurodevelopmental gene variants (alleles) that predispose to sociopathy. The poor babies will want to call this social Darwinism or some other bullshit pabulum, but it's biology, motherfuckers. Nature and Nurture combine when you add this to the extreme brainwashing to Zionist children from first days out of thewomb. I stand by that assessment.
I dunno, Ashkenazi Jews were probably more inbred during the Middle Ages than the Israeli population is now, but they were pretty good about not genociding anyone.
As Israeli scholar Shlomo Sand and others have explained, most Israelis are not descendants of the Biblical Hebrews. Many are descendants of Palestinian or Arab converts. The Zionists are a different breed of atheists and hypocrites who have various motives. Some want land and power. Others want to hasten the arrival of the Messiah and the End of Days.
IOW, Trump's not worried about our great, beautiful troops. He couldn't give 2 shits. As Caitlin said, he's worried about the pedo photos being released if he doesn't do as he's told.
No, I did not ''misunderstand'' and no, I do not agree that ''Caitlin was being sarcastic.'' Trump's buddies with Epstein and that's all you need to know. Perhaps you feel that you're able to read Caitlin's and Trump's minds. Fine, go for it. I'm going by the facts on the ground, and on the Lolita Express, and the Penthouse, and the Island, and I'm connecting the dots.
Yes, you did misunderstand. But that's ok. I would expect some people to 'not get' Caitlin's sarcasm (I guess you haven't been reading her articles for 5+ years as I have).
BTW, there are NO facts on the ground (on Trump being a pedophile vis-a-vis Epstein), only rumors. You do understand the difference between FACTS and RUMORS right?
Also, you apparently don't understand Trump. He doesn't care about pedophilia, murder, genocide, etc. He's called Teflon Trump for a reason (btw, I'm an anti-MAGA person). NO amount of ANY Epstein stuff will have any effect on him (which you should understand by now, knowing how Trump has behaved so far and what his personality is).
Hence, Epstein or no, pedophilia or no, none of that is 'blackworthy material' in Trump's specific case. And no, Israel having 'something blackmailable' on Trump is irrelevant and meaningless. Trump is running the show (though people still think he is being controlled by Israel or the 'Deep State' or such).
Of course, you are welcome to disagree and entitled to your own opinions.
Lol, I've been reading Caitlin since the Medium days. Sometimes sarcasm is not actually sarcasm, but that takes a little more deep dive and intuition. Anyway, I basically disagree with everything you think you know about all of this!! Thank you so very much for allowing me to have my own opinions!!
LIES? Consider this Zero-Enrichment Whopper pushed by the Trumpers with their heads firmly implanted up one another's derrieres.
Nate Bear reveals:
"Iran is one of the world's biggest producers of radiopharmaceuticals used for cancer diagnostics and treatments. And to diagnose cancer and make cancer drugs, you need medical isotopes. And you can’t make medical isotopes without enriching uranium."
"Iran has always agreed to limit enrichment for medicine and energy, and this was precisely the terms of the agreement the US ripped up in 2018. Iran was in full compliance with that deal, a deal which allowed enrichment for peaceful purposes."
AND SO: " Iran was bombed for wanting to treat cancer".
This is another regime change war. ''Nukes'' are just the excuse. Like Saddam's ''WMD's,'' Osama Bin Laden's supposed 9/11 attacks from Afghanistan, etc. All lies. All for the same shitty dirtbags, all of the time.
Undoubtedly. It's why Trump ripped up the agreement in '18. To prime the setup; guy's been a Zionist tool for longer than appearances suggest. But then it looks like that to me for most US pols.
And "I am plastic" is made from the letters of capitalism. Looking for meaning in anagrams is no more meaningful than palmistry, crystal balls, and tea-leaf readings. The real story is beyond the words they, and we, use. Don't look at the forms; play close attention to the substance.
The War on Terror, The War on Drugs, Fighting for democracy in Central/South America/ Asia / Europe / Africa etc . I don’t know if the world can stand anymore wars for democracy.
It’s not just Gaza, Israel is trying to distract us from. Israel just changed how land ownership works in the West Bank. Here’s what that means.
“The consequences of this decision paint a very grim outlook for the future,” said Abdallah Hammad from JLAC. “This will turn things upside down like never before, as it won’t be Israeli settlers demanding to get their outposts legalized. They will be legalized almost immediately, while Palestinians will be made into strangers, forced to justify their claim over the lands of their families and ancestors.”
“When I hear people talking about the risk of annexation, I tell them: this is annexation. It has already begun, and it is advancing.”
Read the details of this annexation the MSM will not tell you about in Mondoweiss:
This has been stated by Israel months ago i stead of being state sanctioned they moved it to be a housing(?) or local public thing, can't remember their exact wording but it boiled down settlers being able to take any houses they wanted and the local council would give approval -- cutting the Palestinians out of it completely. Bast@rd$
Netanyahu owns Trump, we all knew the US would go to war with Iran over some stupid lie about nukes. I see Trump going down as the worst president ever, I love how they send Israel cash and bombs then say they don't want to be involved in the middle eastern war. Why don't more people call him out on his bullshit about Iran and nukes, I don't get it. Do they not care if we're all blown to hell.
Our pols can start a war anytime they want and use any pretext. A war was wanted with Iran and a war they will have! International laws have been discarded.
There are two views now: the Iran is very bad view and it must be destroyed, liberating the people there from tyranny, and the Iran tried to negotiate a settlement that allowed for the peaceful use of enriched nuclear materials view. The second view is the accurate one. The nuclear issue is indeed a red herring.
We have to remember Libya and what was done to this prosperous country under Gaddafi. That decimation is the vision for Iran. It's all-out war to change the leadership to one that will bow to the West. Iran has been preparing to head this off and America's bunker busters aren't adequate for the job. Again, the world was told Iran was weak and would buckle. It isn't and it won't.
President Trump is just another warmonger. He spoke of peace and dialogue but delivers death and destruction. His cabinet does not advise- they decorate his space and are expected to jump when he says jump, while flattering the man who sees everything as a "deal" and every place as "real estate".
When I look at it, anyone who wants to be the so-called "Leader of the Free World" is suspect. How in the world can any "sane" person assume that they can lead an entire world full of almost 200 countries with a gazillion number of cultures, societies and mores? The very idea that a person thinks this makes them extremely dangerous. This sidebar, sideways NWO under the auspices of one country cannot be anything near good for the rest of us.
Then what happens, in order to maintain their imperial position, they have to subjugate the entire world to keep themselves on the throne of "Leader of the Free World."
Anyone who aspires to that position is easily manipulated, controlled and told just how to lead because the desire to be in that position has to be so extreme they will do whatever is asked of them. These people are power hungry warmongers, no matter what they say out of their mouths. They have to be warmongers in order to maintain Empire and hegemony. Anyone who wants to bully the entire world is a dangerous person and yet these people still continue to vote for these people who are innately unscrupulous or they would not aspire to be the "Leader of the Free World". It basically comes with the territory.
Then you look at how messed up this person's own country is, it begs to question, lead the rest of the world to what or where? The illusion of freedom in this country has spread thru propaganda all over the world, but all the world has to do is look at the condition of the citizens within this country.
The Empire of the USA is horrendously cruel, barbaric, callous, unscrupulous, so I am having a hard time understanding how the slogan of "the Greatest country" on earth became a thing. It's more like the greatest "Mafia" on earth, IMO.
The biggest myth of modern times is that the US is "the land of the free and the home of the brave" when the reality is that it is the most violent of countries and has traded it's suppression of democracy abroad for limited domestic democracy at home. As you write, "the greatest 'Mafia' "Joe Napora
If the BRICS alliance holds (and I do understand it's an economic alliance, not a military alliance), the gauntlet has been dropped. The hegemony of the West cannot stand much longer.
I saw a comment saying that folks really don't want the US hegemony to fail, that everyone's life would be greatly changed and the lifestyle that we have gotten used to would drastically change. But I think it's because of what we have become so comfortable with and addicted to, is why there is this vying for acquisition, capitalism and consumption. If we could pull back on our consumption, be more conscientious about how we spend and get out of debt.. we would actually pull the stopper out of the regime. Our "needs" which are really "wants" is what drives the machine and feeds the beast. We are seeing that we cannot continue in this consumption frenzy, not because of climate change, or declining resources, but because it is anti-human and anti-nature. But I doubt the industrialized world will ever get off the consumption wagon. There are too many influences that have gotten us conditioned and addicted to "having" stuff with no regard as to what/how our "needs" impact on lives of others in the world.
I think there are others pulling the strings and Trump is just a foolish puppet who provides a distraction for those really in control. However, Israel is also an American puppet and the question is, did it go rogue on Iran or did the puppet masters simply make it look that way. In any event, as long as there is a USA there will be war; it's in the country's DNA. It's been that way since the deceitful, hypocritical, treacherous Pilgrims arrived.
There was a decision made that "the time is right" for this aggression against Iran. It's sickening to watch it unfold. You ask good questions. I don't believe Israel went rogue. It's not capable of taking on Iran itself. It was a part of the calculations. It will all become clear.
And then they go after children who take on the persona of their country. The USA solves all its problems with violence or the threat of violence but when a child does it in the school yard they call him a bully. The "rules for thee and not for me" is built into the fabric of this country. I am super sensitive to what happens to our young people. They get blamed, traumatized, injected, indoctrinated, shamed and punished by the very adults who created this mess.
Yes. It has now started and will not stop . Another country destroyed by USA. In one way I hope the Iranians will fight back and not be subdued but on the other hand too many innocent people dead. Not that the Israelies would care as we can see what has happened in Gaza.
They'll fight back, alright. This is NOT going to be the cakewalk claimed. Iran is not weak and has planned for this for a long time. The first time it responded to the assassination of Hanniah (sp?) the negotiator in Tehran, it was showing Israel what it could do if it chose. Israel ignored it and didn't take in the calculated message. Instead, Israel lied saying, "ah nothing". Well Israel has reached the FAFO point. It's a terrible and 100% avoidable war. The world would like to see an end to this Israeli/American aggression!
A big chunk of the populace are sheep whose role in life is to believe whatever authority says. If authority is replaced then they believe whatever that new authority says.
Back in the Viet Nam days this was the majority view. Not any more.
Herding instinct is a double-edged sword. Without it, humanity wouldn't have flourished, but it could also cause humanity's downfall. I tend to think that downfall would be best for the planet, even though we'll probably take out most other life forms when we go (We're doing a good job of this so far.).
It was for awhile, but public sentiment turned against the war in Nam. And it is turning against Israel now, but probably not fast enough to halt HitlerYahoo's plans for world domination until it has reached a point so egregious that even the sheeple rebel.
We saw Vietnam on the news every night. It took a while but the public turned on sending healthy young men (and some women) there to die in the jungles. We saw what was being done to the people of Vietnam. The effects linger to this day.
Israel, OTOH, does its utmost to hide what it does, murdering more than 200 journalists and forbidding the publication of anything considered detrimental such as successful missile strikes against it. Even so, enough has leaked out to cause worldwide revulsion.
This cannot stand much longer. Israel cannot stand.
The Deep State is desperately hunting for a pretext to strike Iran. And Trump’s erratic flip-flopping, narcissistic bluster, and hollow threats are only throwing more fuel on the conflagration. The real danger isn’t just political dysfunction—it’s that there are those in the U.S. Government who seem hell-bent on provoking a nation with a real military, modern weapons, international alliances, and decades of battle-hardened resolve.
This won’t be another Grenada, where U.S. Marines steamrolled a handful of undertrained, poorly armed Cubans. A war with Iran would be a bloodbath—another Vietnam, but exponentially worse. Think Okinawa-level carnage—without national unity, without a higher cause, without industrial dominance, and this time with thermonuclear weapons in play.
Let’s be clear: America's can’t even manage its two current proxy disasters—Ukraine/Russia and Israel/Gaza. Opening a third front in Iran isn’t strategy—it’s lunacy. And it won’t be a "proxy war". This time, American soldiers, sailors, and airmen will be the ones coming home in metal boxes—if they come home at all. It’s national suicide, international political hari-kari, all gift-wrapped in delusion.
If Washington needs a history lesson (and clearly it does), look no further than Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in WW2. One front is brutal. Two stretches any nation to the limit. But three? That’s not just madness—it’s suicide or hubris on a historic scale.
Agree. And look at the "Fine mess" we created there. Thanks to Hillary Clinton and Obama. The stupidity and hubris of various US Governments is not limited to the current brand in control. This is a systemic issue, not a problem that is split along party lines. I do not call these people the Uni-Party without a very good reason.
I didn't believe the "weapons of mass destruction" lie back in the early 2000s, and I surely don't now.
Even if true, we (USA) possess such weaponry, so who are we to deny the same to other sovereign nations? The genie is long out of the bottle on that one.
😂😂😂 "People shouldn’t be so hard on Trump about all this. You’d probably start a war with Iran too if someone was threatening to leak your child molestation video."
I think it's time for Iran to tell the people of all the major cities in Israel to evacuate because they will be being bombed in a couple of hours (the kind of generous warning given by the maniacs of Zionist Israel to the people of Gaza or of Beirut or of parts of Syria or of Iran. Maybe the Iranians could warn the people of New York City or of Washington that it would be best to evacuate before possible bombing. Also to call out the human shield hospitals of Israel beside which or beneath which are Zionist weapons and troops. What do you think?
"Asked by the press if he’s worried about US troops being targeted by Iran in the coming days, the president said “We’ll come down so hard if they do anything to our people. We’ll come down so hard. The gloves are off. I think they know not to touch our troops.”"
This is an entirely intentional pretext, like a barroom bully who has picked out a victim and is looking for any excuse to start a fight.
Feral,
The troops came down so hard upon the peasants of Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan, Iraq and lost. Iran is different. Iran has modern weapons and highly organized military units.
The barroom bully is due for a bloody nose.
If the United States has learned nothing else since 2003, it has learned that nation-building is expensive and politically costly. Smashing things up, turning a functioning country into a failed state, and consequently, no threat to Israel, is cheap, politically neutral, and gets the desired results.
See, e.g., Libya and Syria.
Rotting western empire is not capable of learning or common sense. It is like person drowning.
The Empire is run by people who are evil, but they are not stupid.
"I wonder how the western press who are currently deceiving the public to promote Israel’s information interests feel about this new rule that it’s okay to bomb media outlets if someone decides they’re propaganda?"
If we had that permission in the good ol' US of A, there'd not be ANY media outlets remaining.
Heck, the (news??) can't even get a 4 day weather report right.
But as William J. Casey, the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) once stated: "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false", which reflects a similar idea of manipulating public perception."
Well define "not stupid".
Agree, Nick.
Doesn’t it mean “willfully ignorant”.
The leaders are machavellian, and can appear anyway they wish. The followers are the stupid ones. Never having consequences, they harm us all.
Amurdicans at it again. There economy built on the production of military products. They yell Free Free Free , yet most of their children can’t even spell it.
They are destructive, manipulative and duplicitous, but they get what they want and pay no personal price.
2003? Americans have learned nothing since 1948. US Politicians have been following the information and the plans provided by the CIA. This has led the USA to flounder like a bull in a china closet, from one ill conceived disaster to another.
And yet the United States has more power and hubris than ever.
Hubris, YES! Power? Real power? Not so much. Not like the USA once held, even looking back to the 1980-1990 era. America's "leaders" are living in a dream world when it comes to actual power and might.
American missiles are hitting Russia, to give but one example.
Were that to have happened in 1968, for example, how would the Soviet leadership have responded?
"the United States" is an unnecessarily vague and deceptive term. Not in the way you're using it, but in the way it actually applies to this type of situation and how it's usually understood. To wit: "the United States" meaning the overworld FIRE and corporate energy sectors don't need to learn anything different. They win regardless. They will win hugely if Iran can be regime changed or balkanized into a fractious miasma of warring factions and rampant terrorism in Russia and China's backyard. IOW a huge blow to BRICS at large.
"the United States" is a synecdoche.
Sure, but some major factions of or within the United States always win these wars. The rest of the United States generally ends up losing.
Yup. Nobody cares.
i sincerely hope so
Besides wanting power and money, the people starting these wars are just sick people who want to see people they consider less than them suffer. Netanyahu and Trump are the main spokespeople for these sickos, but they are not the only ones. There seem to be many world leaders who really enjoy watching the genocide in Gaza and the threats on Iran.
They simply want power, and will do whatever it takes to get it.
Anyway, taking your statement as given, what does anyone propose to do about it? Moral arguments are wasted on sociopaths and psychopaths.
Yes, you are right. It is the lust for power and money that makes people so sick and careless about the world around them.
Power selects strongly for sociopathy, because sociopaths precisely the humans who will do whatever it takes to get power.
And goddamit, Israeli inbreeding favors the appearance (called "penetrance" in genetics) of traits related to collections of recessive neurodevelopmental gene variants (alleles) that predispose to sociopathy. The poor babies will want to call this social Darwinism or some other bullshit pabulum, but it's biology, motherfuckers. Nature and Nurture combine when you add this to the extreme brainwashing to Zionist children from first days out of thewomb. I stand by that assessment.
I dunno, Ashkenazi Jews were probably more inbred during the Middle Ages than the Israeli population is now, but they were pretty good about not genociding anyone.
The problem is power, not genetics.
As Israeli scholar Shlomo Sand and others have explained, most Israelis are not descendants of the Biblical Hebrews. Many are descendants of Palestinian or Arab converts. The Zionists are a different breed of atheists and hypocrites who have various motives. Some want land and power. Others want to hasten the arrival of the Messiah and the End of Days.
I find this hypothesis fascinating.
Excellent summary!
Trump, little Satan, is the official winner of Satanyahu's highly coveted Stale "Bull Spunk"🤣 Dick Sucker of the Year Award.
IOW, Trump's not worried about our great, beautiful troops. He couldn't give 2 shits. As Caitlin said, he's worried about the pedo photos being released if he doesn't do as he's told.
>>"As Caitlin said, he's worried about the pedo photos being released if he doesn't do as he's told."
You misunderstand. That was Caitlin being sarcastic. Trump doesn't care about any photos (pedophile related or not).
No, I did not ''misunderstand'' and no, I do not agree that ''Caitlin was being sarcastic.'' Trump's buddies with Epstein and that's all you need to know. Perhaps you feel that you're able to read Caitlin's and Trump's minds. Fine, go for it. I'm going by the facts on the ground, and on the Lolita Express, and the Penthouse, and the Island, and I'm connecting the dots.
Yes, you did misunderstand. But that's ok. I would expect some people to 'not get' Caitlin's sarcasm (I guess you haven't been reading her articles for 5+ years as I have).
BTW, there are NO facts on the ground (on Trump being a pedophile vis-a-vis Epstein), only rumors. You do understand the difference between FACTS and RUMORS right?
Also, you apparently don't understand Trump. He doesn't care about pedophilia, murder, genocide, etc. He's called Teflon Trump for a reason (btw, I'm an anti-MAGA person). NO amount of ANY Epstein stuff will have any effect on him (which you should understand by now, knowing how Trump has behaved so far and what his personality is).
Hence, Epstein or no, pedophilia or no, none of that is 'blackworthy material' in Trump's specific case. And no, Israel having 'something blackmailable' on Trump is irrelevant and meaningless. Trump is running the show (though people still think he is being controlled by Israel or the 'Deep State' or such).
Of course, you are welcome to disagree and entitled to your own opinions.
Lol, I've been reading Caitlin since the Medium days. Sometimes sarcasm is not actually sarcasm, but that takes a little more deep dive and intuition. Anyway, I basically disagree with everything you think you know about all of this!! Thank you so very much for allowing me to have my own opinions!!
And I'm sure the secret service are going to give him a massive loss of US life one similar to 9/11.
Perhaps, but probably not necessary.
LIES? Consider this Zero-Enrichment Whopper pushed by the Trumpers with their heads firmly implanted up one another's derrieres.
Nate Bear reveals:
"Iran is one of the world's biggest producers of radiopharmaceuticals used for cancer diagnostics and treatments. And to diagnose cancer and make cancer drugs, you need medical isotopes. And you can’t make medical isotopes without enriching uranium."
"Iran has always agreed to limit enrichment for medicine and energy, and this was precisely the terms of the agreement the US ripped up in 2018. Iran was in full compliance with that deal, a deal which allowed enrichment for peaceful purposes."
AND SO: " Iran was bombed for wanting to treat cancer".
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/manufacturing-consent-machine-goes?publication_id=1402572&post_id=166049059&isFreemail=true&r=b8qtt&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
This is another regime change war. ''Nukes'' are just the excuse. Like Saddam's ''WMD's,'' Osama Bin Laden's supposed 9/11 attacks from Afghanistan, etc. All lies. All for the same shitty dirtbags, all of the time.
Undoubtedly. It's why Trump ripped up the agreement in '18. To prime the setup; guy's been a Zionist tool for longer than appearances suggest. But then it looks like that to me for most US pols.
Every letter in the word liars can be found in the word Israel… I wonder if it’s just a coincidence…
And "I am plastic" is made from the letters of capitalism. Looking for meaning in anagrams is no more meaningful than palmistry, crystal balls, and tea-leaf readings. The real story is beyond the words they, and we, use. Don't look at the forms; play close attention to the substance.
Wonderfully appropriate anagram “I am plastic “
No offense intended Joy, but crystals and palmistry ( particularly the shape of the hands and fingers) are a real thing.
Again, no offense my friend.
I don't think that was a serious anagram, more of a witty statement.
The Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a war crimes complaint in the UK over the Israeli navy’s assault on the British aid ship Madleen.
Elite Shayetet 13 commandos, under Vice Admiral David Saar Salama, raided the vessel in international waters.
Twelve unarmed civilians, including Greta Thunberg and MEP Rima Hassan, were forcibly abducted and detained.
Chemical agents were used, humanitarian aid was seized, and activists were denied legal and consular rights.
The complaint cites grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, UK law, and binding ICJ orders.
The Foundation demands the UK act urgently to free the abductees and investigate the war crimes.
This case challenges Israeli impunity and tests Britain’s commitment to international law.
We can support them here:
https://donate.stripe.com/cN228hbY5g7jaM84gg
The War on Terror, The War on Drugs, Fighting for democracy in Central/South America/ Asia / Europe / Africa etc . I don’t know if the world can stand anymore wars for democracy.
It’s war ON democracy.
More like wars to make the world safe for genocide.
It’s not just Gaza, Israel is trying to distract us from. Israel just changed how land ownership works in the West Bank. Here’s what that means.
“The consequences of this decision paint a very grim outlook for the future,” said Abdallah Hammad from JLAC. “This will turn things upside down like never before, as it won’t be Israeli settlers demanding to get their outposts legalized. They will be legalized almost immediately, while Palestinians will be made into strangers, forced to justify their claim over the lands of their families and ancestors.”
“When I hear people talking about the risk of annexation, I tell them: this is annexation. It has already begun, and it is advancing.”
Read the details of this annexation the MSM will not tell you about in Mondoweiss:
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/israel-just-reopened-land-property-registration-in-the-west-bank-heres-what-that-means/?ml_recipient=157093614016529524&ml_link=157093523619841740&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-06-13&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines+RSS+Automation
This has been stated by Israel months ago i stead of being state sanctioned they moved it to be a housing(?) or local public thing, can't remember their exact wording but it boiled down settlers being able to take any houses they wanted and the local council would give approval -- cutting the Palestinians out of it completely. Bast@rd$
Netanyahu owns Trump, we all knew the US would go to war with Iran over some stupid lie about nukes. I see Trump going down as the worst president ever, I love how they send Israel cash and bombs then say they don't want to be involved in the middle eastern war. Why don't more people call him out on his bullshit about Iran and nukes, I don't get it. Do they not care if we're all blown to hell.
How are the zionists going to false flag their way out of this one? Another 11/9?
Do they need a false flag? The war has already begun with America at its side.
Claim that we have to turn Iran into a failed state so it can't get The Bomb.
Any pretext will do.
If you still believe this is about nukes, I’ve got a plastic Ark of the Covenant to sell you — glows in the dark and cries when Netanyahu lies.
This isn’t defense. It’s domination. It’s not strategy. It’s sacrificial theater for the empire’s gods: oil, arms, and ego.
We saw this playbook in Iraq. We chanted “never again” with our mouths full of Starbucks and forgot before the foam settled.
And now, because the empire can’t self-regulate, it will escalate. As always.
Blessed be the ones who don’t buy the bullshit.
Our pols can start a war anytime they want and use any pretext. A war was wanted with Iran and a war they will have! International laws have been discarded.
There are two views now: the Iran is very bad view and it must be destroyed, liberating the people there from tyranny, and the Iran tried to negotiate a settlement that allowed for the peaceful use of enriched nuclear materials view. The second view is the accurate one. The nuclear issue is indeed a red herring.
We have to remember Libya and what was done to this prosperous country under Gaddafi. That decimation is the vision for Iran. It's all-out war to change the leadership to one that will bow to the West. Iran has been preparing to head this off and America's bunker busters aren't adequate for the job. Again, the world was told Iran was weak and would buckle. It isn't and it won't.
President Trump is just another warmonger. He spoke of peace and dialogue but delivers death and destruction. His cabinet does not advise- they decorate his space and are expected to jump when he says jump, while flattering the man who sees everything as a "deal" and every place as "real estate".
When I look at it, anyone who wants to be the so-called "Leader of the Free World" is suspect. How in the world can any "sane" person assume that they can lead an entire world full of almost 200 countries with a gazillion number of cultures, societies and mores? The very idea that a person thinks this makes them extremely dangerous. This sidebar, sideways NWO under the auspices of one country cannot be anything near good for the rest of us.
Then what happens, in order to maintain their imperial position, they have to subjugate the entire world to keep themselves on the throne of "Leader of the Free World."
Anyone who aspires to that position is easily manipulated, controlled and told just how to lead because the desire to be in that position has to be so extreme they will do whatever is asked of them. These people are power hungry warmongers, no matter what they say out of their mouths. They have to be warmongers in order to maintain Empire and hegemony. Anyone who wants to bully the entire world is a dangerous person and yet these people still continue to vote for these people who are innately unscrupulous or they would not aspire to be the "Leader of the Free World". It basically comes with the territory.
Then you look at how messed up this person's own country is, it begs to question, lead the rest of the world to what or where? The illusion of freedom in this country has spread thru propaganda all over the world, but all the world has to do is look at the condition of the citizens within this country.
The Empire of the USA is horrendously cruel, barbaric, callous, unscrupulous, so I am having a hard time understanding how the slogan of "the Greatest country" on earth became a thing. It's more like the greatest "Mafia" on earth, IMO.
The biggest myth of modern times is that the US is "the land of the free and the home of the brave" when the reality is that it is the most violent of countries and has traded it's suppression of democracy abroad for limited domestic democracy at home. As you write, "the greatest 'Mafia' "Joe Napora
If the BRICS alliance holds (and I do understand it's an economic alliance, not a military alliance), the gauntlet has been dropped. The hegemony of the West cannot stand much longer.
I saw a comment saying that folks really don't want the US hegemony to fail, that everyone's life would be greatly changed and the lifestyle that we have gotten used to would drastically change. But I think it's because of what we have become so comfortable with and addicted to, is why there is this vying for acquisition, capitalism and consumption. If we could pull back on our consumption, be more conscientious about how we spend and get out of debt.. we would actually pull the stopper out of the regime. Our "needs" which are really "wants" is what drives the machine and feeds the beast. We are seeing that we cannot continue in this consumption frenzy, not because of climate change, or declining resources, but because it is anti-human and anti-nature. But I doubt the industrialized world will ever get off the consumption wagon. There are too many influences that have gotten us conditioned and addicted to "having" stuff with no regard as to what/how our "needs" impact on lives of others in the world.
Don't kid yourself. BRICs is a glorified dorm room bull session.
I think there are others pulling the strings and Trump is just a foolish puppet who provides a distraction for those really in control. However, Israel is also an American puppet and the question is, did it go rogue on Iran or did the puppet masters simply make it look that way. In any event, as long as there is a USA there will be war; it's in the country's DNA. It's been that way since the deceitful, hypocritical, treacherous Pilgrims arrived.
There was a decision made that "the time is right" for this aggression against Iran. It's sickening to watch it unfold. You ask good questions. I don't believe Israel went rogue. It's not capable of taking on Iran itself. It was a part of the calculations. It will all become clear.
And then they go after children who take on the persona of their country. The USA solves all its problems with violence or the threat of violence but when a child does it in the school yard they call him a bully. The "rules for thee and not for me" is built into the fabric of this country. I am super sensitive to what happens to our young people. They get blamed, traumatized, injected, indoctrinated, shamed and punished by the very adults who created this mess.
How Can You Help Stop Kids From Bullying? https://open.substack.com/pub/topicsfromatoz/p/how-can-you-help-stop-kids-from-bullying
Wrong. The puppets are in DC, the masters in TA
-------"President Trump is just another warmonger. He spoke of peace and dialogue but delivers death and destruction. "-----------
Same thing with Obama. "Hope and Change" was the biggest joke going. Presidents these days are just puppets of the psychotic billionaire overlords.
Trump’s Cabinet is comprised of his idiot loyalists who have competence with which to advise him. They are his cheerleaders.
Correction: have NO competence
This app wouldn’t allow me to edit an omission.
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Yes. It has now started and will not stop . Another country destroyed by USA. In one way I hope the Iranians will fight back and not be subdued but on the other hand too many innocent people dead. Not that the Israelies would care as we can see what has happened in Gaza.
They'll fight back, alright. This is NOT going to be the cakewalk claimed. Iran is not weak and has planned for this for a long time. The first time it responded to the assassination of Hanniah (sp?) the negotiator in Tehran, it was showing Israel what it could do if it chose. Israel ignored it and didn't take in the calculated message. Instead, Israel lied saying, "ah nothing". Well Israel has reached the FAFO point. It's a terrible and 100% avoidable war. The world would like to see an end to this Israeli/American aggression!
A big chunk of the populace are sheep whose role in life is to believe whatever authority says. If authority is replaced then they believe whatever that new authority says.
Back in the Viet Nam days this was the majority view. Not any more.
Still is. Humans are herd animals to rival any sheep or lemming.
Herding instinct is a double-edged sword. Without it, humanity wouldn't have flourished, but it could also cause humanity's downfall. I tend to think that downfall would be best for the planet, even though we'll probably take out most other life forms when we go (We're doing a good job of this so far.).
"we"?
Humanity as a whole. Like it or lump it, we are all human beings.
*We* are not human beings. Speak for yourself, human.
Herd Instinct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDF4VuFIGe4&list=RDoDF4VuFIGe4&start_radio=1
It was for awhile, but public sentiment turned against the war in Nam. And it is turning against Israel now, but probably not fast enough to halt HitlerYahoo's plans for world domination until it has reached a point so egregious that even the sheeple rebel.
We saw Vietnam on the news every night. It took a while but the public turned on sending healthy young men (and some women) there to die in the jungles. We saw what was being done to the people of Vietnam. The effects linger to this day.
Israel, OTOH, does its utmost to hide what it does, murdering more than 200 journalists and forbidding the publication of anything considered detrimental such as successful missile strikes against it. Even so, enough has leaked out to cause worldwide revulsion.
This cannot stand much longer. Israel cannot stand.
The Deep State is desperately hunting for a pretext to strike Iran. And Trump’s erratic flip-flopping, narcissistic bluster, and hollow threats are only throwing more fuel on the conflagration. The real danger isn’t just political dysfunction—it’s that there are those in the U.S. Government who seem hell-bent on provoking a nation with a real military, modern weapons, international alliances, and decades of battle-hardened resolve.
This won’t be another Grenada, where U.S. Marines steamrolled a handful of undertrained, poorly armed Cubans. A war with Iran would be a bloodbath—another Vietnam, but exponentially worse. Think Okinawa-level carnage—without national unity, without a higher cause, without industrial dominance, and this time with thermonuclear weapons in play.
Let’s be clear: America's can’t even manage its two current proxy disasters—Ukraine/Russia and Israel/Gaza. Opening a third front in Iran isn’t strategy—it’s lunacy. And it won’t be a "proxy war". This time, American soldiers, sailors, and airmen will be the ones coming home in metal boxes—if they come home at all. It’s national suicide, international political hari-kari, all gift-wrapped in delusion.
If Washington needs a history lesson (and clearly it does), look no further than Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in WW2. One front is brutal. Two stretches any nation to the limit. But three? That’s not just madness—it’s suicide or hubris on a historic scale.
Libya is the model here, not Iraq.
Agree. And look at the "Fine mess" we created there. Thanks to Hillary Clinton and Obama. The stupidity and hubris of various US Governments is not limited to the current brand in control. This is a systemic issue, not a problem that is split along party lines. I do not call these people the Uni-Party without a very good reason.
As far as Clinton and Obama are concerned, Libya was a shining success. Libya now is a failed state and no threat to Israel.
I didn't believe the "weapons of mass destruction" lie back in the early 2000s, and I surely don't now.
Even if true, we (USA) possess such weaponry, so who are we to deny the same to other sovereign nations? The genie is long out of the bottle on that one.
Caitlin, you missed your calling.
😂😂😂 "People shouldn’t be so hard on Trump about all this. You’d probably start a war with Iran too if someone was threatening to leak your child molestation video."
I think it's time for Iran to tell the people of all the major cities in Israel to evacuate because they will be being bombed in a couple of hours (the kind of generous warning given by the maniacs of Zionist Israel to the people of Gaza or of Beirut or of parts of Syria or of Iran. Maybe the Iranians could warn the people of New York City or of Washington that it would be best to evacuate before possible bombing. Also to call out the human shield hospitals of Israel beside which or beneath which are Zionist weapons and troops. What do you think?
Thank You Caitlin
& Tim