Saying the US is bringing democracy anywhere is like saying a fox is bringing a mouthful of clover to feed the pups in a groundhog nest it's just discovered.
Sorry, I'm not enough of a political scientist to understand the distinction between Fascism and Oligarchy. In all honesty, I don't even know what the definition of "fascism" is; i just know it is thrown about with the same gleeful abandon and carelessness as "Nazi" or "communist" or "antisemitic"...
Iran already has Democracy which America under Trump no longer has. Perhaps if the US attacks Iran and loses, Iran might just help America get it back.
And the Secretary of US Treasury Bessent had the hide to boast at the Davos meeting how the US had wrecked Iran’s economy, calling it “economic statecraft” which he was proud to say had impoverished so many Iranians that they took to the streets to protest. No doubt Iraq knows that more such evil doing from the US is in store for them if they don’t eat humble pie.
The US conducted air strikes to bomb Iran's nuclear processing facilities but they didn't target water purification systems. If you have evidence of this I'd love to see it. There are reports, however, that Israel's strikes on the Arak heavy water facility did cause collateral damage to Iran's infrastructure.
• Arak Heavy Water Reactor: In June 2025, Israel struck the Arak heavy water reactor and its associated distillation towers, part of a campaign targeting nuclear and military sites.
• Infrastructure Impact: Reports indicated that strikes caused environmental damage and risks to water tables due to potential sewage overflow.
• Civilian Water Access: Following attacks on June 12, 2025, some residents reported losing access to water due to infrastructure damage, according to a report by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
• Environmental Concerns: The Conflict and Environment Observatory noted that while they did not see evidence of direct, systematic targeting of civilian water systems, the disruption of the energy grid and damage to buried pipes impacted wastewater and sanitation, notes a report by The Conflict and Environment Observatory.
However:
Key Reasons for Iran's Water Crisis:
• Unsustainable Agriculture & Overuse: Roughly
of water is consumed by an inefficient agricultural sector. Decades of promoting food self-sufficiency have caused massive over-extraction from underground aquifers.
• Mismanagement and "Water Mafia": Politically connected lobbies and contractors have heavily invested in unsustainable dams and river diversions, causing massive ecological damage.
• Climate Change and Drought: Iran is experiencing its sixth consecutive year of drought, with temperatures exceeding 50C.
• Reduced rainfall and vanishing glaciers have significantly reduced surface and groundwater.
• Aging Infrastructure & Urban Growth: Rapid urbanization and inefficient, leaking water networks in cities like Tehran have exacerbated the, notes the Atlantic Council and a CSIS analysis.
My bad, I read "Iraq" instead of Iran. We did deliberately bomb the water systems in Iraq, causing over 500,000 children to die of water-borne diseases (we also prohibited the importation of medicines to treat them). When asked about the dead children Secretary of State Madeline Albright said, "I think it was worth it."
by "Decades of promoting food self-sufficiency " I guess you mean decades of being forced to rely solely on home produced food because of sanctions. Aging Infrastructure and lack of funds to keep them in good repair likewise. The water mafia - though apparently true - sounds much like the privatised water industry in the UK which fails to repair leaks, pumps raw sewage into waterways and siphons profit to foreign corporations. US companies are of course notorious profiteers and criminals, dating back to the Colorado river diversions and the 'water wars' of post war Los Angeles.
Yes it's unequivocally true that sanctions have prevented Iran from updating their water infrastructure. However many years of heavy drought have undoubtedly made this far, far worse. Water access is already a serious issue in many parts of the world and it's only going to get worse.
It used to work on a "sort of democracy for me but not for thee" basis vis-a-vis the rest of the world. Under Trump however such niceties have been dispensed with.
Possibly the planet. It wants to use its nuclear arsenal, and has no qualms with doing so. The ruling elite have the mindset of if we can’t have it all, nobody will.
Yes, this is the reality that we are facing. Presumably the billionaire class and their corporate and media whores think they will be safe in their bunkers. I think the whores will find out sooner or later that being locked in with psychopaths whose greed and sadism is insatiable is not quite as much fun as they thought. I comfort myself with the idea of Musk, Thiel and co fighting it out over the last radioactive sandwich, but of course the rest of us will have gone to rejoin the Infinite by then......
Israhell would be nowhere without U.S. backing. It is a USA-made monster. It would be much harder for them to throw their weight around if they actually had to deal on an equal footing with their Arab neighbours. Of course, as America's protégé it also acts psychopathically.
Well said and agreed, Mr. Guareschi. It certainly seems that the current global hegemon/empire is in decline, and is attempting to show it is still the top dog through blatant shows of overwhelming force and initiation of conflict
One of the grossest aspects of this war push is watching ultra Zionist slime bags like Mark Levin feign an altruistic savior complex for the people of Iran. Who the hell really buys this nonsense?
“Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen.”from song by Woody Guthrie. US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Besset calls warfare by economic means “economic statecraft.”
A regime working hard to destroy what remains of democracy in the US can only use the term in an Orwellian War is Peace sense. The lust for power is the very opposite of democracy. The US goal is , as always, hegemony, power, dominance.
""Dominance doctrine" primarily refers to U.S. strategic initiatives aimed at achieving unmatched, proactive superiority across military, information, and energy sectors to secure national interests and deter adversaries. Key iterations include "Full-Spectrum Dominance" in defense, the "Donroe Doctrine" (an aggressive 2026 update to the Monroe Doctrine) in Latin America, and "American Energy Dominance".
The root of the word domiante is lord or master. So the clear message is that Trump is the Master and the rest of the world his slave. His approval by the public is at an all time low. The less support from the people, the more he tries to compensate by ruling over others, kidnapping leaders, telling nations who can rule, threatening to kill off the Iranian rulers.......
And like all would be tyrants, it will end in catastrophe, taking down many as Trump destroys himself, just like his hero and mentor Hitler, from whom, reading his collected speeches, he learnd the art of propaganda and how to create a mass movement united in hatred. It always fails but not before great death and destruction.
The majority of American don't want it..don't want him, don't want war...but the US is not a democracy but a plutocracy run by billioinaires and pedophiles. We are sick of it and if we can only do what India just did, with a strike against the government's neoliberal policies on behalf of late state capitalism, with over 300 million going on strike, if we can get enough boots on the ground, or foamies on the sidewalk, we can push him out, first neutering him by crushing the Republican minions in November and then going left with as much urgency as the natnion swung right with Trump and his fascist fantasies of succeeding where Hitler failed, crushing all opposition, foreign and domestic. And so we all suffer........but endure.
I think it is delusional to think that a 3d party can rise up and take power; the history, so far, shows that 3d parties have only helped elected the greater evil, as with Nader enabling Bush to win, Stein enabling Trump to win (I voted for both but in "safe" California). The Republican Party, a party which is essentially a criminal organizatrion, is beyond redemption or transformation, and it likes 3d parties because it draws away votes from the Democrtic Party, which moribund as it has been, contains the seeds, as it has in the past, of transformation into a progressive voice of the people with new leaders like Mamdanai, AOC, and many other new radicals rising up out of nowhere, filling the void of a dead Democratic leadership. The mentor of this movement is Bernie Sanders, the most respected politician, who has promoted the rise of a new generation of leaders ready to take control and as happended under FDR, change the party to the left. Leftists lean to the Demcratic Party because that is the realistic opportunity to gain real power necesssary to effect change.
In 2024, the 3 independent party candidates got 2.1% of the vote. The system is rigged against 3d parties, and the only way to change those rules, which benefit Republicans, is to elect progressive change-oriented independents aligned with the Democratic Party, and if they can gain power within that party, the need for a 3d party to veer left will have been made unnecessary.
Caitlin knows that people have to be reminded again and again how the US empire works to subjugate and exploit whole nations to satisfy their insatiable greed and depravity and the blood thirst for power.
Mainly because Americans seem to have already sleepwalked from:
Afghanistan ( where the CIA created the Mujahideen to oust a communist government ).
Iraq ( non-existent WMDs and a coalition of the willing vassal states and shock and awe ).
Libya ( Gaddafi who was murdered on live TV news ).
Syria ( where the CIA created ISIS and a civil war to decimate the country, where now a former ISIS rules over broken wealth for the empire).
Have they already forgotten Venezuela where the head of State was abducted? And other Global South countries too numerous to mention.
The empire now ( as it did before ) has its sights on Iran. As Caitlin wrote in a former Newsletter, cheered on by an Iranian diaspora.
The empires past and present were/are good at creating a collaborator class.
". . .after the 2003 US invasion and occupation of Iraq, the country was restructured such that all of Iraq’s oil revenue was paid in US dollars through the New York Federal Reserve Bank."
Well, well, what does that tell us? It tells us that some of the primary beneficiaries of the petrodollar scheme, which was originated by Henry Kissinger during the Nixon years, were Henry's friends who headed the US banks. Coincidence? Would I be antisemitic if I pointed out who many of these people are, even to this day?
As I understand it, Nixon preferred for the US to be independent of Arab oil and develop nuclear fission reactors, but Kissinger's scheme was still successful. In fact, US scientists were interested in using Thorium as fuel instead of uranium. But Nixon's Administration and the military discontinued research into Thorium reactors because they could not produce bomb grade uranium or Plutonium for the growing US nuclear bomb industry. Fast forward to now, when China has announced its successful Thorium molten salt reactor. This is just one more event that proves the USA to be a banana republic compared to China's superiority as a civilized nation.
The control you mention was necessary to elevate Israel to the dominant political, military, and social entity in the entire region. The more recent Israeli genocide and belligerence towards its surrounding nations proves this out, illustrating how successfully the evil enterprise has become. It's now down to the Final Solution on the Palestinians. Adolf would be proud.
I suppose we can only hope for the collapse of the US and/or the rise of China to remedy the situation. That will take many years, and it's only a question of how much mayhem the Israeli Jews will do in the meantime.
No more wars on behalf of the fascists in issreehell. For the orange freak' s personal reasons. It's insane that the orange freak' has the power to start wars by himself. WTF? Zionist and fascist imperial ambitions at Their worst. The fascists don't give a shit about the Iranians. Only want more power, sycophant allies and The Iranian resources. Fuck off american and isrehelli fascist thugs
The correct spelling and pronouciation of USA democracy is "supremancy" with the ultimate authority, the supreme leader, the President of the USA. If you dont believe in USA democracy, then you will be at war, either militarily or economically. USA democracy gives the USA the right to abuse, steal, pollute, rape expolite. any country for its own beneifit. What has Iran got that the USA domacracy wants, OIl. OIL. OIL.Sadly the Australan government has become a proxy USA democracy, with policies that support the USA agenda of world domonance
Anyone believing the Epstein class wants to bring democracy or anything that isn't barbaric to other countries is thoroughly brainwashed.
exactly
"Democracy" is a pretext, sort of like "Democracy" or "cartels" were in Venezuela.
Saying the US is bringing democracy anywhere is like saying a fox is bringing a mouthful of clover to feed the pups in a groundhog nest it's just discovered.
Iran already has Democracy!
Yeah, Jenny, but not Uncle Sam-approved democracy, a special variety to which only Marco Rubio gives his stamp of approval.
Correct Vin. I don't think the US even knows what Democracy looks like at this point and the same with the Europeans.
To me, it looks a lot like oligarchy/plutocracy.
Facist!
Sorry, I'm not enough of a political scientist to understand the distinction between Fascism and Oligarchy. In all honesty, I don't even know what the definition of "fascism" is; i just know it is thrown about with the same gleeful abandon and carelessness as "Nazi" or "communist" or "antisemitic"...
Iran already has Democracy which America under Trump no longer has. Perhaps if the US attacks Iran and loses, Iran might just help America get it back.
Iran has a theocracy. The USA has a lawless, pedo loving infacuation with Israel.
Dear Helga...and I mean this.
No-one is going to support the USA.
If you ask me, democracy is a tainted word with no real meaning or face... it is a nonesensical illusion sold to the masses to put them to sleep
We in the US don't have Democracy.
And we haven't had it for quite some time.
And the Secretary of US Treasury Bessent had the hide to boast at the Davos meeting how the US had wrecked Iran’s economy, calling it “economic statecraft” which he was proud to say had impoverished so many Iranians that they took to the streets to protest. No doubt Iraq knows that more such evil doing from the US is in store for them if they don’t eat humble pie.
Yep, like the gang-banging of a 14 year-old Iraqi girl until she hanged herself in despair, which the guilty soldiers also bragged about.
They were also protesting because Tehran is basically out of water due to climate change and resource mismanagement.
But mostly due to repeated US bombardment of the water purification systems and the country's 8,000 year old irrigation system.
The US conducted air strikes to bomb Iran's nuclear processing facilities but they didn't target water purification systems. If you have evidence of this I'd love to see it. There are reports, however, that Israel's strikes on the Arak heavy water facility did cause collateral damage to Iran's infrastructure.
• Arak Heavy Water Reactor: In June 2025, Israel struck the Arak heavy water reactor and its associated distillation towers, part of a campaign targeting nuclear and military sites.
• Infrastructure Impact: Reports indicated that strikes caused environmental damage and risks to water tables due to potential sewage overflow.
• Civilian Water Access: Following attacks on June 12, 2025, some residents reported losing access to water due to infrastructure damage, according to a report by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
• Environmental Concerns: The Conflict and Environment Observatory noted that while they did not see evidence of direct, systematic targeting of civilian water systems, the disruption of the energy grid and damage to buried pipes impacted wastewater and sanitation, notes a report by The Conflict and Environment Observatory.
However:
Key Reasons for Iran's Water Crisis:
• Unsustainable Agriculture & Overuse: Roughly
of water is consumed by an inefficient agricultural sector. Decades of promoting food self-sufficiency have caused massive over-extraction from underground aquifers.
• Mismanagement and "Water Mafia": Politically connected lobbies and contractors have heavily invested in unsustainable dams and river diversions, causing massive ecological damage.
• Climate Change and Drought: Iran is experiencing its sixth consecutive year of drought, with temperatures exceeding 50C.
• Reduced rainfall and vanishing glaciers have significantly reduced surface and groundwater.
• Aging Infrastructure & Urban Growth: Rapid urbanization and inefficient, leaking water networks in cities like Tehran have exacerbated the, notes the Atlantic Council and a CSIS analysis.
Parts of America have the same problem.
My bad, I read "Iraq" instead of Iran. We did deliberately bomb the water systems in Iraq, causing over 500,000 children to die of water-borne diseases (we also prohibited the importation of medicines to treat them). When asked about the dead children Secretary of State Madeline Albright said, "I think it was worth it."
Ah got it. Yes the United States absolutely fucked that country to pieces and there has never been a proper reckoning.
by "Decades of promoting food self-sufficiency " I guess you mean decades of being forced to rely solely on home produced food because of sanctions. Aging Infrastructure and lack of funds to keep them in good repair likewise. The water mafia - though apparently true - sounds much like the privatised water industry in the UK which fails to repair leaks, pumps raw sewage into waterways and siphons profit to foreign corporations. US companies are of course notorious profiteers and criminals, dating back to the Colorado river diversions and the 'water wars' of post war Los Angeles.
Yes it's unequivocally true that sanctions have prevented Iran from updating their water infrastructure. However many years of heavy drought have undoubtedly made this far, far worse. Water access is already a serious issue in many parts of the world and it's only going to get worse.
true I think we are in dangerous times... - shortage not a problem in the UK - yet!
If the US wanted to bring democracy to any country, wouldn't it first bring democracy to its own people?
It used to work on a "sort of democracy for me but not for thee" basis vis-a-vis the rest of the world. Under Trump however such niceties have been dispensed with.
Every empire, before imploding, attempted to expand its hegemony, to make others pay its debts.
There's no doubt that the U.S. Empire is teetering, but it won't go gracefully and the end will be an ugly débacle which kills millions.
Possibly the planet. It wants to use its nuclear arsenal, and has no qualms with doing so. The ruling elite have the mindset of if we can’t have it all, nobody will.
Yes, this is the reality that we are facing. Presumably the billionaire class and their corporate and media whores think they will be safe in their bunkers. I think the whores will find out sooner or later that being locked in with psychopaths whose greed and sadism is insatiable is not quite as much fun as they thought. I comfort myself with the idea of Musk, Thiel and co fighting it out over the last radioactive sandwich, but of course the rest of us will have gone to rejoin the Infinite by then......
If israhell doesn't beat them to it.
Israhell would be nowhere without U.S. backing. It is a USA-made monster. It would be much harder for them to throw their weight around if they actually had to deal on an equal footing with their Arab neighbours. Of course, as America's protégé it also acts psychopathically.
Well said and agreed, Mr. Guareschi. It certainly seems that the current global hegemon/empire is in decline, and is attempting to show it is still the top dog through blatant shows of overwhelming force and initiation of conflict
One of the grossest aspects of this war push is watching ultra Zionist slime bags like Mark Levin feign an altruistic savior complex for the people of Iran. Who the hell really buys this nonsense?
“Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen.”from song by Woody Guthrie. US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Besset calls warfare by economic means “economic statecraft.”
Economic statecraft, any kind of statecraft, right now: total gaslighting.
A nation that is run by a militaristic oligarchy trying to bring freedom and democracy to the rest of the world???
Ridiculous to think it would bring anything but death and destruction, isn't it?
Lol that’s the pitch!
A regime working hard to destroy what remains of democracy in the US can only use the term in an Orwellian War is Peace sense. The lust for power is the very opposite of democracy. The US goal is , as always, hegemony, power, dominance.
""Dominance doctrine" primarily refers to U.S. strategic initiatives aimed at achieving unmatched, proactive superiority across military, information, and energy sectors to secure national interests and deter adversaries. Key iterations include "Full-Spectrum Dominance" in defense, the "Donroe Doctrine" (an aggressive 2026 update to the Monroe Doctrine) in Latin America, and "American Energy Dominance".
The root of the word domiante is lord or master. So the clear message is that Trump is the Master and the rest of the world his slave. His approval by the public is at an all time low. The less support from the people, the more he tries to compensate by ruling over others, kidnapping leaders, telling nations who can rule, threatening to kill off the Iranian rulers.......
And like all would be tyrants, it will end in catastrophe, taking down many as Trump destroys himself, just like his hero and mentor Hitler, from whom, reading his collected speeches, he learnd the art of propaganda and how to create a mass movement united in hatred. It always fails but not before great death and destruction.
The majority of American don't want it..don't want him, don't want war...but the US is not a democracy but a plutocracy run by billioinaires and pedophiles. We are sick of it and if we can only do what India just did, with a strike against the government's neoliberal policies on behalf of late state capitalism, with over 300 million going on strike, if we can get enough boots on the ground, or foamies on the sidewalk, we can push him out, first neutering him by crushing the Republican minions in November and then going left with as much urgency as the natnion swung right with Trump and his fascist fantasies of succeeding where Hitler failed, crushing all opposition, foreign and domestic. And so we all suffer........but endure.
Unless americans opt for a third party option, there is no "going left!"
It would be nice for Americans to finally wake up and vote 3rd party or at the very least, dissolve the country into smaller countries.
I think it is delusional to think that a 3d party can rise up and take power; the history, so far, shows that 3d parties have only helped elected the greater evil, as with Nader enabling Bush to win, Stein enabling Trump to win (I voted for both but in "safe" California). The Republican Party, a party which is essentially a criminal organizatrion, is beyond redemption or transformation, and it likes 3d parties because it draws away votes from the Democrtic Party, which moribund as it has been, contains the seeds, as it has in the past, of transformation into a progressive voice of the people with new leaders like Mamdanai, AOC, and many other new radicals rising up out of nowhere, filling the void of a dead Democratic leadership. The mentor of this movement is Bernie Sanders, the most respected politician, who has promoted the rise of a new generation of leaders ready to take control and as happended under FDR, change the party to the left. Leftists lean to the Demcratic Party because that is the realistic opportunity to gain real power necesssary to effect change.
In 2024, the 3 independent party candidates got 2.1% of the vote. The system is rigged against 3d parties, and the only way to change those rules, which benefit Republicans, is to elect progressive change-oriented independents aligned with the Democratic Party, and if they can gain power within that party, the need for a 3d party to veer left will have been made unnecessary.
AmeriKKKa wants to “free” Iran from being a theocracy like IsraHell wants to “free” the Palestinian people from Hamas.
Not sure how to type a raspberry but I’m sure as fuck blowin one.
Caitlin knows that people have to be reminded again and again how the US empire works to subjugate and exploit whole nations to satisfy their insatiable greed and depravity and the blood thirst for power.
Mainly because Americans seem to have already sleepwalked from:
Afghanistan ( where the CIA created the Mujahideen to oust a communist government ).
Iraq ( non-existent WMDs and a coalition of the willing vassal states and shock and awe ).
Libya ( Gaddafi who was murdered on live TV news ).
Syria ( where the CIA created ISIS and a civil war to decimate the country, where now a former ISIS rules over broken wealth for the empire).
Have they already forgotten Venezuela where the head of State was abducted? And other Global South countries too numerous to mention.
The empire now ( as it did before ) has its sights on Iran. As Caitlin wrote in a former Newsletter, cheered on by an Iranian diaspora.
The empires past and present were/are good at creating a collaborator class.
". . .after the 2003 US invasion and occupation of Iraq, the country was restructured such that all of Iraq’s oil revenue was paid in US dollars through the New York Federal Reserve Bank."
Well, well, what does that tell us? It tells us that some of the primary beneficiaries of the petrodollar scheme, which was originated by Henry Kissinger during the Nixon years, were Henry's friends who headed the US banks. Coincidence? Would I be antisemitic if I pointed out who many of these people are, even to this day?
https://iwasathought.substack.com/p/the-jewish-lobby
As I understand it, Nixon preferred for the US to be independent of Arab oil and develop nuclear fission reactors, but Kissinger's scheme was still successful. In fact, US scientists were interested in using Thorium as fuel instead of uranium. But Nixon's Administration and the military discontinued research into Thorium reactors because they could not produce bomb grade uranium or Plutonium for the growing US nuclear bomb industry. Fast forward to now, when China has announced its successful Thorium molten salt reactor. This is just one more event that proves the USA to be a banana republic compared to China's superiority as a civilized nation.
The point is to control the iraqi regime.
No num nums if they disobey orders.
The control you mention was necessary to elevate Israel to the dominant political, military, and social entity in the entire region. The more recent Israeli genocide and belligerence towards its surrounding nations proves this out, illustrating how successfully the evil enterprise has become. It's now down to the Final Solution on the Palestinians. Adolf would be proud.
I suppose we can only hope for the collapse of the US and/or the rise of China to remedy the situation. That will take many years, and it's only a question of how much mayhem the Israeli Jews will do in the meantime.
As an iraqi 100% correct
They want to install their dictator
No more wars on behalf of the fascists in issreehell. For the orange freak' s personal reasons. It's insane that the orange freak' has the power to start wars by himself. WTF? Zionist and fascist imperial ambitions at Their worst. The fascists don't give a shit about the Iranians. Only want more power, sycophant allies and The Iranian resources. Fuck off american and isrehelli fascist thugs
Every day is Fuck Israel/Zionist Day.
The correct spelling and pronouciation of USA democracy is "supremancy" with the ultimate authority, the supreme leader, the President of the USA. If you dont believe in USA democracy, then you will be at war, either militarily or economically. USA democracy gives the USA the right to abuse, steal, pollute, rape expolite. any country for its own beneifit. What has Iran got that the USA domacracy wants, OIl. OIL. OIL.Sadly the Australan government has become a proxy USA democracy, with policies that support the USA agenda of world domonance