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SamAsIAm's avatar

Tonight the gates of hell were opened wide. May Israel be sucked back in, from whence it obviously came.

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Roslyn Ross's avatar

Let us hope Iran eradicates every Israeli military base, airport and port and cripples Dimona.

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Tom's avatar

Cripples Dimona by releasing a toxic, radioactive cloud of Zionist gasses to choke and kill the local population.

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Roslyn Ross's avatar

Better than a fullscale nuclear war. And reactors can be crippled without releasing a toxic cloud. Just enough to focus the attention of the Israelis on saving their own skin. Most will leave.

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Tom's avatar

Yes, and many already have. Israel is tottering on the brink. Only Donald J. Trump and MAGA idiots stupid enough to have been sold on a "No New Wars!" campaign and still willing to enlist (psychologically or physically) in the effort to take Iran down for the Zionists can save Israel now. Oh, don't get me wrong. Plenty of Demo-Rats are also tools of the Joos. But this will be Trump's War. And since 2019 I've said that ANY 2nd Trump term - with or without the Zionazi scapegoats or fellow travelers like Mike Pimpeo or John Bolton - would mean a futile and costly war with Iran on behalf of the Jews.

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Roslyn Ross's avatar

Or does Trump want Iran to cripple Israel so it can be dismantled and solve a lot of problems?

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Guest's avatar

Nice thought but I’m afraid Trump is a fraud, a mostly unwitting yet willing tool, and doesn’t view “problems” from the sort of perspective that you or I might. He’s generally lousy as a human being, I’d say.

Trump has contributed to situations with Ukraine and Israel getting almost completely out of hand, while his “big, beautiful bill” and other domestic failings exacerbate “problems” in “America”.

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Landru's avatar

Sorry, that would suggest there are thinking people that would pull the fuel rods into containment before the meltdown.

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Roslyn Ross's avatar

Ah yes, good point. Then again the Iranians are very smart so if anyone could find a way they would.

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Edi's avatar

They can not as both arab and Syria are suporting Izosand for sure the west

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Roslyn Ross's avatar

The US may support Israel for the moment but that does not mean the West as a unified whole will do so. I think many are sick and tired of Israeli aggression and bestial savagery and think it should reap what it has sown.

Of course then there is the political position, but the voice of the people matters and even most Americans are sick and tired of Israeli thuggery and will not be ready to go to war with Iran.

Syria changes its mind in an instant. Israel is paying them for support and if Israel looks like it will be defeated the Syrians will change sides in a nanosecond. Indeed, I suspect they are working both sides already.

ARABS ARE MOST CERTAINLY NOT SUPPORTING ISRAEL. The fact is most Arab Governments live in terror of being overthrown because while they may be paid to support Israel, like Jordan and Egypt, their people are totally opposed. The Arab street will be firmly on the side of Iran and that is what matters.

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@realRodster's avatar

The only thing that will stop Isra-Hell is when Big Brother is no longer around to help fight its wars and Isra-Hell knows it. Senator Lady Graham who's never fought in her life gets to play tough guy. His quote: "Game On".

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Jim's avatar
2dEdited

Here’s one I’d like to see:

Antisemitism on full display as the world celebrates the new parking lot formerly known as Israel.

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@realRodster's avatar

Something tells me that neither Russia or China will come to Iran's aid.

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Contrarian 33's avatar

@realRooster

I seriously hope you are wrong on this. For your interest......

Since 1998 I have been writing to Russia at the embassy in my country, the members of the Russia UN delegation and the Russian government in Moscow to ask them to let it be known that they intend to formally sign an alliance with Iran, knowing that such a document would give Iran a serious level of protection............in my opinion, forcing the lunatic brigades of the USA, the pitiful immoral Western governments and the most disgraceful state ever in the world, Israel, to consider what this could develop into should they proceed with any act of aggression.

I have never had a single reply or acknowledgement to indicate any interest in that option in all those years.

I have the greatest respect for Iran out of all the countries in the Middle East region with a highly educated population and a history that shows little in the way of an ambition to control others. Refreshing in this day and age.

No military adventures in its history of recent years.

A target for Israel for decades based on these qualities alone and a country whose values have been a stabilising quality for many years past. Therefore, also unacceptable to the hegemonic USA. Their future now under threat from both.

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JoAnn Baker Paul's avatar

OKAY how many of you in this thread and who see this post KNOW ABSOLUTELY that 🇺🇸is complicit with 🇮🇱 in the #GENOCIDE_of_PALESTINIANS ???

WELL WE MOST DEFINITELY ARE🤬🤬😡🤬!!!!!! The American media has been hiding the truth from the American people since this began. The only way I found out was miraculously being can connected to a Palestinian photographer reporter on Substack. If I hadn’t found @Mohammad_Al_Sadony

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Francis/Clare's avatar

Minus the severe oppression of women.

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Landru's avatar

True, 10 yrs. ago. No longer true if you read from outside u.s./israel mass media. Geo. Galloway just came from a two week trip to Iran.

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Francis/Clare's avatar

So they are not longer required to wear a headscarf or risk being arrested, beaten and sometimes killed if they don't? This was happening a lot more recently than ten years ago.

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JoAnn Baker Paul's avatar

How do you know?

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CrumpledForeskin's avatar

I wouldn’t be so sure. They see the writing on the wall. There is nothing good that comes out of being passive, when the US and Israel are still breathing.

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@realRodster's avatar

They should have nuked Ukraine for hitting Russia's Triad and they didn't.

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Tom's avatar

Good to know cool headed winners like you aren't in charge of Russia's war with NATO.

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@realRodster's avatar

You might want to read this short piece by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts who worked for the Reagan Admin back in the 80's. He warned that if Putin did not treat the US proxy war in Ukraine with overwhelming force from the beginning i.e. like what Isra-Hell is doing to Iran, then the US Neocons would view that as being weak and control the narrative.

That is what precisely has happened. It has widen the War and prolonged it with the US seizing the narrative. It allowed for Ukraine to hit Russia's nuclear triad. This will continue and the provocations will increase as long as Putin looks weak to the West.

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/06/13/having-eviscerated-russian-war-doctrine-putin-now-brags-on-the-superiority-of-russias-nuclear-weapons/

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Greg Dunn's avatar

You need to read Annie Jacobsen's book _Nuclear War: A Scenario_. Then go give Trump and Lindsey Graham a briefing on it.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

This is a moment of truth for the rhetoric of many, starting with Iran which hasn't responded to the first 4 waves of attack.

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Tom's avatar

Responded within Mike Hampton's preferred and war making expertise window of response? Let's call it 5 waves. What would a valid "response" be and within what amount of time? Bring all your military expertise and Iran-specific knowledge to bear, please.

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Greg Dunn's avatar

They may both simply feel that the wiser course is to sit back and let the U.S. destroy itself. Unfortunate as this is for Iran, it may be the course more likely to leave in place a human-habitable Earth

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Sarel Van Der Walt's avatar

Both Russia & China could use a similar strategy to what the US is employing in Ukraine. By supplying arms to Iran to not only shoot down Israeli planes but also shoot at targets in Israel, China could get real world experience about their weapons’ capabilities & crucially deplete US arms & ammunition used by its proxy. Also, with China banning rare earth exports to the US, especially to the US military-industrial complex, the US has limited resources to produce replacement munitions, thus reducing the US’ ability to respond to China invading Taiwan in 2027/28.

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Peter Sawchuk's avatar

You forget that China, Russia and Iran have been striving to avoid war at all costs as they realize it could mark the end of the world. Our Western power mongers are rabidly trying to hold on to their power and influence and will risk everything to that end. I think it may be the time that they don't back down and our Western fools don't know how.

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JoAnn Baker Paul's avatar

Thanks for this Jim..... A good belly laugh and I needed it as I was on the verge of a nervous break down of fear, of what Iran might do the United States

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Stephen Walker's avatar

Future Guardian headline:

“Opinion—Islamic theocracy in Tehran must take responsibility for nuclear winter caused by Israeli self-defence”

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Sarah Anne's avatar

🥸 should make this a community building exercise and flood social media with all the possible headlines, then watch with baited breath as media outlets use so many of them. It's absurd. It's real life. It's definitely a pre-war kind of absurdity we used to only read about. FUCK.

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Sarel Van Der Walt's avatar

And then sue then for copyright infringement 😂

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Ade's avatar

death to the zionist entity. the world will know no peace until the state of israel is wiped from the map

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Lowell Googins's avatar

Israel is the attack dog for the west. It’s the dogs owners that need to go

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Basil Rathbone's avatar

The attack dog and its owners both need to go. And they will, though they'll do their damnedest to take the rest of the world down with them.

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Lowell Googins's avatar

Of course. My point is the entire evil crew needs to go. As pathetic as Biden was he did say the truth on occasion that if Israel did not exist they would have to create one

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Ade's avatar

they're next >:)

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Greg Dunn's avatar

More like the west is the fawning caretaker and enabler for the attack dog of Israel.

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charles leone's avatar

Spot on, Caitlin!

Predictive analytics for The New York Slimes headlines.

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Stephen Walker's avatar

You forgot the future BBC headline:

“Israeli president says unprovoked assassinations of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir show Iran to be the world’s number one terrorist state”

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Robert H Stiver's avatar

I haven't quite penned my final take of this insanity, but here's what I'll likely limit myself to tonight in my internal-group email routing: "The bastards. The impunity-accustomed/given, brazen, besotted, berserk Colonial Zionist/GENOCIDAL bastards/swine."

Weep especially, as always, for Gaza and all its Palestinian people and landscape-cum-moonscape.

(Wonderful, Caitlin. You are our realist, our resort to some quintessential/elemental form of sentience.)

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jtolbertjr's avatar

I happened to check on CNN and they were already spinning those same headlines. As usual, I started screaming at the TV. https://jtolbertjr.substack.com/p/why-the-fck-are-we-still-listening

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@realRodster's avatar

You shouldn't be watching or tuning in to CNN which now means the Cartoon News Network. I quit watching the Mainstream Media 25 years ago and got my news from Conspiracy Theorists until we found out it was Conspiracy Facts.

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jtolbertjr's avatar

😂😂😂 you’re right. I just tuned in to see video. I actually quit watching about 18 years ago. It’s all entertainment, not serious journalism.

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Bevan's avatar

Thanks for writing the history of WWIII in advance. That’s the only way it WILL be written😱

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Duane McPherson's avatar

It's time to start inscribing some notes onto clay tablets, as that is the only form of writing known to last.

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TapleyTouton's avatar

sociopathic vampires with their endless bloodlust and greed are going to get us nuked.

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TapleyTouton's avatar

All of them

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CK's avatar

To which vampires are you referring? The ones in Israel who have nukes developed from US technology, or the ones who have been giving US- made weapons to Israel since 1948?

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Tom's avatar

Why was this user banned? Murderous land thieving Zionism is baked into Judaism. From the get-go. And let us not presume that my stating of such relieves the Anglos, French or Belgians from their own murderous conquests. The point is, it's literally in the Talmud and OT that a very specific piece of land was promised to a very specific group of self-identified people who very specifically believe themselves to be "better" than the rest of us and will lie, cheat, steal and kill us with little if any remorse.

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Caitlin Johnstone's avatar

I don't allow ethnic slurs on my page. I make no apologies for banning people who act like hasbarists and post things that delegitimize my work and make this space look bad. You're close to being banned yourself for the same reasons FYI.

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Renee Marie's avatar

The Synagogue Of Satan 😈

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Francis/Clare's avatar

I'm guessing it's due to the group name slur.

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Slightly Lucid's avatar

There's a lot of Trolls are Caitlin's thread, pretending support for Gaza but using what we'd ALL agree are pretty awful racial / anti-semitic slurs. That way, her whole newsletter can just be denounced as being anti-Jewish people, rather than anti-war, anti-genocide, anti-zionist etc.

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Slightly Lucid's avatar

See Below. :) @derwood just showed his blue star!

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derwood kirkwood's avatar

Nice try Lucid.... Catlin's own words, while not antisemitic slurs, are completely biased and hyperbolic, not to mention one dimensional, when it comes to the "Jewish Problem", all of which are the hallmarks of definitive racism. Most of these commenters and Catlin are the definition of racist....

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Basil Rathbone's avatar

Maybe you can enlighten us on how running a genocide on a people the Zionists have occupied into a giant concentration camp for 77 years can be so multidimensional that it's racist to one-dimensionally blame the occupiers and apartheid imposers alone for what they've been carrying out for over 7 decades. The Palestinians must also share a lot of the blame for all this, right? It's just so complex, and we need to be careful to avoid hyperbole and racist bias!

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Slightly Lucid's avatar

AH! One of the Hasbara Trolls I was referring to! Fantastic!

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russian_bot's avatar

Caitlin is, whether she admits it or not, under the influence of Zionist narrative not to allow the chosen people be offended by terms those same chosen people promoted to be unacceptable.

Similar terms exist for other ethnicities, but since they are not brought up to the same level by some powerful lobby, they can be safely used. By allowing them, ignorance could be invoked as an excuse. Honest ignorance in most cases, too.

But the chosen people made sure that in their case no such ignorance can be claimed. And the authors of the free world duly oblige.

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Caitlin Johnstone's avatar

No that's moronic nonsense actually. I ban people for using the n-word just as swiftly and for the exact same reason. You want me to allow this space to turn into another 4chan with a comments section that turns people away and makes my work look bad. That isn't going to happen.

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russian_bot's avatar

n-word is just as prominent as k-word and you could be hounded for it in the same way. So same reasoning applies. Whether it's "moronic nonsense" or not - that's in the eyes of the beholder.

PS: I actually don't know what 4chan is and have no desire to find out. I thought that honest discussions could be conducted without having any sort of comparison with some trash out there in the back of one's mind.

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Kamran Ahmed's avatar

Always on 🎯 thank you for sharing your thoughts with us

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@smokygirl2006's avatar

Very scary times ahead.😢🙁☹️🙏☮️🇵🇸

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CK's avatar

Those are all reasonable guesses that follow a distinct trajectory that's been in motion since at least the Carter Administration.

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Cui Bono's avatar

In motion since 1904 with Theodor Herz via the picot-sikes, redline agreements and the Balfour Declaration

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CK's avatar

Great point, but most Americans who are living, today, can’t remember anything before the Eisenhower Administration.

The fossil fuels industry has been profiting from the Sikes-Picot and Balfour arbitrary distribution of natural resources since petroleum was discovered in the affected regions.

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Landru's avatar

Well said my friend, well said.

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Stephen Walker's avatar

BBC headline tomorrow morning:

“Foreign secretary David Lammy says UK fully supports Israel’s precision defensive strikes on Hamas apartment blocks in Tehran”

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@realRodster's avatar

Only politicians can bullshit the moronic public and get away with it. Defensive strikes typically means Iran struck first. Oh wait Isra-Hell can do whatever it wants, can kill who they want and if we complain, we are antisemitic.

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arthurdecco's avatar

Why would you deny being anti-semitic, if being anti-semitic really means that we hate with every bone in our bodies the sigh coe paths who falsely claim to be Semites - when they're simply scheming Polish, Ukrainian and Eastern European souless criminals who literally think they can kill anyone they don't like without consequence?!?!?

Their derogatory insults and attacks are meaningless. Their words hold no power over me. I don't hate Semites but I have to admit I have a powerful hate on for Polish jews named, Benzion Mileikowsky, a murderous sigh caw tick who should rightfully be drawn and quartered, his bowels cut from his stomach while still alive, splashed with pitch and burned in front of his dying face just like the British used to do not all that long ago, but nowadays let's do it live on tv on every network on the planet so that modern viewers get to join in the celebration of his extermination.

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Landru's avatar

Palestinians are Semitic.

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Landru's avatar

Sad part is, these were most likely the same shoulder launched weapons used in the last three,four, five attacks.

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Landru's avatar

Plus they most likely came from an embassy storage locker.

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