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Trump’s Iran Fantasy: Worse Than Bush’s Iraq or Russia’s Afghanistan
by Robert David
Natural Gas Reserves: Iran has the world's second-largest proven natural gas reserves, only after Russia. Its reserve is approximately 1,200 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) and constitutes a substantial 16-17% of the world's natural gas reserves.
I. The Cradle of Civilization and the Folly of Invaders
The Middle East was never a blank page, it is a living text-written in cuneiform, blood, oil, and ash-where each empire that came with the temerity to write its name has been crossed out. The Tigris and the Euphrates nourished wheat, but they also fertilized the roots of civilization.
Snake
By Salty Sea Son
Note: 2025 *we live in a time when nothing but the unequivocal truth must be acknowledged.*
Netanyahu.
Danger.
Double, triple trouble danger.
You might think ‘he’ is a normal human being.
But he lacks a capacity to empathize with non-Jewish peoples, like, frankly, too many Zionists (which is one reason he has remained in power for so long). Theirs is a supremacist and racist society.
Moreover he is a sociopath—cunning to say the least.
Moreover he is a maximalist and consummate liar and is widely known to be so. Ditto for this chosen culture:
The people of Gaza are not only being starved, bombed, and murdered. They are being erased from global consciousness by a wall of deception
Crying Nuclear Wolf: Netanyahu’s Three-Decade Iran Script for Land and War
Tracy Turner
Netanyahu (repeatedly) cries Nuclear Wolf; pictured in 2012 with a red marker telling us Iran was "going nuclear" in 2012 in front of the U.N. General Counsel.
I. A War Foretold, Repeated, and Now Delivered
For more than thirty years, Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed parliaments, security forums, and global assemblies with a singular, unyielding message: Iran is perpetually on the cusp of nuclear breakout. These proclamations—apocalyptic in tone, selective in evidence—have echoed across decades, transcending administrations and political cycles, yet rarely recalibrated to reality.
Much like George W. Bush’s invocations of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, Netanyahu’s warnings have functioned less as grounded intelligence assessments than as strategic overtures for escalation. The nuclear menace, repackaged every few years with updated graphics and darker metaphors, has served to normalize extraordinary violence under the guise of urgent defense.
Parade, Protest, and Projectile: Trump's Militarized Spectacle and the Israel–Iran Missile Gambit
Ned Lud
Parade, Protest & Projectile
We are urgently called—by custom, media, or the relentless churn of the day—to witness. Witness the parade. Witness the war. Witness the ticker inching past news of missiles, of cities ravaged, of another speech delivered from behind the mirrored glass and barbed wire.
But what if the watching itself is the cage?
Trump's June procession was no mere celebration; it was a summoning. Steel beasts, polished and paraded, were made to look holy. Flags snapped like whips in military time. The president, grinning like a butcher over a pig, waved from atop the altar of the Empire. And across the nation, something ancient stirred—not in the marble halls, but in the calloused hands and sleepless eyes of the working folk.
Sam and Israel: A Short Bar History of Inciting and Mopping Up
Ned Lud
Israel has an unusual pastime. He likes to provoke fights in bars—specifically with bouncers. Not with patrons in general, not with pool sharks or irate drunks, but full-time bouncers, men carved out of concrete and protein powder, schooled in the art of pain management, i.e.: handing it out.
To the naked eye, it's madness. Israel's not a fighter. He's all elbows and alibis, bony and thin, with a tangled mess of wild hair and a snarl on his lip that announces he knows he'll never have to pay for what he's done. Because Israel's got Sam.
Does Western Civilization Have Enough Belief to Continue to Exist?
Paul Craig Roberts
"The most significant fact of our time is that the entire Western World is a dead man walking..."
Democrats for many long years have imposed race and gender privileges, which violate the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal protection under law and the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s statutory prohibition of race and gender quotas. In order to give preferences to women, people of color, and sexual perverts at the expense of white heterosexual men, equal protection of law was set aside. Now Democrats are proving to us that they are only concerned with alleged rights of people of color who are immigrant-invaders and assigned by Democrats, such as the Democrat governor of California, the rights of US citizens.
The Democrats are responding to the Federal government’s effort to deport people who are unlawfully in the US by attempting to organize an insurrection, a real one not an alleged one used to imprison Trump supporters. To be clear, Democrat office holders at local, state, and federal levels together with George Soros funded NGOs, foundations, and the whore media are in a treasonous conspiracy against the government of the United States and its President and against American citizens.
Fascism: Empire’s Final Gasp 2025
Fred Gransville
The climb of fascism in the United States was not born from a single event, nor was it the result of some sudden, dramatic cultural shift. Rather, it emerged through a slow, relentless erosion of democratic institutions, camouflaged under the deceptive cloak of national security imperatives and capitalist expansionism. From George W. Bush's stolen election in 2000 to Donald Trump’s reinstallation as president in 2025, one undeniable trajectory emerges: the United States has devolved from a faltering democracy into the very embodiment of the fascism it once proclaimed to oppose across the globe. This piece endeavors to dissect the policies, ideologies, and historical shifts that have propelled America to the precipice of collapse—politically, economically, and ecologically. The Pentagon, Military Contractors and Private armies fought tooth and nail “to rid us of Vietnam syndrome, to make us love wars and be militarist. Now we are a third world banana republic replete with a company store.
The Warning That Was Charlottesville
By David Swanson
I recommend reading Charlottesville: An American Story by Deborah Baker. Itʼs an account, of course, not of all aspects of the city of Charlottesville, but principally of the Nazi-KKK-White Supremacist riot of 2017 that has taken on the name “Charlottesville” — including in a movie. The book itself is the furthest thing from predictable. The majority of it is pre-riot, with countless illuminating tangents and background stories and characters. In fact, that initial majority of the book is probably of greater interest than the blow-by-blow that follows or the very few words at the end about the eight years since.
Most surprising to me — apart from how much I could still learn about the place I live — is Bakerʼs blend of serious, credible reporting with a clear point of view on all sorts of controversial points. She is also refreshingly hard on so many people who I think deserve it, that I really donʼt mind how hard she is on me in a brief passage where I go unnamed, even though, naturally, I donʼt think I deserve it. More on that in a second.
The Hidden War on Free Speech: How Fusion Centers and Military Surveillance Target Civilians and Creatives
By Ned Lud
They don’t need jackboots when they have behavioral analytics.
The war on speech has gone stealth.
Once, repression was crude—clubs, tear gas, blacklists. Now, a fusion of military-grade surveillance and corporate-state platforms executes the same function under the banners of "public safety" and "counterterrorism." But make no mistake: dissent has been digitally criminalized, and creativity, journalism, and protest are its latest contraband.
Fusion centers—those shadow command posts co-managed by DHS and local law enforcement—were sold to the public as tools to detect and deter terror. But what they’ve actually done is rebrand constitutionally protected behavior as precursors to “radicalization”. Attend a protest, publish a blog, organize mutual aid? Your name may quietly slide into a fusion database, flagged for "Pattern-of-Life" review or "Threat Fusion" scoring. That’s not conspiracy theory—it’s embedded in open-source government docs, FOIA releases, and inspector general reports stretching back a decade (McQuade, 2019; Brennan Center, 2023).
Deliberate Starvation and Aid Obstruction in Gaza and the Occupied Territories
by Tracy Turner
In the besieged killing field territories of Gaza, survival has become a nightmare. The siege blockade, far from being mere policy, has morphed into an insidious engine of deliberate starvation-its mechanism fine-tuned to crush the will of an entire population. What we are witnessing is not simply the aftermath of war, but the premeditated application of human starvation, where every food convoy turned away, every medical shipment blocked, and every infrastructure target hit compounds a slow-motion, open-air Auschwitz catastrophe (WHO, 2025).
The humanitarian genocidal crisis is not a byproduct of conflict; it is the conflict itself, distilled into a methodical war on survival. This is not a tragedy by accident, but by design. The denial of food, water, and medicine to Gaza’s inhabitants has become a weapon in the hands of those who seek not just to defeat, but to erase a people’s will to live (B’Tselem, 2024). The starving people, the disease, the medical mistakes, the thirst, life-ending hunger and withheld cooking fuel are silenced my Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Youtube – “content moderation” and “community decency.” The erasure of truth in all forms of media (Non-Information Super-Traffic-Jam-By-Design) brought to you by the Billionaire Oligarchs.
