Peter Oborne is a British Conservative or Tory. Pro Arab Tories used to be more common than Zionist ones

Peter says that he hasn't changed. His party has.  

He is right. Margaret Thatcher strongly  condemned Israeli war crimes such, as the Sabra and Shatila massacre in September 1982 when Lebanese Christians with Israeli complicity murdered thousands of Arabs. 

How different is Sir Keir Starmer, the human rights lawyer, who instructed the RAF to help the IDF massacre hundreds of thousands in Gaza. 

Rishi Sunak did the same and so would Kemi Bedenoch but at least they are just too guileless to question what MI6 told them. Starmer is an utter hypocrite. 

Israeli headline: As Trump Hesitates, Israel Acts as if Return to War Inevitable

Journalist Alon Ben David, Ma'ariv, 16 May, translated from the Hebrew by Alastair Crooke.

'If US military action in Iran does not resume in the next five weeks, it will only take place at the end of the year, if at all. And in the absence of targets likely to shake the regime in Tehran, it is more likely that Trump will continue [with] the blockade. Five weeks after the [US-Iran] ceasefire was announced, it seems clear to everyone that no agreement can be reached between the parties unless Trump agrees to grovel and be humiliated ... For Israel – which views any agreement signed with the Iranian regime as a bad deal – this is not bad news. But [Trump’s] options are dwindling. [His] window of opportunity for military action begins now, following the summit in Beijing, and will remain open for five weeks, until the kick-off of the World Cup on 11 June ... the 250th anniversary celebrations of US independence, and then the mid-term elections …  

'The two main options Trump is considering are a short military strike, lasting two or three days, on national energy infrastructure, as a signal of his resolve, or the continuation of the naval blockade. None of his intelligence officials can point to an Iranian asset whose destruction would cause the regime to capitulate. It is therefore more likely that he will opt for a continuation of the blockade, which will be a contest of endurance between the two sides … The Iranian economy has begun to suffer … Inflation, which was already at 50%, is soaring to 80% …'

Israeli Channel 12 journalist Barak Sari.

'The situation of the northern border residents today is much worse than it was on the eve of the war with Iran. There was a celebration and talk that Hezbollah had received a strategic blow, but in the meantime, we are stuck in a quagmire, and our soldiers are being killed and wounded by booby-trapped drones. The northern arena has turned into an additional, burning, and open front.'

 

Selling illegal wars

"Britain’s most senior and respected journalists passed on government lies uncritically, very often adding fresh fabrications of their own." Peter Oborne in an excellent essay. 

“To my everlasting regret, I strongly supported the Iraq invasion, in person and in print. I had become a recipient of what we now know to have been sheer disinformation about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction and his purported ‘links’ with al-Qaeda – claims put out by [opposition figure] Ahmad Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress. I took these stories seriously because they were corroborated by ‘off-the-record’ intelligence sources on both sides of the Atlantic.” David Rose in an article in the New Statesman published four years after the invasion quoted by Peter Oborne.

According to Peter Oborne both the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel lobby groups “work closely” with the Israeli embassy in London.

"The Palestinian issue is now in the shadow of everyone’s attention because of the situation in the Persian Gulf around Iran." Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Alas.

"Forget about Russia, the real threat to America is Israel and the Israel lobby". I saw this yesterday attributed to Julian Assange, but he didn't say this.

"During his summit with the Chinese president last week, Trump also suggested that the US, China and Russia should co-operate against the International Criminal Court, according to people familiar with the talks." The Financial Times today

Scott Ritter talking to Judge Napolitano last night

This is an excellent podcast. Scott Ritter thinks Israel and the UAE have no future.

Judge Napolitano

What do you believe President Trump hoped to achieve last week in China? And what did he achieve?

Scott Ritter

I think in order to answer that we have to go back to what he hoped to achieve in April when the trip was first scheduled. And right, this was part of a power play that was crafted by Scott Bessant, Marco Rubio, and Pete Hegseth, that sought to confront Xi Jinping with the overwhelming strength of American military, economic, and political power.

I believe he was hoping to show up with the figurative heads of Venezuela and Iran in his hands to throw them on the table in front of Xi and say, "We control your oil and if you want us to turn the oil back on you have to start playing ball with us". He was going to, you know, push on trade. He was going to push on the Pacific, Taiwan, this was going to be a full frontal diplomatic assault backed by the threat of economic power and the indirect threat of military power. 

Vladimir Putin visited China on 4 February 2022

Ray McGovern, ex-CIA man, thinks at that meeting Xi gave his nihil obstat for Russia invading Ukraine. 

What will the two decide when they meet tomorrow?

This will be Putin's 23rd visit to China, by the way. He has been there more than any other country except Belarus and Kazahstan. 

I doubt if he considers Belarus a real country any more than Ukraine. Kazakhstan is much more real.

Brian Berletic's cynical view of America is that of many Romanians and it sounds as if he's about right

▪️The US has a long-established pattern of meeting with China (and also Russia), agreeing in principle to cooperation and stability, while in practice committing to continued war, proxy war, encroachment, and containment of China; 

▪️The recent US-China meeting in China included little substance and concluded with not only unchanged US geopolitical objectives centered on containing China, but the continued escalation of blockades, wars, and proxy wars waged in pursuit of these objectives; 

▪️On the issue of Taiwan, US President Trump continues the same pattern of agreeing in principle with China over the US' own "one China" policy, while in practice continuing to undermine China's sovereignty over the island province and the transformation of the island province into a battering ram to use against the rest of China.

Drop Site News is one of the few reliable news sources today. This allegation is hugely important, shocking but unsurprising.

 

Quotations

Honoré de Balzac in his 1843 novel La Muse du Département:"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

Napoleon Bonaparte: "One should always prefer to make mistakes of ambition rather than sloth."

Sir John Betjeman said that when the end of the world came he would like to be in the haberdashery department of Peter Jones “because nothing bad could ever happen there".

Bernadine Dohrn was right that the US government is the real terrorist

I have written several posts about the SDS leader and Weather Underground bomber Bernadine Dohrn, who told a meeting that she admired Charles Manson for sticking a fork into the heavily-pregnant Sharon Tate's belly, something she considered a revolutionary act.

I am certainly no admirer of hers but rereading this post I see she was quite right when she said in 2010 in an interview:


"The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world."


By then Obama, who began his political career with a fund raising meeting in her house, was US President.


He authorised drones to kill people in Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia etc without any authority from the UN or Congress.

Hundreds of civilians were killed, perhaps more than 800, one an American citizen.

I don't know how the number of children he killed compares with the number killed by Donald Trump.

Donald Trump does not try to hide his terrorism but rather glories in it.

WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump issued a fresh warning to Iran on May 17, saying it had to move quickly towards a peace deal or “there won’t be anything left of them”.

Washington, locked in conflict with Tehran since US and Israeli forces launched major strikes on the Islamic republic beginning Feb 28, has struggled to break an impasse and make any progress towards ending a war that has shaken the Middle East and sent energy prices climbing.

“For Iran, the clock is ticking, and they better get moving, fast, or there won’t be anything left of them,” Mr Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “Time is of the essence!”

Dusk

The holocaust in Gaza and the rape of the Palestinians, metaphorical and literal

Omar Bartov, Israeli historian of the holocaust, said in late 2023  said it was very likely that war crimes and crimes against humanity were happening in Gaza, but concluded then that "there is no proof that genocide is taking place". 

'Then in 2025, he sent shock waves through academic and legal circles by reversing his position, publishing an essay in the New York Times headlined, "I'm a genocide scholar. I know it when I see it."'

Here he is interviewed alongside the famous Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, who also reluctantly came to the conclusion that a genocide was happening.

I am not a scholar and do not have an opinion about whether the Israeli Jews committed genocide. 

It is enough to say they are responsible for a holocaust.

Holocaust, of course, means burnt sacrifice.

It is important too to say up to 600,000 Arabs died in Gaza and certainly many more than the 80,000 that Hamas and Israel said.

Talking about the artificial fuss over the story in the New York Times about dogs trained to rape Arab prisoners in Israeli gaols (you read it here first), Professor Bartov has an excellent answer. 

The Israeli prosecutor and press have reported that a number of prisoners have been raped. It's very well known in Israel. The Israeli public is indifferent or in many cases happy about this.

"Generally speaking, apart from some articles in Ha'aretz and in +972, no one is speaking out. The physicians' association in Israel has not spoken out. The bar association in Israel has not spoken out. Academic associations have not spoken out. University presidents have not. The media is not really interested in that. That is what you see is a brutalization of Israeli society, a kind of joy at this kind of horror that is happening all over Israeli jails."


Gideon Levy adds: "Nicholas Kristof is a great journalist. I believe in every word he writes but he's not the only one as Omar just mentioned and the only way to to fight it for Israel is to attack the messenger instead of looking upon ourselves, looking in the mirror, realize that in our jails there is a real barbaric catastrophe and to draw the lessons out of it."

22 minutes, 18 seco

The dogs are a detail, the many rapes are the story and the torture and the murders.

"Zelensky is one of the biggest obstacles to peace today”: Ukrainian president’s former press secretary speaks out

Here is a very brief summary in writing of Iuliia Mendel's interview with Tucker Carlson.

I have not been following the negative stories about Zelensky very much, I am ashamed to confess. The Nato compliant Western media hides most of them but not this one, which tells me European governments are giving up on Zelensky.

Brian Berletic

"Europe has already suffered what is likely irreversible political and economic damage from its political capture by the US and now its growing energy dependence on the US.

Asia risks being likewise weakened by growing energy dependence on the US, making political capture much more likely by the US, then being transformed into a united front - this time against China rather than Russia - and used to wage war on the US’ behalf at the expense of the people, peace, and prosperity of Asia. "

 His latest video is here.

What a sleazy, incompetent, unprincipled and cruel US administration, aided by craven and unprincipled satellites

The Trump wanted to save Western civilisation but failed. 

Instead his behaviour reveals to an astonished world that America is an empire in great decline. 

It is worthy of the ironic pen of Edward Gibbon.

Donald Trump bought up to a $1 million worth of Nvidia stock on January 6, a week before the Commerce Department broke with its policy hitherto and approved the sale of Nvidia chips to China. Shortly after this news came out but attracted little attention in the media, he told reporters on the plane flying back from Peking that China "chose not to" approve purchases of the chips because "they want to develop their own."  

How sleazy this administration is, the most corrupt in American history. 

Here is a long list of very disturbing stories about insider dealing and corruption by Isaac Saul. 

China is watching the USA commit suicide

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, talking about Donald Trump's rather pointless visit to China for which no preparation seems to have been done, says China's policy is to watch the United States committing suicide.

Colonel Douglas Macgregor a couple of years ago said this was Russia’s policy. He said this talking about illegal immigration.

She argues beautifully

 

Robert Prevost has disappeared into the role of pope

"Robert Prevost has disappeared into the role of pope in a way that Jorge Bergoglio never did.” Ed Condon quoted on X approvingly by Professor Feser.

This is very admirable. 

However, how very much I miss Pope Benedict XVI, the most intelligent head of state since whom? 

Marcus Aurelius?

Pope Francis prayed for four hours a day but was a narcissist. 

CIA controlled Great Britain

The free speech rally in London in September attracted 100,000 people but was not reported in the media because it was anti-establishment, except in the Guardian which called it far right. 

Everywhere I now see reports of the London rally against anti-semitism (20,000 people) which is pro-establishment. 

This is because the antisemitism scare is one created by the authorities for political purposes. 

Marches in sympathy with the poor, crucified Arabs of Gaza and Lebanon are called hate marches by the MI6 compliant media, are restricted and will be further restricted if Starmer stays in power. 

People who march for peace with Iran are defamed as if they march from love of the Iranian political system.

Labour MPs were expelled from the party by Starmer at the behest of Macsweeney for remarks that were not antisemitic but criticised Israel. Why? 

Just as an excuse to get rid of the Labour left or for the sake of Israel?

Behind Macsweeny, who made Starmer Labour leader, stood his mentor Mandelson, the close friend of Epstein.  

Starmer is part of the Epstein class even though he never met Epstein and part of the British establishment, which was once mildly pro-Arab but has become starting with Blair (very?) pro-Israel. 

Americana

We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz

Barak Obama on Iran.  How much better he was than Trump, George W Bush, Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, despite his role in the Ukrainian and Libyan revolutions.

The mistake some make is assuming the oligarchy’s elimination of American presidents who stood in their way began with John F. Kennedy. It might have begun more than a century ago. Possibly with President Zachary Taylor.

Homogeneity as a threat

"In Poland, the streets are white. Everyone looks the same, everyone speaks the same language.
"Poland is currently condemning itself to being a passive witness to the great civilizational processes that are coming.
"By not entering this current, we are even more deaf, even more mute, and we see very little. This is terrifying,"
Polish Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk for Deutsche Welle.


Wikipedia tells us that her father was a member of the Communist Party so she is a child of the nomenklatura, like Angela Merkel, but children of the nomenklatura in Romania do not usually have progressive views. Quite the contrary.

Facts that sound fake but are true

Cambridge University too.

Other facts that sound fake but are true.

King Carol I of Romania was the last European king to lead his army into battle. 

Zsazsa Gabor was deflowered by Kemal Ataturk.

The only word in the English language that is borrowed from Lithuanian is "talk".

I love this picture of the Kretulescu Church

 

Chas Freeman thinks Israel will eventually go the way of the crusader kingdoms and that Iran could get the bomb in 2 weeks

Former US Ambassador to the KSA Chas Freeman is exceptionally incisive and intelligent. I recommend his latest podcast and all his podcasts.

He thinks it will take Iran only 2 weeks to have weapons grain uranium with which to make an atom bomb underground.

Let's see.

I think if it happens it will be good news for everyone.

<So what we're looking at potentially is the repeat of the history of the two Christian kingdoms in the middle ages
just before the Renaissance in the 11th 12th centuries in Palestine which also depended on external support and
when that external support was removed they collapsed. So the question is where are the Israelis going to go?

I think there are Israelis who are prepared to live in a democracy that includes non-Jews and clearly a single state in Palestine, whether it's called Israel or Palestine, which embraced both Arabs and Arab Muslims and Christian and Arab Jews, as well as European Jews, would be a society in which the Jewish component could continue to play a leading role just by virtue of its capabilities, level of education, energy and commitment.

But something like that happening is going to be very hard because Israelis instead of taking October 7th and the Hamas breakout from the concentration camp of Gaza as a caution and a reason to reconsider a purely military strategy for survival and ethnic cleansing as a means of consolidating Jewish control, they see this as cause for vengeance at the level of genocide.

And the polls show that the problem is not Mr. Netanyahu so much as the entire Israeli citizenry.

About 80% support the war with Iran. Notwithstanding the damage they've taken the punishment they've earned and they mostly support the genocide in Gaza there's no effort being made to curtail the settlers. On the contrary the government is supporting them and the war in Lebanon is seen as a great opportunity for it to expand its borders to the north.

So this is a society that is essentially, in clinical terms, sociopathic and that's not going to change if Mr. Netanyahu falls from power. That will not solve anything.>

The cost of Trump's famous victory

Congressman Ed Case says the US has lost a staggering 39 aircraft in the disastrous war against Iran. He thinks the most 7 most expensive aircraft cost 25 billion. The Pentagon estimates the total costs of the war come to 29 billion but experts think it may be twice as high.

Chas Freeman thinks the numbers of US casualties are far higher than admitted. John Mearsheimer thinks the same. 

No doubt the same is true for the numbers of Israeli casualties.

What an absolutely useless government Great Britain has

Kemi would probably also have done this were she in power. We said we had no interests east of Suez in the 1960s and nor do we. Nor does the USA either, by the way.

Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, in "The Grand Chessboard" (1997)

 

The world of lies

The free speech rally in London in September attracted 100,000 people but was not reported in the media because it was anti-establishment, except in the Guardian which called it far right. Everywhere I now see reports of the London rally against anti-semitism (20,000 people) which is pro-establishment. This is because the antisemitism scare is one created for political purposes,

Marches in sympathy with the Arabs of Gaza and Lebanon are called hate marches by the MI6 compliant media, are restricted and will be further restricted if Starmer stays in power.

People who march for peace with Iran are called pro-Iranian. Admittedly after the US assault on Iran lots of people who never expected to do support the Iranian forces in their defensive war (most people I speak to do) but the marches are not for Iran or her system but for peace.

Being opposed to Israel is starting to be considered by the British deep state borderline illegal.

It wasn't like this at all in the 1970s or 1980s or 1990s. Plenty of Tory knights of the shires (old school Conservative politicians sitting for rural constituencies) were mildly or strongly pro-Arab.

Slovak PM Fico yesterday in Bratislava

"The Russians will supply the Americans with gas and oil at normal prices… and the Americans will sell it to us with a huge American high-margin surcharge."

Testimony that Arabs were raped in detention by dogs trained by Israelis

Testimonies of Palestinians raped by dogs last month were dismissed by some people who support Israel as impossible.

The New York Times has now published the testimony of a Palestinian detainee.
Note that there is no testimony from victims of the frequently repeated allegations that Hamas men raped women on 7 October 2023. There is a lot of evidence of numerous rapes of Arab prisoners by Israelis. The media has kept quiet about this in the past.






Caitlin Johnstone comments:
'Contrary to popular belief, the highest award in journalism is not the Pulitzer. The highest award in all of journalism is being accused of antisemitism by the Israeli government for factual reporting.
'But the New York Times is unworthy of this award. The Times has been running cover for the Gaza holocaust from the very beginning with extensively documented biases in its reporting, and played a leading role in promoting the atrocity propaganda about mass rapes on October 7. Israel’s abuses were actively facilitated by the New York Times, including its systemic sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners.'

Robert Kagan

This is Robert Kagan, the arch neo-con and husband of Victoria Nuland, writing yesterday in the Atlantic. 

<It’s hard to think of a time when the United States suffered a total defeat in a conflict, a setback so decisive that the strategic loss could be neither repaired nor ignored. The calamitous losses suffered at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, and throughout the Western Pacific in the first months of World War II were eventually reversed. The defeats in Vietnam and Afghanistan were costly but did not do lasting damage to America’s overall position in the world, because they were far from the main theaters of global competition. The initial failure in Iraq was mitigated by a shift in strategy that ultimately left Iraq relatively stable and unthreatening to its neighbors and kept the United States dominant in the region.

Defeat in the present confrontation with Iran will be of an entirely different character. It can neither be repaired nor ignored. There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done. The Strait of Hormuz will not be “open,” as it once was. With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world.>

To his credit he opposed the US Israeli attack on Iran from the start, the only good thing I ever heard about him.

Losing faith

"When we’re kids we play cops and robbers, and watch cartoons about evil criminals being stopped by virtuous crime fighters. Then when we mature we learn that all the most evil people are operating within the laws of our nation, and nobody ever sends them to jail." Caitlin Johnstone on X

"Don’t dismiss the once-a-year mob: they embody our national religion.
Churches exist as much for those who don’t go as for those who do, and that is part of their beauty. Those who pack pews at Midnight Mass express deeply embedded pieties that are separate from devout Christian faith."
AN Wilson, Friday December 22 2023, The Times

"If you have a sloppy religion, you get a sloppy atheism." Mgr Ronald Knox

"When a Catholic does not believe in God he knows exactly what God it is he does not believe in." Anonymous

The Black Death

 

Russia isn't finished

May 2001:

From an article by Leonid Ragozin in The American Conservative.

'Pretty much all of my interlocutors are strongly anti-Putin and antiwar. In my intelligentsia circle, you need to walk miles to find anyone pro. People do complain about the ongoing economic slowdown, pointing to the closure of some of their favorite small businesses, like boutique fashion brands that had only recently emerged. They are aghast at the Russian government’s (so-far unsuccessful) attacks on popular messaging services and perturbed by mobile internet interruptions in the center of Moscow caused by the Ukrainian drone threat.


'But unlike Ukrainians, who live in constant fear of Russian strikes and of press gangs roaming the streets in search of fresh recruits, people in Russia are still enjoying much the same kind of lives as before the war, with living standards comparable to poorer EU member countries (check IMF’s GDP PPP charts).

If only Iran had the bomb

As John Mearsheimer says Iran getting the bomb would stabilise the region. 

Had Pakistan given Iran some nukes the world would have been spared the war, a lot of innocent civilians including many schoolgirls would be alive and the Strait of Hormuz would be open.

According to the well informed Colonel Douglas Macgregor yesterday, Iran slaughtered not 40,000 innocent spontaneous protesters but 3,200 people mostly but not entirely armed and guided by the CIA and Mossad in a plot to change the regime. I've said something much like this repeatedly.

Hundreds of Kurdish fighters crossing the Turkish border were killed by Iranian soldiers tipped off by Erdoğan.

That attempted coup was an act of unprovoked war. 

Fortunately drones have destroyed US military dominance. 

This will have huge consequences for Israel. 

The regime change psychop in Iran makes it hard to doubt that Kiev 2014 was another one

An excellent argument against antisemitism

The British Green Party are being very unfairly accused in the papers of antisemitism  just as Corbyn was. This is how the US controlled media deal with threats to US policy.

Here is a very good essay aimed at people critical of Israel, which is most people in the world, arguing very cogently why the sins of Israel and the Israel lobbies around the world should not logically be held against Jews in general.

Iran will decide when the war ends

What western values do the US or its supporters the UK or the EU embody? Invading countries, bombing civilians, schools, hospitals deliberately, killing countless children, committing piracy to arrest ships carrying oil quite legally, assassinating foreign leaders, organising regime change operations, castrating boys, organising the replacement of Europeans by Africans and Asians?

In case you missed it President Trump threatened Iran with a nuclear holocaust yesterday.

“If there’s no ceasefire… you’re just going to have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran. They better sign the agreement fast… If they don’t sign, they’re going to have a lot of pain.”


There are no words for this but fortunately the world assumes it is empty bluster. He is King Lear as he would have been had King Lear had a nuclear arsenal and ruled much of the world.

The world says North Korea is dangerous but North Korea is the most stable country in the world because it has nuclear weapons. 

Iran would be too if she had them. 

Israel on the other hand has them and is anything but stable. 

Trump likewise.

Iran will decide when the war ends.

Here is an excellent article in The Atlantic. Several people close to Trump say he would accept any deal that Iran offers but Iran is not offering one. So much for the art of the deal.

Fars News reports that Iran is planning to take control of the undersea cables in the Strait of Hormuz as well and plans to charge fees for the use of the cables.

These cables carry over 97% of global internet traffic passing between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Sweet for Iran are the uses of adversity.

Melanchon will take France out of Nato

French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We will withdraw from NATO. NATO only serves one purpose: to place us under U.S. control. ... Israel is the most dangerous country in the region today. It is Israel that is attacking all its neighbors. It is the one triggering the war. It is carrying out a genocide. When I say Israel, I mean Netanyahu’s government.”

I'd respect Starmer or Macron or Merz if they said this but no chance. 

Romania is too powerless to do so.

Europe should make a lasting peace with Russia and Iran and be friends with China. Nato must go.

Brian Berletic thinks the war with Iran will not end though it might pause

Brian Berletic, a former American marine turned defence analyst, argues that America is not a dog being wagged by its Israeli tail. 

Israel is an artificial state created for imperial purposes by Great Britain and then taken over by America, which exists to enable American hegemony of the Middle East.

The US defence lobby spends far more money and has far more power than the Israel lobby.

In his vision, America is a perpetual war machine seeking to control the world and the war in Iran is aimed at China.

Many people think this. It is true.

One purpose of the Ukrainian war from the American point of view is to make Europe dependent on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) imported from America rather than cheap gas from Russia.

America does not protect its allies. It in fact paints a sign on their heads inviting attack.

The alliances are in fact forms of vassalage.

American now seeks to extend its power to Indonesia.

One of the means by which America does this is by controlling the media space throughout most of the world apart from Russia, China, Iran and a few other places.

This makes it difficult for Indonesians to see that it is in their interest to be friends with China rather than to antagonise China by being allied to America.

The war with Iran will continue indefinitely. It serves a purpose which is to deny energy to the Far East and to assert American control over many places.

Iran has been in America's gunsights since 1979 many and many of the campaigns waged by America against countries take many years to win. An example is Syria. Iran has been at the receiving end of astonishingly cruel American treatment since 1979. The best example I suppose is Cuba which has been sanctioned since Castro came to power.

Brian Berletic says that the only hope for the world is that the US 'allies' give up their alliances. I have argued something like this for years, as far as the UK and Europe are concerned.

Israel is a American tool just as Ukraine is an American tool, the latter being used to attack Russia for American imperial purposes.

I think the American military imperialist state came into existence after Pearl Harbor, took over Britain and America and the current US war against Iran and proxy war against Russia and China is a continuation of the American phase of the Second World War that started in1941.

Far from being Britain's finest hour the Second World War is the moment we became an American satellite.

Meanwhile, an argument for the view that Israel is responsible for the Iranian war is made by Tucker Carlson who has said he told Trump to his face: "Netanyahu hates you. Rupert Murdoch despises you. Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin - they all hate you. The people pushing you into this war want to destroy you. On behalf of Israel."

And Trump's response? "Yeah, I know."

Two Israeli voices

 

The BBC is the British equivalent of RT

 Same day: 

Somalis "hijack" ships. 

The US "boards" them.

Nobody would know from the BBC that the US has no right to board ships carrying Russian in international waters.

By the way the Straits of Hormuz are not international waters. Half belongs to Iran, half to Oman.

Lawrence Wilkerson (Colin Powell's Chief of Staff) said Netanyahu's actions in Lebanon surpass Hitler. Talking of which...

Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli Minister of Finance and extremist, has a son who serves in the IDF and recovered from shrapnel wounds in March. He said yesterday on television: 'My son wants me to leave some Lebanon for him to destroy later. I told him don't worry, there will be enough for everyone.'


Ana Kasparian commented: 'Our legacy media, which covers for this depravity while excoriating anyone who sheds light on it, is a disgrace.'

This morning at 7

The sound of the liturgy being sung drifts into the crisp morning air. I love the Orthodox liturgy, which colours everything in Romania.

The evil empire looks like it's about to start its murder spree again

It's pretty sure America and Israel are about to restart their unprovoked war on Iran. Ursula von der Leyen and Merz will not say a word of condemnation nor Bolojan or Nicușor Dan. 

I hope the gallant Iranians (nobody can question their great courage which contrasts with the cowardice of the Americans and the IDF) get their retaliation in first.

It is unclear but it seems they have fired a missile at the UAE gangster state. 

They have held back so far from destroying Arab desalination plants, possibly for moral reasons. 

If they do goodbye Dubai.

The war can't end in the foreseeable future because Iran cannot be safe from further attacks by America and Israel, just as there will be  no peace in Ukraine because Russia can't trust a heavily armed Ukraine not to launch a revanchist attack after being armed by her allies.  

America causes wars everywhere and is the big threat to world peace on every continent.

America has become a demonic force, more the evil empire than the USSR was.

Blasphemy

Marc Boxer got sent down from Oxford for blasphemy for publishing a poem beginning "As God was starting his Bentley.."