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.."

Conflicts Forum’s compilation of strategic perspectives from leading Israeli commentators (predominantly translated from Hebrew), 3 May 2026

 Conflicts Forum is run by Alastair Crooke.

The whole very long text is here.

‘Israel’s Security Concept of Perpetual War Marks a Profound & Problematic Shift in its Traditional Security Doctrine’ (Udi Evental, Colonel (res.); Strategy and Policy):

‘The past two and a half years proves that the approach of preventing emerging threats by relying solely on force does not truly provide Israel with security, but rather exhausts it and erodes its ability to prepare for long-term challenges. Israel must return to the fundamentals – robust and effective defence, within our borders and with an offensive dimension when necessary. At the end of the day, wars are not won on the battlefield but through agreements that translate military achievements into an improved strategic reality’.

‘The Threshold of Paranoia was Crossed on 7 October; Israel Adopted a ‘Hardline’ Version of Permanent Security’ (Professor Yigal Levy, military sociologist):

‘Permanent security aims not only to eliminate immediate threats but also future ones, and is therefore subject to a paranoid mindset that generates self-fulfilling threats. The pursuit of a permanent solution allows for no compromise, whether political or deterrent; rather, it entails the destruction, expulsion or control of a population perceived as endangering the state’s security’.

‘With Permanent War, There is No End Game; The Enemy is an Undifferentiated Mass of Different Guises of Amalek’ (Professor Idan Landau — full interview in English):

‘Every single issue in foreign affairs is framed as either “existential threat” or “unavoidable use of military force”. There’s absolutely no room for talk about non-violent paths (“peace” is a taboo even on the left). The Enemy is an undifferentiated mass of Hamas/Iran/Hezbollah/ Houthis, in short, different guises of Amalek. The Gaza genocide has set a shocking new standard of indifference to civilian casualties: All targets are criminalized by association to your favorite Amalek (currently the IRGC), and we stopped bothering about substantiating this association with actual facts; declaring it so makes it so’.

‘Israel’s specific version of fascism has, in effect, produced divine or rabbinic legitimation for genocide’ (Interview with Professor Omer Bartov):

“The Holocaust … gradually became the glue binding Israeli society. A historical event transformed into an imminent threat: not something that happened in the past, but something always at the threshold. There will be another Holocaust if we don’t meet every threat with full force and destroy it at the root. After October 7, these two things fused. Hamas’s attack was framed as a Holocaust-like act — Hamas are Nazis. Criticizing Israel’s actions is antisemitic”.

George Sand

George Sand on Madam de Stael: 'A great cow full of ink.'

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve: "George Sand has a great soul and a perfectly enormous bottom.”

Brian Berlertic: Is the US Blockade on Iran Working?

The US claims it has absolutely cut off all Iranian exports/imports.
This is false.
Others claim the blockade is essentially non-existent citing social media claims and wishful thinking.
This is also false.
It is somewhere in between.
The US is turning back nearly as many ships as are being reported to have bypassed it.
This means the US has stopped anywhere between 40%-60% of Iranian imports/exports.
That isn't "nothing."
I particularly hear MANY analysts citing pictures on social media of meager meals US sailors are reportedly being served on US warships as evidence of deep systemic logistical failures.
I was a US Marine over 20 years ago - long before this war started. I was occasionally on ships. And each time I ate meager meals much worse than pictured.
On one occasion I was on a 3 day transit and 100s of us ate stale bread, slimy cold cuts, and rotten lettuce morning, noon, and evening until on the last day we only ate once.
Logistics are never perfect even in peacetime. Meager meals don't make operations impossible - just miserable. And that is it.
A few pictures on social media indicate gaps in logistics. Much more widespread evidence would exist if a logistical collapse was actually taking place.
Collapsing logistics manifests in operational failure.
Cutting half of a targeted nation's maritime traffic isn't failure.
Who Will Blink First, Iran or the US?
Those banking on Iran's restrictions across the Strait of Hormuz and the economic damage it is doing to US proxies forcing the US to back off first are making the wrong bet.
The US doesn't care about its proxies - and in fact - the worse things are for its proxies the easier it is for the US to exercise control over them.
Currently the US is in the process of specifically exploiting this economic crisis - assuming energy dominance over many of the nations impacted by restrictions through the Strait of Hormuz - much in the same way it did over Europe by destroying Nord Stream and sanctioning Russian energy.
The premeditated nature of this strategy - including years of preparing Asia-specific LNG export capabilities that otherwise make no economic sense - mirrors similar preparations to export LNG to Europe BEFORE Nord Stream was destroyed and the US provoked war with Russia in Ukraine.
Such conditions also make it possible for the US to impose additional control over yet-to-be proxies - nations like Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and others who have so far been managing a relatively neutral position geopolitically.
By facing reality and calling out the deliberate controlled demolition of the global economy by the US - more pressure can be placed on the US to stop - but also pressure placed on governments targeted by the US to exploit this crisis to resist US coercion.
If we pretend Iran is "defeating" the US - we'll end in an even darker nightmare than those who thought Trump was going to prevent this growing global war in the first place.
We can make the future brighter - but we have to acknowledge reality first in order to do so.
What Could We Do?
1. Expose what the US is doing and why.
2. Condemn it.
3. Wake up populations in nations around the globe against the danger of falling into energy dependence on the US - citing Europe as a prime example.
4. Invest in multipolarism - both as a general policy and trend - but also in any way we can personally.
5. Research and promote alternative energy - encourage people to follow China's energy policy and even cooperate with China to ensure energy independence vis-a-vis Washington and Wall Street's wrecking ball foreign policy.

Colonel Jacques Baud: Hamas and Hezbollah are resistance movements not terrorists, fighting an illegal occupation

Swiss Colonel Jacques Baud in this podcast

I mean obviously you have groups like Hezbollah or Hamas who are designated
by the West as terrorist but if you start to establish criteria for terrorism then you find both Hamas and Hezbollah don't fall in this category, not even all these groups that exist in Iraq, for instance, who are Shia and of course people will say Iran backed groups. Well, but these are resistance movement against an illegal occupation. That applies to Iraq which is still occupied by the US. This applies to Hezbollah which is still occupied by Israel. This applied to Hamas which territory is still occupied by Israel. And I remind you the decision of the international court of
justice of July 2024 saying that all occupation of the Palestinian territory, meaning Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank, is illegal. Period. And the decision of the international court of justice that Israel must get out of these territories and Hamas, Fatah and all these groups are in fact resistance movement against an illegal occupation period. So in that sense they don't fall into the category of a terrorist organization although they might use a terrorist methods if you want but again we don't have evidence of that and that is something that we need to say.

Laurence Wilkinson: 'Netanyahu's behaviour in Lebanon 'equals or surpasses Hitler's'

Retired US Colonel Larry  Wilkerson, who was Colin Powell's chief of staff, says in this podcast that Netanyahu's behaviour in Lebanon 'equals or surpasses Hitler's'. 

The press in every Western country ignores this. 

He rightly blames Netanyahu for the murder of the greatest Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzak Rabin. 

He also blames Netanyahu for rising antisemitism and this is obviously true. 

It's worth watching, as the colonel always is.

Brian Berlertic says the US engineered the Arab spring

[We must all hope for the end of the American empire. A grand peace involving Russia China Iran and America is needed not rearmament in Europe.]

US/IRAN - Blame Game Continues Following Lost US Battle Amid Continued War on Iran 

Claims that Israel "tricked" the US into war with Iran is simply blame-shifting and scapegoating after a lost battle amid a still unfinished war. 

The notion President Trump suddenly decided to launch a war based on assurances from Israeli PM Netanyahu is detached from material reality and documented history. 

The war against Iran in 2025 and 2026 was not possible without the collapse of Syria, the eradication of its air defenses, and the creation of an air corridor to Iran itself. 

The collapse of Syria in 2024 under Biden wasn't possible without the US-engineered "Arab Spring" in 2011 under Obama and the preparations for it including the training of opposition groups and the arming of extremists which took place under both the Bush and Obama administrations. 

US war on Iran has been a continuous bipartisan agenda carried out across multiple US presidencies - Republican or Democratic - driven by the corporate-financier interests most benefiting from US primacy worldwide - including the arms industry and big-oil. 

By playing into this scapegoating - people are affording the US plausible deniability and giving them space and time to prepare for next battle in this war under the cover of public ignorance. 

Take that cover away from them - force them to do it out in the open - ensure they AND their proxies are BOTH held accountable - and EVERY administration past, present and future that aided and abetted in it connected to it - and just maybe we can begin to break this cycle of global death and destruction.

Caitlin Johnstone

Basically every Israel-Palestine debate goes like this:
“Israel did X.”
“Yeah, because Hamas did Y.”
“Yeah, because Israel did Z.”
“Yeah but only because the Palestinians keep doing A.”
“Okay but that’s wouldn’t have happened of the Israelis hadn’t been doing B.”
“But that only happened because the Arabs did C!”
But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there.
Sure you can go further back and say “Oh yeah well the Jews lived there thousands of years ago,” but that’s just silly. There’s no valid reason to believe some Jewish guy in New York City even has any meaningful lineage connecting him to that land more strongly than any random Muslim in Turkey or wherever, and even if there was, it would still be absurd to cite ancient history as the basis for a territorial claim. I’m only a few generations removed from my ancestry in Ireland and Scotland, but it would be ridiculous for me to show up demanding the home of someone who lives there.
So the original source for the grievance is clearly the artificial creation of an ethnonationalist state in the mid-20th century, and the push by Zionists and western imperialists to make it happen. That’s the initial act of abuse that spawned this whole gigantic mess.
And how has it all worked out? History speaks for itself. Generations of nonstop violence and abuse, culminating in the slaughter and chaos throughout the middle east that we see before us today.
This means that creating Israel was a mistake. A mistake that needs to be corrected.
Zionists will collapse into a shrieking pile of vitriol and hyperbole when you say this, claiming you’re calling for the extermination of Jews, but this is false. Certainly righting the wrongs of the past and ending a national order premised on putting the interests of Jews before Palestinians would inconvenience a lot of the Jewish people who’ve been living there, but there’s no basis for the claim that it would entail their deaths. Apartheid South Africa was dismantled without the extermination of millions of white people, and there’s no reason to believe the dismantling of apartheid Israel would entail the extermination of Jews.
The Israel experiment has been tried, and it has failed. It is time to try something else.

From Alastair Crooke's latest piece on Telegram. His idea about a Russo-Chinese guarantee is a good one. I'd thought the same thing.

'How then might Iran be reassured of an end to conflict and an end to the threats of future wars? Iran might only be reassured if some way were to be found to tie American and Israeli hands in respect to further rounds of war on Iran — although how would Israeli hands be tied? Only (presumably) by cutting financial, munitions and intelligence support for Tel Aviv.

'And that would imply firstly ‘revolution’ in the global US-Israeli structural relationship, and secondly, a different President.

'Could an alternative be some sort of Sino-Russian guarantee of direct intervention were there to be further military escalation? Such a prospect would imply a new global concert of powers — an event that would seem premature at this juncture of time with the US engaged in hostilities of various types and on different planes with both China and Russia, which themselves are escalating and not diminishing.'

Boulevardier takes a walk

The tiny Bucur church close to my first apartment when I came to Bucharest might be 17th century or might have been built in 1416 by Mircea the Elder, which would make it even older than the Catholic church where I just went to Mass, the Baratia church - though that was rebuilt in the 1840s. Most think the church of St Anthony is the oldest church here (built when Queen Mary I was on the English throne so not old by our standards).








The tower of the newly built can be seen peeping out in the distance and looks bonny.

ALL this is caused by Israel

The Guardian reports that Iran war has cost Britain £35 billion and threatens its economy with recession.

Europe is losing nearly €500 million a day because of it European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said four days ago. I do not know the figure for Romania.

Germany's unemployment rate reached 6.4%, the highest since the Covid-19 peak, when it reached the same figure.

The EU is the enemy of freedom and has banned these wonderful Iranian Lego videos. This is their latest hit, a plea for peace aimed at Americans.

I should have been a professor but I was too absent minded

Antisemitism in Great Britain is exaggerated, though bad behaviour and worse by Muslims is usually downplayed, as part of the government message pushed by the obedient media

Jews are not unsafe in the UK and antisemitism is not a problem there - how do I know this? Because only some pro-Israel Jews complain about it. Anti-Zionist Jewish activists although they are very antiracist never do and get on fine with Christians and Muslims.

Quotations

"Some fields work in theory but not in practice. Some fields work in practice but not theory. The uniqueness of economics is that it works in neither theory nor practice." Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"If 41 Jews were killed in 24 hours, it would be called the nth worst antisemitic massacre since the holocaust. When 41 Lebanese are killed by Israel in 24 hours, it’s called a ceasefire." Zachary Foster

"If a father is a good father, his kids are probably happy and well cared for. If he's not, they're very screwed up. If an empire is a benevolent empire, its protectorates thrive. And if it's not, they wither. There is no place occupied by Israel currently that is thriving. And that would include the United States not thriving. This is just an obvious observation." Tucker Carlson

The American empire wants to rule the world - but hubris leads to nemesis

Israel has vast influence in the US but the American empire has its own reasons for wanting to control the Middle East, Latin America, North America and to contain or fight China.  

It took me a long time to see that America is the world's enemy. It became obvious in Biden's time but Trump has made that clear to the meagrest intelligence.  

Russia wants to broker peace between America and Iran and may succeed but it will be only a ceasefire. America and Israel are utterly untrustworthy predators.  

I am not sure why Iran would agree to stop the war.

The American empire has its origins with FDR pushing Chamberlain to go to war with Germany and provoking Japan to attack Pearl Harbor and later Truman's creation of Nato.

It's a mistake to imagine that most Romanians are scared of Russia. They are cynics and many or most (less so among the younger graduates) blame America for the war in Ukraine, which shows they are more observant than the British. This is why Calin Georgescu won the first round of the November 2024, an election cancelled by the courts because of his anti Nato views after some pressure from America and France.

These are extracts from a great article by brilliant US analyst  Brian Berlertic. I read explanations like this for the American reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine but it took time fully to understand.

The war on Iran is part of a decades-spanning US project to assume complete control over the Middle East and the oil and gas that is produced and exported from the region. This is not as a means of taking the energy for the United States’ own use but to establish and enhance a US monopoly over energy production and exports from the US itself and from the nations and regions the US is assuming control over.

This includes most recently Venezuela in Latin America. The early 2026 US war of aggression against the Venezuelan state, kidnapping of the Venezuelan president, and taking hostage of the remaining Venezuelan government led to the almost immediate cutting of Venezuelan oil exports to China and the distribution of Venezuelan oil wealth to US corporations.

...All of these preparations are taking place ahead of what the US sees as an inevitable confrontation with China itself – which is ultimately the priority driving US conflict against Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and many other nations in the first place, all as a means of first isolating and containing China before confronting it directly.

Considering the costs Europe and Persian Gulf Arab states are paying for their subordination to the US and their role in hosting and facilitating US wars of aggression in their respective regions of the world, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines are likewise painting targets on themselves ahead of any confrontation with China.

What the US often refers to as “security guarantees” for its “allies” is merely a euphemism for US military occupation, political capture, and control of what are actually proxies — not allies. The purpose of maintaining a global network of proxies from Europe to the Middle East to the Asia-Pacific is specifically to have other nations pay all the costs for US foreign policy, allowing the US to assume any and all benefits solely for itself.

The prospect of US war around the globe continuously escalating in the near to intermediate future is inevitable because the wars taking place now are being fought specifically to prepare for a future confrontation with China itself. For this reason, the prospects of the US arriving at any sort of “peace” deal with Russia or Iran are near zero.

Until the interests driving US foreign policy — including the arms industry, big oil and gas, big tech, the automotive industry, and many others — are displaced around the globe by the alternatives offered by multipolarism, and until the multipolar world can create sufficient deterrence against not only US military aggression but also the economic coercion, political interference, and capture that lead to that aggression, the US will continue to hold global peace, prosperity, and stability hostage to its demands for continued unipolar hegemony over the planet.

Antisemitism is not a big problem in the UK - a Jewish friend told me it is it is the safest country in the world for Jews

Ilana Mercer, a Jewish-American libertarian born in South Africa, pretty conservative, describes Israel as a serial killer state. 

This is the perfect description of modern Israel and the modern USA. 

Instead of giving details of the people killed in the Middle East by the US and Israeli murder sprees, the British media prefer to talk about an incident in which a British Jew was stabbed (not fatally) two days ago in London. 

The suspect had allegedly previously that morning stabbed someone with a Muslim name, so it doesn't sound a politically motivated attack, especially as he had been imprisoned indefinitely in 2008 for stabbing a policeman and his dog.

In any case stabbings are alas frequent in London but the British public is in one of its periodical fits of very selective morality. 

The just surviving Prime Minister Sir K Starmer has described the attack without evidence as antisemitic and he is considering, though pro Palestinian marches are irrelevant, more restrictions on such marches. 

Since a long time ago under Harold Wilson arguably but very much more so starting with Sir Anthony Blair the UK is no longer a free country. 

The ever to be esteemed Caitlin Johnstone explains it all here.

In Australia draconian laws will make reasonable criticism of Israel a crime. France recently threw out an attempt along the same lines.

The EU countries meanwhile criticise Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine and war crimes but not the numerous US-Israeli illegal attacks, invasions and incomparably bigger war crimes. 

Do they think their publics don't notice, despite the manipulated media? 

Yes they do. And to some extent they are right. 

Most people are more interested in celebrities and articles about mounjaro.

Thank God though for the internet, which the EU intends to restrict using child safety as a useful excuse. 

It makes one wish one could go to RT for a view not approved by the CIA, but in the EU and Ukay it is banned, thanks to the Hilda von Ein of our day, Ursula von der Leyen.

Coolidge was the last good US President

Had America returned to isolationism in 1991 what a world of pain would have been avoided. September 11 Iraq Iran etc etc etc But now is the time for the Americans to revert to the ideas of Calvin Coolidge, their last good president. "The business of America is business." He wasn't only an isolationist. He had good ideas about immigration and tax cuts too.

Mrs Adelson attacks

 

Miriam Adelson, widow of a Zionist casino owner, who gave Trump campaign $100 million has personally asked him to attack Iran again. Iran is not a threat to the world, she is. In 2016 Trump said because he was rich he didn't need money from donors and was therefore independent of them. 

'The Decisive Victory That Never Was' -- A definitive Israeli account

Alastair Crooke summarises Israeli media revelations about the Mossad plan to overthrow the Iranian government.

[What the Israeli media do not say is that the January riots were instigated by Mossad and the CIA. Many of the people killed were working with Mossad.]

'The Decisive Victory That Never Was' -- A definitive Israeli account

Conflicts Forum edit of strategic perspectives from leading Israeli political & security commentators (translated from the Hebrew press), 28 April 2026
Below is a key analysis published in the Hebrew press by two leading Israeli commentators — Nahum Barnea and Ronen Bergman. Their analysis constitutes a definitive Israeli narrative of events leading to the war on Iran —
“At the end of 40 days of fighting, the operation that was supposed to decide the war with Iran did not take place. Everyone involved in it in Israel is left with a sense of missed opportunity. The question is why it did not happen …”.
“The plan to topple the [Iranian] regime was a central component of the overall war plan, the heart of the plan”.
“Both the political leadership – [Netanyahu] – and senior figures in the security services were freed from the fear of execution. Anyone capable of blowing up thousands of beepers in a single stroke feels they can do anything”.
“The plan aimed for a war in June 2026. By June, preparations would be complete and conditions ripe”.
‘After 100 hours of air operations, the second phase of the plan to topple the Iranian regime was set to begin — first a ground invasion from Iraq by Kurdish militia. Commanders said they intended to reach the Kurdish region of Iran and then, once Iranian Kurds had joined them, to launch a mass march on the capital, Tehran’.
‘Then came the phone call from Ankara … Trump ordered the invasion to be halted hours before the Kurdish forces were due to cross the border … Israel complied’.

The Israeli press now confirms it. The January disturbances in Iran were a Mossad operation

So the January disturbances in Iran were a Mossad operation. 

In other words it was an attempt by Israel to conquer Iran. Mossad's motto was until recently "By way of deception thou shalt do war" (Proverbs 24:6). It is an unjust war which is the greatest of war crimes.

This is incredibly important. I don't like to say I said the January disturbances in Iran were a Mossad operation, had lots of evidence but many guileless people kept telling me they don't believe me.

The 40,000 Iranians murdered by the government are a Mossad/CIA lie of course - the true number is probably less than a tenth of that and many were Mossad assets.

Sina Toossi on X:

A VERY important piece today in Israel’s Ynet by Nahum Barnea & Ronen Bergman on the botched regime change plan in the Iran war.
It confirms regime change was “the heart of the plan,” with Netanyahu and the Mossad driving it and Trump on board: decapitate the leadership, foment protests, and back a Kurdish incursion from the west.
What stands out most is the admission of how central Israeli influence ops in Iran became. Under Mossad chief Barnea, in recent years shaping Iranian public opinion shifted to a core priority, “driving influence moves” inside Iran and effectively turning it into a “weapons system” with effects “far beyond social media.”
The strategy was explicit: topple from above and below, “lean on senior officials” while “fostering mass protest and armed resistance of minorities,” in "parallel."
"The organization" for this op "began four years ago," the piece states, and "reached operational maturity two and a half years ago."
The piece also acknowledges “immense” Israeli work in the “background” of the January protests, which were met with a violent crackdown killing thousands by Iranian authorities, who portrayed them as foreign-backed.

Get your news from The Straits Times and Times of India and informed podcasters, especially the ones on Judging Freedom

Don't get your news from the Western media. I recommend the Straits Times and Times of India. 

Al Jazeera is good on Israel but very biassed against Iran.

Oddly enough the Israeli paper Ha'aretz is more truthful than any Western paper but it is Zionist.

I wasted years following people like Sir Lawrence Freeman and RUSI on the Ukrainian war - but like Dominic Cummings I found Freeman a waste of time and misleading - not an independent academic but part of and the voice of the British defence establishment. 

Instead go to the podcasters like Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Professor John Mearsheimer, Chas Freeman and Retired US Col. Douglas Macgregor.

Aphorisms from the podcasters in the last two days.

Jeffrey Sachs: "Israel is a fascistic state and the only language of Israel today is war destruction darkness." He likens Israeli Foreign Minister Katz's threats to send Iran into the Stone Age to a 7th century BC Middle Eastern document.

The Iron Age threatening Persia with the Stone Age.

Chas Freeman, former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia: 

"You hear accusations that are hasbara, accusations from Israel that are accepted in the West, that Iran is the world's greatest supporter of terrorism. Nonsense. Israel is the world's greatest perpetrator of terrorism."

Colonel Douglas Macgregor:

The United States is now a vassal of Greater Israel. 

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He explains that by Greater Israel he is thinking of Israel plus American Zionist billionaires. 

My favourite American politician is Republican Ron Paul who podcasts a lot and said recently as he always does:

"Get rid of the Empire. Close all the foreign bases. Bring all the troops home. The duty of the American military is to defend America"

If only Amereca followed Dr Paul's good advice.

Perhaps the Iranians will persuade American to do so where he has failed. 

Trump survives

Trump is a mass murderer. The Pentagon has said that 180 people in boats on the high seas in Caribbean and Pacific have been killed by the US since September. 3 survived US strikes.

Most of the small number of people I have asked in real life are cheering on Iran against the USA but some are neutral.

A British friend of mine with whom I had dinner recently takes neither America's or Iran's side in the war but said he wishes Trump had been killed last year. He said that to me last year and made me very angry but I don't feel angry with him now.

One should not do evil that good may come of it but this is what Trump does.

Now another attempt on his life last night.

The Iranian war is a terrible, tragic disaster for the whole world but it continues day by day to be very beautiful to see the Americans hoist by their own petard. America should have left the Middle East, the Far East and Europe in 1992 after the cold war came to an end.

Quotations

 Jamie McIntyre, maverick Australian journalist:

Khaled Elgindy:


Israel has repeated the Gaza playbook in its war on Lebanon: intense aerial bombardment and illegal mass evacuation orders that lead to the large-scale displacement of civilians; the destruction of civilian infrastructure and border towns to make way for so-called “buffer zones” occupied by Israeli troops; the targeting of hospitals and healthcare workers; and the killing of journalists. And, as it did with Gaza, the west largely looks on with indifference.

'Trump Inc: organized crime masquerading as politics'

Max Blumenthal thinks that a number of times insiders have benefited from knowing what Trump was about to say to make money from the markets. It's pretty clear he is right.

He now says on 7 April corrupt people close to Trump shorted the oil market moments before the Iran ceasefire, making over a billion dollars. 

He questions how Barron Trump, who has learning difficulties, suddenly amassed $120 million.

I liked Aegina. It is slightly boring but that is another word for peaceful

I went to Aegina for the Orthodox Easter more or less by mistake, intending to revisit my beloved Hydra yet again, but it's a happy mistake. 

Aegina isn't upmarket. It's in its shirt sleeves and relaxing, very beautiful and no steep climbing. 

I visited the archaeological museum, not a good one but topical to see the origins of Western civilisation just as it is falling apart.

Aegina has 4 claims to fame: it was Achilles' kingdom; Athens' naval rival; the first capital of Greece and the closest island to Athens. When I first visited it I thought it a bit tacky but it isn't, nor even too touristy. It's unpretentious.

Seen somewhere on Substack

 

This is heart-breaking: brave journalist Amal Khalil assassinated by Israel, left to die under rubble

Lebanese Civil Defense confirmed late on 23 April the death of Amal Khalil, Lebanese journalist and reporter for Al-Akhbar newspaper, who was deliberately targeted by Israel and trapped for hours under the rubble as the Lebanese government awaited permission to rescue her.

Khalil was reporting in south Lebanon’s Tayri with fellow journalist Zainab Faraj when the strikes took place.

A civilian vehicle accompanying the journalists – who were in a separate car – was first hit by an Israeli drone, killing the two people inside it.

Khalil and Faraj exited their car and took cover behind a tree upon the first strike. Contact was then made with ambulance teams and Lebanese army intelligence, yet the Red Cross was not allowed to act until receiving clearance from the US-led ceasefire monitoring mechanism.

Another drone strike hit right near the journalists' vehicle shortly after, prompting them to shelter near a house.

About an hour later, amid reports that access to the site was being refused and that UNIFIL was asked to avoid the Haddatha–Bint Jbeil Road, a warplane hit Tayri. It was later confirmed that the house where they were sheltering was targeted.

The Red Cross was not given approval to move until 10 minutes after the Israeli warplane struck home.

Rescue workers reached and rescued Faraj, who was seriously wounded, while also retrieving the bodies of the two who were killed in the first strike.

Israeli forces fired at the rescue teams as they attempted to reach Khalil, halting search efforts, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.

The rest is here.

Israel wants to return Iran to the dark and stone ages

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz yesterday announced that Israel wants to renew the (unprovoked and illegal) war on Iran and return Iran to the dark and stone ages. "We are waiting for the green light from the U.S., first and foremost, to complete the elimination of the Khamenei dynasty and to return Iran to the dark and stone ages by destroying Iran's major energy and power facilities. This time, our strikes will be different and more deadly, and will deliver further devastating blows to the most painful places, which will shake and collapse the regime's foundations."

Romania and many European countries and the UK (American satellite states) the UK were helping the US bomb Iran and presumably will again.

In Isaiah 1:15 God tells Israel, "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood."

Spy fiction

"Lord" Mandelson, the close friend of Epstein, was the eminence gris who mentored McSweeney and made Starmer Labour leader and therefore PM. Starmer became Labour leader months after Epstein died so I do not pretend Epstein himself was necessarily involved. Starmer used what were clearly false accusations of anti-semitism to clear out Corbyn and anti-Israel Labour MPs. The media approved. One Israeli spy was found to have been involved in the rebuilding of Labour. There is a big spy story here involving the CIA, MI6, Israel and the Epstein class. Jonathan Cook, Declassified and Peter Oborne know more about this.

Polish PM Donald Tusk: Russia could attack a NATO member in a few months

Russia could attack a NATO member in just a few months, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in an interview with the Financial Times yesterday. 

He said he doubted that the US would defend Europe in such a case. 

Tusk is the madman not Viktor Orban. 

Europe needs to make peace with Russia and stop paying for the Ukraine, to have a good relationship with China too and stay out of American wars.

Caitlin Johnstone is a poetess

March 30th

'The More Murderous Israel Gets, The More We Hear About "Antisemitism". Meanwhile, in real life, people are being mercilessly butchered in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine by Israel and its allies. The uglier it gets, the more aggressive the concern-trolling about “antisemitism” becomes.'

April 14th

'I don’t mind admitting that I hope the US and Israel suffer a crushing, devastating defeat in Iran. I hope this war collapses the entire US empire. My only loyalty is to humanity, and being on Team Human in today’s world means being against the US empire and against Israel.'

Is Dugin right?

 

Alexander Dugin

@AGDugin

We witness total collapse of the West. An absolute fall. Trump was the last hope to save the West. He is now revealed as pure nothing. Corrupted perverted zero. Less than zero. No way out.

4:05 PM · Apr 19, 2026