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“Created by wars that required it, the machine now created the wars it required.”
NY Times has essentially confirmed that Israel played a role in stimulating the violent regime change riots that left around 3000 dead in Iran this January 8 and 9, but which were marketed in the West as pro-democracy protests.
It was well understood by the Mossad that those riots would help stimulate military action by Trump.
Israeli intel merely needed to convince the feeble-minded president that a wave of decapitation strikes would unleash a massive upheaval to immediately topple the Islamic Republic. The January riots were presented to Trump as a preview of what was to come.
Western media, including the NY Times and The Guardian, played a central role in legitimizing Israel's deception by falsely characterizing the violent regime change riots as mere protests, massively inflating the death toll and covering up the fact that many were murdered by the Israel-backed rioters themselves
The whole of Western media and the Western human rights industrial complex deliberately misrepresented the real character of those riots. But now that the war they helped to instigate is going badly for the US and Israel, that same media is now free to reveal a few kernels of truth.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez decided to naturalise 500,000 immigrants recently. I do not have much good to say about the man but I agree with what he said today to the Cortes.
He warned that Iran has spent 40 years for preparing for this war. It will be very much worse than Iraq.
"This is not the same scenario as the illegal war in Iraq. We are facing something far worse. Much worse. With a potential impact that is far broader and far deeper. This time, it's an absurd and illegal war. A cruel one that sets us back from achieving our economic, social, and environmental goals."
I am not concerned about economic, social and environmental goals. Politicians shouldn't have many goals beyond good governance and low taxes, but avoiding war is one. Not aiding countries that start unjust wars is another.
12% of British people and 7% of Conservatives sympathise more with Iran, do you approve or disapprove of U.S. military strikes against Iran, 19% more with the Israelis and Americans.
"I tell people about this war, if you like this war enjoy this first part, because this is the best part. Because everything after this will be harder."
"There are three great seductions that happen to American administrations and to the military.
This is worth half an hour of your time.
Johnson is former CIA, intelligent and trustworthy. He talks about the CIA attempt at a colour revolution in Iran in December 2025 and January 2026, like the one in Kiev in 2014.
From what Max Blumenthal and many others say, the people Iran killed were mostly assets of the CIA and Mossad but Western journalists believe the CIA story.
They display a sublime lack of scepticism which ill befits journalists, but you see this all the time with most things. I do not really understand it.
America calls Iran the world's biggest sponsor of terrorism but it's not true unless you are thinking of Hamas and Hezbollah attacking Israelis which is part of the Arab-Israel conflict.
Hamas and Hezbollah were certainly subsidised by Iran though Hamas was subsidised by Netanyahu too and he built it up to sideline Fatah. Hezbollah was created by Iran. Still, Hamas and Hezbollah are not Iranian proxies but Iranian allies.
The distinction is very important.
Larry Johnson says that America and Israel are much bigger sponsors of terrorism. He also repeats the story of the US backing Saddam's invasion of Iran which killed 3 million Iranians including 300,000 by chemical weapons.
My question. What is the killing of almost fifty Iranian leaders in what had been till that moment peacetime but terrorism?
This is a serious question, gentle reader.
Sadly most of the world will too, Iran and her friends excepted.
BBC star TV presenter and former political editor Laura Kuenssberg asked a British minister yesterday “Why would Israel say something that is not true?” after he contradicted the country’s claim that Iran has missiles capable of hitting London.
Yet some people claim the BBC is biassed against Israel.
"Iran is exercising its legitimate right to defend its sovereignty, its people, and its resources, after being subjected to blatant aggression”. I hope nobody disagrees with these words of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the French left-wing party.
The British Daily Telegraph pointed out that he condemned Hamas's "war crimes" on 7 October 2023 without using the word terrorism. If he is the next French president, as is very possible, I expect he would obey America just like all his recent predecessors.
Chirac looks a great man for pleading with America not to invade Iran.
John Mearsheimer has seen data that show that half of people who voted for Biden decided that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.
This is very important.
Other polls show 30 percent of Republicans under 30 no longer support Israel. This has huge implications for the world.
Gaza lost Kamala the 2024 election but much good it did the Palestinians or the Iranians.
The Iranian war is shaping up to be as disastrous for America as the Vietnam war or more so. Fun fact: Donald Trump described his relations with women in the 1970s and 1980s as "my Vietnam".
Will anyone negotiate with America or Israel again?
Is murdering heads of state and leaders now normal? Yes. No European government condemned it, nor did the Western press.
Lebanese cellist Mahdi Saheli playing Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's Andantino in the ruins of southern Beirut. pic.twitter.com/jdmMXFjYxx
— Kegham Balian (@kbalian90) March 18, 2026
“Every country that condemned Iran after an Israeli-U.S. aggression hosts an American military base on its soil. They are not sovereign countries. They dare not speak. They host the U.S. military. They host the CIA. They watch their backs.”
Only three countries on the Security Council condemned the US attack: Russia, China and Somalia.
Christopher Caldwell is characteristically brilliant in the Spectator today.
'You cannot blame Netanyahu for taking advantage – probably never again would his country get to deal with a president so gullible. But as soon as the attacks began on Iran, the news brought talk of tactical ‘divergences’ between Israel and the United States. Israel wanted Iran wrecked and weak and was hitting oil infrastructure that the United States had warned it not to. The United States wanted the oil industry up and running – first to lay claim to the oil for Trump, as happened in Venezuela, later to prevent the tit-for-tat strikes on Middle Eastern oil that could cause a global depression.'
An hour ago.
Retired Judge Andrew Napolitano: 'What are the 2,500 Marines going to do?'
Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson: 'Be killed.'
Can this be true? No. Surely Trump lives to be admired and to win.
One almost wishes, however, that they had succeeded with DeSantis, who by all accounts is a competent crisis manager who has cooperated effectively with Sunshine State lawmakers to legislate his priorities. As president, DeSantis would have been an old-school, donor-beholden hawk. But we are getting the same thing with the second Trump administration, only with the chaos, messaging confusion, and sheer incompetence characteristic of the multiply-bankrupt ex-developer and reality-TV shouter.
If the United States was bound to waste $200 billion (the Pentagon’s latest ask from Congress) on another Mideast war radiating instability into Europe and beyond, would that it were under a commander in chief blessed with an orderly mind and advised by policy heavyweights instead of yes men. A president who wouldn’t be surprised by the Iranians lashing out at the Gulf — something they repeatedly threatened to do in case of attack. A president who wouldn’t suddenly beg European allies to join him in the adventure, then insult them when they declined. A president whose son-in-law wouldn’t shamelessly commingle diplomacy with the pursuit of profit.
