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Rhino in the White House

08.04.2026 /

I used to wonder: How did people in Sweden and England – free countries, back then – feel when Nazis on the continent went about dragging Jewish men, women and children out of their homes and stuffing them into train waggons like cattle to be transported to slaughterhouses? How did people feel, back then, knowing that German soldiers burnt Russian men, women and children alive in their homes and in churches? I have heard that they even buried them alive in mass graves.

Well now I know. Israelis have for some time been doing in Palestine and now in Lebanon what the Nazis did. And as I write this, the US and Israel are proudly bombing Iran “back to the Stone Age”. I feel sick with shame, disgust, horror and loathing.

What a magnificently ugly couple they are, the rhinoceros in the White House and the homicidal maniac that is his Israeli handler.

You will tell me that the former is not representative of the USA?

Isn’t he? Why, then, was he elected? Why was such an ignorant and deranged individual chosen to lead the country?

You will reply: He lied. He told the voters that he was a man of peace, that he was opposed to “forever wars”.

He did indeed lie. They all do, you know. Politicians lie. That’s what politics are about. Even if a politician has a decent agenda, he or she will have to trick and cheat and lie to bring it to fruition. That does not mean that politicians are “all bad”. I don’t like them, it is true, but many politicians have done much to advance the common good. Much the same applies to diplomats: Politicians and diplomats suffer from the same occupational hazards. They become habitual if not inveterate liars.

Yes, you have a liar in the Oval Office. So? He certainly is not the first. Remember Obama? He actually did receive the Peace Prize, but he is said to have dropped more than 26 thousand bombs on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen — in 2016 alone! And without asking for congressional permission. He replaced soldiers with drones so that the US could continue bullying the world without risking domestic discontent. There was nothing, it seems, to stop him.

You may feel that since the rhino has a personality disorder and is appallingly ignorant, unlike Obama, he should never have been allowed to run for any public office. Indeed, the Dems did their best to obstruct his candidacy.

My point, however, is that having got into the Oval Office, the man’s words and actions should have been kept under control. In a so-called Democracy there are checks and balances – you know: the separation of powers, plus the “fourth estate” (the free press) and all that.

In USA, separation of powers, accountability, checks and balances and a free press have long since been dismantled, to the extent they ever existed, in the first place. It is not the rhino that wrecked US Democracy. He has had a free rein because US Democracy has been unofficially dead for decades. Dead without a funeral.

There was nobody to stop his Iran campaign, because the US oligarchy basically supported him. They thought the campaign would be over in a jiffy, after which they could all just help themselves – looting the broken land. That was what they have been doing in their back yard – Latin America – for decades, what they did in Russia under Yeltsin and what they intend to do in Ukraine, to name just a few examples.

He is doing blatantly what other US presidents have been doing for decades under the pretext of promoting Democracy and “free trade” (a euphemism for something that is anything but “free”).

The US “Democracy promotion” cover was finally blown under Biden, thanks to his and his party’s passionate support for the Israeli genocide. Genocide support can hardly be considered “promotion of Democracy”, can it. So in spite of the efforts of corporate media (owned by the oligarchy) there has been considerable scepticism among the US general public about the Iran campaign. (e.g., Charlie Kirk and Tucker Carlson).

The fact that none of the long list of US war presidents have been prevented from committing crimes against humanity is proof of the fact that USA is a rogue state. Can we now hope that at last people in all continents will start recognising the United States of America for what it is?

And as for the rhino’s homicidal handler we really don’t want to talk about him, but may he eternally …

I say no more.

Easter digression

04.04.2026 /

What is morally good? I know, I know – don’t worry – that time and time again, as far back in time as we have written evidence, far wiser persons than myself have tried to answer this question. Moreover, written evidence tells us that concepts of morality are mutable. Very much so.

For instance, a conundrum that still vexes philosophers is referred to today as the “trolley problem”: Can we justify sacrificing one person in order to save many? I believe the Utilitarians, for instance, assessed the moral worth of actions in terms of the sum total of their consequences. Emanuel Kant did not. But I am not going to chew that bone.

I periodically live in a village where most people are relatively poor, and none are filthy-rich. But nobody starves here. Here, nobody has to sleep on the street, and the terminally ill are cared for.

Here, far from tourist traps, they celebrate Semana Santa every year just as earnestly as they have done for centuries. I have been here for many years, and there is no change with regard to Semana Santa. We almost all turn up and wait patiently at our respective corners and all along the route of the famous processions. We fall silent as they pass. Some spectators are dressed in finery to show respect, others show respect by waiting for hours in their everyday sweaters, because at this time of year, the weather is still cool.

From my bed, I heard a procession pass my house in the night. I knew it was that of el Nazareno, the most beloved of them all. I used to get up, but now the night was cold, so I didn’t. They had started their long walk at 3 AM with a very arduous uphill climb.

This morning I felt guilty and went out early to look for them. They had been walking all night to the farthest corners of our village. They must have been exhausted!

I found them relaxing around and on the steps up to a rather grand church, which had opened its doors to them. There they chatted happily and munched sandwiches as sunbeams started to trickle down to us all. So there, on the raised church square, they were happily mingling with the beautiful effigies they had been carrying and with us spectators.

I left them to go down to look for a good place from which I would be able to film them once they set off again, and found a doorstep blessed by the sun on which I could wait.

Do you see what is happening to my language? I am not a Catholic, not even a believer, yet I write “blessed by the sun”. That is what happens to us, you see, in a village where people believe in being “good”, and where Semana Santa and the solemn (and very beautiful) processions remind us not to forget how much we depend upon one another.

I have nothing to contribute to the solution of the trolley problem. I was once taught the Catechism and the Lord’s prayer. All that I retain of the two is that I must not want what is not mine, must not tell lies and must not deliberately hurt anybody. Simple as that. Does it really have to be more complicated?

Yes, I’m afraid it does. For example:

Regarding not wanting what is not mine: If I want to live with the person I love and have a child, I will want a flat. And I will never be able to afford a flat, no matter how hard I work. So I will not be able to live with the person I love and will not be able to have a child.

Regarding not telling lies: If the tax man demands that I declare all my work so that he can tax me, that would be fine if I were able to pay both my bills and the tax. So I must lie and do some undeclared work.

Regarding not hurting anybody: Yes, there are some people in this world I wish would die a horrible death. Fortunately, I will never have the chance to hurt them. But if thoughts could kill, some people would be dead.

So much for being morally good.

Iranian wisdom

02.04.2026 /

I urge you to read the letter from the Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian to the “people of the United States of America”. Even if you are not a US citizen, you should read it, because we will all – every one of us – suffer one way or another in the months and years to come as a result of this latest US war of aggression, often referred to as a “war of choice”.

The potential consequences of an attack against Iran were known also to intelligence agencies and military experts all over the world, also in the USA. Many have wondered how President Trump could embark on such a foolhardy enterprise; many even question his sanity.

However, from the perspective of the 1%, there were very sane reasons to start this war:

  • There is reason to suspect it is a last-ditch attempt to reassert US global hegemony (and maintain the dollar as the global reserve currency) in order to prevent the collapse of the ponzi scheme that is the exponentially growing US debt.
  • US hegemony is definitely not something US warmongers and multi-billionaires in both parties are ready to relinquish, even if they fail to recognise the dire state of the US dollar. In the showdown they long for with China, Iran would be a serious obstacle. This war should not come as a surprise to anybody who has been following the egregious foreign policy of the USA ever since the heyday of the Dulles brothers, cf. General Wesley Clark quoting an unnamed general in 2007, “we’re going to conquer seven countries in five years, culminating with Iran“.
  • And yes, there is also the iniquitous Zionist perspective referred to in the Iranian president’s letter.

You won’t find the letter in the N.Y. Times, which only has a condescending article about it. The Associated Press News hadn’t even mentioned it this morning, as far as I could see. The “free press” in the USA is not delivering a letter to the intended recipient, the “people of the United States of America”. SHAME.

You will find it in the Indian press, however, and in the that of Singapore, which is the source I am referring you to.

Letter from Masoud Pezeshkian to the “people of the United States of America”.

Carter vs. Dickens

27.03.2026 /

If you tell me that Charles Dickens and Miranda Carter have nothing to teach us, I beg to differ. Charles Dickens, as I’m sure you know, was a mid-nineteenth century author who wrote, among other things, novels describing unfathomable social injustice. Miranda Carter is a 21st century historian who has also written three novels.

I had been fascinated by two of her extensively researched books when I embarked on a third, Infidel Stain, but was at once dismayed to find myself in Charles Dickens territory.

It’s not that I have had my fill of following protagonists through foul-smelling streets peopled with creatures so poor you can hardly bear to look at them. Dickens’s wrathful descriptions were invaluable social commentary. My problem is that since Dickens wished to satisfy his readers, he made sure to steer his destitute protagonists into the arms of wealthy but “noble-minded” grieving widowers (with or without a beautiful daughter) who of course saved the day. For the protagonist. Not for the rest of London’s starving and freezing multitude. His readers might have been satisfied with the denouements, but I was not.

Like Dickens, Carter leads us along the dark alleys of London in 1841, confronts us with insalubrious characters and teaches us some of their lingo. Unlike Dickens, however, she is interested in opposition – the tooth and nail sort of thing. She does not, I repeat not, trust Parliament to defend the “masses”, because no women and no non-propertied men had the right to vote back then, so they were not represented in Parliament. Those who were, had no wish to share, as it were, with those who weren’t. They were determined to keep them – the have-nots – out.

Infidel Stain is a who-done-it novel, not a political thesis. Nevertheless Carter’s cast discuss how to achieve improvement. Should they do so politely, with petitions? Or should they threaten to use force? In a historical epilogue to her book, Carter explains that the “Chartist” movement presented petitions. As it turned out, Parliament cared not one hoot about the 3.3 million men who signed the 1842 petition (in a country of 16 million of which half were women and many were children). After the 1839 massacre at the Newport rising, the have-nots had to wait until 1918 before non-propertied men and propertied women gained voting rights. That’s a long time!

Of course Carter writes about Victorian London with the hindsight of nearly 200 years. We all now agree that it was wrong to deny the vast majority of the country’s citizens the vote. We all now agree that child labour and inhumane working conditions were reprehensible. Indeed, living conditions have since improved immeasurably, not least after WWII. But why, I ask, why did they not improve much, much earlier?

Could it be that people born and bred at “country houses” like Blenheim Palace were loathe to part with their property? Winston Churchill is quoted as saying “a communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.” The Churchills still own Blenheim.

And why have living conditions in the West deteriorated so much since the 1970s? (Cf. Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, 2014.) Could it be that some people wanted to retrieve what they lost after the two great wars and that others have felt free to use financial and hence political power to amass wealth regardless of consequences for their fellow citizens and the rest of the world?

And have you noticed that the right to vote, so dearly won, is now nearly worthless?

What is the moral to be drawn by all this prattle? you ask.

Well, for one thing, I very much recommend Miranda Carter’s novel Infidel Stain, reviewed here. It’s a good read.

Moreover, as I see it, the novel stimulates us to consider the topic opposition. How is improvement achieved? Should we collect signatures and present petitions and try to gain support from influential persons? Should we, like the children of the Intifada, collect and throw rocks or, like the demonstrators against the Vietnam war, let ourselves be beaten by police officers on horseback?

Whatever the answer to that question, most of us have been bamboozled into believing we cannot beat the system. That assumption applies at least as much in these AI days as it did in London in 1848, when – according to Carter – the Chartist movement more or less disintegrated.

Does that mean that opposition is forever doomed?

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Until 28 February 2026, Iran was polite. Very polite. Then the USA and Israel attacked. They attacked a country that definitely did not have nuclear weapons and that had never attacked them.

Did you know that they bombed that school in Minab at least twice? Accident? Ha! They had to be sure that all those little girls were well and truly dead, so they returned to bomb it a second and allegedly even a third time. The Israeli tail and its US dog are evidently rabid and should be put down. But who dares approach a rabid dog?

To everyone’s surprise, one country dares. For the first time in my life, the USA and its Israeli handler are being hit. It’s absolutely unbelievable.

Even more unbelievable: Iran is still on its feet!

There are those who clamour for negotiations. In the past, I would have done so too. But the Israelis have made sure that the mere word “negotiation” has become synonymous with “death trap”.

Long before I was born, Russia saved Europe from Hitler (Germany killed 20 million Russians.) The USA and its European allies then went on to dominate the world, crushing any attempt in all other continents to create any sort of welfare society.

Now Iranians are being killed by a Hitler-emulator and his neocon buddies in the US. The parallel is weird, to say the least.

And Iran is still on its feet.

I find myself holding my breath.

Feigt

20.03.2026 /

Klassekampen, altså! I dag presterte avisa faktisk en ganske uhederlig svartmaling av narrative opponenter.

Jo Skårderud signerte en artikkel med mellomtittel: “Deler av norsk fredsbevegelse bruker KI-videoer til å spre en helt egen fortelling om Iran-krigen.”

Jeg har ikke tid til å skrive dette her! Jeg må rekke et fly og en påfølgende lang reise. Så dette blir kort og sint.

Men jeg må påpeke at alle de stridende partene, inkludert Iran og dets allierte, har tilgang til sattelittbilder. Også av situasjonen i Tel Aviv. Og det er nok ikke tvil om at situasjonen der er langt verre enn det Netanyahu vil at vi skal vite. Noen av de satelittbildene har den ikke-redaktørstyrte frie pressen fanget opp.

Ja, det er en narrativ krig minst like mye som det er en militær og økonomisk krig. Og EU/EØS-stater er nok en gang part i den, om de vil eller ei. Vi deltok entusiastisk i stedfortrederkrigen mot Russland, og EU støttet varmt utslettingen av palestinere i Gaza (noe vi her til lands ble forskånt fra å høre/se mye om.) Men denne krigen vil koste oss alle langt, langt mer. Nå nøler selv EU/EØS.

De prøver i det lengste å ikke fornærme keiseren. Derfor er NRK-journalister ikke frie. Det er for så vidt helt forståelig at en statlig kanal må ta hensyn til norske utenrikspolitiske interesser. Det som ikke er forståelig er at Klassekampen ikke kan utfordre både NRK og staten. Men med 12 USA baser på norsk jord, en av dem ikke langt fra der jeg bor, kan man kanskje forstå at også Klassekampen går med lua i hånden.

Jeg skulle ønske Jo Skårderud hadde sett kveldens sending fra den spanske statlige nyhetskanalen RTVE 24 horas. I kveld viste de hvordan Tehrans borgere nå feirer høytiden – sorgløse, skravlende, handlende… og halvparten av kvinnene var barhodede.

Også i Israel hadde RTVE en reporter, men sendingen derfra ble avbrutt pga. bomber.

Vi skyter ikke, men tenker desto mer

18.03.2026 /

Jeg vet ikke hvordan den norske delen av verden ser ut fra deres ståsted, men fra mitt aktivistiske ståsted ser det ut som om det er gamlinger som oss, det er verdt å samle på for tiden.

Ikke for det: I demonstrasjonen på Eidsvolls plass  i dag (“hands off Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela”), var det faktisk også møtt opp en del unge. Sågar noen midt i mellom. Er det bestemødrene som har vervet dem?

…”en del” og “en del”, fru Blom. Totalt var antallet demonstranter sørgelig lite, som vanlig. Det skyldes ikke minst at antall demonstrasjoner er så stort. På forrige demonstrasjon (foran den israelske ambassaden), innledet hun som presenterte appellene: “Så er vi dessverre her igjen, da…” Aktivister må nemlig møte opp igjen og igjen og igjen. Vi må dele på det. Det er greia. Det gjelder å ikke la fandenskapen bli alminneliggjort.  Målrettet bombing  av sivile er like djevelsk i dag som i går, som i forgårs. Det er det vi må markere igjen og igjen og igjen.

Men altså: Det er stort sett mest gamlinger som møter opp;

  • Pensjonister har jo tid. 
  • De eldste av oss var en gang i protest- generasjonen. Vi KAN det med å protestere.
  • Vi er for gamle til å risikere å gå glipp av karrieremuligheter.

Det slo meg: Mange av de gråhårede damene rundt meg er bittesmå, og jeg tenker: De ser skjøre ut, men de er av den generasjonen som opplevde politivold fra hesteryggen under Vietnam-krigen. En dame i en liten elektrisk rullestol jeg nesten snubler over på vei ned Karl Johan, ser opp på meg og smiler lykkelig. Jeg tar i mot smilet hennes som om det er et budskap: “Vi gjør nok en gang en forskjell. Vi SIER FRA.” Jeg sender henne et tenkt svar: “Jeg gikk nesten aldri i demonstrasjon da jeg var ung, men nå forstår jeg endelig at det er viktig.”

Hun som innleder appellene i dag, er også på min alder. Selvsikker, rolig, åpenbart vant til å lede møter. Lydanlegget fungerer som det skal. Arrangørene kan sine saker. 

De andre appellantene var langt yngre damer. Appellene var korte, og de satt som skudd. Igjen: Dette var folk som er vant til å tale. En av dem var fra Rød Ungdom. Hun fikk stor applaus fra oss alle. Jeg lurer på om det var flere som tenkte som meg – ja, her må jeg skyte inn et parentes: Rød Ungdom har fått juling fordi noen der i gården har våget å si høyt det mange tenker. Personlig er jeg “selvfølgelig” mot vold, mot terror, osv. osv. Men i mitt høyst private indre ville jeg fryde meg om samtlige av USAs ambassader i Europa ble lagt i grus, selv om jeg “selvfølgelig” fordømmer terrorhandlinger. Forstå paradokset den som kan. 

I dag hadde vi ikke politieskorte da vi marsjerte ned Karl Johan. Det var heller ingen provokasjoner. Hvem skulle vel angripe en demonstrasjon som er arrangert av  “Bestemødre for fred”?

Og her kommer jeg til kluet i denne meldingen: Ja, vi var ikke stort fler enn kanskje 150 på Eidsvolls plass, men se på listen nedenfor. Den listen forteller meg at selv om dagens unge kun i liten grad forstår og deler min motstand mot f.eks, “neoliberalisme” og som kun i liten grad har lært å markere protest, så er det mange, mange og stadig flere som i all stillhet forbanner det USA og Israel gjør og har gjort lenge, og som velsigner oss som orker å stille opp på disse markeringene. Med vår tilstedeværelse på Eidsvolls plass markerer vi det mange flere enn oss tenker.

Arrangører i dag;

  • Antikrigs-initiativet
  • Bestemødre for fred
  • Fredsinitiativet 2022
  • Internasjonal kvinneliga for fred og frihet, Oslo og Viken
  • Fredslaget Oslo og omegn
  • Stopp Nato

Organisajoner som har gitt sin tilslutning

  • Palestinakomiteen
  • Aksjonsgruppa for Palestina
  • Sosialistisk venstreparti
  • Rødt Oslo
  • Norges Fredsråd
  • Kvinne Liv Frihet Komiteen
  • Komiteen mot Epstein krig
  • Psykologer mot folkemord
  • Kvinnefronten
  • Rød Ungdom
  • Internasjonale sosialister
  • Partiet Fred og Rettferdighet
  • Handalaforeningen
  • Cubaforeningen
  • Kommunistisk plattform (KPML)
  • Resistencia Intifada (trommegruppa)
  • NKP (Oslo og Akershus)
  • Ungkommunistene

Sources

09.03.2026 /

I am too depressed, really, to write about US wars – economic, covert or military – against the entire world. I just want to hide under the bed and wait until it is all over. My rhetorical verve fails me: I am dumbstruck.

The USA is, as I see it, a dying empire. As such, it is acting not with wisdom but with desperate fury. I must sadly admit that the empire is far from defeated yet.

At any rate, I am not a geopolitical expert, not a prophet, nor even an investigative journalist. I am just somebody who follows what is accessible to me of “independent” news.

So, for a time, I shall content myself with relaying sources of information and analyses from, yes, experts.

I shall add to the following list, started today 9 march, over the next days.

I start with an analysis of the goals of the US-Israeli attack.
The Wrong Question about the War in Iran

Analysis of Iranian strategy and geo-economic consequences (10 March)

The mainstream media vs reality in the Middle East (Patrick Lawrence) (10 M.)

Una jorden de desalojo (Pepe Escobar) (11 M.)

Mohamad Marandi speaks to Judge Napolitano from Teheran (12 M.)

Responsible Statecraft: Trump’s war is a gift to Iran’s hardliners (13 M)

Peter Haenseler (analysis): The Empire is Losing Control  (15 M)

Did you know about the UN Security Council Resolution 2803 of 17 November 2025? I didn’t. It’s a little late now, to ask you to listen to Norman Finkelstein’s lecture about the accursed resolution, but I do so anyway: It is here. While I’m at it, I recommend Max Blumenthal’s conversation with John Mearsheimer, here, where they discuss the role of what John Mearsheimer refers to as “context”. This war is so absurd and dangerous, that we really do need to understand its context.

From general “context” to the nitty gritty of real life: Drop Site is not only a source of some honest to goodness real news; it also decks its pages with splendid photographs.

With this I end my list of sources about the war on Iran.

Correction

08.03.2026 /

I must apologise. In my last post, I wrote that we are “live witnesses to the West’s descent into barbarism!”

This was inaccurate. What we are seeing is not gradual descent down a slope: We are seeing the frantic flailing of a two-headed monster, surrounded by its wailing monster babies. In short we are already there: The West has reached the bottom of the slope. Things can get very much worse, for sure, for all of us, but already the US and its vassals are a pitifully primitive gaggle.

They have broken almost every rule in the book. They are now effectively (some more, some less) barbarian states.

Episode: On March 4, the Sri Lankan navy responded to a distress call from the Iranian warship IRIS Dena after it was sunk by a U.S. submarine. The Sri Lankans managed to recover, out of a crew of 130, 87 bodies, and 32 survivors.

Here is what Perplexity tells me:

IRIS Dena, a Moudge‑class Iranian frigate, was torpedoed on 4 March 2026 in international waters south of Sri Lanka, while returning to Iran after participating in the Indian Navy’s Milan 2026 exercise.​

The U.S. government has confirmed that the Los Angeles‑class attack submarine USS Charlotte fired a Mark 48 heavyweight torpedo that struck Dena under the stern, breaking her keel and causing her to sink rapidly.

Sri Lankan authorities reported that the ship sent a distress call around 05:08 local time and that their navy and air force mounted a search‑and‑rescue operation.

Note that the USA sunk the ship at about 05:08, a time when most of the crew would have been in their bunks. This is the work of barbarians.

Note, also, that the USA just left them there in the water. Even the Nazis, I am told, used to pick up survivors of ships they had sunk. I wonder: did the USA also shoot people in the water, as they did in the Caribbean?

Note, finally, that the ship was in international waters far from Iran, returning from a friendly mission in India.

Perplexity again:

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly framed the attack as a deliberate demonstration that Iranian warships were not safe even in distant international waters, calling it proof of U.S. global reach and….

Global reach! President Flintstone’s “global reach” (and that of his predecessors), is effectively the no. 1 obstacle to global peace and prosperity.

We are of course used to Israel’s routine indiscriminate killing of civilians that do not satisfy its “racial” requirements. And the US has managed to impose global impunity for all Israeli crimes against humanity. (The Nazis, as we know, were no better than Israel, but at least some of them were prosecuted.)

Indiscriminate killing of civilians is barbarism! Having unilaterally cancelled “International Law”, the US now feels joyfully free to engage in indiscriminate killing of civilians without so much as an apology. President Flintstone and his hoodlums will go down in history – no doubt about that – but perhaps not the way he wished.

We are told that the global economy is being hit. Indeed, most countries will be badly hit. A Chinese government spokesperson is imploring the warring parties to cease hostilities and resume negotiations. Now China is a supremely civilised country. I fear it is so civilised that its spokespersons are unable to fathom that one side of this war routinely engages in high-profile assassinations during – yes, just so – negotiations! Indeed, it is very difficult to get one’s head around such barbarism.

Negotiations have systematically been used by president Flintstone and his Israeli handler as a smoke screen.

Stop accusing Iran. Iran did not start this or any other war! The US has been attacking the Iranian people with sanctions for decades. The US has in fact been attacking all over the place, militarily and/or with sanctions and/or though covert r operations for as long as I have lived. And the rest of us (in the West) have not said a peep. Not one peep. We have been perfectly aware of the injustice, but we have been silent.

By “we” I do not mean the voters, the you-s and I-s. In that sense of the word, “we” are innocent. I mean those who represent us: The warmongering US-EU 1 %, (or “Epstein class”). And don’t tell me that you and I voted for the wrong man or woman, because we – you and I – are merely hostages of the press/media owned by the above-mentioned you-know-who-class.

Yes, Iran is hitting its two persecutors where it hurts, in the groin: the economy. All of us, and mostly Iran, will suffer as a result.

But don’t, I repeat, blame the Iranians!

Let’s turn it around

04.03.2026 /

“Religious freedom”, as I understand the concept, means the right to express one’s religious views without being ostracised. I am all for it.

Parents naturally tend to try to educate their offspring in accordance with their personal beliefs: They want their children to be, f. instance, good Christians, good Muslims, good anti-imperialists, or good Zionists. Unfortunately, some parents are heavy-handed.

An additional problem that concerns certain fundamentalist groups, including the Zionist lot, is that many of them want more than merely a right to express religious views. Zionists have commanded Israelis to go on killing sprees since the very birth of the country. They have basically determined the foreign policy of a country that was supposed to be a haven for Jews, and they have turned it into the scourge of the neighbourhood and one of the two most hated countries in the world.

I also believe in the right of citizens of the US and its lackey states to “dislike” Iran. Iran is decidedly different from what we in the West are familiar with and feel comfortable with. Moreover, there are rumours of torture in Iranian prisons – and I see no reason to condone torture.

Personally, I am far too secular an animal to comprehend the spirituality of any deeply religious society. Nevertheless, I share the views of the anthropologist Emanuel Todd (in f.inst. La défaite de l’Occident) and many others, that secularism is contributing to the disintegration of the “West”.

We are indeed live witnesses to the West’s descent into barbarism.

With all our technological assets, we are in some senses back in the Stone Age. Now that I think of it, the US president bears some resemblance to Fred Flintstone.

Shortly after WWII, almost all countries in the world were in agreement about the UN Charter, the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, the Genocide Convention, etc., etc. But the US never played fair. Under the pretext of combating “Communism” and defending liberty and Democracy they imposed brutal dictatorships in country after country. The countries they were unable to bully into submission they tried to starve to death with “Sanctions”, just as Medieval bullies made their armies lay siege to towns they wanted to possess.

Iran never had any intention of attacking Israel or anybody else, but has been attacked three times in the course of less than a year.

1) In June last year, the so-called 12-day war,

2) Just two months ago,
when – as Scott Bessent boasted – the US administration’s maximum pressure campaign crashed the Iranian economy. Predictably, there were mass protests of people who couldn’t feed their children, while Mossad used its Twitter account in Farsi to encourage Iranians to protest against the Iranian regime, telling them that it will join them during the demonstrations.

Go out together into the streets. The time has come. We are with you. Not only from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field.

To make sure the Israeli agents provocateurs could coordinate their efforts, nefarious NED contributed 200 Starlink terminals. Hear the involuntary admission here. Indeed, thousands of people were killed.

3) Four days ago.
Among the first victims, that first day, were 48 little girls at school. Since then, they are simply killing indiscriminately, the Zionist way.

Iran has been ostracised by the USA since the self-styled shah something-or-other Palavi was put on the throne in the 1920s by, well actually, by the British. There was a brief spate of Democracy after WWII (when the British were too badly bruised to prevent it) but with US help they put a stop to Mosaddegh’s promising efforts in 1953.

They replaced him with the patently greedy and narcissistic former shah’s son, who had a beautiful wife. The European public just loved her. And he, too, cut a handsome figure in his uniform with all its gold medals and whatnots. He may have had some good intentions to begin with, but he soon became a grizzly dictator and was overthrown in a wave of popular fury – and with good reason – in 1979.

So I think we should ask ourselves what reason the Iranians have to trust or share our so-called “values”. To quote Iran’s deeply revered assassinated religious leader, Ali Khamenei, there is every reason not to:

No problem is solved through negotiations with America. The reason? Experience.

In the 2010’s, we sat down and negotiated with America for about two years.

They went, came, sat, stood, negotiated, talked, laughed, shook hands, became friends — they did everything.

A treaty was formed. In this treaty, the Iranian side was very generous. It gave many concessions to the other side. But the Americans did not implement the treaty.

Those with whom this treaty was signed did not implement it. The treaty was meant to lift U.S. sanctions. The U.S. sanctions were not lifted at all.

Iran is now defending itself. Finally. It’s time to listen to “the other side”. I recommend this Iranian voice on Channel 4 News

Frankly, if Iran destroys Israel – I don’t believe it will be able to, but – IF… IF … it should be able to, the entire area, the entire Middle East will be relieved of a terrible cancer.

Colonial powers, the UK, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium and even Denmark and Germany committed unfathomable crimes against humanity. Forget everything you might have heard about their so-called “civilising influence”! No crime was too base for them. However, to my knowledge, they no longer have colonies they can mistreat. France, it is true, has been bullying and exploiting several African countries, including Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali, which recently threw out the French. France is still engaging in dirty tricks to maintain its grip over the three nations which – I hope – are holding their ground. (I have not been following events there.) True, they are all military dictatorships, but when somebody is sitting on top of you, you need to resort to advanced martial arts.

In short, I have no other quarrel with former colonial powers than I have with any nation – and there are plenty – that give priority to the 1 %, or as people are increasingly referring to them, “the Epstein class”. I have greater quarrel, with the countries, including my own, that contribute to the exponentially accelerating ecological breakdown. The exponentially accelerating ecological breakdown is, I believe, a greater threat to mankind than even nuclear warfare.

BUT systematic slaughter, systematic mass starvation (by means of sanctions), and indiscriminate killings are un-for-givable.

Today, to my knowledge,

only Israel and the USA and,
yes, Sudan,
engage in
systematic slaughter,
systematic mass starvation of peoples
and indiscriminate killings.

(If I were one of the Sudanese leaders responsible for such crimes, I would live under the bed for the rest of my life. For shame.
The Epstein class doesn’t know the meaning of shame,

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They say that Khamenei had been warned, that his people had warned him, to go into hiding. He refused. They say that he allowed the enemy to make him a “martyr” so as to unite the Iranian people in self-defence.

Epitaph

01.03.2026 /

Ali Khamenei is dead, assassinated. I bow my head.

Yes, the Israeli Zionists aided by their US lackeys have once again done what they do best: assassination.

The European lackeys are – as Associated Press writes – cautious in their statements. What would they have said, I wonder, if the Zionists had killed the Pope?

I can well understand Iranian expats’ enthusiasm for the ongoing operation that may kill hundreds of thousands of their former compatriots. Many of them have had every reason to hate the Iranian “regime”.

But a word of warning: A “regime change”, if successful, will not bring Democracy to Iran. I repeat not. The US is not in the habit of bringing anything but desolation to the countries upon which it showers its deadly blessings. The US is only interested in helping itself (or its oligarchs) to the spoils.

As for the Israeli exterminators…. If there is a God somewhere, God help Iran!

(They are probably wishing they had that bomb after all.)

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