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That was quick

12.04.2026 /

So the negotiations have ended. In the old days, there was such a thing as “gentlemen’s agreements”. Those days are long, long gone, at least where the US or Israel are concerned, and the Iranians had few expectations. They certainly saw no reason to talk to the puppets Witkoff and Kushner. I suspect they were pressured by China to agree to “negotiate”. After all, China, too, suffers from the closure of the Hormuz Strait, not to mention the possible collapse of the global economy.

But the Hormuz strait is worth too much, for both Iran and the US.

Meanwhile, Israel, was doing its utmost to sabotage negotiations, as usual, targeting densely populated areas, as usual, killing children, as usual, and slaughtering mourners at funerals, as usual. Moreover, there is reason to fear that the Lebanese PM, and the Lebanese president are relinquishing sovereignty of their country to Israel. See also The Cradle. I see no discussions of this issue in the mainstream press.

European leaders are pusillanimous and hypocritical, also as usual. Typically, Sir Keir has now, under US pressure “paused” UK plans to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

You will know that the US has a military base there, Diego Garcia. The population of the entire Chagos Archipelago, mostly descendants of slaves brought to the Chagos Islands in the late 18th century were forcibly evicted from the islands between 1963 and 1971 to make room for the base. Why in Heaven’s name did the US have to have a military base there, of all places?

I ask you: Were you or your children or grandchildren (depending on your age) informed about this injustice at school? By the press, maybe?

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2019 and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (in 2021) both stated that the UK had an obligation to return the islands to Mauritius. (source as at 12/04/26)

Of course, neither the US nor Israel nor, it seems, the UK are particularly concerned about international law, Democracy or justice.

However, there is a sliver of hope on the horizon. Not all European leaders are sycophants and or hypocrites. Spain’s PM has dared say what others only dare think, referring to

“those who set the world on fire“

There are also faint signs that some countries are starting to wonder whether they should change horses. (With friends like the USA, who needs enemies?) Will there be a Taiwan turn-around?

Let’s hope that the Iranian delegates will be able to return home today without being targeted by homicidal maniacs.

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.

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.

Lebensraum

28.02.2026 /

So it has happened. What we knew would happen. Israel’s lust for lebensraum knows no limits, it seems.

And of course deceit is one of Israel’s trump cards: Attack during peace negotiations, by all means.

Many assumed that Trump didn’t really want this war. I believe they were right, if for no other reason, because a protracted war was not likely to sit well with his voters. And this war is expected to be protracted.

But the US president is hostage to Zionists in Israel and in his own country; because of the bribes (so-called donations) they pay, yes. But also, I think, because of something else.

The Epstein saga is basically being swept under the rug. Throw some pieces of meat (e.g. former Prince Andrew) to the lions (the public), and resume business as usual.

The “Democrate” elite isn’t talking either, not about Trump – which is unlike them
– not about anybody, because whatshisname had something on just about everybody in the nomenclature, and he passed what he had on to his masters.

Conspiracy theory? Certainly. But you will, I am sure, concede that US subservience to Israel is spectacular, to say the least. It is not – repeat – not in the USA’s interest to play Israel’s game. Maybe it was in the past, but it certainly is not now and hasn’t been for many years.

Secondly, the extent of redaction of the files that have been released raises eyebrows. The fact that nobody in the USA, as far as I know, is being charged with any crime related to Epstein-related shady activities raises eyebrow. (We know for a fact that he engaged in massive bribery, corruption, etc. and people in Europe are being charged.) Finally, the extent of material not being released raises eyebrows.

Three sets of raised eyebrows are not “evidence”, true, but they are indicative of – yes – a conspiracy.

Now let us sit back and watch the mayhem in the Middle East.

The princess and the frog

05.02.2026 /

We’re just human, after all, and being human tends to mean that we side with the princess rather than with the frog. So when the princess makes a false move, all the world is up in arms, but when the frog makes a false move, we hardly notice.

A certain princess in her glass cage was probably bored; indeed she explicitly said so to her “friend” Epstein, who had, after all, served his sentence and who must have been an extraordinarily interesting man, judging from the number of highly competent people who seemed to dote on him. Moreover, Norwegian royalty is merely ceremonial, so the princess is unlikely to have had access to state secrets to pass on, unlike some of her compatriots, among them a former prime minister, a former foreign minister and the famous “diplomatic couple”, fêted in the 2021 film Oslo.

The late Mr Arafat also made a false move back in 1993 and 1995. He signed the Oslo Accords, or rather he was cajoled and/or tricked into signing the Oslo Accords. Nobody wept. On the contrary, back then, most of us rejoiced. Only after many years have some of us – far from all – understood that those accords were a masterfully infernal, backhanded deception.

In the article The Oslo trap; How PLO signed its own death warrant Professor Raef Zreik explains the trap from a legal perspective, while Jasim Al-Azzawi adds colour to detail in You can’t see the forest for the trees: How the Oslo Accords became Israel’s greatest strategic victory.

Arafat failed to understand that the negotiating table itself was rigged, and he was on the menu. Most significantly, Arafat misjudged America’s role. He counted on the United States as an “honest broker”.

In essence they are both blaming the frog (Arafat was not a beautiful man, let’s face it). Until recently nobody blamed Terje Rød Larsen and Mona Juuel who are credited with having engineered the trap.

Raef Zreik, still a young and powerless Lawyer back in 1993 may have seen through the sham at the time, but all the world (and when we in the West say “all the world”, we usually mean the 12.5 % of the global population that inhabits our part of it) rejoiced. Today, almost all of us know that the US is far from an “honest broker”.

Back then, we believed that when a generation of brave American kids who had been brutally beaten demonstrating for civil rights and against the Vietnam war took charge, the US would mend its ways. The US had seen the film Missing, had listened to Arloe Guthrie, Angela Davis etc. And Clinton even played the saxophone! We rhapsodised about a new era.

Later, here in Norway, we were sure that after the disastrous Iraq war the US would finally have learnt. And again, after the financial crisis in 2008, some of us still hoped… Actually, to be fair to myself I had long since lost my illusions about the USA, not to mention Israel. But back in 1993 and 1995, I was still easily duped.

You see, there was this massacre in 1982. That was the first time, from my perspective at least, that the press was able to convey some of the horror we have regrettably grown quite used to: The Sabra and Shatila massacres. Quoting Wikipedia:

The Sabra and Shatila massacre was the 16–18 September 1982 killing of between 1,300 and 3,500 civilians—mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shias.

No matter how they turn this around in the blame game, it was and is clear to me that this was an expression of Israeli racist loathing. It became clear to me, that every Palestinian anywhere near Israel risked being exterminated. So ten years later, the Oslo Accords seemed preferable to extermination. Therefore, Prof. Zreik and Mr Al-Azzawi: don’t blame the Frog!

Blame the lionised diplomatic couple Terje Rød Larsen and Mona Juuel. Blame their employer, the Norwegian Foreign Service, who must now endure the shame of having been one of Jeffrey Epstein’s gullible targets. Please note, also, that with 12 US military bases on Norwegian soil, my country is a US vassal. If Trump “takes” Greenland and/or Iceland and/or the Svalbard archipelago, there will be nothing, nothing, we can do about it.

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Post scriptum: I suspect that Epstein’s collusion with powerful citizens in my country (and, in the event, yours) will not be properly examined by our judiciary: It is too embarrassing. I therefore urge you to search through the enormous cache of Epstein files. It is a treasure trove, consisting mostly of worthless pennies with the occasional ingot. Sifting through files under “rod larson” I found, for instance, Epstein’s will of 29 June 2017 – since revoked: Epstein designated three executors, one of whom is Terje Rød Larsen. Nowhere in the press have I seen this piece of information. This is, as I see it, an ingot which we can use to force our authorities to come clean on their collusion with the racist state of Israel.

Here is our gold mine:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein

Was there a Stand Down order?

29.09.2025 /

As we see more and more horrors – attacks on Venezuela, collusion in the killing of participants attending peace negotiations in Qatar, and the continued acceptance of the deliberate slaughter of all human beings living in Gaza – we realise that Charlie Kirk’s “hunch” might have been right.

No abomination, it seems, is too base for certain people. No abomination!

Fortunately, a small ray of decency is making its tortuous way along the Mediterranean. Like a flock of white wagtails seeking winter quarters in the Middle East, some 40 to 50 civilian boats with fluttering Palestinian flags are on their way to Gaza with food, water and medicines. With thousands of participants from more than 44 countries, the Sumud is the largest civilian-led convoy of its kind in history, according to Wikipedia.

Source: https://globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/

Reuters writes: “Italy and Spain have deployed navy ships close to the flotilla for rescue and humanitarian tasks.” Bravo, Italy. Bravo, Spain. Because there have already been a number of drone attacks on the flotilla.

But what about Norway? There are 9 Norwegians in the flotilla. And what about Germany, France, UK? Was recognition of Palestinian statehood no more than nauseating hypocrisy? Are the leaders of the European states no better than the leaders of the USA, i.e. so vile that they merit being locked away on a diet of bread and water for good? 19 sanctions packages against Russia and a military build-up unheard of since WWII, but nothing – absolutely nothing to stop the killing machine in the Middle East.

Disgusting, quite simply. Sickening.

Recognition?

08.08.2025 /

One by one, countries are “recognising” Palestine as a state. I ask myself: What does that effectively mean? Will those countries stop importing Israeli goods? Will they withdraw funds invested in Israel? Will they instantly halt all trade with and financial services to Israel?
Of course not; money talks louder than justice.

Will they send UN troops to throw the illegal settlers out of the illegally occupied West Bank? Will they boycott the US that blocks all Security Council resolutions aimed at defending the Palestinians? Will the ICC condemn the country that is arming and financing Israel and protecting it militarily?
Of course not; the top dog calls the shots.

I put to you that all this “recognition” talk of Palestine is just lip-service, just a cover-up. We – the general public in most “Western” countries – are seeing some of what is going on in Gaza, partly thanks to the testimony of the brave and heartbroken US Lt Colonel Tony Aguilar, but above all because numerous journalists have volunteered their lives in Gaza, knowing that the IDF systematically kill journalists and health workers.

We – the general public in most “Western” countries – are shocked and increasingly angry. We are casting about us for our pitchforks. One by one, then, governments have to pretend to be doing the decent thing before the old pitchforks in ramshackle tool sheds have been located.

Yes, recognising the state of Palestine is a step in the right direction, but it will not stop the genocide; it will not deter Israel’s imperialist ambitions in the Middle East. It will not in any way prevent Israel from exterminating Palestinian “untermenschen”, and also the “untermenschen” of neighbouring countries, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, to begin with.

The Israelis need “lebensraum”, you see.” They are taking their cues from the wrong teachers. (And I don’t think the Christian Zionists should count on going to heaven either.)

And we, “nous autres”, we are under the US heel, as Santa Ursula has just demonstrated so very eloquently. “Master, tell us how we can serve you.”

Nevertheless, recognition of the state of Palestine is important. Vital.

A state has the right to defend itself.

Did you know – I didn’t till George Galloway, not the mainstream media, informed me – that the captain of the Palestinian football team was murdered waiting in line for food? The mainstream is absolutely useless!

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