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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.

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.

Angry

01.08.2019 /

I’m angry. Very angry. Not as angry as a terrorist (at least I assume terrorists must be angry) since I’m not angry enough to kill or even condone killing. But I’m angry enough to fall silent and remain silent for days on end.

Watching the elephantine spectacle of US politics makes me so angry that I have to turn off the news, would you believe it! How can a country that considers itself the greatest, the best, and the strongest etc., etc., etc., be so full of fools that a tottering business-as-usual conservative is deemed the only candidate likely to topple you-know-who?

Come on, people, wake up, for Petes’ sakes!! We are really and truly balancing on the brink of global climate disaster (not least thanks to you-know-who) and we are really and truly on the verge of yet another unforgivable war in the Middle East (exclusively thanks to you-know-who). But you almost all seem to be blissfully asleep, dazed or drunk – what do I know?

Until less than a week ago, I would never have had the temerity to express myself so offensively against a whole nation. But I swear (this is getting worse by the second – so I’m swearing now?) that the US educational system is what Spaniards would call “un desastre”. An absolute shambles! Allowing the majority of your kids, generation after generation, to leave school without knowing how to stay reasonably informed about the rest of the world, let alone their own part of it, is a crime against an entire population, and the Democratic party is evidently not going to do anything about it.

I say nothing of the others, the non-Democratic Party, but believe me, in a just world they would be indicted and convicted by a global tribunal for crimes not only against their own nation but against humanity.

Even your home turf is seedy. I’ve been looking at US crime statistics, life expectancy, child mortality, food insecurity, etc. etc. Mind you, most US official sites put on their Sunday best, so you won’t learn much there, but take a look at your nothing less than spectacular ranking here and an extremely interesting glimpse into a related issue here. This one from the CNN is somewhat embarrassing in view of the fact that the US spends more per capita on health than any other country. And as for child mortality...

So I zoom out again, from hurricane-ridden USA to a world facing yet another unforgivable – yes, I am repeating the word “unforgivable” war in the Middle East. Have you guys any idea of what it must be like to be an ordinary citizen in Afghanistan or Iraq not to mention Jemen? Of course you don’t. Do you guys at all care? Stop ranting about Iran and take a look at the blood-stained Saudi-led coalition.

There is one man who knows more about the modern-day Middle East than almost anybody else in the entire world. His name is Robert Fisk – just google him, and you will see his medals.

Until less than a week ago, I would not have written all that I have just written. But less than a week ago, I read another one of Robert Fisk’s pieces. Pieces? It was more like an outburst, a verbal explosion. None of his normally cool analysis, just fury. His patience had obviously been strained to the limit. I fear Robert Fisk may be charged with defamation, but for me, his “piece” felt exhilarating. Mind you Robert Fisk would probably disagree with me on many issues, but his insight is crucial and invaluable and it is being ignored by the nincompoops that are playing games at the top of the world.

In the mean time, I state my humble opinion about the world’s most hated country (last paragraph, and that was 15 years ago): You-know-who is merely the product, not the cause. Something is rotten at the very core of the United States of America, which could have been such a wonderful nation.

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