There are two things which are extremely difficult to find in Venezuela – government repression and opposition support. I am pretty long in the tooth and very experienced in understanding politics and people around the world, and I have found it difficult to locate either.
I would particularly warn you against accepting the political prisoners narrative. There have been excesses, particularly after the unrest following the last disputed elections, but the large majority of those claimed to be political prisoners have been involved in actual, physical attempts to overthrow the government by force, or are involved in drugs related gangs. A combination of credulity, disinformation and the activity of NGOs supported by Western security agencies has presented you with an entirely false picture. I am sorry to say that generally decent organisations like HRW and Amnesty have been particularly credulous.
I absolutely do not support the claim that the opposition achieved two thirds of the vote at the last election. It is an absurdity. There were one million people at Maduro’s closing rally and 50,000 people at the opposition closing rally. Many of the alleged voting tallies the opposition published were obviously fake. There simply is no groundswell of anti-government opinion here, below or above ground.
The bars in which I spend my evenings generally cater to the wealthier and are in the opposition heartlands of Altamira and Las Mercedes. People naturally assume a westerner is anti-Chavismo. The wealthy speak English so they are more or less the only people I can relax into conversation with. Talking to people in bars is my natural milieu. There is no domestic appetite for regime change and literally not one person has ever expressed enthusiasm for Machado.
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Thank you, Craig. Excellent work as usual.
It seems your website is being very heavily suppressed, as there are still no comments (apart from this one)…
Neil,
From my location in the Caribbean I do not see any block or change to Craig’s website.
What views have you heard about the incident with the armed “Miami Cubans” on the speedboat and Cuban border security? Of the people on the speedboat, four are reported killed and six injured and captured. The commander of the border patrol boat was also injured.
The calibre of the USA political leadership is evident in the following response from vice-president J D Vance: “The US administration does not view the incident in Cuban waters as particularly serious.” What kind of wretch says that sort of thing when people have been killed – that the incident is “not particularly serious”? Whatever you think of Vance, he is not competent to be in a leadership position where he has responsibility for other people.
https://tass.com/world/2091961
To clarify, I mean that any notifications of a new post on your site are being suppressed on all the main platforms. The site itself appears to be working OK.
(my main worry right now is that X has deleted the contents of the “View more” link on my X profile – that I have spent dozens of hours writing and polishing – and is refusing to let me type/paste in a replacement version; according to Grok this has been happening to lots of other people as well). Sorry for going slightly off-topic.
Hold the front page – Web 2.0 was a bait and switch operation. I hope you kept a copy of your stuff – a copy on your own equipment.
The site is working fine for me.
The site is also coming across loud and clear here in Toronto.
I have contacted local news organizations suggesting they make use of your material. They have not been of much use on past attempts, but who knows.
Thanks for your good work.
Nice going. Forwarded the link to your latest report to my MP.
Some comments on the video.
10,000 isn’t a very large turnout for a large city – where did the turnout estimate come from? The police?
The demo was I think Government organised?
The interviews were not really interviews, more addresses to camera by the interviewees.
And the interviewees seemed to be activists, not random vox pops. (The last interviewee was an exception I think.)
No awkward questions were put to the interviewees, such as the Acting President’s relations with the Trump regime.
We saw very little of the second demo, the camera operator didn’t pan around. And the sole interviewee was, to put it mildly, unsympathetic.
(Maybe they were all as unpleasant?)
Did the Camera operator provide the estimate of numbers? (Or did the police?)
Who were the participants, who organised the second demo?
And what were they protesting against?
I have been following events in Venezuela since the early Chavez days.
It continues to amaze me how little observers in particularly the European West understand what the real situation is there.
The constitution and particularly the electoral process there is one of the most democratic in the world, thanks in large part to the changes Chavez bought about. Way better I would say than our UK based systems.
Yes there was and still is strong opposition to Chavez social policies. Opposition politicians are well represented in the sitting government. The majority of Venezuelans appear to be solidly in favour of what Chavez and then Maduro have accomplished, despite the crippling sanctions and theft of their assets, such as their gold which was being held for safekeeping in UK vaults.
Life expectancy, education and living conditions for the poor have all improved significantly. I understand literacy in Venezuela is in the high 90s% . Match this with the US that has recently fallen below 80%.
I heard that the US invasion force hung around so long off the coast of Venezuela because US politicians were convinced that that was all that was needed to have Venezuelans rise up against their own government. Of course it never happened.
The Western governments always end up believing their own propaganda. That will be their downfall.
The first country to achieve full literacy in America was Cuba under Fidel Castro. Second was Venezuela under Hugo Chavez. Third was Bolivia under Morales.
I once said that in a conversation with two establishment Brits – one of whom used to post in the comments section here, and who was probably spook-connected. You should have seen the frisson that travelled between them.
Further north in America, I liked that Greenland MP who said the USA have got nothing that we’d want to swap for anything we’ve got.
Not sure I understand this bit: “The Western governments always end up believing their own propaganda. That will be their downfall.” For example everyone in senior positions at the British Council is fully aware that it’s a propaganda organisation, not an army of truth-bringers.
Consider applying this ultra-sceptical analysis to the infinitely more widely-viewed pro-regime change reports by the likes of the BBC. (You know, state broadcaster of the country still occupying your own.)
zoot
February 24, 2026 at 01:54
My comments aren’t “ultra-sceptical” just, I hope, analytical,
I’m making suggestions as to how Craig’s video presentations could, imo, be improved.
With which of my comments do you disagree?
“There are two things which are extremely difficult to find in Venezuela – government repression and opposition support. I am pretty long in the tooth and very experienced in understanding politics and people around the world, and I have found it difficult to locate either.”
I am afraid that there are those who will simply say that you are just not looking hard enough, implying either lack of effort or not wanting to find any. They, at their keyboards many thousands of miles away, are convinced that these things are there and that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Bayard
February 23, 2026 at 18:29
But it is true that “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” though in Bayesian statistics inferences may be drawn.
I doubt it Craig is bothered by my comments, I hope not.
But if “government repression and opposition support” do exist in Venezuela, I don’t think that they would be detected by the approach that we see in the videos.
“But it is true that “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” …”
Is it? Do you believe in leprechauns and, if not, why not? Obviously it wouldn’t be because no one has ever actually photographed one.
Bayard
February 24, 2026 at 08:51
Absence of evidence is just that.
In the case of Venezuela (your example of “leprechauns” notwithstanding), Craig’s videos show no policemen and very little evidence of opposition activity. The (we are told) small opposition demonstration is an example (rare?) of the latter.
Of course a reluctance to walk the camera past one of the well-known prisons where opposition members have until recently been held may help to explain the lack of policemen in the several videos posted.
A visit to an opposition HQ might also be informative.
Even here in peaceful Boulevard Leopold III (the “leprechaun” Rebellion has been crushed) a discreet police presence is maintained.
JK. redux.
Oh I’m sure some fabricated evidence could be put forward, Machado – would be a good bet to find some – if not, they can always blame the Russians, why not, they are blamed for everything else.
Oh wait there’s the Cartel of the Suns, ah, sorry that nonsense has already been debunked as propaganda, oh well.
It’s been four years since Russia stopped the genocide in the Donbas – meanwhile – it been two-and a bit years, since the West’s leaders backed the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Republicofscotland
February 24, 2026 at 13:16
“It’s been four years since Russia stopped the genocide in the Donbas”…
Aye right.
The truth is that it is four long years since Putin, a bloody handed sociopath, resumed with vastly increased numbers and barbarism his 2014 invasion of Ukraine.
You may not care about the murders of Ukrainians young and old, male and female, civilian and military.
Perhaps you care for the hundreds of thousands of young Russians killed and maimed?
And for what?
“Absence of evidence is just that.”
Maybe so, but that doesn’t make it not evidence for absence. The entirety of science is based on the idea that absence of evidence is evidence for absence. How do we know that, for instance, the sun will rise every morning (even if it simply illuminates the tops of the clouds)? We don’t, but we do know that there has never been a recorded occasion that it hasn’t. Ditto an object falling towards the centre of the earth when released into the air, stationary. All scientific theories and laws are based on the result of observations and the lack of any observations of any phenomena that contradict those theories. “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” is just one of those sayings that people like you come out with when you want something to be there, but can’t find any evidence for it.
There are an infinite number of things for which there is no evidence whatsoever, from unicorns to dragons to flying spaghetti monsters, but no-one in their right minds believes that still doesn’t prove they don’t exist.
As to your suggestions, were Craig to follow them up, I am sure you would be able to think of other ways to waste his time. Why don’t you fly out to Venezuela and look? At least it won’t be raining there.
Bayard
February 24, 2026 at 17:52
“The entirety of science is based on the idea that absence of evidence is evidence for absence”
Nope.
The scientific method is based on evidence, leading to theories (mathematical models of nature) that make predictions which can be tested.
Einstein’s General Theory correctly predicted the precession of the perihelion of Mercury – unexplained by Newton’s mechanics.
Meh.
You’re kinda right, JK, if a little muddled.
Newtonian mechanics was capable of explaining Mercury’s perihelion problem. It needed there to be another inferior planet, viz Vulcan, and this was predicted to exist. Einstein’s general relativity did not “predict” the precession (it was observed long before) but it explained it and it explained the absence of evidence for Vulcan.
Mart
February 25, 2026 at 12:59
“Newtonian mechanics was capable of explaining Mercury’s perihelion problem. It needed there to be another inferior planet, viz Vulcan, and this was predicted to exist. Einstein’s general relativity did not “predict” the precession (it was observed long before) but it explained it and it explained the absence of evidence for Vulcan.”
You are arguing about the use of the word “predict”.
It is commonly used in physics in this context.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/26408/what-did-general-relativity-clarify-about-mercury
A more careful phrasing would be that GR predicted the 43 arcseconds per century of precession that is not predicted by Newtonian mechanics.
We have come far from a discussion of Venezuela and its Government.
“The truth is that it is four long years since Putin, a bloody handed sociopath, resumed with vastly increased numbers and barbarism his 2014 invasion of Ukraine.”
J K redux.
Your truth and the West’s truth – but not the real truth, Ukraine was couped by the Yanks in 2014 – that is undeniable – prior to 2014 – the Western media reported regularly on Ukraine’s love affair with Nazism – post the 2014 coup, the West’s media – all but done a 180 – and pushed the mantra that Ukraine didn’t have a problem with Nazism.
The Azov, the Kraken and the Aidar, Neo Nazi brigades – were in the process of committing genocide in the Donbas – eight years prior to 2014, one can only ponder on how many war crimes they’ve committed – but thankfully it ended, or was in the process of ending when Russia stepped in, to stop the genocide and prevent Nato nukes positioned on Russia’s borders.
Meanwhile – the West’s leaders continue to back the Zio-Nazi’s committing genocide in Palestine, Western leaders just love their Nazi’s in one form or another.
‘Western leaders just love their Nazi’s in one form or another.’
Birds of a feather…
“The scientific method is based on evidence, leading to theories (mathematical models of nature) that make predictions which can be tested.”
Nope. In the scientific method, the observations come first. These are not evidence, they are merely observations. Then a theory is formulated to explain the observed phenomena. The next step is to carry out experiments to try and observe phenomena which are counter to the theory. If, after repeated testing, no such phenomena are observed, the theory can be held to be “true” for practical purposes. However, scientists are encouraged to keep up the process of testing the theory in case there is a particular case in which the theory does not adequately describe the phenomena observed in which case a new theory can be put forward that takes these new observations into account. This is the scientific method. Up until Einstein, Newton’s theory of Gravitational attraction was held to be true because of the absence of evidence that it wasn’t. If there was any evidence that it wasn’t true, as Einstein found out, then it wouldn’t have been held to be true, therefore the absence of evidence that it wasn’t true was taken as evidence of absence of any situation that wasn’t explained by the theory. If we adhere to absence of evidence not being evidence of absence, then nothing can ever be true as absence of evidence that it is not true in that there hasn’t been any experiment that produced phenomena not explained by it is all we have to go on. Under the scientific method things are held to be proved only to the extent they haven’t been disproved.
Mind you, the scientific method is so last century. Nowadays we’ve dispensed with all that time-consuming continual testing of theories. Theories are produced and experiments are carried out to “prove” them. When sufficient “proof” has been accumulated and any results that don’t prove the theory have been discarded, the theories are announced as the immutable truth and anyone who dares question them is vilified as acting from malign motives.
B : “Nope. In the scientific method, the observations come first.”
With gravity waves? With Hawking radiation? The effect of gravity in bending light? There are countless examples when the observation was made to try and determine whether what had been predicted would happen, sometimes many decades later – or are you claiming such things are not science?
Not sure what you are talking about in your final paragraph. Perhaps you can illustrate the point with examples, but I doubt it. By examples, I mean actual concrete examples – not just your assertions – I hope you understand the difference.
Republicofscotland
February 25, 2026 at 14:46
Ros.
To repeat my question:
“Perhaps you care for the hundreds of thousands of young Russians killed and maimed?
And for what?”
JK redux @22.20.
They are defending their country from Western hegemony – the West (especially the USA) killed and maimed them using Ukrainian’s as their proxies – something the US has done before, in other nations – only this time it didn’t quite turn out the way Nato wanted it to.
“There are countless examples when the observation was made to try and determine whether what had been predicted would happen”
How did the predictor know to make the prediction about phenomena, without observing them first? Are you suggesting that the predictor of gravity waves was ignorant of the effects of gravity before they made their prediction?
Any prediction that does not derive from previous observation of the phenomena to which the prediction relates is not so much a prediction as a prophesy and is not in the realm of science but that of religion.
“The truth is that it is four long years since Putin, a bloody handed sociopath, resumed with vastly increased numbers and barbarism his 2014 invasion of Ukraine.”
A little thought experiment: It is now 2045. There has been a referendum in Northern Ireland, which was won by those who wished to rejoin the rest of Ireland. The previous year there was a bad financial crash and Ireland, like many other EU countries, struggled economically. The EU, however decided to apply the same austerity measures to Ireland as it did to Greece many decades previously. Popular unrest culminated in protests in Dublin which turned violent and people were killed. The government, which had close ties to the British government, was blamed for the deaths and the violence got worse. The government called a snap election which was won, overwhelmingly, by Sinn Fein, which quickly returns to its nationalist and communist roots. Close ties are established with Russia as money is borrowed from there to tide the new government over the financial crisis. Laws are passed that enforce the use of Irish as the national language, with the use of English to phased out over five years, after which everyone must speak Irish as their everyday language. The Church of Ireland is closed down and only Catholic churches remain open. Up in the North, the Protestants rebel. A newly reformed IRA is sent to deal with them. A second civil war breaks out.
How would you expect the British government to react to this? Sit on their arses and do nothing? If they intervened, would you consider that an unprovoked invasion simply for the purposes of re-establishing the United Kingdom that existed before WWI?
Republicofscotland
February 26, 2026 at 10:58
You said that the hundreds of thousands of young Russians died “… defending their country from Western hegemony – the West (especially the USA) killed and maimed them using Ukrainian’s as their proxy”.
No Ros, they died in the conduct of a war of choice. The brutal invasion of a Slav neighbour by a narcissist sociopath.
The hundreds of thousands of young Russians were killed and maimed by the heroic defenders of Ukraine – in Ukraine.
Слава Україн
J K redux @932.am
Heroic defenders you say – don’t you really mean Neo-Nazi’s backed up by Nato troops -both who took a pounding from the RF, but of course you missed out the Neo-Nazi/Nato invasion of Kursk – in which it also ended with the Neo-Nazi’s and the Nato forces getting thumped – by the RF, and of course its ally NK, aided in the repelling of the invasion.
I can only hope Trump’s obtuseness towards Nato, and Fico and Orban’s stances against the EU’s now authoritarian overtures with regards to members, sees both belligerent, and genocide backing bodies dissolved, and maybe some normality and common sense will return to Europe.
I don’t speak Russian but to counter your I take it, its Ukrainian words, I thought I’d post the below.
да здравствует россия
Starmer, nor his colonial puppet Swinney – speaks for me on Ukraine
Republicofscotland
February 27, 2026 at 10:16
To call the Ukrainian counterattack against Kursk an invasion is obtuse.
A counterattack launched from the territory of the invaded country against the territory of the invader is not an “invasion”.
Perhaps you believe that the Red Army attacks on Nazi German territory in 1944/5 were “invasions”?
Really?
@ J K redux – of course the Red Army invaded Germany to defeat that country’s forces after Germany invaded the USSR. And yes the Kiev regime has invaded the Kursk region, although those who say they have taken Kursk are being overly dramatic and are calling on a somewhat false comparison with WW2, in which war the Battle of Kursk was probably the most important in the European theatre. The city of Kursk which has a population of about 400,000 is in no danger of falling to Kiev forces.
The Russo-Ukrainian war was started by Kiev government-supported and to large extent neo Nazi-implemented attacks on Donetsk and Luhansk after those territories legitimately declared independence after genuine referendums. Those territories are Russian and so are the Crimea, Sevastopol, Kherson, and Zaporozhye.
It is remarkable that Zelensky, a man previously known for pretending to play Hava Nagila on a piano with his penis, is still in office.
For a comparison, imagine if tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of soldiers from England, Scotland, and Wales were dying in a conflict to annex Cork, because a government led by a character from “Yes Minister” was running the British government.
@Bayard – If I understand right, you have replied to a post that referenced Bayesian statistics with the question “Do you believe in leprechauns?” Bayesian statistics is all about having opinions about likelihoods and updating them, not saying is something 0% or 100% likely. See Cromwell’s rule. I would not trust someone as a deep thinker who insisted that the existence of leprechauns has 0% probability. I’d also suspect that they hadn’t thought much about what a leprechaun is and what it means for one to “exist”.
True, I didn’t answer the point about Bayesian statistics, as I thought it irrelevant as we weren’t discussing probabilities, although a more pertinent question would perhaps have been to ask what probability JKR set on there actually being such creatures as leprechauns as the availability of evidence for that probability is the same as that for definite existence, i.e. none.
Thank you for sharing your perspective, it is important. Your reports display a sincerity that I’ve seldom detected in the licensed press, they are however merely apologist’s for which ever regime granted their license. It appears the saying, “don’t bite the hand that feeds you” is their guiding principle.
Funnily enough I’ve just come across a Jeremy Bowen BBC report from a while ago which is hilarious.
In the video Jeremy Bowen is breathlessly reporting from a place in Ukraine ( don’t know where) lying on the ground beneath a small sort of pile of soil and grass.
He is ‘under fire ‘ from a Russian attack.
His cameraman or woman is filming his attack.
Suddenly into the picture an elderly Ukranian lady with a bag of shopping walks over to him and asks him if he is alright?
Let’s hope for the sake of doubters on here that Craig doesn’t resort to that type of theatrical reporting.
Of course not.
The problem for the MSM and its reporters they have the habit of doing Hit and Run stories so, once Trump kidnapped Maduro and his wife and they had landed safely into the ever loving arm of the US that was it.
I have not seen any reports from Venezuela in the MSM – except when Trumps speaks about it (he’s probably forgotten about by now) and Western MSM outlets seem uninterested as well.
As usual they are onto the next story because there is one thing the MSM do badly and that is to anticipate a story – they only react and then follow.
Kudos to Craig as, at least he is trying to find out what may be going on in that Country but, the US (for Epstein reasons ) and the British Media are busy trying to ride two horses at once vis: Andy Mountbatten and protecting the Royal Family at all times – no matter what.
It will be a complete shock to them if Trump is stupid enough to attack Iran.
Their story presentation hierarchy will be shattered.
The last gem I heard from the BBC was a description of Zionist Settlers ‘ Confiscating ‘ Palestinian Land.
Surely she meant nicking it armed with guns?
Or maybe not as that is not allowed.
Thanks for these, Craig. Powerful final point contrasting the lightly-policed, unmolested opposition rally in Caracus with the frenzied brutalisation of anti-genocide protesters in Australia.
Yes, and the contrast with the recent beating to death of a protester in France. In the west you are free to demonstrate but you’ll possibly be arrested and beaten by the police or opposition groups or zionists or all three. Western democracy !
JK Redux —
Most progress in “science” is finding and exploiting lines of rational thought which lead to an increase in the range of practical technology. Occasionally it’s realised that the basis of these lines of thought is not in fact true. Even then, there’s no general intellectual revolution until the technology arises: nobody much cared about E = m x C^2 until 1942……
Frank Waring
February 25, 2026 at 11:42
Frank, why the quotes round science?
You say ” no general intellectual revolution until the technology arises: nobody much cared about E = m x C^2 until 1942……”.
Science (theoretical physics in this case) isn’t easy for the average person to grasp.
General (and Special) Relativity have never entered general cultural discourse because of the level of mathematical difficulty and conceptual complexity.
Even though the E=mc^2 formula is frequently referred to in the mass media (SF films etc) I expect that very few people (other than those with scientific training) understand its meaning.
PS none of the above is intended to be disparaging of you!
JK Redux:
“science” is in quotes because it is frequently used in discussions like this in order to isolate an area of discourse which it is implied is more cleanly rational. But even in this area, truth mainly means usefulness. ‘Rays’ of light are often thought of and usefully used as if they were entities. More accurately (ie, truthfully), they are directions (which could be called unit vectors if you like to use maths terminology). In this framework, these directions are said to be ‘normals to a wavefront’. Richard Feynman famously maintained that light is not waves, and that if you think you ‘understand’ what it is — as contrasted with ‘being able to do the sums’ about it — you don’t.
The next sentence is a crude and therefore palpably ridiculous attempt to persuade that something similar is the case in the arena of international affairs. I think that if you start your thinking from ‘utility’, in the economic sense, you are more likely to find that what is happening in Venezuela is the collapse of an oppressive dictatorship, and if you start from ‘ethics’ you are more likely to see the attempted reinstatement of an oligarchy.
Frank Waring
February 26, 2026 at 10:11
“Even in this area, truth mainly means usefulness”.
Sorry Frank but sez who? You are proposing (I think) a definition of truth that seems novel but unlikely imo to be accepted.
As to “The next sentence is a crude and therefore palpably ridiculous attempt to persuade that something similar is the case in the arena of international affairs.”. To what sentence of mine are you objecting?
Thank you for showing and interviewing the views of the demonstrators, which were clear, i.e. you kidnapped our president for no other reason than greed, malice and conntrol of ever diminishing resources which do not belong to you, acts of international pirates.
Nowt to do with quantum mechanics.
Just commented on the historic byelection on Brian Reds created thread of Britain related issues other than this.
Here we go. USA/Israel has attacked Iran.
Pre emptive strike? This was an act of war, an attack, what were they pre empting? Tehran running out of water?
This is designed to cause a regime change a la Iraq with ongoing future exploitation of Irans oil reserves, stifling their trade with China and Russia, Indonesia and more.
As usual, the fraudster Ziocrook carries on to run away from justice choosing the flight forward into more wars to steal land and resource grabs in the middle east.
I call this terrorrising and destabilising the world with malice.
Indeed… On the BBC, all the talk is about a “pre-emptive strike”.
Didn’t we used to call that an “unprovoked attack”?
“Didn’t we used to call that an “unprovoked attack”?”
They are synonyms. If the attack is on of the West’s designated enemies, it’s a “preemeptive strike”. An attack by one of those enemies is an “unprovoked attack”. It’s like “bramble” and “briar”, two different ways of referring to the same concept.
Good job the gross criminality of this attack is being conveyed to the public by our fanatically-imperialist/ zionist political-media class.
It is so tiresome and so twisted, so US and Israel keep threatening Iran for months, saying they will attack Iran etc, massing enourmous military hardware just outside Iran and in bases throughout the Middle East and Iran nontheless in goodwill engage in diplomacy even though they have full right to have a nuclear program, they have full right to have missiles. But Iran is framed as the culprit now, Iran that is being attacked is framed as the insitgator of the war?! If anything Iran would have the legal right to pre-emptively strike US and Israel.
US is really lost to zionist causes, it is wholly occupied by israeli interests.
Indeed. And any Iranian response will be framed as insane, criminal and unprovoked terrorism.
It’s every Western government that is zionist-controlled barring a few exceptions. Do not expect Sir Lancelot Mark Carney to express any Resistance to Trump on this one.
zoot
Exactly, I was about to write about Carney too, all those western leaders that recently admitted/blasted that the US is not lead by international law etc. Where are they today? A prime example and a good opportunity for them to condemn the naked aggression today, but no. Apparently Carney and & rest of the West is as hypocritial and obviously not lead by international law either.
Trump has said that the Iranian population should
kneel down to the USAtake over the Iranian government, and that this will be their last chance for generations. I wonder if the fool realises what he’s saying. He seems to be saying the USA might lose this war. He’d be right about that. The USA has lost several wars, and I hope they lose this one. Or else he’s threatening the population with 100 years of compradore government that they won’t be able to remove. Perhaps he thinks the message will be heard as “I love you” by the Iranian population. It won’t.Meanwhile the US ambassador to the Occupation in Palestine, Mike Huckabee, a Southern Baptist pastor, has said that “Israel” would be justified in taking the whole of the land between the Nile and the Euphrates. Apparently that’s what a Jewish deity said, according to Jewish mythology and legend that was later weirdly adopted by a breakaway religion. It’s also what the two blue lines mean on the Occupation’s flag.
Huckabee remains in post, so we can assume the host regime doesn’t have a problem with what he said. Perhaps they even wrote it for him.
Is this the first time that such a senior figure in the USA administration has said this so openly?
This reminds me of Michael Gove, who said in January 2025 that the “Israeli” Defence Forces should receive a Nobel Peace Prize. A few months later he became Baron Gove in the House of Lords. (His extreme love of the Occupation was also evident in his book “Celsius 7/7”, in which he portrays Arab culture as inferior.)
Sorry for the cliché, but the “Overton window” is moving. The kind of things previously only said by e.g. Meir Kahane, Avigdor “nuke the Aswan dam” Liebermann, and Itamar “my hero is Baruch Goldstein” Ben-Gvir – these have started to be said by leading figures in the USA and its satellites – and we can expect this to continue.
If he’s not too busy promoting the Green party, George Galloway should respond to Mike Huckabee’s “from the Nile to the Euphrates” comment, because the meaning of the two blue lines on the flag is something George has mentioned before.
Last comment: Kahane by the way was a monarchist, and the crown is now a favoured symbol – e.g. sprayed on the ruins of Arab houses they’ve destroyed – in the Occupation’s armed forces. This also connects with “we are God to you”.
Recall and never forget.
https://israelrescue.org/stories/a-night-of-hope-and-unity-in-jerusalem-u-s-ambassadors-huckabee-and-friedman-join-musical-tribute-for-united-hatzalah-ahead-of-hostages-return-home/
And,
“Sir Trevor Chinn, who has funded Keir Starmer and Labour Together, was awarded Israel’s highest civilian honour”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-labour-megadonor-won-israeli-medal-of-honour/
Stevie Boy
Yes Trump and Netanyahu’s attacks on Iran are illegal under International Laws, which the US and Israel do not abide by – the USA is a rogue state attacking whatever nation it sees fit to attack – in Iran’s case Trump is attacking Iran – because Netanyahu told him to do it, mind you Iran was on the document that referred to the regime change of seven nations, that was leaked in the US years ago.
I’m no fan of the theocratic regime – but that doesn’t give the US/Israel and its compliant minions the right to attack Iran and illegally kidnap, the democratically elected president of Venezuela.
What’s required is large scale strikes on Washington and the US in general, to give the Americans a taste of their own medicine – as Americans think they are immune to retribution.
“All American and Israeli assets and interests in the Middle East have become a legitimate target,” a senior Iranian official told Al Jazeera. “There are no red lines after this aggression.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/28/world-reacts-to-us-israel-attack-on-iran-tehran-retaliation
@RoS – “What’s required is large scale strikes on Washington and the US in general, to give the Americans a taste of their own medicine – as Americans think they are immune to retribution.”
👍
Totally agreed that this should extend not just throughout the Middle East but to Washington, the rest of the USA, and all USA facilities anywhere in the world.
Hopefully this will be “Goodnight, Jose” too for the despotic regimes of the Gulf that the British royal family love so much. Anyone who thinks Dubai is a really nice place – a common view among moderately rich people in Britain – deserves contempt. Soon it will no longer be a such a magnet for shallow rich tw*ts who love talking about price tags and who are completely bereft of imagination, brain cells, and any intellectual interests worth talking about.
PS Is there anyone else here who likes “Americano” coffee? What shall we call it instead? For a short while I called it “Greenlando”. We need another name.
Brian Red.
Starmer has just made a speech – in which he says we the British people stand with Israel and the USA – Starmer says there’s British planes in the sky to protect British interests and the British people – Starmer doesn’t speak for me and, he probably doesn’t speak for a lot of people living on the British isles.
Meanwhile the US rogue state is wildly out of control.
“The US regime invaded Venezuela and kidnapped its president, and is subjecting him to a show trial in New York.
Now the US is also blocking the Venezuelan government from paying for Maduro’s legal representation.
So he can’t even defend himself”
There is a world of difference between British people and “British interests”. I don’t have any interests in the Middle East. Do you? I suspect that “British interests” simply means the wealth of billionaires, or what they consider opportunities for them to get even richer.
America-No
Aktungjudeno, Antisemito, Zogo, …
“PS Is there anyone else here who likes “Americano” coffee? What shall we call it instead?”
Wankiyanki? You have to remember that there is a whole continent called America which is not the USA, despite the Yanks appearing to think it is.
Hopefully Iran will rapidly close the straits of Hormuz, that will quickly focus the Orange one’s smallest organ.
Meanwhile, Starmer has said: “Iran must never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon”; forgetting that he and Macron have been plotting to smuggle Nukes into Ukraine, hypocricy or what ?
And, Israel described the ‘pre-emptive’ strikes as being “aimed at neutralizing threats posed by Iran”, which must be why they killed ‘seventy’ students in an airstrike on a girls’ primary school in the city of Minab, in the south of Iran, hypocricy or what ?
But its a just war chants Albanese and Carney in unison and our ZOG nations supports Israeli action, always ….
Iran has closed the Straits of Hormuz, around 30% of the worlds oil tankers pass through the straits, on their way to deliver oil to countries.
Allegedly israel killed both Khamenei and iranian PM Masoud Pezeshkian today.
It is a bit tragic that Iran cannot be better prepared than this, they were caught surprised just like last summer and the response have been quite meek, missiles again, really? They should have infiltrated the whole region, targeting american bases and soldiers – working on the ground. Instead they adhered to the uselessness of sending missile barrage that is in majority shot down anyway. At the same time what could Iran really do? Atleast they did not bow down, they fought to the end which is more one can say about the 500 million arabs that enabled this attack and the genocide in Gaza.
Syria, Venezuela , Iran (?) all toppled while Russia and China look upon terribly passively. Very sad development.
Also, one can sure wonder if israel did not have something to do with the helicopter “crash” in 2024, that killed iranian president and iranian foreign minister.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Varzaqan_helicopter_crash
PM Masoud Pezeshkian as well, if correct, wow.
Pezeshkian came across, in western interviews, as quite a humble man;, reasonable, pragmatic and modest. A far better man than the revolting, braggadocious Trump. I wouldn’t be shocked if the West, or Israel, didn’t have a hand in the helicopter crash than killed the then President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian too.
If so, they must have had v.good intel. We don’t know the extent of any internal betrayals going on though. Iran’s regime has been incredibly weakened by sanctions and understandable public fatigue with clerical rule. Thus, for agencies with the resources of the CIA/Mossad/MI6, recruiting assets is probably easy – certainly easier than in 1979-early 1980s, at the height of the fervour around the then young Islamic Revolution. This is probably why the UK has bizarrely – given Starmer’s hawkishness and authoritarianism – resisted proscribing the IRGC, as the Tories also resisted before them. UK-Iran, tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions would have made running assets more problematic.
So far the only reports of khameni’s death have come from the western media. I’ll only believe it when Iran itself reports his death.
The iranian tactic, as I understand it, is to send old munitions and outdated drones in the first wave to draw out all the defences and use up the missiles, then in the next wave the fast, furious and accurate munitions are fired hitting basically defenceless targets. Obviously, if we know this then so do the satanists.
Stevie Boy
February 28, 2026 at 21:49
“Satanists”? WTF….
Somewhere sharks are being jumped over….
Goose
February 28, 2026 at 21:42
That’s a very plausible explanation for the English government’s reluctance to proscribe the IRGC.
Interesting…
Stevie Boy
I think you overestimate Iran’s offensive and defensive capabilities. This is a nation that has been under crippling sanctions for years, up against a trillion dollar per year war machine. Iran doesn’t even have an air force.
Have you thought that maybe the reason Israel went early, is because they had Khamenei’s location with a very high degree of confidence? The attacks took the Omanis, hosting negotiations, by surprise. That’s how these things often evolve – based on opportunities. Israel are celebrating tonight, but what function an 86-year old man served in the governance of Iran is hard to ascertain. If he is dead, his own fatwa on developing nuclear weapons – he viewed them as haram – played a huge role in his demise.
Related. The BBC’s coverage is dreadful. Israeli spokespeople allowed to drone on at length spouting BS, completely unchallenged by presenters. Naftali Bennett, speaking from Israel, was treated with total reverence – zero interuptions. Whereas, Iranian spokespeople are continually challenged and interrupted, as if they launched an unprovoked attack on Israel.
You look at UK broadcasting and the people who shape and control political discourse in the UK. Emily Maitlis, Emma Barnett; Laura Kuenssberg; Robert Peston, Mark Urban, Gabriel Gatehouse, Nick Robinson, Matt Frei , BBC chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman. And they are all of the Jewish faith. Without being a conspiracist, how is such overrepresentation possible when Jews make up around 0.4% of the UK population? It can’t be an accident : it must be by design, whose design? If they werre all Muslims and/or pro-Palestine, we’d read plenty about the overrepresentation of people of the same faith.
Long-time presenter of BBC 2’s Politics Live day show, Jo Coburn, is also of that faith. How did those of the same faith get a monopoly on political and foreign policy discourse in the UK?
Emily Maitlis is clearly very pro-Israel, check out her posts on [X] tonight goading Iranian authorities to provide ‘proof of life’ by putting Khamenei on TV. These people aren’t neutral. It’s why Gaza was hardly discussed and the ‘Corbyn is anti-Semitic’ agenda was promoted.
I apologise if some people find this discussion uncomfortable, I’m in no way an anti-Semite, it’s just that I’d like to see balance; people of other faiths, and none, get a look in. We don’t want all our political discourse controlled by people of the same faith.
I actually think Professor David Miller goes too far with his Pax Judeaica idea; which describes an empire made possible by proxy sustained leverage over existing powers rather than direct occupation. Israel is a very dangerous country, no doubt, insomuch as, it’s been indulged far too much by western powers and has too much political and media influence in western countries. Israel believes the normal constraints don’t apply to its behaviour. We recently seen them attack :Syria, Lebanon; Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Yemen and flatten Gaza with total US and EU provided impunity, all while pretending the Iranians are the regional bad guys. And I believe not imposing sanctions over Gaza, was a huge mistake, in terms of the message it sent.
Iran has now confirmed Khamenei’s death.
If anyone thinks this is going to improve the situation they are sadly mistaken.
Meanwhile the genociders, USrael, are happily destroying another country for no other reason than their hegemony on this planet. May the all burn in hell.
Stevie Boy
March 1, 2026 at 09:34
“Iran has now confirmed Khamenei’s death.
If anyone thinks this is going to improve the situation they are sadly mistaken.”
The death of a murderous old priest is always welcome.
(As would be the deaths of Trump, Netanyahu or Putin.)
“Syria, Venezuela , Iran (?) all toppled while Russia and China look upon terribly passively.”
Unlike the US or the UK, China and Russia don’t see themselves as World Police, rushing to send the Marines every time someone makes a move of which they disapprove. You’re very keen that other countries should spend their blood and treasure to do things that you want them to do, but it does appear to be the reckless courage of the non-combatant.
When asked why Russia hadn’t sent help to Iran in the 12 day war last year, Putin replied that the Iranians hadn’t asked for it. Do you think he should have sent it anyway, on the grounds that the poor ignorant brownskins didn’t know what’s good for them?
“The death of a murderous old priest is always welcome.”
How about the silencing of a murderous old blog commenter?
“(As would be the deaths of Trump, Netanyahu or Putin.)”
There is a significant difference between the deaths of Khamenei and Putin and those of Trump or Netanyahu. The former are very likely to be replaced by someone far more extreme than them and the latter are likely to be replaced by someone far less extreme, although, in the case of Bibi, there are plenty of nutters waiting in the wings. So whilst it may be personally satisfying for you, in the long run it is not going to help anyone except those that profit from war.
‘The death of a murderous old priest is always welcome’
At the height of the slaughter in Gaza in summer 2024, with the world seeing babies mercilessly shredded every day on their phones, you pronounced Genocide Joe Biden to be ‘innately decent.’
“The death of a murderous old priest is always welcome. (As would be the deaths of Trump, Netanyahu or Putin.)
Be careful what you wish for. It’s very likely that Putin would be replaced by someone who thinks like this:
https://karaganov.ru/en/middlegame-and-a-strategy-for-the-day-after-tomorrow/
You may think that Putin is an evil tyrant, but millions of Russians don’t and they’re the ones with the hypersonic missiles, not you. I suppose if you’ve got to die, it’s better to die with the satisfaction of having been right all along than not, but, you know, given the choice I’d rather not be about to die in the first place.
“Here lies the body of Jonathan Grey,
Who died maintaining right of way.
He was right, dead right, as he sped along,
But he’s just as dead as if he’d been wrong”
As the US admins, have tried to overthrow Venezuelan president using proxies such as Guiado, Machado and the Shah’s son for Iran, Trump has a US asset in Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro – a descendent of the Castro’s – Trump has suggested a friendly takeover of Cuba, with his puppet asset Castro as the new leader of Cuba, (Jesus I never thought a Castro would be a traitor to Cuba) – Cuba is in a bad way – with Trumps more severe illegal sanctions.
Mexican President Sheinbaum, said that nations wishing to send aid to Cuba can send it to Mexico, or land in Mexico – and the country will be used as hub to deliver much needed aid to Cuba.
So it turn out that, English RAF military jets are – along with Zionist and US military jets – trying to intercept Iranian drones over the occupying oppressive military – illegally squatting in Palestine – its known as Israel. To add to the madness of obedience to the Zionists, Jordanian forces are shooting down Iranian drones headed for Israel, the shot done drones are landing on the Jordanian people – and their houses, causing fires and deaths.
When you support zionism all sanity goes out the window, madness rules.
Let’s not forget the Jewish lobby: Adelson et al paid Donny many millions for this scenario. The boy done good !
Gotta wonder whether the Jordanian forces are cooperating with NATO. There is a NATO “liaison office” in the country already. There is no threat in Jordan to the strength of the USA in the North Atlantic, so there must have been some other reason for its establishment. Preparing for launching an onslaught in the region seems like it. Jordan also hosts about 4000 USA military personnel.
The ideology of the Jordanian royal family that they are oh so Bedouin means among other things, given the ethnic mix of the population, “f*** the Palestinians”.
“King” Abdullah could hardly even speak Arabic when the USA put him on the throne. He had mostly lived in the USA and Britain.
Regarding Mike Huckabee’s recently stated support for the Jewish settler entity to take over all the land between the Nile and the Euphrates, it’s interesting that a “Gilead” division was created in the occupying forces in October 2024. Far from being a reference to the work of Margaret Atwood, this is a reference to a region of northern Jordan as it was known in Jewish legend:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/96th_Division_(Israel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilead
Cf. how Zionists call the West Bank “Judea and Samaria”.
To coin a phrase.
I would ‘hold fire ‘ at the moment with all our (and my) assumptions.
I’ve been watching Al Jazeera ( Iranian TV is blocked in The west apparently) so all the emissions from
the West needs to be treated with caution.
I’ve heard about attacks on US Bases in complicit countries but, nothing about any attacks on Israel.
If you can remember the 12 day War ‘reporting ‘ then you should know that the complicit Western Media did not utter a Dickie Bird about the reality of the damage to Israeli targets.
According to The Times of India, Israel has been struck many times and I suspect only with the Iranian’s old stuff.
‘ De- stocking ‘ as the MIC would call it.
The new weapons may follow.
The thing in my opinion has a three -fold Character.
Trump wants a quick victory.
Iran needs to stretch the War out.
Netanyahu needs any type of war.
Even if it means sacrificing his own people.
If there are not enough internal forces to carry out a ‘ Regime Change ‘ in Iran then the US and Israel will have to change the Regime themselves.
The question is whether they are both prepared to put ‘ Boots On The Ground ‘ to do it?
I say no.
And if the answer is really no, then they are both defeated in the long run.
How long the long run is I don’t know but, that’s the question.
You are either all in or a bit in.
Like a woman can’t be be a bit pregnant.
MARK M CUTTS
February 28, 2026 at 22:20
I don’t believe for a second that Trump or Netanyahu will launch a ground invasion against a country of (?) 90 million.
They will just bravely (/sarc) bomb the shit out of the place.
I have no sympathy for the black cloaked theocrats and I hope that they die in their thousands.
But this is an illegal attack on a sovereign country.
As the war criminal Kissinger is supposed to have said; “a pity that both sides can’t lose”.
I don’t know about “the west”, but the Iranian news service irna.ir seems to be down in Britain. This is even when using a browser not known to contain Google malware.
Terrorist airmen working for the Jewish Occupation in Palestine have struck a primary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, Iran, killing at least 60 girls and wounding many more.
https://en.irna.ir/news/86089557/Deadly-US-Israeli-strike-on-school-a-blatant-crime-FM-spox
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Occupation’s national security minister, must be dancing for joy. Tonight this genocidalist maniac is saying “Blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven”:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-minister-invokes-genocidal-amalek-call-amid-war-iran
As Zionist and USA bombs rain down on Iran, Josh Simons has suddenly resigned from the British cabinet. I wonder what that’s all about. He’s a guy who travelled to “Israel” out of “curiosity”. You can read about the flips and flops in what he has reportedly said about the Occupation here:
https://novaramedia.com/2024/06/06/who-is-starmtrooper-josh-simons/
He’ll probably turn up as an “adviser” to the Greens next!
Look at this from what @Craig once memorably called the Beyond Belief C***s at the BBC:
the Zionists and the USA “launched deadly strikes“, and then “Iran responded by launching a series of attacks“.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rjpr575g9o
The government’s broadcaster can’t say the Zionists and the USA attacked while Starmer is saying “British planes are in the sky today as part of coordinated regional defensive operations”.
Emphasis added.
Very sad day for Iran and once again proof what a totally psychopathic regime israel and the israelis really are – even we, people here, keep underestimate the sheer evilness that embody the israelis. Not only launching an unprovoked attack, a war of choice, but to target their very leader is such an wicked affront I do not know what word to use today.
It is almost like one dream back to the Bush-era with the run-up to the Iraq-war which almost, in an absurd way – seems innocent compared to the situation today where there is not even a pretense to follow, respect any law, norms by the western leaders and their boot-licking media.
It is really horrific how normalized war have become in the western mind. The lack of empathy is sickening, what if Iran killed Starmer? What if Iran killed Netanyahu? What if Iran killed Trump? It would be seen as colossal escalation that would probably be met with nuclear assault. Still, the western world do not realize that iranians have the same feeling about their leaders! They have feelings too!
The dehumanization of arabs, muslims, iranians, palestinians made this happen and when it comes to the israelis it is like they still live in the days of the Old Testament where every alleged enemy against the jewish tribe must be annihilated. What a pathological little racist regime this is. Even putting nazi germans in shame with their psychopathic behavior. Unbelievable.
I would advice people go to this youtube-channel: https://www.youtube.com/@HamzahSaadah/shorts
There, a Palestinian guy try to talk with israeli youth and you would not believe the racism and sociopathic behavior the israelis unashamedly show off.
I totally agree with your characterisation of evil Israel. However, let’s never forget Israel can only do what it does because of the USA support. What Israel is doing is carrying out the american agenda, world domination.
Why then has the USA ambassador to the Occupation said that the Occupation has the right to take over the entire area between the Nile and the Euphrates, whereas the Occupation’s ambassador to the USA hasn’t said that the USA has the right to annex Canada and Mexico? Also there are no equivalents to CPMAJO, AIPAC, and the ADL in the occupied territory.
So the psychotic humanoid dung beetle that is the U.S of Zion has launched it’s latest phase of the Permanent War to preserve it’s – rapidly evaporating – hegemony and keep open the sluice gates through which rivers of black liquid dollars flow to the ultimate beneficiaries & shot-callers, ie the MIC and it’s parasitic subsidiary feeders. This time with possibly lethal consequences for the planet and it’s inhabitants.
And still the hysterical chorus of Western MSM/Political Caste squeal incessantly about the evil ” Putin “, whilst remaining compliantly schtum about the U.S.Z pissing all over that now laughably meaningless concept – International Law.
News just in ……..ITS THE SAME WAR being waged BY THE SAME people FOR THE SAME REASON, ie to attempt to maintain – and extend – The Entity’s global dominance: an attempt that will almost certainly fail. It will fail for the same reason all empires ultimately decline, ie the moral, political, intellectual corruption of their ruling class. In the U.S case can there be any more clearer manifestation of this utter degeneration than the fact of a 2nd Trump Presidency, the salivating warmongers of his administration and the continuing presence of unhinged perverts like Lindsey Graham being given endless exposure to spew his * philosophy * of hate and lust for the death & destruction of those deemed enemies?
” Britain’s ” sole achievement of recent times is keeping pace in decline with it’s U.S master; witness …..Starmer, the lowest rated PM ever, yet, STILL in situ; even after the recent critical by-election loss – to this week’s hyperbolic putative alternative/threat to the Lab/Con see-saw of utter naffness, ie Zack O’Green’s shape-shifting genderists. If, in the wildly unlikely event they did become the Government, they would almost certainly prove just as awful as their predecessors, but * organically * so, with nice rainbow ribbons tied round the missiles they’ll still be sending to, eg Ukraine: though it’s debatable whether that conflict will continue even as far as the end of this year, despite the EUK/U.S Clown Show’s great desire that it do so.
This – genuinely – unprovoked attack on Iran is of a piece with the instigation of the Proxy War against Russia, the attempted-and-failed ( so far * only * ) economic war against China – the demented puppet Trump’s magic tariff-gun blew-up in his face, or, rather, the faces of U.S consumers; the kidnapping of an elected Head of State, and unending, lethal interference in the M.E and beyond
Put simply, Iran is simply one of the last on the list compiled by the US War Machine and it’s Think ( of nothing but U.S interests ) Tank policy formers, whose intransigence, ie refusal to be bought ( and sold ) by pathological U.S Corporate greed + Greater Israel expansionist imperialism is the reason why it has been subjected to unrelenting economic and military attrition.
Oh, and let’s not forget the deliberate use of the Fog Of War to obscure and distract from the Epstein Files fallout. Yes, difficult as it is for most of us to comprehend the sheer malevolence, there are people who would rather see incalculable numbers of men. women & children die horrible, brutal deaths than face the consequences of their own morally repulsive behaviour.
Trump & Netanyahu being two of the most egregious examples, though they are hardly unique.
To quote the title of a Whitney Webb book – referring to the U.S but can equally be applied to the entire West Political Class/System ……
One Nation Under Blackmail
In the epstein files the Rothschilds are mentioned 12,000 times, yet in the MSM this fact is not mentioned once. Go figure.
Indeed, Stevie. That gruesome family, more like a clan, really; one dedicated to preserving firstly it’s vast wealth; secondly, it’s capacity to determine/control events, including at a global level, to serve it’s aforementioned primary interest. That mob. have been/are the beneficiaries of the weaponisation of the term ” Conspiracy Theory *: in fact, through extensive control/ownership of MSM has been the main proponent of using that term to rubbish any & every attempt to expose it’s centuries-long centrality in so many epochal wars & conflicts.
To paraphrase the quote attributed to Baudelaire…….” the greatest trick of the Rothschild Dynasty is to convince the world there is no such thing as – malignly interfering in global affairs – Rothschild Dynasty “. Yes, they are all terribly slandered and misrepresented altruists and Patrons of The Arts; kinda Medicis-with-bagels ( and vast profits from arming/funding often both sides in any given conflicts ) . How dare any of the lower human life-forms state otherwise
The Rothschilds were talked about a lot throughout the 19th century. If they really had lost their wealth, it would have been one of the most spectacular fall-of-dynasty stories of all time. How curious that that story isn’t ever told, not by Niall Ferguson or any other establishment scribbler. Instead the policy has indeed been one of “schtum”, perhaps occasionally quoting one of them in the guise of an above-the-fray “philanthropist”.
“Philanthropist”, like “democracy”, sounds as a ridiculous as its message actually is as soon as it’s taken out of fancy-schmancy Greek. “Philanthropist” means “lover of mankind”. But who’d call a billionaire that? “Democracy” means “people’s rule”, or “people’s state”. C’mon, everybody to the polling booths – don’t forget your photo ID – let’s all take part in the “people’s state” process. Or how about “I truly believe in people’s rule”? Such sentences would immediately sound like a bit of a giveaway – totally obvious idiocy. Say you’re taking part in the “democratic process”, though, or “I believe in democracy”, and it sounds normal and sane. So the term “democracy” persists to designate little more than an arrangement wherein a dictatorship refers in its advertising to individual choice.
The Balfour declaration was a letter to a Rothschild. It’s remarkable how many people who’ve heard of the declaration don’t know this.
No mention in all their reporting either of the crude Jewish supremacism that Epstein constantly expressed in his correspondences with other rapists.
Nor of course, of Israel.
Khamenei’s with the angels,
Netanyahu’s in the bunker
In Berlin.
JohnnyOh45
March 1, 2026 at 12:14
“Khamenei’s with the angels”????
WTF…
Sharks being jumped everywhere today…
You declared Joe Biden to be ‘innately decent’ at the very height of the Genocide in Gaza.
zoot
March 1, 2026 at 12:59
I’m an atheist. No Heaven, no Hell..
If you think that Khameni is working his way through the (?) 144 virgins assigned to him, I salute your credulity.
I didn’t mention Khameni.
I referenced your respect for a mass baby killer and the moment you decided to announce it.
You declared Joe Biden to be ‘innately decent’ at the very height of the Genocide in Gaza.
Complicity.
JK Redux
I am an atheist too.
There is comparative ‘ Get ill Soon Card ‘ sign in your post and The Ayatollah would certainly not have ben top of my list.
I don’t believe that Trump is religious and neither is Netanyahu all both do is fake it for political purposes.
The Ayatollah ( whether you like him or not ) was considered ‘ Religious’
My list would start from any president of the USA since Kennedy and I’d work my way up to the present day.
The Ayatollah in terms of damage to the world would be way down the list.
This is position I’ve read over the years in the Liberal World which goes like this;
‘ Surely it’s worth the death of 5 million Iranians or Afghani’s so as that girls and young women can go to school? ‘
Because what the Liberals in The Guardian etc isn’t indicated as bad as that but, very close to what they mean.
The irony being when The Good Christians were finally in charge they never went to school much either.
Only in certain parts of Kabul and that was for show to The Western media in order to pass it on to its credulous audience.
The same games are being played as we type.
Good V Evil.
All emotion no analysis.
‘ Strikes ‘ ( you mean bombs/missiles?) and Iran ‘ attacks ‘ ( you mean they fired back?)
I would refer you to the liberal standard Ukraine position of ‘ They started it.’
It would be more consistent if all the Liberals did that.
But when the US and Israel is involved not a word of criticism -the language become deliberately contorted to fit.
Emotions aren’t facts.
Hi JK.
As you are an atheist it’s a kind of a reductio ad absurdum isn’t it ? Sharks don’t live on dry land do they ? From the non-atheist perspective of believers of Shia Islam, what would “Khamenei’s with the angels” mean to them ? What are the esoteric traditions of Shia Islam ? I suspect ( and please forgive me if I am wrong) when making judgements, other’s people’s traditions, interpretations and beliefs are of no interest or relevance to you ? I suspect you may share that it common with alot of the political class who have not thus far taken an unequivocal stance on the unprovoked and illegal war of aggression waged by Israel and the Usa. This leaves sharks bewildered and abandoned all over the place.
“Netanyahu’s in the bunker In Berlin.”
Brave Sir Bibi ran away,
Bravely, bravely ran away.
When danger reared its ugly head,
Brave Sir Bibi turned and fled,
Brave, brave Sir Bibi!
Bayard.
Yes indeed he did. Brave, brave Sir Bibi ! 🙂
The first 24 minutes of Dialogue Works with Professor Marandi who gives an account of the life of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is interesting. He led a remarkable life.
Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2mFiQk8oLA