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Сorporate media of all stripes have rushed to support the U.S./Israeli attack on Iran, throwing objectivity and accuracy by the wayside in order to manufacture consent for regime change.

On February 28, the U.S. and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran, bombing cities across the country, assassinating its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and openly stating their goal was overthrowing the government.

Despite this, media have gone out of their way to present the actions as the U.S. protecting itself, describing them as “defensive strikes,” and to frame Iran as the aggressor. “Iran chooses chaos” ran the headline of the New York Times’ newsletter, portraying the Islamic Republic as the primary actor.

The Free Press used similarly Orwellian concepts. “War is Iranians’ best chance at peace,” presenting U.S./Israeli crimes as an act of mercy on its long-suffering population.

Meanwhile, under the new leadership of self-described “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss, CBS News has transformed itself into a mouthpiece for the Israeli Defense Forces, interviewing IDF Brigadier General Effie Defrin, and uncritically presenting Israel’s war as “aimed at preventing a wider global threat.”

Across the West, corporate media have employed the same tactics of using the passive voice and not naming the perpetrator when describing U.S./Israeli aggression. A perfect encapsulation of this was the BBC’s headline, “At least 153 dead after reported strike on school, Iran says,” that made it sound as if the children died in a lightning strike or a labor dispute, rather than that they were bombed by hostile foreign powers.

Israeli casualties were given more sympathetic coverage than their Iranian counterparts, while media regularly toned down the language used to describe Israeli actions to make them sound more reasonable, and did the opposite with Iran. The Washington Post, for example, wrote (emphasis added) “Israel urges evacuation of south Beirut suburbs; Iran threatens revenge on U.S. over warship.” Thus, Israel was treated as making a good faith attempt to reduce civilian casualties, while the Iranian response to their ship being attacked and sunk in international waters was presented as menacing.

Another common tactic of delegitimization media use is to describe the Iranian as a “regime” (e.g., Bloomberg, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNN, NBC News). The word “regime” immediately discredits a government, and cues the reader to oppose it. The phrase “Israeli regime” is virtually never used, unless in a quote from Iranian officials.

Earlier this week, large numbers of Israeli troops re-invaded southern Lebanon. Media attempted to find ways to present the operation as legitimate, including euphemistically using the phrase “cross over into Lebanon” to describe the invasion, or even blaming Hezbollah for the violence. CNN, for instance, wrote that, “Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon into the war on Iran,” and that “Hezbollah just restarted the fight that Israel was waiting to finish,” thereby flipping the realities of who was attacking whom.

There have also been a number of fawning profiles of Israeli leaders. “Benjamin Netanyahu’s long career was built on conflict avoidance—then, October 7 transformed and radicalized him,” wrote The Atlantic. In Britain, the coverage from some quarters was even more positive. “Netanyahu is the great war leader of our age” The Daily Telegraph stated, describing the prime minister as a “genius.”

The Daily Telegraph’s Monday front page headline read “Britain backs war on Iran,” with a picture of diaspora Iranians cheering on the bombing of their country. The reality, however, is far less jingoistic. A YouGov poll published the same day found that only 28% of U.K. citizens support U.S./Israeli actions, with 49% expressing their opposition to them. Nevertheless, BBC anchor Nick Robinson suggested, on air, that protests against the U.S./Israeli attacks should be banned across the U.K.

This sort of mentality should come as no surprise, given BBC leadership’s stated positions on Israel. The corporation’s Middle East editor, Raffi Berg, is a former CIA operative and Mossad collaborator who has a signed letter of recommendation from Netanyahu on his office wall.

Anonymous BBC employees speaking to Drop Site News claimed that Berg’s “entire job is to water down everything that’s too critical of Israel.” They went on to allege that he holds “wild” amounts of power at the British state broadcaster, that there exists a culture of “extreme fear” at the BBC about publishing anything critical of Israel, and that Berg himself plays a key role in turning its coverage into “systematic Israeli propaganda.” The BBC has disputed these claims.

If true, the sort of top-down pro-Israel bias at the BBC closely mirrors that of American outlets. A leaked 2023 New York Times memo revealed that company management explicitly instructed its reporters not to use words such as “genocide,” “slaughter,” and “ethnic cleansing” when discussing Israel’s actions. Times staff must refrain from using words like “refugee camp,” “occupied territory,” or even “Palestine” in their reporting, making it almost impossible to convey some of the most basic facts to their audience.

CNN employees face similar pressure. In the wake of the October 7 attacks, the company’s C.E.O. Mark Thompson sent out a memo to all staff instructing them to make sure that Hamas (and not Israel) is presented as responsible for the violence, that they must always use the moniker “Hamas-controlled” when discussing the Gaza Health Ministry and their civilian death figures, and barring them from any reporting of Hamas’ viewpoint, which its senior director of news standards and practices told staff was “not newsworthy” and amounted to “inflammatory rhetoric and propaganda.”

German media conglomerate Axel Springer, meanwhile – owner of outlets such as Politico and Business Insider – requires its employees to sign what amounts to a loyalty oath to support “the trans-Atlantic alliance and Israel.” The company fired a Lebanese employee who, through internal channels, questioned the requirement.

American newsrooms are also filled with former Israel lobbyists. A MintPress News investigation found hundreds of former employees of Israel lobbying groups such as AIPAC, StandWithUs and CAMERA working in top newsrooms across the country, writing and producing America’s news – including on Israel-Palestine. These outlets include MSNBC, The New York Times, CNN, and Fox News.

There are even ex-Israeli spies writing our news. Another MintPress report revealed a network of former agents of IDF intelligence outfit, Unit 8200, working in America’s newsrooms, including at CNN and Axios.

Therefore, with American newsrooms presided over and staffed in no small part by pro-Israel zealots, it is far from a surprise that their coverage closely mirrors the outlook and biases of Washington and Tel Aviv.

And now, with CNN, CBS News, and TikTok owned by CIA asset Larry Ellison, the IDF’s largest private funder and a close personal friend of Benjamin Netanyahu, we should only expect the propaganda to be dialed up to eleven.

Original article: mintpressnews.com

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A little clarity for everyone

Pakistan has attacked Afghanistan. American aircraft carriers have broken toilets. The embassies of twelve states are calling on their citizens and diplomatic staff to leave Iran. How are all these events connected? Let’s take a strategic and geopolitical look.

The situation after January’s “Operation 13 Days,” in which Western intelligence services plotted and attempted yet another regime change in the Islamic Republic of Iran through the old method of organized protests, was one of encirclement of Iran by U.S. armed forces, concurrent with negotiations between the American and Iranian governments. The whole world cried out against the U.S., which, with its usual gangster-like arrogance, put Iran under pressure, creating no small number of problems.

But what if the perspective were broader than that?

From a strategic point of view, both military and diplomatic, what we have seen is this: the U.S. and Iran open diplomatic talks; the U.S. surrounds them with its military force. If we stick to a technical analysis, this gesture has meant putting up a wall of military defense between Iran and… Israel.

That’s right: Israel is the country that is trying to provoke an escalation in the Middle East, pressuring the U.S. for authorization and military support to attack Iran. Without the U.S., Israel would risk ending up like a squashed fly, making a lot of noise and disturbing everyone, but it wouldn’t take much to wipe it out. This link is essential. If we admit this possibility, which, I repeat, makes strategic sense, we realize that there is an attempt at collaboration between the U.S. and Iran to redraw the maps of the Middle East. And this makes sense and is indispensable for reducing the power of the Zionist entity, reshaping Arab influences, and agreeing on zones of influence. An absurd idea? We will see in six or seven months.

If we look more closely, we realize that it is Israel itself that has tried to detonate the conflict, creating various enmities and breaking points. A method already known on the international scene. And this is where the Pakistan issue comes in.

When plumbers are lacking

If we broaden our view, we see that Israel has meanwhile tried to run for cover and has rushed to find some new allies. The first was India. The country led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is thirsty for military technology, particularly nuclear technology, and with the agreement signed with Netanyahu, it will have access to Israeli and American technology. This choice is consistent with both the political stance of the current Indian leadership and the concrete needs of the world’s most populous country.

In order to be a power, it must have access to a range of technologies that will allow it to remain at the top of the competition, technologies that it cannot obtain from China, its long-standing rival. Israel is well aware of this, which is why it has stepped in and tried to fragment the rapprochement that had been achieved thanks to Vladimir Putin’s Russia, which had managed to bring the RIC (Russia-India-China), the three great superpowers, to the table, reaching a historic agreement on cooperation and healing the animosities of the past.

And how does Israel go against China as well, trying to create a zone of negotiation with the U.S., which cannot stand China? It inserts itself into Pakistan, which has excellent relations with China and is also a rival of India. Two possible victories in one fell swoop. But perhaps even more than that.

The detonation of a conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan, in fact, does what the U.S. did not want to do: set the region on fire, but in the East, not in the West. In this way, Iran finds itself indirectly involved, since the well-known tensions with the Balochistan region, between Pakistan and Iran, and also the political relations that have stabilized positively with the new Afghan leadership, are now being called into question and become the subject of a series of problems to be resolved.

This choice is still a Plan B, but it makes sense. By setting the region ablaze, Israel is aiming for a change in the balance of power in the medium term, not immediately. The only way to escalate the situation is to involve the U.S. in the Pakistan-Afghanistan affair, perhaps by offering the Washington government the opportunity to return to Kabul. What is certain is that the USS Ford, with 35 hydraulic engineers on board, did not suffer a ‘random’ failure of its toilets: the tampering with one of the largest warships in the world (and other ships as well) is a simple but effective way of telling Israel that no, they have no intention of engaging in a war in the Middle East right now to satisfy the follies of the genocidal Netanyahu.

Then there is the other player that is being called into the field, Russia, which has kept its distance for the moment, leaving the U.S. to deal with Iran. Russia has already made a significant retreat from the region with the loss of exclusive access to the Caucasus, due to the century-old agreement between the U.S., Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Russia, which mediated the transition in Afghanistan with incredible foresight, could now be called upon, precisely by Israel, to have its say. In this way, Israel also aims to disrupt the hard work of rapprochement between the U.S. and Russia, which objectively constitutes a major barrier to Zionist ambitions, but this could also become an opportunity for Russia and the U.S. to disqualify Israel from the game. How? By allowing at least part of this escalation to come to light, revealing the Israeli mind behind it all, in order to completely delegitimize Israeli authority and its influence in the world.

It is not yet entirely clear who is pushing whom in this strange conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan, nor how things will end between Iran and the U.S… what is certain is that the situation is heating up and could become very, very dangerous if Israel is not stopped in time.

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Il nome di Carrie Prejean Boller non dirà molto al pubblico italiano. Modella di fama nazionale e già miss California nel 2009 e seconda classificata a miss USA lo stesso anno.

Fu proprio in quell’anno che, alla notorietà conquistata attraverso sfilate e riviste patinate, si aggiunse una risonanza tutta politica: nel pieno svolgimento del concorso di bellezza statunitense, incalzata dal membro della giuria Perez Hilton — influente blogger del mondo dell’intrattenimento e quindi sacerdote in carica di uno dei principali dogmi del politicamente corretto — in merito ai matrimoni tra persone dello stesso sesso, osò infrangere il tabù: “Beh, penso che sia fantastico che gli americani possano scegliere in un modo o nell’altro. Viviamo in un paese in cui si può scegliere tra matrimonio omosessuale o matrimonio eterosessuale. E, sapete cosa, nel mio paese, nella mia famiglia, credo che il matrimonio debba essere tra un uomo e una donna, senza offesa per nessuno. Ma è così che sono stato cresciuto e credo che debba essere tra un uomo e una donna”. Qualche anno più tardi ricorderà: “Quando ho risposto alla domanda, si sono sentiti molti applausi, ma anche qualche sussulto, probabilmente perché la gente non riusciva a credere che una ragazza cristiana di ventun anni della California osasse dire la sua verità”.

La presa di posizione di Prejean, come immaginabile, le fece guadagnare la sgradita attenzione dell’intera industria del mainstream statunitense, la cui maggioranza, a trazione liberal, è, ancora ad oggi, un efficace organo di pressione politicamente corretta. Lo scopo era quello di indurla verso la ritrattazione, previa pubblica umiliazione, per poi consegnarla al trattamento della Cancel Culture ante litteram: “Mi veniva chiesto – di fronte al mondo intero – di dare una risposta sincera a una domanda seria. Sapevo che se avessi detto la verità, avrei perso tutto ciò per cui ero in lizza: la corona, l’appartamento di lusso a New York, l’ingente stipendio – tutto ciò che comportava il titolo di Miss USA. Sapevo anche, o almeno sospettavo, di essere la favorita, e se avessi stretto i denti e dato la risposta politicamente corretta, avrei potuto essere Miss USA”.[1]

Titolo che infatti le fu precluso e da cui scaturirono aspre battaglie legali.

D’altronde, la stessa Prejean, fu messa in guardia dagli stessi responsabili del concorso, i quali le avrebbero detto di “non avrebbe dovuto parlare” della sua fede. Gli stessi che, a seguito della sua affermazione, l’avrebbero pesantemente pressata affinché si scusasse.

Nulla di nuovo sotto il sole morente d’occidente, solo un tuffo nel pieno del politicamente corretto di stampo progressista.

All’epoca fu proprio Donald Trump, già titolare della quota maggioritaria di Miss Universe Organization, a prendere le sue difese. Oltre all’attuale presidente, dalla parte di Prejean si schierarono anche alcune influenti organizzazioni conservatrici: in primis National Organization for Marriage, già sulle barricate contro i matrimoni dello stesso sesso. Le fu poi concesso di presentare una premiazione al Gospel Music Association del 2009 e intervenne, con un discorso, alla Liberty University, l’importante università evangelica statunitense.

Il dado era tratto, Prejean era ormai passata dalle sfilate di moda all’agone politico nazionale, inoltre, la strenua renitenza rispetto alle richieste di scuse, da parte del mondo progressista, contribuì a far crescere l’apprezzamento delle frange conservatrici. Fu infatti ospite delle più importanti trasmissioni nazionali come The View e The Today Show. A novembre dello stesso anno, Regnery Publishing, una casa editrice conservatrice, pubblicò il suo libro: Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks.

L’avventura politica di Prejean è caratterizzata dalla vicinanza a Donald Trump: da sostenitrice di spicco dell’agenda trumpiana, in cui, attraverso le numerose apparizioni su Fox News e l’attivismo sui social media, rimarca con forza la sua prospettiva valoriale cristiana, nel 2020 diviene membro ufficiale del Comitato Consultivo della Campagna Trump, fino a rappresentare la Women for Trump 2020. Nel 2021 prese posizioni contro le imposizioni sanitarie tese ad arginare la pandemia da Covid-19 e nel 2022 attaccò con forza gli spettacoli Drag Queen dai consigli scolastici locali: “Abbiamo chiamato in causa ognuno di questi membri del consiglio per quello che sono esattamente. Sono degli adescatori”.[2]

A Pasqua 2025, Prejean si converte al cattolicesimo.

Il mantenimento dello status quo. E i suoi mantenitori.

Quanto sommariamente esposto fin qua, altro non è che il ritratto dello scontro tra le due parti in causa che però giocano rigorosamente seguendo le regole della partita. Fin qualche tempo fa, il politicamente corretto è stato l’argomento prediletto di un certo tipo di mondo conservatore, il quale, con un certo grado di ragione, ne denunciava la deriva censoria e la metodologia para-mafiosa, capace di ridurre al silenzio gli avversari politici.

Il dispositivo del politicamente corretto è però assai più complesso, come si è cercato di spiegare in altre occasioni: questo è infatti, prima di tutto, un raffinato strumento di controllo teso a incidere profondamente sull’aspetto antropologico dell’uomo occidentale, in pieno ossequio agli interessi economico-finanziari: la transizione da consumatore, degno rappresentante della classe media del Mondo Libero, a “Uomo residuo” come centro fluidificante del mondo unipolare, ne costituisce la rappresentazione plastica.

E se il Politicamente Corretto, si presenta con la struttura della religione civile roussoviana, uno dei principali dogmi inviolabili non è certo quello, di minor grado, violato dalla nostra Prejean nel lontano 2009: lo scontro tra i “valori” liberal da una parte e conservatori dall’altra, si cura di restare costantemente entro una determinata cornice… occidentale.

Il peccato capitale del Politicamente Corretto

Non si tratta più di morale privata. Non si tratta più di famiglia o identità sessuale. Qui si entra nel campo della politica estera (del dogma del geopoliticamente corretto), del rapporto tra Stati Uniti, e quindi Occidente-tutto, e Israele, e del confine — sempre più labile — tra critica geopolitica e accusa di antisemitismo, tra critica religiosa e agibilità sociale e politica.

L’ex Miss California, il 9 febbraio, si è macchiata del peccato più grave. Per l’occasione citiamo una fonte d’eccellenza: The Times of Israel: “L’attivista di destra cattolica Carrie Prejean Boller è stata rimossa dalla Commissione per la libertà religiosa della Casa Bianca a causa di quella che il presidente ha definito la sua “agenda politica” durante un’udienza pubblica sull’antisemitismo questa settimana”.

In un incontro sull’antisemitismo negli Stati Uniti, tenutosi presso il Museum of the Bible di Washington, Prejean si è schierata con decisione a favore di due volti estremamente noti al pubblico internazionale e già strenui critici sia di ciò che definiscono interferenze Stati Uniti che delle politiche della stessa Sion: Candace Owens e Tucker Carlson, entrambi accusati di essere antisemiti.

L’incontro si è surriscaldato nel confronto con alcuni eminenti sionisti, tra cui Yitzchok Frankel, Rabbi Ari Berman e Shabbos Kestenbaum, un ex studente di Harvard ebreo, già noto per aver querelato la stessa Harvard sostenendo che l’università non ha protetto gli studenti ebrei e israeliani da molestie e discriminazioni antisemite.

Prejean, che indossava al petto una spilla con la bandiera americana accanto a una bandiera palestinese in segno di solidarietà con i civili di Gaza, ha osato addirittura chiedere se le critiche a Israele, l’opposizione al sionismo o le proteste contro la guerra genocida di Israele contro i palestinesi nella Striscia di Gaza debbano essere considerate “antisemite”.

Ottenendo un “sì”, come risposta.

E ancora, citando il sionismo — tematica radioattiva — nel pieno della ridefinizione di “antisemitismo” coniata dall’IHRA[3] e in via di recepimento in alcuni contesti legislativi europei, tra cui il nostro: “I cattolici non abbracciano il sionismo, tanto per essere chiari. Dunque, secondo voi, tutti i cattolici sono antisemiti?”

Ottenendo un altro “sì”, come risposta, in uno scambio di affermazioni tra le parti evidentemente teso.

E ancora: “Essere antisionisti equivale ad essere antisemiti?”

Ottenendo un altro “sì”, arricchito dall’inaggirabile necessità di riconoscere lo Stato di Israele come condizione, come risposta.

Prejean, dopo la concatenazione di affermazioni da parte della controparte sionista, incalza con la domanda decisiva: “Allora [dal vostro punto di vista] i cattolici sono antisemiti?”

A togliere la controparte sionista dall’evidente imbarazzo interviene Dan Patrick, che presiede la stessa commissione.

A queste posizioni Prejean risponde appellandosi al Primo emendamento: “Costringere le persone ad affermare il sionismo come condizione per partecipare non è solo sbagliato, è direttamente contrario alla libertà religiosa. […] Ho la libertà religiosa di rifiutare il sostegno a un governo che bombarda civili e affama famiglie a Gaza, e questo non fa di me un antisemita”.

Mercoledì 11 febbraio, la Commissione per la libertà religiosa della Casa Bianca del presidente Trump ha estromesso dai suoi membri Carrie Prejean Boller. Ad annunciarle l’allontanamento è il vicegovernatore del Texas Dan Patrick, che presiede la commissione: “Carrie Prejean Boller è stata rimossa dalla Commissione per la libertà religiosa del presidente Trump. Nessun membro della Commissione ha il diritto di dirottare un’udienza per i propri interessi personali e politici su qualsiasi questione. Questo è chiaramente, senza ombra di dubbio, ciò che è accaduto lunedì nella nostra udienza sull’antisemitismo in America. Questa è stata una mia decisione”.

Dimostrando la stessa caparbietà che l’aveva resa celebre qualche anno prima, Prejean non solo si è rifiutata di dimettersi, come ai tempi si rifiutò di scusarsi, ma, pretendendo che sia piuttosto il presidente Trump a sollevarla dall’incarico, ha twittato: “Non mi inginocchierò mai davanti allo Stato di Israele. Mai.” E ancora un ringraziamento all’ondata di sostegno ricevuta: “Grazie a tutti per l’amore e il sostegno che ho ricevuto. Continuerò a oppormi alla supremazia sionista in America. Sono una cattolica orgogliosa. In nessun modo sarò costretta ad abbracciare il sionismo come compimento della profezia biblica. Sono un’americana libera. Non una schiava di una nazione straniera”.

Prevedibile la solita canea, particolarmente feroce da parte repubblicana, sebbene la frattura, proprio sulle ingerenze dello Stato di Israele, sia sempre più evidente nella galassia conservatrice statunitense. Mentre, citando la fonte prediletta di chi spesso si sforza di mostrare il lato mediatico presentabile di Israele, Haaretz, pubblica un articolo dal seguente titolo: “Sono antisemita? Ex modella rimossa dal panel sulla religione della Casa Bianca dopo aver “dirottato” un incontro per denunciare Israele e il sionismo”.[4]

Dov’è lampante l’operazione di framing della stessa notizia: Carrie Prejean è una “ex modella” che “dirotta” un incontro su Israele e il sionismo: la guerra al terrorismo è, per definizione, una guerra giusta e infinita.

Tra l’altro, si noti come il termine “dirottare” sia stato utilizzato dallo stesso Dan Patrick, presidente della commissione, nel comunicato in cui ha ufficializzato l’allontanamento della Prejean.

Carrie Prejean nel 2009 sfidò un dogma morale e subì un violento attacco ma era comunque parte di una delle due componenti in gioco. Era nel perimetro concesso. Nel 2026 ha invece osato sfiorare il dogma religioso per eccellenza e il verdetto è stato immediato. Come già scritto in altre occasioni, con l’amministrazione trumpiana, il meccanismo non è cambiato, si è solo adeguato alle necessità di ridefinizione del declinante impero statunitense: ciò che non può essere messo in discussione, Israele e relativa questione religiosa, la distinzione tra sionismo e giudaismo[5], rimangono i caposaldi dell’ordine occidentale post 1945. E quando una religione civile si sente minacciata, non distingue più tra dissenso e colpa.

“Preferirei morire piuttosto che inginocchiarmi davanti a Israele”.

Firmato Carrie Prejean.

Cattolica.

[1] Interviewing Carrie Prejean Boller. The Conservateur. 2/6/2020

[2] Amelia Hansford. Former Miss USA contestant says pro-LGBTQ+ school board should be jailed. PinkNews. 16/10/2022.

[3] La definizione di antisemitismo è oggetto di dibattito politico e civile negli Stati Uniti — ad esempio, la definizione IHRA, che è conosciuta e adottata in alcuni ambienti, è stata criticata da molte organizzazioni per potenziale conflazione tra critica a Israele e antisemitismo. (Per approfondire: Cfr. Antisemitism Awareness Act). E anche: Working definition of antisemitism. holocaustremembrance.com.

[4] Ben Samuels. ‘Am I an Antisemite?’ Ex-model Removed From White House Religion Panel After ‘Hijacking’ Meeting to Denounce Israel and Zionism. Haaretz. 1/2/2026.

[5] Per approfondire, tra gli altri, si veda: Israel Shahak. Storia ebraica e giudaismo. Il peso di tre millenni. Centro Librario Sodalitium. 1997.

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The Epstein Coalition (USA and Israel) began a war against the Islamic Republic of Iran on February 28th. The starting shot was the murder of 171 girls in an elementary school (perhaps as a sacrifice to Baal, the Epsteinians’ favorite deity?), followed by the martyrdom of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in his own residence.

It was the beginning of an “operation” that the USA expected to see finished in a few hours, then in 3 days. Well, the operation has now exceeded 6 days, and all analysts indicate that the war will last at least a few weeks, with significant losses on both sides.

What led to this operation being initiated? The easy and predictable answer is that the USA wants Iran’s oil and other natural resources.

Usually, those who reason this way also tend to say that the State of Israel represents an enclave of the USA or the “collective West” in the Middle East, whose purpose would be to serve as a trading post to facilitate or enable the occupation of the region, to ensure the exploitation of its natural resources. This is perhaps the inevitable result of looking at the comparative statistics of both countries.

The USA is larger, has a larger GDP, more powerful and numerous armed forces, has more billionaires; in short, it is “superior” in every possible and imaginable aspect, so that the US-Israel relationship can only be perceived as one in which the USA commands and Israel obeys.

Indeed, Marxian and, in general, materialist readings go in this direction. But does the Iran War confirm this assessment?

If Israel is the obedient colony of the USA, then the decision to start the conflict would have been eminently that of the USA, with Israel simply obeying the determination of its “metropole.”

But what is perceived from the official statements of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is exactly the opposite: they made it quite clear in their press conferences that the USA became involved in the conflict only because Israel had already decided to attack Iran, with Washington simply following the Zionist determination.

The pretext of alleging a pre-emptive attack plan by Iran was used, but the pretext was quickly abandoned after being refuted by the Pentagon. In fact, Iran had no plan to attack either the USA or Israel.

In other words, Israel would have made the USA attack Iran. How is that possible?

The solution to the mystery seems to lie in the role of the Jewish community in the USA and its influence over the country’s internal affairs, regardless of whether its members hold Israeli citizenship or not. After all, despite comprising only 2.4% of the US population, 25% of its members have an income equivalent to the top 4% richest among non-Jews.

And if in many countries a large part of the Jewish community is critical or indifferent to Israel, in the USA, 90% of community members support Israel against its enemies. And this support is not merely verbal, expressing itself through the formal organization of lobbies that finance pro-Israel candidates and harm anti-Israel candidates, the most famous of these organizations being AIPAC, which invested almost 130 million dollars to elect its candidates in 2024.

A much more important asset, however, is the fact that, as indicated by income, many members of this community occupy positions of power and influence in the mass media, the banking system, and entertainment. Even though they are only, again, 2.4% of the US population, they constitute 33% of the CEOs of major banks, 40% of the CEOs of major media conglomerates, and 50% of the CEOs of major companies in the entertainment industry.

And these are the sectors that basically control the flow of investments, as well as shape the opinions and tastes of the country’s population.

Years ago, geopolitical analysts John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt released an excellent book on the Zionist lobby in the USA. What they make very clear in that work is that US support for Israel is not linked to any strategic interest of Washington. The cost of supporting Israel is immense, both in money and in the international popularity of the USA. In fact, the USA only harms itself by supporting Israel against its enemies.

So how could one say that the USA controls Israel?

Returning to the current presidential administration, figures like Hegseth and Lindsay Graham openly admit that the main goal of the USA is to facilitate the reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem to pave the way for the coming of the Jewish Messiah. Eschatologically, the problem there is that, for Catholics, Orthodox, and traditional Protestants, the Jewish Messiah is the Antichrist.

As much as Israel is dependent on US financial and military aid, Zionism has captured the decision-making and public opinion-forming mechanisms so completely that we could practically compare the unipolar hegemon to a headless golem. In place of “America First,” it is the policy of “Israel First.”

While US bases, radars, planes, and personnel are hit by barrages of missiles and drones, and Washington loses influence and the capacity to project power in the Middle East, it becomes inevitable to reach the conclusion that Israel is the one calling the shots in this relationship, and that Tel Aviv will instrumentalize the USA as long as it serves its own expansionist interests.

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The orgy of violence and war crimes being inflicted on Iran over the past week is truly shocking. Yet it is not surprising. This is what an empire that repeatedly commits genocide does.

The U.S.-backed Israeli genocide that has been going on constantly for more than two years in Gaza is now expanding to Iran. The Trump administration is openly talking about destroying Iran and its people. Tehran and other cities across Iran are enduring carpet bombing.

“It is not only a war against Iran – it is a war against the UN Charter, against all of us, against civilization,” commented the renowned international legal expert Alfred de Zayas. His voice has resonated with the anger and disgust of billions of people around the world, including many citizens in the United States.

This is an abomination, an affront to humanity.

In a detailed legal assessment, Professor De Zayas enumerates that the U.S. and Israeli military attacks on Iran have violated multiple treaties and statutes, including the UN Charter and the Geneva Conventions.

The world is witnessing barbarism on a massive and flagrant scale. Iran is responding defiantly with the legal and moral right of self-defense.

The crimes against peace and humanity perpetrated by the U.S. and Israel are staggering in their brutality and offense against basic human morality. What is even more odious is that the crimes are being committed with an insane religious conviction that American President Donald Trump is “appointed by God.”

More sickening still is that Trump and the Western and Zionist ruling class are representative of the Epstein Class, the global elite that have been implicated in unspeakable sex crimes against children. It is consistent, albeit vile, that the Western capitalist elite who have been raping children with impunity are now massacring them with bombs, as they have been doing in Gaza. It is perverse beyond words.

The aggression against Iran has been going on for decades, with murderous economic warfare – euphemistically called “sanctions”. When the latest episode of aggression started last Saturday, February 28, American and Israeli warplanes deliberately bombed an elementary school, killing 165 children. Multiple precision strikes hit the building. Since then, several other schools have also been destroyed.

Hospitals, residential districts, and cultural sites have been methodically bombed. In six days, the death toll has surpassed 1,200 and is rapidly rising. This is a war of extermination.

Trump and his senior aides, like the maniacal Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, are reveling in the destruction.

Trump speaks like a crazed crime syndicate boss, saying that he wants to “clean out” Iran after assassinating Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a cowardly, obscene act of bombing his residence in Tehran last Saturday, murdering the spiritual leader and his family. Trump has subsequently warned that he must personally approve of any new leader acceptable to U.S. interests.

Paradoxically, the display of despicable criminality betrays a desperate weakness that spells doom for the U.S. empire.

The Empire of Lies and corruption is exposed before the eyes of the world. There is growing worldwide contempt and condemnation of the United States and its Western partners. The people of the world, including citizens in the U.S. and other Western countries, realize who the enemy of peace and morality is.

Trump’s shifting claims about why he ordered the attacks on Iran only betray and expose the cynical lies.

All U.S. wars over the decades have been carried out on the pretext of lies. Millions of people from scores of countries on every continent have perished in the charnel house of imperialist violence, their blood sacrificed for the god of capitalist greed. But what is significant now is that the lies are so transparent. The evil is no longer concealed. Even the usual Western media conformity cannot obscure the blatant criminality.

We are seeing the U.S. empire and its vassals engaging in wholesale mass murder and destruction. This was already happening in Gaza. It is now being magnified in Iran and Lebanon.

European politicians like Britain’s Starmer, France’s Macron and Germany’s Merz are acting like lieutenants in America’s fascist blitzkrieg. Their complicity is damning.

Here’s the thing, however. The Western imperialist system has dug its own grave. Trump and Israel’s madman Netanyahu have opened the gates of hell, but they cannot control what is coming. For one thing, Iran’s firepower looks like it will overwhelm the U.S. and Israeli defenses and bring the world economy to a shuddering collapse. The debt-ridden U.S. and Western economies are facing a long-overdue day of reckoning from implosion.

There is no doubt that the U.S. and Israeli military power is inflicting a maelstrom of destruction and suffering. The psychopathic arrogance of its leaders is astounding and a cause of despair for many people. But there is also a foreboding sense that this is a desperate storm before the imperial system finally collapses from its own inherent corruption.

The Zionist fanatics of the empire who fantasize about “bringing the end of times” are facing an end of sorts, but far from the twisted kind they envisage.

Iran has been planning its military strategy for decades. It is exhausting the wildly extravagant death arsenal of the U.S. empire and its Israeli attack dog. All the accumulated evil of wars and genocides that the Western system has perpetrated for decades with impunity is appearing. A day of judgment is here, and the world must decide once and for all to abolish the enemy – the Western imperialist system – and push it into its own grave.

Humanity has to realize, and is realizing, that for the world to survive in peace, the United States and its Empire of Lies must be defeated.

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Centosessantacinque. Questo è il numero delle bambine fra i 7 e i 12 anni che sono rimaste uccise dal bombardamento israeliano su Teheran di domenica 1° marzo 2026.

Genitori che corrono tra le macerie di una scuola, che guardano dentro sacchi neri allineati, temendo di riconoscere il volto della propria figlia. È un’immagine potente, quasi insostenibile: il dolore che supera la ragione, la perdita che spezza ogni equilibrio.

Sui profili social israeliani circolavano i festeggiamenti, con frasi ciniche, sprezzanti. «Finalmente è crepato!» E sapete come scherzano laggiù?  «Ecco che le vergini sono arrivate in paradiso per loro!» Si fa riferimento alla credenza islamica secondo cui ai martiri, dopo la morte, vengono riservate vergini in paradiso. Ieri non sono morte solo bambine, ma anche membri del governo iraniano, considerati nel Paese martiri.

Esiste un umorismo cinico, esiste un umorismo nero, ma esiste anche un umorismo disumano. Questo è proprio tale — senza neppure un accenno di umanità. Del resto, non è stato certo l’Ayatollah Khamenei a essere coinvolto in scandali pedofili al punto da meritarsi vergini in paradiso, bensì l’élite americana. Dai file di Epstein, del resto, abbiamo capito benissimo come questa élite tratta i bambini. Ma ormai, con ogni probabilità, si parlerà sempre meno di quei file poiché sono stati oscurati dall’attacco all’Iran e dalla morte di quelle bambine, che tutti vedono perfettamente.

Sanno tutto, e di sicuro hanno guardato i video provenienti dalla scuola, in cui madri e padri corrono disperati tra le macerie, urlando, sbirciando dentro sacchi neri allineati, nella speranza di non trovare il volto della propria figlia. Un inferno, un inferno che viene organizzato a tavolino e gestito mediaticamente secondo doppi standard, perché ci sono morti di serie A e morti di serie B. La percezione di un doppio standard occidentale nasce anche da qui: quando i diritti umani vengono invocati contro alcuni governi, ma sembrano passare in secondo piano quando coinvolgono alleati strategici o figure interne al sistema di potere occidentale, la credibilità morale si incrina.

Non tutti i bambini sono uguali

Dispiace dirlo, ma l’Occidente collettivo sa bene come si gestiscono i bambini nel contesto della guerra dell’informazione, applicando come metodo l’ipocrisia dell’indignazione selettiva.

Quante volte in passato abbiamo visto muovere intere campagne mediatiche per dei poveri bambini, vittime di conflitti, tragici eventi, o addirittura intere costruzioni narrative mai verificate, ma utili per la propaganda, e che poi si sono rivelate delle fake news? Vogliamo, per esempio, citare i bambini di Bucha, che sono divenuti un capo di accusa mediatico internazionale, puntando il dito contro la Russia e gridando ai crimini contro l’umanità, con settimane di talk show, telegiornali, pagine stampate, contenuti sui social. Poi, ad indagini compiute, si scopre che niente era andato come l’Occidente raccontava. Ma nessuno, proprio nessuno di quei megafoni della menzogna ha rilanciato la verità. L’importante era aver screditato la Russia e fatto passare il presidente Vladimir Putin come un criminale mostruoso.

Non si sente mai parlare, invece, dei bambini ucraini, della loro condizione, di cosa succede quando i padri e i fratelli maggiorenni vengono strappati dalle forze armate per essere arruolati a forza e finire nel tritacarne del fronte. Non si parla più dell’enorme traffico di bambini, di cui l’Ucraina si è macchiata per anni e che era oggetto, fino a prima del 2014, di inchieste internazionali, mai concluse, ora oscurate e cancellate dai registri perché non fa più comodo a nessuno.

O vogliamo parlare dei più di 20.000 bambini uccisi nella striscia di Gaza nei 23 mesi del più recente conflitto, che sono stati prima negati, poi usati per alimentare una certa narrativa fin tanto che faceva comodo per aumentare lo share e fare visualizzazioni, spersonalizzando i bambini dalla loro etnia e dalla loro condizione sociale per usarli, invero, come strumenti di cattura dell’attenzione del pubblico, e poi dimenticati alla fine del conflitto, ignorando che nessun conflitto lì è finito e anche ancora, come da decenni, continuano ad essere incarcerati, torturati, uccisi bambini palestinesi.

Le bambine di Teheran, invece, non sono comode per la narrativa occidentale. Sono morti di serie B, non si possono spendere comodamente dagli uffici delle redazioni giornalistiche, non hanno peso sulla bilancia dei cosiddetti diritti umani, perché sono bambine “nate sbagliate”, dalla parte del nemico, per loro non c’è nessun movimento femminista, nessuna indignazione popolare, nessun hashtag sui social, nessun video trend da replicare. Sono “morti”, numeri asettici in un conteggio di cui a nessuno importa, non sono considerate come esseri umani. Del loro futuro stroncato dalla follia sionista, della loro innocenza calpestata per gli interessi delle tasche dei signori della guerra, non importa niente, e dovranno essere dimenticate, mettendo addirittura in dubbio che siano esistite, che non si sia magari trattato di un false flag, come alcuni canali israeliani hanno diffuso nelle ore successive alla tragedia.

Doppi standard, doppia moralità, che sono la cifra dell’Occidente collettivo che non ha pietà di niente e di nessuno, che guarda solo all’interesse, al profitto e al successo, non importa a quale prezzo.

E di questo prezzo l’Occidente rischia di pagare con la propria vita. Anzi, già è così, nel declino inesorabile di questo ammasso di civiltà putrefatte, corrotte, che dei bambini ha fatto un culto di morte, divorandoli come gli ordina di fare Moloch, il dio a cui hanno votato la loro fede e la loro obbedienza, o Baal, ansioso di sangue sacrificale.

Lungi da me il voler usare l’emotività come una fallacia argomentativa, desidero però proporre un esercizio di umanità: chi è padre o madre, provi ora a immaginare cosa voglia dire vivere questo dolore.

Ecco, questa è la guerra, la loro guerra, quella che non vogliono i popoli ma viene imposta dalle élite.

Questo è l’imperliamo, questo il sionismo.

Ed ha un nome, un volto, una bandiera.

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Emails show sex trafficking billionaire Jeffrey Epstein worked Israeli connections to help his lawyer’s daughter join an elite IDF unit. The woman, who Epstein wrote would make a “fantastic ambassador for Israel” at Columbia University, served on the board of Hillel International.

Jeffrey Epstein personally recruited an 18-year-old girl from New York to serve “in one of the elite IDF units,” email records show.

Epstein’s request came in a June 29, 2011 email to Anat Barak, the daughter of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. In the message, the financier described the girl in question, “Tali,” as an 18-year-old who’d been accepted to Columbia University’s Barnard College and had “been to Israel more than a dozen times.”

His young female friend had spent a summer hiking the so-called Israel Trail and another “working as a counselor at a summer camp in Dimona Israel for children who are victims of terrorist attacks,” and would therefore “be a great asset to any unit,” Epstein wrote.

Tali, he said, would continue serving Israeli interests long after her placement in the Israeli army. Upon her return from military service in Israel, Epstein wrote that “she would be a fantastic ambassador for Israel” at what he called “one of the more important college campuses in the country, Columbia.”

A few hours later, Barak fired back an email saying that Tali “sounds like an amazing girl” and informing the lecherous billionaire: “I’ll be in touch with her, and we’ll take care of her.”

The senior Israeli politician’s daughter then sent an email of her own to Tali, explaining that “Jeffrey Epstein told me about you and about your plans to join the IDF this summer.”

“This is absolutely wonderful,” Barak gushed, adding: “Kol Ha’kavod!,” a Hebrew expression meaning “much respect!” She requested to speak with Epstein’s young associate over the phone, adding, “if there’s anything you might need while you’re in Israel please don’t hesitate to call me.”

A review by The Grayzone of public records indicates that “Tali” is Talia Lefkowitz. Her father, Jay Lefkowitz, worked as Epstein’s lawyer and helped negotiate the billionaire’s sweetheart deal with then US Attorney Alex Acosta. At the time, her father argued that Epstein was “not in any way a typical sex offender.”

Talia Lefkowitz did not respond to an email from The Grayzone requesting comment on her relationship with Epstein, and his role in advancing her pro-Israel crusade.

According to her LinkedIn profile, Talia went on to serve as a sergeant in a “Special Forces Paratrooper Unit” – likely Israel’s 35th Brigade. The 35th Brigade is an elite unit of the IDF’s 98th Division, which was responsible for the destruction of large swaths of the city of Khan Younes during Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza in 2024. Its commanders were documented burning civilian homes and leaving behind graffiti taunting their former residents.

When she returned to study at Barnard after her time as a ‘lone soldier,’ she quickly emerged as a vocal advocate for Zionism, penning op-eds for prominent Israeli media outlets. In one such piece in the Jerusalem Post, Lefkowitz tearfully recalled taking shelter while volunteering at the camp mentioned by Epstein, declaring: “We are the kids of the bunker.” In another, published by The Times of Israel, Lefkowitz accused Columbia of “support… for a one-state solution” because the university failed to reserve a space for Zionists to protest against an anti-apartheid exhibit set up by Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.

At that point, Lefkowitz had become heavily involved in the Columbia-Barnard chapter of Hillel International, a global Jewish youth organization which supports Israel unequivocally. Her branch, she wrote for the Jewish Telegraph Agency, was “a magnet for students from Orthodox backgrounds, many of whom begin college after spending a gap-year in Israel.”

Lefkowitz later returned to Hillel, serving on its board from 2020 to 2022. Currently, however, Lefkowitz is employed as a “philanthropy advisor” to the Areivim Philanthropic Group, which says it aims to “impact the next generation of Jews through formal and experiential Jewish, Hebrew, Zionist, and Israel education.”

According to her bio at Areivim, Lefkowitz “worked for five years for The Paul E. Singer Foundation,” which ultra-Zionist billionaire Paul Singer has used to support neoconservative media outlets and pro-Israel causes. Singer is a top donor to the presidential campaigns of both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, and currently owns Venezuela’s Citgo Petroleum, securing it in a fire sale through his Elliott Capital Management Fund.

While Lefkowitz’s exploits in the upper echelons of the Zionist movement are public, it was unknown until now that she received assistance from Jeffrey Epstein, who despite having no apparent military or special forces experience himself, was seemingly able to arrange her acceptance into “one of the elite IDF units.” The emails between Epstein and Anat Barak raise serious questions about nepotism in the Israeli military’s recruitment process.

They also highlight Epstein’s involvement in Zionist lobbying efforts within the US, both on and off campus. As proposed by Epstein, Lefkowitz appears to have served as an unofficial “ambassador for Israel,” engaging heavily in Zionist activism at Columbia. Her recent tenure on the Hillel board enabled her to take her campus crusade onto the global stage.

While Epstein is best remembered as a well-connected financial dealer who solicited young women and girls for assorted sex acts, his gift as a recruiter for Israel’s genocidal occupation army is just becoming known.

Original article:  thegrayzone.com

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Em 2007, após Evo Morales nacionalizar o gás e o petróleo bolivianos, incluindo propriedades da Petrobras, Lula respondeu às pressões da direita brasileira, anticomunista e vassala do imperialismo, inimiga da integração latino-americana: “o Brasil não fala grosso com a Bolívia e fino com os Estados Unidos.”

Aquela frase resumia as pretensões nacionalistas de um segundo governo do PT, que naquele momento, já tendo passado por experiências de administração do Estado burguês, sentia-se relativamente livre das amarras dos partidos pró-imperialistas, uma vez que a chegada de Lula ao governo levou a um crescimento gigantesco do partido dentro das máquinas públicas regionais e a uma força que jamais havia alcançado no Congresso Nacional.

O PT iniciava o seu melhor momento institucional. Nas eleições gerais de 2006, por pouco Lula não vencera no primeiro turno e derrotou Alckmin com 60% dos votos no segundo turno. O PT tinha a segunda maior bancada do Congresso Nacional e a presidência da Câmara. Era o terceiro partido com o maior número de governadores (com dois a menos que o PMDB e um a menos que o PSDB). Em 2008, seria o terceiro partido com o maior número de prefeituras municipais.

Além disso, na política externa Lula era amigo de Bush e estava rodeado por governos de esquerda, inclusive alguns apoiados por intensas mobilizações populares, como o do próprio Morales, ou os de Chávez e Correa. O ciclo das commodities impulsionava a economia brasileira, que viria a crise de 2008 como uma mera “marolinha”, nas palavras de Lula.

Contudo, após a marolinha, veio a tempestade. A crise demorou mais para chegar ao Brasil graças ao bom momento no mercado internacional de matérias-primas, mas finalmente ela chegou. O imperialismo abandonou a política da boa vizinhança e passou a derrubar os governos nacionalistas da América Latina. O PT não foi exceção e, para isso, a direita golpista foi acionada, gestando a extrema-direita bolsonarista.

A crise da Covid-19, o desastre do governo Bolsonaro para a própria burguesia e a mobilização dos trabalhadores trouxeram Lula e o PT de volta ao governo em 2022. Mas o estrago já estava feito e não foi consertado: após o golpe de 2016, a natureza mesma do PT, um partido reformista e institucional, o fez se integrar totalmente ao regime político e com isso sofrer com a crise desse regime. A política do PT, de alianças e resgate dos políticos falidos, impossibilitou que ele colhesse devidamente os frutos da vitória eleitoral.

Lula voltou com as mãos mais atadas e mais apertadas do que nunca. Voltou como um refém do regime e de suas instituições apodrecidas. Nem sequer arrisca uma maior independência, como havia feito vinte anos atrás. Nem mesmo quando teve a oportunidade, diante da queda do Partido Democrata e da vitória de Trump. Pelo contrário: a sedução democrata deu lugar ao porrete trumpista e, com medo das tarifas, por um lado, e da chantagem do STF, vítima de sanções, por outro, cedeu vergonhosamente às exigências do imperialismo americano.

Lula não passou do chororô diante do genocídio praticado por Israel contra os palestinos. Rompeu com o governo sandinista da Nicarágua, seu aliado histórico. Barrou a entrada da Venezuela no BRICS, não reconheceu a vitória eleitoral de Maduro e se calou perante os bombardeios e o sequestro do líder venezuelano, e nada faz para ajudar a Cuba ainda mais asfixiada por Trump – antes tachado de fascista, extremista, misógino, homofóbico, xenófobo, mentiroso, lunático e por aí vai. Como num conto de fadas, Lula se encantou com o monstro: “foi amor à primeira vista.”

A nota oficial do governo brasileiro quando da agressão imperialista ao país vizinho nem sequer mencionou os Estados Unidos e Trump como responsáveis pela ação e chamou o sequestro de Maduro de “captura” – como se ele fosse um criminoso.

A mesma covardia da diplomacia brasileira se repete com a guerra desencadeada pelo imperialismo e o sionismo contra o Irã. Em nota inicial, o Itamaraty afirmou: “o governo brasileiro condena e expressa grave preocupação com os ataques realizados hoje (28/02) por Estados Unidos e Israel contra alvos no Irã.” Porém, em nota seguinte, condenou a retaliação iraniana aos alvos legítimos dos Estados Unidos dentro dos países artificiais governados por monarquias satélites chamados de “Estados do Golfo”. A nota ainda afirmou que o governo brasileiro “se solidariza” com os países “objetos de ataques retaliatórios do Irã” – uma nota muito mais crítica ao Irã do que a anterior foi a Estados Unidos e Israel, não mencionando esses dois países, que iniciaram a guerra, e se solidarizando com os atingidos pelo Irã, enquanto na primeira nota não expressa nenhuma palavra de solidariedade a Teerã.

É a inversão da política “ativa e altiva” pregada tradicionalmente por Lula e o PT. Com medo de perder seus assentos governamentais, ministeriais e parlamentares, o PT está falando grosso com os países pobres, indefesos e agredidos e fino com os que os oprimem.

Para piorar, Lula tem um encontro marcado com Trump para o meio do mês, na Casa Branca. Pode ser que a guerra contra o Irã escale ainda mais e o governo dos Estados Unidos suspenda o encontro. Mas já se diz que, se isso não ocorrer, Lula irá a Washington se reunir com Trump para cultivar as relações com a nação imperialista.

Resta saber se toda essa entrega política vai ser suficiente para que o imperialismo e os seus lacaios no Brasil aceitem mais quatro anos de Lula e do PT no governo – o centro dos esforços da direção petista, em seu vício eleitoreiro e carguista, em sua paixão pelos privilégios garantidos a quem integra a máquina pública, máquina de enganar e explorar o público.

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Endless horror

One hundred and sixty-five. That is the number of girls between the ages of 7 and 12 who were killed by the Israeli bombing of Tehran on Sunday, March 1, 2026.

Parents running through the rubble of a school, looking into rows of black bags, fearing they will recognize the face of their daughter. It is a powerful, almost unbearable image: pain that transcends reason, loss that shatters all balance.

Celebrations circulated on Israeli social media profiles, with cynical, contemptuous comments. “He’s finally croaked!” And do you know how they joke over there? “Now the virgins have arrived in paradise for them!” This refers to the Islamic belief that martyrs are reserved virgins in paradise after death. Yesterday, it was not only girls who died, but also members of the Iranian government, considered martyrs in the country.

There is cynical humor, there is black humor, but there is also inhuman humor. This is precisely that — without even a hint of humanity. After all, it was certainly not Ayatollah Khamenei who was involved in pedophile scandals to the point of deserving virgins in paradise, but rather the American elite. From Epstein’s files, we have understood very well how this elite treats children. But now, in all likelihood, there will be less and less talk about those files because they have been overshadowed by the attack on Iran and the death of those girls, which everyone can see perfectly well.

They know everything, and they have certainly watched the videos from the school, in which mothers and fathers run desperately through the rubble, screaming, peering into rows of black bags, hoping not to find the face of their daughter. It is hell, a hell that is organized at the table and managed by the media according to double standards, because there are first-class deaths and second-class deaths. The perception of a Western double standard also stems from this: when human rights are invoked against certain governments, but seem to take a back seat when they involve strategic allies or figures within the Western power system, moral credibility is undermined.

Not all children are equal

It is sad to say, but the West as a whole knows very well how to use children in the context of information warfare, applying the hypocrisy of selective indignation as a method.

How many times in the past have we seen entire media campaigns launched for poor children, victims of conflicts, tragic events, or even entire narratives that were never verified but useful for propaganda, and which later turned out to be fake news? We would like to mention, for example, the children of Bucha, who became the subject of international media accusations, pointing the finger at Russia and crying out about crimes against humanity, with weeks of talk shows, news programs, print media, and social media content. Then, once the investigations were completed, it turned out that nothing had happened as the West had reported. But none, absolutely none, of those megaphones of lies relaunched the truth. The important thing was to have discredited Russia and portrayed President Vladimir Putin as a monstrous criminal.

On the other hand, we never hear about Ukrainian children, their condition, what happens when their fathers and older brothers are torn from their families by the armed forces to be forcibly enlisted and end up in the meat grinder of the front line. There is no longer any mention of the enormous child trafficking trade, which Ukraine has been involved in for years and which, until 2014, was the subject of international investigations that were never concluded and have now been obscured and deleted from the records because they no longer suit anyone.

Or shall we talk about the more than 20,000 children killed in the Gaza Strip in the 23 months of the most recent conflict, which were first denied, then used to fuel a certain narrative as long as it was convenient to increase ratings and views, depersonalizing the children from their ethnicity and social status in order to use them, in fact, as tools to capture the public’s attention, and then forgotten at the end of the conflict, ignoring that no conflict there has ended and even now, as for decades, Palestinian children continue to be imprisoned, tortured, and killed.

The girls of Tehran, on the other hand, do not fit into the Western narrative. They are second-class deaths, they cannot be conveniently exploited by newsrooms, they have no weight on the scales of so-called human rights, because they are girls ‘born wrong’, on the enemy’s side. For them, there is no feminist movement, no popular outrage, no hashtags on social media, no trending videos to replicate. They are ‘dead’, sterile numbers in a count that no one cares about, they are not considered human beings. No one cares about their future, cut short by Zionist madness, or their innocence trampled on for the sake of the warlords’ pockets. They must be forgotten, even casting doubt on whether they ever existed, whether it was perhaps a false flag, as some Israeli channels reported in the hours following the tragedy.

Double standards, double morality, which are the hallmark of the collective West that has no mercy on anything or anyone, that looks only to interest, profit, and success, no matter what the cost.

And the West risks paying for this price with its own life. Indeed, this is already the case, in the inexorable decline of this mass of rotten, corrupt civilizations, which have turned children into a cult of death, devouring them as commanded by Moloch, the god to whom they have pledged their faith and obedience, or Baal, eager for sacrificial blood.

Far be it from me to use emotion as a fallacious argument, but I would like to propose an exercise in humanity: if you are a father or mother, try to imagine what it means to live with this pain.

This is war, their war, the one that the people do not want but is imposed on them by the elites.

This is imperialism, this is Zionism.

And it has a name, a face, a flag.

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Journey to the center of the world of American leaders’ madness and ruin, writes Dennis Kucinich, to see desperate Iranian parents picking through rubble, searching for any signs of their little girls.

The Trump Administration, at the behest of the decrepit Netanyahu government, was instrumental in the bombing of a girls’ elementary school in Iran on Saturday, killing 57 children.

Let that sink in.

Journey to the center of the world of American leaders’ madness and ruin to see desperate Iranian parents picking through rubble, searching for any signs of their little girls. [Iran’s Tasnim News Agency cited the Judiciary of Minab as saying that the death toll had risen to 85.]

Now tell those parents, as we are being told, that America has done this so the Iranian people can be free. It’s the Empire’s new equation, Freedom = Death.

This murderous approach that the Trump Administration has wantonly indulged is identical to the policy of the Netanyahu government to bomb schools in Gaza and to murder innocent children as a (psychopathic) determination of heading off retribution in the future. The murder of children has become a state sacrament.

This is, in fact, an extension of the Epstein saga, the destruction of innocence through child rape, murder and cannibalism by powerful people whose thirst for blood will never be slaked in this cartwheeling carnival of human sacrifice called war.

Peter Berger, in [his 1974  book] Pyramids of Sacrifice drew the equation between the Aztec civilization’s cult of human sacrifice and the collapse of its empire, writing:

“Thus the great pyramid of Cholula provides a metaphorical paradigm for the relations among theory, power and the victims of both – the intellectuals who define reality, the power wielders who shape the world to conform to the definitions and the others who are called upon to suffer in consequence of both enterprises.”

Consider the wider context in which these events occur:

• The rise of predatory Zionism, with its execution of a strategy of annihilation, ethnic cleansing, mass murder and genocide and with ambitions for an Empire from the Euphrates to the Nile;
• the attempt to stifle dissent on U.S. college campuses, threats to university funding; changes in First Amendment law at state levels to punish critics of Israel; the domination of both political parties in U.S. politics by AIPAC and affiliated groups;
• the domination of the media by those more dedicated to the shameful cause of the Likud Government of Netanyahu, Smotrich and Ben Gvir than they are to the United States Constitution.

Front Row Seat on Western Civilization Decline

We have a front row seat at the steady decline of Western “civilization,” led by the U.S. government, recently precipitating the Iraq-Iran War, the war in Afghanistan, the War in Iraq, the War against Lebanon, the War against Syria, the War against Gaza and the West Bank, the War against Yemen and now presenting the (second) U.S. war against Iran.

Renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War is splendid Truth in Advertising.

Simultaneously, the collapse of the American economy is in the offing, mired in debt, yet preparing to appropriate $1.5 trillion dollars a year for war, most of next year’s discretionary spending which would otherwise be used for the health, education and general welfare of the American people.

Today the U.S., the “most powerful military in the world” has been reduced to being an arm of the Israeli government, in service of greater Israel.

That we have made Netanyahu’s long-desired war upon Iran our own, is a sign that Lincoln’s Prayer of a “Government of the People, by the People and For the People, Shall not Perish,” is no longer part of our national invocation. Nor are George Washington’s admonitions about foreign entanglements regarded, nor President Eisenhower’s warning about the military industrial complex.

No today, America’s leaders cast aside centuries of accumulated wisdom of governance and descend into a circle of Hell, lower than Dante imagined in the Inferno, a place reserved for those who sacrifice their nations for personal wealth and power and for whom nothing is immoral, there is no spiritual code and no divine being other than themselves.

The modern punishments of Impeachment and trial by the Hague are insufficient to deal with such beings.

Original article:  consortiumnews.com