Hegseth braggadocio spurs reactions

Response to Hegseth and Trump by former Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia

Underground living in Tel Aviv, Israel

Rockets & Penises in the Persian Gulf - George Carlin - Jammin' In New York (1992) 

Kids killed in Iran school on day 1

Iranian school children who were murdered as a result of a genocidal  American air strike on a school in Minab, Iran on the very first day of this unnecessary war by the zionists in Washington and Tel Aviv. 

Secretary of Endless War Pete Hegseth bragged that the US did a 'double tap' over Minab. After the initial strike of the school parents ran to find their children. As rescue efforts began the US hit the site again.

In a related story Trump has expelled prominent conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson from his Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, saying Carlson has “lost his way.” 

The breaking point between the two came over the US-Israeli attack on Iran, which Carlson has characterized as “absolutely disgusting and evil.”

We urge all people around the world to boycott the USA. Boycott US stores, products, films, etc. Boycott the FIFA world games held in the US this year. You collectively have the ability to impact the US. Please do what you can.

Huge German student protest against the draft & war$

By Guy Smallman

Thousands of students walked out of their classes for a huge protest against conscription in Berlin this week. This was repeated across the country. 

As of January 1st a new law requires males born from 2008 to complete military registration forms and undertake medical screenings to assess their suitability for service in the German Army.

There is little doubt that the decision by German Chancellor Merz to fly to the USA on Tuesday for a meeting with Trump in support of the attack on Iran (without consulting the German Parliament or his fellow European leaders) has inflamed things here. 

There is also a growing support for Palestine among younger people that I've not previously seen here.

As with all the protests I cover here, there was some truly awesome live hip hop complimenting the speakers.

the funnies

Latest news from US-Israel war mongering against Iran

The Islander

The New York Times — not a Telegram channel, not a Russian state broadcaster, the New York Times — has published satellite imagery confirming what Iran said it was doing while Washington was busy telling you it wasn’t working. Every major US base across the Gulf. Systematically and methodically hit.

Bahrain, Fifth Fleet headquarters, the nerve centre of American naval power in the region. Al Udeid Qatar — already missing its $1.1 billion AN/TPY-2 radar. Camp Arifjan Kuwait. Ali Al Salem. Prince Sultan in Saudi Arabia. UAE facilities. SATCOM terminals destroyed. Radomes cracked open. Satellite dishes gone. Missile tracking infrastructure — the AN/TPY-2 radar systems that coordinate every Patriot and THAAD battery in theater — targeted with what the imagery confirms was not luck but architecture.

Iran didn’t just strike US bases. It mapped the communication and coordination layer that makes American missile defense function as a unified system and then it peeled it apart, base by base, across five countries simultaneously.

This is not retaliation but doctrine. Thirty years of studying exactly how the American military machine sees, communicates, and coordinates and then, when the moment came, going straight for the eyes. The interceptors are blind. The magazines are depleted. The Navy can’t guarantee escorts in the Strait. Raytheon is being summoned to emergency meetings. South Korea is sitting exposed. And the New York Times just put the satellite pictures on the front page.

Washington built the most expensive military architecture in human history. Iran just showed you the blueprint for how to dismantle it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ This is not going according to plan.

Tens of thousands of Lebanese flee the southern suburbs of Dahieh in Beirut following Israeli occupation threats to flatten its neighborhoods.

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IRGC PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE: “Heavy Khorramshahr-4 missiles of the IRGC Aerospace Force were launched towards the heart of Tel Aviv in the 19th wave”

➡️”In the 21st statement of Operation True Promise 4, the IRGC Public Relations announced: The heavy Khorramshahr-4 missiles of the IRGC Aerospace Force, with one-ton warheads, were launched at dawn today in the 19th wave of Operation True Promise 4 under the blessed code “Ya Hassan ibn Ali (peace be upon him)” towards the heart of Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion Airport, and the Israeli air force’s Squadron 27 base at the airport.

➡️The successful penetration of these strategic missiles, led by attack drones, through the seven layers of regional and domestic air defense of the occupied territories, created a real hell for the aggressors.

➡️It is worth noting that in the 18th wave of Operation True Promise 4, 20 American military targets in the region, including in Bahrain, the UAE, and Kuwait, were effectively struck.

➡️The planning, operational coordination, and targeted allocation of offensive roles among the powerful branches of the Islamic Republic’s armed forces across comprehensive and multiple fronts—beyond the military estimates of the US and the Zionist regime—have transformed the equation of war.

➡️The flight of cowardly American soldiers from regional bases and their sheltering in hotels of host countries, as well as the use of civilian facilities in Persian Gulf countries as cover by the criminal US army, are not hidden from the IRGC’s intelligence monitoring. The brave soldiers of the IRGC are lying in ambush to hunt the soldiers of the aggressive US army and will not let them go.”

Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives says 'We are not at war'. Sure looks and smells like war.

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Politico – US urgently looking for more people and resources to sustain Iran war for AT LEAST 100 days.  Trump initially gave a 4-week timeline for the conflict.  Seems POTUS didn’t expect the wide fallout of his and Bibi’s Iran gamble.

France gave permission for the US to use their bases in the region.

UK – We have allowed the use of our bases to counter Iranian missiles.

-Iranian Revolutionary Guard:

We targeted Ben Gurion Airport and the 27th Air Force base of the Israeli military with Khorramshahr-4 missiles.

Our missiles penetrated seven layers of air defense in the occupied territories and caused havoc for the enemies.

We inflicted significant damage on 20 U.S. military targets in Kuwait, Bahrain, and the UAE.

• -Tehran is being carpet bombed.  Of course it is all civilian targets.  In the past hour or so, 30 police stations were targeted.  Marwa Osman created a a list.

CNN says no panic in Iran. No protests against the government witnessed. Thought the US was destroying Iran?

The elementary school in the city of Minab was just one of the first civilian locations targeted. The attack was carried out from US's Al Dhafra Air Base in UAE; many more civilian facilities have been attacked during the past 5 days. Here is some of them:

• Residential areas in Niloufar Square, Tehran (over 20 innocent people were killed)
• A densely populated residential complex in Sanandaj, western Iran
• The historic Radio Citadel and Golestan Palace, south of Tehran
• Gandhi Hospital, Tehran
• Tehran Grand Bazaar, Tehran
• Abuzar Hospital, Ahvaz, southwestern Iran
• The vicinity of the Iranian Red Crescent Society building, Tehran
• Khatam al-Anbia Hospital, Tehran
• The Welfare Organization, Tehran
• Motahari Hospital, Tehran
• Vali-Asr Hospital, Tehran
• Trauma and Burn Hospital, Tehran
• Ameneh Infant Care Centre, Tehran
• Shahid Rajaei Heart Hospital, Tehran
• Residential homes surrounding Sepah Square, Tehran
• Residential areas in Maragheh, northwestern Iran (over 27 innocent people were killed)
• Baqaei Hospital, Ahvaz, southwestern Iran
• Emergency medical base, Chabahar
• Emergency medical base, Sarab, northwestern Iran
• Emergency medical base, Hamedan, central Iran
• Hazrat Abolfazl Hospital, Minab, southern Iran
• Shahid Mahallati Primary School, Tehran
• Hedayat School, Narmak, Tehran
• A sports hall in Lamerd, Fars Province, southern Iran (18 innocent boys and girls were killed)
• 35 innocent people were killed in Fars Province, central Iran
• Bazaar in Baharestan Square, central Tehran
• A park for children in Tehran
• Emergency medical centre, Tehran

• A kindergarten in Narmak
•Residential homes in Narmak district, Araghi st., Marzdaran blvd, Tehran
•Arg Square, The historic Radio Citadel and Golestan Palace, south of Tehran
•Attack on Mir-Damād Boulevard, causing damage to residential and medical facilities
•Attack on 2 headquarters of the Diplomatic Police

The Embassy of Iran in China shared a Chinese song from 60 years ago, and it suddenly went viral. Most Chinese people born after the 1970s had almost never heard it before. The reason it became popular is that the lyrics perfectly reflect the actions of the United States.

Indian reactions to Modi & Israel

'We should not support a country committing genocide'. 

• Sonia Gandhi, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson: 

“When the targeted killing of a foreign leader draws no clear defence of sovereignty or international law from our country, and impartiality is abandoned, it raises serious doubts about the direction and credibility of our foreign policy. Silence, in this instance, is not neutral.”

• Rahul Gandhi, Leader of Opposition, Lok Sabha:

“PM [Narendra] Modi must speak up. Does he support the assassination of a head of state as a way to define the world order? Silence now diminishes India’s standing in the world. India must be morally clear. We should have the courage to speak plainly in defense of international law and human lives. Our foreign policy is rooted in sovereignty and the peaceful resolution of disputes –and it must remain consistent.”

• M. A. Baby, general secretary, Communist Party of India: 

“While we have differences with certain non-democratic measures adopted by the Iranian government, the murder of their Supreme Leader and other top officials by the Imperialist United States and Zionist Israel in violation of Iran’s national sovereignty and international law is utterly reprehensible and must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. When world peace is under threat, India should play a lead role in rallying all democratic voices together so that there is a cessation of violent attacks and countermeasures.”

• Dr Zakir Hussain, foreign policy expert:

“This will not stop with this. It will also lead to Pakistan. Turkey will also come into this. The larger plan (of the US) is to control the region and hand over the leadership of the region to Israel.”

• Omair Anas, an international relations expert with a focus on the Middle East:

“The impact of this conflict will reflect on energy prices. If this conflict [becomes] prolonged, there will be a crisis in energy supply as well as prices. So its impact is going to be [felt] on India.”

Iran War: A Rockefeller & Rothschild Ploy for the Great Reset Agenda

The US’ problem with Iran had nothing to do with the nuclear program, the same way they lied about Iraqi WMDs and Venezuelan narcotics trafficking.  

According to US investment banker Catherine Fitts in an interview with Tucker Carlson, it was about the fact that Iran had rejected the globalist digital currency model planned by the ruling capitalist class, especially the Rockefeller and Rothschild families.

When US Army General Wesley Clark was told in 2001 that the US was “going to invade seven countries in five years,” it meant nations whose central banks “were not on board with programmable money.”

She said the aim was to assert control over the central banks of: 

▪️ Iraq

▪️ Syria

▪️ Lebanon

▪️ Libya

▪️ Somalia

▪️ Sudan

▪️ Iran

Once that was done, they would be placed under a globalist Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) framework, which is the foundation of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset agenda.

A centrally controlled CBDC system with globally interoperable digital IDs cannot tolerate independent sovereign monetary systems or oil trade.  This is why the United States attacked Venezuela and is turning their crosshairs towards Cuba, while NATO wages a proxy war against Russia, and Washington encircles China and the DPRK with military bases.

As Fitts told Tucker Carlson in the interview: 

💬 “I think one of the reasons we're seeing so much tension around Iran is because Iran right now is the big leakage in the system”

💬 “Iran's central bank counts. One of the reasons it counts is because their oil and energy is very important.”

The pursuit of independent payment systems and the establishment of alternative markets free from US influence by Iran and BRICS makes them a sticking point for the globalist financial elites. 

Iran didn’t just strike US bases. It mapped the communication and coordination layer that makes American missile defense function as a unified system and then it peeled it apart, base by base, across five countries simultaneously.

Washington built the most expensive military architecture in human history. Iran just showed you the blueprint for how to dismantle it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 

This war is not going according to plan.

Back on the street in Brunswick, Maine

Six of us were back at Brunswick's busiest intersection today for an hour. After being gone from our two weekly vigils in town for quite a while it felt good to be on the street again. Especially now that US-Israel are trying to create WW3 in West Asia.

According to informed sources five American F-15 fighter jets and more than 50 American and Israeli Hermes Heron and MQ-4 combat reconnaissance aircraft were shot down over Iran and Iraq.

Nearly every Senate Republican voted last Wednesday to thwart a measure that would have reined in President Donald Trump's power to continue waging war on Iran. The bill, which was struck down with a 53-to-47 vote, would have forced the president to seek authorization from Congress to continue the offensive in West Asia. 

The vote split almost perfectly along party lines. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky was the only Republican to vote in support of the resolution; Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, on the other hand, was the only Democrat to break with his party and vote against the measure, in keeping with his pro-Israel stance.

As it turns out our monthly statewide action will be held at this same spot on Saturday, March 7 at 1:30 pm.

Join us if you can.

Bruce

Photos by MB Sullivan

Message to our donors

We have recently heard from four Global Network (GN) donors that while I was gone to Cambodia for six weeks they had donation checks returned to them by the Post Office. Likely others who we have not heard from also had their donation envelopes returned to them with a message that our PO Box 652 was no longer working.

Before I left I arranged that the Post Office would forward our mail to another GN board member here in Maine that would pay our bills until I returned.

Once I got home and discovered this problem I went directly to the Post Office. They assured me it was just a 'mistake' and that our PO Box is now working fine. We shall see if that proves to be correct.

If you'd rather use your credit card to donate you can go to our secure web site Donate Now page here.

I don't really blame the postal workers as recent presidential administrations (Republican and Democrat) have been cutting funds for the postal service. They are out to destroy it and intend to privatize it like Washington is doing with so many other national programs that the public relies on. 

So if you got your recent donation to the GN returned to you please resend it.

Our PO Box 652, Brunswick, ME 04011 is working now.

Thanks to all.

Bruce

An Ummah Uncolonized: With Struggle Comes Liberation

Rescue workers surround a corpse amidst the rubble in Iran at a site strewn with bodies, each one belonging to someone’s daughter who was alive in the morning before Israel and the United States decided to bomb a girls’ elementary school in Minab, killing over one hundred and fifty little girls on February 28, 2026 (Abbas Zakeri for Mehr News Agency via the AP).

Sunni or Shia, Muslim or Not, We Are One Against Zionist Imperialism

By Yussra

Forward

I’m sorry for the graphic image, but I wonder about the ethics of shielding our eyes from atrocities sponsored by our own taxes. We’re also often wisely advised to stay out of comment sections, but I like being able to access people’s honest reactions to world news in ways they might not share anywhere outside of a screen. I’ve been reading lots of comments from Muslims lately on current events, so this essay will primarily address Muslims, but even if you’re not Muslim, a peek into our distinct yet overlapping Sunni and Shia perspectives might be helpful to understand, and I hope the core message can encompass any human who cares about justice and peace. To anyone who strives against oppression, I consider you my family. Thank you for your fight.

Two Troubling Takes

I’ve been seeing more unity among Muslims this week than I have in a long time, but also some disturbing division, a consequence of the colonizer retraining our very psyche. As Allah continues to expose the oppressors and reveal more of His plan with each passing day of Ramadan, today I wanted to shed light on two drastically clashing perspectives I’ve noticed in the Ummah, because it’s been catching my attention how differently we perceive the same events based on our experiences and allegiances. There are many other viewpoints out there, but for our purposes, I’ll briefly cover two troubling stances I’ve noticed from Muslims in response to recent news. The wider context to this conversation includes America and Israel’s attacks against Iran, and Iran’s counterattacks against Israel as well as US military bases across the Middle East, especially in the Gulf countries. In the interest of fairness, I’m about to call out both Sunni and Shia Muslims, but I do so with love. 

1. Among Shia Muslims, there are those who perceive Shia leaders like the Iranian government to be sacrificial heroes, the only ones willing to take on the Western Zionist colonizer in a world where Sunni leaders are themselves colonized…

• However, I’m not sure how they reconcile this belief with the fact that the Palestinian resistance is Sunni, not to mention the fact that Iran has consistently behaved out of self-interest, meaning they only fight Israel when Israel attacks them, while Israel has been overwhelmingly left unimpeded by the entire international community in its genocidal campaign against Palestine.

2. Among Sunni Muslims, there are those in places like Syria and Iraq who have been oppressed by Iran’s current regime, so they perceive Iran as another occupier they have to deal with on top of the Western empire…

• However, some of them allow their frustration with one aggressor to make them actively root for the other in an appalling display of the “lesser evil” fallacy, a reactionary mentality that someone perceived to be merely less evil than someone else is therefore morally acceptable to support… and in what universe could Israel be considered a lesser evil compared to any other entity?

The Scope of the Moment

I’m a Sunni Muslim from Iraq myself, so I’m not going to sanitize Iran’s record against their neighbors, but we have to distinguish between people and their leaders, between regional disputes and external domination, and between one’s complaints against his brother’s abuses and the mutual threat they both face from the serial killer who lives down the street. When I said that humanity has failed Palestine, I meant it. With the notable exception of Yemen, no force on Earth, not even Iran, has tried to stop Israel and the Western world from carrying out the ethnic cleansing of Palestine to completion. And now that failure is boiling over, with hundreds of our precious Iranian siblings slaughtered by the US and Israel in the space of days. Even the wealthiest Gulf countries are finally feeling the burn and tasting the consequences of their support for the Zionists who have been massacring our brothers and sisters in Palestine and Yemen and Sudan and far beyond this entire time.

The news these days might have people finally asking some very important questions. Questions like: wait, why are there so many US bases in the Middle East? And questions like: how can Zionist Persians and Zionist Arabs celebrate as the West massacres their own people? Or questions like: why is the Zionists’ so-called “Board of Peace” made up of leaders of Muslim nations from every corner of the Earth under the guidance of the very war criminals who have carried out genocide in Gaza?

I love it when people start asking questions. I love hearing that Americans are starting to wonder why exactly they should be expected to kill and die for Israel. I love seeing Muslims turning against their colonized leaders and toward each other, rejecting the tribalistic nationalism of tyrannical puppets and seeing with new eyes what we once were and insha’Allah can again become: a global community of Muslims united, an Ummah uncolonized. While many of us have been blessed to live in peace as we focus on growing closer to the Most Merciful and making our way through the Qur’an during this precious month, how many Muslims have been murdered this Ramadan?

In the past several days alone, we have escalation of genocide in Sudan through the support of the United Arab Emirates, we have Pakistan striking Afghanistan, we have Pakistanis getting murdered while protesting America and Israel’s killing of Shia spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, we have debris from Iran’s rockets falling on Bengali workers in the Middle East, we have American bases making targets out of every Arab land, we have Israel bombing Iran and Lebanon and forcing the populations of countless cities to scatter, and through it all, we still have Palestinian children dying of starvation, even today.

I want you to pause this reading and open up a tab with a world map; take a second to look at the size of Israel’s stolen land, and compare it to the scope of destruction across Asia and Africa that the Western world and its vassals have carried out on Israel’s behalf.

What have we been doing? Ya mu’mineen, this current moment we are witnessing is a special chance that Allah has opened for us. Let’s stop taking the colonizer’s bait. Let’s stop seeing the world through the eyes of our nationality or race or sect alone. Of course our identity will inform our worldview, but our experiences should only enrich our empathy and our solidarity. If your people have lived through oppression, then you should be all the more able to recognize it in others. Let your concern for others envelop the Ummah and beyond, because in our limited time through this life, we owe it to everyone, Muslim and otherwise, to stand with them against injustice.

That’s why we’re here, remember?  

Dr. Marandi & Mnar Adley on Khamenei Assassination, Strait of Hormuz, & Iran War

Trump 2.0 is now at war with the whole world.

Call it mafioso
Call it fascist
Call it piracy
Call it the devil.

The people in Gaza,

in their hearts,

must be cheering.

Someone actually tries

to stop genocidal Israel

and its pedo junior-partner

Donald Trump.

Label Trump the caged beast.

The Epstein War,

now officially named,

plunders the world

on behalf of the CIA

(and AIPAC) 

which run America.

Memorize the new slogan

'Israel First'!

It's another war

for oil,

its a war against BRICS+,

its a war for maximum profits

by stealing the public treasures

across the globe.

It's a war

for 'Greater Israel'.

We saw it coming.

The 'Board of Piss'

was eager

to get things started.

Millions of foreign workers

keep Arab monarchies

humming along.

War unsettles that dynamic.

Foreign workers

owe no loyalty 

to the white robed

and crowned oligarchs.

The peasants are now 

cheering the attacks on US bases

in those 'kingdoms'.

Kings, Princes, Emirs and Sultans

now living on a thin line.

The Trump-ista desperados

must rampage now,

while they still can,

chaos being their MO.

It seems like they 

hate life itself.

They see no beauty,

their frozen hearts

won't feel the pain

as our Mother Earth's

sacred body writhes 

in suffering.

It is biblical

in dimension,

staged right in

the Holy Land.

Be careful what/who

you listen to.

Lies are deeply packed 

inside the 

runaway honey wagon.

It's a war

for the liberation

of the Global South.

Long time coming.

Bruce 

Marine dragged out of Congressional hearing on Iran

At a hearing on the war in Iran in the US Congress, an American Marine veteran was forcibly ejected from the public hearing room after shouting that the current US administration is now acting in the interests of Israel and is dragging the country into war.

zionist ADL surveillance of Americans

In this episode of 51-49, James exposes the authoritarian reality behind the ADL’s facade, moving from Jonathan Greenblatt’s admission of a 24/7 FBI-coordinated surveillance network to the infiltration of AI models and Evangelical curricula.

Ultimately revealing how a tax-exempt non-profit has morphed into a hostile intelligence apparatus prioritizing foreign interests over American civil liberties. 

They are fanatics!

Secretary of State Narco Rubio: "Let me explain to you guys, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics".

Trump's 'spiritual adviser' Paula White speaking to who? Maybe Epstein from hell....

Now U.S. invades Ecuador

U.S. forces have launched military operations with Ecuador against “designated terrorist organizations” inside the South American country, Southern Command said Tuesday.

The military released no details on the operations but suggested in a statement that it was an extension of strikes carried out by the Trump administration against suspected drug trafficking organizations in the region.

President Daniel Noboa has declared a state of emergency. The government has been engaged in a low-level internal armed conflict with the gangs.

Noboa has courted the Trump administration over the past year in the hopes of securing assistance. He came to Washington for Trump’s second inauguration and Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Ecuador in September, and told reporters that the U.S. would “blow up” criminal groups if needed. 

Countdown to Insanity begins at the Pentagon

The Countdown to Armageddon has begun. As biblical prophecy fuels political power, American Evangelicals threaten U.S. democracy and push for the Apocalypse in the Middle East.

This feature documentary directed by Tonje Hessen Schei, co-directed by Michael Rowley and produced by UpNorth Film, investigates the dangerous consequences of the fusion between Evangelical Christianity and American politics. 

A high percentage of officers inside the US military today are Christian fundamentalists who want war to bring on the return of Christ. 

US commanders across more than 30 military installations, in every branch of the armed forces, have been telling troops that the Iran war is “Armageddon” — and that Donald Trump was anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire that triggers his return to Earth. This is not a fringe sermon. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has logged over 110 formal complaints.