Lula drops the truth bomb

Lula speaks the truth that Washington, Israel and the global Epstein class don't want to hear.

Time for us all to get real. 

Quotable quotes from the war zone

• Israeli submarine shot the ballistic missiles toward Diego Garcia according to Russian and Chinese satellites. Another false flag operation by Israel - like the drone attack on Cyprus which later was confirmed as launched by Israel .
• Former US State Department Chief of Staff, Colonel (retired) Lawrence Wilkerson, reveals a shocking statement about Rumsfeld: "As you know, this isn't fiction; it's pure fact. One day, as I was told—I didn't hear it myself, but the source was reliable—Rumsfeld stormed out of his office, threw his papers on the floor, and said: 'I'm not in charge here; Mossad is.'" Wilkerson indicates that former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (under George W. Bush) believed that the Israeli Mossad, not he, effectively controlled the Pentagon's decisions. This statement reopens the debate surrounding "Israeli influence" within the US military establishment, amidst the current war with Iran, which many believe is driven by Israeli pressure. 

• Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: "There are no talks between Tehran and Washington. The U.S. president’s statements are part of attempts to lower energy prices and buy time to implement his military plans. Yes, there are initiatives from regional countries to de-escalate, and our response to all of them has been clear: we are not the party that started this war, and all such requests should be directed to Washington." 

• After 24 hours out of the 42-hour deadline Trump set to destroy Iran’s power plants, the fool now states again: "I have ordered all military strikes against Iranian power stations and energy infrastructure to be postponed for five days."

• How many U.S. troops will Trump get killed in this war? How many in Iran will die at the hands of the US-Israel?

• Walla (citing a senior Israeli official): "Any U.S. withdrawal at this stage of the war, while Iran controls traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, would amount to a strategic surrender, and such a move would make U.S. allies—especially the Gulf states—hostages in the hands of the Iranian regime."
• Israeli media: "The healthcare system in Israel is preparing for a scenario of a prolonged power outage."
• Hebrew Channel Kan reveals that the Israeli army has begun opening missile and bomb stockpiles, established 50 years ago for any confrontation with Egypt before the peace and normalization agreement, to use them in bombing Iran and the current war.
• The New York Times: Israel played a role in organizing violent riots in Iran on January 8–9, 2026, which claimed the lives of around 3,000 people, and were presented in the West as democratic protests. Mossad hoped this would prompt the United States to take military action, convincing President Donald Trump that strikes on Iran would quickly topple the regime.
• Advisor to the President of the UAE Union asks: "Where is the Arab League when we face brutal Iranian aggression? Where are the major Arab countries?" He is the same one who supports armed militias in Libya, Sudan, and southern Yemen, and has contributed to the destruction of these countries.
• Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak: "Israel, at the political level, does not know—or does not want to know—how to end the war. They don’t know how to end wars." 

• According to reports, Iran’s oil production has reached its highest level since 1978, before the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The country is also selling crude oil at the highest prices in its history.  
• A British court has heard evidence that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) “misled” its audience during the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. The evidence was presented as part of documents in a case being heard by a UK employment tribunal, in which five journalists of Arab origin accuse the BBC of discrimination and of unfairly dismissing four of them for refusing what they described as racist and discriminatory practices within BBC Arabic service.

• Defense analyst Jack Buckby warns that the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier faces a potential 12-to-14-month maintenance period after being sidelined by a March 12 'laundry room fire'. Currently docked at Souda Bay, Crete, the supercarrier has completed a grueling nine-month deployment supporting over 7,000 strikes against Iran.
• Israel built the only military prison in the world designated for children. Children are subjected to beatings, torture, and rape on a regular basis. Conviction rates in courts reach 99.7%. This applies only to non-Jewish children. 
• The Houthis (Yemen) have officially declared war on the USA on the side of Iran. ”We will strike American ships in the Red Sea. This war is a war of the entire Muslim umma”, the organization stated. 
• The President of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Qalipaf: "Iran is fighting for humanity, the world is either with Gaza and against the criminal regime or stands with the Epstein class and the killing of children, and there is no place for neutrality."
• Fox News: The cost of a war with Iran could reach $200 billion for the United States.
• American Automobile Association: The average gasoline price has increased by 33.2% since the start of the military operations in Iran. 
• It's not about two political parties opposing one another, now it is simply the 'billionaires against the people'.

U.S. government & war corporations cheat Malaysia

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says in an interview:

In 2004, Malaysia purchased eight F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets from the United States, which were among the most advanced aircraft at the time. The value of this deal exceeded $640 million.

After receiving the aircraft, Malaysia formed a team of experts and engineers to conduct a detailed study of their features and combat capabilities.

👈 The Malaysian experts discovered that the aircraft was transmitting every flight's information to a US military base, such as:

- Flight altitude
- Speed
- Location
- Route
- Mission details
- And the pilot's communication with the ground control room

Not only that, but the aircraft's operating system and autopilot feature could also be controlled from the US base. This means that if a US officer on the ground simply presses a button, the aircraft's route can be changed, it can be crashed, or even the target of its attack can be altered.

When Malaysia tried to modify the aircraft's operating system, the United States and manufacturer McDonnell Douglas strongly objected. They even threatened to stop supplying parts and maintenance, and impose restrictions.

Even when Malaysia requested specific parts to activate certain capabilities of the aircraft, the company rejected that as well.

Ultimately, Malaysia realized that it had bought aircraft that could not be used in actual combat without US approval.

This issue is not limited to Malaysia alone; many Arab and Muslim countries face the same reality.

The lesson is clear: Until a nation develops its own defense technology [and sovereign foreign policy], it will remain dependent on others."

~ (Source: TV interview on Al Jazeera with Mahathir Mohamad)

See more on this story here

Blackstone attempt to take over public utilities

Private equity giant Blackstone is trying to buy New Mexico’s largest utility provider. 

The Public Service Company of New Mexico serves over 500,000 people. 

Blackstone would make billions and execs would make millions, while the 40% of PNM customers in poverty get screwed.

What is next? Public transit, water systems, sewer systems, public parks, and more.

Corporations are out to own everything across the nation (and world)....they will bleed these public entities and leave the taxpayers with virtually nothing. It's high-tech led neo-feudalism. 

China sends massive aid to Cuba

China has reportedly sent around 30,000 tons of rice to Cuba as part of an emergency food aid program.

The goal?

To help ease ongoing shortages and support millions of people facing economic hardship.

Officials described the move as a sign of longstanding ties and cooperation between the two countries.

The rice will be distributed for free across the island, offering relief during a time when access to basic food supplies has become a growing concern due to the increasing hostile US military naval blockade of Cuba. 

As China, Russia, Mexico and others attempt to help Cuba will the Pentagon move to stop them?

Can the US afford to keep escalating globally in order to vainly save its crashing colonial project which only benefits the 1%?

Help from Italy

Aid from American people

 Mexico delivers and Cubans are deeply grateful for the solidarity

Fairford air base in UK protested for hosting U.S. bombers/Another MQ-9 shot down

 

Watch four heavily armed B-52 and B-1 strategic bombers launch from England for West Asia, as a U-2 spy plane prepares for  surveillance ops. This is RAF Fairford (near Oxford) at its busiest during major US military Operation Epic Fury. 

Children's clothes have been hung at RAF Fairford in anti-war protests in memory of the school children killed in Iran.

The base is being used by U.S. bombers and other aircraft involved in the war with Iran - although the British government said it did not support the initial attack on Iran, it has allowed the U.S. to use its bases for what it described as 'defensive measures'.

Footage shows the crash of another American MQ-9 drone after it was shot down by Iranian air defenses above Bushehr, Iran. 

The US military has lost 12 MQ-9 Reaper drones during the US-Israel war on Iran, according to US officials cited by CBS News, marking one of the most significant equipment losses of the war. 

The total cost of the lost aircraft is estimated at more than $360 million. 

MQ-9 Reaper drones are unmanned aerial vehicles used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, as well as precision strike operations.

These MQ-9 losses prove that Trump's claim that Iranian air defense has been destroyed is just one more Pentagon lie.

Sunday song

US-Israel can kill them fast or they can kill them slow

 

The US/Israel struck Andimeshk’s hospital in Iran with bombs. 

Illegal war.

Trump says he wants to liberate the Iranian people.
Come out into the streets and overthrow the 'regime'.

The only 'regimes' I see are in Washington and Tel Aviv.

They target hospitals,
schools, residential blocs,
water treatment facilities

and more civilian targets.

Yes they just love 
the people in Iran.

The killers from US-Israel
love to see the people bleed.
They love to see them dead.

They are genocidal maniacs,
posing (not so effectively)
as lovers of 'democracy'.

The only way to change things
is for the pedophile empire
to collapse.

I'm cheering for Iran.

Anyone who goes to fight
against Iran (Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, Iraq)
are suckers.

An American MQ-4C drone took off from Station Sigonella base in Italy and is conducting reconnaissance patrols near Iran’s coast. 

US bases in Europe

and beyond are involved.

Ramstein, Wiesbaden,

Fairford in the UK.

Diego Garcia in the 

Indian Ocean.

The list is endless.

Yes Trump just loves

the Iranian people so much.

Bruce 

Craig Murray: Joy at Death & Destruction

Attack around Enghelab Square in Tehran on March 3. (Tasnim News Agency, Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY 4.0)

Consortium News

By Craig Murray

The United States and Israel are both reveling in inflicting the maximum possible death and suffering on Iran. 

After the genocide in Gaza, on a far larger field in Iran, those in power in Israel and the U.S. have a lust to kill and they revel in impunity. 

The Epstein Files reveal the same dynamic. We live in a society where those who obtain power wish to exercise it in the cruelest possible ways against the most defenceless. 

It appears to be a feature of late Western capitalist society, where sociopathic tendencies are essential to obtaining power in a society which rejects altruism and cooperation as concepts and promotes competition, self-love and ruthlessness. 

Iran is showing commendable fighting spirit, but American military power should not be underestimated. They have the ability to destroy Iran from the air, to obliterate the institutions of the state and all of the key civilian infrastructure. Electricity, water, healthcare, education, administration, policing all can be knocked out just as they were systematically in Gaza and — on a scale insufficiently recalled — in Iraq. 

Trump is already asking Congress for $50 billion to fund the operation and replenish stocks. The scale of destruction Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu envisages will cost at least half a trillion dollars from the U.S. Treasury. But there is nothing that can stop them. 

I witnessed close up over five months the 80 to 100,000 homes destroyed in Lebanon by Israel in the last three years. We have all seen what they did to Gaza. The notion they cannot do this to Iran is simply wrong. It requires a colossal effort of will, a mania for killing, a vast amount of money and the depletion of the U.S. arsenal. But they can do it. 

Only political action by the peoples of the West against their leaders can stop it.

Iran and its allies have been the only physical opposition to the creation of Greater Israel. If the physical destruction of Iran is achieved, Greater Israel will be established at pace.

One of the world’s greatest civilisations will lie in ashes, covering millions of corpses, but none of that will prevent the extraction of oil.

Pete Hegseth, U.S. secretary for war, simply comes over as a Nazi thug. He plainly is enjoying this as much as Netanyahu, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir or Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich. He has gloatingly promised “Death and destruction from the sky, all day long.” He repeatedly signals ever-escalating bombing.

The Iranian Red Crescent has listed the bombing destruction as of March 7. By then it included:

• 5,535 civilian residential units
• 1,041 commercial units
• 65 schools
• 14 hospitals and medical centres
• 13 Red Crescent Society bases

By contrast, there has been no credible claim that Iran has inflicted widespread civilian damage. It has very tightly targeted specific facilities — collateral damage seems almost entirely confined to debris from intercepted drones and missiles.

But we know the U.S.-Israel axis targets hospitals and medical facilities. It is proven beyond doubt in Gaza, and I witnessed it in Beirut.

In gloating about U.S. military superiority, Trump advised Iranian civilians: “Don’t leave your home. It’s very dangerous outside. Bombs will be dropping everywhere.”

Yet they are deliberately bombing residential buildings, exactly as in both Lebanon and Gaza. Trump is attempting to terrorise Iran into “unconditional surrender.”

At the 1815 Battle of Waterloo — an epic, large-scale and unmissable event — approximately 15,000 people died on the field of battle (more died later of wounds in an age before antibiotics). You are supposed to believe that the Iranian government in January killed twice as many demonstrators as died at Waterloo. This using only small arms and despite the complete lack of visual evidence of killing on anything like that scale.

At the same time you are supposed to believe that tens of thousands of tonnes of the highest explosives have been dropped into the centre of cities all across Iran but that these are “precision attacks” killing very few civilians.

It is obvious nonsense.

AI targeting only adds a new layer of dystopia to an entirely vicious and unnecessary war. The indifference of the Western media to the slaughter of 175 Iranian school girls leads to really difficult questions about the type of society the West has become. Racism is just the beginning of the problems.

The effort to coerce the Kurds into yet again fighting for the U.S., only to be abandoned when no longer deemed helpful, is reckless in the extreme. It is bound to lead to further war and fragmentation in Iraq. The repercussions in Turkey are potentially extreme — and possibly may jolt Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from his complacent furthering of the U.S-Israeli agenda.

Civil war is close in Lebanon. The traitorous Zionist regime of Lebanese President General Joseph Aoun has no forces capable of taking on Hezbollah; but the other Zionist puppet al-Jolani [Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa] has concentrated forces on the border with the Bekaa Valley ready to attack Hezbollah from the East while Hezbollah fight Israeli invading forces in the South. French President Emmanuel Macron has indicated he may send troops and armour to assist Aoun.

This entire conflict sounds like a dreadful regional disaster in which millions could die – and it is. But to the U.S. and Israeli Zionists, the prospect of a devastated region is precisely what they wish to achieve to facilitate Israeli expansion and American seizure of resources.

There is an urgent need for regime change – in the West. The only way for this carnage to stop is for the people of the West to remove their Zionist-controlled ruling classes.

~ Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010. His coverage is entirely dependent on reader support. Subscriptions to keep this blog going are gratefully received.

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