Monday, April 20, 2026

Updates from endless war zone - will negotiations & ceasefire continue?

Around 120 U.S. military veterans from the anti-war group 'About Face: Veterans Against the War' yesterday staged a protest against the war with Iran inside the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C.

  • The two-week US/Iran ceasefire is set to expire on Wednesday, April 22. Media says that Witkoff, Kushner and JD Vance are on their way to Islamabad. So far we hear that Iran has not taken a decision to attend. 
  • The Hebrew newspaper Maariv quotes the commander of the Nahal Brigade: "We didn't dare raise our heads in our area of ​​operations in southern Lebanon during the battle because of the drones and anti-tank missiles."
  • Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan reveals the harsh truth about oil prices: The gap is enormous! In the commodities markets, there is a significant gap between the price displayed on the screen and the actual price of the asset. If you see a price of $90 per barrel on the screen, and you try to buy oil at that price, I can only wish you luck. The actual prices in recent weeks have ranged between $120, $130, $140, $150, and even $160 per barrel.
  • A Zionist soldier destroys a statue of Christ in southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah was protecting these landmarks with its blood. 

  • The Zionist occupation army destroys houses on the Bint Jbeil-Aitaroun road in southern Lebanon.
  • Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan: Israeli expansionism is not just Türkiye’s problem, nor only the region’s; we are talking about a security issue that has become a global concern, driven by a fundamentalist government there. Everyone knows that Israel’s original aim—depopulating Gaza, whether by killing its people or forcing them to leave—has not changed.
  • Argentina's so-called leader Milei (who is paving the way for 300,000 zionists to move into Patagonia) has arrived in Israel to embrace the genocidal Netanyahu. They made a deal for regular Israeli airline flights to Argentina. Wonder why? Two of a kind they are.
  • Pepe Escobar via X channel: Iran bombed the secret center for cloud seeding, cloud pulling, fog, and radars in the UAE. Suddenly the climate in Iraq and Iran changed, and now there’s rain every week, and temperatures shifted dramatically by 5 degrees. Floods returned to Iran after it had suffered from severe drought, to the point that the Iranian government was considering moving the capital from Tehran to southern Iran due to the drought. The goal of this center was to destroy the agricultural sector in Iran and Iraq, as well as causing a drought and desertification disaster. The UAE is even more infidel and hypocritical.
  • NBC News: A new poll shows that 74% of Generation Z sympathize more with Palestinians than with Israelis. That's why the zionists bought TikTok and other social media outlets. They're losing the info war. 

  • IRGC spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari put Washington on notice immediately after the cargo ship seizure: Iran “will soon respond to this armed piracy and retaliation by the US navy.” Hours later, IRGC forces launched drone strikes on US military vessels in the area, according to Tasnim News Agency. This is not escalation by Iran. This is the inevitable reply of a sovereign power that refuses to let foreign gunboats turn its coastal waters into an American no-go zone. Washington sails halfway around the planet, opens fire on a commercial hull trying to reach its own port, then screams “violation” when the inevitable response arrives. The Strait belongs to those who live beside it. The empire can issue all the threats it likes from 7,000 miles away — power plants, bridges, “killing machines” but the Persian Gulf has a very long memory and the means to enforce its own rules.
  • Retired CIA analyst Larry Johnson dropped a whopper on the Judge Napolitano show. He cited reports from inside the White House during an emergency meeting this past Saturday. Donald Trump wanted the nuclear codes against Iran and was stopped cold by General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Johnson didn’t mince words. “There is seriously something wrong with Trump,” he said. 
  • Former President Rumen Radev and his left-wing Progressive Bulgaria alliance won the parliamentary elections with an outright majority. Here are the key stances of the new Bulgarian Prime Minister: Opposed to financing NATO/EU’s war time adventures in Ukraine, arming the Kiev Nazi regime, and imposing sanctions on Russia. Supports closer diplomatic and economic ties with China and Iran.  Strongly condemns Israel’s genocidal actions against the people of Gaza.
  • Israeli media: Israel is preparing for a new opening strike against Iran. 
  • The US empire just packed up and left Syria with a straight face. After 11 years of “fighting terrorism,” the last U.S. troops rolled out of Qasrak air base in Hasakah yesterday. Syrian army units and SDF fighters moved in together while American convoys torched equipment on the way out — the classic imperial exit: burn what you can’t steal. The man now running Syria as president is Ahmed al-Sharaa or better known to the world as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the former leader of al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch (Jabhat al-Nusra/HTS). Yes, the same guy the U.S. once put a $10 million fake bounty on. The same networks Washington spent over a decade pretending to bomb, sanctioning, and calling an existential threat. Now they hand the country over to him and call it mission accomplished. Eleven years of bases, drones, and endless “counter-terror” talk… only to leave the keys with a rebranded Salafist jihadist who was literally once on their own terrorist list.
  • Lebanese civil defense teams begin diving under the Qasmiyeh bridge in search of bodies of those missing as a result of Israeli airstrikes on the bridge. 

  • The US continues to move large quantities of additional munitions and equipment to the Middle East ahead of a possible new phase of Operation Epic Wrath. Between 15-20 transport aircraft are arriving at air bases in Qatar (Al Udeid), Jordan (Muwaffaq Salti), and Kuwait every 24 hours. In addition to munitions, the aircraft are transporting elements of air defense systems and equipment to ensure the security of the bases, which may be targeted starting Tuesday.
  • Iranian President: "Keeping promises is the foundation of any dialogue. In addition to the deep-seated historical distrust in Iran regarding the behavior and actions of the US government, the unconstructive and contradictory approach taken by US officials in recent days carries a bitter message: they want Iran to surrender, and the Iranian people will not be forced to do so." 

US-Israel-Gulf monarchies playing with Red Sea fire

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Iran just reminded the empire exactly who holds the master key to the world’s oil lifelines.

While Washington’s gunboats play pirate in the Gulf of Oman and Trump screams about knocking out power plants, Tehran has drawn the real red line.

Tasnim — the voice of the IRGC put it plain: if this war restarts in earnest, Bab al-Mandeb, Saudi Aramco’s Yanbu export hub, the UAE’s Fujairah terminal, and the entire Red Sea route all enter the battlefield. No vague warnings. No diplomatic theatre. Just cold, calculated deterrence.

Hit those three targets and yes you devastate the Gulf monarchies but more importantly, you gut roughly a third of global oil flows in a single afternoon. Yanbu is now Riyadh’s main bypass artery, pumping millions of barrels a day around the closed Strait of Hormuz. Fujairah is the UAE’s emergency valve on the open Indian Ocean. Bab el-Mandeb is the choke point those tankers must cross. Shut them all down and the world loses 30+% of its daily supply overnight.

Gas prices? They’ll detonate. Economies already teetering on the edge of the last round of sanctions and blockades? They scream, then collapse.

This isn’t some empty flex from a desperate regime. This is the IRGC spelling out the obvious: push Iran into a corner and the entire global energy system pays the price.

The Gulf monarchies spent decades building these fragile bypass pipelines, Indian ocean terminals, and Red Sea routes precisely to escape the reality of Iranian sovereignty over Hormuz. Now those same escape hatches are in the crosshairs.

Tehran is telling Washington and its Gulf clients the simple truth that you don’t get to wage war on Iran and keep your oil flowing like nothing happened.

Buckle up for more natural and predictable consequences.

Help protect the Black Hills from uranium mining - send a message

The Trump administration put two things on a fast track to destruction: the illegal war in Iran and a proposed uranium mine in the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota. Both being pushed on the public through manufactured crises. Both bypassing and short-changing democratic oversight.

Congress voted four times to stop the Iran war, each time overruled by slim MAGA majority. Now, Dewey-Burdock uranium extraction, 50 miles from Pine Ridge in the aquifer above our reservation, is on a federal fast-track based on trumped up "energy emergency" executive orders straight out of Project 2025 and overriding decades of Native objections over safety and sovereignty.

Authoritarian war and authoritarian mining. Two fast tracks. Two manufactured emergencies. This regime has decided the consent of the governed is an inconvenience. Our consent, as tribal nations, as American sovereigns, is the only backstop left on this runaway train.

We are calling on Interior Secretary Burgum to do three things:

1) Reverse the Pe' Sla graphite mining permit
2) Pull Dewey-Burdock uranium mining off the fast-track program
3) Suspend all extractive permits on treaty lands until real consultation and a full legal review are done

Take action step one: Tell Secretary Burgum: Stop the Extraction. https://lakotalaw.org/pesla   (Anyone can send this message)

Step two: Send public comment against Dewey-Burdock to the Bureau of Land Management. Deadline May 14, 2026 → here

Sam Altman: King of Cannibals


In this episode of 51/49, James investigates the chilling exposé of Sam Altman’s "OpenAI" empire, digging into Ronan Farrow's reporting of how secret whistleblower memos, a $50 billion military pivot, and a "consistent pattern of lying" reveal the true nature of the "King of Cannibals" — a sociopathic pursuit of power hidden behind an altruistic mask and a "house of cards" built on corporate deceit.  

U.S. pressures South Africa to imprison popular politician & land reformer

 

Julius Malema, the leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters, was sentenced to five years in prison for simply firing a rifle into the air.

Malema and his party have previously been frequent targets of the Trump Administration and billionaires like Elon Musk because he was a major advocate of land reform inside the country.  He had previously also drawn ire from the US and Europe due to his support for Palestinian freedom from Israeli occupation, Russian efforts to denazify Ukraine and prevent NATO expansion, and China’s territorial integrity regarding Taiwan province.

One of the EFF’s key political goals is dismantling the economic structures of apartheid that dominate South African society long after the 1994 abolition of racial segregation and political disenfranchisement.

Back during the apartheid era, Elon Musk’s father Errol was a major property developer and landowner so Elon and Trump have falsely accused the EFF and even the South African state of trying to carry out genocide against the white population.

This of course is despite the fact that whites make up only seven percent but own as much as seventy to eighty percent of the wealth, land, and industrial and agricultural output through British corporations through the De Beers Group, Anglo-American plc, Mondi Group and Associated British Foods.

The Afrikaners became the greatest beneficiaries of this new post-apartheid democracy because the economic sanctions that came as a result of the Soweto massacre were lifted and they were no longer considered international pariahs.

After the dissolution of the apartheid state, Nelson Mandela was only allowed to become President as long as the economic structures of apartheid were not touched and as a result, South Africa became a debt colony for the World Bank.  And none of the demands of the African revolutionaries, including those of Mandela himself prior to his imprisonment, were met.

Furthermore, those from the apartheid regime guilty of crimes against humanity were never punished.  The officers of the South African security police who kidnapped and murdered African children in the Soweto massacre in 1976 were promised that they wouldn’t face legal accountability so long as they confessed and testified before Nelson Mandela’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Mandela was ultimately released from prison and allowed to become President, after the CIA had been responsible for his 1962 capture, only if he submitted to American imperialism.  And a major reason was Julius Malema was targeted is because he was what Nelson Mandela used to be before his release from prison. 

And it’s almost a certainty that Malema’s imprisonment was a result of the pressure campaigns of Elon Musk and the Trump Administration and their ridiculous theatric acting as the victim when they’re not. 

Sunday, April 19, 2026

Will US-Israel restart war on Iran & Lebanon?

  • 27 million Iranians have signed up as volunteers, so far, to defend Iran against US/Israeli aggression.
  • Iran successfully continues to ship out crude oil (9 million barrels so far) despite the US naval blockade, based on open-source data provided by TankerTrackers. The US continues to claim they’re blocking all Iranian shipments.
  • A U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone flew a 12+ hour mission near Cuba, monitoring areas around Havana and Guantánamo Bay from international airspace.
  • A Lebanese civilian bravely removed an enemy flag planted by the Israeli occupation forces atop Beaufort Castle (also known as Shaqif Arnoun Castle) in the Nabatieh Governorate of southern Lebanon, along with a surveillance camera installed for espionage purposes.  

  • Iranian President Highlights Global Double Standards on Nuclear Energy. 'Nuclear weapons for Israel, war on Iran for a peaceful nuclear program. If Iran must give up its weapons, why is Israel allowed to keep 200 nuclear warheads without any accountability'?
  • A painful morning in Tyre:💔In the final minutes before the ceasefire took effect at midnight, a heavy airstrike hit a neighborhood in the city, leading to the complete destruction of more than five residential buildings. The strike resulted in the deaths of a number of residents, while ambulance and civil defense teams are still continuing search operations under the rubble, in a heavy scene that reflects the pain of a night whose chapters have not yet ended. 

  • Mehrdad Khalili said: On my way to Tehran by train, we suddenly stopped briefly and then moved forward at a slow speed. We crossed a bridge surrounded by debris. I learned that this bridge had been bombed by the enemy to disrupt our capabilities. While crossing, I saw engineers and heavy machinery working on its repair. I felt proud of our youth and our people. The enemy tried to prevent us from moving within our country, but this nation is resistant to any aggressor. As we were passing over the bridge, I truly felt that their power was beneath our feet.
  • Brazilian President Lula: What cannot happen is that the world spends $2.7 trillion on weapons while people go hungry. What cannot happen is that we talk about decarbonizing the planet while bombs are being dropped every single day.
  • Brazilian President Lula: The invasion of Iraq was a lie. Where are the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein supposedly had? They were never found. The invasion by France and England in Libya was another lie that caused enormous damage at that moment in our history. The invasion and the genocide carried out by Israel in Gaza is another very big lie. And now the bombing of Israel against Lebanon—on what pretext? And now the invasion by the United States against Iran—on what pretext? 

  • Bloomberg: Airline passengers should prepare for more inconvenience in the coming months, as airlines around the world increase cancellations and ground aircraft to cope with soaring jet fuel prices.
  • Iranian Foreign Ministry: We will not hand over enriched uranium to America.
  • While Trump keeps claiming victory, only 15% of Americans say Trump already achieved his Iran war goals. 25% think he will achieve them later. 40% say he hasn’t / won’t / goals unclear. Just 38% support the strikes. Many think the goals are unclear or shifting.
  • Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister: Trump talks a lot and contradicts himself in the same statements. If we return to war, we will respond with full force. There will be no future blockades, and no one can dictate to Iran. We entered two rounds of negotiations in good faith, but they betrayed diplomacy, and we will remain vigilant.
  • Statement from the Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters: Based on previous agreements reached during negotiations, the Islamic Republic of Iran, in good faith, agreed to allow a limited number of oil tankers and commercial vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz in an orderly manner. Unfortunately, the Americans, with their history of breaking promises, continue their piracy under the guise of a so-called blockade. Therefore, control of the Strait of Hormuz has reverted to its previous status, and this strategic waterway is under strict management and control by the armed forces. As long as the United States does not completely end the freedom of navigation to and from Iran, the situation in the Strait of Hormuz will remain under strict control and as it was previously.
  • “The truth doesn’t matter anymore, the facts don’t matter anymore”. Director of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Press Office, Eli Hazan, said he deliberately fabricates fake news as a communications tactic, stating “We need to be Trump”.
  • Prof Marandi:  Nothing Trump has said is true. There is no nuclear agreement, and bloodthirsty Zionists just murdered another Lebanese citizen. Iran’s ten-point plan remains the framework for any agreement with the Trump regime, but Iran is also prepared for aggression.
  • Mexican President Sheinbaum: I want to propose a declaration against military intervention in Cuba—let dialogue and peace prevail.
  • Demonstration in New York to commemorate Palestinian Prisoner's Day and to reject continued support for the occupation.  

  • The Spanish Prime Minister announced that his country supports ending the war in Gaza and the West Bank, reaffirming Madrid's position calling for a de-escalation.
  • Protesters head to the Knesset in Israel, demanding the fall of the government. 

  • Trump: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are on their way to Islamabad to resume talks, which will begin Tuesday and possibly extend into Wednesday. If they don't sign the agreement, we will blow up the entire country, and power plants and bridges will become legitimate targets.
  • Isfahan, Iran authorities say they are preparing a legal case over damage to historic sites caused by U.S. and Israeli strikes. Governor Mehdi Jamalinejad said around 203 locations in the Grand Bazaar and 28 historical monuments were damaged during the attacks and now require restoration, adding that legal proceedings are underway with hopes of a favorable outcome.
  • Before the current ceasefire: Massive U.S.–Israeli strikes hitting hospitals in Iran, forcing staff to evacuate newborns during the active phase of the war. One hospital staff was seen carrying babies to safety.

  • The US RC-135W reconnaissance aircraft returns to the region. The RC-135V/W Rivet Joint is considered the United States' most important intelligence asset before any major military strike against fortified targets in Iran, for example. Its mission is not bombing, but rather highly advanced electronic reconnaissance (SIGINT). It is a signals intelligence aircraft that intercepts and analyzes enemy radars, communications, and electronic emissions in real time to map military activity, track threats, and support targeting and operational planning.  
  • Conservative insider Robert Barnes joins Larry Johnson to discuss the behind the scenes inside the Trump administration as chaos ensues at the White House. Barnes also outlines the danger zone the ruling Republicans face in the coming November congressional elections. Fascinating stuff. 

Sunday song plus Hegseth bonus




Report from Iran's largest Mosque

This is episode 3 of my journey to Iran during the war. 

Watch Dimitri Lascaris on Reason to Resist and see our trip in more detail:

   • Report From Iran's Largest Mosque 

Chapters:

0:00 History of Isfahan
01:45 Chehel Sotoun Heritage site
02:40 Art in Iran
04:58 Gardens in Iran
06:45 Damage to Chehel Sotoun
08:40 Food in Isfahan
10:58 Funeral Rally
12:58 Charity
15:20 Childrens ICU
17:41 Naqshejan Square
20:24 Bomb
23:25 Persian Rugs
26:56 Outro  

Saturday, April 18, 2026

Sitting Bull on Netflix

I've just watched a really good Netflix 2-part series on Sitting Bull and the Lakota people.

The documentary is called 'Sitting Bull' and can be viewed here

This fine film covered all the basic elements of the story plus some new points that I was not aware of. I've been following this history since I lived in the Black Hills from 1962-1964 when my step-father was stationed at Ellsworth AFB in South Dakota. 

The experience of living there and being nearly daily exposed to native history, culture and spirituality changed my life for the better. I go back there every chance I get - the last time my son went with me and I was able to share with him the sacred places in the Black Hills that have meant so much to me over the years. 

He even went to the Black Hills while in his mother's womb in 1980. We attended the Black Hills International Survival Gathering. I still have a poster from that event hanging on our wall in my home.

The Netflix show covered the feverish US Army attempts to destroy the indigenous people across the Great Plains - particularly after the Civil War was over. 

The Battle of the Greasy Grass (the whites called it Custer's Last Stand), the coalition of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Red Cloud with other tribes, the slaughter of the buffalo as official policy of the US  Army in order to starve the native people, horrible life on the reservations, the Ghost Dance movement, Sitting Bull joining the Wild West Show, and the eventual killing of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull by the US Army because they feared both warriors even though they were stuck on the reservations.

Also covered in the film was the massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1890 where the US Army killed more than 300 mostly unarmed Lakota people.

I was even thrilled that the Netflix documentary told my favorite story about Sitting Bull. In 1885 Buffalo Bill asked the government to send Sitting Bull to the east coast on a train so he could be the feature act of his Wild West Show that was touring the east coast and drawing big crowds. 

While in New York City Sitting Bull was walking the streets and was broken hearted to see the massive poverty at the time. It is told he sat on some door stoops and poor kids, street urchins, came up to him begging. So he gave all his money away to these poor people.

When he got back to the reservation, just before he was killed, the told his people, 'We are in big trouble. You should see how the white man treats his own children'.

During his time with the Wild West Show Sitting Bull tried to pass on to the eastern white colonizers a bit of the Lakota way of life - their spirituality, their thirst for freedom and independence, and their deep reverence for the natural world.

I'd also highly recommend this excellent book about Crazy Horse by Mari Sandoz. 

Bruce

the funnies



A sailor on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier sent this image home to momma. They are on 'Hormuz alert' at sea with little resupply happening. I wonder how the toilets are working? They say the mail from home (with cookies) is also running late. Trump don't give a shit about these sailors. To Trump they are all 'losers'.  The piece of something on the left is either worn out shoe leather or the lying tongues of Washington's Epstein class. Ugly!



Friday, April 17, 2026

Latest from Professor Mohammad Marandi

Mohammad Marandi, a professor of English Literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran, shares his views on the latest developments in the Middle East as a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel went into effect at midnight local time on April 17. 

Marandi explains the role of the Strait of Hormuz in talks between Iran and the US as well as the intervention by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron over the critical shipping lane for the global economy. 

The new assault of the Zionist lobby in Brazil


The perception of a tropical “paradise” in perfect balance between Catholic faith and Dionysian spirit that does not quite align with Zionist manipulations is misleading.

The role of the Zionist lobby in the U.S. is so notorious that it has practically become contemporary folklore. Some European authors also emphasize the great influence that the Zionist lobby enjoys, primarily in France, and secondarily in the United Kingdom and Germany. Nowadays, there is also increasing talk of its influence over Argentina, especially in the context of the Andinia Plan.

But Brazil is almost always left out of this equation. To some extent, it is as if the image of a tropical “paradise” in perfect balance between Catholic faith and Dionysian spirit does not quite align with Zionist manipulations. But this perception is misleading.

In the past, we have commented on the overwhelming neo-Pentecostal growth in Brazil. Today, they make up approximately 30% of the Brazilian population, and with their theological specificities, they bring with them an obsession with the State of Israel. Moreover, there are plenty of theses claiming that neo-Pentecostal penetration in Latin America was a successful operation orchestrated by the CIA to subvert hegemonic Catholic spirituality and pave the way for Zionism.

In parallel, however, the Brazilian Jewish community itself has gradually built a modestly influential lobby, well-connected in politics, the media, and the judiciary, though far less aggressive than the Zionist lobby in other countries.

The test to verify, however, the degree of Zionist influence in Brazil and how much neo-Pentecostal expansion will serve to guarantee Zionist designs is unfolding now.

After the Gaza War, in which the State of Israel clearly attempted to carry out a Palestinian genocide, Israel’s reputation was completely shattered. All the credit accumulated because of the Holocaust was entirely exhausted by the scenes of mass extermination of innocent women and children. The lies and hypocrisy were so great that many people even began to question more easily whether Israel might have been behind 9/11 and the Kennedy assassination.

In recent years, Israel’s influence schemes became famous, including paying virtual activists to make pro-Israel comments in online discussions. This has been given the name “Hasbara.” It is nothing other than propaganda.

We could say, therefore, that Gaza made decades of “Hasbara” disappear.

 Presidente da República, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, durante reunião com o Presidente do Estado de Israel, Isaac Herzog. Expo City Dubai – Plenária Al Hairat – Dubai – Emirados Árabes Unidos. Foto: Ricardo Stuckert / PR 

Naturally, however, Israel could not give up such an important asset. As much as Israel seems to disdain international opinion, this opinion plays an important role in pressuring governments to maintain friendly relations with Israel despite its atrocities.

Hence, it was predictable since the Gaza ceasefire that Israel would seek to react; but since it is impossible to regain the goodwill of world public opinion, the Zionist lobby would simply set out to try to censor anti-Zionist opinions, without worrying about winning over that public opinion.

Recently, we came across something that proves this.

At the end of March 2026, a bill (PL 1424/26) was introduced in Brazil aimed at criminalizing antisemitism. Antisemitism is already a crime in Brazil, as a form of racism, but it is not defined, so the interpretation of what constitutes antisemitism is left to the judge.

The bill in question, however, aims to define antisemitism according to the definition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Among the various conduct categorized as antisemitism, the IHRA includes, nonetheless, advocating for the end of the State of Israel as a specifically Jewish state. In other words, even advocating for the transformation of the State of Israel into a free, open Palestinian state where Jews can live is considered antisemitism.

This bill is authored by Tábata Amaral, a federal deputy for the PSB, and it received a total of 44 signatures upon its introduction, from federal deputies belonging to the governing Workers’ Party (PT), the Bolsonarist opposition PL, and various centrist parties.

But where did this bill come from, and who is behind it?

Starting with the purported author of the bill, Deputy Tabata Amaral — known for promoting every globalist agenda in Brazil — belongs to that category of “prodigy students” who are awarded scholarships to Western universities, in her case Harvard. Her stay there was funded mainly by the Lemann Foundation, created by Swiss-Brazilian billionaire Jorge Paulo Lemann.

Lemann, one of the richest men in Brazil, is a friend of George Soros and recently hired the Rothschild Bank to represent him before his creditors in the bankruptcy case of “Americanas,” a company he owns. But unlike Soros, who has a different focus, Lemann in his “philanthropic” activities has the more specific goal of renewing the Brazilian political class. Deputy Tabata Amaral is an example of what Lemann intends. 

[This is a strategy impacting the entire world as the US brings 'bright' international students to the Ivy League schools and then after successful indoctrination sends them back to their country of origin and move them into key government circles. UK schools like Oxford are also key training grounds.  Many of the leaders throughout the EU have been similarly groomed to become high-level corporate globalist agents. They push endless war, cutbacks in social spending, education, etc. They are pirates.]

Furthermore, in the last elections, Amaral’s campaigns received funding from various figures in the Brazilian financial market — such as bankers Armínio Fraga and Cândido Bracher — and from the Zionist lobby — such as speculators Marcos Lederman and Luís Stuhlberger. Lederman, Stuhlberger, and Bracher, along with other oligarchs who fund Tabata Amaral’s electoral campaigns, such as Nizan Guanaes and Elie Horn, are figures who frequently appear at events and initiatives promoted by CONIB (the Israeli Confederation of Brazil), the Brazil-Israel Institute, and FIERJ (the Jewish Federation of Rio de Janeiro), important institutions of the Brazilian Zionist lobby. 

And as for the bill itself, who convinced Tabata Amaral to promote it?

According to exclusive information from sources in Brasília, the bill was drafted within the NGO Stand With Us Brazil, a Zionist institution with extensive and notorious links to the Mossad, chaired by André Lajst, with Argentine Bruno Bimbi as its strategy and policy manager. Bimbi is said to have been the main architect of the bill and went door to door in Congress to pressure parliamentarians into putting their signatures on it.

Bimbi is a notorious activist for LGBT causes and was one of the main organizers of the pressure campaign for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Argentina and Brazil. Now, however, his focus is more on Zionist activism.

To show that this is a broad-spectrum coordinated initiative, aimed at involving the right, left, and center simultaneously with this bill, the Lula government itself, through its Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship, will hold an event on “antisemitism” this April, coordinated by Clara Ant.

(Jerusalém – Israel, 01/04/2019) Presidente da República, Jair Bolsonaro, e o Primeiro-Ministro de Israel, Senhor Benjamin Netanyahu, durante visita ao Muro das Lamentações. Foto: Alan Santos/PR

The event will put on its agenda the definition of antisemitism, relying precisely on the same International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance that defines criticism of the State of Israel as a possible expression of antisemitism. Among the speakers at the event will also be the presidents of the aforementioned CONIB, Claudio and Fernando Lottenberg.

And who is Clara Ant, the event coordinator? Born in Bolivia but raised in Israel, she has been Lula’s right-hand woman since the 1970s and was one of the founders of the CUT, the main trade union institution of the Workers’ Party. Ant is also a constant presence at CONIB events. 

Another link between the PT and the Zionist lobby is Senator Jaques Wagner, who in his youth was an activist in the Labor Zionist movement Habonim Dror, where he received his intellectual formation. Both as governor and as senator, Wagner — who was one of those who signed in support of Tabata Amaral’s bill — worked specifically to bring Brazil and Israel closer, especially in the areas of security and intelligence, even serving as rapporteur for an agreement that ceded confidential Brazilian intelligence information to the Mossad.

It does not seem likely that, at the present moment, given all the controversy the case has generated, this bill will be approved in Brazil. Nevertheless, the case serves to exemplify the tentacular and multifaceted character of the Zionist lobby’s activities in Brazil.

~ Raphael Machado is a Publisher, geopolitical and political analyst, writer specialized in Latin American affairs.