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.

the funnies

 

Warning to the U.S. from madman Netanyahu

The Islander

“It is not enough to be moral. It is not enough to be just. Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan. If you are strong enough, ruthless enough, and powerful enough, evil will overcome good.”

The mask is off.

This is the operating system of the Third Temple cult project and now you understand why American Zionist Christians (theological oxymoron) funding it are committing the greatest theological betrayal in history, if they want to claim to be Christians.

The Third Temple that Christian Zionists are sending money and casting votes to build? Christ already built it. And hint for Ted Cruz: it’s not made of stone or bricks and mortar.

John 2:19 Jesus says “destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” John clarifies explicitly: he was speaking of his body. The resurrection is the Third Temple. The veil tore from top to bottom at the crucifixion not symbolically, as a theological declaration that the entire system was finished and fulfilled.

The Letter to the Hebrews spends thirteen chapters making one argument: every element of Temple worship... the priesthood, the sacrifice, the Holy of Holies, the ark — was a shadow pointing forward to Christ. Paul tells the Corinthians twice: you are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Not a building. Not a geography. You. Peter calls believers living stones built into a spiritual house.

So when American Christian Zionists cheer on wars to rebuild a physical temple, they are funding the theological rejection of their own Saviour. A rebuilt temple doesn’t prepare for Christ’s return. It denies his first coming. It says the sacrifice wasn’t enough. The resurrection didn’t count.

Zionist Christianity isn’t a fusion of two faiths. It’s the abandonment of one in slavery to another. And it’s currently armed, funded, and flying messianic combat missions.

Netanyahu just told you what he thinks of your Jesus. 

Believe him. 

Israel hates a free media

RT correspondent Steve Sweeney:

"Israel tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon while I was covering the event that targeted bridges and led to the forced displacement of a million people—an act of ethnic cleansing on a scale even larger than the Nakba.

I have no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims that there were no warnings before the strike and no notifications were sent to the Lebanese army, which granted us permission to film. 

As we saw in Gaza, they want to silence journalists who document and report on the war crimes they are committing.

It is the Western powers that provide political and military support to Israel, supplying it with weapons to the core to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not just complicit, they are active participants, and they must be held accountable for their actions."

(He was wounded but survived this assassination attempt.)

History lesson: The Nuclear Secret JFK Died Trying to Stop

In 1963, President Kennedy sent Israel's Prime Minister an ultimatum: allow full nuclear inspections at Dimona nuclear facility or lose American support. Twenty-four hours later, Ben-Gurion mysteriously resigned. 

Five months later, Kennedy was dead. This is the declassified story of how Israel defied an American president, built atomic bombs in secret, and changed the Middle East forever. 

Based on recently released documents from the National Security Archive and JFK Presidential Library showing Kennedy's desperate attempts to prevent Israeli nuclear weapons.

Sources:

• National Security Archive (George Washington University): Declassified Kennedy-Ben-Gurion-Eshkol correspondence, 1961-1963
• JFK Presidential Library: Letters between Kennedy and Israeli leaders, White House records
• Wilson Center: "Kennedy, Dimona and the Nuclear Proliferation Problem: 1961-1962"
• U.S. State Department: Foreign Relations of the United States, Volume XVIII (Near East 1961-1963)
• Atomic Energy Commission: Inspection reports from Dimona visits (1961, 1962, 1965-1967)
• Avner Cohen: "Israel and the Bomb" and various scholarly articles on Israeli nuclear history
• CIA declassified assessments of Israeli nuclear capabilities
• Seymour Hersh: "The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy"

Boots in the Gulf: Why ground troops are America’s only option left

SouthFront Press

The United States has reached a strategic deadlock in its war with Iran. Weeks of airstrikes and precision attacks on leadership and infrastructure have failed to produce a decisive result. Even after the reported death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iran’s command system continues to function. Military infrastructure, especially underground, remains partially intact. 

The limits of air power are becoming increasingly clear. Iran has spent years building hardened facilities, including bunkers, storage depots, and hidden launch sites. Many of them are beyond the reach of standard munitions. Even specialized bunker-busting bombs are available only in limited numbers. 

At the same time, the operational cost is rising. U.S. and allied stockpiles of air defense missiles are being depleted. Additional Patriot and THAAD systems are being rushed into the region. Naval forces have also adjusted their posture. Aircraft carriers such as the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Gerald R. Ford have moved farther from the Iranian coast, reflecting the growing threat from drones and fast attack craft. 

Against this backdrop, preparations for a ground phase are becoming more visible. The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit is already en route to the region as part of an Amphibious Ready Group. It includes roughly 2,200 Marines, supported by F-35B fighter jets, MV-22 Osprey aircraft, and attack helicopters. 

In parallel, the 82nd Airborne Division has been placed on high alert. The division is undergoing restructuring into more mobile brigade combat teams, optimized for rapid deployment and independent operations. These units are expected to play a central role in seizing airfields, ports, and critical infrastructure deep behind enemy lines. 

Initial objectives of a ground operation would likely focus on the southern coast. Strategic locations include Bandar Abbas and nearby islands controlling the Strait of Hormuz. Capturing these sites would limit Iran’s ability to disrupt maritime traffic and launch naval attacks. 

However, such an operation carries serious risks. Iran has adapted to modern warfare, relying on drones, mobile strike teams, and small-unit tactics. Swarms of unmanned systems and fast boats could threaten both landing forces and naval assets. Even limited successes against large ships or transport aircraft would have a significant operational impact. 

Urban and coastal combat would further complicate the situation. Narrow terrain, fortified positions, and the presence of local militias could slow any advance. Iranian forces are likely to avoid large-scale engagements, instead focusing on attrition and constant pressure. 

The emerging picture is clear. Air superiority alone is not enough to win this war. Without control of territory and sustained ground presence, the United States cannot achieve its objectives. A ground invasion now appears not just possible, but increasingly inevitable. 

Trump hugs the B-2 bomber

'Give me that BOMBER… Let me just hug that little sucker',  Trump says.

‘This looks small, but in person it's really big.' 

Peace Prez or just a phony baloney modern day pirate who appears to get off killing people - including school girls in Iran.

Where are the voices of the moral/religious leaders? Where are the voices of the academic international law experts? Where are the voices of the women's groups with the pink knit hats? Where are the voices of American and international school teachers?

Where are the voices....?

Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Venezuela, Cuba. Who is next?

Maybe us in the United States?

Bruce

It's total war now!

 

Say good-bye to the global economy.

Trump and Netanyahu have got what they really wanted.

Total war with Iran. 

The Qatari Foreign Ministry has condemned Israel’s attack on Iran’s South Pars gas field, which is jointly operated by Iran and Qatar. The ministry said that strikes on Pars constitute “a threat to global energy security.” 

Gas processing facilities on the Iranian side of the field were damaged in strikes on Wednesday. While Israel has not taken responsibility for the strikes, Axios reported that they were carried out by Israeli forces in coordination with the US.

In a post on X, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari blamed the destruction on Israel.

“The Israeli targeting of facilities linked to Iran’s South Pars field, an extension of Qatar’s North Field, is a dangerous and irresponsible step amid the current military escalation in the region,” he wrote. “Targeting energy infrastructure constitutes a threat to global energy security, as well as to the peoples of the region and its environment.”

Everything crashes now - the devils in Washington and Tel Aviv got the madness they always wanted.

Below video:  Max Blumenthal reports that a psychological warfare campaign orchestrated by Zionist interests targeted Trump to drive him into war with Iran. 

The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a funding request exceeding $200 billion to support the war in Iran, according to The Washington Post, a figure that could face strong resistance in Congress. 

The request would go far beyond current spending levels and aims to replenish weapons stocks rapidly depleted as US and Israeli forces have carried out thousands of strikes over the past three weeks, The Washington Post reported. 

The report notes the war’s cost has already exceeded $11 billion in its first week alone, with officials warning that further funding could trigger a major political battle amid limited public support. 

The proposal comes despite earlier pledges to curb overseas military spending, raising questions over the scale and sustainability of Washington’s expanding campaign.