Countries Bombed by the United States Since 1945 💣

The US and Israel are like two drunks sitting at the bar - always needing another drink. In the present case the US imperial war economy always needs another enemy and another war. That is what has long sustained this evil empire.

But those days are done and the pirates running the 'ship of state' in Washington know that their time in the sun is over. They are beyond desperate.

So they are rolling the dice and going full bore terrorist in hopes of scaring the world and forcing nations back onto their knees as was the case for the last 500 years of white western colonial control of the globe.

But it ain't going to work and Iran is helping to break the backs of these devils.

The massive killing of school girls in Iran by US bombing their three schools is evidence that the zionists monsters cannot win. I saw a short video of one father holding a piece of his daughter and crying and pleading to understand why she had to die.

She had to die, according to the chairman of the new Board of Peace, because Iran's leaders refused to take a knee before the zionist terrorists. Simple as that.

Most Americans are starting to come around on Palestine, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen. The public is learning more about zionist 'plans' for Greater Israel. The US Ambassador to Israel told Tucker Carlson that it was fine for Israel to take control of the region. 

The arrogance is other worldly.

The US has killed millions around the world since the end of WW2 when Washington (run by the CIA) decided to play king of the mountain. It's been a bloodlust ever since.

And now we face the crucial moment. Will the world rise up to stop this futile but deadly US-Israel attempt to hang onto power? If we don't do so then we will all likely go down in a red hot flash.

And don't think that just getting rid of Trump by putting the weak complicit Democrats back in power will be a quick fix. It won't.

It's time to clean house of the tech boys, the pedophiles, the corporate agents in Washington - AIPAC, the military industrial complex lobby, Wall Street and the like.

Let's not allow these ugly pirates to destroy the world. Take the toys away from the boys now - before it is too late.

Bruce

1. China → 1945–1946

2. China → 1950–1953

3. North Korea → 1950–1953

4. Guatemala → 1954

5. Indonesia → 1958

6. Laos → 1964–1973

7. Vietnam → 1965–1973

8. Cambodia → 1969–1973

9. Lebanon → 1983–1984

10. Libya → 1986

11. Iran → 1987–1988

12. Nicaragua → 1980s

13. Iraq → 1991

14. Kuwait → 1991

15. Iraq → 1993

16. Somalia → 1993

17. Bosnia and Herzegovina → 1995

18. Iraq → 1996

19. Sudan → 1998

20. Afghanistan → 1998

21. Iraq → 1998

22. Yugoslavia / Serbia → 1999

23. Afghanistan → 2001–2021+

24. Pakistan → 2004–2018

25. Somalia → 2007+

26. Iraq → 2003–2011

27. Yemen → 2002+

28. Iraq → 2014+

29. Syria → 2014+

30. Libya → 2011

31. Yemen → 2024–2025

32. Iran → 2025

33. Somalia → 2025

34. Syria → 2025

35. Nigeria → 2025

36. Venezuela → 2026

37. Iran → 2026

Note: The list includes direct U.S. bombing, airstrikes, drone strikes, and missile attacks. NATO or coalition operations are included only when the United States played a primary or leading role.

Source: William Blum (Rogue State, Killing Hope), Maurer. ca US Bombing List, Wikispooks (US bombing campaigns), ACLED (2025), Al Jazeera, Reuters, Antiwar. com, Newsweek

US & Israel begin bombing Iran

'Board of Peace' launches its first war!

Iran is under attack in what will likely be a massive regional war that cannot be contained. 

Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a professor at Tehran University and a former advisor to Iran's Nuclear Negotiation Team.

Marandi calls it the 'Epstein regime' undertaking this war.

It is obvious that Israel has the 'Trump team' fully under its control.

The first attack on Tehran was carried out with Tomahawk cruise missiles from U.S. ships in the Gulf of Oman.

Iran is striking. It’s clear that Iran is following on it’s promise of attacking regional allies or USA bases:  

• Al-Udeid Airbase in Qatar is under attack.
• The U.S. Naval Base in Bahrain was struck by Iranian ballistic missiles – several impacts.
• Explosions in Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates – Al Dafra Air Base hosting US troops.
• Iranian ballistic missiles target the U.S. base in Kuwait
• Jordan has been hit where U.S. bases warplanes
• Explosions in the Saudi capital Riyadh

Ansarallah (Houthis) joined with targeted missiles – unclear at the moment where and when but it looks like they’re aiming at the occupied city of Jaffa, called Tel Aviv. This was a joint attack with Iraqi Kataeb Hezbollah.

Israelis are sitting in shelters. The sirens have not stopped ringing in Israel.

Iran absorbed the first attacks and moved to counter.

the funnies (with bonus)

Necropolitics, defined as eliminating 'superfluous populations', must be exposed

There's a word for what we are watching. Political thinker Achille Mbembe calls it "Necropolitics" ... the tactics a state deploys to end certain populations with minimal resistance, reducing human beings to bare life, to bodies that exist only as tools for someone else's benefit. 

Within this framework, he names "Death Worlds": entire spaces dedicated to death, to the stripping of meaning from human existence.

In this video, Tokata Iron Eyes, spokesperson for the Lakota People's Law Project, breaks down Necropolitics and Death Worlds ... and why this framework is essential to understanding the intersections of everything happening right now: the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the systemic erasure of Native women and girls, children in ICE detention facilities writing letters to the world begging for help, and the Epstein files and the girls taken from war-torn countries and sold to the powerful.

The complete degradation of our quality of life is not a result of a lack of effort or hard work. It is the result of decisions made by very powerful people ... the billionaire class, political officials ... who have deemed certain bodies expendable.

Name what we are seeing. 

Postcard from New Orleans: Building resilient community

Thrift Store. Clinic. Roller Rink. Center Becomes ‘Radical’ Lifeline Amid Homelessness, Drug Crises.

By Aneri Pattani

New Orleans — From the outside, the abandoned Family Dollar store in the Lower 9th Ward looks intimidating. It’s covered in graffiti, with aluminum cans and trash dotting the parking lot. It sits on a street with other empty lots and decayed buildings — symbols of the lasting devastation this neighborhood, one of the city’s poorest, has endured since Hurricane Katrina.

But inside, the store is a welcoming oasis. Twinkly string lights adorn racks of donated clothing. Shelves and bins overflow with children’s books, allergy medications, and toiletries. Curtains cordon off one side of the room, where there’s a stage for musicians and a neon sign depicting roller skates for weekly free skate nights.

The space is part free thrift store, part over-the-counter pharmacy, part punk show venue — and wholly “a radical community center,” said Dan Bingler, who runs the place.

Bingler is a waiter and bartender in the city who founded a mutual-aid organization called the Greater New Orleans Caring Collective. He said the building owners allow him to use the space as long as he pays the water, electricity, and trash bills.

On Monday evenings, volunteers from other community organizations show up — some used to set up in the parking lot before Bingler opened the store. They offer free testing for sexually transmitted infections, basic medical care, hot meals, and sterile syringes and other supplies for people who use drugs.

The purpose of the space is simple, Bingler said: “We’re going to make sure we provide for the community.”

Although it’s been open for a few years now, the space has become even more crucial to this community in recent months, with the Trump administration slashing funding for many social service organizations and taking an aggressive approach to homelessness and drug use. In Washington, D.C., the administration has bulldozed tents to push people living on the street to leave the city. Nationally, it has called for people who use drugs to be forced into treatment. It has decried harm reduction — practices that public health experts say keep people who use drugs safe and alive but that critics say promote illegal drug use.

The community space in New Orleans — named the Fred Hampton Free Store after the famous Black Panther activist known for bringing together diverse groups to fight for social reforms — aims to be a haven among this sea of changes.

It doesn’t receive federal funding, state or local grants, or money from foundations, Bingler said. It’s simply neighbors helping neighbors, he said, tearing up and adding, “It’s a really beautiful thing to be able to share all this space.”

All items inside are provided by people or organizations in the community. Bingler said one time a local hotel undergoing renovations donated 50 flat-screen TVs.

On nights the store is open, often more than 100 people visit, Bingler said.

One fall evening, dozens of people browsed for free clothing and over-the-counter medications. Others sat on the grass outside, chatting while keeping an eye on their bicycles or grocery carts full of possessions.

James Beshears stopped by the harm reduction group in the parking lot to get sterile supplies he uses to inject heroin and fentanyl. He said he’d been in treatment for years but relapsed after his doctor moved away and he was referred to a clinic that charged $250 a day. Street drugs were cheaper than treatment, he said.

He wants to stop. But until he can find affordable care, places like the free store keep him going. Without it, he said, he’d have “one foot in the grave.”

Another man in the parking lot was waiting for the arrival of Aquil Bey, a paramedic and former Green Beret well known for helping people overcome obstacles to getting health care. As soon as the man spotted Bey’s black Jeep, he ran up.

“I’ve got stage 4 kidney disease,” the man said, adding that he was scheduled for treatments at a hospital but was struggling to get there.

“Do me a favor,” Bey said as he unloaded folding tables and medical equipment from his car. “When our team gets here, come and see us. Maybe we can get you transportation.”

Bey is the founder of Freestanding Communities, a volunteer-run organization that provides free basic medical care and referrals for people who are homeless, using drugs, or part of other vulnerable communities. The group has a steady presence at the free store.

That day, Bey and his team connected the man needing kidney disease treatment to reduced-cost transit programs. They also did blood pressure and blood sugar checks for anyone who wanted them, cleaned infected wounds, and called clinics to make appointments for patients without phones.

A man with a leg injury mentioned he was sleeping on the concrete floor of an abandoned naval base. Bey noticed the free store’s furniture section had a mattress. He and another volunteer hauled it out, strapped it to the top of a car, and delivered it to where the man was sleeping.

“We’re just trying to find all these barriers” that people face and “find ways to fix them,” Bey said.

The clinic at the free store helped Stephen Wiltz connect with addiction care. He grew up in the Lower 9th Ward and had been using drugs since he was 10.

Fed up with discrimination from doctors who blamed him for his addiction, Wiltz said, he was reluctant to go to any treatment facility. But after years of knowing the volunteers at the free store, he trusted them to point him in the right direction.

At 56, Wiltz was in sustained recovery for the first time in his life, he said during a phone interview.

Those volunteers “cared for people who didn’t have nobody to care for them,” he said.

As the sun went down that evening at the store, a punk band started setting up for a show across the room from the medical clinic. Lights dimmed and music blared — a reminder that this was not your everyday clinic or community center.

Bey continued consulting with a patient who had gout.

“I get used to the sound,” Bey said of the rapid drums and loud power chords. “I like it sometimes.”

Shut Down Drone Warfare Spring Action

Spring 2025 Action: Photo by Scott Thompson

April 5-11, 2026

Holloman Air Force Base, Southern New Mexico

(The largest drone training base in the U.S. - graduates 700+ drone operators & pilots annually)

Find out more here: www.ShutDownDroneWarfare.org

WHY JOIN US?

Military drones are one of the most essential tools of Imperialist Aggression and Oppression of the 21st Century.

US drones continue to terrorize communities globally, commit illegal targeted assassinations, violate inherent right to privacy, and kill and destroy from afar with impunity, from Gaza to Afghanistan, Iraq to Venezuela, Pakistan to Somalia.

US/Israeli Military Drones have been used to target and kill doctors, journalists, students, teachers, and thousands of women & children in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

U.S. Drones have murdered over 100 people on boats off the coast of Venezuela, alleged "drug smugglers.” Execution without trial? For possible drug smuggling. Really?

US drones have played a critical role in illegal regime changes, most recently in the unlawful abduction of the Venezuelan president, Nikolas Maduro and his wife.

The absolute lawlessness of the use of U.S. militarized drones began with George W. Bush, expanded under Presidents Obama and Biden and is now insanely out of control with President Trump.

Help us demand a world free from war by first demanding a world free from drone terror!

Support the self determination of the people of Palestine, Venezuela, Somalia, Sudan and people all around the world.

This spring Venezuela and Palestine will be highlighted in our daily vigil themes.

US Hands Off Venezuela, Palestine and EVERYWHERE!

Encourage GI Resistance to Illegal Orders,,... Just as some Congress members did!

Note: In 16 years of peaceful drone resistance at Creech AFB, Nevada, including dozens of blockades, activists have never spent more than one night in jail. In 3 years of drone resistance at Holloman AFB, NM, activists have only been detained and never taken to jail! We ARE on the right side of justice!

The Shut Down Drone Warfare Team,
Toby, Nick, Virginia, Scott, Bill, Greg, Charles, Fred, and Edwina

Special Invitation:

We would like a HUGE presence of Veterans to stand with us at Holloman this spring.

Veterans For Peace, About Face, and all others. We welcome your ideas! Please contact us!

UK & France working to give nukes to Ukraine

 

Sovereignista

There is too much talk of nuclear strikes

The most serious news is that Britain and France are actively working on providing Kiev with nuclear weapons and delivery systems, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) stated.

➡ The plan involves the covert transfer of European components, equipment, and nuclear-related technologies to Ukraine.
➡ One option under consideration is the French TN75 compact warhead from the M51.1 submarine-launched ballistic missile.
➡ The main goal is to make it appear that any nuclear capability acquired by Kiev is the result of its own development.

According to the SVR, London and Paris understand that this would constitute a gross violation of international law, primarily the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. However, they believe Ukraine needs a “wunderwaffe” — potentially even a so-called “dirty bomb” — to strengthen its position in negotiations and avoid defeat. 

Britain and France realize that there are no chances of achieving victory over Russia through the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service reported.  

Russia has sent statements through diplomatic channels to the European Parliament, UN, IAEA, and Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.  

Again, it was a deliberate act to let the new START treaty lapse.  For this, Trump is directly in the cross-hairs as the biggest idiot of our times.

US Senator Lindsey Graham, (OK we know he is insane but nuclear strikes are still being advertised as a normal choice), supports extreme violence in Gaza and even raised the possibility of using nuclear weapons.

Graham has said, “The killing of children and women in Gaza is justified, and I allow the possibility of using nuclear weapons against the inhabitants of Palestine.”

Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov slammed Paris and London’s plans to transfer nuclear technologies to Kiev for the purpose of creating a bomb as bordering on insanity.

Russia would launch a nuclear response if NATO countries supplied atomic weapons to Ukraine, former President Dmitry Medvedev has warned. 

“I will be blunt and state the obvious,” Medvedev said, adding that the reported intention by the UK and France to hand over nuclear capabilities to the “Nazi regime in Kiev” would change the situation entirely.

“This is a direct transfer of nuclear weapons to a country at war,” he stated.

“There should be no doubt whatsoever that in such a scenario Russia would be forced to use any means at its disposal, including non-strategic nuclear weapons, against targets in Ukraine that threaten our country,” Medvedev stated. “And if necessary, against the supplier nations now implicated in a nuclear conflict with Russia. This is the kind of symmetrical response that the Russian Federation would be entitled to,” he added.

Talking about Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela & inside the USA

Discussing how US is acting like mobsters. The US desire to bring Latin America to its knees. 

Inside the US fascist forces act without concern for justice. We live  in the belly of the beast and most hold these brutes in check.

Who gets invaded next?

We don't have the privilege to work in silos anymore. We need to connect domestic terrorism and Pentagon war mongering. And oppose the funding for endless war - $$$ that is need daily here at home. 

So activism is more important than ever. 

Chris Hedges film from major Italian Palestine solidarirty protests

 

With little hope of the genocide in Gaza subsiding, dock workers in major Italian port cities have organized strikes and large demonstrations to halt arms shipments to Israel. 

These actions are a direct response to the refusal of international institutions and governments around the world to confront the carnage. 

Though the genocide continues, the dockworkers’ industrial disruption offer us a model of resistance. 

Will the Italian way spread to the imperial core — and can it end the genocide?

Are We Paying for Ineffective Missile Defense & a Spiraling Nuclear Arms Race?

Missile Defense, as the term implies, is defending against enemy missiles carrying an explosive payload. The origin of these anti-missile systems dates back to the Cold War space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, an era when intercontinental ballistic missiles could be deployed in space to launch satellites to orbit or travel thousands of miles carrying nuclear weapons. Missile defense systems were deployed by both superpowers in the 1960s, but proved to be technically infeasible and prohibitively expensive. They were ultimately abandoned.

Feasibility and cost notwithstanding, the U.S. military and weapons contractors succeeded in pursuing these systems during the Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush administrations. Now, Donald Trump has launched the ambitious Golden Dome project, yet another missile defense program based on technologies and space-based interceptors proven to be unworkable.

In this webinar, we will hear three experts discuss the technical and policy aspects of Golden Dome.

• Ted Postol, professor emeritus at MIT, is an internationally known analyst and long-time critic of the missile defense program. He has held positions at the Argonne National Laboratory, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the Pentagon, where he functioned as scientific advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations and technical and policy advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At Stanford, he helped build a weapons technology training program for development and arms control policy. His awards include the 1995 Hilliard Roderick Prize in Science, Arms Control, and International Security from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) which lauded him as “by-far the strongest, technically-trained, independent arms control analyst of his generation” and the mentor of “a whole generation of independent arms control policy analysts.” He has been awarded for whistle-blowing about governmental false claims about missile defenses like the Patriot system in the 1991 Gulf War. He is a member of
• Daryl Kimball is the Executive Director of the Arms Control Association (ACA), Washington, DC, where since 2001 he has led the organization’s advocacy campaigns on major issues including cancellation of new nuclear weapons programs, the 2010 New START agreement, the 2015 P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, the entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and strengthening the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. He is publisher of the organization’s monthly journal, Arms Control Today, a frequent expert source for reporters and policymakers, and has written and spoken extensively about all matters related to nuclear arms control. Previously, he was the executive director of the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, and the Director of Security Programs for Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). There, he helped to expose and accelerate the cleanup of a toxic, Cold War-era nuclear weapons production site in his hometown of Oxford, Ohio, led the advocacy for the 1992 nuclear test moratorium in Congress and
• Subrata Ghoshroy, a former Senior Defense Analyst for the Government Accountability Office (GAO), was the lead Technical Evaluator for its investigation into allegations of fraud in the missile defense program. When the GAO tried to cover up his discovery that contractors were lying about a $100-million test, he blew the whistle and quit the GAO shortly afterwards. He then joined MIT as a Research Affiliate with the Program in Science, Technology, and Society.
• Linda Pentz Gunter, moderator, is the curator and editor of Beyond Nuclear International and the international specialist at Beyond Nuclear. Prior to her work in anti-nuclear advocacy, she was a journalist for 20 years in print and broadcast, working for USA Network, Reuters, The Times (UK) and other US and international outlets.

~ Tell Congress to Stop Funding the Golden Dome - click here

 

~ To keep up with the militarization of space issue click here

Iran attack gone to shite?

 

THE PLANNED U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN has a hitch: most of the missile-targeting crew are queuing for toilets 45 minutes at a time on the lead vessel, the USS Gerald R Ford. 

This is not a joke. A set of emails was obtained by NPR, a US public broadcasting group, revealing that toilet wars have broken out on board the most expensive ship the US Navy ever built. 

The Wall St Journal followed up to confirm the tale today. 

There are too few functioning toilets for 4,600 sailors and the problem is worsening daily—there’s no chance of fixing the system without returning the ship to the US dockyards.

Some say the sailors are near a mutiny since they have been a sea so long without a break. 

Trump's TACO MO might have just found a new twist before the shit hits the fan. 

Why Seoul is Sailing Straight into a Technology Transfer Trap Made in America

By Ignis Rex

@Ignis_Rex

If you want to understand the sheer, unadulterated hubris of modern industrial policy, look no further than the recent chest-thumping in the Korea Herald. The narrative is as predictable as a K-drama plot: South Korea, the plucky tech wizard, is teaming up with its "Big Brother" in Washington to reclaim the high seas from the "looming" Chinese menace.

It’s a lovely story. It’s also a fantasy.
While Seoul patts itself on the back for its "geopolitical edge," the reality in the shipyards of Zhejiang tells a different story. If China is the world’s factory, it has now become its high-tech naval architect—leaving South Korea to play the role of the sacrificial lamb on the altar of "Make American Shipbuilding Great Again" (MASGA).

The "Tech Gap" is Now a Tech Ghost
For years, the comfort blanket for Korean shipbuilders was the "tech gap." The idea was that China could churn out low-end "floating bathtubs"—bulk carriers and barges—while Korea cornered the market on the Ferraris of the sea: LNG carriers and sophisticated chemical tankers.

Well, the blanket has been pulled back, and it’s chilly.
China hasn't just caught up; it has optimized. By localized supply chains—literally building the components next door to the dry docks—Chinese yards have made "high-end" ships affordable. They aren't just building smart-system vessels; they’re building them faster and cheaper than the Koreans.

Uncle Sam’s "Help" is a Debt Sentence
But the real comedy—or tragedy, depending on your portfolio—is the U.S.-Korea "partnership."

Washington has looked at its own hollowed-out, rusted-over shipbuilding industry and realized it hasn't a prayer of competing with China. So, naturally, it has asked Seoul to help. And by "help," I mean Washington wants Korean conglomerates like Hanwha and HD Hyundai to export their capital, their patented technology, and their best engineers to failing American yards.

This isn't a strategic alliance; it’s an industrial organ transplant where Korea is the involuntary donor.

Think about it. Korea is already struggling with a shrinking workforce and thinning margins. Now, it’s being pressured to subsidize the revitalization of U.S. infrastructure. It’s the equivalent of a world-class chef being told to leave his Michelin-star kitchen to go teach a fast-food chain how to grill a steak—while the fast-food chain keeps all the profits and the secrets.

The Price of Being a "Reliable Partner"
The Korea Herald calls this "geopolitics." A more honest term would be "industrial suicide."

As China continues to dominate the commercial market by being the most efficient player in the room, Korea is tying its anchor to a sinking U.S. maritime sector. Every dollar and every engineer Seoul sends to "rescue" an American shipyard is a resource diverted from its own survival.

In the end, shipowners don't care about "shared values" or Washington’s "friend-shoring" rhetoric. They care about who can deliver a green, dual-fuel tanker on time without breaking the bank. China is doing that today. Korea, meanwhile, is busy filling out paperwork for its American "partners."

If Seoul keeps this up, it won't be "ruling the high-end." It’ll be ruling over an empty treasury and a fleet of memories.

View from Italy: The UN's replacement 'Board of Peace'

 

By Manlio Dinucci (Grandangolo on Byoblu TV, Italy)

President Trump chaired the Board of Peace at the Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace, a Washington building renamed by the President after himself. CNN summarizes what this body is: “The Board of Peace, indefinitely chaired by Trump, was originally conceived as a limited body tasked with overseeing the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.” 

However, its remit has since broadened to encompass conflict resolution worldwide, and the draft charter attached to the invitations to join does not mention Gaza at all. 

Trump's explicit goal is to establish the Board of Peace as an alternative to the UN. This is confirmed by his statement: “The Board of Peace will be responsible for overseeing the United Nations and ensuring that it functions properly.” 

As for Gaza, Trump already has a plan to transform it into a luxurious 'Middle East Riviera', which was presented in Davos by his son-in-law Jared Kushner. The first $17 billion officially allocated by the Board of Peace will therefore be used to rebuild Gaza — not for the benefit of the Palestinians, but for a project that would permanently deprive them of their land and statehood. This is confirmed by the fact that while Israel is represented on the Board of Peace by Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, no Palestinians have been invited to join. 

Trump's support for Israel

This was confirmed by the White House, which officially documented Donald Trump's support for Israel as follows:

- President Trump appointed Governor Mike Huckabee, a staunch ally of Israel, as ambassador to Israel.

-  President Trump firmly supported the State of Israel throughout the war with Hamas, ensuring peace through strength not only in the Middle East, but worldwide.

-  President Trump welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House, making him the first world leader to be invited during Trump's second Presidential term.

- President Trump withdrew the US from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) due to its protection of human rights violators, and from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) due to its employees' involvement in Hamas's attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. He also announced that the United States would withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) due to its continual demonstration of anti-Israel sentiments.

- President Trump took decisive action through Operation Midnight Hammer to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

Eric Trump, son of the President, is involved in the business of Israeli killer drones used against Palestinians. Eric Trump has signed a $1.5 billion deal with the Israeli company Xtend, which manufactures low-cost killer drones. The Israeli army has already purchased 5,000 of these drones, which it deploys against Palestinians in Gaza. By merging with a US company co-owned by Eric Trump, Xtend can now also supply its drones to the Pentagon, as Trump's son has already secured a multi-million dollar contract with the US Department of Defense.

The baptism of the Board of Peace: the war against Iran

The peace that the Board of Peace is preparing for is evident in the fact that, at the very moment of its formation, President Trump and his associates are amassing substantial military forces – including naval, air and ground troops – in the Middle East, poised to attack Iran. Their strategic objectives are manifold. 

Iran, which has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has a civilian nuclear programme subject to UN controls but, like at least thirty other countries, [could] in future acquire a military nuclear programme. Israel, the only country in the Middle East with nuclear weapons (not subject to any international controls because Israel is not a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty), would in that case lose its military nuclear monopoly in the Middle East. 

Iran is also important to Washington because its oil reserves are the third largest in the world (after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia) and because, as a member of the BRICS, Iran is a key hub of Russia's North-South Corridor and China's New Silk Road. 

Brunswick, Maine Protest: Stop U.S. attacks on Iran, Cuba, Palestine and Venezuela

 

 Join us Saturday March 7 to stand in solidarity with Iran, Cuba, Palestine and Venezuela at 1:30pm in Brunswick, Maine (corner of Route 1 and Pleasant St.).

Gaza continues being bombed, starved, and blockaded amid the US-Israel fake “ceasefire.” And a so-called Board of Peace for Gaza has no Palestinians on it! Plus Zionist violence in the occupied West Bank and in the south of Lebanon is accelerating as Israeli moves to annex more territories are met with spirited resistance. 

 

Venezuela continues to be attacked at sea and now Cuba is being subjected to a total fuel blockade threatening their health, food, and transportation sectors.

And the US is massing forces to attack Iran in the next war most desired by the Zionist entity. What could go wrong? 

 

Join us to say NO to all these imperial wars!

 

Our demands:

• End U.S. aid to racist apartheid Israel!
• U.S. hands off Venezuela!
• Peace in Ukraine - No weapons, no money for the Ukraine War
• Abolish NATO – End U.S. militarism & sanctions!
• Fund people’s needs, not the war machine!
• No war with China!
• Protect Earth’s environment from the deadly insult of war!
• Fight racism & bigotry not war!
• U.S. hands off Haiti!
• End AFRICOM

Co-sponsors: 

 

Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, Maine Natural Guard, PeaceWorks of Greater Brunswick, Communist Party of Maine, Maine Green Independent Party, Citizens Opposing Active Sonar Threats (COAST), Party for Socialism & Liberation Maine, Libertarian Party of Maine, Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine, Veterans for Peace - National, United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), and Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights (MVPR). 

Sunday song

the funnies

Protests and skepticism greet Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’

Gaza not represented on this 'Board of Piss'.

Trump wants to control and replace the UN. 

Look who sits directly behind Trump - Witcoff, Rubio and Kushner. Evidence that this is all one big 'real estate deal'.

All the rest of the lackeys sit on the sidelines. These fools should be embarrassed to be there. One would hope they would catch hell when they get back home from their people.

~ Ramin Mazaheri is currently covering the US elections. He is the chief correspondent in Paris for Press TV and has lived in France since 2009.

U.S. prepares for attack on Iran

Southfront Press

Iran is actively preparing for an attack by the United States and Israel, despite reports of some progress in nuclear talks.

In a clear warning to both the U.S. and Israel, on February 16, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy kicked off drills in the strategic Hormuz Strait.

The strait was closed for several hours on the second day of the drills due to “security precautions,” and commander of the guard’s navy, Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, stated that Iran is prepared to close the waterway at command.

As the drills were ongoing, the U.S. military began sending dozens of warplanes to the Middle East. At least 18 F-35A Lightning II stealth fighter jets left Lakenheath Air Base in the United Kingdom on February 16 headed for Muwaffaq Salti in Jordan.

The next day, a dozen F-22 Raptors stealth fighter jets left Langley Air Force Base in Virginia heading east. At least six landed at Lakenheath Air Base in the UK.

In addition, at least 48 F-16 Fighting Falcons moved toward the Middle East. The multirole fighter jets took off from Aviano Air Base in Italy, Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany and McEntire Joint National Guard Base in South Carolina.

Two E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning And Control Systems (AWACS) aircraft also landed at Mildenhall Air Base in the UK. At least one U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane was also spotted on the way to the Middle East.

One the same day it was revealed that the USS Gerald R. Ford has already arrived near the Strait of Gibraltar, which means it could join the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East in under a week.

Amid this escalation, an Iranian delegation led by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a second round of indirect talks with U.S. representatives, headed by U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Geneva on February 17.

Araghchi said that Iran and the U.S. reached an understanding on the main “guiding principles” of a new nuclear agreement, and spoke of a “window of opportunity”.

Optimism was short lived, however, as a report published by Axios on February 18 revealed that President Donald Trump was “fed up” with Iran, and that a long, multi-week campaign that starts with a joint U.S.-Israel attack may be just a few days away.

All in all, it appears that the U.S. is nearing a decision on war with Iran. The U.S. and Israel will likely be ready to attack within a week. Iran will likely react with full force. Closing the Hormuz Strait will be an option for the Islamic Republic. 

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Another view by former CIA analyst Larry Johnson of Sonar 21   Read on his site – this is only a snippet.

The massive deployment of US combat air assets to the Middle East, accompanied by two carrier strike groups, is not a negotiating ploy. The USCENTCOM chain of command, along with the supporting military assets (e.g., AFSOC, JSOC, EUCOM), fully expected the launch order to be issued for a Friday night strike. But the order has not been issued… At least not yet, as of 2200 hours eastern time on Friday. What is going on?

For starters, there are two senior members of the Trump administration who are warning the President that the attack would be political suicide. They reportedly buttressed their argument against attacking Iran by providing the President with the results of a recent opinion poll. According to the poll results, if Trump starts a war with Iran and there are significant US casualties, the Titanic has a better chance of sailing again than the Republicans winning the midterms. It appears — at least for now — that Trump is reconsidering giving the Execute order.

A second factor that makes an attack less likely this weekend is Tuesday’s State of the Nation address by Trump. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles may be a corrupt, Zionist tool, but she is not politically obtuse. Starting a war with Iran, especially after Trump’s tariff deal was slapped down by the US Supreme Court, would likely set off a firestorm among the Democrats, Independents and the media. Instead of Trump being able to tout all of his massive achievements during his first year of his second term, the public attention would be clamoring for info about the war. JCS Chairman Caine and Admiral Brad Cooper, Commander of CENTCOM, have warned the President that there is a high likelihood that there would be US casualties when the US attacks.

Ukraine: 150,000 Deserters in One Month

Southfront Press

Shooting in Ukraine’s Chernivtsi Region Exposes Real Crisis in Armed Forces

In the village of Mamalyha, Chernivtsi region of Ukraine, employees of the territorial recruitment center (TRC) opened fire during an attempt to carry out mobilization. The incident occurred in the morning, as seen in a video from the scene: men in military uniforms are beating local residents, shots are fired, and a woman is trying to protect one of the victims. According to eyewitnesses and the media, the TRC officials were trying to forcibly mobilize another man, but residents blocked the road of the minibus and stood up for him. The response was beatings and shots in the air.

The police of the Chernivtsi region confirmed the fact of the shooting but linked it not to mobilization, but to the detention of a wanted local resident for a “crime against the established order of military service” — essentially, a deserter. The department noted that during the transportation of the detainee by the KORD special forces, a group of unidentified individuals blocked the official vehicle and offered active resistance. Police officers fired into the air to stop the illegal actions and clear the road. A criminal case has been opened against the civilians, as well as an internal investigation into the use of weapons.

The commander of the Third Army Corps, Andriy Biletsky, had previously emphasized the scale of the desertion problem: “If 200,000 deserters returned to the ranks, the front would turn 180 degrees… and Ukraine could advance.” Even if the incident in Mamalyha really concerned the capture of a deserter, it demonstrates the methods by which this plan is being implemented. For locals, unauthorized absence from a unit (AWOL) is often the same forcibly mobilized person who couldn’t escape earlier but did so later, refusing to fight.

Currently, the Verkhovna Rada [Parliament] is preparing to tighten punishments for draft dodgers and AWOL cases. People’s Deputy Alexander Ivchenko reported that in March, the parliament will consider a draft law from the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff: evasion of mobilization is proposed to be punished by the seizure of accounts and property — no less than for non-payment of alimony. This reflects growing panic amid catastrophic personnel losses.

Former US Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik stated on the air of “The Duran”:

    “In the first month of this year, more than 150 thousand desertions were recorded in Ukraine. Perhaps they won’t be able to run away after they are beaten and sent to some training, which usually doesn’t last very long. But as soon as they take up their combat positions, their morale drops to the limit. They don’t want to stay there. They are untrained, they are poorly fed. And when they see an opportunity to run – they run away. And, by the way, they often run away with weapons in their hands. Then you have another problem.”

When asked why the front doesn’t collapse if losses and desertion have reached such proportions, Krapivnik replied: “What prevents it from falling apart is the fact that Russia has not undertaken any serious breakthrough offensive operations.” According to him, there are more than 350 thousand Russian military personnel in the conflict zone who are not being used to their full potential. Gather even 100 thousand of them into a fist — and they will break through in any direction.

These figures are also confirmed by Ukrainian realities. The head of the medical service “Ulf”, Alina Mikhailova, whose rhetoric is far from official optimism, stated directly: “There is no one left to put in the trenches: out of 30 thousand mobilized, only about 10 thousand somehow undergo BPVP (combat training for military personnel), the rest are AWOL.” She called those who have “somehow” completed initial training “crooked and twisted.” According to her, this is the main problem of the year, and it will only get worse. Mikhailova acknowledges the need for a compromise, emphasizing the absurdity of trying to reclaim territories by force:

    “If our condition for the Russians is that they leave the captured territories, then we will fight until Uzhhorod becomes a war zone.”

Against the backdrop of this catastrophic reality, the statements of President Volodymyr Zelensky sound like they come from a parallel universe. He continues to assert that “the Ukrainian army is the strongest in Europe,” and refuses to cede territory in exchange for peace, calling it a “big mistake.” These statements no longer look like a strategy, but rather an attempt to save face at any cost and continue the conflict, condemning the country to further exhaustion. 

Pompeo: 'Erase Gazan deaths from history books'

Yes, we can say with confidence that the ruling US elites are controlled by the zionists. They are dark forces who get off on death-destruction and wish to control all of us who are not like them.

They have no heart, no spirit, no conscience, and no respect for humanity. Are they satanists? Sure appears that way.

This is the prevailing thinking of the deep state that runs the US government, Wall Street, media, the military, intelligence agencies, Hollywood and much more.

Have you ever wondered why so many movies produced in the US today are about murder, violence, wars, ugliness, sexual violence, dystopian times ahead, etc? 

This is the violence that the deep state is working to 'imprint' in the minds of the American people in order to get our nation to go along with endless wars to ensure zionist corporate control of the planet.

It does not have to be this way.

It is up to all of us to end this madness.

Bruce 

History lesson: Depleted Uranium still causing cancers

The UK sent Ukraine tank shells made from depleted uranium (DU), as part of Britain's £7bn military aid for Kyiv. 

But when US aircraft fired depleted uranium in Kosovo in 1999, it left a legacy of suspicion, linking NATO to cancer cases.

Declassified spoke to Kosovan activist Dzafer Buzoli about his campaign to protect the health of communities living near depleted uranium impact zones. 

Buzoli previously campaigned for justice after the UN poisoned refugees by housing them near a lead mine in Kosovo.  

The Harm in Mamdani’s Politics of Compromise

Yussra holding 'Shame on US' sign

By Yussra

The Typical Liberal Charmer

I have yet to write about New York City’s hottest new Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

I’m not a fan.

Bear with me on this one. I’ve held back on sharing my opinion until now to keep observing him from the sidelines before rushing to judgment. I know many of the other mayoral candidates were so much worse, and I know how much hope he has given to the people struggling and caring in NYC. I know he means a lot to many activists fighting for a free Palestine, including people I really respect. I know his wife makes illustrations calling out Israel’s war crimes and his father is a respected anti-colonial academic. I know how cool it is for the Big Apple, which has long been run by Zionists, to have a Muslim mayor who is critical of Israel, especially given how much discrimination we’ve faced as Muslims in the US after 9/11. I also recognize that the man is absurdly charismatic and eloquent… like Obama.

I live by Islam and I spend a lot of my time fighting for Palestinian liberation, so I’ve encountered people who assume I’m happy about Mamdani’s victory. Well, I’m happy Zionists are troubled. But I don’t trust him, I don’t think they’re troubled enough, and my frustration finally outweighs my hesitation, so I’m going to be the jerk who writes an essay criticizing one of the only politicians in the US who has a significant track record of advocating for Palestinian liberation and against Israeli impunity. One could take my critique as a compliment to Mamdani, since the corruption of the vast majority of US politicians is so plain to see that no scrutiny is required. Of course, I could always be wrong, and in this case I’d love to be wrong, so if I’ve misread Mamdani so far or I later turn out to be way off, then I owe him a public apology (not that the public should care about my opinion, but just for the sake of my own integrity). And maybe he will prove me wrong, maybe he can change, maybe his conscience

Even now, I’m expressing more charitable hesitation to call out Mamdani than he afforded the Palestinian resistance, who he was so ready to throw under the bus when prompted by the American political elite, condemning genocide survivors for resisting decades of illegal Israeli occupation sustained by US taxes.

I have to be honest: it only took me a few minutes to clock Mamdani as a sweet-talking opportunist who is willing to compromise on what matters most in order to build power. A true politician. He’s very good at what he does. Tragically, what he does, it turns out, is play diplomat with Zionists. I was disappointed, but I wasn’t shocked, when I heard of his many immediate betrayals of Palestine after running as the “pro-Palestine” candidate (visit the links at the end of this essay for detailed descriptions and evidence of these betrayals). If we’re being honest with ourselves, how could we be that surprised, when he was willing to run as a Democrat in the first place, aligning himself with a party synonymous with genocide? If your instinct is to defend him by saying he’s hoping to change the party from within, then please keep reading to the end.

I don’t know if this essay would upset people, fans of his. That’s not my intention, especially since I’m likely to agree with his supporters on many issues. I know people form emotional attachments to politicians. It’s only human, and the system counts on it. I know people can point to the good Mamdani has done and will do for Palestine and in general, which they might argue goes far beyond the scope of what any of his critics could ever achieve, given Mamdani’s influence, and I get it, I want to like him so badly too, this should have been our moment, and how dare I rain on it?

But let me take you back a second. I remember the moment I first became aware of Mamdani’s existence. I stumbled across a video of his on YouTube, and I watched a minute of a speech from his campaign to become the mayor of New York, in which his energy was undeniable and his ideas simultaneously felt fresh and long overdue. Impressed and excited, I subscribed to his channel, looked up his name, watched him in an interview with Stephen Colbert, and rushed back to his channel to unsubscribe in a whirlwind, trying to shake what I had just witnessed out of my head. It’s amazing how rapidly my first impression of Mamdani shifted from inspiring to unsettling. I was hoping for Mamdani to put the Zionist New York Times in an incredibly awkward position through his rise in popularity, but I quickly realized he wasn’t going to be the one to hold their feet to the fire. On the contrary, he could inadvertently become the answer to their problems, a way for unethical journalists to win back the conscientious public and m

By working with Zionists, Mamdani unwittingly saves their reputations from the brink of oblivion in the eyes of onlookers, doing more to sanitize their image as an anti-Zionist politician than a liberal Zionist ever could.

My excitement deflated as suddenly as it had overtaken me, because when Colbert asked Mamdani a remarkably racist and Islamophobic question about how he’d make Jews in New York feel safe despite his “controversial” comments against Israel’s genocide in Palestine, rather than pointing out the offensive nature of the question, rather than turning it back on Colbert and asking him why he didn’t make Zionist candidates prove themselves to the Palestinian diaspora in New York during an active Zionist genocide against the people of Palestine, the quick-witted Mamdani did not waste the opportunity to pander to Zionists, going on a tangent about October Seven to repeat debunked propaganda from the occupier’s narrative, instead of standing his ground on his right and our collective imperative to condemn close to eight decades of Israeli terrorism from the apartheid settler colony, instead of pointing out that Jewish supremacists feeling safe should not take priority over Palestinians actually being safe.

It might seem harsh, but that single moment of pandering was enough for me to lose interest in what Mamdani has to offer the liberation struggle. Many others within the movement have yet to run out of chances to give him, which is understandable considering his history, but his credibility is precisely why I feel all the more driven to call him out. It’s too easy to reason that maybe he’s playing the long game somehow, that he’s under unique pressures and he has to build political power before he can use it, that he needs to form strategic alliances and lull his enemies before he can act, that this is a rare opportunity for our sidelined cause to gain mainstream popularity. You get it, we’ve heard it all before, and it’s everything I hate about politics, which can have us justifying the most reprehensible transgressions against our own standards in the pursuit of morsels of recognition. But if you’re an activist for Palestine and you’ve ever felt skeptical or suspicious of Mamdani as he’s continued to work w

Of course, I can’t speak to Mamdani’s true intentions. Allah alone knows the inside of his heart. Mamdani probably believes he’s doing the right thing and helping the cause by working with Zionists. But so does Netanyahu, you know? I’m not comparing the two of course, I’m just saying every politician has their rationalizations. I’ve been burned by politicians too many times before, and especially disillusioned by the unforgivable Zionism of figures I once admired like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, so I’ve been thoroughly reminded since Israel’s genocide in Palestine to be wary of US politicians, who are essentially professional liars on behalf of the colonizer, selling the suffering public on the promise of better days to stave off revolution. 

~ See the rest of her story here