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Watch today Monday DemocracyNow.org Divest Divest Divest!!

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White supremacy has to be beaten once and for all. U/UK/Germany and France made a pact with the devil. Get rid of the word support they are gaslighting the world with. All these countries and esp US and UK are raging this genocide alongside Israhell. That is the blinding truth. No hiding behind a silly word such as support. No more diminishing their accountability in this genocide. They are playing the people and in the meantime are being so called negotiators. And the world lets them. Holding UN hostage and have done since its inception for their own evil actions. Have to be brought to account. Independent journalists have start to state this fact. Refuse to use their gaslighting language

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Another example of misusing the word genocide.

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The Iranian people are asking Israel to attack the dictatorship so they can liberate themselves and throw them over. Do you understand how badly they are suffering under this regime? How many are tortured and murdered for not wearing a hijab or being caught with a Bible. They have the fastest growing Christian underground church!

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So, it’s ABSOLUTE FACT the consulate building wasn’t being used, instead, by Quds/IRGC?

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It is not up to Israel to exercise restraint upon itself. It is up to the Biden Regime to exercise restraint upon Israel. All they have to do is cut off military aid. Reagan did it in 1982.

He made one phone call to PM Begin. The Israeli offensive ended within hours. Don't let anyone tell you the dark comedy trio of Blinken, Austin, & Sullivan couldn't have stopped Israel any time they wanted to.

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All of these Zionist Nazi War Criminals have to go. Never Forget Never Forgive! We must bring every last one of these filthy Zionist Pigs to the Hague for trial and execution. Every Last One of Them! We have a petition here in the US to do just this. They have violated so many international laws and even US laws that they are now trying to change the laws to protect themselves! Criminals making laws to make their crimes legal are still Criminals and the crimes are still crimes! WE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD CAN NOT LET THESE FILTHY ZIONIST NAZI WARMONGERS TO GET AWAY WITH THIS!

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The hypocrisy is rising to a level that is unsustainable, or no longer sustainable. IMO, Cook is right in calling Israel the long cultivate, and supported iron fist of the U.S. in the area.

Our poor Planet is also under the fist of these entropy inducing knuckleheads.

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Very grateful that Jonathan is on Substack and his articles are so easily shareable with my friends and family who don’t know how to find Substack ( this is true) or have the time to sift through everything.

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With that restraint, can we get some food into Gaza, and stop the IDF from killing people there?

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I find it difficult to believe that the drones were "Shot down " there's evidence that the elf system was used, the UK and the USA have this ( low frequency electrical signals that cause mini EMF bursts) oops have I said something wrong? It happens to be common knowledge for those interested in up to date weapons technology, as its already on social media and you tube I don't believe I've broken the official secrets act ?

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Yes the US controls Israel, not the other way around. The Biden administration will pretend that they're trying to hold BiBi back, though the plan was always to sit back and profit from using Israel the same way as they used Ukraine; like a battering ram for destabilisation and division (and therefore control) and profits for the arms machine and Blackrock.

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I think Biden will attack Iran. Just wait and see. The US will then garner Iranian oil. Biden is going to do just that.

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I think they will use Israel to attack, but times have changed, they won't get the oil. Iran is ready and well equipped (they seem to have advanced liquid fuel hypersonic missiles developed in Russia).

But it's not about winning. It's about lighting the fuse, walking away and profiting from war and instability.

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Always been on the cards as far as I know.

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The US illegal war against Iraq has strengthened Iran. They are the major player in the region. The US wants to avoid conflict with Iran (despite US senators crazy trash talk on Iran) because Iran can close the Hormuz straight and with their regional allies the Houthis close the Red Sea/Suez trade route. This would cause the price of oil to soar and make the price at the US pump untenable to the average American and by extension the US government with its economy already stressed by the Russian-NATO proxy conflict in Ukraine.

Just like all of the recent US/UK wars they have achieved limited success in assuring our hegemony. Sanctions and belligerence against Russia has compromised European economic security, exposed the weaknesses of the west's military industrial complex model and made Russia stronger economically (they diversified their economy in response to sanctions in 2015 as predicted by some economists) centralised their MIC and prepared for war producing armaments at a prodigious scale. Iran has been doing the same. The US (but maybe not Israel who indulge themselves at the highest levels in their own kind of exceptionalism) realise that Iran is not a power to be messed with without serious consequences for the American economy.

Yes, all 20th and 21st century wars are about petro-chemicals but the days of Kermit Roosevelt and his CIA chums going to Tehran and dislodging the leader are long gone as is the gun boat diplomacy of Britain against China in the mid 1800s. It is just taking some in Washington and Whitehall to wise up to the facts.

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I'm not sure. The proxy war in Ukraine has been hugely successful for the profits of the arms industry and Blackrock and Ukraine is indefinitely indebted to US companies. The US has also weakened the EU, to the US's advantage, and no threat of a Russia-Germany partnership now exists at all.

Yes a conflict would raise the price of oil (as the Russian SMO did) but this will mean continued profits for big Oil, and OPEC could release more barrels (which they've been hanging on to since the fake pandemic) and lower the price if demand dwindled.

The permanent State in the US is fixated on China, and disrupting oil trade would hamper China's manufacturing growth. They would do this at the expense of US consumers in a heart beat.

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The US is entirely dependent on China's manufacturing as is the world. No one will unhitch from that anytime soon. China is dependent on the US. Sabre rattling against China is just that, posturing to ramp up spending for NATO/Pentagon. Agreed, Ukraine has been a great success for US business (they keep telling us what great value it is destroying Ukrainians and Russians).

Iran has demonstrated the vulnerability of Israel's 'Iron Dome' (that is all it was, a demonstration) The US will not engage with Iran because it does not have the capability (troop numbers in the region and its own vulnerability to Iran's strike power. Amply demonstrated by the attack on the US base in Syria). The fleet in Djibouti is no consolation. The Houthis pretty much rendered the US/UK fleets useless in the Red Sea debacle. The US knows this. Trump had to back down (despite wanting to hit Iran hard after the strikes in Syria) His generals apprised him of the reality.

US will not engage Iran for the same reason it will not engage Russia directly. It would be a disaster for the US militarily, economically and politically. Economically yes, despite what many think the US is not just a military base operating as a country. It is the biggest economy and will remain so.

However, this is just my own ill-advised opinion and I could be absolutely wrong (as I am invariably. Who would have thought tanks, F16s and long range missiles would be sent against Russia...insane. So, yes the crazies just might do it and we can all start enjoying a world wide 'great tribulation'.

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I take your point, China and the US are interlinked economically. Any conflict would raise the price of many goods in the US, but no one cares for consumers.

I disagree, it's not just posturing, by Trump threatening tariffs on EVs and Huawei goods, or Biden and the AUKUS surrounding China as near as a few 100 miles. They mean it.

BTW Trump and his generals backdown- he's not the president or war lord is he?

I agree the US won't attack Iran themselves and know they would lose a war. That is so not the point! It's not the winning it's the sitting back and watching proxies die and letting the money roll in.

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Exactly.

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Israel is a state, not a Jew. It’s a sovereign state, not one of the 50 states in the United States of America. It’s a non-secular state. I’m a secular American.

I have yet to read, or hear, a thoughtful discussion as to why Israel is the tail that wags the American dog.

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It is a "Terrorist State" nothing more and it is not the tail wagging the dog. The US government (my government) is the Israeli government one and the same. This is the Zionist HORDE of Nazi politicians. They are almost all (535 of them) either and or "Dual Citizens" of Israel & the US but all Zionist Nazis with a mixture of Evangelicals who are basically the same thing. Proof-- before Vietnam Israel infiltrated and overthrew the government of the US. After killing JFK LBJ (an agent of Israel) allowed Israel to declare war on the US June of 67 while attacking the USS Liberty and machine gunning wounded US SAILORS in the water just like their Nazi U-Boat commanders before them! LBJ said "I want that ship on the bottom"! and denied any help to be given the ship! This same government (and guess who was in the government at that time?!) (you guessed it right?) Genocide Joe! is now completely taken over.

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Laudable commentary, but can you post an article directed at answering this question (which drives me mad): "Why do western countries slavishly support everything Israel does, up to and including aggressive war and genocide?"

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Al Jazeera offers a rational explanation, here:

https://youtu.be/oQJt8dwvs78?feature=shared

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People in the U.S. Congress went to Sunday school as kids. Remember how old many of them are. In Sunday school they were told repeatedly that the Israelites were God’s chosen people. (The Palestinians are mean old Goliath) The pastor and/or priest said the same thing in their sermons after Sunday school. That’s why Biden is such an ass hole. Thus I blame western religions for all of this carnage. I believe in Mother Earth.

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We slavishly support Israel because the US, and it's little puppies in the UK and EU, are using the ideology of Zionism, the same way they used neonazism in Ukraine, for its own gain. They politically and financially support and encourage these ideologies in their proxies; at the UN by vetoing condemnation and with $billions of funding (loans) and arm sales. The battering rams of Ukraine and Israel commit genocides and aggressive acts stirring up resistance and emotions in Russia and Iran etc. They do this because it makes money for the war profiteers Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Blackrock who control the US permanent state.

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