As social media dismantles decades of propaganda, younger Americans revolt against Israel, oppose war with Iran—and brace for disaster under Trump’s reckless leadership.
Thanks for this excellent post. I'm so glad younger people are seeing through the BS that western foreign policy represents.
Do you know about Professor Sayed Mohammad Marandi? He's a well respected geopolitical commentator out of Iran. Here he is being interviewed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyOiuMRn_Mg
What sounded like a great idea to Neo-cons in the United States has revealed the US's manifold bankruptcies and revolted the rest of the World.
Imagine Mr. Zelensky’s predicament. Mighty America conned the former comedian to thinking that if he went along with their genius scheme to knock off Putin, his sad-sack country would be transformed into something like Ukro-Disneyworld
He would be lionized and made rich beyond his wildest imaginings.
The poor schlemiel fell for it. He let NATO (that is, the USA) set-up, equip, and train the largest army in Europe, including battalions of bad-ass, hard-core Ukro-Nazis who had previously been so useful in the American-sponsored 2014 Maidan “Colour Uprising.”
His country received billions of US dollars without audit oversight, just screaming to be creamed off by Ukraine’s corrupt leadership.
After 3+ years of America’s genius scheme to maintain world dominance it has all gone to custard. 600,000+ men have been killed. America is broke. US$36-trillion in debt. The West is depleted of ammunition.
And US and European taxpayers are baulking at seeing any more of their tax dollars going to the corrupt Ukrainians.
And Zelensky is hiding, flitting from one country to another begging for money. Because the game is drawing to a close and he may find himself fatally unpopular back on the home front. He has managed to send hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainian men to their deaths in the meat-grinder. And millions more have hightailed it for other countries.
Ukraine will now be a land of mostly women, children, and old folks. With just enough surviving soldiers left looking to hunt down the comedian who turned Ukraine into another one of history’s sick jokes.
This comment was posted on X last night: "I lived and traveled in Iran for months. In Tehran I lived with the family of a retired bank worker who saw me looking for housing. I roomed with his son for months, ate all my meals with them, and they never accepted any money. Once I was sick and throwing up and they all came into the bathroom and the dad stroked my head while I barfed and told me “Aybi nadare” (no shame, it’s ok). I traveled around most of the country by plane, train, bus, shared taxi, etc. Eventually I stopped booking hotels because I’d always meet people on the train, bus etc who’d insist I stay with them. The family of Iran/Iraq war vets from Yazd who took me to Taft for bbq in the mountains. The taxi driver from Rasht who made a bed for me on the floor of his tiny apartment because all the hotels were full. The only time a police officer talked to me was once to make sure I was ok. I never felt in any danger day or night. The land of Iran is as incredibly diverse as its people. There are mountainous rain forests and desert salt flats. I met among the most liberal and most conservative people there, and everything in between. Everyone was so kind it makes me cry with shame." Compare this comment with the ignorance and moral depravity of Ted Cruz.
An outstanding narrative of life in Iran, its humanity and its people. Commentary like yours Linda goes a long way to dispelling the narrative of evil that's been propagated by the West.The world's eyes have opened
Walt: George is a political commentator extraordinaire. ( am looking out for his next book - and will snap it up as soon as it appears! When is the publication date George?) You have made an excellent decision to subscribe.
my daughter-in-law is iranian, and a finer girl i have not yet had the pleasure of meeting, w/ the exception of those i met while backpacking across iran and the middle east, following 2 years of teaching in japan [1962~'64]. they are now who they were then: extraordinarily sensitive, hospitable, open-minded, supportive, magnanimous, well-informed, remarkably intelligent, aware, and curious about the rest of us donnards from the putative 'cultures' of us western war-mongers.
One of our mates in a Teachers Against Racism which my wife and I joined back in the 1980s in Sydney had not long returned from seven years in Iran - I think in Teheran. When I was teenager I had a crush on a lass from Baghdad - her mother had been born in Teheran. Behrooz Boochani - an exemplary man from Iran who suffered years of torture by Australian authorities in a detention centre forced on PNG by the Australian government - on the paradise-like Manus island (forever besmirched) - a human rights defender, writer (No Friend but the Mountains) - also from Iran. He is now a citizen of Aotearoa/NZ. - But the people involved in his torture - politicians as corrupt as they come - and just for starters - check the record of former Australian PM Scott Morrison - start with Robodebt and end with AUKUS - and throw in babblemaniacal pentecultism - and his current evangelical mate former USDirector of the CIA (US murder Inc. just as Mossad is for Zionist Israel) and former Secretary of State - Mike Pompeo. Ugh!
Yaama DM: I will call it Aotearoa as a mark of respect to its First Peoples - the Polynesian Māori of Aotearoa. You can call it as you will. It's not b*llsh*t at all. Patricia Grace is one of my favourite writers as, too, Keri Hulme. I have hitch-hiked and driven all over the two major islands of your country. No, I don't know it like of the back of my hand - but I do know it. It's a beautiful land but - like Australia - it has a darkness at its heart in terms of its colonial treatment of the First Peoples. I was born on Cammeraygal land of the Eora - I grew up in Gamilaraay country - taught in Wiradjuri, Gamilaraay, and Worimi countries - now living on Awabagal lands - with kinship connections to Ngambri/Ngunnawal, Worimi, Wulwulam/Woolwonga and Gurindji peoples. If there were a single First Australians word to name the entire country I would use it. Instead of the Latin Austral (south) ia (land). Have some respect, D.M. Yalu Dhjim
We are no longer a land of tribes of ancient grass skirted natives!
This.... "it has a darkness at its heart in terms of its colonial treatment of the First Peoples"...... is hyperbolic bullshit aiming at getting a free ride for more stuff made available to them by us English settlers!
Good for you, Dennis - you stick to your delusions of supremacy. I live in a far saner world of respect for the difference of others - my siblings in this and your and other lands.
Trump is sending 3 aircraft carriers to the region, including the USS Enterprise to be anchored " off Israel". This is sending our soldiers to certain death for Israhell. Nothing can stop hypersonic missiles. Those ships are easy, obvious, certain targets. Trump has gone mad and become little Bibi, his hero. MAGA Is now MIGA. He lied to all of us! Funding genocide is a war crime. Trump and congress are funding 3 now: Ukraine, Palestine, and Iran. They MUST ALL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.! THE ICC MUST DO IT. THE CRIMINALS NEVER WILL. MAY GOD SAVE US FROM THIS FROM THIS CRIMINAL IDIOT! THIS IS LIKE SHOOTING FISH IN A BARREL! https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/iran-launches-2000-km-range-sejil-missiles-israel/
Our only hope lies with the young. Their future is being denied by the very people who they have been brought up to trust and the realisation of this is reverberating across the globe. Our generation,I am 71,has failed them tragically when we could have effected so much change. The systems that we are so addicted to which have proven over time to be based upon fear,violence and domination are being revealed for what they are and the desperation of those who would preserve that which has come to be accepted as the status quo is being exposed.
Way back at the beginning of this current episode of unbridled horror I voiced the opinion that it would not be restricted to a regional conflict and that the ramifications of it would shake the very foundations of the world order. I take absolutely no pleasure at all in seeing confirmation of this fact and I wish that I had been wrong about it but here we are.
The influence of end times adherents such as Hegseth and Huckabee on a president who is,frankly,an intellectual dwarf is truly terrifying for anyone with a rational mind.
I can smell the smoke on the wind of change and hope in my heart that it will not blow us all away.
I'll say only thing Kevin (which means handsome man, by the way) and that is that "we" haven't failed the young - we've worked all our lives to learn ourselves in fact how to make our world better - out of the ashes and deaths of WWII. But we - all of us - have been betrayed by politicians (most of them in fact), by corporations, the weapons industry - they are the ones who have not served us well - nor our world. Don't blame yourself. Keep speaking up. To your children, to your grand-children - to those younger than you. Jim
I used the term “we” in the sense of those who are put in the position of holding power over us. As you say the greater “we” are doing all that we can to make the world a better place for everyone. Take care my friend.
The Israeli's won't be able to keep this up for much longer which is dangerous because it will only leave them with two options the first one is to admit defeat and realize they're broke the other is the dreaded Samsom option - while the Iranians on the other hand are able to keep the missile barrage going for another 6 months.
Be interesting to see what Putin has to say at his next press conference [Friday their time]
Young Americans know what’s going on thanks to their online expertise and they are angry. They’re disgusted with Genocide Joe who made the destruction of Gaza possible. Then Trump enabled Israel in its quest to kill or expel Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank. They see Israel was built on the stolen land and looted property of Palestinians. The occupation is simply rule by humiliation and force. Now the U.S. is part of the preemptive attacks on Iran. Many corporations and billionaires pay nothing in taxes while housing , healthcare and education suffer. Enough is enough!
Thank you for this refreshing article George, the world is already awake and people are finally realizing the lies which they have been told to believe in.
What we are made to be used to define as “empire” is actually no empire at all.
It is a conglomerate of supremacists and eugenists which have finally lost their cover
And as they are so full of themselves, in their last attempt to impose and normalize their insanity, they have broken every one of the laws which for decades they have pretended to championing.
and as they are drowning in the blood of the innocents they have spilled, they desperately try to bring down with themselves the entire world.
Perhaps this is the very reason why they have train us to call them “empire”, as by so doing we loose the focus on the issue and subjects in hand which in this case should be called colonialism and organized crime.
You see, there is no law against empire, only stupid assumptions based on a specially rewritten history, crafted to justify their behavior and to demonize the great history which truly was, while on the other hand there is plenty of laws which outlaw colonialism conspiracy and organized crime
Anyhow your words are important cause they awaken those who think that sleeping could be a solution, and makes them realize that indeed they are not just awake and not alone, but also part of a majority which can no longer be neglected and which will no longer be kept silent by fear mongering .
Keep your spirit and good work up, you are much appreciated.
This post captures a powerful and important shift in American public consciousness that’s often overlooked in mainstream discourse. The narrative around Israel and Iran has long been simplified and one-sided in U.S. media and politics, but social media platforms like X are enabling a more complex, raw, and urgent dialogue — especially among younger generations.
Thank you Malcolm....I like to think the quality of my work and reporting is sufficient!!
Hi George,
Thanks for this excellent post. I'm so glad younger people are seeing through the BS that western foreign policy represents.
Do you know about Professor Sayed Mohammad Marandi? He's a well respected geopolitical commentator out of Iran. Here he is being interviewed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyOiuMRn_Mg
And here's a post that lists some of my favourite geopolitical commentators who are probably responsible for much of the changing online perceptions. https://dianavaneyk.substack.com/p/geopolitially-context-is-everything
Hi Diane thank you for your kind words. Yes, I do now of the professor. I’m a great admirer of the his. He’s a true hero!
You're welcome, George. I'm glad you know of him. He really is a hero, and his voice is so important right now.
Outstanding commentary re Israel/Iran. I think you are off base saying Ukraine was the aggressor in that war.
Thanks for the compliment buddy but regarding Ukraine, I beg to differ…
I’ll bite. How is Ukraine the aggressor ?
What sounded like a great idea to Neo-cons in the United States has revealed the US's manifold bankruptcies and revolted the rest of the World.
Imagine Mr. Zelensky’s predicament. Mighty America conned the former comedian to thinking that if he went along with their genius scheme to knock off Putin, his sad-sack country would be transformed into something like Ukro-Disneyworld
He would be lionized and made rich beyond his wildest imaginings.
The poor schlemiel fell for it. He let NATO (that is, the USA) set-up, equip, and train the largest army in Europe, including battalions of bad-ass, hard-core Ukro-Nazis who had previously been so useful in the American-sponsored 2014 Maidan “Colour Uprising.”
His country received billions of US dollars without audit oversight, just screaming to be creamed off by Ukraine’s corrupt leadership.
After 3+ years of America’s genius scheme to maintain world dominance it has all gone to custard. 600,000+ men have been killed. America is broke. US$36-trillion in debt. The West is depleted of ammunition.
And US and European taxpayers are baulking at seeing any more of their tax dollars going to the corrupt Ukrainians.
And Zelensky is hiding, flitting from one country to another begging for money. Because the game is drawing to a close and he may find himself fatally unpopular back on the home front. He has managed to send hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainian men to their deaths in the meat-grinder. And millions more have hightailed it for other countries.
Ukraine will now be a land of mostly women, children, and old folks. With just enough surviving soldiers left looking to hunt down the comedian who turned Ukraine into another one of history’s sick jokes.
This comment was posted on X last night: "I lived and traveled in Iran for months. In Tehran I lived with the family of a retired bank worker who saw me looking for housing. I roomed with his son for months, ate all my meals with them, and they never accepted any money. Once I was sick and throwing up and they all came into the bathroom and the dad stroked my head while I barfed and told me “Aybi nadare” (no shame, it’s ok). I traveled around most of the country by plane, train, bus, shared taxi, etc. Eventually I stopped booking hotels because I’d always meet people on the train, bus etc who’d insist I stay with them. The family of Iran/Iraq war vets from Yazd who took me to Taft for bbq in the mountains. The taxi driver from Rasht who made a bed for me on the floor of his tiny apartment because all the hotels were full. The only time a police officer talked to me was once to make sure I was ok. I never felt in any danger day or night. The land of Iran is as incredibly diverse as its people. There are mountainous rain forests and desert salt flats. I met among the most liberal and most conservative people there, and everything in between. Everyone was so kind it makes me cry with shame." Compare this comment with the ignorance and moral depravity of Ted Cruz.
An outstanding narrative of life in Iran, its humanity and its people. Commentary like yours Linda goes a long way to dispelling the narrative of evil that's been propagated by the West.The world's eyes have opened
Thanks for sharing your story, Linda. Your experience is enlightening.
It's not my story, Walt, but a comment from a young man on X. I shared it to show an example of what George was talking about in his essay.
Well, thanks for sharing it. It is the kind of first person report that I appreciate.
Thank you, Walt, for your kind words and support. Would it be remiss of me to ask if you could kindly subscribe to my substack?
My pleasure, George!
Walt: George is a political commentator extraordinaire. ( am looking out for his next book - and will snap it up as soon as it appears! When is the publication date George?) You have made an excellent decision to subscribe.
my daughter-in-law is iranian, and a finer girl i have not yet had the pleasure of meeting, w/ the exception of those i met while backpacking across iran and the middle east, following 2 years of teaching in japan [1962~'64]. they are now who they were then: extraordinarily sensitive, hospitable, open-minded, supportive, magnanimous, well-informed, remarkably intelligent, aware, and curious about the rest of us donnards from the putative 'cultures' of us western war-mongers.
One of our mates in a Teachers Against Racism which my wife and I joined back in the 1980s in Sydney had not long returned from seven years in Iran - I think in Teheran. When I was teenager I had a crush on a lass from Baghdad - her mother had been born in Teheran. Behrooz Boochani - an exemplary man from Iran who suffered years of torture by Australian authorities in a detention centre forced on PNG by the Australian government - on the paradise-like Manus island (forever besmirched) - a human rights defender, writer (No Friend but the Mountains) - also from Iran. He is now a citizen of Aotearoa/NZ. - But the people involved in his torture - politicians as corrupt as they come - and just for starters - check the record of former Australian PM Scott Morrison - start with Robodebt and end with AUKUS - and throw in babblemaniacal pentecultism - and his current evangelical mate former USDirector of the CIA (US murder Inc. just as Mossad is for Zionist Israel) and former Secretary of State - Mike Pompeo. Ugh!
Our countries name is New Zealand, Jim.
Enough of this "Aotearoa" male bovine excrement!
Thank you.
Yaama DM: I will call it Aotearoa as a mark of respect to its First Peoples - the Polynesian Māori of Aotearoa. You can call it as you will. It's not b*llsh*t at all. Patricia Grace is one of my favourite writers as, too, Keri Hulme. I have hitch-hiked and driven all over the two major islands of your country. No, I don't know it like of the back of my hand - but I do know it. It's a beautiful land but - like Australia - it has a darkness at its heart in terms of its colonial treatment of the First Peoples. I was born on Cammeraygal land of the Eora - I grew up in Gamilaraay country - taught in Wiradjuri, Gamilaraay, and Worimi countries - now living on Awabagal lands - with kinship connections to Ngambri/Ngunnawal, Worimi, Wulwulam/Woolwonga and Gurindji peoples. If there were a single First Australians word to name the entire country I would use it. Instead of the Latin Austral (south) ia (land). Have some respect, D.M. Yalu Dhjim
Enough of this entitled Māori bullshit, Jim!
We are no longer a land of tribes of ancient grass skirted natives!
This.... "it has a darkness at its heart in terms of its colonial treatment of the First Peoples"...... is hyperbolic bullshit aiming at getting a free ride for more stuff made available to them by us English settlers!
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18650815.2.13
It gets so old.
It's New Zealand, mate!
Good for you, Dennis - you stick to your delusions of supremacy. I live in a far saner world of respect for the difference of others - my siblings in this and your and other lands.
Magnificent work. I am 76 and ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGED at US depravity and unhinged violence. EAT THE RICH. SINK YACHTS.
Same age, Penny!
We are proof that all Boomers are narcissistic scumbags.
I meant we, tu et moi, are NOT narcissistic scumbags. I have myriad faults butt narcissism is not one.
Trump is sending 3 aircraft carriers to the region, including the USS Enterprise to be anchored " off Israel". This is sending our soldiers to certain death for Israhell. Nothing can stop hypersonic missiles. Those ships are easy, obvious, certain targets. Trump has gone mad and become little Bibi, his hero. MAGA Is now MIGA. He lied to all of us! Funding genocide is a war crime. Trump and congress are funding 3 now: Ukraine, Palestine, and Iran. They MUST ALL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.! THE ICC MUST DO IT. THE CRIMINALS NEVER WILL. MAY GOD SAVE US FROM THIS FROM THIS CRIMINAL IDIOT! THIS IS LIKE SHOOTING FISH IN A BARREL! https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/iran-launches-2000-km-range-sejil-missiles-israel/
This looks fantastic in print; I feel compelled to write it and share it repeatedly: "... Americans revolt against Israel, oppose war with Iran."
Super stuff once again,George .
Our only hope lies with the young. Their future is being denied by the very people who they have been brought up to trust and the realisation of this is reverberating across the globe. Our generation,I am 71,has failed them tragically when we could have effected so much change. The systems that we are so addicted to which have proven over time to be based upon fear,violence and domination are being revealed for what they are and the desperation of those who would preserve that which has come to be accepted as the status quo is being exposed.
Way back at the beginning of this current episode of unbridled horror I voiced the opinion that it would not be restricted to a regional conflict and that the ramifications of it would shake the very foundations of the world order. I take absolutely no pleasure at all in seeing confirmation of this fact and I wish that I had been wrong about it but here we are.
The influence of end times adherents such as Hegseth and Huckabee on a president who is,frankly,an intellectual dwarf is truly terrifying for anyone with a rational mind.
I can smell the smoke on the wind of change and hope in my heart that it will not blow us all away.
Keep up the good fight my friend.
I'll say only thing Kevin (which means handsome man, by the way) and that is that "we" haven't failed the young - we've worked all our lives to learn ourselves in fact how to make our world better - out of the ashes and deaths of WWII. But we - all of us - have been betrayed by politicians (most of them in fact), by corporations, the weapons industry - they are the ones who have not served us well - nor our world. Don't blame yourself. Keep speaking up. To your children, to your grand-children - to those younger than you. Jim
I used the term “we” in the sense of those who are put in the position of holding power over us. As you say the greater “we” are doing all that we can to make the world a better place for everyone. Take care my friend.
The Israeli's won't be able to keep this up for much longer which is dangerous because it will only leave them with two options the first one is to admit defeat and realize they're broke the other is the dreaded Samsom option - while the Iranians on the other hand are able to keep the missile barrage going for another 6 months.
Be interesting to see what Putin has to say at his next press conference [Friday their time]
Young Americans know what’s going on thanks to their online expertise and they are angry. They’re disgusted with Genocide Joe who made the destruction of Gaza possible. Then Trump enabled Israel in its quest to kill or expel Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank. They see Israel was built on the stolen land and looted property of Palestinians. The occupation is simply rule by humiliation and force. Now the U.S. is part of the preemptive attacks on Iran. Many corporations and billionaires pay nothing in taxes while housing , healthcare and education suffer. Enough is enough!
Thank you for this refreshing article George, the world is already awake and people are finally realizing the lies which they have been told to believe in.
What we are made to be used to define as “empire” is actually no empire at all.
It is a conglomerate of supremacists and eugenists which have finally lost their cover
And as they are so full of themselves, in their last attempt to impose and normalize their insanity, they have broken every one of the laws which for decades they have pretended to championing.
and as they are drowning in the blood of the innocents they have spilled, they desperately try to bring down with themselves the entire world.
Perhaps this is the very reason why they have train us to call them “empire”, as by so doing we loose the focus on the issue and subjects in hand which in this case should be called colonialism and organized crime.
You see, there is no law against empire, only stupid assumptions based on a specially rewritten history, crafted to justify their behavior and to demonize the great history which truly was, while on the other hand there is plenty of laws which outlaw colonialism conspiracy and organized crime
Anyhow your words are important cause they awaken those who think that sleeping could be a solution, and makes them realize that indeed they are not just awake and not alone, but also part of a majority which can no longer be neglected and which will no longer be kept silent by fear mongering .
Keep your spirit and good work up, you are much appreciated.
This post captures a powerful and important shift in American public consciousness that’s often overlooked in mainstream discourse. The narrative around Israel and Iran has long been simplified and one-sided in U.S. media and politics, but social media platforms like X are enabling a more complex, raw, and urgent dialogue — especially among younger generations.
The youth will decide the future no matter how much our mistakes will decide the present.
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Despairing while watching helplessly US genocide in Gaza for eighteen (18) months -- Cecilia Bartoli - Gelido in ogni vena (immortal Vivaldi)
https://youtu.be/EMd7i5Bhd1E?si=6KE4HJoEhze-Ddi4
There are plenty on the right and far right who despise Israel too as well. Though I can’t say much for evangelicals cause they’re all nutters.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jdieu7466r9hdv38/p/divestment?r=5odzap&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web