June 13 marked not defence, but deliberate escalation—an aggressive assault designed to provoke war, crush Iranian independence, and impose Western dominance through fire and force.
And I wonder how many Palestinians were maimed and killed in Gaza today or how many more settlers rampaging in the West Bank evicting Palestinians whilst the evil empire bombs and kills in Iran and steals the headlines.
A zebra never changes its color only Israel and the United States think their zebras, but they are the rattlesnakes that the world is finding out. I hope our people of the United States wake up to the lies of Israel and the US government and media in order to get our empire back And save the world from these. I don’t know what to call them, but God bless America do the right thing.
This is spot on, George. This is just pure illegal aggression from the Israelis and the U.S. Why can’t these imperialist scumbags leave other countries alone?! Trump showed that he is no different than his predecessors in the Oval Office, maybe even worse. He should be impeached for this. The U.S. has zero credibility as far as I’m concerned. Notice all of this takes attention away from what’s happening in Gaza, another reason I believe for this despicable act of aggression by the U.S. and Israhell. Thank you for posting this.😢☮️🇵🇸
Yes to all you write. " Why can’t these imperialist scumbags leave other countries alone?!" Domination, vast oil fields, selling massive quantities of weapons of death and destruction to keep the US running, and above all the staggering profits thereof. These are sub human beings, hungry ghosts, completely devoid of conscience. Frightening and so much unspeakable suffering!!! They've also completely shut down all internet service in Gaza so they cannot communicate or receive the witnessing, words of hope or whatever gofundme support that could get through. I pray for them and all the victims of these insatiable monsters and that this terrorizing ends. As George writes: "the resistance is stronger. The lies are thinner. And the world can see." ❤️🇵🇸❤️
The US is Israel and Israel is the US. Israel'r'us. Same agenda. It was planned before the 1990's but after 2001 General Wesley Clark said the US was planning to attack/regime change Iraq first (we, Halliburton, Chevron and its offshoots now, still, own Iraq's oil fields), followed by actions against Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. The list got longer - Afghanistan, Yemen, targeting Russian while destroying that ill fated proxy Ukraine, etc. But guess who's left on the list? Israel is and always has been since it was planted in ME and weaponized first by the British and then passed to the US in 1948 doing exactly what the US tells it to do via billions of dollars in weapons of death and intel (without which Israel is nothing, could do nothing, a gelded bully). The big clinically mad egos like Netanyahoo are stroked to think they are in charge. But they are a proxy ever expanding state of mercenaries trained to kill since preschool. Very likely expendable.
Thank you George for your clarity and seeing "with precision" through the smoke and mirrors.
Yes, Rebel, what led here is terrifying. It's hard to live at the end of Empire, of an age, when so many veils are being lifted or torn off, and to witness so much immense suffering of the Gazans/Palestinians/Syrians, Lebanese, Yemenis and so many others who no longer feel so far away. I am grateful for the ever growing number of people of truth, heart and conscience all around the world, thanks to the internet and substacks like this one, who are coming together to speak truth, to act, to witness, and support each other and most especially support all of our brothers and sisters who are enduring so much!
Lies Used To Justify War On Iraq Get Reused To Wage War On Iran
Former CIA officer Larry Johnson opines:
I believe that Israel’s attack was part of a planned international intelligence and military operation, which included the participation and support of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. We got the first clue on May 31, when a UN watchdog issued two reports designed to create a narrative that Iran is a rogue nuclear state:
...
This tactic was employed in 2002/2003 to gin up a justification to attack Iraq, who the US insisted had weapons of mass destruction. We now know it was a lie, but the propaganda was effective in producing support in the US and Europe to invade Iraq. We’re seeing a similar effort today, only this time Iran is being falsely accused of enriching uranium to build a bomb. The Iraq WMD lie, like the current calumny against Iran, only has one purpose… justify military action in order to achieve regime change.
I have previously detailed the current IAEA operation to blame Iran over some alleged nuclear contamination which were found more than two decades ago.
During the build-up to the 2003 war on Iraq there was another lie that famously used to 'justify' the attack.
It was alleged that Iraq's leader Saddam Hussein was in cahoots with al-Qaeda, a terrorist group that had been created by the U.S. in Pakistan to fight against the Soviet supported government of Afghanistan.
Al-Qaeda was alleged to have committed attacks in the U.S. on 9/11 2001. Associating Iraq, which had fought against al-Qaeda inspired groups, with al-Qaeda itself was the second most cited lie used to justify the U.S. war on Iraq.
It is no wonder than that a similar narrative is now suddenly being build with regards to Iran.
David Ignatius, the unofficial CIA spokesman at the Washington Post, was told to publish this nonsense (archived):
But Iran has other means to hit back. One that has received little attention is its relationship with al-Qaeda affiliates. According to former U.S. counterterrorism officials, Tehran has built good relations with the new “de facto” al-Qaeda “emir,” Saif al-Adel, who took over in 2023 after Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed. These former officials say Adel helped manage WMD planning for Osama bin Laden.
The al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen may pose a special danger. It’s headed by Saad bin Atef al-Awlaki, who posted a chilling video this month threatening U.S. officials. “Go after the scum of the earth and its greatest criminals,” he urged his followers, naming Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and former DOGE chief Elon Musk. “There are no red lines after all that has been happening to our people in Gaza,” he said. According to the Jerusalem Post, Awlaki urged Muslims in Europe and America to make sure there is “not a single safe place” for Jews.
Who would be those "former U.S. counterterrorism officials"? Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, or some other notorious liars?
Saif al-Adel, the "de facto" never declared leader of Al-Qaeda has since 2001 been rumored to be in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Egypt and Iran where he allegedly was once under house arrest and later exchanged against Iranian hostages held by al-Qaeda in Yemen.
Over more than two decades the Shia Iran has fought the Sunni al-Qaeda wherever it could. Its operations against Sunni extremist in Iraq and Syria were largely wars against al-Qaeda affiliated forces. In Yemen Iran is allied with the Houthi who are fighting against U.S. supported al-Qaeda aligned groups in the south of the country. A similar situation exists in Lebanon where Iran supported Hizbullah forces have for years feuded against al-Qaeda aligned radicals.
To claim that Iran is now somehow in cahoots with Saif al-Adel, an alleged but never declared leader of a more or less extinct al-Qaeda, is blatant nonsense.
David Ignatius is a much read 'opinion leader'. That he was told to trot out those nonsensical claims is a signal for others to pick up on them.
We can now expect lots of other second rated opinion writers to come up with similar tales.
It is, like the attempt to associated Iran with weapons of mass destruction, a narrative that will be used to further escalate the current regime change war on Iran.
After World War Two started, Chaim Weizmann, mentioned the obvious: "this war is our war". In a speech on December 3, 1942, in New York he mentioned:
"We are not denying and are not afraid to confess that this war is our war and that it is waged for the liberation of Jewry… Stronger than all fronts together is our front, that of Jewry. We are not only giving this war our financial support on which the entire war production is based, we are not only providing our full propaganda power which is the moral energy that keeps this war going.”
Mises’ pupil and fellow Jew, economist Murray Rothbard wisely and courageously summarizes the truth-reality:
“Germany and Hitler were not uniquely guilty of launching World War II (indeed they were scarcely guilty at all);…Hitler, in brief, (in foreign affairs) was not a uniquely evil monster or daimon, who would continue to gobble up countries diabolically until stopped by superior force…Hitler had no designs, no plans, not even vague intimations, to expand westward against Britain and France (let alone the United States). Hitler admired the British Empire and wished to collaborate with it. Not only did Hitler do this with insight, he did it with patience, as Taylor excellently shows…”
On February 9th 1938, almost 7 months before the outbreak of WWII, the Polish Ambassador in Washington, Count Jerzy Potocki, reported back home to the Foreign Minister in Warsaw on the Jewish role “in creating a war psychosis which would plunge the entire world into war”:
“The Jews are right now the leaders in creating a war psychosis which would plunge the entire world into war and bring about general catastrophe. This mood is becoming more and more apparent.…This hatred has become a frenzy. It is propagated everywhere and by every means: in theaters, in the cinema, and in the press. The Germans are portrayed as a nation living under the arrogance of Hitler which wants to conquer the whole world and drown all of humanity in an ocean of blood. In conversations with Jewish press representatives I have repeatedly come up against the inexorable and convinced view that war is inevitable. This international Jewry exploits every means of propaganda to oppose any tendency towards any kind of consolidation and understanding between nations.”
After World War Two started, Chaim Weizmann, mentioned the obvious: "this war is our war". In a speech on December 3, 1942, in New York he mentioned:
"We are not denying and are not afraid to confess that this war is our war and that it is waged for the liberation of Jewry… Stronger than all fronts together is our front, that of Jewry. We are not only giving this war our financial support on which the entire war production is based, we are not only providing our full propaganda power which is the moral energy that keeps this war going.”
Mises’ pupil and fellow Jew, economist Murray Rothbard wisely and courageously summarizes the truth-reality:
“Germany and Hitler were not uniquely guilty of launching World War II (indeed they were scarcely guilty at all);…Hitler, in brief, (in foreign affairs) was not a uniquely evil monster or daimon, who would continue to gobble up countries diabolically until stopped by superior force…Hitler had no designs, no plans, not even vague intimations, to expand westward against Britain and France (let alone the United States). Hitler admired the British Empire and wished to collaborate with it. Not only did Hitler do this with insight, he did it with patience, as Taylor excellently shows…”
The same ideological patterns keep repeating. “Zionized” Jews and their supporters understandably evolved an ideological and incentive structure which led to the vilification and destruction of Germany due to Hitler’s naive anti-Jewish fallacies. Then critics of Zionism became the next “irrational terrorists”, antisemites, and “Hitlers” leading to US presidents like George W. Bush who mentions “Either you’re with us, or you are with the terrorists.” “Either you’re with us, either you love freedom, and with nations which embrace freedom, or you’re with the enemy. There is no in between.”
And now Putin’s rightly cordial and sympathetic treatment of anti-Zionists like the Palestinians and their allies like former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and Iran is likewise making him the next “irrational” non-homo sapiens maniacal Hitler who allegedly wants to conquer Europe. This simplistic-tribalistic “good vs. evil” ideology continues to spread and now dominates the “Zionized” West, with simpletons like Ukrainian leader Zelensky (Jewish-Zionist of course, what a coincidence) mentioning: “You can mediate between countries, but not between good and evil.” Re-read Potocki’s quote, and notice how “Zionized” Jews like Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin “are right now the leaders in creating a war psychosis which would plunge the entire world into war and bring about general catastrophe.”
The great Russian diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, told journalist Pepe Escobar in June 2025 that “I don't understand why we cannot have an adult dialogue.” The answer is because the US government has been totally “Zionized” just like Jews-Israelis have. Former
Texas Gov. and one of the leading Republican presidential hopefuls of 2012, Rick Perry stated that: “As a Christian I have a clear directive to support Israel, from my perspective it’s pretty easy both as an American and a Christian. I am going to stand with Israel.” This religious-based Zionism can be seen as 'Right-Wing' Zionism. The Zionism of the US Republican Party and the naive simple-minded flag-waving white American Christian masses who easily find unity with fellow white-European Ashkenazi Jews.
But we also have Left-Wing Zionism, the Zionism of the Left, of the secular intellectuals, the 'Priesthood of Scientism', and so on. These are the very successful secular Jews and their similarly-minded intellectuals who see the Muslim world as religious fanatics and fellow secular LGBT-rights-supporting Jews-Israelis as the good and "civilized" people. As former speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi mentioned: “if the Capitol crumbles to the ground, the one thing that would remain is our commitment to Israel…that’s fundamental.” So just like both religious-Right and secular-Left Jews Zionized themselves, they Zionized the American Left and Right too.
And I wonder how many Palestinians were maimed and killed in Gaza today or how many more settlers rampaging in the West Bank evicting Palestinians whilst the evil empire bombs and kills in Iran and steals the headlines.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/14/israel-kills-at-least-58-people-in-gaza-many-at-us-backed-aid-site-medics
Thanks Bob….yep, no surprise - ‘business as usual’ there then…..
You make excellent points here. The world, including many of us in the US, really can see.
Happy Birthday, Donald from Bibi Baby!
A zebra never changes its color only Israel and the United States think their zebras, but they are the rattlesnakes that the world is finding out. I hope our people of the United States wake up to the lies of Israel and the US government and media in order to get our empire back And save the world from these. I don’t know what to call them, but God bless America do the right thing.
This is spot on, George. This is just pure illegal aggression from the Israelis and the U.S. Why can’t these imperialist scumbags leave other countries alone?! Trump showed that he is no different than his predecessors in the Oval Office, maybe even worse. He should be impeached for this. The U.S. has zero credibility as far as I’m concerned. Notice all of this takes attention away from what’s happening in Gaza, another reason I believe for this despicable act of aggression by the U.S. and Israhell. Thank you for posting this.😢☮️🇵🇸
Yes to all you write. " Why can’t these imperialist scumbags leave other countries alone?!" Domination, vast oil fields, selling massive quantities of weapons of death and destruction to keep the US running, and above all the staggering profits thereof. These are sub human beings, hungry ghosts, completely devoid of conscience. Frightening and so much unspeakable suffering!!! They've also completely shut down all internet service in Gaza so they cannot communicate or receive the witnessing, words of hope or whatever gofundme support that could get through. I pray for them and all the victims of these insatiable monsters and that this terrorizing ends. As George writes: "the resistance is stronger. The lies are thinner. And the world can see." ❤️🇵🇸❤️
👍🙏🎯🇵🇸
The US is Israel and Israel is the US. Israel'r'us. Same agenda. It was planned before the 1990's but after 2001 General Wesley Clark said the US was planning to attack/regime change Iraq first (we, Halliburton, Chevron and its offshoots now, still, own Iraq's oil fields), followed by actions against Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. The list got longer - Afghanistan, Yemen, targeting Russian while destroying that ill fated proxy Ukraine, etc. But guess who's left on the list? Israel is and always has been since it was planted in ME and weaponized first by the British and then passed to the US in 1948 doing exactly what the US tells it to do via billions of dollars in weapons of death and intel (without which Israel is nothing, could do nothing, a gelded bully). The big clinically mad egos like Netanyahoo are stroked to think they are in charge. But they are a proxy ever expanding state of mercenaries trained to kill since preschool. Very likely expendable.
Thank you George for your clarity and seeing "with precision" through the smoke and mirrors.
And thank you, Liana, for the perfect, concise, terrifying explanation of the past and present.
Yes, Rebel, what led here is terrifying. It's hard to live at the end of Empire, of an age, when so many veils are being lifted or torn off, and to witness so much immense suffering of the Gazans/Palestinians/Syrians, Lebanese, Yemenis and so many others who no longer feel so far away. I am grateful for the ever growing number of people of truth, heart and conscience all around the world, thanks to the internet and substacks like this one, who are coming together to speak truth, to act, to witness, and support each other and most especially support all of our brothers and sisters who are enduring so much!
Lies Used To Justify War On Iraq Get Reused To Wage War On Iran
Former CIA officer Larry Johnson opines:
I believe that Israel’s attack was part of a planned international intelligence and military operation, which included the participation and support of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. We got the first clue on May 31, when a UN watchdog issued two reports designed to create a narrative that Iran is a rogue nuclear state:
...
This tactic was employed in 2002/2003 to gin up a justification to attack Iraq, who the US insisted had weapons of mass destruction. We now know it was a lie, but the propaganda was effective in producing support in the US and Europe to invade Iraq. We’re seeing a similar effort today, only this time Iran is being falsely accused of enriching uranium to build a bomb. The Iraq WMD lie, like the current calumny against Iran, only has one purpose… justify military action in order to achieve regime change.
I have previously detailed the current IAEA operation to blame Iran over some alleged nuclear contamination which were found more than two decades ago.
During the build-up to the 2003 war on Iraq there was another lie that famously used to 'justify' the attack.
It was alleged that Iraq's leader Saddam Hussein was in cahoots with al-Qaeda, a terrorist group that had been created by the U.S. in Pakistan to fight against the Soviet supported government of Afghanistan.
Al-Qaeda was alleged to have committed attacks in the U.S. on 9/11 2001. Associating Iraq, which had fought against al-Qaeda inspired groups, with al-Qaeda itself was the second most cited lie used to justify the U.S. war on Iraq.
It is no wonder than that a similar narrative is now suddenly being build with regards to Iran.
David Ignatius, the unofficial CIA spokesman at the Washington Post, was told to publish this nonsense (archived):
But Iran has other means to hit back. One that has received little attention is its relationship with al-Qaeda affiliates. According to former U.S. counterterrorism officials, Tehran has built good relations with the new “de facto” al-Qaeda “emir,” Saif al-Adel, who took over in 2023 after Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed. These former officials say Adel helped manage WMD planning for Osama bin Laden.
The al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen may pose a special danger. It’s headed by Saad bin Atef al-Awlaki, who posted a chilling video this month threatening U.S. officials. “Go after the scum of the earth and its greatest criminals,” he urged his followers, naming Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and former DOGE chief Elon Musk. “There are no red lines after all that has been happening to our people in Gaza,” he said. According to the Jerusalem Post, Awlaki urged Muslims in Europe and America to make sure there is “not a single safe place” for Jews.
Who would be those "former U.S. counterterrorism officials"? Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, or some other notorious liars?
Saif al-Adel, the "de facto" never declared leader of Al-Qaeda has since 2001 been rumored to be in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Egypt and Iran where he allegedly was once under house arrest and later exchanged against Iranian hostages held by al-Qaeda in Yemen.
Over more than two decades the Shia Iran has fought the Sunni al-Qaeda wherever it could. Its operations against Sunni extremist in Iraq and Syria were largely wars against al-Qaeda affiliated forces. In Yemen Iran is allied with the Houthi who are fighting against U.S. supported al-Qaeda aligned groups in the south of the country. A similar situation exists in Lebanon where Iran supported Hizbullah forces have for years feuded against al-Qaeda aligned radicals.
To claim that Iran is now somehow in cahoots with Saif al-Adel, an alleged but never declared leader of a more or less extinct al-Qaeda, is blatant nonsense.
David Ignatius is a much read 'opinion leader'. That he was told to trot out those nonsensical claims is a signal for others to pick up on them.
We can now expect lots of other second rated opinion writers to come up with similar tales.
It is, like the attempt to associated Iran with weapons of mass destruction, a narrative that will be used to further escalate the current regime change war on Iran.
Instead of being repeatedly astonished, we need to start expecting the absurd but inevitable: people will believe it.
The joke is on us. Israel means to destroy the USA. And we’re paving their way with out own $$$$
After World War Two started, Chaim Weizmann, mentioned the obvious: "this war is our war". In a speech on December 3, 1942, in New York he mentioned:
"We are not denying and are not afraid to confess that this war is our war and that it is waged for the liberation of Jewry… Stronger than all fronts together is our front, that of Jewry. We are not only giving this war our financial support on which the entire war production is based, we are not only providing our full propaganda power which is the moral energy that keeps this war going.”
Mises’ pupil and fellow Jew, economist Murray Rothbard wisely and courageously summarizes the truth-reality:
“Germany and Hitler were not uniquely guilty of launching World War II (indeed they were scarcely guilty at all);…Hitler, in brief, (in foreign affairs) was not a uniquely evil monster or daimon, who would continue to gobble up countries diabolically until stopped by superior force…Hitler had no designs, no plans, not even vague intimations, to expand westward against Britain and France (let alone the United States). Hitler admired the British Empire and wished to collaborate with it. Not only did Hitler do this with insight, he did it with patience, as Taylor excellently shows…”
https://civilizedapes.substack.com/p/an-analysis-and-comparison-of-the
On February 9th 1938, almost 7 months before the outbreak of WWII, the Polish Ambassador in Washington, Count Jerzy Potocki, reported back home to the Foreign Minister in Warsaw on the Jewish role “in creating a war psychosis which would plunge the entire world into war”:
“The Jews are right now the leaders in creating a war psychosis which would plunge the entire world into war and bring about general catastrophe. This mood is becoming more and more apparent.…This hatred has become a frenzy. It is propagated everywhere and by every means: in theaters, in the cinema, and in the press. The Germans are portrayed as a nation living under the arrogance of Hitler which wants to conquer the whole world and drown all of humanity in an ocean of blood. In conversations with Jewish press representatives I have repeatedly come up against the inexorable and convinced view that war is inevitable. This international Jewry exploits every means of propaganda to oppose any tendency towards any kind of consolidation and understanding between nations.”
After World War Two started, Chaim Weizmann, mentioned the obvious: "this war is our war". In a speech on December 3, 1942, in New York he mentioned:
"We are not denying and are not afraid to confess that this war is our war and that it is waged for the liberation of Jewry… Stronger than all fronts together is our front, that of Jewry. We are not only giving this war our financial support on which the entire war production is based, we are not only providing our full propaganda power which is the moral energy that keeps this war going.”
Mises’ pupil and fellow Jew, economist Murray Rothbard wisely and courageously summarizes the truth-reality:
“Germany and Hitler were not uniquely guilty of launching World War II (indeed they were scarcely guilty at all);…Hitler, in brief, (in foreign affairs) was not a uniquely evil monster or daimon, who would continue to gobble up countries diabolically until stopped by superior force…Hitler had no designs, no plans, not even vague intimations, to expand westward against Britain and France (let alone the United States). Hitler admired the British Empire and wished to collaborate with it. Not only did Hitler do this with insight, he did it with patience, as Taylor excellently shows…”
The same ideological patterns keep repeating. “Zionized” Jews and their supporters understandably evolved an ideological and incentive structure which led to the vilification and destruction of Germany due to Hitler’s naive anti-Jewish fallacies. Then critics of Zionism became the next “irrational terrorists”, antisemites, and “Hitlers” leading to US presidents like George W. Bush who mentions “Either you’re with us, or you are with the terrorists.” “Either you’re with us, either you love freedom, and with nations which embrace freedom, or you’re with the enemy. There is no in between.”
And now Putin’s rightly cordial and sympathetic treatment of anti-Zionists like the Palestinians and their allies like former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and Iran is likewise making him the next “irrational” non-homo sapiens maniacal Hitler who allegedly wants to conquer Europe. This simplistic-tribalistic “good vs. evil” ideology continues to spread and now dominates the “Zionized” West, with simpletons like Ukrainian leader Zelensky (Jewish-Zionist of course, what a coincidence) mentioning: “You can mediate between countries, but not between good and evil.” Re-read Potocki’s quote, and notice how “Zionized” Jews like Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin “are right now the leaders in creating a war psychosis which would plunge the entire world into war and bring about general catastrophe.”
The great Russian diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, told journalist Pepe Escobar in June 2025 that “I don't understand why we cannot have an adult dialogue.” The answer is because the US government has been totally “Zionized” just like Jews-Israelis have. Former
Texas Gov. and one of the leading Republican presidential hopefuls of 2012, Rick Perry stated that: “As a Christian I have a clear directive to support Israel, from my perspective it’s pretty easy both as an American and a Christian. I am going to stand with Israel.” This religious-based Zionism can be seen as 'Right-Wing' Zionism. The Zionism of the US Republican Party and the naive simple-minded flag-waving white American Christian masses who easily find unity with fellow white-European Ashkenazi Jews.
But we also have Left-Wing Zionism, the Zionism of the Left, of the secular intellectuals, the 'Priesthood of Scientism', and so on. These are the very successful secular Jews and their similarly-minded intellectuals who see the Muslim world as religious fanatics and fellow secular LGBT-rights-supporting Jews-Israelis as the good and "civilized" people. As former speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi mentioned: “if the Capitol crumbles to the ground, the one thing that would remain is our commitment to Israel…that’s fundamental.” So just like both religious-Right and secular-Left Jews Zionized themselves, they Zionized the American Left and Right too.
https://civilizedapes.substack.com/p/an-analysis-and-comparison-of-the