Something Orwellian about the very idea of Netanyahu and Trump even being mentioned in same sentence as Nobel Peace Prize…..what planet are we on? Our reality is becoming increasingly insane….
Yes, it totally is. We are being fed increasingly more ludicrous loads of bullshit by Trump, Netanyahu, and their spineless acolytes and are expected to fully buy into their twisted narratives. They smile shamelessly for the media, pat each other on the back, and boast about how all-powerful their military forces are. These co-conspirators are all up to their necks in a nightmarish game of lies, deception, and betrayal, attempting with their every word and action to distort the realities that are glaringly obvious to anyone who has a thinking brain. As if simply declaring something will actually make it so.
The whole idea of Netanyahu recommending Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize is a slap in the face and a punch in the gut of those who earned it for their considerable accomplishments in promoting worldwide peace. These two charlatans are despicable conmen who are complicit in mass murder and unprovoked aggression towards other countries that don't follow their agenda. They are more than a disgrace to humankind--they are a deadly disease that needs to be eradicated before it spreads even further and carries its self-righteous destruction to the ends of the earth, which, in reality, they have pretty much already done. Down with everything Trump and Netanyahu...
I agree with your bewilderment, Judy, however let's not place ourselves in their place - it is their reality which is ever more insane - ours is just horror, disgust, anger, sadness, depression, determination to oppose the hypocrisy and inhumanity.
You are one of the sane ones - don't let them convince you otherwise. The World is a beautiful and wonderful place. Unfortunately, there are human being so incredibly stupid, self-centred and warped that they fail to recognise it.
Trump, Rubio and Bibi -- Moe, Larry and Curley, from a Three Stooges Episode parodying the Third Reich, where a dedication to peace is declared: "yeah, a piece of this and a piece of that" comes the stooge response. If only this were a slapstick; and a blood-filled plaster model of the globe would crash down on each of their heads. Just for some realism amid the attempt at "comedy".
Thank you George for once again putting the unfolding events in the proper perspective.
The absurdity of nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize is another symptom of a World going crazy.
The JCPOA was working and working well. Iran had the most intrusive inspections regime ever imposed on a Sovereign Nation and Iran was cooperating with the terms. It would have been impossible for Iran to weaponize uranium enrichment to make a nuke. Israel has nukes and the US introduced them into this World and was the only Nation to use them on people.
It's madness to nominate Trump for a Nobel when he withdrew from the effective JCPOA for no good reason other than Netanyahu's insistence.
American arrogance, hubris and pride of Power has the World so dazzled by US military might, the MSM Propagandists will not admit the Israeli & US Acts of War against Iran violate the very same International Law the G-7, US-NATO kings of the Earth (Revelation 16:13-16) just demonized Russia for violating. That hypocrisy and double standard will not lead this Material World to a good place.
Would we not preserve our integrity more effectively by simply ignoring all this—dismissing it as irrelevant, infantile theatre—rather than granting it the attention it seeks? This attention is deliberately polarising: it strengthens one camp by provoking another into outraged rejection, which is then conveniently branded as, e.g., antisemitism, terrorism, disinformation, etc. But isn’t the whole thing irrelevant at a deeper level since the international institutions themselves have become irrelevant? If so, we should expose and denounce that irrelevance, rather than fixating on marginal figures who are merely symptoms of the structural failures of the global political economy. Can we not instead focus our critical attention on the flawed foundations of these institutions themselves? This is the only way to avoid falling into the traps the system lays for us to play and continue its game. Draw attention to this for instance: https://justworldeducational.org/2025/06/jwe-launches-call-to-humanity-to-over-ride-washingtons-unsc-veto-on-gaza-iran/
I agree with the general focus of your comment, if it as I understand it to be, that there is a need to look beyond what certainly emulates a theatrical farce, to fundamental flaws that create the condition for its performance.
I can't, though, agree with the suggestion that critical attention to the obscene notions, hypocrisy and tyrannical behaviour of Netanyahu and Trump can be dismissed as "fixating on marginal figures ...."
You are very right, in my view, to advocate for attention and review of what I see as the degeneration and increasingly hollow substance of international institutions that have previously at least offered some constraint and inhibition on demagoguery and acceptance of deceitful rationalisations to justify it.
It is now clear that the effect of the devastation of WWII that promoted what appeared to be an understanding of the need for a common agreement on fundamental principles to be followed by all nations and hence the foundation of the UN, has now somehow been usurped once again by a 'might is right' false ethos across many, if not most, nations of the World. Of course, I may be naive and perhaps it was an illusion at the time and inevitable that the UN would fail in its endeavours. Certainly the permanent membership and veto powers have worked against peace and consensus, just as surely as when there are no constraints, the strong can almost always bully the weak with impunity.
So, despite my small disagreement with what you've asserted, my main issue with what you say is not that it is invalid but rather, how can it be changed?
At the moment we have national 'leaders' indicted for crimes against humanity and the subject of arrest warrants, travelling across borders with relative impunity. We have the President of what was seen as the leading nation of the 'Free World' protecting and welcoming one of those indicted leaders rather than arresting him, as well as treating UN and other international treaties and long-standing commitments with disdain. Indeed this man appears to believe that he is an incarnation of an omnipotent 'god' on Earth and acts not only without respect for international law but also without respect for allies or even the Constitution of his own nation.
As the USA is the only nation which could possibly prevent the World from being taken over by communism - an alliance of Russia and China, and yet its president is openly kow-towing to Russia's criminal president and funding and arming the brutality of Netanyahu and Israel, one has to wonder just how tenuous 'freedom' has become in this world and how precarious is its continuation.
This is why, in my view, Netanyahu, Trump, Putin and perhaps a few others, *must* be a focus - for I can't see how the underlying degeneration of care for human life, for peace, for equity, for rationality, for sharing, for caring, for collaboration - can be pursued as long as such insane and brutal demagogues are allowed to retain power.
Roger, I really appreciate you adding a viewpoint to this investigation through a friendly response.
I agree with much of what you say as well. Just a couple comments, perhaps, in case it helps:
• These figures are byproducts of structural failures in the system—a system that fails to mobilise and capitalise on the interplay between the human capacity for self-interest and the capacity for mutual support. Even if we incarcerate these individuals, others will continue to emerge unless those structural vulnerabilites are addressed—in times of relative peace and distance from the trauma of WWII.
• Focusing on these individuals absorbs attention, mental space, and energy that could otherwise go toward addressing the conditions that produce them.
• There is no essential difference between communism and capitalism in this regard: both are equally vulnerable to corruption by self-interested individuals. And those are often precisely the people who aspire to power. I don’t know many sane people who seek positions of power. But there seems to be some power in indepenedent / activist journalism, in so far as it contrubites to educating large swaths of people.
• We need to work toward institutions specifically designed to counteract national self-interest. In a sense, this could be seen as a process of de-nationalisation—which has nothing to do with globalisation, and should not be confused with it. One modelled on communities that form around systems of mutual support, such as within and across tribal systems. ,
• There is no definitive solution to this. It’s a process. But that doesn’t mean nothing can be done. The first step is recognising that the problem has roots—identifying where they lie—and understanding that we are always in the process of dealing with them. That process requires detailed analysis of the structural failures of the current institutions, its disemination and collective organisation to call for an alternarive model that essentially differnt becayse it is free from them, because it is not modelled on the Westhphalia treaties.
• I agree with you that those in power must be prosecuted. But then let us actually prosecute them rather than merely gossiping about them. Let us expose precisely those actions that the law recognises as crimes: no more / no less. When we create narratives around distractions, we waste our energy—and in doing so, we poison ourselves. George has produced valuable analyses, but posts like today’s—again, not because of the author, but because of what the narrative chooses to dwell on—feel to me like swallowing poison unnecessarily, losing energy unnecessarily.
I apologise for the directness, but we need to focus. We cannot afford to waste time and energy. This is urgent.
Again, thank you very much for your careful and useful reflection.
It is Critical to remember how we got to this point: Foreign policies - 1860-1904 Theodor Herzl, The 1896 Basel Program, The 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement, the 1917 The Balfour Declaration, 1939 White Paper, the 1948 Redline Agreement, the deep state’s 1947 Truman doctrine, the 1948 Marshall Plan, the 1996 ‘clean break; strategy for securing the realm’ policy, the 1997 PNAC project for a new american century ‘rebuilding america's defenses’, the 2000 Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy, the 2001 ‘full spectrum domination doctrine’ the '2001 Proclamation 7463', the 2003 Rumsfield's 'a different kind of war, the 2009 "which path to persia" policy documents. The 1983 MILNET (fully Military Network), the 2002 NORTHCOM command (continuity of Government group) and the new GOLDEN DOME projects!!
It’s also Critical to remember Christian Dispensationalism that fuel Christian support: “the Christian Zionist movement” and the 1975 “Christians United for Israel", the 1909 Scofield Bible by its interpretation of Genesis 12:3 "The man or nation that lifts a voice or hand against Israel invites the wrath of God."
What we are seeing from US/Israel today is the inevitable outcome of the ethnosupremacist, hypermilitaristic, psychopathic ideology upon which the antagonists were founded.
Henry Kissinger...Menachem Begin...The Nobel Peace Prize HAS nominated many worthy individuals and groups, but it has also had disgraceful laureates.
I hate to throw fuel on a PC fire, but what did Obama do to warrant such an honor? He expanded the wars by bombing in Afghanistan and Iraq: wars he blamed on Bush, whose policies he criticized. He then went a step further, bombing Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. Obama looks truly saintly compared to our Dictator and President-for-Life Trump, but he was hardly a man of peace.
Trump is infinitely worse, as is Netanyahu. Maybe Putin will suddenly stop the war against Ukraine and throw HIS hat into the ring!
All I can say is fuck Netanyahu, Israel and all Zionist sympathisers including Trump and the USA!
Something Orwellian about the very idea of Netanyahu and Trump even being mentioned in same sentence as Nobel Peace Prize…..what planet are we on? Our reality is becoming increasingly insane….
Yes, it totally is. We are being fed increasingly more ludicrous loads of bullshit by Trump, Netanyahu, and their spineless acolytes and are expected to fully buy into their twisted narratives. They smile shamelessly for the media, pat each other on the back, and boast about how all-powerful their military forces are. These co-conspirators are all up to their necks in a nightmarish game of lies, deception, and betrayal, attempting with their every word and action to distort the realities that are glaringly obvious to anyone who has a thinking brain. As if simply declaring something will actually make it so.
The whole idea of Netanyahu recommending Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize is a slap in the face and a punch in the gut of those who earned it for their considerable accomplishments in promoting worldwide peace. These two charlatans are despicable conmen who are complicit in mass murder and unprovoked aggression towards other countries that don't follow their agenda. They are more than a disgrace to humankind--they are a deadly disease that needs to be eradicated before it spreads even further and carries its self-righteous destruction to the ends of the earth, which, in reality, they have pretty much already done. Down with everything Trump and Netanyahu...
Yes, and these two dangerous charlatans are far from alone…..
I agree with your bewilderment, Judy, however let's not place ourselves in their place - it is their reality which is ever more insane - ours is just horror, disgust, anger, sadness, depression, determination to oppose the hypocrisy and inhumanity.
You are one of the sane ones - don't let them convince you otherwise. The World is a beautiful and wonderful place. Unfortunately, there are human being so incredibly stupid, self-centred and warped that they fail to recognise it.
Take care. Stay safe. ☮️
Thank you Roger, much appreciated.
Trump, Rubio and Bibi -- Moe, Larry and Curley, from a Three Stooges Episode parodying the Third Reich, where a dedication to peace is declared: "yeah, a piece of this and a piece of that" comes the stooge response. If only this were a slapstick; and a blood-filled plaster model of the globe would crash down on each of their heads. Just for some realism amid the attempt at "comedy".
Thank you George for once again putting the unfolding events in the proper perspective.
The absurdity of nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize is another symptom of a World going crazy.
The JCPOA was working and working well. Iran had the most intrusive inspections regime ever imposed on a Sovereign Nation and Iran was cooperating with the terms. It would have been impossible for Iran to weaponize uranium enrichment to make a nuke. Israel has nukes and the US introduced them into this World and was the only Nation to use them on people.
It's madness to nominate Trump for a Nobel when he withdrew from the effective JCPOA for no good reason other than Netanyahu's insistence.
American arrogance, hubris and pride of Power has the World so dazzled by US military might, the MSM Propagandists will not admit the Israeli & US Acts of War against Iran violate the very same International Law the G-7, US-NATO kings of the Earth (Revelation 16:13-16) just demonized Russia for violating. That hypocrisy and double standard will not lead this Material World to a good place.
https://rayjc.com/2025/07/07/the-prophet-in-the-political-arena-my-unforgettable-1976-kansas-city-encounter/
Would we not preserve our integrity more effectively by simply ignoring all this—dismissing it as irrelevant, infantile theatre—rather than granting it the attention it seeks? This attention is deliberately polarising: it strengthens one camp by provoking another into outraged rejection, which is then conveniently branded as, e.g., antisemitism, terrorism, disinformation, etc. But isn’t the whole thing irrelevant at a deeper level since the international institutions themselves have become irrelevant? If so, we should expose and denounce that irrelevance, rather than fixating on marginal figures who are merely symptoms of the structural failures of the global political economy. Can we not instead focus our critical attention on the flawed foundations of these institutions themselves? This is the only way to avoid falling into the traps the system lays for us to play and continue its game. Draw attention to this for instance: https://justworldeducational.org/2025/06/jwe-launches-call-to-humanity-to-over-ride-washingtons-unsc-veto-on-gaza-iran/
I agree with the general focus of your comment, if it as I understand it to be, that there is a need to look beyond what certainly emulates a theatrical farce, to fundamental flaws that create the condition for its performance.
I can't, though, agree with the suggestion that critical attention to the obscene notions, hypocrisy and tyrannical behaviour of Netanyahu and Trump can be dismissed as "fixating on marginal figures ...."
You are very right, in my view, to advocate for attention and review of what I see as the degeneration and increasingly hollow substance of international institutions that have previously at least offered some constraint and inhibition on demagoguery and acceptance of deceitful rationalisations to justify it.
It is now clear that the effect of the devastation of WWII that promoted what appeared to be an understanding of the need for a common agreement on fundamental principles to be followed by all nations and hence the foundation of the UN, has now somehow been usurped once again by a 'might is right' false ethos across many, if not most, nations of the World. Of course, I may be naive and perhaps it was an illusion at the time and inevitable that the UN would fail in its endeavours. Certainly the permanent membership and veto powers have worked against peace and consensus, just as surely as when there are no constraints, the strong can almost always bully the weak with impunity.
So, despite my small disagreement with what you've asserted, my main issue with what you say is not that it is invalid but rather, how can it be changed?
At the moment we have national 'leaders' indicted for crimes against humanity and the subject of arrest warrants, travelling across borders with relative impunity. We have the President of what was seen as the leading nation of the 'Free World' protecting and welcoming one of those indicted leaders rather than arresting him, as well as treating UN and other international treaties and long-standing commitments with disdain. Indeed this man appears to believe that he is an incarnation of an omnipotent 'god' on Earth and acts not only without respect for international law but also without respect for allies or even the Constitution of his own nation.
As the USA is the only nation which could possibly prevent the World from being taken over by communism - an alliance of Russia and China, and yet its president is openly kow-towing to Russia's criminal president and funding and arming the brutality of Netanyahu and Israel, one has to wonder just how tenuous 'freedom' has become in this world and how precarious is its continuation.
This is why, in my view, Netanyahu, Trump, Putin and perhaps a few others, *must* be a focus - for I can't see how the underlying degeneration of care for human life, for peace, for equity, for rationality, for sharing, for caring, for collaboration - can be pursued as long as such insane and brutal demagogues are allowed to retain power.
Roger, I really appreciate you adding a viewpoint to this investigation through a friendly response.
I agree with much of what you say as well. Just a couple comments, perhaps, in case it helps:
• These figures are byproducts of structural failures in the system—a system that fails to mobilise and capitalise on the interplay between the human capacity for self-interest and the capacity for mutual support. Even if we incarcerate these individuals, others will continue to emerge unless those structural vulnerabilites are addressed—in times of relative peace and distance from the trauma of WWII.
• Focusing on these individuals absorbs attention, mental space, and energy that could otherwise go toward addressing the conditions that produce them.
• There is no essential difference between communism and capitalism in this regard: both are equally vulnerable to corruption by self-interested individuals. And those are often precisely the people who aspire to power. I don’t know many sane people who seek positions of power. But there seems to be some power in indepenedent / activist journalism, in so far as it contrubites to educating large swaths of people.
• We need to work toward institutions specifically designed to counteract national self-interest. In a sense, this could be seen as a process of de-nationalisation—which has nothing to do with globalisation, and should not be confused with it. One modelled on communities that form around systems of mutual support, such as within and across tribal systems. ,
• There is no definitive solution to this. It’s a process. But that doesn’t mean nothing can be done. The first step is recognising that the problem has roots—identifying where they lie—and understanding that we are always in the process of dealing with them. That process requires detailed analysis of the structural failures of the current institutions, its disemination and collective organisation to call for an alternarive model that essentially differnt becayse it is free from them, because it is not modelled on the Westhphalia treaties.
• I agree with you that those in power must be prosecuted. But then let us actually prosecute them rather than merely gossiping about them. Let us expose precisely those actions that the law recognises as crimes: no more / no less. When we create narratives around distractions, we waste our energy—and in doing so, we poison ourselves. George has produced valuable analyses, but posts like today’s—again, not because of the author, but because of what the narrative chooses to dwell on—feel to me like swallowing poison unnecessarily, losing energy unnecessarily.
I apologise for the directness, but we need to focus. We cannot afford to waste time and energy. This is urgent.
Again, thank you very much for your careful and useful reflection.
It is Critical to remember how we got to this point: Foreign policies - 1860-1904 Theodor Herzl, The 1896 Basel Program, The 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement, the 1917 The Balfour Declaration, 1939 White Paper, the 1948 Redline Agreement, the deep state’s 1947 Truman doctrine, the 1948 Marshall Plan, the 1996 ‘clean break; strategy for securing the realm’ policy, the 1997 PNAC project for a new american century ‘rebuilding america's defenses’, the 2000 Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy, the 2001 ‘full spectrum domination doctrine’ the '2001 Proclamation 7463', the 2003 Rumsfield's 'a different kind of war, the 2009 "which path to persia" policy documents. The 1983 MILNET (fully Military Network), the 2002 NORTHCOM command (continuity of Government group) and the new GOLDEN DOME projects!!
It’s also Critical to remember Christian Dispensationalism that fuel Christian support: “the Christian Zionist movement” and the 1975 “Christians United for Israel", the 1909 Scofield Bible by its interpretation of Genesis 12:3 "The man or nation that lifts a voice or hand against Israel invites the wrath of God."
What we are seeing from US/Israel today is the inevitable outcome of the ethnosupremacist, hypermilitaristic, psychopathic ideology upon which the antagonists were founded.
(Insert cognitive dissonance now!)
It’s all based in Christian-Judeo theology
I think not, though certainly that is a major contributing factor. There are many others.
Supported by history
So is the birth of Jesus of Nazareth but that doesn't mean that he was the son of a God or even that a God exists.
History happens but is recorded by human beings who have varying perspectives. Simplistic comment is not useful.
A little humility on your part wouldn't go amiss.
This🎯
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Talk about a pair of suck-ups. When does Drumpty return the favour?
Honestly, if wasn't so totally stupid bad insulting by these two scum as, it would be scary as hell.
Trump, the King of Sleaze, and Netanyahu, the King of Slime: two pees in in piss pot!
Netanyahu knows that Trump is motivated by nothing but vanity, which makes him eminently easily manipulated.
As Caitlin has it, Trumpanyahu. Very disgusting.
This is the Mad Hatters tea party.
There are reports of paleontologists rushing to Washington to pick through the bone yard of a fossilized government.
"The Four Are Not Horsemen"
You were wrong about their shapes—
They do not ride.
They do not come.
They *are*.
**Pestilence** is not a rider but the air,
The quiet between your cells gone wrong,
The way your body knows, before the cough,
That it has always been betraying you.
**War** is not a sword but the second you pause,
Wondering if the neighbor you helped with groceries
Would slit your throat for the canned goods in your pantry,
And realizing, with ice in your gut,
That you’ve already decided you would slit theirs first.
**Famine** is not a figure but the arithmetic,
The way you subtract kindness from your eyes
Before the children get close enough to beg.
The way the earth was always counting down,
And you just didn’t hear the numbers
Until your own stomach turned to zero.
And **Death**—
Death was never a horseman.
Death is the way your hand hesitates
Before reaching for someone else’s in the dark,
Not because you fear the Reaper’s touch,
But because you realize, with slow, sick clarity,
That the hand you’re holding for comfort
Is just as cold as yours is becoming.
The apocalypse was never an event.
It’s the quiet understanding
That we’ve always been living in it,
And the horsemen were never coming,
Because we saddled them ourselves,
And have been riding them
Further into the dark
Since the first time we looked at the stars
And felt afraid.
Henry Kissinger...Menachem Begin...The Nobel Peace Prize HAS nominated many worthy individuals and groups, but it has also had disgraceful laureates.
I hate to throw fuel on a PC fire, but what did Obama do to warrant such an honor? He expanded the wars by bombing in Afghanistan and Iraq: wars he blamed on Bush, whose policies he criticized. He then went a step further, bombing Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. Obama looks truly saintly compared to our Dictator and President-for-Life Trump, but he was hardly a man of peace.
Trump is infinitely worse, as is Netanyahu. Maybe Putin will suddenly stop the war against Ukraine and throw HIS hat into the ring!
If Trump, the warmonger and genocide supporter he is, gets the Nobel Peace Prize, that prize will become irrelevant.
It has been irrelevant since it was awarded to Kissinger!
And didn't Obama get it while destroying Libya?
No. He got the prize in 2009; he bombed Libya in 2011.
Thanks for the correction, Lenny. I'm not American, so don't have the history straight.