The US-Israel Alliance Exists to Fix the Problems Created by its Existence

By Caitlin Johnstone

The US-Israel alliance exists to fix the problems created by its existence.

The US and Israel have sown death and destruction throughout the middle east for generations, creating generation after generation of survivors who hate them and want them gone, and then it cites the existence of people who hate them and want them gone as the reason why the US needs to keep supporting Israel.

The US needs to help Israel harm people or else the people who are mad about being harmed might harm Israelis. It’s circular reasoning all the way through.

Ask an American Israel supporter why it benefits the US to defend Israel, and they’ll tell you it advances American interests in the middle east.

Ask them what American interests it helps advance in the middle east and they’ll tell you it counters the malign influence of Iran and terrorist groups.

Ask them to describe exactly what Iran and the terrorist groups are doing which directly harms American interests, and they’ll tell you they threaten American troops in the region.

Ask them why American troops can’t just leave the region to remove the threat, and they’ll tell you they can’t because that would be abandoning Israel.

Ask them why the US can’t simply abandon Israel, and they’ll tell you it’s an important US ally.

Ask them to explain why Israel is an important US ally, and they’ll tell you it’s because it advances American interests in the middle east.

The official narrative about the importance of the US-Israel alliance is self-justifying circular logic the whole way through, no matter what point you start examining it from.

They’ll tell you the west needs to support the poor innocent nation of Israel because it gets attacked by evildoers who want to destroy it for no reason. In reality Israel is despised by middle eastern populations because the west dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization and has forced it into being through continuous brute military force ever since, and that violence is all Israel’s opponents are ever responding to. The west created the violence it claims to be countering.

The only argument Israel’s defenders in America make which does not rely on circular reasoning and dishonest obfuscation is “The Bible says we gotta give JDAMs to Benjamin Netanyahu.” But the argument that permanent war is justified because you think that some book of made-up stories commands you to give military support to a nation that’s younger than Dolly Parton does not deserve to be taken seriously.

If they were honest they’d just admit that it benefits the US empire’s ambitions of total global domination to have a ton of military bases and sympathetic partners in the middle east, which is rich in fossil fuels and critical trade routes. If you knew absolutely nothing about the middle east but understood global military conquest you’d be able to tell that west Asia would be a critical point of geostrategic control just by looking at a globe, since it’s the only region on our planet which joins three continents.

But they can’t admit that, because it would be admitting that all this violence and suffering isn’t about promoting the interests of Americans or defending Jews or fighting terrorism or spreading freedom and democracy, and is instead about advancing the interests of a few oligarchs and empire managers with the facilitation of crazy religious beliefs held by Jewish Zionists and Christian Zionists.

So they lie and make up stories about why it makes perfect sense for American soldiers to be headed to Iran right now, and why it was entirely reasonable for the US to send genocide weapons to Israel throughout the incineration of the Gaza Strip. It smells like bullshit because that’s what it is.

Texter av Catelina Johnstone

Haim Bresheeth-Zabner

Katie Halper har hittat en till sån där mänsklig israel, Haim Bresheeth-Zabner, en för mig tidigare okänd professor som bl.a. undervisat vid SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) i London. De tre första av följande klipp är från en längre sändning från 1 mars och det fjärde från en annan sådan från 31 januari, som båda endast är tillgängliga genom Patreon.

Israeli Military Analyst: “Israel Is Chaos Agent of the West”

Israeli anti-Zionist scholar Haim Bresheeth-Zabner argues Israel’s actions go far beyond Gaza, laying out a broader strategy targeting Iran and reshaping the region.

00:00 Israel as the West’s “chaos engine” 01:41 A militarized “vampire nation” living on death 03:21 The Israeli plan to control Western Asia 04:51 Zionists want Iran removed completely 05:41 Cruelty is calculated to break morale 07:31 This isn’t just about Gaza 08:48 Why Zionism is today’s equivalent of Nazism 10:06 Why is Israel still in the UN? 11:27 Ending the normalization of state murder

Haim Bresheeth Zabnner was Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at University of East London and then a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He is Filmmaker, photographer, film studies scholar, and historian. His films include “A State of Danger,” a documentary on the first Palestinian Intifada. His books include “An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation.” Haim is the son of two Holocaust survivors and was raised in Israel. He is a member of Holocaust survivors and Descendents Against the Genocide and a founding member of Jewish Network for Palestine. On November 4, Haim was arrested over a speech he gave at a pro Palestine demonstration outside the residence of Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely in north London.

“Trump CONTROLLED By Israel’s Epstein Button” – Israeli Military Analyst

Israeli anti-Zionist scholar Haim Bresheeth-Zabner explains why he believe Israel’s survival is impossible as a society built on death and how the “Epstein button” gives Netanyahu leverage over Trump.

00:00 Israel can’t survive like this 00:58 Comparing modern Israel to the Nazi regime 02:21 Zionism vs the future of the planet 04:53 Israel built on death 06:04 What is Israel’s Epstein button exactly? 07:41 How Epstein trapped powerful people for leverage 08:34 Netanyahu giving orders to a reluctant Trump 09:16 Trump trapped inside Zionist system 10:51 The most democratic genocide in history 12:23 One nation united in war crimes

“Israel Will Regret War With Iran” – Israeli Military Expert

Israeli anti-Zionist scholar Haim Bresheeth-Zabner warns that a cornered Israel could be the most dangerous nuclear threat on the planet.

00:00 Haim predicted the Iran attack 00:51 Mourning and solidarity with Iran 01:16 Iran never attacked first 02:42 Is Israel prepared for this? 03:28 “Shameful” role of Arab countries as war space 05:32 Negotiations were just a cover for attack 06:13 Israel running out of ammunition 07:32 If Israel is cornered would it use the Samson option? 09:13 Dr. Marandi on the “Epstein button”

“Iran War will be VERY BAD for Israel” – Israeli Military Expert

Katie talks to Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos and historian Haim Bresheeth-Zabner about Iran, Israel, Holocaust Memorial Day about how the Holocaust is being used to justify the genocide in Gaza.

00:00 Israel and USA attacking Iran will be a disaster 02:02 Netanyahu and Trump think war with Iran will bring peace to the world 05:20 This will be very bad for Israel 06:29 Russia and China should have stopped the Palestinian genocide 09:27 Stephen Kapos expresses an optimistic take 10:26 Iran has never attacked a country without provocation 13:23 Trump’s “Riviera of the Middle East” project 14:36 The shame of the “great” American nation unable to control Israel

Att försvara västerlandet idag

I en av sina mer extrema artiklar tycks Catelina Johnstone, driven av motvilja mot atlantsionismens krigsterror och hela det därmed förbundna samhället av idag och dess kultur, hävda att hela den västerländska civilisationen nu måste fördömas:

“The only worthwhile ‘western culture’ in modern times is culture which rejects and opposes the dystopian nature of western civilization and the abuses of the western empire.

Western civilization is what’s bombing Iran. It’s what’s strangling Cuba. It’s what’s torching Lebanon. It’s what’s exterminating Palestine. It’s what stole Venezuela. It’s what’s plundering the labor and resources of the global south. It’s what’s keeping the systems in place which are killing our ecosystem and driving us closer to nuclear armageddon.

There is no sane and truthful position to have toward all this but vehement rejection.

Westerners  – particularly white westerners in nations with colonialist histories like the United States and Australia  – often struggle to find their cultural moorings. It can be difficult to find an authentic position from which to express art and take your stand as a personality when you feel culturally rootless and historically ungrounded. It causes a kind of dissonance with our lives that can haunt us until we die.

The best way to resolve this dissonance is to take your stand in opposition to the perverse society into which you were born. Express from the standpoint of resistance to this horrifying nightmare civilization that is fueled by human blood. 

We live in a sick and intensely mind-controlled dystopia where everything is fake and stupid. Mainstream culture is a nonstop celebration of the vapid and inane. The movies glorify cops and soldiers. The music exalts capitalism, consumerism, egotism and frivolity. The products are made by wage slaves and the fuel is obtained by war. The food is designed to reap profits rather than to nourish. The news media is designed to propagandize rather than to inform.

It’s a disgusting civilization, to be honest. The more you learn about it, the more repulsive it becomes.

How could anyone relate to the human experience from inside this hellscape in a truth-based way, except by opposition? The only way to participate in ‘western culture’ is to help create a new kind of culture which stands squarely in opposition to it.

As Terence McKenna once said, ‘We have to create culture. Don’t watch TV. Don’t read magazines. Don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow… Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.’

The only way to create culture with sincerity in this dystopia is by forcefully rejecting its fraudulence and abusiveness, and embracing revolution and resistance. To do anything else is to give tacit approval to the horrific nature of this civilization, and it will always ring a bit hollow and dissonant, because it is ignoring the elephant in the room. The elephant in the room is the unacceptable depravity and deceit that’s going on all around us.

So if you want to make art, make revolutionary art. If you want to express yourself, express your defiance of the western empire. Oppose the wars. Oppose the militarism. Oppose the capitalism, the imperialism, the ecocide, the injustice, the tyranny.

That’s the only way to be authentic in an inauthentic society.”

Den rubrik Catelina satt på sin text skulle kunna antyda en annan hållning: ‘The Only Worthwhile Western Culture is That which Opposes the Western Empire’. Nämligen om hon med detta inte menade en helt annan, ny kultur i väst, skild från den historiska och nuvarande, utan en som är igenkännbar som västerländsk genom under urskillning som bestående värdefulla identifierade element av den historiskt framvuxna och givna.

Det senare är i alla fall vad jag tror på: att motståndet mot västimperiet i icke helt obetydlig utsträckning faktiskt kan inspireras och motiveras av en sådan selektivt affirmerad västerländsk kultur och identitet som fortlever under den frånstötande ytan – närmare bestämt av sådana humanistiska tankeriktningar och traditioner som jag har försökt lyfta fram särskilt under klassifikationen filosofi med dess tre underavdelningar. Att vissa distinkta tänkesätt, mentaliteter, förhållningssätt och attityder har formats av ett sådant arv. Att en sådan västerländsk kultur är worthwhile.

Faktum är ju att mycket av den bästa kritiken av det atlantsionistiska imperiet och dess av Catelina beskrivna avgrundsförhållanden kommer just från väst, inifrån väst, från västerlänningar. Ja, inifrån USA och i viss mån Israel. Catelina själv är västerlänning.

Genom den “traditionalistiska” inriktningen är vad jag i brist på bättre ord klassificerar som andligheten däremot principiellt mer universell och inte specifikt västerländsk. Men även den humanistiska filosofin – som är vad det främst är fråga om i mina inlägg i kategorin filosofi, filosofi som rör sig på det blott eller åtminstone primärt humanistiska planet – äger större och mindre motsvarigheter i andra kulturer, som är uppfattbara bl.a. i termer av den “common human ground” som kan upptäckas genom en den högre kosmopolitismens nyskapande kulturkonservativa hållning.

Försvaret av det mer specifikt västerländska ställer hursomhelst tveklöst allt högre krav under de tragiska omständigheter Catelina beskriver. Hennes position är en som i ljuset av atlantsionistimperiets senaste aggression varje seriös konservativ av meningsfullt slag nu till slut oundvikligen måste kunna hantera. Inom vänstern har den förstås hanterats på olika – bättre och sämre – sätt under mycket lång tid. Men nu kan högern rimligen inte längre komma undan. Nu handlar det inte ens enbart om risken för oss direkt drabbande ständig konflikt, ekonomisk depression och kärnvapenkrig, utan vi börjar kunna se hur det på sikt faktiskt handlar om hela västerlandets ställning och framtid, ja dess överlevnad som civilisation.

Ebba Buschs talskrivare och nu statssekreterare Simon Westberg är en av de ganska många som velat sammanföra kristdemokratin med högern och konservatismen (en annan är Jakob E:son Söderbaum). Titeln på hans nya bok Västerlandets motståndsrörelse: Konservatismen – från Edmund Burke till Roger Scruton (2025) syftar på konservatismen som representerande den västerländska civilisationens, definierad i termer av en strikt västspecifik förståelse av arvet från Athen, Rom och Jerusalem, motstånd mot de moderna ideologierna – som författaren alltså anser inte bara inte är konservativa, vilket är en begriplig konservativ position, utan, som det ser ut, inte hänförbara till det egentligt västerländska, vilket är mer anmärkningsvärt. Westberg anser också karaktäristiskt nog att eftersom Tage Lindboms traditionalism går utöver dessa västdefinierande gränser, inte heller hans “samlade världsbild” kan “utan problem kallas konservativ”.

Boken aktualiserar liksom åtskilligt av det övriga under senare år om konservatismen publicerade från dagens svenska höger de flesta av de med försvaret av västerlandet idag sammanhörande problemen. Men det förhåller sig i särskild grad så i Westbergs fall. Hans chef, den av Livets Ords primitiva amerikanska kristsionism tidigt indoktrinerade Ebba Busch, vars parti länge stött den våldsamma storisraeliska bosättarexpansionen, kräver omedelbart stopp av biståndet till Palestina, och haft samröre (bl.a. ledande Livets Ord-medlemmen Mikael Oscarsson) med israeliska extremhögernationalistiska ministrar, poserade förra året vid ett militärfordon och i en IDF-tröja i Israel, och hävdade att Israel “gör hela världen en tjänst” i Gaza.

Nu har Busch hets-pådrivit för regimförändring i tal till den iranska Pahlavi-diasporan och – strax efter bombningen av flickskolan med över 100 döda – förklarat sig ha “gråtit av glädje” när Ali Khamenei dödades.

Detta innebär ett stöd för ett västerlandets rena anfallskrig, ett stöd av en typ som flagrant strider mot en huvudriktning inom konservatismen som Westberg behandlar – om än ofullständigt och därmed något missvisande – i sin bok, och som svenska kristdemokrater ibland i åtminstone vissa avseenden kunnat visa intresse och sympati för. Man erinrar sig exempelvis en tid när ledande kristdemokratiske riksdagsledamoten Ingvar Svensson på Samhällsgemenskaps förlag (partiets dåvarande förlag som under Svenssons redaktörskap också gav ut tidningen med samma namn, Samhällsgemenskap, senare Kristdemokraten, i vilken jag några gånger medverkade) gav ut en skrift av Claes Ryn.

Nu har kristdemokratin, med Alice Teodorescu Måwe som en andra och än mer extrem grymhetsledare, gjort sig till en del av det dominerande västerland av idag som Catelina beskriver och självklart riktigt fördömer. Många av de tankeriktningar och traditioner som format det t.o.m. idag försvarbara västerland som jag alltså vill föreslå i någon mån lever vidare under ytan kan utan tvekan förstås i termer av ett arv från Athen, Rom och Jerusalem, och på ett allmänt plan gör Westberg rätt i att beskriva konservatismen i dess termer. Men att koppla allt detta till Buschs och Teodorescu Måwes motbjudande atlantsionistiska imperiebarbari är att förstöra all trovärdighet konservatismen kunde ha, att kompromettera alla dem som använder dess namn, att låta den falla i vanrykte som raka motsatsen till vad som funnits av västerländsk humanism. “There is no sane and truthful position to have toward all this but vehement rejection.”

Two Ways to Make me Lose Interest in your Political Perspective 

By Caitlin Johnstone

Two great ways to make me permanently lose interest in your political perspective: 

1. Say negative things about the Iranian government during an active war propaganda campaign by the US empire.

2. Babble about “antisemitism on the left” like it’s a real thing in the year 2026.

Texter av Catelina Johnstone

Caleb Maupin: What is Innovationism?

A Basic Introduction to the Center for Political Innovation

Independently published, 2025

Amazon.com

Publisher’s Description:

In a world trapped between the failures of neoliberalism and the stagnation of outdated ideologies, innovationism emerges as a bold new path forward. This book presents a compelling case for a system that prioritizes human progress, technological advancement, and economic justice over the chaos of profit-driven markets and bureaucratic inefficiency.

Through the work of The Center for Political Innovation (CPI), this book lays out a strategy for building a future rooted in solidarity, scientific development, and the empowerment of working people. Whether you’re disillusioned with mainstream politics or seeking a radical alternative, this book challenges you to think beyond the status quo and embrace a movement built for the 21st century.

The revolution of tomorrow starts with the ideas of today. Are you ready to innovate?

About the Author:

Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved many struggles for social justice. He is an outspoken advocate of international friendship and cooperation, as well 21st Century Socialism. He is the founder and ideological leader of the Center for Political Innovation.

Att stoppa Trump och Netanyahu

Klipp ur ett avsnitt av sympatiska, antisionistvordna (något annat måste ersätta Israel, kom hon fram till efter att Gazafolkmordet pågått en tid) Katie Halpers show med intervy med Ryn-befryndade Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powells stabschef som blivit en av de många tyngre, hela tiden och överallt – i alla de viktiga dissidentkanalerna – återkommande rättänkande politiska kommentatorerna i USA (hela avsnittet kan ses här):

“Retired Army colonel Lawrence Wilkerson lays out how Trump’s ‘disastrous war of choice’ could trigger a global depression and whether Israel can be ‘defanged’ before going nuclear.

00:00 Lawrence on Trump’s ‘disastrous war of choice’ 01:03 Iran’s strikes were brutally efficient 02:18 Second-tier strikes could trigger global depression 03:27 Trump should just declare victory and leave 03:52 Israel ‘might be toast’ 05:29 Russia rolling in dough while the world burns 06:39 Trump needs to break with Netanyahu 07:46 How to defang Israel

Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired US army colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. He is an anti-war critic of U.S. foreign policy and a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.”

Trevlig-viktige, svenskättade statsvetarprofessorn Lowell Gustafson vid Villanova University utanför Philadelphia (där även återfinns den “kompatibla vänsterns” centrale analytiker och historiker Gabriel Rockhill) kommenterar:

“What is coming, according to Wilkerson? Depression and Israel’s use of nuclear weapons.

What has to happen to prevent that? Complete arms embargo of Israel, tell them to ‘shut down’ the Iran war, Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank. Form a single democratic state in Palestine. Drop the Marines in Dimona, not Iran, and take over Israel’s nuclear facility.

Five weeks ago, such talk would have been insane. This from Gen Colin Powell’s former aide.

Is there any chance any of the above will happen? Given Trump, Schumer, Jeffries, etc, I’m not betting the remainder of my retirement on it. The depression part seems the more likely outcome. Trump is happy to bankrupt the US and starve the global south before he allows others to say he’s a loser.”

Konservativ socialism mot liberalvänstern

Carlos Garrido (för nytillkomna läsare: en av den amerikanska tänktanken Midwestern Marx’ tre ledare och även American Conservative Partys utbildningsansvarige, nu – tror jag – med doktorsexamen i filosofi från Southern Illinois University Carbondale) illustrerar aspekter av den konservativa marxismen i ett karaktäristiskt bemötande av typiska woke-anklagelser om “reaktion” (“fascism” är förstås också vanligt).

Oavsett hur vi bedömer helheten av ACP:s och MWM:s politik är det, upprepar jag, viktigt att uppmärksamma och förstå just deras inriktning av socialismen som en framkomlig politisk väg. Vi äger ännu inte någon motsvarighet till den i Sverige, vilket den senaste tiden blivit tydligt inte minst genom inte bara Vänsterpartiets utan samtliga kommunistiska partiers tragiskt-katastrofala hållning gentemot Iran inför det nya atlantsionistiska imperieanfallskriget.

Vi har inte ens någon svensk motsvarighet till Sahra Wagenknechts betydligt mindre långtgående tyska parti, BSW. Det är beklagligt eftersom en sådan för inte länge sedan såg ut att vara fullt möjlig och på väg. En seriös vänsterversion av den populistnationalistiska rörelsen tycktes kunna utvecklas, varmed några av de nödvändiga ideologiska korrigeringarna och kompletteringarna rimligen skulle gjorts och nationalismen nedtonats. I stället sjönk initiativen av detta slag snabbt ned i den vanliga, som entydigt otillräcklig avslöjade populistnationalismen, ja t.o.m. radikalnationalismen, eller fortlevde som vad som mest ser ut som förvirrade och fragmentariska halvmesyrer som Örebropartiet och Malmölistan. Man kan hoppas att man är orättvis, ja man vill ha fel på denna sista punkt, men man har hittills inte sett några övertygande tecken på det.

Denna situation måste därför förändras. Endast ett tydligt profilerat och genomtänkt politiskt alternativ på samma linje som BSW kan indikera och representera åtminstone den enda allmänna riktning i vilken en meningsfull konservativ politik kan vinna framgång. Riktningen utöver hela det atlanticistiska ekonomisk-politiska system som är att förstå som imperialistiskt i såväl den babbittianska som leninistiska meningen. Riktningen mot ett förnyat, självständigt Europa i en framväxande multipolär och post-imperialistisk värld.

Vid behov, eller när behov, kan BSW:s rätta väg fortsättas genom den verkliga konservativa revolution i enlighet med vad jag isolerat från det myckna vildvuxet ohållbara som ett bestående giltigt minimum i Alexandr Dugins fjärde politiska teori.

The Warmongers will Never Admit they were Wrong and will Never Learn from their Mistakes

By Caitlin Johnstone

Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton has a tweet that’s got me absolutely fuming right now.

“In 2018–2019, I made the case for regime change in Iran as often as I could. Voices in Trump’s orbit often cited Iran’s capacity to close the Strait of Hormuz as a reason against regime change. Trump has been fully aware this is a possibility, and yet did not prepare,” Bolton posted.

Can you believe this shit? Dude’s like “Hey, Trump should have known this war would be hard because people tried to warn him not to listen to me!”

Motherfucker this was your war. You were the “bomb Iran” guy! You made it your entire personality for decades. Over the years I’ve used your name God knows how many times whenever I needed an example of a Beltway swamp monster who’s got a throbbing hard-on for war with Iran. Now you’ve finally got it and it’s going exactly as badly as everyone said it would, and you’re like “Yeah well he should’ve known better, people tried to warn him about the Strait of Hormuz”? Fuck you.

These professional warmongers never, ever learn from their errors. Many years after the Iraq invasion turned out to be a disaster, John Bolton was still out there telling the media he believed it was a “resounding success,” conceding only “mistakes that were made subsequently” to the ousting of Saddam Hussein.

They never admit they were wrong. They never admit that their war was a bad idea. They only ever acknowledge that it didn’t happen in exactly the way they imagined it happening in their minds. They live in this fantasy world where all their war agendas would unfold beautifully so long as they could personally control every molecule of matter involved in how it happens, completely ignoring that this is impossible and any war is always going to have an unfathomable number of moving parts you can’t control.

In their eyes the wars are never wrong, they’re only ever executed incorrectly. US military interventionism can never fail, it can only be failed.

Bolton doesn’t even seem to have any idea what Trump could have done differently to stop Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz. I listened to an NPR interview the other day where he slammed Trump for not having “done the planning in advance” to prevent the Iranian blockade, but he never at any time outlined what Trump could have done to accomplish this. He just said there was “a huge hole in the planning” and that “they apparently didn’t take as seriously as they should have the potential to mine the Strait of Hormuz,” without ever saying what they could have done.

He doesn’t know. He himself, Mister Iran War, had no plan for how to carry out this war without disastrous consequences for the US and its allies. He’s spent his entire blood-soaked career pushing for a war he never had any idea how to actually carry out.

These are the kinds of minds they have spearheading the US empire’s wars.

All the worst people are getting exactly what they want, and it turns out they don’t even want it, like Elon Musk tweeting “Whoever said ‘money can’t buy happiness’ really knew what they were talking about” last month. They’re getting everything they asked for and it’s making everyone miserable, and it’s not even making them happy.

The imperial status quo elevates the worst among us. The least wise. The least insightful. The least compassionate. The least deserving. The least qualified.

We need drastic revolutionary change, and we need it now.

Knulltexter av Catelina Johnstone

Kapitalismen, den organiserade brottsligheten och sionismen

Utmärkte Aaron Good ger under rubriken ‘The Wars of the Epstein Class’ och med en bild med texten The Mafia State en historisk överblick av det amerikanska djupstatliga systemet i samtal med Pascal Lottaz på Neutrality Studies. Större delen av hans framställning är mycket klar, men när han kommer fram till andra hälften av 60-talet blir den plötsligt komplex, och det kan därför finnas anledning att lyssna igenom denna sista del två gånger; den är inte mindre viktig.

“Crime in the united states is not a bug, it’s a feature. That explains actually a lot also about its illegal foreign policies. The US as a political entity is deeply intertwined with crime syndicates and explicitly illegal acts under international and local law. Epstein was not at all an exception. These shady dealers are part and parcel of how US politics works. Luckily, there are great academics who work on the hidden power structures. One of them is with me today. Dr. Aaron Good, author of American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.”

Aaron Good: American Exception

Vem kontrollerar USA:s Mellanösternpolitik?

Iran is Forcing the World to Care about US-Israeli Warmongering

By Caitlin Johnstone

Westerners are about to start paying a lot more attention to the war in Iran as massive US-Israeli escalations point to a coming energy crisis set to impact the whole world.

Israel has bombed the world’s largest natural gas field in southwestern Iran, reportedly in coordination with the United States. Now that a major red line for Tehran has been crossed, retaliatory strikes have already begun pummeling the energy infrastructure of US allies in the region, with Qatar reporting that its primary gas facility has sustained “significant damage” from an attack after Iran issued evacuation warnings for energy facilities in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Fuel prices are already surging. If middle eastern energy infrastructure starts taking extensive damage on top of the already hugely significant Iranian blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, this war could end up affecting virtually every corner of human civilization in one way or another.

Westerners are largely apathetic about US military explosives landing on populations on other continents. But once it starts having a direct impact on their personal bank accounts, you can expect them to get a lot more interested in US foreign policy.

This war has been a bit odd for me because as an anti-imperialist peacemonger I’m not yet entirely sure what my role is in my commentary here.

Normally I’d be begging westerners to care about another horrific act by the US war machine, but as things stand it looks like westerners are going to be forced to care about this one whether they want to or not.

Normally I’d be writing furiously about how people should not support this war, but the war has exceptionally low public support already.

Normally I’d be trying to help everyone open their eyes and recognize the US warmongers for the psychopaths that they are, but the Trumpanyahu administration is openly waging an unprovoked war of aggression while constantly thumping its chest and boasting about how it’s showing the Iranians “no quarter, no mercy” and saying it can kill whoever it wants with impunity.

Normally I’d be writing about how the mass media are churning out war propaganda to manufacture consent for more US military butchery, but the mass media keep putting out stories about how the US government is lying about a war that should never have happened while Trump administration figures have public tantrums about how the media isn’t churning out war propaganda for them.

President Trump is on social media babbling about how news outlets “should be brought up on Charges for treason” for not reporting on an embarrassing story about a US aircraft carrier fire the way he wants, while Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave one of his fire-and-brimstone podium sermons bitching about how “an actual patriotic press” would be framing this war in a more positive light.

Do you see what I mean? What am I supposed to do with this? Where does that leave dissident fringesters like myself? All I can do is clear my throat and sheepishly go “Uh, yeah, I uh… agree with CNN.”

With Ukraine the mass media fell all over themselves to hide the west’s role in provoking the conflict, framing Putin as an evil maniacal Hitler figure who just spontaneously flipped out and invaded a country on Russia’s border because he hates freedom. With Gaza the western press gave nonstop narrative cover to Israel’s genocidal atrocities, constantly dragging public attention into an endless conversation about antisemitism and Jewish feelings whenever opposition to the slaughter got too hot.

That’s just not happening with Iran. It’s the first US war I’ve ever seen where a big chunk of the imperial power structure just refuses to get on board. The media’s not playing along, US allies are telling Trump to get stuffed when he asks for military assistance with the Strait of Hormuz, and the public’s not buying the lies.

This is a frightening time to be alive  –  but you can’t say we’re in a period of stasis. Things are moving faster and faster. They might get a whole lot worse. They might get a whole lot better. They might get a whole lot worse and then get a whole lot better. But it seems a safe bet that the situation won’t remain the same.

Texter av Catelina Johnstone