alison bushell

Thanks to @JoshuaAtLarge for this : Let’s stop pretending the situation with Iran is some random outbreak of chaos. It’s not. It’s the result of deliberate decisions—made by powerful governments—that people today conveniently ignore. In the early 1950s, Iran was not an extremist state. Under Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, it was moving toward democracy, self-governance, and independence from foreign exploitation. He was elected by his people. And his “crime”? Nationalizing Iran’s oil so it would benefit Iranians instead of foreign corporations. That was enough. In 1953, CIA and MI6 orchestrated a coup to remove him. Not because of “freedom” or “stability”—but because Western powers didn’t want to lose control over oil. They replaced him with Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, an authoritarian monarch who ruled with repression, secret police, and the full backing of the West. For decades, Iranians lived under a regime that jailed, tortured, and silenced dissent—all while being propped up as a “strategic ally.” And then people act shocked at what happened next. In 1979, the Iranian people revolted. Not because they wanted extremism—but because they were suffocating under dictatorship. But revolutions don’t come with guarantees. The power vacuum didn’t lead to liberal democracy—it led to the rise of the Islamic Republic. And once that regime consolidated power, it didn’t liberate the people—it crushed them. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps became a tool of enforcement, imprisoning and executing dissidents, including students, reformers, and leftists—the very people who helped overthrow the Shah. Think about that. The same population that fought for freedom got caught between two systems of oppression—one installed with foreign backing, the other born from the chaos that followed. And yet today, we’re fed cartoon narratives about “good guys” and “bad guys” by the same circles that helped create the conditions in the first place. The loudest voices pushing confrontation now—the self-proclaimed “defenders of democracy,” the bloodthirsty interventionists, the neoconservative war architects—are the ideological descendants of the same mindset that greenlit the 1953 coup. Different decade, same playbook: destabilize, intervene, and deal with the consequences later. And when it comes to Israel, criticism is constantly dismissed as something it’s not, instead of being engaged with honestly. The accusations of "jew hate" instead of actually addressing the zionist's gnashing of teeth at the thought of genocide against it's enemies is just a smokescreen to cover for evil intentions. There are real geopolitical strategies, real military calculations, and real human costs involved—especially when tensions with Iran escalate. Ignoring that complexity and reducing everything to slogans only makes meaningful discussion impossible. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: you cannot repeatedly interfere in a region for strategic gain, undermine its democratic movements, and then act surprised when instability, resentment, and extremism take root. This isn’t about defending regimes. It’s about understanding cause and effect. History didn’t just “happen” to Iran. It was shaped—by coups, by foreign policy decisions, and by people who never had to live with the consequences. And we’re still watching those consequences unfold in real time.

Trump gets PUBLIC WARNING by US INTELLIGENCE OFFICER!! youtu.be/5p_h3YoINo8?si… via @YouTube This is terrifying

So my mom is shopping in a supermarket, wearing a full hijab and jilbab (commonly misnamed as a burka) and the whole time she is there, this kid is staring at her. Won't stop staring. Just looking with wide-eyed shock. The lil feller isn't any older than four. She doesn't think much of it, she is used to far worse than just a few stares. Until the very end when the kid and his mom are behind her in the checkout, and he leans up and whispers loudly: "I LOVE YOU BATMAN"

“A toddler in Gaza released from Israeli custody has been returned to his family with suspected torture wounds.” Read that again.

She said it

Another hit.

There is a mythology the U.S. built around the American War in Vietnam. It goes like this: Young idealistic soldiers were sent into an unwinnable situation by confused politicians. They came home broken and unappreciated. It was a tragedy. A mistake. A lesson learned. Notice what that story does. It centers Americans. Their trauma. Their confusion. Their homecoming. Their feelings. In this story, the Vietnamese people are a backdrop. A jungle. An obstacle. An abstraction. Three million dead Vietnamese people are the scenery for a story about American self-discovery. They made hundreds of movies about Vietnam. The Deer Hunter. Apocalypse Now. Platoon. Full Metal Jacket. Born on the Fourth of July. Hamburger Hill. Count how many of them center a Vietnamese character with a full human life, a family, a name you remember after the credits roll. They turned our genocide into their coming-of-age story. They lost the war and still managed to make themselves the main character. And then, with extraordinary arrogance, they put their soldiers' names on a wall in Washington and call it a memorial, as if the dead to be mourned were the people who flew 10,000 miles to do the killing. Where is the wall for our three million? There isn't one. Because in their telling, we were never quite real enough to mourn.

This is terrifying. He’s lost the plot completely. Trump CRASHES OUT in CABINET MEETING over WAR!! youtu.be/yu9yR_BC2SU?si… via @hikakin

In June 2016, a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and could not climb out. The concrete walls were too steep and too slippery. A man climbed down to help. Then he could not get back up either. Strangers stopped. Nobody organised anything. Nobody was asked. One person grabbed another person's hand, who grabbed another, who grabbed another, until a human chain stretched down the wall to the water below. The last person in the chain reached down and pulled the dog out. Then they pulled the man out. Someone filmed it from the opposite bank. Nobody in the video was ever identified. Last week, on March 22, 2026, a bronze sculpture was unveiled on the bank of that same reservoir at the exact spot where it happened. It was created by Yerbosyn Meldibekov, one of Kazakhstan's most celebrated contemporary artists, whose work is held in museums in Antwerp, Hong Kong, Singapore and beyond. The sculpture shows a chain of figures holding onto one another. The hand of the last figure extends deliberately beyond the railing so that any passerby can reach out and take hold of it.

@revoltinghippie Imagine If we had Muslim inly ambulances- the meltdown it would cause

The NYT confirmation matters because it shifts the narrative from "conspiracy theory" to documented record. What's worth noting: the pattern of Western media covering covert destabilization as "spontaneous protest" isn't new — it goes back at least to the 2011 Libya coverage. The counter-argument would be: does Mossad involvement in fomenting unrest delegitimize the genuine grievances of Iranians who participated? Those two things can both be true simultaneously, which is the nuance that tends to get lost.

@CraigMurrayOrg False flag or not why are there Jewish ambulances in London? Do they only help Jewish people or are they merely staffed by Jewish paramedics? 🤔 Are there Catholic ambulances in London as well? I hope we Atheists get one that doubles as a coffee van.

The British MoD confirmed it wasn’t Iran who struck the RAF base in Cyprus. We also know Iran has taken responsibility for every strike it’s conducted this war. Now all of a sudden the highly emotive Chagos Islands are targeted and Israel is saying London could be next. An Israeli false flag is incoming. By the way I can’t believe Israel is literally dusting off the Iraq War WMD in 45 minutes claim from 2003. They have so much contempt for us that they don’t even bother coming up with new lies.

Excellent

WTF is going on? We allegedly killed the whole Iranian regime but this wasn’t supposed to be a regime change war. We SUPPOSEDLY destroyed their ability to have a nuclear program but we had to do this because they apparently already had a nuclear program? Iran was not planning any attacks on the US but attacks on the U.S. were imminent? And we apparently aren’t fighting this war to free the Iranian people but the Iranian people might need to be freed? No one is telling the truth about why we are really at war…

@LibertarianMama Can you link me to the sources ? It might be as I’m in the uk but it’s a real task trying to sort out what’s real and what’s not.

I never could fathom the type of evil that prompted a flood of the entire earth and its future destruction by fire. Then I read the Epstein Files. I never could fathom how quickly the world could fall into chaos and the possibility of no water or electricity, but this last week I now can. I never could fathom people not noticing the signs of the times or how quickly they could come in succession, but now…

If I wasn’t about to board a long haul flight I’d have a proper go at this. It’s errant nonsense as usual. Mother’s reports are indeed believed over Fathers. But the rot is even deeper than that. And is pervasive.

Great read here from @BachelorJoker

How much more are women expected to put up with? Because appointing a man who identifies as a woman to represent people suffering from endometriosis is not inclusion, it is disrespect. At best, it is tone-deaf. In reality, it's outright misogyny dressed up as progress. A man representing women with endometriosis. Think about that for a moment. Women fought for decades to get this disease recognised, treated, researched and taken seriously. Now they are told to step aside and let a man represent them. Call it inclusion if you like. Many women will call it something else. If women can’t even speak for women’s health anymore, what exactly are women allowed to speak for? Endometriosis is not an abstract identity. It is a painful, often debilitating medical condition that affects women because they have female reproductive systems. One in ten women in the UK suffer from it. Many spend years being ignored by doctors, misdiagnosed, or told the pain is “normal”. Women have fought for decades just to have this condition taken seriously. And now, after all that, they are told a man will represent them. You could not design a more insulting situation if you tried. Novelist Amanda Craig, who has personally suffered from acute endometriosis, said the appointment was “absolutely ridiculous” and compared it to a white person claiming to speak for black people. It is a harsh comparison, but you can understand the point she is making: representation should come from lived experience, not political fashion. This is the problem with identity politics when it loses all connection to material reality. Women are told to be quiet, be kind, be inclusive, and accept that even their own medical conditions are no longer theirs to speak about. So again, the question stands: How much more are women expected to put up with? Because when women cannot even speak about women’s health without being told to step aside for a man, that is not equality. That is erasure. And dressing erasure up as progress does not make it progress. It just makes it harder to challenge. #WomenMatter

@PrimeNewsDigest I’m beginning to think he might be the Antichrist. And that’s not my usual way of seeing the world.

Donald Trump: The Monument to Human Failure Behold the carnival horror that answers to the name Donald Trump. A man so spectacularly wrong in every conceivable way that even chaos itself seems orderly in comparison. He strides into the world like a bloated statue of hubris, wrapped in a suit that looks like it was stolen from a thrift store mannequin, face painted orange as if to warn us: this is no ordinary danger, this is the full, concentrated essence of folly. He is not a man; he is a phenomenon of failure. The cowardice of a draft dodger fused with the petulance of a spoiled child, the malice of a playground tyrant, the vanity of a sideshow mirror stretched over a skeleton. His greed is gluttonous, his ego insatiable, his cruelty meticulous. Every action, every word, every tweet is a reminder that the species called “human” can occasionally vomit up a creature so uniquely grotesque that the rest of us are left gaping in horror. This is a man who turns incompetence into spectacle, ignorance into confidence, and vulgarity into policy. He cannot do good; he cannot do modest. He cannot sit quietly. He cannot think deeply. He cannot apologize. He consumes attention with a ravenous appetite, demanding applause for deeds he did not accomplish and for thoughts he cannot sustain. Look closely at his rhetoric: arrogance masquerading as insight, threats dressed as toughness, lies paraded as wisdom. Every statement is a carnival ride of self-aggrandizement, each tweet a shrill, orange beacon of vanity. He boasts of achievements that exist only in the fevered imagination of a man incapable of reality, incapable of nuance, incapable of honesty. And yet, he expects the world to kneel, clap, and marvel at the sheer audacity of his delusion. Trump is not just morally bankrupt; he is structurally defective. Sexism flows through him like blood, racism as natural as breathing, cruelty as instinctive as blinking. Ignorance is not occasional—it is permanent, habitual, integral to his very being. He cannot comprehend complexity, cannot tolerate disagreement, cannot recognize nuance. Facts are suggestions; truth is negotiable; empathy is a weakness to be exploited. Every policy, every decision, every public appearance is a monument to the disastrous synergy of ego and incompetence. He inflates the trivial, destroys the essential, and confuses spectacle for leadership. He is a master of chaos, a conductor of disaster, and the world is his orchestra of collateral damage. Wars, bankruptcies, broken alliances, shattered norms—all are mere props in the theater of his self-adoration. And yet millions cheer. Millions forgive. Millions praise. They marvel at the creature who embodies the nation’s worst instincts: worship of money over morality, ego over empathy, spectacle over substance. He is the orange-faced mirror held up to America’s darkest impulses. Look into it long enough, and you see what happens when vanity meets opportunity, ignorance meets authority, and spite meets power. Donald Trump is not a president. He is a warning, a cautionary tale written in real time. He is the swollen, grotesque monument to the idea that a country that sacrifices reason, virtue, and decency will eventually receive this in return: a man who cannot govern, cannot inspire, cannot reflect, and cannot even comprehend the scale of his own absurdity. He is the human embodiment of failure, a cautionary exhibit in the museum of what happens when ambition divorces ethics, when pride eclipses intelligence, and when the craving for applause replaces the capacity for wisdom. He does not lead; he consumes. He does not inspire; he humiliates. He does not create; he destroys. And the orange mask, the empty promises, the endless self-promotion—these are the final, grotesque signatures of a man with no redeeming human quality left to offer. Every time he speaks, the world watches a slow-motion collapse of reason. Every time he tweets, reality bends to the will of delusion. Every time he rallies, the spectacle of disaster is celebrated as triumph. He is the festering monument to all that can go wrong in a human being—and he stands there, fully clothed in arrogance, fully armed with ignorance, fully committed to the ruin of everything he touches. In short, Donald Trump is not a man. He is the shadow of a nation’s worst impulses made flesh, a walking, talking, tweeting proof that when vanity, greed, ignorance, cruelty, and spite converge, history does not produce leaders—it produces monsters. And this monster calls himself a president. If you enjoyed this piece and want to fuel more unapologetic truth-telling, consider buying me a coffee. It keeps the words flowing and the fire burning. ➡️ buymeacoffee.com/alvian.alvian