John Thavis

That’s how sanctions work. The cards don’t work if you oppose the West. But if you are the leader of Al Qaeda, the money will flow

Contrary to the delusional ramblings of grandpa MAGA, the JCPOA was not just a “Obama Deal.” It was an agreement crafted by the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council, + Germany, and it was adopted via unanimous UN Security Council vote. The EU also passed its own resolution backing it. EVERYONE agreed it was a good deal. Everyone that is EXCEPT ISRAEL. So let’s be real clear on this, Trump didn’t blow up the JCPOA for any of our allies. He didn’t do it for us. He did it for Israel. Because they own him. Period.

Israel: IDF carried out 85 air strikes in Lebanon during past 24 hours. Media: ceasefire is holding.

“The people who spat at me when I was a young monk are now part of the government.” — Fr. Nikodemus Schnabel, Abbot of the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem. A chilling warning about the growing hatred against Christians in the Holy Land, following attacks on a French nun and repeated desecrations of Christian symbols in Jerusalem and southern Lebanon. (Source: Abouna.org)

Israel killed 40 Lebanese today and the world barely notices, it’s not even second-tier news. To hell with this broken world

I know it’s hard for some people to fathom that Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, and John Bolton could have bombed Syria on fake grounds (😱) but for those heretics who are open to that possibility, here’s some more evidence for you:

Incredible that this story in the Israeli press by Ronen Bergman and Nahum Barnea isn't getting way more attention in US media. They report that the Mossad had a multi-year project in Iran aimed at fomenting protests, played a key role in the December protests (coinciding with Netanyahu's visit to Mar-A-Lago where he pushed Trump to go to war in Iran) and while it all succeeded in convincing Trump the war would be a cakewalk regime change effort, in reality it turn out to be a failure that stuck the US with a strategic catastrophe. ynet.co.il/news/article/y…

Harari's schtick has always been learning just enough of the science to get things spectacularly wrong. Even for an atheist, human rights are not "a fictional story". They're deeply embedded in all social animals as a result of evolution, basic logic, and the need to maintain a cohesive, cooperative society. Our problem is we've been letting the anti-social members of our species run the show for far too long. If we have any hope of survival, that needs to change.

The west actively starves the country while our media print stories like "can you believe how much they're starving?"

Zohreh Shahriari, a 34-year-old teacher at the Minab school, tried for years to become a mother. Finally, her dream came true. Her baby was expected to be born in early June. Until February 28, when the US bombed her school multiple times, killing her and her unborn baby.

#PrimaPagina Libano del sud, Villaggi rasi al suolo Dopo i bombardamenti entrano in azione le ruspe israeliane. Come a Yaroun dove nelle scorse ore è stata demolita anche una scuola cristiana osservatoreromano.va/it/news/2026-0…

On 2 May 2014, western-backed neo-Nazis in Ukraine forced protesters into the House of Trade Unions in Odessa and set it on fire. 48 people burned to death, and 200 were injured. Those who tried to escape were violently assaulted. This was among the opening salvos of the NATO proxy war that is now tearing the country apart.

I am so heartbroken. Israel has just shot my 30-year-old aunt in the chest while she was sitting with her three young children in a school shelter in Jabalia Camp. She is in critical condition; the bullet pierced her chest and exited through her back, devastating her lungs and spleen. At the moment she was hit, she was holding her one-year-old son. He fell from her lap as she collapsed and was found bleeding from one of his ears. I just spoke with my uncle, who told me that Israel has been using subsonic bullets lately. He said his sister is the second mother in the camp to be shot in the chest today. Please pray for her and our family. Her husband was abducted by Israel in November 2024, and we still have no word on his condition.

The plan is greater Israel by any means necessary. That’s it. There is no other 12D chess going on here. The war is destroying the petrodollar, they don’t give a fuck. It’s not part of some deep strategy involving energy resources, it strengthens China immensely. They don’t care. They will burn everything to the ground to try to get greater Israel. It was a common error in analysis to treat the Iraq war as “stupid” or “a mistake.” Paul Bremer dismissing the Iraqi army, obliterating the state through De-Ba'athification, creating the insurgency. It doesn’t make any sense as a strategy unless you understand that the war was for Israel. The Iraqi state had to be pulverized so it could never again threaten Israel. Iraqi academics, engineers, specialists of all kinds had to be killed or chased out in terror. Then ditto in Libya, ditto in Syria. The only plan is to try to do that to Iran. None of this was “a mistake.” None of it was “stupid.” The actual goals were just different from the justifications presented for public consumption. The Israel lobby is immensely powerful but a war with Iran was always the one thing they couldn’t get. U.S. state planners since the Iranian revolution have understood what closure of the strait of Hormuz would mean. It is apocalyptic for the maintenance of the petrodollar that the U.S. empire depends on. The lobby has been working our government for decades now. They’ve finally got a president blackmailed enough and a deep state zogged enough that the initial start of the war could go forward. Now they’re riding on the back of a tiger. The cost of living crisis is coming home. They have to keep the war going over what will be increasing civil unrest. Eventually they’re going to push Trump into doubling down. The goal is to go nuclear. That’s what they think is the way out. Nuking Iran. This is genocidal madness. It’s why everyone in Congress needs to be held accountable for not funding a single dollar for this illegal war. It’s why the anti war movement in this country needs to wake up and recognize that we are in a crisis moment. Our passivity will be taken by the ruling class as permission to do the unthinkable.

Donald Trump Jr and Lara Trump hold a 30% stake in Salem Media, which is registered as a foreign agent for Israel Eric Trump’s company has merged with an Israeli drone firm and Don Jr is a top backer The Trump family business empire has effectively merged with Israel

Do "womens rights" include the right to not be bombed, have your family killed by unaccountable foreign militaries, or be subject to economic misery through sanctions? The practical discourse around human rights has become completely perverse and absurd at this point.

Notice how all the liberals who protested during the “No Kings” rally has nothing to say about this

The new "leader of the free world" abandoned his political mandate, arrested political opponents, purged the media, restricted freedom of religion, abandoned checks and balances, cancelled elections, outsourced decision-making to foreign powers, and banned his citizens from escaping the country. He is an instrument of foreign powers, and the vast majority of Ukrainians will celebrate the day he is gone.

The Christian village of Yaroun in southern Lebanon, before and after it was destroyed by the Israeli army.

Keep spending trillions on foreign wars and financing the militaries of foreign countries: