On February 25, Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi stated publicly that a deal was within reach. Israel had been lobbying Washington hard for months. The decision was not made in the Situation Room weighing threat assessments. It was made in Tel Aviv and whispered into the ear of a president who demanded unconditional surrender from a nation of 90 million people. This was a war of choice — Israel’s war, rented to Washington, paid for in Iranian and American blood, with the invoice still running.
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This is the poll the war mongers look to:
Key Takeaways
Recent US polls conducted in early March 2026 show that only about a quarter of Americans support military action against Iran.
European public opinion also leans strongly against intervention, with majorities opposing military escalation in several countries.
Israeli polls show overwhelming domestic support for the war, with more than 80 percent backing military action.
Across the Arab world, a major regional survey released in February 2026 shows overwhelming rejection of normalization with Israel.
The polling gap highlights a stark divide between Israeli public opinion and attitudes across much of the world.
“But, but, Biden lied. But, but, Obama lied.”
The cherry tree myth is one of the oldest and best-known legends about George Washington. In the original story, when Washington was six years old, he received a hatchet as a gift and damaged his father’s cherry tree with it. When his father discovered what George had done, he became angry. Young George bravely said, “I cannot tell a lie…I did cut it with my hatchet.” Washington’s father embraced him and declared that his son’s honesty was worth more than a thousand trees.1
Origin
This iconic story about the value of honesty was invented by one of Washington’s first biographers, a traveling minister and bookseller named Mason Locke Weems. After Washington’s death in 1799, people were anxious to learn about the first President. Weems explained to a publisher in January 1800:
“Washington you know is gone! Millions are gaping to read something about him…My plan! I give his history, sufficiently minute…I then go on to show that his unparalleled rise and elevation were due to his Great Virtues.”
Weems’s biography, The Life of Washington, was first published in 1800. It became an instant bestseller due to its approachable style. However, the cherry tree myth did not appear until the book’s fifth edition in 1806.
Weems had several motives when he wrote The Life of Washington. Money was certainly one of them. He rightly guessed that if he wrote a popular history book about Washington it would sell.
[Cover page of the 1840 edition of Weem’s Life of Washington. The book’s subtitle shows how important Weems thought the anecdotes were to his book’s central purpose to make Washington a role model for his “Young Countrymen.”]
A Federalist admirer of order and self-discipline, Weems also wanted to present Washington as the perfect role model, especially for young Americans. The cherry tree myth and other stories told readers that Washington’s public greatness was due to his private virtues. Washington’s achievements as a General and President were familiar to people in the early nineteenth century, but little was known about his relationship with his father, who died when Washington was only eleven years old.3 There is almost no surviving historical evidence about Washington’s relationship with his father, and Weems’ claims have never been verified.
The Atlantic is laundering Netanyahu’s reputation as a “conflict-averse” leader while he tells the world this war lets him do what he’s “yearned for” for 40 years. Bari Weiss is tweeting fire emojis at pro-war clips, falsely suggesting Iran has nuclear weapons, and devoting journalistic resources to tracking the Instagram likes of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife. CNN is giving unchallenged airtime to ICC-indicted Israeli officials claiming American soldiers have an “obligation” to die for Israel. And that’s before the cable news network is taken over by Paramount, the Weiss operation run by the nepo-son of Larry Ellison, the single largest donor to Friends of the IDF. The BBC, meanwhile, leads with nine dead in Israel while relegating some 180 children killed by the U.S. in a girls’ school in Minab to a footnote.
This is what the legacy media machine looks like in wartime. It has always looked like this. And it is exactly why we launched Drop Site less than two years ago.
[Smoke rises after Iran carried out a missile strike on the main headquarters of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet in Manama, Bahrain in retaliation against U.S.-Israeli attacks, on February 28, 2026.]
[Jewish hands holding the invisible puppet strings on his left, our right!]
“Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel & ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource grabbing, bomb dropping imperial power & its allies, who are trying to bully the whole world into submission.”
Arundhati Roy
Versus:
This is Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner’s dad. Who does this remind you of? Where did he learn these tricks?
“Kushner admitted to retaliation against his brother-in-law, William Schulder, who was cooperating with federal investigators… He plotted to hire a sex worker to seduce Schulder and have video evidence sent to his sister, Esther, Schulder’s wife. Chris Christie, then the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, has called the case “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes” he’d prosecuted.
Kusher was sentenced to two years in prison. He served 14 months at a federal prison in Alabama and completed his sentence at a halfway house in Newark, N.J., until his release in August 2006. A graduate of Hofstra University School of Law, he was also disbarred and prohibited from practicing law in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania after becoming a convicted felon.” – Meredith Kile – People
When one hears or sees Trump and his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaking about America’s military capabilities with immense pride and boastfulness, claiming that it possesses the strongest army in the world and has the most advanced and sophisticated warships and air weapons globally, you find yourself facing what seems like little children bickering and bragging among themselves about the video games in their hands, with each one claiming to own the best, most beautiful, and most valuable games, flaunting them in each other’s faces.
We are facing a new model of a ruling class that is trivial, superficial, and fanatical, lacking even the minimum conditions of wisdom, rationality, and sobriety. — Dr. Rafik Abdessalem. د. رفيق عبد السلام Writer and former Foreign Minister of Tunisia
Coming up, another anniversary next week:
The matter of the U.S. army murdering children goes way back.
On March 16, 1968, the My Lai Massacre took place, where more than 500 unarmed women and children were slaughtered in Vietnam by soldiers of the U.S. Army.
The United States government has never formally paid reparations to the victims or survivors of the 1968 My Lai Massacre. While some private individuals and veterans involved in the rescue efforts sent personal funds to survivors, there has been no official government restitution
[Captain fucking Colin Powells
As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George HW Bush, Powell oversaw Operation Desert Storm in 1991 – or what former University of Texas journalism professor Robert Jensen has referred to as the “massacre we call the Gulf War”.
Writing in the Los Angeles Times in May of 2000 – nearly three years before the blot to beat all blots – Jensen observed that the massacre in question had thus far been “one of the most concentrated attacks on an entire society in modern warfare”, comprising targeted as well as indiscriminate bombing of civilians.
In both cases, Jensen emphasised, the bombing constituted “war crimes under the Geneva Conventions”.
In 1989, too, Powell presided over all manner of bomb-based devastation in the Central American nation of Panama, where an untold number of mainly impoverished Panamanian civilians were slaughtered by the US military as it carried out “Operation Just Cause” against longtime US ally and CIA asset Manuel Noriega.
This operation, which served as a test run for the Gulf War, was – surprise, surprise – predicated on a fabricated and sensational narrative, which only got better when the US army triumphantly announced that it had discovered a stash of cocaine in a house Noriega was known to visit.
Never mind that the “cocaine” was subsequently revealed to be tamales wrapped in banana leaves.
Anyway, it was all apparently in a day’s work of “intellectual honesty” and “grounding in reality”.
The man was “so popular” that people in both US political parties had “begged him to run for president for decades”.
As a part of a two-day conference in 2006, “Vietnam and the Presidency”, former US president Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) gave his well-known account of the war and its effects on his presidency. Carter, one of the post-war presidents who least advocated an aggressive US foreign policy, stressed the importance of moving “beyond the Vietnam War to better things.” Carter laid special emphasis on what he called a “healing process” — for Americans, needless to say — and claimed that under his administration “that healing process made major strides forward”.
He even said that process was “complete [when] the Vietnam heroic monument, one of the most popular places in Washington” was erected, soon after the Carter presidency ended. The inscription on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial says that “[o]ur nation honors the courage, sacrifice, and devotion to duty and country of its Vietnam veterans.” Not a word about the Vietnamese.
Carter’s commentary served as an unpleasant but illustrative reminder of thinking in the US political culture. It was time to move “beyond the Vietnam war to better things”.
Even more revealingly, Carter said: “I don’t feel that we ought to apologize or to castigate ourselves or to assume the status of culpability”, stressing that “the destruction was mutual”.
In 2000, then Secretary of Defence William Cohen expressed similar sentiments towards US actions in Vietnam. “I don’t intend to go into any apologies, certainly, for the war itself,” Cohen declared on a visit to Vietnam. “Both nations were scarred by this. They have their own scars from the war. We certainly have ours.”
Fifty-two years later, the official US position towards crimes by the US military in Vietnam has not changed: there have been no apologies for US conduct during the war, no reparations, no intentions of prosecuting US government officials or military personnel for war crimes in Vietnam. Instead, there is a romanticizing and glorification of the overall performance of the US military.
[The foundation of a hut in My Lai village, destroyed by US troops on March 15, 1968. The marker in front lists those who lived there and died in the My Lai massacre.]
Almost 22 billion American tax dollars spent to wipe out a population of 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel already controls the African Diamond industry, soon they will expand – and dominate all raw mineral exports. The Greater Israel Project is bigger than the Middle East…
He’s seen the High Definition Spy Cam viedo of him getting oral sex (forced, pedophilia, rape) and fingering girls vaginas and golden showers and and and . . .
Amateur Recordings: While many actual murders and suicides have been filmed and uploaded to the internet (e.g., by mass shooters, cartels, or terrorists), these are typically released for sensationalism, propaganda, or personal satisfaction rather than for commercial profit.
Documentary Footage: Authentic footage of war crimes or executions exists but is not classified as snuff because the deaths were not staged for the purpose of being filmed for entertainment.
Britain is a key link in the biggest ever international investigation into the production and supply of paedophile ‘snuff’ movies – in which children are murdered on film – an Observer investigation can reveal.
The key suspect in the inquiry, a Russian who was arrested last week in Moscow for distribution of thousands of sadistic child porn videos and pictures, was traced following the seizure of his products from British paedophiles.
British authorities yesterday confirmed that scores of Kuznetsov’s videos, produced in his small flat in Moscow’s rundown Vykhino district, have been found in the UK. They are concerned that ‘snuff’ movies in which children are killed may have also been imported.
Around a dozen British men have already been arrested and charged with offences alleged to be connected to the Russian tapes. A second Russian child porn ring, which allegedly had a British distributor, was broken up earlier this year. The investigation into the importing of violent Russian child porn which led to the identification and subsequent imprisonment of Kuznetsov started about 15 months ago after Customs seized material coming into the country. Since then there have been dozens of other finds.
‘We have seen some very, very nasty stuff involving sadistic abuse of very young children, but actual deaths on film takes it a whole step further. That is very worrying,’ said one senior customs officer this weekend.
British paedophiles were paying between £50 and £100 for Kuznetsov’s tapes, the officer said. Further fees were paid for access to a website that features pictures of extremely violent abuse.
Though two men arrested with Kuznetsov have also been imprisoned by Moscow authorities, only one of the three remains behind bars. Dmitri Ivanov was sentenced to 11 years for actually participating in the abuse that was being filmed. The others were released under an amnesty aimed at clearing Russia’s overcrowded prisons.
When officers from the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department raided Kuznetsov’s flat they found two boys in a makeshift studio. They seized a huge quantity of films and other pornographic material as well as lists of clients in Italy, Germany, America and Britain.
Last week Italian detectives moved in, following months of inquiries, and arrested eight people. The police searched more than 600 homes and say they now have evidence against about 500 people. Among the suspects were businessmen, public employees and a university student. Several of them were married, with children of their own. Hundreds of people are also under investigation in Germany.
The Russian videos, which had been ordered over the internet, were intercepted when they came into Italy by post, repackaged and then delivered by undercover police officers. They cost between £300 and £4,000, depending on what type of film was ordered.
Covert film of young children naked or undressing was known as a ‘SNIPE’ video. The most appalling category was code-named ‘Necros Pedo’ in which children were raped and tortured until they died.
Police in Russia and the UK believe that Kuznetsov and his associates have been in business for more than two years in which time they are believed to have recruited around 100 boys – aged between nine and 15 – to be filmed.
‘Most of the children were rounded up from railway stations. A lot of them came from the suburbs, or surrounding regions and were from deprived, problem families,’ said Kiril Mazurin, a police spokesman.
‘Usually when children like this arrive in the capital, they’ve got no idea where to go and hang around in the station. It’s very easy to entice this kind of teenager – with a promise of a warm bed or a trip to the cinema.’
Many were lured away from orphanages. ‘Children are not locked in,’ said Mazurin. ‘Anyone can come along and promise them a meal at McDonalds. It doesn’t take any more than that.”
Some children were paid a commission to find other boys willing to be filmed, according to reports in the Russian press, for a fee of between 100 and 300 roubles (£2.50 – £7).
Kuznetsov had given up his job in 1998 to devote himself to the lucrative pornography industry. A self-taught computer expert, he was in the process of upgrading his equipment to allow him to e-mail videos directly to clients when police raided him.
Many customers repeatedly ordered videos from him. The Naples newspaper Il Mattino published a transcript of an alleged email exchange between a prospective client and the Russian vendors.
‘Promise me you’re not ripping me off,’ says the Italian.
‘Relax, I can assure you this one really dies,’ the Russian responds.
‘The last time I paid and I didn’t get what I wanted.’
‘What do you want?’
‘To see them die.’
Ahh, the UN, the new snuff movie perps, letting Israel murder-rape-torture-starve-kill:
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a phone conversation with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, during which he outlined the consequences of the recent American-Zionist aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Araghchi described multiple aspects of the attacks carried out by U.S. and Israeli forces, stressing that civilian locations were deliberately targeted. According to the Iranian foreign minister, the strikes hit schools, hospitals, residential neighborhoods, and historical buildings and monuments.
He emphasized that such actions represent a clear violation of international law and the fundamental principles of humanitarian law.
Referring to the human toll and the extensive destruction caused by the attacks, Araghchi called on the international community and relevant global institutions to take a firm and explicit stance in condemning these crimes.
America! This is yet another perfect reason as to why we had to end Iran’s diabolical stretch across the globe. From stealing our nuclear technology (Jon Pollard), to blackmailing our President and Congress (Epstein), to this (the Alexander brothers). Despicable! We took action just in the nick of time!
Oooooh, wait. Well that’s awkward. I read that wrong. It wasn’t Iranians. It was Israelis. Why are we dying for Israel, again?
If you feel useless, remember that it took 20 years, trillions of dollars, and 4 American presidents to replace the Taliban… with the Taliban. »
This is why we say Haiti is an imperial laboratory. Drones supplied by Canada, private contractors & foreign surveillance tech tested under a U.S. security architecture. The militarization spreading across the hemisphere didn’t appear out of nowhere.
Expel the Indians from the Chabahar development plan and replace them with the Chinese. It is in war that friend and foe are recognized. The blood of 104 young sailors of Noshch Dena is dripping from the clutches of the Indians.
“As long the Iranian ship remained in Indian waters they remained protected but when they crossed the international waters, as Israeli strategic allies it was our duty to inform Israel about their exact location” — Gen Upendra Dwivedi
These women were liberated now.
“No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language, I don’t feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and they would put an end to it.”
―Akira Kurosawa
According to the decision of Iran’s new leader, all leaders of the Zionist regime will be targets for Iranian missiles in the coming hours and days. Follow the news closely.
New Pentagon budget reports show Pete Hegseth spent $93 billion in one month, making it the highest monthly expense since 2008.
This budget report included spending $2 million on Alaskan King Crab.
he Pentagon has spent lavishly on luxury food: 6.9M on lobster tail, 2M on Alaskan king crab, 15.1M on ribeye steak, plus 124K on ice cream machines and 139K on doughnuts. Meanwhile, millions of Americans lost SNAP benefits with new restrictions on their food assistance.
Mississippi, Goddamn.
What would she be saying about ICE, or Gil Scott Heron?
Life, man: An ex-U.S. embassy employee has been sentenced to life in prison for raping minors in Burkina Faso.
No one knows how bad the global fuel situation is right now.
Vietnam has asked its citizens to work from home due to fuel shortages.
Bangladesh has begun rationing fuel – limiting the amount of fuel allowed to be filled per vehicle.
Gasoline prices in Asia are rising sharply – even traders can’t find alternative sources.
Thousands of flights canceled – airlines are rerouting all flights, carrying extra fuel, and making emergency stops to refuel.
Parent company of British Airways down 6%. EasyJet shares down 4%. Airlines reviewing all expansion plans.
The parent company of British Airways is crashing 6%. –
U.S. airlines stopped hedging against fuel price fluctuations years ago, and now they’re paying $120 per barrel of crude
Fuel prices rising in Australia, Asia, and Europe, and no end in sight anytime soon
Ruwais refinery in the UAE (922,000 barrels per day) shut down after a drone strike
Saudi Arabia’s largest refinery shut down
Qatar’s largest LNG facility closed
Strait of Hormuz one step away from total closure
JPMorgan: Production cut by 4.7 million barrels per day if the strait closes by day eighteen
G7 holding emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss releasing oil reserves
France preparing military mission to reopen shipping lanes
Countries are rationing fuel. Airlines are canceling flights. Entire economies are urging people to stay home.
And this is just day eleven.
Prepare well.
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DON’T STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE AND SUDAN.
Final word?
“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don’t mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation’s problems would be another 100 Year War.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
Nah, let’s end with “left-wing white nationalism” per Dr. Horne’s analysis:
Paul Haeder, Author 