No calls to impeach Trump for illegal wars . . .
Mar 30, 2026
It is in the nature of things that chidren can never win a war – and it is In the nature of things that all wars are waged against children. Some weapons are aimed at them directly – and children lose their lives, their eyesight. their arms and legs and mental faculties, just as if they, were soldiers. These are only some of the victims, for, finally, every weapon has the same target. The mere existence of a tank or a gun means there are fewer hoes and scythes and tractorsless food for the children. Even before the guns start firing, the arithmetic of war deprives the children of their natural providers, the fathers who till the fields, build the homes and get the fuel to keep them warm. When the shooting is over, it is not the dead who count their dead, for it is the children who reckon their losses, and finally pay the tragic reckoning for all the wars.
This guy will ban me from his Substack, for sure . . . The Worse the War, the More the Lies. The Danger of Dishonest Wannabe Warlords from William Astore ;
The worse a war goes, the more those who wage it feel compelled to lie about it.
That pattern is visible today in America’s escalating conflict with Iran. This isn’t a war formally declared, clearly explained, or honestly debated. It’s a murky, shifting confrontation—unnecessary, immoral, and strategically incoherent. And as its logic weakens, the rhetoric surrounding it grows louder, simpler, and less tethered to reality.
NOPE: My Comment . . .
Since World War II, during a supposed golden age of peace, the United States military has killed or helped kill some 20 million people, overthrown at least 36 governments, interfered in at least 86 foreign elections, attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders, and dropped bombs on people in over 30 countries. The United States is responsible for the deaths of 5 million people in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and over 1 million just since 2003 in Iraq.
Since 2001, the United States has been systematically destroying a region of the globe, bombing Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria, not to mention the Philippines. The United States has “special forces” operating in two-thirds of the world’s countries and non-special forces in three-quarters of them.
See also How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America’s Post-9/11 Wars? Part 3: Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen by Nicolas Davies From 2018, this article estimates 5 to 7 million people directly killed by U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen.
See also How Death Outlives War by Costs of War. From 2023, this report estimates 4.5 to 4.6 million people killed directly or indirectly by U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and Yemen.
The U.S. government provides weapons, military training, and/or military funding to almost every dictatorship and oppressive government on earth. See my 2020 book 20 Dictators Currently Supported by the U.S.
U.S. weapons are used on both sides of many wars.
All you lovers of Tuck Pads Carlson:
From Jolly Frog France: When comedy is branded crime
It is not normally a risky cloak-and-dagger endeavour to head out with some friends on a Saturday night to see a show by a well-known 60-year comedian.
But, here in France, this is indeed the case if the comedian in question is M’bala M’bala Dieudonné (pictured), who became a big name in the 1990s and was also once known for his political campaigning against racism and the far right.
For the last 12 years he has been relentlessly legally persecuted – he is currently forced to wear an electronic tracking bracelet – and treated as a social pariah by politicians and corporate media.
Mainstream venues have refused to host him, local authorities have repeatedly banned him from performing on their patch and he has been arrested on stage while trying to do his act.
Even his audiences have been criminalised – being fined merely for having attended wildcat shows.
Dieudonné’s terrible crime? To have criticised those we are never allowed to criticise, by poking fun at Israelis and Zionists.
And we now know specifically who is behind this ongoing vicious cancelling campaign.
A Jewish Plan, that Jared Kushner Plan: According to reports in March 2026, President Donald Trump stated that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was among the advisors who encouraged him to initiate military action against Iran. Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff reportedly advised the White House that Iran was using negotiations to buy time, leading to the decision to greenlight operations
Back to William Astore: Comments….
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves” ~Abraham Lincoln
Paulokirk:
Sure, that honest ABE: On December 26, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln authorized the hanging of 38 Dakota men in Mankato, Minnesota, marking the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Following the 1862 Dakota War—driven by broken treaties, corruption, and starvation—military tribunals sentenced 303 Dakota warriors to death, but Lincoln commuted the sentences of 264
X K:
Two choice lines:
– “He doth promote too much.”
– “They’re all Mach and no compass heading.”
But not to be overlooked – this morass of mendacity is alloyed with an unbridled, supremacist, entitled, aggrandizing, nuclear armed juggernaut. The Doomsday Clock stands at how many minutes – seconds? – to midnight?
When wars go badly, truth is the first casualty.??????
Oh, that’s right, wars against children and mothers and civilians, that’s when wars go smoothly? Come on, Bill . . . . Which wars go stunningly well?
David Swanson:
Since World War II, during a supposed golden age of peace, the United States military has killed or helped kill some 20 million people, overthrown at least 36 governments, interfered in at least 86 foreign elections, attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders, and dropped bombs on people in over 30 countries. The United States is responsible for the deaths of 5 million people in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and over 1 million just since 2003 in Iraq.
Since 2001, the United States has been systematically destroying a region of the globe, bombing Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria, not to mention the Philippines. The United States has “special forces” operating in two-thirds of the world’s countries and non-special forces in three-quarters of them.
See also How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America’s Post-9/11 Wars? Part 3: Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen by Nicolas Davies From 2018, this article estimates 5 to 7 million people directly killed by U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen.
See also How Death Outlives War by Costs of War. From 2023, this report estimates 4.5 to 4.6 million people killed directly or indirectly by U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, and Yemen.
The U.S. government provides weapons, military training, and/or military funding to almost every dictatorship and oppressive government on earth. See my 2020 book 20 Dictators Currently Supported by the U.S.
U.S. weapons are used on both sides of many wars.
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X K:
It’s been said when China goes into another country it leaves schools and hospitals. When the United States goes in, it leaves rubble and bomb craters.
We used to be a bit more like China. Now our “growth” industry is weapons sales and wars.
X K:
With Marshall Plan, for certain. With Peace Corps, I believe so, though need to research further. Tellingly, AID ostensibly in that mold, though largely a front for the CIA, which means fill in the blanks from there…
Oh, when the US “goes in” they leave the neuroperverse marketing of Edward Bernays and the dirty banking and financial strangulation of the billionaire class until those countries fall under the spell of Homo Sapiens Consumopethicus.
In countries destroyed by the West, people should stop admiring the U.S and Europe
By Andre Vltchek (Posted Feb 26, 2019)
Are we dealing with the so-called “Stockholm Syndrome” here? Most likely, yes. The victim falls in love with her or his tormentor.
For long centuries, the West has been colonizing, usurping, literally terrorizing the entire planet. Hundreds of millions have died as a result of colonialism, neo-colonialism, and imperialism. Wealth, cultural and educational institutions, hospitals, transportation, parks–all that Europe and North America possess to date and boast about, was constructed on mountains of bones, on genocide and unbridled plunder.
That cannot be disputed, can it?
Slavery, mass murder, genocidal expansions; the West robbed the world, and then consolidated its power, promoting its exceptionalism through relentless brainwashing (called ‘education’), propaganda (called ‘information’), and twisted entertainment for the masses that inhabit poor countries (called ‘culture’ and ‘the arts’).
Shockingly and absurdly, Europe and North America are still loved and admired by many, even (or especially) in such places where Western governments and companies plagued everything like locusts, leaving to the locals only burned land, poison and miserable slums.
How is it possible?
For years, I have been working in Africa, a continent which was entirely subjugated by the U.K., France, Germany, Belgium and other European expansionist nations. Africa from where millions of men, women and children were brought in chains to the “New World”, as slaves. Where millions died during the ‘hunt’, where millions died in ‘transit centers’, and then, on the open seas. That’s tens of millions of ruined lives. The complete plunder of the resources, the unimaginable humiliation of the people, broken cultures, genocides and holocaust against local individualsfrom what is now Namibia, to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Great African heroes like Lumumba assassinated by the Western rulers.
And yet, many Africans see the West as some great ‘example’, as a ‘guiding light’, as a severe but respectable ‘daddy’, who uses the belt when it is necessary, but who also rewards justly those of his ‘children’ who ‘behave properly’.
It is repulsive, but undeniable.
The greatest African writers are now teaching at U.S. and U.K. universities. They have been ‘neutralized’ and ‘pacified’, many of them out rightly bought. In many countries, African judges wear comical white wigs, doing their best to look like their British counterparts.The children of corrupt elites are collecting diplomas from the U.K. and French universities, imitating upper-class European accents.
To behave, to look and sound like the colonizers, is something that brings respect.
The same on the Sub-Continent, of course.
The mannerism among the upper classes in India and Pakistan are those of the U.K. (and lately, of the U.S.). Elites there go out of their way to be more British than the Brits; more Californian than the inhabitants of the U.S. West Coast. Countless private Indian universities call themselves ‘American’ or ‘British’, with ‘Oxford’ or ‘Cambridge’ frequently ‘decorating’ their names.
‘To be accepted’ in Europe or North America is the highest honor, in almost all former colonies, therefore, in almost the entire world.
‘Well groomed’, well-educated and modern Asians, Latin Americans, Africans and the Middle Easterners are expected to ape Westerners;to dress like Westerners, eat (and drink) like the Westerners and to ‘defend the same values’ as them.
In fact, they are expected to be much more Western than the Westerners.
But ‘expected’ by whom? Yes, you guess correctly: very often by their own people!
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Plus, which teams are advancing to the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four.
Jews, man, Jews: Police reach agreement with Latin Patriarchate to allow limited groups in Church of Holy Sepulchre
Israel’s Foreign Ministry and the Prime Minister’s Office announced that the police would be working on a security plan to enable the church leaders to worship at the holy site in upcoming days.
‘I have been seeing it on TV every day’, director revisits Orwell’s 1984 in new film
George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 was a chilling depiction of an authoritarian state, where there was no independent thought or objective truth.
Big Brother was all powerful, history was rewritten and the world was in a state of permanent war.
Well, if all that sounds eerily familiar, a new film called 2+2=5 uses Orwell’s words over archive footage and recent news clips to show how much 1984 reveals about today’s world.
Jesus Fucking Christ: Photos From the Third Nationwide ‘No Kings’ Protest
More than 3,000 marches and rallies took place yesterday in cities and towns across America during the third “No Kings” event, where millions protested against the policies and actions of President Trump and his administration.
Who shot the sheriff? Should we shoot all the ACAB and ICE and uniformed mercenaries?
Invoking faith in wartime, Pete Hegseth breaks norms and worries critics. The Department of War Crimes Secretary is upending decades-old norms, current and former leaders say, with some cautioning that his proselytizing violates the Constitution and undermines troop cohesion.
There you go, no King’s Day, but plenty of GOP (White Mother Fucking Psychotics) Cutting Cunts Day:
GOP weighs health care cuts to pay for Iran war
[House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington is involved in discussions about health care payfors. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty Images
Republicans are considering reductions in federal health spending to help pay for a budget bill containing as much as $200 billion to fund the Iran war and immigration enforcement.]
[A US tanker plane at the Morón de la Frontera base in Spain.]
One fucking nation? Spain closes airspace to US military over Iran war, widening rift with US. Spain’s defence minister confirms move and describes US-Israel war on Iran as ‘profoundly illegal and unjust’.
And how is the USA losing? Anduril founder Palmer Luckey wants to arm the U.S.’s allies. Could his insistence on deferring to Washington scare them off?
MOD Squad or God Squad?
How’s that No God Squad Day going?
Donald Trump is dispatching a so-called “God squad” of top officials to revoke protections for endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico, purportedly to protect national security by expanding oil and gas industry operations.
If successful, the administration may kill off dozens of protected species – from Rice’s whales and whooping cranes to sea turtles.
The rarely used “God squad” provision in the Endangered Species Act (ESA) allows a president to convene a committee of agency heads empowered to effectively veto protections for species on the brink of extinction. The committee essentially weighs whether the benefits from a proposed project outweigh the continued existence of protected wildlife.
The Trump administration is attempting to justify the ESA exemption for “reasons of national security”, marking the first time a security claim has been made. However, oil and gas companies have not asked for the exemption, raising questions about why it is being requested, said Brett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center For Biological Diversity, which has sued to stop the committee from convening.
The move is presumably aimed at bringing down gas prices that are soaring amid the US-Israel war on Iran, opponents say. Trump wants to make it appear as if the administration is taking action over the growing crisis, but the claim that there is a national security threat is “nonsense” for a multitude of reasons, Hartl said.
“What is the threat here? Or is the main threat Donald Trump’s abysmal polling numbers?” Hartl asked. “This is performative and it’s red meat being thrown to the far-right and industry.”
Paul Haeder, Author 