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Paulo Kirk

Jun 28, 2026

We know who owns us, who engineers the literal prisons and the digital gulags, and where they live . . . Kensington Palace Gardens, The Peak (Hong Kong), Monaco, Billionaires’ Row (NYC), The “Platinum Triangle” (LA), The Gold Coast (Zurich), Emirates Hills (Dubai), Atherton & Los Altos Hills (CA)

Now this is fucking Jew Tube, man, JEW TUBE:

Then you have this fucking PENAL Colony cunt narrating another fucking sicko JEW TUBE doc.

Then the beautiful people’s cunt cinema, Netlix: Frequent exposure to cinematic violence subtly conditions Western minds by triggering desensitization, which blunts physiological stress responses to real-world cruelty. It fosters a mean-world syndrome, where viewers overestimate societal danger, and can inadvertently normalize aggressive conflict resolution, particularly in predisposed or younger audiences.

And so, this is the fucking outcome?

As a result of 15 years of “consistently disturbing” findings about the violent content of children’s programs, the Surgeon General’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior was formed in 1969 to assess the impact of violence on the attitudes, values, and behavior of viewers. The resulting report and a follow-up report in 1982 by the National Institute of Mental Health identified these major effects of seeing violence on television:

• Children may become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others.
• Children may be more fearful of the world around them.
• Children may be more likely to behave in aggressive or harmful ways toward others.

Research by psychologists L. Rowell Huesmann, Leonard Eron, and others starting in the 1980s found that children who watched many hours of violence on television when they were in elementary school tended to show higher levels of aggressive behavior when they became teenagers. By observing these participants into adulthood, Huesmann and Eron found that the ones who’d watched a lot of TV violence when they were 8 years old were more likely to be arrested and prosecuted for criminal acts as adults.

Interestingly, being aggressive as a child did not predict watching more violent TV as a teenager, suggesting that TV watching could be a cause rather than a consequence of aggressive behavior. However, later research by psychologists Douglas Gentile and Brad Bushman, among others, suggested that exposure to media violence is just one of several factors that can contribute to aggressive behavior.

Other research has found that exposure to media violence can desensitize people to violence in the real world and that, for some people, watching violence in the media becomes enjoyable and does not result in the anxious arousal that would be expected from seeing such imagery.

Army of Genocidiers:

Then you have Mother Jones, the countdown with David fucking Letterman: Criminal Justice, May 14, 2013, America’s 10 Worst Prisons: Rikers Island.

We gotta have these fucking million-dollar make-up cunts narrating more of the Capitalist InfoTainMent VILE:

Attica Correctional Facility (Attica, New York): More than four decades after its famous uprising, New York’s worst state prison still lives up to its brutal history. According to the Correctional Association of New York, which has a legislative mandate to track prison conditions, Attica is plagued by staff-on-prisoner violence, intimidation, and sexual abuse.

Communications Management Units (Marion, Illinois, and Terre Haute, Indiana): These two federal prisons-within-prisons, whose populations are more than two-thirds Muslim, were opened secretly by the Bureau of Prisons during the Bush administration, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is challenging the facilities in a federal lawsuit. “The Bureau claims that CMUs are designed to hold dangerous terrorists and other high-risk inmates, requiring heightened monitoring of their external and internal communications,” notes a lawsuit fact sheet. “Many prisoners, however, are sent to these isolation units for their constitutionally protected religious beliefs, unpopular political views, or in retaliation for challenging poor treatment or other rights violations in the federal prison system.” (Also see: Pelican Bay.)

Ely State Prison (Ely, Nevada): A “shocking and callous disregard for human life” is how an auditor described medical care at Ely, which houses the state’s death row along with other maximum security prisoners (PDF). The audit, which found that one prisoner was allowed to rot to death from gangrene, formed the basis of a 2008 class-action lawsuit brought by the ACLU’s National Prison Project. The suit was settled in 2010, but by 2012 the prison still was not in full compliance.

San Quentin, the largest death row.

Idaho Correctional Center (Kuna, Idaho): Run by Corrections Corporation of America, the world’s largest private prison company, ICC has been dubbed a “gladiator school” for its epidemic of gang violence. According to a lawsuit filed in 2010 by the ACLU of Idaho (PDF), the violence is not only condoned but actively promoted by the staff. The suit was settled, but last November, the ACLU said CCA appeared to be violating the agreement, which called for increased staffing and training, reporting of assaults to the local sheriff’s office, and disciplinary measures for staffers who didn’t take steps to stop or prevent assaults.

San Quentin State Prison (Marin County, California): This decrepit prison, which sits on a $2 billion piece of bayside real estate, is home to America’s largest death row. As of late-April, there were 711 men and 20 women condemned to die at San Quentin—you can find the latest stats here (PDF); the figure is constantly changing, despite a state moratorium on executions, because prisoners frequently die of illness or old age. Some even commit suicide rather than remain in solitary limbo.

Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola, Louisiana): At America’s largest prison, those who embrace warden Burl Cain’s pet program of “moral rehabilitation” through Christianity are afforded privileges while sinners languish in institutional hell. A former slave plantation, the prison lends its name to the so-called Angola 3, two of whom have been held in solitary for 40 years, largely for their perceived political beliefs. (In March, Louisiana’s attorney general declared, bafflingly, that the men had “never been in solitary confinement.”)

The federal pen at Lewisburg.

United States Penitentiary (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania): In this overcrowded supermax, the target of multiple lawsuits, prisoners are locked down for 23 to 24 hours a day in the company of a cellmate. One lawsuit alleges that prison officials deliberately pair people with their enemies, and that this practice has led to at least two deaths. The suit also claims that prisoners have been strapped to their bunks with four-point restraints if they resist their cell assignments.

JEW Newman, man, what Holly-Dirt fucking fun:

Fucking Jew Throughway . . . Paternal Roots: His father, Arthur Sigmund Newman, was born to Jewish immigrants from Hungary and Poland. Maternal Roots: His mother, Theresa Fetsko, came from a Slovak Roman Catholic family and later practiced Christian Science. Halakha (Jewish Law): Because traditional Jewish law determines heritage through the mother, Newman was not considered halachically Jewish, but he rejected this distinction for his personal identity.

And so the pact with the devil, man, humanity writ large:

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, said humanity must never forget the children impacted by the Israeli occupation’s genocide in the Gaza Strip.

“The children of the genocide in Gaza that humanity must not forget,” he said on his X account. He also published a photo that depicted children killed in Gaza.

He stressed that if this crime against humanity goes unnoticed, future generations would also suffer the same fate. “If we let this crime against humanity go unnoticed, then it will be our children who are going to be bombed too.”

To be noted, the Colombian president has described Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocide” and announced that his government would end diplomatic relations with Israel over its military aggression against Gaza.

Is that Columbia or Colombia with a “u” or “o”?

• Colombia joins the Epstein Alliance.
• Colombia’s newly elected president just announced his first act will be to open an embassy in Jerusalem and renew their alliance with Israel.
• Mossad for the win!

The residents of the El Milagro slum, part of the city of Trujillo, Peru, have lived for years amidst the heavy smoke and nauseating stench of one of Latin America’s largest landfills.

Hundreds of residents work inside the dump

All photos are courtesy of Randy Reyes Sánchez.

Peru boasts a solid economy, rich mineral reserves, and investment opportunities, despite political unrest.

ARE YOU GETTING IT YET?

The white man’s burden, the Jews’ burden:

Other threats are looming because of climate change. The Pentagon and the CIA have released a number of threat assessments in recent years identifying climate change as a threat to military installations, and as a potential driver of conflict – a “threat multiplier“.

The UN agrees in this report, saying climate change could lead to war and increased migration.

“Climate change can indirectly increase risks of violent conflicts in the form of civil war and inter-group violence,” the report said.

The authors, however, were cautious about sending the message that climate change causes war per se.

“Climate change, on its own, does not start wars,” said Neil Adger, a professor of geography at Exeter University, and one of the authors of the report. “But it does have a hand in producing situations that lead to conflict.

“The things that drive conflict are sensitive to climate, particularly poverty and economic shocks,” Adger said. “If there is a decrease in food supply or lots of people are pushed into poverty … it creates the environment where you are susceptible to conflict,” he said.

DO YOU GET IT YET? THE WHITE MAN, the WESTERN HUMAN (sic) is the fucking enemy, controlled by, guess?

Top 20 Poorest Countries in the World in 2026

And we have failed collectively. Off with their heads? Fucking the rich need to be tortured. Thrown in a dump of their doing.

GUTTED and splayed, the rich and their Eichmanns, man, and if you shudder from that, then, as Mister Fish says, be part of the 6,000,000 who unsubscribe:

Here, part of the websites all over the Jew-Net:

Shit: Six million was the number commonly assigned for the number of Jews who died without mercy in the Nazi Holocaust. A much larger figure – fourteen to sixteen million or even eighteen million – was usually assigned to the full number of those who died in the Nazi holocaust These were not soldiers, or accidental civilian victims of the war, so it was said. These were civilians chosen for racial, religious, cultural, or political reasons for destruction along with the Jews. To the best of our present knowledge, the number of victims in this other holocaust is nine to ten million.

In 1948, 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their lands and homes in the territory that became part of the state of Israel. Almost 1/3 of them fled to Gaza, not knowing they would be trapped forever in 1% of historic Palestine. What we’re witnessing in Gaza today, and across the occupied Palestinian territories, is the continuation of 75 years of Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians. There are currently 600,000 internally displaced Palestinians in central and southern Gaza (OCHA) as a result of Israel’s most recent violent assault on the besieged population. At the same time, Israeli settlers have intensified violent attacks against Palestinian communities across the West Bank. This past week, 8 villages comprising 87 families were forced to leave their homes (B’Tselem). Under international law, it is illegal for an occupying power to forcibly displace residents of the occupied territory.



We are re-sharing this 2013 visual, which depicts the multiple facets of displacement and loss of land in Palestine over the past century.

Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has destroyed or severely damaged a total of 89,000 buildings in Gaza, including 104 belonging to the UN.

The cost of the war in Gaza, including damage to infrastructure, roads, electricity, water networks, and agricultural land, is estimated to total $30 billion.

In the West Bank, Israel partially or completely demolished 659 buildings and facilities in 2023.

Additionally, demolition orders were issued for 1,333 Palestinian facilities on the grounds of lacking permits.

Also in 2023, Jewish settlers and Israeli forces carried out 12,161 attacks against Palestinians and their properties, including 3,808 against properties and religious sites, 707 against lands and natural resources, and 7,646 against individuals.

The attacks resulted in damage to around 21,700 trees, including 18,964 olive trees.

And, here is Final Solution Blinken, that Genocide Antony: Jews in Paradise:

During his tenure, Blinken repeatedly asserted that the legal charge of genocide against Israel—specifically the landmark case filed by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ)—is “meritless”. He and other Biden administration officials argued that the term “genocide” is misapplied, countering that Israel maintains a right to self-defense following the October 7 attacks by Hamas

Thank you very much, and good morning, everyone. Stu, thank you for those very kind words, but also thank you for so many decades of extraordinary service to this country and to its ideals.

This is something of a sacred place for me. Every time I walk through these doors, it has the same impact. And so I’m grateful to Sara and her leadership of this institution; Naomi, who walked us through the extraordinary exhibit on the story, the plight of the Rohingya that we’ll be talking about today. I urge everyone: Come, see this. Experience this. It will speak incredibly powerful to you.

To the entire team behind this essential institution, behind the exhibit, thank you for your enduring efforts to teach us the darkest parts of history – and the work you’re doing to strive that the past does not become prologue. It’s your efforts that make this museum a living memorial. That is the incredible enduring power of this institution.

One of the unsettling truths of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is that there’s never a time I visit here when its lessons do not feel deeply resonant. But I have to tell you, I can recall few times when that history felt so urgent, or the responsibility it imparts on all of us so pressing.

As we meet, the Russian Government continues to wage its unprovoked, brutal war on Ukraine. Each day brings more harrowing attacks, more innocent men, women, and children killed.

That includes the five people who were killed in a strike on March 1st, on a TV tower and the surrounding area on the outskirts of Kyiv, the same site where, just over 80 years ago, 33,771 Jews were killed by the Nazis in just 2 days. Babyn Yar.

Ukraine is home to nearly 10,000 Holocaust survivors, including an 88-year-old woman, Natalia Berezhnaya of Odessa. Here’s what she said in a recent interview, and I quote: “It’s hard to wrap my mind around the fact that in 1941, I had to hide in the basement of this building, and that I’m going to have to do that again now.”

The Kremlin has tried to justify this war by falsely claiming that it’s intervening to stop genocide, abusing the term that we reserve for the gravest atrocities, disrespecting every victim of this heinous crime. Yet even as we are working to increase international pressure on the Kremlin to end this unjustified war, we know there are many other places in the world where horrific atrocities are being committed. Over recent weeks, as I’ve spoken with diplomats from around the world about Ukraine, I’ve also heard a constant refrain. Many of them say, “Yes, we stand with the people of Ukraine. But we must also stand with the people suffering atrocities in other places.”

Like Xinjiang, where the Chinese Government continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other minority groups. Like the atrocities committed in the conflict in Ethiopia by all parties to that conflict, as well as by Eritrean forces. And like the recent flare-up in Darfur, Sudan, which raises alarming echoes of past acts of genocide by Bashir’s government forces and the Janjaweed. Standing with victims of atrocities is what brings me here today.

One of my responsibilities as Secretary is determining, on behalf of the United States, whether atrocities have been committed. It’s an immense responsibility that I take very seriously, particularly given my family’s history.

Beyond the Holocaust, the United States has concluded that genocide was committed seven times. Today marks the eighth, as I have determined that members of the Burmese military committed genocide and crimes against humanity against Rohingya.

It’s a decision that I reached based on reviewing a factual assessment and legal analysis prepared by the State Department, which included detailed documentation by a range of independent, impartial sources, including human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, as well as our own rigorous fact-finding.

Among those sources was a joint report, published in November 2017, by the museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide and the human rights group, Fortify Rights; and the museum’s determination, in December 2018, that there is compelling evidence that Burmese military committed crimes against humanity and genocide against Rohingya.

Given the gravity of this determination, it was also important that this administration conduct its own analysis of the facts and the law. (Inaudible) instances, the military used similar tactics targeting Rohingya: the razing of villages, killing, rape, torture, and other horrific abuses.

The military’s attacks in 2016 forced nearly 100,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh. In 2017, attacks killed more than 9,000 Rohingya, and forced more than 740,000 to seek refuge in Bangladesh.

EBONY and IVORY: Jew York Times, man, and they call it Western News Media, when it’s Jewish News Media!!!! The truth, man, the fucking TRUTH.

NOW? This is the feces world we live in, thanks to the controlled and convoluted and colonized OPPOSITION. Tuck Pads Carlson? Human STAIN.

Sent to me by still and formerly and always incarcerated, Mister FISH, North Arkansas, AKA, Wisconsin…… Tucker Pad Carlson and VD Vance.

Watch This If You Want to See Propaganda in Motion: Alex Bruesewitz on Tucker

This interview was damn near impossible to sit through. Alex Bruesewitz walked onto Tucker’s set like a pre‑programmed propaganda bot. Every answer, every pivot, every fake “insight” was rehearsed to serve one purpose: protect Trump, attack anyone who steps out of line, and smear anti‑war voices as if they’re some foreign‑funded psy‑op…

“This interview was damn near impossible to sit through. Alex Bruesewitz walked onto Tucker’s set like a pre‑programmed propaganda bot. Every answer, every pivot, every fake “insight” was rehearsed to serve one purpose: protect Trump, attack anyone who steps out of line, and smear anti‑war voices as if they’re some foreign‑funded psy‑op.

The whole thing reeked of controlled opposition. He wasn’t there to inform anyone. He wasn’t there to debate. He wasn’t there to expose anything real. He was there to run cover.

He came in with a clear agenda:

trash Thomas Massie, trash Marjorie Taylor Greene, and defend Trump’s every move like his life depends on it. He even had the nerve to say we “don’t need more Epstein files,” and then turned around and bashed Massie for pushing for transparency.

And the way he talked down to the audience — like we’re too stupid to notice the contradictions — was insulting. He kept lumping pro‑war paid accounts together with anti‑war activists, as if the people calling for peace are somehow the ones being funded. Meanwhile, war is a trillion‑dollar business. Everyone knows the money is on the other side.

But Bruesewitz pretends otherwise because that’s his job. This barely out of puberty idiot thinking WE are the idiots.

He’s not a strategist. He’s not a thinker. He’s a social‑media mercenary who gets paid to manipulate narratives and attack whoever threatens the script. And the script right now is simple: protect Trump, smear dissent, and pretend the GOP isn’t eating itself alive.

The fake “fight” with Mark Levin? Please. That’s theater. Controlled opposition fighting controlled opposition to make it look like there’s a real ideological battle happening. There isn’t. They’re all marching in the same direction…to the same beat.

Watching this interview wasn’t enlightening — it was stomach churning. But it’s useful if you want to understand how these people operate. This is how propaganda is packaged now: young, loud, hyper‑online operatives pretending to be “truth tellers” while running the same tired manipulation playbook.

If you can tolerate the nausea, watch it.

Not to learn from him — but to see exactly how they try to play you.”

The soulless faces of Judaism.

GQ Magazine for Genocide:

Deplorables for Genocide.

BLue Monica Dress for Genocide:

Our Jewish VP and POTUS:

Which countries DO NOT buy weapons from the Jews and the U$A?

The Rothschilds and 319 Jewish Billionaires and others in their lot:

Back to the Jew TUBE: YouTube is owned by Google, which operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of its parent conglomerate, Alphabet Inc. Google acquired the video-sharing platform back in November 2006 for $1.65 billion in stock.

Jew TUBE?

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin collectively hold roughly 51% to 51.7% of the total voting power. They maintain this outsized control through special Class B “super-voting” shares, which grant them 10 votes per share.

Jews:

Facing dozens of accusations of underage sex trafficking that should have been prosecuted on a federal level, Epstein instead had the most egregious charges shelved in favor of lesser state charges in exchange for pleading guilty. As a result, Epstein served fewer than four months in jail before he was given a unique arrangement in which he was allowed to leave prison for 16 hours a day, six days a week under a work release program.

Now thanks to documents released by the Department of Justice, new details have been revealed about the privileges Epstein was granted, including an SUV that was specially outfitted for sex.

For his work release, Epstein was transported daily between jail and his downtown office in an SUV that had been equipped with a bed. Along the way, says a woman interviewed by the FBI, the SUV would park in the prison parking lot where she and Epstein would have sex.

According to the woman, she was a former model from Slovakia whom Epstein had begun grooming when she was in high school, and by the time he was arrested, they’d been sexually involved for several years. While some have suggested that the woman was responsible for recruiting Epstein’s victims, she was one of four “assistants” given immunity in exchange for his “sweetheart deal.” The two then, she asserted, maintained their sexual liaison while he was technically imprisoned — a situation allowed by members of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department, who she said were on friendly terms with Epstein.

A woman is suing the billionaire investor Leon Black, accusing him of raping her at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse when she was 16 years old.

The lawsuit describes in gruesome detail the woman’s account of a sexual assault that left her bleeding and sobbing. Her lawyers say that the woman, identified as Jane Doe, has autism and a rare form of Down syndrome that has left her “developmentally… about 12 years old.”

I know! I know, let’s read the Talmud instead.

QUOTES FROM THE JEWISH TALMUD:

1. Sanhedrin 59a: “Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal.”

2. Abodah Zara 26b: “Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed.”

3. Sanhedrin 59a: “A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death.”

to 4. Libbre David 37: “To communicate anything to a Goy about our religious relations would be equal the killing of all Jews, for If the Goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly.”

5. Libbre David 37: “If a Jew be called upon to explaln any part of the rabbinic books, he ought to give only a false explanation. Who ever will vlolate this order shall be put to death.”

6. Yebhamoth 11b: “Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age.”

7. Schabouth Hag. 6d: “Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording.”

8. Hilkkoth Akum X1: “Do not save Goyim in danger of death.”

9. Hilkkoth Akum X1: “Show no mercy to the Goyim.”

10. Choschen Harmm 388, 15: “If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideratlon to wipe him off the face of the earth.”

11. Choschen Hamm 266,1: “A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by se doing, Christians will pralse the Jews and look upon them as honorable people.”

12. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dla 17: “A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks If our books contain anything against them.”

13. Baba Necia 114, 6: “The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts.”

14. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: “When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves.”

15. Nidrasch Talploth, p. 225-L: “Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night.”

16. Aboda Sarah 37a: “A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated.”

17. Gad. Shas. 2:2: “A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl.”

18. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: “If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but If a Jew kills a goy, he Is NOT responsible.”

It 19. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: “It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. Is permitted to kill him even before he denounces.”

20. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: “All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples.”

HERO: Understanding the U.S. and Israel’s illegal war on Iran

The illegal U.S.-Israeli war on Iran continues a rampage that has devastated countries and international institutions to eliminate all obstacles to U.S. hegemony. The U.S.-Israel Axis has not succeeded yet, and it is up to the world to stop them.

By Craig Mokhiber March 1, 2026

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after joint press conference, Monday, September 29, 2025, in the State Dining Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

Once again, the U.S.-Israel Axis has launched an unnecessary, unprovoked, and deeply immoral attack against the sovereign nation of Iran.

But what is largely missing from Western corporate media coverage of the attack is that it is also an entirely unlawful, indeed criminal act.

And that the armed Iranian response, as a matter of international law, is both justified and entirely lawful.

Western media audiences are being spoon-fed the usual false narrative, framed as it is by the state perpetrators of the aggression, the war profiteers, and Zionist proxies. War is peace. Peace is a threat. Aggression is self-defense. Self-defense is aggression. The victim is the perpetrator. And the perpetrator is the victim.

On Saturday morning, Axis bombs rained down on the capital Tehran and on cities across Iran, targeting civilian and military targets alike, and leaving a massive trail of blood and destruction.

The Axis unleashed massive destruction on the country’s infrastructure, killed hundreds in the first attacks, wounded hundreds more, assassinated Iranian leaders, and killed some 150 civilians in a single strike on a school, many of them school girls aged 10-12.

In the now-familiar pattern of perfidy for which the Axis has become infamous, the U.S. feigned participation in a diplomatic process of negotiations as a smokescreen for its war preparations, before launching a treacherous blitzkrieg attack alongside its Israeli regime ally.

In fact, the attack was launched just hours after Omani mediators announced publicly that a major breakthrough had been reached whereby Iran had both affirmed that it would not pursue nuclear weapons, and, in surrender of its sovereign rights to develop peaceful nuclear energy, it would also commit to not accumulate the nuclear material that could create a weapon.

Nuclear hypocrisy

Indeed, Iran has long renounced the quest for nuclear weapons, has codified this into its national laws and directives, has ratified the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), has opened itself to international inspections, and even entered into a formal agreement with the U.S. and others that would prevent them from developing nuclear weapons (the JCPOA) later abandoned not by Iran but by Donald Trump, at the insistence of his Israel proxy donors.

But, of course, all who have been paying attention know all too well that Iran was not attacked because it has nuclear weapons. Rather, it was bombed because it does not have nuclear weapons and therefore is viewed by the Axis as a defeatable target (despite its size and conventional military capabilities), and the final major domino standing against Axis hegemony and Israeli dominance in the Western Asia region.

What’s more, the hypocrisy of the Axis claims is stunning. The only party in the region that does have stockpiles of nuclear weapons (entirely undeclared and unsupervised) is the Israeli regime, which was joined in attacking Iran by another nuclear power, the U.S. (which, under Trump, has withdrawn from the INF Treaty, rejected extension of the New START Treaty, and, as noted, withdrawn from the JCPOA).

In other words, two rogue nuclear powers have sought to justify their attacks on a third state that has no nuclear weapons by invoking nuclear control and non-proliferation.

Add to this the fact that, while Iran has not initiated a war with any other country in some two centuries, the U.S. and the Israeli regime are together responsible for most of the military aggression in today’s world, with attacks in recent years on Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, Venezuela, Qatar, and Iran, as well as boats in the Mediterranean and in the Caribbean.

No other country on the planet even comes close to the violent record of the U.S. or of Israel.

At the same time, both countries are headed by violent, far-right, racist governments with records of extreme lawlessness. Both have joined together to perpetrate a genocide in Palestine. And both are headed by serial war criminals.

Indeed, Trump has attacked more countries (10) than any other President in U.S. history (not an easy record to break), demonstrating unprecedented recidivism for the crime of aggression, has murdered boat crews in the Caribbean, has attacked students and human rights defenders at home, and has unleashed violent, armed, xenophobic paramilitaries on people in U.S. cities.

For his part, Netanyahu is literally an indicted fugitive from justice, charged with crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, and he heads a regime that has been declared to be guilty of apartheid, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Any fair assessment could only conclude that the focus on Iranian leadership and weaponry, in this context, is as absurd as it is dangerous.

The prostitution of human rights

The manifest weakness of the nuclear justification for Axis aggression against Iran has forced them to construct an alternative propaganda script to defend its aggression, one at least as absurd as the nuclear ruse.

This claim, recycled from earlier U.S. aggressions in Iraq and Libya, is that the Axis is intervening to protect the human rights of the Iranian people.

Let me say that again: The U.S. and the Israeli regime have attempted to justify their bloody attacks on the basis of human rights, a claim that would be comical if it were not so deadly.

This is not to suggest that Iran does not have human rights problems. Every country does, and Iran is no exception.

But the idea that these two rogue states, both of which have horrendous human rights records, and which have represented the principal sources of suffering across Western Asia for eight decades, are somehow motivated by concern for human rights, is preposterous.

The Israeli regime, widely recognized as one of the most brutal in modern history, has claimed that one of its motives for attacking Iran is the defense of human rights.

The same Israeli regime with a record that includes eight decades of violent colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, ethno-supremacist governance, race-based mass incarceration, systematic torture and abuse, summary executions, state-sponsored pogroms, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

The same Israeli regime that is on trial for genocide in the International Court of Justice, and the leaders of which are indicted for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.

The same Israeli regime that for decades has murdered countless Iranians in successive assassinations, military attacks, and acts of sabotage.

The same Israeli regime that deployed spy agencies and armed groups just two months ago to hijack peaceful protests in order to carry out violent attacks and destabilize the country.

The same Israeli regime that, with its U.S. ally, murdered over a thousand Iranians in unlawful attacks just eight months ago.

And the same U.S. government that has terrorized the globe with repeated acts of violent aggression, attacked human rights defenders inside the U.S. and abroad, and sanctioned UN human rights officials and ICC judges, and prosecutors.

The same U.S. government that has used its military and intelligence agencies to violate human rights all around the globe, murdered boat crews in the Caribbean, and kidnapped the president of Venezuela.

The same U.S. government that systematically opposes the UN human rights agenda, rejects international human rights treaties, and works to obstruct international human rights mechanisms.

The same U.S. government that has persecuted minorities, migrants, dissidents, protesters, peace activists, and students at home, allied itself with the most oppressive forces in the Middle East and beyond, and has participated actively in genocide in Palestine.

And the same U.S. government that has violated the human rights of the Iranian people for more than 70 years, overthrowing the democratically elected government and installing a brutal dictator before the revolution, and later imposing crippling sanctions, carrying out sabotage, launching military attacks, destabilizing the currency, and sowing violence against civilians in an effort to overthrow the government.

The claim that the same forces that have violated human rights in Iran for decades are now killing Iranians in order to restore their human rights is an affront to the Iranian people, to the many victims of the U.S.-Israel Axis around the world, and to the very notion of human rights.

Wagging the dog

The U.S. has carried out these criminal attacks despite the fact that they are manifestly contrary to U.S. obligations under international law, contrary to U.S. domestic law, contrary to the economic, national security, diplomatic, and reputational interests of the U.S., and contrary to the wishes of the majority of the people of the U.S.

It has committed billions of dollars in military spending to carry out the aggression and has launched a war that will disrupt global energy markets in ways that will certainly negatively impact the U.S. (and global) economy.

It has jeopardized its relations with key U.S. allies in the region, who had worked hard to prevent the Axis attacks on Iran.

And it has put its soldiers at physical risk (with the first casualties of U.S. soldiers already announced), and its commanders and politicians in potential legal jeopardy for aggression and war crimes.

What could possibly explain Trump’s decision to opt for such self-inflicted wounds to U.S. interests?

The answer, in a word, is Israel.

The Israeli regime and its proxies and lobbies in the U.S. have worked for decades to achieve precisely this outcome.

The rise to power of Donald Trump, his appointment of a cadre of extreme Zionists, and his securing of hundreds of millions of dollars in donations from Israel proxies and lobbyists (and perhaps his exposure in the Epstein files) have provided the perfect opportunity for the Israeli regime to compel the U.S. to sacrifice its own interests on behalf of the regime.

And, to the joy of indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, it is doing precisely this.

Whistling the old ‘regime change’ tune

The scenario that has emerged is eerily familiar, drawn as it is directly from the Iraq playbook: scream “WMDs,” shift to “human rights” when the WMD claim fails, and then, having launched your war of aggression, reveal your true hand and admit that it was all about “regime change.”

And, indeed, once the aggression on Iran had been launched, both Trump and Netanyahu publicly announced the real motives for the attack – regime change, a revelation that surprised precisely no one.

Thus, the ultimate goal of the U.S.-Israel Axis is to destroy the government of Iran and to either install a puppet regime loyal to and directed by U.S. imperialism and submissive to Israeli Zionism, or, failing that, to destabilize, crush, and balkanize Iran so that its natural resources can be commandeered by the West, and it can never challenge the hegemony of the Axis.

Their preferred candidate for puppet ruler appears to be Reza Pahlavi, the U.S.-resident son of the former, CIA-installed, Iranian dictator Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was overthrown in a popular revolution in 1979.

Pahlavi has lived a privileged life in exile, supported by wealth channeled out of Iran before the revolution, by wealthy monarchists, and by U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies.

Having declared himself “Reza Shah II, the Shah of Iran” after his father’s death in 1980, Pahlavi has worked for decades, reportedly with the help of the CIA and the Mossad, to cultivate a constituency among Iranians in the diaspora, and to lobby for violent regime change in Iran.

While he has won the support of some conservative monarchists and Zionists, he is rejected by more progressive Iranian exiles, has often been referred to derisively as “the Clown Prince,” and has very little support of any kind within Iran itself.

Of course, even if the Axis were to succeed in its nefarious regime change goals, there is no guarantee that Pahlavi would actually be installed as the puppet of the Axis.

What is important to them is not who dances on the strings, but rather who pulls them. And empires and colonizers never have much difficulty in finding amoral quislings and pliant vassals to front for their projects of subjugation.

The crime of crimes

Thus, the attack on Iran by the U.S.-Israel Axis is self-evidently immoral, unwise, and indefensible. But it is also blatantly illegal.

The Axis has paraded out the usual mouthpieces of U.S. imperialism, Israeli Zionism, predatory neoconservatism, and Iranian monarchism to dust off old, discredited arguments about “preemptive war” and “anticipatory self-defense.”

This, as any international lawyer can tell you, and as I have written before, is utter nonsense.

Simply put, the unprovoked attack on Iran by the U.S.-Israel Axis is a crime under international law.

Article 51 of the UN Charter recognizes the right of self-defense only in response to an “armed attack,” or when specifically authorized by the Security Council.

Any other armed attack constitutes the crime of aggression, which was deemed “the supreme international crime,” and “the crime of crimes” by participants in the Nuremburg Tribunal.

That means that the Axis is using force against Iran unlawfully, in violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, prohibiting the threat or use of force, and, as such, is committing the crime of aggression.

In this case, as a matter of law, the right to use force (in self-defense) belongs to Iran, and decidedly not to Israel or the U.S.

Furthermore, contrary to Axis claims, international law does not allow for so-called “anticipatory self-defense” or so-called “pre-emptive strikes.” These are simply acts of aggression, as a matter of law.

Indeed, the intent of the UN Charter (a binding treaty) was to prohibit claims of self-defense unless and until an armed attack has occurred, or military force is authorized by the Security Council, neither of which applies in this case.

Even the now-defunct 19th-century customary international law idea of anticipatory self-defense, argued by some before the adoption of the UN Charter, did not go as far as the distortions asserted by the Axis and its proxies.

Before the Charter was adopted in 1945, the Caroline Test allowed anticipatory self-defense only if the threat was “instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation,” clearly not the case in the Axis attacks on Iran.

As I have written before, others have tried to carve out a middle ground, claiming anticipatory action may be permissible whenever an attack is deemed “imminent.”

But this, too, is a dubious argument, since there is no hint of such an exception in modern international law. And, in any event, in the current case, no such attack was imminent, and the Axis does not even claim that it was.

And as we have seen in previous U.S. and Israeli acts of aggression against Iran, the Axis often tries to distort the idea of anticipatory self-defense even further by claiming the right to attack anybody who might someday in the future decide to attack Israel or the U.S.

Their argument, absurd on its face, is that Iran may one day develop nuclear weapons, that it may use them on Israel or the U.S. if it develops them, and that therefore the Axis has no choice but to attack Iran now.

As a matter of international law, this argument is entirely without merit.

Clearly, if that were the rule, any state could lawfully attack any other state at any time, just by claiming a potential future threat. And that would effectively annul the UN Charter and plunge the world into a state of permanent, unrelenting violence.

But even under the broadest possible arguments of anticipatory self-defense (which, again, is rejected by almost the entire discipline of public international law), the attacks on Iran would still be illegal.

This is not a hard case. (1) Iran does not have nuclear weapons, (2) there is no evidence that it is developing nuclear weapons, (3) there is no evidence that it would use those weapons against the Israeli regime even if it obtained them, (4) there was no imminent threat, and (5) the Axis powers have not exhausted peaceful means, as required by international law.

And to close the case definitively, even the actual possession of nuclear weapons by a state is not a lawful justification for an armed attack on the state. If it were, any state could lawfully launch an attack on the U.S. or the Israeli regime at any time, as both are nuclear-armed states.

In sum, the attack on Iran is a quintessential case of unlawful aggression, the supreme crime in international law, and, to make matters worse, is being perpetrated by the same Axis of countries that is currently perpetrating the other crime of crimes, genocide.

There is, however, one party to this conflict that does have a legal right to use armed force in this situation. That is Iran.

And, indeed, Iran, having been subjected to an unlawful armed attack by the U.S. and Israel, has responded in self-defense, as is its lawful right under Article 51 of the UN Charter, and has duly notified the UN Security Council accordingly.

War crimes

Beyond the crime of aggression, the Axis attacks on Iran have included a number of other grave breaches of international humanitarian law – in other words, war crimes.

As of the drafting of this article, the attacks have already killed hundreds of Iranians, many of them civilians.

Alongside military targets, the Axis has attacked civilian neighborhoods, apartment buildings, civilian infrastructure, and at least one high school and one primary school for girls.

Such acts, on their face, violate the principle of distinction and the prohibition of targeting protected persons and protected civilian infrastructure.

Axis targeting of civilian infrastructure (e.g., apartment buildings) could not pass the international humanitarian law tests of precaution, distinction, or proportionality, and is thus unlawful.

Particularly serious, as a matter of both law and humanity, is the Axis attacks (for the second time in months) on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Attacks on dangerous facilities, such as nuclear power plants and other facilities containing what the law calls “dangerous forces,” are generally prohibited in international humanitarian law. The International Atomic Energy Agency itself has affirmed that such attacks are prohibited in international law and are a violation of the UN Charter.

These facilities are protected under international law due to the potential for severe harm to the civilian population in the event of an attack. And while, in theory, there may be circumstances in which such attacks are allowed, in practice, it would be almost impossible for a warring party to meet the conditions for lawfully attacking such facilities.

The only circumstances in which it may be permitted are when (1) these facilities are directly used for military purposes (like launching attacks), and (2) there is a legitimate military objective, and (3) the attack is necessary for that objective, and (4) an effective warning is given, and (5) the military action meets the legal tests of precaution, distinction, and proportionality.

Such a standard is almost impossible to satisfy with regard to a nuclear facility, because of the risk of radiation leaks and dissemination and the potential for widespread civilian harm.

And, in the Iranian case, none of the necessary conditions exist.

International humanitarian law also prohibits any means of warfare that are intended or may be expected to cause widespread, long-term, and severe damage to the natural environment.

And the law of neutrality requires that parties to the conflict must not cause transborder damage to a neutral state due to the use of a weapon in a belligerent state, which would be inevitable with the release of nuclear emissions.

As such, the U.S.-Israel Axis attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities are unlawful.

An unholy alliance

The U.S.-Israel Axis has been on a violent rampage for more than two years now, leaving a trail of blood and destruction everywhere in its wake. Iran is but the latest target in what has been an orgy of aggression and genocide all too familiar in centuries past, but unprecedented in modern, post-World War II history.

Indeed, driven by the same kind of imperial, far-right, supremacist, colonial, and militarist ideology that cursed the planet with the Second World War, the Axis is determined to impose its brutal form of domination across Western Asia and beyond, and to turn back the clock to a darker chapter in our collective history.

Central to this villainous project has been the systematic dismantling of any post-war guardrails, with assaults on the United Nations, international tribunals like the ICC and ICJ, independent human rights mechanisms like the Special Rapporteur on Palestine, and on international law itself, all to ensure the absolute impunity of the Israeli regime and the U.S. empire.

They are betting that nations of the world and international institutions can either be cowed or corrupted into servile acquiescence or crushed into the dust of history. That even the brightest red lines of the modern legal order – the prohibition of aggression and of genocide – can be erased at the will of the perpetrators.

And, indeed, thus far, the leaders of far too many states and international institutions have proven them right. Free nations have fallen like dominoes. Rules of international law have crumbled. Institutions cower at the fascistic roar of the Axis. Victims and the vulnerable are left to bleed and die alone without succor or solidarity, as trepidatious leaders hide in the shadows, too terrified to challenge the onslaught.

Defeating the two-headed Orthus

But the two-headed Orthus of U.S. imperialism and Israeli Zionism has not won yet.

The Iranian people are fighting back. Resistance groups across the region are preparing to stand in solidarity. The Palestinian people are teaching the world the meaning of sumud and steadfastness. Perpetrators are being called to account in courts of law. Unions and dockworkers, and social movements across the West are standing to fight back from within the belly of the beast.

Students, human rights defenders, peace activists, and ordinary people everywhere are rising up in record numbers to resist the darkness and to stand in solidarity with those in the crosshairs of fascism and empire, even in the face of unprecedented repression.

In their millions, they are resisting, and protesting, and demonstrating, and striking, and boycotting, and divesting, and taking direct action and civil disobedience, and exposing and prosecuting perpetrators, and voting against the corrupt and complicit, and blowing away the fog of propaganda to educate their neighbors in the truth.

Their message is a lighted path out of this darkness: No to impunity. No to imperialism. No to Zionism. No to fascism. No to militarism. No to Aggression. And no to genocide.

A world without moral or legal red lines is not a livable world. But this is our fate if we do not rise to meet the moment. And the moment is now.

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Craig Mokhiber

Craig Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and former senior United Nations Official. He left the UN in October of 2023, penning a widely read letter that warned of genocide in Gaza, criticized the international response and called for a new approach to Palestine and Israel based on equality, human rights and international law.