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Iran War: To “Destroy a Civilization”

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POTUS goes rogue (again, and this time it’s worse)

This morning at 8:06 EST, not even two days after Easter, US President Donald J. Trump posted online for all the world to read, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” His dire, bloodcurdling proclamation evoked worldwide condemnation even from America’s allies. Even Pope Leo XIV, himself an American, said Trump’s threat was “truly unacceptable” and violated international law. Some Iranian-Americans who supported Trump’s initial attacks on Iran to topple the regime were taken aback with shock and dismay. Many Americans of all ethnicities across the political spectrum but especially Democrats called for Trump’s cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from the Presidency. If the Cabinet fails to act, then Congress must take up the gauntlet to forcibly remove a sitting president from power. No one expects the MAGA mafia cult, however fractured, to compel any Republican in power to honor their sworn Constitutional duties.

Yesterday Trump openly said he is “not at all concerned” about committing war crimes. He doesn’t “need international law” as he felt strongly his decisions as to what determines US interests is paramount over agreed legal frameworks with other countries. Trump expressed “God (is) on our side,” and spewed a most unprofessional and embarrassing public tirade of profanity for a man representing the Presidency a few days earlier. Presidents are known to curse and write in private, but not in public. Now he threatens to annihilate one of Humanity’s few continuous ancient civilizations. Word is leaked many top military commanders find themselves in a moral and legal quandary. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, one of the most asleep, incompetent, and dangerous persons to ever hold the office, has recently been on yet another purge of top generals and admirals. No public reason was given, and some speculate with good reason those fired officers were reluctant to follow Hegseth’s orders.

Then a short time ago on this same Tuesday the 7th of April Trump announced he has stopped all further US attacks on Iran for two weeks. Iran has accepted or declared a ceasefire via Pakistan also for two weeks, despite initial declarations it would never agree to a ceasefire only to a permanent end to the war. What is the madman’s crazed agenda? There’s seemingly no exit strategy or clear military strategy, period, and certainly no understanding of consequences. Continue reading →

The Already Thirty-Five Years’ War

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1979-2014 and still counting!

Pope Francis denouncing global violence as "a piecemeal Third World War."

Pope Francis denouncing global violence as “a piecemeal Third World War” at Redipuglia Cemetery where 100,000 Italian soldiers killed in the First World War are buried in Italy near its border with Slovenia, 13 September 2014. Agence France Presse (AFP).

We have been engaged in a nearly continuous but rarely acknowledged war for thirty-five years. It began in 1979, twenty-two years before the terror attacks of 9/11. This war is fought around the globe as a patchwork of campaigns between various factions of multiple and shifting alliances. Even Pope Francis recognized this odd and gruesome conflict as a “piecemeal third world war.” Although the combat is small in scale, it has at least two characteristics of a world war: 1) the sheer number of nation-states, stateless-nations, and non-state groups engaged, and 2) fighting and bombing on every continent save Antarctica.

This war has also been called the Middle East’s version of Europe’s Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) and the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453) due to its widespread, confusing, and desultory patterns of overlapping conflicts and aims. Yet this war is barely recognizable as one long war. Even fewer see the direct relationships between the capitalist system and warfare. The more people see and openly acknowledge we have been in an ongoing war for at least 35 years, the greater we experience a long, overdue change of perspective. The sooner more and more people recognize this long war and numerous others are driven largely by capitalism with its systemic exploitation of ethnic and religious divisions to better access and control natural resources and transportation routes, the sooner we develop strategies to end war. A deep shift in perspective may shift how we approach and resolve this conflict. First we need to see what we are doing.

The morning after airstrikes and cruise missile attacks on homes and buildings destroyed by the United States, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates in Syria with France and the U.K. planning to join the campaign against the Islamic State, 24 September 2014.

Two days after the People’s Climate March in 2,200-2,500 cities across the planet and the morning after airstrikes and cruise missile attacks on homes and buildings destroyed by the United States, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates in Syria with France and the U.K., already in Iraq, planning to join Dutch forces in the Syrian campaign against the Islamic State, 24 September 2014.

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