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No matter how hard I try, I can’t seem to not read way too many of the stories about Trump’s Folly, the US and Israel attack on Iran. I fool myself, as I read, thinking I can figure out what the frick they think they are doing, and how this will turn out. Any silver lining in these dark clouds of war so far is escaping me.

The best I can figure from the cheap seats thousands of miles away is simple and maybe simple-minded. Trump and Netanyahu seem to have taken a war to Iran, because they could, and because they both think they will never have Iran in a weaker position than they now. They have no idea how this will turn out. They’ve crossed their fingers and are hoping they throw a bunch of missiles in that direction and somehow it will come out all right.

Israel and the United States launched a joint attack on various targets in Iran. The operation, codenamed Roaring Lion by Israel and Operation Epic Fury by the U.S. The more appropriate name for such a joint unprovoked attack on Iran should be "Operation Epstein Fury." Reason? 

A declassified FBI memo from the Epstein files includes incendiary allegations about US President Donald Trump. The memo says that Trump was “compromised by Israel," that convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein worked with Israeli intelligence, and that a Jewish religious group calling itself Chabad-Lubavitch sought to hijack his first term in office. Source: Middle East Eye, Jan. 24, 2026.

The Associated Press and intelligence sources confirm today that the first strike hit its target in Iran at around 10:00 AM Tehran time on Saturday, February 28, 2026. The morning zero hour was calculated to trick Iran into believing that the ongoing negotiations in Geneva might end the conflict peacefully.

As news broke that the United States and Israel had launched war on Iran, two posts kept showing up over and over on my social media feeds. One was from the Israeli military’s official account, which stated an oft-repeated phrase: “Israel has the right to defend itself.”

The other was a video from the Iranian city of Minab, where the first reports of casualties were emerging. The joint U.S.-Israeli attack had hit a girls’ elementary school; the death toll kept ticking higher and higher. At the time of publication, Iranian authorities said 108 people, mostly schoolchildren, had been killed in the strike, with many more injured.

The US Department of Energy announces record $26.5 billion loan to Georgia/Alabama Power

In January, President Trump's Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it was canceling or "de-obligating" $83 billion of a total $104 billion in loan commitments made for wind and solar projects - leaving approximately $19 billion in federal loans for all renewable energy projects nationwide.

In contrast, this week the same DOE announced it would loan $26.5 billion to Georgia Power and Alabama Power, both subsidiaries of the Southern Company.

Georgia Power customers have seen their rates increase by over 40 percent during the past two years. One reason for this increase often cited is the $36 billion price tag for two recently completed nuclear reactors that opened their Vogtle power plant.

These increases came despite a 2024 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) analysis that found that Georgia Power was the most profitable utility in the nation, earning over $92 in net operating income per customer per month.

Senators propose to bring back 5 percent safe harbor

Trump’s latest attack on Iran primarily means to shred the last lines of American democracy and enthrone Trump as forever warlord/dictator.  

Formally known as “Operation Epic Fury,” it’s really “Operation Epstein Desperation.”

Here are a baker’s dozen of its many pillars:

1. THE EPSTEIN BOMB:  The Epstein/FBI files may definitively confirm that Trump has indeed abused underage women.  At least one Trump victim may be set to testify. Bill Clinton’s appearance before Congress erased any alleged barrier against ex-Presidents testifying in a public hearing.  

2. MAGA RAGE:  Final proof of his pedophilia could shatter Trump’s core MAGA support.  The fate of the pedo formerly known as Prince Andrew is a red flag.  As is the relentless fury of once-devoted MAGA women like Marjorie Taylor Greene, and among Christian Nationalist men who are actual Christians.  Thus Trump’s wag-the-dog desperation for a military diversion.

Today the Trump Administration, at the behest of the decrepit Netanyahu government, was instrumental in the bombing of a girls’ elementary school, killing 57 children. Let that sink in. Journey to the center of the world of American leaders’ madness and ruin to see desperate Iranian parents picking through rubble, searching for any signs of their little girls.

Now tell those parents, as we are being told, that America has done this so the Iranian people can be free. It’s the Empire’s new equation, Freedom = Death.

This murderous approach that the Trump Administration has wantonly indulged is identical to the policy of the Netanyahu government to bomb schools in Gaza and to murder innocent children as a (psychopathic) determination of heading off retribution in the future. The murder of children has become a state sacrament.

This is, in fact, an extension of the Epstein saga, the destruction of innocence through child rape, murder and cannibalism by powerful people whose thirst for blood will never be slaked in this cartwheeling carnival of human sacrifice called war.

So now the die is cast and the United States has joined Israel in an unprovoked attack on a non-threatening Iran to destroy its military capabilities and to bring about regime change. This is a major mis-step that could easily turn out very badly as it is a pointless war of choice that could easily escalate to neighboring states and become nuclear if a reckless Israel decides it needs to “defend” itself against an Iranian response. US Navy vessels might also find themselves vulnerable to Iranian missiles.

As we all predicted, the Israeli regional war started against the wishes of
the world of course with US partnership and blessing. US supplied jets fly
overhead refueled by US jets, protected by the US anti-missile umbrella and
US Navy.  The sirens are blazing. The US government had asked for mandatory
urgent evacuation of US citizens here in occupied Palestine. Did the
200,000 dual Israeli-US citizens leave? Did the 12500 of those who are
currently serving in the Israeli military and committing crimes and
genocide leave? There are wars and rumors of more war.

I on the other hand work 15 hours a day (as a volunteer) seven days a week
with staff and volunteers building institutions and working with thousands
of people towards a better future not just in Bethlehem and Palestine but
globally. People were being butchered in Gaza and surviving ones are hungry
and cold in tents blockaded and besieged. We were helping many families,
some who lost many members of their family.

As the illegal war on Iran started which promises to lead to a global
catastrophic war with no winners, Palestine is still the issue as the late

Last night, the United States and Israel launched what can only be described as an unprovoked and illegal attack on Iran. The strikes reportedly targeted several Iranian cities, including the residences of the Supreme Leader and the President, along with other state officials and military and security sites.

Yet beyond the declared military objectives lies a harsher reality: non-military areas were hit, homes were reduced to rubble, and civilians paid the price. In Minab, a girls’ elementary school was struck, leaving dozens of children dead or wounded under what were cynically framed as “liberating bombs.” In Kermanshah, the residential neighborhood of Pardis was also attacked. Whatever the stated aims, the human toll is undeniable.

There are also reports that the Islamic Republic has launched dozens of missiles toward Israel, as well as toward Bahrain, Qatar, and Iraq—where U.S. military installations are located—raising the specter of a wider regional war. This escalation unfolds against the backdrop of years of conflict and devastation across Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and beyond.