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The completely unprovoked attack on Iran initiated by the United States and Israel has, after a little more than a week of military action, opened a new depth of geopolitical insanity. As suspected, the attack was all about protecting Israel while also minimizing the damage to US military, intelligence and diplomatic facilities in the Persian Gulf region. In that it has been less than a great success in that there has been reportedly considerable damage done by Iranian missiles and drones in both the Jewish State and at American bases. Iran has also suffered substantially and the US bomb that killed 165 schoolgirls continues to fuel huge demonstrations and rage that is feeding a willingness to resist the United States among the Shia communities both inside Iran and in adjacent states and regions, expanding the conflict.
Brian McGinnis is a hero in a world full of cowards. The former US Marine was protesting in Congress during a Senate hearing against the Iran war “for Israel,” saying many Americans oppose it. Senator Tim Sheehy (R-MT) joined Capitol Police in lifting up and ejecting antiwar protestor McGinnis from a SASC subcommittee hearing. McGinnis is a Green Party candidate running for Senate in N.C.
In the process, they broke the arm of this veteran for protesting this idiotic war. Our government does not give a damn about veterans, not even the President, Sec. of the War, US lawmakers, and even the Capitol police.
As of this point, Brian McGinnis has been detained on multiple assault charges. Neither his court-appointed attorney nor hired attorney have been allowed to speak to him. His wife hasn’t spoken to him. They don’t even know where he is. This is highly unusual and definitely unconstitutional.
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While residing in the United States, Reza Pahlavi, who is the son of the late Shah of Iran, is prepared to die for the freedom of the Iranians.
Reza Pahlavi's own mother rejected him - Farah Pahlavi says Iran's future "must not be decided outside its borders."
A February 28, 2026, message on Twitter from Noor Pahlavi, who is Reza Pahlavi's daughter, to Donald Trump said, "Thank you."
What for? The massacre of 173 schoolgirls ages (7-12) at an elementary school in Iran which British politician and broadcaster George Gallway has described as "the greatest atrocity committed by the United States since the Vietnam War." It is shameful that this spoiled brat would send a praise to Trump instead of her thought and prayers to families of massacred Iranian school girls. I also find it ironic that Reza Pahlavi is prepared to die for Iran's freedom while living in exile.
The United States of America and Israel are bombing schools and killing children in Iran, which the media doesn't want you to see.
In 1933, a circle of Wall Street financiers allegedly hatched a plan to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt. They didn’t want to kill him. They wanted to keep him in his chair, smiling for photographs, while a puppet official — controlled by the men who paid for the operation — ran the country.
This was the during height of the Great Depression. For the average American, life was one in four men out of work, and the other three terrified they were next. Families lived in shacks made of scrap wood and tar paper. Children went to school hungry. Men walked miles every day looking for work that didn’t exist.
The nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran pose two of the most persistent and consequential proliferation challenges facing the United States in the post–Cold War era. Yet while both countries have defied Washington’s preferences, the American response has been strikingly different. With North Korea, the United States has relied on deterrence and containment, accepting a tense but manageable standoff. With Iran, U.S. policy has oscillated between diplomacy, crippling economic sanctions, covert cyber sabotage, and, most recently, direct military strikes. The drumbeat of war with Iran now dominates the headlines once again, raising urgent questions about the strategic logic—and the political pressures—behind Washington’s approach.
These divergent approaches reflect systematic differences in nuclear status, alliance pressures—particularly the influential role of Israel in shaping U.S. policy—regional security dynamics, domestic political constraints, and the geostrategic centrality of the Middle East.
The USA is in a non-war to free Iranian women, like we done here for our Handmaids and of course for the schoolgirls over there, RIP. Let’s review the history of such domination porn through the centuries. People Who Love Deportation don’t love the deportation centers being in their neighborhood. No dog in that race. Meanwhile the Trumpagogue wants his name on every airport, theater, and pair of shoe coverings at airport security. Makes sense. You gotta have a legacy.
Of the five films up for an international Oscar, Sirat is by far the most unsettling.
I say that without fear of contradiction, even though I have yet to see most of its competitors. Watching Spain’s nominee is simply the kind of nerve-wracking experience that few films can match.
French-born director/co-writer Oliver Laxe begins his tale as a massive rave is getting underway in the middle of the Moroccan desert. After arriving in trucks and other weather-beaten vehicles, hardcore enthusiasts begin dancing ecstatically to bass-heavy beats that echo against rocky canyon walls.
It’s into this scene that a middle-aged Spaniard named Luis (Sergi Lopez) arrives with his young son, Esteban (Bruno Nunez Arjona). Passing out fliers with pictures of his grown daughter, Luis explains that she’s disappeared to join the raver lifestyle, and he thinks she might be here.
As it turns out, no one has seen her, but Luis learns she could be at an upcoming rave happening far to the south in Mauritania. Then comes an unexpected complication followed by a fateful decision.