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The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 contains statutory language that restructures federal authority. It expands federal preemption, narrows state and local governance, limits judicial oversight, and concentrates decision making inside federal agencies, which increases the risk of regulatory agency capture and weakens the distributed safeguards that protect farmers, public health, and national resilience.

From pesticide liability shields that restrict state tort authority, to clauses that prohibit counties from regulating pesticide use, to interstate livestock provisions that override state production standards, this bill centralizes authority in Washington in ways that favor large industrial actors while increasing farm level risk, weakening health protections, and externalizing long term environmental and medical costs onto taxpayers, driving higher public expenditures and deeper structural debt.

For decades, Washington armed the Persian Gulf Arab states extensively. Expansive military bases, aircraft carrier deployments, integrated air defense systems, and bilateral security agreements were presented as ironclad shields against largely manufactured existential threats—particularly from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iranian state. The United States positioned itself as the ultimate guarantor of Gulf security, promising deterrence through overwhelming force and rapid response capabilities.

This architecture included permanent deployments in Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, alongside continuous naval patrols through the Strait of Hormuz—a chokepoint through which more than 10 percent of global oil supply passes. Gulf governments invested vast sums in American weapons systems on the assumption that U.S. backing would deter aggression and, if necessary, ensure protection. Strategic alignment with Washington and Tel Aviv was framed as the pathway not only to security, but as the gateway to economic growth, technological modernization, and geopolitical relevance.

“The missile hit during the school’s morning session. In Iran, the school week runs from Saturday to Thursday, so when U.S. and Israeli bombs began falling at around 10 a.m. on Saturday, classes were under way. At a point between 10 a.m. and 10.45 a.m., a missile directly hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, in Minab, southern Iran, demolishing its concrete building and killing dozens of seven to 12-year-old girls.” — The Guardian

War is not an abstraction. It’s living hell . . . or dying hell. When the United States and Israel (Trump and Netanyahu) started bombing Iran, I felt the collective human soul begin to vibrate once again, and I began screaming to myself: This is not who we are!

Even though it is.

If you are not paying attention to the dramatic developments between China and the United States, you must understand that something consequential has just taken place.

The US government is backtracking—if not altogether retreating—from the trade war and broader escalation it launched against China. Unlike the hyped language and repeated threats by President Donald Trump to impose massive “reciprocal tariffs,” to “decouple” the US economy from China, and to correct “the greatest theft of wealth in the history of the world,” the retreat is happening in hushed tones and coded diplomatic language.

“I think both countries concluded that having an all-out global trade war between the United States and China would be deeply damaging to both sides and to the world,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on February 25.

He called this new phase one of “strategic stability.”

The latest location where Trump has given the orders to murder people is Iran.

Remember a couple of months back when establishment U.S. lawyers and human rights groups were admitting that Trump’s attacks on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific were nothing other than murder?

Murder doesn’t cease being murder because it’s further away or grander or provokes a more dramatic response or targets victims who speak a different language.

By all means hunt in the Epstein files for evidence of Trump raping or murdering, but don’t pretend we don’t already know.

America's Orange King suggested that Americans should support military action against Iran, claiming it was necessary to eliminate threats from the Iranian regime and protect the American people. We must not forget that the King is a pedophile, racist, misogynist, narcissist and a liar. In this case, the lie is that the American people were in any way threatened by Iran.

I am a patriotic American who despairs at the current state of affairs in America. I hope the American Empire is defeated because I yearn for a peaceful world.

America turned away from peace when the National Security State assassinated President Kennedy in 1963, five months after his American University peace speech. What followed was an effort to continue creation of the American Empire, but there was some restraint. After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was talk of a peace dividend as expressed by George H.W. Bush and Margaret Thatcher. America could finally move towards minimizing the enormous expense of Empire and make Kennedy's dream a reality.

Democracy is invoked as moral legitimacy in war, while Iran’s authority rests on layered political, religious, and historical foundations.

Democracy, however, is not the enemy. Its manipulation is.

For decades, Western political discourse has equated legitimacy with elections—numbers counted on a single day, certified by institutions that themselves operate within systems shaped by immense financial power. The result is a troubling reduction: legitimacy becomes procedural rather than moral.

In the United States, democracy functions within a political economy deeply influenced by corporate financing, lobbying structures, and concentrated media ownership. Public opinion is not merely informed; it is engineered. Electoral competition exists, but within boundaries drawn by wealth and institutional continuity.

The war on Iran has not merely opened a new military front in the Middle East. It has shattered long-standing myths that have shaped US policy and regional politics for decades. What has unfolded in the past days is not simply a battlefield confrontation; it is a historical rupture.

Several narratives that once appeared unassailable have collapsed under the weight of reality. At the same time, theories long dismissed as ideological or exaggerated have been confirmed with startling clarity.

The Myth of American Protection

For decades, Washington has portrayed itself as the ultimate guarantor of regional security. US military bases, aircraft carriers, air defense systems and bilateral security agreements were marketed as shields protecting allies from existential threats.

This war has exposed that promise as hollow.

Despite overwhelming US military presence across the Gulf, regional allies have faced missile alerts, drone incursions and maritime threats. American troops themselves have been killed. Energy infrastructure has been threatened. Shipping routes have been destabilized.