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Following the Twelve-Day War in June 2025, the United States and Israel launched a new war against Iran on February 28, 2026—an illegal war neither authorized by Congress nor supported by the American public. The Trump administration has scrambled to manufacture justifications for this war, attempting to sell it to a skeptical public as a preemptive mission to eliminate a dangerous regime in Tehran. Yet the brutality and authoritarianism of the Iranian state cannot serve as a blank check for foreign aggression. The repression of the Iranian regime is real, but it does not legitimize an unprovoked war carried out in the name of “liberation.”

The struggle against the regime belongs to the Iranian people alone. It is not a cause to be hijacked by Donald Trump or Benjamin Netanyahu, nor a pretext for yet another catastrophic war imposed from outside. Iranians have resisted their rulers for decades—through protests, strikes, and immense personal sacrifice. Their struggle does not need bombs, opportunistic saviors, or cynical geopolitical theater masquerading as humanitarian concern.

From Epstein and MI6 to voter suppression, coups, and the insiders who risk everything to expose them — Kevin Patrick interviews Greg Palast in this three-part special miniseries.

Over the course of more than an hour, investigative journalist Greg Palast spoke candidly about the world’s most powerful people we never get to see — a world of insiders, whistleblowers, secret networks, and the fragile systems that quietly determine the fate of governments, elections, and nations.

The conversation covers allegations involving high-level political figures, intelligence agencies, and the individuals who risk everything to expose what powerful institutions work hard to keep hidden. Palast shares firsthand accounts of undercover investigations, being arrested while reporting on a coup attempt in Kazakhstan, and what happens when journalism crosses paths with real power.

We talked about voter suppression, the systematic removal of tens of thousands of voters, and how entire populations can be quietly blocked from participating in democracy — not just in the past, but today.

Solar will dominate in 2026

Despite the rhetoric coming from Washington politicians and changes in federal policy that favor fossil fuels, clean energy is poised to once again dominate new generation facilities installed across the nation in 2026.

According to the latest estimates from the Energy Information Administration based on existing permits, this year, solar will provide 51 percent of the new utility-scale electricity capacity slated to come online, batteries will deliver 28 percent, and wind will add 14 percent. Natural gas will make up only 7 percent of that new capacity. There are no coal or nuclear power plants scheduled for construction this year. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently issued its first commercial reactor construction permit in nearly a decade to TerraPower for a 345-MW plant in Wyoming, with completion targeted for 2030.

I had a premonition earlier this week, based on this knowledge.

I watched Trump, Hegseth and his team of psychopaths pretend like they are winning in Iran, acting tough, manly and confident. At the same time as suggesting they might be planning to send “boots on the ground”.

The reason there are no stated objectives for the war is that the objective is to turn Iran into a failed state like Libya and Syria.

When we understand the goal, it becomes obvious that Trump will use a nuclear weapon before he will agree to end the war. Rather than settle, he will kill millions (the population of Tehran is 9,840,100).

I had a premonition that Trump will murder millions of people in Iran rather than lose face.

Israel and the rest of the American Empire are heavily censoring information and flooding the zone with propaganda, I want to share with readers the sources that suggest the war is going badly. There is no offsetting information supporting the idea that the Empire is winning. All one has to do is turn on the TV to find that information. What a fool believes.....

Decades before social media existed, sociologist Erving Goffman described social life as a series of performances. Individuals, he argued, present curated versions of themselves depending on the audience they face. Social media did not invent this dynamic—it industrialized it. Today, platforms measure performance in likes, shares, reposts, and views. Attention becomes a currency. Visibility becomes evidence. In this environment, repetition can be mistaken for consensus and prominence for legitimacy. Political authority is no longer built solely through institutions, parties, or policy platforms. It can also be manufactured through algorithmic amplification.

The rise of Donald Trump illustrates this transformation.

Israel’s war on Iran reveals a deeper crisis: the collapse of a psychological doctrine built on fear and invincibility.

Origins of Israel’s Psychological Warfare

Wars are rarely fought only on battlefields. They are also fought in the minds of societies, in the perception of power and vulnerability, and in the political imagination of entire regions. Israel understood this principle early in its history, and psychological dominance became a central component of its military doctrine.

From the earliest years of the Zionist project, the idea that power must appear overwhelming was openly articulated. In 1923, the Revisionist Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky wrote in his famous essay The Iron Wall that Zionism would only succeed once the indigenous population became convinced that resistance was hopeless. Only when Palestinians realized they could not defeat the Zionist project, he argued, would they accept its permanence.

Iran is pursuing a multi-layered strategy—military, economic, political, and diplomatic—to raise the cost of war and prevent regime change.

Iran’s Strategy in the Current War

As the war on Iran continues to expand across multiple fronts, Tehran appears to be pursuing a complex strategy that combines military escalation, economic leverage, domestic mobilization, and diplomatic signaling.

Rather than relying on what Iranian officials once described as “strategic patience,” the current approach suggests that Iran is attempting to fundamentally reshape the battlefield by increasing the costs of the war for the United States, Israel, and any regional actors that choose to participate.

The strategy appears to rest on several interconnected pillars designed not only to respond to military attacks but also to prevent the broader objective that Iranian leaders believe lies behind the war: regime change.

Overwhelming the Battlefield

The most visible element of Iran’s strategy has been its attempt to expand the battlefield geographically and operationally.