Global

The United States and Israel entered the war with Iran on a critical strategic assumption—one closely associated with the confrontational and leader-centric worldview of Donald Trump: that the regime was sufficiently fragile that removing its leadership would trigger its collapse. This logic—commonly known as “decapitation”—holds that eliminating top political and military figures will fracture authority, paralyze decision-making, and potentially ignite internal revolt. To its proponents, the logic is not without appeal: centralized systems can appear vulnerable to leadership shocks, particularly under external pressure. Yet the theory has an established track record—and it has repeatedly failed. Decapitation promises control; in practice, it often accelerates the very instability it seeks to prevent.

On March 19, Ukrainian authorities in Kyiv illegally detained Yurii Sheliazhenko—a respected peace advocate, conscientious objector, and member of the Veterans For Peace Advisory Board. 

He has presented at two Free Press salons in the past.

Yurii is also:

Spanish translation of "World War 3" 

Los ataques de Israel y Estados Unidos —el imperio Epstein— contra un total de ocho países en los últimos dos años y medio constituyen la primera andanza hacia una Tercera Guerra Mundial y acarrea consecuencias catastróficas tanto para la población humana como para el medio ambiente. Sin embargo y pese a la censura, el conocimiento de estos hechos y el surgimiento de una movilización global extienden cada vez más y podrían frenarlo (consulta materiales y enlaces al final).

Los cálculos indican que Israel por sí solo generó en apenas un año, por sus campañas genocidas, mayor contaminación y emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero que la mayoría de los países industrializados producen JUNTOS de todas sus fuentes. Por su parte, el Pentágono es el mayor contaminador institucional del planeta, emitiendo carbono, contaminando aguas y arrojando cicatrices ambientales en los paisajes a escala global.

Rashad Thomas’ latest release I Was Promised There’d Be Gold is a Columbus one-man choir from who arrived ahead of the schedule in underground R&B. Rashad Thomas is a local beat maker who produced songs for famous people like Jack Harlow. Rashad’s family includes J. Sands of 90s indie rap pioneering rap duo J-Rawls’ Lone Catalysts. Rashad made hip hop with underground Columbus rap cats P. Black, LE, Fly Union and Rashad’s Elevator Music crew. Rashad can sing. Rashad can compose. Rashad can rap.

The beginning of "I Was Promised There’d Be Gold” is about Rashad’s diaspora and relationship with Christ. Rashad’s album’s first several songs travels from 90s boom-bap into almost house music with R&B vocals. “Larry’s Lament” blares horns until Rashad raps and croons into an almost Screw Up click bass and symbol debouch. “The Craft” segues from church into pedestrian life.

Many Americans understand that that the country has been on an economic precipice because the debt and deficit appear to be unsustainable. Currently, America pays over one trillion dollars in interest on debt. Just two months ago, the national debt exceeded 38 trillion. Two months later it is now 39 trillion. 

Social Security, SNAP benefits, Medicaid, Medicare and all programs meant to benefit the citizens, are under constant attack as a result of the national debt. 

Inflation is largely the result of borrowing, so that inflation is similar to a tax on working Americans while having no effect at all on the Ruling Class. 

The national debt is a result of one thing and one thing only, which is the cost to maintain and expand Empire through violence (wars) and economic coercion. 

On the day that the America/Israeli Empire attacked Iran (2/28/2026) White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett estimated that the war in Iran had cost the U.S. more than $12 billion so far. 

In one of my most elaborate undercover operations for BBC Newsnight, I got my hands on the secret plans for the invasion. Nope, not Trump’s attack on Iran. It was 2004 when I conned the Heritage Foundation and a James Baker operative into handing over the elaborate 323-page plan to keep the oil flowing from Iraq. The plan was secretly drafted BEFORE George W. Bush invaded.

This confidential plan, ghost-written for State Department consultants by the James Baker Institute and oil company executives, promotes a state-owned oil company for Iraq to “enhance a government’s relationship with OPEC.” [Click to enlarge image.]

In 2004, The State Department had told me that no plan existed for handling Iraq’s oil. I didn’t buy it. If we invaded California, we’d certainly have a plan for oranges and action films. 

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated victories, whether against South Americans or in the Middle East.

In a charged press conference on March 13, Hegseth did more than attack journalists for questioning his unverified claims about the course of the war in the Middle East. He singled out CNN, introducing a troubling dimension to the conversation. “The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better,” he said.