Trump As Netanyahu's Ventriloquist Dummy

Trump posted online this morning: "We [sic] now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran." A gloat over Israel's latest aggression against Iran. Presumably it's been Israel and Israel alone that has been bombing Iran and murdering top officials and nuclear scientists for almost a week now. Trump also says he wants a "total end" to Iran's nuclear program. (It's not a bomb program, it's a uranium enrichment program which creates fuel for nuclear power reactors. That's not an opinion, that's a fact according to U.S. intelligence and Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence/assassination agency.) Trump went on to boast about how great U.S. military weaponry and technology is. (Yes, with it, Israel and the U.S. can murder and destroy with impunity. Terrific. Lord Acton had a famous aphorism: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The corruption is both political and moral. The consequences are terrible for humanity.)

Trump has gone from resisting Netanyahu's demand that the U.S. join in a war on Iran, to threatening to murder the Ayatollah, Iran's Supreme Leader, and seems ready to bomb Iran's main uranium enrichment side under a mountain. Trump already sent B-2 bombers to the area for the purpose. 

Israel has been waging undeclared war on Iran for five days as of today. This has included murdering top Iranian government and military officials, with threats to murder the top ruler, the Ayatollah. 

A reporter asked Netanyahu if murdering the Ayatollah would escalate the "conflict." Netanyahu bellowed that "It would END the conflict!" How he figures that, I have no idea. It's typical Netanyahu supremacist bluster.

Israel has been drunk on its regional military supremacy for decades now. 

People seem to automatically, unconsciously even, have a simplistic attitude of Good Guys/Bad Guys, and one side has to be one, the other side the other, and whatever the "Good Guys" do to the "Bad Guys" is a good thing, including murdering them, because after all, they're "terrorists" and terrorists aren't humans, so it's a good thing to just kill them.

Of course this is mindless. Both Iran and Israel are loathsome political entities. I'm talking about their governments. But Israel is far worse because Israel has been committing the worst crime under international law and in terms of normal human morality, namely genocide, for over a year and a half now. (However, since 1948, Israel has been committing a lower grade genocidal campaign against the Palestinian Arabs, namely an attempt to deny and erase their identity as a people, which does constitute genocide under the international legal definition of genocide. Just as the Chinese regime is doing to the Uyghurs under its rule, brainwashing them in forced labor/torture camps and physically forcing them to renounce their culture, beliefs, dress, and family ties to make them into imitation Han Chinese. The Israelis of course have never sought to twist the Palestinian Arabs into Jews, but to banish them and kill large numbers of them, starting in 1948.

Trump cheaply and cynically evokes World War II, demanding "unconditional surrender" from Iran, and implicitly and not very subtly threatening the life of the Ayatollah by saying "we know where you are." 

Western propaganda ("news coverage") consistently omits the key fact that Iran does NOT have a nuclear bomb or warhead program, allowing people to be duped into believing it does.

Also NEVER pointed out, the key fact that if Iran HAD nuclear weapons, it wouldn't dare USE them against Israel, since Israel has hundreds of deliverable nuclear weapons, and the U.S. has thousands, some of which it would use on Iran if Israel for some reason didn't totally annihilate Iran itself if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons.

The whole thing about the imaginary Iranian nuclear weapons is to make sure there is never even a possible challenge to Israeli regional military supremacy. 

                                                                 A cruel demagogue, and also a sad, pathetic man.

 

 

Kristi Noem Taken To Hospital After An "Allergic Reaction"

 What is she allergic to? Human kindness? Common decency?

Noem is the puppy-murdering Trump-chosen head of the Bush and Congress-created "Department of Homeland Security," a grab bag of repressive U.S. government agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which goes by the appropriately chilling acronym, ICE. ICE are the masked goons kidnapping immigrants and rendering them without due process to places like a supermax prison in El Salvador, where the policy is to never free any prisoners, to Djibouti, to Guantanamo Bay, on Cuban territory forcibly seized by the U.S. in the 19th century, to Libya, to South Sudan, to Honduras, to wherever. ICE has been arresting local officials on bogus charges, most of which are immediately dropped. Trump regime ghouls have threatened to arrest state governors. (Among those who HAVE been arrested are the mayor of Newark, NJ, Ras Baraka, New York City controller Brad Lander, and U.S. Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, who has been absurdly charged with "assaulting" two ICE goons.)

This ghoulish woman had herself videoed at the giant dungeon created by Salvadorean dictator Nayib Bukele, where the Trump regime has been imprisoning immigrants kidnapped at random in the U.S. and rendered to foreign countries. And when U.S. Senator Alex Padilla tried to ask a question at a Noem "press conference," he was assaulted by goons under Noem's command, forced face down onto the floor, handcuffed and hauled away. 

 

This is certainly a new era in U.S. history. Perhaps a throwback to the 19th century, when Senator Charles Sumner was savagely clubbed over the head by a racist Southern Senator. Here is Wikipedia's description of that attack:

 -Representative Preston Brooks, Butler's first cousin once removed, confronted Sumner in the Senate chamber and beat him severely on the head, using a thick gutta-percha cane with a gold head. Sumner was knocked down and trapped under the heavy desk, which was bolted to the floor. Blinded by his own blood, he staggered up the aisle and collapsed into unconsciousness. Brooks continued to beat the motionless Sumner until his cane broke, at which point he continued to strike Sumner with the remaining piece. Several other senators attempted to help Sumner, but were blocked by Laurence Keitt, who brandished a pistol and shouted, "Let them be!" [Sounds like a planned, premeditated, conspiracy to assault and cause severe bodily harm.]

Sumner was severely injured and suffered lasting physical and mental harm. The criminals who assaulted him were not prosecuted, expelled from the Senate, or even censured. Instead Sumner's colleagues advised him to tone down his anti-slavery rhetoric!

Then as now, the U.S. is hopelessly reactionary.

We've just seen a fascist murdering a Democratic State Representative in Minnesota, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, and the shooting and attempted murder of Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, both shot multiple times, by the same fascist terrorist. This happened on June 14. In the U.S., violence, particularly lethal violence aimed at individuals, is overwhelmingly from the right. Often the perpetrators have state protection, as was the case for the Ku Klux Klan for decades.