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The News That Matters about the Nuclear Industry Fukushima Chernobyl Mayak Three Mile Island Atomic Testing Radiation Isotope

Lots of non-corporate nuclear news this week

Some bits of good news – in Romania’s Tarcu Mountains, European bison are proving that rewilding can change an ecosystem, not just save a species. China just launched a nationwide healthcare insurance system for people with disabilities, with a three-year target to cover its entire population.  Marine life rebounds off Vancouver Island after decades of loss.

TOP STORIES.

From Risk to Target: The New Reality for Journalists in War Zones-https://www.youtube.com/watchv=0YhrSX6QRZs 

The Empire Backs Down, For Now. 

Norwegian Nuclear Committee says no to nuclear power in Norway.

Trump accelerates new nuclear warhead production, nearly doubles funding for plutonium “pit” bomb core production. 

Trump and Netanyahu: Two Madmen Playing God.    Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Statement Condemning Trump. 

The unforeseen consequences of Iranian resistance. 

Can Prospects for Nuclear War Get Any Worse?- Sure, We Can Put AI in Charge. 

US War Machine Is Built on Decades of Lies – The Assault on Iran Is No Exception.

Climate. ‘Non-survivable’: heatwaves are already breaching human limits, with worse to come, study finds. 

AUSTRALIA. 

NUCLEAR-RELATED ITEMS

ART and CULTURE. Trump’s Genocidal Threats on Iran Are Enabled by a Vast Apparatus of Destruction. Trump, Hegseth and the Language of War Crimes.
CLIMATE. John Gibbons: I’ve changed my mind on nuclear power — we don’t need it any more
ECONOMICS.
All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame.
Anas Sarwar’s ‘nuclear plot would hammer Scottish bill payers’
Could a New Nuclear Reactor Double or Triple Electricity Rates in New Brunswick?
Audit cites DOE oversight failures on NuScle nuclear project.
Cenovus pulled the plug on its much-ballyhooed ‘multi-year’ study of ‘small modular reactors’ in 2024 after a year.
Trillions Hidden, Humanity Starving: The Super-Rich vs. the Rest of Us.
The Myth that Won’t Die: “War is Good for the Economy”.

ENERGY. Faced with new energy shock, Europe asks if reviving nuclear is the answer

ETHICS and RELIGION

LEGAL
International law or foreign military bases: a choice must be made.NuScale Power Corporation Class Action Reminder – Robbins LLP Encourages SMR Stockholders to Contact the Firm for Information About Their Rights .“Locked and Loaded”: Hegseth Says Trump’s War‑Crime Warnings Were Dead Serious.
MEDIA. U.S. Media finally acknowledging Israel’s central role in Trump’s criminal war on Iran .A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 4 weeks.100 Strikes in 10 Minutes: Lebanon Bombed as Gaza Burns and Journalists Are Killed.Tony Blair’s latest deceit-riddled column vilifies the UK left to justify genocide.The Mass Media Are Evil But They’re Also Really Dumb.The Iranian people achieved decisive victory against America’s criminal war on them.
OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Anti-nuclear group to continue fight against Sellafield plan.Making London councils allies in the campaign to oppose Britain’s nuclear expansion.Arrests at Lakenheath nuclear base blockade.

POLITICS.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY.

PLUTONIUM. Blocking Iran’s Other Option: A Plutonium Bomb.
SAFETY. WHO warns of catastrophic risks after strike on Bushehr nuclear plant.TEPCO halts cooling of spent fuel pool at Fukushima Daini plant.Incident. 60 Years Nuclear Accident of Palomares – Lost hydrogen bombs and their consequences. Defra plots faster planning process for Sizewell C nuclear plant.
SECRETS and LIES. THE “SPIES” WHO CRIED GENOCIDE.US Satellite Firm Blacks Out Iran War Images Per US Government Request.The Ambassador of Duplicity: How Israel’s UN Representative Blames Others for the Crimes His State Commits.
SPACE. EXPLORATION, WEAPONS. As Rocket Launches Increase, They May Be Polluting the Skies. Creating military bases on the Moon.Mysterious Flashes in 1950s Skies Linked to Nuclear Tests and UAP Sightings: Study.
TECHNOLOGY. Nuclear fusion – triumph of hope over expectation – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2026/04/09/1-b1-nuclear-fusion-triumph-of-hope-over-expectation/
URANIUM. Secrets and Shortcuts: The US Uranium Enrichment Rush.Canada’s government faces calls to begin enriching uranium-Should it?     Protecting Our Wells: The Rural Costs of Uranium Exploration in Rural Nova Scotia .
WASTES. Finland’s plan to bury spent nuclear waste carries risk to future generations.

WAR and CONFLICT.

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Inside Iran’s ‘underground fortress’: How Iran’s missile bases survive most powerful US and Israeli bombs,

April 13, 2026 Posted by | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

From Risk to Target: The New Reality for Journalists in War Zones

April 9, 2026, Joshua Scheer, https://scheerpost.com/2026/04/09/from-risk-to-target-the-new-reality-for-journalists-in-war-zones/

As Journalists Are Killed, the World Looks Away

We reported on one of these deaths yesterday. Today, there are more.

The killing of journalists—already at record levels—continues at a pace that is both staggering and deliberate. What was once framed as the “risk” of war has become something far more disturbing: a pattern in which reporters are not just caught in violence, but increasingly subject to it.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least three more journalists were killed by Israeli forces in a single day across Gaza and Lebanon—with at least one case identified as a targeted attack.

They were not abstractions. They had names:

  • Mohammed Samir Washah, correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher
  • Ghada Dayekh, presenter with Sawt Al-Farah
  • Suzan Khalil, reporter and presenter on Al-Manar TV and Al-Nour Radio

“Journalists are being killed at a pace and scale that should shock the conscience of the world,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “These are not isolated tragedies; they reflect a systematic failure to uphold the most basic protections owed to civilian journalists under international law.”

The killings came amid a renewed wave of Israeli bombardment across Lebanon—more than 100 strikes launched within minutes, even as ceasefire announcements involving Iran, Israel, and the United States were still fresh.

This is the context in which journalism now exists.

Not as a profession protected under international law—but as a target operating within it.

 Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza and Lebanon is not incidental. It is part of a broader assault on press freedom—one unfolding in real time, with little sign of restraint and even less accountability.

And as the numbers rise, so does the question:
How many more must die before the world treats this as more than collateral damage?

The most striking—and politically explosive—finding in the Committee to Protect Journalists report is this: Israel was responsible for roughly two-thirds of all journalist killings worldwide in 2025.

From Risk to Targeting

War has always been dangerous for reporters. But what distinguishes Israel’s conduct, according to CPJ’s findings, is the shift from incidental risk to alleged deliberate targeting.

  • CPJ documented 47 cases of journalists killed specifically because of their work in 2025.
  • Israel accounted for 81% of those targeted killings.

These are not cases where journalists were simply caught in crossfire. They are cases where evidence suggests reporters were identified, tracked, and struck—sometimes by precision tools like drones.

In Gaza, where foreign journalists are largely barred, local Palestinian reporters have become the world’s only witnesses. That visibility has made them indispensable—and, increasingly, vulnerable.

Silencing the Witnesses

The report highlights a disturbing pattern: journalists who documented alleged war crimes—such as attacks on hospitals or starvation—were among those targeted.

This raises a deeper question:
Is the killing of journalists functioning not just as violence, but as information control?

In modern war, narrative is power. Eliminating those who document reality doesn’t just remove individuals—it erases evidence in real time.

The Role of “Deadly Smears”

Another key mechanism identified by CPJ is the use of unsubstantiated accusations against journalists after—or even before—they are killed.

Israel has repeatedly labeled slain reporters as militants, often without presenting verifiable evidence.

This serves two purposes:

  1. Justification after the fact
  2. Preemptive delegitimization of journalists as civilian targets

In effect, it blurs the line between journalist and combatant—undermining one of the most fundamental protections in international law.

Total Impunity

Perhaps the most damning finding is not just the scale of killings, but the absence of consequences.

  • No one has been held accountable for any targeted killing of a journalist by Israel since October 2023.

This is not just a failure of justice—it is a signal.

A signal that such actions can continue without legal or political cost.

A Precedent Beyond Gaza

What happens in Gaza does not stay in Gaza.

When a state can kill journalists at this scale without accountability, it sets a precedent that other governments—authoritarian or democratic—can follow. The erosion of press protections in one conflict zone becomes a global permission structure.

The Deadliest Year for the Press: How War—and Impunity—Are Killing Journalism

In a world already fractured by war, the truth itself is increasingly under fire.

A new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists reveals a staggering reality: 2025 was the deadliest year ever recorded for journalists, with at least 129 media workers killed globally—a historic high that underscores a deepening crisis for press freedom worldwide.

But beyond the numbers lies a far more disturbing pattern.

According to CPJ, two-thirds of all journalist killings in 2025 were carried out by Israeli forces, marking not only a statistical anomaly but a structural shift in how modern warfare treats the press. In Gaza especially, Palestinian journalists bore the brunt of this violence, with the majority killed while documenting the realities of a war zone increasingly sealed off from the outside world.

This is not collateral damage—it is, in many documented cases, targeting.

CPJ identified 47 journalists deliberately killed for their work in 2025, the highest number of targeted killings in over a decade. Israel alone accounted for 81% of those cases, raising profound legal and moral questions about violations of international humanitarian law, which explicitly classifies journalists as civilians.

Even more alarming is what follows these killings: nothing.

The report finds that no one has been held accountable for any targeted killing of a journalist in 2025. This culture of impunity—long entrenched but now accelerating—has turned journalism into one of the most dangerous professions on Earth, particularly in conflict zones where truth itself is treated as a threat.

And the methods of killing are evolving.

Drone warfare, once a distant technological abstraction, has become a frontline tool in silencing reporters. CPJ documented a surge from just two journalist deaths by drone in 2023 to 39 in 2025, with the majority linked to Israeli military operations in Gaza. These are not indiscriminate weapons—they are capable of precision targeting, raising further concerns about intentionality.

Yet the crisis extends far beyond any single battlefield.

From Mexico to India, Sudan to the Philippines, journalists continue to be murdered for exposing corruption, documenting war crimes, or simply telling inconvenient truths. In many of these cases, weak legal systems and political complicity ensure that perpetrators are never brought to justice.

The result is a global chilling effect.

When journalists are killed without consequence, entire societies are pushed into darkness. Information disappears. Accountability collapses. Power operates unchecked.

As CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg warns, attacks on journalists are not isolated incidents—they are early warning signs of broader democratic decline.

And that decline is no longer creeping—it is accelerating.

What this report ultimately reveals is not just a record-breaking death toll, but a fundamental shift: the normalization of violence against the press as a tool of war and governance.

In such a world, the question is no longer whether journalism is under attack.

It is whether the truth can survive it.

Here is a list from The Guardian from last September. These are not just names—they are the people who risked everything to report what was happening on the ground in this conflict. We should remember them, hold onto them, speak them, because even now more are being killed—and more will be killed—as the genocidal empire pushes forward in Iran.

To remember them is to refuse their erasure. To say their names is to resist the silence that follows.

Ahmed Abu Aziz,Mohammed Salama,Moaz Abu Taha,Hussam al-Masri,Mariam Abu Dagga,Anas al-Sharif,Mohammed Noufal,Ibrahim Zaher,Mohammed Qreiqeh,Moamen Aliwa,Mohammad al-Khaldi,Ismail Abu Hatab,Moamen Abu AlOuf,Ahmad Qalaja,Ismail Baddah,Suleiman Hajjaj,Hassan Abu Warda,Hassan Samour,Ahmed al-Helou,Yahya Sobeih,Noureddine Abdo,Fatma Hassouna,Hilmi al-Faqaawi,Ahmed Mansour,Mohammed Mansour,Hossam Shabat,Mahmoud Islim al-Basos,Ahmed al-Shayyah,Ahmed Abu al-Rous,Mohammed al-Talmas,Saed Abu Nabhan,Omar al-Dirawi,Areej Shaheen,Hassan al-Qishawi,Ayman al-Gedi,Faisal Abu al-Qumsan,Mohammed al-Ladaa,Fadi Hassouna,Ibrahim Sheikh Ali,Mohammed al-Sharafi,Ahmed al-Louh,Mohammed al-Qrinawi,Mohammed Balousha,Iman al-Shanti,Maisara Ahmed Salah,Mamdouh Qanita,Ahmed Abu Sharia,Mahdi al-Mamluk,Ahmed Abu Skheil,Zahraa Abu Skheil,Bilal Rajab,Amr Abu Odeh,Saed Radwan,Nadia Emad al-Sayed,Haneen Baroud,Tareq AlSalhi,Mohammed al-Tanani,AlHassan Hamad,Abdul Rahman Bahr,Nour Abu Oweimer,Wafa al-Udaini,Mohammed Abed Rabbo,Hussam al-Dabbaka,Hamza Murtaja,Ibrahim Muhareb,Tamim Abu Muammar,Mohammed Issa Abu Saada,Rami al-Refee,Ismail al-Ghoul,Mohammed Abu Daqqa,Mohammed Abu Jasser,Mohamed Meshmesh,Mohamed Manhal Abu Armana,Amjad Juhjouh,Wafaa Abu Dabaan,Rizq Abu Shakian,Saadi Madoukh,Mohammed al-Sakani,Mohammed Abu Sharia,Rasheed Albably,Ola Al Dahdouh,Mahmoud Juhjouh,Bahaaddine Yassine,Mustafa Ayyad,Salem Abu Toyour,Ibrahim al-Gharbawi,Ayman al-Gharbawi,Mohammed Bassam al-Jamal,Mustafa Bahr,Mohamed Adel Abu Skheil,Saher Akram Rayan,Mohamed el Sayed Abu Skheil,Tarek El Sayed Abu Skheil,Mohamed el-Reefi,Abdul Rahman Saima,Muhammad Salama,Mohamed Yaghi,Zayd Abu Zayed,Ayman al-Rafati,Angam Ahmad Edwan,Alaa al-Hams,Yasser Mamdouh el-Fady,Nafez Abdel Jawad,Rizq al-Gharabli,Mohammed Atallah,Tariq al-Maidna,Iyad el-Ruwagh,Yazan al-Zuweidi,Mohamed Jamal Sobhi al-Thalathini,Ahmed Bdeir,Shareef Okasha,Heba al-Abadla,Abdallah Iyad Breis,Mustafa Thuraya,Hamza al-Dahdouh,Akram ElShafie,Jabr Abu Hadrous,Ahmed Khaireddine,Ahmad Jamal al-Madhoun,Mohamad al-Iff,Mohamed Azzaytouniyah,Mohamed Naser Abu Huwaidi,Mohamed Khalifeh,Adel Zorob,Abdallah Alwan,Haneen Kashtan,Assem Kamal Moussa,Samer Abu Daqqa,Ola Atallah,Duaa Jabbour,Shaima el-Gazzar,Hamada al-Yaziji,Hassan Farajallah,Abdullah Darwish,Montaser al-Sawaf,Adham Hassouna,Marwan al-Sawaf,Mostafa Bakeer,Mohamed Mouin Ayyash,Mohamed Nabil al-Zaq,Assem al-Barsh,Jamal Mohamed Haniyeh,Ayat Khadoura,Bilal Jadallah,Mossab Ashour,Sari Mansour,Mostafa al-Sawaf,Hassouneh Salim,Abdel Rahman al-Tanani,Amal Zohud,Abdelhalim Awad,Amro Salah Abu Hayah,Yacoup al-Borsh,Moussa al-Borsh,Ahmed al-Qara,Yahya Abu Manih,Mohamed Abu Hassira,Mohamad al-Bayyari,Mohammed Abu Hatab,Majd Fadl Arandas,Iyad Matar,Imad al-Wahidi,Majed Kashko,Nazmi al-Nadim,Yasser Abu Namous,Duaa Sharaf,Jamal al-Faqaawi,Saed al-Halabi,Ahmed Abu Mhadi,Tasneem Bkheet,Ibrahim Marzouq,Mohammed Imad Labad,Roshdi Sarraj,Mohammed Ali,Khalil Abu Aathra,Sameeh al-Nady,Issam Bhar,Mohammad Balousha,Abdulhadi Habib,Yousef Maher Dawas,Salam Mema,Husam Mubarak,Ahmed Shehab,Hisham Alnwajha,Mohammed Sobh,Saeed al-Taweel,Ibrahim Mohammad Lafi,Mohammad Jarghoun,Mohammed al-Salhi

April 13, 2026 Posted by | media, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

Finland’s plan to bury spent nuclear waste carries risk to future generations.

Overall, the risks associated with nuclear waste repositories will mainly affect “future generations,”

“…………………After decades of construction, the world’s first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin operations in Finland, becoming a final resting place for tons of dangerous radioactive waste.

Construction of Onkalo – which means “cave” in Finnish – began on the west coast in 2004. It sits on the secluded island of Olkiluoto, in a dense wooded area. The closest town is Eurajoki, about 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) inland, which is home to about 9,000 people. Many work at the nuclear power plant or storage facility.

The 1 billion euro ($1.2 billion) project could soon become operational, with authorities expected to grant a license within months.

The Associated Press took a tour of the facilities where humans soon will not be allowed to tread.

Pere said the site – near three of Finland´s five nuclear reactors – was chosen for its migmatite-gneiss bedrock, which is known for its high stability and low risk of earthquakes.

“It´s the isolation from civilization and mankind on the surface that´s important,” he said, standing in a darkened disposal tunnel, soon to be sealed from humanity. “We can dispose of the waste more safely than by storing it in facilities located on the ground.”

Using unmanned machinery at a nearby encapsulation plant, radioactive rods will be sealed in copper canisters and then buried deep in tunnels over 400 meters underground, then packed in with “buffer” layers of water-absorbing bentonite clay.

Posiva, the company responsible for the long-term management of Finland’s spent nuclear fuels, says Onkalo can store 6,500 tons of spent nuclear fuel.

The final disposal canisters are designed to remain sealed “long enough for the radioactivity of spent fuel to decrease to a level not harmful to the environment,” it said………………………………….

Posiva estimate it will take hundreds of thousands of years before the radioactivity falls to normal, background levels.

According to a 2022 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, almost 400,000 tons of spent fuel have been produced globally since the 1950s, with two-thirds remaining in temporary storage and one third being recycled in a complex process.

The world´s spent nuclear fuel is currently temporarily stored inside spent nuclear fuel pools at individual reactors and at dry cask storage sites above ground.

There is currently no permanent underground disposal facility for commercial nuclear waste operational anywhere in the world. Sweden began building a repository in Forsmark – about 150 kilometers north of Stockholm – last year, but it´s not expected to open until the late 2030s. France´s Cigéo project is yet to begin construction and has seen opposition.

The Onkalo facility is expected to operate until the 2120s, when it will be permanently sealed.

But Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists, an American nonprofit organization, warned that geologic disposal of nuclear waste is still fraught with “uncertainties.”

“My view of nuclear waste disposal is that there´s no good option, but it´s important to find the least bad option, and geologic disposal in general is going to be the least bad option among a range of, you know, bad options,” he said.

Lyman said that the copper canisters that contain the spent nuclear fuel will eventually corrode, adding that there are different scientific opinions about how fast that could happen.

“The hope is that is such a slow process that most of the radioactive material will have decayed away by then. But again, there are uncertainties,” he said.

Still, Lyman said that permanently storing spent nuclear fuel deep underground is better than “leaving it on the surface of the Earth forever,” because nuclear material kept above ground “is vulnerable to sabotage.”

“For many decades after spent fuel is discharged from a reactor, it´s so radioactive that it makes transporting and reprocessing very difficult,” Lyman said. But eventually the main radioactive component will decay, he added, making it less risky to handle.

“So over time the plutonium becomes more accessible either to terrorists or to a country that may want to use it,” he said, adding that the only way a terrorist — or a state — could theoretically use the material for a nuclear bomb would be if they had “an off-site reprocessing capability.”

During reprocessing, spent nuclear fuel is separated to recover uranium and plutonium to recycle it for use in new fuel. The process also carries proliferation risks because the separated plutonium could potentially be diverted to build a nuclear weapon.

Overall, the risks associated with nuclear waste repositories will mainly affect “future generations,” Lyman concluded.

To deal with this challenge, an interdisciplinary field of study called nuclear semiotics has been established that looks into developing warning signs about nuclear waste repositories that can be understood by humans 10,000 years from now – or much longer given that it takes hundreds of thousands of years before nuclear waste is no longer dangerous.

For reference: the first humans lived around 300,000 years ago. The earliest writing system was developed in Mesopotamia roughly 5,200 to 5,400 years ago. Stonehenge in Britain is around 5,000 years old, while the Giza pyramids in Egypt are approximately 4,500 years old……………………………………………………….. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-15717853/Finlands-plan-bury-spent-nuclear-waste-carries-risk-future-generations.html

April 13, 2026 Posted by | Finland, wastes | Leave a comment

Trump’s vaunted 14 day ceasefire barely lasted 14 hours


Walt Zlotow  West Suburban Peace Coalition  Glen Ellyn IL, Apr 9 2026

Israel, not happy that Trump abandoned their lust to destroy Iran as a hegemonic rival, blew up the two week ceasefire Pakistan negotiated Tuesday.

How? By launching a massive bombing campaign on Beirut Lebanon killing over 200 and injuring over 500. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “The two-week ceasefire does not include Lebanon,” Trump called it “a separate skirmish. Yeah, they were not included in the deal, because of Hezbollah. Veep Vance called Iran’s claim the ceasefire included Israeli attacks on Lebanon “a misunderstanding.”

Netanyahu, Trump and Vance all lied as Pakistan’s Prime Minister , Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, who mediated the ceasefire deal, said it includes Lebanon. Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, didn’t mince words in blasting US, Israeli perfidy upending the ceasefire “The deep historical distrust we hold toward the United States stems from its repeated violations of all forms of commitments — a pattern that has regrettably been repeated once again,” He noted that President Trump announced the ceasefire by stating Iran’s 10 point proposal “was a good basis for negotiations.” Next day Trump had his press spokesperson Caroline Leveatt proclaim that Trump had the proposal “throne in the garbage.”

As a result Israel’s grisly bombardment on Beirut with Trump’s support and death weapons made a mockery of the ceasefire on Day One. Iran has announced the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed till the ceasefire is truly implemented. The world economy will continue to head downward. Thousands will suffer and die. Vance and the two amateur diplomates Jarad Kushner and Steve Witkoff he’s supervising, may fine empty Iranian chairs at the planed ceasefire negotiations in Pakistan tomorrow.

And the Big Fool in the White House, like the crazed captain demanding his troops continue crossing the impassable Big Muddy, will bellow ‘Push on.’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJVkEX8O4&t=3s

April 13, 2026 Posted by | weapons and war | Leave a comment

Trump pivots from “destroying Iranian civilization” to complete surrender in one day


Walt Zlotow  West Suburban Peace Coalition  Glen Ellyn IL , Apr 8, 2026, https://theaimn.net/trump-pivots-from-destroying-iranian-civilization-to-complete-surrender-in-one-day/

Even a mentally degraded Donald Trump had to face reality. The US lost the war intended to destroy Iran as a hegemonic rival to Israel in the region.

He cancelled his announced war crimes to “destroy Iranian civilization” and agreed to a two week ceasefire as a prelude for negotiating permanent peace based on Iran’s 10 point peace plan. Note that is not Trump’s 15 point peace plan which would have given Trump complete victory.

Here’s some of what Trump’s ceasefire acknowledges.

A guarantee that Iran will not be attacked again.

A permanent end to the war, not just a ceasefire.

An end to Israeli strikes in Lebanon and against Iranian allies.

The lifting of all US sanctions on Iran.

Iran agreeing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz

US to leave the Middle East

End to US sanctions on Iran and release of frozen Iranian assets

In his delusional state, Trump announced the cease fire due to his astonishing claim his “war has already met and all Military objectives, and we are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning long term PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East.”


Iran announced the ceasefire “does not signify the termination of the war. Our hands remain upon the trigger, and should the slightest error be committed by the enemy, it shall be met with full force,”

Major hurtles must be overcome before the ceasefire holds and genuine peace can be negotiated. Israel is horrified by this development upending their 4 decade lust to destroy its Iranian hegemonic rival. It’s reported they are still bombing Iran and Iran is retaliating. No keen observer is optimistic the ceasefire will hold.

But it is not likely the US, clearly defeated in every make up war aim they floated to justify criminal war that killed thousands, damaged every US base in the region, brought the worst damage to Israel in its 78 years, and is crushing the world economy, can ever restart this deranged madness.

But with Trump in charge…you can never say never.

April 13, 2026 Posted by | Iran, USA, weapons and war | Leave a comment

Tony Blair’s latest deceit-riddled column vilifies the UK left to justify genocide

Britain former PM shows there’s no price to be paid for engineering mass slaughter in the service of western empire. Which is why those crimes not only continue, but grow in scale

Jonathan Cook, Apr 08, 2026

Tony Blair, the man who led Britain into a disastrous and illegal war on Iraq more than 20 years ago based on false information, is still very much a sought-after commentator in the UK media.

His regular political pronouncements are treated as pearls of wisdom; his columns as consequential insights from a globe-striding elder statesman.

Even his leading role on Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, the US president’s panel of autocrats seeking to elbow the United Nations – and international law – off the world stage, appears to have done little to dent his claim to moral authority.

Blair, more than anybody, illustrates the capacity of western leaders – with the help of a complicit establishment media – to rewrite their criminal past and escape accountability in perpetuity.

The former British prime minister’s latest political intervention is a lengthy, and typically repugnant, article published by the Sunday Times newspaper. It effectively blames “the left” for an arson attack last month on four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity in London.

No, Blair hasn’t unearthed any startling new information tying leftwingers to the attack. His article is a pure disinformation – propaganda designed to malign those critical of Israel.

More on that in a moment.

But as a prelude, let us note that there are many terrible things going on in the world right now that might be considered more pressing for Blair to write about than the torching of a handful of ambulances: whether it be a genocide in Gaza – where Israel destroyed not just four ambulances but the enclave’s entire health sector – or an illegal, joint US-Israeli war on Iran that has similarly targeted medical centres and other civilian infrastructure.

Twisted logic

Blair once served as a Middle East envoy to an international body known as the Quartet. In that role, he spent several years shuttling futilely between his eponymous institute in London and Israel and the Palestinian territories.

There are, however, two self-evident reasons why Blair may have been averse to dedicating his latest column to the catastrophes unfolding in the Middle East.

First, because his close allies – the leaders of the US and Israel – are indisputably the ones committing the crimes of genocide and aggression respectively in Gaza and Iran.

And second, because Blair was himself responsible for launching, alongside the US, a war of aggression on Iraq in 2003.

But it is not just that Blair is in no position to moralise on matters of the utmost global importance.

He has made it his primary duty in public life to excuse the West’s supreme crimes – crimes that, were there meaningful accountability for western leaders, would necessitate that he stand trial at the international war crimes court in the Hague.

That is the context for understanding both why Blair penned his column on the arson attack in London and the twisted logic that underpins his argument in that article.

Dirty war

Anyone who has studied Blair’s back-catalogue of opinion pieces will hardly be surprised by the Sunday Times headline: “We must end left’s unholy alliance with the Islamists.”

Or its subhead: “Parts of the left cast Jewish communities as supporters of Israel and Jews become ‘fair game’.”

Although the article ostensibly concerns an arson attack on a Jewish community ambulance service in London, Blair has much larger – carefully veiled – ambitions.

This is his latest manoeuvre in a dirty war to silence and crush Britain’s progressive left – waged by those, like Blair, who duplicitiously claim both to belong to that left and to serve as its natural leaders.

Blair is central to a cabal of so-called Atlanticists who view the world in Manichean terms, as “a clash of civilisations” between a supposedly superior, enlightened Judeo-Christian West, led by the US, and a backward, primitive Islamic East, now, it seems, led de facto by Iran.

Israel is presented as a first line of defence against this dangerous “Muslim” enemy.

Everything for Blair is seen through this racist prism.

He would sound more obviously like some Victorian, pith-helmeted empire-builder were it not for the fact that his fundamental, and fundamentalist, worldview continues to be shared by the entire UK ruling class, including the billionaire-owned media and the main political parties.

And for good reason. A Britain belonging to a “superior” West can openly aid Israel’s genocidal campaign of carpet-bombing and starvation in Gaza, and loan air bases to assist the US in its illegal war of aggression on Iran, and still pretend to itself that this is all being done “defensively”.

Christendom is still, apparently, “defending” itself against the rampaging barbarian hordes.

Achilles’ heel

In fact, Blair’s column in the Sunday Times should be seen as another front in a continuing war being waged by British prime minister Keir Starmer – a disciple of Blair – on the Corbynite left.

Their joint aim is to shepherd back into the Atlanticist fold a Labour party that supposedly lost its way under Starmer’s predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn.

Corbyn’s crime was to have taken Labour towards internationalism – and the prioritising of human rights for all, not just westerners. That project necessarily entailed treating British Muslims as an integral part of British society, no less than British Jews.

Corbyn’s politics were an ideological assault on – and continue to pose a threat to – the Blair-Starmer worldview.

In other words, Blair’s article is part of a running battle – as the British establishment’s claim to moral authority is steadily eroded by its collusion in Israeli and US crimes – to prevent the progressive left ever reviving its political fortunes.

With the help of the Israel lobby, Blair and his ilk believe they have identified the achilles’ heel of a British left determined to highlight a brutal US-led western imperialism and its inherent hypocrisies.

The goal is to crop out the left’s increasingly persuasive critique of US imperialism and zoom in instead on the left’s parallel criticisms of Israel: its apartheid rule over Palestinians, its ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, and its genocidal campaign of destruction in Gaza.

Blair wishes to wave all this away, as if wielding a magic wand, by labelling it as “antisemitism”.

After that move worked so successfully in fatally wounding Corbyn as Labour leader, Blair and Starmer assume the same smear can be repurposed more generally – in this case, to implicate an undefined “left” over the torching of a handful of ambulances.

It goes without saying, that in prioritising the suppression of the left’s critiques of western imperialism, Blair and Starmer are leaving the door wide open to a resurgence by the far-right – which indeed is antisemitic.

That should serve as a reminder that Blair, Starmer and the rest of the British establishment have no real concern for the welfare of the Jewish community they profess to be protecting.

If the Jewish community turns out to be collateral damage in their war on the left, then so be it.

‘New antisemitism’

In the article itself, Blair argues that a so-called left-wing antisemitism “is a pernicious and novel development in progressive politics: the alliance with Islamists”.

First, notice the sleight of hand. British Muslims who, quite reasonably, are deeply critical of Israel because its army has been committing for decades war crimes with impunity against their extended families are reduced here simply to “Islamists”.

Blair is doing to Muslims precisely what he accuses – falsely – the left of doing to Jews. He is conflating Muslims, a religious group, with Islamists, champions of an extreme political ideology…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Blair appears to be excusing Israel’s starvation of the 2.3 million people of Gaza, half of them children.

According to Blair, no one, not even the progressive left, should be allowed to criticise an Israeli siege that has blocked food, water, fuel and medicines to Gaza – unless they first justify that blockade as essential to Israel’s “security”.

Again, maybe he needs to have a word with the judges of the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Because they are seeking Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, on charges of crimes against humanity over his efforts to starve Gaza’s population……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

What Blair wants is for the left to be utterly silenced so that its protests do not rouse uncomfortable twinges of guilt forcibly reminding him that long ago he became a soulless creature of the West’s war machine.

It is not just that Blair has faced no consequences for his criminal undertaking in Iraq. He has instead become fabulously wealthy, venerated by western establishments, and an oracle for an equally complicit, billionaire-owned media…………………………… https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/blairs-latest-deceit-riddled-column

April 13, 2026 Posted by | media, UK | Leave a comment

Making London councils allies in the campaign to oppose Britain’s nuclear expansion

7 Apr 26, https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/making-london-councils-allies-campaign-oppose-britains-nuclear-expansion

As weapons return to Suffolk and defence spending soars, London CND is pressing local candidates to oppose nuclear expansion and support the UN ban treaty. SALLY SPIERS explains.

LONDON Region CND has launched a campaign to make London nuclear weapon-free. There are compelling reasons for local council candidates to oppose the expansion of Britain’s nuclear weapons by promising to sign up to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

US nuclear weapons have returned to Britain for the first time since their complete removal in 2008. These weapons have been sited at US air base Lakenheath in Suffolk, approximately 75 miles from London. The majority of voters are opposed to US nuclear weapons being stationed in the UK, according to a 2025 YouGov poll.

In addition, Keir Starmer has announced Britain is buying 12 nuclear-capable jets (F-35As) from the United States. These are equipped to carry and fire the same nuclear weapons that are based at Lakenheath.


These weapons will not in any way be an independent nuclear deterrent. The US president must authorise the use of these missiles. Buying them and having them on our territory meshes us even deeper into US foreign policy.

We have all witnessed President Donald Trump threatening Nato countries to get them to enter a crazy illegal war of his making. US foreign policy is aggressive, expansionist, threatening to its allies and it is highly unpopular with British people.

We cannot believe for one minute these jets and weapons will protect the security of the people of these islands.

Given the proximity to London, it seems more likely they actually constitute a threat to Londoners from either attack or accident. Councils have a duty to ensure their residents are safe. Opposing Britain’s nuclear expansion and supporting the TPNW is an obvious first step in fulfilling this duty.

And then there’s the cost. The nuclear capable jets that Britain is buying are estimated to cost £80 million each, almost £1 billion in total. When he first announced the increased spending on defence, John Healey argued the money would secure British high-skilled jobs.

Whether you are convinced by this argument or not, it is clear that this £1bn is going to secure high-skills jobs in Indianapolis where the jets will be built, not Britain.


LONDON Region CND has launched a campaign to make London nuclear weapon-free. There are compelling reasons for local council candidates to oppose the expansion of Britain’s nuclear weapons by promising to sign up to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

US nuclear weapons have returned to Britain for the first time since their complete removal in 2008. These weapons have been sited at US air base Lakenheath in Suffolk, approximately 75 miles from London. The majority of voters are opposed to US nuclear weapons being stationed in the UK, according to a 2025 YouGov poll.

In addition, Keir Starmer has announced Britain is buying 12 nuclear-capable jets (F-35As) from the United States. These are equipped to carry and fire the same nuclear weapons that are based at Lakenheath.

These weapons will not in any way be an independent nuclear deterrent. The US president must authorise the use of these missiles. Buying them and having them on our territory meshes us even deeper into US foreign policy.

We have all witnessed President Donald Trump threatening Nato countries to get them to enter a crazy illegal war of his making. US foreign policy is aggressive, expansionist, threatening to its allies and it is highly unpopular with British people.

We cannot believe for one minute these jets and weapons will protect the security of the people of these islands.

Given the proximity to London, it seems more likely they actually constitute a threat to Londoners from either attack or accident. Councils have a duty to ensure their residents are safe. Opposing Britain’s nuclear expansion and supporting the TPNW is an obvious first step in fulfilling this duty.

And then there’s the cost. The nuclear capable jets that Britain is buying are estimated to cost £80 million each, almost £1 billion in total. When he first announced the increased spending on defence, John Healey argued the money would secure British high-skilled jobs.

Whether you are convinced by this argument or not, it is clear that this £1bn is going to secure high-skills jobs in Indianapolis where the jets will be built, not Britain.

In mid-March, London Councils which speaks for all London authorities, described the financial situation of our councils as being “extremely challenging.” They “are grappling with a £1bn budget shortfall this year.”

How can prospective councillors not question the expenditure on nuclear-capable jets? There cannot be a single council in this country that has the resources to mend potholes effectively. Our councils need that money to provide basic services that keep the capital functioning.

Incredibly, neither decision — bringing US nukes back nor expanding our own nuclear capabilities — has been debated in Parliament. War is most definitely on people’s minds. Last year, voters identified defence as the fourth-most important concern for them.

The only way this concern seems to be discussed is in terms of increased spending on defence. But these important matters could be discussed in council chambers if councillors were willing to consider signing up to the TPNW or even making their mayors a mayor for peace.

This would send an important message to the government that is entirely in line with the view of the majority of the British public.

There is movement. It seems likely Green candidates will support the TPNW at council level. Labour candidates must be feeling the burn from the Greens and other parties. Supporting the TPNW will be a popular move with voters and Labour candidates would be foolish to ignore it.


London CND is asking voters to write to their council candidates to urge them to sign their support for the TPNW.

Councils and individual councillors can sign the cities pledge of the International Campaign for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons, the authors of the TPNW.

Mayors can sign up to mayors for peace. Cities and mayors throughout the world, and particularly Europe, have already signed. What a coup it would be for peace if London and London Councils were to sign.


Further information on how to support the London CND campaign is available on the London CND website Make London Nuclear Free Campaign, “London’s TPNW Pledge” www.londoncnd.org.

Sally Spiers is vice-chair of London CND.

April 13, 2026 Posted by | opposition to nuclear, UK | Leave a comment

The Iranian people achieved decisive victory against America’s criminal war on them


Walt Zlotow West Suburban Peace Coalition Glen Ellyn IL, 10 Apr 26, https://theaimn.net/the-iranian-people-achieved-decisive-victory-against-americas-criminal-war-on-them/

The Chicago Tribune’s editorial ‘There has been no victory yet for the Iranian people’ represents an astonishing betrayal of the urgent need to condemn President’s criminal war on Iran. The Trib’s focus is not on the 42,000 Iranian buildings damaged or destroyed, of which 36,000 were residential homes. The No mention of the school bombed killing over 150 little girls, among over 3,000 dead Iranians Trump murdered in his senseless war. Absent was any mention the US began the war with a heinous war crime, greenlighting Israel’s assassinating Iranian ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Stating the Trib was “relieved” Trump didn’t kill off Iranian civilization as threatened, a genocidal war crime, without the most urgent of condemnations is deplorable.

The Trib states both the US and Iran declaring victory is “hardly surprising.” That certainly applies to Trump’s America which can never admit defeat, but not Iran. They punched back with astonishing effectiveness. Their tens of thousands of well-hidden missiles shot down US planes, sent aircraft carriers scurrying beyond their range, badly damaged US Gulf States bases requiring thousands of US personnel to be relocated to hotels.
Result? Trump cried uncle and entered into a tenuous ceasefire without achieving a single of the shifting war objectives.

Worse yet? The US war failure shut down the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off a fifth of the worldwide oil supply. This has sent the world economy teetering toward recession, if not depression.

Trump’s acceptance of Iran’ s 10 point ceasefire plan as a basis for upcoming negotiations verifies Trump’s catastrophic loss. It requires end to US criminal war with no further attacks on Iran, Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities and defensive missile arsenal. US to leave the Middle East. US to end all sanctions on Iran. US to pay reparations for war damage.

Most disappointing in the Trib’s Iran war editorial is regurgitating Trump’s “three justifiable reasons….for this war” All three are nonsense. Did it occur to the Trib Editorial Board that if those reasons were truly justifiable, the Trib should be encouraging Trump to press on to total victory?

The editorial concludes “that inevitably leads us to an accounting that little has been achieved. A hollow victory at a heavy price.” Indeed, nothing was achieved but senseless death and destruction, the US possibly on the way out of the region, and the world economy in jeopardy from the US handing over the Strait of Hormuz to an emboldened and soon to be prosperous Iran.

Sure sounds like a resounding Iranian victory and US loss to this observer.

April 13, 2026 Posted by | media, USA | Leave a comment

Anas Sarwar’s ‘nuclear plot would hammer Scottish bill payers’

THE SNP have hit out at Anas Sarwar’s plans for new nuclear power stations in
Scotland. The Scottish Labour leader vowed on Wednesday to end the SNP’s
“ideological block” on new nuclear power stations in Scotland if he
were to become first minister – insisting this is costing jobs and
leaving households with higher energy bills.

“The SNP have chosen
misinformation and scaremongering on nuclear power – leaving Scotland
with less energy security, higher bills and fewer jobs,” he added.
Nuclear power is a key dividing line between Labour and the SNP, who are
staunchly opposed to the construction of any new nuclear stations in
Scotland.

But now, the SNP have highlighted the findings from a Norwegian
government commission which said that Norway should refrain from
introducing nuclear power at present amid its still plentiful hydropower
supply and cheaper alternative new energy sources. SNP depute leader Keith
Brown hit out at Sarwar’s comments and said the plans would “hammer
Scottish bill payers”.

 The National 9th April 2026,
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26007456.anas-sarwars-nuclear-plot-hammer-scottish-bill-payers/

April 13, 2026 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

US, Israel Insist Iran Ceasefire Doesn’t Apply In Lebanon, Which Suffers Huge Airstrikes

Zero Hedge, by Tyler Durden, Thursday, Apr 09, 2026

srael has made clear that it doesn’t see the newly declared US-Iran ceasefire as applying to its war in Lebanon, where it is still trying to destroy Hezbollah. The White House too has made its stance clear that it doesn’t apply, but President Trump has stated his intent to take care of a Lebanon ceasefire separately. 

The military has unleashed hell on Beirut, southern Lebanon, and the eastern Bekaa valley overnight and through Wednesday – with Beirut suffering some of the worst aerial bombardments of the wa

Pakistan, however, has said that the ceasefire does extend to the Israel-Hezbollah conflict. But the Israeli military (IDF) is as usual letting the bombs do the talking, and is largely ignoring the diplomatic side of things.

Israel on Wednesday reportedly struck over 100 Hezbollah (and civilian) targets within a mere 10 minutes across Beirut, the south of the country, and Bekaa.

Viral images and videos have shown massive smoke plumes lingering above the densely populated Lebanese capital. The surprise attack on busy commercial locations unleashed panic in the streets – and a full casualty accounting has not been immediately forthcoming .

Below is an outline of some of the earlier reported attacks, via Al Jazeera:……………………………………………………………..

Here’s how the same regional outlet described it, noting that Lebanese TV has said the attacks have claimed “many lives”:  “Israel has launched a surprise attack with dozens of air strikes across Lebanon, one of the largest military assaults in the history of the conflict.” The report stated, “Air raids targeted residential buildings, mosques, vehicles and cemeteries across the country.”

Lebanon’s Minister of Social Affairs, Haneed Sayed, told the Associated Press that the wide-ranging strikes mark a “very dangerous turning point.”

She described: “These hits are now at the heart of Beirut… Half of the sheltered (internally displaced persons) are in Beirut in this area,” she said, adding that she had just driven by the areas hit.”

Hezbollah did not immediately join the Iran war until weeks in following the late February start of Trump’s Operation Epic Fury. However, by the middle it began sending a significant amount of rockets on northern Israel.

Importantly, President Trump has on Wednesday told PBS that his view is Lebanon is not part of the Iran ceasefire deal “because of Hezbollah” – but “that will get taken care of too”. He called what’s happening in Lebanon “a separate skirmish”. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/beirut-suffers-biggest-bombardment-war-israel-insists-iran-ceasefire-doesnt-apply

April 13, 2026 Posted by | Israel, weapons and war | Leave a comment

At last, a hint of backbone in Australia’s foreign policy

9 April 2026 Michael Taylor, https://theaimn.net/at-last-a-hint-of-backbone-in-australias-foreign-policy/

For months, many of us have watched in frustration as our government responded to Gaza with caution, equivocation, and a reluctance to break from the familiar script of deference to powerful allies. It has felt, at times, like moral clarity was being carefully managed rather than clearly expressed.

Which is precisely why Anthony Albanese’s sudden intervention on Lebanon lands with such force.

By urging that Lebanon be included in any Middle East ceasefire, the Prime Minister has done something rare in modern Australian foreign policy: he has stepped, however briefly, out of line. Not dramatically. Not defiantly. But unmistakably.

This is not just a policy position – it is a signal.

A signal that Australia may be willing to acknowledge what much of the world can already see: that this is not a series of neatly contained conflicts, but a widening humanitarian crisis stretching from the ruins of Gaza Strip to the streets of Beirut. A signal that civilian suffering is not selective, and that our concern for it should not be either.

And yet, it is impossible to ignore the contrast.

Because while this newfound clarity extends to Lebanon, the same certainty has too often been absent when it comes to Gaza. The language has been softer, the urgency more muted, the moral line less clearly drawn. For many Australians, that inconsistency has not gone unnoticed – or unchallenged.

And perhaps most striking of all, it is a signal that the Prime Minister has finally “read the room.”

Because the room has changed. Public patience has thinned. Across Australia – including among Labor’s own supporters – there has been a growing unease with the language of balance when the images on people’s screens tell a far more unbalanced story. People are not asking for perfection, nor for reckless gestures. But they are asking for something that feels increasingly rare in public life: honesty, consistency, and the courage to apply our values evenly.

In that context, this moment feels different.

It feels like a government, or at least a Prime Minister, beginning to find his footing – beginning to speak not just as an ally, but as a representative of a public that expects more than quiet alignment and careful phrasing.

Whether this is the start of something more substantial, or merely a brief departure from the script, remains to be seen. Governments have a way of snapping back into old habits. The gravitational pull of alliance politics is strong, and Australia has rarely resisted it for long.

But for now, credit where it is due.

In choosing to speak up for Lebanon – and in doing so, gently but clearly diverging from the positions of allies such as the United States under Donald Trump – Anthony Albanese has shown a flicker of something Australians have been waiting to see.

Not a break with our allies. Not a dramatic realignment.

Just something quieter – and, perhaps, more important.

A willingness to stand, at least for a moment, on our own two feet.

April 13, 2026 Posted by | AUSTRALIA, politics international | Leave a comment

Defra plots faster planning process for Sizewell C nuclear plant

Defra plots faster planning process for Sizewell C nuclear plant and
Teesside SAF refinery. Planning decisions for major clean energy projects
to be accelerated by appointment of Environment Agency as single lead
environmental regulator, according to Defra.

Business Green 8th April 2026
https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4528039/defra-plots-faster-planning-process-sizewell-nuclear-plant-teesside-saf-refinery

April 13, 2026 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The Eve Of A Radical Evil

Trump, and especially the language he uses, is a particularly vile, vicious and sick example of American barbarity. But his behaviour so far has been consistent with other presidents who have bombed countries back to the Stone Age.

Nate Bear, Apr 08, 2026, https://www.donotpanic.news/p/the-eve-of-a-radical-evil

We are on the eve of a radical evil.

Tonight Trump’s deadline for Iran to surrender or be faced with the destruction of its critical energy and national infrastructure expires.

Just the fact that the president of the United States can set a ‘deadline’ for massive war crimes which leaves the world counting down the hours and speculating about nuclear weapon use, after starting a war of aggression, should be enough to end US hegemony forever.

This kind of ultimatum should be viewed as so unhinged, so beyond the pale, so outside the bounds of anything approaching normal diplomatic behaviour that no country in the world should want anything to do with it. Embassies should be closing, US troops should be ordered to leave the nearly 800 bases in 80 countries at which they’re stationed, and these facilities shut down.

The fact none of this has ever been a possibility shows us how US hegemony is a true plague on the world. It shows us how so few states are legitimately sovereign, and how so many willingly line up behind the crimes of empire. And it shows us that those states which are sovereign get targeted for regime change precisely because they are sovereign.

This, ultimately, was Iran’s only crime. It’s original sin.

When, nearly 50 years ago, the country ended a western-backed system of dictatorial monarchism and pursued a sovereign path, it brought to life a material reality that is forbidden under US empire. The material successes Iran has created over the last near 50 years, including independent financial systems, digital systems, and military systems, all achieved while under crushing western sanctions, are not allowed. And Iran is being punished for this.

Iran is being punished for its resistance, for its ingenuity, for its sovereignty.

This is the reason the US-Israel is bombing Iran’s premier universities and research facilities, and murdering its scientists.

The MIT of Iran was bombed this weekend.

These are centres of non-western excellence and learning which produce the minds that demonstrate what can be done outside the US-Zionist orbit. These places, and the people they train, have enabled Iran to successfully decouple from western hegemony. They have enabled modern Iranians to not just inherit a proud, 6,000-year-old civilisation, but to build on the achievements of their predecessors.

And because the Persian civilisation is such a successful one, because modern Iran has shepherded that civilisation so skillfully, Trump is threatening to kill it. Literally. In the most murderously deranged turn of a murderously deranged period, Trump said this morning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”

Every journalist, every politician who reproduced anti-Iran propaganda led us to this point.

Every reference to “the regime,” every reference to “peaceful protests,” every failure to mention that the protestors were armed by the west to provoke an insurrection (which Trump just admitted), every fake “internet shutdown” story, every dubious angle used to foment anti-Iran sentiment led us to this point.

And every single person, from liberal politicians to journalists at the Guardian, the BBC, CNN, the New York Times, and all those Iranian exiles who demanded Iran be bombed and helped cultivate the ground for this war of aggression, are culpable.

Yesterday an Iranian exile who writes for the BBC, Ghoncheh Habibiazad, suggested, quite unbelievably, that Iranians actually want to be nuked.

After an outcry on social media, the quote was changed, which itself raises questions about whether those words were ever said or not.

Regardless, publishing a quote from someone in a country under a murderous assault saying they hope they get nuked is an extraordinarily depraved depth to plumb. And even if it was said, it is effectively the voicing of suicidal ideation and by any journalist ethic or standard should never be printed.

But this is the sickness of imperial stenographers.

This is where we are now.

And of course there is speculation in his threat to kill “a whole civilization” that Trump is hinting at using a nuclear weapon. Maybe he is. Maybe they will. They’ve done it before, after all, the only country to have ever done so. If he does, the world should never be the same again.

But even if the US doesn’t use a nuclear weapon, even if the US-Israel ‘only’ go through with the threat to destroy all of Iran’s critical national infrastructure, the world should never be the same again.

And even if he doesn’t go through with it and an unlikely ceasefire deal is agreed, the world should never be the same again.

Enough is enough of degenerate American empire and its crazed, out-of-control genocidal Jewish colony.

The impunity of empire has to end. It has to. Because while it remains an empire, the US will always be the greatest threat to global peace and stability. No president since the US became an imperial power has been able to sit atop such a massive amount of hardware and not order the mass murder of innocent people.

Not one.

It’s baked in.

Trump, and especially the language he uses, is a particularly vile, vicious and sick example of American barbarity. But his behaviour so far has been consistent with other presidents who have bombed countries back to the Stone Age.

And even if he uses a nuclear weapon, he won’t be unique.

Thinking about the long arc of American violence for two seconds should make us incredulous that the country was ever sold to us as a stabilising force, as the leader of the “free world,” as a symbol of humanitarian values.

Anyone who ever fell for this has been utterly hoodwinked and made a fool of.

It really is time to end empire, Zionism and the control it has over the world. Whether you’re in the US, the global north or south, a central task must be to find and elevate new leaders who can extricate us from this rule.

And doing this won’t be possible without breaking people out of their legacy media bubble and educating them about the huge lies they’ve been told regarding the benevolence of the US and the evils of the official enemy.

We’re all going to suffer when the fuel starts to dry up and the economic crisis coming down the pipe as a result of US impunity really hits. The crisis is coming, and it is certain.

And now we are at the precipice of a horror being loosed on Iran that would take the country decades to recover from.

For our collective humanity, such a horror would be an everlasting stain inviting the rightful judgement and condemnation of many generations to come.

We’re on the eve of a radical evil, and whatever happens tonight, nothing should ever be the same again.

April 13, 2026 Posted by | Religion and ethics, USA | Leave a comment