Caitlin Johnstone
There is absolutely no excuse for
buying into the war propaganda about Iran after what we all saw with Iraq.
“OMG nuclear weapons!” Shut up,
idiot. If you’re a grown adult with internet access still swallowing this load
of bull spunk in the year 2025 you’re either stupid or evil.
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President Donald Trump is now
saying he has no intention of seeking or facilitating a ceasefire with Iran,
telling reporters that he’s after a “complete give-up” from Iran instead.
“I’m not too much in a mood to
negotiate,” Trump said.
Asked by the press if he’s
worried about US troops being targeted by Iran in the coming days, the
president said “We’ll come down so hard if they do anything to our people.
We’ll come down so hard. The gloves are off. I think they know not to touch our
troops.”
This is a stupid, crazy lie. Iran
has explicitly said it will strike US bases in the region if the US attacks
Iranian territory. If you punch someone, you expect to be punched back.
If Trump orders US forces to bomb
Iran, it will be because he wants to start a war and knowingly chose to do so.
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One of the dumbest narratives
we’re currently being fed about Iran is the claim that Israel is
precision-striking high-level targets in Iran while Iran is just bombing
civilians all over the place in Israel.
A casual glance at the death
tolls shows this is clearly false. As of this writing the current official
death count sits at 24 Israelis killed by Iran and 224 Iranians killed by
Israel — most
of whom are reportedly civilians. On Friday they bombed a residential building
and killed 60 people, including 20 kids.
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Israeli Defense Minister Israel
Katz thumped his chest on Twitter about an IDF strike on an Iranian television
station on Monday, saying “The Iranian regime’s propaganda and incitement
broadcasting authority was attacked by the IDF after a widespread evacuation of
residents in the area.”
I wonder how the western press
who are currently deceiving the public to promote Israel’s information
interests feel about this new rule that it’s okay to bomb media outlets if
someone decides they’re propaganda?
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People shouldn’t be so hard on
Trump about all this. You’d probably start a war with Iran too if someone was
threatening to leak your child molestation video.
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The war on Iran isn’t really
about nuclear weapons — if
it was they would’ve
kept the nuclear deal in place, which was working as intended. The Gaza
holocaust isn’t
really about Hamas or hostages — if
it was they would’ve
just targeted Hamas or negotiated a hostage deal.
It’s all lies. The war on Iran is
about regional hegemony and the genocide in Gaza is about Israel’s longstanding
desire to remove all Palestinians from a Palestinian territory. It’s not about
self-defense, it’s about land and power, and it always has been.
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This is one of the reasons
antiwar people have been focusing so hard on Gaza, by the way. It wasn’t just
because it’s a horrific genocide happening right in front of us, it was because
it always risked blowing up into a regional war involving Israel’s western
allies. We’ve been watching it expand into the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen,
Syria, and into Iran for a bit last year, and now it’s blown up into all-out
war between Israel and Iran with the US poised to join in.
For 20 months I’ve been getting
people asking me why I’ve been so laser-focused on Gaza while paying less
attention to this or that conflict or foreign policy issue. This is why. It’s a
waking nightmare in and of itself, but it’s also always been a powderkeg that
could explode into something much, much worse.
June 16, 2025
President Trump is reportedly returning to Washington early from a
G7 summit in Canada and has told his national security council to prepare for
an urgent meeting in the situation room, apparently to discuss Iran.
The US president has taken to social media to terrorize Iranian
civilians, telling Tehran’s millions of inhabitants that they must immediately
evacuate the city and saying “Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to
sign.”
Weirdly, the strongest indication that Trump has made a decision to
attack Iran might be a recent post on Truth Social about former Fox News
darling Tucker Carlson.
“Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that,” IRAN CAN
NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!” the president posted.
Carlson has been an outspoken critic of warmongering toward Iran,
and was reportedly responsible for personally talking the president out of his
Iran brinkmanship in the first Trump administration.
Antiwar’s Scott Horton is reporting that, according to his sources,
the Trump administration has already decided to join in Israel’s war.
Capitol Hill is clearly worried that a war with Iran is imminent,
with numerous lawmakers in the House and the Senate scrambling to get
legislation in place that would stop the president from ordering such a war.
Benjamin Netanyahu has been speaking to the western press to argue
in favor of assassinating Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. I keep thinking
about the Mad King in Game of Thrones who went nuts and kept ordering everyone
to be burned, until a member of his own court decided enough is enough and slit
his throat.
A full-scale US war against Iran is one of the worst things that
could possibly happen. Full stop. It would likely entail millions of deaths,
massive worldwide economic suffering, chaos and devastation throughout the
middle east unlike anything we’ve ever seen, and could easily wind up with an
Israeli nuclear weapon exploding in Tehran. There is a reason even a lot of
otherwise war-happy swamp monsters in Washington have resisted going down this
path. I really, really hope it doesn’t happen.
If this is the direction the empire chooses to go, expect
mass-scale psychological manipulation on an entirely unprecedented level to
dupe the public into going along with this thing. Expect far more lies. Expect
far more propaganda. Expect psyops. Maybe a false flag attack or two. It will
be bad.
Don’t buy into the lies. Oppose their warmongering at the top of
your lungs, with everything you’ve got. I will be doing the same.
Anyone who supports this war is an enemy of the human species.
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