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Ed Fleck's avatar

Please stay safe Professor . You have done more to calm ignorant Americans that Iran is not some extreme crazy country but a well educated country that is no threat to America. America is starting to realize that Israel is a country of homicidal maniacs not Iran.

Sugar Timpane's avatar

I will never understand why IRAN should have to submit

to a separate set of rules governing nuclear power or weapons than the rest of the world OR why Israel, which stole nuclear material from the US, and has an undeclared arsenal of many nuclear missiles, is tolerated in its crusade to destroy Iran because it may develop nuclear weapons.

because it might develop nuclear weapons.

Shafiq Urehman's avatar

Tucker Carlson is an agent of republican party and his actual motive is not to dehumanise Trump but the distraction of Epstein files. he thinks he is making a fool of the world where he is successful but never trust Tucker Carlson. he still meets Trump at the oval office and has dinner with Trump.

The Custodian ✊✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿🍉💪🏽's avatar

The Bankruptcy of Conspiratorial Revisionism

A recurring disease of modern discourse is the attempt to substitute historical reality with conspiratorial revisionism. In moments of intense global crisis, ideological opportunists frequently seek to rewrite history, absolving entire civilizations, ruling classes, and political institutions of their historical responsibilities by projecting systemic wrongdoing onto a convenient scapegoat.

History, however, cannot be rewritten by political sleight of hand. Its complexity may demand reinterpretation, but reinterpretation is not the same as fabrication. Serious historical scholarship follows evidence wherever it leads; conspiratorial revisionism begins with a predetermined culprit and then bends the evidence to fit the conclusion.

The state policies, imperial expansions, legislative institutions, military campaigns, and economic infrastructures that shaped Western history were overwhelmingly conceived, administered, and enforced by the governments, institutions, and political elites that actually possessed power. To suggest that a small, historically marginalized minority was the secret architect behind the moral failures of an entire civilization is not merely historically implausible; it is a surrender of intellectual integrity.

Indeed, there is something profoundly evasive about this mythology. It permits those who benefited from systems of power to disown their own historical agency. Instead of asking who possessed armies, legislatures, colonies, treasuries, corporations, and administrative authority, the conspiracist searches for an invisible hand. The result is not historical accountability but historical abdication.

This form of revisionism is particularly characteristic of white-nationalist conspiracy rhetoric. It exploits contemporary horrors to resurrect ancient antisemitic tropes, while frequently carrying a corresponding hostility towards Arabs and Muslims. It transforms legitimate grievances into ethnic mythology, replacing political analysis with collective suspicion and historical evidence with inherited prejudice.

None of this requires the sanitization of Western history. Imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racial hierarchy, economic domination, and political violence should be confronted honestly and without euphemism. Nor does condemning antisemitic conspiracy theory require silence about the actions of any contemporary state or government. Governments must be judged by their conduct, institutions by their decisions, and political movements by their actions.

The principle is simple: criticize power where power actually resides.

A mature civilization does not need a mythical enemy to explain its failures. It possesses the courage to examine its own institutions, confront its own history, and hold its own powerful actors accountable.

The answer to one historical injustice cannot be another historical fiction.

And a civilization that refuses to own its own history will never possess the moral clarity necessary to confront its present.

IN SIMPLE WORDS, WHITE PEOPLE CANNOT BLAME ALL THE EVILS OF THEIR CIVILIZATION ON JEWS. THE VAST, VAST MAJORITY OF THE SINS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION FALL ON WHITE SHOULDERS, NOT JEWISH ONES.

susan cartwright's avatar

White supremacy is a problem, true. But so is Jewish Supremacy.

Israeli is not a religion. Jewish is not a nationality. And anti-Zionism is not anti-semitism.

All decent people in the world despise the state of Israel.

IRONY: When Zionists who survived a genocide use it as an excuse to commit genocide.

“NAZIs made me afraid to be a Jew. Zionists made me ashamed to be a Jew.”

Dr. Israel Shahak, Holocaust survivor

Also: the Zionists are setting up the Jews to be hated by the whole world for another 2000 years! (Historically they were initially hated as Christians said the Jews killed Jesus).

Jimmy p's avatar

Most white supremacist talk comes from Israel as cover for Zionism.

One day they claim to be white ,next day not. Look I to the figures of who owned slaves, slave boats, and slave markets

Ed Fleck's avatar

Just think how comical and oblivious to reality trump is when he demanded an unconditional surrender from Iran. Now trump will end up in an unconditional surrender.

Laeta's avatar

It looks like Iran will accomplish regime change in the US!

Ed Fleck's avatar

There will be no greater Israel and ultimately no Israel. American majority no longer supports Israel. In Michigan Abdul - El Sayed overcame 70 million bet against him mostly from Jews defeating an acknowledged Zionist democrat

Merja Kauppinen-Saarikko's avatar

Why are americans cry over gas prices?We in europe allso have higher prices in gas,food,housing ,energy.

Abhishek Singh Chauhan's avatar

America just got its teeth kicked in — a geopolitical face‑plant so loud it echoes across the Gulf. Iran didn’t just push back; it ripped open the myth of U.S. invincibility and left Washington stumbling like a drunk giant. The whole showdown feels like a filthy, lopsided brawl where the empire slipped on its own arrogance and hit the floor hard. If this is “power,” it’s power bleeding out on the pavement

Trigg Ledger Publisher's avatar

The mainstream media is finally catching up to the tactical reality we at The Trigg Ledger mapped out weeks ago.

​While the legacy press was busy debating the merits of a "limited defensive air campaign," we ran the geopolitical math on Pickaxe Mountain and called it exactly what it is: an un-bombable bunker serving as the political pretext for a ground war.

​The math is absolute: you cannot neutralize a facility buried this deep under solid granite with conventional bunker-busters. The military knows this. The current "diplomatic pause" isn't about de-escalation; it’s a scramble to use this untouchable nuclear bogeyman to justify putting boots on the ground to permanently clear the Iranian coastline and secure the Strait of Hormuz.

​Watch the networks slowly piece together the Phase One shaping operations we already gave you.

​If you want political talking points, turn on the news. If you want the unvarnished, data-driven reality of global conflict before it hits the mainstream, read our full breakdown here:

​🔗 The Pickaxe Pretext: Trump, Netanyahu, and the Nuclear Lie

https://triggledger.substack.com/p/the-pickaxe-pretext-trump-netanyahu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8gc1qf

Trigg Ledger Publisher's avatar

​In today’s press briefing, Donald Trump didn't just keep "massive escalation" on the table—he explicitly brought up leadership decapitation (at 0:06) and confirmed the U.S. has full capability to escalate (at 0:12). By the 0:35 mark, he pivoted to demanding 50 years of financial damages and reparations from Tehran as a condition for talks.

​This isn't random posturing; it is the Pickaxe Pretext unfolding in real time.

​By framing diplomatic negotiations around impossible, non-starter demands—forcing Tehran to pay 50 years of reparations while threatening decapitation—the administration and Netanyahu are building manufactured diplomatic dead-ends. These terms serve a clear purpose: creating an intentional escalation trigger that gives Washington and Tel Aviv the exact pretext required to justify kinetic action when Iran refuses.

​When you look past the media noise and map out how these ultimatums are constructed, the strategy becomes undeniable.

​Read our full breakdown on how this pretext was engineered and what comes next:

https://triggledger.substack.com/p/the-pickaxe-pretext-trump-netanyahu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8gc1qf

doris's avatar

Thanks again for giving us hope for sanity in the world. I wish the American media would have you on in a respectful manner. Peace to you both!

Woozie's avatar

So, if Professor Marandi feels certain that the new "Sunni NATO" (Mecca Joint Defense Agreement) is unlikely to actually result in any 'article 5' type behavior, why was it signed? KSA already has a defense pact with Pakistan. Is Pakistan just trying to get some sort of recognition from Turkey - - trying to prove that it is some sort of up-and-and-coming bigwig in the region (because it was able to demand a big $$$ cash swap with the US to shore up its desperately failing economy?) I really learned nothing in this episode that helps me understand how this defense agreement is anything other than inflammatory to the region!

Jane delozier's avatar

Don’t be too flexible with the US. We aren’t trustworthy.

Virgil Rus's avatar

thank you both for hope!

Ed Fleck's avatar

In 2028 when Dems take control General Keane should be restored to active duty then court martialed and sent to jail for the rest of his life for lying on behalf Israel and acting on behalf of defense contractors in promoting the biggest military blunder since Vietnam

jsarnak's avatar

I don't think many Democrats watch the show Glenn, but I wish they would see this episode. At the end when Marandi is talking about US domestic policy and says "Well, The Democrat Party, I don't think anyone would call them "the Left" . This is the view the rest of the world has about the US. Everyone on the outside looking in realizes that there is only 1 political view in Washington DC. We (US) do not have a balance in politics. Even now there was a chance for a swing in the Uniparty. The Democrat leaders just sent out "the influencers" and demanded a no questions allowed policy. Just do as your told, we have candidates calling themselves socialists and even communists. They are nothing of the sort they are ALL main stream Uniparty loyalists.