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Joint Russia-Iran Naval Drills as US Attack Looms
Feb 2000:24:35Tap to summarizeRumble link Bitchute linkFormer CIA analyst Larry Johnson joined me on Press TV’s Spotlight program to discuss the latest Russia-Iran naval drills and the likelihood of another major US attack on Iran. Transcript:Welcome, everyone. Iran and Russia have held naval exercises in the Sea of Oman and northern Indian Ocean to boost military cooperation and regional security. And topping the drills, maritime counter-piracy and counter-terrorism operations, IRGC forces also closed the Strait of Hormuz for a brief episode during their exercises just a day earlier. Annual drills are meant to send a clear message that the region is capable of providing its own security and stability and does not need or welcome, in fact, foreign players or intervention in this regard. In fact, this Moscow to Iran cooperation is also giving way to the south north south transit corridor, a revolutionary transit route on land to run from St. Petersburg, Russia to the middle of India. And it runs primarily right through Iran, an economic game changer. But first, let’s start with this quick report. Iran and Russia have wrapped up a series of joint naval exercises in the Sea of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean, aimed at boosting military cooperation and maritime security across the region. The drills focused on expanding operational coordination between the two navies, particularly in planning and executing combined missions. Special operations units from the Iranian Army, the IRGC, and the Russian Navy carried out a complex simulation to retake a hijacked vessel. In a coordinated air and sea assault, special forces boarded the target ship, detained the mock hijackers, and secured the vessel.Military officials say the exercises were designed to improve joint readiness in countering maritime threats, including piracy and terrorism.Rear Admiral Hassan Mafzoudlu, spokesperson for the Iran-Russia joint drill, said all planned objectives have been successfully achieved.In the end, all the objectives planned by the designers in the operations room were successfully achieved.The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy routinely participates in various defense diplomacy exercises around the world. Joint exercises with Russia in the Caspian Sea and in southern waters are also part of Iran’s annual defense diplomacy planning. As defense ties between Tehran and Moscow continue to deepen, Russian naval official Alexei Sergeev emphasized that the two countries are capable of addressing a wide range of maritime challenges together, highlighting a growing atmosphere of trust and cooperation. The level of interaction and cooperation between Iran and Russia shows that together we can manage and resolve many maritime and coastal challenges.Moscow is ready to hold joint exercises in any region, including specialized drills such as maritime counterterrorism operations carried out by naval vessels and patrol boats from both countries. With Iran and Russia expanding collaboration across multiple sectors in recent years, the latest Navy drills underscored deepening strategic partnership between the two countries. The exercises also demonstrate the ability of both countries to safeguard regional maritime security without reliance on outside powers. The drills come at a time of heightened tensions in the region, as the United States has stepped up its threats against Iran in recent weeks. Tehran has asserted that it is fully prepared to respond to any force threatening its sovereignty and territorial integrity.And now for our guests for our program. Joining us, Mr. Larry Johnson, former CIA analyst from Florida. And also Kevin Barrett joining us from Saidia, Morocco. Gentlemen, pleasure to have you both. Welcome to our spotlight program. I guess Mr. Johnson, we’ll start with you down there in sunny Florida. Your initial take, please, on these naval drills between Moscow and Tehran and what they signify, especially in the scope of recent tensions.Well, I think it’s important to understand that it’s not just with Russia. China’s also been involved. I mean, China, Russia, and Iran started a series, an annual joint naval exercise. They started that back in 2019. It’s always been scheduled around mid-February to mid-March. And anybody that’s ever been involved with military exercises before knows that the planning for this, they didn’t come up with this because of recent tensions with the United States. These exercises are usually planned days to months in advance.And so it’s a reminder that now because of the tensions, it does take on added importance. It’s possible that they added in an additional dimension to this with just Russia. But you know the Chinese are also in the area. They have a an intelligence ship tailing the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln. So I think it’s important to understand that unlike what happened in June’s surprise attack by Israel, Iran now enjoys the full backing of Russia and China, based in part on a trilateral agreement that was assigned at the end of January of this year.Thank you there, Mr. Johnson. Dr. Kevin Barrett, pleasure to have you join us, sir. And thank you for your presence, in fact. And your opening thoughts as well on these annual drills that we witnessed. And to Mr. Johnson’s point, he’s very correct on that, that it’s been Russia, Iran, and China. And even China was supposed to be part of this, and it just opted out in the last minute. But nevertheless, the timing of the drills, the geopolitical relevance, and the message they sent this year, forget about the other years, but this year, with the buildup of tensions.Well, first, I’d like to say it’s an honor to be on the show with Larry Johnson. He’s doing great work. I wish we had more government service people in the United States with his analytical skills and integrity. So yeah, these drills show that this time this is yet another aspect of the way that Iran is prepared now in a way that it wasn’t last June. That is, Iran has had more than half a year to figure out what went wrong, what went right in June, and to coordinate its response with Russia and China.And of course, Russia is the world’s leading nuclear power with a lot of battle-tested people. They’ve been fighting a very serious war now that’s dragged on. And so they’re used to fighting an existential war in a way that the United States, of course, is not.China is the world’s biggest economic and technological power by quite a bit now. And China has, according to many analysts, made a lot of progress in the intelligence fields relevant to the Iranian response to any US attack. We know that Iran now has access to radars that are specifically directed to going after stealth aircraft. And China, of course, had with its technological edge in many fields, is known not only for their ability to deal with cyber communications and satellite communications, but of course, also they’ve been apparently involved in helping Iran develop its missile technology. I believe there were Sunburn missiles more than two decades ago that already at that point could have shut down the Persian Gulf. So Iran is totally prepared for this. Dick Cheney backed off. Obama didn’t even want to think about it. And now we’ve got an apparently Epstein-blackmailed Zionist stooge lunatic in the White House who is willing to gamble with the future of the region and the world. And so it’s a very, very dangerous situation. And with Russia and Chinese involvement, this of course sets the stage for escalation that could get out of control.And thank you there, Dr. Barrett. And Mr. Johnson, Iran said time and again that the anti-terror operations and anti-piracy operations and other dimensions to the drills are meant to convey that, hey, we have regional players that can handle regional security and do not need, in fact, do not want outside forces in the region for any assistance in this regard. But is anyone listening when it comes to this point being driven home?Well, the only terrorism threat that Iran has really faced has been that which has been ginned up by the United States and Israel. In particular, let’s recall that in after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 and identified the MEK, the Mujahideen al-Khalq, they then, in 2004, realized, “hey, we can use these guys to attack Iran.” And even though the MEK was still on the list of international terrorists that my old office used to classify as organizations that were bad, the CIA and the US military started working with these guys. They weren’t removed from the terrorist list until 2012. And yet they became US proxies.So to my knowledge, the MEK has never been responsible for carrying out a maritime attack. I think the maritime platform is, I’ll call it an excuse, to bring Russia and China together. What happens in these exercises is the officers, they get to know each other. You develop friendships. You learn how to communicate. You learn what kind of systems work best, and you try to simulate a crisis situation. And can you communicate in that situation? And if there’s a breakdown, what kind of workarounds do you come up with?So they used the anti-terrorism thing as sort of the script, but that’s not the real purpose of this exercise. The purpose of this exercise is to ensure that Russian military personnel, Chinese military personnel, and both the c...
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Dean Radin on "the Science of Magic"
Feb 1900:49:27Tap to summarizeRumble link Bitchute linkDean Radin is the English-speaking world’s leading popularizer of the science of psi and its implications, and the author of many books and scientific papers. He is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and cofounder and chairman of the neuroengineering company, Cognigenics. He earned a BS and MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 2022 he was awarded an Honorary DSc from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore, India. He has worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. Welcome to Truth Jihad Audiovisual. I’m Kevin Barrett getting visual here for the first time with Dean Radin. I’ve had him on a few times on audio. And here we are doing actual video and talking about his great new book, The Science of Magic. And the subtitle is How the Mind Weaves the Fabric of Reality. It basically starts with the science of psi, leads us up to magic, and the notion that we’re actually all sort of co-creating the universe through paranormal means. It used to be known as magic. Anyway, it’s a good book, and it’s good to have you back, Dean Radin, welcome.Thank you. It’s good to be here.It’s another fascinating book. I’ve been interested in these topics since high school when I discovered the Encyclopedia of Philosophy’s entry on Psi, which shockingly basically said that, yeah, this has been proven. Unless there’s something very strange going on, clearly Psi has been proven scientifically. This was back in the mid-1970s. And so I looked into it. Wow, that’s interesting. That’s not what I’ve heard from everybody else. And I looked into it and it was true. So I’ve been sort of following that ever since and also have been aware of the fact that we’re sort of influencing reality psychically all the time. And that’s that’s where your book gets to in this kind of second half or third third. So, yeah, let’s talk about that and the wild and crazy implications. Where should we start? You tell the story of how you got into this field in the book. So maybe you can give us the short version.Well, the short version is that like a lot of kids, usually, who start reading science fiction and fairy tales, you can’t help but start wondering if any of that stuff is true. And then you get a little bit older and you start learning about science and you hear pretty uniformly that none of it is true. And so it depends on whether or not you remain with childlike enthusiasm and imagination, or if it gets squashed when you’re a little bit older. So for a lot of people, it gets squashed pretty quick. For some, they never break out of the squashiness and their imagination begins to fail. But for others, many scientists, actually, you’re driven by curiosity, as I am. In which case you simply want to know what’s real, what’s true. And so when you start looking at the scientific evidence, which has been around since the late 1950s, it’s very difficult to reach a conclusion that the phenomena that we’re talking about, psychic phenomena, does not exist or is impossible, because it’s quite clear that it has been happening all the time in human experience, and you could even see it in laboratory tests. So anybody who pays attention to that, as you just said, you are then presented with what amounts to a kind of a paradox, a contrast between we are being told, and yet the evidence is clearly not saying that. This is real. So other questions arise like, well, why are we not being told this? What is something being hidden from us? And so I generally don’t go in that direction. I simply say that science tends to be very skeptical and conservative in terms of what it accepts as being true, which is fine. But once it accounts certain kinds of anomalies, which history again and again shows that’s where the future of science always is, there’s two ways you can respond to it. One is to go with the status quo, so it doesn’t disrupt the possibility of your future employment, and just agree with what everyone else does and says; or follow the anomalies, which entails some risk, but also offers a lot of rewards. So I decided the risk was worth it. So here I am years later, and finding it as interesting and as thrilling as I thought when I was a teenager.Yeah, I agree. Your book is really kind of exciting to read. For somebody like me who’s known about this for a long time, it really is inspiring. It’s actually kind of thrilling to know that we’re somewhere near the edge of a radical change in worldview. Because this can’t be ignored forever. And there are signs, even though it hasn’t exploded into public consciousness the way I expected it would. When I first looked into this in the 1970s and early 1980s, I kind of thought, “well, by the turn of the millennium, this will be pretty widely accepted.” And it seems like it kind of stalled. The Encyclopedia of Philosophy was a very mainstream publication. And they were unequivocal that “this stuff is real. It’s been proven seven ways from Sunday. Get used to it.” But somehow the consensus view in the academy has managed to keep sticking heads in the sand. How have they kept a lid on this?Yeah, in many ways, that’s really the interesting question, because the answer is that it’s partially culture-bound. So within, as a broad umbrella term, Western academia, it is thought that because these effects are impossible, then the only evidence can be interpreted as flaws or fraud. If you look at Wikipedia, that’s sort of the way that is presented. Well, that partially becomes a theoretical problem. If you can’t immediately think of an explanation, you say, well, it doesn’t exist. But as sociologists of science have pointed out again and again, that is always how anomalies are presented. That there must be something wrong because we can’t possibly change the dogma, which is what we are accepting as being true. And eventually, if something is real, it will penetrate. So why has it not penetrated yet into the mainstream? Well, one possibility is, without going too far into conspiracy theory, is exactly the same reason why UFOs have only recently, like within the past five years or so or six years, have come out of the closet as far as the U.S. government has presented. And other governments have been way ahead of this. So... There are those who perceive that UFOs, psychic phenomena, and a whole bunch of other things are simply declared as demonic. We don’t understand it. We don’t like it. It’s uniformly presented as demonic or as horrific in our entertainment. And so we simply come away with an idea that we don’t want this to be real. And so there’s a huge push from a religious perspective: Don’t pay attention to this. Don’t look at it. It’s bad. There’s the other push from science, where the science spokespeople, many of them, are saying that this stuff can’t possibly be real, and then give a bunch of reasons. So you have pressure from both of those directions, which is pretty strong. You may also have pressure from government. The government doesn’t want people to know that this is actually real too, partially because with things like remote viewing or clairvoyance in general, the possibility arises that not only are we in a surveillance state, but the kind of surveillance that literally can look at anywhere in space or time by people who are adept at doing that. And so maybe there are people in government that don’t want to know that that’s possible. It’s even worse than Snowden said.You can understand that there’s multiple pressures that combine to push the idea of these kinds of phenomena to the fringe. So that’s a big part of it. But again, it’s culture bound. So you go to India, you go to Asia and so on. These things are so well accepted that people say, well, why are you even bothering to study it? Like, what are you studying? That’s the kind of attitude I’ve encountered in India for sure, but in other countries as well. So this is a culture bound problem. Absolutely. I moved to Morocco two and a half years ago, and I can tell you that it is a culture where people basically accept the worldview that you’re presenting. Nobody, only maybe a very minuscule percentage of people here who’ve been overly indoctrinated in Western education, might agree with the Western consensus. But the vast majority, not at all. And that’s one of many things I like about Morocco.So you mentioned science and religion both kind of working in the same direction to keep this suppressed. I wonder…it seems to me that years ago it was more the religion side that was doing it. And now we have the tools of science proving that it’s real. And I think one of the reasons that many people in the scientific establishment don’t want to admit it’s real is that it challenges scientism as a dogmatic substitute for religion. And indeed, it opens the door again to a more religious worldview. I thi...
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Iran and the US: Closer to War or a Deal?
Feb 1700:16:12Tap to summarizeRumble link Bitchute link FouaDebate YouTube linkFoad: In the name of God, the compassionate and merciful, hello everybody, hope you are doing great. You’re watching FoaDebate. Over the past few weeks, the Middle East has witnessed a mix of intense tension and diplomatic movements. On one hand, indirect talks between Iran and the U.S. took place with both sides expressing willingness to continue the dialogue. On the other hand, the Trump administration has ramped up its maximum pressure campaign, sending naval forces to the region and threatening Iran. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was heeding to Washington to push Tel Aviv’s demands for including Iran’s missile program and regional activities in any potential agreement.In such a heated atmosphere, the key question is, are Tehran and Washington moving forward a new deal? Or is the region on the brink of a full-scale conflict? To explore this, I sit down with Dr. Kevin Barrett, a senior American journalist and well-known political analyst. Welcome back there, Kevin Barrett.Kevin Barrett: Thank you, Fouad. It’s good to be back with you.You’re welcome. As I said, over the past week, we have seen two conflicting signals from the U.S. On one hand, talks in Oman and Trump’s expressing satisfaction with them. and on the other hand, an escalation in military and economic pressure. How do you interpret this duality?Well, I think that Trump is basically conditioned by his history as a kind of a, let’s face it, a somewhat corrupt businessman and indeed a money launderer for organized crime who built up hotel chains and casinos and so on, and took a kind of a bullying approach to business negotiations. He would threaten people and pressure them and try to get the upper hand over them and then try to come out with the best deal that he could, thinking that by applying pressure, he could get better terms in a deal. And so that’s just his standard operating procedure. And for whatever reason, the foreign policy establishment is letting him do that.But I don’t think that we should take the aircraft carriers being sent into the region at face value as preparations for necessarily for war, because frankly, I don’t think that the United States and its Israeli partner, or some would say occupier, is ready for that kind of war. As we saw during the 12-day war in June, Iran, even when taken by surprise by another dastardly surprise attack during what was supposed to be negotiations, was capable of regrouping, and its missile force was extremely formidable, forcing the Israelis to beg for the Americans to give them a face-saving way to end that war.And since the Americans are unable to basically even disable the rocket program in Yemen by Ansar Allah—and Iran is many orders of magnitude more formidable—it seems unlikely that the American leadership is looking forward to a war that would certainly leave a large number of Americans dead with tremendous damage and the prospect of either an American defeat or an attempt to throw good money after bad money and essentially keep digging the hole deeper and deeper and deeper for another forever war, which the U.S. would have no real expectation of winning in any meaningful way.After Trump met Netanyahu, it seemed that Trump’s statement on his platform, Truth Social, and then Netanyahu’s statement in Hebrew just before he got on the plane to go back to Israel, indicated that Netanyahu didn’t get what he wanted, which was a kind of a promise from Trump that Trump would indeed go all the way with a threatened war if Iran didn’t negotiate away its allies and its ballistic missile program, which Iran, of course, will not do.Right. Iran has made it clear that its missile program is never up for negotiation and that uranium enrichment is its non-negotiable right. In contrast, Israel wants these issues included in any agreement and Netanyahu was heading to Washington precisely to push for that. How do you see this fundamental deadlock being broken?I think that it is a situation in which the American leadership has to decide to what extent is it willing to damage American interests and, of course, Trump’s political interests, in service to Israel’s maximum demands. And we’ve seen the Israelis already creating all sorts of problems for American foreign policy. I’m one of many who are known for arguing that Israel was the prime force responsible for the September 11th false flag attack on America, which was designed to drag the U.S. into a war that was supposed to overthrow seven countries in five years. All of those seven countries were viewed as problematic by the Israelis. And Iran was number seven on that list, and by far the most important of those seven countries. This is all according to General Wesley Clark, who was told this shortly after the September 11th attacks by a leading neoconservative.So the Americans allowed themselves to be dragged into that series of wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the world. And it didn’t help the American strategic position. Now the Americans are facing serious challenges from China and Russia after squandering their resources in this endless war on behalf of the Israeli settler colony, which has become so genocidal that it’s hated everywhere in the world. And I think it’s very likely that the people around Trump are telling him this prospect of a big American war with Iran is just not going to work. You can’t get a quick victory. There’s just no way that’s going to happen. There will be great American losses. And the endgame is totally unclear.And we’re talking about the Strait of Hormuz being closed, oil prices skyrocketing, the global economy crashing—all of this at a time when Trump’s popularity ratings are at unprecedented lows. So I think the Israelis may have bitten off more than they can chew, even though they may be applying pressure to Trump in various ways, possibly including the Epstein revelations, which are increasingly incriminating Trump. And because Zionists dominate Western media, they can hold this over Trump’s head and say, “if you don’t do what we tell you, we can bring you down. We can suddenly start taking seriously all of these horrific allegations against you.”So Trump is sort of caught between a rock and a hard place. But the American military leadership around Trump knows that a big war with Iran would be a loser for the United States empire at a time when it is becoming increasingly fragile. And so I think that the chances are quite strong that the Americans will back off this time and, in fact, defy Israeli orders. And that’s, of course, an unusual and actually kind of refreshing development considering the way things have gone in the past.Right. Thank you so much. You know, some analysts believe that Trump’s approach toward Iran is essentially a one-shot deal rooted in a transactional mindset. However, other experts argue that Washington’s ultimate goal isn’t an agreement at all, but rather risk management and long-term containment of Iran. Which scenario do you find more likely?Yeah, that’s an interesting question. I think that Trump personally does think very transactionally. And he would be likely to personally favor any kind of agreement that can be cast as providing some sort of advantage to the United States and, of course, to himself. So the strategists behind Trump, that is the professional class of empire managers, they’re thinking probably more in terms of long term containment as they have in previous decades. But it could be that given the fact that Trump does have a certain amount of autocratic power in the current situation, it is conceivable that some kind of deal could be framed that would appeal to Trump’s transactional interests. Perhaps there would be some sort of economic deal, American investment, something that looks good from the economic side. And that would give Trump the face-saving ability to back down from these ridiculous Israeli demands that Iran negotiate away its rocket program and its allies, which again, it will not do.But Iran doesn’t really want nuclear weapons. So it’s not like Iran has any reason to not find some sort of compromise agreement, essentially a new framing of what was achieved with the JCPOA, but of course with some sort of guarantee that the next American administration won’t just blow that up too. And that could be then sold to Trump by way of some sort of economic deal.And the question is, does Iran really want to do that? Or would Iran really be better off in the long run possibly opting for an alliance with China rather than trying to reintegrate itself with the West? This is, of course, a question that the best minds in Iran are thinking about, and they probably have a better approach to it than I do.Right. Some sources suggest that the war option is losing popularity among the American public and that there is a kind of strategic fatigue in Washington. On the other side, Iran insists it does not seek war but will respond decisively if provoked. In your view, how are both sides calculating to avoid a deadly miscalculation?That’s another very interesting question, because miscalculation could be extremely deadly in this case. Americ...
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Islamic Iran vs. Epstein Oligarchy
Feb 1501:05:33Tap to summarizeRumble link Bitchute link False Flag Weekly News linkE. Michael Jones of Culture Wars breaks down the week's news...starting with the looming confrontation between the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the degenerate Zioligarchy that rules the West. Partial transcript:Kevin Barrett: Welcome to False Flag Weekly News, the weekly news show that just keeps on digging deeper into what’s really going on in the world, as it all gets exposed by some kind of weird Hegelian dialectic…I don’t know (about that) but the guy who does know is my co-host Dr. E. Michael Jones of Culture Wars. Hey Mike, how are you doing? E. Michael Jones: Good. Good to be here.Yeah, it’s weird. It’s like every time you come back, it’s kind of the same, it’s the same but different, right? Like the Epstein story never goes away. The war on Iran by the Epstein oligarchy that runs the West never goes away. And the noticing just keeps on happening...And so anyway, let’s listen to our PSAs. Okay, it’s Valentine’s Day. So give us some love. Send us some money. Well, wait a minute. Love and money, it’s not the same. Anyway, we have some breaking news, Mike. Did you see that Satan has joined the Board of Peace? He will be reporting to his boss, Bibi Netanyahu, I guess.And more breaking news, the conspiracy theorists were right. It turns out that the moon was an inside job. This is the New York Times science section. So that just goes to show it’s not just Epstein. Conspiracy theorists were right about everything.And finally, I don’t know if you’ve been watching Jake TV, Mike. Have you seen this?No, I haven’t seen it. (Watch the full 11:34 JakeTV satirical video at my Substack, reproduced for educational purposes only. Please note that laughing may be illegal in some jurisdictions.)Jake TV: Breaking news. The FBI has just dropped three and a half million documents in the Epstein files mentioning Goyim, pizza and grape soda.Oh, wow. Probably has nothing to do with Israel. Our greatest ally.Of course not. Who doesn’t like pizza?Exactly.John, break it down for us.Chloe and Michael, good morning. Let’s just ask the FBI. How do you like your pizza and grape soda? “Christian white ones only. As young as it gets.” WTF?!…Okay, happy birthday, Islamic Iran. It was the birthday of the Islamic Republic this week. And so we’ve got these birthday cards. I can’t believe that Elon allows Grok to make birthday cards for the Islamic Republic, Mike.Yes, it’s part of the strategy here. He wants controversy and there’s nothing more controversial than Iran at this moment. So I think that’s part of the strategy.There you go. Yeah, I was kind of surprised when Grok did that. So anyway, over in Iran, there were 25 million people in the streets supporting the Islamic Republic on the occasion of its anniversary. And you and I have been in the midst of these crowds. It wasn’t just in Tehran, by the way, but there were actually some like there was a medium size city that had this gigantic crowd. Anyway, so you’ve been in the thick of these crowds, just like I have, Mike. Do you believe this stuff in the Western media that all the Iranian people hate their government?Yes, Mike Huckabee said it. They said the Iranians want to kill us. So it must be true if Mike Huckabee said it.But I was in the protest in first time. And I was surrounded by women in chodors who were chanting, Magh Barg Amariku, death to America. Although I’m told that there’s nuance in Farsi that maybe it doesn’t mean quite that. But anyway, surrounded. And I was the only guy in Tehran wearing a tie. So I began, someone came up to me and said, are you an American? And I thought, maybe I better say I’m a Canadian. So I said, yeah, but I said, yes, I’m an American. And he said, well, I’d like to go to America. So this whole idea that the Iranians want to kill you is false. I experienced it firsthand. I was not killed.When we got back, were you in the bus with me when they took us there? We were surrounded by a mob in that bus. They were plastered…I did feel that my life was in danger there. I thought it was gonna be crushed by the crowd at one moment. And that passed and then we were in the bus and the bus was completely surrounded by people. There were no police, there were no nothing. And if they wanted to overturn the bus, they could have, they could have set it on fire. We all would have died in the bus, but they didn’t. So that was my witness. We somehow survived.And you were even wearing a tie, which is actually in Iranian revolutionary sartorial correctness, ties are not exactly de rigueur. They’re seen as…like it’s the imperialists and the Zionists that lead you around by the neck. That’s their cultural interpretation. But they still are not going to lynch you just because you’re wearing a tie. Actually, they like Americans. They just don’t like our Zionist occupied government. And I don’t either. Right. And they can make a distinction which some people cannot make.Indeed, yeah. Iran is a pretty sophisticated country. It’s pretty cool. And the Islamic Republic is a pretty cool system. I actually just wrote about that. But here’s the film of the march of the millions. And, of course, the usual suspects are saying, “oh, it’s got to be AI. Because we know the Iranian people don’t like their government.” There are a lot of Iranians who actually are very proud of their Islamic Republic. But they don’t like Epstein. They don’t like sacrificing children.But before the Islamic revolution, this is what Iran looked like. Actually, have you seen these Internet memes where the anti-Iran people try to post all these trendy Western people?No, this is fake. They didn’t look that way. It didn’t look that way. I’ve seen miniskirts, okay, in pre-Islamic Revolution Iran, but I’ve never seen people working at computers in their bathing suits because those computers didn’t exist in the 1970s.Yeah. Okay. But here’s an authentic picture of a fun, freedom-loving couple biking around on their motorbike in Tehran before the Islamic revolution ruined all their fun. And there they are. They look familiar.Actually, do you know who was there in ? Michel Foucault was there.Yeah, but he couldn’t find the bathhouses, so he left and he went back to San Francisco.Well, Michel Foucault showed up and didn’t have the categories that would allow him to understand what was going on. He thought it was going to be staged by the Marquis de Sade. And so he didn’t know what to say. He went there. He was there right at the moment, at the moment. He was sent there by a French newspaper, and he didn’t know what to say. And he went to San Francisco after that and died doing what he loved.Indeed, indeed. Well, actually the stuff Foucault wrote about the Iranian revolution is actually less stupid than most of the stuff from the other Western philosophers, for whatever that’s worth. And here’s the Shah Jr., the wannabe Shah…it’s it’s just unbelievable that these Western regime change people think (Iranians want another shah).I think the significance is that finally, Iranians finally undid the playbook. The playbook began with the overthrow of Mossadegh. They’ve been doing the same thing over and over and over again. They tried it again this time with these Mossad agents who mixed in with the demonstrators in Iran at these fake demonstrations. And Iran, with the help of Russia, I think, figured out how to do it. They shut down Starlink. It turns out that Starlink was absolutely essential to those demonstrations that were calculated to overthrow the government. They reverse engineered Starlink and found out who was downloading it and apprehended them and put an end to the counter-revolution. This is the first time I think that anyone has really dealt with the real grammar of these color revolutions and thwarted them from the inside.Well, there have been some other color revolutions that failed. But yeah, this may be the most spectacular failure—and the most important, because Iran was the number seven on the list of seven countries in five years that 9/11 was designed to overturn. And now it’s been six countries in 25 years and number seven is not going away. And that may be the one that dooms the Zionist entity.All right, moving on to the clownery in the White House. Speaking of the clown in the White House and the Zionist entity, here’s Netanyahu visiting Trump for the seventh time amid more threats of a U.S. attack on Iran. And I don’t know if you saw John Mersheimer’s discussion of this with Judge Napolitano, but it was quite good. John Mersheimer, the eminent realist political scientist, says that he thinks this meeting didn’...
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Pam Bondi's Epstein Clown Show Bombs in Congress
Feb 1300:05:28Tap to summarizeRumble link Bitchute linkPress TV: For more on that, we’re joined by Kevin Barrett from Saidia, Morocco. Mr. Barrett, give us your overall thoughts on the questioning at Capitol Hill of Attorney General Pam Bondi. U.S. Democratic lawmakers have echoed a similar sentiment that we’ve been hearing for a while now, that in this case Attorney General Pam Bondi is siding with the perpetrators and not the victims.Kevin Barrett: That shouldn’t be surprising. Pam Bondi had a reputation as a mobbed-up lawyer and prosecutor during her career in Florida. And the fact that Trump chose her as his attorney general tells you everything you need to know about Donald Trump and his lifelong service for the Kosher Nostra, the organized crime organization that’s so strong in New York City that used Trump as a money launderer throughout his career.And these hearings illustrate the extent to which the United States government has turned into a complete clown show. In this case, Pam Bondi was the one with the big red rubber nose, saying the most ridiculous things. Every time she was asked a specific question, she would respond something along the lines of, “you’re a washed up horrible former lawyer, and why aren’t you getting down on your knees and kissing Donald Trump’s feet? Because he’s the greatest president that this country has ever had.” Over and over and over she would respond like this. A five-year-old could do a better job.But getting to the serious issues here, clearly the questioners are right. Bondi has rather incompetently been siding with the perpetrators, not the victims. She wouldn’t even look at the victims that were lined up right behind her during this hearing. And she presided over the release of only half of these six million Epstein files. And she presided over the redaction of the names of perpetrators, not victims. The names of dozens of victims were allowed to slip into the public domain, while perpetrator after perpetrator after perpetrator was blacked out.And it’s hard to tell to what extent this is total incompetence or whether perhaps there is dissension in the Justice Department as some of the lower level people who are charged with going over these files are so horrified by what they see, which essentially indicates that the United States is run by an Israeli Mossad blackmail ring that traffics these young girls to powerful figures and uses the networking power of the billionaire Zionist class that rules the West to continue to subordinate the United States, a country of more than 300 million people, to this tiny little genocidal settler colony squatting in occupied Palestine.And unfortunately, none of the questioners, not even Thomas Massie, were brave enough to point out the elephant in the living room here, which is that the Epstein blackmail ring was run by Israeli intelligence designed to gather compromising material on powerful Americans and other people worldwide in order to perpetuate the rule of this corrupt criminal genocidal state over the West.Press TV: And what about the other half, I could say? It’s around three million other documents that may never be released. What does that say about the initial claim of transparency, which was one of the campaign mottos and slogans that Donald Trump ran on?That’s right. The deadline for the release of all six million Epstein files was December, late December. And so they released only a tiny fraction before the deadline, and they still have only released about half.You know, the West as a place where there’s supposed to be rule of law has turned into a complete joke. You can be jailed in the West for suggesting that only five million nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine Jews were gassed to death during World War II because you’re one short of the holy, sacred, mythical six million figure. But if the law says you have to release all six million Epstein files, you’re allowed to make it three million instead and hide the other three million.What could possibly be in these other three million? We’ve seen the horrors in the ones that they’ve released, which completely indict the entire Western ruling class in this horrific abuse of young girls, and hint at much, much worse.So I don’t know if we’re ever going to see the unredacted version of what’s left in these three million files that are supposed to be and should have been released a month and a half ago. All of these Justice Department people who haven’t released them need to go to jail. But whatever is in them, it must be beyond belief. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com
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Trump: Between (Epstein) Rock and a Hardened Place (Iran)
Feb 801:14:55Tap to summarizeRumble link Bitchute link FFWN linkPresident Donald J. Trump is a cornered political animal. In recent days he has come under attack from several directions. The president has been issuing fumbling non-apologies-just-excuses for tweeting an AI video depicting the Obamas as apes. His aides have denied that he defecated in his pants while signing an executive order. They likewise deny that Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico “expressed concerns about Trump’s psychological state” which seemed “dangerous” when they met in Florida January 17.The volley of negative news threatens to accelerate Trump’s dip in popularity following the collapse of his ICE war on the Twin Cities. Potentially even worse news for Trump is the January 30 Epstein files dump. My forthcoming American Free Press article (to get first access to the full article, subscribe) ends:For many Americans, the most disturbing revelations in Epstein files involve President Donald J. Trump. Prior to the files’ release, we already knew that Trump flew on Epstein’s jet at least eight times, was referred to by Epstein as his “best friend,” sent a birthday drawing to Epstein depicting a barely pubescent naked girl alluding to their “secret,” and has been accused of raping 13-year-old “Katie Johnson” in 1994 at an Epstein party and then threatening to kill the girl and her family. The first Epstein dump also contained FBI witness reports that Trump was present when a baby was drowned in Lake Michigan, and was implicated in the rape and murder of a certain Dusty Rhea Duke in 2000.The new Epstein files release includes FBI witness reports that Trump was involved in murdering three girls who were buried at Mar-a-Lago and threatening the witness with a similar fate. Witnesses also told the FBI that Trump auctioned underage girls from his swimsuit contests, measuring their vulvas and rating them for tightness. Trump is also accused of forcing oral sex and other abuses against 13 and 14 year old girls.Meanwhile the mainstream media chant in unison: “President Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing.” Obviously they will change their tune, and suddenly discover the FBI files, if and when Trump stops following Israel’s orders.And Israel wants Trump to attack Iran.That puts Trump between a proverbial rock and a hard place. Attacking Iran would invite disaster: Dead American servicemen, Israel riddled with rocket strikes, US escalation leading to even more dead servicemen and rocket strikes, ad infinitum. Such a war would be a strategic fiasco for the US empire and a political fiasco for Trump.But if Trump refuses to attack Iran, he’ll get Epsteined. The media will magically discover that Trump actually has been accused of serious wrongdoing, and at least some of the accusations (including whatever comes out in the next Epstein dump) are credible.No wonder Trump is sh*tting in his presidential pants.But presidents, unlike the rest of us, have a magical solution that can solve all their problems and then some: They can push the button and watch the planet, and all their troubles, go up in billowing fireballs. For a 79-year-old megalomaniac with both verbal and anal incontinence problems, that “solution” might sound tempting. No wonder Fico is worried. How did we get into this mess? To start with, we let the world’s craziest Jews, the Likudnik neocons, blow up the World Trade Center and blame their enemies. That repeated the mistake made in 1963, another spectacular coup by the same crowd.Letting the unhinged, blatantly narcissistic Kosher Nostra frontman carnival barker Trump anywhere near the Oval Office was almost as monumental a mistake. Hua Bin is right that a “democracy” that produces leaders like Trump (and most of the rest of them) would be better off canceling elections and finding a better way to identify and insert virtuous leaders into office.Hua Bin notes that many columnists at the Unz Review, where we both publish, fell for Trump’s all-too-obvious BS:In the 2024 election, many former Trump critics – both writers and readers on Unz Review – turned into Trump supporters with glowing endorsement of his policy promises and real enthusiasm for the changes they expect him to bring. Compared with Biden and Harris, Trump was not just considered the lesser of the two evils…His campaign promised domestic focus to address immigration issues and wokism. He promised reindustrializing the country and bring jobs back…Trump vowed to end foreign wars and stop military interventions/regime changes…These Unz writers and readers voted for Trump and couldn’t wait to let the world know how Trump was going to be great for the good old USA. They congratulated themselves as smart voters.I have never been a Trump supporter, never voted for him, and have been calling him a sociopathic narcissist and likely Kosher Nostra asset since 2016. Though I admittedly have occasionally found him amusing and even refreshing in his lack of hypocrisy and willingness to say transgressive things, a few of which are actually worth saying—I have no use for the anti-Trump establishment either—I’ve never been anywhere near the MAGA bandwagon, which in a few years will be the equivalent of saying “I was never a gullible idiot.”Repentant Ex-Trump Supporter Jim Fetzer Admits I Was RightBut as Hua Bin writes, many Trump supporters aren’t exactly idiots, IQ-wise. Take Jim Fetzer. Though he has been accused of lapses in judgment, Jim is an accomplished philosophy professor with a mind capable of holding and parsing unusually large bodies of information. Jim’s uninhibited brilliance and his quick-witted volubility and responsiveness as a public speaker made him a good commentator on my False Flag Weekly News show…until Trump came along.In December 2015, I basically fired Jim Fetzer from False Flag Weekly News. He had annoyed me by letting his enthusiasm for then-candidate Donald Trump run haywire on a live broadcast of FFWN. Here is what happened: I was in Paris to crash an academic Islamophobia conference that disinvited me at the last minute due to fears of looking “radical/antisemitic/conspiratorial” in the wake of the 11/13/2015 Bataclan false flag. Then on December 7, Trump proposed a “complete ban on Muslims entering the US.” I assumed that all 9/11 truthers understood that all of the well known “Islamic terror attacks” were false flags designed to incite Islamophobia, and would revile Trump as a tool of the 9/11-perp neocons. But Jim, and many others, surprised me.Jim and I had agreed that if I found good internet access in Paris we would do the show normally, with both of us, whereas if I didn’t, Jim was prepared to go it alone. I found a place to do the show. But when Jim and I met up in cyberspace to broadcast, he tried to persuade me to disconnect and let him deliver an hour-long monologue. Of course I declined, having gone to considerable effort to set up the broadcast. Jim’s insistence on doing the show alone, rather than together as we always did, disconcerted me. Then once we started, I grew even more annoyed when he wouldn’t let me get a word in edgewise. Jim delivered a full-throated pro-Trump rant, including positive remarks about the “Muslim ban.” I cursed him out on the air, and that was the end of Jim’s stint as my regular partner on FFWN. (The producer, the late Allan Rees, encouraged Jim’s departure from the show because Allan was afraid Jim wasn’t careful enough about potentially libelous utterances…which proved prophetic a few years later when Sandy Hooker Lenny Pozner sued Jim and won.)I subsequently apologized to Jim for cursing him out, and we remained friends, despite various differences of opinion, over the years. From 2006 through 2023 we lived in Wisconsin within an hour’s drive of each other, and did innumerable 9/11 events together, including quite a few road trips. Even after the 2015 FFWN fiasco, we would occasionally get together at an event or a meal and always enjoyed each others’ company. (Jim is one of several people I know whose internet presence one could easily find “irritating if not insane” if one disagrees with them, but who turn out to be enjoyable company once one meets them in person.)Since the lawsuit-shy Allan Rees passed away in December 2020,...
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Unhinged Trump's Genocide Threats Are a War Crime
Mar 7, 202500:24:43Tap to summarizeRumble link Bitchute linkTranscript:U.S. President Donald Trump has once again issued a threat to the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, and in fact all the people of Gaza to release all Israeli captives in the territory. In a social media post on Wednesday, Trump said once again “there will be hell to pay” if captives are not released. Now Hamas spokesperson Abdul Latif Alkanu said on Thursday that “Trump's repeated threats against our people represents support to Netanyahu to evade the Gaza ceasefire agreement and tighten a siege and starvation against our people.” Hamas said threats will not work against Palestinians. In fact, the ceasefire was working and is the only way that the captives will be released. Now Donald Trump's threats and the occupation utilizing those threats as cover to renege on the Gaza ceasefire is a pressing issue of today's spotlight program and now for our guests Kevin Barrett from Saida, Morocco, and Sakina Datu, journalist and writer joining us out of London.Hello, Dr. Kevin Barrett. Welcome to the program, sir. We're gonna start with you. Trump also said in the last couple of days, to the people of Gaza, “a beautiful future awaits you, but not if you hold the hostages. If you do, you are dead. Make a smart decision.” Now the same government's complicit in ruining your homeland, killing over 50,000 of your people, annihilating everything, all the infrastructure that you've grown up through and lived upon for many decades, is promising you a beautiful future—the same guy that's threatening you with complete dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Your initial thoughts.Kevin Barrett: Well, the headline of the article I just published in Crescent International Magazine was that Trump is the ugly American on steroids. There's a stereotype of the ugly American, kind of the brutal, uncultured, uncouth, loud-mouthed ignorant slob who, if he gets a few drinks in him, is aggressive and extremely obnoxious. This obviously doesn't describe all Americans, but it describes, unfortunately, more than enough of them, including Trump. In fact, Trump is completely obviously just out of control. And these obnoxious genocide threats are obviously illegal under international law. He's basically threatening to kill everybody in Gaza and finish the job, which means finish the genocide. He’s essentially threatening genocide. And that's really about the most extreme case that we can think of with regard to the kind of discussions people have had around the responsibility to protect or R2P concept, which is that when there's the imminent danger of an atrocity, even something much less than a genocide of the kind that we're seeing in Gaza, that force is required to stop it. And so that means that Trump has really put himself in the crosshairs of anybody in the world who believes in enforcing international law. He's made himself basically what Hitler would have been if Hitler were everything that they said he was, which he wasn't. But Trump is.And in fact, half the American public basically sees Trump that way. And half of the European public or more sees him that way. And the whole Global Gouth sees that this genocide has put the United States so far on the wrong side of history that not only is that Zionist settler colonial project now doomed, with six billion people in the Global South determined to make sure that these genocide perpetrators meet their comeuppance and that this experiment be terminated with extreme prejudice, but the United States itself is now in the crosshairs of those 6 billion people too. And nobody more than Donald Trump is right there sitting in the center of this genocide machine, blabbering these disgusting threats.Now, having said that, let me say there's always the slight chance that Trump is doing the sort of thing he did with North Korea during his first term, threatening fire and fury and brimstone like the world has never seen, basically threatening to drop nuclear bombs on North Korea. And then the next thing you know, he's shaking hands with its leader. And he's best friends with the leadership there.The U.S. is now secretly—but not so secretly anymore, since it got leaked—negotiating with Hamas directly for the first time. So there's always the chance that Trump is using some kind of bizarre negotiating strategy where he pretends to be an unhinged genocidal psychotic. And in reality, that's a smokescreen for him doing something completely the opposite of what he seems to be doing based on what he's saying. And let's hope and pray that that's the case.All right, thank you, Dr. Barrett. And Sakina Datu, thank you for your patience. Welcome to our spotlight program here. I hope you're safe and doing well out there in London. Now, Trump, Sakina, the same man who's been pushing for permanent dispossession of Gaza, is making threats of hell to pay. What is a bigger hell to pay than losing Gaza altogether when it comes to Palestinians? And two, how do Trump's threats, from your perspective, impact the occupation's adherence to the parameters of the Gaza ceasefire? Sakina Datu: I think, you know, Donald Trump has…I’m tempted to say that he's actually gone crazy. But I do think that there's probably a strategy he's thinking about, and that's giving him credit for having any kind of intelligence, saying something else but planning something else. Because we've heard about the secret talks that he's having with Hamas. We've seen what he's done with Zelinski. It can very well happen with Netanyahu. It is not far-fetched to think that. He can turn the tables any time. But having said that, Trump is not the main person making the decisions at the White House. We know that the entire team around him are hardcore Zionists. It is actually them calling the shots. But still, I think this threat that he has given is an empty threat. I don't think practically there is a possibility of US, for example, putting boots on the ground. Yes, of course they continue to give arms to Israel and encouraging them to keep on committing a genocide. But we have already seen a genocide happen. We are already seeing (genocide moving to) the West Bank.And the Palestinians have sat through all this and they've made it very clear that they're not going anywhere. So short of him really putting the boots on the ground and forcefully removing people, I don't know how this can happen. And when you talk about putting the boots on the ground, when you're talking about the Israeli army, for example, these are diaper armies. These are very good at just sitting on their machines and throwing drones and killing children and women. But if they are forced, to meet the resistance or to meet Palestinians, they will not be able to survive.So I think that Trump likes to make waves. He likes to give these statements that are very controversial. It makes people react. For example, when he threatened to build his Riviera in Gaza for the first time, we saw the Arabs coming together and actually sit down and think of a future. And I think that is what he was aiming to do. Even though he has rejected that proposal, I think his way of governing is just to create waves and to start making people think about different possibilities.On the other hand, Trump is creating enemies everywhere, from Mexico to Canada to Europe. Everywhere, people don't like him. So the issue of him threatening Hamas, that he is going to create yet another genocide, at this stage, it just doesn't look like a real threat.And Dr. Barrett, why, when you have a plan to avoid a further bloodshed, more death, more destruction, and it's being implemented and it's working, why would you want to interrupt it with threats, with a push to extend the first phase to 50 more days? When everything wasn't working smoothly, there was violations, but by the Israeli side, your ally in Tel Aviv was the one that violated the ceasefire since January 19th, every single day, not the Palestinian resistance. How does Donald Trump not understand his role here? His interjection in this process is not benefiting the captives and it is not benefiting the ceasefire.Kevin Barrett: I don't think that Trump understands the situation much. And so he's basically, as the other guest said, taking orders from people around him who are hardcore Zionists. allied with the coalition that's currently ruling, which is the most extremist genocidal government in the history of the Zionist entity, which is saying something. And so I think that it's clear that Netanyahu does not want the ceasefire process to continue smoothly. He wants to end it because his messianic millenarian maniacs in his cabinet, people like Smotrich and Ben-Gavir, are going to step down if the ceasefire holds. If it continues into its second and third phases and then peace returns, that would mean the end of the extremists' plan to try to murder seven million Palestinians and drive the survivors out. Of course, that's not realistic. But they imagine that their warped version of God is somehow going to help them accomplish this massive genocide of all the Palestinians.I think Netanyahu is too smart to actually believe that that's going to happen. Or I should say maybe too secular in terms of the way he thinks. But he's stuck, because if he were to allow the ceasefire to continue and to work the way it's supposed to work, then he'll lose his cabinet, which means he'll lose his office and peace will break out. And suddenly there will be inv...
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MAGA Morphs Into “Bearded Belly Dancers for Genocide”
Mar 2, 202501:22:21Tap to summarizeRumble link Bitchute link False Flag Weekly News linkKevin Barrett: Welcome to False Flag Weekly News, the weekly news show that can't take a week off because there's too much craziness happening that we would miss. I'm Kevin Barrett with Cat McGuire. Good to have you back, Cat.Cat McGuire: Hey, always good to be here. There's so much to say. Can't wait to get into it.Yeah, it's gotten so extreme that I can't write satire much anymore. If Trump’s “bearded belly dancers for genocide” video was satire, it was actually fairly brilliant, although in very bad taste. Some people say my satire is in bad taste, but this video of Trump's, of the bearded belly dancer beach, bleached baby bones beneath,which is my tip of the hat to the old Anglo-Saxon poets who used to use a lot of alliteration…what can you say about this stuff? Maybe it's superfluous to even bring it up.Okay, so let's get there…let's talk about the Trump-Vance-Zelinsky brawl in the White House. Of course, that video is a satire, as the little warning sign says, but you don't have to exaggerate that much to do satire anymore. So, Cat, what do we make of this?Yeah, I thought they were just a hair's breadth away from going at fisticuffs there. It was verbal fisticuffs, two on one. I think it was an ambush, a planned ambush. Even the press was kind of in on it. Trump set it up in terms of Zelensky’s suit: “Where's your get up? Where's your theatrical costume?” He said “you're still wearing your costume!” Because it's past. It's over.He's he's he got a better camo outfit on. But even a reporter ribbed him for it: “why don't you have a suit?” That game's over.I thought Trump was going to say, “why don't you go back to piano playing?”That would have been a good one. But in a way, the poor guy—you sort of said it in your article—was being given mixed messages. Because here's Trump saying “peace, peace, I want peace.” And yet almost immediately after Zelensky was kicked out of the White House, the Trump administration approved an emergency arms sale to Israel of over $3 billion that included 35,000 plus bombs, thousands of warheads and armed bulldozers. Even the Biden administration had restricted some of this. And even I think what they call the Moab bombs, the 21,000 mother of all bombs. And he completely bypassed congressional review. He claimed it was an emergency for U.S. security. No, it was an emergency for Miriam Adelson that she's going to start reneging on her payment, demanding it back. And so what a liar and a hypocrite. What's Zelensky supposed to think? Wait, where's mine that I've been getting all this time? And oh, “he's for peace.” Yes, some peace.My article pointed out that obviously Zelensky didn't start the war. The mainstream was right about that, if very little else. It was the U.S., of course, that started the war. And it's a war on Europe as well as on Russia, the purpose being to keep the U.S. number one, keep the dollar number one, force the Europeans to stop buying cheap Russian gas for their industry, make their industry go broke as they have to buy overpriced American LP gas. So, actually, Zelensky really deserves double-digit trillions in reparations from the U.S., and so does Putin, and so does most of the Middle East.So Trump's nonsense about how “we're throwing our money around at everybody and we're getting such a bad deal” is just rank b******t. So that's what makes this offensive to me. But on the other hand, I kind of like seeing the U.S. empire blowing itself up, which is really what Trump is doing. But the Israeli empire is inheriting it, so who knows whether that’s any better.So how about the heroism news? Let's get to some positive news this week. Nasrallah's funeral, a million voices for Palestine, this article from Khalil Harb at the Cradle. I watched that here (in Morocco). We had it on TV all day long. It was amazing. Who knows how many people there were, many hundreds of thousands or a million and a half or whatever it was, a big chunk of Lebanon turned out. A lot of people came from other places. I probably should have tried to fly in from Morocco, actually.Basically, everybody now knows the Resistance is right, that the only hope is armed resistance against the Zionists and by any means necessary. Here's Pepe Escobar's piece about it, which I thought was pretty good.What was truly amazing was the numbers not counted in the West or acknowledged to be as great as it was. In recent decades, there's been no funeral of this scale relative to the population. Many years before, de Gaulle had a lot of people attending his funeral. But this is really rather unprecedented.And of course the Israelis had to do their flyover. What they were going to do, threaten mass genocide again to people who came? It was just appalling.And some people said, well, there were no heads of state, not a single head of state, even from Arab countries. Maybe they were afraid of some kind of assassination that wouldn't have been past Israel to do. But I like how Pepe said it doesn't matter if the president and premier of Lebanon didn't even attend the funeral ceremony, because they're just puppets anyway. So and the main point is that you didn't need any heads of state. The collective people was the voice. You didn't need to hear talking heads.The heads of state in this region are all cowed, intimidated, bribed, and mostly threatened. So any help they give to the Resistance is kind of under the table. Everybody knows that Qatar and Turkey are massively helping Hamas, of course. And everybody knows that a certain number of the rich people all throughout the region are finding ways to get their money to the Resistance. And that will continue in spades, probably orders of magnitude more than it has in the past. So if you think it was impressive that Hamas was able to build those tunnels and amass those arms and defeat the Israelis in that little area that Israel, with all of its American arms and money, cannot even secure, well, just wait till you see what's next.Read the full transcript at my Substack.Stripe is Substack’s only processor and they debanked me, so you can no longer pay me through Substack. Now I am posting everything on Substack free and asking people to sign up for recurring donations at my Paypal donation page…or better yet, the free speech platform SPdonate…where you may need to do a larger recurring annual donation ($100 suggested) not a small monthly one, because SPdonate can’t process anything under $20. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe
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Jim Kavanagh on Trump’s Gaza Plan, Geopolitical Earthquakes
Mar 1, 202500:54:30Tap to summarizeRumble link Bitchute linkJim Kavanagh of The Polemicist discusses “Trump’s Exemplary Gaza Plan,” as well as ongoing geopolitical upheavals, led by the Trump-instigated US break with Europe and Ukraine. Excerpt:Kevin Barrett: So, hey, I want to run an idea by you here, Jim. I just came up with this. So what if every Ramadan, starting with this Ramadan, all of us Muslims decided, instead of looking to our local national authorities to decide when to start the month of Ramadan—which day is the day you start fasting? This is something we do every year. And then sometimes there's controversy. In the United States, different groups of Muslims follow different authorities and they don't always agree which day Ramadan starts and ends.So how are we going to solve this problem? (How do we get the whole Muslim world to agree, or better yet, to start fasting on the same day?) It's been suggested do whatever the Saudis do. But those of us who aren't very impressed by the Saudis don't like that idea. Another approach is just follow tradition, which is, of course, you go with your local emir or political leader. But…how could we unite the Muslim world? Here's how you do it. I say we all go by the Palestine moon sighting. In other words,you always go by whoever has the authority in Islam: whenever they say that somebody has sighted the moon in your jurisdiction, that's when you start fasting. Well, let's go by the Palestinians! And specifically, let's have somebody at the Al-Aqsa Mosque look for the moon. And the whole Muslim world will fast the day that they see the moon.And if we do that, Palestine and Al-Aqsa Mosque in particular becomes the de facto capital of the Islamic Ummah. And suddenly a lot of things would change. So that's my idea. I'm throwing it out here. And if it happens, you can say you were there when it started.Jim Kavanagh: OK, I'll give you credit for it. I'll write you down as the source of that idea. It's a good idea. It's a... kind of metonymy for the idea that if the Arab and the Muslim world would unite around Palestine, the Palestine issue could be solved with justice.It’s a way to get some grassroots pressure in that direction. I hope the King of Morocco doesn't get mad at me for saying this, because he's the one who decides when Ramadan starts here, or his people do. But anyway, moving on from there…not that far, though, over to Gaza. You wrote a piece on Trump's exemplary Gaza plan, and it's kind of…painful. Everybody, including me, is saying, this is ridiculous. I mean, this plan is not only evil beyond belief, but it's also unrealistic beyond belief. What is this guy smoking? Is he on a bad PCP trip? But you pointed out that all the other possibilities are highly unlikely, too. So...that's kind of a frightening conundrum, isn't it?It’s the plan. It is the plan from the beginning. It's Netanyahu's plan. It is happening. “We're going to kill or expel, exterminate or expel most of the Palestinians, if not all of them, just like we did in 1948. We did it before. The world accepted it. We're going to do it again and the world will accept it and the world is accepting it.”So they're going to do it over a year or over six months or over 20 or 48 years, or 70 years. But that's what they want to do.Trump’s plan is a kind of gross, grotesque, blatant version of the plan that's actually in motion. And who has the alternative? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe
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Trump Is SO Full of Sh*t
Mar 1, 202500:00:05Tap to summarizeRamadan karim! Cat McGuire and I will discuss Trump-Zelensky and more on False Flag Weekly News later today. -KBThe good news is that an American president finally stood up to a Jew who came to pick America’s pockets. The bad news is that it wasn’t Bibi Netanyahu.Trump fawns all over Netanyahu, whose genocidal “Jewish state,” the whole raison d’etre of which is to murder millions of non-Jews and expel the survivors, had already pilfered $1.6 trillion by 2002. That was a year after Israel murdered almost 3,000 Americans in New York, attacked the Pentagon, blamed it on Arabs with boxcutters, and pushed clueless Uncle Sam down the road toward spending another $8 trillion on wars for Israel. Compared to the innumerable pounds of flesh that Israel gouges out of the American body politic, Zelensky’s depredations are chump change. But Trump and Vance, like almost all US politicians except Thomas Massie, are pussies owned by rich, treasonous, genocidal Jewish billionaires. So they’ll pick on a pathetic cokehead penile-piano-playing midget like Zelensky, while kissing the nether regions of ghoulish Netanyahu.Worse, Trump’s charges that the Ukraine war is Zelensky’s fault, and America has been generously doling out money to Ukraine (so Zelensky should show some gratitude) are rank, nauseating b******t. The US took over Ukraine in a coup in 2014 and remote-controlled it into a war designed to bleed Russia to the last Ukrainian. It isn’t Ukraine that owes the US money. It’s the US that owes Ukraine (and Russia and much of the Middle East) double-digit trillions in war reparations.The US war on Russia through Ukraine was primarily aimed at looting and subjugating Europe. By cutting off Germany and the rest of Europe from cheap Russian gas, the US delivered a terrible wound to its second-biggest competitor. The EU has a much better educated population than the US—450 million of them compared to 340 million fatAmericans. It should have double the GDP of the US. But the US conquered Europe in World War II and has been squeezing them dry ever since. The US-instigated war on Europe and Russia through Ukraine was just the latest highway robbery by Uncle Scam. Today Europe is a pallid mess, because the US is sucking European blood.Trump’s putrid claims that the US has been generously throwing its money around, and needs to stop being taken for a ride, are beyond delusional. The Jew-run US empire is running the biggest larceny op in history. It prints toilet paper dollars and exchanges them for real goods and services—at gunpoint. “Globalist” institutions like NATO, IMF, World Bank, ICC, ICJ, the WHO, and various free trade treaties are and have always been barely-disguised instruments of US global domination. Likewise for the soft power propaganda industry tasked with putting a smiley face on the American serial killer. Alhamdullilah, drooling idiot Trump is blowing all of that up!Trump is right about one thing: The EU needs to terminate NATO and build a military to defend itself. But it needn’t worry about Russia. With a small and shrinking population and gargantuan territory, why would Russia want to expand? Europe needs to deter the US, the world’s leading warmonger, which has all but declared war on Canada and Greenland. Quickly building a few hundred suitcase nukes and smuggling them into US cities would probably be the cheapest deterrent. (And don’t forget to donate a couple of suitcases to each of the leading anti-genocide Resistance nations and groups.)The somnolent Europeans, minus a handful of die-hard Gaullists, have been too stupid to realize that the Zionist-occupied US is not only the primary threat today under Trump, but has been their worst enemy since World War II, when America conquered and subjugated Europe (and genocided parts of Central Europe and Germany) leaving the continent under humiliating US occupation. But now Trump is giving them a rude awakening.The Ugly American has always been a paragon of shameless kosher crassness. Trump has ripped off the mask for all the world to see. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe
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