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April 26, 2026
Iran Open Thread 2026-086

News & views related to the war on Iran …

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Record number of IDF weekend wartiors commiting suicide (Times pf India report) 
 
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sm3OVMFsMcc&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

Posted by: Exile | Apr 26 2026 14:32 utc | 1

England’s Faiford Air Force Base (GFRS)  is on fire -host US B-52 bombers used to attack Iran-pronews.gr

Posted by: sejmon | Apr 26 2026 14:35 utc | 2

see the 10-second video at the second link
 
see the photo at the third link. The zionists of israel are the biggest psychos on the face of the Earth right now.
 
 
 
https://x.com/QuatrinaHosain/status/2047893541754429912
Quatrina @QuatrinaHosain 
 
Iran is the ONLY country that had the guts to tell the US and Israel to get lost. Iran is the ONLY country to stand up for Gaza and Lebanon. So I don’t care what sect they are. I’d side with ANY country that had done the same. Why is this so hard for haters here to understand?
 
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https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/2048366458221052336
sarah  @sahouraxo 
 
BREAKING:  Israel is unleashing massive airstrikes across multiple villages in South Lebanon — flattening civilian homes and vital infrastructure. 
Israel has already committed over 500 “ceasefire” violations in just 10 days. 
 
And not a peep from the “international community.”
 
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https://x.com/gazanotice/status/2048311506949808550
Gaza Notifications  @gazanotice 
 
🚨Israel assassinated Imad Miqdad yesterday in a drone strike, targeting his solar-powered phone charging station in Gaza yesterday. Miqdad had been providing civilians with a rare means of communication amid ongoing electricity cuts. 
 
The strike killed him and destroyed the facility, further limiting access to basic services and connectivity for residents.
 
 
https://x.com/gazanotice/status/204808944004464259
Gaza Notifications  @gazanotice 
 
🚨BREAKING : In a new massacre, Israeli drones directly targeted a phone-charging point run by civilian Imad Miqdad moments ago in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, killing him along with other civilians. 
 
With no electricity infrastructure left in displacement camps, solar-powered and improvised energy points have become essential for survival, yet they are being deliberately targeted, cutting civilians off from even the most basic means of living.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 26 2026 14:37 utc | 3

The Iran War Summary: Week Eight, 24th April 2026: May be Useful to Some: The Iran War Summary: Week Eight – by Dr. Rob Campbell

Posted by: The Busker | Apr 26 2026 14:39 utc | 4

DW: Nina R Alkhorshid
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSGxSWHDvLk
 
“Iran just exposed Trump’s ‘face-saving’ lie & seized the ultimate choke point.”
 
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 14:52 utc | 5

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 26 2026 14:37 utc | 3

 
Thanks for your links, michaelj72.
 
It’s sickening to know that there are still people – especially people in power – who believe that “Israel” has a right to exist. 

Posted by: Avtonom | Apr 26 2026 14:57 utc | 6

We need a major change from the corrupt and captured Status-quo system. The definitive defeat of Israel would be a major, positive change for most citizens of the world. So everyone who wants this result should pull for Iran. Iran should not fear complete victory. It has more supporters than the captured media will ever acknowledge.

Posted by: GMST | Apr 26 2026 15:03 utc | 7

Russian Advance Igla-S MANPADS Makes Surprise Appearance In Iran The advanced Russian-made 9K338 Igla-S man-portable air defense system (MANPADS) has made a surprise appearance in Iran.The MANPADS appeared in a photo released by the semi-official Tasnim News Agency on April 22. The photo was taken at a gathering by Basij volunteers in the city of Ahvaz in the western Iranian province of Khuzestan. The news agency said that the gathering was held “in support of the leadership and the armed forces.”The Igla-S is the latest version in the Igla family of MANPADS, which first appeared in the Soviet Union. It features a longer range — up to six kilometers — a more sensitive infrared seeker, improved resistance to latest countermeasures, and a heavier warhead weighing 2,5 kg.Read more HERE

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2026 15:04 utc | 8

DW: Nina R Alkhorshid
 
 
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 14:52 utc | 5
 
 
That would be NiMa Alkorashid.
Unless there’s something he’s not telling his audience recently …
 

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2026 15:06 utc | 9

@ Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2026 15:06 utc | 9
 
At least people seem to have stopped calling him Dima.

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 26 2026 15:14 utc | 10

“Israel assassinated Imad Miqdad yesterday in a drone strike, targeting his solar-powered phone charging station in Gaza yesterday. Miqdad had been providing civilians with a rare means of communication amid ongoing electricity cuts.  The strike killed him and destroyed the facility, further limiting access to basic services and connectivity for residents.”
 
demonic 

Posted by: El.Lissitzky | Apr 26 2026 15:15 utc | 11

@  michaelj72  
thank you for the links/updates … even though they usually ruin my day. 
salam

Posted by: El.Lissitzky | Apr 26 2026 15:17 utc | 12

Arch Bungle@9:
Lol!

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 15:19 utc | 13

About the alleged attempt to kill Trump:
 
I’m pretty sure it was a zionist false flag to blame Iran, that Trump knows it was a zionist false flag to blame Iran, that Trump is desperate to get out of the war he started and is in no mood to take the bait, which is why he immediately proclaimed that the attack had nothing to do with Iran.
 
 

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 26 2026 15:25 utc | 14

At least people seem to have stopped calling him Dima.
 
Posted by: malenkov | Apr 26 2026 15:14 utc | 10
 
Probably a relief to Dima over at Military Summary.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2026 15:27 utc | 15

The suspect arrested after storming and shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, was pictured wearing an Israeli military (IOF) sweatshirt in a now-deleted Instagram post, according to Tasnim News Agency.
Allen was apprehended at a security checkpoint while armed with multiple weapons, targeting officials from the Trump administration.
A Secret Service officer was struck but not seriously injured.
Authorities have filed several charges against Allen and say more could follow.

 
They just can’t help themselves …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2026 15:28 utc | 16

The yuan is emerging as a secondary payment system. India used the yuan to pay for Iranian oil during the 30-day waiver period. This was their first purchase of Iranian oil since US sanctions were re-imposed in 2019. Now, it is a test of India’s resolve to forge its own path, specifically whether it will keep buying oil from Iran even after the 30-day waiver expires. The yuan payments were routed through the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India Bank’s Shanghai branch.
The emergence of a secondary system was what Rubio feared in 2023 when he said that US sanctions wouldn’t matter if there was another way to make global payments.
This is why it is important for Iran to continue using the yuan as its primary payment method. If the system becomes fragmented, no clear secondary system will emerge, and dollar payments routed through New York will remain the default, meaning US sanctions stay in place.
Rubio: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZK9leDmELkE

Posted by: terminator3 | Apr 26 2026 15:28 utc | 17

Here is an excellent article on Uranium enrichment, and how quickly Iran could create nuclear weapons if it had to with its current stock of 60% enriched Uranium once a decision is made to acquire nuclear weapons.
 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/22/what-is-uranium-enrichment-and-how-quickly-could-iran-build-a-nuclear-bomb
 
Because, as I have repeatedly stated here,  and the article also points out, gun type Uranium-235 weapons do not need testing, Iran could fabricate a nuclear arsenal even before formally leaving the NPT if it needs to.  All it requires is a political decision. The number of centrifuges and power it needs to enrich uranium from 60% to 90% is really small. 

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 26 2026 15:31 utc | 18

Because, as I have repeatedly stated here, and the article also points out, gun type Uranium-235 weapons do not need testing, 
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 26 2026 15:31 utc | 18
 
 
Professor Postol has recently been at pains to point this out.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2026 15:35 utc | 19

WAIC: Elijah Magnier: ‘US-Iran Negotiations Are A Hoax’
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvK43Swzde8
 
“Negotiations in Pakistan collapse as Hezbollah ramps up resistance.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 15:40 utc | 20

quote of The Day: “I’m not a basket case.”  – Donald Trump
 
see the photo at the first link
 
 
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/2048369494813200839
☀️👀  @zei_squirrel 
 
Trump is responsible for many assassinations, most recently (Iran’s Supreme Leader) Ali Khamenei who was murdered alongside his family including a baby granddaughter. The entire Western media and political class celebrated, yet now they’re all clutching their pearls OMG POLITICAL VIOLENCE IS EVIL OMG
 
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/2048370655448437109
Macron, Merz, Starmer, all these sick depraved scum are coming out crying, OMG I AM SO GLAD TRUMP IS UNHARMED OMG THIS IS HORRIBLE and the entire media class is crying alongside them. We can assassinate, mass murder and rape the sub-humans at our pleasure, but don’t dare touch us 
 
they don’t even bother hiding their sadistic genocidal depravity allowing them to assassinate, mass murder and rape whomever they like of the targeted sub-humans who dare resist the Israeli-US-NATO Epstein empire
 
 
https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/2029638122577784936    (from March 5, 2026)
Russia has the ability to carpet-bomb Kiev in the exact same way the genocidal Israeli-US-Epstein regime is doing in Tehran and across Iran right now. They can destroy every hospital, school, government building, residential building. All the NYT/BBC/AP/Reuters/Guardian Zionist scum now salivating over the murderous bombing of Iran would cry endless crocodile tears. Why? Because they consider Iranians, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Libyans, Syrians to be sub-human, while they, the Zionist Jewish supremacists are human. They admit this openly and with glee.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 26 2026 15:46 utc | 21

Glenn Diesen: Prof Richard Wolff
 
https://www.youtube.com/@GDiesen1/videos
 
“Petro dollar decline unravels the US empire.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 15:51 utc | 22

@michaelj72 21:
 

Russia has the ability to carpet-bomb Kiev in the exact same way the genocidal Israeli-US-Epstein regime is doing in Tehran and across Iran right now.

 
They are?
 
Right now?
 
As of this moment?
 

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 26 2026 15:54 utc | 23

RE: Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 26 2026 15:54 utc | 23
 
you did not read that link/part properly, now did you? I noted quite clearly that that one link was from March 6 this year –  it was part of the squirrel’s thread (three parts today) and then the last one from back in March which he re-posted today. Get it
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 26 2026 16:01 utc | 24

Rising Tensions Between Israel & Turkiye: From Strategic Partnership to Manufactured Rivalry
 
https://journal-neo.su/2026/04/26/rising-tensions-between-israel-and-turkiye-from-strategic-partnership-to-manufactured-rivalry/
 
“The ongoing conflict in Gaza is reshaping the moral and geopolitical landscape of the Middle East. Israel’s rhetoric toward Turkiye now signals more than a diplomatic rupture; it reveals a pattern of strategic antagonism in which war has become the primary mode of diplomacy.
 
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett described Turkiye as ‘the new Iran’…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 16:02 utc | 25

🇮🇱🇸🇴⚡️Israel officially announces the appointment of Michael Lotem as regime’s ambassador to Somaliland.
*The Israeli regime is the only one in the world that recognizes Somaliland as an independent state from Somalia.*

https://t.me/RezistanceTrench1/64397
 
Useful ‘ambassador’ name I suppose.

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 26 2026 16:03 utc | 26

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett described Turkiye as ‘the new Iran’…”
 
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 16:02 utc | 25
 
These guys can’t even deal with the first Iran and they’re already looking for a second.
 
 
Their greed exceeds their capacity.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2026 16:16 utc | 27

“Negotiations in Pakistan collapse as Hezbollah ramps up resistance.”
 
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 15:40 utc | 20
 
And ramping up they certainly are:
 

— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Hezbollah has carried out four operations so far today1. Targeting a gathering of Israeli soldiers in Al-Tayybeh with an FPV drone, inflicting confirmed casualties.2. Targeting a second IDF force that came to evacuate the previously wounded soldiers, also in the town of Al-Tayybeh, with an FPV drone and inflicting confirmed casualties.3. Targeting an Israeli artillery emplacement in the town of Al-Bayadeh with a swarm of suicide drones.4. Targeting an Israeli ‘Merkava’ tank in the town square of Al-Tayybeh with two FPV drones, scoring direct hits.

None of that fake “stick by the ceasefire” nonsense, Hezbollah is matching strike for strike.
 
 
 

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2026 16:20 utc | 28

 
These helicopters certainly lead a charmed life, I’ll admit that:
 
 

— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Israeli Army Radio confirms the Hezbollah claims, stating that the soldier was killed in Al-Tayybeh during the morning hours
 
According to the Israeli Army Radio, an Israeli tank belonging to the Golani Brigade broke down in the town of Al-Tayybeh, and Hezbollah launched an FPV drone at it, killing 1 of the engineers and wounding six others.
 
An evacuation force with two helicopters then came to rescue the wounded force, and one additional Hezbollah FPV drone impacted just meters away from the helicopter, while another drone was shot down.
 
@Middle_East_Spectator

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 26 2026 16:22 utc | 29

Baby Killers: The State of Israel, Its Patrons, & the Industrialized Slaughter of Children
 
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-patrons-industrialized-slaughter-children/5923095
 
“They were not collateral damage. They were the target. And we knew. And we watched. And we supplied the weapons. And we vetoed the resolutions. And we called it self defense…”
 
Death to USrael & its Epstein Empire – Victory to Iran & the Resistance!

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 16:25 utc | 30

— 🇮🇷/🇷🇺 NEW: Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, will meet with the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, tomorrow in Moscow

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/31527

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 26 2026 16:25 utc | 31

GUILLOTINE! (& vid)
 
https://x.com/timand2037/status/2048234860817375568
 
“Are US Americans  capable of a revolution against the hated Epstein class?”
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 16:36 utc | 32

see the 12-second video at the third link
 
 
 
https://x.com/dimitrilascaris/status/2048418510951342434
Dimitri Lascaris  @dimitrilascaris 
 
Israel has preserved its perfect record of never having respected a ceasefire. 
100% non-compliance. Quite an achievement. 
 
Meanwhile, the depraved Western media continue to whitewash Israel’s contempt for ceasefires by describing Israel’s violations as a “fragile” ceasefire.
 
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https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/31517#
Middle East Spectator — MES 
 
— 🇮🇱/  🇮🇷 NEW: In a statement; Hezbollah says it will continue to respond to Israeli ceasefire violations
They call Lebanese authorities ‘shameful’ for letting themselves be photographed with Israeli officials while Lebanese land is being occupied, and they condemn Netanyahu for claiming to have ‘freedom of action’ in Lebanon. 
 
‘We will not wait for or rely on a failed diplomacy that has proven its ineffectiveness, nor on an authority that has failed to protect its homeland. The sons of this land are the true guarantee in confronting this aggression and defeating the occupation’, Hezbollah said. 
#MilitaryMedia
 
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https://x.com/Abu_Salah9/status/2048088680057757772
MO  @Abu_Salah9  Translated from Arabic 
 
New clip of little Reem “Soul of the Soul” and her brother before Israel killed them. 
 
We will not forget them
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 26 2026 16:47 utc | 33

They are? Right now? As of this moment? 
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 26 2026 15:54 utc | 23
 
 
You can count on it…they are, or would be.
 
And if Putin isn’t careful, the hardliners who want it, and a few other things besides, will prevail… Currently, Putin can probably reassure this group with the undeniable argument: “Careful, we’ll need every shell…NATO will attack us.”
 
Or something else entirely… “We’ll have to react, and we need our reserves for that.”
 
Because production is running at full capacity to fill the strategic stockpiles, which probably already have more than double the capacity of the worst Cold War.
 
Hardly anyone seems to remember that Russia has quietly, but not secretly, formed, equipped, and trained a completely new army. Why, you ask? Certainly not because of Ukraine.
Because…production is running at full speed to fill the strategic depots, which probably already have more than double the capacity of the worst Cold War. Again… Russia, too, is capable of unleashing devastating bombing campaigns on cities, not just the USA.
 
And if NATO strategists compare the Ukraine war to the anticipation of a potential war between Russia and NATO, these strategists will likely react with great alarm. As Putin said, “It’s doubtful whether negotiating partners could still be found in Berlin or Brussels within approximately three days of a war breaking out between NATO and Russia.”
 
End

Posted by: Genesis | Apr 26 2026 16:59 utc | 34

A US security firm  describes their clients as 
‘ultra-high-net-worth individuals’.
 
Only in the country of Mammon worship, could this description be used of the Epstein class.
 
Trump is worth nothing. He should be called  ultra-low-nyet-nothing.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 26 2026 17:13 utc | 35

GUILLOTINE! (& vid)
 
https://x.com/timand2037/status/2048234860817375568
 
“Are US Americans capable of a revolution against the hated Epstein class?”
 
 
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 16:36 utc | 32
Are you Canadians, Australians, Germans, British, French….?
Don’t be dense, John.  I like your comments, but this beautiful non- American soul stuff is just juvenile.  Really, it’s a big part of the reason no revolutionary movement exists anywhere in the West, your stupid fucking Zio Imperialist country included.  
*Hegel’s “beautiful soul” is a person who treasures their inner moral purity so much that they withdraw from real action and the messy social world, and in doing so becomes ineffectual, self-enclosed, and ultimately self-contradictory.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Apr 26 2026 17:15 utc | 36

Baby Killers: The State of Israel, Its Patrons, & the Industrialized Slaughter of Children
 
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-patrons-industrialized-slaughter-children/5923095
 
“They were not collateral damage. They were the target. And we knew. And we watched. And we supplied the weapons. And we vetoed the resolutions. And we called it self defense…”
 
Death to USrael & its Epstein Empire – Victory to Iran & the Resistance!
 
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 16:25 utc | 30
Nice post.  Thanks.  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Apr 26 2026 17:16 utc | 37

Awoke to the news of another US false flag-a third assassination attempt on the Orange Turd, who the would be assassins should realise, is a god and so death isn’t possible.
 
 
It was so obviously a fake after both the rotten CNN, purveyors of US state filth and some siliconed-to-the-hilt spokesperson for the White House both talked of ‘shots to be fired’ at the event. And the event itself, a self-congratulatory dinner for corpulent scribes of the state posing as journalists. What better venue for selling this total BS, then used to justify further fascistic actions against the populace, who don’t even know or care they’re being conned.
 
 
I was heartily entertained watching these bullet-headed, shaven-skulled, secret service operatives, their over-muscled, steroid pumped bodies squeezed into badly fitting dark suits, trying to jump up onto tables and shouting out “keep down” and “where?, where” as they tried to play the role of daring life-savers, alternately reaching for their Glock sidearms with one hand while trying to keep their ear pieces in place. Undoubtedly playing the Ballad of the Green Berets. I’d have thought the presidential deity stood more chance of being shot accidentally by one of these good-ole-boys, than by a well-meaning assassin trying to rid the world of this scum sucking moron passing as POTUS.
 
I can just imagine all the soul-searching that will now follow, the senators of both rancid parties asserting that democracy must be protected and that’s why the remaining, tiny freedoms will now be curtailed. And the public will undoubtedly give their ignorant backing.
 
Until the next time then…….

Posted by: Vragtes | Apr 26 2026 17:18 utc | 38

All the NYT/BBC/AP/Reuters/Guardian Zionist scum now salivating over the murderous bombing of Iran would cry endless crocodile tears. Why? Because they consider Iranians, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Libyans, Syrians to be sub-human, while they, the Zionist Jewish supremacists are human. They admit this openly and with glee.
 
Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 26 2026 15:46 utc | 21
Fun fact: they don’t really see Americans, English, Germans, French, etc as humans either, but they need their resources at the moment so they keep those feelings a little more quiet…for now. 

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Apr 26 2026 17:20 utc | 39

Record number of IDF weekend wartiors commiting suicide (Times pf India report)  Purely personal reasons or do they have a moment of clarity about how vile they truly are?

Posted by: Waldorf | Apr 26 2026 17:34 utc | 40

Vragtes | Apr 26 2026 17:18 utc | 38
*** I can just imagine all the soul-searching that will now follow, the senators of both rancid parties asserting that democracy must be protected and that’s why the remaining, tiny freedoms will now be curtailed. And the public will undoubtedly give their ignorant backing. Until the next time then……. ***
 
Maybe a false-flag topping attempt on Charlie Tampon 3 when he visits the USA?
 
He who is so degenerately Epsteinist that he got his mentor, the late habitual rapist and nercrophiliac Jimmy Savile, a flat inside Fuckingham Palace. So very much Trump’s type of ‘elite’ person. 
 
Just think of all the mass-media emoting that could generate!
Heil NATO!

Posted by: Cynic | Apr 26 2026 17:37 utc | 41

Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma

“Psychological-informational reading

At a moment when statements are intensifying and their intensity is escalating, Donald Trump’s speech about the Middle East emerges in an unusual form. Quick, direct statements, and sometimes outside the traditional political format, raise serious questions about the nature and trends of this discourse.

By tracking this pattern, it is noted that some statements have a repetitive nature of verbal impulsiveness, which makes them appear strange or inconsistent in the eyes of the recipient at times.

Readings in leadership psychology indicate that such a style may be linked to multiple factors, including advanced age, the pressure of constant media presence, in addition to a personality style that relies on trauma as a means of influence.

In the media, these statements do not stop at the borders of opinion, but rather become tools for reshaping the scene, as they move from being part of the event to becoming the event itself, in a scene that reflects a clear ability to direct the compass of coverage and create controversy.

On the political level, this discourse, with its unconventional character, may be used in broader contexts that go beyond the apparent meaning, whether to test reactions or to create spaces for media pressure within a complex and interconnected international environment.

In conclusion, and between those who see it as a direct speech and those who consider it a reflection of an uncontrolled impulse, the reading of this pattern remains linked to a broader context, as some estimates indicate that this media presence may intersect to varying degrees with deeper systems of influence within decision-making circles. That is, Donald Trump’s statements, although they seem personal and direct, may sometimes reflect broader trends or interests within decision-making centers, and may be used as part of a speech that serves greater goals than just an individual opinion.

Prepared by: the press staff – journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma’s channel”

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 26 2026 17:39 utc | 42

Record number of IDF weekend wartiors commiting suicide (Times pf India report)  Purely personal reasons or do they have a moment of clarity about how vile they truly are?
 
Posted by: Waldorf | Apr 26 2026 17:34 utc | 40

 
Whatever the case, may their number increase ten thousandfold! 

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 26 2026 17:41 utc | 43

Ah, thank you Vragtes, a well needed and satisfying rant.
 
 

Posted by: simon crow | Apr 26 2026 17:43 utc | 44

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 26 2026 17:39 utc | 42
 
As we can see, some are “judiciously” following the advice given to them several years ago.
 
<<We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.
And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out.
We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.>>Karl Rove

Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 26 2026 17:48 utc | 45

Iran: Interwar 8
 
https://podur.org/2026/04/02/interview-8-the-rise-of-the-first-reza-pahlavi/
 
“The rise of the first Reza Pahlavi.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 17:50 utc | 46

Hegseth Says Iran Blockade ‘Going Global’ as US Announces New Sanctions on Chinese Shipping
 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/25/mrfp-a25.html
 
“The United States is expanding its naval blockade of Iran into a global operation against shipping in any ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday. Hours earlier the Treasury Department sanctioned a major Chinese oil refinery and 40 shipping companies for buying Iranian crude…”
 
At this rate there may not be a Trump-China visit.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 17:59 utc | 47

Vragtas 38 – Barry Sadler’s ‘Ballad of the Green Beret’ is one of my favorite all time tunes………my New favorite however is ‘Leinster House Traitors’ by Brother Ger, available for free on You Tube……
 
Up the Rebels, Never surrender!

Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 26 2026 18:00 utc | 48

A little  Musical interlude in line with what is going on.
 
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=OKv4d2L_Tg0

Posted by: golddigger | Apr 26 2026 18:08 utc | 49

The Secret Service blew it again…….how in heck do you allow the POTUS, VPOTUS, USAG, SDOD, SDOS, USADC, SHLS in same room in hotel with 31 entrances?
 
And the one SS agent at the ckpt appeared to be taking a mental health break when the assassin ran by…..WTH!
 
Who is the brain truster who allowed this concentration of US officials……..remember what the IDF did in Tehran, and two can play that came……….!!

Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 26 2026 18:11 utc | 50

 
What is goingn on? 
🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡- “Pakistan is our good friend and neighbor, but it is not a suitable mediator for negotiations and does not have the necessary credibility to mediate. They always consider Trump’s interests and do not say anything against the wishes of the Americans.
 
For example, they are not willing to tell the world that the United States first accepted Pakistan’s offer but then reneged on it. They do not say that the Americans had commitments on the issue of Lebanon or frozen assets but did not fulfill them.
 
The mediator should be impartial, not always leaning to one side,” – Ebrahim Rezaei, Iran’s spokesman for the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission.

Posted by: Roberto | Apr 26 2026 18:12 utc | 51

game not came……

Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 26 2026 18:13 utc | 52

See link at post number 22 … I really enjoyed Professor Wolff’s explanation of the significance of the decline of the “petro dollar.” His explanation of the significance of the UAE seeking emergency “dollar swaps” shows what is really going on and why – the seismic change would be big market players selling off treasuries and U.s stocks to raise dollars to pay debts that are coming due. That can’t happen but will happen without new dollar swap terms. Iran knows this. China knows this. Russia knows this. America knows this. Europe knows this. Even I know this. If this war doesn’t end soon, it will be too late to prevent an economic and financial meltdown like we’ve probably never seen.

Posted by: GMST | Apr 26 2026 18:18 utc | 53

Norwegian | Apr 26 2026 16:25 utc | 31
 
Al-Mayadeen has a long recap of Araghchi’s trek so far. The agenda seems to be:
 

Among the key issues raised were the establishment of a new legal framework governing the Strait of Hormuz, securing reparations, guarantees against the recurrence of military aggression by the United States and “Israel”, and the lifting of the naval blockade imposed on the country.

 
What he’ll discuss with Putin is described thusly:
 

during his visit to Moscow, where he will hold consultations on the latest developments regarding negotiations and the ceasefire, according to the Iranian ambassador in Moscow, Kazem Jalal.

 
I recall from several weeks ago the rumor that the Supreme leader was undergoing medical treatment for his wounds in Russia. If that was correct, then Araghchi will likely meet with him too, perhaps even a troika or quad with Putin and Lavrov; although if that does occur, I doubt anything will be said about it.   

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 26 2026 18:20 utc | 54

‘Leinster House Traitors’ by Brother Ger is an indictment of the corrupt, and incompetent EU stooge boys and girls who are part and parcel the Irish coalition government inside the Pale – the Martin – Harris clown car!
 
Their response to the massive protests and blockades all over Ireland’s regarding skyrocketing gas and diesel and ng prices due to the ME war, was to blame the protesters, not to attack social media (of course because they cant control the social media – even though they would deeply like to ).  Massive increase in fuel prices coupled with absurd VAT and Green taxes are destroying in detail the rural life of Ireland, added to the destruction of farms and pastures, and fields with the ugly solar and wind farm nonsense.
 
This Martin-Harris Irish government sold out Irish farmers and fishermen to the evil forces of the EU, and the crazed EU leadership of Oberleutantanfuher Ursula VDL, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
 
The sooner this government is erased in the no confidence vote the better…..Up the Rebels

Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 26 2026 18:25 utc | 55

https://t.me/llordofwar/608461

The United States is aggressively increasing oil and gas exports as consumer countries cut off from supplies from the Middle East seek alternative sources. Europe and Asia see greater stability and “geopolitical security” in American energy supplies, generating billions in profits for US corporations.

How much proven reserves does the US have?  Outputting at this level for an extended period of time won’t put them in a critical situation in terms of resources?  Where is all this oil and gas coming from?!

Posted by: bored | Apr 26 2026 18:34 utc | 56

Posted by: Roberto | Apr 26 2026 18:12 utc | 51
 
Source, please?
 
Is it a mediator duty to make “megaphone diplomacy” and “tell to the world” things about the négociation ?

Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 26 2026 18:35 utc | 57

@45 Sebgo

Maybe the whole concept only works because it leads people to believe they have been completely outnumbered by stupid people.

Mind you… ‘two party’ politics would provide definitions of the stupid other, and a lot of people seem to relish in that, so maybe people really are that stupid.

I don’t know, and if I were clever enough I suppose I would know, so I guess we are all dumb ?

Fortunately there are also a lot of people who have ‘real world experience’, and they are not so easily fooled.

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 26 2026 18:36 utc | 58

@karlof1 | Apr 26 2026 18:20 utc | 54

I recall from several weeks ago the rumor that the Supreme leader was undergoing medical treatment for his wounds in Russia. If that was correct, then Araghchi will likely meet with him too, perhaps even a troika or quad with Putin and Lavrov; although if that does occur, I doubt anything will be said about it.   

That is definitely a plausible hypothesis, but we can’t know if it is a correct one. But since he hasn’t been shown public it is not unlikely. Good point.

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 26 2026 18:48 utc | 59

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 26 2026 18:36 utc | 58
 
It’s becoming increasingly difficult everywhere to distinguish truth from falsehood.
 
Even in fields other than geopolitics, people are finding it easier and more profitable to lie rather than deliver the promised service or product.
 
We desperately need a shock (several?) to bring us back down to earth.

Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 26 2026 18:49 utc | 60

“Fun fact: they don’t really see Americans, English, Germans, French, etc as humans either, but they need their resources at the moment so they keep those feelings a little more quiet…for now. 
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Apr 26 2026 17:20 utc | 39
 
 
“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world, only to serve the people of Israel. Why are Gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why Gentiles were created.”
– Ovadia Yosef, Chief Rabbi of Israel and Talmudic scholar

Posted by: Vacuous Cipher | Apr 26 2026 19:05 utc | 61

@18
It is in principle possible to construct a bomb with 60% enriched uranium albeit requiring a somewhat larger critical mass.
 
There are also some 200kg plutonium in used fuel ponds at their nuclear power station. Chemical extraction within their capabilities, though considerably more hazardous in terms of ☢️ containment 

Posted by: Paul Cockshott | Apr 26 2026 19:13 utc | 62

@ 56  Where is all this oil and gas coming from?
America has lots of Natural Gas. Much of it is located in Washington DC. 
Oil is a different thing America does not produce enough oil for its own needs. 
In Link Below. It looks to me Trump is draining the Strategic Reserves. After March 27th you see a decline in the SPR stock.
 
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/PET_SUM_SNDW_A_EPC0_SAS_MBBL_W.htm
 
 

Posted by: golddigger | Apr 26 2026 19:13 utc | 63

see the two short videos at the second link
 
 
 
https://x.com/OunkaOnX/status/2048370772008407496
Ounka @OunkaOnX 
 
“My wife and I were shocked to hear about the repeated attempt to assassinate Trump and his wife – There is no place for violence against anyone” 
 
Netanyahu lectures the world about violence while his country is on trial for genocide
 
——————-
 
https://x.com/HalaJaber/status/2048415298940711372
Hala Jaber  @HalaJaber 
 
🚨BREAKING🚨 Israel strikes Kfar Tibneet, targeting a café at a crowded displacement hub.Initial reports: 6 killed, many others injured.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 26 2026 19:17 utc | 64

“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world, only to serve the people of Israel. Why are Gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why Gentiles were created.”– Ovadia Yosef, Chief Rabbi of Israel and Talmudic scholar
Posted by: Vacuous Cipher | Apr 26 2026 19:05 utc | 61

I posted these links before but it never hurts to repost in case anyone missed them.  They quote the Talmud directly in Hebrew with the English translation on the side. Folio and verse included so anyone can look it up to make sure it’s authentic.  They even have the official Jews College Soncino Talmud fully scanned and uploaded so you can quote and link to it.
https://www.come-and-hear.com/navigate.html
 
This link is to a group of secular Israeli Jewish critics of Rabbinical Judaism.  This one hits especially hard because you can’t accuse them of anti-semitism LOL.
https://daatemet.org.il/en/
 
The Gentile section is pure gold.

Posted by: bored | Apr 26 2026 19:17 utc | 65

“The Gentile section is pure gold.
Posted by: bored | Apr 26 2026 19:17 utc | 65
 
“Our race is the master race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves.”
– Menahem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel

Posted by: Vacuous Cipher | Apr 26 2026 19:25 utc | 66

9/11, 7/7/, 11/7, Tonkin, etc., etc. let’s not forget the Boston Marathon bombers’ association with Ukraine.
 
build L’Arc de Trump already! no one has survived more staged assassination attempts. he deserves some kind of award.
 
if the standard is, “by your own words you will be judged,” why isn’t everyone taking shots at Trump? or rather, why isn’t his head in a basket or on a pike already, along with his classmates?
 
Build the damn ballroom already!

Posted by: duck n cover | Apr 26 2026 19:30 utc | 67

Ahenobarbus@37:
 
Perhaps you should re-read this bit, particularly when you feel tetchy and given to quoting Hegel over the outlandish suggestion Americans should take responsibility for halting the global mass-murdering rampages of their fascist gangster regime.
 
…The United States has for three decades been the primary financial sponsor, the primary arms supplier, the primary diplomatic shield, and the primary propagandist of the Israeli state. Every bomb dropped on a Gazan school carries an American serial number. Every missile that struck a Lebanese apartment building was paid for by American taxpayers. Every veto that prevented a UN ceasefire veto was cast by an American diplomat with full knowledge of what their veto permitted to continue. America does not merely support Israel. America is Israel’s operational partner in the killing of children.’
 
 
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 19:35 utc | 68

No attack on Iran this weekend. 😌
Looks like Iran has finally achieved deterrence. 🥹

Posted by: Dingleberry | Apr 26 2026 19:39 utc | 69

Talmudic Judaism was canceled by Jesus pbuh and doubly canceled in the Qur’an. 
 
The Zionists are Babylonians, the eqiuvalent of human- sacrificing Druids. 
The US genocided the American Pagans.
What on earth has got hold of their leaders to promote the Jewish Bronze Age?

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 26 2026 19:44 utc | 70

A little story – 7 mins & 800 years – make of it what you will   …
 
Rumi | Masnavi | The Lion and the Camel | When Trust Is Betrayed | Persian Stories

Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 26 2026 19:46 utc | 71

Ahenobarbus@37:
 
Perhaps you should re-read this bit, particularly when you feel tetchy and given to quoting Hegel over the outlandish suggestion Americans should take responsibility for halting the global mass-murdering rampages of their fascist gangster regime.
 
‘…The United States has for three decades been the primary financial sponsor, the primary arms supplier, the primary diplomatic shield, and the primary propagandist of the Israeli state. Every bomb dropped on a Gazan school carries an American serial number. Every missile that struck a Lebanese apartment building was paid for by American taxpayers. Every veto that prevented a UN ceasefire veto was cast by an American diplomat with full knowledge of what their veto permitted to continue. America does not merely support Israel. America is Israel’s operational partner in the killing of children.’
 
 
 

 
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 26 2026 19:35 utc | 68
Everyone knows that, John.  What do you propose we do about it?  What are you doing about it?  Why aren’t you making revolution in your Zio Imperialist country?
You’re from Canada, right?  Are Canadians somehow exempt?  Why? 
Seriously, I like your contributions, but you need to mature a bit.  Just being old doesn’t guarantee wisdom, you know?
Hint: every country has a majority of wage slaves and a tiny Zio Imperialist elite.  Capitalism has spawned this state of affairs.  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Apr 26 2026 19:59 utc | 72

Besides Pakistan, several other countries, including Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt, to name a few, are working in tandem to thrash out a deal acceptable to everyone.
It’s a list of countries, but is currently missing the only one that USA cares about. Appreciate effort, but expect sluggish movement, likely ultimately stopped.
 

Posted by: Call it what u will | Apr 26 2026 20:07 utc | 73

RE:
“Good point.”
Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 26 2026 18:48 utc | 59
 
Not really.  It’s a Western trope spun by folks that want to believe Iran is inferior to Russia.
 
As if Iran doesn’t have the medical/surgical expertise needed,  and/or inability to provide Security & protection.  Both which are false.
Or to suggest the the Supreme Leader would voluntarily leave his beloved Iran for “safety” as the idiot Shah’s family did.
 
No, I dismiss these rumors,  Iran is quite capable of taking care of their own.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 26 2026 20:20 utc | 74

Rumi | Masnavi | The Lion and the Camel | When Trust Is Betrayed | Persian Stories
Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 26 2026 19:46 utc | 71
 
Thank you, Don.  

Posted by: juliania | Apr 26 2026 20:22 utc | 75

“The Zionists are Babylonians, the eqiuvalent of human- sacrificing Druids. The US genocided the American Pagans.What on earth has got hold of their leaders to promote the Jewish Bronze Age?
Posted by: Giyane | Apr 26 2026 19:44 utc | 70
 
“The Jewish people as a whole will be its own messiah. It will attain world dominion by the dissolution of other races, by the abolition of frontiers, the annihilation of monarchy, and by the establishment of a world republic in which the Jews will everywhere exercise the privilege of citizenship. In this New World Order, the children of Israel will furnish all the leaders without encountering opposition. The governments of the different peoples forming the world republic will fall without difficulty into the hands of the Jews. It will then be possible for the Jewish rulers to abolish private property, and everywhere to make use of the resources of the State. Thus, will the promise of the Talmud be fulfilled, in which is said that when the Messianic time is come, the Jews will have all the property of the whole world in their hands.”
– Baruch Levy
 
 

Posted by: Vacuous Cipher | Apr 26 2026 20:38 utc | 76

Rumi | Masnavi | The Lion and the Camel | When Trust Is Betrayed | Persian StoriesPosted by: Don Firineach | Apr 26 2026 19:46 utc | 71 Thank you, Don. 

Posted by: snake | Apr 26 2026 20:41 utc | 77

In my experience there’s no atheist quite like a Jewish atheist. Even apparent Jewish theists seem much more oriented to this world than to the hereafter. 

Posted by: Waldorf | Apr 26 2026 20:50 utc | 78

Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 26 2026 19:46 utc | 71
 
I went looking for a somewhat  similarly oriented artistic message, found this:
 
https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/default/framed-print/images/artworkimages/medium/2/28-pandora-odilon-redon.jpg?imgWI=6&imgHI
 
Rumi is more apt; but this perhaps adds dimension, is beautiful as well, I hope.  (That last word was what I was looking for, how to get back to the forest, once it is lost.)

Posted by: juliania | Apr 26 2026 20:58 utc | 79

Trying again – if this doesn’t work, apologies.
 
https://artistasycuadros.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Pandora-1.webp

Posted by: juliania | Apr 26 2026 21:20 utc | 80

Speaking of musical interludes and the latest “assassination attempt” on Emperor Trumpus Arumpus… 
“They’ve BennyHilled it!”  
https://x.com/SundaeDivine/status/2048433694977728516
Yakety Sax meets Falsity Flag. 

Posted by: Joe Turner | Apr 26 2026 21:55 utc | 81

Vacuous Cipher 76
 
There was an Old man with a beard
Who said it is just as I feared
Two owls and a hen
Three larks and a wren
Have all made a nest in my beard
 
Thanks for the information.
Quite a lot worse than I feared, but since it’s coming next week, it’s always bestvto be prepared. 

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 26 2026 21:57 utc | 82

“What on earth has got hold of their leaders to promote the Jewish Bronze Age?”
@Giyane | Apr 26 2026 19:44 utc | 70
You already know my version that its is protection racket. The anglosaxons delegated finances to them without there being any necessity for it. In return they have a hold on them. Presumably that hold may be even more important now when the US anticipates that the vassals may jump ship

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Apr 26 2026 21:59 utc | 83

Trump coming up on “60 Minutes” soon, likely will hope to renormalize markets before Monday open, who knows what he’ll say about the dinner shooting.

Posted by: Call it what u will | Apr 26 2026 22:03 utc | 84

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 26 2026 14:37 utc | 3
Thanks for your links, michaelj72.It’s sickening to know that there are still people – especially people in power – who believe that “Israel” has a right to exist. 
Posted by: Avtonom | Apr 26 2026 14:57 utc | 6
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Tabula Rasa for me. Not happening now. I fully expect that Israel will not be erased when all is settled and done.
Donigula is already talking about Russia being able to use SWIFT which will sustain the Petro dollar. With Hormuz having created a ‘Mexican standoff’ how I love that expression, Russia sanctions will likely be stopped and the cherry on top would be for Nordstream 1 to start pumping (still pressured nd good to go) and Nordstream 2 to be resurrected.
It is a crazy world.

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Apr 26 2026 22:15 utc | 85

This guy filled 15mins playing the very latest Iranian legos mocking TrumpTeamTrix.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhFZfcgBjNQ
 
 
Iran has a new lego out about the WH corespondents dinner “assassination” attempt.
Evidently they had it out within an hour….      
 
Seems the Iranian team is more nibble than the boozy mocksloppers who were actually in the room.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 26 2026 22:19 utc | 86

Posted by: michaelj72 | Apr 26 2026 15:46 utc | 21
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Keep up the moistly depressing good work, my young GM (Good Man)!

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Apr 26 2026 22:19 utc | 87

How much proven reserves does the US have?  Outputting at this level for an extended period of time won’t put them in a critical situation in terms of resources?  Where is all this oil and gas coming from?!
Posted by: bored | Apr 26 2026 18:34 utc | 56
The US is a net IMPORTER of around 2MM bbl/day of CRUDE oil.  It exports LNG, natural gas to Mexico, and some refined products.  It imports crude mostly from Canada, but also from Ven, Mexico, and Guyana.  Crude oil is not a problem, and it can probably export 3 MM BPD additional barrels from the SPR for over 100 days.  The problem is refined products and urea fertilizer.  THAT will and is damaging the world economy.  Even with the US exporting its SPR, there’s still a shortfall of 8 MM BPD of crude, which is also a problem.  However China can quit buying and free up another 6 MM BPD., and you have Iranian and Russia barrels in floating storage.  With Russian sanctions lifted, those ships no longer have to utilitze ship-to-ship transfers and can dock at a port, increasing pumping rates.  We probably have another month before Crude becomes a problem, but refined products and urea are a problem right now.

Posted by: JackG | Apr 26 2026 22:29 utc | 88

Posted by: duck n cover | Apr 26 2026 19:30 utc | 67

let’s not forget the Boston Marathon bombers’ association with Ukraine.

 
They were Chechen. And on the FSB radar, which is why Putin had the FBI informed.   
 
But of course the Tsarnaev brothers were U$ intel assets. Which the FSB/ Putin would have known….

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 26 2026 22:32 utc | 89

Actually recent “scientific” news suggests Israelis were the FIRST to invent fire 75000 years ago. I kid you NOT.

Posted by: watcher | Apr 26 2026 22:32 utc | 90

Melaleuca @86
 
🤣
 
“It was the biggest, most beautiful assassination attempt ever. Nobody ever gets better assassination attempts than I do. Everyone says, President Trump, he deserves the Congressional Medal for Surviving Assassinations, that’s how good it was. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Covfefe!”

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 26 2026 22:34 utc | 91

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Apr 26 2026 22:15 utc | 85
 
much longer term, Israel will open the East Med field, … which is *one* of the reasons they are busy depopulating Gaza and (southern) Lebanon 

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 26 2026 22:35 utc | 92

Posted by: JackG | Apr 26 2026 22:29 utc | 88
 
It’s already become mainstream US fertilizer and chemical companies have become massive winners of this conflict, due to their competition going out of business and/or their feedstock gas price remaining relatively unchanged. So a lot of expansion of profit margins for fertilizer and chemical companies on both ends.

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 26 2026 22:39 utc | 93

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 26 2026 22:34 utc | 91

Lincoln, Garfield, McKinlay, Harding … all losers.
Couldn’t even survive one assassination.
Me? No one has survived more assassinations than me. 

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 26 2026 22:39 utc | 94

19:35 utc | 68Everyone knows that, John.  What do you propose we do about it?  What are you doing about it?  Why aren’t you making revolution in your Zio Imperialist country?You’re from Canada, right?  Are Canadians somehow exempt?  Why? Seriously, I like your contributions, but you need to mature a bit.  Just being old doesn’t guarantee wisdom, you know?Hint: every country has a majority of wage slaves and a tiny Zio Imperialist elite.  Capitalism has spawned this state of affairs.  
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Apr 26 2026 19:59 utc | 72

I suspect the majority of Canadians are too busy with their own lives to worry or care much about the killing fields in the Middle East. Serious protests like the truckers blockade in Ottawa failed to do much but get their bank accounts frozen. daily mass public protests of a hundred thousand people in major cities across Canada might move the needle, eventually. Public self immolations on the steps of parliament in downtown Ottawa would raise s few eyebrows. 

Posted by: Nemesis | Apr 26 2026 22:47 utc | 95

petergfstrm 83
 
Thanks. I often say, I am a Muslim, not a Socialist . 
But  browsing about Vacuous Cipher’s comment,  I see that Karl Marx said that everybody, including Jews , should emancipate themselves from religion.
The Chabad slogan was ‘Anything is possible. ‘
Which has the  direct implication of , anything is  possible if you discard religion.
 
So the role of the Jews in that case would not be a protection racket, but a system of eradicating the restraints of religious morality from politics.
 
O  M  G, they are the antichrist.
O wow! They are the anti-civilisation force that Empires  needed to emancipate thenselves from the constraints of Religion.
 
Shit!  No wonder every EU , Russian, US , Muslim politician in the world…
 
BOWS TO ZIONISM. 
They’re not going to get fumigated out with incense!
 
Bring me my bow of burning gold
Bring me my arrows of desire
Bring me my spear, o clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire.
I will not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have UN BUILT Jerusalem
In England’s green and pleasant land.
 
William Blake was an ancestor of mine, and he would sit with his wife stark  naked in Central London
 
Bring me a CO2 fire extinguisher to get this Zionist bug infestation under control, man.
 

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 26 2026 22:49 utc | 96

96
 
Sorry , I don’t have a TV,  but yesterday I was watching Britain’s hot talent , and , what with Trump and Turkiye and Jewlani and Nutter , all.playing religion  emancipated politics
All at the same time, ah think ah’m going
Maaaad!

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 26 2026 22:54 utc | 97

B
Just watched that lego video collation.  My emotions ranged from amusement to gasping.
 
This whole lego phenomenon is quite something.
 
The Guillotine one is in some ways shocking.  Talk about return fire.
 
For 50 years the USA has been deliberately undermining Iranian youth, fermenting rebellion. This has long been the US strategy. Except for a very brief time during the 60s no return fire has ever hit the USA and even then it was largely home grown and most certainly NOT rebellious fundamentally. The most effective anti war infotainment was MASH and while it promoted change was still absolutely entwined with the concept of US exceptionalism.
 
Guillotine is downright revolutionary and a call to arms of the USA youth. Quite amazing. Targeting a DIFFERENT sector of the community. US undermining usually targets the bourgeois, elite, educated, youth.  This Iranian stuff is targeting the poor and probably the Black and Latino youth.

Posted by: watcher | Apr 26 2026 23:00 utc | 98

It would be so ironic if Trump and Hegseth were the first to get the electric chair that they so want to reintroduce.
 
Does anyone in the world still like these two repulsive psychopaths apart from useful idiots, the credulous and Washington turds that seek their own career advancement? 
 
I cannot think of two other people in the US that have done so much to trash America’s reputation and take the country back to medieval times. 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 26 2026 23:17 utc | 99

Actually recent “scientific” news suggests Israelis were the FIRST to invent fire 75000 years ago. I kid you NOT.
Posted by: watcher | Apr 26 2026 22:32 utc | 90
 
You mean ‘human use and control of fire’. Otherwise fire has been around since the early universe, and if multiverse theory proves correct, well before that again to  infinite times. No human ever invented fire.  At one point time, the entire Earth was a fireball, well before life even started.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 26 2026 23:24 utc | 100