[This article by Peter Koenig was first published by Global Research. You can read it here.]

In a recent Buddhist retreat in Lima, Peru, about 200 participants were urged to abstain for the three-day retreat from our enslavement screens, “smart” phones, computers and television.

Difficult to say how many really followed the advice, but many did.

What was amazing is that during the first day, ignoring constant phone notifications was not easy for the many. But consciously resisting it made it easier. And the following days, we were hardly thinking of them anymore. The days were filled with meditation and different types of spiritual exercises… the digital age was peacefully removed into a corner.

Unfortunately, after the retreat, the hide-out corner became lively again and took up again most of our attention, in “angst” of what we may have missed during the highly divine retreat. Spirituality must have gradually evaporated again… and what we call “reality” kicked in.

Interestingly, what we call “reality” is a fake, indoctrinated reality. Over years we were told that technical advances, or as the World Economic Forum (WEF’s) Great Reset calls it, The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is a concept describing how emerging technologies are blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. It fundamentally alters how we live, work, and relate to one another.

Sending messages, videos, and silly jokes, rather than talking to each other, interchanging with physically presence. Along with this brainwashing propaganda, we were drugged with the belief that working from home is full of advantages. It is an outright lie.

These “work-from-home” benefits are geared to separate us from one another so that physical interaction is avoided, making us more manipulable, controllable and dispensable, capable of being replaced by robots, and eventually by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

And mind you, the 4IR was illegally approved by the United Nations (UN). There was a not-well-known Cooperation Agreement signed between the WEF and the UN in Geneva in June 2019 that established an unequivocal link between the UN (created by 51 nations (today 193 member nations) in October 1945 in San Francisco) and the world’s by far richest NGO, the WEF, established in Geneva Switzerland.

The UN was created to guarantee peace in the world, to make sure that no more wars, especially World Wars (WW), that would ravage planet earth. That principle is anchored in the UN Charter. The WEF is owned and run by BlackRock, the world’s largest financial asset manager, controlling together with Vanguard, an interchangeable partner, and StateStreet, a close associate, some 25 to 30 trillion US dollars equivalent in assets, controlling literally every sector of vital industries and services, like energy, food, transport, health but also of the world’s weapon industrial complex. It is a blatant contradiction to the UN Charter. The UN is controlled by financial behemoths, with powers way beyond BlackRock.

The 4IR is, therefore, not a human-friendly program. It is a global control mechanism, that could be right out of Orwell’s “1984” – but way more complex, dangerous and deadly.

Unlike previous revolutions, 4IR is not just about smart machines and systems; it is characterized by a lightning-fast convergence of diverse technologies. The WEF highlights several core pillars:

• Digital: Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and blockchain.

• Physical: Autonomous vehicles, 3D printing (additive manufacturing), and advanced materials.

• Biological: Gene editing (CRISPR), synthetic biology, and neurotechnology.

CRISPR stands for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.” It is a technology that research scientists use to selectively modify the DNA of living organisms including humans.

The WEF, an executing agency for the financial giants attempting to control the globe, and especially for those pulling the strings behind the WEF, are viewing these advancements as an unprecedented opportunity to address global challenges—such as fast-tracking the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – in fact the population reduction agenda – and improving sustainable energy management – the fake Global Climate Change Agenda (GCCA).

The GCCA can be made responsible for every calamity affecting the world, the human race, including any new diseases and plandemics that another key executing agency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been put in charge of.

As this article may go to print, the 79^th World Health Assembly (WHA) takes place in Geneva from 18 to 23 May 2026. One of its primary objectives is to make the Pandemic Treaty operational. For that, unanimous agreement is needed on the details of the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) System. This framework regulates how countries share virus samples and genetic data in exchange for guaranteed, equitable access to vaccines, diagnostics, and treatments.

PABS Agreement has not been reached during last year’s WHA. The PABS is unlikely to be approved this year either. The PABS would give WHO full control over every member country’s health system. National health sovereignty would be gone.

What is little known to most people, instead or in parallel with PABS debates, some 300 so-called “side events” are taking place in the WHA week. Topics range from Climate Change, Environment and One Health, to Global Public Health, to Health Systems and Universal Health Coverage, toPopulation and Care [Control]. See this for the full list.

Through its global Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR), the WEF brings together governments, businesses, and civil society to establish governance protocols. This ensures that these exponential technologies are harnessed responsibly for human control.

While the C4IR’s foundational headquarters and its first location was launched in San Francisco, USA in 2017, it has evolved into a highly decentralized global network. The network spans dozens of independent national and thematic centers across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas.

Digitization of humanity is thought-out to the last detail and the WHO is in-charge for much of these details. WHO has been created in April 1948, some three years after the UN and most of its sub-agencies. WHO is in charge of controlling health and death, a Rockefeller project; the Rockefeller clan being among the world’s prime eugenists.

Back to the Buddhist retreat: what people experienced by abstaining for three days from their electronic devices is rather phenomenal. Many said, they could imagine a life without these digital handcuffs. Indeed, it’s only a bit more than a generation that humanity has been gradually indoctrinated and subjugated to ever growing digitization, to its gradual use for everything.

We have literally developed a Stockholm syndrome – loving our hangman, our judge and prison ward. Sad but the majority of people today still have a hard time realizing it.

Imagine, only 30 years ago, the internet was hardly known to the public. The Network Infrastructure was developed by the US Department of Defense (DoD) (1969–1983), a Pentagon project, evolving into the modern internet on January 1, 1983.

The World Wide Web (1989) emerged from the CERN (Centre européen pour la recherche nucléaire, French acronym for European Center for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. The Web is used to navigate the Internet.

What many say and feel is that, if EVERYONE would step back and return to the good old non-digital age, say 30 years back, it would be easy, because we would start afresh, and feel free again – in unison, having learned a lesson, never to forget.

That doesn’t mean we couldn’t use the societal useful electronic inventions for improving our lives – but never again fall for the targeted enslavement from full-control digitization – which is so far advanced that we are shortly before all electronic, digital money — to the point where you walk through a shopping mall’s cashier gate and pay by facial recognition which is linked to your all digital bank account. This exists already in large cities, like Moscow and other parts of the world.

Beware of misbehaving, or else your digital bank account is blocked.

Spiritual teachings and guidance may bond us together to form a strong body of think-alike humans called RESISTANCE.

And we shall overcome.

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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst, regular author for Global Research, and a former Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).

Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.

[This article by Dr. Gary G. Kohls and Prof Michel Chossudovsky was first published by Global Research. You can read it here.]

Introduction

This article by Gary Kohls was first published on March 15, 2008 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of My Lai.

This week at the height of the Israel-U.S. genocide, we are commemorating the 58th Anniversary of the My Lai Massacre, March 15, 1968.

Since World War II, the targeting of innocent civilians has become the mainstay of U.S. atrocities. Remember General Curtis Lemay:

“After destroying North Korea’s 78 cities and thousands of her villages, and killing countless numbers of her civilians, [General] LeMay remarked,

“Over a period of three years or so we killed off – what – twenty percent of the population.”

It is now believed that the population north of the imposed 38th Parallel lost nearly a third its population of 8 – 9 million people during the 37-month long “hot” war, 1950 – 1953, perhaps an unprecedented percentage of mortality suffered by one nation due to the belligerance of another.” (Brian Willson)

Without exception, all US-NATO wars have targeted civilians in derogation of international law. It’s what you call “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P).

America’s “Humanitarian Wars”

Criminality is embedded in America’s foreign policy.

The conduct of massacres of civilians is invariably rewarded. Colin Powell, who was responsible for the coverup of the My Lai massacre, acceded to a “brilliant” career in the Armed Forces.

In 2001, he was appointed Secretary of State in the Bush administration. Although never indicted, Powell was also deeply implicated in the Iran-Contra affair.

It is worth noting that Colin Powell was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time of the Gulf War, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of retreating Iraqi soldiers in what British war correspondent and Global Research Associate Felicity Arbuthnot entitled “Operation Desert Slaughter.”

“The forty two day carpet bombing, enjoined by thirty two other countries, against a country of just twenty five million souls, with a youthful, conscript army, with broadly half the population under sixteen, and no air force, was just the beginning of a United Nations led, global siege of near mediaeval ferocity.”

In the words of General Norman Schwartzkopf who led Operation Desert Slaughter,

“‘There was no one left to kill’…

There have been many US-sponsored My Lai’s since the Vietnam war. Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Palestine. Not to mention the “Dirty War” and military coups in Latin America.

In a bitter irony, in 2018, Vietnam became an “unofficial” military ally of the US against China.

—Michel Chossudovsky

The My Lai Massacre. Coverup of Extensive War Crimes

by Dr. Gary G. Kohls, March 15, 2008

Fifty-six years ago this week, on March 16, 1968, a company of US Army combat soldiers from the America Division swept into the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai, rounded up the 500+ unarmed, non-combatant residents, all women, children, babies and a few old men, and executed them in cold blood, Nazi-style. No weapons were found in the village, and the whole operation took only four hours.

Although there was a serious attempt to cover-up this operation (which involved a young up-and-coming US Army Major named Colin Powell), those who orchestrated or participated in this “business-as-usual” war zone atrocity did not deny the details of the slaughter when the case came to trial several years later. But the story had filtered back to the Western news media, thanks to a couple of courageous eye-witnesses whose consciences were still intact. An Army court-marital trial eventually convened against a handful of the soldiers, including Lt. William Calley and Company C commanding officer, Ernest Medina.

According to many of the soldiers in Company C, Medina ordered the killing of “every living thing in My Lai,” including, obviously, innocent noncombatants – men, women, children and even farm animals. Lt. Calley was charged with the murder of 109 civilians. In his defense statement he stated that he had been taught to hate all Vietnamese, even children, who, he had been told, “were very good at planting mines.”

That a massacre had occurred was confirmed by many of Medina’s soldiers and recorded by photographers, but the Army still tried to cover it up. The cases were tried in military courts with juries of Army officers, who eventually either dropped the charges against all of the defendants (except Calley) or acquitted them. Medina and all the others who were among the killing soldiers that day went free, and only Calley was convicted of the murders of “at least 20 civilians.” He was sentenced to life imprisonment for his war crime, but, under pressure from patriotic pro-war Americans, President Nixon pardoned him within weeks of the verdict.

The trial stimulated a lot of interest because it occurred during the rising outcry of millions of Americans against the infamous undeclared war that was acknowledged by many observers as an “overwhelming atrocity.” Ethical Americans were sick of the killing. However, 79% of those that were polled strenuously objected to Calley’s conviction, some veteran’s groups even voicing the opinion that instead of condemnation, he and his comrades should have received medals of honor for killing “Commie Gooks.”

Just like the extermination camp atrocities of World War II, the realities of My Lai deserve to be revisited so that it will happen “never again.” The Vietnam War was an excruciating time for conscientious Americans because of the numerous moral issues surrounding the mass slaughter in a war that uselessly killed 58,000 American soldiers, caused the spiritual deaths of millions more, killed 3 million Vietnamese (mostly civilians) and psychologically traumatized countless others on both sides of the conflict.

Of course the Vietnam War was a thousand times worse for the innocent people of that doomed land than it was for the soldiers. The Vietnamese people were victims of an army of brutal young men from a foreign land who were taught that the “little yellow people” were pitiful sub-humans and deserved to be killed – with some GIs preferring to inflict torture first. “Kill-or-be-killed” is a reality that is standard operating procedure for military combat units of every nation of every era and of every ideology.

Vietnam veterans tell me that there were scores, maybe hundreds, of “My Lai-type massacres “ during that war. Not surprisingly, the Pentagon refuses to acknowledge that truth. Execution-style killings of “potential” Viet Cong sympathizers (i.e., anybody that wasn’t a US military supporter) were common. Many combat units “took no prisoners” (a euphemism for murdering captives, rather than having to follow the nuisance Geneva Conventions which requires humane treatment for prisoners of war). The only unusual thing about the My Lai Massacre was that it was eventually found out. The attempted Pentagon cover-up failed but justice was still not done.

Very few soldiers or their commanding officers have ever been punished for the many war crimes that occurred during that war because those in charge knew that killing (and torturing) of innocent civilians during war-time is simply the norm – excused as “collateral damage.” After all, as US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld later infamously proclaimed, “stuff happens.”

The torture was enjoyable for some – for awhile (witness Auschwitz yesterday and Abu Graib and Guantanamo Bay today). And wars are profitable for many – and still are (witness the Krupp family of Nazi-era infamy and Halliburton, the Blackwater mercenaries, et al. today).

The whole issue of the justification of war, with its inherent atrocities, never seems to be thoroughly examined in an atmosphere of openness and historical honesty. Full understanding of the realities of war and its spiritual, psychological and economic consequences for the victims is rarely attempted. If we who are non-soldiers ever truly experienced the horrors of combat, the effort to abolish war would suddenly be a top priority (perhaps even for the current crop of “Chicken Hawk” warmongers in the Bush Administration).

If we actually knew the gruesome realities of war (or even understood the immorality of spending trillions of dollars on war preparation while hundreds of millions of people are homeless and starving) we would refuse to cooperate with the things that make for war. But that wouldn’t be good for the war profiteers. So those “merchants of death” must hide the gruesome truths and try instead to make war seem patriotic and honorable, with flag-waving sloganeering like “Be All That You Can Be.” Or they might try to convince the soon-to-be-childless mothers of doomed, dead or dying soldiers that their child had died fighting for God, Country and Honor instead of domination of the Middle East’s oil reserves.

Let’s face it. The US military standing army system has been bankrupting America at $500+ billion year after year after year – even in times of so-called “peace.” The warmongering legacy of the Pentagon is still with us, particularly among those “patriots” including GOP presidential candidate John McCain, who wanted to “nuke the gooks” in Vietnam. A multitude of un-elected policy-makers of that ilk are still in charge of US foreign policy today, and they have been solidifying their power to continue America’s misbegotten, unaffordable and unsustainable militarism with the huge profits made off the deaths, screams, blood, guts and permanent disabilities of those hood-winked soldiers who were told that they were ”saving the world for democracy” when in fact they were making the world safe for exploitive capitalism and obscene profits for the few. And the politicians entrenched in both major political parties, who are all-too-often paid lapdogs for the war profiteers, don’t want the gravy train to be derailed.

Things haven’t changed much even from the World War II mentality that conveniently overlooked the monstrous evil that was perpetrated on tens of thousands of unarmed, innocent civilians at Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, a war crime so heinous that the psychological consequences, immune deficiency disorders and cancers from that nuclear holocaust are still being experienced in unimaginable suffering 6 decades later.

Things haven’t really changed when one witnesses the political mentality that allows the 500,000 deaths of innocent Iraqi civilians in the aftermath of the first Gulf War or the 1,000,000 civilian deaths in the current fiasco in Iraq.

So it appears that our military and political leaders haven’t learned anything since My Lai. The people sitting next to you at work are, like most unaware Americans, almost totally ignorant of the hellish realities of the war-zone, so they may continue to be blindly patriotic and indifferent to the plight of the “others” who suffer so much in war. They may think that some people are less than human, and, therefore, if necessary, can be justifiably killed “for Volk, Fuhrer und Vaterland.”

As long as most American citizens continue to glorify war and militarism and ignore or denigrate the peacemakers; as long as the American public endorses the current spirit of nationalism and ruthless global capitalism; and as long as the America’s political leadership remains prudently silent (and therefore consenting to the homicidal violence of war) we will not be able to effect a change away from the influence of conscienceless war-mongers and war profiteers. The prophets and peacemakers are never valued in militarized nations, especially in times of war; indeed, they are always marginalized, demeaned and even imprisoned as traitors. And one of the reasons is that there are no profits to be made in peacemaking, whereas there are trillions to be made in the biggest business going: the preparation for war, the execution of war and the highly profitable “re-building” efforts (“blow it up/build it up” economics), all the while ignoring the “inconvenient” but inevitable collateral damage to the creation and its creatures.

As long as we continue to be led by unapologetic and merciless war-makers and their wealthy business cronies and as long as the ethical infants in Washington, DC continue to be corrupted by the big money bribes, there is no chance America will ever obtain true peace.

And unless America stops the carnage, fully repents and offers compensation for the damage it has done, its turn as a recipient of retaliatory violence will surely come, and it will come from those foreign and domestic victims that our nation’s leaders have treated so shamefully over the past half-century.

[This video by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky and Drago Bosnic was first published by Global Research. You can watch it here.]

A wave of media disinformation is unfolding in regard to the “dangerous Hantavirus” on board a Dutch cruise ship. A worldwide Hantavirus pandemic in the making?

The Hantavirus is casually referred to as “a deadly rat virus.”

What is the unspoken agenda of the “dangerous Hantavirus” on board the Dutch Cruise Ship?

Another “plandemic,” followed by the launching of a Hantavirus “vaccine”? The U.S. military (US ARMY) has already developed several Hantavirus DNA “vaccines” (US Army / USAMRIID).

Remember the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship and COVID-19? “Copy and Paste”?

The Diamond Princess arrived in Yokohama on February 3, 2020. A quarantine was imposed on the cruisers. Many passengers fell sick due to the confinement on the boat.

The Diamond Princess had set the stage for announcing the COVID Pandemic on February 20, 2020.

“Outside China there are now 1,076 cases in 20 countries, with a total of seven deaths….

….Of all cases outside China, more than half are among passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship“

Official Statement of WHO Director General Dr. Tedros, Geneva, 20 February 2020

The WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (February 21, 2020) said that he was “concerned that the chance to contain the coronavirus outbreak was “closing”.”

“I believe the window of opportunity is still there, but that the window is narrowing.”

Is the WHO Director General Tedros intent upon triggering the next pandemic? He knows how to do it.

“A matter of when, not if.”

“Copy and paste” the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship, February 20, 2020?

And what is the role of Dr. Tedros’s mentor Bill Gates?

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[This article was originally published on Global Research. An updated version: You can read it here.]

A wave of media disinformation is unfolding in regard to the “dangerous Hantavirus” on board a Dutch cruise ship.

Meanwhile, the Western media has gone into high gear without supporting evidence, intimating that the hantavirus has triggered a “global health scare.”

The Hantavirus is casually referred to as “a deadly rat virus.”

Is it a fear campaign predicated on media disinformation?

Is it intended to distract people from what is happening in the global war theater?

This article focusses on the following:

PART I: Fear Campaign? Dangerous Hantavirus On Board Dutch Cruise Ship.

1. Media Coverage of the “Dangerous” Hantavirus on Board the Dutch MV Hondius Cruise Ship.

2. Features of Hantavirus and Transmission to Humans

3. The WHO Report Entitled Hantavirus Cluster Linked to Cruise Ship Travel, Multi-country. May 4, 2026

4. Analysis of the Evidence

5. Towards the Development of a Hantavirus “Vaccine”

6. Future Pandemics

PART II: Remember The Diamond Princess Cruise Ship? Sets the Stage for Announcing the COVID Pandemic, February 20, 2020

“Outside China there are now 1,076 cases in 20 countries, with a total of seven deaths….

….Of all cases outside China, more than half are among passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship.“

—Official Statement of WHO Director General Dr. Tedros, Geneva, 20 February 2020

PART I

1. Media Coverage of the “Dangerous” Hantavirus on Board the Dutch MV Hondius Cruise Ship.

According to Britain’s The Sun:

“A CRUISE ship feared to be harbouring a deadly rat virus will dock in the Canary Islands after the tragic deaths of three passengers.

Officials are desperately looking to contain the lethal outbreak to the luxury vessel but are now being made to search for dozens of people who flew with an infected passenger just days before she died.

Three people on the Dutch MV Hondius have died of the rare, but severe, hantavirus which has sparked a global health scare.

A British man, 69, is fighting for his life in a South African hospital, and two seriously ill crew members – including another UK national – are still stranded aboard the vessel awaiting evacuation.

The Spanish Health Ministry has now confirmed that it will receive the virus-ravaged ship in the Canary Islands “in accordance with international law and humanitarian principles” (emphasis added)

According to the CBC,

”Health authorities have identified the Andes strain of hantavirus, which can be transmitted from person to person, in passengers who were on a cruise ship at the centre of a deadly outbreak of the rare infection, officials said Wednesday.

Two patients with hantavirus and one suspected of being infected were evacuated from the MV Hondius ship and flown to the Netherlands on Wednesday, the United Nations health agency said. The flight arrived in Amsterdam on Wednesday evening local time.

The Dutch Foreign Affairs Ministry said the three people evacuated were a 56-year-old Briton, a 41-year-old Dutch national and a 65-year-old German. The ministry said they would be “immediately transferred to specialized hospitals in Europe.” A Dutch hospital confirmed it would take one, and German authorities said they were preparing for a second.

Two “remain in a serious condition,” Oceanwide Expeditions said, and the third had no symptoms but was “closely associated” with a German passenger who died on May 2. (CBC)

Ongoing Fear Campaign: The Next Pandemic

2. Features of Hantavirus and Transmission to Humans

“Orthohantavirus is a genus of viruses that includes all hantaviruses that cause disease in humans. …

Hantaviruses, are naturally found primarily in rodents. In general, each hantavirus is carried by one rodent species and each rodent that carries a hantavirus carries one hantavirus species.”

In humans hantaviruses causes essentially two distinct syndromes.

1. hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS)

2. hantavirus pulmonary syndrome” (HPS).

2.1 Symptoms

The Symptoms associated wih “Hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome” (HFRS)

Symptoms include:

“headache, lower back pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, bloody stools, bleeding in the respiratory tract, renal symptoms such as kidney swelling, … excess protein in urine, as well as blood cells in the urine.”

The Symptoms associated with Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS), are

“sudden onset of coughing, shortness of breath, and elevated heart rate ….attributable to fluid buildup in the lungs.”

Do these symptoms coincide with the WHO reported cases ( See our analysis of the evidence in Section 4.1.)

2.2 Question: Were rodent species detected inside the ship?

Question: Were rodent species detected inside the ship? Neither the media reports nor the WHO provide tangible evidence.

What the media states without evidence in relation to the ship:

“passengers … were on a cruise ship at the centre of a deadly outbreak of the rare infection”

At the time of writing, the World Health Organization (WHO) has no evidence of human-to-human transmission on the cruise ship, nor does it have evidence of the presence of rodents “in areas were passengers were exposed”.

Ironically, reports point to “two main theories regarding how passengers may have been exposed”:

“Rodents on board the ship left infected droppings or urine in areas where passengers were exposed.”

Shore Excursions: Passengers may have encountered infected rodents or their excretions during shore excursions in areas known to harbor hantavirus”.

Neither of these “two main theories” are corroborated. No evidence.

3. WHO Report: Hantavirus Cluster Linked to Cruise Ship Travel, Multi-country. May 4, 2026

“On 2 May 2026, a cluster of passengers with severe respiratory illness aboard a cruise ship was reported to the World Health Organization.

The ship is carrying 147 passengers and crew. As of 4 May 2026, seven cases (two laboratory confirmed cases of hantavirus and five suspected cases) have been identified, including three deaths, one critically ill patient and three individuals reporting mild symptoms. Illness onset occurred between 6 and 28 April 2026 and was characterized by fever, gastrointestinal symptoms, rapid progression to pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome and shock.

Further investigations are ongoing. The outbreak is being managed through coordinated international response, and includes in-depth investigations, case isolation and care, medical evacuation and laboratory investigations.

Human hantavirus infection is primarily acquired through contact with the urine, faeces, or saliva of infected rodents. It is a rare but severe disease that can be deadly. Although uncommon, limited human to human transmission has been reported in previous outbreaks of Andes virus (a specific species of hantavirus). WHO currently assesses the risk to the global population from this event as low and will continue to monitor the epidemiological situation and update the risk assessment.

Description of the situation

On 2 May 2026, WHO received notification from the National International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Focal Point of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (hereafter referred to as the United Kingdom) regarding a cluster of severe acute respiratory illness, including two deaths and one critically ill passenger, aboard a Dutch-flagged cruise ship.

On 2 May 2026, laboratory testing conducted in South Africa confirmed hantavirus infection in one patient who is critically ill and in intensive care. On 3 May, one additional death was reported. A further three suspected cases remain on board. As of 4 May, a total of seven (two confirmed and five suspected) cases, including three deaths, have been reported.

The vessel departed Ushuaia, Argentina, on 1 April 2026 and followed an itinerary across the South Atlantic, with multiple stops in remote and ecologically diverse regions, including mainland Antarctica, South Georgia, Nightingale Island, Tristan da Cunha, Saint Helena, and Ascension Island. The extent of passenger contact with local wildlife during the voyage, or prior to boarding in Ushuaia remains undetermined. The vessel carries a total of 147 individuals, including 88 passengers and 59 crew members. Onboard passengers and crew represent 23 nationalities. As of 4 May 2026, the vessel is moored off the coast of Cabo Verde.

Summary of cases:

Case 1: An adult male developed symptoms of fever, headache, and mild diarrhoea on 6 April 2026 while on board the ship. By 11 April, the case developed respiratory distress and died on board on the same day. No microbiological tests were performed. The body of the passenger was removed from the vessel to Saint Helena (a British Overseas Territory) on 24 April.

Case 2: An adult female, who was a close contact of case 1, went ashore at Saint Helena on 24 April 2026 with gastrointestinal symptoms. She subsequently deteriorated during a flight to Johannesburg, South Africa, on 25 April. She later died upon arrival at the emergency department on 26 April. On 4 May, the case was subsequently confirmed by PCR with hantavirus infection. Contact tracing for passengers on the flight has been initiated.

Cases 1 and 2, had travelled in South America, including Argentina, before they boarded the cruise ship on 1 April 2026.

Case 3: An adult male presented to the ship’s doctor on 24 April 2026 with febrile illness, shortness of breath and signs of pneumonia. On 26 April, his condition worsened. He was medically evacuated from Ascension to South Africa on 27 April, where he iscurrently hospitalised in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Laboratory testing on an extensive respiratory pathogen panel was negative; however, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing confirmed hantavirus infection on 2 May 2026. Serology, sequencing and metagenomics are ongoing.

Case 4: An adult female, with presentation of pneumonia, died on 2 May 2026. The onset of symptoms was on 28 April, with fever and a general feeling of being unwell.

Three suspected cases have reported high fever and/or gastrointestinal symptoms and remain on board. Medical teams in Cabo Verde are evaluating the patients and collecting additional specimens for testing.” (emphasis added)

4. Analysis of the Evidence

4.1 Symptoms

The WHO Report on the Hantavirus (Section 3) points to “a total of seven (two confirmed and five suspected) cases, including three deaths”.

Cases 1 and 2 were reported with “fever and gastrointestinal symptoms”. The latter do not correspond to the health impacts of Hantavirus infection on humans, namely

“Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal syndrome” (HFRS)

“Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome” (HPS). (as outlined in Section 2.1 above).

Moreover, the WHO confirms that “three suspected cases” were reported with “high fever and/or gastrointestinal symptoms”. The latter are unrelated to the symptoms of Hantavirus infections on humans, namely HFRS and HPS described in Section 2 quoted above. What is reported are gastrointestinal symptoms coupled with fever. The high fever is not of a hemorrhagic nature as described in HFRS i.e. “conditions related to excessive bleeding.”

4.2 The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Test

The alleged “two confirmed cases” of hantavirus infection: are presented by the WHO as “confirmed” by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, namely RT-PCR positive. This statement is erroneous.

While the PCR test continues to be used, a WHO’s Advisory dated January 20, 2021 questions the validity of the RT-PCR test (positive), which means that the above statement pertaining to the two RT-PCR hantavirus cases are not confirmed.

The RT-PCR test does not identify/detect the virus. What the PCR test identifies are genetic fragments of numerous viruses (including influenza viruses types A and B and coronaviruses which trigger common colds).

The results of the RT-PCR test cannot “confirm” whether an individual who undertakes the PCR test is infected with Hantavirus. A positive test does not mean that you have the hantavirus and/or that you could transmit the hantavirus.

“The PCR is a process. It does not tell you that you are sick.”

Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate and Inventor of the RT-PCR, passed away in August 2019.

According to Dr. Kary Mullis,

“The PCR detects a very small segment of the nucleic acid which is part of a virus itself.”

According to renowned Swiss immunologist Dr. B. Stadler:

“So if we do a PCR corona test on an immune person, it is not a virus that is detected, but a small shattered part of the viral genome.

The test comes back positive for as long as there are tiny shattered parts of the virus left.

Even if the infectious viri are long dead, a corona test can come back positive, because the PCR method multiplies even a tiny fraction of the viral genetic material enough [to be detected].”

Of significance: The WHO January 2021 Advisory was then followed a few months later by the bombshell decision of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (July 21, 2021) to withdraw the PCR test as a valid method for detecting and identifying SARS-CoV-2.

As of December, 31 2021, the PCR test is no longer considered valid by the CDC in the U.S.

Bombshell: CDC No Longer Recognizes the PCR Test As a Valid Method for Detecting “Confirmed Covid-19 Cases”?

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, December 29, 2021

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What this implies is that both the CDC and the WHO have formally acknowledged the failures of the RT-PCR test, without however implementing a shift in the methodology of detecting and identifying the hantavirus.

5. Towards the Development of a Hantavirus “Vaccine”?

What is the unspoken agenda of the “dangerous Hantavirus” On Board the Dutch Cruise Ship? Is it to trigger another “plandemic”, followed by the launching of a hantavirus “vaccine”?

According to a timely article by Dr. Nicolas Hulscher, the development of the Hantavirus “Vaccine” is already ongoing, in part under the auspices of US Army USAMRIID.

The Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) is a University of Saskatchewan Research Centre, “specializing in vaccine development for humans and animals.”

“13 documented hantavirus vaccine and gene-therapy programs in active development” are contemplated:

• 6 DNA “vaccines” (US Army / USAMRIID) — many of them “needle-free” jet-injector versions

• 3 mRNA “vaccines” (Moderna + Korea University, Chinese research team, VIDO Canada)

• 2 viral vector “vaccines” (UK institutions + VIDO Canada)

• 1 inactivated vaccine (Hantavax — already licensed and used in South Korea)

• 1 protein subunit vaccine (VIDO Canada)

See table below:

[Click here for an enlarged view.]

See:

The Vaccine Cartel and US Army Are Developing 13 Hantavirus Vaccines and Gene-Therapies

By Nicolas Hulscher, May 07, 2026

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According to Dr. N. Hulscher:

“The US Army hantavirus DNA “vaccines” are not vaccines. They are literally plasmid DNA gene-therapies. Each one contains lab-made circular DNA (plasmids) carrying the hantavirus M-segment genes that code for the virus’s surface glycoproteins (Gn and Gc).

When injected (often with a needle-free jet injector or electroporation device), your own cells absorb the DNA, read it like a blueprint, and start manufacturing the pathogenic hantavirus proteins themselves.

While several Hantavirus Vaccine projects are already contemplated, the 2025 WHO sponsored Pandemic Treaty adopted by the WHO member states is in a bind.

“Perhaps the hantavirus situation is being pushed hard because the WHO’s pandemic treaty negotiations hit a major roadblock just 5 days ago. (May 1st)

Member states still can’t agree on the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) annex, meaning the pandemic treaty can’t come into effect.

This clearly angered WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, prompting him to warn the next pandemic was “a matter of when, not if.”

6. Future Pandemics

What is the role of the Dutch MV Hondius Cruise Ship coupled with Dr. Tedros in the driving seat? Not to mention the role of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which finances the WHO.

In the video below, Gates speaks about the likelihood of future pandemics and the need for better preparedness, noting that another global outbreak is expected within the next few decades.

“In the interview from a year ago (reposted on May 6, 2026) with The View, Bill Gates speaks on the COVID-19 pandemic before speaking on expected future pandemics:

“And it won’t be the last pandemic [says Gates]. The next one could be far more severe. I mean, this one, it killed millions.”(Briefly)

[Image: iAnonPatriot/X, Getty Images]

Click here to access the Bill Gates video.

Flashback to Dr. Tedros’s February 20th, 2020 Press Conference regarding The Diamond Princess Cruise Ship and the announcement of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

That was six years ago, the WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that he was “concerned that the chance to contain the coronavirus outbreak was “closing.”

Is WHO Director General Tedros intent upon triggering the next pandemic? He knows how to do it.

“A Matter of When, Not If”

“Copy and paste” the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship, February 20, 2020?

And what is the role of WHO Director Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s mentor Bill Gates?

Click here to read Part II.

[This video by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky and Drago Bosnic was first published by Global Research. You can watch it here.]

Under the mandate of U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr, America’s Pharmaceutical Giant Pfizer Inc. was condemned to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice, to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from the illegal promotion of certain pharmaceutical products.

“The company [Pfizer] will pay a criminal fine of $1.195 billion, the largest criminal fine ever imposed in the history of United States.”

Pfizer’s CEOs were not arrested. They were put on “probation” by the U.S. DOJ.

A probation officer under the auspices of the U.S. DOJ had the mandate to “investigate and supervise persons charged with or convicted of federal crimes.” In the case of Pfizer’s probation, the DOJ had called upon the company to “cease its conduct of criminal activities.”

“As part of the settlement, Pfizer also agreed to enter into an expansive corporate integrity agreement with the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services [DHHS].”

Pfizer: “Once a criminal, you are a criminal for life”?

Did your government inform you that the Covid-19 vaccine is conducted by a criminal entity?

“The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) did not cancel Pfizer’s criminal record through a presidential pardon.”

Upon the launching of the mRNA vaccine in December 2020, both the media and governments Worldwide failed to inform the public that Pfizer had a criminal record with the US DOJ.

Had they informed the public, millions of lives would have been saved.

Supplemental reading:

Pfizer Has a Criminal Record. Did the Media or Your Government Inform You? Had You Known Would You Have Accepted to Receive the Covid-19 mRNA Vaccine?

By US Department of Justice and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 02, 2024

The mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine: They are Killing our Children Worldwide

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 18, 2026

Video: Pfizer Has a Criminal Record with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Yes, It’s a “Killer Vaccine”

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We propose:

• The immediate repeal and withdrawal of the vaccine worldwide in the 193 member states of the United Nations;

• The launching of class action criminal lawsuits worldwide against Pfizer.

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Michel Chossudovsky reviews in detail how this insidious project “destroys people’s lives”. He provides a comprehensive analysis of everything you need to know about the “pandemic” — from the medical dimensions to the economic and social repercussions, political underpinnings, and mental and psychological impacts.

“My objective as an author is to inform people worldwide and refute the official narrative which has been used as a justification to destabilize the economic and social fabric of entire countries, followed by the imposition of the “deadly” COVID-19 “vaccine”. This crisis affects humanity in its entirety: almost 8 billion people. We stand in solidarity with our fellow human beings and our children worldwide. Truth is a powerful instrument.”

Reviews

This is an in-depth resource of great interest if it is the wider perspective you are motivated to understand a little better, the author is very knowledgeable about geopolitics and this comes out in the way Covid is contextualized. —Dr. Mike Yeadon

In this war against humanity in which we find ourselves, in this singular, irregular and massive assault against liberty and the goodness of people, Chossudovsky’s book is a rock upon which to sustain our fight. –Dr. Emanuel Garcia

In fifteen concise science-based chapters, Michel traces the false covid pandemic, explaining how a PCR test, producing up to 97% proven false positives, combined with a relentless 24/7 fear campaign, was able to create a worldwide panic-laden “plandemic”; that this plandemic would never have been possible without the infamous DNA-modifying Polymerase Chain Reaction test – which to this day is being pushed on a majority of innocent people who have no clue. His conclusions are evidenced by renown scientists. —Peter Koenig 

Professor Chossudovsky exposes the truth that “there is no causal relationship between the virus and economic variables.” In other words, it was not COVID-19 but, rather, the deliberate implementation of the illogical, scientifically baseless lockdowns that caused the shutdown of the global economy. –David Skripac

A reading of  Chossudovsky’s book provides a comprehensive lesson in how there is a global coup d’état under way called “The Great Reset” that if not resisted and defeated by freedom loving people everywhere will result in a dystopian future not yet imagined. Pass on this free gift from Professor Chossudovsky before it’s too late.  You will not find so much valuable information and analysis in one place. –Edward Curtin

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Are There Armageddonists in the Corridors of the U.S. State Department?

By Felicity Arbuthnot

Here is a story told to me by Dr. Bernard Lown, one of the co-founders of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) during the Reagan era. In 1995, IPPNW collectively won the Nobel Peace Prize. Bernard Lown and Yevgeny Chazov committed to abolishing Nuclear War.

The U.S. State Department and the Book of Revelations

Since Lown travelled, lecturing, to the USSR frequently and had built trust over many years at all levels, the US State Department asked if he would engage in some unofficial diplomacy.

Relations between the two countries were far worse than most realised.

After one such visit to Moscow, I met Bernard Lown in Paris. We sat in dappled Spring sun, at a pavement breakfast café - fresh squeezed orange, coffee, croissants:

“I came back two days ago [from Moscow] and went to talk (at the State Department) of the concerns in Moscow.

Afterwards, a senior official - a household name (which he declined to divulge) walked me to the exit. As we neared the exit, he put his arm round my shoulders:

‘Don’t worry, Professor Lown, if there is a nuclear war, we will be the first ones to rise up and meet Jesus in the sky.’” Lown, used to the vagaries of the unwell, responded: “Tell me, does anyone else in this building feel as you do?”

“Oh yes, many of us do.”

Foreign policy lies prevail. The same neocons “are at it again.” “We must bomb Iran.” Preemptive nukes.

Reminder to the crusading Armageddonists ….. “Thou shalt not kill.” —Exodus 20:1

Trump’s Nomination of Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon

by Michel Chossudovsky

There are indications that Christian Zionism prevails in the corridors of the State Department and the Pentagon. This is not a recent phenomenon. (See Felicity Arbuthnot above)

Donald Trump’s defense secretary appointee Pete Hegseth is not only a “war hawk,” he is a “Third Temple cultist” who “wants war with Iran and Russia.”

Hegseth says he is a Christian who believes Jesus will “return” once the “Third Temple” is built where the Dome of the Rock, also called the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, now sits on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. (See Global Research)

“Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense has also sparked controversy among the military.

The 44-year-old Fox News host and Army National Guard who will be heading the Pentagon has been described by Paul Rieckhoff (founder of Independent Veterans of America) as “the least qualified nominee for SecDef in American history.” (Uriel Araujo, Global Research)

In the words of Philip Giraldi:

Perhaps the most demented of [Trump’s appointees] is also the individual in the most potentially threatening position, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Hegseth is a journalist with FOX news with one observer noting that he has never managed any organization larger than his three wives and five children prior to his upgrade to the $1 trillion budgeted 2.9 million Pentagon employees. Even by Christian Zionist standards, he might well be considered to be an extremist.”

“An excerpt from Hegseth’s book, American Crusade, Our Fight to Stay Free (2020) states:

“Simply put: if you don’t understand why Israel matters and why it is so central to the story of Western civilization — with America being its greatest manifestation — then you don’t live in history.“America’s story is inextricably linked to Judeo-Christian history and the modern state of Israel.

“You can love America without loving Israel but that tells me your knowledge of the Bible and Western civilization is woefully incomplete. …

“If you love America, you should love Israel. We share history, we share faith, and we share freedom. We love free people, free expression, and free markets.”

Trump’s boss of the Pentagon is committed to the “Cult of the Three Temples.” There is no firm evidence that Trump’s Secretary of Defense is committed to using nukes within the context of Armageddon Theology as defined in the Book of Revelations.

Does this “Third Temple Narrative” have a bearing on Washington’s conduct of the war against Russia? There is a movement within Christian Zionism which favours the use of nuclear war.

Video: Meet Trump’s American Crusader: Pete Hegseth

Armageddon Theology and the Risk of Global War: The Limits of Religious Tolerance in the Nuclear Age

Abstract

“Millions of Americans, primarily premillennialist fundamentalist Christians, believe that God has foreordained a global nuclear war as the precursor to the Second Coming of Christ.

Apocalyptic religious beliefs would be of less consequence were it not for the fact that after being given computer warning of an apparent nuclear attack, U.S. personnel in the midst of the electronic loop have just a few minutes to decide whether or not to launch missiles in retaliation.

For the sake of global safety, American psychologists and psychiatrists, under the auspices of the PRP, should be engaged in screening out personnel who are convinced that a nuclear attack against Russia would accord with God’s will.”

Read the full report here.

Below is a link to a 2007 article by award-winning veteran war correspondent Felicity Arbuthnot. Is the use of nuclear weapons entrenched in the Cult of Three Temples?

The U.S. State Department’s “Road to Armageddon”?

By Felicity Arbuthnot, March 08, 2026

[This article was originally published on Global Research. You can read it here.]

Presentation to the Kuala Lumpur Conference, Perdana Global Peace Forum, December 2006

See full transcript below.

Video: The Battle for Oil, Deadly Macroeconomic Medicine, The Danger of Nuclear War, “The War on Terrorism”

Transcript

I herewith introduce to you the first speaker Mr Michel Chossudovsky.

Our first Speaker wears many hats. He is an economist from the University of Ottawa who has published several books relating to poverty, globalization and the role of international monetary institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF. He is an esteemed scholar, whose writings have been translated into more than 20 languages.

His other hats include that of an advisor to numerous governments and also consultant to International organizations such as the UNDP.

Ladies and gentlemen, here is Professor Michel Chossudovsky.

[Applause]

Dear friends, ladies and gentlemen it’s a great privilege for me to be here today as an economist in a country which is committed to national sovereignty in the economic sense of the word and at a very critical moment in the history of this country, namely in 1997 under the Helm of Prime Minister Dr Tun Mahathir, precise and specific financial mechanisms were put in place which allowed or at least prevented the slide of the Ringgit, thereby foreclosing the possibility of massive bankruptcies and impoverishment as occurred in Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea. [Applause]

And this is not a rhetorical question because war and macroeconomics are intimately related. These so-called free market reforms have been essentially an instrument of dramatic impoverishment of millions of people around the world and the fact that Malaysia was able under very difficult conditions to foreclose this catastrophe.

It will be a landmark certainly in the nation’s history for years to come.

Today, the world is at the crossroads of the most serious crisis in modern history.

The United States has launched together with its indefectible British ally a military adventure which threatens the future of humanity. it is also coupled as I mentioned by these deadly macroeconomic reforms.

The war has an economic rationale to it. It is certainly does not have the objective of weeding out terrorism.

It has underlying economic objectives, the most important of which as far as the Middle East war is concerned is securing control over oil reserves.

It is characterized by advanced weapons systems.

This morning Helen Caldicott focused on the issue of nuclear weapons, there’s the whole doctrine of preemptive nuclear war which is of course crucial but one thing which I think is very important to understand is how the concepts have been turned upside down as far as nuclear weapons are concerned.

The United States has developed a new generation of what we call tactical nuclear weapons the mini-nukes namely small nuclear weapons but in fact they’re not so small [in terms of yield and explosive capacity] they are between 1/3 and six times a Hiroshima bomb and what has happened is that these nuclear weapons now after a period of review are considered “safe for civilians” because the explosion is underground.

Bear in mind, it’s a bit like the advisory on a packet of cigarettes which says smoking is dangerous for your health.

Now what has happened which is very important is that the Pentagon has gone through and has enlisted scientists and research labs and they essentially say that these explosions are underground and they are safe for civilians.

And in 2003, a December decision of the Senate ultimately approved the use of tactical nuclear weapons in conventional War theaters.

This decision has not been reported extensively or even in in a minimal way in the international press but what this means today in addition to the debate that we had this morning on nuclear weapons that this new generation of nuclear weapons now has been reclassified as a conventional weapon which can be used in conventional War theaters that is precisely the nature of that Senate decision and it is also slated to be used in the next phase of this of this war coupled with the military agenda uh which is a war Without Borders we see the emergence within the Western European countries, particularly the United States Canada, Britain, Australia we see the emergence of a police state apparatus, we see the criminalization of what I would describe as the criminalization of Justice because ultimately those who decide on the judicial system are the war criminals and we have a whole pattern and structure of arbitrary arrests of individuals who are tagged or targeted as alleged terrorists.

Dear ladies and gentlemen, the war on terrorism which is the main justification for waging a war of conquest which is clearly acknowledged in Military and National Security documents that the war on terrorism is fabricated. It fabricates an enemy.

The enemy is presented: it is the image of the enemy Bin Laden in fact the whole issue becomes so absurd if you read some of the speeches and the national security documents.

Osama Bin Laden is presented as a nuclear power.

Okay. Al-Qaeda is presented as capable of setting off nuclear explosions so that it is an upcoming nuclear power [according to President Obama] and therefore this justifies the development of preemptive nuclear weapons for defensive purposes and so on and the use of these tactical nuclear weapons deployed in conventional war theaters.

[This article by Drago Bosnic was first published on Global Research. You can read it here.]

In recent days and weeks, many former and current Russian military officers have expressed their skepticism and even frustration with how the Russian government is handling the escalating attacks by the Kiev Regime and its NATO overlords.

It’s become an axiom that the political West is coordinating and even directing attacks on Russia.

This includes multiple assassination attempts on top-ranking Russian figures and officials, even President Vladimir Putin himself.

However, despite several strong immediate military responses to such actions, including the use of the latest “Oreshnik” missiles, this still left much to be desired, especially among military personnel, whether they’re regular soldiers in the trenches or top-ranking officers in the High Command.

Still, the political West keeps escalating tensions with more daring attacks on the Russian oil industry and civilian infrastructure. In previous years, there were only a few incidents involving drone strikes from EU/NATO territory. This was credited to the Kiev regime, which supposedly “managed to slip through Belarus and Russia”. And yet, it’s now clear this is not the case and that the Neo-Nazi junta is using Poland and the Baltic states to attack Russian oil depots in and around St. Petersburg. However, even this is just the tip of the iceberg, because NATO is directly supporting attacks on oil infrastructure almost everywhere in European Russia. The Russian military has the world’s most advanced air and missile defenses, as well as unrivaled electronic warfare (EW) capabilities.

However, Russia is the world’s largest country and it’s exceedingly difficult to cover its vast territory with a sufficient number of SAM (surface-to-air missile) and EW systems.

In addition, there’s the issue of fatigue among military personnel forced to constantly scan for threats.

After all, the Russian military doctrine doesn’t stipulate constant defense. On the contrary, the main purpose of Russian air, missile and EW defenses is to blunt the edge of a hostile attack force and allow offensive-oriented troops to neutralize the invader. The problem is that the latest attacker can use the Neo-Nazi junta to maintain plausible deniability while continuing its strikes. This has left the Russian military in a legal limbo – responding directly would formally be an “unprovoked attack”.

However, the Russian military’s frustration is perfectly understandable. The government’s reluctance not only makes it very difficult to maintain normal economic activity, but also invites further aggression, as the enemy mistakes Moscow’s strategic patience for “weakness”. During a speech at the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, former Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General Yuri Baluyevsky, stated that “red lines have long since ceased to function” and that “it’s time for a real war”. He called for a decisive rejection of the “so-called ‘red lines’ which no one pays any attention to anymore”. General Baluyevsky argues that “the enemy sees that Russia is not responding to its actions and is becoming even more brazen”.

“The lack of an adequate response only provokes further escalation. The enemy doesn’t understand words; they must be made to fear us, otherwise enemy drones will soon be flying in our skies as if they were at home. They’re already reaching the Urals, and soon they’ll start striking Siberia as well. Ukrainian drones landed on the Kremlin dome, Russian strategists attacked, and we’ve had zero reaction, just red lines. And the West, seeing this reaction, is also emboldened, knowing that no one except the Foreign Ministry will demand a response,” he warned, adding: “When a Ukrainian drone landed on the dome of the building housing the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, I kept waiting. Waiting for an answer. But instead, there were red lines again. When, when will we start fighting for real?”

General Baluyevsky’s statements certainly reflect the mood of the vast majority of Russian troops on the frontline. Many officers and soldiers have repeatedly warned that Russia needs to stop fighting with one hand tied behind its back. However, the Russian government’s reluctance to escalate has sound strategic reasoning. Namely, the idea that Russia cannot obliterate NATO-occupied Ukraine is ridiculous. If it really wanted to, the Kremlin could’ve done it on the first day of the special military operation (SMO). However, Ukraine is Russian land. It has been for over 1,200 years. The political West sees Ukrainians merely as brainwashed ethnic Russians who are “the perfect cannon fodder”. This is essentially true, although Ukrainians themselves refuse to acknowledge it.

And yet, they fail to read the statements of Western officials between the lines. For instance, when the infamous Lindsey Graham said that “the Russians are dying” and that this is “the best money we ever spent”, he wasn’t referring solely to the Russian military. For NATO, it doesn’t matter whether it’s Russians or Ukrainians dying. It’s all the same for them. As long as the killing continues, the political West sees this as a victory, which is why the pathologically Russophobic United Kingdom sabotaged the peace deal that would’ve ended the SMO in weeks or months rather than years. On the other hand, the Kremlin realizes it has no choice but to eliminate the rabid Neo-Nazis that the CIA and other Western intelligence services created and (ab)used to hijack former Ukraine in 2014.

Namely, since the brainwashing started centuries ago, the core of the Ukrainian identity, which is in Western Ukraine, was simply spread over the entire country and embedded into the so-called “nation-building” process that the US-led political West has perfected over the decades of its aggression against the entire world. It’s virtually impossible for Russia to turn back the clock and erase all this brainwashing that has been very successful among entire generations of young Ukrainians. Thus, Moscow has no choice but to implement the physical denazification and demilitarization of the Kiev regime. Obviously, this can only be done by military means. However, the Kremlin cannot use its full might, because it would then destroy its own NATO-occupied land filled with Russian historical heritage.

In addition, as previously mentioned, there’s also the Ukrainian people who are ethnic Russians, albeit deeply confused (at best) or turned into pathological Russophobes (at worst). It will take generations to undo the damage caused by the political West. On the other hand, there are also very important strategic considerations. Namely, if Russia were to directly respond to NATO provocations, this would only reunite the world’s most aggressive racketeering cartel. It would also come at a time when the relations between the United States and the EU are at an unprecedented historical low, with the Trump administration openly threatening to leave NATO. Why would Russia “repair” the world’s most aggressive racketeering cartel by retaliating now when it can just wait?

***

Drago Bosnic is an independent geopolitical and military analyst. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

[This article was originally published on Global Research. You can read it here.]

Introductory Note

President Putin was accused by the ICC of genocide-like deportation of Ukrainian children.

Compare that to the killing of children in Gaza and the genocide against the people of Palestine which is fully endorsed by the heads of State and heads of government of the European Union.

They are complicit in the conduct of genocide under Article 3e of the 1948 Geneva Genocide Convention. Deux Poids Deux Mesures.

Compare that now to the recently released Epstein Files which reveal a horrifying international criminal network.

“The files suggest that millions of them have been trafficked by a massive globalist pedophile network employed by Western elites.” (Drago Bosnic, February 3, 2026)

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NATO now firmly acknowledges that the war started in 2014 which would have required that from the very outset in February 2014 the warring parties abide by the Four Basic Principles of The Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) which consists in:

“….respect for and protection of the civilian population and civilian objects, the Parties to the conflict shall at all times distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives and accordingly shall direct their operations only against military objectives.” [Additional Protocol 1, Article 48]

Civilian population (children) and civilian objects (schools, hospitals, residential areas) were the deliberate object of UAF and Azov Battalion attacks in blatant violation of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC).

In accordance with the LOAC, Moscow took the decision starting in February 2014 to come to the rescue of Donbass civilians including children.

Visibly the president of the I.C.C. Piotr Hofmanski in accusing President Putin of “unlawful kidnapping of Ukrainian children” hasn’t the foggiest understanding of Article 48. of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC).

Is this an issue of incompetence?

Or has Piotr Hofmanski been co-opted into endorsing or casually ignoring the extensive crimes against humanity committed by the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, which happens to be supported by US-NATO?

At the Peace Conference in Switzerland (15-16 June, 2024), Russia was accused of

“Genocide-like Deportation of Ukrainian Children.”

See this (first minute) with Trudeau who supports the Neo-Nazi regime:

“Russia kidnapped thousands of Ukrainian kids, it’s genocide, it’s pure colonialism.”

At the August 15, 2025 Trump-Putin Summit In Alaska, a campaign was launched to arrest President Putin for having allegedly kidnapped 20,000 children.

And then see where these children were sent.

Video: Inside a Russian YouthCamp Condemned by the ICC

***

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for President Vladimir Putin and his Children’s Rights commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, over the alleged “unlawful kidnapping of Ukrainian children’. According to the I.C.C:

“there are reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility for the war crime of unlawful deportation of population and that of unlawful transfer of population from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, in prejudice of Ukrainian children.” (emphasis added)

The I.C.C. accusation directed against Vladimir Putin of “kidnapping” or “deportation” of Ukrainian children borders on ridicule.

The president of the I.C.C. Piotr Hofmanski (see below) refers to the Geneva Convention, without addressing the rights of civilians in a war zone.

The Azov Battalion as well as Ukrainian forces have routinely bombed civilians in Donbass since 2014. The I.C.C. fails to acknowledge that killing children in a war zone is a crime against humanity.

[Image: Swastika, Azov Battalion’s SS Wolfsangel symbol, NATO Flag (Right to Left)]

These are the Nazi terrorists who are killing children in Donbass. Their legitimacy is tacitly upheld by the I.C.C. They are generously funded by the “International Community.”

[Image: The Nazi SS Wolfsangel symbol]

The war did not start in February 2022. Since 2014, Donbass residential neighbourhoods, schools, hospitals, ambulances, etc. have been routinely targeted. From the 2014 Euromaidan and the US sponsored Coup d’Etat to February 2022, up to 14,000 Donbass residents have been killed.

Bombing of schools: it’s terrorism instigated by Kiev against Ukrainian Children.

What is the truth? What is the lie?

Thousands of children were killed by the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion (which is supported by US-NATO).

Fleeing the war zone to save your children is tagged by the I.C.C. as “deportation.”

The people of Donbass have been under constant shelling for nearly a decade now and they don’t even duck when hearing incoming shells and rockets.

Children born in the besieged region don’t know what peace is. For them, shells hitting their homes is a “normal”, regular occurrence.

They never got the chance to see anything else. (Drago Bosnic, June 1, 2022, emphasis added)

Starting in 2014, thousands of Donbass families including children were provided safe haven in Russia, as part of a humanitarian initiative under the auspices of Moscow’s Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Russian families have welcomed them and provided assistance.

Many of the children who were provided safe haven in Russia are orphans whose parents were killed by the Azov Battalion.

And this is categorized by the I.C.C. and the mainstream media as the “kidnapping of children” by the President of the Russian Federation.

What absolute nonsense. It’s not only “nonsense,” it’s the concurrent “criminalization of mainstream media” and of the ICC.

“Genocide-like Deportation of Ukrainian Children” According to PM Trudeau (June 16, 2024)

“Russia kidnapped thousands of Ukrainian kids, it’s genocide, it’s pure colonialism.”

See this (first minute) with Trudeau who supports the Neo-Nazi regime.

And then see where these children were sent.

Russian Youth Camp Categorized as War Crimes against Children

Click here to read the full article.

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Shakespeare’s birthday: 23 April. 1564. 462 Years Ago. 

William Shakespeare, born 23 April 1564 (unconfirmed), baptised 26 April 1564, died 23 April 1616. It is also the anniversary of his passing. His legacy will live forever. 

Today, April 23, 2026 we celebrate the 462nd anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. who taught us never to despair in our resolve to Seek the Truth and Confront the Lie. 

“to unmask falsehood and bring truth to light”.

Signs of our times: war criminals in high office are celebrated as messengers of peace:

“And thus I clothe my naked villany, … And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.” (Shakespeare, in the words of King Richard III)

Those committed to “security by military means” have taken charge of the Nobel Peace Prize…

“Lawless are they that make their wills their law”.

The Lie becomes the Truth.

Realities are turned upside down.

War becomes Peace.

“Humanitarian wars” are waged with the most advanced weapons systems to come to the rescue of those who suffer oppression.

“The international community” is the repository of  the “Truth”, which can no longer be challenged.  The American inquisition prevails.

An unbinding political consensus is imposed.

Those who dare oppose “Peace” and NATO’s “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) are branded as terrorists.

Bad guys are lurking

Evil terrorists with kalashnikovs are threatening the security of the United States of America and its trillion dollar arsenal of “peace-making” nuclear weapons, which according to expert scientific opinion on contract to the Pentagon, are “harmless to the surrounding civilian population”.

(Oops kalashnikovs were invented by a Russian. Why are they not on the boycott Russia black list)

A good versus evil dichotomy prevails: a “Clash of Civilisations”.

The West has a “Mission”: “We must fight against evil in all its forms as a means to preserving the Western way of life.” The perpetrators of war are presented as the victims.

Breaking the Lie means breaking a criminal project of global destruction, in which the quest for profit is the overriding force.

When the Lie Becomes the Truth, There is no Turning Backwards

This profit-driven military agenda destroys human values and transforms people into unconscious zombies.

Let us reverse the tide.

In Shakespeare’s words regarding the architects of the New World Order: 

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”  

Our indelible task is to send the “devils” of our time (Netanyahu, Biden, von Der Leyen, Scholz, Macron, Trudeau, Zelensky, et al) as well as the self-proclaimed architects of ‘humanitarian war” and the “free market”, down to where they rightfully belong. 

“I am sick when I do look on thee”

“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain!”

Challenge the “smiling” war criminals in high office and the powerful Big Money lobby groups which support them including Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, Albert Bourla, et al. 

Break the American Inquisition.

Undermine the US-NATO-Israel military crusade. 

Close down the weapons factories and the military bases.

Members of the armed forces should disobey orders and refuse to participate in a criminal war.

Bring home the troops.

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Happy Birthday Dear William.

Thanks for Helping Us “Deal with the Devils”.

Your Legacy Lives

Michel Chossudovsky, Lake of Two Mountains, Quebec, Canada

April 23, 2026

p.s. William, I intend to update on the number of devils who are currently among us.

[This article by Kamran Qureshi was originally published on Global Research. You can read it here.]

Abstract

This essay argues that the mechanisms of elite control debt-based money, sovereign loans, war financing, and wealth concentration have remained structurally continuous from the medieval period to the present. While mainstream historians dismiss the conspiratorial framework of authors like William Guy Carr, the patterns Carr identified are now observable as normal, legal, and university-taught features of global governance.

The Bank of England model of 1694 has been replicated worldwide through the IMF, World Bank, and central banking systems. Sovereign debt entraps nations. Wars are financed by the same class that profits from them. Financial crises transfer wealth upward. The secrecy is gone. The power remains.

Drawing on historical evidence, contemporary political economy, and the recent moral witness of Pope Leo XIV, this essay argues that the question is no longer whether a transnational elite controls the global system, but what will be done about it.

I. Introduction: Beyond the Conspiracy Label

The modern intellectual establishment dismisses authors like William Guy Carr with reflexive contempt. Mainstream historians point to Carr’s reliance on unsubstantiated claims, fabricated evidence, and the antisemitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion. They are correct about the flaws in Carr’s methodology. But dismissal of the messenger does not require dismissal of the message.

Carr’s 1955 book Pawns in the Game described a world controlled by a transnational elite that orchestrates revolutions, finances both sides of wars, and reduces nations to debtors. The mechanism he proposed, a centuries-old Illuminati cabal is unsupported by evidence. But the patterns he identified are now observable in every major news outlet. The question is no longer whether such a system exists. The question is whether we have eyes to see it.

This essay adopts an incidental approach. It does not hunt for secret signatures or coded rituals. It examines the publicly visible outcomes that, when assembled, reveal a consistent direction. The fire is real. Whether the arsonist was a secret society or a convergence of self-interested elites matters less to the victim than the fact of the burning.

Il. The Medieval Blueprint: Usury, Expulsion, and the Birth of Debt (1290-1492)

The year 1290 marks a watershed. King Edward I of England, having failed to compel Jewish moneylenders to abandon usury through the Statute of the Jewry (1275), issued an edict of expulsion. Approximately 16,000 Jews were forced to leave England, their property confiscated, their debts transferred to the Crown.

The pattern repeated across Europe: France (1306), Saxony (1348), Hungary (1360), Belgium (1370), Slovakia (1380), Austria (1420), the Netherlands (1444), and most infamously Spain (1492). These expulsions are conventionally taught as discrete episodes of medieval anti-Semitism. This interpretation is not false, but it is incomplete. The expulsions were also financial operations. Jewish moneylenders had become indispensable to European monarchies and therefore dangerous. They held the debts of kings and nobles. They had established transnational networks of credit. To expel them was to seize their assets, cancel royal debts, and remove a rival power center.

The lesson of the medieval period is this: persecution and expropriation travel together. The same elites who invoked God to justify expulsion also collected the receipts.

IlI. The Institutional Revolution: The Bank of England Model (1694)

The Glorious Revolution of 1688 installed William of Orange, a Dutch monarch with deep ties to Amsterdam’s banking houses on the English throne. Six years later, in 1694, the Bank of England was established. Its structure would become the template for global financial control.

The Bank was founded by 1,268 original subscribers, many of them wealthy Anglo-Dutch financiers. It was granted a royal charter in exchange for a loan of £1.2 million to the government. The national debt has existed continuously since that moment.

The mechanism is simple and devastating:

1. A private bank is granted the right to create money

2. The government borrows that money into existence

3. The government spends the money, stimulating the economy

4. The public is taxed to pay interest on the debt to the private bank

5. The bank collects interest on money it created from nothing

6. The debt is never fully repaid; it is rolled over perpetually

As the 19th-century British banker and politician George Ward Hunt reportedly observed:

“The Bank of England lends money to the government, the government spends it, and the people pay the taxes. The Bank charges interest on money it creates out of nothing.”

Whether Hunt spoke these exact words matters less than the truth they convey. The mechanism is real. And it has been replicated across the globe.

IV. William Guy Carr: The Debunked Prophet (1955)

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William Guy Carr was a former Canadian naval intelligence officer. His 1955 book Pawns in the Game argued that a centuries-old Illuminati conspiracy working through secret societies, Jewish undergrounds, and money-barons controlled world events. Carr claimed that revolutions in England, France, and Russia were orchestrated by this hidden hand. He alleged that arms and underground personnel were moved from Eastern Europe to foment insurrection. He wrote of “money-barons” who developed revolutionary movements into “International Communism.”

Mainstream historians have thoroughly debunked Carr’s specific evidence. The famous “Pike letter” predicting three world wars cannot be located in the British Museum archives. Carr’s reliance on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion a proven antisemitic forgery fatally compromises his credibility. His attribution of centuries-long continuity to a single secret organization is unsupported by any archival evidence.

But.

Carr described a world where:

• Systemic corruption blackmails leaders into submission

• Moral decay is weaponized to dismantle religious and social restraints

• Perpetual conflict exhausts nations and consolidates elite control

• Islam is targeted as the final obstacle to a secular, materialist world order

Whether Carr was a prophet or a fabulist matters less than this: we are now living inside the machine he described. The Jeffrey Epstein files revealed a global blackmail network where the very leaders steering the world were compromised by the rich. The CIA and Mossad openly conduct regime-change operations. Wars are financed by the same banking system that profits from them. The machinery is no longer secret. It is operational. It is taught in universities. It is called “economics,” “geopolitics,” and “international relations.”

V. The Long Shadow: From the Iran-Iraq War to the Present Cycle of Destruction (1980-Present)

The patterns of elite manipulation are not confined to the distant past or the recent war on Iran. To understand the present, one must trace the continuity of these methods across the decades-from the battlefields of the 1980s to the rubble of Libya, Syria, and Yemen today. Each conflict, viewed in isolation, appears as a discrete tragedy. Viewed in sequence, a coherent strategy emerges: the systematic weakening o f any nation that refuses to align with Western-Israeli interests.

The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988): Arming Both Sides

The eight-year war between Iran and Iraq was not a spontaneous eruption of regional rivalry. It was shaped, from its earliest days, by external powers who saw advantage in prolonging the slaughter.

The United States, despite its public condemnation of Irag’s use of chemical weapons, provided Saddam Hussein with crucial military intelligence. Declassified CIA documents reveal that US intelligence officials conveyed the precise locations of Iranian troop concentrations to Baghdad, fully aware that Iraq would respond with sarin and mustard gas attacks. President Ronald Reagan personally reviewed satellite imagery showing a strategic weakness in Iraqi defenses and wrote in the margins:

“An Iranian victory is unacceptable.”

Simultaneously, Israel played a double game. The Reagan administration secretly authorized Israel to sell several billion dollars’ worth of American-made arms, spare parts, and ammunition to Iran the very nation Iraq was fighting. Israeli officials openly acknowledged that their objective was to keep the war going, ensuring that “these two potential enemies remained preoccupied with each other.”

The same “Zionist Arab” allies who would later be portrayed as Iran’s natural enemies Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies poured billions of dollars into Iraq’s war effort. The pattern was established: the same network of powers would arm, fund, and manipulate both sides of a conflict.

The Gulf War (1991): Establishing the American Beachhead

The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 was the logical culmination of a decade of Western encouragement and arming of Saddam Hussein. The US response was swift not to restore Kuwaiti sovereignty alone, but to establish a permanent American military presence in the heart of the Arab world.

Operation Desert Storm expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait, but the aftermath revealed the true objective. Defense Secretary Dick Cheneydeclared that the war had “increased greatly” Israel’s military superiority over its Arab neighbors. The war destroyed Iraq’s offensive capability, established permanent US bases in Saudi Arabia, and removed any serious military counterweight to Israeli power.

[Image: Iraqi T-72 tanks in Kuwait City (Public Domain)]

The Iraq War (2003): The Pretext of WMDs

A decade later, the same coalition returned to finish the job. The stated justification that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction was based on “scraps of unreliable information. None of them was true.” The Iraq Survey Group found nothing.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concluded that the Bush administration’s case for war was “fundamentally misleading.”

Saddam Hussein, once the West’s favored proxy against Iran, was transformed overnight into a “lesson.” His overthrow and execution sent a clear message: defy the Western-Israeli axis, and you will meet the same fate.

Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan (2001-Present)

• Afghanistan (2001-2021): Even a month before the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration had “finalized a strategy to overthrow the Taliban regime.” The 20-year war resulted in regime change and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Afghans.

• Libya (2011): A UN Security Council resolution authorizing a no-fly zone was “manipulated into an authorization to topple Muammar Gaddafi.” Libya collapsed into a failed state.

• Syria (2011-present): The US government “decided to bring down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime” in 2011. The CIA’s covert arming of Syrian rebels prolonged a civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.

• Yemen (2015-present): A Saudi-led coalition, armed by the United States, intervened against Houthi rebels. By 2025, US airstrikes were costing over one billion dollars per month.

The Unbroken Thread

What connects these conflicts is not a secret society meeting in a bunker. It is a visible, predictable, and relentless system of power: intelligence agencies, defense contractors, lobbyists, and allied monarchies manipulating regional conflicts to maintain control. The same powers that armed Saddam against Iran in the 1980s destroyed him in 2003. The script does not change.

VI. The Intellectual Frameworks: Fukuyama, Huntington, and Brzezinski (1992-1997)

To understand the present, we must engage with three mainstream thinkers who, despite their disagreements, all recognized that the post-Cold War world would be shaped by forces larger than individual nations.

Francis Fukuyama: The End of History as Ideological Cover (1992)

Fukuyama’s thesis-that the end of the Cold War marked the “end point of mankind’s ideological evolution” has proven catastrophically wrong. But its function was never purely descriptive. The “End of History” narrative provided moral and intellectual justification for Western expansion: the IMF’s structural adjustment programs, NATO’s eastward enlargement, and the invasion of Iraq.

Samuel Huntington: The Clash of Civilizations as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (1996)

Huntington argued that post-Cold War conflict would occur along civilizational fault lines. By framing the West and Islam as inevitable adversaries, Huntington’s framework provided intellectual cover for the wars that followed: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria.

Zbigniew Brzezinski: The Grand Chessboard as Confession (1997)

Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard is the most honest of the three. The former National Security Advisor explicitly argued that the United States must prevent any single power from dominating Eurasia, using a combination of military alliances, economic pressure, and covert action. He wrote for policymakers, in plain English, that geopolitics is a game of power. Brzezinski’s “conspiracy” was not secret. It was published by Basic Books.

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VIl. The Modern Machinery: How the World Is Netted and Entrenched

The medieval world had kings, popes, and moneylenders. The modern world has presidents, central banks, and multinational corporations. The names have changed. The structure has not.

Institution Function Medieval Analogue International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Controls credit to nations, imposes austerity Church control of usury World Bank Funds development on Western terms Royal charters for trade monopolies

SWIFT Global payment system

Weaponized through sanctions Papal interdict

United Nations Security Council Legalizes

war through veto power Papal arbitration AIPAC / WINEP Lobbying shaping US Israel policy Jewish courtiers advising monarchs Credit rating agencies Determine borrowing costs for nations Moneylenders assessing creditworthiness

The genius of the modern system is that does not require secrecy. The IMF publishes its lending terms. AIPAC discloses its lobbying expenditures. Everything is visible. Nothing is accountable.

The world is netted in five ways:

1. Financial netting: SWIFT allows the US to cut off any country from global transactions.

2. Military netting: US bases in over 80 countries create a global security architecture.

3. Legal netting: The ICC and ICJ lack enforcement power; rulings against Israel or the US are ignored.

4. Ideological netting: The “rules-based international order” is invoked selectively.

5. Debt netting: Every country is entrenched in sovereign debt that is never fully repaid.

VIII. The War on Iran: Covert Operations and Open Warfare (2025-2026)

The covert operations against Iran did not remain in the shadows. They culminated in open warfare.

The December 2025 Protests

In December 2025, widespread protests erupted across Iran, triggered by the collapse of the Iranian rial, soaring inflation, and a national water crisis. Within days, what began as economic protests escalated into organized, commando-style armed attacks targeting mosques, security forces, and public institutions.

A former CIA officer publicly explained that the intelligence agencies had “concocted a crash of the Iranian currency knowing that that would ignite protests.” He further stated that Starlink terminals had been “purchased through the intelligence community and distributed through intelligence networks to individuals inside Iran.”

The Mossad made no effort to hide its involvement. On December 29, 2025, what is widely recognized as the Mossad’s Twitter account in Farsi encouraged Iranians to protest, declaring:

“We are with you in the field.”

Mike Pompeo, former CIA director, posted:

“Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them.”

As one commentator observed:

“They’re not even trying to hide it anymore.“

The June 2025 12-Day War

On June 13, 2025, Israel began a major military operation against Iran, including air strikes and covert action. The United States carried out strikes against three key Iranian nuclear sites, including Fordow, using GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator weapons. At least 1,060 Iranians were killed. In Tehran alone, 3,600 residential units were damaged. Seven hospitals and 11 ambulances were directly hit.

The February 28, 2026, Joint Offensive

On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a coordinated series of military strikes across Iran. The attack was initiated with a strike on an elementary girls’ school in Minab, killing at least 170 people, most of them girls aged between seven and 12. Several independent investigations concluded that the attack was likely deliberate, using a US-manufactured Tomahawk missile.

Iran reports that over 90,000 civilian sites have been damaged or destroyed. Up to 3.2 million people have been displaced. The cumulative death toll in Gaza since October 2023 now exceeds 72,000.

Violations of International Law

More than 100 international law experts signed an open letter stating that the US-Israeli decision to attack Iran was a “clear breach of the United Nations Charter.” The attack on the school in Minab “likely violates international humanitarian law, and if evidence is found that those responsible were reckless, it could also be a war crime.”

IX. The Transition from Pax Americana to Pax Judaica

Carr warned that the ultimate objective was a transition from Pax Britannica to Pax Americana, and eventually to Pax Judaica a world order dominated by Zionist interests. What was once dismissed as conspiracy theory is now openly discussed.

The current war on Iran has revealed the extent of US subordination to Israeli interests. The US has provided Israel with nearly $4 billion in annual military aid for decades. Following the June 2025 conflict, the US approved an additional $510 million sale of bomb guidance kits to Israel. The US military provided air-to-air refueling for Israeli jets striking Iran.

As Carr predicted, the war against “Muhammadans” has become the central organizing principle of Western foreign policy. The “Clash of Civilizations” is no longer a theory it is operational doctrine.

X. Greater Israel: From Vision to Genocide

The phrase “Greater Israel” has been used for decades by religious Zionists to describe a Jewish state from the Euphrates River to the Nile. It is no longer fringe.

Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir have openly called for the “voluntary emigration” of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank. The current war on Gaza has killed over 72,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children. The International Court of Justice has ruled that there is a “plausible risk of genocide.” The United Nations has called it a “graveyard for children.’

The medieval evictions expelled Jews. The modern evictions expel Palestinians. The mechanism has been perfected: bombardment, starvation, siege, and then the slow erasure of memory through the destruction of archives, universities, and cultural heritage.

XI. The Current Upheaval as Reflection of History

The social and political upheavals of the present —the rise of authoritarianism, the collapse of democratic norms, the normalization of war crimes— are not unprecedented. They are the return of the medieval, dressed in modern clothes.

Then Now

Kings ruled by divine right Presidents rule by executive order.

The Church suppressed heresy through inquisitions States suppress dissent through surveillance and “counterterrorism” laws.

Usury was the sin of outsiders.

Debt binds nations to the IMF.

Expulsion was the solution.

Genocide and “voluntary emigration” serve the same function.

Moneylenders financed royal wars.

Central banks and bond markets finance modern warfare.

A small class of elites accumulated wealth.

The 0.1% control most global wealth.

The difference is not one of kind but of technology. The medieval world had swords and fire. The modern world has precision-guided munitions, Al-targeting systems, and economic sanctions that kill silently.

XII. The Normalization o f the Machine

Perhaps the most significant development is this: the machine is no longer hidden. It is taught in universities as normal, rational, and inevitable.

• Economics departments teach that central banks should be independent, that inflation is the greatest evil, that debt is necessary for growth.

• Political science departments teach that the US-Israeli alliance is strategic, that regime change is sometimes necessary.

• Business schools teach that maximizing shareholder value is the only duty, that derivatives are efficient, that the wealthy deserve their wealth.

None of this is taught as conspiracy. It is taught as science, as rationality. But the outcome is identical to the “conspiratorial” system described by Carr. Whether you call it conspiracy or curriculum, the result is the same.

XIII. The Moral Witness: Pope Leo XIV (April 2026)

In a significant development that underscores the visibility of this struggle, the current Pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, has abandoned diplomatic ambiguity to directly confront the machinery of elite power.

During his April 2026 apostolic journey to Cameroon, Pope Leo XIV delivered a series of unusually forceful addresses. Standing in the presence of President Paul Biya, a leader who has held power for over four decades, the Pope issued a stark warning against structural corruption.

“The chains of corruption which disfigure authority and strip it of its credibility must be broken,” the Pope declared.

He called for hearts to be set free from “an idolatrous thirst for profit” and warned that authentic peace requires the law to serve as a safeguard against “the whims of the rich and powerful.”

The Pope explicitly condemned the global economic order, stating that the world is “being ravaged by a handful of tyrants” and decried violations of international law by “neocolonial” world powers. In a direct echo of Carr’s thesis, the Pontiff criticized leaders who spend billions on wars while neglecting the poor, insisting that “God does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.”

The fact that the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics is using his pulpit to denounce the “whims of the rich and powerful” is not a coincidence. It is a recognition that the mechanisms of control Carr described are no longer hidden. They are the open, operating system of global governance. Even the Pope is bearing witness.

XIV. The Continuity of Ideology

The reader may object:

“You have not proven that the same families or organizations control the world across centuries. You have only shown patterns.”

This objection misunderstands the argument. The argument is not about bloodlines or secret handshakes. It is about ideological continuity.

The ideology is this:

• Debt should be the foundation of money

• Interest is legitimate wealth transfer from the many to the few

• Wars are profitable and therefore justifiable

• Financial crises are natural and should be managed, not prevented

• The wealthy should rule, either openly or through proxies

In the 13th century, this ideology was held by moneylenders and kings. In the 18th century, by bankers and aristocrats. In the 21st century, by hedge fund managers, central bankers, defense contractors, and the politicians they fund.

The faces change. The ideology does not.

XV. Conclusion: The Fire and the Witness

This essay has argued three propositions:

1. Historical continuity: The mechanisms of elite control debt-based money, sovereign loans, war financing, and wealth concentration have remained structurally continuous from the medieval period to the present.

2. Institutional transformation: The modern world is netted by legal, visible institutions that perform the same functions as their medieval predecessors without requiring secrecy.

3. Current verification: The genocide in Gaza, the open pursuit of Greater Israel, the documented regime-change operations of the CIA and Mossad now openly admitted are the predicted outcomes of a system that has evolved to serve the same interests for centuries.

What certain historians once dismissed as conspiracies the orchestration of revolutions, the arming of opposition forces, the coordination of currency collapses, the financing of wars by the same class that profits from them are now realities unfolding before our eyes. The Mossad openly tweets its presence inside Iran. Former CIA directors publicly salute Mossad agents. The US and Israel launch joint military strikes on a sovereign nation, destroying schools and hospitals. Over 100 international law experts declare these acts war crimes. The world watches. The world does nothing.

The incidental approach watching outcomes rather than hunting hidden signatures reveals a world that behaves as if a centuries-old conspiracy were real.

Whether such a conspiracy exists is, finally, irrelevant. The fire is visible. The victims are counting. Even the Pope is bearing witness.

The medieval world expelled its Jews. The modern world is expelling its Palestinians.

The names have changed. The machinery has been perfected. The thread remains unbroken.

The question is not whether this system exists. The question is: What will you do with this understanding?

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Kamran Qureshi is a legal professional and academic based in the United Kingdom. He combines extensive training in law and political science with practical experience as an Advocate of the High Court in Pakistan. He holds an LL.M. from the University of Sheffield, as well as master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Law from the University of Peshawar. Currently engaged in advanced research in England, his work focuses on the historical and interdisciplinary forces shaping modern political systems, aiming to contribute to academic discourse and deepen understanding of contemporary global politics.

[This article was originally published on August 30, 2021 on Global Research. You can read it here.]

Introductory Note and Update

From the very outset of the vaccine in early 2021, there was a worldwide upward trend of vaccine deaths and injuries. See video below.

The official reported figures (April 3, 2022) pointed to approximately: 69,053 Covid-19 injection-related deaths and 10,997,085 injuries for the EU, US and UK combined for a population of 830 million people.

But only a small fraction of the victims or families of the deceased will go through the tedious process of reporting vaccine-related deaths and adverse events to the national health authorities.

Moreover, the health authorities were actively involved in obfuscating the deaths and injuries resulting from the “unapproved” and “experimental” Covid-19 “vaccine.”

Based on historical data (Electronic Support for Public Health–Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP:VAERS, p. 6):

“Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common, but underreported. … less than 0.3% of all adverse drug events and 1-13% of serious events are reported to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Likewise, fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported. (emphasis added)

While we were not in a position (in 2022) to establish precise estimates, we were able to address the order of magnitude. Assuming that 10% of deaths and adverse events are reported (a very conservative assumption according to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc, p. 6), the Covid-19 “vaccine” would have resulted in substantially higher numbers of mortality and morbidity.

In many countries, there was a significant shift in mortality following the introduction of the mRNA vaccine. See video below.

Video: Yes, It’s a Killer Vaccine

Video interview with Michel Chossudovsky

Michel Chossudovsky provides a broad picture of the ongoing crisis which is destroying people’s lives worldwide.

To view the video, click here.

At a very early stage, the deadly impacts of the mRNA vaccine were known and documented. The deaths were occurring within one to three months following injections. See video below.

Yes It’s a killer vaccine.

In the words of renowned virologist Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi:

“The proof is there. They are killing our children.”

“These vaccines are killing the young and the old, they are killing our children.”

Dr. Bhakdi explains how and why the gene-based COVID-“vaccines” trigger the breakdown of immunological defenses against infectious agents.

Video: COVID Vaccines Trigger the Immune System. Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi

Video: They Are Killing Our Children. Geneva, Switzerland

A year after the launching of the vaccine in January 2022, people in Geneva Switzerland held a mass funeral protest for children who died after receiving the deadly Pfizer vaccine. (Bitchute Channel, and Telegram channel)

Video, J’en Peux Plus, …

Je ne veut pas vivre comme ça,…

Our Readers: Tears in our eyes…

The Classified Pfizer Report

Already in early 2021, the Classified “Secret” Report by Pfizer based on data (mortality, morbidity) collected on behalf of Pfizer from mid-December 2020 to the end of February 2021 had been submitted to the U.S. health authorities.

Sections of the so-called “secret” (classified) report were released under Freedom of Information (FOI) in October 2021, nine months following the launching of the vaccine in early January 2021. That report “says everything”, it comes from the horse’s mouth. It’s their data. Yet medical doctors hesitate to quote Pfizer’s data for obvious reasons.

For details on Pfizer’s Classified Report, read

Bombshell: Pfizer’s “Secret” 2021 Declassified Report. CALL FOR IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF COVID “VACCINE”

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 12, 2026

Excerpt from the Classified Pfizer Report

As shown in Figure 1 [see below], the System Organ Classes (SOCs) that contained the greatest number (≥2%) of events, in the overall dataset, were General disorders and administration site conditions (51,335 AEs), Nervous system disorders (25,957), Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders (17,283), Gastrointestinal disorders (14,096), Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders (8,476), Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders (8,848), Infections and infestations (4,610), Injury, poisoning and procedural complications (5,590), and Investigations (3,693)

[emphasis added]

Click here to read the Pfizer’s report.

Video: The “Secret” Pfizer Report. Declassified in October 2021

Video interview with Michel Chossudovsky

May I add, Pfizer has already a criminal record with the U.S. Department of Justice. (see video below)

This is genocide waged by Big Pharma.

Manipulation of the Official Data on mRNA Vaccine-related Mortality

The official figures are manipulated. Vaccine-related deaths are often attributed to Covid-19.

Peer-reviewed reports confirm the causes of vaccine-related deaths and adverse effects (injuries) including among others blood clots, thrombosis, myocarditis, cardiac arrests, fertility.

• DO NOT GET VACCINATED.

• STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN VACCINATED.

• INFORM PEOPLE ACROSS THE LAND ON THE HEALTH RISKS.

• TAKE A FIRM STANCE AGAINST THE VACCINE PASSPORT.

The legitimacy of politicians and their Big Money sponsors must be challenged.

We must act with a single voice nationally and internationally.

Our first task is to disable the fear campaign.

The COVID-19 “vaccination” programme should be halted immediately worldwide.

See also the author’s e-Book (14 chapters):

The Worldwide Corona Crisis. Global Coup d’État Against Humanity. Michel Chossudovsky

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, January 27, 2026

Bombshell: Pfizer’s “Secret” 2021 Declassified Report. CALL FOR IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF COVID “VACCINE”

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, April 12, 2026

—Michel Chossudovsky, April 17, 2026

Click here to read the full article on Global Research.

[This article by Amir Nour and Laala Bechetoula was first published on Global Research. You can read it here.]

Read Part I and II:

What Bombs Cannot Kill. Part I: Ali Shariati, the Iranian Revolution, and the Arrogant New Empire

By Amir Nour and Laala Bechetoula, March 31, 2026

What Bombs Cannot Kill. Part II: The Decolonization of Consciousness

By Amir Nour and Laala Bechetoula, April 07, 2026

The War of the World

It is spring 2026. Since February 28, Iran has faced what Washington calls Operation Epic Fury and Tel Aviv Operation Roaring Lion. An American-Israeli military coalition of an amplitude unprecedented since the Second World War. Strikes on the nuclear installations at Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan. Massive cyberattacks on infrastructure. An economic war added to four decades of sanctions. And, in the background, the question that no one in Washington or Tel Aviv wants to formulate aloud: What if Iran resisted—truly?

Iran is winning the strategic war.[1] Not because its missiles are more precise than the adversary’s. But because Iran possesses what we call civilizational endurance: the capacity of an ancient civilization, forged over 5,000 years of history, to absorb blows without dissolving.

Trump and the Self-fulfilling Prophecy

The Trump administration has developed what we have called geopolitical-theological framing, that is, reading Middle Eastern conflicts as the fulfillment of biblical prophecies[4], as a cosmic combat between Good and Evil, in which Israel plays the role of divine instrument and Iran that of the Antichrist. Shariati had precisely analyzed this mechanism—but from the Islamic side. What he denounced in Safavid Shiism, the mobilization of the sacred in service of power and passivity, we see at work today in the so-called Judeo-Christian evangelical discourse that provides the moral and spiritual legitimacy for the bombings. The prophecy, used as a political weapon, transcends religions. It is universally lethal. But beneath the prophecy lies the oldest motive of all: as Michel Chossudovsky formulated it, the true engine of this war is the hegemonic battle for energy, namely the acquisition of oil and natural gas reserves worldwide.[3] Also, during the 2018 Kuala Lumpur Conference, he said, “The ultimate objective is world conquest under the cloak of human rights and Western democracy.”[4] This is not a war against terrorism. It is a war for the control of resources—the same war that colonial powers have always waged, under different names throughout the centuries. Shariati would have recognized the formula without hesitation. It is al-istikbar—the arrogance of the powerful, the pride of the pharaoh—dressed in UN clothing.

Israel and the Yazid of Our Time

Since October 7, 2023, more than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. The International Court of Justice described, in its provisional orders of January and May 2024, what it called plausible violations of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Every day that passes without justice is another day in which Karbala repeats itself—with American-made drones in place of lances. Shariati used the figure of Yazid—the Umayyad caliph who massacred Hussein at Karbala—as a historical type of the oppressor: the power that believes itself above the law, that crushes the weak in the name of a legitimacy it awarded itself. Who mourns Hussein today, and who understands why he died?

The Strategy of Endurance

Sun Tzu wrote,

“Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”

Iran in 2026 practices something more complex still: fighting without submitting. Absorbing the strikes without collapsing. Maintaining pressure on the Strait of Hormuz—through which roughly 20,000,000 barrels of crude flowed daily before February 28—without fully blocking it, keeping that decisive weapon in reserve. The International Energy Agency has called this the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market. Brent crude has surged past $110, approaching $120. Goldman Sachs warns that a sustained closure could push oil past $150. In the first week of the war, U.S. gasoline prices rose by 48 cents per gallon. Every barrel that does not transit Hormuz is a tax levied on the global economy—and felt most acutely in the country that launched the war.

Unsurprisingly though, while millions of people are struggling to pay their energy bills, oil and gas companies are widening their profit margins compared to their pre-war profits. Indeed, as revealed by a recent report[5] commissioned by Greenpeace Germany, oil companies in the European Union have been raking in €81.4 million in excess profits per day in the European Union since the beginning of the conflict in Iran. The study shows that roughly 30 percent of all EU-wide excess profits in the petrol station market were borne by Germany, and in France said companies raised an average of 11.6 million more euros per day.

This being the case in Europe, 45 years of sanctions have not dissolved Iranian resistance. They have hardened it. This is exactly what Bennabi had foreseen: a civilization that has resolved its colonizability cannot be colonized, even by force. It can be wounded. It cannot be subdued.

The Shah’ Son

There is a cruel irony—profoundly Shariatian—in what is happening today behind the scenes of the war against Iran. An irony that history seems to write with the sardonic smile of those who know that nothing ever truly changes under the sun of empires.

While American and Israeli bombs fall on Isfahan, Natanz, and Fordow, and while more than 1,400 Iranians have perished since February 28, according to the Iranian Red Crescent’s figures[6], Washington and Tel Aviv already have their man. His name is Reza Pahlavi. He lives in Maryland.

Son of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, born in Tehran in 1960, he was formally designated crown prince at age 7. He was in the United States for military pilot training at Reese Air Force Base near Lubbock, Texas, when the 1979 revolution overthrew the monarchy—transforming what was meant to be a temporary stay into a permanent exile of forty-seven years. Two generations of Iranians were born, grew up, suffered, fought, and died without

On March 22, 2026, he published an explicit call on X, asking “Trump and Netanyahu to continue targeting the regime” and welcoming the “support of the United States and Israel” as the condition for Iran’s liberation. In other words, the Shah’s son is calling foreign powers to bomb his own country so that he may take its leadership. Shariati had words for that. Several of them—and none were kind.

History as farce

Marx wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. In 1953, the CIA and MI6 organized the coup that overthrew Mosaddegh and restored the Shah to his throne. Seventy-three years later, the same geography of power replays with almost comical precision: Washington decides who governs Tehran, Israel provides air cover, and a Pahlavi waits in the wings for the bombs to do the work the people never requested. Trump posted on Truth Social to Iranian protesters:

“KEEP PROTESTING—TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS! HELP IS ON THE WAY.”

Help. As if strikes on a sovereign country’s civilian infrastructure were humanitarian aid.

Reza Pahlavi himself described the joint strikes as “a humanitarian intervention”—the exact vocabulary used to legitimize the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the intervention in Libya in 2011. Liberation as the packaging of domination.

The Alliance with Israel, or the Original Sin

Reza Pahlavi traveled to Jerusalem, met President Herzog and Prime Minister Netanyahu, and predicted that a post-Islamic Iran would join what he calls the “Cyrus Accord”—an extension of the Abraham Accords named after Cyrus the Great.

The historical metaphor is seductive. It means concretely normalization with the state bombing Gaza and integration of Iran into the American-Israeli bloc that has made Palestine a land of systematic massacre. Even the Atlantic Council acknowledges that this support for normalization constitutes “a defining fault line” within the Iranian opposition itself.[7]

Real Popularity and Its Limits

The most recent polls indicate that roughly one-third of Iranians support Pahlavi—but another third firmly opposes him. One third. In a country of 90 million people, at war, under bombs, with the internet cut off. This is not popular legitimacy. It is a polling preference in a disintegrated political field. Even the Foundation for Defense of Democracies acknowledges there is “no ready-made government-in-waiting” and that Iran is not a monolith but a “mosaic”—Azeris, Kurds, Arabs, Baluchis, communists, dissident Islamists—that does not reduce to a single man in exile.[8]

Shariati had understood what his heirs—in all camps—have stubbornly refused to hear: a revolution cannot be decreed from outside. It is built from within, through long, painful, sometimes invisible work on consciences and identities. That work Reza Pahlavi has not done. He could not have done it from Maryland. The Yazid of our time does not always wear a turban. He can also wear a tie, live in Maryland, and call foreign bombs raining down on his own capital by the name of help.

The War Comes Home

They aimed for regime change in Tehran. They are auditing their own.

On March 29, 2026, the Knesset—Israel’s parliament—held its final vote on the 2026 state budget. The session took place not in the usual plenum but in a fortified auditorium, relocated underground because of the war. Legislators debated behind blast-resistant walls. Above them, Iranian ballistic missiles were striking Beersheba. The budget they were voting on allocated $45.8 billion to defense—including $10.2 billion in additional wartime spending. Simultaneously, that same budget contained over $1.6 billion in discretionary coalition funds for ultra-Orthodox yeshivas and West Bank settlements — the political price Netanyahu pays to keep his coalition alive and himself out of prison. Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called it “the most corrupt budget in history.”

Netanyahu is simultaneously prosecuting a multi-front war—against Iran, against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and against the ongoing consequences of the Gaza operation—while standing trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. He has appeared before the Tel Aviv District Court 79 times. He has requested a presidential pardon without admitting guilt. His coalition is advancing legislation to abolish the very offense he is charged with. A parliament legislating in a fortified auditorium while missiles strike its cities, financing a war and a patronage network in the same breath. This is not governance. It is controlled demolition of the democratic form, executed from within, under the cover of permanent emergency.

And the mirror image is unfolding in Washington. On March 17, Joe Kent—Trump’s own Senate-confirmed director of the National Counterterrorism Center, a former Green Beret with eleven combat deployments, and a Gold Star husband who lost his wife, Shannon, to a suicide bomber in Syria—posted his resignation letter on X. It has been viewed more than 94 million times.

“High-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform,” Kent wrote directly to Trump. “This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States. This was a lie and is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disastrous Iraq war.”

Kent did what Colin Powell failed to do after Iraq: he spoke while it still mattered, before the body count made the confession redundant.

On March 28, eight million Americans poured into the streets—the third mobilization of the “No Kings” movement, the largest single-day demonstration in United States history. More than 3,300 events, across all 50 states. The first mobilization, in June 2025, drew 5 million. The second, in October, drew 7 million. The trajectory is not plateauing. It is accelerating into a midterm election year.

And then there is the $580 million. On March 23, roughly 6,200 oil futures contracts changed hands in a single minute — 15 minutes before Trump posted on Truth Social that there had been “productive conversations” with Tehran. Oil prices collapsed. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman called it treason. Iran’s parliament speaker denied any negotiations had taken place, calling Trump’s claim “fake news used to manipulate oil markets.” The boundary between national security and private enrichment has become indistinguishable.

Shariati knew something about this. He knew that empires do not fall because the barbarians arrive at the gates. They fall because the rot is already inside—because the system that claims to export virtue has become a mechanism for extracting profit from its own wars, because the state that claims absolute security has locked itself into permanent insecurity, because the leaders who promised swift victory are now managing indefinite attrition while eight million of their own citizens assemble in the streets to declare that the emperor has no clothes.

Duration is the weapon. It corrodes approval ratings. It corrodes coalition discipline. It corrodes the narrative that justified the first strike. It corrodes the boundary between defending democracy and destroying it. And the question is no longer whether Iran can withstand the pressure. It is whether the architects of the pressure can survive what they have set in motion.

What Bombs Cannot Kill

What is to be done with Shariati, then? We are not among those who believe a 20th-century thinker can provide ready-made answers to 21st-century problems. History is not an instruction manual. Revolutions cannot be photocopied, and yesterday’s prophets do not govern tomorrow.

But we believe—and it is the conviction of entire lives devoted to the history of oppressed peoples—that great thoughts survive their contexts because they pose universal questions in a particular language. And the questions Shariati posed remain unanswered, urgent, and subversive in their refusal of simplicity:

How does a civilization rise without betraying itself? How does one reconcile faith and freedom of conscience without one suffocating the other? How does one resist the empire—military, economic, cultural, prophetic—without reproducing its methods? And how does one make a revolution without creating a new tyranny that bears the name of the old freedom?

Khomeini did not answer those questions. He evaded them, and post-revolutionary Iran still bears the scars. Trump erases them, reducing all complexity to a tweet while eight million of his own people march in the streets. Netanyahu drowns them in the blood of the innocent while legislating in a bunker and standing trial for the 79th time. Reza Pahlavi sidesteps them elegantly, proposing to replace “theocratic subjugation” with geopolitical subjugation—and calling it freedom.

Shariati posed them. That is all. And that is already enormous—immense. In a world where everyone claims to have prefabricated answers, those who know how to formulate the right questions have become the true revolutionaries.

He died at 43, three weeks after his arrival in exile, under circumstances no one has ever truly elucidated. He is buried in Damascus, near the shrine of Sayyida Zaynab—where rests the memory of refusal, of dignity preserved in defeat, of a word carried to the end even when nothing justifies continuing except truth itself.

We think of him often when we walk through Laghouat in Algeria and pass the house of martyr Ahmed Chatta, abducted in 1958 by French colonial forces during the war of liberation, whose body was never recovered. Disappeared as men were made to disappear in that era: those who refused. We know he was killed, because that was the time when those who refused were killed. But his death has no place, no date, no grave. Only an absence that still inhabits the walls of that house and that we carry with us everywhere I go.

We think of those men who refused. Who said no. Who paid with their lives for that one-syllable word that the powerful cannot bear to hear — because that word, spoken by enough mouths, is capable of toppling thrones.

Shariati also said no. To the tyranny of the Shah. To the opium of Safavid Shiism. To Islam without thought and thought without roots. To colonization from within. And today, from his tomb in Damascus, he would say no to the Shah’s son returning in the baggage train of the bombers; no to the global war dressed as liberation; and no—above all, no—to all those who believe, through cynicism or naivety, that one can liberate a people with foreign bombs bearing the name of humanitarian aid.

And he would say one final thing to Algeria—to this country he loved, whose revolution formed him, whose diplomats may have saved his life, and whose best son died trying to save the peace: Rise. Speak. The world is waiting.

Bombs can destroy Natanz. They cannot destroy ideas. Sanctions can asphyxiate an economy. They cannot asphyxiate a civilization that has decided to live standing upright.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the great philosopher and major figure in the tradition of German idealism, once argued that “History begins with the Persians.” Indeed, “there were three significant Persian empires before people in Britain had got rid of the Romans and started making up stories about King Arthur. The first Persian Empire, from 559 BC to 330 BC, made famous by Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, was the earliest example of universal, imperial rule,” Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook wrote.[9] Darius the Great, the fifth-century BC ruler, said he was Achaemenid by family, Persian by tribe, and Iranian in terms of his people.

All the above should give the presidents of the newest of empires something to think about whenever they interact with the Iranians.

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Amir Nour is an Algerian researcher in international relations, author of the books “L’Orient et l’Occident à l’heure d’un nouveau Sykes-Picot” (The Orient and the Occident in Time of a New Sykes-Picot) Editions Alem El Afkar, Algiers, 2014 and “L’Islam et l’ordre du monde” (Islam and the Order of the World), Editions Alem El Afkar, Algiers, 2021.

Laala Bechetoula is an Algerian journalist and writer, author of “The Book of Gaza Hashem: A Testament Written in Olive Wood and Ash”.

Notes

[1] Laala Bechetoula, “Iran Is Winning the War — Seven Thousand Years of Civilization Against Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Empire”, Countercurrents / Global Research, March 2026.

[2] Amir Nour and Laala Bechetoula, “They Believe They Are Fulfilling Prophecy / Armageddon Politics”, Countercurrents / Sri Lanka Guardian, March 11, 2026; and Amir Nour, “From Bush’s Crusade to Trump’s Epic Fury: The Geopolitics of Messianic Wars”, IslamiCity, March 25, 2026.

[3] Michel Chossudovsky, “Donald the Terrible: The Consequence of a War with Iran”, Global Research, March 3, 2026.

[4] Michel Chossudovsky, “Globalisation of War”, Kuala Lumpur keynote, July 2018.

[5] Report by Dr Steffen Bukold, “Excess Oil Profits in Times of War: An EU-wide snapshot of higher margins on the sale of diesel and petrol since the beginning of the Iran war”, Greenpeace Germany, 30 March 2026.

[6] Iranian Red Crescent, “Emergency Report on Civilian Infrastructure Damage, March 2026”, cited by Middle East Eye, March 22, 2026.

[7] Atlantic Council, “The Hidden Friction with Reza Pahlavi and the Iranian Opposition”, MENA Source, March 2026.

[8] Foundation for Defense of Democracies, “Regime Change in Iran Is Underway — And It Won’t Be Easy”, February 28, 2026.

[9] Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, “What Have the Persians Ever Done for Us”, Good Reading magazine, December 2023.

[This article by Ellen Brown was first published on Global Research. You can read it here.]

“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole.” —Prof. Caroll Quigley, Georgetown University, Tragedy and Hope (1966)

In February 2026, the United States and Israel launched surprise airstrikes on Iran. The officially proffered reasons — preventing Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon and forestalling its aggression — have not held up under scrutiny. As James Corbett documented in recent Corbett Report episodes, the nuclear pretext appears to be recycled propaganda, and the scale and timing of the strikes raise deeper questions about motive.

The thesis that “All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars” was popularized by Michael Rivero in a 2013 documentary by that name. His accompanying article begins with a quote from Aristotle (384-322 BCE):

The most hated sort [of moneymaking], and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural use of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest.

Rivero then traces how private banking interests have financed and profited from conflicts on both sides for centuries — from the founding of the Bank of England in 1694 to fund William III’s wars to modern regime-change wars.

Full-Spectrum Financial Dominance

Other commentators point to the report of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) titled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” (September 2000), which called for “full-spectrum” U.S. military forces to achieve global preeminence. It postulated the need for a “catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor” to accelerate the military transformation the authors envisioned.

This was followed by a 2007 Democracy Now interview in which Gen. Wesley Clark revealed that weeks after 9/11, he had been shown a classified Pentagon memo outlining plans to “take out seven countries in five years”: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off with Iran. The first six have since been destabilized or regime-changed. Iran, considered the ultimate prize for Middle East dominance and oil control, remains the last one standing.

Why those seven, and why was Iran the ultimate prize? Greg Palast’s 2013 article titled “Larry Summers and the Secret ‘End-Game’ Memo” supplied the missing financial logic. In 1999, the world was opened to unregulated derivatives trading, so that sovereign bonds, oil flows, shipping routes, and war-risk policies could all be collateralized, rehypothecated (pledged multiple times over), and gambled upon. The lynchpin was the 1997 WTO Financial Services Agreement (the Fifth Protocol to GATS), which became operational in 1999.

None of the seven targeted countries joined the WTO, and they were also not members of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). That left them outside the long regulatory arm of the central bankers’ central bank in Switzerland. Other countries that were later identified as “rogue states” were also not members of the BIS, including North Korea, Cuba, and Afghanistan.

As for Iran, it is not only the largest and strongest of the Islamic countries but operates the world’s only fully interest-free (riba-free) banking regime. This stands in direct contrast to the conventional Western model, which relies on interest as its primary revenue mechanism. “Money making money out of itself” underpins the global derivatives complex, which is built on rehypothecated, collateralized debt-at-interest.

The last piece in the financial control grid was detailed in David Rogers Webb’s 2024 book The Great Taking. The Everything Bubble, including what some commentators estimate to be more than a quadrillion dollars in derivative bets, is just waiting for a pin. When it bursts, it will trigger large institutional bankruptcies; and under the legal machinery Webb documents, the derivative players will take all.

The 2026 Hormuz insurance crisis triggered by Lloyd’s of London could be that pin. More on all that below.

The City of London and Lloyd’s Weaponize Chaos

For more than three centuries, the City of London – the “Square Mile” that is London’s financial center — has financed both sides of wars and sold insurance against the destruction that would follow. Lloyd’s of London is the insurance pillar of the City’s financial control grid. It is not actually an insurance company but is a corporate body that “operates as a partially-mutualized marketplace within which multiple financial backers, grouped in syndicates, come together to pool and spread risk.”

Lloyd’s has built its reputation on always performing, but it performs at a cost. In 1898, it formalized long-standing practice by introducing the “Free of Capture and Seizure” clause, stripping war risks from standard policies so it could charge extortionate premiums when conflict erupted. It exercised that clause in both world wars and is exercising it in 2026.

After the strikes on Iran, Lloyd’s Joint War Committee expanded its “high-risk” zone in the Middle East. Several of its underwriters issued 72-hour cancellation notices effective March 5, and war-risk premiums for Hormuz transits jumped from 0.25% to 1–5% of hull value. Lloyd’s has stressed that coverage remains available — at the right price. But for a $100 million oil tanker, that means an extra $1–5 million per voyage, a premium the owners are understandably reluctant to pay.

The Private Credit Spark

Meanwhile, other dark clouds are hovering over the market. Financial analyst Stephanie Pomboy warns that the $1.5-3 trillion private credit market is in lockdown, forcing fire sales of liquid assets; and the much larger $5 trillion BBB-rated corporate bond market is teetering. Downgrades will force mass selling, and pensions face a $4 trillion shortfall.

The Hormuz crisis supplies the perfect accelerant to this collateral crisis: higher oil prices create inflation, which raises bond yields (interest), collapsing the value of collateral and triggering margin calls across the derivatives game board. Margin calls then force private credit funds into fire sales.

This is one reason some commentators point to the City of London as the real architect of the Middle East chaos. The old war-insurance machine and the new derivatives machine operate together. One creates the chaos premium; the other harvests it through rehypothecation and legal seizure.

Palast and the End Game Memo: Making the World Safe for Derivatives

Guaranteeing against shipping loss is one type of insurance, but a much bigger insurance trap is the derivatives market. Sold as a form of insurance against market risk, derivatives are a speculative betting game that extracts rents from all major economic flows.

In his 2013 article, Greg Palast presented evidence of a secret 1997 memo to Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers from Timothy Geithner (then U.S. Ambassador to the WTO acting for Summers) describing the “End-Game” of the WTO Financial Services negotiations. Geithner wrote to Summers,

“As we enter the end-game… I believe it would be a good idea for you to touch base with the CEOs ….”

The memo then listed the private phone numbers of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Citibank, and Chase Manhattan, numbers which Palast confirmed were real.

What was the end-game? Palast wrote:

US Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin was pushing hard to de-regulate banks. That required, first, repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act to dismantle the barrier between commercial banks and investment banks. It was like replacing bank vaults with roulette wheels.

Second, the banks wanted the right to play a new high-risk game: “derivatives trading.” … Deputy Treasury Secretary Summers (soon to replace Rubin as Secretary) body-blocked any attempt to control derivatives.

But what was the use of turning U.S. banks into derivatives casinos if money would flee to nations with safer banking laws?

The answer conceived by the Big Bank Five: eliminate controls on banks in every nation on the planet – in one single move.… The bankers’ and Summers’ game was to use the Financial Services Agreement, an abstruse and benign addendum to the international trade agreements policed by the World Trade Organization.

… The new rules of the game would force every nation to open their markets to Citibank, JP Morgan and their derivatives “products.”

And all 156 nations in the WTO would have to smash down their own Glass-Steagall divisions between commercial savings banks and the investment banks that gamble with derivatives.

The WTO Financial Services Agreement became the battering ram for opening global markets to this derivative play. Every member nation was forced to open its banking system or face sanctions. In 1999, the portion of Glass-Steagall separating investment banking from depository banking in the U.S. was repealed, leaving depositors’ money vulnerable to speculative risk. Derivatives then exploded. Sovereign bonds, oil contracts, shipping insurance policies, and war-risk premiums were all sliced into credit-default swaps, hedges, and other derivative products.

Derivatives trading has since become one of the most concentrated and profitable businesses on the planet, and it is almost entirely controlled by a handful of megabanks. According to data from the Bank for International Settlements and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the top five U.S. banks alone hold roughly 90% of all U.S. bank derivatives, with JPMorgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley dominating the global over-the-counter market. These institutions capture the lion’s share of derivative profits, especially during periods of volatility when the “chaos premium” spikes.

“The Great Taking” — the Legal Trap Granting Derivatives Super-Priority in Bankruptcy

In The Great Taking, David Rogers Webb lays bare the final piece in this financial control grid: virtually every security today is dematerialized (digitized) and pooled in central depositories. Quiet changes to the Uniform Commercial Code and equivalent E.U. rules have turned ordinary investors into mere “entitlement holders” holding only a legal claim against their brokerages.

As for bank depositors, they have for centuries been categorized as mere “creditors” of their banks. Once the money is deposited, legal title passes to the bank. The depositor holds only a contractual claim (a demand liability) that ranks as an unsecured creditor position in the event of insolvency.

In any insolvency, stocks, bonds, and deposits are legally collateral for the derivatives complex — collateral that has been rehypothecated multiple times over. And when the derivative collateral fails, the rehypothecated house of cards that has been built on it collapses. Margin calls cascade, super-priority is triggered, and the Great Taking begins. (For more on this quite complicated subject, see Webb’s book and my earlier article here.)

Iran’s Interest-Free Islamic Banking: The Structural Obstacle

So what did it matter if Iran and a handful of other countries declined to join in this lucrative bankers’ game? The risk was that when depositors and shareholders realized that they did not actually own their funds, they would move their assets to those safe zones. The holdout countries were also safe from the sort of sanctions imposed by Western governments (and enforced by Western banks and clearing houses) on Russian central bank assets after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Leading this band of holdouts was Iran, which since its 1983 Law for Usury-Free Banking Operations has run the world’s only fully interest-free (riba-free) banking regime. Its banks use Sharia-compliant contracts — profit-sharing (musharakah), cost-plus financing (murabaha), and leasing (ijara) — instead of charging or paying interest. This banking model stands in direct contrast to the conventional Western model, which relies on interest as its primary revenue stream and underpins the global derivatives complex with collateralized, rehypothecated debt.

Iran’s system was designed to eliminate usury and align finance with real economic activity and risk-sharing rather than speculative debt. It has long been viewed as structurally incompatible with the interest-based, collateral-heavy architecture of City of London and Wall Street finance — an architecture that requires perpetual debt servicing and easily rehypothecated assets to feed the derivatives machine.

By rejecting interest at the national level, Iran has thus insulated itself and its financial partners from the control grid that has made the global “Great Taking” possible.

The Insurance Chaos Has Softened but the “Black Swan” Still Hovers

The Strait of Hormuz is not fully closed, but traffic remains severely reduced under Iran’s selective, permission-based transit regime. Only vessels from “friendly” or non-hostile nations are being cleared after prior coordination with Iranian authorities. Significant backlogs persist, with more than 1,000 vessels reported waiting or diverted and over 34,000 shipping routes rerouted in the first four weeks of disruption.

President Trump’s $20 billion reinsurance facility announced on March 6 is now operational and has been doubled to $40 billion. Additional major U.S. insurers have joined, while Lloyd’s of London has engaged in related discussions. The facility remains centered on American carriers with U.S. government backing. But analysts doubt it will restart widespread commercial traffic without broader liability protection and safer conditions.

In short, the “insurance chaos” trigger has eased but has not vanished. Premiums remain elevated, uncertainty lingers, and the collateral and derivatives pressures Webb described are still in play.

Conclusions and Resolutions

The 2007-08 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) is now widely regarded as having been triggered by the unchecked explosion of unregulated derivatives — especially credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations — which turned subprime mortgages into a systemic time bomb. The damage was not confined to the United States: developing countries suffered heavily as well.

Today the risk of a crash is even greater than during the GFC. The global OTC derivatives market has officially ballooned to a notional value of $846 trillion, more than seven times the size of the entire world economy.

Long-range political solutions are possible. Congress could restore Glass-Steagall and impose a financial transaction tax. State governments could withdraw their approval of relevant portions of the UCC and form public banks that can protect against local bank bankruptcies. (See my earlier articles here and here.)

But the immediate need in the current context is to settle the conflict with Iran, and settle it fast, before another black-swan shock ignites the derivatives daisy chain and activates the final Great Taking on a global scale.

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Ellen Brown is an attorney, founder of the Public Banking Institute, and author of thirteen books including Web of Debt, The Public Bank Solution, and Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age. Her 400+ blog articles are posted at EllenBrown.com.

She is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

During the Great Hunger of the 1840s, our British occupiers aligned one million Irish people to die of starvation and disease. 

One million were forced to immigrate like your great great grandparents, Owen and Jean Finnegan. 

On St. Patrick’s Day when millions of Americans celebrate their Irish origins, we want you to hear this message from Ireland:

We grew up with the terrible legacy of our ancestors, forced from their homes, dying of hunger on the road.

Because of our history, the Irish people will never forgive those who enable the oppression, ethnic cleansing and genocide of another people… as you have done in Gaza.”

[This article by Kurt Nimmo was first published on Global Research. You can read it here.]

Within hours of the ceasefire between Iran and the United States, Israel launched a massive attack, bombing multiple sites simultaneously in Lebanon. Pakistan mediated the agreement and Lebanon was included in the two-week ceasefire. Israel reacted predictably. It conducted more than 100 airstrikes within ten minutes on South Lebanon, Beirut, and the Bekaa Valley. The IDF said the attacks are the “largest coordinated strike across Lebanon” since March 2.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, said the ceasefire was violated in “some places,” yet refused to name Israel as the aggressor. Sharif called upon “all parties” to exercise restraint.

Prior to the attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Israel refused to respect the deal. Despite Pakistan’s insistence Lebanon is part of the ceasefire, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt argued Lebanon is not party to the agreement. President Trump also insisted Lebanon is not included.

Following a meeting at the Pentagon, White House correspondent for PBS, Liz Landers, asked Trump about Israel’s violation.

“Yeah,” Trump replied, “they were not part of the deal.” Asked why, the president said, “Because of Hezbollah. They were not included in the deal. That’ll get taken care of too. It’s alright.” When Landers asked if Trump regretted his Truth Social post about annihilating Iranian civilization, the president hung up the phone.

Iran warned if Israel did not stop its illegal bombing of civilians in Lebanon, it would no longer respect the ceasefire. The Islamic Republic informed mediators it would only join planned talks with the US in Islamabad if a ceasefire was implemented in Lebanon.

“The cessation of war on all fronts, including against the heroic Islamic resistance of Lebanon, was accepted by the US in the two-week ceasefire plan, but the Zionist regime has carried out brutal attacks against Lebanon since this morning in clear violation of the ceasefire,” a source with the government in Tehran told Tasnim.

According to this official, while Iran is considering a possible withdrawal from the ceasefire plan, our armed forces are identifying targets to respond to today’s aggressions by the Zionist regime against Lebanon. He emphasized: If the US cannot control its vicious dog in the region, Iran will exceptionally help it in this matter! And that, by force.

Israel: A Serial Violator of Ceasefires

Israel has previously violated ceasefire agreements in Gaza and Lebanon. In Gaza, it violated the ceasefire agreement at least 2,073 times from October 10, 2025 to March 18, 2026, according to the Government Media Office.

The office said Israel shot at civilians 750 times, raided residential areas beyond the “yellow line” 87 times, bombed and shelled Gaza 973 times, and demolished people’s properties on 263 occasions. It added that Israel had also detained 50 Palestinians from Gaza. Israel has also continued to block vital humanitarian aid and destroy homes and infrastructure across the Strip.

In Lebanon, Israel violated the ceasefire with Hezbollah 10,000 times, according to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

“For a year now, airstrikes and shelling have persisted despite the ceasefire agreement. This is not what a ceasefire looks like,” said Maureen Philippon, the Country Director in Lebanon for the Norwegian Refugee Council. Additionally, the IDF remained at five points inside Lebanon despite the ceasefire agreement.

Ceasefires and Greater Israel

For Israel, the maximalist and ultranationalist objective is Eretz Yisrael Hashlema, or Greater Israel. Lebanon, along with Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt are considered part of the land promised to Abraham’s descendants (Genesis 15:18-21) and this represents the cornerstone of Revisionist Zionism. Ceasefire and peace deals delay the expropriation of land and ethnic cleansing to make way for settlers.

When interviewer Sharon Gal with the Israeli i24NEWS channel asked Netanyahu if he subscribed to a “vision” for a “Greater Israel”, Netanyahu said “absolutely”. Asked during the interview aired on [August 15, 2025] if he felt connected to the “Greater Israel” vision, Netanyahu said: “Very much.”

The forerunner to Netanyahu’s Likud party was Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s Revisionist Zionism. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1880, Jabotinsky founded the Alliance of Revisionists-Zionists, and its Zionist youth paramilitary organization Betar, in 1925. Dr. Ramzy Baroud, a Palestinian author, historian, and academic, writes:

Some of the founding fathers of Zionism, especially revisionist Zionists, regarded themselves as ideological fascists, and their progression from Fascism to Zionism was a logical one, necessitated by political expediency only… Benito Mussolini, in 1936… [said] a degree of affinity existed between Zionist and Fascist leaders… By 1934, Jabotinsky and his Betar youth movement had allied with Il Duce.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s father, the historian Benzion Netanyahu (Mileikowsky), served as Jabotinsky’s personal secretary during his time in New York. Benzion’s son identifies as Jabotinsky’s ideological successor and adheres to Jabotinsky’s 1923 doctrine, which advocates for the establishment of a formidable military force (“Iron Wall”) that the Arab world cannot overcome.

The original Revisionist definition of Greater Israel emphasized Jewish sovereignty over the entire territory of the British Mandate for Palestine, encompassing both sides of the Jordan River (modern-day Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and Jordan).

However, after the capture of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, Likud’s focus shifted to Eretz Yisrael Hashlema. This idea, supported by right-wing nationalists within and beyond the Likud party, has significantly contributed to the ongoing expansion of settlements in the West Bank, the effort to ethnically cleanse Gaza, and capture land up to the Litani River in Lebanon.

Trump: Slave-Master Relationship with Israel

The election of Donald Trump, largely funded by the billionaire Zionist Miriam Adelson, was ideal for Israel and Netanyahu. In 2025, during a White House Hanukkah event, Trump proudly announced that Adelson had contributed approximately $250 million to his campaign. He also permitted the extraordinary access that she and her late husband, Sheldon Adelson, had with him during his presidency.

“Trump was appearing weak and subservient to Israel, with a significant portion of Republicans beginning to view the US-Israel relationship as a slave to master agreement, whereby their President is bowing down to the demands of a foreign government,” writes Robert Inlakesh.

The popular podcaster and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has criticized the president for steadfast loyalty to Israel. Carlson brought up a number of issues, including war crimes (he denounced the destruction of civilian infrastructure as a “moral crime”), warned the administration was moving in the direction of using nuclear weapons, pointed out that the war was not declared by Congress (as mandated by the Constitution), and highlighted that the conflict is increasing domestic inflation. On April 7, he urged government officials to oppose any effort to authorize large-scale attacks that would harm Iranian civilians.

Israel will continue to interrupt and sabotage any ceasefire or peace agreement between Iran, Lebanon, and the United States, as any such a move will conflict with the Greater Israel project and the effort of Israel to become the uncontested hegemon in West Asia and the Levant.

Short of breaking ties with the Zionist state and rolling back the bounty of US taxpayer money given to Israel, there is little incentive for Israel to stop its expansionist violence. The United States has provided $3.8 billion per year in military aid, and $300 billion, adjusted for inflation, in total economic and military assistance since 1948.

If Congress, now heavily dependent on AIPAC donor money, finally decides to treat Israel as a rogue nation, the small ethnonationalist country on the Mediterranean will be forced to moderate its behavior or, as more than a few have warned, its eventual existential crisis will become a nuclear Masada scenario.

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Kurt Nimmo is a journalist, author, and geopolitical analyst, New Mexico, United States. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). Visit the author’s blog.

“Donald, The Emperor has No Clothes”

This article is a followup of my earlier article entitled

“U.S. and Western Allies Support the Genocide. Israel's Role in U.S.-NATO War Against Iran” (October 2024)

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Iran: History of Anglo-American Colonialism: Time Line: 1909-2025

1909: Creation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company under the British Empire.

1951. The Mossadegh Project. The Nationalization of the the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC). Act of Parliament leading to the formation of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC).

Mohammad Mosaddegh, a member of the Majlis (Parliament) for the National Front became Prime Minister of Iran in 1951. This was a secular government.

Two years of parliamentary democracy (1951-53)

The 1953 CIA-MI6 Coup d'Etat against the democratically elected (secular) government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh.

The coup was led by Richard Helm and Frank Gardner Wisner (image below).

The CIA-MI6 Sponsored Coup led to the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh who was first imprisoned and then put under house arrest until his death in 1967.

In the wake of Mosaddegh’s overthrough, the monarchy was reinstated under the helm of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Shah

The unspoken objective of the Coup d’Etat was to appropriate Iran’s National Oil company on behalf of the Anglo-American oil companies.

1954: The Shah signs a 25 year Consortium Agreement of 1954 (Persian: قرارداد کنسرسیوم) with British and American Oil Companies. This was a de facto act of recolonization (sponsored by the CIA and British Intelligence).

“dividing the aforementioned 50% ownership to foreign companies as follows. 40% to be divided equally (8% each) among the five major American companies; British Petroleum to have a 40% share; Royal Dutch/Shell to have 14%; and Compagnie Française des Pétroles (CFP),to receive 6%.

The U.S. sponsored coup d’Etat led to the formation of a military government. General Fazlollah Zahedi was appointed prime minister by Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

1977-79 Iran’s Mass Movement was to restore Democracy and unseat Shah Palhavi

16 January 1979 Shah Palhavi and his family goes into exile.

Two weeks later on 1 February 1979, The Ayatollah Khomeini who was exiled in France returns to Teheran.

This was a carefully planned intelligence operation.

The CIA’s objective was to destabilize the secular government and install an Islamic State.

“The documents clearly show that Khomeini was less heroic, and far craftier, behind the scenes,” Fattahi said. “He quietly courted the US government, making all kinds of promises about the future of core US interests in Iran.”

“The documents are significant because they show Khomeini’s legacy is complicated, as it involves the ayatollah courting two US presidents behind the scenes. They illustrate a pattern of behaviour – that Khomeini at critical moments during his long struggle for an Islamic republic, secretly engaged what he would call ‘the Great Satan’.”

Gary Sick, a member of the National Security Council staff during the period of the Iranian revolution, said “the documents are genuine” but to the best of his knowledge he never saw the CIA study about the 1963 contact, and had no knowledge of the alleged communication. (The Guardian)

It was a CIA sponsored Islamic State.

1980-88. The US Engineered Iran-Iraq War.

The Iran-Contra Operation

U.S. wants to regain full control over Iran.

The Unspoken Objective: Destroy both Countries

a) US provides weapons to Iraq,

b) US launches a secret intelligence operation to sell weapons to Iran,

c) the proceeds of the secret sale of weapons to Iran are used to destabilize Nicaragua.

The objective was to channel the proceeds of the sale of weapons to The Contra, a terrorist mercenary army with the mandate to undermine and destabilize the democratically elected Sandinista government of Nicaragua (1980).

It was called the Iran-Contra operation, managed by Col. Oliver North, etc,

The objective was to destroy both Iran and Iraq.

With regard to Nicaragua, the objective was destabilize the duly elected Sandinista government (1980).

The operation was coordinated by Col. Oliver North.

Honduras “was the staging ground for the Contra war in Nicaragua”

The intelligence operation was supported out of Tegucigalpa by Ambassador John Negroponte, who was linked to US intelligence.

I was in Nicaragua in 1984 at the height of the Contra terrorist Operation.

1991 Iraq War I. The Gulf War 

In Geneva, on 9th January 1991, then Secretary of State James Baker –a “diplomat” who stated: “We will reduce Iraq to a pre-industrial age”– met Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Tareq Aziz, with a letter from Bush Snr., promising the destruction of Iraq, if Kuwait was not withdrawn from by 15th January. Tareq Aziz stated he would not deliver the letter.” (Felicity Arbuthnot)

Retreating Iraqi Troops, February 1991. 

1995 Central  Command Statement, NSS Strategy of “Containment of the Rogue States”:

“United States’ Vital Interest in the Region – Uninterrupted, Secure U.S./Allied Access to Gulf Oil”

In other words the US NSS hegemonic objective was to take control of Iran’s OIL and GAS Reserves.  “It’s America’s Promised Land” (see details in Part I)

October 7, 2001 “The Just War” against Afghanistan”

BECAUSE “Afghanistan Attacked America on 9/11”.

The legal argument used by Washington and NATO to invade Afghanistan was that the September 11 attacks constituted an undeclared “armed attack” “from abroad” by an unnamed foreign power, and that consequently “the laws of war” apply, allowing the nation under attack, to strike back in the name of “self-defense”.

Both the media and the US government, in chorus, continue to point to the 9/11 attacks and the role of Al Qaeda, allegedly supported by Afghanistan, when in fact (amply documented) Al Qaeda was an intelligence asset created by the CIA.

Lest we forget, Osama bin Laden had been recruited by National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski during the so-called Soviet-Afghan war.

Did you see any Afghan fighter jets in the skies of New York on 9/11

The Atlantic Council on September 12, 2001 invokes Article 5 of the Washington Treaty.

Flash Back to the so-called “Soviet Afghan War”: 1979-1989, in which Al Qaeda Terrorists fought recruited by the CIA, fought on behalf of Uncle Sam

President Ronald Reagan issued (and signed) the National Security Decision Directive 166 (NSDD 166) (click link to read full NSS document), which de facto authorized  “stepped-up covert military aid to the Mujahideen” as well as CIA support to religious indoctrination.

Published in the dominant Afghan languages of Dari and Pashtu, the textbooks were developed in the early 1980s under an AID grant to the University of Nebraska-Omaha and its Center for Afghanistan Studies. The agency spent $51 million on the university’s education programs in Afghanistan from 1984 to 1994… The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum.“, (Washington Post, 23 March 2002)

“The Center continued distributing textbooks after the Soviets withdrew, ultimately printing more than 14 million copies” [for the Koranic Schools]…..

Textbook printing and distribution continued in 2002 and 2003 under funding from USAID, with another 15 million copies reaching Afghan teachers and students. As part of the U.S. government’s rapid response efforts in the country’s educational system, the Center coordinated training for 2,740 teachers, 74 percent of whom were women.” [see images of Afghan women below] (University of Nebraska).

THAT’S 29 Million Koranic Text Books for a Population of 43 Million.

THAT’S INDOCTRINATION TO THE EXTREME INITIATED IN 1979: A CRIMINAL UNDERTAKING INTENT UPON DESTROYING AFGHANISTAN’S SECULAR DEMOCRACY (see Images below)

I should mention that the University of Nebraska, Omaha has several partnerships with US Strategic Command Headquarters, Omaha. The University’s National Strategic Research Institute (NSRI) is sponsored by U.S. Strategic Command.

“Before and After” the US led Wars on Afghanistan, 1979 and 2001

AFGHANISTAN: BEFORE

1970s, Early 1980s. SECULAR DEMOCRACY AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS

AFGHANISTAN: AFTER

STAGE I:

Starting in 1979 U.S WAR AGAINST AFGHANISTAN, entitled the Soviet-Afghan War withy a view to installing an Islamic State and destroying Afganistan’s Secular Democracy: Koranic Schools, Derogation of Women’s Rights. Poverty and Despair, Genocide,

STAGE II:

US-NATO “Humanitarian War against Afghanistan”, October 7, 2001. In retribution, (Art. 5 of Washington Treaty) because “an unnamed Foreign Power had attacked America on September 11, 2001”. What a Pack of Lies.

March 2003, Iraq War II. “First Iraq, then Iran”

Referring to Saddam Hussein’s Alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction:

“I would call my colleagues’ attention to the fine paper that the United Kingdom distributed . . . which describes in exquisite detail Iraqi deception activities.” (Colin Powell, UN Security Council, February 5, 2003)

Colin Powell’s “intelligence report” presented to the UN Security Council in early February 2003 was FABRICATED. It was copied and pasted from the internet by members of Tony Blair’s staff.

“Fake intelligence”  was presented to the UN Security Council by Secretary of State Colin Powell on February 5, 2003.  

Damning evidence refuting Colin Powell’s official intelligence report was revealed by Dr. Glen Rangwala, Newham College, Cambridge  on  the day following Secretary of State Colin Powell’s historic Iraq WMD presentation to the UN Security Council.

The Downing Street authors state they drew "upon a number of sources, including intelligence material" (p.1, first sentence). In fact, they copied material from at least three different authors and gave no credit to them. Indeed, they plagiarized, directly cutting and pasting or near quoting.” (Dr. Glen Rangwala)

Dr. Rangwala’s report which refuted the “intelligence report” was published by the House of Commons in June 2003, 3 months after the US and allied invasion

THE PRESENTATION OF THE 30 JUNE 2003 DOSSIER

2011: “The Arab Spring”

January 31, 2011, President Obama dispatches Frank G. Wisner Junior to Egypt to “oversea the protest movement”. It was an intelligence op, a preamble to the regime change and the wars against Syria and Libya.

He is the son of CIA’s Frank Gardner Wisner who was involved in the 1953 CIA-MI6 Coup d’Etat against Iran. (see above)

He is also the Step Father of former president Nicolas Sarkozy.

March 2011.

The Wars against Syria and Libya

March 2014 Iraq War III.

Obama’s "Counter Terrorism" Operation against Syria and Iraq,

“For” or “Against” the ISIS, That is the Question

From 2014 to 2017, Iraq as well as Syria were the object of continuous bombing under the mandate of a fake "counterterrorism" mandate 

It was only once the ISIS had captured Mosul and was firmly entrenched inside Iraq, that the US and its allies initiated two months later its  "counter-terrorism" operation, allegedly against the ISIS. 

With the so-called "Liberation" of Mosul (June-July 2017), it is important to reflect on Washington's diabolical project.

Extensive war crimes were committed against the people of Iraq. The country's infrastructure was destroyed. Meanwhile the ISIS brigades brought into Iraq in June 2014 continue to be "protected" by the US led coalition. 

In a bitter irony, according to Obama’s official statements (2016), the bombing raids were directed “against” the same ISIS terrorists whose convoys of Toyota trucks had been the object of  US support and protection in the first place. 

In practice, the bombings were directed against the people of Iraq. The counter-terrorism operation was  a war of aggression in disguise. 

October 7, 2023. False Flag

Israel-US-NATO Genocide against the People of Palestine

Military operations are invariably planned well in advance. Was “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm” a “surprise attack” ? Or Was it “A False Flag”.

In the words of Philip Giraldi: 

“As a former intelligence officer, I find it impossible to believe that Israel did not have multiple informants inside Gaza as well as electronic listening devices all along the border wall which would have picked up movements of groups and vehicles.

In other words, the whole thing might be a tissue of lies as is often the case.” 

The Cat is out of the bag. Netanyahu has tacitly acknowledged that it was “A False Flag ” which was intent upon justifying a carefully planned genocidal attack against Palestine: 

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” he [Netanyahu] told a meeting of his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” (Haaretz, October 9, 2023, emphasis added)

October 2024. US-NATO-Israel’s War against Iran

The Most Serious Crisis in Modern History

See: Is the Gaza-Israel Fighting “A False Flag”? They Let It Happen? Their Objective Is “to Wipe Gaza Off the Map”? By Philip Giraldi and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, First published on October 14, 2023

June 21, 2025. America Attacks Iran

Donald “The Emperor Has No Clothes”

Video: “The Criminalization of War”

Kuala Lumpur Internatiolnal Conference. The presentation of Michel Chossudovsky commences at 8’.40”

[This article by former Global Research Correspondent at the United Nations, Carla Stea, was first published on Global Research in 2019. You can read it here.]

In a spectacular display of solidarity and strength, envoys from such distant capitals as Beijing and Havana, Moscow and Tehran, Pyongyang and Caracas, Damascus and Managua and numerous other states stood together, side by side, in front of the United Nations Security Council, declaring their determination to protect the UN Charter and International Law, and holding sacrosanct the sovereignty and inviolability of each member state.

All these present, and approximately 50 more aligned, are states whose combined populations comprise more than half of the people of the world, and all have been victimized and pauperized by the predations of neoliberal capitalist states bleeding the wealth of their peoples.

As Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza read out their new statement, declaring the illegality of unilateral coercive economic sanctions, and territorial invasions, it became obvious that the power of this new solidarity, which includes China, Russia, Cuba, DPRK, Syria, Iran, Palestine, Nicaragua, Venezuela, etc., constitutes a formidable force which Western capitalism will antagonize at its own peril.

This is a long overdue counterforce to Western domination of the United Nations, a domination based on money, on the large payments enabling the US and other capitalist powers to bribe, threaten and otherwise control the direction of the UN, and distort and destroy the independence, impartiality and integrity which the UN requires in order to maintain its legitimacy, and implement the sustained global peace and justice for which Franklin Delano Roosevelt created it.

Since the collapse of the USSR, it has become blatantly clear at the UN (and virtually everywhere else) that money talks – indeed money shrieks.

It therefore now seems obvious that the combined UN dues of these newly affiliated nations probably exceeds the contributions of the United States to the United Nations, and, if skillfully managed, this new organization of hitherto ravaged states will now have the power to threaten to withhold their combined dues, threatening a strike would could paralyze the United Nations unless their own interests, and not solely the interest of the United States and Saudi Arabia, are respected, and their own voices honored. There is incessant talk of the need for reform of the United Nations. It is probable that this new organization within the UN is the reform that is necessary – indeed inevitable.

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Carla Stea is a distinguished author and Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

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Peaceful Movement of the Outardes, Canada’s Wild Geese, returning from Florida to their homeland in Canada.

Canada’s Outardes typically breed between late February and mid-May.

This year migration back to Canada was delayed due to cold weather.

The females will lay eggs during this period. The incubation lasts about 28 to 30 days

They usually return to the same nesting sites each year including the Lac des Deux Montagnes in the periphery of Montreal.

The Red Fox stays on Cadieux Island year round.

The Red Fox and Canada’s Wild Geese are said ”to share a tense, dramatic relationship” (sounds like politics) in this lakeside habitat on Cadieux Island.

The fox-outarde relationship is complex on the Lake of Two Mountains.

It involves confrontation, while Canada’s geese —particularly during the nesting season—, aggressively defend their territory against the Red Fox.

There is a “complex geopolitical relationship” [ha ha]. Visibly the Red Fox from “a political standpoint” was confused and out-numbered…

Vidéo : « La paix au Québec »: Rencontre amicale du Renard Roux du Canada et des oies sauvages au Lac des Deux Montagnes

Vidéo réalisée par Micheline Ladouceur

Migration paisible des outardes du Canada, de retour de la Floride vers leur territoire d’origine au Canada.

Les oies sauvages du Canada se reproduisent généralement entre la fin février et la mi-mai.

Cette année, la migration de retour au Canada a été retardée en raison du froid.

Les femelles pondent leurs œufs durant cette période. L’incubation dure environ 28 à 30 jours.

Les outardes retournent généralement chaque année aux mêmes sites de nidification, notamment au lac des Deux Montagnes, en périphérie de Montréal.

Le renard roux réside sur l’île Cadieux à l’année longue.

On dit que le renard roux et les oies sauvages du Canada entretiennent une relation complexe et conflictuelle (un peu comme en politique) dans cet habitat lacustre de l’île Cadieux.

La relation entre le renard et l’oie sauvage est complexe sur le lac des Deux Montagnes.

Cela implique des confrontations, car les outardes du Canada — particulièrement pendant la saison de nidification — défendent de manière agressive leur territoire contre le renard roux.

Il existe une « relation géopolitique complexe » [rires]. Visiblement, d’un point de vue politique, le renard roux était désorienté et en infériorité numérique…

Vidéo: Copyright Micheline Ladouceur, Île Cadieux, Québec. avril 2026