Blow, trumpets! Beat, drums! Sing Hosannas, you Seraphim! The Great Deal is signed. Well, nearly. Friday, it will be. Not that far away. Why postpone the celebration? Let the games begin! The whole world has just been audience to the most blatant and ludicrous vaudeville burlesque ever perpetrated by a nation. The role Trump played as initiator and victim of his own caper, ranks in absurdity with the French artiste who, on public stages, played The Marseillaise by emitting musical flatulence from his anus. What must the dirty cretin imagine his next move can be? The irony of his humiliation is hugely increased by the fact that, even if anything should come of this charade, which it can’t, his “deal” will be far worse than Obama’s was, and infinitely worse than The Empire’s situation was before his brainless hailmary went down. To put it most succinctly, what has been agreed to—and we have only the haziest sense of that—is evidently the intent to come to some agreement, on something, at some point. This, to put it generously, is not the stuff of which peace treaties are made. Perhaps the crowning absurdity of all—though that’s hard to say, among so many—is that no word of substance has been uttered on the key demand Trump made explicitly before his monumental pratfall: his braying fatwa that Iran give up its nuclear material. To hear the imbecile now, his single great achievement is that he has gotten exactly what he had before gargantuan sums of U.S. money were blown: traffic through Hormuz. And after all his fulminations against Obama’s “worst deal ever”, this putrescent self-blowing horn has the sick gall to pretend to be a hero settling for the empty bag of nothing he hasn’t even signed. Given that he achieved nothing for The Empire—not a single aim—has he inflicted strategic loss on Iran? He hasn't. There was pain, damage, and death. Israel, our psycho hitman, murdered their religious leader, Khamenei, and other high military men and many civilians, including nearly three hundred pre-teen schoolgirls, though that was mainly U.S. work. Iran has been hurt, no doubt, but its suffering has consolidated the resolve of the people in a way only such brutal aggression could engender. It has to be remembered that wild underestimation of enemies is not new in The Empire. Trump and his coven of warlocks was not more wrong believing Iran to be a pushover than JFK and his Best and Brightest were in their take on Ho Chi Minh’s Vietnam. The ruling Exceptionalist mindset only admits to its high councils gutless castrati who recite its hoary dogma against the facts. However potent we are with our War Machine, which specializes in failure—we’ve always been utter boneheads in humint. They include, but are not limited to, refusal to yield, or cease enrichment of, their uranium; full control and management of Hormuz; a total end to war on Gaza and Hezbollah; restitution of billions of stolen sovereign funds; and removal of all U.S. war-making bases from our sycophant princelings in the Gulf. Try to form a picture of Trump agreeing to any of this. He sealed himself in an Iron Maiden he can’t open. He must admit defeat, which he can never do—national ego won’t permit it—or he will be forced—tomorrow, next month—to commit his unmotivated, inadequate military to re-fight a hopeless war it cannot win. In the interim he can make pronouncements, and bark, and declare the false and dubious to be certain, but the reality is that he has shot his pathetic wad and the world knows it, though his knuckle-draggers and personal sluts declare otherwise. Meanwhile, with every boast, brag, and sham, with every queer, demented caper that the contemptible Punch, and punching bag, contrives, with each day and week that passes, Iran’s position is strengthened, reinforced, and solidified. Both its evident, robust resistance to Old Aunt Sam, and its increasing integration and acceptance by its peers as the now major power and player in the region, are unquestioned by the great world. America, the once Beautiful, has been put, by this stupid, ugly, criminal degenerate, in the hard position of having to confront its second-string performance before the nations. For far too long, our country, the outright possession and toy of a cabal of evil, twisted Capitalist oligarchs who had neither fealty to the nation that made them, nor regard for its people, America was run as a vicious tool of compulsion and dominance over Mankind. A Willie Nelson lyric says that this land, ‘once fashioned in beauty now stands with scars on her face’. The hideous, irresponsible damage America has inflicted on the whole living world by and for its ruling clique, has now come home in blatant and direct assault on all that remains of the land that Willie sang about. A deep, unassuageable sadness is our legacy from the chaos made by the blind, evil, Capitalist cancer whose tattered banner is now shakily borne into failure, disgrace, and disaster by the ultimate Loser.
His asinine posturing and doltish ego lap at the total collapse and surrender of any and all objects the shameless boob may have imagined before he had his ass well and soundly kicked by Iran is unequaled by any act of abject imperial buffoonery in history.
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JOTI BRAR on UKRAINE, THE PERFECT IMPERIALIST TERRORIST PROXY
by Joti Brar & Garland Nixon
written by Joti Brar & Garland Nixon
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The video presents a comprehensive dialogue between Garland Nixon and Joti Brar discussing her recent experience attending the third Anti-Fascist Forum held in Moscow, organized primarily by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. The conversation centers on the nature of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, the role of imperialism, terrorism, and fascism in perpetuating global conflicts, and the ideological battle to control narratives surrounding these events.
Joti Brar contextualizes the war in Ukraine as a proxy war between NATO and Russia, highlighting how the West’s imperialist powers manipulate the conflict, using terrorism and fascism as tools to destabilize and weaken Russia. She clarifies that genuine opposition to imperialism is scant among Western leftist groups, many of whom uncritically adopt NATO’s propaganda. This failure necessitated the creation of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform, which has gained significant traction primarily among anti-imperialist forces from the Global South.
The forum's main theme focused on anti-fascism and anti-terrorism, with special attention to Ukraine’s use of banderite fascism—resurgent ultranationalism rooted in World War II-era Nazi sympathies—as a weapon by imperialist powers. Bra asserts that Ukrainians and Russians are culturally intertwined, and the manufactured hatred is a tactic to fracture socialist resistance and turn Ukraine into a Western foothold against Russia. The discussion addresses the slow war of attrition that Russia pursues, arguing this approach is strategically sound because it gradually demilitarizes Western support and exhausts imperialist resources without unnecessary sacrifice.
Joti and Garland also delve into the strategic use of terrorism, including Ukraine’s alleged attacks on civilian targets like children, used to provoke Russia into overreaction and to sway Western populations toward more aggressive involvement. The conversation discusses the weaponization of the term "terrorism" and the way imperialist powers manufacture proxy terrorist groups worldwide to justify military invasions.
Historical and ideological analyses extend to the post-Soviet space and the global struggle for socialist revival versus capitalist-imperialist resurgence. The ideological division in Russia’s Communist Party, the influence of Western culture through media, and ongoing efforts to subvert socialism via market ideology are explored. The conversation concludes by highlighting the emerging “axis of resistance” to imperialism, including Russia, Iran, China, and others, emphasizing that this global anti-imperialist movement is organically growing as a reaction to aggression.
Garland and Joti end with calls to support Marxist education and grassroots organization, emphasizing the need to counter imperialist narratives and to train committed activists capable of advancing socialist ideals.
Highlights
- [02:04] 🛡️ Overview of the third Anti-Fascist Forum held in Moscow, backed by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
- [08:12] ☠️ Resurgence of banderite fascism in Ukraine as a tool of Western imperialism, rooted in WWII Nazi ideologies.
- [12:19] ⚔️ Discussion of terrorism as a proxy tool to perpetuate the conflict and provoke disproportionate Russian responses.
- [16:56] ⏳ Slow war of attrition favored by Russia to demilitarize NATO’s foothold and exhaust imperial resources.
- [27:11] 🌍 Formation and growth of a global anti-imperialist axis in response to Western aggression.
- [33:51] 🎯 Misuse and weaponization of the term "terrorism" by imperialist powers to justify intervention and suppress opposition.
- [53:38] 🎥 Imperialist cultural infiltration seen in media transformation, promoting Western consumerist illusions before 1991.
Key Insights
- [02:37] 🧩 The Anti-Fascist Forum in Moscow is a politically significant event linking communist and anti-imperialist forces globally, showing evolving state ties allowing more open government support. Its growing scale reflects heightened international coordination against perceived imperialist encirclement. This signals that Russia is rebuilding leftist internationalist solidarity as a political and ideological front in the geopolitical struggle.
- [08:12] 🕯️ The revival of banderite fascism represents a profound ideological manipulation: using historic Nazi-aligned Ukrainian ultranationalism to serve modern imperialist geopolitical goals. It exploits ethnic tensions fabricated or exaggerated to fragment working-class unity across Eastern Europe, a deliberate strategy to prevent any resurgence of socialist or pan-Slavic solidarity against capitalist conquest.
- [12:19] 🎭 Terrorism is deployed as a covert extension of war by proxy forces controlled or influenced by Western intelligence. The goal is multifold: to demoralize populations, provoke escalations, and shape global opinion to justify further military intervention. This strategy complicates the conventional military front by adding psychological warfare and manipulating civilian suffering to achieve political ends.
- [16:56] 🐢 Russia’s methodical, sustained attrition campaign strategically leverages industrial and military capacity advantages, while exploiting the West’s logistical exhaustion. This counters narratives of quick victory being necessary and reframes the conflict as a war of endurance and resource depletion. It highlights that in asymmetric conflicts, patience and ability to “take a punch” can outweigh initial tactical superiority.
- [27:11] 🌐 The emergence of a global axis of resistance—including Russia, Iran, China, and aligned progressive forces—reflects an organic communist and anti-imperialist counterweight to Western hegemony. This bloc is both reactive and proactive, forming a new multipolar resistance network that seeks to limit imperialist incursions worldwide, making imperialism’s fragmented and overstretched position more vulnerable.
- [33:51] ⚠️ The strategic weaponization of terminology like “terrorism” exposes how imperialist narratives distort global perceptions to discredit legitimate anti-colonial and socialist resistance. Labeling resistance forces as terrorists enables the imposition of draconian laws and justifies extraordinary military actions under the guise of security and counterterrorism, severely obstructing genuine political solutions.
- [53:38] 🎬 Cultural imperialism precedes and facilitates political domination. The infiltration of Western consumerist values through media transformed the Soviet cultural space long before 1991, eroding socialist ideals and preparing populations psychologically for neoliberal capitalism. Such soft power measures prove that ideological warfare is critical and foundational for military and economic control.
The discussion overall positions the current global conflict within a century-long framework of imperialist struggles, emphasizing a Marxist analysis of imperialism as systemic capitalism’s geopolitical phase. It stresses the importance of ideological clarity, patient grassroots work, and global solidarity among socialist and anti-imperialist forces to counter the multifaceted oppression and conflicts fueled by imperial powers in decline.
The Road to Tabriz: A Ground-Level View Of The West’s War on Iran
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The Road to Tabriz: A Ground-Level View Of The West’s War on Iran
Mar 20, 2026
In the early morning of March 20, 2026, Dimitri Lascaris crossed the Turkey-Iran border by land. He then entered the Iranian province of West Azerbaijan. From there, Dimitri and the foreign journalists travelling with him drove by car to the Iranian city of Tabriz. Tabriz is one of Iran’s largest cities. The U.S. and Israel have bombed it repeatedly since the start of the war on February 28. In this report (his first report from Iran during the ongoing war), Dimitri describes what he has seen and experienced during his journey to Tabriz.
High-Profile Resignation Explodes Trump’s Iran War Propaganda
Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris
Mar 18, 2026
Dimitri Lascaris discusses the resignation of Joe Kent, who served as the Director of the U.S. government’s Counter-Terrorism Center. Kent just announced that he has resigned because he believes that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the United States and that Israel has dragged the United States into an unjustified war. Dimitri also discusses last night’s resistance attacks on Israel and U.S. military bases, as well as his upcoming trip to Iran.
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Trump DECLARES: MAGA Is Neocon Mark Levin, and No Criticism Is Allowed
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Summary
The video transcript provides a detailed critique of former President Donald Trump’s recent redefinition of the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement, highlighting a significant shift from its original populist and nationalist principles toward a cult of personality centered around Trump himself and staunch neoconservative hawks, particularly Mark Levin. Greenwald outlines how Trump has taken a hardline stance supporting Israel and the ongoing war in Iran, which he initiated alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite the severe human cost to American troops. Trump’s intervention in a public feud among conservative pundits—including Tucker Carlson, Megan Kelly, and Mark Levin—illustrates his current political alignment with neoconservative figures who prioritize Israeli interests over traditional America-first policies.
Trump’s recent public statements and actions (all transmitted in deafening CAPS in his infantile tweets) demonstrate a paradoxical departure from his earlier anti-war, anti-globalist rhetoric. He has declared that loyalty to MAGA now equates to unwavering support for figures like Mark Levin, Lindsey Graham, and Ben Shapiro, and anyone who criticizes Israel or questions the Iran war is effectively expelled from the movement. This shift is described as dangerous and cult-like, with MAGA becoming synonymous with adherence to Trump’s personal views at any given moment rather than a consistent set of political ideals.
The transcript further explores the implications of Trump’s behavior during the Iran war, noting his irresponsible actions such as taking calls from far-right activist Laura Loomer while American soldiers were being killed and wounded. It contrasts Trump’s current neoconservative alliance with his previous promises to purge war hawks from the Republican Party, illustrating a deep betrayal of his original platform. Greenwald also reflects on the broader consequences for the Republican Party and American foreign policy, emphasizing the increasing dominance of pro-Israel neoconservatism within MAGA and the marginalization of dissenting voices like Carlson, Kelly, and others.
Highlights
- [00:08] 🇺🇸 Trump redefines MAGA as “Make America First” and aligns it with unwavering support for neoconservative hawks like Mark Levin.
- [01:15] ⚔️ A bitter feud erupts among conservative pundits over Israel and the Iran war, with Trump siding firmly with pro-Israel hardliners.
- [03:52] 📞 Despite a war with American casualties, Trump focuses on internal conservative disputes, defending Mark Levin and excluding critics like Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly.
- [06:55] 💣 Trump frames MAGA as opposition to Iran’s nuclear ambitions and loyalty to war policies, marking a shift from his earlier anti-war stance.
- [10:16] 📱 Trump irresponsibly calls far-right activist Laura Loomer within hours of the Iran war’s outbreak, ignoring the gravity of American troop casualties.
- [12:26] 👑 MAGA is now a cult of personality, defined solely by Trump’s beliefs at any given moment rather than fixed principles.
- [18:10] 🪖 Over 200 American troops wounded in the Iran war, while Trump arbitrates petty online conflicts among conservatives.
Key Insights
[00:08] 🧭 Trump’s New MAGA Definition: A Shift from Principles to Personality Cult
Trump’s recent declaration recasts MAGA not as a set of enduring political ideals but as absolute loyalty to him and his chosen allies. This transition from a movement grounded in nationalist, populist policies to a personality cult undermines political consistency and fosters factionalism within the conservative base. The emphasis on personal obedience over principle signals a dangerous consolidation of power around Trump’s whims.[01:15] ⚔️ Internal Conservative Conflict Over Israel Reveals Deep Divisions
The feud between pundits like Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly on one side, and neoconservatives like Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin on the other, exposes the Republican Party’s ideological fractures. Israel has become a litmus test issue, with dissent equated to disloyalty. Trump’s siding with pro-Israel hardliners signals the party’s move away from its previous America-first, anti-interventionist posture.[03:52] 🕰️ Distraction from War Realities: Trump’s Focus on Pundit Feuds Amid American Casualties
Despite the serious human toll of the Iran war, with over 200 American troops wounded or killed, Trump engages in public spats between conservative media figures. His defense of Mark Levin—a known neocon war hawk—while dismissing critics who question the war effort, shows misplaced priorities and highlights a disconnect from the realities of military conflict.[06:55] 🔥 MAGA as a Pro-War Movement Under Trump’s Leadership
Trump’s framing of the MAGA movement as committed to preventing Iran’s nuclear ambitions and supporting military action marks a stark break from his 2016 campaign promises to end endless wars. MAGA’s new identity is closely tied to aggressive foreign policy aligned with Israeli interests, reflecting a betrayal of the anti-war sentiment that initially attracted many supporters.[10:16] 📞 Irresponsible Leadership: Trump’s Call to Far-Right Activist Amid War
The video highlights Trump’s call to Laura Loomer, a far-right activist known for Islamophobic views, within hours of the Iran war’s outbreak when American soldiers were dying. This behavior is criticized as reckless and indicative of Trump’s prioritization of ideological allies and online influence over responsible wartime leadership.[12:26] 👑 Cult of Personality Supersedes Political Ideology
Trump’s assertion that MAGA means whatever he says it means at any given moment effectively erases any consistent ideological framework. This fluid definition forces followers into blind loyalty, where dissent is equated with expulsion from the movement. It also undermines democratic norms by concentrating ideological authority in a single individual.[18:10] 🪖 Human Cost of Trump’s Policies Overshadowed by Intra-Conservative Battles
While American soldiers suffer casualties in a war initiated under Trump’s administration, the former president’s focus remains on internal conservative disputes and media personalities. This neglect of the human cost of war underscores the disconnect between political posturing and the lived consequences for families of service members.
Conclusion
The transcript paints a sobering picture of the current state of the MAGA movement under Donald Trump’s leadership. Once a banner for nationalist populism and anti-interventionism, MAGA has transformed into a vehicle for neoconservative war hawks and a cult of personality where loyalty to Trump’s shifting views is paramount. This realignment has profound implications for American foreign policy, Republican Party dynamics, and the lives of American soldiers caught in wars that many of Trump’s original supporters opposed. The video calls for critical reflection on the direction of MAGA and the consequences of conflating political identity with uncritical allegiance to a single leader.
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OUR MOST LUCID VOICES
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Cynics say in absolutisms people are told not to think, whereas, in free societies they are told what to think. Is that different?
In The Empire, we’ve been told what to think for generations, but rather than it resulting in our minds being effectively controlled, it has ended in crippling them and making us insane as a people.
Insanity is defined as “a mental disease that prevents people from understanding the nature of their actions or distinguishing right from wrong”. Concise and easily understood.

The result of mind control on Americans that drove us insane—was not a mistake. It was a happy outcome for our overlords, replacing the difficult task of managing our beliefs. If inability to “distinguish right from wrong” is the point of mind control, then inducing insanity in a whole people is the way to go.
That’s what our imperial elite decided in working their will on the Great Unwashed for so long and so well. It was begun long ago, judging by our collective behavior. The lunacy that permits us to passively accept the attack on Iran is an old phenomenon. Our insanity can be traced back easily to the end of WWII.
The desire, or compulsion, of a nation to manage the beliefs of its people, is a powerful imperative, because a government has to have at least the tacit support of its people for whatever that nation is doing. This would not have to be induced if what it was doing was unquestionably benign, harmless, and laudable.
It is in the nature of states, though, to act in self interest in ways that injure other states. Economic competition usually brings political hostility with it, and frequently war, particularly if it is malicious, underhanded, and covertly criminal.
When a state acts in a way that is evil and dangerous to others, natural, spontaneous approval is not likely from a subject people. Their view and interpretation of it has to be altered, and approval elicited by any means necessary, commonly by deceit and denial.
America is, and has been since its founding, a fierce, aggressive Capitalist state that evolved into the most powerful economic empire in history. Because the sole purpose of Capitalism is to generate profit, it functions free of ethical concerns and is entirely indifferent to its dire effects on the natural world and people.
This being true, America faced the continual problem of inspiring its people to robustly support the inherently vicious, predatory Capitalist tactics by which it sought relentlessly to control and exploit the entire planet for its unlimited aggrandizement.
It meant the American state had to create, nurture, and maintain a totally dishonest relationship with its own people. Instead of being truthful about the vast harm and injustice it perpetrated in the world, it had to develop a vast, clandestine industry of deception whose sole purpose was to convince Americans their country acted always in perfect accord with the ideals enshrined in its Constitution, although they were not honored in practice.
Great examples of the grip of our mass insanity were the wars in Korea and Vietnam. These were fought by America to prevent their peoples from overthrowing elites who kept them enslaved and exploited, and taking their governance in their own hands. Had Americans been sane they would never have allowed it.
In both wars, The Empire lied outright to keep our insanity active in support of the cruelest betrayals of people striving for justice. Their success in managing our inability to judge right from wrong let our “leaders” waste fifty thousand of our own catatonic lives.
Throughout the Cold War, everything The Empire did was done to stifle and defeat peoples’ revolutions for economic and political freedom by the suffering oppressed, long colonized, abused, robbed, and devastated by morally rotten, pitiless Capitalism.
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The destruction of the towers, a desperate act of ethical resolve, was the high water mark of our collective insanity, when the entire nation was persuaded not only that it was it a mad act of irrational malevolence, but that it had no justification, and was done in spite for our many virtues and in hatred of our “freedom”.
The national response to it was the last time mass insanity held us absolutely. As its slow decay progressed, the absurd and humiliating lunacies of the “War on Terror” punched holes in the armor of our inability to judge right from wrong, so that it no longer kept the hermetic seal on ethical thinking it had had for so long. The lies that secured it had finally become so idiotically childish and preposterous they could not mend the mechanism.
There has been, so far, only minimal change in the dynamic. The vast majority of Americans are still spiritually frozen in their ability to judge right and wrong. Many undoubtedly find it punishing to undergo the harrowing ice-bath of facing and accepting that they were rendered insane by their own government. This is why the public is so torpid and braindead about the treacherous attack on Iran made for the sake of the toxic nation of evil Zionist Jews.
In cases of insanity, especially where it has been entrenched for long, recovery in individuals, or even attaining the capacity to live in society, is rare. It may be that recovery of a nation is yet less likely. We may march on, blind and dumb, till our psychotic ruling clique reaches its goal, and provokes our ultimate destruction.
Then we may rage in grief, as Lear did, beating his fists against his skull, and crying: “O, Lear, Lear, Lear! Beat at this gate that let thy folly in, and thy dear judgment out!”.
The American people are drowning in official bullshit. There are almost no voices of integrity and deep perception with any platform, and not one in the MSM. The war for all life on earth cannot be won or even prosecuted without honest information to break the chokehold of vicious, dishonest propaganda that characterizes the entirety of what has been fed to Americans under imperialist Capitalism. This blog joins the very few others on Substack who have declared open war on the lies and deceptions of The Empire.—Paul Edwards
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