From The Peace Pirate

  • TRUMP’S WAR WITH IRAN IS IMMORAL AND THAT MATTERS

    March 27, 2026 by

    When Trump Ordered The First Wave Of Strikes In This Ongoing War With Iran Last Month, He Did So While His Administration Was Engaged In Active Negotiations With The Iranian Government. That echoed the situation last June when Israel launched a bombing campaign days after Trump scheduled new talks with Iran—a move Trump later claimed… Read more

  • RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE IRAN WAR LIES ON THE ISRAELI LOBBY

    March 27, 2026 by

    Advocates For The American-Israeli Special Relationship Have Played A Special Role. As Americans And Others Experience Yet Another Middle East Debacle, They Want To Know Who Is Responsible. It is vitally important to place blame where it belongs, but equally important that those who are not responsible not be wrongly accused. Not surprisingly, some observers… Read more

  • ISRAEL IS CENSORING THE REPORTING ON THEIR WAR -”OUR COVERAGE IS NOT TRUTHFUL”

    March 24, 2026 by

    Barred From Publishing Details Of Iranian Missile Impacts Or Interceptions, Local And International Journalists Are Struggling To Tell The Full, True Story. Since the start of the war with Iran, the Israeli military has imposed strict censorship regulations on local and international media outlets operating inside the country, severely impeding journalists’ ability to cover the… Read more

  • LEARN HOW THE AMERICAN DOG’S TAIL IS WAGGED BY ISRAEL

    March 23, 2026 by

    The American Regime’s Attack On Iran Is Surely Less About American Security Than About The Imperialist Priorities Of The Warmongering Israeli Government. One prominent rational for the Israeli-American attack on Iran was to bomb the country into friendliness to the American regime and Israel. Very few believe this will succeed. Iran, a country as big… Read more

  • THE AMERICAN REGIME IS SOCIALIZING THE COST OF THE IRAN WAR

    March 22, 2026 by

    War Is Often Sold To The Public As An Act Of National Will: Decisive, Necessary, And Under Control. The Bill Arrives Later, In A Quieter Form. It shows up in insurance markets, shipping rates, emergency guarantees, higher fuel prices, and sudden policy reversals designed to keep the economic damage from spreading too far or too… Read more

  • THE UNBELIEVABLE MADNESS OF AMERICA’S WAR WITH IRAN

    March 21, 2026 by

    Last Year You Were Warned About The Possibility That Israel Might Drag The United States Into A Regional Conflict. What’s Happening Now Is Worse Than Could Have Ever Been Imagined. Many have feared that, emboldened by unconditional American support, Israel might launch a full-scale war against Hezbollah in Lebanon that could drag in the United… Read more

  • WHY IS THE AMERICAN REGIME STILL ADDICTED TO WAR?

    March 9, 2026 by

    Why Does Every American President End Up In A Major Military Campaign? No Matter What They Say, American Presidents Find It Impossible Not To Go To War. Back in 1992, Bill Clinton won the presidency by saying “it’s the economy, stupid,” and declaring the era of power politics to be over. Once in office, however,… Read more

  • THEY THINK YOU’RE STUPID CONCERNING THEIR WAR ON IRAN

    March 8, 2026 by

    This President And Members Of This Congress Are Openly And Brazenly Insulting The Intelligence Of The American People Concerning The American Regime’s War On Iran. After he announced in a video that “a short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Iran” to “defend the American people” by eliminating “imminent threats”… Read more

  • THE WARMONGER IN CHIEF IS DONALD TRUMP

    March 4, 2026 by

    America Is Attacking Iran Because Donald Trump Was Determined To Drag Us Into War No Matter What — And Despite Repeatedly Insisting He Would Do The Exact Opposite. So they finally did it. Of all the dumb, pointless wars the United States has waged in the Middle East, the one it launched today against Iran… Read more

  • THE WAR WITH IRAN IS A SUICIDAL FOLLY

    March 3, 2026 by

    Trump’s Appalling Ignorance Of World Affairs And Megalomania, Seem Set To Have Pushed America Into Yet Another Debacle In The Middle East, One The Congress Has Not Approved, And The Public Does Not Want. The demands imposed on Iran by the Trump White House were no more acceptable to the regime in Tehran than those… Read more

  • THE OPPOSITE OF ‘REALISM’ IS A WAR ON IRAN

    February 26, 2026 by

    No One Knows What Goes On Inside The Mind Of President Donald Trump. But The Significant, American Military Buildup In The Middle East, Means One Can Make A Guess: He Thinks A Big War With Iran Is A Good Idea. If that’s the case, he’s wrong—dangerously so—and he needs a dose of realism. This administration… Read more

  • WHEN WILL WESTERN LEADERS ACCEPT THAT THEY HAVE FAILED IN UKRAINE?

    February 24, 2026 by

    WHEN WILL WESTERN LEADERS ACCEPT THAT THEY HAVE FAILED IN UKRAINE? Since The War Started, Voices In The Alternative Media Have Said That Ukraine Cannot Win A War Against Russia. Indeed, John Mearsheimer Has Been Saying This Since 2014. Four years into this devastating war, those voices feel at one and the same time both… Read more

  • IT IS A WAR CRIME FOR ISRAEL’S WEAPONS TO “OBLITERATE” PALESTINIANS

    February 19, 2026 by

    Thermobaric And Incendiary Weapons Lead To Incineration And Fragmentation Of Bodies, Which Constitutes A War Crime Under The Principles Of Distinction And Proportionality. Thousands of Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza have simply vanished into thin air. No remains to identify, no bodies to bury. Nothing remains but blood spattered on the walls and fragments… Read more

  • IT’S A GOOD THING TO CRITICIZE GOVERNMENTS IN SPITE OF WHAT ZIONISTS SAY

    February 17, 2026 by

    In A Revealing Exchange On Anti-Semitism And Freedom Of Religion, Commission Member Carrie Prejean Boller Sought A Clear Answer To The Question “Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?” The answer, according to pro-Israel activist Yitzchok Frankel, and according to Rabbi Ari Berman, is “yes.” Frankel, when asked if anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism stated flatly “yes.” Rabbi Ari Berman further… Read more

  • SPEAKING FOR PALESTINE IS NOW A CRIME ACROSS THE WEST

    February 12, 2026 by

    A Year Ago, Ali Abunimah Was Abducted From A Zurich Street By Plainclothes Police, Bundled Into An Unmarked Car And Taken To Prison. He was walking with one of his hosts toward a venue where he was scheduled to speak at an event organized by Swiss activists about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. During his detention,… Read more

  • WHY DO AMERICA’S SANCTIONS ON IRAN CONTINUE AFTER THEY FAILED?

    February 9, 2026 by

    WHY DO AMERICA’S SANCTIONS ON IRAN CONTINUE AFTER THEY FAILED? Economic Warfare Immiserates Populations Without Achieving Political Goals. It’s Unclear What New Sanctions Are Meant To Achieve That Decades Of Prior Economic Warfare Have Failed To Deliver. Last month, the United States convened a symposium in Prague with representatives from roughly 40 countries to coordinate… Read more

  • MINNEAPOLIS KILLINGS WERE CAUSED BY MILITARIZATION OF POLICE FORCES

    February 6, 2026 by

    The Cause Of The Tragedies Is: The Militarization Of All Police Forces In America, From The DHS/ICE At The Federal Level, To State Police, To Your Local County Sheriffs And City Police. First consider the ICE officer who killed Renee Good in her car, Jonathan Ross. AP reported: In courtroom testimony last month, Ross said… Read more

  • ISRAEL’S EXPANDING INFLUENCE IN LATIN AMERICA IS FUELED BY AMERICAN PRESSURE

    February 2, 2026 by

      Once A Bastion Of Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Latin America Is Recalibrating Its Support For Palestine Amid American Political Pressure And Far-Right Shifts. American political pressure in Latin America has helped open the door for growing Israeli influence, but longstanding solidarity with the Palestinian cause has not withered away, regional experts have said. Several left-wing Latin… Read more

  • WILL THE SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BE DEFINED BY VENEZUELA?

    January 28, 2026 by

    Presidents Are Drawn To Foreign Policy Because Courts And Congress Won’t Constrain Them As They Do On Domestic Policy. There’s Little Clarity And Much Risk In The Near Future In Venezuela. Presidential historians love ambitious foreign policies, and rank war presidents higher than peace presidents. So it’s understandable that presidents often look to make their… Read more

  • FUNDING TO PROPAGANDIZE AMERICANS HAS BEEN BOOSTED BY ISRAEL

    January 26, 2026 by

    Israeli Officials See An Existential Threat In Waning American Support For Their Country. Israel’s Cabinet Approved A Budget That Sharply Increases Financing For Propaganda Operations Abroad. Israel’s cabinet last month approved and sent to the Knesset a 2026 state budget that sharply increases both military spending and financing for propaganda operations abroad. According to reporting… Read more

  • THE PENTAGON ISN’T OFFERING ANY ANSWERS AS TO WHY THE AMERICAN MILITARY’S ANNUAL SUICIDE REPORT IS MISSING

    January 23, 2026 by

    It Is Also Delayed In Releasing Its Quarterly Suicide Data For 2025, With The Third-Quarter Figures Still Unpublished, Months Later Than Usual. The annual suicide report, which the Department of Defense typically publishes each fall, provides suicide statistics from the previous calendar year that inform Congress, researchers, and senior leaders across the services on efforts… Read more

  • TRUMP 2.0 IS DANGEROUSLY UNRESTRAINED ON FOREIGN POLICY

    January 18, 2026 by

    Even As He Underwrites And Wages Multiple Wars And Proposes A Gargantuan $500 Billion Increase In Military Outlays President Donald Trump Apparently Believes Himself To Be A Man Of Peace. He has become a classic example of historian Lord Acton’s dictum in action: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” As Trump completes… Read more

  • A RECENT POLL SHOWS MOST AMERICANS ARE AGAINST AN AMERICAN MILITARY TAKEOVER OF GREENLAND

    January 12, 2026 by

    Nearly Three-Quarters Of Those Polled, 73%, Said They’re Against Using Force To Take Over The Island, Including A Majority Of Both Republicans And Democrats. Americans overwhelmingly oppose a possible American military takeover of Greenland, according to a new poll. Respondents in the YouGov survey conducted Wednesday also had little enthusiasm for the idea of an… Read more

  • EXPERTS SAY THE ABDUCTION OF VENEZUELA’S MADURO ILLEGAL DESPITE CHARGES BY THE AMERICAN REGIME

    January 11, 2026 by

    A Country “Cannot Enforce Its Law On The Territory Of Another State” Without Consent, A United Nations Reporter Said. As the global outcry over the American regime’s abduction of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro continues to grow, officials in Washington are relying on the United States’ own criminal charges to justify its military operation. But experts… Read more

  • THE WAR ON LATIN AMERICA BY THE TRUMP REGIME MUST BE STOPPED

    January 10, 2026 by

    The Attack On Venezuela Signals A New Phase Of The American Regime’s Power In Latin America — One Defined By Coercion, Intimidation, And Open-Ended Intervention. Any hope that Donald Trump would be an “antiwar” president went out the window almost as soon as he won the 2024 election, when he filled his administration with a… Read more

  • EFFORTS TO CONTROL AMERICAN DISCOURSE HAS BEEN INTENSIFIED BY PRO-ISRAEL FORCES

    January 10, 2026 by

    New Extremes Now Exist In The Long-Running Drive To Limit Debate About Israel, And It’s Actions Against Palestine And It’s People. Across the American political spectrum, support for the State of Israel is steadily eroding. With the long-running, staggeringly expensive redistribution of American wealth and weapons to one of the world’s most prosperous countries under… Read more

  • THE POPE CALLS FOR PEACE AND SOVEREIGNTY AFTER VOICING CONCERNS OF AMERICA’S ATTACK IN VENEZUELA

    January 10, 2026 by

    He Has Deep Concerns Over The Attack On Venezuela, Urging That The Well-Being Of The Venezuelan People Must Take Precedence Over All Other Considerations. Speaking during his traditional Sunday noon blessing at the Vatican, the pope called for an immediate end to violence and stressed the importance of respecting Venezuela’s sovereignty. He said the unfolding… Read more

  • THE AMERICAN REGIME’S WAR ON VENEZUELA

    January 6, 2026 by

    During The Past Few Weeks, The Trump Administration Has Engaged In An Illegal And Immoral War Against Venezuela. The War Violates Both United States Law And International Law And The Principles Of A Just War. Wars almost always bring atrocities with them, and unfortunately, Trump’s war on Venezuela is no exception. According to an account… Read more

  • HOW ZIONISM TOOK OVER THE DEEP STATE FROM IRAN-CONTRA TO TRUMP

    January 5, 2026 by

    And So It’s Not A Coincidence That Wall Street And Silicon Valley, Corridors Of Power Where Zionists Hold Decisive Influence, Turned, Arguably Decisively, To Support Trump In Summer Of 2024. The most politically prescient movie when it comes to the networks infiltrating our government these last forty years must be Power, director Sidney Lumet’s 1986… Read more

  • THE BAN ON AID AGENCIES IN GAZA IS “OUTRAGEOUS” PER THE UN RIGHTS CHIEF

    January 4, 2026 by

    The United Nations Rights Chief Has Denounced The “Outrageous” Proposed Ban On 37 Aid Agencies From Operating In Gaza. “Israel’s suspension of numerous aid agencies from Gaza is outrageous,” Volker Turk said in a statement. “Such arbitrary suspensions make an already intolerable situation even worse for the people of Gaza.”

  • ISRAEL BANS JOURNALISTS FOR THE SAME REASON IT BANS AID GROUPS

    January 2, 2026 by

    Doctors And Aid Workers Largely Became The De Facto Journalists On The Ground In Gaza When Israel Banned International News Media And Began Assassinating Gaza-Based Palestinian Journalists. Israel has banned 37 aid groups from working in the Palestinian territories, citing plainly spurious reasons. Among the aid groups banned are Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Oxfam.… Read more

  • TRUMP HAS BEEN CALLED UPON TO ADDRESS ISRAELI GAZA CEASEFIRE VIOLATIONS BY NEARLY 50 AMERICAN LAWMAKERS

    January 2, 2026 by

    Dozens Of Democratic Members Of Congress Said Trump Should Leverage American Assistance To Israel To Halt Continued Attacks On The Strip. Nearly 50 Democratic members of Congress called on President Donald Trump to address Israeli ceasefire violations in Gaza and to withhold American assistance if attacks continue. The letter said Israel’s “bombardment against civilians, destruction… Read more

  • A GLOBAL SPY MACHINE LIES BEHIND ISRAEL’S WARS

    January 1, 2026 by

    After The Devastating War In June 2025, Iranian Intelligence Minister Khatib Made A Claim That More Than Fifty Foreign Intelligence Services Had Provided Direct Support To Israel During The Conflict. Speaking during an official visit to Iran’s southwestern Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province in October 2025, Khatib characterized this coalition as an “intelligence NATO” that coordinated… Read more

  • ISRAEL CONTINUES SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION OF GAZA DESPITE ‘CEASEFIRE’ AS CONFIRMED BY NEW SATELLITE IMAGES

    January 1, 2026 by

    Israel Has Established 13 New Military Outposts Since The Truce Agreement, And Is Paving The Way For A Permanent Occupation In The Strip. New satellite imagery has confirmed that the Israeli military continues a systematic campaign of destroying civilian infrastructure across the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreement that took effect in October. The imagery… Read more

  • A RESOLUTION DEMANDING ISRAEL ALLOW AID INTO GAZA WAS ADOPTED BY THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

    January 1, 2026 by

    UN Member States Endorsed The ICJ’s Findings And Pressed Israel To Meet Its Legal Obligations As An Occupying Power. The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly backed a resolution demanding that Israel open unrestricted humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, stop attacking UN facilities, and comply with international law in line with its obligations as… Read more

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