Good Saturday morning beloved sentients. There is a lull in the “kinetic” war. Don’t you just love the word “kinetic” that’s being used to replace “bloody”? So technical and dry. Just another linguistic lie to go with all the others that make up the West’s non stop preying on Middle Eastern nations due to their status as resource rich but [mostly] militarily vulnerable.
I will likely never vote in another Canadian federal election. Both party leaders are consummate liars. Poilievre is also a captive puppet of the Zionists just like Trump is. I almost felt like writing Mark Carney a letter the other day about his lying…after I saw a tiny snippet of him lying on CTV about the cause of the USrael War on Iran. I heard him say the following and quickly changed the channel so I didn’t hear any more lies:
Mark Carney: Iran war stance shifts with Donald Trump goals
“…Iran is “the largest exporter of terror, state-sponsored terror, in the world. It’s murdered hundreds of Canadians,” Carney said. He added the Iranian regime is already causing suffering around the world and must not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.
“From the perspective of an action, that we’re going to reduce that, we’re supportive of those objectives,” Carney said…”
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Carney ignores the Zionist elephant in the room–Israel’s non stop genocide and Mossad/IDF terror campaigns over Palestine and now Lebanon? Carney doesn’t connect the dotZ between Iranian resistance [knowing it is next on the serving platter] and Israel’s greedy, bloody, non-stop use of the Puppet American military to slaughter hundreds of thousands of true semites in the Middle East over the past 80 years???!!!
Folks I’m so tired of the lies behind each and every war that has been fought in my lifetime–and as I said yesterday, lying to start wars goes back to the Roman times [Cato] and even before. It is the ONLY way humans can be roused to kill one another…by telling them lies about one another.
Below is a very good analysis of this deadly human tendency from this morning’s RT. I have copied it in full because it is so relevant. Please read and will continue this post thereafter
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“How the West’s war machine runs on calculated lies
The same machinery of manufactured war that shattered Iraq and Libya is now being recalibrated for Iran
https://www.rt.com/africa/639262-baghdad-to-tehran-interventions-western-media-role/
By Mustafa Fetouri
Mustafa Fetouri is a Libyan academic, award-winning journalist and analyst.
History confirms that major Western-instigated conflicts are cultivated rather than spontaneous. From 19th-century colonial pretexts in North Africa to modern digital campaigns, the manufactured lie remains the primary propellant for the war machine. Over the last 50 years, this pattern reached a lethal zenith. Almost every intervention across the Middle East and Africa traces back to a specific fabrication – packaged and sold to the public by a compliant mainstream media.
These are structural deceptions. In this system, dominant Western media functions as a psychological vanguard, sanitizing illegal aggression as a moral imperative. By the time a fraud is exposed, states are decapitated, and economies looted. The toll is never borne by politicians in Washington, London, or Paris, but by millions whose lives are treated as collateral for a geopolitical agenda.
The system of engineered permission was drafted in 2003. Iraq remains the archetype for how a fabricated casus belli dismantles a sovereign state. It was a multi-layered campaign of deception – from phantom WMDs to invented ties between Baghdad and Al-Qaeda. When leaders presented unverified intelligence as truth, mainstream media transitioned from investigative journalism to institutional transcription. By validating discredited sources and creating a ‘feedback loop’ of fear, they framed dissent as a delusion.
The consequence was the calculated annihilation of a civilization’s stability. By the time quiet mea culpas appeared in Western newspapers years later, the damage was irreversible. The human cost is staggering: Opinion Research Business (ORB) data indicates over 1 million Iraqi lives lost – a demographic erasure that birthed regional extremism. The media’s eventual admission was a postscript to a tragedy that achieved its primary objective: the permanent removal of a regional power under a false banner of liberation that never intended to arrive.
While Iraq relied on manufactured fear, the 2011 dismantling of Libya was blatant moral coercion. The ‘Architecture of Consent’ repurposed the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), transforming a safeguard for civilians into a weapon for regime change. The foundational lie rested on uncorroborated reports of an impending massacre in Benghazi. This narrative, broadcast by regional satellite channels and adopted without scrutiny by Western governments, was used to bypass the African Union’s diplomatic peace initiatives.
Rather than analyzing a complex civil conflict, Western media functioned as psychological support for the intervention. They reduced a sovereign crisis to a simplistic fable pitting ‘pro-democracy’ forces against a singular ‘villain’. Once the ‘no-fly zone’ served as a gateway for a sustained NATO bombing campaign, the trap was sprung. The ‘liberation’ celebrated in European capitals resulted in an immediate centerless, fractured wasteland.
The human and economic toll of this narrative was predicated on staggering fabrications. In the 2011 uprising, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini claimed 1,000 people were killed in the first days by Gaddafi’s forces. Media reports aggressively inflated this to 10,000 within weeks. However, investigative post-mortems reveal a different reality: Human Rights Watch documented that the actual death toll across Libya during those initial four days was 233 – a tragic number, but a fraction of the ‘onslaught’ marketed to the UN Security Council.
Furthermore, the ‘foreign mercenaries’ narrative used to justify R2P remains a successful myth. Despite widespread reporting, organizations such as Amnesty International found no evidence that Gaddafi deployed African mercenary units; many targeted were actually sub-Saharan immigrants or black Libyans in the regular army. This data inflation was essential to building the ‘moral case’ for intervention, propagated by a media machine that prioritized existential threat narratives over reliable intelligence.
The 20-year occupation of Afghanistan was characterized by the absolute refusal to acknowledge it. In this theater, the ‘Architecture of Consent’ functioned through a rigid ultimatum: “You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists.” This rhetoric was designed to bypass the fundamental legal requirements of international justice and silence any call for procedural proof or diplomatic mediation.
Historical records, largely suppressed by the Western press, confirm that the Taliban leadership repeatedly attempted a diplomatic resolution. Through their representatives in Pakistan, they requested ‘solid evidence’ linking the suspects to the 9/11 attacks and offered to facilitate a trial in a neutral, third-party Islamic jurisdiction. The response from Washington was a total dismissal of the rule of law, asserting that the accusation itself was sufficient for war. Major media outlets facilitated this by rebranding a legitimate request for due process as an act of hostile ‘defiance’, thereby turning an illegal aggression into a ‘just war’.
The cost of this rejection of evidence is a matter of grim record. According to data from the Brown University Costs of War Project, the conflict resulted in over 176,000 deaths in Afghanistan alone, including roughly 46,000 civilians. By the time the Western forces staged their chaotic exit in 2021, the ‘evidence’ was irrelevant; the country had been reduced to a humanitarian emergency where over 90% of the population now survives below the poverty line. The ‘liberation’ was a 20-year cycle of violence that ended exactly where it began, but with a nation buried under the rubble of a failed narrative.
As we turn toward the current horizon, the machinery of engineered permission is undergoing a recalibration for its most ambitious project yet: the dismantling of Iran. The psychological buildup follows a frequency nearly identical to the 2003 Iraq blueprint, refined for a digital age where narrative control is seamless. Here, the deception is not tethered to a singular phantom weapon, but to an existential demonization that denies a regional power its right to sovereign security. This dehumanization reached its terminal point with Donald Trump’s declarations threatening to wipe out the entire Iranian civilization – a rhetorical war crime – and the dehumanization of its people as ‘animals’ unworthy of existence.
A calculated ‘cognitive quarantine’ is being drawn across Western consciousness. Just as the public was kept in ignorance regarding the diplomatic overtures made prior to the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, today’s audiences are shielded from the nuances of nuclear monitoring and the horrific human toll of ‘maximum pressure’ economic warfare. The narrative framing treats Iran not as a rational state actor with historical grievances, but as an irrational, fanatical entity. This conditioning ensures that when the first strikes occur, the Western public will view them as an unavoidable necessity rather than an illegal act of aggression. The cost of the lie is already being paid in the lives of thousands of Iranian patients who are denied life-saving medicine due to a sanctions regime that the media portrays as ‘peaceful pressure’.
This architecture relies on the phenomenon of moving goalposts. In Afghanistan, a mission to apprehend one individual devolved into a 20-year social engineering project. In Libya, a ‘no-fly zone’ marketed as civilian protection morphed instantly into a regime-change bombing campaign. This fluidity of purpose is the engine of the ‘policy of no return’. That is, by the time the original justification is exposed as a fabrication, the military footprint is permanent, and the target nation is locked into a cycle of chaos. The media validates each new shift without demanding accountability for the failures of the last, ensuring that the resulting blood and ruin are never linked back to the original architects in the public mind.
This truth-laundering system is the structural spine of modern interventionism. From the rigged ultimatums of the early 2000s to the ‘humanitarian’ disguises used in the 2010s, the cycle remains unbroken because the architects are never held to account.
Politicians engineer the pretext, corporate media sanitizes the violence, and millions –predominantly in the Global South – pay with their lives and their heritage. True accountability will never come from quiet corrections issued years after a nation has been pulverized and its wealth looted. It begins by exposing these conflicts as the systematic dismantling of states to ensure a profitable, perpetual chaos that serves the ‘imperial directive’. If we refuse to dismantle the architecture of the lie today, we are simply preparing the ground for the next million victims tomorrow.”
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Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson has a very good update on where the USrael War on Iran is currently at:
To War or Not To War… That is the Question
Greencrow continues: Got this X post from Suliaman Ahmed’s account just moments ago. I guess the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi must have got a very good promise of support from Russia during his recent visit to Moscow, meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin–or Iran would NOT be taking this hard-lined stand–which their Parliament is about to render into national legislation:
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BREAKING: IRAN NEW PLAN FOR STRAIT OF HORMUZ:
Iranian Parliament Deputy Speaker Ali Nikzad:
The plan for managing the Strait of Hormuz was drafted in 12 articles
Under this plan, Zionist regime ships will not be allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz at any time.
Hostile countries’ ships will not be able to obtain passage permits if they do not pay war reparations
The remaining ships will be able to cross the Strait of Hormuz based on the law that will be approved by the Shura Council and by obtaining a license from Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz law will be passed in accordance with international laws and the rights of our neighbors, and we will not give up our rights.
Head of the Reconstruction Committee of the Iranian Shura Council, Mohammad Reza Rezaei:
The new Iranian administration of the Strait of Hormuz is as important as the nationalization of the oil industry
Managing the Strait of Hormuz is more important than obtaining nuclear weapons
Based on the plan for managing the Strait of Hormuz, 30% of the fees collected from ships will be used to strengthen military infrastructure.
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Greencrow concludes: Of course Trumpanyahu is right there with the neverending issuing of sanctions. Sanctions and tariffs are all that the US has in its arsenal ever since it was “defeated on the battlefield” as Iran never stops trumpeting to the world…
US threatens shipping firms with sanctions if they pay Iran tolls
Strait of Hormuz: US threatens shipping firms with sanctions if they pay Iran tolls
Trump jokes that the US Navy will takeover Cuba ‘almost immediately’ on the way back from Iran
Yesterday I said the war was going to become “kinetic” again shortly. Today I’m not so sure. Yesterday I forgot to factor in the FIFA games coming up shortly. Today, upon adding that to the mix and I’m inclined to think Trump will just continue to lie his head off–threatening Iran daily with war crime after war crimes. Lying about the serious damage done to American bases in the Middle East and the depletion of American stock of missiles. L.ie about the support that Americans [don’t] have for his campaign of war–after he Lied to them during the last election–offering them a peace platform…lie...lie…lie
LIE LIE LIE
Greencrow as the crow flies 