JOHNSTONE

So as things stand right now this certainly looks like a humiliating defeat for the empire. Iran gets a lot of things it didn't have before the war, including tolling the Strait of Hormuz and relief from the US sanctions that have been crushing its economy for years, while the empire gets to resume its shipping for a hefty fee and pretend it just rescued the world from a nuclear Iran. Quite the tu...

At this point if you're in the US military you have a moral obligation to start refusing orders. Desert. Become a conscientious objector. Ideally, get everyone together and launch a full-scale military coup. We're in "Mad King" territory. Someone's gotta do what needs to be done. Reading by Tim Foley.

Ultimately what separates the anti-imperialist left from mainstream liberal "humanitarians" is whether you're in it for humanity or for yourself. Reading by Tim Foley.

The New York Times has printed an article with the headline "A North American Treaty Organization Without America?", apparently having spent the entire Ukraine war completely unaware that NATO stands for North ATLANTIC Treaty Organization. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's so wild how we keep seeing reports that Iran's retaliation caught the US off guard. For all the years I've been paying attention to this issue I've been reading experts and analysts saying if the US attacks Iran, Iran can close the Strait of Hormuz and strike US bases and the energy infrastructure of US allies in the region. Reading by Tim Foley.

"May all be revealed" has been my prayer for our world for many years now. That dearly held wish is now being answered, and the truth is looking every bit as ugly as expected. Reading by Tim Foley.

It doesn't matter what else you do with your life if you stand on the side of a man-made murder machine which is fueled by the blood of the innocent. Reading by Tim Foley.

The law doesn't exist to protect ordinary people from the most malignant members of our society, the law exists to protect the most malignant members of society from ordinary people. Reading by Tim Foley.

Meanwhile, in real life, people are being mercilessly butchered in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine by Israel and its allies. The uglier it gets, the more aggressive the concern-trolling about "antisemitism" becomes. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US needs to help Israel harm people or else the people who are mad about being harmed might harm Israelis. It's circular reasoning all the way through. Reading by Tim Foley.

I get so tired of all this American hand-wringing about "boots on the ground". It's a symptom of a wildly sick dystopia that these people are fine with raining military explosives on a densely populated city but draw the line at putting American troops in the line of fire. Reading by Tim Foley.

As soon as you accept that Israel must exist as a "Jewish state" no matter what, you are accepting that there will never be peace in the middle east. Because Israel cannot exist as it is without nonstop violence. Reading by Tim Foley.

The problem is US presidents, not kings. The problem is the US empire, not Trump. The United States needs drastic, revolutionary change, not daytime protests designed to be as inoffensive as possible. Reading by Tim Foley.

Western civilization is what's bombing Iran. It's what's strangling Cuba. It's what's torching Lebanon. It's what's exterminating Palestine. It's what stole Venezuela. It's what's plundering the labor and resources of the global south. It's what's keeping the systems in place which are killing our ecosystem and driving us closer to nuclear armageddon. There is no sane and truthful position to have...

I will never, ever express sympathy for Israelis. Ever. Under any circumstances. To do so would be irresponsible, because Israel always weaponizes sympathy and then uses that weapon to commit mass atrocities. If the world gives Israel sympathy for civilians injured by an Iranian airstrike over the weekend in a war Israel started, by Friday they'll be using that sympathy to justify nuking Tehran. R...

These assholes really thought they could commit a genocide in full view of the entire world for years and then expect everyone cheer for them to win. Reading by Tim Foley.

Trump's former national security advisor John Bolton has a tweet that's got me absolutely fuming right now. "In 2018–2019, I made the case for regime change in Iran as often as I could. Voices in Trump's orbit often cited Iran's capacity to close the Strait of Hormuz as a reason against regime change. Trump has been fully aware this is a possibility, and yet did not prepare," Bolton posted. Can yo...

Westerners are about to start paying a lot more attention to the war in Iran as massive US-Israeli escalations point to a coming energy crisis set to impact the whole world. Reading by Tim Foley.

This is what it looks like when you give Zionists everything they want. This is Zionism put into practice. The wars. The massacres. The bombed-out schools and hospitals. The millions of displaced individuals. The invasion of Lebanon The explosions carpeting Tehran. The hollowed-out moonscape of Gaza. The horrific pogroms in the West Bank. Reading by Tim Foley.

My enemies are not in Iran. My enemies are in Washington and Tel Aviv. In London and Canberra. My enemies are the western oligarchs and empire managers who are poisoning my society and making everything awful while slaughtering human beings with the help of my tax dollars. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's so obnoxious how genocide apologists like Greenblatt make a living actively telling everyone that Jews and Judaism are inseparable from the acts of the Israeli government, but whenever there's an extremist attack by someone who doesn't distinguish between western Jews and the state of Israel it gets blamed on the pro-Palestine left. Reading by Tim Foley.

Remember all the hasbarists and empire apologists who said it was a misfired Iranian missile that hit the school. Remember how aggressively and uniformly they all pushed this lie, including the president of the United States. Then understand that they're going to keep lying like this throughout the entire war. Reading by Tim Foley.

"You grew up wanting so bad to be Luke Skywalker, but you realize that you were basically a Stormtrooper.” ~ Daniel Crimmins

Don't lean out the window of the Empire of Perpetual Bloodlust to wag your finger at empire-targeted countries in the global south. It's obnoxious. Reading by Tim Foley.

Watching Amazon Prime while the Iranians burn. Stuffing our mouths with cheesysugarbacon while the sky turns black over Tehran. Laughing without smiling. Laughing with full mouths and empty eyes while their water mixes with oil and blood. "Hoho this will hurt Trump in the midterms" the liberal chortles, masturbating furiously while ruined parents pull ruined schoolbags out of ruined schools. Froli...