Manufacturing Consent For Elite-Driven Wars
Via Reuters:
Pentagon officials briefed Democratic and Republican staff of several national security committees in both the Senate and the House of Representatives for more than 90 minutes on the unfolding U.S. attack in Iran, White House spokesperson Dylan Johnson said earlier.
In the briefings, administration officials emphasized that Iran’s ballistic missiles and proxy forces in the region posed an imminent threat to U.S. interests, but there was no intelligence about Tehran attacking U.S. forces first, the two sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.
Another elite-driven war launched by a nominally democratic system. This is no longer about a bad leader; this is about the system that produced him, enabled him, and rewards him and his cadre of degenerate lickspittles.
AIPAC Is Political Poison, Hides Donations
“Hakeem Jeffries is compromised and he needs to resign… We are not going to retain our country with a Democratic Party taking donations from AIPAC.”
“Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are controlled opposition, full stop.”
– via I’ve Had It Podcast pic.twitter.com/zcls32BRA7
— AIPAC Tracker (@TrackAIPAC) February 26, 2026
Asymmetric Framing at NYT
The New York Times is editorially aligned with Israel. Here Israel’s casualties are presented as verified reality but Iran’s are framed as possibly propagandistic. The presentation of death is also skewed: “9 killed” scans as confirmed whereas “dozens” scans as inflated or unverified. Did NYT journalists suddenly find themselves helpless to chase down that information for verification (a process known as “investigation”)? Finally, the passive construction selectively hides agency—in the Israel headline, Iran is assigned responsibility, yet in the school bombing there is no perpetrator.
This media bias, presented through differential standards of evidence, is what permits greater atrocities to be committed by America’s favored monster Israel while the rest of the civilized world recoils in horror.
The Uncompromising Revolution
The Uncompromising Revolution
Directed by Saul Landau
1988
United States
54 min
The Gruesome Complicity of the Democratic Party
Despite the fact that 77% of Democrats view Israel’s “war” in Gaza as a genocide, Schumer said last year his “job is to keep the left pro-Israel.” which is an odd job requirement for a senator from New York. Rep Jeffries is by far the largest recipient in Congress of pro-Israel funding in the House, raking in $1,157,099 in 2024 alone, including $866,550 from his biggest single donor: AIPAC. This $866,550 from AIPAC was more than 11 times the money from his next highest donor, BlackRock, who donated $74,275 to Jeffries’ coffers.
Despite the fact that a vast majority of Democratic voters are demanding clear opposition to Trump’s buildup to a potentially disastrous war that could end up killing tens of thousands, what they’re getting instead is a slightly softer, and more process-oriented, version of Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump. And, once again, Trump gets to play bad cop while the ostensibly liberal opposition party feigns helplessness, stands around slack-jawed, and can only marshal token prosecutorial objections to what could potentially be a years-long, ruinous, and deadly war of aggression.
— Johnson, Adam. “As Trump Builds up to Attack Iran, the Dem Establishment—Again—Shows Its Support with Silence.” The Real News Network, 25 Feb. 2026.
True Romance by Tove Lo
We are meant to be
I’ll die for love and loyalty
Cheney the Butcher died free, but at least he’s dead.
Dick Cheney died far too old and far too free. The fact that such monsters get to pass away in their eighties surrounded by loved ones instead of alone in a cage is an indictment of our entire civilization. In a sane society, Richard Bruce Cheney would have lived out his life in relative obscurity, working as a gardener or something. In a fairly sane society, people would have realized what a monster Cheney was before he could do any harm, and he would have been driven out of any town he tried to enter. In a slightly sane society, he would have been punished for the rape of Iraq and lived out the rest of his life in a cell in The Hague. But we do not live in a sane society, or in a fairly sane society, or even in a slightly sane society. We live in the sort of society that lets a man unleash a chain of events which kills millions and displaces tens of millions causing more human suffering than the mind can possibly comprehend, and then live out the rest of his life in comfort and privilege, with zero consequences of any kind. Dick Cheney is dead now, but his legacy lives on. The damage he did is still unfolding. The hegemonic, hypermilitaristic ideology he promoted has become the baseline norm. New swamp monsters have stepped in to fill his shoes and advance the same murderous and tyrannical agendas he advanced, confident that they too will suffer no consequences and live long and comfortable lives in reward for their loyal service to the US empire. Dick Cheney left a stain upon our species that we will spend the rest of our lives trying to scrub out. All decent people want our world to move in the exact opposite direction he spent his entire blood-spattered career working to steer us toward. All decent people want to undo everything that Dick Cheney was.
Caitlin Johnstone, https://x.com/caitoz/status/1985682940647657539
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Meditations
The U.S. has established itself as the mortal enemy of all people’s government, all scientific-socialist mobilization of consciousness everywhere on the globe, all anti-imperialist activity on earth. The history of this country in the last fifty years and more, the very nature of all its fundamental elements, and its economic, social, political and military mobilization distinguish it as the prototype of the international fascist counterrevolution. The U.S. is the Korean problem, the Vietnamese problem, the problem in the Congo, Angola, Mozambique, the Middle East. It’s the grease in the British and Latin Amerikan guns that operate against the masses of common people.
We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy…and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.
During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we’ve ever been in — and which we lost — every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.
A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.
A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.
A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.
