Just days before the US torpedoed his ship to the bottom of the sea and sent most of its crew to their deaths, this Iranian naval officer was standing in India at the International Fleet Review in Visakhapatnam, smiling and cheerfully chatting with an Indian interviewer.
Completely unaware that the vessel behind him would soon be targeted, shattered, and wiped from the sea by an American submarine.....
"If all this can happen to me. Imagine what can happen to others."
I interviewed George Galloway and his wonderful wife Gayatri in Moscow this week. About their exile in Russia. And its so crazy. British police even interrogated Gayatri about the Palestine flag painted on her fingernail!
"Essentially the government will be able to designate any individual or organization as acting against the British state." And he's scared of getting that 4am knock on the door. So one of Britains most famous political figures went into exile.
And what has he done? Promoted peace with Russia. Well, that's in British interests. Promoted peace with Iran. Well, that's in British interests. Its not in British interests what Isreal is doing in Gaza either. And so how has he damaged British interests?
The British security state is out of control. Britain in not sovreign. Those in charge are acting in foreign interests. And everyone knows it. That is the problem. @georgegalloway@GayatriGalloway
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That time when an unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before Indian President Modi as a gesture of respect.
Then, at the last moment, the United States suddenly abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to wait and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.
What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had blown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.
This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.
And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear......
That time when an unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before Indian President Modi as a gesture of respect.
Then, at the last moment, the United States suddenly abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to wait and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.
What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had blown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.
This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.
And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear......
They're Still Pushing The Ethnic Cleansing Of Gaza
Israel was founded on the premise that the country’s previous inhabitants need to be eliminated in some way.
That’s all this has ever been about.
It was never about October 7.
It was never about Hamas.
It was never about hostages.
It was never about terrorism.
It was never about self-defense.
It was never about any of the countless excuses the hasbarists and imperial spinmeisters have offered up over the last three years to justify Israel’s monstrous abuses.
It was only ever about eliminating Palestinians because of their ethnicity and replacing them with Jews.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.
Reading by Tim Foley.
Una profesora infantil de Luxemburgo llamada Fátima fue despedida de la escuela por apoyar a los niños palestinos que sufren el genocidio en Gaza, debido a las presiones del lobby sionista.
Las niñas a las que daba clase y sus familias salieron en su apoyo pidiendo que vuelva.
Vivimos en un sistema donde la empatía es castigada y perpetrar un infanticidio es impune.
🇺🇸🇨🇳 Chinese billionaire fled China to escape persecution: The West sheltered him and called him a dissident hero. A US judge just gave him 30 years for fraud.
A Chinese tycoon closely connected to the old guard noticed the anti-corruption campaign approaching and acted wisely for his own benefit. He fled China.
Guo Wengui, once ranked among China’s richest property developers and connected to senior intelligence figures, left China in 2014 to 2015 as the net tightened on his network. One of his key patrons, former vice-minister Ma Jian, later got life for corruption involving Guo’s business dealings. China issued an Interpol Red Notice and made direct requests for his return. Guo labelled it “politically motivated fabrications” and escaped to the US.
He made the best choice possible to stay out of a Chinese prison. Back home, such widespread fraud and corruption don’t lead to fame and fortune. Executives in banking have received life sentences, while significant fraudsters have been executed. The CPC does not view large-scale financial crime as a lifestyle choice or a political dispute. It considers it a direct threat to stability and public trust, then takes appropriate action.
In the United States Guo reinvented himself as a democracy activist with a large online following. Between 2018 and 2023 he raised well over a billion dollars from supporters through GTV, Himalaya schemes and H-Coin promises. The money funded a 50,000-square-foot mansion, supercars and a $37 million yacht.
After a seven-week trial he was convicted on nine counts including racketeering, fraud and money laundering. Last Monday Judge Analisa Torres in a Manhattan courtroom packed with his supporters gave him 30 years and ordered $889 million in restitution. She noted he preyed on people who wanted to “bring democracy to China.” Guo had protested his treatment in jail that morning, claiming he was taken to hospital, fainted and vomited repeatedly. As he left after sentencing, supporters applauded and shouted toward him.
The US had no extradition treaty with China and showed little interest in Beijing’s requests for years. Guo got to operate openly, join Mar-a-Lago, partner with Steve Bannon on the “New Federal State of China” project and keep raising money while living large. It was only after American and international victims suffered major financial losses that US authorities took action. They proceeded with US fraud charges, not Chinese ones. Prosecutors identified him as he truly was: a con artist, not an activist and he played everyone.
This is the difference that counts. China’s tough stance on fraud and corruption isn’t just an abstract authoritarian overreach. It is the reason ordinary people can walk the streets safely, why major financial scandals do not repeatedly gut public savings and why the country has delivered the largest poverty reduction and infrastructure build-out in human history. When the rules are enforced without fear or favour at the top, the whole system improves. When they are not, you get operators who flee one jurisdiction and exploit the next.
The West likes to frame every well-connected Chinese fugitive as a brave dissident. Guo proved in an American courtroom what he truly was. The very system that protected him for years as he ran his scam now calls the outcome justice. Real accountability waits until domestic victims force the issue.
Once corrupt in that way, the pattern rarely changes. China is weeding fraud out at every level so everyday people are protected and no billionaire businessman or well-connected operator can get away with it.
The only way to defeat it is to clean out the entire house and the West should learn from China.
🚨'I Warn You - Don't Provoke Russia': Jeffrey Sachs ROARS At EU & US In European Parliament
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I was walked around the Maidan, and I was told how the US paid the money for all the people around the Maidan. Spontaneous revolution of dignity. Ladies and gentlemen, please don't provoke the neighbor. That's all.
And don't beg to be at the table with the United States.
You don't need to be in the room with the
United States. You're Europe. You should be in the room with Europe and Russia. If the United States wants to join, that's fine. But to beg? No. And by the way, Europe does not need to have Ukraine in the room when Europe talks with Russia.
I'm not their enemy. I'm not Putin's puppet. I'm not Putin's apologist. What do you want?
You want to make sure that the Baltic states are secure. The best thing for the Baltic states is to stop their Russophobia.
La delegación de Irán le agradeció a México por todo el cariño que recibieron por parte de ellos en este Mundial.
“Les agradecemos tanto por el amor que nos dieron, sufrimos por sus vecinos del norte muchas injusticias pero nos hemos sentido acompañados por ustedes. Nuestro país también es su segunda casa y están las puertas abiertas para ustedes porque los queremos mucho. Lo de esta Copa del Mundo va a ser histórico en nuestras relaciones. Tuvimos esperanzas hasta último momento y nos vamos con la cabeza en alto”.
Los mexicanos fueron los únicos que los trataron bien y hoy los iraníes les devolvieron todo el cariño que recibieron de México durante las últimas dos semanas.
Solo bastaba con tener un poco de humanidad.
@FranceskAlbs Israeli soldiers have themselves recorded their war crimes, documented them, and proudly posted them on social media; now these recordings are being used against them!
#GazaGenocide#warcrime
URGENT! For any country where (from Italy to Thailand or Brazil) possible war criminals go on holiday and R&R. 🇮🇱 soldiers must be investigated, evidence assessed, and responsibility determined through DUE PROCESS.
This is not incitement to commit violence. It is accountability.
Here's a thought experiment they don't teach in American schools.
Imagine a foreign power, significantly stronger than the United States, decided after a disputed intelligence assessment that the American government posed a threat.
It assembled a coalition, invaded, removed the government, disbanded the military, releasing hundreds of thousands of armed men into unemployment, and installed a transitional authority composed largely of exiles who had been living in the foreign power’s country for twenty years.
It then spent the next decade conducting night raids on American homes.
It ran detention facilities where Americans were held without charge and in some cases tortured.
It operated checkpoints in American cities where American citizens were stopped, searched, and sometimes killed by foreign soldiers who did not speak English and could not distinguish a civilian from a combatant and in many cases did not particularly try.
A generation of American children grew up in this environment.
Would you describe those children's resulting hostility to the foreign power as:
(A) A rational response to their lived experience
or
(B) Evidence of a cultural pathology that requires theological and anthropological analysis?
You already know the answer.
You knew it before I finished the sentence.
The exercise is only necessary because the question is never asked the right way around.
En nombre mío y de todos mis compañeros de la selección iraní, quiero expresar nuestro más sincero agradecimiento y profunda gratitud a México por su cálida hospitalidad. Nos han llenado de amor, calidez y una amabilidad inolvidable. Gracias al maravilloso pueblo mexicano por su cariño y apoyo, que nos han hecho sentir como en nuestro segundo hogar. Todo nuestro respeto y aprecio para ustedes.
The coming military and psychological unravelling - Tet v2?
Late 1960’s, America at the zenith of its power, its economy dominated, military unstoppable, confidence unshakable. The Vietnam war was going swimmingly, MacNamara’s body counts were the proof of it. Then came Tet.
January 30th, 1968, Tet, the Vietnamese lunar new year. On that day and the next North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched coordinated attacks on over 100 cities, and hundreds more rural sites, across South Vietnam. It was not merely a surprise attack, but a fundamental inflection point. The Viet Cong struck everywhere at once, proving they were not a ragtag insurgency, peasants in sandals, but a coordinated, disciplined force with sophisticated low-tech commincation and coordination networks. They eventually lost the battles, yes, but they shattered the myth of American invincibility. The psychological blow was irreversible. Public trust collapsed. The war wasn't lost on the battlefield that week; it was lost first on the 6 o’oclock news, and then in the American mind.
That is the lesson we miss when we reduce Tet to just a "surprise." It was the moment the trajectory of American power bent. Not because the U.S. stopped winning battles, but because the world, and Americans themselves, realized victory was not just a question of firepower, and was not inevitable.
Today, we seem to be approaching a similar inflection point in the Gulf. Not a repeat of 1968, but a parallel unraveling. American power projection, naval dominance, air superiority, deterrence credibility, is being tested in real time. The contemplated land operations, Kharg Island, Hormuz, wherever, carry the same hubris that marked early Vietnam: assumptions in the Trump administration of quick success, underestimation of adversary resolve, and overreliance on technology against an enemy that thrives in ambiguity and asymetric warfare.
The difference now is the psychological context. In 1968, many Americans doubted the war's morality, but no one doubted their nation's raw power. Today, social media and fragmented news mean more people see the cracks: stalled initiatives, diplomatic friction, asymmetric losses. Yet for many leaders, and for the archetype of the "average American" still shaped by post-Cold War triumphalism, the idea of a swift, visible military debacle remains unthinkable. Despite Vietnam. Despite Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite the American helicoptors in Iran in 1979 or “Black Hawk Down”. The new Tet moment has not yet arrived. In the American mind, all of the above failures were somehow due to individual failures, lack of resolve or coordination, the hippies, Carter or Biden’s weakness, … It hasn’t arrived yet, but all indications are that the next Tet is approaching very fast. A military disaster is already unfolding but it is gradual, there are no headlines (yet?) saying “TODAY WE LOST”. A large military operation in the Gulf involving thousands of troops could well be that moment. Geography, logistics, fighting spirit, and for once possibly even technology, all favor the Iranians. Drones, missiles, mines. Lack of air defense. Shore versus ship. Improvisation and lack of detailed planning. An American command structure without real experience in modern warfare. It all adds up. Hegseth’s 10,000 targets as the modern version of MacNamara’s body counts. The coming days or weeks could deliver this new Tet moment. A failed operation. A strategic miscalculation that exposes limits. An outcome that cannot be spun. In a hyper-connected age, the perception shift would be instantaneous. The already threadbare myth of omnipotence would fracture not over months of coverage, but in hours of viral footage.
If January 30, 1968 marked the peak before the long decline of American unquestioned authority, then the Gulf today may be where that curve bends again. Not because America is now weak, but it is unquestionably weaker. And the world has changed, adversaries have learned and adapted. The question isn't whether the U.S. can win a battle, the coming operations might even initially be successful, it's whether the American psyche can absorb a strategic setback without overreacting.
We may be days or weeks from that pivot. Not a surprise, but a culmination. Tet didn't create the American crisis in Vietnam; it revealed it. The Gulf's Tet will fully reveal the limits of the old America-centric world order. And when that moment comes, it remains to be seen whether America can face the new reality without losing its bearings.
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🚨 The truth about real peace and prosperity:
How many wars has China been involved in over the past 40 years?
Zero. Not a single one.
While one country has spent decades bombing, invading, and destabilizing nations across the globe, China chose a completely different path: building, trading, and lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty >> including doing massive business with the United States itself.
There is zero need to turn China into an enemy.
None.
If the US chooses cooperation and peaceful coexistence, we will witness a true golden age of global prosperity in a multipolar world >> innovation, trade, and development exploding everywhere.
If it doubles down on confrontation and containment, we’re heading straight into a dark era of conflict, economic pain, and lost opportunities… where no one wins.
The choice is clear. The world is watching.
Peace and win-win cooperation is the only rational path forward. 🇨🇳