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Today, the Trump administration, at the behest of the decrepit Netanyahu government, was instrumental in the bombing of a girls’ elementary school, killing more than 100 children. Let that sink in. Journey to the center of the world of American leaders’ madness and ruin to see desperate Iranian parents picking through rubble, searching for any sign of their little girls.
Now tell those parents—as we are being told—that America has done this so the Iranian people can be free. It’s the Empire’s new equation: Freedom = Death.
This murderous approach that the Trump administration has wantonly indulged is identical to the policy of the Netanyahu government to bomb schools in Gaza and murder innocent children as a (psychopathic) determination of heading off retribution in the future. The murder of children has become a state sacrament.
This is, in fact, an extension of the Epstein saga: the destruction of innocence through child rape, murder, and cannibalism by powerful people whose thirst for blood will never be slaked in this cartwheeling carnival of human sacrifice called war.
Peter Berger, in Pyramids of Sacrifice, drew the equation between the Aztec civilization’s cult of human sacrifice and the collapse of its empire, writing: “Thus the great pyramid of Cholula provides a metaphorical paradigm for the relations among theory, power and the victims of both – the intellectuals who define reality, the power wielders who shape the world to conform to the definitions and the others who are called upon to suffer in consequence of both enterprises.”
Consider the wider context in which these events occur: the rise of predatory Zionism, with its execution of a strategy of annihilation, ethnic cleansing, mass murder, and genocide, and with ambitions for an empire from the Euphrates to the Nile; the attempt to stifle dissent on U.S. college campuses through threats to university funding; changes in First Amendment law at the state level to punish critics of Israel; the domination of both political parties in U.S. politics by AIPAC and affiliated groups; the domination of the media by those more dedicated to the shameful cause of the Likud government of Netanyahu, Smotrich, and Ben-Gvir than to the United States Constitution.
We have a front-row seat to the steady decline of Western “civilization,” led by the U.S. government, which has in recent decades precipitated the Iran–Iraq War, the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, the war against Lebanon, the war against Libya, the war against Syria, the war against Gaza and the West Bank, the war against Yemen, and now presents the second U.S. war against Iran.
Renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War is splendid truth in advertising.
Simultaneously, the collapse of the American economy is in the offing—mired in debt yet preparing to appropriate $1.5 trillion a year for war, most of next year’s discretionary spending, which would otherwise be used for the health, education, and general welfare of the American people.
Today, the U.S., the “most powerful military in the world,” has been reduced to being an arm of the Israeli government, in service of Greater Israel.
That we have made Netanyahu’s long-desired war upon Iran our own is a sign that Lincoln’s prayer for a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish” is no longer part of our national invocation. Nor are George Washington’s admonitions about foreign entanglements regarded, nor President Eisenhower’s warning about the military‑industrial complex.
Now, America’s leaders cast aside centuries of accumulated wisdom and descend into a circle of Hell lower than Dante imagined in the Inferno, a place reserved for those who sacrifice their nations for personal wealth and power and for whom nothing is immoral. There is no spiritual code and no divine being other than themselves.
The modern punishments of impeachment and trial by the Hague are insufficient to deal with such beings.
Dennis Kucinich is an American politician, author, and progressive icon who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio (1997–2013) and as the 53rd Mayor of Cleveland (1977–1979). Known for his anti-war stance, advocacy for environmentalism, and progressive policies, he sought the Democratic nomination for President in 2004 and 2008. Find his work at the Kucinich report on substack or in his latest book, The Division of Light and Power.
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