Month: March 2026

# 154 Congress – Under The Influence

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Intoxication is the state of reduced physical and mental control caused by a toxin; common signs are slurred speech, impaired balance, and poor judgment. Members of the United States Congressional Zionist Club exhibit at least one of these symptoms when Israeli agenda items arise. At the State of the Union Address, Congressional poor judgment reigned supreme.

In his State of the Union Address, Trump parroted Benjamin Netanyahu’s propaganda about Tehran’s refusal to abandon its nuclear weapons and missile program. “They’ve already developed missiles that can threaten Europe and our bases overseas, and they’re working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America.” He added: “But one thing is certain, I will never allow the world’s No. 1 sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon.”  Curiously, he omitted that the No. 1 perpetrator of terrorism is Israel and avoided explaining that missiles are Iran’s only deterrent against Israel.

A remarkable thing took place that evening, rivaled only by the Knesset in Jerusalem, both sides of the aisle stood and gave the President a standing ovation.  Congress’s public display of an addiction to Israeli poison. An addiction that only a mandatory Alcoholics Anonymous 12 step program could rehabilitate.

The Congress virtue signaling act was an obligatory display of support for Israeli lies about Iranian nuclear intent. That dastardly act unshackled the psychopathic cabal of Israeli sycophants embedded in the White House and Department of War. While a strong anti-war or anti-invasion statement made by Congress might have saved lives, instead, history may record that Congress provided a wink of approval for an attack on a sovereign country on behalf of a third country, Israel.  

Wars of necessity are in response to a genuine threat. Wars of choice are in the absence of such a threat. The regime change war initiated by the George W. Bush administration against Iraq in 2003, and the war that Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump initiated on February 28, were both wars of choice. Bush knew that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction and posed no threat to the United States or its regional allies. In 2026, Washington intelligence knew that Iran’s nuclear weapons development ended in 2003. Iran did not constitute a military threat to the United States, but continued to repeat Netanyahu’s lies.

The U.S. and Israeli first strike killed the Iranian religious leader along with some 40 other political and military leaders, foolishly expecting it to be a decapitation strike. Expecting a quick and painless Venezuela-like operation resulting in the long-suffering people of Iran taking to the streets to reclaim their country, they did get the anticipated reaction, but the Iranian motive was quite the opposite. Millions of Iranians took to the streets, not to revolt but to mourn the slain Ayatollah and to reaffirm support for their government, reminiscent of the post-9/11 American citizens rallying around the flag.

Trump and his clueless neocons miscalculated the Iranian will. They were oblivious to a proud 3,000-year-old Persian history and ignorant about the Shia traditions of martyrdom. By executing the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, the U.S. and Israel created a martyr and, unbeknownst to them, sabotaged their plan.

Shia Iran celebrates martyrdom as the ultimate sacrifice of life. To die while defending the community, property, or upholding justice is an act of martyrdom, worthy of a high spiritual status. Martyrs (shahid) are believed to be alive with God and granted immediate entrance to paradise. Ayatollah Khamenei died defending the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Shia Islam will not be passive; they will react.

Blowback has already begun; U.S. citizens are in danger, and Congress was complicit. Ingesting Israeli toxins is dangerous, harmful, and should come with a warning like alcohol and cigarettes. The toxin-impaired Congress demonstrated poor judgment by applauding the false Israeli rhetoric spewed by Trump. However, such behavior predominates in a body under the influence.

Congress should have begun impeachment of Trump on February 28th, immediately after the first strike. But Congress was too busy drinking from the trough of the Israeli lobby. If acts of courage are needed, Congress cowers; when grandstanding on behalf of Israel emanates, Congress peacocks. On second thought, it should impeach itself.

#153 – Why Can’t Washington Take YES For An Answer?

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YES! No Nukes
In 2003, nuclear bombs became sacrilegious and forbidden when Ayatollah Ali Khamenei first issued a fatwa, declaring the production, stockpiling, and use of nuclear weapons haram (forbidden) under Islamic law.

YES! No Nukes
The 2015 JCPOA (Iran Nuclear Deal) provided intrusive inspections that no country had ever agreed to such invasive terms. These inspections confirmed that Iran was enriching uranium for civilian and medical use only.

YES! No Nukes
Earlier this year (2026), Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian reaffirmed the Khamenei fatwa ban on nuclear weapons.

YES! No Nukes
 In Geneva on Thursday, February 26, 2026, at the conclusion of the third round of Iranian-American talks, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed that the discussions held had achieved significant progress. Abbas Araghchi added that both sides agreed that technical teams would begin discussions the following Monday in Vienna, at the headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Araghchi stressed that there is no military solution to the nuclear issue, emphasizing that dialogue remains the only viable path to resolve it.

YES! No Nukes
Badr al-Busaidi, the Omani foreign minister and mediator in the Geneva talks, said on Friday that American and Iranian officials had achieved tangible progress and that a peace agreement is within reach. In an interview with CBS News, Badr al-Busaidi stated that Iran had pledged not to possess any nuclear materials capable of making a bomb.

YES! No Nukes
Badr al-Busaidi confirmed that Tehran had agreed not to stockpile enriched uranium. He called this something entirely new, rendering the enrichment debate less central.

#152 – God Will Punish You – Did I Kill JFK?

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For almost sixty years, I felt guilty for the death of JFK. Guilty to a degree of interest, maybe obsession, to understand the machinations surrounding that November day. My interest is personal and motivated by an emotional struggle between guilt, deflection, and the truth. The following story is my recollection of that day. I have a vivid memory of that day, but it is through the eyes of a young boy. 

‘God will punish you’ were words that I heard often. My very secular Roman Catholic mother connects happenstance with the will of God; when something good happened, God was rewarding you, and when something bad happened, God was punishing you. At 10 years in 1963, it was imprinted that behavior determined outcome; today, at 72 years old, it still resonates. On November 22, 1963, my life and history changed. My President was executed in Dallas, as I committed a crime in Plymouth, Ma. Realistically, the two were not connected; however, with the unsophisticated logic of a ten-year-old, they were.

Miss Maguire and her 5th-grade Willard School class took a field trip to Plymouth, Ma. Our class visited Plymouth Plantation, Plymouth Rock, and the Mayflower. The day was sunny, warm, and clear.  Ironically, such a beautiful, balmy day in late autumn that we sons and daughters of Pilgrims call an Indian summer day. Our first stop was Plymouth Plantation. That is where I perpetrated my crime, in the Plantation gift shop. I knowingly walked out the door with a few trinkets that I had slid into my pocket.

I might have been confused by a lesson I learned earlier that day when a Plantation official explained the traditional Native American goods exchange process. Clearly, I misunderstood the difference between barter and theft. After all, my ancestors came ashore in the 1630s, so I had been indoctrinated with the Pilgrim version of market exchange, stealing stuff from the indigenous. However, I was uncomfortable embracing the spirit of the Pilgrims with the voice of my mother repeating, ‘God will punish you.’ 

We left Plymouth Plantation for our final destination, Plymouth Harbor. There we boarded the Mayflower and walked throughout the vessel. From the ship, we walked to Plymouth Rock, an old, cracked rock with sand on all sides. Skeptical of the logistics and the process that identified that rock as the first stepped upon by the Pilgrims was beyond my comprehension. Historically naive and gullible, I accepted most of the questionable narratives presented that day. We ended our field trip with a harbor-side picnic, eating the home lunches we packed. We finished eating, picked up after ourselves, and boarded the bus to take us back to Quincy. Knowing that I pulled off the biggest caper since the Dutch stole Manhattan, I awaited the punishment from God. 

When we returned to Willard School, we remained sequestered on the bus. My thoughts ran rampant. I pondered the possibility that Plymouth Plantation authorities had called ahead to inform Mr. Bini, the Willard School principal, of my heist. ‘God will punish you’ was amplified and becoming a reality. We waited for what seemed an eternity. Mr. Bini boarded the bus with a solemn look. I awaited his public condemnation, but it never came. Instead, came my punishment from God. Mr. Bini announced that JFK, my President, was shot in Dallas and died. My guilt was immense if I had not stolen those trinkets; my President would still be alive, and the world would be a better place. Later that day, when I got home, I immediately dug a shallow hole and buried the evidence, but I could not bury my guilt. 

My search for an accurate account and reason for executing the President of the United States began five years after my heist during my sophomore year. Mr. Tatro, a first-year teacher, taught a unit critical of the Warren Report; he presented a JFK Conspiracy narrative. I became hooked, and it began my journey down a rabbit hole I continue to travel. The information learned has led me to several conclusions. Since 1949, the U.S. Government has transitioned from a democratic republic to a security state. Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed a pasty, as he claimed. The shot that killed Kennedy came from the grassy knoll area. The assassin behind the fence was only one of several gunmen in Dealy Plaza that day.

Leading up to the Kennedy assassination, the Security State, initiated by the National Security Act of 1949, had been involved in other successful political coups. At the international level, they had orchestrated several. (Iran, Guatemala, Congo) Kennedy would be their domestic project. On that infamous day, in Dallas, JFK, enemy #1 of the security state, was executed and removed from the Presidential office, and was replaced by a servant to their demands.

In 1960, Kennedy financed his Presidential campaign from the Kennedy family coffers. Not beholden to special interest powers, JFK was the new sheriff in town. He had amassed a dangerous list of outlaws. The list included: the CIA (Allen Dulles) over the Bay of Pigs fiasco; the Joint Chiefs of Staff over the handling of the Cuban Missle Crisis; powerful Mafia figures over Attorney General, RFK, double-cross; Israel over his ultimatum concerning its nuclear bomb development; the Texas Oil conglomerate angered by his proposal to eliminate the oil depletion allowance; the Military Industrial Complex for his intended withdrawal for Vietnam; and LBJ for his pursuit to find a new VP running mate in 1964. 

On November 22, 1963, the U.S. Constitution and the democratic process suffered a fatal blow. The power of an elected President would be forever compromised. It began the metastasis of a new security state. A governmental cancer that usurped the constitutional powers given to the Executive Branch. The Bill of Rights, guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution, began to wane. It has taken 62 years to come to terms with my role in the JFK killing. The CIA, JCS, the Mafia, Israel, the Texas oil conglomerate, the Military Industrial Complex, LBJ, and the FBI cover-up never did. Pin-pointing the event that derailed the Constitutional balance of power is essential. To reconstruct a democratic republic free from the grips of a rogue security state empire, what happened in Dealy Plaza must be exposed. 

Can we recover, or are we beyond the point of return? Are we at the crossroads described by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence? ‘Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.