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Rumble link Bitchute linkOn Press TV’s Spotlight show yesterday, Jahangir Mohammed and I discussed the latest developments in Iran’s increasingly resounding defeat of the US and its Israeli parasite. Watch the video above and/or read the transcript below. -KBTranscriptPress TV: Good evening. More than six months into the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran, the war is raising a fundamental question. Has the United States realized that its war against Iran is not going to serve either the interests of Donald Trump nor those of the American people? Washington and Tel Aviv waged a war amid enjoying overwhelming advantages in their airpower, intelligence… But Iran has spent months adapting, developing new tactics, strengthening its air defenses, continuing missile and drone production, and using asymmetric warfare to impose costs on a far more technologically advanced opponent. And the pressure is no longer limited to the battlefield. The disruption of the Strait of Hormuz is affecting global energy markets, while Washington continues to maintain tens of thousands of troops across the region. So what has Iran learned from this war, and how has it changed the American military calculations? That’s what we’ll be discussing tonight with our guest. But before I introduce the guest to you, let me bring in Press TV’s political correspondent, Humaira Ahad, to bring us up to speed on the latest when it comes to Iran’s military and combat readiness.Humaira Ahad: Yeah, what we have been hearing in the last few months, specifically from Donald Trump, is that Iran’s army is at the base, at the bottom of the sea. Iran is not having the capability to retaliate. They do not have funds to pay to their army. And recently, there was an interview, a press conference rather, in the United States, where Trump was asked about the Iran war and he said it’s just a potato. So let’s see how true it is and what Iran has been doing in these months and how Iran has been able to retaliate, how it has been able to improve its military capabilities.We recently had a report from the Inspector Journal of the War Ministry of United States and according to that report, which was from 28 February to 30 June, it did not include the three months from 30 June. So till 30 June it is saying 30 MQ-9 drones were downed by Iran.Now the number has reached 45, and that’s a huge number. Then we have F-15, F-35, we have A-10, we have KC-13, We have Apache helicopter and the bases in the region have also been attacked during all these months. And the report itself said that hundreds of buildings have been destroyed in these bases.Now for our viewers to know these bases are cities in itself. So hundreds of buildings being destroyed in these bases means these bases are now almost non-functional. And then we also had statements from Different military officials of the United States saying that it is really difficult to rebuild these bases as it will cost billions of dollars.So now when the military, which according to Donald Trump does not have the strength, which is at the bottom of the sea, has been able to incur so much of damage after the 15-day war in June, we can understand how prepared it was during the 40-day war and even after the 40-day war, it has impoverished itself.Recently, we saw one of the smartest submarines of the U.S. being captured by Iran. So that is also one of the important examples to show how Iran has been able to strengthen its military and incur huge damage to one of the so-called mightiest military powers of the world.Press TV: Thank you so much, Omeyra, for that update. And now on to our guests. We have Kevin Barrett, editor at Al-Andalus Tribune, joining us from Montana, U.S. And Jahangir Mohammed, director of Center for Muslim Affairs, is joining us from the city of Manchester. Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining me in this Spotlight program.We’re going to begin with Mr. Barrett. Nearly seven months into this war, Mr. Barrett, what has Iran learned in your opinion about how much of a military and combat is U.S. capable of?Kevin Barrett: I think there
Rumble link People ask: Was it worth coming all the way from Morocco to New York City to attend the 25th anniversary 9/11 truth conference “Turning the Tide”? If Trump’s ICE goons had grabbed me at the border and disappeared me into Alligator Alcatraz, the answer would have been “no, not really.” Fortunately that didn’t happen. I flew into an airport named after a president who got his brains blown out by the Israelis and their “American” kosher nostra friends…along with a few WASP turncoats like Allan Dulles, who also has an important airport named after him.The good news is that I walked right into the USSA without even showing a passport. The bad news is that I didn’t have to show a passport because Border Patrol’s facial recognition pinged me, and they apparently already had a digital version of my passport to link it to. For some reason they let me enter the USA even though I am a longtime, outspoken fan of Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansarullah (better known as the Houthis)—and of course the Islamic Republic of Iran. Normally, when you openly and outspokenly side with “terrorist” groups and countries your government is at war with, and losing to, you expect some official pushback, or at least a “step aside, and please tell us what you’ve been up to since we last interrogated you at the border two years ago.” But this time they didn’t even interrogate me. I guess I need to work harder.Back in the land of the free, I found myself free to attend the 9/11 conference and participate in “The Early Years of the 9/11 Truth Movement” panel. And yes, it was definitely worth it. I loved reconnecting with so many friends and colleagues—and meeting several online friends in person for the first time, including FFWN co-host Wyatt Peterson, Joe F. with the Iranian food, and many more.It’s been decades since I had any interest in rock stars. But seeing Roger Waters making the connection between the 9/11 false flag op and the genocide in Palestine was…intense. His music formed the audio backdrop for the event, with the highlight being the “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” theme played during the in memoriam tribute to fallen 9/11 truth warriors. You can watch and listen to that segment at the end of the video posted above. .Another famous name, Jimmy Dore, performed the GOAT of 9/11 truth comedy routines, starting with: “I'm loving this conference. I've seen so many great presentations and I'm as giddy as a dual passport Israeli on 9/11. I'm so excited I feel like dancing suspiciously…”9/11 truth advocates have long been magnets for ad hominem attacks, as I know from personal experience. The ADL is still insisting we’re all damnable antisemites. They’re not quite as wrong as they were 20 years ago, when none of us could figure out why Zionists thought it was antisemitic to blame Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld for 9/11. Today, in 2025, the vast majority of the 9/11 truth community looks favorably on arguments that Israel did it, and more and more are openly embracing that position. The fear of being called names is wearing off.I discussed that kind of pushback during the panel discussion. Watch it above, or read the transcript below.-KBPS A huge thank you to the people who put in so much effort organizing this fantastic event.The Early Years of the 9/11 Truth Movement (transcript)Jason Bermas: A quick introduction of all of our panel members here. You’ve already been introduced to Mike Berger, who just gave an excellent speech on the history of 9/11 Truth and 911truth.org. And you really got to see how we were able to pierce popular culture and at least get these questions into the public arena, which is so important.And then going down the line next to him is Kevin Barrett. He’s one of the brave academics, one of the first ones to step up, question 9/11 truth, and has continued to do so over the past two decades, also hitting that third rail of the Israeli subject time and time again. We thank you for that, Kevin.Carol Brouillet, anoth
Rumble link Bitchute linkApproaching the 25th anniversary of 9/11, I’ve been asked to participate in a panel on the early days of the 9/11 truth movement. It’s part of the Turning the Tide conference in New York City that begins this Thursday, September 10. Hope to see you there! Meanwhile, here is my account of how David Ray Griffin played a major role in my transformation from employable academician to truth jihadi. You can watch the whole memorial at the Claremont United Church of Christ YouTube channel.TranscriptBismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. I’m Kevin Barrett and I have an article published out on the internet called “How David Ray Griffin Changed My Life.” There’s the long version and the printed version (in American Free Press). Now I’ll give you a brief spoken version. When I was in graduate school in the late 1980s and 1990s, I discovered that amongst the vast wasteland of structuralism and post-structuralism and this, that, and the other, all reactions to the scientism that was dominating the academy, there were basically three schools of thought that I could find that actually had anything worthwhile to say. The first was Bakhtinian dialogism. The second was the traditionalism of René Guenon, and I followed those people into Islam. And then finally, of course, there was the process thought of John Cobb and David Ray Griffin. And of all of these stunning discoveries, perhaps the most stunning and craziest of all was that the best single guide to empirical reality across a wide range of disciplines was this theologian, a Christian theologian, David Ray Griffin. I was shocked and surprised to find that! And so I read a bunch of David’s work and cited him in my dissertation on Sufism in Morocco. And then, after 9/11 happened, I was the only Muslim in Madison, Wisconsin, who didn’t immediately just know that 9/11 was some sort of inside job. I said, “let’s wait and see the evidence, guys.” And everybody else said, “come on!” So I was suspicious from the get-go, but I figured that, well, it’s probably one of these things that we’ll never really know. And I was finishing my dissertation, very busy, trying to learn Arabic, get my Arabic up to speed. And it wasn’t until late 2003 when I heard that David was working on The New Pearl Harbor and that he was going to be asserting that the World Trade Center was demolished with explosives—it didn’t just fall down from plane crashes and fires—and that whatever happened to the Pentagon, it certainly wasn’t hit by an airliner piloted by a guy who was incapable of flying a Cessna training
YouTube link (yes, you read that right!) Rumble link Bitchute linkThe good news is that I’m back on YouTube. The bad news is: for how long?I always figured that if I wanted to sneak back onto YouTube—after having had my two personal channels and a 501c3 nonprofit’s channel nuked for political speech the oligarchy doesn’t like—the best way to do it would be via cat videos. I have an adorable cat named Muse. And it just so happens that Muse is completely apolitical! He has no opinions whatsoever about 9/11, censorship, COVID origins, wars, assassinations, genocides, or anything like that. Whenever I tell you he does, I’m lying to you.I’ve been threatening False Flag Weekly News viewers that if they don’t contribute to the weekly Fundrazrs, which occasionally come up short (hint hint), I just might stop making controversial political content and do cat videos instead. But after reading Jon Ronson’s New York Times article on Greg Chism, who got rich making YouTube videos that were some combination of silly, stupid, and funny (before being witch-hunted as an alleged child abuser) I realized that the obvious way to make silly-stupid-funny content is GO INTO CARTOONS.Having used Leonardo AI to create the illustrations for my book Bad Birder’s Birding Report: Nonsense Ornithology from Bad to Verse, I noticed that Leonardo claimed to be able to turn illustrations into movies. So I created a cartoon character, Bipolar Pete, made him into a six-second movie, wrote a script, turned the script into cartoon voices via typecast.ai, added copyright-free music from Starosin via Pixabay, and slapped it all together in imovie. The whole thing took maybe four or five hours.Then it took me another hour to create a False Flag Weekly News YouTube channel. I tried starting a new Google account, but it seems Google has banned my phone from receiving confirmation text messages, so that didn’t work. Then I remembered I had created a False Flag Weekly News Google account around 15 years ago but never used it. Miraculously, I was able to get back into it without phone confirmation, using my other email addresses.Will Google nuke my new False Flag Weekly News channel? Technically, they probably shouldn’t. Gemini thinks the reason the 501c3 channel I used for harmless Islam-related content got nuked was that Google thought I was “impersonating” the 501c3, i.e. pretending the channel wasn’t me in order to evade previous personal bans. That was not strictly true, but whatever.According to their own rules, Google cannot ban my new False Flag Weekly News channel for impersonation, because I am not even remotely pretending to be anyone other than myself, Dr. Kevin J. Barrett, the notorious “radical Muslim 9/11 truther and antiseptic conspiracy theorist who does False Flag Weekly News.” I am even advertising my website, TruthJihad.com, at the end of my first video!Since they can’t ban me for impersonation, maybe they’ll scrutinize the content. What they will see is a silly, lovable, utterly harmless cartoon character, Bipolar Pete. Poor Pete, a differently-abled guy who is living with a mental health condition, will sue them for discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) if they try anything.But seriously…I suppose YouTube might try to turn the tables on me and claim I am picking on bipolar people, citing their rules against:* Promoting hatred or discrimination against disabled people.* Using slurs or dehumanizing stereotypes to imply that individuals with disabilities are physically or mentally inferior.* Disparaging, humili
Rumble link Bitchute link False Flag Weekly News linkWhen Zelenskyy threatened to shoot down civilian airliners last week, Putin called it “state terrorism.” Putin is right, of course. But the expression he used, “state terrorism,” is a repetitiously redundant pleonasm.Virtually all terrorism is state terrorism. So appending the word state in front of the word terrorism isn’t really necessary.Case in point: Trump’s slaughter of Iranian schoolgirls, female volleyball players, and wedding guests. Such acts fit the definition of terrorism: politically-motivated attacks on civilians. The purpose of attacking civilians is to inspire fear or terror among them, so they will react in ways that further the terrorist’s political plans.Terrorist Trump and his Israeli owners have made no secret of the fact that they intend to attack civilians and especially civilian infrastructure in Iran—which even the mainstream media acknowledges is a war crime—in hopes of spreading so much pain and misery and death that the Iranian people rise up against their government. But as Caleb Carr explained in his post-9/11 book The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians, such “punish-the-civilians” policies rarely work. Hitler’s buzz-bombs didn’t convince the British to rise up and overthrow Churchill, nor did the British and American firebombings of German cities cause the Germans to revolt against Hitler. On the contrary, such terrorist policies typically backfire: the people punished worst are dead, while the survivors feel selected by God or fate or destiny to unite behind their nation’s leadership and fight even more furiously against the foreign terror-mongers attacking their country. And Iran—where a powerful cult of martyrdom is built into the majority religion—is the last country on earth that anybody is ever going to successfully terrorize into submission. Iran’s war on terror, specifically its war on Zio-American terror, is genuine, and likely to be far more successful than the ersatz US equivalent.Civilian Casualty Ratios Keep RisingThe West likes to think it is growing increasingly civilized. But its wars grow ever-more barbaric and terrorist. In World War I, about half of the slightly over 20 million deaths were civilians. In World War II, just one generation later, nearly two-thirds of the 60 million deaths were civilians. The Vietnam terror war waged by the USA probably killed far more than the two million official death count, with more than three-quarters of the victims civilians. Likewise, the official death counts in the 9/11 wars against Iraq and Afghanistan—and the covert wars on Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, and of course Palestine—are almost certainly far too low, while the civilian-to-military casualty ratio just keeps getting higher, and is probably in the 80% or higher range. (For high-end casualty estimates that counter the official undercounts in these wars, read Gideon Polya.)Let’s ask Gemini, which obviously comes with a pro-state bias, who the real terrorists are. Hey Gemini: How many civilians have died in all the wars beginning with World War I, and what percentage were killed by non-state actors?Gemini: An estimated 110 million to 140 million civilians have died in all wars globally starting from World War I (1914) to the present day, with the vast majority—roughly 95% or more—killed by state actors (governments and their official militaries) rather than non-state actors.Given Gemini’s bias, we can safely translate “95% or more” as “99%+.” I rest my case: Virtually all terrorism is committed by governments.But that’s not the way the government’s propaganda apparatus sees it. They want you to believe that the world is a scary-scary place full of evil (non-government) terrorists plotting to bomb you or shoot you
Rumble link Bitchute link TruthJihad linkAround 9:30 pm on Tuesday, the US Navy’s most precise glide bomb blew up a wedding party in Sirik, Iran. It evoked memories of similar war crimes: the decimation of a women’s volleyball team in Lamerd, and of course the slaughter of more than 140 girls, along with their teachers, in Minab at the beginning of the war. I appeared on Press TV last night, alongside University of Tehran professor Fouad Izadi, to try to make sense of the seemingly senseless massacres of innocents, paid for by US taxpayers’ dollars.TranscriptPress TV: The U.S. has again struck civilian targets in Iran, including an attack on a wedding party in the southern city of Sirik that has killed and injured over 70 Iranians, majority of them women and children. The attacks have been condemned by Iran’s foreign ministry and multiple officials, many of whom have reiterated there is no doubt the so-called precision strikes were deliberate. This pattern of targeting civilian infrastructure and massacre of civilians seems to join the U.S. and Israeli regime right at the hip. In the Spotlight program, we’ll take a deep look into its legality, morality, the justification and utilization of said attacks as part of U.S. and Israeli military doctrine.And now, for our guests. Joining us, Dr. Fouad Izadi, professor at University of Tehran, joining us from the Iranian capital, and Dr. Kevin Barrett, editor at the Al-Andalus Tribune from Sadia, Morocco. Gentlemen, hello to the both of you. Pleasure to have you both on. Professor Izadi, we will start with you, sir.Condolences to you once again after more civilians have perished here in Iran. In less than six months, sir, Iran has seen hundreds of civilians now killed in attacks on a school, on a wedding, a busy Tehran intersection, or intersections for that matter, bridges, residential infrastructure. Your initial take, Professor, on how we are to process these kinds of attacks?Fouad Izadi: I think you should process these attacks as war crimes committed by the United States to terrorize the Iranian people. Of course, this is not the first time that Americans have engaged in war crimes. We remember what they did in Vietnam, in Afghanistan, in Iraq, attacking civilians to terrorize the local population so they would submit to the United States.And this is what they have done in Iran. In some instances, they have even accepted responsibility. Attacking bridges, civilian bridges, is a war crime. Trump proudly accepted responsibility for that. In the last one and a half years of attacks on Iran, they have attacked hospitals, schools, and other civilian infrastructure, in line with what the Israelis have done in Gaza. Israelis have attacked every school, every hospital, every home almost. And this is what the United States is doing to the Iranian people. Trump is upset with the people of Iran because he expected them to help him to become his foot soldiers in achieving his foreign policy goals.People in Iran, even people who don’t like the current government, know who Trump is, know who Netanyahu is, know the fact that these are genocidal war criminals. And no one is interested in becoming foot soldiers for Trump and Netanyahu. In fact, every night for the last 186, 187 nights, people, Iranians, come to the streets in millions shouting against Trump and Netanyahu. And this is making them (US and Israeli leaders) upset. So they think by repeating the experience in Gaza, they can achieve some goal. If
Rumble link Bitchute linkUS President Donald Duck, I mean Trump, fantasizes about flying over his enemies and defecating on them. What’s worse, he doesn’t know enough to keep that fantasy to himself. Instead, he posts it in graphic detail. Coprophiliacs everywhere lick their chops. Everyone else retches.US President Lyndon Johnson, a high-IQ psychopath, used to make journalists and aides watch him defecate. This after he helped Israel blow Kennedy’s brains out—an even more obscene act. Low-IQ psychopath Trump, whatever else you say about him, can be quite entertaining…even genuinely funny. He’s the classic example of “so dumb he thinks he’s a genius.” And let’s face it, the man does have a talent for clowning.Trump has lately been entertaining us by posting videos about flocks of Canada Geese, modified by AI to look like Trump himself, invading Canada and renaming its waterways. YouTube videoI am surprised that Trump hasn’t posted an AI video of a Trumped-up goose launching a “goose bomb” that lands smack dab atop the head of Mark Carney or Doug Ford.Linh Dinh is thinking along similar lines:With US missile and drone stocks depleted to alarming levels, Trump has decided to fly a specially designed F-35 to Iran, and just defecate on them. That AI video of him crapping on American protesters was just an appetizer. Wearing neither pants nor diaper, Trump will sit on a toilet seat above an open hatch and let fly. Asked if he had enough fecal matter to terrorize a vast nation of 93.2 million people, Trump responded with his typical swagger, “I have enough s**t to murder the entire world. My stench alone is more than enough.”Trump has effectively lost his Israel-incited war on Iran. At this point, defecating on the Iranians is practically the only thing he hasn’t tried.Unfortunately, many informed observers, including Tucker Carlson, Lawrence Wilkerson, Joe Kent, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Robert Barnes, and Larry Johnson, are claiming that Trump wants to take a nuclear dump on Iran. Insider sources told Johnson that Trump has already “tried to use the nuclear codes” but was prevented from doing so by General Dan Caine. For an in-depth discussion of this alarming situation, check out my podcast with Ron Unz discussing his recent article “The Collapse of American Hegemony and Global Nuclear Risks.”Finally…no discussion of crazed leaders, scatology, evil conspiracies, and militarized incontinent geese would be complete without a plug for my latest book Bad Birder’s Birding Report: Nonsense Ornithology from Bad to Verse. It includes the poem “Canada Goose” (posted above) as well as a few other items with what we might call “conspiracy content,” alongside more than 100 innocuous, wryly humorous ditties that your non-red-pilled friends, relatives, and co-workers will enjoy. What’s more, the afterword offers a disarmingly subtle and friendly introduction to the “conspiracy realist” worldview. I beta-tested it on my own relatives, and they are raving about it and ordering copies for their friends as well as our more distant relations. So if you want to hoodwink people who aren’t into conspiracy theories into helping you spread conspiracy theories, this book is for you! And them! Contact me at truthjihad(at)gmail for bulk order discounts, or visit me at the book table at the Turning the Tide conference in New York next week. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com
Rumble link Bitchute linkRon Unz joins the Truth Jihad Podcast to discuss his new article “The Collapse of American Hegemony and Global Nuclear Risks.”The USA, ostensibly the world's leading military power, is not only proving it can’t win wars—Iraq and especially Afghanistan showed that—but that it is ideally situated to lose them…catastrophically. After getting pummeled and chased out of the Middle East by Iran, the American military has used up much of its weapons stock, and is no longer in a position to threaten China. The war on Russia through Ukraine may be shaping up as an almost equally disastrous failure.So what do you do when your military has been exposed as a paper tiger? You reach for the nukes. That, at least, is what a number of alarming developments suggest Mad Uncle Sam may be contemplating. Credible leaks that Trump has tried to use nuclear weapons against Iran, alongside the recent revision of US nuclear doctrine to lower the nuclear threshold, have got sane observers scratching their heads and reaching for the panic button.Is this all really as bad as it looks? And if so, what can be done about it? Ron Unz thinks that both the Russian and Chinese leadership have good options to remove the threat through bold pre-emptive action: A pre-announced Russian hypersonic missile strike on NATO HQ, and/or a blockade of Taiwan. You can vote for one, both, or neither, and explain why, in the comments. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com
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