U.S. Hands Off Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Palestine!
The world’s people in the main declared US President Donald Trump a war criminal when he announced on April 7, 2026 that, “The whole [Iranian] civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.” Trump’s threat of yet another US genocide, this time against the Iranian nation of 90 million, follows the Biden administration-Zionist Israel’s genocidal slaughter of 70,000 Palestinians two years ago. That horror is ongoing.
That the US imperialist beast, whose annual military and CIA-plus “national security-” related expenditures, at nearly $3 trillion, exceed the world’s combined total, has already destroyed over the past 40 days much of Iran’s industrial, economic, energy and above ground military infrastructure. Iran’s steel mills, oil refineries, naval bases, ships, planes, hospitals, pharmaceutical plants, bridges and railroads, not to mention whole villages, stand in ruin. Yet the Iranians remain far from defeated – still capable of launching powerful salvos of ballistic missiles, rockets and drone attacks from their deeply underground fortified locations. US military bases in the surrounding US-allied Gulf State monarchies and Zionist Israel are key targets. The Iranian-controlled Strait of Hormuz’s shipping lanes that facilitate the transport some 20 percent of the world oil are largely impassable. “More is to come” Trump pledged in response to Iran’s ongoing military viability in the face of the world’s most lethal power, including bombing Iran, Trump bragged, “back to the Stone Age.”
To date, the US slaughter has included bombings of 30 Iranian universities, 600 schools, and 120 cultural cites. Thousands of Iranians have been murdered and more wounded.
The “f*****g moron” Trump, is a term employed by Trump’s Secretary of State and former Exxon Mobile chief, Rex Tillerson after Trump had left a National Security Council meeting. Trump suggested that the US increase its stash of tactical nuclear weapons one hundred fold. That Trump might well deploy these tactical nukes in the future when vital US imperialist interests are seriously threatened cannot be excluded. The US imperial monsters are far from total restrain, always considering, experimenting, testing and researching new and horrific measures wherein their ever-sophisticated weapons can significantly prevail over all others. Insanity? Yes! But never to be excluded in a world capitalist system faced with ever-deepening crises, ever-diminishing markets, ever-declining average profit rates, ever-increasing worldwide competition and ever-desperate leaders driven to endless wars the world over. It is not the seemingly pitiful off-the-charts crude braggart that Trump daily portrays to his kept media but the capitalist system itself. US imperialism’s endless bi-partisan wars, its imposition of punishing tariffs against its competitors, its expenditure of addition $billions on war, its rigged stock and financial markets and its massive social spending cuts inform us that the system itself is the problem, not one or another happenstance president “elected” every four years in a game that only billionaires can play.
Hours before Trump’s threat to obliterate ever more of Iranian society, the beast appeared to have brokered a two-week ceasefire with Iran, negotiated with the assistance of the Pakistani government. The Ten Point Proposed Iranian Plan, according to the Statement of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, was touted by Trump as a basis for ending the war. But within hours of the “agreement” the Zionist regime, with US approval, launched its most intensive wave of bombings to date, killing over 250 Lebanese and wounding 1,000 more in 100 air strikes over a period of ten minutes.
The U.S. imperialist beast is at war again, again, and again. A few months before Iran, it was the people of Venezuela in imperialism’s gunsights. President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores were abducted and 100 Cuban and Venezuelan defenders in Caracas murdered in a high tech attack demonstrating once again imperialism’s ever more sophisticated military capacities and immoral precepts.
Revolutionary Cuba is also in the mass murderers’ gunsights. Subjected to some 65 years of U.S.-backed invasions, blockades, embargoes, sanctions and assassinations, the U.S. billionaire elite one percent, with 1100 military bases in 100 nations at its command, cannot tolerate any nation that dares to rid itself of U.S.-imposed dictators, not to mention a nation that nationalizes land stolen from the people and grants it free to the oppressed rural workers. Today, Venezuela, with the largest fossil fuel reserves in the world, daily finds its resources stolen by the ever-faltering imperialist empire, whose profit rates are in historic decline, increasingly incapable of competing on world markets that it used to dominate.
No to the Bi-Partisan War Machine
Endless U.S. wars are the norm today regardless of which capitalist imperialist party holds the presidency. Both Biden and Trump funded and abetted the still ongoing genocide in Palestine that murdered 70,000 and wounded and displaced millions more. Today’s posturing Democrats, a handful indeed, who supported, if not presided over all previous US wars, are fraternally asking Trump for the “constitutional right” to vote on his newest venture in Iran, a right that has rarely been afforded to any “elected” U.S. institution. In point of fact, citing US “national security” interests, Trump and all his predecessors, have conducted most every war without congressional approval! Stealing the last drop of poor nations’ fossil fuel via war, threats of war, sanctions and tariffs are the imperialist norm, a deadly inherent compulsion that today threatens a world war.
History of U.S. Imperialism in Iran
The same with the US present slaughter in Iran, whose government in 1979 threw off the US-imposed 1953 Shah Reza Pahlavi dictatorship-monarchy, nationalized Iran’s oil and abolished the CIA-created secret police, the infamous SAVAK, that imprisoned and tortured more people than any nation on earth. And this was followed in 1983 with the U.S.-orchestrated 10-year Iran-Iraq War that slaughtered one million Iranians and one million Iraqis. This monstrosity included the US supporting both sides of the war in order to keep competitive Middle Eastern oil off world markets and to secretly raise funds for the anti-Sandinista Nicaraguan Contras via the CIA-abetted sale of tons of crack cocaine in US cities. [See the notorious CIA/Contragate/Oliver North fiasco and read CIA/Crack in America, by Jeff Mackler.]
Courageous Iranians Mobilize to Defend their Country
As we go to press, millions of Iranian are pouring into the streets in cities across their beleaguered country to denounce the US-Zionist murder of Iran’s prime leader, Ayatollah Khamenei and other top officials. They are mounting their nation’s bridges and railroads in massive numbers challenging the US beast to slaughter them in public view! Meanwhile, the kept US media, especially The New York Times, spew out endless lies while repeating Trump’s twisted scenarios calling on the Iranian people to overthrow the Iranian government. At best, Trump and the corporate media note that only a handful of unnamed US war supporters responded. That millions of Iranians have taken to the streets in opposition to the U.S. mass murder and to mourn Iran’s U.S.-slain leaders is clear – an undeniable fact that even The Times has been forced to admit.
That the first bombs were launched at the start of the Iranian school year killing some 175 children was similarly largely ignored or censored as were the countless numbers buried beneath the rubble.
Worldwide, opposition to the U.S. murderous and still ongoing rampage is mounting, but with no nation daring to risk any overt actions that significantly physically defend the beleaguered Iranian masses, lest Trump and his allies to punish them with ever new sanctions, tariffs, if not outright war. We live today in a crazed world of failing world capitalist regimes whose ever-antagonistic components are fully capable of launching deadly, if not nuclear wars to preserve their ever-declining financial interests.
Today, the world stands witness to the colonial Zionist Israeli entity’s saturation bombing of southern Lebanon, no doubt aimed at a further expansion of the borders of the US-allied settler state. Genocide, once again, pure and simple! No different from the genocide of Native Americans in the US and indigenous people the world over: no different from King Leopold’s early 19th century Congo genocide that murdered 12 million of its enslaved African masses.
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