Imagine if a foreign power launched a surprise attack on American soil—targeting nuclear facilities or military installations.
It happened once, in 1941. Pearl Harbor. The nation was shaken, outraged, and thrust into war.
And yet, three days ago on June 21, 2025, the United States did exactly that to another country—once again bombing a sovereign, peaceful nation without warning, without legal justification, and without a coherent pretext.
Now, imagine if the Japanese, after bombing Pearl Harbor, had picked up the phone, called President Roosevelt, and said:
“Hey, we were just kidding. Let’s make a truce.”
Absurd? Insulting? Unthinkable?
Well, that’s exactly what happened yesterday. With the smoke still rising, Washington called for de-escalation.
“Iran can’t have nuclear weapons,” goes the repeated mantra of Donald Trump. But no reporter ever stops to ask: Why not?
Israel has them. Pakistan has them. North Korea has them. So why not Iran—especially if they develop one on their own soil?
But not even that was the problem—Iran wasn’t even making them. In fact, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, issued a fatwa in 2003 against nuclear weapons. Iran signed the JCPOA nuclear deal, welcomed international inspectors, and complied. Even Tulsi Gabbard, now the Director of National Intelligence, confirmed three months earlier there was no evidence they were building one.
But none of that mattered.
Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. Not because of what they’re doing—but because we said so. And if they have it or not, doesn’t matter—we bombed them anyway. Not because Iran was building a bomb, or because they violated any treaty, or because they were a threat, but because we needed a war.
Why? Because our house is collapsing. The American economy is hollowed out. Our industry has been sold off, our communities gutted, and our debt ceiling scraped with each passing year. The country is bankrupt in everything but appearance.
And we’re too proud to admit it. So instead, like every declining empire in history, we look outward. We find enemies. We provoke them. We rally the people with patriotic noise and pretend that the crisis lies elsewhere.
Just as Hitler turned outward when the Reich’s economy faltered, so does Washington. And never mind the fact that bombing nuclear facilities is a war crime in every international charter, due to the extreme environmental and radiological danger. The unchecked power of the U.S. president made it possible anyway.
A Government of Clowns and Crusaders
What passes for American leadership today is a tragicomedy of power. A tattooed Secretary of Defense who thinks he’s on a modern-day crusade. A delusional State Department spokesperson spinning imperial violence into soundbites. And a warmongering Secretary of State, dead-eyed and grinning, calling bombs “freedom.”
And presiding over them all is a president who tweets his decisions and spends as much time thinking about where to place his glass of water in a photo as he does on what he’ll say to the world.
It’s a circus. But not a new one.
For thirty years—maybe more—Washington has been ruled by marketing slogans, PR firms, and well-tailored liars. The difference now is that the lies have grown too big to sustain. They’ve metastasized into parody—an empire too absurd to fear, but still armed to the teeth.
The Illusion Is Breaking
But this time, the illusion may be breaking. On June 14, 2025, somewhere between four and six million Americans took to the streets—in front of the White House. Peaceful, united, and defiant. This wasn’t a fringe protest. It was one of the largest mass demonstrations in U.S. history.
That’s over 1.5% of the population—and approaching the symbolic 3.5% threshold identified by political scientist Erica Chenoweth, who showed that no regime in modern history has survived sustained, nonviolent protest once participation surpasses that level.
This isn’t just outrage. It’s a warning, of a historic rupture—the republic is losing legitimacy. A signal that the illusion of consent is breaking, and millions are no longer willing to remain complicit in silence. And when the people finally see that their wars are lies, their wealth stolen, and their dreams betrayed—it won’t take everyone to bring change.
Just a few million with enough courage to keep marching.
βία βίαν τίκτει (bia bian tiktei)
“Force gives birth to force.”
—Aeschylus, Agamemnon, line 763
At a summit in Istanbul, Turkish president Erdoğan called on the Muslim world to unite. And perhaps he’s right. The genocide that Israel is committing in Gaza—with U.S. support—is equal to what Jewish people suffered under the Nazi regime. A Holocaust. Only now, the victims are Palestinians—and the slayers are Israelis.
Furthermore, Iran is now the seventh Muslim country bombed or invaded by the United States (after Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan) in the last 25 years—under four different presidents, Republican and Democrat alike.
Every Leader Who Uplifts His People Becomes an Enemy
There is a consistent pattern in modern U.S. foreign policy: any leader who tries to raise his people out of poverty, offer free education, or develop a sovereign economy becomes a threat to the American empire.
Start with Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iran’s democratically elected prime minister. In the early 1950s, he nationalized Iran’s oil—reclaiming it from British control so the profits could serve the Iranian people, not foreign shareholders. For that act of sovereignty, the CIA—together with MI6—engineered a coup in 1953, known as Operation Ajax. Mosaddegh was deposed and replaced by the Shah, whose dictatorship ruled with brutal repression for the next 25 years. This wasn’t just regime change—it was the blueprint.
Then came Muammar Gaddafi. Whatever one may say of his methods, the man used Libya’s oil wealth to build a nation. He introduced free healthcare and education, funded housing, subsidized electricity, and launched literacy campaigns that transformed his country. Under Gaddafi, Libya had the highest Human Development Index in Africa.
But when the Arab Spring protests began, NATO—led by the United States—saw an opportunity. Without a proper investigation or U.N. mandate for regime change, NATO acted as judge, jury, and executioner. Gaddafi was murdered in the street, and the country descended into chaos, warlordism, and slave markets. So much for humanitarian intervention.
Saddam Hussein? Propped up by the CIA in the 1970s, used as a bulwark against Iran, then discarded when he no longer served U.S. interests. In 1990, after a decade-long war with Iran that devastated Iraq’s economy, Saddam was enraged by Kuwait’s slanted drilling—illegally tapping into Iraqi oil reserves along the border. He summoned the U.S. ambassador, April Glaspie, who told him that the United States had “no opinion on Arab–Arab conflicts,” effectively giving him the green light to invade.
But once the tanks rolled into Kuwait, the narrative flipped.
In the run-up to the Gulf War, a young girl appeared before Congress and CNN, tearfully claiming that Iraqi soldiers had taken babies out of incubators in Kuwaiti hospitals and left them to die on the floor. The media went wild. The American public was horrified. Support for war surged.
But it was a lie.
The girl was not a nurse. She was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S., coached by the PR firm Hill & Knowlton—a fact confirmed later in congressional hearings. No such massacre occurred. But by then, the bombs were already falling.
Thirteen years later, the U.S. returned to finish what it had started. The 2003 invasion—justified by more lies about weapons of mass destruction—killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, with some estimates nearing one million. The entire Iraqi state was dismantled, and the void gave birth to Al-Qaeda in Iraq and later ISIS.
It wasn’t terrorism that came to us. It was American deception, aggression, and hubris that birthed terrorism. None of the U.S. military interventions in the Middle East over the past 40 years were justified. Not Iraq. Not Libya. Not Syria. Not Yemen. Not Afghanistan.
And each time, the public was sold a lie—WMDs, incubator babies, humanitarian intervention, the war on terror—always a new costume for the same bloody script.
Every time, the logic is the same: if a sovereign nation refuses to bow to U.S. financial, military, or ideological control, it must be “liberated”—with bombs.
And who pays? Always the same people. Not the elites in Washington or the CEOs of Lockheed Martin. It’s the mothers, the workers, the children—whether in Baghdad, Tripoli, Kabul, or Chicago.
What’s Good for GM Is Not Good for America
Charles Erwin Wilson once famously said, “What’s good for General Motors is good for the United States.” His actual words were more careful, and he didn’t mean it arrogantly — he simply couldn’t imagine a conflict between the prosperity of America’s largest corporation and the wellbeing of its people.
But what happens when that symbiosis breaks?
In the decades that followed, GM — and corporations like it — began prioritizing shareholders over workers, outsourcing production, busting unions, and lobbying for deregulation. The factories that once symbolized American strength were moved offshore. Jobs disappeared, communities crumbled, and the social contract frayed. What had once been the engine of national wealth became a machine of short-term gain and long-term decay.
The tragedy is not that GM failed Americans — but that it succeeded. It succeeded in maximizing profits, slashing costs, and externalizing consequences. It succeeded in influencing public policy to its benefit, securing bailouts when it stumbled, while ordinary citizens were left to face foreclosures, bankruptcy, and wage stagnation alone.
What’s good for GM — or Amazon, or Lockheed Martin, or BlackRock — is no longer good for the nation. These are not companies bound to a country or a community; they are borderless behemoths driven by quarterly returns. And the state, rather than reigning them in, now serves them.
We were sold the idea that capitalism and democracy would walk hand in hand. But when capital walks away, democracy limps behind.
Why does America keep attacking sovereign nations that pose no direct threat?
Some say it’s the Israel lobby—billionaires funding senators, congressmen, and presidents alike.
Others point to the military-industrial complex: a CIA–Pentagon–corporate cabal that profits from endless conflict.
Whatever the case, one thing is certain: taxpayers pay the price—and have absolutely no benefit out of it.
Even worse, only the dangerous consequences: Iran, if it hadn’t already considered building a bomb, now has every reason to. China, once proudly anti-hegemonic and scarred by memories of Japanese invasion, will be pushed into confrontation—not by desire, but by necessity.
迫于不得已
(Bì yú bùdéyǐ—forced by circumstance)
None of this is in the interest of the American people.
Just as Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan were not.
Terrorism, too, didn’t come out of nowhere—it was a direct consequence of decades of American aggression.
The truth is harsh: the people don’t control the government. The democracy we believe in is a myth. If it ever existed, it’s long dead.
The public is sedated with identity debates and culture wars—cosmetic distractions to keep them from noticing the republic is crumbling from within.
A “Successful Mission” Without Proof
Although Trump bragged about the “successful mission” that supposedly destroyed Iran’s peaceful nuclear program, there’s no actual evidence that anything of substance was destroyed.
Take the Fordow nuclear facility, for example—buried deep inside mountainous granite. Military analysts know that granite can deflect deep-penetration bombs, sending them off course, often down slanting paths, rendering the strike ineffective. Worse still, no one outside Iran knows the exact internal layout of the underground facility. Without precise coordinates, any bombing is guesswork cloaked in bravado.
So the “mission accomplished” talk may be nothing more than a PR stunt—another hollow headline for a hollow empire.
Why Trump Rushed a Ceasefire—And Why It Might Backfire
Over the weekend, Iran’s Foreign Minister visited Moscow, where President Putin “promised him whatever he needs,” according to Kremlin spokesman Peskov. That handshake in Red Square hugely changed the game—especially if Iran gains access to Russian missiles capable of sinking U.S. carriers.
No wonder President Trump and White House officials rushed out a ceasefire proposal and called for immediate de-escalation, even as Israel’s strikes on Iran had only just begun.
Israel’s Industry in Flames
Israeli infrastructure hasn’t just been under fire—it’s been burned to the ground:
- Iranian missiles have demolished or severely damaged refineries, ports, power plants, and airports—most notably the Bazan oil refinery in Haifa, which had to shut down entirely after its power station was hit, killing three employees.
- Other energy and military targets, including key airports and nuclear research centers, have all been struck—so far, without Iran unleashing its most feared missiles.
- In the turmoil, Knesset members were reportedly evacuated—a rare scene of panic in Israel’s political heart—and reflect how dire the situation is.
A Message to the Gulf and the Global South
Iran’s missile volley wasn’t truly aimed at Israel or the U.S. alone—and it wasn’t launched blindly. Before striking Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, Iran reportedly warned both Qatari officials and the U.S. military, making clear that the attack was not designed to cause casualties, but to send a message.
That message was unmistakable: Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE—and every Gulf monarchy aligned with Washington—will not be safe staging grounds for foreign intervention.
It was a show of force, not an act of war. A demonstration of reach, capability, and restraint. And the warning was simple: “Side with America, and face consequences.”
This escalation is stirring a tectonic shift:
- It pushes Arab states to reassess alliances—fearing collateral backlash and losing leverage.
- It fuels Iran’s regional appeal as a dominant force, positioning itself as a protector of sovereignty.
- And if Iran, Russia, and China deepen ties, we may be staring at a Global South axis, united to expel Western military reach—potentially including Israel.
What was meant as a swift blow has empowered the very network it sought to isolate.
A Hollow Republic Built on Lies
The American oligarchs have done more damage to their own country than any foreign enemy ever could. They have stripped the United States of its industry, offshored its manufacturing, gutted the working class, and replaced real economic productivity with speculative finance and consumer debt.
From Detroit to Pittsburgh to Cleveland, once-proud industrial cities now rot in decay. The factories are gone. The unions dismantled. The jobs outsourced to sweatshops across the world—all to inflate quarterly profits and line the pockets of corporate shareholders.
And what did the American people get in return? Netflix. Cheap plastic goods. Credit cards. Opioids.
To keep the population pacified, the same oligarchs bought Hollywood, the news networks, the publishing houses, and the social media platforms. They control the narrative. They shape the reality. They bombard the public with fear, distraction, and fantasy—warped culture, endless identity debates, celebrity drama, and patriotic mythology.
The average American lives in a manufactured dream, fed by screens. They believe they are free. They believe their vote counts. They believe their enemies are abroad. All the while, their homes crumble, their wages stagnate, their schools fail, and their sons are sent off to fight wars that make billionaires richer.
It is not a democracy—it is a theatrical production. A hollow empire held up by illusions.
And it is cracking.
The Deep State and the Curtain of Power
When a new president takes office, he knows nothing about the real machinery behind global power—nothing about “secret geopolitics,” “hidden intelligence,” or what’s deemed “national security.”
Then come the men in dark suits.
They sit him down. They explain how the world really works—behind the curtain. They show him the “truth.” If he already knows, it means they’ve dealt with him before—back when he was a senator, a congressman, still pretending to be independent.
They are the Deep State: unelected officials, entrenched neoconservatives, career bureaucrats with deep ties to corporations, media empires, foreign lobbies, former presidents, and the sprawling web of intelligence agencies. An elite, sitting atop a trillion-dollar budget, with both the power to shape public opinion and the means to craft foreign and domestic policy—whether you voted for it or not.
They are not shadows behind the throne. They are the throne.
Presidents, senators, congressmen—most of them are ordinary people without access to real intelligence or classified networks. So when the Deep State speaks, they listen. When the Deep State commands, they obey. And if they don’t, well—national security, you understand. Top secret. Above your pay grade.
And if someone from within ever dares to think differently—starts proposing real change, swings in a direction that threatens the consensus—he’s quickly removed. Silenced. Replaced.
Nobody dares to question them—not even the president. After all, what does he know? Do you really think a man has the right to govern—just because a crowd of nobodies voted for him?
He’d better sit down. And shut up. Just like the people—what do they know anyway?
Career Politicians and the Illusion of Change
Most politicians today aren’t leaders. They’re careerists. They’re not driven by conviction or a desire to serve—but by image, popularity, and how much money they can make while in office. After all, in a representative republic like ours—which is not a democracy, no matter how many flags we wave—the most important skill isn’t governance. It’s survival.
To survive, you need to stay popular. To stay popular, you need donors. And to keep donors happy, you must never threaten the interests that really run the country. Above all, you must not cross the Deep State. They can end you in a day—manufacture a scandal, leak a classified memo, ruin your credibility. Remember: they own the cameras; they script the news; they manufacture the public opinion.
The clever ones—like Trump—sometimes fake incompetence to push small changes under the radar. But even they can’t touch the big things. Not the wars. Not the military budget. Not the surveillance machine. Because those aren’t up for debate. Those are permanent.
That’s why some policies—like foreign wars or support for Israel—are rock solid and unchanging across decades and parties. Meanwhile, everything else—green energy, education, infrastructure, public health—swings wildly every four years. So wildly, in fact, that you can’t plan a damn thing.
And that’s why China and Russia are pulling ahead. Not because they’re better—but because long-term goals need long-term planning. And the West, ruled by donor cycles, lobby groups, and focus groups, no longer plans. It spins. It reacts. It survives. But it no longer builds.
They’re not ahead because of unfair trade, cheap labor, or stolen patents, but because they still care—for the people.
We don’t.
America, Wake Up—to New Democracy
It’s not all lost.
America is still a rich country, blessed with natural resources, human talent, and technological potential. It could be industrialized again. It could trade fairly. It could live in peace with other nations. It could heal.
But not under this regime.
Not under this predatory, speculative, parasitic form of capitalism.
Not under a system that prioritizes bombs over bridges, surveillance over solidarity, and profit over people.
In my article Satanic Capitalism, I wrote about the difference between good and bad capitalism. Good capitalism builds—factories, families, futures. Bad capitalism devours—markets, morals, and minds. We chose the latter.
America is like a man who stopped exercising in the ’60s, stuffed himself with junk food and propaganda, and now waddles through life bloated, angry, and confused. Sick—and still in denial.
The American nation is literally and spiritually obese—stuffed with fast food, fast war, and faster lies. Junk food for the body. Junk media for the mind. Junk economics for the soul.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
But the solution won’t come from the same people who caused it. It won’t come from Wall Street. It won’t come from Congress. It won’t come from the Pentagon or Silicon Valley.
It must come from us.
From New Democracy.
A democracy of citizens, not consumers. Of participants, not spectators.
A democracy that builds, not bombs. That listens, not spies. That feeds people—not lies.
That lives, rather than sells the illusion of life.