A vision of the apocalypse in Tehran, today, after US-Israeli strikes on Iran’s oil refineries last night. As I stated on X, “The monsters who did this are gloating. They live for destruction, and nothing else, and the more it resembles the apocalypse, the happier they are. Lost, depraved devils in human form.”
As the illegal US-Israeli “war” on Iran continues, with, last night, horrific attacks on Tehran’s oil refineries that enveloped the city in a toxic, apocalyptic black fossil fuel cloud, I examine, in my new article my website, Will the World Survive As US and Israeli Death Cults Unite to Rain Down Endless Apocalyptic Genocidal Destruction on Iran?, what has led to this point.
Sickeningly, and alarmingly, the apocalyptic conditions right now involve the grotesque convergence of the two most malignant ideologies in the world today — Zionism, under the exterminatory leadership of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Christian Zionism, its absurd but deadly offshoot in the US, whose adherents believe that the re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty in Palestine and the wider Levant region is a prerequisite for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
In prayer meetings in the White House, Christian Zionists lay hands on Trump and worship him as though he is Christ reborn, but while the godless Trump gave the go-ahead for the US to join Israel in its deadly crusade, he is growing noticeably more incoherent, and it is Pete Hegseth, the woefully unqualified Secretary of Defense (rebranded as the Secretary of War), who has become the more prominent face of the “war”, embracing Christian Zionism, and delivering grotesquely vile and violent speeches at press conferences, enthusing about the genocidal slaughter of the entire Iranian people.
In my article, I try to capture the current situation by evoking the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, as portended in Jewish and Christian scriptures, and having finally manifested on earth as follows:
“The Horseman of Conquest, the ailing, flatulent life-hater Donald Trump, whose mount is actually a golf cart; the Horseman of War, the dismal cosplaying fake warrior Pete Hegseth, who is monstrously aroused by openly talking about the extermination of an entire people; the Horseman of Famine, which is actually the entire world of extractive capitalism dressed in a suit and riding a petrol-powered metal horse which is stuck in a gas station forecourt because the oil supplies have run out; and the Horseman of Death, Benjamin Netanyahu, whose rage at life itself is so all-consuming that he, more than anyone who has wielded power in our lifetimes, may burn the world down before acknowledging that he is the manifestation of a sickness and pestilence on the face of the earth on a scale that is unprecedented in most of our lifetimes.”
“The only good news”, as I describe it, “is that, of these four bleak visions of the apocalypse, the most dominant, although the others don’t realize it, is the Horseman of Famine, as the unintended consequences of this apocalyptic war spill out across the entire region, and, from there, around the whole world, collapsing the global economy through massive disruption to the production of, and distribution of the fossil fuels on which the entire edifice of global civilization depends.”
As I ask in my conclusion, “Will the world put up with this, or can some way be found to avert catastrophe, and to rein in the three forces — Trump, the Zionists and the Christian Zionists — who now, in an unprecedented manifestation of extreme evil, exist solely to rain down apocalyptic genocidal extermination not only on Iran and the rest of the Middle East, but on the whole world?”
My short recent video about Guantánamo
At the recent monthly vigil for the closure of Guantánamo in Parliament Square in London, I was interviewed by Ranjan Balakumaran of The Canary, in which I provided a brief summary of quite why Guantánamo remains such a crucial crucible of fundamental lawlessness. My report about the global vigils — with numerous photos — will follow soon.
You can find the interview on Instagram here.
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