Journey to the center of the world of American leaders’ madness and ruin, writes Dennis Kucinich, to see desperate Iranian parents picking through rubble, searching for any signs of their little girls.
The ruins of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, on Feb 28, after it was attacked U.S.-Israeli air strikes. (Mehr News Agency /Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY 4.0)
By Dennis Kucinich
Substack
The Trump Administration, at the behest of the decrepit Netanyahu government, was instrumental in the bombing of a girls’ elementary school in Iran on Saturday, killing 57 children.
Let that sink in.
Journey to the center of the world of American leaders’ madness and ruin to see desperate Iranian parents picking through rubble, searching for any signs of their little girls. [Iran’s Tasnim News Agency cited the Judiciary of Minab as saying that the death toll had risen to 85.]
Now tell those parents, as we are being told, that America has done this so the Iranian people can be free. It’s the Empire’s new equation, Freedom = Death.
This murderous approach that the Trump Administration has wantonly indulged is identical to the policy of the Netanyahu government to bomb schools in Gaza and to murder innocent children as a (psychopathic) determination of heading off retribution in the future. The murder of children has become a state sacrament.
This is, in fact, an extension of the Epstein saga, the destruction of innocence through child rape, murder and cannibalism by powerful people whose thirst for blood will never be slaked in this cartwheeling carnival of human sacrifice called war.
Peter Berger, in [his 1974 book] Pyramids of Sacrifice drew the equation between the Aztec civilization’s cult of human sacrifice and the collapse of its empire, writing:
“Thus the great pyramid of Cholula provides a metaphorical paradigm for the relations among theory, power and the victims of both – the intellectuals who define reality, the power wielders who shape the world to conform to the definitions and the others who are called upon to suffer in consequence of both enterprises.”
Consider the wider context in which these events occur:
- The rise of predatory Zionism, with its execution of a strategy of annihilation, ethnic cleansing, mass murder and genocide and with ambitions for an Empire from the Euphrates to the Nile;
- the attempt to stifle dissent on U.S. college campuses, threats to university funding; changes in First Amendment law at state levels to punish critics of Israel; the domination of both political parties in U.S. politics by AIPAC and affiliated groups;
- the domination of the media by those more dedicated to the shameful cause of the Likud Government of Netanyahu, Smotrich and Ben Gvir than they are to the United States Constitution.
Front Row Seat on Western Civilization Decline
The Department of War plaque newly installed on the River Entrance in front of the Pentagon in November 2025. (DoW / Madelyn Keech)
We have a front row seat at the steady decline of Western “civilization,” led by the U.S. government, recently precipitating the Iraq-Iran War, the war in Afghanistan, the War in Iraq, the War against Lebanon, the War against Syria, the War against Gaza and the West Bank, the War against Yemen and now presenting the (second) U.S. war against Iran.
Renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War is splendid Truth in Advertising.
Simultaneously, the collapse of the American economy is in the offing, mired in debt, yet preparing to appropriate $1.5 trillion dollars a year for war, most of next year’s discretionary spending which would otherwise be used for the health, education and general welfare of the American people.
Today the U.S., the “most powerful military in the world” has been reduced to being an arm of the Israeli government, in service of greater Israel.
That we have made Netanyahu’s long-desired war upon Iran our own, is a sign that Lincoln’s Prayer of a “Government of the People, by the People and For the People, Shall not Perish,” is no longer part of our national invocation. Nor are George Washington’s admonitions about foreign entanglements regarded, nor President Eisenhower’s warning about the military industrial complex.
No today, America’s leaders cast aside centuries of accumulated wisdom of governance and descend into a circle of Hell, lower than Dante imagined in the Inferno, a place reserved for those who sacrifice their nations for personal wealth and power and for whom nothing is immoral, there is no spiritual code and no divine being other than themselves.
The modern punishments of Impeachment and trial by the Hague are insufficient to deal with such beings.
This article is from the author’s Substack and reprinted with permission.
Views expressed in this article may or may not reflect those of Consortium News.
Please let me not be the first person to have to open and look into Jeffery Dahmer’s
refrigerator or icebox
Read This poem :
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Robert Service wrote the famous poem “The Cremation of Sam McGee” (1907)
Why my interest , to share .
Postcard 1:
Front:
Returning from a polar bear hunt . Distance traveled 1000 miles .
Message on back :
yukon alaska
if you want hig game come out here moose caribou mountain sheep and goats
rabbits by the millions grisly black and brown and silvertips all ready for fight
if you come in there way
D. Whittaker
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Postcard 2:
Front:
Landing From Steamer On Ice Edge , Off Nome , Alaska .
Message on back :
god help the gold hunter if they cant help themselves this is wild and desolate country but rich in gold copper and all kinds of minerals there is a dead prospector in the next room someone shot him and took his gold no fooling hear
your D. Whittaker
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included as written with mispellings etc.
These cards are not postmarked , i cannot date and may have mailed in envelope together but seems wru=itten by an eldery person with shaky hands ? my analysis ,
From an estate/collector .
Perfect description of what a pathocracy will get up to, if not stopped. Human survival is on the line, and they don’t care. If we do, then how are we going to stop them?
Our primordial Gods have a always demanded Blood sacrifices and we have never lost our lust to satisfy them.
Empires come, and empires go, but man’s inhumanity to man remains constant.
We now have the means for mass destruction and mean to use it as a final offering
Funny thing growing up poor, and not an elite mayor and congress-critter. I’ve always known that America has no problem sacrificing the poor or the young. We might for instance connect to a dot that was the Obama Opiod Epidemic for Profit as an example. How many of America’s young got sacrificed to the Golden Calf of Profit? And that’s just one example.
If there’s a dime to be made, America has long had no problem sacrificing its own people, or even its young. In fact, the history of the many American wars is a direct testament to that fact. But, it is nice to see Elite Mayors catching up to where I was when I was 14 and realized that for my 18th birthday the Democrats and Republicans were going to send me a Bi-Partisan Draft Notice to send me to a jungle to kill people that had never done nuthin to me all for the Profit of the American War Machine.
It is quite obvious that Israeli intelligence has the black on Trump ( and Starmer)via Epstein. Photos,videos. If he didn’t involve USA in the attacks on Iran,these would be released. This would be the end of trump,maybe even prison.
I hope Putin’s prediction comes true that “the vampire ball is almost over.” Humanity can’t take much more of this.
I note that while we hear a lot about human trafficking with regards to the Epstein files, we barely hear of murder, sacrifices and cannibalism. This article is an exception. And I only read independent media, never mainstream media. Imagine how the ‘reality’ of most people, nursed by mainstream media, looks like.
Very Strong words, and all true. Now add the fact, and I do mean fact that this is far bigger than Trump, this is western civilization gone fascist and fighting to feed our fossil fuel addiction like an army of junkies at war with anyone standing in the way of their supply.
Only organizing for nonviolent revolution at the grass roots level holds any hope for a livable future.. Only real citizen based politics that leaves behind the baggage of the utter failure of the American revolution and its transformation into an empire as cruel as the British, Roman and 3rd reich empires gives us a chance to interrupt the growing climate disaster that is coming like a tidal wave, along with the crash of an economy 38 trillion in debt and spending like there is no tomorrow mostly on wars that only benefit the Epstein class, and the inevitable devastation of a military following Israel and their purchased idiots in congress and the white house into multiple wars.
Your caliber of response to the U.S. madness in Iran is exactly what is needed, Dennis. Keep it up!
Also interesting is what Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei explained about why he didn’t hide (like Netanyahu) shortly before he was killed.
Atrocity after fuckin Atrocity ffs Starmer is also supporting this barbarism surely by logic he is also a target
Nation-States are an artificial human construct.
Chromosomes make for the differences.
Thank you Dennis Kucinich I am antiwar pro peace no war with Iran
Call Congressmen Gottheimer and Moskowitz and tell them to vote against the war with Iran
Dennis I actually voted for you for president in the democratic primary vs. John Kerry. Thatz one of the few times I voted enthusiastically. I am an independent now. I am opposed to this war with Iran and it will make the epstein class and epstein regime wealthier kill our soldiers their soldiers and innocent civilians on all sides
This war is human sacrifice
This war will further ruin our environment
And ruin our economy
I always thought you were legitimate and a stand up man thank you for caring about real men and real women
Adding to greenhawk’s comment, I remember well Kucinich’s eloquence on the floor of the House in October, 2002, forcefully and convincingly presenting the case against going to war against Iraq! And with this war against Iran, we are witnessing a sad testament of how far back we have fallen, when the sad excuse of Democratic Party leadership barely attempts to force Trump and Co to come to Congress.
You inspire us, Dennis Kucinich! Thank you!
Did I miss something? Epstein wasn’t mentioned…
Wars are run on oil, no oil, no war. So economist Hudson just said on Democracy Now! this morning, all these countries produce oil and Iran is the last one that was attacked AFTER it had agreed to not build a nuke, ever. He thinks the attack occurred to avoid peace and control oil.
What do you think?
“Epstein wasn’t mentioned…”
See paragraph six:
“This is, in fact, an extension of the Epstein saga, the destruction of innocence through child rape, murder and cannibalism by powerful people whose thirst for blood will never be slaked in this cartwheeling carnival of human sacrifice called war.”
The attack occurred to avoid peace and control oil (US petro dollars dominate the world econ0my) is my main point.
The Epstein affair is about so much more than trafficking and pedos — so much more that I fear the sexual abuse aspects are obfuscating the central truth being revealed here. This is about no less than what the ravages of hypercapitalism and unchecked power have wrought upon the state of Western civilization itself. A tiny elite, “The Epstein Class,” has succeeded over the decades — and so slowly and gradually that most of us failed to notice — in amassing near-total control over all of society, not just government. Dennis Kucinich, as usual, is right on the money when he says that class does not merely believe, but “knows” with certainty, that they are vastly superior to the rest of us. If people aren’t getting by now that it is, all of it, one big club and we ain’t in it, they never will.
The Hidden Tyranny by Walter White, a video called The Day Isr*#l attacked America, Candace Owen’s interview with Philip Turney, a survivor of the attempted false flag attack on the USS Liberty, Michael Collins Pipers book – Final Judgement: The missing link in the JFK files, 911C2C.org investigations into 9/11 and S Mitford-Gibsons book ‘A History of Central Banking’ are all essential reading & viewing to understand the horror show that we are all living in.
I was just re-watching Oliver Stone’s “Untold History of the United States”, including the prequels that take it back McKinley’s massacres in the Philippines and the Wall Street Banker’s role in getting American youth slaughtered in WW1. I find that series to always be a good, in-depth reminder of how America got so very far away from democracy and freedom. And, since it begins in one Gilded Age of Oligarchy and gets into the Obama years and thus on the doorstep of this modern Gilded Age of Oligarchy, I suppose it can provide both an interesting artistic point of view of symmetry. As well as an example of how settling for minor reforms really just leads a people back to yet another Gilded Age of Oligarchs, no matter how New and Great that Deal was supposed to be.
The Epstein Files, for me, has been something of a nightmare to read and witness!
So hard to wrap my head around it because my heart feels so wounded by the revelations.
Cannibalism and sacrifice?!
Truly we will know their worth by their deeds.
And these elite are hell imcarnate!
They hate God, Dennis.
Well, what can go wrong when a schizophrenic fascist ends upp under the influence of a genocidal sadist?
The constant state of chaos , bloodshed , theft and violence. And all these Jeffrey Epstein’s madams and beauty queens, acting under the pretence of “Human rights for youths and children”.
Dennis, if your heart is like this, you should lead the American government!
You are superb by your: “No today, America’s leaders cast aside centuries of accumulated wisdom of governance and descend into a circle of Hell, lower than Dante imagined in the Inferno, a place reserved for those who sacrifice their nations for personal wealth and power and for whom nothing is immoral, there is no spiritual code and no divine being other than themselves.”
Another war, another defeat for the Empire of War, Greed and Hypocrisy:
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You are correct, Dennis Kucinich. I have come to recognize in my old age that I am now no more than a pre-autopsy in a Settler-Colonial barony. And all for the sake of John of Patmos writing an hallucination called “The Book of Revelation” to save himself from ultimate destruction on a dark beach in ancient Greece.