It’s a war on the human conscience. Sentencing anti-genocide activists as terrorists. Working to deport mainstream foreign policy experts for criticizing a U.S. war. They’re actually punishing people for not acting like sociopaths.
By Caitlin Johnstone
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The U.K. has sentenced four anti-genocide activists to years in prison on terrorism charges, and the U.S. is working to deport a prominent foreign policy analyst for criticizing the war in Iran.
Four members of the group Palestine Action were sentenced to a combined total of 25 years in prison on Friday for breaking into a U.K. weapons factory owned by Israeli company Elbit Systems in 2024 and damaging some of the genocide machinery contained therein. The judge refused to allow the activists to explain to the jury why they did what they did, and also refused to notify the jury that the defendants could receive terrorism sentences if convicted.
The BBC reports that this is believed to be the first time anyone has received a terrorism sentence for property damage. Amnesty International has slammed the sentencing as “completely disproportionate” to the crime.
UK Palestine Action Activists Hit With ‘Completely Disproportionate’ Terrorism Sentences for Israeli Weapons Sabotage
?Amnesty UK said the defendants “were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make an example of them.” https://t.co/eOsqI0oR7z
— Common Dreams (@commondreams) June 12, 2026
The U.K. has previously made headlines with its ridiculous classification of Palestine Action as a terrorist group, leading to mass arrests of activists who hold signs saying “I support Palestine Action”.
Meanwhile in the United States, the Trump administration is reportedly targeting foreign policy analyst Trita Parsi for his criticism of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
According to Zionist outlet The Free Press, the U.S. State Department has launched an investigation into the possibility of revoking the green card status held by Parsi, an Iran-born Swedish citizen. The Free Press quotes an unnamed State Department official as saying “Anyone who seeks to undermine the U.S., we’re taking a hard look at,” which would include “people who support adversaries of ours and whose work furthers their agenda and undermines our security.”
This is a significant expansion of the Trump administration’s efforts to stomp out domestic foreign policy dissent. Previously the State Department was only working to deport unknown university students like Mahmoud Khalil for their opposition to the Gaza holocaust, while Parsi is a professional commentator who is regularly seen on CNN. It’s an escalation in much the same way the U.K. has moved to banning the visas of mainstream pundits like Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker for voicing criticisms of Israel.
Report: State Dept. Opens Probe of Iranian-Born Trita Parsi, Critic of Trump’s War https://t.co/U5yH2kPTgo
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) June 12, 2026
It’s a war on the human conscience. Sentencing anti-genocide activists as terrorists. Working to deport mainstream foreign policy experts for criticizing an American war. They’re actually punishing people for not acting like sociopaths.
It’s the same war on the conscience that saw the empire persecute Julian Assange, crush pro-Palestine demonstrations on university campuses, investigate peace activists for bringing aid to Cuba, and dramatically ramp up the suppression of free speech to silence criticism of Israel.
In a healthy society, a person of conscience would thrive while a sociopath would be shunned and marginalized. In western society it’s the exact opposite: people of conscience are sent to prison, and sociopaths are made president of the United States.
That’s what you get when you live under an empire established on and driven by sociopathic values. The agenda to dominate and control the entire human population is evil, because it can only be accomplished through nonstop war, militarism, propaganda, deception, and tyranny.
That’s why the truth-tellers are branded traitors, the anti-genocide demonstrators are branded anti-semites, and the peace activists are branded terrorists. We live in a backward dystopia with backward values, so the good are beaten down while the wicked rule the world.
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Even in a moment when conscience is being targeted and truth?telling is treated as a threat, something steadier is rising beneath the noise — a widening recognition that ordinary people, acting from basic human decency, are refusing to be shaped by fear or propaganda.
Across campuses, courtrooms, and public squares, the courage to speak, to witness, and to stand with the vulnerable is quietly knitting a different future into being. These pressures, harsh as they are, reveal how powerful the human conscience actually is: powerful enough that systems built on domination feel compelled to suppress it. Yet every act of clarity, every refusal to dehumanize, every insistence on compassion strengthens the field of those who are choosing a saner, more humane world.
This is how the tide turns — not through the loudness of the sociopathic, but through the persistence of the awake.
Don’t worry – AI will be smarter than any human, and fed an infinite diet of all the electronically available ramblings that today’s Gods of Greed and Genocide allow to be published.
Human conscience is a defect, just like Post-Traumatic Stress is a Disorder. AI will know what to do. Burn all the fossil fuels! Waste all clean water! Douse the planet with nucleotides! Close the universities!
Science is complete. Planet Earth is just a source of materials for the greediest of the greedy, but the sad thing is that everyone seems ok with that. If humans can’t appreciate it, they don’t deserve it, so maybe it’s all for the best if humans have no conscience.
Anti slimebag party is what we need.
Core Pillars for the Platform
Total Transparency:
Force politicians to livestream all meetings with lobbyists.
Ban Insider Trading: Prohibit lawmakers from trading individual stocks while in office.
Term Limits: Establish strict limits to prevent career politicians from holding power forever.
No Dark Money:
Overhaul campaign finance laws to expose hidden corporate donors.
Instant Recall: Give voters the power to remove corrupt officials immediately via vote.
Just a quick little question. How long can the MAGA, right wing nuts and good little “center right “ cuties be so brainwashed?
Well and courageously stated by Caitlin Johnstone. The judiciary are with rare exceptions partisan operatives, inventing any perjury of fact and law to rationalize party policies in response to donation bribes, for career gains. No democracy can permit economic influence upon government or mass media beyond limited registered personal donations: our western pseudo-democracies are veils for tribal tyranny, a structure that does qualify as terrorism, subversion of our constitutions, and treason.
Note that S Korean president Soon Suk-Yeol has now been sentenced to life in prison by their parliament for provoking conflict with N Korea by drone attacks, and for using that pretext to declare martial law to militarily prevent their parliament from convening to impeach him, which it promptly did anyway. The US Congress and EU actively support such fascist tyranny, their only path to election and power.
His Majesty’s Government and His Majesty’s Judges have declared that having a human consciousness is illegal. Subjects of His Majesty must agree to live by His Majesty’s moral values, and having any other thoughts other than those of His Majesty is definitely “thought crime.”
Monarchy is always an authoritarian form of government. Even when it hides behind a system that pretends to elections, but always does what the Elites desire. No Kings! No Queens! No Monarchs!
And no hyper rich.
We must become aware of those individuals having too much power.
Humans very often cannot handle power responsibly, starting even on very small scale already.
It looks like power absolutely must be attached to a strict control mechanism, provided by the people.
Any individuals not qualifying must not get into power in the first place, and if already in power abusing it, must be fired.
The sociopaths are persecuting British citizens for objecting to the Gaza genocide which makes them psychopaths, now. Cruel, violent, unobservant deviants.
The zionists infest the British establishment: government, police, Judiciary, military, media. So the psychopathic nature is no surprise, as is the continuous cries of antisemitism and victimhood.
PM Starmer is a zionist, Judge Jeremy Johnson is a zionist, Policeman Mark Rowley is a zionist, go figure.
“zionism rules, ok?”