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Israel-Firsters Laura Loomer and Mark Levin: Loudest Insane Voices Pushing Donald Trump to Launch Nuclear Weapons.
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo | April 15, 2026
(Source: IsraelPalestineNews.org)
[Editor’s note: Harrison Berger writes: “More recently, Israel-firsters like Laura Loomer and Mark Levin were the loudest voices pushing Trump toward escalation and cheering him on as he threatened civilizational annihilation. Loomer, whom Trump reportedly solicits for advice, called on him to channel Curtis LeMay, the general whose fanatical bloodlust inspired Dr. Strangelove and who came within a hair of igniting nuclear war. Levin, for his part, arguably insinuated on his Fox News television show that dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran would be justified.” … Please share this information far and wide, and please feel free to share your thoughts/responses in the comments. Thank you very much. Peace.]
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We Are the Barbarians
Iran continues to face airstrikes from Israel and the US (screenshot)
The president’s threat to annihilate Iranian civilization took America to a dark place.
By Harrison Berger, Reposted from The American Conservative, April 10, 2026
On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to declare that “a civilization will die tonight.” By 8 p.m., the U.S. announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran had begun. Whether the ceasefire holds (or even takes hold) is already in question—Iran and the U.S. appear to be offering contradictory accounts of what the 10-point plan they allegedly agreed to actually says.
The best hope that it might stick comes from Israel, where TV presenters who spent Monday salivating over a clock counting down the minutes and hours until Trump’s planned genocide of Iranians were left confused and outraged when the president backed down shortly before the deadline.
But whether or not Trump ultimately goes as far as the Israelis would like him to, Americans must now reckon with the destruction already carried out in our name, the civilization-destroying actions Trump has threatened, and the barbarians we have become in the process.
As Tucker Carlson, the most prominent critic of the war with Iran, pointed out in his viral monologue Monday, there was very little that was American or Western about Trump’s threat to destroy an entire civilization. That is not to say the U.S. government hasn’t committed serious crimes before, including wars of aggression. As a study published in The Lancet, a scientific journal, found, U.S. and European sanctions have killed 38 million people since 1971. But those shameful actions were at least concealed behind a pretext, not declared outright as the objective itself.
Though it may seem like a distinction without a difference, Carlson convincingly argues it matters significantly. By abandoning even the aspiration of higher laws, we have embraced the “law of the jungle,” which is “a brutal and unforgiving law” that will not stop at Iran’s borders. “We know from history that the things you do will be done unto you,” Carlson said. “Once you set a standard, you will have to live by that standard.”
Indeed, Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization was not an expression of American values but the purest expression, and logical endpoint, of an ideology the United States has attached itself to under both Joe Biden and now Trump: Zionism and the Greater Israel project, first through U.S. support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, and most recently through the joint war of aggression against Iran.
And while the American taxpayers forced to fund those wars are told they are fought on our behalf to save “civilization,” it is now impossible to think of any force in recent history more destructive and threatening to civilization than the Greater Israel project—which wages an ISIS-style campaign to destroy every artifact, center of knowledge, and source of beauty in the region, and does so with American weapons, American service members, and American money.
The record of what has already been destroyed provides evidence that the U.S. and Israel wish to do exactly to Iran what ISIS and its various backers did to Syria. According to Iran’s minister of cultural heritage, U.S. and Israeli strikes have damaged more than 131 historical sites across the country including museums, palaces, and UNESCO-listed landmarks, with the heaviest losses in Tehran.
Among the centuries-old structures destroyed by U.S.–Israeli bombs is Iran’s Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage site; the Chehel Sotoun pavilion in Isfahan, a 17th-century monument from the Safavid period; the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, one of the architectural jewels of the Islamic world; and the Fin Garden in Kashan, one of Iran’s oldest surviving gardens which dates to the late 16th century.
Dozens of universities and research centers have been struck, including the Iran University of Science and Technology, Isfahan University of Technology, and Sharif University of Technology, “Iran’s MIT,” whose computer science center was reduced to rubble. A Tehran synagogue was also struck on Passover.
Our descent into barbarism has long been in the making, and the fingerprints all over that transformation are recognizably Israeli. One of the earliest signs of our transition came when the “War Department” began posting drone strike footage, often as memes, on social media. Where the government once prosecuted WikiLeaks and scrambled to conceal its war footage out of embarrassment, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon now shamelessly publishes such imagery on its own initiative, a direct import from Israel, which pioneered the model of broadcasting its own war crimes during the assault on Gaza.
More recently, Israel-Firsters like Laura Loomer and Mark Levin were the loudest voices pushing Trump toward escalation and cheering him on as he threatened civilizational annihilation. Loomer, whom Trump reportedly solicits for advice, called on him to channel Curtis LeMay, the general whose fanatical bloodlust inspired Dr. Strangelove and who came within a hair of igniting nuclear war. Levin, for his part, arguably insinuated on his Fox News television show that dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran would be justified.
Whether or not the ceasefire holds, Americans will have to reckon with what has already been done in our name, and with the fact that the Israel-Firsters who cheered every escalation have not been removed from their positions of influence. They remain right in the president’s ear, defining not just his second term but the international symbol of destruction and barbarism we are in the process of becoming.
Harrison Berger is a correspondent at The American Conservative. He has contributed to Drop Site News, The Nation, and Responsible Statecraft.
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Benjamin Franklin was in Saratoga on his way to Canada in 1776 when he began to have doubts about whether he and two colleagues could salvage the faltering American invasion of the British colony.
#OTD April 13, 1776, he wrote John Hancock, then president of the Continental Congress, saying the latest information he had received made him think “we shall be able to effect little there.”
He was right. His mission failed. Canada did not become the 14th colony.
#hedidnotconquer #canada #history #books #americanrevolution #benjaminfranklin @dundurnpress
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Benjamin Franklin was in Saratoga on his way to Canada in 1776 when he began to have doubts about whether he and two colleagues could salvage the faltering American invasion of the British colony.
#OTD April 13, 1776, he wrote John Hancock, then president of the Continental Congress, saying the latest information he had received made him think “we shall be able to effect little there.”
He was right. His mission failed. Canada did not become the 14th colony.
#hedidnotconquer #canada #history #books #americanrevolution #benjaminfranklin @dundurnpress
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Benjamin Franklin was in Saratoga on his way to Canada in 1776 when he began to have doubts about whether he and two colleagues could salvage the faltering American invasion of the British colony.
#OTD April 13, 1776, he wrote John Hancock, then president of the Continental Congress, saying the latest information he had received made him think “we shall be able to effect little there.”
He was right. His mission failed. Canada did not become the 14th colony.
#hedidnotconquer #canada #history #books #americanrevolution #benjaminfranklin @dundurnpress
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Benjamin Franklin was in Saratoga on his way to Canada in 1776 when he began to have doubts about whether he and two colleagues could salvage the faltering American invasion of the British colony.
#OTD April 13, 1776, he wrote John Hancock, then president of the Continental Congress, saying the latest information he had received made him think “we shall be able to effect little there.”
He was right. His mission failed. Canada did not become the 14th colony.
#hedidnotconquer #canada #history #books #americanrevolution #benjaminfranklin @dundurnpress
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Benjamin Franklin was in Saratoga on his way to Canada in 1776 when he began to have doubts about whether he and two colleagues could salvage the faltering American invasion of the British colony.
#OTD April 13, 1776, he wrote John Hancock, then president of the Continental Congress, saying the latest information he had received made him think “we shall be able to effect little there.”
He was right. His mission failed. Canada did not become the 14th colony.
#hedidnotconquer #canada #history #books #americanrevolution #benjaminfranklin @dundurnpress
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Benjamin Button trades satire for slow, sentimental inevitability, while The Age of Adaline hides behind pseudo-science and never fully explores what a century of life could actually mean. Both start with bold temporal anomalies but settle for familiar love stories instead of pushing the implications.
#FilmAnalysis #Cinema #BenjaminButton #AgeOfAdaline #FilmAdaptation #Storytelling #MovieReview #Film #Screenwriting #Narrative
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/the-temporal-paradox-of-cinematic-adaptation-a-critical-analysis-of-benjamin-button-and-the-age-of-adaline/ -
@BenjaminHCCarr We are collectively at such a massive deficit, at nearly every scale, that we can no longer afford ANY artificial ANYthing.
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@BenjaminHCCarr We are collectively at such a massive deficit, at nearly every scale, that we can no longer afford ANY artificial ANYthing.
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Trump mulls 10,000 more Mideast troops as escalation fears grow. #BenjaminNetanyahu #Block3 #CommonDreams #DonaldTrump #IranWar #KhargIsland #UnitedStates #usmarines #USIsrael
https://iwpost.com/trump-mulls-10000-more-mideast-troops-as-escalation-fears-grow/?fsp_sid=6196 -
Benjamine qui fête ses 14 ans aujourd'hui 🎉🥳🎂🎊
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Benjamine qui fête ses 14 ans aujourd'hui 🎉🥳🎂🎊
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Benjamin #Netanyahu: „Am dat regimului terorist 🇮🇷#Iranian cea mai grea lovitură din istoria sa”.
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https://www.fogolf.com/1222118/charlie-woods-to-defend-junior-golf-title-in-florida/ Charlie Woods to defend junior golf title in Florida #BenjaminSchool #CharlieWoods #JuniorGolf #PelicanGolfClub #RoyalPalmBeach #Taylormade #TigerWoods
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Laura Rozen -- @lrozen
#Vance WH pool:
"During the refuel stop in Ramstein, a U.S. official told the pool that no members of the negotiating team stayed behind in Islamabad, including #JaredKushner, #SteveWitkoff or members of the technical teams."
#Iran #IranWar #WorldWarIII #DonaldTrump #PeteHegseth #BenjaminNetanyahu #DonaldTrump #Trump #StephenMiller #MAGA #RepublicanParty #Republicans #GOP
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- https://mrap.fr/moselle-ouest-conference-de-benjamin-stora-a-metz.html (Moselle-Ouest : conférence de Benjamin Stora à Metz)
Le comité de Moselle Ouest du MRAP et le forum IRTS de Lorraine ont invité Benjamin Stora à présenter son dernier livre co-écrit avec Thomas Snégaroff « France-Algérie, anatomie d’une déchirure » au Ban Saint Martin (voisin de Metz) le 9 avril 2026.
250 personnes ont assisté à cet événement témoignant de cette « volonté de savoir » que Benjamin Stora constate chez les plus jeunes générations.
Le propos de l’historien a été suivi d’échanges avec le public et d’une séance de dédicaces.
Le MRAP a saisi l’occasion pour présenter ses panneaux consacrés à l’œuvre de Frantz Fanon et a proposé le livret élaboré par le comité lunellois du MRAP.
MRAP Moselle-Ouest
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Jill Filipovic reposted
Centrism Fan Acct 🔹@Wilson__Valdez
"There's never been a president who cares less about doing the job of president."
Aaron Rupar -- @atrupar
Here's #Trump entering a #UFC327 event as #Vance says that negotiations with #Iran have failed
#Iran #IranWar #WorldWarIII #DonaldTrump #PeteHegseth #BenjaminNetanyahu #DonaldTrump #Trump #StephenMiller #MAGA #RepublicanParty #Republicans #GOP
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Israel acusa de antisemitismo a España por la elección de Netanyahu en El Burgo para su 'Quema de Judas' de este año https://www.eldiario.es/rastreador/israel-acusa-antisemitismo-espana-eleccion-netanyahu-burgo-quema-judas-ano_132_13135916.html El Rastreador #BenjaminNetanyahu #SemanaSanta #Israel #Málaga
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"Benjamin Netanyahu talked Trump into it because he is facing an immediate corruption trial at home, and this has provided both a distraction, and a postponement, and, conceivably, exoneration should he be perceived as a national hero.
Viktor Orban, Hungarian despot, faces an election tomorrow. Polls have shown that he is losing big. The war he has helped create has provided him with a last-minute campaign weapon he is using:"
#Trump #Netanyahu #Orbán #chaos #authoritarianism #strongmen
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"Benjamin Netanyahu talked Trump into it because he is facing an immediate corruption trial at home, and this has provided both a distraction, and a postponement, and, conceivably, exoneration should he be perceived as a national hero.
Viktor Orban, Hungarian despot, faces an election tomorrow. Polls have shown that he is losing big. The war he has helped create has provided him with a last-minute campaign weapon he is using:"
#Trump #Netanyahu #Orbán #chaos #authoritarianism #strongmen
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"Benjamin Netanyahu talked Trump into it because he is facing an immediate corruption trial at home, and this has provided both a distraction, and a postponement, and, conceivably, exoneration should he be perceived as a national hero.
Viktor Orban, Hungarian despot, faces an election tomorrow. Polls have shown that he is losing big. The war he has helped create has provided him with a last-minute campaign weapon he is using:"
#Trump #Netanyahu #Orbán #chaos #authoritarianism #strongmen
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"Benjamin Netanyahu talked Trump into it because he is facing an immediate corruption trial at home, and this has provided both a distraction, and a postponement, and, conceivably, exoneration should he be perceived as a national hero.
Viktor Orban, Hungarian despot, faces an election tomorrow. Polls have shown that he is losing big. The war he has helped create has provided him with a last-minute campaign weapon he is using:"
#Trump #Netanyahu #Orbán #chaos #authoritarianism #strongmen
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"Benjamin Netanyahu talked Trump into it because he is facing an immediate corruption trial at home, and this has provided both a distraction, and a postponement, and, conceivably, exoneration should he be perceived as a national hero.
Viktor Orban, Hungarian despot, faces an election tomorrow. Polls have shown that he is losing big. The war he has helped create has provided him with a last-minute campaign weapon he is using:"
#Trump #Netanyahu #Orbán #chaos #authoritarianism #strongmen
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El partido Iustitia Europa denuncia a Netanyahu ante la Audiencia Nacional por la detención del militar español en Líbano https://www.eldiario.es/politica/partido-iustitia-europa-denuncia-netanyahu-audiencia-nacional-detencion-militar-espanol-libano_1_13134679.html Javier Lillo #BenjaminNetanyahu #MargaritaRobles #Israel #Líbano
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El partido Iustitia Europa denuncia a Netanyahu ante la Audiencia Nacional por la detención del militar español en Líbano https://www.eldiario.es/politica/partido-iustitia-europa-denuncia-netanyahu-audiencia-nacional-detencion-militar-espanol-libano_1_13134679.html Javier Lillo #BenjaminNetanyahu #MargaritaRobles #Israel #Líbano
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El partido Iustitia Europa denuncia a Netanyahu ante la Audiencia Nacional por la detención del militar español en Líbano https://www.eldiario.es/politica/partido-iustitia-europa-denuncia-netanyahu-audiencia-nacional-detencion-militar-espanol-libano_1_13134679.html Javier Lillo #BenjaminNetanyahu #MargaritaRobles #Israel #Líbano
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El partido Iustitia Europa denuncia a Netanyahu ante la Audiencia Nacional por la detención del militar español en Líbano https://www.eldiario.es/politica/partido-iustitia-europa-denuncia-netanyahu-audiencia-nacional-detencion-militar-espanol-libano_1_13134679.html Javier Lillo #BenjaminNetanyahu #MargaritaRobles #Israel #Líbano
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Glad to see Benjamin Finegold is back covering the Candidates : )
