With the current massive deployment of U.S. Naval forces into the Middle East we are precariously straddling what well could be the brink of World War III. And the distinction here between liberal and conservative, Democrat or Republican has little bearing on this issue since warmongering has become a profitable policy for both sides of the aisle in D.C. these days. Our entire political class, left and right, seem to be diabolically enamored by the prospect of more slaughter at the expense of the peoples in other nations. We have watched helplessly as Washington’s bi-partisan lies and distortions have inflicted countless casualties in Ukraine and Gaza over the past four years alone, but apparently the empire’s lust for blood has still not been fully satiated. Never forget that it was American supplied munitions that have murdered over 70,000 civilians in Gaza alone, maiming countless others, the majority being defenseless women and children, and I fear what these widely publicized horrors are doing to jade the souls of the American people.

History has long demonstrated that leaders can be grossly dishonest and bereft of common human decency. But what has been severely eroded within my lifetime is the public’s expectation that our leaders should at least exhibit a nominal degree of honesty and decency. Sad but true, after decades of corrupt behavior we no longer expect the least modicum of integrity from our elected and non-elected officials, primarily because we have seen time and again that high moral character is no longer a prerequisite for high office. The Clintons and Epstein class elites have successfully bred a widespread cynicism among the populace who no longer see real statesmen but only back door vacuum cleaner salesmen guiding the ship of state.

I am often reminded of actor Wallace Shawn’s most enduring line from that classic movie The Princess Bride. It was but a single word hilariously uttered in supposed astonishment, “INCONCEIVABLE!” Shawn marvelously stitched together a few syllables into a colorful absurdity bent on denying or looking past something that was patently obvious – like whistling past a graveyard. Within the context of that highly entertaining film it became a brilliant device which exposed the comic vanity of Shawn’s character who flattered himself to be the smartest man on earth. (A premonition of Donald Trump perhaps?)

Unfortunately in today’s realpolitik world our governmental, educational, and business institutions have become all to accustomed to employing the same “INCONCEIVABLE” canard when seriously questioned regarding many of their ethically suspect activities, many of which have produced incredibly lethal outcomes. Yet it is future generations which will have to contend with the fallout from such dirty dealings. Consider, for instance, the 9/11 terrorist attack which led directly to a massive erosion of civil liberties such as the de facto nullification of Fourth Amendment protections, and the loss of any “presumption of innocence” for any ordinary citizen attempting to board an airliner.

In short 9/11 has been used ever since as a pretext for the imposition of any number of police state measures upon our supposedly ‘free society.’ Ostensibly, the taking of such daily freedoms is a small price to pay for ‘safety,’ but what gets lost in the word fog is identifying exactly where the real threat lies. The enemy is apparently so amorphous that our ‘protection’ has also demanded the prosecution of endless and non-productive overseas warfare. Thus 9/11 has been used to justify the instigation of color revolutions in Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and anywhere else where the so-called “enemies of democracy” may be suspected of hiding.

One would think that after the profound carnage inflicted on Iraqis, Afghans, Palestinians and many others in the wake of 9/11 it might be prudent to carefully investigate what actually happened on that infamous day in history (as opposed to the ‘officially provided narrative’). One example, for nearly 25 years now professional engineers have questioned the inexplicable implosion of the building known as WTC7 some seven hours after the twin towers mysteriously collapsed. There had been no serious structural damage to WTC7 and only a small fire burning on the ground floor. Yet film clips of the event document what appears to be a precision perfect demolition of that 43 story office tower. For that matter, many engineers question whether aluminum and plastic jetliners striking the rigid steel caged World Trade Towers 1 and 2 could have precipitated, again, their near precision perfect demolition. Considering that jet fuel burns at less than half the temperatures necessary for steel to buckle, how were two such collapses possible less than an hour after being respectively struck by planes?

Even more incredible for the professional engineers is the fact that no forensic tests were performed on the WTC structural members before being hauled away in barges to China. Nonetheless, a few enterprising scientists and engineers managed to collect samples of dust and debris from the site for analysis which then turned up traces of military grade thermite, a compound used in controlled demolitions and, unlike jet fuel or office furniture, does quickly attain temperatures hot enough to compromise, indeed cut through steel members. Box cutters packed away in some hijackers backpack may be plausible, but enough undetected military grade thermite to bring down a massive building hidden in a hiker’s backpack borders on the ludicrous. Yet the predictable response of our government to any logical objections to the 9/11 Commission’s pat narrative over the past quarter century can be summed up in that one iconic word, “INCONCEIVABLE!”

Apparently it was just as inconceivable that many crucial documents pertaining to the then unfolding ENRON scandal would have been stored in the same doomed WTC7 yet, conveniently, such was the case. It is also inconceivable that on the same day of infamy a plane or missile, whatever it may have been, slammed into the Pentagon at the very exact spot where an ongoing audit of hundreds of billions of missing defense dollars just happened to be ongoing. All records and investigating personnel conveniently obliterated. But to suggest that there might be some nefarious plot behind these happy coincidences ~ “INCONCEIVABLE!” Only a kook or someone on the lunatic fringe would infer the crazy possibility of some inside conspiracy. Patriotic Americans all knew that the 9/11 attacks were solely the secret work of evil Muslim terrorists. Any other theory is simply “INCONCEIVABLE!”

I am often amazed at how fictional Hollywood movies sometimes anticipate future real life events. A classic example of this phenomenon would be the 1962 thriller Manchurian Candidate. In it an American G.I. is brainwashed by Communists to act as a hypnotically programmed assassin of a presidential candidate. This corresponds to the same time period during which the CIA was conducting its infamous MK Ultra experiments in mind control. Oddly, little more than a year later, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was in fact assassinated, supposedly by an ex G.I. named Lee Harvey Oswald whom evidence later confirmed had definite CIA connections. Never allowed to speak in his own defense, Oswald was murdered gangland style while in police custody even as the press, and later Warren Commission, painted him as a Communist sympathizer. And anyone who questioned the Oswald / lone gunman official narrative either turned up dead or else was tarred as an unreliable conspiracy theorist.

In the first category would be the famous New York celebrity and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen who had closely interviewed Oswald’s killer, Jack Ruby. In November, 1965 she told friends that she was ready to break the JFK assassination case “wide open.” That same month Kilgallen was found dead of “undetermined causes” in her Manhattan apartment, mere days before publishing her findings. Hoover’s FBI arrived on the scene immediately and her “ready for publication” manuscript disappeared down the FBI’s deepest rabbit hole. The second category is exemplified by former New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison who could see that all the physical, audio, and video evidence of Kennedy’s assassination pointed to two or more gunmen which meant the involvement of a much larger conspiracy. For his efforts at unwinding the truth Garrison was ridiculed and smeared even though several years later the mid 1970s House Assassination Committee had to reluctantly admit to some form of collusion by a second gunman. It mattered little as by then Garrison’s reputation had been ruined. Even to this day the official response to any suggestion of an organized plot to kill Kennedy remains the standard “INCONCEIVABLE!”

Yet consider that in the wake of Kennedy’s assassination U.S. policies under LBJ made an abrupt about face in favor of more foreign wars and interventions, particularly our disastrous forays into Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Equally disastrous, beginning with the 1967 Six Days War, was this nation’s empowering of Israel. Under U.S. largess and protection Israel emerged as the ‘mad dog’ of the Middle East, even to its brazen false flag attack on an American vessel, the USS Liberty. Ever since Israel has carried out incessant wars, terror attacks, assassinations, and false flag actions against her neighbors while methodically destabilizing the entire region. Kennedy had tried in vain to reign in this dangerous, headstrong ally. Johnson by contrast gave her a longer leash and handed the Zionist state a credit card with virtually no limits.

In a larger sense the Kennedy assassination became a watershed moment in the way America would henceforth be governed. Integrity, transparency, and accountability to the public morphed into an attitude of deception, manipulation, and gaslighting. Anyone who had the temerity to question official narratives whether regarding the Oklahoma City bombing, Sadam Hussein’s supposed Weapons of Mass Destruction, or the safety and effectiveness of mandated experimental gene altering vaccines endured an avalanche of scorn and opprobrium raining down on their incredulous heads.

I believe that it was Edmund Burke who famously observed that “Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.” Today’s political and business elites seem to show little reverence for the truth yet they enthusiastically wave the flag of freedom and wrap themselves in the Star of David, bending the knee to foreign despots to please their donor class which in turn funds their campaigns through organizations like AIPAC. A visitor from outer space observing this would likely conclude that Israel was our 51st state. In fact it does even better than that since it has to pay zero taxes while reaping all the benefits of statehood and more.

The latest nauseating display of this Zionist-American racket occurred just this past week at Trump’s Orwellian named “Board of Peace.” At that highly publicized meeting a former Jeffrey Epstein collaborator and financial capitalist named Mark Rowan took the podium to giddily announce his vision for a Gaza Riviera, a playground for wealthy globalist elites raised up literally on the bones of dead Palestinian children buried in the rubble of what had once been their city. For Rowan all that genocidal death and destruction perpetrated by Israel merely represented a great business opportunity. It truly showed the depraved, ruling class callousness and lack of respect toward those thousands of victims of Zionist aggression in Gaza. One wonders how Rowan or Mr. Kushner would feel about the Disney Corporation proposing to build a theme park above Auschwitz?

But the Israeli demolition derby is just hitting its full stride. It appears as of today that we are only days or weeks from yet another fraudulent neo-con sponsored war at the behest of the reckless Zionist lobby. The target is now Iran, so long demonized and falsely accused of building nuclear weapons by the Zionist political shills simply for the unforgivable crime of refusing to bend the knee to Israel. It’s the same tired play-book of false claims and hyperbolic rhetoric used against Iraq in 2003 (all those non-existent WMDs), Lybia and Syria starting in 2011, and Russia from 2013 until the present moment. It would seem the pages of their neo-con playbook are wearing a bit thin by now: an incessant clamor for regime change in somebody else’s country which invariably backfires by opening the door to even more radical governments than those which were replaced.

Consider that the humiliating Afghanistan exit debacle occurred less than five years ago after a grueling, bloody 20 year war. Consequently Americans today are saddled with a staggering $38 trillion sovereign debt even as our leaders prepare us to get on that same merry-go-round yet again, and for what? So the Israeli tail can once again wag the big dumb American dog which will receive nothing in return but more crippling debt, countless American body-bags, and increased scorn and revulsion from the international community. That’s the best case scenario,the worst being that this latest foray to assert Israeli supremacy could trigger a nuclear World War III. And is such a horrific outcome truly “INCONCEIVABLE” as our Pied Piper neo-con betters would have us believe?

Now to any rational mind such reckless military adventurism which has consistently failed, going back 60 years to Vietnam, would represent an unacceptable risk. Not so for those patriotic neo-cons and Zionists who sincerely believe that one more roll of the dice (double or nothing) will bail out their failing post Soviet Union era pet project of global Zionist-American hegemony. Who was it said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over repeatedly and expecting different results? Perhaps this explains why MAGA icon Charlie Kirk had to be gotten out of the way as he clearly and openly opposed this latest and most rash neo-con project. He understood that it is not the ability to carpet bomb your enemies into submission but the ability to live peaceably alongside them that enhances a nation’s greatness. Greatness is not a zero sum game, nor is bullying the way to achieve it. Charlie was murdered shortly after refusing to bend the knee to Zionist bullies. Is there a connection between the two events? After all, it’s not as they say, “INCONCEIVABLE!”

Francis J. Pierson +a.m.d.g.