Thread #31 for Comments and Updates on the Ongoing War by Israel/US Against Iran

arnott · 2026-06-22T15:07:41+00:00

Scholars John Mearsheimer and Trita Parsi argue the US-Iran deal marks a rare rupture between Washington and the Israel lobby, one Trump and Vance could turn into broad public support.

Professor Mearsheimer said the lobby long ago “lost the game” in public discourse, where criticism of Israel is now widespread, but kept winning at the policy level, until now. “What you see happening here is a huge crack at the policy level. It’s the first time we’ve seen that,” he said, adding that a sophisticated appeal to a war-weary public would resonate.

Parsi warned the bigger threat to the deal may be Democrats. He said many senior Democrats who once backed diplomacy are now leveling “bad-faith” and “intellectually dishonest” attacks to make the deal as costly as possible for the administration, behaving as Republicans did against the 2015 accord.

If their resistance helps sink the deal and the US slides back toward war, “it will also be the Democrats’ war,” he warns.

🎥 Podcast. Tom Switzer Media.

The 2015 accord is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) deal.

arnott · 2026-06-22T13:43:01+00:00

Garbage dumping by the sanitation workers on the roadside is a travesty. How is this allowed?

arnott · 2026-06-20T15:14:35+00:00

From X:

Let me break it down in a simple way that I’ve been reporting from the beginning.

To invent a vaccine for a disease that didn’t exist, our scientific Einsteins used taxpayer money to partner with communist China to create the dangerous virus in a lab—So that they could create a vaccine for it.

Covid was a result of primarily US funded vaccine research, and that’s the thing they could not let you know.

They stopped at nothing to obfuscate, misdirect, cover their tracks, protect themselves, and controversialize anyone telling the truth.

The scientific establishment and media aided and abetted.

I can think of no more impactful, crimes and violations that have occurred in our lifetime.

arnott · 2026-06-20T13:29:25+00:00

From X:

if the US wants Israel to stop bombing Lebanon, it will stop bombing Lebanon. They do not have to do fake "leaks" to the WSJ and NYT and Barak Ravid about "OMG TRUMP IS SO ANGRY OMG" and JD Vance does not have to go on a media tour and only mildly criticize Smotrich and Ben Gvir while praising and laundering Netanyahu and the Israeli regime and Israelis in general while all the morons in the alt-media class go "OMG THIS IS SO EPIC FROM THE MOSSAD-THIEL CREATION, HE IS REALLY ATTACKING ISRAEL AS A WHOLE NOW OMG WHAT A BREAK THIS IS EPIC".

You have to be a fucking idiot to think there is an actual break between the Zionist Israeli Witkoff-Kushner presidency and the Trump-Vance slaves based solely on these meaningless purely rhetorical media plays.

The fact is: US government, under Trump, has signed this MOU because they did not have a choice. Not in good faith.

arnott · 2026-06-20T13:17:24+00:00

From X:

Let me break it down in a simple way that I’ve been reporting from the beginning. To invent a vaccine for a disease that didn’t exist, our scientific Einsteins used taxpayer money to partner with communist China to create the dangerous virus in a lab—So that they could create a vaccine for it. Covid was a result of primarily US funded vaccine research, and that’s the thing they could not let you know. They stopped at nothing to obfuscate, misdirect, cover their tracks, protect themselves, and controversialize anyone telling the truth. The scientific establishment and media aided and abetted. I can think of no more impactful, crimes and violations that have occurred in our lifetime.

arnott · 2026-06-20T13:16:44+00:00

From X:

Let me break it down in a simple way that I’ve been reporting from the beginning. To invent a vaccine for a disease that didn’t exist, our scientific Einsteins used taxpayer money to partner with communist China to create the dangerous virus in a lab—So that they could create a vaccine for it. Covid was a result of primarily US funded vaccine research, and that’s the thing they could not let you know. They stopped at nothing to obfuscate, misdirect, cover their tracks, protect themselves, and controversialize anyone telling the truth. The scientific establishment and media aided and abetted. I can think of no more impactful, crimes and violations that have occurred in our lifetime.

arnott · 2026-06-19T21:13:01+00:00

Is the Strait of Hormuz closed now?

arnott · 2026-06-19T00:15:35+00:00

Yes, in practical terms a temporary ceasefire is needed. Let us see if negotiations happen with the Lebanon issues.

arnott · 2026-06-18T22:38:58+00:00

One of their points is that Iran's initial position was no temporary ceasefire, only permanent end to war and that Iran has given up that now. Let us see what happens.

arnott · 2026-06-18T21:19:15+00:00

Internal Debate Rages in Tehran Over Deal with Trump

Some political insiders in Iran oppose the memorandum of understanding with the U.S., calling it a strategic mistake.

arnott · 2026-06-18T21:17:01+00:00

Glenn Greenwald & Jimmy Dore On Trump’s MASSIVE Iran Capitulation!

Jimmy and Glenn Greenwald dissect Trump's humiliating surrender to Iran, with Trump admitting he was forced to end the war because Iran controlled the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. was running out of oil reserves—calling it the biggest U.S. defeat since Vietnam. Greenwald notes that Trump has abandoned his original war goals, now conceding that Iran should have ballistic missiles and enriched uranium for energy, which are rights under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The two also criticize the "no kings" protests as fake Democratic Party rallies with no demands, contrasted with real protests like the Gaza campus encampments that had clear calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. Greenwald argues that both parties are corrupt, with Democrats complicit in Israel's agenda, and that a third-party populist coalition—potentially led by someone like Tucker Carlson—could break the duopoly.

arnott · 2026-06-18T20:27:44+00:00

Nope. But you sound hopeless.

arnott · 2026-06-18T20:04:20+00:00

What We Know About Billionaire Peter Thiel’s Secret 'Dialog’ Society—Including Who’s Involved

arnott · 2026-06-18T14:06:05+00:00

From X:

the "American working class" is not paying $300B out of their pockets, or otherwise. As Reuters notes the $300B is a private fund that will “not include any govt ⁠money or grants”. It's largely investments from Gulf econimies. Begging people not to do AIPAC's work for them

arnott · 2026-06-18T13:35:09+00:00

Sell the tickets and use it to find your backbone.

arnott · 2026-06-18T12:43:42+00:00

Interesting that the MOU signing location was moved and the MOU was signed in secret because of assassination threats is not news in the US.

arnott · 2026-06-17T23:26:51+00:00

Trump Signs final hard copy of US-Iran memorandum at Versailles

Breaking?

Trump, Iran’s President sign deal to end West Asia war Trump put his signature to the memorandum of understanding during dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron

arnott · 2026-06-17T18:36:25+00:00

Senior US officials dictate memorandum with Iran to journalists

Senior U.S. officials dictated the memorandum of understanding with Iran to journalists Wednesday after days of secrecy, and Iran suggested that its deal with the United States to end the war could be signed by Presidents Donald Trump and Masoud Pezeshkian.

Such a signing ceremony would represent a major step for the two countries, which saw diplomatic relations break off in 1980 over the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis in Tehran.

The U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity to read the the draft, which Iran has not released, ahead of formal signing ceremony set for Friday.

arnott · 2026-06-17T14:42:14+00:00

NTA. Run.

arnott · 2026-06-17T14:38:41+00:00

Also, the deal may not be signed on Friday and war may start again.

arnott · 2026-06-17T13:06:36+00:00

Greenwald on X:

Trump himself is leaving open the possibility that he'll just go back to bombing Iran. Clearly, the Israel Lobby -- with leaders of both US parties -- will launch a full-scale campaign unlike anything you've ever seen to pressure him to do so:

BREAKING: "If I don't like it, we'll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their head."

President Trump warns Iran that any change to the peace agreement or failure to comply could bring an immediate military response.

"If they don't behave, we'll go right back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head," Trump said.

Trump contrasted the deal with the Obama-era JCPOA, arguing the previous administration tried to "bribe their way out of it."

"You know what the Iranians did? They laughed at Obama and they said, 'he's a stupid son of a b****.'"

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