The US has again illegally bombed the Islamic Republic of Iran during negotiations. While agreeing to give up entirely its nuclear enrichment, making every concession to avoid war, Iran couldn’t prevent the bombing of over a hundred cities by US and Israel. The genocidal US-Israel alliance murdered Iran’s spiritual Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khamenei, killing his wife, daughter, grandchildren, and 40 Iranian officials during the holy month of Ramadan in a single strike by Israel with CIA’s help.

The deadly February 28 attack on Iran has received broad support from western governments for another war of annihilation in West Asia (the Middle East). Canada, Australia, New Zealand (settler-colonial supporters of Israel, like the US), along with most European allies (except for Spain), have either condemned Iran, or simply looked the other way. NATO chief during his visit to North Macedonia also endorsed the war, saying, Iran poses “an existential threat to Israel.”

As with most Israeli wars across West Asia, European and N. American leaders remain defiantly Zionist. The compelling reasons for wars in the region always point to Iran’s support for Palestine and opposition to US and Israel since 1979.

However, since 1776, a constitutional democracy founded by a slave-owning elite, the United States, has brought people across the region and the world unprovoked wars and genocide, expanding its territory and global military bases. Similarly, Israel since 1948 has brought destruction, ethnic cleansing, and genocide to Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims, with “Greater” Israel’s wars of expansion in an explicit colonial objective to rule over the Arab world as another European settler-colonial state. What do western democracies represent when they fund and enable wars and mass killings of civilians overseas, decade after decade, especially across West Asia, and North and East Africa?

Blood Democracies

Stained with the blood of non-Europeans, western democracies are blood democracies. The book, American Holocaust, outlines in detail the “glorious” voyages of Christopher Columbus (a fanatical, racist, greedy entrepreneur, and eerily similar to Donald J. Trump), who paved the way for centuries of genocide and bloodbath against non-Europeans. Germany, France, England, Belgium, and countless European powers, barely representing 7% of the world, spent centuries subjugating and bleeding the rest of humanity in the name of capitalism, only to emerge as so-called liberal democracies.

Blood democracies will continue to spill blood around the world, because the racist, fascist politics at home have empowered their ruling elite to continue the colonial racist subjugation of the global South into the 21st century. The very existence of these blood democracies can and will mean only more death and destruction to come. If any type of government poses a threat to the world, it is these western blood democracies that owe their existence to spilling the blood of non-Europeans for gold, silver, oil, diamonds, precious minerals, land, and enslaved workers and taxpayers.

Blood Politics

The US has made war now for 25 years in the 21st century against Arabs and Muslims, costing over $8 trillion and nearly five million lives. Iran and its handful of allies in the region have come nowhere close to the US-Israel deadly achievements, often facilitated by many American proxies and client-states in the region (Israel, Saudia Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Türkiye, and now Syria, which shows Al Qaeda’s historical connection to blood democracies).

Since its founding in 1776, the settler-colonial United States has made war for most of its glorious 250 years: genocides against natives to steal land and resources; enslavement and violence against black bodies; an unprovoked war of annexation with Mexico, grabbing land consisting of Utah, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, and California; wars with Spain; the forceful and deadly annexations of Puerto Rico and Hawaii, along with Guam and a number of island-nations in the Pacific; war and occupation of the Philippines; the pillaging and destruction of Haiti; and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki using nuclear bombs that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. But it didn’t stop there.

Since WWII, the US war on Korea killed nearly 3 million Koreans; the Cold War spread across South and Central America toppling many socialist governments; war in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, killing 3.1 million people in Vietnam alone; support for deadly anti-communist military regimes around the world, such as Indonesia that killed a million people, and hundreds of thousands in Latin America; the 1989 invasion of Panama to kidnap Noriega; recent attack and kidnapping of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro and his wife; the 8-year proxy war against Iran in the 1980’s through our friend Saddam Hussein, extinguishing the lives of one million Iranians and over half a million Iraqis; war in 1991 against Iraq, then devastating sanctions killing half a million Iraqi children, accompanied by continued weekly bombings until the invasion of 2003, killing a million Iraqis (a carbon copy of sanctions-then-invasion in action currently targeting Iran); the invasion and 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, taking the lives of a million poor people; the wars in Somalia, Syria, Libya, N. Waziristan (Pakistan), and Yemen that killed about 400 thousand impoverished Yemenis; under Trump, the assassination of Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani; proxy genocidal war against Palestinians through American funding and arming of Israel supported by all western governments; and the 12-day war against Iran in 2025.

After a western-backed CIA’s successful regime change operation in 1953 against Iran’s democratically elected government, to facilitate the theft of Iranian oil by British Petroleum (BP) over 26 years, Zionist West has continued to seek regime change following the popular revolution of 1979. Western oil companies and governments, losing their strategic and lucrative control over Iranian oil, have remained locked in a forever war against Tehran. The late Robert Fisk in his magnum opus, The Great War for Civilization, shows US’s planning and initiation of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88): the US helped Saddam Hussein build chemical and biological weapons factories; Germany provided the chemicals for the weapons; and Saudia Arabia and Kuwait funded it to the tune of $250 million. The war killed over a million people in Iran.

Fisk also details the downing of an Iranian passenger plane in 1988 by USS Vincennes, killing all 290 civilians, including 20 members of a family attending a wedding in the Gulf. Vice President George H. Bush defiantly said, “I will never apologize for the United States—I don’t care what the facts are.” That longstanding jingoism of the US continues under a fascist Christian supremacist administration, which torpedoed an unarmed Iranian naval ship engaged in routine maritime exercises with other countries in the Indian ocean. In this context, one must understand why Iran’s enduring patience has run thin with blood democracies and their allies in the region.

Moreover, the attack on Iran and killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader has been called “historic” by the US. One finds nothing historic about another unprovoked deadly American war unleashed on Muslims fasting during the month of Ramadan. Israel and the US have done that repeatedly to Palestinians and the region over the last 25 years. Indeed, the war on Iran could be historic if the US hadn’t spent 250 years engaged in wars of expansion and domination. Only an absolute and habitual distortion of history would render the war on Iran as “historic.”

The history of American war-making, regime change, overthrow, and the assassination of political leaders and opponents has marked America’s glorious 250 years of history, which the settler-colonial blood democracy will proudly celebrate on July 4, 2026.

“Only [Blood] Democracy in the Middle East”

Since the founding of another blood democracy in 1948, Israel has followed in the footsteps of its great patron-saint, the US, who has since the assassination of JFK, armed and funded Israel, making it the most powerful military and only nuclear power in the region. Israel’s founding paralleled America’s post-Independence violence: the many wars of expansion and annexation, which began with the forced removal of 700,000 indigenous people in the land of Palestine, an undeniable resemblance to the Trail of Tears the American blood democracy let loose on the natives in N. America.

“Our friend, Israel,” has forced Palestinian off their land throughout its history, deploying armed Israeli settlers, backed by US and Europe. Israel has and continues to kill tens of thousands of Palestinians across Gaza, assassinating Palestinian leaders, massacring women, children, aid workers, refugees sheltering in tents, using highly explosive MK-84 bombs that evaporate bodies, all supported by western blood democracies.

Israel’s egregious violations of international law and human rights have never elicited condemnation, let alone intervention or sanctions, from western democracies. Israel bombed and assassinated the president of Yemen in 2025. It bombed and assassinated Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon, preceded by 3,000 pager bombs let loose on civilians, which the UN condemned. It bombed and assassinated Iranian leaders in Iran which later started the 12-day war in June 2025. Israel and US have now bombed an elementary girls’ school in Iran, killing over 165 children – an enormous crime against humanity foreseen by the IDF killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab and her family in Gaza during the ongoing genocide.

The murderous Israeli operations that have carried out the 3-year-long ongoing genocide against Gaza and bombings and killings across Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Qatar, have once again expanded to Iran, globalizing Zionist genocides aided and abetted by blood democracies. Iran will continue its resistance, as the anti-colonial struggle of the global South against blood democracies continues across Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, and West Asia.

Our Last Hope

Blood democracies, riddled with divisive politics of mutual hate, racism, classism, elitism, and sexism, have given way to national borders, militarism, wars, poverty, climate catastrophes, and a deadly world marching swiftly toward a nuclear holocaust.

We Americans, living inside a blood democracy, have gained a clear understanding that the coterie of corporate elite (the Epstein class, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Google, Microsoft, Palantir, Meta, Oracle, Tesla, Amazon, Wall Street, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Trump Organization, etc.) will starve the people here at home and massacre people abroad, committing genocide and ecocide, as their corrupt rule lays waste to the world in search of endless profit and lucre. (How little things have changed since the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492.)

Our only hope lies in our humanity, that final refuge, that messiah, which unites us across nations and religions against war and mutual annihilation. A new internationalism, with many movements of people of conscience around the world resisting war, fascism, greed, and genocide will continue to fight back in solidarity with the oppressed everywhere (Gaza, Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, et al.).

May this holy month of Ramadan bring peace and justice to the world.Email