US-Israel War against Iran Require a War Crimes Commission
Almost one year after the 2024 election on a peace platform, the Trump Administration backed itself into an alarming militaristic US-Israeli tag team that is not what the American public voted for. Almost immediately, the newly elected Peace President who continued to lust for the Noble Peace Prize, allowed his country to be drawn into a series of unconstitutional conflicts with the most recent being a severe unprovoked war of aggression against Iran.
Early in Trump’s second term his no-new interventionist war pledge was no longer public policy when he failed to end the war in Ukraine as promised, followed by initiation of a failed bombing campaign against the Houthis, unprovoked attacks on Venezuelan fishermen with no proof of criminality, and the Trump administration’s generous offerings of weapons to support Israel’s genocide on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
In March, 2025, the US Intelligence Assessment concluded that “We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003, though pressure has probably built on him to do so.”
In June, 2025, with the US and Iran officials engaged in ‘negotiation’, the US with Israel joined at the hip, launched a surprise unprovoked illegal attack on Iran which came to be known as the Twelve Day War. On June 22, the US fired bunker busting missiles aimed at Iran’s Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan nuclear facilities. Those attacks were followed by a tentative ceasefire at Israel’s request to the US as the President insisted that all Iran’s nuclear facilities had been “obliterated” which later proved to be untrue.
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In anticipation of US military action against Iran prior to February 28, Gen. Dan Caine, Chair of the Joint Chief of Staffs recommended that the President reconsider any intervention since US “resources would be greatly depleted” and that ‘the stakes are too high” when it comes to Iran. Trump’s response was “It is his opinion that it will be something easily won” as if the US would overcome any military challenge from Iran, following Trump’s habit to create the illusion of what he wants to hear.
Prior to the Israel-US pre-emptive strike, Iran warned that closing the Hormuz Strait was a potential response which was exactly Iran’s answer when the Israel-US attacks began.
Trump’s malicious attack on Iran began at 4 am on February 28 was met almost immediately with a more vigorous military response than either Trump or his Israeli partner expected. Early predictions for a quick, in-and-out decisive victory by Monday never materialized since Iran, presumably in a weakened state per Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s assurances, was fully prepared for the US-Israeli assault.
The war against Iran has exposed the last remaining veneer of the President’s delusional character, a malignant narcissist with a dangerous pathological edge just as the war has exposed Israel’s near total domination over every Trump foreign policy decision, all of which have been unsuccessful and increased the country’s $38 trillion debt.
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Trump’s history with Iran dates back to his first Presidential term soon after the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was approved. That Agreement would assure that Iran’s nuclear program would remain ‘peaceful’ as consistent with the IAEA and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).
In July, 2015, the J5 +1 (China, France, Russia, UK, Germany, US) announced an Agreement which would prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and by January 2016, the JCPOA confirmed the necessary changes to Iran’s nuclear program that allowed its nuclear related sanctions to be waived.
The Agreement functioned smoothly with Iran meeting its obligations and with no kerfuffle until Donald Trump unexpectedly won the 2016 election.
Trump revealed his opposition to Iran in his first term when he unexpectedly withdrew the US from the JCPOA in May, 2018. Nullifying what six other nations had labored to create, President Trump suddenly and brazenly stated that “The Iran Deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into” claiming it failed to protect US national security interests. Whatever those national security interests were remained unspecified. At the same time, the US reimposed energy, financial and electrochemical sanctions on Iran’s economy.
Given what we now know about the ease with which Trump ignored his previous peace promise and the number of Zionist campaign donors, it would be foolish to believe that Netanyahu, a frequent visitor to the Oval Office, had not used his considerable influence to ‘lobby’ Trump to follow his direction.
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As Trump allowed the JCPOA to be dismantled, it is safe to hypothesize that Trump was grossly uninformed that the very same Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Trump later cheered upon his assassination was also author of the Fatwa entitled “Prohibition of Weaponsof Mass Destruction.” That Fatwa, publicly announced in October 2003, opposed the acquisition, development and use of nuclear weapons which was consistent with Islamic tradition. That announcement was followed by an official statement presented at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria, in August 2005.
From there, US-Israel efforts focused on destroying Iran’s 2500 year Persian culture with 47 years of US sanctions crippling the Iranian economy to the point of economic collapse.
In 1945, the world’s first war crime trials after WW II, the Nuremberg War Crime Trial defined war crimes as “symbols of racial hatreds, of terrorism and violence, and of the arrogance and cruelty of power including a “fierce nationalisms and of militarism, of intrigue and war-making.”
As Chair of Nuremberg comments cited appropriately to fit the attack on Iran “wrongs that have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated” further stating that a war of aggression is a crime against peace under international law …. It is doubtful that any member of Trump’s Cabinet would explain to the President, unable to determine his own a strategy about how to dig out of the hole he created since he dared initiate an unprovoked war of aggression. It will be his responsibility to determine the most favorable outcome – and it may not be pretty. Or prepare Trump for the ugly realty that Iran is in the driver’s seat and depending on how desperate Trump is to find an exit, he may need to accept undesirable terms.
As the entire world has been privy to the US-Israel conflict against Iran in violation of international law, Trump has not yet understood that wars of aggression were specifically labeled by the Nuremberg war crimes trial. There can be little doubt that the President of the US has committed a series of war crimes including the deliberate carpet bombing of civilian areas and infrastructure, attacks on multiple schools, Shajareh Tayyiba elementary school, hospitals and a myriad of other civilian infrastructure.
And it would be within the realm of possibility that an international panel is probably already in the early stage of formation, organizing a professional, expert commission based on Nuremberg principles, to prevent war crimes on a massive level that the US and Israel have committed to ever again allow crimes against humanity.
As Chair of Nuremberg comments cited appropriately to fit the attack on Iran “wrongs that have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated” further stating that a war of aggression is a crime against peace under international law …. and that “crimes of aggression are the mother of all war crimes because from them come all other war crimes”.
In other words, as will be determined by an International independent panel convened to consider both the President of the US and Israel behavior in the course of their illegal, inhumane aggressive attack on Iran, have committed indefensible, deplorable war crimes against the People of Iran.
The U.S. Bombs Kids So Palmer Luckey Can Have Nice Things
Last week, we watched a U.S.-made Tomahawk missile murder more than 160+ Iranian school children. We watched in horror, helpless to stop the incoming massacres as the U.S. and Israel carpet-bombed Iran, then Lebanon, displacing millions of people from their homes. The pure, unrelenting terror continues to unfold. We are shocked and devastated, but we are also enraged — because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
There is an urgent need to identify and address the burgeoning war profiteers that are leading the world headfirst into planetary destruction. War does not end in Venezuela or Iran. It will continue until all avenues are exhausted, until there are no resources left to plunder because they have destroyed everything.
I call your attention to Peter Thiel, founder of military tech company Palantir, who just last week visited with Japan’s prime minister last week and was dubbed “America’s shadow president” across Japanese media. I call your attention to Ethan Thornton, founder of Mach Industries, who is attempting to create dangerous hydrogen-powered weapons (and almost killed a coworker in the process). I call your attention to Rob Slaughter, cofounder of Defense Unicorns, whose company has “built the software backbone of the War Department” (and whose surname is rather apt). And I call your attention to Palmer Luckey, self-proclaimed “radical Zionist” and founder of Anduril, a military tech company that supplies the U.S. military with AI and autonomous weapons.
There are many more corporate executives selling weapons and making a killing off of killing. But today we are going to talk about Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, the Tony Stark wannabe who so very badly wants to believe he’s the good guy. Recently, after CODEPINK launched a petition calling him out for his crimes, he claimed that he’s actually saving lives.
This is how war profiteers have always tried to sell war to people. It’s for the greater good! If we don’t kill them, they will probably try to kill us at some much later date! As much as they want us to believe that their pre-emptive wars of aggression are necessary, the truth is we don’t need to security dilemma ourselves into functioning like soulless robots; we’re actually evolved humans who can participate in dialogue, the great human superpower. It’s not a hard conclusion to draw: murder is not the solution to a disagreement with your neighbor, just as systematic murder is not the solution to a disagreement with another nation.
Besides, we all know war isn’t about saving American lives. Instead, American lives are spent carelessly to accomplish elite agendas, and then veterans are discarded like broken utensils. Tell us, Luckey, whose lives were saved by slaughtering civilians in My Lai in 1968 or in Haditha in 2005? Whose lives were saved by taking out every hospital in Gaza? Whose lives were saved by bombing 160+ school children in Iran?
No, murder is not about saving lives, just as war is not about accomplishing everlasting peace. It’s about men in safe, cushy offices far away from the battlefield amassing as much wealth as possible before they have to join the rest of us as dirt in the ground.
You can tell our petition bothered Luckey, because a few minutes later, he tweeted this:
It’s certainly an odd argument to make — that Anduril should never have had the opportunity to exist. It’s almost a direct admission of guilt, if you think about it. A shrugging of responsibility for Anduril’s existence, as if Luckey didn’t build the company himself from the ground up. It’s the world’s fault for needing Anduril, right? He’s just another cog in the machinery of fate. Helpless, unable to withstand his destiny of building murder machines. It’s funny how these war profiteers want all the recognition for what they make until they start getting recognition for the consequences of what they make. Well, we should never have existed anyway!
Luckey also wonders why the media thinks he wants tech to be more involved in the military, as if those words haven’t repeatedly come from his own mouth. He’s been rather urgent about advocating for advanced military tech to counter Russia, China, and Iran, even going so far as to actively prepare for a “simultaneous conflict” by developing advanced, rapid-production military systems. He’s an especially big fan of war on China, and instated a “China 27” strategy, which states that Anduril won’t design and produce any new weapons that won’t be ready by 2027 — the date the War Department set on war with China.
Last year, Anduril secured a $99 million U.S. Air Force contract for autonomous software and a ten-year, $642 million Marine Corps contract for counter-drone systems. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth visited Anduril’s headquarters, where he proclaimed: “We are rebuilding the Arsenal of Freedom.”
Anduril, now valued at nearly $31 billion, was named after the Lord of the Rings sword, “Flame of the West,” a fitting title for a tool of the imperial West’s perpetual exploitation and murder of innocents abroad. The company is also responsible for the “border protection system” of lasers and identification software, inspired by Trump’s dream for a border wall, and has released new wearable headsets that Luckey claims “turn soldiers into superheroes.”
Fact of the matter is, Luckey likes to think of himself as a type of superhero or Lord of the Rings character, bumbling through an adventure, taking down bad guys, and stacking up points. But in doing so, he’s treating reality as a sort of faraway game, entirely detached from human suffering. It’s not all that different from what the White House is doing — just check out this recent White House tweet, which compared the bombing of Iran to a Wii sports game.
War profiteers like Luckey are all the same. They exist in some fantastical bubble, getting high on the idea that they’re helping save-the-world, while the government takes their fresh-baked drones and missiles and sends them to schools, hospitals, and residential buildings to take out unsuspecting families, destroy infrastructure, and wreak widespread destruction. But the truth is — even if it’s deep-deep-down in the dark voids of their souls — Luckey and friends know exactly which part they’re playing and choose not to care.
What does Luckey do with his blood money other than enthusiastically participate in a “B-boys club” group chat (B as in billionaire)… Well, he has amassed quite the collection of vehicles, including a 1969 Ford Mustang, a Tesla Model S, a 2001 Honda Insight, a 1967 Disneyland Autopia car, a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, a 1985 ex-Marine Corps Humvee, a Mark V Special Operations Craft, two submarines, and multiple motorcycles, among many others. … I wonder if we converted USD to human lives, how many people had to die for Luckey to afford each vehicle?
It’s a simple equation: more war means more money for war profiteers. So it’s really no surprise Luckey is hellbent on war with China, which would make him billions and could afford him another few submarines for his imaginary underwater adventures. The U.S. has invested trillions of dollars into preparing for war on China ($3.4 trillion to be exact, a number larger than the total amount spent on 20 years of war in Afghanistan). Every incremental increase to the War Department budget is justified with the same reason: we need to counter China, we need to counter China, we need to counter China. China has become the ultimate war budget enhancer, and all the slippery politicians and war profiteers have taken advantage of it.
Unfortunately, war is the main driver of U.S. technological advancement. So instead of developing advanced technology to improve infrastructure, build high-speed railways, and raise the standard of living, the tech industry is creating headsets for soldiers to optimize killing during battle. They are making autonomous robot drones that pick their next targets according to data sets, rather than valuing human life. They are using AI to draft battle strategies and risking escalation to unforeseen, unredeemable heights.
Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, China… These nations are not the enemies of ordinary people in the U.S. Our enemies are internal: the war profiteers, the ruling class, the “B-boys club” members, and the military tech founders. It is the ruling elites who drive war, all for profit. And it is always the people who suffer. Even now, we suffer as all our taxpayer money is funneled into new contracts with companies like Anduril instead of supporting the health and well-being of the American people. And so overseas, children are murdered, so guys like Palmer Luckey can add to their rare car collections.
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