Journey to the center of the world of American leaders’ madness and ruin, writes Dennis Kucinich, to see desperate Iranian parents picking through rubble, searching for any signs of their little girls.
The Trump Administration, acting at the urging of the declining Netanyahu government, played a key role in bombing a girls’ elementary school in Iran this past Saturday, resulting in the death of 57 children.
Allow this to fully register.
Make your way to the heart of this chaotic leadership in America and witness distraught Iranian parents scavenging through the debris, hoping to find any trace of their daughters. [Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported that the Judiciary of Minab indicated the fatality count had risen to 85.]
Now consider telling those grieving families, as we’re told, that America committed this act to bring freedom to the Iranian people. This is the Empire’s grim equation: Freedom = Death.
This lethal policy embraced by the Trump Administration mirrors Netanyahu’s approach of bombing schools in Gaza and killing innocents as a (psychopathic) strategy to prevent future retaliation. Child slaughter has become an official ritual.
In reality, this continues the Epstein narrative—obliterating innocence through child rape, murder, and cannibalism by powerful elites whose thirst for blood is unquenchable in this twisted spectacle of human sacrifice known as war.
Peter Berger, in his 1974 book Pyramids of Sacrifice, connected the Aztec empire’s human sacrifice cult to its downfall, stating:
“Thus the great pyramid of Cholula provides a metaphorical paradigm for the relations among theory, power and the victims of both – the intellectuals who define reality, the power wielders who shape the world to conform to the definitions and the others who are called upon to suffer in consequence of both enterprises.”
Reflect on the broader backdrop of these occurrences:
- The rise of aggressive Zionism, executing a plan of extermination, ethnic cleansing, mass killings, and genocide, with imperial ambitions stretching from the Euphrates to the Nile;
- The suppression of dissent on U.S. college campuses, threats against educational funding; state-level changes to First Amendment laws aimed at punishing Israel critics; and the capture of both major U.S. political parties by AIPAC and allied organizations;
- The media’s dominance by those prioritizing the Likud Government of Netanyahu, Smotrich, and Ben Gvir far above loyalty to the United States Constitution.
Front Row Seat on Western Civilization Decline
The Department of War plaque newly installed on the River Entrance in front of the Pentagon in November 2025. (DoW / Madelyn Keech)
We witness a firsthand view of Western “civilization” in decline, spearheaded by the U.S. government, which ignited the Iraq-Iran War, the conflict in Afghanistan, the Iraq War, hostilities against Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and the West Bank, Yemen, and now launching a (second) war against Iran.
Renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War truly serves as candid truth in advertising.
Meanwhile, the American economy faces impending collapse, bloated with debt and yet poised to commit $1.5 trillion annually to warfare—primarily from discretionary funds that should otherwise support the health, education, and welfare of its citizens.
Today, the U.S., once hailed as the “most powerful military in the world,” functions essentially as an extension of the Israeli regime, serving the cause of greater Israel.
Our adoption of Netanyahu’s long-sought war against Iran signals that Lincoln’s Prayer of a “Government of the People, by the People and For the People, Shall not Perish,” no longer guides the nation’s spirit. The cautionary words of George Washington about foreign entanglements and President Eisenhower’s alert about the military-industrial complex have likewise been disregarded.
Today, American leaders abandon centuries of governance wisdom, spiraling into a hellish abyss, darker than anything Dante conceived in the Inferno—a realm for those who sacrifice their country to personal greed and power, for whom morality does not exist, no divine law governs, and no higher being commands except themselves.
Contemporary forms of punishment like impeachment or trials at The Hague fall short in addressing figures of this nature.
Original article: consortiumnews.com
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