Posted by Guessedworker on Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:48 | #

The one word you will not hear from the Iranian protesters is philosophy. There is a reason for that.

There are two basic forms of revolution. Epochal revolutions are philosophical first, and aim to create an entirely new world in which certain revealed, fundamental principles exercise a new and creative role. The implicit understanding is that the current ills in life issue from deep historical and historiographical sources, and it is at the level of those sources at which revolution must actually take place.

On the other hand reactive revolutions, such as the current marvelous uprising in Iran, aim to sweep away some intolerable offense to the people but rather assume that good and truth will then mechanically prevail. Both types of revolution can be valid. But, obviously, the success of the reactive revolution depends upon the current national life sustaining sufficient good and truth. If it doesn’t ... if the national life is informed by bad philosophy, then the default characteristics of that philosophy, its DNA, will carry over to confound, limit, frustrate, outlast, and swallow all the forces of reaction. In time, all that was before reaction will be after it.

The Iranians, of course, are undertaking a reactive revolution in which change is understood to be confined to the intolerable elements in their national life. Therefore the question for them and for all of us is:

Does the existing formative system of national life ... liberalism in our case ... rest on good and true principles? Is its model of Man a faithful representation of the human reality, or does it press upon the people falsehoods and evils they cannot expunge but, in the manner of all deep cultural artifacts, effortlessly internalise and communicate to their children, such that they cannot freely express in their lived life their native good, their native truth but become mere hosts for alien ideas?

My own conclusion is very much that the latter is the case with us, and that something deeper than the action we are witnessing in Iran will be required in our national life.  As for the Iranians, the default is Islam; and who will sweep that away?

Posted by Manc on Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:33 | #

An interview with Iranian activist in America Goldie Gamari….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja8B51afADo&t=549s

It’s what she says towards the end of the interview that might answer your question “who will sweep that away?” The median age in Iran is 34 years with 42.4% of the population being aged under 25. To me, the age demographic suggests that the post regime future of Iran is a blank page waiting to be filled in.

Posted by Thorn on Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:05 | #

@2

“It’s what she says towards the end of the interview”

For one thing, she said “These people are criminals.”

This aligns with my view that most so-called Islamic dictators are essentially criminal sociopaths who commit crimes while hiding behind the banner of Islam. They use radical Islamism (the ideological form of Islam) as a tool/weapon to gain and keep power and control.

Posted by Manc on Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:58 | #

@3 The main findings of the Jenkins, Farr Review into the Muslim Brotherhood of 2015. Worthwhile revisiting ten years later.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/486932/Muslim_Brotherhood_Review_Main_Findings.pdf

Posted by Thorn on Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:29 | #

Thanks for the info. My main takeaway is that the report reinforces the reality that Islam and Western civilization cannot coexist.

By the way, did you know that for years Netanyahu supported Hamas as a tactic to block any serious negotiations that would lead toward a two-state solution?

Google this article from The Times of Israel (MR‘s spam filter is blocking the link):

For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces
The premier’s policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from
By Tal Schneider
8 October 2023

Posted by Manc on Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:30 | #

Yes, I’m aware of his misguided support for Hamas.

Posted by Thorn on Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:14 | #

Actually, Netanyahu’s support of Hamas should be seen as both cunning and rational, that is if the ultimate goal—which it is—is the Greater Israel Project. Naturally, a two-state solution would be a major obstacle to that objective.

Posted by Manc on Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:25 | #

Then the cunning plan has worked out as well as the US support for Saddam Hussein and the equally cunning plan to depose Hussein and install US military bases in Iraq.

Posted by Thorn on Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:26 | #

So, you don’t think the Netanyahu regime used the Oct 7 Hamas terrorist attack as an opportunity to “ethnically cleanse” Gaza of Palestinians? Even Charlie Kirk recognized what Bibi was up to within the first two week after Oct. 7, 2023 attack. The fact is, even after the so-called ceasefire of Oct. 11. 2025, the IDF has killed more than 400 Gazan citizens and destroyed over 1,500 buildings. Some ceasefire, huh? More accurately, it’s a genocide in progress.

Posted by Manc on Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:41 | #

Save that for someone who might actually care about Palestinians.

Posted by Thorn on Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:37 | #

Half of Gaza’s population is made up of children under 18 years old. But thanks for acknowledging your moral bankruptcy.

Posted by Guessedworker on Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:07 | #

It might be Israel’s war, and the dumb Americans are being used again.  But the people of Iran don’t look at it that way.  They just need to be free of the Islamic Republic regime, and this time they might be.  Netanyahu and Trump will not be hated for that.

Posted by Thorn on Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:22 | #

@12

Yes, the people of Iran will be relieved if events ultimately settle into a stable and just outcome—though that remains to be seen. However, it should be clear that this unprovoked attack is being undertaken for the purpose of making the region safe for Israel.

Posted by sprague on Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:34 | #

https://nationalvanguard.org/2019/07/an-interview-with-general-otto-ernst-remer/

Rami: In your opinion, is there a plan to destroy Iran in the same manner in which it happened with Iraq during the Gulf War?

Remer: As you know, the Jews are numerically a very small minority. Their entire strength lies in the might of their organizations. That might rests first and foremost in the shrewdness and ability to maneuver of those organizations, and also in the way they propagate historical forgeries and falsities, using their influence in the mass-media. With those historical forgeries and the falsities they propagate, the Jewish organizations enslave the souls of the non-Jews. To do that, they use, as we said before, the media they control, such as the cinema, the press, the television, the news agencies, the publishing houses etc.

On top of that, they control most political parties and political as well as non-political organizations. In the Arab society, the Israeli agents from the Jewish communities work like microbes; that is, they work from within, in order to decompose the organism of the nation, by exploiting its weaknesses. Under present-day circumstances, the Islamic movements play the part of antibodies striving to preserve the health of the nation.

The Islamic revival movement is today, to use a metaphor, the life-preserver of the respective peoples. It embodies a cultural revolution aiming at the liberation of culture, of the mass-media, of the language, of politics, and of education. The Islamic revival movement takes over the role of the lifepreserver, in order to save the Islamic nation from drowning in the sea of corruption of the Jewish organizations. In your countries nowadays the leading political, cultural and opinion- making class is the product of western intellectual and cultural colonialism, which is strongly Jewish in its essence. The prevalence of the Jewish secret police in the West can be compared with diseases such as cancer, or AIDS. (Victor Ostrovsky, “Der Mossad”, Hoffmann und Campe, 1991, p. 14: “The Israeli secret police can rely on an important and loyal support from the Jewish communities the world over. That is possible through a unique system of voluntary Jewish activists”). Inimical cells, disguised as antibodies belonging to the body, have penetrated the body. The organism trusts the disguised immunizing cells and has thus become defenseless against a viral attack. The organism dies.

The Islamic system of Persia is the only legitimate form of government of the muslim world, because it springs from the way the people think and expresses their will. The government of Sudan is like that, too. Khomeini did not seize power through a military coup, through sheer force, or through a partisan movement: his trump card was his spiritual power and the support of the people.

The Islamic system has remained stable in Iran even after the death of Khomeini and the change in the person of the leader and of the leadership group the only one to remain stable in the entire Islamic world.

On the contrary, the demise of the Shah meant at the same time the collapse of his regime, his artificial form of government, and his army. All that went to the dustbin of history. The same fate awaits the other regimes that prevail in the muslim world. Israel knows that very well.

She tries desperately to cause the wheel of history to stand still. However, any strike against Iran or against the growing Islamic movements, will cause the anger of the muslim masses to grow, and the fire of the Islamic revolution to ignite. Nobody will be able to suppress that revolution.

Posted by Guessedworker on Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:42 | #

At least it punctures the BRICS balloon.  Putin and “the second most powerful military force in the world” have turned out to be a far cry from the projected image.

Here is the excellent Caolin Robertson on Iran and Russia now that Trump has pulled the trigger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc8GmSnpPG4

Posted by sprague on Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:53 | #

Remer’s reply here echoes themes that used to be propounded here by excellent old commenters like wintermute, CaptainChaos, ben tillman, James Bowery, et al.

In their absence, GW’s Anglo tendency to accommodate oneself to Jewish extended phenotypics has come to the fore at MR with his recent spate of posts in which he more or less throws in his lot with Jewish hegemony. This tendency was always latent, but had been kept in check in the past by those old commenters.

This is meant with no disrespect or malice to GW, who I believe has good intentions. Part of it I suspect is due to GW’s persistent desire to distance himself from things too German or NS, out of Anglo/British pride.

Posted by Thorn on Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:14 | #

“At least it punctures the BRICS balloon.”

Indeed!

The Real Reason America Attacked Iran and Took Down Nicolas Maduro
The White House’s stated justifications are true. They’re just not the whole truth.
by Alexis Williamson March 1, 2026

The official story is real — but incomplete. Operation Epic Fury’s stated goals — eliminating Iran’s nuclear program, destroying its missile arsenal, degrading its proxy networks, and annihilating its navy — are all legitimate grievances rooted in 47 years of Iranian hostility toward the United States. But they are the surface layer of a much deeper strategic play.

AI is the defining race of this century. Artificial intelligence will determine which nation controls the global economy, commands military supremacy, and writes the rules of the coming era. Both Washington and Beijing understand this with total clarity, and every major foreign policy decision is now being filtered through that lens — whether stated publicly or not.

AI runs on energy — massive amounts of it. Training and running frontier AI models requires electricity on a civilization-scale. As AI systems grow more powerful and embedded in every sector, that energy demand will compound. Whoever controls reliable, cheap energy controls the pace of AI development.

Iran was China’s discount fuel pump. Despite American sanctions, Iran was exporting roughly 1.9 million barrels of oil per day — nearly all of it to China — at deep discounts, through shadow fleets designed to evade enforcement. Iran accounted for an estimated 15 percent of China’s total crude imports, making it one of Beijing’s most critical and convenient energy partners.

The China-Iran relationship was a strategic hedge, not just a business deal. The 2021 Comprehensive Strategic Partnership committed China to $400 billion in Iranian investment over 25 years. Crucially, this gave China a sanctions-resistant, American-proof energy backstop — a lifeline specifically designed to function in a scenario where the U.S. tries to squeeze China’s energy supply during a Taiwan confrontation. Operation Epic Fury just incinerated that hedge.

Venezuela was the other leg of the same strategy. The January 2026 capture of Nicolás Maduro — and the Trump administration’s signal that Venezuela’s vast oil reserves would be opened to American investment — eliminated China’s most promising alternative energy relationship in the Western Hemisphere. In eight weeks, Washington moved against two of Beijing’s most important energy lifelines simultaneously. That is not coincidence. That is a coordinated strategy.

The rare earth lever has now been flipped. China’s dominance over rare earth minerals — processing nearly 90 percent of the elements essential for AI chips — has long been its most potent economic weapon. But a China scrambling for energy security is a China far more cautious about weaponizing rare earths. By exposing China’s energy vulnerability, the U.S. has gained critical countervailing leverage in the very domain where Beijing held the most threatening cards.

AI is not just the backdrop — it’s the instrument. Anthropic’s AI models were reportedly used in the mission to capture Maduro, making it the first large language model granted clearance for classified U.S. military operations. Operation Epic Fury launched the same week OpenAI signed a $50 billion infrastructure deal with Amazon. The administration that launched this war thinks about AI dominance with the same urgency it thinks about nuclear nonproliferation.

The strategic logic is coherent — the risks are severe. Iran is retaliating against U.S. bases, Israel, and Gulf infrastructure. The Strait of Hormuz — through which one-fifth of the world’s oil flows — is a war zone. Oil could spike to $130–$140 a barrel. The region could spiral into broader conflict. The human costs are real and not yet fully counted. The gamble being made here is enormous.
This deserves a national debate we are not having. The world is watching smoke rise over Tehran and debating the legality of a military strike. Almost nobody is talking about the civilizational bet buried inside it — that AI dominance is worth fighting for, that energy architecture is the prerequisite for winning the technology race, and that the opening moves of the AI century are being written right now, in fire, over Iran.

Read more: https://discernreport.com/the-real-reason-america-attacked-iran-and-took-down-nicolas-maduro/

Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:01 | #

Hi Sprague,

You are most welcome.  I agree that the old days were bracing.  A few observations on your comment.

Obviously, Islam is co-evolutionary with Talmudism.  Notwithstanding the fact that universalism is internalised in Islam and externalised in Talmudism, there is much shared DNA. Thus Islam is aggressively expansionist, eschatological, millenarian, supremacist and denying of the human worth of the Other.  On this basis alone one would expect anti-Talmudists (aka WNs) to reject it.  But then Judaism and Islam also share principal ideological elements with National Socialism (for example, the Thousand Year Reich, Aryan supremacism, the Fuhrer principle), and perhaps that complicates the situation.  Of course, there is a fundamentalist conservatism in Islam that was missing from National Socialism, that latter being a modernist and progressive ideology.  But it isn’t a conservatism which seeks stability in the life of peoples as a basis from which their interests may emerge into the political.  Instead, it seeks stability as a basis for absolutism regardless of the people’s nature or wishes.  It protects its ideological power and purity, not the people; and advances itself, not the people.  That is invariably how ideological imposts act in history, including in Iran, which is the reason that younger Iranians are so determined to change things, and the reason, too, why the absolutist force which is the Islamic Republic crushed them without the slightest compassion.

It is worth noting that National Socialism also crushed down on dissent, using the guillotine more intensively even than the French revolutionaries.  Ideological absolutism is the absolute enemy, so to speak, of emergent forms of social organisation.  To my mind, Abrahamism is the parent of ideological absolutism, whether the system is religious in form or secularised (ie, liberalism).  The only alternative is emergence; and the source of that is Nature, Being, the tribe, nativism, and the nationalism of ethnicity.  As nationalists we are, or ought to be, engaged upon breathing life not into some impost but into what abides in us, what is permanent and not acquired, and what we express most freely when we act with authenticity.  Understanding this distinction is key to understanding the direction of this site.  I don’t believe for a moment that it is somehow infected with an “Anglo-Jewish” standpoint, whatever that is, and I also don’t believe it can be understood from the (truly Judaised) ideological standpoint of National Socialism.

Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:14 | #

Very interesting information, Thorn.  It needs to be factored in that AI is of consuming interest to the globalist structure.  Soaking up the greater part of the planetary wage bill is the prize.  The Trump administration probably has to protect the position of corporate America.  But it has not solved the human problem, and is probably cleaving (as I do) to the boundless creativity of Man, mostly European Man.