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The 250 years of US terror and genocides could be forced to come to an end by the brave men and women of Iran

Iran kept their word when they said they would target US military sites in the Persian Gulf region if attacked.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned on February 7, 2026, that Tehran would “target U.S. bases” in the region if American forces launch an attack.

The remark came after Araghchi said on Friday, February 6th that indirect nuclear talks with the U.S. in Oman were “a good start” and that there was a “consensus” that the negotiations would continue. 

“It would not be possible to attack American soil, but we will target their bases in the region” if Iran is attacked by U.S. forces, Araghchi told Al Jazeera on that Saturday, according to Reuters. 

Yes, they did keep their word, launching Operation True Promise 4 in response to the US double tap strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran that killed 168 children and the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei both in the first minutes of the unprovoked attack. 

The American leadership almost never keeps their word. Nearly 250 years of broken promises and broken treaties. Iran should never again believe the United States.  

The US and Israel appear to be loosing their regime change war of choice. Trump is begging for a ceasefire. A wise Iran will continue until the State of Israel has been removed from the Earth and at this point this may be one of their conditions for ending the war. 

The 100% guarantee of no future wars against Iran would require the total disarmament of Israel. Maybe even the end of the Israeli state and the return of a free Palestine. Their other conditions are the permanent removal of all US forces from West Asia and hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations for the damage inflicted on their nation. Figuring out the price for priceless historic UNESCO heritage sites could be impossible to calculate.

This madness is already costing America in lives and  treasure. The true number of killed and injured is concealed from the public. The US casualties must be in the hundreds in the first week. As of mid-March 2026, the U.S. war on Iran had cost approximately $12 billion, with military expenses running at over $11 billion in the first week alone.

Signs of US desperation are everywhere. Automatic Digital Registration for Selective Service for 18 to 28 year olds started and Trump’s people are hinting at reinstating the military draft. The first young Americans to make the ultimate sacrifice for Israel on the shores and mountains of Iran may begin any day now. 

“U.S. officials said the deployment includes elements of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA-7). The force could include roughly 2,500 Marines along with additional sailors operating the amphibious ships that carry them.” according to military.com on March 14th. The Vietnam Mission creep has started. Towering stacks of silver caskets will soon appear on the tarmac outside the military morgue at the Dover Airbase. The crying families clutching their triangle folded “Star Spangled Banner” are already making the local news. 

Even if Israel or the US launch a tactical nuclear weapon at Iran and splinter this beautiful country into another Syria or Libya these two genocidal nations are not likely to survive long as fully functioning states. Empty grocery shelves and long lines at gas stations could be in our future. 

Western economies are already being wrecked and their populations will be forced to live in desperation as a result of this war of choice. Riots have already broken out in Tel Aviv. Victory for the satanic baby-raping Zionist cannibals lording over us may be out of reach. They believed their own lies of superiority. The lie that they alone were God’s chosen people. 

My family helped start the settler nation of the United States of America. I am the first son of first sons of the first McHenry to step on the shores of colonial America. When the 20 year old Belfast student, James McHenry, set foot on to the docks of Philadelphia in 1773 the Lenape band of the Delaware Indians had already been ethnically cleansed from the colony. By the time the first McHenry had arrived, millions of indigenous Americans had already been killed or driven west by the White Man.  

After staying with family friends in Newark, Delaware James moved to Philadelphia to study medicine with Dr. Benjamin Rush. Dr. Rush and his comrades in the Sons of Liberty were plotting an armed confrontation with the King’s army on the Charlestown hills overlooking Boston. Dr Rush enlisted James to set up a flying hospital on the Cambridge flats in preparation for the Battle of Bunker Hill. 

On that muggy  June 17, 1775, the colonists killed 226 Red Coats. The Americans lost 115 men in the battle. A total of 305 wounded were carried off the hill to the field hospital McHenry had organized in Cambridge. 

When George Washington visited the injured at the flying hospital the General hit it off with young James McHenry. They would remain friends through out the rest of their lives. 

I was the same age as James when I co-founded Food Not Bombs in 1980 in a Harvard Street house about a fifteen minute walk from where he had pitched the temporary medical facility in 1775.

McHenry became the surgeon of the 5^th Pennsylvania Battalion. He was captured at Fort Washington, NY in 1776.  McHenry was a prisoner on a British ship docked in the Hudson River until he was paroled in January 1777, and exchanged in a prisoner swap in March 1778.  James officially joined Washington’s staff in May 1778, serving as a volunteer “without any emolument.”  Contemporary text showed that McHenry was a well-liked and loyal member of Washington’s “military family.” Washington wrote of him:

“McHenry’s easy and cheerful temper was able to bear the strain which we suppose must sometimes occur between two persons thrown so closely and so constantly together in a position of social equality and military inequality.”

Washington reassigned McHenry to Lafayette’s staff in August 1780 resigning his service after the surrender of British officer Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781.  

After the war McHenry was elected to the Maryland senate, served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, and was a Maryland representative during the Constitutional Convention signing, the US Constitution on September 17, 1787.  He was a political ally of Washington and served on his cabinet as the Secretary of War from 1796-1800. 

Dr. James McHenry was witness to the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor from his estate. His son was stationed at the fort that evening of September 13–14, 1814. The lawyer Francis Scott Key was held on a British ship during the battle, writing the text to the National anthem “Star Spangled Banner” after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry. 

The new nation continued the two centuries of genocide and broken treaties of the European invaders. My ancestor became Secretary of War soon after the end of the US war against the Northwestern Confederacy and oversaw the internment or removal of Indian tribes on the western and southern frontiers of the United States. 

Following the successive military defeats, the United States sent delegates to discuss peace with the Northwestern Confederacy, but the two sides could not agree on a boundary line. The United States sent more troops led by General Anthony Wayne, defeating the confederacy at the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers. 

The slaughter of indigenous Americans continued. Inferior brown people who were infesting land that god gave to white Europeans. The Arikara War (1823); Osage Indian War (1837); Buffalo Hunters’ War (1876–1877); Cayuse War (1847–1855); Apache Wars (1849–1924); First Seminole War (1817–1818); California Indian Wars (1846–1880); Winnebago War (1827); Black Hawk War (1832); Navajo Wars (1849–1866); and the Sioux Wars (1854–1891). 

From 1778 to 1871, the United States signed some 368 treaties with various Indigenous people across the North American continent. Not one treaty was respected by the United States. 

The United States didn’t limit its brutality to North America. The First Barbary War started soon after McHenry was pushed out of the War Department. In October 1803, Tripoli’s fleet captured the USS Philadelphia intact after the frigate ran aground on a reef while patrolling Tripoli harbor. The ship, her captain William Bainbridge, and all officers and crew were taken ashore and held as hostages. Philadelphia was subsequently converted by Tripoli into a floating battery for harbor defense. The US marines recaptured the ship and burned it so Tripoli couldn’t send it to sea. 

The US wars continued; The War of 1812, The Mexican-American War, fought from 1846 to 1848, The American Civil War, fought between 1861 and 1865, Spanish-American War (1898-1902), United States occupation of Nicaragua ( 1912-1933) and World War I (1917-1918). 

My father’s father Donald Edward McHenry was a medic in the trenches of Belgium. War was not for him. After teaching natural history at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Oklahoma Territory in Stillwater he took employment as a Junior Park Ranger at the Grand Canyon. On the way to the South Rim he crashed and was taken by several Hopi farmers to their pueblo of Old Oribi where he convalescence for several months. When I lived at the Grand Canyon in the first and second grades he took our family to meet his friends. I was blessed to witness three seasons of Snake Dances in the days before electricity desecrated those sacred lands. 

My mother’s father John V. Phelan helped continue the US tradition of mass murder. He and his Army intelligence colleague facilitated Pearl Harbor telling me it was the only way to get the American people to go to war with Japan. He joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) when the second World War got underway and directed the world’s most deadly bombing campaign called Operation Meeting House, firebombing Tokyo. I watched him argue over the phone with Secretary of Defense Robert  McNamara and Genera Curtis LeMay saying that the US should drop a nuclear bomb on Hanoi to “ send a message to the communists that the US will stop at nothing to defend capitalism.” Like those in Washington and Tel Aviv he told me that he was in a Satanic organization. 

The next major wars of choice based on lies were the Korean War (1950-1953), the Vietnam War (1964-1975), Desert Storm (1990-1991) and the Global War of Terror (Oct 2001 – Sept 2021), Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), Contra War (1979–1990), Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992), Operation Cyclone (1979–1992), United States invasion of Panama (1989–1990), and NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995) the regime change war against Russia ( 2014 – present ) and Operation Epic Fuckup against Iran (2026).

Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, John Mearsheimer estimates that from 1971 to 2021, the US murdered at least 38 million people.

So here I am, the McHenry living during the last gasps of the Empire co-founded by my ancestor Dr. James McHenry. 

When I was  the same age that James was when he set up a field hospital in West Cambridge I  was living at 195 Harvard Street designing the Food Not Bombs logo and preparing vegan meals to share at Harvard Square. I was recovering tofu, produce and bake goods that I delivered to people living in public housing.  My friends and I were organizing protests against the nuclear arms race and the US war in El Salvador.

I would spend the next 46 years volunteering with the movement I helped start in 1980. I would find myself homeless several times, survive a few FBI honey traps and over 500 hundred days in jail. The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force would designate Food Not Bombs a credible national security threat in an August 29, 1988, memo to the FBI’s San Francisco Field Office. I would face 25 to life in prison in California.  The FBI would place me on a blacklist banning me from employment in the United States after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. The FBI, Interpol and the CIA would disrupt the work of Food Not Bombs. Friends would die, be framed and spend years in prison. The police would make hundreds of arrests of our volunteers in San Francisco, Tampa, Ft Lauderdale, Orlando and a slew of other cities for the crime of sharing food with the hungry. 

Still ,each of the heavy handed efforts to silence Food Not Bombs backfired inspiring people to organize their own local Food Not Bombs groups.During the more than four decades of activism we would share billions of meals with the hungry on every continent but Antartica. 

As the lights of this genocidal empire are being dimmed by the people of Iran, ending the 250 year reign of terror, Food Not Bombs volunteers are busy preparing meals and providing survival gear in at least 1,000 cities in over 65 countries. 

Two McHenrys bookending a nation of war. I am the McHenry that dedicated his life to ending a political and economic system that was willing to desecrate the sacred Hopi lands of my childhood. 

Iran must win or we will be doomed. If Israel and the US defeat the people of Iran it will be a disaster for humanity. Their live-streamed genocide of Gaza was a message. There are no limits to the horrors they are willing to inflict to ensure the power of Zionist billionaires. The Epstein Class would believe in the illusion that they are Gods. They will assume that they are the rightful masters of the billions of “Useless Eaters” like you and me. A digital dystopian panopticon run by satanic baby-raping Zionists is not a future most of us would welcome. 

On the other hand it appears that the people of Iran are bringing an end to this deadly Empire. The White Man has underestimated the indigenous people of color they perceived as backward. They’re arrogance and hubris may be ending their rule. The believing of their own racist lies may lead to their destruction.

On March 13, 2026 Iranian Commander Mohsen Rezaei made his country’s position clear, ”There will be no truce this time. Iran’s missiles are endless. We will bring the US to its knees – the Americans will face the fate of Hitler in the snows of Russia.”

That same day the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani said, “We have received urgent messages from Donald Trump through our mediators. He is begging for the opening of an immediate negotiation channel to achieve a ceasefire. Our response is that Iran will accept no form of negotiation, yield to no pressure, and sign no ceasefire as long as an illegal and criminal entity called Israel exists on the map of our region.”

Major General Ali Abdollahi, commander of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters stated that, “The criminal U.S. must know that the era of plundering nations across the world is over”. He may be right.

Now that Kingdom of Oman has declared the war on Iran “illegal and immoral,” and many other Gulf nations are refusing to join the US-led coalition, fear of the US military is coming to an end. Buying US weapons and depending on the US for protection seems to be a failed strategy. This defeat in the Persian Gulf may cause countries to end weapons purchases from US companies. 

Americans wasted billions in this war while their people are charging groceries at 20% interest on credit cards they are defaulting on at the highest rate in US history.  

It turned out that those “primitive” brown Iranians were not so easy to defeat after all. It also turns out that unlike the Zionists they keep their word.

The blockade of oil and the increased price at the gas pump is obvious but there is an even larger crisis looming and that is the increased difficulty in having access to affordable food.

The Strait of Hormuz is a critical choke point for global fertilizer supplies, with roughly 30–50% of seaborne nitrogen-based fertilizers (urea and ammonia) passing through the now blocked seaway.  This could impact this spring’s cultivation resulting in smaller harvests this summer and fall. It will also cause food prices to increase even more. 

The price shock is real for farmers. One local Missouri retailer told AgWeb that in just a two-week period:

• Urea is up $140 per ton
• NH3 has risen $100 per ton
• UAN is also up $100 per ton

Fuel prices will also increase the cost of food from the diesel required to operate farm equipment to the transportation of food to processing facilities and grocery stores.

An economic depression many experts suggest could be more painful than the Great Depression of the 30’s could send millions of people to seek free food to survive. Our volunteers are prepared to respond to the calamity unfolding before us. Many of us have decades of experience in logistics and the sharing of food. We are here to help. 

If there was ever a time for Food Not Bombs that time is now.

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