ARMAGEDDON’S PROMISE
April 28, 2026
The first nuclear end times generation
Several dozen cars lined the road to Mortan Thiokol’s Brigham City explosives facility on the banks of the Great Salt Lake. The setting sun cast a shimmering acid green and orange glow across the vast salt wasteland to our backs. A row of cars faced the sand and gravel ridge. Families of spectators eager to witness another American success in the nuclear arms race against the Soviet Union.
Finally the much anticipated blast and deafening boom startles the vehicular audiences to attention. Shards of shale grey and ochre gravel spray hundred feet towards the blackened heavens. Quartz flakes shimmered salmon against the ominous dark thunderstorm background. Dust clouds of dirt tumbled down the slope.
A collective sigh of satisfaction from the assembled families could be heard from the string of cars facing the test explosion of detonator TNT. The conventional blast that starts the nuclear chain reaction in the end times weapons perched on top of each Minute Man Intercontinental nuclear missile.
The United States had already proven in Hiroshima that it could instantly vanish an entire city of tens of thousands. And to make sure everyone understood that they could repeat the horror they dropped a second one on the people of Nagasaki.
My father sat proudly behind the wheel of his powder blue and bright white Bel Air, my pregnant mother leaning romantically next to him as she gently cradled me with her right arm. I was excited to see the drama.
My father took a job inspecting the blast mirrors that reflect the conventional explosion towards the nuclear core. He was also working on his masters degree in Zoology at Utah State.
I was one of those baby boomers, the first generation to be born into a world with the threat of nuclear annihilation. The first generation to have never woken up in a world free from that fear.
My father’s dream comes true and he takes his first permanent assignment with the National Park Service patrolling the Colonial Park Way between Jamestown and Williamsburg and a year later he takes a position directing the Rock Creek Nature Center in Washington DC.
Our family moved to a new brick house in Bethesda, Maryland. Like most classrooms in America during the dawn of the 1960s, my Kindergarten class at Bethesda Elementary started the day with a Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag followed by the Duck and Cover Nuclear Attack Drill.
The tinny alarm bell rang out and as instructed our class of twenty students climbed under our tiny formica desks. I exchanged my daily “this is stupid” glance towards the little girl seated next to me. We laugh together as we rose from the exercise sharing our amazement at the idea that adults honestly thought our flimsy desks would protect us during a nuclear strike.
The Duck and Cover drills and news of the positioning of nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba heightened fears of a life on Earth ending conflict.
I had Cuban Missile Crisis inspired dreams of the Red Army marching down Constitution Avenue in perfect formation. Thousands of men dressed in thick green wool uniforms with bright red trimmed caps and amulets armed with long guns thundered towards our place on Bells Mill Road. It wasn’t possible to even escape the horror of nuclear missiles on hair trigger even while asleep.
During some of the bloodiest periods of the war against Vietnam I witnessed the logic of nuclear slaughter as Realpolitik first hand. My mother’s father John Vanderpool Phelan was proud of his participation in setting up the Pearl Harbor false flag telling me it was the only way they could get the American public to support a war against Japan. He wasn’t shy about his work setting up a network to distribute heroin from his post in Burma to the black neighborhoods in the US as a strategy to blunt dissatisfaction with the unequal GI Bill. His record holding firebombing of Tokyo and his participation in the planning of the first use of nuclear weapons on a city seemed to be two of his proudest public achievements
Lt. Phelan was in the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. He was an Intelligence Officer with the 468th Bombardment Squadron in 1944 and 45 stationed in Burma.
His first floor den in Needham, Massachusetts was lined with 63 framed black and white photos that he shot from a B 29 Superfortress flying at 20,000 feet. Filming the progress of that day’s raid during the world’s most deadly bombing campaign, Operation Meeting House.
I watched him pace under those photos arguing over the phone with his friends General Curtis LaMay and then Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara about the need to drop an atomic bomb on Hanoi. We had to “send the Communists a lesson” he insisted. Let the world know that the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not a one time aberration. A reminder that the United States called the shots and if your country fails to obey a nuclear assault may be in your future. America had no limits to what it would do to defend its domination.
A conversation with the Scottish born architect George Stevens while waiting to speak with my father at the National Park Service regional office in Boston lead me to attending Boston University’s Department of Fine Arts and a job at the Old South Meeting House. I took the 50 cent admission, sold past cards and shared the story of the Sons of Liberty and the meeting house rally that launched the Boston Tea Party.
During one noon brake I strolled onto the Boston Commons with my bag lunch in hand. I came across an older woman teetered atop a Hood Dairy milk crate speaking to a small group of grey haired ladies populating a corner of my favorite lunch time patch of lawn.
The orator with a magnetic Australian accent bellowed: “The United States has 27,519 nuclear weapons ready to wipe the Soviet Union off the face of the Earth. The Soviet Union has 19,055 nuclear weapons on a hair trigger prepared to kill everyone here in America. The generals and politicians call this nuclear policy Mutually Assured Destruction or MAD for short.”
The frightening speech ended with an invitation to protest. One of those in the audience, a fragile, white-haired lady, struggled to her feet and said, “Please give Dr. Helen Caldecott a big hand.”
As Dr. Helen Caldecott was declaring a nuclear emergency, I silently declared to myself that my art would speak to an urgency of our time rather than decorate the vaults and walls of those with money.
So that week I gathered my supplies on a table in the basement of the collective house at 41 Gardner Street that I called home. My X-Acto knife sliced out the answers to the issues of the day, cut by cut, into the poster boards of despair at the threat of war to become a public art without permission. This was an emergency. There was no time for money paying art.
I got blisters cutting stencils, removing thick chunks of cheap poster board to reveal in the grey drafting table rubber the dark underside of a nuclear mushroom cloud and the text “TODAY?” A subtraction of a negative space, sheet after sheet, until I had enough to withstand the soaking of the paint or the police confiscation. I was prepared.
I was determined to wake the conscience of Boston to the threat of a nuclear holocaust spray painting at least 350 impressions of my mushroom cloud Today? on the sidewalks and walls of Boston, Cambridge and Somerville. My friends would sprawl out on the pavement looking as dead as possible. I would trace their outline in white chalk then spray the outline in white paint. We would paint dozens of “dead bodies” on the sidewalks and streets representing a mass casualty event. Sometimes with posters and slogans against a US massacre in El Salvador or sometimes as a protest to nuclear weapons bazaar. We also organize Boston’s Shadow Project painting a white circle around the city at the distance that would vaporize in the event that a one megaton bomb was detonated over the city.
The campaign inspired a documentary by Richard Kaplan called The Sidewalk Sector contrasting my public art with the sterility of corporate imagery and the Theater Works play Murder Now, a detective thriller in search of an Armenian nuclear dirty bomb threat to the Boston Harbor.
I joined my Boston University classmates in a trip down to New York to attend a protest against the nuclear arms race organized by Mobilization for Survival and National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE). Public support for a ban on nuclear weapon would motivate the delegates at the first United Nations Special Session on Disarmament in New York in May and June 1978 to call for an end to the nuclear threat. When we stepped into the protest we were greeted by huge black and white photos of the nuclear blast survivors that lined the walls surrounding Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza. Mutilated victims with scarred faces sat below the pictures.
Eight of us who had been taking direct action to stop the construction of the Seabrook Nuclear power station in New Hampshire started the first Food Not Bombs collective in May 1980. One of the groups main focus was building for the June 12, 1982 protest in New York during the Second UN Session on Disarmament.
Cambridge City Council and Food Not Bombs cosponsored a march for nuclear disarmament held on August 6, 1980, gathering at City Hall taking Massachusetts Avenue and ending at Draper Lab on Portland Ave. Our ragtag group of protesters carried poster boards with the stenciled “Mushroom Cloud Today?” image spray painted on each sheet.
We organized another march in October in solidarity with the West Germans who were engaged in the country’s largest civil disobedience campaign seeking to force the US to remove its mobile Pershing Nuclear missiles from their streets.
Our little group held a free concert for Nuclear Disarmament on May 3, 1982 in Sennott Park with the goal of inspiring our community to join in the June 12, 1982, march in New York City. We parked our green van on The Avenue of the Americas at Bleaker Street sharing literature about Food Not Bombs with people from all over the world who had come to participate in the march. The organizing office was in a church a block or so away. We did what we could to provide meals to some of the one million protesters gathered in the Great Meadow of Central Park.
Several new arms control treaties were signed by the US and the Soviet Union. Arms control expert Scott Ritter best known for not finding any evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq attended arms control negotiations between the US and Russia. Ritter claims these protests helped push the agreements forward. In recent months he has encouraged another round of mass actions against the new nuclear arms race.
The organization American Peace Test asked Food Not Bombs to help provide food during a ten day protest at the Nevada Test Site. Their funding helped the just formed San Francisco chapter to purchase folding tables and cooking equipment that we brought back to the Bay Area at the end of the protest. We blocked dozens of busloads of workers from arriving to help with Clinton’s underground nuclear test. A group of young women were released after having been arrested by Wackenhut Security for breaching the test site and were shocked to discover a group named Food Not Bombs was providing meals in camp. They had taken a huge banner saying Food Not Bombs to what they believed was ground zero for the test placing rocks on it to hold it safe from the winds. They had no idea there was a group with that same name.
The nuclear threat is always lingering. When the Russians are no longer useful as the official enemy Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction filled the void. Then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice famously said, “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud,” during a September 8, 2002, CNN interview. Colin Powell held up a vile of fake yellow cake at the UN. Scott Ritter and his team never found any evidence of an Iraqi nuclear weapons program but the US was able to kill over a million people in a war that created a failed state.
The only country to drop a nuclear bomb on a civilian population and its nuclear armed ally, Israel, has spent years stoking fears that Iran was just months away from building a nuclear weapon. When the US lost their puppet Shah to an Islamic Revolution the country of Iran became enemy number one. The perfect justification for billions in arms sales and billions more in military bases.
Iran fought a brutal eight year war defending itself against the US backed and armed Iraq. America even sold Saddam Hussein satellite images and the chemical weapons used against both Iran and his opponents in southern Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians died in this US/Israeli instigated war. While Iran was suffering war and sanctioned from banking and business with the west the US taxpayers were dumping billions into companies like KBR (formerly Kellogg, Brown & Root) and V2X Inc. to construct military bases across the Persian Gulf.
America spent billions more building bases surrounding Russia. I was born in a former Nazi Hospital run by the US military in Frankfurt, West Germany when my father was taking part in the US occupation of the country after World War II. The U.S. maintains over 40 military installations in Europe with 50,000+ troops, serving as a cornerstone of NATO. The bases are inGermany(Ramstein Air Base, Stuttgart EUCOM), Italy (Aviano AB, NAS Sigonella), the UK (RAF Lakenheath), and rapidly expanding sites in Poland and Romania.
In Micheal Parenti’s essay “The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia” he writes about the destruction of the first domino in NATO’s campaign to gain control of Russia. “In 1999, the U.S. national security state — which has been involved throughout the world in subversion, sabotage, terrorism, torture, drug trafficking, and death squads — launched round-the-clock aerial attacks against Yugoslavia for 78 days, dropping 20,000 tons of bombs and killing thousands of women, children, and men.” I visited the Belgrade Food Not Bombs activists at the Rebel Squat, the mansion of someone who was free to flee the war. When needing to use the restroom they directed me to the crater left by an unexploded US cruise missile. Their stories of cruise missiles lumbering over the city until they dashed towards a housing block were horrific. One volunteer Emma worked at a hospital with over 700 children deformed by the US depleted uranium bombs during pregnancy.
Yugoslavia was the first in the march by the US and NATO to take control of the Kremlin. The 2014 Obama Administration coup of the elected government of Ukraine was another step in their campaign to overthrow the Russian government. A nuclear armed government that is unlikely to let the US install a puppet regime. A growing threat of nuclear conflict concealed from Americans.
The Obama Administration agreed to a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) treaty with Iran. A treaty Trump pulled out of in his first term, providing Israel and the US with a new pretext for war. US intelligence agencies have repeatedly verified that Iran is telling the truth when it claimed it was not seeking to build a nuclear weapon.
Even so the war against Iran has started. The US and Israel seemed to believe their own lies and may have backed themselves into a corner. It wasn’t the three days to topple the regime war promised by Israel. Now that Israel is facing the possibility of catastrophic damage in another round of unprovoked assaults on Iran the Zionist child murderers may believe that launching their “Samson Option” could be their ticket to some warped idea of victory.
The Samson Option is Israeli’s plan to launch nuclear weapons “as a final, catastrophic resort if the state faces an existential threat, such as being overwhelmed by a conventional military invasion.” This policy is named after the biblical figure Samson who destroyed a temple, killing himself and his enemies. This doctrine was intended to act as an “ultimate deterrent by threatening to bring down surrounding forces if Israel falls.” It is clear it failed to deter Iran from defending itself.
After seven decades of being held hostage by the specter of a nuclear conflict, that threat is closer today than ever as the wars against Russia and Iran teeter on the edge of nuclear annihilation.
According to Ex-CIA analyst Larry Johnson there was an emergency meeting at the White House on Saturday April 18th where General Dan Caine stopped Trump from using a nuclear weapon on Iran.
Caine may not be in his position for long as Trump continues to fire anyone in military leadership that opposes this unprovoked war and the threats to bomb the beautiful 5,000 year culture of Iran back into “the stone age.”
Are we really at the end of the nuclear age as Palantir’s Alex Karp claims in his manifesto “The Technological Republic, in brief” number 12. “The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.”
Are we at the beginning of the era where US leaders take seriously claims by Beltway think tanks that the US can win a nuclear war against Russia and China and the sparks start flying. The Wall Street Journal published Seth Cropsey April 27, 2022 essay “The U.S. Should Show It Can Win a Nuclear War,” adding “Washington might study Cold War-era practices that had a major effect on Soviet policy making,” outlining a fascist version of the “propaganda by deed” terror of a message sending nuclear attack that would show the US means business so obey.
The three of us heading to my friend Micheal Parenti’s memorial on Saturday April 25th passed a billboard on interstate 880 advertising the virtues of an AI driven nuclear defense. Is this robotic reality going to be our future? The future that Santa Cruz mayoral candidate Ryan Coonerty’s predictive AI targeting software has built to enforce the rule of the Epstein class. A future with no Dan Caine to interfere with the logic of the technocrats and the PayPal Mafia at Palantir.
In many ways the hopes of the June 12, 1982 march to end the nuclear arms race was shattered in the ruthless June 12, 2025 unprovoked attacks on Iran.
That energy of 1982 is needed more today than at any time in this nuclear age. If any group can spark that energy that brought a million protesters to the streets of New York it’s Food Not Bombs.
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SOUP STREET
A memoir by Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry
You can join me in my journey from the adventures I enjoyed as a child living the wilderness of America’s National Parks, the events that inspired me to dedicate my life to ending capital’s exploitive system to the founding of Food Not Bombs and the decades of traveling the world preparing and sharing meals.
Soup Street / by Keith McHenry 2026
ISBN: 979-8-234-00487-1
Price: $24.95
Pages: 332
Size: 6 x 9 inches
IRAN’S VICTORY IS EVERYONE’S VICTORY
March 17, 2026
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 5th 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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OPERATION EPIC FUCKUP
March 5, 2026
Escaping the End Times Holy War
We know the names of the first US military deaths in the failed regime change against Iran. Killed on March 1, 2026 in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait while helping murder 168 little girls attending an elementary school in Minab, Iran earlier that same day. The first blow in this world changing war.
The names of those girls are as invisible to Americans as the names of our homeless neighbors who died on our streets whose names were erased this year by the County of Santa Cruz.
* Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Fla.
* Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Neb.
* Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minn.
* Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa
These are the first four Americans to fill the flag draped boxes of the war for the satanic Zionist oligarchs.
I visited the Dover Airbase during the Vietnam War. Our family’s relative Lovejoy worked on the base. We drove along the tarmacs passing block after block of silver caskets stacked 20 high and 20 deep waiting silently for the bodies of America’s youth wasted in yet another losing war.
Operation Epic Fuckup is shaping up to be Gen Z’s Vietnam. Towers of shiny coffins marching down the runway outside Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations in Delaware. The same morgue where the bodies of more than 20,000 young American soldiers had passed during the Vietnam War.
US Senator Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday, March 3rd that he is “more fearful than ever” that American forces could be deployed to Iran after a closed-door briefing with senior Trump administration officials on the escalating US-Israeli attacks under “Operation Epic Fury.” Zionist Blumenthal may pretend to worry about another war his political party will inherit after the midterms and how that might impact their popularity but in the end he is all in on war, whether against the Palestinians, Russians and or the Persians.
The US Central Command reports that they launched this catastrophe with over 50,000 troops. That number is sure to grow and with it more trips through the Dover morgue.
Fox News reports on March 2nd, “More U.S. forces are headed to the Middle East, according to Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as the U.S. escalates its campaign against Iran.”
“’The flow of forces continues today. In fact, Adm. Cooper will receive additional forces even today,’” Caine said during a Pentagon briefing Monday morning, referring to Central Command chief Brad Cooper.”
Once again the silver boxes will be piling high in this summer’s heat on the pavement of the Dover Airbase. Possibly thousands of weeping mothers, wives and children sacrificed for the profits of the Epstein child raping Zionist billionaires. Americans don’t get anything out of this war but an economic crisis and dead sons and daughters.
The mothers, daughters, brothers, sons and fathers across the Persian Gulf will also shed their tears. But many will mourn knowing that that their people are standing strong against the most immoral evil of our times, the United States of America and Israel.
To highlight their own evilness, Israel and America launched this disaster on the Jewish holiday Purim. The holiday that commemorates the “victory of the Jewish people” over ancient Persia (now Iran), as told in the Book of Esther. A war that historians say killed over 75,000 Persians.
Another Israeli war during Ramadan. The strategy of fighting a people fasting.
But what could be a bigger fuckup than threatening Armageddon?
Journalist Jonathan Larsen’s March 2nd substack wrote that at least 100 soldiers had complained to the organization Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) about their commanders excitedly telling their troops about how they will get to participate in the final battle to bring on the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. A cheery end times tale to help start a global war and economic collapse.
MRFF reports, “A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.”
“I am a (NCO rank withheld) in our unit. This morning our commander opened up the combat readiness status briefing by urging us to not be “afraid” as to what is happening with our combat operations in Iran right now. He urged us to tell our troops that this was “all part of God’s divine plan” and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ. He said that “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth”.
But before Jesus returns, the savagery and poverty will be staggering. Many more Iranian children murdered by the satanic Zionist armies in double tap bomb strikes. More irreplaceable historic mosques of unparalleled beauty turned to dust. A sure way to win over the Iranian people so they will welcome an American puppet Shah to rule over them.
Assassinating the religious leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei was a great way to inspire 200 million Shia to join in this Holy War. And what better enemy for the believers than to be provided with Epstein proof that they are being slaughtered by a cabal of satanic Zionist baby-raping cannibals.
Embassy after embassy is already being burned by Shia riots. The US State Department issued an alert that all Americans should leave the 14 Gulf states even though they also say you are on your own. This epic fuckup is only getting started. We are in for some catastrophic surprises. The kingdom of Bahrain could have been toppled by the exploited Shia by the time you read this essay.
With oil facilities across the Persian Gulf in flames and shipping traffic blocked from passing through the Straits of Hormuz an already rocky economy is likely to start crumbling. False flag cyber attacks on the banks or utilities may be required to motivate support. Possibly a wave of lone-wolf terror attacks attributed to the axis of resistance. Something is going to be required to overcome the damage done by the Charlie Kirk assassination and Israel’s loss of tens of thousands of former Turning Point USA youth who thought America First didn’t mean Israel First. A war for Israel is going to be hard to sell to the once faithful base that is now listening to people likeTucker Carlson, Candace Owens and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
We shouldn’t forget that the other raging war, Ukraine, may find melting down a nuclear power station will redirect attention away from the Persian Gulf to that failed US/NATO provoked conflict. Fear that the regime change war against Russia could turn nuclear is increasing.
“Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service:
“The British & French elites are actively exploring ways to supply Kiev with a nuclear bomb, or at least a so-called “dirty bomb”.
“Such reckless plans show that London & Paris have lost touch with reality.”
In this fog of war it is difficult if Russia ran this story to justify their “Escalate to de-escalate” strategy of launching a tactical nuclear weapon in a demonstration of their seriousness at ending that war.
We really are teetering on the brink of a world war. The clown show of Zionist pedophiles and mafia grifters in Washington and Tel Aviv are steering us towards ruin.
In fact much of Tel Aviv is in ruins. Ruins that the Israeli government is doing its best to conceal from world view. Even so the footage that does make it past the censors shows massive devastation. Towers in tatters. Fires raging.
The hubris and racism of the Epstein class lead to them believing
their own lies. A belief that they are so powerful they can dominate any nation. They think of themselves as gods because they don’t believe in the possibility of a God.
So now that Operation Epic Fuckup is spinning out of control it’s time for everyone to pull together and support one another. The government certainly isn’t going to come to our aid. There is every evidence that the number of people who will be seeking meals and groceries as a result of the dire economic crisis will keep increasing. Food Not Bombs volunteers all across the world are organized to respond to this global crisis. Our networks of food and resource recovery have been established for decades in many cities. New Food Not Bombs groups are starting every week. The Las Vegas and our group in Haifa, Palestine just reestablished their meals. Small towns like Victoria, Texas and Grand Junction, Colorado are springing up.
The Santa Cruz group where I volunteer has spent years preparing for the war against Iran and the resulting economic crash. We shared the only daily meal for unhoused people in Santa Cruz during the three years of the Covid lockdown. We were blessed that the Senior meal and Saint Francis Soup Kitchen reopened and we returned to our weekend schedule. If the increase in need grows dire we plan to return to our daily service.
People who are aware of the crisis are looking for a sense of sanity. It’s not likely that a vanguard party or charismatic leader will liberate us from this horror. Making plans to support one another locally may be the first step to escape this techno-feudal dystopian madness of poverty and war.
Community will be the cure. The community one finds at your typical Food Not Bombs meal. The community of classmates, concerts and conversation. Friends, family and neighbors united in sharing love, nutrition and safety with one another.
Humanity’s spirt can’t easily be crushed. These monsters have spent centuries massacring the indigenous people of the land. Never honoring treaties. Caging people of color in reservations, prisons and concentration camps. Even so they couldn’t defeat the Vietnamese, the Cubans or the Palestinians and they won’t defeat the Persians.
And they also won’t defeat you and me.
DON’T DIE FOR ISRAEL
If you don’t want to die for Israel and are a member of the US military you can call The GI Rights Hotline – 1-877-447-4487
SATAN’S PLAYHOUSE
February 23, 2026
Indivisible is invisible and compassion on trial in Fort Worth Texas
Virginia Roberts Giuffre
The emails between Epstein and those in Trump’s administration make the never published Hillary Clinton and John Podesta “Moscow Pee Tape” look like child’s play by comparison.
The trafficking of young girls through Trump’s Mar-a-Lago and the personal testimony about the horrors those teenagers had to endure being shared on social media is bad enough but page after page verifies what the survivors have been saying for years. Voices ignored during the Me Too Movement.
“I would like to announce here today us Epstein survivors have been discussing creating our own list,” Lisa Phillips told supporters in November 2025, Capitol hill. “We know the names. Many of us were abused by them. Now, together as survivors, we will confidentially compile the names we all know.”
“Virginia Roberts Giuffre is an American hero” her lawyer Brad Edwards, said at the event as dozens of Epstein accusers behind him nodded. “She is somebody without whom we would not be able to have this voice.”
The evidence in the Epstein Files are so gut-wrenching that the “Make America Great Again” crowd are even starting to post calls for armed rebellion against the Trump government on social media. Calls for an armed uprising most likely being encouraged covertly by the FBI.
The revelations in the Epstein Files could not make Trump look more evil, perverted and corrupt. His friends really do eat babies. The perfect ammunition for the Democratic Party to finally take down Trump and his Republican friends. Donald Trump and Mar-a-Lago appear over 38,000 times in the files.
One file quotes survivor Katie Johnson. When she was 13 She described that she was raped and losing her virginity to Donald Trump while crying and begging him to stop. Afterwards, he was mad that she was crying.
In a February 2017 email to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, Epstein released in the files wrote, ”I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump”. adding that Trump did not have “one decent cell in his body,” and was “dangerous”.
But the response by some of my liberal friends is to insult me as a kook. Several seem to be unaware of the contents of the release.
I know a thing or two about the satanic playhouse. My mother’s father John Phelan, graduated from Harvard Law and was a member of a satanic cabal. He also directed the most deadly bombing campaign in world history. firebombing Tokyo in Operation Meeting House. I remember being angry at the pastor when he called my grandfather a child of God because Grampy Phelan made it clear that there was no God and that he believed in Satan. Thankfully he was always loving to me and never spoke of eating babies.
INDIVISIBLE IS INVISIBLE WHEN IT COMES TO WAR
Indivisible could be using the No Kings 3 campaign rally to call on the Democrats to take action on behalf of the brave women who are standing up against Epstein and the administration. Their horrifying testimonies filling the media space dominated by the kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie’s mother. A real Pussy Hat Moment but for some reason there is silence.
These Satan worshipping monsters are taking us to war with Iran yet not one No Kings 3 post calls to stop Trump’s attacks. It is likely that a full blown war, spiking gas prices and a resulting economic collapse will be underway during Indivisible’s March 28th rallies. If not by then it wont be long after when the chaos becomes apparent even to the foundations funding these large Democratic Party campaign events.
Maybe that’s what they want.
One email reported that Jeffrey Epstein associate and former US Ambassador to Mexico Earl Anthony Wayne under Barack Obama raped and impregnated an 11-year-old-girl. The fact that leaders of both political parties are implicated in the files may be one reason the Democrats aren’t making more of these horrific crimes.
Epstein’s files show that he participated in money laundering, the early stages of developing the Covid pandemic, artificial intelligence and promotion of the regime change wars against Libya, Syria, Russia and Iran
A March 18, 2014, email from Epstein to Ariane de Rothschild “ukraine upheaval should provide many opportunites, many” Just what type of opportunities is he writing about? Arms sales, child trafficking, those biological labs Victoria Nuland testified to before Congress, money laundering?
Israel may be holding back the most damaging emails, photos and videos and is using this to force the US into war with Iran. A 2013 email shows Epstein writing to former PM of Israel Ehud Barak, saying:
“Hopefully someone suggests getting authorization now for Iran. the congress would do it.”
This may be one reason the Democrats have not called for the arrest of those connected to Epstein and are pushing for war with Iran is they are not only controlled by money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is that many of them fear that Israel will expose their crimes.
When I attended the Indivisible protest against the murder of Alex Pretti and Renée Good I asked if there were any any plans to organize a huge protest against Trump’s war on Iran. Many people looked mystified and had no idea a massive attack was likely to happen. A couple of people including a board member at the Resource Center for Nonviolence shared their dismay at reports that 33,000 peaceful protesters had been killed by the government of Iran in just a couple of days. Not one person knew of a protest against The Orange Man’s war on Iran.
The claims that 33,000 peaceful protesters were killed by the ruthless Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei don’t seem as credible when you consider that Maximum Pressure Act H.R.2614 — 119th Congress (2025-2026) – A BILL To establish a program and strategy to support internet freedom and counter censorship efforts in Iran, and for other purposes was cosponsored by Congressperson Jimmy Panetta in the year leading up to the war against Iran.
“It is the policy of the United States to provide maximum support to the people of Iran in their desire to bring about a new political system in Iran based upon democracy, human rights, and rule of law for all citizens of Iran.”
(a) In General.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall develop and submit to Congress a strategy detailing steps to provide maximum support to the Iranian people in their efforts to bring about a transition to a new political system and government based on the rule of law, democracy, and human rights.
(3) INTELLIGENCE SUPPORT FOR THE IRANIAN PROTEST MOVEMENT.—A description of how the Intelligence Community will
(A) use intelligence-gathering capabilities to monitor and expose the Iranian regime’s efforts to suppress dissent and target protestors;
(B) provide support to Iranian civil society actors and opposition groups to enhance their security and operational capabilities; and
(C) assist in identifying and countering disinformation campaigns initiated by the Iranian regime to delegitimize democratic movements.
The lies about over 33,000 peaceful protesters being killed by Iran was originated by the German optometrist Dr. Amir Parast, whose group “The Munich Circle” hosted the former Shah of Iran’s son Reza Pahlavi at their November 2025 conference. The London based media company “Iran International,” financed by Saudi Arabia and Israel pushed the story and western media was all too happy to spread the disinformation. Another reason for the Democrats to support Trump’s war.
The evidence that foreign backed terrorists went on a three or four day killing spree burning hospitals, banks and mosques in Iran was organized and armed by the US and Israel.
According to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent his agency intentionally devaluated the Iranian currency to cause desperate merchants to organize protests calling for economic stabilization. Protests that armed Mossad, CIA and MI6 assets would exploit until Iran followed the Starlink communications and rounded up the terrorists snuffing out the regime change riots.
Israel’s Mossad issued a message from its official Farsi language account on Twitter “urging Iranians to escalate” their regime change activities, pledging that the US and Israel would be supporting them on the ground.
“Go out together into the streets. The time has come,” Mossad instructed Iranians. “We are with you. Not only from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field.”
“Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them,” former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a Twitter post on New Year’s Eve.
Appealing to the compassion of liberals is not a new strategy for winning support for wars. A massive campaign accusing the Taliban of gross human rights violations against the women of Afghanistan even if true provided additional justification for what became a 20 year war.
We are about to experience another Samantha Power style humanitarian war to save the suffering Muslims while killing them en masse. Samantha has been a prominent proponent of “humanitarian intervention” and the “responsibility to protect” (R2P) doctrine. Power transitioned from a journalist covering the Bosnian War to an influential academic and policy maker, advocating that liberal values should be upheld through foreign policy, even if it requires military intervention. She pushed for the 2011 U.S. and NATO intervention of Libya that lead to a failed state and open air slave markets.
I stayed with Samantha in an apartment in Prague when I was visiting with a friend Gabriel I had met in San Francisco. I was involved with San Francisco Liberation Radio and he ran the pirate station Radio Stalin or Radio 1 during the Velvet Revolution. Samantha was a real flirt and spent several days urging me to join her on a trip to the war in Bosnia. She would photograph the suffering. I would feed the children. But I had booked a presentation in Bologna so I turned her down. Years later I realized Radio 1 was most likely connected to the CIA effort to topple the Communist government of Czechoslovakia. My first time being targeted by a honey trap.
FRIENDS OF FOOD NOT BOMBS GO TO TRIAL AS TERRORISTS FOR ICE INDEPENDENCE DAY NOISE PROTEST
Trump’s brutal roundup of our undocumented neighbors, the framing and shooting of protesters could be preparation for a wider clampdown.
One group of young people used the Fourth of July celebration to show solidarity with the prisoners by launching fireworks outside an ICE detention center near Fort Worth, Texas.
The Trump administration is demonizing this group of young anarchists who participated in the Independence Day protest outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. Federal prosecutors claim at least six people in a Signal group chat named the “4th of July Party!” discussed what to bring to the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado: fireworks, guns, medical kits. At some point we are likely to learn that an infiltrator was on the chat encouraging bringing weapons to the protest.
Defendant Maricela Rueda remembers things differently. In an interview from the Johnson County Jail last year, the 33-year-old mother from Fort Worth told KERA News the night of July 4 was meant to be a noise demonstration, a “joyful” show of support for the immigrants inside the ICE facility.
The Alvarado ICE facility shooting was highlighted by Trump and his cabinet at his October 8th White House Antifa roundtable.
Trump stated that, “In July approximately a dozen Antifa aligned militants stormed the ice facility in Texas, and then lured officers out of the building before firing dozens of rounds at police. They were. crazy, frankly. Shooting one Texas officer in the neck.”
An unidentified person shot and hit a policeman in the neck. KERA reporter Caroline Love writes, “Court records don’t identify who fired the shots,” suggesting the shooter may well be working with law enforcement.
On the opening day of the trial KERA News reporter Toluwani Osibamowo writes “Prosecutors have called the defendants a “North Texas Antifa Cell” that shared anti-government and anti-ICE sentiments. The group was mostly tied together by a web of friendships, romantic relationships and leftist activism online and in real life — while some defendants didn’t know each other at all.”
Osibamowo continues, “Hill, Song, Batten, Morris, Rueda, Zachary Evetts, Elizabeth Soto, and Ines Soto are charged with rioting, providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to use and carry an explosive and use and carry of an explosive — the explosive being fireworks, according to the latest indictment in the case.” If convicted they could spend decades in prison.
The oldest of those charged is 32 year old Benjamin “Champagne” Song. The federal government accuses him in their indictment of being the group’s leader and the lone shooter although a second unidentified shooter is mentioned. My five decades as the target of the FBI informs my impression the person who shot the security guard in the neck was their mystery assailant.
The KERA News reporter adds, “Era Yousuf said she first met Song and other defendants while working with the food distribution nonprofit Food Not Bombs, then the DFW Socialist Rifle Association. She described the defendants as caring, loving and passionate people.”
“‘These aren’t enemies of the state,’ Yousuf said. ‘These aren’t dangerous people. They want to help innocent folks that are being kept prisoner.’”
The trial for the first nine was set to start on February 17, 2026, in Federal Court in Fort Worth.
Federal District Judge Mark Pittman declared a mistrial in the case of nine Prairieland ICE detention center shooting defendants Tuesday in response to an attorney’s shirt emblazoned with a “politically charged message.”
Maricela Rueda’s defense attorney MarQuetta Clayton appeared before the court wearing a T-shirt with black and white images of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley Chisholm and other civil rights activists on the morning that news broke that Jesse Jackson had passed.
Jury selection was set to start again on Monday, February 23, 2026.
Court documents claim Meagan Morris played a significant role in planning the protest. “The latest indictment alleges Song, and co-defendant Autumn Hill met for a ‘gear check’ at Morris and Hill’s house July 3, and the defendants are accused of using Morris’ home in Dallas for planning hours before the shooting.”
Morris denies the allegation saying her home “was just a spot to meet and carpool.” according to Osibamowo.
She adds “Like others, Morris’ wife Stephanie Shiver said the event was meant to show solidarity — not enact violence. The allegations, she told KERA News, amount to a ‘suicide mission.’”
“‘They were going in solidarity with the people ICE has been kidnapping and detaining,’ Shiver said. ‘The whole point was to make noise and make the people inside feel that they’re not forgotten and not ignored.’”
One defendant Daniel Sanchez Estrada wasn’t at the Prairieland solidarity action on July 4, 2025, but the federal prosecutors are accusing him of dropping a box of “zines,” or DIY published booklets, and other insurrectionary “antifa materials” at a friend’s apartment in Denton in an attempt to conceal incriminating evidence.
The fall of the US Empire and the satanic Zionists trying to navigate this collapse to their own advantage are likely to get even more brutal. Any effort to organize against the wars or the demon child-rapists will be co-opted by the Democratic Party in their No Kings rallies. Attempts to build a movement outside the Democratic party will be criminalized.
Building communities of mutual aid and a culture of resistance on the fringes of the dystopian techno-feudalist system may be our best hope.
There is evidence that Americans are done with the two main political parties and are finding new grassroots avenues to push back. AI data farms are being blocked through citizen action. Local activists far across the political spectrum are uniting to stop lithium battery storage sites from being placed in their communities.
So while those funding the No Kings rallies are busy promoting the installation of the King Shah in Iran the people struggling to survive are slowly starting to find ways to resist.
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A CABAL OF SATANIC ZIONIST CHILD-RAPING CANNIBALS ARE SENDING US TO WAR
February 17, 2026
Where is the movement against the war on Iran?
“Brazil, in our hemisphere, largest country in the Western hemisphere south of us, cut a trade deal with China. They’re going to from now on, do trade in their own currencies, get right around the dollar. They’re creating a secondary economy in the world totally independent of the United States. We won’t have to talk about sanctions in five years because there will be so many countries transacting in currencies other than the dollar that we won’t have the ability to sanction them.” Senator Marco Rubio – March 2023 Fox News.
The system of war requires a docile, compliant uninformed population. A simple narrative of good versus bad and fabricated story can justify a war. The US is losing the leverage of economic sanctions to maintain global dominance and is resorting to military force.
The current flood of propaganda and lies about “33,000 peaceful protesters” being killed by the government in Iran and the pro-Shah rallies are designed to justify the long planned war.
The first false flag of lies during my life time still haunts America. Homeless Vietnam veterans are frequent guests at our Food Not Bombs meals in cities all across the country. The August 1964 Gulf of Tonkin “incident” sparked the American war against Vietnam.
Like many families across America we sat around our dinner table watching grainy black and white footage of young GIs being blown apart and Vietnamese families fleeing US soldiers armed with M-16s. Some nights it was the torching of reed roof homes or the carpet bombing of vast areas of farmland and forests. A daily horror beamed into our homes.
That horror was made real for me when my cousin Mr Lovejoy gave our family a tour of the Dover Airbase in Delaware. Tower after tower of silver metal caskets stacked 20 high and 20 deep marched for blocks down the tarmac outside the US military morgue waiting for another plane load of dead Americans.
The mortuary at the Dover Airbase is about to receive another flood of flag draped corpses.
On February 14, 2026, Reuters reported, “The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in what could become a far more serious conflict than previously seen between the countries.” At least 50,000 US soldiers have been deployed to the region.
It seems many Americans are slow to learn. It wasn’t that long ago when we were lied into war. William Powell’s fake yellow cake at the UN and former-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice’s claim that, “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud,” was enough to launch the March 19, 2003 Shock and Awe bombing of Baghdad, starting a war that killed a million people. A war that has left Iraq a failed state.
When I joined the early January protest in Santa Cruz against the ICE murders in Minneapolis organized by Indivisible I walked around asking if there were also plans for a huge rally against Trump’s war on Iran.
Most had not heard any thing about a war against Iran. A few people including a former board member of the Resource Center for Nonviolence did repeat the false claim that over 33,000 peaceful protesters had just been killed by the Iranian government but he had not heard of any protests against the US attack on the country.
I visited Indivisible’s social media and noticed that the No Kings 3 campaign rallies on March 28, 2026 have no mention of Trump’s threat to start a regional war in West Asia. A war that could crash the global economy if Iran keeps its promise to close the Straits of Hormuz and would result in tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Last summer’s 12 Day War showed that Iran has the ability to devastate Israel. The world was fortunate that Iran stopped its attacks because if they hadn’t Israel would have been backed up against the wall forcing the genocidal country to implement their Samson Option launching nuclear weapons at Tehran.
The often repeated lies about over 33,000 peaceful protesters being killed by Iran was originated by the German optometrist Dr. Amir Parast, whose group “The Munich Circle” hosted the former Shah of Iran’s son Reza Pahlavi at their November 2025 conference. The London based media company “Iran International,” financed by Saudi Arabia and Israel pushed the story and western media was all too happy to spread the disinformation.
In fact the foreign backed terrorists that went on a three or four day killing spree burning hospitals, banks and mosques in Iran were organized and armed by the US and Israel. Western NGOs smuggled in as many as 40,000 of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite routers, small arms, bombs and ammunition into the country.
According to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent his agency intentionally devaluated the Iranian currency to cause desperate merchants to organize protests calling for economic stabilization. Protests that armed Mossad, CIA and MI6 assets would exploit until Iran followed the Starlink communications and rounded up the terrorists snuffing out the regime change riots.
At the January 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Scott Bessent labeled sanctions on Iran as key “economic statecraft”. He noted these measures contributed to Iran’s economic collapse and rising public unrest.
Just like the US and MI6 organized 2014 Maidan Coup in Ukraine the foreign paid and coordinated “protesters” shot and killed both the police and other demonstrators in an attempt to recreate the 1953 US coup that placed the brutal Shah into power.
Israel’s Mossad issued a message from its official Farsi language account on Twitter “urging Iranians to escalate” their regime change activities, pledging that the US and Israel would be supporting them on the ground.
“Go out together into the streets. The time has come,” Mossad instructed Iranians. “We are with you. Not only from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field.”
“Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them,” former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a Twitter post on New Year’s Eve.
After meeting with Netanyahu at the White House on February 11, 2026, Trump ordered the USS Gerald R Ford to deploy to the Arabian Sea from the Caribbean, joining the USS Abraham Lincoln and its associated carrier strike group. The USS George HW Bush is also on its way to join in the attack.
The last time the US had two of its 11 aircraft carriers in the region was last June when Trump ordered strikes against Iranian nuclear sites.
“As I told Iran once before, MAKE A DEAL!” Trump’s post concluded. “They didn’t, and there was ‘Operation Midnight Hammer,’ a major destruction of Iran. The next attack will be far worse! Don’t make that happen again. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Israel and the US are demanding Iran “stop enriching uranium, limit its missile program and stop supporting proxy groups in the Middle East,” as part of a new nuclear deal. Iran is not likely to let the United States and Israel install a puppet government without a fight.
The Times of Israel reported on February 14th, “Asked Friday about potential regime change in Iran, US President Donald Trump said, ‘it seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,’ as he confirmed sending a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East ‘in case we don’t make a deal’ with the Islamic Republic.”
The Epstein Class seems to be repeating its June 2025 tactic of using negotiations that are designed to fail as cover for their next attack. A page taken out of the 2009 Brookings Institute’s “Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran”.
One thing that suggests this war is about to start was the near universal exaggeration of pro-Shah protests on February 14, 2026. The BBC reported “Hundreds of thousands of people took part in demonstrations around the world against the Iranian government on Saturday, following calls from the exiled son of the late shah for a “global day of action”. These same media outlets ignored the massive pro-government “Revolution Day” rallies held in Iran on February 11, 2026, where nearly 20 million Iranians filled the streets of cities across the country to show support.
A cabal of satanic Zionist baby-raping cannibals are taking us to war. A war that could tank our economy as over 20% of the world’s oil is cut off if the Strait of Hormuz is blocked by the conflict. A war where tens of thousands, maybe even millions could be killed in a desperate move to save the US Empire as it looses the power of its economic sanctions.
Don’t let ICE terror stop us from uniting against this war. It is time for Palestinian activists, those protesting ICE, Americans horrified by the Epstein Files and those already crushed by the failed economy to start organizing anti-draft committees, bail funds, general strikes, occupations, blockades and mass protests.
This also might be a good time to build communities of mutual aid and a sustainable culture of resistance.
THE CURRENT STATE OF STATE REPRESSION
December 12, 2025
Food Not Bombs has a 45 year history of defending human and animal rights. Volunteers have provided support for indigenous struggles, class conflicts and in defense of the environment. We stand for the rights of those without a roof to a safe place to sleep free of police disruption and violence. Of course we aren’t going to let governments interfere with the sharing of meals and literature. We will always defend the basic human right to share meals without government permission.
When the Pensacola Florida Police arrested Food Not Bombs volunteer Mike Kimberl for sharing meals after dark in Martin Luther King jr Park the day after Thanksgiving 2025 Food Not Bombs refused efforts by the city to issue them a permit. Mike and the other Food Not Bombs volunteers have been sharing meals every Friday at 6 pm in Pensacola for 14 years Daylight Saving Time or not.
Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves and his police department don’t seem to understand that they have no say in how people help one another. That’s a most basic of freedoms. People don’t ever need permission from the government to share the gift of a warm meal. Food Not Bombs agreed during the1992 and 1995 World Gatherings that we would never request or accept a permit to share food with the hunger after the San Francisco authorities used their process to try and stop our meals. If they believe that they can give you permission they also believe they can take that permission away.
Melbourne Food Not Bombs on the Atlantic coast of Florida successfully pushed back against a local ordinance designed to drive the group from sight. “We are not here to negotiate with you” one volunteer tells City Council. She reminds the council members that the City of Fort Lauderdale was ordered to pay $750,000 to the attorneys that represented Food Not Bombs after the federal courts ruled it was our First Amendment right to share meals without a permit.
Another threat is brewing against anti-fascists, anarchists and groups like Food Not Bombs that organize using anarchist influenced nonhierarchical principles.
A July 4th fireworks protest outside an ICE detention center inspired the July 22nd story on the Dallas Fort Worth NPR station KERA,“Shooting at Alvarado ICE facility, other attacks: The new normal?”
KERA reporter Caroline Love says, “Era Yousuf describes herself as being close friends with many of the defendants — including Benjamin Song, who she said prefers to be called Suzuka. Song, who was recently arrested, is accused of purchasing four guns found in connection with the shooting, according to court records.”
“Yousuf met them through protests and local activism, including the group Food Not Bombs, a nonprofit organization that distributes food that would otherwise be discarded to people experiencing homelessness.”
“Yousuf, who moved to another state recently, said she wasn’t involved with the demonstration at the detention center or any of the planning. She said her friends are not violent.”
“‘These aren’t dangerous people,’ Yousuf said. ‘They want to help innocent folks that are being kept prisoner.’”
The report also notes that “Court records don’t identify who fired the shots,” suggesting the shooter may well be working with law enforcement.
The Alvarado ICE facility shooting was highlighted by Trump and his cabinet at his October 8th White House Antifa roundtable.
Trump stated that, “In July approximately a dozen Antifa aligned militants stormed the ice facility in Texas, and then lured offices out of the building before firing dozens of rounds at police. They were. crazy, frankly. Shooting 1 Texas officer in the neck.”
During that same Antifa roundtable, Jonathan Choe, a reporter for Turning Point USA’s newsroom Frontlines, claimed that political extremism on the ideological left intersects with the “homeless drug crisis.” As evidence, he shared a recent report from the Discovery Institute, a Seattle based think tank best known for promoting the intelligent-design theory that God made everything in seven days to refute the theory of evolution.
“In many cases, the homeless industrial complex is running cover for antifa, and antifa is benefiting from American tax dollars, and they’re essentially being used as the muscle,” Choe reported.
“He then pointed to Stop the Sweeps, a franchise-like, community-coordinated campaign that aims to prevent state violence against homeless encampments.” writes Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling in an October 8th story in the New Republic.
The Stop the Sweeps protests in Santa Cruz have been focused against the local homeless shelter Housing Matters and their coordination with the city to clear the streets of the homeless around their shelter.
The suggestion that Food Not Bombs could be national security threat continued. On October 3, 2025, Fox New’s Jesse Watters aired “Antifa whistleblower BREAKS SILENCE, warns of violence,” interviewing an actor he calls Eric about how he got involved with Antifa. Watter’s starts by explaining Eric had to disguise himself to protect his life. He goes on asking, “How did you get roped into this whole Antifa thing?” Fake Eric responds, “It stared when I was young. I got in through working with different groups like the ARA, Cop Watch, Food Not Bombs and the punk rock movement.” The pretend former Antifa Eric also refers to the WTO protest in Seattle and claimed he had a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook.
On September 25, 2025, Trump issued NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM / NSPM-7: Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence Presidential National Security Memorandum. It includes,“As described in the Order of September 22, 2025 (Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization), the groups and entities that perpetuate this extremism have created a movement that embraces and elevates violence to achieve policy outcomes, including justifying additional assassinations. For example, Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin engraved the bullets used in the murder with so-called “anti-fascist” rhetoric.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered the FBI on December 4, 2025 to “compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism,” according to the Justice Department memo.
Under number 7 “Disseminating intelligence on extremist groups”
“Within 60 days of the issuance of this guidance, the FBI, in coordination with its partners on the JTTFs, shall disseminate an intelligence bulletin on Antifa and Antifa-aligned anarchist violent extremist groups. The bulletin should describe the relevant organizations’ structures, funding sources, and tactics so that law enforcement partners can effectively investigate and policy makers can effectively understand the nature and gravity of the threat posed by these extremist groups.”
It might be helpful to learn that when the FBI – Joint Terrorism Task Force observed the August 22, 1988 arrests of 24 Food Not Bombs volunteers at Golden Gate Park they sent a memo to the San Francisco FBI Field Office claiming we were “a credible national security threat”. That November during the Thanksgiving holiday National Guard units across the country held domestic terrorism workshops featuring Food Not Bombs as “one of America’s most hardcore terrorist groups”. In April 2009 the US State Department gave a lecture asking who is more dangerous, “Al-Qaeda or the people sharing vegan meals in the parks?” In conclusion they believed that the people sharing vegan meals were more dangerous because they were influencing the American pubic “to support diverting military spending to education, healthcare and other social services” reducing according to them the country’s ability to fight groups like Al-Qaeda.
While several Food Not Bombs volunteers have been arrested, framed or entrapped by FBI terrorism changes in plots invented by the agency it has not slowed the growth of our movement. Each of these cases was painful for the families and friends of those targeted but if anything it has encouraged more people to participate.
We maybe entering a time of transition where those of us who have no attachment to the current political and economic system can thrive.
In crisis like this people tend to step up and help one another. The collapse frees us to appreciated the value of community and compassion over the cold techno feudal digital dystopia during the dying days of this cruel US Empire.
THE CURRENT STATE OF STATE REPRESSION
https://keithmchenry.substack.com/p/the-current-state-of-state-repression
THE JOYS OF ANTIFASCISM
October 10, 2025
Community is the cure
The authorities might be trying to link Food Not Bombs to their threats to stamp out anarchists and Antifa.
This July, NPR’s KERN News published the story, “Shooting at Alvarado ICE facility, other attacks: The new normal?” The report included this passage, “Era Yousuf describes herself as being close friends with many of the defendants — including Benjamin Song, who she said prefers to be called Suzuka. Song, who was recently arrested, is accused of purchasing four guns found in connection with the shooting, according to court records.”
“Yousuf met them through protests and local activism, including the group Food Not Bombs, a nonprofit organization that distributes food that would otherwise be discarded to people experiencing homelessness.” The government claims that there were two shooters but only identifies Song. One defendant claims the group intended to launch fireworks outside the detention center on the 4th of July to provide solidarity with the prisoners on Independence Day. KERN reporter Caroline Love wrote, “At least one of the defendants told authorities he didn’t know there would be any violence according to court records. So far, eleven people are charged with three counts of attempted murder of a federal officer and three counts of discharging a firearm in relation to and in furtherance of a crime of violence for the shooting. Court records don’t identify who fired the shots.” This suggests that it was an unidentified government informant that fired at the police when they came out to see what the noise was about.
The Alvarado ICE facility shooting was highlighted by Trump and his cabinet at his October 8th ANTIFA round table.
Trump claimed that “In July approximately a dozen Antifa aligned militants stormed the ICE facility in Texas, and then lured offices out of the building before firing dozens of rounds at police. They were crazy, frankly, shooting one Texas officer in the neck.”
The “Soros Network” among others were listed at Trump’s ANTIFA round table as supporters of violence.
“Patel said his department is working with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, “who is allowing us to map out these networks through their financial criminal activities, which has been going on for decades.”
Scott Bessent was the chief investment officer of Soros Fund Management, a $30 billion family office. After graduation, Bessent went to work at the CIA law firm Brown Brothers Harriman, then did stints at the Soros Fund, Protégé Partners, and others before George Soros recruited him as CIO in 2011. In August 2015 Bessent announced that he will leave at the end of the year—with a $2 billion allocation from Soros to start his own hedge fund.
Soros Open Society Foundation provided funding for the NGO’s that participated in the Orange Revolution and 2014 coup of Ukraine as well as providing millions to Indivisible including $9 million in 2024.
On October 3, 2025, Fox New’s Jesse Waters aired “Antifa whistleblower BREAKS SILENCE, warns of violence” interviewing an actor he calls Eric about how he got involved with Antifa. Water’s starts by explaining Eric has to disguise himself to protect his life. He goes on asking, “How did you get roped into this whole Antifa thing?” Fake Eric responds, “It stared when I was young. I got in through working with different groups like the ARA, Cop Watch, Food Not Bombs and the punk rock movement.” The pretend former Antifa Eric also refers to the WTO protest in Seattle and claimed he had a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook.
I rewrote the Anarchist Cookbook after the FBI entrapped five young Occupy Cleveland cooks including two Food Not Bombs volunteers in an FBI invented May Day bombing plot of a bridge and noticed that the federal complaint repeatedly noted that they possessed William Powell’s book which they admitted they had provided to the defendants.
All the hype about anarchists and Antifa suggests that the federal authorities might start attempting to increase their disruption of peace groups like CodePink and Food Not Bombs. Trump signed an executive order Designating Antifa a Domestic Terrorist Organization on September 22, 2025 even though there is no Antifa Organization so that can mean anyone could be a target.
After that he issued NSPM-7: Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence Presidential National Security Memorandum.
On October 4, 2025 Trump’s aid Stephen Miller told NewsMax “Every time we make an arrest, we are initiating an investigation into the entire domestic terrorist network.”
He adds, “The president issued a national security presidential memorandum, an NSPM, making clear that it is the national security priority of the United States law enforcement to dismantle, disrupt, defeat, and destroy these domestic terror networks.”
The Trump administration isn’t only targeting organizations or groups but even individuals and “entities” whom NSPM-7 says can be identified by any of the following “indicia” (indicators) of violence:
• anti-Americanism,
• anti-capitalism,
• anti-Christianity,
• support for the overthrow of the United States Government,
• extremism on migration,
• extremism on race,
• extremism on gender
• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,
• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and
• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.
So really anyone with a thinking brain and a compassionate heart.
Food Not Bombs meals are a port in the storm of these times of authoritarian threats. Building community, celebrating our independence and cultivating a society of compassion outside the drumbeat of fascism.
We can avoid being framed in one of the FBI’s plots by speaking up when conversations or jokes about getting guns, suggesting arson or other acts of violence by speaking up and reminding them that Food Not Bombs is dedication to nonviolent direct action. We aren’t passive but also we don’t support the organizing of physical attacks against people. As our name makes clear, we are food and not bombs.
The FBI has used informants to suggest bombings and other acts of terrorism in the Food Not Bombs community such as happened with Cleveland Food Not Bombs or our volunteer Eric McDavid who was framed and sentenced to 19 years for an FBI invented plot that he was not aware of believing that “Sarah” the informant was just joking.
The feds can try to cause infighting by hinting someone is an informant so it’s wise to never make such an accusation. Those making suggestions to use violence may have been encouraged by someone they keep “randomly” running into and otherwise are great and dedicated activists.
But the main thing I would suggest is have fun and enjoy all the beautiful connections we make when volunteering with Food Not Bombs.
Keith McHenry
Co-founder of the Food Not Bombs movement
Shooting at Alvarado ICE facility, other attacks: The new normal?
Antifa whistleblower BREAKS SILENCE, warns of violence
THE INTERNING OF AMERICA’S HOMELESS
August 17, 2025
Will we be silent about our neighbors being removed from our communities?
Yes, that time I have been warning of since 1985 has arrived: prison camps for the homeless. Nearly four decades of demonizing the homeless as sub human drug addicted mentally ill “useless eaters” has provided the justification needed to intern those who cannot afford housing.
Thankfully many Americans have compassion for their homeless neighbors. Many of us have family on the streets or are struggling to keep housed and appreciate the difficulties tens of thousands of us are experiencing.
My wife and I owned a graphic design company in Kenmore Square. We designed ads and publications for companies in our neighborhood including the Boston Red Sox and local retail shops who were members of the local business association. The vice president of the Kenmore Association invited me to his stuffy second floor office to ask me to design another publication.
“Keith, the Association wants you to take a photo of that black guy that stands outside Captain Nemo’s Pizza and make a poster with a red circle with a line through it over his face like a no parking sign. The poster should say “Wanted out of Kenmore Square.”
I refused to make the poster, volunteered to share food behind Fenway Park before each game and suggested it would not be possible to drive the homeless from Kenmore Square since the crowds of Red Sox fans and college students made it the perfect place to panhandle. I also explained that “that black guy” was loved and had a name.
A few weeks later my wife Andrea called me over to her desk at our graphic design business to show me the Kenmore Association newsletter.
“Keith look at this.” pointing to page 2 of the October issue of the Kenmore News. The typewritten newsletter of the association mostly reported on the news of the Security and Maintenance Committee.
“The Security & Maintenance Committee encourages all KA Members to assume an active role in cleaning up Kenmore Square. In order to prevent the attraction of streetpeople (especially the “rough element”, new to Kenmore Square), the following guidelines were suggested at the breakfast meeting…
Please don’t give free food to these streetpeople.
Please lock all dumpsters. Unlocked dumpsters will be cited by the City inspectors and all infractions will be subject to fines. Open dumpsters attract streetpeople looking for collectibles and food.
Please refrain from throwing returnable cans and bottles in public trash receptacles. The streetpeople find Kenmore Square a profitable location for collecting on these cans and bottles.
Start calling the police if certain annoyances persist and keep a record of your calls (ie. date, time of day and response time).
We stopped what we had been doing and typed out a response to the business association.
“As members of the Kenmore Association we object to the dehumanizing statements against those living on our streets made by the Security & Maintenance Committee in the October newsletter.”
“These people are our neighbors, friends and family and deserve our compassion and support.”
“Dehumanizing people in this manor smacks of Hitler’s Germany. The association is showing a total disregard for people being people. We urge the Association to support efforts to help our neighbors instead of adopting policing to drive them out of the community.”
“There is no evidence that their presence is having any impact on business. We should celebrate the unique qualities of Kenmore Square that make it attractive instead of seeking to become a second Newbury Street.”
Sincerely,
Andrea and Keith McHenry
24 hour residents of Kenmore Square
We shared our life with our homeless friends. The most visible and lovable of our street friends was “that black guy” Mr Butch who could be found outside Captain Nimo’s Pizza with a blue electric guitar slung across his chest welcoming the streams of Boston Red Sox fans chugging through Kenmore Square. Harold Madison Jr could have been Jimi Hendrix’s double.
The war against America’s homeless had begun.
As the number of Americans who were not able to afford housing increased business districts and municipal governments started to enact laws deigned to remove the homeless from sight.
After eight years of Reagan’s trickle down economics the number of homeless Americans had grown to more than 750,000 people. Cities started to pass and enforce what they called “quality of life” laws designed to make it a crime to be unhoused citing the pseudo science of the Broken Windows Theory to justify their dehumanizing campaigns.
Demonizing the homeless took another ugly step after I had relocated to San Francisco. Mayor Dianne Feinstein held a press event in my Richmond District neighborhood praising the city’s homeless-proof Muni bus stops. Her replacement, former social worker Art Agnos continued her anti-homeless programs including arresting Food Not Bombs for sharing meals at the entrance to Golden Gate Park at the end of Haight Street.
But that was nothing when compared to Mayor Frank Jordan’s “Quality of Life Enforcement Matrix Program”. In the first months Jordan order the police to confiscate the shoes off of people living outside.
Jordan would brag that Rudy Giuliani had adopted his program to clear Manhattan of their homeless.
The next mayor of San Francisco continues the repression. Mayor Brown asks to borrow the Oakland Police Department night vision-equipped helicopter to locate homeless people illegally sleeping in Golden Gate, but Oakland refuses to help. Sweeps of the parks continues anyway and the quality of life enforcement continues with 23,871 tickets issued to people living on the streets in 1999. Brown orders the police to charge people with shopping carts with a felony.
When Gavin Newson was on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors he initiated the ballot measure Care Not Cash which would change San Francisco’s General Assistance from $395 per month to just $59 per month but came with a guarantee of housing and food for the homeless. The promise of housing and food failed to materialize but the cuts in assistance was implemented.
When Gavin Newsom took the mayor’s office in 2004 he launched “Operation Outreach,” a special police unit that responds to 911 calls to rid the streets of the homeless, claiming he would be placing people in rehab or mental facilities, but with the lack of services people were just arrested or ticketed. Newsom claimed his program would eliminate the chronically homeless from San Francisco by 2014.
The cruel criminalization of the homeless got a new ally in 2016 when the billionaire co-founder of CIA In-Q-Tel funded Palantir, Joe Lonsdale, started the Cicero Institute. He provides model legislation to states banning “unauthorized street camping.” The Cicero Institute also provides model legislation on civil commitment of the homeless saying that “states should amend civil commitment laws to make it easier to help those who cannot help themselves”.
The Cicero Institute succeeded in getting states to pass their legislation. Their Safer Kentucky Act started to be enforced in July 2024. Anyone cited with the offense for the first time can be fined. Subsequent offenses are Kentucky Class B misdemeanors and can bring more fines or jail time. Under this law, if a property owner believes an unhoused trespasser is uncooperative they can shoot the homeless person under a stand-your-ground provision.
With Joe Lonsdale’s help Tennessee made it a felony to camp on most state-owned property. Having a felony conviction will make getting housing even more difficult.
In September 2022 Governor Gavin Newsom started the first of his Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Courts, opening a way to force the state’s homeless into involuntary mental health treatment.
Governor Newsom’s Proposition 1 passed in 2024 providing funding for facilities for those forced into state conservancy.
Two close homeless friends of mine were forced into civil commitment in 2023. Both were happy and no danger to themselves or others. All they required was enough money to afford an apartment.
The County of Santa Cruz removed one friend from a COVID hotel a week before everyone else was evicted in the Benchlands homeless camp. He was held in a psychiatric unit for months. Both of his cars were junked and he lost 30 years of crystals and drums he had in storage because he was blocked from paying for his units or his website, losing his life’s work. His once magical life was crushed.
My “rainbow family” friend was captured and forced into the mental facility and made to take psych drugs against her will. She died a couple of weeks after being released when she stopped taking the SSRIs.
On July 25, 2024, Newson signed the Executive Order N-1-24 calling on all state agencies to clear encampments. “With the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Grants Pass v Johnson, local governments now have the tools and authority to address dangerous encampments and help provide those residing in encampments with the resources they need.” He also told counties and cities who failed to clear homeless camps that the state would cut their funding.
Two months before Newsom signed his executive order the State awarded the City of Santa Cruz a $4 million “Encampment Resolution Grant” that provides two years of funding to remove the homeless from the streets around the Housing Matters homeless shelter. There is a claim that the grant will provide 55 people with a place in a tiny house or apartment. We will see.
The weekly sweeps scatter people to the woods and doorways until the police force them back to the relative safety of the camp outside the shelter.
In June 2025 San Jose, California passed a law making it illegal not to go into a shelter. San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan stated, “Homelessness can’t be a choice” when pushing for his Responsibility to Shelter Initiative. Those refusing shelter three times will be arrested for trespassing on public land. The San José Spotlight points out that the county only has one shelter bed for every three unhoused people.
Trump continues the drive to criminalize those who cannot afford housing with his “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” executive order essentially plagiarizing Newsom’s 2024 anti-homeless executive order.
A month after signing his order he spotted several people living in pup tents as he traveled to play gulf in Virginia, writing on Truth Social platform, “The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capitol” ordering the unhoused residents to leave the US capitol or face eviction and vowed to use officers to make arrests.
Trump also federalized the District of Columbia’s police ordering them to enforce the anti-homeless laws passed by the liberal Democrats.
On August 12th White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt took questions about President Trump’s takeover of the Washington, D.C.police force and the Trump administration’s plan to remove homeless encampments in the city, responding that, “The Police Department, with the support of the new Federal agencies who have been surging on the street of the District of Columbia, are going to enforce the laws that are already on the books here in Washington DC. For far too long, these laws have been completely ignored in the homelessness problem, has ravaged the city. So D.C. Code 1307 and D.C. Municipal Regulation 24-100 give the Metropolitan Police Department the authority to take action when it comes to homeless encampments so homeless individuals will be given the option to leave their encampment to be taken to a homeless shelter, to be offered addiction or mental health services and if they refuse they will be susceptible to fines or to jai time. Again these are preexisting laws that are already on the books.”
The New York Post reported that, “In the past five months, U.S. Park Police have removed 70 homeless encampments, giving the people living in them the same options, she said. As of Tuesday, Leavitt said only two homeless encampments remained in district parks maintained by the National Park Service and would be removed this week.”
Associated Press reporter Meg Kinnard notes that “Trump said this week that homeless people will be moved far from the city in his crackdown on crime. But details of the plan to do so are unclear”.
The number of Americans facing homelessness is increasing as rents and the cost of food continue to rise, families face cuts in SNAP food stamps and other social safety nets. With the potential of tens of thousands more people being forced onto the streets US officials may believe they need to be prepared to deploy the National Guard across the country.
When we speak of the homeless people of Santa Cruz “being moved far from the city” there may already be a plan. Former Mayor Donna Meyers and former County Supervisor Ryan Coonerty were quietly proposing during their 2 by 2 meetings that people could be sent to the Camp Roberts California National Guard Base outside the tiny village of San Miguel in San Luis Obispo county.
Is this what Trump means, that America’s rapidly growing homeless population will be moved far from the city ?
War is a powerful way to justify the implementation of an authoritarian police state so why was Indivisible silent?
Consider this. Israel attacks Iran and Iran returns fire starting a world changing war. A war that could become a world war. A war that is likely to increase oil prices and increase economic suffering of the American people. A war where nuclear power stations are being bombed. A war started on Trump’s watch.
According to Indivisible, “Millions of Americans marched in over 2,000 events across all 50 states—protesting Donald Trump and his fascist administration,” as Tel Aviv and Tehran burned and dozens of children were being slaughtered in Gaza.
The NO KINGS DAY rallies could have mobilized all those “millions” they bragged had attended to take action against the most important event of that day which was the war against Iran. Every sign could have said NO WAR WITH IRAN – END THE GENOCIDE but there is a reason those signs were few and far between if at all.
This should clue you into the main goal of Indivisible and its billionaire funders who dumped millions into this project and that is to control the opposition to Trump and silence the threat of an anti-war movement in the United States. It’s no accident that there are always Ukrainian flags at Indivisible events since some of the main funders of Indivisible like the Open Society Foundation also donated hundreds of millions to western NGOs to build support for the 2014 coup.
Their secondary goal is to build support for the Democratic Party. Democratic political leaders are crowing about how successful the NO KINGS DAY campaign rallies were. “The Democrats sure came out today” one of the faithful Tweeted in her celebration of NO KINGS DAY.
As hypersonic missiles rained down on Israel and F-35s were bombing oil refineries in Iran Senator Chuck Schumer posted “I was so proud to be in New York City today supporting Americans making their voice heard at No Kings protests and pushing back on Donald Trump’s authoritarian push to rig the economy for his billionaire buddies.” We should push back on the slide into fascism. But it’s obvious that war is a powerful way to justify an authoritarian police state. Not a word about the horrific war between Israel and Iran.
During the first years of Indivisible their solution to the “fascism” of Trump was to ask everyone to vote for Hillary Clinton. She promised during the campaign that, “I want the Iranians to know that if I am the president, we will attack Iran.” Their solution to the “fascism” of Trump is to ask their supporters to vote for Biden and before long they will be asking us to vote for what ever genocidal warmongers the Democrats place before us.In April, Indivisible held campaign rallies called HANDS OFF which included the poster Hands Off NATO, a reference to the fear that Trump might keep his promise to end the regime change war against Russia. This should have been a red flag to anyone who opposes war.
Trump supporters posted warnings of nationwide riots using Indivisible’s NO KINGS DAY map of boomer campaign rallies as proof. While MAGA claims that the tens of thousands who attended the NO KINGS DAY campaign rallies were paid by George Soros to riot this is clearly not the case.
The people who went did so willingly, horrified by Trump. I too am horrified by the Trump administration. It angers me that the Democrats would use my participation and the participation of other anti-war activists to claim they have mass support for their pro-war, pro-genocide candidates. I can’t let my good name be used to endorse their agenda of slaughter.
While George Soros didn’t pay people to participate in the rallies, his foundation did provide millions to help promote the campaign. A financial statement for just one of Indivisible’s three organizations states that they had raised nine million dollars in 2024. The website opensocietyfoundations.org/grants lists the grants to one branch of Indivisible by the Open Society Foundation. Other billionaires also pitched in to support the NO KINGS DAY events. Other oligarchs like Walmart heiress Christy Walton promoted a planned nationwide protest against President Trump. She paid for a full-page advertisement promoting the Democratic campaign rallies in the New York Times on Sunday.
The roots of this astroturf organization start with two former Democratic Congressional aides Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin who founded the Indivisible Project and its affiliated organizations in 2016. They still run the organization. Greenberg held various advisory, fellowship and public affairs positions in the Obama administration at the Departments of State and Defense. After that she worked in the House of Representatives for Democratic Congressman Tom Porriello. Porriello was the officiant at Greenberg and Levin’s wedding and after leaving the Congress Porriello became the “top man” at Soros’ Open Society Foundation. Leah’s father, Mark Greenberg, is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress founded by John Podesta and is currently lead by Neera Tanden. A pro-war think tank connected to the Democratic Party.
The other co-founder and leader of Indivisible, Ezra Levin worked in Congress as Deputy Policy Director for Rep. Lloyd Doggett, and as field director for Doggett’s 2010 re-election campaign. He then jumped to the Obama White House in 2012, working “directly with the Deputy Assistant to the President and with other senior White House staff” as part of the White House Domestic Policy Council. After Levin’s time in the Obama White House he became Associate Director of Federal Policy for Prosperity Now, a non-profit advocacy group with close ties to the financial industry, federal agencies and NGOs. Its many donors include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Bank of America, Citi, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, PayPal, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Wells Fargo. You can’t help but get the impression that Indivisible is not really an organic grassroots movement considering their funding and connections.
By the time you read this the war Indivisible ignored may have already killed and injured tens of thousands more people and crashed the global economy.
Those who innocently participated may wake up and realize they got played. This will be very painful for those whose family members and friends might be sent off to die in the war they could have been protesting against had Indivisible made Trump’s war against Iran a priority.
It will also be very painful for the millions of Americans who will be forced to survive what could be an economic depression more dire than that of the 1930s. That is if these psychos in Tel Aviv and Washington DC don’t kill all of us in a nuclear conflict.
It seems that Indivisible’s billionaire funded NO KINGS DAY might have been successful so far at its primary goal of killing opposition to the war with Iran, Russia and the genocide. But we shouldn’t let them.
It’s time to stop letting those in power organize and fund our protest movement and initiate our own resistance to fascism outside the Democratic Party.
Food Not Bombs – PO Box 422, Santa Cruz CA 95061 USA – menu@foodnotbombs.net
NO KINGS DAY – The tragic missed opportunity to protest against the war with Iran.
War is a powerful way to justify the implementation of an authoritarian police state so why was Indivisible silent?
https://keithmchenry.substack.com/p/no-kings-day-the-tragic-missed-opportunity
CONTROLLED OPPOSITION
April 18, 2025
Let’s build a movement against fascism outside the control of the genocidal pro-war Democratic Party
While progressive Senator Cory Booker was giving his 25 hour Democratic Party infomercial on the Senate floor a Palestinian father could be seen on social media emerging from clouds of concrete dust in Gaza holding his headless child to the heavens. Two days later in another theatrical stunt designed to secure progressive loyalty to the Democratic Party Bernie introduces a bill to block $8.8 billion in arms sales to Israel which Booker voted against. Where was Bernie when he was voting to silence anti genocide protesters and backing Biden’s arms sales?
Capitalizing on the understandable anxiety of a Trump victory the Democrats are once again deploying their astroturf movement Indivisible. Since the mythology of the Democrats is that they are the party of the left they need to attract support from those who desire a progressive agenda. The party was trounced out of power for refusing to end the genocide or provide for the needs of the American people. The Republicans employed a similar strategy and used the fear of an Obama administration to launch the Tea Party to counter the perception that their party had moved away from their conservative roots. This is one method the billionaire class uses to tamp down any threat to their power.
After spending 18 brutal days in the Orange County Jail for the crime of sharing meals with the hungry I was released into the arms of Food Not Bombs volunteer Eric Montanez and handed a Tupperware of the best vegan Mac and Cheese I have ever tasted. News helicopters whirled above but they were not there for me. Socialite Casey Anthony, whose daughter was found dead as she partied was also being released from the Orlando jail at the same time as myself.
I was one of nearly 30 food servers arrested in the summer of 2011 after an appellate court ruled Florida’s most liberal city had the constitutional right to ban the sharing of meals with the homeless when Food Not Bombs appealed the Orlando groups first arrest.
On April 4, 2007, at the conclusion of an Orlando police undercover investigation that, according to the Orlando Weekly, cost taxpayers $65,000, Food Not Bombs volunteer Eric Montanez was arrested. When Food Not Bombs lost its appeal of the city ordinance volunteers defied the order and continued to provide the meals at Lake Eola Park picnic grounds.
When I finally was able to access my email one message included a call from Ad Busters to “Occupy Wall Street” on October 17th in a campaign to protest Obama’s bailout of the banks instead of coming to the aid of the 5.5 million families who lost their homes to foreclosure.
I supported the strategy of occupation and delivered hundreds of pounds of rice to New York and Washington DC and cooking equipment ready to help feed the protests. By Thanksgiving I had participated in over two dozen camps when the Obama administration aggressively started to crush the Occupy Wall Street movement.
A year after Occupy Wall Street was smashed Naomi Wolf wrote in the Guardian that, “FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF)… reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat … The PCJF has obtained heavily redacted documents showing that FBI offices and agents around the country were in high gear conducting surveillance against the movement even as early as August 2011, a month prior to the establishment of the OWS encampment in Zuccotti Park and other Occupy actions around the country.”
Many of us started organizing to ReOccupy the camps on May Day. As we were building our campaign a group calling itself 99% Spring asked San Francisco Bay activists to join them at a meeting in the Mission District. Nearly a hundred people sat around a conference room listening to the facilitators and watched their 20 minute inspirational film.
After the video people started to ask questions about why was there no mention of Obama’s bail out of the banks or his wars. The organizers dodged our questions and moved on to their plan. When it was suggested that many of us had already been planning to start the occupation on International Workers’ Day they claimed they had already picked their day in April. The presenters were clearly uncomfortable and deflected our questions. Nearly half of those attending walked out at lunch and never returned realizing that 99% Spring was just another Democratic Party front group designed to co-opt our movement.
The resulting confusion from their heavily promoted 99% Spring made organizing an independent return to the streets difficult. Masked people trashed areas of Seattle on May Day posing as a Black Block and news broke of a May first plot to bomb a bridge. The FBI had entrapped five of the 2011 Occupy Cleveland cooks including three young Food Not Bombs activists in a plot to use plastic explosives to topple the Route 82 bridge spanning Ohio’s Cuyahoga Valley National Park on 30 April 2012. Media reports of these events made sure that we didn’t continue the occupations.
The controlled opposition of the 99% Spring was only one of such subversions used to suppress threats against the Democratic Party from the left. MoveOn.org and Common Cause are among the well financed “grassroots” groups like Bernie Sanders’ Our Revolution designed to “sheepdog” people they fear might dedicate their energy to organize against corporate power and war redirecting them back into the dominate political system.
I signed up with Our Revolution in 2016 when Sanders was running against Hillary Clinton. Since he supported military contracts like the F-35 I was skeptical that he would bring the change he was campaigning on but I gave him a chance. It seems that contact list is still being used for the purpose of corralling those who might be a threat to their agenda from the left into their orbit. Bernie asked us to vote for the cackling about Libyan Open Air Slave Markets Hillary Clinton. He would go on to ask us to back genocide Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. That list was an important factor in drawing so many people to the Hands Off and Anti-Oligarchy Democratic Party rallies.
Those lists were also used to send out a Cory Booker fundraising text shortly after the Senator voted to stop Bernie’s theatrical attempt to cut arms shipments to Israel. Messaging intended to mobilize people still gullible enough to believe that the Democrats could be a progressive challenge to the madness of the Trump administration. The Pussy Hat distraction of the first Trump administration has become the Hands Off of Trump’s second term.
In their all out effort to protect their system of exploitation and empire they also launched the AOC/Bernie Anti Oligarch tour, started another group, 5051 to attract those who had become wise to the Indivisible scam, and made much of the Cory Booker 25 hour content free yapathon. We are sure to see even more seemingly progressive groups emerge but none will be opposed to the genocide, war or corporate power.
In 2016 when it became clear that Trump would win the election two Congressional staff members, Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, initiated Indivisible “publishing a twenty-three-page document drafted by a handful of former Democratic Congressional staffers in the days after Trump was elected. The subtitle: “A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda” with the intention of harnessing the fear many rightly had of what might happen during his first administration. It is no surprise that when the Democrats returned to power they made no effort to reverse some of the most damaging of Trump’s policies like the tax cuts for the wealthy, the mass deportations of migrants or even move the US Embassy from Jerusalem back to Tel Aviv.
The August 18, 2017, issue of the Progressive Magazine writes, “Indivisible has, in a very short time, emerged as the public face of citizen resistance to Trump. Like the Democratic Socialists of America and Our Revolution, the official outgrowth of Bernie Sanders’ primary campaign, Indivisible has received a surge of interest post election. Unlike those groups, it didn’t exist beforehand.” The Tides Foundation provided $350,000 to help them start.
The article goes on to say, “The former staffers, including Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg, now the group’s executive director and chief strategy officer respectively, had seen the Tea Party kneecap their bosses” attempts to pass progressive policies during Obama’s first term.”
One core member, Peter Dreier, claimed, “the goal of Indivisible was to “save American democracy&” and “resume the project of creating a humane America that is more like social democracy than corporate plutocracy.”
Anyone following the Democratic Party knows the last thing they support is democracy, otherwise for example, Bernie Sanders would have been their nominee, they wouldn’t have sued to keep the Green Party off the ballot in state after state and they would have held a primary in 2024. To claim the political party that refused to increase the minimum wage, presided over an economy that caused a 30% increase in the number of Americans who became homeless during their four years in power and armed the genocide of Gaza as “humane” seems a stretch.
Indivisible’s website states, “We’re a grassroots movement of thousands of local Indivisible groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda.”
It is rare to see a grassroots movement receive millions in donations from wealthy foundations like Open Society Foundation that gave $3 million to one arm of Indivisible in 2023; $1,135,000 in 2022; $500,000 to one account in 2021 and $375,000 to another account also in 2021; $1,750,000 in 2019; $500,000 in 2018 and $350,000 in 2017. The Open Society Foundation has not posted how much it donated in 2024 and it is not clear how many millions more was provided by other foundations to the other Indivisible units like Indivisible Project, Indivisible Civics, and Indivisible Action. Open Secrets reported that one of the sections of Indivisible raised $9,922,930 in 2024. Hardly grassroots.
Indivisible isn’t the only Democratic Party project that was funded by Soros. In the second quarter of 2020, his organizations gave at least $500,000 to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, becoming one of the campaign’s largest donors. Soros was the country’s largest donor to political campaigns in 2022 donating $128.5 million to support the Democratic Party in that election cycle. While Soros’ Open Society Foundation was financing the Hands Off rallies Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury happens to be Soros Fund Management partner Scott Bessent.
The Democrats are employing the same Color Revolution strategy they used to topple the elected governments of Ukraine and Georgia. Build a system of controlled opposition in defense of US centric corporate power. The Soros funding of regime change programs in Georgia was considered by Georgian nationalists to be crucial to the success of the Rose Revolution coup. Alexander Lomaia, secretary of the Georgian Security Council, is a former executive director of the Open Society Georgia Foundation (Soros Foundation), overseeing a staff of 50 and a budget of $2.5 million. The Biden administration was still seeking to subvert the democratically elected government of Georgia with a second color revolution as he left office. Like most of Biden’s policies Trump is continuing the effort to replace that government with a US compliant puppet.
I echo CodePink’s Medea Benjamin in strongly agreeing with most of the demands listed on publicity for the Hands Off rallies, Hands Off Medicare, Hands off Social Security, Hands Off Education, Hands Off Public Lands, Hands Off Immigrants and Hands Off LGBTQIA+.
But what suggested to me that these Hands Off rallies have another goal other than to stand against the terror of the CIA linked vultures hovering around the Trump administration was what was absent in their messaging. Their publicity didn’t include Hands Off Gaza or Hands Off Yemen even while US bombs were tearing children to shreds as people gathered for the rallies. Horrors that were beyond anything we have ever witnessed raging at the exact time these rallies were taking place.
Even more telling was that one of the institutions they want to protect is the organization directing the regime change war against Russia. The “Hands Off!” rally’s website even offers a pdf of a “Hands Off NATO” sign for activists to print and bring to their rallies. The website also quotes MoveOn Executive Director Rahna Epting saying, “This peaceful movement is powered by everyday people.” Does that include the dozens of “everyday people” who have been calling me nearly everyday for the past two years desperate for food often remarking that it makes them angry that we can fund a war in Ukraine but we can’t provide for our own people here in the US.
While most of those who join these rallies have the best intentions, some even came holding handmade signs against the genocide in Gaza or waved a Palestinian flag, it is unlikely that Indivisible intends to unite with the massive protests against the murder of Palestinian families. Their message of peace was drowned out by all the Ukrainian flags supporting the deadly war against Russia and their support of the political party that just spent 15 months slaughtering Palestinian babies.
It is understandable that people would join the Hands Off rallies. The stunning cascade dismantling our rights and social supports is frightening. Legal residents being snatched off the streets and deported, the privatizing of social services and threats to donate our National Parks to Trump’s billionaire friends for mining and oil extraction couldn’t be more terrifying. Americans are leading busy lives, struggling to pay their bills and base their political perspectives from limited information served by the same corporate media that supports the agenda of the war state and naturally joined the rallies in desperation. Had I not been following Indivisible since their founding and realized their organization was designed to kill any opposition to the system I would have also participated. I just can’t join rallies where it’s ok with the organizers for people to wave the Ukrainian flag. I don’t want to be seen as supporting war let alone one led by supporters of Stepan Bandera.
When rallies get such positive national news you know they have the support of those in power. You won’t see dozens of Democratic Party officials participating in protests that threaten the economic and political system. Insider trading success Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi spoke to her fawning supporters in the swing state Pennsylvania. Former vice presidential running mate Tim Waltz screamed to his supporters that the Democrats were back. The ghoulish anti-homeless YIMBY California State Senator Scott Wiener gloated over a video of himself he shared on Facebook that opened with a fluttering Ukrainian flag outside San Francisco City Hall. Wiener came to Santa Cruz on April 5, 2019 helping launch the luxury high rise condominium craze that is turning our community into a 15 Minute Smart City hell-scape.
Santa Cruz Indivisible is dominated by our city’s worst West-siders and pro development politicians. Their Facebook site includes supporters like anti-homeless Take Back Santa Cruz activist and former city councilperson Richelle Noroyan. One of the first members is the founder of the Predictive Policing Software Ryan Coonerty now used by CIA contractor Palantir to target Palestinians. Bookshop Santa Cruz owner Casey Coonerty-Protti’s husband Michel Protti helped finance this program when he was Vice President of Yahoo.
Those who waved their Ukrainian flags most likely believed that Russia’s military actions were unprovoked and feared Trump’s claims of making peace with Putin were real. Nothing says provoked like the torrent of western leaders spending the last 20 years threatening to topple the Russian government. On March 26, 2022, Biden continued those regime change threats during a speech in Warsaw saying of President Putin that,”For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
The Hands Off events share the same Zionist sponsors as the current regime so it’s no wonder there was silence about the bombings of Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Trumps threats to attack Iran. In a January 2024, article, “I don’t belong”: A Jewish student leaves Occidental College over wartime protests” the Forward writes, “Dreier, who identified himself as a “committed Jew” and has taught at the school for 30 years, acknowledged that “there are Jewish and Arab students feeling traumatized by what is happening in the Middle East.”
The Bernie AOC billionaire funded Anti-Oligarch tour is a second major front after Indivisible in the campaign to absorb those who might otherwise participate in an authentic movement against fascism into their dead end project. Police arrested Pro-Palestine protestors that had unfurled a banner saying “Free Palestine” at the Nampa, Idaho, rally as Sanders repeated his “Israel has a right to defend themselves against terrorism&” Zionist mantra followed by “I am doing my best to demand not another nickel for Netanyahu’s war.” Bernie is careful to accuse Netanyahu and avoids placing blame on Israel or his own record of voting for the genocide. Many in the crowd chanted Free Palestine as they removed the protesters. Non-Binary Artist in Recovery Blakeley posted a video of the tour saying “Bernie continues to claim “Israel has a right to defend themselves against terrorism” 18 months into a fucking genocide is actually fucking grotesque and you can’t call yourself pro-Palestine if you think this is okay or excusable.” Even though the Idaho crowned chanted Free Palestine Bernie ignored them and continued with his speech.
Of course he turned his back on his supporters.In 2023, as the genocide was reaching its most murderous levels, Bernie Sanders voted for a Senate Resolution condemning anti-genocide student protesters and organizations as “antisemitic, repugnant, and morally contemptible”. AOC and Bernie are not likely to travel to the Louisiana Detention Center where Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil is now being held.
This could spell disaster for our future as the US threatens to start a global war while the economy collapses. Two aircraft carrier armadas, six to ten B 2 stealth bombers capable of dropping nuclear weapons, and dozens of heavy transport planes, air defense systems are set to attack Iran if they fail to bend to Trump’s demands. At the same time Ukraine is increasing its attacks on Russia while it is reported that Moscow strikes a meeting with NATO officers in Kyiv and the global economic system crashes, threatening to force millions of Americans into financial ruin. Yet none of this was even a blip on the agenda of the Hands Off or Anti-Oligarch rallies.
Indivisible helped smother any possibility of using the terror of Trump’s first term to build a massive movement. Their solution was more war, austerity and a genocide.
If we have any hope of the change required to defend ourselves from the onslaught of the End Times Techno-fascists implementing their Stargate AI digital future we had better stop falling for the two party illusion. We urgently need to build a movement independent of the Democratic Party. A movement that threatens power.
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