i hear the sandhill cranes before i see them. the sound comes through the noise. 

 when empire's decline they go insane and lash out and drop all their bombs and destroy everything. 

 iran is fighting a war of attrition; the u.s. is fighting a war of destruction.

 let's look at the logistics. there's a very different picture than the empire presents. note, mary saw the sandhill cranes coming back today, and a snow goose arrived at west ridge nature sanctuary.

ward of radiance. 

we can be anti-zionist. we can be anti-empire. we can focus on sanity.

 

We’ve ended up here because for two years, the Israelis, with the support of the US and much of Europe, were allowed to cross every line, disregard every rule of war, and demonstrate utter contempt for international law as they slaughtered Palestinians on an industrial scale and turned Gaza to dust.

The barbarity now on show in Iran, is, as many of us warned, the inevitable consequence of the impunity granted to Israel to commit genocide. It is the consequence of an emboldened, violent, settler colony with a nuclear weapon.

The crimes of Gaza were never going to be confined to Gaza. Especially not with Zionists in power across the west. Especially not with the power of the Jewish lobby and their expansionist plans for Greater Israel controlling our political systems.

-Nate Bear

A radical, historical evil is unfolding before our eyes.

The gleefully violent pronouncements coming from the mouths of American politicians are, even for those of us well-versed in the barbarity of imperialism, and well-versed in Israeli sadism, astonishing.

We’ve ended up here because of Gaza.

-Nate Bear