{"id":312547,"date":"2026-01-26T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=312547"},"modified":"2026-01-26T06:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:15:34","slug":"ayatollah-please-send-help-rotten-to-its-core-usa-needs-a-regime-change-and-a-system-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/01\/ayatollah-please-send-help-rotten-to-its-core-usa-needs-a-regime-change-and-a-system-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ayatollah, Please Send Help!&#8221;: Rotten to Its Core, USA Needs &#8220;a Regime Change&#8221; and a System Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>25 Jan 2025 &#8211;\u00a0<em>Every day I school myself through these voices, thoughtful, non-Pavlovian, humanistic and global: Cornel West, Amin Husain, Chris Hedges, Richard Wolf, John Mearshimer and Jeff Sachs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ayatollah-help-usa-trump.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-312548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ayatollah-help-usa-trump-791x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ayatollah-help-usa-trump-791x1024.webp 791w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ayatollah-help-usa-trump-232x300.webp 232w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ayatollah-help-usa-trump-768x995.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ayatollah-help-usa-trump.webp 1057w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/maungzarni.substack.com\/p\/ayatollah-please-send-help-rotten\" >TO CONTINUE READING Go to Original &#8211; maungzarni.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 Jan 2025 &#8211;\u00a0Every day I school myself through these voices, thoughtful, non-Pavlovian, humanistic and global: Cornel West, Amin Husain, Chris Hedges, Richard Wolf, John Mearshimer and Jeff Sachs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":312548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[3480,2394,542,3455,1660,1979,249,70],"class_list":["post-312547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-anti-immigration","tag-civil-resistance","tag-fascism","tag-gestapo","tag-ice","tag-police-state","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312549,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312547\/revisions\/312549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}