{"id":313678,"date":"2026-03-02T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=313678"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:22:15","slug":"from-midnight-hammer-to-midnight-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/03\/from-midnight-hammer-to-midnight-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"From Midnight Hammer to Midnight Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"

In history, empires on last legs are run by delusional imbeciles, too drunk on the swagger of invincibility & uber-greed, like teenagers on dance floor, not knowing or caring self-destructive risks. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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26 Feb 2026\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0On 17 January 2009, my then girlfriend and I got married at a church in East Oxford. As staunchly anti-imperialist and proudly anti-war, we decided to start our wedding program with Pete Seeger\u2019s classic Where Have All the Flowers Gone?<\/a><\/p>\n

Seventeen years on since we sang the song Seeger\u2019s lyrics remain as poignant as they were first sang more than half a century ago.<\/p>\n

For the ruling imperialists of the United States have not learned a thing – from their self-destructive and invariably failed military adventures globally.<\/p>\n

It is a cliche to say that a sign of intelligence is not repeating one\u2019s mistakes. Alas, imperilism – especially the late imperialism typically comes with the most delusional and stupidest men and women, who do NOT know the limits of brute force.<\/p>\n

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Led by Benjamin Netanyahu (a son of Benzion Mileikowsky), Israel\u2019s Judeo-Nazi<\/a> leaders and their Christian Zionist supporters are piling enormous pressure on Donald J Trump, the American Decider of War or Peace, Death or Life.<\/p>\n

They have the Big Money, the Big Dirt. And they are reportedly whipping him, quietly and publicly, NOT to sue for peace with Iran, that poses absolutely no threat to the United States, or even small US-allied neighbours.<\/p>\n

Their footsoldiers in the United States are American \u201cChristian Zionists\u201d, whose real \u201cspiritual objective\u201d is for all the world\u2019s Jews to \u201creturn to Palestine\u201d – or Judea and Samaria, if you are wackey enough to believe the Bible, the Hebrew version or St James\u2019s, is the gold standard text for the 21st century political geography, in order to facilate the Second Coming of the (Christian) Messiah<\/p>\n

This un-holy – I should say Class A criminal alliance – is a marriage made in Hell. For the Judeo-Nazis, in whose spirtual view all other non-Judaeic faiths are completely false, know that their Christian Zionist supporters want them to be in the Holy Land and give up their Judeaism en masse or simply drop dead or burn. But the Christian Zionist Evangelicals in the USA as a voting bloc is 10 times as big as the Zionist Jewish voters. So, Mileikowsky and followers stay focused on what they can milk from these prospective End Times genocidaires, posing as \u201cChristians\u201d, a faith of love and public service, fundamentally. Like Mike Huckabee.<\/p>\n

Here are a few sane and well-informed American voices. I don\u2019t think they are listened to by those who have Donald J. Trumps\u2019 ears.<\/p>\n

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Watch John Mearsheimer here<\/a> – for 46 minutes of indepth dissection of the prospects for war of choice, at the behest of Israel, with Iran.<\/p>\n

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Watch this unvarnished military analysis<\/a> (40 minutes) by Daniel Davis (retired US Lt. Colonel).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Read the CSIS\u2019s military analysis.<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"<\/a>A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni, nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Media Service<\/em><\/a> Editorial Committee, of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center \u2013 Cambodia.\u00a0Zarni is the co-founder of <\/em>FORSEA<\/a>, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for <\/em>Free Rohingya Coalition, and an adviser to the <\/em>European Centre for the Study of Extremism, Cambridge. <\/strong>Zarni holds a PhD (U Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching, research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education, National-Louis, Malaya, and Brunei. He is the recipient of the “Cultivation of Harmony” award from the Parliament of the World’s Religions (2015). His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the <\/em>New York Times, The Guardian and<\/em> the Times. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are <\/em>The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingyas (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), <\/em>An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide, (Middle East Institute, American University), and <\/em>Myanmar\u2019s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, <\/em>Essays on Myanmar Genocide.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 maungzarni.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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