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Last week, Christian nationalists Joshua Haymes and Brooks Potteiger urged their fellow right-wing Christians to pray "imprecatory psalms" against James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Texas.

Talarico is a Presbyterian seminarian who has openly cited his Christian faith in support of his progressive political positions, much to the outrage right-wing Christian nationalists.

Potteiger, who was the pastor at the church attended by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in Nashville, Tennessee, and will soon take over the Washington, DC church founded by Christian nationalist Doug Wilson, warned that Talarico is "a wolf" who is working to "distort what Christianity is in order to lead people away from Christ, toward the teaching of demons."

As such, Potteiger and Haymes encouraged the use of "imprecatory psalms" against Talarico, which are prayers asking God to pour out his destruction upon one's enemies.

"I pray that God kills him," Haymes declared. "Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ ... If it would not be within God's will to do so, stop him by any means necessary."

Shortly thereafter, Haymes, a far-right podcaster and commentator, returned to the subject of calling upon God to destroy one's enemies . . .

Continue @ RWW.

By Any Means Necessary 🪶 Christian Nationalists Call For The Destruction Of Their Political Enemies

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Nine Hundred And Twenty Five

 

Pastords @ 37

 

A Morning Thought @ 3100

Gearóid Ó Loingsigh ☭ writing in Substack on 14-March-2026..


On March 11th the UN Security Council adopted a resolution on the war against Iran. Of the SC members two abstained (Russia and China) and the rest, including Colombia, voted in favour. Russia put forward its own resolution rejected by a majority of the countries, with just four votes in favour.[1]

The resolution adopted is an initiative of Bahrein, a key US proxy, and calls upon Iran to not take action against the states in the region. It says:

1. Reiterates its strong support for the territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan.

2. Condemns in the strongest terms the egregious attacks by the Islamic Republic of Iran against the territories of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan and determines that such acts constitute a breach of international law and a serious threat to international peace and security.[2]

According to the Resolution Iran doesn’t have the right to sovereignty, nor territorial integrity and less still the right not to be attacked. It does not mention the US and Israeli aggression that began the war, in itself a clear violation of the UN Charter whose Article 2.24 reads:

All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.[3]

Of course it is not the first nor unfortunately will it be the last time that Israel and the US violate the Charter, but the brazenness of the UN members demanding that the country under attack not respond and blaming it for all that has occurred is perhaps new. Prior to the resolution various European countries criticised Iran harshly and demanded that it cease its attack. What they argue is that Kuwait, the UAE and the rest are not taking part in the conflict and thus are neutral and enjoy protection under the Charter which is not applied to Iran, of course. But it is not the case.

The US has bases in all of the states in the region except Iran, of course. For example, Bahrein is the location of the Headquarters of the Fifth Fleet of the US Navy. What do the toadies at the UN want? That Iran not attack the Fleet that attacks it, it would seem. The US military base is still in Bahrein for one reason only, the monarchic leadership violently put down the protests and uprising of 2011.

And what about the other states? Well, they just like Bahrein have US military bases and other necessary installations such as radar etc. In a war between countries, all military installations (with the exception of military hospitals) are a legitimate target, wherever they are. None of the Gulf monarchies can claim they are not part of the conflict. They supply the required aid without which the war would not continue, or at least would not continue in the same way. Their participation and role is not incidental or minor.

Before the war the US had around 40,000 troops in the region in all, and about 19 bases, eight of which were permanent. The “host” countries of these bases are Saudi Arabia, Bahrein, Qatar, UAE, Egypt, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, Syria, Turkey and of course Israel. Furthermore, it has bases in Cyprus and Greece. As the joke goes, what was Iran thinking when it put its country in the middle of all those Yankee bases?

Faced with this panorama of a ring round Iran, Colombia decided to betray the country and demand that it not defend itself and get down on its knees to the Yanks and voted in favour of the resolution. We don’t know why. Maybe when Petro bent over to Trump in his visit to Washington part of the accord was that Colombia would vote favourably on US initiatives and lend political support to its imperialist adventures. Gone is the pomp of his speech to the UN criticising the genocide in Gaza stating there is only one human race and no chosen people of god. It would seem that Iran is not part of that human race and if there is no chosen people of god as such, it is clear that according to the Colombian government there is one that is definitely not.

They have little or nothing to say in the UN of the other violations of its Charter and also International Humanitarian Law such as the attacks on hospitals and schools. Of course I am not referring to the hospitals in the USA where the poor can’t get treated because they have no money, but rather the hospitals and schools in Iran bombed by the US and Israel.

In international law Iran has a right to attack all the bases and military installations of its enemies in war i.e. the USA and Israel. Moreover, it has the right to attack any installation or body that provides a significant service to the war effort, regardless of where it is. If the banks in Dubai meet that requirement or not, we can discuss, and if bank branches also meets the requirements can also be discussed, but that debate is for everyone. The USA has attacked banks and their branches in the Iran. Are the Arab banks an important part of the war? To argue that it is not the case is not easy, but perhaps. So, why does the USA attack banks in Iran which due to the sanctions do not have the same access to the international financial markets like the UAE. We are not comparing like with like. It is like comparing the Chase Manhattan to a local credit union.

Petro’s legacy will not be his speeches to the UN but rather his support for unjustified attacks against Iran and his submission to the USA.

References

[1] See Press Release Security Council Adopts Resolution 2817 (2026) Condemning Iran’s ‘Egregious Attacks’ against Neighbours as Middle East Violence Rapidly Escalates. 

[2] See Resolution 2817 (2026) 

[3] See.

⏩ Gearóid Ó Loingsigh is a political and human rights activist with extensive experience in Latin America.

Iran Betrayed By Colombia At The UN

Stanley Cohen 🎤 talks to RT.

The human rights attorney, joins the discussion from New York to analyze the rapidly escalating Middle East crisis and the role of the United States.

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Stanley L. Cohen is lawyer and activist in New York City.

Trump Is Desperate 🪶 Trump Is Lost

Muiris Ó Súilleabháin ✍ The Oxford English Dictionary defines a smear as an attempt to damage someone’s reputation by saying unpleasant things that are untrue.

The civil case against Gerry Adams fizzled out last week, just as many suspected it would. In that narrow respect, I find myself on the unfamiliar ground of agreeing with Adams and Sinn Féin that the case should never have reached the courts. That, however, is where any agreement ends. My own view is simpler: no one should ever again find themselves in the dock over a conflict that ended almost thirty years ago.

I am no lawyer, and I have genuine sympathy for the three victims of the IRA who brought the case. But they appear to have been badly advised and insufficiently alert to the financial risks that civil litigation carries.

I know nothing of how the case began. I can only take the plaintiffs at their word: that they were innocent victims of the IRA seeking the same truth and justice that should be available to all who suffered during the conflict.

Having followed the proceedings closely, I was struck by how thin the evidence against Adams actually was. Stripped of presentation and theatre, it amounted largely to repetition: material long in circulation, drawn from public sources, and allegations that have persisted for decades without substantiation, many of them traceable to British military and RUC Special Branch briefings. John Ware aside, there was little that could honestly be described as new, and even less that could be described as probative. On the few occasions when Adams came under pressure in the witness box, I admit I felt a brief flicker of schadenfreude. It did not last. The reality remained that this was a British court.

It came as no surprise that former IRA figures who had served alongside Adams were not prepared to appear in a British court to testify against him. That remained true even of those who had since broken with the strategy he led or had criticised him publicly. For Irish republicans, participation in a British court attempting to adjudicate on the legitimacy or conduct of the armed struggle remains a line that is not crossed.

In that context, Shane Paul cut a sad and isolated figure, separated from a wider tradition which, whatever its internal quarrels, still maintains its red lines.

The fact that the trial was years in the making gave Adams and Sinn Féin ample time to choreograph their response. The arrival at court in a top-of-the-range Land Rover, wearing an Israeli-made bulletproof vest and accompanied by a security team using Israeli-made communications equipment, was a mistake. The choice of public-facing security personnel was deliberate. It included men who had played a central role in policing the peace and suppressing dissent in Belfast. The message was understood.

Adams had raised the stakes even before proceedings began, issuing a carefully worded statement pre-trial in which, he said, his primary concern was for the victims, while insinuating that they had been manipulated by darker forces intent on advancing the case. He cast it as a full-frontal assault by the British establishment on the legitimacy of the republican struggle.

Safe in the knowledge that this was not, in fact, what the case was, Adams doubled down on the same performance on the opening day outside the court. Saint Gerry of the peace process was once again being victimised by perfidious Albion. It was not Gerry on trial, we were invited to believe, but the republican struggle itself, of which he was merely the embodiment, guilty only of being an Irish republican.

The evidence presented against him told a different story. Had either the British or Irish governments wanted this case to succeed, they could have strategically leaked contemporaneous documents from multiple sources to help make that happen, not least material from figures such as Scappaticci or “Wee Roy”, Gerry’s former driver. The outcome of the case was always set to vindicate not just Adams, but the peace process and both governments that underwrote it.

And that is the heart of it. The case, the evidence, and the outcome changed no one’s mind. Not about the legitimacy of the armed struggle, and not about who or what Gerry Adams was, or remains. Like many others, I do not need a British court to tell me what I know, or what I do not know.

What the case did confirm was something else: the extent to which Adams is prepared to construct and defend a legacy as a man of peace. He is not a foolish man. Given months to prepare, his evidence was delivered without error. There were no slips, no deviations, no uncertainty.

He joined Sinn Féin. It was separate from the IRA. He was never in the IRA. Former comrades were recast as liars or disappointments. Presidents, prime ministers and Taoisigh were mistaken. He had delivered the peace process to the British “on a plate” and, in doing so, had brought the IRA to heel. Resentment followed. The allegation that he had been a member of the IRA was framed not as history, but as smear. He was, he insisted, a man of peace, not an IRA volunteer.

At times, I was unsure whether we were part of the same movement. Sinn Féin was always an army project, even at the point when I left. That was understood internally, whatever was said publicly.

Some of the commentary now circulating, often from those who should know better, suggests otherwise. It reflects not confusion, but revisionism. The past is being recast by people who were either not there or not yet lucid enough to understand what it was they were looking at.

Within the movement, to say that someone was a member of the IRA was never a smear. Many regret their involvement. Very few are ashamed of it. Fewer still would have described it as an unpleasant or false accusation.

That is why the spectacle of former IRA volunteers now supporting Adams, as he recasts IRA membership as a smear, is so difficult to reconcile. It is not ambiguity. It is contradiction, openly stated.

The contradictions were once again visible as Gerry delivered his valedictory speech on returning to Belfast. Standing beneath a mural of IRA Volunteer Bobby Sands, he again asserted that he had never been in the IRA. Behind him stood Sinn Féin MPs and MLAs, arranged and attentive, their presence signalling adulation and loyalty.

At the same time, multiple Sinn Féin TDs, MLAs and MPs issued near-identical statements across social media. Only Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill diverged. The message was uniform: Gerry had gone to the belly of the beast and struck another blow for Irish freedom.

Gerry repeated his concern for the victims who had brought the case. If it was delivered sincerely, it sat uneasily with the reality that one of those involved in planting the bombs stood alongside him.

And so it ended.

⏩Muiris Ó Súilleabháin was a member of the Republican Movement until he retired in 2006 after 20 years of service. Fiche bhliain ag fás.

The Smear

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Nine Hundred And Twenty Four

 

A Morning Thought @ 3099

Ronan McSherry ✍ On Sunday the Allianz GAA league will conclude in Croke Park with a repeat of last year's All Ireland football final: Donegal v Kerry.

One suspects the GAA 'higher-archy' will be relieved to get to the other side of this year's league since it's been completely overshadowed by the shameful Allianz partnership.

'Hierarchy' is derived from two Greek words: hieros ('sacred') and archien ('rule' or 'order').
 
The ruling from the GAA on the issue of a company, that funds genocide, has been anything but sacred. It amounts to a top-down directive that forbids any discussion or input from its members.

Yet the facts remain: Allianz is the largest investor in Israeli war bonds deemed ‘critical for the war effort’.

The UN special rapporteur has identified Allianz as an enabler of the genocide and has publicly expressed support for the Drop Allianz campaign in Ireland.

Even Allianz plc has attempted to distance themselves from their own parent group. So the question arises, if Allianz has the highest ESG standards as claimed, why is the Irish unit trying to reject any connection?

Before taking time to draw breath and reflect, GAA President Jarlath Burns said of protesters making their way into Congress to wave banners and call for debate on the issue: 

I think there was a line crossed today, coming into our property and disrupting our Congress is unacceptable". Hello!.. 'our property?!'

The use of the term 'our property' does not sit well with those who attended the rally and indeed many GAA members who have organised fundraisers in their clubs to help the victims of Gaza, attended peaceful protests at games and handed out information leaflets explaining the #DropAllianz campaign.

Ten counties voted to end the Allianz alliance. This begs the question: What is the position of the other 22 counties? (24 if you include London and New York). Indeed Drop Allianz banners were spotted recently at the St Patrick’s Day parade in New York.

Why has the Gaelic Players' Association (GPA) not voiced its disapproval and directed their fold to stop promoting Allianz? It is sickening to see young men (role models?) and managers stand in front of the Allianz logo during post-match interviews. Not all the county players are promoting Allianz.
Respect is due to the Tyrone and Dublin squads who took the decision not to have an advertisement for the company that promotes genocide, using their image.
 
Colm O'Rourke has suggested the GPA has hidden behind the GAA on this issue; he's not wrong. Can the players not think for themselves?

It is our GAA, our Association, our Croke Park, our Congress. It was men like Peter and Pascal Canavan, Eugene McKenna, Damian O'Hagan, Brian McGilligan, Colm O'Rourke, Colm McAlarney, Bobby Doyle, David Hickey, Pat Gilroy, Greg Blaney - greats who filled and built Croke Park and years later found themselves standing outside the Hogan Stand on the day of Congress in despair that their Association forbids uncomfortable debate. GAA suits driven by a corporate lust for money where business interests trump humanity.

As Pascal Canavan pointed out, they didn't go looking for this campaign to get rid of Allianz. It was brought to them when the facts were laid bare last year.

Humanity

When did we stop caring about the other? I'm no expert on the Good Book but there is a decency and humanity to the credo, "Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me".

In February, Waylon Gary White Dear, a renowned Choctaw academic, artist and author appeared on the Tommy Tiernan Show. It was a fascinating interview.
 
However on the programme's Facebook page, many viewers were critical that Tommy did not mention a historical link of solidarity between the Chowtaw Nation and the Irish, that was forged during the Famine in 1847, when the native Americans sent a donation to Ireland for hunger relief.

The gift was extraordinary because the Choctaw people had recently been forced off their land, yet they chose to support another group facing starvation and suffering. Or perhaps that is why they sent the gift; they remembered their past.

The Irish too have been generous in reaching out to those most oppressed and in need. In 1985, Live Aid concerts on both sides of the Atlantic, that drew attention to the Ethiopian famine, reached 1.9 billion viewers. Donations flooded in.

We were so proud when it emerged that Ireland raised £7 million, the highest per capita donation in the world at that time.

Was it the Celtic Tiger that engendered a me-féin mindset or perhaps far right propaganda that suggests caring for others, including those in Gaza, is misguided?

I was confronted by a young man last year regarding the local GAA support and fundraising for Palestine. "What about our poor? What about our homeless? We should be helping them".

It is a racist refrain that hides behind altruism.
 
Biding my time, I met him at Christmas and asked, "Did you contribute to the local Foodbank hamper appeal?".. "Eh!"

".. just you seemed concerned about our poor, I was wondering maybe you volunteered at a homeless shelter over Christmas or helped with a street soup run"... "Whaa..?!".. Indeed.

You find people who care about those in Palestine and other war-torn and beleaguered lands, are most likely to reach out with compassion locally as well.

It is not a huge ask for players to refuse to stand in front of a logo that represents a company supporting mass slaughter or refuse to lift a cup bearing its ribbons.

As for Jarlath Burns, or whoever has the dubious honour of presenting this year's league trophy, spare us the "thank you to the sponsor" - not in our name.

⏩Ronan McSherry from Tyrone is a life-time GAA member and former newspaper columnist.

Not In Our Name

Anthony McIntyre ☠ Despite the wealth in this society the waiting lists continue to grow whether for hospitals, houses, driving tests, ad infinitum.

The most recent to join the queue have been the dead, waiting for autopsies to be performed. Our rulers have now resorted to bringing in specialists from the UK to ascertain how people died. Perhaps those pathologists, while they are here, might have a look at the walking dead running Transport For Ireland in Dublin City.

This came home to me yesterday morning as I stood along with a friend wating on a bus at Summerhill. The 73 which seems to be the only bus that services Summerhill right out to Marino is supposed to come every ten to twelve minutes. That's what is spoofed on the website. We needed it yesterday to get close to our next stop for the 40D that would take us out to our destination, Cappagh Hospital, for a 1000 appointment. The 40D from Parnell Street can take up to forty minutes to make that journey, so we needed to make its 0900 service, which would get us to Cappagh with twenty minutes to spare. My friend has difficulty walking and is on a stick, so I accompany him on hospital visits. We both have Free Travel passes so the return journey to Cappagh Hospital, if the bus operator is up to the task, should not cost us a cent.

We arrived at the Summerhill stop close to 0830 which would give us plenty of time to make our connecting bus. An hour later we were still there. Five 73s went past on the outward journey but not a single citybound one.

Not one driver from the outbound 73s stopped to inform us of a problem. I guess it it not their responsibility otherwise they would have to tell everybody along the route. When a citybound one did arrive it was full and drove past us, the driver glancing our way indifferently. He could probably do little else. Taking time to explain the situation to irate would-be-passengers might have made those on his bus, already well behind schedule, just as irate about the inordinate delays. At the very least the service could have sent an inspector around those stops where electronic information boards are absent. But that is the type of thought the brain dead are not inclined to have.

People of different colours and nationalities congregated, frustrated and complaining about the total unreliability of the 73. Yesterday was not just a one off. They needed to get to work, so some started walking into town realising that they would pass plenty of 73s on their way, as the vehicles went in the opposite direction.

Growing anxious, we began trying to flag a taxi from about 0900 but had no luck. Eventually I suggested to my friend that he should either ring a cab or the hospital telling it we would need to cancel. He opted for a taxi. It arrived inside two minutes, the private sector succeeding where the public had failed miserably. The last time we headed out to the hospital in terrible weather it cost my friend almost thirty yoyos. This time the journey was much quicker and cost him twenty. A sizeable chunk out of a disability income.

People like my friend wait long enough to be seen by hospital consultants. Their quality of life depends on them making their appointments. Those appointments in turn depend on the public transport system being fit for purpose in deprived areas. I don't imagine there were too many delays yesterday in Dalkey. Many there probably have the financial means to go private in health matters as well, meaning they wait for neither buses nor treatment. All fine for the wealthy and healthy. Ballybough (the poor town), well, it doesn't seem to figure high in the priorities of the people running our public transport service. An impoverished working class community, it can be treated with disdain by officialdom. The wealthy can expect not only a larger slice of the cake but also the cream on top. The most disadvantaged, they get the crusts, and stale ones at that.

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73 🚌 The Busless Route

Guardian ★ Written by Martin Gelin. Recommended by Cam Ogie. 

The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University reaches the alarming conclusion in its annual report, that the US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey.

“Our data on the USA goes back to 1789. What we’re seeing now is the most severe magnitude of democratic backsliding ever in the country,” says Staffan Lindberg, founder of the institute.

Since 2012, Lindberg has led his small group of researchers in Sweden to become the world’s leading source for analysis of the health of global democracy. In their latest report, published on Tuesday, they conclude that the US, for the first time in more than half a century, has lost its long-term status as a liberal democracy. The country is now going through a rapid process of what the report’s authors call “autocratisation”.

“For Orbán in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India . . .

Continue @ Guardian.

‘Trump Is Aiming For Dictatorship’ 🪶 That’s The Verdict Of The World’s Most Credible Democracy Watchdog

Christopher Owens 🎵 with the 61sth in his Predominance series.

“Money is not our God.” - Killing Joke


Horns up 

New Horizons

Neurosis - An Undying Love for a Burning World

After the ugly revelations around Scott Kelly, few people would have expected Neurosis to re-emerge, but they have. With Aaron Turner in tow, they have made one of the albums of the year. Filled with cathartic anger as well as more pastoral moments, it’s classic Neurosis. The one/two punch of ‘In the Waiting Hour’ and ‘Last Light’ is universe ending.

The album can be streamed and purchased here.

Wolfbastard – Satanic Scum Punks

After giving us the face ripping ‘Hammer the Bastards’ in 2022, it seemed impossible for the self-proclaimed ‘D-beat black metal tossers from Manchester’ to top it. But they have. By upping the filth, the speed and the crust, Wolfbastard have given us another faceripper. Bravo lads, especially for the title track and ‘F.O.A.D’.

The album can be streamed and purchased here.

mclusky - i sure am getting sick of this bowling alley

Apparently intended as special release to promote an upcoming American tour, this mish mash of new material, previously digital only releases and outtakes is (unsurprisingly) a remarkably coherent addition to last year’s excellent ‘The World is Still Here...’ Standout number is ‘i know computer’ due to the gnarly bass and angular riffing.

The album can be streamed and purchased here.

Machine Mafia – Red

A side project of the ever-prolific Pound Land, this sits somewhere between Fall like surrealism and Uniform style pounding. On tracks like ‘No’, it genuinely sounds like Adam Stone is having a nervous breakdown and the music heightens the tension in wonderful fashion. Unnerving in the best way possible.

The album can be streamed and purchased here.

Score – Sunburst Body

The ever-prolific Chris Tate returns with a gorgeous record perfectly timed for the beginning of spring. Although moments like ‘Golden Body’ hint at demons being suppressed until the next winter, the rest of the LP is akin to a zephyr like breeze: soothing ambience on a clear summer day.

The album can be streamed and purchased here.

Golden Oldies


Chaos UK – Chaos in Japan

One of the pioneering crust punk acts, this live album from 1991 showcases the band at their most ferocious, flying through numbers like ‘Four Minute Warning’ and ‘Police Story’ with the energy and gusto of teenagers. Even the obligatory jokey numbers like ‘Farmyard Boogie’ have an edge to them!



Brutal Truth – Need to Control

After marking their terrain with the magnificent ‘Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses’, Brutal Truth then decided to reimagine the possibilities of being a grindcore band by throwing us this album. A cold, clinical production combined with a stripped-down approach to grind and borrowing elements from industrial music, it’s still killer.



⏩ Christopher Owens was a reviewer for Metal Ireland and finds time to study the history and inherent contradictions of Ireland. He is currently the TPQ Friday columnist and is the author of A Vortex of Securocrats and “dethrone god”.

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