Mick Hartley

Author: Mick Hartley

  • Puberty is not a medical condition

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  • The US and Iran

    Niall Ferguson and Yoav Gallant – former Israeli minister of defense – at the Free Press. Should America join in against Iran? – especially given that the US is the only country with bombs powerful enough to destroy the nuclear facilities deep underground.

    Opponents of U.S. military action tell a simplified story of past interventions—in Vietnam, most obviously, but some also cite Iraq and Afghanistan—that led to “forever wars.” But isolationists have trouble arguing that the United States should never intervene abroad. Would the Cold War have gone better if Harry Truman had abandoned South Korea to Stalin’s proxies in 1950? Would the Middle East have benefited if Kuwait had been left in Saddam Hussein’s hands in 1991? Would the Balkans be stabler today if Bill Clinton had not belatedly acted to save Bosnia and then Kosovo from Slobodan Milošević’s aggression?

    There are, of course, those cases where the US declined to intervene – most notably Syria. How did that work out? It allowed Assad to stay in power for years, destroying the country, killing hundreds of thousands, and – not least – giving Russia the opportunity to reassert itself as a global power, practicing the aerial destruction since unleashed on Ukraine.

    None of these analogies is really applicable anyway, because the United States today is not being asked to send soldiers to invade or occupy Iran. The action President Trump must decide upon is clearly defined and limited in its duration and scale, since much of the work of defeating Iran has already been done by Israel.

    But one task remains.

    Much of Iran’s nuclear weapons program now lies in ruins, and many of the scientists who ran it are dead. But one key site remains at Fordow. Deep underground and heavily fortified, it holds the core of Iran’s remaining enrichment capability: eight cascades with over 3,000 centrifuges. The facility’s scale allows Iran to rapidly enrich weapons-grade uranium. It could do so in just three weeks, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Leaving it intact risks allowing the Islamic Republic to rebuild and resume its quest for the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

    Fordow is built into the mountains near Qom, encased under at least 300 feet of limestone, and protected by additional layers of reinforced concrete shielding and other structural defense measures that increase the facility’s ability to survive a heavy air attack. There is no credible way that Israel alone can destroy it.

    Only one air force has the power to finish off Fordow. The United States designed and built the GBU 57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) precisely for such a task…..

    Israel has moved and continues to move with determination and dispatch. The support of allies, first and foremost the United States, has been crucial. Now, with a single exertion of its unmatched military strength, the United States can shorten the war, prevent wider escalation, and end the principal threat to Middle Eastern stability. It can also send a signal to those other authoritarian powers who have been Iran’s enablers that American deterrence is back.

  • An ever-evolving virus

    style=”padding-left: 40px”>Millions of Jews historically suffered as a result of this propaganda.

    What gives this history urgency is that we are at a point where Jews are being killed under the guise of anti-Zionism.

    Nazi Germany dehumanized Jews to the point where they could be exterminated by the millions.

    Today, in polite societies in the democratic West, Jews are once again being dehumanized—as Zionists.

    “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” said a student at Columbia University.

    And Jews are already being killed on that basis…..

  • The state of Pride

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  • The true cost of North Korea’s pandemic deception

    The North Korean Covid catastrophe. From the Daily NK:

    A damning new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies reveals the true cost of North Korea’s pandemic deception—a systematic cover-up that likely condemned thousands of its own citizens to preventable deaths.

    Based on interviews with 100 North Koreans, the study paints a devastating picture of a government that chose propaganda over public health. While Pyongyang didn’t officially acknowledge a single COVID case until May 2022, the virus had been ravaging the isolated nation since 2020, spreading unchecked through a population left defenseless by their own leadership.

    The testimonies are haunting in their simplicity. One interviewee described hospitals so overwhelmed they classified anyone with fever and cold symptoms as a COVID suspect—not because of sophisticated testing, but because they had no testing capabilities at all. An education worker recounted nursing homes running out of coffins as death tolls mounted. Of the 100 people interviewed, 92 reported that they or someone they knew had contracted the virus.

    This wasn’t mere bureaucratic incompetence; it was willful negligence. The report concludes that if North Korea had told the truth early and accepted international assistance, countless lives could have been saved. Instead, the regime chose to maintain its facade of pandemic-free perfection while its people suffered without vaccines, protective equipment, or even basic medical acknowledgment of their illness.

    The findings illuminate a cruel irony: a government that claims to put its people first abandoned them when they needed protection most. Citizens were left to fend for themselves against a virus their government pretended didn’t exist, turning what should have been a public health response into a test of individual survival.

  • Another weak lady brain destroyed by “radicalisation”

    isogyny always made him vulnerable to radicalisation. Perhaps there’s a way back, but my feeling is he’s too far gone.

  • Breaking into a military site

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  • “Against this murderous sociopathic Zio-American global empire”

    We thought David Miller was bad – but at least Bristol University got rid of him. This guy is a professor of history at California State University, San Bernardino.

  • Men still barging into women’s toilets

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  • ‘Radicalised by TERFs’

    e=”font-size: 11pt”>'She says things that are inflammatory and contemptuous, mocking and add to a terribly distressing time for trans people.

    'She has crowed at the success of legislation in Scotland and elsewhere declaring things about gender.

    'So I am very happy to go on the record to say that I am really angry about that. My view about all things of sharp and difficult nature is that is is much more important to be effective than to be right.'

    Oh I don't know. It's quite important to be right.

    It's a strange time to come out with this nonsense, with the gender cult clearly on the retreat.

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