As we listen to the celebratory explosions of fireworks in this Lunar New Year season and now Chap Goh Meh, we hear much heavier explosives – honed to murderous perfection by the most powerful nation – being applied to obliterate another.
There is no hesitation that children might die, deprived of the existence they were born to. No hesitation that it will destroy the people’s future if they do not rise against their leaders.
And the so-called civilised world, which had spent centuries doing the same, watches – cheering as spectators.
The war on Iran is not the act of a moral nation set out to restore the morals of another. It is not about nuclear weapons. We have heard all that before – weapons of mass destruction, WMDs. They were all lies.
This war is stoked by two highly developed countries that have reached the apex of depravity: the US and Israel. And depravity has no limits. Neither humans nor beasts are safe from it.
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The Epstein papers reveal this depravity – people who create systems to seek pleasure in raping children, who see murder as an acceptable way to satisfy their greed for wealth, who wield power to control and expropriate the resources of nations.
This is not progress. This is descent.
Power and its corruption
One per cent of humanity now controls over 80% of global wealth. Those controlling it are not sated and cannot be stopped.
We have lived under the illusion of democracy and other ideals, but these too have been corrupted, hollowed out, turned into instruments for greed.
Everywhere, as the philosopher Rousseau wrote in 1762, people are born free but are bound everywhere by chains. And those chains are not only political – they are economic, moral and spiritual.
Lives are shortened when those chains are broken, because the system is designed to punish resistance. What we are witnessing is not the failure of ideals, but their betrayal.
A warning to the world
The danger is not confined to one nation.
It spreads across the world because depravity at the apex of power does not stop at borders. The same greed that fuels war also fuels exploitation, climate destruction and the erosion of every principle that once claimed to protect humanity.
What is unleashed on Iran is a warning to all: when power is so depraved it has developed a system to abuse or rape children, no one is safe.
Yet even in chains, humanity must resist. We curse the criminals, we expose their depravity, and we refuse to let despair be the final word.
If they seek to shorten our lives, we will lengthen our defiance. If they seek to erase our future, we will write it anew. No matter how deep their depravity, we will live despite them.
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