"PROJECT FREEDOM." Trump calls it humanitarian aid. We call it what he already admitted it is: piracy.
On Friday, Trump boasted that US forces seizing Iranian ships and oil were "sort of like pirates, but we are not playing games." By Sunday, he had rebranded the blockade as "Project Freedom"—a military escort operation to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Today, that operation went live: 15,000 US troops, guided-missile destroyers, and over 100 aircraft are enforcing American "freedom" at gunpoint.
Let's be clear: Washington didn't enter the Strait to defend commerce. It entered to monopolize commerce—to maintain imperial control over the world's oil arteries and strangle Iran's economy.
On Friday, Trump boasted that US forces seizing Iranian ships and oil were "sort of like pirates, but we are not playing games." By Sunday, he had rebranded the blockade as "Project Freedom"—a military escort operation to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Today, that operation went live: 15,000 US troops, guided-missile destroyers, and over 100 aircraft are enforcing American "freedom" at gunpoint.
Let's be clear: Washington didn't enter the Strait to defend commerce. It entered to monopolize commerce—to maintain imperial control over the world's oil arteries and strangle Iran's economy.
Iran knows this. That's why closing the Strait and establishing its own transit protocols remains its strongest card in the fight for self-determination.
When Trump confessed to piracy, he wasn't joking. He was confessing.
Iran's response today—cruise missiles, drones, and small boats targeting US forces in the Strait, alongside ballistic missile strikes on the UAE—wasn't reckless escalation. It was strategic resistance against an open act of maritime warfare dressed in humanitarian language.
LEBANON: RESISTANCE UNDER FIRE
As US imperialism escalates in the Gulf, Israel intensifies its assault on Lebanon—with full American backing. Corporate media frames this as "retaliation." We frame it as what it is: coordinated imperial aggression against sovereignty.
The death toll in Lebanon has surged past 2,696, with over 8,000 injured and 1.2 million displaced since Israel resumed its campaign on March 2. Today's airstrikes hit southern towns including Kounine, Kafra, and Baraachit—part of a systematic effort to demolish border settlements and occupy territory up to the Litani River.
The death toll in Lebanon has surged past 2,696, with over 8,000 injured and 1.2 million displaced since Israel resumed its campaign on March 2. Today's airstrikes hit southern towns including Kounine, Kafra, and Baraachit—part of a systematic effort to demolish border settlements and occupy territory up to the Litani River.
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