Monday, April 13, 2026

Has Israel Hijacked America's Brain?

"These are not fangs you want sucking on your arm, right?" 

Kevin Barrett

Top Israeli leaders rape their own daughters with snakes to bring on their messiah.” -Shoshana Strook, abuse survivor (d. March 15, age 38)

“You were using biological metaphors! Biological metaphors!! To describe an entire group of human beings! That is sick! Disgusting! Uncalled for!” -Webster Tarpley, screaming at Greg Felton, author of The Host and the Parasite: How Israel’s Fifth Column Consumed America

I well remember how, in June 2012, at the Vancouver 9/11 Hearings, Webster Tarpley unloaded on Greg Felton. We were having dinner after the conference’s final session, and Tarpley had not enjoyed the conference. He didn’t approve of topics like “no planes hit the Towers” and “9/11 may have involved extraterrestrials.” On those two issues, I saw Tarpley’s point. But what Tarpley hated most about that conference—which was organized by my friend Jim Fetzer, who enjoyed defying George W. Bush by more-than-tolerating “outrageous conspiracy theories”—was Greg Felton’s use of the host-and-parasite metaphor to describe the US-Israel relationship.

Webster Tarpley is a smart guy who wrote a good book about 9/11. It’s subtitle tells us 9/11 was “Made in USA.” As he screamed at Felton, Tarpley insisted that the 9/11 truth movement had lost its way by increasingly blaming Israel. 9/11 was an inside job, Tarpley insisted. Hadn’t we spent many years copyrighting that phrase? Blaming Israel made it sound like an outside job! We were ruining our image, making ourselves look like a bunch of Nazis!

I said: “Wait a minute, Webster. Your book explains how the 9/11 conspirators came in three flavors: moles, technicians, and patsies. The patsies, of course, were Muslims. But wouldn’t you agree that the moles were pro-Israel people infiltrating the US government? And wouldn’t you agree that the technicians who blew up the World Trade Center and remote-hijacked the planes were likely Israelis as well?”

Webster sputtered a non-substantive answer. I pressed him: “The term ‘mole’ normally refers to an asset of one nation’s intelligence agencies who worms his way into a high position in another nation’s government. If the ‘moles’ you say did 9/11 weren’t working for Israel, which nation were they working for?” Webster’s answer: It was a “rogue network” or “invisible government” made up primarily of Americans, loyal only to their own rogue network, not to any government or nation.

I cited Alan Sabrosky, the half-Jewish former Director of Strategic Studies at the US Army War College, who made headlines by coming on my radio show on March 20, 2010 saying that it was “100% certain that 9/11 was a Mossad operation.” Sabrosky said 9/11 was such a big, complex operation that it had to have been run by one of the world’s very small number of intelligence agencies with the resources to pull such a thing off. And there were only two candidates: the CIA and Mossad. The CIA, Sabrosky said, obviously wouldn’t do such a thing as an agency. But Mossad, using its extensive network of American moles in all relevant agencies, would. Indeed, Israel benefitted massively from 9/11. No other nation did. And Israel sympathizers run the media, which was instrumental in the coverup. Figuring out who must have been behind 9/11 was not rocket science.

Tarpley responded that such talk was antisemitic. He said many CIA and military insiders hate Israel and falsely blame it for all sorts of things. He said the real villains were the Nazis and the WASPS, who created secret societies and rogue networks based on white supremacist and British supremacist ideologies. In other words, according to Tarpley, it was the enemies of the Jews who carried out the gargantuan 9/11 covert operation whose only geostrategic beneficiary was Israel. The Bush family, Tarpley said, was Nazi to the core. He had written about it. Blame Bush and his family for 9/11! And Cheney was even more central!

I agreed that Cheney was more central than Bush, but disagreed about the rest. What’s more, I told Tarpley, I thought Greg Felton’s “host and parasite” metaphor described the US-Israel relationship accurately.

Tarpley left dinner that night disgusted with me, and with the whole conference. He appeared less frequently on my podcast after that. In 2011-2012 Tarpley was a staple on the Alex Jones show. (Alex Jones loves conspiracy theorists who blame everybody but Israel.)

In 2015 Tarpley waxed rabidly anti-Trump—a position that seems reasonable in retrospect, especially given Trump’s repeated attacks on Iran. In August 2016, Tarpley was sued for $150 million by Melania Trump, who took issue with his allegations that she had worked as a “high end escort” in the 1990s. Tarpley lost the first round, then settled in February 2017, paying an “undisclosed sum of money” and making a full retraction and apology. Now that Melania’s activities working for Jeffrey Epstein are on the brink of exposure, it looks like Melania may have to repay Tarpley that “undisclosed sum.”

Back in 2015, Tarpley’s rabid distaste for Trump, who he saw as a prospective American Hitler, seemed exaggerated. Today, not so much. (The comparison may in fact be unfair to Hitler.)

But I still think Felton is right, and Tarpley wrong, about Israel being like a parasite sucking the vital juices out of its American host. What’s more, I just published an American Free Press article upping the ante by positing Israel as a brain-hijacking parasite. Read it below, and if it offends you, be sure to let me know in the comments. -KB

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Israel Hijacks America’s Brain

By Kevin Barrett, for American Free Press

The bad news: 50% of the world’s human population hosts a brain-hijacking parasite. The good news: Toxoplasma gondii, an eukaryotic protozoa, primarily hijacks the brains of mice, not people. A mouse infected by T. gondi becomes passionately fond of cats. By rewiring the mouse’s brain, T. gondi facilitates its move from its host during one stage of its life cycle—mice—to the host of the next stage: cats.

T. gondi isn’t the only brain-hijacking parasite. There is also the Costa Rican mind control wasp. Its larvae hijack spiders’ brains and make the spiders spin special webs for the wasp. The larvae then kill the spider and suck its juices dry from the inside before emerging into the web-house the spider built for them.

If Israel is like T. gondi, then the USA is the mouse and Iran is the cat. But most people who compare Israel to brain-hijacking parasites, as more and more Americans do, see it as a mind-control wasp. Partisans of Israel devour America from within, hijacking its brain and forcing it to behave self-destructively on behalf of Zionism.

Gen. Wesley Clark revealed that 9/11, an Israeli false flag, was designed to “take out seven countries in five years.” All seven of those countries posed problems for Israel, not the United States. By terrorizing Americans on 9/11, Israel hijacked our brains and forced us into a series of self-destructive wars in the Middle East.

Today, Israel seems to have hijacked Donald Trump’s brain and frog-marched him, and behind him the rest of the country, into a disastrous war on Iran. According to polls, half of the American people believe Trump attacked Iran to distract from the Epstein files. Since Jeffrey Epstein was an Israeli agent tasked with collecting blackmail material on powerful Americans, and since FBI documents tending to confirm allegations that Trump raped young girls provided by Epstein were released just a few days after the attack on Iran, and were quickly forgotten due to the war, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that Trump’s brain has been hijacked by Israeli blackmailers.

But Trump isn’t the only brain-hijacked American. His self-styled “Secretary of War,” Pete Hegseth, is an Israel-firster. So are other advisors including Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz, Mike Huckabee, Elise Stefanik, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, John Ratcliffe, Stephen Miller, Sebastian Gorka, David Friedman, and Adam Boehler. About half of those people are Jews, whose brains have presumably been hijacked by tribal fanaticism since birth. But the other half are non-Jewish Americans who are acting self-destructively on behalf of a parasitical, genocidal foreign entity—an entity that despises them. How were their brains hijacked?

A few Americans have been “turned” into Israeli spies. The most notorious is Jonathan Pollard, who badly damaged America by passing secrets to Israel, spent thirty years in prison, then was released by Obama to be feted as a national hero in Israel—including by America’s brain-hijacked ambassador, Mike Huckabee.

But Israel also hijacks America, and gains access to its secrets, in subtler ways. Tucker Carlson recently reported that “Israeli officers have infested the Pentagon, roaming freely through the building, barging into offices and accessing classified material.” They are being given access to our secrets not by spies, but by people whose brains are so hijacked they don’t even know they’re spies.

In an interview on “The Young Turks” on March 27, Trump’s former top terrorism advisor Joe Kent said: “I think most people who are kind of doing the bidding of Israel consistently, they probably don’t even view it that they’re doing what Jonathan Pollard did or they’re spying on our country…Because if you grow up deeply steeped in the culture that we’re in, especially working a lot in the Middle East and in the war on terror, you think, hey, the Israelis are our friends. And the Israelis take advantage of this. They really do. I’m sure they have more Jonathan Pollards. That wouldn’t surprise me at all. But I think the people that are actually more effective than the Pollards…in terms of just their ability to influence because of the access that we’ve given them.”

In other words, Israel has eaten America’s brain. We have been brainwashed not just by the 9/11 false flag publicity stunt, but by countless Hollywood movies and TV productions and novels and textbooks and news reports and even defaced, distorted versions of the Bible, all produced by people whose primary loyalty is not to the United States of America.

So when Donald Trump dodges a child-rape scandal by attacking Iran, and half the population knows he is a blackmailed traitor doing the bidding of a foreign regime and destroying America and the world, our brains are so hijacked that hardly anyone even blinks.

Iran begins rebuilding oil facilities hit by US-Israeli strikes; targets 80% capacity in 2 months

Smoke billows from a fire at Iranian oil refinery in Lavan, Hormozgan Province on April 8, 2026, in this screen grab from a social media video obtained by Reuters.
Iran has launched reconstruction efforts at oil infrastructure sites immediately following strikes by the US and Israel, says a senior energy official.

Mohammad Sadeq Azimifar, CEO of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC), stated in an interview with SNN news on Sunday that the company deployed technical teams to nearly all damaged facilities the day after the attacks. 

"Contractors have been mobilized, and restoration work is already in progress," Azimifar said.

One of the facilities struck by the US and Israel was an oil refinery located on the Persian Gulf island of Lavan, following the announcement of a two-week ceasefire between Tehran and Washington last week.

"A multi-phase restoration plan was immediately drafted to bring the refinery back online as quickly as possible, despite the extent of the damage," Azimifar said.

He added that several teams are currently on-site for debris removal and the replacement of damaged equipment.

According to the official, a portion of the Lavan refinery is expected to be restored within the next 10 days, with other units returning to production in phases.

Among other damaged facilities was the Rey oil depot, which Azimifar confirmed is also undergoing restoration.

The United States and Israel launched a joint military aggression against Iran on February 28 by assassinating the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, along with senior military commanders.

During the 40-day war, the enemies launched a wave of attacks against Iran, which also targeted critical energy infrastructure, including oil depots, gas refineries, and power plants. 

The facilities constitute critical civilian infrastructure essential to the provision of energy, economic stability, and the welfare of millions of people across the nation.

Among the most critical infrastructure targeted by the enemies was the country’s South Pars Gas Field. Iranian officials condemned the airstrike as a “heinous crime” and a “flagrant violation” of international law."

Pezeshkian slams Trump’s insult to Pope amid condemnation of war on Iran

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian censures “insult” to Pope Leo XIV following his condemnation of the unlawful act of aggression by the United States and the Israeli regime against the Islamic Republic.

In a Monday post on X, Pezeshkian addressed his Holiness Pope Louise XIV and said he condemns the insult to his Excellency on behalf of the great Iranian nation.

“I declare that the desecration of Jesus, the prophet of peace and brotherhood, is not acceptable to any free person,” the president wrote.

He wished the Catholic leader glory by Almighty God.

Pezeshkian’s post comes after US President Donald Trump on Sunday attacked Pope Leo XIV for his condemnation of the US-Israeli aggression on Iran, saying he is not a fan of the Catholic leader.

During a Q&A with reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said, “We do not like a pope that is going to say that it is OK to have a nuclear weapon … He is a man that does not think that we should be toying with a country that wants a nuclear weapon so they can blow up the world,” adding, “I am not a fan of Pope Leo.”

Speaking to reporters aboard the papal flight to Algiers on Monday, the Pope said he will continue to speak out against war and suffering.

The leader of the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church stated that while he will not stop spreading his message of peace, he has no desire to get into a debate with Trump.

"I will continue to speak out loudly against war, looking to promote peace, promoting dialogue and multilateral relationships among the states to look for just solutions to problems," he said.

"Too many people are suffering in the world today … Too many innocent people are being killed. And I think someone has to stand up and say there is a better way," he added.

The United States and Israel launched their unprovoked war of aggression against Iran on February 28. They assassinated Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and struck nuclear sites, schools, hospitals and civilian infrastructure.

During the war, Iranian Armed Forces unleashed 100 waves of successful retaliatory strikes against sensitive and strategic American and Israeli targets throughout the region.

They also blocked the Strait of Hormuz to oil and gas tankers affiliated with the adversaries and those cooperating with them in an attempt to maintain security at the strategic waterway.

Trump, allies lining pockets with Iran war profit: US senator

An American senator has said US President Donald Trump and his allies, both inside and outside his administration, have been raking in billions from the administration's war efforts targeting Iran.

In an address at the annual Georgia Democratic gala on Sunday, Jon Ossoff, a senator from the state, noted how both in the run-up and throughout the United States' unprovoked aggression targeting the Islamic Republic that began on February 28, Trump and the individuals in question managed to make billions by prompting it and misusing advance knowledge.

Ossoff regretted that the war was costing the US its "national power and wealth" while making families "pay more for everything."

However, "rest assured, the Mar-a-Lago mafia are finding ways to profit because, of course, they are,” he added, referring to the Palm Beach, Florida resort owned by Trump that is regularly visited by the US president and his family.

Ossoff cited a Financial Times report that has revealed how, benefiting from inside knowledge pointing to the prospect of the aggression, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's broker looked to buy defense fund before Washington launched the attacks.

"A company owned in part by Eric and Don Jr. (Trump's sons) has been pitching [Persian] Gulf monarchies on its drone interceptors," he added.

"[Trump's son-in-law and advisor] Jared Kushner's already on the Saudi payroll to the tune of $2 billion. And he's been soliciting billions more from princes and sheikhs across the region, while leading negotiations on Iran," the senator added, apparently referring to Kushner's pledges of protecting the monarchies' and sheikdoms' interests in the negotiations in exchange for remuneration.

"And then there was the insider trading on oil. Did you all see this? Hundreds of millions of dollars in oil futures," Ossoff said, adding, "Just minutes before a presidential Truth Social post moved the price of oil 13%. Now, I don't know who placed those trades. But I'll tell you this, the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) better find out."

Throughout the aggression, Trump would regularly use his Truth Social platform to make announcements concerning the trajectory of attacks targeting Iran. Numerous reports have said certain traders would use relevant advance knowledge to take advantage of pending market vicissitudes.

"And if they won't, when you elect this new majority in Congress and you give us gavels and subpoenas, we will. We will," Ossoff concluded.

Islamabad talks failed because US tried to win at table what it couldn't on battlefield: Ex-diplomat

By Press TV Website Staff

The high-stakes negotiations in Islamabad collapsed because Washington attempted to extract at the diplomatic table the concessions it fundamentally failed to secure during its 40-day war against Iran, says an analyst.

In an interview with the Press TV website, former Iranian ambassador to Kuwait Reza Mirabian noted that during the Saturday talks in the Pakistani capital, the Americans acted contrary to what they initially accepted, referring to a pre-agreed 10-point Iranian proposal.

This shift, he asserted, was "because they felt that perhaps they could achieve during the negotiations what they had failed to obtain in the war."

The talks followed a devastating US-Israeli military campaign that began on February 28, targeting civilian areas, schools, and hospitals, and assassinating top officials, including the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

In response, Iranian armed forces carried out 100 waves of retaliatory Iranian strikes under Operation True Promise 4, pounding Israeli and American military assets in the region.

Having hit a strategic dead end after facing fierce Iranian resistance, Washington was compelled to seek a diplomatic off-ramp.

"We did not request negotiations; the Americans did," Mirabian told the Press TV website. "They imposed the war on us, and we resisted. They reached a dead end and requested negotiations, asking other countries to facilitate."

The trajectory of shifting regional equations left the US with few alternatives. Had Iran continued its retaliatory attacks on US interests, especially those related to energy, the resulting global energy crisis would have crippled Washington and its close allies.

Furthermore, the war imposed unprecedented costs on the US war machinery, exposing deepening divisions with Europe, intensifying distrust among Arab allies, and inflicting a severe reputational defeat on the global stage.

Iran entered the Pakistani-mediated talks from a position of undeniable strength.

"The Americans' miscalculation was imagining that after 40 days of war, fatigue, and the damage Iran imposed on them, they could extract concessions from Iran at the negotiating table," the former diplomat noted.

This miscalculation derailed what Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi noted was just inches away from becoming the official "Islamabad MoU."

Following 21 hours of intense dialogue with a US delegation led by Vice President JD Vance, Araghchi lamented that Washington offered only maximalism and shifting goalposts, proving that “zero lessons” were learned from past failures.

According to Mirabian, the US derailed the agenda by introducing two entirely unapproved topics: the domestic enrichment of nuclear materials and the control of the Strait of Hormuz.

The US proposed a joint American-Iranian administration over the strategic waterway, the former ambassador noted. This demand came shortly after a major diplomatic defeat for the US at the United Nations Security Council, where an anti-Iranian resolution pushed by Bahrain to force open the Strait was effectively vetoed by Russia and China.

"The United States has no connection to the management of the Strait of Hormuz," Mirabian said. "If there is to be joint management, it would be between Iran and Oman. US proposal was strongly rejected by the Islamic Republic. Management of the Strait of Hormuz is with Iran."

Regarding the nuclear issue, the analyst emphasized that Iran had already made its red lines clear. Tehran maintains that uranium enrichment must occur domestically, and its stockpiles will never be transferred abroad.

Because Iran recognized that the US came solely to secure wartime prizes, it adamantly refused to yield. "Naturally, it seems they had no success in this regard and left the negotiations empty-handed," Mirabian remarked.

The Iranian delegation arrived in Islamabad on Friday, viewing diplomacy as the continuation of a war. Their goal was to harvest the fruits of resistance: consolidating authority over the Strait, securing war reparations, unfreezing assets, and lifting illegal sanctions.

This assertive posture was bolstered by massive domestic solidarity. The enemy failed to engineer an internal coup or create a rift between the Iranian people and the government, witnessing daily nationwide demonstrations in support of the establishment.

Reflecting this confidence, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, who led the Iranian delegation, delivered a warning upon returning to Tehran. Reminding Washington of a 77-year wall of mistrust, he stated that the Iranian nation does not bend to threats.

“If you go to war, we will fight you, and if you come forward rationally, we will respond rationally," Qalibaf declared, addressing the US leadership directly. "We will not bow to any threat. Test our resolve once again, so that we will teach you a greater lesson.”

Beyond American maximalism, Mirabian pointed to another critical factor behind the diplomatic breakdown: the destructive role of the Israeli regime.

While the pre-agreed 10-point framework stipulated a comprehensive ceasefire, Israel aggressively violated this by continuously bombing southern Lebanon up until the final moments of the talks.

"Israel's role was, at the very least, insisting that the ceasefire not include Lebanon and the issue of Hezbollah," Mirabian said. "They refused to accept this until the last minute and constantly bombed southern Lebanon, and a ceasefire was not realized."

For Tehran, securing a lasting halt to the regime's attacks on Lebanon held immense strategic value—arguably greater than launching further retaliatory missile strikes, which is why Iran held its fire during the diplomatic window.

The analyst noted that Tel Aviv actively engineered the collapse of the diplomatic process.

"Just as the Israeli lobby in the US unfortunately instigated the Americans in the past, it seems the Zionist lobby's influence within the US was not ineffective in these recent negotiations," he told the Press TV website.