Kevin Barrett — Kevin’s Newsletter Crescent International May 2, 2026
The West Asia region is the birthplace and heartland of Islam. It is also the world’s biggest oil and gas producer.
These two facts, taken together, terrify the Epstein class oligarchs who rule the west. Though the world is transitioning to alternative energy, fossil fuel is still the key geostrategic commodity. If West Asian Muslims ever assert control over their own resources, they will gain immense leverage over global finance, and find themselves in a position to dethrone the usury banking cartel that currently rules much of the world.
That usury cartel is disproportionately Jewish. Its leading members are fervent zionists attached to the Greater Israel project, which aims to dominate West Asia and ultimately capture and ethnically cleanse all the land between the Nile and Euphrates rivers. West Asian Muslims, for their part, despise usury, which is expressly forbidden by Islam, and oppose the ongoing zionist genocide of the Holy Land and environs.
The eight decades following World War II have witnessed an epic clash between the indigenous mostly-Muslim population of West Asia and the invading zionists and imperialists who have plundered the region’s resources to fund their global empire. Until 2026, the zionist-imperialist invaders had the upper hand. They have extracted tens of trillions of dollars in energy wealth, using it to prop up the US dollar and fund the construction of the ring of military bases girdling the planet.
But on February 11, 2026, US President Donald Trump made a fateful decision. Goaded by his Epstein-files-owning master, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump ordered a joint US-Israeli attack on Iran. That attack was carried out on February 28, following a diplomatic ruse aimed at lulling Iran into a false sense of security.
Trump and Netanyahu expected Iran to surrender. They hoped that assassinating Supreme Leader Ayatullah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and other leaders would somehow lead to a “regime change,” propelling pro-US, pro-“Israel” leaders into power.
Iranians had other ideas. Outraged by the dastardly murder of their leaders, and by the double-tap massacre of 168 girls and 26 female teachers at the Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ Elementary School in Minab, as well as other atrocities, the Iranian people rallied behind their Islamic Republic and its leadership. Immediately after the attack, Iran struck back, raining down missiles on Israel and US bases in the region. A few hours later, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to all enemy countries—starting with the US, Israel, and the Gulf monarchies that had allowed their territory be used for the sneak attack on Iran.
The war raged at full-strength for six weeks, ebbed in the second half of April, and may well flare up again. Iran has pounded “Israel” as well as US bases in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, while the US has bombed civilian as well as military targets in Iran, killing thousands of civilians and injuring tens of thousands. (The Iranian Red Crescent estimates that the zio-Americans have damaged more than 100,000 civilian targets.)
Though the Americans and Israelis have successfully blown up schools, hospitals, places of worship, apartment blocks, and other civilian sites, along with critical infrastructure such as railways and bridges, they have been unable to significantly degrade Iran’s military capabilities. Iran stores its missiles, drones, and speedboats deep underground, often beneath mountains, where even the biggest US bombs cannot touch them. Meanwhile, despite Trump’s bombastic claims, western media has admitted that most of Iran’s military power remains intact, even as the US is exhausting its vastly more expensive arsenal.
Regional US military bases have been decimated. The New York Times, BBC, and other mainstream outlets have estimated that nearly half of the US fixed footprint in West Asia has been “structurally compromised” meaning effectively taken out of action by Iranian missiles and drones. According to one report, the 13 US bases closest to Iran are “all but uninhabitable,” and American military personnel have been forced to evacuate and work from hotel rooms. As its protector was being humiliated, “Israel” too suffered billions of dollars in damages. Iranian missiles have impacted buildings adjacent to nuclear facilities in Dimona, among other high-value targets, exposing the Iron Dome as an Iron Sieve.
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The zionists and imperialists have effectively lost the war of attrition, as they are using up expensive and difficult-to-replace weapons much faster than Iran is going through its inventory of easier-to-replace drones and missiles. Crucially, Iran has demonstrated that its “nuclear option”—shutting the Strait of Hormuz, the global economy’s single most crucial artery—is not a bluff but a fait accompli. What’s more, Iran has every reason to maintain permanent control over the Strait and extract war reparations by charging a toll. The US and its deranged leader can rage and drool and tweet unhinged threats, but they cannot re-open the Strait.
Iran has escalation dominance: Whatever horrific level of damage the zio-Americans inflict on Iran, the Iranians can inflict that same level or greater on America’s vassals in the region. (The Gulf monarchies would become instantly uninhabitable without desalinization and air conditioning.) The upshot is that Iran has won the war, and all that remains is for the zionist-imperialist camp to face reality and admit it.
By emerging from the war with permanent control of the Strait of Hormuz—and insisting that the US withdraw from the region—Iran can radically reshape the balance of power in West Asia. Prior to the war, the US could pretend that it owned West Asia and its energy resources, using its military occupation of the Gulf monarchies to demand various forms of tribute while insisting that oil and gas be priced in dollars.
Now that American military power has met its Iranian match, a new power dynamic will emerge, as regional countries see the US-“Israeli” presence not as a guarantee of security, but as the region’s leading cause of instability, chaos, and bloodshed. New, multilateral security partnerships will emerge, led by regional countries, and presumably featuring China—the biggest consumer of West Asian energy—as a key player.
The new power dynamic in West Asia will ultimately dethrone the western usury banking cartel. As the Chinese model of banking as a public utility meets Islam’s prohibition of usury, with the former backed by manufacturing clout and the latter by immense energy resources, a new paradigm for global finance will emerge.
This epic shift in the balance of power will offer Muslims the opportunity to reform their societies and make them more genuinely Islamic. Independent, sovereign Muslim nations, like the Islamic Republic of Iran, cannot be bullied by western power into accepting un-Islamic political, economic, and cultural institutions and practices. As the other West Asian peoples gain their independence and sovereignty, thanks primarily to the courageous and steadfast resistance of the Iranian people and allied pro-Resistance forces, they too will have the opportunity to throw off western colonial influences and “be themselves.”
In the not-too-distant future, in sha’Allah, a peaceful, prosperous, genuinely sovereign West Asia will play a leading role in forging an enduring global order in which aspirations for justice and dignity, rather than bullying arrogance, will have the upper hand. When that day arrives, the people of the region, and the world, will owe a huge debt of gratitude to the courage and steadfastness of the citizens and supporters of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who could not be cowed by the most horrifically disgusting threats, nor by the revolting and repeated massacres of their leaders and citizens—and who saw through the Epstein class propaganda beamed endlessly at them and at the entire world. Islamic Iran and its supporters have taken heed of the Qur’anic verse: “O you who are firmly committed [to Allah’s here-and-now power presence], if any depraved person comes to you with [slanderous and propagandistic] information, you are ordered [by Us] to verify it lest you [falsely] accuse people because of erroneous information, and then afterward feel regretful for what you have done” (The Ascendant Qur’an, Surat al-Hujurat, verse 06). All the lies of the evildoers of the Epstein-class western media, and the bloodcurdling threats and bloodspilling atrocities of the western uniformed terrorists, could not convince them to do otherwise.
his is good news
israel and the jews are the enemy of the UK
we want to see them gone
through the charging of interest on other interest often on more interest
they are daily robbing our country and this must stop
thanks hezbollah
HLP NEEDED
can anyone tell me where i can get one of those tee shirts with the slogan
” i am an antisemite”
i have seen people wearing them
email me please paul fuller
fullerangus@gmail.com
Da war “raged for full 6 weeks” , yeh . Mostly shown on faked cgi and mostly all talk. Zero infrantry engagement on both “sides”. Still pushing this false war, milking it. A faked charade or manufactured crisis between pretend enemies. Barrett’s writing feels like AI gibberish.
He lost me with fossil fuel.
If I have ever heard a counterproductive argument against the war with Iran and the plundering by the West of the Middle East it is this one by Kevin Barrett. My view is that Barrett has written this article, wittingly or unwittingly, to furnish reasons why the West ought to support the war against Iran and all wars against Islamic nations. Otherwise, in not such wars of conquest most people in the West would think that the trillions in profits from the vast oil and gas reserves of the Muslim nations would be used to furnish their own ethnic cleansing and to convert all of us infidels by the sword. Muslims do not mix very well with people of other faiths. Saying that the war and all Western wars in the Middle East (West Asia) interfere with Islamic prosperity, influence, power, and revivalism becomes a justification in the minds of many, if not most, non-Muslims to suppress the spread of the creed and to support the USrael war against Iran. Barrett has a Ph.D in Arabic (language) & Islamic Studies, at the University of Wisconsin (a Jewish owned and run state), and has to be suspect in this regard.
Are things not bad enough in our nations with the deluge of millions of Muslims being herded into them, mainly by Zio-controlled Western governments, obviously deliberately to cause culture shock with all of the economic, and socio-political problems which come with them? Apart from any alleged spiritual superiority of the faith which Barret boasts about, and although most who practice that faith are free of the much of the decadence and abuses of the secular materialism of the West, few people who are not Muslim have any interest to live in a Muslim nation, and most still rightly or wrongly regard the faith as a source of great backwardness.
In addition to Muslims, we have the Jews, and the secular humanists who have done the most in their efforts to strip Western civilization of its Christian foundations, which is the only major faith which has promoted a workable egalitarianism based on the principle that everyone is the child of God who is a loving Father, and that ones faith and reciprocating love for Him, together with a flourishing in His kingdom on earth has to come from a “free choice” and not a forced or coerced one for him.
If the war against Islam is to be seen as a way to stop the spread of Islam in the West, then that is an argument for most people in the West to support the war, and to me it sounds very Mossad or CIA.
What we are left after adopting Barrett’s rather shallow views are the contending “visions” of either the Islamic jihad or the Western-backed vision of the expanded Zionist state for Jewish ownership and dominance of “West Asia”. Most people in the West in their corrupt and unenlightened rut of choosing “the lesser of evils” would not chose to support anything to do with Islam but would most likely support the Jews, to their own eventual demise and slavery, and even to their eventual extermination based on their open views of getting rid of those they regard as “unwanted”. Muslims are little different in that regard.
To get out of our rut, it is only the Christian view which can lift people above these existential conflicts over temporal ends. That Christian view used to condemn the evil doctrines that “might makes right” and that “the ends justify the means”. However, we find Christian leaders to have adopted a more pragmatic and unprincipled stance of considering Islamic prosperity as a source of worry, such that they choose what they call the lesser of evils, turning a blind eye to the ruthless methods to conquer Muslim nations and usurp their resources, only to feed a grasping materialism, which in fact is destroying the West. Or, even if not to make us rich beyond our own good, and even if we “need” the fuel to run our huge automobile-dependent cities, and petrochemicals for farming, we will never convert or show any aspect of a human and spiritual superiority through the insane, ruthless and criminal methods we have ordained in working with the Jewish ownership-class to exploit the nations in the Middle East. We have to be above such methods such that if there is actual persecution of non-Muslim people fostered by a Muslim nation, then we simply have to boycott that nation until the problems are corrected. If we find that it is the Jews inciting division and hatred between Muslims and non-Muslims then we have to boycott the Jews. We can openly shun evildoers, and also protect the innocent where they are persecuted. In that way we can foster a basis of trust and good will, based on a rule of law footing which everyone, despite their wealth and power, will have to comply.
On this footing, on a Christian footing, we see that the creation of the Islamic state was a reaction of the Iranian people against the oppression and thievery of mainly Western oligarchical interests and the lust for cheap oil and gas which we all share in – which does not make our conduct to have been “right”, but only “wrong”. The only trustworthy basis for opposition strong enough to take back control of their own resources was their religious faith. Their conduct was a reaction against our evils. The crippling sanctions against Iran were never justified as they came about from their efforts of controlling what our own laws said they owned. The weather wars against them were heinous crimes against humanity. This war is another Western war of plunder and oppression just like the ones against Iraq and Syria. As a result, our nations are being flooded by Muslims who mix like oil and water and have no basis to consider Christianity as anything except hypocrisy. There are many alternatives to oil and gas as necessity in any Christian culture is the mother of invention. Even if we could not tap other sources (mostly controlled by the US military) to live better within our means the last thing the world needs is another bloody war.
Great Goth weekend
Great Goths and punks urged to lay down their water pistols
Story by Craig Simpson • As a seaside town braces for a Goth invasion, visitors have been told to lay down their arms.
The Whitby Goth Weekend is taking place from May 1-3, but devotees have been asked not to bring water pistols, prop swords or fake guns in case “something dreadful” happens. The North Yorkshire town has hosted the biannual festival of black attire and ample eyeliner since 1994, and was chosen for its association with Dracula.
The vampire plagued the seaside town in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel – but further risky visitors will not be tolerated.
Organisers have banned prop weapons, fearing that the swords often carried by costumed attendees could cause a “catastrophic” accident. They have prohibited fake guns to avoid alarming attendees and residents.
Festival attendees dress in costume to celebrate goth music, culture, and fashion – Ian Forsyth/Getty
The new policy states: “The impact of something dreadful happening as a result of a weapon, prop, or costume causing injury or damage would be catastrophic in many ways, and we ask visitors to be mindful that Whitby is 45 minutes from the nearest major A&E department and police station.
“Please see our policy, which advises all visitors not to wear (or even carry) any sort of weapon. They can be dangerous and can cause alarm to others.”
Pop guns and swords play a prominent role in the Steampunk subculture, which is well-represented at the festival. Steampunk attire is influenced by fashions from the Victorian era, combined with science fiction elements.
Devotees cultivate personae including pirates and detectives and may carry prop firearms, often created at home by modifying toy “Nerf guns”, which fire foam projectiles. Elaborate prop swords and knives are also used.
Health and safety fears, and concern about insurance costs, led Whitby Goth Weekend to produce a list of banned items, including “realistic imitation firearms and imitation firearms made from metal, solid resin, plastic, wood, or rubber. Slingshots and bows of any kind. Projectile weapons of any kind including Nerf and water guns.”
Items that have been banned from Whitby Goth Weekend
The event has told attendees that any props must be “lightweight and free of sharp edges, spikes, points, or excessive weight. Recommended construction materials are foam, foam board or cardboard.”
It has followed the lead of the Leeds Steampunk Market, which runs five times a year to cater for the hobby and has banned weaponry, a dummy Kier Starmer will be burnt
bring your own to burn
Festivalgoers dress in styles including Steampunk, Victoriana and Cybergoth –
The Whitby organisers said: “We wish to emphasise that this decision was not taken lightly and it is not borne from a desire to exclude Steampunks from Whitby Goth Weekend.”
In 2011 the rector of St Mary’s Church in Whitby, which stands on an imposing headland close to the atmospheric ruins of Whitby Abbey, banned Goths from the graveyard after catching dozens posing for photos with headstones.
The problem reared its head again in 2016, leading to proposals to construct a mock graveyard that could be used as a moody photographic backdrop.The North Yorkshire town has hosted the biannual festival of black attire and ample eyeliner since 1994, and was chosen for its association with Dracula.
The vampire plagued the seaside town in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel –
originally written to show jews as blood suckers, but then given a lighter edition for the mass market