by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:
We have all heard that over the weekend American forces struck at Iran in a joint operation with Israeli military forces, killing the long-time “supreme leader”, Ayatollah Ali Khameni, and members of his immediate family, some of whom were rumored to be in the line of succession to the leadership position. I will not comment in this week’s blogs about this operation, as I fully expect that I will be doing so in some upcoming interviews that were already scheduled before the events unfolded, and also because I am certain that the story, which already dominates the news cycle, will continue to do so, and there are other stories that I think should also be brought to everyone’s attention. Suffice it to say that I am extremely ambivalent about the operation. On the one hand, I will not shed one tear of sorrow if that horridly brutal regime in Tehran collapses, and the Iranian people are able to live free of it. Suffice it also to say I am not happy at the extent our foreign policy, and now even Christian theology, appear to be dictated by Israel, nor do I think replacing an Iranian Islamic hegemon with a Saudi one is to the long term advantage of the West.
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With that basic – and inadequate – summary of my ambivalence on the record, let us get down to today’s story that was spotted and shared by M.D., who also shared his own high octane speculation on what it possibly means, which I pass along as well, because I happen to think he is on to something. Here’s the story which, let it be noted, is from 2021, but its relevance to contemporary policy will become evidence once we mention M.D.’s high octane speculation:
Notice two central and crucial points in this story:
The South American country, Colombia, has announced its plans to repeat the previous year’s widespread coca eradication for 2021. With the use of a banned herbicide, glyphosate, manual eradication will be replaced with aerial spraying and will wipe out 321,237 acres or more of coca crops. Coca leaves are used to produce cocaine, an illicit drug that is widely grown and sold in the country. The shadow economy of the coca trade has caused consistent strife between the government, armed forces, and civilians for years.
According to Reuters, Colombia’s drug trafficking situation has led to more than 260,000 deaths, many of these incidents held between the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) and farmers. With the rapid expansion in coca cultivation, especially in recent years, the eradication events have been a priority of the national government. Glyphosate was first suspended from usage in 2015 by the World Health Organization. The chemical is known to cause extreme environmental harm and is a possible cancer risk factor. However, the Trump administration has urged the Colombian government to take part in aerial spraying methods for coca eradication. Also mentioned by Reuters, in 2020 alone, eradication numbers by the acre were 30 per cent higher than 2019’s.
Colombian President Duque’s bilateral meeting with Donald Trump, on March 2, 2020, came with strong pushes to initiate widespread coca eradication with the use of glyphosate. “You’re going to have to spray. If you don’t spray, you’re not going to get rid of them.”
The two crucial points thus are these: (1) The Columbian government, in the form of a direct summit meeting between its President and President Trump during the end of the latter’s first term, made it clear that government spraying operations would be needed if the drug trafficking problem were to be addressed. This implies in turn a joint Columbian-American effort to do so. (2) The article, without so much as any preparatory introduction to the subject, implies the use of the herbicide glyphosate as the principal focus for any such spraying effort.
This brings us to M.D.’s high octane speculation.
Recently, as noted in prior blogs on this website, we have blogged about two stories concerning the use of glyphosate. Firstly, there was a story that Israeli air force units had been spraying southern Lebanon with amounts of glyphosate wildly in excess of recommended use, ostensibly to interrupt Lebanese farmers’ crops (see https://gizadeathstar.com/2026/02/israel-weaponizing-glyphosate/). Secondly, there was the story which we blogged about just last Friday about President Trump quietly signing an executive order making the production of glyphosate a national security issue (see https://gizadeathstar.com/2026/02/the-glyphosate-president-or-is-trump-a-gmo/).
So what’s going on here?
