Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.
He offers his own reflections on organizing and the state of America's declining empire....
"Where Olive Trees Weep" offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice.
Ancient landscapes bear deep scars, having witnessed the brutal reality of ancestral land confiscation, expulsions, imprisonment, home demolitions, water deprivation, and denial of basic human rights. Yet, through the veil of oppression, we catch a glimpse of resilience—deep roots that have carried the Palestinian people through decades of darkness and shattered lives.
This emotional journey bares the humanity of the oppressed while grappling with the question: what makes the oppressor so ruthlessly blind to its own cruelty?
Peter Lux from Lakenheath for Peace explains more about the war planes that go in and out of the US air base at Lakenheath in the UK.
For more information about the number of fighter/bombers going through Lakenheath for the attack on Iran click here
LAP has 65 members including CND, Stop the War Coalition, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, Beyond Nuclear, Norwich & District Trades Council and Greenham Women Everywhere.
It acts against nuclear weapons, militarization and the drive to endless wars including opposing the stationing and operation of nuclear weapons in Suffolk.
I love organizing efforts like this that bring people together over a period of time and repeatedly return to the site of their outrage like we see above. At the end Peter remarks that these efforts have to be sustained over time. Similar to what we see in London at the 'Support for Palestine Action' arrests which keep piling up regularly. I'm certain the courts can't take these cases on. It's all a show by Starmer to act tough, to please Mr. Big.
Brits are one of the best at this. South Koreans are also at the top of the list for being one of the most fiercely dedicated people who we've seenin action many times. Our deep respect always goes to the folks daily opposing the naval base on Jeju Island - for many years. The Jeju base is used to dock US & NATO warships in the region threatening China, North Korea and Russia with war.
When the US warships hit Gangjeong village on Jeju Island huge masses of navy garbage are unloaded that the island locals have to deal with.
Sailors are put onto buses and taken to desired hot spots on Jeju where drinking and young women are located. Not the kind of tourism hoped for when South Korea turned Jeju into an international tourist destination. It's nature is world class.
Once in Germany as an 8th grader our school took us to a former Roman ruin along the Rhine River. (My step-dad was in the Air Force and was stationed in Wiesbaden.)
The tour guide explained that the stones we were standing on, mostly buried in the ground, was once the barracks for Roman soldiers.
I took notice. I had a couple thoughts. Why were the Romans so far from home? Who were they controlling? When did they leave and go home?
And finally the best lesson from the day was the understanding that all empires fall in time. Our job today is to accelerate the decline - ASAP. Stop it before it finishes bleeding our economy to death or destroying life on Earth out of greed, insanity and lack of spiritual connection to our mother.
So only by determined and consistent activism - while connecting the dots to most other related issues - can we rapidly move to bring down the final curtain on the US Wild West Show.
The American dream mythology, full of fury and hot death so craved by the Epstein class of devils in our midst, is finished.
Zionist tanks in the heart of Beirut, 1982: Before the official establishment of the great party. Today, Beirut and Lebanon are resistant to occupation thanks to Hezbollah. The zionists attack Hezbollah and its strength because they are slaves accustomed to servitude and subservience; the idea of freedom terrifies them.
Saudi Arabia arrests a number of Shiite clerics in Qatif.
Iran-US negotiations failed. According to reports, the US demanded Iran to give up its Uranium, refused to accept a full ceasefire in Lebanon, and did not accept Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran did not accept the demands, and the US did not want to actually ‘negotiate’, only demand. Both delegations returned to their capitals and the ceasefire may be extended for a week or 10 days to give negotiation talks another chance, but this is not confirmed. Strait of Hormuz remains open for those who pay in Chinese currency.
After arriving in Pakistan for negotiations with Iran V-P J. D. Vance took a four hour nap to recover from his jet lag and as a result missed the Iranian delegation’s opening statements at the table. Quite an auspicious beginning and snub directed at the Iranian people.
Rallies in Tehran in support of Hezbollah and the people of Lebanon.
Israeli Broadcasting Authority: The commander of the US Central Command will visit Israel on Monday to discuss the possibility of resuming the war on Iran.
Tucker Carlson on Trump: I feel sorry for him, as I do for all slaves. He is not free in this moment. Trump announced a ceasefire with relief, and then the ceasefire ended in 2 hours because Israel intentionally violated the terms by attacking Beirut.
German newspaper Bild: US forced to reactivate 68-year-old refueling aircraft! Following recent losses and damage to its aerial refueling fleet during operations related to the conflict with Iran, the Air Force has reactivated retired KC-135 tankers from storage. Among them is a 68-year-old Stratotanker, built in 1958, which is currently undergoing extensive maintenance to potentially return it to service.
The American B-1 Lancer and B-52 Stratofortress bombers loaded with JDAM aerial bombs at Fairford Air Base in the United Kingdom, ready to take off again at any time to launch strikes on Iran. This will be the true result of Trump's deceitful 'peace' negotiations.
In the Hebrew newspaper Maariv, Ben Caspit said: “What matters to Benjamin Netanyahu is winning the elections. If there is no victory over Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas, there will also be no electoral victory. That is why he sent yet another ‘sweaty’ recording to the studios yesterday, once again repeating, for the umpteenth time, the concept of ‘I ordered, I directed, I won,’ in an attempt to convince us again of his eternal greatness.”
London police arrested 530 people during Saturday's protest in Trafalgar Square against the ban on Palestine Action. The arrests were made once more when people showed support for the proscribed "terrorist organization."
The Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab will remain under Iranian-Yemeni protection only, without any foreign interference, and the United States has no right whatsoever to have its hand over these two straits.
Yemen military: Is it Israel that decides when America strikes? Or is the White House merely an executive branch for Netanyahu? The last straw that broke the back of American diplomacy: When the prime minister of another country announces the decision for war before the president of America, don't look for the actual ruler in Washington. Look for him in Jerusalem.
Washington ultimately doesn’t care that the Strait of Hormuz got closed. What upset the Trump Administration the most is that it was closed for the United States, Israel and their European and Gulf Arab vassals. Trump simply wants to blockade the Strait on his own terms, meaning cutting off Beijing’s energy supply and waging economic warfare against China.
In occupied Al-Quds, Easter never passes without worshippers facing harassment and repression at the hands of Zionist occupation forces. Do "Christians" in the west know this is how Israel treats the Christian natives of Palestine? Yes, it appears they just don't care.
The New York Times: NATO tries to prevent itself from becoming the new victim of the Iran war. Analysts warn that the rift between Europe and the United States over the Iran war could severely weaken the cohesion and trust within this military alliance.
Trump threatens Iran again: “We’re going to blockade Iran. It will be a total blockade, nothing in or out. It’s going to be very similar to Venezuela. But it will be a higher level. A massive fleet is headed to Iran. I predict they come back and they give us everything we want. I want with everything. I don't want 90%, I don't want 95%. I want everything! They have no cards.“
Trump’s new ‘multinational naval coalition’ to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, uhm closed, or was it open? “Many countries’ are coming up to assist the US blockade” states Trump. UK: Rejected, Italy: Rejected, Spain: Rejected, Japan: Rejected, France: Hesitant, Norway: Rejected, Canada: Rejected, Australia: Rejected, Germany: Rejected, Netherlands: No response, South Korea: No confirmation.
Trump is essentially declaring total war on the Belt & Road Initiative and on BRICS+. A major reason why Trump is waging these wars is at the behest of the demands of Netanyahu and the Israelis, but also of the energy oligarchs who have benefitted greatly from the rises of oil prices and the bankers who want to turn Iran into a debt colony for the IMF. However, there is an overemphasis on Israel’s influence when the US’ has spent decades planning to wage war against China. And this new naval economic warfare doctrine is the first step in Trump’s plans for World War III. The entire foundation on which the talks were premised was phony because the US is agreement-incapable and does nothing but lie at every stage of the process.
Trump has shared an AI-generated image on Truth Social appearing to depict himself as Jesus Christ, shortly after his criticism of Pope Leo XIV.
Yesterday
22 people gathered in the western mountain college town of Farmington,
Maine to protest wars and colonial exploitation. The flavor of our
monthly standouts shifts depending on who shows up plus the mood of
leftists in the face of current events. What began as a response to the
U.S.-NATO effort to use Ukraine as a proxy to weaken Russia [ in February 2022] has morphed
over the years into an anti-colonial, anti-imperial coalition opposing
multiple U.S. wars around the planet.
Some
people came from pretty far away yesterday: Millinocket, Cumberland,
Biddeford, Brunswick. Several newer faces and some old friends as well.
(You meet the nicest people doing this work.)
Green
Party co-chair Kelly Merrill brought a soapbox and a bullhorn which
helped us be audible at a busy intersection where trucks roar loudly by,
some of them on purpose. Her theme was the extreme climate harm
caused by the Pentagon with its fuel guzzling war planes and nonstop
explosions. Pickup trucks revving their V8 engines to show their
displeasure just emphasized her point.
On
the whole we received more positive responses than negative, especially
from people on foot, and our one encounter with local police came when
an officer asked us to step back out of the street up onto the curb “for
your own safety.” I had expected him to object to how our closing
circle was filling up the sidewalk on one corner, but I guess that’s not
an issue for Farmington.
Veteran
Trish came from afar and delivered a barn burner of a speech about her
time in the previous Gulf wars, focusing on the lies and callous
disregard of her commanding officers. She brought a flag of Lebanon on
her signature fishing pole which I was glad to see because Beirut and
southern Lebanon are being pounded mercilessly right now by bombs from
the Zionists supposedly targeting Hezbollah by demolishing apartment
buildings full of children. When I left the Orange Cat Cafe where we
gathered to warm up after the stand out, she was being interviewed by an
activist from the American Communist Party (sorry I did not get his
name, could be Brian?).
Maybe
her testimony will turn up in one of the videos the ACP has been making
aimed at young people who might or might not enlist.
Black
Wolf of the Diaspora Pa’alante Collective spoke of how Puerto Rico has
been colonized by the U.S. for a very long time and, ever the organizer,
shared two handouts inviting us to join the DPC’s work. Black Wolf also reminded us of an event for Cuba they’re co-sponsoring that will be held in Bangor today.
Of
course Iran was on everyone’s mind as “negotiations” were over before
they started in Pakistan with the U.S. team making maximalist demands
like control of the Hormuz Strait which Iran de facto does and de jure
will control, likely in tandem with Oman. The U.S. presence in the
region is largely degraded and the destroyer they sent as a test case
yesterday was warned to back off (and did).
Stalwart
Cynthia with a cerebral sign aimed at liberals that she made quite
legible. She is a brilliant sign maker and I always look forward to
seeing what she comes up with! I usually see her outside the General
Dynamics bomb factory in Saco, and I’m a bit late in sharing this photo
from our last standout there on April 3.
There’s generally a crew there from 3:15-4:15pm on Fridays in case you want to join in.
Here
are Cynthia and Mark recently joining Yasmin’s daily vigil for Gaza in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Though you can’t see it here, the back of
Mark’s sign reads: Senator Collis votes $2 billion a week for war in Afghanistan. Those were the days. Current estimate for just the war on Iran is $2.1 billion for each day!
If
you’re “concerned” why not join us for the next statewide coalition
standout in Lewiston on Saturday, May 2 at 1:30pm on Main Street next to
Veterans Park? As Mark said yesterday in our closing circle, It feels good to stand with other people who care about what’s going on.
It started with a question… then the pressure never stopped.
In this cinematic LEGO story, a powerful leader faces growing global attention as “FILES” begin spreading across the world. Phones, newsrooms, and conversations are all focused on one thing.
At the same time, a major conflict begins.
War plans are made. Jets launch. Fleets move.
But something goes wrong.
As the pressure builds, reality starts to blur. Decisions become unstable. The line between control and chaos disappears.
Photo of me holding sign many years ago while in Omaha, Nebraska. Cops keeping an eye on me. I grew up in military family and had a friend while young whose family had been stationed in Iran and they loved the people there. So early on I had a good view of Iran. Then in the 1980-90's in Orlando I had a dear Iranian friend Saviz Shafie who was the sweetest most gentle person on the planet. He loved food and to dance. My heart breaks for Iran, Lebanon, Yemen and Palestine right now. Bruce
Wall Street Journal: Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $4.7 billion Pentagon contract to supply Patriot missiles.
Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif reposts: Israel must be restrained for US-Iran ceasefire to hold.
Professor John Mearsheimer: Israel may ultimately use nuclear weapons against Iran. It is now clear that Israel cannot prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons using its conventional forces. That option does not work. The only option they have left is nuclear weapons. The United States will not stop it.
Turkish President Erdogan: On the day the ceasefire was declared, Israel brutally killed 254 Lebanese people. The genocidal network, blinded by blood and hatred, continues to kill innocent children, women, and civilians, disregarding all human values and recognizing no rules or principles. [Edogan hypocritically still trades with Israel.]
UK PM Keir Starmer confirms he is actively coordinating with Donald Trump to build a massive 30 nation military coalition to force open the Strait of Hormuz. They are using the ceasefire as a cover to prepare for a massive escalation against Iran.
The mask is completely off. The Israeli Defence Ministry goes on camera and openly boasts about their plan to systematically destroy civilian houses in Lebanon and permanently occupy the Litani area. They are literally confessing to war crimes and illegal land theft.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf, speaking from Islamabad: In the upcoming negotiations, if the American side is prepared for a genuine agreement and grants the Iranian nation its rights, they will witness our readiness to reach an agreement as well. However, in the current conflict, we have shown them that if they intend to use negotiations as a futile exercise or a deceptive tactic, we are prepared to secure our rights through faith in God and reliance on our nation's capabilities.
Sayyid al-Qaeda (the leader) on the latest developments and updates: One of the most important outcomes of the Yemen front is preventing the Israeli and American enemy from using the Red Sea militarily in hostile actions against Iran and the Axis countries.
This is what has become of the American Al-Udeid airbase in Qatar after the Iranian strikes. The entire infrastructure has been demolished. Until now, the scale has been hidden. And so it is with all the bases. Iran was indeed defeated lol. This is what the American presence in the Middle East looks like now.
The Iranian delegation, in Islamabad, is in constant contact and coordination with its allies, notably Hezbollah.
Iran is following Israel’s aggressions and the resistance's responses moment by moment in order to make the necessary decision regarding the course of the negotiations (according to Tasnim).
Senior US official says US has not agreed to release any Iranian frozen assets (yet) — CBS News.
Former Iranian Foreign Minister, Kamal Kharrazi, has succumbed to his wounds one week after he was injured during US-Israeli bombardments. He was a University of Houston alumnus. His whole life he worked towards normalisation of Iran-US relations, at the end he was killed by the same US he seeked to establish friendly relations with. The intelligent ones will draw lessons, the blinded will look the other way.
New York Times: Historical analogies are never exact. But with the tenuous cease-fire deal in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, some are asking whether this is a “Suez” moment for the United States, marking the waning of American power and credibility in the world.
The Iranians have begun dismantling the site where US aircraft equipment was destroyed during pilot 'rescue'. More undies found.
Israeli media: Intense battles are taking place in southern Lebanon. The past 24 hours have witnessed several field developments, resulting in injuries among several soldiers and officers.
Iran informed the Pakistani mediators that "if the US ship's movement continues, it will be targeted within 30 minutes, and the Iran-US negotiations will also be affected.” — Fars.
Pakistan deployed fighter jets and military personnel to Saudi Arabia under their 2025 mutual defence pact. Jets arrived at King Abdulaziz Air Base. This comes as Pakistan hosts Iran war talks. Pakistan is run by a military junta.
Scenes from the Israeli airstrikes that targeted southern Lebanon today.
An attack on a US C-130 aircraft at Shannon Airport in Ireland has grounded the plane.
Despite the difficult circumstances, young men play volleyball in a school that was burned, bombed and destroyed by the occupation in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Kashmiris participate in a demonstration to mourn the 40th day after the martyrdom of the Iranian students who were killed in the US-Israeli air raid on the primary school in Minab.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan: The international community must now clearly recognize this reality: as long as Israel’s expansionism continues, it will not be possible to build lasting peace, stability, and security in the Middle East. Israel must be stopped from imposing its geopolitical ambitions on the region through external interventions.
The Russian Foreign Ministry: Moscow strongly condemns the Israeli attack on Lebanon, and these aggressive actions threaten to derail the ongoing negotiations.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: There will be a concluding diplomatic leg in Gaza that will expand our borders. There will be a concluding diplomatic leg in Lebanon that will expand our borders, to the Litani [river], to defensible borders. There will be a concluding diplomatic leg in Syria... the crown, the Hermon, and the Hauran at least.
After the bombing of his university...An Iranian university professor continues to defy the aggressors and sends to his students: My lectures will not stop, where are you?
Over 150,000 Israeli citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning. Additionally, more than 25% of Israelis want to leave the country. Over 100,000 Israelis have reportedly stopped showing up for reserve duty in the IDF. While their reasons differ, the scale demonstrates the war’s waning legitimacy.
Tens of thousands in scramble for flights out of Middle East amid Iran war. Wealthy travelers are paying up to $200,000 to charter flights out of the region. One out of eight British residents in Dubai have left. Businesses that depend heavily on tourists in Dubai have been hit hard, with declines of 70% to 80%.
At least 104 French soldiers have been killed in the Middle East as a result of Iranian attacks, but the authorities are hiding these losses.
CBS News: Trump was initially told that Thursday’s ceasefire would cover the Middle East, including Lebanon—a view shared by mediators, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and Iran’s Araghchi. However, after a call between Netanyahu and Trump, the U.S. position shifted.
Melania Trump: I never been friends with Epstein. Donald and I were invited to some of the same parties as Epstein from time to time. To be clear, I never had a relationship with Epstein or his accomplice, Maxwell.
Sirens sound at virtually empty Ben Gurion Airport.
Pakistan sent six fighter jets and early warning aircraft over Iranian airspace to escort the Iranian delegation arriving in Islamabad, protecting them from any assassination attempt that Israel might carry out in an effort to sabotage the negotiations.
Tens of thousands of people in Tokyo called for the prime minister's resignation in front of the parliament building for supporting the US and Israel. The Japanese people aren't fooled; they've realized that the government is covertly supporting the baby-killing Zionists and are reacting by taking the side of the innocent people.
MASSIVE US BUILDUP: Reuters reports the US has now deployed more than 50,000 troops across the Middle East, with numbers continuing to surge. Thousands of Marines are being rapidly transferred from San Diego straight into the region.
US State Department: American diplomats were ambushed in Baghdad on Wednesday with no injuries.
According to reports more Israeli aircraft are arriving at Radom Airport in Poland. The claim circulating in Polish media and social media is clear: Israelis are fleeing the war in the Middle East and using Poland as a safe destination. This comes just days after we learned Radom Airport has quietly become a parking lot for Israeli Boeing 777 planes from El Al. The questions every Pole is asking: Why exactly Poland?
The Pentagon threatened the Pope’s ambassador. The direct message delivered to the Vatican’s diplomat: “America has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.” The Pope declared the Iran War unjust. Called it a war crime. Told Americans to call Congress. So the Pentagon warned the Vatican to get in line.
A Full-Blown Holocaust. The bodies of 5,000 Palestinians, tortured and with their organs stolen, have been found; 30,000 children are still missing. What the hell is Israel doing?
Terrifying revelation. The Pentagon is deploying a horrifying soft kill microwave weapon on Black Hawk helicopters. It fires pulsed energy directly into the skull, boiling brain fluid and causing massive internal pressure. Washington is testing barbaric weapons in Iran.
Prominent UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese confirms the entire Israeli nation is aware of the systematic torture of Palestinians. She exposes how doctors actively supervise and cover up the severe abuse and rape of detainees. Sickening complicity.
Iran's amazing metro system is built according to Iranian and Islamic architecture and is very beautiful. I'm sure that the metro is cleaner, safer, and more pleasant than all Western metros. Is this another reason why Iran is a danger to the west? Because Iran attempts to make life for the people a rich and lovely experience. It costs money to make such incredible art. In the west money is 'best put in the pockets of the 1%'.
An expert analyst drops a massive bombshell on the Pentagon. He confirms the Trump administration blew up over $200 million worth of special ops C-130s and helicopters to cover up a failed rescue. A total catastrophe more expensive than a Hollywood movie.
Ukraine's Zelensky officially confirms Ukrainian Special Operations forces are actively deployed in the Middle East and the Gulf. They are setting up protection systems for Gulf Kingdom 'partners'. Like Syria, controlled by ISIS terrorists, Ukraine has become a failed state for hire. Another way to haul in more money that can be stolen.
Channel 13 presenter Raviv Drucker: Israel is pushing Lebanon towards a civil war to force the Lebanese government to fight Hezbollah.
Do you now understand why America, Israel, and the arrogant powers do not want Iran to possess nuclear energy? Because Iran shares its nuclear energy with the Islamic world, and America wants the Islamic world to remain subservient to it and receive nuclear technology only from them.
One point one billion dollars. That's what Lockheed Martin just committed to a single campus expansion—not in Northern Virginia, not in suburban Maryland, but in Huntsville, Alabama, a metro of barely 550,000 people now pulling in more high-income defense jobs per capita than anywhere in America.
While coastal cities hemorrhage office tenants and debate remote work policies, this Tennessee River town is building classified labs, hypersonic weapons facilities, and test ranges that anchor six-figure salaries to a place where $330,000 still buys a four-bedroom house with a yard.
The fastest-growing high-income city in the country isn't where you think it is.
America is a killing nation. We can kill 'em fast or we can kill 'em slow....
Pakistan confirmed US and Iranian delegations will meet Friday in Islamabad, with V-P Vance supposedly leading the American team and Ghalibaf heading Iran's. However, Iran informed mediators its participation is conditional on a Lebanon ceasefire—a condition Washington explicitly rejected. Trump named Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff as special envoys for behind-closed-doors negotiations.
New footage documents the effects of the occupation's bombing of a building in the Tellat al-Khayat area of Beirut, Lebanon.
The Pentagon: Operation Epic Fury is currently paused, objectives have been achieved, and US forces remain on high alert.
Sheikh Ali Reza Panahian (Iranian Twelver Shia Scholar & official): "If we leave Lebanon to its fate, God will leave us to ours. If we withdraw from the temporary Zionist regime, it will not withdraw from us. We must secure a possible agreement with the U.S. by destroying Israel".
Tehran Metro displays slogans and banners including the phrase 'We will not abandon Lebanon'. A lot of anger among Iranians tonight for ceasefire violations in Lebanon. One man on the street says, 'We don’t want this cursed ceasefire if our brothers & sisters in Lebanon are being slaughtered. They stood by us, now we should stand by them'.
Terrorist Netanyahu: The Zionist entity announces its withdrawal from the ceasefire agreement with Iran. The ceasefire will not include Hezbollah, and we will continue striking them. Yesterday we dealt Hezbollah its biggest blow since Operation Siren (the Pager).
The United States officially announces that the agreement does not include Lebanon and threatens Iran with escalation if it reneges on the agreement. Trump on Lebanon: ‘That’s part of a separate skirmish, okay?’ And the Trump admin says they will be discussing their 15 points, not Iran’s 10 points. (Recall the Native Americans told us that the 'White man speaks with a forked tongue'.)
White House spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt: ‘Iran submitted a 10-point proposal, which was ignored by the President’. JD Vance will not be able to take part in negotiations with Iran in Pakistan due to security concerns —Trump told the New York Post. That leaves perennial liars Witcoff and Kushner. Both real estate crooks and not statesmen which are needed but the US doesn't have any.
The ceasefire already going down the hill - fast. The death cult bombed a Chinese New Silk Roads railway INSIDE Iran. US-Israel don't want peace. They are out to take down all BRICS+ nations. The collective west is in a war to stop the fall of the colonial genocide project. This is a war of massive desperation.
Iranian National Security Expert Mostafa Najafi: 'Pakistan's mediation should be approached with skepticism and caution. It is a country heavily reliant on Saudi Arabia financially, and since Trump came to power, it has sought various ways to curry favor with Washington! It is not unlikely that what is happening in Lebanon is the result of Pakistan's cunning, acting as a covert agent for the Saudis! The Saudis harbor animosity toward Hezbollah in Lebanon no less than that of Israel! To what extent can Pakistan be relied upon to convey messages'?
Don't forget Pakistan's very popular Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister, is rotting in prison on trumped up charges because he dared support true peace in regional hotspots around the globe.
Iran has emerged as victorious in the public mind throughout the entire world.
New York Times: 'Trump faces political pressure preventing him from resuming the war'. Who could be exerting pressure? The American people? Yes. Global public opinion? Yes. The Iranians, Lebanese, Palestinians, people in Yemen and Iraq? Yes. Then who wants Trump to keep the war going? Israel, Wall Street and the military industrial complex....along of course with the Epstein class.
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson on what really happened at the whole 'pilot rescue' operation.
Israel has launched hundreds of airstrikes on Lebanon. Striking South Lebanon, Beirut and the Bekaa Valley simultaneously. This isn’t a ceasefire. It’s mass bombardment of civilian areas. Israel also bombed a funeral in Bekaa. Over 10 already confirmed dead, mostly children and elderly. The entire cemetery was destroyed. This is evil - no other way to view it. It's the work of the devil.
The pro-China Taiwanese leader states that U.S. bases must withdraw from East Asia and that Taiwan will advance alongside China and the region, rather than with the warmongering Westerners.
Reuters, quoting an Israeli official: 'Washington will insist that Iran remove the threat posed by its ballistic missile program'.
Significant US military movements have been observed in the region. C-17 heavy transport aircraft continue their operations, carrying additional troops and equipment to the Middle East.
Lebanese Ministry of Health: 182 martyrs and 890 wounded in a preliminary toll from Israeli airstrikes on the country on Wednesday.
Channel 12 (Hebrew): Hours separate us from hell: either a comprehensive agreement or a total collapse.
Macron tells Trump and Pezeshkian that a ceasefire must include Lebanon in order to be 'sustainable'.
Hezbollah foils the incursion that the Zionist enemy attempted to carry out in the Khiam plain in southern Lebanon, after clashes lasting more than two hours.
Wall Street Journal: America plans to close a base in a European country, possibly Spain or Germany. Spain has reopened its embassy in Tehran. Spain maintains its position of not allowing the US to use two bases in southern Spain to participate in a war against Iran.
US Central Command Commander: 'We have carried out more than 13,000 successful strikes against Iranian military targets'.
A U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton reconnaissance drone suddenly turned toward Iran, activated the emergency code 7700, descended rapidly, and disappeared from public tracking over the Strait of Hormuz. The MQ-4C Triton costs more than $200 million each.
Idiot alert:Keir Starmer: 'I am determined to protect the British people from paying the price for Putin's aggression on their household bills. That is why we will not hesitate to take the necessary action and expose Russia's destabilizing activities that seek to test our resolve'.
American Journalist Abby Martin
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese: 'The Australian government also firmly believes that the ceasefire has to apply to Lebanon as well'.
