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#US #military denies claim that #Iran struck US naval vessel
#CENTCOM has denied claims from Iranian state media that a US vessel was struck by Iranian missiles near the #StraitOfHormuz.
“No US Navy ships have been struck,” CENTCOM posted on X.
State news agency IRNA had reported, citing a military statement, that “following a firm & rapid warning by its navy, the entry of what it described as US & Israeli enemy destroyers into the Strait of Hormuz was prevented.”
If somebody hasn't done so already, I think Solnit's article (referenced in Cory's blog/post) is worth surfacing:
meditationsinanemergency.com/t…
#Energy #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #USpol #Iran #StraitOfHormuz
Truth, Consequences, Climate, and Demand Destruction
"This is how the attack by one petro-state (ours) on another (Iran's) may be turning out to be very bad for petroleum, because the only thing history loves more than a surprise party is irony.Rebecca Solnit (Meditations in an Emergency)
The Art of No Deal.
Inside the #Trump #SpiritAirlines Hail Mary #Fail
Winding down a major #US #airline is a complicated business. Doing so when a POTUS hints it could be saved adds an extra layer of complexity.
Wracked with financial trouble, Spirit Airlines filed for bankruptcy for the 2nd time in Aug 2025. Months later, Trump’s war with #Iran had driven up #EnergyCosts & made its financial position even more untenable, putting it on the brink of closure.
RE: freesewing.social/@Rania/11650…
Since #Israel's new war on #Iran and #Lebanon started, the siege on #Gaza has tightened again. Not nearly enough food is being allowed in. No one is being allowed out. Malnutrition -- especially among children -- is growing rapidly.
At the same time, Gaza isn't in the headlines -- what's happening in the Gulf and in Lebanon is more exciting. So public interest in Gaza is diminishing.
Food can get into Lebanon. It can get into Iran. It can't get into Gaza. Gaza needs YOUR help.
Rania rizq (@Rania@freesewing.social)
Attached: 2 images We are dying here in tents. Today the temperature is extremely high. We live in tents. My younger siblings cannot bear the high heat. The situation is very difficult.Rania rizq (FreeSewing)
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LA Times: California braces for uncertainty as last shipment of Persian Gulf oil arrives in Long Beach
"...The last California-bound oil tanker to pass through the Strait of Hormuz since war erupted is at the Port of Long Beach offloading its valuable cargo — 2 million barrels of crude destined to be transformed into gasoline, jet fuel and diesel.....In two weeks, the Hong Kong-flagged tanker will have fully unloaded at the Marathon Petroleum terminal and departed again for distant waters. After that, California must figure out how to replace some 200,000 barrels of oil a day that will no longer be arriving from the Persian Gulf. ..."
(paywall)
latimes.com/environment/story/…
#inflation #war #Iran #IranWar
California braces for uncertainty as last shipment of Persian Gulf oil arrives in Long Beach
Now California must figure out how to replace some 200,000 barrels of oil a day that will no longer be arriving from the Persian Gulf.Blanca Begert (Los Angeles Times)
For helping me on my link 👇🏻👇🏻
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#diplomacy / #rn / #reactionary / #support #iran #USmilitary #WatOnIran #USpol #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #Palestine #Stopisrael #FreePalestine #HumanitarianAid #us #uspol #eu #eupol #iran #genocide
Support Diyaa: A Home, a Future, and Hope Lost in Gaza
Hello everyone , My name is Diyaa , I am 28 years old, and I live in Gaza—or at least, I used to. I am the sole provider for my family of 9 people, including my wife.Chuffed
Good morning to readers; #Oil prices have rebounded to above $111,34 per barrel (+52,8% compared to pre-war).
Lilian’s aunt went back home to southern #Lebanon, found half of her house on the ground, grabbed what she could, and left again. Her family doesn’t trust this “ceasefire.”iranwar.news/p/fragile-ceasefi…
#Trump #war #Iran
Fragile ceasefire sends Lebanese home — then out again
As people return to their homes in the south to find out what’s left, Lilian’s family contends with a ceasefire they don’t trust to hold.John Beck (Iran War Dispatches with Tim Mak)
Meaningless nonsense
#Trump says deadline for #Congress to approve #IranWar doesn't apply: Hostilities have 'terminated'
The White House asserted to Congress in a letter Friday that hostilities with #Iran have “terminated” despite the continued presence of US armed forces in the region.
#TrumpsWar #war #ForeverWars #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
apnews.com/article/iran-congre…
With friends like these…
#Trump is withdrawing 5k troops from #Germany
The #US is withdrawing 5k troops from Germany, the #Pentagon announced Friday, in a rebuke to the close #NATO ally amid a widening rift between Trump & #Europe over the #Iran #war.
Trump had threatened a drawdown in forces earlier this week after sparring with German Chancellor Friedrich #Merz, who said the Iranians were humiliating the US in talks to end the 2-month-old war.
completely unsurprising:
#Trump says he's 'not satisfied' with #Iran's newest peace plan
“They want to make a deal, I’m not satisfied with it, so we’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters Friday at the White House.
Asked about what he sees as the proposal’s shortcomings, Trump said, “They’re asking for things I can’t agree to.”
#IranWar #MafiaState #piracy #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
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#Kushner, #Witkoff & the Profitable #Business of “Peace”
When #Trump announced, last Friday, that Jared Kushner & Steven Witkoff, his special envoys for peace missions [🤯], would be returning to Pakistan over the weekend to resume peace talks with #Iran, it was taken as a sign that the #war might in fact be nearing an end. #Stocks closed at record highs & relief from rising #gas prices seemed in reach.
“You’re saying it’s a gotcha question to ask what it’s going to be in terms of the increased price of gas and food?” ... “It’s an increase of $5k a yr for American households….You don’t even know what the average American is paying.You don’t know what we paid in terms of the missiles that hit the Iranian school, you don’t know what we’re paying in terms of gas.” #USpol #Iran
Hegseth Dismisses Testimony of US Soldiers Who Said They Were Put in Danger as “Falsehoods”
truthout.org/articles/hegseth-…
Hegseth Dismisses Testimony of US Soldiers Who Said They Were Put in Danger
The secretary combatively said troop deaths were “tragic” but the “consequence of conflict.”…Sharon Zhang (Truthout)
"On Wall Street, TACO — Trump Always Chickens Out — has abruptly been replaced as a favorite meme by NACHO — Not a Chance Hormuz Opens. As a result, oil futures have soared. ...
So what is preventing the reopening of the Strait? Three factors:"
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #StraitofHormus #oil #gas #economy #BrentCrude
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"Gas is $4.23 today. It was $2.98 sixty-one days ago. The blockade that is driving this price is now explicitly indefinite."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #StraitofHormus #oil #gas #economy #BrentCrude
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"Brent crude surged above $126 per barrel overnight — a new wartime high, the highest level since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 — after President Trump formally rejected Iran’s diplomatic proposal and confirmed the US naval blockade of Iranian ports will remain in effect until Iran agrees to dismantle its nuclear program."
~ Rudy Martinez
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #StraitofHormus #oil #gas #economy #BrentCrude
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restoftheworldreport.com/p/the…
The Rest of the World Report | April 30, 2026 — Morning Edition
Israel intercepted a civilian flotilla in international waters near Greece — more than 1,000km from Israel — jamming emergency communications and pointing weapons at activists. Turkey called it piracy. Greece said nothing.Rudy Martinez (The Rest of the World Report)
Despite spending nearly $1 trillion annually on defense, the U.S. is running low on key weapons after a month of conflict with Iran.
The rapid depletion raises questions about military readiness.
theconversation.com/can-the-ne…
#Iran #USPolitcs
theconversation.com/can-the-ne…
Can the nearly $1 trillion-a-year US military really be depleting key weapons in Iran?
Measuring US weapons stockpiles sheds light on future constraints and what Russia and China may learn from the Iran war.The Conversation
#Defense Secy Pete #Hegseth is facing questioning from lawmakers for the first time since the #Trump admin launched the #war against #Iran, which Democrats have contested as a costly conflict of choice waged without congressional approval.
The chief financial official for the #Pentagon told lawmakers that the estimated cost to #US taxpayers of the #IranWar is $25 billion so far.
#TrumpsWar #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #economy
apnews.com/live/iran-war-hegse…
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will face questioning from lawmakers Wednesday for the first time since the Trump administration launched the war against Iran.
@AssociatedPress has a live blog with the latest: flip.it/mCvL8J
#Hegseth #Iran #News #USPolitics #PeteHegseth #Congress
Iran's Guards seize #wartime power, weakening Supreme Leader's role
2 months into a war with the #US & #Israel, #Iran no longer has a single, undisputed clerical arbiter at the pinnacle of #power — an abrupt break with the past that may be hardening Tehran’s stance as it weighs renewed talks with Washington.
#IranWar #TrumpsWar #Trump #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…
"In between those two cited atrocities (genocide in Gaza and school bombings in #Iran), Trump has doubled down on U.S. arms transfers to Israel and acquiesced in its mass starvation and ethnic cleansing policies. Trump continues to participate in the #Gaza #Genocide by sending arms to Netanyahu and his IDF. Under the complicity provision of the Genocide Convention, both Trump and Biden could find themselves subject to arrest and trial at the Hague."
#USpol #WarCrimes
counterpunch.org/2026/04/29/fr…
From Biden to Trump: The Demise of Political Morality - CounterPunch.org
For most of American history, ethics. morality and law have served as important guardrails in the exercise of foreign relations.L. Michael Hager (CounterPunch.org)
Foolishly, Ukraine has showed unwavering support for the Israeli military regime and yet again, Tel Aviv shows that it does not give a flying fuck about anyone else bar itself.
When are nation states going to realise that they are all being taken for a ride by the regime on stolen property.
The Israeli military regime does not have a right to exist if that existence is at the expense of innocent people and other nations.
#Iran #Palestine #IsraelWarCrimes #Ukraine #Russia
Amid destruction & devastation in the wake of #war, Iranians have found a rare glimmer of hope among one of the nation’s most #EndangeredSpecies.
#Iran has recorded a jump this year in its official number of #AsiaticCheetahs, a subspecies, now found only in Iran, that has been on the brink of #extinction for years.
#IranWar #AsiaticCheetah #critical #WildlifeConservation #wildlife #habitat
nytimes.com/2026/04/28/world/m…
#US #GasPrices Hit Highest Level Since Beginning of #War in #Iran
The jump on Tuesday of 1.6% was the highest percentage increase in more than a month.
#TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #Israel #war #ForeverWars #Trump #Netanyahu #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
nytimes.com/2026/04/28/busines…
#UAE quits #OPEC, a major blow to world's biggest #oil exporters & leading member #SaudiArabia as #Iran war roils global #energy markets
#IranWar #TrumpsWar #Trump #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
apnews.com/article/opec-united…
Trump bombed #Iran and staged another assassination “attempt” (by a Black man, btw, who was not miraculously shot dead but subdued) to divert from the #EpsteinFiles but there is plenty to investigate without them.
like the master race rape & birthing ranch built by a military (nuclear) contractor:
newrepublic.com/post/209552/mi…
allegedly two girls were killed and buried under one of the building's compounds.
the other is his island. we still do not know what horrors he buried there.
Terrifying Details Exposed on Who Built Epstein’s New Mexico Ranch
Why the hell was a military contractor involved in building Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch?The New Republic
Iran's Supreme Leader is gone and its military degraded, yet the country controls the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices have spiked globally and Tehran now has stronger reasons to pursue nuclear weapons.
Was this ‘victory’ worth the cost?
theconversation.com/is-trump-h…
#USPolitics #Iran
Is Trump heading to a Pyrrhic victory in Iran?
Pyrrhus was said to have remarked that one more victory would leave his kingdom ‘utterly ruined.’ Some see echoes in US interventions in the Middle East.The Conversation
#Iran foreign minister left Islamabad without meeting #US envoys, Pakistan officials say. Can you blame him? The US “envoys” were Steve #Witkoff & Jared #Kushner ffs.
#IranWar #TrumpsWar #Trump #MafiaState #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
apnews.com/live/iran-war-israe…
Much damage has been done to our societies and the #climate due to #fossilFuels
The alternative was always there, but it was systematically destroyed
Appreciate the irony though:
Big Oil's decline has been ensured by their greatest triumph, #Trump
The stupid war on #Iran means every country will move off #oil
#China's #EV makers are kings of the world now
"‘The damage is done’: global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, #IEA chief says"
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Britain and Spain Reject Reported Plans by #Trump to Punish Them for not supporting him during #Iran war.
“An internal #Pentagon email, reported by the Reuters news agency, suggested that options under review include withdrawing American support for Britain’s sovereignty over the #Falkland (Malvinas) Islands — which are also claimed by #Argentina — and seeking to suspend #Spain from #NATO.”
The #Trump admin is placing economic #sanctions on a major #China based #oil refinery & roughly 40 shipping companies & tankers involved in transporting #Iran oil.
The move, announced Friday makes good on Trump’s threat to impose secondary sanctions on companies & countries that do business with Iran. It’s also part of his #Republican admin’s overall ramped-up campaign to cut off Iran’s key source of revenue — its oil exports.
Israeli soldiers have been looting civilian property on a large scale from homes and businesses in southern Lebanon with the knowledge of their commanders, Haaretz reported on Thursday.
As Israeli troops leave Lebanon, they openly load stolen goods onto their vehicles without attempting to conceal them.
#israel #zionism #Lebanon #us #usa #uspol #eu #eupol #uk #ukpol #Iran
RE: mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116458489…
Yes… what's happening in Lebanon, we saw and experienced in Gaza, the same pain and the same methods, and perhaps the most brutal genocide is being repeated before the eyes of the world 🌎 💔
#Gaza #palestine #genocide #Israel #freepalestine #iran #IranWar #warcrimes #Lebanon #gazagenocide #gazastrip #LebanonWar2026
RE: mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApa…Almost as if there’s a pattern here or something: liars lie, murderers murder, thieves stealing people’s land and homes steal people’s land and homes, monsters committing genocide commit genocide…
Almost as if this is who they are.
And they’re shouting it in our faces.
While the donkeys leading us piss in our ears and tell us it’s raining.
End Israeli Apartheid (@EndIsraeliApartheid@mastodon.social)
The Israeli army carried out airstrikes and artillery shelling across southern Lebanon early Friday despite a recently announced extension of a ceasefire, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.End Israeli Apartheid (Mastodon)
