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#House #Republicans Thursday narrowly blocked a challenge to Trump’s #authority to continue #combat operations in #Iran, fending off a Democratic-led effort to halt the #war even as bipartisan frustration grows over a conflict that has dragged on for weeks without congressional consent.

#TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Trump #law #Congress #WarPowers #NationalSecurity #WarCrimes #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
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#Hegseth again threatens attacks on #Iran #civilian #infrastructure

Defense Secy #PeteHegseth Thursday renewed his #threat to attack Iran’s electrical infrastructure if the ceasefire between Washington & Tehran failed.

“Our forces are maximally postured to restart combat operations should this new Iranian regime choose poorly & not agree to a deal,” Hegseth said during a briefing to reporters at the #Pentagon.

#IranWar #Trump #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics
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#Hegseth Says #US Is Poised to Resume Combat if Talks Fail

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth urged #Iran leaders to “choose wisely” & threatened more attacks, even as the war’s economic toll puts pressure on #Trump.

#MafiaState #TrumpsWar #IranWar #war #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
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Great work of public service done by Belgian NGO #Vredesactie, @Declassified_UK, and the Palestinian Youth Movement. 👏

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#Palestine #Israel #gaza #warcrimes


#Democrats have to win big in November.

#Vote

#Senate rejects resolution to block #Trump from striking #Iran

The #WarPowers resolution was the fourth to fail in the chamber since the war’s start — but some #Republicans expressed fresh concern about the conflict as it approaches the two-month mark.

#IranWar #TrumpsWar #MafiaState #WarMonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #inflation #EnergyCrisis
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After Trump’s latest broadside, Pope says ‘world needs to hear’ message of peace

#PopeLeo said Wednesday that his visit to Africa offers a message of #unity & #peace “the world needs to hear” as he continues to face criticisms for his stance on the #war in #Iran from #Trump & the #JDVance.

#IranWar #TrumpsWar #MafiaState #WarMonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
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#Trump vows to 'kill' Iranian warships that near #US #blockade of ports

Trump made the comment on social media just after the blockade of #Iran was expected to begin. Trump said Iran has some “fast attack ships” remaining even after much of its navy was destroyed by US strikes.

#MafiaState #TrumpsWar #IranWar #war #WarCrimes #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #EnergyCrisis
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#US military set to begin its #blockade of #Iran #ports & #coast

The US has vowed to blockade all Iranian ports to pressure Tehran into agreeing to open the crucial #StraitOfHormuz & accepting a peace deal. Iran responded with threats on all the ports of US #allies in the Persian Gulf & the Gulf of Oman.

#idiocracy #kakistocracy #TrumpsWar #IranWar #war #WarCrimes #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #EnergyCrisis
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Remember how #Vance said he was in constant communication with #Trump?

Well, Trump was at a #UFC fight in Miami while #Iran talks collapsed.

On his way to Florida, Trump said it did not matter to him if a deal with Iran was reached or not: “We win, regardless,” he said.

#idiocracy #kakistocracy #TrumpsWar #IranWar #WarCrimes #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
nytimes.com/2026/04/11/us/poli…


"It feels like something shifted in the United States this week after President Donald J. Trump threatened on Tuesday that 'a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.'”

#Trump #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
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"American Christians can’t pretend we haven’t seen what our leaders have done this spring. Ours is no longer a government interested in haggling over the finer points of just war theory, a Scripture-shaped standard of ethical conduct in warfare, to defend a military intervention."

~ Justin R. Hawkins

#Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #war #WarCrimes #NuclearWeapons #genocide #morality #JustWar
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Personally, I’m hoping for and expecting Nuremberg-style #WarCrimes trials for both the US and Israel following this illegal war. There will inevitably be some realignments in the Middle East as well. Hoping this lesson will not be lost on the GCC and specifically the UAE - given their adventurism and alignment with Israel.


Note the date. 9 months before October 7.

“an Israeli soldier … stopped my interview did this with a Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro in #Hebron. I can't stop thinking how dehumanizing the occupation is on the young soldiers charged with enforcing it”
#Palestine #israel #warcrimes #genocide #military


Forty days of war crimes

“How do you lose a war against a country with one-tenth the wealth of the U.S.?

Be the first to fire a missile. When the missile is a precision-guided cruise missile, and it hits the target it was aimed at, and the target turns out to be a school full of children, and the well-aimed missile kills 180 schoolgirls, you have already lost the war and just don’t know it yet.” - @LuciankTruscottIV

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#Iran #USA #Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #ICC #ICJ


Snopes: Fake News from Trump??

"Image claiming to show US airman rescued in Iran is fake. Here's the proof
In early April 2026, the U.S. said it conducted a rescue mission to retrieve two members of the Air Force downed in Iran."

#Russia #India #China #USA #Economy #Finance #Technology #Security #News #Iran #Israel #War #EU #NATO #Oil #Nuclear #Weapons #Trump #Warcrimes #Disgrace #Hegseth

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"According to Letters from Leo, the relationship between the White House and the Vatican has sharply deteriorated after Pope Leo XIV condemned the Iran war & called for global peace. Behind the scenes, U.S. officials reportedly threatened and pressured the Vatican, warning that America’s military power gives it the ability to act without restraint & pushing the Church to fall in line."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Hegseth #PopeLeo #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality /1

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"..a huge swathe of the south has been occupied by an invading army that’s targeted and killed civilians (a war crime), children (a war crime), medics (a war crime), journalists (a war crime), blown up critical infrastructure including bridges (a war crime), and has seen a fifth of its population made homeless overnight (a war crime)"

#Lebanon #Israel #WarCrimes
Israel is waging war on Lebanon. Why is the world calling it a "ground operation"?
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Israel got away with targeting #healthcare in #Gaza It’s no surprise it is doing it in #Lebanon too

When will @EUCommission and especially @Bundesregierung speak out and stop supporting this insanity? #Complicit #BDSIsrael

Once again #Israel is breaking a #ceasefire once again targeting #hospitals , once again using callous #doublestrikes

#warcrimes #EU

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From Spain...

"Iran, Sánchez: “No applause for those who set the world on fire and then show up with a bucket of water”"

#Russia #India #China #USA #Economy #Finance #Technology #Security #News #Iran #Israel #War #EU #NATO #Oil #Nuclear #Weapons #Trump #Warcrimes

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Even as #Israel paused its attacks on #Iran, it escalated its parallel war in #Lebanon, launching what it described as its biggest strikes yet.

Lebanon's health minister said the strikes left dozens dead & hundreds wounded.

Lebanese PM Nawaf Salam said attacks on densely populated #residential areas ignored regional & international peace efforts.

#war #Netanyahu #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast
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“We have heard with deep sorrow the words coming from Donald Trump warning that an entire civilization—the population of Iran—could face total destruction. These threats are truly unacceptable. The idea that millions of innocent men, women, and children could be condemned to death under the pretext of national security is an affront to human dignity and a blasphemy against the Creator of life."

~ Pope Leo

#PopeLeo #Trump #Iran #war #WarCrimes #genocide #morality
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#US & #Israel strikes hit #Iran #oil, #rail & #bridges ahead of #Trump deadline

Iranian envoy says Tehran will not “stand idle’ if Trump follows through on #WarCrime threats

Amir-Saeid Iravani, Tehran’s representative at the #UN, said that Trump’s threats earlier Tuesday that a “whole civilization will die” if Iran does not make a deal “constitute incitement to #WarCrimes & potentially #genocide.”

#TrumpsWar #IranWar #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics
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And he calls the left deranged lunatics!

#Trump warns a 'whole civilization will die tonight' if a deal with #Iran isn't reached

Trump issued the stark threat Tuesday, about 12 hours ahead of his deadline for Iran to agree to a deal that includes reopening the #StraitOfHormuz or face punishing strikes.

Trump wrote on his social media site: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”

#MassMurder #genocide #IranWar #US #war #WarCrimes #law
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“We have a plan, because of the power of our military, where every #bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o’clock tomorrow night,” #Trump said during his Monday news conference.

#PowerPlants in #Iran, he continued would be “burning, exploding & never to be used again.”

Trump refused to say whether any #civilian targets would be off limits in the #US response.

#deranged #sociopath #TrumpsWar #IranWar #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #WarPowers #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #EnergyCrisis


#Trump says he’s “not at all” concerned about committing #WarCrimes as he continues to threaten destruction of Iran’s #bridges & #PowerPlants if they don’t meet a Tuesday-evening deadline to reopen the #StraitOfHormuz.

“I hope I don’t have to do it,” Trump added.

#deranged #sociopath #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Iran #war #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis


#UN Secretary-General #AntonioGuterres warned the #US that attacking #civilian #infrastructure is banned under #InternationalLaw, his spox said Monday.

“Even if specific civilian infrastructure were to qualify as a military objective,” spox Stephane Dujarric said, an attack would still be prohibited if it risks “excessive incidental civilian harm.”

A court would need to decide whether such attacks were #WarCrimes, he said.

#Trump #deranged #sociopath #IranWar #Iran #war #law #WarPowers


#Iran state-run IRNA news agency said #Tehran rejected the latest #ceasefire proposal & wants a permanent end to the #war. The agency said it has conveyed its response to the #US through #Pakistan, a key mediator. “We only accept an end of the war with guarantees that we won’t be attacked again,” Mojtaba Ferdousi Pour, head of the Iranian diplomatic mission in Cairo, told AP Monday.

#TrumpsWar #IranWar #ForeverWars #Trump #WarCrimes #law #Congress #WarPowers #MiddleEast
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#Trump, taking questions from reporters during the annual #Easter Egg Rollevent at the White House, reiterated his threats against #Iran, saying the #US was “obliterating the country” because its leadership would not capitulate.

But he also asserted that Americans were dealing with a third wave of leadership that “is not as radicalized.”

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #TrumpsWar #IranWar #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #MiddleEast #economy #EnergyCrisis
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"An absolute insane person. My god."

~ Sarah Longwell quoted by Greg Dworkin

P.S. Are we really going to play the purist CW labeling games — US Pol — when the fate of the WHOLE WORLD is at stake as a madman with his hand on the nuclear button threatens to rain down destruction on a nation he's targeting?

Do we really have the luxury of that kind of purism right now?

#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
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Boycott Israel - A Simple Boycott List


#Ethical Consumption Guide

A simple #boycott list that features #Israeli companies and #global entities with significant activities in #Israel.

It aims to guide those who seek to make #purchasing decisions that aims to put pressure one the Israeli government and comply with #InternationalLaw.

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#WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Apartheid #HumanRights #BoycottIsrael


The country that arrests #WhiskyPete #Hegseth for #WarCrimes - especially if they force his landing while flying through their airspace - will benefit from SUCH A BONANZA of #tourism by #Americans. For decades. Who will it be?


2 US warplanes now shot down; search ongoing in #Iran for 1 missing crew member

An F-15 fighter jet & an A-10 attack plane were lost to hostile fire. 2 Black Hawk helicopters also were hit, injuring the crews, before safely returning to their base, officials said.

#POW #TrumpsWar #IranWar #US #Israel #war #Trump #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
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The claim came as #Iran fired on targets across the region, setting Kuwait’s Mina al-Ahmadi #oil refinery one fire. The state-run #Kuwait Petroleum Corp said firefighters were working to control several blazes there.

Kuwait also said that an Iranian attack caused “material damage” to a #desalination plant. Such plants are responsible for most of the #DrinkingWater for Gulf states, & they have become a major target in the #war.

#IranWar #US #Israel #Trump #WarCrimes #geopolitics #MiddleEast


#Confirmation

#US fighter jet shot down over #Iran, search underway for crew, US official says

The ​prospect of US pilots being alive & ‌on ⁠the run inside Iran during an ongoing conflict greatly raises the stakes for the US in the ​conflict. ​Iranian officials ⁠called on civilians to be on the lookout for ​survivors.

#POW #TrumpsWar #IranWar #Israel #war #Trump #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
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#Trump vows to hit more Iranian #infrastructure as nations seek to open #Hormuz

Trump threatened to extend attacks on #civilian infrastructure in #Iran after a #US strike cut a major highway bridge on Thursday, prompting a defiant response from Iran, ​which hit a #desalination #water plant in #Kuwait & said more would follow.

#WarMonger #TrumpsWar #IranWar #WarCrimes #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
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