From the Trenches World Report
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By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
On Monday, President Trump backed out of striking Iran’s power plants, seemingly blamed Pete Hegseth for the war, and then Reuters dropped an article pointing the finger at Netanyahu for the war just a few hours later. Continue reading “Reuters: Trump Approved Iran Strikes After Speaking With Netanyahu”
By Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain – Drop Site News
On Monday, Iran forcefully denied claims by President Donald Trump that the U.S. and Iran are in the midst of negotiations to end the war, saying that no direct talks are occurring. Continue reading “Iran Blasts Trump’s Claims of Direct Talks as “Fake News” Aimed at Manipulating Markets”
The Iranian military has warned that if the US or Israel bomb Iran’s power plants or other energy infrastructure, it will completely close the Strait of Hormuz and target similar infrastructure in Israel and regional countries hosting US bases. Continue reading “Iran Says It Will Completely Close Strait of Hormuz If US Bombs Iranian Power Plants”
By Wyatt Reed and Max Blumenthal – Grayzone
Continue reading “Trump White House plagiarized Iran war manifesto from Israel-aligned think tank”
By Julian Andreone – Drop Site News
Democrats in the House are preparing to force a vote on another War Powers Resolution as early as next Wednesday. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters that, this time, he is optimistic the effort to cease American hostilities in Iran will win the votes of the Democratic holdouts on the Massie-Khanna effort earlier this month. Continue reading “With the House Eyeing Another Iran WPR Vote, Pro-Israel Democrats Explore Routes to Delay”
By Kit Klarenberg – The Grayzone
The head of the International Energy Agency intensified his apocalyptic warning about the global energy crisis, stating early Monday that the US-Israel war with Iran has sparked a shock far greater than the twin oil crises of the 1970s and the turmoil from the war in Ukraine combined.
US-Israeli Operation Epic Fury has entered its fourth week, and emerging from the fog of war is the understanding that 44 energy assets across the Gulf region have been severely or very severely damaged by either U.S. and allied forces or by Iranian forces, according to IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol, who spoke at a media event in Australia on Monday. Continue reading “IEA Head Warns Iran War Sparked Energy Crisis Worse Than 1970s Oil Shocks, Ukraine Fallout”
By Kyle Anzalone – Antiwar.com
The Department of War says it needs $200 billion in additional funds for the war against Iran. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth suggested the number could go higher. Continue reading “Department of War Seeks $200 Billion More to Fund Iran War”
By Emran Feroz – Drop Site News
Story by Fazelminallah Qazizai and Emran Feroz
KABUL—On Tuesday, lists of names were nailed to wooden boards outside the gates of the Omid rehabilitation center, some typed on A4 sheets and others handwritten. Their edges curled quickly in the damp air, blurred by rain and a crowd of men running their fingers down the pages again and again, whispering names under their breath, as if repetition might produce a different outcome. Continue reading “Afghans Search for Missing Family Members After Strike on Rehab Center Kills At Least 400”
By Kyle Anzalone – Antiwar.com
Israel bombed facilities at the South Pars natural gas field in Iran. The world’s largest natural gas field is under the Persian Gulf and is split between Iran and Qatar. Continue reading “Israel Strikes World’s Largest Natural Gas Field in Iran”
Israel’s veiled threat to Moscow came just after Russian media warned traffic cameras in Moscow were vulnerable to the same exploits that Israel reportedly used to monitor Ayatollah Khamenei’s residence before assassinating him. Continue reading “IDF threatens ‘elimination’ for Russian leaders who ‘wish Israel ill’”
The UN Office for the High Commissioner on Human Rights is warning that Israel’s deliberate attacks on civilian targets across Lebanon may amount to war crimes, because international law demands a distinction between military and civilian targets. Continue reading “UN Rights Office Warns Israeli Attacks on Lebanon May Amount to War Crimes”
By Kyle Anzalone – The Libertarian Institute
President Donald Trump told reporters that he believes he will take Cuba. Washington has cut the island off from fuel imports, causing a blackout. Continue reading “Trump: I Believe I’ll Have the Honor of Taking Cuba”
BAGHDAD, IRAQ—Through two improvised checkpoints, men filed into Al-Ummah Park in central Baghdad’s Al-Tahrir Square on Friday to mark the celebration of Al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day). Behind the artist Jewad Selim’s Monument to Freedom, a relic from a secular society that seemed so out-of-place and obsolete, a few hundred mourners gathered underneath a sea of paramilitary flags. A succession of defiant chants came in unison, condemning the U.S. and pledging loyalty to the Supreme Leader in Tehran. Projected on a giant screen before them were the smiling faces of Ruhollah Khomeini and his successor, the recently murdered Ali Khamenei. The image soon gave way to another, with Ali’s son, the new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, flanked by his elders and crowned with the words “fa‘azazna bi thalithin,” a cursive allusion to a Quranic verse from Surat Yasin: “We sent them two messengers, but they rejected both. So We reinforced the two with a third.” Continue reading “As the Gulf Burns, Political Uncertainty Looms Over Iraq”
We have all experienced it, you’re scrolling through social media and a post catches your eye, it makes a claim or shows you something that makes you say to yourself, “there is no way that’s true,” or it invokes an immediate emotional response and before you know it, you have begun typing a comment laced with vitriolic outrage.
But pause there for a moment. Before your fingers hit the keys, before you share it, before you screenshot it and send it to three friends who you know will be just as furious as you are.
Ask yourself: Why that post? Why right now? Why you? Continue reading “Weapons of Mass Distraction”