US sending munitions to Israel! Hebrew media, Channel 12, reported yesterday the US was setting up an air bridge to replenish Israel's Air Force stockpiles w/ munitions, preparation for a "possible" renewal of war with Iran Netanyahu held discussions today for defensive & offensive fronts-MEE

Despite Trump's claims of Iran's defense systems being destroyed: In Tuesday's testimony to Congress by Lt Gen James Adams, Dir of the Pentagon’s Def Intel Agency, he stated Iran still held thousands of missiles & drones & warned they would pose a threat to US forces & allies in the Middle East-MEE

Israeli forces have killed 28 journalists in Lebanon since 2023-AA What Israel does shall go unreported, or else! The buggers!

Macron will host a conference supporting LBN's army & helping to rebuild LBN, with EU funding France see itself as the "protector" of LBN's sovereignty- French colony till chased out Were France a "true" protector of LBN, they should not have funded Israel's genocide, now spreading to LBN-Al Jazeera

Trump likes to think he's in control! There is still no coherent US strategy, in regard to what Trump claims is the US's control of the Strait of Hormuz. He is still insisting that Iran will come to the negotiating table, while claiming he has the authority to either end or continue the ceasefire.

Israeli soldiers looting homes & businesses in so Lebanon. “It’s on a crazy scale,” one soldier said. “Anyone who takes something – televisions, cigarettes, tools, whatever-immediately puts it in their vehicle or leaves it to the side. It’s not hidden Everyone sees it and understands”-MEE

Israel is now illegally occupying about 12,334 square miles of territory beyond its recognized borders (AFP)

Top Navy civilian official, Secretary John Phelan, is stepping down, no reason was given. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell posted on X, that Phelan was “departing the administration, effective immediately." Phelan had been a major Trump donor & had never served in the military.-Arab News

A cargo-plane delivery of nearly $500m-proceeds from Iraqi oil sales from Fed Reserve Bank of NY-was blocked by the Treasury, pressuring Iraq to dismantle resistance org.-US officials told WSJ US controls Iraq's oil res. $ under a 2003 post-invasion agreement-Iraq has to ask Treasury for its own $

Seeking sugar daddies! Julia Varvaro-29-year-old deputy Asst sec for counterterrorism at DHS, is alleged to have enticed an older man identified as "Robert B" into spending $40,000 on her during a 3-month relationship found on Hinge. "Robert B" has filed a complaint with the DHS-MEE

Israel's depravity 2 journalists at a site where an Israeli airstrike had targeted a car, leaving 2 dead. When they arrived they were targeted by Israeli airstrikes, going from house to house for over an hour. When rescue was able to reach them, on was severely injured, the other missing-Al Jazeera

“A complete ceasefire only makes sense if it is not violated by the maritime blockade and the hostage-taking of the world’s economy and if the Zionist warmongering across all fronts is halted,” lead Iranian negotiator and parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf wrote on X.

EU & Israel-no sanctions 2000 EU-Israel Assoc. Agreement-trade & cooperation pact-grants Israel preferential access to vast EU markets w/low tariffs on industrial & other goods Spain, Ireland & Slovenia pushed to end that pact, but Germany & Italy vetoed Pact contains a strict human rights clause

US seized 2 Iranian ships-IRGC claim it's ready inflict "crushing blows" on US should fighting restart FM spokesman E Baghaei-Iran is "closely monitoring developments" in the political arena & would take “necessary and appropriate measures to safeguard Iran’s national interests and security” -LBC

Alligator Alcatraz to stay open after appeals court decided today, upholding earlier decision to block a judge's order for the facility 2 wind down for not complying w/federal environmental law Friends of the Everglades & Center for Biological Diversity, brought the lawsuit, would continue fighting

US National Debt: $39.147 trillion & counting US bankruptcies: 586,728 US Foreclosures: 69,633 US living in poverty: 36,836,544 US living w/out ins.: 27,138,229 US homeless: 821,456 Median new home now: $412,445 Median new home 2000: $163,471 -US Dept Clock

US to own the seas? Apr, Trump issued an EO "Restoring America's Maritime Dominance" under the "Maritime Action Plan," where the US will build a "Golden Fleet" to expand the US's naval ability & dominate the seas Plan calls for $65.8B funding for 2027-34 new ships, including submarines & destroyers

2nd vessel tied to Iran US forces “conducted a right-of-visit maritime interdiction” & boarded M/R Tifani oil tanker in the Bay of Bengal-btw India & SE Asia, carrying Iranian oil According to US def. official, US will decide in 4 days whether to tow it to the US or to another country-Arab News

Israel's war crimes in the WB & in Gaza continue Two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank today after ​Israeli settlers & soldiers opened fire, witnesses said. While in Gaza, health officials said 2 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes-Reuters

Elizabeth Warren is a heroine from my home state, Massachusetts! Never lets me down. Holds her own and knows as to that which she speaks. Keep on keeping on Sen. Warren!

Good news! AIPAC funded US Congresswoman Haley Stevens & University of Michigan regent Jordan Acker, who opposed student protesters demanding divestment from ISR, booed from the stage yesterday @ Michigan Dem Party Convention Stevens voted consistently w/AIPAC positions on ISR & war on Gaza.

There's a high likelihood this summer's El Nino could be a "super El Nino," supercharging extreme weather events, exacerbating existing global droughts & pushing global temperatures to record heights, potentially making 2026-2027 hottest years on record.

On CNBC interview today, Trump does not want to extend a ceasefire w/Iran, adding US is in a strong negotiating position-end up with a great deal. If no deal, "I expect to be bombing because I think that's a better attitude to go in with. But we're ready to go. I mean, the military is raring to go"

The US-backed plan for the disarmament of Hamas was presented by the Gaza Board of Peace earlier this month by Nickolay Mladenov Hamas calls it "collective suicide" & a "trap" designed to “ignite civil war in the Gaza Strip and destabilize Palestinian society”- Palestinian officials- Middle East Eye

Contrary to popular belief, Hezbollah is not a proxy of Iran. They share an ideological & religious bond-Shia Islam since the late 1800s-which makes them allies. Hezbollah is an entity onto its own, as well as being a sovereign Lebanese political party Hamas is not an Iranian proxy, either-Substack

Iranian cargo ship, Touska, which was fired upon & boarded by the US Navy, was heading to Iran from China. US sources-equip carried could be dual-use items could be used by the military China expressed ⁠concern over "forced interception" by U.S. of the Iranian-flagged cargo ship-Reuters

The war w/Iran is part of a regional war going on now for 100 years, for the supremacy of the Zionist colony & the subjugation of Arabic & Muslim peoples. What we may now be witnessing, could well be last breaths of the Zionist colony & the US empire-Laith Marouf

Ali Rida found bodies of his landlord’s children blasted into the street after an Israeli air strike in E. Lebanon. “The Israeli strike happened at 3:30 in the morning. There was absolutely no reason, but Israel’s known for this. … They target civilians and, in some places, children"-Al Jazeera

The EU is going to extend sanctions on Iran to include those responsible for the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz. The US? Israel? If the EU really wanted to do something responsible or show they have even an ounce of integrity, they would call out the US & Israel loud & clear & cut the bullshit!

Israel never defeated Hamas in Gaza & their chances of defeating Hezbollah is not going their way, either.

Israeli forces have carried out, in varying degrees, the destruction of 39 villages in southern Lebanon since the ceasefire last week, while claiming they were attacking Hezbollah infrastructure-Al Jazeera. Same Israeli MO, over and over, while leaving a trail of death & destruction!

Israel retains control of 58% of Gaza. Israel has launched attacks on 160 of the 182 days of the "ceasefire." Attacks were often incursions aimed at leveling areas designated for Palestinian habitation-Al Jazeera Fish in a barrel, for the heartless & blood thirsty Israeli government & the IDF.

4/18, IDF kill 2 Palestinians truck drivers hired by UNICEF during a routine water delivery at a filling point in no. Gaza. "The Mansoura water filling point is currently the only operational truck filling point for the Mekorot water supply line serving Gaza City," UNICEF said-The Cradle

"Iran says it has no plans to negotiate with the US after President Donald Trump said Sunday that “the whole country is going to get blown up” if Iran refuses to make a deal." -Common Dreams 4/19 Good for Iran!

Dep. Chief of Iran’s Judiciary & Secretary of Human Rights HQ, criticized the UNSC & human rights mechanisms performance in addressing the crimes by the Zionist regime & US against Iran, describing attacks on critical infrastructure as “environmental genocide” & war crimes-Islamic Rep. News Agency

Nero fiddles, Rome burns. While Trump believes he is hitting all the right notes, the empire crumbles.

Israel's latest violation of Syrian sovereignty Israeli forces w/2 tanks & 2 military vehicles entered so. Quneitra province, taking up positions in prefabricated rooms brought in Fri night Al-Sharaa stated he was seeing "some kind of security agreement" as Israel remains on Syrian territory-AA

Oh, Jesus! Paul White-Cain (the mark of Cain), Trump's spiritual advisor, stated Trump was doing God's work, comparing him to Jesus during the Easter lunch at the WH. She claimed, as Jesus, he was being betrayed & falsely accused. That she hasn't been struck down by lightening...

Threats always work, right? Trump told Fox News that the US will "blow up whole country" if Iran doesn't sign a peace deal at the next round of talks, lead by henchmen Kushner & Witkoff Meanwhile, Tehran has yet to confirm attendance "as long as there is a naval blockade" in place by the US-MEE

US Navy reported this week a multimillion dollar MQ-4C Triton intel, surveillance & recon drone crashed April 9 following a mission over the Strait of Hormuz, after sending emergency communications and was returning to naval station on Sicily -Stars & Stripes

Danish Meteorological Institute, Arctic sea ice volume was at a record low for the time of year on April 18, 2026 A record low maximum volume was reached in April 2025, April 2026 maximum looks set to be even lower Thinning of Arctic sea ice-increased ocean heat & methane eruptions-Arctic News

When the Paris Agreement was reached in 2016, the temperature had already reached more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial Earth has already cross the 2 degree Celsius mark The temperature rise looks to be driving humans & eventually most if not all species to extinction -Arctic News

More than 17,000 US troops are being deployed to the Philippines, along w/Australia, Canada, France, Japan, New Zealand to participate in expensive military training exercises- Exercise Balikatan 2026-amid ongoing tension w/China over Taiwan & naval blockage in Iran-Stars & Stripes

Why Lebanon needs Hezbollah Under 2008 US Qualitative Military Edge law, weapons sold in the ME, this case to the LAF, will not surpass those possessed by Israel in tech, tactical or intel, thus leaving Lebanon in a position where they are unable to counter any Israeli invasion -Washington Inst.

For decades, the Pentagon viewed climate change as a national security threat-contingency plan since 1998-not for environmental reasons, but how & where troops could operate. Trump has dismantle that plan, making the military vulnerable in a world where climate will increasingly shaping conflict.

Heatwave threatens to shatter high-temperature records across eastern US-The Guardian, 4/15 National record for March '26 was the warmest in 132 years of record-keeping, average temps more than 9 degrees F above 20th-century norm 2026 critical year for global climate adaptation-climate emergency

More than 61% of the lower 48 states are in moderate to exceptional drought, including 97% of the Southeast and two-thirds of the West, according to the US Drought Monitor. The highest levels for this time of year since the drought monitor began in 2000. 29% of New England is in a moderate drought.

In the coming days, the US military is preparing to board Iran-linked oil tankers & seize commercial ships in international waters, according to US officials-WSJ That should go over well.

1982-Israel invaded Lebanon into Beirut, later occupying a portion of s Lebanon until 2000, when Hezbollah's years-long campaign against Israel forces & their proxy, the SLA, were forced to withdraw back to the Blue Line, ending a 22-yr occupation Hezbollah liberated Lebanon from Israeli occupation

Battle for Lebanon is not new! Over a century, the Litani River & so Lebanon's fertile land has been a geopolitical & strategic interest, beginning in 1919, when the World Zionist Org. proposed borders for the future Jewish homeland included Litani River & so. Lebanon, for water, agri & settlements