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Thursday, March 12, 2026

U.S. Military Refuses to Endorse Trump Claim That Iran Bombed Girls’ School

                                                             

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U.S. Military Refuses to Endorse Trump Claim That Iran Bombed Girls’ School

Nick Turse

“It would be inappropriate to comment given the incident is under investigation,” CENTCOM told The Intercept.
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With World’s Eyes on Iran, Israel Locks Down the West Bank

Theia Chatelle

The Israeli military has closed checkpoints around the West Bank, restricting Palestinians’ movement as settler violence ramps up.
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Islamophobic Think Tank Helped Write Indictment Against ICE Protesters

Matt Sledge

The far-right Center for Security Policy, led by anti-Muslim activist Frank Gaffney, is best known for pedaling conspiracy theories.
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Defense lawyers raised questions about Shideler’s professional home, the Center for Security Policy. The nonprofit think tank was founded by Frank Gaffney, a former Defense Department official under President Ronald Reagan who has routinely been described as an Islamophobic conspiracy theorist. Gaffney’s views on Islam are commonly espoused at Center for Security Policy events.

The center itself has been branded a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a designation Shideler bristled at in court.

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It’s a War With Iran, Not an “Intervention”

Séamus Malekafzali

Elected officials desperately want to cast our war with Iran as an “intervention” or “operation.” Don’t let them get away with it.
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Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Roads and Transit. Now, We Walk Everywhere.

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

Israeli bombing left cars in Gaza immobile and roads impassable. The assault on Iran has only spiked prices and worsened conditions.
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Pentagon Report: U.S. Military Fired Missile at Elementary School in Iran

Nick Turse

Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran.
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CONGRESSMAN JIM MCGOVERN: WAR WITH IRAN

                                                            

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Days ago, the Trump administration, in coordination with Israel, conducted military strikes on Iran, which resulted in the deaths of several senior Iranian officials, including Ayatollah Khamenei, and six U.S. servicemembers.

Administration officials cited at first an "imminent threat to the United States" and framed these strikes as a preemptive measure.

In the days since, that story has begun to unravel.

When Secretary of State Marco Rubio was questioned about the justification for putting troops in harm's way and dragging the United States into yet another ill-conceived and poorly defined conflict in the Middle East, he gave a truly mind-boggling answer:

"I've been asked: why now? One reason why is that it was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the United States.

If we stood and waited for that attack to come first, before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties.

We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces."

When I heard that, I was stunned. There was no imminent threat to our country. Instead, Netanyahu was about to attack Iran, putting U.S. troops at risk of retaliation. Instead of working to defuse the conflict and talk our ally down from the ledge, Trump was complicit. He went along with it all, starting a new, possible forever war that nobody voted for.

Donald Trump ran for President, promising to put "America First"Starting a new reckless, unprovoked, and illegal war is the exact opposite of America First.

We must learn from the mistakes of the 2000s and 2010s. Congress needs to assert its constitutional authority and pass a War Powers Resolution to prevent further conflict.

No more American deaths, no more misguided military adventurism, no more endless war.

More soon,

Jim



 
 

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Saturday, March 7, 2026

REMINDER FROM: The "cognitively irresponsible" presidency Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson

                                                     

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Let's go back to the 'BEGINNING' - IRAN WAS ABIDING BY ITS AGREEMENT THAT WAS BEING INSPECTED...TRUMP ABANDONED THE AGREEMENT

MINNESOTA can bring charges that TRUMP can't PARDON!

What was done in MINNESOTA has been documented on VIDEO!

ICE GESTAPO EXECUTED 2 AMERICAN CITIZENS ON VIDEO...among other MASSIVE ABUSE...fired AMMUNITION against PEACEFUL PROTESTERS, including the young man across the street who lost his eyesight as a consequence of ICE GESTAPO OUT-OF-CONTROL LUNACY!

THIS IS TRUMP DEMOCRATIC DESTRUCTION INFLICTED ON COMMUNITIES THAT VIOLATES THE CONSTITUTION!

BREAKING INTO HOMES? UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

The "cognitively irresponsible" presidency

Aaron Rupar and Thor Benson

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If he does decide to initiate another military conflict, it almost certainly won’t involve any ground operations. Trump took office saying he would end America’s “forever wars,” but only those who weren’t listening very closely believed he had no appetite for overseas military adventurism. Trump loves a good bombing campaign, but favors operations that are quick, involve minimal risk to US personnel, and don’t require him to clean up after whatever mess he made.

In the first year of his second term, Trump bombed seven different countries: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, Somalia, and Nigeria. That’s not exactly a record of restraint, but it shows how he likes to operate.

Though Iran’s ballistic missiles and proxy groups are part of the official rationale, Trump is focused on the country’s efforts to develop its nuclear capacity. That’s why it’s so important to remember that we had an agreement with Iran that did, in fact, constrain its nuclear program. It was called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and it was painstakingly negotiated by the US, Russia, China, France, Germany, and the UK, and finalized in mid-2015. In exchange for sanctions relief, it put in place a monitoring system to ensure that Iran could not enrich uranium beyond what was necessary for civilian use. (Iran has always claimed, not very persuasively, that it has no intention to build nuclear bombs.)

When Trump took office in 2017, his own military and national security advisers tried to convince him that the JCPOA was working and would stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. But because it was negotiated under Barack Obama, Trump convinced himself that it was a disaster, and in 2018 he abandoned the agreement. To no one’s surprise, Iran then resumed its efforts to reach the capacity to produce nuclear weapons, leading us toward the place we are now.

He hasn’t even tried to persuade anyone

While Americans are well used to the cycle we’re in — escalating tensions, belligerent statements from both sides, a seemingly unstoppable march to war — there has been a gaping void where we normally find a vigorous propaganda effort.

We all know how it works: The president gives a big speech explaining what his goals are, administration representatives fan out to make the case, members of Congress debate whether it’s a good idea, diplomats are sent to persuade allies that they should join in the effort, and all of that creates waves of news coverage and analysis that help the public understand what’s at stake and what the potential outcomes are.

In its extreme version (e.g. the Bush administration’s preparation for the Iraq War), the government creates bogus narratives and fake evidence of the terrible danger America is in if we don’t immediately let loose with all our spectacular capacity to rain hellfire down on any country anywhere in the world. But even that presumes that without the legitimacy of public support, the war can’t proceed.

So much B/S


Don't discard or dismiss this information so easily! 


It matters because IRAN was abiding by its MULTI-NATIONAL AGREEMENT  

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Though Iran’s ballistic missiles and proxy groups are part of the official rationale, Trump is focused on the country’s efforts to develop its nuclear capacity. That’s why it’s so important to remember that we had an agreement with Iran that did, in fact, constrain its nuclear program. It was called the Though Iran’s ballistic missiles and proxy groups are part of the official rationale, Trump is focused on the country’s efforts to develop its nuclear capacity. That’s why it’s so important to remember that we had an agreement with Iran that did, in fact, constrain its nuclear program. It was called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and it was painstakingly negotiated by the US, Russia, China, France, Germany, and the UK, and finalized in mid-2015. In exchange for sanctions relief, it put in place a monitoring system to ensure that Iran could not enrich uranium beyond what was necessary for civilian use. (Iran has always claimed, not very persuasively, that it has no intention to build nuclear bombs.)


When Trump took office in 2017, his own military and national security advisers tried to convince him that the JCPOA was working and would stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. But because it was negotiated under Barack Obama, Trump convinced himself that it was a disaster, and in 2018 he abandoned the agreement. To no one’s surprise, Iran then resumed its efforts to reach the capacity to produce nuclear weapons, leading us toward the place we are now., and it was painstakingly negotiated by the US, Russia, China, France, Germany, and the UK, and finalized in mid-2015. In exchange for sanctions relief, it put in place a monitoring system to ensure that Iran could not enrich uranium beyond what was necessary for civilian use. (Iran has always claimed, not very persuasively, that it has no intention to build nuclear bombs.)


When Trump took office in 2017, his own military and national security advisers tried to convince him that the JCPOA was working and would stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. But because it was negotiated under Barack Obama, Trump convinced himself that it was a disaster, and in 2018 he abandoned the agreement. To no one’s surprise, Iran then resumed its efforts to reach the capacity to produce nuclear weapons, leading us toward the place we are now.



TRUMP IS STUPID & NO FACTS, NO EXPERTS, NO MILITARY ADVISER can convince TRUMP of his BAD JUDGMENT! 

IT IS ONLY BECAUSE THE Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was negotiated under BARACK OBAMA that TRUMP abandoned the AGREEMENT. 


 



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