It is not coming from protestors. It is not coming from political opponents. It is coming from inside the American military itself. Active-duty marines and naval personnel being deployed to the Persian Gulf are openly questioning why they are there. Military publications are reporting documented dissent spreading through the ranks. A senior officer described a potential ground invasion of Iran as an absolute disaster in communications that reached civilian journalists.
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Israel is under the largest continuous Iranian attack in three weeks, Channel 14 reported, as coordinated missile and drone waves hit during Passover preparations, causing power outages. A drone infiltrated northern Israel over Kiryat Shmona. Trump said the war could end in two to three weeks without a deal. Hegseth said the U.S. is negotiating with bombs and the coming days will be decisive. Spain, France, and Italy have restricted U.S. military operations by closing airspace.
Tts 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; :14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, & commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
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A US jet goes down over Isfahan, triggering a high-stakes rescue mission that quickly turns controversial. WA claims the pilot was recovered. Iran says the operation was foiled and multiple US aircraft were destroyed. Conflicting reports, including claims that US forces destroyed their own planes, deepen the mystery. With casualties reported and tensions rising, this incident raises serious questions about what really happened—and whether this marks a major escalation in the conflict.
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For the first time in modern military history, 2,000 Iranian suicide drones overwhelmed Israel's entire air defense network in a single night — burning through Iron Dome, David's Sling, and Arrow simultaneously while US carrier groups made the most consequential naval retreat since the Cold War. This is not the story the mainstream media is telling you. This is the unfiltered breakdown of the night that rewrote the Middle East power map forever.
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Is Dubai really becoming impossible to leave, or are massive flight cancellations creating a temporary travel crisis? This video examines airline disruptions, airspace restrictions, airport capacity limits, and global aviation logistics to understand why thousands of flights were cancelled and why so many travelers are stranded. In situations like this, travel chaos is often caused by airspace closures, weather events, airline scheduling backlogs, and airport congestion.
On Saturday, the United States and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and at least 40 Iranian leaders. Iran is now retaliating against American allies and military assets in a counteroffensive that has killed at least six American service members. In the days since, social media has filled with a single narrative: Israel dragged the United States into a misbegotten war to serve Israeli interests. But Free Press Middle East analyst Haviv Rettig Gur sees it differently. “For years, Iran has funded terrorism, harassed global shipping, threatened America’s allies, and kept the Middle East expensive and unstable,” he wrote in The Free Press. But that’s not all. According to Gur, this war is also about China.
The U.S. military is searching for a missing American servicemember after an F-15E fighter jet was shot down over southwest Iran. One of the two crew members has been rescued, while the other is still missing. MS NOW Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde, MS NOW Contributor Inzamam Rashid, and NPR National Security Correspondent Greg Myre join Antonia Hylton with the latest.
Israeli assessments said Hezbollah fired more than 50 rockets at northern Israel during Passover, injuring two in Kiryat Shmona and sending large numbers of civilians into shelters. Four Israeli soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon. Dozens were wounded in 24 hours. Israeli reporting says 10 soldiers killed and hundreds wounded. Israel's health ministry reports well over 6,000 hospital cases. The IDF said it killed more than 40 Hezbollah fighters and struck dozens of sites.
Retired Army colonel Lawrence Wilkerson lays out how Trump’s “disastrous war of choice” could trigger a global depression and whether Israel can be “defanged” before going nuclear. He talks about Trump’s “disastrous war of choice,” Iran's strikes were brutally efficient, Second-tier strikes could trigger global depression, Trump should just declare victory and leave Israel “might be toast,” Russia rolling in dough while the world burns, Trump needs to break with Netanyahu.
Katie Halper
We have the Israel IDF level of censorship in America, where the Pentagon doesn't tell us how many of its own Americans have been injured. We've gone through this before during World War I, we fought for only 110 days, and we had a thousand dead in every battle, which is staggering. 110,000 dead in only 110 days; that was held back. They slow rolled the casualties. We slow rolled them again during the European campaign, so governments do this; it's not unique to the Trump government.
Trump doubled down on threats to hit Iran harder while at the same time claiming that this war will be wrapped up in the next two to three weeks. How do you view Trump's handling of this war so far? I think the speech made it clear how incoherent, nasty, illegal, and reckless the US policy is. Basically, people watched the speech from around the world and the reactions have been almost uniformly of horror. That's a president of the United States.
Qatar has reportedly refused a desperate request from the Pentagon to relocate US forces who have lost their bases in Bahrain and Kuwait to its soil, citing legitimate fears of Iranian retaliation that has already seen hotels and parks in the UAE where American troops were hiding targeted by Iranian missiles and drones. And the Americans, for all their bluster and bravado, are suddenly looking very, very alone in a region that is rapidly turning against them.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said Wave 91 of Operation True Promise-4 struck Tel Aviv and Haifa, claiming hits on key Israeli sites, including military gathering points and airports. The IRGC also said the Houthis joined the attack, while Iranian claims extended to U.S. bases and fighter jets in the region. Israeli broadcaster Kan reported damage from an Iranian ballistic missile, and another strike reportedly left a crater in Petah Tikva.
Iran has launched one of the largest ballistic missile attacks of this conflict against Israel, with Tel Aviv at the center of the target set. The scale of the attack has forced millions of civilians into shelters, tested the limits of Israel's layered air defense architecture, and sent shockwaves through global energy markets that are already under severe pressure from the broader conflict in the Persian Gulf region.
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In a major escalation, a power and desalination plant in Kuwait was hit, damaging critical infrastructure in a region where nearly ninety percent of drinking water comes from desalinated seawater. Authorities say emergency teams were deployed immediately, with no casualties reported so far, but the implications are stark: without these plants, much of the Gulf becomes unlivable. Hours earlier, drones targeted the Mina al-Ahmadi Refinery — one of the largest in the region.
Malcolm X Middle East 1964 speech is circulating again in 2026 - the reason is devastating. 60 yrs ago he described Western intervention, resource extraction, puppet govts, & the manipulation of Muslim nations with a clarity that reads like it was written this week. Every war, every regime change, every oil-driven conflict he warned about has played out exactly as he said it would. We revisit Malcolm X's documented words about the Middle East, breaks down each point.
Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired Colonel in the US Army and the former Chief of Staff to the US Secretary of State. Colonel Wilkerson discusses why the war against Iran could destroy Israel, and also the consequences if Iran develops a nuclear deterrent.
Glenn Diesen
Iran has now been very much legitimized on the world stage. Iran has never been more popular, never been more needed, never been more involved in these types of communications with other world leaders as the United States is this pariah state; I would say a North Korean-like regime. But I think that lots of countries view Kim Jong-un of North Korea as a far more rational actor than Donald Trump and the despicable Trump regime.
On April 1st, 2026, Israel publicly threatened Iran with a nuclear strike, and China issued a direct warning that any attack would be met with immediate action. This video breaks down the unfolding Middle East nuclear crisis, the international response, and what this means for global security, oil markets, and geopolitical stability.
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