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Israel ruthlessly carpet-bombed Lebanon today, killing at least 254 people and injuring more than 1,165. Israel says it hit more than 100 targets in South Lebanon, Beirut, and the Bekaa Valley simultaneously within 10 minutes. This is how war crimes are committed: you indiscriminately bomb heavily populated areas without warning.
The Israelis used 50 planes to drop 160 bombs in 100 locations across Lebanon and then they bragged about. Lebanese American Rania Khalek, journalist and political commentator, recounts today's "horrendously terrifying" carpet bombing of Lebanon.
Pakistan and Iran said the ceasefire agreement included Lebanon; the U.S. disagreed, saying Lebanon was not covered. Since the United States and Iran announced a temporary ceasefire, conflicting accounts have emerged over whether Lebanon is included in the de-escalation agreement.
Pakistan, which mediated the deal, said the two-week pause in fighting would extend to Lebanon. However, Israel—which has been bombing and invading Lebanon for over a month—denied this, as its strikes continued, according to a report today in Middle East Eye.
According to Israel’s new death penalty law, Palestinian children, like adults, could, in practice, find themselves facing the gallows. This might take some by surprise, or even be dismissed as an exaggeration. Sadly, it is neither.
The death penalty law, passed by Israel’s Knesset on March 30, mandates capital punishment for Palestinians convicted of carrying out deadly attacks. The legislation, often referred to as the ‘Death Penalty for Terrorists’ law, requires that executions be carried out swiftly, within 90 days, while sharply limiting avenues for appeal or commutation, according to human rights organizations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
The moment a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran was announced—brokered through Pakistani mediation on April 7—Iran declared that Lebanon was included in the arrangement. It was a clear message: the war could not be compartmentalized, and the fronts were linked.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rushed to deny it. But the denial exposed more than it concealed. Lebanon and other resistance fronts were already embedded within Iran’s broader ten-point proposal—a framework the Trump administration had accepted as a workable basis for negotiations set to begin Friday.
Netanyahu was left politically and strategically exposed.
Iran was never just another battlefield. It was the culmination of a long campaign of perpetual war that Netanyahu has sustained for years—beginning with the genocide in Gaza, expanding into Lebanon, and stretching across multiple fronts whenever his political survival demanded escalation.
Each war served a purpose: to silence dissent within his coalition, to distract from collapsing approval ratings, to evade accountability in corruption trials. War became governance.
Recently a good friend told me that he is “thankful to be born in USA”. Once upon a time, so was I. Now I consider myself to be a fierce critic of the American Empire. How did I turn against America?
There were several turning points. The first was my study of political assassinations, which began in 1991 thanks to Oliver Stone’s film JFK. At the time, I was labeled a “conspiracy theorist,” but over the past 35 years, the world has increasingly come to understand that the National Security State killed President John F. Kennedy. This “conspiracy theorist” became a “conspiracy realist.” As I explain my personal transformation here, I also outline the history of what I see as the crimes of the American Empire.
Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Bush (1963–1991): “Belief in America” period
It was a mere 500 years ago that Europeans realized that the Strait of Hormuz was a trade choke point, when Portuguese Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque seized the Island of Hormuz to control trade in and out of the Persian Gulf. It was the first armed European conquest of Arabia meant to control international water routes and trade.
In other words, Trump and Hegseth didn’t know the importance of securing the Strait, although every ship captain has known about this chokepoint for centuries. Oh, well. As the philosopher George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, or at the least get their asses kicked and watch gasoline prices go through the roof.” I’m not sure about the authenticity of the last phrase, but you get the idea.
The British, who are pretty good at the imperial power thing, grabbed Hormuz in 1622 from the Portuguese, with Iran’s help. Empires knew about Hormuz without the help of Google Maps.
Somehow, Hormuz’ strategic stranglehold on shipping seems to have slid by unnoticed by Trump’s trillion-dollar defense/intelligence combine.
For more than four decades, the United States’ approach toward Iran was defined not by open warfare, but by sustained pressure. Crippling economic sanctions, covert sabotage, and targeted assassinations formed a long-running strategy designed to contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions without triggering full-scale conflict. This protracted shadow war—while aggressive, harmful to ordinary citizens, and often controversial—maintained a critical boundary: it stopped short of direct military confrontation.
Trump is out of control. The U.S. Constitution allows for the immediate removal from office of a president "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."
Former Congressman Kucinich, who filed articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney for manipulating intelligence on Iraq, deceiving the public into war, violating international law, warrantless surveillance, and abuse of executive power, calls upon Congress to uphold its duty and oath of office to the Constitution of the United States
WASHINGTON, April 6, 2026 — Dennis J. Kucinich, who served as a Member of Congress from 1997 to 2013 and led efforts to avoid, avert, and ultimately end the war against Iraq, will present the constitutional case for the impeachment and removal from office of Donald J. Trump at a national legal symposium.
The event, titled Expert Legal Symposium on Impeachment and the Meaning of “Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors”, will take place Wednesday, April 8, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2044. Kucinich is scheduled to speak at approximately 9:30 a.m.