US President Donald Trump’s war with Iran has been driven by a “council of one” style of decision-making and could have serious repercussions for the United States, his former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has warned. 

The US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic, now in its sixth week, has already inflicted widespread destruction across the region, with mass displacement and mounting economic strain. Civilian casualties continue to rise both in Iran and across the region as strikes intensify. Trump has claimed Washington is “in deep negotiations” with Tehran, while warning he will “blow up everything”if no deal is reached. Iran has denied any talks and dismissed claims it is seeking a ceasefire. 

There is a bitter truth that must be spoken before we can talk honestly about what is happening to us now. Andrew Brown on Australia’s quiet complicity in the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran, fourth in a series.

When the bombs fell on Gaza, Australia was quiet.

When the hospitals were destroyed, when the aid was blocked, when children were pulled from rubble in pieces, when the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and humanitarian organisations with decades of credibility in conflict zones used words like genocide, ethnic cleansing and collective punishment, Australia was quiet.

Not uniformly. Not entirely. There were protests in every major city, sustained over months, of a size and seriousness this country has not seen since the Iraq War.

The US has struck more than 50 military targets on Iran’s Kharg Island, including bunkers, radar systems, and ammunition depots, according to Iranian and Western media reports.

Explosions were reported at the island’s oil terminal – a critical hub for Iran’s exports – with no immediate confirmation of casualties or damage. The strikes come hours before a deadline set by US President Donald Trump over the Strait of Hormuz, marking a sharp escalation in the conflict.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned of broader retaliation, saying any crossing of Tehran’s “red lines”would trigger a response “beyond the region,” adding that it would target infrastructure “to deprive the United States and its allies of oil and gas in the region for years.”

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday (April 6, 2026) called and congratulated the Artemis astronauts circling the Moon for making “history,” telling them they’ve “made all America really proud, incredibly proud.”

“You really are modern-day pioneers — all of you,” Mr. Trump said, before launching into a friendly interview of sorts with the three Americans and one Canadian who are on a historic 10-day mission around Earth’s natural satellite.

“You’ve got a lot of courage doing what you’re doing,” Mr. Trump said, lavishing praise on NASA’s first lunar flyby in more than 50 years.

THERE ARE A FEW VERSION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATION OF A WEAPONS OPERATOR COLONEL, THE PLANE ON WHICH HE WAS OPERATING GOT SHOT DOWN BY SOMETHING LIKE A SUBSONIC SAUSAGE, AND HE HAD JUST TIME ENOUGH TO EJECT BEFORE THE PLANE CRASHED...

— A FEW QUESTIONS NEED TO BE ASKED.

WHY WAS THIS PLANE FLYING SO LOW AS TO BE HIT BY WHAT COULD BE DESCRIBED AS AN RPG — OR AN ANTI-TANK ROCKET? UNLESS IT WAS HIT BY GOD?

POSSIBLE ANSWER: THEY WERE ON A TOURIST/EXCURSION SURVEYING THE PLACE FOR A CAMPING SPOT...

REAL ANSWER: THEY WERE SURVEYING THE PLACE FOR A CAMPING SPOT... TO LAUNCH A FULL-BLOWN MISSION TO ATTACK A HEAVILY DEFENDED IRANIAN COMPOUND AND GRAB SOME URANIUM WITHIN....

THE MISSION WAS BOTCHED UP BY THE PLANE BEING SHOT DOWN AND THE WHOLE OPERATION WAS REPURPOSED AS: 

As President Donald Trump’s war in Iran goes further off the rails, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth carried out a “purge” of US Army leadership on Thursday, ousting its most senior general and two other top officers and reportedly leaving many senior officials stunned.

Singularly Unqualified’ Hegseth Executes Purge of Top Military Brass as Iran War Spirals Out of Control

Sen. Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the ousted generals were likely “telling Hegseth his Iran war plans are unworkable, disastrous, and deadly.”

BY STEPHEN PRAGER

Donald Trump risks turning America into a "rogue state," a former U.S. ambassador for war crimes issues warned Wednesday after the president threatened to bomb power stations and desalination plants in Iran.

The defence hawks never miss a chance. Netanyahu and Trump are running amok in the Middle East. Yet “Look over there! China!” Michael Pascoe reports.

The three-year deadline set by the embarrassing SMAge Red Alert series for China to attack Australia went by without a PLA missile in sight last month. Never mind, Trump’s war is burning through America’s weapons stockpile and assets have been moved to the Middle East, weakening defences in the Pacific, so China could seize the opportunity to at least attack Taiwan any day now. 

It’s Xi’s golden opportunity. 

The war between the United States and Iran has become not only a military crisis in the Middle East but also a turning point for the transatlantic alliance, exposing deep divisions between Washington and its European allies.

The End of NATO

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Professional liar Karoline Leavitt, a Catholic herself, thinks that she has a better grasp of the religion's teachings and greater authority on the political stances of the church than Pope Leo XIV, the head of the Catholic church, regarding the ongoing war in Iran.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbImj-rXIdg

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

Houston: Now more than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts are prepared for their historic lunar fly-around to push deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts.

On the downside, their toilet is on the blink again.

The three Americans and one Canadian are set to reach their destination on Monday, photographing the mysterious lunar far side as they zoom around. It is the first moon-bound crew in more than 53 years, picking up where NASA’s Apollo program left off.

Oh GOD, you birthed me on the wrong planet

Full of thieves, murderers and dudes with nasty epithet

In bible days you’d ask me to kill them all

For your grand battle of good versus evil

Turning me into another angelic devil

And dangerous creator of horror

You placed thorns on roses

For us to bleed in your honour

Touching the beauty of the flower

Smelling it with our weird noses

But bleeding from roses is vain

Many people die from your nasty bombs

They are yours please explain

Do you boast about digging tombs

like craters peppering the plain

Is this your forever omnipotent plan

Enjoying vicarious battles of sufferance

Years of wars between Germany and France

Now a silly excursion into Teheran Iran

Soon to become a grandiose devilish trance

The Integrity Gap Report has described pervasive climate misinformation, warping and dulling our perceptions of what is an existential threat. How does Big Carbon pull it off? Andrew Gardiner reports.

The Senate Select Committee’s report on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy was published last month. The 294-page report reveals bots deployed with the sole purpose of spreading climate falsehoods, paid influencers, and well-funded astroturf “community groups”, much of it paid for by a right-wing activist cadre propped up in turn by dark money from anonymous sources.

On Friday [03/04/2026], the Trump administration unveiled a budget blueprint centered on a vast escalation of military spending. In its Fiscal Year 2027 budget request, the White House is asking Congress to approve roughly $1.5 trillion for “defense”—that is, for military aggression—which would be the highest level of military spending in modern history. This is a staggering 40 percent increase over already record Pentagon spending.

This is a budget for World War III. It comes as Trump carries out—and escalates—his pledge to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages,” i.e., to destroy the infrastructure of civilized life in a country of more than 90 million people. The FY2027 request calls for $1.1 trillion in base spending, plus hundreds of billions more in mandatory funding for munitions and “defense industrial base” expansion.