April 03, 2026: Daily Feature Links

1. Dialogue Works:   Amb. Chas Freeman: Trump PUSHES ESCALATION — Israel's Strategy COLLAPSES Overnight
2. White House asks for record–breaking $1.5 trillion for defense in 2027 budget request
3. Democracy Now!:   Meet Leqaa Kordia: Palestinian Protester Freed After a Year in "ICE Dungeon"
4. Democracy Now!:   Trump Warns of "Much More to Follow" as U.S. Bombs Civilian Infrastructure in Iran
5. Democracy Now!:   Israel Continues Deadly Attacks on Palestinians Despite U.S.–Brokered Ceasefire
6. Democracy Now!:   France Detains EU Parliamentarian and Israel Critic Rima Hassan over Social Media Post
7. 'A speech with no credibility': Prof. Sachs
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10. Nima R. Alkhorshid Keywiki Bio
11. Iran on Google Maps
12. American demand destruction: Seven channels that compound to threaten U.S. growth
13. Middle East Eye:   Israel's death penalty is an 'apartheid law' says Knesset member Aida Touma–Suleiman
14. ALL HELL BREAK LOOSE as Iran rejects ceasefire after France, China, Russia make a U–turn – OPTM
15. Paul Krugman:   War Has Changed. Is the U.S. Prepared?
16. Paul Krugman:   America: Not to be relied on #substack #shorts
17. Glenn Diesen:   Chas Freeman: World Disorder – Nuclear Weapons & World War
    
    If I may insert a digression here, one thing the shadowing cabal, from rich Epstein Class monsters to Joe Six-Pack Fox MAGA, may not realize, is that the potency of American munitions and tactics has been depleted now for at least three generations since many of the most able of us in the citizenry have avoided participation in its maintenance. You can retort that we are not the best and the brightest, but clearly the present debacle is evidence to the contrary, and furthermore, the fact that virtually all these public figures and other communicators that supported Trump in 2024 did not see the obvious that this kind of thing would be exactly the result shows these constituents are not insightful in important ways. The world is full of successful people who got below average grades all through life because that is the context of American life. We did not start out with brilliant philosophers who came through negotiating shared neighborhoods with the existing denizens. It started with murderers and thieves who stole land and lied to generations of their descendants about the virtues of their pioneering ways. This behavior is represented by the very namesake of MAGA, who are peopled largely by those who want it easy, and want leadership which concocts ways to murder and steal in their favor, rather than working with their neighbors to carefully plan and care for the community around them. You can say that I am not smart because I am not being diplomatic about this, but in fact MAGA is butt stupid because it cannot parse diplomacy. It can ONLY LEARN FROM BEING DOPE-SLAPPED BY HARD KNOCKS AND NEIGHBORS TRYING TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST MAGA IDIOCY. So, you won't learn quickly from this statement, by the way, so read it again. You will keep hearing it, and the more you MAGA freaks ignore this kind of message, the more hard knocks you will experience, and the more perilous they will be for you. Okay, now, back to the Good Mr Chas Freeman, whom I hope some will listen to also. Good information. Thank you Glenn. Apologies for such a digression.
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20. ALL HELL BREAK LOOSE as Iran rejects ceasefire after France, China, Russia make a U–turn – OPTM
21. Trump CRACKS as IRAN HUNTS his PILOTS!!! | Bill Clinton
22. The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel:   Will There be a Ground Invasion of Iran? (w/ Col. Larry Wilkerson)
23. Wally Rashid:   Rich Arab Countries SWITCHING SIDES Over Iran War
24. Mary Trump Media:   Inflation Erupts as Trump's Lies Backfire