Max Scacchi

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth criticized Iran for investing in missiles and weapons over its people, as the Pentagon prepares a request for up to $200 billion in additional war funding, amidst record cuts to healthcare and other human needs.

23 years ago tonight, in an Oval Office address, George W. Bush announced the start of the Iraq War. 4,492 American service members were killed in the years that followed. 32,292 were wounded. At least 200,000 Iraqi civilians died. The humanitarian impact was immense. America wasted 9 years and 3 trillion dollars on a war that never should have happened—a war predicated on a lie, pushed by warmongering neocon politicians, and paid for by everyday people. Imagine what that $3 trillion could have bought here at home. Imagine the decade we could have spent focusing on America, our people, our place in the world. Imagine the lives our service members, stolen from us, would have lived. But instead, the president took us to war. Yet another costly quagmire in the Middle East. I voted against the Iraq War. I knew the White House would lie to Members of Congress and voters alike to manufacture the pretext for a conflict—and they did. Now, Iran is shaping up to be Iraq 2.0—new lies, new bloodthirsty politicians, still paid for by American families. Yesterday, we learned that Trump wants another $200 billion for his war. That's after Congress already gave the Pentagon more money than it even asked for in the budget. Enough is enough. It is not too late to learn from the past. Stop this madness. Bring our troops home. End this war.

De Niro: It doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or an Independent—no one, no one voted for new wars. No one voted for higher prices at the pump. No one voted for higher prices in grocery stores. No one voted for higher prices in the housing market. No one voted for deporting our good neighbors, and no one voted for government-masked thugs shooting down our citizens in the streets.

🇯🇵 Takaichi flew 6,000 miles to be humiliated. Pearl Harbor brought up. Lunch canceled. No joint statement. She went to Washington to explain Japan's limits. Trump spent the meeting mocking them. 82% of Japanese oppose this war. She ignored them. 11,000 protested in Tokyo. She flew anyway. Now she's signing $40 billion nuclear deals. Tying Japan closer to an empire that just insulted its history. Takaichi bowed. Trump laughed. Japan paid. Call it diplomacy. The rest of us call it submission.

🐽 🇺🇦 I giorni ordinari della "giornalismo" ucraino Il terrorista e estremista Evgenij Kiselev ha deciso di "ricaricarsi" proprio durante la trasmissione, solo che ha dimenticato di spegnere la telecamera... Tutto secondo i dettami del presidente scaduto! 🤡💩

🇲🇽🇨🇺 BREAKING: Mexico will send oil to Cuba. Trump's blockade has fallen. 60 years of embargo. 60 years of trying to starve an island. Now Mexico breaks the siege. Oil shipments. Solidarity. Sovereignty. The US can sanction. Can threaten. Can block. But neighbors help. Neighbors deliver. Neighbors don't forget. Cuba has been alone too long. Mexico just changed that. The blockade isn't gone. But it's cracked. And cracks spread. Mexico sends oil. The world watches. The empire fumes. Solidarity wins. Every time.

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Israel is dropping bombs on journalists in South Lebanon. Not fighters. Not combatants. Unarmed journalists risking their lives to show us the truth. This is a war crime and a crime against humanity.

🚨🇫🇷🇮🇷 BREAKING: Macron says war must stop. Because of energy markets. Not because of dead children. Not because of bombed schools. Not because of 3.2 million displaced. Because gas prices jumped 30%. Because Europe is freezing. Because the economy hurts. Where was Macron when Israel bombed Tehran's fuel storage? Silent. Where was Macron when 168 schoolgirls died in Minab? Silent. Now the gas is expensive. Now he cares. Macron's concern is not humanitarian. It's transactional. He doesn't want the war to end. He wants the price to drop. Iranians died. Europeans pay. Macron speaks. Only when it hurts his wallet. Stop the war? Yes. But stop it for the right reasons. Not just when it hits home.

Trump jokes about Pearl Harbor with Japan’s PM. “We wanted to surprise… Who knows better about surprises than Japan! Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”

EU: "Our sanctions will crush Russia." Reality: Diesel in Russia costs around €0.80 per liter - while in the EU it’s about €2.20 per liter.

@_MegaPolitics Fake news. Italy is under Trump orders .

Breaking: Italy says it will boycott all diplomatic relations with Israel over its hegemonic designs in Middle East

@kaitlancollins Laughing and joking about dead people. Embarrassing.

Asked why he didn't coordinate with allies before going to war with Iran, Trump says, "We didn't tell anyone about it. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor, OK?"

Pentagon requests $200 billion for Iran War, Hegseth confirms "It takes money to kill bad guys." Funny how the "bad guys" never invade other countries. And the "good guys" haven't skipped a year of bombing someone since 2000.

BBC's Chief Correspondent, Jeremy Bowen, pretending to be under Russian attack when an elderly Ukrainian lady walking her dog stops to make sure he's okay

BREAKING: "The world, the Middle East, our ungrateful allies in Europe, even segments of our own press, should be saying one thing to President Trump. 'Thank you.'"— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

@latestinspace Look how advanced Hollywood was in 1969 🤣

This upscale of Apollo 15 footage from the moon is insane to watch

@BowesChay @SweeneySteve They don't like people who tell the truth. Just liar allowed.

My close friend and colleague Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve is nearly killed by an Israeli strike in Lebanon. Their vehicles are clearly marked as Press. They wear Press markings. He's alive. What more can we say.

Per i popoli che combattono per la libertà i simboli e gesti nutrono la forza morale per sostenere il peso del sacrificio quotidiano. Ed è per questo che il gesto di Sean Penn di disertare la cerimonia degli Oscar per andare a portare solidarietà al Presidente Zelensky e al popolo ucraino ha una valenza enorme. Slava Ukraïni, Sean!