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  1. Later Sunday, #Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency cited the governor of #QeshmIsland, located near the strait, as saying under a dozen projectiles had been fired at military targets there, with no casualties. There was no immediate #US military comment. The largest island in the Persian Gulf is home to about 150,000 people.

    IRNA said explosions were also heard in the coastal city of #BandarAbbas & inland, in Hajiabad, a city to the north.

    #IranWar #TrumpsWar #Trump #law #Congress #WarPowers

  2. Iran's Guards seize #wartime power, weakening Supreme Leader's role

    2 months into a war with the #US & #Israel, #Iran no longer has a single, undisputed clerical arbiter at the pinnacle of #power — an abrupt break with the past that may be hardening Tehran’s stance as it weighs renewed talks with ​Washington.

    #IranWar #TrumpsWar #Trump #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast
    reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

  3. US Marines Middle East deployment signals dangerous escalation

    US Marines Middle East deployment signals escalation toward possible ground war as Trump contradicts campaign promise of no new wars

    thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-

  4. Four Corporate Democrats Just Helped MAGA Keep an Illegal War Alive

    Those four Democrats are:

    Henry Cuellar (TX)
    Jared Golden (ME)
    Greg Landsman (OH)
    Juan Vargas (CA)

    #USpol #democrats #HenryCuellar #JaredGolden #GregLandsman #JuanVargas #warpowers #Iran

    Demand the U​.​S. House of Representatives RE-vote to stop the illegal war on Iran: change.org/p/demand-the-u-s-ho

  5. The inspiration is the 19th cent #MonroeDoctrine that prioritized #USsupremacy in the #WesternHemisphere & which #Trump has embraced & renamed the “#DonroeDoctrine.”

    Experts say that while the revival of this playbook may have unnerved some #US #allies, it could also serve the interests of #Russia, locked in a war in #Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, & #China, which has long had its sights set on #Taiwan.

    #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #NewWorldOrder #law #WarPowers #InternationalLaw

  6. Hurlburt cited a retired #US general who viewed the #Trump White House move in #Venezuela & its fixation on #Greenland as reminiscent of teenagers playing the geostrategic board game Risk.
    
“Once you start down the road of the #MonroeDoctrine or the #DonroeDoctrine, or whatever we’re saying now, you look at a map of the #WesternHemisphere, & there is Greenland,” she said.

    #Trump #MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #Europe #NATO #NewWorldOrder #law #Congress #WarPowers #InternationalLaw

  7. 🚨 Big Votes This Week — Take Action!

    📅 Tim Kaine’s War Powers Resolution
    • Potential floor vote as soon as Thursday

    ☎️ Tell your Senators to SUPPORT this vital check on executive authority!

    📅 H.R. 1, the “One Big Bullshit Bill Act”
    • Could hit the floor Thursday

    ☎️ Tell your Senators to OPPOSE this dangerous power grab!

    🔗 Get info at 5calls.org

    #CallYourSenators #5Calls #WarPowers #ProtectDemocracy #HR1 #StopTheBSBill #TakeAction #DemocracyInAction #PoliticalActivism