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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Lula Reed

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Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features r&b singer Lula Reed. Enjoy!

^{Lula Reed - I Got A Notion}

"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices."

-- Edward R. Murrow

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News and Opinion

Despise Israel AND The Entire Western Empire

Everyone hates Israel now, which is as it should be. But we all need to understand that Israel has never acted alone.

If Israel were acting alone, it would be an asshole with a pointy stick instead of an asshole with an attack helicopter. The west gave it the attack helicopter.

An asshole with a pointy stick is not much of a problem. The world is full of assholes with pointy sticks. Get yourself your own pointy stick and you can deter their aggressions without much difficulty.

An asshole with an attack helicopter can ruin everyone’s day. He can fuck everything up and kill whoever he wants — even people who have pointy sticks. He doesn’t need to negotiate with anyone. He doesn’t need to be polite or diplomatic. You just have to give him whatever he wants or he’ll fly over there and chain gun you and your family.

The US and its allies are responsible for ensuring that Israel remains an asshole with an attack helicopter instead of an asshole with a pointy stick. They’ve created this situation where Israel doesn’t have to get along with its neighbors like any other normal country on the planet, and can instead exist in a perpetual state of war.

It is right and good to despise Israel; Israel is a genocidal apartheid state which should not exist and should never have been created in the first place. But political maturity means carrying that disdain forward to the entire western power structure under which we all live.

Hating Israel without hating the western empire is nonsensical, because Israel would not exist without western weapons, military support, narrative control, and diplomatic cover. It’s like hating Bonnie without hating Clyde. Like hating Butch Cassidy but not the Sundance Kid. There are laws against being an accomplice to murder because we all understand that if you aid and abet a murderer then you necessarily share moral culpability for the killing.

And it’s not like the western power alliance has been a virtuous little cherub apart from its participation in Israeli violence; the US is terrorizing socialist states in Latin America as you read this. The right-wing narrative that the west would be a wholesome and beneficent society without Israeli interference is contradicted by the entire unbroken history of western civilization. We have always been a remarkably tyrannical and genocidal people. We have yet to mature beyond this as a society. That’s why Israel is our partner in crime.

Oppose Israel, and also oppose the entire murderous western power structure. The abusiveness of the former is not meaningfully separate or separable from the abusiveness of the latter.

Aaron Maté : Why Israel Is Losing the War

The new move from trump against our country is so comical that we don't even have a meme for it.

— Iran Embassy in Thailand (@IranInThailand) April 12, 2026

Are Israel & the US Failing in Lebanon and Iran? w/ Jon Elmer

US starts naval blockade of Iranian ports after deadline passes

The US blockade of ships using Iranian ports in the Gulf has come into effect, turning the six-week-old conflict between the US-Israeli coalition and Iran into a test of economic endurance. US Central Command (Centcom) made no formal announcement of the start of the blockade but had said it begin on Monday at 5.30pm Iranian time and would apply to any ships entering or departing Iranian ports or coastal areas, while ships using non-Iranian ports would not be impeded.

Donald Trump claimed that 34 ships had passed through the strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Gulf, on Sunday, but there was no supporting evidence for the claim.

Iran warned that ordinary Americans would pay the cost for Donald Trump’s latest move in the shape of higher petrol prices, and also vowed that if the US went back to bombing, the Tehran regime was ready to retaliate. For his part, Trump said any Iranian attack boats approaching the US flotilla in the region would be “immediately eliminated”.

It appeared on Monday that US naval forces were going to try to enforce the blockade east of the strait of Hormuz, in the Gulf of Oman, beyond easy Iranian missile and drone range. It remained unclear how Centcom intended to stop any oil tanker attempting to break the blockade. A missile attack could cause an environmental disaster, leaving open the possibility that US forces could seek to board and take control of any vessel not obeying US instructions.

The Iranian regime has insisted that it would in effect still have control of the Hormuz strait and can determine which ships would be allowed to pass, and has claimed that the US blockade would result in higher oil prices, which climbed back to above $100 a barrel since the diplomatic breakdown in Islamabad. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliamentary speaker who also led his country’s delegation in Islamabad, told Americans in a post on X on Sunday to “enjoy the current pump figures”, taunting Washington with historical US political sensitivity about petrol prices. “With the so-called ‘blockade’, soon you’ll be nostalgic for $4-$5 gas,” Ghalibaf added.

Col Doug Magregor: WE CAN'T CONTROL THE PERSIAN GULF

Are you ready folks? pic.twitter.com/SUSiPfdiua

— Iran Embassy in Thailand (@IranInThailand) April 13, 2026

Oil price dips below $100 a barrel after Trump claims Iran wants deal

Oil prices have fallen back after briefly rising to above $100 a barrel as Donald Trump claimed Iran had made contact and wanted “very badly” to strike a deal in the face of his blockade of the strait of Hormuz. The Brent crude international benchmark rose above the key psychological threshold earlier in the day, at one point up 6.9% to $101.70 a barrel on news of the US president’s plan to block the waterway to Iranian marine traffic.

However, it later eased back to a little over $99 a barrel after Trump said the blockade had come into force at 10am ET (3pm BST) and the Iranians had subsequently got in touch. Speaking outside the White House, he said: “I can tell you we’ve been called by the other side. They’d like to make a deal very badly … We’ve been called this morning by the right people, the appropriate people.

Analysts at JPMorgan Chase said last week they expected oil prices to stay high in the second quarter, above $100 a barrel, before easing in the second half of the year. Meanwhile, Trump’s energy secretary, Chris Wright, said on Monday that oil prices were likely to hit their peak in the coming weeks after ship traffic resumed through the strait of Hormuz.

More than 32 million people worldwide could be plunged into poverty by the economic fallout from the Iran war, with developing countries expected to be hit hardest, according to a report released by the UN Development Programme on Monday.

Russia China Meet Plan Expel US Mideast; Trump Blockade Fails; EU Panics As Russia Brings Asset Case

Trump’s war has emboldened Iran. Diplomacy is the only solution

Donald Trump was quick to declare victory over Iran, but this weekend’s negotiations suggest that Tehran has the upper hand. His war of choice has backfired. His military solution has emboldened rather than weakened Iran. Diplomacy is his only reasonable option. Trump may have hoped that the marathon 16-hour talks in Pakistan would extract him from his self-created quagmire, but the issues that have long divided Washington and Tehran are complex. When it turned out that Iran wanted to negotiate rather than capitulate, JD Vance, who led the US diplomatic team, packed his bags and went home.

The predictable failure to reach a quick accord is the latest evidence of how disastrous Trump’s war has been. None of his shifting goals for this act of aggression have been realized. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, sold the war to Trump as an opportunity for regime change. If anything, by killing several relative moderates, Israeli attacks strengthened the hardliners. Trump laughably claims that regime change has already occurred because the personnel are now different, but their policies are unchanged.

Trump has handed Iran a potent new weapon – the ability to close the strait of Hormuz and wreak havoc on the world economy. The strait is not an international waterway but lies within the territorial waters of Iran and Oman. However, the Law of the Sea convention treats the strait as freely passable to international shipping and prohibits tolls. Although neither Iran nor the United States has ratified the treaty, they have abided by it – until now. Trump’s might-makes-right world, where he invades and threatens nations willy-nilly, has only encouraged Iran to exercise its military might within its own sphere of influence.

Iran sees the strait as a toll booth, potentially gaining more revenue than it does from selling oil. Trump responded by saying he would impose his own blockade, possibly targeting any ship that has paid a toll to Iran or that is traveling to or from Iranian ports. That is an act of war despite the ceasefire that is supposedly in place. Trump calculates that Iran will capitulate because it needs the revenue from its own oil flowing through strait. Iran is betting that, with US midterm elections approaching in November, “Taco” Trump will be more sensitive to increased prices at the gasoline station. Who will blink first? I wouldn’t count on it being the Iranians.

This colossal mistake of a war is no longer about Iran’s behavior. It has become a war for Trump’s political future. If not a “win”, he needs a face-saving exit. That is a terrible negotiating posture, and the Iranian government knows it. Despite Trump’s macho facade, it is a position of weakness.

CPT. Matt Hoh : Can Troops Speak Freely?

As US Blockades Strait of Hormuz, Iran Military Warns of Weapons ‘Enemy Has No Idea About’

As the US military on Monday began a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz after the Trump administration’s failed talks with the Iranian government, a spokesperson for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a warning to the United States.

“If the war continues, we will unveil capacities that the enemy has no idea about,” said Sardar Mohibi, according to the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency. “We will unveil warfare methods that the enemy will have little ability to counter.”

As Iran’s Press TV reported, Iranian Lt. Col. Ebrahim Zolfaqari also commented on the blockade, which began at 10:00 am Eastern time, stressing that “enemy-affiliated vessels do not and will not have the right to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.”

“Other vessels will be allowed to transit the strait in compliance with the regulations of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Zolfaqari said. “If the security of ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran is threatened, no port in the Persian Gulf or the Sea of Oman will remain safe,

Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz to many ships after the US and Iran launched an illegal war six weeks ago. The waterway between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman is a crucial trade route, including for fossil fuels from the region, and has become a key negotiating point as the death toll across the Middle East has mounted.

After talks led by Vice President JD Vance broke down, Trump wrote

Sunday on his Truth Social platform that “the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz. At some point, we will reach an ‘ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT’ basis, but Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying, ‘There may be a mine out there somewhere,’ that nobody knows about but them.”

“THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION, and Leaders of Countries, especially the United States of America, will never be extorted,” Trump continued. “I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas. We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits. Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL!”

The president on Monday again threatened any Iranian vessels that “come anywhere close to our BLOCKADE,” and also said that “34 Ships went through the Strait of Hormuz yesterday, which is by far the highest number since this foolish closure began.”

As North Atlantic Treaty Organization member countries on Monday made clear they did not plan to join Trump’s blockade, China’s defense minister, Dong Jun, said: “Our ships are moving in and out of the waters of the Strait of Hormuz. We have trade and energy agreements with Iran. We will respect and honor them and expect others not to meddle in our affairs. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and it is open for us.”

Summarizing an interview with Salvatore Mercogliano, maritime historian at Campbell University in North Carolina, Al Jazeera reported Monday that “he expected the US Navy to turn around ships that come out of the strait while keeping at a distance from the range of Iran’s missiles and drones.”

It’s possible the US action could result in “two competing blockades,” Mercogliano said. “This has the potential to freeze shipping in and out the Strait of Hormuz entirely.”

China CHALLENGES Trump's Iran Blockade

Strait of Hormuz ‘Is Open For Us,’ Says China’s Defense Minister as US Blockade Begins

Although President Donald Trump has ordered the US military to enforce a blockade around the Strait of Hormuz, Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun warned on Monday against any effort to obstruct Chinese vessels.

As reported by Business Today, the Chinese defense minister emphasized that his country and Iran have reached an arrangement allowing the safe transportation of Chinese ships through the strait, and he said the US should not subject them to its blockade.

“Our ships are moving in and out of the waters of the Strait of Hormuz,” the defense minister said. “We have trade and energy agreements with Iran. We will respect and honor them and expect others not to meddle in our affairs. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and it is open for us.”

“Everyone In Trump’s Administration Reports DIRECTLY TO ME!” - Benjamin Netanyahu!

America's Israel Problem in Iran (w/ Alastair Crooke)

French cement maker convicted of financing terror groups to keep its Syria plant working

A French court has fined the cement group Lafarge more than €1m (£870,000) and sentenced its former boss to six years in prison for paying protection money to Islamic State and other terror groups to maintain its business in war-torn Syria from 2013 to 2014.

The ruling follows a 2022 case in the United States in which the French firm pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to US-designated “terrorist” organisations and agreed to pay a $778m fine (£580m) – the first time a company had faced the charge.

The Paris court found that Lafarge, which is now part of the Swiss conglomerate Holcim, paid nearly €5.6m via its subsidiary Lafarge Cement Syria (LCS) to terror groups and intermediaries to keep its plant operating in northern Syria.

The company’s former chief executive, Bruno Lafont, was sentenced to six years in prison for financing terrorism, which a judge ordered him to start serving immediately. Lafont’s lawyer said he would appeal.

The presiding judge, Isabelle Prevost-Desprez, said: “This method of financing terrorist organisations, and primarily IS, was essential in enabling the terrorist organisation to gain control of Syria’s natural resources, allowing it to finance terrorist acts within the region and those planned abroad, particularly in Europe.” Lafarge established a “genuine commercial partnership with IS”, she said, which added to the “extreme gravity of the offences”.

Israeli forces fire teargas at schoolchildren holding West Bank sit-in

Israeli forces have fired teargas at Palestinian schoolchildren who were staging a sit-in in the occupied West Bank after settlers blocked access to their school. The Israeli military said it had dispersed an “unusual gathering”, but did not specify whether its troops had fired teargas at the children on the first day of class since the start of the Iran war. The incident took place at Umm al-Khair, a small village in the southern West Bank region of Masafer Yatta.

Schoolchildren there had been due back in class on Monday for the first time in more than 40 days, after lessons were suspended as a result of the Israeli-US attack on Iran on 28 February.

A group of schoolchildren and Palestinian residents had gathered near a barbed wire fence erected by Israeli settlers, which blocked access to the school. Schoolchildren and some local adults were holding an open-air class as a sit-in to demand access when troops fired the teargas, witnesses said. “We were sitting and they threw a grenade [teargas canister] at us. I got scared and started screaming and ran away,” said 12-year-old Sarah al-Hathaleen. “I started crying. A woman hugged me and stayed with me. We were very scared.”

Bassam Jabr, the director of education for the Masafer Yatta area, confirmed the children were staging a sit-in at the time of the incident. “Settlers are trying to tighten the noose on us in every way. One of these methods is cutting off the road for school students and expanding the settlement,” Jabr said of settlers from the nearby Carmel settlement, whose residents erected the fence.

The Masafer Yatta region is a known hotspot for settler violence and Palestinian home demolitions.

Judges fired after blocking deportation of pro-Palestinian students

Two immigration judges who ruled against the Trump administration in the deportation cases of pro-Palestinian university students have been fired by the Department of Justice. The New York Times reported over the weekend that the justice department had terminated six judges, including Roopal Patel and Nina Froes, who oversaw deportation proceedings against Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, two students who were arrested last year as part of Trump’s campaign against the Gaza protest movement.

In an interview with the Guardian, Patel said she did not view her dismissal as “directly retaliatory” for any one case. She said it fit within a broader pattern of the administration dismissing judges near the end of their probationary term, particularly those who have experience representing immigrants in court. “I think there’s a broader agenda of trying to reshape the immigration bench to be more reflective of the political agenda of the administration,” Patel said.

The Biden administration appointed both Patel and Froes to the bench in May 2024, and both had previously worked in immigration defense. A recent NPR analysis found that the Trump administration appears to be targeting immigration judges who previously represented immigrants.

Earlier this year Patel rejected the administration’s efforts to deport Öztürk, then a Tufts University PhD student who had co-written an op-ed for the student newspaper critical of the university’s response to Israel’s attacks on Palestinians. Her attorneys said that Patel terminated the proceedings against her after finding the government did not have grounds to deport her. In February, Froes blocked the Trump administration from removing Mahdawi, a Columbia student and pro-Palestinian activist who was arrested during a US citizenship interview last year.

Christian evangelical pastors would rather say a demon flew up Trump's nose & took over his soul, than admit they were conned by an atheist that mocks their religion. https://t.co/oRNpVH4PpR

— Cuckturd (@CattardSlim) April 13, 2026

Trump deletes post with AI image of himself as Jesus-like figure after outcry

Less than a year after signing legislation that will pull nearly 12 million Americans off health insurance by gutting Medicaid, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself to Truth Social on Sunday depicting him as a Jesus-like figure, with divine light emanating from his hands as he heals a stricken man in a hospital bed with a demon from hell floating in the background.

The president has since deleted the post, which also followed a lengthy tirade about Pope Leo XIV on the site the same day in which he called him “weak on crime” and blamed the head of the Catholic church for being influenced by Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod. Trump refused to apologize to the pope, saying: “He went public. I’m just responding to Pope Leo.”

Trump faced the wrath of some of his most high-profile and loyal Christian supporters, many of whom have stood by the president through multiple other indiscretions and were unable to contain their righteous fury. Riley Gaines, a Fox News podcast host and conservative commentator, wrote on X she “cannot understand why he’d post this”.

God, we might have made a mistake and accidently elected the Antichrist. Send help. https://t.co/4ZDYEnG9CW

— Mandy Arthur (@mandyarthur) April 13, 2026

When reporters asked Trump whether he posted a picture depicting himself as Jesus Christ, Trump said “it wasn’t a depiction, it was me”, though he insisted: “It’s supposed to be me as a doctor making people better.” He added: “And I do make people better. I make people a lot better.”

The AI-generated image Trump shared, portraying him as the son of God, was not the original. The picture first appeared in early February, posted to X by Nick Adams, a conservative commentator with a history of sharing AI-generated, biblically themed Trump content. In Adams’s version, a silhouette of a US soldier stands in the background. In Trump’s version, that soldier has been photoshopped into a demonic figure with horns looming behind the president as he performs his miracle.

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‘Beyond Mentally Unstable’: Dems Urged to Force Vote to Impeach Increasingly Deranged Trump

US President Donald Trump’s flurry of increasingly deranged late-night social media posts over the weekend—combined with his continued violent belligerence overseas—prompted fresh calls on Monday for congressional Democrats to immediately force an impeachment vote.

Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) introduced 13 articles of impeachment against Trump last week, accusing the president of usurping congressional war powers by waging unauthorized assaults on Iran and other nations, illegally deploying National Guard troops in US cities, unlawfully detaining and deporting citizens and immigrants on the basis of their political views, lawlessly dismantling worker- and consumer-protection agencies, and other offenses.

In a statement on Monday, constitutional attorney John Bonifaz applauded Larson for introducing the impeachment articles but said that “we need the congressman to now take the next step and force an immediate floor vote on these articles at this critical hour for our nation.”

“And, Democratic leaders in the Congress should stop standing in the way of such a vote,” said Bonifaz, co-founder and president of Free Speech for People (FSFP). The group’s petition urging the US House to impeach Trump a third time has received more than a million but the Democratic leadership has so far shown no willingness to push ahead with another impeachment process—which would require some Republican support to be successful.signatures,

“Momentum is on the side of action,” FSFP said Monday, warning that “further delay only emboldens the president.”

Bruce Fein, a constitutional scholar who served in the Reagan Justice Department, said Monday that the “impeachment of President Donald Trump is urgent.”

“How can any decent person indulge Mr. Trump’s Hitler-like declaration that ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ with our tax dollars-paid weapons?” asked Fein, referring to the US president’s genocidal threat against Iran last week.

By one count, more than 85 Democrats in the Republican-controlled US House have called for Trump’s removal via the impeachment process or the 25th Amendment in recent days. Last week, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said he would introduce legislation to establish a commission tasked with removing the president if he is deemed unfit to serve.

“This is plainly out of the realm of normal politics,” said Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, urging the White House physician to immediately evaluate Trump’s cognitive fitness. “When the president of the United States threatens to extinguish a civilization on social media, rants about combat missions with children at the Easter Egg Roll, and drops profane tirades on Easter morning, we have indisputably entered the realm of profound medical difficulty and concern.”

Growing calls for Trump’s impeachment and removal came after the president launched into an unhinged social media tirade late Sunday, hours after high-level talks with Iran ended without an agreement to halt the war that the US president and his Israeli counterpart started in late February.

Trump said Sunday that he would impose a naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz—an illegal act of war—and is reportedly considering a resumption of aerial strikes on Iran.

After the talks concluded, Trump posted a lengthy attack on Pope Leo XIV, a vocal critic of the war on Iran. The president then posted an artificial intelligence-generated image depicting himself as a Jesus-like figure.

“Beyond mentally unstable,” Rep. Yassamin Ansar (D-Ariz.) wrote in response to Trump’s post.

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Are we heading for ‘super El Niño’?

There is a high likelihood that the phenomenon known as “El Niño” will emerge this summer – and it could be exceptionally strong. A so-called “super El Niño” could supercharge extreme weather events and push global temperatures to record heights next year if it develops, according to experts. Meteorologists are keeping a close eye on the climate patterns developing in the Pacific Ocean that will enable stronger predictions about what’s to come in the year ahead.

A strong El Niño would put 2027 in the running to break global heat records, and could produce a series of devastating effects, ranging from supercharged rainstorms to drought depending on the region of the world.

While it’s not “a slam dunk”, climate scientist and media director for Climate Central Tom Di Liberto said during a briefing held on Thursday that the ingredients for El Niño are there. Forecasts in spring can’t account for unexpected changes that can happen over the summer, he added, but “the risk is high enough to be worried”.

The probability is still high that El Niño will develop later this year. How strong it will be remains to be seen. But with conditions beginning to coalesce around the possibility for a severe shift, officials around the world are pushing for preparation.

Troubled Lake Erie is being transformed into a vast water research facility

There was a time in the 1960s that the lakes and rivers around Cleveland were so polluted with petrochemicals and other contaminants that they frequently caught on fire. While water quality on Lake Erie today has improved since the days of it being used as a large-scale industrial dumping ground for steel mills and chemical plants, it still struggles with poor water quality.

At a time when small utilities are facing increasing demand for water with cities such as Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo now growing for the first time in more than 50 years, and datacenter construction on the rise, the demand for clean water in this part of the US is set to rocket in the years ahead. This has stoked a movement among organizations in Cleveland, which draws 300m gallons of water from the lake for residents every day, and neighboring communities to create a platform to test technologies that measure and monitor water quality.

Cleveland-based researchers will take to the water in the coming weeks to deploy hundreds of sensor buoys to observe and detect E coli, algal blooms, turbidity levels and more than a dozen other water-related factors in collaboration with companies and researchers from around the world. These efforts, the Cleveland Water Alliance claims, have turned Lake Erie, a body of water almost the size of Belgium, into the largest digitally connected freshwater body of water in the world with hundreds of sensor buoys dotted across the western section of the lake. These buoys give researchers real-time information on wave height and contaminant and pollution levels across 7,750 square miles both off-shore and on land.

The challenges to cleaning up the lake, environmentalists say, are huge. “Scientists and others say we need a 40% phosphorus reduction to minimize the blooms. About 90% coming into the western Lake Erie basin is from agricultural runoff,” said Sandy Bihn of the Lake Erie Waterkeeper, who is based in Toledo, Ohio. While efforts to reduce the amount of commercial fertilizer have succeeded in a 50% fall in the amount of phosphorus going into Lake Erie, the amount of manure has grown in large part due to the increasing number of livestock operations in the area. “We’re not getting anywhere. The manure problem is the core problem, the growing problem,” Bihn said.

Farming isn’t the only industry responsible for Lake Erie’s pollution issues. Last year, Campbell’s, the soup company, admitted to polluting the Maumee River more than 5,400 times from a local plant between 2019 and 2024. In nearby Toledo, city authorities have had to spend about $500m on water treatment upgrades after severe algae blooms in 2014 made the region’s lake water poisonous, forcing hundreds of thousands of residents to go without water for three days. With the prevailing wind coming from the west, harmful algae blooms can be pushed east into other heavily populated areas such as metro Cleveland.

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Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some of which defied fair-use abstraction.

Iran War: US Imposing Strait of Hormuz Blockade Monday AM; Experts Criticize Further Pressure on Oil Prices, Illegality, and Risk of Failure; Will Houthis Close the Red Sea to Back Iran?

Netanyahu Says the Trump Administration Gives Him Reports on Iran Talks Every Day

Araghchi Says Deal Was ‘Inches Away’

How Many People Have the US and Israel Killed in Iran?

Israel Launches Ground Attack on Lebanese Border Town of Bint Jbeil

UK Knew Nato Expansion Could Lead to War With Russia

Trump Signals High Gas Prices Through November Midterms

Trump And The Devil

The world is gripped by 3am dread thanks to an unhinged US president. Can someone turn the history machine off?

Ben Jennings on Trump and the pope – cartoon

Russia Envoy Goes Off On Kaja Kallas, UNSC Stunned By BRUTAL EU Takedown!

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A Little Night Music

Sonny Thompson feat. Lula Reed - I'll Drown In My Tears

Lula Reed & Freddy King - Let Your Love Watch Over Me

Lula Reed - Gabbin' Mouth Blues

Lula Reed - Rock Love

Lula Reed - You Can't Hide

Lula Reed - Sick and Tired

Lulu Reed - Ain't No Cotton Pickin' Chicken

Lula Reed - Walk on by Me

Lula Reed & Sonny Thompson - Ain´t it a Shame

Lula Reed - Puddentane

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