President Trump played the world once again with a Friday grand announcement of peace at hand that collapsed in just hours, just enough time for day traders to make another fortune.
Monday morning, Aljazeera reported Iran's foreign ministry was now saying it had no plans to be part of a new round of talks hours earlier President Trump announced he was dispatching a team of negotiators to Pakistan to restart the talks that had floundered under the leadership of Vice President Vance.
The Guardian reported that the US Navy had opened fire on and then seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that it said had attempted to get past the US Navy's blockade of Iran's ports.
In a social media dispatch, the US Central Command recounted how it disabled the ship's engine room and had US Marines board and capture the Iranian ship, a clear act of war.
On Saturday, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian gunboats fired on a tanker and cargo ship. According to the International Maritime Organization, 20 ships have come under attack in the volatile region since the start of the US Israeli war of choice.
On Friday, oil prices dropped and global markets surged with optimism with the start of a ten day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon which has prompted thousands of Lebanese families to return home.
Last month, Israel launched an invasion of its neighbor it said was done to push back Hezbollah, which had used the borderlands to launch missile attacks on Israel. The IDF used Gaza-like tactics targeting population centers and ordering the evacuation of hospitals killing over 2,100 people in the process.
The London Independent is reporting the Lebanese army has accused Israel of multiple violations of the ceasefire that President Trump praised as "historic."
Hmm, a cease fire that isn't, sounds familiar.......
Jim Henry, Yale Global Justice Fellow and Dr. Joe Wilson, union historian and biographer of A. Philip Randolph, the iconic civil and labor rights leader weigh in.
In the B Block we hear from Gaya Sriskanthan about an DSA sponsored April 28th panel discussion on Imperialism & the Homeland: The Rise of Militarism from Tehran to Minneapolis. Featured speakers include historians Greg Grandin (Yale) and Nikhil Pal Singh (NYU). 7 p.m. at the Church of the Village.
In Part II we discussed the upcoming May Day 2026 and ask is work itself broken? Here in our region, across our nation and around the world, this promises to be a May Day of massive proportions. Workers of the world unite against the oligarchs that enable Trump's reign of error and terror where he gets to keep his job after threatening to zero out an entire civilization.
We check for a preview of May Day in our region with Larry Hamm, founder of the People's Organization for Progress, Charlie Hall, President Local 108 RWDSU UFCW and with John Tarelton, editor of the Brooklyn based The Indypendent with the Y.
We finished up with a segment on how 1199 SEIU members plan to protest on Monday plans by a NJ Nursing Home to slash their workers' healthcare, retirement and sick leave benefits.
