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Jon Notabot's avatar

"Lebanese president says talks to extend ceasefire are ongoing, ahead of meeting with Israel: Lebanese President General Joseph Aoun said that “contacts are underway to extend the ceasefire deadline"...

What ceasefire? The one that's a bunch of words written on paper and talked about but doesn't exist in real form? This isn't a ceasefire. Neither is whatever the Israeli's are doing in Gaza. They, along with their accomplices, are weaponizing language to gaslight us all into a fraudulent sense of peace. There is no peace. There is only continued killing and illegal land grabbing. What defines war and conquest doesn't get to be decided by the aggressors.

**We must stop using their words on their terms**.

This is still, and always was a genocide.

This is **not** and never was a ceasefire.

Israel & collaborators will **never** honor a good faith agreement. How much more do they have to destroy before the rest of the world acknowledges this? The language of force is the only thing that will compel them to cease firing. The sooner this happens - and I believe it is inevitable - the less suffering and setbacks the world will endure.

ajay ess's avatar

great comment. send it to schumer/jeffries and ur local 'representatives' ...they can send their own money to israel if they love it so much, but not our tax $

Bob Martin's avatar

Basically what I was going to say. Using the word "ceasefire" for Israel is meaningless. They don't abide by them so there IS no ceasefire. Saying that they're violating the ceasefire is a lie because there is no ceasefire!

marth frez's avatar

I'm stunned that the President of Lebanon wants to extend a ceasefire with the parasitic zionist terrorists when they're in violation of the current so called ceasefire. The President doesn't understand that the parasites want their land or maybe he's ok with giving it to them.

Istvan Kash's avatar

Because of Drop Site News, I have learned that Iraq’s oil revenues are held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. So now the administration is withholding distribution of those assets in an effort to force Iraq to enter into the conflict with Iran. How can generations of Iraqi’s and Iranian’s not view the US as evil?

ajay ess's avatar

my answer to anyone who believes usa should support israel..."go live there if you love it so much, pay them your income tax to finance their wars".

my income tax is not for israel....and that is part of my messages to schumer/jeffries/martin/my 3 useless local yokel so-called representatives in congress

MissAnneThrope's avatar

Full of gratitude for your reporting, and sorrow for the news it contains.

James Proctor's avatar

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Democracy Labs's avatar

Targeting the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC): Mapping the hate groups that Trump is trying to protect

https://thedemlabs.org/2026/04/21/trump-regime-targets-splc-protect-hate-groups/

ajay ess's avatar

any amount of racism like this should be shoved in front of all the minorities who vote trump and repugnican.... they must see exactly what they voted for and how blind they were to his real racist intentions

Jennifer Creech's avatar

The listen to this article option isn't working for this or the other article you posted this morning.

George Leone's avatar

The throughline here is escalation dressed up as restraint. A “ceasefire” that includes a continued naval blockade, ship seizures on both sides, and open threats to oil infrastructure isn’t de-escalation—it’s a frozen conflict with constant pressure points. The Strait of Hormuz incidents show how quickly this could spiral: one miscalculation and global energy markets—and ecosystems—take the hit for years, as even EU officials are now warning.

At the same time, the reporting on Lebanon undercuts the credibility of ceasefire language altogether. Hundreds of violations in days isn’t a breakdown—it suggests the agreement was never being meaningfully observed. When ceasefires become PR tools rather than enforced commitments, they stop functioning as mechanisms to reduce violence.

What ties these stories together is the absence of accountability. Whether it’s maritime confrontations, civilian harm allegations, or repeated violations on the ground, all sides appear to be testing limits rather than respecting them. That’s a dangerous equilibrium—because it only holds until it doesn’t.