– New York 03/31/2026 by Bob Hennelly (WBAI)

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Unhinged Trump Sends Troops To Iran

President Trump continues to make unhinged remarks saying that he wants to “take the oil” in Iran and could seize Kharg Island easily as thousands of US ground troops make their way to the war torn region.

The Guardian reports Iran is accusing the United States of plotting a ground assault of Iran while publicly seeking talks, a strategy Trump has used before.

Al Jazeera is reporting that a Kuwaiti power and desalination plant have been hit as the joint US and Israeli war of choice continues to widen with the Iranian civilian death exceeding 2,000 as residential areas are increasingly being targeted.

Al Jazeera reported this weekend that Prime Minister Netanyhu has ordered the expansion of the IDF’s ground invasion of southern Lebanon in an offensive to drive Hezbollah back from where it has previously launched rocket attacks on northern Israel.

In Lebanon, over 1,200 people have been killed including 124 children.

Throughout the Mideast millions have been displaced as the war enters its second month.

This morning we spoke with Pastor Jonathan Wilson Hargrove, who works with Bishop William Barber, about a peace protest today with clergy, veterans, and moral leaders in front of the White House in Washington, D.C and at Senate offices across 14 states to protest Trump’s undeclared war on Iran.

Hargrove is the Assistant Director for Partnerships and Fellowships at Yale University’s Center for Public Theology and Public Policy and co-author with Bishop William Barber of White Poverty How Exposing the Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy.

According to a report from the Institute for Policy Studies’ National Priorities Project, the estimated $1 billion per day cost of the war doesn’t include the latest request from the Trump administration for an additional $200 billion to fund the widening war.

“It should be clear: funding this unjust, unpopular, and illegal war comes directly at the expense of ordinary Americans,” according to the IPS analysis. “Less than a year after the passage of Trump’s signature ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’ which made deep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP — and right in the middle of an affordability crisis — this is the last thing the country needs. That same bill added $150 billion for the Pentagon, pushing the Pentagon budget over $1 trillion for the first time since World War II — and directly enabling the war on Iran.”