"A new visual analysis by The New York Times and munitions experts has uncovered additional evidence showing that the weapons that struck a sports hall, a school and two residential areas in the Iranian city of Lamerd were U.S.-made Precision Strike Missiles, or PrSMs.

The U.S. military has rejected the conclusions of earlier investigations by The Times and other news organizations that found that PrSMs had hit civilian locations in Lamerd on Feb. 28. It has denied it was attacking there on the day in question, and claimed the incoming weapon captured on video more closely resembled an Iranian cruise missile called the Hoveyzeh, given its length.

The strikes killed 21 people, according to Iranian officials. The Times was able to independently verify the identities of the victims. At least five were children, the youngest being 2 years old. All told that would make it the second known attack by U.S. forces to result in large-scale civilian fatalities on the opening day of the war. About six hours earlier, a Tomahawk missile hit a school in Minab some 250 miles away, killing 175 people, an episode President Trump initially tried to pin on the Iranians. A military investigation’s preliminary findings later showed that the United States was responsible for the strike.

The latest analysis is based on new video footage of detonations, new photo evidence of the damage, a missile-trajectory assessment, and the perspectives of multiple experts, including three U.S. government officials."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/world/middleeast/iran-us-missle-strike-civilians-lamerd.html?unlocked_article_code=1.blA.bhBT.UAJyEcfaTV5t&smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Iran #War #Trump #Militarism

A new form Of Transnational European Elite #militarism?

https://www.threads.com/@roberta.metsola/post/DXO8MTbDHtN?xmt=AQF0Z4KUlYJvl5i1NmL6yu76VVT6mouHyVtMoY2gMtccDxq8bZ0_k931R33uXAfo-ZuzNMws&slof=1

She ist the president of the European Parliament from #Malta married to a Finn, who she knows from studying at College de Europe and most certainly they live in Brussels - but send their son to #Finland for his #conscript duty.

Je ne trouve pas grand chose dans la presse francophone anti-militariste à ce sujet (ni sur le ouaibe activiste), juste des articles à propos du BAPE et du gros fric (682 M de beaux dollards).

Pivot? Ricochet? Lautjournal? à Babord?

https://www.readthemaple.com/quebeckers-fight-u-s-backed-expansion-of-arms-plant/

#ForEverWars #MIC #militaroIndustrialComplex #militarism

"Americans are dying in droves. Deaths due to avoidable causes in the United States –which could be dealt with via prevention or proper healthcare – far outpace those in most of country’s peers in the industrialized world. Most notably, Americans die of treatable conditions at nearly twice the rate as Spaniards, French, Japanese and Australians.

They would most likely live longer if they enjoyed better access to healthcare. Americans are the most likely to skip a doctor’s appointment due to its cost, the most likely to skip a medical test and to skimp on prescription drugs. This is unsurprising, given the extraordinary lack of public health insurance in the United States. Americans face the highest out-of-pocket expenses for medical services in their peer group.

Donald Trump evidently does not believe this is an issue for the world’s richest nation.

If the budget for 2027 the White House proposed last week is anything to go by, healthcare is not the government’s problem: the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) could see its budget cut by over $15bn, 12% less compared with this year.

The cut comes on top of the evisceration of the healthcare budget last year, when the president’s “big, beautiful bill” (BBB) cut more than $1tn over 10 years from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, largely by imposing onerous work requirements on Medicaid that will push 15 million Americans to lose health insurance, according to some analysts."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/12/trump-budget-healthcare-military?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#USA #Trump #Healthcare #Militarism #Fascism #Authoritarianism

PHOTOS: How hypermilitarism pervades everyday life in Israel

From the sacred to the mundane, military imagery suffuses the Israeli public sphere — shaping our imagination, desires, and collective identity.

https://www.972mag.com/israel-hypermilitarism-everyday-life/

#israel #militarism #propaganda #apartheid
#gaza

"Bill Galvin has spent much of the past month answering the phone.

"It's been very, very busy," he says. Galvin is the counseling director at the Center on Conscience and War, which helps run the 24-hour GI Rights Hotline, set up to inform service members of their options for military discharge.

Most callers are asking how to apply to become a conscientious objector — a difficult, invasive and rarely used process. But they're also airing their concerns and frustrations, often anonymously, as the hotline allows them a space to do so without repercussions.

Military members are citing myriad reasons for wanting to leave, but the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has been a powerful motivator. In March alone, Galvin's center took on more than 80 new clients — almost twice as many as it takes on in an average year. The busiest single day saw 12 new clients join, with one person saying four other members of their platoon were also interested.

Those numbers are a drop in the bucket when compared with the more than 1.3 million people enlisted. But for outside observers and former military officials, those calls and conversations are an indication of a troubling disquiet within the ranks."

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/10/nx-s1-5771612/military-iran-war-trump-conscientious-objector

#USA #USARmy #Iran #Militarism #Pacifism #War

"Intense U.S. and Israeli bombardment has destroyed or damaged petrochemical plants, steel manufacturing plants, pharmaceutical factories, universities, schools, hospitals, banks, seaports, airports, parts of the power grid, bridges, railroads, shops, homes and more.

Iran is still assessing the cost of the calamity since the fragile cease-fire took hold on Tuesday, but early estimates are between $300 billion and $1 trillion, according to three Iranian officials who were not authorized to speak publicly, and two economists. Recovery will take years.

Economists said that attacks on Iran’s largest petrochemical complexes and steel plants, which according to Iranian media employed more than 200,000 people, were among the most damaging to the economy, with far-reaching consequences. The agricultural, manufacturing, textile and other industries that bought their products will have to import supplies instead, slowing production and driving up prices. Furloughed workers will provide less business to shopkeepers.

The three Iranian officials estimated that more than a million people have lost their jobs."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/world/middleeast/iran-economy-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aFA.ukye.bXvN3Lu51fmx&smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Iran #USA #israel #Trump #Economy #War #Militarism

U.K. military deployed to deter threat to undersea cables amid Russian sub presence
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russian-submarines-britain-military-vessels-9.7158613

Defence minister says British forces, allies tracked and detected malign activity

#militarism #hegemony #Putin #WarCriminals #ICC #ICJ

"Colonel Dr. Talal Hussein Talal Dhiab, commander of the military hospital at Habaniya military base in Iraq’s Anbar province, feared the worst when he heard the sound of a low flying plane overhead at 5 a.m. on March 25. The U.S. A10 attack plane, which likely flew out of an American base in neighboring Jordan, ascended and descended repeatedly, Talal told Drop Site News.

Talal hurriedly woke up other medical officers, alerting them to go to the emergency room and prepare to receive new wounded.

Only the day before, the U.S. military had attacked a building at the base housing the province’s command for the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), an Iraqi state security force reporting to the prime minister. He said 1st Lt. Abdallah al Zobai, also a doctor, was exhausted from treating the previous day’s wounded, so he let him sleep in the officer’s housing.

After circling the base, at about 9 a.m. the A10 attacked the same PMF building. Shrapnel from the explosion wounded Iraqi army soldiers nearby. Talal and his men rushed over to help the wounded, and the plane returned and struck the army officer’s housing, gravely wounding Zobai.

Medical staff climbed over debris searching for wounded, Talal said. As the first responders arrived, the A10 attacked them, firing its 30-mm Gatling-style rotary canon—typically armed with a mix of armor-piercing and high explosive incendiary rounds, fired at a rate of 4,000 rounds per minute—tearing bodies apart, cutting off heads and limbs. Talal himself was wounded and lost consciousness, bleeding heavily. Two other officers with him were badly wounded. The U.S. attacked the Habaniya base five times that day, killing seven Iraqi soldiers and officers and wounding 23. Most of the casualties were among the responders."

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iraq-us-war-iran-israel-lebanon

#Iraq #USA #Imperialism #Iran #Militarism #MiddleEast