Peloni:  As is true with most of what Trump has done since winning the election last November, China seems to be the underlying focus of much of Trumps policy efforts.  While this video predates Trump’s Independence Day tariffs leveraged against most of the world, it speaks to Trumps motivation to reshuffle the world along a US vs China geopolitical reality, creating a members only arrangement with allies who are willing to comply with Trump’s demands.  I am, however, not convinced that Canada will be among these as explained in the video below.  Better informed opinions on the Canadian perspective would be most welcome.

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Negotiations are a means but not always to the same end.

The White House is seriously considering indirect talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Axios reported on April 2. This follows President Trump’s March 5 letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in which the president warned of military action against Iran’s atomic infrastructure if the Islamic Republic failed to reach a nuclear deal within two months. Tehran initially said it rejected direct talks so long as it remains under maximum pressure sanctions but has since counteroffered with indirect talks via Oman.

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Peloni:  Begin watching at about 13min. for French journalist, Adrien Bocquet’s 36min eye-witness testimony regarding the staging of the Bucha massacre scene.  It would be interesting to read comments and critiques on Bocquet’s testimony.

“Hamas has previously claimed that 70% of casualties have been women and children”

by Daniel Greenfield | April 3, 2025

Politicians and the media routinely quote Hamas casualty figures, usually attributing them to the Gaza ‘Ministry of Health’ or some other nonsensical facade for the terrorist group. And so when Hamas claimed that there were now 50,000 dead in Gaza, the media eagerly repeatedly those numbers.

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By ANJULI PANDAVAR • 4 Apr 2025

In the dying days of the Islamic State, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, a cross between Goebbels and Soleimani, and the ISIS No.2, famously boasted, “We would be defeated and you victorious only if you were able to remove the Qur’an from Muslims’ hearts.” This week we saw Hamas playing the Qur’an-in-the-heart-of-Muslims card. A Muslim jihad organisation only does this when not just itself, but the entire ummah, is facing a shattering humiliation.

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Peloni:  Karys Rhea, a producer and researcher at the Epoch Times, discusses with Tirza Shorr, a researcher at JCSF, common traits between the antisemites on the Right and the Left.

Peloni:  As the world has sat back demanding to know what the day after in Gaza would bring, they should have instead been contemplating what the day after in Iran would bring.   The day in which the question regarding Iran’s future needs an answer may be fast approaching, and that answer will have reverberations most acutely affecting the regional Iranian proxies which might or might not still exist in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen, while also affecting the entire region and much of the world.

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” | April 3, 2025

*Does US policy toward Iran refrain from – or repeat – past mistakes?

*The diplomatic option (negotiation and containment) is effective when conducted between parties, which consider negotiation as a step toward peaceful coexistence. However, as evidenced by its 46-year-old rogue track record (since toppling the pro-US Shah), the Ayatollah regime – just like ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, the PLO/PA and Hezbollah – has employed negotiation as a tactic to advance its aim to topple the “apostate” Sunni regimes and bring the “infidel” West to submission.

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Peloni:  The economic upheaval surrounding the tariffs will have a depleting effect on businesses around the world, leaving govts and businesses alike looking for opportunities to avoid or at least reduce the hardship which came with Trump’s “liberation day” announcement of reciprocal tariffs against friend and foe, alike.  Such instability which is associated with such an economic policy of shock and awe as this is the worst thing for businesses, particularly for those which are struggling to remain out of the red.  Trump would be well aware of this fact, and it is no doubt part of the calculus to bring whole industries to the shores of the US, while also bringing foreign govts to influence those companies which will remain abroad to direct their trade efforts towards reducing any disparities in trade balances, as exists between Israel and the US.

Finance Minister Smotrich says he’ll ‘study Trump’s order in depth’

All Israel News Staff | Published: April 3, 2025

By The White House from Washington, DC – President Trump Meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Domain

The U.S. will impose a 17% tariff on Israeli imports, President Trump announced on Wednesday, as part of sweeping “reciprocal tariffs” reforms the administration declared on what it dubbed “Liberation Day.”

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By Janatan Sayeh | April 3, 2025

231019-N-GF955-1113 RED SEA (Oct. 19, 2023) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) defeats a combination of Houthi missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles in the Red Sea, Oct. 19. Carney is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations to help ensure maritime security and stability in the Middle East region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau)

Iran has ordered its military personnel to leave Yemen amidst the ongoing US bombing campaign in the country, The Telegraph reported on April 3. The newspaper’s source added that regime officials’ concerns over the Trump administration have eclipsed discussions on Tehran’s regional proxies, dominating every meeting and sidelining previous strategic priorities.

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How Peter Marks’ role in the COVID vaccine debacle exposed the flaws in America’s toxic health bureaucracy

Janet Levy: Norm Eisen said his good friend Supreme Court Justice John Roberts was not corrupt and that John went to the Czech Republic for a week so that they could spend time working on American rule of law issues together.

John should resign or recuse himself from all of the lawsuit cases that Norm and his partners have filed that are working their way to the SC.

Chief Justice John Roberts spent a week living at Norm Eisen’s 150-room palace in the Czech Republic where they “worked on American and European Rule of Law issues together.” Eisen was Ambassador 2011-2014. Roberts became Chief Justice in 2005. This was while Roberts ran SCOTUS. pic.twitter.com/u7YZazt7Re

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) April 3, 2025