From New York, this is Democracy Now.

So the situation is, if we want to put in a context, this crisis is the thing

stand now.

Two oil crisis and one gas crash put all together.

The single most important solution to this problem is opening up at the Hormnus Strait.

As the global energy crisis escalates, President Trump has announced the U.S. and Iran

have had productive talks that could lead to what he called the complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East, unquote.

President Trump is still threatening to bomb power plants in Iran if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened,

but has extended that deadline by five days.

We'll speak to historian Alfred McCoy, his latest article, Imperial

decline in the Straits of Hormuz. Then President Trump's calling European leaders cowards for not

joining the war against Iran. I think NATO is making a very foolish mistake.

And I've long said that, you know, I wonder whether or not NATO would ever be there for

us.

So this is a, this was a great test because we don't need them, but they should have been there.

We'll speak with Professor Natalie Tachi in Italy.

Then the center on conscience and war is reporting it's seen a spike in

inquiries from U.S. soldiers seeking to submit conscientious objector applications.

Number one thing that we hear from callers, the most universal rationale that they are given,

is that they are giving, is that they are disgusted at the

suffering on the receiving end in Iran, that they want no part in that. The majority of our callers

are not trying to get out of this because they're worried about their own lives, but the lives

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