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May 31

US killed 200+ in strikes on suspected drug boats

The Trump administration has carried out 62 strikes against vessels since September 2025, killing 205 people, the NYT reported.

The pace is increasing: between April 11 and May 8, strikes occurred nearly every 3 days.

Fishermen and traffickers often use the same small boats – indistinguishable from the air. In low seasons, some fishermen take occasional trafficking jobs to survive, the report noted.

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Despite the US planting a missile in an Iranian vessel’s engine room, more ships are passing through Strait of Hormuz:

During the past day and night, 28 ships, including oil tankers, container ships, and other commercial ships, passed through the Strait of Hormuz after obtaining permission with the coordination and security of the IRGC Navy.

‘Aggression American terrorist army is main reason for its insecurity these days’

If you listen closely to Professor Hudson, this is what the US does not want to happen, oil flowing from anyone else but itself.

May 30

Mevedev:  Take a close look.

If Ukraine destroys Zaporozhye nuclear plant, Russia ‘COULD’ hit Ukrainian nuclear plants in ‘SYMMETRICAL STRIKE’.  ‘In event of catastrophic destruction of machine/reactor hall of nuclear plant, new Chernobyl will occur… no better than use of tactical nuclear weapons’.  https://t.me/rtnews/152800

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The U.S. did not issue a visa to the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia to participate in a meeting of the UN Security Council

This concerns Alexander Alimov, as reported by Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya. He accused Washington of violating obligations under the agreement on the central UN institutions, which stipulates ensuring access to the headquarters for all official representatives of member states.

Moreover, Moscow considers this decision a gesture of disrespect towards China’s presidency in the UN Security Council, as Alimov was supposed to participate in the meeting at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

This decision has not yet been commented on in Washington.

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Prof Marandi:  There will be no deal until the slaughter ends, until there is a regional ceasefire and an end to the war.

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🔹This empire has lost all common sense.  Take a look at the type of drone attack on the Zaporozhye nucloear power plant, as well as the next item, leaving a large vessel adrift.  (Despite Trump calling off the naval blockade, it is still functioning).

‘Ukrainian army repeatedly crossing not just red lines, but boundaries of COMMON SENSE’

Rosatom Chief Likhachev after Kiev drone attack on Zaporozhye nuclear plant turbine hall:

‘Today we’re one step closer to an incident that will, with high probability, harm even those who live far beyond borders of Russia and Ukraine and still think they’re completely safe’

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In response to terrorist attacks launched by Ukraine against civilian facilities on the territory of Russia, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a group strike with long-range, ground- and air-based high-precision weapons and strike drones against military airfields, energy, fuel and transport infrastructure facilities used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

✅ The targets were defeated, all the assigned facilities were neutralised.

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While Peskov and Ushakov struggled to explain how negotiations with the US  on the SMO are somehow still in the background, and perhaps also on the ‘irritants’ in the relationship with the US – Putin slapped all that down and said:  “Contacts regarding Ukraine are being maintained, but there are currently no negotiations.
Russia is ready for negotiations on Ukraine and has not refused to engage in them, the Russian president noted.”

No negotiations on Ukraine, pretend negotiations on Iran … I guess we’re getting the message.

May 29

Netanyahu and India (subtitled – do check the comments):

Netanyahu: In India, there is absolutely crazy love for Israel pic.twitter.com/hxSZfifiKN

— HatsOff (@HatsOffff) May 29, 2026

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Trump’s tweet re lifting the blockade on the Straits of Hormuz. Iran is commenting and it is as we think.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ismael Baqaei, on Trump’s latest post:

‘Regarding his announcement on lifting the naval blockade, we need to see what happens in practice; is this a real action or a propaganda claim?

I also say once again that nobody can use the language ‘should’ or ‘must’ with Iran. Trump cannot tell us what we ‘must’ do, we decide it by ourselves’

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Iran’s Foreign Ministry: ‘Negotiations are still ongoing and a text for the MoU has not yet been finalized’

Trump is on his own planet and talking to himself again.

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Bolivia stands up:

We will not dialogue or negotiate with those who have the blood of our indigenous communities on their hands; we will resist in the barricades until President Rodrigo Paz resigns.

Indigenous leaders from Bolivia vow to fight until they topple the regime of Rodrigo Paz, a U.S. puppet who seeks to privatize the country and hand over precious resources like lithium to the Yankee empire.

This is what the dignity of native peoples looks like as they fight against those who destroy and sell their land.

“No vamos a dialogar ni negociar con quienes tienen sangre de nuestras comunidades indígenas en sus manos, resistiremos en las barricadas hasta que el presidente Rodrigo Paz renuncie”.

Líderes indígenas de Bolivia prometen luchar hasta acabar con el régimen de Rodrigo Paz,… pic.twitter.com/9WSVwSYHFr

— Daniel Mayakovski (@DaniMayakovski) May 29, 2026

This is what Bolivia’s highways look like at the moment.

Each town & village blocks their stretch, and the union members in each community take turns at the barricades. This is part of the general strike against neoliberalism. Now entering week 3. pic.twitter.com/xbycSijmz5

— Ollie Vargas (@Ollie_Vargas_) May 29, 2026

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Trump lifts the US naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.  Additionally, he reminds main US demands of Iran for ending the war.  (In reality, he is trying to lift something that was hardly effective as a strategy. And then he announces a string of issues that has not been agreed to – starting with “Iran must agree to ….” Complete misrepresentation! Nevertheless, ball is in Iran’s court and we have to wait for the Iranian side).

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Quote Ghalibaf :

The winner of any agreement is the one who is better prepared for war the day after it is signed.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf wrote in a post on X that Tehran obtains concessions not through negotiations, but through missiles, adding, “In negotiations, we merely make them understand that.”

He added that Iran has no trust in guarantees or words, stressing that only actions matter and that no step will be taken before the other side acts first.

Ghalibaf said that the winner of any agreement is the one who is better prepared for war the day after it is signed.

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Dmitry Medvedev:  Shut your piehole!  

The Euro-impotents are throwing a fit over a drone hitting some residential building in Romania.

Obviously, it has to be established who launched the drone.

But regardless, every EU country really ought to shut up about it. European nations are direct participants in the war against Russia, and nobody’s even pretending otherwise anymore. Sure, they’re using their Bandera-loving proxies to do all the fighting, but what difference does that make to us? European drones, drone parts, other weapons — not to mention intelligence data — are used in attacks on our country every single day. And because of that, our residential buildings get damaged and our civilians die.

Just like with the terrorist attack in Starobelsk, the blood is on the hands of scumbags like Ursula, Merz, Macron, Starmer, and all the other repugnant parasites.

So they’d better get used to it. This won’t be the last time. There’s a war going on! And citizens of EU countries, as the population of nations at war, shouldn’t be going to sleep expecting peaceful nights. Especially around drone factories supplying the Banderite forces.

So shut your piehole. You haven’t seen anything yet.

That said, all those European lowlifes — the idiot EU figureheads, the little bureaucrats running that excuse for a union — know perfectly well how to end this war. So take it up with them!

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Key takeaways from statements by Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, May 29:

◾️The Kremlin is positive about the new Hungarian prime minister’s decision not to supply weapons to Ukraine

◾️If all countries stopped supplying weapons to Kiev, peace would come faster

◾️The EU cannot act as a mediator in talks with Kiev because it is a party to the conflict

◾️The Kremlin sees Brussels’ refusal to maintain dialogue with Russia as the greatest mistake that has brought diplomatic relations to a standstill

◾️All participants welcome Uzbekistan’s accession to the EAEU

◾️Close friendly relations allow Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Uzbek counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev to work effectively for the benefit of both countries.

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Turkey sells nine-tenths of its US Treasury bonds as dollar loses global trust

Turkey has cut its US Treasury bond holdings by 89%, dropping from $16 billing to just $1.7 billion in one month.

👉 That follows a global trend of countries selling off billions in US debt as trust in the dollar plummets.

According to the Treasury International Capital, multiple major economies got rid of US Treasury bonds:

🇯🇵 Japan sold $47.7 billion

🇨🇳 China sold $41 billion

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia sold $10.8 billion

🇮🇳 India sold $7.6 billion

🇺🇸 The United Arab Emirates sold $5.8 billion

The overall US debt sell-off totaled $138.4 billion in March alone.

The US dollar index, which measures its value compared to six major foreign currencies, also hit a four-year low.

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A slice of life

Yesterday was a day of taking a break for me. It was good. It was good to let the mind flow, with good conversation with good and old friends, who have something to say – things that we can only say to one another once the door is closed behind us. We can differ without angst, agree joyfully and generally talk about the state of our societies. The most important discussion was how we hate the modern fridges that beep to close the door before we’ve even packed all the groceries away and how the unwanted beep adds to societies slowly being driven into madness with everything beeping at us, sounding unnecessary alarms as if the human cattle are dumb. We went to a massive supermarket and even there, showing a membership card, the reader beeps, as it reads the card. It was a day of counting beeps and getting frustrated as one must give your cell number to be afforded the great opportunity to simply buy some groceries. We are consumers now, and a consumer is not a human being, but cattle with a purse or wallet. Fake food is the order of the day and it is literally hard to find a genuinely organic product or something without injected hormones. Veggies in the main have no disclosure of course, and one can only hope you’re not buying liters of toxic sprays.

Modern society has its problems and these have a physiological effect on all of us.

On getting back to work and checking what came in during the day, in the big outside it was a day of talking. Putin talked about the relationship with Kazakhstan. The whole world talks about the expected (I don’t expect it any time soon) Memorandum of Understanding, US with Iran where the ceasefire is interspersed with regular targeting of this and that, to keep the oil from flowing and to assist with the economic disaster unfolding, the final gift from a falling empire which is less than 5% of our world. In the meantime, it is buying time to kill more little brown people. In the US chaos reigns with the left not knowing what the right beeps at them but everyone has one little problem solving mechanism and of course, the beeping problem is to be found in the next person over. The level of internal knowledge of self is non-visible, low on the alarm beeping list, and the discourse is shallow. Yet, people like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have part of the problem defined. It is but a drop in that problem ocean.

We took a moment to stop at a monument completely defaced by feminists thinking that they are contributing to the health of society. This is the negative part of living in Latin America, where these events are considered to contribute and generally allowed for the ‘greater good’, open societies and free speech. (We are socialists and communists dammit!) Free speech now includes defacing and no female cop may stop the defacers because they cry very hard. God helps any male cop and they stay away. Then we have the Chosenites bitterly mourning and crying (of course only on camera) because ‘they don’t feel safe’ on their campus. ‘Feeling safe’ is overshadowing being safe in the western world, where these very same ‘Chosen’ Israelites use all of their spare time to indoctrinate a Greater Israel for the Chosenites. This is the biggest fashion trend of the hour, to become a Chosenite and participate in the next ‘final solution’ according to Bibi, the man drenched in the blood of little brown people.

In a few hours I get back to work, and will look forward to having my morning coffee with the Buddhist neighbors, sitting outside literally next to the road having pulled out some chairs onto the pavement to enjoy the coolness of the morning, and generally the core of the community with everyone stepping by, greeting the new day, gossiping something fierce but also passing on the latest news of what seems be cheaper where, for this day. With the incredible heat in our part of the world, tomatoes and similar have peaked in price and everyone looks for alternatives for their favorite recipes. For tomorrow morning’s coffee, (my turn), I have some blueberry muffins and crackers with sliced tomatoes without any juice in them, but the pattern looks pretty on the cracker. Perhaps now that our regular tropical rains have returned, we will soon get real tomatoes again. I was gifted with a French Coffee Press today and a bag of properly sized ground coffee. It is a change of season for us. The greens are overgrown and bitter and the roots are the dregs of the last season. Soon we will have small buttery beets, sweet carrots, crispy summer squash, peas and in six weeks or so, new glorious butternut squash, now ripening on the vines. It is good to live with the seasons. ‘Touching Grass’, is the modern parlance and it will probably save our souls.

Good night.

May 28

Sergey Shoigu at the International Security Forum, confirming the warning to ambassadors to leave Kiev:

“The warning to ambassadors to leave Kiev was made entirely seriously and deliberately, because in any event, it could happen at any moment if and when we deem that the response must be delivered.”

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Yesterday I reported that we hear that the US was going to announce a completed agreement with Iran, only to attempt to create ‘conditions on the ground’, so to speak, and further pressure the process.

Take a look:

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Axios’ claims regarding the MoU:

‘Nonsense.’

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This however will concern anyone with a modicum of knowledge about the 2ndWW:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘We must complete the mission in Iran in a way that constitutes a final solution, and I speak with Trump almost on a daily basis regarding this’

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Serious Strikes on Southern Beirut.

I have said before that the responsibility between Israel and the US exchanges, in order to provide deniability – plausible is not any longer necessary – as long as they can tell a story. For the press, this works perfectly – they have short memories. For longer term justice, which we may not see in our lives, it provides a smokescreen. It is one toxic bacteria only though. If you take a glancing look at the early speeches of the lawmakers in the US, every single one of them are out on an Israeli platform.

Doron Kadosh, Israeli army correspondent:

The escalation in Beirut is based on an American request; it is important to remember. In the meantime Trump bellows that Bibi will do what he says and and it is enough and no more bombing and such prime bits of laying the smokescreen.

So who is striking Southern Beirut? The answer cannot be anything else but ‘both’, disguised as two amoebas.

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The United States has reimposed sanctions on the UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories for revealing the Israeli regime’s genocide in the Gaza Strip.  A pox, a great pox on them!

Here latest work is on Torture and Genocide and you can find it here: https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/a-hrc-61-71-aev.pdf

Unlawfully sanctioned as well, is Iran’s newly established Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA) in a desperate attempt to prevent the country from exercising its sovereign rights over the strategic waterway following failed military operations.

I hope Francesca Albanese used the intervening time beween her previous sanction and this new one, to de-dollarize fully. The PGSA is an Iranian Rial and a Chinese Yuan shop. It is secondary sanctions that will bite and they will bite the countries without alternative financial methodologies. Most Global South countries by now have something. So for secondary sanctions it may be the Ouroboros effect.

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Buffalo Donald Trump was spared the knife and is apparently now in a zoo.

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We start with something different today. Pavel Durov (Telegram) says Telegram has “never disclosed a single byte” of private messages to third parties, even as he continues to face multiple charges in France. The statement reinforces Telegram’s privacy stance while legal pressure on Durov remains ongoing.

Durov is somewhat of a strange character and personality, but he is right – they don’t disclose under any pressure. They will close groups but not disclose private messaging. I still believe Russia is not wise by throwing Telegram out because of this policy. There are continual problems in Brazil as well, exactly because of this policy. In the long run, it will only add to more fragmentation of technologies each with a few adherents. As the Chinese say, small yards, high fences.

May 27

US sanctions Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority

The US Department of the Treasury said it has imposed sanctions on Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority (https://t.me/SputnikInt/104430), a body created to review passage requests through the Strait of Hormuz.

The US labeled the authority an Iranian “scheme” of “maritime extortion,” claiming it is linked to the IRGC and warning that companies or vessels cooperating with it may face sanctions risk.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US would continue tightening what he called a “financial stranglehold” on Iran.

💬 “Through Economic Fury, the United States has imposed a financial stranglehold on the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism,” Bessent said.

❌ The press release also warned against payments or cooperation connected to passage through the Strait, including tolls, digital assets, swaps or other in-kind arrangements.

🇺🇸 The move comes as the US fails to subjugate Iran with unhinged threats (https://t.me/SputnikInt/102210), outright military aggression and ceasefire violations. Nonetheless, the US continues expanding its sanctions campaign while claiming to negotiate with Iran.

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Fars News Agency, citing informed sources, reported that the US President may unilaterally announce the completion of the agreement between Iran and the United States in the coming hours.

Trump’s unilateral announcement aims to exert pressure on public opinion before fully resolving the disputes.

Some files and issues are still pending and have not been resolved yet. “There will be no agreement unless all the issues that Iran takes into account are resolved,” said the report.

Iran will officially announce the result if these issues are fully resolved and settled.

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This is a shocking.  Zakharova does not usually say anything if Russia is not sure of it.  Usually with Russian announcements the issue is already ‘in the bag’, so to speak.  This announcement we can be sure has solid proof, which is not necessarily exposed right now.

CNN might have filmed the moment Ukraine launched its drones on Starobelsk, where more than 20 civilians have been killed — FM spox Zakharova

Report by CNN correspondent Nick Paton Walsh was released 4 days after the tragedy in Starobelsk, but it had been prepared in advance

The implications cannot be more serious.

Zakharova’s complete Statement:

As you know, CNN did not travel to Starobelsk last Sunday, citing logistical reasons.

Yesterday CNN revealed what they were actually working on while correspondents from around the world were documenting the aftermath of the devastating terrorist attack on the dormitory and teaching block of a pedagogical college in the LPR.

CNN correspondent Nick Paton Walsh, who has been indicted in absentia in Russia for participating in the Kursk incursion, was filming a promotional segment about Kiev’s drone strikes on Russian cities. The piece was prepared slightly in advance but aired on May 26, four days after the Starobelsk strike that killed more than twenty people. Neither the anchors nor Walsh mentioned it with a single word.

Instead the segment ran as a full advertisement for the effectiveness of Ukrainian drones: “We are now next to perhaps the most wanted target in Russia, a Ukrainian long-range drone strike unit. Tonight they will launch 200 drones at Russia. These drones have already struck Stavropol.”

That passing detail about Stavropol is significant. It suggests Walsh may have been embedded with the Ukrainian unit at the exact moment it was coordinating the planned strike on the college in Starobelsk. Kiev’s drones hit Stavropol the day before the Starobelsk attack.

This reframes the situation entirely.

The AFU hired CNN to film their drone killers at work.

When Russia invites CNN to document the aftermath of Ukrainian drone strikes, the killing of civilians including children and the destruction of civilian infrastructure, American journalists cite vacations, logistics and so on. Meanwhile there is a strong likelihood that CNN correspondents were filming the preparation for that very attack. Their audience, the channel has decided, should not know about the consequences.

This is not journalism. CNN has different priorities now: propaganda, distortion, manipulation, not informing its audience. This is exactly how the Völkischer Beobachter operated in 1944. Its editorial policy was coordinated with the NSDAP propaganda apparatus, its staff saluted and celebrated the achievements of German arms, and until 1945 reported on the imminent victory of the Reich over the USSR and the Allies. Anything that did not fit the narrative simply did not exist. After the collapse of the Hitler regime, the Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced the editor of the Völkischer Beobachter to spend the rest of his life in labor camps.

This is how the Western mainstream manufactures a deliberately distorted picture of the world today.”

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Key takeaways from Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov’s statements:

▪️As a nuclear power, Russia cannot be defeated in strategic terms

▪️Russia does not rule out a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Ukraine, but this is possible only if “the other side” understands that the Anchorage framework is non-negotiable

(Ryabkov is keeping somebody’s feet to the fire .. somebody who is non-agreement capable and slides any agreement made).  

▪️Russia is cooperating with China “on a uniquely broad and exceptionally deep agenda” and values this highly

▪️The allied relations between Russia and North Korea are exceptionally strong and Moscow values Pyongyang’s versatile support

▪️Russian-US relations are extremely complicated as they are burdened with a heavy set of difficulties and restrictions

▪️There are currently no specific agreements regarding new contacts between the Russian and US Presidents, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

▪️Washington has not yet requested an agreement for the appointment of a new ambassador to Russia

▪️There has been no progress regarding the return of Russian diplomatic property in the United States, while the seizure of diplomatic facilities constitutes a blatant act of arbitrariness

▪️Moscow will continue to “push forward” the issue of resuming air travel with the US, but there has been no proper response from Washington yet

▪️Russia sees that the West distorts warnings about the need to evacuate personnel from its diplomatic missions in Kiev

▪️The recent tragedy in Russia’s Starobelsk, where the Ukrainian military’s attack on a local college left more than two dozen teenagers killed, resonated in the hearts of those who remain humans, while Western countries never officially expressed their condolences

▪️Western countries display utmost cynicism regarding the tragedy in Russia’s Starobelsk

▪️Russia will not allow the terrorist attack in Starobelsk to be forgotten or permit the continuation of what it calls a frenzy of anti-Russian insinuations in the West

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It is  Eid al-Adha day in the Muslim Calendar today.  Kadyrov’s words for warm congratulations echoes in our hearts.

By the grace of Allah, one of the most joyous, long-awaited, and blessed holidays for the entire Muslim Ummah – Eid al-Adha – has arrived. This great day symbolizes sincere faith, submission to the will of Almighty Allah, mercy, unity, and a willingness to perform good deeds for His pleasure.

We began the festive morning with the collective Eid prayer in the mosque. Thousands of believers gathered together to praise Allah, offer sincere prayers to Him, and share the joy of this blessed holiday with each other. The atmosphere of spiritual unity, brotherhood, and sincere joy once again filled people’s hearts with a special warmth and gratitude to the Creator for all His blessings.

A sermon was delivered to the congregation by our dear BROTHER, Advisor to the Head of Chechnya, Adam Shakhidov. He spoke about the high spiritual significance of Eid al-Adha, the importance of sincerity in intentions, patience, respect for each other, and caring for those in need of help and support. Adam Shakhidov also noted that such blessed days strengthen our unity, remind us of the eternal values of Islam, and encourage people to perform good deeds.

We performed the collective Eid prayer under the leadership of my dear UNCLE, the Chairman of the Council of Muftis of the North Caucasus Federal District, Khaj-Ahmed Kadyrov. On this great holiday, we once again appeal to Allah for peace, stability, and prosperity for our republic and the entire country. We ask the Almighty Creator to accept our prayers, sacrifices, and all good deeds performed for His pleasure.

From the bottom of my heart, I once again congratulate all Muslims on the onset of Eid al-Adha! May Allah grant every home peace, blessings, prosperity, good health, and happiness. May Allah accept our prayers and strengthen us on the right path!

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Trump twists like a pretzel while US strategy sinks into the abyss — Macgregor

Former senior adviser to the US Defense Secretary Col. Douglas Macgregor says trying to follow Trump’s Iran policy is enough to cause “an acute case of schizophrenia.” “What this man does brilliantly, let’s give him credit is manipulate the markets,” Macgregor stressed.

Meanwhile, the bill is coming due. Macgregor warned that the Iran war is driving inflation higher, oil markets are being artificially managed, and the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve could be drained in about 60 days. “We’re going to watch the global economy shrink by an estimated 36%. Just for referential purposes, the Great Depression reduced the world economy by 20%.”

🏆 Trump finally made history — a 300-year stupidity award from Macgregor.

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The Board of Peace’s official fund remains empty, and the organization is in a political and legal deadlock, the Financial Times reported, citing sources.

Despite $17 billion in financial commitments pledged by international backers and Washington, no funds have been transferred to the organization’s accounts in the four months since its establishment.

From the Financial Times:

FT: Trump’s Gaza “Peace Council” Fund is Empty.  Despite promises of $17 billion, not a single cent has reached Gaza projects four months after the council’s creation.  Member states pledged $7 billion, Trump promised another $10 billion. The World Bank-administered fund has received nothing from donors.  What money has moved went not to the main World Bank account but to a parallel JPMorgan account with zero transparency on how it’s being spent.

May 26

“Israel” dropped more than 120 bombs across Lebanon in one of the heaviest bombardments in weeks, killing at least 31 civilians and wounding 40 others.

Among the victims of Israeli aggression in Burj al-Shamali were two children and three women, as entire neighborhoods came under relentless Israeli attacks.

Israeli strikes also targeted areas near the historic Beaufort Castle, one of the region’s best-preserved medieval landmarks recognized by UNESCO. Bombs additionally hit near the Qaraoun Dam, Lebanon’s largest water reservoir.

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Medvedev: EU has said it’ll maintain diplomatic presence in Kiev unchanged despite Russia’s warnings… apparently they’ve got diplomats to spare and need to trim headcount.

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The attempt to normalize Israel under the guise of Iranian hoped for Peace Agreements.

In reality Trump says .. Sign the Abraham Accords and normalize Israel, or there is no peace, a stumbling fantasy and attempt at outright blackmail, called ‘transformative’.  (For who, we may ask?)    The countries involved are Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan.  For once Saudi Arabia kept to their long-standing policy – no movement on these Accords before there is a land for Palestine.  Pakistan also declined so far pointing out a long-standing clause printed on Pakistani passports stating they are valid for all countries except Israel — underscoring the official position of non-recognition toward the Israeli state.

May 25

As always: Israel Vows To Bomb Beirut & Begins A Campaign Of Carpet Bombing Lebanon.  Civilians are fleeing Dahiyeh in south Beirut now.  (Don’t you tell me Trump did not set this up).

Seyed Mohammad Marandi
@s_m_marandi
Hezbollah strikes tanks, while the Zionists bomb apartment blocks, and Western journalists and diplomats pretend that they represent the civilized world. They are the barbarians of our time.

IRAN WARNS US: Israeli attack on Beirut or southern Lebanon suburbs risks total collapse of talks.  The empire is working very hard for this war to continue.  US-ISRAEL ATTACK Iranian BOATS near Larak Island — SNN/Nour News.  Fighter jets hit vessels ‘LAST NIGHT’.  At least 3 Iranians killed.

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As I thought, more strikes incoming:  Kiev has been and WILL BE hit by retaliatory strikes in response to terrorist attacks — MFA spox Zakharova

MFA will issue special statement WARNING foreign diplomatic corps.

And the warning is out:

Russia warns of ‘systemic strikes’ on military targets in Kiev

The Russian Federation recommends that foreigners leave Kiev as soon as possible, and advises its residents not to approach military and administrative infrastructure facilities – Russian Foreign Ministry

The bloody attack carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the night of May 22 using UAVs on the educational building and dormitory of the Lugansk State Pedagogical College in Starobelsk has become another blatant evidence of the Nazi and terrorist nature of the Kiev regime, which deliberately attacks civilians and does not stop at the cold-blooded murder of children.

All this has made us run out of patience. In the current circumstances, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are beginning to systematically strike at Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprises in Kiev, including specific locations for the design, production, programming, and preparation for the use of UAVs used by the Kiev regime with the assistance of NATO specialists responsible for supplying components, providing intelligence data, and targeting guidance. Strikes will also be carried out on decision-making centers and command posts.

Due to the fact that the aforementioned objects are scattered throughout Kiev, we warn foreign citizens, including the staff of diplomatic missions and international organizations’ representative offices, about the need to leave the city as soon as possible, and residents of the Ukrainian capital – not to approach the military and administrative infrastructure of the Zelensky regime.

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Trump’s latest:  Read it yourself please where he mandatorily requests (what is that anyway?) that everyone signs the Abraham Accords.  I’ll not even give this a link:    https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116635193825443617

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-We ended last week on a note where the so-called peace agreement with Iran is spiked by the US after Bibi Netanyahu exercised what I and others call ‘Bibi’s veto’. What is new?

-We are still in a phase of No War/No Peace. At the same time Lebanon is being heavily bombed, Hezbollah fighters are resisting like heroes and temporary tent shelters in Gaza are regularly bombed. There is no peace despite peace agreements. The so-called Board of Peace is fast falling apart and only two countries paid what they pledged. It is clear: The Board of Peace is there for the money – that other countries must pay in a bizarre ‘burden sharing’. The Peace Processes that the US is involved in are attempts at producing revenue. It is just the same as that of Gaza and Hezbollah. Much is agreed to, and then the salami slicing starts and the agreement becomes a dead letter. The US does not want peace. They want to own the oil. The rest is performance spiced with murder.

–Last Iranian Commentary – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei:

Discussing the nuclear file is not on the table at this stage of the talks.

A clause regarding the cessation of aggression against Lebanon is included in the agreement.

Recent shifts in negotiations are the result of mediation efforts by Pakistan and other countries.

No one can confirm the imminent signing of an agreement with the United States because American policy is subject to change.

At this stage of the negotiations, Iran’s focus remains on stopping aggression against the country.

The United States is not concerned with the security and stability of the region’s countries, but rather prioritises the interests of the Zionist entity.

The Strait of Hormuz must remain secure, and its management belongs to the littoral states.

Iran remains in contact with the littoral states of the Strait of Hormuz to ensure security and protect their interests.

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Read again Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein.

In the LAC broadly, resistance is brewing and beginning to show itself. Venezuela (which so many commentators now write off without having a clue what is going on there), is out in the streets, doing this:

-Venezuela and the Perils of Ceding Sovereignty

VA editor Ricardo Vaz analyzes the political and economic transformations taking place in Venezuela following renewed ties with Washington and the rollback of key pillars of the Bolivarian Process. US control over Venezuelan oil revenues, pro-business reforms, and mounting external debt pressures could deepen dependency and weaken national sovereignty in the long term. “Ultimately, any long-term plan for sovereign development needs to start from the fact that US imperialism… is ‘not to be trusted even a little bit.’”

-Argentina is becoming an intel collection site for the Pentagon with these goodies handed out:

• Textron B-360ER aircraft (ISR platforms: Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance)
• Drones configured to Pentagon standards
• Technology integrated with U.S. Southern Command systems

Argentina is not acquiring patrol aircraft for sovereign control, it’s becoming an intel collection site for the Pentagon. While Milei accepts U.S. military “aid,” he’s imposing a $46 billion budget cut on Argentina’s Armed Forces and leaving bases without electricity, gas, or food for troops. His model is to starve the national military, create dependency, accept U.S. tutelage.

Theft continues. The South Atlantic, including waters near the Malvinas (Falklands), is no longer defined as Argentine sovereign territory but as a “global commons” under U.S.-Argentine joint control. Argentina provides the personnel and bears the risk. The United States sets the strategic direction and controls the intelligence.

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Stunning aerial image shows vast crowds of pilgrims in Mina as they perform Hajj rituals in 2026.

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China uses AI practically for practical purposes.

China upgrades military kitchens to rule out the possibility of bad meals

While US sailors on Middle East-deployed warships reportedly complained of mystery meat and inadequate meals, China’s People’s Armed Police has built an AI system that tracks every food ingredient from delivery to plate, reports SCMP.

🌏 ‘Intelligent recognition scales’ identify food types with onboard cameras while recording weight, photos, and video footage

🌏 Every inspection, transaction, and delivery is uploaded instantly to a secure military cloud

🌏 Commanders located 500 km away can remotely audit purchases and replay inspections in real time

🌏 The system links 56 separate modules covering logistics, training, attendance, and personnel management into one ecosystem

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An interesting tidbit from Periol in the Hearty Salon, Apocalypse Chronicles. “Teenagers have started calling AI art “boomer art” and consider it cringe, and YouTubers have stopped using AI-generated thumbnails because teenagers find them cringe and won’t click on them. I honestly couldn’t be happier.”

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