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Israel has a master plan to relocate thousands of Palestinian Bedouins to a giant ghetto

Shatha Hammad
Mondoweiss
Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00 UTC
al-Jahhalin
© Shatha HammadAbu Nayef al-Jahhalin, 71, whose Bedouin community in Jabal al-Baba is threatened with forcible displacement • May 2026
The "Shami neighborhood project" will ethnically cleanse the Bedouin population of Jerusalem's eastern wilderness as part of Israel's plan to take total control over the strategic "Greater Jerusalem" corridor, which would split the West Bank in two.

Salem al-Jahalin, 73, also known as Abu Nayef, circles his home in the Jabal al-Baba Bedouin community outside the town of al-Aizariya, east of Jerusalem. His eyes scan the surrounding terrain as far as he can see, bracing for any incursion by the Israeli army. This is the fourth time the military has threatened to demolish his home, delivering, once again, a notice informing him that his land had been claimed by one of the largest settlement blocs in the West Bank: "Your home is built on the lands of Ma'ale Adumim."

Abu Nayef's cup of tea goes cold before he gets a chance to sip it, his mind occupied by the uncertain fate that stalks him, as it does all the Bedouin around Jerusalem. His fingers roll a new cigarette as he tries to light it, raindrops hitting it once, the wind extinguishing it the next. Abu Nayef says:
"Every time they demolish, we rebuild. Where would we go? They want to displace us from the land, but it's impossible — we'll die before we leave."
Salem's situation is similar to that of every Palestinian Bedouin living in the Jerusalem wilderness — locally known as the badiya of Jerusalem, a vast expanse of semi-arid plains and rolling hills that Bedouin communities have called home for generations. These communities now stand as the last barrier against the E1 settlement project, a long-halted colonization plan that aims to seize a strategic tract of land at the node separating the northern West Bank from the south, and which also encompasses the area Israel calls "Greater Jerusalem."
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Here's why many Western leaders' approval ratings are tanking

Tarik Cyril Amar
RT.com
Mon, 25 May 2026 20:50 UTC
The difference between ideology and citizens' lived experience is becoming explosive.

Scumbags
© Jeanne Accorsini / Sipa - WPA Pool / Getty Images
Every political and social order comes in two flavors: What its small elite and the minority exploiting it to the full want everyone to believe, and the reality that most of its members actually live in. The two never match, but this mismatch need not be a big problem. However, if the difference becomes too great and too obvious for too long, no order can continue unchanged.

None of the above is news. Keen observers have long understood that things get shaky when a majority loses their belief in - or at least passive acceptance of - the prevalent ideology (in the original meaning of the term, namely, as the elite's imaginative story about reality, keeping the non-elites compliant).

In such a situation, things will change, but it is hard to predict how, exactly. An acute ideology-reality mismatch can lead to rebellion and, if the latter succeeds, revolution. Yet it can also make the elites ramp up their indoctrination or become more punitive, adding more direct compulsion to keep those below in line. There is always also the option of going to war with enemies abroad - real or, much more likely, invented - to distract from disunity at home. Finally, all of the above can happen in a messy sequence, or even at the same time.

Despite differences and tensions, the West does constitute some form of political and social order. In its elites' ideology, as spread by their compliant mainstream media, it is a fairy-tale realm of political and economic freedom, combining representative democracy with free markets, the rule of law, individualism, and superior "values" to make the best of all possible worlds. In reality, obviously, it's a dark zone of capitalist oligarchy with increasingly authoritarian tendencies. Not the Hobbits' cozy Shire; rather Sauron's domain under construction.

Markets, for one thing, are not "free," but routinely and crassly gamed by insiders. Currently for instance, both the beginning of the criminal Israeli-US war against Iran and deliberately timed, repeated rumors about peace have facilitated manipulative trades worth billions of dollars.

The September 11, 2001 attacks can be considered the evil Big Bang of our current iteration of mass manipulation, authoritarian power grabs in the name of "emergency" response, permanent warfare, and lying so intense it is sometimes hard to remember there is a truth. As the rebellious US ex-MAGA conservative Tucker Carlson has just reminded us, 9/11 was also accompanied - and preceded - by trading, for which the description "highly suspicious" is an understatement.
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Bullseye

It's time to talk about Massie

Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
Sat, 23 May 2026 20:37 UTC
Massie
© Getty ImagesThomas Massie
Thomas Massie did not lose because the people of Kentucky suddenly rejected him. He lost because Washington sent a message to every politician in America that if you dare question the foreign policy agenda, if you dare oppose endless war funding, and if you dare call out the influence of AIPAC and the Israel lobby, the full weight of the political machine will be dropped directly on your head.

The Kentucky election was rigged by a foreign government! Openly. A foreign government openly rigged a US election and installed a puppet candidate. Even the President of the United States promoted and greenlighted this unbelievable, treasonous act. I do not care if you are conservative, liberal, libertarian, or an anarchist-this is WRONG. The American people were denied the opportunity to select their representative because the US government prioritizes Israel.
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Mr. Potato

AOC tells New Yorkers to 'pull up' to Alabama while giving rally speech behind bulletproof glass

Alexandra Koch
Fox News
Sat, 23 May 2026 20:09 UTC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y speech alabama viral video
© Sergeant News Network/XScreenshot of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y, making a speech in Montgomery, AL, May 16, 2026
Todd Spears' TikTok reaction video mocking the congresswoman's security setup went viral with 1 million views

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is taking heat from southern conservatives after she delivered a fiery speech in Montgomery, Alabama, last week, demanding that northern progressives "pull up to the South."

Speaking at the "All Roads Lead to The South" rally on May 16, the prominent "Squad" member claimed the U.S. was not a true democracy until the 1960s when the Voting Rights Act was passed, and took direct aim at the Supreme Court, accusing the high court under Chief Justice John Roberts of being "part of that long history of regression and repression in America."

Ocasio-Cortez then issued a highly controversial call to action, demanding that "the North" travel to red states like Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi to fight what she described as political injustice.

Comment: Sergeant News Network on X quotes AOC, and comments:
AOC was no exception as she delivered her speech to a boisterous audience behind bulletproof glass. Pay close attention to what she says toward the end.
"It is time for the North to pull up to the South. It is time for New York to pull up to Alabama. It is time for all of us to come to Georgia, to Louisiana, to Tennessee, to Mississippi, and let them know exactly what they have on court with this injustice," AOC yelled.

"They think they can draw us out of power. They do not know the sleeping giant that they just awakened, because it is not a coincidence."

"And our whole country must understand that it was not until voting rights were ratified in this country that we got the Great Society, because when black Americans have the right to vote and that vote is protected, our schools get funded, when voting rights are health care gets expanded, when voting rights are protected, our country moves forward."

"And Montgomery, that's what they're actually afraid of... What they thought was the final blow is actually just the opening silo."
Did you catch that? AOC is too dimwitted to understand the difference between "salvo" and "silo."

Does she want to start a war involving grains like corn, wheat, and soybeans?

Proof Of Idiocy Here:

Unsurprisingly, X users had plenty to say about AOC's embarrassing gaffe.

Many also wondered why she was hiding behind bulletproof glass while delivering her speech.
PJ Media adds:
AOC's real talent has always been turning a microphone into a weather event. Give her a stage, and cameras gather like gulls near a French fry. She knows how to frame every issue as a moral emergency, every opponent as a villain, and every audience as part of a movement waiting for her cue.

Cable panels get their segment, social media gets its fight, and local residents get told, once again, how outsiders plan to save them.

America's voting history contains glory, shame, courage, cruelty, law, blood, reform, and unfinished arguments. The country didn't become pure in 1965, and it wasn't meaningless before then. AOC could've honored the Voting Rights Act without shrinking the rest of American history into a prop.

Instead, she gave the cameras another clip and the South another reason to roll its eyes.


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Arrow Up

LaRouche's Peace Through Development: A vision for solving humanity's crisis

Tamer Mansour
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00 UTC
UN LaRouche/Davutoglu
© United Nations
Future generations will ask, What did you do when the choice became clear between war and development? Did you defend the old order that was failing, or did you join the movement for a new world?

As Europe lay in ruins by the end of World War II, the United States adopted the Marshall Plan, an economic development program that, rather than seeking collective punishment or reparations extraction from defeated countries, was designed to rebuild their war-torn economies.

The result was transformative: bitter enemies became prosperous partners, and economic interdependency — regardless of long-term eventualities caused by multiple other factors — became the foundation for lasting peace. That lesson, buried by decades of geopolitical warfare, holds the key to understanding why the world is trapped in its current crisis and how to escape it.

Today, Helga Zepp-LaRouche and former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu have brought back this and other historical precedents, offering to the governments of the United Nations a comprehensive policy framework called "Peace Through Development". An urgent invitation to fundamentally restructure how humanity approaches conflict resolution and international cooperation, their open letter submitted in May 2026 to the UN Security Council is far more than a diplomatic appeal.

Comment: Finally, a win for all should humanity ever dare to try. Brilliant.

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Attention

Americanization of Azerbaijan's foreign policy

Taut Bataut
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00 UTC
Vance and Aliyev
© Iham AliyevUS Vice President JD Vance • President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev • Baku, Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan is rapidly moving closer to the United States and NATO as Washington redirects its geopolitical focus from the Russo-Ukrainian War toward the South Caucasus. Azerbaijan's expanding military, political, and strategic cooperation with the West risks turning the region into a new center of geopolitical confrontation involving Russia, Iran, and Western powers.

The US is finding another shoulder to shoot fire at its rivals, and this time it's none other than Azerbaijan. It's often said in geopolitics, "Once you enter the realm of realpolitik, there is no way out." No matter what the current Trump administration thinks of Russia, the US strategic circles are determined to create instability near the Russian borders. And Russians know this from the start. Trump's tactical and transitional diplomacy could be just a small picture of a big game. Thus, to undermine Russian sovereignty and security, the US has now entered the South Caucasus region with Azerbaijan at its crossroads.

Comment: US chose Ukraine under Joe Biden's watch. The rest has been, on the surface, clean up.
Why is Azerbaijan suddenly important to the US? Location!!!

See also:
Caspian lifeline redraws the Iran - Russia war map

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EU leaders silent on deadly Ukrainian attack on college dorm


RT
Sun, 24 May 2026 18:58 UTC
Macron Van der Leyen Kallas Merz etc
© Thierry Monasse / Getty ImagesEuropean Council headquarters in Brussels
Western officials have condemned Russian retaliatory strikes on Kiev, while omitting to mention the Friday drone attack that killed 21 people.

The European Union's top brass and the leaders of several member states have issued statements on the latest exchange of strikes between Kiev and Moscow that ignore the recent deadly Ukrainian attack on a college dormitory that preceded Russian retaliatory strikes.

According to the Russian authorities, 21 people, mostly teenage girls, lost their lives and 60 more sustained injuries after three waves of Ukrainian drones targeted the main academic building and dormitory of the Starobelsk Professional College in the Lugansk People's Republic overnight from Thursday to Friday.

The Russian military responded early on Sunday by conducting a "massive strike" against military targets in Ukraine, including in Kiev, that featured the intermediate-range hypersonic Oreshnik system, Iskander ballistic missiles, Kinzhal and Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles, among other strike capabilities. The Russian Defense Ministry has reported that Ukrainian military command and control facilities, air bases, as well as defense industry enterprises were struck.
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Broom

The DNC finally releases its 2024 autopsy, and it's a total whitewash

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 21 May 2026 07:40 UTC
Kamala
© Getty ImagesKamala Harris
The Democratic National Committee has released its long-awaited "autopsy" of the 2024 presidential election, and it is getting panned from all sides for being evasive, poorly constructed, and conspicuously silent on the two most consequential decisions the party made in 2024.

DNC Chair Ken Martin had been sitting on this report since late last year. He pledged transparency, then reversed course in December, saying he would not release it. The reversal created a slow-motion credibility crisis. NBC News described Martin as having "been pummeled in public for months" over the episode, and last week Kamala Harris herself called for the report to be made public. So Martin released it on Thursday, though not quite on his own terms.

Martin said in a statement Thursday:
"When I received the report late last year, it wasn't ready for primetime — not even close — and because no source material was provided, it would have meant starting over. I could not in good faith put the DNC's stamp of approval on the report that was produced.

"After last November's massive Democratic wins, I didn't want to create a distraction, but by not putting the report out, I ended up creating an even bigger distraction. For that, I sincerely apologize."
The document was released in full, but no one seems to be satisfied with it.

Comment: Kamala wasn't 'prepared'? She got the job of VP because she was the only candidate who couldn't 'up stage' Biden.

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Paradoxically fear is the foundation of stability: deterrence works

Alastair Crooke
Strategic Culture Foundatioin
Mon, 25 May 2026 17:50 UTC
Karaganov
© Public Domain
Professor Sergei Karaganov has written a paper - How to Win a World War - that advocates a limited nuclear strike on an adversary by Russia, as the means of preventing a World War.

On the face of it, this may seem to be an oxymoron - a nuclear strike precisely done to prevent World War. A number of western commentators have reacted with unalloyed hostility, with Professor Karaganov being presented as a political outlier, advocating fringe policies that could open Pandora's box to wider nuclear conflict.

Is it bluff or a revolutionary re-think of Russia's defence strategy?

Yet, the West should take Professor Karaganov's thesis very seriously for two reasons: Firstly, because it has substance, touching on the psyche underlying our era, together with the toxic societal contradictions it has birthed; and more directly, because his paper, and the many interviews arising from it, have produced a significant shift in Russian political and security thinking.

How then can this not be a matter for serious reflection, especially by Europeans whom it may affect directly?

At its core, is a very obvious proposition: Russia, after having been attacked by Germany and almost all of Europe had, with great effort, from the mid-1950s created a nuclear weapon "to ensure their sovereignty and security, and thus achieved nuclear parity ... Without realizing it at the time, we thereby dismantled European/Western military superiority, the foundation of its colonialism and ideological domination".

Russian deterrence had had its effect — fear of nuclear war began to tip the balance of power ... for a while. The implosion of the Soviet Union in 1991, however, tilted it back.

But then, from 2000 onwards, as the U.S. sought revanchism to revive its dominance, credence about the reality of Russian nuclear deterrence incrementally sunk. No western state truly feared Russia's nuclear arsenal as western neo-cons loudly proclaimed it to be a bluff: that Russia would never dare to use it. The 'bluff narrative' of an overly cautious and weak Russia became embedded.

Professor Karaganov openly admits that Russia has some share of blame for the loss of deterrence. He elaborates on its passing, the mistakes made, and reflects on the reality that Russia has ended up with the imposition of a framework of economic and military attrition imposed on it through the West's Ukrainian proxy.

This Ukrainian conflict nonetheless is but the visible surface part to an iceberg, whose submerged bulk is war — including the European obsession for fracturing and defeating Russia; constraining China; and the U.S.-Israeli attempt at dismembering the Middle East.

Russia "needs a new policy", Karaganov concludes.
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Cruise Missle

Iran has wiped out one-fifth of the US Reaper drone fleet


RT
Sun, 24 May 2026 00:02 UTC
reaper drone test
© US Air Force / Airman 1st Class William Rio RosadoAn MQ-9 Reaper drone flies during a training mission over the Nevada Test and Training Range, July 15, 2019.
30 UAVs worth nearly $1 billion have reportedly been destroyed or damaged since start of the war, with the model no longer being produced

The US military has lost up to 30 MQ-9 Reaper drones since the start of the conflict with Iran, which accounts for nearly a fifth of Washington's entire pre-war fleet and is valued at close to $1 billion, Bloomberg has reported. The bulk of them were destroyed or seriously damaged by Iranian fire, according to the outlet.

The MQ-9 Reaper is capable of conducting both reconnaissance and strike missions. A single drone is estimated to cost more than $30 million. General Atomics halted production of the model last year, although variants are still being manufactured for foreign customers.
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