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WHO in 'panic mode' as World Health Assembly kicks off

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian Org
Mon, 18 May 2026 20:09 UTC
WHO Meeting
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Today is first day of the World Health Organization's 79th annual World Health Assembly, where delegates come together to set policies and priorities for global health.

Essentially, it's a week-long exercise in saying, as loud and long possible, "We're really important."

And thank goodness it came along when it did, because...wow.

The hantavirus outbreak is tearing through the world at the unstoppably terrifying rate of five whole deaths every two months.

That's about 30 deaths in a year or about 0.25% of the number of people who'll died from falling down stairs.

In Africa, the Ebola virus went from zero to "emergency" in no time at all, and the African CDC had no choice but to go into panic mode.
A new strain of Ebola virus has been declared an international public health emergency by the World Health Organisation.

More than 300 suspected cases have been identified - with at least 80 deaths reported. The outbreak is mostly confined to the Democratic Republic of the... pic.twitter.com/LIP0LG6MtD

— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 18, 2026
These twin outbreaks, combined with a "growing anti-vaccine movement", and funding cuts to research show the world is "not ready for the next pandemic", according to Al Jazeera.

And - of course - climate change might mean more hantavirus outbreaks could happen!

And "Experts" are now saying the world is becoming more vulnerable to these infectious disease outbreaks.

Be afraid - be very afraid!
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WHO tells itself to declare global climate health emergency 'to save millions'

Jo Nova
joannenova.com.au
Mon, 18 May 2026 20:09 UTC
WHO Climate
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The WHO is itching to trigger the climate and health "emergency" powers Act or whatever legalistic bomb our patsy governments signed on our behalf.

Apparently millions of people will die if we don't have a UN rubber stamp called "Emergency" — because, obviously the big rich countries would never think to send boatloads of fuel, food and clothes all by themselves. (And if they did, Lordy! Without being a conduit for millions of our dollars, how could the UN run it's own grift and graft machine?)
Exclusive: Commission says alert would trigger coordinated international response that could help avoid millions dying

Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent, The Guardian

The climate crisis should be declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization, or millions more people will die unnecessarily, leading international experts have said.
Presumably the "Emergency" declaration gives them the tools to declare mandatory vaccines, or ban drugs they don't like, or to funnel lots of cash.

So the WHO set up a committee to tell the WHO to declare an emergency, eh?
The independent pan-European commission on climate and health, which was convened by the WHO, concluded the climate crisis was such a worldwide threat to health that the WHO should declare it "a public health emergency of international concern" (Pheic).
And the thing that makes 2026 so awful is a tsunami, asteroid, volcano,... It's a bunch of things which are the same every year:
The international spread of vector-borne disease, such as dengue and chikungunya, as well as the health impacts of extreme weather events, global heating, food insecurity and air pollution make a Pheic necessary, said the commission's report, which will be presented to European ministers on Sunday before the WHO's world health assembly starts on Monday.
Don't miss the lingo — a Pheic is a "public health emergency of international concern". They are the highest level of health alert. So when Ebola goes global or an asteroid lands in Nevada, that's it, they get the same rating as chikungunya.
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Why Trump's China trip signifies the end of American primacy

Ladislav Zemánek
RT
Mon, 18 May 2026 16:00 UTC
Xi and Trump
© Evan Vucci-Pool/Getty ImagesChinese President Xi Jinping • US President Donald Trump
Washington is no longer confronting Beijing from a position of unquestioned domination.

Last week's Trump-Xi summit produced no dramatic declaration or historic treaty - yet its importance may prove far greater than any immediate deliverable. What happened in Beijing was not a breakthrough in policy but breakthrough in recognition: the United States openly acknowledged China as an equal center of global power. That alone marks a historic turning point.

For decades, American administrations approached China from the assumption that Beijing was either a manageable challenger or a state that would eventually integrate into a US-led international order on American terms. The summit suggested something fundamentally different.

US President Donald Trump appeared compelled to recognize that China is no longer simply a rival great power but a central pillar of the emerging world order - one that Washington can neither isolate nor overpower. This was the true message of the summit.
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Inside the historic crossroads facing the Fatah movement

Aseel Mafarjeh
Mondoweiss
Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00 UTC
PA Abbas/al-Sheikh
© Thaer Ganaim/APA ImagesPalestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and PA Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh
Fatah’s Eighth General Congress in Ramallah, May 14, 2026
As Fatah holds its Eighth Congress, insiders tell Mondoweiss that the dominant movement in Palestinian politics for over 50 years is in disarray. With Palestinians under threat on multiple fronts, the meeting may be the last chance to fix the crisis.

Today, the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, commonly known as Fatah, held its Eighth Congress in Ramallah. As the ruling faction in the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the dominant force within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the movement's Congress convened during what PA President Mahmoud Abbas described at its opening session as a "pivotal" milestone in the Palestinian struggle.

But Nasser al-Qudweh, a notable opposition figure within Fatah and a senior member of its Central Committee, previously said the gathering was not a real Congress at all.
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Pentagon quietly shut legally required program to prevent civilian deaths by military, watchdog finds

Joseph Gedeon, Cate Brown
The Guardian
Fri, 15 May 2026 17:34 UTC
Hegseth
© ABC7.comPentagon Chief Pete Hegseth
Trump administration accused of cutting military's civilian harm program in light of US strike on girls school in Iran.

The Pentagon has quietly dismantled a program it is legally required to operate to prevent and respond to civilian deaths in US military operations, according to its internal watchdog.

A report released by the department's inspector general concluded the US military no longer has the people, tools or infrastructure needed to comply with two federal statutes requiring it to maintain a functioning civilian casualty policy, and operate a Civilian Protection Center of Excellence (CP CoE).

Donald Trump's administration has been accused of making deep cuts to the Pentagon's civilian harm mitigation and response (CHMR) program, designed to handle training and procedures critical in limiting civilian harm in theaters of war.

While the program has not been officially canceled, the inspector general's report said that funding had ended for a data management platform; committee meetings had halted; and many dedicated personnel had been lost or reassigned.

"As a result, the DoW may not comply with its civilian casualties and harm policy," the report read. "A policy required by federal law." The Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment.

Comment: Systematic war crimes were enabled by indifference:
Released on May 15, the classified Department of War document reveals that not a single one of the 11 core objectives of the 2022 Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan (CHMR-AP) was fully implemented by the end of fiscal year 2025.

Funding for vital tools, including the civilian harm tracking database, was slashed. Steering committee meetings were scrapped. Experienced staff were purged or reassigned, leaving the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence a "shell on paper with no budget, no mandate or real mission, no authority," according to the report itself.

This was no bureaucratic oversight but a conscious policy choice by the Hegseth-led Pentagon to prioritize raw lethality over international law and human life. The timing of the report is damning. The report coincides with US Central Command chief Adm. Brad Cooper brazenly telling senators he could not "corroborate" widespread strikes on Iranian schools and hospitals after more than 13,600 US-led airstrikes on sovereign Iranian territory.

The Iranian Red Crescent Society reports over 115,000-140,000 civilian homes, businesses, and units damaged or destroyed, including 763 schools and hundreds of educational facilities.

More than 334 medical sites were targeted, with at least 50 hospitals damaged, killing 24-26 health workers and injuring over 118. The Iranian Red Crescent itself lost several centers in the onslaught.

Former Pentagon civilian harm assessment chief Wes Bryant slammed the inspector general's findings as a "whitewash," noting that 90 percent of dedicated billets were eliminated and the Center of Excellence has been locked out of oversight since March 2025.

The massacre is not limited to Iran. During Trump's second term, US forces have killed over 2,000 civilians worldwide. In Yemen's Operation Rough Rider alone, at least 224 civilians died in spring 2025 strikes, nearly doubling previous tolls in just weeks. Similar disregard has been reported in Venezuela, Somalia, Syria and beyond.

Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) warned that Hegseth's cuts have created "a crisis of the Trump Administration's own making," leaving civilians and even US troops at greater risk while handing "propaganda wins for our adversaries."

Madison Hunke of the Center for Civilians in Conflict stressed that the Pentagon is violating both law and its own policies forged from the bloody lessons of Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Trump Goes to China


Sott.net
Sun, 17 May 2026 20:47 UTC
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Deferred due to the US-Israeli war against Iran, Trump finally visited China last week, where he received an apparently 'warm' welcome from Xi Jinping, along with a stern warning: do not mess with Taiwan, and let us work to avoid the 'Thucydides Trap', wherein a dominant power inevitably wars with a rising power. Whether Trump understood the finer points of Chinese diplomacy is unclear, but it's clear he intended to 'do big business deals' by bringing 'our finest' captains of industry in tow.

Overhanging the event is the 'unfinished business' in Iran, where it's looking increasingly likely that the US and Israel will 'have another go' at 'reopening the Strait of Hormuz'. Should that be attempted, we are staring down the barrel of a gargantuan global energy crisis. Does Trump care? He certainly cares about his legacy, and even he must doubt the chances of the US 'fall-back plan' of North America supplanting the Middle East as the 'global energy spigot' in the event that the Gulf becomes FUBAR...


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The EU has finally agreed to sanction violent Israeli settlers, but critics say the measures do not go nearly far enough

Qassam Muaddi
Mondoweiss
Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00 UTC
Ursula von der Leyen Israel
© Wikipedia CommonsUrsula von der Leyen: Solidarity with the victims of terror attacks in Israel • 2023
Israeli settler groups committing violence against Palestinians in the West Bank could now be sanctioned by the European Union, after 27 foreign ministers of EU countries greenlit imposing sanctions on violent settlers and settler groups on Monday. The ministers also decided to sanction Hamas leaders. The decision came at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, which discussed major Middle East political portfolios.

The decision was announced by the EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, who announced on X that it was "high time for us to move from deadlock to delivery," adding that "extremisms and violence carry consequences." French FM Jean Noël Barrot said that the EU decided to sanction groups and leaders of Israeli settlers responsible for "serious and intolerable acts that must cease without delay."

In Israel, the decision was received with outrage from the entire political establishment. Israel's Foreign Minister, Gideon Saar, called the decision "arbitrary and political," denouncing what he described as an "outrageous comparison" between Israeli settlers and Hamas members. Israel's hardline National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who himself comes from the violent settler movement, called the EU "antisemitic." Ben-Gvir also called upon the government to approve the bill presented by his own party to ban banks in Israel from implementing the sanctions.

Comment: Europeans: How timely and expedient of them.

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China's warning and Europe's energy vulnerability: The hidden cost of EU sanctions

Adrian Korczyñski
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00 UTC
Trump Xi globe EU
© UnknownChina's warning to the EU
The European Union's adoption of its 20th sanctions package against Russia on 23 April 2026 has triggered one of the sharpest responses from Beijing in recent years.

A Reaction That Signals More Than Discontent

China's Ministry of Commerce expressed "firm opposition" to the inclusion of 27 Chinese entities on the sanctions list, demanded their immediate removal, and warned that the EU would bear the consequences if the decision stands.

Such language is not routine diplomacy. It is a calibrated warning that Europe may be approaching the limits of how far it can extend its economic pressure without triggering systemic pushback.

This is not simply about compliance or enforcement.

It is about the boundaries of influence in an increasingly resistant global system.
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Baku on the edge of the abyss: Why a war with Iran could destroy Azerbaijan

Alex Kaiadz
Global Research
Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00 UTC
Sides taken next move?
© AI-generated • Alex KsiądzSides taken • Next move?
In March 2026, the situation on the border between Azerbaijan and Iran escalated to the limit.
After a drone attack on civilian facilities in Nakhchivan, the Azerbaijani authorities, without waiting for an investigation, accused Tehran, closed the border to cargo transport, restricted airspace, and placed troops on combat alert.

In general, they demonstrated maximum determination to enter the war under any pretext.

The Iranian authorities spent enormous diplomatic resources in order, if not to extinguish the growing flame, then at least to prevent it from turning into a full-scale fire.

As of today, it can be confidently stated that Tehran managed to achieve the goals of its "minimum program." However, the situation on the Iranian-Azerbaijani border still remains fragile.
In the Tehran parliament, the risk of a strike from the northwest — that is, from the Azerbaijani-Turkish tandem — is being openly discussed.
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US and Israel preparing to renew attack on Iran next week


RT
Sat, 16 May 2026 18:55 UTC
US fighter jet
© Kevin Carter/Getty ImagesUS F-35 Lightning II fighter jet
While Tehran has said it does not trust Washington, it maintains the standoff cannot be resolved through military means.

The US and Israel are actively preparing for a renewal of hostilities with Iran and could resume attacks as early as next week, The New York Times has reported, citing sources.

Indirect negotiations between Iran and the Trump White House have remained deadlocked since a fragile ceasefire was established in April following over a month of hostilities. Both sides have repeatedly dismissed the other's demands as unrealistic, and both Tehran and Washington still insist they hold the upper hand.

Meanwhile, disruptions continue in the Strait of Hormuz, which has heavily affected global shipping and caused oil shortages worldwide. While Iran has announced its own mechanism to regulate maritime traffic in the waterway, Washington has rejected the scheme and is enforcing a naval blockade on Iranian ports in retaliation.

Two unnamed Middle East officials told the NYT on Friday that preparations for new strikes by Israel and the US have greatly accelerated over the past few days, and the conflict could resume as early as next week, according to the sources.
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