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The Assault on a French Nun and the Forgotten Story of Palestinian Christians
15 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed settlers, and society that has been conditioned to see the ‘other’ as subhuman. Yet, this was not the typical viral video that emerges almost daily from occupied Palestine. The victim, this time, was […]
US Trapped by Iran’s Resilience; Why the Solution Is Agreement, Not Attrition
15 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
In recent months, a painful but increasingly undeniable conclusion has begun to emerge across Western think tanks, mainstream media, and U.S. intelligence assessments: contrary to Washington and Tel Aviv’s initial expectations, Iran has neither collapsed, fragmented, nor moved toward surrender. On the contrary, the conflict has exposed layers of what can only be described as […]
When Killing Becomes Commonplace
14 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) Last week, when the Pentagon resumed its attacks on small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, the media barely noticed. The U.S. military has now destroyed 56 vessels […]
Why Is It So Difficult for Iran To Reach an Agreement With the United States?
13 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
The collapse of the Islamabad negotiations between Iran and United States signified an unbridgeable rift, not only between the negotiating parties, but also between two worldviews on resolving conflicts. The last two rounds of negotiations in May and June 2025 and February 2026 had already demonstrated the Trump administration’s propensity to use stick, instead of […]
Payback: Russia Uses Iran as a Proxy Against the United States
13 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
Washington and Moscow both enthusiastically celebrated the victory of the Allied “Grand Alliance” over the fascist powers at the end of World War II. Since then, however, the two capitals have typically been on opposite sides of numerous nasty geostrategic struggles around the world. They also have relished opportunities to work with foreign countries and […]
Why J Street Does Not Go Far Enough
13 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
An illegal auction of stolen Palestinian land at an elite Upper East Side synagogue, and the swift condemnations from groups like J Street launched against New Yorkers who attempted to protest it, reveal the Zionist rot at the heart of the American Jewish elite establishment that is bastardizing and corrupting the religion from within, and […]
Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be America’s Suez Crisis?
12 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the US war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context suggest that the […]
A $1.5 Trillion Military Budget Is a Gift to the Grifters
12 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
Last week “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth insulted Americans by claiming that a 50 percent increase in the US military budget – from an incomprehensible one trillion dollars to an impossible one and a half trillion – was a “fiscally responsible investment.” “Thanks to President Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense budget, this War Department has moved […]
Iran Has Nuclear Energy, Not Nuclear Weapons
11 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
Last week, on May 5, 2026, President Trump told a group of young children in the Oval Office that “we have to make a journey down to Iran to take the nuclear weapon. They would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks.” Trump also told the children, “Iran with a nuclear weapon…maybe we wouldn’t all […]
Two Weeks to an Iranian Nuke – The Ultimate False Flag Lie
8 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
The now endlessly repeated notion that Iran’s stockpile of 60% enriched uranium (HEU) is tantamount to having a nuclear weapon within weeks is downright malefic. Indeed, this gross deception is so thoroughly fallacious and dangerously misleading that it needs be debunked lock, stock and barrel. So we begin with the War Party’s hoary claim that […]
USA Today writer Rexx Huppke says it’s time for Republicans and President Donald Trump to put up or shut up because blaming Biden is no longer a winning strategy.“That excuse ain’t working anymore,” said Huppke, citing a May 12 CNN poll showing an eye-watering 70 percent of Americans disapproving of Trump’s handling of the economy.U.S. inflation is 
Top Colorado Democrats and democracy advocates were among those outraged and puzzled Friday after Democratic Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a former county clerk and 2020 election denier who aided Trump in his scheme to derail the 2020 election. Those critics now include Colorado’s own state secretary Jenna Griswold, who spoke to MS NOW’s “Weekend” panel in terms of treachery.“Tina Peters was no political prisoner,” said Griswold. “She compromised
New York Times opinion columnists EJ Dionne and attorney Sarah Isgur are catching hints that President Donald Trump is turning American voters off to the kind of loud and stupid personalities willing to “eat a cockroach” for money.Dionne began his assessment with a comparison to Civil Rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer claiming to be “sick and tired of being sick and tired.” “I think a lot of Americans, beyond their partisanship even — especially normie Republicans, who aren’t MAGA — are just tired of this. And so, these states will be a test of that,” said Dionne, speaking to voters forced to vote in freshly mangled districts that Republicans are gerrymandering. Isgur pointed out that po
Reuters reporter Brad Brooks reports that many rural MAGA still embrace President Donald Trump’s policies, no matter how it hurts them.Colorado resident Amy Van Duyn knows the price of gasoline has doubled to $4.34 per gallon since President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year."I used to fill my tank for $36," Van Duyn, 42, told Reuters. "Now $36 gets me half a tank."Her co-worker Tonyah Bruyette told Reuters that when it's time to buy groceries, she's left wondering where all h
More often than not an online influencer will remind his or her audience that they are being paid for their services, even if the announcement isn’t completely overt. That’s the case with progressive influencer Carlos Eduardo Espina and others, said New York Times writer Ken Bensinger.“[Espina] revealed a surprising endorsement to his 14.5 million followers on TikTok: He would support Tom Steyer, the billionaire running for California governor as a Democrat. “I really believe Tom Steyer is different,” Espina said in a posted speech. “He could be traveling around the world or doing whatever he wants, but he wants to serve the people of this state.”Bensinger
“Convenient mythologies require neither evidence nor logic.” — Edward S. Herman, “Manufactured Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media”In a number of articles on its website, PEN America explains in striking detail the right-wing Trojan horse of “parental rights,” illuminating the threat caused by policymakers focused on this theater in the culture war.PEN — which has gained a global reputation for standing “at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide” — argues that “parents’ rights” is not a source of freedom as claimed, but the crux of an ideological rigidity exercised by MAGA Republicans
Top Colorado Democrats and democracy advocates were among those expressing concern on Friday after Democratic Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a former county clerk and 2020 election denier backed by President Donald Trump.“Today, Gov. Polis delivered a victory to every person urging President Trump to seize control of elections in 2026,” said Aly Belknap, executive director of the advocacy group Common Cause Colorado, in a statement. “By commuting Tina Peters’ sentence, Gov. Polis dealt a massive blow to Colorado’s ability to run its own elections and uphold it
Whenever a new poll comes out showing Trump’s abysmal ratings, public reactions follow a pattern. Public comments don’t question Trump’s disapproval rating. Rather, millions of people question the flip side: 
Former MAGA adherent Rich Logis says more and more Americans are getting turned off by the sheer overtness of President Donald Trump’s corruption and self-enrichment.His confession arrived on the heels of an MS NOW anchor comparing Trump’s modern Republican Party to the corruption-obsessed Republican Party of the Clinton years, wherein the Republican Congress dedicated four years of investigation to President Bill Clinton’s Whitewater scandal. That incident involved Clinton incorporating the Whitewater Development Corporation with the purpose of building vacation properties while Clinton was state governor.“It lite
Congressional lawmakers and Trump’s own former lawyer are panicking over how racked President Donald Trump’s mind appears to be with illness.“I don't know how anyone can see what he posts or watch him in any meeting and think that he's fit for office,” said one lawmaker speaking to reporters.Another lawmaker said: “We have strategic ambiguity. But [Trump] is just … He’s confrontational, inconsistent, erratic,” said another congressman, who then fluttered his tongue in a demonstration of Trump’s lucidity.“I don't trust that man to be able to cognitively make a complete sentence, let alone negoti
At least twelve people have sustained injuries, with four in critical condition, in a car-ramming incident in the Italian city of Modena Read Full Article at RT.com
An ex-aide’s public break with Zelensky lays bare corruption, lies and coercion – while Western backing keeps his system alive Read Full Article at RT.com
The EU should create a new core group of nations and abandon its unanimity decision-making principles, Josep Borrell has said Read Full Article at RT.com
Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of Islamic State globally, was killed in Nigeria, US President Donald Trump has said Read Full Article at RT.com
Russia and China are being pushed toward deeper strategic interdependence by sanctions, energy security, geography and Eurasian trade routes Read Full Article at RT.com
Massive crowds have gathered in central London for the anti-immigration Unite the Kingdom rally amid a heavy police presence Read Full Article at RT.com
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he would no longer recommend the US for study or work, citing a deteriorating “social climate” Read Full Article at RT.com
President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree granting simplified Russian citizenship to residents of Transnistria Read Full Article at RT.com
Israeli strike targets Hamas military leader Izz al-Din al-Haddad despite ceasefire in Gaza Read Full Article at RT.com
Mercedes-Benz is considering entering defense production if it would make “business sense,” the German carmaker’s CEO has told the WSJ Read Full Article at RT.com
Unitree has just gone and made many a kid-at-heart's wildest dream come true. The Chinese robotics firm has created the GD01, a functional mecha suit that you can hop into and walk about on two legs or four.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, EngineeringTags: Unitree
If you think that the Rivian R1S is just the SUV version of the R1T pickup, you’re right. That doesn’t change how great it is. Mostly.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Rivian, SUV, 
Few of us enjoy the dentist – but next time you're in the chair, think about how lucky you are not to have been visiting a Neanderthal tooth doctor. New research on a single tooth from a Russian cave has found that its center is marked with the kind of grooves made by stone tools used as rudimentary drills.Continue ReadingCategory: Archaeology, ScienceTags: 
One of the world’s most dangerous birds may carry signals invisible to the human eye.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Birds, Australia, Animal science, 
It's been close to two years since Red Bull revealed the RB17, a low-slung aerodynamic hypercar teased as capable of generating nearly twice its own weight in downforce. Now, in 2026, we’re not too far away from the real thing.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: Red Bull, 
Airstream trailers boast a lot of positives, but "cheap" and "lightweight" are not typically among them. In fact, we never expected to use those two terms in an Airstream description, but the new World Traveler trailer is in fact designed as a lighter, more affordable Airstream travel trailer option. True, it carries the big asterisk of being light and cheap *for an Airstream, but it does demonstrate clearly that the iconic Silver Bullet badge is continuing to adapt its near-century-old design to the changing trends of modern times.
All right, I admit it, I have a thing for affordable off-road electric motorcycles. There’s just something about a battery-powered, inexpensive dual sport that’s quiet, filled with torque, and almost as light as a lawn mower. Heck yeah!Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: Juiced Bikes, 
Bicycle tail lights have a way of playing second fiddle to their brighter, more interesting headlight siblings. We're sure you'll agree, however, that the Hi-Tail is one tall, telescoping safety beacon that definitely won't be "outshined."Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles, TransportTags: bike lights, 
The Cabarita tiny house strikes a nice balance between spaciousness and portability. Designed for small families or full-time downsizers wanting a little extra space, the home features a light-filled and open interior with two bedrooms.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, OutdoorsTags: 
Huawei's latest XPixel smart headlights upgrade automotive lighting from a safety feature into a full-color projection system that can play movies, render games, and guide drivers – all from the front of the car.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: Huawei,