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[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Nearly 60 years after Israeli forces attacked the USS Liberty, killing 34 Americans, Congressman Thomas Massie is demanding a reckoning.

Al Jazeera’s Ava Warriner explains the attack, the alleged cover-up that followed, and the questions that remain unanswered.

[Mats Nilsson @mazzenilsson]

Semyon Ivanovich Zelensky (1924-1993) and his three brothers enlisted in the Red Army to fight the Nazis.

Semyon would be the only one of the four to come back. Both their parents were burned alive in a fire set by Nazis.

Like the man in the photo, Semyon was a highly decorated veteran. He was fortunate enough not to live to see his grandson honor a prominent Nazi collaborator with a solemn state funeral.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

What an absolute disgrace. A FIFA-certified referee being denied entry to the United States purely because he is Somali.

The World Cup is meant to bring people together. This is racism, plain and simple. Shameful.

https://t.co/rpSgTmmPU4

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Pep Guardiola is much more than just an unbelievable manager.

He spoke up for the people of Palestine, Sudan and Congo while others looked away.

Pep used his platform to defend our shared humanity. That will never be forgotten. Thank you, Pep.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

A small but significant victory in a massive battle to defend human rights and international law. Francesca has been vindicated even in the courts of the superpower that sanctioned her for doing her duty https://t.co/OlGwosbzhI

[Alexander Mercouris @AMercouris]

The disturbing truth about Iuliia Mendel's interview with Tucker Carlson is that the media, certainly in the UK, but I suspect across Europe, has mostly ignored it.

This is terrible. In any sane world Mendel, who is a Ukrainian patriot and a stern critic of Russia, and who knows ZELENSKY and the inner workings of the system he operates, is someone who the media should want to interview, and whose articles they should want to publish.

This is all the more extraordinary as the various legal moves which have been playing out in Kiev over the last few days corroborate what she is saying.

Perhaps there are political motivations behind NABU's anti-corruption actions and the steps taken against YERMAK. For the record, I believe there are. That however is not the most important fact about these actions. What is important is the extent of the corruption they expose.

Corruption, as is clear at least to me, is today the organising principle of Ukrainian politics, and will remain so whilst ZELENSKY continues in charge.

Every European citizen is required to accept a reduction in standard of living because of the support our governments give to Ukraine. We pay for this support through higher taxes, higher food and energy bills, higher interest payments, and through funds spent to support Ukraine, which are not spent on domestic needs. We see the results of this all around us. Our governments and media however want us to know as little as possible about the true nature of the political system in Kiev we are supporting. Witnesses, such as Iuliia Mendel, must not be heard. In the meantime ZELENSKY gets hosted by our King.

This does not help Ukraine or its people. It corrodes our democracy and impoverishes us. It is immoral and wrong.

https://t.co/5881tkLnU1

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

Sometimes I post real videos of China, and Americans usually, completely unable to cope, actually think they are AI.

This is what China's Five Mainland Megacities look like today.

These are the most modern metropolises in the world.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

As Starmer clings to power by his fingernails, there are many dark and shadowy forces working desperately to keep him in office. Why?

Thanks to fantastic journalism by @jodymcintyre_ we now know who they might be.

A former roommate of Keir Starmer from his time at Oxford University in the 1980s has come forward with detailed claims about the Prime Ministers early political life and associations.

Starmer's political ideology seemed to change upon his entry into the shadowy "Trilateral Commission" Established in the 1970s by American banker David Rockefeller the Commission aimed to address what its founders viewed as an excess of democracy in Western societies. Starmer remains the only British MP to have joined while serving as shadow Brexit secretary under Jeremy Corbyn.

The group has included figures such as Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Mandelson. Blackrock chief executive Larry Fink is also a member and several Starmer cabinet ministers including Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner have engaged with him directly. Palantir the American data analytics firm has secured multiple major UK government contracts without open tender processes.According to the source Starmer is not exercising full control within his administration particularly after the departures of key allies such as Morgan McSweeney and Peter Mandelson.

In response he has advanced two significant appointments. Antonia Romeo has been named Cabinet Secretary the highest ranking civil servant position. Records show Romeo met Palantir UK director Louis Mosley in April 2019 and facilitated introductions to NHS England leadership. The following year the NHS awarded Palantir an emergency contract during the pandemic response.

Former colleagues have criticised the appointment citing alleged bullying especially toward female staff during her diplomatic posting in New York. A photograph exists of Romeo alongside convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein. Margaret Hodge is positioned for the role of chair at Ofcom the regulator overseeing broadcasting media telecommunications and the Online Safety Act.

Hodge led Islington Council in the 1980s during which time concerns about a paedophile ring in local childrens homes were reportedly downplayed. She later served as Labour minister for children. Her 2008 to 2010 parliamentary campaign received support from the group Hope not Hate whose political adviser Liron Velleman provided evidence on the Online Safety Bill before his conviction for possessing indecent images of children.The claims note that Starmer has previously elevated individuals with connections to convicted sex offenders. He appointed Peter Mandelson a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein as a senior figure and granted a peerage to Matthew Doyle who was linked to convicted offender Sean Morton.

In 2021 Starmer publicly criticised the low charging rate for sexual assault cases despite having led the Crown Prosecution Service for five years. Efforts to manage fallout from the Mandelson appointment include the elevation of Kevan Jones to the House of Lords and his placement on the Intelligence and Security Committee giving him influence over related document releases.

Add this to his pseudo religious devotion to the Globalist project in Ukraine-

Who really "runs" Starmer? And who and what is his real priority? Is it the welfare of the British people?

You decide.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

This country might be about to have its 6th Prime Minister in 7 years.

Why? Because they’ve all failed to take on a rigged economic system that enriches the few at the expense of us all.

People want a society where children don’t go hungry. That is really not too much to ask.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

The EU claims that the “Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939” enabled WWII. It omits ten crucial facts:

- The Soviet Union was not even among the first ten countries to enter into treaties and non-aggression pacts with Nazi Germany. In 1939 alone, Lithuania, Romania, Denmark, Italy, Estonia and Latvia all signed non-aggression pacts with Hitler. Poland entered into one as far back as 1934.

- The Soviet Union tried to form an anti-fascist alliance throughout the 1930s, and was repeatedly rebuffed by European powers.

- Despite that, the Soviet Union was the most powerful bulwark against fascism before the war. The International Brigades in Spain represent the most concrete example of organised antifascist military resistance before Hitler’s invasion of Poland. These Brigades were led by communist parties armed by the Soviet Union, who were abandoned by Western “democracies” and their policies of "non-intervention” which simply left German and Italian intervention uncontested.

- In that same tradition, Stalin offered to send one million troops to deter Hitler’s aggression during the 1938 Sudetenland crisis. Poland and Romania objected, while France and Britain decided to pursue appeasement. That appeasement aimed in part at ensuring that Germany’s energies were directed eastwards, against communism.

- The Soviet Union was the primary target of German imperialism. The USSR’s leadership was aware of this from the early 1930s — and Germany’s leadership did not hide the fact. Hitler had repeatedly promised that Germany would be the “bulwark" of the West against “Bolshevism”, a position that found broad sympathies among the Western ruling classes. Auschwitz was first built to house Soviet POWs, 3.5 million of whom were exterminated during the war.

- Nazi Germany was simply the turning inwards of Western European colonialism. It was in modern-day Namibia that Germany’s Imperial Chancery recorded perhaps the first use of the term Konzentrationslager — the concentration camp — to describe an instrument of mass extermination.

- Adolf Hitler drew particular inspiration from the US settler-colonial model. He remarked approvingly how the US settlers had “gunned down the millions of Redskins to a few hundred thousand and now keep the modest remnants under observation in a cage”. He sent jurists to study the US Jim Crow laws, which formed the basis of the infamous Nuremberg Laws.

- The Red Army liberated Auschwitz, then liberated Europe. If not for the US, which moved quickly to suffocate the rising communist movements on the continent, we might have seen socialism rise at least in Greece, Italy, France and, eventually, Portugal.

- After the war, West Germany quickly reneged on the Potsdam Agreement, filled its security services with former Nazis. NATO, also filled with former Nazis, was founded to wage war on socialism and anti-colonial struggles. In the process it resuscitated the Wehrmacht and paved the way for the German revanchism we are seeing today.

- As a result, we have endured decades of US-led imperial hegemony, whose effects are a dying planet and tens of millions of lives stolen by imperialist wars and sanctions alone. That hegemony has absorbed and expanded the historical mission of fascism, carrying it forward into a new century. Gaza is the clearest expression of that process today — but it is by no means the only one.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The Prime Minister says his government has got "the big political decisions right". Let's go through them.

The government chose to cut welfare so it could spend even more on weapons and war.

The government chose to demonise the sick and disabled.

The government chose to keep children in poverty until it was dragged kicking and screaming to finally scrap the two-child benefit cap.

The government chose not to bring water into public ownership, not to tax wealth and not to implement rent controls.

The government chose to arm Israel and participate in genocide.

The government chose to let the US use British air bases for its war crimes in Iran.

The government chose to let Palantir get its hands on our NHS.

The government chose to scapegoat migrants and refugees for its own failures.

Poverty, inequality and genocide. Those are the government's big decisions. And that is how this government will be remembered.

[Based Hungary 🇭🇺 @HungaryBased]

🚨BREAKING:

🇸🇰 This is HUGE! Slovakia REJECTS Ursula's leadership in the European Union.

"The Russians would supply the Americans with gas and oil at normal prices… and the Americans will sell it to us with a huge high-margin surcharge. Are we such idiots already?"

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Corruption, drugs and greed: Volodymyr Zelensky’s longtime press secretary on the secret world of the West’s favorite dictator.

0:00 How Did Mendel Begin Working for Zelensky?
11:29 Why Hasn’t US Media Covered Zelensky’s Scandals?
25:30 Zelensky’s Relationship With Joe Biden
32:45 Is Zelensky Himself Corrupt?
36:44 Who Does Zelensky Actually Listen To?
42:45 Zelensky’s Use of the Frontlines as Punishment
50:17 Why Hasn’t Western Media Spoken up for Ukrainians?
1:03:32 Why Do Western Countries Want the War to Continue?
1:09:16 Does Zelensky Do Coke?
1:13:04 What’s Zelensky’s Wife Like?
1:14:56 Mendel’s Experience Living Through the Ukraine War
1:18:27 Is There Any Way to Get Rid of Zelensky?
1:23:42 Why Are There So Many Americans Always in Ukraine?
1:32:35 Mendel’s Message to Putin

[David Icke @davidicke]

This is a recent documentary about the amazing ancient structures of Peru. I have seen many myself and no way were they built by a 'primitive' culture (the same with endless others all around the world). Official 'history' really is bunkum.
Human 'evolution' is supposed to only progress 'forward' when in fact the infusion - or deletion - of KNOWLEDGE is what decides is possible.
Instead of repeating the official fairy tales delivered by Cult-controlled 'education' and media we should be - as here - asking who built these structures and how.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

My reaction to Keir Starmer's last ditch press conference - an unsurprising reaction but possibly a helpful one (at least to those who, like me, consider him an abysmal PM).

Like many, I approached Keir Starmer's prime ministership with deep-seated pessimism, my expectations already set at rock bottom. Yet, I confess: I failed to foresee the clinical precision with which he and his inner cabal would sabotage their own administration and scar Britain.

The crux of their debacle lay, first, in a distinctly dictatorial, authoritarian reflex. And second—crucially—in a seething contempt for those who lent them their votes, while simultaneously performing a grotesque pantomime of flattery toward those who never would, and never will, support them.

Having exorcised from the Labour Party its most authentic voices—people of unimpeachable integrity, such as Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, a purge that eluded even Tony Blair’s repertoire—Starmer embarked on a rampage:

He slashed disability benefits; armed and fed intelligence to the Israeli government as it executed genocide in Gaza; channeled his own inner Farage, perhaps his inner Enoch Powell, to vilify migrants and treat refugees as vermin; gutted international aid to masquerade as a defender of defence spending; bulldozed wildlife and their habitats; unveiled a new lexicon of draconian anti-protest laws; left trans people suspended in legal limbo; clung with religious fervour to absurd, socially ruinous fiscal rules; allowed Rachel Reeves to squander £100 billion covering the Bank of England’s outrageous and wholly unnecessary Quantitative Tightening losses—a gift that keeps giving to the City’s banks—while imposing yet another round of austerity on government departments and public services.

Once the great hope of the downtrodden, Starmer’s Labour has become the villain - the genuinely nasty party.

Once a human rights lawyer, he has single-handedly plunged Britain into a shoddy, incompetent authoritarianism.

https://t.co/wIjnc9NfmJ

[Dominic Lee 李梓敬 @dominictsz]

🇨🇳China tackled its waste problem by building over 1,000 waste-to-energy plants, using a 150-year-old technology on a massive scale.

Now, some cities even import trash to keep the system running. Turning pollution into power has become a global model!

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

La responsabilidad pública también implica la obligación moral de no mirar hacia otro lado.

Es un honor otorgar la Orden del Mérito Civil a una voz que sostiene la conciencia del mundo: @FranceskAlbs, Relatora Especial de la ONU en el territorio palestino ocupado.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE

There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?"

Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything?

Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it!

And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else.

Francesca Albanese is that someone.

She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen."

Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name.

And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity.

Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people.

There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased.

There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled."

There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.”

Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks.

She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape".

Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence.

What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik.

These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named.

Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable.

We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know."

Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise.

So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that.

A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything.

Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky.

Let us stand with her.

Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now.

[Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Recognising the reality that the war against Iran was a failure, that the proxy war against Russia has been lost, and that the economic war against China has backfired is smeared and censored in decadent Europe as being “pro-Iran,” “pro-Russia,” and “pro-China.” Being “pro-West” demands embracing delusion by putting on a blindfold and marching toward the cliff. It is obligatory to repeat dishonest chants about democracy and human rights as they burn down the Middle East, fight to the last Ukrainian, risk nuclear war with Russia, and make an enemy out of China. All of these states could have been key partners. Reality is believed to be a social construction, and if they only commit to narratives about the world as they wish it were, then it will come true.