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Third Culture Kid, Global Citizen, Anti-Imperialist.
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[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Este año no estaremos en Eurovisión, pero lo haremos con la convicción de estar en el lado correcto de la historia.

Por coherencia, responsabilidad y humanidad.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

CHINA’S LEADER XI JINPING TOLD DONALD TRUMP the truth about Jimmy Lai on Thursday—and the US President immediately backed off on calls for him to be freed.

Here’s what happened. Trump raised the topic and Xi “went through a whole thing”, the US leader said afterwards.

The facts the Chinese leader gave him were so powerful that the discussion moved on to other topics.

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THE DETAILS

So what did he say? ‘He went through a whole thing.’

No press was allowed into that discussion, but the present writer has seen some of the China documentation on the Jimmy Lai trial and it is accurate, detailed and evidence-based—unlike the reports in the western mainstream media.

No western media attended the Jimmy Lai trial, and all wrongly presented it as a press freedom issue. Not true. It was fundamentally a foreign collusion case with more than 2000 pieces of evidence, none of which were quoted in the international press.

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SO MUCH TO SAY

There’s so many facts the Chinese leader could have included.

Such as the fact that Jimmy Lai was shown to be in communication with multiple anti-China people in Washington, including Mike Pompeo (director of the CIA and later Secretary of State); James Cunningham, a US diplomat who ran a notorious China demonization operation; defense official Paul Wolfowitz; and others in the White House and in the US State Department, including John Bolton, the mustache man who just likes to bomb everyone in sight.

The Chinese leader may also have told him that since at least 2014, Jimmy Lai had secretly distributed huge amounts of overseas cash to anti-China agents cultivated in Hong Kong by the Washington-based NED, an operation that Trump’s own administration describes as one which “destabilizes sovereign governments”.

And there’s much more, too. Whatever Xi Jinping said to Donald Trump, it was enough for the US leader to realize that this man could not be released—and they moved on to other topics.

For the people of Hong Kong, who are STILL unfairly suffering from the sanctions that Jimmy Lai worked with Mike Pompeo and others to introduce, justice will continue to be done.

[Camila @camilapress]

Venezuela sent a shipment of humanitarian aid to Cuba today. Photos: Instituto Simón Bolívar

[Camila @camilapress]

Venezuelan, Russian and Belarusian authorities and the Russian community are commemorating Victory Day today in Caracas with Russia's ambassador @EmbSergio leading the procession.

[Explosive Media @ExplosiveMediaa]

Wow look at this 🤩

@TehranTimes79

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Zionists staging fake "antisemitic attacks" happens so often that it is unreasonable to treat each instance as an isolated individual event. This is a coordinated tactic. Someone compiled a 35-minute video of news reports about these staged incidents:

[Press TV 🔻 @PressTV]

"Oil is only the START"

This is what Donald Trump DOESN'T WANT YOU TO SEE about the closure of the Strait of Hormuz!

Follow https://t.co/B3zXG74hnU

[╰┈➤ 🇮🇪 Brònzy 🇮🇪 @BronzyGuevara]

Chinese-made electric tricycles on the streets of Cuba,
majority of them powered by solar panels. 🇨🇺✊️🇨🇳

They cannot blockade the Sun,
Cuba will always be a winner.

THANKYOU CHINA 🇨🇳

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed 3 Indonesian UN peacekeepers in South Lebanon.

They were wearing blue helmets.
They were in UN uniforms.
They were peacekeepers.

Israel bombed them anyway.

Not a peep in Western media.
Not a word from the international community.

Kick Israel out of the UN.

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

Striking civilian structures, including unfinished bridges, will not compel Iranians to surrender.

It only conveys the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray. Every bridge and building will be built back stronger. What will never recover: damage to America's standing.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Iranian movie makers just dropped another banger Lego music movie and seems like they increase quality and pro level each time

Don't let Trump see this or he will go so furious 😭😂🤣

People keep asking when will Lego company make and put on sale these banger models 😂

[Margarita Simonyan @M_Simonyan]

"A decision was made to specifically hit that target, which means they knew it was a journalist. This was an assassination attempt by Israel to kill RT journalists."

Scott Ritter gives us detailed breakdown of why the IDF strike on RT's Steve Sweeney was likely deliberate.

[Top_Shelf @TopStyle77]

@zhen_ming_ @Void_Bourn Classic CIA M.O.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

BREAKING NEWS: THE WEST IS TURNING TAIL. NATO staff were branded “cowards” by US President Donald Trump last night as they left their base in Iraq, citing danger from Iranian attacks.

But Trump himself then admitted that the US intended to wind down the US attack on the oil-rich nation, calling on China and Japan to take over the American assault on the Strait of Hormuz.

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NATO OUT, U.S. TO FOLLOW

Trouble started when the US President last night reacted furiously to news that Poland, and later NATO, were moving out of Iraq to head back to Europe.

“COWARDS, and we will REMEMBER!” Trump wrote.

But in another statement, he made it clear the US also intended to leave soon.

“We are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great Military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the Terrorist Regime of Iran. The Hormuz Strait will have to be guarded and policed, as necessary, by other Nations who use it.”

He named China and Japan as countries to take over military duties in those waters—although no analysts think this is remotely likely.

Analysts said it was impossible to avoid the conclusion: Iran is winning, or has won.

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HOW THE RETREAT WAS REVEALED

Following a similar step by Poland, NATO yesterday admitted that its mission in Iraq had quietly fled to Europe, with the last personnel leaving on aircraft earlier that day.

“Nato Mission Iraq has adjusted its posture, safely relocating all its personnel from the Middle East to Europe,” said a statement from the alliance’s European command.

Iraq, which the US took in 2003 in a murderous invasion widely recognized as the first great war crime of the century, has been a major base for America’s mission to control West Asian oil.

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REMOLDING IRAQ

The NATO mission to Iraq was basically set up around Baghdad in 2018 to remold Iraqi authorities as tools for US-led western dominance in West Asia.

But this month, as UK and European leaders sided with Trump and Netanyahu in their surprise attack, Iran responded with attacks on troops at British, French and Italian bases in northern Iraq.

This triggered the decision to remove the NATO operation, which has large numbers of non-military staff.

The Nato statement said its mission would continue, but from a safe distance--a military headquarters in Naples, Italy.

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CONTRADICTORY STEPS

Meanwhile, Trump’s admission that the US was looking to pull out of the operation was harder to parse—as it is among several contradictory steps the US is taking.

At the exact same time that the US President admitted to wanting to “wind down” his war on Iran, two ships full of US Marines continued to head to the area to bolster the US-Israel attack.

And other nations have also stepped up their role. The UK has shifted its definition of "defensive" to an absurd degree. Providing UK facilities to US bombers who then attack Iranians defending their homeland is now defined as "defensive".

But Trump’s words were unusually clear. The US will no longer be involved in efforts to force the Iranians to abandon their closure of the Strait of Hormuz, he said, as others will take that duty.

The most the US would do would be to stand by to provide aid. “If asked, we will help these Countries in their Hormuz efforts …” he said.

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NATIONS REBRAND IRAN AS THE AGGRESSOR

In yet another contradictory move, more pro-US nations yesterday said they were joining the UK and some EU nations pledging to help the US force the Iranians to reopen the waterway.

The countries siding with Trump are Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Denmark, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic, Romania, Bahrain and Lithuania.

All signed a document that portrayed Iran as an illegal military aggressor, making no mention of the fact that the Iranians were responding to a US-Israel attack.

The list is valuable, giving the rest of the world a clear indication of which countries ultimately see the US as their ultimate leader, happy to subvert reality to rebrand the Iranians as the aggressors in a war in which they are clearly the victims.

If these nations ever had any moral high ground, they have lost it forever.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

THE US EMBASSY IN Cuba cheekily asked for permission to import fuel for their own use—despite the fact that the country’s 9.7 million population is suffering from a brutal US fuel blockade, the Washington Post reported a few hours ago.

The embassy request was declined, and described as “shameless” by a Cuban government spokesman, the paper said.

The Trump administration has been running a blockade that has prevented oil imports reaching Cuba for three months, with hospitals stopping surgeries and ordinary businesses of all kinds grinding to a halt—including the food industry.

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CHINA STEPPING IN

China has provided large amounts of food aid and is working with Cubans to set up major solar power and other renewable energy projects to enable farming and basic amenities to keep running.

While those are long term plans, the Chinese have already provided 5,000 portable solar energy equipment sets which are being installed at health clinics and elderly-care facilities.

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ILLEGAL BLOCKADE

The US blockade, one of a long series of sanctions, is illegal under international law, but US allies in the EU, UK and Australia are choosing not to censure Trump for it—which he has taken as a green light to continue.

The US has been tormenting Cuba for 65 years for its people’s choice of socialist and communist political leaders.

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A PRIVILEGE IT DENIES TO THE CUBAN PEOPLE

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations said Trump’s actions showed the US was intent on “causing the greatest possible harm to the Cuban economy, the well-being of the people, and their standard of living.

“The Ministry interprets as shameless the claim by the diplomatic mission to access a good [the fuel] as a privilege that it denies to the Cuban people.”

The Trump administration takes the position that starving the people of fuel is actually the kinder option, since the US President has said that he could simply “take” the country "any time" he wants.

[Rohitash Mahur ( Lodhi ) @MahurRohitash]

@Megatron_ron @buddy2025 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth accuses Iran of investing in missiles and weapons instead of people, during a speech in which he's asking for $200 billion for weapons, instead of people.

[ADUFE @EweduOfIbadan]

@ShaykhSulaiman HOUTHIS OFFICIALLY JOIN THE IRAN WAR
He said they’ll target U.S. ships in the Red Sea:

“This war is the war of the entire Ummah

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

JUST IN: HOUTHI OFFICIAL STATEMENT

“We warn the Arab countries, especially Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, against intercepting the missiles coming from Iran and Yemen and the entire Resistance Axis against the Zionist entity.

Any country that intercepts the Axis's missiles will be treated as an inseparable part of the Zionist entity, and he who is warned has no excuse.

Joint operations are coming.”

[Setareh Sadeqi 𓂆 ☫ @Leelako]

This is was a working class neighborhood in Tehran. Small old houses that sheltered warm-hearted families. Many have been martyred. In ine house, the 6 members of the family were killed all together. This is the liberation and 'rescue mission' by the Zionist & US regimes.

[Camila @camilapress]

Coming together for a screening of @bellybeastcuba’s The War on Cuba in Toronto to discuss ways to support Cuba, held by the Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association.