That time when an unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before Indian President Modi as a gesture of respect.
Then, at the last moment, the United States suddenly abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to wait and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.
What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had blown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.
This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.
And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear......
System of a Down's Serj Tankian reacted to Israel's cabinet vote to recognize the Armenian Genocide, posting a video to his Instagram story on June 29, 2026.
His full statement:
"For many years, Israel's government used AIPAC to lobby the US Congress to not recognize the Armenian genocide, to prevent Congress from recognizing the Armenian genocide, due to their relationship with Turkey, their intelligence sharing with Turkey, et cetera.
Today, the Netanyahu cabinet decided to recognize the Armenian genocide of 1915 — a genocide that led Hitler thinking that he could do what he could do to the Jews in the 1930s and 1940s.
The fact that this government is already committing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon decided to recognize the genocide of my grandparents is the worst f***ing thing that they could have done to Armenians — by using our history, our genocide, our pain to their political advantage.
F*** you."
Palantir was founded by Peter Thiel.
Who also founded PayPal with Elon Musk.
And sits on the board of Meta.
And built surveillance tools for the CIA.
And ICE.
And the US military.
The NHS gave them a £330 million contract in 2023.
Then gave their staff unlimited access to identifiable patient data.
Before it’s even anonymised.
The NHS’s own internal briefing said this risked “loss of public confidence.”
They did it anyway.
Palantir is also the cloud support for the UK’s nuclear weapons system. 
Over 200,000 people signed petitions to scrap the contract.
NHS staff refused to use the platform on ethical grounds.
MPs called it unacceptable.
The House of Commons is reviewing it.
The platform is also 10 times slower than the system it replaced.
The UK is banning social media for children to protect their data.
Scanning phones to protect children.
Banning romantic AI chatbots to protect children.
Giving a CIA-linked US intelligence firm unlimited access to every NHS patient’s identifiable health records.
For £330 million.
The children are being protected very selectively.
Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.
Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.
This was the last poem he published.
Old king syndrome is a political state where corrupt officials, eunuchs, and the harem ladies work together or against each other to control a doddering senile ruler to enrich their families and interest groups.
Am I dangerous?
To AIPAC...yes.
To corporations who want to buy off politicians...yes.
To the system that allows this to go on...yes.
But to the working people of Michigan? Hell no.
🚨 NO, no es Rusia ni Irán, esto fue en Estados Unidos
En donde una policía en Arizona golpeó y lesionó a una mujer embarasada de 9 meses que estaba esposada al arrestarla porque supuestamente estaba manejando mal.
Y ese es el país que se presume ante el mundo como ejemplo en los Derechos Humanos...
This is the most corrupt words to come out of a Speaker's mouth imaginable. The job of Congress isn't to protect the President and his family. It's to provide checks and balances on the Executive Branch. You're damn right we will investigate crimes and corruption. Who moved $180 million in oil futures 15 minutes before Iran announcements? Who has gotten sole source contracts because of their connections to the Trump family? Where did our social security data go when DOGE downloaded it into portable hard drives? Where are the rest of the Epstein files? On and on this Congress has chosen covering up crimes instead of stopping them. That ends in November. @WellmanForMO
KARL: Republicans are gonna make you the poster child for the Democratic Party
MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last November, and over the course of these last 6 months, what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.
Mike Johnson: “If we lose the midterms, the Democrats will go after the president’s family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, and the rest of you who have committed crimes.”
🔥 ICYMI — @ScarboroughNow: “No, this is not Mamdani’s fault. If you want to blame anybody, blame Netanyahu. 4 years of maximalist aims. There’s always blowback in the Middle East… Bibi is the reason Israel’s standing across 🇺🇸 is lower than it has been since 1948.”
"In Albania, the situation has completely spiraled out of control.
The Albanian people are calling on all celebrities to speak out publicly about them. Amplify our voice to the world. We will not accept the occupation of our land by the United States and Israel."