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Instagram removed our page with almost 150k followers with no way to appeal the takedown.

Tens of millions of people who viewed our content every month have been cut off from one of the few alternative media outlets with reporters and sources in Palestine, Lebanon, China, Cuba, and beyond.

This is not an isolated incident. We see it as part of an escalating pattern of information warfare by big tech monopolies, deeply intertwined with the ruling elite — and a concerning rise in censorship targeting alternative media, directed by Washington and Brussels.

We are working hard to restore access to our millions of monthly viewers. In the meantime, tell your friends and comrades to join us on Telegram @comrawire.

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[ BREAKING ] Heavy gunfire in Somalia's capital has forced families to flee their homes in Mogadishu's Howl-Wadaag district.

Clashes are ongoing near Dabka Junction between government forces and troops reportedly loyal to former Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire, who was attending a meeting with traditional clan elders when the fighting erupted.

The violence comes one day before planned opposition demonstrations.

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🇰🇪 🇺🇸 | Kenyan protesters are screaming "Down with US imperialism" while the police is killing them.

Two people were shot after police opened fire on hundreds of demonstrators gathered near the Laikipia Air Base on Monday.

One of the victims was a local shopkeeper who had closed his business because of the unrest and was attempting to return home when he was shot. Police denied any knowledge of deaths.

On Tuesday, protesters marched on Kenya's Ministry of Health, carrying a mock coffin, but got arrested. The protests are against a US-backed Ebola quarantine facility designed to serve only US citizens exposed to the virus.

A Kenyan court had already issued a temporary block on the facility last week following a lawsuit by the Law Society of Kenya. On Tuesday it extended that block for three more weeks and ordered the government to disclose its full agreement with Washington.

Despite the ruling, US military aircraft have continued delivering personnel and equipment to the Kenyan Air Force base at Laikipia where the 50-bed isolation unit is planned.

Trump cut foreign aid to Congo's Ebola response earlier this year. The outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo strain, for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment, is now the third-largest on record.

Washington then turned to Kenya, a country with zero Ebola cases, and built the facility anyway. Ruto said he approved it after Trump asked, citing decades of health cooperation.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 | US President Trump just claimed, “Iran has agreed they will not have a nuclear weapon.”

Here's what you need to know:

⚪️ Iran has consistently denied that it is building nuclear weapons. This position is backed by international inspectors and US intelligence.

⚪️ In 2010, Khamenei issued a religious decree forbidding the production and use of nuclear weapons.

⚪️ Although Iran's nuclear facilities account for only 3% of the global total, around 25% of the IAEA's inspections have focused on the country. Not a single inspection has found evidence of a nuclear weapons program.

⚪️ Iran's nuclear program dates back to the 1950s, but the 1979 Islamic Revolution marked a turning point as the new Iranian leadership adopted a foreign policy opposing Western imperialism.

⚪️ For Iran, the nuclear program is strictly civilian in nature and deeply tied to national sovereignty. Crippled by sanctions and facing an energy crisis, Iran has long viewed nuclear energy as key to securing energy independence and reducing its vulnerability to foreign pressure.

⚪️ Amid sanctions and blockades, Iran continued to advance its nuclear capabilities, expanding research and infrastructure. In response, the Israeli occupation and the US carried out assassinations of scientists as part of a hybrid war against Iran.

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Benin's new president has flown to Ouagadougou to meet Captain Ibrahim Traore, in the clearest sign yet that Cotonou is moving to repair relations with the Alliance of Sahel States (AES).

Romuald Wadagni landed in Burkina Faso's capital on Tuesday for talks followed by a joint press conference at the Koulouba presidential palace. The visit was the second stop of a single-day tour that began in Niamey earlier that morning.

Relations between both countries soured after the AES was formed. Benin's border with Burkina Faso became a fault line, diplomatically and militarily, as France worked to maintain its last corridor of influence in the region.

Burkina Faso's communications minister described the visit as an expression of "friendship, brotherhood and cooperation."

Whether the tour signals a genuine reorientation of Beninese foreign policy, or an attempt to manage the neighborhood while keeping French ties intact, remains the question his first weeks in office will answer.

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Watch a Mau Mau revolutionary explain how he resisted British colonialism, and why the fight isn't over.

Maina wa Murigu took up arms against British colonial rule and is still waiting for his land back, more than six decades after independence.

Speaking from Nairobi on Kenya's 63rd Madaraka Day, he described fighting British soldiers with machetes, seizing their weapons and retreating into the forests. Madaraka Day, marked every June 1, commemorates the day Kenya achieved self-rule from Britain in 1963.

"Our parents died without ever getting justice," he said. "We are soon following them."

Britain's response to the uprising was a state of emergency lasting from 1952 to 1959. The Kenya Human Rights Commission estimates 90,000 Kenyans were executed, tortured or maimed. 160,000 were detained. Nazi-style concentration camps held over 1.5 million more.

Documents recording the atrocities were later destroyed or hidden by British authorities.

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Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon acknowledged that Hezbollah’s use of FPV drones is inflicting significant damage on Israeli forces and settlements.

Danon also said that Hezbollah has launched 10,000 rockets and 300 drones since March 2, with at least 75 impacting sites across Israeli-occupied territories.

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🇱🇧 🇺🇳 | Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon admits that Hezbollah’s use of FPV drones is proving effective, causing significant damage to Israeli forces and settlements.

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Meta's AI meltdown continues.

After their new AI moderation system began suspending thousands of legitimate accounts with no appeal process, a new AI exploit made it shockingly easy to hack other pages.

Meta also suspended our news media page, @comrawire (150k followers).

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‼️🚨 BREAKING: Meta's AI feature let attackers hijack Instagram accounts for days with nothing but a username. It was being A/B tested on a slice of users, and if you were in the test, you couldn't turn it off. Among the casualties: the official Obama White House account.

The method: get on a VPN near the target's region, ask the Meta AI support agent to send a verification code to any email you control, relay that code back to the agent, and it hands over a password reset link. Without ID or human review. From there, the account is yours.

The flaw lived in the AI's logic layer, which acted on recovery requests with no real identity checks. One researcher compared it to the Roblox AI assistant exploit from days earlier, where you needed a target's billing info. Instagram was easier: the username and a regional VPN were enough and victims reported sessions revoked and passwords changed with no email, text, or push alert at all.

By the time it went public, the method was common knowledge in blackhat Telegram circles and had been used to allegedly hijack 100+ high-value accounts.

Accounts hit:
- obamawhitehouse (the archived official Obama White House account, ~2.4M followers. Hackers posted an AI-generated image captioned "The White House is under Shiites' control," plus cryptic anti-Trump and pro-Iranian Stories. Meta confirmed the hack and scrubbed it.
- Premium short handles like hey and jowo, worth over $1M combined, stolen and flipped on Telegram.
- albert (owned by Albert Renshaw), whose owner publicly reported being locked out and unable to reach Meta support.

Meta has since patched it. There was no public acknowledgment.

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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says Washington welcomes Japan's rapid re-militarization, breaking with its post-WWII constitution.

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New footage has emerged of clashes between Kenyan police and protesters in Kakamega, after officers killed a young student in the region.

Derrick Machanja, an engineering student, was shot in the head during protests on May 18. His family learned of his death through social media. When they located his body at a local mortuary, they found a bullet had already been removed without their knowledge or consent.

Hundreds took to the streets on Friday after relatives and protesters spent the night blocking police attempts to seize the body. Crowds were met with tear gas and live fire. Military and armed police blocked roads as protesters pushed through.

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Do you still have questions regarding the topic?

Watch our interview with Mohamed Dihani, a Sahrawi human rights defender.

https://t.co/Kow1SbqZQU

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[Comra] spoke to @dihanimed about Western Sahara’s ongoing occupation. As the UK joins the US and France in backing Morocco, Sahrawis face arrests, censorship, and exile—while Morocco expands ties with Israel and foreign firms profit off occupied land.

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Is western Sahara a colonial issue? Morocco is trying to push the other way.

At the UN Morocco's ambassador Omar Hilale tried to pressure to stop treating Western Sahara as a decolonization issue, in the UN Committee of 24 seminar in Managua this week, arguing that keeping the territory on the C24 agenda violates Article 12 of the UN Charter.

The legal hook is Resolution 2797, a US-drafted text that described Morocco's autonomy plan as a "genuine" basis for settlement, dropping any reference to a referendum. Russia, China and Pakistan abstained. Algeria refused to vote.

For the eighth consecutive year, Morocco brought elected officials from its southern provinces to the seminar, in an attempt to normalize administrative presence in a forum the Polisario has long used to advance decolonization claims. Western Sahara remains the last territory on the African continent listed among the UN's 17 non-self-governing territories.

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"We did not have regime change, but we changed the regime," US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at a White House press briefing — stumbling over questions about the outcomes of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

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[ NEW ] France voted this week to repeal the Code Noir, the 1685 decree that turned human beings into slaves across its colonies. The law had never been formally removed from French statute and has been around for the last 341 years. The bill now goes to the Senate.

The revision was introduced by Max Mathiasin, a Guadeloupean MP and great-great-grandson of enslaved people. It passed 254-0. Mathiasin did not stop at history: "In Guadeloupe, in the most important positions, in the structures of the state, they are white."

Macron raised the question of reparations days earlier, calling it "a question we must not refuse." He committed no money. Two months before, France abstained when the UN voted to classify the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity.

Haiti was freed by revolt in 1804. France then forced the new republic to pay reparations to the former enslavers, a debt scholars estimate at $150-200 billion in accumulated terms, not cleared until 1947.

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Bolivian authorities opened fire on protesters.

Previously, leaked documents indicated a violent crackdown coordinated between US intelligence and the Bolivian military.

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“They have declared war on the working class.”

Bolivia's general strike continues to grow, even after three weeks of mass mobilization that is paralyzing the country in opposition to the US-backed neoliberal government.

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Iran's IRGC released footage of missile launches targeting a US military base in the region, following a US strike on Bandar Abbas.

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Kuwait has activated its air defences after reporting "hostile missile and drone attacks" on its territory.

The announcement came alongside an IRGC statement in which Iranian forces claimed responsibility for striking a US military base, saying the attack was a direct retaliation for a US strike that had targeted the outskirts of Bandar Abbas earlier this morning.

The strikes follow a naval confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz, where Iranian state media reported that four vessels — including a US oil tanker — attempted to transit the strait without prior coordination with Iranian security forces, with their radar systems switched off. After repeated warnings were ignored, the IRGC Navy fired warning shots, forcing the ships to turn back.

In response, the US military confirmed carrying out strikes on an Iranian military site it described as a threat to American forces and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, adding that four Iranian attack drones had been shot down.

This marks the second such incident within a week. The US military also carried out strikes in southern Iran on Monday, in what it described as a defensive action but which Iran condemned as a "gross violation" of their ceasefire agreement.

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@mako80001500 The picture in question is not AI generated.

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Japan’s parliament has forced through legislation to create Tokyo’s CIA equivalent, despite a massive protest movement gaining momentum.

Activists warn this centralized spy hub drives Japan's remilitarization and enables a dangerous crackdown on dissidents and anti-war voices.

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🇯🇵🇺🇸🇨🇳 – Japan just passed a law that could escalate East Asian tensions, especially with China.

Tokyo is moving toward what the Takaichi government describes as "the most complex security environment since WWII," establishing an equivalent of the CIA.

Japan's parliament enacted legislation establishing a National Intelligence Council. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pushed this as central to her governing agenda.

Many Chinese analysts interpret this as Japan restoring its wartime intelligence apparatus. The Global Times writes: "Intelligence serves military ends above all else."

But the intelligence council is one piece of a broader strategy. Washington is orchestrating Japan's militarization: US-backed weaponization paired with Tokyo's far-right push are turning Japan into a geopolitical spearhead aimed at Beijing.

This strategy encompasses deploying missiles capable of striking mainland China, conducting live-fire military exercises, and constitutional revision toward militarization. Most consequentially, Takaichi has explicitly discussed military conflict with China over Taiwan.

Meanwhile, a massive peace protest movement is mobilizing across Tokyo and beyond, resisting Takaichi's effort to make Japan "war-ready." Street-level opposition is growing as the scale of the shift becomes clear.

Internal documents allegedly reveal the intelligence council's actual target: suppressing protest movements, labor organizing, critical media outlets, and political dissent.

Under the banner of "security," Japan is fundamentally reshaping its political order, moving from pacifism to militarization. The law includes no parliamentary oversight mechanisms. Accountability structures are absent.

Japan has long been described as "America's unsinkable aircraft carrier" in the region. Tokyo's militarization pushes an Asia-Pacific closer to confrontation, with Beijing watching carefully and Washington greenlighting the shift.

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Japan's New Intelligence Council Summarised

⚪️ Takaichi's new National Intelligence Council is the centerpiece of Japan's militarization—and Beijing sees it as Japan restoring its wartime spy apparatus.

⚪️ For the first time since WWII, Japan has built a CIA-equivalent intelligence apparatus with zero parliamentary oversight or accountability mechanisms.

⚪️ Washington is turning Japan into a geopolitical spearhead: Tokyo deployed missiles at China, live-fire exercises, constitutional militarization.

⚪️ Meanwhile, a massive peace movement is rising in Japan. Leaks exposed the new council targets domestic dissent:protests, labor organizing and critical media.