So the US destroys Nordstream and is now a key LNG supplier to Europe. Next, it takes over Venezuelan oilfields as the US refineries are designed for the heavier crude. Then, it attacks Iran, and oil supplies from the Gulf are slashed.
Someone would make a lot of money, right?
Andrey Bezrukov, a former spy whose story inspired TV's "The Americans," says Russia will be at war for the next "couple of decades," shaping two generations. He made the remarks at SPIEF, urging Russia to build its economy around long-term warfighting. https://t.co/clOXgfB7go
🚨 stop scrolling.. do you understand what a frozen bank account actually does to a $4 billion resort project..
because most people are watching the protest footage and missing the math..
Albania Land Development — the Qatari-owned company that holds the coastal land Affinity Partners needs to build — had its bank accounts seized by SPAK on June 2, 2026..
no bank accounts means no transactions..
no transactions means no construction financing can move.. not $1 billion.. not $100 million.. not a single wire..
you don't freeze the land vehicle for an environmental complaint.. you freeze it when prosecutors believe the underlying property titles are fraudulent and you're afraid the money moves before you can stop it..
and here's the part nobody's connecting..
the 2024 land reclassifications that made this project legally possible are now the subject of a criminal investigation.. the titles are under fraud review.. the bank accounts are frozen.. and the probe opened and the freeze landed within 24 hours of each other..
that's not a slow regulatory process.. that's prosecutors running..
Kushner announced this deal in August 2024.. visited the site with Ivanka in early 2026.. called it a vision for the Albanian coast..
the Senate was already scrutinizing Affinity's foreign deals before any of this..
a frozen land company with allegedly fraudulent titles and a widening criminal probe is not a permitting delay..
it's the structural end of the project as currently built.
I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨
I’m not sure this is understood in the West, so I want to emphasize:
Al Risala are Lebanese *Boy Scouts.*
They belong to the Lebanese Scouting Federation, the local affiliate of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.
The US affiliate is the Boy Scouts of America.
After Al Risala Scouts turn 18, they often become Scout leaders who serve as EMTs, firefighters, and search-and-rescue teams.
In the past 2 months, Israel has killed 27 Al Risala Scouts, Troop leaders, and associated young adult rescue workers.
Here are some of young Scouts killed by Israel. Neither the Boy Scouts of America nor the World Organization of the Scout Movement have condemned their murders.
A UNIFIL peacekeeper died early this morning from critical injuries sustained when mortar shells struck his position near Marjayoun, southeastern Lebanon.
Two other peacekeepers, who also sustained injuries, are being treated at a medical facility in the UNIFIL base.
@lane_d12@GBPolitcs The name 'Reform' is like the 'socialism' in National Socialism; there won't be any. These people will do whatever Israel and the billionaire class tell them to do. And that will not be good for ordinary citizens. Expect the biggest reversal of workers' rights in a century.
"My personal pride and joy." That's how Peter Mandelson described the Palantir deal he brokered.
The whole thing stinks. Kick Palantir out of our NHS, now.
The right-wing press in the UK and Israel is rounding on Zack Polanski, the only Jewish leader of a major political party in Britain, for supporting our campaigning journalism.
Our letter with the ICJP makes simple demands which are firmly in the public interest: to investigate whether Britons who served in the IDF are complicit in violations of international humanitarian law.
Polanski is among over 60 prominent figures to have signed the letter, yet the media has decided to focus its attention on him.
Tory party chairman Kevin Hollinrake has urged Polanski to remove his signature and told the Telegraph that the Green party “need to get serious about tackling anti-Semitism and rooting out hate within their own ranks”.
It is outrageous for Hollinrake to suggest that upholding international law could be playing into anti-Semitism.
Being an IDF soldier is not a protected characteristic and conflating Judaism with the Israeli military is dangerous.
Other prominent signatories of our campaign include human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield, anti-apartheid campaigner Andrew Feinstein, genocide scholar Martin Shaw, former British army general Charlie Herbert, and Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitta.
Over 14,000 of our readers have already signed. You can add your name here: https://t.co/F2NqKyg1mt
Israeli forces have detained a player on the Palestinian national women’s football team, along with a former national player, sparking renewed anger at Fifa for its failure to ban the apartheid state’s football association.
Rand Halawani, 20, was taken on Tuesday night in Jerusalem and a court extended her detention until Friday, amid reports that her family did not know where she was being held.
Ex-national player Natalie Abu Diyeh, was also detained in the illegally occupied West Bank alongside three other young Palestinian women, AFP reported. Israel’s military claimed, without offering evidence, that the women were suspected of “terrorist-related” activity.
Palestinians detained by Israel are at serious risk of abuse. Israeli rights group B’Tselem has found that Israel runs a “network of torture camps” where Palestinians are subjected to beatings, starvation, sleep deprivation and sexual violence.
The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) said the players’ detention was part of a “pattern of systematic targeting of Palestinian athletes, which continues without accountability”.
Palestinian footballers are “denied freedom of movement, safety and the basic right to participate in sport under equal conditions, rights that Fifa explicitly guarantees,” it added.
Fifa has not commented on the players’ detention, even though the PFA is a member.
“The continued silence and inaction of the international football community… enables these illegal practices to continue with impunity,” the PFA said.
As the federation gears up to host the World Cup in North America next week, it is under renewed scrutiny for continuing to allow the Israel Football Association (IFA) to be a member despite Israel’s long history of suppressing Palestinian sports.
In 2014, Israeli soldiers repeatedly shot two Palestinian footballers in the feet as they returned from a training session in the West Bank, ending their careers.
In March, Fifa’s disciplinary committee said Israel had brought “football into disrepute” and was practising a “de facto system of segregation” by excluding Palestinians from the sport and failing to take action against rampant anti-Arab racism in many clubs.
But it stopped short of banning or suspending the country’s football association, as it did with Russia shortly after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
🇷🇺 "Western elites' hatred of Russia is driven by a desire to divide the country and gain access to its wealth" — Dmitry Medvedev
"Therefore, we must cultivate one quality within ourselves, without hysteria or self-flagellation: never trust Western elites. They should never be admired — they should be coldly despised"
The German FM puts forward two key policy reasons as to why Germany - for the first time - lost a bid for an elected seat on the UN Security Council.
Germany's support for Ukraine and its support for Israel.
Let's be clear: Germany's support for Ukraine had nothing to do with it. Portugal and Austria - who beat Germany - are no less supportive of Ukraine.
It has EVERYTHING to do with Germany's support for Israel's genocide and the manner in which the German government has been willing to undermine international law and the UN Charter on behalf of Israel.
Germany's blind support for Israeli crimes cost Germany its seat on the UNSC. As it should.
@koyabu67@TheSaviour There is no god. And where did your ancestors come from anyway? Eastern Europe? There was no rape on Oct 7, but Israel has an actual policy of rape.
@SBSNews 'Suspected' or 'evidence of' forced labour? The US has a low bar for Xinjiang, but requires actual evidence of forced labour for imports from other countries.
I find myself in a quandry. I have come to fully believe that Israeli society has crossed a point of no return. I don't know the extent to which Israel is capable of destabilizing the world. I know that as a society, we are morally bankrupt. No solution is to be found in optimistic dreams about coexistence. "Peace" is meaningless im genocide. Israeli outrage at Israel's genocide is a moot point. There is nothing Israelis can "say" that makes it right. Israel does not deserve the same place at the table as the Palestinians. Israel does not deserve a place at any table.
On the other hand, I have no other place. I am Israeli. I do not think Israel can be "disbanded". Israel is here. It is ceaselessly committing crimes against humanity as well as against human decency (not just within a legal framework, that is), debasing its neighbors, its supporters and itself. But it cannot simply be revoked. Israel must suffer the consequences of its own actions. It must be stopped and humbled. In its current supremacist form, it has no legitimacy, but I would not wish for it to disappear. More wrongs do not make a right. Right makes right. I find I must speak out in defense of this right and this good.
But what relevance do my words have? What is the point of being serially outraged? I don't feel myself entitled to be heard, certainly not in serial fashion. The genocide is being carried out in my name. What weight do my words of anger and condemnation carry? My presence confers neither comfort nor effect on the fight against genocide and ethnic cleansing. I must speak, but to what purpose? It certainly isn't redemption. There is no redemption for my society. I am not claiming its potential virtue. Human beings are never devoid of virtue, but that does not really matter now. Israel has wronged so much, taken and despoiled and killed, has paid it forward even in the Palestinian and Lebanese gene pools.
One voice should be heard right now, and that is the voice of Israel's victims. There is not a single attack on Israel that is not grounded in an Israeli attempt to uproot and destroy ar this moment. The only other voice permissible belongs to international tribunals, leaderships and institutions (with the hope that they choose to use this voice).
When I write or speak I do so from the most particular (selfish, perhaps) aspects of my existence. I feel as though I have no other choice. But I have no illusions about changing Israeli minds or even about my own virtue. My heart breaks daily still over the myriad ways in which overt genocide shapes my present and my future. This heartbreak deserves no pity or consideration. My words are gray and deflated, sad as lonely, little wrinkled balloons. That is as it should be.
I have no wish to be a strategic analyst. There are many wiser and more capable than I am. I am outraged all the time, angry and sad and shaken as a basic stance towards life. This isn't an equal and opposite reaction to actions taken by Israel. This quagmire is my life as an Israeli Jew. The desperate wish I do have is to maintain my humanity in the most literal sense, a framework that will allow me to delay my disintegration as a person. Is that enough?