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[China in English @En_chinaNewsX]

China’s message on the next UN Secretary-General is clear:

The UN should not be a rubber stamp for empire. It needs a leader committed to the UN Charter—capable, impartial, and ready to defend the interests of developing nations.

A genuine international order cannot tolerate the abuse of power, including attacks on sovereign states or the use of “security” as justification for mass destruction.

The UN was created to prevent the powerful from dictating the fate of the weak. If it fails at that, it becomes not an order, but an empire in a conference room.

The next Secretary-General should not bow to power—but stand firm against it.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Think about what the timeline actually requires you to believe if you accept the "Jewish/Israeli control" framework.

The Monroe Doctrine, 1823.
Israel does not exist.

The annexation of half of Mexico, 1848.
Israel does not exist.

The Spanish-American War and the seizure of the Philippines, 1898.
Israel does not exist.

The overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1893.
Israel does not exist.

The Banana Wars across Central America, 1898 to 1934.
Israel does not exist.

The CIA coup in Iran, 1953.
Israel is five years old.

The CIA coup in Guatemala, 1954.
Israel is six years old.

American imperialism has a history that predates the State of Israel by over a century and predates the alleged dominance of the Israel lobby by considerably more.

It does not need an external explanation.

It has its own perfectly coherent internal logic: capital, resources, markets, strategic control, the maintenance of a global dollar system that requires military enforcement.

That logic was operational long before anyone could blame it on Israel.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Whenever you see someone going “I don’t understand why people are complaining about the economy, the economy is better than ever,” it’s because they’re staring at the data from the second line while ignoring everything about the first line.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

BREAKING: RITUALISTIC ABUSE IN ISRAEL EXPOSED

Kan 11's "Zman Emet" investigation exposed ritualistic sexual abuse in Gush Etzion. YouTube took it down and outlets are trying to suppress this story. We're posting the full translated documentary.

Gush Etzion Regional Council admitted after the investigation: "The acts attributed to people from the Bloc are pure evil and moral perversion. We condemn the acts and their perpetrators."

What the investigation found:

Five women, most who didn't know each other, described strikingly similar patterns of multi-perpetrator ritualistic sexual abuse occurring in the same areas of Gush Etzion. The broadcast featured recordings, filmed confrontations, and testimony from professionals who had accompanied complainants over years.

One survivor described being taken to an abandoned structure near a spring, where multiple men engaged in ritualistic abuse, set fires around her, and buried her. She spent 26 years suppressing the memories before they resurfaced at age 30.

Survivors described abuse beginning as young as 3-4 years old. The investigation included psychological analysis showing how abusers weaponize religious language, beliefs, and rituals to manipulate victims into complicity and silence.

Legal experts noted Israel's statute of limitations on sexual crimes makes prosecution nearly impossible for cases involving early childhood trauma and delayed disclosure.

We're posting the full translated documentary below so this evidence doesn't disappear. Please share this.

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

This is what Bolivia's highways look like at the moment.

Each town & village blocks their stretch, and the union members in each community take turns at the barricades. This is part of the general strike against neoliberalism. Now entering week 3.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Bernie Sanders: Equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis "would be the end of the state of Israel, and I support Israel”
* It does not matter who you vote for, its two cheeks of the same ass. If Palestinians cannot have their own state and their mere existence threatens the preservation of an ethno-state, then the only possible policies toward the Palestinians are apartheid, ethnic cleansing or genocide.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Francesca Albanese: the israelis are killing doctors, nurses, parents, little children: we always knew it was a genocide @DoubleDownNews

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Neera Tanden has long been one of the most grotesque and deceitful operatives in DC.

She runs a liberal think tank founded by John Podesta intended to be the shadow government for the Dem Party (CAP: @amprog), yet she refuses to disclose a single CAP donor, claiming Trump makes disclosure too dangerous.

But even when CAP did disclose donors before it fabricated this excuse, it got massive million-dollar payments from dictatorships like the UAE, but still hid many of their largest individual donors with anonymity. And they fired staffers who -- in the name of transparency -- leaked donor information and UAE influence to journalists.

Yet here is the same Neera Tanden demanding that low-level workers for campaigns that she hates disclose their payments because of how much she values "transparency"! How do these people not vomit when looking at themselves in the mirror knowing that they have no beliefs of any kind? Disclose your funders, Neera.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Warmongers Keep Generating AI Atrocity Propaganda About Iran

"It is unsurprising that generative AI is being used to churn out atrocity propaganda to manufacture consent for imperial war projects, because these new technologies lend themselves perfectly to the task of creating realistic-looking video footage of events which never transpired. If you want to tug at people’s heart strings and push them toward anger at an empire-targeted government, generative AI is a cheap and easy tool for doing so."

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

The idea that this guy is being treated as an authority on Christianity is just absurd. He is re-framing what it means to be Christian for his own ends, and it should be obvious.

This guy worked directly with the CIA and an Iran-Contra criminal to privatize the most Orwellian Bush-era surveillance proposal, creating Palantir in the process, wants to tear down representative government and replace it with a private company run by a CEO/dictator, promotes borgifying humanity and frames it as necessary, and funds and helped create numerous companies that help commit genocide and blow children to smithereens. He embodies the opposite of what are ostensibly Christian values. Let him redefine what it means to be "Christian" at your own risk.

Also, no one would even consider calling this guy "Christian," let alone an authority on it, a few decades ago. But now the PayPal mafia bros largely control the digital realms that now dominate public discourse and have successful bought up a legion of podcasters/influencers, so they can make a large segment of the public believe whatever they want I guess.

In today's world, Emperor Palpatine could also probably successfully frame himself as a well-meaning authority on who and who isn't a baddie.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

Honored to join your company, I’ve been there with the Guardian’s sleaze tactics. They parroted a State Dept.-funded, evidence-free “study” calling me the biggest spreader of disinformation on Syria. A tribute to your effectiveness in challenging the propaganda of this latest regime change war. ✊

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

I love Tyre.
It is a truly beautiful place and you can't scrape the ground anywhere without disturbing ancient archaeology from the heart of the great Phoenician civilisation.
Israel is carpet bombing it.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means.

His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide.

Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers.

Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations.

Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered.

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[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

So we have established that everyone is fine with an unelected dictator running Syria, as long as he is the right kind of dictator, i.e. disbands Palestinian resistance groups, hands Syria's oil and gas to the US, and water to Israel along with the most strategic peak, Mt Hermon.

[Pepe Escobar @RealPepeEscobar]

Vile, coward, traitorous rats. Unredeemable, in every aspect - geopolitical and moral.

These people should be expelled from BRICS.

And from the Russia-Iran-India transportation corridor.

https://t.co/le6dEliQuX

[Eva Karene Bartlett @EvaKBartlett]

I was offline for personal reasons the past two weeks, and in the past couple of days due to travel I had limited/no internet.

Solidarity with Iran against US-Israeli illegal bombings of Iran.

Iran has every legal right to retaliate, and much of the world will be watching & supporting the extent of Iran's just retaliation. US regional bases and Israeli military and related infrastructure are legitimate targets for Iran's response.

Rest in peace the martyrs—including at least 80 girls at an elementary school Israel bombed (https://t.co/eCJr25tEkK)—of this immoral aggression against a peaceful people. Iranians love life. The US and Israeli regimes worship murder. [Update: 160 were killed according to the latest update (https://t.co/HH95bj5KnE)]

The US and Israel and their satanic pedophile elites are not only the greatest threat to peace around the world, they are the greatest architects of global death and destruction. They are not the victims, no matter how much more Zionist propaganda will be spun.
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[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

It's time to understand – and if the Iran attack doesn't prove it to you, I don't know what will – that the US is an oil-guzzling, planet-crunching, war juggernaut.

It's doing exactly what it is designed to do. And unless it's stopped, it'll keep doing it till we're all dead.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Apartheid Israel has launched another unprovoked assault on Iran in the midst of negotiations

The Trump admin greenlit the assault and will eventually enter the war because it is a vehicle for Israeli influence

The Zionist axis bears all consequences of the coming calamity