L.E.S

A far away place...

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

The magnitude of what just happened may take some time to sink in.

This is the first time Iran has struck Israel after Israel struck another country's territory (that is, not Iran).

This means that the battle lines have been moved.

Iran's deterrence had already been restored in the sense that Israel knew that any strike on it would be responded to.

But now, Iran has proven that it will also respond to Israeli strikes on Lebanon.

This is the first time in decades that a regional power has the means, capacity, and willingness to put hard power against Israeli military maneuvers or aggression against a third party.

Read full analysis here: https://t.co/CPawJ4TYdr

[zinah𓂆 @zhal80]

8 billion people in the world, yet no one hears their screams.

No one even speaks of our genocide in Gaza.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Two years of lying about bombing hospitals in Gaza – supposedly to target "Hamas control and command centres" underneath – has really paid off.

Now Israel bombs Lebanon's hospitals and doesn't even need to pretend there's a military rationale.

[الرادع المغربي 🇲🇦🔻🇵🇸 @Rd_fas1]

لحظة قصف اسرائيل لروضة أطفال جنوب لبنان 🇱🇧

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Yesterday the Israeli army massacred a family of six who were fleeing the south after forced displacement orders. 2 small children were among those killed.

Report on this massacre and another massacre in Saida just hours after.

[Pepe Escobar @RealPepeEscobar]

MARIA ZAKHAROVA GOES FOR THE JUGULAR

This is immensely serious. When the Russian MFA states something incandescent it's always backed by solid research.

This means they have solid proof about CNN's gutter "journalism".

The key passages:

"As you know, CNN did not travel to Starobelsk last Sunday, citing logistical reasons.
Yesterday CNN revealed what they were actually working on while correspondents from around the world were documenting the aftermath of the devastating terrorist attack on the dormitory and teaching block of a pedagogical college in the LPR.
CNN correspondent Nick Paton Walsh, who has been indicted in absentia in Russia for participating in the Kursk incursion, was filming a promotional segment about Kiev’s drone strikes on Russian cities. The piece was prepared slightly in advance but aired on May 26, four days after the Starobelsk strike that killed more than twenty people. Neither the anchors nor Walsh mentioned it with a single word.
Instead the segment ran as a full advertisement for the effectiveness of Ukrainian drones: “We are now next to perhaps the most wanted target in Russia, a Ukrainian long-range drone strike unit. Tonight they will launch 200 drones at Russia. These drones have already struck Stavropol.”
That passing detail about Stavropol is significant. It suggests Walsh may have been embedded with the Ukrainian unit at the exact moment it was coordinating the planned strike on the college in Starobelsk. Kiev’s drones hit Stavropol the day before the Starobelsk attack.
This reframes the situation entirely.
The AFU hired CNN to film their drone killers at work.
When Russia invites CNN to document the aftermath of Ukrainian drone strikes, the killing of civilians including children and the destruction of civilian infrastructure, American journalists cite vacations, logistics and so on. Meanwhile there is a strong likelihood that CNN correspondents were filming the preparation for that very attack. Their audience, the channel has decided, should not know about the consequences.
This is not journalism. CNN has different priorities now: propaganda, distortion, manipulation, not informing its audience."

[Darwin @ThisIsDarwino]

BREAKING: We now know the municipal/provincial and federal lobbyists behind the Billy Bishop airport expansion in Toronto is Nieuport Aviation, an asset among many, controlled by the IIG which was founded by JP Morgan. Yes, an AMERICAN bank is trying to destroy our waterfront.

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

Who's behind the massive lobbying campaign to expand the island airport? What I discovered should worry us all https://t.co/WQBrPs1AH0

[Alex Cosh @AlexCosh_]

BREAKING: Canada exported $14.6 million of military goods to Israel in 2025, according to data released today by Global Affairs Canada.
https://t.co/6EgTXDyRT4

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

This is just indiscriminate slaughter of unarmed civilians. And nobody lifts a finger…

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Are we getting this yet.

[Corruptario @corruptario]

They aren't putting the taxes you pay into education or healthcare.

They are putting the taxes you pay into slush funds, offshore accounts and each other's pockets.

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

In the West you don't get journalism prizes anymore — you get arrested, detained, jailed, raided, and placed under "terrorism" investigation in 2 countries for almost 2 years. That's the establishment's way of telling you your work is effective.

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

You are spending over a billion dollars instead of doing $30M in repairs to the existing Science Centre.

What part of that is "fiscally conservative"???

[S͎a͎l͎a͎d͎i͎n͎🇸🇴⚖️🕋✍️ @InaHassan3]

A 29-year-old woman named Amal survived El Fasher. She told Human Rights Watch what she saw. RSF fighters stopped her group at a trench, three meters deep. They had families with them. People with Down syndrome, deaf children.

An RSF fighter called out to another: "Come and see this mad person!" Then they killed them. Standing next to the RSF, she said, were white men. Shorter than the Sudanese fighters. Helmets. Fatigues. Sniper rifles with silencers. Insignia on their chest. They didn't stop it. They just watched. Human Rights Watch just confirmed who those men were.

Colombian mercenaries. Recruited in Bogotá. Flown to Abu Dhabi. Trained on UAE military bases. Transited through Bossaso. Deployed to Darfur. The company that hired them, GSSG, was founded by the Secretary General of MBZ's Presidential Court. MBZ's brother Mansour chairs that court. MBZ's brother Hazza was a client of the same company.

UAE law requires private security companies to coordinate all activities with UAE authorities. The UAE knew. 150,000 dead. 12.9 million displaced. Famine is spreading across Sudan. And the UAE is still telling the Associated Press: "We categorically reject any claims of providing any form of support to either warring party."

The audacity doesn't have a name.

[Najat @theafroaussie]

There isn’t a Muslim on this planet who didn’t see this coming

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

"This is precisely why NATO quietly established “Operation Arctic Sentry” in February, making no effort to conceal its true purpose [...] NATO are openly admitting that their goal is to sever Beijing’s “access to energy, critical minerals”, and disrupt their growing trade with Russia. None of these things are security issues. They are geostrategic and economic.

This explains why Donald Trump is so interested in Greenland and Canada, and why the Royal Navy deployed a carrier strike group last month to the Greenland-Iceland-UK (GIUK) corridor — and again this week. The goal is to corner Russian tankers in the Baltic and the Arctic before they are even able to leave.

This passage has been a critical chokepoint since the Cold War; it was once the only way Russian submarines could reach the Atlantic. NATO are now returning there with a different goal in mind: harassing trade along the Northern Sea Route (NSR), Russia’s primary shortcut to Asia — and in anticipation of the future Transpolar Sea Route (TSR)."

https://t.co/CnjNt0zmRq

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

A war in the Arctic is coming over the trade routes and natural gas — all the pieces are being put in place. I see it as clear as day.

In many ways, it has already begun, and Op. Arctic Sentry was the first shot fired.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel just dropped bombs on the Qaraoun Dam in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley — a key water reservoir serving civilian populations across surrounding villages.

This is not a battlefield target.

It is a critical water infrastructure.

This is an act of genocide.

[Pepe Escobar @RealPepeEscobar]

JUNE IS THE CRUELEST MONTH

The Persians, once again, are exercising infinite patience - even as Epstein Syndicate provocations continue.

The Persians may be slow-walking the counter-escalation, out of respect for the Hajj, and to reduce blowback onto the pilgrims.

This may go on max until mid-week next week.

Meanwhile, the Russian MFA ordered the evacuation of Kiev, for both foreigners and residents.

There may be a coordinated decision by the civilization-states to go for broke on the demented Western Legions.

Sorry, T.S.Eliot, it's not April.

June is gonna be the cruelest month.

h/t AHHFrican