It's wild that the term "Free World" emerged in Western discourse in the 1940s, at a time when the Western European powers exercised authoritarian control over the colonised territories and the US was an apartheid regime with institutionalised racial segregation.
Yesterday Israel killed an 8 year old boy in Gaza wearing a backpack on the way home from school.
His name was Jad.
The only reason western mainstream news outlets didn’t report on his killing is because he’s Palestinian.
🇨🇺 BREAKING: Cuba is completely out of diesel and fuel oil
Cuba has completely exhausted its diesel and fuel oil reserves, Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy announced Wednesday on state media, prompting protests across the capital on Wednesday evening.
Some districts in the capital are without light for 20 to 22 hours a day, the minister added in his announcement.
Neither Mexico nor Venezuela, once top suppliers, have sent fuel since President Trump’s January 2026 executive order threatening tariffs on any country shipping fuel to Cuba.
The United Nations last week called the fuel blockade unlawful, saying it had obstructed “the Cuban people’s right to development while undermining their rights to food, education, health, and water and sanitation.”
a country that doesn’t punish this kind of behavior must be punished itself- weapons embargo and bds are the floor btw. meanwhile in the western world, the only people who get punished are those who call this evil out.
🇨🇺 This is Cuba. This is Cuba today. But it’s not the Cuba the mainstream media shows you; it’s the Cuba Trump chooses to ignore, the Cuba ready to give its life for its independence: my Cuba, my homeland
From today's massive rally in Yemen's capital, Sana'a, held in solidarity with Iran and Lebanon.
The ease and consistency with which Yemen continues to mobilize its masses never ceases to startle me.
Iran declares Strait of Hormuz “completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire,” specifically “on the coordinated route,” referring to the path that runs near Iran’s coast and Qeshm and Larak Islands.
Trump responded by thanking Iran for opening the “STRAIT OF IRAN.”
90 years ago today, Ghassan Kanafani was born.
The author and journalist became one of the most prominent and leading voices in the Palestinian fight for liberation.
He was murdered by Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad in Beruit, Lebanon through a planted car bomb in 1972.
Smotrich says Israel plans to expand to "parts of the north, south, and east." The only constraint on Israeli expansion appears to be the existence of the Mediterranean
💢🇱🇧 BREAKING | Israel launched 100 strikes across Lebanon in 10 minutes Wednesday afternoon, targeting Beirut, the south, and the Bekaa Valley — hours after a ceasefire was announced and declared “effective immediately” by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
Sounds of ambulances filled the streets of Beirut from 3 PM local time. The Lebanese Red Cross head Georges Kettaneh told LBCI: “The wounded and casualties are numerous. We are doing everything we can to save them.” Several Beirut hospitals issued urgent blood donation appeals.
Neighborhoods struck in Beirut without prior warning included Salim Slem, Borj Abi Haidar, Corniche al-Mazraa, Bashoura, and the southern suburbs. Kaifoun and Bshamoun, east of Beirut, were also hit, according to L’Orient Today.
Across southern Lebanon, the cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Nabatieh were struck alongside villages including Adloun, Bazourieh, al-Abbassieh, Zefta, Sir al-Gharbieh, Ansar, and Ain Baal. In Sidon, a strike on the al-Zahraa complex wounded Al Manar correspondent Amin Shumer.
In the eastern Bekaa Valley, strikes hit Baalbek and villages including Hermel, Shemstar, al-Karak, al-Ferzel, Boudai, and Sohmor. Several people were wounded in Hermel. Two people were killed when a truck was struck between Hasbaya and Maymas.
The Amal Movement confirmed six people killed in an earlier strike on Srifa, a village in southern Lebanon near the coastal city of Tyre.
In Mansouri — another southern village along the Mediterranean coast — 13 residents, including the village mukhtar, lost contact after returning home following the ceasefire announcement, as the town came under repeated shelling.
Netanyahu has stated the ceasefire does not cover Lebanon, even as Hezbollah halted fire on northern Israel and invading ground troops, according to Reuters. Drop Site correspondent Lylla Younes reported warplanes back in the sky over Beirut at 8 AM local time, with ambulances running nonstop and people screaming in the streets.