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[l] at 6/5/26 4:58am
The West’s “victim” regime is trying to blow up Europe with a nuclear catastrophe using EU and NATO funding and weapons. The biggest civilian nuclear power station in Europe was hit for the first time in a direct air strike – and the Western “news” media gave zero reporting on the incident, even though the damage could have had catastrophic consequences for the whole of Europe. Since Russian forces took over the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in March 2022, the huge facility has come under repeated drone and missile attack from the NATO-backed Ukrainian regime. The latest strike on May 30, however, explosively penetrated one of the turbine halls in the central part of the plant, not the periphery as in previous attacks. There were no injuries nor radiation fallout, according to Russia’s state-owned atomic energy company, Rosatom. But Rosatom’s chief Alexey Likhachev warned that if the turbine hall had sustained more serious damage, there was a real danger of cooling systems failing and the nuclear reactor going into meltdown, resulting in a continental radiation disaster on a scale reminiscent of the Chernobyl crisis in 1986. This game of nuclear blackmail and terrorism by the Ukrainian regime is not new. For four years, the Western media and the UN nuclear inspectors have played a charade of pretending that the perpetrator of the strikes on the ZNPP is disputed. They peddle ridiculous Ukrainian claims that it is Russian forces who are firing artillery at a nuclear plant that the Russians control. The Ukrainian puppet president, Vladimir Zelensky, at one point had the brass neck to say that strikes on the ZNPP would stop if Russia gave back control of the plant. This is the same regime that used energy blackmail against EU states, Hungary and Slovakia, threatening to cut off oil pipelines to these countries if they did not lift their vetoes on doling out billions in loans to Ukraine. What’s more reprehensible is that the Western news media do not even play the charade anymore. The Kiev regime hit a central unit in the ZNPP last weekend, risking a nuclear catastrophe for Europe, and the media gave no reporting on the incident, not even a distorted report trying to cast blame on the Russian side. The criminal recklessness cannot be overstated. A nuclear plant is deliberately being attacked by a corrupt regime with NATO weapons and doubtless NATO targeting intelligence, putting millions of people across Europe in grave danger, and the Western media serves to cover it up. Of course, we should not be surprised. This is the same media that has covered up the NeoNazi nature of the Kiev regime, its obscene corruption and embezzlement of Western public money, and its deliberate terror attacks on Russian civilians. On May 22, one of the worst atrocities was the deliberate air strike by the NATO-backed regime on a college dormitory in Starobelsk, Lugansk, killing 21 students, most of whom were teenage girls. All the American and European corporate-controlled news media gave minimal coverage of the massacre. To mention just two outlets, CNN and the BBC refused a Russian government invitation to join other international news services to witness the aftermath of the horror. Many of the young victims died under rubble from the repeated waves of explosions. The circumstances on the ground verified that the college was deliberately targeted and that there were no military installations anywhere in the vicinity. The Starobelsk atrocity has been mentioned in subsequent Western reports, but only in the briefest and vaguest terms, and in such a way that the incident is ascribed to Russian government claims that “cannot be verified.” The Western reports highlight the Kiev regime’s denials. This week, Russia conducted massive air strikes on Kiev and other Ukrainian locations, as it had warned it would do, in retaliation for the “act of terrorism” at Starobelsk. Russia fired scores of hypersonic and ballistic missiles and hundreds of drones. The hypersonic missiles cannot be intercepted by NATO air defenses, including the U.S.-made Patriot system. The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed that its strikes only targeted military centres, infrastructure, and NATO decision-making sites, and that all of its targets were hit. Russia said it does not target civilians. A BBC report typifies the Western media norm. On June 2, the British state-owned outlet headlined: “Ukraine rescuers pull dead from rubble after Russian strikes kill 22 people.” The BBC and other Western media reported in gruesome detail about people being pulled from the rubble in Kiev, Dnipro (Dnepropetrovsk), and other places. The Western media cite the claims of the Ukrainian authorities about the dead and injured without qualification. The figures are taken as fact. So, too, are the claims by the Ukrainian regime that apartment blocks were deliberately hit by Russian missiles. No questions were raised that the apartment buildings could have been hit by Ukrainian air defense missiles that are unable to intercept Russian hypersonic weapons, and therefore must fall somewhere. It would not be the first time that Ukrainian air defense missiles have gone astray and hit their own buildings, killing civilians. Moreover, the BBC and other Western outlets reported the Russian strikes without the all-important background that the strikes were in retaliation and in legitimate self-defense to the atrocity in Starobelsk. Where the BBC made a brief mention, it reported thus: “The Kremlin said on Tuesday [June 2] it was carrying out the ‘systematic strikes’ it had pledged after accusing [Ukraine] of a deadly attack on a student dormitory in an occupied part of eastern Ukraine in late May.” Several things stand out about the double standard in reporting. The Russian strikes on Ukraine and the aftermath are covered in detail with lots of condemnations from the Ukrainian regime of “Russian terrorism”. While the massacre of 21 teenage students in Starobelsk (pejoratively referred to as “Russian-occupied” territory) was largely ignored or distorted as not a crime. Note that the alleged death tolls are similar, yet the deaths in the Russian college merit a couple of sanitized sentences, whereas those in Ukraine make top stories and headlines. But this double standard in reporting is not merely poor journalism. It is evidence of the Western propaganda system at work, one which falsifies the conflict, devalues and dehumanizes victims, and tries to make one side the absolute villain when in reality the side that the West is championing is the side that more accurately meets the definition of criminal terrorism. The ultimate exposition is that the West’s “victim” regime is trying to blow up Europe with a nuclear catastrophe using EU and NATO funding and weapons. The evidence for the heinous crime is there this week. And yet the Western media is silent. No wonder such media do not report on atrocities like those at Starobelsk. If they can’t find a nuclear terror threat worth reporting, then nothing is. Because to do so exposes the NATO war agenda and its propaganda system of lies promoting war. https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/06/04/nato-cover-up-of-catastrophic-nuclear-threat-to-europe-gives-heinous-game-away/ The post NATO cover up of catastrophic nuclear threat to Europe gives the heinous game away appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 6/4/26 6:49pm
Dr. Hassan Ahmadian is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tehran specializing in Iran’s regional policy and political change in West Asia. He previously held research positions at Harvard University. The post Hassan Ahmadian: Iran was 2 hours away from launching an attack on Israel | Ep. 27 appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 6/4/26 7:00am
Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna falsely reported that antiwar activist Medea Benjamin “smacked” her during a confrontation on Thursday, subsequently calling the police in an effort to get the Code Pink leader charged with assault. If you watch the video of the so-called “assault”, it’s the funniest thing you’ve ever seen in your life. The 73 year-old activist barely grazes the clothing on Luna’s arm with her hand while speaking, after which the US Air Force veteran Luna collapses into a pile of blubbering victimhood. Benjamin reports that she was briefly detained by Capitol Police after the incident, but was released without charges after officers reviewed the video footage. Luna had already been on a crusade against Code Pink that same day, falsely suggesting the organization is funded by the Chinese government while questioning Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. She then took to social media to reiterate her false claim that “Code Pink is a CCP-funded op” and insisting the activist “hit my arm”. Everyone in the US government is a manipulative warmongering psychopath. Capitol Hill is swamp full of lying mass murderers. https://t.co/42YQT683Ww pic.twitter.com/P7ZB25ZLqB — Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) June 4, 2026 Podcast: Talkin About Dystopia, Paintin Medea Benjamin ❖ Asked by the press to define the word “ceasefire” on Wednesday, President Trump came up with an answer you just know was fed to him by his handlers. “It’s a different part of the world, you know; I’d say in that part a ceasefire is when you’re shooting in a more moderate manner,” the president said. That might be the Hebrew definition of the word, but everywhere besides Israel the word “ceasefire” is understood to mean that both sides cease firing. The IDF has continued hammering Lebanon and Gaza amid so-called ceasefire agreements on a daily basis, and the president has plainly been groomed to regurgitate the correct lines in defense of this policy. ❖ More people have been burned to death by Israeli strikes in Gaza. People show you examples of discrimination against Jews and it’s somebody wearing a watermelon pin or saying “from the river to the sea”. People show you examples of discrimination against Arabs and it’s families being burned alive in Palestine and Lebanon with the full backing of the western world. The abuses and atrocities people defend using “antisemitism” accusations are orders of magnitude more dangerous than antisemitism. ❖ The Smotrich parade scandal really highlighted how many mental contortions liberal Zionists are performing in order to separate Israel and its government; they spent the whole next day in narrative management mode bloviating about how Israel’s finance minister does not represent Israel and had no business being in the Israel Day parade. Liberal Zionists be like “he’s a fringe figure and doesn’t represent Israel” and it’s the minister of finance or the minister of national security or the prime minister — Sean Padraig McCarthy (@SeanMcCarthyCom) June 2, 2026 They like to pretend there are fairy fantasyland versions of Israel in other dimensions ruled by magic Jewish elf queens who ride candy unicorns and treat Palestinians as equals, and it is only by some freakish and unforeseeable twist of fate that our dimension’s version of Israel wound up being governed by genocidal racists. That’s how they maintain their view that it’s legitimate to criticize specific actions of this one specific government sometimes, but it’s antisemitic to oppose Zionism or say Israel shouldn’t exist. They pretend that the genocidal apartheid state we see before us today is some sort of fluke that is only one of the many possible iterations of what Israel could look like, and that any minute now it could agree to a two-state solution and become a virtuous beacon of truth and justice for the entire world. This is of course ridiculous. Everything that Israel is today is the result of everything it has always been. All this war, genocide, apartheid and abuse is what it looks like when you give Zionists everything they want. This is all the inevitable fruit of the decision to plant a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization whose inhabitants do not belong to the privileged group. There is no alternate reality version of Israel. Its government is inseparable from everything it is as a state. Smotrich, Ben Gvir and Netanyahu are the product of everything Israel has been from its very inception, and when they leave power they will be replaced by psychopathic fascists with different names and faces. Genocidal apartheid states should not exist. To oppose genocide and apartheid is to oppose Zionism, because there is no material manifestation of Zionism put into practice which does not include those things. Saying “anti-Zionism is anti-semitism” is just saying you support genocide and apartheid and want those things to continue. ❖ It’s easy to point at Australia’s “antisemitism envoy” Jillian Segal and make fun of how crazy and stupid she is, but the Albanese government is the only reason her craziness and stupidity is a problem. The thing about Segal and all these “antisemitism advisors” they’re setting up in western governments is that they’re just random people with strong political opinions who are being elevated to ridiculous levels of influence. They’re not experts, they’re just people who happen to hold the political opinion that it should be illegal to criticize the state of Israel. Which wouldn’t normally be an issue; our society is full of individuals with terrible political opinions. The problem is that our government has selected these cartoonishly absurd Zionists to help shape policy in immensely consequential ways that erode the civil liberties of our nation. Our leaders are the ones to blame for these inept lunatics wielding obscene levels of influence; left to their own devices they’d just be harmless idiots. They’re only harmful because they’re being given the power to do harm. Reading by Tim Foley: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/congresswoman-fakes-code-pink-assault The post Congresswoman Fakes Code Pink Assault, And Other Notes appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 6/4/26 6:36am
Iran’s response to the American provocation made it crystal clear that the current incarnation of the proposed 60-day ceasefire framework does not hold. MOSCOW – Iran holds an insurmountable escalation dominance in contrast with the U.S. And that’s driving the vociferating Emperor of Barbaria absolutely nuts. Let’s quickly recap the highlights of the past week. In direct retaliation for a CENTCOM air attack on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas airport – a direct break of the “ceasefire” fiction – on the very same day the IRGC launched a targeted strike against a U.S. base in Kuwait. The IRGC was unambiguous: “If repeated, our response will be more decisive.” The extremely calibrated IRGC response was framed as a deliberate warning, signaling in no uncertain terms that any U.S. provocation will be met with a response, yet short of triggering the return of all-out war. At the start of last week, two U.S. military vessels attempted a “dark transit” through the Strait of Hormuz: transponders off, evading IRGC Navy monitoring, and ignoring repeated navigational warnings. Yet Omani signals intelligence flagged the vessels, and after warnings were explicitly disregarded, the IRGC Navy went for a targeted drone strike. Translation: that was the strict enforcement of the new laws regulating the Iran-controlled navigation corridor at the world’s top sensitive maritime choke point. The Zionist axis did not fail to frame Iran’s enforcement action as a direct assault on “American supremacy”. Hence, predictably, the White House authorized strikes against Iranian drone installations. Washington, once again predictably, presented the kinetic response as a proportionate reassertion of deterrence. Tehran for its part interpreted it as a blatant U.S. attack during an active ceasefire. So the IRGC’s retaliatory strike on the Kuwaiti base delivered, once again, an unmistakable message: American forward bases in the Gulf – the ones not yet destroyed – continue to be legitimate targets, and never again will regain the status of sanctuaries. CENTCOM, predictably, did not back down. There were more strikes on Tuesday and Wednesday, and that was coupled on Thursday with sanctions targeting Iran’s new Strait oversight agency, the PGSA. CENTCOM framed attacks on Iranian radar and command sites in Goruk and Qeshm Island as “self‑defense strikes”. The IRGC Aerospace Force targeted the Kuwaiti airbase from which the U.S. strikes originated – and stated that the “predicted targets were destroyed”, adding that responsibility “lies with the U.S. regime.” A dangerous escalation cycle is back. Trump and CENTCOM may see it as tactical deterrence. Tehran sees it as strategic bad faith. What they don’t want you to know Iran’s response to the American provocation made it crystal clear that the current incarnation of the proposed 60-day ceasefire framework does not hold. China, officially, happens to support a 60-day ceasefire. Yet the U.S. for all practical purposes continues to violate the current, wobbly ceasefire. Conversations last week in Shanghai revealed that China maintains very close communication with Iran and constantly adapts the facts on the ground – and in the air – into its much broader, long-term strategic calculations, especially concerning energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Additionally, what really matters in the grand strategic chessboard is that China and Pakistan, on the forefront, plus in the background Russia and the DPRK, continue to provide material and strategic support to Iran across several levels of deliberate ambiguity and plausible deniability. The intensity of the coordination has been on the rise, non-stop. The strikes last week on Iran only serve one player: the death cult in West Asia, which strategically wants to degrade Iranian military infrastructure and keep Tehran perpetually on the defensive – irrespective to the enormous risks to real U.S. interests and West Asia stability. The outlook is self-evident: Pentagon generals, in thesis, may want to explore off-ramps, but the political leadership of what may be described as the Epstein Syndicate wants war. None of the Gulf petro-monarchies – with the exception of the UAE, shorthand for “Arab Zionists” – want the U.S. to resume war. Their concern is obviously existential. They know the IRGC, and the possible entrance in the war theater of Ansarallah in Yemen, would lead to a major retaliation disaster – with attacks on their ports and energy assets. The GCC players still live in perpetual fear. Iran’s response to what is now on the public domain – direct UAE attacks during the war – will come in due time. What’s more pressing is the actual collapse of the UAE’s semi-monopoly of navigation in West Asia. Iran and Pakistan have closely interconnected their regional transit hubs in just a matter of weeks, with the opening of seven layers of land corridors, directly linked to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). After all both Iran and Pakistan are New Silk Road partners, and that also apply to ports: Chabahar in Sistan-Balochistan and Gwadar in the Arabian Sea, separated by only 80 km, are enjoying a new, unforeseen symbiosis. The UAE’s maritime semi-monopoly in West Asia has become meaningless. When it comes to the heart of the action – the Strait of Hormuz – we have crossed yet another threshold. If CENTCOM decides to go for more provocations, up the escalation ladder, the next IRGC response will go for the jugular, destroying U.S. air assets outright. So it’s up to the actors which want restraint – China, Pakistan, Gulf petro-monarchies, Iran pragmatists – to exercise the necessary leverage to stop the road back to war. The facts are stark. Trump effectively holds less than zero leverage with Iran. And Iran holds insurmountable escalation dominance. What has happened this past week goes way beyond a temporary flare-up in the Strait of Hormuz; this is all about a serious, ongoing structural rupture in West Asia, a much deeper, more volatile architecture beneath the whole drama. And it is this volatile context – illustrated by the disclosure of exclusive information – that will start to be analyzed in a new independent platform, Power Shift. Power Shift debuts globally this Monday, June 1st, at 5:30 PM EST, with a special first episode titled “Iran: What They Don’t Want You to Know”. Global viewers fed up with managed narratives and ready for the real read-out may join it live. I will be joining from Moscow. Exclusive. Unfiltered. Uncensored. Iran: The art of controlling escalation dominance The post Iran: The art of controlling escalation dominance appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: WORLD, Hormuz, Iran, USA, war]

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[l] at 6/3/26 3:13pm
The guest, Tim Anderson, is introduced as a writer, internationalist, academic, and director of the Center for Counter-Hegemonic Studies. The discussion mainly focuses on US-Iran negotiations, Middle East conflicts, and the impacts of US foreign policy on countries like Cuba and Venezuela. The initial focus is on the ongoing talks and rumors of negotiations between the US and Iran, amid persistent tensions and conflicting narratives. The post IRAN STANDOFF: Will Trump Accept Defeat? w/ Tim Anderson appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: interview, Multimedia, WORLD, Iran, Middle East, Trump, US Foreign Policy, USA]

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[l] at 6/3/26 5:32am
Caitlin and Tim discuss this strange dark future we’ve all tumbled into and the things that make life worth living. Available in audio as well. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/podcast-talkin-about-dystopia-paintin-687 The post Podcast: Talkin About Dystopia, Paintin Medea Benjamin appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: interview, Multimedia, SOCIAL/CULTURAL, CodePink, dystopia, podcast]

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[l] at 6/2/26 6:09pm
“After almost three years of genocide and turning the entire world against itself, now the Israeli regime is starving the world of energy because it refuses to allow the United States to sign an agreement with Iran.” Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran joins Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra to talk “big losers” in the US-Israeli war on Iran and what it would take for Tehran to agree to a lasting settlement, as Persian Gulf states continue to feel the burn of complicity with Washington and the global economy sinks deeper into crisis. “The Islamic Revolution 47 years ago was about sovereignty and independence and dignity and honor and support for the oppressed across the globe,” Marandi explained. “And so theres no chance that this state is going to accept the United States or the Europeans taking away their sovereign right.” “After years of genocide, now Israel is starving the world of energy as it refuses to allow the U.S. to sign an agreement with Iran” @s_m_marandi  joins BT Live to talk “big losers” in the war and what Tehran needs to agree to a lasting deal The post Why Iran Won’t Waver in Its Demands To End War | Mohammed Marandi appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: interview, Multimedia, WORLD, Iran, Israel, USA, war]

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[l] at 6/2/26 6:09pm
“After almost three years of genocide and turning the entire world against itself, now the Israeli regime is starving the world of energy because it refuses to allow the United States to sign an agreement with Iran.” Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran joins Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra to talk “big losers” in the US-Israeli war on Iran and what it would take for Tehran to agree to a lasting settlement, as Persian Gulf states continue to feel the burn of complicity with Washington and the global economy sinks deeper into crisis. “The Islamic Revolution 47 years ago was about sovereignty and independence and dignity and honor and support for the oppressed across the globe,” Marandi explained. “And so theres no chance that this state is going to accept the United States or the Europeans taking away their sovereign right.” “After years of genocide, now Israel is starving the world of energy as it refuses to allow the U.S. to sign an agreement with Iran” @s_m_marandi  joins BT Live to talk “big losers” in the war and what Tehran needs to agree to a lasting deal The post Why Iran Won’t Waver in Its Demands To End War | Mohammed Marandi appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 6/2/26 7:14am
The murder of 21 Russian students at a college dormitory has yet to be fully understood in terms of the exact involvement of NATO states. The university building in Starobelsk, Lugansk, was attacked in the early hours of the morning with 16 drones in three consecutive waves of assault. The targeting of the dormitory was deliberate. There were no Russian military installations in the vicinity. NATO’s involvement in this act of terrorism is on multiple levels. Ukraine’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles has ramped up in recent months, in line with the massive financial support provided by the European Union in the form of a €90 billion loan, most of which is dedicated to boosting Ukraine’s drone arsenal, with European manufacturing companies working in partnership. At another level, the Western corporate news media have largely ignored the Starobelsk atrocity and NATO’s involvement. The Western media have distorted the de facto war crime by highlighting implausible denials from the Ukrainian regime. In short, covering up. At yet another level is the new and remarkable efficiency of Ukrainian-launched drones to evade Russian air defenses. Since the conflict in Ukraine escalated in 2022, NATO intelligence from satellite surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft has been supplying the Kiev regime with targeting data to attack Russian units. But in recent months, NATO information flow and data analysis have taken a quantum leap regarding targeting range and lethality. Thus, the close partnership between Ukrainian and NATO drone manufacturing is amplified by the involvement of U.S.-based Palantir Technologies in operating systems. Palantir was cofounded in 2003 by German-U.S. billionaire Peter Thiel. It has grown to become the “brains” behind operating weapon systems for the Pentagon, as well as the Israelis in their genocide in Gaza and Lebanon, and aggression towards Iran. Palantir’s CEO Alex Karp visited Kiev on May 12, where he met with the regime leadership to firm up military partnerships for using Artificial Intelligence in attack drones. Karp was ecstatic about the global business opportunities accruing to Palantir by using the Ukraine war as a laboratory for developing technology. He boasted that his company’s software was the “operating system” for Ukraine’s military deploying against Russia. Significantly, the Palantir boss remarked that the real-time learning and development of his company’s systems were giving Palantir a huge commercial advantage that could not be achieved in peacetime laboratories. In other words, the killing fields of Ukraine are plugging into Palantir’s profitability and global status as a company. “It’s our software primitives or infrastructure and your people building things that are completely different from what we would have ever built on top of this,” Karp said in an interview with Ukrainian media. “You’re doing it on the battlefield with a very small number of people and then showing the world how these things work.” This strategic collaboration between the Kiev regime and Silicon Valley’s hottest company was also revealed in an exclusive report this week by CNN. The CNN report did not mention Palantir by name, but screenshots reposted clearly showed that the Ukrainian drone operators were using the company’s PRISMA software. As reported, the software allows the processing of vast amounts of aviation and radar data in seconds, which is then used to deploy drones that evade Russian air defense systems and hit deep inside Russia. The success of Ukrainian-NATO drones to strike deep inside pre-war Russian territory has improved dramatically. The air strikes have reportedly damaged 24 out of a total of 33 of Russia’s top oil refineries. Last month alone, it was reported that six refineries were hit, as well as major fuel depots. The installations, such as at Saratov and Volgograd, are hundreds of kilometers inside Russia. The disruption in fuel supplies has necessitated the Kremlin’s imposition of rationing on public purchases. Palantir’s data processing and AI are such that interception of Ukrainian drones by Russian air defenses is incorporated into the targeting programs, which permits subsequent drone waves to circumnavigate anti-aircraft systems. This feedback loop brings new challenges for defense systems. The increase in EU and NATO drone funding and technology would account for the quantitative surge in attacks on Russian territory. The complicity of NATO states, primarily the Baltic states, in lending their territories as launch sites is also a factor. The NATO propaganda machine, too, plays a role in minimizing the civilian deaths and thereby blindsiding European and American public opposition to a dangerous provocation and escalation of war with Russia. But the involvement of Palantir in increasing the kill machine is another crucial qualitative dimension in the escalation, whereby Ukrainian-NATO drones are evading Russian defenses and increasing their capability at hitting its deep interior and vital infrastructure. The massacre at the Starobelsk college in Lugansk points to the systematic involvement of Palantir in executing such a deadly attack. Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolay Azarov (2010-14) expressed his astonishment at how 16 drones were able to penetrate Russian air defenses and hit the college in three waves. Azarov told Tass, the Russian news agency: “I think [NATO countries] are involved. Because, first, the drones that were sent flew right past all Russian air-defense systems, which means that someone guided them through. And you can only guide them if you have space reconnaissance data – it was a whole wave of 16 drones, and they passed by air-defense systems. It means they were guided through, solely thanks to the intervention of Western intelligence agencies. I think that, strictly speaking, they [NATO states] were behind this provocation,” he said. Azarov did not mention Palantir per se. But the complex navigation ability of the NATO drones to thread through layers of Russian defense is the very kind of qualitative edge that the American software company is giving to the Ukrainian operators. The other grave implication is that the extensive mapping of Russian targets, from oil refinery installations to fuel depots, suggests that the information supplied by the NATO “brains” has a detailed picture of what is being targeted. There is no way that the air strikes on a college dormitory could be confused with military installations that are not even present in the area. That means Palantir and its multi-billionaire bosses like Alex Karp and Peter Thiel have blood on their hands, no matter how much they scrub their hands at their company’s newly opened office in Kiev. In a perverse sidenote, Thiel, who was a friend of pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has a personal interest in the topic of the Anti-Christ, traveling the globe delivering exclusive lectures to wealthy audiences about Armageddon and the end of times. It’s not clear what his exact views are on manifestations of the Anti-Christ. But the murder of teenage student girls sleeping in their beds should surely be relevant to his lectures. Do Palantir’s bosses have blood on their hands over the Starobelsk massacre? The post Do Palantir’s bosses have blood on their hands over the Starobelsk massacre? appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: WORLD, NATO, Palantir, Russia, Ukraine, war crimes]

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[l] at 6/2/26 4:09am
Multiple far right Israeli ministers attended New York City’s Israel Day Parade on Sunday, including Israel’s genocidal finance minister Bezalel Smotrich. Smotrich is ideologically not significantly different from a Nazi. Which means New York City just hosted a Nazi parade that was attended by thousands of people. Israel Day Parade in NYC: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and other far-right Israeli lawmakers and American politicians march on Fifth Avenue NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani decided to skip the event | @Etanetan23 Video:… pic.twitter.com/8lARnXk4yy — Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) May 31, 2026 New York officials are acting shocked and appalled by Smotrich’s appearance at the march, but “I can’t believe there were Israeli officials at the Israel parade” is kind of a hard sell. This is just what supporting Israel looks like: standing shoulder to shoulder with genocidal extremists and making common cause with them. That’s what Israel is. ❖ Americans are growing concerned about the latest Israeli military nightmare, which of course means it’s time for Axios to publish another article telling them the president has got it all under control. The latest Axios narrative management op is titled “Trump fumes at Netanyahu in call on Lebanon,” claiming the president admonished the Israeli prime minister that he is “fucking crazy” over Israel’s escalation in Lebanon, saying “You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.” As usual the article was authored by Israeli intelligence insider Barak Ravid, who has made an entire career out of falsely reporting that the US president is furious with Netanyahu and is moments away from twisting Israel’s arm to make peace. Some Barak Ravid headlines from the Biden administration include the following: Biden “running out” of patience with Bibi as Gaza war hits 100 days Scoop: Biden in “frustrating” call told Bibi to solve Palestinian tax revenue issue Biden’s ultimatum to Bibi: Change Gaza policy or we will White House temperature is “very high” ahead of Biden-Bibi call “We won’t support you”: Inside Biden’s ultimatum to Bibi Israel and U.S. deeply divided in meeting on key Rafah operation issues Biden and Bibi “red lines” for Rafah put them on a collision course Biden-Bibi clash escalates as U.S. accused of undermining Israeli government Biden and Netanyahu hold first call in a month amid public split Biden breaks with Netanyahu but sticks with Israel Biden on hot mic: Told Bibi we needed “come to Jesus” meeting on Gaza Biden, in rare criticism, warns Netanyahu that Israel risks losing global support Biden, in rare criticism of Bibi, says pause in Gaza fighting should have come sooner Scoop: Blinken warns Israeli officials global pressure will grow longer war goes on Israeli minister lambasted at White House about Gaza and war strategy Scoop: Biden tells Bibi he’s not in it for a year of war in Gaza Blinken unloads on Bibi: “You need a coherent plan” or face disaster in Gaza Scoop: White House cancels meeting, scolds Netanyahu in protest over video Netanyahu irked by “critical” Harris comments As everyone is sharing the latest Axios report, its worth noting that an Israeli official told Ynet earlier today that Israels threat to attack Beirut was done in coordination with the US pic.twitter.com/lzoU5g4Omj — Dave DeCamp (@DecampDave) June 1, 2026 Needless to say, Biden continued shipping weapons to Israel throughout the Gaza holocaust until the moment he left office in January of last year. There was never any meaningful conflict between the White House and Tel Aviv then, and we may safely assume that there there is no meaningful conflict between the White House and Tel Aviv today. As Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp notes, the Israeli press are reporting that Netanyahu’s planned attack on Beirut has been drawn up in coordination with Washington. ❖ A new UN report accuses Israel of rape and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners, yet another entry into the mountains upon mountains of evidence for this already well-established fact. It’s crazy how the actual, serious hasbara narrative about all these reports is that there’s a giant global antisemitic conspiracy in which all humanitarian institutions are collaborating with mainstream news outlets in a sinister plot to make Israel look bad. ❖ The Zionist PR operation StopAntisemitism has a multi-paragraph post up on Twitter right now complaining that a hospital receptionist wore a keffiyeh at work, and it made a Jewish woman feel upset. Cedars-Sinai Hospital: a Jewish mother was stunned to find a receptionist wearing a keffiyeh while checking her child into a pediatric endocrinology appointment. Since 10/7, the keffiyeh has increasingly been used at protests and demonstrations where calls for violence against… pic.twitter.com/JoI5r5LdVE — StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) June 1, 2026 That’s it. That’s the whole entire story. A Jewish person’s feelings felt upset about a piece of cloth. People are getting ripped to shreds by Israeli bombs in Lebanon and Gaza, but this is what we all need to focus on. When people talk about “skyrocketing levels of antisemitic incidents”, it’s mostly just stuff like this. ❖ Australia’s antisemitism czar released a document which simultaneously asserts that “Antisemitism and antizionism are both expressions of hatred towards Jews” AND that “It is antisemitic to conflate the policies of the Israeli government with the views of Jewish Australians”. These two sentences are contradictory and mutually exclusive. They cannot both be true. If it’s wrong to conflate all Jews with Israel, then it cannot be right to conflate a rejection of the pro-Israel political ideology with a hatred toward all Jews. It’s either one or the other. It can’t be both. Just in case you wanted a little more insight into how absurd and incoherent this fake “antisemitism” panic is. Reading by Tim Foley: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/thousands-of-new-yorkers-just-attended The post Thousands Of New Yorkers Just Attended A Nazi Parade For Israel, And Other Notes appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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Israel secretly operated covert military bases inside Iraq for more than a year to prepare for war with Iran, reportedly without Iraq’s knowledge or consent. Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra discuss the bombshell report, Israel’s assasination of the Iraqi shepherd who discovered the bases, and mounting evidence that the U.S. knew about the operation the entire time. “Israel is secretly operating military bases inside another sovereign country without that country’s public knowledge or consent,” Khalek explains. “If Iran, Russia, or China had done this, Washington would call it an act of war.” The post Israel Hunted Down the Iraqi Shepard Who Exposed Its Secret Military Bases appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: interview, Multimedia, WORLD, Iran, Iraq, Israel]

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[l] at 6/1/26 5:05pm
Live coverage of the war on Iran. Updates, analysis, and the latest developments as the conflict escalates across the region. The post The US doesnt know how to quit. HORMUZ ON FIRE NOW | Ep. 225 appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 6/1/26 6:50am
Beijing can fund itself cheaply and almost indefinitely – and thus can outlast the U.S. grand strategy to contain China. Seemingly, every day brings breathless new claims that an U.S.-Iran ‘deal’ awaits only a signature. As so often happens, the mediators (Pakistanis and Qataris) hope to manage both sides by telling one side that the other party is at the brink of agreement when it is not so, especially in an atmosphere of total mistrust. By these means the mediators hope to push matters towards a final agreement. It is a familiar tactic, but one that quite often results in confusion and distrust – rather than the hoped-for settlement. The ‘plan’ at this stage has only two central pillars: Iran’s ‘reopening’ of the Strait of Hormuz (on Iran’s terms) in return for the lifting of the U.S. naval blockade, and – at a later date – an understanding that the dilution of Iran’s 60% enriched uranium would be tackled in return for an end to sanctions. To say the devil is in the detail would be the understatement of the year. Iran understands that Trump’s headliners of an ‘imminent deal’ are firstly, intended to keep the U.S. stock market up and oil futures trading well below that of the delivery price of physical oil. And secondly, to obfuscate that Trump may be seeking a plausible way to end the war via striking a quick, incomplete deal that would, in all likelihood, be largely on Iran’s terms. All other issues – including the crucial detail of any nuclear agreement – would be deferred. Trump wants from Iran an initial concession that he can hail as a visible win – and one that will please markets, too. But Iran will not trade its military leverage, and certainly not the strategic dominance that it achieved in the war, nor Hormuz, for fuzzy assurances from the mediators. Iran does not trust the U.S. one iota. Ali Akbar Velayati, Senior Adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader observes, “History bears witness that everyone who came seeking domination, from Alexander to Genghis Khan and Trump, ultimately ended up dissolving into the heart of ancient Iranian civilization. This time, Iran’s red line is clear: papers and signatures alone are no guarantee. The tangible guarantor of the agreement’s survival is the Strait of Hormuz”. “For geography does not lie, and it is the final judge over every covenant written on paper”. The mediators naturally are desperate to avoid another round of war. Iran however, demands hard detail. This is Trump’s dilemma. He wants a quick win, but the mere hint of a fudged, incomplete deal – mainly on Iran’s terms – brought the wrath of the pro-Israel billionaire class down upon his head (the pushback was intense), and Israel (likely with encouragement from that same class) then blew up Trump’s ceasefire by launching ascorched-earth military assault on Lebanon, and on Gaza and its citizens, so breaching the ceasefire precondition for any deal. Trump is in zugzwang. (Any move he makes, potentially only worsens his position, whether strategically or domestically). We saw this same zig-zagging, back of an envelope, non-strategy perfectly illustrated in the iconic imaging from Trump’s Beijing visit – Trump ‘winged it’; no prior preparation; a ‘seat of the pants’ summit. That image may perhaps come to define this era – today’s iconic moment was of a U.S. President wearing the air of defeat whilst a confident President Xi’s comportment demonstrated who was in control. Why, one may ask, would the pro-Israel class risk the West being wrecked by the economic consequences of a prolonged closure of Hormuz that would be entailed by their angry veto of Trump’s mooted ‘deal’? Possibly because Jewish ‘Big Money’ – since the 2008 crisis and the subsequent structural transfer of wealth from the real economy to the financialised ‘trader élite’ – may lead them to feel immune to economic downturn. They may even see it as an ‘opportunity’ (leading to assets going cheap). The Iran effect, if not the direct cause, nonetheless marks a point of a significant reshuffling of global geo-politics. For, Israel it is bad news. The current Israel narrative is that no deal is better than a bad deal, because Israel could always return to war with Iran in a year or two’s time. No one believes that, of course. Israel cannot mount war on Iran without full assistance from the U.S. And tomorrow’s America – in its relations with Israel – likely will be different from today’s. Nahum Barnea in Yediot Ahoronot has written, “We [Israel] are sliding into a never-ending war on three, perhaps four fronts, holding territories that are not ours, with soldiers we do not have, in a bloody war against enemies we do not know how to deter – and all without giving real security to our citizens. Israel must break out of the Iranian trap. [Yet] Netanyahu is the last person who has the ability to extract us from it”. Russia is changing too (partly under the effect of Iran). Strategic patience is over, and the recent deadly Ukrainian drone attack on a college dormitory in the Russian town of Starobelsk which killed at least 21 people, mainly teenage girls, was described Moscow as “the last straw”. The Russian public is justly furious. Moscow holds European capitals and Kiev responsible for the recent Ukrainian barrage of drones and missiles fired deep into Russia, taking advantage of NATO airspace in the attempt to sidestep Russian air defences. Additionally, Russia has issued formal notification to Washington (via a telecon with Maro Rubio in India) that it holds European capitals and Kyiv responsible for the collapse of the Anchorage framework as well. Russia has said that it intends to put an end to Ukraine’s ability to carry out further such attacks, and to liquidate the decision centres that plan and direct the attacks on Russians – even if it means killing U.S. and European personnel. On 15 April, Russia’s Defence Ministry published lists containing the names and addresses of over 20 European companies and joint ventures allegedly supplying drones and components to Ukraine. Senior Russian officials, including Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev, explicitly designated these international facilities as “potential targets” for Russia’s armed forces. Europe has been warned. Again, it seems that the Trump-Xi and the Putin-Xi summits in Beijing serve to mark the transition into a more hard-nosed geo-political era. The two summits, one after the other, seem to have incentivised China into loosening its customary caution in order to put a brake on U.S. attempts to widen dollar use, at the expense of the Yuan. The U.S. Treasury’s ‘grand strategy’ is to ‘contain’ China’s current competitive advantage by raising its capital and energy costs. The U.S. Treasury first tried imposing tariffs on China, but after failing with that ploy, turned to trying to squeeze China’s competitive advantage by blockading Chinese oil imports (naval blockades of Iran and Venezuela) to raise China’s energy costs. However, if Trump wants all out trade competition, it seems to be ‘game on’ now for China – No more Mr (Xi) nice guy. China is responding to Trump not with sanctions, nor with missiles. It is doing something far more precise: They are exerting counter pressures back at the U.S. economy, and are doing this by cutting money flows into the dollar sphere in reaction to the U.S. attempt to grossly widen global dollar use. Both the U.S. Genius and the Clarity Acts are contrived to suck out retail holders of local overseas currencies from their positions through inducing them to switch into crypto tokens denominated in dollars and backed by U.S. Treasuries. If successful, this would both widen the U.S. dollar reach and provide a new source of demand for U.S. debt. Similarly (under the Clarity Act), investors looking to hold assets could be swapped out of regular U.S. stocks and bonds into digital tokens, via a digitised distributed ledger system. In short, the U.S. aims to scoop up as much overseas currency as it can to insert into U.S. markets via crypto – (effectively swapping the declining Petro-dollar for a substitute Crypto dollar hegemony that would then generate the dollar demand necessary to keep the U.S. bond market from failing). So, China is countering by going after something more sensitive – the flow of Chinese retail money going into American stocks and bonds. Chinese authorities have cracked down hard on Hong Kong brokerages that were helping Chinese mainland money flow into U.S. markets. As matters stand, Wall Street depends on foreign buyers of stocks to a significant extent, but Chinese savings dwarf those of all other countries. These will no longer be available. Secondly, China, the largest holder of gold in the world, will open a new gold trading centre in Hong Kong in July. This is a major move to break the western hold over precious metal trading – it strengthens the role of the Yuan and enables oil sales to be settled in gold (Saudi Arabia, in a roundabout way, is reportedly already selling oil to China via gold). Thirdly, Euroclear, one of the world’s largest financial companies and the backbone of international settlements, is planning to accept Chinese bonds traded in Hong Kong – as ‘good collateral’. Sean Foo explains: “When Euroclear accepts Chinese bonds as collateral, that means those bonds are treated as equivalent to liquid cash. It means they are good enough to back all international transactions – meaning that the global financial plumbing will be incorporating Chinese debt into the core infrastructure”. “Now there’s a reason why Chinese bonds are becoming attractive to global investors, and this goes beyond just geopolitics or trade flows. It comes down to one fundamental reason. China is sitting on over $50 trillion in bank deposits. That’s more than the combined bank holdings of the EU, U.S. and Japan. And that creates something every bond market, such as China’s needs in order to function well – a deep, reliable base of domestic buyers – your own local people buying”. In sum, as more money flows into Chinese bonds, and the Yuan bond market deepens, Chinese borrowing costs stay low. So Beijing can fund itself cheaply and almost indefinitely – and thus can outlast the U.S. grand strategy to contain China by squeezing both its capital costs and its energy costs. Iran war effect marks the resetting of world geo-politics The post Iran war effect marks the resetting of world geo-politics appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 5/31/26 11:04pm
France’s planned deployment of nuclear-armed Rafale jets armed in the Arctic, Central Europe, and possibly also the Balkans poses a qualitatively new strategic threat to Russia. The announcement in late April that France and Poland will carry out regular nuclear drills, which analysts reasonably believe are aimed against Russia (specifically Kaliningrad) and Belarus, represented the first application of what French President Emmanuel Macron has termed “forward deterrence”. It followed his speech earlier in the year where he introduced this concept, essentially the expansion of France’s nuclear umbrella over Europe, that in turn came shortly after the expiry of the New START. The Telegraph detailed what Macron had in mind in their article about “How France took the nuclear option to make Putin think twice”. Rafale jets armed with tactical nukes will deploy not only to Poland, but likely also to the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany, all of which showed interest in his “forward deterrence” initiative. The day after their article was published, Norway announced that it’ll participate in this initiative, thus likely holding regular nuclear drills like Poland will. The tactical aspect of the nukes that France envisages deploying with its Rafales all across Europe are significant, the Telegraph explains, because they form part of what its nuclear doctrine calls a “nuclear warning shot”. This refers to “a single, non-renewable, limited nuclear strike, which would most likely be aimed at a military target.” The purpose is to spook the target, understood to be Russia, into halting military operations and resorting to solely diplomatic means for resolving whatever the dispute may be. Importantly, Romania earlier confirmed that France invited it to join the “forward deterrence” initiative, but its new president surprisingly declined the offer to host nuclear components despite already hosting French troops. If it reverses course, then French Rafales in Norway could threaten Russia’s Arctic bases with tactical nukes, its ones in Poland could threaten those in Kaliningrad and Belarus, while Romanian-based Rafales could threaten Crimea’s. This represents a qualitatively new strategic threat to Russia. On the conventional front, the “cordon sanitaire” that’s being assembled in the Arctic-Baltic through UK-led efforts, Central Europe through Polish-led efforts, and its entire southern periphery through Turkish-led efforts would consolidate, with Turkish influence possibly stretching into Romania as foreseen here. All the while, Germany and Poland are competing to build European NATO’s largest army (Poland’s is presently the largest), but Germany could pose a 1941-like threat to Russia if it ultimately pulls ahead. These trends are incredibly dangerous for Russia since they’re all unfolding right on its doorstep. Even worse, the archetypically anti-Russian Baltic States could become emboldened by these developments into either initiating a crisis with Russia or opening up a second front in support of Ukraine if the ongoing conflict resumes sometime after its inevitable conclusion, thus risking a nuclear crisis if France reaffirms its “forward deterrence” vis-à-vis Russia. Russia might then launch a first nuclear strike against NATO. The last time that France agreed to defend a European country, it abandoned Poland to the Nazis during the “phony war”, so precedent suggests that it might repeat this in the future. Those countries along NATO’s Eastern Flank that participate in France’s “forward deterrence” initiative like Poland does, Romania might one day, and Finland could too as well as the Baltic States, should therefore remember this in case they get any ideas about provoking Russia under the cover of France’s nuclear umbrella. https://korybko.substack.com/p/frances-forward-deterrence-vis-a The post France’s “Forward Deterrence” Vis-à-vis Russia Raises The Risk Of Nuclear War appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: WORLD, Arctic, Europe, France, NATO, Russia, USA]

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[l] at 5/31/26 7:32pm
The UK is getting crazier and crazier in its defense of Israel. Now they’re canceling the visas of mainstream normie political pundits for criticizing the state of Israel, and investigating people for antisemitic hate crimes when they denounce Zionists who aren’t even Jewish. American progressive commentator Cenk Uygur and his nephew Hasan Piker have both been denied visas by the British government, saying they were blocked from entering the country because of their criticism of Israel. “I’ve been banned from the UK,” Uygur said in a tweet. “I tried to get on a flight to London to attend SXSW London and give a speech at Oxford. I’ve been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore? This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!” “the uk has revoked my visa as well. all at the behest of israel,” said Piker in a repost of his uncle’s statement. “the west is betraying ‘liberal values’ for a genocidal fascist foreign government. soon we will all become israel.” the uk has revoked my visa as well. all at the behest of israel. the west is betraying "liberal values" for a genocidal fascist foreign government. soon we will all become israel. https://t.co/UqQG1dogOI — hasanabi (@hasanthehun) May 31, 2026 This is a significant escalation from London, because neither Uygur nor Piker could reasonably be described as politically extremist in any way. They’re essentially just Bernie Sanders progressives who sit well within the mainstream US political Overton window; I personally don’t follow either of them because they are both far too aligned with the Democratic Party for my liking. This move is yet another win for the UK’s extremely powerful Israel lobby. Two weeks ago the Jewish Chronicle ran a story titled “Social media influencer Hasan Piker must be banned from Britain, say Jewish leaders,” subtitled “Online agitator who said Zionists were like ‘Nazis’ and refused to condemn Hamas poses a threat to British Jews.” So the pressure campaign appears to have paid off. This comes as the Metropolitan Police launch an investigation into an incident in which actress Helen Mirren was called an “evil Zionist bitch” by a man on the street last year, saying in a statement that “We are aware of a video circulating online, showing a man and a woman being subjected to antisemitic verbal abuse in Tower Hill.” To be clear, Helen Mirren is not Jewish, so she can’t have been a victim of “antisemitic verbal abuse”. She is however an avowed supporter of the state of Israel, which makes her a Zionist. In a 2023 interview with Israeli media, Mirren stirred up controversy with her remarks on her 1967 visit to the Zionist ethnostate, saying, “I saw Arabs being thrown out of their houses in Jerusalem. But it was just the extraordinary magical energy of a country just beginning to put its roots in the ground. It was an amazing time to be here.” British police are investigating the guy who called non-Jew Helen Mirren a ‘Zionist bitch’ — under hate speech laws for antisemitism. Now, it’s antisemitic to criticise non-Jews for supporting Israel. It was never about antisemitism, and always about protecting Israel. — Tiberius (@tiberiusfiles) May 31, 2026 This just says so much about the true nature of the artificially manufactured panic around “antisemitism” in the west. That a woman who is not Jewish can be framed by law enforcement as the victim of an antisemitic hate crime because someone criticized her support for Israel is an admission that this has always been about protecting the interests of the Zionist state, rather than protecting Jews. Jewishness or Judaism never entered into the equation here; a person who isn’t Jewish was criticized for supporting a genocidal apartheid state, and nothing more. Yet the person who uttered that criticism is now under investigation for antisemitic abuse, because in the eyes of British law enforcement, “antisemitic abuse” just means criticizing the state of Israel. Western governments will tell you that it is antisemitic to equate all Jews with the state of Israel, and then in their very next breath they will tell you that anti-Zionism is anti-semitism. These two statements are completely contradictory; they cannot both be true. If it’s wrong to equate all Jews with the state of Israel, then it’s wrong to equate criticism of the pro-Israel political ideology with a hateful attack against all Jews. But that’s how insane the west’s support for Israel is making everything. They’ve got everyone performing impossible mental gymnastics and feats of Orwellian doublethink in order to reconcile the official narrative with reality. Reading by Tim Foley: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-uk-is-getting-even-crazier-in The post The UK Is Getting Even Crazier In Defense Of Israel appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 5/31/26 3:43pm
Alastair Crooke analiza cómo la guerra de Irán está transformando la geopolítica mundial. Crooke es un exdiplomático británico y fundador del Conflicts Forum, con sede en Beirut. Anteriormente fue asesor en asuntos de Oriente Medio de Javier Solana, el jefe de Política Exterior de la UE. The post La guerra con Irán redefine la geopolítica mundial appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 5/31/26 3:36pm
Alastair Crooke explique comment la guerre en Iran transforme la géopolitique mondiale. Crooke est un ancien diplomate britannique et le fondateur du Conflicts Forum, basé à Beyrouth. Il a auparavant été conseiller sur les questions du Moyen-Orient auprès de Javier Solana, alors Haut Représentant de l’Union européenne pour la politique étrangère. The post La guerre en Iran rebat les cartes de la géopolitique mondiale appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 5/31/26 3:25pm
Alastair Crooke discusses how the Iran War is transforming geopolitics of the world. Crooke is a former British diplomat and the Founder of the Conflicts Forum based in Beirut. He was formerly an advisor on Middle East issues to Javier Solana, the EU Foreign Policy Chief. The post Iran War Resets the Geopolitics of the World appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 5/30/26 8:54am
Fox News reported earlier this week that the Treasury Department sent subpoenas to CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker as part of an investigation into a humanitarian delegation that brought aid to Cuba in March. Benjamin joined Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra to clarify that while she has not yet received an official subpoena, she considers the probe an intimidation tactic. She argued that Washington is criminalizing humanitarian aid while enforcing sanctions that she says are actually killing babies in Cuba. “We have to use this as another reason we’re so angry at the US government and redouble our efforts,” Benjamin said. As the Trump administration ramps up its suffocation of Cuba, it’s trying to criminalize those bringing humanitarian aid to the island while enforcing sanctions that are killing babies, says @medeabenjamin  of @codepink . The post Medea Benjamin Speaks Out After US Probe Into Cuba Aid Trip appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 5/28/26 1:00am
The liberal-globalists want Poland to become a junior partner of the Franco-German Entente, the conservatives want to become it to become the US’ junior partner, while populist-nationalists prefer that Poland multi-align between the EU and US while practicing an independent eastern policy. The announcement that France and Poland will hold regular nuclear drills aimed against Russia and Belarus, which follows France’s proposal to extend its nuclear umbrella eastward and Poland’s own declared nuclear ambitions, drew attention to Poland’s foreign policy strategies. While seemingly many, it really only has three: become a junior partner of the FrancoGerman Entente; become the US’ junior partner; or multi-align between both with an independent eastern policy. The first strategy is being pursued by Tusk’s ruling liberal-globalist coalition. He dislikes Trump and thinks that Poland’s interests are best ensured through closer cooperation with Europe than with the US even if this policy comes at the expense of US ties. This has taken the form of Franco-Polish nuclear cooperation, Tusk’s alleged subservience to Germany per conservative opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the revived Weimar Triangle, and Poland’s invitation to join the top tier of a “two-speed Europe”. Kaczynski’s conservative opposition champions the exact opposite strategy of retaining rock-solid ties with the US even at the expense of EU ties. Whereas Tusk suspects that the US would abandon Poland in the political fantasy of war with Russia, Kaczynski believes that it’s France and Germany that would abandon it. By playing the role of the US’ top anti-Russian vanguard, including through pressure on its Belarusian ally, Kaczynski believes that Poland can guarantee US support in that scenario. The final foreign policy strategy is from Poland’s populist-nationalist opposition, Confederation and Confederation of the Polish Crown, which is to multi-align between the EU and US while practicing an independent policy towards the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. France, Germany, and the US oppose this plan since they’d prefer to subordinate Poland. If these parties become the kingmakers after fall 2027’s next Sejm elections, however, then they might be able to implement some of this vision. As regards Poland’s relations with Russia, the populist-nationalists’ plan is the most pragmatic and could even see Warsaw independently reach out to Moscow and Minsk to explore their own détente. The conservatives’ plan, however, would likely doom Poland to another intractable years-long rivalry with Russia with the attendant ever-present risk of spiraling out of control. The liberal-globalists’, meanwhile, could hypothetically see Poland repair ties with Russia to a degree if France and Germany do so first. There are also implications for Ukraine too. In the order that they were mentioned above, the populist-nationalists are extremely critical of that country so relations would become very strained, albeit not as strained as Russian-Polish relations presently are. The conservatives became lukewarm towards Ukraine in recent years but could always pivot back to being Ukrainophiles on an anti-Russian pretext. The liberal-globalists are hardcore Ukrainophiles, however, and might eventually propose a confederation. Polish foreign policy is formulated through collaboration between the President, Prime Minister, and Foreign Minister, which are now respectively a conservative and two liberal-globalists since fall 2023. This explains the mixed signals coming out of Warsaw since then. If the conservatives enter into a coalition with the populist-nationalists after fall 2027’s next elections, then one of the latter might become Foreign Minister as part of the deal, thus moving Polish foreign policy closer to their direction. https://korybko.substack.com/p/poland-really-only-has-three-possible The post Poland Really Only Has Three Possible Foreign Policy Strategies appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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