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title: The Beauty of the Diversity of Cultures — Panel 2
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title: The LaRouche Program To Create 3 Billion New Productive Jobs in a Generation — Panel 3
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title: L’objectif de construire 1,5 million de logements d’ici 2031 en Ontario est-il accessible?
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<p>L'Ontario maintient son plan d’accélérer les approbations de projets, mais la construction est au ralenti.</p>

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5308733
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A late-night meeting between Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and moderate Republicans fighting for an obscure tax break ended with no deal on Monday, prolonging the fight over an issue that’s emerged as one of the major barriers to a final agreement on President Trump’s domestic agenda.  “We had some questions, they have to wait for…

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Pakistan’s military enjoying renewed popularity after Indian clash, but analysts warn the surge may be temporary.

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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885401
title: Dove sono i germi più fertili del trumpismo in Europa?
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<p><strong><em>Uno studio rivela che molti francesi aderiscono alle idee fondanti del trumpismo. La destra, più che l’estrema destra, potrebbe trarne vantaggio.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>Gérald PAPY</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em></span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p>Con la sua gestione della guerra in Ucraina e l’orientamento dato alle relazioni commerciali transatlantiche, Donald Trump si è creato nuovi nemici in Europa dall’inizio del suo nuovo mandato. Ma il trumpismo stesso potrebbe attecchire nell’Unione Europea?</p>
<p>Il Centro di ricerche politiche di Sciences Po (Cevipof) a Parigi e l’Università Libera Internazionale di Studi Sociali Guido Carli (Luiss) a Roma hanno sottoposto alcuni capisaldi del programma politico della nuova amministrazione americana a campioni di cittadini in Francia, Italia, Germania e Paesi Bassi tra metà gennaio e inizio febbraio, nell’ambito della 16ª onda del Barometro della fiducia politica. Sono stati testati: il rifiuto della classe politica, la disaffezione verso la democrazia, la richiesta di maggiore autorità, la sfiducia nella giustizia, l’espansione del liberalismo economico e il rifiuto dell’ingerenza pubblica nella vita privata. Sulla base dei risultati dei sondaggi, si può affermare che esiste in Europa un terreno fertile per lo sviluppo del trumpismo.</p>
<p><strong> Crisi della democrazia</strong></p>
<p>Per Luc Rouban, direttore di ricerca al CNRS, membro del Cevipof e autore della nota “Il Trumpismo alla francese” (1), la Francia è, dei quattro paesi studiati, il più permeabile alle idee del trumpismo.</p>
<p>“In questo paese si osservano le convergenze più marcate. Certo, ci sono differenze tra Francia e Stati Uniti, soprattutto perché questi ultimi sono una federazione. Ma idee di sovranità, volontarismo nazionale e uno Stato forte… sono sempre state diffuse in Francia, anche a sinistra. Non bisogna dimenticarlo”, analizza Rouban.</p>
<p>Tre indicatori del trumpismo rivelano questa vicinanza francese alla percezione del cittadino americano: sfiducia nella giustizia, rapporto complicato con la classe politica e crisi democratica attorno alla nozione di efficienza.</p>
<p>“La sensazione che la democrazia funzioni male e che, con meno democrazia ma più efficienza, le cose andrebbero meglio, distingue nettamente la Francia da Germania, Italia e Paesi Bassi”, sottolinea Rouban. Per lo studioso, il fenomeno è sia congiunturale – “legato all’instabilità politica dopo lo scioglimento dell’Assemblea Nazionale, le elezioni legislative e le difficoltà nel formare un governo” – che strutturale.</p>
<p>“La Francia vive questa situazione da anni. Ricordiamo il discorso dei gilet gialli: ‘Ho giocato secondo le regole, ho fatto tutto quello che mi è stato chiesto, eppure non ce la faccio’. Molti cittadini sentono che c’è indifferenza o inefficienza nel risolvere i loro problemi.”</p>
<p>La mancanza di fiducia nella giustizia è un altro indicatore di questa peculiarità francese: solo il 44% si fida del sistema giudiziario, stessa percentuale dell’Italia, contro il 63% dei Paesi Bassi e il 66% della Germania. La Francia ha la più alta percentuale di intervistati che la considerano “troppo permissiva” (69%), “parziale” (77%) e “politicizzata” (69%). L’ultimo episodio giudiziario – la condanna di Marine Le Pen per malversazione di fondi pubblici e il suo sfruttamento politico – non farà che rafforzare questa tendenza. A parte l’accusa di permissivismo, gli italiani esprimono un livello simile di sfiducia nel sistema giudiziario, ben più alto di tedeschi e olandesi.</p>
<p><strong> Sostegno ai servizi pubblici</strong></p>
<p>D’altra parte, francesi, tedeschi, italiani e olandesi esprimono una certa fiducia nei loro sistemi sanitari, nelle forze di polizia e nell’esercito (tra il 64% e l’80%). In generale, la soddisfazione per i servizi pubblici in Europa rappresenta un elemento di differenziazione dagli Stati Uniti.</p>
<p>“Alcuni aspetti sono propri del trumpismo e di politiche presenti in America – non solo negli USA, ma anche con Jair Bolsonaro in Brasile o Javier Milei in Argentina – che combinano messaggi di estrema destra con posizioni neoliberali o libertarie, mirando a ridurre l’essenza stessa dello Stato”, spiega Benjamin Biard, ricercatore del Centro di Ricerca e Informazione Sociopolitica (Crisp). “In Europa, i partiti di estrema destra non puntano tanto a smantellare i servizi pubblici. Alcuni, come il Rassemblement National in Francia o il Vlaams Belang in Belgio, adottano persino accenti sociali per ampliare il loro elettorato.”</p>
<p>Di fronte a una popolazione più legata ai servizi pubblici, risulta difficile per i “naturali eredi” del trumpismo in Europa applicare le stesse ricette. Eppure, il numero di intervistati che ritengono “si dovrebbe ridurre il numero di dipendenti pubblici” – marchio distintivo dell’amministrazione Trump – non è mai stato così alto nei quattro paesi (53% dal 2017).</p>
<p><strong> L’estrema destra non è il solo veicolo</strong></p>
<p>Sebbene i movimenti di estrema destra – apertamente sostenuti da Trump, dal vicepresidente Vance e dal consigliere Musk – sembrino il terreno naturale per l’espansione del trumpismo in Europa, non sono gli unici possibili ricettori.</p>
<p>“Il ritorno di Donald Trump alla Casa Bianca esercita un fascino innegabile su gran parte della destra e dell’estrema destra francese, dimostrando che una destra radicale e autoritaria può prendere il potere in un paese considerato fiore all’occhiello delle democrazie occidentali”, afferma Rouban. Ma le idee trumpiste si irradiano oltre: influenzano i Repubblicani, settori del macronismo e persino la sinistra.</p>
<p>“La ricezione del trumpismo in Francia potrebbe avere importanti effetti sulla ricomposizione delle destre. Non è detto che avvantaggi il Rassemblement National. Forse non è il partito meglio posizionato per soddisfare la domanda di liberalismo e mobilità sociale che il trumpismo sostiene. La ricomposizione risultante potrebbe invece favorire i Repubblicani.”</p>
<p><strong> Scontro di nazionalismi</strong></p>
<p>Nell’estrema destra europea, l’adesione al trumpismo è diseguale e legata a sensibilità divergenti. Al Parlamento Europeo questa corrente è rappresentata da almeno tre gruppi politici. Senza dubbio, la premier italiana Giorgia Meloni (Fratelli d’Italia) incarna al meglio la convergenza tra una frangia della classe politica europea e l’amministrazione americana.</p>
<p>“Ma si trova in una posizione scomoda”, osserva Biard. “Ha stretto rapporti privilegiati con Trump. Ma la sua politica commerciale è piuttosto sfavorevole all’UE e ai suoi Stati membri, Italia compresa. È il paradosso di questo tipo di alleanze.”</p>
<p>È anche il paradosso di partiti che promuovono nazionalismi che, per natura, possono scontrarsi con quelli di altri paesi pur appartenenti alla stessa famiglia politica. Gli ottimisti potranno compiacersi nel vederli litigare tra loro. Ma rimane un dato allarmante, identificato da Rouban: aspettative simili a quelle espresse dalla maggioranza degli americani durante l’incoronazione presidenziale di Trump nel novembre 2024 sono fortemente presenti negli elettorati europei.</p>
<p>(1) “Il Trumpismo alla francese”, Luc Rouban, Barometro della fiducia politica, Sciences Po Cevipof, marzo 2025.</p>
<p><em>Articolo originale </em><strong><a href="https://www.levif.be/international/europe/trumpisme-ou-sont-les-germes-les-plus-feconds-du-trumpisme-en-europe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">levif.be</a></strong></p>


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title: The US has $36 trillion in debt. What does that mean, and who owns it?
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title: Trump signs bill outlawing ‘revenge porn’
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Legislation criminalises publishing of intimate images, including AI-created 'deepfakes', without a person’s consent.


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title: 'De-Brexit'? UK PM Starmer Accused Of "Surrender" As Britain Pens New Agreement With Brussels
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">'De-Brexit'? UK PM Starmer Accused Of "Surrender" As Britain Pens New Agreement With Brussels</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://rmx.news/article/uk-pm-starmer-accused-of-surrender-as-britain-pens-new-agreement-with-brussels/"><em>Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News,</em></a></p>

<p><strong>The United Kingdom and the European Union have reached a wide-ranging agreement aimed at expanding cooperation across key areas such as defense, energy, migration, law enforcement, and youth mobility — a deal that critics argue is a flagrant rowback on Brexit.</strong></p>

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<p>Announced following the U.K.–EU summit on Monday, the so-called Common Understanding outlines both sides’ intention to build on existing post-Brexit frameworks, including the Withdrawal Agreement and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.</p>

<p>While the agreement does not constitute a new treaty, it signals a shift toward closer integration in several sectors that effectively bring the U.K. back into alignment with EU rules and institutions, undermining national sovereignty.</p>

<p><strong>The agreement reconfirms reciprocal access to fishing waters until June 2038 and extends bilateral cooperation on energy. It also launches a new Security and Defense Partnership covering topics such as support for Ukraine, cyber defense, military mobility, peacekeeping, and space security. Dialogue is also planned in areas like maritime safety and international disaster response.</strong></p>

<p>Access to fishing waters has been a bone of contention since the 2016 Brexit vote and is seen as a major concession by the U.K. Ahead of the news breaking, rumors had been swirling in Westminster that fishing rights were on the table, leading Reform UK leader Nigel Farage to warn, “If true, that will be the end of the fishing industry.”</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Starmer has surrendered to Brussels.<br><br>
Labour can’t be trusted with their weak leadership. <a href="https://t.co/Fl2j7kgyPe">pic.twitter.com/Fl2j7kgyPe</a></p>
— Reform UK (@reformparty_uk) <a href="https://twitter.com/reformparty_uk/status/1924391606230151430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch also remarked, “Twelve years’ access to British waters is three times longer than the government wanted. <strong>We’re becoming a rule-taker from Brussels once again.</strong> And with no details on any cap or time limits on Youth Mobility, fears of free movement returning will only increase. <strong>This is very concerning.</strong>”</p>

<p>The new mobility framework proposed is for young people, allowing limited-duration travel between the U.K. and EU for work, study, volunteering, and other cultural purposes. In parallel, the U.K. and EU will begin discussions about associating the UK with the EU’s Erasmus+ program, including negotiation over financial terms. These discussions are framed as promoting “people-to-people” ties, especially among younger generations.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Why would a Labour Brexit deal be hard to agree?<br><br>
Usually when two sides negotiate, they have different priorities &amp; aims.<br><br>
With Keir Starmer's negotiations with the EU, both sides have exactly the SAME priorities and aim: the total surrender of British sovereignty to Brussels. <a href="https://t.co/zpIB2gUwDN">pic.twitter.com/zpIB2gUwDN</a></p>
— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) <a href="https://twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1924360743048073476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>In the area of internal security, both sides committed to strengthening cooperation under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.<strong> This includes information-sharing with Europol, improved coordination on terrorism and serious crime, and the potential expansion of biometric and vehicle data exchange. </strong>There is also intent to address difficulties faced by law enforcement in accessing electronic communications data across jurisdictions.</p>

<p>In economic and environmental matters, the agreement outlines plans to explore U.K. participation in the EU’s internal electricity market and to establish a link between the U.K. and EU emissions trading systems. Both initiatives would require the U.K. to align with EU rules in relevant areas, such as state aid, environmental protections, and trading mechanisms. This alignment would be monitored through dispute mechanisms, with the European Court of Justice acting as the final authority on EU law. The move effectively reintroduces the ECJ as the supreme arbiter in such areas.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">This has been an amateur negotiation from the start, ending in a total sellout. <a href="https://t.co/BwbhqiiGWE">pic.twitter.com/BwbhqiiGWE</a></p>
— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) <a href="https://twitter.com/KemiBadenoch/status/1924442949951095183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>On agri-food trade, the two sides agreed to work toward a Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement that would remove many current barriers to the movement of animals and plants between Great Britain and the EU. <strong>However, this too would involve dynamic alignment with EU regulations and limited exceptions subject to EU approval.</strong> The agreement specifies that the U.K. would be consulted during the EU policy-making process but would have no vote or participation in formal decision-making bodies. Again, issues of sovereignty arise, with the United Kingdom signing up to align with regulations without having a seat at the table.</p>

<p><strong>The deal also includes plans to deepen cooperation on illegal migration. </strong>Areas of focus include upstream control efforts, information-sharing on visa abuse and migrant smuggling, and coordination with EU agencies such as Frontex and the EU Agency for Asylum. Practical measures to prevent Channel crossings and improve return mechanisms are also under discussion.</p>

<p>Though the agreement repeatedly emphasizes mutual benefit and respect for each side’s legal framework, many of its proposals rely on U.K. adherence to EU rules and oversight structures. The European Commission is explicit in its expectation that the U.K. will align dynamically with changing EU legislation in areas covered by the agreements, while contributing financially to relevant EU programs and databases.</p>

<p>Former Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman called the deal a surrender. “The government has let down our fishing community. This capitulation is unforgivable for our coastal communities and fishermen. The British people won’t forget this. The beginning of the end for Brexit.”</p>

<p><strong>Starmer, however, took to social media to defend the deal, telling Brits they “deserve better than the last government’s deal. It wasn’t working for anyone.”</strong></p>

<p>He claimed that while previous governments had “dithered and delayed,” his was “getting on with the job and delivering in the national interest.”</p>

<p><a href="https://rmx.news/article/uk-pm-starmer-accused-of-surrender-as-britain-pens-new-agreement-with-brussels/"><em>Read more here...</em></a></p>
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title: Merz Wants German Army To Be Biggest in Europe
author: ;Rainer Apel
link: https://eir.news/2025/05/news/merz-wants-german-army-to-be-biggest-in-europe/
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<p>“Strengthening the Bundeswehr is the top priority in our own policy. In future, the German government will provide all the financial resources that the Bundeswehr needs to become the strongest conventional army in Europe,” new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in his parliamentary address on May 16. There is the special extra-budgetary fund for rearmament in the range of €400 billion made available for that, but inner-government discussions are going beyond that, as indicated by German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul who called for the regular defense budget to be more than tripled, from €62 to €225 billion annually. A good part of that money is going to be carved out of all other budgets except the defense one, as indicated by Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil when calling for cuts in all budgets.</p>
<p>Meant as a signal in the direction of Moscow, Merz announced May 16 that on May 22, he and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius will travel to the official roll call of the Bundeswehr brigade in Lithuania. Both will take part in the formal ceremony at Panzerbrigade 45 in the capital Vilnius. Deputy government spokesman Steffen Meyer spoke of an, “important milestone on the way to the permanent stationing of a German brigade on NATO’s eastern flank.”</p>
<p>Around 4,800 Bundeswehr soldiers and 200 civilian employees are to be stationed in the Baltic state in the Lithuanian heavy combat brigade by 2027, stationed only a few kilometers from the border with Russia. With the appointment on May 15, Panzerbrigade 45 will become “a fully-fledged brigade of the German Army,” said a spokesperson for the Federal Ministry of Defense. It will then also be given the nickname “Lithuania.”</p>
<p>Whereas Merz, in an television show May 15, made an attempt to play down, for the moment, the importance of the discussion about a delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, news from London the same day indicated that there may be worse things on the agenda than the Taurus. The so-called Trinity House agreement signed on October 23, 2024, under German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, will be realized now under Chancellor Merz. The project deserving special attention is the joint development of a precision missile with a range of more than 2000 km—that is four times the range of the Taurus.</p>
<p>German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and British Defense Secretary John Healey presented the new long-range weapons project at a meeting in Berlin May 15. Healey took the opportunity of claiming that the military industry was an engine of growth, creating jobs, promoting skills and driving investment in the U.K. and Germany. The bilateral nature of the Trinity House agreement shows the crucial role of the British in building up a militarized Germany into a fist against Russia.</p>


guid: 682b426fb8f5b000015d1536
title: Mexican Delegation Visiting China
author: ;Michael O. Billington
link: https://eir.news/2025/05/news/mexico-sending-delegation-to-china/
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<p>Following the successful China-CELAC Forum in mid-May, which was attended by Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente, Mexico is now sending a delegation headed by the President of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico Sergio Gutiérrez Luna from today, May 19 to May 23, at the invitation of Zhao Leji, chairman of China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202505/1334331.shtml"><em>Global Times</em></a> reported May 18 that: “Mexico will strengthen cooperation between the two countries in areas such as connectivity, science and technology, agriculture, tourism and direct flights, and constantly enrich the substance of Mexico-China relations, de la Fuente said when Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met him in Beijing last week, according to the Xinhua News Agency.”</p>
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guid: 682b4646b8f5b000015d1554
title: U.S. Returns Ancient Silk Manuscripts to China
author: ;Michael O. Billington
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<p>Silk manuscripts, described as the “only known silk manuscripts from the Warring States period (475 B.C.-221 B.C.),” are to be returned from the U.S. to China. The scrolls were illegally removed from China in 1946 soon after being discovered in 1942 from the Zidanku site in Changsha, Hunan Province. These manuscripts are compared to the Dead Sea Scrolls in historical importance.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202505/1334301.shtml"><em>Global Times</em></a> reported yesterday: “As the only known silk manuscripts from the Warring States period unearthed in China, the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts—over 2,000 years old—are the earliest silk texts discovered to date, representing the earliest known example of a classical Chinese book in the true sense, historian Zhou Xueying, a professor with the School of History at Nanjing University, told the <em>Global Times</em> on Sunday.</p>
<p>“The manuscripts are of foundational significance for the study of ancient Chinese script and literature, as well as for the history of Chinese scholarship and thought,” according to historian Zhou Xueying, a professor with the School of History at Nanjing University.</p>
<p>Li Ling, a veteran archaeology professor at Peking University, who has studied silk manuscripts for more than four decades, told <em>Global Times</em> that the Zidanku manuscript can be compared to the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the oldest surviving Hebrew Bible manuscripts. The scrolls, dating back to 200-100 B.C., were discovered five years after the Zidanku manuscript, which dates back to 300 B.C. “Just as the Dead Sea Scrolls are crucial for understanding Western and Christian culture, the Zidanku manuscript offers insights into the ancient Chinese world of occultism,” according to Li.</p>
<p>Huo Zhengxin, a law professor at the China University of Political Science and Law, told the <em>Global Times</em> that this year alone, over 40 cultural relics have been returned to China through China-U.S. treaties, underscoring stable bilateral cooperation in this field despite broader geopolitical strains. “This sets a valuable precedent for recovering artifacts displaced through colonial or unethical means,” she told the <em>Global Times</em>.</p>
<p>Usefully, the <em>Global Times</em> also reports, “On social media, including the video-sharing platform YouTube, users urged other cultural institutions, including the British Museum, to take similar actions by returning looted historical items to their countries of origin out of respect for their cultural and historical significance.”</p>


guid: 682b5189b8f5b000015d1575
title: Beijing Reveals U.S. Export Controls Damage U.S. Companies More than China&amp;#039;s
author: ;Michael O. Billington
link: https://eir.news/2025/05/news/china-u-s-export-controls-damage-u-s-companies-more-than-chinas/
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<p><em>Global Times</em> posts an analysis this week of the impact of U.S. export controls on the most advanced computer chips manufacturing, and the crisis this has created for Nvidia, one of the world’s largest chip producers. “The H20 chip, which had been the primary chip Nvidia was permitted to sell in China, was effectively blocked from the market after U.S. officials informed the company last month that the product would require an export license, per Reuters,” <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202505/1334336.shtml"><em>Global Times</em> reports</a>. “To a certain extent, the dilemma underscores a fundamental truth: China’s role as both a critical revenue source and innovation ecosystem for Nvidia is irreplaceable. In recent years, Nvidia has reportedly had to tweak its chip offerings for the Chinese market several times in compliance with the increasingly stringent U.S. export controls on sales of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China.”</p>
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title: Jeffrey Sachs, in Two Interviews, Emphasizes Continuing Influence of British Geopolitics
author: ;Michael O. Billington
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/lossy-page1-1272px-British_Empire_flag_RMG_L0088.tiff.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>In a May 12 interview on the YouTube channel of the “non-attached Member of the European Parliament” Fidias Panayiotou, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi3mO1FzdwY">Jeffrey Sachs</a> describes the following as, “one theorem of mine,” namely, that “All problems in the world go back to the British.”</p>
<p>He went on to detail how, “that’s true in Pakistan, in India, in China, the Mideast, and here in Cyprus. They were the most powerful Empire for 200 years and left behind conflicts everywhere. You know, the disaster in Palestine right now—the reason is that between 1915 and 1917, the British promised the same territory to three groups: First the McMann communication, the British promised it to the Arabs—‘You fight with us against the Turks, it’s yours.’ Then they negotiated the Sykes-Picot Treaty, to say to the French, ‘It’s yours.’ Then the Balfour Declaration in 1917, they said, ‘It’s a Jewish Homeland.’</p>
<p>“So the British promised three times land that wasn’t even theirs. They’ve got a lot of nerve as far as I’m concerned. Even today, Starmer acts like an imperialist. He doesn’t have anything to back it up really, although he’s got a few nuclear weapons that could destroy the world. But the rest is a bunch of imperial nostalgia, let’s say—grand empire wannabes. In any event, they fit the mold, all British problems are tough ones. They were really cynical, so they tied everything up in knots. And now you need to disentangle all of this. But this is where the problem originates.”</p>
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guid: 682b8d83b8f5b000015d160d
title: Trump and Putin Term Two-Hour Talk ‘Constructive’
author: ;Michael O. Billington
link: https://eir.news/2025/05/news/trump-putin-two-hour-talk-constructive/
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<p>U.S. President <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114535693441367601">Donald Trump posted</a> the following on his Truth Social site, following his call today with Russian President Vladimir Putin, his prior call with Zelenskyy, and following call with several European leaders, identified in the post:</p>
<p>“Just completed my two hour call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. I believe it went very well. Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War. The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of. The tone and spirit of the conversation were excellent. If it wasn’t, I would say so now, rather than later. Russia wants to do large scale TRADE with the United States when this catastrophic ‘bloodbath’ is over, and I agree. There is a tremendous opportunity for Russia to create massive amounts of jobs and wealth. Its potential is UNLIMITED. Likewise, Ukraine can be a great beneficiary on Trade, in the process of rebuilding its Country. Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will begin immediately. I have so informed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, of Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, President Emmanuel Macron, of France, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, of Italy, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, of Germany, and President Alexander Stubb, of Finland, during a call with me, immediately after the call with President Putin. The Vatican, as represented by the Pope, has stated that it would be very interested in hosting the negotiations. Let the process begin!”</p>
<p>For his part, President Putin emphasized from the outset of his short <a href="http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76953" rel="noreferrer">remarks to the press</a> after they spoke that he considered the call “both substantive and quite candid. Overall, I believe it was a very productive exchange.” He reiterated at the conclusion of his remarks that “the conversation was highly constructive, and I assess it positively.” </p>
<p>Putin discussed the details of the call as follows:</p>
<p>“First and foremost, I expressed my gratitude to the President of the United States for the support provided by the United States in facilitating the resumption of direct talks between Russia and Ukraine aimed at potentially reaching a peace agreement and resuming the talks which, as we know, were thwarted by the Ukrainian side in 2022.</p>
<p>“The President of the United States shared his position on the cessation of hostilities and the prospects for a ceasefire. For my part, I noted that Russia also supports a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine crisis as well. What we need now is to identify the most effective ways towards achieving peace.</p>
<p>“We agreed with the President of the United States that Russia would propose and is ready to engage with the Ukrainian side on drafting a memorandum regarding a potential future peace agreement. This would include outlining a range of provisions, such as the principles for settlement, the timeframe for a possible peace deal, and other matters, including a potential temporary ceasefire, should the necessary agreements be reached.</p>
<p>“Contacts among participants of the Istanbul meeting and talks have resumed, which gives reason to believe that we are on the right track overall….</p>
<p>“The key issue, of course, is now for the Russian side and the Ukrainian side to show their firm commitment to peace and to forge a compromise that would be acceptable to all parties.</p>
<p>“Notably, Russia’s position is clear. Eliminating the root causes of this crisis is what matters most to us.”</p>
<p>Ursula van der Leyen posted that the call with Trump was “good,” adding, “I want to thank President Trump for his tireless efforts to bring a ceasefire to Ukraine. It’s important that the U.S. stays engaged. We will continue to support Volodymyr Zelenskyy to achieve lasting peace in Ukraine.”</p>
<p>Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters the two leaders talked about trading nine Russians for nine Americans in a prisoner swap as part of a discussion about improving bilateral relations. He further stated that the two leaders seemed to be open to meeting in person, adding that Trump told Putin he could call him “at any time.” Ushakov also asserted that Trump revealed that while the U.S. Senate was preparing potential sanctions against Russia, he, personally, would prefer deals and not more restrictions.</p>
<p>Apart from the Ukraine issue, Trump also said that he sees Moscow as one of Washington’s “most important” economic and trade partners, adding that there were “impressive prospects” for the two after the war is settled, according to Ushakov.</p>


guid: 682bb71eb8f5b000015d175e
title: Israel&amp;#039;s Operation &amp;#039;Gideon&amp;#039;s Chariots&amp;#039; Now in Full Gear
author: ;David Shavin
link: https://eir.news/2025/05/news/israels-operation-gideons-chariots-now-in-full-gear/
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/2025/05/SoI-War_23-11-01_IDF_13-08.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Yesterday, Israel greatly expanded its ground operations throughout Gaza in what they call “Operation Gideon’s Chariots.” Last night, IDF spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin stated, “We are entering a new stage in the fighting. During the operation, we will increase and expand our operational control in Gaza, while bisecting the Strip and moving the population for its safety in all the areas where we operate…. Unlike before, we are now focusing on the offensive effort in the Gaza Strip … until the defeat [of Hamas] in the areas where we operate.”</p>
<p>IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir stated, “The directive is clear: Defeat the enemy and destroy its infrastructure wherever we operate.” He claimed that “this is not a halt” to a hostage deal, that the “IDF will allow flexibility for the political echelon to advance any hostage deal…. We are working toward it.”</p>
<p>The European Hospital in Khan Younis was put out of commission by Israeli airstrikes on May 13. Today, the IDF ordered all Gazans out of the area. Over the weekend, the Indonesian Hospital in north Gaza had to end all services.</p>
<p>Yesterday, Israeli strikes killed more than 100 people. Over the last week, the IDF claims they have killed “dozens of terrorists.” Yesterday’s toll brings the total of identified Gazans killed to over 400. Even were every person the IDF identifies as a terrorist actually such, that still means that Israel, by its reckoning, is killing women and children at an unholy rate.</p>

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guid: 682bd632b8f5b000015d17b6
author: ;Marcia Baker
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tags: #Daily Lead #LaRouche movement #Ukraine conflict
title:
&amp;#039;Constructive Trump-Putin Call,’ in a Countdown for Either Rescue or Catastrophe in Ukraine and Gaza

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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/uSiuPgLn6JUokex91KEz0jVgOQYqjoYZ.JPG" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Today U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a two-hour phone call they each described as constructive and useful, in support of further work toward resolving the Ukraine crisis. Trump spoke with Ukraine acting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy before Trump’s call with Putin, and afterward, he briefed several NATO nations, as planned.</p>
<p>Ukraine and Palestine are two places in the world right now clearly on a countdown for resolution, one way or the other: either for rescue and reconstruction, or for complete devastation and even all-out, potentially nuclear war.</p>
<p>Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche described the strategic situation in these terms today, saying that we stand at a “breakpoint” in world history. We are an “exhaustion point” in these two crises. “It’s either catastrophe or a new paradigm. We are crashing against the wall of the end of civilization.”</p>
<p>Among the <a href="https://schillerinstitute.nationbuilder.com/open_letter_to_pope_leo_xvi">important interventions</a> right now, is the newly issued “Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV,” which is gathering signers from around the world. Because of the Pope’s Inaugural Mass on Saturday, May 17, the Vatican became a meeting ground for many world leaders this past weekend. Today U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Rubio met with Pope Leo XIV.</p>
<p>For the Russia-U.S. leadership call today, Putin was in Sochi, at a music school there; and Trump was in the White House. They were each positive in their descriptions of the call. <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114535693441367601">Trump wrote</a> on his Truth Social site, “Just completed my two hour call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. I believe it went very well. Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War. The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of. The tone and spirit of the conversation were excellent.…”</p>
<p><a href="https://videon.img.ria.ru/Out/Flv/20250519/2025_05_19__2zn2opuj.evb.mp4">President Putin spoke to reporters</a> after the phone conversation, describing it as “substantial, frank, and useful.” He thanked Trump for his support for renewal of direct talks between Russia and Ukraine, which had been broken off by Kyiv in 2022. Saying that Trump expressed his support for a ceasefire, Putin said he responded: “We, too, favor a peaceful settlement. What’s needed is to find the most effective pathway. We are prepared to work with the Ukrainians on memoranda regarding a future peace agreement—regarding principles, timetables, and, inclusively, a ceasefire at a certain point.”</p>
<p>In contrast to these measured remarks by both Trump and Putin, Zelenskyy has issued forth tonight with an impetuous call for a grandiose international conference, with participants ranging from the European Union, to a host of nations, at a venue and time yet to be determined.</p>
<p>However, Trump specified in his posted report on his call with Putin, that Trump has briefed the leaders of France, Italy, Germany, Finland, and Ukraine, as well as the President of the European Commission that negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are to begin immediately. He wrote, “The Vatican, as represented by the Pope, has stated that it would be very interested in hosting the negotiations. Let the process begin!”</p>
<p>In Gaza the situation is beyond horror. Over the weekend “Operation Gideon’s Chariot” was unleashed by the IDF, with sweeping ground operations in Gaza, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had pledged to do, as soon as President Trump departed from his visit to Southwest Asia. The very few remaining hospitals were hit, including the Indonesian Hospital in the north. More homes and families have been wiped out. Today, Israel conducted over 30 air strikes in less than an hour in Khan Younis.</p>
<p>At the same time, Netanyahu has made a mock gesture toward allowing food into Gaza after a total ban on entry of food and humanitarian aid of any kind since March 2. Reports are that today five trucks carrying baby food made entry at Karem Abu Salem crossing. Four more trucks are said to be approved for tomorrow. Contrast this to 500 trucks a day before the IDF starvation policy went into effect.</p>
<p>UN networks confirmed they will distribute this aid, while at the same time they are speaking out for full-scale aid. A group of 22 nations issued a joint statement today acknowledging “indications of a limited restart of aid” permitted by Israel, but calling for much more. Canada, France and Britain, among the 22, also issued their own tripartite joint statement today, including backing for the June UN High Level International Conference on Palestine.</p>
<p>Meantime, the wheels are turning to implement U.S.-IDF collaboration in a shameful pretense of food aid for Gaza. The concept is food concessionaires for a death camp. American food and security vendors are contracting with the private, newly established Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (Swiss-registered), headed by American Jack Wood. One U.S. contractor company is said to be the Safe Reach Solutions firm, just started up in November 2024 by a former CIA official. Their operations are to partially start up in Gaza by the end of the month.</p>
<p>Backing is urgently needed for the LaRouche Oasis Plan approach—for immediate, full-scale life-saving action for all Palestinians, and for full-scale construction of conditions for productive life throughout the greater Southwest Asia region. Gaza reconstruction is a priority on the agenda for world development. It is a priority to have dialogue about this.</p>
<p>Plan to participate, and spread the word on this May 24-25 Memorial Day weekend’s <a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2025/03/01/conference-invitation/">international Schiller Institute conference</a>, “A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!”</p>

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title: Atlanta Remains The World 's Busiest Airport
author: ;Tyler Durden
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            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>In 2024, global air travel hit 9.5 billion passengers— a five billion increase since 2021.</p>

<p>Together, the 10 busiest airports transported 855 million passengers, or 9% of traffic globally. While air traffic has finally surged past pre-pandemic levels, it is not without its challenges of staffing crises, tech outages, and <a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-global-airlines-with-the-most-plane-crashes/">aircraft incidents</a>.</p>

<p>This graphic,<a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-busiest-airports-in-the-world/"> via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, </a>shows the busiest airports in the world, based on data from the <a href="https://aci.aero/2025/04/14/the-busiest-airports-in-the-world-defy-global-uncertainty-and-hold-top-rankings/">Airports Council International</a>.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/Busiest-Airports-2024_02-web.jpg?itok=6riL3LBw" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Busiest-Airports-2024_02-web.jpg?itok=6riL3LBw"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="df97be85-5571-468a-a27e-36deab69daa7" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="651" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Busiest-Airports-2024_02-web.jpg?itok=6riL3LBw" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<h2>The Top 10 Busiest Airports in the World in 2024</h2>

<p>Below, we show the airports with the highest number of passengers globally as air travel increased 9% over the year:</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_14-27-48.jpg?itok=7M1iWE3t" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_14-27-48.jpg?itok=7M1iWE3t"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="83af099a-32ef-4f66-82d7-d09457f5ec8e" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="237" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-19_14-27-48.jpg?itok=7M1iWE3t" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><em>Represents total passengers enplaned and deplaned, with passengers in transit counted once.</em></p>

<p><strong>As we can see, four of the top 10 busiest airports in the world are in the U.S.—led by the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/Hartsfield-Jackson-Atlanta-Inter.jpg?itok=Rr9YrAdq" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Hartsfield-Jackson-Atlanta-Inter.jpg?itok=Rr9YrAdq"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="aecae87b-a6da-4a92-9c92-7c9cc0d65d70" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="334" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Hartsfield-Jackson-Atlanta-Inter.jpg?itok=Rr9YrAdq" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Notably, Atlanta serves as a connecting hub to domestic and international travelers, owing to its position between North America, Europe, and Latin America. Adding to this, it has 150 non-stop destinations in six continents.</p>

<p>Ranking in second is the Dubai International Airport, with a record 92 million passengers in 2024. Overall, 106 international airlines fly into this hub, reflecting Dubai’s growing prominence as a center for business and investment.</p>

<p><strong>Meanwhile, Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport saw the largest rise in the rankings, up from 21st in 2023 to 10th overall. </strong>Driving its 41% surge in passengers was the resumption of international flights and visa policy expansion.</p>

<p><em>To learn more about this topic from a travel perspective, check out this <a href="https://www.voronoiapp.com/travel/The-Cheapest--Most-Expensive-Places-to-Travel-in-2025--4449">graphic</a> on the cheapest and most expensive places to visit in 2025.</em></p>
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            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://modernity.news/2025/05/18/school-kids-are-being-taught-black-people-built-stonehenge"><em>Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,</em></a></p>

<p><strong>British schoolchildren are being taught that Stonehenge was built by Black people.</strong></p>

<p><strong><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/stonehenge.jpg?itok=rNJjj_wW" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/stonehenge.jpg?itok=rNJjj_wW"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="11a29e37-b693-4ef3-8f22-3f74d3d6b44a" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="281" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/stonehenge.jpg?itok=rNJjj_wW" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></strong></p>

<p>Yes, really.</p>

<p><a href="https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Lessons-from-the-Past_.pdf">Research</a> by the think tank Policy Exchange uncovered one book that makes this claim, <em>Brilliant Black British History</em> is being used widely in schools.</p>

<blockquote data-conversation="none" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The drive to decolonise history curriculums has ‘gone too far’ warns report (well, yes):<a href="https://t.co/Q4NSpEk59a">https://t.co/Q4NSpEk59a</a><br><br>
And as <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyDowson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TonyDowson</a> rightly points out, the report 'shows that the Stonehenge point is still being taught'.<a href="https://t.co/SgLqZhtme9">https://t.co/SgLqZhtme9</a></p>
— Madeleine Emerald (@emeraldthiele) <a href="https://twitter.com/emeraldthiele/status/1924073874502676667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>The book, written by Nigerian-born author Atinuke, has sparked outrage among historians, parents, and anyone with a passing interest in, you know, facts.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">New children’s book claims Stone Age British people were black and pagan monument ‘Stonehenge’ was built by black people.<br><br>
The new book titled Brilliant Black British History claims Britain was a black country, 7,000 years before White people settled in Britain.<br><br>
It also… <a href="https://t.co/oF8MjPgtkd">pic.twitter.com/oF8MjPgtkd</a></p>
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1704157188518826245?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">If you thought Horrible Histories was amplifying the propaganda, well, here's a new book aimed at children that also inserts sub-Saharan Africans into British history.<br><br>
BRILLIANT BLACK BRITISH HISTORY <a href="https://t.co/lvWLPckTs7">pic.twitter.com/lvWLPckTs7</a></p>
— 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 (@AncientEuropea1) <a href="https://twitter.com/AncientEuropea1/status/1702964225411338337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Things that never happened. <a href="https://t.co/sx7DmkiqO5">pic.twitter.com/sx7DmkiqO5</a></p>
— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/ModernityNews/status/1924191100404638104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Nevertheless, it was still given an British Book award for best ‘non-fiction’ book for children last year.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Atinuke and <a href="https://twitter.com/KingsleyNebechi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kingsleynebechi</a>'s BRILLIANT BLACK BRITISH HISTORY wins Book of the Year: Children's Non-Fiction (supported by <a href="https://twitter.com/TWJSciNat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TWJSciNat</a>). Congratulations!<br><br>
"A stroke of genius", agreed the judges. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Nibbies?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Nibbies</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BritishBookAwards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BritishBookAwards</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/KidsBloomsbury?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KidsBloomsbury</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BloomsburyBooks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bloomsburybooks</a> <a href="https://t.co/78MxoOwPlf">pic.twitter.com/78MxoOwPlf</a></p>
— The Bookseller (@thebookseller) <a href="https://twitter.com/thebookseller/status/1790081355432260086?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
<p>The teaching material, part of a broader push to “decolonize” history, insists that the iconic Wiltshire monument wasn’t just the work of pasty, bearded locals dragging stones across a field. Instead, it suggests a diverse coalition of ancient builders, including Black communities, were the masterminds behind the 5,000-year-old structure.</p>

<p>The book also claims “Britain was a black country for more than 7,000 years before white people came”.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The black people of Wiltshire built Stonehenge (lol)<br><br>
These are not 'contested narratives', they are lies promulgated by ignorant chancers. <a href="https://t.co/pQD1MJpq4E">pic.twitter.com/pQD1MJpq4E</a></p>
— Madeleine Emerald (@emeraldthiele) <a href="https://twitter.com/emeraldthiele/status/1924072773602725890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>As we have previous covered, there is no actual evidence of any of this, aside from shady accounts of the odd darker skinned person being present, and some scattered bone finds, including the much debunked ‘Cheddar man’, that are claimed to be of ancient black people.</p>

<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="381" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/D-Z-UiVzi7I" title="Black people built Stonehenge." width="677" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></p>

<blockquote data-conversation="none" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Europeans were not Black 3,000 years ago. Cheddar man was not Black, Stonehenge was not built by Blacks, and Africans did not "evolve" or mutate into White Europeans.<br><br>
Origins of the First Europeans <a href="https://t.co/dukCWr2AK3">https://t.co/dukCWr2AK3</a><br><br>
Out-of-Africa Theory Debunked <a href="https://t.co/VROSz7XrZh">https://t.co/VROSz7XrZh</a> <a href="https://t.co/KgxAk16kMI">pic.twitter.com/KgxAk16kMI</a></p>
— Robert Sepehr (@robertsepehr) <a href="https://twitter.com/robertsepehr/status/1924110207292174366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p>Policy Exchange notes “in too many cases, this process has gone too far, leading to the teaching of radical and contested interpretations of the past as fact, or with anecdotes of interesting lives replacing a deeper understanding of the core drivers of history.”</p>

<p>“Numerous cases of poor-quality resources being used to teach contested narratives as fact have been identified,” the group continues, noting “For example, one book used in classrooms claims black people built Stonehenge, whilst free resources produced by a subject organisation celebrate the genital mutilation of a slave as a form of ‘gender transition’.”</p>

<p>The research also revealed that some schools have stopped teaching core aspects of British history, including the Battle of Agincourt, which less than one in five schools now cover, and the Battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo, which only 11 per cent include in the curriculum.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Think tank says decolonization has gone too far as schools teach pupils that Stonehenge was built by Black People.<br><br>
Does Phillipson and Starmer not realise what an embarrassment this country's turning into?<br><br>
Plus Waterloo story is being replaced by the gender transition of Slaves <a href="https://t.co/nLcoKIgG12">pic.twitter.com/nLcoKIgG12</a></p>
— Make Britain Great Again (@UkandNireland) <a href="https://twitter.com/UkandNireland/status/1924089888426676335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>The data revealed that 83 per cent of schools claim to have ‘decolonised’ or ‘diversified’ their history teaching.</p>

<p>British historian Lord Roberts urged “it is vital pupils are taught the history of their own nation in a manner that seeks to do more than simply inculcate shame about our past.”</p>

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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Third Arrest Made After Ukrainian National Charged With Firebombing PM Starmer's Home</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>A third man has been arrested in connection with a series fires at properties linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, after earlier this month there were a <strong>series of blazes which appeared to target him</strong> or assets owned by him. </p>

<p>The Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command has been leading the investigation, after starting May 8, emergency services responded to three consecutive nights of blazes targeting Starmer's properties and a vehicle. The attacks began with a <strong>firebombing of the front of Starmer's private residence</strong> he lived in before becoming prime minister.</p>
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<p>The arson attacks first targeted the Kentish Town home where Sir Keir lived before becoming prime minister. This left damage at the property, but no injuries to anyone. A car was also set on fire.</p>

<p>The arson attacks continued, next at the front door of a house in Islington, also linked to the prime minister. One bystander had to be rescued by responding firefighters.</p>

<p>On Monday, Sky News reported the following <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/third-man-arrested-over-fires-at-properties-linked-to-sir-keir-starmer-13371046">development</a>: </p>

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<p><em>A third man has been arrested in connection with fires at two properties and a car linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.</em></p>

<p><em>The Metropolitan Police said a <strong>34-year-old was arrested this morning in the Chelsea area of west London</strong> on suspicion of conspiracy to <strong>commit arson with intent to endanger life</strong>.</em></p>
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<p>The identities and nationalities of both the latest individual arrested and the second arrest have not been immediately forthcoming by authorities.</p>
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<p>The first arrest was of a 26-year-old man and <strong>Ukrainian national</strong>, identified in court as Roman Lavrynovych. He's been charged with setting fire to Starmer's personal home and a vehicle.</p>

<p>As of yet, the prosecutor has not identified a motive for the crimes and has given no explanation, while Lavrynovych has denied setting the fires. He's been formally charged with <strong>three counts</strong> of arson with intent to endanger life.</p>

<p>According to some of the interesting details to emerge in <a href="https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/kansas-city/ap-top-news/2025/05/13/a-man-has-been-arrested-over-fire-at-british-prime-minister-starmers-private-house">local reporting</a>:</p>

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<p><em>Neighbor Charles Grant said that police searched his yard on Monday and “said they were looking for a projectile.”</em></p>

<p><em>“From what other people have told me today, I gather someone <strong>threw a firebomb at Keir Starmer’s house</strong>," he said.</em></p>

<p><em>Starmer’s house has attracted protesters in the past. Last year, three pro-Palestinian activists were arrested and charged with public order offenses after unfurling a banner covered in red handprints outside the building.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Starmer didn't at any point appear to be be in danger </strong>during the incidents, given he and his family have long been living in the prime minister’s official Downing Street residence, since his July election.</p>

<p>Lavrynovych's family told UK media that he 'loves' Britain. Naturally, there will be speculation over whether this may have had some connection to the Russia-Ukraine war, given also Starmer's deep involvement in ongoing meetings with Zelensky and Kiev officials.</p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Greenland's Mineral Wealth Could Pave Way To Independent Future</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/greenlands-mineral-wealth-could-pave-way-to-independent-future-5856819?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge"><em>Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times,</em></a></p>

<p><strong>Taatsi Olsen knows what it takes to start searching for minerals in Greenland.</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_14-57-24.jpg?itok=BpbIBE2F" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_14-57-24.jpg?itok=BpbIBE2F"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="3ddb6b06-c6f8-43a3-8901-f8fcb086d7a5" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="283" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-19_14-57-24.jpg?itok=BpbIBE2F" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>In a warehouse on the outskirts of the capital, Nuuk, he walked through the nuts and bolts of mining exploration in the cold, sparsely populated country: walls of tools and harnesses and small trailers flown to remote sites by helicopter, essential in a place where no roads go from town to town.</p>

<p>Olsen pointed out that Greenland’s unique settlement pattern—isolated fishing villages scattered across hundreds of miles of rocky islands and fjords—can have advantages for miners.</p>

<p><em>“If you are in a remote area, there’s a good chance that there’s a small village nearby,”</em> he told The Epoch Times.</p>

<p>Olsen is chief operating officer of X-Ploration Services Greenland. The company, which supports mineral exploration on the island, could prosper if the Danish territory’s rare earth deposits prove to be a boon.</p>

<p>Yet he knows the odds against individual success. Olsen estimates that just one in a thousand exploratory projects in Greenland yields a mine.</p>

<p><em><strong>“It’s just that difficult to find something where the economics make sense,” </strong></em>he said.</p>

<p>President Donald Trump has <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/why-greenland-matters-us-strategy-in-the-changing-arctic-5797122">cited</a> Greenland’s rare earths, <a href="https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2025/mcs2025-rare-earths.pdf">estimated</a> at 1.5 million tons, as a significant reason to fold it into the United States.</p>

<p>Critical minerals are used in many advanced technologies, including cellphones and defense systems. The industry is currently dominated by China.</p>

<p>For now, just two mines are operating in Greenland, and neither mines rare earths.</p>

<p>Yet mining isn’t new to Greenland. It’s part of a long history that entangles the world’s largest island with Denmark and the United States.</p>

<p><strong>Advocates of rare earth mining hope it will help the case for Greenland’s independence. </strong>Many seek additional revenue streams in a territory dominated by seafood exports, government employment, and a yearly block grant from Denmark.</p>

<p><strong>“We have to strengthen the economy,” </strong>Svend Hardenberg, a Greenlander involved in efforts to develop rare earth mining, told The Epoch Times.</p>

<h2>Mining, Past and Future</h2>

<p>Mining in Greenland has roots that reach back to the 1720s, when a Lutheran pastor, Hans Egede, came to Greenland in search of the Vikings who vanished after settling there more than a thousand years ago. The Danish Norwegian pioneer founded a new colony on the island. A few decades later, small-scale <a href="https://eng.geus.dk/media/13337/go_fs02.pdf">mining</a> began.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_14-59-33.jpg?itok=uZ9yAR4m" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_14-59-33.jpg?itok=uZ9yAR4m"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="85262107-ec9b-460c-a84c-808936233f78" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="336" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-19_14-59-33.jpg?itok=uZ9yAR4m" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><em>A fishing village near Nuuk, Greenland, on May 4, 2025. Nuuk, home to some 20,000 people, is the capital of Greenland. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times</em></p>

<p>One site dating back to the 1850s—the cryolite mine in Ivittuut—proved vital in the 20th century.</p>

<p>Cryolite was necessary in the production of aluminum, and Ivittuut was the only commercial source.</p>

<p><strong>During World War II, Ivittuut proved so crucial to the Allied war effort that the United States set up a naval base nearby to protect it. To this day, the United States maintains a military base in far northern Pituffik.</strong></p>

<p>Cryolite mining at Ivittuut petered out with the rise of synthetic cryolite, and it eventually shuttered in 1987. The base, by then Danish, <a href="https://www.uk.rigsrevisionen.dk/Media/4/F/11-2013.pdf">shut down</a> in 2012. The Chinese tried to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-denmark-china-greenland-base-idUSKBN1782EE/">buy</a> the abandoned installation in 2016 but were prevented from doing so by the Danish government.</p>

<p>Eclipse Metals, an Australian company, has since <a href="https://www.eclipsemetals.com.au/projects/ivittuut-project/">acquired</a> a license for a site that includes the former base and mine.</p>

<p>The promise of rare earths has also drawn attention to the Tanbreez project, a deposit near the town of Narsaq in Southern Greenland.</p>

<p>In 2024, U.S. officials <a href="https://archive.is/SDHT9">lobbied</a> the Australian firm, Tanbreez Mining, to deny permits to Chinese-linked companies trying to acquire it.</p>

<p><strong>In March, mining development company Critical Metal Corp. <a href="https://www.criticalmetalscorp.com/news-releases/news-release-details/critical-metals-corps-tanbreez-valued-3-billion-irr-180-and#:~:text=The%20results%20of%20the%20PEA,IRR)%20of%20approximately%20180%25.">estimated</a> the value of 1 percent of Tanbreez’s host rock at roughly $3 billion.</strong></p>

<p>The company, which has an ownership stake in the project, has <a href="https://greenmet.com/press-release/greenmet-announces-strategic-partnership-with-tanbreez-to-secure-critical-rare-earth-supply/">partnered</a> on the Tanbreez project with GreenMet, a U.S.-based critical minerals firm led by Drew Horn.</p>

<p>Horn told The Epoch Times that Tanbreez has sparked interest from a private-sector delegation he led. The group included executives from the mining firms Critical Metals Corp, American Renewable Metals, Refracture, and Cogency Power.</p>

<p>Horn has also partnered with Hardenberg on a seaweed treatment project, which would resemble a state-owned operation developed by Royal Greenland.</p>

<p>Tour guide Pakkutannguaq Larsen said that although she is in favor of Greenland independence, she is not eager for more extractive industry.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_15-03-00.jpg?itok=mfiFu1bF" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_15-03-00.jpg?itok=mfiFu1bF"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="7b9cb3ad-663b-42c5-852a-ff6e0db7d192" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="493" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-19_15-03-00.jpg?itok=mfiFu1bF" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><em>(Top) Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base, a U.S. Space Force base located on the northwest coast of Greenland, on Oct. 4, 2023. (Bottom L) Tour guide Pakkutannguaq Larsen ties off a tourist boat in Nuuk, Greenland, on May 4, 2025. Larsen said that although she is in favor of Greenland's independence, she is not eager for more extractive industry. (Bottom R) Taatsi Olsen of Xploration Services Greenland looks at upcoming plans in Nuuk, Greenland, on May 4, 2025. The company supports mineral exploration on the island. Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images, John Fredricks/The Epoch Times</em></p>

<p><em><strong>“We want to keep the nature as it is,” </strong></em>she told The Epoch Times.</p>

<p>Olsen, whose firm has not been involved in Tanbreez, said Trump’s attention toward his home country has fueled both excitement and uncertainty.</p>

<p>U.S. companies are not yet lining up to work with X-Ploration Services, which specializes in logistics, planning, and related areas.</p>

<p><em><strong>“Most of our customers are Canadians,”</strong></em> Olsen added.</p>

<p>Nikoline Ziemer, a biologist involved in Royal Greenland’s seaweed project, said she hopes the government will not withdraw licenses as it has in the past.</p>

<p><em><strong>“We have to have a stable policy around that because it injures the credibility of Greenland as a possibility for mining,”</strong></em> she said.</p>

<p>In 2021, the country stripped a Chinese firm of an iron ore mining license. That same year, the territory ceased offering new oil exploration licenses.</p>

<p>Olsen said he thinks the government, now under different leadership, could reverse course on the latter decision.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/image%20%2816%29_8.jpg?itok=-dZKpdmU" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/image%20%2816%29_8.jpg?itok=-dZKpdmU"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="d13b8d62-94db-4223-8396-aa0dbdc511a7" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="333" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/image%20%2816%29_8.jpg?itok=-dZKpdmU" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><em>Nikoline Ziemer, a business development manager for Royal Greenland, looks over images of seaweed samples in Nuuk, Greenland, on May 5, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times</em></p>

<h2>A Dependent Economy</h2>

<p>Olsen, Hardenberg, Ziemer, and Larsen are not outliers.</p>

<p>Almost every Greenlander who spoke to The Epoch Times saw a bid for independence from Denmark on the horizon—although the timeline is unclear after March’s election. Independence could also help Greenlanders forge closer ties with the United States if they so choose.</p>

<p><strong>Hardenberg said rare earths are one means of moving the territory toward greater autonomy.</strong></p>

<p>Ziemer agreed. Speaking for herself and not Royal Greenland, she said the territory’s reliance on fisheries is “not a viable economical [model].”</p>

<p>Today, shrimp and fish make up more than 90 percent of the territory’s <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2025/769534/EPRS_BRI(2025)769534_EN.pdf">exports</a>. More than half of the Greenlandic government’s <a href="https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/denmark-other-areas-kingdom-denmark">budget</a> and one-fifth of Greenland’s gross domestic product comes from the Danish government. Greenland also gets a yearly block grant from Denmark, which equates to about $500 million.</p>

<p>That block grant could eat into large mining revenues for the local government. If Greenland generates <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2025/769527/EPRS_BRI(2025)769527_EN.pdf">revenue</a> above 75 million Danish kroner (about $11.3 million dollars) half of those fees would go to offset the grant.</p>

<p><strong>Greenland’s government has a massive footprint on the island.</strong> Public sector jobs account for 42 percent of employment, <a href="https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/government-at-a-glance-2023_c4200b14-en/denmark_429bfbde-en.html#:~:text=The%20size%20of%20public%20employment,on%20average%20across%20OECD%20countries.">compared</a> with 28 percent in Denmark and 13.4 percent in the United States.</p>

<p>Hardenberg, who once served in the government, said that he thinks Greenland would be more dynamic if it “freed up more people from the public sector to more productive jobs.”</p>

<p>Not all mining-related activity will translate into work for locals.</p>

<p>Olsen said Greenland’s small population—fewer than 60,000 people—means that mining exploration must draw on some foreign talent.</p>

<p><em><strong>“There’s not that many geologists and experts [here],”</strong></em> he said.</p>

<p>He said more jobs for blue-collar Greenlanders will be available if mining advances from exploration to exploitation.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_15-04-29.jpg?itok=GjeCYdzC" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_15-04-29.jpg?itok=GjeCYdzC"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="6cafb346-a7aa-43af-bac8-f56b3998c352" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="695" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-19_15-04-29.jpg?itok=GjeCYdzC" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><em>(Top) Fishermen travel Arctic waters near Nuuk, Greenland, on May 4, 2025. Shrimp and fish make up more than 90 percent of Greenland's current exports. (Bottom) Boaters leave the offices of Royal Greenland near Nuuk, Greenland, on May 5, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times</em></p>

<h2>On the Ground</h2>

<p>In Nuuk, home to some 20,000 people, the economic picture seemed mixed.</p>

<p>While some streets were lined with decaying housing blocks, others glittered with new construction.</p>

<p>High above the city, an international airport will soon host flights from Scandinavian Airlines and United Airlines, boosting hopes of tourism.</p>

<p><strong>At a government-funded “Fight Club,”</strong> where young boxers sparred before a cheering crowd, Ethan Ingholt told The Epoch Times he came to Nuuk from Denmark.</p>

<p>In Denmark, he worked as an arborist. Now, in a land with no trees, he’s a construction manager.</p>

<p><em><strong>“If you’re willing to work, there’s always jobs,”</strong></em> he said.</p>

<p>Inunnguaq Korneliussen, a student at the event, told The Epoch Times that the economy “is OK right now” but “getting bad.” He cited rising grocery prices.</p>

<p>A few streets away, Jens Smith was selling seafood at a market stall. One popular item was lumpfish roe, a delicacy similar to sturgeon caviar.</p>

<p>As Smith spoke, a man walked in and quickly purchased two bags of roe.</p>

<p>Smith told The Epoch Times that many customers resell his goods in Denmark, where Greenlandic seafood can fetch high prices.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/image%20%2817%29_8.jpg?itok=0h_khvoO" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/image%20%2817%29_8.jpg?itok=0h_khvoO"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="cdd343da-e811-4e5e-9191-7a01fd2b512a" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="334" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/image%20%2817%29_8.jpg?itok=0h_khvoO" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><em>A couple walks the streets of Nuuk, Greenland, on May 3, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times</em></p>

<p>He said the winter has been tough for fishing.</p>

<p>“The water is too cold right now,” he said.</p>

<p><strong>Larsen, an opponent of mining, said she hopes to open her own tour company. She said tourism could help Greenland go its own way, like Iceland did.</strong></p>

<p>A former Danish territory that became independent, Iceland, a <a href="https://www.statice.is/publications/news-archive/inhabitants/the-population-on-1-january-2024/">country</a> of fewer than 400,000, attracted almost 2.3 million overnight <a href="https://www.ferdamalastofa.is/en/recearch-and-statistics/numbers-of-foreign-visitors#overnight-visitors-all-entry-points">visitors</a> in 2024, according to the Iceland Tourism Board.</p>

<p>Greenland, which relies largely on cruise-based tourism, received 76,477 cruise passengers in 2023, a record <a href="https://tourismstat.gl/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Tourism-Statistics-Report-Greenland-2023.pdf#:~:text=Best%20Year%20Yet%20for%20Tourism%20in%20Greenland,a%20whole%2073.8%25%20more%20than%20in%202022.">number</a> and 640 percent more cruise passengers than in 2019, the previous best year.</p>

<p>Hardenberg said the recent election revealed one commonality across Greenland:<em><strong> “Everybody is agreeing that we need to create our own future. We need to be steering and controlling our own destiny.”</strong></em></p>
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title: La Québécoise Catherine Hickman, pionnière dans la NFL et maman accomplie
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<p>La Québécoise entame sa quatrième saison à titre de directrice générale adjointe des Browns de Cleveland. </p>

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Why China, Russia, and even Israel prevail against external pressure – and what this means for western foreign policy

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<p><strong>Sovereignty will always trump collective decision making, Ian Proud writes.</strong></p>
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<p>A range of strategic factors help explain why America is destined to lose a trade war with China, why a western coalition can’t overcome Russia in Ukraine and why external pressure probably can’t alter Israel’s atrocities unless the U.S. pulls the plug. Let’s look at those factors in more detail.</p>
<p><strong>Sovereignty will always trump collective decision making</strong></p>
<p>Every country enjoys sovereignty, the power or authority to rule a country. But as it relates to international relations, sovereignty allows a state to act decisively in a way that coalitions cannot, even if they appear more powerful.</p>
<p>Coalitions of states, by their nature, are indecisive. Why? Because their actions always start and finish with domestic priorities, however much they might say otherwise. Britain wants to commit more to support Ukraine, but it doesn’t have the money at a time when the government faces domestic pressure over cuts to public services. Germany wants to support Ukraine too, but, despite its release of the debt brake is fiscally conservative and needs to focus resources on its crumbling infrastructure at a time when the AfD is challenging the domestic political consensus. Middle Eastern nations worry about the genocide committed by Israel in Gaza but won’t risk a general war that derails their economic regeneration. And on Taiwan, even in South East Asia, there isn’t a strong enough consensus to stand up to the militarily powerful China over what increasing numbers see as a domestic issue.</p>
<p>Ukraine has sovereignty but conceded at least a part of it following courtship from the west, in the false belief that the togetherness of a NATO coalition would offer greater protection than sovereign independence. However, they discovered too late that NATO has no sovereignty, and that entry into the club was disbarred by sovereign members putting their domestic concerns ahead of Ukraine’s security needs. Palestine and Taiwan do not enjoy sovereignty and their ability to achieve it depends largely on consent by Israel and China, which seems unlikely; this puts them in an even more precarious position militarily, politically and economically. The EU has no sovereignty, acting only as a convenor of sovereign states with competing priorities, rendering it increasingly unable to play an important role in world affairs and raising questions about its true strategic value. The U.S. has sovereignty and, under Trump, is explicit in using it to pursue its domestic objectives, making it withdraw increasingly from interventionism, marking a departure from the foreign policy consensus of recent years.</p>
<p>That leaves Russia, Israel and China with increasing sovereign freedom to act, with no single state willing to depart from the global pack to confront them head on, at least not in military terms. So general wars are replaced by proxy wars, the sponsorship of terrorist organisations like Hamas and Hezbollah, and the deployment of economic and information tools of pressure and coercion, which are often self-defeating.</p>
<p><strong>Deep financial reserves are key</strong></p>
<p>China, Russia and Israel all enjoy deep wells of foreign exchange reserves, that enable them to manage external economic shocks, including during wars and extended periods of diplomatic pressure.</p>
<p>Russia, despite economic sanctions, has effectively utilized its reserves since the onset of the Ukraine crisis, to stabilize the rouble and fund its strategic priorities, including military expenditures. Despite $300bn in reserves seized by the west when the war started, Russia has the same volume again of reserves in its back pocket. Israel, though a smaller country, maintains vast reserves, proportionate to its size, which account for over 40% of its GDP.</p>
<p>China’s immense foreign reserves—the largest in the world—offer it significant leverage in global trade and economic diplomacy. At over $3.5 trillion they account for almost 20% of GDP, helping to fuel economic diplomacy through, for example, the Belt and Road Initiative. These reserves not only insulate its economy from external shocks but also provide tools for retaliatory measures, such as the imposition of tariffs on the USA. or the withdrawal of investments, unsettling financial markets.</p>
<p>The U.S. is an investment-dependent economy with very low levels of reserves, proportionate to the size of its economy. Unlike China, it can’t reshore capital to the same extent, to offset the economic shock of an extended trade war and is largely dependent on investment from third countries, i.e. other people’s money. That creates its own vulnerabilities when, for example, there is a run on Treasury Bonds, for example after Trump’s initiation of a global tariff war. The EU has a large pool of reserves, but these are held by the sovereign Member States and don’t offer community-wide protection.</p>
<p><strong>Managing domestic political pressure is essential</strong></p>
<p>Governments that can control or mitigate domestic political pressure and dissent are more able to prevail over countries that cannot, in extend trade disputes or military conflicts. Just look at the political circumstances that preceded the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam and the UK view of foreign interventionism after the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003.</p>
<p>Russia, China and Israel each have different political settlements, China being a communist autocracy, Russia a managed democracy where one party dominates political discourse, and Israel, a vibrant, though by no means, liberal, democracy, with a history of coalition governance. However, each state is able to mobilise political support drawing upon historical and or ethno-religious narratives that are less available in more multicultural, liberal democracies. Russia draws on wells of history going back through Genghis Khan, Napoleon and Hitler, to situate its struggle in the context of a history of resisting foreign invasion. Israel draws upon Judaism and its history of persecution including during the holocaust to justify its extremely hard line posture on Gaza and the West Bank and the atrocities it is committing. China actively promotes the idea of a single ethnic and national identity, situated in a sense of destiny to exert political control and give it the freedom to manage dissent.</p>
<p>China can more easily exert tight control over, for example, the crackdown on democracy protests in Hong Kong to the censorship and mistreatment of the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. Its approach to the South China Sea underscores its unwillingness to yield to external pressures that challenge its sovereignty. Similarly, Russia has managed internal resistance to the war in Ukraine and domestic political opposition to the dominant United Russia party through tough policing and the imprisonment and alleged mistreatment of oppositionists to maintain solidarity against a perceived external threat. Drawing in a, in my view, misappropriated clarion call to resist anti-Semitism, Israel’s vibrant democracy is somehow able to prosecute the most unspeakable tactics against innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and such domestic resistance that exists doesn’t appear decisive in shifting tactics.</p>
<p>Diversity, multiculturalism and liberal democratic nations struggle to manage domestic political dissent or debate that reduces foreign policy choice to the lowest common denominator. Despite the power of the MAGA movement in the U.S., President Trump enjoys less political freedom to act than Xi Xinping, Vladimir Putin and, possibly even, Netanyahu. Most governments in Europe serve within a liberal democratic melting pot of debate that circumscribes room to act. Outliers, such as in Hungary, tend to be shunned as mirroring the ‘other’ of, for example Russia, and efforts are taken either to isolate or remove them from the pack.</p>
<p><strong>What does this mean for coalitions?</strong></p>
<p>Coalitions of western states will never enjoy sovereign freedom to act, the depths of financial reserves and the ability to manage domestic political dissent that China, Russia and Israel all enjoy. Even where they have strong militaries – as the U.S. does, but the EU does not – their propensity to use force will be circumscribed by the other three factors.</p>
<p>It is for these reasons that, though the United States has sovereignty and President Trump is willing to exert it, the U.S. will never have the economic reserves or the ability to manage internal political division within America to win a drawn out trade war with China. The west has shown that it never has and likely never will be unified or decisive enough to overcome Russian determination to have its demands recognised in Ukraine, subject to a catastrophic political or economic collapse in Moscow which seems unlikely. On Israel, while it has sovereignty, deep reserves and a strong military, its more open democracy make it more vulnerable to internal political dissent. Its heavy dependence on the United States for military protection mean that it cannot necessarily guarantee its own security, in regional terms, if the U.S. government withdraws support. While U.S. policy is starting to shift, that does not yet seem an imminent prospect, leaving Israel with significant scope to prosecute its blitzkrieg in Gaza and to act with impunity in the west bank.</p>
<p><strong>What conclusions can we draw from our posture with China, Russia and Israel? </strong></p>
<p>On China and Russia it’s absolutely clear that western nations should seek coexistence over confrontation, unless they are willing to confront and address their strategic limitations, which they may never be able to do, to a sufficient extent.</p>
<p>This means a more open relationship with China that minimises risks of escalation in the South China sea, recognising that China will in any case play the long game, seeking a future Taiwanese integration that we may be unable to prevent.</p>
<p>On Russia, it means accepting their legitimate security concerns over NATO expansion, ending the war as soon as possible to allow for Ukraine’s reconstruction and a longer-term reintegration of Russia, and restoration of its relations with Europe in particular.</p>
<p>On Israel it means searching for a regional political settlement in which Palestine is recognised but Israel does not feel under threat by regional states or proxy terrorist groups. That will only be possible if Israel ends its genocide in Gaza, requiring the USA, as the only country with real leverage, to ramp up the political and economic pressure, including threatening to stop all military support.<br>
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Venezuelan scientists fear they're losing the fight to save the critically endangered Orinoco crocodile from extinction.

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Husam Zumlot, Palestine’s ambassador to UK, urges arms embargo and support in holding ‘war criminals’ accountable.

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Leaders from Canada, France and the UK threaten to impose sanctions on Israel if it continues its offensive in Gaza.

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guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2165165/consommation-cannabis-eleves-confiance-parents
title: Drogues en milieu scolaire : comment en parler avec les adolescents?
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title: After Billion-Dollar Bullion Gain, Meet The Chinese Trader Betting Big On Copper
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">After Billion-Dollar Bullion Gain, Meet The Chinese Trader Betting Big On Copper</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Following Moody's late-Friday <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/moodys-downgrades-usa-credit-rating-aaa?ref=biztoc.com">downgrade</a> of the U.S. government's top credit rating, gold futures were bid Sunday evening into early Monday morning as investors sought safe-haven trades. However, we shift our attention to a Chinese trader whose highly profitable precious metals trade has recently pivoted toward copper, where he has established a sizable long position.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-18/china-us-trade-truce-prompts-nations-to-consider-tougher-tactics">Bloomberg</a> reports that Chinese billionaire Bian Ximing—who netted $1.5 billion from gold futures trades driven by his de-dollarization and inflation-hedging thesis—has now emerged as China's largest copper bull.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_07-12-11.png?itok=d49VnMiy" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_07-12-11.png?itok=d49VnMiy"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="f12d83a5-4ccf-48df-82b2-f5dcb3fbb015" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="334" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-19_07-12-11.png?itok=d49VnMiy" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>People familiar with Shanghai Futures Exchange data say Ximing has amassed the largest net long position in copper contracts. Bourse data shows the billionaire has built a massive position totaling around 90,000 tons in copper futures over the past ten months.</p>

<p>"<strong>It's a quite unique copper position that is worth following</strong>," said Li Yiyao, a vice president of Cofco Futures Co.'s Shanghai North Bund division, adding, "<strong>It reflects a very long-term, bullish sentiment on the metal based on fundamentals — which differs from the usual mid or short-term strategies we see in the market</strong>."</p>

<p>Yiyao added that Ximing's trades during the trade war turmoil stood firm while others exited long copper trades.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_06-42-03.png?itok=8EU9Skyc" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_06-42-03.png?itok=8EU9Skyc"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0cd03224-7048-4697-9212-be71ce33dc25" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="315" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-19_06-42-03.png?itok=8EU9Skyc" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Ximing, an industrialist-turned-investor who now lives in Gibraltar, worked with his brokerage, Zhongcai Futures Co., to acquire the long copper position before the November U.S. presidential elections. His bullish view was on a Trump win and Chinese stimulus would produce tailwinds for industrial metal. So far, the bet has returned $200 million in profits.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_07-09-34.png?itok=yDA6yzLd" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-19_07-09-34.png?itok=yDA6yzLd"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="956840c4-1dfd-40b6-aaae-47428d08ea78" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="345" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-19_07-09-34.png?itok=yDA6yzLd" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Ximing's <strong>position "is not big enough to distort the market, but it does provide a rare insight into Bian's strategy,"</strong> said Jia Zheng, head of trading at Shanghai Soochow Jiuying Investment Management Co.</p>

<p>Zheng noted,<strong> "People in the market have been tracking his gold and copper trades closely."</strong></p>

<p>Visibility on Ximing's copper bet comes after U.S. imports of Chinese goods plunged from 145% to 30% last week, while Chinese imports of U.S. goods dropped from 125% to just 10%. A 90-day cooling-off period is now in effect as trade negotiations between the two economic superpowers have begun. For now, it appears the peak of trade war turmoil has subsided.</p>

<p>Not long ago, Kostas Bintas—Trafigura Group's former co-head of metals and now with Mercuria Energy Group Ltd.—<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/something-exceptional-happening-copper-bull-forecasts-new-record-highs-most-profitable">spoke</a> with Bloomberg in an exclusive interview, expressing an incredibly bullish outlook on copper prices, primarily due to forecasts that global demand will outstrip supply this year.</p>

<p>Former Goldman metals strategist Nick Snowdon, also at Mercuria and head of metals research at the commodity trading firm, forecasted earlier this year that copper prices would average $15,000 a ton for 2025. </p>

<p>Also, Carlyle Group's Jeff Currie (the former Goldman commodities boss) has voiced his bullish view on copper. </p>

<p>Earlier this month, Goldman analyst Eoin Dinsmore noted to clients, <strong>"The deescalation in trade tensions and resilient Chinese copper demand will likely continue to support the copper price in the coming months, and we upgrade our 2Q/3Q price forecast to $9,330/$9,150/t from $8,620/$8,370 previously." </strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/Snag_164cb6c9.png?itok=davhumw8" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Snag_164cb6c9.png?itok=davhumw8"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="981fb2b9-8810-42a9-8def-d9ee0eac4d37" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="275" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Snag_164cb6c9.png?itok=davhumw8" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>We've diligently detailed in multiple notes that the <em>'<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/americas-power-grid-adds-most-generating-capacity-21-years-ai-data-center-demand-surges">Powering Up America'</a> </em>theme and the <em>'<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/next-ai-trade">Next AI Trade</a>'</em> have been key demand drivers behind the copper trade.</p>
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title: Le nouveau Code de conduite canadien des épiciers va-t-il fonctionner?
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<p>Le Code de conduite pour le secteur des produits d’épicerie au Canada entrera en vigueur à partir du 1er juin.</p>

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title: Democrats bash Netanyahu’s escalation in Gaza
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Israel’s move to occupy large swaths of Gaza has sparked backlash from Democrats on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are warning that the escalation is an impediment — not a pathway — to the end of the Hamas war. The Democrats are quick to endorse Israel’s right to self-defense in a hostile region, especially in the…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5308280
title: A short history of the long slide into federal fiscal insanity
author: ;Chris Stirewalt
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Moody’s held in there the longest, but it had to acknowledge what the other financial ratings houses had said before: The United States government isn’t serious about dealing with the debt that is eating it alive. Standard &amp; Poor’s dropped the dime on Uncle Sam in 2011. That was after the government borrowed more than…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5308283
title: The Movement: Mike Johnson dodges crosshairs of RINO-hunting online right
author: ;Emily Brooks
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There’s a major disconnect between the right-wing activist base and Republican mood in Congress that is adding fuel to the pressure cooker for the “one big, beautiful bill.” Browse through posts on the online right and you’ll see endless complaints about Republicans not doing enough to codify President Trump’s executive orders, accusations that they have not…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5307724
title: Trump walks ‘geopolitical tightrope’ in AI race
author: ;Miranda Nazzaro
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President Trump is in a tight spot.  Amid the global race to dominate artificial intelligence (AI), Trump is facing growing pressure to withhold emerging American technology from foreign adversaries while making sure U.S. chipmakers dominate the global stage.   Trump’s tech policy was a priority of his visit last week to the Middle East, where he…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5308397
title: GOP battles threaten to torpedo Trump package
author: ;Mychael Schnell; Mike Lillis
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With just days until Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) self-imposed Memorial Day deadline, House Republicans are warring over a host of critical issues that threaten to upend the GOP’s plan to pass its “big, beautiful bill.” The battle lines pit conservative spending hawks — who want to mitigate the deficit impact of the package — against…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5308338
title: GOP lawmakers want Trump to take a tougher line with Putin
author: ;Alexander Bolton
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Republican lawmakers are urging President Trump to take a much tougher line against Russian President Vladimir Putin on ending the war in Ukraine, arguing that Putin is not serious about peace. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Monday that the Senate has a Russia sanctions bill that is “ready to go” if the White…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5308381
title: Former Atlanta mayor launches bid for Georgia governor
author: ;Julia Manchester
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Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) formally launched her campaign for Georgia governor on Tuesday, becoming the most high-profile figure to jump into the Democratic primary.  In a launch video titled “For Georgia,” Bottoms pays tribute to her grandmother teaching her and her family to “always stand up to bullies.” The former mayor goes on the…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5307714
title: Progressive knives come out for Democrat behind Trump impeachment push
author: ;Jared Gans
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Progressive knives are out for Rep. Shri Thanedar (D), a Michigan lawmaker who has emerged as something of a lightning rod within his party as he braces for a potentially tough reelection fight. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) last week became the first House Democrat this cycle to back a primary challenger to an incumbent when…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5307992
title: Trump’s immigration agenda tests courts’ presumption of good faith
author: ;Zach Schonfeld; Ella Lee
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The Supreme Court is signaling fading confidence that the Trump administration will act in good faith in response to judicial decisions limiting its immigration agenda, a sign that the courts are growing as frustrated with President Trump as he is with them. The dynamic came into focus as the Supreme Court mulled Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions and swift deportation…

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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885402
title: L’uso della Turchia come spazio di negoziazione fra Russia, USA e Ucraina
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<p><strong><em>La guerra o la si vince, o la si perde. Arrivare ai negoziati non significa un pareggio. </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em></span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Una proposta allettante</strong></p>
<p>A poche ore dalla grandiosa parata del 9 maggio – dimostrazione lampante della forza della Russia – con numerosi Capi di Stato presenti, Vladimir Vladimirovič Putin ha proposto di tenere i negoziati con gli Stati Uniti d’America, per parlare dell’Ucraina, a Istanbul, in Turchia. Non è la prima volta che la Turchia viene proposta come “spazio neutrale” per i trattati, e c’è una ragione che oggi risulta molto più strategica del passato.</p>
<p>Andiamo per ordine.</p>
<p>Putin<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/turkey-ready-host-russia-ukraine-negotiations-erdogan-tells-macron-2025-05-11/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> ha lanciato la proposta</a> proprio nelle ore in cui a Kiev, sabato 10 maggio, si riunivano i leader europei fedelissimi alla linea del pagliaccio dell’Ucraina. In quel contesto, Zelensky ha risposto domenica 11 mattina che l’avanzamento della proposta è un segno positivo, ma prima dei negoziati pretende un cessate-il-fuoco, che vuole a partire dal 12 maggio, per almeno 30 giorni continuati, come anche sostenuto da Stramer e Macron. Putin, dal canto suo, ha sottolineato che un cessate-il-fuoco è argomento di negoziazione, dunque dovrebbe essere discusso a Istanbul, non in anticipo e unilateralmente.</p>
<p>La Russia aveva già proposto vari cessate-il-fuoco, come quello di Pasqua, o quello per la parata del 9 maggio, ma l’Ucraina ha sempre risposto “no” e proseguito gli attacchi.</p>
<p>Nella vicenda interverrà Trump, chiamato in causa per partecipare ai negoziati. D’altronde, il Presidente americano ha più volte detto che vuole essere ricordato come un pacificatore, quindi ogni possibile proposta di pace fra Russia e Ucraina rappresenta un’opportunità per guadagnare punti.</p>
<p>Trump dovrebbe essere in Medio Oriente da martedì 13 a venerdì 16, visitando l’Arabia Saudita, il Qatar e gli Emirati Arabi Uniti. Quali sono le possibilità che faccia un volo veloce per la Turchia mentre Putin e Zelensky sono lì?</p>
<p>Sul social Truth<a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114490093180275292"> ha scritto</a>:</p>
<p>«Il presidente russo Putin non vuole un accordo di cessate il fuoco con l’Ucraina, ma preferisce, invece, incontrarsi giovedì, in Turchia, per negoziare una possibile fine al bagno di sangue. L’Ucraina dovrebbe accettare questa proposta, IMMEDIATAMENTE. Almeno sarà in grado di determinare se un accordo è possibile o meno, e se non lo è, i leader europei, e gli Stati Uniti sapranno a che punto siamo e potranno procedere di conseguenza! Comincio a dubitare che l’Ucraina farà un accordo con Putin, che è troppo impegnato a celebrare la vittoria della seconda guerra mondiale, che non avrebbe potuto essere vinta (nemmeno lontanamente!) senza gli Stati Uniti d’America. TENETE L’INCONTRO, ORA!!».</p>
<p>Dunque si prospetta una incontro a tre: Putin, Trump, Zelensky, tutti insieme in Turchia.</p>
<p><strong>Tattica e strategia</strong></p>
<p>Dal punto di vista della Russia, si tratta di una grande opportunità. Il Cremlino potrebbe muoversi tenendo presente alcuni criteri.</p>
<p>Anzitutto, la Turchia è membro della NATO dal 1952 e, per la sua posizione strategica, rappresenta per eccellenza il Paese da far uscire prima degli altri, perché apre e chiude il passaggio fra oriente e occidente, fra Mar Mediterraneo e Mar Nero, fra Europa e Medioriente. Togliere la Turchia alla NATO è una ambizione conclamata e un tentativo in corso da anni.</p>
<p>Aver scelto la Turchia come luogo di incontro, pone il Paese in una condizione di alto rischio: il già traballante governo di Erdogan si ritroverà coinvolto in una trattativa nella quale potrebbe essere chiamato in causa come “prezzo da pagare”: se i negoziati falliscono, Erdogan potrebbe ritrovarsi addossata una parte di colpa, rischiando così di essere compromesso totalmente.</p>
<p>Putin potrebbe infatti proporre come condizione il fatto di sganciare la Turchia dall’Alleanza dell’Atlantico, indebolendo molto l’esercito NATO e la presa americana nel Mediterraneo e in Medioriente. Con in vista le trattative fra Israele e Palestina e tutta la controversia internazionale, la Turchia rappresenta un vantaggio per Israele, perché si sono sempre sostenuti a vicenda. In questo Modo, Putin riuscirebbe ad escludere una buona parte della influenza di Trump. L’Americano opera in tranquillità in Medioriente perché sa di avere le spalle coperta dalla Turchia, quindi senza quella si troverebbe ad alto rischio di compromissione della missione.</p>
<p>Non dimentichiamo poi l’importanza del ruolo della Siria nella caduta del governo siriano di Bashar Al-Assad, uno sgarbo che la Russia ricorda molto bene e che prima o poi dovrà essere ripagato.</p>
<p>È proprio in tal senso che vanno lette le dichiarazioni contrastanti che Trump ha fatto nelle scorse settimane a riguardo della Palestina e di Israele: si è trattato di bluff, in perfetto stile poker, in modo da provocare una reazione nell’avversario, cercando di scoprire le sue prossime mosse. Ma la Russia conosce bene questo stile americano ed è pronta a reagire.</p>
<p>Svolgere i colloqui a Istanbul, la Seconda Roma, è molto simbolico: per gli americani che hanno conquistato la Prima Roma, significa fare un passo in avanti; per i russi che hanno Mosca come Terza Roma, significa guardare indietro nel passato, lasciando indietro gli altri in quanto loro sono già più avanti. È un’estetica comunicativa finissima, ma molto efficace.</p>
<p>Mentre il presidente Vladimir Putin apre alla possibilità di riprendere i colloqui con l’Ucraina, non mancano voci critiche all’interno della società russa.</p>
<p>Il <a href="https://t.me/dvigenie_oplot/1923" target="_blank" rel="noopener">movimento Oplot</a>, vicino a posizioni patriottiche radicali, ha diffuso un comunicato in cui si legge: «Se alla fine gli obiettivi dell’operazione militare speciale non verranno raggiunti, tutte le nostre perdite saranno state vane. Quante persone sono morte per niente. Abbiamo sopportato restrizioni per niente. Tutto sarà stato vano». Nel testo si mette in dubbio la legittimità del governo di Zelensky, si denuncia il rischio di un congelamento del conflitto e si critica il coinvolgimento della Turchia come potenziale mediatore. Secondo Oplot, le condizioni minime restano: denazificazione, smilitarizzazione, riconoscimento delle nuove regioni e piena responsabilità per i crimini commessi.</p>
<p>Effettivamente, sono le condizioni che Putin ha sempre sottolineato, ed è verosimile che verranno nuovamente ribadita nell’incontro che dovrebbe tenersi il 15 maggio con Zelensky e Trump. Il lavoro più impegnativo sarà quello di far capire a Zelensky che la sua posizione non è quella con cui è possibile fare la voce grossa e, dunque, dovrebbe cominciare a ragionare in maniera più razionale. L’intera Europa rischia di andare a sfracellarsi contro l’Orso dell’Est soltanto perché un cocainomane continua a provocare e dire cose senza senso, con la benedizione dei suoi datori di lavoro.</p>
<p>Oggettivamente, la Russia è in un vantaggio strategico e ciò sta costringendo i leader europei e quelli americani a esplorare soluzioni che mai avrebbero ritenuto necessarie. C’è molta più <em>realpolitik</em> in queste situazioni che in tante sessioni parlamentari, dichiarazioni stampa o fantomatiche programmazioni pluriennali.</p>
<p>La guerra o la si vince, o la si perde. Arrivare ai negoziati non significa un pareggio.</p>
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title: Iran and Azerbaijan continue their joint path towards stability in the Caspian Sea
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<p><strong>Pezeshkian in Baku</strong></p>
<p>The recent visit by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to Baku, although brief due to his need to return to Iran to deal with the terrible explosion at the Shahid Rajaee port, had significant political weight: it was, in fact, the first official visit by an Iranian president to Azerbaijan in six years, a period in which bilateral relations have gone through ups and downs, marked by mutual suspicion and controversial statements.</p>
<p>In recent years, especially after the Karabakh war in 2020, there has been a growing divergence between Tehran’s and Baku’s strategic priorities. The increased Israeli and Turkish presence in Azerbaijan, the downsizing of Iranian cultural institutions, and often provocative language in the Azerbaijani media (generally close to the government) have fueled Tehran’s concerns. At the same time, incidents such as the attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran and the spread of hostile news about Baku in the Iranian media have reinforced Azerbaijani mistrust.</p>
<p>However, Pezeshkian’s visit seems to mark a change of course. It was not only the trip itself that was striking, but above all the tone adopted. In numerous official meetings, Pezeshkian spoke Azerbaijani Turkish, reciting meaningful poems that resonated on social media in both Iran and Azerbaijan. His cordial attitude, his visit to the tomb of Heydar Aliyev, and his references to the family ties between the peoples of the two countries helped to rekindle Azerbaijani public opinion.</p>
<p>The opening of a new phase in relations is no coincidence, as Pezeshkian had already declared at the beginning of his term his intention to continue the so-called ‘neighborhood diplomacy’ initiated under the presidency of Ebrahim Raisi. In this context, the visit to Baku is part of a broader strategy to strengthen political, economic, and cultural cooperation in the region. Among the initiatives presented is the development of a comprehensive strategic plan to enhance bilateral relations in key sectors that are essential for strengthening the Caspian Sea corridor and stabilizing regional influence.</p>
<p><strong>Enhancing Eurasian routes</strong></p>
<p>One of the main thrusts of this strategy is Iran’s commitment to enhancing Eurasian transit routes. The Aras corridor—which crosses the border between Iran and Azerbaijan following the course of the river to Nakhchivan—is one of the alternatives Tehran is focusing on to counter the influence of competing projects such as the Zangezur corridor. In this way, Iran intends to transform itself into a major logistics hub, capable of connecting the Persian Gulf to Russia via the Caucasus.</p>
<p>It is no coincidence that infrastructure cooperation is one of the most promising areas. The completion of the Rasht-Astara railway, scheduled for 2025, is part of the broader North-South Corridor and will open up new outlets to Russian and European markets. At the same time, the joint dams on the Aras River – Khoda Afarin and Qiz Qalasi – already operational, have both hydroelectric and agricultural functions, which are essential in a context of climate crisis. The internal corridor between Azerbaijan and Nakhchivan, passing through Iranian territory, also represents a strategic opportunity to strengthen Azerbaijan’s internal ties and reduce its dependence on routes controlled by third countries.</p>
<p>In light of all this, it seems clear that both Tehran and Baku intend to move beyond the season of suspicion and ambiguity. Cooperation in the energy, infrastructure, and trade sectors reflects a desire to build a sustainable partnership based on concrete interests. If the agreements signed are implemented with determination, the trajectory of relations between the two countries could be oriented toward lasting stability.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, key figures such as Farzaneh Sadegh, Iran’s Minister of Infrastructure and Urban Development, have reiterated the importance of Azerbaijan as a strategic partner for diversifying the Iranian economy and accessing new markets. Bilateral dialogue, therefore, is not limited to symbolic gestures, but is articulated in a concrete and ambitious cooperation agenda.</p>
<p>It is important to remember that Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a strategic partnership agreement with Iran to the State Duma for ratification at the beginning of April. The pact, already signed in January 2025, provides for cooperation in the technical-military sphere, joint initiatives to circumvent sanctions, the strengthening of security in the Caspian region, the development of nuclear infrastructure, and the establishment of an autonomous payment system.</p>
<p>For many years, ties between Moscow and Tehran have been hampered by the presence of pro-Western political figures on both sides, often willing to subordinate national interests in order to maintain cordial relations with Europe and the United States. The same pattern has been repeated in the past with North Korea, forcing Russia to quickly make up for lost ground in strengthening its strategic position.</p>
<p>The agreement with Iran represents a decisive step for Russia towards strengthening its sovereignty and protecting its primary interests. In a world that is increasingly multipolar, the possibility of being an autonomous pole belongs only to those who have the strength to be so. It is necessary to be in a position of strength to choose one’s allies according to one’s own will.</p>
<p><strong>A tension that can still be eased</strong></p>
<p>The strengthening of the region will inevitably pass through the other player, Russia, which balances the interests of all local partners.</p>
<p>There have been some tensions between Azerbaijan and Russia lately, which will need to be eased in order to consolidate the geopolitical front.</p>
<p>Aliyev did not attend the May 9 parade in Moscow, <a href="https://t.me/OstashkoNews/177959" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explaining that</a> “President Ilham Aliyev’s decision not to travel was a logical consequence of everything that has happened in relations between Baku and Moscow in recent months and reflects the principled and balanced position of the Azerbaijani leadership on key issues on the bilateral agenda. Meanwhile, several unresolved issues have accumulated.” In this context, the response of Aliyev’s representatives appears discourteous. Recently, Azerbaijan has tightened the rules of stay for Russian citizens, declared several State Duma deputies persona non grata, closed the Russian House cultural center in the capital, and is participating in the production of shells for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. At the same time, Azerbaijan continues its economic cooperation with Moscow, for example by welcoming Russian investments in Karabakh.</p>
<p>This approach by Baku raises many questions, it is true, but Russia is ready to moderate and mediate, given the need to maintain order in the Caspian region.</p>
<p>Iran, for its part, will not leave issues unresolved. The Pezeshkian government, although less intrusive and rigorous than the previous leadership, appears to be very attentive to maintaining positive relations with all regional actors, and the agreement signed with the Kremlin serves as a guarantee for regional stability and for dealing with other countries from a position of strength.</p>
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https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/20/iran-and-azerbaijan-continue-their-joint-path-towards-stability-in-caspian-sea/


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title: 80% Of French Women Want The Army Deployed In French Cities To Protect Them
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">80% Of French Women Want The Army Deployed In French Cities To Protect Them</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://rmx.news/article/its-that-bad-80-of-french-women-want-the-army-deployed-into-bad-neighborhoods-in-french-cities/"><em>Via Remix news,</em></a></p>

<p><strong>Due to France’s drug trafficking crisis, a large majority of French are in favor of the army being deployed into disadvantaged neighborhoods in problematic neighborhoods in France, including 80 percent of women.</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/GettyImages-1155223849.jpg?itok=nLjUiXnY" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/GettyImages-1155223849.jpg?itok=nLjUiXnY"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="54833d29-7f7f-4c55-9ae6-03efc952aea1" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="333" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/GettyImages-1155223849.jpg?itok=nLjUiXnY" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>According to a CSA poll conducted for <a href="https://www.lejdd.fr/Societe/sondage-narcotrafic-76-des-francais-favorables-au-deploiement-de-larmee-dans-les-cites-158136">CNews, Europe 1 and JDD</a>, 76 percent of French people overall want the army called in to battle drug trafficking in “disadvantaged neighborhoods.”</p>

<p>In fact, women are more supportive of troops being deployed than men, with 80 percent of women saying yes to the question: “Should the army be called in to combat drug trafficking in troubled neighborhoods?” In turn, only 72 percent of men supported such an action.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">🇫🇷 Marseilles. France<br><br>
The French port city is now a major narcotics hub for Europe.<br><br>
Last year, a 15-year-old was stabbed 50 times and burned alive in the drug violence as murders hit record highs.<br><br>
This is the "New France." <a href="https://t.co/2ueIZ5BKH4">pic.twitter.com/2ueIZ5BKH4</a></p>
— Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1908116262875525378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>This may have to do with the fact that French women feel increasingly unsafe in their own country. As Remix News has reported, <strong>France has seen an incredible <a href="https://rmx.news/article/france-86-increase-in-sexual-violence-on-french-public-transport-in-10-years-with-mass-immigration-fueling-the-rise/">86 percent increase in sexual violence in the last 10 years</a>, with mass immigration fueling this trend.</strong></p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">🇫🇷 Young French woman stalked by Black male<br><br>
She says that maybe he'll leave in a moment, but quickly realizes he's still pacing right behind her.<br><br>
Many women immediately start livestreaming when they're being stalked now, so there will be evidence if something happens. <a href="https://t.co/PdGWzKPfKF">pic.twitter.com/PdGWzKPfKF</a></p>
— Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1909567918469186009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">🇫🇷👩‍🦰 "Do you want to f**k me?"<br><br>
This French woman can't even enjoy a morning on the beach without being sexually harassed.<br><br>
This migrant man was arrested shortly after this incident for choking and assaulting another woman. <a href="https://t.co/4PONWl4PR9">pic.twitter.com/4PONWl4PR9</a></p>
— Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1834155200006762713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">🇫🇷🚨 An African migrant confessed to French police that he wanted to “slit the throats of White women.”<br><br>
The suspect stabbed a woman in the back in Bordeaux while she was out jogging. He also raped another woman on the same day.<br><br>
In 2023, he strangled another woman. <a href="https://t.co/11W3APiILm">pic.twitter.com/11W3APiILm</a></p>
— Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1857176574010757518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
<p>French women have <a href="https://rmx.news/france/64-of-french-against-non-european-immigration-women-more-in-favor-of-the-idea/">shown themselves to be more restrictive of immigration in past surveys as well</a>, which also runs counter to polling in most other Western European countries. The polling shows 64 percent of French want more restrictions on non-EU immigration, with more women favoring restriction than men.</p>

<p><strong>Although the troops on the streets in French cities would be dramatic, 66 percent were in favor of such a move two years ago when they were last surveyed, and 33 percent were against it. Apparently, the idea has only grown in popularity since then. Now, only 23 percent are against French troops being deployed.</strong></p>

<p>In this latest CSA poll, opinions on the issue of sending in troops did not differ much by age either. For example, 70 percent of French people under 35 want the army to be sent in, which includes 73 percent of those aged 18 to 24 and 68 percent of those 25 to 34.</p>

<p>In this regard, the French youth also buck the trends seen in other Western European countries, with a desire for law and order, even if it is through military force. The youth, in turn, voted for Marine Le Pen in higher numbers than older voters (65+) during the last election national election.</p>

<p><strong>However, older voters are even more in favor of military force.</strong> Among those 35 to 49 and those 50 to 64, 80 percent support the military being called in. The 50-and-over cohort supports such a move at a rate of 78 percent.</p>

<p>National Rally voters are the most supportive, with 90 percent in favor, however, even supporters of Macron’s party, Renaissance, want the military deployed at 81 percent. For left-wing voters, a majority still supports such a move, at 54 percent. The poll finds that 67 percent of Socialist voters want the army deployed, however, the real shocker is that 52 percent of the far-left La France Insoumise (LFI) also want the army deployed to these neighborhoods.</p>

<p>In fact, these “disadvantaged” neighborhoods are almost universally filled with migrants from Africa and the Middle East.</p>

<p>Donald Trump has made similar claims in the past, such as calling troops into major American cities to deal with the crime crisis. Left-wing voters in the U.S. are less receptive to the idea. However, during the 2020 George Floyd riots, a <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/majority-americans-support-calling-military-assist-police-during-nationwide-unrest-polling-shows-1508210">slim majority of Americans supported calling in the troops to control mass rioting going on in cities</a>.</p>

<p><strong>The French CSA poll was conducted a few days after a German Youtuber conducted a “ghetto tour” in the city of Nimes. He showed himself in drug-dealing hotspots, with the video going viral, receiving millions of views. The drug dealers displayed weapons and even built a stand for customers featuring drinks and food, with the police nowhere to be seen.</strong></p>

<p>The video has been used to highlight the complete breakdown in law and order in the French republic and is putting pressure on the government to take action — or at least claim they are taking action.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">Nîmes (30) : les dealers du Mas de Mingue font découvrir leur quartier à un youtubeur allemand. <a href="https://t.co/TaqebgwOeq">pic.twitter.com/TaqebgwOeq</a></p>
— Fdesouche.com est une revue de presse (@F_Desouche) <a href="https://twitter.com/F_Desouche/status/1922006295776829513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau is attempting to show strength in the face of growing drug gangs, saying it is his top priority. However, it appears the French want far more, including troops on the streets.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">🇫🇷🚨 BREAKING: Three prison officers have been shot dead in France after a van transporting inmate Mohamed A. was ambushed at the Incarville tollbooth by several heavily armed men who opened fire.<br><br>
The detainee escaped and fled with the men. He was known to the courts for drug… <a href="https://t.co/3pLv48EYqa">pic.twitter.com/3pLv48EYqa</a></p>
— Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1790333127262405036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
<p><a href="https://rmx.news/article/its-that-bad-80-of-french-women-want-the-army-deployed-into-bad-neighborhoods-in-french-cities/"><em>Read more here...</em></a></p>
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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>This week, I will be joined by EIR economics researcher Richard Freeman to discuss an exciting perspective for a REAL American economic recovery. In Mr. Freeman's words: "A U.S. Economic recovery depends, above all, on the method employed to create it. We will look at eight transformative projects, applied and interacting together, which will create what Mr.LaRouche calls and comic shockwave.   "Such a shockwave, which will create more than 40 million new productive jobs by 2045, will be undertaken within the context of building a new global security and development architecture. Local, regional and state projects are necessary and will be built. But they, by themselves, will not produce the necessary change to overcome an ongoing, deepening U.S. physical economic collapse.      "The LaRouche method discussed here will produce an outstanding anti-entropic growth that would be appreciated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, who are the last two American System Presidents whose policy produced astounding productivity and shockwave economic growth."Please join us tonight for this exciting discussion.<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67af770b1916a673960ab842" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>In an open letter to the newly-elected Pope Leo XIV, Schiller Institute Chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche expressed the basis of true peace as lying in the recognition of the interest of the other. She said,“We wish to communicate to your Holiness our commitment to try everything in our power, to reach out to all Christians, as well as believers of other religions and world outlooks, to unify in an effort to establish a true peace order in the world, one which eliminates the real causes for war by taking into account the valid security interests of all parties.”While regional conflicts are raging in several parts of the world—several of which have the potential of escalating to nuclear Armageddon—a promising chance for peace in the NATO-Russia conflict began yesterday with talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul. This marks the beginning of such talks since early April of 2022, when Boris Johnson intervened to sabotage a peaceful resolution based on no entry of Ukraine into NATO and recognition of Crimea as being a part of Russia.Above all, if peaceful negotiations between nations in regional hotspots are to be successful, a recognition in the humanity of the “Other” is required, as expressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin during an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of Victory Day in Russia.Putin’s expressed gratitude to the U.S. and other allies who fought in the Second World War for their role in opening the western front against Nazi Germany, and for supporting the Soviet Union through the Lend Lease Program, also coincides with his view of the appreciation of the “Other” as the basis for true statecraft.The idea of peace through economic development as the basis for overcoming war is also an expression of Agape, or Love, in recognition of the better interests of the other. The fatal flaw in U.S. foreign and domestic policy, is the abandonment of this idea. Only if we return to the American System of Alexander Hamilton, Friedrich List, Henry Carey, and others, can we provide the basis of sustainable and durable peace.Speakers: Harley Schlanger and Bill Jones<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67af770b1916a673960ab842" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>Your daily update for May 19 from Diane Sare.<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67af770b1916a673960ab842" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>Mainstream Media Doesn't Want You to See These Videos of Actions in Support of PalestineIt was Major weekend of actions for Palestine, taking place on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Israel in 1948, when ¾ million Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their land or fled, and thousands killed in massacres. These actions were all over the world, and were incredibly important. We’re presenting several videos here, to make sure they are seen, as we organize towards the upcoming UN conference on the two-state mandate for Gaza and a reconstruction plan for the region.1. First, at yesterday’s graduation at George Washington University in Washington DC, commencement speaker Cecilia Culver's called out Israeli genocideAlso yesterday, Israeli and Palestinian civilians marched to the Gaza border to protest attacks and demand ceasefire. Here’s a statement from one of those on the march.There were major demonstrations over the weekend in many cities around the world. In London, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, and Washington DC. We have here two videos:First, 100k people gathered yesterday at The Hague in the Netherlands, a hub of international law and diplomacy. You’ll see a sea of red shirts : Protesters walked a 3-mile (5-kilometer) loop around the city center of The Hague, to symbolically create the red line against genocide.And then we will go right to New Haven, Connecticut, where Schiller Institute activist Ben Wesley participated in a Pro-Palestine rally. Wesley was organizing for the LaRouche Oasis Plan for economic development and for dialogue!<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67af770b1916a673960ab842" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>Why was Lyndon LaRouche the world's most accurate economic forecaster? Why were his many forecasts over fifty years so remarkably accurate, while those of the academic and "professional" economists so devastatingly wrong? After his total humiliation of leading establishment economist Abba Lerner in their 1971 debate in New York City, LaRouche was blackballed by the financial establishment and effectively banned from engaging in any further public discussion or debate. So, if you're wondering why you might find yourself completely perplexed by all of the "expert" economic blather coming out of Washington, D.C., well, that's why. For this week's LaRouche Show, you'll definitely want to get out your pen and notebook while taking in this extraordinary presentation that LaRouche gave on July 23, 1997 titled "Laying Down the Laws of Physical Economy."<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/feedLink?w=67af770b1916a673960ab842" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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Detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was honoured at an alternative graduation ceremony in New York.

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An Israeli air strike on the Musa bin Nusair School in Gaza City has killed at least a dozen Palestinians,

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Leaders weigh the risks of a plan named Skyshield that could see European air forces defend Ukraine from the air.

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“The negotiations should take place between Israel … and the [Palestinian Liberation Organisation].”

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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Buy Now, Pay Never? Klarna's Losses Double As US Consumers Fall Behind On Payments</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>In an absolute shocker that you'll never believe (unless you <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/more-people-buying-groceries-buy-now-pay-later-late-payments-rising">read</a> ZeroHedge) - <strong>Klarna</strong>, the Swedish financial technology firm known for its "buy now, pay later" (BNPL) offerings, <strong>reported a sharp increase in losses for the first quarter, driven by a rise in consumer defaults and economic unease</strong> in the United States.</p>

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<p>The company posted <strong>a net loss of $99 million for the three months ending in March, more than double its $47 million loss during the same period a year earlier</strong>. The deterioration comes amid a rise in customer credit losses, which climbed 17 percent year-on-year to $136 million, underscoring mounting concerns about the financial health of U.S. borrowers.</p>

<p>Klarna’s business model - providing interest-free installment loans for retail purchases - has grown rapidly in recent years,<strong> especially in the United States,</strong> where the company has partnered with major retailers such as <strong>Walmart, eBay and DoorDash</strong>. But the surge in unpaid loans and shifting macroeconomic conditions have intensified scrutiny of the company’s exposure to economic headwinds, according to the <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6c4bf393-c80b-42b7-993a-35270143f688"><em>Financial Times</em></a>.</p>

<p><strong>The results also follow Klarna’s decision to halt its long-anticipated initial public offering in New York, after recent tariff announcements from President Donald Trump roiled markets</strong>. The administration’s trade policy has heightened inflation expectations and dampened consumer sentiment, with one widely watched confidence index falling to its second-lowest level on record last week.</p>

<p>Despite the growing defaults, <strong>Klarna emphasized the short-term nature of its loan book, noting that 83 percent of its balances refresh within three months</strong>. The company said in a statement that it's "closely monitoring changes in the macroeconomic environment," and "remains well-positioned to adapt swiftly if required."</p>

<p>Klarna’s credit loss rate as a share of total payment volume remains relatively modest at 0.54 percent, a slight uptick from 0.51 percent a year earlier.</p>

<p><strong>Revenues for the quarter rose 13 percent to $701 million, as the platform reached 99 million active users.</strong> The company has leaned heavily on artificial intelligence to streamline operations, delivering Monday’s earnings through an AI-generated avatar of its chief executive.</p>

<p><strong>Klarna has also pursued aggressive cost-cutting, reducing its headcount by 39 percent over the past two years</strong>. Customer service expenses declined 12 percent year-on-year in the latest quarter. At the same time, the company is grappling with a 15 percent rise in funding costs, now totaling $130 million.</p>

<p>Last month we noted that <strong>Americans are increasingly tapping Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) financing to pay for daily essentials -- even groceries -- </strong>according to a Lending Tree <a href="https://www.lendingtree.com/personal/buy-now-pay-later-loan-statistics/">survey</a>, in which  <strong>41% of those polled say they were late on payments over the past year, which is up from 34% </strong>in last year's survey. About three-quarters of the late-payers say they were late by no more than "a week or so." However, where that and other numbers are concerned, it's important to note that <strong>these stats are based on survey responses</strong> -- not the hard data of their BNPL providers. Given human nature, it's reasonable to think respondents would understate subpar behavior. </p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/what-20they-20bought.jpeg_92.jpg?itok=RVKBrZNE" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/what-20they-20bought.jpeg_92.jpg?itok=RVKBrZNE"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0a553f04-4293-4745-97ed-9617188edb4b" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="378" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/what-20they-20bought.jpeg_92.jpg?itok=RVKBrZNE" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>The top two categories of BNPL purchases are clothing, shoes and accessories (41% of BNPL users) followed by technology devices (39%). However, there's been a <strong>surge in people who've used BNPL for groceries -- 25% versus 14% last year</strong>.  A whopping one-third of Gen Z BNPL-tappers say they've used the financing for groceries. Similarly, <strong>16% of users have tapped BNPL for food delivery or takeout.</strong></p>
<a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/have-20you-20ever.jpeg_92.jpg?itok=3PzKiDPu" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/have-20you-20ever.jpeg_92.jpg?itok=3PzKiDPu"><picture><figure role="group" data-sanitized-class="caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images"><img alt="" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="70802113-b3ac-4a6f-a865-4db68f2ced43" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="350" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/have-20you-20ever.jpeg_92.jpg?itok=3PzKiDPu" typeof="foaf:Image" width="500"><figcaption><em>"Have you ever used BNPL services like Affirm or Klarna?" (via Lending Tree)</em></figcaption></figure></picture></a>

<p>Other findings:</p>

<ul><li><strong>Nearly half of the respondents have used a BNPL loan</strong>, with 11% saying they've used them 6 or more times. 23% have had three or more of them running simultaneously.  </li>
	<li>53% of men have used BNPL, versus 46% of female respondents. </li>
	<li>64% of Gen Zers (age 18 to 28) have used BNPL, compared to 29% of Boomers (61 to 79)</li>
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The Trump Justice Department's civil rights division is not only neglecting its core mission but also taking actions seemingly opposed to democracy itself.

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<p><strong><em>By Harvey THOMPSON</em></strong></p>
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<p>The BBC’s documentary programme <em>Panorama</em> aired <em>Special Forces: I Saw War Crimes</em>, is available for the next 11 months <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001ykkf/panorama-special-forces-i-saw-war-crimes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on BBC iPlayer</a>.</p>
<p>A team of reporters has been investigating unlawful killings by UK forces in Afghanistan for several years and produced an important episode, <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/07/13/pano-j13.html"><em>SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime? </em></a>in July 2022, which forced the government into calling an inquiry the following October.</p>
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<p><em>Special Forces: I Saw War Crimes, screenshot from BBC website [Photo: bbc.co.uk]</em></p>
<p>The latest programme is based on conversations with more than 30 sources who served with or alongside UK Special Forces in Afghanistan during the <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/special/pages/afghwar-2001.html">US-led occupation</a>. Their words are spoken by actors to prevent identification and retaliation.</p>
<p>Their testimony describes the murder of unarmed Afghans in their sleep; the execution of handcuffed detainees, including children; psychotic killing raids; personal kill tallies; and the systematic cover-up of all incriminating evidence, including the deletion of files and the closing down of investigations.</p>
<p>Crimes took place over more than a decade, far longer than the three-year-period (2010 – 2013) being examined by the ongoing <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/10/25/pjxo-o25.html">Independent Inquiry relating to Afghanistan</a>, which opened in London in October 2023.</p>
<p>Referring to the largely concurrent US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq from 2003, witnesses told the programme that the Special Air Service (SAS) “had already developed a method of covering up unlawful killings in Iraq” by planting weapons (known as “drop weapons”) on the bodies of their victims to make them look like armed fighters.</p>
<p>This method became routine in Afghanistan. One veteran told<em> Panorama</em>, “They’d search someone, handcuff them, then shoot them” [before removing the handcuffs] and “planting a pistol” on the body.</p>
<p>One source who had served with the SAS added, “You’d see a lot more folding stock AKs [AK-47 rifles]. Because of the way they’re designed to fold they were easier to carry in day sacks, easier to bring on to the targets and plant by the body to make it look like the person was holding a rifle when they were shot.”</p>
<p>Another source who had served with the SAS said bluntly, “Everyone knew what was going on… so there was implicit approval for what was happening.”</p>
<p>According to sources, more junior members of assault teams were told by more senior SAS operators to kill male detainees.</p>
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<p>The Special Boat Service (SBS) is also implicated for the first time in executions of unarmed and injured Afghans, with <em>Panorama </em>speaking to at least 10 sources who served with or alongside the regiment.</p>
<p>One of these explained that wounded fighters were routinely killed, describing one operation when an Afghan had been left shot but still breathing: “The medic was standing over him, treating his injury… Then one of our blokes came up to him… and there was a bang. He’d been shot in the head at point-blank range… I can’t recall us taking a single injured insurgent back to base for treatment. They were shot… there and then… these are not mercy killings, its murder.”</p>
<p>A veteran who served with the SBS said some troops had a “mob mentality” and described their behaviour on operations as “barbaric,” expressing “serious psychopathic traits.”</p>
<p>A former Intelligence Officer who had been attached to the SBS described the doctoring of operation accounts, saying, “You could see from the photographs taken on site that the accounts being given by the SBS guys to justify certain killings just didn’t add up. They say they’ve been caught in a firefight, but in the photos, you’d see these were multiple clean headshots.”</p>
<p><em>Panorama</em> was also able to speak to former members of Afghan Special Forces (ASF) who served alongside the SBS around 2020. One told of an operation where his British mentors shot a boy of 13 or 14. He was told his squad should “destroy all the evidence of what happened that night.”</p>
<p>Narrator Richard Bilton explains of “the same squadron that kept a kill tally in Iraq. In Afghanistan, that squadron killed an average of 2.7 people on every operation. Hundreds were killed.”</p>
<p>A former Intelligence Officer who had been attached to the SAS corroborated this: “It was all about the stats. When the numbers were read out at the morning meeting at NATO headquarters, they wanted the SAS task force to have high numbers. It was seen as a metric of success.”</p>
<p>Witnesses tell of one member of an SAS squadron who personally killed dozens of Afghans on a single tour. A veteran with the SAS said, “It seemed like he was trying to get a kill on every operation… He was notorious in the squadron. He genuinely seemed… like a psychopath.”</p>
<p>In one incident sources say was notorious inside the SAS, the soldier slit the throat of an injured Afghan after telling an officer not to shoot the man again, “because he wanted to go and finish the wounded guy off with his knife.”</p>
<p>Another witnesses, who said that among the SAS were “lots of psychotic murderers,” described how, “On some operations, the troop would go into guesthouse-type buildings and kill everyone there… They’d go in and shoot everyone sleeping there, on entry.”</p>
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<div data-sanitized-class="ph3 ph4-ns mt3 mt4-m"><em>Panorama </em>also examined the methods used to cover up these crimes. According to the testimony, officers would help to falsify post-operational reports. One of the veterans explained, “We understood how to write up serious incident reviews… If it looked like a shooting could represent a breach of the rules of conflict, you’d get a phone call from the legal adviser or one of the staff officers in HQ. They’d pick you up on it and help you to clarify the language. ‘Do you remember someone making a sudden move?’ ‘Oh yeah, I do now.’ That sort of thing. It was built into the way we operated.”</div>
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<p>Intelligence Officers watching the operations on live drone feeds, and so witnessing war crimes in real time, were requested to “dig up” data on victims to retrospectively link them with the Taliban.</p>
<p>The programme pointed to <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/09/aqwq-j09.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Operation Northmoor</a>, an investigation launched by the Royal Military Police in 2014 into allegations of over 600 offences by UK forces in Afghanistan, including the killing of children. The investigation was terminated in 2019 without any prosecutions, despite the proven permanent deletion of evidence by the Special Forces.</p>
<p><em>Panorama</em> revealed for the first time that then Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron was repeatedly warned during his term in office that UK Special Forces were killing civilians in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Bilton narrates, “Senior people were told about the killings, but they weren’t stopped. We found evidence of a widespread cover-up lasting years. The cover-up started with Special Forces on the ground. It was continued by some of Britain’s most senior officers, and it was maintained by politicians and the Ministry of Defence.”</p>
<p>A spokesperson for Cameron was compelled to reply to <em>Panorama</em>, saying, “any suggestion that Lord Cameron colluded in covering up allegations of serious criminal wrongdoing is total nonsense.”</p>
<p>Bruce Houlder KC, a former director of service prosecutions, told the programme he hoped the public inquiry would examine the extent of Lord Cameron’s knowledge of alleged civilian casualties following operations by UK Special Forces.</p>
<p>The following are indicted with full complicity; General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, head of UK Special Forces in Afghanistan for a year from 2011 and former Director Special Forces; General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, the former head of the British Army; and Lieutenant General Jonathon Page, another former Director Special Forces.</p>
<p>The final segment of the <em>Panorama </em>programme looks at the <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/27/szaj-f27.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">veto by UK Special Forces</a> of over 2,000 asylum claims by former members of the Afghan Special Forces (ASF), who could potentially have been called to give evidence of war crimes in the ongoing London inquiry. A former ASF member concluded, “They don’t want us in the UK because of what we have witnessed.”</p>
<p>The programme revealed that the individual overseeing this mass rejection of asylum applications was Gwyn Jenkins. <em>Special Forces: I Saw War Crimes</em> was aired Monday May 12. On May 15, the Labour government’s Ministry of Defence promoted Jenkins to First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff, the head of the British Royal Navy.</p>
<p><em>Original article:</em> <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/18/bqfq-m18.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>wsws</strong></a></p>

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title: This ‘highly toxic’ plant is spreading around US: Here’s how to get rid of it
author: ;Alicia Patton; Alix Marichoux
content: A highly toxic plant, that can be deadly if ingested, is spreading fast around the U.S.
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">"They Want War" - Martin Armstrong Slams European Leaders Reinstating Military Drafts</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>Via  Greg Hunter’s <a href="https://usawatchdog.com/">USAWatchdog.com</a>,</em></p>

<p>Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong is back with an update on his big turn toward war in Ukraine with Russia.  </p>

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<p>Two weeks ago on USAW, Armstrong predicted, <em><strong>“<a href="https://usawatchdog.com/global-wars-depressions-defaults-debt-crisis-begin-in-2025-martin-armstrong/">After May 15, war is turning up (in Ukraine) and it will be turning up into 2026.”</a> </strong></em> </p>

<p>That prediction paid off to the exact day as peace talks between Russia and Ukraine ended on May 15 after just two hours, and neither side agreed to meet again.  </p>

<p>War is already here, and there is no stopping it with peace talks.  Armstrong says, <strong>“Putin knows and understands this is not a just a war with Ukraine, this is a war with NATO.</strong>.."</p>

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<p><em>"If Putin agrees to a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine, what’s that going to do?  Absolutely nothing.  </em></p>

<p><em><strong>You have every European country reinstituting drafts.  </strong>In Germany, even people 60 years old have been told to report.  Poland has ordered every able-bodied man to show up for military training.  <strong>They want war.  Their economy is collapsing.</strong>  You hear about this de-dollarization, and it’s not happening.  The capitalization of just the New York Stock Exchange is worth more than all of Europe combined.  That’s just the New York Stock Exchange<strong>...</strong></em></p>

<p><em><strong>You’ve got Macron in France, they call him the ‘Petite Napolean.’. . . Without war, Europe is going to collapse.  It’s in a sovereign debt crisis . . . They have done everything against the economy</strong>.”</em></p>
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<p>Armstong thinks Russia will finish off Ukraine sometime in 2027 and Europe a year or two after that.  And, Yes, Armstrong still thinks Ukraine will disappear from the map.</p>

<p><strong>Armstrong urged his contacts in Washington to </strong><a href="https://usawatchdog.com/global-wars-depressions-defaults-debt-crisis-begin-in-2025-martin-armstrong/"><strong>“Get the hell out of NATO.”</strong> </a> It seems some in the US government are considering this warning as this headline breaks today: “<a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/us-begin-european-troop-withdrawal-talks-nato-ambassador/">US to Begin European Troop Withdrawal Talks, NATO Ambassador Says.”</a>  Armstrong says, </p>

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<p><em>“I have been told by some very influential people on Capitol Hill ‘you’re right, we agree.’  That’s what I have been told. . . . I have been complaining about this for months, and my view is Europe is committing suicide, and let’s not be part of it this time.”</em></p>
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<p>Is President Trump getting this message?  Armstrong says, <em><strong>“Yes, I believe so. . . . Trump also said a peace deal does not seem likely, the hatred is too great on both sides.”</strong></em></p>

<p>The neocons back home also want war with Russia and have wanted it for a very long time.  Trump is either going to make peace or walk away and not participate.  Maybe this is why former FBI Director James Comey put out his not-so-cryptic call to assassinate President Trump with his “86 47” now deleted Instagram post.  Comey was the man who held Armstrong in prison illegally for contempt for 7 years. </p>

<p>Armstrong says<em><strong>, “Comey has always been part of it.  Just for the record, he was the US Attorney in New York.  He’s the one who kept me in contempt until the Supreme Court said what the hell is going on?  Then, they had to release me.”</strong></em></p>

<p>How did Armstrong land in jail?  </p>

<p>Armstrong says, <em><strong>“They asked me to put in 10 billion dollars . . . to take over Russia, and I refused..."</strong></em></p>

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<p><em>"  It was Comey that was the US Attorney for New York, and he kept me in civil contempt, which has a maximum sentence of 18 months, and he kept me in for 7 years.  </em></p>

<p><em>He kept rolling it and rolling it and rolling it. . . . I was told if I put in $10 billion, I would get $100 billion back.  </em></p>

<p><em>They intended to have all the assets of Russia going through the trading desk of New York.  All the oil, gold, diamonds, platinum, you name it, they would have it all.  And I said, no, I’m out.  I am not into regime change.”</em></p>
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<p><strong>Fast forward to today, and the powers in Europe still think they can take Russia and steal their assets to fix the extreme financial problems in Europe. </strong> </p>

<p>Pensions, banks and bonds are in deep financial trouble in Europe.  </p>

<p><strong>Stealing from Russia and gaining control of $75 trillion in natural resources is why they want and need war.</strong>  Armstrong says, </p>

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<p><em>“They went to negative interest rates in 2014.  I warned them.  I said listen; you are out of your minds.  </em></p>

<p><em>You are syphoning money out of the bank reserves and pension finds.<strong>  It’s a basket case.  It really is.  They have no appreciable economy. . . it’s shrinking,</strong> the number of actual businesses has shrunk in Germany.  (Germany is 25% of the EU economy.)  This is why they need war.”</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p><strong>Armstrong says Europe is going to lose and lose badly in a war with Russia.</strong>  </p>

<p>Armstrong says if Trump gets out of NATO, the US will thrive and do much better financially than Europe.  </p>

<p><strong>Let’s all hope President Trump gets us out of NATO before it’s too late.</strong></p>

<p>There is much more in the 60-minute interview.</p>

<p>Join Greg Hunter of <a href="https://usawatchdog.com/">USAWatchdog.com</a> as he goes One-on-One with <a href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/">Martin Armstrong</a> as he gives his analysis on war, default, depression and unpayable debt that will make a huge mess for the world for 5.17.25.</p>

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<p><em>There is free information, analysis and articles on <a href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/">ArmstrongEconomics.com.</a></em></p>
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The student wanted to wear a message reading "Black Girl Magic," in addition to other elements representing her achievements.

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title: Ranking reveals ‘happiest’ cities in the world: See how the US fared
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<p>Hillary Endorses White Replacement</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>In a recent speech to a Democrat audience Hillary Clinton reaffirms that it is Democrat Party Policy to Replace White Americans with Immigrant-invaders. Hillary blasted the Trump regime’s emphasis on “return to the family, the nuclear family, return to being a Christian nation, return to producing a lot of children.”<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It is all a dastardly right-wing trick to take away women’s rights to have careers instead of children.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Having children, she said is the function of immigrant-invaders, not of white women.</p>
<p>She told the Democrat audience that “this very blatant effort to basically send a message most exemplified by Vance and Musk, and others, that, you know, what we really need from you women are more children. And what that really means is you should go back to doing what you were born to do, which is to produce more children.”<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Now that feminists have taught women to take over the male role, here are the vile Trump Republicans trying to roll back the liberation of women from the home and children.</p>
<p>The question is, where can an American male find a female life partner? That is not what an indoctrinated feminist wants to be.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>She wants to be independent, not constrained by a supportive relationship. Perhaps white American males can find wives among the female immigrant-invaders.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The resulting miscegenation destroys both races, thus the result is to eliminate diversity.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Funny, isn’t it, that the dumbshit liberal-left is so stupid that they don’t realize that the result of multiculturalism is the elimination of racial diversity.</p>
<p>Hillary, in her unbridled ignorance, actually said that unlike Europe, America’s welcoming of immigrant-invaders has caused our economy<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>to do “so much better than comparable advanced economies across the world.” Hillary says, “we actually had a replenishment, because we had a lot of immigrants, legally and undocumented, who had, you know, larger than normal by American standards, families.”</p>
<p>Does Hillary not know that all of Europe and the formerly British are overrun with immigrant invaders, and that these invaders are protected by the EU and UK governments?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>So what is the basis of Hillary’s claim that the US, unlike “comparable advanced economies,” is the beneficiary of illegal immigration?</p>
<p>Don’t ask the stupid Hillary.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>She doesn’t know.</p>
<p>Will the morons who vote Democrat notice these revelations? Are they willing to turn their country over to immigrant-invaders in exchange for the right of white women to appropriate the male role?</p>
<p>It is absolutely clear that the achievement of feminism will be the elimination of white ethnicities. Already corporate advertisers are pushing miscegenation.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Seldom do you see a white family in a corporate ad.  Miscegenation is a two-edged sword.  It replaces both races with a new rootless being without a race, a history, and a culture.</p>
<p>America is being erased, both whites and blacks, but Americans are too insouciant to notice.</p>
<p><a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/hillary-clinton-criticizes-pro-birth-policies-says-immigrants-are-key-to-us-growth">https://thepostmillennial.com/hillary-clinton-criticizes-pro-birth-policies-says-immigrants-are-key-to-us-growth</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>


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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Chinese Smartphone Exports To US Crashed In April </span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>New customs data from China shows that smartphone shipments to the U.S. collapsed 72% in April to below $700 million—the lowest level since 2011. The plunge coincided with the peak of the U.S.-China trade war, as the Trump administration imposed up to 145% tariffs on Chinese goods, disrupting tech supply chains. However, those levies have since been significantly scaled back to 30% as of May.</p>

<p>Using data from China's General Administration of Customs, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-20/chinese-smartphone-exports-to-us-plunge-to-lowest-since-2011">Bloomberg</a> reported that the 72% plunge in smartphone shipments to the U.S. far outpaced the 21% decline in overall exports to the U.S.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-20_06-50-22.png?itok=kvIlQ_0w" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-20_06-50-22.png?itok=kvIlQ_0w"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="e8a093ce-3b69-41b2-acc3-8f11898a4d97" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="313" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-20_06-50-22.png?itok=kvIlQ_0w" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>China's export data showed that handsets and laptops suffered the largest shipping declines in April.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-20_06-50-51.png?itok=vul-z4tN" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-20_06-50-51.png?itok=vul-z4tN"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="7b3429d3-42f9-4b83-8321-55b5ac495242" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="334" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-20_06-50-51.png?itok=vul-z4tN" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>April marked the peak of the trade war, with President Trump imposing tariffs of up to 145% on Chinese goods and Beijing retaliating with 125% tariffs on U.S. products. By mid-May, trade tensions had eased, with U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods reduced to 30% and China's tariffs on U.S. goods lowered to 10%.</p>

<p>However, the so-called "<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-china-reach-agreement-lower-tariffs-90-day-cool-period">breakthrough</a>" trade deal between the U.S. and China last week has Goldman analyst Philip Sun <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/goldman-trade-truce-set-ignite-red-hot-front-running-chinese-exports-us">forecasting</a> a surge in imports for U.S. ports. This has abruptly <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fake-news-narrative-empty-ports-empty-shelves-suffers-spectacular-implosion?ref=biztoc.com">reversed</a> the "<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fake-news-narrative-empty-ports-empty-shelves-suffers-spectacular-implosion?ref=biztoc.com">empty ports</a>" and "empty shelves" narratives; now, U.S. importers expect to pull forward.</p>

<p>Goldman's Sun explained: <strong><em>"China's exports will be RED HOT in the next 90 days. Frontrunning would be the keyword."</em></strong></p>

<p>Meanwhile, Apple accelerated a shift of iPhone production to India in anticipation of the trade war. </p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-20_06-51-15.png?itok=EUYLHQiY" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-20_06-51-15.png?itok=EUYLHQiY"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="469d5204-69b2-4912-86b1-ecd47c7c3a76" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="290" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-20_06-51-15.png?itok=EUYLHQiY" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Last week, President Trump, on his Gulf States tour, <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-very-displeased-tim-cooks-made-india-iphone-blitz-wants-production-us">publicly called out Apple CEO Tim Cook</a> for the massive expansion of iPhone production in India. Trump said after his conversation about 'Made in America', the CEO would be "upping their production in the United States." </p>

<p>Wedbush Securities recently estimated that a fully American-made iPhone could cost as much as $3,500, compared to the current average price of around $1,000. There are reports the next model could see the first price hike since the <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/apple-may-hike-iphone-prices-first-time-2017">2017 debut of the iPhone X.</a></p>

<p>Next lineup of iPhone...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/GqR7nXMX0AE4XO2.jpg?itok=LAtOmRO1" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/GqR7nXMX0AE4XO2.jpg?itok=LAtOmRO1"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="4404971d-30e8-4f80-bda3-7e1fc6add3e5" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="625" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/GqR7nXMX0AE4XO2.jpg?itok=LAtOmRO1" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p> . . . </p>
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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330973
title: WHO formally adopts Pandemic Treaty
author: ;Maria Maynes
link: https://gript.ie/who-formally-adopts-pandemic-treaty/
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#Irish News #covid #Covid vaccines #Covid-19 #Health #lockdown #pandemic #Pandemic Treaty #UN #United Nations #WHO #World Health Organization


guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5308196
title: IVF bombing suspect’s manifesto was ‘anti-life’
author: ;Nancy Loo
content: Guy Bartkus' father said he burned down the family home when he was nine.
link: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5308196-california-ivf-clinic-bombing-suspect-motive/
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#Court Battles #Health Care #News #Policy #State Watch #California #Guy Bartkus #IVF #IVF clinic bombing #KTLA #NewsNation #pro-mortalist

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guid: https://www.aljazeera.com/?t=1747740148
title: Video: EU has ended all sanctions on Syria
content: The European Union has lifted all sanctions on Syria.
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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5307935/
title: Walmart responds to Trump comment that retailer should ‘eat the tariffs’
author: ;Kyler Swaim
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Shortly after Walmart announced prices would increase on multiple items sold by the chain, President Donald Trump blasted the company on social media, accusing it of blaming tariffs.

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5307631
title: America still needs the Women, Peace and Security Act — just not Biden’s version of it
author: ;Meaghan Mobbs; opinion contributor
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The Women, Peace and Security Act was conservative at its core, grounded in the undeniable fact that women and girls face disproportionate violence, displacement and exploitation, and that this shapes their perspectives and roles in security and peacebuilding.

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guid: 1032123 at https://www.zerohedge.com
title: US Senate Moves Forward With GENIUS Stablecoin Bill
author: ;Tyler Durden
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">US Senate Moves Forward With GENIUS Stablecoin Bill</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-senate-moves-forward-genius-stablecoin-bill"><em>Authored by Brayden Lindrea via CoinTelegraph.com,</em></a></p>

<p><strong>The US Senate has voted to advance a key stablecoin-regulating bill after Democratic senators blocked an earlier attempt to move the bill forward over concerns about President Donald Trump’s sprawling crypto empire.</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/0196eb24-19bf-7b67-a53d-1788d4ed.jpg?itok=Mn5Altvq" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/0196eb24-19bf-7b67-a53d-1788d4ed.jpg?itok=Mn5Altvq"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="f0beb6bd-e6c1-4ee3-8fe1-02f4caa82f7a" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="333" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/0196eb24-19bf-7b67-a53d-1788d4ed.jpg?itok=Mn5Altvq" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>A key procedural vote on the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act, or GENIUS Act, passed in a 66-32 vote on May 19 local time.</p>

<p>Several Democrats, including Mark Warner, Adam Schiff and Ruben Gallego, changed their votes to <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_119_1.htm">pass</a> the motion to invoke cloture, which will now set the bill up for debate on the Senate floor.</p>

<p>Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis, one of the bill’s key backers, said on May 15 that she<strong> thinks it’s a “fair target” to have the GENIUS Act <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/stablecoin-bill-wont-target-trump-senate-could-pass-may-26">passed by May 26</a> — Memorial Day in the US.</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/0196eb5d-dc5e-71b2-b11d-07869560.jpg?itok=M08hyFaA" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/0196eb5d-dc5e-71b2-b11d-07869560.jpg?itok=M08hyFaA"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="31be1f5d-16c4-443d-aeb3-566517eda179" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="281" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/0196eb5d-dc5e-71b2-b11d-07869560.jpg?itok=M08hyFaA" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><em>The US Senate voted 66-32 to advance debate on the GENIUS stablecoin bill. Source: </em><a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/floor_activity_pail.htm"><em>US Senate</em></a></p>

<p><strong>Several Democratic senators withdrew support for the bill on May 8, blocking a motion to move it forward, citing concerns over potential conflicts of interest involving Trump’s crypto ventures and the bill’s Anti-Money Laundering provisions.</strong></p>

<p>Warner <a href="https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?id=2FCB9A7F-4258-40E2-ADCF-D02A2F5909ED">expressed</a> concerns about Trump’s crypto ventures in a statement before the vote, but said the US couldn’t “afford to keep standing on the sidelines” while the crypto industry evolves.</p>

<blockquote>“We cannot allow that corruption to blind us to the broader reality: blockchain technology is here to stay. If American lawmakers don’t shape it, others will — and not in ways that serve our interests or democratic values.”</blockquote>

<h2>Warren says bill won’t stop Trump’s “crypto corruption”</h2>

<p>Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, a longtime crypto skeptic, was one of the strongest opponents of the stablecoin bill, <a href="https://x.com/SenWarren/status/1924569539032781076">arguing</a> before the vote that it <strong>failed to address Trump’s “blatant crypto corruption.”</strong></p>

<p>Trump and his family have recently launched various crypto projects, which include memecoins, a crypto platform, a crypto mining company that plans to go public and a stablecoin that has quickly grown to be the seventh-largest by value, CoinGecko <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/usd1-wlfi">data</a> shows.</p>

<p><em><strong>”Trump and his family have already pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars from his crypto ventures, and they stand to make hundreds of millions more from his stablecoin, USD1, if this bill passes,”</strong></em> she said.</p>

<p>Senator Bill Hagerty introduced the GENIUS Act on Feb. 4, which seeks to regulate the nearly $250 billion stablecoin market, currently dominated by Tether and Circle’s USDC.</p>

<p><strong>The bill requires stablecoins to be fully backed, have regular security audits and approval from federal or state regulators. Only licensed entities can issue stablecoins, while algorithmic stablecoins are restricted.</strong></p>

<p>Hagerty’s stablecoin bill<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bill-hagerty-clarity-payment-stablecoins-act-2024"> builds on the discussion draft</a> he submitted for former Representative Patrick McHenry’s<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bill-hagerty-clarity-payment-stablecoins-act-2024"> Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act</a> in October.</p>
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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330984
title: PERRINS: Please, take the phones off the kids
author: ;Laura Perrins
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#Comment Ireland #Comment World #Culture #Featured #Featured Picks #Highlights #Irish News #culture #internet #Laura Perrins #Parenting #phones


guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5308924
title: Democrats denounce McIver charges
author: ;Sarah Fortinsky
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House Democratic leadership sharply condemned the criminal charge announced Monday night against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), who is facing an assault charge stemming from a skirmish with law enforcement earlier this month at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Newark, N.J. In a joint statement, the House Democrats rejected the “assault”…

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#Administration #Court Battles #House #News #State Watch #Alina Habba #ICE #Justice Department #Mciver charges #New Jersey #Trump administration #Trump immigration agenda

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guid: yt:video:_iuX8dfXyVQ
title: Ukraine and Gaza: Peace, or Catastrophe
author: ;The LaRouche Organization
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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5308961
title: House Democrat passes on Senate run for Durbin seat
author: ;Caroline Vakil
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Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.) announced Monday she will not vie for retiring Sen. Dick Durbin’s (D-Ill.) seat next year, saying instead she would opt for reelection in the House. “I got to work when I was elected in the 2018 cycle and passed a bill to lower health care costs for people who have [Affordable…

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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330920
title: The violence of Brian Ibe, and punishment of good deeds
author: ;Niamh Uí Bhriain
link: https://gript.ie/the-violence-of-brian-ibe-and-punishment-of-good-deeds/
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guid: https://www.aljazeera.com/?t=1747733276
title: Iran’s Khamenei slams ‘nonsense’ US nuclear demands
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Negotiations between Washington and Tehran looking shaky as Iran resists US negotiator Witkoff’s ‘red line’.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/20/irans-khamenei-slams-nonsense-us-nuclear-demands?traffic_source=rss


guid: yt:video:hu1pIbvU7g8
title: Israeli Officials Explain Balancing Act Between Overt Genocide And Maintaining Western Support
author: ;Caitlin Johnstone
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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5308932
title: Live updates: Trump fails to win over SALT Republicans
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President Trump on Tuesday pushed moderate Republicans to “forget SALT,” but seemingly failed to win them over. New York GOP Reps. Mike Lawler, Nick LaLota and Andrew Garbarino said they were “no” votes on the package coming out of the Tuesday morning meeting. SALT has emerged as one of the biggest sticking points in Republicans’…

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guid: https://www.aljazeera.com/?t=1747743929
title: Israel deserves “no applause” for allowing some food into Gaza
content: “If this was about getting food to the people of Gaza, there are existing organisations."
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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5308159
title: Yes-men and experience embolden Trump 2.0
author: ;Douglas Schoen and Carly Cooperman; opinion contributors
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An echo-chamber White House which feeds Trump’s impulses has given him the confidence to remake the country — and the world — as he sees fit.

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#Opinion #White House #Donald Trump #Gary Cohn #Pete Hegseth #steve mnuchin #Tulsi Gabbard #William Barr

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guid: https://www.aljazeera.com/?t=1747739966
title: Gaza’s ongoing Nakba
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Palestinians in Gaza remember the Nakba and Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud explains how they're experiencing it again.


guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5308992
title: Golden running for reelection in Maine, forgoing statewide bid
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Futures Slide After Monday's Historic Retail-Driven Rebound</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>US equity futures are weaker with Tech underperforming, threatening a six-day winning streak that propelled the S&amp;P 500 to the brink of a bull market. Then again, Monday started off even worse and then we saw the biggest burst of retail buying on record resulting in one of the biggest intraday reversals in recent history (<em><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/11-sigma-move-record-retail-investor-dip-buying-rescued-stocks-yesterday">according to JPM, more here</a></em>), so brace for more unexpected moves. As of 8:00am ET, <strong>S&amp;P futures are down 0.2%, while Nasdaq 100 futs drop 0.3% </strong>with Mag7 stocks mixed amid weakness in semis into today’s Google I/O developer conference; healthcare is leading Defensives over Cyclicals. The yield curve is twisting steeper with the 10Y yield flat and USD weakening. Commodities are mixed with crude down, natgas up, base metals down, precious up, and Ags generally higher. Macro data is light, with just the Philly non-mfg PMI on deck ahead of Thursday’s Flash PMIs &amp; Claims prints, but we have another round of Fed speakers where the message continues to be patience.</p>

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<p>In premarket trading,  Mag 7 stocks were mixed (Tesla +1.4%, Alphabet +0.5%, Nvidia -0.2%, Microsoft -0.1%, Apple -0.3%, Amazon -0.2%, Meta Platforms -0.3%). Home Depot gained 2.2% after maintaining its guidance for the fiscal year as US sales ticked up, <strong>a sign that consumer spending has held up despite economic turbulence. </strong>Vipshop’s US-listed shares (VIPS) decline 8% after the China-based online marketplace reported its first-quarter results and gave an outlook. here are some other notable premarket movers:</p>

<ul><li>Air Lease (AL) rises 1.2% as Citi upgrades to buy, saying a possible capital allocation creates a “tactical opportunity.”</li>
	<li>ASP Isotopes (ASPI) jumps 15% after signing financing and supply agreements with TerraPower to support the construction of a new uranium enrichment facility.</li>
	<li>ImmunityBio (IBRX) rises 4% after Piper Sandler upgraded the drug developer to overweight, saying the launch of the firm’s newly approved bladder cancer drug Anktiva is off to a strong start.</li>
	<li>Pegasystems Inc. (PEGA) rises 6% as the customer relationship management software company will join the S&amp;P Midcap 400 Index before trading opens May 22.</li>
	<li>Pony AI ADRs (PONY) jump 5% after the Chinese autonomous-driving company reported revenue for the first quarter of $14 million vs $12.5 million year-over-year.</li>
	<li>Trip.com (TCOM) US-listed shares fall 4% after the online travel agency reported its first-quarter results.</li>
	<li>Yalla (YALA) falls 8% after the social-network operator saw a drop in the number of paying users on its platform.</li>
</ul><p>Ironically, as everyone was expecting a Monday metldown in US treasuries - and got just the opposite - the big move was in Japan, where bonds cratered and long-end yields soared to a record high after a near-failed government bond auction saw the weakest bid-to-cover demand since 2012 and the biggest <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/japan-bond-market-verge-collapse-after-worst-auction-1987">tail since 1987</a>, pointing screaming to increasing concerns about investor support as the Bank of Japan dials back its huge debt holdings.</p>

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<p>As markets continue to meltup, investors are looking for clarity on market direction, with strategists in a Bloomberg poll now far more optimistic about European stocks than the US market. Jamie Dimon, meanwhile, has been warning about risks from inflation and credit spreads to geopolitics. <strong>“The market came down 10%, it’s back up 10%; I think that’s an extraordinary amount of complacency.”</strong></p>

<p>Meanwhile, the threat of US tariffs showed up in Chinese shipments of smartphones, which fell 72% in April, according to China’s customs data.</p>

<p>Tech has been the main driver of the recent market bounce and will remain in focus into next week’s key earnings release from Nvidia. Google is holding its I/O developer conference, with the keynote speech at 4:30 pm ET. <strong>Broader deployment of AI mode on Google search will be a big focus</strong>, Bloomberg Intelligence said. </p>

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<p>A slate of Fed speakers will be closely watched today for clues on the outlook for the US economy and any commentary on the Moody’s downgrade. Two Fed officials suggested on Monday that policymakers may not be ready to lower rates before September as they confront a murky economic outlook. </p>

<p>In Europe, the Stoxx 600 climbs 0.4%, on pace for a fourth session of gains, led by utilities, telecoms and health care. Germany’s DAX topped 24,000 for the first time. Among individual stocks, Orange advances after Bloomberg reported that Patrick Drahi is weighing a SFR sale. Wall Street strategists are betting European stocks will enjoy their best performance relative to the US in at least two decades as the region’s economic outlook improves. While US stocks have rallied in recent weeks, two Federal Officials warned on Monday that they would adopt a wait-and-see approach before lowering interest rates. Here are the most notable European movers:</p>

<ul><li>Orange shares rise as much as 3.1% after Bloomberg reported that billionaire Patrick Drahi’s Altice France is considering the sale of a controlling stake in SFR, raising hopes of further industry consolidations in a competitive market.</li>
	<li>Smiths Group gains as much as 4.4%, to highest since Jan. 31, after the UK engineering firm says full-year organic revenue growth is expected to be toward the top end of its guided range.</li>
	<li>SoftwareOne shares gain as much as 4.5% after Kepler Cheuvreux raised the recommendation on the stock to buy from hold saying cost-cutting is gaining traction and 1Q should show early margin recovery.</li>
	<li>Greggs shares rise as much as 8.8% to a three-month high after the UK food-on-the-go retailer gave a trading update in which it said it is seeing an improved performance, and kept its expectations for the year unchanged.</li>
	<li>Diploma shares surge as much as 18%, hitting a record high, as analysts hail the building components supplier’s positive first-half performance, mainly driven by its Controls unit.</li>
	<li>SSP shares rise as much as 5.3%, to the highest in three months, after the operator of food and beverage outlets at travel locations reiterated its full-year outlook, in spite of softer current trading in North America amid weaker travel demand.</li>
	<li>Schaeffler shares rise as much as 7.6% after the German auto parts firm was double-upgraded to buy at Bank of America, which sees the firm’s adjusted Ebit doubling by 2028.</li>
	<li>Orsted shares rose as much as 15% the Trump administration lifted an order that halted construction on Equinor’s $5 billion project off the coast of New York.</li>
	<li>Fincantieri shares rise as much as 9.7% a record high, after it unveiled targets for a newly created Underwater Armament Systems unit.</li>
	<li>UBS shares declined as much as 3.5%, the most since April 9, after Bloomberg News reported the lender is likely to face defeat in its effort to water down the Swiss government’s law that could force it to maintain up to $25 billion in extra capital.</li>
	<li>Salmar falls as much as 5.6%, the most in almost a month, after the Norwegian seafood and salmon company reported its latest earnings, which DNB Carnegie describes as a “big miss.”</li>
	<li>Kingfisher falls as much as 4.8% as Barclays cuts its recommendation on the UK construction and DIY supplier to underweight from equalweight. A 25% rally this year is “overly generous,” the bank says.</li>
</ul><p>Asian stocks gained for the first time in four sessions, with Hong Kong-listed shares leading the advance thanks to a slew of positive corporate developments. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index rose as much as 0.6%, the most in nearly a week, with Alibaba and Sony among key gainers. Xiaomi shares jumped after the CEO said the company is starting mass production of a new chip, while Chinese healthcare stocks surged after biotech company 3SBio entered into a pact with Pfizer. Shares in India slipped.  Momentum is returning to Asian stocks with tensions easing on the trade front while global growth seems intact. Chinese battery giant CATL gained in its debut in Hong Kong after wrapping up the world’s largest initial public offering this year, showing the appetite for such themes in the region.</p>

<p>The RBA delivered a 25bp cut at their May meeting, as widely expected, but with clear dovish elements to the meeting as a whole. The statement was materially more positive on the progress made on the inflation mandate, with inflation expected to remain around the RBA’s 2-3% target band, and with a removal of the previous language on being determined to “sustainably return inflation to target”. The updated macro projections were also materially softer, in-line with our economists’ expectations, with lower profiles for growth and inflation, and a higher path for the unemployment rate. Perhaps the most notable dovish news though was Governor Bullock noting that the Board discussed a 50bp cut at today’s meeting, suggesting a clearer break from their previously more cautious thinking. Goldman economists revised their RBA call to include an <strong>additional cut at the November meeting, </strong>in addition to the cuts they continue to expect at the July and August meetings.</p>

<p>In Fx, the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index slips 0.1%. The Aussie lags G-10 peers, down 0.6% versus the greenback after RBA Governor Michele Bullock said the board considered a 50bps rate cut before opting for 25.  The Dollar continues to underperform, but within tight ranges this morning. EUR (+10bps) price action remains constructive after the trading desk’s flow bias being skewed towards selling yesterday. Our Spot Traders (KBS) note that there was a lack of interest from HFs to chase yesterday - partly an element of some still tending to prior wounds but we seem to have hit the limit of false starts without a clear identifiable catalyst that HFs are willing to chase. USDJPY is trading -25bps lower after a choppy price action overnight. Despite continued spot moves lower in USDJPY and increased speculation that there may be some kind of “currency deal” as part of trade negotiations, our traders noted that downside USDJPY gamma has repriced lower (1m ATM -0.25v vs the roll) with the market struggling to digest front end vol supply the last 48hrs. USDCNH is trading +10bps higher after jumping on headlines that cut benchmark lending rates for the first time since October. The outlier overnight was AUD (-70bps), amid the dovish 25bps cut from the RBA.</p>

<p>In rates, treasuries are mixed as US session gets under way with the yield curve steeper. Front-end yields are 1bp-2bp lower on the day while 30-year is higher by around 3bp near 4.93%. Treasury curve pivots around little-changed 7-year sector, <strong>with 10-year near 4.46%, </strong>trailing bunds and gilts in the sector by 1.8bp and 2.5bp. Bunds and gilts outperform following softer-than-expected German PPI data and pricing of a £4 billion 2056 syndicated gilt issue. Gilts lead a rally in European bonds, with UK 10-year yields down 3bps to 4.63%. Traders shrugged off BOE Chief Economist Huw Pill’s warning that interest rates may be coming down too quickly. US economic data calendar includes only a regional indicator, however several Fed speakers are slated. Treasury auctions ahead this week include $16 billion 20-year new issue Wednesday and $18 billion 10-year TIPS reopening Thursday</p>

<p>In commodities, Oil pares earlier gains seen after Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei voiced skepticism over talks with the US. WTI drops 0.2% to near $62.50.  Spot gold rises $8 to around $3,238/oz.</p>

<p>The US economic data calendar includes May Philadelphia Fed non-manufacturing activity (8:30am). Fed speaker slate includes Bostic, Barkin (9am), Collins (9:30am), Musalem (1pm), Kugler (5pm), Hammack and Daly (7pm)</p>

<p><strong>Market Snapshot</strong></p>

<ul><li>S&amp;P 500 mini -0.2%,</li>
	<li>Nasdaq 100 mini -0.3%, </li>
	<li>Russell 2000 mini -0.3%</li>
	<li>Stoxx Europe 600 +0.4%, </li>
	<li>DAX +0.2%, </li>
	<li>CAC 40 little changed</li>
	<li>10-year Treasury yield little changed at 4.45%</li>
	<li>VIX +0.3 points at 18.44</li>
	<li>Bloomberg Dollar Index -0.1% at 1223.55, </li>
	<li>euro +0.2% at $1.1262</li>
	<li>WTI crude -0.1% at $62.6/barrel</li>
</ul><p><strong>Top Overnight News</strong></p>

<ul><li>Freedom caucus chair Harris said the votes are not there for the Trump bill and predicts a deal on the tax bill will be delayed until June.</li>
	<li>Trump has claimed that Russia and Ukraine  will “immediately” begin negotiations on preparations for peace talks, but signaled that he was leaving Moscow and Kyiv to find a deal without the US as a broker. FT</li>
	<li>Crypto scored a big win after a group of Democrats dropped their opposition to stablecoin legislation. The bill may pass this week. BBG</li>
	<li>Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said negotiations with the US over his country’s nuclear program are unlikely to result in a deal and called the Trump administration’s latest demands on Iran “outrageous.”</li>
	<li>China cut benchmark lending rates for the first time since October on Tuesday, while major state banks lowered deposit rates as authorities work to ease monetary policy to help buffer the economy from the impact of the Sino-U.S. trade war. RTRS</li>
	<li>China’s smartphone exports to the US fell 72% last month, outpacing an overall 21% drop in shipments. At the same time, the value of phone component exports to India roughly quadrupled. BBG</li>
	<li>The Bank of Japan will sound out market participants this week to gauge their views on how aggressively it should proceed with quantitative tightening as yields surge nearly a year after it began scaling back its huge bond purchases. BBG</li>
	<li>Japan's top trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, said on Tuesday there was no change to Tokyo's stance of demanding an elimination of U.S. tariffs in bilateral trade negotiations.</li>
	<li>Tokyo will not rush into clinching a trade deal if doing so risked hurting the country's interests, he said. RTRS</li>
	<li>India is discussing a US trade deal structured in three tranches and expects to reach an interim agreement before July, when President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are set to kick in, according to officials in New Delhi familiar with the matter. BBG</li>
	<li>Donald Trump plans to go to the Capitol today to push House Republicans to back his tax-cut bill. Speaker Mike Johnson’s meeting with holdout GOP members from high-tax states failed to produce a deal on SALT. BBG</li>
</ul><p><strong>Tariffs/Trade</strong></p>

<ul><li>Japan is reportedly mulls accepting US tariff reduction, not exemption, according to Kyodo. The Japanese government is reportedly considering the option of accepting a reduction in the rate of additional tariffs and reciprocal tariffs on automobiles and other items. Due to the US, according to sources, refusing to eliminate tariffs in prior negotiations and is said to have "indicated its intention to exclude additional tariffs on automobiles, steel, and aluminium, which are important to Japan, from the talks".</li>
	<li>US Treasury Secretary Bessent will travel to Canada to participate in the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting, while he will focus on the need to address global economic imbalances and non-market practices.</li>
	<li>Japanese Economy Minister Akazawa said Japan and the US conducted working-level talks on bilateral trade on Monday, while he added there was no change to Japan's stance of demanding the elimination of US tariffs. It was also reported that the US and Japan could hold talks as soon as this Friday although US Treasury Secretary Bessent is not expected to attend, according to Kyodo.</li>
	<li>Taiwan's President Lai said tariff talks with the US are going smoothly, while he added that Taiwan is to initiate a national wealth fund and is to broaden economic connections with nations other than the US.</li>
	<li>India is discussing a US trade deal structured in three tranches and expects to reach an interim agreement before July.</li>
</ul><p><em>A more detailed look at global markets courtesy of Newsquawk</em></p>

<p><strong>APAC stocks were marginally higher as the region took impetus from the rebound stateside where the major indices gradually recouped the losses triggered by the US rating downgrade, and both the S&amp;P 500 and the Dow notched six-day win streaks. </strong>ASX 200 was led by outperformance in tech and financials, while the attention was on the RBA which delivered a  widely expected rate cut. Nikkei 225 rallied at the open in tandem with a surge in USD/JPY but then gave back the majority of the spoils amid currency fluctuations and with little in the way of fresh catalysts for Japan. Hang Seng and Shanghai Comp were kept afloat after China's largest banks cut deposit rates and slashed the benchmark Loan Prime Rates by 10bps as guided by PBoC Governor Pan, while sentiment was also underpinned by a jump in CATL shares on its Hong Kong debut.</p>

<p><em>Top Asian News</em></p>

<ul><li>China's state planner said they will make greater efforts to attract and utilise foreign capital, while China is drafting loan management rules for renewal projects and most policies will be implemented before end of June.</li>
	<li>BoJ releases briefing material used at a meeting with bond market participants: notes some members said JGB market functionality is improving as a trend due to the BoJ taper. Some look for an eventual end to bond buying, some are after bigger cuts in the next plan. Some seek substantial cuts in one go. Deteriorating demand-supply for super-long JGBs is not something the BoJ can fix.</li>
</ul><p><strong>RBA</strong></p>

<ul><li>RBA cut the Cash Rate by 25bps to 3.85%, as expected, while it stated that inflation continues to moderate and that the outlook remains uncertain. RBA affirmed that maintaining low and stable inflation is the priority and the board judged that the risks to inflation have become more balanced, as well as assessed that this move on rates will make monetary policy somewhat less restrictive. Furthermore, the RBA stated that headline inflation is likely to rise over the coming year to around the top of the band as temporary factors unwind and the remains cautious about the outlook, particularly given the heightened level of uncertainty about both aggregate demand and supply. RBA also released its Quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy which noted that the escalation of global trade conflict a key downside risk to economy and that the global growth outlook was downgraded, while it added that uncertainty has increased due to US tariff policies and it trimmed its core domestic inflation forecasts.</li>
	<li>Governor Bullock: prepared to take further rate actions if required; price increases have slowed; Bullock adds this was a confident cut in rates; There was a discussion between a 50bps cut or a 25bps cut; discussed holding rates or cutting. Cannot say where the cash rate will end up, does not endorse market pricing (Note: ~55bps of cuts currently seen by year-end).</li>
</ul><p><strong>European bourses (STOXX 600 +0.3%) opened modestly firmer across the board and have traded within a tight range thus far, given the lack of pertinent updates. </strong>European sectors are mixed, and aside from the top performer, the breadth of the market is fairly narrow. Utilities takes the top spot, with sentiment in wind names boosted after the Trump administration lifted a stop-work on Equinor’s (+1.3%) New York offshore wind farm project; the name is higher by around 1.5% - peers such as Orsted (+14%) have also been edging higher.</p>

<p><em>Top European News</em></p>

<ul><li>BoE's Pill says "dissenting vote stems from a concern that the pace of withdrawal of monetary policy restriction since last summer – quarterly cuts of 25bp – is too rapid given the balance of risks to price stability". Dissent was in line with his preference for “cautious and gradual” cuts in Bank Rate expressed over the past twelve months. Would characterise his dissenting vote as favouring a ‘skip’ in the quarterly pattern of Bank Rate cuts. It should not be seen as favouring a halt to (still less a reversal of) that withdrawal of restriction. Is concerned that structural changes in the price and wage setting behaviour have increased the intrinsic persistence of the UK inflation process. The underlying disinflation continues. The prospective path of Bank Rate from here is downward. Dissent from the most recent decision does not reflect a fundamental difference with the MPC. Says "we should not be dependent on how the data turns out". Can't assume that the inflation "pain" of new economic shocks will dissipate quickly. Agrees with the MPC that there is an easing in the labour markets, has questions over the pace. Some key pay indicators "remain quite strong".</li>
	<li>ECB's Schnabel says disinflation is on track, though new shocks could pose new challenges. Tariffs could be disinflationary in the short run but result in upside risk over the medium term. "We are facing a historical opportunity to foster the international role of the euro" &amp; "When the inflation regime changes, we must be ready to respond swiftly".</li>
	<li>German VCI Chemical Industry Association: Q1 Production +0.6% Y/Y; Revenue +1.8% Y/Y; notes that production is expected to stagnate this year and industry sales will decrease slightly.</li>
</ul><p><strong>FX</strong></p>

<ul><li>After a contained start, DXY has extended on Monday's downside which was largely attributed to the Moody's downgrade on the US on Friday. Newsflow on the trade front has been non-incremental aside from a Reuters sources piece noting that the US Treasury does not anticipate any trade deal announcements at the G7 Finance Meeting in Canada this week.</li>
	<li>PBoC set USD/CNY mid-point at 7.1931 vs exp. 7.2112 (Prev. 7.1916). Today's speaker slate includes Fed's Bostic, Barkin, Collins, Musalem, Kugler, Daly &amp; Hammack. DXY is just about holding above the 100 mark.</li>
	<li>EUR fractionally firmer vs. the USD with not a great deal in terms of Eurozone newsflow aside from ongoing ECB speak with Executive Board member Schnabel noting that disinflation is on track, though new shocks could pose new challenges. EUR/USD sits towards the top end of Monday's 1.1169-1.1288 range.</li>
	<li>JPY at the top of the G10 leaderboard with some of the move attributed to moves in Japanese yields with the 30yr JGB yield hitting its highest level since its debut since 1999 following a soft JGB auction overnight. On the trade front, Japanese Economy Minister Akazawa said Japan and the US conducted working-level talks on bilateral trade on Monday. Note, Japanese Finance Minister Kato and US Treasury Secretary Bessent are expected to discuss exchange rates on the sidelines of the G7 meeting in Canada this week. USD/JPY has delved as low as 144.10 but stopped shy of the 144 mark.</li>
	<li>GBP is a touch firmer vs. the USD and steady vs. the EUR. This morning has seen remarks from BoE Chief Economist Pill, who dissented at the 8th May rate decision by voting for an unchanged rate vs. consensus for a 25bps cut. Pill noted that his dissenting vote stemmed from a concern that the pace of withdrawal of monetary policy restriction since last summer is too rapid, given the balance of risks to price stability. He added that his vote should be seen as a skip and not a halt to the withdrawal of the restriction process. The remarks had little follow-through to GBP; currently around 1.3370.</li>
	<li>Antipodeans are both softer vs. the USD with AUD lagging across the majors post-RBA. As expected, the RBA pulled the trigger on a 25bps cut whilst offering a cautious view on the outlook and lowering its inflation forecasts in its accompanying Statement on Monetary Policy. At the follow-up press conference, AUD/USD hit a session low at 0.6409 after Governor Bullock revealed that the board discussed cutting by 25bps or 50bps.</li>
</ul><p><strong>Fixed Income</strong></p>

<ul><li>JGBs were initially firmer, in-fitting with peers after Monday’s eventual intraday recovery from Moody’s-driven pressure. However, upside in Japan was limited into supply. But a poor 20yr outing caused JGBs to slip from 134.40 to a 138.78 base - pressure which has since pared.</li>
	<li>USTs experienced a slight bearish blip on the above auction. However, Monday’s intraday recovery remained intact for USTs overnight and the benchmark has since extended to a 110-14+ high, eyeing 110-21+ from last week as the next point of resistance. Today's speaker slate includes Fed's Bostic, Barkin, Collins, Musalem, Kugler, Daly &amp; Hammack.</li>
	<li>Bunds a little firmer today, in-fitting with peers. Early doors remarks from Schnabel this morning, though nothing that has fundamentally changed the narrative. Numerous speakers ahead incl. Cipollone, Knot &amp; Nagel. Similarly, no move to German Producer Prices printing lower than expectations and the prior, driven primarily by energy prices for both Y/Y &amp; M/M components. Continues to rebound from Monday’s pressure, at best has been 15 ticks above that session’s 130.60 peak. German 10yr and 30yr auctions were well received but had little impact on German paper.</li>
	<li>Gilts are firmer and currently outperforming. Outperformance which comes as Gilts didn’t get as much time to benefit from Monday’s late-door rebound and as the UK benchmark was that session’s underperformer, given EU-UK updates. As it stands, at the upper-end of a 91.45-91.91 band. BoE’s Pill outlined that his vote in May to leave rates unchanged was a “skip”. In fitting with his preference for “cautious and gradual” cuts and stemmed from a view that the recent quarterly pace “is too rapid given the balance of risks to price stability”. No move in Gilts to his speech.</li>
	<li>Hong Kong pension fund managers are reportedly sounding the alarm of potential forced selling of US Treasury holdings following Moody's downgrading US' rating, according to Bloomberg sources Hong Kong Investment Fund Association (HKFIA) has recommended that an exception to the maximum 10% holding rule is made for US Treasuries, to allow funds to invest above the limit even if the US is rated one notch below AAA, according to the sources. Japan's R&amp;I still has an AAA rating (outlook stable) on the US, and is not considering a downgrade currently "don't believe the situation described there has significantly changed"</li>
	<li>UK price guidance for new 5.375% 2056 Gilt in sale via syndication seen +1.75bps to +2.25bps over 4.25% 2055 Gilt, orders over GBP 70bln.</li>
</ul><p><strong>Commodities</strong></p>

<ul><li>Crude is lower this morning despite a softer dollar but amid a cautious risk tone in Europe and following some of the more sanguine tones from US President Trump regarding Russia, whilst upside was seen on less conciliatory commentary from the Iranian Supreme Leader. He said that he "does not think nuclear talks with the US will be successful", via Mehr news. Brent Jul'25 rose from USD 65.07/bbl to USD 66.00/bbl over three minutes - a move which has since mostly faded.</li>
	<li>Relatively flat and lacklustre trade across precious metals amid a lack of pertinent macro drivers this morning, and following a relatively contained session on Monday. Spot gold resides in a current USD 3.204.67-3.232.85/oz range.</li>
	<li>Mixed trade across base metals and in narrow ranges amid a lack of pertinent catalysts during the European session, whilst the broader risk tone remains cautious. 3M LME copper currently resides in a USD 9,443.05-9,520.90/t.</li>
</ul><p><strong>Geopolitics: Middle East</strong></p>

<ul><li>Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei says "I don't think nuclear talks with the US will be successful"; via Mehr news. Says to the US that they must remain from making outrageous demands. Saying that Iran will not be allowed to enrich uranium is excessive and outrageous.</li>
	<li>"Israel Broadcasting Corporation: Netanyahu extends the stay of the Israeli negotiating team in Doha for an additional day", according to Alhadath.</li>
	<li>Israeli PM Netanyahu says "Gaza war could end "tomorrow" if hostages return and Hamas leaders lay down their arms", via Sky News Arabia.</li>
	<li>Iran has received a proposal for the next round of indirect negotiations with the US, according to Iran International.</li>
	<li>"Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman: The time and place of the next round of nuclear negotiations with the United States have not yet been decided", according to Sky News Arabia</li>
</ul><p><strong>Geopolitics: Russia-Ukraine</strong></p>

<ul><li>US President Trump said the US isn't stepping back from Russia-Ukraine negotiations and that it would be helpful to host Ukraine-Russia talks at the Vatican, while he repeated it is not his war and thinks something is going to happen with Russia and believes Putin wants to stop. Furthermore, Trump said he has a red line in his head on when he will stop pushing on Russia-Ukraine but won't say what that red line is and noted there could be a time when Russia sanctions will happen.</li>
	<li>Kremlin spokesman said US President Trump and Russian President Putin talked about a direct conversation between Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky although there is no decision yet on the place for the next direct contact between Russia and Ukraine. The spokesman stated there cannot be a deadline for preparing a memorandum between Russia and Ukraine, as well as noted that everyone is interested in a speedy settlement in Ukraine and that Russia is interested in eliminating the root causes of the conflict.</li>
</ul><p><strong>US Event Calendar</strong></p>

<ul><li>Philadelphia Fed Non-Mfg activity survey</li>
</ul><p><strong>Central Bank Speakers</strong></p>

<ul><li>9:00 am: Fed’s Bostic Gives Opening Remarks</li>
	<li>9:00 am: Fed’s Barkin Gives Speech at Richmond Fed Conference</li>
	<li>9:30 am: Fed’s Collins Hosts Fed Listens Event in New Hampshire</li>
	<li>1:00 pm: Fed’s Musalem Speaks on Economy, Policy</li>
	<li>5:00 pm: Fed’s Kugler Gives Commencement Address</li>
</ul><p><strong>DB's Jim Reid concludes the overnight wrap</strong></p>

<p>Yesterday felt like we were somewhere along the line of a "death by a thousand cuts" with regards to the US fiscal situation. Hard to know where in that thousand we are but probably much nearer a thousand than at zero even as yesterday saw an initial sell off reverse as the session went on. At the end of the day the loss of the final US triple-A rating late on Friday night doesn't change anything much immediately but it keeps the drip, drip, drip of poor fiscal news building up against the debt sustainability dam in the background. Anyway, that's enough of the metaphors.</p>

<p>In yesterday's CoTD (link here) I highlighted that Moody's base case is now for US deficits to hit nearly 9% by 2035 and asked in a flash poll whether this would happen, or how it would be avoided or dealt with if it did. I'll keep the poll open for a couple of hours before publishing the results in my CoTD this London lunchtime. See it here. It should only take less than 5 seconds and all views very welcome.</p>

<p>We saw a large round trip in Treasuries around the news, with the 30yr yield briefly reaching its highest intraday level since 2023, at 5.035%, before paring back that move to close at 4.90%, -4.1bps lower on the day and virtually in line with where we were immediately before the news late on Friday. That recovery started shortly after the US open and continued as the session went on. It perhaps indicates the slow moving trend of overseas investors selling Treasuries but domestic investors increasing their holdings.</p>

<p>Earlier on, the cross-asset moves had seen a minor rerun of what happened after Liberation Day as US assets lost ground across the board. The S&amp;P 500 recovered from -1.05% at the lows to end +0.09% higher. The US asset that struggled the most was the dollar, with the index (-0.72%) seeing only a modest recovery from its -1.02% intra-day low. That dollar decline repeated the early April parallels of capital flight scenarios often seen in emerging markets, where the currency struggles even though rates are going up.</p>

<p>This is coming at a delicate time, because the US administration are seeking to pass an extension to the 2017 Trump tax cuts, which are currently due to expire at the end of 2025. My CoTD showed that the CBO believe that the US federal debt held by the public will surge to 220% by 2055 if the tax cuts are extended, with the deficit reaching 12% of GDP. Again feel free to vote in the CoTD flash poll if you want to express a view as to whether something happens way before we get to these type of levels or whether we will take it in our strides like every other debt / deficit landmark in recent years.</p>

<p>In terms of that bond move in more detail, the selloff was initially very aggressive, with the 30yr yield reaching 5.035% and on track for its highest close since 2023 and actually higher for only six business days since 2007. However, that was then pared back, and it actually ended the day -4.1bps lower at 4.90%. Similarly, the 10yr yield hit an intraday high of 4.56%, but eventually closed -3.0bps lower at 4.45%. So the initial fears of the day ultimately didn’t materialise as US buyers stepped in, and at the front end, the 2yr yield fell -2.4bps to 3.98%. Overnight, yields are moving less than a basis point across the curve.</p>

<p>Similarly to the rates move, the S&amp;P 500 rallied from more than -1% down at the open to +0.09% by the close, marking its sixth consecutive gain. Defensive sectors including healthcare (+0.96%) and consumer staples (+0.42%) posted the strongest advances. By contrast, tech stocks didn't fully recover, with the Magnificent 7 down -0.25% after its best weekly performance in over two years. The small cap Russell 2000 (-0.42%) also lost ground. And reflecting the pick up in volatility, the VIX index rose (+0.90pts) rose from Friday’s seven-week low to 18.14pts.</p>

<p>Whilst the US fiscal news dominated attention, in the geopolitical space we had President Trump holding a call with President Putin, but this delivered little new on resolving the war in Ukraine. Trump posted following the call that Ukraine and Russia would “immediately start negotiations”. However, Trump’s comments did not repeat earlier threats of new sanctions against Russia or put immediate pressure on Moscow to deliver a ceasefire and his post suggested that the US might now take more of a backseat in the talks. Meanwhile, Putin was rather vague on the upcoming talks, again referring to the “need to eliminate the root causes of this crisis.”</p>

<p>Otherwise yesterday, several Fed officials signalled they weren’t in a hurry to cut rates. For instance, Vice Chair Jefferson said “I believe that it is appropriate that we wait and see how the policies evolve over time and their impact”. Similarly, Atlanta Fed President Bostic said “I think we’ll have to wait three to six months to start to see where this settles out” and reiterated his expectation of only one more rate cut this year. Meanwhile, New York Fed President Williams said “It’s not going to be that in June we’re going to understand what’s happening here, or in July”. And Minneapolis Fed President Kashkari noted “It’s really just wait and see until we get more information.” So it was little surprise that investors continue to see a near-term rate cut as unlikely, with only a 35% chance of a cut priced by the July meeting.</p>

<p>Earlier in Europe, markets had put in a much steadier performance, with the STOXX 600 (+0.13%) just about posting a small gain. That was echoed on the rates side too, where yields on 10yr bunds (-0.2bps), OATs (-0.4bps) and BTPs (+0.1bps) all saw little change. In the meantime, the UK and the EU also reached an agreement that deepened ties between the two after Brexit. Among others, the UK agreed an extension of EU fishing rights, in return for the removal of most border checks on farm exports. That came alongside a defence and security agreement, along with a potential youth mobility scheme, although the latter will be subject to further discussion. Our UK economists looked at the deal yesterday (link here), and their estimates show the long-run benefits to be around 0.5% of GDP by 2040.</p>

<p>For those of us in the UK fed up by not being able to use e-gates in the EU the deal only refers to the "potential use of eGates where appropriate". I've been in so many long queues in the last couple of years when eGates have been empty.<br>
In Asia risk sentiment has been helped after China’s central bank announced cuts to key lending rates for the first time since October reinforcing expectations of looser monetary policy to support the country’s economy (more below). Across the region, the Hang Seng (+1.29%) is leading gains while the CSI (+0.62%) and the Shanghai Composite (+0.38%) are also edging higher. Elsewhere, the Nikkei (+0.26%), the S&amp;P/ASX 200 (+0.54%) are gaining but with the KOSPI (+0.05%) slipping back towards flat. S&amp;P 500 (-0.29%) and NASDAQ 100 (-0.43%) futures are giving back some of yesterday's recovery from the lows.</p>

<p>Coming back to China, the PBOC cut the 1-year loan prime rate (LPR), the reference rate for pricing all new loans and outstanding floating rate loans, to 3.0% from 3.1% and the 5-year LPR to 3.5% from 3.6%. Meanwhile the RBA have just cut rates 25bps (as expected) as I finish this off with the presser ongoing. So far it leans dovishly.</p>

<p>To the day ahead now, and data releases include Canada’s CPI and German PPI for April, along with the European Commission’s preliminary consumer confidence indicator for May for the Euro Area. From central banks, we’ll hear from the Fed’s Bostic, Barkin, Collins, Musalem, Kugler, Hammack and Daly, the ECB’s Wunsch, Knot and Cipollone, and the BoE’s Pill. Finally, earnings releases include Home Depot.</p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Ayatollah Khamenei Slams 'Outrageous' US 'Red Line' Demand Of Iran In Nuclear Talks </span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>After several days of back-and-forth public criticisms and US declarations of a "<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-clarifies-nuclear-talks-will-fail-if-us-pushes-zero-enrichment">red line"</a> - Iran's Supreme Leader has finally weighed in definitively on where things stand from Tehran's perspective.</p>

<p>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the latest US demands that Iranian enrichment be taken down to zero <strong>"excessive and outrageous,"</strong> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-reviewing-proposal-5th-round-nuclear-talks-2025-05-20/">according</a> to state media. He further expressed doubts that current nuclear talks with the Trump administration will actually lead anywhere.</p>

<p>"<strong>I don't think nuclear talks with the U.S. will bring results</strong>. I don't know what will happen," Khamenei said. He further called on Washington to cease making over-the-top demands in nuclear talks. Tehran officials have of late also called the Trump administration's stance "contradictory" - after President Trump attempted overtures, sprinkled with direct threats, in his Iran-related rhetoric while in the Gulf last week.</p>

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<p>"The American side in these indirect talks should avoid nonsensical remarks," the country's top religious cleric and highest authority <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp855k42wpko">continued</a>. "Saying they will not allow Iran to enrich is a big mistake. <strong>No-one waits for their permission</strong>."</p>

<p>The Ayatollah made the remarks while speaking at a memorial honoring late President Ebrahim Raisi, who one year ago died when his helicopter crashed in <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp855k42wpko">northern mountains</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>He praised Raisi, a fellow hardline cleric, for refusing direct talks with the US while in office.</em></p>

<p><em>"He clearly said 'no' without ambiguity," Khamanei noted, adding that <strong>Raisi did not let enemies "drag Iran to the negotiating table through threats or tricks"</strong>.</em></p>

<p><em>Khamenei said nuclear talks under Raisi's predecessor, the moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani, <strong>had failed to achieve results</strong>, and that he did not think there would be any breakthrough under his successor, Masoud Pezeshkian, who is a reformist.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>President Trump had last week said the Iranians "sort of" agreed to the terms of a deal following four rounds of talks mediated by Oman, going back to mid-April.</p>

<p>Also last week, a top Iranian nuclear official said it was possible that Iran could given up enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief. But this was clearly premature, and the Ayatollah is now seeking to clarify the Islamic Republic's stance.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Americans have been told for 20 years: Iran is just a few months away from a nuclear weapon! The world has heard continuously: we have only months to bomb Iran to prevent it!<br><br>
I cited a sample during my debate in NYC with Alan Dershowitz last year on whether the US should bomb: <a href="https://t.co/xJpR9uqMWP">pic.twitter.com/xJpR9uqMWP</a></p>
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1922022126086762807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Trump envpy Steve Witkoff on the Sunday news shows <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-clarifies-nuclear-talks-will-fail-if-us-pushes-zero-enrichment">made clear</a> that the issue of abandoning enrichment is <strong>a "red line" </strong>from the US administration. He described to ABC the "red line" for Iran is no enrichment, <strong>not even one percent</strong>. And yet the past couple decades have seen Iran time and again view this as a non-starter.</p>

<p>"Everything begins… with a deal that does not include enrichment… because enrichment enables weaponization, and we will not allow a bomb to get here," he added.</p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Trump Demands Probe Into Kamala Harris' "Illegal" Celebrity Endorsements</span>

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<p><strong>PresidentTrump has called for an investigation into what he describes as an “illegal” scheme by Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign to pay left-wing celebrities for endorsements and deceptively frame them as “entertainment services.”</strong></p>

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<p>In a<a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114532867603994760"> Truth Social</a> post, Trump slammed Harris and took potshots at her celebrity supporters, charging that her campaign illegally channeled large payments to celebrities such as Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, and Oprah Winfrey in exchange for endorsements poorly disguised as “performances.”</p>

<p>Trump wrote, “How much did Kamala Harris pay Bruce Springsteen for his poor performance during her campaign for president? Why did he accept that money if he is such a fan of hers? Isn’t that a major and illegal campaign contribution?”</p>

<p>He continued, “What about Beyoncé? …and how much went to Oprah, and Bono???”</p>

<p>Trump further urged, “I am going to call for a major investigation into this matter. Candidates aren’t allowed to pay for endorsements, which is what Kamala did, under the guise of paying for entertainment.”</p>

<p>“In addition, this was a very expensive and desperate effort to artificially build up her sparse crowds,” Trump further declared, asserting “it’s not legal! for these unpatriotic “entertainers,” this was just a corrupt &amp; unlawful way to capitalize on a broken system. thank you for your attention to this matter!!!”</p>

<p>As we highlighted at the time, the Kamala campaign ended up $20 million in debt because they burned through a BILLION dollars, spending it on distraction concerts and paying vapid celebrities for endorsements.</p>

<p><iframe data-secret="iapGc59YQh" frameborder="0" height="500" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" security="restricted" src="https://modernity.news/2024/11/07/oof-kamala-campaign-ended-up-20-million-in-debt/embed/#?secret=iapGc59YQh" title="“OOF: Kamala Campaign Ended Up $20 Million In Debt” — modernity" width="600" data-sanitized-class="wp-embedded-content" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"></iframe></p>

<p>Megan Thee Stallion was paid a reported $5 million to shake her ass around for five minutes at a rally in Atlanta which some believe made Americans realise voting for Harris would be a grave error.</p>

<p><iframe data-secret="i7f6JTwV4T" frameborder="0" height="500" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" security="restricted" src="https://modernity.news/2024/11/11/people-believe-theyve-pinpointed-the-exact-moment-kamalas-campaign-crashed/embed/#?secret=i7f6JTwV4T" title="“People Believe They’ve Pinpointed The Exact Moment Kamala’s Campaign Crashed” — modernity" width="600" data-sanitized-class="wp-embedded-content" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"></iframe></p>

<p>Beyoncé, who spoke for a few minutes at a rally and <a href="https://modernity.news/2024/10/26/kamala-rally-descends-into-complete-chaos-as-beyonce-doesnt-perform/">did not perform</a>, was paid a reported $10 million, while Lizzo was given a million and apparently a<a href="https://modernity.news/2024/10/21/lizzo-boards-a-private-jet-to-campaign-for-kamala/"> ride on a private jet</a>.</p>

<p>Oprah Winfrey reportedly receive a $1 million payment via her Production company from the Kamala Harris campaign in exchange for endorsing her.</p>

<p><iframe data-secret="hcT67SRZUY" frameborder="0" height="500" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" security="restricted" src="https://modernity.news/2024/11/12/watch-oprah-confronted-over-1-million-kamala-endorsement/embed/#?secret=hcT67SRZUY" title="“Watch: Oprah Confronted Over $1 Million Kamala Endorsement” — modernity" width="600" data-sanitized-class="wp-embedded-content" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"></iframe></p>

<p>After losing the election, Harris continued to beg for money, presumably in an attempt to recoup the massive losses.</p>

<p><iframe data-secret="EGz0hXLCyy" frameborder="0" height="500" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin" scrolling="no" security="restricted" src="https://modernity.news/2025/03/03/why-is-kamala-harris-still-begging-for-money/embed/#?secret=EGz0hXLCyy" title="“Why Is Kamala Harris Still Begging For Money?” — modernity" width="600" data-sanitized-class="wp-embedded-content" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"></iframe></p>

<p>Trump has focused on Springsteen in recent days, as the aged rocker continues to rant about the President being “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” while on tour in Europe.</p>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Tonight in Manchester Bruce Springsteen said it as it is. 👏👏👏 <a href="https://t.co/oMmyY4GpKy">pic.twitter.com/oMmyY4GpKy</a></p>— Séamus.1798💜🏴‍☠️ (@1057Seamus) <a href="https://twitter.com/1057Seamus/status/1923854739424325824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2025</a></blockquote> <p>Trump called ‘The Boss’ a “dried out prune,” while other members of his administration chimed in saying Springsteen is welcome to stay overseas for good.</p>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Should’ve ended it with “Who’s The Boss now b*tch?” <a href="https://t.co/WPNkGAGTrR">pic.twitter.com/WPNkGAGTrR</a></p>— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/ModernityNews/status/1923385029821915630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2025</a></blockquote> <p>“The 77 million Americans that elected President Trump disagree with elitist and out-of-touch celebrities like Bruce Springsteen,” said Taylor Rogers, the White House assistant press secretary, adding “Bruce is welcome to stay overseas while hardworking Americans enjoy a secure border and cooling inflation thanks to President Trump.”</p>

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<p><strong><em>There was no excuse for the BBC to follow Israel in treating the head of UNRWA as though he is aligned with terrorism. This kind of craven journalism just makes Israel’s job of genocide easier.</em></strong></p>
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<p>There was yet more shameful reporting by BBC News at Ten last night, with international editor Jeremy Bowen the chief culprit this time.</p>
<p>He prefaced an interview with Philippe Lazzarini, head of United Nations refugee agency UNRWA, with an utterly unwarranted disclaimer – as though he was talking to a terrorist, not a leading human rights advocate who has been desperately trying to keep the last aid life-lines open to the people of Gaza as they are being actively starved to death by Israel.</p>
<p>The only time I can remember Bowen prefacing an interview in such apologetic terms was when he <a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-149785798" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> Hamas’ deputy political chief, Khalil al-Hayya, last October.</p>
<p>That was shameful too. But at least on that occasion, Bowen had an excuse: under <a href="https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/why-i-wrote-an-expert-report-against" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Britain’s draconian Terrorism Act</a>, saying or doing anything that might be viewed as favouring Hamas can land you with a 14-year prison sentence for supporting terrorism.</p>
<p>But why on earth would Bowen imply that Lazzarini’s remarks – on the intense suffering of Gaza’s population in the third month of a complete Israeli aid blockade – need to be treated with caution, in the same manner as those of a Hamas leader?</p>
<p>For one reason only. Because Israel, quite preposterously and for completely self-serving reasons, claims UNRWA is a front for Hamas. Since January, Israel has outlawed the organisation from operating in the Palestinian territories it continues to illegally occupy. As ever, the BBC is terrified of upsetting the Israelis.</p>
<p>Israel has long wanted UNRWA out of the picture because it is the last significant organisation to <a href="https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/in-waging-war-on-the-un-refugee-agency?utm_source=publication-search" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uphold the rights of Palestinian refugees</a> enshrined in international law. It is, therefore, a major obstacle to Israel ethnically cleansing Palestinians from what is left of their homeland.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">I missed this on Tuesday. On the News At Ten Jeremy Bowen gives a preamble before a clip of his interview with UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini is played</p>
<p>“Israel says he is a liar.. but I thought it was important to talk to him for a number of reasons”</p>
<p>Shameful from Bowen. <a href="https://t.co/RpmZ8sYqJV">pic.twitter.com/RpmZ8sYqJV</a></p>
<p>— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) <a href="https://twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1922886809429725681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Before airing the interview with Lazzarini, Bowen cautioned: “Israel says he is a liar, and that his organisation has been infiltrated by Hamas. But I felt it was important to talk to him for a number of reasons.</p>
<p>“First off, the British government deals with him, and funds his organisation. Which is the largest dealing with Palestinian refugees. They know a lot of what is going on, so therefore I think it is important to speak to people like him.”</p>
<p>Bowen would never consider prefacing an interview with Benjamin Netanyahu in a similar manner, even though the following would actually be truthful and far more deserved:</p>
<p>“The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister, accusing him of crimes against humanity. But I felt it was important to talk to him for a number of reasons.</p>
<p>“First off, the British government deals with him, and sends weapons to his military to carry out the crimes he is accused of. As its leader, he obviously knows a lot about what Israel is up to, so therefore I think it is important to speak to someone like him.”</p>
<p>Can you imagine the BBC ever introducing Netanyahu in that way? Of course, you can’t – even though, in journalistic, ethical and legal terms, it would be fully warranted.</p>
<p>But in the case the Lazzarini, there are absolutely no grounds for such a prologue – except to promote an Israeli pro-genocide agenda. Bowen’s remarks suggest he needs to explain why, in the midst of an Israeli-engineered famine in Gaza, the BBC would choose to speak to one of the most knowledgeable public figures about that starvation.</p>
<p>Bowen’s resort to an explanation instantly paints Lazzarini as problematic and controversial. It aligns with, and reinforces, Israel’s entirely bogus conflation of UNRWA and Hamas.</p>
<p>Even were Israel’s claims about UNRWA true of local staff in Gaza – and Israel has supplied precisely no evidence they are, as Lazzarini makes clear in a longer edit of the interview that aired on the BBC’s Six O’Clock News – that would in no way implicate Lazzarini. His remarks in the interview, on the catastrophic suffering of Gaza, are echoed by all aid agencies.</p>
<p>Bowen’s apologetic tone not only served to undercut the power of what Lazzarini was saying, but bolstered Israel’s ridiculous smears of UNRWA. That will have delighted Israel, and given it a little bit more leeway to carry on the starvation of Gaza, even as the first establishment voices tentatively start calling time on the genocide – 19 months too late.</p>
<p>Notice this from Bowen too. He asks Lazzarini: ‘When people look back on what’s been happening in the future, will they see, actually, a big international failure?”</p>
<p>Lazzarini responds: “I think in the coming years we will realise how wrong we have been, how on the wrong side of history we have been. We have, under our watch, let a massive atrocity unfold.”</p>
<p>Bowen jumps in: “Would you include the 7th of October in that?”</p>
<p>Lazzarini answers: “I would definitely include the 7th of October.”</p>
<p>But the set-up from Bowen is entirely unfair. He asks Lazzarini a question about “international failure” in relation to Gaza, and Lazzarini responds about the failure by the West to do anything to stop an atrocity – more properly a genocide – unfold over the past 19 months.</p>
<p>The events of 7 October 2023 are irrelevant to that discussion. There has been no “international failure” to support Israel. The West has armed it to the hilt and prioritised the suffering caused to Israelis by Hamas’ one-day attack over the incomparably greater suffering caused to Palestinians by 19 months of Israel’s slaughter and starvation.</p>
<p>Bowen’s interjected question about 7 October is a nonsense. It is levered in simply to cast further doubt on Lazzarini’s good faith in the hope of placating Israel, or at least providing the BBC with a defence when Israel goes on the offensive against Bowen for speaking to UNRWA.</p>
<p>The atrocities carried out on October 7 occurred in the context of decades of brutal and illegal Israeli military occupation of the Palestinian territories, of settlement expansion and apartheid rule, and of a 16-year siege of Gaza.</p>
<p>The international community was certainly on the “wrong side of history”, but not in the sense Bowen intends or Lazzarini infers from Bowen’s question. The West failed because it did precisely nothing to stop Israel’s brutalisation of the Palestinian people over those many decades – in fact, the West assisted Israel – and thereby guaranteed that Palestinians in Gaza would seek to break out of their concentration camp sooner or later.</p>
<p>Lazzarini’s remarks on the catastrophe in Gaza should be seen as self-evident. But Bowen and the BBC undermined his message by framing him and his organisation as suspect – and all because Israel, a criminal state starving the people of Gaza, has made an entirely unfounded allegation against the organisation trying to stop its crimes against humanity.</p>
<p>This is the same pattern of smears from Israel that has claimed all 36 hospitals in Gaza are Hamas “command and control centres” – again without a shred of evidence – to justify it bombing them all, leaving Gaza’s population without any meaningful health care system as malnutrition and starvation take hold.</p>
<p>Israel struck another hospital yesterday, the European Hospital in Khan Younis, as medics there were waiting to evacuate sick and injured children. The attack killed at least 28 people and injured many more, including a BBC freelance journalist who was conducting an interview there as the missiles hit.</p>
<p>Notably, BBC News at Ten blanked out its journalist’s face, adding: “For his safety, we are not revealing his name.” The BBC did not explain who the journalist needed protecting from, or why.</p>
<p>That is because the BBC rarely mentions that Israel has assassinated more than 200 Palestinian journalists in Gaza, as well as banning all foreign correspondents from entering the enclave, in its attempts to limit news coverage and smear what does come out as Hamas propaganda. Israel understands it is easier to commit genocide in the dark.</p>
<p>You might assume a major news organisation like the BBC would wish to be seen showing at least some solidarity with those being murdered for doing journalism – some of them while working to provide the BBC with news. You would be wrong.</p>
<p>We shouldn’t pretend that it was Bowen’s choice to attach such a disgraceful disclaimer to his interview. We all understand that he is under enormous pressure, both from within the BBC and outside.</p>
<p>BBC executives have <a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-war-gaza-israel-biased-coverage" rel="">appointed and protected</a> Raffi Berg, a man who publicly counts a former senior figure in Israel’s spy agency Mossad as a friend, to oversee the corporation’s Middle East coverage.</p>
<p>And as the late Greg Philo reported in his 2011 book <em>More Bad News from Israel</em>, a BBC News editor told him at that time: “We wait in fear for the telephone call from the Israelis”. Things are far, far worse 14 years on.</p>
<p>Excuses won’t wash any longer. We are 19 months into a genocide. Helping Israel to launder its crimes is to become complicit in them. No journalist should be allowing themselves to be pressured into this kind of moral and professional failure.</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><strong><a href="https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-05-14/jeremy-bowen-interview-gaza-shameful/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan-cook</a></strong></p>

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title: GOP Whip unveils hundreds of coalition endorsements for Trump agenda bill
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House Majority Whip Tom Emmer’s (R-Minn.) office revealed hundreds of endorsements for the “one big, beautiful bill” of President Trump’s tax and spending priorities, marking a major push for the legislation as GOP leaders aim to pass it in the lower chamber this week despite ongoing talks over last-minute changes. More than 100 outside groups…

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title: The power of flexibility: Why remote work is a game-changer for startups
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By breaking free from traditional office constraints, businesses can unlock their full potential and lead the way into a more dynamic, innovative future. 

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Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem testified Tuesday morning before the Senate on the department’s fiscal 2026 budget request. Noem’s remarks before the Senate Homeland Security Committee came as the Trump administration works to implement President Trump’s robust immigration and border agenda. From vowing to significantly limit the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to advocating for…

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title: Billionaire: US credit downgrade understated risk of government debt
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Billionaire Ray Dalio weighed in on Moody’s recent downgrade of the U.S. creditworthiness, claiming the move understates the risk of government debt.  Moody’s dropped the country from its triple-A category to a double-A rating on Friday, just ahead of the GOP’s spending bill — largely focused on President Trump’s legislative priorities — which would add…

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title: Senate Republican hints at Trump Qatar jet plans
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Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said Monday he’s talked to Air Force officials about a plan to use the jet Qatar gifted to President Trump as a helpful transition from the old Boeing 747 jet to the upgraded aircraft. “If we can show the American people that there was a method and a reason why it…

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title: Renewable Stocks Jump After Trump Allows New York Offshore Project Resumption
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Renewable Stocks Jump After Trump Allows New York Offshore Project Resumption</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Shares of European renewable energy companies surged Tuesday after New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that, following weeks of negotiations with President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the month-long stop-work order on the $5 billion Empire Wind project off the state's coast has been lifted. Reuters reported that the move could pave the way for the Trump administration to revisit plans for expanding natural gas pipelines in New York.</p>

<p>"After countless conversations with Equinor and White House officials, bringing labor and business to the table to emphasize the importance of this project, <strong>I'm pleased that President Trump and Secretary Burgum have agreed to lift the stop work order and allow this project to move forward</strong>," Democratic Gov. Hochul wrote in a <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/statement-governor-kathy-hochul-79">statement</a>. </p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/Empire-map2.jpg?itok=wowCHjcD" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Empire-map2.jpg?itok=wowCHjcD"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="258552b1-0f7a-45c7-9b5d-2bc97c762ee1" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="353" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Empire-map2.jpg?itok=wowCHjcD" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>She continued, "Now, Equinor will resume the construction of this fully permitted project that had already received the necessary federal approvals.<strong> I also reaffirmed that New York will work with the Administration and private entities on new energy projects</strong> that meet the legal requirements under New York law. To ensure reliability and affordability for consumers, we will be working earnestly to deliver on these objectives." </p>

<p>News of Equinor's Empire Wind project's resumption alleviated uncertainties for investors: <strong>Denmark's Orsted AS jumped 16%</strong>, the most in three years, and Vestas Wind Systems increased 6.5% in Copenhagen. Equinor rose 1.5%. </p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/Snag_1b8c9379.png?itok=vsn2FP4O" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Snag_1b8c9379.png?itok=vsn2FP4O"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="6083a4de-b10c-417e-a53d-b1cb07338e89" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="343" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Snag_1b8c9379.png?itok=vsn2FP4O" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><strong>Jefferies analyst Ahmed Farman</strong> said the Empire Wind project is a <strong>positive read-across for Orsted</strong>. He said the stop-work order had "significantly raised market concerns" for Orsted's Revolution Wind and Sunrise Wind projects. The analyst reiterated a "Hold" rating on the stock.</p>

<p>The <strong>resumption "shows it is possible and useful to discuss questions with the Trump administration</strong>," Norway's Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg told Bloomberg via a telephone interview. </p>

<p><strong>Morgan Stanley analyst Robert Pulleyn</strong> said today's news will relieve Orsted shares "on the increased likelihood these projects are delivered."</p>

<p>Pulleyn said the lack of a "clear rationale" for the halt order on Equinor's Empire Wind project had heightened investor uncertainty surrounding Orsted's two U.S. projects currently under construction. He reiterated an Equal-weight rating on Orsted. </p>

<p>As measured by the iShares Global Clean Energy ETF (ICLN), the broader clean tech sector has retraced to levels last seen before the Covid pandemic. The space was propped up with cheap money from the Federal Reserve and the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act. </p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/Snag_1b8d02ec.png?itok=R-IwDYBT" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Snag_1b8d02ec.png?itok=R-IwDYBT"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0b5071fe-6706-4d34-a403-82ca70db4805" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="352" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Snag_1b8d02ec.png?itok=R-IwDYBT" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Meanwhile, the Trump administration is bringing back common-sense energy policies that prioritize reliable fossil fuel power generation, such as natural gas and coal. The world learned that solar and wind create instabilities, especially several weeks ago when <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/spain-hit-massive-really-massive-power-blackout">Spain achieved a net-zero death</a>.</p>
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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5309053
title: Nebraska banning soda, energy drinks from SNAP under first federal waiver
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Nebraska has received the first federal waiver to ban soda and energy drinks from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps.  The move is set to take effect on Jan. 1 as a part of a broader effort to restrict taxpayer dollars from contributing to the purchase of sugary drinks and…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5308977
title: Karl Rove: Biden team ‘still gaslighting us’
author: ;Elizabeth Crisp
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Veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove criticized the Biden administration for allegedly covering up aspects of Biden's health, while also noting that the people around Biden knew he was not up to the job and should have stood up to him and told him it's time for him to leave.

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5307977
title: Proponents of religious charter schools should remember originalism isn’t partisan
author: ;Aaron Tang; opinion contributor
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The complete absence of any historic claims to a free exercise right to taxpayer-funded religious schools could turn out to be legally very significant.

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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885403
title: Il kabuki di Istanbul, decodificato
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<p><strong><em>Il finale, ancora una volta, è chiaro: gli Stati Uniti perderanno l’intera massa continentale eurasiatica. L’Ucraina, sotto questi immensi imperativi geopolitici, è solo una pedina priva di sovranità nel (Grande) Gioco.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em></span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p>Il presidente Putin ha davvero cambiato le carte in tavola proponendo la ripresa dei negoziati sulla guerra per procura in Ucraina a Istanbul, oltre tre anni dopo che i primi erano stati affossati dalla NATO?</p>
<p>È complicato. E dipende da quale “gioco” stiamo parlando.</p>
<p>Ciò che la mossa russa ha immediatamente ottenuto è stato gettare nel caos totale i tre guerrafondai europei (Starmer, il cancelliere di BlackRock, Le Petit Roi) del Cocaine Express.</p>
<p>L’Europa irrilevante non era nemmeno presente al tavolo di Istanbul, se non attraverso un’ampia informativa preliminare della delegazione ucraina, di bassa lega e mal vestita. A ciò si è aggiunta la rumorosa minaccia a margine che invocava “più sanzioni” per “fare pressione sulla Russia”.</p>
<p>Nel marzo 2022 a Istanbul, Kiev avrebbe potuto fermare la guerra. Tutti noi che eravamo a Istanbul in quel momento potevamo prevedere che Kiev avrebbe finito per essere costretta a tornare al tavolo delle trattative.</p>
<p>Quindi, in sostanza, siamo tornati allo stesso punto di partenza, con lo stesso negoziatore russo di alto livello, il competente storico Vladimir Medinsky, a capo di una delegazione composta da professionisti, ma con l’Ucraina che ora deve affrontare oltre un milione di morti, privata di almeno quattro regioni (e altre in arrivo), con ciò che resta delle sue ricchezze minerarie di fatto controllate dagli Stati Uniti e un orrendo buco nero che passa per “economia”. Stiamo parlando di un paese in territorio 404.</p>
<p>Durante i negoziati di venerdì, Medinsky è andato dritto al punto:</p>
<p>“Non vogliamo la guerra, ma siamo pronti a combattere per un anno, due, tre, per tutto il tempo necessario. Abbiamo combattuto contro la Svezia per 21 anni [la Grande Guerra del Nord, 1700-1721, come è nota in Russia]. Voi per quanto tempo siete pronti a combattere?”</p>
<p>Questo è lo stato delle cose dal punto di vista geopolitico/militare per Kiev e i suoi sostenitori guerrafondai “fino all’ultimo ucraino”: o capitolate, o vi faremo ancora più male.</p>
<p><strong>Che senso hanno questi negoziati?</strong></p>
<p>La Turchia dell’ultra-opportunista sultano Erdogan ha infatti ospitato un incontro di pubbliche relazioni tra Mosca, Kiev e se stessa, con gli ucraini che hanno scatenato una tempesta di capricci infantili volti solo a influenzare l’opinione pubblica mondiale. In netto contrasto, il capo del Fondo russo per gli investimenti diretti, Kirill Dmitriev, ha fatto del suo meglio per dare una connotazione positiva ai lavori.</p>
<p>Istanbul 2.0, ha affermato Dmitriev, ha portato a un ampio scambio di prigionieri (1.000 per ciascuna parte), alla presentazione di opzioni di cessate il fuoco da entrambe le parti e alla prosecuzione del dialogo.</p>
<p>Non è molto. Beh, almeno hanno parlato la stessa lingua: il russo. Non c’è stato alcun problema di traduzione.</p>
<p>Si può sostenere con buona ragione che proporre la ripresa di questi negoziati, in questa forma, fosse privo di significato. Non vi è alcuna prova all’orizzonte che entrambe le parti possano affrontare la questione fondamentale in tempi brevi: l’intero equilibrio strategico geopolitico nell’Europa orientale, dal Mare di Barents al Mar Nero e oltre, che porterebbe a un nuovo accordo di “indivisibilità della sicurezza” con ripercussioni globali.</p>
<p>Ciò implica che, qualunque sia la strada che questi negoziati potranno seguire in futuro, essi sono oggettivamente impossibili. Nel frattempo, la guerra per procura in Ucraina – e la SMO – continueranno.</p>
<p>Ciò suggerirebbe anche che l’establishment della sicurezza di Mosca considera i teppisti neonazisti strumentalizzati a Kiev, nella migliore delle ipotesi, come una rievocazione della 6^a Armata di Paulus, con cui si negozia la fine di una battaglia, ma non la fine della guerra.</p>
<p>Persino i <a href="https://natowatch.org/default/2025/balance-power-russo-ukraine-war?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">semirealisti della NATO</a> come il commodoro in pensione Steven Jermy sono stati costretti ad ammettere che «la Russia è al comando» e che gli europei, all’oscuro di tutto, «sembrano credere che siano i perdenti a dettare i termini del cessate il fuoco o della resa».</p>
<p>Tutto l’abbaiare dei chihuahua di guerra – europei – non può nascondere il fatto geopolitico/militare fondamentale: una massiccia umiliazione della NATO. L’enorme problema di Trump è che deve gestirlo – e venderlo all’opinione pubblica interna e a quella mondiale come una sorta di “accordo” che ha stretto con Putin.</p>
<p>È illuminante tornare ancora una volta al Gran Maestro Lavrov, sempre super realista, nel settembre 2024: “Nell’aprile 2022, i negoziatori russi e ucraini hanno raggiunto un accordo a Istanbul. Se quell’accordo fosse stato rispettato, l’Ucraina avrebbe conservato parte del Donbass. Ma ogni volta che un altro accordo, sempre accettato dalla Russia, viene violato, l’Ucraina si riduce di dimensioni”.</p>
<p><strong>Il (Grande) Gioco, rivisitato</strong></p>
<p>Torniamo ora al (Grande) Gioco. L’ammissione da parte dei negoziatori di Kiev della capitolazione dell’Ucraina significa la capitolazione della NATO e dell’Impero del Caos. Questo è l’anatema definitivo per le classi dirigenti statunitensi. Anche una resa ucraina ultra-negoziata e gestita con cura sarebbe impossibile da vendere, per non parlare del fatto che Washington sotto il narcisista Trump annegato dovrebbe riconoscere una sconfitta strategica.</p>
<p>Perché ciò significherebbe che l’Impero del Caos perderebbe per sempre l’Eurasia: l’incubo definitivo di Mackinder/Brzezinski. Insieme al conseguente consolidamento del mondo <em>multinodale</em> e multipolare.</p>
<p>La partnership strategica tra Russia e Cina è ben consapevole di ogni angolo di questo processo più grande della vita. Al di là dell’attuale kabuki turco, comprendono chiaramente la Grande Equazione Eurasiatica.</p>
<p>Pechino è pienamente consapevole che il vero obiettivo della NATO è sempre stato quello di affrontarla attraverso la Russia. L’Ucraina era la pedina della NATO per abbattere la Russia e poi arrivare alla Cina dall’Occidente. L’obiettivo delle élite governative statunitensi, mentre configuravano il loro impero talassocratico, rimane quello di bloccare la Cina dall’Occidente via terra e via mare, utilizzando la Russia; poi utilizzare Taiwan come base per bloccare la Cina dall’Est via mare. Non c’è da stupirsi che il controllo di Taiwan sia un imperativo strategico cinese.</p>
<p>Ed ecco che torna il panico di Mackinder: la partnership strategica tra Cina e Russia può battere la NATO a mani basse, e la Russia, da sola, lo sta già facendo. Xi e Putin hanno discusso ancora una volta in dettaglio la scacchiera, di persona, prima della parata del Giorno della Vittoria della scorsa settimana a Mosca.</p>
<p>Il finale, ancora una volta, è chiaro: gli Stati Uniti perderanno l’intera massa continentale eurasiatica. L’Ucraina, sotto questi immensi imperativi geopolitici, è solo una pedina priva di sovranità nel (Grande) Gioco.</p>
<p>Quanto al clown rabbioso di Kiev, è solo un attore senza alcuna autorità, nemmeno in materia di negoziati. È completamente dominato dai neonazisti ucraini che lo uccideranno quando la guerra sarà finita. Lui è solo una pedina nelle loro mani e viene pagato per questo. Ed è per questo che, con il sostegno entusiastico delle irrilevanti Londra, Parigi e Berlino, è ossessionato dal continuare una guerra senza fine che sta distruggendo la nazione che dice di rappresentare.</p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Biden's Was The First Fully Deep-State Presidency</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/19/historic-scandal-bidens-deep-state-presidency/"><em>Authored by Jarrett Stepman via The Daily Signal,</em></a></p>

<h2><strong>Biden’s Presidency Is a Scandal of Historic Proportions</strong></h2>

<p>The “presidency” of <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/tag/joe-biden/">Joe Biden</a> is one of the greatest scandals in American history. The legacy media is only now covering the mental incapacity of a president who apparently left the entire ship of state to the unaccountable bureaucracy.</p>

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<p>On Friday, Axios released Friday night news dump audio of Biden’s 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Exclusive: Axios obtained the audio of Robert Hur's 2023 interviews of Biden which show repeated mental lapses as he struggles to remember words &amp; dates amid long, uncomfortable pauses.<br>
Biden WH didn't release it last year. Listen below.<br>
w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcACaputo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarcACaputo</a> <a href="https://t.co/VJr2c9m3bh">https://t.co/VJr2c9m3bh</a> <a href="https://t.co/Xoa0rQMtG9">pic.twitter.com/Xoa0rQMtG9</a></p>
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1923507928822108520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>If you heard the tape and haven’t been in a coma for the past four years, then nothing here is truly surprising. The former <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/02/08/special-counsel-recommends-charging-biden-due-his-diminished-faculties/">president sounded senile</a> and evasive when answering questions about his handling of top secret documents.</p>

<p>Some of my colleagues <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/19/hur-interviews-biden-forgot-names-jay-leno-obama-sec-def-thought-africa-was-country/">went through the full tapes </a>and found that Biden “forgot the names of President Barack Obama’s former secretary of defense and comedian Jay Leno; referred to Africa as a country, not a continent; and was unaware he had in his possession a notebook with war advice in it for Obama during his interview with special counsel Robert Hur and investigators in October 2023.”</p>

<p><strong>Biden certainly did not sound like someone who could be trusted to make large-scale national decisions or even small-scale personal ones.</strong></p>

<p>This is entirely unsurprising unless you are a left-leaning corporate media journalist on the political beat. </p>

<p>If you are, then I’m sure that the reports coming out about Biden in office are jaw-dropping, gob-smacking revelations to you.</p>

<p><strong>The media elite are shocked, shocked to discover that Biden may have been unfit for office.</strong></p>

<p>The release of these tapes was followed by a Sunday afternoon reveal that Biden has been diagnosed with <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/19/not-speculation-doctor-who-advised-biden-during-covid-says-president-likely-had-cancer-2021/">advanced prostate cancer</a>.</p>

<p><strong>The cancer diagnosis is certainly a terrible thing. But the idea that this should end the story about what happened the last four years is a farce. It couldn’t be clearer now that due to mental and physical ailments, Biden was a diminished man from the moment he assumed the president’s office.</strong></p>

<p>Despite <a href="https://x.com/adamwren/status/1924250863373083055">some of the aforementioned elite journalists</a> calling for a lid to be put on conversations about Biden’s presidency due to his health, the reality is the cancer diagnosis only raises <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/19/not-speculation-doctor-who-advised-biden-during-covid-says-president-likely-had-cancer-2021/">more unsettling questions</a>. Is this really a new diagnosis? Did Biden’s doctors really somehow miss the signs of treatable cancer?</p>

<p><strong>And that makes this situation entirely unprecedented.</strong></p>

<p>Yes, President Woodrow Wilson was at one point incapacitated during his final term in office, but that was at the tail end of his presidency. Wilson suffered a series of strokes after his highly energetic campaign to convince Americans to join the League of Nations. His wife and even some members of the <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/07/20/everyone-noticed-lack-socks-legacy-media-finally-noticing-bidens-obvious-signs-health-decline/">media tried to cover it up</a>, but ultimately the Democratic Party pulled the plug on his extremely brief flirtation with running for a third term.</p>

<p>There was no widespread attempt to fool the American people and ensure another term for an “almost catatonic” president, as one witness at George Clooney’s June fundraiser for Biden described the candidate.</p>

<p><strong>This situation with Biden was much, much worse, the cover-up far more extensive, and the consequences were far more potentially dire in the age of instant communication and weapons capable of quickly destroying all of human civilization.</strong></p>

<p>How shall we think of those years in which multiple crises developed around the globe, Americans were mass deprived of employment due to government-forced vaccinations, states were browbeaten to allow children to get life-altering hormones, and an ultimately victorious presidential candidate was nearly jailed?</p>

<p><strong>I’ve tried to think of some apt historical comparisons.</strong></p>

<p>President John Tyler was known to some of his more cantankerous critics as “his accidency,” due to being the first vice president to assume the president’s office after the death of the commander in chief. The attitude was that nobody actually elected him to become president, and in the early days of the republic the Constitution was a bit murky about whether he could just assume office or a new election must be held.</p>

<p>Regardless of the nickname, Tyler became an aggressive, active commander in chief—somewhat to the chagrin of many in his party.</p>

<p>But Biden was in some way the mirror opposite. Despite being elected in a highly contested election, he seems to have never really assumed his responsibilities. Biden’s lethargy was only matched by his lack of transparency.</p>

<p><strong>The better word for Biden would be “his irrelevancy.”</strong></p>

<p>While the 46th president’s handlers, most likely at the behest of former President Barack Obama, led him around in an extended real-world version of “Weekend at Bernie’s,” the federal apparatus operated on its own.</p>

<p>This was rule by “experts,” or really rule by the managerial class that re-created the old spoils system but made it totally unaccountable to the American people.</p>

<p>Decisions were carried out by vast, interlocking agencies at the behest of their Democratic Party allies whom they serve.</p>

<p><strong>This was the first fully <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/02/13/heres-why-left-cant-quit-deep-state/">deep-state presidency</a>.</strong></p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">How is this not the most plausible answer to everything we have seen? <a href="https://t.co/7wyfPSFDMB">https://t.co/7wyfPSFDMB</a></p>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1924806313181155764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Biden was awarded by the Democratic Party with the nominal career-capping title as president, but the functions and even the decisions demanded of his office were clearly distributed to his subordinates and the federal leviathan.</p>

<p>The result was a complete disaster.</p>

<p><strong>Americans rightly lost faith in their leaders and the elite institutions attached to this corrupted apparatus.</strong> U.S. foreign policy was at best strategically adrift. Our enemies around the globe went on the march. The people feared the government more than the government feared them.</p>

<p>The upshot of these calamities is that we were delivered a national wake-up call at a time of crisis. A political counterrevolution is taking place that may have never happened had its depth not been revealed at least in part by the <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/02/wages-medias-big-lie-2024/">media’s cover-up of Biden’s obvious infirmity</a>.  </p>

<p><strong>But even though the first 100-plus days of President Donald Trump couldn’t be more different than the four years of his predecessor, we can’t forget how bad things got, how <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/23/democrats-and-media-try-rewrite-history-bidens-presidency/">much the legacy media covered</a> for a senile president’s obvious incapacity, and how deeply threatening the permanent bureaucratic state is to American liberty.</strong></p>

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<p>Le Québec est la seule province qui maintient son système de taxation du carbone pour les consommateurs.</p>

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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Congressional Republicans <a href="https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1923427418913616200">MUST unite</a> to pass President Donald J. Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill and take advantage of the once-in-a-generation opportunity they were given by voters.</p>
<p><strong>Here are 20 reasons why Congress must unite behind the One, Big, Beautiful Bill:</strong></p>
<ol data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><strong>It delivers the largest tax cut in American history.</strong> This means an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Economic-Impact-of-Extending-TCJA-Provisions.pdf">extra $5,000</a> in Americans’ pockets with a DOUBLE-DIGIT percent <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/x-23-25.pdf">DECREASE</a> to their tax bills. Americans earning between $30,000 and $80,000 will pay around <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/13/congress/average-taxpayers-tax-bills-set-to-fall-under-house-tax-package-forecasters-say-00347318">15% less in taxes</a>.<br></li>
<li><strong>It includes NO TAX ON TIPS and NO TAX ON OVERTIME.</strong> This makes good on two of President Trump’s cornerstone campaign promises and will benefit hardworking Americans where they need it the most — their paychecks.<br></li>
<li><strong>It delivers Big, Beautiful Deportations.</strong> The bill <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/2025/04/27/house-homeland-security-committee-releases-text-for-budget-reconciliation-recommendations/">permanently</a> secures our borders by making the largest border security investment in history, funding at least one million annual removals of illegal immigrants and <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/05/17/liberal-amnesty-group-inadvertently-makes-great-case-for-the-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-n2657204">ramping up</a> “mass deportation operations to a level never before seen in American history.”<br></li>
<li><strong>It finishes President Trump’s border wall.</strong> As a result, 701 miles of primary wall, 900 miles of river barriers, 629 miles of secondary barriers, and 141 miles of vehicle and pedestrian barriers will be <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/2025/04/29/homeland-republicans-advance-funding-recommendations-to-continue-president-trumps-border-security-victory-bolster-frontline-personnel-for-years-to-come/">constructed</a> — stopping deadly fentanyl from flowing into our communities and securing the border from dangerous illegal immigrant murderers and rapists.<br></li>
<li><strong>It boosts Border Patrol and ICE agents on the frontlines.</strong> It empowers immigration authorities to carry out their mission by hiring 10,000 new ICE personnel, 5,000 new customs officers, and 3,000 new Border Patrol agents — and gives $10,000 bonuses in each of the next four years to agents on the frontlines.<br></li>
<li><strong>It protects Medicaid for Americans by kicking 1.4 million illegals off the benefits.</strong> This bill eliminates waste, fraud, and abuse by ending benefits for at least <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/15/democrat-messaging-falters-as-they-ask-constituents-to-foot-medicaid-costs-for-1-4-million-illegal-aliens/">1.4 million</a> illegal immigrants who are gaming the system.<br></li>
<li><strong>It requires able-bodied Americans to work if they receive benefits.</strong> With 4.8 million able-bodied adults choosing not to work, The One, Big, Beautiful Bill puts work requirements in place and supports them as they find dignity through employment.<br></li>
<li><strong>It reverses the spending curse plaguing Washington, D.C.</strong> The legislation delivers the largest deficit reduction in nearly 30 years, with <a href="https://x.com/russvought/status/1923488257888879103">$1.6 trillion</a> in mandatory savings.<br></li>
<li><strong>It ends taxpayer-funded sex change for minors.</strong> It <a href="https://d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/05_13_2025_FCMU_Memorandum_UPDATED_55a74a132a.pdf">reverses</a> the <a href="https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/issue-brief/the-biden-administrations-final-rule-on-section-1557-non-discrimination-regulations-under-the-aca/">Biden-era mandate</a> that Medicaid <a href="https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/31/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-advances-equality-and-visibility-for-transgender-americans/">cover</a> so-called “gender transition” procedures for minors — ending the taxpayer-funded chemical castration and mutilation of American children.<br></li>
<li><strong>It provides historic tax relief to Social Security recipients.</strong> It slashes taxes on seniors’ Social Security benefits.<br></li>
<li><strong>It will give Americans PERMANENT tax relief through the Trump Tax Cuts.</strong> If the bill doesn’t pass, Americans will see the largest <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/heres-what-happens-if-trump-tax-cuts-arent-extended/">tax increase</a> in history.<br></li>
<li><strong>It finally modernizes air traffic control, fulfilling President Trump’s </strong><a href="https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/us-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-unveils-plan-build-brand-new-state-art-air"><strong>plan</strong></a><strong> to completely</strong> <a href="https://transportation.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=408584"><strong>overhaul</strong></a> <strong>the systems that keep Americans flying safely and efficiently.</strong> This will allow President Trump to update our air traffic control systems and act where the Biden Administration failed (despite repeated <a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-107001">warnings</a>).<br></li>
<li><strong>It ends the taxpayer-funded Green New Scam.</strong> The legislation repeals or phases out every “green” corporate welfare subsidy in Democrats’ so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” immediately stops credits from flowing to China and saves taxpayers $500+ billion every year, and reverses electric vehicle mandates that let radical climate activists set the standards for American energy.<br></li>
<li><strong>It incentivizes MADE IN AMERICA.</strong> It rewards companies that build their products in America with lower taxes — and allows Americans who buy an American-made vehicle to fully deduct their auto loan interest.<br></li>
<li><strong>It is pro-family.</strong> The One, Big, Beautiful Bill increases the child tax credit, establishes MAGA Accounts for newborns to start saving, and strengthens paid family leave.<br></li>
<li><strong>It repeals Democrats’ insane attack on the gig economy.</strong> It repeals the requirement that Venmo, PayPal, and other gig transactions over $600 be reported to the IRS.<br></li>
<li><strong>It protects family farmers.</strong> The bill prevents the greedy death tax from hitting two million family-owned farms who would otherwise see their exemptions cut in half and <a href="https://x.com/RepJasonSmith/status/1924469450209636454">cuts taxes</a> on farmers by over $10 billion.<br></li>
<li><strong>It’s a once-in-a-generation chance to revolutionize our nation’s defense capabilities and protect the homeland against new threats.</strong> It funds President Trump’s Golden Dome, invests in American shipbuilding, and modernizes our military.<br></li>
<li><strong>It unleashes American energy dominance.</strong> The legislation increases onshore and offshore oil and gas leases, which provides certainty for energy producers, spurs job growth, and makes energy more affordable for American consumers.<br></li>
<li><strong>It boosts American mineral development.</strong> This bill increases mining of domestic minerals and makes America less dependent on foreign adversaries for critical minerals.</li>
</ol>

link:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/20-reasons-why-congress-must-unite-behind-the-one-big-beautiful-bill/


guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5309032
title: Watch live: Zeldin testifies before House Energy Committee on EPA budget
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Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief, is testifying Tuesday morning before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the agency’s fiscal 2026 budget request. Zeldin has been a vocal supporter of President Trump’s efforts to roll back Biden-era climate policies and cut down on spending. The administration’s request includes an increase in funding for “critical drinking…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5309115
title: Liberal Wisconsin judge launches state Supreme Court bid
author: ;Caroline Vakil
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Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge Chris Taylor announced Tuesday that she’s launching a campaign to challenge conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley on the state Supreme Court next year. “Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court must be fair, independent, and impartial. Justice Rebecca Bradley has proven that she’s more interested in pushing her own right-wing political agenda…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5309114
title: Trump blasts Biden, aides for use of autopen
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President Trump on Tuesday blasted former President Biden, vowing to look into the use of the autopen during his presidency days after his predecessor announced he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. “Biden — look, It’s a very sad thing what happened, but we’re going to start looking into this whole thing with who signed this…

link:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5309114-donald-trump-joe-biden-auto-pen-cancer-diagnosis/

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title: FBI Doubles Reward For Each Escaped New Orleans Inmate
author: ;Tyler Durden
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">FBI Doubles Reward For Each Escaped New Orleans Inmate</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>The FBI on Sunday upped the reward for information leading to the arrests of seven at-large inmates who escaped a New Orleans jail.</strong></p>
<a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/image_92%2855%29_0.jpg?itok=gPYl0jSL" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/image_92%2855%29_0.jpg?itok=gPYl0jSL"><picture><figure role="group" data-sanitized-class="caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images"><img alt="" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="e0b9f51c-99cf-4d56-8b66-be911a95454d" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="333" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/image_92%2855%29_0.jpg?itok=gPYl0jSL" typeof="foaf:Image" width="500"><figcaption><em>Photos provided by Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office show from top left: Dkenan Dennis (captured), Gary C Price, Robert Moody (captured), Kendell Myles (captured), Corey E Boyd. Bottom from left: Lenton Vanburen Jr, Jermaine Donald, Antonine T Massey, Derrick D. Groves, and Leo Tate Sr. Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office via AP</em></figcaption></figure></picture></a>

<p>Ten inmates escaped from the Orleans Parish Justice Center on May 16 - breaching a wall behind a toilet and fleeing across an interstate highway at 1 a.m. Three of them, Kendell Myles, Robert Moody, and Dkenan Dennis, were captured, while the remaining seven are still at large.</p>

<p>According to FBI special agent Jonathan Trapp, <strong>the FBI has doubled the award from $5,000 per inmate to $10,000 </strong>for their whereabouts - noting that the escaped inmates are likely to be receiving assistance from members of the public in order to evade arrest.</p>

<p><strong>The FBI's award stacks with a $5,000 reward per inmate offered by the ATF, and $2,000 per inmate offered by Crimestoppers.</strong></p>

<p>As the <em><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/new-orleans-jailbreak-fbi-increases-reward-to-10k-per-escaped-inmate-5859791?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge&amp;src_src=partner&amp;src_cmp=ZeroHedge">Epoch Times</a> </em>notes further, during the press conference, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said that he had directed the Department of Corrections (DOC) to audit the Orleans Correctional Facility for compliance with “basic jail guidelines” and to remove all DOC inmates currently held in that facility.</p>

<p>Landry also said that he would issue an executive order directing the state inspector general to obtain an inventory from the sheriff on all pretrial detainees and those awaiting sentences.</p>

<p>The governor specifically cited the case of Derrick Groves, one of the escaped inmates, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges in October 2024 and was awaiting sentencing.</p>

<p>Landry said that Groves wouldn’t have been able to escape from the New Orleans jail had he already been sentenced by the court system.</p>

<p>“<strong>This massive jailbreak, which my statistics tell me could be the largest jailbreak in the history of the state, should never have happened. The public deserves to know who, what, and how this happened</strong>,” he said.</p>

<p>Landry added that Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office will lead the investigation into the incident.</p>

<p>Murrill <a href="https://x.com/AGLizMurrill/status/1923533843962765347">stated</a> on social media platform X that her office will focus on recovering the escapees, maintaining public safety, and ensuring security and stability at the facility.</p>

<p>Louisiana State Police said in a May 17 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LouisianaStatePolice/posts/pfbid02u9GCi3UHjxHRxAgXd6xosSqvsnLbraxFhQaRx9t8LZ5PjFLXVFYE9gQV2jck6L9ul?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZXoeCkoTcnR85gr8rWzL-PXvIK9iPOuw7JK7dev1A1b84dHWj3OCrx4rmhHngrDqSfRbF2vIMN2JDNBTVQnAHfoC36MeB8tvvkfSsAmIfpR436viTlnRWSmnYKiwOueoDroB42gAy1Dc8qP7ZtYdM4BT0iIPym6Ybry3AVCfiLRLnXd4HIm9asxqQmidaBXsW0&amp;__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R">update</a> that Myles, who had been charged with attempted second-degree murder, was caught shortly after the breakout on May 16, and two more were captured later that day with the help of tips from the public.</p>

<p>All three have been moved to a secure facility, with one requiring a spit hood during transport after exhibiting hostile behavior, according to Louisiana State Police.</p>

<p><em>Tom Ozimek contributed to this report.</em></p>
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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330989
title: Farmers protest outside EU Commission office in Dublin
author: ;Maria Maynes
link: https://gript.ie/farmers-protest-outside-eu-commission-office-in-dublin/
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tags:
#Irish News #CAP Budget #EU #European Commission #European Union #Farmers #Farming #Irish Farmer’s Association


guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330998
title: Taoiseach not ruling out referendum to lower voting age
author: ;Ben Scallan
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]<p>Tánaiste “remains to be convinced.”</p>
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guid: https://www.aljazeera.com/?t=1747719080
title: Trump fails to secure Ukraine ceasefire after Putin call: What’s next?
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Truce talks will begin immediately, Trump says after Putin call, but Moscow has not set a deadline for next steps.

link:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/20/trump-fails-to-secure-ukraine-ceasefire-after-putin-call-whats-next?traffic_source=rss


guid: https://www.aljazeera.com/?t=1747741470
title: EU and UK pile pressure on Russia with parallel sanctions
content: Brussels and London acting ‘in concert’ after Trump failed to secure ceasefire promise from Putin.
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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5309164
title: Trump administration terminating $60M in Harvard grants, citing antisemitism fight
author: ;Lexi Lonas Cochran
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Monday it would be terminating $60 million in grants to Harvard, bringing the total amount of federal money taken away from the university under President Trump to near $3 billion.  “HHS is taking decisive action to uphold civil rights in higher education. Due to Harvard University’s…

link:
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5309164-trump-administration-harvard-grants-antisemitism-fight/

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5308030
title: Don’t make immigrants pay just to enter a visa lottery
author: ;Curtis Morrison; opinion contributor
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We cannot, ethically or morally, ask the poorest families on earth to spend $250 — nearly half their annual income — just for a negligible chance to be selected for a visa.

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5309075
title: Watch: RFK Jr. testifies before Senate panel on HHS budget
author: ;The Hill Staff
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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified Tuesday morning before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the department’s fiscal 2026 budget request. Much of the request was focused on Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda — from his vow to find the cause of autism to the administration’s efforts to ban artificial…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5309175
title: McIver rejected plea deal, saying DOJ pushed her to ‘admit to doing something that I did not do’
author: ;Rebecca Beitsch
link: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5309175-mciver-plea-deal-doj-charges-ice-facility/
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Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) said Tuesday she rebuffed efforts from the Trump administration to strike a plea deal ahead of pending assault charges stemming from her visit to an immigration detention center, saying officials wanted her to “admit to doing something that I did not do.” Interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announced…

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guid: https://www.aljazeera.com/?t=1747741313
title: WHO members adopt landmark pandemic agreement in US absence
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Accord aims to prevent repeat of disjointed response and international disarray that surrounded COVID-19 pandemic.

link:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/20/who-members-adopt-landmark-pandemic-agreement-in-us-absence?traffic_source=rss


guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5309165
title: Jon Stewart knocks CNN for Tapper book
author: ;Dominick Mastrangelo
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Comedian Jon Stewart knocked CNN anchor Jake Tapper and his network for promoting a new book focusing on former President Biden’s mental decline, much of which contains reporting from during Biden’s presidency. “You’ve prepared an entire smorgasbord …. based on what you thought would be a relatively uncomplicated story about mental decline. News has the…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5309157
title: Oregon House passes measure prohibiting landlords from asking about immigration status
author: ;Ashleigh Fields
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The Oregon House on Monday passed legislation that would prevent landlords from asking about tenants’ immigration status.  The state lawmakers voted 36-15 in favor of the bill, which comes roughly two months after the state Senate did the same. “For too long, our immigrant communities have lived under a cloud of uncertainty and fear,” state…

tags:
#Administration #News #State Watch #Alina Habba #Housing #ICE #immigrants #legal status #New Jersey #Oregon #Oregon House #sanctuary cities #trump immigration crackdown

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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=331004
title: The martyrdom of Lucy Connolly
author: ;John McGuirk
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]<p>To genuinely incite violence, it is a pre-requisite that you should be in a position of some influence over the people you are inciting.</p>
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tags:
#Comment Ireland #Comment World #Featured #Featured Picks #Highlights #World News #Free speech #Hate Speech #Immigration #Incitement to violence #Lucy Connolly #Racism #UK


guid: 6165d5e4ab2c8b5f79b5d82e:6165f805cc4a70035862ada3:682c87e60650c740a9b5457c
title: The mandates of the managerial state
author: ;Lisa P
link: https://www.rightsprobe.org/read/the-mandates-of-the-managerial-state-1
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<p data-sanitized-class="">By Bruce Pardy | Published by <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/the-mandates-of-the-managerial-state/" target="_blank">The Brownstone Institute</a> | First published by <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-the-mandates-of-the-managerial-state-5752027" target="_blank">The Epoch Times</a></p><p data-sanitized-class="">Forget the members of Parliament who may have colluded with foreign governments. The real menace, the RCMP seem to think, are House of Commons pages. MPs suspected of foreign election interference should not be identified, the Mounties have insisted, but House of Commons staff must be fingerprinted. Serious threats to the country are hidden away, while innocent people are subjected to state surveillance. If you want to see how the managerial state (dys)functions, Canada is the place to be.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">In June, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) tabled its <a href="https://www.nsicop-cpsnr.ca/reports/rp-2024-06-03/special-report-foreign-interference.pdf" target="_blank"><span>redacted report</span></a> that suggested at least 11 sitting MPs may have benefitted from foreign election interference. RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10580452/rcmp-commissioner-nsicop-report-foreign-interference/" target="_blank"><span>cautioned against</span></a> releasing their identities. Canadians remained in the dark until Oct. 28 when Kevin Vuong, a former Liberal MP now sitting as an Independent, <a href="https://www.cpac.ca/headline-politics/episode/mp-kevin-vuong-discusses-foreign-interference--october-28-2024?id=5dadac51-71e7-4259-9501-dadf69b6682b" target="_blank"><span>hosted a news conference</span></a> to suggest who some of the parliamentarians may be. Like the RCMP, most of the country’s media didn’t seem interested.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">But the RCMP are very interested in certain other things. For years, they have pushed for the federal civil service to be <a href="https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/esc-src/personnel/empreintes-obligatoire-mandatory-fingerprints-eng.html#s3" target="_blank"><span>fingerprinted</span></a>—not just high security clearance for top-secret stuff but across government departments. The Treasury Board adopted <a href="https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fct/doc/2015/2015fc1101/2015fc1101.html?resultId=ef3346e97a8043c1af6f83b92ca09d61&amp;searchId=2024-10-27T22:13:28:216/858de8644a5d4332a82239e342c56709" target="_blank"><span>the standard in 2014</span></a> and the House of Commons currently <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/parliamentary-press-gallery-security-1.3998327" target="_blank"><span>requires fingerprinting</span></a> for staff hired since 2017. The Senate implemented fingerprinting this year. The RCMP have claimed that the old policy of doing criminal background checks by name is obsolete and too expensive.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">But stated rationales are rarely the real ones. Name-based background checks are not obsolete or expensive. Numerous police departments continue to use them. They do so, in part, because name checks do not compromise biometric privacy. Fingerprints are a form of biometric data, as unique as your DNA. Under the federal <a href="https://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/I-1/page-1.html#h-257607" target="_blank"><span>Identification of Criminals Act</span></a>, you must be in custody charged with a serious offence before law enforcement can take your prints. Canadians shouldn’t have information about their wayward MPs, but the RCMP can’t have too much biometric information about regular people. It’s always a good time for a little fishing. Let’s run those prints, shall we?</p><p data-sanitized-class="">It’s designed to seem like a small deal. If House of Commons staff must give their fingerprints, that’s just a requirement of the job. Managerial bureaucracies prefer not to coerce directly but to create requirements that are “choices.” Fingerprints aren’t mandatory. You can choose to provide them or choose not to work on the Hill. Sound familiar? That’s the way COVID vaccine mandates worked too. Vaccines were never mandatory. There were no fines or prison terms. But the alternative was to lose your job, social life, or ability to visit a dying parent. When the state controls everything, it doesn’t always need to dictate. Instead, it provides unpalatable choices and raises the stakes so that people choose correctly.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Government intrudes incrementally. Digital ID, for instance, will be offered as a convenient choice. You can, if you wish, carry your papers in the form of a QR code on your phone. Voluntary, of course. But later, there will be extra hoops to jump through to apply for a driver’s licence or health card in the old form. Eventually, analogue ID will cost more, because after all, digital ID is more automated and cheaper to run. Some outlets will not recognize plastic identification. Eventually, the government will offer only digital ID. The old way will be discarded as antiquated and too expensive to maintain. The new regime will provide the capacity to keep tabs on people like never before. Privacy will be compromised without debate. The bureaucracy will change the landscape in the guise of practicality, convenience, and cost.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Each new round of procedures and requirements are only slightly more invasive than the last, but turn around and you find you have travelled a long way from where you began. Eventually, people will need digital ID, fingerprints, DNA, vaccine records, and social credit scores to be employed. It’s not coercive, just required for the job.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Occasionally, the curtain is pulled back. The federal government unleashed the Emergencies Act on the truckers and their supporters in February 2022. Jackboots in riot gear took down peaceful protesters for objecting to government policy. Authorities revealed their contempt for law-abiding but argumentative citizens. For an honest moment, the government was not incremental and insidious, but enraged and direct. When they come after you in the streets with batons, at least you can see what’s happening.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">We still don’t know who colluded with China. But we can be confident that House of Commons staffers aren’t wanted for murder. The RCMP has fingerprints to prove it. Controlling the people and shielding the powerful are mandates of the modern managerial state.</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-the-mandates-of-the-managerial-state-5752027" target="_blank">The original version of this commentary is available at the publisher’s website here</a>.</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><em>Bruce Pardy is executive director of </em><a href="https://www.rightsprobe.org/" target="_blank"><em>Rights Probe</em></a><em> and professor of law at Queen’s University.</em></p>





















  
  



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A 2024 Biden campaign adviser recalled thinking that former President Biden could not “form a f—ing sentence” during a post-debate conversation aboard Air Force One last summer, according to new reporting laid out in CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson’s book. The book, “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice…

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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin's Dismantling Of US Institute Of Peace</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-blocks-trump-admins-dismantling-of-us-institute-of-peace-5860093?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge"><em>Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times,</em></a></p>

<p>U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on May 19 blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from restructuring the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), replacing its leadership, and assuming control of its office building.</p>

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<p><em><strong>“These unilateral actions were taken without asking Congress to cease or reprogram appropriations or by recommending that Congress enact a new law to dissolve or reduce the institute or transfer its tasks to another entity,” </strong>Howell <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.40.0_2.pdf">stated</a> in her written opinion.</em></p>
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<p>USIP was established by Congress in 1984 as an “independent nonprofit corporation,” which receives federal and private funding to promote peace through education and diplomacy.</p>

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<p><strong>The matter began with a Feb. 19 Trump executive order declaring USIP “unnecessary,” and calling for the organization’s activities to “be eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.”</strong></p>

<p>Its board of directors is made up of 13 members: Ten are acting members, appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. The other three are “ex officio” members, meaning they hold their seats because of their placement in the federal government.</p>

<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Vice Admiral Peter A. Garvin, president of the National Defense University, hold these “ex officio” seats.</p>

<p>On March 14, Trent Morse of the Presidential Personnel Office fired USIP’s acting board members by email.</p>

<p>That same day, its president, George Moose, was fired by the ex officio members and replaced with Kenneth Jackson, an official from the U.S. Agency for International Development.</p>

<p>The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/doge-says-it-entered-peace-institute-building-with-police-escort-amid-alleged-standoff-5827474">took control</a> of USIP’s headquarters on March 17.</p>

<p>On March 18, in the middle of this shake-up, USIP and several of its fired board members sued the government, naming Trump, Jackson, Hegseth, and Rubio as co-defendants.</p>

<p><strong>Howell initially declined to block the administration’s moves on March 19, while the case was pending before the court, because she felt the plaintiffs’ claims would not succeed on the merits.</strong></p>

<p>The board members and USIP president Moose protested against the firings and resisted the takeover of its Washington headquarters, but were unsuccessful.</p>

<p>The administration eventually fired all but a handful of USIP’s staff, cancelled all of its programs.</p>

<p>It transferred control of USIP’s headquarters to the General Services Administration and leased its office space to the Department of Labor.</p>

<p><strong>In her ruling, Howell sought to define USIP’s role in the federal government.</strong></p>

<p>The plaintiffs had argued that USIP is a fully independent entity, and not part of the government, or at the very least, not part of the executive branch.</p>

<p>Its statutes say the board members can only be removed by the president: “In consultation with the board, for conviction of a felony, malfeasance in office, persistent neglect of duties, or inability to discharge duties.”</p>

<p>A board member may also be removed by a vote of eight other board members, or with a majority vote from members of the House Committees on Foreign Affairs and Education and Labor, and the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Labor and Human Resources.</p>

<p>The Trump administration had argued that it was part of the executive branch, since it performed diplomatic functions.</p>

<p>Since it is part of the executive branch, federal attorney Brian Hudak argued, Trump was entitled to fire its board despite the statutory limitations.</p>

<p>Judge Howell took a middle-of-the-road view and said that USIP is part of the federal government, but not strictly part of the executive branch.</p>

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<p><em><strong>“Instead, USIP supports both the executive and legislative branches as an independent think tank that carries out its own international peace research, education and training, and information services,” </strong>she stated.</em></p>

<p><em>“Defendants’ subsequent actions that flowed from the improper removal of USIP’s leadership in March 2025 are thus also unlawful,” including the termination of its grant programs and the firing of its staff.</em></p>
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<p>Howell <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.39.0_2.pdf">ordered</a> the fired board members and president Moose to be reinstated and may not be fired, except in accordance with USIP’s statutes.</p>

<p><strong>She also declared the transfer of USIP’s headquarters illegal and has blocked the government from “trespassing” on those headquarters or maintaining control of its computer systems.</strong></p>

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The survival of more than 3,500 animal species is in jeopardy thanks to the impacts of climate change, a new study has found. This threat applies to at least a quarter of the species in six different classes, including arachnids and chilopodans (centipedes), as well as anthozoans and hydrozoans (marine invertebrates related to jellyfish and…

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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885413
title: El kabuki de Estambul: descifrado
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<p><strong><em>El final es claro: Estados Unidos perderá toda la masa continental euroasiática. Ucrania, bajo estos inmensos imperativos geopolíticos, no es más que un peón sin soberanía en el (Gran) Juego.</em></strong></p>
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<p>¿Realmente cambió el presidente Putin las reglas del juego al proponer la reanudación de las negociaciones sobre la guerra proxy en Ucrania en Estambul, más de tres años después de que la OTAN las frustrara?</p>
<p>Es complicado. Y depende de qué “juego” estemos hablando.</p>
<p><strong>Lo que <em>la maniobra rusa logró al instante fue sembrar el caos total entre los tres chiflados belicistas europeos</em> (Starmer, el canciller de BlackRock y Le Petit Roi) del <em>Cocaine Express</em>.</strong></p>
<p>La irrelevante Europa ni siquiera estaba presente en Estambul, salvo a través de una exhaustiva sesión informativa previa de la delegación ucraniana, de bajo nivel y mal vestida. A ello se sumó la ruidosa amenaza en los márgenes de la reunión, en la que se abogaba por <strong><em>“más sanciones” para “presionar a Rusia”</em></strong>.</p>
<p>En marzo de 2022, en Estambul, Kiev podría haber detenido la guerra. Todos los que estábamos en Estambul en ese momento podíamos prever que Kiev acabaría viéndose obligada a volver a la mesa de negociaciones.</p>
<p>Así que, en esencia, volvemos a las mismas negociaciones, con el mismo negociador ruso de alto nivel, el competente historiador Vladimir Medinsky, al frente de una delegación compuesta por profesionales, pero con <em>Ucrania enfrentándose ahora a más de un millón de muertos, privada de al menos cuatro regiones, y más en camino, lo que queda de su riqueza mineral controlado de facto por Estados Unidos y un horrible agujero negro que pasa por ser una «economía»</em>. Estamos hablando de un territorio en estado 404.</p>
<p>Durante las negociaciones del viernes, Medinsky fue directo al grano:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>No queremos la guerra, pero estamos dispuestos a luchar durante un año, dos, tres, el tiempo que sea necesario. Luchamos contra Suecia durante 21 años [la Gran Guerra del Norte, 1700-1721, como se conoce en Rusia]. ¿Cuánto tiempo están dispuestos a luchar ustedes?</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Esa es la situación geopolítica y militar de Kiev y de sus belicistas partidarios <em>‘hasta el último ucraniano’</em>: o se rinden o les haremos aún más daño.</p>
<p><strong>¿Qué sentido tienen estas negociaciones?</strong></p>
<p>Turquía, bajo el mandato del oportunista sultán Erdogan, acogió una reunión de relaciones públicas entre Moscú, Kiev y ella misma, en la que los ucranianos desataron una <em>tormenta de rabietas infantiles</em> destinadas únicamente a influir en la opinión pública mundial. En marcado contraste, el director del Fondo Ruso de Inversión Directa, Kirill Dmitriev, hizo todo lo posible por dar <em>un giro positivo a las negociaciones</em>.</p>
<p>Estambul 2.0, afirmó Dmitriev, logró un gran intercambio de prisioneros (1000 por cada lado); opciones de alto el fuego que serán presentadas por ambas partes; y la continuación del diálogo.</p>
<p>No es mucho. Bueno, al menos hablaron en el mismo idioma: el ruso. No se perdió nada en la traducción.</p>
<p>Se puede argumentar seriamente que proponer la reanudación de estas negociaciones, en este formato, no tenía sentido. No hay indicios de que ambas partes vayan a abordar la cuestión fundamental en un futuro próximo: <strong><em>toda la ecuación estratégica geopolítica en Europa del Este, desde el mar de Barents hasta el mar Negro y más allá, lo que conduciría a un nuevo acuerdo de “indivisibilidad de la seguridad” con repercusiones globales.</em></strong></p>
<p>Esto implica que, sea cual sea el rumbo que tomen estas negociaciones en el futuro, <strong><em>son objetivamente imposibles</em></strong>. Mientras tanto, la guerra por poder en Ucrania —y la SMO— continuará.</p>
<p>Esto también sugeriría que el <em>establishment de seguridad de Moscú</em> considera a los matones neonazis instrumentalizados en Kiev, en el mejor de los casos, como una recreación del 6.º Ejército de Paulus, con el que se negocia el fin de una batalla, pero no el fin de la guerra.</p>
<p>Incluso <a href="https://natowatch.org/default/2025/balance-power-russo-ukraine-war?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">los semirrealistas de la OTAN</a>, como el comodoro retirado Steven Jermy, se han visto obligados a admitir que <strong><em>“Rusia lleva las riendas”</em></strong> y que los europeos, despistados, <strong><em>“parecen creer que los perdedores deben dictar las condiciones del alto el fuego o la rendición”.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong>Todos los ladridos de los chihuahuas de la guerra —europeos— no pueden ocultar el hecho geopolítico y militar fundamental: una humillación masiva de la OTAN. El enorme problema de Trump es que tiene que gestionarlo y venderlo a la opinión pública nacional y mundial como una especie de «acuerdo» que ha alcanzado con Putin.</strong></p>
<p>Una vez más, resulta esclarecedor volver al gran maestro Lavrov, siempre tan realista, en septiembre de 2024:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>En abril de 2022, los negociadores rusos y ucranianos llegaron a un acuerdo en Estambul. Si se hubiera respetado ese acuerdo, Ucrania habría conservado parte del Donbás. Pero cada vez que se rompe otro acuerdo, siempre aceptado por Rusia, Ucrania se encoge.</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>El (Gran) Juego, revisitado</strong></p>
<p>Volvamos ahora al (Gran) Juego.</p>
<p><strong>Que los negociadores de Kiev admitan finalmente la capitulación de Ucrania significa la capitulación de la OTAN y la capitulación del Imperio del Caos.</strong></p>
<p>Eso es el anatema definitivo para las clases dirigentes estadounidenses. Incluso una rendición ucraniana ultra negociada y cuidadosamente gestionada sería imposible de vender, por no hablar de que Washington, bajo el mandato del narcisista Trump, reconociera una derrota estratégica.</p>
<p>Porque eso significaría que el <strong><em>Imperio del Caos</em></strong> perdería Eurasia para siempre: la peor pesadilla de Mackinder/Brzezinski. A lo que se sumaría la consiguiente consolidación de un mundo <em>multinodal</em> y multipolar.</p>
<p>La asociación estratégica entre Rusia y China es muy consciente de todos los entresijos de este proceso de proporciones gigantescas. Más allá del actual kabuki turco, entienden claramente la gran ecuación euroasiática.</p>
<p>Pekín es plenamente consciente de que el verdadero objetivo de la OTAN siempre ha sido enfrentarse a ella a través de Rusia. Ucrania era el peón de la OTAN para derribar a Rusia y luego llegar a China desde Occidente.</p>
<p><strong>El objetivo de las élites gobernantes estadounidenses al configurar su imperio talasocrático sigue siendo bloquear a China desde Occidente por tierra y mar, utilizando a Rusia; y luego utilizar Taiwán como zona de operaciones para bloquear a China desde el este por mar. No es de extrañar que el control de Taiwán sea un imperativo estratégico para China.</strong></p>
<p>Vuelve el pánico de Mackinder: la asociación estratégica entre China y Rusia puede derrotar a la OTAN sin problemas, y Rusia, por sí sola, ya lo está haciendo.</p>
<p>Xi y Putin volvieron a discutir en detalle el tablero de ajedrez, en persona, antes del desfile del Día de la Victoria de la semana pasada en Moscú.</p>
<p>El final de la partida, una vez más, está claro: <strong><em>Estados Unidos perderá toda la masa continental euroasiática</em></strong>. <strong><em>Ucrania, bajo estos inmensos imperativos geopolíticos, no es más que un peón privado de soberanía en el (Gran) Juego</em></strong>.</p>
<p>En cuanto al payaso adicto a las rabietas de Kiev, no es más que un actor sin autoridad alguna, ni siquiera para negociar.</p>
<p>Está completamente dominado por los neonazis ucranianos, que lo matarán cuando termine la guerra. Él solo es su testaferro y cobra por ello.</p>
<p>Y por eso, con el apoyo entusiasta de las irrelevantes Londres, París y Berlín, está obsesionado con continuar una guerra eterna que destruye la misma nación que dice representar.</p>
<p><strong>Nota nuestra</strong></p>
<p>*El Kabuki es un tipo de teatro tradicional japonés conocido por sus actuaciones extravagantes, trajes coloridos y maquillaje llamativo.</p>
<p><em> </em><em>Traducción</em><em>: </em><a href="https://observatoriodetrabajad.com/2025/05/19/el-kabuki-de-estambul-descifrado-pepe-escobar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u><em>Observatorio</em></u><u><em> de </em></u><u><em>trabajadores</em></u><u><em> </em></u><u><em>en</em></u><u><em> </em></u><u><em>lucha</em></u></a></p>


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House Democratic Caucus leaders will brief reporters Tuesday afternoon as they criticize President Trump over his immigration crackdown and their Republican colleagues’ efforts to advance the president’s legislative agenda, which includes steep cuts to Medicaid and taxes. The press conference, led by Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), also comes after a New Jersey Democrat was…

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guid: https://thehill.com/?p=5308055
title: Trump’s Qatari ‘Air Force One’ could finally be a grift too far
author: ;Svante Myrick; opinion contributor
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title: A China quer encher o Brasil de ferrovias… mas será que o Brasil está preparado?
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<p><strong><em>Da perspectiva chinesa, talvez perceba-se o Brasil como um país privado de segurança jurídica suficiente para receber investimentos tão altos vindos da China.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Um tema ao qual temos dado atenção em nossa coluna é o da integração continental, tanto por meios rodoviários quanto por meios ferroviários. Em artigos anteriores, inclusive, mencionamos que o governo atual havia dado um novo impulso a este sonho de décadas através do projeto das Rotas de Integração e também ressaltamos o interesse chinês nessa pauta, por considerar que ligar o Oceano Atlântico ao Oceano Pacífico seria interessante para a facilitação e ampliação dos fluxos comerciais na e com a América Ibérica.</p>
<p>A China, ano passado, inaugurou o porto de Chancay, construído por ela no Peru. Quanto ao Brasil, em seu projeto das Rotas de Integração, promete ligar cidades brasileiras como Manaus, Santos, Campo Grande, Belém, Cuiabá e Porto Alegre com portos importantes como Coquimbo e Antofagasta (Chile), Chancay (Peru), Manta (Equador), Buenos Aires (Argentina) e Montevidéu (Uruguai).</p>
<p>Agora nós finalmente vemos possibilidades de avanço nesse projeto. O Presidente Lula visitou Pequim no início deste mês de maio de 2025, e entre os inúmeros projetos conjuntos abordados estiveram as Rotas de Integração. Segundo fontes do governo, como a Ministra Tebet do Ministério do Planejamento, a China estaria interessada em construir a Ferrovia Bioceânica. Tendo 3 mil quilômetros de extensão, a ferrovia ligaria Ilhéus, na Bahia, ao porto de Chancay, no Peru, passando por grandes regiões produtoras agropecuárias como áreas do Piauí, Maranhão, Tocantins e do Centro-Oeste.</p>
<p>A importância disso para a China se apoia na atual dependência chinesa em relação a importações de grãos e de carne do Brasil. O Brasil é o 2º maior exportador de grãos para o gigante asiático, bem como a sua principal fonte externa de carne. Ao ligar centros produtores a um porto no Pacífico, com isso a China estará encurtando em 10 dias o tempo de viagem dos navios que levam os produtos para seu território.</p>
<p>Já para o Brasil, o projeto interessa não apenas pela perspectiva de aumentar as suas exportações para a China e para os países do Pacífico em geral, mas também porque as ferrovias também favorecerão o desenvolvimento em seus pontos de parada, como tem sido tradicional, mundialmente, na construção de malhas ferroviárias. Cogita-se, ademais, que as linhas férreas poderão também abrigar trens de passageiros, o que será também interessante para favorecer a integração nacional e o turismo interno.</p>
<p>Apesar da Ferrovia Bioceânica ser prioritária, há alguns outros projetos que atraem a atenção da China Railway Construction Company (a gigante ferroviária chinesa), como a interligação entre o porto de Santos e o porto de Antofagasta, no Chile.</p>
<p>Apesar do interesse de ambas partes, porém, ainda há inúmeros empecilhos no caminho do projeto.</p>
<p>Os chineses ainda estão avaliando os projetos brasileiros e uma parte da relutância parece se dever ao fato de que existe uma desconfiança sobre se o Brasil será capaz de garantir as cadeias de suprimentos necessárias para a realização ininterrupta das obras. A China também guarda certas reservas por conta da recusa brasileira em participar da Nova Rota da Seda para não desagradar aos EUA. O recuo brasileiro gera a percepção de que o país seria muito sensível a qualquer pressão vinda dos EUA, de modo que poderia se passar da China fazer vultosos investimentos nessas obras e não alcançar os resultados almejados pelo Brasil ceder facilmente demais a Washington.</p>
<p>Alguns setores dentro do Brasil também levantam alguma resistência. A Associação Brasileira da Indústria Ferroviária (Ambifer) e o Sindicato Interestadual da Indústria de Materiais e Equipamentos Ferroviários (Simefre) emitiram uma nota de indignação em relação às negociações diante da perspectiva de que os chineses fabricarão eles mesmos os trens que serão utilizados nas ferrovias em questão.</p>
<p>Na perspectiva das entidades em questão, o acordo feito dessa maneira não estaria favorecendo a reindustrialização brasileira, que é de fato uma das pautas do governo Lula. Para os chineses, porém, a produção dos trens é uma das contrapartidas para a realização de um investimento tão grande quanto este seria.</p>
<p>As principais dificuldades, porém, talvez não venham daí e sim do conluio entre Judiciário, ONGs ambientalistas e de direitos humanos e os partidos da esquerda liberal como o PSOL. Um indício disso é o fato de que essa semana mesmo o PSOL (Partido Socialismo e Liberdade), o Instituto Kabu e a Rede Xingu+ peticionaram ao STF pela suspensão do licenciamento ambiental da “Ferrogrão”, um projeto ferroviário de 900km que pretende ligar as cidades de Sinop, no Mato Grosso, e Miritituba, no Pará, facilitando o transporte de grãos e, com isso, inclusive reduzindo a poluição ambiental.</p>
<p>O STF, que é a Suprema Corte Constitucional no Brasil, tem a tendência a se posicionar junto às ONGs e à esquerda liberal nessas pautas.</p>
<p>Observando a partir da perspectiva chinesa, portanto, talvez perceba-se o Brasil como um país privado de segurança jurídica suficiente para receber investimentos tão altos vindos da China.</p>
<p>Se este for o caso, isso ressaltará a importância de que o Brasil opere uma verdadeira “revolução” soberana, não apenas para limitar a atuação de ONGs com financiamento estrangeiro, mas também para garantir que as instituições brasileiras estejam de fato submetidas à vontade popular e ao interesse nacional.</p>
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