June 2nd, 2026 Newsletter

Quality not Quantity

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Food & Farming

Shane Holland – Chair of Slow Food in the UK

Shane Holland grew up on the cliff tops of Cornwall in a food and farming community, then went to London to study medicine. Reflecting on the quality and taste of the food he had left behind in Cornwall, compared to what he was eating in London, he decided to abandon medicine and devote his life to improving the way we think of food, to value local, seasonal vegetables, grains, fruits, meat and seafood from local producers. Shane’s wish to connect people with artisan farmers and producers led him to the Slow Food movement which was founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy in 1986 in the aftermath of a campaign against the opening of a McDonalds near the Spanish Steps in Rome, and which has since spread worldwide. Its message is that food should be hugely valued, grown by farmers who are closely connected with their land, soils and animals, and prepared with care and respect for the local food heritage.

He is now the Executive Chairman of Slow Food in the UK and Chairman of Borough Market where many of the stallholders trade under the Slow Food Snail emblem which guarantees ethical, agro-ecological and high animal welfare food produced by small-scale, artisan farmers.

“So often we think of food as being about calories or macronutrients. They’re important, but there’s so much more to be gained from sharing food around the table, sharing food with someone that we love and thinking about where our food comes from. What we really need to do is to get back to actually supporting our farmers, and we do that by eating genuinely local, genuinely seasonal food. If we do that, it’s going to be better for our health, it’s going to be better for the planet.”

On 22 May 2026 Slow Food announced that Carlo Petrini had passed away at his home in Bra, Piedmont, Northern Italy, the ancient market town surrounded by small farms, terraces and wooded hillsides where he was born and from where he inspired the Slow Food movement into a worldwide campaign for locally produced, healthy and traditionally prepared food.

Watch and share the film. Join the Slow Food movement – Seek out local, seasonal food from farm shops, farmers’ markets or online hubs. Choose a connection with your food while keeping money in local communities.

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In a world of global shocks and food volatility we must take back control of our food by buying from local organic farms. This traditional approach to farming is also known as agroecology, defined by the United Nations as farming that follows 13 core holistic principles with people, ecosystems, culture and knowledge at its centre.

Read; Agroecology and Resilient Food Systems, Slow Food, 7 May 2026

‘From wars and pandemics to climate disruption and geopolitical tensions, repeated crises are exposing a food system weakened by isolation and concentration. Long, extractive supply chains have disconnected farmers from consumers, territories from decision‑making, and citizens from the power to shape how food is produced and distributed. United in Action for Food calls for a different response: unlocking power through connections. Agroecology shows how rebuilding relationships across the food system between people, places, knowledge, and institutions can strengthen local and fair food networks, reduce dependence on volatile global markets, and build resilience in the face of growing uncertainty.’

‘Rising fertiliser costs, sustainability concerns and growing consumer demand are driving a significant increase in organic farming across the UK.’

Read; UK organic land reaches highest level in more than a decade, thedirt, 19 May 2026

‘New data from Defra shows that organic land increased by 7.3% in 2025, reaching 540,000 hectares (ha), the highest total recorded in more than a decade. Much of that growth has been driven by Scotland, where land in conversion rose by 115%, increasing from 26,000ha in 2024 to 56,000ha in 2025.

Scotland now has an organic land share of 3.3%, up from 1.8% in 2021 and leaving it just 0.3% short of the Scottish Government’s target to double organic farmland during the parliamentary term that has recently ended. As the figures published this week cover the 2025 calendar year, the target is likely to have been met or exceeded once early 2026 data becomes available.

Soil Association Certification Senior Commercial Manager Alison Muirhead said: “Farmers are turning to organic as not only does it provide huge benefits for the environment and wildlife, it also makes good business sense. Even amid cost-of-living pressures, sustainability and health is a big concern for shoppers and consumer demand for organic has been rising for the last 14 years. It’s great to see farmers responding so we can better meet that demand with British products instead of imports. Furthermore, fertiliser costs were rising even before the Iran war, so it is unsurprising that farmers are looking for a system that doesn’t depend on gas from conflict zones. And with increasingly extreme weather, farmers need the healthy soils that organic delivers, to be more resilient to drought and flooding.”

Although Scotland has seen a substantial rise in land entering conversion, the figures are significantly ahead of those elsewhere in the UK. The Soil Association is therefore calling for Organic Action Plans in England and Wales to mirror Scotland’s approach.

England saw land in conversion increase by 23%, rising from 19,600ha in 2024 to 24,200ha in 2025. This marks the largest area of land entering conversion since 2021, although England continues to trail Scotland, with the West Midlands recording the largest regional increase. Wales recorded a four per cent rise in land entering conversion, although fully organic land that has completed the two-year conversion period fell by six per cent.

The founder of the Riverford organic box scheme describes how to stimulate more local organic fruit and veg production and sales networks in the UK.

Listen; The future of our fruit and veg, BBC The Food Programme, 22 May 2026

BBC Presenter; “……he’s one of 4,000 fruit and veg growers in the UK, mostly selling their produce through the supermarkets and surviving just through economies of scale. Out of that group, it’s the small to medium growers who are most at risk. Since the EU grant scheme, that was used to fund producer organisations, (groups of smaller businesses who were able to market their fruit and veg collectively), was closed down last December. The loss of these medium-sized and small growers is already being felt from the loss in diversity in what fruit and veg are grown here and in economic benefits to isolated rural areas, including in the far southwest. What would you say the mood is amongst growers today, growers in general and maybe organic growers in particular?”

Guy Singh-Watson – British farmer and founder and creator of Riverford, an organic farm and UK-wide organic vegetable box delivery company; “Pretty much in my lifetime there used to be a lot of horticulture, especially around the coasts where they’re protected from frost and so on, they could grow early potatoes and cauliflowers in the middle of the winter, but they’re pretty much all gone. So there’s no one left to be upset. British horticulture has become concentrated in the hands of really half a dozen major players who are the ones that have the supermarket contracts and pretty much everything else. I’m exaggerating a bit, but it’s very, very difficult to buy an English new potato now. All those growers have gone. To my mind, that’s a tragedy. It’s a loss of a whole industry and a bit of culture and then all the socio-economic benefits that go with having a vibrant agriculture and vibrant countryside, whether that’s in the pub or the church or the village hall or the local school, all have suffered.”

BBC Presenter; “This government’s putting together a horticulture sector plan, which does feel like a big opportunity to do things differently. What would you think needs to be in a horticulture plan for Britain? “

Guy Singh-Watson; “We desperately need more diversity in our growing base, in terms of scale of farms. We probably need more mixed crops on farms and we need them to be spread out more around the country. In terms of how you retain those smaller growers, I would love to see it be a condition of granting permission for a supermarket that they give over, I don’t know, 10 parking spaces for there to be a local produce market in their car parks. I think that should absolutely be a condition of them being there. I think actually it would even benefit the supermarket because people would like to go there because they like to actually see fresh produce that’s not wrapped in plastic and ideally meet the farmer who grows it. But we want to encourage people to eat more fruit and vegetables for health purposes, so I would suggest that high street greengrocers should be rate exempt.”

BBC Presenter; “You think that organic fruit and veg should specifically be mentioned and addressed in this plan?”

Guy Singh-Watson; “I do. I would argue that I’m an organic farmer. I would love to see more organic farming. I think there is more resilience. We haven’t used any fertiliser, synthetic fertiliser on the farm for 40 years and it makes no difference to us if the Straits of Hormuz are closed, whereas if you’re dependent on urea or ammonium nitrate and the price has probably gone up 50% in the last two or three months, and I’m guessing will go up more; you are very susceptible to these global changes. It is so difficult for people from non-farming backgrounds without land to get into farming, and I think that’s a tragedy. “

Wow, good news, Farming Today is dedicating this week to local food! The local food initiatives promoted by the BBC are not organic but re-localising fruit and veg is a good start to accessing quality over quantity.

Listen; Local Good Systems, BBC Farming Today, 29 May 2026

Presenter; “A farming family from Staffordshire, the Mercers, rear pigs and chickens at Packington Free Range in the east of the county. They’ve set up Farm Fresh Revolution, a project which delivers discounted fruit, vegetables and meat to local schools in order to inspire families to eat more healthily. As Bob Huckenhole reports.”

Bob Huckenhole; “A market stall atmosphere at the end of a school week, volunteers from the charity Farm Fresh Revolution have arrived at Co-op Academy, Claris Cliff Primary in Stoke on Trent with bundles of fresh produce to sell cheaply. One of them is Michael Skinner.”

Michael Skinner; “I could be very high and mighty and talk about the public service and all the rest of it, but actually it’s a heck of a lot of fun. That’s the first thing. We all have a bit of a laugh at the farm packing the vans and then we try and make it as jolly as we can for the families. Then obviously underneath it, we’re providing a valuable service for the families and helping to encourage them to eat more healthily than they might otherwise do.”

Bob Huckenhole; “Seven schools in poorer areas of Staffordshire are currently benefiting from the project, which started deliveries in 2017. Sally Mercer is a founder of the charity.”

Sally Mercer; “We started by trying to get surplus vegetables and fruit to use up things that aren’t being used by the local supermarkets, but actually it was a real hit and miss with quality and supply. The next step was going to the local wholesale market in Birmingham. We’ve got a huge wholesale market there and we didn’t want anyone to feel like they were getting something that was nearly out of date.”

Bob Huckenhole; “I think you supply the food for £3 and it’s worth about £17. So how do you afford it?”

Sally Mercer; “One of our missions is to try and get children particularly, eating vegetables and fruit that they’ve not had before and wouldn’t normally have in their diet. And one of the barriers to that is that some parents, when they’ve got a limited budget, want to go and buy food that they don’t know if their children’s going to eat because it will just go in the bin. We’re not giving it away. It is people buying their food, so they’ve got some pride and excitement.”

A local food initiative on a model farm in Wales owned by Carmarthen Council.

Listen; Welsh Food Networks, BBC Farming Today, 28 May 2026

Intro; ‘All week we’re looking at local food networks, where food is grown as near as possible to the people who are going to eat it. Despite being nicknamed ‘the garden of Wales’ Carmarthenshire has a shortage of fruit and vegetable production. The county council is now using a former dairy and turkey farm which it owns, as a pilot to grow fresh produce for the local community, including care homes and schools. The 100-acre farm is part of a wider local food partnership called Bwyd Sir Gar Food.’

Augusta Lewis; “So we’re here on a county farm holding Bremenda Isaf, near Llanarthne. We’re growing a whole range of vegetables. As you can see in this polytunnel behind us, we’ve got the solanaceae family, we’ve got some tomatoes and aubergines, we’ve got a cucurbits tunnel, which is more the squashes and cucumbers, and then we’ve also got brassicas and then we’ve been growing a whole host of vegetables and herbs outside. This year we’re also moving up to field scale to supply into the Welsh Veg in Schools pilot, which is now across a lot of Welsh local authority areas and it is all under conversion to be certified organic. In addition to that, we’ve been supplying to local shops and pubs and then we’re additionally supplying some of our surplus into community food projects and food banks in the county and Fair Share Cymru.”

Councillor Carys Jones Cabinet Member for Rural Affairs, Communities and Welsh Language with Carmarthenshire County Council; “It’s a journey and it will take a few years before we can actually establish working, economical, viable and sustainable patterns that we can deliver throughout the county. The cost factor is quite important. At the end of the day, we have to acknowledge that food costs more when it’s better. And that’s something that’s part again of the education strategy, from the child right up to the adults in the community. However, by minimising the waste and working out your logistics, the cost has to be kept at a minimum because it doesn’t work if it’s too expensive.”

BBC Presenter; “And in terms of your local growers hopefully attracting new people into the industry, but also perhaps persuading those that are already in the food industry to get on board.”

Carys Jones; “So we’ve got farmers and growers and then we’ve got all the skills that are needed to develop this industry and we also have community projects. A good deal of the success that we’ve had and the progress we’ve made so far is due to the partnerships. One of the challenges at this point is funding projects such as these have to be publicly funded.”

Augusta Lewis; “People understand that when you’re talking about short supply chains and a diversified local production system, you’re talking about new, nutrient dense, fresh food. It doesn’t take long to get from the fields to the plate. And you have that story because you might know the farmer. You know, in particular, this farm with the cycle path, you can actually cycle past and see the vegetables now. It’s also about the health benefits of those fresh ingredients, minimally processed direct to the plate.”

Small scale farms are 100% more efficient in terms of food quality but there’s zero subsidy.

Watch; Farms under 3 hectares receive no government subsidies, Sunshine and Green, 7 May 2026

Greg Harrison; “I used to have a chip on my shoulder about this tiny garden because, despite the fact that small farms or market gardens are capable of producing up to a hundred times more economic value and up to a hundred times more food by weight per square meter of diverse and nutrient-dense crops, through a system that uses ecologically beneficial and sustainable farming practices that enhance biodiversity, whilst providing a wide range of meaningful work for local communities and are more resilient to climate, political and economic shocks, they receive zero government support.

Until I realised powerful industrial agricultural lobbying groups were paying off the governments of the world to systematically remove the human from the landscape to replace them with things that could be made in a factory to grow crops that required a factory to turn them into food and eventually create a state completely dependent on a corporatocracy that produces nutrient-poor food that degrade the land and the ecosystems, fracture communities, and leave us all vulnerable to climatic political and economic shocks whilst receiving huge amounts of taxpayers money, just a function. And now I’m actually quite proud of this little firm, and I’d like to just remind you of your personal agency. You get to decide through your food choices whether you support a faceless corporate entity with zero accountability, or someone that lives down the road that you know by first name basis that you’d probably enjoy a pint or a cup of tea with. Not all revolutions need to be violent. Some involve just being really healthy and eating good food.”

We can make local food the norm by buying from our local farmer via farm shops, online, farmers’ markets or box schemes.

Read; Wikedleeks Meets: Professor Tim Lang, on lack of national preparedness for crises & how to fix it; Anna-Marie Julyan, 26 May 2026

Intro; ‘Shorter supply chains, government action and an unleashing of creativity – among other things – are on this ‘retired’ professor’s wishlist.’

‘Time for action; The Climate Change Committee recently released a major report calling for urgent changes for the UK to survive global heating. Tim would like to see an equivalent for food: “I think we should have a Council of Food Security and Resilience, which has insiders and outsiders providing regular advice like the Climate Change Committee.”

The interplay between food and climate will only become clearer. In this ‘climate change world’ of poly-crises he calls for a new coherent UK food policy to transform our food system: for a new Food Security and Resilience Act.

“A theme from the report is that we need more diversity. We have too concentrated a food system in every sector: farming, retailing, manufacturing, distribution, logistics – it’s all concentrated.

“We need regional Riverfords. When I talked with mayors, with regional bodies and people working in local authorities, they’re acutely aware of that, but they say we have no powers, no funding to do that. What needs to happen? One of the things we need is a new act that provides the powers. We did it in the 1860s to sort out food adulteration and quality. We did it in the 1990s with food safety. We need to do it now for food security and resilience.”

There are lessons to draw from places such as Liège in Belgium, which has reinvigorated peri-urban agriculture to supply its schools and restaurants – building shorter supply routes and less dominance on big, centralised suppliers.

He proposes that Civil Food Resilience Committees should be formed at local level where they could work with existing Local Resilience Forums (official bodies set up under the Civil Contingencies Act – the ‘blue light brigades’). It’s a plan of building connections and drawing on expertise, vital in a crisis.’

Despite the public donating millions of £s to NGOs to campaign for stricter rules on pesticides, corporations have successfully lobbied the government to allow our food to be treated with toxic chemicals that stay on the crops after harvesting. Unless we only buy organic, which doesn’t allow any chemicals, farmers will continue to use pesticides. Thereby destroying their soil and ecosystem in an attempt to stay competitive in a supermarket-dominated system that values volume and low cost over nutritional quality food. If the true cost of pesticides were internalised into the retail cost, organic food would be cheaper.

Read; “Our countryside is being drenched in pesticides” as typical roast dinner found to contain 100 chemicals, Wicked Leeks, 14 May 2026

Intro; ‘A report published today by Greenpeace provides a damning indictment of our intensive food production systems.’

‘Look and listen closely enough, and the signs of nature in decline are everywhere. The birdsong in our skies is slowly quieting – with 19 million breeding pairs gone since 1966. The colourful flash of many of our butterflies is now a memory, with half of British species now missing from places where they would have been common in the 1970s. More and more of our fields have turned an unnaturally vivid green, their natural colouring lost to nitrogen fertilisers. Our hedgerows are no longer crowded with a tapestry of wildflowers. Our waters are plagued by algae, as chemicals travel far beyond farmland and leave species from kingfishers to freshwater insects facing a life-or-death struggle.This is the harrowing reality of much of our present day farmland; the ‘silent spring’ we were all warned about many decades ago. And, of course, there is a link connecting all this loss and destruction of nature: chemical pesticides and nitrogen fertilisers.

“Our countryside is being drenched in pesticides, with devastating consequences for bees, birds, butterflies, rivers, and the soil”, said Nina Schrank, senior campaigner at Greenpeace UK. “Fields that once hummed with wildlife are falling silent while agrochemical giants rake in enormous profits and farmers are trapped in a costly cycle of chemical dependency. That doesn’t strengthen food security – it makes it more fragile,” she added.

Shrank has just helped produce a new analysis of official pesticide usage survey data published by Fera Science, a joint venture between Defra and Capita specialising in food safety. The findings, though on a small number of fruits and vegetables, are a damning indictment of our reliance on intensive production systems. Across just seven vegetables and soft fruits, a total of 102 unique pesticides were used. Onions and leeks are, for example, treated with 43 different pesticides, strawberries, 42, carrots and parsnips, 40, and potatoes, 31. Peas are treated with 29, swede and turnips with 20.

This means the vegetables in a typical British roast dinner, followed by strawberries for dessert, are produced using “a cocktail of more than 100 pesticides”. Seven of these pesticides are already banned in the EU. And of the nine pesticides most frequently used in the growing phase across these vegetable and soft fruit categories, nearly all are classified as highly hazardous pesticides. HHPs threaten bees, devastate aquatic ecosystems and can persist in the environment, accumulating in the food chain. A handful of them are also classified as forever chemicals (PFAS).’

‘Environmental activists lock themselves to pesticide barrels in protest outside Syngenta headquarters.’

Read; More than 40 arrests made after UK activists target ‘bee-killing’ pesticides, The Guardian, 20 May 2026

‘More than 40 people, including Greenpeace UK’s programme director, Amy Cameron, have been arrested after a protest outside pesticide company Syngenta’s Yorkshire headquarters.

A number of the activists locked themselves on to 15 blue pesticide barrels outside the headquarters, blocking the gates and leading to the temporary closure of the local A62. Activists had transformed a roundabout outside the front entrance into a giant hazard symbol carrying the message “Syngenta poisons nature” with an arrow pointing directly at the building. The action took place on World Bee day.

Greenpeace has accused Syngenta of driving wildlife decline and threatening UK food security by making and selling pesticides that poison British wildlife. A recent report by the NGO found that just one teaspoon of the Syngenta-made pesticide, Hallmark, was enough to kill 13 million bees.

Greenpeace UK co-executive director, Will McCallum, said of the arrests: “Today’s arrests are a huge overreaction by police …If only the government channelled the same passion it shows for quashing peaceful protest into ending the silent crisis unfolding in our countryside. We need to drastically cut chemicals on our land and in our waterways, and farmers need funding to enable them to do it. This is crucial so that nature – the very foundations of our food system – can recover.”‘

Pesticide poisons on blueberries

Watch; They’re poisoning our blueberries! Lou Silluzio, 16 March 2026

Lou Silluzio; “Just when you thought blueberries were the safest thing to eat, as of March 26, dimethoate is still permitted for use on Australian blueberries. There’s a mandatory 14-day withholding period when farmers must wait 14 days before harvesting after they’ve sprayed. The greatest risk is between children ages 2 to 6. They’re the greatest because it can exceed their intake, their expectations, far more than us idiot adults. The symptoms, headaches, muscle twitching, nausea, severe cases, even seizures. The APVMA which is the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, still allows it as of March 26th. Now, guess what? I had a blueberry farm. Most people you might not know that I had 25 acres and a hundred thousand blueberry plants. The only thing that attacks them is the bloody birds. All you do is net it. You do not need to spray them. They are the hardiest thing. They are the best thing to eat. But now, I don’t know, you can’t trust the supermarkets, you can’t trust the farmers, you can’t trust the authorities. You can’t trust anybody’s antioxidants. Sure, let’s have some dimethoate. And it is carcinogenic. Potentially. The word they use is ‘potentially’ carcinogenic. Okay, so you’re wondering why we’re getting stomach ulcers, stomach cancers, brain cancers, all these other bloody cancers.”

Food quality, not quantity.

Read; Should we be farming for nutrient density in our veg & fruit? Wicked Leeks, 28 May 2026

‘The nutritiousness of our food clearly matters, yet it’s been in decline for decades. Taste a carrot from pre-wartime Britain and compare it to today’s and you’re likely to get a shock. In the last six decades, there has been a frightening decline in nutrient quality, whether it’s a drop in minerals, vitamins, or natural plant compounds. This is true for a lot of our produce and grains grown across the UK.

Take iron levels in fruits and vegetables. Between the 1940s and 2019, this vital element for delivering oxygen and immunity to the human body, fell by 50%, and copper, critical to brain development, dropped by 49%, according to a study by Coventry University. Wheat has also seen a fall in mineral content of between 20 to 30%, states research by Rothamsted.

Blame it on the shift from muck-filled, natural farming to chemically-dependent intensive agriculture, which has drenched the soil in synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, leading to a decline in soil health and microbial activity. This has been exacerbated by the use of less nutritious, high-yielding crop varieties, long supply chains which diminish freshness, and the impacts of climate change.

In an age of supermarket shelves stuffed with empty calories, peaks in weight loss drug usage, poor diets, and even poorer human health, we could argue that growing and supplying nutrient-rich foods matters more now than at any other time in human history.

Yet even the savviest consumers aren’t necessarily focused on micronutrients or phytochemicals, which are the naturally occurring plant compounds essential for myriad positive health outcomes, or that these compounds are mostly lacking in convenience-centred, modern diets.’

Read and sign Petition; Get glyphosate off our food, Riverford, 7 May 2026

‘In the UK glyphosate is increasingly sprayed on food crops just before harvest – not principally to kill weeds, but to dry crops artificially to make harvesting quicker and more predictable. Spraying crops with glyphosate-based herbicides, days before harvest, means that residues end up on the food we eat – from oats and barley in breakfast cereals, to chickpeas, lentils and soybeans on dinner plates, the maize we feed to our animals, and the wheat we use in bread and beer.

Ten years ago, glyphosate was classified as “probably carcinogenic” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Hardly reassuring when our exposure through everyday food is regular and cumulative, and 83% of people are concerned about long-term exposure to chemical residues in their food.

Glyphosate is also linked to environmental harm, reducing soil health, polluting waterways, and negatively impacting wildlife including our pollinators. Despite all this, usage in the UK has risen by over 1000% since 1990.

We’re asking the UK to ban glyphosate as a pre-harvest desiccant – this is already the case in much of Europe, and there’s no reason why we should be lagging behind, at such a high cost to our health and that of the environment.

Head to the link in our bio to sign the @soilassociation ‘s petition, and help us get glyphosate off our food.’

What a hero – listen to this enlightened expert.

Listen; Nikki Florio on Bees, Geoengineering, and Mass Extinction, UK Column News; 8 May 2026

Nikki Florio discusses the critical decline of pollinators, especially bees, and the interconnected threats of geoengineering, 5G, and environmental toxins.

Discover how these factors threaten ecosystems, food security, and what actions can be taken to protect our environment and health.

Nikki Florio; “It’s not just Trump, this goes back to every president since George Bush Sr, who was courted by Monsanto. So when Monsanto made Roundup… glyphosate was originally a pipe descaler, and it was used to clean chemicals out of pipes and then they roll the pipes out onto the field, they just drop the pipes, these industrial pipes, and the chemicals would go everywhere and kill all the plants. So they ended up modifying a molecule and making it into Roundup or glyphosate, and then it was sold as an herbicide, so it kills everything. But what people do is they go, ‘oh, there’s a weed’. And then they get the little Roundup spray or their tanks, if you’re a city or a farmer that uses chemicals and they’ll just spray the dandelions, and when you spray a dandelion, it does kill that weed, but the flower is still there. That head of the flower with the chemicals is still there. And then you have butterflies and bees and moss, and everybody’s landing on it, taking the poison, and you kill off all those animals. Or sometimes it goes to seed, the little puffballs that people blow from dandelions, well, those seeds are poisoned now. It’ll still go to seed. Those seeds will be poisoned and they won’t regrow. But birds come in the summer, spring, fall, birds come and eat those, so you kill off millions and millions of birds a year through poisoning this seed. So people need to be more conscious about what they’re doing. If you really want to get rid of dandelions, the only thing you have to do, they’re an annual, they’re not a perennial, they don’t come back every year. What’s coming back is that seed. So if you want to get rid of…and I’ve done this, I used to garden for a living and I worked in garden centres. All you have to do is pull the heads off the flowers and then that plant won’t come back next year and you so over the course of a few years, you get rid of pretty much all your dandelions. If you’re overloaded with dandelions and you can pull those flowers and throw them in salad and they’re great, they have almost a sunflower flavour. Or you can make dandelion wine or whatever people make out of it.”

Supermarkets add starch to meat joints to increase its water content so the meat is heavier and they can charge the customer more.

Watch; I found two different starches in a Tesco pork joint, Radmore Farm, 13 April 2026

Ben Aveling; “This time it’s Tesco’s basted pork loin roasting joint. A roasting joint with ingredients, and I’m going to read them to you right now. Pork loin, fine, 90% of it. Sea salt, water, sugar, rosemary extract. Okay, sounds like a seasoning, perhaps. But wait a moment, here it comes. Modified maize starch, tapioca starch. And this is the key point. Not one starch, but two in a joint you thought was just a roast joint. So what is modified maize starch? Modified maize starch is a processed form of corn starch. When it goes into meat processing, it’s added to meat to help the meat keep the water in. When it absorbs water, it swells and it binds. Added to the product and chilled, it holds the liquid in the meat. But here’s the difference. When you start cooking it, it loses its structure and that’s why suddenly the water or the liquid of some kind comes oozing out into the pan. Tapioca starch is slightly different, a different source of starch, but again, it does the same job. Derived from the cassava root. I don’t know if I’m saying that properly, but again, it’s just there to help absorb water. Again, when cooked, releases and it all comes out of the meat. So why use two? Because together they hold more water than if you just use one every gram of water sitting in that roasting joint sold to you at meat price. You’re paying premium money for water. Pure margin for the supermarket. Pure profit for the supermarket entirely and at our expense, farmer and consumer.”

Trans national companies don’t want rules that reduce their profits so their stooge politicians ignore the fact that our salmon industry is an utter disaster on every front.

Read; Millions of salmon deaths at Scottish farms disclosed after watchdog’s ruling, The Guardian, 26 May 2026

‘Millions of fish deaths caused by accidental poisoning and suffocation on Scottish salmon farms have been revealed after the inspection agency was forced to share its reports. The UK government’s Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) had refused to release inspection reports, claiming it would cause “significant detriment” to companies, including to their reputations. However, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) ruled there were no valid grounds to withhold the information, a decision the campaign group Animal Equality UK hailed as a “watershed moment for public transparency”.

The ICO’s decision has led to the release of some of APHA’s inspection reports documenting details of the scale and cause of deaths on some farms. One recorded that more than 100,000 fish suffocated at an on-land salmon farm operated by Scotland’s largest salmon farming company, Mowi, in 2021 after a worker left them unattended and their access to oxygen ceased. In a separate incident at the same site in the same month, a buildup of hydrogen sulphide killed more than 1 million fish in 10 hours. APHA took no enforcement action. Another report states that at a site operated by Bakkafrost certified by the RSPCA, 600,000 fish died from hydrogen sulphide buildup in 2022. The problem recurred months later on an even larger scale, killing more than 1.5 million fish. Again, no enforcement action followed.

At a trout farm, APHA found that approximately 70,000 fish had died in 2023, with 7,800 survivors subsequently killed as “economically unviable”, but the site had never reported any deaths to the Fish Health Inspectorate. APHA advised the operator to seek veterinary advice and emailed it a copy of the code of good practice.

In reaching its decision, the ICO said APHA had already released some reports previously, which weakened the argument for not publishing others. It said the fact that the most recent reports dated from 2024 “undermines the suggestion that disclosure would still pose a real and significant risk to commercial interests”.

Despite the reports being released, the ruling still means a freedom of information request will have to be submitted to APHA to obtain future reports, rather than them being routinely published.

Abigail Penny, the executive director of Animal Equality UK, said: “APHA’s culture of secrecy has to end. The public has every right to know what is happening on these farms and whether regulators are doing their jobs. “People are utterly exhausted by the same cycle repeating itself – corporations inflicting suffering on animals, showing little remorse, while the bodies paid by taxpayers to hold them accountable look the other way. “This tight-lipped approach serves neither the public, nor animals; it serves only the salmon farming industry. This information belongs to the public and should not be buried in bureaucracy to shield global conglomerates from proper scrutiny.”

The government claims it is reducing tariffs on imports in order to reduce food prices, But this is a short-term solution. The crisis facing our farmers is caused by the globalist mindset that demands we reduce tariffs on imports to ensure low tariffs for exports like salmon and whisky that are non-essential and corporate-owned. Instead, a policy of site here to sell here would increase our self-sufficiency in all primary foods, protect all our precious farmers, reduce inputs and tech, and re-localise food production.

Listen; Cuts to tariffs on food imports, BBC Farming Today, 22 May 2026

Presenter; “The Chancellor Rachel Reeves laid out her great British summer savings bonanza in the House of Commons yesterday, aiming to make life a little less expensive for us all. And as part of it, she announced cuts to tariffs on more than 100 food imports sold in supermarkets to help reduce pressure on food prices. We don’t know which products yet, but farmers will be wondering what effect that’s likely to have on sales of homegrown produce. Also this week, the government is going to reduce fuel duty on red diesel used by farmers by a third. And it’s agreed a new trade deal with a group of six states in the Gulf, including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, which will remove export tariffs and open the door to market expansion, though concerns have been raised about the human rights records of some of those Gulf states. Chris Southworth is Secretary-General of the International Chamber of Commerce, UK.”

Chris Southworth; “You know, we’re talking about very practical things. This is good for the regions, good for the north, particularly Scotland, think salmon, think whisky. The rest of the UK think chocolate, cheese, biscuits, tea, halal beef, all of which are high end products, big demand in the Middle East, enormous opportunity for the UK to expand all of that with a lot less tariffs. This is a 93% reduction in tariffs. This is really good for trade liberalisation.”

Presenter; “And how significant is this deal compared to, say, some of the other deals that we’ve already seen? Things like the trade agreements with South Korea and India?”

Chris Southworth; “I think it’s really important in the context of a major emerging region, more or less on par with the likes of South Korea, above what we were negotiating with the likes of Australia, New Zealand a few years ago should be good news for the farming sector and production sector in the UK. And it’s coming at a really good time where things are very challenging as we all know, we can see the news. This is exactly the kind of direction that we need to see the UK going in.”

Presenter; “Where does it sit alongside the Chancellor’s announcement yesterday that she’s cutting import tariffs on some food stuff? I mean, we don’t know what the full list of products is yet, but if some imports are going to be cheaper in the shops here, what effect will that have on UK farmers?”

Chris Southworth; “There has to be a fine balance struck here, but this is also about reducing the cost of living. So the Chancellor is in a difficult place where she has to balance what comes in, what goes out. But actually we’re I think 40% food reliant on other countries. So we don’t produce enough food for our own population. We rely on imports. That’s a really important part of our food security. We rely on other countries supporting exports in terms of generating growth, but also allowing more imports coming in with fewer duties that allow us or our producers, manufacturers to have less input costs in order to get those costs on the shelves reduced for the consumer. It’s really important.”

Presenter; “Chris Southworth from the International Chamber of Commerce UK and as Chris was saying, that trade deal with those Gulf states should offer new opportunities for British food and farming. So alongside the cut in fuel duty on red diesel, it looks like farmers might just be happy with the government for once. I’ve been hearing from NFU President Tom Bradshaw from the Devon County Show.”

Tom Bradshaw; “First of all, the trade deal with the Gulf States is one where there’s great opportunity for our British food that has such a high reputation and for them to safeguard our sensitive sectors within that trade deal while opening up access to the Gulf States is something that we really welcome and we respect the way they’ve negotiated that trade deal. And then on the red diesel duty, look, we know how much we’ve seen red diesel prices rise since the start of this conflict. Our members are highly exposed to this, so the recognition from government of how severe it is and also the action in reducing that fuel duty is something that’s very welcome across the farming industry.”

Presenter; “What do you make of these reduced tariffs on some food imports announced by the Chancellor yesterday?”

Tom Bradshaw; “Well look, clearly if those tariff reductions are on food that we produce here, then that’s something that’s going to be incredibly concerning for those members that are producing those goods. So we await the detailed list with real interest.”

Presenter; “The government says that the list of products that were involved will be announced next week and that it does take account of domestic production and food security and says it doesn’t include any significant UK primary agricultural production. Are you confident that that will be okay? Are you happy with that statement?”

Tom Bradshaw; “We’ve been working very hard with the government to try and make sure they understand exactly what we do produce and where we would be most worried about those tariff reductions. But more long term, every time we have a global shock, we can’t have a knee jerk reaction that says how can we make it cheaper from somewhere else. We should be asking the question: how do we create the investment in UK food production that builds resilience?’ We’ve got that production here and we’re less impacted.”

Presenter; “You’re at the Devon county show today, along with a lot of other farmers. Do you think people are feeling a little more positive?”

Tom Bradshaw; “There’s a real nervousness in the farming industry. They can see all of the challenges with fertiliser prices, energy costs, milk prices collapsing. But I think what these signals start to show is a government which, particularly with the red diesel, is in tune with the challenge. But we will be watching very, very closely about those reduction in tariffs because we understand the cost of living crisis. But there’s a cost of farming crisis as well. And everybody in this country needs a resilient food system and profitable, thriving farming businesses is the only way we can deliver the resilience in that food system for the long term.”

Because currency values and food standards vary between countries, and government subsidies support global food companies that use economies of scale to force down prices, cheap food imports flood our markets. Read this interesting article if you are willing to allow Guardian cookies.

Read; Huge rise in factory-style dairy farming of ‘battery cows’ in UK as costs rise, Andrew Wasley, The Guardian, 26 May 2026

‘Investigation finds number of dairy farms where cows cannot go outside has more than doubled since 2015.The number of megafarms is increasing as farmers in the UK struggle to make ends meet. There is evidence of high levels of pollution linked to dairy and beef cattle farms in recent years. Shortages of essentials including fertiliser, fuel and feed have caused costs to shoot up in recent months. Some farmers have had to sell milk for as little as 28p a litre, despite it costing about 40p a litre to produce. In the latest crisis to hit the industry, many farmers have said they were forced to “go big” and adopt more-intensive systems to boost productivity. “They feel like they’ve got to do it,” said one farmer, who asked to remain anonymous.

Tim Lang, a professor of food policy at City University and one of the country’s leading supply chain experts, said the situation was “unacceptable yet normal”.

“The consuming public would be genuinely shocked to learn the returns on dairy work are so low,” he said. “Artisanal producers have tried to build alternative models: shorter supply chains, niche markets, high quality, high welfare. But their products are inevitably more costly.”

The trend toward intensive farming has raised concerns about the welfare of animals housed permanently indoors. Patrick Holden, the head of the Sustainable Food Trust and an organic dairy farmer, said: “The euphemism of ‘fully housed’ should be replaced by ‘battery dairy cows’. We managed to ban battery eggs; why not battery cows? It is shameful that we subject cows … to these conditions of confinement.”

Our countryside is being destroyed by large scale factory farms favoured by corporations who profit from selling the inputs and the government collects the taxes. It’s a big lie that we need industrial, globalised farming to feed the world. In fact, small scale, mixed farming has a far higher yield of food per acre, keeps rural communities in work and supplies local markets with healthy food.

Read; Hundreds oppose ‘cruel’ plans to build cattle complex, BBC News, 20 March 2026

‘Almost 1,400 people have opposed “cruel” plans to build a cattle “factory farm” the size of a Lidl supermarket on the edge of a village. Bodman Livestock Ltd wants to create two large sheds at Whyr Farm in Potterne, near Devizes, to home about 400 calves and cows. One public objection submitted to Wiltshire Council described the proposals as “cruel and inhumane”, while another resident said that there is “no benefit to the local environment to impose this factory farm”. In a planning statement, Bodman said the family had “a proven track record in high standards of animal welfare and widespread experience of farming matters”. Opponents argue the scale of the development goes far beyond traditional farming practices and would industrialise a rural part of Wiltshire. According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, specific concerns were raised about animal welfare, odour, pollution, landscape impact and increased traffic in the surrounding area. Worton Parish Council requested an odour report be resubmitted, and also raised concerns around additional traffic through the village. The plant would accommodate 100 suckler animals plus calves, 200 youngstock aged up to 12 months, and a minimum of 90 animals from 12 to 24 months old. The proposals were filed two weeks after the village lost a two-year planning battle against a 200-acre solar farm, with the applicants telling Wiltshire Council that the community faced a choice between their beef sheds or more solar panels. In its application, Bodman said: “Beef production is a profitable enterprise. The alternative to beef production on the site would be to build a solar farm on the land.” Wiltshire Council’s decision is expected by 22 July.’

Trade deals undermine farmers’ ability to improve animal welfare standards.

Listen; Cage eggs ban call, BBC Farming Today, 11 May 2026

‘Vets’ organisations are calling for a ban on imports of eggs produced by caged hens, alongside a phasing out of the ‘enriched colony’ cages currently legal in the UK. The British Veterinary Association and British Veterinary Poultry Association are supporting the Government’s plan to end the use of cage systems here – out for consultation earlier this year. The National Farmers Union warned the move would drive more imports, some produced using methods already illegal in the UK.’

Despite the public outrage at factory farm cruelty, many consumers are not prepared to, or cannot pay for higher welfare meat, so we all suffer from antibiotic resistant bacteria destroying the effectiveness of antibiotics to treat human illnesses.

Read; “Systemic status quo” of horrific welfare standards at EU mega-farms linked to antimicrobial resistance, Wicked Leeks, 21 May 2026

‘Graphic new evidence of conditions inside parts of the European chicken industry has this week raised fresh questions about animal health and welfare standards on factory farms, as well as highlighted the risks of disease spreading from farms into the food chain. Undercover pictures show what campaigners say is now the “norm” for billions of farmed birds across Europe, showing “dead chickens left to decompose among the living,” injured birds “barely able to stand” and others “forced to live in overcrowded conditions where the risk of disease runs high.”

Two separate investigations, carried out in Spain and Hungary, have revealed what opponents claim is a “systemic status quo” for billions of poultry reared for meat across the European Union (EU) yet remains entirely legal because of substandard regulations. The findings come as the EU grapples with long-awaited revisions to its animal welfare rules and the expected roll out of a continent-wide strategy aiming to ensure the “competitiveness, resilience and environmental sustainability” of the region’s livestock sector. As The AGtivist has reported before, Europe has witnessed an astonishing increase in factory farms in recent years, with figures published last year revealing there were now at least 22,263 industrial-scale chicken and pig farms operating across the EU, between them housing more than 516 million animals at any one time. Opponents say these numbers highlight how Europe is currently heading “entirely in the wrong direction”, and published the new evidence this week as part of a salvo of activity aiming to draw attention to what they say is an “unethical” and “unsustainable” pattern of intensification.

Systemic suffering

In Spain, investigations into five farms across the Cataluña and Castilla-La Mancha regions highlight what the campaigners say were some of the worst excesses of factory production, including birds “selectively bred to grow fast and forced to live in overcrowded conditions […] suffering heat stress, deformities and skin lesions.” In Hungary, evidence collected from three farms revealed similarly disturbing conditions, with pictures documenting “dead chickens, including baby chickens left to decompose on the floor, as well as birds with severe injuries including broken legs and burned skin.”The Spanish investigations were conducted by the pressure groups Anima Naturalis and Animal Welfare Observatory (AWO). “What consumers perceive as a low price on the [supermarket] shelf is, in reality, the result of a system of maximum biological stress,” Aïda Gascón, Director of Anima Naturalis, said. “This is not a system failure; it is the system functioning according to its own efficiency parameters: maximum cost optimisation at the expense of agonising and systemic animal suffering.”

In Hungary, campaign outfit Una Terra released the evidence: “We received footage from anonymous investigators documenting conditions inside Hungarian caged egg-layer hen facilities and broiler chicken farms. What these images reveal is simply horrific industrial standards, not a few isolated failures. The industrial system allows severe legal and “normalised” animal suffering,” Anna Zabezsinszkij, Program Director of Una Terra Foundation, said. “These fast-growing ‘Franken chickens’ are bred to grow so quickly that many can barely stand or walk by the end of their short lives. This evidence must drive stronger corporate responsibility, national reforms, and ambitious EU-level animal welfare legislation […]. We must do better for animals,” she added.

The groups claim that, in Spain, 80% of chickens raised for meat are kept in intensive farms. That’s around 810 million animals, they said. In Hungary meanwhile, 99% of all chickens are fast-growing breeds, the groups said, with 170 million birds slaughtered each year.

Fast-growing chickens are generally bred to reach slaughter weight in as little as 42 days, the campaigners stated, a rate that “exceeds” the bird’s normal physical capacity. The groups called on the EU to implement a ban on fast-growing breeds, limit stocking densities, and transform farming systems to respect the physical and emotional needs of these birds. “Responsibility cannot rest solely with consumers; the industry itself must raise the standard. It must decide whether to lead the sector’s modernisation or continue defending a model based on the biological precariousness of the animal,” José Luis Murillo, General Director of the Animal Welfare Observatory, said. “Of course, exposés such as this week’s are nothing new. Countless investigations have sought to highlight similar welfare issues, including in the UK, where factory-chicken production has surged in recent decades, at least partly in response to the ever-insatiable demand for cheap chicken.”

Disease risks

Less focus has generally been placed on the disease risks that can accompany substandard poultry production methods, and the implications for human health. Those behind this week’s findings did attempt to highlight this worrying aspect, stating that the evidence demonstrated husbandry standards that posed “a serious threat to public health.”

They said the documented conditions “create environments where diseases can spread easily, including those that can be transmitted to humans. Keeping birds in systems that inherently generate high disease pressure drives the excessive use of antibiotics, and contributes to the growing global threat of antibiotic resistance.”

We don’t need to take their word for it. Earlier this year a joint report from two EU agencies, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), starkly highlighted how antibiotic resistance in common foodborne bacteria – often transmitted into the food chain via infected poultry – continued to be a public health concern across the continent.

Campylobacter and salmonella bacteria are both commonly found in the guts of livestock and poultry, and once they becomes established on farms, can spread through the supply chain – including during animal transport, and at the slaughtering and processing phases in abattoirs – and go on to infect meat that’s then sold to consumers.

Overcrowded and unsanitary conditions on poultry farms can exacerbate the spread of such diseases, leading to birds becoming externally contaminated with their own waste, before being further spread as they are caught and crated before being trucked to slaughter. To compensate for poor animal health conditions, antibiotics have traditionally been deployed on many farms, with this use (and overuse) ultimately leading to the emergence of resistant disease strains.

The EU report found that a high proportion of campylobacter and salmonella from both humans and livestock continued to show resistance to ciprofloxacin, an important antibiotic often used to treat severe infections in humans. (This particular drug is part of a class of antibiotics that has previously been extensively used in chicken production.)

While resistance in salmonella from food-producing animals had been consistently high, the report noted, resistance in human salmonella infections had increased in recent years. The trend was described as “concerning” – as resistance to ciprofloxacin limits the effectiveness of available treatment options for patients becoming seriously ill from foodborne infections.

The agencies said: “In campylobacter, resistance is now so widespread in Europe that ciprofloxacin is no longer recommended for the treatment of human infections. To safeguard its continued effectiveness in human medicine, restrictions have been placed on its use in animals.”

Piotr Kramarz, the Chief Scientist at ECDC, said: “Antimicrobial resistance in common foodborne bacteria such as salmonella and campylobacter highlights the close links between human, animal and food systems. Protecting the effectiveness of antimicrobials requires coordinated action through a strong ‘One Health’ approach – because antimicrobial resistance affects us all.”

Indeed, as the future direction of livestock production across Europe is debated in the coming weeks – and the policies that will dictate the way in which farm animals are raised for years to come take shape – those responsible for making these crucial decisions would do well to listen to both the campaigners and their own scientists. Let’s hope they do.’

When our farmers are going bankrupt, animals suffering and eco-systems dying it is clear to all (except politicians, corporate psychopaths and mainstream media) that the viability of livestock farming should not be left to the market where economies of scale win. Farmers’ costs are not reflected in supermarket prices and so farms are getting ever bigger and crueler and still not surviving. Unless the government steps in to guarantee a cost of production price for high welfare meat production, we won’t see our large or small scale, ethical or not ethical farmers, survive. Corporate giants who don’t give a damn about the health of consumers, the animals or the ecosystem, will be pouring their PR millions into persuading us that their fake meat is safe and nutritious.

Listen; Pig Supply Chain Problems, BBC Farming Today, 30 May 2026

Presenter; “Independent UK pig farmers face an uncertain future according to the National Pig Association, which this week called for long-term commitments from retailers, processors and the foodservice sector. It comes two weeks after the supermarket Morrisons said it will stop buying pigs from some of its farmers, because of an oversupply of pig meat – blaming the ‘challenging economic climate.’ Well, speaking to us at the time, the editor of Pig World, Alastair Driver, said the problem’s widespread.”

Alastair Driver; “In response to what was a relatively good time, some of the bigger companies expanded herds, put more sales down. That was compounded in the autumn by one of the big factories having a couple of weeks of maintenance. That created a bit of a backlog on farms. Demand generally, it’s been flat. The demand just hasn’t been there. Pigs have built up gradually on farms, some people worse affected than others, depending on their supply chains. Allied with it, I’m afraid we’ve seen a downturn in European prices that has put, not necessarily import pressure, it’s not necessarily that more is being imported to displace it, but it’s put price pressure on. So the price has been falling, add into that mix, you’ve got the war in the Middle East that’s starting to push up costs.”

British Farmer Mark Purdey spent his life proving that BSE/CJD was not caused by “contagious folding proteins” but instead by the harmful industrial chemical organophosphates mandated to rid cattle of pests. He died on November 12, 2006, at the age of 52, allegedly from a brain tumor at his farm in Elworthy, Somerset, shortly after his exposé! Millions of cattle were slaughtered – just one of the many disasters that have forced farmers out of business.

Watch; Why did BSE occur in the UK? Jamie Andrews, 30 May 2026

Mark Purdey; “I became very aware of a campaign that was carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture called the Warble Fly Eradication Campaign, and under this order, farmers in Great Britain were forced by law to use what’s known as a systemic organophosphate pour-on chemical. And this oil-like pesticide had to be poured along the spinal cow of the cows. It was designed to penetrate right through the skin of the cows and poison the whole internal environment of the cow into a sort of poisonous medium. Well, this went on from the late 70s through the early part of the 1980s, just before BSE erupted. So the timing seemed to fit the bill. But Britain, Great Britain was unique in using very high doses of one particular type of organophosphate pesticide. The organophosphates were derived from the military nerve gases, and this in itself shows the toxicity of this group of chemicals. But this particular systemic formulation had to be poured along the spine of the cow, and in a sense, you’re delivering it millimetres from where damage in BSE actually appears. Great Britain was unique in applying massive doses. This particular type of pesticide was hardly used in any other countries, but it was used a bit in Switzerland, it was used a bit in France and in Ireland. And perhaps it’s no coincidence that these three other countries are countries that have a very small amount of BSE. And in fact, their use in these other countries was at a low dose rate. And also it was voluntary, it wasn’t compelled. And I believe that Britain had this massive epidemic was because they were compelled to use this chemical at a high dose rate, twice a year, and that was exclusive to the UK.”

Defra should subsidise farmers to convert to a farming system that relies less on the volatile global market for fossil fuel based fertilisers. How about trying mixed farming where animals fertilise the soil?

Read; Nitrogen costs highlight the need for strategic vision and farm resilience, 8point9, 21 May 2026

‘For British farmers, conflict in the Middle East and the disruption to global energy and commodity flows has translated into a practical and immediate problem: the cost of nitrogen fertiliser has surged sharply. This has loaded greater pressure onto an agricultural sector that’s already stretched and struggling.

But the question is not simply whether the government should step in with support – instead, we need to ask, what kind of support, for whom, and in service of what longer-term vision?

These questions were the subject of a Farm Gate podcast conversation between ffinlo Costain (Editor, 8point9.com), Joe Stanley (Head of Sustainable Farming, The GWCT Allerton Project) and Nikki Yoxall (Farmer and Technical Director, Pasture for Life).’

‘The medium term.

Within two years, a great deal is possible if the policy framework supports it. The most important shift in that timeframe is knowledge-based rather than financial.

One of the clearest lessons from farmers who have successfully reduced or eliminated synthetic nitrogen is that the transition is not technically impossible, but it requires support networks.

Farmers who went “cold turkey” on nitrogen during the last price spike following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and came out the other side successfully were, almost without exception, already embedded in knowledge networks, had secure business structures and could absorb the risk of experimentation.

The farmers who are most exposed to the current crisis — smaller operations, tenants, those without financial buffers — are precisely those least able to attempt an unsupported transition. That is where government intervention has the greatest leverage: not simply paying bills, but funding communities of practice, peer learning networks, technical advisory services and demonstration farms that give more farmers the knowledge and confidence to change.

The regenerative agriculture space — where synthetic fertiliser use is significantly reduced but not necessarily eliminated — represents a vast middle ground between conventional and fully organic production.

Government support for that transition could include:

– Mandatory but meaningful soil and nutrient testing, paired with requirements to act on results. Testing without action, as Scotland’s experience with its Whole Farm Plan has demonstrated, simply generates data that sits unused.
– Targeted funding for organic transition, recognising that a planned shift away from synthetic nitrogen requires the organic supply chain, processing capacity and market demand to develop in parallel. You cannot remove one system without building the other.
– Support for expanding domestic production of legumes and pulse crops, which fix atmospheric nitrogen naturally and are currently under-produced in UK rotations partly because domestic markets for them are underdeveloped.

Co-operating with other farmers can help compete with cheap imports but must also help to re-localise the food economy through reconnecting to local consumers.

Read; More farming co-operatives could ‘unleash growth’ in UK, finds report, The Guardian, 3 May 2026

‘The policy paper produced by the Co-operative party, which backs influential Labour MPs including Steve Reed and Jonathan Reynolds, calls for “a shift in perspective, not a doubling down of the status quo”. It says co-ops, which enable farmers to pool resources, share risk and invest collectively, can help “reduce exposure to volatile input markets”, such as fertiliser, fuel and animal feed.

The report, seen exclusively by the Guardian and due to be published this week, says, “They create the conditions for shorter, more resilient supply networks, and for greater retention of value within rural economies. And in doing so, they align economic resilience with democratic ownership.”‘

When supermarkets force farmers to be price takers, mixed farming connected to communities must be the best way to stay in business.

Listen; Profitability of farms in Northern Ireland, BBC Farming Today, 13 May 2026

‘All week we’re looking at the particular challenges of farming in Northern Ireland as farmers head to the Balmoral Show. Farming in Northern Ireland is heavily livestock-based: 80% of farms have beef or sheep and 10% are dairy. The average farm size is very small, less than 40 hectares, which is about half the size of an average farm in England. Agriculture is devolved, and Stormont decides its own policies, including the post-Brexit system for farm subsidies. We speak to an agricultural economist from Queen’s University Belfast.’

With no definition for regenerative agriculture, i.e. chemicals are allowed, of course corporations will sign up to the free PR ride!

Read; From pilots to practice: a new bid to scale regenerative agriculture by Mark Hillsdon, 18 May 2026

Summary

Regenerative agriculture market forecast to hit $1.76 billion by end of 2025

Food giants McCain, PepsiCo and Nestle ramp up regenerative farming investment

Trump administration pledges $700m for regenerative agriculture pilot scheme

Industry body SAI Platform pilots regenerative farming framework across 25 countries

Lack of clear definition hampering investor confidence and sector scale-up

‘Regenerative agriculture has never been short on investment and innovation, its problem has been how best to scale and encourage greater take-up among farmers, and more commitment along value chains. This year, food giant McCain announced that a 200-hectare farm in North Yorkshire would become its third Farm of the Future, joining two others in Canada and South Africa as beacons for regenerative agriculture.

The move is part of its commitment to source 100% of its potatoes from farms using sustainable methods by 2030, with the company having invested over 35 million pounds in the UK alone to help farmers make the transition. In May, PepsiCo launched the second edition of VivaOliva, bringing regenerative agriculture practices to a further 35 smallholder olive farmers in Spain, while in April, Nestle signed a four-year deal with agricultural consultants Soil Capital to scale regenerative practices across 230 farms in France, Belgium and the UK, covering 13,000 hectares. Even the Trump administration has got in on the act, raising a few eyebrows last December when it announced a $700 million regenerative agriculture package as part of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda.’

Comparing human behaviour with animals, specifically crows

Listen; A Discussion on the New Novel ‘Palaces of the Crow’ (w/ Ray Nayler) The Chris Hedges Report, 21 May 2026

Ray Nayler; “The inability to perceive oneself as connected to the rest of the world is what creates the psychotic map of the world. That is evil, right? When one sees the world as a place from which to draw exploitatively for one’s own benefit and thinks that that is a structure worth following, then one becomes capable of doing great evil, right? I call it extractive individualism. In some of my work, it’s this sense that you as a self are capable of drawing from the world without consequence, there is no limit to what you can take and there is no responsibility, really, to give back. And when you start structuring things that way, you get things like the structure of corporations that limitlessly take from the environment in the name of profit and in many other structures that are poisonous to life on earth. So I agree, rootlessness, you could call it disconnection, from the other, from the past, from the world. Any sort of misinterpretation of just how incredibly mutually dependent everything is will lead to wrong choices and evil.”

Chris Hedges; “Well, you just described the pathology of Donald Trump and most everyone around him. I want to read this passage and have you comment. ‘Animals have smell, sight, hearing, all the senses we have, but also senses we do not, ways of knowing we humans have no name for, senses we have lost or neglected, senses we never had. You honour those senses, those customs, whatever you want to call it, within the crow community, which are finally to us, mysterious.”

Helen Browning, CEO of the Soil Association, talks about how damaging nature ultimately damages us.

Watch; Soil Association – 80 voices for nature’s revival – Helen Browning, The Soil Association Videos, 22 April 2026

Helen Browning; “Nature is us. Without nature, we don’t survive. So we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. My name’s Helen Browning and I’m chief executive of the Soil Association. To make nature abundant, we need everywhere to be nature-friendly, and that includes all the land that we farm. We farm 70% of our land, and so if that’s not full of life, then everywhere else will suffer too. I’ve got loads of memories of nature as a child. I think it was seeing the hedges disappearing, seeing the wildlife vanishing, actually through my childhood, that propelled me into the life that I’ve led on the land and with the Soil Association. The early years of farming organically were really interesting. And actually all the people on the farm really noticed that as we started to grow things like clovers again, particularly the red clovers, how quickly the insect life came back. Insects often are your earliest sense that something’s changing. I suppose I’m drawn to where nature is at its best at that time. Our beautiful valley with its calcareous grassland, where you’ve got all of the quaking grasses, the orchids, all of those species. I love to be up there in June and July when it’s really humming. I think people are starting to become much more aware that nature is disappearing. Without public awareness and public really getting behind the revival of nature, we won’t get anywhere.”

Thankfully Ibrahim Traoré, the independent-minded leader of Burkina Faso has seen the danger of gene editing mosquitoes as a cure for malaria. Like an increasing number of people, he doesn’t trust Bill Gates’ whose patented tech will potentially syphon massive profits into his pocket at the expense of human health and the entire ecosystem.

Read; Bill Gates-funded project in Colombia releases 30 million bacteria-infected mosquitoes per week by Rhonda Wilson, The Exposé, 29 May 2026

‘In August 2025, Burkina Faso suspended and terminated the Target Malaria project, a research initiative funded by the Gates Foundation and Open Philanthropy, which began in the country in 2012 as part of a broader international effort to use gene-based technology in disease control.

The military-led government, headed by Captain Ibrahim Traoré, ordered the immediate halt of all activities involving genetically modified mosquitoes aimed at eradicating malaria, citing biosafety risks, low impact and scientific sovereignty.

The government cited the need to prioritise public health and environmental safety over the controversial biotechnology, stating that all remaining mosquito samples would be destroyed.

Related:

Burkina Faso Stops Gates Foundation’s Anti-Malaria Campaign, Nigeria Eye, 23 August 2025

Burkina Faso closes Gates Foundation, Open Philanthropy funded malaria programme, Alliance Magazine, 26 August 2025

Burkina Faso Halts a Malaria Programme Backed by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 25 August 2025

Target Malaria is an international research consortium dedicated to developing and distributing novel genetic technologies to control malaria in Africa. It receives its core funding primarily from the Gates Foundation (formerly the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) and Coefficient Giving (formerly the Open Philanthropy Project Fund).

Gates is obsessed with mosquitoes. “He’s been pushing for the idea of using genetically modified mosquitoes to eliminate the disease since 2016. That’s just one year after Oxitec finished its first mass mosquito release in Brazil,” Futurism, which is a Gates fan, said.

The Gates Foundation funds genetically modified mosquito research primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas and South Asia.

In 2023, the Foundation invested US$15 million in the Transmission Zero programme, led by Imperial College London and the Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania (“IHI”), in partnership with the Tanzanian National Institute of Medical Research, aiming to conduct field trials by 2027.

“The group has already successfully created and tested such a mosquito strain in Imperial’s labs, and recently announced the first transgenic (genetically modified) mosquito strain ever to be made in Africa by IHI researchers,” Imperial College boasted.

Adding, “The new funding will be used to substantially expand the operations of Transmission Zero both in the UK and in Tanzania, building increased research and supporting activities as the programme scales up.”

Past grants also supported the Target Malaria project in Mali, Burkina Faso and Uganda. In 2016, the Foundation awarded US$35 million to Target Malaria.

“With its latest award of $35 million, the Foundation has now invested a total of $75 million in the Target Malaria project, which is based at Imperial College, London. Using CRISPR gene-editing technology, the Target Malaria team has succeeded in installing a ‘gene drive’ in a malaria-transmitting species of mosquito that renders females of the species sterile,” Philanthropy News Digest said. “The Gates Foundation funding will enable Target Malaria to prepare laboratories in Mali, Burkina Faso and Uganda … Interest in gene drives has increased with the spread of the Zika virus.”

The Foundation has also funded Oxitec to develop a self-limiting strain of Anopheles albimanus for use in the Americas, eastern Africa and South Asia, it was reported in 2018. “Oxitec previously developed a self-limiting strain of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes … These mosquitoes have been previously released in Brazil.”

The Anopheles mosquito carries malaria. The Oxitec-Gates partnership is targeting Aedes aegypti because it is the species of mosquito that is a vector for dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever and yellow fever

Having received the note below and watched her 7-minute video, I know I will agree with every word in Madeleine’s new book.

Read; A Beautiful Revolution, Madeleine Waterfield, 18 May 2026

‘In my book I describe farmers as national treasures and highlight the plight of farmers. I discuss many other topics like the power of natural immunity undermined by the pharmaceutical industry, the mishandling of the pandemic, the dishonesty surrounding the climate crisis and how wars are provoked – all in the interests of contrived crisis capitalism. As you will see below there is also an Australian element to the story.

Truth, travel and turning the tide – peacefully.

A revolution in human awareness is underway as increasing numbers of people question those in so-called ‘authority’.

Interwoven with a fascinating exposé of unaccountable global power structures and their thirst for power and wealth, this is the story of an English family’s adventures travelling around Australia over the course of an unforgettable year. Vivid descriptions of rugged coastlines, wildlife, bushland, deserts, savannahs, dramatic geological wonders, and vibrant coral reefs remind us of nature’s abundance, resilience and beauty, and contrast sharply with revelations of unnatural, illogical initiatives by officials who break their own rules.

The harm and hardships suffered by ordinary people are resulting in a grass-roots great awakening where people are discovering the truth about how we are being exploited through crisis capitalism. We will peacefully reclaim our rightful authority over public servants, and ensure that we create a prosperous, fair and healthy life for ourselves and our children.’

I haven’t read The Nature of Business report but lets hope it will take us towards land sharing, producing food in symbiosis with nature, as opposed to land sparing, keeping the productive land growing chemical intensive crops with rewilding on the less productive land.

Listen; Nature means business Farm Gate, 28 May 2026

‘ffinlo Costain is joined by Martin Lines (Chief Exec NFFN (Nature Friendly Farming Network), Nic Renison from Renison’s Farm, and by Jenna Hegarty, Head of Policy at Nature Friendly Farming Network. Jenna presents NFFN’s new report, The Nature of Business: Delivering resilience, food security and economic value through nature-friendly farming.’

Jenna Hegarty; “So business as usual is not a viable option, but hope is not lost and that’s what the report essentially is trying to get at is three things. It provides a really useful snapshot of kind of up to the minute evidence on impacts of climate change and nature loss particularly to farming, but also crucially the solutions. And it sets out really at its heart it’s the investment case for nature-friendly farming. And we come at it from three different spatial scales. So the farm business level, why working with nature as a farming partner essentially is good for your business. And both Martin and Nick have brought in different examples of how that helps their systems. It’s also imperative at the national level. So whether you’re looking at the UK across the piece or individual devolved countries, nature-friendly farming is absolutely critical for a number of things. If we don’t sort that out our long term food security and indeed national security is going to be severely undermined. We’ve got a range of binding nature and climate targets across the UK. If nature-friendly farming isn’t at the heart of our food production system, then we can kiss those goodbye. And also we have to remember why those targets are so important in the first place, because if we don’t fix climate and nature then we really will not be able to produce, into the future. So it’s not like it’s nice to have, it’s an absolute critical underpinning. And then the third scale it looks at is the benefits to the sector, particularly there’s very few elements of our supply chain that doesn’t depend on agricultural outputs of some kind. Food supply chains are the obvious one. Again, nature-friendly farming as a kind of de-risking mechanism for supply chain actors is getting more and more embedded, not to the extent that it needs to be yet, but it’s getting there. So the benefits at those three levels are really, really clear. We’re not quite where we need to be. So like with any influencing report, it concludes with a series of strategic recommendations essentially to government, but it speaks to the role of the private sector as well and basically just says get a move on because we can’t hang around.”

ffinlo Costain; “No, it’s a really interesting report and I’ve enjoyed reading through it and I’ll talk to you about some of the conclusions that you come to in just a moment. But you mentioned the Climate Change Committee (CCC) and the adaptation report that’s coming out and we can talk about it now because this will come out after that report has been released. One of the things that I found when I was looking at the basic bullet points associated with the report was that again, although it was talking about nature, although it was talking about farming, it didn’t seem to be connecting the two very well when it’s talking about water, for example, it’s talking about creating on-farm water storage to reduce drought risk. But I get the impression that they’re talking about built infrastructure, they’re not talking about soil, they’re not talking about nature’s infrastructure. Was that the impression that you got as well?”

Jenna Hegarty; “I was lucky enough to be at a pre-briefing session last week and the CCC, they play things close to their chest because understandably they don’t want things leaking out in advance, but I kind of came away with a sense of the devil in the detail, and it’s going to be a big report with lots of technical annexes which will be equally complex to chew through. But I got the feeling that they were very much speaking about the need for more built infrastructure to store more water on farm as being part of it, that the imperative for making our landscapes more permeable and able to hold water much better is equally if not more important, and I do think we need to do both. I think that the need for on-farm water sources that are there for primarily, let’s say agronomic purposes is just something with changing climate, particularly in the east of the country, I think we’ve just got to face. Our rainfall just occurs at really random times now, particularly when it comes after a drought, our soil is not really able to absorb it quickly. We’ve got to find a way of harnessing as much of that as possible so we can use it when the land is able to take it and able to absorb it. But I think the role of soils is going to come through really, really strongly. I know that the CCC are increasingly interested in the role of agricultural soils, how we can improve the health of soils so it can do its ecosystem services jobs even better. And yet we need to be able to hold more water on farms. And I think that it’s a mix of both built infrastructure in the right places at the right scale, but also a hell of a lot more nature-based solutions.”

The government and their mouthpiece the BBC are promoting absurd climate change abatement projects like testing sheep in order to breed from sheep that emit less methane! Following the money trail in this madness must surely lead to the corporation that sells the equipment and that patents the sheep that omits the least methane and then ensure their stooge politicians ban all traditional sheep breeds that don’t comply?!

Listen; Methane from sheep, BBC Farming Today, 1 June 2026

Presenter; “A £3 million government-backed project has been looking at how methane emissions can be reduced in sheep. Various breeds from Scotland to the south coast of England were tested as part of this research, which has gathered data from 13,500 lambs. The scientists involved in the Breed for Change programme hope farmers will now use this data to reduce their impact on the climate”

BBC presenter; Bob Harkenhole; “For three years, geneticists and researchers have been travelling the country measuring methane emissions from 40 different flocks of sheep using what’s called a portable accumulation chamber.”

Dr Janet Roden; “This is a trailer that we tow behind a pickup. On it, we’ve got 12 little compartments. We take the sheep up the ramp, put them each one into its individual compartment for 50 minutes, and we use that to measure the amount of methane and carbon dioxide that they are breathing or burping out.”

Bob Harkenhole; “Dr. Janet Roden is a geneticist with Innovis, a sheep breeding service which led the research.”

Dr Janet Rowden; “We get a measure of their inherent ability to produce methane, which is a gas they just produce naturally from the grass they eat.”

Bob Harkenhole; “What have been the conclusions then?”

Dr Janet Rowden; “Our main conclusions are there’s a lot of variation between sheep in the amount of methane they produce and that is to some extent heritable. So we know we can breed from the sheep that produce less methane, but we also know that we need to ensure that we’re breeding productive sheep that have lower methane. Actually, there’s more variation within breeds than between breeds. So every breed will have sheep that are lower emitters and every breed could breed from them.”

Bob Harkenhole; “Matt Harding farms sheep near Nuneaton in Warwickshire. His Aberfield flock were part of the methane trial. Do you think some farmers are a little bit cynical about it because they would argue that there are far more emissions from other sectors of society?”

Matt Harding; “Yeah, 100%. And I don’t disagree with them. That’s a very fair argument and I think that’s probably true. I just think if we’ve got an opportunity within the sheep industry to show that we can improve our emissions, then we should take it and we can be part of that good news storey and improve what we’re doing. And that can only be a benefit.”

Nicola Lamb; “So I’m Nicola Lamb, I’m a researcher at Scotland’s rural college, SRUC.”

Bob Harkenhole; “Where do we go from here then?”

Nicola Lamb; “One of the things we’ve looked at is relationships of methane with the other important traits of production and health traits. And we’ve found that there aren’t really any antagonistic relationships there. So the relationships between better production, better health and reduced methane are favourable. We can include methane in our breeding goals without having a negative effect. So I think we would encourage breeders to take up the tools that are going to be available after this project. So the breeding index that we’re going to be able to provide to breeders to try and reduce methane in their own flocks while maintaining productivity and good health. We’re partners in some international projects, so we are really trying to look at this on a global scale. So if we think about how many sheep there are in the world, that is going to make a big impact.”

Tom’s reasons for giving up farming make you wonder why all farmers don’t give up;  leaving the question of who will grow our food?

Listen; Farmers going out of business, BBC Farming Today, 22 May 2026

Presenter; “So when you made this decision then, to stop farming, how hard was that? Did it feel like sort of a bit of a momentous thing to do?”

Tom Clarke, 4th generation Fenland farmer; “It’s not a decision I would have made five years ago. Having never wanted to be a farmer particularly, and having it thrust upon me, but then come to love it. Continuing the legacy of your ancestors and doing my best to keep the promises I made to my dad, that that does weigh really heavy, but also the longer you are on a piece of land, the more you feel like you belong to it. I guess we get hefted like any old flock of sheep. And as I’ve farmed the land last 17 years, it has, I guess, become a part of my life. So it wasn’t an easy decision to make, but by the time I made it, I was at peace with it because my great grandparents, they bought the farm when it was dirt cheap, when no one wanted to be farmers, and they made a success of it by being entrepreneurs, and this is how I reconciled it to myself, if I sat down with them, if that was possible, and I showed them the mess I’ve been making, then they’d say, what are you doing that for? Why would you do that? Why are you carrying on like that? There’s no future in that. Do something that’s going to do…and the fact is we could sell the farm tomorrow, put the money in a bank and be earning five, six, seven times as much as we’re getting from the farm. So it’s just so logical. Clearly it doesn’t mean it’s an easy one to make.”

Presenter; “Do you think maybe you just weren’t good enough? That sounds really harsh, but maybe you weren’t a good enough farmer?”

Tom Clarke; “I’m definitely not a good enough farmer. I think I never planned to be a farmer. I found myself in the situation where I made it work and it did work for quite a while. But is anyone a good enough farmer when you’re facing such massive changes and challenges from the climate? When the supply chain you face is so monumentally multimillion multinational, huge companies, when inputs can rise from £200 a tonne for fertiliser up to £1,000 based on the decisions of a Russian dictator? It’s a trade where skill is important but will not decide whether you make or don’t make a profit at the end of the day.”

When farmers are dictated to by ignorant politicians, bank managers, big ag, big processors and supermarkets, their lives must be extremely stressful.

Read; The silently rising suicide rate within the farming sector, Wicked Leeks, 26 May 2026

‘Poor mental health in farming is up to 46% higher than in other professions. One young farmer was only 24 years-old when he was found dead in a wooded area of Lincolnshire. He had taken his own life. His father told an inquest that there had been no warning that he was struggling. Such stories are devastating for family, friends, and communities up and down the country.

Right now, mental wellbeing is one of the biggest problems among farmers, since it has just hit a four-year low, and continues to fall below that of the general population. In fact, poor mental health in farming is 46% higher than in other professions, driven mainly by depression and anxiety, often exacerbated by rural isolation.

It has affected Sam, a vegetable grower from Selby, Yorkshire: “I was making myself worse and worse through drinking and not talking to people. I was in a self-destructive pattern of behaviour. To anyone that’s struggling with their mental health, I’d say it’s never too late to talk.” Luckily Sam got help with his mental health through the Samaritans, unfortunately many others have not. The latest figures show 47 suicides in England and Wales for 2024 – a 7% increase from two years’ previous.

It doesn’t help that there is now a perfect storm of challenges hitting the sector, including sky-high prices for agricultural inputs and fuel, and driven-down farm-gate prices, especially for dairy. Then there’s the cost of living, labour shortage, and inflation, not to mention climate issues – with both flood and drought increasingly common, and weather patterns less predictable overall.

There are also the perennial problems to do with long working hours, financial uncertainty, especially for tenant farmers, and then there are the physical risks of working on the land. This means that farmers are shouldering an enormous amount, resulting in male farm workers being three times more likely to commit suicide than the male national average.

“It’s OK not to feel alright. I’ve been there and it’s incredibly difficult. Mental health in agriculture is a very important thing. A farmer takes their own life every week in this country. It is incredibly sad,” states Sam Stables. The farmer tried to take his own life over a decade ago now. He survived with support and has gone on to co-found a charity, We Are Farming Minds, which supports the wellbeing of Herefordshire farmers, especially younger workers.’

My favourite big-picture writer describes so-called development and progress that shifts us from living and working healthily on our own plot of land with independence and self-sufficiency into the urban jungle of unhealthy living, scarcity and dependence.

Read or listen; Welcome to the New Resistance! by Paul Cudenec, 1 June 2026

Audio version

‘In this third decade of the third millennium, our world is sailing into uncharted political and historical waters.’

‘For a long time now it has been under the ever-increasing domination of a secretive judeo-supremacist crime network, but, until very recently, anybody pointing this out was automatically regarded as a crazed “anti-semitic conspiracy theorist” or even a “Nazi”.

However, since 2020, a spiralling sequence of events including Covid, the war in Ukraine, Gaza, the Epstein affair, the Iran war and the murder of Charlie Kirk in the USA has completely changed the situation. Combined with the growing authoritarianism of states everywhere and their failure to take any action against Israel, or Jeffrey Epstein’s paedo-criminal associates, this has all made it very obvious to many people who it is that is pulling the strings of power behind the scenes.

Not everybody has caught up with reality yet, of course, but I sense we are at the point where the truth can no longer be stopped from spreading. If this indeed happens, a certain point will be reached at which the political landscape will have completely changed and instead of bickering over “left” and “right” allegiances, people everywhere will find themselves united against the same imperialist occupation.

I sketch a picture of the nature of this occupation in the first piece in Welcome to the New Resistance!, a collection of essays which were published online between November 2025 and April 2026.

Leviathan’s Law and the occupation of our lands (November 4 2025) starts off by describing Jean-Marc Ghitti’s account of how roadbuilding and the “opening up” of land for development constitutes a colonisation and a confiscation. I then move on to looking at how the top-down “Law” under which this assault is carried out can be traced back to 17th century England and the thinking of Thomas Hobbes and John Selden, both of whom were proponents of a “scientific” outlook rooted in Judaic tradition.

In ‘Sacrificed to the System’ (November 8 2025) I voice my unease concerning the annual war remembrance rituals conducted in London and elsewhere: “Under the pretext of mourning the deaths of millions in their manufactured bloodbaths, our ruling clique is in fact glorifying war and even celebrating the industrial-scale butchery”.

‘A Vision of Elsewhen’ (November 21 2025) tells how I came across some writing by one of my favourite authors, Hermann Hesse, which I had not previously read. I remark: “Ultimately, I don’t think that Hesse’s evocation of past times is just nostalgia for his childhood or for pre-modern times when the world was still filled with magic. I think it is, rather, a yearning for that world that he (and all of us) were meant to have been born into, in which we would have found our place, fulfilled our individual potential, in the bosom of a community inspired by our shared values, tastes and desires”.

The military mechanism of imperial occupation (December 1 2025) is a review of a 2025 book by Mathieu Rigouste entitled ‘La guerre globale contre les peuples’ (‘The global war against the peoples’). Here he asks, and largely answers, the question: “How can it hold? How can an international order founded on the subjugation of the majority of humankind manage to endure in the face of everything resisting it? What is it that really stops us from liberating ourselves?”

The following essay, ‘Our impossible resistance will prevail’ (December 5 2025) looks at the same overall issue from an opposite perspective, asking how our resistance can possibly succeed in the face of all the Empire’s power and violence. This is a review of Colin Todhunter’s 2025 book ‘The Agrarian Imagination: Development and the Art of the Impossible’ in which he warns: “The so-called ‘Great Reset’ anticipates a fundamental transformation of Western societies, resulting in permanent restrictions on liberties and mass surveillance… The message is: get used to being poor or on the scrapheap, and dissent will not be tolerated”.’

CO2 Tunnel Vision

Read; The Case Against Industrial-Scale Solar in the UK by Sam Lowry, The Daily Sceptic, 9 May 2026

‘Britain’s farmland covers about 16.8 million hectares, which is around 70% of the country’s land. Of this, about 6.2 million hectares is arable land that grows cereals, vegetables, oilseed and other food crops. Within this limited amount, Grade 1 and Grade 2 soils — the most productive, able to grow many crops reliably and at high yields — make up only a small and truly irreplaceable part. Once these are lost to development, they do not return.

This land is not just an economic asset but also vital to food security. Given that the UK now imports about half its food, losing more domestic production makes this dependency, which is already a strategic risk, even worse.

Solar developers clearly prefer this type of land. It is usually flat, open, well-drained and already connected to roads and the power grid — features that make it great for farming and, as it turns out, for solar panels. Because of Government contracts and planning policies that support renewables, this land can earn much more as a solar farm than as a working farm. Landowners are making logical choices based on these incentives, but the policies themselves are not logical.

When a field becomes a solar farm, the loss is not temporary. Compacted soil, altered drainage, reduced microbial activity and 25 years without farming leave the land in worse shape. Restoring its ability to grow food is not something that can be done quickly. The UK is making a permanent trade, giving up long-term food security for an energy technology that is not suited to providing power when it is most needed.

Floating solar — from fields to lakes

If losing farmland to solar development is a slow and obvious problem, the new push to put solar panels on Britain’s lakes and reservoirs could be a faster and less visible issue.

Floating photovoltaic systems, known as ‘floatovoltaics’ in the industry, are being promoted as the next step. They avoid the farmland debate, can be placed on existing reservoirs and promise low-cost energy. Industry supporters and some researchers mention possible benefits, such as reduced water evaporation and fewer algal blooms. The Government has welcomed the idea. The case may sound reasonable, but it is not.

Scientific studies on the ecological impact of floating solar show a much more troubling picture than the industry admits. Research has found that floating panels block both wind and sunlight from reaching the water, which disrupts the layers that control a lake’s circulation, oxygen levels and biological activity. This is not a minor effect. Studies have found that hypoxic conditions, or dangerously low oxygen, happen about 80% more often under floating solar installations.

Scientists have identified changes in water chemistry, such as nitrification and oxygen loss, as the most serious risks from this technology. A global survey found that floating solar arrays cover an average of 34% of a lake’s surface — a level at which effects on aquatic food chains, primary production and species makeup become difficult to predict or reverse.

The most candid admission comes from researchers who are broadly sympathetic to the technology. The lead author of a widely cited Bangor and Lancaster University study noted plainly: “We still don’t know exactly how floating panels might affect the ecosystem within a natural lake, in different conditions and locations.”

That statement of uncertainty was made while calling for more deployment. What makes this more worrying is the lack of monitoring as deployment is already happening. Surveys of floating solar operators found that only 15% had ever checked water quality. The industry is expanding a technology without measuring its ecological effects in ecosystems that took thousands of years to reach their current balance.

Conclusion

The expansion of large-scale solar farming in the United Kingdom is a policy built on selective arithmetic and seasonal blindness. It counts summer megawatts without accounting for winter silence. It presents installation costs without incorporating maintenance, degradation, replacement and disposal. It treats the loss of productive farmland as an acceptable externality rather than an irreversible cost.

And now, as resistance to ground-mounted solar grows, proponents are turning to Britain’s lakes and reservoirs — proposing to extend a poorly understood technology into water bodies whose ecological integrity serves far more important purposes than energy generation.

Britain needs an honest national conversation about what its energy future actually requires — one grounded not in what is fashionable or financially convenient, but in the austere realities of northern latitude, Atlantic cloud, the non-negotiable demands of a British winter, and the irreplaceable value of the land and water we are being asked to sacrifice.’

17 million trees in Scotland have been felled since the year 2000 to make way for wind farms.

Watch; 17 Million Trees Cut Down For Wind Farms In Scotland, Electroverse, 19 April 2026

“A Freedom of Information release from the Scottish government reveals that over 17 million trees have been cut down since 2000 to make way for wind farms. That’s across 8,500 hectares of land managed by Forestry and Land Scotland. Some 24 operational sites have been constructed over the past 25 years, with more still being built. Officials also admit that there’s no requirement for replanting, leaving developers and planners to decide for themselves. 17 million trees held in the name of environmentalism, cut down in the name of saving the planet.”

Watch; Blair, Starmer, Ed Miliband, net zero targets, UK energy policy and climate politics are now heading for a very public clash, Bruce Unfiltered, 27 May 2026

‘Tony Blair has now said Keir Starmer and Ed Miliband should rethink or drop their net zero targets, arguing the current approach is not worth the cost. This is a major political shift because it exposes what many critics have been saying for years: net zero policy is being sold one way, while the public pays another. Blair, Starmer, Ed Miliband, net zero targets, UK energy policy and climate politics are now heading for a very public clash’.

Read; Court challenge to UK’s largest solar farm in Lincolnshire – BBC News, 28 May 2026

Two councils have officially launched a claim for a judicial review by the High Court over the government’s decision to approve plans for the UK’s largest solar farm. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero approved Springwell Solar Farm, between Lincoln and Sleaford, in April, with ministers saying it would help “bring down bills for good”. Developer EDF said it would cover an area the size of 1,700 football pitches – 1,280 hectares – and incorporate a battery storage facility, providing power for 180,000 homes.

Councillor Sean Matthews, leader of Lincolnshire County Council, said approaching the High Court marked an “important milestone” towards securing a judicial review. Judicial reviews are court proceedings which look into the lawfulness of a decision or action made by a public body, the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary says.

The development, on land near the village of Navenby, was approved by the Planning Inspectorate following a public inquiry. On Thursday, the government said, external consenting to Springwell Solar Farm was a reflection of “growing government investment in solar power to deliver clean energy and help lower bills”. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said: “As we face a second fossil fuel crisis in five years, Britain is taking back control of their energy by generating more clean power than ever before. “Record-breaking solar growth means greater energy security, lower exposure to volatile fossil fuel markets which we can’t control.”However, Lincolnshire County Council said its officers, as well as those from North Kesteven District Council, had strongly argued against the Springwell Solar Farm development. Issues that were cited include the impact on rural villages and landscapes. Matthews said: “As this now progresses to a live legal issue, we’ll not be offering a running commentary on proceedings but will instead be fully focused on supporting our legal team so that we have the best opportunity for a positive outcome in this case.”

‘Come at a cost’

Councillor Richard Wright, leader of North Kesteven District Council, said: “It is our view, from reading the Secretary of State’s published decision, that decisions and comments had been made that are contrary to what we believe to be sound decision-making.” He added that any legal action would “come at a cost, which we will share”, but said “to not take this action was not considered to be in the interests of our residents”.

Watch; Headwind”21 [Documentary], Marijn Poels, 23 September 2021

‘Former London banker Alexander Pohl worked for years for one of the world’s greenest banks. Idealistically driven, he financed big wind and solar farms, genuinely convinced he was making the world a better place. Gradually he woke up to the fact that today’s green is a broken system. He gave up banking and emigrated with his family to his little forest paradise in remote, northern Sweden. The dream was to get back to Nature, start an eco-farm and put as much distance as he could between his family and the industrialisation of nature. Until….. A wind park was planned at the gates of his paradise garden. Documentarian Poels and Alexander Pohl are taking the journey together…. to ask questions and unravel the green wonderland to its true core.’

Marijn Poels; “Welcome to the wonderful forests around me. They are full of biodiversity, Red List biodiversity, peace and tranquilly beautiful trees. But it’s all under attack. So, this is today and welcome to the future. You probably see behind me, absolute devastation…been really shocked at how big this wind farm has become. I mean, it is just jaw, jaw dropping. And this is just a little section. There are 33 of these spread across the area. The biggest turbines in the world. The GE Cypress, built, as we’re claiming, illegally exploiting the environmental permits. Lying. They’re not going to deliver any climate change benefit. It’s crazy. We’ve got to look for beauty. We have to be creative. We have to be creators and contributors and not destroyers and consumers. That’s not the way it should work. This is not a future that I think we should be proud of. This isn’t progress. This is the opposite of progress. This is what happens when parasites destroy their host. You know, 8 billion people is not too many people. Too many people doing the wrong things. We had 8 billion people creating and contributing, the planet would be fixed in a second.”

Censorship / Surveillance / Coercion / Corruption / Blackmail

Our access to the truth is threatened unless we get active; research who is telling the truth, support them, spread their message and ensure the few politicians independent of zionist money, get into office.

Read; London bans Israel critics Hassan Piker & Cenk Uyghur from entering UK, The Cradle, 1 June 2026

Piker took to social media to slam the UK for banning him and revoking his visa ‘at the behest of Israel’

Pro-Palestine streamer and commentator Hassan Piker was banned from visiting the UK by the British Home Office, ahead of his planned meeting with former Labour Party chief Jeremy Corbyn.

Piker was also due to meet with Green Party leader Zack Polanski.

“The UK has revoked my visa as well. All at the behest of Israel. The west is betraying ‘liberal values’ for a genocidal fascist foreign government. Soon we will all become Israel,” Piker said on X on 1 June.

Cenk Uyghur, Piker’s uncle and host of the “Young Turks” political commentary program, said earlier that he was also denied entry into the UK. The Young Turks show has been highly critical of Israel.

“I’ve been banned from the UK. I tried to get on a flight to London to attend SXSW London and give a speech at Oxford. I’ve been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore? This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!” Cenk said on social media

A UK doctor has been barrested, charged and deprived of her licence to practice medicine by the Palentir-infiltrated NHS for tweets about genocide in Gaza

Watch; British Palestinian Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan speaks after being charged with “terrorism” for condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Hidden Palestine, 25 April 2026

‘British Palestinian Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan speaks after being charged with “terrorism” for condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza in online posts. Suspended from practicing medicine by the NHS, she will now have to stand trial in 2027 on four charges. Videos of her arrest last October had went viral on social media.’

Dr Rahmeh Aladwan; “I’m Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan, I am Palestinian and Jordanian. I am a British citizen. I am a doctor. I have never harmed a patient, never harmed anyone. And today I was in court for tweets. Seven years ago I swore an oath to protect life. Today I stand before you because I refused to remain silent while life is extinguished. I have preliminarily pleaded not guilty. In Great Britain, accurately describing an ideology as supremacist is not a crime when that ideology creates a two-tier system that results in murder, rape, dispossession, theft and an ongoing 100-year genocide. Criticism is necessary, is freedom of speech. My clinical record is spotless. I have treated every patient equally, regardless of their background, with the same hands that have been shackled for online posts. The prosecution calls my speech terrorism. I call it solidarity and principle. Terrorism is what the settler colony of Israel has been carrying out. Terrorism is what this British government supports. Terrorism is what over 2,000 British nationals participated in when they joined the Israeli occupation forces after October 7, 2023. Some of them are doctors, lawyers, teachers, and politicians. They walk freely amongst us after murdering Palestinian men, women and children, Muslim and Christian, for simply belonging to the wrong religion. There is a profound difference between inviting support for a group and refusing to condemn a people’s right to resist their own erasure. Our conscience is not for sale and it cannot be legislated out of existence.”

Watch; The Journalist They Tried To Silence: Why Your Vote No Longer Matters! Dr Myriam François, 24 April 2026

‘A company with intelligence ties, Palantir, writes a manifesto for a new republic – while quietly embedding itself inside the state…This isn’t a dystopia. From the rise of figures like Donald Trump to the normalisation of unelected power brokers like Jared Kushner, the concentration of wealth, media, tech, and state power has never been tighter. The mask is slipping. Power isn’t pretending anymore. In this episode of The Tea, we are joined by investigative journalist and author Matt Kennard to lift the veil on how corporate power has moved from influence to control – reshaping governments, rewriting the rules, and hollowing out democracy from within. And as repression expands – from protest bans to anti-terror laws used against journalists – the question is: where does resistance live now?’

Also in the show:
⚡ The illusion of a “free press” — who really sets the limits
⚡ WikiLeaks and the case of Julian Assange
⚡ Media concentration and billionaire ownership
⚡ Journalists arrested under anti-terror legislation
⚡ Palestine Action and the unprecedented crackdown on dissent
⚡ Disinformation – who produces it, and who claims to fight it
⚡ The D-Notice system – when the state asks media to stay silent
⚡ The Telegraph and Israel – politics of alignment
⚡ From Jared Kushner to Steve Witkoff – the business of politics, or legalised corruption?
⚡ Big Tech and the far-right – a growing alliance’

Apple’s connection to Israel is far more dangerous to our freedom than anybody realises. ‘Apple made headlines last week when it basically erased Southern Lebanon from Apple Maps. If you go to Lebanon on Apple Maps, you’ll see that the names of all of the villages in the South are gone. And this is obviously the region of Lebanon that Israel is currently invading and trying to annex’. Terrifying to think that Israel has access to platforms used by each and every one of us!

Read or Watch; Apple’s ties to Israel are much deeper than you think by Kei Pritsker, The Grayzone, 15 April 2026

‘Apple’s ties to Israel are way deeper than you think. Apple made headlines last week when it basically erased Southern Lebanon from Apple Maps. If you go to Lebanon on Apple Maps, you’ll see that the names of all of the villages in the South are gone. And this is obviously the region of Lebanon that Israel is currently invading and trying to annex. A lot of people have pointed out that Apple has donated money to zionist groups, that it fired workers for supporting Palestine, but Apple’s relationship isn’t some amorphous ideological one. Apple quite literally wouldn’t exist without the Israeli tech sector. For starters, Apple’s second largest research and development facility in the world, second only to their headquarters in Cupertino, California, is in Israel. It’s a massive campus in Tel Aviv that employs 2,500 people. The engineers there have helped develop the Macbook, Apple Watches and played a crucial role in developing the recent Apple Vision Pro, their VR headset, which features extremely precise eye-tracking, retina scanning cameras that were largely developed by Apple Israel. Apple plans to move to a new building in Israel, so they’re only planning on doubling down on their presence there. Apple also buys Israeli technology outright and some of the most critical components in the most popular Apple products come from Israeli firms. Apple acquired a critical component for the iPhone’s flash memory drive by buying an Israeli company called Anobit. It’s believed that Apple’s FaceID technology came from its acquisition of Israeli motion-tracking company, PrimeSense. They also bought an Israeli company that made facial recognition software called Realface. Apple upgraded the iPhone’s camera by buying an Israeli camera company called LinX. They also secretly purchased another Israeli camera company called Camerai and moved their workers to the Apple Israel campus where it’s believed they helped develop Apple’s augmented reality features and the Apple Vision Pro headset. Apple’s most recent acquisition in Israel is its second largest buyout of all-time, second only to its acquisition of Beats headphones. The company is called Q.AI and it claims to have a technology that reads subtle facial expressions. While they’re being really secretive about what they’re going to be used for, Q.AI recently filed a patent for headphones and glasses that use “facial skin micro movements” for non verbal communication. Apple is trying to increase its market share of wearable devices and people think that Q.AI is going to help them develop devices that you can command without having to say anything. But the obvious implication is that these devices are going to be constantly monitoring your face and undoubtedly training some AI algorithm to know exactly what you’re thinking based on small movements of your lips, or your eyebrows that you might not even realise you’re making. Many Israeli tech companies are founded by Israelis who come out of elite military units, and since we subsidise the Israeli military, it’s really not a stretch to say that we’re the ones funding Israel’s tech sector and our own surveillance for that matter. The United States is the world’s largest consumer of Apple products and whatever facial recognition or AI technology they end up developing this time is going to be tested on us.’

Petition; Hold a public inquiry into the use of defence-linked AI in the UK public sector Created by Heiko Khoo, Closes on 24 October 2026

‘We feel public concern is rising about AI companies deploying automated targeting in military, intelligence & policing. We believe their contracts and influence have been secured without adequate public scrutiny or democratic control. A public inquiry could investigate & address these concerns.

We believe there is growing concern about the role of private defence-linked AI companies in UK public services, including the NHS, where sensitive data is used. These systems are also deployed in military operations abroad, which we feel raises questions about accountability, civilian harm and risks to civil liberties. The public should have confidence that such systems are transparent, lawful and accountable, and not exposing citizens to misuse of data or technologies developed for surveillance and warfare.’

SIGN HERE

Wow – finally some good news.

Watch; The beginning of the end for Palantir? The Crispin Flintoff Show; Heiko Khoo; 31 May 2026

Sadiq Khan has dropped a major contract (£50 million) with Palantir and it looks like the wheels are coming off the AI company’s bandwagon.

Heiko Khoo has been one of the company’s biggest critics and here he pieces together how Palantir operates and how it is now in grave danger.

Sign the petition at https://stoppalantir.org

‘It’s a deal to integrate data. This is basically what Palantir claims to be the expert on. Integrating data, facilitating data mining, and therefore making organizations more efficient. So that’s sort of the sweet shop representation of what they do. In actual fact, they’re explicitly designed to maximize the very worst possibilities available within an entity for technocratic and dictatorial power.

The contradiction is that on one side they can present themselves as simply, “Oh, we’re just bringing stuff together that needs to be brought together.” And everyone knows you need to bring together discrete pieces of information in the police force, or discrete pieces of information about corruption in the police force or in finance or in the NHS,…., they’ve always got the most sinister element within it that they facilitated, and so power will use that element for the most horrendous totalitarian means whenever it can. And of course, they defend this based on the idea that they’re defending the West.

So in the case of the police force, there have been two elements to it. One is they claim they can integrate data about crime and about police investigation processes and speed up the arrest of criminals. And the second is to monitor the police themselves to check that they’re not corrupt or about to kill someone or something of that nature. It’s that element I think that really internally undermined them because they showed their cards too soon, and the police reacted against it as a labour question, “You’re placing us under permanent surveillance, and this is infringing upon the workplace rights of police officers as workers.”

Communism in Canada – Man arrested from his car and taken to the mental section of a Vancouver hospital for revealing corruption in the Canadian government

Watch; Canada has Medically incarcerated @nicholas_jordan_wagter Under the “Mental Health Act” for opposing views, ungovernable_melissa, 26 May 2026

Presenter; “Okay, Canada has just reached a new level of communist 1984. This should scare anyone with common sense. Apparently, there are now mental health police that can pull you over and haul you off to a mental institution.”

Policeman; “…….So I’m going to certify you under the Mental Health Act. We’re going to bring you to hospital, do testing on you, and you’re going to talk to a psychiatrist in a controlled environment, because we don’t believe that you’re going to attend an appointment. You’ve been…”

Man in car; “I won’t attend?!. I’ve never been given a chance to attend an appointment.”

Voice in car; “So he’s certified.”

Man in car; “I’ve never been given a chance to attend an appointment. What is going on? I was never given a psyche eval or nothing. He just looked at me and said, you’re certified.”

Policeman; “Okay, So I don’t know why, but it’s up to the doctor. So if you..”

Man in car; “But no, he didn’t even give me…he didn’t even give me an eval. He just looked at me and said, I’m certified. You know, please, please consider what you’re doing and please think about the fact that I’m more than happy to come in for an appointment. I’m happy to go through and do everything properly. Okay? I just. I’ve been completely compliant with everything.”

Policeman; “Yes, you’ve been really good at me, Nicholas. But listen, that’s his call. And unfortunately, we can’t go back. You’re interacting with…”

Presenter; “He says this is in retaliation for exposing corruption in the government, which, like, really isn’t that hard to believe. He’s currently being held at the Vancouver General Hospital in the psychiatric ward. They are trying to silence dissent and people with a brain who know that this government is corrupt as f***”.

Listen; Command & Control, UK Column News, 25 May 2026

Ben Rubin; “Darren Jones was instrumental in introducing impact investing into the centre of government. Impact investing, the impact economy, this entire paradigm comes from the Rockefeller foundation, but then also importantly from work done by Jeffrey Epstein working with Bill Gates and the Gates foundation back in 2011. This is an email where he says to Jez Staley from JP Morgan that he wants to create what he calls ‘a donor-advised fund’ that he could tie initially to the Gates programme. ‘Minimum gift of $100 million. And the tension is making money from a charitable org, therefore the money making parts need to be at arm’s length’. This is what fed into impact investing. This is what has now been embedded into the heart of the Cabinet Office and is going to be the new model for how governance, not just governance, the whole of society is going to run, essentially this total merger between state, market and increasingly what they call philanthropy. But it’s not very philanthropic, its more exploitative, I would say.”

Petition; Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects, Closes 26 November 2026

‘Amend the Planning Act 2008 to end the system where one Minister makes final decisions on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs). We want this power transferred to an independent panel of experts or decided by a vote in Parliament ensuring transparent and collective decision-making.

One politician can currently approve huge projects like pylons, solar farms or motorways, even if an independent inquiry recommends refusal. We believe this creates a risk of political bias and undermines public trust. These projects affect the environment and communities for generations; they are too significant for one person to decide alone. We feel that moving to a panel or Parliamentary vote ensures decisions are expert-led and carry a stronger democratic mandate for the nation’s future infrastructure.’

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Democracy doesn’t protect our free speech, the msm simply doesn’t report on those who have been punished.

Read or listen; Yet another escalation in the the empire’s war on activism and journalism by Caitlin Johnstone, 26 May 2026

“The empire’s war on activism and journalism continues to escalate as the Trump administration targets leftist streamer Hasan Piker and anti-war activist Medea Benjamin for the crime of bringing humanitarian aid to Cuba. This is yet another act of aggression in the same onslaught that has seen inconvenient truth telling and expressions of moral clarity attacked and undermined throughout the western world at every juncture in recent years. It is not separate from the persecution of Julian Assange for exposing US war crimes. It is not separate from the steadily increasing escalations of Internet censorship we’ve seen in the wake of Gaza, Ukraine, Covid, January 6, the 2016 US presidential election and any other excuse the imperial narrative managers could find. It is not separate from the Trump administration’s efforts to deport non citizens for criticising the state of Israel. It is not separate from the efforts to stomp out pro-Palestine protests and university campus demonstrations. It is not separate from the arrests of activists in the UK on terrorism charges for saying the words ‘I support Palestine Action’. It is not separate from activists facing criminal charges for saying ‘from the river to the sea’ in parts of Australia and Germany. It is not separate from imperial efforts to crack down on BDS activism and outlaw boycotts of Israeli products. It is not separate from Israel’s ban on foreign press from entering Gaza, nor is it separate from Israel’s systematic extermination of Palestinian journalists within Gaza. It is not separate from the artificially manufactured hysteria about antisemitism in western society and the efforts of western governments to silence criticism of Israel in the name of protecting Jews. It is not separate from Israel’s massive increase in its Hasbara budget this year and the armies of paid trolls we’ve seen swarming online discourse. It is not separate from the non-stop barrage of imperial propaganda we see every day from the plutocratic press justifying every war and slandering every dissident. It is not separate from the way imperial oligarchs like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Larry Ellison buy up news outlets like the Washington Post and CBS and social media platforms like TikTok and Twitter in order to manipulate the way the public thinks, acts and votes. It is not separate from the way tech platforms have been manipulating algorithms to hide dissident sources of information from the public and using bogus fact-checking firms to suppress unauthorised facts. It is not separate from government secrecy measures which forbid the public from knowing what their rulers are doing and which aggressively punish anyone who tries to reveal inconvenient facts. The Empire is waging a relentless war on intellectual clarity and on moral clarity, because truth and morality are its enemies. They do not want us to have unobstructed vision, lucid minds functioning empathy centres and well formed consciences, because if we did, we would instantly dismantle the Empire brick by brick. This is why they go after anyone who tries to expand the consciousness of western society using activism and journalism. In an empire built on lies and fueled by human blood, telling the truth is seen as treason and doing the right thing is seen as insurrection. The only sane response to such a dystopian situation is to join in the revolution, help spread unauthorised ideas and information, take action to spread awareness of the abusive nature of the Empire. They’re trying to keep it all in the dark, so we need to bring it all into the light. They wouldn’t be fighting so hard to suppress truth and compassion if it didn’t present an immediate existential threat to their power structure.”

Listen; Palestine Action: Court of Appeal decision pending, UK Column News, 1 May 2026

‘Palestine Action Appeal being heard at the court of appeal by UKs top judge, Baroness Carr, who referenced the petition signed by 1,700 high profile, scholars, university professors names who say ‘I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.’

Basil Valentine; “The Court of Appeal is listening to the Government’s attempt to turn over the lifting of the ban on Palestine Action and the presiding judge at the Court of Appeal is the Lady Chief Justice of the United Kingdom, Baroness Sue Carr. There she is, the first woman to hold that highest office, the number one judge in the whole of the UK. At the beginning of the trial, I’m pleased to say she referenced the letter signed by an increasing number… I think the latest counts about 1,700 famous people, scholars, university professors, celebrities of one sort or another, who signed a letter rather than held up a placard saying, ‘I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action’. Now, she didn’t have to do that at the beginning of this hearing, and the fact that she did would seem to indicate that she’s aware of public opinion around this issue, put it that way. She will doubtless also be influenced by the report, which appears to be entirely coincidental from the Government’s own watchdog, which says that the ban is a risk to free speech. Britain’s terrorism watchdog on Wednesday of this week said the government risked stretching counter-terrorism laws beyond their original purpose. In his annual report examining the use of Britain’s terrorism legislation in 2024, independent reviewer Jonathan Hall said the subsequent banning of Palestine Action had exposed real uncertainty over whether serious damage to property alone should qualify as terrorism. And here’s the kicker. While he said it was unthinkable to remove property damage entirely from the legal definition of terrorism, he suggested lawmakers could narrow the test, for example, by requiring a risk to life, a national security dimension or exclusion for non-violent protest. Now, lawmakers in this case, of course, refers to Baroness Carr because her decision, I think, will be final. I think having lost originally in the High Court, I think if they lose in the Court of Appeal, it’ll be difficult for the government to go to the Supreme Court, where doubtless they will face Baroness Carr again. But I just want to draw attention to this national security dimension. That may be what the government tried to use against Palestine Action and its supporters, but there’s no UK national security dimension to what Palestine Action do. There is, conceivably, if you want to stretch the definition, a national security dimension for Israel. So whether or not the government try and claim that Britain’s and Israel’s national security are so inextricably linked that that requires the upholding of the ban on Palestine Action and whether or not Baroness Carr agrees with that opinion will be revealed in the coming days and weeks.”

Watch; BlackRock & Co Admit to Hostile AI Takeover for Global Reset, The Vigilant Fox, 14 May 2026

Maria Zeee; “The Milken Institute Global Conference 2026 just took place in Beverly Hills, California. During the conference we saw some really shocking admissions from those who we’re told we just need to accept rule over us now, BlackRock and Co. And the admissions weren’t shocking because we aren’t aware of what they’re doing. They were shocking because they just come out and say it out loud now. It does not even matter to them. These people are now comfortable openly telling us they are destroying rural farmland, kicking people out of their homes, forcing AI and data centres onto us, simply because they’re doing a global reset now and they need to control us with digital currency and AI. This is literally the message. We’re steamrolling humanity so we can control every aspect of your lives, and furthermore, we have to take additional measures to stop quote unquote ‘domestic terrorists’ from opposing this hostile takeover. We’re doing so. We’ll show you a few clips from this conference. Here’s one. Canada’s Warren Buffett, Bruce Flatt, CEO of Brookfield Corporation, says they’ve been planning a global economic reset by quote, unquote, ‘rewiring the world economy’ into an entirely new system, creating a new world economy. He says the main goal is to lay the foundations for AI and massive data centre infrastructure to basically rewire the world for the new economy that’s coming. We’re just rewiring it here, take a listen to how easily he says this.”

Bruce Flatt; “We have been and we still are, and for the next 10 years we will be rewiring the global economy to lay the networks that we laid before, which were highways, utilities, railways. And now we’re laying cloud artificial intelligence factories and data centres, and the fundamental basis that’s what’s happening. So there will be $10 trillion from power, AI factories, data centres and fibre build-out laid to basically rewire the world for the new economy that’s coming. And it’s been slowly coming like literally you end up, things happen and you think they’re too much, but we’re just rewiring the world. And that’s probably the most fundamental thing that’s going on in the world. It’s going to be the most important thing for the next two years. I think the important thing is don’t think, is it too much hype? Yes, there’s always too much hype in some different thing, but we’re just rewiring the world and there’s going to be enormous investment. And it’s not one year, two years, it’s 10.”

Maria Zeee; “So where we used to care about infrastructure and actually helping people thrive and building railways and roads and fixing those roads, where we used to do all of that, we’re actually not doing that anymore. We’re just moving to AI digital currency, the global reset. Did you pay attention to how many times he said rewiring there? Like treating the world as though it’s some sort of an algorithm or a robot in itself, treating us like we can be rewired as though we’re machines. I mean, the hubris of these people is unbelievable. And this is happening while, as we’ve been reporting to you, families are being kicked out of their homes via eminent domain (compulsory purchase). Communities are being told these data centres are military operations, while these guys are telling us, yeah, we don’t care about infrastructure or any of those things anymore. Yes, you’re having your family homes taken from you. Yes, your communities are going to be destroyed. Yes, the noise pollution and the frequencies that are coming out of these data centres are actually going to drive you mad to the point where you have no choice but to actually move away if you want to survive.”

Read or listen; Two economists from Wharton and Boston University published a peer-reviewed paper arguing that AI will destroy not just jobs but the economy itself, Vigilant Fox, 2 June 2026

They detailed a vicious cycle that feeds itself with no stopping point until everything breaks.

Here’s the brief rundown:

First, one company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor cuts 700 jobs to stay competitive. And another eliminates 1,000 more.

Every company is following its incentives: to cut spending while retaining and/or improving efficiency.

But where things break is that the workers who lose their jobs were also customers.

When people lose income faster than the economy can create new opportunities, they spend less.

Consumer demand falls. Then, companies respond by cutting costs even further.

That creates even less spending, weaker demand, and another round of automation.

Eventually, they argue, the economy simply stops working.

The researchers tested nearly every major solution being discussed today, including universal basic income, capital income taxes, worker retraining programs, and corporate coordination agreements. In their model, none of them solved the problem.

The only intervention that consistently worked was a Pigouvian automation tax, a per-task levy designed to force companies to account for the demand they’re destroying when they replace workers with AI.

No major economy has implemented such a policy, and few are seriously debating it.

The most unsettling part of the paper is that nobody has to be acting maliciously for the outcome to occur. Companies are simply following their incentives.

And according to these economists, that’s exactly what creates the trap.

Watch @zeeemedia’s full report and see why this paper is generating so much concern.

Watch; This Should Scare Every American… Tucker Carlson, 22 May 2026

Guest; “We are so close to the scariest, most dystopian system. This is what the drive to build all these thousands of data centres is about, to micromanage the world’s population through the new financial world order. AI is really about that. We’re heading towards digital control systems, where we have no more control over our liquid assets. It will be programmable, permission-based, so only what the central planners allow you to use your money for, at what time and place and location will be permitted. And if you’re in the wrong place, it’s not going to work. And if you’re buying the wrong book, it’s not going to work. Your money won’t work outside a certain zone, whether it’s 15 minute prison zone or whatever it may be. It is the totalitarian dictator’s dream come true.”

Read; How A Fake Iranian Terror Group Was Invented To Proscribe IRGC in Europe – The story of Ashab al-Yamin; David Miller, 2 April 2026

‘Investigative Analysis – A series of arson attacks and alleged incidents targeting alleged Jewish-linked sites across Europe have been attributed to a little-known group called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia (HAYI), or Ashab al-Yamin. The group has been widely described in media and security circles as an Iran-backed network, allegedly linked to the IRGC.

Since March 9, HAYI has been credited with what some analysts describe as “hybrid warfare” style operations spanning multiple countries from Greece and Belgium to France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Among the most high-profile incidents was the burning of four ambulances in Golders Green, North London, on March 22.

The emergence of this group coincides with the escalation of the US-Israeli war against Iran. In parallel, media outlets and pro-war commentators have warned that Tehran could expand the conflict by carrying out attacks across Europe. But a closer examination raises serious questions about its actual existence and the pro-Israel groups pushing this narrative. Several of the incidents attributed to HAYI do not appear to have directly targeted Jewish communities. Others remain murky, with limited verified information about the perpetrators. And beyond scattered claims and online statements, there is little concrete evidence that this group as described actually exists. In the fog of war, narratives can move faster than facts.

At the same time, governments across Europe and the UK are moving to formally designate the IRGC as a terrorist organisation — a policy long pushed by pro-war, pro-Israel lobbying networks. Many of the same actors amplifying the HAYI narrative are also leading that campaign within Western media to manufacture consent for war and accelerate this political objective of proscription. While raising the possibility that unverified claims of an Iran-linked threat are being leveraged to shape public fear and justify sweeping new security measures tied to the widening war.

This investigation examines each reported attack, the sources promoting the HAYI narrative, and how claims of a coordinated campaign may be shaping public perception — fueling fears of rising antisemitism, calls for expanded security measures and proscribing the IRGC as a terrorist organisation amid an illegal war.

But what is Ashab al-Yamin? Where did it come from and does it exist at all?

This investigation reveals that there is no such group. It appears to be a fictional cut out. Half of its reported activities simply did not occur. The other half were so amateurish, and inconsequential – with not a single injury – One theory is that they may have been messily undertaken by hired gig criminals and/or incompetent Sayanim, the name given to Mossad’s network of little helpers in countries all over the world. This investigative analysis shows that even the zionist regime and its assets in establishment think tanks acknowledge that so-called “gig criminals” have been involved in this series of events, in a striking parallel with similar events in Australia (fourteen of them between October 2024 and January 2025) which were similarly low impact with no casualties, declared to be “fake” by Australian police in March 2025.’

Piers Morgan asks Tucker Carlson if he accepts the ultimate conspiracy fact that 9/11 was an inside Mossad and CIA job.

Watch; Beyond Coincidence, Piers Morgan, 13 May 2026

Tucker Carlson; “Benjamin Netanyahu on camera right after said, “this is a good thing because it brings the United States into a conflict that we’ve been involved in on an existential level for decades”. He said that out loud. I’m not guessing. You can pull the tape.”

Philip Giraldi, ex-CIA; “Netanyahu, who once commented that 9/11 was good for Israel.”

Ana Kasparian; “When it comes to Israelis celebrating 9/11, I remember Netanyahu on two different occasions said some positive things about what happened on 9/11, for the Israelis, of course.”

Scott Horton; “He said to the New York Times in an interview on September 11th, it’s very good.”

Tucker Carlson; “We know that a group of Israeli art students were not art students. Clearly some of them were aligned with Israeli intelligence, were arrested and held for quite some time in the United States before being released without charges. And we know that a group of them, again, I’m quoting an FBI document here, not the internet, filmed the attacks on 9/11 and I’m quoting, seemed to have foreknowledge of those attacks.”

News Presenter; “It began when this woman was watching the twin towers burning from her apartment in New Jersey. She noticed three men on top of a van posing for pictures with the towers burning in the background.”

Witness; “And I could see that they were like, happy, they didn’t look shocked to me. I thought it was very strange.”

News Presenter; “The witness called police who stopped the van hours later and arrested five men. All five, it turns out, were Israeli. They were turned over to the FBI. Sources tell ABC News during a check of national security databases, some of the men were listed as having had connections with Israeli intelligence.”

Was 9/11 orchestrated by the CIA and Mossad to goad us into Israel’s war to destroy the axis of resistance to its imperial ambitions in the Middle East?

Listen; UK Column News, 15 May 2026

Mike Robinson; “And I’d just like to say a massive thank you to everybody that was involved in putting together the 9/11 event that we live streamed last night at 5pm, manual automated, that is on the UK column website now if you’d like to have a look at it. But let’s just look at a short excerpt from this.”

Dr Piers Robinson; “I spent many hours in the simulator with the pilots doing these exercises so people can dig into the details in the report. But the basic overall findings, intuitive and readily accomplishable beeline routes were available to pilots on 9 /11. They weren’t taken. Those are the routes you’d expect to see if these planes were being manually flown. The actual routes you see would from what we found in the simulator study. They were demanding, counterintuitive and first time trying, first attempt, likely to have ended in mission failure. So we have an easy way of doing it and a hard way of doing it and a hard way of doing it was apparently chosen if and that doesn’t fit with manual control, so why from an automated control point of view would those as it were difficult routes being flown? When we look at the tracks we can see as we saw with the towers, we have see clear evidence of the aircraft being manoeuvred to reach particular impact angles and with the Pentagon, and all of that fits not with a manual control scenario, but it does fit with an automated control scenario. Just in my final second this is how I would summarise everything and where we are now in terms of what we understand about the flights on 9/11 is that what appears to be a chaotic, difficult to execute and counterintuitive manual control is in fact manoeuvring that is consistent with carefully planned and time wise, coordinated and ultimately very precise targeting which fits with automated stroke remote controls. A combination of the two certainly in the final stages, automated guidance, perhaps some degree of remote input at earlier stages in the flight, but it points towards that and not towards manual controller. And that’s what we’ve learned from this study.”

Mike Robinson; “So anyway, I’d encourage everybody to watch the full thing. It was an interesting presentation to say the least, so do have a look at that.”

The imperial ambitions of the West can only be described as demonic.

Read; It has been fifteen years since NATO bombed Libya’s Great Artificial River,The Peoples’ Movement, 23 May 2026

‘It has been fifteen years since NATO bombed Libya’s Great Artificial River – a vast aquifer megaproject built by Gaddafi to green the Sahara and parts of the Sahel by tapping into ancient underground fossil water.

The Great Artificial River was a network of 4,000 kilometres of underground pipelines, designed to extract fossil water from the Sahara and turn the desert into farmland. The water would be drawn from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System – the largest underground fossil water reserve in the world, containing pure water that had accumulated beneath the soil 40,000 years ago.

This project would have granted sovereignty not just to Libya, but to all of Africa. And that whole business of sovereignty simply doesn’t sit well with the Western empire. The empire prefers that your country imports food and resources from the West – better that your country stays as poor as church mice, so dependent that it has to go cap in hand to the IMF.

A declassified CIA file from 1987 already warned of the “danger” this aquifer project posed to imperialist interests, stating that it “had the potential to guarantee Libya’s water supply indefinitely and considerably reduce its dependence on food imports from the West.”

That is why, on 22 July 2011, NATO planes bombed the project’s sites and even its pipeline factory in the city of Brega – ensuring that the Sahara and northern Sahel stayed poor, underpopulated, and forever dependent on food imports from the West.

They tell you Africa is poor – but they don’t tell you who is keeping it poor, or who benefits from it staying that way. Gaddafi was a terrible example for the rest of Africa: what’s all this nonsense about having sovereignty and independence? Better to raze the country and drag it back to the Stone Age, so it depends on our loans and hands over all its resources in exchange… that’s how neocolonialism works in 2026.’

Watch; Brian Gerrish went to Germany to visit Dr. Reiner Fuellmich in prison, UK Column, 18 May 2026

Brian Gerrish; “Now we just pop up on screen a picture of Dr. Reiner Fuellmich when he was actually at work in the Corona Investigative Committee looking at what was happening with the Covid 19 scamdemic. Many people would say, and he was also collecting evidence from experts around the world and their concerns about what was happening. And my immediate question is, ‘has this man been found guilty as charged or has he been silenced by the state’? I believe there’s a lot more to this story than is being discussed at the moment in social media. First of all, let’s just have a listen to him speaking in his own words. This is the start of a summary that he gave about the Covid Investigative Committee and the work it was doing. And this was back on the 15th of September 2021.”

Dr Reiner Fuellmich; “I want to tell you about the results of the investigations of the Berlin Corona Committee to date. I’ve been working together with my colleagues in my firm as a trial lawyer for 27 years. I’m licensed to practice law in Germany and in California and until Covid emerged, we exclusively represented consumers and small and medium-sized businesses against global criminal corporations such as Deutsche Bank, VW and Kuehne+Nagel, the world’s largest freight carrier. That changed after a virus previously labelled harmless was suddenly declared the cause of a global pandemic in March of 2020 and the world was suppressed with lockdown, social distancing and mask mandates, as well as mass PCR testing and so-called vaccinations for perfectly healthy people. No coherent explanation was ever given for this sudden change of opinion from ‘don’t worry, this is a harmless virus’ to ‘this is a very dangerous virus, many people will die’. Instead, the governments and the mainstream media deliberately spread panic. There are several leaked internal documents of the Ministries of the Interior in various countries that prove this targeted fearmongering. This was done by a worldwide lockstep approach of continuously blasting out the alleged danger of the alleged new virus via the mainstream media. In order to make this horror story credible. It was emphasised with horrific images from Bergamo, Italy and New York, among other places. This was to suggest to everyone that there was every reason to panic. Very strange as one would expect a real government to try and keep the population calm if there really was an emergency.”

Brian Gerrish; “That is a very short opening clip of what he had to say overall in a much longer piece where he was talking about all of the weaknesses in the official story about Covid 19. And it has to be said, as a result of him speaking out, he was able to gather a really extraordinary base of experts, some of them medical, some of them scientists, but well qualified individuals who were prepared to stand alongside him and warn about what they regarded as huge weaknesses in the official Covid 19 policy. So this was a very laudable piece of work by Dr Reiner Fuellmich. And of course he also warned about effectively the use of applied political psychology in order to make people more fearful of what was happening. And we know that that was so they could be more easily controlled. So for people who don’t know anything about Dr. Reiner Fuellmich this was a tiny part of the work that he did in order to alert people to the sheer horrors. And of course during that period, UK Column, largely through the efforts of Mike Robinson behind the scenes team took evidence from the UK’s MHRA Medicines and Health Regulation Authority, and it was their statistics which showed the scale of the damage to people who’d taken a vaccine. So that is still available on the UK Column website as part of a database on the so-called yellow card system. But if Dr. Reiner Fuellmich was warning at a sort of world on a world platform about what’s happening, the UK Column produces some unique national statistics about the sheer damage the vaccines were doing to the population in UK.

I was able to start asking Reiner some questions about what had happened to him. And we’ll pop this up on screen, but these are some of the key questions that are still in my head. The motivation for this man to speak out on the coronavirus pandemic. Now, some people are attempting to say, well, he only did this in order to set up an organisation to take money from individuals. But with the comments that he made and the manner in which he made them, I actually find this a difficult one to accept. We’ve also got: did he commit the embezzlement crime as ruled by the German courts? And the more I’ve learned about this and the more I was able to, albeit brief conversation with Reiner, understand what had taken place in the court, I think there are a huge number of questions about what actually took place around the charges and the prosecution and the final guilty verdict. I’d also asked why his prison time has been so brutal for a financial crime. Because he spent six months in solitary confinement and this was so severe that eventually both prisoners and prison staff started to say to him that he needed to challenge what was happening to him in prison because they had not experienced anything like it with a very low security prisoner, low risk prisoner. So another question there, and I’ll end by saying that guilty or not guilty, we need to ask ourselves whether the German state has effectively silenced Dr. Reiner Fuellmich and silenced all of those experts, clinicians, whatever their qualifications, who also joined him to warn about the dangers of the Covid 19 pandemic and the resulting lockdown.”

Watch; Top-Expert REVEALS: EU in Grip of Deadly Mass-Formation | Prof. Mattias Desmet, Neutrality Studies, 3 May 2026

‘It’s not just the leaders of the EU who want to go to a suicidal war with Russia. The psychosis has long reached even the streets of Berlin, Brussels and Paris. Mass-Formation is the psychological phenomenon to understand why entire nations are suddenly willing to sacrifice EVERYTHING for a deadly ideology. Unfortunately, the EU is far down the road.’

We are being brainwashed to accept the imperialist West’s desire to destroy Putin to steal Russia’s resources and prevent his efforts to live in a multi polar world.

Watch; Brave Researcher EXPOSES NATO Targeting EU Citizen’s Brains | Dr. Jonas Tögel, Neutrality Studies, 22 May 2026

‘The War-Hysteria in Europe is not accidental. It has been prepared and seeded in the continent’s population for a long time through war narratives, propaganda and actual cognitive warfare plans. Today I speak with Dr. Jonas Tögel, a German propaganda researcher and author. We discuss war messaging in Europe, German military outreach in schools, youth resistance, NATO narratives, the role of the US and EU, the collapse of anti-war politics, and the way propaganda, fear, and media overload shape public opinion. They also discuss public resistance, self-care, and keeping a peace movement alive.’

To goad us into war, politicians, via their stooge media, are spreading the false narrative that Putin wants to invade Europe. Search your understanding of previous false-flag narratives that led us into killing each other to decide if you would be a conscientious objector. See this trailer to understand how hard it is to go against the status quo and refuse to join the army.

Read; A Hidden Life, The Solari Report, 16 May 2026

“For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

~ George Eliot, Middlemarch

A Hidden Life

‘As Catherine and John Titus have discussed on Money & Markets this year, there are ominous rumblings suggesting a potential return to a military draft in the U.S. (President Trump says he plans to “keep his options on the table“). Similar developments are unfolding in Europe, where military conscription, according to Statista, “is making a comeback.”

As a result, some young Americans and Europeans will likely be contemplating conscientious objection, a concept that dates back to antiquity, when Saint Maximilian refused to serve in the Roman legions in 295 AD. The U.S. Selective Service currently defines a conscientious objector as “one who is opposed to serving in the armed forces and/or bearing arms on the grounds of moral or religious principles.”

During WWI, men who were “absolute” conscientious objectors (that is, they refused to play any military role, even as noncombatants) were imprisoned and often subjected to severe abuse such as solitary confinement, beatings, and short rations. And in Austria during WWII, farmer and devout Catholic Franz Jägerstätter was executed by guillotine for conscientiously objecting to Nazi conscription.

Politicians are captured by zionist money

Watch; Why are you a zionist? George Galloway, 20 May 2026

George Galloway; “Donald Trump has wrecked his presidency. Keir Starmer has wrecked his premiership. Little Macron has in part wrecked his presidency. Mertz has wrecked his Chancellorship on, amongst other things, and in some of these cases, predominantly, their unlimited support for Israel. Financial, military, diplomatic, in terms of shilling for them, all over the place, from Eurovision to the pages of the state- influenced media, they have wrecked their political careers, MPs by the dozen. Rachel Reeves said last year that progressive supporters of Israel like herself have to state clearly, “I am a zionist”. Why? You’re the Chancellor of the Exchequer, you’re the British Finance Minister. Why do you have to state you are a zionist? Indeed, nobody did in Britain until the 1980s. They were all supporters of Israel and in the case of Suez in 1956, secret collaborators with Israel. But they didn’t feel the need, as Rachel Reeves has, to say, “I am a zionist”. Why? I mean, would you stand up and say, I am a Hindu, I am a Hindutva supporter, I support the political system in Timbuktu. Why do you have to do it about Israel? Why can’t you at least treat everything on its merits on a case by case basis? You could support Israel in the 1973 war, for example, but oppose what it’s doing in Gaza and meaningfully oppose it and from the beginning impose it. But they can’t, and I don’t really know why.”

American democracy doesn’t exist.

Watch; Chris Hedges, he’s absolutely brilliant, Vibee247, 20 May 2026

Presenter; “Is American democracy under threat because of this?”

Chris Hedges; “Under threat? Does it exist? I don’t think it exists. It’s a veneer. It’s the end of the Roman Empire. You have the symbols, the iconography and the language of a democracy but internally, corporations and oligarchs have seized all the levers of power. I looked at this election as a battle between corporatists and oligarchs. Corporatists, the Democrats, they want something very different from oligarchs. Corporatists want stability. They want decorum, the kind of decorum that Obama had or Bush had. Bush was an idiot, but at least they could clean him up a little bit. And Biden, whatever his cognitive failings were, because they want stability, especially in terms of trade agreements, because they make investments overseas, takes a while for a return on a profit. Corporatists want something different from oligarchs. Oligarchs are about chaos. They’re about, as Steve Bannon said, deconstructing the administrative state. Why? Because it is a pure form of rentier capitalism. And by that I mean that they make their money by setting up toll booths. Amazon, all these digital media platforms, it’s not about producing goods. And the more that the state is deconstructed, that’s why they want to abolish the Department of Education. Everything that we need as a civil society becomes privatised. And you see it in… I wrote a book called ‘The Farewell Tour Begins in Scranton, Pennsylvania’, where everything, the sewer system is privatised, the parking authority is privatised, the electricity is privatised. And of course, they’ve jacked up the rates and the services are not very good. And they want to privatise the post office so we can have a dysfunctional post office like the UK, which is privatised. And so that’s what oligarchs want, and the oligarchs have won. They won. But that’s what this battle was about in terms of if we strip away the kind of trivia or the cultural differences between the two parties that at its core was what it’s about. And so we have, as you point out, we have now an oligarchic system. But as Aristotle wrote, once you create an oligarchic system with those kinds of inequities, then your only two choices are tyranny or revolution.”

Debt is used to control people and countries

Watch; BANKER WANKER SPECIAL Cody Dahler, 29 April 2026

Cody Dahler; “So you don’t know why half the world’s population is being starved by a mixture of banks and billionaires, but you don’t want to look like a thicky-thicky dum-dum in front of all your mates. Here’s a quick rundown before your interest repayments make you shut down a school as well. So every single country in the world is laden with an assload of debt except the cocky little nation of Liechtenstein and the teeny tiny island of Niue, seen here performing the geographical equivalent of keeping your head down and hoping nobody notices you. Now everyone’s in debt because governments borrow money to invest in public services to make their populations not cave men, I suppose. But low income countries are in loads of debt because their economies are gutted by foreign firms for their natural resources. But guess what? The banks who lend these low income countries a load of money to keep their populations alive, charge them extortionate interest rates and give them terrible debt terms. Because why the F not? You try bullying me with a gutted economy. Interest rates that have been made a lot worse by things like Covid and the crusty orange ballsack Donald Trump forgetting where the Strait of Hormuz is, which causes a global energy crisis and the interest rates on the shitty debts to to skyrocket. Which means the full 3.4 billion people now live in countries across the world who pay more in paying off their interest than on unnecessary frivolous things like healthcare and education. Take the African nation of Angola, which spends a full 64.7% of its annual income on paying off interest on its debts. This not only means that the people of Angola go without vital public services, but also that the governments have to sell off access to their oil fields because they have to pay off the debts in dollars. Which means the climate crisis gets worse and the people on the front line of that climate crisis are people from low income countries whose countries spend all their money on interest repayments, which means they have to sell off access to oil fields, which makes the climate crisis worse. It’s a geopolitical human centipede. Which is exactly why we need to stop these wanky banky banker wankers from milking countries dry like evil little dairymaids. That’s why we need our governments to find solutions and provide debt relief to these poor bastards. Because guess what? Lowering the interest payments for these countries would mean 23 million people would be able to access basic sanitation, 11 million would have clean water to drink and 3 million children would be able to go to school for Christ’s sake. And guess what, right wingers? That means people would be less likely to migrate because they’d have things like basic human dignity in their own countries. It’s almost like it’s the billionaire bastard prick assholes who are the problem, not the migrants.”

John Rees says Starmer is weaponising the recent crimes against Jewish people to beat the antisemitism drum three days before elections to crush his political opponent, namely Zack Polanski, and to crush the Free Palestine marches.

Watch; UK campaign to smear Palestine protests as anti-semitic challenged, Middle East Eye, 3 May 2026

John Rees; “No threat whatsoever to the Jewish community from these marches. In fact, they are attended by thousands of Jewish people, often in a block, in the Jewish block, who disapprove of the actions of the government and disapprove of the actions of the State of Israel. So there isn’t just one opinion in the Jewish community here. There are Jews, as there are in every community, with a different set of opinions. And many of them come on our march and of course, are completely safe, which they wouldn’t be if these were antisemitic marches of course.”

Sky News Presenter; “Well, but we’re speaking against the backdrop, while these marches have been going on for weeks and months, against the backdrop of arson, attacks, stabbings, murders and what Sir Michael Ellis, former Attorney General, was saying there is that the cumulative effect on the Jewish community and the society’s response to the Jewish community, it just needs to stop. There needs to be a circuit break.”

John Rees; “Well, and the problem with this kind of analysis is that it acts as if there’s a causal relationship between the demonstrations and the attacks on Jewish people. But as we now know from the background of the person who committed this latest obscenity in Golders Green, actually, the connection is that they were mentally ill, that they were in the Prevent programme, that very morning they’d attacked a Muslim man, which isn’t as part of the news cycle, unfortunately, because it would frame it rather differently. There is a failure in the Prevent programme. There is a failure to protect people from these kind of individuals. But these kind of individuals are not attached to the Palestine movement. They are not attached to the marches. There’s no evidence that they’ve ever seen a march, let alone been on one, or that the organisers would for a second condone it. So this connection is completely fallacious. And what the Prime Minister and others are doing is weaponising and instrumentalising claims of antisemitism to try and marginalise and defeat their political opponents. Keir Starmer’s premiership is tanking, and it’s tanking partly over his handling of the Palestine issue. And he’s lost elections, five independent MPs elected primarily on the Palestine issue at the last general election. He’s going to lose thousands of councillors, possibly and definitely related to this issue. And he should stand back and think whether it is a sensible use of his office to use claims of antisemitism against people who are absolutely not antisemitic, but are indeed anti-racist, and try and lever himself out of a political problem by blaming us.”

Watch out your rights are being stolen under the auspices of convenience.

Watch; 2030 and beyond, Sandi Adams, 30 April 2026

Jana Lunden; “People have asked me, how do you not comply with the digital ID? Because they want to store your health documents. And if we remember, in Ireland there was this Covid back path where I could not eat in a restaurant for about a year and a half and neither could my children because we didn’t get our shots. And if we think about those Covid days and they seem like a million years ago, but it was just six years ago. There was 300,000 people in Ireland who didn’t get the shots. We need to remember that we were ostracised and shut out from society. We were treated like we might as well have had the gold star on, and we were ostracised for the health choices we made. That digital id, if it controls our travel, our health, our carbon tax, I’m sure will be in it, so it can control your banking. And it’s saying that nothing will be tracked by the government. So in the consultation process, it says right on the gov.ie website that the digital wallet will not track your data. But if it’s a government app, how can it not track data? And the other thing the Irish people need to realise is this is a serious GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) issue because there was something called the public service card in Ireland. Are you aware of what happened with that? So there was a public service card and it was like anyone whether you were claiming payment or not, everyone was encouraged to get a public service card. And what happened in the 2019 ruling is the Data Protection Commission found that it was being used too broadly without a proper legal basis, so that people could not be forced to have one for the public services. So it meant that parts of the system were not compliant with our own data protection laws. And then in 2025, there was a long investigation. The same regulator ruled that the government had collected and stored biometric facial data unlawfully. There was no valid legal basis for the processing. So around 70% of this country signed up for this public service card and their facial data had been held unlawfully. And what happened there was, I think it was a €500,000 fine or €550,000 fine was ordered to stop or fix the processing. So that died a sudden death. But now we fast forward just after that was 2025 that big ruling, and just a year later, Ireland is the test ground for digital ID to control every aspect of our life. How can that be lawful? GDPR? I mean this really has to be challenged and people will think, how convenient, everybody’s using their Apple Wallet on their phone for tapping this and storing cinema tickets and everything else, this digital ID will be so handy, I won’t have to carry a physical wallet anymore. It’s all digital. It sounds really convenient. But to sacrifice our freedom for convenience should never, never be done.”

Sandi Adams; “That’s the message we have to get over. Yes, it’s so much easier. I mean, my daughters say it, they say even when you go into a restaurant where you can order at the bar, they will want to do it through their apps. And I said, you know, you’re just making a prison for yourself. They understand it and they go don’t nag us, but I don’t think they see the gravity of what everybody is doing for convenience. And this consultation and testing phase for Ireland’s digital ID, now that came through in, I think it’s the 3rd of April, isn’t it, 2026?”

Jana Lunden; “Yeah, it was published on the 3rd of April and there talks about why they’re introducing it, who’s responsible and it’s all under the European Digital Identity, the EUDI wallet. And it states that it will be available in 2026 to access public services, but for the private service providers that will be like the banks and payment services by the end of 2027. And if we look at…everyone should remember the Canadian truckers who were protesting against the Covid measures and all the bank accounts got switched off. And we had someone who raised money, I think overnight, $150,000 was raised to give to the truckers and the farmers who were protesting to buy them food and hot drinks and sleeping bags if they needed. It was cold when they were sleeping in their trucks and tractors. And my understanding is that that account, that GoFundMe was also shut down. So if people think that it’s great to have no cash, everything digital, well, that means that if you’ve spent too much on a certain item. Maybe too much gas for your car or maybe your credit, your social credit score went down because you were at a protest. Your bank account could be shut down. That has happened across the world and that can happen. So how convenient that you can tap. But wait a minute, they can just switch off the button if you are on the naughty list.”

Listen and Read; Unfortunately, the American people… The Solari Report, 9 April 2026

‘John and Catherine react to Trump’s Easter remarks about taking Iran’s oil, argue public support for the war is low, and say US operations and regime-change efforts have repeatedly failed, risking the dollar’s reserve status. They discuss an announced ceasefire based on Iran’s long-standing 10-point plan—seen as fragile and not including Israel or Lebanon—while alleging a costly US rescue operation deep in Iran may have masked other objectives. The episode covers a proposed $1.5 trillion defense budget plus a $200 billion Iran war supplemental, rising fuel prices and rationing abroad, and the weakening dollar alongside higher oil, gold, and aerospace/space equities. They link the war to central-banking “house always wins” architecture, highlight domestic DHS purchases of “less-lethal” munitions, ongoing cabinet shakeups tied to Epstein-file fallout, AI-driven impersonation/copyright fraud, prediction-market regulation fights, and warnings about a possible draft and broader economic deterioration.’

We are being led by a foreign state namely Israel.

Watch; Exposed: Tommy Robinson, Mark Rowley & The Israel Lobby, Lowkey, Double Down News, 15 May 2026

Lowkey; “This is the shocking story of how Israel lobbyist Tommy Robinson and the Met police have colluded to surround Palestine marches in London. Rather than defend your right to free speech, they are actively trying to destroy it on behalf of a foreign power. This is the story of how Met police Chief Mark Rowley learned to love Israel and Tommy Robinson and hate the Palestine marches in London.”

Tommy Robinson; “I have to thank the police for the way they’ve policed us, cooperated with us, facilitated us in a new movement.”

Lowkey; “Two years ago, Suella Braverman emboldened the far right onto the streets to oppose supporters of Palestine, resulting in violence and attacks on police. Two years and a genocide later, emboldened by a political class and ever increasing authoritarian police, the far right is bigger than ever and takes to the streets on Nakba Day while the Palestine protests are shackled by police and silenced by politicians. For Braverman and Tommy and many of these leaders, so-called patriots, this isn’t about uniting the Kingdom to protect the realm, this is about uniting the Kingdom to defend Israel.”

Suella Braverman; “I very strongly rebut suggestions that Israel’s in breach of international law, that there’s a genocide, that there’s a forced starvation. Quite the contrary.”

Watch; In Bed with Israel? Tommy Robinson and the Rise of the Far Right, Palestine Deep Dive, 20 May 2026

‘Ahmed Alnaouq and Hala Hanina are joined by hip-hop artist, activist and journalist Lowkey and author and investigative journalist from the Electronic Intifada, Asa Winstanley. They discuss the rise of the far right in the UK and its connections to Israel, the unprecedented legal proceedings facing direct action activists and the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.

0:00 Intro 2:40 Tommy Robinson and far right London march 6:00 The far right’s attempt to inspire a “Clash of Civilisations” 16:30 Was this the real hate march? 21:20 Maccabee Tel Aviv football hooligans in Amsterdam 23:20 Prevent immigration by stop bombing the world 24:40 Lowkey on Nigel Farage and Reform Friends of Israel 30:15 Zoe Rogers and the trial of direct action activists for Palestine 35:00 The deterioration of Umer Khalid’s health in prison 42:00 Huda and Ali Skaik: Gaza’s Civil Defence workers on the frontline of defending humanity.’

Palantir CEO Peter Thiel sponsored J D Vance’s 2022 election campaign with the largest ever private political donation in a Senate election.

Watch; Peter Thiel and Palantir and J.D.Vance by Melissa Dalton-Bradford, 14 February 2026

Melissa Dalton-Bradford; “Hello, my dear friends. I have to admit I’m a little bit nervous to film and post this reel but here we go. I’m going to tell you about a man you didn’t elect. His name is Peter Thiel. He co-founded PayPal. He co-founded Palantir, which is a surveillance and AI company now embedded inside of ICE and the Israeli military, helping generate targeting lists across the US and in Gaza. He was an early investor in Facebook. He’s now worth about $8 billion and he spent a significant portion of that fortune building one thing, J.D. Vance. They met in 2011 at Yale Law School where Thiel was giving a talk. Vance approached him afterwards, Thiel became his mentor, his employer, his financier, his political kingmaker. He hired Vance at his venture capital firm. He funded Vance’s own firm. He wrote the blurb on Vance’s book. And then in 2022, he donated $15 million to Vance’s Senate run. The largest individual donation to a single Senate race in American history. Then he walked Vance into Mar-a-Lago literally, and personally introduced him to Donald Trump, even though Vance had called Donald Trump Hitler in public. The man one heartbeat from the presidency was quite literally assembled by a billionaire who has publicly stated, and right now, get out your pen, write notes, he said, Thiel said, ‘I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible’ end quote. And it’s not a misquote. Search it. Now, about those Epstein files.Thiel’s name appears over 2,200 times across Epstein’s email schedules and documents. The two had lunch in November 2017, nine years after Epstein’s conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor. Epstein invested $40 million into funds co-managed by Thiel, and Epstein was actively brokering introductions between Thiel and the Israeli officials, including a dinner in 2014 arranged by Epstein himself. Thiel of course denies wrongdoing. The calendar entries don’t have opinions. Meanwhile Palantir, Thiel’s company signed a strategic partnership with Israel’s ministry of defense in 2024. Their CEO at Palantir said publicly, ‘I am proud that we are supporting Israel in every way we can. Plantir’s own CEO also acknowledged, in his words, that their product is used on ‘occasion to kill people’. This is the man who built your vice president. This is the company in the bloodstream of your government. You didn’t vote for Peter Thiel, but Peter Thiel is governing you anyway. That’s not democracy. That’s a purchase. I will be back.”

Kie Starmer falsely blamed the Golders Green attacks on the marches in support of Palestine.

Watch; Max Blumenthal EXPOSES “Antisemitic” Stabbing in UK, Katie Halper, 7 May 2026

Max Blumenthal; “Instantly after this stabbing, Keir Starmer appears in a national briefing and declares that pro-Palestine marches are responsible. And that this is an ancient hatred and that it needs to be criminalised. So what I’m saying is, who benefits? Set this story up, because this is kind of incredible and they do go very well hand in hand. So if you read the headlines, there’s a stabbing of two Jewish men, that happen in London, right? It fits perfectly with what’s taking place with Palestine Action, which is that the British establishment, it’s fully invested in the relationship with Israel, it’s funded heavily by extremely wealthy Israel First billionaires, as in the US, Keir Starmer relied heavily on pro-Israel money from one billionaire in particular, whose name I’m forgetting, but also who funded Labour Together, Morgan McSweeney’s outfit, which is now at the centre of this scandal. Don’t have time to talk about that. The Tories are even more enthralled to very wealthy pro-Israel donors. The Israeli government has a very strong presence, as we saw through The Lobby UK hidden camera documentary, in British politics, to the point where the Israeli Embassy has issued direct payments to British politicians. Then you have CST, these kind of paramilitary type groups like the Shomrim, in Jewish neighbourhoods that function as an ancillary of the police. They’re very powerful there. The figure like Keir Starmer, his entire rise should be the subject of a film because he’s wooden, he’s cardboard, he has the personality of a filing cabinet. How did he get there? He got there because the pro-Israel British establishment did not want Jeremy Corbyn to be able to rule. They saw the complete collapse of their entire ideological programme in the form of Jeremy Corbyn. So Keir Starmer was just the person who was available, who also had the deep connections as the former DPP, the public prosecutor, someone who was tied into the establishment through the Trilateral Commission and all these other networks. And so he rose to power. So now he is fulfilling his ultimate purpose as the British establishment fears a complete loss of control. In the post October 7th era, this is all about restoring control. And they’re restoring control ultimately on behalf of a foreign apartheid entity. And they’re doing it through the courts with Palestine Action just shredding enshrined British rights like jury equity. And they’re also doing it through mass securitisation, exploiting every opportunity possible. And that’s what this stabbing represents. But this stabbing took place in a broader context that I’ll talk about in a second. But just to explain what happened here, I guess last week a very mentally ill man who is, I think a Somali immigrant to the UK or Sudanese, I can’t remember which, but he’s Muslim, so that makes him the perfect…that’s why this could be classified as terrorism. He stabbed two Jews, I think they were visibly Jewish, like they were ultra Orthodox in Golders Green, which is a Jewish majority neighbourhood in London. And left out of the whole story was that he stabbed a flatmate or a neighbour of his at his flat who was Muslim. Also left out. I mean, this was sort of mentioned in passing, he has a long history of attacking people, including a police officer, several others. He was, I think, committed to a mental institution. And then he was referred to Prevent, which is the British counter- radicalisation programme, which raises questions about his contact with law enforcement over time. Instantly after this stabbing, Keir Starmer appears in a national briefing and declares that pro-Palestine marches are responsible. ‘It’s the marches’, and that this is an ancient hatred, doesn’t relate to any real world events and that it needs to be criminalised. If you’re going to these marches and you’re saying globalise the intifada, then you must be punished. He said that explicitly. This stabbing, just like the shooting at Bondi beach in Australia at a Hanukkah observance, had nothing to do with the pro-Palestine or Palestine solidarity movement. It has no connection. And this man was just randomly attacking people, including Muslims.”

The article below by former CIA officer, correlates the famous film, Israel and the Assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, arguing that Kennedy was murdered by the zionists, laibashah0913

‘Former CIA officer John Kiriakou, in a March 2026 interview with Michael Franzese, relayed what a Trump confidant told him: ‘There are 10,000 documents that are never going to be released… because every single one of them points directly at Israel.’ He added: ‘The Israelis were so angry that Kennedy was actively trying to disrupt them from acquiring nuclear technology, and they decided they had to take him out.’ Kiriakou is a 14-year CIA veteran and whistleblower who served prison time for exposing the torture program. He acknowledged this is second-hand information — he did not see the documents himself. Posting for archival and critical discussion.’

$35 million of pro-Israel funding ensured Thomas Massey lost his seat in Congress in the Republican primary.

Listen; Judging Freedom, Andrew Napolitano, 20 May 2026

Andrew Napolitano; “That, of course, was the great libertarian defender of the Constitution, anti-war Thomas Massie, conceding defeat last night in a heartbreaking race which cost about $35 million in the Republican primary, nearly all of it zionist billionaires funding.”

Phil Giraldi; “Yeah, it’s pretty depressing, I’ve been kind of depressed all day with the result. I had expected to get up this morning and see the reverse of that, but the money was spent. There obviously were a lot of people with their hands out and that’s the way it works in America now. And it’s really a tragedy, but there’s one good thing about it. The cat is out of the bag, as the expression goes, and everybody who is awake is now aware of just how, as you put it, the zionist billionaires are manipulating our political system and our media system on behalf of a foreign country, which is also an everyday war criminal. And this is a tragedy for the United States. We have an idiot for a president who doesn’t really realise how he’s being manipulated. And they will get away with anything from now on. They know that the door is wide open. They will get away with anything unless the American people stand up and do something about it.”

Andrew Napolitano; “Isn’t it a federal crime for a foreign government to influence an American election? “

Phil Giraldi; “Well, it’s a crime to be organised, to be acting on behalf of the interests of a foreign country or a foreign group. And that’s called the FARA Act, Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 and all of these Israel lobby components should be registered on it, which would require them to have complete transparency in terms of their money and who they deal with in the Israeli government. And of course, they’re not compelled to do any of that.”

Read; Palestine Action Activists to Be Sentenced As Terrorists in Move Kept Secret From Jury and Public by Harriet Williamson, Novara Media, 12 May 2026

From back left to right: Jordan Devlin, Charlotte Head, Zoe Rogers, Samuel Corner. Front row from left: Leona (Ellie) Kamio and Fatema Rajwani. Credit: handout

‘More outrageous than proscription. A court will seek to sentence four Palestine Action activists found guilty of criminal damage at a site owned by Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer as terrorists, even though they were not convicted of terror charges, Novara Media is now able to report. The ‘terror connection’ was kept secret from the jury and UK media outlets were barred from reporting on this due to court-imposed restrictions, which were lifted on 12 May. This is believed to be the first case in British history where a court will attempt to sentence activists taking direct action as terrorists. Judge Jeremy Johnson is expected to add a ‘terrorist connection’ to the charges of Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona (Ellie) Kamio and Fatema Rajwani under section 69 of the Sentencing Act 2020, despite the jury only convicting them of criminal damage and having no knowledge that a terror link could be later imposed.’

Craig Murray speaks outside the high court in Edinburgh

Watch; Who is pulling the strings?! Defend Our Juries, 28 May 2026

‘The court today in Edinburgh has changed its decision over the exact same issue raised in January, following pressure from UK ministers.This is not democratic process. It’s corruption in our courts.’

Craig Murray; “It’s troubling, but we have a decision opposite the decision taken in January on exactly the same points, in fact, the same liberty case, which he explained why it does apply in January, he today was explaining to us why it doesn’t. And I’ve lost trust years ago in the courts, in the independence of the judicial system. I did that sitting through all those hours and hours and hours of court, days and days of court in Julian Assange cases down in London. You very soon realise that the strings aren’t actually pulled in the courtroom. I’m pretty sure that the judge knew what he was going to do before he set foot in the courtroom yesterday and before a word was spoken. And this is part of a struggle against an increasingly oppressive British state. And they talked of the confusion and lack of clarity which still exists, whether the order was suspended or not. The reason for that confusion and lack of clarity is that the system is trying to digest the madness of calling a non-violent protest a terrorist organisation. Of course that’s led to confusion, of course it’s led to lack of clarity. Of course it’s led to the prosecutor and the police not really knowing what to do because they’re having to enforce something which is crazy. Well, we’ve lost the battle. We’re carrying on. We now look at whether the Ammori case, whoever wins the appeal course in England, which we’ll know in a couple of weeks time, will go on to the Supreme Court. Whoever’s on the losing side is almost certainly going to go to the Supreme Court and our next stage is to then intervene in the Supreme Court and that will be the next stage. So I’m very annoyed and as a Scot, I’m fundamentally enraged that the Scottish courts are taking away my rights to have the decision of the Scottish court and saying that I have to abide by the decision of the English court. That is absolutely wrong. Absolutely wrong. And another reason why we as Scots have to remove ourselves from being a dependency of England.”

Western colonists are predators of the Global South

Watch; Hunters and Gatherers, Middle Nation, 11 May 2026

Shahid Bolsen; “Like I’ve said many times, the collective Global South has recognised that predators, which is what they are, which is what the west is, are actually incredibly simple actors to understand. They’re incredibly simple. Their motivations are shallow, easily legible. It’s literally as straightforward as what drives a wolf to attack a herd of sheep. It’s not complex, it’s very easy to understand. And that wolf is always going to act like a wolf. The predator is always going to act like a predator. So you need to understand their thinking. The Global South has learned that a wolf is basically tame as long as his belly is full. That’s their whole ideology. That’s a wolf’s whole ideology. Do you understand me? That’s why every Global South country, from China to Saudi Arabia, they have understood that you are dealing, essentially, when you’re dealing with the west, you’re dealing with a protection racket. You’re dealing with an extortion racket. Pay them off and they’ll leave you alone. Listen to me. They can talk whatever they want to talk. When they talk about why this or that nation is bad, why this or that country is bad, this or that leader is bad, or what have you, they’ll say they’re undemocratic, they violate human rights, they pose a threat to our national security, on and on and on. They’re, I don’t know, sponsors of terrorism, they’re extremists or whatnot. We don’t like them because they oppress women. We don’t like them because they’re this kind of bad or that kind of bad or whatever kind of bad we want to come up with today. But the only thing that they’re actually doing, the only thing that they’re actually doing when they say all of that is asking for a bribe, I’m telling you, they’re just asking for a bribe. They don’t believe in anything, Understand this. They don’t believe in anything. They’re predators, not believers. They’re parasites, not patriots. So you have to understand that mentality, you have to understand that mentality. They don’t actually hate on the basis of colour, on the basis of race or ethnicity or even ideology. They hate on the basis of their own inadequacy. If you have what they don’t have, they hate you. If you are what they cannot be, they’ll hate you. If you can do what they can’t do, they’ll hate you. But they’ll never say that that’s the reason that they hate you. They’ll never come out and say it. They’ll cloak it in all sorts of nonsense about race or about culture, about faith or about principles or what have you. They’ll never come right out and say the real reason. I told you they’re marauders. And this is why I told you they’re marauders. They’re scavengers. This is what they were 10,000 years ago, and that’s what they are today. That’s what they will be 10,000 years from now. Understand that mentality. Hunters and gatherers. Hunters and gatherers, yes. Not builders, not creators, not people who develop, not people who advance, not people who grow. Listen to me. Because you need to understand the mindset of people like that. You have to understand the mindset of people like that. You understand? Constant, continuous, perpetual acquisition of resources. That’s the only thing they have in their mind. You understand? That means there’s a constant, continuous, perpetual state of panic. They’re in a constant, perpetual state of panic, of insecurity, of precarity. Understand? They didn’t put chains on you to keep you down. They put chains on you to keep you close, to keep you near. Because they are terrified that you can make it without them, precisely because they know that they cannot make it without you.”

One of America’s most evil acts. Lego men tell the story of polluting the planet with toxic poisons. During the Vietnam war the US dropped 73,000 tons of ‘Agent Orange’, a deadly, dioxin-based herbicide, on forests, villages and farms, annihilating people, wildlife and plants and poisoning fields and waterways. The herbicide, manufactured by Monsanto and Dow Chemical, caused death or permanent injury to 400,000 people, and caused a further 2 million people to suffer from cancers and other diseases. Genetic and endocrine damage to parents’ reproduction systems caused by the dioxins meant that 500,000 babies have been, and are still being born with deformities and diseases.

Watch Music Video; Why did they do this to us? Roger Waters, 7 May 2026

“Seventy-three million litres. It wasn’t a mistake. It was a chemical ghost that never left. Look at the sky. It’s not blue, it’s a purple hazy one. Two days flying low, ending all our days. They called it Ranch Hand, a tactical play, but the emerald hills are all rotting away.

The soil is screaming, the water is thick, falling like orange does, making us sick. A chemical execution, silent, slow in the world of bricks where nothing can grow. We’re just pieces scattered in the dust, building a future on broken trust.

Orange, falling like a silent tear, orange, the ghost has lived here for 50 years. A thousand cradles holding broken gold. The story of a crime that’s never been told. No mercy for the seeds they’ve sown, no justice for the lives they’ve blown, we’re just fragments of a poisoned soul trying to be human, trying to be whole.

War is a ghost, but the toxin is real. Half a million children with nothing to heal. Twisted limbs, hollow eyes, pieces fitted wrong while the corporation sing a billionaire song.

Monsanto, Dow Chemical counting the cash, watching the generation turn into ash. No golden trophy can hide the death wish, we’re still fighting for air with the poisoned breath.

Orange falling like a silent tear, orange, the ghost has lived here for 50 years. A thousand cradles holding broken gold, the story of a crime that’s never been told.

No mercy for the seeds they sow, no justice for the lies they blown, we’re just a fragment of a poisoned soul trying to be human, trying to behold.

They knew it, they sprayed it, look at the cradle, look at the scars. You can’t wash the orange from the sky.

Orange falling like a silent tear, orange still screaming through the years, a thousand cradles buried in gold, a truth that the world refused to hold.

No mercy for the seeds they’ve sowed, no justice for the lies they’ve blown, we’re still the fragments, still losing control, still trying to be human, still trying to be whole.

Five hundred thousand children born with defects, this was a crime against humanity.”

Civil war between races in the US

Listen; How the War on Terror Created the Age of Trump (W/Matt Kennard), The Chris Hedges Report, 28 May 2026

‘In the United States, but also around the world, fascism is on the rise again, similar to what occurred in Germany and Italy after World War I. Its foot soldiers in the US include right wing extremists who enter the military, where they are welcomed and encouraged, for empowerment and training. The current Trump administration, includes Christian Nationalists, such as Pete Hegseth who heads the Pentagon, and openly supports fascist and zionist leaders — Javier Milei in Argentina, Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, to name a few.

To understand the rise of neo-Nazis in the US military and law enforcement, Chris Hedges speaks with British investigative journalist Matt Kennard. For his new book, “Irregular Army,” Kennard interviewed hard-right veterans who were open about enlisting to gain the skills they need to wage RaHoWa, a Racial Holy War, at home.

The book demonstrates that the War on Terror gave rise to the Trump presidency. He cites the repressive powers granted to the state under the Patriot Act, the rise of the Imperial Presidency, the loosening of restrictions on qualifications for military recruitment, the cover up of atrocities committed by military members in Afghanistan and Iraq and the epidemic of PTSD as factors that allowed White Supremacy and racism to flourish in the United States government and military brass.

Hedges asks if an even more extremist body politic could develop. Kennard’s response is that many alarm bells are ringing: “I think that we’re on a slippery slope and things have been normalised now that we wouldn’t have even believed could be normalised a long time ago.” The fact that those in power do not have a cohesive strategy provides a ray of hope, but if we are to develop strategies to stop the rise of fascism, we must first understand the social and political factors that underlie it.’

Matt Kennard; “Forest Fogarty, who is one of the neo-nazis I interviewed, I went down to Tampa, Florida to interview him and ended up going to the zoo with him and his kids, actually. But he was talking about how his commander would say to him, I like the fact you’re a nazi, and he sent him on the hardest missions and like the fact that he saw him as a warrior. Now obviously that’s him saying that, I can’t say that it’s true, but that was an experience I got from many of the neo-nazi veterans I talked to that they were welcomed and treated in a way that was like, well it’s good to have you in here, boys. So it’s a hugely, hugely worrying thing for every American because you have to remember that there’s 2 million veterans of the war on terror in the United States now. And that includes thousands of these neo-nazi white supremacists, tens of thousands of gang members, which is another group which were enfranchised by the war on terror. And they’re not coming home to become priests. They’re coming home to either see out their ideological convictions in the form of a racial holy war or in the case of gangs to use their resources and their training to kill other members of other gangs to help their drug trafficking regime. And the thing is this is all bubbled under the surface so it’s not often that it comes out to the fore. Of course it does at certain points, like in 1995 with Timothy McVeigh, with the Oklahoma City bombing, that was a major, major attack that was completely changed America in many ways, but he was a veteran of the first Gulf War. But there hasn’t been a attack by one of these veterans of that scale, but on a lower level, if you look at local news reports from local American newspapers, there’s criminal activity happening all the time involving the veteran community, neo-nazis, white supremacists who served gang members, criminals who got in through what was called the Moral Waiver programme, where they allowed felons and people guilty of serious misdemeanours who previously wouldn’t have got into it to serve. So it’s a major issue in the United States, but you wouldn’t know it if you read the media. The other important point, and I’ll end here, is we kind of are aware of what’s happening in the United States because the media covers it on the local level and law enforcement, you can’t get away with killing people and plotting terrorist attacks in the United States. But what were they doing in Iraq and Afghanistan? We don’t know a lot of the stuff that they were doing because it was nearly every atrocity that was committed in Iraq and Afghanistan by the US military was denied and covered up until it got to the point that the US military couldn’t do it. And that’s their ethos. I remember in the book we reference actually an article you wrote with Leila Al-Arian about the conduct of the US troops and about how carefree they were with just shooting civilians and shooting anyone on site. And there was one case, just specifically to link this policy with atrocities that were carried out. There was a famous or infamous massacre in 2006 called the Mahmudiyah Massacre where a group of American soldiers went to a house south of Baghdad, separated a 14-year old girl from her family and then killed the dad and the sisters, went into the other room and they all raped her and then killed her and then burnt the whole house down. Now this was a crime that was covered…the soldiers said this was the work of insurgents which is why they burnt the house down. That was a lie that was accepted by the US military for a while until there was a soldier that had a crisis of conscience who revealed what had actually happened and who was the leader of that massacre? A guy called Stephen D. Green and he’d got into the US military during the war on terror through the Moral Waiver Programme. He had convictions for stuff that would previously have not allowed him to serve. So that’s just a taste of what impact this had on the occupied population. So it’s a two-front problem. And also, as you mentioned in your intro, a lot of the research I was doing on these soldiers that were getting into with swastikas and SS bolts and other things. We’ve now got a situation where is institutionalised. You mentioned Pete Hegseth. This is a guy that has a Jerusalem cross tattooed on his chest is, which is neo-crusader imagery. He’s got the word kafir tattooed on his arm in Arabic which is just a statement to say that he sees Islam as a threat and a civilisation.”

Oh dear, Tony Blair’s reputation drops another level.

Read; My letter to the cabinet office, Zack Polanski, 28 May 2026

‘It would be bad for public confidence if there was a suspicion that large corporate interests are buying access to the Government via the Tony Blair Institute. My letter to the cabinet office;’

Dear Chris,

Tony Blair’s essay published by the Tony Blair Institute yesterday contained some important points, notably, a call to switch to an AI focussed economy with more government investment in AI, which he argued would be facilitated by cuts to welfare spending, reductions in the minimum wage and reduced workers’ rights.

It has been widely reported that Larry Ellison, the owner of Oracle, which specialises in AI, funded the Tony Blair Institute with over £250m, and also that the Tony Blair Institute has significant contacts and influence within the government.

We are sure you will agree that its important for the public to know whether there is a link between Larry Ellison’s donations and Tony Blair’s public advocacy for more government funding of AI. We therefore request that all formal and informal contacts between representatives of the Tony Blair Institute and government departments (officials and ministers) are disclosed.

It would be bad for public confidence if there was a suspicion that large corporate interests are buying access to the government via the Tony Blair Institute.

Yours sincerely,

Zack Polanski

Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.

Chris Wilkinson critiques Tony Blair’s recent article that sets out the agenda touted by the WEF’s globalist billionaires.

Listen; Tony Blair: Analysis and comment, UK Column News, 29 May 2026

Chris Williamson; “The nineteen-seventies was indeed a good period for ordinary working class people because, as you say, living standards were better, there was access to good quality, secure employment for millions of people. But this obsession with neoliberalism and globalisation that Tony Blair seems to be trying to promote once again has actually been disastrous for the working class in Britain and has seen jobs which were previously available to people being offshored to other countries where the companies can extract bigger profits than they were able to do in this country. So if we remember after the war, places like Japan were building British vehicles under licence. Britain led the world in manufacturing, we had a very vibrant car and motorcycle industry, shipbuilding industry, manufacturing was a very significant player in the British economy. That is no longer the case and that’s as a direct consequence of the neoliberal agenda that Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher foisted upon the country, although I think it does actually go back a little bit further than the election of Margaret Thatcher. I think the rot really started after Harold Wilson stepped down as prime minister in 1976, and Denis Healey went to the International Monetary Fund that year for a loan which was never fully drawn down, was never needed, and he subsequently admitted that it was the wrong thing to do. So we’ve really been let down, I think, by the political class in this country, and therefore, I think, rather than more of the same, essentially, as what Tony Blair is offering, what we should be doing is really investing in the economy, investing in our public services. A big uplift in Social Security benefits as well are absolutely essential, not just to lift the living standards of the people who are languishing on very low Social Security payments, but that would also help, I think, to grow the economy as well.”

Covid Vaccine Scam

Watch; Gates & Moderna Are Already Preparing for the Next Outbreak, Daily Pulse, The Vigilant Fox, 2 June 2026

Moderna just landed a $50 million contract to develop an Ebola vaccine as a new outbreak spreads through the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The timing feels eerily familiar.

The funding comes from a familiar place: CEPI, which is bankrolled by, you guessed it, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Many of the same institutions that played central roles during COVID are now mobilising around another outbreak, with CEPI saying vaccine candidates could reach trial phase within MONTHS.

The primary testing method being used is PCR, the same broken test that hyperinflated COVID cases to justify mandated injections.

The COVID response proved that nobody will be held accountable. Now, the response to this outbreak is already following the same script.

Watch @zeeemedia’s report for the full details before the next “health emergency” takes over your life again.

Beware the new scamdemic

Read; The Pharmaceutical Criminals at Moderna openly admit they conveniently created a ‘Hantavirus Vaccine’ 2 YEARS before the supposed ‘Pandemic’… Liz Churchill, 6 May 2026

‘In the summer of 2024, Moderna partnered with the Korea University Vaccine Innovation Center to develop an mRNA-based hantavirus vaccine, and they were not the only ones. Big pharma and the U.S. Department of Defence have been working on 13 different hantavirus vaccines.

Five years ago, in May 2021, Bill Gates’ GAVI Vaccine Alliance published an article titled, “The Next Pandemic: Hantavirus?”

A pandemic was definitely on the cards

In September last year, European Commission President, the crooked and dishonourable Ursula von der Leyen warned in her State of the Union speech to the EU parliament that “We are on the brink, if not even at the start of another global health crisis.” She did not elaborate what kind of a crisis she was talking about, and nothing at all happened after her speech, leaving the impression that she was only giving away the mindset in the ruling circles that a new health emergency was being considered.

On 21 November I published TrendCompass artice titled, “Are new & improved lockdowns coming?” as it appeared that the ruling establishment was actively preparing for the next pandemic. At the time, the Right and Honourable Baroness Heather Hallett DBE’s published a 1,531-page COVID-19 inquiry advocating for “stringent restrictions,” and implementing of the countermeasures sooner and more decisively.’

Read; The Vaccine Cartel and US Army Are Developing 13 Hantavirus Vaccines and Gene-Therapies by Nicolas Hulscher, Global Research, 7 May 2026

‘As a cruise ship outbreak unfolds, the U.S. Army’s “needle-free” DNA gene therapy platforms come into focus. While the mass media breathlessly covers the MV Hondius — a Dutch-flagged expedition ship now quarantined off Cape Verde with multiple confirmed hantavirus cases — few are aware that there are currently 13 documented hantavirus vaccine and gene therapy programs in active development:

6 DNA “vaccines” (US Army / USAMRIID) — many of them “needle-free” jet-injector versions

3 mRNA “vaccines” (Moderna + Korea University, Chinese research team, VIDO Canada)

2 viral vector “vaccines” (UK institutions + VIDO Canada)

1 inactivated vaccine (Hantavax — already licensed and used in South Korea)

1 protein subunit vaccine (VIDO Canada)

The US Army hantavirus DNA “vaccines” are not vaccines. They are literally plasmid DNA gene-therapies. Each one contains lab-made circular DNA (plasmids) carrying the hantavirus M-segment genes that code for the virus’s surface glycoproteins (Gn and Gc). When injected (often with a needle-free jet injector or electroporation device), your own cells absorb the DNA, read it like a blueprint, and start manufacturing the pathogenic hantavirus proteins themselves.Needless to say, I will NOT be lining up for experimental military-grade gene-therapy the Army has been tinkering with for over 20 years. I’d rather take my chances with the natural red algae protein Griffithsin: see this.

The cruise ship situation should NOT become a pandemic. However, with major World Health Organisation involvement, mass media claiming potentially infected passengers have now traveled to multiple countries, and the pre-existing 13-vaccine pipeline, the early stages are being set for hantavirus as the next plandemic operation.’

Read; Testing HPV Vaccine on 4-Year-Olds, Children’s Health Defense, 27 May 2026

‘Today on “Good Morning CHD”, Polly Tommey is joined by Mary Holland, President & CEO of Children’s Health Defense and co-author of HPV Vaccines on Trial. They expose Merck’s shocking clinical trials testing the Gardasil HPV vaccine on children as young as four years old. They discuss the vaccine’s history of severe injuries, paralysis, POTS, infertility, and deaths — and why expanding it to infants is “barbaric.”

Then, Cecelia Doucette, MTPW breaks down the new HHS Surgeon General’s warning on excessive screen time for kids. She explains the harms of not just blue light but constant wireless RF/microwave radiation exposure, its links to anxiety, ADHD, autism, infertility. Plus practical solutions and resources from Environmental Working Group on creating safer screen habits at home and school.

Last, Dawn Richardson highlights dangerous vaccine bills moving in California, Colorado, Delaware, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Pennsylvania. She provides specific calls to action to contact legislators and governors to stop mandates, minor consent bills, expanded liability shields, and discrimination against unvaccinated families.’

Proxy War in Ukraine / Provoked War with Russia

Watch; Kiev Attacked, Frontlines Fall & Belarus Enters War? Glenn Diesen with Stanislav Krapivnik; 2 Jun 2026

Stanislav Krapivnik is a former US Army officer from Donbas, who has since returned. Krapivnik discusses the growing anger in Moscow at NATO gets more involved in the war, the massive attacks on Kiev, and the possibility of Belarus entering the war.

Watch; Roundtable w/ Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern + Scott Ritter : Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom; Weekly Wrap, 29 May 2026

Scott Ritter – American former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, former United Nations Special Commission weapons inspector, author, and commentator; Larry C Johnson – Former CIA intel Analyst; Ray Macgovern – Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Officer.

Judge Napolitano; “Scotty, I guess President Zelensky is wise to be out of Kiev in light of what is probably coming. What do you think is coming in response to enough is enough when they bombed, when the Ukrainians bombed a girls dormitory and killed 25 school girls?

Scott Ritter – American former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, former United Nations Special Commission weapons inspector, author, and commentator; “Well, first of all, I think that Zelensky is not on the target list. It would be the dumbest thing in the world for Russia to put him on the target list. Zelensky is one of the best assets they have.

Zelensky is corrupt as the day is long, and right now inside Ukraine is a huge corruption scandal centered on Zelensky and his inner circle that further undermines his authority and his legitimacy. Russia has made the decision, and this is a finalised decision after the murder of these 21 teenagers who were attending a teacher’s college, the future of Russia, the people who are going to teach the next generation, the hope of Russia. There’s a reason why Russia, this is the straw that broke the camel’s back.

This is, it’s unforgivable, and the symbolism and the reality and the practicality of what Ukraine did here has turned the entire Russian nation into singularly focused on ending this conflict on terms solely acceptable to Russia. There will be no negotiations, they’re dead. There will be no compromise.

The war ends when Ukraine accepts the unconditional surrender. That means they accept unconditionally the terms dictated by Russia. Europe is no longer a factor, Russia is not listening to Europe, and the United States has opted out, will never be asked to come back in.”

Judge Napolitano; “Larry, assuming what Scott says happens does happen, do the Russians have any concern about France, Germany, Great Britain or Washington?”

Larry C Johnson – Former CIA intel Analyst; “No, no longer. Look, some have asked, why did Russia wait till now to make this threat to do this warning? Well, I think one logical explanation is that Russia always calculated that if they did this, they would run the risk of an escalated war with the Europeans, with NATO, with the United States.

So they wanted to make sure that when that possibility came, that they would have enough mobilised troops, they would have enough inventory of a variety of missiles and weapon systems, that they could fight NATO if necessary. And I think that they have finally reached that point where they’re ready to take on NATO if necessary. Now, we just saw today, there was a lot of hype, you know, about six hours ago about, oh my God, Russia has attacked Romania and Constantinople with a drone.

And the Europeans are getting all spun up. Just as we started this program, the president of Romania came out and goes, oh well, this was a Russian drone that was hit with air defense fire in Ukraine and it “got offline and it hit us”. So this was not intentional, so he’s downplaying it because they don’t want to get into a fight with Russia. They recognise that doesn’t work out well.”

Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired US army Colonel

Watch; Lawrence Wilkerson: Failing to Adjust to a Multipolar World, Glenn Diesen, 27 May 2026

Lawrence Wilkerson; “I really try to stay away from historical parallels now with this, because I think we’re in an entirely new domain. Not in the huge, what you might call the panoply of geopolitical realities, rising power, sinking power, all that kind of stuff, Graham Allison, Mearsheimer all that. But I do think we’re in a world where technology is changing so fast, militaries are changing so fast. Offence, which since the blitzkrieg at least, has been dominant on the battlefield, is now not dominant, defence is dominant. You’re talking about Ukraine actually working with these, as I understand it, these microwaves now that go out and blanket within a few kilometres, at least, the area that they’re positioned in. And no drone can fly, takes care of every drone threat in the area. But they’re very expensive, they’re very hard to move around. They have to be manned. They have a short range, two to three kilometres, and you’d have to saturate the battlefield with them. And there aren’t that many now, and there’s not that many people to operate them. So the battlefield’s changing enormously, more so probably than it’s changed in a hundred years in the speed of time in which it’s changing, in part due to the conflicts, proliferation of conflicts. So I’m reluctant to go back and try and drag something out of history and say it’s like this or it’s like that.”

Ukraine and Iran; Prof John Meisheimer on the escalation ladder in the Middle East and Ukraine.

Listen; John Mearsheimer: Toward All-Out War With Both Russia & Iran, Glenn Diesen, 19 May 2026

Glenn Diesen; “What options do Russia have now, and what possible futures are there in front of us?”

John Mearsheimer; “Well, it’s clear that the Ukrainians are going up the escalation ladder here. They’re doing more and more to strike at the Russian homeland. And it’s quite clear that in the early years of the war, they relied mainly on missiles and they had a limited number of missiles and the Europeans and the Americans tended to put significant limits on their use of those western missiles against mother Russia. But what’s happened now is that the Ukrainians have turned to drones and they’ve developed a significant drone force that has the ability to strike into Russia. I think at this point in time, the amount of damage that those drones can do is not that great, and it’s certainly not going to affect the outcome of the war in any meaningful way. That’s not going to happen. But I think the great danger moving forward here is that the Ukrainians, working with the Europeans, who remain determined to defeat Russia, will increase the number of strikes and the kind of strikes on Russia. I would imagine that the number of drone attacks will go up over time, and at some point, the Ukrainians, with help from the Europeans, will add missiles to the mix, and it’ll be missile and drone attacks on Russia. And then the question you have to ask yourself is, what will the Russians do? And you’ve had Sergei Karaganov on your show, and Sergei Karaganov has said very clearly that he thinks that what should be done is that Russia should strike at European targets to send a very clear signal to the Europeans that this is just unacceptable and this has to stop. And his view is that you start with conventional weapons and if that doesn’t work, you turn to nuclear weapons. Now, he points out, and I think this is very important, that when he first started broaching this idea of his in the early days of the war, he was in a distinct minority, very few people agreed with him. But he argues now, and I take him at his word, because he is an honest person, that the overwhelming majority of people that he talks to agree with him. The Russians, in a sense, are fed up and they’re tired of the war in general and the idea that Ukraine is now escalating by hitting the homeland, the Russian homeland, more and more is just unacceptable. So something has to be done. So I think there’s no question, Glenn, that if the war goes on and if Ukraine working with the Europeans continues to up the ante in terms of striking at Russia, striking at cities like Moscow, the Russians will retaliate along the lines that Karaganov is talking about.”

Glenn Diesen; “I’m getting the impression that the retaliation will come now anyways, because it’s the pressure was mounting so much already. And this again appears to be more than they can accept, absorb. But you can also make that there will be before that possibly another step on the escalation ladder that is to do more brutal attacks on Ukraine, and if that doesn’t deter the Europeans, go with conventional weapons against a country like Germany or Estonia. But we also see other pathways to escalation, though, that is, there’s talk yet again about how Ukraine could fairly easily, in their words, liberate Moldova from the government in Transnistria, which is this breakaway region, however, happens to have thousands of Russian troops. So this would be again, a huge escalation and one can assume this will be greenlighted by NATO. So did you see any other pathways here? Because it looks like we’re getting very close to a disaster.”

John Mearsheimer; “Well, let me think about the situation between Russia on one side and Ukraine and the Europeans on the other. It’s not altogether unlike the war in Iran, the war between Iran on one side in the United States and the Israelis on the other side. Both sides in both conflicts are unwilling to make any meaningful concessions and they just want to continue the fight. And you get to the point where some of the participants become desperate and they’ll do whatever they think they can get away with to win the war. This is why we’re worried about Trump attacking Iran this week, a subject I’m sure we’ll get to in due course. We all understand that Trump is desperate and when you’re desperate, you sometimes roll the dice, even when you think you’re not going to win. You think there may be a sliver of a chance, but it’s worth taking a risk. And if you look at the situation between the Ukrainians and the Europeans on one side and the Russians on the other side, there’s just no room for negotiation here. There’s no way that this war could be shut down diplomatically. So both sides are going to continue to fight. And the Russians are reaching a point where they’re saying to themselves that this has to stop. And the idea that we’re going to allow the Ukrainians and the Europeans to take us up the escalation ladder and launch massive attacks against Moscow with drones and missiles is just unacceptable. And we have to stop it. And if that means we have to pursue a really risky strategy, so be it. So I think you see that logic at play very clearly with regard to the Russian-Ukrainian war. And of course, the same logic applies on the Ukraine-European side of the equation. The Ukrainians are desperate to rescue the situation, they’re desperate to keep the Europeans involved in the fight and therefore they want to convince the Europeans that they can do things to the Russians that will turn the tide one way or another. So the Ukrainians have very powerful incentives to up the ante and the Russians now have very powerful incentives to up the ante. The Europeans have powerful incentives to up the ante and there’s no bargaining space here. So this just tells you we’re going to go up the escalation ladder. And as you and I both know, this is not going to have a happy ending. And if we go back to Iran, which I don’t want to get into at any detail at this point in time, you can tell a similar story. So we’re in deep trouble both in the Middle East and in Ukraine.”

Listen; Drones: Increasing use as killing machines, UK Column News, 29 May 2026

Mike Robinson; “So let’s talk about what the Russian Foreign Ministry is saying. Let’s bring it on screen, because what they’re saying is this. ‘In the early hours of May 22, the Nazi Kiev regime carried out a bloody terrorist attack on the academic building and dormitory of the Luhansk State Pedagogical University College at Starobilsk’. They used four fixed wing UAVs, that’s of course drones. And so that’s what the Russian Ministry of Foreign affairs was saying a week ago. Now, since then, many voices, including Putin, have echoed that statement with a particular focus on the terrorism claim. Now, I want to remind everyone that attacks like this are being carried out using drones, paid for by us, by British taxpayers. So if you just remember this from last month, ‘the UK has announced the biggest ever drone package for Ukraine, delivering at least 120,000 drones for Ukraine this year and driving growth and jobs across the UK’. So it’s great because people in the UK can earn lots of money based on the deaths of people in Ukraine and Russia. The new package they said at that time is the largest of its kind ever supplied by the UK, will include thousands of long range strike drones, intelligence reconnaissance drones, logistics drones and maritime capabilities which are all battle proven on Ukraine’s front line. And they said the delivery of these new drones to Ukraine have already started this month. So this commitment that I’ve just talked about was the result of a January 16 2025 agreement signed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the time and Zelenskyy that was entitled the agreement of a 100-year partnership. It established a framework, as they described it, deepen cooperation and especially in defence and security. So it’s taken them a year to get to the point of actually rolling this out. And well, we’re seeing the consequences of it. And of course, as we talked about in last week’s programme, Patrick, the increasing use of these drones and the increasing willingness, apparent willingness by Russia to retaliate is resulting in exactly the kinds of narratives in the mainstream press, basically saying, because today of course we’ve got this news of a drone falling on a building in Romania which they’re claiming is a Russian drone. I’m highly sceptical about that. But they’re already saying that Russia is stepping across a line at this point. And so determination to make sure that we are increasing the pressure on this whole situation. Now, Britain and Ukraine, as a result of these agreements, has set up joint drone companies such as this one, I’m not even going to try to pronounce it actually, UKRSPECSYSTEMS. This has opened a new defence plant in the UK. By that I mean a war plant. They manufacture hundreds of drones monthly for the Ukrainian defence forces. And then we have this lot, this is Skyeton, I’m not quite sure again how to pronounce that, and they work in collaboration with a British company called Prevail Partners and this is again creating… Prevail Partners, by the way, is a defence and intelligence firm founded by UK special forces. They’ve created a new entity called Skyeton Prevail Solutions. And this joint venture is going to produce Ukrainian-designed drones such as Raybird 3. But we’re also paying for at least a dozen other types of drones, including Wind Racers Ultra, which is a heavy lift long range drone. Altus 600 metre and 700 m, a loitering drone as is described, supplied by Enduro in the UK. We talked about them in the past to monitor areas and strike forces. The Dart 250, which is a one way attack electronics warfare drone. The Takafir AR3, which is a reconnaissance drone utilised for intelligence gathering and surveillance. Then there’s the Project Octopus drone to hunt and destroy enemy drones amongst a whole host of other drones. It is quite incredible just how much money belonging to us as taxpayers is being spent on these killing machines.”

Japanese media ignores the Ukrainian attack on a school in Luhansk province that killed 21 students in a dormitory. The reporter said he ‘didn’t have time’ to visit the site.

Watch; Russian diplomat blasts Japanese media for ignoring Luhansk School attack, CGTN, 31 May 2026

Japanese journalist; “I’m a reporter with NHK, I’d like to ask about Russia-Japan relations.”

Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson; “Before I answer you I have a question for you. Why didn’t you go to Starobilsk? Why didn’t a single Japanese journalist go to Starobilsk? Have you written any reports about it? Did you write articles about what happened there? If not then don’t ask me questions.”

Japanese journalist; “I am simply relaying information back to Tokyo based on statements issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry.”

Maria Zakharova,; “Then why didn’t you go to Starobilsk, the city in Luhansk where the school was attacked? On what grounds do you claim to be interested in our bi-lateral relations? The Ukrainian government, supported by Japan, is killing our children, and yet you show no interest in that. What standing do you have to talk about Russia-Japan relations? Do you really think after treating our people this way we would still want to improve relations with Japan? Then you are completely wrong. Please take that message back to your government. What is truly shameful and disgraceful is that Japanese journalists collectively refused to go to Starobilsk to report this tragedy. And every Russian citizen knows about the tragedies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Every child studied this topic in school. Yet today Japan shows such disregard for the tragedy unfolding in our country.”

Second Japanese journalist; “I am also a journalist from Japan. Unfortunately I didn’t have time to go there.”

Maria Zakharova; “There’s no such thing as not having time. Thats impossible. I really can’t understand why you don’t go to Starobilsk. What do you need? Take a voice recorder, a pen, a notepad, a camera, a tripod—sometimes they even work without a tripod. That’s all, nothing else is needed. Transportation was provided, you didn’t need to buy tickets; it was provided, you just had to book them. The trip was without an overnight stay, it was a one-day trip, nothing got in the way. And nothing stopped 50 journalists from 20 countries from doing the same. So stop telling fairy tales. You feed your Japanese audience with the same fairy tales and, unfortunately, you do everything to keep people in Japan from knowing the truth.”

Listen; Scott Ritter: Europe Attacked Russia – Retaliation Is Now Unavoidable, Glenn Diesen, 20 May 2026

Scott Ritter; ‘The idea that Russia operates on the margins is absurd. I believe Russia probably has strategic reserves just like everybody else, and I believe that they’re able to ride this out. Because you see a lot of people talking about Russia’s export volumes having dropped significantly, but the potential for the production of refined products for export is being impacted. At some point in time, the reserves run out, and if you haven’t brought this potential back up, you’re going to have a gap, and it’s going to be meaningful. It’s not Vladimir Putin’s job to allow Russia to get to the point where you have meaningful impact. His job is to prevent that from happening. So, this is my way of answering your question. I believe that between 10 and 20% of Russia’s export production capacity has been damaged to an extent beyond that which it was being impacted in November. That this damage will take months to repair and that if Russia doesn’t nip this in the bud now, by the time they repair it and bring it back online, the reserves that are currently carrying them through this process will be depleted, and then you’re going to have a real and significant impact. And that’s why Russia needs to act now. And I also think that the Ukraine has become more and more emboldened. We know that the consequences of an attack on the Kremlin will be… fatal for everybody. But if you’re a Russian, you don’t want the Kremlin attacked. You don’t want to wait for that to happen. You see the Ukrainians moving in that direction. This is the direction they are heading. It’s inevitable, you see the west backing up, you see the rhetoric and the damage is being done. This is the moment of decision right now. If you wait, you allow the Ukrainians to do significant, meaningful harm of an existential nature. Right now, Russia has the capacity to absorb, repair, and move on, if the threat could be terminated. So now is the moment of decisive action. And I don’t want to speak on behalf of anybody, it’s just assessments, and as we all know, assessments could be wrong. But I have to say, on May 9, the whole scene around Victory Day …look, you’re a specialist, you lived in Russia, you know the Russians. This was a different May 9th than I’ve seen in the last four years since the special military operation began. This was a May 9th of deathly seriousness. At the embassy, the ambassador spoke incessantly about unconditional surrender, unconditional surrender, unconditional surrender linking Nazi Germany and Ukrainian government in a way that had never been done before. They spoke of Germany as a permanent enemy, not as a former enemy. Germany is the enemy today, this was the language. Dimitri Medvedev, who has always been sort of the bad crazy cop to Putin’s good sane cop, wrote an article in RT. What’s the importance of RT? RT English. It’s an article written for the west to read, it’s designed for western consumption, but it’s an article that speaks with the force of the Russian government. This is Russian state media. This isn’t Medvedev put putting a social media post out on X. This is RT, Russian state media publishing a major article written by a man who used to be the President of Russia. He used to be the Prime Minister of Russia and currently is a number two on the National Security Council. And the article is devastating for Europe. It pretty much endorses the Karaganov diet. Karaganov the day before had another interview that basically hammered home the same points. The sense I get in having watched Russia, monitored Russia etc, is that Russia has reached the point of decision. And unless something fundamentally changes, such as the unconditional surrender of Ukraine today, I think we’re going to see decisive action before the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum begins to preempt any potential attack.”

Glenn Diesen; “Do you think there’s any possibility for a diplomatic path? What do you make of what the EU is doing now? Because they’re discussing should we talk to the Russians, who should talk to the Russians, what should we talk about? What do you make of this?”

Scott Ritter; “I don’t see any hope in the EU in the short term maturing to the degree necessary for diplomatic intervention to be meaningful at this stage because at the same time they’re speaking of diplomatic intervention, their militaries are talking about war. You need to shut down the war. I do believe that China provides a very important diplomatic possibility that China, after Putin leaves, China will be able to contact Trump because there is connectivity there. And China will be able to contact the European Union and put them on notice that this isn’t a bluff. This is the real deal. You have no choice but to change the way you’re going, or else the consequences will be devastating. So I do think there’s still a window of opportunity, but the United States needs something to jump-kick it and right now we don’t have effective one on one with Putin. I think if China intervenes, then Trump may call Putin, Putin may call Trump, and pressure could be placed on Europe. And I’m hoping that that’s the case. I’m hoping the United States puts Europe on notice that if they continue down this path, the United States will not be there for them, that this is their problem and they need to stop this right now. And the United States also needs to basically tell Ukraine, it’s over, it’s finished, you’re done. Whether Trump can do that, like I said, if he had won Iran, maybe he’d have some political capital to spend, but he’s a very weakened man. I don’t see him being able to take two defeats at once but the smart thing to do would be to stop this path towards war, because that’s what we’re on.”

Cuba

Watch; INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson & McGovern + Scott Ritter : Weekly Wrap, Judge Napolitano, 29 May 2026

Scott Ritter – American former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, former United Nations Special Commission weapons inspector, author, and commentator; Larry C Johnson – Former CIA intel Analyst; Ray Macgovern – Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Officer.

Judge Napolitano; “What are Trump and Rubio up to?”

Ray Macgovern – Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Officer; “Well, they need to know that Cuba is not Venezuela. In other words, they’re out to do some regime change or worse in Cuba, and they ought to realise that Cuba is going to fight back. They probably don’t have the kind of agents of influence that they did have in Caracas. And a complicating factor is there’s an outside chance that Russia and China might make good on their rhetoric against these big bullies who do unlawful things. So there’s a history to Cuba. The Russians made a deal with the US on Cuba under John Kennedy. No invasion, no regime change in Cuba, and in return for Khrushchev taking those medium-range ballistic missiles out of Cuba. There was a side deal. We took some missiles out of Turkey, but that was the main deal. That’s probably weighing heavily on Russia’s mind with respect to how they react to this.”

Judge Napolitano; “Larry, are Russia or Chinese intel in Cuba?”

Larry C Johnson – Former CIA intel Analyst; “Oh, I’m sure they are. The US has had a tough time staying there. And let’s just give a plug that Vips under Ray’s leadership posted a memo last night. It was drafted, principal drafter on it, Fulton Armstrong was at one point the national intelligence officer for Latin America, but he also served in Cuba as an undercover CIA officer, so very, very knowledgeable about the place. But the views that he expressed encompass that of all of us. So this is the fundamental thing for the Cubans is a strong sense of national identity. And one in which they’ve spent the lives of everybody who’s alive today for 66 years, fighting against US imperialism. You know, the United States, we never forgave those damn Cubans for getting rid of organised crime and both the Jewish and Italian mafia.”

Listen; Cuba: Another distorted story, UK Column News, 29 May 2026

Patrick Henningsen; “And we just found out, interesting report here, thanks to the Independent. They probably did one of the best summaries on this. The military has spent months building up ships and personnel in the Caribbean and is ready for an invasion of Cuba. So I think it’s now beyond speculation this is the plan. Donald Trump thinks he can get an easy win. He’s found somebody he can pick on that won’t really be able to hit back in a serious way. We’ll see what kind of resistance Cuba puts up. But this war is on the cards now and a lot of people will support this. They’ll say, well, it’s a communist country, therefore they deserve to be invaded. And if there’s any collateral damage, well, just so be it. It’s the evil commies, so therefore we’re somehow justified in doing that. So forget about international law, of course, or the UN Charter. So that’s happening. And just on the media front, I just want to show you a classic example here of real disinformation brought to you by Rupert Murdoch’s the Times. Notice the headline, ‘Trump War Games – US Response to Chaos in Cuba’. So the implication here is that Cuba’s in chaos, they’re in economic chaos because they can’t manage their economy. No mention of sanctions, no mention of the embargo, killing any gas or fuel deliveries into that country. So I think this is just 100% unadulterated propaganda. And so we’re going to say that’s exactly what it is. So this is how our mainstream media, that’s how they operate in advance of a war. They’re prepping the public with this type of skull-plugging that they do so well to give you just a really distorted view of reality, to say, well, this is inevitable, we just get ready for the war.”

Watch; Where are you supporting Cuba from? Firmo Por Cuba, 30 May 2026

Nelson Mandela; “The first country we approached was the United States of America. We could not even succeed to come close to the government, and they refused to assist us. But Cuba, the moment we appealed for assistance, they were ready to do so, and they did so. Why would we now listen to the Western world when they say we should have nothing to do with Cuba? It’s just unreasonable. No human being acts in that particular fashion. Here is a country that was the first to assist us when the west, which had formidable resources, was actually supporting the (apartheid) government. Now you expect us to change our whole approach and to start condemning Cuba for what is supposed to be happening inside the country. No man of principles could ever do that.”

Venezuela

Read; Venezuela Under Siege: Defending the Bolivarian Revolution Against US Imperialism by Roger D. Harris and Francisco Dominguez, Common Dreams, 31 May 2026

‘In response to recent developments in Venezuela under imperialist siege, international solidarity activists should adopt a stance that does not inadvertently reinforce Washington’s drive for domination. Our central responsibility is not to adjudicate every tactical decision made under siege conditions, but to oppose the imperialist aggression that creates those conditions.

The overwhelming structure of US hybrid warfare against Venezuela remains intact, continuing to suffocate the country’s economic recovery and undermine its sovereignty. Washington continues to exert decisive pressure over the country’s principal source of national revenue, the oil sector. It uses sanctions, financial coercion, and domination of global banking systems, as it has against other targeted states such as Iraq and Syria.

At the same time, the threat of direct military escalation remains ever-present, a danger underscored by continuing military deployments, aggressive rhetoric, and repeated threats.

What some may regard as unjustifiable compromises by the Venezuelan government pale in comparison to our obligations as international solidarity activists: defending Venezuela and Cuba against the policies of imperialism. The US continues to intensify blockades, sanctions, destabilisation efforts, and military threats against these revolutionary processes while simultaneously waging disinformation campaigns against the Chavista leadership and the Cuban Revolution.

Both Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez identified US imperialism as the principal enemy of humanity. Our primary political focus should therefore remain opposition to imperialist domination, rather than allowing secondary disagreements to obscure the central contradiction.’

China

Why would any country want to do business with the warmongering criminals running America? Well, they have shot themselves in the foot as China is depriving them of the rare earth essential for making weapons.

Watch; The USA’s crazy new plan to try to stop China, Geopolitical Economy Report, 27 May 2026

Intro;’The US government is desperate to create a new supply chain that cuts out China, through its Pax Silica initiative. To do so, the Trump administration plans to colonise the territory of the Philippines, a supposed “ally” run by corrupt leader Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, with a 99-year colonial concession. Ben Norton explains the controversy.’

Ben Norton; “Just a few days before Trump visited China, the US government imposed more sanctions on Chinese companies because they’re doing business with Iran, and this led Beijing to push back and order all domestic companies to ignore US sanctions. And that’s not all. While the US is continuing this economic war against China, the Trump administration has also been making some moves to try to cut China out of a new supply chain. So just a few days after Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to China, Rubio then went to India, and this May, the US and India signed a historic agreement to try to create a new supply chain for critical minerals. And if you read the Indian media’s coverage of this agreement, it makes it very clear that this is all about China. Because China dominates the global supply chain for critical minerals. And these critical minerals are very important, not only for big tech corporations in order to make tech products like computers and phones and electric vehicles and semiconductors, but also because the military industrial complex in the US, the US military needs these critical minerals in order to make its weapons systems. So this is why the US government, under Trump’s second administration, launched an initiative called Pax Silica, which is an attempt to create a new global supply chain for semiconductors, for chips, for US big tech corporations. And that new supply chain will cut out China. That’s the goal of Pax Silica. And the Trump administration succeeded in pressuring India to join this new initiative.

So the US government wants to pressure many of these big tech corporations to move their factories and their investment out of China, and instead to re-shore or friend-shore those factories and that investment in India to create this new US-dominated supply chain. And another country that’s involved in this initiative, aside from India, is the Philippines. And today I’m going to be explaining how the US government has been trying to colonise part of the Philippines, which it considers to be a so-called ally.”

Watch; The Sun is Setting in the West, George Galloway, 27 May 2026

George Galloway; “I think that Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are the two best leaders in the world today. Nobody pays me to think that. I have thought that for a very long time. I get no benefit from anybody from thinking that. Quite the contrary. I get grilled at gunpoint at London Airport on both Russia and China so I could show you my scars. So please believe me that I genuinely think that. I may be wrong in my thoughts but they are my thoughts and as a free man, I am bound to express them when someone asks me, as you just have. I think the big picture that they see is that the sun is setting in the west, it is rising in the east, and that the sensible thing to do is to get some benefit from that rising sun, to explore ways in which we can offer to help them with our experience, with our abilities, with our services, with our culture, with our language, to be sporting and say, well, we ruled the roost for literally hundreds of years, five hundred years. The Portuguese occupied the Straits of Hormuz in the 1400s, in the 15th century. So from the Portuguese Empire, the Spanish Empire, the British Empire, the American Empire, we have dominated the rest of the world for fully 500 years. And we didn’t act so well. And some of those chickens might one day come home to roost. Well, they already are. Africa trusts China and Russia because China and Russia never came to Africa to steal their people and carry them off as slaves. There’s a chicken coming home to roost, but others may eventually come home to roost. We behaved in a beastly fashion. Little Belgium and its little king murdered ten million people in Congo. You want to talk about a holocaust? The Belgians murdered ten million people in the Congo. The Germans genocided the people of Namibia. The British Empire was so vast that upon it the sun never set. Though, as my Irish grandfather always said that, because God would never trust the British in the dark. And so Putin and Xi Jinping recognise that that five hundred year rule is coming to an end.”

Alastair Crooke explains the US failed attempts to squeeze China’s oil supplies, and China’s response to make it illegal to obey US sanctions against Iran.

Watch; Civilisation at the Crossroads, Catherine Austin Fitts, 13 May 2026

Catherine Austin Fitts; “So one of the challenges of looking at the unwinding of the US-China economic and trade relationship is trying to understand the proxy wars, whether in the Ukraine or the Middle East. But what is the goal? And I’ve been watching now your coverage of the Iran war. And my question to you is, what is the United States goal? And I shouldn’t even say the United States. What is the oligarchs’ and the dollar syndicate’s goal with what is happening in the Middle East?”

Alastair Crooke; “I think if we look at the big picture, I think what you and your viewers are most interested in is it came down to the security statement, the national security statement that was issued a little time ago in the United States, seemingly authored mainly by Elbridge Colby, and he wrote a book earlier about it. And he set out really what I think is very clearly Americans aims. And he said we have to coerce China into exporting less and consuming more domestically. They have to increase their consumption at home, in other words, in order to leave us more space, in order to be able to export into the global market. And he said there are two ways really of doing this. He said this is the objective to do this. One is trade restrictions, trade war is one way of doing this. And the second thing he said was really to squeeze their energy supply line. In that way we can pressure them. So we’ve seen this across the board. This has become a very obvious factor. It is squeezing it through all the navigable waterways, through the choke points, through all the accesses for China. So we saw this in Venezuela, we’ve seen it in Cuba taking place. We see it in the attempt in Hormuz to blockade the Hormuz was partly intended. It hasn’t worked. But it was intended also to squeeze China’s supply line. In fact, people overstate the amount of dependence China is on supply lines of oil from Hormuz. It’s only 7% of Chinese total because they consume so much energy. Even though it’s 40% of the total oils exported from Hormuz, it’s only 7% of of Chinese energy requirement, and mostly for their depots, for their refinery depots. And so all of this has been an attempt to get control of the energy generally and control energy in the global sense, but control it principally through the choke points, through all of the navigable waterways and areas. And it’s a double ended one because it’s trying to cut back Chinese energy supplies but also to stop Russian supplies. So we’ve entered what I call a period of tanker war because we’ve seen this a lot, there’s tanker war taking place off the Persian Gulf, but we saw it off Venezuela, but we’ve also seen it and it’s been, I think less visible in the rest of the world. But the tanker war against Russia, for example, Britain is trying to stop tankers sailing through the English Channel. France has been seizing Russian so called sanctioned tankers. Tankers have been actually struck and hit, Russian tankers in the Mediterranean or at least at the mouth of the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. So we are in and we’ve had a tanker war before when this was more an Israeli tanker war where they tried to stop Russian tankers arriving. And it didn’t work very well. It was against Iranian tankers and others and it didn’t work very well because it was tit for tat. And of course it failed because it’s an all-lose game because if one side starts attacking tankers, there will be retribution against their tankers and that can hurt even the United States, which proclaims its energy self-sufficiency. It’s still dependent on the flow of energy because energy is a fungible thing. And that if energy is in short supply in the Middle East or in Europe, of course it affects the price of energy because it isn’t such a diverse and compartmented market, is that it will affect it. So yes, we are seeing that and that I think is the purpose to do it. However, already it’s had an important reaction. China announced a few days ago, I can’t remember exactly which day it wasn’t announced, it was a big public platform. But quietly they said all of those restrictions that Treasury Secretary Bessent had imposed, sanctioning five refiners in China, not only the main five refiners who used Iranian oil, but also the banks and any commercial institute that was engaged in this, they made it illegal under a limitations act which dates back to 2021, so that it is illegal for any Chinese to facilitate American sanctions on these five refiners or on the banks or on the financial institutions that may be in receipt of Iranian funds. So they said it is now illegal for you to cooperate with America on these sanctions. This is really the first time that China has got so openly engaged in defying sanctions. Largely, China has been surprisingly cooperative, I would say, on many sanctions. And they’ve added to it because a few days before that, you may recall that the Panama Canal has two ports on it which formerly were owned by Hong Kong, a Hong Kong entity, private entity, and they were effectively expropriated by US interests. And China has also said, well, passage through the Panama Canal henceforth will be denied any entry to Chinese ports. Those that are using the Panama Canal will not be permitted and will be subject to particular inspection before as they try and arrive in China, but they will not have access. So they’ve made they’ve sort of blacklisted any vessels passing through the Panama Canal. They won’t be received in China. So they’ve made these two quite tough acts in response to Bessent’s attempt to sanction Chinese banks and Chinese oil companies trading with Iran.”

Einar Tangen, a US-Korean academic living in Beijing, discusses the Powell Doctrine that allowed US corporations to control elections, the appeasement of Israel, and the US obsession with ‘containment’ of China.

Listen; Einar Tangen: China’s Strategy for Managing U.S. Decline, Glenn Diesen, 24 May 2026

Einar Tangen; “In the 1970s you have the Powell Doctrine, this is Jeremy Powell, he goes on to become Supreme Court justice. But six months before he becomes justice, he writes a secret memo and in that memo he outlines that the American public cannot be trusted. It’s time to put democracy aside and it is time for businesses to be aggressive, to take control of media, to take control of the courts, to fight against any kind of consumer protection, against labour laws, against universities, intellectuals. And this is all outlined. And if people are interested, they should just look up the Powell Doctrine and not Powell, the Secretary of Defence who was waving that little white vial around saying, this is why we’re going to war. This was Jeremy Powell. He went on the Supreme Court and he wrote in the affirmative to make corporations people, and then by extension, people have freedom of speech. And by extending that, therefore, corporations can back whoever they want where with as much money as they want. And this changed politics. I mean, companies can…unlimited amount of money. They can, basically control elections, I ran elections, you need money to run elections. But they can also hobble the parties because each party is making deals with special interests. Well, if you’re a business, you’re the special interest. Of course, Labour was then making deals with the Democratic side, but the big most amount of money was on the Republican side. So he outlines his plan to take over America, very thorough plan. You have to read the document in order to get a complete idea of it. And then we fast forward a little bit to this clean break doctrine which we’ve talked about before that was by Richard Pearl. And in this document, in ’96, they say this is written to Netanyahu. And the essence of it is Israel should forget about any kind of diplomacy in terms of settling its issues there. It should not seek to live with other countries, needs to either dominate or decimate. If the country acquiesces to Israel’s greater goals, that’s fine. If they don’t, you knock them down. The last one was done by the current Secretary of War for Policy, Eldridge Colby. He’s important. He’s also supposed to come to China and China has delayed his visit. He is completely anti-China and I don’t mean, in a small way. And in 2021, he wrote a book, ‘China The Strategy for Denial’. And in this he talks about the way to get at China is to take control, to deny it access to trade routes, basically by controlling these choke point areas, whether it’s the Panama Canal or the Straits of Hormuz or the Straits of Malacca, the Red Sea, the Suez Canal. And also as part of that, to deny China access to energy is the thinking, being that if we can, we don’t allow them to have energy, they have to import a lot, therefore they can’t produce a lot. And even what they produce, we can intercept it and prevent them from distributed worldwide.

He’s (Trump) trying to get late night comedians fired because they make fun of him. Why? They make fun of him because he’s a clown, all right? And he invites satire, in the morning it’s, ‘I’m going to bomb them to oblivion’ and in the afternoon, ‘negotiations are going great’. It didn’t happen just once. So, I mean, he invites this stuff and then he wants to use all the powers at his disposal, like this $6-7 billion slush fund that he’s given himself. I’d love to be the president, sue myself and give myself a lot of money because I’m going to settle with myself, that’s very fair, right? Even his Republicans who are cowed by him after he’s beaten people who opposed him in the primaries, they can’t even stomach this 1.7 billion tax dollars to give to people who are beating police by a group that says they stand behind the police. The only way they’re standing behind these police is with a billy club and beating them right now. All the people who are hurt on the police side have protested. The idea that these criminals were in fact, pardoned, 1,600 of them, a fair percentage now have gone back in to the criminal justice system for everything from murder, rape, and quite a few of them are paedophiles, including some of his closest advisors. His religious advisor spent 6 months for diddling a 12 year old. What can you say? I mean, these are the people who were screaming that the Democrats were paedophiles who killed children and drank their blood and all this kind of nonsense, and it’s all towards demonising that, but it doesn’t go anywhere, at some point things have to fall off, this is what I’ve been hoping for with Donald Trump. And I say, he hopefully will be hit the bottom, as in America we always do the right thing when we have no other choice.”

Glenn Diesen; “The problem is if he would simply be replaced. By whom? This is often my point, that in 2016, when Trump was saying, we have to get out of the JCPOA with the Iranians, with the sanctions, the Chinese, all this, it was a lot of opposition to it, but it didn’t matter that Biden took power, they just continued the policy. So I don’t think it matters that much who’s on the throne. That being said, I do agree that Trump is much less stable than anyone before him. I think the source of a lot of the censorship we see in harassment, intimidation, cancellations, even sanctions in Europe against its own citizens is the reason why I can’t counter government narratives is because in international security, the point of departure is always the security conversation, every state is seeking security. If America develops missiles, it’s insecurity for China. So usually when you want to have peace, first step, you always have to put yourself in the shoes of the other guy, recognise their security concerns. However, we stopped doing it. And if you try to recognise, well, what are the Russians worried about? Well, then you’re a Putin apologist, you’re pro-Russian, Kremlin talking points. Because that’s what Russia says, yes, that is Russia’s expressing their security concerns. Usually we would listen to this and then we would try to mitigate the mutual security threats and we’ll reduce this. But this is not just a Russian thing. It’s China, it’s Iran.These countries, they are big nations, they have real interests, their policy doesn’t come out of a vacuum due to their evil nature. They’re actually responding to their own security concerns, economic concerns, then you’re panda-hugger, you’re a mullah apologist and a Putinist. This is the level of sophistication in the discourse. I don’t see any politicians, any journalists, anyone ever discussing the security concerns of your opponent, because they would be out of a job. That’s what that’s called apologists.”

Einar Tangen; “But if you don’t do that, you’re never going to solve the situation. If it’s just I win and I’m going to destroy you, historically, that hasn’t worked. Well, there’s no end game. I’m not going to talk to you. Why? Because you’re evil, all right? And all your people are evil. And I get to kill you without remorse because you’re evil. The reason I mentioned Clean Break instead of the Wolfowitz Doctrine is to me that they’re in parallel, earlier when I was talking about these changes. It’s just this idea that total dominance is the only way to go. It’s like we’re going to get rid of democracy, we’re going to get rid of all competing countries, whether it’s Japan, Germany, Russia and Germany together, China, whatever it takes, we would book no rivals. And then we’re taking this beyond the military, we’re going to ramp this into economic… but the United States even isn’t in a position to do that. If we imported only half a trillion dollars worth of goods, oh my goodness, we could go our own course. But when you’re at $4.3 trillion they year, you need other countries. And this is what I don’t understand rationally, where, where are those things going to come from? They don’t even know what they are half the time, what it is that we’re importing. These are a lot of essential goods to your standard of life. If you want to go without them, I think you’d find yourself quickly going down about two or three levels in terms of your lifestyle.”

Zionism is a Colonial State Project

Israel

Watch; Iran’s resistance to Zionism is critical, Jerm Warfare on UK Column interview with Prof. David Miller, 29 May 2026

Intro; ‘British researcher David Miller discusses the tribunal victory that recognised anti-zionist views as protected beliefs, and elaborates on the historical and political intricacies of zionism and antisemitism, highlighting the influence of zionist organisations worldwide. Miller also explores British involvement in Iran, the geopolitical dynamics of zionist expansion, and the significance of Iran’s resistance.’

David Miller; “The prejudice, if I can put it like that, which Jews face today, to the extent that they do face prejudice, is not a form of racism. All dictionary definitions have this as part of the definition, racism has to be institutionalised and run through by and led by the state. And that’s why we refer to racism as something which is institutionalised in society, against black people, against Muslims, etc, and for a period, when the conflict in Ireland was on against the Irish. So you don’t have to be have black skin or brown skin to be the victim of racism, you can have white skin, but nevertheless the Jews don’t face that. The Jews don’t get stopped and searched and detained under the Terrorism Act when they come in and out of the country. They should do for being involved, those of them who are involved in the genocide. But they don’t. It’s the Muslims who bear the brunt of that. And Muslims, of course, face biggest discrimination, not just in terms of state racism and being arrested and detained, but in terms of life outcomes. In the UK, for example, the poorest religious group in the UK are Muslims. The richest religious group in the UK by some distance, are the Jews on average. So the Jews don’t face racism today. And so this nonsense about antisemitism is a term which is used simply for any prejudice that might be against Jewish people or indeed any criticism of the State of Israel or its genocidal policies or the support for its genocidal policies by almost all, not all, but almost all Jews in the diaspora, as they call it.

There’s a zionist approach to this which is that they want to destroy the Islamic Republic and they want to Balkanise Iran, they want to encourage secessionist movements in Balochistan, in Kurdistan, et cetera. These are some of the people who they recruit. The Kurds in particular quite often have been amongst the recruits which the Mossad pay and arm. That’s of course the people who were on the streets on the 7th and 8th of January this year assassinating police officers and Basiji and sometimes assassinating their own people on their own side who are rioting or whatever. So I don’t believe there is no support for the Islamic Republic and indeed I believe that the Islamic Republic is the foremost anti-imperialist country in the world. More anti-imperialist than China, more anti-imperialist than Venezuela and indeed Cuba. And it’s only by the Islamic Republic of Iran winning in the battle with the zionists that we will have the possibility of peace in the future. I think otherwise we will be submitting to what I believe will be a zionist empire.

The strategy which Iran has followed has been to encourage those who believe in resistance against zionism. That’s Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Assad government as it was in Syria, the Iraqi resistance, and of course not forgetting the Ansar Allah in Yemen. That became a formidable fighting force and that was one of the key things which the zionists have acted to try and dismember. They tried to dismember it in Lebanon, they helped to bring down the Assad government, to install ISIS effectively in the government of Syria, and of course they’ve only recently… the US has on effectively zionist instructions, kidnapped one of the heads of the popular mobilisation units in Iraq, the Iraqi resistance. So it’s only Iran that stands between civilisation and what would be I believe a thousand-year reich empire for the zionists. They’re already expanding into Lebanon, into Syria… they’ve always believed in the greater Israel. It’s just the kind of concept which until about two years ago people would say, well that’s a conspiracy theory, they don’t really want to do that. But of course they’ve always believed that and you can see that back in the memoirs and the diaries of Herzl, of all the other zionist leaders, Jabotinsky as well. They’ve always believed that the land of Israel, Eretz Yisrael, extends all the way from the river to the sea and to the next sea. So it includes half of Egypt, part of Turkey, all of Lebanon, all of Syria, half of Iraq, all of Jordan. And that’s what they’ve always wanted to do, to create effectively a transnational empire in West Asia. But actually greater Israel isn’t enough for them. They also want to control the whole of West Asia. They’ve said this, Netanyahu has been saying this, talking about being a regional superpower, etc. in the last few months. So that’s why they’ve had the Abraham Accords. That’s why they have the close relationship with the United Arab Emirates and to some extent with the Saudis, although there’s some difficulties in that relationship at present. So they want to expand to the whole of West Asia. The strategy also has been to subvert and infiltrate every country that has the possibility of interfering with their activities. So that’s why there’s a huge zionist movement in many countries, 20 or 30 or 40 countries have formal zionist movements. There are all sorts of other ways in which they try and infiltrate other countries. In the UK there is no mainstream party which is anti-zionist. Every mainstream party is zionist. Same in the US, same in France, same in Germany. And that’s because of zionist infiltration and that’s a long term process which involves many different methods and activities. But it’s been effective. And so it’s really very difficult now to even have the possibility of seeing something which is even formally anti-zionist and have any political support in any of these countries.”

Just so you know who runs American military strategy in the Middle East, Israel’s second in command, Ben Gvir, says he will not allow America to have an agreement with Iran.

Watch; Top Israeli ADMITS He NUKED the Iranian Peace Deal, The Young Turks, 28 May 2026

Ana Kasparian; “I want the American people to understand who their masters are, who they are slaves to. That ugly gentleman that you see right next to me, that’s your master. That’s the guy who actually governs the country. Ben Gvir, a literal terrorist in Israel. When the Israelis were in absolute fear that there might be a peace deal. Can you imagine? Here’s what he said”.

Ben Gvir; “Israel cannot allow this to happen. But this is a bad agreement. This is an agreement that can harm the state of Israel, and we will not allow this to happen.”

Ana Kasparian; “Then they’ll turn around and call us antisemites for saying that Israel controls our government. But how are you going to deny it when members of the Israeli government say that they control our government?”

Cenk Uygur; “He’s one of the top three officials in Israel and definitely sets policy. And if his faction leaves, Netanyahu wouldn’t have a government. That’s been true for years. So that gives Ben-Gvir and Smotrich complete power. But then on top of that, so what actually happened on the ground? Well, Israel said they would not allow this agreement (with Iran) to happen. And it didn’t happen. And we went back into war. Israel bombed Lebanon, we bombed Iran. Israel got exactly what they wanted. They said, who the hell do you think you are? You think you run your own country? No, it is not good for Israel. So we will ban America from doing it.”

Congress advances plan to integrate US and Israeli militaries.

Watch; Congress quietly moves to integrate U.S. and Israeli militaries, iwendster, 29 May 2026

“Bet you didn’t see this. Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries. Yes, you heard that right. And, yes, this is real. Let’s just read some of this article, shall we? Buried in the House’s version of the 2027 National Defence Authorization Act NDAA released on Tuesday is section 224, entitled United States Israel Defence Technology Cooperation Initiative. The provision would arguably do more to intertwine the US military with the Israeli military than the more than 200 billion, inflation adjusted in military assistance Israel has received from the US since its founding in 1948. 200 billion.

Section 224 lays the groundwork for bilateral research and development, co production of weapons, joint ventures, licencing agreements and seemingly every manner of US/Israeli military, military industrial complex cooperation. The US and Israel already work together heavily on missile defence, but this provision would greatly expand coordination to seemingly every area of defence tech, including AI quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber biotech and many more. It also proposes network integration and data fusion. In other words, the US military’s data could soon be Israel’s military data. If this were to actually happen, think about how much more influence Israel would have on our government, on our officials. It’s not just about the military, it’s not just about being our ally in the Middle East now they’re our ally here on American soil. Imagine what would happen as far as the laws go. Imagine what would happen as far as antisemitism crackdown. You think the laws right now about boycotting Israel are bad? Imagine what it would be like if Israel could claim that they were creating jobs for you, for Americans. What that would also do is make it so that not as much needed to be disclosed. So all of the cooperation that we have with Israel, we know that a lot of it isn’t public information anyway, but at least most of it has to be made public. In this situation it wouldn’t be. They would be able to keep a lot more classified and confidential. And then imagine what would happen with the influencers and the media personalities that are already completely bought and paid for by Israel. Imagine what would happen with the Hasbara and the propaganda campaigns that are going on right now in the United States of America. Imagine what would happen with the Christian zionist agenda. Imagine what would happen with all of this. Sure seems like another country is trying to completely take over ours. And it sure seems like they’re doing it very slowly. Kind of like everything else, when they just take an inch after an inch, and then eventually that inch becomes a mile. But, hey, I’m just a conspiracy theorist.”

Read; The Terrifying Flotilla Account Israel Desperately Tried to Hide, Double Down News, 30 May 2026

Richard Sanders; “I spoke to Australian filmmaker Juliet Lamont, who was on both this flotilla and the previous one in October last year. I must warn you, some may find her account distressing. Where was it exactly that the boat you were on was intercepted by the Israelis?”

Juliet Lamont; “We were south of Cyprus and I think that we’re about 270 nautical miles from Gaza. So we were intercepted in international waters. But at the time, because we saw what looked like to be sort of 17 year olds in balaclavas in broad daylight, it wasn’t quite as scary initially. And they drove the boat like they stole it, literally. I think maybe it was a 35 minute journey that was really fast, with guns in our faces. And then we arrived at the monumental, monstrous prison ship that a lot of people have talked about. And then that was the threshold of it becoming, yeah, a very, very frightening fearing for your life situation. They knew my name when they dragged me onto the deck. I was cable tied, my hands were… my ankles were shackled. They put so much water under my face, I had no ability to move. And every time I tried to get away from the water, to stop sort of gurgling and drown, they’d slap me again, stand on the back of my legs. Yeah, I thought that my number was up I’d only been on that boat for about 20 minutes. I thought that I was going to drown and that was the welcome to Israel, because that’s exactly what they said when I got on the boat. Welcome to Israel. You’re going to really enjoy this, is what they said. Other bodies would be thrown onto me and was sort of like sardines. And you could feel other people in different levels of anguish. Lots of screams, lots of thudding. Then I was dragged sort of along a corridor. They looked at my passport. They recognised that I’d been there before and they told me that…he had an American accent and he said, I want to kill someone today and it potentially might be you. And then I was dragged towards what we sort of ended up calling a torture tunnel. It’s a shipping container that had an entrance to it where you could vaguely see the silhouette of five soldiers inside. And I was pushed inside that space. I was slapped and kicked. I was sexually assaulted. They threw me on the ground, they broke my coccyx, kicked me in the back. And the really, the strangest thing and the thing that I remember the most is not the blows and it was not the sort of like the internal sexual assault. It was this really, really big man who was pulling at my hair like a child, like a boy would in a playground, doing it to a girl that he didn’t really understand. You know, it was like. It was really infantile and puerile.”

Richard Sanders; “Juliet, I apologise for being intrusive here, but when you say they. That you were sexually assaulted, it’s important. What exactly did they do?”

Juliet Lamont; “So they wrenched my trousers and my underwear down and it felt like it was inserted with a hand. It wasn’t a gun. I found out later that other people had guns inserted inside them. I don’t think that it was a penis, but it… like there was so much going on. But there I was vaginally raped by one of the male soldiers. Your head’s down, they’re putting you in a stress position, so your head’s down and your sort of posterior is very sort of available to be, you know, dealt with. And your hands are behind your back and your ankles are shackled. While you’re being sort of jostled, hit, sworn at in the dark. I mean, it’s a really discombobulating, horrific experience. Then a door was opened and I was thrown out into an open kind of area where I could see probably maybe about 60 people on the deck of that boat. And my daughter Isla, who is 25, ran up to me, My mouth was bleeding. They’d punched me in the face. And, yeah, I was just sort of surrounded by love and I was just really… it was really nice to see that my daughter was all right. And we talked about how much violence and barbarity she had endured. And then, before you’ve even sort of worked out where you are, what’s going to go on, what the level of threat is, you hear these howls of torture and pain happening in the place that you’ve just been thrown out of, and that goes on and on and on and on with each person. And some of them are like the most horrific ones, some are quicker than others. And people are getting sort of spat out of this horror container with broken ribs. People were Tasered in the face. Yeah, like, some severe injuries. And this kind of look of…because you’re coming from a dark space as well as being brutalised and then into the light. I just remember, and I’m a filmmaker, so I remember just this look of these people kind of being, like, burst out of hell into this, but like, absolute terror. But then this other look would sort of wash over everybody of like, maybe I’m safe. Because they could see that it wasn’t a whole load of soldiers, it was the people that they’d been sailing with.”

Richard Sanders; “Was there a difference in the way different activists were treated, for example, depending on where they came from originally, whether they’d been on the previous flotilla and so on?”

Juliet Lamont; “I mean, it definitely felt like people of colour got a bashing. And I know that from the last mission, there was definitely, definitely a sort of racial aspect to the violence. But this one really did. I mean, the. You know, there was a woman who was 70, her bones were broken. It was a bit arbitrary. But everybody, everybody, everybody was beaten.”

She was one of the many peaceful flotilla activists assaulted and tortured by Israeli soldiers last week.

Watch; “These monsters took pleasure in beating me, in sexually assaulting me” Violet Maree Coco, 26 May 2026

Violet Coco; “Those monsters took pleasure in beating me, in sexually assaulting me. Get me a meeting with Anthony Albanese and I will tell him the shame of Israel. After being released from Israeli prison, I am now in Istanbul. I’m filled with a deep well of sadness because we have left many brothers and sisters behind. Those monsters took pleasure in beating me, in sexually assaulting me and my friends. They did this even with the privilege of all of our passports. They do much worse to Palestinian prisoners. Nearly 10,000 Palestinian prisoners, hundreds of which are children as young as two, are suffering at the hands of these monsters who take pleasure in dishing out suffering. They removed our clothes, endured us with cold weather and water cannons and forced us to kneel on the ground with the head on the floor and said, if you lift your head, we will shoot you. When you care for what they have done to us, know that they do much worse to our brothers and sisters in Palestine. We want you to advocate for them. This is why we put our bodies in this situation, because we wanted to show the world their monstrous cruelty. Get me a meeting with Anthony Albanese and I will tell him the shame of Israel, the shame that they would move at my friend’s hijabs. What I want you to do is block the weapons factories, cut Israel’s supply of anything that could harm these people and boycott anything that is giving money to Israel. We need to cut all resources. Year after year after year we have watched a genocide live streamed on our phones. And now Penny Wong managed to pick up a phone and tell Israel that they shouldn’t torture their citizens. What about the Palestinian people? I’ll be home soon. And I survived that because I knew that I would be home soon. And I want you to think about those who have lost their homes in this genocide. Free Palestine.”

Read; “Don’t Be Bothered by Their Screams”: Ben-Gvir Proudly Posts Video of Police Dragging Members of the Flotilla Team by Joshua Scheer, 21 May 2026

‘Ben-Gvir himself reportedly captioned the footage, “That’s how we welcome terror supporters. Welcome to Israel,” while another clip showed him taunting handcuffed detainees. The outrage became so intense that even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly distanced himself from the spectacle, calling the conduct “not in line with Israel’s values and norms.”

There is something here that feels ripped straight from the darkest chapters of our fascist past — not hidden away in secret archives decades later, but broadcast openly, proudly, in real time. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shared footage of police violently dragging members of the flotilla team while mocking their suffering with the chilling phrase: “Don’t be bothered by their screams.”

And if this is what they are willing to show the public — if this is the sanitised version uploaded for propaganda and applause — then imagine the unspeakable torture, humiliation, and violence taking place in the shadows, far from cameras and headlines. History indeed has a way of repeating itself, especially when cruelty becomes spectacle and those in power begin celebrating the pain of the powerless.

Ben-Gvir himself has repeatedly demanded harsher measures, more repression, more brutality, always insisting there is not enough force, not enough punishment, not enough fear inflicted on Palestinians and dissenters alike. The language is no longer even disguised. It echoes the rhetoric of authoritarian regimes that taught generations what happens when a society stops seeing human beings as human.

What makes this moment especially horrifying is not merely the violence itself, but the pride. The celebration. The transformation of state cruelty into political theater for a cheering audience. Fascism does not arrive all at once. It grows through normalisation — through laughter at suffering, through public spectacles of domination, through officials who learn there is political capital in dehumanisation.

And history has shown us, again and again, where that road leads.

A diplomatic firestorm has erupted and what began as another act of humiliation proudly broadcast by Itamar Ben-Gvir quickly spiraled into a rare global diplomatic backlash, with governments across Europe, North America, and beyond publicly condemning Israel’s treatment of Gaza flotilla activists. Britain’s Yvette Cooper said she was “truly appalled,” while Italy’s Giorgia Meloni called the footage “inadmissible.”

Read; Interception of Global Sumud Flotilla vessels in international waters, Clive Lewis MP, 29 May 2026

Clive Lewis; ”I’ve signed a parliamentary motion condemning the interception of Global Sumud Flotilla vessels by the IDF in international waters. Those detained include Dr Margaret Connolly, sister of Irish President Catherine Connolly, alongside humanitarian volunteers, medics, lawyers, journalists, clergy, parliamentarians and human rights defenders from across many countries. They carried no weapons and posed no threat. Their mission was to shine a light on the starvation, siege and collective punishment taking place in Gaza.

The UK Government must support urgent, unimpeded humanitarian access into Gaza.’

Watch; Israeli solders RAPED humanitarian activists carrying food and medicine to starving children in Gaza! Thiago Ávila, 22 May 2026

Thiago Ávila; “There is no easy way to say it, what I have to say. People got raped. Those monster soldiers, they raped our participants. There was not one, not two, not three. Many cases of sexual violence against our participants in the prison boat on the way to the port of Ashdod, where they got once again beaten up. Many people with broken ribs, many people with broken bones, the arms, the collarbone, the ribs. We’re talking about monsters, we’re talking about genocidal state that takes pleasure in the violence, that takes pleasure in torturing people, that use rape and systematic sexual violence against Palestinians, but also against our flotilla members. This needs to stop. We cannot accept a country that believes that international humanitarian law does not apply to them. We cannot accept a country that dehumanises people at such a level that they do this. And still we have to say, so painful to see and to say, but still we have to say. All that they did to our participants three weeks ago with us and now with all the 428 that just arrived, still a small fraction of what they do to Palestinians. At the same prison of Ketziot, they teach dogs how to rape Palestinians. They remove eyeballs of people, they kill them and throw them in mass graves. We need to stop this terrorist country. They need to stop not only Itmar Ben-Gvir, he’s just a symptom of a sick, sick, hateful ideological zionism. We need to stop Benjamin Netanyahu. We need to stop Bezalel Smotrich. We need to stop Gideon Sa’ar, all those terrorists ruling an occupied colonial state. They need to be stopped. We are taking this to whatever is necessary. All the 428 people here are doing their medical examinations. We are doing reports. These will all become legal cases. This is going to the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice. This needs to go everywhere, people must revolt. They were taking food and medicine to Gaza. They were taking baby formula and they got raped by soldiers. We cannot accept that. We should and must revolt. We must rise up, we must take to the streets. Don’t let this be normalised. Don’t let this be normalised. Because when we normalise with our participants just accepting that, because things for the Palestinians will always be much, much worse. We need to stop them. They’re finally cornered for what they do. So many countries reprimanding them, so many countries condemned in their actions. But many of these countries, they pay lip service because they don’t apply any sanctions. And they must stop their complicity. So take to the streets, pressure government right now. Yes, people escaped that hell but 9,000 Palestinians are there, 400 of them are children, we need to stop them. Please rise up, please take to the streets.”

British Surgeon Nick Maynard who worked in Gaza for over fifteen years, describes the abduction, torture and murder of doctors, hospital workers and patients by Israeli soldiers.

Watch; “This surgeon’s mode of torture was being raped to death.” Middle East Eye, 28 May 2026

Nick Maynard; “Shifa Hospital’s been destroyed effectively twice during this war. But when it was invaded initially, maybe two years ago, all the staff were displaced, including very, very close friends of mine. And when they were allowed back in, when the Israeli military left after a few weeks, they discovered the dead bodies of 300 civilians in the hospital. Some patients, some staff, many of them handcuffed with their hands behind their back, many of them with bullet wounds on the head, including this friend of mine. So there are multiple examples of healthcare staff who’ve been killed, healthcare staff who’ve been abducted. I think the latest figure is nearly 500 healthcare workers have been abducted, illegally detained without charge, many of them by the Israeli military into the Israeli prison system. Multiple examples of them being tortured. This has all been documented by a group called Healthcare Workers Watch. You can Google it. They produced a document called the Killing and Detention of Gazan Healthcare Workers. And there are multiple examples of torture to death. Tortured to death, absolutely. So an iconic orthopaedic surgeon who I didn’t know well, but I had met and in fact I had coffee with him in May 2023. He was tortured to death. And in fact, a Sky Television investigative journalist interviewed fellow detainees and did some remarkable investigative journalism. This is all in the public domain. And described how this surgeon’s mode of torture was being raped to death. He’d been serially raped on a daily basis for two weeks prior to his dying. His body’s never been returned. I’ve taken detailed testimonies from healthcare workers who’ve been in Israeli prisons and have been tortured. They survived. I’ve taken video and audio testimonies and they’ve described to me their modes of torture, how their genitals were repeatedly attacked, specifically they were electrocuted through their genitals. They underwent severe psychological torture. They were blindfolded for 60 days in a row. They were handcuffed. They were not allowed to lie down. They were on their knees or sitting for 60 days, non stop, beaten, regularly electrocuted. I mean, awful things.”

Read; Balancing Act at the New York Times: Nicholas Kristof’s Wrote About Israel’s Sexual Torture of Prisoners, the Next Day Isabel Kershner Penned More Unverified Rape Allegations Against Hamas, Scheerpost, 30 May 2026

‘The New York Times attempted to ‘balance’ Nicholas Kristof’s documentation of the systematic rape of Palestinians by Israeli forces with yet another unverified rape ‘investigation’ claiming that Hamas had weaponised sexual violence on October 7. It was written by the paper’s pro-Israel Jerusalem-based reporter, Isabel Kershner.

Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times Op-ed piece titled The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians, published on May 11, was based on documentation and grueling victim testimonies of rapes that Palestinians have experienced at the hands of Israeli security forces. Brutal and sadistic acts of sexual torture are described in a piece that triggered enormous attention even though human rights organisations have been documenting these same crimes for years now.

The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has documented Israel’s sexual torture of Palestinian men, women and children calling the “Israeli prison system a network of torture camps.” Save the Children reported in July 2024 that Palestinian children in Israeli detention were facing “disease, increasing starvation, and] abuse including sexual violence.” A [Palestinian women’s rights organization warned that their documented 75 cases of rape and sexual violence against Palestinian women amounted to about 1% of what was actually happening in Israeli detention. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor’s extensive report published on April 13, 2026, emphasized that the sexual torture was so bad it amounted to “another genocide behind walls.” They identified its purpose as a “systematic destruction of the body and identity.” The report emphasized the scope of “criminal responsibility,” by the collusion of state institutions that were creating impunity.

In a discussion about Kristof’s piece, Francesca Albanese, who has also documented brutal Israeli torture sites, told Al Jazeera’s UpFront that she had given a long interview about sexual torture to the New York Times as early as February 2024, but nothing came of it. Albanese went on to say she didn’t understand why the Times piece should have been “more important” than the extensive documentation of human rights monitors. But when Kristof finally acknowledged that Palestinians were being tortured and raped by trained dogs, (corroborated by a soldier) in Israeli prisons, it made headlines in the US and sent shock waves through Israel’s hasbara apparatus.

The agenda-setting New York Times is a “paper of record,” with a journalism staff of 3000, about 7 percent of all journalists working in the US. The paper has also been a reliable source of pro-Israel messaging for years, especially after October 7, so when a well-respected human rights journalist wrote such an op-ed in its pages it was a public relations disaster for Israel and its propaganda machine went into high gear to counter the bad press. Zionists and genocide supporters protested in front of the Times building. Netanyahu was so outraged that he threatened to bring a defamation lawsuit against the paper. The Israel Foreign Ministry called the piece “blood libel” and accused Nicholas Kristof of writing “an endless stream of baseless lies and propaganda” that turned the “victims into the accused.”

It should come then, as no surprise that the paper attempted to “balance” Kristof’s essay by publishing a piece the very next day, on May 12, about another “two-year investigation” by Israel, that “concluded” that sexual violence by Hamas was widespread on October 7. Isabel Kirshner‘s piece attempted to breathe new life into the thoroughly discredited and debunked original Times’ front-page ‘investigation’ titled Screams Without Words. Screams was first published on December 28, 2023, just as the South African legal case against Israel’s genocide was being presented to the International Court of Justice, and it served as a significant denial and justification for Israel’s genocidal violence at the time. Screams without Words can be described accurately (and has been) with the same words used by Israel’s Foreign Ministry to falsely describe Kristof’s piece, “an endless stream of baseless lies and propaganda.”

The timing of the now infamous rape story of 2023, along with its extravagant claims to evidence not found in the front-page article, had much to do with why, almost immediately, the piece drew critical attention from media analysts, independent investigative reporters, and human rights organisations. Withering criticisms of the story included an essay in Medium, calling it “crappy journalism,” saying it offered a “lesson on selection, slanting, and charged language, and why using words in these ways constitutes a poor substitute for solid evidence and reasoning.” An Egyptian feminist non-governmental organization (NGO) Speak Up, called the article a “disgraceful investigation,” and shamed the Times for claiming to provide readers with definitive evidence, while actually offering no evidence at all. Independent US investigators such as Electronic Intifada, The Grayzone, The Intercept, Mondoweiss and others, roundly debunked the fictionesque inventions continued within it. Sixty journalism professors wrote to the New York Times calling on the paper to commission an independent review of the article. It was “troubling to professors of journalism to see such a shoddy article be published without a retraction or an investigation,” Professor Deepa Kumar told Democracy Now!’

Don’t expect to read about Israeli rapes in the mainstream media.

Watch; “No longer in denial” — Israeli settlements admit years of serial, filmed child rape by Skwawkbox, Canary, 29 May 2026

‘Israel’s long-running paedophilia scandal has exploded. A new documentary shown on Israeli TV has capped years of campaigning by victims and allies this week. Titled “No longer in denial: Gush Etzion admits to ritual abuse”, the Kan 11 ‘Zman Emet’ programme contained testimonies by victims living in illegal settlements that their leaders engaged in the gang-rape of children. The ‘leaders’ filmed the abuse and distributed it to their fellow paedophiles — and the local council has acknowledged the truth of the allegations.

The admissions come after years of allegations of serial child rape by settlers and their leaders. The accusations reach to the top — Shoshana Strook said her government-minister mother, her father and her brother had raped her throughout her childhood and filmed it. Strook was later found dead of supposed suicide — shortly after saying that if she was found dead, it would not be suicide. Benjamin Netanyahu’s choice as ambassador to the UK has also been accused of sexual abuse.

Israel — out in the open

But the Gush Etzion admissions have removed even the most vaporous doubts about the issue of entrenched and widespread child sexual abuse in Israel. The Gush Etzion Regional Council covers a cluster of villages on stolen Palestinian land directly south of Jerusalem. It has issued a statement admitting the abuse and urging more victims to come forward. Better late than never, presumably, but still undeniably self-serving and seeking to put itself in the camp of the victims:

We wish to state in the clearest possible terms: we condemn acts of abuse and those who commit them. Sexual abuse, and certainly that described as systematic and ritualistic, is a heinous crime that wounds not only the victims, but the entire fabric of our community.

As even pro-Israel, English language site JFeed has noted, the council and other senior figures spent years denying the allegations:

For an extended period, allegations of severe and ritualistic sexual abuse within the religious community had been met with denials, dismissal of witnesses, and deep skepticism from within. This time, the council chose a starkly different path.

“The acts described, attributed among others to people from Gush Etzion, are an expression of pure evil and moral depravity that has no place in human society, and certainly not in our community,” the council’s official statement read.

The Israeli regime remains in denial. When the United Nations added Israel to its blacklist of nations weaponising rape and sexual violence, the Israel Foreign Ministry X account denounced the list as “shameful and absurd”. It had spent years trying to get Hamas added to the same list for disproven allegations of sexual violence on 7 October 2023:

A zionist thing

Israel is currently sheltering well over 2,000 convicted or alleged paedophiles. In 2025, the US allowed one of its senior cyber-spies to flee to Israel after he was caught trying to arrange sex with a child. But the iron link between zionism and paedophilia is not limited to Israelis. In the US, supporters of Israel are frequently caught out, from serial child-rapist, trafficker and Israeli spy Jeffrey Epstein to, in 2026, the three well-known Alexander brothers.

And in the UK, paedophilia convictions among Israel’s supporters, especially in the Labour party, seem to run at a far higher rate than among the general population. They rarely receive more than a ‘slap on the wrist’ from a corrupt establishment — and their convictions receive only cursory media attention.

‘MSM’ silence

Just as they have turned a blind eye to Israel’s slaughter of hundreds of its own on 7 October 2023, the UK ‘mainstream’ media have so far ignored the Gush Etzion scandal — despite both being openly admitted in Hebrew-language media. Why ever could that be…?

‘The latest article comes amid ongoing efforts by Israeli propagandists to downplay media coverage of the country’s documented systematic rape of kidnapped Palestinians by reviving the false narrative that Hamas members engaged in widespread sexual violence on October 7.’

Read; Daily Mail lies: Oct 7 victim saved from rape by non-existent Muslim prohibition on violating scarred women, The Grayzone, 24 May 2026

‘The latest Oct. 7 rape hoax propaganda piece from The Daily Mail insists that the only reason a woman at the Nova music festival wasn’t raped by Hamas members is that she had a scar – and falsely claims that “scars have a spiritual significance in the eyes of the terrorists.”

In one of its most brazen disinformation efforts in years, the British tabloid The Daily Mail has published a fake news story claiming that an Israeli woman who was permitted to leave by Hamas militants only avoided being sexually assaulted by showing her captors her scar.

According to the woman in question, May Hayat, she had been taken prisoner by “terrorists” at the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, when she began to detect “an energy and look in their eyes that every woman knows what’s going to happen next.”

However, she insists the men declined to rape her because Muslims subscribe to a belief system under which “a scar like [hers] means a strong woman,” and “if something happened to her because of them, the 72 virgins they are promised will not come looking for them in heaven.”

This claim contradicts all known Islamic jurisprudence, including the mainstream Sunni doctrine espoused by Hamas – which forbids fighters (and men more generally) from carrying out sexual violence against women, and which does not in any way single out women with scars for special treatment.

But The Daily Mail article, entitled “October 7 survivor reveals how a childhood scar saved her from Hamas terrorists,” fully endorses Hayat’s extraordinarily suspicious claim. Hayat, the outlet states credulously, was later “told that such scars have a spiritual significance in the eyes of the terrorists.”

Hayat’s story, in which she now claims she narrowly avoided being raped, has changed significantly over the years. One month after the attack, Hayat alleged that she escaped her supposed Hamas captors, telling Reuters: “I could see how they were fighting over whether to kill me or not, and I ran away.”

Now, however, The Daily Mail writes that Hayat was actually freed when “the leader” of a Hamas cell acknowledged her scar, and “shook his head at his fellow terrorist before telling May she was free to go.”

It’s not The Daily Mail’s first attempt to launder Israeli rape hoax propaganda. In June 2024, The Grayzone revealed that what the tabloid billed as an “exclusive” story confirming Palestinians raped Israeli women on October 7 actually consisted of coerced confessions which were so full of contradictions about nonexistent victims that they are all but guaranteed to be false.

The author of that debunked report, Natalie Lisbona, has been photographed smiling with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently wanted by the International Criminal Court for his involvement in war crimes in Gaza.

The author of this fake article, Natalie Lisbona, is an Israeli asset

She’s reported discredited claims that Palestinians burned babies on Oct 7 and ripped fetuses from pregnant women, claiming to have spoken to witnesses who didn’t exist

Here’s Lisbona with her de facto boss https://t.co/d3PjOngLRN pic.twitter.com/oBHzTmri1X

The latest article comes amid ongoing efforts by Israeli propagandists to downplay media coverage of the country’s documented systematic rape of kidnapped Palestinians by reviving the false narrative that Hamas members engaged in widespread sexual violence on October 7.’

Watch; The UN’s special representative for sexual violence in conflict stated on Friday that Israeli state actors are now blacklisted for “continued patterns of rape and other forms of sexual violence.” Middle East Eye, 29 May 2026

Pramila Patten, UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict; “Two new state actors are listed. Firstly, the Israeli Armed and Security Forces, namely the Israel Defence Forces, Israel Prison Service, including the Keter Special Forces and the Police Counter Terrorism Unit Yamam are listed on the basis of credible information indicating continued patterns of rape and other forms of sexual violence. With an increase in the number of verified cases this year, in 2025, the UN was able to verify 31 cases, primarily in detention settings, but also at checkpoints and during military operations against 14 men, seven women, nine boys and one girl, from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. This is part of a pattern of sexual violence against Palestinians, including as a form of torture. Violations consisted of rape, including with objects, gang rape, attempted rape, physical violence to the genitals, instances of targeted shooting of the genitals, touching of breast and genitals, strip and cavity searches conducted without apparent security justification, forced nudity and threats of rape. Rape and gang rape were perpetrated against nine of these victims, with four suffering repeated rape on multiple occasions. These violations occurred primarily during detention and interrogation and across 12 sites, including military camps under Israeli control, Israeli Prison service facilities and in one Israeli police station in a climate of total impunity. Moreover, explicit threats were made by Israeli armed and security forces warning detainees not to report abuse to media or human rights organisations. With regard to detainees, it has only been possible to verify cases after release. Obstructed access to Gaza, where many detainees have been released following the October 2025 agreement, further impedes their ability to document cases. In last year’s report covering 2024, this party was put on notice for potential listing by the Secretary General owing to significant concerns regarding consistent denial of access for UN monitors and patterns of sexual violence documented by the un. Since last year’s notice, both the patterns of sexual violence and the denial of access have persisted. As a result, UN human rights monitors continue to face severe access constraints which significantly impede their capacity to document cases in a timely manner.”

This is not being shown on MSM but it continues to happen that the IDF are not just arresting but abusing and sexually and potentially even organ harvesting them. They do it because they can… ie they have complete impunity from western govts.

Watch; The IDF arresting 2 children in Gaza, wonderful_palestine, 21 May 2026

“And we saw them. They didn’t attack. They didn’t do anything. He’s still eating his crisps that his mum gave him. They didn’t do anything. They’re too young to be arrested. Why are you taking them? They look like they’re both under 13. I think it’s illegal. Why don’t you want to talk to me about why you’re arresting children? He’s 11 years old. He’s too young to be arrested. Under 12. Under 12. He’s too young to be arrested. Where are you taking him? He’s under 12 years old. Arrest them. No, these guys are too young to be arrested. They’re not 12 years old. It’s illegal to arrest them. This one is 11. His name is. No, he’s 11 years old. Why did you arrest them? They didn’t do any. They haven’t done anything. Why are you taking them? Why are you taking. Them? We haven’t done anything wrong. Under Israeli law, it’s illegal to arrest a. child. He’s not old enough to be arrested. Excuse me. Excuse me. These children have done nothing. Why are you taking them?”

Dr Nick Maynard witnessed 4 teenage boys all of whom had been shot in the testicles by the IDF

Watch; “Four young teenage boys were brought in, all of whom had been shot in the testicles.”, Tucker Carlson, 29 May 2026

Dr Nick Maynard; “On one day, the Saturday before I left Nasser Hospital to come home to England, four young teenage boys were brought in, all of whom had been shot in the testicles, nowhere else. I was called to the operating theatre by one of my guards and surgical colleagues who had a 12 year old boy on the operating table and he’d been shot. It had gone through his aorta. He was dying, he was bleeding, they couldn’t stop bleeding so they asked for my help. I went in there, I couldn’t stop it either. By which time his clotting had all gone wrong. This happens in severe injury. So he was bleeding out from there and he died on the operating table under our hands. Awful. His family had come with him, said that all were starving, they’re all very weak. So, the young teenage boys are the ones who are sent out because they’re the strongest to get the food. And he’d been shot by an Israeli soldier there. They witnessed this. Well, I, I can’t speculate any better than anyone else as to why this is happening. What I can do is I can document what I saw and I can document what I heard from. And it was a similar storey from all the victims families, from those that survived, from the victims themselves, from Gazan healthcare workers who went to these food sites in order to get food for their families. They all described the same things, how these young teenage boys were being shot by Israeli soldiers. They had noticed how there were different body parts being targeted on different days at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation food distribution points and other emergency room doctors and nurses I knew corroborated this, that 19 young teenage boys had all come in in one day, all of whom had been shot in the head and neck. Nowhere else, just the head and neck. Another day they came in predominantly with chest injuries. Another day they came in predominantly with abdominal gunshot wounds. And we noticed this. I spoke, started speaking to my fellow surgeons in the operating theatres and we all noticed this pattern as well.”

Josh Paul resigned as a director at the US State Department over the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Watch; The Problem Israel Has With Human Rights Groups, Narrate Palestine, 29 May 2026

Josh Paul, Former Director US State Dept; “You mentioned sexual violence. I was part of the human rights vetting process for arms going to Israel and a charity called Defence of Children International Palestine drew our attention at the State Department to the sexual assault, actually the rape of a 13 year old boy that occurred in an Israeli prison in the Moskobiya in Jerusalem. We examined these allegations. We believed they were credible. We put them to the government of Israel. And you know what happened the next day? The IDF went into the DCIP offices and removed all their computers and declared them a terrorist entity. I think it is vital that atrocities not happen to anyone. Not sexual violations, not any kind of gross violation of human rights. We are looking at a situation where there is so much dehumanification, where people are not seen for the value that they have.”

At a demo in Jerusalem orthodox jews say zionists are not true jews

Watch; Orthodox Jews—yes, Jews—are being beaten, dragged, and arrested in the streets of Israel, newstotrust, 10 May 2026,

First Demonstrator; “We’re in Mea Shearim, a Jewish Orthodox neighbourhood in the very centre of Jerusalem which has been turned into a kind of a ghetto by the Israeli state. The core of the population of Mea Shearim lived here since before the zionist state. A lot of them are very anti zionist. Today there is a demonstration done at the same time as Israel’s Independence Day.”

Second Demonstrator; “Jews are not zionists because the zionist ideology is not Jewish. The zionist ideology is against the Jewish beliefs. Zionists are not Jews anymore. Even if they were born as Jews, they are not Jews anymore. Of course we raise the Palestinian flag because first of all it’s a symbol that we have no war with them. We are against the occupation that they have been going through. We are like brothers with each other. We understand that what they suffer is our suffering. Also every spilled blood that we see with them is hurting our hearts. Especially when it comes from the Jewish nation’s name. They stole the Jewish nation’s name Israel, and we are ashamed. We are very ashamed that they do it in our name. They have owned this land. It’s called Palestine. They tried to remove the Palestinian name, the Palestinian tradition. They stole the Jewish name and they steal the Palestinian land. There is no freedom here. There is no democracy like you see. We cannot declare our opinions in public. We cannot make a protest in public. And I’ve personally been beaten today.”

First Demonstrator; “They just arrested a father and left his child in a stroller in the middle of the street alone.”

Second Demonstrator; “We want the Palestinian to gain back their lands because we are not thieves. We don’t want anything to take out from them. We want them to believe peacefully and with freedom, with complete freedom. No apartheid, no apartheid state. We don’t want it.”

Islamification of your country

Watch; “They Want to Live in their Homeland but They Can’t Because Of US Interference” Muslims Way, 22 April 2026

Ana Kasparian; “So if you don’t want the Islamification of your country, how about you stop aiding and abetting Israel? I need western countries to hear me when I say this, okay? All the western countries, United States, Europe, especially Europe, okay? I don’t want to hear any whining about the Islamification of your country because of mass migration as you aid and abet, or best case scenario, just remain silent and what’s happening in the Middle East because Israel wants to build their empire, okay? The mass displacement that we’ve seen in the Middle East is the result of us going into countries, bombing countries, overthrowing governments that Israel doesn’t like. All of that stuff has led to mass migration of Muslims. You think they want to go to your stanky ass country? No, I think they would rather be in their homeland. But they can’t live in their homeland because it’s been bombed to smithereens. That’s the reality of the situation. So if you don’t want the Islamification of your country, how about you stop aiding and abetting Israel in their disgusting land grabs and empire building. How about that?”

Watch; Every Israel-Palestine Debate In A Nutshell, Caitlin Johnstone, 3 May 2026

“Basically every Israel-Palestine debate goes like this:”Israel did X.” “Yeah, because Hamas did Y.” “Yeah, because Israel did Z.” “Yeah but only because the Palestinians keep doing A.” “Okay but that’s wouldn’t have happened of the Israelis hadn’t been doing B.” “But that only happened because the Arabs did C!”

But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethno-state on top of a pre-existing civilisation without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there. Sure you can go further back and say “Oh yeah well the Jews lived there thousands of years ago,” but that’s just silly. There’s no valid reason to believe some Jewish guy in New York City even has any meaningful lineage connecting him to that land more strongly than any random Muslim in Turkey or wherever, and even if there was, it would still be absurd to cite ancient history as the basis for a territorial claim. I’m only a few generations removed from my ancestry in Ireland and Scotland, but it would be ridiculous for me to show up demanding the home of someone who lives there. So the original grievance is clearly the artificial creation of an ethno-nationalist state in the mid-20th century, and the push by zionists and western imperialists to make it happen. That’s the initial act of abuse that spawned this whole gigantic mess. And how has it all worked out? History speaks for itself. Generations of nonstop violence and abuse, culminating in the slaughter and chaos throughout the Middle East that we see before us today. This means that creating Israel was a mistake. A mistake that needs to be corrected. Zionists will collapse into a shrieking pile of vitriol and hyperbole when you say this, claiming you’re calling for the extermination of Jews, but this is false. Certainly righting the wrongs of the past and ending a national order premised on putting the interests of Jews before Palestinians would inconvenience a lot of the Jewish people who’ve been living there, but there’s no basis for the claim that it would entail their deaths. Apartheid South Africa was dismantled without the extermination of millions of white people, and there’s no reason to believe the dismantling of apartheid Israel would entail the extermination of Jews. The Israel experiment has been tried, and it has failed. It is time to try something else.”

Read; Senior barristers accused of misusing legal status in pro-Israel campaign against Palestine activists, Middle East Monitor, 21 May 2026

‘Three of Britain’s most senior barristers have been accused of lending the weight of their professional status to a pro-Israel lawfare campaign targeting Palestine solidarity activists, charities, student groups, teachers and cultural workers.

The allegation forms part of a formal complaint submitted to the Bar Standards Board (BSB) by the European Legal Support Centre (ELSC) and the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC). The complaint names Lord David Pannick KC, Lord Anthony Grabiner KC and Stephen Hockman KC in their roles as patrons of UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI).

The BSB regulates barristers in England and Wales. The complaint asks the regulator to examine whether the three barristers’ names and senior legal status were used in UKLFI correspondence in a way that made legal threats and allegations appear more serious to recipients.

UKLFI, founded in 2011, says its mission is to oppose the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and what it calls the “delegitimisation of Israel”. It has described its patrons as “some of the most distinguished members of the legal profession in the United Kingdom”.

ELSC and PILC argue that repeated references to the barristers’ senior status may have added weight to UKLFI letters sent to individuals and organisations involved in lawful advocacy, education, cultural work and public expression relating to Palestine.

The complaint says many of those targeted are not lawyers and often do not have the money or legal support needed to respond to complex legal claims. Campaigners argue that this creates pressure on people to cancel events, withdraw statements or avoid public support for Palestine because they fear legal consequences.

The complaint has been brought on behalf of a broad coalition including teachers, migrant organisations, student unions, NGOs, healthcare professionals and cultural workers. Those involved have submitted statements describing the impact of legal pressure and institutional complaints on their work.’

Israel didn’t exist on the 1941 atlas. The area was called Palestine where Muslims, Jews and Christians lived together with equal rights.

Watch; When U.S. Senators Tried to Block Palestine… The World Responded, Rifa’s Faith, 28 April 2026

Lindsey Graham; “There is no Palestinian state under international law. To any ally, Canada, Britain, Germany, France. If you try to help the ICC, we’re going to sanction you. We should crush your economy.”

Mark Carney; “Canada recognises the state of Palestine.”

Yvette Cooper; “I stand before you today beneath the emblem of the United Nations to confirm the historic decision of the British government to recognise the State of Palestine.”

Anthony Albanese; “Australia recognised the State of Palestine.”

Marcelo de Sousa; “Portugal formally recognised the State of Palestine as a sovereign state with full rights.”

Bart de Wever; “Belgium announces the recognition the State of Palestine.”

Simon Harris; “Ireland, Norway and Spain are announcing that we recognise the State of Palestine.”

Jonas Støre; “The government has decided that Norway wants to officially recognise the State of Palestine.”

‘A small selection of the documented false flags and fake attacks orchestrated to push zionist foreign policy objectives – a technique for shaping public opinion that has now spread further than state operators.’

Watch; Mossad false flags?Are they actually real? by David Miller, 21 May 2026

‘Do the Mossad use false flags? Yes. Here is me talking about a small selection of the documented false flags and fake attacks orchestrated to push zionist foreign policy objectives. Also looks at how this technique for shaping public opinion has now spread further than state operators.’

David Miller; “The zionists realised that they didn’t have the numbers, they would always be a minority in Palestine and what they had to do was to encourage large numbers of Jewish colonists to become settler-colonists in Palestine. And they set about doing that in a systematic way, and they did it, of course, in Iraq, as Avi Shlaim in particuler testified, but they did it elsewhere, they did it across the whole of North Africa and they did it in let’s remember in the Soviet Union when the campaign, slightly later than the Iraqi thing where they encouraged Russians to become settler-colonists, and of course now the Russians are amongst the largest national minorities. So this is the demographic issue which the zionists have always had that they are a minority in the region. And to exert dominance with a minority of people was they thought difficult. And that’s why these false flags were enacted, including, of course, let’s remember, you mentioned this, let’s remember the direct bombing of synagogues by the Mossad in order to encourage Jews to leave Iraq or Iran or Morocco or Algeria or Egypt in another case, and to come to become colonists. And that was the strategy. That was what it was for and it was effective.”

Crispin Flintoff; “So that’s a kind of movement itself to get more people to leave countries to Israel. Now I’m going to move forward to one that you showed me that I had no idea of, which is in Madrid in 1991 and you show me this book ‘The Other Side of Deception’. Could you give us an idea of what happened in Madrid?”

David Miller; “The history of zionists’ relationships with the US has been that they wanted to influence and control the US and US policy. Of course, Benjamin Netanyahu himself has made all sorts of pronouncements about how easy it is to do that and how it doesn’t matter which side of the aisle you sit on, we know that you all stand with Israel and of course AIPAC is part of that as well. But there’s also of course the history of trying to corral US presidents when US presidents took decisions which the zionists didn’t like they would take measures, they blocked the White House during Clinton’s period and indeed during the first Trump administration. And we know all sorts of things about various different activities they took against US presidents. In particular, which is not well known, is the example of George Bush, the senior George Bush, who had taken measures against zionists which they didn’t like including the boycott of certain Israeli state practices and as a result there was a plan drawn up by the Mossad to execute to assassinate George Bush, a Republican president. And plan didn’t go ahead in the end. But that shows the kind of planning and thinking of the zionists that they will turn on anyone, and that of course, we should not be surprised that they will turn on Keir Starmer when he’s outlived his usefulness, put in Andy Burnham or whoever else, or if, if the alternative is possible, they put in Reform, who they also fund, or the Conservative party, because they play all sides of all questions. This is yet another example of the way in which the zionists operate, which people don’t understand.

The zionists want to have and have always wanted to have a greater Israel, but they also want something which I think people balk at. They also want to control the politics of other countries in the west. Yes, of course, US, UK, France and Germany. And we make an argument about the extent to which they are able to do that. They also of course wanted to control the politics of Latin America and of Africa in order they can control resource flows and the extraction of minerals, but also so that they can sell their products to these countries, surveillance, arms and also to try and rule the drug trade in those countries as well. And that’s what we’ve seen recently with Honduras Gate where the ex president of Honduras has been freed by Trump in a conspiracy, it appears, which is now public between Milei, the ultra-zionist president of Argentina and of course led by Benjamin Netanyahu conspired with Trump to let this guy go in order that he can allow their involvement in the drug trade to go forward. This is something which is happening across the whole of the world. This is happening in Africa, in Latin America, where the zionists are trying to influence and direct politics in various different ways.”

Gaza

If you ever wanted a clear example of how our UK judicial system has been corrupted, follow the rigged trial of the activists who destroyed a few of the weapons used for genocide in Palestine.

Listen; Palestine Legal: State stress tests new legislation, UK Column News, 15 May 2026

Basil Valentine; “The UK national security state targeting of all forms of Palestine solidarity, we’ve got the new bill coming in, talking about cumulative protest, which is what Assistant Commissioner Harman was talking about when he said more than thirty-three, I agree, rather suspicious number, but this whole idea of cumulative protest needs to be clamped down upon. But protest has to be cumulative in order to get anywhere. That’s the whole point of it. And the visa refusals, that’s another aspect of that. And of course, we’re now going to look at the case of Rajiv Menon, who made an absolutely exemplary speech, one described by Craig Murray as the best legal speech he’d heard by a barrister pretty much in his lifetime. Well, I’m pleased to say he has won his case but on a procedural matter. Justice Johnson refused to allow him to direct the jury to acquit according to their conscience. And so, as a result of disregarding the judge’s instruction, he was charged with contempt of court and immediately referred to the High Court. Now, what the High Court have decided is that Justice Johnston did not have the authority to do that, that he needs approval from the Attorney General himself.. This is part of a wider pattern, as we say, of targeting, using the legal system as well as the police to target all forms of opposition to genocide. Rajiv Menon won his appeal saying that the Divisional Court had no jurisdiction to consider the contempt allegation in the absence of an application by the Attorney General. This is Devonshire’s barristers, the case is unusual, but the principle is wider. Contempt proceedings are serious. They can engage liberty, in other words result in custodial sentences, obviously with professional representation and the administration of justice. The Court of Appeal was not deciding whether the underlying contact amounted to contempt. That’s the key point. Deciding merely whether the procedures needed to bring the matter before the High Court had been lawful and they weren’t. Joshua Rosenberg, who I believe is the former legal correspondent of the BBC, he makes the point that the judge can only refer it back to the Bar Standards Board as an alleged breach of the barrister’s code of conduct. But the Bar Council have said that they don’t want to take any further action. They’re not recommending that any further action is taken. And that could be crucial in this case because let’s not forget, judges are all former barristers themselves. And if the Bar Council, which represents all barristers, all cases, say that they don’t want the matter to go any further, then it’s unlikely to do so. But we haven’t heard yet from Justice Johnson whether or not he does intend to appeal to the Attorney General directly. And he may well get a sympathetic hearing if he does so, given the way the UK national security state is completely captured. Kirsty Brimelow, Chair of the Bar Counsel, said the Court of Appeal judgement is welcomed and it is hoped that this is now an end to this troubling episode. Michael Mansfield QC, the most prominent human rights lawyer in Britain, even more so than Keir Starmer, he joined the chorus of disapproval of this measure. First time in living memory that a barrister had been referred to the High Court for contempt of court. Now, moving swiftly on, another aspect of this malfeasance, its the only way to describe it. Cage International have got the best take on this earlier this week, ‘State exploited terror powers to manipulate Filton jury to secure a conviction’. Let’s remember there were reporting restrictions on this particular matter which meant that it wasn’t in the public domain and that was basically that the Filton 24 retrial of six defendants who, if you remember back in February, the jury couldn’t agree a verdict on, well, the judge had not allowed their barristers to mention the fact that they were acting out of their own conscience in order to destroy weapons manufacturers used in the commission of genocide. Nor were the jury allowed to know that if they found the defendants guilty that they would be sentenced under terrorism legislation, even though the charge was only for criminal damage. So the jury, they’re thinking, oh, well, here we’ve got some defendants charged with criminal damage, we merely have to decide whether or not we think they’re guilty of criminal damage. But actually, no, if you find them guilty, the judge is going to sentence them under terrorism legislation, which results of course in harsher conditions in prison, longer sentences, loss of parole, etc. The original judge was removed after granting a defendant bail and his replacement, Mr. Justice Johnson, the same judge that brought the case against Rajiv Menon, is a career-long defender of the British state, having previously represented the police force and intelligence agencies, including talking in favour of police officers engaging in sexual relations with people in protest groups, that appalling scandal. Women even fathered children with men who were masquerading as authentic activists, but were in fact police officers undercover. Well, Justice Johnson thought all that was okay. He’s also represented MI5. This is the Cage International’s position, ‘The State is stress testing new machinery of legislation introduced in 2021 that allows a terrorism connection to be added to any offence carrying a two-year minimum sentence without a terrorism charge, without the jury’s knowledge and at the sole discretion of the judge. The Filton Four are the first people in British legal history to face this mechanism for direct action. If it stands, it will be used again in similar cases. If this stands, the defendants could be given significantly longer prison sentences and face severe restrictions on their lives following their release as well. It should be clear now to everyone that terrorism laws are a weapon for the security State to take over the judicial process and overturn tradition and liberties acquired through citizen struggles over centuries. This is why Cage has called for them to be abolished and for there to be a return to due process and fair trial procedures’. Extraordinary really, that we need to say those things in the 21st century, but we do. I just want to read the statement from the head of public advocacy at Cage who said ‘the terrorism sentencing connection must be dropped, ban on Palestine action must be lifted and the terror laws being used to reframe conscience as criminality must be abolished’. What is being built here is a legal architecture designed to make resistance through any means possible, to make resistance impossible and worth remembering, of course, that concomitant with this in the King’s speech, he announced curtailing of jury trials. Well, we can all see where this is heading towards Kafka-esque situation. If you put all these various things together, you could be tried in court in Britain by a judge, not allowed to know the charges being brought against you, and no jury. We’re going to a very dark place with all this.”

Unlike many migrants that leave their country whether due to persecution and economic reasons, Palestinians won’t leave. “We are people that value community, honour, bravery, resilience, karama, freedom.”

Listen; The History of National Resistance Movements in Palestine,The Chris Hedges Report, 14 May 2026

‘Dr. Ramzy Baroud, a Palestinian historian and author, in his new book, “Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine,” traces the long arc of Palestinian resistance to the zionist settler-colonial state leading to its current form in Hamas. It is resistance, defined by Palestinians themselves, as Dr. Baroud explains, that is the “sole leverage” of the Palestinian people in their struggle for existence, which began before the Nakba of 1948.’

Dr. Ramzy Baroud; “Palestinian refugees from Gaza all are villagers, they are peasants, felahin we call them. We come from the countryside in southern Palestine. We are people that value community, value honour, value bravery, value resilience, value karama, dignity, houri, freedom. These are the codes and the little concepts according to which we operate. They are not something you can translate to news sound bites to explain why we do what we do. And there is a decision that has been made in Gaza, a collective decision that is uncommunicated, but it’s there, that we would rather die to the last of us than leave Gaza. In fact, we have that saying in Arabic. We say ‘until the last drop of blood’. So we will fight until the last drop of blood. And now, here’s the thing that is supposed to be a metaphor, but it’s not for us in Gaza. It’s an actual thing. We stand our ground and we die in large numbers, but we’ll never abandon our homeland. If Israel could not achieve that over the course of two years of genocide, plus and ongoing, and ongoing, and they still haven’t. When people applied to leave Gaza for medical purposes, the vast majority of them are just wounded people who needed to go and get urgent medical attention. You did not see a million Palestinian applying to go and leave Gaza. They will not leave. In fact, a lot of them came back to Gaza during that brief transition where some people were allowed to cross the Rafah border. So as long as the Palestinian people have made that decision to withstand under any circumstance, and they prove that tangibly and practically, I don’t think Israel will possibly succeed in ethnically cleansing Gaza.”

You rarely hear about the right to return or compensation for 700,000 Palestinian refugees forced out of their homes by zionist militia in the 1948 Nakba.

Watch; What JFK Said About Palestinian Refugees – The Speech That Enraged Israel, Historical Void, 7 March 2026

‘July 2, 1957, U.S. Senate: Senator John F. Kennedy, age 40, delivered speech titled “Imperialism—the Enemy of Freedom.” Speech primarily about Algeria, French colonialism. But Kennedy included statement about Middle East. Kennedy said: “the legitimate claims of the Arab refugees to repatriation or compensation for their lost lands and property, which we voted for in the United Nations in 1948.” First time major American political figure publicly endorsed principle Palestinian refugees have right to return to homes or receive compensation. Israeli government shocked. American Jewish leaders furious. Demanded Kennedy clarify, retract statement. Kennedy refused. Stood by words. Within days, Kennedy received critical letters from American Jewish leaders. Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver wrote Kennedy’s statement “dangerous” and “irresponsible.” July 23, 1957: Kennedy responded to Silver. Did not apologise, did not retract. Kennedy wrote: “I did not call for repatriation of all Arab refugees. I called for recognition of their right to repatriation or compensation, as stated in UN resolution.” Kennedy: “I recognise Israel cannot accept return of all refugees without endangering its security. But refugees have legitimate claims that cannot be ignored forever.” American Jewish organisations continued pressure. Kennedy met with Jewish leaders late 1957, early 1958. Did not retract statement. 1960: Kennedy ran for president, spoke frequently about supporting Israel, said almost nothing about Palestinian refugees. January 1961: Kennedy became president. 1961: Appointed Joseph Johnson as special envoy to explore refugee solutions. 1962: Johnson proposal suggested refugees given free choice: return, resettle, or emigrate. Israel rejected, Arab states rejected. Kennedy let proposal die quietly. November 1963: Kennedy assassinated. Statement remains unique in American presidential politics. No president since has explicitly endorsed Palestinian refugee rights.’

Watch; “Israelis are more genocidal than people think.” Haaretz, 27 May 2026

‘Russian-born activist Andrey Khrzhanovskiy has become a prominent chronicler of Israeli settler and military violence in the West Bank, leveraging social media to document abuses and amplify Palestinian voices.’

Andrey Khrzhanovskiy; “These are pieces of a destroyed world, relics of an ethnic cleansing that happened where I stand right now. This used to be the Palestinian neighbourhood of Manshiya in Jaffa and in 1948, it was destroyed, levelled completely. Everybody from there was expelled, and now they and their descendants are not allowed to come back. And in the ruins of Manshiya, Tel Aviv was built. Those skyscrapers behind me are now where Palestinians used to live. I lived in Tel Aviv for two years and I did not know about this until I spoke to some friends from Jaffa. There are no memorial pacts. This is not taught. This is one of the last couple of houses, Palestinian buildings still standing here. But it’s not a museum dedicated to Nakba or to Manshiya. It’s a museum dedicated to Etzel, a Jewish terrorist organisation responsible for countless deaths of Palestinian civilians. And the beach is absolutely covered in these pieces of Palestinian houses that were destroyed in 1948.”

Campaign; Don’t Buy Apartheid, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, 7 February 2025

‘The Don’t Buy Apartheid campaign calls on all individuals, shops, restaurants, and businesses to take two key actions to support the Palestinian struggle for freedom:

1) Boycott Israeli produce like avocados, oranges, herbs and dates.

2) Boycott Coca-Cola and its brands Schweppes, Sprite, Fanta, Innocent, Appletiser, Smart Water and Costa Coffee.

Israeli fresh produce, like avocados, oranges, herbs and dates, is grown in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land. When businesses sell this produce, they are supporting Israel’s land theft and ethnic cleansing.

Coca-Cola franchisee in Israel operates a regional distribution centre in an illegal Israeli settlement. It’s therefore helping to entrench Israel’s military occupation and colonisation of Palestinian land. Consumers and businesses should buy an apartheid-free alternative, such as Gaza Cola.

Join your local PSC branch and take action at supermarkets selling these goods, and reach out to local businesses to ask them to pledge to join the boycott and display a campaign poster.’

Iran

Watch; Iran’s Anti-Ship Missile HITS US Vessel, Trump & Israel CRUMBLE Danny Haiphong with Stanislav Krapivnik; 2 Jun 2026

Former US Army officer Stanislav Krapivik joins the show to discuss the major warning from Iran to Trump & Israel that took the form of a major strike on a US vessel in the Persian Gulf and a direct threat to Israel that had Trump and Netanyahu scrambling to walk back on their escalation.

Watch; Roundtable w/ Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern + Scott Ritter, Judge Napolitano, Judging Freedom, Weekly Wrap , 29 May 2026

Scott Ritter – American former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, former United Nations Special Commission weapons inspector, author, and commentator; Larry C Johnson – Former CIA intel Analyst; Ray Macgovern – Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Officer.

Judge Napolitano; “I’m just looking at this piece that Phil Giraldi sent to all of us about the NDAA, the National Defense Authorisation Act for 2027, with two sections in there calling for the integration of the IDF with the United States military at a level that the US military has never integrated with a foreign country before. Does that surprise you, Larry Johnson?”

Larry C Johnson – Former CIA intel Analyst; “Oh, no. They’re going to try to hide it, launder the money. Right now, you have to go through an open process of State Department selling weapons to Israel. This way, you get to bury it in the Department of War. But I think this comes too little too late, because several of the weapons that Israel would like to get, we no longer can make because we don’t have the supplies. So the United States is making promises to deliver things that it can’t right now produce simply because of the lack of resources. So Israel remains the central player in this drama. Now, we saw earlier today Trump announcing that he was lifting the blockade, but then he proceeded to basically take the 180-degree opposite position on every one of Iran’s demands, such as release of frozen assets, sanction, relief, the end of the war in Lebanon and Gaza and the West Bank. So as long as Israel continues to carry out those attacks, Iran’s not going to agree to any kind of permanent agreement.

The ceasefire is tentative. It remains barely in place. But I think that as these attacks on Lebanon, as they intensify, Iran’s going to finally pull back and start striking Israel because Israel is violating the ceasefire.”

Read; Iran launches retaliatory strikes on Kuwait after new US attacks, The Cradle, 1 June 2026

Top negotiator and parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Israel’s escalation in Lebanon was ‘clear evidence’ of US ‘non-compliance’ with the ceasefire

Iran announced on 1 June new retaliatory strikes overnight in response to another attack launched by the US military in violation of the so-called ceasefire between Washington and Tehran.

In a statement, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said its Aerospace Force struck the air base from which the US attack was launched, claiming that its designated targets were destroyed.

The IRGC warned that a repeat of US violations would be met with a “completely different” response, adding that responsibility would lie with the “aggressor and child-killing US regime.”

Kuwait’s military announced that its air defenses had intercepted “hostile missile and drone attacks,” while air raid sirens sounded across the country despite the ongoing US–Iran ceasefire.

The Kuwaiti army said explosions heard by residents were the result of interception operations.

Washington carried out an attack on an Iranian communications tower in Sirik in the country’s south, the IRGC said.

Read; BBC probe reveals Iranian strikes heavily damaged at least 20 US military bases in West Asia, The Cradle, 1 June 2026

‘Tehran’s precision strikes on US military sites caused tens of billions in damage

A BBC Verify investigation of satellite imagery and video analysis published on 1 June reveals that Iranian military strikes successfully damaged at least 20 US military sites across West Asia since the start of the US-Israeli war of aggression on the Islamic Republic.

Findings suggest that the scale and precision of Iranian retaliatory strikes had been significantly more extensive and accurate than US officials had previously acknowledged, with some independent analysts suggesting as many as 28 bases may have been affected.

The targeted facilities are spread across eight Gulf countries, namely Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Bahrain, and Oman.’

Watch; Is the Iran Conflict Entering a More Dangerous Phase? Mohammad Marandi, 1 Jun 2026

Presenter; Danny Haiphong; “The UAE is being told by the Trump administration to go seize disputed island between the UAE and Iran. What do you make of this? And is the UAE really going to be the launching pad for this renewed war of aggression?

Well, the US has brought in lots of troops, and most of those planes that we saw constantly coming to the region for weeks after the ceasefire began bringing equipment, apparently, most of those planes were bringing in equipment for a ground assault. A lot of them were, of course, ammunition and spare parts for the planes so that they could slaughter more kids in schools and things like that, but most of them were for a ground assault.

A lot of those troops, from my understanding, are in the Emirates, a lot of them are in Bahrain, and a lot of them are in Kuwait, if I’m not mistaken. I should have checked on this before coming on your show. But… And then a lot of the planes are in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the Emirates too.

So if there is an assault, yes, the Emirates will be one of the places from where the assault begins. The Emirates doesn’t have a strong force. It’s a country of one point two million people, and it doesn’t have a real armed force. It has lots of weaponry, weapons and jets and so on, but those are basically for corruption. They buy the weapons to bribe the United States. The kickbacks or the commissions go to American senators, they go to the princes, they go to the royal family and then they go buy palaces and mansions and apartment buildings in Manhattan and that sort of thing. But they’re not capable on their own of carrying out any war. We recall that during the seven years of genocide in Yemen, when the whole Arabian Peninsula, all these countries, Qatar, the Saudis, the Emirates, Turkey, unfortunately, all of them were helping Saudi Arabia and the Emirates and supporting them. But so was NATO and to massacre children in Yemen and to starve them.

The Americans were part of the siege in the Red Sea. I know a former American official who told me himself that he was on one of the naval ships, and he saw that they stopped a boat, and they checked the boat, and they saw it was full of medicine. The boat was taking medicine to Yemen, and they dumped it all in the sea, so that’s the sort of siege that they were imposing on Yemen. And of course, Qatar and Erdogan, they moved away from this, not because they cared about the people of Yemen, but because of the siege that then they imposed on Qatar. That caused a split. But the point is that the Saudis and the Emiratis, with all the global support and all the US and British advisors and bombing Yemen day and night and imposing a siege, they failed to win the war in Yemen. So what is the Emirates going to do against Iran? Iran can destroy the Emirates very swiftly, all of its critical infrastructure within a day or two. So they can’t do anything on their own. But they are worse than the other countries in the Persian Gulf region in their obedience to the United States, and their pushing for violence and war. And of course, their alliance with the Israeli regime has been exposed by the Israelis in a way in which even they are now embarrassed because they’ve been trying to deny it. When Netanyahu and the head of the Mossad and the head of the military and everyone came to the Emirates during the war, and now the Emiratis are saying, “no, no, no-one came’.”

Tucker Carlson told Trump that his Middle East advisers loath him!

Watch; Netanyahu, Murdoch, Shapiro All Against Trump, Tucker Carlson, 17 May 2026

Tucker Carlson; “I said, look, Netanyahu hates you. You know that. The people pushing you toward this would include Rupert Murdoch, who despises you. Trump knows that, of course. Mark Thiessen has always hated you. Ben Shapiro, they hate you. Mark Levin hates you. I said this right to his face. The people pushing you to do this want to destroy you, and they’re doing it on behalf of Israel, whose goals include getting the United States out of the Middle East. And he said, yeah, I know. He’s not stupid. He’s very smart in his weird way. And he knew exactly how bad this could be. And I think within, like, 24 hours, he knew it was bad, and that’s why I believe he sent Rubio out there to blame Israel for it. I think that was on purpose, because Trump was enraged at the Israelis. The second this happened and the regime didn’t fall, he knew, oh, wow, how do you get out of it now? He knew he was shafted, and I think he’s known it for two months.”

Read; Israeli claims about an Iran ‘threat’ were always a lie. Now we have proof, Jonathan Cook, 30 May 2026

‘It is not Tehran, led by unhinged, genocidal megalomaniacs threatening the security of the region and the world, it is Tel Aviv and Washington.

Could it be that Israel’s 30-year narrative about Iran – one that persuaded US President Donald Trump to wage a criminal and disastrous war of aggression – was always a fiction, an invention cooked up in Tel Aviv? Far from Tehran posing an existential danger to Israel, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed for decades, might Israel’s real fear be that a stronger Iran would undermine its unique leverage over Washington, threatening its status as the region’s sole – and unmonitored – nuclear power? Might large parts of the globe be facing economic meltdown simply so that Israel can remain the Middle East’s top dog – an unaccountable apartheid state committing genocide against the Palestinian people and ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon? We got a definitive answer last week, care of the New York Times. It is an uncompromising yes to all of these questions.The newspaper reported that Netanyahu not only mis-sold Trump on the idea of quick regime change in Iran following a short “shock and awe” bombing campaign. He also identified to the White House who was going to replace Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme religious leader.

Extraordinarily, according to the Times, Netanyahu named the man for the job as former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The aim at the start of the air campaign was for Israel to kill Khamenei, then liberate Ahmadinejad from house arrest by striking the guards who were confining him. Presumably, Ahmadinejad was then supposed to storm the citadel and seize the keys to the palace. But only Khamenei’s assassination went according to plan. Ahmadinejad, who had reportedly been consulted on the scheme beforehand, is believed to have been injured in the Israeli strike near his home. He got cold feet, possibly suspecting he was being set up for assassination too, and went into hiding. His current whereabouts and medical condition are unknown.’

Read; The Rise of the Global South, The Chris Hedges Report, 28 May 2026

‘The war on Iran has not only ended in a humiliating defeat for the United States, but resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the Middle East and the Global South.The humiliating defeat of Israel and the United States in their war on Iran, along with the savagery of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, are ushering in a new world order. This order is one where voices of reason and stability emanate not from the West — which spent tens of billions of dollars sustaining Israel’s genocide — but from the Global South, including China. It is an order where alliances are being rapidly reconfigured to protect countries from a rogue American state that lashes out like a wounded beast, as it spirals toward terminal decline.

The end of the U.S. Empire, led by an impetuous and clueless Donald Trump, is irreversible. The U.S. has lost its sixth war in the Middle East in 25 years. Iran’s power has been enhanced not only because it — along with Oman — controls the Strait of Hormuz — where roughly 25 percent of the world’s seaborne oil and 20 percent of the world’s seaborne liquified natural gas pass through — but because it has delivered a stark message, with its drones and missiles, to U.S. allies and bases in the region, while sending the global economy into a tailspin.

Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — who reportedly lured Trump into the war with Alice-in-Wonderland visions of easy regime change in Iran following the decapitation strikes against the country on February 28, 2026, which included the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other political and military figures, along with 168 school children and their teachers — may strike Iran again. They are desperate. But a renewed bombing of Iran will not work. Iran’s mosaic defense strategy ensures all political and military commanders are easily replaced.

Iran can strangle the world economy by closing the Strait of Hormuz. It can accelerate the pain by getting its Yemeni allies — Ansar Allah — to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea, just as they did to Israel-bound ships when defending Palestinians after October 7. This could result in a complete blockade. Saudi Arabia, with the Bab el-Mandeb Strait open, is able to bypass the Strait of Hormuz and export five million barrels a day through its pipeline to tankers in the Red Sea port of Yanbu.

If a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is not reached soon, the global economy will crash, perhaps within weeks. The U.S. and its allies, such as Japan, have released some of their extensive strategic oil reserves, however they will not be able to cushion markets indefinitely. Stockpiles in America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve are near their lowest in more than 40 years. Once these reserves are depleted, the price of fuel will skyrocket. If a barrel of oil shoots up to $200, the price at the pump could climb as high as $10 per gallon. This, coupled with shortages of other petroleum-based products, along with nitrogen fertiliser, aluminum, and helium — an indispensable element in the production of MRI machines and semiconductors — are already shutting down vital industries and driving up prices on basic commodities.

The World Bank projects a 31 percent increase in the cost of nitrogen fertilisers alone — which are produced in the Persian Gulf and transit through the Strait of Hormuz — if the war continues. This will mean a steep rise in the price of food.

Trump is like a dog being pushed unwillingly into a crate. When it appears a deal with Iran is close, he snarls and barks, sabotaging the proposed 30-to-60-day ceasefire agreement. Netanyahu’s apoplectic fits about any agreement that would halt Israeli attacks against Lebanon, along with the potential release of some of Iran’s estimated $100 billion in frozen assets, spurs Trump’s momentary defiance.

But the clock is ticking. There is little time left. And the longer Trump waits, the worse it will get. Neither Trump, nor Netanyahu, are the masters of this game. Iran holds the cards.

Israel’s dream of formalising its hegemony over the Middle East, codified in the Abraham Accords during Trump’s first term — which normalised relations between Israel and regional states — is dead. This war and the genocide in Gaza killed it.

Trump is attempting to revive them by inserting them into a deal to end the war on Iran. He has demanded states previously uninvolved with the Abraham Accords, such as Pakistan and eventually, Iran, sign up to normalise relations with Israel. Pakistan — the only state to publicly respond — rejected the invitation due to what it called a clash with the country’s “fundamental ideologies.” Every other state Trump appealed to reacted with bewildered silence.

Iran demands the removal of sanctions and an end to the naval blockade — which the Central Intelligence Agency concluded Iran can endure for months before it experiences severe economic hardship — in exchange for reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The proposed agreement makes no mention of Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal, which U.S. military and intelligence officials believe remains at 70 percent pre-war levels, according to The New York Times.

Iran, Pakistan, Turkey and Qatar — a lead negotiator with Hamas — are the new powerbrokers in the region.

Pakistan not only signed a mutual defense pact with Saudi Arabia in 2025, it deployed troops, jets and air defense systems to the Gulf dictatorship in April. It has also been hosting ceasefire talks between Trump’s Dumb and Dumber duo of lead negotiators — his feckless son-in-law Jared Kushner and fellow real estate developer and golfing partner, Steve Witkoff.

The war has enhanced the prestige and power of China, which compared to Washington is seen globally as embodying rational, prudent and stable leadership. Iran, in a sign of the new global order, permits Chinese and Pakistani tankers, along with other ships not allied with Israel and the U.S., to travel through the Strait.

Israel, unable to convince the U.S. to do its dirty work of bombing Iran into a failed state, will, I expect, strike out with renewed fury against Gaza, perhaps occupying the remaining 30 percent of what is left of the besieged territory. It will continue its Gaza-like policy of turning every structure south of Lebanon’s Litani River into rubble, which it bombs daily despite Iran stating that attacks on Lebanon violate the current ceasefire agreement.

Trump’s savagery and bluster – he threatened to “blow up” Oman if it fails to “behave” after reports of Oman jointly charging tolls with Iran for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz – cannot mask the impotence of the U.S. The refusal by America’s allies to heed Trump’s call to help him reopen the Strait, along with the economic misery visited on nations struggling to cope with shortages and the rising costs of energy and fertiliser supplies, are stark evidence of Washington’s pariah status.

Empires, blinded by the myth of their own omnipotence and military superiority, blunder at the final stages into conflicts with little understanding of where they are headed. They alienate their allies. They stumble from one military fiasco to the next, as the U.S. has done for over two decades in the Middle East.

The British Empire in 1956, already in precipitous decline, was humiliated when it conspired with France and Israel to seize the Suez Canal, which Gamal Abdel Nasser had nationalised. The U.S. forced all three countries to halt the invasion. Britain’s pound sterling gave way to the petrodollar. It signaled the last chapter of the British Empire.

The war on Iran is Washington’s Suez Crisis. This may not be the end of the American Empire, but it is the beginning of the end.’

Listen; Greater Eurasian Podcast, Glenn Diesen, 24 May 2026

Glenn Diesen; “It’s not a charity to recognise the concerns of the opponents. It’s a necessity to improve your own security. Because this is what should be obvious if it’s also with Iran. Like I noticed when the Americans started bombing Iran, it was compulsory to just explain that they’re crazy mullahs who killed their own people and the evil regime, everyone will take to the streets and celebrate once this regime falls apart, this is the only thing you can say. But the problem is if you don’t recognise that this is the realities, first of all, you will end up in a situation where the US gets defeated and it didn’t understand, it’s taken by surprise what Iran actually did on the battlefield, how, how resilient they were, their ability to rebuild the support they got in the international system and also what are the consequences now? Where are the Iranians willing to make compromise? Where aren’t they? None of these things can be achieved if you live in your fantasy world where they are just these evil savages who wants to destroy civilisation. The self delusion is so harmful and people think it’s patriotism. We do the same with Russia, we do the same increasingly with China, I think.”

Einar Tangen; “But it’s not out of memory that we’ve done it before. We did this in Vietnam. Oh, they’re just waiting for the communists to fall, okay. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, it was always the boys will show up and people will be throwing roses at them as they stride into the capital and freedom will break out everywhere and prosperity will soon follow. Well, look where we’ve been. All it has has been a trail of tears. Death without development, more problems not less.”

Who are the winners in this war of aggression against Iran?

Watch; Trump uses Israeli reporter to move markets in Iran war, The Grayzone, 14 May 2026

Presenter; “There are some people who’ve made money out of this war. The arms companies for one, logistics companies for another. And those people who have access to privileged information have been using that information to take bets on the oil market.”

Max Blumenthal; “Who are the winners? The winners of this war are the people who placed $920 million in crude oil shorts just 70 minutes before Axios access reporter Barack Ravid published news of a new 14-point proposal stirring false hope in a possible deal between the US and Iran. He is the main dump for leaks from Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Donald Trump who are cashing in on the war. He published that 70 minutes after the shorts came in and one Insider made a $125 million profit. Now Barack Ravid is finally getting exposed as the main reporter being leveraged to manipulate markets by the Trump administration to make what is at least $2.8 billion in insider trading since this war began. And the Beltway press corps circling the wagons to defend Ravid, a former Israeli intelligence officer who does not disclose his IDF background on his Axios bio to prevent media from reporting on one of the biggest scandals in access journalism inside the Beltway since I can remember.”

Watch; Iran vs Israel: Professor Marandi Shuts Down UK News Anchor Fogerty, The Silas Wire, 19 May 2026

‘The corporate media just tried to weaponise human rights to justify endless war—and it backfired spectacularly on live television. Watch the explosive moment Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi completely dismantles British news host Fogerty in an absolute masterclass debate on Israel, Iran, and Western hypocrisy. When the establishment attempts to corner Marandi with sanitised talking points and recycled corporate narratives, he flips the script entirely. From exposing the staggering double standards surrounding apartheid states to dismantling the media’s highly selective “terrorist” labels, Marandi forces the corporate press to confront the multi-billion-dollar reality of their own foreign policy.

Why is the West demanding moral perfection from the Global South while actively bankrolling the worst atrocities on the planet? In this video, we break down the brutal live TV clash, the true human cost of forty-five years of crippling sanctions, and how the political elite use the language of liberation to launder the military-industrial complex.

If you are tired of mainstream news anchors crying rehearsed tears while their governments quietly sign billion-dollar weapons contracts, this deep dive is for you. Hit the LIKE button if you see through the corporate media spin, and SUBSCRIBE to The Silas Wire for unfiltered, progressive commentary where we always put Truth over Access.

CHAPTERS:

[00:00] The Corporate Media Playbook Exposed [01:53] Silas Miller Intro: Confronting the Reflection [02:46] The Hypocrisy & Double Standard on Apartheid States

[07:54] Where Are the Receipts? Marandi Demands the Facts [08:47] 45 Years of Sanctions and the Reality of Imperial Hatred [10:01] Who Actually Gets Labeled a Terrorist? [12:26] Silas Wire Commentary: The PR Department for the War Machine

[13:54] The Receipts: Uncovering the Billion-Dollar Arms Sales.’

Listen; Iran Didn’t Collapse — And Now Trump Is Cornered, Rania Khalek Dispatches, 12 May 2026

Trita Parsi; “I think the divergence between the US’s and Israel’s interest here are extremely deep and they always have been. This is part of the reason why four or five previous presidents rejected the Israeli pressure to go to war with Iran, because there was a realisation that any such war would not lead to a clean victory, but rather a continuous state of warfare in which the Israelis would do to Iran, or that was the aim, what they are doing to Gaza, to Lebanon, they did to Syria, they did to the West Bank or does to the West Bank, which is mowing the lawn. This is their term, in which they just constantly go every two years or every six months, whatever the circumstances are, and bomb these countries in order to make sure that none of them can gain any type of power that would enable them to challenge Israel. So this is an Israel that does not believe or does not want peace, but thinks that its security is only achieved through complete dominance. In order for it to be secure, everyone else has to be insecure. None of them should be able to have the ability to challenge Israel. Take a look at how this manifests itself in US law. Take two examples. The US actually has written into its law that Israel needs to have a qualitative strategic edge in the region. That means that the United States does not sell advanced weaponry to other countries, that it sells to Israel. Israel always has to get the best weapons because it is aimed at serving Israel’s goal of being able to dominate the region militarily. No country or combination of countries in the region should be able to challenge Israel. It also means that in Lebanon, where you’re sitting right now, the American strategy has been to strengthen and train the Lebanese armed forces, but only to the extent that they can take on Hezbollah, never to the extent in which they can deter Israel. So it’s not about Lebanon’s security. Lebanon’s threat is clearly coming from Israel, which is constantly bombing it, ceasefire, no ceasefire. But the US would never enable the Lebanese army to have the strength to be able to deter Israel, because that would completely contradict the fundamental position of supporting Israel’s military domination in the region. Nevertheless, there is a problem in all of this. Because it’s one thing for the US to support this against Lebanon, against Syria, against Gaza. It’s a completely different story if you’re going to support it against Iran, a country that Israel cannot take on on its own, this would not only lead to that same state of endless war, but to a far greater degree of instability and the recurring pulling in of the United States into the war. And that’s not the US’s interest. The US is happy, content, or at least not bothered by the fact that Israel is bombing Lebanon on a regular basis, or Syria on a regular basis, certainly Gaza on a regular basis, could not care less. We just have to be honest about that. But if it was bombing any country on a regular basis, that would force the US into that war, that changes the equation and that’s how that equation changes with Iran. So previous presidents have not gone along with this because they didn’t want to have that endless state of war with Iran or any country. Whereas from the Israeli standpoint, that’s just normal, that’s how you get security. There isn’t any belief in peace or desire for peace. I don’t know exactly where on that spectrum most Israelis fall, whether they don’t believe in peace because they don’t desire it, or whether they don’t desire it and the other way around. But let me give an example, in 2004 or 2005, when I was in Israel, an Israeli general told me he was very depressed and worried about the future because he said, when I fought in ’67, when I fought in ’73, we genuinely believed that if we beat back the Arab states, eventually they would accept us and we could have peace. We thought that that warfare would lead to peace. Whereas today he said, that’s not what the youth believes. And this is 20 years ago. They believe that we’re just going to be in an endless state of war and that’s just the way things are and we’re just going to have to constantly beat down everyone on our neighbours and our security is based on their insecurity. He was right to be worried because there’s no way any country could sustain such a military doctrine, certainly not such a small state as Israel. The only way they can sustain it is as long as they can get that massive amount of support from the United States. And that appears to be coming to an end sooner than most people expected because of these dramatic shifts that are taking place in the American public vis-a-vis Israel, both on the left and on the right.”

Read; US under the command and supervision of Israel, Alon Mizrahi, 30 May 2026

‘They are not linking the US and Israeli militaries, they are putting the American military-industrial complex and every defense-related research in the US under the command and supervision of Israel. The US will have no more secrets; everything will be formally in Israel’s hands.’

Ex-ambassador Chas Freeman’s excellent summary of the stalemate in the Middle East

Listen; Chas Freeman: Crisis in Israel & Iranian Nuclear Weapons, 25 May 2026

‘Ambassador Chas Freeman discusses Trump being stuck in Iran, Israel’s reputation collapsing, the possibility of Iran developing a nuclear weapon, and the rapid changes in the international system. Ambassador Freeman was a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centred post-Cold War European security system and in reestablishing defence and military relations with China. He served as US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.’

Glenn Diesen; “Israel is undergoing a lot of change as it’s pursuing this very aggressive foreign policy. What do you see happening here with Israel and its relationship with the United States?”

Chas Freeman; “Well, I think there is a great deal of tension between Netanyahu and Trump. Netanyahu basically talked Trump into this war. It’s gone very badly. It now looks as though it will end in a number of possible ways, none of which is good for Netanyahu, none of which achieve the objectives he has. So the ways in which the war could end… the politically cleverest way for Trump to get out of this would be to allow the Congress to vote, vote an end to the war and to say, well, I was on the road to victory, but they stabbed me in the back and I was betrayed by the Democrats and apostate Republicans and RINOs, Republicans in name only and so forth and so on. I could see him doing that. That is one way of getting out of this.That leaves Israel high and dry. And indeed, any exit from the war invalidates the US partnership with Israel against Iran. That is to say, no future president is going to do what Donald Trump did. But at the moment, what we have is a memorandum of understanding, apparently a one page document, which is not a peace, not an agreement, but it’s an agreement to negotiate. And we have the ironic statement from Donald Trump, who went to war with no negotiations and used diplomacy as a cover for surprise attack, that we have to exhaust diplomatic means before we resort to force. I guess he learned something from the first round where he didn’t apply diplomacy at all. It looked like Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner have been removed from the process, which is now being run by professional diplomats and leaders from Pakistan and Qatar who are attempting to mediate this. The immediate reaction to Donald Trump’s statement that we’re close to an agreement, which seems to be a characteristic overstatement on his part. There’s been some progress evidently made along in some areas, but the immediate reaction from Israel was, oh, no, great headlines about Trump selling out Israel and so forth and so on. The Israelis are in an election mode so that they’re a bit subdued in their criticism of Trump because, of course, he could turn around and do to them what he’s done to everyone who’s crossed him in the United States or in Europe or elsewhere, mainly try to trash their reputation. People who are running for office don’t like that. So they’ve held their fire a bit. That is, I think they’ve been quite tough. Netanyahu has been quite forceful in private, on telephone conversations with Donald Trump, but he’s not publicly lambasted him. On the other hand, Israel’s faithful stooges in the United States, people like Lindsey Graham and so on, Ted Cruz and others have pulled out all the stops; ‘This is a sellout, we need to go back to war, finish the job’ and so forth and so on. The problem for Donald Trump is he’s basically cornered. On the one hand, he has Netanyahu putting pressure on him. His Jewish donors, Israeli donors, Miriam Adelson is an Israeli. 250 million dollar donation is not trivial. They’re both ganging up on him. Part of his own Republican base is in rebellion and his military are telling him there’s no real military option, we can’t hope to succeed. And they may even have asked him to give them an order in writing, which is what the military do when they’re being asked to do something they know is infeasible and want to be able to levy blame on whoever it was that issued the order.’ I want that order in writing’ is the characteristic response in those circumstances.”

Lebanon

Petition; Enact military, diplomatic & economic sanctions on Israel for attacks on Lebanon, Anthony Webber, closes 27 October 2026

‘The UK Government should enact military, diplomatic and economic sanctions against Israel unless they stop their attacks on Lebanon, end their invasion, and withdraw from Lebanese territory. We believe Israel should also pay compensation for the destruction of civilian infrastructure.

We believe Lebanon should not suffer indiscriminate attacks because of Hezbollah or Israel. The widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure means major rebuilding is vital. Over 1 million people have been displaced so far, and this could lead to more refugees seeking a better life in the U.K. and other countries. We are concerned that inaction on this could encourage the Israeli Government to feel they are untouchable. Thus, we believe the UK Government must take firm action to help reverse this situation.’

There is a pay wall but the heading and intro is spot on.

Read; Israel’s Barbaric Ecocide in Lebanon and Gaza Bombing, Burning, Bulldozing, Stan Cox, 17 May 2026

‘Israeli leaders’ game plan for wiping out southern Lebanese society is more or less the same one they’ve followed in Gaza and the West Bank. They aim to deprive those populations of all elements necessary for a decent life: shelter, livelihoods, food, water, health care, education, and more. In these genocidal sieges, occupation forces are also attacking the local ecosystems in which the societies are embedded. This ravaging of animals, plants, soils, and water bodies isn’t just collateral damage. This is an intentional ripping apart of ecological relationships which, among many other things, make human society physically and culturally possible.’

Syria

Guess what, now what is arriving in Syria that some people are celebrating? It’s McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Domino’s, Burger King. All of the disgusting American food is coming in to replace the Syrian fast food, which was known to be some of the healthiest and the best in the region.”

Listen; Syria – New Future or Debt Enslavement, UK Column News, Vanessa Beeley, British journalist, presenter, writer, activist and blogger primarily on the Middle East; 13 May 2026

Vanessa Beeley; “Syria never really had debt problems. Pre 2011 it had totally independent banking systems and of course that is one of the reasons it was set up for destruction and destabilisation. And so now of course Syria under Al Qaeda and President Jolani, or Ahmed al-Sharaa as the West likes to rebrand him, Syria is now being pulled into the vortex of debt slavery and now the entire digital AI, probably eventually CBDC system. So what has been happening in the last couple of days? Syria tests visa and mastercard payments after 15 years. Because of course pre 2011 Syria did have the ability to use credit cards and international monetary systems. But of course that was all taken away from them after the start of the regime-change war. So what are they actually saying? So cooperation with Visa and MasterCard to develop digital infrastructure and as Charles said that entire infrastructure is currently missing to really impose any kind of digital tyranny. However, if we actually look at what is going on, he said the trial of the first system marks Syria’s entry into the global digital payment system. So therefore they are heading into some kind of AI digital system both now and in the future and in September 2025 the central bank of Syria also signed a memorandum of understanding with MasterCard International to cooperate on developing Syria’s digital payment system. Of course this is heavily backed by the Gulf states, in particular UAE and to some degree Qatar. Initially this is partnering through a company called Paymira with Syrian banking institutions. But if you look at our mission, they’re intending to extend this over cross-border operations. This is being heavily backed, particularly I would say by Saudi Arabia to bring in not only this digital system but also debt and slavery with a country which is already now well below the poverty line. Here is a video of Jolani enjoying paying for his coffee with his brand new MasterCard or Visa. I can’t quite see what that is, but effectively what he’s doing of course is steering the country into debt enslavement while his mercenary forces of Takfiri and Wahhabi terrorists are continuing to both kidnap, murder, assassinate, massacre, slaughter, imprison, detain, torture on a daily basis all communities now in Syria. It’s not only focused on the ethnic minorities but across the board. And guess what, now what is arriving in Syria that some people are celebrating? It’s McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Domino’s, Burger King. So all of the disgusting American food is coming in to replace the Syrian fast food, which was known to be some of the healthiest and the best in the region.”

Read; Water, Power, and Geopolitics: Zionist Israeli Ambitions and the Hydro-politics of Southern Lebanon, Vanessa Beeley, 1 May 2026

‘Lebanon’s rivers are more than lifelines; they lie at the heart of a long-standing struggle shaped by external ambition. From the Litani to the Wazzani, the Israeli entity’s efforts to dominate regional water reveal a deeper reality: control over southern Lebanon’s water has been pursued as power, not necessity.’

‘Water has long shaped the politics of the Middle East, but in Lebanon, it is becoming something more: a fault line of power, pressure, and persistent external interest. In the country’s south, where rivers like the Litani, Hasbani, and Wazzani carve through fertile land and contested borders, freshwater is not just a resource; it is a strategic asset increasingly entangled in regional rivalries.

For decades, Israeli entity efforts to secure water dominance have extended beyond its borders, repeatedly intersecting with Lebanon’s most vital water systems. From attempts to reach the Litani to tensions over the Wazzani’s flow, these moves reflect more than short-term necessity; they point to a deeper, long-standing strategy rooted in control over the region’s hydrological map.

This article explores how Lebanon’s relative water abundance has placed it at the centre of a quiet but consequential struggle, one where geography, politics, and resource security converge, and where rivers have become instruments of influence as much as sources of life.’

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