"Undersea cables in Persian Gulf & Red Sea are of paramount importance to global connectivity... hidden backbone of internet, carrying a massive share of intercontinental data traffic – from financial transactions to video calls" futurearly.substack.com/p/forget-the...

"The growing body of evidence emerging from Gaza and the West Bank should force a reckoning for governments that continue to support Israel while presenting themselves as defenders of human rights & women’s equality internationally" www.declassifieduk.org/sexual-abuse...

Peter Bienart digs deeper with Issa Amro, renowned non-violent human rights activist in West Bank, & Sari Bashi, exec. director of Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, into atrocities of sexual torture of Palestinian prisoners, & what must be done. peterbeinart.substack.com/p/what-we-to...

Major support including funding for Tommy Robinson & English Defence League traced to Zionist parties www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkhb...

Bonneau reports Israeli attacks on nearly 50 towns in Lebanon over the past day, including the killings of a family in Qafarsir, a municipal worker distributing bread in Harouf, and a white phosphorus strike in Zawtar. Video: @courtneybonneauimages via X (@cbonneauimages)

Qafarsir is a town in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh Governorate, located inland from Tyre and north of the Litani River. 4 members of a family were murdered in one strike:

🛢️Iran is increasingly using aging tankers as floating storage as the US naval blockade traps crude exports in the Gulf, the Financial Times reports, w/ satellite imagery showing a sharp buildup of vessels around Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil export terminal. About 39 tankers carrying Iranian oil...

💢 DAY 218 of the Gaza “Ceasefire” Not a single aid truck entered Gaza on Sun. & no patients or humanitarian cases were allowed to leave through the Rafah crossing, as Israel continues collectively punishing Gaza’s population amid demands for Hamas to disarm, according to field monitoring shared...

American Democracy Does Not Exist Thomas Massie has lost his congressional seat against a primary opponent whose Israel lobby funding made the race the most expensive House of Representatives primary in history. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/american-d...

"When we outgrow the idea that an “illegal” war is anything other than a war, that an “unjustified” war is a particular type of war, and that inappropriate victims can be distinguished from appropriate ones, we will be a little bit further along" davidswanson.org/governments-...

"Only coherent, non-suicidal way forward is to continue encouraging & opening up diplomacy with China, Russia & rest of Global South & bringing wars & proxy wars... to an end as quickly as possible... in favor of transitioning toward multipolarity" www.pressenza.com/2026/05/murd...

"No one claims Chittagong Hill Tracts is paradise. Land disputes, legacy of past conflicts, & challenge of fully integrating accord remain. However, to characterize region as site of state-led ethnic cleansing driving people toward Myanmar is analytical failure" www.pressenza.com/2026/05/ethn...

Analysis by Earshot found that three leaked Hondurasgate audio files, revealing a complex plot by Washington to sideline leftist governments in Mexico and Colombia, are likely to be authentic. www.dropsitenews.com/p/hondurasga...

New Amnesty International report: "Indonesian authorities have used online disinformation campaigns to brand activists and journalists as “foreign agents” and silence dissent" www.reuters.com/business/med...

"Coalition of 10 US district attorneys, calling itself “Project for the Fight Against Federal Overreach,” is vowing... to investigate incidents of suspected voter intimidation by federal agents deployed by Trump" www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Controversial land swap orchestrated by the megarich for their benefit, threatening public access, could be “a harbinger of what’s to come” for public lands under Trump. from Floodlight nonprofit newsroom - investigates powerful interests stalling climate action. floodlightnews.org/trump-offici...

The Heritage Foundation's 50-year back-story & its plans to cancel women's rights in favour of “heroic feminine” of motherhood and wifeliness hartmannreport.com/p/the-billio...

"Nearer to power a politician or official gets, the more their behaviour has to align with the structural interests of the billionaire class... The further a former office holder moves away from centre of power, more room for their humanity to resurface" jonathancook.substack.com/p/western-le...

Steven Donziger on US Supreme Court's assault on American democracy: 5 key rulings from the Roberts Court that undermine freedom, equality, & democracy. "All have paved the way for Trump's white-Christian-nationalist power grab" stevendonziger.substack.com/p/how-the-us...

Francis Fukuyama explains concept of 'agile government', seeks to apply agile development principles to make government more responsive, flexible, and fast, to include public participation www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeg_...

"Therapeutic search for "true self" is futile pursuit, billion-dollar consumer surveys useless, &... demand for perfectly transparent AI is deeply misguided. Task of being human is not self-discovery, Nick Chater suggests, but creative act of self-authorship" iai.tv/articles/int...

"AI is perfect storm of failed concepts & organizations, & apex of Era of Business Idiot, an epoch where we’re ruled by people so thoroughly disconnected from actual workforce that it was inevitable that a technology would be created specifically to grift them" www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-ex...

"Latest consensus hallucination to take over our political classes is "age verification," a thing that manifestly does not exist... a gift to every future dictator, every identity thief, and every would-be sexual exploiter of children" pluralistic.net/2026/05/19/s...

In Building Local Power’s latest episode of “The Data Centers Are Coming,” host Danny Caine talks to local community members about “staggering amount of pollution & noise"... & explores how the race for AI dominance fits into a much older racist pattern. ilsr.org/articles/the...

"New research led by Trinity College Dublin’s AI Accountability Lab pinpoints the growing threat posed by the influence AI companies have over the rule of law and people’s lives" www.irishlegal.com/articles/res...

"Reporter Michael Beltran spoke to six Filipino virtual assistants and two agencies who described a unique industry of low-paid and AI-assisted offshore workers producing content for U.S. executives and so-called thought leaders on LinkedIn" restofworld.org/2026/virtual...

A major new study aims to help African nations harness international law to navigate the increasingly complex threats to their cyber security. www.scottishlegal.com/articles/new...

"Biggest source of climate finance is households and individuals. Collectively, ordinary private citizens across the world contributed $470 billion in 2023, spending on things like energy efficiency, solar panels or electric vehicles" earthbound.report/2026/05/19/y...

"India conducted its 1st nuclear test in 1974, called “Smiling Buddha...” existential alarm. Z. A. Bhutto... said Pakistan would eat grass if necessary, but it would have its own bomb... surrounded by an India superior in size, economy, & conventional forces" www.pressenza.com/2026/05/paki...

According to World Bank data, Bangladesh contributes a mere 0.40% to global greenhouse gas emissions... among top 10 nations most devastated by climate change... w/ geographic location, high population density, poverty, & lack of social safety nets" www.pressenza.com/2026/05/bang...

"During bombshell Senate hearing, CIA officer, Jim Erdman III testified under oath that CIA’s scientific analysts determined that COVID pandemic started from a lab leak, but their scientific conclusions were hidden from Congress & US public" disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/reporting-...

"Scientists increasingly agree that the ‘safe window’ to stabilise the current by halting emissions is closing far faster than previously thought. And the public likely does not even realise it... Mass starvation is a very real possibility." medialens.substack.com/p/media-myop...

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Sick fecking maniacs

Wednesday 5.30pm, the Dáil, call on all TDs to support the Bill to sanction apartheid Israel for its genocidal crimes against the Palestinian people. You can email all TDs here ➡️ www.ipsc.ie/action-item/... #SanctionsNow

Marching against genocide is a hate march. Marching to "stop Islam", kick out Muslims and prepare for civil war isn't a hate march. The world has been turned on its head.

On 14 May, 200 + Tag Meir activists took part in the Flower March through the Old City of Jerusalem. Founded in 2011, it is the largest grassroots coalition of organisations that works against hate crime and religious racism in Israel. www.pressenza.com/2026/05/more...

🚨BREAKING: For the first time, the original Pakistani cypher — cable I-0678, the document that triggered the removal of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan — is being released in full by Drop Site.

Faisal Saleh founded Palestine Museum US, first museum in Americas dedicated to Palestinian history, art, & culture, in April 2018 in Woodbridge, Connecticut. ‘Gaza – No Words – See Exhibit’ is now running www.palestinechronicle.com/gaza-no-word...

Speaking to reporters in London, President Catherine Connolly has said she is “very proud” of her sister Dr Margaret Connolly, who has been detained by Israeli forces while part of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. jrnl.ie/7043338

"Israeli naval forces intercepted Global Sumud Flotilla today as they attempted to break maritime blockade of Gaza Strip for 3rd time, boarding ships in broad daylight after flotilla had set sail from Turkiye to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians" www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-navy...

"International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has requested sealed arrest warrants for Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, Minister Orit Strock, & 2 unnamed IDF officials" www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Israeli attacks in Lebanon killed 2,969 people and wounded 9,112 between March 2 and May 16, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health's latest cumulative toll. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Democracy Now speaks to two prominent Israeli thinkers, historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy, about the founding beliefs of Zionism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiYD...

Israel plans to sue The New York Times & reporter Nicholas Kristof over a recent article called “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians'. "Kristof’s article argues that sexual violence against Palestinians is systemic & part of Israeli state policy" truthout.org/articles/isr...

"The Iran War was widely rationalized as ‘a war of choice’ as if recourse to war continues to be a discretionary option in 21st century. Iran’s resilience also suggests that non-defensive warfare is a becoming lose/lose venture in many contemporary situations" richardfalk.org/2026/05/17/i...

👉 NEW -- Sexual abuse of Palestinians should force reckoning for UK government by Anne-Marie Simpson Israeli soldiers and settlers are using sexualised violence to displace Palestinians. Britain should pull every lever available to stop this www.declassifieduk.org/sexual-abuse...

“On a strictly confidential basis” a senior civil servant sent a confidential draft document to a lobbyist at the billionaire Collison brothers-funded Progress Ireland – whose board includes the civil servant’s former boss at his department. www.ontheditch.com/on-a-strictl...

"You don’t have to be a student of revolutionary France to understand what happens when every legitimate channel for grievance gets closed off." This is exactly right. Like taxing the rich, having a representative democracy is the compromise. The alternative is much worse, and much bloodier.