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items: Pacific nations shaping future of seabed mining rules, says ISA chief
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Pacific nations shaping future of seabed mining rules, says ISA chief
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date: 2026-05-26T23:12:09Z
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description: RNZ Pacific The head of the United Nations body mandated to develop regulations for seabed mining in international waters says Pacific countries are playing a big role in shaping the regulations that will govern the future industry. International Seabed Authority (ISA) Secretary-General Leticia Carvalho was in Fiji last week conducting training for Pacific Island nations
encoded: RNZ Pacific The head of the United Nations body mandated to develop regulations for seabed mining in international waters says Pacific countries are playing a big role in shaping the regulations that will govern the future industry. International Seabed Authority (ISA) Secretary-General Leticia Carvalho was in Fiji last week conducting training for Pacific Island nations on what it means to be a sponsoring state of a potential seabed mining company. There is great interest from the likes of China and the US in polymetallic nodules found on the deep seabed in parts of the Pacific Ocean’s international waters. READ MORE: Other seabed mining reports These nodules are rich in minerals such as copper, cobalt and nickel. These metals are highly valued in modern tech — but it remains uncertain how damaging mining would be to the marine environment. Carvalho told RNZ Pacific Waves the region was very important to the ISA process of developing rules for mining, given the strong country positions both for and against. “Some of them are really close to the idea of mining in the deep sea outside of national jurisdiction. Others are very much attached to the environmental safeguards and cautious about this activity, therefore this region has a big role in shaping the regime.” She said she respected the opposing views Pacific countries had on the potential future industry. PIF representatives In Fiji, she met with representatives of Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) member countries and civil society organisations. She said these were sovereign positions and her role was not to judge but rather to facilitate dialogue. “And that is why I am here for capacity building, training, bringing my team to support these countries to better understand how they can make decisions internally and how they can sit at the table with others to find consensus in the multilateral space.” She also acknowledged there were some civil society complaints about exclusion from the training but she clarified tha…

The only "Doctor My Eyes" version you need to listen🎶 #music #jacksonbrowne #lelandsklar
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date: 2026-05-26T22:00:13Z
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Warning: Highly addictive music ahead 😉🎶 #ledzeppelin
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A Sordid History of Stolen Korean Children
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creator: Eleanor J. Bader
date: 2026-05-26T18:51:18Z
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description: Paige Towers’s new book ‘What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption’ takes a searing look at international adoption.
encoded: Paige Towers’s new book ‘What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption’ takes a searing look at international adoption. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Eleanor J. Bader.

On the Coast of Gaza, A Zoo Reopens Its Doors
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creator: Ohood Nassar
date: 2026-05-26T18:30:22Z
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description: Israel’s years-long bombing campaign imperiled a family-run zoo in Rafah—but its owner isn’t giving up.
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AFGE Blasts Administration’s Proposed NDA Rule as Yet Another Attack on Non-Partisan Federal Employees
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date: 2026-05-26T18:17:43Z
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description: American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement in response to a proposed rule by the Office of Personnel Management, to be published tomorrow in the Federal Register, that would require cur...
encoded: American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement in response to a proposed rule by the Office of Personnel Management, to be published tomorrow in the Federal Register, that would require current and prospective employees at participating agencies to sign non-disclosure agreements as a condition of employment: “OPM continues its efforts to silence federal employees. This proposed NDA is another attempt by the administration to purge the civil service of nonpartisan career employees and replace them with loyalists who won’t speak out against waste, fraud, and abuse. Federal employees do not surrender their First Amendment rights when they accept federal employment, and the public has a right to know about this administration’s abuses. “OPM claims the form will be ‘optional’ for agencies to use and merely restates existing law. We know that will not be true. OPM will pressure agencies to make the NDA mandatory and then fire employees who refuse to sign it. “Moreover, federal agencies already have extensive policies and procedures in place for preventing the unauthorized release of classified or privileged information. This proposed rule sweeps in an extraordinarily broad category of information, extending restrictions to the very material the public relies on to learn when an administration is causing harm. AFGE will submit comments on the proposed rule and urges OPM to withdraw it.” This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

ANTONIO PUTZU & TENORES (Oliena, Sardinia, Italy)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-05-26T17:29:37Z
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ANDREA PISU (Villaputzu, Sardinia, Italy)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-05-26T17:27:11Z
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KIKO VENENO (Barcelona, Spain)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-05-26T17:22:40Z
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Another Way Out: We need a mosaic movement, not fragmented ‘leftism’
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creator: William C. Anderson
date: 2026-05-26T17:10:20Z
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Inside North Korea’s Closed Digital World | Proton Data Wars | VICE News
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ABDULLAH ABU AWALI (Aqaba, Jordan)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-05-26T17:00:06Z
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UN News Today 26 May 2026
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creator: Jolina Dong
date: 2026-05-26T16:23:19Z
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description: Secretary-General warns Security Council UN Charter is facing ‘profound strain’Air travel safe for now in face of Ebola emergency says UN aviation agencyUN alarmed by escalating attacks and destruction in Ukraine
encoded: Secretary-General warns Security Council UN Charter is facing ‘profound strain’Air travel safe for now in face of Ebola emergency says UN aviation agencyUN alarmed by escalating attacks and destruction in Ukraine This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Jolina Dong.

Reframing Mass Incarceration, Antiracism, and Abolition
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-26T16:14:59Z
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description: First up, Wanda Bertram from the Prison Policy Initiative joins the show to talk about what we don’t know and what we think we know about mass incarceration. Wanda shares some stats and facts that you’ll never hear on corporate media, and debunks myths...
encoded: First up, Wanda Bertram from the Prison Policy Initiative joins the show to talk about what we don’t know and what we think we know about mass incarceration. Wanda shares some stats and facts that you’ll never hear on corporate media, and debunks myths that betray our propagandized thinking. The post Reframing Mass Incarceration, Antiracism, and Abolition appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Doordarshan anchor calls Delhi student Pakistani for raising CBSE marking grievance
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creator: Shinjinee Majumder
date: 2026-05-26T15:43:42Z
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description: When Vedant Srivastava, a Class 12 student from Delhi, posted about his CBSE Physics paper mix-up on X, he probably did not expect a senior journalist to accuse him of... The post Doordarshan anchor calls Delhi student Pakistani for raising CBSE marking grievance appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: When Vedant Srivastava, a Class 12 student from Delhi, posted about his CBSE Physics paper mix-up on X, he probably did not expect a senior journalist to accuse him of being Pakistani. On May 23, after receiving unexpectedly low marks in Physics, Vedant had applied for photocopies of his answer sheets through CBSE’s reevaluation process. When the copies arrived, he discovered that the Physics answer sheet uploaded by the Board was not his. He made an X account to post about his grievances. I am a CBSE Class 12 student. After receiving unexpectedly low marks in Physics, we applied for photocopies of my answer sheets through the CBSE reevaluation process. Today we received the copies. And I am shattered because the Physics answer sheet uploaded by CBSE is not mine — VEDANT (@VEDANTSHRIV17) May 23, 2026 Vedant’s complaint came amid mounting criticism of the CBSE’s On-Screen Marking system, introduced this year for Class 12 evaluations. After results dropped to an 85.2% pass rate, the lowest since 2019, students alleged incorrect marking, blurred scans, unchecked answers, and page-wise marks not matching final totals. The re-evaluation portal also crashed repeatedly during payments and submissions. CBSE and the education ministry defended the system, saying it improved objectivity. Fees for re-evaluation were slashed under pressure; scanned copy charges dropped from Rs 700 to Rs 100 per subject. Upon seeing Vedant’s post, Doordarshan News anchor Ashok Shrivastav, the face of their primetime programme Do Took, checked the region listed on the X handle and found it said “South Asia.” On the basis of this, Shrivastav concluded that the account belonged to a Pakistani user. Taking to X, he sarcastically wrote in Hindi: “Did Pakistanis also appear for CBSE exams?!!” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-315715 size-full" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/HJJ-3i_bwAAFLIB.jpg" alt="" width="1320" height="1330" srcset="https:/…

California Chemical Crisis: "The Threat Has NOT Been Eliminated" w/ Maximillian Alvarez
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"He Was in Agony": Tennessee Issues 1-Year Stay for Tony Carruthers After Botched Execution Attempt
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"Designed to Break You": Gaza Flotilla Activists Faced Violence, Sexual Abuse in Israeli Detention
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-26T15:13:44Z
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U.S. Bombs Iran Despite Peace Talks; Israel Strikes Lebanon to "Force Trump’s Hand": Negar Mortazavi
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date: 2026-05-26T15:10:40Z
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"Every Second of Resistance is Victory"
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Sudan: Colombians Linked to Atrocities Trained in UAE Bases
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creator: Human Rights Watch
date: 2026-05-26T14:19:10Z
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 26, 2026
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“He Was in Agony”: Tennessee Issues 1-Year Stay for Tony Carruthers After Botched Execution Attempt
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description: Tennessee death row prisoner Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday after prison officials were unable to find a backup injection vein in a botched execution attempt that left Carruthers suffering and in pain for...
encoded: Tennessee death row prisoner Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday after prison officials were unable to find a backup injection vein in a botched execution attempt that left Carruthers suffering and in pain for over an hour. Nashville reporter Steven Hale attended the execution and describes his and fellow witnesses’ confusion as they heard the sounds of what Carruthers’s attorneys are calling “torture.” Per Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol, witnesses can only see inside the execution chamber once the injection process has begun. Carruthers, who has long struggled with mental health issues and represented himself in his trial, was convicted of triple homicide in 1996. He has always maintained his innocence, but courts have thus far blocked his requests for modern-day crime scene analysis that could lead to his exoneration. Tennessee resumed capital punishment last year, following a three-year moratorium put in place to review the state’s lethal injection protocols. Since its resumption, three people have been executed by the state, all by lethal injection. Carruthers would have been the fourth. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Designed to Break You”: Gaza Flotilla Activists Faced Violence, Sexual Abuse in Israeli Detention
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description: “I could hear screaming the whole time.” Our guests Alex Colston and Haitham Arafat spent days in Israeli custody after being abducted from a humanitarian mission sailing to Gaza. They share accounts of violence, abuse and torture ...
encoded: “I could hear screaming the whole time.” Our guests Alex Colston and Haitham Arafat spent days in Israeli custody after being abducted from a humanitarian mission sailing to Gaza. They share accounts of violence, abuse and torture at the hands of Israeli soldiers. “The process that they have there in the jail was designed to break you as a human,” says Arafat, a Palestinian American activist born in Gaza who has taken part in multiple missions attempting to break Israel’s long-standing siege. Over 100 members of his family have been killed in Gaza since October 7. While incarcerated, the activists were visited by Israel’s minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who was recently banned from France after publicly ridiculing flotilla members. “They call us provocateurs, or they say we’re terrorists … and yet, whenever Ben-Gvir shows up to these things, he’s the one provoking us,” says Colston, a journalist who was previously detained by Israel while sailing with the Global Sumud Flotilla last year. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

U.S. Bombs Iran Despite Peace Talks; Israel Strikes Lebanon to “Force Trump’s Hand”: Negar Mortazavi
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description: We get an update on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran from journalist Negar Mortazavi, following the Pentagon’s so-called self-defense strikes on two Iranian ships in the Strait of Hormuz Monday despite an official ceasefire and ongoing peace...
encoded: We get an update on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran from journalist Negar Mortazavi, following the Pentagon’s so-called self-defense strikes on two Iranian ships in the Strait of Hormuz Monday despite an official ceasefire and ongoing peace negotiations. The “chaotic” ceasefire “has been violated from day one,” says Mortazavi, who notes that Israel’s continuous attacks on southern Lebanon are delaying attempts to end the war — and that this is exactly the intention of the Israeli government. “Clearly, Netanyahu doesn’t want this war with Iran to end,” she says. “Every step of escalation is definitely going to harm the final outcome and narrow the path to a final agreement.” Mortazavi also comments on the new political reality for Iran’s Gulf neighbors in the aftermath of Iranian strikes on U.S. military bases hosted in the region. “The Iranian message is: If war comes to us, it will not stay inside our borders.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Kramatorsk Hit By Russian Air Strike; Casualties Reported | Ukraine Front Line Update
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Headlines for May 26, 2026
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description: U.S. Attacks Southern Iran as Ceasefire Negotiations Continue, Israel Attacks Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, Killing 12 People, Israeli Strikes Kill at Least Five Palestinians at a Refugee Camp in Gaza, Police Officers in Spain Attack Activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla at Bilbao Airport, New Jersey Police Arrest 10 Activists Attempting to Stop Ammunition Shipment to Israel, Federal Judge Dismisses All Criminal Charges Against Kilmar Ábrego García, USCIS Says Most Green Card Seekers Must Apply from Home Countries, Bystander Is Wounded as Secret Service Service Kills Alleged Gunman Outside White House, Russia Warns Foreigners and Diplomats to Leave Kyiv After Deadly Weekend Assault, WHO Warns Ebola Is Spreading Faster Than Efforts to Contain It, Pope Leo Issues Encyclical Warning Artificial Intelligence Must Serve Humanity, 300 Detainees at Delaney ICE Jail Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Inhumane Conditions
encoded: U.S. Attacks Southern Iran as Ceasefire Negotiations Continue Israel Attacks Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, Killing 12 People Israeli Strikes Kill at Least Five Palestinians at a Refugee Camp in Gaza Police Officers in Spain Attack Activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla at Bilbao Airport New Jersey Police Arrest 10 Activists Attempting to Stop Ammunition Shipment to Israel Federal Judge Dismisses All Criminal Charges Against Kilmar Ábrego García USCIS Says Most Green Card Seekers Must Apply from Home Countries Bystander Is Wounded as Secret Service Service Kills Alleged Gunman Outside White House Russia Warns Foreigners and Diplomats to Leave Kyiv After Deadly Weekend Assault WHO Warns Ebola Is Spreading Faster Than Efforts to Contain It Pope Leo Issues Encyclical Warning Artificial Intelligence Must Serve Humanity 300 Detainees at Delaney ICE Jail Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Inhumane Conditions This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-05-26 Tuesday
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Gaza flotilla activists beaten by police upon arriving in Bilbao, Spain
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She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.
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encoded: Emily Waldorf Kathleen Flynn for ProPublica On the morning of Sept. 16, 2024, Emily Waldorf’s preschooler found her curled on the bathroom floor. Waldorf had felt a strange pressure during a shower, like a balloon bulging into her vagina, and was now bleeding. “I can be your pillow, mommy,” her daughter said, nuzzling into her neck. Waldorf was 17 weeks pregnant. She and her husband, Justin, dropped their daughter off at her grandparents’ and rushed to Washington Regional Hospital in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where Waldorf worked as an acute care physical therapist. In a dark room, a doctor pointed to an hourglass shape glowing on the ultrasound screen: There was her amniotic sac, funneling into her dilated cervix, and there was their tiny daughter’s foot, dipping out. “Your body is about to miscarry,” the doctor said. Three doctors gathered and told the couple that the longer Waldorf’s cervix remained open and her uterus exposed to bacteria, the higher her risk of developing a life-threatening infection. The standard of care, they explained, would be to quickly empty her womb. But they couldn’t do that, one doctor said apologetically, sighing deeply. The baby still had a detectable heartbeat, and stopping it would run afoul of a state abortion ban that snapped into place after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022; violations carried penalties of up to $100,000 in fines and 10 years in prison. They needed to wait until Waldorf went into labor on her own or showed signs of a dangerous infection, or until the fetal heartbeat ended. “Our hands are tied behind our backs,” Dr. Erin Large later told her, according to a journal Waldorf began keeping on her phone and shared with ProPublica. “Tell your friends to vote differently.” Raised Baptist in a Republican family, Waldorf struggled to understand what the doctors were saying as waves of grief hit her. How could an abortion ban aimed at women who wanted to end their pregnancies keep doctors from helping a woman…

‘Threat to democracy’ – Indonesian filmmaker slams military crackdown on documentary
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description: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Indonesian filmmaker says the crackdown by authorities on his West Papua documentary in some parts of the country is a threat to democracy. The Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) documentary looks at the social and environmental impacts of land seizures for big agri-business ventures in Papua — and
encoded: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist An Indonesian filmmaker says the crackdown by authorities on his West Papua documentary in some parts of the country is a threat to democracy. The Pesta Babi (Pig Feast) documentary looks at the social and environmental impacts of land seizures for big agri-business ventures in Papua — and the Indonesian military’s role in it. Since March, the film has had screenings in New Zealand and Australia, and is now showing in Indonesia, where it has sparked public interest — not just through its treatment of the subject, but because authorities are trying to ban it. READ MORE: Pesta Babi doco stirs West Papuan development debates and ‘crackdown’ Other Pesta Babi documentary reports ‘Public order’ The film’s director, Dandhy Laksono, said that Pesta Babi was showing at about 1700 cinemas around Indonesia. “We have recorded more than 30 incidents of the state apparatus stopping the screening — mostly by military, and then they are also using the civil servants — in the name of public order,” he explained. Laksono said there had been no public disorder from the film in parts where it had shown. “It’s ridiculous, and thanks to the audience they defend the film quite hard, and they defend their rights to to watch and to absorb the information, about what actually happened in West Papua. “I think compared to the subset of the public screening, the intervention or the intimidation is nothing in terms of numbers, but in terms of substance of democracy, that’s a real threat.” A screengrab from the documentary Pesta Babi showing clashes between the Indonesian security forces and indigenous West Papuans. Image: Pesta Babi screenshot/RNZ Pacific Interests disrupted Laksono’s previous documentary film, The End Game, about efforts to undermine anti-corruption activities in Indonesia, also faced shutdowns, but only a handful. Pesta Babi has touched even more of a nerve. “Because this film also talked directly about the military interest in W…

Albuquerque Officials Take Steps to Curb Surge in Citations, Jail Stays Related to Homelessness
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encoded: The Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where ProPublica found that the jail population of people marked “transient” or homeless surged to 12,000 in 2025 from 3,670 in 2022 Ramsay de Give for ProPublica Judges, state public defenders and city officials in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are taking steps to curb a cycle of missed court dates and arrest warrants for crimes related to living outside that has led to a county jail population that’s about half homeless. Eighteen months ago, judges in Bernalillo County, which includes Albuquerque, noticed an increase in charges related to homelessness — including for obstructing a sidewalk, unlawful camping and unlawful storage of personal property. They said they also saw that some people who received the citations didn’t have an address and were missing court dates. People living on the street often lack cellphones and permanent addresses, making it difficult for them to know when to appear in court. Missed court appearances can lead to warrants that — if the person encounters officers again — can land them in jail. Starting July 1, when Albuquerque police issue citations for nine offenses associated with homelessness, they will schedule related court appearances for Fridays, according to a memo issued by Presiding Criminal Division Judge Michelle Castillo Dowler. The judges anticipate that having a specific day each week for the city ordinance cases will lead to fewer people missing court dates and fewer warrants for failing to appear. Officials will also use the set hearings to attempt to address the problem in other ways. A caseworker and an attorney from the New Mexico Law Offices of the Public Defender will attend the Friday hearings. The public defender’s office is also working to have local treatment and service providers available outside the courtroom, said Dennica Torres, the district defender for the public defender’s office. “It’s like a one-stop shop on Fridays,” she said. Her office, the dist…

Double standards? Why Israel’s nukes get a ‘pass’ while Iran is scrutinised
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description: ANALYSIS: By Usaid Siddiqui For more than two decades, Iran’s nuclear programme has been subject to intense international scrutiny, sanctions and diplomatic negotiations. By contrast, while Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons, an assertion it has consistently refused to deny or confirm, it faces little to almost no international pressure for transparency. Over
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Usaid Siddiqui For more than two decades, Iran’s nuclear programme has been subject to intense international scrutiny, sanctions and diplomatic negotiations. By contrast, while Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons, an assertion it has consistently refused to deny or confirm, it faces little to almost no international pressure for transparency. Over the past 10 months, Israel and the United States have waged two wars on Iran, arguing without evidence that the country was on the verge of having the capacity to build a nuclear weapon. READ MORE: US drone shot down as tensions surge during peace talks Netanyahu: Wanted on an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for war crimes since 2024 Other US war/ceasefire on Iran reports These wars — the 12-day conflict in June last year and the recent month of fighting this year — have killed more than 3375 Iranians and plunged the world into an unprecedented energy crisis. This imbalance has prompted complaints by Iran of double standards, as well as by proponents of nuclear non-proliferation worldwide. The difference between the treatment of Iran and Israel is not only evident in international law frameworks such as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), but also reflected in geopolitics and global power dynamics, observers say. So, what do we know about Israel’s nuclear arsenal, the scrutiny and debate around Iran’s nuclear programme, and why critics argue a double standard is at play when it comes to the threat posed by these two longtime foes? <img decoding="async" class="wp-image-125729 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Dimona-skyline-TOI-680wide.png" alt="Dimona's nuclear opacity" width="680" height="501" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Dimona-skyline-TOI-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Dimona-skyline-TOI-680wide-300x221.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.…

DN! Tuesday, May 26, 2026
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Lawmakers Ask DOJ Watchdog to Investigate Alleged Drugs-for-Votes Scheme After ProPublica Report
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description: The post Lawmakers Ask DOJ Watchdog to Investigate Alleged Drugs-for-Votes Scheme After ProPublica Report appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera, a Democrat Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty Images Puerto Rico’s representative in Congress and four other members of the House of Representatives have asked the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General to investigate why a federal probe into a prison drugs-for-votes scheme was abandoned after the 2024 elections. “Credible allegations of election fraud uncovered through federal investigative work warrant serious scrutiny and transparent explanation,” the members of Congress wrote in the May 20 letter, adding that it was essential for “public confidence in democratic institutions” that such claims are handled consistently, “regardless of the political actors involved.” The letter was signed by Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández Rivera, a Democrat and member of Puerto Rico’s Popular Democratic Party, as well as Reps. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Oversight Committee; Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y.; Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus; and Jesús “Chuy” García, D-Ill., a member of the House Judiciary Committee. Their request follows a ProPublica investigation that published earlier this month detailing how prosecutors had uncovered a drugs-for-votes scheme being run by a violent gang in Puerto Rican prisons and were deep into looking at whether now-Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón or her campaign were involved. In the days following President Donald Trump’s election in 2024, as prosecutors prepared the indictment, they were told by supervisors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Puerto Rico to exclude the voting-related charges against inmates and prison staff, four sources with knowledge of the investigation told ProPublica. Then, once Trump took office, they were told to abandon the probe into potential political ties entirely, the sources said. In their letter, the members of Congress urged the inspector general to…

They Say They Downed 5,000 Russian Drones In 5 Months: Meet Ukraine’s Anti-Drone Police
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‘I need Chevron’: The oil company at the center of the California governor’s race
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description: California is trying to phase out fossil fuels, but it still needs gas. That makes for messy politics.
encoded: When it comes to California’s climate future, the most important figure in the state’s chaotic governor’s race may not be any of the candidates on the debate stage. It may not even be outgoing governor Gavin Newsom, or President Donald Trump. Instead, it might just be Chevron, the multinational oil company that was founded in the Golden State more than 100 years ago. It is among the largest producers, refiners, and sellers of petroleum products in a state rapidly shifting toward electric vehicles. Depending on which candidate is talking, the company is an example of how Big Oil is strangling consumers or an example of how climate regulations are strangling the state economy. The behemoth — it reported $12.3 billion in profit last year — took the spotlight last month when an interviewer asked leading Democratic candidate Xavier Becerra about Chevron’s contributions to his campaign. The former state attorney general and Biden-era health secretary gave what seemed to be a candid response: “Chevron, that’s the problem with politics. They’re not the bad guy. Does everybody here drive an electric vehicle? You need Chevron. I need Chevron. My people of the state of California need Chevron … Chevron wants to give me a check, that’s — that’s their prerogative.” The phrase “I need Chevron” soon appeared in anti-Becerra videos by the likes of climate hawk Jane Fonda, implying that the candidate was saying he needs Chevron to get elected. Progressive billionaire Tom Steyer, Becerra’s lead Democratic opponent, urged him to return the contribution and said he is “doing [the] bidding” of Big Oil. Representative Katie Porter, another leading Democrat, said in a statement that she “hasn’t made millions off Big Oil or taken their checks.” Becerra is not entirely wrong. California consumes around 13 billion gallons of gasoline annually, all of it specifically formulated to meet the state’s stringent clean air standards. Most of it comes from just six refineries, and Chevron owns two t…

Israeli Authorities’ Disregard for International Law
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KUDSI ERGUNER (live in the streets of Istanbul)
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RUSSIAN RED (Barcelona, Spain)
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Musician Greg Mendez on the problem with being comfortable
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description: Where are some places that you get inspiration?
encoded: Where are some places that you get inspiration? I’ll be walking or driving, or sometimes I’ll even be in a conversation with other people, and all of a sudden I’ll be like, “Oh wait,” and I won’t be, like, rude about it, but one part of my mind will be trying to keep that in there and the other part will be engaging in what’s going on. That happens a lot. I definitely watch a lot of movies and I’ve been reading more recently. I went through a period of time where I couldn’t finish a book for years and that was kind of depressing, but I think I’ve read like three or four books this year already, so that’s cool. It is less overwhelming than it used to feel to read a book. Sometimes I’ll just do it a little bit at a time. I just finished a 500 page book that I thought I couldn’t. When you’re writing a song, where do your songs start from? Do you have a melody first or a lyric first? Almost 100 percent of the time I start with a melody or chords, where there’s a melody that I hear in it. I don’t know if I’ve ever written a song lyric first. Usually I’m kind of in phases with it, where I’ll have a bunch of ideas for melodies and/or chord progressions and I’ll just come up with a bunch of those and then I’ll go through a lyric writing phase where I’m more just like writing words to these things. But I always need to do the words more like a puzzle. I feel like I’m not very good at writing just free-form. When I have a melody, it’s like the syllables are already there and I just fit the words to it like puzzle pieces, like, “Oh, this vowel sounds good there,” and that’ll kind of like influence what the words are. Or if I’m like, “Yeah, I like this lyric, but I don’t actually like how it sounds when it’s sung with that melody,” then that can’t be the lyric. Do you run into creative blocks. Or once you get going do you have momentum? I think it comes in fits and starts. In the past I thought about them as creative blocks, but I don’t really think about it like that anymore. …

Purchased With Blood and Lies
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description: Another Memorial Day: boasts, insults, "self-defense strikes," cheap clichés from a Secretary of War Crimes prattling about dead boys "delivered from the battlefield into the arms of a loving Lord and savior." Spare us. And maybe revisit the war to en...
encoded: Another Memorial Day: boasts, insults, "self-defense strikes," cheap clichés from a Secretary of War Crimes prattling about dead boys "delivered from the battlefield into the arms of a loving Lord and savior." Spare us. And maybe revisit the war to end all wars, which didn't - its "infinity of waste" and trenches with skulls in the sides where "he who had a corpse to stand on was lucky." Pat Barker: “A society that devours its own young deserves (no) unquestioning allegiance.” "Happy Memorial Day to all," babbled our ever-unseemly Idiot-In-Chief, "including the Dumocrats, who disrespect our Military and all of the tremendous success that it has had over the last year," because obviously the best way to honor the dead is to not acknowledge their sacrifice but to insult half the country they died defending. Also, at Arlington National Cemetery, "Wherever the American soldier (falls), he does it for the destiny of a nation like no other - there’s never been anybody like you." Also, 18,000 Williams, over 20,000 Johns, and other names fell, but "not too many" Donalds. Huh. Adding to the day's eloquence with "a monster truck rally vibe" was non-veteran, Hegseth bestie, and tawdry aging rock star Kid Rock. Because "Tokyo Rose wasn't available," he was chosen by the Pentagon to honor American service members' ultimate sacrifice in a hoodie, fedora, gold chain and sunglasses, looking like "a creature you’d expect to hiss at you from the dank depths of a garbage bin." "We are remembering the sacrifice and service of so many who are not with us today," he noted. "It’s a special day. We’re thinking of them... Keep on Kid Rocking in the free world." Then there was blood-lusting, dime-store-cliché-spouting Christo-fascist Pete Hegseth urging we "remember our republic was forged and purchased with blood, American blood," evidently only male. He declaimed "the sacred names of bygone eras to the 13 souls of Epic Fury (who) answered the call when it mattered the most (and) gave the l…

EXPLAINED: Why Taiwan wants U.S. weapons and why Washington supplies them
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creator: Taejun Kang for RFA
date: 2026-05-26T03:18:46Z
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description: Reports of a delayed U.S. arms package have renewed attention on the unusual security relationship with Taipei.
encoded: With Taiwan hoping for swift delivery of a US$14 billion weapons sale approved by the U.S. Congress in January, a U.S. official said last week in a Senate hearing that foreign military sales are on pause to protect munitions stockpiles as conflict in Iran continues. U.S. weapons sales have been an integral part of Taiwan’s security since Washington ended diplomatic recognition of Taipei in favor of Beijing in 1979. Despite the loss of recognition, through arms sales and other agreements, Washington is still a de-facto military protector of the democratic island, an arrangement that remains one of the most unusual in international relations. How did the U.S. become Taiwan’s main arms supplier? The relationship dates back to the Chinese Civil War. After communist forces established the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the government of the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan. For many years afterwards, Washington recognized Taipei rather than Beijing as China’s legitimate government. During the Cold War, Taiwan became an important U.S. partner in Asia. The two sides signed a mutual defence treaty in the 1950s, and the United States maintained military support and stationed forces on the island. The relationship changed dramatically in the 1970s as Washington sought closer ties with Beijing. In 1979, the United States recognized the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government of China and ended official diplomatic relations with Taiwan. But it did not cut ties completely. Instead, the U.S. Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act, creating a framework that allowed Washington to maintain unofficial relations and continue providing defensive support to Taiwan. The law remains the main legal basis for U.S.-Taiwan security relations today. It says the United States will provide Taiwan with weapons of a defensive character and maintain the capacity to resist force or coercion against the island, but also does not explicitly guarantee that American troops wo…

Caitlin Johnstone: Yet another escalation in the empire’s war on activism and journalism
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-26T02:18:20Z
subject: Acts of aggression
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description: COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The empire’s war on activism and journalism continues to escalate as the Trump administration targets leftwing streamer Hasan Piker and antiwar 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
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The empire’s war on activism and journalism continues to escalate as the Trump administration targets leftwing streamer Hasan Piker and antiwar 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. LISTEN: A reading by Tim Foley 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. Taking medical supplies to pediatric hospitals in Cuba is now a crime? Saving the lives of babies is a crime? This administration is beyond grotesque. https://t.co/xsvQGEYzb8 — Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) May 24, 2026 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 …

Caitlin Johnstone: Yet another escalation in the empire’s war on activism and journalism
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description: COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The empire’s war on activism and journalism continues to escalate as the Trump administration targets leftwing streamer Hasan Piker and antiwar 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
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The empire’s war on activism and journalism continues to escalate as the Trump administration targets leftwing streamer Hasan Piker and antiwar 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. LISTEN: A reading by Tim Foley 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. Taking medical supplies to pediatric hospitals in Cuba is now a crime? Saving the lives of babies is a crime? This administration is beyond grotesque. https://t.co/xsvQGEYzb8 — Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) May 24, 2026 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 …

PNG prime minister visits France, plans to open Paris embassy
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description: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape was on an official visit to France last week, where he met French President Emmanuel Macron and held a number of important meetings to mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Topping
encoded: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape was on an official visit to France last week, where he met French President Emmanuel Macron and held a number of important meetings to mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Topping the list, through a joint communiqué, came the announcement of the setting up of a new PNG embassy in Paris. Currently, the closest PNG embassy is in Brussels, Belgium. The opening of Papua New Guinea’s embassy in Paris was based on the two nations “sharing a common commitment to democratic values, multilateralism, international law”, as well as in favour of “peace, stability and resilience in the face of climate change … and for the protection of environment and biodiversity”, including forest protection. READ MORE: Other France in the Pacific reports On social networks, Macron described Papua New Guinea’s forests as “the true lungs of the Pacific”. The diplomatic joint message also stressed the common will to “strengthen friendship and cooperation” relations. Macron visited Papua New Guinea in July 2023, as part of a regional tour that also included New Caledonia and neighbouring Vanuatu. On the political front, Marape also led a delegation to the French National Assembly (Lower House), which at the time was engaged in heated debates regarding New Caledonia. The PNG delegation’s presence in the Parliament’s gallery was hailed and underlined by National Assembly Speaker Yaël Braun-Pivet, followed by a round of applause from the French MPs. “Since we arrived, we have felt very much at home and very welcome,” Marape said. But apart from his encounter with Macron on Wednesday last week, Marape also had significant contacts with major development aid stakeholder AFD (Agence Française de Développement) and the aircraft industry’s ATR, based in Toulouse in southwestern France. More ATR aircraft on the way The ATR call was…

Journalists in Mexican state of San Luis Potosí jailed, indicted over AI-related charges
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-05-25T21:57:36Z
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description: Guadalajara, May 25, 2026—Authorities in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí should immediately release journalists Eréndira Reyes and daughter Alejandra Hermosillo, and drop all criminal charges against them over the alleged illegal use of artificial intelligence (AI), the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Two reporters, asking to remain anonymous for safety reasons, alerted...
encoded: Guadalajara, May 25, 2026—Authorities in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí should immediately release journalists Eréndira Reyes and daughter Alejandra Hermosillo, and drop all criminal charges against them over the alleged illegal use of artificial intelligence (AI), the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Two reporters, asking to remain anonymous for safety reasons, alerted CPJ that Reyes—founder and editor of Facebook-based news page San Wicho Times and the magazine Capital—had been arrested on May 21 by state police in San Luis Potosí, the state capital. Hermosillo was also arrested that same day. According to the National Registry of Detentions, Reyes and Hermosillo are still being held at the “La Pila” state penitentiary. The reporters also shared a photo with CPJ of what appeared to be an arrest warrant against several journalists among eleven people. In a May 21 statement, the San Luis Potosí state prosecutor’s office confirmed Reyes and Hermosillo’s arrests, alleging “deliberate and illegal manipulation of the digital identity of the victim.” The statement did not name the victim or mention arrest warrants against other journalists. “Jailing journalists on vague charges of ‘illegal use of AI’ is a clear escalation of the already sharp rise in cases of judicial harassment against journalists in Mexico, which continues to be the most dangerous country for journalists in the western hemisphere,” said Jan-Albert Hootsen, CPJ’s Mexico representative. “The San Luis Potosí state authorities must immediately cease this aggressive crackdown on the press.” The reporters told CPJ that they believe there are warrants for the arrest of several other journalists on the same charges, but CPJ was unable to confirm the existence of other warrants with San Luis Potosí authorities. According to the reporters, Reyes and Hermosillo’s arrests are in connection with a video that circulated widely on Facebook last year in which a local criminal gang in San Luis Potosí…

Journalists in Mexican state of San Luis Potosí jailed, indicted over AI-related charges
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description: Guadalajara, May 25, 2026—Authorities in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí should immediately release journalists Eréndira Reyes and daughter Alejandra Hermosillo, and drop all criminal charges against them over the alleged illegal use of artificial intelligence (AI), the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Two reporters, asking to remain anonymous for safety reasons, alerted...
encoded: Guadalajara, May 25, 2026—Authorities in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí should immediately release journalists Eréndira Reyes and daughter Alejandra Hermosillo, and drop all criminal charges against them over the alleged illegal use of artificial intelligence (AI), the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Two reporters, asking to remain anonymous for safety reasons, alerted CPJ that Reyes—founder and editor of Facebook-based news page San Wicho Times and the magazine Capital—had been arrested on May 21 by state police in San Luis Potosí, the state capital. Hermosillo was also arrested that same day. According to the National Registry of Detentions, Reyes and Hermosillo are still being held at the “La Pila” state penitentiary. The reporters also shared a photo with CPJ of what appeared to be an arrest warrant against several journalists among eleven people. In a May 21 statement, the San Luis Potosí state prosecutor’s office confirmed Reyes and Hermosillo’s arrests, alleging “deliberate and illegal manipulation of the digital identity of the victim.” The statement did not name the victim or mention arrest warrants against other journalists. “Jailing journalists on vague charges of ‘illegal use of AI’ is a clear escalation of the already sharp rise in cases of judicial harassment against journalists in Mexico, which continues to be the most dangerous country for journalists in the western hemisphere,” said Jan-Albert Hootsen, CPJ’s Mexico representative. “The San Luis Potosí state authorities must immediately cease this aggressive crackdown on the press.” The reporters told CPJ that they believe there are warrants for the arrest of several other journalists on the same charges, but CPJ was unable to confirm the existence of other warrants with San Luis Potosí authorities. According to the reporters, Reyes and Hermosillo’s arrests are in connection with a video that circulated widely on Facebook last year in which a local criminal gang in San Luis Potosí…

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 25, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 25, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Hezbollah leader to The Grayzone: Israel-First Trump ‘turned America into a joke’
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QUTAIBA’S BAND (Azraq, Jordan)
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CPJ condemns Tunisia’s judicial harassment of Sonia Dahmani after fresh conviction
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description: New York, May 25, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the continued judicial harassment of lawyer and media commentator Sonia Dahmani, amid escalating attacks on press freedom in Tunisia, including the obstruction of journalists covering public protests. The sustained targeting of journalists, commentators, and independent voices signals a dangerous deterioration of civic space and media...
encoded: New York, May 25, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the continued judicial harassment of lawyer and media commentator Sonia Dahmani, amid escalating attacks on press freedom in Tunisia, including the <a href="https://web.facebook.com/snjt.tunisie/photos/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3-%D9%81%D9%8A-19-%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A-2026%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%AA%D8%BA%D8%B7%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%83-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%91-%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A-/1406113871542522/?_rdc=1&_rdr">obstruction of journalists covering public protests. The sustained targeting of journalists, commentators, and independent voices signals a dangerous deterioration of civic space and media freedom in the country. Dahmani, who already spent 18 months in jail before she was released in November, was convicted on May 25 of “spreading false news likely to harm a public official,” under Tunisia’s cybercrime Decree Law 54 over comments she made in 2023 criticizing conditions in Tunisian prisons. She was sentenced to two years in prison but remains free pending an appeal filed by her lawyers on the ruling, which stemmed from a complaint by the Minister of Justice on behalf of the General Directorate of Prisons, according to her lawyer. Dahmani, recipient of CPJ’s 2025 International Press Freedom Award, has become emblematic of Tunisia’s growing repression of free expression. Tunisian authorities have brought five separate cases against her over her public commentary over the years. In April, she received a reduced 18-month prison sentence on appeal over remarks about the treatment of sub-Saharan migrants in the country. CPJ has documented a broader pattern of repression in Tunisia under President Kais Saied, including the use of Decree-Law 54 to prosecute journalists and commentators. In recent months, …

Democracy Now! Marks 30 Years w/ Angela Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe & More
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‘Israel wanted to shame us, but the shame is Israel’s,’ says climate activist Violet Coco
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description: COMMENTARY: By Mark Nagalazas Kudos to the returning Australian pro-Palestinian flotilla activists for not simply focusing on their mistreatment at the hands of the Israeli Defence Force but for acknowledging the suffering of Palestinian prisoners. “What got me through is thinking about coming home, and now I’m home I can’t stop thinking about my brothers
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Mark Nagalazas Kudos to the returning Australian pro-Palestinian flotilla activists for not simply focusing on their mistreatment at the hands of the Israeli Defence Force but for acknowledging the suffering of Palestinian prisoners. “What got me through is thinking about coming home, and now I’m home I can’t stop thinking about my brothers and sisters that we left behind, still in the clutches of the Israeli military, police and prison guards, who take so much pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering,” said climate activist Violet Coco as she stepped off the plane at Melbourne Airport. “There are still almost 10,000 Palestinian prisoners held hostage in Israel’s prison system, hundreds of whom are children, some as young as two. READ MORE: Israel’s arrogance is becoming the evidence in the case against it Gaza freedom flotilla – reluctance of the West to protest Israel’s thuggery enabled the abuse Uncertainty persists as Trump says Iran deal not ‘fully negotiated’ Other Gaza flotilla human rights reports “Israel wants to shame us but we are not ashamed, the shame is Israel’s, that they would tarnish their souls with such calculated cruelty.” Fellow activist Gemma O’Toole also said the mistreatment of the protestors should not distract from the suffering of Palestinian prisoners. “I gather there’s a lot of attention being paid to the Ben-Gvir video, which is just so insane to me,” she said, referring to a video posted by Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir showing the detained activists with their hands tied and foreheads on the ground. ‘Heart broken for Palestinians’ “What you saw in that video is this [infinitesimal] amount of what we actually went through. And then to think that’s what they do to predominantly white people when they’re being held relatively to account, there’s so much attention being paid to that,” O’Toole said. “My heart is just broken for the Palestinian people.” Meanwhile, the global pro-Israel communi…

‘Israel wanted to shame us, but the shame is Israel’s,’ says climate activist Violet Coco
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description: COMMENTARY: By Mark Nagalazas Kudos to the returning Australian pro-Palestinian flotilla activists for not simply focusing on their mistreatment at the hands of the Israeli Defence Force but for acknowledging the suffering of Palestinian prisoners. “What got me through is thinking about coming home, and now I’m home I can’t stop thinking about my brothers
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Mark Nagalazas Kudos to the returning Australian pro-Palestinian flotilla activists for not simply focusing on their mistreatment at the hands of the Israeli Defence Force but for acknowledging the suffering of Palestinian prisoners. “What got me through is thinking about coming home, and now I’m home I can’t stop thinking about my brothers and sisters that we left behind, still in the clutches of the Israeli military, police and prison guards, who take so much pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering,” said climate activist Violet Coco as she stepped off the plane at Melbourne Airport. “There are still almost 10,000 Palestinian prisoners held hostage in Israel’s prison system, hundreds of whom are children, some as young as two. READ MORE: Israel’s arrogance is becoming the evidence in the case against it Gaza freedom flotilla – reluctance of the West to protest Israel’s thuggery enabled the abuse Uncertainty persists as Trump says Iran deal not ‘fully negotiated’ Other Gaza flotilla human rights reports “Israel wants to shame us but we are not ashamed, the shame is Israel’s, that they would tarnish their souls with such calculated cruelty.” Fellow activist Gemma O’Toole also said the mistreatment of the protestors should not distract from the suffering of Palestinian prisoners. “I gather there’s a lot of attention being paid to the Ben-Gvir video, which is just so insane to me,” she said, referring to a video posted by Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir showing the detained activists with their hands tied and foreheads on the ground. ‘Heart broken for Palestinians’ “What you saw in that video is this [infinitesimal] amount of what we actually went through. And then to think that’s what they do to predominantly white people when they’re being held relatively to account, there’s so much attention being paid to that,” O’Toole said. “My heart is just broken for the Palestinian people.” Meanwhile, the global pro-Israel communi…

‘Israel wanted to shame us, but the shame is Israel’s,’ says climate activist Violet Coco
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description: COMMENTARY: By Mark Nagalazas Kudos to the returning Australian pro-Palestinian flotilla activists for not simply focusing on their mistreatment at the hands of the Israeli Defence Force but for acknowledging the suffering of Palestinian prisoners. “What got me through is thinking about coming home, and now I’m home I can’t stop thinking about my brothers
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Mark Nagalazas Kudos to the returning Australian pro-Palestinian flotilla activists for not simply focusing on their mistreatment at the hands of the Israeli Defence Force but for acknowledging the suffering of Palestinian prisoners. “What got me through is thinking about coming home, and now I’m home I can’t stop thinking about my brothers and sisters that we left behind, still in the clutches of the Israeli military, police and prison guards, who take so much pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering,” said climate activist Violet Coco as she stepped off the plane at Melbourne Airport. “There are still almost 10,000 Palestinian prisoners held hostage in Israel’s prison system, hundreds of whom are children, some as young as two. READ MORE: Israel’s arrogance is becoming the evidence in the case against it Gaza freedom flotilla – reluctance of the West to protest Israel’s thuggery enabled the abuse Uncertainty persists as Trump says Iran deal not ‘fully negotiated’ Other Gaza flotilla human rights reports “Israel wants to shame us but we are not ashamed, the shame is Israel’s, that they would tarnish their souls with such calculated cruelty.” Fellow activist Gemma O’Toole also said the mistreatment of the protestors should not distract from the suffering of Palestinian prisoners. “I gather there’s a lot of attention being paid to the Ben-Gvir video, which is just so insane to me,” she said, referring to a video posted by Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir showing the detained activists with their hands tied and foreheads on the ground. ‘Heart broken for Palestinians’ “What you saw in that video is this [infinitesimal] amount of what we actually went through. And then to think that’s what they do to predominantly white people when they’re being held relatively to account, there’s so much attention being paid to that,” O’Toole said. “My heart is just broken for the Palestinian people.” Meanwhile, the global pro-Israel communi…

Democracy Now! Marks 30 Years with Angela Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe & More
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description: A special broadcast: Highlights from Democracy Now!’s 30th anniversary celebration at the historic Riverside Church, featuring Angela Davis, Patti Smith, Mosab Abu Toha, Michael Stipe, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Amy Goodman, Juan González...
encoded: A special broadcast: Highlights from Democracy Now!’s 30th anniversary celebration at the historic Riverside Church, featuring Angela Davis, Patti Smith, Mosab Abu Toha, Michael Stipe, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Amy Goodman, Juan González, Nermeen Shaikh and a surprise appearance by Bruce Springsteen. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-05-25 Monday
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encoded: Democracy Now! Monday, May 25, 2026 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

[full uncut conversation] Finding Practical Paths To Economic & Social Justice
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description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
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Gaza freedom flotilla – reluctance of the West to protest Israel’s thuggery enabled the abuse
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-25T09:28:33Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Gaza genocide
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subject: International law violations
subject: Israeli atrocities
subject: Israeli impunity
subject: Israeli military
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description: The failure of Australia and Western governments to hold Israel to account has enabled the abuse of Gaza flotilla detainees, including New Zealanders, argues Jerusalem Peace Prize recipient Stuart Rees in Michael West Media. ANALYSIS: By Professor Stuart Rees If bullies notice that no one intervenes to stop their behaviour, they may interpret such non-intervention
encoded: The failure of Australia and Western governments to hold Israel to account has enabled the abuse of Gaza flotilla detainees, including New Zealanders, argues Jerusalem Peace Prize recipient Stuart Rees in Michael West Media. ANALYSIS: By Professor Stuart Rees If bullies notice that no one intervenes to stop their behaviour, they may interpret such non-intervention as permission to continue bullying. For years, the same process has operated in relation to the thuggery of Israel’s Netanyahu government, and in that respect, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s abuse of detainees from the Gaza international aid flotilla was no surprise. Suddenly, even the Australian government — and New Zealand — condemned the abuse meted out to hundreds of humanitarian activists, but that condemnation was too little too late. READ MORE: Uncertainty persists as Trump says Iran deal not ‘fully negotiated’ Other Gaza flotilla human rights reports <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-128455 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Stuart-Rees-300tall.png" alt="Professor Stuart Rees " width="300" height="389" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Stuart-Rees-300tall.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Stuart-Rees-300tall-231x300.png 231w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> Professor Stuart Rees . . . “This culture of non-accountability, coupled with acceptance of Israel’s false claims, reappeared when 430 sailors from 40 different countries were taken into Israel’s detention.” Image: MWM The first measure concerns politicians’ and journalists’ reluctance to question Israeli spokespersons’ claims that they and their army operate according to the highest moral standards. The second concerns the failure to hold Israel accountable to the rules of international law. This culture of non-accountability, coupled with acceptance of Israel’s false claims, reappeared whe…

‘We always stay hopeful’, says Umaga on Moana Pasifika’s future
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-25T08:44:25Z
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subject: Fa'alogo Tana Umaga
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description: By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific senior sports journalist Moana Pasifika’s head coach Fa’alogo Tana Umaga says they are still hopeful the team continue on in Super Rugby Pacific in 2027. Speaking at the post-match press conference following Saturday’s clash against the Reds in North Harbour, Fa’alogo said there had been discussions last week between the
encoded: By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific senior sports journalist Moana Pasifika’s head coach Fa’alogo Tana Umaga says they are still hopeful the team continue on in Super Rugby Pacific in 2027. Speaking at the post-match press conference following Saturday’s clash against the Reds in North Harbour, Fa’alogo said there had been discussions last week between the Moana Pasifika management and team. “Even this week there was a meeting around what the future looks like. There’s some certainty but not a lot. READ MORE: Other Pacific rugby reports “We always stay hopeful. Who would have thought I would get a job after this but I got one. I had actually given up hope on that. “So, if it can happen to me it can happen to anyone.” RNZ Pacific has been told that there are at least two organisations which had shown interest in securing the licence from Pasifika Medical Association (PMA), after it announced last month the club would be disbanded. One of the bidders is Kanaloa Consortium, which are based in Hawai’i and Auckland. Pasifika consortium The consortium is backed by a number of Pasifika heritage former All Black players that includes Joe Rokocoko, Ben Atiga, John Afoa, Anthony Tuitavake and Jerome Kaino. Kanaloa’s CEO Tracy Atiga confirmed last week they haD sent in their proposal, as per requirements of New Zealand Rugby, and were awaiting an update. New Zealand Rugby has remained tight-lipped on who the bidders are but said they had opened the process to all bidders. RNZ Pacific has requested NZ Rugby for an update on what the process now includes and when an announcement would be expected on Moana Pasifika’s future. This article is republished under a community partnership agreement with RNZ. This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR editor.

Rights & Wrongs: Recap – Sportswashing Explained
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date: 2026-05-25T07:00:41Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
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Filmmaker Ash Goh Hua on putting yourself in uncomfortable places
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creator: Reina Bonta
date: 2026-05-25T07:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Creative Independent
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subject: Film
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description: You were born in Singapore, you now live in New York, and you’re currently speaking to us from Colombia. How has a global perspective contributed to your work?
encoded: You were born in Singapore, you now live in New York, and you’re currently speaking to us from Colombia. How has a global perspective contributed to your work? [A global perspective] is integral to my work. The way I live my life allows me to form a perspective that I bring into my work. I’m very cognizant of the different ways in which the industry moves. And I almost feel like the way in which my life has spanned out across territories has allowed me to glimpse a possibility of bridging these different industries. Because the American industry is very insular and the international film industry is very international. A lot of times my friends in Asia are like, “The American market is so off.” It seems like you can’t tap into [the American film market] if you’re outside of it. And similarly, when you’re inside the US, it feels very much like a bit of a circle jerk. Being able to see the expansiveness of different storytelling legacies and the ways in which people see the world is something that is very important to me and that I continue to massage in my practice. I want to be somebody who can be porous. Does that contribute to the way you think about audience when you’re making work? I don’t know if I ever really think about audience. It’s always really hard when you’re writing a grant application and they’re always like, “Who’s your audience?” I think for me, [the answer to that question] has never really been a kind of person. It’s more about a feeling. If I’m making a film about homecoming, it’s about feelings of alienation. And so, my answer would be: this is for people that feel alienation. I think there are so many ways of arriving at that particular feeling, whether you are from the Global North or the Global South. So I don’t really think about audience specifically when making my work. How has the collaborative process of making films in community impacted your creative journey? I could never make a film in a silo by myself. That feels insane to me. I cou…

Drones strike radio station in rebel-held DRC, with threat to kill next time
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creator: CPJ Africa Program Staff
date: 2026-05-25T07:00:00Z
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subject: M23
subject: Mukirambi TV1
subject: National Press Union of the Congo (UNPC)
subject: News Home Magazine
subject: Olivier Ramazani Alvin
subject: Placide Cilewu Mukonga Bantu
subject: Radio Lukula FM
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description: The eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has joined a growing number of conflicts where drones are being used to target journalists, as two strikes hit a community radio station, followed by calls and messages threatening further attacks over its reporting on militia abuses. The bombing of Radio Tuungane in South Kivu province’s rebel-controlled Minembwe...
encoded: The eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has joined a growing number of conflicts where drones are being used to target journalists, as two strikes hit a community radio station, followed by calls and messages threatening further attacks over its reporting on militia abuses. The bombing of Radio Tuungane in South Kivu province’s rebel-controlled Minembwe commune came as the United Nations warned in March that civilians were facing additional risks from drones and clashes between the government and rebels escalated. Elsewhere in South Kivu, two journalists told CPJ they were currently unable to work due to threats and harassment. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" height="768" width="1024" src="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/solar-Tuungane-Radio-Minembwe-credit-withheld.jpg?w=1024" alt="Solar panels destroyed by a drone strike on the roof of Tuungane Radio in Minembwe commune." class="wp-image-591275" style="aspect-ratio:1.3333472750846962;width:314px;height:auto" srcset="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/solar-Tuungane-Radio-Minembwe-credit-withheld.jpg 1040w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/solar-Tuungane-Radio-Minembwe-credit-withheld.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/solar-Tuungane-Radio-Minembwe-credit-withheld.jpg?resize=768,576 768w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/solar-Tuungane-Radio-Minembwe-credit-withheld.jpg?resize=1024,768 1024w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/solar-Tuungane-Radio-Minembwe-credit-withheld.jpg?resize=555,416 555w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/solar-Tuungane-Radio-Minembwe-credit-withheld.jpg?resize=360,270 360w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/solar-Tuungane-Radio-Minembwe-credit-withheld.jpg?resize=570,428 570w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/solar-Tuungane-Radio-Minembwe-credit-withheld.jpg?resize=652,489 652w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/solar-Tuungane-Radio-Minembwe-credit-withheld.j…

The world owes Cuba a debt – and the US a condemnation
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-25T00:33:39Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Covid action
subject: Cuba blockade
subject: Cuban doctors
subject: Cuban sanctions
subject: Health professionals
subject: Medical Brigades
subject: Sources
subject: action
subject: Analysis
subject: and
subject: asia
subject: blockade
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subject: condemnation
subject: Covid
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subject: Debt
subject: Development
subject: doctors
subject: economics
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
subject: Global
subject: health
subject: Health and Fitness
subject: History
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: Justice
subject: Media
subject: Medical
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subject: Opinion
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subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
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subject: Politics
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subject: The Lancet
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description: COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose In 2015, the John Key government announced a cooperation agreement that would see NZ Aid pay for Cuban doctors to be taught English in New Zealand before their deployment to the Pacific Islands as part of the communist island’s Medical Brigades. Cuba, a country of just 11 million people that has
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose In 2015, the John Key government announced a cooperation agreement that would see NZ Aid pay for Cuban doctors to be taught English in New Zealand before their deployment to the Pacific Islands as part of the communist island’s Medical Brigades. Cuba, a country of just 11 million people that has been under continuous US economic sanctions since 1962, has sent more than 400,000 healthcare professionals to 155 countries over the last six and a half decades. Since 1960, when an earthquake devastated Valdivia in Chile, Cuban doctors have been on the frontlines of medical emergencies around the globe. READ MORE: Other Cuban reports They were there for the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, in Sri Lanka following the 2004 tsunami, in Pakistan after the 2005 earthquake, in Africa during the Ebola outbreak, in South Africa for the HIV/ AIDS epidemic, and Italy during the outbreak of covid. In any given year the country has had more health professionals working in aid programmes abroad than the USA, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and the UK combined. The National government and Cuba were unlikely bedfellows. The conservative party’s founding constitution in 1936 committed it to combating communism and socialism. But the communist nation’s medical assistance programme has been a spectacular success when it comes to providing healthcare to those most in need, and the cooperation agreement was a concrete acknowledgement of that. Soft power, hard currency Cuba’s overseas doctors programme is both an exercise in what is sometimes called soft power and a source of desperately needed hard currency. Economists are divided over whether the US dollar’s status as the global reserve currency is an “exorbitant privilege” but there’s no debate over the power it gives the US government to inflict economic devastation on its perceived enemies. Last year, the medical journal The Lancet published an article that found that economic sanctions — the majority being unilateral …

Health services for US veterans from Freely Associated States remain elusive
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-24T23:21:46Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Freely Associated States
subject: Kalani Kaneko
subject: Pacific healthcare
subject: Sources
subject: US armed forces
subject: US veterans benefits
subject: Veterans Administration
subject: “remain
subject: Administration
subject: armed
subject: asia
subject: associated
subject: Benefits
subject: Civil Society
subject: economics
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: elusive
subject: Featured
subject: Federated States of Micronesia
subject: for
subject: forces
subject: freely
subject: from
subject: Global
subject: health
subject: Health and Fitness
subject: healthcare
subject: Human Rights
subject: kalani
subject: kaneko
subject: Marshall Islands
subject: military
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Palau-Belau
subject: Politics
subject: report
subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: services
subject: sources
subject: states
subject: Syndicate
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description: By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor/RNZ Pacific correspondent Securing essential healthcare services for US military veterans from three North Pacific nations remains a persistent challenge. Despite the US Congress specifically authorising in-country services by the US Veterans Administration for veterans of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), and Palau, the Trump
encoded: By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor/RNZ Pacific correspondent Securing essential healthcare services for US military veterans from three North Pacific nations remains a persistent challenge. Despite the US Congress specifically authorising in-country services by the US Veterans Administration for veterans of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), and Palau, the Trump administration over a year ago suspended ongoing talks to implement services. All three island nations have been lobbying for years to get action for their hundreds of military veterans who, unlike American veterans, do not have easy, or any, access to Veterans Administration services — unless they move to the United States. READ MORE: Other US Pacific military veterans’ health care reports Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Kalani Kaneko, himself a US Army veteran, has been at the forefront of pushing US authorities to begin implementing healthcare for island veterans. “Most importantly, the Compact legislation approved by the United States Congress specifically mandates the provision of VA services to the Freely Associated States,” he said in an interview this week. “This was not intended to be a symbolic commitment, but a practical obligation reflecting the unique relationship between our nations,” Kaneko said. Islanders from the three Freely Associated States (FAS) are allowed by the treaties with the US to enlist in the US Armed Forces and do so at per capita rates generally higher than those of Americans. ‘Served honourably’ “Marshallese citizens have served honourably in the United States Armed Forces for generations, often at one of the highest per-capita rates of military service in the world,” Kaneko said. “The United States military continues to recruit in the Marshall Islands, and with that recruitment comes a shared responsibility to ensure veterans can access the care and benefits they earned through their service.” Kaneko said the discussions that the …

Health services for US veterans from Freely Associated States remain elusive
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description: By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor/RNZ Pacific correspondent Securing essential healthcare services for US military veterans from three North Pacific nations remains a persistent challenge. Despite the US Congress specifically authorising in-country services by the US Veterans Administration for veterans of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), and Palau, the Trump
encoded: By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor/RNZ Pacific correspondent Securing essential healthcare services for US military veterans from three North Pacific nations remains a persistent challenge. Despite the US Congress specifically authorising in-country services by the US Veterans Administration for veterans of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), and Palau, the Trump administration over a year ago suspended ongoing talks to implement services. All three island nations have been lobbying for years to get action for their hundreds of military veterans who, unlike American veterans, do not have easy, or any, access to Veterans Administration services — unless they move to the United States. READ MORE: Other US Pacific military veterans’ health care reports Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Kalani Kaneko, himself a US Army veteran, has been at the forefront of pushing US authorities to begin implementing healthcare for island veterans. “Most importantly, the Compact legislation approved by the United States Congress specifically mandates the provision of VA services to the Freely Associated States,” he said in an interview this week. “This was not intended to be a symbolic commitment, but a practical obligation reflecting the unique relationship between our nations,” Kaneko said. Islanders from the three Freely Associated States (FAS) are allowed by the treaties with the US to enlist in the US Armed Forces and do so at per capita rates generally higher than those of Americans. ‘Served honourably’ “Marshallese citizens have served honourably in the United States Armed Forces for generations, often at one of the highest per-capita rates of military service in the world,” Kaneko said. “The United States military continues to recruit in the Marshall Islands, and with that recruitment comes a shared responsibility to ensure veterans can access the care and benefits they earned through their service.” Kaneko said the discussions that the …

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 24, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 24, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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AWWAD AL BLOUI (Wadi Rum, Jordan)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
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The EPA just walked back Hawai‘i’s plan to retire its dinosaur power plants
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description: By throwing a wrench in the state’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan, advocates say Hawaiian Electric Co. can sidestep rules years in the making.
encoded: Hawaiʻi has some of the freshest air in the nation, but in some parts of the state hazy skies can impact tourism and public health. Now, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has pumped the brakes on a multi-decade effort to improve visibility and reduce fine particulates and other man-made pollutants. On May 15, the agency announced it had partially denied Hawaiʻi’s 2024 Regional Haze State Implementation Plan, a detailed proposal that lays out the state’s intention to comply with the federal Clean Air Act. The plan was designed specifically to reduce haze in two iconic places: Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island and Haleakalā National Park on Maui. Because the two parks are designated as Class I under the Clean Air Act, their air quality is legally entitled to the highest level of protection. Although the EPA is leaving some aspects of the haze plan intact, it is jettisoning its main thrust: the state’s long-term strategy, which included shutting down at least two of Hawaiian Electric Co.’s oil-fired electricity generating units in the Kanoelehua-Hill and Kahului power plants by 2028. The units are the dinosaurs of the industry; the Kahului unit was commissioned in 1948. The agency referred to the closures as “unconsented” and said in a press release that they could make Hawaiʻi’s grid less reliable and “violate the Takings Clause of the U.S. Constitution for the taking of private property without just compensation.” <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/hawaiienergystation.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/hawaiienergystation.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/hawaiienergystation.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/hawaiienergystation.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/hawaiienergystation…

Russia Launches Massive Attack On Kyiv
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How Bosnians Fighting For Russia Are Escaping Prosecution
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Haka, waiata welcome for NZ’s Gaza flotilla activists after brutal ordeal at hands of Israeli military
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-24T09:29:16Z
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description: Asia Pacific Report An emotional and inspiring welcome greeted two of Aotearoa New Zealand’s three Gaza Sumud Flotilla humanitarian activists who arrived home today after their ordeal at the hands of the brutal Israeli military and prison forces last week. About 60 whānau, supporters and well-wishers greeted Hāhona Ormsby and Mousa Taher with a waiata
encoded: Asia Pacific Report An emotional and inspiring welcome greeted two of Aotearoa New Zealand’s three Gaza Sumud Flotilla humanitarian activists who arrived home today after their ordeal at the hands of the brutal Israeli military and prison forces last week. About 60 whānau, supporters and well-wishers greeted Hāhona Ormsby and Mousa Taher with a waiata and haka. The returning activists were among about 430 humanitarians from 43 countries trying to break the illegal blockade who were kidnapped, abused and taken to Israel on “torture ships”. READ MORE: Andy Worthington: The startling severity of Gaza flotilla activists’ rape allegations Wong’s muted response to Ben-Gvir’s video raises serious questions Peters condemns Israeli minister over flotilla video as 3 Kiwis detained Other Gaza flotilla reports Most were tortured and beaten to global outrage and Ormsby was seen to be walking today with a limp at Auckland International Airport. Government ministers for several countries have accused Israel of “inhumane treatment” and “unacceptable” behaviour over the abducted activists. A video posted on social media by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir last week showed him taunting the activists as they were zip-tied and forced to kneel under threat after being detained by the Israeli forces in international waters. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-128396" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Airport-welcome-24-May-2026-APR-680wide.png" alt="Supporters greet NZ Global Sumud Flotilla activists Mousa Taher and Hāhona Ormsby on their return to Aotearoa today" width="680" height="377" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Airport-welcome-24-May-2026-APR-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Airport-welcome-24-May-2026-APR-680wide-300x166.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Supporters greet NZ Global Sumud Flotilla activists Mousa…

North Korea’s Naegohyang FC meets the South’s Suwon FC in Seoul | Radio Free Asia (RFA)
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Andy Worthington: The startling severity of Gaza flotilla activists’ rape allegations
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description: COMMENTARY: By Andy Worthington It’s a sign of Israel’s swaggering sense of impunity, and of the grotesque depravity at the heart of their notions of supremacy, that their soldiers and those in charge of them thought that they could get away with inflicting severe physical abuse on the 430 members of the Global Sumud Flotilla,
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Andy Worthington It’s a sign of Israel’s swaggering sense of impunity, and of the grotesque depravity at the heart of their notions of supremacy, that their soldiers and those in charge of them thought that they could get away with inflicting severe physical abuse on the 430 members of the Global Sumud Flotilla, from 45 countries, who were illegally intercepted at sea, in international waters, and then, over two days, were abused on Israeli ships located nearby. They were then illegally brought to Israel to face further abuse under the watch of Itamar Ben-Gvir, the terrorist thug serving as the Minister of National Security, who caused global outrage when he posted a video of himself and his soldiers bullying and humiliating detained activists in his custody. As Reuters reported in an article entitled, “Freed Gaza flotilla activists allege Israeli abuse including rape”, the flotilla’s organisers said that activists released from Israeli custody after being detained “were subjected to abuse, with several hospitalised with injuries, and at least 15 reporting sexual assaults, including rape.” READ MORE: ‘More horrific than Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo’: The unsalvageable depravity of Israel’s prisons for Palestinians Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims brutal abuse ‘justified’ ‘It’s worse for Palestinians,’ says Australian flotilla activist about Israeli torture Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they for Palestinians? Israel’s $700m Hasbara fiasco – how Ben-Gvir’s flotilla abuse video stirred backlash Other Gaza flotilla reports A spokesperson for the Israeli Prison Service stated, “The allegations raised are false and entirely without factual basis”, and Reuters noted that it “was not able to verify them independently”, but why would anyone believe the Israelis, when so many of those released were photographed with visible signs of abuse, including severe bruising, and wh…

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 23, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 23, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Unions Hiding/A Solution to Gerrymandering
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creator: Ralph Nader
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description: Ralph welcomes back union organizer, Chris Townsend, to discuss the reasons why the AFL-CIO shrinks from effectively fighting for its members and expanding the power of workers. Then, political scientist Lee Drutman lays out a system of proportional re...
encoded: Ralph welcomes back union organizer, Chris Townsend, to discuss the reasons why the AFL-CIO shrinks from effectively fighting for its members and expanding the power of workers. Then, political scientist Lee Drutman lays out a system of proportional representation that would take away the incentive to gerrymander congressional districts. Plus, Ralph gives some quick takes on Thomas Massie’s primary loss, fish hopped up on cocaine, and the situations in Lebanon and Ukraine. Chris Townsend has been a union member and labor leader for more than 45 years. He was most recently the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) International Union Organizing Director. Previously, he was an International Representative and Political Action Director for the United Electrical Workers Union (UE), and he has held local positions in both the SEIU and UFCW. [The upcoming AFL-CIO] convention is deliberately kept secret. It’s what I describe as sort of a hideout strategy. It enables the leadership to not have to discuss or take positions that for them are difficult, such as: What is the labor movement going to do to confront the rampant lawlessness and criminality of the Trump regime? What is the labor movement going to do to address the rampaging inflation that is eating up living standards? There’s no wage policy. There’s no bargaining policy of the Federation. What are they going to do to address the ongoing national health care crisis and disaster?... And what are they doing about the crisis of the unorganized? Chris Townsend The labor movement finds itself (I would submit) with the leadership disinterested in going out and organizing the unorganized. But even for those who do (and there are some), the laws—Taft-Hartley primary among them—provide such a minefield that we have to run through, that our ability to organize on any scale for decades has been stopped. And therefore, we are condemned to a perpetual shrinking size, resources, and whatnot. [And what] might help for folks to figure ou…

ODEH ALI MASHA’LEH (Petra, Jordan)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-05-23T17:00:21Z
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The amplification machine: Who spread a fake rare earths conspiracy across X and Facebook? Who was behind it?
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creator: Abhishek Kumar
date: 2026-05-23T16:39:13Z
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description: This is the third and final part of a three-part investigation. In Part One, we traced how a fabricated “exclusive investigation” alleging a secret India-Kachin Independence Army rare earths conspiracy... The post The amplification machine: Who spread a fake rare earths conspiracy across X and Facebook? Who was behind it? appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: This is the third and final part of a three-part investigation. In Part One, we traced how a fabricated “exclusive investigation” alleging a secret India-Kachin Independence Army rare earths conspiracy first appeared on Tech Bullion on November 18, 2025, and spread within eight days to four more pay-to-publish websites run by Pakistan- and Nepal-based SEO networks. In Part Two, we examined the unsubstantiated claims in the story and how the story jumped in December to regional newsrooms in Myanmar and northeast India, including CNI Myanmar and Eleven Media Group, with none of them contacting the Indian Embassy or the KIA for comment. By that point the story had appeared on nine outlets in total. Not one provided evidence when asked. Three deleted it without explanation. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Coordinated Inauthentic Distribution on X Beginning two weeks after the story’s initial publication, it was shared in four coordinated waves on X. These posts almost entirely follow the same pattern: Screenshots of one or more versions of the article, accompanied by summaries of the allegations and common hashtags. This investigation identified 78 unique accounts that shared versions of the article. A review of the “about” tab (a feature which X introduced in November of 2025) of these accounts showed that the majority of them are based in Pakistan. A further 20 accounts that shared the article have since been suspended. No direct links to the Pakistani government were identified, but some of the accounts shared other content which showed similarities to Pakistani government PR messaging. This investigation also found that 19 of the total 78 accounts that shared the article are geo-blocked in India, meaning that users in India cannot view their content. In 2025, following the outbreak of hostilities between India and Pakistan, X geo-blocked thousands of accounts in response to orders from the Indian gov…

AIPAC And AI Groups Are Hiding Political Spends Behind ‘Pop-up Super PACs’ #politics #trump
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Pesta Babi doco stirs West Papuan development debates and ‘crackdown’
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date: 2026-05-23T13:37:34Z
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description: Asia Pacific Report Pesta Babi (Pig feast), the controversial Papuan documentary film critical of a major development project impacting on the environment in the southeastern Melanesian region, is stirring public debate and a “crackdown” across Indonesia. The film caused a stir when it had its premiere in New Zealand in March and was described in
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Pesta Babi (Pig feast), the controversial Papuan documentary film critical of a major development project impacting on the environment in the southeastern Melanesian region, is stirring public debate and a “crackdown” across Indonesia. The film caused a stir when it had its premiere in New Zealand in March and was described in a review by Asia Pacific Report as “exposing oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under the noses of the military”. Screenings followed in Australia but there have been reports of a backlash in some parts of Indonesia and some public shows being shut down. READ MORE: West Papuan doco Pig Feast exposes oligarchs, food security crisis and ecocide under noses of military Army chief denies direct central command over Pesta Babi film crackdown Other Pesta Babi reports However, the Indonesian military denied they were responsible for the crackdown, blaming some local authorities. An Al Jazeera television report said Indonesian authorities had shut down several screenings of the documentary about alleged human rights abuses in Papua, including Indigenous land seizures. It noted that human rights groups and international media still faced restricted access to the Papuan region, which is mainly referred to as “West Papua” in Pacific countries. Pesta Babi is focused on the largest forest conversion project in modern history in a remote are near Merauke — turning 2.5 million ha of tropical forest into industrial plantations under the guise of “food security” and the “energy transition”. Footage of village resistance Dramatic footage of scenes show Indigenous village resisters against the massive destruction of rainforest in one of the three largest “lungs of the world”, shipping of barge-loads of heavy machinery, vast swathes of forest scoured out for rice and palm oil plantations, and of a traditional “pig feast” — the first in a decade. Papuan environmental film ‘blocked’ Video: Al Jazeera In an editorial last week, The Jakar…

Solar to overtake coal on Texas grid for the first time ever this year
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creator: Julian Spector, Canary Media
date: 2026-05-23T13:00:00Z
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description: The Trump administration likes to cast renewables as a socialist scam, but solar has soared in the competitive markets of the Lone Star State.
encoded: The Texas sun keeps rising, as Texas coal wanes. For the first time ever, solar is set to generate more electricity than coal in the power market managed by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT. Nobody is building new coal power plants in the state, but developers are adding more solar there than anywhere else in the country. As a result of those diverging trajectories, the federal government expects ERCOT will receive 78 billion kilowatt-hours from solar in 2026 and just 60 from coal. This trend does have seasonal variations. Last year, solar output beat coal on a monthly basis from March through August, and this year it is expected to do so from March through December, per the U.S. Energy Information Administration, or EIA, at the Department of Energy. Nationally, the combination of wind and solar surpassed coal generation in 2024, as noted in an analysis by Ember, a think tank that conducts research on clean energy. In other words, the solar industry is further along in Texas than it is nationwide. The Texas solar surge undercuts the prevailing energy narratives coming out of the Trump administration, which has attempted to boost coal and gas as tools of ​“energy dominance,” while blocking or canceling American energy that comes from renewables. The Department of Energy, for instance, is keeping struggling coal plants on life support at great expense to taxpayers. Meanwhile, the Department of the Interior is blocking wind and solar developments that intersect with public lands. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/260320_BALCONYSOLAR.03XX26_1031_bb.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" alt="" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/260320_BALCONYSOLAR.03XX26_1031_bb.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 3500w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/260320_BALCONYSOLAR.03XX26_1031_bb.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&quality=75&strip=all 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/260320_BALCONYSOLA…

Every Worker Deserves Paid Leave
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creator: Eileen Appelbaum
date: 2026-05-23T13:00:00Z
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description: Virginia law advances the cause but what is needed is federal action.
encoded: Virginia law advances the cause but what is needed is federal action. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Eileen Appelbaum.

The Missing Girls of Central Asia | Why Families Abort Daughters
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims brutal abuse ‘justified’
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description: SPECIAL REPORT: By Nadda Osman Activists freed from Israeli detention following the interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla have reported that they were subjected to physical and sexual abuse, say flotilla organisers — with at least 15 reporting sexual assaults, including rape. “At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape. Shot with rubber bullets
encoded: SPECIAL REPORT: By Nadda Osman Activists freed from Israeli detention following the interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla have reported that they were subjected to physical and sexual abuse, say flotilla organisers — with at least 15 reporting sexual assaults, including rape. “At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape. Shot with rubber bullets at close range. Tens of people’s bones broken,” organisers of the Global Sumud Flotilla posted on Telegram. “While the world’s eye is trained on the suffering of our participants, we cannot emphasize enough that this is a mere glimpse of the brutality Israel imposes daily on Palestinian hostages,” the statement added. READ MORE: ‘It’s worse for Palestinians,’ says Australian flotilla activist about Israeli torture Gaza flotilla activists allege abuse, sexual assault in Israeli detention Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they for Palestinians? Israel’s $700m Hasbara fiasco – how Ben-Gvir’s flotilla abuse video stirred backlash Other Gaza flotilla reports The reports come after the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) on Wednesday doubled down on its abusive treatment of activists forcibly detained, despite scores of testimonies detailing beatings, interrogation and humiliation as well as rape and sexual abuse. The IPS responded to a barrage of global criticism after a video showed far-right Israel National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir taunting the flotilla detainees as they were being handcuffed, pushed, dragged and assaulted. A group of Australian citizens were kidnapped on international waters and beaten senseless on camera by their captors – Israel The most prominent Israel advocate in Australia – Jillian Segal – has so far said nothing about the welfare of her fellow Australian citizens nor… pic.twitter.com/deibOB3nhC — Ronni Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne (@RonniSalt) May 23, 2026 “Upon receiving the detainees, the prison guards were required to act to maintain order and secu…

Chambers backs Pacific police leaders confronting corruption challenges amid drug trade concerns
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description: By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers says Pacific Island nations are addressing corruption among their police and customs officials. Chambers has concluded a trip to Suva, Fiji, for the inaugural Pacific Transnational Crime Summit, which brought together Pacific police chiefs, ministers and prime ministers to discuss what is now
encoded: By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers says Pacific Island nations are addressing corruption among their police and customs officials. Chambers has concluded a trip to Suva, Fiji, for the inaugural Pacific Transnational Crime Summit, which brought together Pacific police chiefs, ministers and prime ministers to discuss what is now a “destination market” for drugs and human trafficking. He said there was a willingness among police chiefs, most of whom are dealing with corruption in their ranks, to discuss these issues with humility. READ MORE: Other Fiji crime reports “We appreciate that it’s pretty hard sometimes to turn down an offer of a large sum of money when the incomes that many police staff earn aren’t great,” Chambers said. “New Zealand will support our Pacific neighbours when it comes to particular problems, and that’s not new; we’ve done that for many years.” New Zealand Police have confirmed their involvement in a six-month investigation into 11 Fiji police officers who were allegedly involved with Auckland-based drug dealers. The investigation followed a leak of more than 100 text screenshots depicting officers accepting bribes and tipping people off about impending raids. No specifics Chambers refused to provide any specifics about that case or any others in which New Zealand may be involved. However, he said that he had “absolute trust” in the Fiji Police Force and its Commissioner, Rusiate Tudravu. “He talks quite openly about the challenges that he’s encountered as the commissioner there, and what he’s doing to stamp it out,” Chambers said. “I’ve been a police officer for 30 years, and over that time I’ve done a lot of work with Fiji … I’ve never experienced any issues myself.” The Pacific is a strategic transit point for traffickers both in Southeast Asia and Central America. Referred to colloquially by officials and experts as the “narco highway”, product is funnelled through Pacific communities on it…

‘It’s worse for Palestinians,’ says Australian flotilla activist about Israeli torture
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description: Michael West Media Australian activist Zack Schofield says he was illegally detained by the Israeli military after the Global Sumud Flotilla was intercepted in international waters on Monday. Now released, Schofield alleges activists were subjected to violence, tasers, beatings and deprivation while in Israeli custody. The claims were made in an interview with Anadolu Ajansi
encoded: Michael West Media Australian activist Zack Schofield says he was illegally detained by the Israeli military after the Global Sumud Flotilla was intercepted in international waters on Monday. Now released, Schofield alleges activists were subjected to violence, tasers, beatings and deprivation while in Israeli custody. The claims were made in an interview with Anadolu Ajansi following his release. WATCH: Original video with Zack Schofield from @anadoluagency Original IV with Patrick Kaiser Gaza flotilla activists allege abuse, sexual assault in Israeli detention Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they for Palestinians? Israel’s $700m Hasbara fiasco – how Ben-Gvir’s flotilla abuse video stirred backlash Other Gaza flotilla reports “The torture is nothing compared with what happens to Palestinians in the occupied territories every single day,” he said. “This is why we went. It is because Israel behaves worse towards Palestinians in every way imaginable. “It rapes them systematically in their prisons. It shoots them at aid sites. It bombs them in their homes. “And Palestinians have been at the forefront of a global war against humanity for generations. That’s why we went, and I’d do it all again.” Global condemnation The interception of the flotilla has sparked international condemnation and renewed scrutiny over Israel’s blockade operations and the treatment of activists attempting to reach Gaza by sea. Schofield previously spoke to Michael West Media after an earlier detention by Israeli forces. This is now the second time he says he has been abducted while participating in flotilla actions. Gemma O’Toole was aboard the Freedom Flotilla when it was intercepted by Israeli forces. Her father, Patrick Kaiser, says the family went more than 64 hours without hearing from her, while the main footage they had seen showed detained activists zip-tied, placed in stress positions and taunted by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.…

A Shortage of Special Educators Is Becoming a Crisis of Trust
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creator: Alexis L. Hamlor
date: 2026-05-23T00:00:17Z
subject: Sources
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description: A legal right for students with disabilities is meaningless when there isn’t a qualified person to deliver the services.
encoded: A legal right for students with disabilities is meaningless when there isn’t a qualified person to deliver the services. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Alexis L. Hamlor.

Forged Signatures, Felled Trees: Adani’s Expansion Into Hasdeo Forest
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-22T21:19:30Z
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description: In July 2025, the Chhattisgarh Forest Department recommended diverting 1,742 hectares of dense protected forest in the Hasdeo Aranya region of central India to Adani Enterprises for coal extraction, bypassing mandatory consent from tribal Gram Sabhas w...
encoded: In July 2025, the Chhattisgarh Forest Department recommended diverting 1,742 hectares of dense protected forest in the Hasdeo Aranya region of central India to Adani Enterprises for coal extraction, bypassing mandatory consent from tribal Gram Sabhas whose approval is required by law under the PESA Act of 1996 and the… The post Forged Signatures, Felled Trees: Adani’s Expansion Into Hasdeo Forest appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Kansas Officials Plan to Cover Billion-Dollar Subsidy for Sports Team Worth Billions
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-22T21:15:14Z
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description: In January 2026, Kevin Hardy of Stateline reported on a new stadium deal in which Kansas officials announced in December their pledge to fund 60 percent of the costs for a new Kansas City Chiefs stadium. The subsidy would be the largest-ever state subs...
encoded: In January 2026, Kevin Hardy of Stateline reported on a new stadium deal in which Kansas officials announced in December their pledge to fund 60 percent of the costs for a new Kansas City Chiefs stadium. The subsidy would be the largest-ever state subsidy for a professional sports stadium, projected… The post Kansas Officials Plan to Cover Billion-Dollar Subsidy for Sports Team Worth Billions appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Youth Justice Programs Slashed by Trump Administration, Reinforcing Heavy Employment Barriers
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-22T21:11:15Z
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description: In April 2025, The Imprint reported that the Trump administration had terminated nearly $170 million in federal youth justice grants, eliminating critical employment pathways for formerly incarcerated young people. Corporate media coverage of the broad...
encoded: In April 2025, The Imprint reported that the Trump administration had terminated nearly $170 million in federal youth justice grants, eliminating critical employment pathways for formerly incarcerated young people. Corporate media coverage of the broader Department of Justice (DOJ) budget cuts failed to highlight how these funding cuts destroyed job… The post Youth Justice Programs Slashed by Trump Administration, Reinforcing Heavy Employment Barriers appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

The 1 Percent Get Richer Under Trump, Ordinary Americans Pay
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-22T21:05:35Z
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description: Three reports on global wealth released in 2025 demonstrated a growing divide between the rich and the working class, with American billionaires’ profits soaring. In 2025 articles for Common Dreams, Jake Johnson cited reports by Oxfam International and...
encoded: Three reports on global wealth released in 2025 demonstrated a growing divide between the rich and the working class, with American billionaires’ profits soaring. In 2025 articles for Common Dreams, Jake Johnson cited reports by Oxfam International and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), which found that over the past… The post The 1 Percent Get Richer Under Trump, Ordinary Americans Pay appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-05-22T21:03:33Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
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DOJ Funding Cut Leaves Inmates More Vulnerable to Sexual Violence
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-22T20:57:52Z
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description: On April 23, 2025, Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, a reporter for The Appeal, broke the story that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) would be cutting all funding of the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center. Her report, published just...
encoded: On April 23, 2025, Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, a reporter for The Appeal, broke the story that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) would be cutting all funding of the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center. Her report, published just one day after the decision, emphasized the consequences of defunding.… The post DOJ Funding Cut Leaves Inmates More Vulnerable to Sexual Violence appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

88 Corporations Paid No Federal Income Tax in 2025 Thanks to Trump
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-22T20:55:03Z
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description: Companies including Tesla, Palantir, and Citigroup paid nothing in federal income taxes in 2025 thanks to tax cuts from Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB). April 2026 reporting by Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby for Popular Information and St...
encoded: Companies including Tesla, Palantir, and Citigroup paid nothing in federal income taxes in 2025 thanks to tax cuts from Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB). April 2026 reporting by Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby for Popular Information and Stephen Prager for Common Dreams highlighted a report from the Institute… The post 88 Corporations Paid No Federal Income Tax in 2025 Thanks to Trump appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Purdue Ends All Affiliation With Student-Publication After Pro-Palestinian Editorial
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-22T20:42:43Z
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description: In June 2025, Purdue University instructed The Exponent, Purdue’s student-run publication, to remove all affiliation with the school, as reported by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). The student newspaper can no longer use the...
encoded: In June 2025, Purdue University instructed The Exponent, Purdue’s student-run publication, to remove all affiliation with the school, as reported by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). The student newspaper can no longer use the word “Purdue” in any commercial use, despite the trademark’s validity until 2029. The… The post Purdue Ends All Affiliation With Student-Publication After Pro-Palestinian Editorial appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

$1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Benefits Billionaire Trump Supporters With Little Oversight
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-22T20:38:30Z
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description: $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Benefits Billionaire Trump Supporters With Little Oversight President Donald Trump submitted a $1.5 trillion defense budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2027, as Judd Legum and Noel Sims reported for Popular Informat...
encoded: $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Benefits Billionaire Trump Supporters With Little Oversight President Donald Trump submitted a $1.5 trillion defense budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2027, as Judd Legum and Noel Sims reported for Popular Information on April 7, 2026. This marks a 44 percent increase over 2026 defense… The post $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Benefits Billionaire Trump Supporters With Little Oversight appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

US Prisons Experiment with Scandinavian Restorative Justice Models
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-22T20:34:32Z
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description: Scandinavian countries provide sources of inspiration for more humane approaches to incarceration in the United States, Jamiles Lartey reported in April 2025 for The Marshall Project, but conservative commentators and victims’ rights groups alike have ...
encoded: Scandinavian countries provide sources of inspiration for more humane approaches to incarceration in the United States, Jamiles Lartey reported in April 2025 for The Marshall Project, but conservative commentators and victims’ rights groups alike have expressed concerns. From Connecticut and Pennsylvania to California, select US prisons are adopting programs modeled… The post US Prisons Experiment with Scandinavian Restorative Justice Models appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

“Handala” Hacker Group Exposes Ties between Jeffrey Epstein and Mossad
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-22T20:27:49Z
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description: A September 2025 Drop Site News investigation by Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim has revealed that millionaire sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffery Epstein played a “significant role in brokering multiple deals for Israeli intelligence,” Drew...
encoded: A September 2025 Drop Site News investigation by Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim has revealed that millionaire sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffery Epstein played a “significant role in brokering multiple deals for Israeli intelligence,” Drew Favakeh reported for FAIR on November 14, 2025. Drop Site News reported that Epstein “exploited his network… The post “Handala” Hacker Group Exposes Ties between Jeffrey Epstein and Mossad appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Medical Neglect and Hardships for Incarcerated Women Experiencing Menopause
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-22T20:02:28Z
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description: As the number of older incarcerated women grows, many are struggling to manage menopause and perimenopause because of limited medical support and education, highlighting gaps in gender-specific health care in US prison systems. Rebecca McCray’s April 2...
encoded: As the number of older incarcerated women grows, many are struggling to manage menopause and perimenopause because of limited medical support and education, highlighting gaps in gender-specific health care in US prison systems. Rebecca McCray’s April 2026 report for The Marshall Project illuminates the larger issue of institutional neglect, a… The post Medical Neglect and Hardships for Incarcerated Women Experiencing Menopause appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Nicholas Kristof’s Eyewitness Laments Skip the Obvious Conclusion
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description: By Ralph Nader May 22, 2026 A skeptical friend reading the New York Times asked me why columnist Nicholas Kristof keeps writing columns about recurring poverty in less developed countries. My answer is simple. Because he keeps going to these remote are...
encoded: By Ralph Nader May 22, 2026 A skeptical friend reading the New York Times asked me why columnist Nicholas Kristof keeps writing columns about recurring poverty in less developed countries. My answer is simple. Because he keeps going to these remote areas populated by brutalized human beings living in dire impoverishment and sickness. At no… This content originally appeared on Ralph Nader and was authored by matthew.

US Incarceration-Related Costs Impose Financial Strain on Relatives
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-22T19:42:14Z
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description: US families with incarcerated relatives are facing spiraling annual costs of nearly $350 billion in incarceration-related costs, according to an August 2025 report by Amanda Watford for Stateline. Watford highlighted a recent study by criminal justice ...
encoded: US families with incarcerated relatives are facing spiraling annual costs of nearly $350 billion in incarceration-related costs, according to an August 2025 report by Amanda Watford for Stateline. Watford highlighted a recent study by criminal justice advocacy group FWD.us that showed families are “losing an average of $1,803 in income… The post US Incarceration-Related Costs Impose Financial Strain on Relatives appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Israel Displaces Palestinians from West Bank via Agricultural Terrorism
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-22T19:38:45Z
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description: Israeli state-sanctioned settler violence in the West Bank is taking the form of agricultural terrorism, restricting Palestinians from subsistence farming and livestock grazing. According to Qassam Muadi for Mondoweiss on May 14, 2026, “at least 13 rur...
encoded: Israeli state-sanctioned settler violence in the West Bank is taking the form of agricultural terrorism, restricting Palestinians from subsistence farming and livestock grazing. According to Qassam Muadi for Mondoweiss on May 14, 2026, “at least 13 rural Palestinian communities in the West Bank were completely wiped off the map,” in… The post Israel Displaces Palestinians from West Bank via Agricultural Terrorism appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

CPJ, partners file amicus brief to project encryption from Pegasus spyware
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-05-22T19:13:46Z
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
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subject: Pegasus
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subject: Spyware
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 10 other civil society organizations in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday calling for the safeguarding of encryption from NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to prevent the surveillance of journalists and other human rights defenders. In the brief, which was led by...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 10 other civil society organizations in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday calling for the safeguarding of encryption from NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to prevent the surveillance of journalists and other human rights defenders. In the brief, which was led by Access Now, CPJ and fellow amici argue that without the permanent injunction, NSO will continue enabling human rights violations. CPJ has reported extensively on the use of spyware to target the press, and the brief cited CPJ research detailing the importance of encryption for journalists’ safety. In October 2019, WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook (now Meta) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California over NSO using WhatsApp’s servers to deliver Pegasus spyware to the devices of over 1,400 people across 20 countries, including numerous journalists. CPJ and partners also filed an amicus brief in December 2020, when the case was originally appealed on jurisdictional grounds. After six years in court, including NSO’s unsuccessful appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the District Court issued a ruling in favor of WhatsApp in 2025. In the historic ruling, the court issued a permanent injunction stopping NSO from targeting WhatsApp messenger and its users. Read a copy of the amicus brief here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

¿Por qué agentes de inmigración han detenido tres veces a este ciudadano estadounidense?
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creator: ProPublica
date: 2026-05-22T18:56:20Z
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US Leads World in Military Spending as Private Contractors Claim Half
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description: The United States led global military spending at $997 billion in 2024, with military contractors receiving over half of Pentagon spending since 2020. Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams in April and July 2025 analyzed reports by the Stockholm Internatio...
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US Corporate Media Fail to Cover Climate Change Adequately, Abundant Data Shows
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description: Establishment news outlets have done a disastrous job of providing consistent and complete coverage of climate change during the past year, as reported by multiple independent publications and media monitoring organizations. In March 2026, Grist report...
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Behind closed doors, Greek and Cypriot governments go ‘all in’ on Israel
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description: You’ve probably never heard of the Mare Med III Conference before, and that’s by design. The closed-door business conference takes place annually and is organized by the Israeli events company Benny Moran Productions (the Israel-Greece Chamber of Comm...
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Stephen Colbert and the risk of media consolidation to free speech
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Secretary of State Rubio joins NATO meeting amid tense relations; The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airs final episode, after controversial cancellation – May 22, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Secretary of State Rubio meets NATO leaders amid concerns over Trump commitment to allies; The Late Show with Stephen Colbert aired fi...
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Peruvian journalists face threats, death amid country’s democratic backsliding
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description: Peruvian journalist Geraldine Santos is only 30 years old, and she is already preparing for her funeral. Santos says she has received so many threats while reporting on cocaine trafficking and environmental crimes in the Amazon jungle that she has arranged for her family to contact a government source who, in case Santos is murdered,...
encoded: Peruvian journalist Geraldine Santos is only 30 years old, and she is already preparing for her funeral. Santos says she has received so many threats while reporting on cocaine trafficking and environmental crimes in the Amazon jungle that she has arranged for her family to contact a government source who, in case Santos is murdered, could help locate her body. “At least that way my parents could give me a dignified burial,” Santos told CPJ in March on its mission to Lima, Peru, the capital, to assess the state of press freedom in the country. The targeting of reporters by criminal groups combined with government hostility toward news media and weakened institutions have led to a steady erosion of press freedom in Peru, journalists, diplomats and legal experts told CPJ. According to a report published this year by Voces del Sur, a network of 17 Latin American press freedom organizations, Peruvian public officials were responsible for 61% of attacks against news media in 2025. Regional journalists are the most frequent targets, and four journalists killed in Peru last year—Gastón Medina Sotomayor, Raúl Célis López, Juan Fernando Núñez Guevara, and Mitzar Castillejos Tenazoa— worked in small towns or cities outside the capital. Their murders marked the most journalist killings in a single year since the 1980s when the Peruvian government was waging war against Shining Path rebels. “Every day you have the president, lawmakers and government ministers insulting and stigmatizing journalists,” says Rodrigo Salazar Zimmermann, president of the Peru Press Council, which represents private news organizations and defends press freedom. “It’s a perfect storm because no one inside the Peruvian government defends journalists. Rather, there’s an unofficial policy that if you attack or kill a journalist, nothing will happen to you.” <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" height="683" width="1024" src="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/AP26048711986354.jpg?w=1024" alt=…

Cockroach Janata Party’s majority followers Pakistani? BJYM secretary Tajinder Bagga, others amplify misleading claim
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description: With the Cockroach Janata Party’s Instagram page crossing the BJP’s 9 million followers mark, what began as a satirical campaign now appears to be snowballing into an online movement. BJP... The post Cockroach Janata Party’s majority followers Pakistani? BJYM secretary Tajinder Bagga, others amplify misleading claim appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: With the Cockroach Janata Party’s Instagram page crossing the BJP’s 9 million followers mark, what began as a satirical campaign now appears to be snowballing into an online movement. BJP leaders and Right-wing influencers have reacted to this by claiming that a large chunk of the page’s followers is based in Pakistan. Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha secretary Tajinder Bagga posted a graphic containing a pie chart of the CJP’s followers, claiming that 49% were from Pakistan, 14% from the United States, 14% from Bangladesh, and only 9% from India, with the United Kingdom, Australia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE accounting for the remainder. Bagga captioned it ‘Pakistan Janata Party’. (Archive) Pakistan Janta Party pic.twitter.com/Abdlqm0AsL — Tajinder Bagga (@TajinderBagga) May 21, 2026 Right Wing influencer Rishi Bagree also posted the same graphic and called it “The Truth of Cockroach Janta Party”. (Archive) The Truth of Cockroach Janta Party : Citizens from Pakistan, Bangladesh & USA forms 77% of their Insta followers. India contributes only 9%. pic.twitter.com/WdIlmBWveE — Rishi Bagree (@rishibagree) May 21, 2026 ABP News journalist Chitra Tripathi also amplified the viral claim on Facebook. She wrote, “Half of the Cockroach Janata Party’s followers are Pakistani”, while citing Bagga. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-315638 size-full" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/chrome_l5LGL2H70S.png" alt="" width="1092" height="910" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/chrome_l5LGL2H70S.png 1092w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/chrome_l5LGL2H70S-300x250.png 300w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/chrome_l5LGL2H70S-1024x853.png 1024w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/chrome_l5LGL2H70S-768x640.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1092px) 100vw, 1092px" /> Zee-owned news outlet WION also published a report about the “foreign followers” on the CJP’s Instagram pag…

It’s the genocide, stupid
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description: This story originally appeared in Mondoweiss on May 22, 2026. It is shared here with permission. On Thursday, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) finally released its long-awaited autopsy of Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign. Th...
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The New American Revolution – TEASER
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
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description: With convicted felon, six-time bankrupt trust fund kid Donald Trump illegally looting $1.8 billion of our tax-payer dollars for violent traitors who tried to overturn our democracy on January 6, it's time to dream big for our country. All ideas are on the table, including a Maidan-style revolution, as we must rebuild from the ashes. Gaslit Nation is here to tell you that a better world is possible. This week's bonus show, available for Gaslit Nation supporters at the Truth-teller level and higher, continues our discussion with veteran war correspondent James Verini. He is the author of the powerful new book The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War. In Part II of our discussion we discuss Palantir, owned by staunchly anti-democratic Peter Thiel, operating in Ukraine–the vanguard of democracy. See you at the Gaslit Nation Salon Monday at 4pm ET – look out for the Zoom link to join the discussion then, and also the recording of this week's salon – on the AI-acapolyse trying to thrust millions of Americans into poverty, while the self-appointed tech gods hoard wealth and power, using our stolen copyrighted work. To join the salons, get bonus shows, all shows ad free, and more, subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit – discounted annual memberships are available, and you can give the gift of membership. Thank you to everyone who supports the show. Want to hear Gaslit Nation ad-free? Join our community of listeners for bonus shows, exclusive Q&A sessions, our group chats, invites to live events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more! Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit! Show Notes: The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War By James Verini https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Theater/James-Verini/9781668062203 'Dancing on bones': Mariupol theatre to reopen with staging of Russian fairytale https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/25/mariupol-bombed-theatre-reopen-russification-ukrain…
encoded: With convicted felon, six-time bankrupt trust fund kid Donald Trump illegally looting $1.8 billion of our tax-payer dollars for violent traitors who tried to overturn our democracy on January 6, it's time to dream big for our country. All ideas are on the table, including a Maidan-style revolution, as we must rebuild from the ashes. Gaslit Nation is here to tell you that a better world is possible. This week's bonus show, available for Gaslit Nation supporters at the Truth-teller level and higher, continues our discussion with veteran war correspondent James Verini. He is the author of the powerful new book The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War. In Part II of our discussion we discuss Palantir, owned by staunchly anti-democratic Peter Thiel, operating in Ukraine–the vanguard of democracy. See you at the Gaslit Nation Salon Monday at 4pm ET – look out for the Zoom link to join the discussion then, and also the recording of this week's salon – on the AI-acapolyse trying to thrust millions of Americans into poverty, while the self-appointed tech gods hoard wealth and power, using our stolen copyrighted work. To join the salons, get bonus shows, all shows ad free, and more, subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit – discounted annual memberships are available, and you can give the gift of membership. Thank you to everyone who supports the show. Want to hear Gaslit Nation ad-free? Join our community of listeners for bonus shows, exclusive Q&A sessions, our group chats, invites to live events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, and more! Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit! Show Notes: The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War By James Verini https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Theater/James-Verini/9781668062203 'Dancing on bones': Mariupol theatre to reopen with staging of Russian fairytale https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/25/mariupol-bombed-theatre-reopen-russification-ukrain…

Evo Morales a The Grayzone: «El pueblo ha llegado a su punto de ruptura»
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FATMA (Petra, Jordan)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-05-22T17:00:06Z
subject: Petites Planètes
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description: This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.
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316498 (2).mp4
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description: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.
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Taliban Welcomes Female Travel Influencers, Tourists As Afghan Women Face Harsher Restrictions
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2026-05-22T16:13:48Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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UN News Today 22 May 2026
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creator: Edouard De Bray
date: 2026-05-22T16:12:20Z
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description: Healthcare in Gaza crippled by severe shortage of medical suppliesAid operations disrupted as civilian toll rises in UkraineUN warns against forced returns to Afghanistan
encoded: Healthcare in Gaza crippled by severe shortage of medical suppliesAid operations disrupted as civilian toll rises in UkraineUN warns against forced returns to Afghanistan This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Edouard De Bray.

“AI Resist List”: Karen Hao on Data Center Resistance, Tech Billionaires, “Empire of AI” & More
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-22T16:04:26Z
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subject: more
subject: now
subject: resist
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subject: sources
subject: tech
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Stephen Colbert Out at CBS as Trump Weaponizes Regulatory Power to Control the Media
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-22T16:03:51Z
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subject: trump
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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U.S. aid cuts and Ebola
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-22T15:42:55Z
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subject: cuts
subject: Democracy
subject: ebola
subject: now
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The Reality of Being an American Journalist in Iran
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-05-22T15:42:48Z
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subject: vice
description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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Lebanese rescuers film Israeli strikes with Go Pro cams
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-05-22T15:21:43Z
subject: Sources
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description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
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Ebola Response Hampered by Impoverishment & U.S. Global Health Cuts
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-22T15:09:16Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: cuts
subject: Democracy
subject: ebola
subject: Global
subject: hampered
subject: health
subject: impoverishment
subject: now
subject: response
subject: sources
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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AIPAC, AI, Crypto And Gambling Are Hiding Their Big Election Spends ⎹ The Intercept Briefing
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Business motives don’t explain the right-wing turn of the Washington Post and CBS. Billionaire ideology does.
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description: Amazon founder and Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos made news earlier this week by claiming the reason he fired 30 percent of the Washington Post’s staff and rebranded it as a more conservative media outlet is because its previous iteration was not a “pr...
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Reporting Live from Tehran with Aaron Parnas
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 22, 2026
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The recent wave of incarcerated people going on strike
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Sudanese authorities jail journalist Rishan Oshi over corruption reporting
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description: New York, May 22, 2026—Sudanese authorities must immediately release journalist Rashan Oshi and stop using imprisonment to silence reporting on corruption and other matters of public interest, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. On May 18, 2026, authorities arrested Oshi, a program host for local private television channel AlBalad TV, in Port Sudan after...
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“AI Resist List”: Karen Hao on Data Center Resistance, Tech Billionaires, “Empire of AI” & More
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description: We speak with journalist Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI, about the Trump administration’s alliance with tech billionaires, efforts to regulate artificial intelligence technology, and rising local opposition to data centers across the ...
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Iranian Woman: Military Intervention is Not the Answer
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Stephen Colbert Out at CBS as Trump Weaponizes Regulatory Power to Control the Media: David Sirota
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description: Late-night comedian Stephen Colbert has ended his 11-year run as host of The Late Show on CBS. His program’s cancellation removes one of President Trump’s most vocal critics from the airwaves and comes after the comedian criticized...
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“Politically Driven Epidemic”: Ebola Response Hampered by Impoverishment & U.S. Global Health Cuts
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description: The deadly Ebola outbreak spreading across the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has killed at least 177 people, with more than 750 suspected cases reported in the DRC and neighboring Uganda, according to the World Health Organization. ...
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Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they for Palestinians?
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description: COMMENTARY: By Shameen Suleman Britain. France. Canada. Italy. Spain. Belgium. The Netherlands. Poland. Australia. New Zealand . . . The European Union. The United Nations . . . Suddenly they have found outrage because international activists aboard the flotilla were humiliated, abused and tortured by Israeli war criminals under National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s prison
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Shameen Suleman: Outrage over the flotilla activists but where were they for Palestinians?
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description: COMMENTARY: By Shameen Suleman Britain. France. Canada. Italy. Spain. Belgium. The Netherlands. Poland. Australia. New Zealand . . . The European Union. The United Nations . . . Suddenly they have found outrage because international activists aboard the flotilla were humiliated, abused and tortured by Israeli war criminals under National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s prison
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FROM ATP • numero 4 • FROM HYBRID
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FROM ATP • numero 2 • FROM MIDDEN
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FROM ATP • numero 0 • (SKETCHES) FROM A NIGHTMARE
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JORGE HENRIQUEZ ASHANA (La Guajira, Colombia)
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CHIRIMIA DEL RIO NAPI (Guapi, Colombia)
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Headlines for May 22, 2026
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description: GOP Leaders Delay Vote on Iran War Powers Resolution Until June, “I’ll Be the One That Does It”: Trump Says He’s Ready to Attack Cuba, Syrian Child and Paramedics Are Victims of Latest Israeli Strikes on Lebanon, Deported Global Sumud Flotilla Activists Describe Torture and Abuse by Israeli Captors, Greenlanders Protest as U.S. Opens New Consulate in Nuuk, Senate Delays Vote on ICE Funding as GOP Revolts over Trump’s Ballroom and $1.8B “Slush Fund”, Advocates Demand Release of Karla Toledo, Tucson Activist Jailed by ICE, Immigrants at For-Profit ICE Jail in California Launch Hunger Strike Against Inhumane Treatment, Charges Dropped Against Chicago Anti-ICE Protesters Over “Gross Misconduct” by Prosecutors, Colorado Democrats Censure Gov. Jared Polis over Clemency for 2020 Election Denier, DNC Faces Backlash over Post-Election Autopsy That Makes No Mention of Gaza Genocide, Thousands Attend Funeral for Victims of Massacre at Islamic Center of San Diego, Death Row Prisoner Tony Carruthers Wins One-Year Reprieve After Tennessee Botches His Execution
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Democracy Now! 2026-05-22 Friday
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ATERCIOPELADOS (Bogota, Colombia)
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SEXTETO TABALA (San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia)
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PAMPEI (Isla Grande, Colombia)
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MAJIN DIAZ (San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia)
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SON PALENQUE (Cartagena, Colombia)
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California Teacher Previously Fired for Sexual Harassment Is No Longer in the Classroom After New Complaints
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encoded: A photo of teacher Jason Agan in the 2017-18 Angelo Rodriguez High School yearbook Beth LaBerge/KQED A San Francisco Bay Area school district has replaced a middle school math teacher for the remainder of the academic year following an investigation by KQED and ProPublica that showed he had been accused of inappropriately touching students at two previous jobs. The Redwood City School District has received at least two new complaints against Jason Agan, according to the parents who filed the complaints as well as emails from the district to the parents saying it is investigating both. Read More He Was Fired for Sexually Harassing Students. California Allowed Him to Keep Teaching Anyway. The news outlets found that the state teacher licensing agency allowed Agan to keep his credentials following his 2019 firing from a high school in the Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District for what district officials characterized as sexual harassment of female students. At least 11 students and one parent at Angelo Rodriguez High School submitted written complaints about Agan’s behavior to school administrators, drawing at least two warnings to stop, KQED and ProPublica’s investigation found. Students in that district testified during Agan’s dismissal hearing that he made them uncomfortable by massaging their neck or shoulders as well as commenting on female students’ clothing, prompting an independent panel to deem him “unfit to teach,” according to records obtained by the news outlets. The Commission on Teacher Credentialing, the agency responsible for educators’ licenses, suspended Agan’s teaching license for seven days in 2021, after he had already gotten another job teaching math at Ephraim Williams College Prep Middle School in the Fortune network of charter schools in Sacramento, an hour away from his first school. The discipline — along with a red flag icon — is noted in the state’s public database of credentialed educators, but no specific reason is given for the sancti…

Israel’s National Security Minister Taunts Detained Activists
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DN! Friday, May 22, 2026
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FIFA’s Reported Ban On Iran’s Pre-1979 Flag At World Cup Stirs Controversy
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Louisiana’s Tough-on-Crime Policies Stand to Cost Taxpayers Millions More for Years to Come
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description: The post Louisiana’s Tough-on-Crime Policies Stand to Cost Taxpayers Millions More for Years to Come appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Source image via Wikimedia Commons. The day after a shooting last month killed a teenager and injured five people at the Mall of Louisiana, Gov. Jeff Landry blasted what he referred to as “hug-a-thug” policies — reforms put in place prior to his tenure when the state was trying to shed its reputation as the nation’s incarceration capital. He also demanded harsher penalties for violent minors. “I’m done with them. It doesn’t matter how old they are,” Landry, a Republican, said during a news conference in Baton Rouge. “We’ve got 18,000 acres at Angola — if it was up to me, I would send them all there for the rest of their lives.”’ Landry’s push for harsher punishments that would keep people in prison longer came as little surprise. Soon after his 2024 inauguration, he won a package of tough-on-crime bills that drastically changed the state’s sentencing laws. A Landry spokesperson at the time brushed off concerns from civil rights groups and incarceration experts that it would swell the prison population and plunge the state into financial disaster, insisting that “less crime means greater economic opportunity for everyone.” Two years later, the governor wants to add hundreds more beds in Louisiana’s largest prison and spend more on medical costs as prisoners stay longer behind bars. His proposed $798 million corrections budget, which the Republican-controlled legislature is expected to pass by June 1, represents a 9% increase from the inflation-adjusted total spent in fiscal year 2024, the last budget passed before his tenure. The increased budget is the first indication that the rising inmate population resulting from Landry’s policies is costing Louisiana taxpayers. ProPublica and Verite News have spent more than two years investigating how Landry’s policies have impacted Louisiana’s criminal justice system. The number of prisoners paroled under Landry has plummeted to its lowest point in 20 years, due in part to a law he …

Why hybrids — not EVs — are winning over US consumers
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description: High gas prices are driving EV growth in other parts of the world — but American drivers are favoring hybrids.
encoded: Even as gas prices continued to rise across the United States, sales of electric vehicles fell in April. That is in contrast to strong growth elsewhere in the world, such as Europe. But American drivers are gravitating toward at least one more efficient powertrain: hybrids. Sales of new EVs fell roughly 18 percent from March to April, according to the latest data from Edmunds, an auto research firm. Another company, Cox Automotive, pegged the drop at closer to 6 percent. Either way, experts said it’s clear that high gas prices aren’t leading to a significant shift toward EVs. “There was a lot of window shopping,” said Ivan Drury, director of insights at Edmunds, noting that searches for electrified vehicles on the company’s site were strong. “It did not translate to tire-kicking and purchases.” Price remains the steepest barrier for most people, said Drury. While electric vehicles can be less expensive to operate over the long-term — especially when gas prices are high — the upfront costs remain significant. The average transaction price for an EV in April was $6,214 higher than for vehicles with internal combustion engines, Cox reported. “It’s still a cost hurdle,” said Stephanie Brinley, a principal automotive analyst at S&P Global Mobility. “You don’t know how long it’s going to take to get that back.” At Thursday’s average gas price of $4.56 per gallon, an EV buyer would have to drive more than 40,000 miles to make up the difference with a car that gets 30 mpg. Savings on maintenance, like oil changes, could accelerate that timeline, but factors such as higher insurance prices and having to install a home charger could make the payback period even longer. If fuel prices fall, the advantage of an EV also shrinks. “It’s very difficult for people to wrap their head around, ‘Hey, if I spend this $55,000, I might over time save’,” said Drury. “It requires a bit more math than most people want to go through.” The calculus is much simpler for hybrid vehicles, which uti…

Israel’s $700m Hasbara fiasco – how Ben-Gvir’s flotilla abuse video stirred backlash
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date: 2026-05-22T08:41:28Z
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description: ANALYSIS: By Mohammad Mansour A video posted by Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, in which he is seen taunting abducted flotilla activists who sought to break the siege on Gaza, has triggered a backlash and dealt a huge blow to Israel’s multimillion-dollar public relations campaign, known as “Hasbara”. The footage, posted on the
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Mohammad Mansour A video posted by Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, in which he is seen taunting abducted flotilla activists who sought to break the siege on Gaza, has triggered a backlash and dealt a huge blow to Israel’s multimillion-dollar public relations campaign, known as “Hasbara”. The footage, posted on the social media platform X, showed Ben-Gvir gloating as activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla — including three New Zealanders — knelt on the floor, blindfolded, with their hands bound at the Port of Ashdod. Israeli naval forces had intercepted the flotilla’s vessels in international waters off the coast of Cyprus, illegally abducting 430 participants. READ MORE: Israel deports hundreds of Gaza aid flotilla activists amid global outcry Spanish MEP accuses EU of failure to act over Israeli ‘kidnapping, hijacking’ of Gaza flotilla activists Peters condemns Israeli minister over flotilla video as 3 Kiwis detained Peace Action demands NZ summon Israeli ambassador over brutal action against activists Other Gaza flotilla reports Among them, at least 87 launched a hunger strike in solidarity with the more than 9500 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. The images of activists being dragged across the floor prompted several countries — including Italy, France, the Netherlands, Canada, and Spain — to summon Israeli ambassadors, condemning the “unacceptable” treatment and violation of human dignity. The collapse of the ‘Hasbara’ illusion Experts argue that the frantic damage control by Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who ordered the rapid deportation of the activists, stems not from moral outrage over the abuses, but from the catastrophic damage done to Israel’s global image. “Netanyahu was dismayed not by Ben Gvir’s actions, but the fact he filmed and broadcasted them to appeal to his electorate ahead of the upcoming elections. Netanyahu himself, like Ben Gvir, called the members of …

Israel’s $700m Hasbara fiasco – how Ben-Gvir’s flotilla abuse video stirred backlash
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description: ANALYSIS: By Mohammad Mansour A video posted by Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, in which he is seen taunting abducted flotilla activists who sought to break the siege on Gaza, has triggered a backlash and dealt a huge blow to Israel’s multimillion-dollar public relations campaign, known as “Hasbara”. The footage, posted on the
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In a rare show of global unity, countries adopt landmark climate ruling
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description: Despite U.S. opposition, an overwhelming majority of nations agreed that failing to address climate change could be grounds to seek reparations.
encoded: About six years ago, law students at the University of the South Pacific convinced the government of the small island nation of Vanuatu to take the harms wrought by climate change all the way to the International Court of Justice, the world’s highest legal authority. Vanuatu, along with the students, waged a campaign to convince the court that climate change was a human rights issue and that countries have a legal duty to protect the planet for future generations. In 2025, the court sided with them unanimously. In a legally nonbinding advisory opinion, it ruled that the failure of countries to tackle climate change is a “wrongful act” and that other nations harmed by a warming planet may seek reparations. Now, the effort has notched another win. On Wednesday, an overwhelming majority of countries in the United Nations voted to adopt a resolution backing the court’s ruling. The historic decision signals the political support behind the court’s finding that countries have a legal responsibility to address climate change, reduce its impact, and offer reparations to those it has harmed. More than 140 countries voted in favor of the resolution. Just eight — including the United States, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Russia — voted against (28 countries abstained from the vote). “This must be a turning point in accountability for damaging the climate,” said Vishal Prasad, director of the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change and one of the law students who campaigned to take the case to the International Court of Justice, or ICJ. “The journey of this idea from classrooms in the Pacific to The Hague and the United Nations gives us continued hope that when people organize, the world can be moved to act.” The near-unanimous decision is a strong signal that multilateral cooperation on climate change has not completely unraveled. Over the past year, global unity on reducing greenhouse gas emissions has proven shaky. After Donald Trump’s administration announced it …

THE CULTURE MUSICAL CLUB (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
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date: 2026-05-22T07:54:06Z
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Vincent Moon’s Live Cinéma ☰ Festival la Guarimba, Calabria, Italy
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ZZK CREW (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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Rare earths and rebel armies: How a conspiracy story with no evidence jumped from fringe sites to newsrooms
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creator: Abhishek Kumar
date: 2026-05-22T07:41:00Z
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description: This is the second part of a three-part investigation. In Part One, we traced how a fabricated “exclusive investigation” alleging a secret India-Kachin Independence Army rare earths conspiracy first appeared... The post Rare earths and rebel armies: How a conspiracy story with no evidence jumped from fringe sites to newsrooms appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: This is the second part of a three-part investigation. In Part One, we traced how a fabricated “exclusive investigation” alleging a secret India-Kachin Independence Army rare earths conspiracy first appeared on Tech Bullion on November 18, 2025, and spread to four more pay-to-publish websites within eight days. The sites were linked to Pakistan- and Nepal-based SEO and PR networks. Key figures included Zeeshan Yousaf, a Pakistan-based SEO writer who bylined the original piece; Uzair Hassan, a Pakistani national connected to both Tech Bullion and Big News Network; and the Pariyar family, Nepali nationals behind at least two of the amplifying sites. None of the nine outlets contacted provided any evidence for their claims. Three deleted the story without explanation after being contacted. The story used real, documented events, including India’s preliminary rare earths conversations with the KIA, as a launchpad, but all its new allegations were unsubstantiated. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ The KIA has been fighting for an autonomous homeland in northern Myanmar since the 1960s. Since Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, it has also played a leading role in the country’s wider uprising to overthrow the junta. Conflict dynamics have added new dimensions to Myanmar’s rare earth mining industry, which has boomed over the past decade along the country’s eastern border with China. The industry is highly secretive, with no published permit data and mining sites tightly guarded. But import data reported by China indicates that Myanmar has in recent years surpassed China as the world’s largest supplier of heavy rare earth elements used in electric vehicles, precision-guided weapons and other geostrategic technologies. Satellite images show that the largest concentration of rare earth mining sites in Myanmar are near the town of Pangwa, in Kachin State’s Chipwi township. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="asyn…

Multidisciplinary artist and writer Vic Liu on the relationship between love and labor
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creator: Colleen Hamilton
date: 2026-05-22T07:00:00Z
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description: When did you start working as an artist full-time? And how did you come to design in particular?
encoded: When did you start working as an artist full-time? And how did you come to design in particular? Art has always been a key part of how I experience and process life, but it was never seen as a possible or legitimate career. I was raised with the scarcity trauma of most immigrant families, and art was not an established path towards getting healthcare. I studied international relations in undergrad. My thesis was on the fragmentation of the armed opposition in Syria. I was mapping what some have called the “10,000” armies of the opposition, and it didn’t make sense for it to be in text. Text is very linear. It’s from point A to point B. But when it comes to really complex systems like armed opposition groups, that doesn’t make sense as a medium for communication. All over Syria, across the different provinces, within every individual city, there were people individually deciding to take up arms, people who had been a dentist the day before and were now joining a militia. It was impossible for text to capture the complex simultaneousness of what was happening. Moreover, I had started to become aware of how deeply text locks people out. I often say that text is elitist, which I say with love as someone who deeply loves reading. My mother’s second language is English. She has incredible professional English, but it doesn’t come naturally. It’s very laborious for her to read. My grandmother didn’t learn how to read and write until she was an adult. I feel like I’ve always been around people who are extraordinarily intelligent, but locked out of this fortress of information barricaded within text. So I turned to design. When done right, information design allows us to access crucial understanding of the world around us. Design has the ability to communicate information intuitively, no matter if English is someone’s first or second language. It gives you multiple entryways, pathways, and options for communication. As I started working more and more with design, it became v…

Bulldozer action in Kolkata: Demolition stayed by court, panic and uncertainty linger
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creator: Anindya Hazra
date: 2026-05-22T06:56:28Z
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description: The Calcutta high court on May 15 stayed the demolition drive underway in Kolkata’s Topsia neighbourhood, ordering the authorities to maintain status quo at the site. The order effectively stopped... The post Bulldozer action in Kolkata: Demolition stayed by court, panic and uncertainty linger appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: The Calcutta high court on May 15 stayed the demolition drive underway in Kolkata’s Topsia neighbourhood, ordering the authorities to maintain status quo at the site. The order effectively stopped the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s (KMC) bulldozer action following a fire at the premises of Delta Leather Corporation on Gulam Jilani Khan Road that claimed two lives. The demolition drive, ordered after public remarks by West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari and minister Agnimitra Paul, has since come under intense scrutiny. Critics have described it as arbitrary and contrary both to the legal provisions governing demolition of allegedly illegal structures and to multiple Supreme Court rulings laying down safeguards against what has popularly come to be known as “bulldozer justice”. Deepening the controversy further, the affected family alleged that the KMC put up a backdated notice on the second day of the demolition drive, in complete disregard of the law. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-315608 size-large" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Copy-of-FI-Kit-85-1024x536.jpg" alt="" width="810" height="424" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Copy-of-FI-Kit-85-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Copy-of-FI-Kit-85-300x157.jpg 300w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Copy-of-FI-Kit-85-768x402.jpg 768w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Copy-of-FI-Kit-85.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px" /> The partially demolished Delta Leather Corporation building in Tiljala remains barricaded under police supervision on May 16, 2026, and (Right) the Notice for evacuating the property put up by KMC dated May 12 | Photos: Alt News Fire at Delta Leather Corporation The workshop of Delta Leather Corporation caught fire on May 12 at around 11:30 am. Fire brigade personnel were pressed into service, and the blaze was brought under control …

"Death to America and Israel" Chants in Tehran
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-05-22T03:01:19Z
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Pacific concerns about militarisation – and NZ’s role as part of it
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-22T02:13:38Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Blue Ocean of Peace
subject: Defence architecture
subject: defence cooperation
subject: Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era
subject: Maureen Penjueli
subject: NZ Defence Force
subject: NZ defence policies
subject: Sources
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subject: Analysis
subject: and
subject: Architecture
subject: asia
subject: Australia
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subject: France
subject: Global
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description: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist New Zealand’s government is increasingly eager to promote the buy-in of Pacific nations for closer Defence Force integration in the region, amid concerns about militarisation of the region. The security environment has been shifting rapidly, and regional defence is becoming more complex, leaving Pacific Islanders wondering if their
encoded: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist New Zealand’s government is increasingly eager to promote the buy-in of Pacific nations for closer Defence Force integration in the region, amid concerns about militarisation of the region. The security environment has been shifting rapidly, and regional defence is becoming more complex, leaving Pacific Islanders wondering if their “Ocean of Peace” is slipping out of their grasp. In recent months, the defence and police forces of Australia and New Zealand have been increasing cooperation with counterparts in Pacific countries — including Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and Vanuatu — in efforts to combat transnational crime, especially the illicit drug trade. READ MORE: Other NZ defence policy reports But as a number of Pacific Island countries weigh up signing major bilateral treaties or agreements with the likes of Australia, China and the United States, New Zealand has been steadily pushing Pacific regional defence cooperation on a number of fronts. The communiqué from last October’s South Pacific Defence Ministers Meeting (SPDMM) in Chile is instructive. The SPDMM — which involves New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Fiji, France, Papua New Guinea and Tonga — notes the leadership role New Zealand has taken on better coordinating regional defence architecture. New Zealand is contributing to the militarisation of the Pacific, says Pacific historian Marco de Jong. Image: RNZ Pacific The member countries agreed to push for a defence advisor from their collective to be embedded in the secretariat of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), whose secretary-general Baron Waqa attended the Chile meeting and appeared to support closer integration. While the advisor position is yet to be established, the SPDMM is surging ahead with a range of new regional defence initiatives, including developing the Pacific Response Group, under which defence personnel from Australia, Fiji, France, New Zealand and PNG work together to support coordinated humanitarian …

Exploring an Anti-America, Anti-Israel Protest in Tehran
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Venezuelan Oil Capture Exacerbates “Environmental Racism” in Gulf Coast Communities
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creator: Kate Horgan
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description: The US occupation of Venezuela and control of its oil reserves are expected to intensify “environmental racism” for Black communities along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas. According to January 2026 reporting by Capital B, oil refining operations...
encoded: The US occupation of Venezuela and control of its oil reserves are expected to intensify “environmental racism” for Black communities along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas. According to January 2026 reporting by Capital B, oil refining operations by petrochemical plants along the Gulf are dismantling communities and have… The post Venezuelan Oil Capture Exacerbates “Environmental Racism” in Gulf Coast Communities appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Palestine censorship at Rutgers University
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-21T22:01:55Z
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U.S. indicts former Cuban president Raúl Castro
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Failed Military Cleanup Exposes Marshall Island Residents to Leaking Radioactive “Tomb”
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creator: Kate Horgan
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description: A 60-year-old military nuclear clean-up project, known as the Runit Dome, has begun leaking radioactive materials in the vicinity of the Marshall Islands, as Jess Cockerill reported in a March 2026 article for the science publication, Science Alert. Th...
encoded: A 60-year-old military nuclear clean-up project, known as the Runit Dome, has begun leaking radioactive materials in the vicinity of the Marshall Islands, as Jess Cockerill reported in a March 2026 article for the science publication, Science Alert. The Runit Dome is situated on Runit Island, between Australia and Hawaii,… The post Failed Military Cleanup Exposes Marshall Island Residents to Leaking Radioactive “Tomb” appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Bolivian journalists injured, harassed by anti-government protesters
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description: Bogotá, May 21, 2026–Bolivian authorities must thoroughly investigate violent attacks on journalists covering a wave of anti-government demonstrations, including against cameraman Hugo Machicado of private broadcaster Gigavision, and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. On Monday, Machicado was injured in the legs by shrapnel from dynamite detonated by protesters in the capital La Paz...
encoded: Bogotá, May 21, 2026–Bolivian authorities must thoroughly investigate violent attacks on journalists covering a wave of anti-government demonstrations, including against cameraman Hugo Machicado of private broadcaster Gigavision, and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. On Monday, Machicado was injured in the legs by shrapnel from dynamite detonated by protesters in the capital La Paz who are demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz. Machicado was evacuated on a stretcher to a hospital where he was treated and released, according to the National Press Association (ANP). “The Bolivian government must ensure that journalists covering protests are protected by minimum safety guarantees,” said Cristina Zahar, CPJ’s Latin America program coordinator, in São Paulo. “Those responsible for acts of violence against media professionals should be identified and held accountable.” Local outlets reported that at least 10 journalists were slightly injured as they covered clashes between protesters and the police in La Paz and in the adjacent city of El Alto. In some cases, the demonstrators accosted journalists who were trying to film or interview them. The ANP and seven other Bolivian press organizations published a joint statement saying that nothing justifies violence against media workers. The Ministry of the Presidency also denounced the attacks, saying a free press is fundamental for democracy and that journalists’ integrity must be respected, especially during protests. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

Tennessee Bill Turns to Incarceration for Troubled Foster Youth
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description: A proposed bill in the Tennessee legislature would allow the Department of Children’s Services (DCS) to place foster youth in detention facilities, despite not being charged with a crime. According to a February 2026 WPLN report by Paige Pfleger, the b...
encoded: A proposed bill in the Tennessee legislature would allow the Department of Children’s Services (DCS) to place foster youth in detention facilities, despite not being charged with a crime. According to a February 2026 WPLN report by Paige Pfleger, the bill would legally classify these children as “in need of… The post Tennessee Bill Turns to Incarceration for Troubled Foster Youth appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Pakistani Delegation Arrives in Tehran
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US Tech and Defense Demands Spur Ruinous Mining in Indigenous Mexico
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creator: Kate Horgan
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description: As global demand for military armaments and clean energy technologies grows, the communities of Mexico’s Sierra Norte region are increasingly left to bear the environmental and health costs of the critical minerals that power these industries. Investig...
encoded: As global demand for military armaments and clean energy technologies grows, the communities of Mexico’s Sierra Norte region are increasingly left to bear the environmental and health costs of the critical minerals that power these industries. Investigative journalist Tamara Pearson, writing for Truthout, reveals how a US–Mexico agreement to coordinate… The post US Tech and Defense Demands Spur Ruinous Mining in Indigenous Mexico appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

ICE to Purchase Private Detainment Facilities to Circumvent States’ Authority
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-21T20:42:56Z
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description: According to reporting by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg in The Appeal, during GEO Group’s May 6 quarterly earnings call, CEO George Zoley stated that the Department of Homeland Security had been in talks with the private prison company to purchase “turn-ke...
encoded: According to reporting by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg in The Appeal, during GEO Group’s May 6 quarterly earnings call, CEO George Zoley stated that the Department of Homeland Security had been in talks with the private prison company to purchase “turn-key” facilities as detention centers to avoid oversight efforts in Democrat-led states… The post ICE to Purchase Private Detainment Facilities to Circumvent States’ Authority appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

California Schools Struggle to Implement Ethnic Studies
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-21T20:28:57Z
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description: In recent years, ethnic studies in California school systems have become a point of debate, as questions have emerged about whether the state has adequately supported these courses. California education officials and many school districts are strugglin...
encoded: In recent years, ethnic studies in California school systems have become a point of debate, as questions have emerged about whether the state has adequately supported these courses. California education officials and many school districts are struggling to fully implement a statewide curriculum that requires high school students to take… The post California Schools Struggle to Implement Ethnic Studies appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Shadow Foundation Invests $100 millions in Crypto, Filling Trump Pockets
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-21T20:20:27Z
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description: In July 2025, Jacob Silverman of The Nation reported that the Dubai-based Aqua 1 Foundation, one of President Trump’s biggest crypto-backers, may not exist. On June 26, 2025, the Aqua 1 Foundation announced a $100 million investment in World Liberty Fi...
encoded: In July 2025, Jacob Silverman of The Nation reported that the Dubai-based Aqua 1 Foundation, one of President Trump’s biggest crypto-backers, may not exist. On June 26, 2025, the Aqua 1 Foundation announced a $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial. Under the terms of a deal between Trump and… The post Shadow Foundation Invests $100 millions in Crypto, Filling Trump Pockets appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

The U.S. is only admitting white South African refugees
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-21T20:02:11Z
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US Increases Vatican Espionage
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-21T19:47:17Z
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description: US intelligence agencies have long spied on the Vatican, according to reporting by Ken Klippenstein, but it’s been dialed up amidst Trump’s public tirade against Pope Leo XIV. In an April 23, 2026, article published via Substack, Klippenstein analyzed ...
encoded: US intelligence agencies have long spied on the Vatican, according to reporting by Ken Klippenstein, but it’s been dialed up amidst Trump’s public tirade against Pope Leo XIV. In an April 23, 2026, article published via Substack, Klippenstein analyzed a national security contractor hiring memo for a role assisting the… The post US Increases Vatican Espionage appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Iran Speaks Out: Inside Tehran’s Response to Trump, Israel & War | Shane Smith Has Questions
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The Trump Administration Is Facing Scrutiny for How It’s Handing Out Billion-Dollar Border Wall Contracts
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creator: Sam Karas
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description: The post The Trump Administration Is Facing Scrutiny for How It’s Handing Out Billion-Dollar Border Wall Contracts appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: The Department of Homeland Security has released little information to the public on its plans to build new border infrastructure through the Big Bend region. Hannah Gentiles When Tommy Fisher set out to build a section of border wall in South Texas during the first Trump administration, the project quickly became ensnared in controversy. Experts raised concerns about shoddy construction and signs of erosion. Beyond that, Fisher’s company had received funding from a group called We Build the Wall, an influential conservative nonprofit that included President Donald Trump’s then-political strategist Steve Bannon as a board member. Some of its leaders eventually went to prison for their involvement in the venture. Even the president denounced the project. “I disagreed with doing this very small (tiny) section of wall, in a tricky area, by a private group which raised money by ads,” Trump wrote on X in response to reporting by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune in 2020 detailing problems with the wall project. “It was only done to make me look bad,” the post continued. But none of this stopped Fisher’s company from getting subsequent border wall contracts, including from the state of Texas. And now the federal government has awarded his company over $9 billion to build even more border wall — including a $1.2 billion contract in the Big Bend region of Texas, where residents have continued to press for answers about the government’s plans in and around one of the country’s largest national parks. And, as during Trump’s first term, Fisher’s work is stirring up controversy again. A New York-based construction company has sued the Trump administration after it awarded the bulk of new Texas border wall contracts to North Dakota-headquartered Fisher Sand & Gravel and another company. Posillico Civil Inc.’s lawsuit, filed in the Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C., on May 13, offers one of the first public glimpses into the procurement process along the border in Texas.…

Journalist held in NYPD kettle while covering protest near synagogue
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date: 2026-05-21T18:55:51Z
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description: Multimedia journalist A.B. Youssef was held in a police kettle while covering a protest in New York, New York, on May 5, 2026.The protest was taking place near a synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that was holding an event to promote real estate ...
encoded: Multimedia journalist A.B. Youssef was held in a police kettle while covering a protest in New York, New York, on May 5, 2026. The protest was taking place near a synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that was holding an event to promote real estate sales in Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, the latter of which are widely believed to violate international law. The New York City Police Department formed a buffer zone around the synagogue, prohibiting access to the block it was located on and directing pro-Palestinian and a smaller group of pro-Israel protesters, as well as press, onto surrounding avenues, according to news reports and journalists who spoke to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. Youssef told the Tracker that he and other journalists were documenting NYPD officers blocking off a sidewalk with metal barricades and pushing protesters back. The officers then formed a circle around the group of press with the barricades and told them they couldn’t leave. “I was telling them, ‘You can’t lock us in here,’” he said. “And they just didn’t care.” He said he was wearing his New York City press credential and holding his camera gear, adding that many of the officers saw him often and knew who he was. Video posted on social media by two other journalists who were in the kettle, Talia Ben-Ora and Neil Constantine, shows uniformed police and plainclothes public information officers placing metal barricades around a group of press, separating them from the area where the NYPD was pushing protesters back. Youssef said the NYPD didn’t explain why they were penning them in, and gave conflicting instructions. “They were saying, ‘Go out that way.’ And I said, ‘Where? That way is blocked too.’” He said he was kept in that area for at least 10 minutes. The NYPD did not respond to a request for comment. This content originally appeared on U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database and was authored by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database.

Rats and Poor Sanitation Deepen Misery in Gaza Displacement Camps
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-21T18:14:01Z
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description: Since February 2026, camps for displaced Palestinians in occupied Gaza have suffered severe rodent infestations that have received little attention from major US news outlets. Nour Abo Aisha, a Palestinian freelance journalist, reported firsthand from ...
encoded: Since February 2026, camps for displaced Palestinians in occupied Gaza have suffered severe rodent infestations that have received little attention from major US news outlets. Nour Abo Aisha, a Palestinian freelance journalist, reported firsthand from a camp in western Gaza City for Truthout, documenting the devastating impacts of rats and… The post Rats and Poor Sanitation Deepen Misery in Gaza Displacement Camps appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 21, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 21, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 21, 2026 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

Harmful Health Effects of Glyphosate and Herbicide Use in California
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date: 2026-05-21T17:56:36Z
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description: A 2026 report by Nate Halverson at Mother Jones exposes the widespread use of glyphosate-containing pesticides throughout California’s forests. Monsanto, the producer of the controversial chemical, widely used in forestry and agriculture, is unde...
encoded: A 2026 report by Nate Halverson at Mother Jones exposes the widespread use of glyphosate-containing pesticides throughout California’s forests. Monsanto, the producer of the controversial chemical, widely used in forestry and agriculture, is under investigation for its many initiatives to muddy the waters and sow scientific disinformation to limit public… The post Harmful Health Effects of Glyphosate and Herbicide Use in California appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

An Iranian Man Wants America to Attack Again
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CPJ urges heightened awareness for journalists traveling to US for FIFA World Cup
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description: May 21, 2026, New York, NY — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has advised journalists traveling throughout the United States for the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup may face questioning or hostility from immigration officials at the border or around venues. The World Cup spans games across cities in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada...
encoded: May 21, 2026, New York, NY — The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has advised journalists traveling throughout the United States for the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup may face questioning or hostility from immigration officials at the border or around venues. The World Cup spans games across cities in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada from June 11 to July 19, 2026. CPJ, a press freedom organization that works globally, has published resources for journalists reporting on the World Cup from this year’s host countries, including a travel advisory and legal rights guide. FIFA has accredited an estimated 50,000 journalists and media workers to cover the games. The majority of World Cup matches will be held in the U.S. where in recent months there have been cases of journalists being arrested, detained, and deported in relation to their work. “Based on the experiences of recent months in the United States, journalists traveling to the United States need to know that their press credentials won’t necessarily protect them at the border or when out reporting,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg. “We’ve seen immigration enforcement used as a tool to silence reporting, with authorities detaining, denying entry to, or deporting journalists not because of any crime, but because of their journalism.” International journalists, commentators, and writers traveling to the U.S. have previously been denied entry at the border and had visas revoked under the current administration. CPJ urges reporters to complete a risk assessment, identify emergency contacts, develop a check-in procedure and keep those contacts on paper in case devices are confiscated. Reporters have also been assaulted by officials while covering protests in the United States. Journalists should prepare for possible additional screening at the border. Failure to comply with a request from a border guard could result in devices being seized and, depending on the journalist’s immigration status, delays or denial of entry. In Me…

RootsAction Blasts Official DNC Autopsy; ‘Disgrace’ Would Be ‘Understatement’
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description: RootsAction is releasing the following statement:After months of intense pressure, Chair Ken Martin and the DNC finally caved and released their 2024 autopsy report. To call the report a disgrace would be an understatement. The report focuses extensiv...
encoded: RootsAction is releasing the following statement: After months of intense pressure, Chair Ken Martin and the DNC finally caved and released their 2024 autopsy report. To call the report a disgrace would be an understatement. The report focuses extensively on ad spending and fundraising, without discussing the Democratic platform, policy positions or political context of the 2024 election. The word "affordability," arguably the most important issue in the 2024 election, appears twice in the 129-page report. The report makes no mention whatsoever of Gaza or Israel — neither word even appears in its text. Now, Martin and the DNC are trying to wash their hands of the report and its contents. In a hasty, almost amateurish markup, the DNC has gone out of its way to poke holes in the legitimacy of the very report it commissioned. The report is full of factual errors, poorly supported conjecture, and misguided ramblings, many of which the DNC itself is eager to point out. While Martin may feel that this absolves him of the responsibility to answer for this pitiful document, it should only intensify scrutiny of his leadership of the DNC. Martin recruited the author to write the report. He presumably provided the author with resources and access to party officials and functionaries. The DNC has a responsibility to turn in a report that truly grapples with the mistakes of the past so that the Democratic Party can learn from those mistakes and emerge stronger in its fight against Trumpism. The DNC has utterly failed in that respect. The only serious autopsy so far remains the one that RootsAction published: https://democraticautopsy.org/ This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

New Center Tackles Seedling Shortages to Replant New Mexico’s Burn Scars
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description: Since 2000, New Mexico wildfires have burned seven million acres of land, causing flash flooding, displacing wildlife, and contaminating water sources. Wildfires are burning through forests more quickly than they can be recovered through natural regene...
encoded: Since 2000, New Mexico wildfires have burned seven million acres of land, causing flash flooding, displacing wildlife, and contaminating water sources. Wildfires are burning through forests more quickly than they can be recovered through natural regeneration or with human reforestation efforts, an issue exacerbated by a national shortage of seedlings… The post New Center Tackles Seedling Shortages to Replant New Mexico’s Burn Scars appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Pro-Palestine speech silenced at CUNY Law
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-21T17:02:21Z
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Most Americans Can’t Afford “Minimal Quality of Life,” Study Finds
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-21T16:50:32Z
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description: Wage stagnation, coupled with increasing prices, makes it increasingly difficult for many Americans to meet their basic needs. A May 2025 article by Sharon Zhang for Truthout shared an analysis from the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (...
encoded: Wage stagnation, coupled with increasing prices, makes it increasingly difficult for many Americans to meet their basic needs. A May 2025 article by Sharon Zhang for Truthout shared an analysis from the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP), which found that “a ‘minimal quality of life’ is out of… The post Most Americans Can’t Afford “Minimal Quality of Life,” Study Finds appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

UN News Today 21 May 2026
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creator: Jolina Dong
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description: Humanitarian crisis deepens in Gaza amid ceasefire delaysAfghanistan ruling erodes women’s rightsResponse to Ebola outbreak ramps up
encoded: Humanitarian crisis deepens in Gaza amid ceasefire delaysAfghanistan ruling erodes women’s rightsResponse to Ebola outbreak ramps up This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Jolina Dong.

Cuba denounces ‘cruel and ruthless aggression’ of US as White House indicts Raúl Castro
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Louisiana’s Anti-Homeless Bill Plans to Criminalize Sleeping Outside
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description: In April 2026, the Louisiana House of Representatives passed Bill 211, which the National Homelessness Law Center has called “one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country,” according to a report by Stephen Prager for Common Dreams. The bill e...
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Sanders, Lee move to rein in super PACs amid growing billionaire grip on US elections
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description: The financialization of the American electoral process is well documented. Now two key progressive legislators are proposing a new law to do something about it. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Democratic Rep. Summer Lee (PA-12) introduced the ...
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‘You can’t say ‘genocide’’: How US media sanitized Israel’s destruction of Gaza
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description: <img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2231355133-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A balloon reading 'CNN lies, Gaza dies, Tell the truth' is flown by protestors during a demonstration outside of the CNN bureau in Washington, D.C. on August 25, 2025 in an effort to disrupt the shows of reporters Dana Bash and Wolf Blitzer, whom they accuse of covering up war crimes by Israel. Photo by Bryan Dozier/Anadolu via Getty Images" data-attachment-id="343640" data-permalink="https://therealnews.com/you-cant-say-genocide-how-us-media-sanitized-israels-destruction-of-gaza/gettyimages-2231355133" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2231355133-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1708&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1708" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","alt":""}' data-image-title="GettyImages-2231355133" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" A balloon reading ‘CNN lies, Gaza dies, Tell the truth’ is flown by protestors during a demonstration outside of the CNN bureau in Washington, D.C. on August 25, 2025 in an effort to disrupt the shows of reporters Dana Bash and Wolf Blitzer, whom they accuse of covering up war crimes by Israel. Photo by Bryan Dozier/Anadolu via Getty Images " data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2231355133-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C520&ssl=1"> “These journalists and these editorial boards—they need to be held accountable… I have fantasies of somebody holding my book at the Hague and calling out the media at the International Court of Justice.”
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State “Tax the Rich” Campaigns Gain Momentum Across the Country
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-21T15:58:29Z
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description: Coordinated “Tax the Rich” campaigns have launched across the country, spurred by Massachusetts’s “millionaires tax” that has raised billions to fund public services. According to Brad Reed for Common Dreams in January 2026 and Lex McMenamin for The Gu...
encoded: Coordinated “Tax the Rich” campaigns have launched across the country, spurred by Massachusetts’s “millionaires tax” that has raised billions to fund public services. According to Brad Reed for Common Dreams in January 2026 and Lex McMenamin for The Guardian in April 2026, a coalition of labor organizers and community advocates… The post State “Tax the Rich” Campaigns Gain Momentum Across the Country appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

“Failures of ‘America First Global Health’”: U.S. Global Health Cuts and DRC Conflict Fuel Ebola Crisis
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-05-21T15:37:51Z
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description: Sweeping U.S. cuts to critical global health programs, including funding and staffing reductions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the U.S. withdrawal...
encoded: Sweeping U.S. cuts to critical global health programs, including funding and staffing reductions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), have dangerously weakened the world’s ability to respond to rapidly evolving infectious disease threats, including the escalating Ebola outbreak unfolding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the region, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said today. “This outbreak is unfolding amid devastating cuts to global health and humanitarian assistance in the DRC that have weakened disease surveillance, strained already fragile health systems, and reduced the capacity to detect and respond to infectious disease outbreaks,” said <a href="https://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn=u001.IylbKHiJb99DpROGmsOHCRuxqeoYqUAafXea1UUfVxO9kw5h9RTY8qTDEcq-2FCyBDbx_q_ciJuXYfraQrmEXzxHGEcWNeiZKy7tdzQawxB4GG8-2FLPZ7CvygO9jxiRAMn5pClU-2BCjnlOQYPqng71B9hRl6Rd4Nu9KpWjs-2FDnxb0GfN9CXhdW9lMQtkqdEpsJg5tZwpD7W-2FWwDATEA27GMKFr8WFOLG60umPuiLWe8hDdk4LiLvXvBz9zPisY8oaZYzW0KY77cIg3yCueGJCxkVi38-2B2pb-2Bfil-2BkjkO7OHxypixy6X52o-2Bv6Fk0QLVuRMiFMfl72FZ8Zoi5jsx0p4oBWvBf6dm4EfohfGr75rJCCIqveolNNFuiE4hkOGNKcxr3A1tQjes1qdAFN-2FK1mLMs9mCr6Rh-2F7ya1ydP3EzwELCB6AA6chsBzvCPYVE0yFi0VIC1GG" rel="noopener noreferrer" >Thomas McHale, SM, public health director at PHR. “Physicians for Human Rights has documented how abrupt U.S. foreign aid cuts disrupted frontline health services and infectious disease programs in conflict-affected eastern DRC, leaving communities more vulnerable at precisely the moment sustained international public health engagement when it is needed most. ” The current Ebola outbreak, which the WHO <a href="https://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn=u001.IylbKHiJb99DpROGmsOHCTisUzbFMySf-2B0mc9xvfJNGOfluBAzjd9G5k47QaNh0-2BqNWeJNq-2FshozX4GCf-2BXoYmdPxya1fxA-2B0p19g1f4YPOsWHBoM…

From Ersatz Fear to Epic Fury
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creator: Kate Horgan
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subject: Dispatches from Project Censored: On Media and Politics
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description: Mischa Geracoulis On December 22, 1984, Bernie Goetz—“the subway vigilante”—shot four unarmed Black teenagers on a New York City subway after one had asked Goetz for five dollars. Pulling an unregistered Smith & Wesson revolver from his waistband, ...
encoded: Mischa Geracoulis On December 22, 1984, Bernie Goetz—“the subway vigilante”—shot four unarmed Black teenagers on a New York City subway after one had asked Goetz for five dollars. Pulling an unregistered Smith & Wesson revolver from his waistband, Goetz fired five shots with expert precision at the teens, gravely wounding… The post From Ersatz Fear to Epic Fury appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

DEEPSA & NORTH SOUL (Amman, Jordan)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-05-21T15:00:06Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 21, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-21T14:50:09Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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"They’re Trying to Silence Us": Students, Faculty on Censoring Pro-Palestine Voices at Graduations
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-21T14:46:58Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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subject: now
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subject: Students
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Rising Conflict in DRC, Sudan, Other African Countries Linked to Trump’s Gutting of USAID: Study
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-21T14:43:31Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Trump Resettles White South Africans at "Record Pace" While Blocking Refugees from Everywhere Else
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-21T14:37:13Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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CPJ, partners call on incoming Guatemalan attorney general to end persecution of journalists
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-05-21T14:37:01Z
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description: In a joint letter led by the Committee to Protect Journalists, eight international press freedom and human rights organizations urged Guatemala’s incoming attorney general, Gabriel García Luna, to end the use of criminal prosecutions against journalists, drop politically motivated cases, and ensure safe conditions for exiled reporters to return. Over the past eight years, the...
encoded: In a joint letter led by the Committee to Protect Journalists, eight international press freedom and human rights organizations urged Guatemala’s incoming attorney general, Gabriel García Luna, to end the use of criminal prosecutions against journalists, drop politically motivated cases, and ensure safe conditions for exiled reporters to return. Over the past eight years, the Public Prosecutor’s Office has been used to systematically target independent journalists through legal harassment, forced exile, and arbitrary detention. Journalist Jose Rubén Zamora, whose imprisonment has been widely condemned as retaliation for his corruption reporting, has become the most visible symbol of this crackdown. More than 20 journalists fled the country between 2022 and 2023, while killings of media workers continue with near-total impunity. The organizations call on García Luna to dismiss all unfounded cases tied to journalistic work, guarantee safe return conditions for exiled reporters, and restore the independence and credibility of the prosecutor’s office. Read the full statement here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

The Testimony of David Grusch
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creator: VICE News
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Bernie Sanders declares war on billionaire election donations- the Abolish Super PACs Act
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CPJ calls for humane treatment, release of press detained aboard Gaza-bound flotilla
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description: Beirut, May 21, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by the video showing Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, taunting those detained aboard the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla at Ashdod Port in Israel, which included at least 14 international journalists, while they were handcuffed and held in stress positions on the...
encoded: Beirut, May 21, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by the video showing Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, taunting those detained aboard the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla at Ashdod Port in Israel, which included at least 14 international journalists, while they were handcuffed and held in stress positions on the floor. In the video, published on X by the minister, he can be heard yelling, “Welcome to Israel, we are the landlords,” while waving a large Israeli flag over dozens of detainees forced to kneel side by side on the floor, their hands tied behind their backs and their heads lowered to the ground. Another clip shows security forces violently throwing a handcuffed activist to the ground after the activist shouts, “Free Palestine” at Ben Gvir. The minister also said the detainees should be imprisoned for “a long, long time.” “International humanitarian law is unequivocal: detainees — including journalists — must be protected from humiliation, intimidation, degrading treatment, and abuse,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “Publicly displaying restrained detainees for political messaging raises serious concerns about dignity, due process, and the treatment of those in custody.” CPJ has identified at least 14 members of the press from multiple nationalities aboard the vessels intercepted in international waters near the Mediterranean island of Cyprus starting on May 18, as they attempted to reach Gaza on a humanitarian mission. They include: Alex Colston, American journalist, regular contributor for Zeteo and Drop Site News Lautaro Rivara, Argentinian freelance investigative journalist, works for Diario Red & Canal Red Jubair Islam Khan, British-Bangladeshi filmmaker owns independent video production company Film Soul LTD Gijs Sanders, Dutch journalist with BNNVARA Diederick Willem Groenewoud, Dutch investigative journalist with BNNVARA Andre Prasetyo Nugroho, Indonesian journalist with Tempo TV Thoudy Badai Ri…

Ukrainian Drones Strike Oil Refinery Deep Inside Russia
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“They’re Trying to Silence Us”: Students, Faculty on Censoring Pro-Palestine Voices at Graduations
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description: As colleges hold graduation ceremonies across the country, many schools are attempting to silence pro-Palestine speech at the commemorations, including canceling speakers and eliminating live speeches by students altogether. There will be no l...
encoded: As colleges hold graduation ceremonies across the country, many schools are attempting to silence pro-Palestine speech at the commemorations, including canceling speakers and eliminating live speeches by students altogether. There will be no live student speakers at the City University of New York’s School of Law or at New York University’s school-specific ceremonies after former students gave speeches that included expressing support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. Rutgers University canceled biotech CEO Rami Elghandour’s commencement speech at its School of Engineering’s convocation, citing complaints about his social media posts on Israel and Palestine. And the University of Michigan’s president issued a public apology after professor Derek Peterson praised pro-Palestine students during his commencement address. “Our students are being told that your families, Palestinian families, are expected to suffer and die, and you should be OK with it,” says Noura Erakat, a Palestinian human rights attorney and professor at Rutgers University. Erakat adds that Rutgers professors have been asked not to teach about the conditions in Gaza. “We are asked to betray the empirical record, including the one on genocide and apartheid, and we refuse to do that.” “This will be the third graduation and commencement ceremony in a row where we do not have a student speaker, we do not have a faculty speaker and we do not have a live-stream commencement,” says Shivani Desai, a member of CUNY Law Students for Justice in Palestine. “They took all of that away from us, and they took that away specifically because of Palestine repression.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Rising Conflict in DRC, Sudan, Other African Countries Linked to Trump’s Gutting of USAID: Study
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description: The decades-old U.S. humanitarian aid agency USAID was largely dismantled in the early days of President Trump’s second term by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The authors of a new study in the journal Science conc...
encoded: The decades-old U.S. humanitarian aid agency USAID was largely dismantled in the early days of President Trump’s second term by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The authors of a new study in the journal Science conclude, “The abrupt withdrawal of USAID led to a significant and sustained increase in conflict across Africa’s most USAID-dependent regions.” We are joined by Austin Wright, one of the study’s authors and a professor of public policy at the University of Chicago. “What we found is that that shutdown had these large effects,” says Wright. “These are often double-digit percentage increases in the incidence, severity and lethality of violence across Africa in the affected regions.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

LETUCE – A Take Away Show • Rio de Janeiro, 2011
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LETUCE – A Take Away Show • Rio de Janeiro, 2011
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“Clear Racism”: Trump Admin Blocks Refugee Resettlement, Except for White South Africans
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description: The Trump administration is advancing plans to resettle an additional 10,000 white South Africans in the United States as refugees. Under President Trump’s proposal, which was submitted to Congress on Monday, the U.S. would lift its reco...
encoded: The Trump administration is advancing plans to resettle an additional 10,000 white South Africans in the United States as refugees. Under President Trump’s proposal, which was submitted to Congress on Monday, the U.S. would lift its record-low refugee admissions figure from 7,500 to 17,500, with the additional openings reserved for Afrikaners. This comes as the administration continues to block the entry of refugees from other countries. The U.S. has resettled just over 6,000 refugees between October and April — all except three were from South Africa. Trump has said Afrikaners face racial persecution and genocide in South Africa, claims that have been rejected by the U.N. Human Rights Office, among others. Last year, he cut off aid to the country and boycotted the G20 summit in Johannesburg. “Whiteness is being recast as endangered,” says Lebohang Pheko, a professor of practice at the University of Johannesburg. “There is a move towards the alt-right, the MAGA discourse, which is about replacement theory, and which is absolutely about displacing the idea that anything other than whiteness is normative.” Pheko also suggests that Trump’s actions toward South Africa are retribution for the genocide case it brought against Israel at International Court of Justice. “We are processing resettlement cases for white Afrikaners at a record pace,” adds Sharif Aly, president of the International Refugee Assistance Project, which is currently litigating a class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s dismantling of the United States refugee program. “This program has never been a fast program, and it’s being expedited for just this one population.” While Afrikaners are being quickly resettled, “thousands of other people who have went through years of vetting, who have went through years of persecution and violence,” are being blocked from entering the U.S., says Aly. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for May 21, 2026
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description: Iran Announces “Controlled Maritime Zone” in Strait of Hormuz , 20 Million in Sudan Face Acute Hunger as Rival Military Factions Continue Deadly Strikes, Cuba Promises “Fierce Resistance” as USS Nimitz Arrives in Southern Caribbean, Israel Continues Attacks on Lebanon Even After Agreeing to Extend “Ceasefire”, Israeli Settlers Erect Illegal Outpost and Burn Palestinian Vehicles in Occupied West Bank, Israeli Drones and Bullets Kill Four Palestinians in Gaza, Video Shows Israeli Security Minister Ben-Gvir Taunting Handcuffed Gaza Flotilla Activists, Elon Musk’s SpaceX and OpenAI Confirm Plans to Go Public, Meta Lays Off 10% of Workforce and Assigns Thousands to New AI Initiatives, Sen. Sanders and Rep. Lee Unveil New Bill to Abolish Super PACs, Colbert Signs Off Tonight on the Final Broadcast of “The Late Show”, Demonstrators in Bolivia Call for President Paz to Step Down
encoded: Iran Announces "Controlled Maritime Zone" in Strait of Hormuz 20 Million in Sudan Face Acute Hunger as Rival Military Factions Continue Deadly Strikes Cuba Promises "Fierce Resistance" as USS Nimitz Arrives in Southern Caribbean Israel Continues Attacks on Lebanon Even After Agreeing to Extend "Ceasefire" Israeli Settlers Erect Illegal Outpost and Burn Palestinian Vehicles in Occupied West Bank Israeli Drones and Bullets Kill Four Palestinians in Gaza Video Shows Israeli Security Minister Ben-Gvir Taunting Handcuffed Gaza Flotilla Activists Elon Musk's SpaceX and OpenAI Confirm Plans to Go Public Meta Lays Off 10% of Workforce and Assigns Thousands to New AI Initiatives Sen. Sanders and Rep. Lee Unveil New Bill to Abolish Super PACs Colbert Signs Off Tonight on the Final Broadcast of "The Late Show" Demonstrators in Bolivia Call for President Paz to Step Down This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-05-21 Thursday
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Spanish MEP accuses EU of failure to act over Israeli ‘kidnapping, hijacking’ of Gaza flotilla activists
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description: By Beyza Binnur Donmez in Strasbourg Spanish Member of the European Parliament Irene Montero has accused the European Union (EU) of failing to protect European citizens aboard a Gaza-bound flotilla intercepted by Israel, directing sharp criticism at the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas during a plenary session on the Middle East. Addressing Kallas in
encoded: By Beyza Binnur Donmez in Strasbourg Spanish Member of the European Parliament Irene Montero has accused the European Union (EU) of failing to protect European citizens aboard a Gaza-bound flotilla intercepted by Israel, directing sharp criticism at the bloc’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas during a plenary session on the Middle East. Addressing Kallas in the parliament chamber on Tuesday, the Podemos lawmaker condemned Israel’s actions in the Mediterranean and accused EU leaders of remaining silent, reports Anadolu Ajansi. “Israel has been in the middle of the Mediterranean for 24 hours, and that is saying something, hijacking ships and kidnapping European citizens,” Montero said. READ MORE: Tehran says it is reviewing US response to peace proposal — and global anger over Israeli treatment of Gaza flotilla activists Israel begins deporting Gaza aid flotilla activists amid global outcry Peters condemns Israeli minister over flotilla video as 3 Kiwis detained Peace Action demands NZ summon Israeli ambassador over brutal action against activists Other Gaza flotilla reports “You find that amusing, don’t you? It doesn’t amuse me at all,” she said, asking: “Are you ever going to lift a finger to protect them?” Montero questioned how the EU would react if another country had carried out similar actions. “What would you do if it were Iran, if it were Russia standing in the middle of the Mediterranean to kidnap European citizens?” she asked. “But since it’s Israel, you just smile and look the other way. Shame on you.” Shared her speech footage Later on Wednesday, Montero shared footage of her speech in a post on the US social media platform X, accusing the EU of helping “genocidaires.” “Israel assaults and hijacks ships loaded with aid for Gaza right in the middle of the Mediterranean, and this lady finds it amusing and doesn’t lift a finger to defend the kidnapped people,” she wrote. “They help the genocidaires without even hiding it.” ❝Ms. Kallas, Israel has spent the l…

CIRCASSIA (sonic exploration of an ancient land)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-05-21T10:51:52Z
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Burgers, Brats, and Busted Budgets: Summer Staples Up 13%, Travel Prices Surging Ahead of Memorial Day
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-05-21T10:23:53Z
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description: New data released today by Groundwork Collaborative and The Century Foundation shows how President Trump’s reckless economic policies and war in Iran are driving up the costs of summer cookouts and travel season. Prices for backyard barbecue staples j...
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ÁRóRA & ÚRVERK (Reykjavik, Iceland)
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date: 2026-05-21T10:10:00Z
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PASCAL PINON (Reykjavik, Iceland)
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date: 2026-05-21T10:06:43Z
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BARUJARN (Reykjavik, Iceland)
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SIN FANG (Reykjavik, Iceland)
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French National Assembly allows ‘native’ voters to take part in local provincial elections
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-21T09:55:11Z
subject: 'Frozen' electoral roll
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description: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The French National Assembly has voted to allow “native” voters to take part in New Caledonia’s local provincial elections scheduled for next month. However, the French parliament’s Lower House also refused to include their “spouses”, just like the Senate did two days earlier. Amid debates in
encoded: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The French National Assembly has voted to allow “native” voters to take part in New Caledonia’s local provincial elections scheduled for next month. However, the French parliament’s Lower House also refused to include their “spouses”, just like the Senate did two days earlier. Amid debates in Paris on Wednesday evening (Thursday NZT), the vote to include people who were born in New Caledonia since 1998 came at an absolute majority of 386 in favour and 127 against. READ MORE: French Senate endorses change to New Caledonia’s ‘frozen’ electoral roll Other Kanaky New Caledonia reports But the vote on this “organic bill”, only weeks ahead of crucial elections to be held on in the French Pacific territory, is still subject to the verdict of the French Constitutional Council. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, who took part in the heated debates, said the main purposes of the partial “unfreezing” of New Caledonia’s electoral restrictions was to rectify “growing distortions” in New Caledonia’s electoral roll. He said the restrictions were imposed as part of the implementation of the autonomy Nouméa Accord signed in 1998 (since referred to as the “frozen” electoral roll). But since 1998, due to demographic changes, the proportion of “native” people (from all ethnic groups) has grown from seven percent to 17 percent — an estimated 10,500 people. ‘Small step’ but ‘major’ Lecornu reacted to the vote to include “natives”, saying even though it could be regarded as a “small step”, it was a “major step forward” and a “victory for good sense”. But the French Lower House’s vote failed to endorse another amendment regarding the “spouses” of qualified voters and whether they could also be included in the “special electoral roll” (specifically designed for provincial elections). The vote on this specific topic was one vote short (164 against and 163 in favour). The “spouses” category includes about 1700 people wh…

French National Assembly allows ‘native’ voters to take part in local provincial elections
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date: 2026-05-21T09:55:11Z
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description: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The French National Assembly has voted to allow “native” voters to take part in New Caledonia’s local provincial elections scheduled for next month. However, the French parliament’s Lower House also refused to include their “spouses”, just like the Senate did two days earlier. Amid debates in
encoded: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The French National Assembly has voted to allow “native” voters to take part in New Caledonia’s local provincial elections scheduled for next month. However, the French parliament’s Lower House also refused to include their “spouses”, just like the Senate did two days earlier. Amid debates in Paris on Wednesday evening (Thursday NZT), the vote to include people who were born in New Caledonia since 1998 came at an absolute majority of 386 in favour and 127 against. READ MORE: French Senate endorses change to New Caledonia’s ‘frozen’ electoral roll Other Kanaky New Caledonia reports But the vote on this “organic bill”, only weeks ahead of crucial elections to be held on in the French Pacific territory, is still subject to the verdict of the French Constitutional Council. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, who took part in the heated debates, said the main purposes of the partial “unfreezing” of New Caledonia’s electoral restrictions was to rectify “growing distortions” in New Caledonia’s electoral roll. He said the restrictions were imposed as part of the implementation of the autonomy Nouméa Accord signed in 1998 (since referred to as the “frozen” electoral roll). But since 1998, due to demographic changes, the proportion of “native” people (from all ethnic groups) has grown from seven percent to 17 percent — an estimated 10,500 people. ‘Small step’ but ‘major’ Lecornu reacted to the vote to include “natives”, saying even though it could be regarded as a “small step”, it was a “major step forward” and a “victory for good sense”. But the French Lower House’s vote failed to endorse another amendment regarding the “spouses” of qualified voters and whether they could also be included in the “special electoral roll” (specifically designed for provincial elections). The vote on this specific topic was one vote short (164 against and 163 in favour). The “spouses” category includes about 1700 people wh…

DN! Thursday, May 21, 2026
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This Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163 Million.
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description: The post This Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163 Million. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office misused $163 million intended to address racial profiling reforms, according to a court-mandated audit. More than $7,000 in cable TV subscriptions. An $11,000 golf cart. $1.5 million in renovations to office space in a swanky Phoenix high-rise. And another $1.7 million for Tasers. Those were among more than $200 million in expenses that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office billed to a class-action settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. A federal judge in 2013 found the department under then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio had violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers, and the court has required sweeping reforms. These include documenting all traffic stops to detect patterns of racial bias, employing additional investigators to probe reports of deputy misconduct and appointing a monitor to oversee the settlement. Since Sheriff Jerry Sheridan took office last year, he and Republicans on the county’s Board of Supervisors have cited the cost of complying with these orders to call for an end to the settlement of the case known as Melendres v. Arpaio — even as reviews of the department’s traffic stops continue to show racial disparities affecting Latino residents. The lingering disparities amplified Latino leaders and community members’ concerns as the second Trump administration has boosted local law enforcement’s involvement in its mass deportation campaign. Maricopa County, home to more than half of Arizona’s population, has approved $353 million in spending related to the settlement since 2013. But an audit of the sheriff’s office spending ordered by the court and a review of the public ledger by Arizona Luminaria and ProPublica show millions of dollars went to expenses that had little or nothing to do with the settlement. (The audit focused on $226 million that the sheriff’s office charged to the settlement over a 10-year period; it didn’t examine legal and monitoring costs or the two most recent departm…

CPJ, RSF warn Iran using 83-day blackout to hide press crackdown
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) are warning that the Iranian government is using an ongoing 83-day nationwide internet blackout to hide a severe crackdown on independent media. According to the monitor NetBlocks, the 12-week shutdown is the longest and most severe ever recorded in the country, effectively turning Iran...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) are warning that the Iranian government is using an ongoing 83-day nationwide internet blackout to hide a severe crackdown on independent media. According to the monitor NetBlocks, the 12-week shutdown is the longest and most severe ever recorded in the country, effectively turning Iran into an information black hole designed to conceal the harassment and arbitrary arrest of local reporters. The digital blackout has directly targeted the press, making safe and accurate reporting nearly impossible. Local journalists are cut off from secure communications and sources, while international press freedom groups face immense difficulty confirming arrests or documenting abuses. This information vacuum has heightened concerns for journalists and media workers already behind bars, including Iranian-American journalist Reza Valizadeh, who remains detained in Tehran‘s Evin Prison with little known about his health or legal status. The joint statement calls on Iranian authorities to immediately restore full internet access across the country, cease all judicial harassment and arbitrary detentions of media workers, and release all journalists imprisoned for their reporting. Read the full statement here in English, Persian (فارسی), and French (français). This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

As seas rise, where will Louisiana’s fishers go?
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creator: Frida Garza
date: 2026-05-21T08:45:00Z
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description: A new paper says New Orleans must relocate inland. But that’s a lot harder when your economy revolves around seafood.
encoded: A new paper generated a fair amount of consternation and eye-rolling when the authors claimed that New Orleans, the largest city in Louisiana, is at risk of being surrounded by open water by the end of the century. As human-caused global warming continues to drive sea-level rise, coastal Louisiana, the paper states, has likely “already crossed the point of no return.” Under the current warming trajectory, the projected loss of the remaining coastal wetlands in southern Louisiana puts over 1 million residents “in harm’s way,” according to the authors. Though that may sound shocking, it wasn’t the controversial part of the paper, which was published in Nature Sustainability this month — at least not to some outspoken critics. Instead, the authors were criticized for arguing that New Orleans should consider managed retreat, or relocating further inland to higher ground to avoid the worst climate impacts. “[P]lease stop saying ‘relocate New Orleans.’ That’s not going to happen,” wrote Christopher Ard, an 11th-generation New Orleanian, in an opinion column in The Lens, a local non-profit newsroom. Ard added, “If people want to move, they will,” and that researchers should instead use “words like ‘abandon’ or ‘give up on’ or maybe even ‘find somewhere new,’” to describe this out-migration. “Relocate just sounds silly,” he wrote. In their paper, the authors estimate coastal Louisiana could face 3 to 7 meters of sea-level rise and further predict that parts of the state’s shoreline will move inwards by 100 kilometers, closer to Baton Rouge. And while they acknowledge that the timeline for these processes is unclear, they insist that the region has a matter of decades to plan for migration away from these dangers, not centuries. The paper does not propose how and when those living in the Mississippi River Delta should move, but rather urges that preparing for projected sea-level rise “is a long process that cannot be put off.” Left out of the paper’s scope is what happens to…

Montenegro Might Join The EU. But What Will Brussels Call Its Language?
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Georgia’s PSC elections have become a referendum on energy prices
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creator: Emily Jones
date: 2026-05-21T08:30:00Z
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description: Democrats won big in last year’s election. This year, they’re aiming to win a majority on the commission.
encoded: Georgia is one of only ten states that elects its utility commission — the board that has final say over how much millions of Georgians pay for electricity. The state’s public service commission, or PSC, also has substantial say over how that electricity is made and, because fossil fuel power plants are a leading producer of the greenhouse gases, the PSC’s decisions directly influence Georgia’s climate future. From 2006 until last year, all five members of the PSC were Republicans. Democrats Peter Hubbard and Alicia Johnson won upset victories and have since made it more difficult for Georgia Power to have their decisions rubber stamped. Those elections have had ripple effects in other utility commission races around the country: In Arizona, national activist groups on both sides of the aisle have gotten involved in the race; Alabama lawmakers overhauled their commission in an attempt to shield it from the chance that voters will oust its Republicans. On Tuesday, Georgia held party primaries for two seats on the PSC. November’s elections, then, will be the Democrats’ next chance to win a majority presence on the commission, and could lead to more renewable energy in Georgia and more scrutiny of Georgia Power’s ongoing expansion plans. In the District Five race, Democrat Shelia Edwards defeated opponents Craig Cupid and Angelia Pressley. Republicans Bobby Mehan and Josh Tolbert will square off in a runoff on June 16. Libertarian Thomas Blooming is also running for the seat. “I’m running to be that third vote that’s gonna help them change the trajectory of the PSC,” said Edwards in an interview before the primary. “And to bring some balance to something that’s been completely imbalanced for years.” Edwards, Mehan, and Tolbert have all said they support clean energy, but the Republican candidates clarified they don’t support any sort of renewable energy mandate. “I do not think there is a place on the commission for advocates,” said Tolbert. “It’s not a legislative bod…

Civic engagement duo Soft Power Vote (Melissa Sáenz Gordon and Molly Salas) on connecting with community
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description: Can you both tell me a little more about your backgrounds and what led you to decide to collaborate on a project?
encoded: Can you both tell me a little more about your backgrounds and what led you to decide to collaborate on a project? Melissa: My background is pretty diverse and non-linear. I have a background in social media, storytelling, and editorial work, as well as restaurant work. And my organizing background was shaped by growing up in San Francisco, a city that was pretty seasoned in community organizing, information sharing, and skill-building. So when I first started voting, I would get information from various sources, from talking to my parents, but also going to coffee shops in college and seeing ephemeral printed matter that would share information about the ballot. I started organizing little get-togethers in San Francisco with my friends to go over what was on the ballot and whatnot. When I came to New York in 2017, I noticed that New York didn’t have as much independent information. So in 2019, I pitched the Soft Power Vote idea to a couple of friends of mine, and we launched it, and Molly joined within the first year. Molly: I’m a music supervisor, so my first job was in television, and then I was at MTV, but it didn’t have music anymore. I grew up in San Diego, a border and military town, which has all of these politics that California doesn’t share, or it is also kind of in between these two cultures, which is why it’s not my place. In 2020, I was working as a music supervisor in a big, scary tech company and hated it. And Soft Power Vote was something that a friend had recommended, who was doing some jail support during the early part of the pandemic. And I was like, where do you go for the judges? Who do you trust? I quit my job and really wanted an outlet to help. Luckily, Soft Power Vote blended the creative industry that I work in and my political wonky nerdiness, and here we are. Molly, is there a place, a person, or a moment that tends to spark your best ideas? Molly: It’s less a particular place than it is a setting. Over the years, I’ve figured out partic…

One Racist Christo-Fascist Homeland Under God
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creator: Abby Zimet
date: 2026-05-21T05:45:44Z
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description: In retrospect, Sunday's taxpayer-funded blasphemy fest to "rededicate" America as a Christian nation though it's not and never was looks ever more obscene amidst an unholy regime's mounting crimes and abuses. Its sectarian shit-show - ICE milled, vend...
encoded: In retrospect, Sunday's taxpayer-funded blasphemy fest to "rededicate" America as a Christian nation though it's not and never was looks ever more obscene amidst an unholy regime's mounting crimes and abuses. Its sectarian shit-show - ICE milled, vendors urged "WIVES SUBMIT," zealots screeched "We welcome Jesus!", speakers attested God is eager for the ballroom - just queasily re-shaped a 250-year-old America into the kind of country it once sought freedom from. "Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving," a "constitutional abomination wrapped in layers of blasphemy and demagoguery," sought to proclaim America "One Nation Under God," but only a white male evangelical God; Muslims, Hindus, Catholics, commies, Jews, atheists, agnostics, black, brown, queer, Native people and even mainline Protestants need not apply. As such, it attacked what Jefferson deemed an unalienable right of conscience "which lies solely between Man & his God," defied the core constitutional tenet of separation of church and state, and "torpedoe(d) the best of American traditions - inclusivity and diversity" with, essentially, "a Jubilee of Christian Nationalism." Its state-sponsored, right-wing fever dream marked the successful MAGA hijacking of Congress’ bipartisan, 2016 America250 commission, meant to honor the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and its core values of equality and agency before the law. Instead, Trump concocted his own Christo-fascist Freedom 250 to celebrate a racist, corporate, jingoistic narrative of America, rewriting history to create an imaginary, monolithic, jingoistic, white, male, Christian national identity that celebrates "God’s presence in our national life throughout 250 years of American history," and what is this inequality or oppression of which you speak? Freedom 250 swiftly collected most of the $150 million appropriated by Congress, along with support from patriotic sponsors like ExxonMobil, Mastercard, …

The conspiracy that wasn’t: How a fake investigation into India, Myanmar rebels and rare earths went around the world
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description: This is the first of a three-part investigation into a coordinated influence operation targeting India’s efforts to secure rare earths from Myanmar’s Kachin region. It traces how a fabricated conspiracy... The post The conspiracy that wasn’t: How a fake investigation into India, Myanmar rebels and rare earths went around the world appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: This is the first of a three-part investigation into a coordinated influence operation targeting India’s efforts to secure rare earths from Myanmar’s Kachin region. It traces how a fabricated conspiracy story alleging secret roads, weapons transfers and a covert India-KIA partnership was manufactured, published across a network of pay-to-publish websites, and amplified on social media by accounts overwhelmingly originating in Pakistan. Subsequent parts examine the story’s claims against the evidence, and investigate who may be behind the campaign and why. This is Part One. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ On November 18, the website Tech Bullion ran a strange piece. Sandwiched between CEO profiles, marketing how-tos and product reviews, the “exclusive investigation” claimed that India was conspiring with the Kachin Independence Army in northern Myanmar to develop a corridor for transporting rare earths. It also alleged that India was supporting the KIA militarily to “systematically erode Myanmar’s sovereignty and resources.” An investigation conducted by Alt News in collaboration with freelance journalists Emily Fishbein and Jauman Naw found that the story’s publication and amplification were were part of a coordinated influence operation. This investigation also identified evidence of the operation extending beyond Myanmar and India. Initially published on five content-amplification websites, the story was then published on at least four websites and news outlets focusing on Myanmar and northeast India. It was further amplified through four rounds of coordinated social media posts on X and one round on Facebook, overwhelmingly by accounts that appear to have originated in Pakistan. Margot Fulde-Hardy, an investigator at the American social network intelligence platform Graphika, conducted research which contributed to these findings. Further research conducted by Fulde-Hardy also found that the on…

Matthew Wale Wins Solomon Islands PM Vote: What It Means
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Nauru orders public servants, govt bodies to follow ‘One China’ policy
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description: RNZ Pacific Nauru’s government has issued a directive to all public servants and employees of state-owned enterprises in-country and abroad to adhere to the “One China” policy. The Cabinet directive comes as the Micronesian island nation marks its 58th constitution Day this week. In January 2024, Nauru became the first nation to switch diplomatic recognition
encoded: RNZ Pacific Nauru’s government has issued a directive to all public servants and employees of state-owned enterprises in-country and abroad to adhere to the “One China” policy. The Cabinet directive comes as the Micronesian island nation marks its 58th constitution Day this week. In January 2024, Nauru became the first nation to switch diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China just two days after Lai Ching-te was elected president. READ MORE: Other ‘One China’ reports Taiwan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry at the time accused China of “offering economic assistance as incentive to persuade” Nauru terminate diplomatic relations with Taipei. However, since then Nauruan officials have described the relationship with Beijing as reaching “new heights” and “manifesting into concrete tangible actions” for the two countries. “Following Cabinet decision on 15 May 2026, all personnel representing the Government and State-owned Enterprises of the Republic of Nauru in-country and abroad are further directed by Cabinet to observe the One-China Principle,” the government said in a statement on Wednesday. It added officials must “ensure consistency in the use of terminology and references in official conduct, communications, engagements, and administrative practices across all government departments, instrumentalities, statutory authorities, state-owned enterprise, government-controlled enterprise, agencies, and affiliated bodies”. It further advised officials to “avoid using terminology, symbols, flags, emblems, or representations which are inconsistent with the One China Principle”. “All official communication relating to the Taiwan Province of China must comply with the diplomatic position of the Government of Nauru. “Officials must not enter into official relations and arrangements with the Taiwan Province authorities or participate in programs funded by the Taiwan Province.” Taiwan no longer has a diplomatic presence in Nauru after the island nation switched its allegiance to Bei…

The US indicted Raul Castro for deterring CIA-backed terrorists
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Satellite imagery shows new North Korea-Russia bridge nearing completion
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creator: Noh Jung Min for RFA
date: 2026-05-21T00:44:51Z
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description: Experts say the rush to open the bridge indicates Kim Jong Un’s enthusiasm for cooperation with Moscow.
encoded: Satellite imagery has revealed that North Korea and Russia are scrambling to complete a new high-capacity road bridge across their Tumen River border, and experts told Radio Free Asia that the fervor for completing the project quickly is a sign of increased cooperation and warm relations between Pyongyang and Moscow. Until now, the only bridge connecting the two countries has been the Bridge of Friendship, a much smaller rail-only bridge that was built in 1959 and had been intended to be a temporary measure until a permanent bridge could be built. That never happened, until now. According to satellite imagery, North Korea and Russia are rushing to complete final construction work of customs facilities, roads, and checkpoints linked to the Tumen River Bridge. (RFA) The new bridge, set to open next month, will be capable of handling up to 300 vehicles, and transporting 2,850 people across the border per day, according to Russia’s Ministry of Transport. It spans about a kilometer (3,280 feet) long and will connect the North Korean city of Rason, with the Russian town of Khasan. “It appears both sides are pushing hard to complete the final construction in time for the official opening scheduled for this summer,” Bruce Songhak Chung, a senior researcher at the Seoul-based Korea Institute for Security Strategy, told RFA. “The project is showing approximately 80% to 90% completion ahead of the official opening.” Satellite images from March 10, April 22, and May 16, show the progression of construction on a customs building on the North Korean side. Roofing work is now finished, and ground leveling and paving around the building have progressed significantly, Chung said. Paving work on access roads linking the customs facility is also in its final stages, he said. Construction of the North Korean customs building, roof structures, and surrounding access roads appears to have been completed or is in its final stages. (RFA) On the Russian side, construction of a large-scale c…

Peters condemns Israeli minister over flotilla video as 3 Kiwis detained
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date: 2026-05-21T00:38:15Z
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description: By Niva Chittock, RNZ WorldWatch presenter/producer New Zealand has joined international condemnation of Israel’s far-right national security minister, even summoning the Israeli ambassador to convey that message. A video posted by Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, showing him taunting detained flotilla activists, drew international condemnation on Thursday. The video showed kneeling activists, with their
encoded: By Niva Chittock, RNZ WorldWatch presenter/producer New Zealand has joined international condemnation of Israel’s far-right national security minister, even summoning the Israeli ambassador to convey that message. A video posted by Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, showing him taunting detained flotilla activists, drew international condemnation on Thursday. The video showed kneeling activists, with their hands zip-tied, while Ben-Gvir shouted “they came as big heroes, see how they look now… not heroes, nothing, terror supporters”. The video released by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir READ MORE: Peace Action demands NZ summon Israeli ambassador over brutal action against activists Several nations summon Israeli envoys as Ben-Gvir taunts flotilla activists 87+ Gaza aid flotilla activists abducted by Israel now on hunger strike Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global activists’ freedom from Israel Other Gaza flotilla reports Ben-Gvir also said he had told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “give them to me for more much time, give them to us for the terrorist prisons, this is how it should look”. He posted the video with the caption “welcome to Israel”. In a statement on X, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said New Zealand condemned Ben-Gvir’s behaviour. “Last year, New Zealand placed a travel ban on Minister Ben-Gvir for severely and deliberately undermining peace and security and removing prospects for a two state solution. Further vindication His latest conduct with respect to the Gaza flotilla, which has been seriously criticised by his own Prime Minister, is further vindication of that position. Peters said ministry officials had been instructed to call in the Israeli Ambassador on Thursday to directly pass the government’s grave concerns. New Zealand condemns the behaviour of Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Last year, New Zealand placed a travel ban on Minister Ben-Gvir for severely and deliberate…

Iran’s death penalty
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-21T00:30:17Z
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Central Sahel: Hearing On The Worsening Human Rights Situation
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creator: Human Rights Watch
date: 2026-05-20T23:52:56Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
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ILO Labor Treaty Should Protect All Gig Workers
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creator: Human Rights Watch
date: 2026-05-20T23:32:26Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
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Israel bombed this hospital, called it a ‘terror HQ’
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creator: The Grayzone
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Peace Action demands NZ summon Israeli ambassador over brutal action against activists
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-20T23:19:40Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Flotilla captives
subject: Gaza Freedom Flotilla
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description: Asia Pacific Report New Zealand needs to summon Israeli ambassador to protest over the illegal and brutal treatment of Global Sumud Flotilla humanitarian aid activists — including three New Zealanders — kidnapped in international waters this week. Peace activists are demanding this in the response to Israel ambassadors being summoned by several host governments over
encoded: Asia Pacific Report New Zealand needs to summon Israeli ambassador to protest over the illegal and brutal treatment of Global Sumud Flotilla humanitarian aid activists — including three New Zealanders — kidnapped in international waters this week. Peace activists are demanding this in the response to Israel ambassadors being summoned by several host governments over the “degrading” treatment. Media footage broadcast by Al Jazeera and other media show Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir taunting activists in Israeli custody, including the three New Zealanders — Mousa Taher, Julien Blondel and Hāhona Jason Ormsby. READ MORE: Several nations summon Israeli envoys as Ben-Gvir taunts flotilla activists 87+ Gaza aid flotilla activists abducted by Israel now on hunger strike Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global activists’ freedom from Israel Other Gaza flotilla reports The latest protest came from the European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, who condemned a video showing Ben-Gvir abusing activists as they were forced to kneel on the floor with their hands tied behind their backs. Kallas described the treatment of the abducted activists as “degrading and wrong” and said rightwing minister Ben-Gvir’s conduct was “unbecoming of anyone holding office in a democracy”. Several countries — including Italy, France, the Netherlands, and Canada — have summoned the Israeli ambassadors to their capitals to express “indignation” over Israel’s treatment of the Gaza flotilla activists. Other countries condemning the incident include South Korea, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Greece, Germany, Poland, Qatar, Slovenia, Turkiye, Austria, Belgium, Colombia and the United Kingdom. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-128189" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Israeli-mistreatment-AJ-680wide.png" alt="Mistreatment of activists revealed on the video released by Israeli Security Minister Ben-…

How Cartels are Using FPV Drones
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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My brother and I were tear-gassed
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creator: ProPublica
date: 2026-05-20T21:52:23Z
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Corporate Sponsors Spend Millions Supporting “America First” Messaging
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-20T21:31:01Z
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description: Corporations, including Mastercard, Deloitte, and ExxonMobil, are spending millions to sponsor Freedom 250, a Trump-led organization celebrating the country’s semiquincentennial with “America First” messaging. While the organization bills itself as non...
encoded: Corporations, including Mastercard, Deloitte, and ExxonMobil, are spending millions to sponsor Freedom 250, a Trump-led organization celebrating the country’s semiquincentennial with “America First” messaging. While the organization bills itself as nonpartisan, internal documents obtained by Judd Legum for his newsletter, Popular Information, reveal “the events will actually promote pro-Trump political… The post Corporate Sponsors Spend Millions Supporting “America First” Messaging appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

New Research Finds US Responsible for $10 Trillion in Climate Damage
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-20T21:24:22Z
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description: New research published on March 25 by the scientific journal Nature has found that the United States has caused $10 trillion in climate damage since 1990, as reported by Oliver Milman for The Guardian. The Guardian reports that the US is the largest ca...
encoded: New research published on March 25 by the scientific journal Nature has found that the United States has caused $10 trillion in climate damage since 1990, as reported by Oliver Milman for The Guardian. The Guardian reports that the US is the largest carbon emitter in history, causing greater harm… The post New Research Finds US Responsible for $10 Trillion in Climate Damage appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

LIVE FROM IRAN | Vice News
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date: 2026-05-20T21:11:52Z
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Protect English Learners in Nation’s Schools
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creator: John Pascarella
date: 2026-05-20T21:03:32Z
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subject: sources
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description: Multilingual education is not merely workforce preparation. It is about equal opportunity.
encoded: Multilingual education is not merely workforce preparation. It is about equal opportunity. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by John Pascarella.

Got a Bedroom? Get a Benefit Cut
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creator: Mike Ervin
date: 2026-05-20T20:53:54Z
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description: A new rule change will allow the government to count having a place to sleep as income, and deduct it from SSI payments.
encoded: A new rule change will allow the government to count having a place to sleep as income, and deduct it from SSI payments. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Mike Ervin.

[Episode Cut] Unions Can Save US Democracy Experts Say
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-05-20T20:28:13Z
subject: Sources
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subject: Unions
description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
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Censored Classrooms Shaping Student Learning
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-20T20:24:20Z
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subject: learning
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description: Despite ongoing pressure for academic freedom in recent years, political intervention in 2025 has increased threats to classroom autonomy across the United States. In a February 2026 article for Exposed by CMD, Mari Hernandez reported that state legisl...
encoded: Despite ongoing pressure for academic freedom in recent years, political intervention in 2025 has increased threats to classroom autonomy across the United States. In a February 2026 article for Exposed by CMD, Mari Hernandez reported that state legislatures, federal agencies, and right-wing advocacy groups are reshaping what educators can teach,… The post Censored Classrooms Shaping Student Learning appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Under Trump’s Leadership, Airstrikes in Somalia Have Reached a Record-High
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-20T20:20:45Z
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description: Under Trump’s Leadership, Airstrikes in Somalia Have Reached a Record-High US Africa Command (AFRICOM) carried out 124 bombings in 2025, and 58 so far in 2026. According to reporting by Dave DeCamp for antiwar.com on April 23, “If AFRICOM keeps up the ...
encoded: Under Trump’s Leadership, Airstrikes in Somalia Have Reached a Record-High US Africa Command (AFRICOM) carried out 124 bombings in 2025, and 58 so far in 2026. According to reporting by Dave DeCamp for antiwar.com on April 23, “If AFRICOM keeps up the current pace, it’s on track to break its… The post Under Trump’s Leadership, Airstrikes in Somalia Have Reached a Record-High appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Pharma Industry Abuses Patent System to Increase Profit, Reduce Competition
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-20T20:15:21Z
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description: Pharmaceutical companies are abusing the patent system to maximize profits and stifle competition, according to a report summarized by Helen Santoro for The Lever on June 16, 2025. Research by the Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK...
encoded: Pharmaceutical companies are abusing the patent system to maximize profits and stifle competition, according to a report summarized by Helen Santoro for The Lever on June 16, 2025. Research by the Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge (I-MAK) found that expensive medications for weight loss, diabetes, and blood thinning were… The post Pharma Industry Abuses Patent System to Increase Profit, Reduce Competition appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

LandBack Movement Advances Across Western US
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date: 2026-05-20T19:27:23Z
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description: Indigenous land returns across the United States over the past decade have addressed historical injustices and advanced climate justice. In a February 16, 2026, article for High Country News, Chad Bradley and Anna V. Smith discussed advances in the Lan...
encoded: Indigenous land returns across the United States over the past decade have addressed historical injustices and advanced climate justice. In a February 16, 2026, article for High Country News, Chad Bradley and Anna V. Smith discussed advances in the LandBack movement in the Western US, including the Yurok tribe regaining… The post LandBack Movement Advances Across Western US appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Virginia Prisoners Set Themselves on Fire to Escape Brutal Prison Conditions, State Probe Dismisses Their Claims
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-20T18:58:17Z
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description: A series of self-immolation cases by Black incarcerated individuals led to retaliation by guards at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison, but a 2026 state inspector general investigation dismissed accounts of brutal prison conditions and racial violence a...
encoded: A series of self-immolation cases by Black incarcerated individuals led to retaliation by guards at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison, but a 2026 state inspector general investigation dismissed accounts of brutal prison conditions and racial violence as unsubstantiated, The Appeal reported in April 2025. Dozens of incarcerated individuals have experienced… The post Virginia Prisoners Set Themselves on Fire to Escape Brutal Prison Conditions, State Probe Dismisses Their Claims appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Israel rigs a race – Max on Judge Napolitano
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-05-20T18:35:44Z
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‘Aiding and abetting genocide’: US sanctions peaceful Gaza Flotilla organizers
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creator: Brett Wilkins
date: 2026-05-20T18:16:52Z
subject: article
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subject: gaza
subject: Genocide
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description: This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on May 19, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. Palestine defenders decried Tuesday’s announcement by the Trump administration of US sanctions targeting four n...
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 20, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 20, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Trump’s deal with DOJ could benefit his allies
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date: 2026-05-20T17:53:41Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Bolivian government charges labor leader with terrorism as police crack down on protests
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creator: Julia Conley
date: 2026-05-20T17:43:36Z
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subject: Labor
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Journalist Yelis Ayaz arrested in Turkey for ‘spreading disinformation’
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-05-20T17:11:16Z
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description: Istanbul, May 20, 2026—Turkish authorities must release journalist Yelis Ayaz without delay and stop punishing journalists for doing their jobs, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Ayaz, publisher and editor-in-chief for the local newspaper Aydınpost in the western province of Aydın, was arrested pending trial by a court on May 15 on suspicion of...
encoded: Istanbul, May 20, 2026—Turkish authorities must release journalist Yelis Ayaz without delay and stop punishing journalists for doing their jobs, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Ayaz, publisher and editor-in-chief for the local newspaper Aydınpost in the western province of Aydın, was arrested pending trial by a court on May 15 on suspicion of “publicly spreading disinformation” regarding reports on a politician’s son who was allegedly bringing weapons to school. A trial date will be set after the journalist is indicted. “Yelis Ayaz’s arrest was the latest unfortunate link in the lengthy chain of journalists imprisoned under the pretext of spreading disinformation in Turkey,” said Özgür Öğret, CPJ’s Turkey representative. “Authorities must immediately release Ayaz, who was simply doing her job and didn’t cause any panic among the population by her reporting, as the law dictates is required to prosecute.” Ayaz wrote a column on April 20 regarding the allegations, without mentioning whose son the student in question was. She was briefly detained afterwards but released after being questioned by a prosecutor, her lawyer said. Aydınpost published a story on May 14 reporting that the underage son of Seda Sarıbaş, a parliamentary deputy of Aydın for the leading Justice and Development Party (AKP), was bringing a knife and a gun to school. In another column by Ayaz, published after her arrest, she stood by her story and said that multiple parents from the school had filed complaints about the student. Sarıbaş said in a post on X on May 15 that she was targeted for “character assassination” by fake news, without mentioning Ayaz. Introduced in late 2022, the disinformation law dictates that anyone found guilty of publicly spreading false information in order to cause concern, fear, or panic will face a sentence of one to three years in prison. While supporters of the legislation at the time offered reassurances that the law would not be used against journ…

MOHAMMAD MOUSSA (Umm Qays, Jordan)
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creator: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
date: 2026-05-20T17:00:06Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.
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How ICE Detention Centers and “Zombie Prisons” are a National Concern
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-20T16:46:04Z
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description: Faced with a national shortage of detention space due to the increased imprisonment of immigrants by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency is reopening previously closed prisons. In an August 2025 report for The Marshall Project, Sha...
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UN News Today 20 May 2026
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creator: Edouard De Bray
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description: Ebola outbreak risk is high inside DR Congo but it’s no pandemic emergency: TedrosUN chief calls for Security Council reform during Japan visitUN launches $529 million plan for Afghan returnees
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Kim Kelly: Coal miners are dying, and Trump betrayed them
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THE GREAT JIHAD • sufism in Chechnya (third ritual)
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date: 2026-05-20T15:28:26Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes and was authored by Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes.
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Executions Spike in Iran as Gov’t Intensifies Domestic Repression Amid U.S.-Israeli Attacks
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date: 2026-05-20T14:51:22Z
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subject: now
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Rising U.S. Pressure on Cuba
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-20T14:48:54Z
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"Dictatorship in Action": David Cay Johnston on $1.8B Slush Fund
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-20T14:39:27Z
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 20, 2026
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The Future of Military Drones
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87+ Gaza aid flotilla activists abducted by Israel now on hunger strike
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date: 2026-05-20T13:04:20Z
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description: Asia Pacific Report At least 87 people kidnapped by Israeli forces from a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza have begun a hunger strike, say organisers, after Israeli forces intercepted the last remaining vessel in international waters. The group is striking “in protest of their illegal abduction and in solidarity with the over 9500 Palestinian
encoded: Asia Pacific Report At least 87 people kidnapped by Israeli forces from a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza have begun a hunger strike, say organisers, after Israeli forces intercepted the last remaining vessel in international waters. The group is striking “in protest of their illegal abduction and in solidarity with the over 9500 Palestinian hostages held in Israeli dungeons”, the Global Sumud Flotilla wrote on X, reports Al Jazeera. Late on Tuesday evening, Israeli forces “kidnapped” six people on board the Lina al-Nabulsi boat, organisers said. READ MORE: Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global activists’ freedom from Israel Foreign ministers of 10 countries say Israel’s storming of the aid flotilla is blatant violation of international law Greenpeace calls on global govts to ensure safety of Gaza flotilla stormed by Israeli military ‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing Other Gaza flotilla reports The boat was the last in a group of more than 50 vessels that left Turkiye’s port city of Marmaris last week to sail towards Gaza, with the goal of breaking Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-128171 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Acacia-OConnor-GSFAotearoa-400tall-.png" alt="Acacia O'Connor of the Global Sumud Flotilla Aotearoa delegation presents a message" width="400" height="712" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Acacia-OConnor-GSFAotearoa-400tall-.png 400w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Acacia-OConnor-GSFAotearoa-400tall--169x300.png 169w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Acacia-OConnor-GSFAotearoa-400tall--236x420.png 236w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /> Acacia O’Connor of the Global Sumud Flotilla Aotearoa delegation presents a message o…

87+ Gaza aid flotilla activists abducted by Israel now on hunger strike
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description: Asia Pacific Report At least 87 people kidnapped by Israeli forces from a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza have begun a hunger strike, say organisers, after Israeli forces intercepted the last remaining vessel in international waters. The group is striking “in protest of their illegal abduction and in solidarity with the over 9500 Palestinian
encoded: Asia Pacific Report At least 87 people kidnapped by Israeli forces from a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza have begun a hunger strike, say organisers, after Israeli forces intercepted the last remaining vessel in international waters. The group is striking “in protest of their illegal abduction and in solidarity with the over 9500 Palestinian hostages held in Israeli dungeons”, the Global Sumud Flotilla wrote on X, reports Al Jazeera. Late on Tuesday evening, Israeli forces “kidnapped” six people on board the Lina al-Nabulsi boat, organisers said. READ MORE: Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global activists’ freedom from Israel Foreign ministers of 10 countries say Israel’s storming of the aid flotilla is blatant violation of international law Greenpeace calls on global govts to ensure safety of Gaza flotilla stormed by Israeli military ‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing Other Gaza flotilla reports The boat was the last in a group of more than 50 vessels that left Turkiye’s port city of Marmaris last week to sail towards Gaza, with the goal of breaking Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-128171 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Acacia-OConnor-GSFAotearoa-400tall-.png" alt="Acacia O'Connor of the Global Sumud Flotilla Aotearoa delegation presents a message" width="400" height="712" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Acacia-OConnor-GSFAotearoa-400tall-.png 400w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Acacia-OConnor-GSFAotearoa-400tall--169x300.png 169w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Acacia-OConnor-GSFAotearoa-400tall--236x420.png 236w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /> Acacia O’Connor of the Global Sumud Flotilla Aotearoa delegation presents a message o…

Amnesty: Executions Spike in Iran as Gov’t Intensifies Domestic Repression Amid U.S./Israeli Attacks
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-20T12:53:48Z
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description: Amnesty International’s 2025 report on the global use of the death penalty finds that executions have surged to their highest recorded number in over 40 years, driven largely by the expanded use of political executions in Iran to “...
encoded: Amnesty International’s 2025 report on the global use of the death penalty finds that executions have surged to their highest recorded number in over 40 years, driven largely by the expanded use of political executions in Iran to “create a climate of fear and intimidation in the society and deter dissent.” Amnesty recorded 2,707 executions in 2025. But the data excludes China, believed to be the world’s top executioner, because its government does not release any public data on executions. While the majority of countries around the world have banned the use of the death penalty, Raha Bahreini, who contributed to the report, says the 17 countries that carried out executions last year “keep insisting on the use of the death penalty as a tool of control and repression.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Is an Invasion of Cuba Next? Peter Kornbluh on U.S. Move to Indict Raúl Castro & CIA’s Widening Role
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-20T12:44:49Z
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description: In the latest escalation of the decadeslong U.S. pressure campaign against Cuba’s communist government, the Trump administration is expected to unseal an indictment against Raúl Castro, the 94-year-old former president of Cuba, later tod...
encoded: In the latest escalation of the decadeslong U.S. pressure campaign against Cuba’s communist government, the Trump administration is expected to unseal an indictment against Raúl Castro, the 94-year-old former president of Cuba, later today. The charges stem from the 1996 shootdown of four pilots with Brothers to the Rescue, the U.S.-based anti-Castro organization formed by Cuban exiles and dissidents. Peter Kornbluh, a Cuba specialist at the National Security Archive, says that the indictment will send “a clear warning” to Cuban leaders and provide justification for a possible future attempt to capture or assassinate Castro. “Military options are on the table and coming soon,” says Kornbluh. “It is absolutely clear that the U.S. military is preparing contingency operations in case Trump’s impatience runs out because Cuba has not met his imperial demands fast enough.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Liberia: School Fees Block Children’s Access to Education
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creator: Human Rights Watch
date: 2026-05-20T12:37:59Z
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Report from Havana: Cubans Starving & Dying Because of Intensified U.S. Blockade
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-20T12:33:41Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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description: In Havana, we speak to journalist Ed Augustin, who calls the Trump administration’s strict fuel blockade of Cuba, in place since the beginning of 2026, “the collective punishment of a population, particularly targeting poor communi...
encoded: In Havana, we speak to journalist Ed Augustin, who calls the Trump administration’s strict fuel blockade of Cuba, in place since the beginning of 2026, “the collective punishment of a population, particularly targeting poor communities, pregnant women, children and the elderly.” Augustin shares stories of hardship faced by everyday Cubans who are increasingly forced to go without electricity, drinking water and medical care. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Dictatorship in Action”: David Cay Johnston on $1.8B Slush Fund & Shielding Trumps “Forever” from IRS
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-20T12:16:52Z
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description: In a shocking and unprecedented move, the Justice Department issued a memo Tuesday saying the IRS is “forever barred” from investigating past tax returns of President Trump, his family, company and “related companies.” ...
encoded: In a shocking and unprecedented move, the Justice Department issued a memo Tuesday saying the IRS is “forever barred” from investigating past tax returns of President Trump, his family, company and “related companies.” It came just a day after the department announced the creation of a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund to “compensate” people prosecuted for supposedly political reasons by the Biden and Obama administrations — a move expected to benefit January 6 insurrectionists, other Trump allies and even Trump himself. It’s all part of an agreement between the Department of Justice and President Trump’s personal attorneys in exchange for Trump dropping a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over leaked tax returns. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche — President Trump’s former personal attorney — will appoint the commission overseeing the Justice Department’s new fund. “This is dictatorship in action,” says reporter David Cay Johnston. He calls the “anti-weaponization” fund “a slush fund to pay a criminal enforcement arm, a violent arm of Trump supporters to intimidate people” and says the order to not investigate the Trump family’s dealings “screams that Donald Trump is, in fact, a criminal-level tax cheat.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Israel is ‘doing a Ukraine’ in Lebanon but world stays silent, says war reporter
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-05-20T12:10:29Z
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description: Asia Pacific Report Celebrated Italian war reporter Francesca Mannocchi has condemned the double standard over Israel’s war mongering. “What Israel is doing in southern Lebanon is, quite simply, no different from what Russian troops have been doing in Ukraine,” she said in an interview. “It’s the same thing… READ MORE: At least 22 killed in
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Celebrated Italian war reporter Francesca Mannocchi has condemned the double standard over Israel’s war mongering. “What Israel is doing in southern Lebanon is, quite simply, no different from what Russian troops have been doing in Ukraine,” she said in an interview. “It’s the same thing… READ MORE: At least 22 killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon in 24 hour – ceasefire death toll tops 3000 “Since 2022, have we ever read a headline saying, ‘Putin is building a security buffer zone in Mariupol’? No. “We’ve always called it what it is: a military occupation. “Yet when Israeli troops do the exact same thing in southern Lebanon, we call it a ‘security buffer zone’. That framing clearly shaped perception, Mannochi said. ‘Same dynamics, same methods’ “We are talking about the same dynamics, the same methods, the same displacement of civilians, the same destruction. And yet, on one side it is widely seen as a war crime; on the other, as a legitimate security operation.” Mannochi asked why the difference? “Because in recent years there has been a gradual erosion in how international law is perceived and applied. And it has its convenient enemies. “Putin is an easy one: no one would seriously argue that the Russian Federation is a democracy. Israel, on the other hand, continues to be described, and accepted, as a ‘democracy’, even when that label is increasingly contested. “Why? Because this implicates us. While we no longer feel allied, morally or politically, with Russia, many in the West still see themselves as morally and militarily aligned with Israel.” Italian war reporter Francesca Mannocchi: “What Israel is doing in southern Lebanon is, quite simply, no different from what Russian troops have been doing in Ukraine. It’s the same thing… Since 2022, have we ever read a headline saying “Putin is building a security buffer… pic.twitter.com/yRM0p7BBDp — Paolo Mossetti (@paolomossetti) May 18, 2026 This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report…

Israel is ‘doing a Ukraine’ in Lebanon but world stays silent, says war reporter
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description: Asia Pacific Report Celebrated Italian war reporter Francesca Mannocchi has condemned the double standard over Israel’s war mongering. “What Israel is doing in southern Lebanon is, quite simply, no different from what Russian troops have been doing in Ukraine,” she said in an interview. “It’s the same thing… READ MORE: At least 22 killed in
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Celebrated Italian war reporter Francesca Mannocchi has condemned the double standard over Israel’s war mongering. “What Israel is doing in southern Lebanon is, quite simply, no different from what Russian troops have been doing in Ukraine,” she said in an interview. “It’s the same thing… READ MORE: At least 22 killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon in 24 hour – ceasefire death toll tops 3000 “Since 2022, have we ever read a headline saying, ‘Putin is building a security buffer zone in Mariupol’? No. “We’ve always called it what it is: a military occupation. “Yet when Israeli troops do the exact same thing in southern Lebanon, we call it a ‘security buffer zone’. That framing clearly shaped perception, Mannochi said. ‘Same dynamics, same methods’ “We are talking about the same dynamics, the same methods, the same displacement of civilians, the same destruction. And yet, on one side it is widely seen as a war crime; on the other, as a legitimate security operation.” Mannochi asked why the difference? “Because in recent years there has been a gradual erosion in how international law is perceived and applied. And it has its convenient enemies. “Putin is an easy one: no one would seriously argue that the Russian Federation is a democracy. Israel, on the other hand, continues to be described, and accepted, as a ‘democracy’, even when that label is increasingly contested. “Why? Because this implicates us. While we no longer feel allied, morally or politically, with Russia, many in the West still see themselves as morally and militarily aligned with Israel.” Italian war reporter Francesca Mannocchi: “What Israel is doing in southern Lebanon is, quite simply, no different from what Russian troops have been doing in Ukraine. It’s the same thing… Since 2022, have we ever read a headline saying “Putin is building a security buffer… pic.twitter.com/yRM0p7BBDp — Paolo Mossetti (@paolomossetti) May 18, 2026 This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report…

Israel is ‘doing a Ukraine’ in Lebanon but world stays silent, says war reporter
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description: Asia Pacific Report Celebrated Italian war reporter Francesca Mannocchi has condemned the double standard over Israel’s war mongering. “What Israel is doing in southern Lebanon is, quite simply, no different from what Russian troops have been doing in Ukraine,” she said in an interview. “It’s the same thing… READ MORE: At least 22 killed in
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Celebrated Italian war reporter Francesca Mannocchi has condemned the double standard over Israel’s war mongering. “What Israel is doing in southern Lebanon is, quite simply, no different from what Russian troops have been doing in Ukraine,” she said in an interview. “It’s the same thing… READ MORE: At least 22 killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon in 24 hour – ceasefire death toll tops 3000 “Since 2022, have we ever read a headline saying, ‘Putin is building a security buffer zone in Mariupol’? No. “We’ve always called it what it is: a military occupation. “Yet when Israeli troops do the exact same thing in southern Lebanon, we call it a ‘security buffer zone’. That framing clearly shaped perception, Mannochi said. ‘Same dynamics, same methods’ “We are talking about the same dynamics, the same methods, the same displacement of civilians, the same destruction. And yet, on one side it is widely seen as a war crime; on the other, as a legitimate security operation.” Mannochi asked why the difference? “Because in recent years there has been a gradual erosion in how international law is perceived and applied. And it has its convenient enemies. “Putin is an easy one: no one would seriously argue that the Russian Federation is a democracy. Israel, on the other hand, continues to be described, and accepted, as a ‘democracy’, even when that label is increasingly contested. “Why? Because this implicates us. While we no longer feel allied, morally or politically, with Russia, many in the West still see themselves as morally and militarily aligned with Israel.” Italian war reporter Francesca Mannocchi: “What Israel is doing in southern Lebanon is, quite simply, no different from what Russian troops have been doing in Ukraine. It’s the same thing… Since 2022, have we ever read a headline saying “Putin is building a security buffer… pic.twitter.com/yRM0p7BBDp — Paolo Mossetti (@paolomossetti) May 18, 2026 This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report…

DN! Monday, May 25, 2026
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Democracy Now! 2026-05-20 Wednesday
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description: Headlines for May 20, 2026; “Dictatorship in Action”: David Cay Johnston on $1.8B Slush Fund & Shielding Trumps “Forever” from IRS; Report from Havana: Cubans Starving & Dying Because of Intensified U.S. Blockade; Is an Invasion of Cuba Next? Peter Kornbluh on U.S. Move to Indict Raúl Castro & CIA’s Widening Role; Amnesty: Executions Spike in Iran as Gov’t Intensifies Domestic Repression Amid U.S./Israeli Attacks
encoded: Democracy Now! 2026-05-20 Wednesday Headlines for May 20, 2026 "Dictatorship in Action": David Cay Johnston on $1.8B Slush Fund & Shielding Trumps "Forever" from IRS Report from Havana: Cubans Starving & Dying Because of Intensified U.S. Blockade Is an Invasion of Cuba Next? Peter Kornbluh on U.S. Move to Indict Raúl Castro & CIA's Widening Role Amnesty: Executions Spike in Iran as Gov't Intensifies Domestic Repression Amid U.S./Israeli Attacks Download this show This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for May 20, 2026
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description: Iran Threatens War Will Spread Beyond Middle East If Trump Resumes Attacks, Lebanon’s Health Ministry Says at Least 22 People Killed in Israeli Attacks Despite Ceasefire, Israeli Forces Intercept Last Remaining Boats with Gaza Sumud Flotilla, Abducting Over 400 Activists, Israel’s Far-Right Finance Minister Smotrich Says ICC Seeks Arrest Warrant Against Him, Victims of Islamic Center Shooting in San Diego Identified, DOJ “Forever” Bars IRS From Probing Trump, His Sons and Their Family Business, Democratic Senators Grill Transportation Secretary Duffy About Reality TV Road Trip Project, WHO: 600 Cases of Ebola and 139 Suspected Deaths in Congo and Uganda, Nigeria’s Military Confirms Joint Strikes with U.S. Against Islamic State, Killing 175 People, Trump Admin Plans to Resettle 10,000 Additional White South Africans in the U.S., Federal Jury Rejects Elon Musk’s $150B Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman, GOP Congressmember Massie Loses Primary to Trump-Backed Challenger Gallrein, Biotech CEO Rami Elghandour Speaks at “The People’s Convocation for Palestine” at Rutgers University
encoded: Iran Threatens War Will Spread Beyond Middle East If Trump Resumes Attacks Lebanon's Health Ministry Says at Least 22 People Killed in Israeli Attacks Despite Ceasefire Israeli Forces Intercept Last Remaining Boats with Gaza Sumud Flotilla, Abducting Over 400 Activists Israel's Far-Right Finance Minister Smotrich Says ICC Seeks Arrest Warrant Against Him Victims of Islamic Center Shooting in San Diego Identified DOJ "Forever" Bars IRS From Probing Trump, His Sons and Their Family Business Democratic Senators Grill Transportation Secretary Duffy About Reality TV Road Trip Project WHO: 600 Cases of Ebola and 139 Suspected Deaths in Congo and Uganda Nigeria's Military Confirms Joint Strikes with U.S. Against Islamic State, Killing 175 People Trump Admin Plans to Resettle 10,000 Additional White South Africans in the U.S. Federal Jury Rejects Elon Musk's $150B Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman GOP Congressmember Massie Loses Primary to Trump-Backed Challenger Gallrein Biotech CEO Rami Elghandour Speaks at "The People's Convocation for Palestine" at Rutgers University This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Tell Us About Your Experience With Kentucky’s Addiction Recovery Care
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encoded: Dongyan Xu for ProPublica As reporters at the Lexington Herald-Leader, we first started hearing troubling stories in 2023 from former clients and staff of Addiction Recovery Care, once Kentucky’s largest residential addiction treatment service provider. Over the last three years, we have spoken with dozens of former and current ARC clients and staff. And in April, we teamed up with ProPublica to publish a story detailing how ARC allegedly used staff to falsely bill Kentucky Medicaid for millions, an allegation the company denies. For our next story, we want to take a closer look at how ARC treated the people who came to the organization seeking help with their sobriety. We are particularly interested in hearing from clients, as well as staff who worked closely with clients to deliver care. If you were or are an ARC client or employee, tell us about your experience with the treatment provider. Your perspective will help guide our reporting, ensuring we understand the issues from all sides. You can fill out our brief form or email Lexington Herald-Leader reporter Alex Acquisto aacquisto@herald-leader.com. We take your privacy seriously and will contact you if we wish to publish any part of your story. We’re gathering these stories for our reporting, which can take several weeks or months. We may not be able to follow up with everyone, but we will read everything you submit and it will help guide our project. The post Tell Us About Your Experience With Kentucky’s Addiction Recovery Care appeared first on ProPublica. This content originally appeared on ProPublica and was authored by Peter.DiCampo@propublica.org.

Ken Paxton Wanted to Crack Down on Forum Shopping. Now Lawyers Say He’s Improperly Seeking Out Favorable Courts.
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description: The post Ken Paxton Wanted to Crack Down on Forum Shopping. Now Lawyers Say He’s Improperly Seeking Out Favorable Courts. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Dominic Bodden for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune In October, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued pharmaceutical companies tied to Tylenol in state court, repeating claims made a month earlier by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the pain relief drug was linked to autism and ADHD in children. Paxton, a close ally of the Trump administration who had already announced a U.S. Senate bid, accused drugmakers of marketing Tylenol to pregnant mothers without disclosing its dangers. “The reckoning has arrived,” the state’s attorneys wrote in the lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies Johnson & Johnson, Kenvue Brands and Kenvue Inc. “By holding Big Pharma accountable for poisoning our people, we will help Make America Healthy Again,” Paxton proclaimed in a news release that echoed Kennedy’s slogan. Paxton hired the Chicago law firm Keller Postman to argue the case in state court. The firm had served as lead counsel in a similar case about Tylenol’s safety that was dismissed a year earlier by a New York federal judge who found the plaintiffs’ expert witnesses unreliable. But the court the attorneys chose to bring the suit in wasn’t in Austin or any of the state’s large counties that have extensive experience and multiple judges handling large, complex litigation. It was in Panola County, a community of 23,000 residents on the Louisiana border that Trump carried by 67 points two years ago and whose sole state district court judge is a Republican. At a hearing that month in the three-story brick courthouse in the county seat of Carthage, Kim Bueno, the lawyer representing the drugmakers, accused Paxton’s office of pushing a baseless lawsuit through forum shopping — seeking out judges and juries that plaintiffs believe will be most favorable to them, rather than filing suit in the courts that most commonly handle similar cases. “These claims have been rejected over and over and over again in courts of law by the same plaintiff’s counsel,” said…

DN! Wednesday, May 20, 2026
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This Gun Shop Stayed Open Despite Repeated Violations. Then a Cop Was Killed With One of Its Guns.
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description: The post This Gun Shop Stayed Open Despite Repeated Violations. Then a Cop Was Killed With One of Its Guns. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Range USA’s gun store and shooting range in Merrillville, Indiana, where a gun used to kill a Chicago police officer allegedly was purchased Jim Vondruska for ProPublica Launched as a new kind of gun retailer in 2012, the Range USA chain was built to look and feel different from the smaller, unwelcoming shops and gun ranges often associated with the industry. Its founder and president, Tom Willingham, wanted to make the experience of buying and shooting firearms more mainstream. So he modeled his company on big box chains, striving for bright, comfortable outlets that would be inviting to women, novices and others put off by some older gun stores. Today, Range USA has bloomed into a formidable brand, with 50 stores in 14 states, a footprint that spans from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Coast. But despite efforts to set itself apart, the company is beset with the same vexing problems faced by more traditional retailers. Federal regulators have repeatedly cited its employees for failing at basic protocols designed to help thwart illegal sales, and guns purchased at its stores keep getting recovered by police. Take the recent killing of Chicago police officer John Bartholomew, who was fatally shot on April 25. The suspect who used a 10-millimeter Glock 29 to shoot Bartholomew was not the original owner of the gun. It was first purchased in 2024, according to investigators, in an illegal transaction at a Range USA store in the northwest Indiana town of Merrillville, a short drive from Chicago. Records obtained by ProPublica show that, in the years before the gun in the fatal shooting was purchased, the store was cited for serious compliance failures on multiple occasions by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the federal agency tasked with oversight of the nation’s gun retailers. The Merrillville store faced revocation of its license following a 2022 inspection that determined a background check was missing for one sale, according to ATF ins…

The Iran war is destroying oil demand. Could it also spark a shift to clean energy?
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description: As the oil crisis deepens across the globe, households and industries are using less fossil fuel — maybe permanently.
encoded: With the average price of gasoline in the United States above $4.50 a gallon — about a 40 percent rise since the Iran war began in late February — Americans have been climbing into their cars less often, and stepping into trains and buses instead. It’s been declared the largest oil supply disruption in history, with U.S. drivers paying $45 billion more for gasoline and diesel compared to last year. Some 44 percent of U.S. adults say they’ve cut back on driving because of high gas prices, according to a survey in late April from ABC News, the Washington Post, and Ipsos. Cities across the country have seen rising numbers of people riding public transit, from Cincinnati to Los Angeles. Sales of used electric vehicles and hybrid cars have grown substantially over the past couple of months. People are replacing car trips with bikes and scooters; railroads like Amtrak have reported more riders than usual. Much of America is built around highways and suburbs, however, making alternative transportation difficult. So, many people are cutting down on driving without ditching their vehicles, by carpooling, consolidating errands, or working remotely more often. It could be the start of a green, global shift, according to some experts — even if most Americans eventually end up hopping back in their cars. That’s because the crisis is hitting the hardest in Asia, which was projected to account for nearly all the increase in oil and gas use over the coming decades, but is now rethinking its reliance on fossil fuels. “If Asia turns around and says, ‘No, we’re not going to grow with fossil fuels, we are going to grow with electrotech,’ that means fossil fuels will peak, and will peak sooner than we think,” said Daan Walter, who leads strategy research on the future of energy for the think tank Ember. “It’s very likely that if this crisis continues to be as bad as it is, and we see this conversion happening, that we’re currently living in the peak year of oil, and that demand will jus…

Solve ‘genocide embassy’ issue – expel Israeli ambassador, says PSNA
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description: Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has called on the New Zealand government to resolve a tenancy controversy over the Israeli embassy — by expelling the ambassador and staff. Noting the world pariah status of the country after the International Criminal Court (ICC) has reportedly sought arrest warrants for war crimes against
encoded: Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has called on the New Zealand government to resolve a tenancy controversy over the Israeli embassy — by expelling the ambassador and staff. Noting the world pariah status of the country after the International Criminal Court (ICC) has reportedly sought arrest warrants for war crimes against up to five more Israeli officials, the PSNA said today the shift of the Israeli embassy into the Fisher Funds building in Wellington had concerned other tenants in the office high rise. Citing The Post front-page article on Monday, it said only some occupants of the 13-storey site had been told that Israel was moving in. READ MORE: Israeli far-right minister Smotrich says ICC seeks his arrest Israeli Embassy on the move ‒ but not all new neighbours happy, despite heightened security promise Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global activists’ freedom from Israel Other Gaza genocide reports PSNA spokesperson Rinad Tamimi said in a statement “the building’s owner was obviously trying to keep the arrival of the embassy a secret” to avoid objections. “It’s pretty obvious why. The Fisher Funds building is owned by Prime Property Group, which is controlled by rich-lister and former Israeli Defence Force major, Eyal Aharoni,” she said. “He’s looking after his own.” According to Al Jazeera and news agencies, Israeli far-right Finance Minister ⁠Bezalel Smotrich said he had been informed that the ICC ⁠in ⁠The Hague ⁠had ⁠requested a warrant for his arrest. Smotrich did not specify who had informed him about the warrant and said it was a “declaration of war”. The process of seeking warrants ⁠is confidential. Displacement orders The ICC accusations reportedly centre on Smotrich’s forced displacement orders for Palestinians, his support for moving Israeli settlers into occupied territory, and his claim it may be “justified and moral” to starve Palestinians in Gaza. Another report, by the independent …

Trump’s EPA vows to fight ‘forever chemicals’ by loosening regulations
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description: “It seems like they have largely adopted the positions of the chemical industry.”
encoded: The Trump administration has announced what it is calling “a major step forward” in the fight against a class of toxic chemicals called PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Extended exposure to PFAS, often referred to as “forever chemicals” because they can persist indefinitely in the environment, has been linked to various cancers, autoimmune diseases, and other harms. On Monday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lauded Trump as the first president who is “completely committed” to removing forever chemicals, which are found at unsafe levels in tap water in some 80 percent of congressional districts and lurk in the blood of 97 percent of Americans. But what Kennedy considers a step forward looks like a big step back to most of those who have long kept an eye on the issue. That’s because the Trump administration is unraveling key parts of the PFAS limits approved by the Biden administration in 2024, which are the first and only regulations to put limits on PFAS in drinking water in the nation’s history. Restrictions on four substances in the PFAS class would be rescinded entirely, while water utilities would be given two additional years to comply with limits for two other substances. The Environmental Protection Agency first signaled its intention to make these changes last year, just a few months after Trump took office. The changes will be finalized after a 60-day public comment period expires. Secretary Kennedy, who is known for his pledge to “Make America Healthy Again,” turned attention instead to the EPA’s recent announcement of $1 billion in grant funding for small and disadvantaged communities to detect and eliminate PFAS. “We have a president who has made a greater financial commitment than any president in U.S. history,” Secretary Kennedy said. But the commitment was not exactly Trump’s to make: The $1 billion comes from an appropriation made by Congress in 2021, when Joe Biden was president. PFAS has been used in a wide…

Once a climate leader, Canada is now doubling down on oil
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description: Mark Carney is counting on Alberta’s oil sands to help him survive Trump’s trade agenda.
encoded: Before he became prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney was perhaps one of the world’s biggest supporters of the idea that climate action was good business. He led the clean energy investment fund for Brookfield, one of the world’s largest financial firms, and founded a global alliance of bankers and politicians who wanted to channel their resources toward green energy. When he took over from outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, many expected that he would follow the previous Liberal leader’s ambitious climate agenda, which included taxing fossil fuels and subsidizing clean technology. But just like in Carney’s beloved sport of hockey, momentum in the climate world can change fast. In the year since he took over, Carney has unveiled a suite of new policies to gut Canada’s ambitious climate regulations and support the country’s powerful fossil fuel industry. This reversal reached a climax last week when he struck a deal with the province of Alberta to prop up its tar sands oil industry and vowed to expand the country’s power grid through the use of natural gas. Carney is pitching the reversal as a political and economic necessity. Canada is facing the prospect of a severe economic downturn as a result of President Trump’s disruptive trade agenda, and a group of conservatives in Alberta are waging a campaign to secede from Canada altogether. He has claimed that the country can achieve economic security by investing in oil and gas production while still making progress toward reducing its own carbon emissions. “It will be an opportunity to accelerate the energy transition across Canada, and it’s also an opportunity for Canada to be a reliable supplier for partners across the globe, and to do so in a manner that makes Canada more prosperous and independent,” said Carney in announcing the strategy. The reversal reveals a stark truth about the direction of global climate action: Despite the rapid deployment of clean energy, even countries and politicians once seen as cl…

Hyderabad: ‘Cow vigilantes’ raid truck, find plywood instead of cattle, vandalize it anyway
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description: On May 16, around midnight, a group of self-proclaimed cow vigilantes in Gudimalkapur in suburban Hyderabad raided a truck on suspicion that it was illegally transporting cattle. However, when the... The post Hyderabad: ‘Cow vigilantes’ raid truck, find plywood instead of cattle, vandalize it anyway appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: On May 16, around midnight, a group of self-proclaimed cow vigilantes in Gudimalkapur in suburban Hyderabad raided a truck on suspicion that it was illegally transporting cattle. However, when the vehicle was stopped, it was found to be carrying plywood. Despite this, the mob allegedly vandalised the truck and pelted stones at it, injuring at least three people, including the driver, Rasul Sheikh, his brother and a police officer. On May 18, Gudimalkapur police registered an attempt to murder case against the alleged cow vigilantes. Separately, based on Rasul’s complaint filed on May 17, another first information report (FIR) was registered at the Tappachabutra police station. FIR Against 10 Unidentified Individuals Alt News accessed a copy of the FIR filed at the Tappachabutra police station. According to the complaint, 58-year-old Rasul Sheikh, a resident of Maharashtra’s Beed district, was transporting plywood from Chennai to Hyderabad for one Jameel Qureshi. Rasul was driving a Maharashtra-registered truck and was accompanied by his brother, Afsar Sheikh, who worked as the cleaner of the vehicle. The two had left Chennai on May 15 and reached Noman Trading Company in Hyderabad around 11:45 pm on May 16. However, because of an obstruction near the store that prevented parking, Rasul parked the truck by the roadside near the Royal Sea Hotel. The FIR states that shortly thereafter, 10-12 individuals forcefully stopped the vehicle and demanded to know what the truck was carrying. As a crowd gathered, an altercation broke out. Around 12:05 am, police arrived at the spot and dispersed the crowd. AIMIM MLA Majid Hussain also reached the scene and sat inside the truck with Rasul. He later staged a protest outside the office of the deputy commissioner of police (DCP), Golconda zone, along with a group of supporters. Speaking to the media, Hussain criticised the police response and said they should have pacified the crowd instead of appearing nervous, which, according to …

Iran Turns Mass Weddings Into a Patriotic Show | US Iran Update
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Musician Ninajirachi on figuring out who you are
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description: You taught yourself music production. What were some challenges with that? What kept motivating you to learn?
encoded: You taught yourself music production. What were some challenges with that? What kept motivating you to learn? I learned everything from YouTube. The hardest thing was not even knowing what I don’t know, so not really knowing what to look up. Once I had watched a really long bunch of tutorials about the general interface of a digital audio workstation (DAW) and what, conceptually, everything is, it was easier. The challenge was having a problem you want to solve, but not even being able to put words to the problem to type into YouTube to find a tutorial about it. Once I had a tutorial in front of me, it was like, “Okay, great, this is just step one, step two.” But sometimes, when I was younger, I would hear something in music and be like, “I want to learn how to do that,” but I didn’t even know what it was called to Google it. I can imagine the problem of not being able to Google it being so difficult. How did you solve it? When I was younger, I didn’t know anyone who made music. I didn’t know anyone in the music industry or anyone closely related to music production. I was so far removed. I didn’t have the understanding or vocabulary to look up how to use a compressor because I didn’t even know that was a thing. I would see it in the list of plugins and be like, “What is the purpose of that?” That was a big block. Once I knew that, “Oh, you use a compressor to do X, Y, and Z, and it’s an important thing to know to achieve A, B, C,” then it’s easy to look up how to use a compressor. I don’t know how I overcame it. It was just so much time. It probably took me five years of just fumbling around, clicking stuff, and turning things to even become a decent, competent producer. It was just trial and error, honestly. I didn’t have any producer friends to learn things from until I was already releasing music. Before that, I was just clicking things and turning dials until they sounded like a certain thing. I used to use FL Studio, and I would go through, say, Harmor presets…

Hey JD Vance, Ukraine is Winning (And Putin is Petrified)
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
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description: Ukraine is winning, and a botox-bloated Putin looks like a dead-man walking. While the spineless MAGA right still tries to block aid, Ukrainian innovation has turned Russia's imperialist delusion into an embarrassing nightmare, as predicted on Gaslit Nation at the start of the full-scale invasion. Award-winning war reporter James Verini, author of The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War, joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the desperation rattling Moscow. Putin wanted a grand Cold War rematch, but instead, he's trapped in a catastrophic, modern-day Afghanistan with a staggering one million Russian casualties. The reality the MAGA death cult and isolationists ignore? Ukraine is the true vanguard of global democracy. They are out-innovating Goliath with world-leading drone technology and defending the open society while MAGA lackeys play craven partisan games. Putin's radical, Dugin-fueled imperial ego has officially broken Russia, much like Trump's is breaking the U.S. To beat Big Tech censorship, subscribe to Gaslit Nation's Patreon at the Truth-Teller level or higher today. Thank you to everyone who supports the show and joins our lively Monday salons–recordngs are available, only on Patreon. EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION: Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community New! There's now a California Signal Group for Gaslit Nation listeners to find each other and connect in that state. Join on Patreon. The Gaslit Nation Outreach Committee discusses how to talk to the MAGA cult. Join on Patreon. Minnesota Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other. Join on Patreon. Vermont Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other. Join on Patreon. Arizona-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to connect. Join on Patreon. Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to …
encoded: Ukraine is winning, and a botox-bloated Putin looks like a dead-man walking. While the spineless MAGA right still tries to block aid, Ukrainian innovation has turned Russia's imperialist delusion into an embarrassing nightmare, as predicted on Gaslit Nation at the start of the full-scale invasion. Award-winning war reporter James Verini, author of The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War, joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the desperation rattling Moscow. Putin wanted a grand Cold War rematch, but instead, he's trapped in a catastrophic, modern-day Afghanistan with a staggering one million Russian casualties. The reality the MAGA death cult and isolationists ignore? Ukraine is the true vanguard of global democracy. They are out-innovating Goliath with world-leading drone technology and defending the open society while MAGA lackeys play craven partisan games. Putin's radical, Dugin-fueled imperial ego has officially broken Russia, much like Trump's is breaking the U.S. To beat Big Tech censorship, subscribe to Gaslit Nation's Patreon at the Truth-Teller level or higher today. Thank you to everyone who supports the show and joins our lively Monday salons–recordngs are available, only on Patreon. EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION: Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community New! There's now a California Signal Group for Gaslit Nation listeners to find each other and connect in that state. Join on Patreon. The Gaslit Nation Outreach Committee discusses how to talk to the MAGA cult. Join on Patreon. Minnesota Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other. Join on Patreon. Vermont Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other. Join on Patreon. Arizona-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to connect. Join on Patreon. Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to …

Mexican journalist, IPFA recipient Maria Teresa Montaño targeted in possible malware, surveillance attacks
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
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description: Mexico City, May 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Mexican authorities to immediately and credibly investigate possible malware and digital surveillance attacks against Mexican journalist Maria Teresa Montaño Delgado and The ObserverMX, and take appropriate steps to guarantee her safety. Montaño, a 2023 recipient of CPJ’s International Press Freedom Award (IPFA), told CPJ on May...
encoded: Mexico City, May 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Mexican authorities to immediately and credibly investigate possible malware and digital surveillance attacks against Mexican journalist Maria Teresa Montaño Delgado and The ObserverMX, and take appropriate steps to guarantee her safety. Montaño, a 2023 recipient of CPJ’s International Press Freedom Award (IPFA), told CPJ on May 18 she believes her laptops and smartphones may have been compromised by malicious software after she discovered on April 29 that an unknown device was connected to her email account, as well as a number of files she did not recognize on one of her laptops. “Aggressive surveillance and malware attacks against Maria Teresa Montaño, known for investigating sensitive topics, is especially heinous given Mexico’s status as the deadliest country for journalists in the western hemisphere and its abysmal record on illegal surveillance of journalists,” said Jan-Albert Hootsen, CPJ’s Mexico Representative. “Mexican authorities must prove they take digital attacks seriously.” Montaño is the founder and editor of The ObserverMX, which investigates graft, corruption, human rights abuses, and fact-checks public officials in Estado de México, a state neighboring Mexico City. Montaño has been repeatedly targeted by threats and harassment by public officials in the past. In 2021, she was briefly kidnapped by unknown assailants who threatened her and seized her equipment. Montaño has since enrolled in a protection program overseen by the Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Journalists and Human Rights Defenders. An official for the Mechanism, who asked not to be named as he is not authorized to comment publicly, confirmed to CPJ that Montaño is still enrolled in the program and that his agency would contact her to analyze the recent incidents. Montaño told CPJ that she does not know whether the digital attacks are directly linked to any of The ObserverMX’s current investigative work. …

Family pleas for kidnapped 3 Kiwis as Gaza flotilla demands global activists’ freedom from Israel
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creator: APR editor
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subject: Palestine
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description: Asia Pacific Report Three New Zealanders are being illegally held hostage by the Israeli military after security forces boarded more than 50 boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid bound for the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza. They have been named by the flotilla Aotearoa delegation as Mousa Taher, Hāhona Ormsby, and Julien
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Three New Zealanders are being illegally held hostage by the Israeli military after security forces boarded more than 50 boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid bound for the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza. They have been named by the flotilla Aotearoa delegation as Mousa Taher, Hāhona Ormsby, and Julien Blondel. All three were among the almost 500 humanitarian aid activists from 40 countries detained by the Israeli forces when they illegally intercepted the flotilla in international waters near Cyprus over the past two days. READ MORE: Foreign ministers of 10 countries say Israel’s storming of the aid flotilla is blatant violation of international law Greenpeace calls on global govts to ensure safety of Gaza flotilla stormed by Israeli military ‘They threatened to kill us at gunpoint,’ says NZ Gaza flotilla activist After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing Other Gaza flotilla reports Mousa Taher was aboard the Kasri Sadabat, one of the final 10 boats to be intercepted. A father of seven, Mousa left his children a message before being illegally abducted, writing on a sign for the livestream camera, “I love you”, and “Salaam Baby!” His 11-year-old son has written a plea to the New Zealand government to intervene: “To Mr Government: I want to ask you to please help my Dad, Mousa Taher, so his boat doesn’t get intercepted by Israelis. I miss him very much and I hope to see him untouched, not hurt, and in good conditions. The people in Gaza deserve support, especially all the kids like me. Help my Baba to help Palestinians please.” — From: Shay Yusuf. Age 11 Taher, who was previously illegally intercepted by the IOF on April 29 alongside Julien Blondel, returned to the flotilla for a second time. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-128095" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Mousas-childs-letter.jpeg" alt="Eleven-year-old Shay Yusuf's appe…

New bid to tackle Papua New Guinea’s chronic lack of women MPs
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date: 2026-05-19T23:00:11Z
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description: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A new law in Papua New Guinea, requiring a political parties to meet a quota for fielding women candidates, is being described as a step in the right direction, but maybe not far enough. The new elections rule that women must make up 10 percent of parties’ endorsed
encoded: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A new law in Papua New Guinea, requiring a political parties to meet a quota for fielding women candidates, is being described as a step in the right direction, but maybe not far enough. The new elections rule that women must make up 10 percent of parties’ endorsed candidates was recently announced by Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates Commission (IPPCC). The law is an affirmative action aimed at trying to address the chronic lack of women as elected representatives in the country. READ MORE: Other women in PNG politics reports There are currently three women MPs in PNG’s 111-seat Parliament. Since the country gained independence 50 years ago, only 10 women have been elected MPs. Persistent cultural norms continue to disadvantage women, but attitudes are slowly changing. Yet to be tested A PNG academic specialising in gender equity in governance, Dr Orovu Sepoe, who is also a former chair of the commission, said Parliament passed the law but it has yet to be tested. “We’ll wait and see how it turns out in the 2027 election. As an affirmative direction, it’s good, but could have been thought out carefully,” she said. “There are other issues. How many political parties will actually actively seek out women candidates? They’re not very good at doing that for women candidates in the PNG context.” Dr Sepoe said that the law’s compliance measures could mean it has limited impact. The penalties for parties who fail the quota in consecutive elections are de-registration and a fine of 5000 kina (about NZ$1900), which she admitted was “peanuts” for the main political parties. “There is a catch here that I thought might present challenges because the penalties will only apply after two consecutive elections, rather than just one, rather than straight away,” she said, noting that a general election takes place only every five years. Dr Orovu Sepoe . . . admits the 5000 kina fine is “peanuts” for the main political parti…

North Korea’s Football Team Returns to South Korea After 8 Years
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Xi-Trump talks cast fresh spotlight on Taiwan as part of China’s maritime strategy
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creator: Taejun Kang for RFA
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description: Analysts say Beijing views both Taiwan and the South China Sea as integral to strategic rivalry with U.S.
encoded: Chinese President Xi Jinping used his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump last week to reiterate that Taiwan remains the most sensitive issue in U.S.-China relations, and analysts told Radio Free Asia that the Taiwan issue will be front and center according to Beijing’s latest Five-Year plan. During talks in Beijing, Xi warned Trump that mishandling the Taiwan issue could lead to “clashes and even conflicts” and urged Washington to “exercise extra caution” over arms sales to Taiwan, according to Chinese state media and media reports following the summit. Xi’s statements, combined with concepts outlined in China’s 15th Five-Year Plan, released in March, suggest Beijing increasingly sees Taiwan and the South China Sea as part of a connected strategic theater tied to regional security, maritime control and long-term competition with Washington, the analysts said. Mainland communist China considers democratic Taiwan to be a rogue province and Beijing appears to be entering “a phase of taking more concrete steps to accelerate the push for reunification,” William Yang, a Northeast Asia analyst at the Belgium-based International Crisis Group think tank, told RFA. A restaurant in Taipei on May 14, 2026 shows the meeting between the U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing. (I-Hwa Cheng/AFP) “While the Communist Party still mentioned peaceful development across the Taiwan Strait, they have connected the mission of ‘reunification’ to the goal of achieving national modernization, suggesting that Beijing wants to start making more concrete progress on the issue of unification with Taiwan,” he said, talking about the content of the Five-Year Plan. Maritime strategy The plan reflects a leadership increasingly concerned about “uncertainty and instability” in the global environment while seeking to strengthen Beijing’s position around Taiwan and the South China Sea, according to a new report by the U.S.-based think tank Foreign Policy Research In…

The Unspoken Abyss
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creator: Santiago Montag
date: 2026-05-19T22:11:20Z
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description: What will become of ISIS-tied families in al-Hawl?
encoded: What will become of ISIS-tied families in al-Hawl? This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Santiago Montag.

Lesson from the Iran War #42,765: Making enemies makes us poorer
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How Hackers Breached An FBI Phone & Mexico City’s CCTV
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Minnesota charges ICE agent over shooting
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Photojournalist kettled while covering protest near NYC synagogue
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-05-19T18:59:10Z
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description: Photojournalist Neil Constantine was held in a police kettle while covering a protest in New York, New York, on May 5, 2026.The protest was taking place near a synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that was holding an event to promote real estate sa...
encoded: Photojournalist Neil Constantine was held in a police kettle while covering a protest in New York, New York, on May 5, 2026. The protest was taking place near a synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that was holding an event to promote real estate sales in Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, the latter of which are widely believed to violate international law. The New York City Police Department formed a buffer zone around the synagogue, prohibiting access to the block it was located on and directing pro-Palestinian and a smaller group of pro-Israel protesters, as well as press, onto surrounding avenues, according to news reports and journalists who spoke to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. Constantine, who was freelancing for NurPhoto Agency and whose New York City press credential was clearly visible, told the Tracker that at one point, NYPD officers suddenly barricaded a sidewalk on nearby Third Avenue. The officers pushed metal barricades into protesters to prevent them from accessing an area that had previously been open. Members of the press were standing behind the officers, documenting the police actions. In a video Constantine posted on Instagram, uniformed police and plainclothes public information officers can be seen placing metal barricades around a group of press, separating them from the area where the NYPD was pushing protesters back. In the video, Constantine can be heard saying, “This is kettling,” and “We are being blocked in here right now.” View post on Instagram Constantine told the Tracker that when journalists asked to leave the area, they were either told that they couldn’t, or were given conflicting instructions about where to go by officers who were within a few feet of one another. In addition, the officers wouldn’t answer their questions about why they were keeping them there. He said they were kept in the kettle for around 15 minutes. The NYPD did not respond to a request for comment. This content originally appe…

Livestreamer arrested during May Day protests in downtown LA
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-05-19T18:10:45Z
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description: Livestreamer Gonzalo Gonzalez was arrested and charged with failure to disperse while documenting workers’ rights and immigration protests in Los Angeles, California, on May 1, 2026.Thousands rallied in downtown LA for International Workers’ Day as par...
encoded: Livestreamer Gonzalo Gonzalez was arrested and charged with failure to disperse while documenting workers’ rights and immigration protests in Los Angeles, California, on May 1, 2026. Thousands rallied in downtown LA for International Workers’ Day as part of nationwide “May Day Strong” demonstrations that also called for an end to the war in Iran and the immigration raids that have swept the city since June 2025. Gonzalez, who broadcasts live and publishes videos through his YouTube channel EastLos Audits, told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that he arrived shortly before noon to document a planned rally in front of City Hall. After around 30-45 minutes, LA Police Department officers arrived, establishing a skirmish line. “I went live from that point, and they started pushing the crowd on Spring Street toward the front of City Hall,” he said. “I stayed live for about an hour or so, and I got behind the police line, the scrimmage line, because I already know: If I’m in front of it, I’m going to get shoved and pushed, and I don’t want to do that.” Gonzalez, who doesn’t carry press credentials, told the Tracker that he identified himself as media to the officers, who recognized and treated him as such. Officers ultimately pushed the crowd of protesters back to clear an employee entrance for a nearby courthouse, and the demonstrators then marched out of the area, Gonzalez said. He ended his live reporting and left once the police dispersed their skirmish line. Several hours later, the livestreamer was in his vehicle and ready to end his reporting day when he heard over his police scanner that officers were planning to corral demonstrators near the Metropolitan Detention Center, where immigrant detainees are being held and which has been a focal point for protests over the past year. “When I got there, they already had the crowd pushed out on Alameda,” Gonzalez said, referring to the street in front of the detention center. “So again, I get behind the skirmish line, and t…

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 19, 2026
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How The Cartels Are Winning the Digital Drug War | Proton Data Wars | VICE News
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UN News Today 19 May 2026
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description: DR Congo/Uganda Ebola outbreak: the search for patient zeroMyanmar hunger crisis deepens, EU boosts aid via WFPWorld trade wavers as Middle East crisis remains unresolved
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Linda Sarsour on San Diego mosque shooting, anti-Muslim hate
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CPJ, partners call on Gulf states to end crackdown on information
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 26 other organizations in calling on Gulf states to end their attacks on the free flow of information. The Iran war has sparked a sweeping new crackdown across the Gulf, as governments move to control what their populations can see, say, and share about the attacks unfolding in their...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 26 other organizations in calling on Gulf states to end their attacks on the free flow of information. The Iran war has sparked a sweeping new crackdown across the Gulf, as governments move to control what their populations can see, say, and share about the attacks unfolding in their own cities. The crackdown has directly targeted journalists and media workers. In Kuwait, US-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin was detained for 52 days, and later his citizenship — and that of his two sisters — was revoked. In Bahrain, photographer Sayed Baqer Al-Kamel was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Cases of brief detention have also been reported in the UAE and Qatar. The UAE’s public prosecutor has also blocked access to several X accounts, including that of Saudi state-owned broadcaster Al Arabiya. The joint statement calls on Gulf governments to release all individuals detained solely for filming, posting, or sharing footage of the attacks — including journalists —, uphold the right to freedom of expression and press freedom, and repeal all laws that criminalize legitimate expression. Read the full statement here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

Workers have a secret weapon against the AI build-out
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G7 Finance Ministers Let Big Oil Off the Hook Again
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description: On Monday and Tuesday, Paris hosted the G7 Finance Ministers’ meeting, bringing together finance ministers and central bank governors from some of the world’s most powerful economies, alongside counterparts from Brazil, India, Kenya, South Korea, Ukra...
encoded: On Monday and Tuesday, Paris hosted the G7 Finance Ministers’ meeting, bringing together finance ministers and central bank governors from some of the world’s most powerful economies, alongside counterparts from Brazil, India, Kenya, South Korea, Ukraine, Syria, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. But behind the diplomatic pageantry,and despite the G7’s call for innovative financial instruments to urgently address overlapping crises,French host Roland Lescure squandered a major opportunity. While fossil fuel companies raked in billions in profits in the first quarter of 2026 amid the South-West Asia conflict, campaigners at 350.org condemn the French G7 presidency’s glaring inaction on windfall and excess profits taxes targeting the oil and gas industry. Fanny Petitbon, 350 France Country Manager, said: “France has built its G7 presidency on the bold promise to use this forum as a lever to reinforce economic security in times of crisis and to respond to the legitimate concerns of citizens. But fine words ring hollow. When it comes to taxing the obscene profits recently made by oil and gas corporations, Paris chose complete silence. Not a single word appeared in the final communiqué. Once again, the interests of a powerful minority are being protected. Companies like TotalEnergies, which boast of their so-called foresight while doing little more than speculating on war and human suffering, have cashed in billions,while families around the world pay the price at the pump and on their energy bills. The G7’s initiative to expand insurance coverage for people and countries experiencing extreme weather events is welcome. But without turning off the fossil fuel tap and forcing the biggest polluters to foot the bill, climate finance risks becoming little more than taxpayers cleaning up a mess that oil giants are still being paid to create. President Macron has positioned himself as a global leader on climate and economic justice. Yet this silence tells a very different stor…

CPJ calls on Israel to release press detained on Gaza-bound flotilla
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description: Beirut, May 19, 2026 —The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Israeli authorities to immediately release all journalists and media workers detained after Israeli forces intercepted vessels from the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, and to disclose the location and legal status of those being held. According to organizers, on May 18, Israeli forces began intercepting...
encoded: Beirut, May 19, 2026 —The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Israeli authorities to immediately release all journalists and media workers detained after Israeli forces intercepted vessels from the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, and to disclose the location and legal status of those being held. According to organizers, on May 18, Israeli forces began intercepting vessels in international waters near the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, as they attempted to reach Gaza on a humanitarian mission. The flotilla media office told CPJ the following morning that those detained were still being held at sea and had not yet been taken to Israel for deportation, as had occurred in previous attempts to break Israel’s maritime blockade of the Palestinian territory. CPJ has identified at least seven journalists and media workers aboard the flotilla. “Israel’s interception and detention of journalists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla follows years of documented arrests, attacks, and killings of journalists and media workers covering Gaza and attempts to report on it,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “International law is clear that journalists performing legitimate reporting are civilians and must not be arbitrarily detained or obstructed. Israeli authorities must immediately release all detained journalists and end the cycle of impunity surrounding the attacks on the press.” Tempo Media Group, an Indonesian media company, said in a May 19 statement that its reporter Andre Prasetyo Nugroho was among those detained by Israeli forces. . The flotilla departed from Marmaris, Turkey, on May 14 with dozens of vessels and hundreds of participants from multiple countries, according to media reports. CPJ emailed the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for comment, and was referred to the foreign ministry, which did not respond to specific inquiries about the detention of journalists and media workers aboard the flotilla. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journ…

Russia adds CPJ to its list of ‘undesirable organizations’
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description: New York, May 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists has been included on a Russian government list of “undesirable organizations” — a label used to suppress media outlets, NGOs, and other independent voices that the Kremlin deems a threat to its narrative control. CPJ, which was not notified of the decision or the reasons behind...
encoded: New York, May 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists has been included on a Russian government list of “undesirable organizations” — a label used to suppress media outlets, NGOs, and other independent voices that the Kremlin deems a threat to its narrative control. CPJ, which was not notified of the decision or the reasons behind it, calls on Russia to reverse the ban. CPJ was added to the Russian Ministry of Justice’s list on May 12, according to the ministry’s website, having been designated “undesirable” by the Russian prosecutor general’s office on April 28. Hundreds of other organizations globally are already on the list, including other press freedom groups and media outlets. “By including the Committee to Protect Journalists on its list of ‘undesirable organizations’, the Kremlin is once again showing its determination to repress journalism and stop Russian citizens from having access to independent information,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg. “Journalism is not a crime, and neither is defending it. CPJ will continue to document Russia’s flagrant violations of press freedom, at home and abroad, to seek accountability for those responsible, and to support independent journalists pushing back against the relentless tide of Kremlin propaganda.” Under a 2015 law, organizations classified as “undesirable” are banned from operating in Russia. The law is particularly threatening to anyone inside Russia seen as cooperating with these organizations or their activities, who can face up to six years in prison and administrative fines. The designation also makes it a crime to distribute the organization’s content or donate to it from inside or outside Russia. CPJ, which does not have any presence in Russia, contacted the Russian Ministry of Justice for comment but did not immediately receive a reply. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

Minnesota Officials Charge ICE Agent Who Shot Venezuelan Immigrant & Falsely Reported What Happened
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"Ask E. Jean" Film Profiles the Woman Who Twice Sued Trump & Won, for Sexual Assault & Defamation
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3 Killed in Devastating San Diego Mosque Shooting: Linda Sarsour on Rising Anti-Muslim Hate & More
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 19, 2026
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Robert Reich: Has Trump’s Republican Party become a criminal enterprise?
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description: ANALYSIS: By Robert Reich On Saturday, Trump took revenge on Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy for Cassidy’s vote five years ago to convict Trump, in his second impeachment, for instigating an attack on the US Capitol. Cassidy thereby became the first GOP senator defeated by a Trump-endorsed candidate in a Republican primary. (Other Republican senators who
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Robert Reich On Saturday, Trump took revenge on Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy for Cassidy’s vote five years ago to convict Trump, in his second impeachment, for instigating an attack on the US Capitol. Cassidy thereby became the first GOP senator defeated by a Trump-endorsed candidate in a Republican primary. (Other Republican senators who have stood up to Trump — such as North Carolina’s Thom Tillis and Utah’s Mitt Romney — saw the writing on the wall and didn’t seek reelection.) Trump’s purge of Cassidy comes in the wake of Trump’s purges of House Republicans who stood up to him, such as Wyoming’s Liz Cheney. READ MORE: Trump says Iran attack held off upon Gulf states’ request Other Donald Trump reports Trump’s next Republican target in the House is Kentucky representative Thomas Massie, who had the guts to oppose US military involvement in Iran, demand release of the Epstein files, and criticise Trump’s spending bills for adding to the national debt. Massie appears likely to be defeated by a Trump-backed opponent in Tuesday’s Kentucky primary. Trump is marshaling the full force of his MAGA machine — spending more than $30 million on a House Republican primary — to purge another of his political enemies from the Republican House. Even Secretary of “War” Pete Hegseth is flying to Kentucky to campaign for Massie’s challenger. It’s all seen as an investment in intimidating and disciplining Republican office-holders who might otherwise think of straying. Trump has also purged state legislators who have refused to do his bidding, such as the seven Indiana Republicans who refused to redistrict the state as Trump demanded they do, and who Trump insured were defeated in their recent primaries. The message is clear to every current or aspiring Republican politician: Be a toady to Trump, or you’re out. In his concession speech Friday night, Cassidy stated the obvious reference to Trump: “Our country is not about one individual. It is about the welfare of all A…

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description: ANALYSIS: By Robert Reich On Saturday, Trump took revenge on Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy for Cassidy’s vote five years ago to convict Trump, in his second impeachment, for instigating an attack on the US Capitol. Cassidy thereby became the first GOP senator defeated by a Trump-endorsed candidate in a Republican primary. (Other Republican senators who
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Robert Reich On Saturday, Trump took revenge on Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy for Cassidy’s vote five years ago to convict Trump, in his second impeachment, for instigating an attack on the US Capitol. Cassidy thereby became the first GOP senator defeated by a Trump-endorsed candidate in a Republican primary. (Other Republican senators who have stood up to Trump — such as North Carolina’s Thom Tillis and Utah’s Mitt Romney — saw the writing on the wall and didn’t seek reelection.) Trump’s purge of Cassidy comes in the wake of Trump’s purges of House Republicans who stood up to him, such as Wyoming’s Liz Cheney. READ MORE: Trump says Iran attack held off upon Gulf states’ request Other Donald Trump reports Trump’s next Republican target in the House is Kentucky representative Thomas Massie, who had the guts to oppose US military involvement in Iran, demand release of the Epstein files, and criticise Trump’s spending bills for adding to the national debt. Massie appears likely to be defeated by a Trump-backed opponent in Tuesday’s Kentucky primary. Trump is marshaling the full force of his MAGA machine — spending more than $30 million on a House Republican primary — to purge another of his political enemies from the Republican House. Even Secretary of “War” Pete Hegseth is flying to Kentucky to campaign for Massie’s challenger. It’s all seen as an investment in intimidating and disciplining Republican office-holders who might otherwise think of straying. Trump has also purged state legislators who have refused to do his bidding, such as the seven Indiana Republicans who refused to redistrict the state as Trump demanded they do, and who Trump insured were defeated in their recent primaries. The message is clear to every current or aspiring Republican politician: Be a toady to Trump, or you’re out. In his concession speech Friday night, Cassidy stated the obvious reference to Trump: “Our country is not about one individual. It is about the welfare of all A…

Minnesota Officials Charge ICE Agent Who Shot Venezuelan Immigrant & Falsely Reported What Happened
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description: State prosecutors in Minnesota have filed criminal charges against an ICE officer who allegedly shot a Venezuelan immigrant in north Minneapolis in January, then lied about what happened. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced Monday...
encoded: State prosecutors in Minnesota have filed criminal charges against an ICE officer who allegedly shot a Venezuelan immigrant in north Minneapolis in January, then lied about what happened. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced Monday that federal agent Christian Castro will face four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime when he allegedly shot Julio Sosa-Celis through a door. Federal authorities have refused to cooperate with the investigation, as well as separate probes into the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Emilia González Avalos, executive director of the Minnesota-based social justice organization Unidos MN, welcomes the charges as a victory for civil society and the rule of law. “That is what democracy looks like. It looks like separation of powers and getting material consequences [for] wrongdoing,” she says. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Ask E. Jean” Film Profiles the Woman Who Twice Sued Trump & Won, for Sexual Assault & Defamation
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description: President Donald Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to toss two verdicts against him resulting from civil litigation brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. In 2019, the famous advice columnist published a memoir describing an encounter in the ...
encoded: President Donald Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to toss two verdicts against him resulting from civil litigation brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. In 2019, the famous advice columnist published a memoir describing an encounter in the 1990s when she says Trump sexually assaulted her in a department store. When Trump denied the account, Carroll sued him and won $5 million in damages, with a unanimous New York jury finding Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. After Trump made disparaging remarks about Carroll, she sued him again and won a second defamation judgment for $83.3 million. Federal courts have upheld both verdicts, but now Trump’s attorneys are asking the Supreme Court to overturn them, asserting he has “absolute immunity” as president. Carroll’s life and her legal fight against Trump are the focus of a new documentary, Ask E. Jean, by award-winning filmmaker Ivy Meeropol. “This is an incredible opportunity for audiences to see what really goes on when a woman brings a case like this, especially against a powerful man,” Meeropol says. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

3 Killed in Devastating San Diego Mosque Shooting: Linda Sarsour on Rising Anti-Muslim Hate & More
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description: Two teenage gunmen in California fatally shot three people on Monday at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest mosque in the city. Among the dead was a security guard — Amin Abdullah, a father of eight — whom police credit with preventin...
encoded: Two teenage gunmen in California fatally shot three people on Monday at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest mosque in the city. Among the dead was a security guard — Amin Abdullah, a father of eight — whom police credit with preventing more casualties. The 17- and 19-year-old suspects were found dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds in a car near the scene. Police are investigating the attack as a hate crime. The Council on American-Islamic Relations noted the attack comes as anti-Muslim bias complaints reached their highest level since they began tracking them in 1996, with 8,683 complaints filed nationwide. “This is a mosque that has opened its doors to the community,” says Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour, co-founder of the Muslim rights and advocacy group MPower Change. “This is the epitome of a mosque that shows our true values as Muslims, in community and in solidarity. So, it’s just devastating, and no house of worship should have to ever experience this.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for May 19, 2026
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description: Trump Says He Called Off “A Very Major Attack Tomorrow” to Give Iran Negotiations More Time, U.S. Imposes Entry Ban on Travelers from DRC, Uganda and South Sudan as Ebola Deaths Top 130, World Leaders Condemn Israel’s Abduction of Activists from Gaza-Bound Aid Flotilla, Teenage Attackers Kill 3 at San Diego Islamic Center in Suspected Hate Crime, Charges Filed Against ICE Officer Who Shot a Venezuelan Immigrant in Minneapolis, Report: 100,000 Children in U.S. Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Crackdown, DOJ Announces $1.776B Fund to Compensate Trump Allies, EPA Proposes to Kill Drinking Water Limits for Four Forever Chemicals, Long Island Rail Road Strike Ends After MTA and Unions Reach Tentative Agreement, NYC Mayor Mamdani Announces City’s First Municipally Owned Grocery Store in the Bronx
encoded: Trump Says He Called Off "A Very Major Attack Tomorrow" to Give Iran Negotiations More Time U.S. Imposes Entry Ban on Travelers from DRC, Uganda and South Sudan as Ebola Deaths Top 130 World Leaders Condemn Israel's Abduction of Activists from Gaza-Bound Aid Flotilla Teenage Attackers Kill 3 at San Diego Islamic Center in Suspected Hate Crime Charges Filed Against ICE Officer Who Shot a Venezuelan Immigrant in Minneapolis Report: 100,000 Children in U.S. Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Crackdown DOJ Announces $1.776B Fund to Compensate Trump Allies EPA Proposes to Kill Drinking Water Limits for Four Forever Chemicals Long Island Rail Road Strike Ends After MTA and Unions Reach Tentative Agreement NYC Mayor Mamdani Announces City's First Municipally Owned Grocery Store in the Bronx This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-05-19 Tuesday
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This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.
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encoded: Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica At the beginning of his three-year federal prison sentence for felony tax evasion, Roger Shoffstall lost his telephone privileges when a guard caught him running his small Alaska phone company from behind bars. He’s lost a lot of privileges over the years. Shoffstall, 75, can’t serve on a federal jury. Unlike most Alaskans, he doesn’t receive an annual Permanent Fund dividend check. And he is not allowed to own a gun. One thing never changes, however: Each year, the federal government sends his company, Summit Telephone, more than $1 million. The money comes from a special government subsidy program that Congress created to bring fast, affordable phone and internet service to hard-to-reach places. You help pay for it. Pull up your latest phone bill and look for a line labeled “Universal Service Fund.” Some phone companies list it as a “Universal Connectivity Charge” or fold it into a “Regulatory Programs & Telco Recovery Fee.” It’s all the same thing: a surcharge added to the monthly bill of phone customers throughout the United States. The federal government and phone companies don’t call it a tax — but it acts like one. Carriers must currently contribute 37 cents of every dollar of their interstate and international phone revenues to the fund. In Alaska, where many communities can only be reached by plane or boat, the Federal Communications Commission has given telecommunications companies $4.6 billion in these subsidies since 2016. That’s more than $600 per Alaskan per year. More per resident than in any other state. Yet after all that spending, Alaska still ranks near the bottom for access to the very land-based, high-speed internet service the money was meant to deliver. Some communities have yet to be wired at all. In others, fiber-optic cables or microwave towers offer internet with speeds that were recently clocked, statewide, as the slowest in the country. Even with the subsidies, the service comes at a steep price…

We’re Investigating Alaska Internet Companies. We Need Your Help.
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encoded: Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica We’re investigating Alaska internet companies this year, and we need your help. Alaskans pay higher costs for slower internet speeds than most Americans. The government has spent billions of dollars of public money to try to fix the problem, and we want to know how it’s really going in your community. Please fill out this quick survey to share how much it costs you to get online and what you think of the service. Take our quick survey to help in the reporting. If you know someone in Alaska who is not able to access the internet and wants to share their experience, they can contact reporter Kyle Hopkins at 907-854-8540 (phone or WhatsApp). We will add more options for participation soon — stay tuned! We appreciate you sharing your story, and we take your privacy seriously. We will contact you if we wish to publish any part. The post We’re Investigating Alaska Internet Companies. We Need Your Help. appeared first on ProPublica. This content originally appeared on ProPublica and was authored by Shoshana.gordon@propublica.org.

DN! Tuesday, May 19, 2026
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Press crackdowns in Gulf spike following Iran war, risk becoming permanent
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description: Washington, D.C., May 6, 2026 — Since the Iran war started late February, the Committee to Protect Journalists has documented a crackdown on the press across the Gulf, and tracked unpublicized cases of arrests, intimidation, legal and financial actions against journalists and their media outlets. The escalation represents a significant and underreported threat to press...
encoded: Washington, D.C., May 6, 2026 — Since the Iran war started late February, the Committee to Protect Journalists has documented a crackdown on the press across the Gulf, and tracked unpublicized cases of arrests, intimidation, legal and financial actions against journalists and their media outlets. The escalation represents a significant and underreported threat to press freedom in the Gulf countries where media freedoms were already severely curtailed. Many of these incidents have not been disclosed publicly, as journalists and media outlets fear further retaliation from authorities. CPJ warns that this points to a widening crackdown that is reshaping how, and whether, the Iran war is reported. While limitations on reporting are often justifiable during active conflict to protect troop movements or enable effective military operations, the current restrictions go well beyond genuine national security concerns. Rather than focusing on tactical secrecy, these new measures utilize vague language to criminalize reporting that undermines “state narratives” or “public morale.” By targeting journalists not for exposing secrets, but for sharing verified, publicly available information, authorities are bypassing traditional security needs to enforce ideological conformity. “What is publicly known is only the tip of the iceberg,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “Far beyond the cases we can publicly confirm, a growing number of attacks go unreported—silenced by fear of further reprisals. This climate of intimidation is forcing journalists into self-censorship, choking the flow of truth at its source. We cannot allow this to become the norm. Governments must act now to protect press freedom, ensure accountability, and create conditions where journalists can report without fear.” At the heart of this crisis is a chilling historical precedent: the concern that these emergency “war-time” restrictions will not be dismantled when the fighting stops. History shows that laws ena…

With a Chance at Freedom, They Faced an Unexpected Obstacle: Their Own Lawyers
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description: The post With a Chance at Freedom, They Faced an Unexpected Obstacle: Their Own Lawyers appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Milique Wagner spent more than a decade in prison fighting his murder conviction. One obstacle he faced along the way to winning his freedom was opposition from his own lawyer. Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer Milique Wagner always insisted that his 2013 murder conviction was built on an informant’s lie. But Wagner said he couldn’t persuade his trial lawyer to investigate that, even after the informant confessed to the murder and testified that Philadelphia police and prosecutors knew the truth. In 2015, Wagner’s appeal failed, and he faced life in prison. But Wagner had another chance at freedom under a state law that allowed him to get a new court-appointed lawyer to help him challenge his conviction. Court records show that the attorney never spoke with the informant or looked into the detective on the case, who made headlines after being benched for secretly paying a witness. Instead, Wagner’s lawyer urged the judge to shut down his client’s petition, writing in June 2017, “There are no meritorious issues that could be raised.” Wagner would remain in prison another six years before prosecutors acknowledged that police had hidden evidence suggesting that the informant had committed the murder and the detective was corrupt. Although Wagner maintains his innocence, he agreed to a plea deal for third-degree murder that allowed him to leave prison. The opposition Wagner faced from his own lawyer is permitted under Pennsylvania’s Post Conviction Relief Act, the law that allows people in prison to raise newly discovered evidence or argue that their previous lawyer mishandled the case. The state provides a lawyer in these cases, but with a catch: The attorney can argue against the client’s claims and withdraw from the case by filing what’s known as a “no-merit” letter. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" js-autosizes height="703" width="527" src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_2813_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedCol…

Trump gutted USAID. Hunger and violence followed.
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description: Researchers are just beginning to understand the human cost of America's retreat from international aid.
encoded: For decades, the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, worked across many of the world’s most food-insecure and climate-besieged regions, funding thousands of humanitarian, healthcare, food, and disaster relief programs. That all changed last year when, days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, his administration issued a stop-work order that suspended nearly all of USAID’s overseas programs. Then, last July, the administration informally dissolved the agency — leading to the largest withdrawal of American international development aid in more than sixty years. A new study published May 14 in the journal Science suggests the sudden USAID shutdown could have been linked to an uptick in violent conflict across much of Africa, with some of the most politically fragile regions seeing the largest spikes. Outside experts, however, caution that the findings are preliminary and may not capture the bigger picture. Farming and agricultural markets are easily disrupted by conflict, and when conflict occurs food security worsens because it can limit communities’ access to food. At the same time, deepening food insecurity in fragile political states contributes to social unrest. Climate impacts then layer onto this fragility. Extreme weather is second only to conflict in having the greatest effect on global hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition, according to a UN report. That’s in part because it increasingly causes people to migrate as they flee places destroyed by rising seas and cataclysmic storms, which, in turn, can fuel conflict. “It is undeniable that USAID programming around food aid, including emergency food kitchens, therapeutic foods, and health and water programming on which basic food and nutritional security is built, provided a critical lifeline to millions of women, children, and families in severe nutritional deficits,” said Zia Mehrabi, a food security and climate change researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder. “Who in their …

Māori climate risk worsened by colonization, report finds
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description: A sweeping national climate assessment argues that exclusion from decision-making has amplified Indigenous vulnerability to floods, storms, and erosion.
encoded: In Aotearoa New Zealand, record-breaking storms and flooding are impacting Māori land, health, and culture. And, according to a new national climate report, colonization has intensified those risks. The 2026 National Climate Change Risk Assessment is composed of four reports, including a companion document focused on Māori communities. That report argues that climate change is likely to deepen existing inequities shaped by colonization, exclusion from decision-making, and chronic underinvestment. To mitigate the impacts of climate change, the assessment points to Māori-led adaptation as uniquely effective. It calls for policy grounded in Māori customs and knowledge, Indigenous data sovereignty, and stronger Māori authority in climate decision-making. “For more than 150 years Māori have been pushed to the margins, literally, by an aggressive colonization process,” said Paora Tapsell, who is Ngāti Whakaue and Ngāti Raukawa, and the director of the Kāika Institute of Climate Resilience at Lincoln University. The assessment, released earlier this month, adds to a growing body of national reports that highlight the harmful impacts of colonial policies on Indigenous peoples and the environment. In 2023, the United States’ Fifth National Climate Assessment found that land theft and colonization had exacerbated climate change’s impact. The year before, Australia’s State of the Environment report was prepared with an Indigenous lead author for the first time; it found that Indigenous peoples were more likely to be impacted by extreme weather events like fires. It too called for incorporating Indigenous knowledge into climate policies. Despite these findings, Indigenous leaders around the world say national governments are still not listening to them. Aotearoa New Zealand recently experienced one of its most active severe weather seasons on record, with multiple declared states of emergency across the nation’s two islands. It also found that the country’s Indigenous peoples a…

French Senate endorses change to New Caledonia’s ‘frozen’ electoral roll
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description: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The French Senate has endorsed proposed changes to New Caledonia’s restricted electoral roll to allow “native” people to vote in next month’s local elections. The proposed changes relax current vote restrictions enforced under the Nouméa Accord, signed in 1998, a situation often referred to as the
encoded: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The French Senate has endorsed proposed changes to New Caledonia’s restricted electoral roll to allow “native” people to vote in next month’s local elections. The proposed changes relax current vote restrictions enforced under the Nouméa Accord, signed in 1998, a situation often referred to as the “frozen” electoral roll. The relaxing measure concerns an estimated 10,000+ voters, who were born in New Caledonia since 1998 and have since reached the voting age of 18. READ MORE: Other Kanaky New Caledonia reports The measures, initially perceived as a way to protect against any dilution of the indigenous Kanak voters, only concerned about 8 percent of the population. But as time went by, it was now barring 17 percent, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu told French Senators on Monday evening Paris time. He said this growing proportion infringed on France’s principles of universal and equal suffrage. After hours of debates in Paris, the vote on Monday was 304 in favour and 20 against. Obtained a pledge Over the past few weeks, Lecornu held more talks with New Caledonian politicians from all sides of the spectrum, and said he had obtained a pledge that after the 28 June 2026 provincial elections, everyone would come back to the table and resume comprehensive political talks concerning New Caledonia’s future status. He said the talks would start as soon as July 2026 and would have to bring an outcome “before the end of the year”. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--iQXhmIY6--/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto,w_1050/v1779151629/4JODV5H_French_Senate_endorses_changes_in_New_Caledonia_s_electoral_roll_for_provincial_elections_PHOTO_Senat_fr_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD" alt="French Senate endorses changes in New Caledonia’s electoral roll for provincial elections – PHOTO Senat.fr" width="1050" height="552" /> French Senate endorses changes in New Caledonia’s electoral ro…

Author Avigayl Sharp on loving the process even when it hurts
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encoded: How did you become a writer? It’s always an interesting question to think about, because retroactively, your life appears so inevitable, but I don’t think that I’m someone who wanted to be a writer from childhood. I read a lot. I was a pretty lonely kid. Books were my friends. I was one of those people. And over time writing became something that I did more seriously. I was a dabbler. I dabbled in everything. I sang. I was a theater kid. It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment that writing became the thing that I knew that I was going to do, although now it feels like, “of course, I couldn’t have been anything else.” I think that writers are people who have difficulty expressing themselves, and I had difficulty saying or knowing what I meant. I had fantasies of people really listening to me. When you write something, no one can speak back, you inhabit other people’s minds. And so that might have been what really ended up drawing me to [writing]. That one way mirror. The feeling that you can make someone see what you see. Of course, people can stop reading, but there’s a fantasy where you draw them in. In real life, I’m a people pleaser. I try to say what I think people want me to say. Writing became a place where I didn’t have to do that, or maybe at the beginning it was, and then, later it changed. I started writing more seriously in college. I took an Intro to Fiction course with a teacher who was tough on me in a good way, and my dabbling just became something else. And it became something that I really, really, really wanted to be good at. It began to feel like a vocation. What do you mean by “tough on you”? I felt like everything I wrote was wonderful, but he was like, “there’s a lot here that needs work.” There’s a moment when you decide to do something for the good of itself. You’re like, “okay, maybe I really want to see what I can do. Maybe I’m really willing to work. Maybe it’s not going to come easily to me and that’s okay.” That was the beginning of my lo…

FARAJ ABYAD (Amman, Jordan)
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Greenpeace calls on global govts to ensure safety of Gaza flotilla stormed by Israeli military
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description: Asia Pacific Report Greenpeace International has condemned Israeli armed forces for illegally attacking a peaceful Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters for the second time. The flobal environmental movement said in a statement it echoed the Global Sumud Flotilla’s urgent demand for safe passage for their peaceful humanitarian mission. “Governments must act now to
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Greenpeace International has condemned Israeli armed forces for illegally attacking a peaceful Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters for the second time. The flobal environmental movement said in a statement it echoed the Global Sumud Flotilla’s urgent demand for safe passage for their peaceful humanitarian mission. “Governments must act now to stop these illegal acts of aggression,” the Greenpeace statement said. READ MORE: Irish president’s sister, 2 Kiwis among Gaza flotilla activists detained by Israel The Flotilla Tracker map showing the location of the vessels Live streams from the flotilla Other Gaza humanitarian flotilla reports Greenpeace spokesperson Pujarini Sen said: “In Palestine, in Lebanon and now in international waters, Israel’s disregard for human rights and international law cannot be tolerated. “How long will the world stand by and watch Israel act with such impunity? ‘Protect the flotilla’ “Greenpeace calls on all governments to act with urgency to uphold international law and ensure the immediate release and protection of the Global Sumud Flotilla with concrete steps to ensure its safe passage to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.” The Global Sumud Flotilla is a peaceful international movement sailing to oppose Israel’s genocidal siege on Gaza, to confront the complicity that enables occupation, and to stand with the Palestinian people. The Israeli government continues to enforce a blockade by land and sea of aid and food from international organisations. Blocking aid and targeting those who attempt to deliver it are violations of international humanitarian law.⁣ CPJ protest over journalists In New York, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on international governments to demand the immediate release and protection of all civilians detained after Israeli forces attacked and intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, including at least seven journalists on board. “Detaining j…

Eleven Fiji police officers investigated for ties to Auckland drug trade links
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description: By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist A multinational police investigation implicating 11 Fiji police officers in collusion with drug traffickers has been handed over to prosecutors. The Fiji police announced that the investigation, lasting nearly six months, now awaits advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on how to proceed. On December 1 last
encoded: By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist A multinational police investigation implicating 11 Fiji police officers in collusion with drug traffickers has been handed over to prosecutors. The Fiji police announced that the investigation, lasting nearly six months, now awaits advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on how to proceed. On December 1 last year, a social media activist posted more than 100 screenshots of Viber messages between the officers and a member of an Auckland-based organised crime group. READ MORE: Other Fiji crime reports Police personnel depicted in the screenshots ranged from beat cops to Criminal Intelligence Division (CID) officers to the head of the Narcotics Bureau. The texts purportedly showed the Narcotics Bureau chief and others demanding a hit be put out on an individual, providing tip-offs about possible locations and movements. They also depicted officers demanding payments, with details of drop zones and pickup arrangements. Police said that each officer’s financial histories was investigated. Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu told local media on 19 December 2025 that the Narcotics Bureau chief had been placed on leave. NZ ‘assisted’ investigation A statement confirmed that Australian and New Zealand authorities “assisted” in the investigation. Tudravu confirmed in a press conference that United States authorities were also involved. New Zealand police said they were “in touch” from December onwards. “Fiji Police is leading the investigation, and New Zealand Police has offered any support that Fiji Police may require,” they said. On December 2, Tudravu announced the investigation, with the officers’ phones confiscated shortly after. Police confirmed the investigation concluded last week. The US Embassy in Wellington, where an FBI office is set up, declined to comment. This article is republished under a community partnership agreement with RNZ. This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR edito…

Eleven Fiji police officers investigated for ties to Auckland drug trade links
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description: By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist A multinational police investigation implicating 11 Fiji police officers in collusion with drug traffickers has been handed over to prosecutors. The Fiji police announced that the investigation, lasting nearly six months, now awaits advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on how to proceed. On December 1 last
encoded: By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist A multinational police investigation implicating 11 Fiji police officers in collusion with drug traffickers has been handed over to prosecutors. The Fiji police announced that the investigation, lasting nearly six months, now awaits advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on how to proceed. On December 1 last year, a social media activist posted more than 100 screenshots of Viber messages between the officers and a member of an Auckland-based organised crime group. READ MORE: Other Fiji crime reports Police personnel depicted in the screenshots ranged from beat cops to Criminal Intelligence Division (CID) officers to the head of the Narcotics Bureau. The texts purportedly showed the Narcotics Bureau chief and others demanding a hit be put out on an individual, providing tip-offs about possible locations and movements. They also depicted officers demanding payments, with details of drop zones and pickup arrangements. Police said that each officer’s financial histories was investigated. Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu told local media on 19 December 2025 that the Narcotics Bureau chief had been placed on leave. NZ ‘assisted’ investigation A statement confirmed that Australian and New Zealand authorities “assisted” in the investigation. Tudravu confirmed in a press conference that United States authorities were also involved. New Zealand police said they were “in touch” from December onwards. “Fiji Police is leading the investigation, and New Zealand Police has offered any support that Fiji Police may require,” they said. On December 2, Tudravu announced the investigation, with the officers’ phones confiscated shortly after. Police confirmed the investigation concluded last week. The US Embassy in Wellington, where an FBI office is set up, declined to comment. This article is republished under a community partnership agreement with RNZ. This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by APR edito…

‘There’s no ceasefire’: Sister of assassinated Hamas leader to The Grayzone
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Evo Morales to The Grayzone: ‘The people have reached their breaking point’
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Irish president’s sister, 2 Kiwis among Gaza flotilla activists detained by Israel
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description: Asia Pacific Report Irish President Catherine Connolly’s sister is among the Gaza-bound Global Sumud flotilla activists detained by Israeli forces, reports Middle East Monitor. Dr Margaret Connolly was among at least six Irish citizens aboard the aid flotilla detained by Israel, the Irish Independent reported, citing activists. At least two New Zealanders — Hāhona Ormsby
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Irish President Catherine Connolly’s sister is among the Gaza-bound Global Sumud flotilla activists detained by Israeli forces, reports Middle East Monitor. Dr Margaret Connolly was among at least six Irish citizens aboard the aid flotilla detained by Israel, the Irish Independent reported, citing activists. At least two New Zealanders — Hāhona Ormsby and Julien Blondel — have also been detained, according to the Global Sumud Aotearoa — support delegation. READ MORE: Spain summons Israeli envoy over Gaza flotilla interception, calls it ‘new violation of international law’ Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international waters The Global Sumud Flotilla Tracker Other Gaza flotilla reports WATCH: An Al Jazeera Instagram report showing the Israeli military storming the flotilla <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-128020 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Dr-Margaret-Connolly-Sumud-300tall.png" alt="Detained . . . Dr Margaret Connolly, sister of Ireland's President Catherine Connolly" width="300" height="434" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Dr-Margaret-Connolly-Sumud-300tall.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Dr-Margaret-Connolly-Sumud-300tall-207x300.png 207w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Dr-Margaret-Connolly-Sumud-300tall-290x420.png 290w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> Detained by Israeli military . . . Dr Margaret Connolly, sister of Ireland’s President Catherine Connolly, in a video released by the Global Sumud Flotilla. Image: GSF screenshot APR A third New Zealander, Mousa Taher, was still sailing toward Gaza aboard the Kasri Sadabat. According to the Global Sumud Flotilla, 10 boats from a 60-vessel convoy were intercepted in international waters and boarded by Israeli forces earlier on Monday. Organisers said the interception took place around 70 nauti…

More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates
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description: The post More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Volunteers escort a 2-year-old American boy to be reunited with his mother, who awaited deportation in February. Christopher Lee for ProPublica Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood, according to a report by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Brookings. The report published Monday estimates more than 100,000 U.S. citizen children have had a parent detained since President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign began last year. The analysis cites reporting from ProPublica on the detention of parents, which can often lead to family separations. During Trump’s first administration, a policy of family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border ended after widespread outrage. Now, the breakup of families is happening amid sweeps by immigration agents across the country. About 400,000 people have been detained by immigration agents since Trump returned to office, Brookings noted. But it’s nearly impossible to know how many family separations that has caused, since the administration does not track it. Families are also now being split up in ways that are more dispersed, more hidden and harder to track. Brookings created its estimate by using census information to approximate the number of children that detainees have. It estimated that roughly 200,000 children, including 145,000 American kids, have had a parent detained. The think tank notes that the actual number could be somewhat higher or lower. ProPublica used a different, more conservative, approach that relied on government data obtained through a public information lawsuit by the University of Washington. We found that in just the first seven months of Trump’s second term, at least 11,000 American children had a parent detained. We also found that Trump has been deporting about four times as many mothers of American children per day as President Joe Biden did. As we noted, our figures are almost certainly undercounts. For instanc…

ProPublica Selects 11 Journalists for Investigative Editor Training
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description: The post ProPublica Selects 11 Journalists for Investigative Editor Training appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: From left to right, top row: Aaron Sankin, Deblina Chakraborty, Josh McGhee, Rosalie Chan, Padma Rama. Middle row: Karen Chávez, Kynala Phillips, Yoohyun Jung, Margaret Ho, Kevin Uhrmacher. Bottom row: Thy Vo. Collage by ProPublica. Source images: Courtesy of the journalists. Eleven journalists from across the country join the ProPublica Investigative Editor Training Program, which seeks to expand the ranks of editors in newsrooms across the country whose work is aimed at accountability and impact. Established in 2023, the program has trained more than 31 journalists to date. It begins with a five-day intensive editing boot camp in New York, with courses and panel discussions led by ProPublica’s senior editors. After the boot camp, participants will gather virtually throughout the course of the year for continuing development seminars and be assigned a ProPublica senior editor as a mentor for advice on their work and careers. Alumni continue to work in the field in newsrooms like The Boston Globe, KQED, The Texas Tribune, ESPN and ProPublica. This year, more than 130 journalists applied for a spot in the program. “Each year, we are thrilled by the number of people who reach out to us for this training,” Managing Editor Ginger Thompson said. “It’s ProPublica’s way of supporting investigative reporting at a time when our mission couldn’t be more vital.” Introducing the 2026 cohort of the ProPublica Investigative Editor Training Program: Aaron Sankin is the data editor at The Marshall Project, a criminal-justice-focused nonprofit news organization. He was previously an investigative reporter with The Markup, where he won the Edward R. Murrow Award for reporting on predictive policing, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Philip Meyer Journalism Award for an investigation into racial and socioeconomic disparities in internet service pricing, and the Gerald Loeb Award for an innovative online privacy inspection tool. He also covered online extremism at The Center for …

Trump turning budget into a “collection of slush funds”
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Higher Gun Ownership Linked to Higher Maternal Homicide Rates
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description: In a November 2025 study, published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open, researchers found the firearm homicide rate for pregnant women was 37 percent higher than the rate for nonpregnant women, as Nada Hassanein reported for Stateline. The study ...
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Taxpayer-funded evangelical rally
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Ecuador journalist describes country’s role in deadly US boat strikes; Palestinians in Gaza mark 78th anniversary of Nakba displacement of Palestinians – May 18, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. 1870 map of Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela Journalist Galarza reports from Ecuador on deadly US strikes on boats, Ecuador military regime’s role; Organizers of Global Sumud Flotilla say 400 people taking part in 3rd humanitarian aid mission to Gaza, expecting Israeli interception; Palestinians in Gaza mark 78th anniversary of Nakba displacement of Palestinians during creation of Israel; World Health Organization declares International Health Emergency as fears grow of Ebola spread beyond Congo; Voting rights activists rally in Montgomery, Selma Alabama, say GOP redistricting could unseat 1/3rd of Congressional Black Caucus The post Ecuador journalist describes country’s role in deadly US boat strikes; Palestinians in Gaza mark 78th anniversary of Nakba displacement of Palestinians – May 18, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Journalist Galarza reports from Ecuador on deadly US strikes on boats, Ecuador military regime’s role; Organizers of Global Sumud Flotilla say 400 people taking part in 3rd humanitarian aid mission to Gaza, expecting Israeli interception; Palestinians in Gaza mark 78th anniversary of Nakba displacement of Palestinians during creation of Israel; World Health Organization declares International Health Emergency as fears grow of Ebola spread beyond Congo; Voting rights activists rally in Montgomery, Selma Alabama, say GOP redistricting could unseat 1/3rd of Congressional Black Caucus The post Ecuador journalist describes country’s role in deadly US boat strikes; Palestinians in Gaza mark 78th anniversary of Nakba displacement of Palestinians – May 18, 2026 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

Iranian TV Presenter Fires Gun At UAE Flag
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Record 83.4 Million People Internally Displaced in 2024
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description: A record 83.4 million people were displaced within their home countries at the end of 2024, according to the Diplomatic Courier. Regional conflicts, violence, and natural disasters force internally displaced persons (IDPs) to flee their homes, like ref...
encoded: A record 83.4 million people were displaced within their home countries at the end of 2024, according to the Diplomatic Courier. Regional conflicts, violence, and natural disasters force internally displaced persons (IDPs) to flee their homes, like refugees, but they don’t cross an international border. Diana Roy wrote for the… The post Record 83.4 Million People Internally Displaced in 2024 appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Brazilian TikToks Banned in US, Resulting in Censored ICE Criticism
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description: An American journalist discovered that Brazilian TikToks are banned in the United States after his interaction with Brazilian federal police went viral. A February 11, 2026 article in Payday Report by Mike Elk described how he was detained in Brazil fo...
encoded: An American journalist discovered that Brazilian TikToks are banned in the United States after his interaction with Brazilian federal police went viral. A February 11, 2026 article in Payday Report by Mike Elk described how he was detained in Brazil for accidentally overstaying his visa, but officers merely fined him… The post Brazilian TikToks Banned in US, Resulting in Censored ICE Criticism appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Massive AI Podcasting Network Reusing Original News Content
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description: News outlets are “ever more vulnerable to the systematized scraping of their articles for the generation of derivative content,” Alexios Mantzarlis reported in a February 2026 article for Indicator, which focused on an AI-generated podcast network know...
encoded: News outlets are “ever more vulnerable to the systematized scraping of their articles for the generation of derivative content,” Alexios Mantzarlis reported in a February 2026 article for Indicator, which focused on an AI-generated podcast network known as The Daily News Now! (DNN). Mantzarlis noted that this network generates roughly… The post Massive AI Podcasting Network Reusing Original News Content appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Framing Atrocity: Photojournalism and Press Freedom
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2026-05-18T17:07:31Z
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description: First up, researcher and editor Michelle Eid joins the show to talk about literal framing when it comes to photojournalism, and how extractive dehumanizing journalism turns people’s pain and suffering into career-boosting material, perpetuating harmful...
encoded: First up, researcher and editor Michelle Eid joins the show to talk about literal framing when it comes to photojournalism, and how extractive dehumanizing journalism turns people’s pain and suffering into career-boosting material, perpetuating harmful stereotypes and bolstering the dangerous disconnect that allows atrocities to continue. Michelle highlights the importance of relationship building and archival work, but that how this work is done is critical. Next up, Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield sit down to dissect some recent news that didn’t make the news, contextualize what press freedom looks like from the US to Sweden, and why AI should never be in charge of telling us what news is. The post Framing Atrocity: Photojournalism and Press Freedom appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

‘A $1,700,000,000 fraud on the American taxpayer’: Trump to drop IRS suit in exchange for MAGA slush fund
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The Problem with Preemption
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creator: Eleanor J. Bader
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description: Laws deny communities the ability to chart their own course.
encoded: Laws deny communities the ability to chart their own course. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Eleanor J. Bader.

Outlandish Merger of Giant Power Companies NextEra and Dominion is ‘Contrary to Public Interest’
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2026-05-18T16:18:40Z
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description: Massive Florida-based power company NextEra Energy announced today its plan to acquire Virginia’s Dominion Energy, citing the growth of A.I. data centers as the impetus for the move. In response, Public Citizen Energy Program director Tyson Slocum iss...
encoded: Massive Florida-based power company NextEra Energy announced today its plan to acquire Virginia’s Dominion Energy, citing the growth of A.I. data centers as the impetus for the move. In response, Public Citizen Energy Program director Tyson Slocum issued the following statement: “This absurd proposal to merge two massive, well-capitalized utilities should be dead on arrival for state and federal regulators. Household customers have everything to lose and nothing to gain by allowing two behemoths, NextEra and Dominion, to merge. “The claim that the tie-up is needed to address data center demand is a false narrative; the merger will do nothing to increase generating capacity, let alone desperately-needed renewable generating capacity. These mega-utilities are merely using rising concern about data centers as an excuse to concentrate political and economic power of two giant utilities to maximize financial returns to shareholders. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and state regulators should reject this outlandish, unnecessary merger as completely contrary to the public interest.“ This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
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subject: sources
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Cuba runs out of oil amidst suffocating US blockade
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date: 2026-05-18T15:43:24Z
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subject: blockade
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UN News Today 18 May 2026
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description: WHO supports response as Ebola confirmed in DR Congo’s Goma LGBTIQ+ face mounting violence, discrimination: UN rights chief South Sudan: Families return to Akobo, aid resumes after conflict
encoded: WHO supports response as Ebola confirmed in DR Congo’s Goma LGBTIQ+ face mounting violence, discrimination: UN rights chief South Sudan: Families return to Akobo, aid resumes after conflict This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

Inside CoreCivic’s Detention Camp for Children and Families in Dilley, TX
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Russia carries out large-scale attacks on Ukraine
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"Staggering Corruption": Rep. Raskin on Trump’s $10B IRS Lawsuit, Stock Trades & Family Business
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Trump’s Christian Nationalist Agenda & Taxpayer-Funded DC Prayer Rally: Bishop Barber & Sarah Posner
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As WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency, Did USAID Cuts Worsen the Crisis?
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Behind the "Tic Tac" UFO Sighting of 2004
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 18, 2026
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Türkiye condemns new Israeli ‘piracy’ against Gaza aid flotilla in international waters
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description: Asia Pacific Report Türkiye has condemned Israel’s intervention against the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, describing it as “a new act of piracy”, reports TRT World News. In a statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Israeli forces had yesterday intervened against the flotilla, which was carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. Three New Zealanders
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Türkiye has condemned Israel’s intervention against the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, describing it as “a new act of piracy”, reports TRT World News. In a statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Israeli forces had yesterday intervened against the flotilla, which was carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. Three New Zealanders were reported to be facing illegal interception — including Hāhona Ormsby, Mousa Taher, and Julien Blondel — according to Sumud Flotilla statement. READ MORE: Israeli forces storm Gaza-bound aid flotilla off Cyprus Global Sumud Flotilla Live tracker Other Gaza flotilla reports The Turkish ministry said: “We condemn the intervention carried out by Israeli forces in international waters against the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was formed to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza and which constitutes a new act of piracy.” The ministry noted that citizens from nearly 40 countries were on board the flotilla of more than 50 vessels and said Israel’s “attacks and intimidation policies” would not prevent international solidarity with the Palestinian people. It called on Israel to immediately halt the intervention and unconditionally release the detained participants. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-128000 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Sumud-Flotilla-LiveFeed-680wide.png" alt="A live tracker image showing the moment Israeli forces started boarding flotilla boats" width="680" height="383" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Sumud-Flotilla-LiveFeed-680wide.png 680w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Sumud-Flotilla-LiveFeed-680wide-300x169.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> A live tracker image showing the moment Israeli forces started boarding flotilla boats. Soldiers can be seen boarding a boat in the central image. Image: Global Sumud Flotilla screenshot APR The ministry also …

CPJ urges European Commission to not invite the Taliban to Brussels
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday called on the European Commission to scrap reported plans to invite the Taliban to Brussels. According to media reports, the technical talks would focus on the return of rejected asylum seekers and Afghans convicted of crimes. The European Union does not officially recognize the Taliban, and formal engagement...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday called on the European Commission to scrap reported plans to invite the Taliban to Brussels. According to media reports, the technical talks would focus on the return of rejected asylum seekers and Afghans convicted of crimes. The European Union does not officially recognize the Taliban, and formal engagement has been conditioned in part on compliance with international standards on human rights. “It is outrageous that, as the Taliban attacks the media, the European Commission extends an invitation to Brussels,” said Tom Gibson, CPJ’s deputy advocacy director, EU. “By doing so, it legitimizes a regime responsible for severe repression and censorship and strengthens their public relations as an international player. The European Commission must scrap such plans.” Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, it has forced the shutdown of independent media, imprisoned journalists, enforced strict surveillance, and censored the media environment. Journalists in the country work in fear, while much of the national media coverage has increasingly become propaganda for the Taliban. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

“Staggering Corruption”: Rep. Raskin on Trump’s $10B IRS Lawsuit, Stock Trades & Family Business
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description: Donald Trump on Monday dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over a leak of his personal and business tax records, a bizarre case of a sitting president suing his own government and essentially acting as both pla...
encoded: Donald Trump on Monday dropped his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over a leak of his personal and business tax records, a bizarre case of a sitting president suing his own government and essentially acting as both plaintiff and defendant. This comes amid reports that Trump’s Department of Justice was considering settling the case in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate victims of so-called weaponization of the DOJ under the Biden and Obama administrations. Trump allies who participated in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol could file claims and be compensated. “They want a $1.7 billion slush fund, which comes to a million dollars a head in terms of Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the insurrectionists, with $100 million left over of taxpayer money to spread around in different ways,” says Congressmember Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, who spoke with Democracy Now! shortly before news broke of Trump dropping the IRS lawsuit. Raskin last week introduced the Protecting Our Democracy Act, which is geared toward curbing the president’s profiteering from public office. “Corruption is the whole purpose of the Trump administration,” says Raskin. “It’s not like some eccentric peripheral thing; it’s a vast money-making operation.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Trump’s Christian Nationalist Agenda & Taxpayer-Funded D.C. Prayer Rally: Bishop Barber & Sarah Posner
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-18T12:26:32Z
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description: Thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Sunday for “Rededicate 250,” a taxpayer-funded Christian evangelical service backed by President Trump. The eight-hour lineup featured songs, prayers and rem...
encoded: Thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Sunday for “Rededicate 250,” a taxpayer-funded Christian evangelical service backed by President Trump. The eight-hour lineup featured songs, prayers and remarks by top government officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The event included religious leaders like evangelist Franklin Graham and Cardinal Timothy Dolan. “Nothing was Christian about what we saw yesterday,” says Bishop William J. Barber II. “This is idolatry. This is heresy. This is a form of religious nationalism. This is Trump worship. This is trying to make someone a messiah figure.” Barber, the president of Repairers of the Breach and founding director of the Yale Center for Public Theology and Public Policy, took part in a counter-event on Sunday called Redirect 250. “This is really a battle for the soul of America,” says Sarah Posner, author of Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind. The Supreme Court has eroded the separation of church and state in recent decades, particularly under President Trump, adds Posner. She also notes that “evangelicals, for decades, have been marinating in Christian Zionist theology and ideology, which holds that, in their view, America has a biblical duty to defend Israel, and in particular defend Israel from aggression, both nuclear and otherwise, from Iran.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

As WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency, Did USAID Cuts Worsen the Crisis?
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-18T12:14:01Z
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description: The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency on Saturday due to the rapid spread of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Ebola causes severe hemorrhagic fever and is often fatal. There’s no appr...
encoded: The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency on Saturday due to the rapid spread of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Ebola causes severe hemorrhagic fever and is often fatal. There’s no approved vaccine for the strain of Ebola responsible for the current outbreak, known as the Bundibugyo variant. The WHO said in a statement that the outbreak is potentially much larger “than what is currently being detected and reported.” Public health professor and emergency room physician Dr. Craig Spencer, who is an Ebola survivor, says this Ebola outbreak could be the fourth largest in history. “This is going to be a really difficult outbreak to manage and respond to,” says Spencer. The ability of healthcare workers to address the outbreak in eastern Congo, “given the violence and conflict, is anything but ideal.” Spencer adds that cuts to USAID and the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization have increased the likelihood for viruses to spread nationally and internationally, citing outbreaks of measles in the U.S. and Ebola and hantavirus abroad. “This is not all just a coincidence,” says Spencer. “This is a consequence of us cutting back our support.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for May 18, 2026
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description: Trump Escalates Threats Against Iran as Ceasefire Negotiations Remain Deadlocked, Israel Kills at Least Six People in Southern Lebanon, Including Three Paramedics, Israel Assassinates Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the Head of Hamas’s Military Wing, Israeli Cabinet Approves Plans to Build Military Compound at Former UNRWA Site, Israeli Forces Begin Intercepting Ships with the Global Sumud Flotilla, World Health Organization Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency, GOP Senator Cassidy Loses Primary After Trump Backs His Opponent, New Financial Disclosures Show Trump Made Between $220M and $750M in Securities Trades in 2026, U.S. Government Officials Participate in Taxpayer-Funded Christian Gathering on National Mall, U.S. Supreme Court Ends Redistricting Bid by Virginia Democrats, Thousands Rally in Alabama to Protest Lost Voting Rights, Long Island Rail Road Workers Strike After Wages Fail to Keep Pace with Inflation
encoded: Trump Escalates Threats Against Iran as Ceasefire Negotiations Remain Deadlocked Israel Kills at Least Six People in Southern Lebanon, Including Three Paramedics Israel Assassinates Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the Head of Hamas's Military Wing Israeli Cabinet Approves Plans to Build Military Compound at Former UNRWA Site Israeli Forces Begin Intercepting Ships with the Global Sumud Flotilla World Health Organization Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency GOP Senator Cassidy Loses Primary After Trump Backs His Opponent New Financial Disclosures Show Trump Made Between $220M and $750M in Securities Trades in 2026 U.S. Government Officials Participate in Taxpayer-Funded Christian Gathering on National Mall U.S. Supreme Court Ends Redistricting Bid by Virginia Democrats Thousands Rally in Alabama to Protest Lost Voting Rights Long Island Rail Road Workers Strike After Wages Fail to Keep Pace with Inflation This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-05-18 Monday
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[Full Uncut Conversation] Unions Can Save US Democracy Experts Say
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Trita Parsi: Is Trump poised to restart the Iran war?
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description: Tehran believes Trump will attack in the next 48 hours — and is ready to counter-escalate, writes US-Iran affairs analyst Trita Parsi. ANALYSIS: By Trita Parsi The Middle East is once again teetering on the brink as Trump appears poised to reignite war with Iran. Press reports indicate he will convene military advisers on Tuesday,
encoded: Tehran believes Trump will attack in the next 48 hours — and is ready to counter-escalate, writes US-Iran affairs analyst Trita Parsi. ANALYSIS: By Trita Parsi The Middle East is once again teetering on the brink as Trump appears poised to reignite war with Iran. Press reports indicate he will convene military advisers on Tuesday, though my understanding is that both the meeting and the decision are likely to come sooner. Over the past several hours, Trump has flooded Truth Social with a barrage of incendiary threats. While some of this may be theatrical brinkmanship designed to force Tehran into submission, sources in the Iranian capital tell me they expect the United States to resume hostilities within the next 48 hours. READ MORE: Iran says talks ongoing through Pakistan with a focus on ending war Israeli forces storm Gaza-bound aid flotilla off Cyprus Other Gaza and Iran “ceasefire” reports We should first recognise that restarting the war amounts to an admission that Trump’s previous escalatory gambit– the blockade of the blockade — has failed. That, in turn, was itself an admission that the war had failed. Which was an admission that the threats of war in January had failed. As I have argued before on my Substack, this relentless search for an escalatory silver bullet capable of bringing Iran to its knees is not unique to Trump; it has become a defining pathology of American Iran policy for decades. Although negotiators have made meaningful progress on several fronts, talks have thus far failed to produce an agreement, largely because of irreconcilable differences over Tehran’s highly enriched uranium stockpile. And as Washington has come to realise that the blockade is backfiring, a new and dangerous dynamic has emerged: both sides now believe another round of fighting will strengthen their hand in the negotiations that follow. As I argued in numerous interviews in January, Trump dramatically underestimated Iran’s strength, while hardliners in Tehran believed…

The Use of Death Penalty In 2025
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Investigative reporter Tom Wright faces criminal defamation charge in Thailand
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date: 2026-05-18T10:59:22Z
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description: Mae Sot, May 18, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Thai politician Vorapak Tanyawong to drop his criminal defamation suit against Whale Hunting newsletter’s investigative reporter Tom Wright, and urges Thailand to reform its criminal statutes so that they cannot be abused to silence the press. Wright told CPJ that he faces criminal charges...
encoded: Mae Sot, May 18, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Thai politician Vorapak Tanyawong to drop his criminal defamation suit against Whale Hunting newsletter’s investigative reporter Tom Wright, and urges Thailand to reform its criminal statutes so that they cannot be abused to silence the press. Wright told CPJ that he faces criminal charges and $1.5 million in damages for Whale Hunting’s reporting alleging Vorapak is involved in a criminal network that launders funds from Cambodian online scam centers through Thai financial institutions. Vorapak resigned as deputy finance minister in October, days after Whale Hunting published its document-backed investigation. “Thai politician Vorapak Tanyawong must immediately drop his criminal defamation suit against Whale Hunting reporter Tom Wright, which is a textbook abuse of Thailand’s legal system to silence public-interest reporting,” said Shawn Crispin, CPJ’s senior Southeast Asia representative. “Thailand must urgently reform its criminal defamation statutes so that powerful figures can no longer weaponize them against the press.” Wright, the corruption-focused newsletter’s Singapore-based co-founder, told CPJ that Whale Hunting “will not be deterred” and is “prepared to fight this in court to protect the truth.” Maximum penalties under Thailand’s punitive criminal defamation law carry a maximum two-year prison sentence. Journalists in Thailand are frequently targeted with Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs), which are abusive lawsuits filed to silence critical reporting using lengthy, costly legal proceedings, rather than seeking to address actual wrongs. On May 22, hearings are due to begin in another criminal defamation case, where Kowit Phothisan, an editor with the local The Isaan Record, is facing charges for sharing on social media allegations of bribery, reported by his outlet, involving environment minister Suchart Chomklin. This content originally appeared on Committee to Pr…

50 rights groups blast Meta for brazen policy reversal of Instagram end-to-end encrypted messaging
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description: Fight for the Future, Access Now, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and other leading human rights organizations are demanding Meta immediately course correct and make good on promises to protect Instagr...
encoded: Fight for the Future, Access Now, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and other leading human rights organizations are demanding Meta immediately course correct and make good on promises to protect Instagram DMs with end-to-end encryption by default. Led by Fight for the Future, 50 human rights groups are expressing outrage over Meta’s decision to discontinue “opt-in” end-to-end encryption for Instagram messages, as well as its apparent reversal of plans to protect Instagram messages with end-to-end encryption by default. The groups sent <a href="https://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn=u001.QxU2xauAJ9nFZczvGsewfsVqLH3mMCAC8Hq-2BD5RKRHE5cAL7MVuFmg8ZJLluxCv-2BA2tt4Y5zRXLMhByToFb8zWUp8WRxT0r5bXg-2FXKQVlxUUICOnX5tLSfVVM6uLvpQQG-Us_ciJuXYfraQrmEXzxHGEcWNeiZKy7tdzQawxB4GG8-2FLPZ7CvygO9jxiRAMn5pClU-2B15cpW0Q3-2B2OjlGBmEGDqVtpIec0xRqBb5EkWv5lkuxUih-2BzoOSDC196JpLVVFQuvSkyEB3FeWNhOGaNV37az6tEHo-2FIF5qTLniiuOXvIAkREIH2ySq39Zw9bgvNBmrHJxYChgFWLSazPTXSiwW7LnkWuhZTGhg-2BwfHb-2FgyuKjfdaFRLsdpgxyvvBNZPOsg9xbNbSqwj1BA-2BDMu0w5UFzANqs0VhTOD2YOqc1DFbs1MxeoGM8GcM-2BwcJCSS9xd2J2IB9oXMiAfg-2FWp1ZttTbBnHyBg8bQxSfcJca9bRE85yd4JoT0SycLQgChuA-2BDgr-2F3" rel="noopener noreferrer" >a letter to Meta calling on the company to immediately course correct and follow through on promises to ensure users’ direct messages (DMs) are safe from third-party access. For the communities represented by the organizational endorsers of the letter, including activists, LGBTQ+ people, abortion seekers, journalists and other targeted groups around the world, privacy online is not “optional.” It’s a matter of life and death. Meta’s removal of “opt-in end-to-end encryption” for direct messages on Instagram—a feature only available to users in certain regions—<a href="https://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn=u001.QxU2xauAJ9nFZczvGsewfskS-2B6IbzUuvoAoUHvDkf-2FKEaGV5K3ZPtAJA9yGz-2Fg4OJxfWtizb7hO4n3rbE0n1QjDL90xD1zjOttBib3QR5Az3bdAKiwh-2BjjMfQqyQR…

Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.
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description: The post Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: The Meredith family, from left: Lakely, Fletcher, Mitch, Kara and Tennessee Katie Campbell/ProPublica It was their dream home, a newly built, 2,500-square-foot modern farmhouse with a playroom that Mitch and Kara Meredith had saved for 12 years to buy for their growing family. During construction, family members had written their favorite Bible verses on studs throughout the house. For four idyllic years on Darlene Lane, the couple hosted birthday parties for their two young daughters, who became fast friends with the other children in the recently built subdivision in Fort Gibson. Film Screening Join The Frontier and ProPublica in Tulsa on May 20 for a public screening of a documentary film featuring the Meredith family. Then one evening last summer, five weeks after the couple’s third child was born, their bathroom flooded. When their 7-year-old ran into the garage to report that water was all over the floor, Mitch assumed a pipe had burst, or perhaps the toilet was backed up. Then he entered the bathroom. A thick, black fluid with an oily sheen covered the floor. Kara yelled from their bedroom for him to come quickly; the same substance was flowing out of the floor next to their bed. Mitch, along with several family members, fought the flood all night, vacuuming up the sludge and emptying buckets out the window. Black goo covered their arms. Shiny rainbow patterns covered their shoes. After pulling the bathtub away from the wall, Mitch saw that the substance was gushing through the house’s foundation. It was clear this wasn’t a plumbing problem. Last August, dark, oily fluid came up through the floors of the Merediths’ house and flooded their bathroom, bedroom and closet. Video collage by ProPublica. Photographs and videos courtesy of the Meredith family. Around 5 a.m., Mitch’s uncle turned to him. “I think this is oil,” he said. The family called the fire department, and Kara rushed their three children, including their infant, to her grandmother’s house. “And t…

DN! Monday, May 18, 2026
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Tiny Footprints, a Blue Blanket: What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died of Vitamin K Deficiency
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description: The post Tiny Footprints, a Blue Blanket: What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died of Vitamin K Deficiency appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Footprints of an infant in an autopsy report from Arizona Obtained and redacted for privacy by ProPublica I recently wrote about babies dying from a rare but fatal condition called vitamin K deficiency bleeding. To report the story, I analyzed hundreds of rows of data, contacted more than 50 hospitals and birthing centers, and filed nearly 90 public records requests. But autopsy reports — one record of how these babies died — painted the clearest picture of these tragedies. I’m sharing some of the most critical lessons I learned from the autopsy reports in hopes of creating a greater awareness of this condition and highlighting what decades of research and interviews with dozens of doctors found: In almost every case, the deaths could have been prevented with a simple shot of vitamin K at birth. ProPublica is not sharing the babies’ names, the dates or years of death, or the locations within a state to protect the families’ privacy. Read More Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth Babies need vitamin K to help their blood clot, but they aren’t born with enough of it in their system. Two researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1943 for their discovery of vitamin K and its ability to form clots and stop bleeding in babies, and the vitamin K shot has been a standard intervention for newborns in the U.S. since the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended it more than 60 years ago. But in recent years, parents have started refusing the shot. Although the vitamin K shot is not a vaccine, it has become entangled in the anti-vaccine movement. False and misleading information online has led some parents to believe the shot is harmful. In addition, some parents have voiced a desire for a more natural birthing experience, one without pharmaceutical intervention. And some simply don’t want their babies to go through the pain of an injection that they don’t believe is necessary. Hospital data and research studies have documented this s…

Utah’s fragile desert could feel like the Sahara if America’s biggest data center gets built
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description: The Great Salt Lake is drying up. What happens when a data center as large as a city sits next to it?
encoded: Plans for a celebrity-backed “hyperscale” data center in rural Utah, so massive that it would consume more than double the state’s current electricity use, have generated an intense public and political backlash in a state where the motto is “industry” and a Republican supermajority tends to be deferential to development. The project, brought by “Shark Tank” TV personality Kevin O’Leary, would span 40,000 acres, demand 9 gigawatts of power once completed, and raise the state’s carbon emissions by 64 percent, according to estimates. While its water needs remain unknown, the sprawling data center would neighbor the northernmost tip of the shrinking Great Salt Lake, which will likely hit a record-low elevation this year following an unprecedented dry winter. It could also create a massive heat island capable of devastating the area’s ecology, said Robert Davies, a physics professor at Utah State University. Davies estimated that the finished project would cover about as many square miles as Washington, D.C., making it the largest data center on the planet, and that it could produce enough heat to spike nighttime temperatures by as much as 28 degrees Fahrenheit in the high-desert valley. “I suspected it would not be good,” Davies said. “What I’ve found is, it’s so much worse than I even thought it would be.” News of the proposed data complex, dubbed the Stratos Project, became public in April after the three commissioners of Box Elder County, the mostly agricultural community that would host it, approved the project. They pointed to the project’s approval by more powerful state agencies and asserted that stopping it was out of their hands, while refusing to hear comments from more than 1,000 people who showed up to share their concerns. Utah Governor Spencer Cox, a Republican, has since walked back some of his full-throated support. “Many are asking questions about water, air quality, energy, land use, and the long-term impact on rural Utah,” Cox wrote in a thread on X …

“MIN JIBAAL” ~ The Sounds of a Kingdom𐩘ᐂ𐄘 recordings from JORDAN ᐂ𐄘 official teaser
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Gas prices are rising. So is public transit ridership.
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creator: Benton Graham
date: 2026-05-18T08:15:00Z
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description: Mass transit systems are seeing more riders as fuel prices rise, but experts say most Americans still have little choice but to drive.
encoded: Higher gas prices are bringing some Americans back to public transit. The increase in ridership comes as the war in Iran has disrupted oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, pushing the national average price of gasoline beyond $4.50 per gallon. In California, drivers are paying more than $6.15 per gallon on average. Rising fuel prices have historically pushed at least some Americans toward buses and trains, particularly commuter rail. But experts caution that decades of car-oriented development and inconsistent transit funding still leave most people with few practical alternatives to driving. For those reasons, ridership is rising most sharply in places with robust transit systems and steep fuel prices. California is a clear example. Transit agencies in San Diego, Los Angeles County, and the San Francisco Bay Area have seen ridership jump in recent weeks. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency –– which, like others in California, received an emergency loan from the state in February –– saw its highest ridership totals since the pandemic in March. Mark Olson, a spokesman for the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System, said gas prices probably drove the 6.5 percent jump in ridership it experienced in March compared to the previous year. Until the agency surveys riders, however, that remains an educated guess. “A lot of our riders are low income, and certainly gas prices can be much more sensitive to lower income residents and riders,” Olson said. In an effort to court riders, the agency, which faces a $500 million budget deficit over the next four years, has launched a commute calculator that compares the cost of driving and public transit. Michael Roccaforte, a spokesman for the San Francisco MTA, said it is too early to link higher gas prices to ridership increases, but called the return of riders to Muni — which has undergone speed and reliability upgrades in recent years — “a promising sign.” “It’s a service that really matters to everyone here in…

Israel becomes world’s most disliked country, global survey finds
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description: Middle East Monitor Israel is now perceived more negatively than any other country in the world, according to new global polling published by Nira Data as part of its 2026 democracy and country perception research. The five most positively perceived countries were Switzerland, Canada, Japan, Sweden and Italy. The findings place Israel at the bottom
encoded: Middle East Monitor Israel is now perceived more negatively than any other country in the world, according to new global polling published by Nira Data as part of its 2026 democracy and country perception research. The five most positively perceived countries were Switzerland, Canada, Japan, Sweden and Italy. The findings place Israel at the bottom of the Global Country Perceptions 2026 ranking, a survey of 46,667 respondents assessing how 129 countries and three international organisations are viewed around the world. READ MORE: As Israel becomes a global pariah, leaked Meta data reveals soaring costs for its brands Israel to spend $730m on propaganda as global image collapses over Gaza genocide Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’ Other Gaza and war on Iran reports The ranking was published alongside Nira Data’s 2026 Democracy Perception Index, which surveyed 94,146 respondents across 98 countries on how citizens experience democracy in their own countries. The result marks another sign of Israel’s deepening international isolation amid its genocide in Gaza, mass displacement of Palestinians, starvation policies and escalating violence in the occupied West Bank, and attacks on Lebanon in breach of a so-called “ceasefire”. Israel’s global image has collapsed as human rights organisations, UN experts and international courts have warned of grave violations of international law by the occupation state. The United States has also suffered a dramatic collapse in global standing. The US is now ranked among the five most negatively perceived countries in the world, below both Russia and China in international favourability. Its net perception score fell from +22 per cent in 2024 to -16 per cent in 2026, a 38-point drop in just two years. Growing anger over Trump US decline came amid growing anger over President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, including strained relations with NATO allies, aggressive tariffs, threats relating t…

Illustrator and author Yumi Sakugawa on unlearning the self-punitive model of making art
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creator: Jun Chou
date: 2026-05-18T07:00:00Z
subject: Sources
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description: What have you been meditating on recently?
encoded: What have you been meditating on recently? One of the ideas I’ve been meditating on lately is what does it mean to be colonized? In the inverse, what does it mean to decolonize, to reindigenize? I’ve only recently started grappling with those questions in wanting to connect more with my Okinawan side and thinking about the history of Okinawa being colonized by Japan and how the colonization of Okinawa relates to the colonization of other colonized people in other places in the world. Thinking energetically, what does colonization do to your spirit? In turn, how can we reclaim what was taken from us? Not in the sense of faithfully recreating what was in the past, but to claim our agency while also paving new patterns for the future. What is your process for acquiring inspiration? It’s a mix of receptivity as well as listening to my intuition. It’s improvising with the universe and then there may be a stray idea or suggestion. Then I follow that rabbit hole and see where I end up. I love the idea of improvising with the universe. Have most of your creative projects come out of that play? Yes, I think so. Most of my published books were not planned. A lot of my published books are the results of me making a web comic because I really wanted to excavate a certain feeling or making a zine because I wanted to delve more into my meditation practice. And then just very serendipitously, they ended up becoming books. One example in particular is my book, Fashion Forecasts, which is about futuristic Asian American intergenerational fashion designs that’s also a little silly. That started as me wanting to make silly fashion designs out of boredom. And then that all accumulated serendipitously into being able to exhibit the artwork generated at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries building through the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, which then became a zine and an exhibit where my friend actually made these fashion designs come to life through costumes on mannequins, w…

Illustrator and author Yumi Sakagawa on unlearning the self-punitive model of making art
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encoded: What have you been meditating on recently? One of the ideas I’ve been meditating on lately is what does it mean to be colonized? In the inverse, what does it mean to decolonize, to reindigenize? I’ve only recently started grappling with those questions in wanting to connect more with my Okinawan side and thinking about the history of Okinawa being colonized by Japan and how the colonization of Okinawa relates to the colonization of other colonized people in other places in the world. Thinking energetically, what does colonization do to your spirit? In turn, how can we reclaim what was taken from us? Not in the sense of faithfully recreating what was in the past, but to claim our agency while also paving new patterns for the future. What is your process for acquiring inspiration? It’s a mix of receptivity as well as listening to my intuition. It’s improvising with the universe and then there may be a stray idea or suggestion. Then I follow that rabbit hole and see where I end up. I love the idea of improvising with the universe. Have most of your creative projects come out of that play? Yes, I think so. Most of my published books were not planned. A lot of my published books are the results of me making a web comic because I really wanted to excavate a certain feeling or making a zine because I wanted to delve more into my meditation practice. And then just very serendipitously, they ended up becoming books. One example in particular is my book, Fashion Forecasts, which is about futuristic Asian American intergenerational fashion designs that’s also a little silly. That started as me wanting to make silly fashion designs out of boredom. And then that all accumulated serendipitously into being able to exhibit the artwork generated at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries building through the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, which then became a zine and an exhibit where my friend actually made these fashion designs come to life through costumes on mannequins, w…

Illustrator and author Yumi Sakagawa on unlearning the self-punitive model of making art
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encoded: What have you been meditating on recently? One of the ideas I’ve been meditating on lately is what does it mean to be colonized? In the inverse, what does it mean to decolonize, to reindigenize? I’ve only recently started grappling with those questions in wanting to connect more with my Okinawan side and thinking about the history of Okinawa being colonized by Japan and how the colonization of Okinawa relates to the colonization of other colonized people in other places in the world. Thinking energetically, what does colonization do to your spirit? In turn, how can we reclaim what was taken from us? Not in the sense of faithfully recreating what was in the past, but to claim our agency while also paving new patterns for the future. What is your process for acquiring inspiration? It’s a mix of receptivity as well as listening to my intuition. It’s improvising with the universe and then there may be a stray idea or suggestion. Then I follow that rabbit hole and see where I end up. I love the idea of improvising with the universe. Have most of your creative projects come out of that play? Yes, I think so. Most of my published books were not planned. A lot of my published books are the results of me making a web comic because I really wanted to excavate a certain feeling or making a zine because I wanted to delve more into my meditation practice. And then just very serendipitously, they ended up becoming books. One example in particular is my book, Fashion Forecasts, which is about futuristic Asian American intergenerational fashion designs that’s also a little silly. That started as me wanting to make silly fashion designs out of boredom. And then that all accumulated serendipitously into being able to exhibit the artwork generated at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries building through the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, which then became a zine and an exhibit where my friend actually made these fashion designs come to life through costumes on mannequins, w…

Illustrator and author Yumi Sakagawa on reframing discipline as pleasure
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How North Korean Hackers Stole $570M in Crypto in 4 Months
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creator: Radio Free Asia
date: 2026-05-18T01:30:27Z
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Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-18T00:09:40Z
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description: ANALYSIS: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta The eighth floor of the Tempo building in Jakarta became the setting for a gathering rich with meaning. What brought together community leaders, politicians, academics, religious figures, journalists, and the family of the late Thom Beanal was not merely a book launch. It was an earnest attempt to revisit
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta The eighth floor of the Tempo building in Jakarta became the setting for a gathering rich with meaning. What brought together community leaders, politicians, academics, religious figures, journalists, and the family of the late Thom Beanal was not merely a book launch. It was an earnest attempt to revisit the essence of struggle, leadership, and hope for the land of Papua. The event, which took the form of a discussion and review of a three-volume book series on Thom Beanal, opened with greetings in multiple traditions — from an Amungme war cry to salutations representing all major tribes in Papua. READ MORE: Tom Beanal, the true indigenous of Papua ‘They’re wiping us out’ – church leader warns about young West Papuans killed in escalating conflict Papuan women ‘living in fear’ condemn military violence Other West Papua reports That gesture alone reflected the very spirit of the man being honoured: a leader who embraced diversity and respected every single man and woman. The gathering coincided with three historic moments, making it even more significant. First, it marked exactly 27 years since Thom Beanal, standing before President B. J. Habibie, boldly expressed the heartfelt desire of his people. With courage and clarity, he called for recognition as a nation that wanted to cooperate honestly, peacefully, and democratically. Second, the event served as a memorial, three years after Beanal’s passing — a man who left a deep imprint on the struggle of Indigenous Papuans. Third, it celebrated the culmination of two years of work by a writing team, resulting in a trilogy that chronicles the journey of a lay pastor, a tribal chief, and what many now call a “father” to the indigenous Papuan. From lay pastor to Indigenous defender Thom Beanal was no ordinary leader. Born on 11 July 1947 into the Amungme tribe in Timika, he completed his education from primary school to a Catholic theological academy, then served as a catechist teach…

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 17, 2026
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Ukraine Hits Moscow Region, Four People Killed
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Meet the Lebanese rescue workers being targeted by Israel
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Strait of Hormuz ‘open’ except for enemies, as new Iran insurance regulatory plan touted
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description: Asia Pacific Report Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is “open to all except its adversaries”, and any passage through the trajectory of this significant chokepoint should be coordinated with the Iranian military, reports AL Jazeera. Sources say the number of ships transiting through the strait has slightly increased, but is still very low compared
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is “open to all except its adversaries”, and any passage through the trajectory of this significant chokepoint should be coordinated with the Iranian military, reports AL Jazeera. Sources say the number of ships transiting through the strait has slightly increased, but is still very low compared with pre-war times, reports Tohid Asadi from Bandar Abbas, a city on the strait. Asadi has filed several exclusive reports from the strait area in the past few days. READ MORE: Drone hits UAE power plant; Israeli attacks on Lebanon continue Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’ Other Gaza and war on Iran reports He reports that Iran also said it was critically important for the US to lift the blockade on Iranian ships as a condition that could be taken into consideration when it comes to taking the strait into a normal situation. Iran says it will soon reveal its plan to manage traffic ⁠through the strait, including the charging of tolls, while Trump has warned Tehran will have a “very bad time” if a peace deal is not reached soon. On Saturday, Iran’s first vice president, Mohammad Reza Aref, said his country would no longer allow “enemy” military equipment to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Tohid Asadi reporting from the Strait of Hormuz. Video: Al Jazeera insurance-based framework The Lebanese-based satellite news service Al-Mayadeen reports that Iran is advancing an insurance-based framework to manage the strait, of H aiming to expand maritime oversight and generate post-war revenue while remaining within international law. Iran’s Ministry of Economy is reportedly advancing a proposal to manage the Strait of Hormuz through an insurance-based framework aimed at enabling post-war oversight of the strategic waterway in accordance with international law, while also creating a new source of revenue for the country. According to a document obtained by Fars News Agency, the initiat…

Strait of Hormuz ‘open’ except for enemies, as new Iran insurance regulatory plan touted
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description: Asia Pacific Report Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is “open to all except its adversaries”, and any passage through the trajectory of this significant chokepoint should be coordinated with the Iranian military, reports AL Jazeera. Sources say the number of ships transiting through the strait has slightly increased, but is still very low compared
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is “open to all except its adversaries”, and any passage through the trajectory of this significant chokepoint should be coordinated with the Iranian military, reports AL Jazeera. Sources say the number of ships transiting through the strait has slightly increased, but is still very low compared with pre-war times, reports Tohid Asadi from Bandar Abbas, a city on the strait. Asadi has filed several exclusive reports from the strait area in the past few days. READ MORE: Drone hits UAE power plant; Israeli attacks on Lebanon continue Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’ Other Gaza and war on Iran reports He reports that Iran also said it was critically important for the US to lift the blockade on Iranian ships as a condition that could be taken into consideration when it comes to taking the strait into a normal situation. Iran says it will soon reveal its plan to manage traffic ⁠through the strait, including the charging of tolls, while Trump has warned Tehran will have a “very bad time” if a peace deal is not reached soon. On Saturday, Iran’s first vice president, Mohammad Reza Aref, said his country would no longer allow “enemy” military equipment to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Tohid Asadi reporting from the Strait of Hormuz. Video: Al Jazeera insurance-based framework The Lebanese-based satellite news service Al-Mayadeen reports that Iran is advancing an insurance-based framework to manage the strait, of H aiming to expand maritime oversight and generate post-war revenue while remaining within international law. Iran’s Ministry of Economy is reportedly advancing a proposal to manage the Strait of Hormuz through an insurance-based framework aimed at enabling post-war oversight of the strategic waterway in accordance with international law, while also creating a new source of revenue for the country. According to a document obtained by Fars News Agency, the initiat…

Chevron wants a school district tax break for a data center power plant
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description: The move could save the oil company hundreds of millions in Texas, even as state lawmakers start looking at reining in incentives for data centers.
encoded: A major oil company is seeking a state tax break in Texas worth hundreds of millions of dollars to build a massive power plant. The energy won’t be going to residential customers, though. Instead, the gas plant will be used to power a data center whose eventual tenant could be Microsoft. Chevron subsidiary Energy Forge One has filed an application with the State Comptroller’s board to obtain a tax abatement for a power plant it’s building in West Texas. In late January, the comptroller’s office made a recommendation to support the application’s approval — the first such approval under the program for a power plant intended solely for data center use. In March, following news reports that Microsoft was looking into purchasing power from the Energy Forge project, Chevron said that it had entered into an “exclusivity agreement” with Microsoft and Engine 1, an investment fund involved in the project. In January, Microsoft pledged to be a “good neighbor” in communities where it is building data centers, including promising to pay a “full and fair share of local property taxes.” The potential tax abatement for the project comes as big tech companies are battling rising public fury about data centers and electricity costs. It also comes as lawmakers start to cast a more critical eye on ballooning incentives for data centers, some of which have cost some states — including Texas — $1 billion or more each year. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GoogleDataCenter.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" alt="Two cooling towers have a Google logo on them and a Texas and US flag draped over another" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GoogleDataCenter.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 1600w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GoogleDataCenter.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&quality=75&strip=all 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GoogleDataCenter.jpg?resize=330%2C186&quality=75&strip=all 330w, https://grist…

Palestine on patrol – how a flag-dress caused a writers’ stir for justice
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description: COMMENTARY: By Kathrine Ross What a blast at the Auckland Writers Festival today, I had tickets for Marika and I to attend Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi’s talk and decided to dress up and wear my Palestine-flag-dress. Little did I know the stir it would cause — the Aotea Centre security literally chased me through the
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Kathrine Ross What a blast at the Auckland Writers Festival today, I had tickets for Marika and I to attend Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi’s talk and decided to dress up and wear my Palestine-flag-dress. Little did I know the stir it would cause — the Aotea Centre security literally chased me through the building and around the auditorium where Tareq would be talking, saying I had to “remove my flag”. But it was attached to my dress, so it was not “removeable” — unless I took my dress off (which was an option if things got too heated). READ MORE: Israel becomes world’s most disliked country, global survey finds – Middle East Monitor Israel to spend $730m on propaganda as global image collapses over Gaza genocide Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’ Other Gaza and war on Iran reports <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-127963 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Fire-in-Every-Direction-KR-300wide.png" alt=""Flag meets Fire". " width="300" height="389" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Fire-in-Every-Direction-KR-300wide.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Fire-in-Every-Direction-KR-300wide-231x300.png 231w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> “Flag meets Fire”. Image: Kathrine Ross So I kept on walking, staying in view of all the people who were witnessing and sticking up for me. Yes, members of the public were challenging those security guards chasing me and questioning them about why I couldn’t keep my flag-dress as it was. This went on until I managed to disappear into the rows of seats — what a great example of humanity that was. Later, after the talk, when I met gorgeous Tareq for the book signing, he also praised the dress and the action to dodge the security guards (there was only one witness who totally disappointed by their lack of support and sourness). But the rest of human…

Int. Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia
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‘They’re wiping us out’ – church leader warns about young West Papuans killed in escalating conflict
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description: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A West Papuan church leader has warned that ongoing killings of young Papuans allegedly by Indonesian security forces have the hallmark of genocide. Since the start of the year there has been no stop to violent incidents in the Indonesian-ruled Papua region known internationally as West Papua. Indonesia’s
encoded: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A West Papuan church leader has warned that ongoing killings of young Papuans allegedly by Indonesian security forces have the hallmark of genocide. Since the start of the year there has been no stop to violent incidents in the Indonesian-ruled Papua region known internationally as West Papua. Indonesia’s government blames recent violence on armed, pro-independence West Papuan fighters. READ MORE: Papuan women ‘living in fear’ condemn military violence Other West Papua reports However, human rights defenders say the violence is escalating, while the young, indigenous people of West Papua are in the firing line. High school students shot Last week a 17-year old Papuan girl was killed as a result of a military operation reportedly targeting civilian mining camps in Tembagapura. Also last week, several Papuan high school students were shot when tensions flared at a graduation parade through the town of Kobakma in Papua’s central highlands. Police had objected to them wearing the Papuan Morning Star flag — a symbol of the independence movement. Last month, Indonesia’s National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) said it was investigating a shooting incident that left up to 12 Papuan civilians dead as the result of an Indonesian military operation in Kembru district. According to human rights researchers, a 5-year old girl and a 77-year old woman were among the dead. Komnas HAM’s commissioner for monitoring and investigation Saurlin Siagian said it was difficult to ascertain the exact ages of each victim in the Kembru incident, but he told RNZ Pacific that two pregnant women were among those killed. Earlier in April, five people, including a 12-year old boy, were shot dead in Dogiyai regency in an alleged retaliatory attack by police after a policeman was killed. The list goes on, stretching back to January — dozens of people reported dead, dozens more people injured and many more people displaced from their villages. P…

Close vote sees Niue’s Dalton Tagelagi back in as prime minister
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description: By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor Niue’s assembly has re-elected Dalton Tagelagi as its prime minister, continuing his leadership for the next three years. Tagelagi, 57, has led Niue since 2020 and was nominated alongside Emani Fakaotimanava-Lui during the leadership vote. The 19th Niue Assembly was officially sworn in on Wednesday local time. READ
encoded: By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor Niue’s assembly has re-elected Dalton Tagelagi as its prime minister, continuing his leadership for the next three years. Tagelagi, 57, has led Niue since 2020 and was nominated alongside Emani Fakaotimanava-Lui during the leadership vote. The 19th Niue Assembly was officially sworn in on Wednesday local time. READ MORE: Other Niue reports Billy Talagi was sworn in as the new Speaker of Parliament. Pacific Media News reported Tagelagi won a narrow 11-9 leadership vote, and the result confirms continuity in leadership but exposes a deeply divided Parliament with MPs split almost evenly between the two leadership nominees. Niue’s 20-member Assembly is elected every three years, made up of 14 village representatives and six common roll MPs elected across the country. Addressing parliament after his re-election, Tagelagi called for unity in the new term. ‘Challenging times’ “These are challenging times when we go into elections because we have different perspectives and understanding that sometimes this might divide our families and affect our relationships with one another,” he said. “I ask you to come together in this Assembly, that we make decisions for the good of the people. I humbly ask you all to work together as we move forward with the 19th Legislative Assembly and government.” PMN’s Inangaro Vaka’afi told RNZ Pacific Waves Tagelagi had been adamant he wanted another term. “And also try and complete some of the work that they have already started,” she said. She said there is a mixture of reaction to how Tagelagi had led the country so far. “I think it’s not necessarily individual MPs, but you remember that they are representing their village constituency or a common role seat. “So perhaps there has been some sentiment on the ground in terms of situation on the island, or where the economy is at the moment, also just knowing what’s happening, because some of the work that’s been done doesn’t necessarily get filt…

Close vote sees Niue’s Dalton Tagelagi back in as prime minister
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description: By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor Niue’s assembly has re-elected Dalton Tagelagi as its prime minister, continuing his leadership for the next three years. Tagelagi, 57, has led Niue since 2020 and was nominated alongside Emani Fakaotimanava-Lui during the leadership vote. The 19th Niue Assembly was officially sworn in on Wednesday local time. READ
encoded: By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor Niue’s assembly has re-elected Dalton Tagelagi as its prime minister, continuing his leadership for the next three years. Tagelagi, 57, has led Niue since 2020 and was nominated alongside Emani Fakaotimanava-Lui during the leadership vote. The 19th Niue Assembly was officially sworn in on Wednesday local time. READ MORE: Other Niue reports Billy Talagi was sworn in as the new Speaker of Parliament. Pacific Media News reported Tagelagi won a narrow 11-9 leadership vote, and the result confirms continuity in leadership but exposes a deeply divided Parliament with MPs split almost evenly between the two leadership nominees. Niue’s 20-member Assembly is elected every three years, made up of 14 village representatives and six common roll MPs elected across the country. Addressing parliament after his re-election, Tagelagi called for unity in the new term. ‘Challenging times’ “These are challenging times when we go into elections because we have different perspectives and understanding that sometimes this might divide our families and affect our relationships with one another,” he said. “I ask you to come together in this Assembly, that we make decisions for the good of the people. I humbly ask you all to work together as we move forward with the 19th Legislative Assembly and government.” PMN’s Inangaro Vaka’afi told RNZ Pacific Waves Tagelagi had been adamant he wanted another term. “And also try and complete some of the work that they have already started,” she said. She said there is a mixture of reaction to how Tagelagi had led the country so far. “I think it’s not necessarily individual MPs, but you remember that they are representing their village constituency or a common role seat. “So perhaps there has been some sentiment on the ground in terms of situation on the island, or where the economy is at the moment, also just knowing what’s happening, because some of the work that’s been done doesn’t necessarily get filt…

I swear I won’t do anything for Muslims, says Bengal BJP MLA Ritesh Tiwari
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description: Days after the BJP formed its first government in West Bengal under chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, a speech by BJP MLA Ritesh Tiwari has sparked outrage online. “In these 74... The post I swear I won’t do anything for Muslims, says Bengal BJP MLA Ritesh Tiwari appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: Days after the BJP formed its first government in West Bengal under chief minister Suvendu Adhikari, a speech by BJP MLA Ritesh Tiwari has sparked outrage online. “In these 74 years of elections in West Bengal, I am most likely the first MLA from this constituency who has not received a single vote from a Muslim. Therefore, only those who have voted for me have the right to me. We didn’t go to ask for votes from those who did not vote for us,” Tiwari says in the viral video. “Today, in front of Baba Bholenath, I swear, I will not do one job for them (Muslims) in the next five years. Will not issue any certificate for them. I am saying this live. I do not care about what anyone else says or thinks. Modiji says, ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikaas’. I agree with him; he is my leader. But during this election, he added another phrase to it: ‘Sabka Hisaab’. That is how it should be, right?” he adds. ALSO READ: Day 1 of regime change in Bengal: Bulldozer in New Market, biriyani shop told to shift, Muslim names erased Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s slogan “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikaas”, he adds, “But during this election, he added another phrase to it: ‘Sabka Hisaab’.” Tiwari won the Kashipur-Belgachia seat in the recently held assembly elections by defeating Trinamool Congress heavyweight Atin Ghosh by 1,651 votes. In both 2016 and 2021 assembly polls, Trinamool Congress had won the seat with huge margins. कोलकाता: “भोलेनाथ की कसम, एक काम मुसलमानों के लिए नहीं करूंगा” ◆ काशीपुर बेलगाछिया सीट से BJP विधायक रितेश तिवारी अपने विवादित बयान के लिए सुर्खियों में आए ◆ तिवारी ने कहा, “मैं लोकतांत्रित तरीके से सबका हिसाब करूंगा” BJP MLA Ritesh Tiwari | #Bengal | Bengal pic.twitter.com/ndnzhRaGMy — News24 (@news24tvchannel) May 14, 2026 ‘Trinamool Sought to Establish Islamic Rule’ We found the full live recording of Ritesh Tiwari’s speech on his official Facebook page, where it was posted on May 11. The 20-minute video of the programme held at Tiwari’s constituency begins with su…

Meet the Lebanese rescuers being targeted by Israel
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"The Nakba was not a single passing event"
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 16, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 16, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Varieties of Democracy
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creator: Ralph Nader
date: 2026-05-16T16:54:21Z
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description: Ralph speaks to Dr. Marina Nord of the V-Dem Institute about this year's V-Dem Democracy Report and how the Trump Administration is dismantling democracy in the US. Then, Ralph welcomes Dr. Ralph Estes to discuss corporations' shady accounting practice...
encoded: Ralph speaks to Dr. Marina Nord of the V-Dem Institute about this year's V-Dem Democracy Report and how the Trump Administration is dismantling democracy in the US. Then, Ralph welcomes Dr. Ralph Estes to discuss corporations' shady accounting practices. Dr. Marina Nord is a postdoctoral research fellow at the V-Dem Institute. She is co-author of V-Dem’s Democracy Report 2026: “Unraveling The Democratic Era?”. Only six countries during the 21st century have registered larger one-year drops on the aggregate Liberal Democracy Index [than the United States] —and all of them are coups. If you look at the last almost 250 years (so for which we have data going back to 1789), there were only thirty-five instances of more rapid dismantling of democracy—almost all of them were either military coups or international interventions. Dr. Marina Nord We do not measure [Trump’s] words. We measure how institutions function de facto. And what is a lot more important for us is not only what he says, but how other institutions (checks and balances) function to constrain him. And one of the things that we see, for example, is that Congress is not constraining him in any way. And this is very, very serious, because if you have a President who violates the law, who violates the Constitution, you should have the judiciary who stand up, the Supreme Court who should stand up to protect the Constitution. You should have the Congress who is not allowed to [abdicate power to the executive]. And this is something that is very, very concerning, a lot more concerning than what Trump is saying. What I find a lot more concerning is that there are no checks and balances to constrain him. Dr. Marina Nord When looking at the data, we also looked at the countries who managed to stop autocrats similar to Trump. And we tried to analyze which factors contributed to stopping democratic backsliding and turning it around. So research shows that, of course, there is no single recipe, but there are several com…

Congressman’s own truckers have been involved in deadly crashes as he vows to make roads safer
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How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk #politics #trump
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Wild blueberry farms across Maine suffer as climate change upends growing seasons
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creator: Sydney Cromwell, Inside Climate News
date: 2026-05-16T13:00:00Z
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description: Like lobster rolls, wild blueberries are iconic in Maine. But heat and drought have set the plants back to a point where many small farmers are struggling against reduced yields and increased costs for mulch and irrigation.
encoded: Last summer, the wild blueberry fields at Crystal Spring Farm turned red too soon. Severe drought had gripped most of the state of Maine. At his farm near the town of Brunswick, Seth Kroeck knew the leaves were changing color prematurely because the blueberry plants were stressed. Berries shriveled before they could ripen. The farm’s 2025 harvest was almost a total loss. “We got about 7 percent of our expected harvest,” Kroeck, 55, said. Standing in his blueberry fields in April, he pointed out the new growth, still only a few inches high, and commented that last year’s yield was “a lot of raking with not a lot to show for it.” This was just the latest in a series of devastating weather for Crystal Spring Farm’s 72 acres of wild blueberries. “In the last seven years, we’ve lost the crop three times, almost completely,” he said. As the climate changes, these losses are getting more common for wild blueberry farmers. And, experts say, the solutions are pricey. Maine’s quintessential fruit Wild blueberries are an iconic food in Maine, like lobster rolls or whoopie pies. But they aren’t the same as the fruits sold by the pint in a grocery store. Wild blueberries are smaller and have a stronger flavor than their cultivated counterparts. They’re typically packed and frozen rather than sold fresh. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_6249-1024x683-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_6249-1024x683-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_6249-1024x683-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_6249-1024x683-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=160&h=90&crop=1 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_6249-1024x683-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=640&h=683&crop=1 640w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_6249-1024x683-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=a…

Eyewitness Video Shows Drone Strike On Apartment Block In Russia
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Tamil Nadu anti-Hindi protests from March falsely linked to TVK assuming power
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description: A 46-second video is being widely shared on social media with the claim that anti-Hindi protests have erupted across Tamil Nadu after the newly formed TVK government assumed office. The... The post Tamil Nadu anti-Hindi protests from March falsely linked to TVK assuming power appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: A 46-second video is being widely shared on social media with the claim that anti-Hindi protests have erupted across Tamil Nadu after the newly formed TVK government assumed office. The viral clip shows a group of people smearing black paint over Hindi signboards at railway stations. X user Bhakt Prahlad posted the video on May 10, 2026. The post has garnered over 270,000 views and 1500 reshares. The bio of the user says “Lawyer | Sanatani | Proud Hindu”. (Archive) Anti-Hindi Hate started in TamilNadu after Swearing-in of TVK Vijay. This is the only thing they knew & call BJP a communal party pic.twitter.com/zPE8rxW5go — Bhakt Prahlad (@RakeshKishore_l) May 10, 2026 The video was also shared by X user Anuradha Mishra with a similar claim on May 12, 2026. (Archive) Hindi text defaced at Chennai railway station after Vijay’s oath!!! I pity Tamil Nadu, state which is a Sanatan hater, hindu hater and a hindi hater pic.twitter.com/FTOaBH0N3A — Anuradha Mishra (Modi’s Family) (@Anuradham1805) May 12, 2026 The same video was posted by several social media users around May 10-12 echoing similar claims. They either called it ‘fresh protests’ or linked it directly to TVK and Joseph Vijay. Click to view slideshow. Fact Check We extracted a few keyframes from the viral video and performed a reverse image search on them. This led us to a Threads post by Sun News dated March 12, 2026, which carried the same footage. According to the post, activists protesting against the alleged imposition of Hindi had smeared black paint over Hindi lettering on signboards at railway stations such as Chromepet and Nungambakkam in Chennai. The on-screen Tamil text in the video, translated using Google Lens, read: “In Chennai Rail Station, Hindi Letters Removed”. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-315469" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Screenshot-2026-05-16-105325-1024x970.jpg" alt="" width="810" height="767" srcset="https://www…

A Night Under Russian Bombs In Dobropillya | Ukraine Front Line Update
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New chapter for Hapi Isles – Matthew Wale takes the helm as PM
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date: 2026-05-16T00:36:30Z
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subject: Honiara
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description: PROFILE: By Campion Ohasio The Solomon Islands has entered a new political era. In a historic morning at Parliament House yesterday, Matthew Cooper Wale was elected as the nation’s new Prime Minister. His victory marks the culmination of a dramatic week in Honiara and signals a potential shift in both the country’s internal management and
encoded: PROFILE: By Campion Ohasio The Solomon Islands has entered a new political era. In a historic morning at Parliament House yesterday, Matthew Cooper Wale was elected as the nation’s new Prime Minister. His victory marks the culmination of a dramatic week in Honiara and signals a potential shift in both the country’s internal management and its place on the global stage. Wale, the longtime Leader of the Opposition, defeated former Foreign Minister Peter Shanel Agovaka in a secret ballot, winning 26 votes to 22. READ MORE: China’s growing grip on the fragile Solomon Islands media sector Solomon Islands PM Jeremiah Manele ousted after just over two years in power Other Solomon islands reports The result was greeted with cheers from supporters gathered outside Parliament, Honiara and around the country, as the 57-year-old leader prepared to take the oath of office before Governor-General Sir David Tiva Kapu. The road to victory The path to the premiership was anything but simple. Just eight days ago, the previous government led by Jeremiah Manele collapsed after losing a motion of no-confidence. For years, Matthew Wale has been the most prominent voice of dissent in the Solomon Islands, often coming close to the top job but never quite reaching it. After falling short in the 2019 and 2024 leadership votes, many viewed Wale as the perpetual runner-up. However, today’s result proves that his persistence and his message of “breaking the shackles” finally resonated with a majority of his fellow Members of Parliament. In his first address following the announcement, Prime Minister-elect Wale was humble but realistic. “We take the government at a difficult time,” Wale told the press. “Change is coming. These changes are necessary, and they may be painful. I ask that you join your government in putting your hand to the plough.” Profile of a leader Who is Matthew Wale? Born on 13 June 1968, in Ambu Village, Malaita Province, Matthew Cooper Wale is a seasoned veteran of the Pacif…

New chapter for Hapi Isles – Matthew Wale takes the helm as PM
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date: 2026-05-16T00:36:30Z
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description: PROFILE: By Campion Ohasio The Solomon Islands has entered a new political era. In a historic morning at Parliament House yesterday, Matthew Cooper Wale was elected as the nation’s new Prime Minister. His victory marks the culmination of a dramatic week in Honiara and signals a potential shift in both the country’s internal management and
encoded: PROFILE: By Campion Ohasio The Solomon Islands has entered a new political era. In a historic morning at Parliament House yesterday, Matthew Cooper Wale was elected as the nation’s new Prime Minister. His victory marks the culmination of a dramatic week in Honiara and signals a potential shift in both the country’s internal management and its place on the global stage. Wale, the longtime Leader of the Opposition, defeated former Foreign Minister Peter Shanel Agovaka in a secret ballot, winning 26 votes to 22. READ MORE: China’s growing grip on the fragile Solomon Islands media sector Solomon Islands PM Jeremiah Manele ousted after just over two years in power Other Solomon islands reports The result was greeted with cheers from supporters gathered outside Parliament, Honiara and around the country, as the 57-year-old leader prepared to take the oath of office before Governor-General Sir David Tiva Kapu. The road to victory The path to the premiership was anything but simple. Just eight days ago, the previous government led by Jeremiah Manele collapsed after losing a motion of no-confidence. For years, Matthew Wale has been the most prominent voice of dissent in the Solomon Islands, often coming close to the top job but never quite reaching it. After falling short in the 2019 and 2024 leadership votes, many viewed Wale as the perpetual runner-up. However, today’s result proves that his persistence and his message of “breaking the shackles” finally resonated with a majority of his fellow Members of Parliament. In his first address following the announcement, Prime Minister-elect Wale was humble but realistic. “We take the government at a difficult time,” Wale told the press. “Change is coming. These changes are necessary, and they may be painful. I ask that you join your government in putting your hand to the plough.” Profile of a leader Who is Matthew Wale? Born on 13 June 1968, in Ambu Village, Malaita Province, Matthew Cooper Wale is a seasoned veteran of the Pacif…

Somersaulting Voters: Stopping Rabid Gerrymandering
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creator: matthew
date: 2026-05-15T23:25:54Z
subject: Ralph Nader
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description: By Ralph Nader May 15, 2026 “Gerrymandering” is the historic term for politicians picking their voters by manipulating Congressional and state electoral districts. Redistricting usually happens every ten years. It is fair to say that most voters don’t ...
encoded: By Ralph Nader May 15, 2026 “Gerrymandering” is the historic term for politicians picking their voters by manipulating Congressional and state electoral districts. Redistricting usually happens every ten years. It is fair to say that most voters don’t want politicians rigging the system to help one party win elections. Both the Republican and Democratic parties… This content originally appeared on Ralph Nader and was authored by matthew.

‘Seismic shift’ toward Aussie orbit likely under Solomon Islands’ new prime minister
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creator: Charley Piringi and Eugene Whong for RFA
date: 2026-05-15T22:53:07Z
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description: Experts say that Matthew Wale will be ‘more moderate’ and ‘less enthusiastic’ about China than his predecessors.
encoded: HONIARA — The Solomon Islands’ choice of longtime opposition leader Matthew Wale as its new prime minister could be a sign that a diplomatic shift away from Beijing and toward Canberra is likely, experts told Radio Free Asia. Wale was sworn in on Friday after winning 26 out of 50 votes in parliament, edging out the 22 votes for Foreign Minister Peter Shanel Agovaka, and drawing to a conclusion the political chaos surrounding Wale’s predecessor Jeremiah Manele, who last week was ousted in a no-confidence vote. “Fellow Solomon Islanders, change is coming,” Wale said during his inaugural address. The new prime minister takes office amid mounting geopolitical tension across the Indo-Pacific, and he will likely take a more moderate stance toward engagement with China, unlike the two prime ministers before him, Graeme Smith, associate professor at the Department of Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University, told RFA. “I think it’s a pretty seismic shift in the diplomatic sense. It does bring the Solomons more back into kind of an Australian, and to a lesser extent U.S. orbit,” he said. “It’s certainly a development that will have, I think, pleased people in Canberra.” Wale has been opposition leader for roughly seven years, dating back to the beginning of the fourth term of Manasseh Sogavare, during which it could be said that Honiara decisively entered into Beijing’s sphere of influence – in 2019 the Solomon Islands stopped recognizing Taiwan in favor of China, and in 2022 entered into a secretive controversial security pact with Beijing, which, at the time, Wale criticized as undermining the security of the country. Chinese police personnel on the grounds of the parliament building during the prime ministerial election in Honiara, Solomon Islands, May 15, 2026. (Charley Piringi/RFA) When Sogavare’s term was up in 2024, parliament chose his foreign minister Manele to succeed him, in what was largely seen as an extension of Sogavare’s pro-China stances. Smith …

CPJ, press freedom organizations renew call for justice on 9th anniversary of journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas’ murder
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2026-05-15T21:42:27Z
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description: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) joined family members, journalists and other press freedom organizations in Culiacán, the capital of the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa, to renew a call for justice in the murder of journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas. Valdez, a correspondent for Mexico City newspaper La Jornada and co-founder of weekly investigative magazine Ríodoce,...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) joined family members, journalists and other press freedom organizations in Culiacán, the capital of the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa, to renew a call for justice in the murder of journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas. Valdez, a correspondent for Mexico City newspaper La Jornada and co-founder of weekly investigative magazine Ríodoce, was killed May 15, 2017, in Culiacán. He was a 2011 International Press Freedom Award recipient. According to a federal investigation, his murder was ordered by Dámaso López Serrano, an alleged high-ranking operative of the Sinaloa Cartel criminal organization. While two of the triggermen were captured and received prison sentences, López Serrano surrendered to U.S. authorities several months after the killing. López Serrano, also known as ‘El Mini Lic,’ is serving a five-year jail sentence for drug trafficking in the United States. He was previously reported to have cooperated as a witness in other criminal cases. In Culiacán, Valdez’s widow Griselda Triana, Ríodoce co-founder Ismael Bojorquez, CPJ, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), ARTICLE 19 and Mexican press freedom organization Propuesta Cívica urged Mexican authorities to redouble their efforts to have Dámaso López Serrano extradited to Mexico so he can stand trial for his role in Valdez’s killing. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

When a Liquified Natural Gas Facility Moves In
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2026-05-15T21:04:04Z
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Why have immigration agents detained this citizen three times?
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creator: ProPublica
date: 2026-05-15T20:41:19Z
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When Cash, Banks, and Apps Fail
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creator: Hassan Herzallah
date: 2026-05-15T20:15:53Z
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description: Palestinians in Gaza are facing a unique financial crisis.
encoded: Palestinians in Gaza are facing a unique financial crisis. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Hassan Herzallah.

Journalist kettled while covering protest near NYC synagogue
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2026-05-15T20:07:38Z
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description: Independent journalist Talia Ben-Ora was penned in a police kettle while covering a protest in New York, New York, on May 5, 2026.The protest was taking place near a synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that was holding an event to promote real est...
encoded: Independent journalist Talia Ben-Ora was penned in a police kettle while covering a protest in New York, New York, on May 5, 2026. The protest was taking place near a synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that was holding an event to promote real estate sales in Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, the latter of which are widely believed to violate international law. The New York City Police Department formed a buffer zone around the synagogue, prohibiting access to the block it was located on and directing pro-Palestinian and a smaller group of pro-Israel protesters, as well as press, onto surrounding avenues, according to news reports and journalists who spoke to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. Ben-Ora told the Tracker that at one point, NYPD officers suddenly barricaded a sidewalk on nearby Third Avenue, pushing metal barricades into protesters and using chemical irritants to prevent them from accessing an area that had previously been open. Members of the press were standing behind the officers, documenting the police actions. Then, “NYPD flooded that space and closed us in, not allowing press to move away, resulting in a strange press-only kettle,” Ben-Ora said. In a video Ben-Ora posted on Bluesky, uniformed police and plainclothes public information officers can be seen telling press to back up from the protest, then surrounding them with metal barricades, penning them in. Situation deteriorated as protest marched from Lex/68 back to their original protest location. Press kettled as NYPD pushed in on protestors, other press. We are now stuck beside the SRG line. Unclear if any arrests. — talia jane (@taliajane.bsky.social) 2026-05-06T00:46:31.945Z “They prevented us from leaving by not moving from in front of where the barricades were up against the wall, ignoring us, as other cops were pushing into the crowd,” Ben-Ora said, adding, “I didn’t get the sense that we would be arrested, just that they were freezing our movement in any dire…

Israel threatens NYT with defamation suit
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-15T19:34:16Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Fiji’s journalists celebrate belated World Press Freedom Day – but warn of threats
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2026-05-15T19:18:30Z
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subject: World Press Freedom Day
description: Fijian Media Association Fiji’s media workers finally got to celebrate their World Press Freedom Day this week 11 days late — on Thursday, May 14. The event was pushed back from its traditional May 3 global date — which fell on a Sunday this year — to accommodate a packed news cycle dominated by parliamentary
encoded: Fijian Media Association Fiji’s media workers finally got to celebrate their World Press Freedom Day this week 11 days late — on Thursday, May 14. The event was pushed back from its traditional May 3 global date — which fell on a Sunday this year — to accommodate a packed news cycle dominated by parliamentary sittings and the Coca-Cola Games. The events across Suva and Savusavu highlighted both the grit of local journalists and the very real threats still hovering over the industry. READ MORE: Other World Press Freedom Day reports In the capital Suva, the day started before sunrise. At 5am journalists met at the Bowling Club for a morning walk down to My Suva Park and back, catching up over a networking breakfast. Later that evening, the focus shifted to Gordon House at the British High Commissioner’s Residence for a reception backed by BBC Media Action, Women in Media Fiji, and the Fijian Media Association (FMA). Permanent Secretary for Information Eseta Nadakuitavuki described reporters as “real warriors” who required courage and “a very thick skin”. While she praised the media’s fearless role in holding the powerful accountable, she also pointed to modern digital threats. She warned that while AI brought innovation, the rise of fake news and deepfakes meant ethical journalism and rigorous fact-checking were more crucial than ever. BBC Media Action mentorship The night also carved out time to recognise seven local journalists who completed a BBC Media Action content production mentorship under seasoned journalist Elenoa Baselala. Up North, a different kind of gathering took place at the Hot Springs Hotel in Savusavu. FMA general secretary Stanley Simpson joined journalists for a dinner supported by the Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS). The Savusavu event was an acknowledgment of the mental toll carried by reporters outside the capital who usually “survive on roti and bean between assignments”. Remembering the heavy weight these journalists carry, it was hi…

Fiji’s journalists celebrate belated World Press Freedom Day – but warn of threats
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description: Fijian Media Association Fiji’s media workers finally got to celebrate their World Press Freedom Day this week 11 days late — on Thursday, May 14. The event was pushed back from its traditional May 3 global date — which fell on a Sunday this year — to accommodate a packed news cycle dominated by parliamentary
encoded: Fijian Media Association Fiji’s media workers finally got to celebrate their World Press Freedom Day this week 11 days late — on Thursday, May 14. The event was pushed back from its traditional May 3 global date — which fell on a Sunday this year — to accommodate a packed news cycle dominated by parliamentary sittings and the Coca-Cola Games. The events across Suva and Savusavu highlighted both the grit of local journalists and the very real threats still hovering over the industry. READ MORE: Other World Press Freedom Day reports In the capital Suva, the day started before sunrise. At 5am journalists met at the Bowling Club for a morning walk down to My Suva Park and back, catching up over a networking breakfast. Later that evening, the focus shifted to Gordon House at the British High Commissioner’s Residence for a reception backed by BBC Media Action, Women in Media Fiji, and the Fijian Media Association (FMA). Permanent Secretary for Information Eseta Nadakuitavuki described reporters as “real warriors” who required courage and “a very thick skin”. While she praised the media’s fearless role in holding the powerful accountable, she also pointed to modern digital threats. She warned that while AI brought innovation, the rise of fake news and deepfakes meant ethical journalism and rigorous fact-checking were more crucial than ever. BBC Media Action mentorship The night also carved out time to recognise seven local journalists who completed a BBC Media Action content production mentorship under seasoned journalist Elenoa Baselala. Up North, a different kind of gathering took place at the Hot Springs Hotel in Savusavu. FMA general secretary Stanley Simpson joined journalists for a dinner supported by the Pacific Media Assistance Scheme (PACMAS). The Savusavu event was an acknowledgment of the mental toll carried by reporters outside the capital who usually “survive on roti and bean between assignments”. Remembering the heavy weight these journalists carry, it was hi…

Ghada Karmi: How Gaza shattered the myth of coexistence
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The Times they are a changing – The Grayzone live
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description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 15, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 15, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 15, 2026 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

Todd Blanche targets press, leakers as acting attorney general
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date: 2026-05-15T17:53:11Z
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description: As President Donald Trump’s second term continued in 2026, he removed Pam Bondi as attorney general. Her deputy, now acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, joined Trump in efforts to punish and intimidate news outlets that have covered Trump and his adm...
encoded: As President Donald Trump’s second term continued in 2026, he removed Pam Bondi as attorney general. Her deputy, now acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, joined Trump in efforts to punish and intimidate news outlets that have covered Trump and his administration critically. We’re documenting Blanche’s efforts in this regularly updated report. Read about how Trump’s appointees and allies in Congress are striving to chill reporting, revoke funding, censor critical coverage and more here. This article was first published on May 15, 2026. May 12, 2026 | Acting attorney general defends DOJ subpoenas to WSJ, others April 7, 2026 | Acting attorney general willing to subpoena journalists in leak investigations May 12, 2026 | Acting attorney general defends DOJ subpoenas to WSJ, others Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the issuing of federal subpoenas to The Wall Street Journal as part of a leak investigation, after the legal orders were made public on May 11, 2026. In a May 12 social media post, Blanche wrote, “Prosecuting leakers who share our nation’s secrets with reporters, in turn risking our national security and the lives of our soldiers, is a priority for this administration. “Any witness, whether a reporter or otherwise, who has information about these criminals should not be surprised if they receive a subpoena about the illegal leaking of classified material,” he continued. A Justice Department official emphasized to CBS News the same day that the subpoenas were issued as part of an investigation into the source behind the leaks, not the journalists themselves. Freedom of the Press Foundation, of which the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is a project, condemned the subpoenas and the use of “national security” as justification. “These subpoenas are a direct threat to the public’s right to know, and the Journal is correct to fight them,” FPF Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern said. “Since the Department of Justice has abandoned the First Amendment, it’s up to the …

How Trustworthy is Military Footage of UAP?
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creator: VICE News
date: 2026-05-15T17:18:43Z
subject: Sources
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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End ICE Abuse: Tom Morello Joins Immigrant Rights Protest in NYC
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-15T16:36:14Z
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subject: Protest
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Bangladesh tribunal shows journalists Rupa and Babu arrested over 2013 reporting
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2026-05-15T16:26:34Z
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subject: Imprisoned
subject: Legal Action
subject: Mozammel Babu
subject: Sources
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subject: committee
subject: Crimes against Humanity
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description: May 15, 2026, New Delhi—Bangladeshi authorities must release journalists Farzana Rupa and Mozammel Babu, who were recently arrested in a crimes-against-humanity case filed at the country’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. On May 14, the ICT in the capital Dhaka showed Rupa, a former chief reporter and presenter at...
encoded: May 15, 2026, New Delhi—Bangladeshi authorities must release journalists Farzana Rupa and Mozammel Babu, who were recently arrested in a crimes-against-humanity case filed at the country’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. On May 14, the ICT in the capital Dhaka showed Rupa, a former chief reporter and presenter at privately owned Ekattor TV, and Babu, the channel’s founder and former editor-in-chief, arrested in a case linked to the May 2013 crackdown on a rally by Islamist group Hefajat-e-Islam at Shapla Chattar. The tribunal sent the two journalists back to jail and set June 7 for submission of the investigation report. Former foreign minister Dipu Moni was also named in the case. “Editorial decisions on covering a contested political incident are not crimes against humanity, and using an international criminal law framework to punish journalists circumvents the basic protections guaranteed to the press under Bangladesh’s own constitution while also violating international human rights conventions,” said CPJ Asia-Pacific Program Coordinator Kunāl Majumder. “Bangladeshi authorities must stop weaponizing the international criminal tribunal to target journalists and immediately release Farzana Rupa and Mozammel Babu.” Prosecutors allege that Rupa, in a report aired on Ekattor TV after the incident, used statements from “controversial individuals” and spread misleading information that diverted attention from killings during the crackdown. Babu, as managing director of the channel at the time, is accused of overseeing the broadcast as part of what the chief prosecutor described as a “systematic” to conceal the death toll. CPJ has not been able to independently review the Ekattor TV broadcasts aired before, during, and after the Shapla Chattar operation that the prosecution cites as evidence. However, CPJ has reviewed a widely circulated 2013 YouTube documentary, presented by Rupa, that investigates the aftermath of…

Methane gas ignites fire at drinking water pump in Nigeria
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creator: Amnesty International
date: 2026-05-15T16:22:32Z
subject: Amnesty International
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subject: Fire
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subject: sources
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description: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.
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The People vs. The Autocrats: How to Fight Back – TEASER
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2026-05-15T16:06:00Z
subject: Gaslit Nation
subject: Sources
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description: Convicted felon Trump went to China and brought his son Eric along on the nepo-baby express. Eric runs the family business. And by "family business," we mean a transnational crime network of bribes operating like a geopolitical yard sale, selling out our country to the highest bidder. While they were there, Dictator Xi Jinping told the U.S. to back off defending Taiwan. And Trump, in defiance of decades of established U.S. foreign policy, is suddenly sounding suspiciously wishy-washy on approving arms deals for Taiwan. Which is just music to Xi's ears. It's the 1930s all over again, complete with secret alliances of transactional autocrats, and the people forced to build their own resistance networks in the storm. How do we get through this era without having to literally storm the beaches of Normandy again? To help us figure it out, we're bringing you Part II of our discussion with Ciara Torres-Spelliscy. She is a Brennan Center fellow, a law professor at Stetson University, and the author of Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians. (And if you missed Part I, where we discussed how American corporations funded Trump's violent January 6th coup attempt, go back and listen to it right here). It's easy to despair right now, but the resilience of the people, especially powerful community networks, reminds us that the Constitution still matters, and protects everyone on our soil. We are not powerless against a corporatocracy eager to cash in on transactional autocrats. We just need to confront the absolute, unmitigated disaster that was the Reagan Revolution, undo its damage by building localized power through groups like the States Project, and commit to a relentless, stubborn defiance. We can and will do it, together. Because there's no other choice. To listen to this full episode, subscribe at the Truth-teller tier, which is just $5 a month, or higher on Patreon. We have discounted annual subscriptions, and you can even give th…
encoded: Convicted felon Trump went to China and brought his son Eric along on the nepo-baby express. Eric runs the family business. And by "family business," we mean a transnational crime network of bribes operating like a geopolitical yard sale, selling out our country to the highest bidder. While they were there, Dictator Xi Jinping told the U.S. to back off defending Taiwan. And Trump, in defiance of decades of established U.S. foreign policy, is suddenly sounding suspiciously wishy-washy on approving arms deals for Taiwan. Which is just music to Xi's ears. It's the 1930s all over again, complete with secret alliances of transactional autocrats, and the people forced to build their own resistance networks in the storm. How do we get through this era without having to literally storm the beaches of Normandy again? To help us figure it out, we're bringing you Part II of our discussion with Ciara Torres-Spelliscy. She is a Brennan Center fellow, a law professor at Stetson University, and the author of Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians. (And if you missed Part I, where we discussed how American corporations funded Trump's violent January 6th coup attempt, go back and listen to it right here). It's easy to despair right now, but the resilience of the people, especially powerful community networks, reminds us that the Constitution still matters, and protects everyone on our soil. We are not powerless against a corporatocracy eager to cash in on transactional autocrats. We just need to confront the absolute, unmitigated disaster that was the Reagan Revolution, undo its damage by building localized power through groups like the States Project, and commit to a relentless, stubborn defiance. We can and will do it, together. Because there's no other choice. To listen to this full episode, subscribe at the Truth-teller tier, which is just $5 a month, or higher on Patreon. We have discounted annual subscriptions, and you can even give th…

UN News Today 15 May 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2026-05-15T16:05:57Z
subject: Podcasts/UN News Today
subject: Sources
subject: UN News
subject: 2026
subject: may
subject: News
subject: podcasts/un
subject: sources
subject: today
description: Somalia: ‘real and credible risk of famine’, warn aid teamsSudan: 825,000 small children face near-starvation: UNICEFUkraine: another UN convoy attacked twice in Kherson
encoded: Somalia: ‘real and credible risk of famine’, warn aid teamsSudan: 825,000 small children face near-starvation: UNICEFUkraine: another UN convoy attacked twice in Kherson This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

“We Will Find You and We Will Kill You” ⎹ The Intercept Briefing
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creator: The Intercept
date: 2026-05-15T16:01:23Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Intercept and was authored by The Intercept.
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Convoy controversy: Rajasthan MP’s cavalcade video falsely linked to BJP, PM Modi
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creator: Oishani Bhattacharya
date: 2026-05-15T14:47:55Z
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subject: bjp
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subject: controversy
subject: convoy
subject: falsely
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description: A 21-second viral clip showing a long convoy of cars moving along a road is being widely shared on social media with the claim that it shows a political convoy... The post Convoy controversy: Rajasthan MP’s cavalcade video falsely linked to BJP, PM Modi appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: A 21-second viral clip showing a long convoy of cars moving along a road is being widely shared on social media with the claim that it shows a political convoy in Rajasthan, where the BJP is in power. The video has gone viral in the backdrop of PM Narendra Modi’s May 10 appeal urging citizens to use petrol, diesel and cooking gas with “great restraint” amid the ongoing West Asia conflict. In his address, Modi also suggested measures such as using public transport, carpooling and reviving the work-from-home culture to reduce fuel consumption. He further advised people to postpone foreign travel and gold purchases for at least a year. Several social media users and critics of the BJP shared the viral clip to accuse the Prime Minister of hypocrisy, alleging that he appealed for fuel conservation while travelling the very next day with a massive convoy of vehicles. Among those amplifying the claim was Dhruv Rathee, who posted a video on X on May 12 criticising PM Modi for allegedly not practising what he preached. At the 36-second mark of the video, Rathee plays the viral clip and remarks that the Prime Minister’s convoy did not include any electric vehicles (EVs), which, according to him, would have reduced energy consumption. The post has garnered over 511,500 views and more than 10,000 reposts. (Archive) Modi’s DOGLA Advice to Indians pic.twitter.com/Wpfd1Wg3b7 — Dhruv Rathee (@dhruv_rathee) May 12, 2026 Congress media coordinator from Assam, Harmeet Kaur K, also shared the viral clip in response to another post and claimed that the video showed PM Narendra Modi’s convoy in Rajasthan. (Archive) So did their leader after appealing to their countrymen to drastically measure to conserve fuel & oil , did back to back unnecessary road shows , rallies with more than 50 car convoys, wasted foreign trips to different countries in private jets ?? And why did he make such a big… pic.twitter.com/K90xvtYM3o — Harmeet Kaur K (@iamharmeetK) May 12, 2026 Some other social media use…

"Israel: What Went Wrong?": Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov & Haaretz’s Gideon Levy Debate Zionism
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-15T14:44:51Z
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subject: Democracy
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subject: levy
subject: now
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Nakba Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-15T14:42:35Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: cleansing
subject: day
subject: Democracy
subject: ethnic
subject: gaza
subject: israel’s
subject: muhammad
subject: Nakba
subject: now
subject: ongoing
subject: palestinian
subject: resilience
subject: shehada
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 15, 2026
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-15T14:09:42Z
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subject: Democracy
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subject: sources
subject: top
subject: u.s.
subject: World
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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“Israel: What Went Wrong?”: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov & Haaretz’s Gideon Levy Debate Zionism
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-15T12:35:58Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: bartov
subject: debate
subject: Democracy
subject: gideon
subject: haaretz’s
subject: holocaust
subject: israel
subject: levy
subject: now
subject: Ömer
subject: scholar
subject: sources
subject: went
subject: what
subject: wrong
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description: We speak to two prominent Israeli thinkers, historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy, about the founding beliefs of Zionism. Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University, is the author of the new book Israe...
encoded: We speak to two prominent Israeli thinkers, historian Omer Bartov and journalist Gideon Levy, about the founding beliefs of Zionism. Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University, is the author of the new book Israel: What Went Wrong? Bartov says the early Zionist movement had liberatory intentions, aiming to emancipate the persecuted Jewish minority in Europe and modeling itself after other contemporary ethnonationalist movements. He then argues that while Israel had the opportunity to “become a normal state” and “issue a constitution that would provide equality to all its citizens, would define its borders and create a legal framework” that could also acknowledge and redress the Nakba, it chose another path. Instead of remedying its foundational violence, he says, the modern Israeli state has become increasingly “militaristic, centralized, expansionist, racist and, as we’ve seen since October 2023, genocidal.” Though Bartov does not identify as an anti-Zionist, he says Israel “must discard Zionism, it must put it on the garbage heap of history, and it must redefine itself, going all the way back to 1948.” Levy, on the other hand, says Zionism has never been reformable, because the movement, from its very beginning, “started wrong, without the belief or the conviction that we can live together.” He contests Bartov’s assertion that early Zionist intentions became warped over the 20th century, and says instead that the violent dispossession of Palestinians is embedded into the premise of the movement. “This very same attitude, this very same policy never stopped ever since ’48,” Levy contends. His latest piece in Haaretz is titled “Zionism Didn’t Go Wrong, It Was Always Built This Way.” Both Bartov and Levy also respond to the Israeli government’s threat to file a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times for publishing a column by longtime opinion writer Nicholas Kristof about systemic sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees in Isr…

Nakba Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience
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description: Palestinians around the world are marking Nakba Day, 78 years after their forced mass displacement led to the establishment of the Jewish-majority state of Israel. Decades later, Palestinians still face widespread oppression and violence from ...
encoded: Palestinians around the world are marking Nakba Day, 78 years after their forced mass displacement led to the establishment of the Jewish-majority state of Israel. Decades later, Palestinians still face widespread oppression and violence from the Israeli state as it continues its expansionary project. “Israel tried, since 1948 until today, to destroy us as a people, as a group, and they failed at it. Our people are still there, resilient,” says Palestinian writer Muhammad Shehada, who was born in Gaza and now lives in Denmark. Shehada discusses the ongoing process of the Nakba, including its latest intensification after October 7, 2023. “Now this veneer of civility has fallen off. The mask was taken off. And now it’s a matter of national pride in Israel to brag about annihilating Palestinians.” Shehada also describes current conditions in Gaza — still under Israeli blockade and occupation — and what he calls the “disarmament trap” of unfairly weighted negotiations designed to strip Palestinians of political autonomy. “The 'realistic' proposal that Israel is putting on the table is surrender, capitulate, become fully defenseless, weaponless, and entrust the very army that carried out a genocide against you to be merciful towards you once you are an easier target than you ever were before.” Finally, he responds to the Israeli government’s recent threat to file a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, after the paper published a column by longtime opinion writer Nicholas Kristof about systemic sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. “It’s the newspaper of record. It’ll be spread and disseminated widely to an American audience,” says Shehada about the allegations levied in Kristof’s piece. “So we see, basically, an Israeli panic attack in return.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

End ICE Abuse: Tom Morello Joins Immigrant Rights Protest in NYC
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description: On Tuesday, a coalition of groups held a rally to protest ICE’s abuses at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, a 41-story federal building in lower Manhattan that houses immigration courts, ICE field offices, immigrant detention spaces, and U.S. Cit...
encoded: On Tuesday, a coalition of groups held a rally to protest ICE’s abuses at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, a 41-story federal building in lower Manhattan that houses immigration courts, ICE field offices, immigrant detention spaces, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The protest, organized by Hands Off NYC, included advocates from Make the Road New York, the New York Immigration coalition, and a surprise guest — musician Tom Morello, who performed “This Land Is Your Land.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for May 15, 2026
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description: House Narrowly Rejects Latest War Powers Resolution to End Trump’s Attacks on Iran, CENTCOM Commander Denies U.S. Killed Civilians in Iran: “No Way That We Can Corroborate That”, Iran’s Foreign Minister Asks BRICS Nations to Unite Against U.S. “Bullying”, Trump Departs China Without Agreements on Taiwan, Iran or Strait of Hormuz, CIA Chief Travels to Havana as Cuba’s Oil Reserves Run Dry Amid U.S. Fuel Blockade, UNICEF Says Israeli Attacks Have Killed or Wounded 59 Children in a Week, Despite Ceasefire Deal, Israeli Nationalists March Through Jerusalem’s Old City, Chanting “Death to Arabs”, 24 Killed as Russian Missile Slams into Kyiv Apartment Building, Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks, Who Oversaw Mass Deportation Campaign, Abruptly Resigns, Court Orders Trump Administration to Return Colombian Woman Deported to Congo, Supreme Court Preserves Broad Access to Abortion Medication Mifepristone, ABC: Trump Set to Unveil $1.7 Billion IRS “Compensation Fund” to Benefit MAGA Allies , Boeing to Pay Family of Samya Stumo Nearly $50M over Fatal Crash of 737 MAX Jet, Bolivian Unions Lead Nationwide Strikes Demanding Ouster of President Paz, Richard Glossip Freed on Bond After Nearly 30 Years on Oklahoma’s Death Row
encoded: House Narrowly Rejects Latest War Powers Resolution to End Trump's Attacks on Iran CENTCOM Commander Denies U.S. Killed Civilians in Iran: "No Way That We Can Corroborate That" Iran's Foreign Minister Asks BRICS Nations to Unite Against U.S. "Bullying" Trump Departs China Without Agreements on Taiwan, Iran or Strait of Hormuz CIA Chief Travels to Havana as Cuba's Oil Reserves Run Dry Amid U.S. Fuel Blockade UNICEF Says Israeli Attacks Have Killed or Wounded 59 Children in a Week, Despite Ceasefire Deal Israeli Nationalists March Through Jerusalem's Old City, Chanting "Death to Arabs" 24 Killed as Russian Missile Slams into Kyiv Apartment Building Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks, Who Oversaw Mass Deportation Campaign, Abruptly Resigns Court Orders Trump Administration to Return Colombian Woman Deported to Congo Supreme Court Preserves Broad Access to Abortion Medication Mifepristone ABC: Trump Set to Unveil $1.7 Billion IRS "Compensation Fund" to Benefit MAGA Allies Boeing to Pay Family of Samya Stumo Nearly $50M over Fatal Crash of 737 MAX Jet Bolivian Unions Lead Nationwide Strikes Demanding Ouster of President Paz Richard Glossip Freed on Bond After Nearly 30 Years on Oklahoma's Death Row This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2026-05-15 Friday
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description: Headlines for May 15, 2026; Nakba Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience; “Israel: What Went Wrong?”: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov & Haaretz’s Gideon Levy Debate Zionism
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Improvements in Pacific media freedom, but a shameful silence on Gaza ‘death trap’
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description: ANALYSIS: By David Robie, Pacific Media Watch When the Paris-based global watchdog Reporters Without Borders released their annual World Press Freedom Index dossier online three days before World Press Freedom Day, journalists in the Asia-Pacific region were quick to check out their ranking. Overall the prognosis wasn’t very flattering. No country in the region was

Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times?
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creator: Nicole Foy
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description: The post Why Have Immigration Agents Detained This American Citizen Three Times? appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Leonardo Garcia Venegas Sarahbeth Maney/ProPublica When immigration agents pulled U.S. citizen Leonardo Garcia Venegas from his car this month and shackled him, he wasn’t surprised. He wasn’t scared. He was tired. As ProPublica detailed last fall, he had already been detained twice before. A year ago, Garcia Venegas was filming his brother’s arrest during a raid on their coastal Alabama construction site when he was tackled by agents, who ignored his pleas that he was a citizen. A few weeks later, an officer entered the home Garcia Venegas was building and refused to trust the now-26-year-old’s Alabama REAL ID, which only citizens and legal residents can get. Videos of the incidents went viral. He appeared before Congress. He also has a suit pending against the Trump administration. But all the attention hasn’t changed much. On May 2, agents followed him back to his home. They again didn’t believe his claims of citizenship or the REAL ID he once again tried to show them. Now, after that latest detention, Garcia Venegas sounds demoralized. “Honestly, it feels terrible,” Garcia Venegas told ProPublica. The mental burden of wondering when it will happen again weighs on him, bringing stress and depression. “I drive to work every morning and I know, at any moment, they could pull me over again.” Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen, was recently detained for a third time by immigration authorities. Joanna Shan/ProPublica While immigration sweeps have receded from the headlines, Garcia Venegas’ most recent incident highlights how the mistaken detention of Americans has continued despite congressional inquiries and denials by senior immigration officials. Days after Garcia Venegas’ latest detention, masked agents tackled an American teen in the Bronx. When they finally realized he was a citizen, they left him in an unfamiliar neighborhood, bloody and bruised. The same week both citizens were held, administration officials spoke on a panel at a border security conference in Phoen…

In a Private Meeting, Colorado Marijuana Regulators Acknowledge the Extent of Illegal Hemp Sales
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description: The post In a Private Meeting, Colorado Marijuana Regulators Acknowledge the Extent of Illegal Hemp Sales appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Despite regulators’ concerns, Colorado lawmakers abandoned a bill that would have let voters decide whether to overhaul how marijuana products are tested for contaminants. Raymond Boyd/Getty Images A top regulator for Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division acknowledged in a private meeting with industry representatives that the amount of chemically converted hemp being illegally sold as marijuana is far greater than the agency has publicly disclosed. The remarks confirmed testing by The Denver Gazette and ProPublica, which found signs of hemp in marijuana vapes sold at dispensaries, as well as reporting that regulators have discovered that some hemp-derived vapes were contaminated with a toxic chemical. The virtual meeting, an audio recording of which was reviewed by the news organizations, was convened by members of Colorado Leads, a marijuana industry trade group, in March to discuss a problem they said had “metastasized” and now posed an “existential threat” to the nation’s first legal recreational marijuana market. During the meeting, Kyle Lambert, the enforcement division’s deputy senior director, said the number of hemp-derived products is “larger than we can quantify.” He said the agency feared the prevalence of banned hemp was driving down the price of marijuana in the state and helping facilitate the diversion of high-grade marijuana out of Colorado and into the black market in other states. Describing anomalies in the system the state uses to track marijuana production and sales, Lambert told the industry players that the extent of suspicious transactions in the system “would probably explode your minds.” Two weeks after that meeting, the division sent a bulletin to the industry that it plans to crack down on companies that illegally sell cheaper and potentially hazardous hemp products as marijuana and that it would pursue emergency rules. But it hasn’t done so yet, and other reform efforts failed during this year’s legislative session. Despite the regu…

DN! Friday, May 15, 2026
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At 17, He Was Tear-Gassed at Selma. At 78, He’s Watching Kids Tear-Gassed During Trump’s Deportation Campaign.
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description: The post At 17, He Was Tear-Gassed at Selma. At 78, He’s Watching Kids Tear-Gassed During Trump’s Deportation Campaign. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Charles Mauldin was near the front of the line to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, a day that became known as “Bloody Sunday” after police brutally beat demonstrators. Charity Rachelle for ProPublica Charles Mauldin remembers that his lungs felt like they were imploding when he breathed in tear gas more than 60 years ago. It was Sunday, March 7, 1965, when Mauldin, who was 17, joined hundreds of other demonstrators in a march from Selma, Alabama, to the state Capitol in Montgomery to demand voting rights for Black Americans. Mauldin stood near the front of the line — just two rows behind John Lewis, who would go on to become a civil rights icon and U.S. representative — when the march attempted to cross Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge. Law enforcement officers waited on the other side. They ordered the group to disperse. After about a minute and half, Mauldin said, police began to attack the demonstrators with billy clubs. They also launched tear gas into the crowd, which included teenagers like Mauldin. “We didn’t know what to expect,” Mauldin recalled. “I was fearful. We had to put ourselves in a place beyond fear.” Now 78, Mauldin watches the news and sees videos and pictures of children being tear-gassed again — not by local police in 1965, but by federal immigration officers in 2026. “Having people like ICE treat people the way we were treated 61 years ago, it’s horrible,” Mauldin said. “It’s traumatizing for young kids, and I’m just starting to realize how traumatizing it is for me.” <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" js-autosizes height="766" width="1149" src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/20260428-Rachelle-ICE-Kids-Tear-Gassed-6-PDedit_preview_maxWidth_3000_maxHeight_3000_ppi_72_embedColorProfile_true_quality_95.jpg?w=1149" alt="Hands hold a framed black-and-white photograph of a line of people walking across a bridge." class="wp-image-77884" srcset="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/upload…

Nebraska wonders which is riskier: The fires it starts, or the fires it fights
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creator: Anila Yoganathan
date: 2026-05-15T08:45:00Z
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description: Fires have burned nearly a million acres in Nebraska this year. Are even more the solution?
encoded: As the fast-moving blaze rolled toward Fire Chief Jason Schneider’s district in Cozad, Nebraska, he and his crew faced a literal uphill battle. The Cottonwood Fire was tearing through the Loess Canyons, an area defined by steep slopes, narrow valleys, few roads, and pockets of invasive eastern red cedar trees, which can throw embers and ash and even explode when they burn. “You think you would have it put out, and you keep on moving north, and you’d look back south and it’s just going again behind you,” Schneider said of the March blaze. But the situation started to improve when Schneider’s crew connected with the South Loup Burn Association, a group of landowners and ranchers who were also fighting the fire. They showed Schneider and his volunteer crew how to do back burns — setting controlled, low blazes in the path ahead of the Cottonwood Fire to consume any flammable material — to contain the wildfire. About 92 percent of Nebraska’s fire departments listed with the National Fire Department Registry are volunteer-based. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CottonwoodFire_1_AustinKlemm_cropped.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CottonwoodFire_1_AustinKlemm_cropped.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CottonwoodFire_1_AustinKlemm_cropped.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CottonwoodFire_1_AustinKlemm_cropped.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CottonwoodFire_1_AustinKlemm_cropped.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CottonwoodFire_1_AustinKlemm_cropped.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CottonwoodFire_1_AustinKlemm_cropped.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=160&h=90&crop=1 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05…

The surprising climate fix that Democrats and Republicans both love
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creator: Matt Simon
date: 2026-05-15T08:30:00Z
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description: Politicians across the spectrum want more housing. Apartments are a great answer, because they also slash carbon emissions in a big way.
encoded: Democrats and Republicans agree on virtually nothing at this point, except the desperate need to build more housing in the United States. Depending on your viewpoint, the country needs new domiciles because it puts people to work and stimulates local economies, or because it creates affordable homes and drives down housing costs, thus reducing homelessness. Affordability, including in housing, is now one of the biggest political issues in America. Neither party, though, is talking about the secret superpower of new apartment buildings: They’re much better for the planet than constructing single-family homes. According to a new report, these units are “an almost automatic form of building decarbonization,” because three-quarters of new apartments are heated electrically. That means they can run on rooftop solar panels or tap into grids humming with clean energy, instead of burning plant-warming natural gas in furnaces or boilers. While the Trump administration and the Republican Party at large try to roll back as much climate progress as they can, they’re inadvertently bolstering that progress by calling for new construction. Deep-red Montana, for instance, recently passed a flurry of bills to get more multi-family housing built. “Apartments are the climate solution hiding in plain sight,” said Alan Durning, executive director of the nonprofit Sightline Institute, which authored the report. Nothing against single-family homes, but apartment buildings and condos are much more efficient for a number of reasons. For one, residents share walls, floors, and ceilings with their neighbors, surrounding them with excellent insulation. Secondly, the square footage of each unit tends to be smaller than detached homes, so there’s less air to manage. Accordingly, it takes less energy to climate-control apartment units and keep people comfortable: The typical resident of a downtown high-rise emits one-third as much greenhouse gases as a resident of a detached house in the suburbs.…

Ukraine’s $2,000 Drone Is Destroying Russia’s $50,000 Shaheds. And Everyone Wants It
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Energy bills keep rising. These candidates in Georgia say they can help.
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creator: Emily Jones
date: 2026-05-15T08:15:00Z
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description: With the state’s energy future hanging in the balance, 10 people are vying for two seats on the powerful utility commission.
encoded: Ten candidates are vying for two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission in the May 19 primary. Early voting is already underway. The commission oversees utilities, including telecommunications, natural gas, and electricity, and has final say over how Georgia Power, the state’s largest electric utility, makes energy and what it charges customers. This gives commissioners substantial power over Georgians’ energy bills and the state’s climate future, because burning fossil fuels to make electricity is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. By the PSC’s own description, “very few governmental agencies have as much impact on peoples’ lives as the PSC.” Still, elections for the commission have rarely received much attention. That changed last year. Amid frustration over rising energy bills, voters overwhelmingly ousted two Republican incumbents, sending Democrats to the five-member commission for the first time in 20 years. With two seats up for election again this year, majority control of the commission is at stake. Most candidates, regardless of party, broadly agree on the issues commanding the most attention: that energy bills should be kept in check and that the commission should do more to protect ordinary customers from the costs of powering data centers. But they bring different backgrounds and approaches to the job. District 3 The seat for District 3, which encompasses the metro Atlanta counties of Clayton, Dekalb, and Fulton, was on last year’s ballot, but only for a one-year term. Democrat Peter Hubbard won that election and is now running for reelection as the incumbent. Hubbard told Grist he’s running for reelection because he needs more time to enact changes like expanding renewable energy and ensuring Georgia Power is getting the most out of existing resources before building expensive new ones. A full six-year term, he said, would include the “big, meaty decisions” of Georgia Power’s long-term resource plan and rate case. Hubbard said he wants…

Once dismissed as weeds, native plants are now flying off the shelves
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description: Gardeners across the country are flocking to climate-resilient native plants as concerns about extreme heat, flooding, and pollinators grow.
encoded: Renee Costanzo cranked on the rusty pulley with both hands, watching the greenhouse roof creak open in sections. A breeze of spring air swept over 12,000 seedlings lined up in plastic trays in the Kilbourn Park greenhouse. Costanzo, the Chicago Park District’s only full-time employee at the northside greenhouse, spearheads a months-long effort to grow more than 15,000 plants, including vegetables, greens, and flowers, to get them ready in time for the Kilbourn Park’s annual plant sale. The massively popular sale, which took place earlier this month, typically draws upwards of 1,100 people every year, with local gardeners lining up around the park waiting to snatch up plants at $4 a piece. But this year, attendance broke records — over 2,300 shoppers turned out. “We generally start these annuals at the end of February,” said Costanzo, pointing to rows of popular annual flowers like zinnias, marigolds, and geraniums, which provide bright blooms all summer long before dying at the end of the season. “So we’ve been coddling and loving these babies for months now, and we just want to get them into happy homes.” <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/KILBOURNPLANTSALE_2605070600-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/KILBOURNPLANTSALE_2605070600-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/KILBOURNPLANTSALE_2605070600-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/KILBOURNPLANTSALE_2605070600-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/KILBOURNPLANTSALE_2605070600-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/KILBOURNPLANTSALE_2605070600-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/KILBOURNPLANTSALE_2605070600-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=160&h=90&crop=1 160w, h…

Grifty Colossus Strikes Again and Again and…
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creator: Abby Zimet
date: 2026-05-15T07:13:49Z
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subject: Strikes
description: Oh man. Same old clown show, awash with boondoggles, each more cringey than the last. As the mad man-child deconstructs DC and slaps his hideous face and name everywhere - historic buildings, fascist arches, garish statues, possibly imaginary gold pho...
encoded: Oh man. Same old clown show, awash with boondoggles, each more cringey than the last. As the mad man-child deconstructs DC and slaps his hideous face and name everywhere - historic buildings, fascist arches, garish statues, possibly imaginary gold phones - others have taken his lead with their own patriotic spinoffs. Cue "Fuck You" upgrades, a Strait to Hell arcade for a video-game war, and a Trump/Epstein "Memorial Reading Room" packed with 3.5 million pages of files, where "the truth is hard to deny." Trump's narcissistic vandalizing of D.C. - couldn't his KKK dad have just hugged him now and then? - is "something dictators have done throughout history," noted Bernie Sanders of his proposed SERVE Act, or Stop Executive Renaming for Vanity and Ego. Co-sponsored by six Senate Dems, the bill would bar any sitting president from naming federal properties after themselves, an act both "arrogant" and illegal. At this rate many weary Americans would likely argue, "Let the chiseling off begin," but for now the bill sits in legislative limbo and we're stuck with the resulting atrocities; they continue to multiply like locusts, even as he's proposed a $10-billion fund for more "beautification" projects around "the capital of the greatest Nation in the history of the world." Though he increasingly nods off in public - or per the White House, blinks - he still clutches at a farcical show of dominance he's leaned on in the endless self-glorification campaign that is his execrable life. There are posts quoting fictional "fans": "Remarkable leadership,” "Master of the Deal,” "THE GREATEST PRESIDENT WE HAVE EVER KNOWN." From the guy who's "confused the country for his living room," there's D.C's re-branding: the plaques, name changes, razed East Wing for a billion-dollar "albatross" nobody wants. There are new massive Stalin-esque banners at construction sites proclaiming, “Thank you, PRESIDENT TRUMP”- "like Michael Scott buying himself a World’s Best Boss coffee mug" we paid for…

Fake video: Clip showing Suvendu Adhikari talking about ‘finishing’ Muslims is AI generated
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creator: Prantik Ali
date: 2026-05-15T06:08:14Z
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description: A video of West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari is viral on social media, purporting to show him make several controversial statements. In the video, Adhikari starts off by expresses... The post Fake video: Clip showing Suvendu Adhikari talking about ‘finishing’ Muslims is AI generated appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: A video of West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari is viral on social media, purporting to show him make several controversial statements. In the video, Adhikari starts off by expresses his satisfaction at winning the seats of Bhabanipur and Nandigram. Then, he goes on to say: “We will work only for Hindus, and exterminate the 27% Muslim population in West Bengal. In this way, our work will ensure that the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) stays in power for more than 100 years.” X user (@Naira_Seth1) posted the viral clip, adding, in the caption, that this was a case of “majoritarian extremism” dressed as politics. (Archive) Suvendu Adhikari openly bragged about defeating Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram, then reportedly declared that BJP will “only work for Hindus” and “eliminate the 27% Muslims of West Bengal” to stay in power for 100 years. This is not governance. This is majoritarian extremism pic.twitter.com/MyIgERbyD2 — Naira Seth (@Naira_Seth1) May 7, 2026 X user (@Divyayadav98178) posted this video, which managed to rack up more than 8,000 views and over 50 shares. An archived version of the post, which has now been removed from the platform, can be accessed here. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-315395" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Screenshot_256.jpg" alt="" width="798" height="854" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Screenshot_256.jpg 798w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Screenshot_256-280x300.jpg 280w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Screenshot_256-768x822.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px" /> X user (@nilakshirabhaa) had also posted the clip with the viral claim. It was later taken down. Fact Check It is clear from the video that it is AI generated. The man seen in the later part of the clip is not Suvendu Adhikari. See below: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-315418" src="…

Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on Iran
type: item
creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-15T05:40:43Z
subject: 12-Day War
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: General Wesley Clark
subject: Iranian oil
subject: Malignant narcissism
subject: Middle East war
subject: Neo-conservatives
subject: Project for the New American Century
subject: Sources
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subject: War on Iran
subject: West Asia
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subject: Century
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subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Education
subject: Featured
subject: for
subject: gaza
subject: General
subject: Genocide
subject: Global
subject: iran
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subject: Justice
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subject: Pacific Media Watch
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description: ANALYSIS: By Alison Broinowski of Declassified Australia Most of the Western media refuse to join the dots and explain Israel’s decades-long obsession with defanging Tehran. The war in Iran is what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has planned for four decades. He has always wanted Israel to extend from Egypt to the Euphrates and in the
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Alison Broinowski of Declassified Australia Most of the Western media refuse to join the dots and explain Israel’s decades-long obsession with defanging Tehran. The war in Iran is what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has planned for four decades. He has always wanted Israel to extend from Egypt to the Euphrates and in the process have the United States overthrow seven neighbouring countries, the last and latest being Iran. That was also America’s plot, hatched by the neo-conservative authors at the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) in 2000. The list of targeted countries, confirmed by US General Wesley Clark in 2007, was based on a proposal published in Israel in 1982. READ MORE: Lifting secrecy plans to censor jornalists Other war on Palestine, war on Iran reports Ambitious as they were, these long-held intentions have now culminated in the US-Israel war on Iran, which seems sudden but was carefully planned, a former British Ambassador claims. US President Donald Trump was not “bounced into it” by Israel: it had been in gestation for months, says Craig Murray, Britain’s ambassador to Uzbekistan between 2002 and 2004. Well in advance, Trump had weapons ordered for fast delivery from Lockheed Martin, naval ships and troops were moved to the Gulf, and CIA and Mossad agitators reportedly stirred up Iranians in several cities, already exasperated by their theocratic rulers and by US sanctions. If Murray is right, Trump and Netanyahu must have been planning this in their frequent meetings before and since the “12-day war” against Iran last year. Or for longer: Trump has reminded the world that as far back as 1987 he wanted the US to take over some of Iran’s oil, and to go to war for it. Everything is a ‘deal’ But Trump’s shambolic war shows that he regards everything as a “deal’” and while aggrandising himself, he fails to understand that Iranians don’t accept transactionalism about their country, whoever its leader is. He appears not to re…

Media miss: The questions never asked behind the US-Israel war on Iran
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-15T05:40:43Z
subject: 12-Day War
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: General Wesley Clark
subject: Iranian oil
subject: Malignant narcissism
subject: Middle East war
subject: Neo-conservatives
subject: Project for the New American Century
subject: Sources
subject: US-Israel attacks
subject: War on Iran
subject: West Asia
subject: 12-day
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subject: Analysis
subject: asia
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subject: asked
subject: attacks
subject: behind
subject: Benjamin Netanyahu
subject: Century
subject: CIA
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subject: clark
subject: donald trump
subject: east
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Education
subject: Featured
subject: for
subject: gaza
subject: General
subject: Genocide
subject: Global
subject: iran
subject: iranian
subject: Justice
subject: malignant?
subject: Media
subject: middle
subject: military
subject: miss
subject: narcissism
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subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Palestine
subject: pentagon
subject: Police
subject: Politics
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subject: report
subject: Security
subject: Self Determination
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
subject: the
subject: us/israel
subject: war
subject: wesley
subject: west
description: ANALYSIS: By Alison Broinowski of Declassified Australia Most of the Western media refuse to join the dots and explain Israel’s decades-long obsession with defanging Tehran. The war in Iran is what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has planned for four decades. He has always wanted Israel to extend from Egypt to the Euphrates and in the
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Alison Broinowski of Declassified Australia Most of the Western media refuse to join the dots and explain Israel’s decades-long obsession with defanging Tehran. The war in Iran is what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has planned for four decades. He has always wanted Israel to extend from Egypt to the Euphrates and in the process have the United States overthrow seven neighbouring countries, the last and latest being Iran. That was also America’s plot, hatched by the neo-conservative authors at the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) in 2000. The list of targeted countries, confirmed by US General Wesley Clark in 2007, was based on a proposal published in Israel in 1982. READ MORE: Lifting secrecy plans to censor jornalists Other war on Palestine, war on Iran reports Ambitious as they were, these long-held intentions have now culminated in the US-Israel war on Iran, which seems sudden but was carefully planned, a former British Ambassador claims. US President Donald Trump was not “bounced into it” by Israel: it had been in gestation for months, says Craig Murray, Britain’s ambassador to Uzbekistan between 2002 and 2004. Well in advance, Trump had weapons ordered for fast delivery from Lockheed Martin, naval ships and troops were moved to the Gulf, and CIA and Mossad agitators reportedly stirred up Iranians in several cities, already exasperated by their theocratic rulers and by US sanctions. If Murray is right, Trump and Netanyahu must have been planning this in their frequent meetings before and since the “12-day war” against Iran last year. Or for longer: Trump has reminded the world that as far back as 1987 he wanted the US to take over some of Iran’s oil, and to go to war for it. Everything is a ‘deal’ But Trump’s shambolic war shows that he regards everything as a “deal’” and while aggrandising himself, he fails to understand that Iranians don’t accept transactionalism about their country, whoever its leader is. He appears not to re…

Palestine Forum slams NZDF share in military exercises with ‘genocidal’ Israel
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-15T05:00:18Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: Israeli atrocities
subject: Israeli Defence Force
subject: Israeli genocide
subject: Military exercises
subject: NZ Defence Force
subject: NZ defence policies
subject: Palestine Forum of New Zealand
subject: RIMPAC 2026
subject: Sources
subject: 2026
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: Atrocities
subject: Civil Society
subject: Defence
subject: Democracy
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subject: hawaii
subject: Human Rights
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subject: israel
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subject: Syndicate
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description: Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Forum of New Zealand has criticised plans for the country taking part in next month’s military exercises with Israel and the United States, saying Wellington must not be seen aligning militarily with a state “facing serious allegations of war crimes and genocide before international legal institutions”. In a statement today,
encoded: Asia Pacific Report The Palestine Forum of New Zealand has criticised plans for the country taking part in next month’s military exercises with Israel and the United States, saying Wellington must not be seen aligning militarily with a state “facing serious allegations of war crimes and genocide before international legal institutions”. In a statement today, the Palestine Forum expressed “deep concern” over the reports that the NZ Defence Force (NZDF) would participate in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) military exercises with Israel and the US in Hawai’i between July 21 and 31. “New Zealand has long claimed to uphold international law, human rights, and an independent foreign policy,” the statement said. READ MORE: NZDF plans upcoming RIMPAC training with Israel and the US Other RIMPAC reports “Participating in joint military exercises alongside Israel fundamentally contradicts those values and risks damaging New Zealand’s international reputation.” Such exercises should not happen at a time when the world was witnessing the ongoing devastation in Gaza and growing international condemnation of Israel’s actions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Palestine Forum said. “There should be no military cooperation with states engaged in ongoing conflicts and facing credible allegations of violations of international humanitarian law.” The Palestine Forum called on Christopher Luxon’s coalition government to “immediately review” New Zealand participation in these exercises and “ensure the country does not become complicit directly or indirectly in legitimising violence, occupation, or collective punishment”. Stand on side of justice, peace New Zealanders expected their country to stand on the side of justice, peace, and international accountability, not military cooperation with governments accused of grave human rights abuses. Valerie Morse, a member of Peace Action Wellington, yesterday released a statement about RIMPAC 2026 from the NZDF obtained in response to…

An Attack on Democracy in Tennessee
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creator: Megan Thiele Strong
date: 2026-05-15T05:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
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subject: Democracy
subject: progressive
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subject: tennessee
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description: The maps are being redrawn to diminish the voting power of Black Americans.
encoded: The maps are being redrawn to diminish the voting power of Black Americans. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Megan Thiele Strong.

An Attack on Democracy in Tennessee
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creator: Megan Thiele Strong
date: 2026-05-15T05:00:00Z
subject: Sources
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subject: Democracy
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: tennessee
subject: the
description: The maps are being redrawn to diminish the voting power of Black Americans.
encoded: The maps are being redrawn to diminish the voting power of Black Americans. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Megan Thiele Strong.

Artist Hannah Tishkoff on why art is easy
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creator: Claudia Ross
date: 2026-05-15T04:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Creative Independent
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subject: Artist
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subject: hannah
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subject: sources
subject: the
subject: tishkoff
subject: why
description: What was your process for creating the works in your recent show?
encoded: What was your process for creating the works in your recent show? A lot of the show was driven by exploring new materials. I started using Flashe and oil. The title of the show, Beginning of a Poem, is this homage to having a beginner’s mind and the exploratory experience you have when you are trying out a material, which I feel like is also a metaphor for a loosened approach to living. Your show makes the beginning feel like a place. The beginning is also the middle and the end. And the middle and the end are the beginning. The materials are my entry point. I’m specifically using found materials and materials that I don’t feel like I have mastery over; I am able to access a level of freedom with them. It’s more challenging to access otherwise, so it’s like I am playing a game with myself, where I say, “Well, I have nothing to lose.” And then you’re in the thick of it, and you become invested. Through that process, I become excited and satisfied. Hannah Tishkoff, L.I.F.E. (Line In Forward Exploration), 2026, acrylic, oil, flashe, and collage on found wood, 15 x 27 x 1 in., 38.10 x 68.58 x 2.54 cm. I like that it’s a trick for yourself. It does feel like a trick. I mean, there’s so much muck in your mind that you have to get through to make art. In the fall I felt a lot of pressure—I was starting grad school—to make nice, new, successful things, and it really dulled me. It felt like I was trying to produce from the front door of my mind. I felt stuck and uninspired. And then I got sick over winter break and I was home a lot, laying low for a couple weeks. During that period of time, I let go of everything, and right after that I made basically all the work in the show. I felt that in grad school as well: I was trying to make work that was more grown up and complete than I was. And then I had to unlearn that a little. The creative process is completely mysterious and requires a lot of self-trust and surrender, but I think wanting to win people over is also an importan…

Defending NZ values in a volatile world – but in what kind of a world?
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-15T03:39:07Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Defending values
subject: International law violations
subject: Nuclear arsenals
subject: peace building
subject: Rules-Based International Order
subject: Rules-based order
subject: Sources
subject: Ukraine War
subject: War ministries
subject: War on Iran
subject: Analysis
subject: arsenals
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: building
subject: but
subject: defending
subject: Democracy
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Education
subject: Featured
subject: Global
subject: History
subject: Human Rights
subject: International
subject: International Law
subject: iran
subject: israel
subject: Justice
subject: kind
subject: Law
subject: military
subject: military spending
subject: ministries
subject: new zealand
subject: Nuclear
subject: order
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Palestine
subject: Peace
subject: Politics
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subject: rimpac
subject: rules-based
subject: Security
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subject: Syndicate
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subject: World
description: COMMENTARY: By Frances Palmer While appreciating certain points in Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s speech “Securing NZ’s Future in a more Volatile World” on current challenges to international law, enshrined “rules” and “order”, we must take a hard look at the solutions he offers to enhance security. Security now clearly is shaped in a global context.
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Frances Palmer While appreciating certain points in Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s speech “Securing NZ’s Future in a more Volatile World” on current challenges to international law, enshrined “rules” and “order”, we must take a hard look at the solutions he offers to enhance security. Security now clearly is shaped in a global context. The world’s geopolitical issues affect us all, not just those near sites of military engagement, as wars on Ukraine and Iran show. So it’s misleading to consider security as simply a national or even regional issue, though people within range of military missiles and drones suffer the most horrendously. READ MORE: New Zealand in ‘big trouble’ amid growing global uncertainty, US-China relations, expert says Securing NZ’s Future in a more Volatile World — Luxon speech <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-127819 size-medium" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Frances-Palmer-Scoop-500wide--300x269.png" alt="Peace advocate Frances Palmer" width="300" height="269" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Frances-Palmer-Scoop-500wide--300x269.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Frances-Palmer-Scoop-500wide--468x420.png 468w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Frances-Palmer-Scoop-500wide-.png 500w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> Peace advocate Frances Palmer . . . “We don’t exist in a defence structure siloed off from a former ally who flouts any semblance of a “rules-based order.” Image: Scoop/APR We would agree, as Luxon claims in closing remarks, that we have values worth defending. What kind of a world and what network of values do we most want to defend? And how can we do this without compromising those same values? Does anyone really believe that cultural and political values such as democracy are best defended by doubling military spending as he proposes? Or that 20th century national…

Defending NZ values in a volatile world – but in what kind of a world?
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-15T03:39:07Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Defending values
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subject: Rules-Based International Order
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subject: Sources
subject: Ukraine War
subject: War ministries
subject: War on Iran
subject: Analysis
subject: arsenals
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
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subject: Democracy
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subject: Education
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subject: Human Rights
subject: International
subject: International Law
subject: iran
subject: israel
subject: Justice
subject: kind
subject: Law
subject: military
subject: military spending
subject: ministries
subject: new zealand
subject: Nuclear
subject: order
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Palestine
subject: Peace
subject: Politics
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subject: Syndicate
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description: COMMENTARY: By Frances Palmer While appreciating certain points in Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s speech “Securing NZ’s Future in a more Volatile World” on current challenges to international law, enshrined “rules” and “order”, we must take a hard look at the solutions he offers to enhance security. Security now clearly is shaped in a global context.
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Frances Palmer While appreciating certain points in Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s speech “Securing NZ’s Future in a more Volatile World” on current challenges to international law, enshrined “rules” and “order”, we must take a hard look at the solutions he offers to enhance security. Security now clearly is shaped in a global context. The world’s geopolitical issues affect us all, not just those near sites of military engagement, as wars on Ukraine and Iran show. So it’s misleading to consider security as simply a national or even regional issue, though people within range of military missiles and drones suffer the most horrendously. READ MORE: New Zealand in ‘big trouble’ amid growing global uncertainty, US-China relations, expert says Securing NZ’s Future in a more Volatile World — Luxon speech <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-127819 size-medium" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Frances-Palmer-Scoop-500wide--300x269.png" alt="Peace advocate Frances Palmer" width="300" height="269" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Frances-Palmer-Scoop-500wide--300x269.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Frances-Palmer-Scoop-500wide--468x420.png 468w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Frances-Palmer-Scoop-500wide-.png 500w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> Peace advocate Frances Palmer . . . “We don’t exist in a defence structure siloed off from a former ally who flouts any semblance of a “rules-based order.” Image: Scoop/APR We would agree, as Luxon claims in closing remarks, that we have values worth defending. What kind of a world and what network of values do we most want to defend? And how can we do this without compromising those same values? Does anyone really believe that cultural and political values such as democracy are best defended by doubling military spending as he proposes? Or that 20th century national…

NY Times exposes Israel’s r*pe dungeons, Netanyahu threatens to sue
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2026-05-15T02:43:37Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
encoded: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.

Richard Glossip Released From Jail After Three Decades
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creator: The Intercept
date: 2026-05-14T23:43:41Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Intercept and was authored by The Intercept.
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‘Arrest wanted Filipino former police chief’ call by Amnesty after escape
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creator: APR editor
date: 2026-05-14T23:30:09Z
subject: Amnesty International
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: ICC warrants
subject: Ronald dela Rosa
subject: Sources
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subject: amnesty
subject: arrest
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: call
subject: chief
subject: Crime
subject: Crimes against Humanity
subject: dela
subject: Democracy
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: escape
subject: Extrajudicial killings
subject: Featured
subject: filipino
subject: former
subject: Global
subject: icc
subject: International
subject: International Criminal Court
subject: Justice
subject: military
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: philippines
subject: Police
subject: Politics
subject: report
subject: rodrigo duterte
subject: ronald
subject: rosa,
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
subject: wanted
subject: War against drugs
subject: warrants
description: Asia Pacific Report Amnesty International says it is “deeply alarmed” over the obstruction of justice and chaotic scenes — including gunfire — witnessed at the Philippines Senate this week over a fugitive from the International Criminal Court. Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, who faces an arrest warrant issued by the ICC, escaped from the Senate
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Amnesty International says it is “deeply alarmed” over the obstruction of justice and chaotic scenes — including gunfire — witnessed at the Philippines Senate this week over a fugitive from the International Criminal Court. Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, who faces an arrest warrant issued by the ICC, escaped from the Senate premises in the early hours of yesterday, May 14, after the gunfire incident on Wednesday night. Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano confirmed his exit yesterday afternoon. READ MORE: Bato dela Rosa, wanted by ICC, evades arrest, escapes Senate premises Authorities must arrest former police chief The independent news website Rappler reported Dela Rosa’s escape yesterday morning, citing information relayed by the Senate secretariat to a credible source. In response to reports that Dela Rosa had fled the Philippines Senate building allowing him to evade the arrest warrant, Ritz Lee Santos III, executive director of Amnesty International Philippines, said: “We are deeply alarmed at the obstruction of justice and chaotic scenes witnessed at the Philippines Senate,” he said. “Ronald dela Rosa’s position as Senator offers him no special protection from an ICC arrest warrant, neither under domestic nor international law. It is hugely concerning that fellow Senators and others appear to have assisted him in evading arrest and in delaying the execution of the arrest warrant — effectively facilitating his escape for now. “Despite seeking to distance themselves from these events, President Marcos and relevant agencies remain ultimately responsible for ensuring Dela Rosa’s arrest. Philippine senator wanted by ICC escapes Video: Al Jazeera Key role in ‘war on dugs’ Santos said Dela Rosa held a key role in the “war on drugs” under former President Ridrigo Duterte, who is in The Hague awaiting trial on ICC charges of crimes against humanity. The former police chief was a “clear flight risk” and appeared intent on avoiding accountability, …

Community Schools Are at the Forefront of a ‘Neighborism’ Movement
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creator: Jeff Bryant
date: 2026-05-14T22:55:52Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: ‘neighborism’
subject: are
subject: Community
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description: Public schools in New York City’s network of community schools offer an alternative to top-down systems that are indifferent to the needs of working families.
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Alex Honnold: ‘You just see how much it matters’
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description: At Grist’s Turning the Tide event at SF Climate Week, free solo climber and solar energy advocate Alex Honnold shared how his love of climbing became a passion for empowering communities.
encoded: Climber Alex Honnold is best-known for his daring feats, recently scaling Taiwan’s Taipei 101 tower live on Netflix, but he’s more typically climbing some of the world’s most challenging natural landscapes. But he’s also an advocate for renewable energy, and the foundation he started, the Honnold Foundation, supports community-led solar energy growth around the world. How do those two interests fit together? For Honnold, the connection seems clear. “Go on enough trips like this,” he said, referencing his climbing trips to remote locations, and “you just see how much it matters.” “A lot of these projects basically help protect the land in a way that you wouldn’t necessarily assume,” he said. “Empowering local communities is always a good way to protect the land on which they live.” Honnold was interviewed by Grist Editor-in-Chief Katherine Bagley at Grist’s live event Turning the Tide: Stories of Climate Solutions, held during San Francisco Climate Week. In his own climbing experience, Honnold shared, he’s seen how landscapes have changed even in the span of just a few years due to rising temperatures. “A lot of things that used to be approaches or descents up snowy couloirs … those are mostly melted out,” Honnold said. “Basically, big mountains you see change very quickly right now. It’s pretty sobering.” But he also emphasized the need for positive stories that help people understand that progress is happening. “I personally am just not inspired by pessimism at all,” he said. “The environment has been severely degraded, we’ve lost a lot for sure, but if you were just dropped onto this planet right here, right now, and you just looked around in the natural world, you’d think, ‘This is incredible.’ There’s so much life, the natural world is still amazing, and there’s still so much to protect.” Watch the full video of the event, including Honnold’s interview, or read a few excerpts (lightly edited for clarity) below. Katherine Bagley: You and I are about the same age,…

Statement by Ralph Nader on Boeing Verdict
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description: For Immediate Release May 14, 2026 For more information, call: 202-387-8030 Statement by Ralph Nader Yesterday, an Illinois jury in a civil suit rendered a verdict of $49.5 million to the family of Samya Rose Stumo, who was killed in Ethiopia i...
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[Vali Nasr] The U.S. War on Iran: Origins & Consequences
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date: 2026-05-14T21:00:54Z
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description: On February 28th, Israel attacked Iran. Almost immediately, the U.S. joined the fray. The claims against Iran are eerily similar to those made against Iraq in 2003. Remember back then, Baghdad supposedly was a great danger. Today, it is Iran we are to ...
encoded: On February 28th, Israel attacked Iran. Almost immediately, the U.S. joined the fray. The claims against Iran are eerily similar to those made against Iraq in 2003. Remember back then, Baghdad supposedly was a great danger. Today, it is Iran we are to fear. It’s an “imminent” threat we are told. No evidence is given. None is needed. The master has spoken. The U.S. must take military action. To paraphrase an old song, “propaganda runs deep, into your brains it will seep.” Washington has never forgiven Iran for ousting the Shah. If the U.S. didn't destroy democracy in Iran in the 1953 coup, things would have turned out differently. The geopolitical and economic consequences of this war will be felt not just in the U.S. but around the world for years to come. Recorded at Princeton University. This content originally appeared on AlternativeRadio and was authored by info@alternativeradio.org.

POV: Life after 2 months of war
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Georgia Gov. calls special session to rig US House map for GOP, SC expected to follow
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ICE detainees signed deportation Papers. Why are they still held in detention?
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 14, 2026
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 14, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.
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Symbols Of The Shah’s Secret Police Seen At Iranian Royalists Rallies Abroad
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date: 2026-05-14T17:48:28Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Molly Crabapple on the Jewish Labor Bund, opposing antisemitism and Zionism
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2026-05-14T17:00:52Z
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UAP Investigator’s Breakdown of New Disclosure
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Former police chief flees Philippines senate building
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description: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.
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"I look at the world, and I shout, ‘I am human and I deserve to be a human.’"
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date: 2026-05-14T16:18:22Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
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UN News Today 14 May 2026
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creator: Daniel Johnson
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description: Sudan war: staggering civilian suffering continues alongside famine riskUkraine: aid teams condemn night of heavy Russian attacks in Kyiv - OCHAGaza reconstruction envisages building ‘islands’ out of rubble
encoded: Sudan war: staggering civilian suffering continues alongside famine riskUkraine: aid teams condemn night of heavy Russian attacks in Kyiv - OCHAGaza reconstruction envisages building ‘islands’ out of rubble This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

UFO Disclosure Has Started w/ Jeremy Corbell on Sleeping Dog | Shane Smith Has Questions
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Counterterrorism Czar’s Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump
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creator: Hannah Allam
date: 2026-05-14T15:55:00Z
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description: The post Counterterrorism Czar’s Blueprint Targets Leftists, Ignores Far-Right Violence and Heaps Praise on Trump appeared first on ProPublica.
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Oren Ziv: Israel is erasing the West Bank’s boundaries
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description: <img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2273032993-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="An Israeli settler stands next to diggers in Har Ebal (Mount Ebal) settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Nablus , on April 28, 2026. Photo by ilia YEFIMOVICH / AFP via Getty Images" data-attachment-id="343498" data-permalink="https://therealnews.com/oren-ziv-israel-is-erasing-the-west-banks-boundaries/gettyimages-2273032993" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2273032993-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1708&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1708" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="GettyImages-2273032993" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" An Israeli settler stands next to diggers in Har Ebal (Mount Ebal) settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Nablus , on April 28, 2026. Photo by ilia YEFIMOVICH / AFP via Getty Images " data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2273032993-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C520&ssl=1"> “[Israeli] settlers have continued their attacks since the beginning of March. 13 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank during settler raids on Palestinian villages, some of them by civilians, some of them by settlers who serve in the army."
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The Supreme Court’s Right Wing Power Grab #politics #trump #scotus
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"Here Where We Live Is Our Country”: Molly Crabapple on Resurfacing Jewish History of Anti-Zionism
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date: 2026-05-14T14:29:26Z
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Xi Warns Trump of Potential "Conflict" over Taiwan in Beijing Summit on Iran, Trade, Tech & More
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 14, 2026
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Iran destroyed most US bases in Gulf states
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date: 2026-05-14T13:59:33Z
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