May 1, 2026
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Pepe Escobar: Iran DEFIANT, Air Defenses BLAST Drones Over Tehran as Trump Loses War
Pepe Escobar discusses signals of the war on Iran restarting as CENTCOM briefs Trump on the US’s “final blow” and Iran’s air defenses activate overnight. The renowned geopolitical analyst and journalist of the multipolar world breaks down the huge geopolitical shift precipitated by this war and why it’s quickly becoming existential for the empire. Continue reading
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Let’s fund communities, not detention centres.
Britain’s immigration system is not broken; it is functioning exactly as intended, by blaming migrants for the political choices of those in power. Continue reading
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May 1: The Homeland is Defended
Cubans took to the streets on May 1, 2026, under the slogan La Patria se defiende — the Homeland is Defended. The Central de Trabajadores de Cuba framed this year’s mobilization as an act of national defense. Trump’s Jan. 29 executive order imposed secondary tariffs on any country supplying oil to Cuba, adding what the… Continue reading
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The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel – and about itself – is finally being burst
The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy Continue reading
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Corporate Watch Newsletter: May Day Newsletter and Corporate Watch Highlights
Spring is well and truly here, and we realise that an update from us is long overdue. So here’s a brief round up of some of the things we’ve been up to so far this year. Continue reading
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Palantir and the Digital Leviathan: Silicon Power, State Violence, and the Technofascist War on Humanity
A manifesto appears, and the media rings the alarm—yet stops short of naming the system that produced it. Beneath the controversy lies a vast machinery linking deportation databases, battlefield targeting, and corporate-state integration into a single infrastructure of control. What looks like a rogue tech firm is in fact the polished interface of a deeper… Continue reading
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Can Trump Really Take Cuba?
Firday, 1 May 2026 — Radhika Desai Geopolitical Economy Hour with Helen Yaffee, Isaac Saney and Arnold August Radhika Desai Trump’s criminal attack on Venezuela has thrown Cuba into a tailspin of crisis as the island nation lost access to the oil that had been its most important source of energy in recent decades, making… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 