May 2026
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Iran SEIZES Ship, Trmp STUNNED as China Summit BACKFIRES | Greg Stoker & Elina Xenophontos
We talk the latest in geopolitics as Iran consolidates control of Strait of Hormuz and Israel threatens renewed war with Iran as soon as Trump touches down on US soil. Join us for this and much more! Continue reading
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Italy jails Palestinian over videos on his phone
On 14 April, a court in Campobasso, southern Italy, sentenced Ahmad Salem, a Palestinian asylum seeker, to four years in prison. The decision followed a now-familiar pattern in Italian – and, more broadly, European – courts: charges of alleged terrorism. Continue reading
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NHS: Wes Streeting’s final Bill
On Wednesday, it was named the NHS Modernisation Bill; a day later it was published as the Health Bill, with this funny line in Hansard: “Secretary Wes Streeting, supported by the Prime Minister”… oh. Clause 1 is wonderful: “NHS England is abolished”, but they didn’t stop there. Continue reading
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Direct Action, Terrorist Consequences
Four Palestine Action activists convicted in a retrial over a protest at a UK site owned by Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer could be sentenced as terrorists. No case in British legal history has seen direct action activists sentenced under terrorism provisions – until now. Continue reading
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The Future – Socialism – Is Possible and Necessary: The Twentieth Newsletter (2026)
The widespread misery imposed by capitalism demands that we organise hope through collective struggle; only then can we build a future where human dignity supersedes the destructive profit motive. Continue reading
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Urgent – can you do this today?
The government announced new legislation in yesterday’s King’s Speech to create a single patient record (SPR) for each NHS patient, and reporting from the Guardian suggests the new law will force GPs and hospitals to share our health data for these records.[1] Continue reading
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PLO Lumumba: Macron Is Raiding Africa Again | France, Kenya & The New Scramble
In this powerful episode of PLO Lumumba Explain, Prof. PLO Lumumba breaks down Emmanuel Macron’s renewed push into Africa, especially through Kenya, Angola, South Africa, and other countries that were not historically part of France’s colonial empire. Continue reading
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Iran LOCKED & LOADED on US Navy, Trump UTTERLY HUMILIATED by China | Ben Norton
Thursday, 14 May 2026 — Chronicles of Haiphong it’s a late show because we are reporting on the Trump-Xi summit as it happens, as well as the latest geopolitical developments with Ben Norton who joins from China. See you tonight! Continue reading
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Françafrique 2.0: Macron, Multipolarity, and the Quiet Reassembly of Empire
A French president’s interruption at a Nairobi summit exposed more than diplomatic arrogance; it revealed the lingering psychology of empire dressed in the language of “equal partnership.” Behind the spectacle of green investment pledges and startup rhetoric lies a deeper struggle over African sovereignty, debt dependency, military influence, and the geopolitical restructuring of imperial power… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report May 13, 2026
Wednesday, 13 May 2026 — Black Agenda Report France Out of Africa! PASAI Shows the Way Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist An international gathering of anti-imperialists in Nairobi, Kenya revealed the lies of “Africa Forward” as the presidents of France and Kenya made plans to continue the exploitation of a nation and… Continue reading
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The Emperor has no clothes and no cards
SHANGHAI – China’s powerhouse moves on like a speed-breaking EV. The atmosphere is electric. At a business dinner in a landmark Cantonese restaurant, Trump’s visit to China at least propels the conversation towards something more tangible: the conflicting paths for future generations from the West down to the East. Continue reading
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Empire at the Table: Trump, Xi, and the Crisis of Unipolar Power
France 24 frames the Beijing summit as a poker match between rival strongmen, masking the deeper structures of imperial crisis, technological warfare, and geopolitical coercion beneath the spectacle. Beneath the summit theater lies a dense architecture of sanctions, military encirclement, semiconductor conflict, rare earth dependency, and unresolved sovereignty struggles stretching from Taiwan to the Strait… Continue reading
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Iraq War architect: U.S. lost in Iran
Kagan helped found the Project for the New American Century, the think tank that laid the ideological groundwork for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He is married to Victoria Nuland, the State Department official who helped orchestrate the 2014 coup in Ukraine. He has spent his career arguing that U.S. military dominance is the basis… Continue reading
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Trump goes to Beijing as Washington faces a changed world
Trump and Xi at a U.S.-China business exchange in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. Trump is returning to China with another delegation of top U.S. corporate executives as Washington seeks deals, leverage and help managing crises of its own making. Continue reading
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Iran MOCKS Trump as US Navy & Israel Prepare Massive NUCLEAR Strike | Larry Johnson
Former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson joins the show to discuss Iran’s defiant response to Trump as the US Navy and Israel coordinate a massive strike that is set to backfire badly in the coming weeks. Continue reading
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Your message for NHS nurses
Today is International Nurses Day. It’s a day that exists to recognise and celebrate the contributions that nurses make to society. Sadly, for so many nurses across the NHS, there is not much cause for celebration right now. They are underpaid, overworked, and overwhelmed. Continue reading
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‘Starmageddon’ – The Anti-Polanski Smear Campaign That Ate Itself
Tuesday, 12 May 2026 — Media Lens Historian Ian Kershaw titled the two volumes of his definitive biography of Adolf Hitler, ‘Hubris’ and ‘Nemesis’. (Allen Lane, 1998 and 2000) Inevitably, it seems, great power comes with great hubris. For a brief, glorious moment, brick walls appear as doorways, everything seems possible. Nemesis lies in wait. Continue reading
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Great Satan at the Strait: Iran, International Law, and the Collapse of the “Rules-Based Order”
This investigation excavates how Associated Press reporting frames U.S.-Israeli coercion as diplomacy while presenting Iranian sovereignty as instability and defiance. It reconstructs the omitted legal, geopolitical, and economic terrain surrounding the war, exposing the contradiction between the UN Charter system and the operational reality of imperial power. It reframes the conflict as part of a… Continue reading
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Philippine army kills 19; U.S. turns Philippines into base for war on China
On April 19 and 20, the Philippine army’s 79th Infantry Battalion killed 19 people in Toboso, on Negros Island. The killings came as Washington and Manila launched Balikatan 2026, their largest war games yet. Continue reading
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Afghanistan: America’s Other Ongoing Proxy War
The development of Afghanistan’s mineral resources has become the center of an information and geopolitical struggle where economic projects intersect with security issues, propaganda, and great-power rivalry. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 