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WATCH: The World This Week — ‘Hitting a Chinese Wall’

May 16, 2026

A brash, expansionist Donald Trump returned from two days in China, having been schooled by Xi Jinping in what global stability looks like. Tonight 8 pm EDT, Saturday.

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Names of Some US Boat Strike Victims Revealed

May 15, 2026

Despite the Trump administration’s effort to conceal their victims’ identities, journalists and researchers have disclosed some biographical detail about some of the people “blown away over vast stretches of ocean.”

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Arts, Australia, Cuba, Economy, Income Inequality, Indigenous People, Poetry, United Nations

Vijay Prashad: The Necessary Future

May 15, 2026

Dark forces seek to colonise the future to ensure it remains subordinate to accumulation, not dignity. Talk of the future is not utopian fantasy but affirmation that the current order is intolerable and impermanent.

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Civil Rights, Commentary, Gaza, Israel, Legal, United Kingdon

Craig Murray: Hiding the Terrorism Charge

May 15, 2026

By keeping anti-genocide activists in prison pending sentencing and — unbeknownst to the jury — adding a “terrorism” aggravation, the judge may intend abnormally long sentences.

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Assassinations, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Palestine, Zionism

Hedges Report: A History of Palestine’s Resistance

May 15, 2026

Ramzy Baroud discusses a people’s history of the Palestinians’ powerful resistance to Zionism in his new book, and its manifestations in today’s national liberation movement.

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Civil Rights, Free Speech, Gaza, ICC, Israel, Legal, U.S., U.S. Constitution

Judge Blocks Trump Sanctions on Francesca Albanese

May 14, 2026

The U.N. special rapporteur on Occupied Palestine says the interim decision gives her respite, but that the “battle is not over.”

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When Killing Becomes Commonplace

May 14, 2026

After destroying 56 small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, the Trump administration’s murderous attacks have become commonplace but remain illegal and evil, says Andrew P. Napolitano.

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Britain, Civil Rights, Commentary, Free Speech, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Protests, United Kingdom

The Error in Banning the Nakba Day March

May 14, 2026

Police wrongly want to ban a Nakba Day pr0-Palestine rally  but are allowing the right-wing’s anti-Islam rally the same say, writes Nailah Sharif, a retired London Metropolitan Police detective.

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Unasked Questions About the War on Iran

May 14, 2026

The media ignore the evidence as they regurgitate the official narrative that manufactures consent for U.S.-led wars, writes Alison Broinowski.

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Europe’s Pro-Israel Consensus Is Fraying

May 13, 2026

Although Israel’s trade partnership with the E.U. has been preserved for now, the relationship between Europe and Israel is destined for citizen-led change, writes Ramzy Baroud.

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Pilger Scholarship Established at University in Melbourne

May 13, 2026

The scholarship will be awarded to  “the student of journalism who has demonstrated an understanding of journalism as a humane profession independent of all vested interests to serve the public, not media proprietors.”

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Civil Rights, Free Speech, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Scotland, United Kingdon

Craig Murray: Zionism Poisons UK’s Central Nervous System

May 13, 2026

Not questioning Zionism has long been the entry ticket to the British political and media Establishment, but although public belief in the Zionist narrative is fatally damaged, prosecutions of pro-Palestinian activists continue.

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American Empire, Commentary, Donald Trump, Trump Administration, U.S.

Chris Hedges: America’s Suicide Pact

May 12, 2026

America’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. He and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire.

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The Unraveling of Nehru’s Vision for India

May 12, 2026

Nehru’s pluralistic vision that has long held together one of the most diverse nations on earth is being dismantled by the steady march of Hindu majoritarianism, as reflected in India’s latest election results, writes Betwa Sharma.

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Gaza, Israel, Legal, Palestine, Terrorism, United Kingdon

Palestine Action Barrister Wins Appeal in UK Contempt Case

May 12, 2026

The ruling Tuesday in the Rajiv Menon case comes as four of the anti-genocide defendants found guilty in a retrial can be sentenced as terrorists, Dania Akkad reports.

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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Epic Desperation

May 12, 2026

Before the world’s eyes, Iranians have turned Operation Epic Fury into Operation Epic Desperation.  Iranians are Hô Chi Minh’s grasshoppers taking on a colonial elephant.

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Armed Robbery of the World’s Energy Supply

May 11, 2026

A forensic investigation into how Washington leveraged the war in Iran to replace Nord Stream, save the dollar, and establish total command over the world’s fuel from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean. Richard Medhurst reports.

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Britain, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Military, Palestine, United Kingdom

Lobby Group Takes Journalists on Tours of Israel

May 11, 2026

Amid the systematic killing of Palestinian and Lebanese journalists, an organisation, seen as the “AIPAC of Europe,” brings British media workers to Israel, writes John McEvoy.

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Hiding Why Democrats Lost to Boost Harris

May 11, 2026

The DNC’s decision to scrap the autopsy on the 2024 defeat to Donald Trump is a political gift to the former vice president as she gears up for 2028, writes Norman Solomon. 

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WATCH: The World This Week — ‘Playing With Fire’

May 9, 2026

Donald Trump continues to play with fire, not only in the Persian Gulf, but also in Ukraine, and we may all get burnt. Former U.S. intelligence analysts Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter on The World This Week. Watch the replay.

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