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Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil infrastructure in Tuapse could cause an ecological disaster on a previously unseen scale Of course theres complete silence from the West as Kiev intentionally destroys the Black Seas delicate ecosystem. The impact on Russias oil exports is minimal, the impact on the environment is catastrophic. According to ecologists, the air has recorded an exceedance of the maximum permissible concentration of benzene - a dangerous carcinogen that can accumulate in the body. “A ton of oil spills over an area of up to 12km², so the Black Sea water area will be very polluted. The soil, forest, and water bodies, including rivers, will be contaminated. The consequences will be much greater than from the diesel oil spill in December 2024 in Anapa,” said ecologist Yevgeny Vitishko. The Black Sea ecosystem could be effected for decades.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), whose War Powers Resolution regarding the President Trump’s aggressive policy towards Cuba will come for a vote on the Senate floor Tuesday, told Drop Site’s Julian Andreone that the administration’s strategy is “purely a regime change effort” and that if any country did to the U.S. what we are doing to Cuba, “we would consider it an act of war.” Kaine also noted a pattern in U.S. foreign policy towards Latin America more broadly to pursue regime change against any emerging socialist or communist governments to quell hemispheric rises in leftism. @JulianAndreone | @SenTimKaine

Foreign minister @SDoughtyMP went all the way to New York for a speech on the nuclear non-proliferation treaty to berate Iran for its "non-compliance" while not mentioning Israel which refuses to even sign the NPT and has actual nuclear arms the UK refuses to acknowledge. 🤣

British media and politicians are ecstatic that they can still provide a jester for the court of King Donald. And no-one will mention the Epstein victims.

🇨🇴🇦🇷 Gustavo Petro asks the question the West does not want answered. "If Argentina is an exporter of quality meat, why can't Argentinians eat quality meat and are stuck eating donkey meat?" That is not just a question about Argentina. That is a question about the entire Global South. Countries rich in resources. Oil. Gold. Lithium. Cocoa. Coffee. Beef. Yet their own people cannot afford what they produce. Argentina exports premium beef to Europe and China. Argentinians eat donkey meat. Nigeria exports oil. Nigerians queue for hours for subsidized fuel. DRC exports cobalt. Congolese miners live on less than $2 a day. Ghana exports cocoa. Ghanaian children have never tasted quality chocolate. The system is designed to extract, not to feed. Produce for the West. Starve at home. Petro is right. This cannot happen in Colombia. And it should not happen anywhere in Africa or the Global South. The question is not why Argentinians eat donkey meat. The question is who profits from that arrangement. It's time to change the answer.

I often take the elite in America to task because of their disconnection from reality and their preference for fantasy outcomes. But there’s another, darker aspect to the elite as well: the absence of morals. When a retired general on national television can openly talk about assassinating leaders of our adversaries that reach conclusions we don’t like, and then he considers that “reasonable“ and none of the hosts on the network so much is bat an eye – that shows how far we have fallen from even pretending to care about morality. This war we chose to start violated the US Constitution, United States law, international law, and any norms of decency: we were not threatened, we did not fight war of self-defense, and utterly lied about the justification of an “imminent threat,” when 100% there was none. And now we’re talking about trying to resolve this war in our favor, by demanding surrender of the other side, and if they don’t comply, we have no moral qualms about assassinating their leaders. Again. Know this: a nation cannot behave like this and make that kind of behavior routine, and think that at some point, it will not come back to haunt us. Life has a habit of returning on your head the very thing that you do to others. I already mourn because of the loss that we’re going to suffer, but will not hesitate to point out at that time, that we ourselves lit the fuse of the day when people start assassinating American leaders.

I heard some commentators say that Harry Kane is the first English player to score 50 goals in a single season. I don’t think that’s right. I’m pretty sure Dixie Dean scored 60 league goals for Everton in the 1920s.

"If there is a decisive exit ... Trump and his team will be wounded but can still survive. If he restarts this war, Kelley, I think he will be gone by the end of the year" -- @DougAMacgregor on my show today, a must watch. youtube.com/watch?v=7yBmSl…

🇺🇸🇦🇪 UAE Out of OPEC: the US Controlled Demolition of Middle East Energy Exports ▪️The Western media is noting the immediate (temporary) effect this has had on oil prices, lowering them; ▪️Analysts are saying this is a US policy meant to manage the damage the US war on Iran has caused; ▪️This is true to a point - the US is causing and managing this damage deliberately; ▪️The US is now amid the same incremental, managed process of decoupling Asia from Middle East energy exports that it had used to decouple Europe from cheap, plentiful, and reliable Russian energy; ▪️The process of cutting Europe off from Russia took years (and is still taking place) and this current process of controlled demolition of Middle East energy exports to Asia will take time too - just as the US has LNG export projects being brought online or beginning construction in the US (Alaska, Texas etc) - projects that until now made ZERO economic sense; ▪️This is why there may be temporary pauses in the US war on Iran but never any end at least until this process is complete - but then again, toppling Russia and Iran are also US objectives in and onto themselves, unlikely to change whether or not this controlled demolition is completed: ▪️If people re-read RAND Corporation's 2019 "Extending Russia" ( rand.org/content/dam/ra… - under "Economic Measures" and "Geopolitical Measures") they basically spell out how the US needed to expand American LNG exports to Europe, that sanctions alone wouldn't make it viable under peacetime conditions, and how another option would be to provoke war with Russia in Ukraine by providing Ukraine with "lethal aid" - and here we are... The US is now repeating this whole process aimed now at the Middle East and Asia.

An Israeli soldier released a video of my city, Beit Hanoun, completely destroyed. Not a single house in the city was left standing, not a single tree survived. Have you ever seen an army film the genocide it is committing in 360° before?

Four things: 1) Iran's economy has weathered sanctions for decades, including the most recent "maximum pressure campaign." It's battered, but if nothing else, adaptive and prepared to weather the "blockade". 2) Before the War on Iran began, the US economy still hadn't found a way to effectively reverse the inflation that was crushing US consumers. 3) Oil prices are now above the pre-ceasefire highs, along with the vast majority of polled farmers saying that skyrocketing fertilizer prices (due to the SOH being closed) will result in smaller crop yields (read: higher food prices). 4) Add in the increase in diesel fuel (used for farming equipment and vehicles that transport goods to market), resulting in even higher food prices. 4) Combine all of the above, and it's clear that average Americans are the ones who are literally paying the price for this war. If these people truly cared about their fellow citizens, they'd find the quickest way possible to end this conflict.

“Lebanon and Israel are not at war.” The Israeli drone that woke me up this morning begs to differ. So do the apocalyptic Israeli detonations of entire Lebanese villages and the ongoing Israeli occupation and airstrikes across the south that have killed at least 38 people in Lebanon since the sham ceasefire went into effect.

BREAKING: Professor of moral philosophy Peter Hallward delivers a letter signed by 1700 people risking Terrorism charges inc. Sally Rooney, Greta Thunberg, Judith Butler, & professors of law to the Court of Appeal. The letter: “We oppose genocide, we support Palestine Action.”

“We lied about Vietnam. We lied about Iraq. We lied about Afghanistan. We lied about Somalia. We lied about Libya..” Former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell exposes the dark reality of US foreign policy and how American weapons ended up in the hands of terrorist groups.

I$rael launches a wave of airstrikes in the south of Lebanon with blasts close to Tibnin Hospital where journalist Zeinab Feraj was being treated after being pulled from the rubble following the strike which killed Amal Khalil last week There is no ceasefire

From November 2024 there was a ceasefite in Lebanon which Israel violated 15,400 times according to the UN. I witnessed 4 months of Israeli violations personally. When Hezbollah finally fired back, the entire western media reported they "initiated" the current war. Now Israel has violated the new ceasefire over a thousand times in a fortnight. Yet today the Guardian reports that Israel is issuing new evacuation orders "in response to Hezbollah ceasefire violations".

Les Israéliens sont passés à la vitesse supérieure. Effacer la mémoire des décédés dans les cimetières. Ils tuent et détruisent la mémoire des morts. Cela ne fera pas la une !

In 1909 the British diet was 0 percent ultra-processed. The category did not exist. The food did not exist. In 2019, ultra-processed food accounts for 56 percent of British calories. That is the third highest rate on Earth. Higher than France. Higher than Italy. Higher than Spain. The foods that built the empire were beef, mutton, butter, eggs, bread, beer. The foods feeding modern Britain are crisps, cereal, ready meals, soft drinks, spreadable margarine, and biscuits with the texture of compressed sawdust. You cannot industrialise a population's food and expect their bodies to stay traditional. The body is older than the factory. It will always lose.

The new "leader of the free world" abandoned his political mandate, arrested political opponents, purged the media, restricted freedom of religion, abandoned checks and balances, cancelled elections, outsourced decision-making to foreign powers, and banned his citizens from escaping the country. He is an instrument of foreign powers, and the vast majority of Ukrainians will celebrate the day he is gone.

Our paper on the impact of US sanctions on Cuba’s infant mortality rate is out. Our results are deeply troubling. The tightening of the US embargo after 2019 led to the infant mortality rate rising from 4 to 9.9/1000 in 2025. We estimate that an additional 1800 Cuban babies died from these harsher US sanctions. cepr.net/publications/u…