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As we approach a major anniversary – 80 years since the defeat of fascism – a strange silence hangs over my country, Macedonia, and the broader region we now call the territory of former Yugoslavia. National authorities have been under sustained external (Western) pressure for years: May 9 must no longer be associated with the victory over fascism. Year after year, in both public memory and the education system, May 9 has been rebranded as Europe Day.
Older generations still remember, but what do younger ones know about Yugoslavia’s enormous human sacrifice, second only to the USSR, in the struggle against Evil? Almost nothing.
VIPS Memo: Arms Control, Toward Lasting Peace
May 9, 2025
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Consortium News.
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Anti-War, History, Nuclear Treaty, Nuclear Weapons
The following Memorandum is presented as a brief review, based on experience, aiming to encourage well-informed discourse between the United States and Russia on the critical issue of arms control. The experience of the past half-century has taught us much. We suggest that arms control agreements between the U.S. and Russia need to be founded upon three basic principles: security, stability, and reciprocity.
Security recognizes the role played by the respective strategic nuclear deterrent forces of each nation in guaranteeing their survival.
‘Gideon’s Chariots’ Aim To Finalize The Genocide
May 8, 2025
AbZimet, Consortium News.
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Famine, Genocide, Israel, Israeli war crimes, Palestine, War crimes, Wars and Militarism
Drunk on impunity, Israel has grandiosely labeled its latest genocidal move “Operation Gideon’s Chariots” wherein, moving from siege to seizure, it plans the bloody conquest, ethnic cleansing and permanent recolonization of Gaza.
Israel uses the rhetoric of holy war to justify unholy mass destruction — this, even as many of the Palestinian children who’ve somehow survived their savage 18 months of carnage now slowly starve to death. “We are complicit,” says one angry, grieving doctor. “It is an abomination.”
Having gotten away with so many atrocities while the international community looks away, Israel just unveiled the latest escalation of its illegal collective punishment of Gazans by finally declaring out loud, “We are occupying Gaza to stay.”
India’s Attack On Pakistan Is Straight Out Of The Israeli Playbook
May 8, 2025
Maah-Noor Ali, Mondoweiss.
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Gaza, India, Israel, Kashmir, Narendra Modi, Pakistan, Palestine
As bombs rain down on Gaza and the world looks away, another settler colonial project is taking notes. From New Delhi to Tel Aviv, the ideological affinity between Israeli Zionism and India’s Hindutva movement has never been more pronounced as India strikes Pakistan.
And with Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza facing little to no meaningful international accountability, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has every reason to believe that he, too, can escalate his ethno-nationalist project with impunity.
When Israel bombs a hospital, the world debates whether Hamas was hiding beneath it. When India bombs a mosque, it shrugs – wasn’t it probably a ‘terror hideout’?
Washington Is Worried About Burkina Faso’s Young Revolutionary Leader
May 8, 2025
Alan MacLeod, MintPress News.
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Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore, Sovereignty, Washington
Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is remaking his nation, and in the process, making enemies in the West. Since taking power in 2022, the young military leader has expelled French troops, ejected Western corporations, and aligned his country with Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela.
Promoting pan-African unity and national self-reliance while surviving coup attempts, Traoré is positioning himself as a radical anti-imperialist and has drawn fire from Washington and Paris. MintPress News explores the project underway in Ouagadougou and the global forces trying to stop it.
Abrego Garcia’s Wrongful Deportation Case More About Individual Rights Than Trump’s Foreign Policy
May 8, 2025
Chimene Keitner, Scheer Post.
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El Salvador, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Mass Deportation, Supreme Court, Trump Administration, Venezuela
Trump administration officials have repeatedly claimed that judges who order the administration to take action to bring deported Venezuelans back from the El Salvador prison where the U.S. sent them are meddling in the conduct of foreign policy.
“The foreign policy of the United States is conducted by President Donald J. Trump − not by a court − and no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on April 14.
His comments refer to cases including that of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Salvadoran man who was deported to El Salvador on March 15, 2025, without any due process.
Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Postal Privatization
May 8, 2025
U.S. Mail Not For Sale.
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Privatization, Trump Administration, US Postal Service, USPS, Voters
A new survey, conducted by Hart Research and North Star Research has found that an overwhelming majority of people oppose the privatization of the U.S. Postal Service, fearing increasing shipping and postage costs and deteriorating service.
The release comes as the USPS Board of Governors is reportedly considering appointing a Trump administration-backed nominee with strong ties to private sector competitor, FedEx, to succeed Louis DeJoy as Postmaster General. Both President Trump and his senior advisor, Elon Musk, have gone on the record to support privatizing the Postal Service.
Trump Waves White Flag, Ends Yemen War In Omani-Mediated Truce
May 7, 2025
NewsDesk, The Cradle.
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Ceasefire, Donald Trump, Genocide, Israel, Wars and Militarism, Yemen
US President Donald Trump announced on 6 May that Washington will put a stop to its illegal war against Yemen, claiming that the Ansarallah-led Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) “don't want to fight anymore.”
When pressed by reporters on the terms of the agreement with Sanaa, Trump claimed Yemeni officials “said please don't bomb us anymore.” Asked where he got that information, Trump said, “It doesn't matter where I heard it – a very good source.”
Nevertheless, the Omani Foreign Ministry announced later that Muscat successfully brokered a ceasefire agreement between Washington and Sanaa that will see both sides end hostilities.
Shilling For Israel’s Genocide
Anyone who at this point is still prioritising concerns about tackling antisemitism in Britain, the United States or Europe over halting a 19-month genocide in Gaza is secretly in favour of that genocide. They need to be shamed – and urgently.
We are long past the time when there can be any doubt that what the International Court of Justice feared 16 months ago was a genocide is actually a genocide. Israel is no longer even shy about admitting it is starving Gaza’s population. It has been expressly blocking all food and water into Gaza for more than two months.
We are at the point where even patriotic Israeli scholars who have been desperately trying to ignore that reality are belatedly and reluctantly conceding that Israel’s genocide in Gaza is indisputable.
I Was In The Documentary ‘The Settlers’; This Is What They Didn’t Tell
May 7, 2025
Mohammad Hureini, Mondoweiss.
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BBC, Israel, Palestine, Settler colonialism, The Nakba
The BBC documentary ‘The Settlers,” directed by Josh Baker and written by Louis Theroux, has recently aired to much international attention. It aims to give Western viewers an inside look into the minds of Israeli settlers – those who occupy Palestinian land in the West Bank, often with open ideological commitment to ethnic cleansing and supremacy.
The film achieves its goal to a certain extent, as it exposed the raw, unfiltered language of settlers who speak brazenly about displacing Palestinians from their ancestral homes.
But while the documentary was willing to give settlers the microphone to lay out their dangerous visions for the future, it fell painfully short in giving equal weight to the lived reality of those whose lives are being shattered by those very ideologies.
Pakistan Calls India’s Attacks ‘Unprovoked And Blatant Act Of War’
The growing tensions between India and Pakistan reached a boiling point in the early hours of May 7 when India launched several attacks inside Pakistani territory. Eight Pakistanis were killed and 35 were injured in the “tri-service” early morning attacks by India, Director General Inter-Services Public Relations, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, said in a press conference. Chaudhry added that one of the victims was a three-year-old girl.
The Indian Army launched the attacks as part of “Operation Sindoor” and targeted nine locations in the cities of Kotli, Muzaffarabad, and Bagh located in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and Bahawalpur and Muridke in the Punjab province.
Trump Shuts Down 25 USGS Centers That Monitor Drought And Flooding
May 7, 2025
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch.
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Chemical Spill, Donald Trump, Drought, Environment, Flooding, Oil Spill, United States Geological Service (USGS)
More than two dozen United States Geological Service (USGS) centers that monitor the country’s waters for flooding and drought, as well as manage water supply levels to make sure communities don’t run out, have had their leases terminated by the Trump administration.
The 25 centers being targeted are part of a network that tracks the quality and levels of surface and ground water, reported The Guardian. The data the centers’ employees and equipment provide plays a crucial role in protecting human life and property while maintaining water supplies and helping to clean up oil and chemical spills.
In the aftermath of a chemical or oil spill, USGS data tracks plumes with real-time monitoring in some locations to protect drinking water, Inside Climate News reported.
United States Minerals Deal Resets Ukraine’s Geopolitics
May 6, 2025
M.K. Bhadrakumar, Consortium News.
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Resources, Russia, Ukraine, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism
Moscow and Kiev have been vying with each other to curry favour with the new U.S. administration. Just as Russian diplomacy appeared to be outstripping Kiev, things changed dramatically on April 30 with the signing of the so-called minerals deal between the U.S. and Ukraine in Washington.
Weeks of tense bargaining preceded the conclusion of the agreement, which at one point disrupted U.S. aid for Ukraine. But the latter showed extraordinary grit, tenacity and tact to hang on and, eventually, extracted out of the Trump administration what President Vladimir Zelensky called a “truly equal” deal. This must be the finest hour of Ukrainian nationalism and underscores that the country is far from a write-off on the geopolitical chessboard.
Germany In Crisis Part 4: Wanderers And Seekers
May 6, 2025
Patrick Lawrence, Scheer Post.
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Elections, Germany, National Debt, Wars and Militarism
Dresden, May 6 — Friedrich Merz barely managed to assume power Tuesday as the Federal Republic’s 10th chancellor, having fallen six votes short of the number he needed when the first Bundestag ballots were counted in a morning vote.
Berlin was reeling for most of the day as it faced a political impasse unprecedented in postwar German history. A second ballot, held hurriedly later in the afternoon, got Merz over the line by a margin of nine votes. While Bundestag members vote secretly, the numbers indicate that some members of his new coalition betrayed him. Among the German analysts with whom I spoke today, the interesting question now is how long Merz will manage to remain as chancellor.
Yemen Vows ‘Unimaginable’ Response to Israel’s Bombing Campaign
Israeli strikes carried out on the evening of 5 May on Yemen's Hodeidah port and surrounding areas, including a concrete factory near Bajil, injured 56 people and killed one, while damaging 70 percent of the port's five docks and infrastructure, Yemeni sources reported.
At least 21 people were injured in the Bajil strike, while the Yemeni Health Ministry later said 35 people were injured and one person killed in the broader Hodeidah attacks. Civilian areas such as Al-Salakhanah and Al-Hawak neighborhoods were also reportedly hit.
Nasruddin Amer, head of Ansarallah's media office, vowed that the group would respond to the Israeli attack and that the strikes would not deter further operations.