An Essay on What Is Done to a Newborn Before Anyone Says the Baby Is Fine
Lies are Unbekoming | August 15, 2026
In the first three minutes after the infant is delivered, if the umbilical cord is left intact, approximately one hundred milliliters of blood transfers from the placenta into the newborn.¹ That is roughly a third of the infant’s total blood volume. The transfer is not passive. The umbilical vessels contain their own smooth muscle. They close on their own schedule when the transfer is complete, usually within three to ten minutes. At that point the cord blanches, the pulsation stops, and the vessels seal.
In the United States, this process is interrupted, on average, within thirty to sixty seconds. The infant loses roughly thirty percent of the blood the physiology was constructed to deliver. The practice is defended on grounds that shift as the literature closes on it: it prevents jaundice (it does not, at any clinically meaningful rate), it reduces polycythemia (rarely, and asymptomatically), it is what the obstetrician was trained to do (this last is accurate). The iron the infant would have used for the next six months goes into a red plastic bag with the placenta.
This essay is about what happens in the first sixty minutes after birth in a standard American hospital, and about the biology of the first sixty minutes as it existed before the interventions displaced it. There are seven interventions in the standard sequence. Each one displaces a specific biological event. The essay traces the seven in the order they occur, and then examines the second casualty of the hour, which is the mother.
The argument is not that any single intervention is catastrophic in isolation. It is that the biology of the first hour was doing something, and hospital protocol displaces the entire sequence in favor of procedures whose cumulative effect has never been studied. What the interventions replace is a sequence humans arrived with. What replaced it was assembled between roughly 1930 and 1991, most of it introduced without controlled trial, and none of it evaluated as the sequence it now is. … continue
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender | August 19, 2026
A former key adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci pled guilty to concealing public records related to the origins of COVID-19 in a plea deal reached with federal prosecutors — a development some political figures and analysts suggest could implicate Fauci.
Dr. David Morens pled guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. According to The Washington Post, Morens, 78, told a federal judge he attempted to bypass federal recordkeeping laws by using his private email account to discuss research — and a terminated federal grant — related to COVID-19’s origins.
Morens, initially indicted in April on five federal charges, told the judge he intentionally redirected communications to his personal email account to protect Fauci and because the emails might be misinterpreted in the future, if and when they were publicly released. … continue
José Niño Unfiltered | August 19, 2026
The political landscape for Democrats in Michigan has shifted beneath their feet as the party grapples with a rapidly growing anti-Zionist wing. Amid this tension, Jewish Michigan State Senator Jeremy Moss, who recently secured the Democratic primary for the 11th Congressional District, found his career suddenly stalled by a leaked audio recording. In the audio clip which spread like wildfire across digital platforms in July 2026, Moss appeared to admit that his primary motivation as a legislator is to serve a foreign power. According to the recording, Moss stated, “The entire purpose of my career is to make sure America continues to support Israel, I don’t think it’s wrong for Israel to use America as a pawn, America is not our homeland, we have been victims of antisemitism here.” These words, which suggest a priority for Israel over his own constituents, ignited a firestorm of controversy and provided a flashpoint for voters increasingly tired of the influence exerted by foreign interests in American governance. … continue
Al Mayadeen | August 19, 2026
AIPAC-linked political groups are pouring millions of dollars into a California congressional contest in their latest attempt to shape the outcome of US elections, turning a relatively local Democratic race into another battleground over Washington’s support for “Israel”, the Washington Post reported.
The intervention follows a major setback for the pro-“Israel” lobby in Michigan, where Abdul El-Sayed, an outspoken opponent of US military aid to “Israel”, won the Democratic Senate primary despite more than $30 million reportedly being spent by AIPAC-linked forces to defeat him.
Now, AIPAC’s super PAC, the United Democracy Project, has directed nearly $2.5 million toward Tuesday’s runoff in California’s 14th Congressional District, where progressive state Senator Aisha Wahab is facing moderate Democrat Melissa Hernandez.
Wahab, the first Muslim elected to California’s state Senate, has described the war on Gaza as a genocide and opposes continued US military assistance to “Israel”. Hernandez has defended “Israel’s” claimed right to respond to the October 7, 2023 operation, while saying the scale of destruction in Gaza has “gone too far.”
Although neither candidate has made foreign policy the central issue of the campaign, AIPAC-linked organizations have emerged as some of the most powerful financial actors in the race. Groups associated with AIPAC accounted for roughly 75% of the more than $6 million in outside spending recorded during July and August, according to The Washington Post.
Another political action committee, Bold America, which has received funding from AIPAC, spent approximately $2.6 million supporting Hernandez. … Full article
By GenXGirl – August 12, 2026
… Ondas has undergone an unprecedented transformation, from a struggling, nearly delisted firm into a leading-edge defense technology enterprise built around a series of Israeli companies, obscure funding sources, and a questionable $5 billion valuation.
Now headed by the former chief of Mossad, the company is positioned to play a dominant role in the U.S. military-industrial complex under the framework of the U.S.-Israel military and intelligence cooperation bills currently before Congress which explicitly prioritize Israeli-origin technologies for integration into U.S. systems and programs of record… Read full article
Press TV – August 19, 2026
The US national debt is on track to surpass $40 trillion this week, months earlier than previously projected, as the US-Israeli war on Iran, renewed inflation fears and rising government borrowing push long-term bond yields higher across major economies.
The Treasury reported on Monday that US government debt stood at $39.9 trillion, putting it within reach of the milestone. Six months ago, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office had projected that federal borrowing would reach $39.4 trillion during the current fiscal year.
The faster accumulation of debt comes at a perilous moment for US finances. Investors are demanding higher returns to hold long-term government bonds amid concerns over inflation, geopolitical tensions, government debt levels and spending on artificial intelligence.
The yield on 30-year US Treasury bonds climbed to 5.33% on Tuesday, its highest level since June 2007. Long-term borrowing costs also rose in Britain, where yields reached 5.85%, as well as in Germany and Japan.
A key driver has been the surge in oil prices linked to the US-Israeli war on Iran and disruptions to energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial route for global oil supplies. … continue
MEMO | August 19, 2026
The Israeli army arrested 30 Palestinians, including a journalist, during raids and incursions across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said.
The arrests took place in the provinces of Hebron in the south, Qalqilya in the northwest, Nablus in the north, Tulkarem in the northwest, and Bethlehem in the south, according to the society.
It stated that the arrests were accompanied in several cases by raids, searches, and vandalism of homes, as well as the detention and field interrogation of residents.
The society said Israeli authorities continue to target Palestinian journalists through arrests, alongside attacks against journalists in the Gaza Strip, emphasizing that the practice is part of attempts to “erase the truth and target the Palestinian narrative.” … Full article
IMEMC | August 19, 2026
Israeli forces shot and critically wounded a Palestinian young man on Tuesday evening, after invading the Al-Am’ari refugee camp in the central West Bank city of Al-Bireh.
The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that occupation forces shot a Palestinian citizen in the abdomen with live ammunition during their incursion into the Al-Am’ari refugee camp.
The Ministry added that a critically wounded citizen arrived at the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah after sustaining a live gunshot wound to the abdomen. … Full article
MEMO | August 19, 2026
At least nine Palestinians, including police officers and children, were killed on Wednesday – and more than 15 others injured – when an Israeli airstrike hit a police station in central Gaza City, according to local medical sources, Anadolu reports.
A medical source at the Al-Shifa Hospital said the bodies of nine slain Palestinians, along with more than 15 people who sustained injuries, had been brought to the hospital after the strike.
The latest deaths bring the number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday to 10, after another Palestinian was killed when a strike hit a motorcycle in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to medical sources. … Full article
MEMO | August 19, 2026
A senior Russian military official said Israel risks ceasing “to exist as a state,” claiming Tel Aviv’s main objective is to escalate the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and draw the US and NATO into the war, Anadolu reports.
In remarks released on Wednesday, Lt. Gen. Apti Alaudinov, deputy chief of the Russian military’s Main Military-Political Directorate and commander of the Akhmat special forces, told state news agency TASS that the regional conflict is likely to intensify further.
“We must realize that the war in the Middle East will only escalate. I believe that is precisely Israel’s objective to ramp up the conflict as much as possible and drag both the US and the entire NATO bloc into it,” Alaudinov said.
Ultimately, he warned, Israel “will overestimate their strength and cease to exist as a state.” … Full article
Press TV – August 19, 2026
Senior Iranian lawmaker Ebrahim Azizi has condemned France’s “constant betrayals” against the Islamic Republic, warning that Paris’s continued anti-Iranian measures will only further complicate its ties with Tehran.
“The Iranian people will never forget France’s constant betrayals over issues such as contaminated blood, INSTEX and snapback,” Azizi, chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, wrote on X on Wednesday. “Continuing this course and anti-Iranian actions will only make conditions more difficult for it,” he added. … continue
Al Mayadeen | August 19, 2026
… The US national average for regular gasoline reached $4.07 per gallon on Tuesday, up 30% from the same period last year.
Diesel prices have increased by 48% year-over-year, increasing costs across agriculture, freight, rail transportation, and other sectors dependent on diesel fuel.
Research from Brown University’s Climate Solutions Lab estimates that higher diesel prices have cost US consumers nearly $40 billion since the war began.
Jet fuel prices have also risen by more than 70% over the past year. Airlines have responded by raising fares and baggage fees and reducing less profitable flights. … Full article
The Ukrainian parliament has unanimously approved Yevhen Khmara as Ukraine’s new defense minister, giving their go-ahead to a man who earlier pledged that “Russia will burn” after orchestrating the deadly August 12 attack on the Russian city of Novorossiysk.
A career SBU officer, Khmara is notoriously known for being behind some of the bloodiest operations carried out by the Ukrainian special services against Russian civilians.
As a former head of the SBU, he was complicit in these actions:
Operation “Spider Web”: On June 1, 2025, Ukraine carried out a large-scale drone attack on Russian strategic airfields in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions, targeting strategic bombers and other military aircraft.
Crocus City Hall attack: On March 22, 2024, gunmen attacked the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow, killing 139 people and injuring hundreds more.
Assassination of Darya Dugina: In August 2022, Russian journalist Darya Dugina was killed when a bomb planted in her car exploded near Moscow.
Crimean Bridge explosions: The Crimean Bridge has been targeted in several major attacks, including the October 2022 truck bombing and a subsequent strike in July 2023.
Hundreds of deadly drone and missile strikes on the Russian cities of Belgorod, Kursk and Donetsk, including attacks on markets, maternity hospitals and bus stops.
By Drago Bosnic | August 19, 2026
NATO war planners rarely discuss their “nightmare scenarios” in public and appear even less prepared for real-life confrontations on that scale. This is particularly true when it comes to simultaneous or near-simultaneous wars in which the most aggressive racketeering cartel in recorded history has to fight in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and East Asia. As the pillar of NATO, the United States would be forced to manage wars against Russia, Iran and China at once. One of the most infamous mainstream propaganda machine outlets, The Atlantic, explored this possibility, calling it “NATO’s nightmare”. The analysis largely focuses on “a coordinated assault by Beijing and Moscow” and how difficult it would be to “muster a viable defense” (obviously implying that NATO wouldn’t attack first, which is beyond laughable given its history). … continue
By Sama Hoole | August 15, 2026
If you had trusted the settled science of the day, here is how it would have gone. … continue
IMEMC | August 18, 2026
Israeli soldiers shot and wounded several Palestinians and abducted multiple residents during military invasions across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. Israeli authorities also issued a land seizure order in the northern Jordan Valley, while soldiers carried out home invasions in several communities.
Near occupied Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers shot and wounded a young Palestinian near the Annexation Wall in Ar-Ram, north of the city.
Local sources said soldiers opened live fire at the young man while he was near the wall, striking him in the lower extremities.
In addition, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its crews treated a 54-year-old man who was shot with live ammunition in the abdomen at the Qalandia military roadblock, north of Jerusalem, before transferring him to a hospital.
The shootings followed a similar incident two days earlier in Ar-Ram, where Israeli army fire wounded a Palestinian resident of Beit Furik, east of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
Israeli forces also abducted 15-year-old Thaher Abu Eid after invading and searching his family’s home in the town of Anata, northeast of Jerusalem, and ransacking its contents.
In the central West Bank, medical sources reported that a 23-year-old Palestinian was critically wounded after Israeli forces shot him in the head overnight in the town of Ajjul, north of Ramallah. … Full article
MEMO | August 18, 2026
Israeli rights group B’Tselem said Tuesday that 47 Palestinian families face the risk of imminent displacement in the Jordan Valley in the northern West Bank after the army and occupiers cut water supplies to their homes, Anadolu reports.
“Forty-seven Palestinian families, comprising more than 300 people, nearly half of them children, face the risk of imminent displacement from their homes in the northern Jordan Valley,” B’Tselem said in a statement.
The group said Israeli forces and occupiers last week cut the last water pipes supplying families in Ras al-Ahmar, Al-Thaala and eastern Atouf in the area.
“In most cases, Israeli forces prevent water from being transported to the area,” it said, adding that the families, who depend on agriculture and livestock for their livelihoods, face imminent displacement because of the water cutoff. … Full article
The Cradle | August 18, 2026
The genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is the longest and most expensive military campaign in Israel’s history, costing an estimated $142 billion so far and set to approach roughly $169 billion, Haaretz reported on 16 August.
Tel Aviv’s genocide has driven Israel’s national debt up by some $130 billion, with the state set to spend around $500 billion on the military over the coming decade, according to Haaretz.
Israeli War Ministry Director General Amir Baram, who took office in March 2025, set out that trajectory in a strategy paper preparing the army for what he called an intense decade ahead.
The commitment was made without Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identifying where the money would come from… Full article
Palestinian Information Center – August 18, 2026
GAZA – Six Palestinian civilians were martyred, including a child, and several others were injured in an Israeli drone strike near the port of Gaza City, according to reports from Palestinian media outlets.
The Palestinian Information Center reporter said that the strike targeted a café at the Gaza City port, killing six people and wounding 10 others, adding that the victims were rushed to Al-Shifa Hospital.
This massacre comes as the Israeli occupation army persists in targeting residential areas and civilian shelters in Gaza on a daily basis despite the ongoing ceasefire.
The Cradle | August 18, 2026
US President Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace is “weighing” a “new” Hamas disarmament proposal after Tel Aviv rejected Washington’s latest one, sources told the Times of Israel on 18 August.
“The Board of Peace is considering abandoning its phased framework for Hamas’s disarmament” due to the “Israeli pushback,” an informed source told the Israeli outlet.
“Instead of having Hamas hand over its weapons in phases, with Israel conducting corresponding withdrawals … another option being weighed by the Board of Peace would see Hamas hand over all weapons throughout Gaza, and only then would Israel have to pull back its troops to the Gaza border,” the report went on to say.
The new proposal being reported on is, essentially, what Israel has been demanding – a full surrender by the resistance prior to any discussion on withdrawal of occupation forces. … continue
By Ramona Wadi | MEMO | August 18, 2026
The US imposed sanctions Tuesday on International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane and official Abdoulaye Seye, Anadolu reports.
Akane, a Japanese national who has served as ICC president since 2024, and Seye, a Senegalese national, were added to the Treasury Department’s Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List, according to the agency’s website.
Both designations were made pursuant to Executive Order 14203, “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court,” which US President Donald Trump signed on Feb. 6, 2025, and which has since been used to designate 10 ICC officials, including former Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan and eight judges.
The listing blocks any US assets held by Akane and Seye, and bars Americans and entities from engaging in transactions with them.
The move comes as Washington intensified pressure on the court after it issued arrest warrants in November 2024 for Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Akane and Seye of “directly” engaging in efforts by the ICC to “investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials whose government has not consented to ICC jurisdiction.” … Full article
By Ramona Wadi | MEMO | August 18, 2026
More incitement to violence from Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir exposes how colonial violence is aimed at the entire colonised population. Speaking on a podcast with former Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski, Ben Gvir said that Israeli forced should kill 30-40 Palestinians each night in Gaza.
Braslavski requested to act as executioner should Ben Gvir’s plan come to pass, to which the security minister replied, “I will turn the world upside down to make that happen. I promise you that I will do everything I can and turn the world upside down until it happens.”
As shocking as the comments are, both are the product of an enterprise that knows it can only sustain itself through ethnic cleansing. … continue
The Cradle | August 18, 2026
Israel launched a new wave of strikes on Syria on 18 August, despite no threat being posed to it by the extremist-led authorities in Damascus, which fought against Tel Aviv’s adversaries for years.
The new Israeli strikes hit the Abu al-Duhur Military Base in the countryside of the northern city of Idlib on Tuesday.
Syria’s Foreign Ministry released a statement condemning the attack.
It described Israel’s strikes as “an unjustified act of aggression and a dangerous escalation threatening regional security and stability.” … continue
Press TV – August 18, 2026
The Iraqi Kata’ib Hezbollah resistance group has set conditions for any understanding with the Baghdad government to place all its weapons under state control, including a full withdrawal of US military forces from the country.
The group’s security chief, Abu Mujahid al-Assaf, announced in a statement on Monday that the first condition to integrate into the state’s armed forces is for US forces to completely withdraw from Iraqi soil and airspace, offer cast-iron guarantees that they would not come back, and ensure that Iraqi political and economic apparatuses will make decisions free from American sway.
The second condition, he added, is the withdrawal of Turkish forces from areas in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, while the third one is the dissolution of the Peshmerga, which serves as the official armed forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). … continue
By Robert Inlakesh – The Palestine Chronicle – August 16, 2026
While the US Trump administration insists that the very much closed Strait of Hormuz is in fact open and grapples with domestic pushback against his war losses, Iran has been busy pursuing a military strategy that is placing a chokehold on their opposition.
Although the ongoing regional war has been experiencing a lull in direct confrontations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the US-Israeli alliance, a series of other fronts have become the focus of Tehran’s recent efforts.
Contrary to what you would be led to believe by the corporate media, Iran’s ballistic missile and drone fire has not ceased. Instead, officials belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have made it clear that there is no ceasefire in effect and that their operations are therefore being carried out in a coordinated fashion. … continue
Press TV – August 18, 2026
Iran is closely monitoring the commercial and maritime network supporting US military offensives against the Islamic Republic, with the companies and service providers knowingly involved standing to face various consequences, a report says.
Iran’s Nournews agency carried the report on Monday, citing a military official with knowledge of the matter.
The official said Iran’s Armed Forces were collecting and verifying information on commercial companies, privately owned vessels, and maritime service providers involved in supplying US forces in the region. … continue
Al Mayadeen | August 18, 2026
A decades-old regional system built around US military supremacy, support for “Israel”, and the containment of Iran has reached a breaking point following Washington and Tel Aviv’s war on Tehran, political scientist Marc Lynch argued in Foreign Affairs.
In an extensive analysis titled “The End of the American Middle East”, Lynch said the war has exposed fundamental weaknesses in the security architecture Washington constructed after the 1991 Gulf War, particularly its ability to protect allies, impose military outcomes, and guarantee access to strategic waterways.
“The American Middle East is finished,” Lynch wrote, arguing that the regional order prevailing since 1991 has become “one of the many casualties of the US-Israeli war with Iran”.
According to Lynch, Washington spent more than three decades attempting to build a regional bloc centered on protecting “Israel” while containing Iran, Iraq, and later Tehran’s regional allies. President Donald Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran, he argued, was not a break with that strategy but its culmination.
Trump’s administration sought to eliminate the Iranian challenge through overwhelming military force, but the campaign failed to remove the government in Tehran or prevent Iran from retaliating throughout the region.
“The American and Israeli failure to dislodge the regime in Tehran has proved the bankruptcy of decades of sanctions and violence,” Lynch wrote. … continue
The Cradle | August 18, 2026
The Pentagon is reassessing its military footprint in Persian Gulf countries after months of losses inflicted by Iran, the Washington Post reported on 18 August.
Two people familiar with the ongoing analysis told The Post that one of the central questions before the Pentagon is whether to pull troops back from the Persian Gulf, where the largest US bases overseas have absorbed much of the Iranian retaliatory strikes.
The scale of damage suffered by those installations has compelled Washington to rethink where its forces should be located. … continue
Sputnik – 18.08.2026
The MIC intends to “milk” “older and sometimes antiquated systems for as much profit as possible before a real paradigm shift towards actual 21st century defense strategy evolves – and will fight this evolution as long as they can,” former DoD analyst and Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik.
That was her response to the US military’s massive new $84.5B shopping spree for Patriot, THAAD and Tomahawk missiles.
“The MIC is in reaction mode, as is the Trump administration, trying to rapidly deal with an unexpected loss to Iran which has wiped out CENTCOM’s basing infrastructure, alongside an unexpected massive shortfall of [munition] consumables for scalable, combat and defense operations.” … continue
Press TV – August 18, 2026
The USS Benfold, a US Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, was left without power for four days in the South China Sea last month after an engineering failure, forcing the vessel to be towed to the Philippines.
The incident occurred on July 24, 2026, while the destroyer was conducting routine operations in the Indo-Pacific, according to Cmdr. Matthew Comer, spokesperson for the US 7th Fleet.
“On July 24, 2026, while conducting routine operations in the Indo-Pacific, Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG 65) reported an engineering casualty involving its generators, causing a loss of power,” Comer told USNI News in a statement.
The power failure left sailors without air conditioning, toilets, and galley services and also affected the ship’s potable water supply. … Full article
European gas prices during preparations for the heating season in 2026 were 52% higher than the average over the past three years, Sputnik found on Tuesday after analyzing trading data.
Calculations show that from April 1 to August 14, the average settlement price of gas futures based on the TTF index, Europe’s largest hub located in the Netherlands, amounted to $585.3 per thousand cubic meters. This is 41.2% higher than during the same period last year and 52% higher than the average for 2023-2025.
However, in 2022, amid the gas crisis, prices averaged $1,373.7 per thousand cubic meters.
The conflict in the Middle East led to a significant increase in gas prices in Europe. Average exchange prices in March ultimately rose by almost 60% compared with February, exceeding $600 per thousand cubic meters. Prices have remained volatile throughout these months. In July, settlement prices jumped by almost 20% month-on-month, averaging $637.5 per thousand cubic meters.
To prepare for the heating season, Europe is injecting gas into underground storage facilities (UGS). According to the European Commission, UGS facilities play a key role in ensuring the reliability of gas supplies in Europe, allowing the region to cover up to one-third of its needs during winter. However, storage facilities are currently only slightly above 60% full, their lowest level on record.
Against the backdrop of the crisis surrounding the Strait of Hormuz and concerns about disruptions to fuel supplies, the EU decided to lower the required level of gas storage in member states by the beginning of the winter season from 90% to 80%, European Commission representative Anna-Kaisa Itkonen told Sputnik in June. However, Russia’s Gazprom had previously forecast that UGS levels would be below 75% by October 1 if injections continued at the current pace.
Sputnik – 18.08.2026
Ukraine has derailed the planned August 20–21 visit of IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant and the town of Energodar, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
All details had been previously worked out by the IAEA Secretariat and the Russian side. Russia provided the necessary security guarantees, which fully satisfied the Agency.
However, Ukraine cynically threatened Grossi, explicitly stating that it could not vouch for his safety if he entered the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant via Russian territory.
The Ukrainian threats have once again exposed the true nature of the Kiev regime, the ministry emphasized.
Ukrainian armed formations, ignoring the norms and principles of international humanitarian law, carried out deliberate strikes against medical facilities and medical transport in Russia on August 10-16, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said.
Ukrainian forces are using weapons with shrapnel and high-explosive warheads in large quantities to inflict the greatest possible harm on the civilian population, Miroshnik pointed out.
He added that the enemy, mainly using UAVs, carried out remote mining of civilian facilities and places frequented by large numbers of people.
On August 15-16, the Moscow Region was subjected to a series of unprecedentedly powerful drone attacks by Ukraine, with at least 209 UAVs being destroyed, according to the Russian diplomat.
“Over the past seven days, Ukrainian troops have fired at least 7,264 munitions at civilian facilities in Russian territory, including 122 mm MLRS rockets, 152 mm and 155 mm artillery shells, including those with cluster warheads, mines and grenades. Ukrainian armed formations also actively used attack UAVs, FPV drones, and small arms,” he said.
The vast majority of weapons used by the Ukrainian military to attack civilians were produced and supplied by Western accomplices in the crimes committed by the Zelensky regime. In the past week, 69 people, including three children, were killed and 406 more were wounded in Ukraine’s strikes on Russia, Miroshnik added.
RT | August 17, 2026
Latvia wants Brussels to provide billions in additional funding as lost trade with Russia and soaring military spending put growing pressure on the Baltic state’s finances, Politico reported on Monday.
Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs told the outlet that he has asked Brussels to provide €7 billion ($8.2 billion) under the EU’s next seven-year budget, on top of other funding already earmarked for Latvia.
The sum would cover almost half of Riga’s projected €15.1 billion ($17.3 billion) military spending bill for 2028-2034.
Kulbergs said that Latvia is taking on debt to finance what its government views as security spending benefiting the rest of Europe. “We are getting our budget deficit to the maximum,” he told Politico, saying Latvia is borrowing to pay for “the defense of the whole of Europe.” … continue
The Latin American left has spent the last few years investing in an image of Colombia that does not correspond to the country’s historical reality
By Lucas Leiroz | Strategic Culture Foundation | August 16, 2026
In Colombia, the newly elected president, Abelardo de la Espriella, has initiated a strong rapprochement with the State of Israel. Relations that had been strained during the government of Gustavo Petro have not only been fully restored but have also deepened substantially – with the new Colombian government even recognizing Israeli “sovereignty” over the Golan Heights, a Syrian region illegally occupied by the Zionists. … continue
By Ron Unz • Unz Review • August 17, 2026
… Over the last couple of generations, Israelism has gradually replaced Christianity as the actual civic religion of our society. While both many conservatives and liberals feel comfortable attacking or mocking Jesus and Christianity, any similar attacks against Israelism would be treated as something akin to blasphemy. […]
Although sanctions against those who challenged Israelism had traditionally been informal, they were now increasingly acquiring the power of law. Almost 40 states and many large cities had adopted a formal definition of anti-Semitism that was gradually criminalizing any criticism of Israel. The Gaza protests of a couple of years ago on American campuses had been very harshly suppressed.
Whereas our former civic religion had been based upon the freedom of speech espoused in our Bill of Rights, we were gradually replacing that with a totally contrary and totalitarian framework. Across Britain, Germany, and other European countries, large numbers of individuals were currently serving jail sentences for protesting the destruction of Gaza. Ukraine already regarded criticizing Israel as a crime carrying an eight year prison sentence. Our own country was clearly moving in this same direction. … Read full article
IMEMC | August 17, 2026
Israeli occupation forces demolished a Palestinian home in the occupied Jerusalem area and several residential and agricultural structures near Nablus in the northern West Bank on Monday. The demolitions displaced two families and damaged agricultural infrastructure.
In Qalandia, north of occupied Jerusalem, Israeli forces invaded the al-Bariyat area and surrounded a two-story home belonging to Thieb Hamad before demolishing it.
Local activist Mahmoud Awadallah said each floor measured approximately 250 square meters and that the home housed two families comprising 15 people.
The demolition left the 15 members of both families without a home. Israeli authorities cited the lack of a building permit as the reason for the demolition.
In Beit Dajan, east of Nablus in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces, accompanied by a military bulldozer, invaded the eastern section of the town and demolished a 100-square-meter residential structure and two agricultural sheds belonging to Nader Raja Haj Mohammad.
The forces also filled in a water collection well owned by the same resident, damaging facilities used for agricultural activity and water storage.
The Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission said Israeli authorities carried out 80 demolition operations across the occupied West Bank during July, targeting 165 structures. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | August 17, 2026
Israeli occupation forces launched a widespread campaign of raids across the occupied West Bank early Monday, detaining at least 20 Palestinians and carrying out house raids, assaults, and demolitions across the West Bank, according to Palestinian sources.
In Nablus, the forces detained nine young men after surrounding a house in Beit Amreen. They also detained Mohammad al-Jarmi from the Upper Suburb and Mohammad al-Rayyan from Kafr Qalil, while surrounding a house in Jalud and assaulting its residents.
In Jenin and Tubas, two Palestinians were detained in Qabatiya and the al-Fara’a refugee camp. A young man in Jenin was also beaten, while his vehicle was stolen.
In Ramallah, Israeli occupation forces detained five youths from al-Mughayyir village and raided Zaita, north of Tulkarm. Meanwhile, young Palestinians reportedly foiled an attempt by settlers to steal horses in the Tayasir area east of Tubas. […]
Qusra Mayor Abdul Azim al-Wadi said Monday that Israeli settlers have continued to besiege three Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank town for a ninth consecutive day, as the Israeli military extended its operation in the area until Tuesday evening. … Full article
Palestinian Information Center – August 17, 2026
RAMALLAH – The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said at least ten women prisoners have been infected with scabies inside Damon Prison, citing recent visits by human rights organizations to examine their conditions and detention circumstances.
In a statement issued on Monday, the PPS said the infected prisoners are among more than 90 women held by Israel in the prison, including pregnant prisoners, girls and others suffering from chronic illnesses and health problems.
The society linked the spread of the disease to harsh health and humanitarian conditions imposed by the Israeli prison administration, foremost among them high humidity, shortages of cleaning materials, overcrowding in cells, poor ventilation and a severe lack of clothing.
It explained that these conditions have contributed to the wide spread of the disease among prisoners since May 2024.
The PPS stated that the continued spread of scabies more than two years after it was first documented reflects the absence of any serious response by the prison system.
It added that Israeli responses to petitions filed by rights organizations, including Physicians for Human Rights, have remained limited and have not brought about changes that provide prisoners with the protection they need.
The society warned that scabies has become a real health threat to detainees’ lives amid denial of treatment, worsening health conditions and complications that have reached dangerous levels in some cases.
It cited the case of child detainee Mohammed Hmeid, whose scabies infection and the subsequent bacterial infection caused damage to his nervous system and ultimately led to the amputation of one of his legs.
The PPS said large numbers of prisoners have contracted the disease and partially recovered before being infected again because the same conditions persist.
Other prisoners have remained infected for more than five months without receiving real treatment, suffering from skin ulcers, severe inflammation and intense itching that deprives them of sleep and restricts their movement.
The society further elaborated that these conditions, along with denial of treatment, fall within a broader system of torture and systematic medical neglect, pointing to the use of epidemics and diseases as tools to exhaust and abuse detainees. … Full article
IMEMC | August 17, 2026
Israeli forces continued violating the “ceasefire” agreement in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, as a Palestinian child died from wounds sustained a day earlier and several other Palestinians were injured in attacks on displaced families and residential areas in Khan Younis and the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Israeli forces carried out airstrikes, artillery shelling, drone attacks, live fire, and demolition operations in areas under Israeli military control. Restrictions on humanitarian aid, commercial goods, and movement also remain in place.
Palestinian Red Crescent Society crews recovered the body of 14-year-old Suhail Masoud Shallouf south of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. The child died from wounds sustained after Israeli forces shot him on Saturday in the At-Tina Street area south of the city.
In the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, seven Palestinians were injured when an Israeli drone struck a tent sheltering displaced families. Medical sources also reported that three Palestinians were wounded after Israeli forces opened fire on tents housing displaced residents in the Bir 19 area of Al-Mawasi.
Another Palestinian was injured by Israeli gunfire in a separate incident in Al-Mawasi, where many displaced Palestinians remain sheltered.
In central Gaza, several Palestinians were wounded when an Israeli drone fired a missile at a residential apartment in the Nuseirat refugee camp. Ambulance and emergency crews transferred the injured to Al-Awda Hospital for treatment.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces abducted three humanitarian aid truck drivers near the Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem) Crossing, southeast of Rafah in southern Gaza. The drivers were identified as Ayad Marish, Zayed Abdul-Al, and Ibrahim Abu Jarad. … Full article
Al-Manar | August 17, 2026
UNIFIL said Monday that Israeli ‘military activity’ in southern Lebanon has increased markedly over the past two weeks, with an average of 137 projectiles recorded each day between August 5 and 16. The UN peacekeeping force said the figure rose to 208 projectiles on Saturday and 185 on Sunday, as tensions intensified across the south.
UNIFIL warned that “civilians are once again bearing the brunt of the deteriorating security situation, with many families displaced or forced to alter their daily routines amid growing insecurity and uncertainty.” The mission said its peacekeepers continue to maintain a visible presence through patrols, monitoring, route clearance, efforts to reduce explosive risks, and the facilitation of humanitarian access.
UNIFIL stressed that UN Security Council Resolution 1701 remains the framework for restoring stability in southern Lebanon, emphasizing that renewed commitment by all parties to its principles is essential.
Israeli occupation forces have been for weeks carrying out attacks in southernLebanon on daily basis. The Israeli attacks vary from air strikes, to incursions, artillery fire and demolitions.
MEMO | August 17, 2026
The Saudi education system is continuing to soften its treatment of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in school curricula, Hebrew-language newspaper Maariv reported.
The newspaper cited a new report by research institute IMPACT-se, which examined Saudi school curricula from 2024 to 2026. It said Saudi Arabia had removed “hostile statements” and made changes to content relating to Israel, Jews and Jerusalem as part of the reform drive adopted by the ruling family under Vision 2030.
The report said one of the most notable changes was made to the Arabic-language textbook for Year 11. The 2023-2024 edition included the sentence, “Muslims will not give up Jerusalem”, but the sentence was removed entirely from editions for the 2024-2025 academic year and onward.
The institute said the sentence had portrayed Muslim control or presence in Jerusalem as being under threat, and that its removal eliminated a politically and religiously contentious reference to the city.
Press TV – August 17, 2026
Yemen’s armed forces have struck a Saudi landing ship and several escort boats in the Red Sea in retaliation for Saudi Arabia’s ongoing military campaign and blockade.
Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the spokesman for the armed forces, said on Monday that military units carried out the operation off the coast of the Port of Mokha and deployed “a number of ballistic missiles” against the vessels.
They “successfully achieved” their objectives in the strike, Saree said.
The strike was precise and direct, he said, resulting in the complete destruction of the Saudi landing ship and the sinking of several vessels. The remaining vessels were also set ablaze. … Full article
By Junaid S. Ahmad | MEMO | August 17, 2026
The American aircraft carrier was built to terrify other nations. The USS Abraham Lincoln has instead become something far more revealing: a floating monument to an empire powerful enough to bomb half the world, yet too arrogant, overstretched and politically diseased to care properly for the people it sends to do the bombing.
The symbolism is almost vulgar in its perfection.
A nuclear-powered supercarrier — one of the most sophisticated instruments of organized violence ever constructed — prowls the waters near Iran, launching aircraft and advertising Washington’s capacity to reach virtually anywhere on Earth.
Below deck, meanwhile, sailors endure exhaustion, psychological strain, deteriorating conditions and the torment of a deployment whose end repeatedly disappears over the horizon.
Behold American primacy: exquisite machinery, limitless ambition, exhausted human beings. … continue
Press TV – August 17, 2026
A senior Iranian source has firmly rejected any Iranian involvement in a drone attack on the office of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) prime minister in northern Iraq, dismissing the incident as another “false flag” operation.
Speaking to Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen television network on Monday, the source stated that the early-morning incident in Erbil was a clear example of such staged operations.
The source stressed that Iran had no connection to the attack and underlined that Iranian military operations are always “officially and openly announced.”
“Anyone who respects Iran’s sovereignty earns Iran’s respect,” the source added. […]
Iran has previously carried out retaliatory strikes against bases of terrorist separatist groups operating in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, including areas around Sulaymaniyah and Erbil.
These actions followed reports that the United States and Israel were seeking to arm and mobilize Kurdish militias against Iran during the ongoing war of aggression.
Multiple sources indicate that the CIA has been working to supply weapons to Kurdish separatist groups based in northern Iraq.
The Trump administration has reportedly held active discussions with Iranian separatists and leaders of Kurdish militia factions, offering military support, including potential air cover, to encourage operations aimed at seizing parts of western Iran. … Full article
Tehran has stated it will go on the ‘offensive’ if Washington refuses to implement the terms of the MoU signed by both sides in June
The Cradle | August 17, 2026
US President Donald Trump threatened on 17 August to bomb Oman if it “gets in the way” of his efforts to force Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz by maintaining a naval blockade on Iran.
“If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them,” Trump stated while speaking with Fox News on Monday. … continue
By Drago Bosnic | August 17, 2026
The latest reports reveal yet another scandal within the American federal system that sought to cover up numerous criminal dealings involving former President Joe Biden and his administration. Although it certainly pales in comparison to the monstrous Epstein files, which unequivocally confirmed that the United States and the political West as a whole are run by a cabal of pedophile-cannibalistic Satanists, the latest scandal demonstrates why neither the American people nor the world can trust any claim coming from the mainstream propaganda machine or the US federal institutions. Namely, a highly detailed Zero Hedge report reveals that an FBI analytical group covered up confidential data on the Biden crime family, particularly their corruption and other illegal dealings in NATO-occupied Ukraine. … continue
RT | August 17, 2026
The UK is deliberately escalating the Ukraine conflict and acting as an accomplice to Kiev’s terrorist attacks, Russia’s embassy in London has said, warning that Britain will be held accountable for its actions.
The statement comes after a Sunday Times report claiming that Ukrainian forces have used drones supplied by two British manufacturers for long-range attacks inside Russia over the past six months.
Multiple Ukrainian military sources told the newspaper that British UAVs had been deployed against industrial and military targets, including oil refineries in Volgograd and Yaroslavl.
The Russian Embassy responded on Monday, saying that the report confirms that “London is deliberately opting for an escalation of the Ukraine crisis, while hypocritically professing a desire for peace.”
“In doing so, the United Kingdom is acting as an accomplice and co-perpetrator of the bloody crimes and terrorist attacks committed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis, seeking to contain Russia and inflict maximum damage on it by proxy,” the embassy wrote, warning that “London’s actions will inevitably carry consequences for which it will have to answer.”
“The deeper its involvement in the conflict and the greater its support for Kiev’s terrorist machinery, the higher the price it will pay,” the statement concluded. … continue
RT | August 17, 2026
A Ukrainian drone attack on a civilian car in Russia’s Kherson Region has killed a married couple, according to Governor Vladimir Saldo.
The vehicle was hit by a UAV identified as a ‘Hornet’ near the village of Druzhbovka on Sunday, Saldo wrote on MAX messenger.
“The car was carrying a married couple – business owners from Nizhniye Serogozy. They were traveling to Melitopol to purchase goods for their shop. Both were killed at the scene as a result of the strike,” he added.
The regional head accused the Ukrainian military of deliberately targeting civilians and extended his condolences to the victims’ families. … Full article
RT | August 17, 2026
Six civilians have been killed in a Ukrainian missile strike on Russia’s Belgorod Region, acting Governor Aleksandr Shuvaev has said.
The attack targeted the village of Koloskovo in the Valuysky district on Monday morning, according to the regional head. Four other people were also injured, including a 14-year-old child.
Two of the injured received medical assistance but declined hospitalization. The two others, including the teenager, were taken to the Valuysky district hospital for treatment, the official said.
A structure at the site of the strike burned down, and a passenger car was damaged, Shuvaev added. … Full article
Sputnik – 17.08.2026
MOSCOW – The West is planning a provocation involving accusations against Russia of allegedly supplying weapons illegally to drug cartels and other organized crime groups in Venezuela, Colombia, and Mexico, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said on Monday.
According to the SVR, the intelligence service of one of the Western countries, in coordination with “Ukrainian henchmen,” intends to stage “another anti‑Russian provocation.”
“This time, the events unfold on the Latin American stage, and the plot itself resembles an excerpt from a third‑rate criminal drug detective story. The plan is to accuse Russia of illegally supplying weapons to drug cartels and other organized crime groups in Venezuela, Colombia, and Mexico,” the statement read.
Russian arms seized by the enemy during the special military operation are being transported to Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico as part of the provocation, and will be backed up with false documentation alleging the involvement in illegal arms supplies, the service said. … Full article
By Nick Cleveland-Stout | Responsible Statecraft | August 17, 2026
At a glance, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy looks like a new think tank dedicated to Israel/Palestine. The organization churns out think-tank style reports on questions such as “Does AIPAC Use ‘Dark Money in Elections?” and “Is Israel Carrying out a Deliberate Campaign of Starvation in Gaza?”
But the Hanover Institute is not a real think tank. None of the reports have bylines. A small disclaimer at the bottom of the webpage notes that the organization was created on behalf of the Israeli Government Advertising Agency by Piro, Inc, a firm co-founded by Daniel Rosenberg, the producer of Spike Lee’s “Inside Man.”
The Hanover Institute’s reports — all of which are about Israel and Palestine — appear to be part of an Israeli effort to influence chatbots. The institute’s “data reports” have footnotes and tables of contents, and they present arguments in a neutral tone, helping them appeal to chatbots like Claude or Gemini. Piro’s website says that it “author(s) content engineered for how LLMs evaluate credibility,” describing this service as “AI Story Optimization.” Others refer to this practice of influencing artificial intelligence as “LLM poisoning.” … continue
Al Mayadeen | August 17, 2026
The Executive Vice President and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Dr. Trita Parsi, said messages reportedly written by US servicemen on an aircraft flap in the Gulf reflect growing discontent among troops deployed to the region, including frustration over the indefinite nature of their assignments.
Parsi, who said the image had been sent to him from the field, shared photographs showing messages written in the dust on an aircraft flap. The messages included: “Be a good guy and do what Israel tells you to,” “Operation Epstein Fury,” and “Peace deal #64 incoming… ALL THIS FOR THE HOLY LAND.”
Parsi said he had no basis for comparing the sentiments expressed in the messages with those of US service members in previous wars, but suggested they could represent either new attitudes or a greater willingness to express such views openly. … continue
Press TV – August 16, 2026
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has issued a critique of Canada’s participation in the US-led war against Iran, highlighting the contradiction between Ottawa’s military cooperation with Washington and the Trump administration’s ongoing economic and diplomatic assault on Canadian sovereignty.
In a pointed social media post on Monday, Esmaeil Baqaei, spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, mocked Canada’s submissive stance toward the United States despite repeated humiliations from President Donald Trump.
“Washington calls Canada its 51st state; Washington imposes tariffs on Canadian goods; Washington insults Canada and threatens to punish it over wildfire smoke,” Baqaei wrote, accompanying his statement with an image of a hockey match. “Ottawa’s response: Understood, Sir!” … continue
RT | August 17, 2026
Officials in Washington are allegedly discussing the possible use of nuclear weapons against Iran as the months-long conflict continues to escalate, former US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has claimed.
Greene, once a prominent MAGA ally, made the allegation in a post on X on Sunday. She said the issue had been raised during strategy meetings, but did not identify those involved or provide evidence.
“They are discussing using nuclear weapons on Iran in strategy meetings,” she wrote. “I’m not speculating, I know. And it’s pure evil.”
Greene claimed Washington was considering lowering the threshold for nuclear use despite US President Donald Trump repeatedly declaring victory in the conflict. She warned that such a move could trigger a “nuclear holocaust” and drag the world into a much wider war. … Full article
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