By Trita Parsi | May 17, 2026
The Middle East is once again teetering on the brink as Trump appears poised to reignite war with Iran. Press reports indicate he will convene military advisers on Tuesday, though my understanding is that both the meeting and the decision are likely to come sooner. Over the past several hours, Trump has flooded Truth Social with a barrage of incendiary threats. While some of this may be theatrical brinkmanship designed to force Tehran into submission, sources in the Iranian capital tell me they expect the United States to resume hostilities within the next 48 hours. … continue
By Anthony Watts | Climate Realism | May 12, 2026
The Guardian claims in “‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds” that New Orleans has effectively entered a “terminal condition” and must begin an organized population retreat because sea-level rise will surround the city within decades. This is false. The article relies on speculative climate modeling, paleoclimate analogies, and worst-case sea-level projections that are nowhere near what actual tide gauge measurements of sea level show today.
The story warns that southern Louisiana faces “3–7 meters of sea-level rise” and shoreline retreat of up to 100 kilometers inland. That claim is extrapolated from comparisons to a warm period 125,000 years ago when ice sheets were in a very different configuration, not based on observed current data trends. The result of computer model simulations of ancient paleoclimate conditions has no bearing on the present, nor is it in-line with actual sea-level trends.
Measured sea-level rise along the Gulf Coast is well documented by long-running tide gauges operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The observed rate in the region is on the order of millimeters per year, not meters per decade as seen in the sea level trend graphic from the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration … continue
By Paul Homewood | Not A Lot Of People Know That | May 15, 2026
I think we can all see where this is going! … continue
Al Mayadeen | May 18, 2026
A senior commander in Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Wael Abdel Halim, and his daughter were killed overnight in an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential apartment on the outskirts of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon.
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in the Bekaa Valley reported that Israeli occupation aircraft struck the apartment in the al-Basateen neighborhood shortly after midnight using a guided missile, killing martyr Abdel Halim and his daughter and injuring several others.
Rescue and emergency crews continued operations at the site following the attack, working to remove rubble and search for survivors beneath the destroyed building.
In southern Lebanon, Israeli occupation forces continued their aerial and artillery attacks on several areas. … Full article
IMEMC | May 17, 2026
Israeli occupation forces shot and injured a 14‑year‑old Palestinian child on Sunday evening during a military invasion of Silwad, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank’s central region.
Raed Hamed, head of the Silwad Municipality, reported that the child was struck with live ammunition in the leg after illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers attacked the Tal al‑‘Asour area overlooking the town.
According to Hamed, the colonizers — some driving four‑wheelers — invaded Palestinian lands, chased residents, and assaulted several Palestinians in the area.
Residents mobilized to repel the colonizer incursion before Israeli occupation forces invaded the area simultaneously and opened fire at the civilians confronting the attack.
Medics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) rushed to the town, treated the child at the scene, and transported him to a hospital in Ramallah.
The assault on Tal al‑‘Asour is part of a sustained pattern in which armed colonizers, operating under the protection of Israeli forces, intensify their presence on strategic hilltops surrounding Silwad.
Over recent months, colonizer groups have repeatedly attempted to seize or establish outposts in the area, with Israeli forces routinely intervening to suppress Palestinian residents resisting these encroachments.
Also on Sunday, Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank, deploying troops, breaking into homes, conducting field interrogations, and abducting several Palestinians in multiple districts.
Press TV – May 17, 2026
Israeli settlers’ continuous attacks have forced Palestinian residents to abandon a farming village in the occupied northern West Bank.
Media reports on Sunday cited Yanoun residents as saying the repeated attacks and harassment by Israeli settlers forced them to abandon their land.
The village, located 12 kilometers southeast of Nablus, which housed more than 200 residents, is now largely empty, with Israeli settlers having taken control of more than 16 square kilometers of surrounding farmland.
Rashid Murrar, a Yanoun farmer, said the Israeli settlers set up outposts near his village, blocking the roads, stopping much-needed supplies from reaching the city.
“I would plant my fields, only to watch settlers let their livestock graze on and destroy my crops,” Murrar complained.
The Israeli settlers have installed gates on the road, blocking Palestinian residents from returning. They regularly beat up the residents who manage to enter the area. … Full article
IMEMC | May 17, 2026
Israeli occupation forces shot and injured a Palestinian youth late Saturday during an invasion of the Al‑Mahjar neighborhood in the Nur Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank’s northwestern part.
Local sources said a large Israeli force stormed the area, firing heavy live ammunition and illumination rounds.
Medical sources said a young man was shot in the shoulder and thigh and was transferred by Palestinian Red Crescent Society medics to the hospital. … Full article
Press TV – May 17, 2026
UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese has stated that Israel systematically uses torture against Palestinian detainees in its detention centers and against the wider Palestinian population across the occupied territories.
In a report prepared for the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council, Albanese said on Saturday that torture is not confined to prisons or interrogation rooms.
The report emphasizes that Palestinians are also subjected to torture through mass displacement, sieges, restrictions on humanitarian aid and food, military violence, and attacks by Israeli forces.
It further argues that the systematic torture of an entire population can serve both as a means of domination and as evidence of genocidal intent under the Genocide Convention.
The report states that Israeli authorities have deliberately created an environment designed to break Palestinian resistance, dignity, and determination across the occupied territories.
Titled “Torture and Genocide,” the report examines the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories. It focuses on Israel’s treatment of Palestinians since 1967, with particular attention to the period since October 7, 2023, when the Tel Aviv regime launched its genocidal war against the besieged Gaza Strip.
According to the report, torture has long been a central element of Israel’s dispossession of Palestinians. … Full article
Press TV – May 17, 2026
Israeli authorities continue to block the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting thousands of Palestinian abductees held in the regime’s jails, despite Israel’s obligations under the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions, a report says.
In an editorial published on Sunday, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Israel remains legally bound to allow ICRC representatives to visit Palestinian abductees, yet authorities continue to reject such access.
Israel justifies the ban by falsely accusing the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas of previously denying similar visits to Israeli captives held in Gaza after Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023.
Before Hamas released all the Israeli captives on October 13, 2024, it had repeatedly declared that it was willing to allow the ICRC to visit them.
However, the movement feared revealing the locations where the captives were being kept because Israel would deliberately strike these places, killing both the captives and Hamas fighters. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | May 17, 2026
Israel’s terrorist strikes have killed at least four more Palestinians as the Tel Aviv regime steps up its aggression against the people of Gaza.
Gaza health officials said on Sunday that an Israeli strike killed one Palestinian near a police post in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Separately, Gaza medics said another Israeli airstrike killed at least three people at a community kitchen near Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza area. … Full article
Press TV – May 17, 2026
The New York Times has reported that an Iraqi farmer was likely killed by Israeli forces after stumbling on a secret Israeli military base in the Muslim country.
Media reports on Sunday cited a NYT investigation revealing the Israelis had set up a covert outpost in Iraq’s western desert during the US-Israeli war on Iran. The site was reportedly used by Israel to support air strikes and housed special forces units.
Awad al-Shammari, who was on his way on March 6, 2026, to buy grocery supplies, stumbled upon the Israeli military units and informed the local security forces that he had sighted suspicious activity in the Najaf-Karbala desert. […]
The NYT sources said the base discovered by al-Shammari had been known to Washington since at least June 2025, suggesting the US had withheld the information from the Iraqi government despite being a close ally.
Raed al-Maliki, an Iraqi lawmaker, slammed Washington for giving the zionist forces access to Iraqi airspace.
“The United States handed Iraqi airspace to the [Israeli] entity during the war and ordered radar systems to be shut down,” al-Maliki said, adding, “Now it has become clear that Iraqi territory was also used to establish a secret intelligence center or base for the Zionist entity.” – Full article
Al Mayadeen | May 17, 2026
A newly published report by the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) has delivered a critical assessment of the United Arab Emirates’ role in African conflicts, describing Abu Dhabi as a systematic spoiler that arms proxy forces, manipulates diplomatic processes, and bears significant responsibility for some of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, all while facing virtually no political consequences from its Western partners.
The report, authored by researchers at one of Europe’s most influential foreign and security policy think tanks, which directly advises the German government and Bundestag, calls on Berlin and its European partners to fundamentally reassess their relationship with the UAE. … continue
By Tamer Ajrami | MEMO | May 17, 2026
When military power fails to impose “deterrence,” oil becomes politics. And the Strait of Hormuz is now writing Gulf security rules instead of the Pentagon.
With Hormuz still closed and the emergency oil stock releases used to calm markets running down, prices are moving _ no matter how much some people deny it _ toward a new surge. The real problem is not the price as a number. It is the chain reaction: gasoline and diesel, shipping and insurance, raw materials, and then inflation that travels from Asia to the United States. And even if the strait opened tomorrow, the damage would not vanish. Supply chains do not reset overnight, and parts of the oil and petrochemicals flow would take time to recover.
In my previous Middle East Monitor article, I said clearly that Gulf states “have nothing but to talk to Iran now”. That was not idealism or goodwill. It was hard security math: the old formula is eroding. Bases do not protect the way people assumed, and guarantees shrink the moment they face a real test. Today, this is no longer an argument. It is a reality driven by markets before politics. … continue
Sputnik – 17.05.2026
Ukraine’s two main anti-corruption bodies – the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) – have “more than enough grounds to detain Volodymyr Zelensky’s wife,” a security source told Sputnik.
“A decision is currently being made on which criminal case to pursue first,” the source said.
The information is no secret to the head of the Ukrainian regime, who has already begun bargaining with Western partners and tightened his family’s security, the source added.
By Kit Klarenberg | Global Delinquents | May 17, 2026
On April 15th, Declassified UK published a bombshell investigation exposing how in the mid-1990s, senior British political and military officials were well-aware NATO expansion into Central and Eastern Europe “would provoke [the] Russians,” and likely trigger all-out war. Hitherto unreported Ministry of Defence files reveal London knew Moscow’s “sensitivities” over a “hostile military alliance” enlarging up to its borders were profound, and based on very “real” concerns. Yet, NATO’s dangerous crusade to absorb Central and Eastern Europe continued apace, ultimately producing the Ukraine proxy conflict.
Since the so-called Special Military Operation’s February 2022 eruption, British officials have relentlessly reiterated the mantra the proxy war was “unprovoked”. However, a declassified March 1995 Foreign Office memo noted “there was a widespread psychological and intellectual perception in Moscow that NATO was a real threat.” In May that year, then-Prime Minister John Major succinctly articulated Russian anxieties to his Irish counterpart John Bruton, as a “fundamental fear…of encirclement.” Concerns about EU membership were comparatively muted:
“For the Russians, NATO had a much more threatening symbolism and political resonance… The Baltics were particularly difficult, with extreme sensitivity for Russia. It would be very hard to have a NATO border directly against Russia.”
Still, in 1997 NATO invited Czechia, Hungary, and Poland to join, which they did two years later. In 2004, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania simultaneously joined the military alliance. So too did ex-Warsaw Pact members Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, and former Yugoslav republic Slovenia. Declassified UK shows how back in August 1996, British Defence Intelligence prepared a NATO enlargement study specifically forecasting that these countries joining could trigger war, and an alliance military operation launched via Article 5 of the NATO treaty in response. … continue
Sputnik – 17.05.2026
The overnight mass terrorist attack carried out by Ukraine once again targeted exclusively peaceful civilians, apartment buildings, and private homes, stated Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
“To the tunes of Eurovision songs, the Ukrainian regime has committed yet another mass terrorist attack using money from EU citizens,” underscored Zakharova.
She added that these terrorist acts — like those before them — are part of a long chain of crimes committed by Zelensky, his regime, and the “collective Western minority” that finances them.
In a single night, Russia’s air defense forces shot down 556 drones, about 130 of them in the Moscow region. Three people were killed during a drone attack on Khimki and Mytishchi in the Moscow region.
By Larry C. Johnson | SONAR21 | May 16, 2026
… President Xi dashed Donald Trump’s hopes that China would play a role in pressing Iran to end the war in a way that would benefit Trump. Xi said no.
I suspect that Xi did not tell Trump about the work that China and Russia are doing in collaboration — with the help of Pakistan — to erect a new security architecture in the region that will be led by Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Iran.
I am told that the goal is to create the equivalent of a NATO for the countries of West Asia.
The upcoming week will provide a clue whether Russia and China are achieving significant progress towards this goal if Saudi Arabia and Qatar refuse to let the US conduct military operations from their countries against Iran. … Full article
By Alan Cassels | Brownstone Institute | May 17, 2026
In medicine, we love a good heroic story. A patient suffers a serious disease. A drug company produces a brilliant new drug which proves to be beneficial. Lives are saved. Everyone is happy. Another battle won in the war on disease. Science marches triumphantly forward.
But sometimes the real story is less heroic and far more awkward. And the major “advance” comes not from a new drug, but from the opposite: because patients stopped swallowing a drug that never should have been so widely used in the first place.
That is almost certainly the case of breast cancer in North America in the early 2000s.
The pivotal moment came in the summer of 2002 when a major randomized trial, called the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) was published, aiming to answer a question which physicians had long pondered: was long-term use of hormone replacement therapy, typically prescribed for women going through menopause, good for the heart?
Up to that point, hormone therapy had been marketed as a kind of fountain-of-youth elixir for menopausal women. Promising to protect the heart, keep bones strong, preserve youthfulness, and generally smooth out biological inconveniences of aging, women were prescribed these drugs and stayed on them for years, sometimes for decades. At that time, there was considerable debate about long-term effects, with some experts claiming the heart protective-effects of hormones were so pronounced that even studying the issue was a waste of time.
Launched in 1997, the WHI enrolled more than 16,000 post-menopausal women to test the effects of combined estrogen-progestin. Another arm tested the effects of estrogen alone in 10,000 women who had undergone a hysterectomy. The larger trial was terminated three years earlier than originally planned, once the findings showed an increased risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke, and blood clots among participants. The smaller trial was also halted a year earlier than planned due to increased risk of stroke.
That was the day that the music died for hormone therapy.
Or at least we thought. … continue
RT | May 17, 2026
Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) will become the first American medical institution to open a clinic for adolescents seeking to reverse gender-related medical treatments, the US Department of Justice said.
The move comes as part of a settlement of a years-long probe by the DOJ and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton into America’s largest children’s hospital over its alleged false billings to secure insurance coverage for pediatric gender-affirming treatments.
The Justice Department said in a statement on Friday that Texas Children’s agreed not to offer sex change services, inducing administration of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, to minors anymore.
The Houston-based center will also pay over $10 million in damages and “dedicate millions to the provision of medical care to children harmed by the provision of such procedures,” the statement read.
Paxton announced in a separate statement that the TCH will also dismiss five doctors, who according to him, “harmed patients by performing dangerous medical interventions for the purpose of ‘transitioning’ them.” … Full article
By Jeffrey A Tucker | Brownstone Institute | May 16, 2026
The grim circumstances behind the death of George Washington (1732-1799), America’s first president and popularly known as the Father of the Country, are not wholly unknown. The details have been reported by historians for more than two centuries.
What’s strange about this dry biographical knowledge is that it is not reported with shock and alarm and hence never conveyed to popular culture with lessons for our lives. This is because Washington’s physicians were following standard protocols when they bled him to death.
The facts: Washington came down with a throat infection. Three doctors, all convinced of the settled wisdom of the healing arts deployed since the Middle Ages, participated in draining blood from his body, to the point that they took 5 pints or fully half his blood, while giving him an enema on top of it all.
They literally drained the life out of him, not from malice but simply by following the established protocols as recommended by the best physicians at the time.
To invoke a popular phrase, where is the outrage? Nineteenth-century biographies reported the details but celebrated Washington for his bravery in enduring the treatment, then called phlebotomy, which was considered the best science. […]
What’s happening in medicine right now is a massive rethinking of many conventional practices coming out of the allopathic monopoly that is a century old. In pursuit of keeping an orthodoxy in place, how many healthy practices have been left behind from other traditions such as Chinese medicine, homeopathy, chiropathy, or naturopathy, all of which are discouraged by conventional insurance and disparaged by pharma-funded media? How many practices today called the Standard of Care will in a generation or two be regarded as obviously horrible as the practice of bleeding?
George Washington’s terrible fate ought to have sounded a national alarm to ring through our long history. The lesson should be never to replace epistemic humility in medicine with institutionalized dogma. That lesson did not stick because then and now, the prevailing medical wisdom gets a pass even when it kills people. Even the Father of the Country. – Read full article
An Essay on the Machinery That Decides What Counts as Knowing
Lies are Unbekoming | May 16, 2026
The 1992 Inversion
In November 1992, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a paper titled “Evidence-Based Medicine: A New Approach to Teaching the Practice of Medicine.”¹ The authors, the Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group at McMaster University, led by Gordon Guyatt, announced a paradigm shift. The first paragraph named what was being replaced: “intuition, unsystematic clinical experience, and pathophysiologic rationale.”¹ The replacement was a hierarchy in which the randomised controlled trial sat at the top and clinical observation sat near the bottom.
The paper was not modest. It described its proposal in Kuhnian terms and predicted that the old approach — the physician’s accumulated judgement, the recognition of patterns across thousands of patients, the reasoning from mechanism and first principles — would be superseded.¹ Within a decade, the framework had been adopted across major medical journals, accreditation bodies, and clinical guideline organisations. In a 2007 BMJ poll of more than 11,000 readers asked to name the most important medical milestones since 1840, the sanitary revolution placed first, antibiotics second, anaesthesia third; evidence-based medicine appeared on the shortlist of fifteen.²
What was elevated to the top of the hierarchy was the one form of evidence pharmaceutical companies could afford to manufacture at scale. What was demoted to the bottom was everything they could not control. This was not the discovery of how medicine should be practised. It was the redefinition of what counted as knowing. The framework called itself evidence-based. What it actually was, was evidence-biased — a hierarchy in which what counted as evidence was determined, first, by who could afford to produce it.
The essay examines what that redefinition did, who it served, and the cost in lives. … continue
Press TV – May 17, 2026
A powerful blast shook the Beit Shemesh area west of occupied al-Quds on Saturday night, with Israeli media confirming loud explosions that sent tremors across the occupied territories and triggered panic among settlers.
The Israeli regime’s Tomer company, a key player in developing rocket and missile systems for the Israeli occupation forces, rushed to issue a statement claiming the detonation was nothing more than a “preplanned test” carried out “according to plan.”
The statement, relayed by Kan news, attempted to downplay the incident at one of the regime’s sensitive military sites.
Yet dramatic videos rapidly spreading across social media tell a different story. Footage shows a massive explosion producing a towering mushroom cloud that billowed high into the sky, visible from a considerable distance and resembling the aftermath of a major mishap at a weapons development facility.
The scale of the blast has raised serious questions about the true conditions inside Israel’s military-industrial complex, which has come under increasing strain as the Zionist entity continues its aggressive campaigns across the region.
Such facilities, responsible for producing propulsion systems for missiles and interceptors, operate under heavy secrecy precisely because of recurring safety concerns and the constant pressure from the Axis of Resistance.
The Israeli regime’s military and police maintained silence for some time before the carefully worded statement from Tomer was released.
Press TV – May 16, 2026
Leaked documents have revealed the US tech firm Cisco Systems’ deep relationship with the Israeli regime in its continuous wars in West Asia, which the United States backs.
The papers leaked by Drop Site News on Friday reveal that Cisco has a deep illegal relationship with the Israeli regime and supported Tel Aviv forces in their atrocities against the people of Palestine, and beyond.
The Silicon Valley-based company, which produces hardware, software, telecommunications equipment, and other high-technology services used in networking, cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, provided support and infrastructure to Israel in its genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and also ran unlawful operations in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. … continue
Al Mayadeen | May 16, 2026
Residents of the al-Bustan neighbourhood in Silwan, located in occupied al-Quds just below the walls of the Old City, are being forced to demolish their own homes to make way for “Israel’s” expansionist project in the area, The Guardian reports.
Palestinians have been forced to demolish their own homes for decades as a form of “collective punishment” in an effort for the Israeli entity to continue its settlement expansion.
The coercive mechanism that “Israel” is employing in Silwan is not only meant to dehumanise the families, but is laced with financial threats as well. The Guardian reports that residents are being told that if municipal workers demolish the homes, the cost would reach approximately 280,000 shekels.
One resident, Jalal al-Tawil, described to The Guardian the feeling of watching a hired tractor dismantle the home built by his father, which itself stood on the foundations of his grandparents’ house. “This is something really hard. This is something bitter,” he said, noting that it meant erasing multiple generations of family history in a single act.
He also left the remains of a 35-year-old grapevine until the end, recalling that it once produced fruit for the entire neighbourhood. The vine, like the house, was ultimately destroyed as part of the demolition. … continue
Al Mayadeen | May 16, 2026
Israeli aggression increased across the occupied West Bank on Saturday following a series of attacks carried out by Israeli settlers targeting mosques, homes, and worshippers in al-Quds, Ramallah, and Nablus, alongside the killing of two Palestinians by occupation forces.
The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that Nour al-Din Fayyad, 34, was martyred after being shot by occupation forces in Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. Separately, 15-year-old Fahd Zidan Owais was martyred in the town of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya, south of Nablus, after being shot by Israeli soldiers, who subsequently withheld his body.
According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, occupation forces prevented ambulance crews from reaching the site where the child was shot and physically assaulted medical teams attempting to assist and treat him.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that settlers stormed several Palestinian villages near Nablus, torching vehicles and attacking homes after forcing entry, causing widespread panic among residents.
Israeli settlers assault worshippers, set mosque on fire
In occupied al-Quds, Israeli settlers assaulted residents and worshippers in the al-Wad neighborhood adjacent to al-Aqsa Mosque ahead of Friday prayers. Israeli occupation forces later detained nine Palestinians following the assault and transferred them to the al-Qishla interrogation center.
Settlers also reportedly attacked elderly residents and worshippers at multiple locations throughout the Old City. … Full article
IMEMC | May 16, 2026
Illegal Israeli colonizers shot a Palestinian young man on Friday night in the town of Ath-Thaheriya, southwest of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank. Israeli forces invaded the Dheihesh refugee camp, Beit Fajjar and Nahalin, in the Bethlehem governorate.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its ambulance crews transported a citizen to the hospital after a settler shot him in the thigh with live ammunition in Ath-Thaheriya town.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces stormed the town of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem, on Friday night, and detained a number of Palestinian citizens.
Media sources reported that occupation soldiers detained citizens and stormed into several homes and commercial shops in the center of the town.
South of Bethlehem, the army stormed the Dheisheh refugee camp and deployed infantry units on the main Jerusalem-Hebron Road and the bridge area. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | May 16, 2026
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced the martyrdom of its Chief of Staff, Ezzeddin al-Haddad “Abu Suhaib,” stating that he was killed alongside his wife, daughter, and several Palestinians in an Israeli assassination in central Gaza City.
In its statement, al-Qassam slammed the killing of its senior commander as a “cowardly assassination” carried out by the enemy in a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, adding that targeting him would only reinforce the Resistance’s determination to continue its path of struggle.
Al-Qassam stated that his martyrdom would further strengthen the resolve of the steadfast Palestinian people to continue confronting the occupation, reaffirming their commitment to the path of resistance despite continued assassinations and ongoing Israeli escalation in the Gaza Strip.
Sources within the Palestinian Resistance had confirmed to Al Mayadeen that al-Haddad was martyred in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip earlier today.
The Israeli occupation forces had carried out a massacre in the al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City, killing eight Palestinians and wounding over 40 others by targeting a residential building. Local sources reported that the attack struck a populated residential area, causing significant destruction and casualties among civilians. … continue
The Dissident | May 15, 2026
Over the course of the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, pro-Israel Zionists had two different narratives, one said in English and the other said in Hebrew.
The narrative said in English was that Israel was not killing Palestinian civilians, and that they were being used as “human shields”.
In Hebrew however, Israeli Zionists, including top level political and military officials openly boasted about killing Palestinian civilians, repeatedly saying that there are “no innocents” in Gaza, and referring to the Palestinians as the Amalek , a reference to the Hebrew bible verse calling to “attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey”.
No case better underscores this than the case of Israel’s mass rape of Palestinian detainees.
In English, Zionists and the Israeli government are attempting to deny the recent New York Times article reporting on Israel’s mass rape of Palestinian detainees in torture dungeons, labeling the report as a “blood libel”.
In Hebrew-language media and parliament, however, the use of mass rape against Palestinian detainees is widely acknowledged, and even debated as a legitimate tactic. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | May 16, 2026
“Israel” has continued its widespread aggression on Lebanon, targeting both medical teams and residential areas, committing a harrowing massacre in Harouf, South Lebanon.
The Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health issued a statement confirming that an Israeli airstrike on the Islamic Health Authority–Civil Defense center in Harouf, Nabatieh district, resulted in the killing of six Lebanese citizens, including three paramedics, and the injury of 22 others. The strike targeted a medical emergency facility.
The Ministry further stated that an Israeli aggression on the primary healthcare center in Tyre struck a medical facility and resulted in 17 injuries, including paramedics. It described the attack as a violation of the Geneva Conventions, which ensure the protection of medical personnel, units, and hospitals.
It condemned the ongoing series of Israeli attacks, stressing that it continues to raise its voice and will not remain silent in the face of such brutal attacks.
Israeli warplanes carried out a series of heavy airstrikes across multiple districts in southern Lebanon. A strike on a building in the city of Tyre injured several civilians and paramedics due to falling debris and rubble caused by the bombardment.
The attacks also targeted the towns of al-Marwaniyeh in the Saida district, Arab Salim and Kfar Tibnit, targeted twice in the Nabatieh district, as well as al-Khraibeh, Bayt Yahoun, al-Bazourieh, and Ayta al-Jabal. In the Bint Jbeil district, the National News Agency reported that two Lebanese people were killed in an airstrike on the town of Tebnine.
As the aggression intensified across the Tyre district, Salman Ideibi, chairman of Hiram Hospital, confirmed earlier today that two nurses were wounded after an Israeli strike targeted the Popular Relief Center adjacent to the hospital.
Ideibi said the hospital’s emergency department received seven injured people suffering from varying wounds, while the force of the explosion shattered windows throughout the hospital and damaged sections of its ceilings, underscoring the scale of the blast and the growing pressure on Lebanon’s strained medical sector. … Full article
Press TV – May 16, 2026
Israeli occupation forces have carried out new ground incursions into the countryside of Syria’s southwestern province of Quneitra, amid heightened military activity near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Local sources reported that Israeli forces, on board four military vehicles, stormed the village of Saida al-Hanout on Saturday, broke into a number of houses, and violently ransacked them.
There were no immediate reports of injuries and abductions in the area.
Separately, three Israeli battle tanks were deployed on the outskirts of the Tel al-Dari’yat region near al-Ma’alaqah village. They retreated from the district after a couple of hours.
The developments came a few days after Israeli artillery units shelled the Yarmouk Basin area in the western Syrian province of Dara’a.
The shelling was accompanied by Israeli military overflights in the region.
The Israeli army also targeted the suburbs of the towns of Saisoun, Jamla and Aabdyn with barrages of artillery rounds. No reports of casualties were quickly available.
According to local human rights activists, Israeli occupation forces executed 254 incursions into several areas inside Syria during March, recording the second month after February with the highest number of ground offensives.
The incursions have taken place without any response, amid a suspicious silence from the Syrian regime regarding these violations. … Full article
Sputnik – 16.05.2026
MOSCOW – The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Secretariat is effectively ignoring daily Ukrainian attacks on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) and the killing of Russian citizens by Ukrainian forces, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said on Saturday.
“The IAEA Secretariat is effectively ignoring daily Ukrainian attacks on the ZNPP, civilian infrastructure, and the killing of Russian citizens by Ukrainian forces, limiting itself solely to public statements about the threat of drones flying at a distance from Ukrainian nuclear power plants,” he said.
He added that the topic of escalation in the ZNPP area will be key during upcoming consultations with IAEA leadership, tentatively scheduled for mid-July.
“Regarding the issue of ensuring reliable power supply to the power units, let me remind you that for more than two months now, the plant has been supplied via only one power line instead of two. During this time, we have repeatedly faced situations of complete blackout of the ZNPP and the launch of reserve, or in other words, emergency, diesel generators,” the Rosatom CEO said. … continue
The rising progressive darling is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
José Niño Unfiltered | May 16, 2026
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) refuses to work with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on opposing funding for Israel but she had no problem joining Republican superhawks to take punitive action against China. That contradiction showcases the fake nature of AOC’s progressive dissent. […]
AOC will build coalitions with neoconservative hawks to pressure a geopolitical rival, but refuses tactical alliances with Republicans who might actually reduce military aid to Israel. This selectivity is not incidental, as it reflects a decade-long record in which AOC’s most consequential foreign policy votes have aligned with the foreign policy uniparty rather than the anti-war Left she claims to represent. … Full article
By Larry C. Johnson | SONAR21 | May 15, 2026
The Beijing circus is over and Donald Trump’s talks with Xi Jinping produced nothing more than some pleasing photo ops and some performative diplomacy with no substantive accomplishments.
There was no final communique at the end of Trump’s two days of meetings with Xi Jinping. Instead, we are left to rely on the statements from each government. When you parse the two statements, the two readouts diverge significantly, and the gaps are as informative as the overlaps. When you compare what each side claims was discussed you can see what actually transpired at the summit.
The divergence between the two readouts is stark and strategically deliberate. Here is a precise accounting of what the White House emphasized that China’s Foreign Ministry either omitted entirely or mentioned only in the vaguest terms… continue
Al Mayadeen | May 16, 2026
A military official cited by Iranian outlet Nour News has warned that previously “safe” targets associated with the United States are now within operational range, amid heightened tensions following recent remarks by US President Donald Trump.
The statement followed comments made by Trump to reporters on Air Force 1 after his visit to China, where he suggested that the US “wiped out their armed forces, essentially.”
The US president added that Washington “may have to do a little cleanup work” in Iran, which the official described as part of escalating threats against the country.
According to the official, Iran’s armed forces have notified all operational units of a “comprehensive immediate response plan” designed to deliver a rapid and forceful reaction to any US military action. The official told Nour News that any “miscalculation or hostile action” would be met with “heavy and simultaneous fire” targeting a broad range of US interests and infrastructure in the region.
The report also stated that targets previously excluded from engagement considerations during earlier conflict periods have now been placed under operational review. … continue
Press TV – May 16, 2026
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the US’s unprovoked aggression towards Iran has burdened ordinary Americans with avoidable economic costs.
“Americans are told that they must absorb rocketing costs of war of choice on Iran,” the top diplomat wrote in a post on X on Saturday.
“Put aside gas price hike and stock market bubble. Real pain begins when US debt and mortgage rates start to jump. Auto loan delinquencies are already at 30+-year high,” he added. “This was all avoidable.” … continue
Full transcript of Iranian FM Araghchi’s press conference at the BRICS Foreign Ministers Meeting in New Delhi, May 15, 2026: Iran is ready for full-scale war
Sputnik – 16.05.2026
The United States helped design and equip at least 13 high-security biological laboratories across Ukraine, establishing a specialized network to handle dangerous pathogens, according to a Sputnik analysis of public records released by the US Embassy in Kiev.
The network cost more than $24.8 million to establish as part of a broader $200 million investment supporting 46 biological sites since 2005. … continue
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender | May 15, 2026
An official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) today told The Defender that the Intelligence Community Inspector General is aware of allegations by a CIA whistleblower that the agency obstructed a task force investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and is investigating them, along with ODNI and other agencies.
In written testimony provided to the U.S. Senate this week, James E. Erdman III told a Senate committee that the CIA obstructed the work of the CIA’s Director’s Initiatives Group (DIG), an agency task force investigating the origins of COVID-19, and retaliated against those in the group who believed the virus may have leaked from a lab.
Erdman worked for the DIG between March 2025 and April 2026. The group, created by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, was ordered to start winding down in January and has since been dissolved.
Soon after the group started to wind down, “the CIA retaliated” against members who supported the lab-leak hypothesis, Erdman wrote.
Erdman, one of the earliest members of the DIG, said he was hired due to his “many years of experience at the CIA and my knowledge on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
But during his year with DIG, “the CIA obstructed lawful oversight related to the DIG’s work and retaliated against the DIG with what I believe were illegal investigations into DIG members.” … continue
By Al Loxley | Reclaim The Net | May 15, 2026
Ofcom appears to believe that a website is a kind of television channel. This would explain a lot about what happened on Wednesday, when Britain’s speech regulator fined an American mental health and suicide discussion forum £950,000 ($1.3 million) for hosting speech that is legal in America, on servers in America, operated by Americans.
The site had already blocked British visitors from accessing it, voluntarily, as a gesture of goodwill, despite having no legal obligation to do so and despite Ofcom having no jurisdiction to demand it. Ofcom fined it anyway. The fine is unenforceable.
The site owes Ofcom nothing under American law. And even if the site had never blocked a single British visitor, Ofcom’s case would still make no sense, because a British regulator cannot fine an American citizen for legal American speech on an American server any more than the French postal service can fine you for what you write in your own diary.
Ofcom is the Office of Communications, the British government’s speech regulator. Americans don’t really have an equivalent because most Americans would never stand for one. The closest thing is the FCC, except imagine the FCC could also decide what you’re allowed to say on the internet and fine you if it disapproves. … continue
MEMO | May 15, 2026
US media is systematically biased in favour of Israel, an analysis by The Intercept has uncovered. Investigation of more than 12,000 articles and 5,000 TV segments found mainstream US coverage was “one-sided, racist and dehumanising”, helping Israel justify its genocide in Gaza.
The investigation, published this week and drawn from research for a forthcoming book, examined more than 12,000 articles from the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN.com, Politico, Axios, USA Today and The Associated Press, alongside 5,000 television segments aired on CNN and MSNBC.
The focus is on centre-left outlets influential with the Biden administration during the first year of Israel’s assault on the besieged Gaza Strip.
The analysis identifies seven recurring patterns that, taken together, document the US media’s role in selling Israel’s narrative to the American public as the death toll in Gaza mounted into the tens of thousands. … continue
By Kurt Nimmo | Another Day in the Empire | May 15, 2026
Ed Gallrein is running against Thomas Massie in Kentucky. Trump hates Massie because he opposes the Iran boondoggle war. Massie has also demanded the release of the Epstein files. Ed has received a whopping $11,824,741 from the Israel lobby. That’s on the high end of donations, so you get an idea how important it is to defeat Massie and gain another voice for Israel in Congress.
There is one issue at the top of Gallrein’s list. Ed mentioned it during an interview with USA Cares, a veterans organization in Kentucky. The reimplementation of a military draft. Ed says we need it for “national security.” Considering the hefty sum donated by the lobby, it is natural to conclude much of that “national security” concerns Israel. … continue
IMEMC | May 15, 2026
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian child, on Thursday night, for allegedly throwing stones near the village of Al-Lubban Ash-Sharqiya, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
Media sources reported that one Palestinian was killed and another was injured after occupation forces shot them with live ammunition near Al-Lubban Ash-Sharqiya.
The slain citizen was identified as 16-year-old Fadi Zidan Oweiss, according to the Quds Press and Palestine TV news outlets. … Full article
Palestinian Information Center – May 15, 2026
RAMALLAH – Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque and several vehicles, and sprayed racist slogans on walls in the village of Jibiya, north of Ramallah, at dawn Friday in a new attack targeting Palestinian property in the West Bank.
Local residents reported that settlers infiltrated the outskirts of the village during the night, igniting the mosque and multiple cars, which were burned and sustained extensive damage. They also wrote inciting, hostile slogans on walls and property. … Full article
MEMO | May 15, 2026
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Thursday that the government plans to establish illegal settlements in Lebanon and displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
The remarks came during Ben-Gvir’s participation in an event in Jerusalem marking the anniversary of Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem according to the Hebrew calendar, Israel’s Channel 7 reported.
“We have more plans to encourage migration from Gaza, encourage migration from Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), and settlement in Lebanon, and we will not fear eliminating everyone who rises up to kill us,” Ben-Gvir said.
Israel continues daily violations of the ceasefire in Gaza, in effect since October 2025, where at least 857 people have been killed and 2,486 others injured. Israel also keeps breaching a truce in Lebanon, which runs through May 17, killing 2,896 and injuring 8,824 others since March 2.
Ben-Gvir also boasted about the harsh restrictions he imposed on Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons after referring to legislation he promoted in March allowing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners. … Full article
The announced investigation into secret US overseas biolabs by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) could end up being more of an internal compliance review than a sweeping exposé, experts told Sputnik.
“This is less about legal prosecution and more about the administration asserting control over the ‘Deep State’ bureaucracy and signaling a broader rapprochement with Moscow by validating some of their long-standing security grievances,” says London-based foreign policy analyst Adriel Kasonta.
When it comes to accountability, the development, spearheaded by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, “suggests a move toward ‘America First’ oversight rather than an admission of criminal activity by previous officials,” the pundit believes.
“If the ODNI review reveals that US agencies lacked sufficient oversight, failed to properly manage the security risks of funding pathogen research abroad, or lacked transparency, ‘accountability’ will likely take the form of domestic policy adjustments, congressional hearings, and stricter funding guidelines,” says Marco Marsili, associate researcher at the Center for International Studies (CEI-Iscte).
Earlier this week, Tulsi Gabbard announced an investigation into more than 120 US biolabs operating across 30-plus countries, including 40 in Ukraine, with a focus on potential “gain-of-function” research.
The probe came on the heels of the indictment of a former advisor to top US health official Anthony Fauci, accused of unlawfully concealing federal records tied to the origins of COVID-19.
RT | May 15, 2026
The Danish government has suspended plans for a solid rocket propellant facility intended to supply Fire Point, a Ukrainian defense company facing allegations of involvement in high-level corruption, according to one of the firm’s executives.
Originally operating as a film scouting agency, Fire Point emerged as a major player in Ukraine’s defense sector last year, receiving strong public backing from Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky and reportedly securing contracts worth up to $1 billion.
The Danish government had used national security provisions to bypass potential legal objections surrounding the construction of a facility in Vojens, southern Jutland, where fuel for Fire Point’s missile systems was expected to be manufactured. However, the project announced last September was quietly halted earlier this month, Fire Point chief designer and co-owner Denis Shtilerman told the Financial Times on Thursday.
Leaked surveillance recordings published by Ukrainian media since April indicated that businessman Timur Mindich – who is wanted in Ukraine over an alleged $100 million corruption scheme in the energy sector – effectively controlled Fire Point during 2025. The recordings also suggested he enjoyed preferential treatment from then-Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, who now serves as secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council. … Full article
RT | May 15, 2026
Ukrainian drones have killed four people, including a child, in the Russian city of Ryazan after striking high-rise residential buildings, regional Governor Pavel Malkov said on Friday.
Ryazan, the capital of the eponymous region located 210 km (130 miles) southeast of Moscow, was targeted overnight, with the UAVs damaging two apartment complexes.
Malkov said a total of 99 kamikaze aircraft were involved in the raid on the region. Multiple people were injured, including seven whose wounds are serious enough to demand treatment in hospital. The governor’s initial preliminary account reported three fatalities and a dozen other casualties. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | May 15, 2026
China moved on Friday to publicly reaffirm its longstanding position on Iran after speculation and conflicting reports circulated regarding Beijing’s stance during recent regional tensions, with the Chinese Foreign Ministry publishing a full statement outlining its official position.
Asian diplomatic sources told Al Mayadeen that Washington is expected to continue promoting claims that it succeeded in persuading Beijing to pressure Iran, particularly following recent US-China discussions surrounding the Strait of Hormuz and the Iranian nuclear file.
The sources said that the growing American rhetoric regarding “the Iranian nuclear issue” or claims of an agreement with Beijing on keeping the Strait of Hormuz open “without fees” are merely “attempts at media flooding and covering up the essence of the matter.” … continue
The Cradle | May 14, 2026
Tens of thousands of Jewish settlers descended on occupied Jerusalem on 14 May to celebrate the so-called ‘Flag March,’ beating Palestinian residents in the Muslim Quarter of the city, damaging storefronts, and shouting anti-Arab slogans.
The event, also known as the Flag Dance, commemorates the Israeli conquest of East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War in 1967.
Even before the parade began, Zionist youths pushed and cursed Palestinian residents and activists from “Standing Together,” an Israeli-Palestinian group established to protect Palestinians during the parade.
“When we put our bodies on the line, it oftentimes reduces the violence because settlers are less willing to attack when there are Jews there or when we document what’s going on,” stated Ori Shaham, the group’s international spokesperson.
The parade has long been marked by violence, extreme racism, and hate songs directed against the Palestinian residents of the Old City. … continue
Palestinian Information Center – May 14, 2026
ISTANBUL – The Global Sumud Flotilla is set to depart on Thursday from the Mediterranean coastal city of Marmaris in a renewed international attempt to break the Israeli blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip, with the participation of 54 vessels and more than 500 international activists and solidarity campaigners.
The announcement came during a press conference held by several members of the fleet’s board of directors in Marmaris, including Saif Abu Kishk, who stressed that global efforts to challenge the blockade would continue despite repeated Israeli threats.
Abu Kishk said Israel “does not respect human rights or international law,” adding that activists had decided to continue organizing missions to break the siege after considering the scale of suffering endured by Palestinians over recent years.
He stated that 54 ships would depart from Marmaris toward Gaza, including five vessels affiliated with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, carrying participants from multiple nationalities. … Full article
IMEMC | May 14, 2026
Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers injured a Palestinian man and an international peace activist on Wednesday evening after attacking residential structures in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron.
Activist Osama Makhmara stated that a group of armed colonizers hurled stones at the home of Mohammad al‑Jabarin in the eastern part of Shu’ab al‑Batem.
Makhamra added that the colonizers injured al‑Jabarin’s son Fadi and an international activist and caused property damage to the home.
In a related development, Israeli occupation forces stormed the southern area of Hebron, deployed across several roads, and surrounded Palestinian homes.
The soldiers also detained several Palestinians, subjected them to harassment while interrogating them, and later released them. … Full article
Palestinian Information Center – May 14, 2026
RAMALLAH – New Israeli data has revealed a dramatic surge in the number of Palestinian prisoners, particularly minors, placed in solitary confinement inside Israeli prisons since 2023, amid growing warnings from rights groups over the psychological and physical impact of the practice.
According to figures published by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, obtained from the Israeli Prison Service through a freedom of information request, the number of Palestinian minors transferred to solitary confinement in Israeli jails rose from just one child prisoner in 2022 to 50 in 2023, before soaring to 290 minors during 2024.
The data also showed that the number of adult Palestinian prisoners placed in isolation nearly tripled in 2024 compared with the previous year, reaching 4,493 detainees. The number of female prisoners held in solitary confinement also climbed sharply, from two women in 2022 to 25 in 2024.
Israeli prison authorities classify solitary confinement into two categories: punitive isolation, officially limited to 14 days, and “deterrent” isolation, which can last for six months and be repeatedly renewed. … Full article
Palestinian Information Center – May 15, 2026
GAZA – Two Palestinians were killed and several others were injured on Thursday evening by Israeli occupation forces in northern Gaza, raising the number of people killed since the morning hours to four.
A local source said two civilians were killed and others wounded after Israeli aircraft targeted a group of residents on Al-Nuzha Street in Jabalia al-Balad, north of Gaza.
Sources confirmed the killing of young Palestinian Tamer Iyad al-Matouq in the Israeli strike on Jabalia, just two days after his father was killed.
Earlier, another Palestinian was killed after an Israeli quadcopter drone dropped a bomb on him on Old Gaza Street in Jabalia al-Balad in northern Gaza.
Another Palestinian also died after suffering critical injuries from Israeli sniper fire near a UNRWA clinic in Jabalia refugee camp.
Meanwhile, another Palestinian was injured by Israeli gunfire in the Al-Salatin area west of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.
Two more people were injured earlier Thursday in an Israeli strike near the Bani Suheila roundabout east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Israeli forces also demolished several homes east of Gaza City, while Israeli artillery shelling targeted the northern parts of the city.
In central Gaza, Israeli tanks opened fire east of the Bureij refugee camp as artillery shelling struck the town of Juhr al-Dik. … Full article
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