By Junaid S Ahmad | Counter Currents | February 18, 2026
When a regime starts rationing a prisoner’s light, it is no longer governing — it is unraveling.
If credible reports are accurate that Imran Khan’s eyesight has catastrophically deteriorated in custody, this is not bureaucratic failure, nor medical misfortune. It is escalation. It is the continuation — by more brutal means — of a four-year campaign of relentless state persecution against the most popular, electrifying, and historically singular political figure Pakistan has produced in its 78-year existence. The dimming of his vision is not incidental. It is terror by design.
Custody is sovereign monopoly distilled. The state controls light, air, medicine, sleep, contact — the total architecture of human survival. Under such conditions, physical deterioration is not “neglect.” It is the exercise of power. When a regime commands every variable of a prisoner’s existence and that prisoner’s body breaks down, the state owns the outcome.
Field Marshal Asim Munir and the high command over which he presides do not operate as reluctant custodians. They operate as proprietors. Elections are pre-engineered, judges are corralled, media is disciplined, civilian governments are rearranged with barracks precision. “Stability” is invoked as a doctrine of supervision — a euphemism for perpetual military arbitration of politics. The generals present themselves as indispensable guardians of order.
Yet this supposedly omnipotent machinery has chosen to brutalize the body of its most formidable rival.
This is not incompetence. It is calculated persecution.
If the top brass can choreograph parliamentary arithmetic and manipulate electoral outcomes with surgical accuracy, they can ensure medical integrity. The targeting of Khan’s physical and mental health must therefore be understood as an extension of the same war that has filled prisons with tens of thousands of his supporters. The message is unmistakable: no sanctuary, no mercy, no limit.
And here lies the regime’s profound miscalculation. Imran Khan is no longer merely a political competitor. He has become a historical force. For tens of millions, he embodies rupture in a system long monopolized by dynastic patronage and praetorian oversight. His defiance has transformed him from politician into symbol; his incarceration has elevated him from symbol into legend. Each arrest, each humiliation, each confinement has fused biography into myth.
Pakistan’s rulers have manufactured the singular icon they sought to extinguish. … continue
By Dan Frieth | Reclaim The Net | February 18, 2026
Three US senators want federal funding to help Iranians bypass censorship and access VPNs. The same three senators have spent years supporting the surveillance systems that track Americans online.
Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), James Lankford (R-OK), and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) are backing funding for anti-censorship technology and virtual private networks abroad.
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), whose privacy record is largely clean, is also supporting the effort. The bipartisan coalition wants to help people circumvent government internet controls. Just not the American government’s internet controls.
Graham’s voting record reads like a blueprint for the surveillance state he claims to oppose overseas. He voted for the Patriot Act in 2001 and has supported every major expansion since. When Section 702 of FISA came up for reauthorization, Graham backed it. When Congress considered making Section 702 permanent in 2017 with no sunset clauses and no congressional review, Graham backed that too.
His encryption stance is just as consistent. Graham co-sponsored the EARN IT Act in 2020, which would pressure platforms to weaken encryption to avoid liability.
He also backed the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data (LAED) Act, a bill that would require companies to build backdoors into their security systems. VPNs work because of encryption. Graham has spent years trying to break it. … continue
By Lucas Leiroz | Strategic Culture Foundation | February 18, 2026
In recent days, videos of Europe’s chief diplomat, Kaja Kallas, have gone viral on social media, showing her making statements marked by disconnected reasoning, weak associations, and conclusions that do not logically follow from the premises presented. At the same time, she delivered yet another of her “unusual” speeches, declaring that Europe would demand a reduction in the size of the Russian Army – an assertion made without any reference to legal, logistical, or strategic foundations to support such a measure, making the inconsistency of her position evident.
This statement highlights not only the European diplomacy’s disconnect from geopolitical reality, but also the symbolic function of certain figures who maintain positions of international visibility. Kallas, whose political trajectory was consolidated in Estonia with a strongly anti-Russian discourse, has become a piece of ideological rhetoric: she plays the role of a “watchdog” of European Russophobia and does not seem to mind being seen as “foolish” for her irrational public statements.
Beyond this aspect, there is also a practical function in this dynamic. Domestically, Kallas faced considerable political wear in Estonia: her family circle maintained commercial ties with Russia, and nationalist sectors criticized her for economic policies that allegedly weakened the country’s economic stability. In this sense, her promotion to the head of European diplomacy served as a convenient solution – removing a worn-out figure from the domestic scene while at the same time making use of her “angry” stance toward Moscow to sustain the anti-Russian narrative at the continental level. … continue
RT | February 18, 2026
Authorities in the German state of Lower Saxony have designated the local chapter of the right-wing AfD party a surveillance priority, citing what they called “extremist” tendencies.
Founded in 2013, Alternative for Germany (AfD) espouses a tough stance on migration and opposes Berlin’s support for Ukraine. In the federal elections last February, the AfD came in second… continue
Al Mayadeen | February 18, 2026
French International Criminal Court judge Nicolas Guillou says US sanctions imposed on him have severely disrupted his personal and professional life, highlighting Europe’s reliance on American financial and digital infrastructure.
On August 20, 2025, Guillou was placed under US sanctions by President Donald Trump after authorizing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Security Minister Yoav Gallant over their roles in the devastation of the Gaza Strip.
Since then, Guillou says he has effectively been cut off from many everyday services, despite remaining in Europe. While he and his family are barred from entering US territory, the consequences extend far beyond travel restrictions.
Financial and digital isolation
Because Visa and Mastercard dominate global payment systems, Guillou says he is unable to use most credit cards. Access to numerous digital services has also been restricted, and even routine online purchases can be blocked if a US-linked intermediary, such as the shipping company UPS, is involved.
“What is at the heart of the sanctions is the prohibition on any US individual or legal entity from providing services to, or receiving services from, a sanctioned person,” Guillou told journalists on Tuesday.
He added that some banks engage in what he described as “over-compliance”, automatically refusing transactions involving sanctioned individuals.
“This has happened to some of my colleagues, whose transfers or purchases were refused because the bank on the other side of the transaction declined the transfer from a sanctioned person,” he stressed.
“The most problematic situation is when it affects services for which there is actually no European alternative,” he added.
Guillou described booking a hotel in France through the US-based travel platform Expedia, only to have the reservation canceled hours later due to his sanctioned status.
At present, 11 judges at the International Criminal Court face similar restrictions. … Full article
HB 2236 and SB 2151 make the governor the “sole judge” of an emergency, allow sweeping powers based on a perceived threat alone.
By Jon Fleetwood | February 18, 2026
The Hawaii Legislature is advancing companion legislation that would formally codify sweeping emergency powers for the governor and county officials—including authority to quarantine individuals, enter private property without consent, suspend laws, and seize control of infrastructure—under the justification of preparing for future disasters and disease outbreaks. … continue
How Brussels’ Digital Services Act has been used to pressure platforms and electoral control in member states
RT | February 18, 2026
Romania’s 2024 presidential election was already one of the most controversial political episodes in the European Union in recent years. A candidate who won the first round was prevented from contesting the second. The vote was annulled. Claims of Russian interference were advanced without public evidence.
At the time, the affair raised urgent questions about democratic standards inside the EU. Newly disclosed documents reviewed by RT Investigations go further. They indicate that the annulment of the Romanian election was accompanied by sustained efforts to pressure social media platforms into suppressing political speech – efforts coordinated through mechanisms established under the EU’s Digital Services Act.
What appeared to be a national political crisis now looks increasingly like a test case for how far EU institutions are willing to go in intervening in the political processes of member states. … continue
Delegated powers mean the specific rules (what gets scanned, what gets flagged) get written by a minister, not Parliament.
By Ken Macon | Reclaim The Net | February 18, 2026
The UK government wants to scan people’s photos before they send them. Not just children’s photos. Everyone’s.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall spelled it out on BBC Breakfast, floating a proposal to “block photographs being sent that are potentially nude photographs by anybody or block children from sending those.” That second clause is the tell. Blocking “anybody” from sending potentially nude images requires scanning everybody’s messages. There’s no technical path to that outcome that doesn’t involve reading content the sender assumed was private.
Kendall said the government is conducting a consultation on “whether we should have age limits on things like live streaming” and whether there should be “age limits on what’s called stranger pairing, for example, on games online.” The consultation, she said, will look at all of these. That list now covers messaging apps, photo sharing, gaming, and live streaming. Any feature that lets you share an image with another person potentially falls inside it.
This is how the mandate grows. The government announced a push for new delegated powers on February 16, framing them around age verification for social media and VPNs.
What Kendall described in broadcast interviews goes well beyond that framing. The official press release mentioned consulting on how companies might “safeguard children from sending or receiving” nude images. Kendall’s BBC comments dropped the qualifier about children entirely, proposing to block “potentially nude” images sent by anyone.
The mechanism matters here. … continue
RT | February 18, 2026
Abuses carried out by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein could meet the definition of crimes against humanity, the UN has claimed, while demanding accountability for the suspected perpetrators.
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) released a statement in response to the millions of files released by the US government related to criminal investigations into the late financier.
The files reveal instances of “sexual slavery, reproductive violence, enforced disappearance, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, and femicide,” reads the document penned by a group of independent experts and published on Monday.
“So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities… that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,” it states. … continue
MSM grudgingly admits Pizzagaters were on to something
By Kevin Barrett | February 18, 2026
On January 30, the US Department of Justice released what it called “3.5 million responsive pages” in compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act spearheaded by Rep. Thomas Massie. Though more than a month late, redacted in bizarrely non-compliant ways, and representing only about half of the Epstein files (the other half are still being illegally withheld) the DOJ document dump provided abundant, irrefutable evidence that the “antisemitic conspiracy theorists” have been right all along: The United States of America is occupied by a Jewish supremacist crime ring based in Israel.
The documents show that when then-United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Alex Acosta gave convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein a sweetheart plea deal in 2008 because Epstein “belonged to intelligence,” he was referring to Israeli intelligence. According to FBI files, Acosta’s source was Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s lawyer, who himself represented Israeli intelligence.
Epstein should have gone to prison for years or decades, as would any other criminal convicted of the same charges. But the notorious sex trafficker got a work-release wrist slap. Since when can a foreign intelligence agency tell a US Attorney not to do his job? … continue
By Freddie Ponton | 21st Century Wire | February 18, 2026
The resignation of Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to Washington in February 2026 revealed more than a scandal—it exposed the architecture of a parallel governance system operating through deniable channels. The Epstein files, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) censorship apparatus, and the Mandelson intelligence pipeline are not separate stories. They are component parts of a transatlantic mechanism that converts private access into public control, with enforcement mechanisms that now reach across sovereign borders to silence American citizens.
Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex offender with deep ties to political and financial elites on both sides of the Atlantic. Peter Mandelson is a former UK power‑broker and ambassador to Washington, now under investigation for secretly sharing government information with Epstein. This article shows how their relationship connects to a wider system of online censorship and private global‑health finance.
The Intelligence Pipeline: Real-Time Treasury Briefings to a Convicted Sex Offender
The Mandelson-Epstein correspondence reveals something far more systematic than indiscreet friendship. It documents a private intelligence channel operating at the highest levels of UK and US financial policy. … continue
The Dissident | February 17, 2026
The U.S. has recently cut off Cuba’s source of oil from Venezuela and Mexico, with the intention, as Trump recently admitted , of creating a “humanitarian threat” in hopes it will lead to regime change, boasting that because of the blockade, “There’s no oil. There’s no money. There’s no anything.”
As Cuban-based journalist Marc Frank reported , due to the blockade, “Prices are soaring, power outages are increasing, and gas lines are growing. Public and private transportation are disappearing. Produce at markets is dwindling, and all but emergency surgeries have been canceled. The fear that the quality of life will quickly deteriorate is palpable”.
The U.S. is now taking this a step further and placing targeted sanctions on Cuban journalists doing critical reporting on the blockade.
A Miami-based pro-regime change outlet called CiberCuba reports that the U.S. has “imposed visa restrictions” on Cuban journalist Pedro Jorge Velázquez, known as El Necio, accusing him of “involvement in harassment campaigns against American diplomats in Cuba”.
In response, El Necio wrote , “I am an ordinary young Cuban. Five years ago, I began doing my work through social media and collaborating with press outlets. I have no employment ties whatsoever to the Cuban government: currently, I do not work in press media or state institutions.”
He noted that the accusation of “harassment” is in reference to his “ latest journalistic investigation” where he uncovered, “ the purchase of fuel (gasoline) by US diplomats in Havana: the very same fuel that they block from Cuba, only to consume it themselves afterward.” … continue
Al Mayadeen | February 17, 2026
Bahraini activist Ibrahim Sharif will be released from Jaw Prison on Tuesday evening, former Secretary-General of the National Democratic Action Society, Radhi al-Mousawi, told Al Mayadeen earlier today.
Al-Mousawi stated that Sharif will be transferred to Manama later in the afternoon in preparation for his release.
Bahrain’s Court of Appeal had upheld the “conviction” of Ibrahim Sharif but replaced his prison sentence with a pledge requirement and weekly attendance at the alternative sentencing center.
In January, Bahrain’s judiciary sentenced opposition leader Ibrahim Sharif, a senior figure in the Waad National Democratic Action Society, to six months in prison with immediate effect and imposed a fine of 200 Bahraini dinars, accusing him of “insulting Arab states and spreading false news.”
Sharif was arrested upon returning from Lebanon on November 12, 2025, following media statements in which he urged Arab populations to pressure their governments to change positions he described as “complicit with the Israeli enemy.” … Full article
By Prof Jurgen Mackert | MEMO | February 16, 2026
Germany’s complicity in the boundless cruelty of the genocide in Gaza, its unconditional support for the ongoing Nakba in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, and its backing of Zionist wars of aggression against Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran have led to a dramatic collapse of political integrity among the country’s leadership — both in its international obligations and in its respect for its own citizens.
Having made itself an accomplice of the Zionist regime, Germany’s highest representatives have adopted its “political” style, pursuing policies that lack decency and drift ever further from democratic ideals.
In summer 2024 both former German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock and former German chancellor Olaf Scholz claimed publicly to have seen a video showing Hamas fighters raping Israeli women on 7 October 2023. No such video has ever been produced.
It was difficult to imagine that this deliberate misleading of the German public would soon be overshadowed by even more brazen actions on the part of Germany’s highest representatives. Yet since then, political decency and integrity have eroded further. … continue
Al Mayadeen | February 17, 2026
Far-right Israeli Police Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir “stepped on prisoners’ heads” during a raid at Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu Agency reported, citing the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS).
Video circulating on social media shows Israeli occupation forces storming Section 26 of Ofer Prison, assaulting detainees as Ben-Gvir accompanied Israeli journalists. The PPS said the operation coincided with the evening “count”, a daily security inspection where detainees are humiliated, and lasted around 15 minutes, involving police dogs and flashbang grenades.
The rights group said Ben-Gvir stayed in the section for approximately an hour, during which he reportedly delivered provocative and degrading remarks toward Palestinian detainees. PPS said the extremist minister insisted that footage of the assault be published alongside promotional slogans linked to proposed legislation to execute Palestinian detainees.
In November 2025, “Israel’s” Knesset passed in its first reading a bill submitted by Ben-Gvir to authorize the death penalty for Palestinians who carried out Resistance operations. The bill still requires second and third readings before becoming law, with no dates scheduled.
“The published clips represent only a fraction of the systematic torture against prisoners,” the PPS said. Lawyers with the group collected testimonies describing Ben-Gvir stepping on detainees’ heads and filming their humiliation. Detainees reported that guards forced them to keep their faces pressed to the ground during suppression operations, aiming to degrade their dignity and inflict physical pain. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | February 17, 2026
Doctors from the UK and the US say they believe they have been denied entry to Gaza after publicly describing conditions they witnessed while providing medical care during the Israeli genocide.
Amid reports of rising refusal rates, medical workers and humanitarian organizations active in Gaza have described what they see as arbitrary decisions blocking re-entry. Under international law, “Israel” is required to allow and facilitate the rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian aid.
Several medics told The Guardian they were given no explanation for being refused entry and suspect their public testimony may have influenced the decisions. Others said their identity or previous work in Gaza could have played a role. … Full article
IMEMC | February 17, 2026
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian young man on Monday while he was near a military roadblock north of Qalqilia, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank.
Media sources reported that occupation forces killed 18-year-old Mohammad Kamal Shreim after shooting him in the chest with live ammunition.
The targeted young man was transported to the Darwish Nazzal Governmental Hospital in Qalqilia suffering serious injuries before doctors pronounced him deceased.
Soldiers stationed at a military roadblock at the northern entrance to Qalqilia, opened fire with live ammunition towards the youth under unknown circumstances, while he was near the Apartheid Wall. … Full article
Palestinian Information Center – February 17, 2026
JORDAN VALLEY – Two Palestinian children were killed and three others were injured on Tuesday when a projectile left by the Israeli occupation army detonated in the central Jordan Valley, north of Jericho.
Mayor of al-Jiftlik village Ahmad Ghawanmeh reported that five children from the village were in the nearby village of Furush Beit Dajan when the Israeli projectile exploded.
Ghawanmeh added that the blast killed two children and left three others critically wounded. He noted that there were no precise details yet about their names or the nature of their injuries.
The mayor affirmed that Israeli forces sealed off the area after the incident, deployed reinforcements, and evacuated the children by helicopter to Israeli hospitals.
Local sources said the children had been collecting the wild plant “Akkoub” in the area when the suspicious object exploded, injuring them. … Full article
IMEMC | February 17, 2026
A Palestinian child was killed on Tuesday in an Israeli drone strike on Jabalia al‑Balad, in northern Gaza, as bombardment and ground operations continued across the devastated and besieged Gaza Strip.
Medical teams at the Shifa Medical Center confirmed the death of 12‑year‑old Yousef Rasem Asaliyya, who was struck by a missile fired from an Israeli drone while he was in a residential area of Jabalia al‑Balad.
Civil defense crews also recovered the bodies of three Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike on the Jabalia refugee camp the previous day, as rescue teams continued to struggle to reach bombed neighborhoods due to ongoing shelling and destroyed roads.
In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, medical sources at Nasser Hospital said two Palestinians were shot by Israeli soldiers in the center of the city. Israeli soldiers also fired many live rounds at areas in the eastern part of Khan Younis city.
In Rafah, in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip, Abdullah Adel al‑Bardawil sustained moderate injuries after an Israeli quadcopter drone dropped an explosive device in the Hasaka area behind the Mu’awiya Mosque along the Rafah coastline.
Local sources reported an increase in quadcopter attacks targeting civilians in open areas and near shelters.
Israeli tanks advanced near Salahuddin Street in the so‑called “Netzarim corridor” in central Gaza, where the army has maintained a permanent military presence and expanded incursions toward surrounding neighborhoods. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | February 16, 2026
A Lebanese citizen was martyred on Monday after an Israeli drone strike targeted a vehicle in the town of Tallousah, in the Marjayoun district. The attack marks the second such incident in southern Lebanon within less than twelve hours.
Earlier in the morning, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in southern Lebanon reported that the Israeli occupation targeted a car in the town of Hanin with a drone strike.
Our correspondent confirmed that one martyr was killed in the attack, while several injuries were also reported. The strike further caused material damage to nearby property, with a residential home sustaining damage and a van seen engulfed in flames at the scene. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | February 17, 2026
Modern vehicles have evolved into internet-connected digital ecosystems, a transformation that is reshaping the global intelligence market, with “Israel” paying special attention to this rising domain, according to a new investigation by Haaretz.
In intelligence circles, information harvested from vehicles is known as “CARINT,” short for car intelligence. Today’s vehicles function as “computers on wheels,” equipped with built-in SIM cards, GPS systems, Bluetooth connectivity, and multimedia platforms that continuously transmit data.
The report reveals that at least three Israeli companies are operating in this expanding sector, developing tools that enable government clients to track vehicle movements in real time, cross-reference vast databases, and identify specific targets among thousands of cars on the road.
Industry sources cited in the investigation described the use of AI-powered “data fusion” systems that combine vehicle telemetry, roadside camera feeds, advertising data, and cellular metadata to construct comprehensive intelligence profiles. Rather than directly hacking a device, agencies are increasingly assembling what sources describe as a surveillance mosaic from legally or commercially available data streams. … continue
Press TV – February 17, 2026
The implications of the British state using technology produced by Zionist-controlled companies to surveil British citizens are beyond belief.
The cornerstone of a sovereign nation is the absolute control over its own justice, its own data, and its own watchmen. Yet today, the very machinery of British law enforcement is being quietly and systemically outsourced.
The British government has allowed the digital and physical infrastructure of the state to become a high tech extension of a foreign power, driven by the pernicious influence of Zionism, an ideology that prioritizes the expansion of a foreign entity over the rights of people in the UK.
This is not merely a matter of procurement. It is a surrender of independence.
By embedding Zionist-linked firms into the heartbeat of British society, the government is importing a surveillance philosophy rooted in the subjugation of one people and applying it to their own subjects.
These are combat-proven technologies forged in the fires of the Gaza genocide, and they are now the primary eyes and ears of the metropolitan police.
The police use Israeli intelligence firm Cellebrite to unlock the phones and private lives of their own citizens. They also use BriefCam to track people’s movements through video synopsis. … continue
How Europe’s Political Class Weaponises Innocence — and Has Been Building This Machine for Years
Islander Reports | February 17, 2026
Before we start. These platforms [X, Meta, etc] aren’t innocent. They’ve extracted billions from our attention, manipulated our children’s dopamine cycles, censored truth tellers, handed our data to surveillance capitalism and slept soundly every night. Hold that. And then read what follows anyway — because what’s happening right now is something else entirely.
Let’s start with the money. Because the money never lies.
€1.2 billion. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission. Meta. May 2023. The largest GDPR fine in history, for routing EU citizen data to the United States without adequate protection. A record that lasted about five minutes.
€530 million. TikTok. May 2025. Same Irish authority. For sending European user data to China and then, this is the part they buried in the press release — lying about it during the inquiry. TikTok told regulators throughout the investigation it wasn’t storing EEA data on Chinese servers. In February 2025, they quietly admitted it had been. All along.
€345 million. TikTok again. 2023. Children’s data. €14.5 million from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office on top of that, same year, same issue. €91 million to Meta Ireland in September 2024 — they stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext. Just sitting there. No encryption. Exposed. €390 million to Meta the year before, for forcing users to accept personalised advertising as a condition of accessing their own accounts.
And then December 5th, 2025. The European Commission handed X — formerly Twitter, now Elon Musk’s megaphone and the primary target of every European leader who’s discovered that their citizens can organise against them online — a €120 million fine. First ever penalty under the Digital Services Act. For misleading users about the blue verification badge, concealing advertiser identities, and blocking government-approved researchers from accessing algorithmic data.
Over €2.5 billion. Just the verdicts. Just the ones that made it to conclusion. Fourteen active DSA proceedings still grinding through the machinery, with Meta and TikTok each facing potential fines of 6% of global revenue. That’s €9.9 billion for Meta. €9.3 billion for ByteDance. Numbers large enough to restructure companies. Numbers designed to make platforms obedient.
So when Pedro Sanchez walked out this morning and announced that Spain’s Council of Ministers would invoke Article 8 of the Organic Statute of the Public Prosecution Service — sic prosecutors onto X, Meta and TikTok for “crimes they may be committing” through AI-generated child pornography — understand what you’re looking at.
This isn’t a regulator at the end of its rope. This is a political class that has already built the machine, tested the machine, extracted billions through the machine — and is now deciding what else the machine can reach. … continue
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By Martin Jay | Strategic Culture Foundation | February 17, 2026
Trump has the option of going to war with Iran and receiving much-needed campaign funds from Israel for the midterms – or opting to defy Bibi and facing certain defeat by losing both houses and facing certain impeachment. Can the Iranians save him?
Is Trump serious about going to war with Iran? To understand this, it’s important to examine his relationship with Netanyahu and to see who has the advantage when it comes to dragging the U.S. into a war, and whether Israel can actually be a greater threat to the U.S. than Tehran can ever be.
The trap that Trump is falling into is one where he has little or no wiggle room at all to control the Iran crisis, whereby Israel can threaten him with isolation while it goes ahead with its strike.
There are two dynamics at play here which are struggling to find a compromise. Trump wants a deal with Iran which takes away their nuclear capability, while Israel wants a war which overthrows the Iranian regime and installs a Mossad/CIA puppet. The problem, though, is that Israel is not an honest broker and keeps shifting the goalposts. The latest demand now is that removing Iran’s ballistic missiles should be at the heart of any deal that Trump pulls off.
Trump is ensnared and is aware of how Bibi is manipulating him. He may, on occasion, swear at journalists and pretend he is his own boss and his own president and that Israel is a client state of Washington which has to toe the line, but in reality, it is clear that Israel is calling the shots. … continue
By Ekaterina Blinova – Sputnik – 17.02.2026
Volodymyr Zelensky’s reluctance to hold elections in Ukraine is multi-faced, according to Marco Marsili, geopolitical analyst at CESRAN International and former OSCE election observer.
The Ukrainian politician is on thin ice despite optimistic polling numbers: “The reported approval ratings reflect a carefully managed wartime narrative, not democratic reality,” Marsili tells Sputnik. … continue
RT | February 17, 2026
Hillary Clinton is attempting to use Ukraine as a distraction to avoid jail time for her role in fabricating the Russiagate hoax, Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev has said. The remarks come as Clinton has escalated attacks on US President Donald Trump’s approach to the Ukraine conflict.
Clinton delivered a belligerent speech at the Munich Security Conference last week, accusing Trump of pursuing a “disgraceful” policy toward Ukraine, and claiming he has “betrayed the West” and abandoned “human values.” The former secretary of state also touted a plan to provide Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles and expand strikes inside Russian territory. … Full article
Sputnik – 17.02.2026
NATO personnel operating Western military hardware in the Ukrainian conflict zone has long been an open secret, Russian military analyst Viktor Litovkin tells Sputnik. … continue
RT | February 17, 2026
The Ukrainian military is secretly using a squadron of veteran NATO pilots to fly donated US-made F-16 fighter jets, the French outlet Intelligence Online reported on Monday.
Moscow has long warned that Western nations are moving closer to direct conflict with Russia. The report, which Kiev has denied, said the covert mission relies primarily on experienced US and Dutch air force veterans.
The foreign personnel are deployed far from the front lines and focus on intercepting Russian long-range weapons, the outlet said. They are no longer part of their original militaries and reportedly work for Kiev as civilian contractors, without military ranks and outside the Ukrainian chain of command.
A shortage of trained Ukrainian pilots was previously identified as the main obstacle to using F-16s donated to Kiev. Training courses were reportedly undermined by language barriers, a lack of qualified trainees, and other issues, and were simplified for speed. … continue
Sputnik – 17.02.2026
MOSCOW – Twenty-one civilians have been killed in Russia in Ukrainian attacks in the week starting February 9, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large on the Ukrainian regime’s crimes Rodion Miroshnik told Sputnik.
“Over the past week, Ukrainian Nazis’ shelling resulted in 147 civilian casualties: 126 were wounded, including six minors, and 21 others were killed,” Miroshnik said.
Ukrainian forces fired at least 2,563 rounds at civilian targets across Russian territory in the past seven days, he estimated.
The Ukrainian regime has ramped up drone, artillery and missile strikes on civilian targets in the Belgorod, Kherson, Zaporozhye regions and the Lugansk People’s Republic, the ambassador said. The four regions recorded the highest civilian casualties. … Full article
RT | February 17, 2026
Russia’s response to “Western piracy” targeting its maritime trade should be forceful and not limited to diplomatic means, an aide to President Vladimir Putin has said.
Nikolay Patrushev, a veteran national security official who heads a naval policymaking body, called for stronger action against Western moves targeting vessels described as part of an alleged Russian ‘shadow fleet’.
Attempts to paralyze Russian foreign trade will only intensify, Patrushev warned in an interview with Argumenty i Fakty published on Tuesday.
“Unless we push back forcefully, soon the English, the French, and even the Balts will get brazen enough to try and block our nation’s access to at least the Atlantic,” he said.
“The Europeans are in essence making steps to impose a naval blockade, deliberately pushing towards a military escalation, testing the limits of our patience and provoking our retaliation. If the situation is not resolved peacefully, the Navy will be breaking and lifting the blockade,” Patrushev said.
“Let’s not forget that plenty of vessels sail the seas under European flags. We may get curious about what they are shipping and where,” he added. … continue
An Essay on the Dalkon Shield
Lies are Unbekoming | February 17, 2026
Four days before A. H. Robins signed the contract to purchase the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device, the company’s own director of pharmaceutical research reported that no one knew how long the device’s tail string would remain chemically stable inside a woman’s body. “The device has not been subjected to any formal stability testing,” Oscar Klioze wrote in his memo on June 8, 1970. He also noted that the plastic used in the Shield had been cleared by the FDA for packaging meat — not for implantation in humans.
Seventeen days after the purchase, on June 29, a company orientation report circulated to thirty-nine executives — including the chairman, the president, and multiple vice-presidents — carried a more specific warning: the tail string had a “wicking” tendency, meaning it could draw bacteria from the vagina into the sterile uterus. The report recommended “a careful review.”
A. H. Robins began selling the Dalkon Shield nationally six months later. It never conducted wicking studies on the string. Over the next four years, the company distributed 4.5 million Shields in eighty countries. By the company’s own conservative estimate, roughly 88,000 women in the United States alone were injured. At least eighteen died. Hundreds of thousands suffered pelvic infections, septic abortions, perforated uteri, and permanent sterility.
The Dalkon Shield is sometimes treated as a historical curiosity — a cautionary tale from an era of looser regulation. That framing obscures what actually happened. The record, built from internal company memos, sworn depositions, congressional testimony, and court documents, reveals something more instructive: a template. A sequence of decisions, repeated across every phase of the product’s life, that follows a pattern so consistent it functions as a blueprint.
That pattern is worth studying in detail. Not because the Dalkon Shield is unique, but because it is not. … continue
What Everyone Needs to Know About Antidepressants
A Midwestern Doctor | The Forgotten Side of Medicine | February 5, 2026
Story at a Glance:
• SSRI antidepressants are one of the most harmful medications on the market, and because of just how many people they are given to (often for no good reason as only a minority of patients benefit from SSRIs) they have had a profound effect on the consciousness of our entire society.
• This article will review some of the more common side effects of SSRIs (and SNRIs), such as losing the ability to have sex, becoming numb to life, becoming severely agitated or imbalanced (sometimes to the point one becomes violently psychotic or commits suicide), losing your mind, and the development of birth defects.
• Like many other stimulant drugs (e.g., cocaine) SSRIs can be very difficult to quit. Because of this, patients frequently get severely ill when they attempt to stop them (withdrawals affect roughly half of SSRI users). Worse still, it is often extremely difficult to withdraw from them and very few doctors know how to safely facilitate this.
• Due to widespread denial in psychiatry about the issues with their drugs the common SSRI side effects (e.g., withdrawals) are often misinterpreted as a sign the individual had a pre-existing mental illness and needs more of the drug—which all too often then leads to catastrophic events for the over-medicated patient.
• This article will provide the critical information SSRI patients are rarely warned about and resources for patients already trapped in challenging mental health situations.
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By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. | The Defender | February 11, 2026
The American Medical Association (AMA) is teaming up with the Vaccine Integrity Project to conduct its own review of vaccine safety and efficacy, claiming that advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are no longer doing a good enough job. … continue
The Munich Security Conference just became a defense session for Europe’s most ambitious censorship regime
By Dan Frieth | Reclaim The Net | February 16, 2026
Emmanuel Macron stood before the Munich Security Conference last week and offered a blueprint for what European governments should be allowed to delete from the internet. The French president wants mandatory identity verification for social media users, one account per person, algorithm transparency on the government’s terms, and the legal authority to block platforms that refuse to comply.
“We have to be sure there is one single person with one account,” Macron said. “If this is an AI system, if this is bot or organized by big organization, it should be just forbidden.”
The statement describes a system where every social media user would have their identity verified by platforms and tied to a single permitted account. Anonymous speech, pseudonymous commentary, and the ability to maintain separate personal and professional presences online would effectively end for anyone using platforms that serve the European market. … continue
By Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone | February 16, 2026
Leaked files have revealed that Labour Together, the shadowy think tank run by disgraced former top Keir Starmer aide Morgan McSweeney, paid the Washington DC-based corporate intelligence firm APCO Worldwide to spy on journalists who reported on their corrupt handling of campaign finances.
The reporters named appear to have been targeted for their efforts to investigate how the UK’s Labour Party elites spent 730,000 pounds in undeclared donations to install Starmer as their leader.
The files show APCO used those funds to oversee the fabrication of a dodgy, evidence-free dossier claiming that Russia was behind damaging disclosures about Labour Together, which it submitted to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of Britain’s GCHQ — London’s equivalent to the US National Security Agency.
The “significant persons of interest” listed in APCO’s McCarthyite casebook included The Grayzone and myself. … continue
By Nate Bear – ¡Do Not Panic! – February 15, 2026
Tech giant Apple has quietly paid nearly $2 billion for a ‘pre-speech’ tech company whose employees helped Israel commit genocide in Gaza.
And Apple has paid this money, the second-biggest deal in its history, for a company that doesn’t have a product, doesn’t have any revenues and whose website is a single page containing 15 words.
The company, Q.ai, is developing sensors which map the imperceptible movements of a human face to determine the words someone is thinking before they’re spoken.
They call it silent speech.
Or pre-speech.
And it’s exactly as sinister as you think it is.
Q.ai was founded by Aviad Maizels, Avi Barliya and Yonatan Wexler, all of whom honed their skills by testing technologies of apartheid on Palestinians. Maizels is a former commander of Unit 81, the IDF division which builds Israel’s offensive cyber weapons. Barliya, according to his LinkedIn, was an intelligence officer in the Israeli air force, while Wexler is a former Unit 8200 agent. … continue
Al Mayadeen | February 16, 2026
Senior Israeli officials have threatened to renew the genocide in Gaza if Hamas does not disarm within a proposed 60-day period, although the Israeli occupation continues its attacks on the Strip daily, never adhering to the ceasefire agreement.
Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the occupation government intends to give Hamas two months to relinquish its arms. If it does not comply, the Israeli military would “complete the mission” in Gaza, he threatened.
The warnings came against the backdrop of the US-led “Board of Peace”, under which Washington dictated the 60-day deadline.
According to Fuchs, Hamas would be required to surrender all weapons, including small arms such as AK-47 rifles. He emphasized that the Israeli regime would evaluate the outcome at the end of the period. … continue
… Charleston’s SYNAGOGUE PRESIDENTS and the majority of America’s Jewish elites were dedicated to the endless enslavement of Black people. And this behavior can be easily found in every major center of Jewish settlement—Richmond, New Orleans, Newport, Philadelphia, New York and everywhere else. No longer can it be said that Jewish slave traders were marginal members of a rejected underclass. The top leadership of Charleston’s Jewish institutions—every last one of them—owned slaves and made their livings from Black slavery. Yet, the city’s slaveholding Rabbi Gustavus Poznanski referred to it in a way that is unique in the annals of this forever wandering people: “This [Charleston] synagogue is our temple, this city our Jerusalem, this happy land our Palestine…” … Read full article
Al Mayadeen | February 16, 2026
13 Palestinians were killed and several others wounded across the Gaza Strip on Monday as Israeli occupation forces launched a wave of attacks across the besieged territory, continuing to violate the ceasefire agreement on its 129th day.
At dawn, occupation forces opened heavy fire on Jabalia camp in northern Gaza. Also in the north, and along the so-called “Yellow Line” in Beit Lahia, Israeli forces carried out artillery shelling, gunfire, and aerial bombardment. The night before, Israeli forces had killed two Palestinians near the line, alleging that they had crossed it.
In Gaza City, occupation warships opened machine gun fire toward the sea, while aircraft targeted Sami al-Dahdouh, a leader of the Al-Quds Brigades, near his home in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood.
Further south, occupation forces opened fire alongside artillery shelling east of al-Bureij camp and east of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, where 64-year-old Khadr Youssef Fayyad from Beit Hanoun was killed by injuries sustained in the bombardment.
The Israeli occupation also carried out intermittent artillery bombardment on the north of Rafah and southeast of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. … Full article
The Cradle | February 16, 2026
The Israeli government has approved a land registration process, which will allow Israel to claim territory in the occupied West Bank as “state property” if Palestinians cannot prove ownership, a move that has been described as “de facto annexation.”
Israel’s Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) reported that the proposal was submitted by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, and Defense Minister Israel Katz.
“We are continuing the revolution of settlement and strengthening our hold across all parts of our land,” Smotrich said.
Katz called the move a vital security measure and an “appropriate response to illegal land registration processes promoted by the Palestinian Authority.”
Israel’s Foreign Ministry said the registration process will allow for “transparency” and will help resolve land disputes.
The bar for proving Palestinian land ownership is extremely high due to Israel’s restrictive legal system. … continue
Press TV – February 16, 2026
Two children have been killed after Palestinian Authority (PA) forces opened fire on a vehicle carrying their father, a resistance fighter, in the town of Tamoun in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
The three-year-old daughter of Samer Samara succumbed to her wounds on Sunday after being shot by the forces, Palestinian media outlets reported.
Her 16-year-old brother, Ali, was killed after being shot in the head. Their father was wounded and later abducted by PA forces.
According to the reports, the forces shot Samara in the legs before abducting him.
Local reports said units from the PA’s so-called Preventive Security Service and a special unit set up the ambush and fired heavy gunfire at the car during an operation to abduct Samara, who is wanted by Israeli occupation forces. … continue
Palestinian Information Center – February-2026
BEIRUT – A young man was killed on Monday morning in an airstrike carried out by an Israeli drone in the Bint Jbeil district of Nabatieh Governorate in southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported that Mohamed Qashaqish was martyred when an Israeli drone targeted him as he was in front of his home in the border town of Hanin, in the Bint Jbeil district.”
NNA explained that Qashqash was about to start one of his cars in order to transport students to their schools when the strike occurred.
NNA added that a drone fired several missiles at him, leading to his death and the burning of his vehicles.
It noted that civil defense teams extinguished the flames and transferred the body to the hospital in Bint Jbeil.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces advanced at dawn into the outskirts of the towns of Aita ash-Shaab and Ramiyah in the Bint Jbeil district, where they rigged a house with explosives and detonated it, according to NNA.
Al Mayadeen | February 15, 2026
An Israeli drone strike targeted a vehicle near the Lebanon-Syria border between the Masnaa crossing and Jdeidet Yabous on Sunday, leaving casualties, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency correspondent in Zahle.
Four powerful explosions were heard in nearby villages following the attack, with echoes of the blasts reported across the surrounding area.
Lebanese Civil Defense teams managed to extinguish the fire inside the targeted vehicle located between the Syrian and Lebanese borders. Rescue crews later recovered the bodies of four people from inside the car.
The incident marks a new escalation along the Lebanon-Syria border area, amid ongoing Israeli strikes targeting positions and vehicles in frontier regions. … Full article
José Niño Unfiltered | February 16, 2026
On February 11, 2026, the Jewish People Policy Institute released polling data that stunned political observers. According to the JPPI Israeli Society Index, 73% of Israelis rate Donald Trump as a “better than average” U.S. president for Israel’s interests. The breakdown was even more striking. Nearly half of all Israelis, 49%, called Trump “one of the best” U.S. presidents ever for Israel, with an additional 24% rating him “above average.”
Among Jewish Israelis specifically, the numbers climbed higher still. 54% percent described Trump as one of the best presidents for Israel, with an additional 25% saying above average, totaling 79% favorable.
Israeli journalist Barak Ravid amplified the findings on social media, highlighting the extraordinary contrast with Trump’s domestic standing. While nearly three quarters of Israelis celebrated Trump’s presidency, American voters remained deeply divided. Multiple U.S. polls conducted at virtually the same time showed Trump with approval ratings hovering between 37% and 44%, with majorities disapproving. Pew Research recorded 37%. Marist PBS found 39%. Morning Consult showed 44%.
The Libertarian Institute explicitly noted that “Trump’s approval rating is higher in Israel than in the US,” capturing a fundamental dynamic in U.S.-Israel relations. Trump’s most politically consequential foreign policy actions are popular in Israel but divisive or unpopular at home. The roughly 30-point gap between Israeli and American assessments reflects the fact that Trump has taken positions that directly serve Israeli security priorities while facing domestic backlash over economic concerns and broader issues of governance. … Full article
By José Niño | The Libertarian Institute | February 16, 2026
The United States finds itself in an unfamiliar position. After spending approximately one hundred and fifty THAAD interceptors and eighty SM-3 missiles to help defend Israel during the Twelve-Day War in June 2025, the Pentagon faces a stark reality. Its stockpiles are depleted, its production lines cannot keep pace, and another major conflict with Iran would require an air defense umbrella America can no longer fully provide.
The question is not whether the United States wants to strike Iran again. The question is whether it can afford to.
For now, the answer appears to be no. But history suggests this pause may be temporary, with negotiations serving not as a genuine path to peace but as a strategic timeout while Israel restocks its depleted munitions and air defenses. After all, the Twelve-Day War itself kicked off in the middle of active negotiations that critics across the political spectrum described as either a deliberate ruse or a diplomatic process Israel cynically sabotaged.
Throughout the clash with Israel, the Israeli government worked hard to control the narrative about what Iran’s missiles actually hit. Military censorship laws prevented journalists from reporting strike locations near sensitive facilities. But satellite data told a different story. … continue
RT | February 16, 2026
US military forces intercepted and boarded a tanker that was sanctioned for carrying Venezuelan oil in the Indian Ocean overnight on Sunday, the Pentagon has announced. … continue
Lies are Unbekoming | February 14, 2026
In 1870, circumcision cured paralysis. By 1900, it prevented syphilis. By 1932, it prevented cancer. By 1985, it prevented urinary tract infections. By 2005, it prevented HIV.
The foreskin didn’t change. The operation didn’t change. Only the reason changed.
No other surgery in the history of medicine has survived the serial demolition of every rationale offered for its existence. Tonsillectomy thrived for decades on weak evidence, but when the evidence collapsed, the surgery declined. Routine episiotomy was once standard obstetric care; when studies showed it caused more harm than it prevented, rates dropped. The self-correcting mechanisms of medicine, imperfect as they are, eventually retire procedures that cannot justify themselves.
Circumcision is the exception. Each time the reigning justification has been dismantled—by new science, by changing disease paradigms, by the simple passage of time—the medical establishment has not abandoned the procedure. It has found a new disease. The operation is the constant. The diseases orbit around it.
That pattern, exposed in full, tells us something the medical literature never will: the purpose of the research was never to evaluate the surgery. It was to protect it. … continue
By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. | The Defender | February 12, 2026
In January 2023, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued new clinical guidelines for treating childhood obesity. The guidelines, still in effect, recommend physicians offer GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and bariatric surgery to obese children.
Under the new guidelines, the AAP said pediatricians “should” offer the weight-loss drugs to obese adolescents ages 12 and older and that they “may” offer the drugs to children ages 8-11.
It didn’t take long for prescriptions for GLP-1 drugs for those age groups to skyrocket — they jumped 38% in the first year following the change. MedPage reported that prescriptions for two of the drugs jumped 700%.
Two-and-a-half years later, a BMJ investigation uncovered undisclosed financial ties between the AAP and major drug companies behind blockbuster weight-loss medications.
The BMJ analysis found financial ties to industry among AAP members — including those who wrote the guidelines, those who reviewed them and the organization overall.
The researchers also identified serious irregularities in the process of making the guidelines. They concluded that the AAP based the guidelines on weak or nonexistent evidence.
Their results “suggest the AAP’s childhood obesity guidelines should be interpreted with caution,” researchers said. … continue
Senator Rand Paul has introduced S.3853, a federal bill that would amend the Public Health Service Act to end the long-standing liability protections for vaccine makers.
The bill was introduced on February 11, 2026, and referred to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee.
At the time of writing, no bill text has yet been released, so the precise statutory changes remain unknown.
However, based on the title and summary, the legislation appears aimed at dismantling the liability framework established under the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which shields manufacturers from civil lawsuits and routes injury claims through the failed Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).
Current evidence indicates that the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 likely sparked the autism epidemic.
By granting legal immunity to vaccine makers, 3.2% of American children now have autism.
Bill S.3853 would collapse the vaccine cartel’s 40-year reign of penalty-free mass harm. If passed, this legislation would truly Make America Healthy Again.
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender | February 12, 2026
The 2021 publication of “The Disinformation Dozen” list of 12 “leading online anti-vaxxers” sparked efforts to discredit U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sayer Ji and other outspoken critics of COVID-19 pandemic policies and vaccines.
Five years later, the release of the “Epstein Files” has led to the resignation of one of the list’s architects — Morgan McSweeney.
McSweeney, chief of staff to U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, resigned Sunday. In 2018, he co-founded what later became known as the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which published the “Disinformation Dozen” list. … continue
By Jon Fleetwood | February 15, 2026
In a massive win for health freedom and holding the medical establishment accountable, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has formally taken Dr. Mary Talley Bowden’s side against the Texas Medical Board, intervening in court on behalf of the State of Texas and refusing to defend the state’s medical regulator.
“Thank you @KenPaxtonTX for your support,” Dr. Bowden wrote in an X post. “This is a win for me, but more important, a win for patients. No one should have to sue to get a second opinion, hospitals should not have the power to defy court orders, and doctors should not be targeted for trying to help their patients. Texas has been captured by the medical mafia, but this is a step in the right direction.”
On February 12, the State of Texas, through AG Ken Paxton, filed an “Original Petition in Intervention” in Travis County district court, aligning the full weight of the Attorney General’s Office with Bowden and asking the court to declare the Board’s public reprimand against her “void as a matter of law.”
Rather than representing the Texas Medical Board—the customary role of the Attorney General—Paxton’s office entered the case as Intervenor-Plaintiff, directly opposing the Board. … continue
By Jon Fleetwood | February 11, 2026
Oklahoma lawmakers have introduced legislation that would prohibit businesses, schools, ticket issuers, and state or local governments from requiring any medical intervention as a condition of employment, access, compensation, public services, or entry into public spaces.
The bill, Senate Bill 1560, titled the Oklahoma Medical Freedom Act, was introduced in the Second Session of the 60th Legislature by Senator Randy Grellner (R-District 21).
If enacted, SB 1560 would create one of the broadest medical autonomy statutes in the country.
The new measure is being introduced as President Donald Trump signed H.R. 7148 into law, allocating at least $5.5 billion in taxpayer funding for pandemic preparedness and influenza countermeasures—despite no declared emergency—placing Oklahoma’s proposed medical freedom protections in direct contrast to Washington’s expanding pandemic infrastructure. … Full article
By Jill Erzen | The Defender | February 13, 2026
State lawmakers in Iowa and New Hampshire this week advanced bills that, if passed, will scale back vaccine mandates and expand medical choice.
Supporters in both states said the measures restore informed consent and rebuild trust after the COVID-19 era. Critics warned the proposals could weaken long-standing public health protections.
On Thursday, Iowa lawmakers advanced House File 2368, the Iowa Medical Freedom Act.
The proposal would prohibit businesses, schools and government entities from requiring “medical intervention” — including vaccines and masks — as a condition of employment, services or access to facilities.
State Rep. Samantha Fett, the bill’s sponsor, said Iowans “consistently prioritize the freedom to make their own medical decisions.” She argued that “no government has the authority to force a medical intervention on anyone.”
Fett called the mandates coercive and inconsistent with informed consent.
“Employers, schools and agencies are not doctors, and they cannot make personal health decisions for every Iowan,” she said. “This bill protects conscience rights, religious liberty, bodily autonomy and privacy. At its core, this bill protects everyone.”
Supporters said the measure protects bodily autonomy, religious liberty and privacy, while preserving access to vaccines and other treatments.
Lindsay Maher of Informed Choice Iowa said lawmakers are responding to ongoing concerns about how public health agencies handled COVID-19 and the government’s response to it.
Maher emphasized that the proposal “does not take away access to vaccines, but reinforces informed consent.” Conversations with doctors allow “people to have a choice,” she said. … Full article
By Jon Fleetwood | February 6, 2026
A new bill introduced last month in the Tennessee General Assembly would classify mRNA injections and products as weapons of mass destruction, criminalize their manufacture, possession, or distribution, and impose felony penalties not only on private actors but also on state and local officials who fail to enforce the law.
If enacted, the law would take effect July 1, 2026.
The legislation, Senate Bill 1949, is formally titled the “mRNA Bioweapons Prohibition Act” and amends multiple sections of Tennessee Code Annotated, including Titles 8, 14, 39, 40, 53, 63, and 68, to integrate mRNA products directly into the state’s criminal and enforcement framework.
The bill was introduced by Sen. Janice Bowling and has already passed first and second consideration in the Senate, where it has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Tennessee joins Arizona and Minnesota in efforts to designate mRNA shots, like the COVID-19 vaccine, as bioweapons.
Unlike regulatory or health-policy legislation, SB 1949 places mRNA products squarely inside Tennessee’s criminal code governing weapons of mass destruction.
COVID-19 mRNA shots alone have been linked to 38,983 deaths, according to VAERS data—a figure federally-funded Harvard Pilgrim researchers confirm represents as little as 1% of actual adverse events, meaning the true number could be closer to four million.
The bill declares legislative intent in unambiguous terms:
“It is the intent of the general assembly to designate mRNA injections and products as weapons of mass destruction and to prohibit possession or distribution of mRNA injections and products in this state.”
Full article
Al Mayadeen | February 15, 2026
The spokesperson for the Afghan government, Zabihullah Mujahid, said Sunday that if the Islamic Republic of Iran were subjected to any aggression, “the people of Afghanistan will offer various forms of solidarity and support to their Iranian brothers.”
Mujahid added that Iran had emerged victorious in what he described as the 12-day war, stressing that Tehran is capable of winning and defending itself against any future aggression.
Last week, Iran’s ambassador to Afghanistan, Alireza Bikdeli, said Tehran is moving swiftly to strengthen relations with Kabul across multiple sectors. He noted that there are no obstacles preventing Iran from recognizing the Taliban-led government and indicated that such recognition could take place soon. … Full article
Al-Manar | February 15, 2026
Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, announced the martyrdom of commander Sami al-Dahdouh following an airstrike that targeted a group of civilians in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip. Residents of the city gathered for his funeral this afternoon. Several other civilians were also wounded in the attack.
This comes after medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported the martyrdom of ten Palestinians since dawn today as a result of airstrikes and artillery shelling by the Israeli occupation army in Khan Younis in the south and the al-Falouja area of Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Al-Manar correspondent in Gaza also reported the martyrdom of one civilian and the wounding of several others in a drone strike on Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.
Palestinian Information Center – February 15, 2026
GAZA – A viral video circulating on social media has sparked widespread outrage online after an Israeli soldier unashamedly admitted to committing atrocities in the Gaza Strip.
In a live TikTok session with American YouTuber Jeff Davidson, the soldier said, “We don’t just kill, we also rape,” referring to actions carried out by Israeli forces against Palestinian children and women in Gaza.
In the livestream conversation, which took place during the war in Gaza but was only released recently, Davidson initially questioned the soldier about his identity and military affiliation. The man stated that he was a member of the Israeli army and broadcasting from within Gaza.
When confronted by Davidson with the fact that the Israeli army was responsible for the destruction of Gaza, the soldier confirmed that without hesitation or any expression of remorse.
When the American interviewer asked him to show his surroundings, the soldier pointed the camera outward and described extensive destruction across the area.
“You wanna see Gaza? Don’t be surprised, there’s no house here. Flat, all flat,” the soldier said.
Davidson responded: “You guys flattened it?” The soldier replied: “Oh yeah.”
The conversation escalated when the soldier attempted to justify targeting children by showing a photo of a child holding a gun, claiming he had found it in a bombed home. Davidson refuted his claim, stressing that children defending themselves against an invading army can never justify killing or targeting them. He also held the occupation responsible for the situation in Gaza. … Full article
The Cradle | February 15, 2026
The Israeli army continued its blatant violations of the ceasefire in Lebanon on 15 February, hours after a late-night wave of violent attacks on the country’s south.
An Israeli drone crashed in the border town of Houla on Sunday, while a quadcopter blew up a house near the town of Mays al-Jabal, Al-Mayadeen’s correspondent in the south reported.
“Israeli occupation soldiers crossed the Blue Line at the town of Mays al-Jabal, and advanced 10 meters – conducting a survey of the area before retreating behind the fence,” they added.
The force consisted of two military vehicles, Lebanon’s National News Agency said.
The incursion and attacks came a day after Israel carried out a series of heavy air raids on Lebanon.
Warplanes carried out strikes on the outskirts of Houmine al-Fawqa in the Iqlim al-Tuffah region, targeting the Al-Hamila area.
Air raids also hit Mlikh and Basliya and Jabal Rihan heights, as well as the town of Sajd in Jezzine.
The Israeli army claimed it struck “warehouses of weapons and launchers belonging to the Hezbollah terror organization in several areas in southern Lebanon.”
The attacks coincided with the intensification of US-backed internal pressure against Hezbollah.
Lebanon’s Information Minister Paul Morcos said on Thursday that Beirut will vote next week on restricting arms north of the Litani River.
“We have completed the first phase, south of the Litani River. Next week, the government will make a decision regarding the second phase, considering what the army commander sets out in terms of needs and capabilities, so that we can decide accordingly, based on that explanation,” he said. … Full article
By Robert Inlakesh | The Palestine Chronicle | February 15, 2026
An analysis of the overlooked regional geography surrounding Iran and how lesser-discussed neighboring states could factor into future US-Israeli pressure or conflict scenarios. – Read article
What will it cost the US economy?
By Kyle Anzalone | The Libertarian Institute | February 15, 2026
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to increase economic pressure on Iran by attempting to cut oil exports to China.
A US official speaking with Axios said during the meeting between Trump and Netanyahu last week, the leaders “agreed that we will go full force with maximum pressure against Iran, for example, regarding Iranian oil sales to China.”
Kpler estimates that 80% of Iranian oil sales are to China. The Trump administration has attempted to cause intense economic suffering in Iran, hoping the result will be the overthrow of the government in Tehran.
Trump recently signed an executive order authorizing the White House to impose 25% tariffs on countries that buy Iranian oil. It’s unclear if the President will be willing to upend the delicate Trump relationship with China to damage the Iranian economy.
The US is ramping up the economic war as talks with Iran are ongoing. … Full article
RT | February 13, 2026
Russian energy major Gazprom Neft has discovered a new oil field on the Yamal Peninsula that is the largest discovered in the region in three decades, according to a company release.
The new find is located in the Arctic zone of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region, home to the world’s largest natural gas reserves but also a region with significant oil potential. Drilling and exploration are challenging, however, as the peninsula is almost entirely covered by permafrost.
The field is part of a large oil and gas cluster in the southern part of the peninsula, according to the company. It was discovered after three years of exploration, including 2D and 3D seismic surveys and geological and hydrodynamic modeling. An appraisal well drilled to a depth of 2.7 km produced commercial flows of low-sulfur, low-viscosity oil, gas, and condensate. Estimated geological reserves are 55 million tons, the company’s press release stated.
The field was named after Aleksey Kontorovich, one of the founders of the Russian scientific school of oil and gas geology and organic geochemistry. Additional exploration will be carried out to better understand the geological structure and production potential and to develop an extraction plan.
“This discovery – the largest for Yamal in the last 30 years – confirms that our country’s resource base is far from fully explored,” Aleksandr Dyukov, chairman of the board of Gazprom Neft, said in a statement on Wednesday. “In the Arctic zone, Eastern Siberia, and many other territories, opportunities remain to discover new large and ultra-large hydrocarbon deposits.” … Full article
RT | February 15, 2026
Former Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko has been detained as part of an anti-corruption probe while attempting to cross the border into Poland, local media and officials have reported. The ex-minister is implicated in a $100 million kickback scheme allegedly run by a former close associate of Vladimir Zelensky.
On Sunday, several Ukrainian media reported that Galushchenko had been removed from the Kiev-Warsaw night train after border guards received an automatic alert about a person of interest attempting to leave the country. The request for the detainment was reportedly filed by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO).
NABU later confirmed the development, saying the minister was detained in the corruption case and that “priority investigative actions are underway.” Lawmaker Aleksey Goncharenko said Galushchenko had been served with a suspicion notice after previously holding witness status in the investigation. … Full article
RT | February 15, 2026
Russia is ready to discuss establishing “temporary external governance” in Ukraine under UN auspices to facilitate long-overdue democratic elections, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin has said.
In an interview with TASS released on Sunday, Galuzin noted that the idea was first floated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in March 2025, describing it as one possible way to further the peace process.
This step, he said, “would make it possible to hold democratic elections in Ukraine, bring to power a capable government with which a full-fledged peace treaty could be signed, along with legitimate documents on future interstate cooperation.”
“In general, Russia is prepared to discuss with the US, European nations, and other countries the possibility of introducing temporary external governance in Kiev,” he added.
Galuzin acknowledged that while the UN “does not formally have a standardized mechanism” for these types of cases, there are historical precedents. … continue
The US military surge around Venezuela that culminated in the military aggression and abduction of President Nicolas Maduro is approaching a $3 billion price tag, Bloomberg reported.
Bloomberg calculations show the deployment at its peak cost more than $20 million a day, with as much as 20% of the US Navy’s surface fleet tied up in the region. Former Pentagon comptroller Elaine McCusker estimated that Operation Southern Spear has “probably cost about $2 billion since August 2025,” excluding intelligence and targeting expenses.
The White House has said the operation did not cost taxpayers extra because the forces were already deployed. But experts cited by Bloomberg noted that combat activity, higher operational tempo and personnel benefits add to expenses, and there is “no contingency fund in the DOD budget for unexpected operations.”
Despite the USS Gerald R. Ford being reassigned to the Middle East, Bloomberg reported the Caribbean deployment has no clear end date, even as US lawmakers say they have not been provided with detailed cost estimates.
Billions spent. No formal accounting.
And the tab keeps rising.
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- Guatemala ends 30-year Cuban medical program under US pressure
- The Washington Post Smears Commentators For Reporting On Jeffery Epstein’s Israel Ties
- Is Spite of What Zionists Say, It’s a Good Thing to Criticize Governments
- In Australia The Police Beat You Up For Opposing Genocide
- Israeli army closes dozens of cases involving killing of Palestinians inside torture camps
- Four Palestinians injured by Israeli army gunfire across Gaza Strip despite ceasefire
- Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ exports Israeli ‘ceasefire’ diplomacy to the world
- Macron Committed to Doing Everything to Overthrow Niger Authorities – Nigerien President
- Anti-Iran ‘Munich circus’ shows Europe has lost geopolitical weight: Araghchi
- Europe creates a ‘Russian government-in-exile’, consisting of a bunch of losers
- Munich, 2007: The Day the West Was Told No
- At The Munich Security Conference, AOC Gets It Wrong On Foreign Policy
- Europe Decided to Go to War With Russia by 2030, Already Preparing – Orban
- NATO plotting maritime blockade of Russia – Moscow
- Russia and China Are Expanding Their Cooperation to Counter US Efforts to Bully Iran and Cuba
- Jeffrey Epstein’s sinister shadow over West Asia
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- Whistleblowers: CPJ scrapped ‘impunity index’ to shield Israel from embarrassing ranking
- Israeli authorities block entry of Italian journalist over alleged biased reporting
- French FM under fire over ‘false’ claims about UN rapporteur
- Israeli drone strike kills man in southern Lebanon
- Settlers attack and injure Jordan Valley family in the middle of the night
- Israeli Colonizers Shoot One, Injure Others Near Nablus
- Over 2,000 Britons served in IDF as 47,000 dual and multi-nationals enlisted during Gaza genocide
- Rights groups warn of child recruitment in Gaza’s Israeli-controlled zones
- Israel Wants ISIS-Linked Militias To Control Rafah Crossing — The New Order in Gaza
- ISIS never left Syria, it just changed uniforms
- Why ARE the US and Israel Obsessed With Eliminating Iran’s Ballistic Missiles?
- Kremlin comments on EU ‘myopia’ over dialogue with Russia
- Russia more adapted to contemporary military technology than NATO
- Germany puts caveat on more missiles for Ukraine
- Populations in key NATO nations balk at sacrifices for military spending – poll
- UK High Court rules Palestine Action ban unlawful
- German courts could issue ‘speaking ban’ against major AfD politician in latest blow to free speech
- Ukraine to ban Russian literature – culture minister
- 40 State Attorneys General Want To Tie Online Access to ID
- Villains of Judea: Haim Saban
- Trump’s religious liberty commissioner removed after Zionism dispute
- Germany demands UN Rapporteur Albanese resign, joining France
- Israeli Colonizers Injure Elderly Woman Near Hebron
- Israeli Forces Shoot a Young Man, Assault Others in the West Bank
- Two Palestinians killed, others injured by Israeli gunfire in Gaza
- Prisoner Hatem Rayyan martyred in Israeli prisons, violations continue
- Hamas official says Netanyahu joining ‘peace council’ is a farce
- Israel Demanding that Iran Limit the Range of Missiles to 300 Kilometers
- Iran FM questions ‘narrative’ pushed by Israeli-American Trump donor’s outlet ahead of Netanyahu visit
- Jewish violence against Palestinian bus drivers surges
- Palestinian detainee Abdullah Barghouti injured in prison crackdown
- Russian Soldiers Tortured in Secret Ukrainian Prisons
- ‘Annul’ €10 billion for Hungary – top EU court official
- Tensions between Hungary and Ukraine could lead to a new regional conflict
- German government ‘embezzling’ taxpayer money to fund Ukraine – veteran politician
- Why can’t western leaders accept that they have failed in Ukraine?
- American auto giant reports record losses
- Consumers Will Pay For Ed Miliband’s Battery Subsidy Gold Rush
- Britons working harder for less – report
- Scroby Sands Lights the Fuse of the Decommissioning Timebomb
- Russia preparing oil lifeline to Cuba – embassy
- German Gas Crisis… Chancellor Merz Allegedly Bans Gas Debate Ahead of Elections!
- Brazil Charges Woman for 2020 Social Media Posts Under Court-Defined “Transphobia”
- Mysterious ‘peace’ groups are sending Americans pro-Israel texts
- Software developer exposes Israeli nonprofits’ massive spending to influence Americans
- Instagram suspends Track AIPAC, watchdog tracking pro-Israel lobby spending
- A Mossad-Linked Israeli Org Is Trying To ‘Shut Down’ The Maple
- Palestinian female journalist re-arrested after previous release in exchange deal
- Israeli forces issue demolition order for sports stadium in Masafer Yatta
- Illegal Israeli settlers displace 15 Palestinian families in occupied West Bank
- First Gaza, then the world: The global danger of Israeli exceptionalism
- Nouri al-Maliki defends Hashd al-Shaabi as inseparable part of Iraqi security system
- Netanyahu pushing to turn US into ‘slave state for Israel’s expansionist dreams’: Analyst
- Iran received no concrete US proposal in Oman talks: Security chief
- US mulling new pressure tactic on Iran – WSJ
- US Distorts China’s Nuclear Policy to Reach Nuclear Hegemony – Chinese Foreign Ministry
- World on the verge of uncontrolled deployment of nuclear weapons in space
- Zaporozhye Nuclear Plant’s Satellite City Deliberately Targeted by Ukrainian Forces
- Russia warns of countermeasures if Greenland militarized
- EU’s Kallas wants to cap Russian Army
- Estonian Intelligence Acknowledges That Russia Not Planning to Attack Estonia, NATO
- Brussels and Kiev have declared war on Hungary – Orban
- Von der Leyen to have new security unit under her command
- Ukrainian agents illegally bugged investigator probing Zelensky ally – officials
- Epstein and the Structure of Impunity
- Grooming the Gulf: How Epstein Forged Emirati Elites Into Tools for Israel
- US lawmaker names DP World CEO as sender of ‘torture video’ to Jeffrey Epstein
- Iran: Epstein scandal may be part of Israel’s political project
- Lavrov comments on Epstein-Russia spy claims
- Netanyahu Visits Trump for the Seventh Time Amid More Threats of a U.S. Attack on Iran
- Dozens arrested in Australia during violent police crackdown on anti-genocide protests
- US judge blocks deportation of Turkish student detained in pro-Palestine crackdown
- World’s largest shipping firm facilitates US trade with illegal Israeli settlements
- Washington’s Gaza ‘master plan’: A mere PowerPoint presentation
- Including A Child, Army Kills Seven Palestinians In Gaza
- The Empire of Lies: How the Western Colonial Project Turned Palestine into a Laboratory of Cruelty
- IOF arrests three young men during incursion in southern Syria
- Israeli pesticide spraying damages 80 dunams of wheat in Quneitra, officials say
- Iran advises US to act independently of ‘destructive’ Israeli influence amid nuclear talks in Oman
- Is Nixing Aid to Israel a Poison Chalice?
- Moscow, Paris resume technical levels talks as Macron urges ‘re-engagement’ with Russia
- Anchorage was the Receipt: Europe is Paying the Price… and Knows it
- Japan to Sign Up For NATO’s Ukraine Arms Pipeline
- Türkiye-NATO: Strategic Security Or Strategic Revision?
- The Kosovo war trial looks like damage control: How far can accountability go without reaching NATO?
- EU Pressured Social Media Giants to Censor Americans’ Speech
- FBI chief vows to ‘hunt down’ those who kill American citizens – except Israel
- Thousands mobilize to protest Israeli president visit to Australia
- Colonizer Attack Injures Several in Masafer Yatta
- Israeli forces kill 9 Palestinians in Gaza in new ceasefire violation
- Three-Year-Old Child Among Four Martyrs as Israeli Enemy Strikes Car in Southern Lebanon
- Made-for-Israel Wars: America’s Dangerous Habit of Forgetting
- IAEA to Inspect Several Iranian Nuclear Facilities in Next Few Days – Iran Vice President
- Decades of broken promises, aggression, Israeli pressure leave Iran no reason to trust US: Analyst
- Iran Willing to Dilute Enriched Uranium If US Lifts All Sanctions
- Iraqis volunteer en masse to fight in support of Iran
- Why didn’t China protect Venezuela from the US?
- US Boards Oil Tanker that Departed Venezuela
- Ukrainians ‘fed up with fighting’ – Budapest
- Orbán calls Ukraine an ‘enemy’ of Hungary
- No Grounds for Talks About New Negotiations With US on New START – Russian Deputy FM
- UK proposes North Sea drone fleet to target tankers – Sunday Times
- Russia vows ‘all possible assistance’ to Cuba as Washington moves to starve island
- South American countries’ pragmatic reassessment of ties with China amid US hegemonism, protectionism
- Epstein’s Ukrainian nexus: modeling agencies, trafficking, and elite connections
- Epstein case reveals ‘satanism’ of Western elites – Lavrov
- Trump Finances the Next Pandemic with $5.5 Billion Tax Dollars, Signs HR 7148 Into Law
- Swiss academics call for end to research treaty with Israel over Gaza genocide
- LAPD under fire over untracked police training trips to ‘Israel’
- Several Palestinians wounded in coordinated settler attacks across West Bank
- Hamas leader rejects disarmament, foreign rule in Gaza
- Palestinian child killed in Gaza amid ceasefire violations
- The Toxic Border: How Israel’s Chemical Spraying is Reshaping Life in South Lebanon
- Somalia president warns against Israeli interference, vows to prevent any military base in Somaliland
- Iranian FM says uranium enrichment to continue ‘even at cost of war’
- Zelensky tried to kill the chance for Russia-Ukraine peace, again
- Ukrainian press gang beats recruit to death – police
- No, Al-Jazeera, Climate Change Hasn’t Altered African Flood and Drought Patterns
- Bad Science, Big Consequences
- New Study Rebuts The Assumption That Anthropogenic CO2 Molecules Have ‘Special’ Properties
- The Testosterone Cover-Up
- Study finds 3,625 high-containment biolabs worldwide — 73% don’t disclose their locations or pathogen activities
- Most People Already Have Immune Defenses Against H5N1 Bird Flu: Journal ‘Immunity’
- Racketeering Scheme?: Vaccine Makers Profit Twice by Selling Drugs to Treat Vaccine Injuries
- When Threats Replace Evidence
- Gab Refuses to Pay Germany’s Fine, Challenges Cross-Border Online Censorship
- The Guardian Wants Substack To Start Censoring Creators
- How Noam Chomsky Became the Establishment’s Favorite Radical
- Iran riots and info war: When the ‘dead’ came back to debunk their own death stories
- Trump Authorizes up to 25% Tariffs on Countries Trading With Iran — Executive Order
- Mediterranean dockworkers stage coordinated strike in solidarity with Gaza
- Ten elected West Bank lawmakers held in Israeli prisons
- Occupation Forces Critically Injure a Child Near Jerusalem
- Israeli army kills Palestinian man east of Gaza City in violation of ceasefire
- The Gaza Ceasefire Has No Phase Two, Only a Permanent Limbo
- ‘US-supplied bombs still used to murder Palestinians’: US lawmaker
- DOJ records show Jeffrey Epstein donated thousands to Israeli army, Jewish National Fund
- Is Canada Really Warming?
- Climate Scientist Who Predicted End Of “Heavy Frost And Snow” Now Refuses Media Inquiries
- Dutch climate skeptics vindicated: KNMI reinstates seven pre-1950 heatwaves after long battle
- ‘Fact-checking’ as a disinformation scheme: The Brazilian case of Agência Lupa
- The reality of Trump’s cartoonish $1.5 trillion DOD budget proposal
- NATO’s ‘Agent Rutte’ in blatant sabotage of Ukraine peace negotiations
- EU court approves state theft of private cars bought in Russia
- Europe’s chemical sector ‘will disappear’ under weight of EU Green Deal
- The EV Car Crash
- Israeli forces detain journalists, foreign activists in southern West Bank following settler attacks
- Two Palestinians martyred as Israeli fire and demolitions continue across Gaza
- Rights group accuses EU of complicity in Gaza genocide over reconstruction conditions
- How Objectivists Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Zionist Regime Change Wars
- Iran Adamantly Rejects US Attempt to Control Upcoming Negotiations Over Iran’s Nuclear Program
- Why the Push for a US–Iran Nuclear Deal is Not Serious – and Never Was
- Muammar Gaddafi’s son assassinated in Libya amid reports of French ‘meddling’ in Africa
- Africa facing the French matrix of permanent destabilization
- Collapsing Empire: US Bows To African Revolutionaries
- OSCE on verge of self-destruction – Lavrov
- NATO member blasts bloc chief’s ‘pro-war’ remarks in Kiev
- Russia Accuses Ukraine of Sabotaging Peace Talks After General’s Shooting
- Terrorism and sabotage: Kiev is now without hope
- Spanish PM Declares War on the Internet While Calling It Protection
- Filton Acquittals Demolish Starmer and Cooper Lies About Palestine Action
- Soldiers Shoot Child in Nablus, Abduct 5 in Jericho, Jerusalem
- Exiled former prisoner assassinated in Israeli strike in Gaza, Hamas warns of systematic targeting
- Israel cancels Rafah evacuation for Gaza patients amid renewed massacres
- The “Donkey Flights” Project: Saving Animals While Strangling Gaza
- Global flotilla of 100 ships, 3,000 activists to set sail from Barcelona next month to break Gaza siege
- FBI document: Epstein trained as spy under Ehud Barak and worked for Mossad
- Australia sidesteps calls to arrest Israeli President Herzog
- ‘Israel’ bulldozes part of Gaza war cemetery holding allied graves
- Coordinated Media Messaging Is Prepping for Iran War
- Beijing cancels Panama deals after court blocks Chinese port operations
- Idea of strategically defeating Russia an ‘illusion’ – Lavrov
- Russia doubts ‘bright future’ for US economic ties – Lavrov
- US Missile Deployment in Greenland Could Spark New Arms Race – Analyst
- US’s Lack of Response to Russia’s New START Proposals Regrettable – Foreign Ministry
- European warmongers seeking to derail Ukraine peace talks – Putin envoy
- Russia responds to EU call for ‘fresh Arctic policy’
- Russia Urges International Community to Curb Arms Flow From Ukraine to Africa
- The US has accused the EU of censorship: Here’s how the bloc’s consensus machine works
- Judge Strikes Down Hawaii Deepfake Law as Unconstitutional
- Sen. Schumer: I Will Continue to Fight to Give Israel All the Aid It Needs
- Epstein Files – Steve Bannon Admits Trump Administration Would ‘Not Cross Sheldon Adelson’ During First Term
- 544 Mentions, Zero Accountability: The Dark Ties Between Tom Barrack and Jeffrey Epstein
- Epstein–Barak recording exposes multimillion-dollar fees paid to Tony Blair
- Israel-Palestine head of HRW resigns over blocked report on Palestinians right of return
- 24 Palestinians killed, many others injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza
- Jewish settlers pillage Palestinian school in Jordan Valley
- Occupation Forces Kill One, Injure Others in Jericho
- Israel to shut water, electricity at UNRWA facilities in occupied territories
- UNIFIL says Israeli drone dropped device near patrol in southern Lebanon
- President Aoun slams Israel for spraying toxic chemicals over south Lebanon
- China bans all new investment in ‘Israel’
- EU stole 2024 Romanian election – US House report
- Germany eyes military space spending splurge to counter ‘threats’ from Russia, China: Report
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