Summary

Al Arabiya claims Tehran ready to transfer highly enriched uranium to China.

Trump urges all countries join post-deal Abraham accords, including Iran: Negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran are proceeding nicely! It will only be a Great Deal for all or, no Deal at all — Back to the Battlefront and shooting (TS).

Iran FM Araghchi, parliament speaker Ghalibaf, and central bank governor are in Doha for 'Talks to End War'.

Foreign Ministry cautions: "It is true that a consensus was reached on many of the topics discussed, but no one can claim that the signing of an agreement is imminent."

US affirms Hormuz/Iranian port blockade to remain in place until a peace deal is signed and that both sides must take their time to "get it right."

Everyone Talks About The Cost Of Gasoline… Soon Everyone Will Be Talking About The Cost Of Food

For most people, the price of gasoline is the most obvious consequence of the war in the Middle East. As I write this article, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States is $4.56. Of course, in some parts of the country, consumers are paying much more than that. This is a big story, and the truth is that gasoline prices are going to go even higher in the months ahead.

But if you think that the price of gasoline is bad, just wait until you see what eventually happens to food prices. The price of diesel has been rising even faster than the price of regular gasoline, and fertilizer prices have been absolutely skyrocketing. Those costs will get passed along to the rest of us. It is just a matter of time. Meanwhile, our farmers are dealing with drought conditions that are unprecedented, and now a “Super El Niño” is coming.

What all of this means is that food prices will rise to very painful levels.

So even though everyone is complaining about rising gasoline prices at the moment, one prominent economist is warning that “the next story is food”…

The cost of food in the U.S. appears poised to rise sharply alongside oil prices, as war-related supply disruptions put pressure on the companies and farmers who keep the country’s shelves stocked.

“The big story right now is oil,” economist Justin Wolfers told MS NOW on Tuesday. “The next story is food.”

Oil prices have risen over 50 percent since the conflict began on February 28, pushing gas prices to a nationwide average of over $4.50 for the first time since 2022.

Can you imagine what would happen if food prices were to rise another 50 percent from current levels?

Over the past year, many of the most common items that Americans purchase at the grocery store have already become much more expensive…

When compared to the same time last year, fruits and vegetables have seen some of the biggest price hikes. Tomatoes are 40% more expensive now than they were this time last year. Bad growing weather, tariffs, and rising fuel prices have all contributed to the huge change in tomato prices, reports the New York Times.

Coffee, another imported product, is 19% more expensive than it was last spring.

You’re also likely seeing inflated prices at the butcher counter. Meat is up 9% overall, but beef has grown even more expensive. Ground beef is about 15% pricier, beef roasts are 18% more, and steak is up 16%.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/everyone-talks-about-cost-gasoline-soon-everyone-will-be-talking-about-cost-food

Trump Tells Arab States Joining Abraham Accords Should Be 'Mandatory' - Throws Open Door For Iran In Grand Deal

President Trump is still trying to play the role of the globe's ultimate deal-maker via Truth Social, using a mix of mandatory diplomacy and ultimate economic carrots, issuing a lengthy missive on Iran talks and the Abraham Accords on Monday morning.

He introduced the post by stating that negotiations with Tehran are "proceeding nicely" before dropping a provocative diplomatic bombshell: a demand that a big list of major Middle Eastern nations immediately sign onto the Abraham Accords as a prerequisite for any broader peace framework.

The most unexpected aspect to the post laid out that if Tehran plays ball with Washington, Trump is dangling the prospect of the Islamic Republic itself joining the regional coalition, which it must be remembered hinges on 'normalization' with Israel.

"I stated that, after all the work done by the United States to try and pull this very complex puzzle together, it should be mandatory that all of these Countries, at a minimum, simultaneously, sign onto the Abraham Accords," Trump wrote Monday, referencing a Saturday phone call with Arab leaders.

Trump detailed further:

Those Countries discussed are Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates (already a Member!), Qatar, Pakistan, Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain (already a Member!). It may be possible that one or two have a reason for not doing so, and that will be accepted, but most should be ready, willing, and able to make this Settlement with Iran a far more Historic Event than it would, otherwise, be. The Abraham Accords have proven to be, for the Countries involved (The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and Kazakhstan), a Financial, Economic, and Social BOOM, even during this time of Conflict and War, with the current Members never even suggesting leaving, or taking so much as even a pause.

The above was coupled with the following ultimatum: "It should start with the immediate signing by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and everybody else should follow suit. If they don’t, they should not be part of this Deal in that it shows bad intention."

And then he dropped the significant twist related to Tehran, in claiming that several of the regional leaders he spoke with "would be honored, as soon as our Document is signed, to have the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of the Abraham Accords. Wow, now that would be something special!"

Inviting Iran to join the Abraham Accords as a part of a broader final deal framework has resulted in a lot of head-scratching, given that just weeks ago Trump repeatedly threatened to bomb the country 'back to the stone age' and effectively end 'civilization' there. US rhetoric has been filled with scorn for Iran, and yet it is now being asked to join a grand US-backed alliance.

Trump is his very long message issued a final directive in the following:

"Therefore, I am mandatorily requesting that all Countries immediately sign the Abraham Accords, and that, if Iran signs its Agreement with me, as President of the United States of America, it would be an Honor to have them also be part of this unparalleled World Coalition. The Middle East would be United, Powerful, and Economically Strong, like perhaps no other area, anywhere in the World! By copy of this TRUTH, I am asking my Representatives to begin, and successfully complete, the process of signing these Countries into the already Historic Abraham Accords."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-says-arab-states-joining-abraham-accords-should-be-mandatory-throws-open-door

Totally staged so Israel can claim victim status

Israel slams Zelensky over tribute to Nazi collaborator

The Ukrainian leader reburied Andrey Melnik as a “hero” with state honors

The Israeli Foreign Ministry has condemned Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s decision to rebury Nazi collaborator Andrey Melnik with full state honors, declaring that “there is no place for ignoring historical truth.”

Melnik’s remains were repatriated from Luxembourg and buried in Kiev’s main military cemetery on Monday, with Zelensky and his top officials attending the ceremony. Describing Melnik as a “hero,” Zelensky said that he “worked to ensure that Ukraine was what it is, that Ukraine was itself, that Ukraine was free.”

In a statement on Monday, Israel’s foreign ministry said that it regrets “the decision to hold an official state reburial ceremony for OUN leader Andrey Melnik, who collaborated with the Nazis,” adding “there is no place for ignoring historical truth and the memory of the victims murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.”

Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center said that Melnik’s reburial “raises serious concerns.”

“Honoring the leader of a movement that supported and collaborated with Nazi Germany during the persecution and murder of millions of Jews undermines the moral integrity essential to Holocaust remembrance,” the center said in a statement.

https://www.rt.com/russia/640555-israel-condemns-zelensky-melnik/

LARRY ELLISON’S POWER GRAB: Oracle Vows to Build More Data Centers Than All Competitors Combined

Tech Billionaire’s Massive Expansion Threatens to Devour American Electricity and Water for AI Dominance and Chinese-Backed Projects Like Temu

Larry Ellison is making a move that should terrify every American concerned about our national power grid.

The Oracle founder and CTO just declared war on the entire tech industry.

During a recent earnings call, Ellison claimed Oracle will build "more cloud infrastructure data centers" than all of its competitors combined.

The scale of this expansion is almost impossible to comprehend.

Oracle is currently seeking up to 5GW of data center capacity just to support OpenAI’s massive workloads.

To put that in perspective, 5GW is enough to power millions of American homes.

But for Ellison and the globalist elite, the grid is just a secondary concern to AI dominance.

The push is fueled by "gigantic contracts" from companies like Temu, a Chinese e-commerce giant with deep ties to the CCP.

Ellison is essentially building a global surveillance and AI infrastructure that benefits foreign interests while draining American resources.

But the real threat lies in the massive "Stargate" project.

This $500 billion AI infrastructure deal with OpenAI is still in formation.

There’s just one problem:

The American people are the ones who will pay the price for this digital land grab.

As these massive facilities go online, they will compete with ordinary citizens for water and electricity.

"We are putting out as much capacity as we possibly can as quickly as we can," CEO Safra Catz told investors during the call.

This isn't just about business; it's about control.

Ellison previously promised to build 100 data centers in a single year.

He is now doubling down on that reckless ambition.

The message is clear: the tech giants are coming for our resources, and they don't care about the consequences for the American people.

Who is going to stop this unchecked expansion before our grid collapses?

https://www.nationalfile.com/article/larry-ellison-s-power-grab-oracle-vows-to-build-more-data-centers-than-all-competitors-combined

Trump’s Sedition Act for Israel

PaulCraigRoberts.org

May 25, 2026

At all times and places it has been difficult to speak freely. Even the founding fathers had their Sedition Act of 1798 that criminalized statements against the US government. Shortly afterward President Thomas Jefferson got most of it repealed.

President Lincoln during his 1861-1865 invasion of the Confederate States of America had a de facto sedition act. Lincoln used executive orders, military directives, martial law, and the suspension of habeas corpus to shut down free speech. At one time Lincoln had 300 Northern newspaper editors in prison

In 1918, Congress passed a new Sedition Act that applied when the US government was at war. The law prohibited speech and opinion that put the US government and its war effort in a bad light. The bad light was that US President Woodrow Wilson promised Germany no territorial loss and no reparations in exchange for an armistice, and betrayed the promise. The result was the Treaty of Versailles that as British economist John Maynard Keynes correctly predicted led to World War II.

President Trump has declared his own Sedition Act issued not by Congress, increasingly an irrelevant government institution, but by Trump’s personal defense lawyer currently serving as US Attorney General. Trump’s Sedition Act is unique. It protects from criticism not the US government, but a foreign one — Israel. The May 19 press release of the US Department of Justice (sic) says:

“President Trump has made clear that this administration will not tolerate antisemitism, and the Department of justice is committed to implementing that directive.”

Understand that the US Department of Justice is now the protector of Israel, as is the US military and US taxpayers, and antisemitism means any criticism of Israel. For example, Israel’s genocide of Palestine and its people, Israel’s interference in tenure decisions of US universities, the hiring and contracting policies of state governments such as Texas and Florida, Israel’s funding of the primary defeat of US Republican Representative Thomas Massie, Israel’s assassinations of foreign leaders, Israel’s suspected assassination of Charlie Kirk, suspicion that Epstein was a Mossad agent collecting blackmail information against Americans in a position to influence US foreign party in the Middle East, and on and on. Every thought, question, statement of fact that can be interpreted as hostile to Israel has become anti-semitism and will not be tolerated by the US Department of Justice (sic).

Clearly, the Trump regime, essentially a Zionist regime, has no intention of permitting any correct information to be aired. If you challenge or taunt the Regime, you are shut down like Colbert, Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and so many others.

The Washington Post published an article on May 21 about President Trump’s efforts to silence late night TV hosts. Apparently, Trump succeeded in intimidating CBS to cancel Stephen Colbert. NBC’s Seth Meyers and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel believe they are on the hit list.

A discredited media unable to hold Trump to account has replaced a former biased media.

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/05/paul-craig-roberts/trumps-sedition-act-for-israel/

https://www.antiwar.com/

‘Nightmare for Israel’: Senior GOP senators criticize alleged terms of emerging Iran deal

After Iran says nuclear issues aren’t part of current talks, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo compares terms to 2015 Iran deal, says it will let Tehran ‘terrorize the world’

Senior US senators from the Republican Party voiced criticism on Saturday over the reported terms of the deal that US President Donald Trump is negotiating with Tehran to end the Iran war.

The emerging criticism from within Trump’s own party comes after US and Iranian officials both signalled that they were nearing an agreement on a memorandum of understanding to end the war and set the stage for further talks.

Trump specified that the agreement would include opening the Strait of Hormuz, but did not mention Iran’s nuclear program, despite repeatedly insisting that Iran would not be allowed to attain nuclear weapons and that the regime must relinquish its stockpile of 60 percent-enriched uranium.

Iran, meanwhile, said that nuclear issues were not part of the current negotiations.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a vocal supporter of the war against Iran unleashed by the US and Israel on February 28 and the chair of the Senate Budget Committee, expressed fear over terms that would allow the Iranian regime to survive, saying a deal that leaves Iran in a strong position in the region would lead to a “nightmare for Israel.”

“If a deal is struck to end the Iranian conflict because it is believed that the Strait of Hormuz cannot be protected from Iranian terrorism and Iran still possesses the capability to destroy major Gulf oil infrastructure, then Iran will be perceived as being a dominate [sic] force requiring a diplomatic solution,” he posted on X.

“This combination of Iran being perceived as having the ability to terrorize the Strait in perpetuity and the ability [to] inflict massive damage to Gulf oil infrastructure is a major shift of the balance of power in the region and over time will be a nightmare for Israel,” he added.

The X account belonging to the Senate Republicans shared Graham’s post, as did Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, warned separately that “the rumored 60-day ceasefire — with the belief that Iran will ever engage in good faith — would be a disaster.”

“Everything accomplished by Operation Epic Fury would be for naught!,” he added, referring to the war with Iran by Washington’s name for it.

Neither Graham nor Wicker mentioned Trump by name in their posts.

Wicker, on Friday, blamed Trump’s advisers for pushing him to make a deal with Iran “that would not be worth the paper it is written on” rather than allowing the president to “finish the job he started.”

“Further pursuit of an agreement with Iran’s Islamist regime risks a perception of weakness,” he said.

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas added his voice to the growing chorus of condemnation on Sunday morning, saying he was “deeply concerned” by reports detailing the emerging deal.

“President Trump’s decision to strike Iran was the most consequential decision of his second term. He was right to do so, and we achieved extraordinary military results,” Cruz wrote on X. “If the result of all that is to be an Iranian regime—still run by Islamists who chant ‘death to America’—now receiving billions of dollars, being able to enrich uranium & develop nuclear weapons, and having effective control over the Strait of Hormuz, then that outcome would be a disastrous mistake.”

Unlike Graham and Wicker, Cruz named Trump in his post, but still appeared to try to distance the president from the potential deal, saying instead that it was being “pushed by some voices in the administration.”

“President Trump believes in peace through strength, and his strong leadership has already made America much safer. He should continue to hold the line, defend America & enforce the red lines he has repeatedly drawn,” he concluded.

Similarly, former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, who served under Trump during his first term, warned that the reported terms of the deal were “not remotely America First.”

Instead, Pompeo likened the emerging deal to the Obama administration’s 2015 Iran nuclear deal, saying it seemed “straight out of the Wendy Sherman-Robert Malley-Ben Rhodes playbook: Pay the IRGC to build a WMD program and terrorize the world.”

“Not remotely America First,” he said. “It’s straightforward: Open the damned strait. Deny Iran access to money. Take out enough Iranian capability so it cannot threaten our allies in the region.”

“Overdue,” he added. “Let’s go.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/nightmare-for-israel-senior-gop-senators-criticize-alleged-terms-of-emerging-iran-deal/

Poison Your Data. Fight Back Against AI.

Data Poisoning could be a tool we use to identify AI that has used copyritten material, or we use it to mess with AI.

https://youtu.be/Z8aLGHmnRyc

“The Occupation’s Conditions”: Trump’s Board of Peace Demands that Hamas Surrender to Netanyahu’s Gaza Agenda

As Israel threatens to resume full-scale genocide in Gaza, Palestinian resistance leaders spoke to Drop Site about deceptive negotiations and the push to disarm.

It has been over seven months since Hamas and Israel came to a ceasefire agreement that promised to end the genocide in Gaza. But since then, senior leaders of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad say, Israel and the U.S. have tried to implement terms that Hamas never agreed to—specifically, disarming the resistance while Israeli forces continue to occupy most of Gaza and violate the ceasefire on a daily basis.

President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” has unilaterally rewritten the Gaza ceasefire agreement, resistance leaders told Drop Site News, in an effort to compel Palestinians to surrender their liberation cause and institutionalize Israeli domination over the future of the Gaza Strip. Since mid-March, Hamas officials have been summoned to a series of meetings where U.S. officials, regional mediators, and the Trump-appointed “High Representative for Gaza” have pressured the group to disarm, warning a large-scale Israeli military assault may resume if they refuse to capitulate.

This campaign, they said, will fail and ultimately lead to a resumption of the armed struggle. “The [Israeli] aim is to end the Palestinian presence in the Gaza Strip, not merely occupation,” said Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas leader, in an interview with Drop Site. “They are trying to send a message to the Palestinians that there is no solution within Palestine, and that the only solution is for them to leave.”

“Continuing along this path will lead to an opposite reaction among Palestinians, and Palestinians may even go beyond their political leadership,” Hamdan continued. “If it comes down to a situation of ‘the sea behind you and the enemy in front of you,’ they will fight—not only Hamas, but Palestinians in general, will fight.”

Drop Site conducted a series of in-person interviews with Hamdan and other resistance leaders, including the co-founder of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Mohammed Al-Hindi, last week in Istanbul.

“It is true that the situation is difficult, and that there are losses, destruction, and ongoing killing. But Israel has not won the battle. The battle remains open and ongoing,” Al-Hindi told Drop Site. “Because we have legitimate rights and a deep belief in these rights, we possess the ability to sacrifice and to remain steadfast.”

Palestinian negotiators charge that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and officials from Trump’s “Board of Peace” have trashed the original October “ceasefire” agreement and have presented a new framework that demands the total disarmament of the Palestinian resistance as a prerequisite to implementing the terms of the signed deal. “These weapons are not merely the weapons of the Palestinian factions; they are the weapons of the Palestinian people during a phase of national liberation,” said Al-Hindi, who is Islamic Jihad’s chief political negotiator and was on the team that signed the October ceasefire deal sponsored by Trump. “The final framework for the resistance is that this is a [Palestinian] national issue to be discussed in the second phase, and that before entering the second phase, the first phase must be implemented.”

In April, Nickolay Mladenov—the U.S.-installed viceroy of Gaza tasked with implementing the agenda of Trump’s board—presented Hamas with what was described as a “15-point roadmap.” The document amounted to an ultimatum: If the Palestinian resistance does not surrender its weapons, no meaningful reconstruction will be permitted in Gaza and Israeli forces will not withdraw. In a May 15 report to the United Nations Security Council, the Board of Peace declared the total disarmament of Hamas and other resistance groups “the single factor that unlocks every other element of the plan.”

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-hamas-trump-board-netanyahu-israel-mladenov-disarmament

Israeli Attacks on Lebanon Hospitals Fuel Growing Backlash

EU urges strict adherence to truce in southern Lebanon

A recurring problem in the ongoing Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon is that attacks are targeting paramedics and hospitals in the region. The IDF maintains that they are in some way secretly supporting Hezbollah, though the evidence doesn’t support that, and as the number of slain medical workers grows, there is also a growing backlash against the strategy.

The IDF bombardment of Hiram Hospital in the southern city of Tyre left at least 25 health care workers wounded. Attacks damaged nurses’ quarters as well as patient facilities in the area.

This was just one of the hospitals in the south that were targeted over the weekend, as officials reported a similar facility destroyed in Nabatieh District. No casualties were reported in that incident, however, as the locals had already been evacuated.

EU officials were expressing unease about how often these Israeli attacks on hospitals or other health care targets keep getting reported, and while there was a broad statement from the EU urging “strict adherence” to the ceasefire that is notionally in place, nations are more and more willing to criticize the policy.

Germany’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement expressing “deep alarm” about the repeated attacks on health workers, noted the number of violations of the ongoing ceasefire and concluded with an urge to comply with UN Security Council resolution 1701, a resolution that is some 20 years old at this point.

Governments and NGOs have been issuing similar statements for weeks now, but this appears not to be affecting the overall conflict, beyond the IDF not even offering statements to nominally justify individual attacks as often anymore, and such strikes simply happening as part of the general background noise of the ongoing offensive.

https://news.antiwar.com/2026/05/24/israeli-attacks-on-lebanon-hospitals-fuel-growing-backlash/

Meanwhile Israel just bombed a hospital in Lebanon! This man is an idiot of epic proportions!

==Ambassador Mike Huckabee: Everyone in Lebanon should be thanking Israel for making their lives easier by inventing cherry tomatoes.

https://x.com/i/status/2058668718633206165

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CIA/Mossad V USMC?

CIA knows Iran's real power center while Washington pretends otherwise

Now, after 47 years, the CIA, in coordination with Mossad, may have assumed responsibility for a campaign against the Islamic Republic in pursuit of what many describe as a “new Middle East.”

As negotiations between Washington and Tehran remain deadlocked, US President Donald Trump convened a high-level meeting Friday with senior US national security officials, including the CIA director, secretary of defense, and vice president, to discuss scenarios for a possible return to military confrontation with the Islamic Republic.

At the same time, Qatar and Pakistan launched last-minute, ultimately fruitless mediation efforts to prevent further escalation.

Sources close to the White House say Trump has grown increasingly frustrated with the stalled diplomacy and is now weighing the option of a “decisive final military operation” as a way to end the crisis.

Although no final decision has yet been made, the confrontation appears to be approaching a potentially dangerous turning point, raising a deeper strategic question: Does the CIA, in coordination with Mossad, now see regime change not as a distant aspiration but as an increasingly realistic objective?

If one moves beyond merely examining the “behavior of the regime” and confronts the larger question, who exactly is the United States truly dealing with in Iran’s regime?, one arrives at a dilemma that America’s intelligence community, particularly the CIA, has wrestled with for decades.

The United States still speaks to the Islamic Republic’s “diplomatic façade,” while real authority remains concentrated within the ideological-security structure of the IRGC and, outwardly, the office of Khamenei.

When the upheaval of 1979 succeeded in Iran, the CIA did not truly understand who Khomeini was, nor did it fully grasp that the ideological engine driving him, the dictatorship of the Shiite cleric and the doctrine of Velayat-e Faqih, would ultimately give birth to a religious dictatorship and a Shiite Islamic caliphate in Tehran.

The CIA also failed to accurately foresee that America’s most loyal and strategically important ally in the Middle East, the late Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, would ultimately lose power. Even after the 1983 bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut, the CIA still appeared unable to fully comprehend the mushroom-like rise of Islamist terrorism across the region. That reality cannot simply be concealed or erased from history.

During the years 1975–1978, whenever SAVAK, one of the CIA and Mossad’s closest intelligence partners during the Cold War, warned the CIA that the KGB stood behind both Marxist terrorist movements and Islamist militant networks, those warnings were frequently dismissed or underestimated.

Khomeini’s inner circle also cultivated the illusion that the CIA had orchestrated a coup in Iran in 1953 and removed a so-called “popular prime minister.” Yet few ever asked a more fundamental question: when exactly had that prime minister been elected by the Iranian people, under what election, and through what constitutional authority?

Under Iran’s constitutional monarchy, the Shah possessed the legal authority to appoint and dismiss prime ministers. That populist prime minister had ruled under martial law, attacked and burned opposition newspapers, and effectively paralyzed the national parliament. Had he succeeded, Iran itself could very likely have fallen into the orbit of the Soviet Union in 1953.

What remains remarkable is that even figures close to Khomeini later acknowledged maintaining contacts with the United States and the CIA between 1953 and 1979. In that sense, the narrative of the so-called “CIA coup” in Iran gradually evolved into a repetitive, mythologized, and politically convenient tale. The late Shah himself later wrote in his memoirs that the CIA neither protected him nor stood by its longtime ally, and that in 1979 it ultimately “stabbed him in the back.”

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-897213

from 2019

by Caitlin Johnstone

"As of this writing, the post has over 9,600 responses. Most of them are heartbreaking.

"My daughter was raped while in the army," said one responder. "They took her to the hospital where an all male staff tried to convince her to give the guy a break because it would ruin his life. She persisted. Wouldn't back down. Did a tour in Iraq. Now suffers from PTSD."

"I've had the same nightmare almost every night for the past 15 years,"said another.

Tweet after tweet after tweet, people used the opportunity that the Army had inadvertently given them to describe how they or their loved one had been chewed up and spit out by a war machine that never cared about them.

This article exists solely to document a few of the things that have been posted in that space, partly to help spread public awareness and partly in case the thread gets deleted in the interests of "national security". Here's a sampling in no particular order:

"Someone I loved joined right out of high school even though I begged him not to. Few months after his deployment ended, we reconnected. One night, he told me he loved me and then shot himself in the head. If you're gonna prey on kids for imperialism, at least treat their PTSD."

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"After I came back from overseas I couldn't go into large crowds without a few beers in me. I have nerve damage in my right ear that since I didn't want to look weak after I came back I lied to the VA rep. My dad was exposed to agent orange which destroyed his lungs, heart, liver and pancreas and eventually killing him five years ago. He was 49, exposed at a post not Vietnam, and will never meet my daughter my nephew. I still drink too much and I crowds are ok most days but I have to grocery shop at night and can't work days because there is to many ppl."

"The dad of my best friend when I was in high school had served in the army. He struggled with untreated PTSD & severe depression for 30 years, never told his family. Christmas eve of 2010, he went to their shed to grab the presents & shot himself in the head. That was the first funeral I attended where I was actually told the cause of death & the reasons surrounding it. I went home from the service, did some asking around, & found that most of the funerals I've attended before have been caused by untreated health issues from serving."

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"My dad was drafted into war and was exposed to agent orange. I was born w multiple physical/neurological disabilities that are linked back to that chemical. And my dad became an alcoholic with ptsd and a side of bipolar disorder."

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"i met this guy named Christian who served in iraq. he was cool, had his own place with a pole in the living room. always had lit parties. my best friend at the time started dating him so we spent a weekend at his crib. after a party, 6am, he took out his laptop. he started showing us some pics of his time in the army. pics with a bunch of dudes. smiling, laughing. it was cool. i was drunk and didn't care. he started showing us pics of some little kids. after a while, his eyes went completely fucking dark. i was like man, dude's high af. he very calmly explained to us that all of those kids were dead 'but that's what war was. dead kids and nothing to show for it but a military discount'. christian killed himself 2 months later."

'Israelis Are More Genocidal Than People Think': Meet Andrey X, the 'Counter Hasbara' TikToker

How a family visit to Israel turned Andrey Khrzhanovskiy into a full-time activist documenting violence in the West Bank

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2026-05-25/ty-article-magazine/.premium/israelis-are-more-genocidal-than-you-think-the-counter-hasbara-of-andrey-x/0000019e-44cb-d637-a99f-66fbc6cd0000

After two weeks of nonviolent protests by the schoolchildren of Umm al-Khair, the kiddie YouTube star Ms. Rachel shared a series of photos from the West Bank village.

"I just had a two-hour call with the children of Umm al-Khair," she wrote, adding that she was "horrified at the way they have been treated."

She detailed the recent events for her five million followers, explaining that Israeli settlers "put up a barbed-wire fence blocking the village's main road, keeping children from safely reaching their school," and that the children's peaceful protest faced "tear gas and rifles from soldiers protecting the illegal fence."

"The world watching may be the only thing helping protect this village and these precious children," Ms. Rachel plead.

The first image in the post is of one of the children she video-chatted with: a Palestinian boy, clutching an Arabic grammar book as he looks back at the barbed wire that blocks his way to school. His gaze is met by three masked IDF soldiers guarding the fence.

Ms. Rachel, who is based thousands of miles away in Manhattan, did not take the photo. It was shot by Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, a 28-year-old content creator and anti-occupation activist based in Beit Jala who has spent most of the last two years documenting settler and army violence in West Bank villages like Umm al-Khair. Khrzhanovskiy, also known by his handle Andrey X, has gained his own 700,000-strong following across Instagram, X, TikTok and Facebook.

"I'm afraid to go back and sit in prison for about 20 years," Khrzhanovskiy says. "In Russia, after the invasion, the pace of repression against any kind of opposition sped up. If you go to Russia, you need to shut up. And I find myself unable to shut up."

Khrzhanovskiy says that the sphere of Russian intelligentsia he grew up in came with "inevitable liberalism" – his father is the well-known Russian film director Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, and his grandfather, whose name he shares, is the only Soviet animator to ever be censored by Moscow. In 1968, his movie "Glass Harmonica," which featured chaotic and often terrifying surrealist imagery, was barred from screening in the USSR and ordered to be destroyed (luckily, Khrzhanovskiy saved a copy, and it's still available).

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https://archive.md/cIceD

The AI Antichrist

🚨 The Deep State’s AI Fact-Checkers: The Invisible Algorithm That Makes Dissent Completely Disappear

The Deep State just upgraded from clunky human fact-checkers to AI that scales narrative control at lightspeed. No more paper trails, subpoenas, or exposed biases—just seamless manipulation.

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/05/25/how-the-deep-state-weaponizes-ai-to-control-the-narrative/#more-410266