The current war has given all United Nations member states the opportunity to observe that, on numerous occasions since its creation, the UN has violated international law. It has also reminded them that international law defines an attack, such as that by Israel and the United States against Iran, as an "aggression." Furthermore, 193 states (including Israel and the United States) have recognized the right of the attacked state to consider as co-aggressors those states that host military bases of the aggressors.

What Iran Contributes to International Law

by Thierry Meyssan

The short-term world food crisis caused by the conflict in West Asia is superimposed on a far graver, deeper and longer-running risk of a collapse in global food production caused by the remorseless combination of climate change and losses of soil, water and biodiversity.

On May 4, CNN published a relatively long report about the alleged “dramatic increase in personal security around President Vladimir Putin”. The infamous neoliberal mouthpiece claims that the Kremlin is “installing surveillance systems in the homes of close staffers” due to a “wave of assassinations of top Russian military figures and fears of a coup”.

FLASH/FLASH/FLASH: WHY IS CNN SUDDENLY COVERING ‘PUTIN’S FEAR OF ASSASSINATIONS AND COUPS’?

Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst.

FOLLOWS IS A COUPLE OF ARTICLES THAT GO BEYOND THE FACADE OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONSTRUCT. THE COMPLEXITY OF OUR DEMOCRATIC CHOICE BECOMES ENTANGLED IN THE PRICING OF OUR NEEDS AND WANTS — AS WELL AS DEALING WITH OUR DISCONTENT ABOUT THE "COST OF LIVING" VERSUS LIFESTYLE AND FREEDOM... 

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In the 8Values political values test, Capitalist Fascism is a unique ideological test result used to describe a political and economic system that combines capitalist economy with fascist political characteristics. This concept is not a strictly academic definition, but is often proposed by left-wing or anti-capitalist theorists to criticize the extreme practices of certain states or regimes in economic, political, and social control.

“Whites? They are destroyed the world and themselves. To be white means to be nihilist. It is self hatred race. It caused so many troubles to others and to itself. It lost the right to be something. No arguments to support their existence.”

Why is Alexander Dugin suddenly attacking ‘Whites’?

The Russian philosopher has sparked outrage, but his target is not race – it’s the liberalism and nihilism of modern Western civilization...

A prominent US evangelist has claimed that government officials held a secret briefing for pastors and urged them to prepare their congregations for the imminent release of information about alien life and unidentified spacecraft, which could shatter Christian faith.

Perry Stone, a Tennessee-based Pentecostal preacher and founder of the Voice of Evangelism ministry, made the remarks in a podcast last week, which gained traction only recently.

Citing an unidentified friend, Stone said that “there were a large number of pastors who had been invited to go to a certain state to hear some men in the United States government and others share with them a concern that they had”.

President Donald Trump has signed a new US national counterterrorism strategy that describes Western Europe as both a target and an “incubator of terror threats,” while also singling out drug cartels and violent left-wing extremists as major dangers to America.

US blasts ‘wealthy NATO allies’ as terror incubators
President Trump’s new national counterterrorism strategy accuses the EU of letting hostile groups “exploit open borders and related globalist ideals”

Yellow and blue smoke rose, and out of it appeared a pair of breasts with “RUSSIA KILLS” written across bare skin. The performance was optimized for the press preview circuit, providing free self-pleasuring material for the Ukrainian-flags-in-bio crowd and their patriarchy-fighting-for-easy-body-access comrades alike.

Nudity for NATO: The OnlyFans strategy for saving Ukraine

Pussy Riot and FEMEN’s Venice Biennale protest showed the version of Ukraine the EU knows how to consume: obedient and stripped for export

By Valeriya Kovalenko

Spain urges EU to resist Trump’s sanctions
PM Pedro Sanchez has called on Brussels to shield the International Criminal Court from US pressure over its war crimes case against Israel....

The European Union should shield the International Criminal Court from US sanctions linked to its case against Israel’s alleged war crimes in Gaza, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said.

In 2024, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over alleged atrocities against Palestinians in the enclave by the Israel Defense Forces.

The ICC’s jurisdiction is currently recognized by 125 countries. However, the US and Israel are not signatories to the Rome Statute.

Cheaper and more effective ways of waging war are emerging, but then there’s the American (and Australian) way that still sees the waste of horrendously expensive equipment.

Alison Broinowski

[1 MAY 2026] Comrades, workers, youth, friends and supporters of the International Committee of the Fourth International gathered today across every continent: We open this May Day rally with a declaration of solidarity with all those who today stand in the front lines of resistance against imperialist violence and capitalist reaction.

Capitalist crisis, war and the international class struggle

David North

Clover Moore capitulates to Murdoch media and Minns, cancels today’s Sydney debate on ‘Globalise the Intifada’. Andrew Brown writes on the impact of cancel culture.

There is a particular kind of cowardice that wears the mask of governance. It does not arrive announcing itself. It arrives incrementally, each step dressed in the language of safety, of balance, of community cohesion, of protecting the vulnerable. 

Clover Moore capitulates, cancels ‘Globalise the Intifada’ debate

by Andrew Brown

By the time the architecture is visible, it is nearly complete. Australia is very nearly there.

I honestly do not know what Trump is going to do. I can only tell you what I am being told. A friend of mine who happens to live in the UAE, reached out to me late last night with info he had received from an Emirati official who is plugged into the UAE defense establishment. That official told my friend that the US would attack Iran on 7 May… That is Thursday.

Ball of Confusion… Trump’s Mixed Signals on Iran

by Larry C. Johnson

Given the source’s access, I find the information credible. Then Trump releases this around 6 pm eastern:

As widely expected, the Reserve Bank raised its interest rate by another 0.25% points today, just in time for Jim Chalmers’ next budget. Michael Pascoe reports.

The headline is the RBA’s third rate hike in a row, the board voting eight-to-one this time, while business is shouting that the economy is cooling, but the story is the little extra pressure the bank is placing on next week’s Federal budget.

Just don’t be fooled into thinking the Albanese Government is responding with anything bold or game-changing. I’ll come back to that.