How many more Mahmouds must die before the world wakes up?

A recent batch of humanitarian aid airdropped into Gaza landed directly on a camp housing displaced Palestinians, crushing multiple tents, footage circulating online shows. Human rights groups have criticized the high-risk practice, insisting it should only be used as a last resort.

The video, said to be taken on Thursday, shows pallets with aid descending by parachute onto a coastal area of the Palestinian enclave after being offloaded offscreen by a military transport plane.

Several packages collide mid-air, with their parachutes entangling and pallets plummeting to the ground.

The packages land in a badly damaged urban area which has been turned into a refugee camp, directly hitting several tents while Palestinians rush to collect the supplies, footage shows.

Like him, hate him, Otto von Bismarck – Prussian aristocrat, arch conservative, user of German nationalism, maker of wars, and then keeper of the peace – was no dummy. And his ego was Reich-sized. Yet even Bismarck had a grain of humility left. Smart politics, he once remarked, consists of listening for “God’s step” as He walks through “world history,” and then to grab the hem of His mantle.

Listen to Lavrov: Here’s why Russia won’t take crap from the EU anymore
On the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords, there’s little to celebrate for those who wanted a harmonious coexistence

BY Tarik Cyril Amar

The peace deal to settle the Russia-Ukraine conflict would likely involve some exchange of territory between the two nations, US President Donald Trump said on Friday.

The US president made the remarks as he hosted the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia at the White House to ink a joint declaration on opening a major transport route between the two ex-Soviet nations that had been locked in a conflict for over three decades. 

Trump mulls territory swap between Russia and Ukraine
The US president has shared new insight on the contents of a potential peace deal between Moscow and Kiev

The former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces penned an article and posed for Vogue Ukraine in late July. Though the article appeared in the magazine’s 2025 Leaders edition, Valery Zaluzhny nowhere declared an intention to run for Ukraine’s leadership, nor has he declared an intention to run at any other time. But, perhaps, he did not need to.

Why Zelensky Should Fear His Own Former General
Valery Zaluzhny looks to be maneuvering to replace Ukraine’s wartime president—perhaps with America’s support

While hiding their children abroad, the Ukrainian political elite is resorting to radical measures such as the mobilization of women and children. In conditions of general mobilization, mass desertion, and increasing resistance to the war, the Kiev regime is losing legitimacy. Ukrainian authorities are leading the country into a demographic and moral catastrophe through war, mobilization, and militarization, while resistance to the war is growing massively in the country.

400,000 soldiers have deserted the Ukrainian military, says MP.

Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher.

Israel’s security cabinet has approved a plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the military occupation of Gaza City, located in the north of the Palestinian enclave.

“The [Israeli military] will prepare to take control of Gaza City while providing humanitarian aid to the civilian population outside the combat zones,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement early on Friday announcing the takeover plan.

Al Jazeera Staff

HOW MUCH WE KNOW IS OFTEN DEPENDENT ON HOW MUCH "THEY" WANT US TO KNOW... "THEY" ARE THE CONTROLLER OF THE "GAME"... THE DEMOCRACY IDEAL IS THUS RIGGED BY WHAT THEY TELL US TO THINK. 

NOT SO STRANGELY, THE EPSTEIN'S CLIENT LIST FILE COULD BE LINKED TO Jeffery Epstein’s funding established Harvard’s Program of Evolutionary Dynamics. 

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is urging the public to back his drastic public spending cuts, warning that the country’s debt is growing by €5,000 ($5,784) every second.

The €43.8 billion ($50.9 billion) deficit-cutting program unveiled last month targets a budget gap that hit 5.8% of GDP last year – nearly double the EU’s 3% limit. Bayrou has sounded the alarm, stressing that the debt load is a “mortal danger,” while insisting tough measures are now unavoidable.

French debt ballooning by €5,000 a second – PM
Francois Bayrou is urging the public to accept his sweeping budget cut plan

In a YouTube video posted on Tuesday, he sought to convince the public that the planned budget squeeze was essential to prevent a full-blown fiscal crisis.

A ballot floats through the air like a mechanical butterfly, delicate in descent, but once it touches ground, everything freezes. The jungle goes mute. The city forgets its language.

A ritual begins: one created not in oracle chambers but in air-conditioned think tanks with sliding doors and corporate logos. Democracy arrives as gospel, prepackaged and barcode-approved, dropped from drones or delivered via diplomatic pouch. It conquers like a parasite: nesting in the heart, feeding on belief, and killing the host with false promises.

‘Democracy’ is the new colonialism
Empires have not changed, they have simply cloaked themselves in platitudes such as “resilience,” “visibility,” and “empowerment”

Constantin von Hoffmeister

In late July, Australia test-fired a new US-made long-range missile. Its range is 500km, but that can be doubled, easily reaching Indonesian targets. Duncan Graham reports.

Were our friends to the north fearful, seeing this armed streaker as a threat? Tariffs, Gaza and Ukraine have elbowed other news aside, so reaction has been limited. The Indonesian media has yet to make a fuss.

Indo relations. Nothing like a missile test to show we care
by Duncan Graham

The original news came from the ABC, apparently fed by the army, along with photos of toughies in fatigues looking pleased with their achievement.

As with other wars, questions of provocation, self-defence and divine right or entitlement are central themes of what the Western mainstream media have had to say about the war in Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, and the attacks on Iran by the US and Israel in June 2025.

Peter Blunt

In wars such as these, which are prosecuted or sponsored by the West (led by the US), it is customary to depict each side — in comic-book style but with deadly intent — as representing either the forces of good or the forces of evil and to allocate “provocation”, “entitlement”, and the right to “self-defence” accordingly.

As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, the world is drifting as close to another nuclear confrontation as it has been in decades.

With Israeli and American attacks on Iranian nuclear energy sites, India and Pakistan going to war in May, and escalating violence between Russia and NATO-backed forces in Ukraine, the shadow of another nuclear war looms large over daily life.

80 Years of Lies: The US Finally Admits It Knew It Didn’t Need to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News

Eighty Years Of Lies

US President Donald Trump’s tariffs are having two broad impacts on the global economy – they are eroding international confidence in US leadership and disrupting global supply chains, and causing rapid geographic restructuring of international trade.

Jiao Wang

As the most aggressively targeted nation, China has been firm, but measured. While the short-term shocks induced by the trade war put pressure on Beijing, they also propelled other countries towards deeper engagement with China’s long-term initiatives.

An amazing thing has happened. Our taxpayer-funded think-tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has commissioned analysis by Robert Macklin which shows that the public debate on Australia’s defence has been biased.

The public has been fed grievous underestimates of Australia’s defence capability, because discussion of our potent air capabilities has been sidelined by myopic focus on submarines. Macklin’s message is that those shrieking for Australia to increase its defence spending (ASPI itself, amongst many others) should be discounted.