Hamza Yusuf | Journalists from five British media outlets have criticised the way their own organisations cover Israel-Palestine. | Journalists working at Britain’s most prestigious newspapers and TV channels have expressed concern at pro-Israel bias inside their organisations. Speaking exclusively to Declassified, half a dozen current and former staff at the BBC, Sky, ITN, the Guardian and the Times have disclosed the extent of anti-Palestinian prejudice in their newsrooms.

Watch this video clip and form your own opinion. Mine is that the WEF & other aligned transnational organizations should be banned from Canada and any politician associated should be removed from parliament
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— Concerned Canadian (@Concern70732755) May 21, 2023

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said her government would announce plans on Wednesday for a "massive" rearming of Denmark's military due to the growing threat posed by Russia. [...] She did not disclose any details or sums, but according to Danish public broadcaster DR, the government is expected to announce the creation of a 50-billion-kroner ($7 billion) fund for additional defence spending in 2025-2026. ● The government had considered doubling the size of the fund, but determined that there was currently not enough defence equipment on offer to be able to purchase for a larger amount, according to the broadcaster.

More than 17,000 Brits now claim they have been injured or have had loved ones killed by a Covid jab, according to the latest Government data. | Despite ministers' promises of compensation for those harmed by the vaccines, only 194 have received damages from the official Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme. ● It comes as US scientists identified an alarming syndrome linked to mRNA jabs, those made by the likes of Pfizer and Moderna and which have become the most common type of Covid vaccine used in Britain. ● Called 'post-vaccination syndrome', the condition appears to cause brain fog, dizziness, tinnitus and exercise intolerance, the researchers reported. ● Some sufferers also show distinct biological changes, including differences in immune cells and the presence of coronavirus proteins in their blood, years after taking the shot.

The MK-84 bombs, produced by Boeing, have been a controversial weapon due to their wide blast radius and devastating impact when used in urban settings. | A shipment of 1,600 MK-84 heavy munitions, each weighing 2,000 pounds, has arrived in Israel from the United States following a reversal of an arms freeze by the Trump administration. The delivery, which was swiftly transported to Israeli Air Force bases, is part of Washington’s ongoing and uncritical military support for Israel, despite international concerns over civilian casualties in Gaza and the broader humanitarian impact of explosive weapons in populated areas.

The Trump administration has been clear that peace in Ukraine will entail no NATO membership, no return of Ukrainian territories, and no US security guarantees. Furthermore, the US is preparing to leave both Ukraine and Europe. The Europeans are outraged about the US preparedness to make peace with Russia, yet they have presented no other alternatives than sending more weapons. The Europeans and Ukrainians also oppose that a deal is being made behind their backs, yet they have boycotted all diplomacy for the past three years. Europe is waking up to a realist reality as the terms for a peace agreement will be decided in Moscow and Washington.

Representatives of the Russian and American media were simultaneously led to the meeting venue, with Russian and US journalists waiting in different parts of the building [...] From the Russian side, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Kremlin Aide Yury Ushakov are at the negotiating table. Opposite them are three US negotiators: President Donald Trump's national security advisor Mike Waltz, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the US leader's special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff. [...] The meeting is being held in one of the royal family's palaces, Diriyah in the Albasateen complex.

(Meanwhile in Kyiv): Coup in Kiev: Zelensky abuses peace talks to take out rivals

✅ Trump To Force Ukraine Peace on Europe (John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen)(VIDEO)
✅ Ukraine Risks Trump’s Wrath After Bombing Partially US-Owned Oil Infrastructure In Russia (Andrew Korybko)
✅ The Polish Security Chief Shared Some Interesting Insight About The Ukrainian Conflict’s Endgame (Andrew Korybko)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rhetorically responded to journalists' questions about the possibility of territorial concessions to Kyiv. He does not see how it could be [even] possible to give away the lands where the Russian people live.

💬 “Do you even want to be present at the settlement talks about the fact that some territories should be ceded? How should they be ceded: with Russians or without people, with only rare earth metals?” - he said at a press conference.

Recall, Lavrov will lead the Russian delegation at tomorrow's talks with the United States in Saudi Arabia. The Minister shared his expectations from the upcoming meeting. (Translation: DeepL (free version) + Grammarly)

Europe has relied on US defense and funding for nearly 70 years and is incapable of handling this burden alone, Mikael Valtersson, a former Swedish Armed Forces and Air Defense officer, tells Sputnik, commenting on French President Emmanuel Macron’s urgent security meeting. | "Europe would have to spend 10 % for a couple of decades to reach the same level of defense that they have with US protection," Valtersson says. He argues that Europe's fears of a US military withdrawal from the continent are well-founded, as the Trump administration is expected to prioritize China and its own regional interests. "For the Trump administration, Europe is seen as just a burden," he adds.

■ Germany urges NATO unity following emergency meeting on Ukraine (RT)

The most important use of lithium pertains to rechargeable batteries for mobile phones, laptops, digital cameras and electric vehicles. | Finding effective ways to develop lithium remains on the radar of Russian scientists, Ruslan Khamizov, corresponding member of Russia’s Academy of Sciences and director of the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, told Scientific Russia magazine.

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Israeli troops were ordered to shoot and kill captive Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023, Israel’s then defense minister admitted this week. | The order to carry out Israel’s so-called Hannibal Directive was issued “tactically” and “in various places” next to Gaza, Yoav Gallant told Israel’s Channel 12 on Thursday. “In other places it was not given, and that is a problem,” he continued. Questioning Gallant, journalist Amit Segal clarified for viewers that “the Hannibal Directive says to shoot to kill when there is a vehicle containing an Israeli hostage” – a characterization Gallant did not contest. Gallant was speaking in his first interview with Israeli television since being fired in November.

A review of the documents by The Grayzone indicates that a network of academics and military intelligence personnel crafted strategies intended to bolster Ukraine’s fighting against Russia. | The United States National Security Council (NSC) developed a series of strategies for Ukrainian forces aimed at prolonging the conflict with Russia, newly leaked documents reveal. ● According to documents published on Saturday, NSC experts formulated covert operational plans, including sabotage tactics inspired by Iraqi insurgents’ use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), as well as propaganda strategies modeled on techniques used by ISIS. ● The documents outline a classified NSC "playbook" detailing extreme terror operations for Ukrainian forces to employ against Russia. ● A review of the documents by The Grayzone indicates that a network of academics and military intelligence personnel—some seconded to the NSC from various US government agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the State Department, and the Pentagon—crafted strategies intended to bolster Ukraine’s fighting against Russia’s superior military capabilities.

■ Trump wants US troops to guard Ukraine’s rare earths (Daily News)
■ Starmer ready to put troops on ground in Ukraine "to protect peace" (BBC)
■ Starmer: I’m ready to put British troops in Ukraine (The Telegraph)
■ Что будет, если Великобритания действительно отправит войска на Украину? (News-Front)

The USA has announced that the Europeans will not be present at the upcoming peace talks concerning Ukraine. | A meeting between the Americans and Russians in Saudi Arabia, likely at the end of THIS month, has now been confirmed. The fact that Europeans are being deliberately kept OUT of this meeting, by the United States, has caused horrified reactions in Europe; so much so, that there seems to be an actual Hissy-Fit taking place! They simply do not understand why they are being sidelined, and seem totally unaware of their actual role in NATO and in the world. Your trusted servant, Hal Turner, wants to help Europe understand.

■ Participants of Paris summit seek to prevent peace in Ukraine — Hungarian foreign minister (TASS)
■ Trump Is Rushing Toward a Deal With Putin, Leaving Europe in the Dust (02/16/25)
■ Medvedev applauds Vance’s ‘humiliating rebuke’ of Europe (RT)

✅ U.S. Questions For European Governments - Another Wake-up Call (Moon of Alabama)
✅ Mess In Munich (Hunter Maxwell)
✅ How Trump is Unraveling the Fabric of Atlanticism? (Sergey Lebedev)
✅ Munich Bloodbath Ruptures Western Order Wide Open (Simplicius)
✅ Double-Decker Special: Hysteria Ignites as Trump Throws Ukraine on the Third Rail (Simplicius)

JD Vance’s broadside in Munich shocked European leaders. European powers are struggling to forge a response to Trump | The groans and the anxious side glances gave way to silence as Vice President JD Vance took center stage in Munich to pour contempt on longstanding US allies and cut Europe down to size. ● It was an attack of unbridled ferocity in the name of free speech that laid bare the long-stewing hostility that Donald Trump and his most senior aides feel for the European Union — they see the bloc as a symbol of big government that constrains US companies. ● But as European diplomats from Berlin to London pick through the rubble of the transatlantic relationship, the reality is that the continent has had eight years since Trump’s last election victory to get its house in order and three since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The wake-up call was a long time coming. ● “This is existential,” Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said in an interview on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, where Vance had been speaking.

■ Putin-Trump summit expected this month – Bloomberg (RT)
■ No place for EU in Ukraine talks – Trump envoy (RT)

✅ Trump strangles Europe (Zachary Basu)
✅ Trump roars back into office: Why US vassals are panicking (Rachel Marsden)

Dr. Regina Watteel | There are those of us who live in reality and there are those who are playing along with a simulated narrative fabricated to shape the “new normal.” Those who are both ethical and rational are awake in this dystopian nightmare. | Had the global response to Covid-19 been grounded in reality, the last 2.5yrs would have proceeded much the same as it had the decade prior. The Covid-19 episode would’ve been but a blip — a mostly unimpactful scare that had little effect on our children and the economy. ■ The data was clear from the get-go: the risk to children was close to zero and the risk to most of the labour force was small and manageable. The elderly and those with comorbid conditions were at significant risk; resources should have been directed towards improving hospitals, long-term care and early intervention. What actually played out was surreal.[...]This plunge into the world of dark mathematical fantasy has continued, showing no semblance of reality whatsoever or signs of letting up anytime soon.[...]They've gone from manipulating real data to relying fully on contrived mathematical models to fabricate faux benefits in support of unconstitutional policies.

The US vice president has said neither China nor Russia are the most serious challenge to the continent, but its retreat from core values | Europe faces its greatest threat from within rather than from foreign powers, US Vice President J.D. Vance has said, expressing concern about what he called the continent's abandonment of its core values. ● Vance told the Munich Security Conference on Friday that while Washington is preoccupied with the question of achieving a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine, Europe has bigger problems.

■ Medvedev applauds Vance’s ‘humiliating rebuke’ of Europe (RT)

🚨 Statement from Ahmed Al-Qudra, Director of the Prisoners’ Media Office: The severe condition In which the prisoners are released exposes the scale of crimes and violations inside prisons, as the marks of torture and oppression are evident on their bodies. This demands a firm… pic.twitter.com/GiUX701g37

— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) February 15, 2025

The Palestinian Resistance handed over three Israeli captives in Khan Younis, with Resistance fighters from the al-Qassam Brigades and al-Quds Brigades present, clad in military gear. Meanwhile, 369 Palestinian detainees are set to be liberated. | The Palestinian Resistance released three Israeli prisoners—Alexander Tropanov, Sagi Dekel Chen, and Yair Horn—in Khan Yunis on Saturday, located in the southern Gaza Strip. This release is part of the sixth batch in the prisoner exchange process outlined in the ceasefire agreement. ● The event saw hundreds of fighters from the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, stationed in the square where the captives were released. ● At the prisoner handover site, the Resistance showcased around ten different weapons captured from the Israeli occupation during the battles, as reported by Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Khan Younis.

■ Freed but Scarred: Palestinian Prisoners Expose Occupation’s Brutality (Palestinian Chronicle)
■ Hamas expects new round of indirect ceasefire talks with 'Israel' (Al Mayadeen)

This song goes out to young people all over the world who have been leading the way in defending the dignity of humanity over this past year. Website: https://www.mistahi.com

Michael Lesher | Because here’s the thing: Israeli soldiers captured during a military operation – one launched, please remember, by the victims of Israel’s brutal, decades-long occupation and the criminal blockade that has crippled Gaza since 2007 – are not “hostages.” They are captured soldiers who (in my view) are lucky not to have been put on trial for complicity in crimes against humanity. | Dear fellow religiously-observant Jews, I have a request to make of all of you. ● Please, please – in the name of minimal decency – spare me another round of weepy propaganda over the release of some Israeli captives formerly held by inmates of the concentration camp you helped to create in Gaza. ● I cannot bear your misplaced sentimentality over the freed Israelis – many of whom actually wore their IDF uniforms as they left behind the ruins of what used to be Khan Younis – any more than I can tolerate your hypocrisy about the Israeli genocide you have applauded for over a year. [...] I am only asking you to begin to call things by their right names. Can you at least do that much – before making another sanctimonious speech? Before posting another self-pitying comment on Facebook about “our hostages”?

Trump cracks down on student protesters [...] The House panel sent a six-page letter to the university leadership saying that the university failed to deliver its promise to students, faculty, and Congress that it'd address "anti-semitism", saying that "Columbia’s continued failure to address the pervasive anti-semitism that persists on campus is untenable, particularly given that the university receives billions in federal funding." [...] Trump signed an executive order that allows the US government to use all available and appropriate legal tools to combat [so-called] "anti-semitism", including prosecuting and deporting those accused of anti-Semitic harassment, with the order targeting pro-Palestine student protesters.

Two countries’ foreign ministers meet in Moscow and agree there are no obstacles to long-delayed plan | A plan for Russia to establish its first naval base in Africa will go ahead, Sudan’s foreign minister has confirmed, after years of delays over the Red Sea military port. If the agreement is implemented, Russia would join the US and China in the region; they have bases to the south in Djibouti. The announcement came during a visit by the foreign minister, Ali Youssef Ahmed al-Sharif, to Moscow where he met his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov. After their meeting, Sharif said the two countries were in “complete agreement” on establishing a Russian base “and there are no obstacles”.

Germany and NATO Defy President Trump; Refuse to Accredit Russia to Attend Munich Conference | NATO, the European Union, and Germany in particular, have openly DEFIED President Donald Trump by refusing to accredit a Russian delegation to attend today's Munich Security Conference. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Munich this morning. ● Earlier this week, during a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, the two leaders agreed that there would be contact between the two countries today, at the Munich Conference. ● When the Russians sought clearance to send their delegation into Germany, they were told Russia "is not accredited to attend the conference." As such, the Russians cannot be there to meet with the US Vice President. Clearly, someone in Europe is intentionally sabotaging the peace effort by President Trump.

The US president has shared more details and thoughts about the phone call with his Russian counterpart | US President Donald Trump spoke to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday evening, a day after his long-awaited phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The conversation, as Trump described it, spanned topics including the Russia-Ukraine conflict, NATO’s role, economic strategies like tariffs, and the geopolitical dynamics surrounding BRICS and the G8.

■ Scholz called for a state of emergency in Germany due to US statements on Ukraine (Pravda EN)
■ Medvedev explains Scholz's call to declare state of emergency over Ukraine by polls (TASS)
■ Hysteria Ignites as Trump Throws Ukraine on the Third Rail (02/13/25)

✅ Europe is shocked by the US refusal to keep Zelensky (Taya Silverhelm)
✅ In our small, controversial but highly interdependent world there can be no chief country or planetary ruler

Simplicius | Meltdown in the Atlanticist sphere ensues. | Everyone appears to be [...] sent into swoons of bliss or outrage over the now “certain” war-ending peace talks set to take place. I beg to differ. In short: the talk was the perfunctory, basic exchange of pleasantries and customary political gestures, nothing more. If you read the actual quotes and soundbites from various Russian officials, it is clear that Russia is no closer to any real negotiations, and is merely indulging the US its moment in the limelight of ostensibly ‘leading the peace charge’. In fact, I believe Trump even said he offered Putin a temporary ceasefire, which was quickly swept under the rug after Putin declined. [...] In actuality, there’s virtually nothing to talk about. Not only has Putin clearly dictated that no legal document can be signed with an illegitimate president like Zelensky—which itself puts off any “negotiations” until Zelensky is long gone—but the truth is, it’s hard to imagine any legal document being signed with the West at all. Russia has long suffered the betrayals of not only the various Minsk agreements, but endless other reneged ones in the past, from the ‘not-an-inch-eastward’ NATO understanding to the various treaties US pulled out of, as in the ABM Treaty.

✅ Here’s What Comes Next After Putin & Trump Just Agreed To Start Peace Talks (Andrew Korybko)
✅ Russia has won a war against the West: What the Putin-Trump call really means (Tarik Cyril Amar)

■ Putin-Trump summit on the way – Kremlin (RT)
■ Watch Full Video of Sergey Lavrov's Interview with American Journalist Tucker Carlson (12/06/24)
■ Russia’s revised nuclear doctrine makes defeat over its army impossible (11/20/24)
■ Trump claims he threatened Putin with strike on Moscow (10/21/24)
■ Ukrainian governments since 2014 illegitimate – Kremlin (09/06/24)

Moon of Alabama | Today the Trump administration told the Ukraine war party that their game is finally up. Everything it had hoped for is out of reach | Just yesterday Zelenski claimed that Europe cannot guarantee Ukraine’s security without the US. He is right with that. Over the last years Russia's military power has tripled. No alliance of current European armies could withstand its power should a conflict over Ukraine reignite. There is only one party that can and is willing to give Ukraine real security guarantees. That is of course, as I have written 20 months ago, Russia.

With a Palestinian coloring book as proof of 'incitement,' Israeli police raided East Jerusalem's world-famous Educational Bookshop and arrested its owners. | If at any point over the past year and a half you might have thought the Israeli authorities had already crossed every possible threshold when it comes to curtailing Palestinians’ freedom of expression, you would have been mistaken. Because yesterday, Israeli police raided two branches of a world-famous Palestinian bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem, arrested the owner and his nephew, and seized a selection of books — including a children’s coloring book.

Court Rules Trump **CAN** Temporarily Freeze All Federal Funding Without Congress or Court Approval! | A federal judge just ruled that President Trump does have the authority to freeze and/or limit federal funding. This is a huge win for Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Federal judge John McConnell ruled on Wednesday that the executive branch under President Donald Trump retains authority to pause federal spending as long as it complies with existing statutes and regulations. The judge went on to say “The [court’s previous order] does not bar both the President and much of the Federal Government from exercising their own lawful authorities to withhold funding,” McConnell wrote. Numerous reports coming out of Washington DC say "Democrats are freaking out. Their cash cow is being slaughtered."

Trump has repeatedly announced plans to speak with the Russian president in recent weeks | Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a telephone conversation with his US counterpart Donald Trump, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "The telephone conversation between President Putin and US leader Donald Trump has just ended," Peskov said. "It was a very long phone call, it lasted almost an hour and a half," he added.

■ Russia, US to immediately start talks on Ukrainian settlement — Trump (TASS)
■ UPDATED 3:00 PM EST -- TRUMP HAS SPOKEN TO PUTIN - AGREE TO PEACE TALKS ! (Hal Turner) | 💬 I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the power of the Dollar, and various other subjects. We both reflected on the Great History of our Nations, and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II, remembering, that Russia lost tens of millions of people, and we, likewise, lost so many! We each talked about the strengths of our respective Nations, and the great benefit that we will someday have in working together. But first, as we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine. President Putin even used my very strong Campaign motto of, “COMMON SENSE.” We both believe very strongly in it.