Adrian Korczynski,

Le 22 mai 2026, des drones ukrainiens ont frappé une résidence étudiante à Starobelsk, en République populaire de Lougansk. Vingt-et-un civils ont été tués et quarante-deux blessés. La cible n'était pas une installation militaire, mais un site civil situé loin derrière les lignes de front.

Deux jours plus tard, la Russie a riposté par un tir massif de missiles et de drones sur Kiev, déployant au moins un missile balistique de portée intermédiaire Orechnik.

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05.29.2026

Glenn Diesen: Welcome back to the program. We are joined today by Professor Michael Hudson to discuss how the Iran war is affecting the global economy. I heard from some people that while the energy prices are high, that the U.S. could actually benefit from this because then they would have to pay more money for American energy. This would also mean that they would have to pay in dollars, so it would strengthen the petrodollar.

NATO's Ukraine proxy war seeks to weaken Russia and topple Putin. To launch an economic, information and ground war, NATO needed Russia to invade. Now it needs Russia to attack a NATO nation to justify direct war. Watch the replay.

By Joe LAURIA

Is NATO provoking a direct war with Russia?

In 2022, the U.S. provoked Moscow to invade Ukraine so Washington could attempt to destroy Russia's economy with sanctions, orchestrate worldwide condemnation in an information war and lead a proxy ground operation to bleed Russia - all part of an attempt to bring down its government.

Hugo Dionísio

Only when European peoples identify their real enemy and perceive it as a serious, real, and vital threat will it be possible to put an end to this madness.

There is something deeply paradoxical about the current state of Western democracies. On the one hand, the leaders of the European Union, NATO, and the United States propagate, with almost obsessive insistence, narratives of existential threat: Russia as an expansionist empire about to invade the territory of the Atlantic Alliance; Europe as vulnerable and unprepared, urgently called upon to multiply its military spending; the conflict in Ukraine as a prelude to a broader confrontation; and also terrorism, that ever-present entity that constantly wakes us up, more to send our resources overseas so it doesn't come to bother us later.

Pepe Escobar

Iran's response to the American provocation made it crystal clear that the current incarnation of the proposed 60-day ceasefire framework does not hold.

MOSCOW - Iran holds an insurmountable escalation dominance in contrast with the U.S. And that's driving the vociferating Emperor of Barbaria absolutely nuts.

Let's quickly recap the highlights of the past week.

Alastair Crooke

Beijing can fund itself cheaply and almost indefinitely - and thus can outlast the U.S. grand strategy to contain China.

Seemingly, every day brings breathless new claims that an U.S.-Iran 'deal' awaits only a signature. As so often happens, the mediators (Pakistanis and Qataris) hope to manage both sides by telling one side that the other party is at the brink of agreement when it is not so, especially in an atmosphere of total mistrust.

Eduardo Vasco

The U.S. cries "interference" when UN experts probe its racism and poverty - yet crushes those who challenge its sanctions and allies. From Doudou Diène to Alena Douhan, the price of telling the truth about America is professional ruin.

Tensions between Washington and UN special rapporteurs were not limited to foreign policy or the "war on terror." At different moments, international experts who turned their attention to domestic problems in the United States - state racism, extreme poverty, and the humanitarian impacts of economic sanctions - also came to face political pressure, public attacks, and campaigns of delegitimization.

Lorenzo Maria Pacini

L'accordo UE-Mercosur non appare come un progetto di cooperazione equilibrata tra popoli, ma come l'ennesima fase della subordinazione delle economie nazionali alle esigenze del capitale globale, dove la logica del profitto prevale sulla tutela del lavoro, della sovranità economica e della coesione sociale.

Un accordo nato sotto la pressione dell'automotive

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1 juin 2026, 12:53

Plus de sept semaines après l'entrée en vigueur du cessez-le-feu, l'Iran a rouvert une grande partie des accès à ses installations souterraines endommagées. Selon des experts interrogés par CNN, cette remise en état rapide montre les limites des attaques américaines et israéliennes contre les capacités balistiques du pays.

Par Philip Giraldi'*, le 31 mai 2026

Un grand merci au Congrès et au président Trump !

Peu d'Américains connaissent les origines de la relation de "la queue qui remue le chien" entre Israël et les États-Unis. La victoire d'Israël contre ses voisins en 1967 a démontré aux stratèges militaires de Washington comment la supériorité qualitative en matière d'armement peut permettre à un petit pays de résister à des adversaires bien plus imposants et apparemment plus puissants.