The UN has denounced Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to expand Israeli control over Gaza, stressing that the entire territory belongs to the Palestinian people.

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A research team from northwestern China has released a new algorithm that could fundamentally change how drone swarms hunt and destroy enemy targets. The algorithm, known as HG-STR (Heterogeneous Graph Spatio-Temporal Reasoning), promises to allow a fleet of fixed-wing drones to autonomously search a vast battlefield and eliminate every single enemy, even when their communications are being jammed and their vision is blocked. It is the first known algorithm capable of achieving a 100 per cent...

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Trilateral military talks involving Lebanon, the Israeli regime, and the US have concluded at the US Department of War without reaching a ceasefire agreement, a report says.

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From May 12 to May 16, the Lebanese liberation organization Hezbollah reported that its fighters destroyed a new Zionist barracks that contained artillery, bulldozers and other vehicles located in a southern Lebanese town. The Israeli state killed hundreds of people to assassinate Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah in 2024, but . . .

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A screenshot from the Kan 11 programme, which is only viewable on YouTube in Hebrew, and by using a VPN set to Israel.

Israel’s long-running paedophilia scandal has exploded. A new documentary shown on Israeli TV has capped years of campaigning by victims and allies this week. Titled “No longer in denial: Gush Etzion admits to ritual abuse”, the Kan 11 ‘Zman Emet’ programme contained testimonies by victims living in illegal settlements that their leaders engaged in the gang-rape of children. The ‘leaders’ filmed the abuse and distributed it to their fellow paedophiles — and the local council has acknowledged the truth of the allegations.

Here’s the full segment with subtitles. Their YouTube channel abruptly disallowed people outside of occupied Palestine to watch it. https://t.co/Bs0kZjRbud

— susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى (@susanabulhawa) May 28, 2026

The admissions come after years of allegations of serial child rape by settlers and their leaders. The accusations reach to the top — Shoshana Strook said her government-minister mother, her father and her brother had raped her throughout her childhood and filmed it. Strook was later found dead of supposed suicide — shortly after saying that if she was found dead, it would not be suicide. Benjamin Netanyahu’s choice as ambassador to the UK has also been accused of sexual abuse.

Israel — out in the open

But the Gush Etzion admissions have removed even the most vaporous doubts about the issue of entrenched and widespread child sexual abuse in Israel. The Gush Etzion Regional Council covers a cluster of villages on stolen Palestinian land directly south of Jerusalem. It has issued a statement admitting the abuse and urging more victims to come forward. Better late than never, presumably, but still undeniably self-serving and seeking to put itself in the camp of the victims:

We wish to state in the clearest possible terms: we condemn acts of abuse and those who commit them. Sexual abuse, and certainly that described as systematic and ritualistic, is a heinous crime that wounds not only the victims, but the entire fabric of our community.

As even pro-Israel, English language site JFeed has noted, the council and other senior figures spent years denying the allegations:

For an extended period, allegations of severe and ritualistic sexual abuse within the religious community had been met with denials, dismissal of witnesses, and deep skepticism from within. This time, the council chose a starkly different path.

“The acts described, attributed among others to people from Gush Etzion, are an expression of pure evil and moral depravity that has no place in human society, and certainly not in our community,” the council’s official statement read.

The Israeli regime remains in denial. When the United Nations added Israel to its blacklist of nations weaponising rape and sexual violence, the Israel Foreign Ministry X account denounced the list as “shameful and absurd”. It had spent years trying to get Hamas added to the same list for disproven allegations of sexual violence on 7 October 2023:

Israel spent 2 years running an elaborate lobbying campaign to have Hamas added to this UN sex-abuse blacklist, making the case that the UN designation was thorough, evidence-based and widely respected, which was why it was so important for them to get Hamas added to it.

Now… https://t.co/g2QwwFkMNA

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) May 28, 2026

Electronic Intifada‘s David Sheen published a link to the Kan 11 programme on YouTube, but it will only play via a VPN set to Israel and no English subtitles are available:

The new state TV report that triggered the above admission by Gush Etzion, the West Bank settlements south of Jerusalem, that their religious and political leaders have long created child pornography by filming when they gang-rape kids in the community https://t.co/TRHkl9GLqu

— David Sheen (@davidsheen) May 27, 2026

A Zionist thing

Israel is currently sheltering well over 2,000 convicted or alleged paedophiles. In 2025, the US allowed one of its senior cyber-spies to flee to Israel after he was caught trying to arrange sex with a child. But the iron link between Zionism and paedophilia is not limited to Israelis. In the US, supporters of Israel are frequently caught out, from serial child-rapist, trafficker and Israeli spy Jeffrey Epstein to, in 2026, the three well-known Alexander brothers.

And in the UK, paedophilia convictions among Israel’s supporters, especially in the Labour party, seem to run at a far higher rate than among the general population. They rarely receive more than a ‘slap on the wrist’ from a corrupt establishment — and their convictions receive only cursory media attention.

‘MSM’ silence

Just as they have turned a blind eye to Israel’s slaughter of hundreds of its own on 7 October 2023, the UK ‘mainstream’ media have so far ignored the Gush Etzion scandal — despite both being openly admitted in Hebrew-language media. Why ever could that be…?

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After several weeks of protests, Bolivia’s right-wing President Rodrigo Paz told the press that the serious social crisis the country has been facing for nearly a month “is reaching a breaking point.”

“The country needs order, and this is reaching a breaking point … Time is running out. We call for dialogue,” said Paz, under mounting pressure from social movements that seem to be giving the government no respite.

Protests erupted after the government attempted to pass a law that would repeal the exemption of land from seizure – a right won by farmers to prevent the loss of their primary source of livelihood due to debt or any other circumstances.

Paz defended the decision, saying it would allow the poorest Bolivians to access credit, although the opposition saw the law as a mechanism to hand over land to large national and international capital interests.

Bolivia is a country rich in natural resources, such as natural gas, zinc, silver, lead, tin, gold, oil, as well as lithium, for which the country holds the world’s largest reserves – a fact that has attracted the attention of major technology companies. Together with Argentina and Chile, Bolivia forms the so-called “lithium triangle,” a strategic zone for large technology firms.

Following the harsh crackdown, farmers, teachers, students, Indigenous people, and other groups of citizens joined the protests, demanding improvements in their conditions. In the face of the Paz government’s harsh response, the demands for greater rights quickly turned into a unanimous call: “Paz must resign!”

The government has been reluctant to step aside. On the contrary, it has sought international support, particularly from the US, its main ally, as well as from other right-wing governments in the region.

More power to Paz

However, faced with the strength of the protests, which show no signs of diminishing in intensity or mobilization capacity, Paz has also decided to consolidate more power to confront an opposition that has blocked several key roads and clashed violently with law enforcement.

In fact, on May 26, Congress repealed a law that placed limits on the president’s ability to declare states of emergency. Following the same approach as Bukele in El Salvador and Noboa in Ecuador, Paz appears to have found in states of emergency a new way to more easily call upon the military to address his problems.

According to politicians close to Paz, the measure aims to streamline social control mechanisms and prevent impunity for violent groups. This was expressed by Carlos Alarcón, who argues that the new rule prevents “violent groups that claim to represent the people” from evading the law.

However, other opposition lawmakers believe the decision will only further fuel the protests. According to center-right representative Edwin Valda, of the Christian Democratic Party, the measure will lead to “greater violence,” while leaving the social groups that are protesting “unprotected”.

The UN expresses concern and calls for respect for human rights

For its part, the United Nations expressed concern over the situation in Bolivia. In a statement, its Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said that rising tensions could lead to an even more severe crisis.

“All actions by security forces must strictly comply with international human rights law. Any use of force by law enforcement officials must be consistent with the principles of legality, necessity, proportionality, precaution, and non-discrimination. Any allegation or reasonable suspicion of unlawful use of force or other human rights violations by these officials must be investigated effectively, impartially, and in a timely manner,” the UN Human Rights Office reported.

Regarding the greater authority that Paz now has to declare states of emergency, the UN Human Rights Office reminded the government that its obligations to international human rights laws “remain in force”. The Office also called on “the authorities and the mobilized sectors to prioritize dialogue and adopt de-escalation measures. It is urgent to prevent further violence and seek peaceful and democratic solutions.”

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Citing the lack of action taken by police authorities when Epstein was alive and the harassment seen in the British press, an American lawyer representing “multiple clients” has said these Epstein survivors will not speak to the police in the UK.

Women who potentially have important information regarding disgraced paedo-prince Andrew Mountbatten Windsor appear to feel unsafe at the prospect of coming forward. This relatable fear stems from a lack of faith in how the British police and the UK mainstream media would handle the case.

Moreover, Brad Edwards highlighted the impact of subsequent press intrusion seen against a woman he represents — in which UK journalists chose to investigate the woman and her wider family, saying:

Other victims took notice.

Consequently, the multiple clients prepared to speak to that allegation have effectively been intimidated into silence.

This underscores further how the mainstream press and the British state continue to protect powerful men, whilst perpetuating the culture of silence around sexual abuse and Epstein survivors generally.

Onus on Epstein victims to expose themselves rather than on authorities to investigate

It is worth noting that Brad Edwards has long challenged this system of power and influence which prefers to ignore victims.

Spending over a decade fighting for justice and representing more than 30 Epstein survivors, Edwards said in 2020:

The government enabled this. They knew what he was doing and they let it continue.

Brad Edwards represented more than 30 Epstein survivors.

"The government enabled this. They knew what he was doing and they let it continue."

Edwards spent 11 years in court fighting for victims the system chose to ignore. pic.twitter.com/PFyfZbddVF

— Epstein File Search (@epsteinsearchin) April 8, 2026

It appears, due to the intimidating impact of an untrustworthy police force and our cruel, sensationalist media, that the state not only enabled the abuse in the first place — but continues to shield the very perpetrators by putting the responsibility on victims to give up their own right to privacy.

Frankly, these women have already had their right to privacy stolen from them by Epstein and his posh-paedo, pervy pals — yet the press and state seem more interested in upholding Andrew’s privacy instead.

As Edwards has underscored, he represents a woman who alleges that Epstein trafficked her in 2010 to the Royal Lodge — the then-prince Andrew’s official residence — for sex with him. However, she has not yet formally reported the allegation to the police, and she may never do so because an intimidating atmosphere leaves survivors vulnerable to further unwarranted abuse.

Thames Valley Police issued a statement last week, updating on the allegations raised originally in February:

Should she wish to report this to police it will be taken seriously and handled with care, sensitivity and respect for her privacy.

Since then, the police have also updated that they have contacted Edwards, confirmed by the lawyer to the BBC, but that:

her lawyer had said she would not communicate with police over fears regarding her privacy.

Consequently, this once again draws an even greater issue to the forefront of public debate — the way our system treats victims of abuse.

Epstein files — When will protecting women matter more than powerful men’s reputations?

Rape cases in the UK see pretty abysmal statistics, in which only a small minority make it to trial and a subsequent conviction. Instead, victims are made to relive their deep trauma, exposed and vulnerable, and more effort is made to understand why the offender did what he did rather than remotely centre the lifelong impact on victims.

However, rapes themselves have increased by 511% in just two decades — and that’s with a significant number of silent cases where 5 in 6 of women and 4 in 5 of men don’t report. This just reinforces the reality that people in the UK doubt that the system will give them the dignity and safety they are long overdue.

For instance, victims of rape and sexual abuse often suffer psychological abuse from the perpetrators. Thus, they face an uphill struggle to learn that there is nothing any woman — or girl — can do which justifies sexual abuse or violent behaviour against them.

They didn’t ‘bring it on themselves’ like our patriarchal system wishes to reframe it as — but our criminal justice system instead unwinds that healing process and drags victims back to square one.

Another US lawyer representing survivors, Sigrid McCawley, who also represented the former prince’s most renowned accuser Virginia Guiffre, has told BBC News that the Metropolitan Police have made no efforts to contact her.

McCawley has long fought for justice for survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and has played a prominent role in campaigning for the release of the Epstein Files:

WOW: Sigrid McCawley, who represented a number of Epstein victims, just revealed that Trump LIKELY saw Epstein with young girls and knew what he was doing “Anybody who was operating in that sphere, who was socializing with him, would have seen him with young individuals.” pic.twitter.com/urgixASAW9

— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) August 1, 2025

Right to anonymity IF you go public — a sick contradiction

Since then, a spokesperson for the National Police Chiefs’ Council said:

As part of the UK policing response, efforts have been made to contact victim-survivors who have already chosen to share their experiences publicly.

In some cases, this has involved engagement with legal representatives; however, we recognise that we have not yet been able to reach everyone and our efforts continue.

We understand that coming forward can be incredibly difficult, and we want anyone affected to know they can do so in their own time, when they feel ready. Our door remains open.

Should any victim-survivors choose to contact UK policing, they will be treated with care, compassion and respect, with their wellbeing, privacy and right to anonymity at [the] centre of our response.

Needless to say, the NPCC’s comment regarding ‘right to anonymity’ is a bit redundant if they are only looking to victims who have gone public. It is entirely foreseeable, and understandable even, that victims of abuse will shy from publicly naming their abuse and its perpetrators due to the intimidating impact of our media and its trolls.

After all, survivors know that putting themselves through that process would likely compound their trauma, while offering only the thinnest possibility of finding justice in the UK.

This sinister status quo must end — women and girls deserve better

It is clear that survivors of abuse in the UK often feel they must protect themselves from the very institutions and people who are supposed to support them.

Media coverage of that reluctance only reinforces the widespread belief that reporting sexual abuse or rape in the UK is pointless, because the system so often places survivors under scrutiny while offenders escape meaningful accountability.

Once again, powerful institutions uphold the status quo by prioritising the reputation of influential men — and, in this case, the elite and privileged monarchy they belong to — over women’s pain and suffering.

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It’s been three months since the United States and Israel launched their joint attack on Iran on February 28, assassinating Iran’s head of state and slaughtering schoolchildren in Minab. Ever since, the war against Iran has been an unfolding catastrophe. Day after day, we’ve seen U.S. soldiers coming home in coffins, an estimated 2,100 civilian deaths (and rising) across the region, a supposed “ceasefire” in April where the U.S. has continued striking southern Iran anyway, and an intractable blockade of the Strait of Hormuz that has spiked global energy prices, worsening the cost-of-living crisis for ordinary people everywhere. In the press, the emerging consensus is that Trump’s war is a failure on strategic terms. Less attention has been paid to the more basic fact: that the war is simply wrong, regardless of how successful or unsuccessful it might be.

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"I said what I said."

That was Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Paulina Mangubat's statement Thursday evening after her response to White House adviser Stephen Miller's smear against Democratic US Senate candidate James Talarico of Texas went viral earlier this week.

After Miller posted a picture on Wednesday of Talarico with the comment that Democrats in Texas had nominated "their first transgender Senate candidate,” Mangubat, who serves as the DNC's content and creative director and is behind many of the committee's social media posts, had a concise response.

"Shut up, you ugly fuck," Mangubat wrote, prompting an angry reply from Miller's wife, right-wing podcaster Katie Miller. She named Mangubat as the person behind the DNC's social media presence and announced that the staffer was "30, unmarried with no kids"—a fresh example of the MAGA movement's fixation with liberal, unmarried women.

On Thursday, Ben Meiselas of the progressive media company MeidasTouch invited Mangubat on his show to give her the opportunity to respond to Katie Miller.

"What do you want Katie Miller to know?" asked Meiselas.

"I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck," Mangubat replied.

Meiselas: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her?

Paulina Mangubat, Content and Creative Director for @TheDemocrats: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck. pic.twitter.com/KA8ioubJqx
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 29, 2026

"Stephen Miller is one of the most powerful men in the country right now," she continued. "He is a White House official who is taking to Twitter to hurl these absolutely false and transphobic attacks against an amazing candidate in Texas, James Talarico."

Mangubat added that Miller's actions during President Donald Trump's terms in office have been "ugly," pointing to his role as an architect of Trump's family separation policy and his mass deportation agenda—an operation in which federal agents have fatally shot at least six people, including at least three US citizens.

"He is celebrating when ICE shoots down Americans in the street," said Mangubat in an apparent reference to Miller's comment—just hours after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis in January—that Pretti was a "would-be assassin."

"It's just absolutely disgusting," she continued. "And so yeah, I stand by calling him an ugly fuck."

Earlier this week, Katie Miller posted a photo of Mangubat and said that "this is what a sad, unhappy, female Liberal looks like,” adding “it’s why Pew reports 50% of them have been diagnosed with a mental condition.”

Miller didn't say what Pew Research data she was referring to, nor did she cite any evidence when she later asserted on Fox News that her husband being called ugly "is the same violent political rhetoric that is leading people to shooting up."

Meanwhile, Mangubat quickly seized on Katie Miller's attacks on her marital status to publicly announce her impending wedding.

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