“Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he wants his country to join a major European plan to bolster defences by 1 July. Speaking to CBC on Tuesday, Carney said he hoped Canada would sign on to ReArm Europe – a plan to dramatically increase defence spending on the continent to in the next five years – in a bid to reduce reliance on the US. ‘Seventy-five cents of every (Canadian) dollar of capital spending for defence goes to the United States. That’s not smart,’ Carney told the public broadcaster. His remarks come amid tension with the US after threats from President Donald Trump – though Carney has also previously said he is open to joining a missile defence project proposed by Trump. A day after Carney’s remarks, Canada’s defence minister told a military trade show that his country wanted to quickly boost defence capacity in the face of growing global threats.” (05/28/25)
“Eighty-one years ago, on May 31, 1944, General George Patton walked before the 6th Armored Division before the D-Day invasion and told the troops a simple, inescapable fact about war: ‘No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country’. It is a cautionary speech that might well be given in Harvard Square this week as the fight between the university and the Trump administration escalates. By the end of this war (regardless of the outcome), the Trump administration is likely to win even if it loses in the courts. The Trump administration has committed to total war with Harvard on multiple fronts. It is threatening the school’s tax-exempt status, denying the ability to admit foreign students, freezing grants, and launching a myriad of investigations.” (05/28/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Now that it’s been made clear that Israel’s goal in Gaza is the complete ethnic cleansing of all Palestinians, Israel apologists have been shifting from bleating about hostages and Hamas to arguing that ethnic cleansing is actually fine and good. Which makes sense; that’s really the only argument they can make at this point. … Never forget that the US Congress gave Netanyahu dozens of standing ovations during a single speech while he was in the middle of perpetrating history’s first live-streamed genocide. This is who they are. It will always be who they are. … Israel has done more to promote hatred toward Jews in the last year and a half than Stormfront has in its entire existence. No white supremacist propaganda will ever be as effective at spreading hatred against Jews as openly mass murdering children under a Star of David flag.” (05/28/25)
“The meat of brown bears, a protected species in the EU, could soon be available to eat in Slovakia after the populist government approved plans for sale. Last month, the cabinet authorised a plan to shoot about a quarter of the country’s 1,300 brown bears in response to some recent fatal encounters. The state-authorised slaughter has been criticised by conservationists and opposition politicians, including in the European Parliament. The brown bear is listed as a ‘near threatenend’ species in the EU by the World Conservation Union. However, Slovakia’s government is forging ahead with the plan and this week announced that meat from culled bears would be sold to the public to prevent waste. From next week, organisations under the environment ministry can offer the meat for sale, provided all legal and hygiene conditions are met.” (05/28/25)
“Here is a basic question about Original Sin, the new book detailing the White House’s attempt to hide former President Joe Biden’s in-plain-sight mental and physical decline: Why is it having such an impact? Sure, the subject — an intermittently disabled president — is hugely important. But on the other hand, everybody knew, or should have known, that Biden was an intermittently disabled president. So why did the book devour the news cycle last week? You have to go back to the pivotal debate between Biden and then-former President Donald Trump on June 27, 2024. Biden’s out-of-it performance shocked Democrats and their allies in the media. In an instant, they realized he was not up to the job of serving a second term as president. (Truth be told, he was not up to the job of finishing his first term, either.) How could they be shocked?” (05/28/25)
“A fast-spreading cholera outbreak has hit Sudan, killing 172 people, with more than 2,500 others becoming ill in the past week. Centered around Khartoum, the disease has spread as many Sudanese who had fled the country’s war return to their homes in the capital and its twin city of Omdurman. There, they often can only find unclean water — a dangerous conduit for cholera — since much of the health and sanitation infrastructure has collapsed amid the fightiing. It is the latest calamity for the African nation, where a 2-year-old civil war has caused one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.” (05/28/25)
“U.S. President Donald Trump’s expressed exasperation over Russia’s continued attacks on Ukraine seemed to temporarily lift the spirit of pro-war European leaders like France’s Emmanuel Macron, who said he hopes Trump’s anger ‘translates into action’. The U.S. isn’t likely to resume the massive military support it provided under former President Joe Biden. Under one scenario, however, it could conceivably sell weapons to NATO for Ukraine’s use. The abandonment of peace efforts in Ukraine would be disastrous, especially for Ukrainians. American citizens and those of other NATO countries have a moral obligation to demand peace — a just peace, but an urgent one. Americans’ support for the war has softened somewhat, according to recent Pew polling, with 44% saying the U.S. has a responsibility to aid Ukraine’s defense and 52% saying it doesn’t. Sixty-nine percent, however, still believe the war is ‘important to U.S. interests’.” (05/28/25)
“Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been charged in Britain with rape and other crimes, prosecutors said Wednesday. The Crown Prosecution Service said a European arrest warrant was issued for the two last year and Romanian courts have issued an order to extradite the two to the U.K. Andrew Tate, 38, faces charges related to three women that include rape, actual bodily harm, human trafficking and controlling prostitution for gain. Tristan Tate, 36, faces charges related to one woman that include rape, human trafficking and actual bodily harm. The Tates, who are dual U.S. and British citizens, were arrested in Romania in late 2022 and formally indicted last year on charges that they participated in a criminal ring that lured women to Romania, where they were allegedly sexually exploited. Andrew Tate was also charged with rape. They deny all of the allegations against them.” (05/28/25)
“Recently, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy. Let’s just say there was no shortage of spirited debate between Kennedy and my Democratic colleagues. Kennedy is leading a bold effort across his agency and others in the healthcare sphere of the administration (what he calls MAHA for ‘Make America Healthy Again’). I am a strong supporter of Kennedy and his MAHA efforts. So are a vast majority of Americans. Why? Because Kennedy, like myself, has seen the problem plainly: our federal health agencies (FDA, CDC, NIH and HHS) have become too cozy with the industries they are supposed to regulate, too resistant to new ideas and too buried in their own bureaucratic bloat.” (05/28/25)
“Joel Le Scouarnec, the former surgeon who has admitted sexually abusing hundreds of patients, mostly children, between 1989 and 2014 has been sentenced to a maximum term of 20 years in jail. Le Scouarnec was dressed in black as he stood emotionless in court listening to judge Aude Burési deliver the verdict. In March, he admitted sexually abusing all 299 victims. Judge Burési said the court had taken into account the fact that the former surgeon had especially sought out unwell, vulnerable and sedated victims. The sentence has a mandatory minimum term of two-thirds – and because Le Scouarnec has already served seven years, he may be eligible for parole by 2030.” (05/28/25)
