Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“The fangs of the U.S. Empire are now being bared against not only the Cuban people but also against the American people. The Empire has issued subpoenas to two American citizens — Medea Benjamin, founder of Code Pink, and Hasan Piker — requiring them to provide Empire officials with detailed information about a trip that Benjamin and Piker recently took to Cuba.” (05/28/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/05/28/u-s-viciousness-against-americans-who-help-cubans/
Source: AllAfrica
“U.S. Senator Ted Cruz has called for the United States to formally recognize Somaliland, saying stronger ties with Hargeisa would advance American security and strategic interests in the Horn of Africa. Cruz, a Republican senator from Texas and chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, told Fox News Digital that Somaliland’s location and willingness to cooperate with Washington make it a valuable security partner for the United States. ‘Somaliland promises to be a critical counterterrorism ally for the United States, both because of its strong willingness to partner with us and because of its unique location,’ Cruz said in a statement to Fox News Digital.” (05/28/26)
https://allafrica.com/stories/202605280189.html
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“Trump’s New Green-Card Restrictions.” (05/28/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVJHfmrcPlU
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A Google employee has been arrested for allegedly using his access to company information to successfully place lucrative bets on the prediction platform Polymarket. The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York said it had charged Michele Spagnuolo, a Google engineer, with breaking insider trading laws because of several bets he placed through the platform. Although Spagnuolo is an Italian citizen who lives in Switzerland, he was arrested on Wednesday and brought before a federal judge in New York. Spagnuolo allegedly used information he had early access to through his work at Google, which is based in the US, to make bets that saw him rack up $1.2m (£894,330) in winnings.” (05/28/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c052yv259jvo
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andy Worthington
“Will the west stand up and insist that, before anything else, Israel must fulfil its humanitarian requirements to the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, or will they blindly follow Nickolay Mladenov in insisting that this basic obligation to keep the population of Gaza alive — before all the necessary discussions about disarmament and a just transition of power in Gaza, from which the Palestinians themselves must not be excluded — cannot take place until Hamas is completely disarmed, as though it is still, perpetually, eternally, October 7, 2023, and the genocide of the last 31 months continues to be largely irrelevant, or is even somehow magicked away?” (05/28/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/worthington/2026/05/27/the-intractable-search-for-peace-in-gaza/
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“Zohran Mamdani’s promise to seize the properties of landlords he deems unworthy should send a chill down the spine of every New Yorker. ‘When necessary, we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers,’ the socialist mayor told a cheering crowd of leftists in Brooklyn Tuesday when he unveiled his ‘block by block’ housing plan. ‘For buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards [including] community land trusts, nonprofits, or even the tenants themselves.’ Wherever in history his Marxist prescriptions have been applied, misery and tyranny follow — from Stalin to Mao to Pol Pot, 100 million deaths were caused by communist regimes in the 20th century alone.” (05/27/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/27/opinion/miranda-devine-history-shows-that-mamdanis-dangerous-plan-to-seize-property-from-landlords-only-leads-to-misery-and-tyranny/
Source: National Review
“Elizabeth Warren’s Private Equity Folly.” (05/28/26)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/elizabeth-warrens-private-equity-folly/
Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Rindala Alajaji & Aaron Jue
“Even with the best intentions, every online age verification scheme has the same result: users are forced to reveal sensitive personal information to third parties simply to access the web. Once that valuable data is centralized, it becomes an immediate target for leaks, hacks, and misuse. This isn’t hypothetical: it has already happened several times.” (05/28/26)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/age-verification-privacy-nightmare
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A former US government official has been arrested after FBI investigators found hundreds of gold bars worth more than $40m (£29.6m) in his Virginia home. David Rush made several requests to the US government to receive the bars ‘for work-related expenses’ over the past year, according to court documents. He has been charged with criminal theft of public money in a complaint filed last week. According to the New York Times, Rush held a senior position in the CIA until recently. He was arrested and is being held in detention until his hearing this week. His attorney declined to comment. Agents also uncovered about $2m in US currency in Rush’s home, along with 35 luxury watches, many of them Rolexes..” (05/28/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yezdl054po
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Elfadil Ibrahim
“The emerging deal between the United States and Iran represents an existential danger to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future. With his coalition fracturing and elections approaching, Netanyahu can’t survive a peace that leaves Hezbollah intact and Iran’s nuclear program deferred. The only path that may keep his future viable now runs through Lebanon. This may help explain why, just hours after President Donald Trump announced that a deal with Iran was ‘largely negotiated’ through talks that excluded Israel, Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military to ‘increase the blows’ against Hezbollah, adding on Monday that ‘we are deepening our operation in Lebanon.'” (05/28/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/netanyahu-iran-deal-lebanon/
