France: Melenchon says he will run for president in 2027

Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]

“Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leading politician in France’s left-wing Unbowed party, says he will run in next year’s presidential election, setting up a potential showdown with centrist and right-wing rivals. ‘Yes, I am a candidate,’ the 74-year-old told TF1 TV on Sunday. It is Melenchon’s fourth presidential bid; he also ran in 2012, 2017 and 2022, when he came third behind far-right leader Marine Le Pen and French President Emmanuel Macron, who made it to the second round of voting. Melenchon has been growing his share of the vote with each campaign.” (05/04/26)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/3/french-left-wings-melenchon-says-he-will-run-for-president-in-2027

A Few Words on May Day from a Radical Welfare Queen

Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid

“Mainstream shitlib hagiographers will tell you that FDR delivered us from the Fritz Langian sweatshops of the Gilded Ages on a silver platter. Don’t fucking believe it. The eight-hour workday and the five-day workweek are the bruised fruit of wildcatting anarchists and communists with guns, and the New Deal declawed them by federalizing the whole goddamn operation and turning thriving workplace democracies into corporate boards with labyrinthine bureaucracies and CEOs pulling down six figures without ever having to break a sweat.” (05/03/26)

https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-few-words-on-may-day-from-radical.html

Dems seek blue-collar MAGA man to win back Trump voters, but need to look in the mirror

Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine

“Democrats have a Nazi problem. They’ve spent the last 10 years accusing Donald Trump of being the second coming of Hitler and melting down when Elon Musk or anyone else perceived as close to Trump made a hand gesture that they pretended was a Nazi salute. It was all just a hilarious troll that fooled their more gullible acolytes. Now that Maine Gov. Janet Mills has pulled out of her Senate campaign, citing money problems, Democratic grandees are lining up to campaign for their anointed candidate, the ersatz Joe Six-Pack Graham Platner, who has an actual Nazi tattoo on his chest — or did for 18 years until he disguised it to campaign.” (05/03/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/05/03/opinion/miranda-devine-dems-seek-a-blue-collar-maga-man-to-win-back-trump-voters-but-better-look-in-the-mirror/

Samsung family pays off record $8 billion inheritance tax demand

Source: BBC News [UK State Media]

“The family behind the South Korean corporate giant Samsung has completed its payment of a 12 trillion won (£6bn; $8bn) inheritance tax bill, the largest such settlement in the country’s history. Chairman Lee Jae-yong and other members of the family, including his mother Hong Ra-hee and sisters Lee Boo-jin and Lee Seo-hyun, paid the sum in six installments over the last five years. The bill is tied to the estate left by the firm’s late chairman Lee Kun-hee, who died in October 2020. Samsung is South Korea’s biggest chaebol, or family-owned business, with operations spanning electronics, heavy industry, construction and financial services. Lee Kun-hee left a 26 trillion won fortune, including shares, property and art collections.” (05/04/26)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0px8g13xgo

The Era of Rational Discourse Is Over

Source: The Atlantic
by Adam Kirsch

“Americans have a long history of being hurried into war on false pretexts. The ‘yellow press’ encouraged a war fever in 1898 by blaming the sinking of the USS Maine on the Spanish, even though the Navy’s own expert said it was caused by an accidental explosion. The George W. Bush administration justified the invasion of Iraq by claiming that Saddam Hussein had connections to the 9/11 attacks and was building weapons of mass destruction, neither of which turned out to be true. But with the Iran war, as in so many other ways, Donald Trump has broken new ground. He is the first president to start a war without even bothering to lie to the public, because he simply didn’t care what the public thought.” (05/03/26)

https://archive.is/KCFf4

Dissecting An “Antisemitism” Psyop

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“I recently watched a Sky News segment on the need to ban pro-Palestine marches which nicely illustrates the way the mass media have been working to manipulate the public into believing these demonstrations are causing antisemitic attacks. Reporting on British prime minister Keir Starmer’s recent assertion that the ‘repeat nature’ and ‘cumulative effect’ of pro-Palestine marches may necessitate a ban on some protests following the Golders Green stabbing, reporter Mollie Malone repeatedly told the audience of Sky News that the marches are happening in the ‘context’ of antisemitic incidents and ‘against the backdrop’ of attacks on Jewish people. There is no evidence whatsoever for the claim that pro-Palestine marches have anything at all to do with antisemitic attacks. But watch how this Sky News propagandist marries the two in the minds of her viewers by repeatedly mentioning them in the same breath and connecting them with words like ‘context’ and ‘backdrop’.” (05/03/26)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/05/03/dissecting-an-antisemitism-psyop/

Spokesperson: Giuliani hospitalized “in critical but stable condition”

Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]

“Rudolph Giuliani, the ex-mayor of New York City and a former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, is in critical but stable condition at a hospital, his spokesperson said Sunday. Ted Goodman didn’t say what sent the 81-year-old to hospital or how long he’s been there. … Giuliani was hospitalized in September after suffering a fractured vertebra and other injuries in a car crash in New Hampshire.” (05/03/26)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/rudy-giuliani-hospitalized-9.7186315