Source: US News & World Report
“At least 42 people were shot dead by suspected herders in a series of weekend attacks across Gwer West district in Nigeria’s central Benue state, a local official said on Tuesday. Thirty-two bodies were recovered from Sunday’s assaults on the Ahume and Aondona villages, while 10 more were killed in a separate attack on the villages of Tyolaha and Tse-Ubiam on Saturday, said Victor Omnin, chairman of the Gwer West local government. … The region faces competition over land use, with conflicts between herders, who seek grazing land for their cattle, and farmers, who need arable land for cultivation. These tensions are often worsened by overlapping ethnic and religious divisions.” (05/27/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-05-27/at-least-42-killed-in-weekend-attacks-in-nigerias-benue-state-local-official-says
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Tariff Fiasco Worsens as Bizarre New Ramblings to Media Backfire.” (05/27/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/195711/trump-tariff-fiasco-worsens-bizarre-new-ramblings-media-backfire
Source: The Dispatch
by Jessica Riedl
“During President Donald Trump’s first term, farmers received $24 billion on top of their regular farm subsidies to compensate for the loss of access to foreign markets resulting from Trump’s trade war, such as China’s 25 percent retaliatory tariff on American soybeans. Then, in 2024, even as candidate Trump promised a more aggressive trade war that could cripple the farm economy, rural voters nonetheless preferred Trump to Kamala Harris by a 30-point margin. Trump earned a staggering 78 percent of the vote in the 444 counties most heavily dependent on farming. In short, farm country voted overwhelmingly to unleash a new trade war. And now these same farmers and their political leaders want taxpayers to finance another round of bailouts to protect them from the consequences of their own votes.” (05/27/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/farmers-bailout-trade-war-trump/
Source: SFGate
“As law officers search Arkansas’ rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer, the sister of one of his victims is on edge. Grant Hardin, the former police chief in the small town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape and became known as the ‘Devil in the Ozarks.’ Hardin escaped Sunday from the North Central Unit in Calico Rock by disguising himself and wearing a ‘makeshift outfit designed to mimic law enforcement,’ state prison officials said in a statement. ‘I don’t think he will be taken alive,’ said Cheryl Tillman, whose brother James Appleton was killed by Hardin in 2017. ‘He won’t go peacefully.’ Sheriff’s deputies in multiple northern Arkansas counties have been working with state prison officials to follow leads and search the rugged terrain in the Ozarks, Izard County Sheriff Charley Melton said in an update late Monday.” (05/27/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/escape-of-ex-police-chief-known-as-devil-in-the-20347346.php
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Paul
“Deal-making is said to be President Trump’s specialty, yet after five rounds of indirect talks with Iran – most recently just days ago – we seem as far away from an agreement as ever. The fifth round ended last Friday with no breakthrough, but at least no breakdown. However, each day that passes without a document signed on the table is another day for the neocons to maneuver the US president toward an attack on Iran. One way the war party does this is to continuously move the goal posts and change the rules of the game. Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, under great pressure from the neocons, has himself signaled at least three position-shifts: from no enrichment at all, to low-level enrichment for civilian uses, back to no enrichment at all.” (05/27/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2025/05/26/take-the-iran-deal-president-trump/
Source: Reuters
“The FBI will launch new probes into the 2023 discovery of cocaine at the White House during President Joe Biden’s term and the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, a top official announced on Monday. Dan Bongino, a rightwing podcaster-turned-FBI deputy director, made the announcement on X, where he said he had requested weekly briefings on the cases’ progress. Both incidents have been popular talking points on America’s right. The discovery of a small bag of cocaine in a cubby near the entrance to the West Wing two years ago drew excited commentary from Republicans …. The publication of the Supreme Court’s opinion ending the constitutional right to abortion in Politico on May 2, 2022, opens new tab, provoked condemnation from Trump, who called the source of the leak ‘slime’ and demanded that the journalists involved be imprisoned until they revealed who it was.” (05/26/25)
https://archive.is/jJ9jL
Source: Antiwar.com
“Merz Says No Restrictions on Ukraine Missiles, Israel Kills 36 in Strike on Gaza School, and More.” (05/26/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfyiNvKI46U
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“Folks who believe the current political atmosphere is uniquely hateful have forgotten the boundless vitriol prevailing a few decades ago. During the George W. Bush administration, Republicans relied on push-button rage to suppress all criticism of the war on terror. After I appeared on a 2006 Fox News panel and criticized the Bush administration’s secret illegal financial surveillance regime, I was peppered with hostile emails including this gem: ‘Every know-nothing lying jackass like you should be rounded up and gassed with the Iraqi poison gas that does not exist according to you.’ I’ve never enjoyed poison gas so I eschewed following that suggestion. Unfortunately, most media outlets remained reticent about publishing frontal attacks on President Bush’s most outrageous policies.” (05/26/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/05/26/we-never-got-to-torture-congress/
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
“As the left-wing corporate media engages in Trump Derangement Syndrome over poll numbers, which are all over the place, they never mention the fact that no matter how bad any numbers they find or manufacture about Donald Trump, they will never be as bad as the numbers for Democrats. Any Democrat. They are about as popular with the American people as an infected toe. Which would you rather have, an infected toe or a flaming case of Pelosi? Less popular than them all are Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. They’ve been gone for four months and the dislike of them and their policies, unlike their economy, continues to thrive. Kamala, in fact, remains just about the only person in American politics less popular than the former president … not that he’d be aware of that or remember it.” (05/27/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/05/27/biden-has-fewer-fans-than-ever-even-at-home-n2657651
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A Canadian man has been sentenced to almost two years in prison for stealing a famous photograph of Sir Winston Churchill known as ‘The Roaring Lion.’ Jeffrey Wood had pleaded guilty to stealing the original print from Ottawa’s Château Laurier hotel between Christmas 2021 and early January 2022. He also admitted committing forgery. The photo of Britain’s war-time prime minister, taken by Yousuf Karsh in 1941, features on the UK £5 note. Ottawa Police said it was found last year in Genoa, Italy in the possession of a private buyer, who was unaware it was stolen. The image depicts a frowning Churchill, who was 67 at the time, shortly after he delivered a speech to the Canadian parliament. It wasn’t until August 2022 that a hotel staff member realised the original photo had been replaced with a fake.” (05/27/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgdk4j1pg5o
