By Thierry Meyssan
Voltairenet.org  

May 8, 2026

The current war has given all UN member states the opportunity to observe that, on numerous occasions since its inception, the UN has violated international law. It has also served as a reminder that international law defines an attack, such as that by Israel and the United States against Iran, as "aggression." Furthermore, 193 states (including Israel and the United States) have recognized the right of the attacked state to consider as co-aggressors those states that host military bases of the aggressors.

By Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation  

May 8, 2026

With President Trump's decision to dash the CIA's hope of keeping its JFK records secret forever, virtually all of the focus has been, naturally enough, on the various small pieces of evidence that further fill out the mosaic of the U.S. national-security regime-change operation that took place on November 22, 1963.

But there is something else to consider - what those long-secret records do not include - a critically important omission that points directly toward criminal culpability in the assassination itself.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

May 8, 2026

Doctorow Describes the Rising Cost to Russians of Putin's Ever-Widening, Never-Ending War:

"As to whether Russia is actually winning the war, my position has changed substantially from where it stood just a few weeks ago. What has changed is the vast improvement in quality and numbers of Ukrainian drones striking key infrastructure deep inside the Russian Federation.

I am confident the chatbots aren't conscious in the same way I'm confident the animatronics at Disneyland aren't conscious. I know humans constructed them to mimic the behavior of a sentient person. We know this for a fact. Nobody's pretending otherwise.  

By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com  

May 8, 2026

Richard Dawkins is currently the subject of much laughter and ridicule over his recent article for UnHerd admitting that a highly sycophantic chatbot had convinced him that it might be conscious.

By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com 

May 8, 2026

Refusing to recognize, much less actually fix, what's broken hurries our collective rendezvous with consequences.

We've come to an interesting juncture in history, interesting because while we're being assured that AI will solve all problems, including any it creates, back in the real world, AI is incapable of fixing what's broken because too many people are getting rich off the status quo, and since the status quo is the problem, those who own / control AI will use it to maintain the status quo, guaranteeing that what's broken spirals into irreversible breakdown.

Moon of Alabama  

May 8, 2026

Yesterday President Trump abandoned his laughable "Project Freedom" just five hours after his two lieutenants, Warcrime Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, had been sent out to promote it:

The president had pulled the rug out from underneath his top team. Even his closest confidants could not understand why.

"So f--g embarrassing," a source close to the president said shortly after the announcement.

Regardless of how much the stars seem to align in your life, there will come a time when you realize that as much as life is beautiful, you will inevitably come face-to-face with the unsettling fact that the world is decidedly against you. 

By Casey Chalk
Crisis Magazine 

May 8, 2026

I confess that I sometimes allow myself to be deceived. When things are going well professionally, when election results go the way I hoped, when I seem to be getting along with everyone I know-I can be disarmed into thinking that I am at peace with the world.

Komla YAWO

La présence de l'ambassadeur des États-Unis, Duke Buchan III, à Dakhla ce 7 mai 2026, marque une rupture avec la symbolique habituelle pour entrer dans une phase d'action concrète. En marge de l'exercice militaire "African Lion 2026", ce déplacement ne se limite pas à l'inauguration d'un hôpital de campagne ; il scelle l'ancrage définitif de la reconnaissance américaine de la souveraineté marocaine sur le Sahara dans la réalité du terrain.

Muhammad Hamid ad-Din,

Israël se retrouve au fond du gouffre, pris dans une crise politique, morale et économique. L'ère de Benyamin Nétanyahou, qui a conduit le pays d'une aventure à l'autre, touche à sa fin, mais son héritage est une agonie prolongée dont le simple changement de dirigeant ne pourra pas sortir le pays.

L'illusion du protecteur : comment le mythe principal s'est effondré

Stefano Vernole

Gli Stati Uniti hanno fondamentalmente compreso che la capitolazione di Teheran potrebbe avvenire solo con un rischiosissimo intervento via terra, tuttavia se tale opzione dovesse fallire per Washington si tratterebbe di una sconfitta strategica e la sua influenza in Medio Oriente svanirebbe in brevissimo tempo.

Trump avrebbe un disperato bisogno elettorale di uscire da questo conflitto ma non può farlo senza conseguire un successo almeno simbolico, ad esempio sulla questione dell'arricchimento dell'uranio, fermo restando che la riapertura dello Stretto di Hormuz non farebbe che riportare alla situazione antecedente all'aggressione all'Iran da parte della "Coalizione Epstein".

Personne n'a intérêt à la paix: le conflit en Ukraine devient-il une «guerre éternelle»?

Kiev/Bruxelles/Washington. De nombreux observateurs de la guerre en Ukraine, qui en février a entamé sa cinquième année, se rappellent de plus en plus le classique de science-fiction La guerre éternelle de l'auteur américain Joe Haldeman, publié en 1974.

Source: unser-mitteleuropa.com

Pendant des décennies, le pays aujourd'hui appelé Israël faisait partie des zones les plus arides du monde. Le Néguev était autrefois un désert. Le fleuve Jourdain se rétrécissait et le rationnement de l'eau était une urgence nationale.

La "révolution de la désalinisation"

Il n'est pas surprenant que cette méthode "révolutionnaire" d'approvisionnement en eau potable ait été financée à l'origine par les États-Unis.

Markku Siira

Source: markkusiira.substack.com

L'entreprise américaine de logiciels Palantir a été nommée d'après les palantíri - les pierres de vision - dans l'oeuvre de J.R.R. Tolkien. Dans le récit de Tolkien, ces pierres ne sont ni bonnes ni mauvaises en soi; elles révèlent la vérité, mais peuvent facilement être détournées par des gouvernants qui les utilisent comme des instruments pour déformer la réalité, aussi facilement qu'elles la montrent.