Quds News Network, 4 mai 2026. - Dimanche 3, un tribunal israélien a prolongé de deux jours la détention de deux activistes enlevés à bord de la flottille Global Sumud, en route pour Gaza, interceptée par les forces israéliennes dans les eaux internationales. Des informations font état de torture et de mauvais traitements.

L'Espagnol Saif Abu Keshek et le militant brésilien Thiago Ávila poursuivent leur grève de la faim en détention israélienne, mais continuent de s'hydrater, ont indiqué les organisateurs de la flottille.

Brigitte Challande, 4 mai 2026.- Gaza sous blocus au cœur de l'obscurité mais les actions menées par l'UJFP continuent semaine après semaine. Celles de début mai : nourrir et soutenir.

"Gaza n'est plus seulement un titre dans les journaux télévisés ; elle est devenue une réalité quotidienne lourde, qui s'infiltre dans chaque petit détail de la vie des gens. Le paysage ne se résume plus à des bâtiments en ruines, mais à une vie entière qui tente de retrouver son équilibre dans un environnement ayant perdu une grande partie de ses éléments essentiels.

By Ron Paul, MD
The Ron Paul Institute  

May 5, 2026

One of the industries hardest hit by the spike in fuel prices caused by the Iran War is airlines. Jet fuel prices have doubled since the start of the war. Airlines have reacted to the fuel price increase by raising fares and baggage fees, as well as by cutting routes.

Raising prices is not a good option for "budget" airlines since their main appeal to consumers is their low prices.

By Ginny Garner  

May 5, 2026

"You are the smartest people. I'm late to the party." - former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to the Ron Paul Spring Conference audience

"You have been right for so long. You have been awake longer than most Americans." - former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent to the Ron Paul Spring Conference audience

The theme of Ron Paul's Spring Conference in Lake Jackson, Texas was "War is Back on the Menu" but participants from all over the US weren't placing any orders.

By Ron Unz
The Unz Review 

May 5, 2026

For more than a dozen years, Andrew Anglin's Daily Stormer website had been the most popular Alt-Right publication anywhere on the Internet, probably having more readership than all the others combined.

This remarkable achievement came despite the absolutely unprecedented campaign of harassment, suppression, and deplatforming that he faced. His bitter enemies not only had him banned from virtually all standard Internet services but even arranged for the repeated confiscation of his website domains, something that previously would have seemed unimaginable.

By George F. Smith  

May 5, 2026

"He who is the author of a war, lets loose the whole contagion of hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death." - Thomas Paine

Teddy Roosevelt would be so pleased if he could see the world today, with a US military presence virtually everywhere on the planet. The current savagery with Iran is only the headline conflict - having displaced the proxy missions in Ukraine and Gaza - but many more are quietly underway or waiting in the wings.

By Brian McGlinchey
Stark Realities  

May 5, 2026

On April 25, I spoke at a conference hosted by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, as part of a  youtube that included former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent and former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. Here are both the video of my speech and my remarks as I'd prepared them; some of my words at the podium naturally varied from what I'd written.

By Gary D. Barnett
GaryDBarnett.com  

May 5, 2026

"Imagine if the U.S. invaded a country, conquered it after a savage conflict and gained about half of that nation's territory in the treaty that ended the fighting."

Ric Anderson: August 26th, 2018 article in the Las Vegas Sun

Considering all the complete insanity now happening, this subject would not seem important to most at this time, but it should be a vital part of the education process, instead of being purposely and intentionally eliminated from American history.

By A Midwestern Doctor
The Forgotten Side of Medicine 

May 5, 2026

Jordan Peterson, a well-known commentator, disappeared from public view last year. To address rampant speculation over what had happened, his daughter recently gave a public statement on it where she revealed he was experiencing a devastating relapse from a previous benzodiazepine injury which was triggered by stress and mold toxicity.

By Edward Curtin
EdwardCurtin.com  

May 5, 2026

"And there are those who claim that Big Data will supplant Sapiens and drag him helplessly along like a straw in the mighty flow of information. We will then be close to knowing almost everything we don't need to know."

- Roberto Calasso, The Unnamable Present, 2017

Onerous it is and more onerous it will be when AI relieves us of the burden of knowing anything except how to ask AI the answers to everything.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

May 5, 2026

I was thinking about myself recently, about whether efforts to inform that are contrarian can be successful. In economics, I am known for my reformulation of our understanding of the Soviet Economy and Soviet economic history and for my statement of supply-side economics that added the second blade of the scissors to macroeconomics and was adopted by President Reagan as the economic policy of his administration.

Moon of Alabama  

May 5, 2026

Yesterday, at 20:35 UTC, U.S. President Donald Trump seemed to announce U.S. military protection for traffic through the Strait of Hormuz:

.. For the good of Iran, the Middle East, and the United States, we have told these [neutral] Countries that we will guide their Ships safely out of these restricted Waterways, so that they can freely and ably get on with their business.

While man was sentenced to labor and toil for his bread, he was also commanded a day of rest from that work.  

By Michael Frigon
Crisis Magazine  

May 5, 2026

A few years ago, I attended a conference centered on principled business practices, held at a reputable Catholic university. During one seminar, the topic of managing employees in younger generations arose. In the Q&A portion, I raised the question of work-life balance.

By Madge Waggy
MadgeWaggy.blogspot.com  

May 5, 2026

At the beginning of 2024, a short video file began circulating quietly across private forums, encrypted channels, and small online communities dedicated to artificial intelligence research and digital archiving. The clip had no visible source, no production credits, and no context. It showed dimly lit server rooms, laboratory robotics, blurred screens filled with neural network visualizations, and a distorted voice calmly stating: "We did not teach it to think.

Counterpunch May 1 2026 Guns and Butter

Sixty years ago opposition to America's war in Vietnam focused on the costs of diverting U.S. resources away from social spending to the military - what was called Guns and Butter.

I was the junior member of the Columbia University triumvirate headed by Seymour Melman and Terence McCarthy. We lectured widely, wrote in magazines such as Ramparts and newspapers.

Daniele Perra

Mentre in Italia si discuteva polemicamente (per l'ennesimo anno consecutivo) dell'esito delle manifestazioni per il 25 aprile, del loro essere divisive ed altre facezie inutili, il gruppo jihadista JNIM e le milizie separatiste tuareg del Fronte Azawad hanno lanciato un'offensiva contro le posizioni dell'esercito maliano, mettendo nuovamente a dura prova la stabilità dello Stato del Sahel.

Par Alastair Crooke

Mettre ensemble deux parties - et encore moins trois - ayant des récits extrêmement divers de leurs histoires et encore moins de points communs dans la cartographie de leur future trajectoire nationale est intrinsèquement peu susceptible de parvenir à un règlement convenu. Il est plus probable, dans de telles rencontres mal préparées, d'y trouver une mauvaise humeur générale et un manque total de congruence.

Par Lucas Leiroz de Almeida

La crise entre les États-Unis de Donald Trump et leurs alliés européens historiques ne cesse de s'aggraver. La récente décision de Trump de retirer une partie des troupes américaines du territoire européen exaspère les dirigeants locaux de l'UE et suscite des inquiétudes quant à l'avenir de l'architecture de sécurité occidentale. Concrètement, on peut affirmer qu'il n'y a plus de stabilité interne ni de garantie de défense mutuelle au sein de l'OTAN, la méfiance réciproque entre Américains et Européens ne cessant de croître.