Naturally, Beltway hacks are defending the reporter at the center of the biggest corruption scandal in access journalism today.
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal lays out the losers and winners of the Iran war, explaining how Trump and his corrupt negotiators have shattered the global economy while raking in eye-popping insider trading profits. Their favorite instrument for this scheme: Barak Ravid, an Israeli reporter for the US outlet Axios, who happens to be an IDF intelligence veteran. As Ravid is exposed for publishing planted stories about non-existent peace deals between the US and Iran, his Beltway colleagues vociferously defend him and deny the corruption staring them in the face.Open
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a meeting with the president of the UAE resulted in important breakthroughs in relations between the two countries, but a UAE state-run news agency denied the meeting happened.
British Health Secretary Wes Streeting has stepped down from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's government and called for a leadership contest following heavy election losses for the governing Labour Party.
British Health Secretary Wes Streeting has stepped down from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government and called for a leadership contest following heavy election losses for the governing Labour Party last week. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s now-former Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, resigned from Cabinet on Thursday, criticizing the premier’s leadership of Britain’s governing Labour Party, citing “drift” and a lack of vision. His resignation follows Labour’s poor performance in local and regional elections across England, Scotland, and Wales last week, which saw the party lose heavily to Nigel Farage’s Reform Party and, to a lesser extent, the far-left Green Party. DETAIL: In his…Open
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s appearance before House and Senate appropriators on Tuesday hasn’t settled the debate in Congress over two mounting questions about the Iran war: whether U.S. stockpiles are dangerously low and how much firepower Tehran maintains. Mark Cancian, a senior adviser with the CSIS Defense and Security Department, appeared on Sunrise on The Hill to discuss concerns about missile stockpiles. #Petehegseth #Usstockpile #Iranwar
Reserve Airmen assigned to the 920th Rescue Wing assisted in the rescue of 11 survivors from a downed civilian aircraft approximately 80 miles east of Melbourne, Florida, May 12. An emergency locator transmitter signal from a twin-engine turboprop aircraft alerted Coast Guard Southeast District watchstanders to a potential distress situation at approximately 11 a.m. Tuesday.
