What War Means to Your Enemy: An Open Letter After Memorial Day

How was your Memorial Day weekend?

By Yussra

Dear Americans,

I hear the way you talk about it.

War for you means having to think about the economy and gas prices.

If you have loved ones in the military, then war might involve a more personal sacrifice in the form of the precious family member whose return you anxiously await.

But do you wonder what war means to the ones your leaders send your children to fight?

The “enemy,” so to speak?

Has it been normalized to you that war is always fought on someone else’s turf?

Do you buy the logic that the US and Israel need to invade the homelands of others or overthrow their leaders in order to keep the world safe from the terrorism of Palestine and Lebanon and Iran and Venezuela and Cuba and a list of countries I don’t have the patience to list and you don’t have the patience to read?

• Even though it is not Iran that is dictating what America should do with its ports and uranium; it is not Iran that bombed America’s elementary school or medical facilities or heritage sites.
• Even though it is not Lebanon that targets Israel’s paramedics; it is not Lebanon that has destroyed tens of thousands of housing units and displaced over a million people, a fifth of the entire country’s population, within months.
• Even though it is not Palestine that illegally occupied and ethnically cleansed Israel; it is not Palestine that imposed an apartheid system and starves Israelis to have an easier time stealing even more of their land.
• Even though it was not Muslims who kidnapped and tortured humanitarian activists from around the world on camera last week, and then, upon their deportation, beat the torture survivors in front of their families right at the airport to prevent evidence of war crimes from getting out.

War, to your enemies, means losing the house they grew up in and everyone they’ve ever loved on the same day and the air losing its oxygen and the green of homeland turning to gray; it is rubble on street corners and metal plates in the severed legs of children, and there is no “back home” to return to.

I got a company email yesterday with a boilerplate Memorial Day message, something to the effect of “honoring our fallen troops who gave their lives in the conflict in the Middle East.”

He says this while Gaza burns, and we burned it.

But to acknowledge America’s atrocities would be “talking politics at the workplace,” while honoring invading soldiers is for some reason standard practice.

I am horrified to live here sometimes, and I wonder if you ever feel the same way.

Before anyone makes any suggestions about where I should go instead if I have complaints, bear in mind that I didn’t choose this, that I wouldn’t be here at all if the US hadn’t attacked Iraq.

I know you remember that one.

I don’t know if you remember it the same way I do. 

The thought brings me anguish, dear Americans, that you might live your whole life feeling inconvenienced about the stock market and arguing about petty shit like cancel culture, that you might die never having realized that this whole time, we were part of an incredibly evil machine.

That one day, history books will be written about the sadism of the Zionist colonizer, the unparalleled oppression around the world at the hands of the Western empire, and if you were to read one of these books, you might not even recognize yourself from the pages you are living through right now.

The blame is not all on you; you have the illusion of freedom.

Rather than a total media blackout, you have a suppression of all media that doesn’t conform, so it’s harder to recognize the tyranny you live under.

Rather than a dictatorship, you have an electoral system where you can choose between one of two pre-approved war criminal parties who align on everything that actually matters to the empire, but they lie in different ways and keep us occupied enough with their spectacle of democracy.

I honestly don’t know anymore if for the average American I’m preaching to the choir or ruffling feathers with these words.

The reality I describe seems obvious to me, but war for me has a very different meaning than the way it gets talked about in company emails, and don’t get me started on genocide.

Home will always be a very loaded term for me.

Do you ever wonder what your loved ones died for after they were sent overseas?

I’m sure you do.

Please don’t stop wondering; it is not an insult to their memory, and that question desperately needs to be asked.

I genuinely hope you had a meaningful time at your barbecue, and that your kid comes home safe from their tour, maybe asking some questions you’re not sure how to answer yet. 

Cuba's battle against Alzheimer's

More than 55 million people live with Alzheimer’s — but global access to treatment is deeply unequal.

Despite limited resources, Cuba’s public biotech sector developed NeuroEPO, a treatment that has shown promising results in slowing the disease’s progression. But access, visibility, and support are blocked by U.S. sanctions and outdated Cold War policies.

Scientist Teresita Rodríguez and her team — made up largely of women — are leading a story of science, care, and resistance.

The film’s engagement campaign is about recognizing that story, sharing it, and building bridges that can shift how the world treats aging, illness, and its people.   

Dissecting the future: Digital money, constant surveillance, a neo-feudalist form of human slavery

Joined by former George Bush's Cabinet member Catherine Austin Fitts to discuss the Iran war and the panopticon.  

Take this warning seriously. Work in what ever way possible to resist this coming system of ultimate corporate fascist control. 

This is why they are building all the data centers to track all the people and all the information about our lives. 

The driving forces behind all of this are the big time banksters, the Epstein class, the global zionist cabal, the international war machine, digital tech industry (Palantir for example), and more.

Fitts believes, 'It's the divine against the demonic. Invest your time building spiritual security.'

She states, 'This is not far in the future. It is coming now.' 

The globalists are pushing for a major depression. It will be the 'small guys' who suffer just like happened during covid. The big cats will consolidate profits and control. 

Persians and the Chinese have the highest IQ's in the world and are thus in the way of this plan for domination. It's the Anglo-American western alliance verses the Global South. 

Ultimately it is about national sovereignty. 

Fitts also discusses that the US has built underground bases across the nation. She estimates that there are at least 170 such bases in the US. Building a base costs something but keeping it running and keeping it secret costs much more.

        

Why would we allow ourselves to be digital slaves? 

Fitts believes the control grid will ultimately defeat itself because of their own internal contradictions. 

It is a truly fascinating interview. 

For what it is worth - U.S. & Iran still talking

• Iran’s MFA spokesman: • We do not collect tolls; one must be careful in the use of words. We are not seeking to collect tolls...the services that we’ll (Oman and Iran) provide [for the passage of ships], as well as the protection of the environment, require the collection of fees. • No nuclear talks at this stage. • The President of China announced a 4-point plan for security in the region, which was valuable to us. • Lebanon must be one of the elements in the MoU.  • Negotiations have made progress, but the imminence of an agreement depends on the Americans. • Politics in the US has become somewhat chaotic. Facing contradictory views from their officials within hours disrupts the course of any negotiation. Trump’s posts are mainly for domestic media and politics. 

• US military aircraft, including drones and crewed surveillance planes, have spent more than 150 hours circling Cuba since February 4, as Trump ramps up pressure on the Communist government, according to flight-position data analyzed by the Wall Street Journal. More than 20 surveillance flights have been tracked, generally launching from a naval air station in Jacksonville, Florida.  The flights come amid Trump's threat of a 'friendly takeover' of the country and the recent indictment of former Cuban President Raúl Castro. 

• Despite the current US occupation of Venezuela, some people in Caracas are still determined to express their outrage over what Trump and Rubio are doing to their nation as well as the threats to Cuba and other Latin American nations.  Viva Cuba! Viva Venezuela!

• New Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (former CIA officer and a Democrat) vetoed bills to allow state workers to collectively bargain, to legalize marijuana, and to regulate prescription drug prices. The Democratic Party can't be counted on.  

• The US warned Japan that the delivery of 400 Tomahawk cruise missiles could be delayed for up to two years after US stockpiles were depleted during the Iran-Iraq War.
• SOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis Donovan visited the Venezuelan capital in Caracas. Will the Pentagon launch their attack on Cuba in part from Venezuela? That would be a humiliation for all of Latin America and indeed a warning of more to come. Let's hope and pray it does not happen. We need to get out on the streets before Cuba might be invaded rather than just after.

• Wanna know why Basque, Spain police beat Gaza flotilla torture survivors? These are the same cops who've taken €1.6M in Israeli security contracts, trained by former Mossad agents, and equipped with Israeli surveillance tech. It's called 'Greater Isra-hell.'
• Israel killed this child today in an airstrike on her family's tent in the southern Gaza Strip. Why?

• Ukraine has been embroiled in a diplomatic crisis in West Africa since 2024. Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger jointly wrote to the UN Security Council in August of that year, demanding “appropriate measures” against Kiev for its “subversive actions,” which “constitute the involvement of foreign state sponsors in the expansion of terrorism in the region.” Since that time the Ukraine Nazi-infused military has also been training French-backed terrorists in use of offensive drone warfare. France long ripped off Mali of its  gold, oil and lithium resources, giving little back in return. Since being kicked out of the region in recent years France has been trying to regain control of Mali. Thus Paris has secured the services of Kiev to assist in the terror operation. Kiev, losing US financial support for its war on Russia, is now selling its services to other NATO nations. 

• Kit Klarenberg: On May 13th, French outlet RTL published an explosive report, entirely unremarked upon by English language media. It exposed how Ukrainian military and intelligence units are covertly operating in Mali on France’s behalf, in coordination with both ethnic Tuareg rebels and Al Qaeda-linked forces determined to crush the country’s revolutionary government. Ukrainian militancy, long-encouraged by the CIA and MI6, has now decisively developed into an international mafia-like threat.
• RT reports: Foreign journalists toured the site of the deadly Ukrainian drone attack on a college dorm in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic. Ukraine targeted a teacher training school dormitory in the town of Starobelsk with several waves of UAVs on Friday, killing 21+ people, mostly teenage girls, and injuring 60 others. Russian Foreign Ministry arranged a trip to Starobelsk on Sunday for more than 50 foreign journalists from 19 countries: Austria, Brazil, UK, Hungary, Venezuela, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Qatar, China, Cuba, Lebanon, UAE, Pakistan, the US, Turkey, Finland, and France, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. BBC and CNN rejected an invitation to visit the site of the attack, while Japan’s government explicitly banned Japanese reporters from making the trip.

• Tucker Carlson: "Putin did not start this war." Tucker is exactly correct. This was not, "An unprovoked invasion." The truth is that in 2001, Putin asked the Bush Administration. "I would like to join NATO. I would like to join the defensive alliance that exists to keep me from moving West into Western Europe." Bush said No because NATO always planned a war on Russia. Putin says the current crisis in Ukraine is a direct result of years of aggressive NATO policies. Professor Jeffrey Sachs: "The Casus Belli of the Ukraine war is NATO enlargement, US  directed coup, CIA operations all over Ukraine. Russia is not going to stop fighting as long as NATO enlargement is on the table. This is the basic reason why we are at war."  

• Yemen military: "American injustice continues even outside Islamic countries, as is happening in Cuba — blockade and oppression. Why all this oppression from America?"
• Telegraph: The UK and France refused to spend 0.25% of NATO countries' GDP on Ukraine. Spain, Italy and Canada also blocked this idea during the discussions. Any proposals adopted by NATO require unanimous support from all the capitals of the participating countries. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is pushing the spending increase. 

• President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic visits China and EU unelected leaders not happy about such frisky moves. Not supposed to leave the ranch without permission. President Xi emphasized that Serbia is the first European country to have built a community with a shared future in the new era with China, fully reflecting the special and high-level nature of bilateral relations. As ironclad friends, China supports Serbia in safeguarding its national interests and social stability, and in pursuing a successful development path suited to its own conditions. 

• Massive destruction in the town of Al-Duwayr, Lebanon as a result of the violent Israeli raid. 

• A poll conducted by The Economist magazine: 75% of Americans consider the economy 'weak'. 

• From the occupation prisons to Vienna Airport...the Austrian police welcome the activists of the Freedom Flotilla with torture and brutality. Why?

Solidarity with Gaza in Greece

Supporters of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla marched to the Israeli embassy in Athens, Greece, protesting the treatment of activists detained after their boats were intercepted by Israeli forces.

Demonstrators waved Palestinian flags, chanted slogans, and condemned Israeli actions during the protest. The march comes amid rising international reactions following mistreatment of flotilla activists in detention.

Greek protesters and flotilla supporters called for accountability and continued support for humanitarian aid missions to Gaza.

Iran urges UN Security Council overhaul, BRICS role in global governance

Press TV

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has urged fundamental reforms to the United Nations and international governance structures, noting that current systems have lost legitimacy and serve only the interests of a limited group of powers.

Speaking recently at the BRICS foreign ministers' meeting in New Delhi, Araghchi said that the world is experiencing "a period of structural instability and a deep crisis of trust."

"The structures governing the international order, designed in the post-World War II era, no longer have the capacity to respond to the realities of the 21st century," he told fellow foreign ministers.

"The gap between emerging powers and traditional decision-making structures not only threatens global stability but has fueled widespread injustice in the distribution of power, wealth, and development opportunities."

The Iranian foreign minister criticized what he described as multilateralism in name only.

"What we witness today in some international institutions is not 'multilateralism,' but rather an attempt to preserve 'unilateralism' under the guise of international law," Araghchi said.

"The instrumental use of laws, the imposition of unilateral sanctions, and the disregard for the rights and national sovereignty of countries are signs of a deep crisis in global governance."

He said that a system which delegates vital decisions for humanity to a limited group of countries while ignoring the interests of developing nations "has lost its legitimacy."

Araghchi devoted particular attention to unilateral sanctions, describing them as tools of "economic terrorism" that have evolved from diplomatic instruments into weapons of economic warfare.

"These measures, carried out in flagrant violation of international law, target not only governments but the fundamental rights of human beings—including the right to life, access to health, food, and development," he said.

The foreign minister emphasized that confronting this economic terrorism and establishing independent financial mechanisms within BRICS is "an undeniable necessity for preserving the independence and national sovereignty of countries."

Security Council reform 'not a choice but a necessity'

Araghchi called for fundamental reforms to international organizations, particularly the UN Security Council, describing the current body as "a clear symbol of inefficiency and imbalance."

He cited the Security Council's silence regarding the US-Israeli aggression against Iran as a stark example of its failure.

Araghchi also highlighted attacks on Iran's critical infrastructure, including refineries, petrochemical complexes, bridges, railways, stadiums, cultural and historical centers, energy transmission lines, and major industrial facilities.

"These infrastructures are not just technical or economic facilities; they are the backbone of people's daily lives," he said.

The foreign minister warned that silence in the face of such aggression sets a dangerous precedent.

"If today we remain silent in the face of the suffering of the Iranian people… or if we pass by it based on political considerations, tomorrow this cycle of violence and instability can be transferred to any other part of the world," Araghchi said.

Araghchi stressed that Security Council reform is "not a choice, but a necessity for the survival of the United Nations." 

Data centers: The new god of the high-tech evil doers

If anyone ever doubted that AI 'data centers' are turning the heads of greedy corporations like nothing we've ever seen before, then this is a perfect example.

This story about Lake Tahoe in northern California is emblematic of the national craze where money comes first and people's needs, water quality and availability, air quality, and more come last.

America has always been an immoral nation where the 'green frog skin' (dollar bill) is the god. People are blinded and will often do anything - even destroy their own communities and quality of life for a buck. And it is getting worse by the day.

Thank goodness many are protesting these destructive AI monsters that are key elements in the new high-tech digital money and extreme surveillance regime now underway by the big tech bros that want to turn the people of the world into slaves as they roboticize the future.

Just one year ago, only 8 jurisdictions across the United States had any kind of moratorium on AI data center construction. Today, that number has exploded to 78 — and it's still climbing. Communities in nearly every region of the country are saying no to the massive facilities tech giants and AI companies are desperate to build.

Of the 78 jurisdictions that have moved to block new builds, 69 have active restrictions and four have gone further — making their bans permanent. In just the two months from March to April 2026, 14 new bans were added to the map. The pace of resistance is accelerating, not slowing.

But many of these mega-energy suckers are still being built. Here in Maine our state legislature voted to put a ban on polluting data centers but our corporate stooge Governor Janet Mills (Democrat) vetoed the bill.

It's a battle royale across the nation. It's a struggle between high-tech evildoers with their dirty big bucks and the public. 

Don't surrender to these fools. The future is at stake.

Bruce 

Sunday song

Which invasion? Iran or Cuba or both?

• A source close to Iran's Ghalibaf says Iran's "third struggle" plan announced by the IRGC will close Bab el-Mandeb Strait "by fire" and disable the seven submarine internet cables under the Strait of Hormuz, in immediate response to upcoming US strikes that Iran has assessed as "inevitable," for this weekend. The source adds that Iran will also respond with "next-generation missiles and drones" firing hundreds daily at the Gulf energy infrastructure, and that the US and Israel are playing "Russian roulette" with the outcome being the "collapse of the global economy and unprecedented gas prices."

• The United Arab Emirates has made a more concerted push for an end to the Iran war in recent days, joining Saudi Arabia and Qatar in urging Trump to give negotiations a chance, according to several people familiar with the matter. The conversations were prompted by the countries’ fears that any retaliation from Tehran, if hostilities resume, will plunge Gulf economies into chaos, the people said. 

• Stars and Stripes: The United States has approved a potential $108.1 million foreign military sale to Ukraine to help sustain the country’s HAWK air defense systems, the State Department announced this week. The HAWK, or Homing All the Way Killer, is a U.S.-made medium-range air defense system that Ukraine has used to defend against Russian missile and drone attacks.

• Trump: “China agreed not to supply weapons to Iran. I talked to them.” China Foreign Minister: “We want to end rumors that China agreed with the U.S. not to supply weapons to Iran. To be clear: no such communication occurred. China has neither confirmed nor denied supplying weapons to Iran. Our security agreements and defense cooperation are sovereign matters for China alone. No foreign country may interfere in China’s internal affairs.”
• The Trump Gaza Board of Peace is falling apart. Very few are paying, and there is serious remorse being expressed by those who joined initially. Nebenzia at the UN Security Council did not mince words. “Six months after the vote on Security Council Resolution 2803, the so-called 'Trump Plan' remains largely a dead letter, with declarative successes only serving as a smokescreen to conceal the grim reality in the #GazaStrip.”

• Sovereignista: Let’s count: Negotiations with Russia zip; Ukraine negotiations not happening; Negotiations with Iran not happening as not even the framework of a negotiation structure can be agreed upon; China debacle; Trump’s Gaza Peace Board a dead letter; Tariffs dead and must be paid back; US outplayed in the Strait of Hormuz; The world speaking out against the war on Cuba (and this just off the top of my head). I’m sure there are more for example, the US does not have diplomats in more than 100 countries. Counting Israel, the world is at last talking, because of the brutal treatment of the latest Flotilla to Gaza.
• Haaretz: An investigation unveiled that a secret spy unit is operating inside Israel’s Education Ministry and has been monitoring teachers who criticize the government, particularly left-wing and Arab educators, in an effort to silence critics.  The unit, headed by a former Shin Bet operative, compiled detailed files tracking educators’ social media posts, protest participation, and political statements.
• Two US Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft conducted an emergency response exercise at the US Embassy in Caracas. Venezuelan authorities authorized the flights. The USS Iwo Jima is operating off the Venezuelan coast. Sadly the US now occupies Venezuela. Are they practicing for the invasion of Cuba?

• Poland announced the arrival of the first three American-made Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft at Łask Air Base, with further deliveries scheduled through 2029. Warsaw ordered 32 F-35A fighter jets from Lockheed Martin in 2020 during President Trump’s first term in a deal worth $4.6 billion, and Polish pilots are already undergoing training in the U.S.
• The apartment of Oleksandr Udovichenko, deputy head of the Ukrainian State Security Bureau, who owns the Gorilla Casino. Price: $900,000. Zelensky and his cronies thank the people of the United States and Europe for their taxes. 

• Israel struck a road in southern Lebanon, killing a father and daughter. When medical teams arrived, a second strike hit the responders. Lebanese health authorities say over 100 medical workers have been killed since March 2026.
• Brazilian Global Sumud Flotilla activist Thiago Ávila: 'Israeli soldiers raped our people at the Global Sumud Flotilla. It was not one, not two, not three. They were taking food and medicine to Gaza. They were taking baby formula, and they got raped by Israeli soldiers.'  

• The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum announces that she will send oil to Cuba, no matter what Trump wants. “We will continue sending oil to Cuba. We will not cave, and we will not be a tool for implementing the U.S. embargo. Enough of the blackmail.”

• The Global Sumud Flotilla expresses its profound outrage and condemnation following a violent assault by the Ertzaintza (Basque autonomous police) against newly returned flotilla participants at Bilbao Airport, Spain. These activists, having just survived days of systematic abduction, torture, and severe psychological and physical violence at the hands of the israeli Occupation Forces (iOF), were met not with sanctuary, but with immediate, targeted police brutality upon stepping onto their home soil. When a family member, waiting anxiously in the arrivals terminal, attempted to cross a barrier to embrace their loved ones, the Ertzaintza suddenly and shockingly responded with violence. What should have been a moment of relief and familial comfort after such a harrowing experience was interrupted by even more brutality. See more photos and video on Fazebook https://www.facebook.com/reel/980692311003810  

Is Cuba a threat to the U.S.?

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted a video on May 20 addressed directly to the Cuban people, claiming the blackouts have nothing to do with the U.S. oil blockade. 

We took to the streets to Havana to see what people thought of his speech. Most hadn’t seen it. 

“It’s just that I despise Marco Rubio so much that it’s not even worth listening to anything he says,” said Lucía Miret, 76, a retired teacher. 

Most of those who saw it, rejected Rubio’s claim. “It’s no secret to anyone that the blockade exists,” said Daimara Pérez, a doctor. “If the blockade didn’t exist then they should let the ships in.”

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