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Evo Morales Claims U.S.-Backed Military Plot to Kill or Detain Him in Bolivia
Former Bolivian president Evo Morales accused the United States on Friday of planning his assassination or detention through a military operation coordinated with the government of President Rodrigo Paz, with support from the DEA and the U.S. Southern Command.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/evo-morales-claims-u-s-backed-military-plot-to-kill-or-detain-him-in-bolivia/

Argentina’s beef consumption falls to lowest level in 20 years as prices soar
As of April 2026, annual per capita beef consumption fell to 44.5 kilograms (98 pounds), down from 49.5 kilograms (109 pounds) during the same month a year earlier, according to the Agricultural Foundation for Argentina’s Development. In 2006, it was 63.4 kilos (139 pounds) per person. “People are switching to cheaper proteins. They’re eating pork, they’re eating chicken,” said García.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-milei-trump-beef-chicken-inflation-pork-tariffs-be59d1a78d7983566248712a74866b14

Brazil: One Thousand Peasant Families Resist the Police Siege during Land Occupation
On the 1st of May, one thousand peasant families occupied land in Pará in order to pressure the government into ceding the land to them and guaranteeing their right to said land. The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) denounced that the occupation triggered a siege from police, big landlords and goons. The siege lasted 48 hours, and blocked the access to the land, preventing the entry of water and food until May 3.
https://redherald.org/2026/05/16/brazil-one-thousand-peasant-families-resist-the-police-siege-during-land-occupation/

UK ministers accused of weakening legal protections for torture victims
Keir Starmer’s government has been accused of trying to water down legal protections for torture victims as ministers from 46 countries including the UK prepare to make it easier to deport refused asylum seekers and foreign criminals. Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, is expected to agree a “political declaration” on Friday with other members of the Council of Europe, which oversees the European convention on human rights (ECHR).
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/14/uk-ministers-accused-weakening-legal-protections-torture-victims-seeking-asylum

Arrests made as Tommy Robinson's far-right supporters rally in central London
Alongside the flags of the UK's constituent countries, Israeli flags and those associated with the Iranian monarchist movement were also visible. Videos posted online showed attendees picking up wooden crosses to carry, while Christian nationalist slogans adorned some banners and placards. One flyer seen on the street spoke about a need for “a future for white people”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/arrests-made-tommy-robinson-far-right-supporters-rally-central-london

8 Anarchists Arrested for Bank Expropriation: Greece
On the morning of May 11, 2026, our anarchist comrades carried out an expropriation of a bank in Kato Tithorea. A few hours later, cops chased the comrades for several kilometers and then trapped them. This was followed by raids on houses where the remaining comrades were arrested. The charges include both possession of weapons and involvement in robberies.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/32664/

Hamas confirms killing of Qassam Brigades leader in Israeli attack
Hamas said al-Haddad was killed along with his wife, his daughter, and other Palestinian civilians on Friday evening. The Israeli strikes targeted the Remal neighbourhood west of Gaza City. Three Palestinians were killed in a strike on a civilian vehicle, and four others died in a strike on a building, medical sources said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/16/hamas-confirms-killing-of-top-hamas-leader-in-israeli-attack
https://archive.ph/3y8IL

Children in Lebanon suffer as Israel continues to bomb, displace civilians despite truce
These figures were released in a 13 May report, however, Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon have since killed and injured more children. "This 'so called' ceasefire that still sees more than four children killed or injured every day is not a ceasefire for children," UNICEF Representative in Lebanon Marcoluigi Corsi told TNA.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-kills-more-200-children-lebanon-march

India and UAE sign defence pacts, as Iran war tensions simmer
The strategic defence partnership stipulates that both nations will deepen “defence industrial collaboration and cooperation on innovation and advanced technology, training, exercises, maritime security, cyber defence, secure communications and information exchange”, according to an official statement.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/15/india_and_uae_sign_defence-pacts_as_iran_war_tensions_simmer
https://archive.ph/2wtH4

Judge known for defective search warrants seeks promotion for 3rd time
As executive judge of the Quezon City RTC, Burgos-Villavert issued a series of search warrants between 2018 and 2020 that were used in coordinated police and military operations against activists and community organizers. Human rights alliances report that 76 activists were arrested on the basis of these warrants, with many later alleging planted firearms and explosives, a pattern described in detail by Karapatan and Bulatlat reports.
https://www.bulatlat.com/2026/05/16/judge-known-for-defective-search-warrants-seeks-promotion-for-3rd-time/

>>2814974
Greetings secret service uyghurs.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Wj3GEuwoNWc

You will need to upgrade your secret service shields.

North America’s largest commuter rail system shuts down as workers strike
The unions and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the public agency that runs the railroad, have been negotiating for months on a new contract, with talks stalled over the question of workers’ salaries and healthcare premiums. President Donald Trump’s administration tried to broker a deal, but the unions were legally allowed to strike starting at 12:01 a.m. Kevin Sexton, national vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, said no new negotiations have been scheduled. “We’re far apart at this point,” Sexton said early Saturday. “We are truly sorry that we are in this situation.”
https://apnews.com/article/lirr-new-york-commuter-rail-strike-union-a9b20b5de53a944c9da4263d289a845f

US Postmaster General floats ending six-days-a-week mail delivery, closing most local post offices
Steiner’s opening report to the meeting called on Congress “to remove the mandates that ensure the Postal Service loses money: For example, days and levels of service, the ability to close unprofitable offices, and the underpricing of First-Class Mail. If we had flexibility on those three main issues, we could go a long way towards becoming profitable, but the American public would see reduced levels of service and higher rates.” This amounts to the abolition of USPS as a public service, converting it openly into a for-profit model and setting the stage for its privatization. More than 70 percent of local post offices are unprofitable, according to USPS’ own estimates. Combined with cuts to “days and levels” of delivery service, this would lead broad swathes of the country, especially rural areas, without reliable access to mail.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/15/ouau-m15.html

New Virginia law banning `assault firearms’ prompts quick lawsuits from gun-rights groups
The limits on “ assault firearms,” as they are described by the legislation, are among two dozen new restrictions and regulations on guns enacted by the Democratic governor in her first few months in office. That marks a sharp policy reversal from her Republican predecessor, who had vetoed many similar measures.
https://apnews.com/article/guns-assault-weapons-virginia-f3cb8a609e06a3fc02dc7315520b8b64

Republican Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy loses primary after Trump intervenes to oust him
Cassidy’s bid to win the Republican party’s nomination for a third term in the deep-red state was imperiled by his decision to vote in favor of Trump’s conviction after the January 6 insurrection. In what was widely seen as an effort to rehabilitate his standing with the president, Cassidy last year cast the deciding vote to advance vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, flying in the face of the senator’s support for immunizations and training as a physician.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/17/republican-louisiana-senator-bill-cassidy-results-primary-trump

Why Capitalism’s Origins Matter: Review of Mother of Capital: How Rent Gave Birth to Modernity by Matthew Costa (Pluto Press, 2025)
How did the medieval world give birth to our modern system of capitalist accumulation and competition? A new book by Matthew Costa, a Marxist historian and mandarin at New South Wales’s treasury, offers a compelling answer and synthesizes a vast body of writing on this topic. Mother of Capital: How Rent Gave Birth to Modernity provides an engaging account of the transition from feudalism to capitalism, a subject that has been debated among historians and economists for centuries.
https://jacobin.com/2026/05/review-costa-transition-feudalism-capitalism

Labour and the myth of the twin extremes
AS LABOUR turns its eyes to Andy Burnham as a possible saviour, rival demonstrations in London underline the depth of Britain’s political crisis. The far-right — once again absurdly misnamed — “unite the kingdom” rally called by Tommy Robinson embodies a threat most Labour MPs have woken up to. Reform’s sweeping wins at the May 7 local elections have precipitated a full-on political crisis. Though a “Burnham bounce” based largely on popular loathing for Keir Starmer, whose exit now seems tied to the Manchester mayor’s availability to replace him, suggest Labour would be favourites to win a Makerfield by-election should Burnham indeed be the candidate, even he is only narrowly ahead of Reform. A Reform win is a plausible outcome and would leave Labour with even fewer options than it has right now, besides reasserting the rise of intolerant nationalism as the dominant theme in British politics. Robinson has chosen his demo date not to unite the kingdom of course but to maximise divisions by facing off against the annual Nakba demonstration, commemorating the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes during the establishment of the state of Israel and demanding the UN-recognised right of return denied them and their descendants ever since.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-and-myth-twin-extremes

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Marx Chapter IV (Rise of Louis Bonaparte)
In the middle of October, 1849, the National Assembly met once more. On November 1 Bonaparte surprised it with a message in which he announced the dismissal of the Barrot-Falloux Ministry and the formation of a new ministry. No one has ever sacked lackeys with less ceremony than Bonaparte his ministers. The kicks that were intended for the National Assembly were given in the meantime to Barrot & Co. The Barrot Ministry, as we have seen, had been composed of Legitimists and Orleanists; it was a ministry of the party of Order. Bonaparte had needed it to dissolve the republican Constituent Assembly, to bring about the expedition against Rome, and to break the Democratic party. Behind this ministry he had seemingly effaced himself, surrendered governmental power into the hands of the party of Order, and donned the modest character mask that the responsible editor of a newspaper wore under Louis Philippe, the mask of the homme de paille [straw man]. He now threw off a mask which was no longer the light veil behind which he could hide his physiognomy, but an iron mask which prevented him from displaying a physiognomy of his own. He had appointed the Barrot Ministry in order to blast the republican National Assembly in the name of the party of Order; he dismissed it in order to declare his own name independent of the National Assembly of the party of Order.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch04.htm

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