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News 5/22/26 News Anon 3.0 22-05-26 23:10:42 No.2820269

Average rent now swallows 98.7% of young workers’ pay for one-person flats in Spain
The report (source in Spanish), published on Friday, notes that a young employee would have to allocate 98.7% of their net salary to rent a home on their own in Spain. The estimated average age for leaving home is now over 30. It also highlights that the difficulty of accessing housing is currently one of the main factors behind youth impoverishment in Spain: "Among young people who rent, the risk of poverty rises from 25.9% before paying for housing to 43% afterwards."
https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/05/22/average-rent-now-swallows-987-of-young-workers-pay-for-one-person-flats-in-spain
https://archive.ph/pL4Vr

French commission advises against deporting Egyptian-Palestinian activist
Egyptian-Palestinian activist and academic Ramy Shaath has won a provisional victory against the French government after a commission ruled against his deportation from the country for comments made at pro-Palestine demonstrations and involvement in Palestine solidarity groups. On Thursday, the Hauts-de-Seine departmental deportation commission ruled that deporting the prominent Arab Spring veteran - on the basis of being a "serious threat to public order" - would violate his respect for privacy and freedom of expression.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/french-court-advises-against-deporting-egyptian-palestinian-activist

Gaza flotilla activists allege sexual assault and rape in Israeli detention
Germany said some of its nationals had been injured and that some accusations were “serious”, without giving further details. A legal source in Italy said prosecutors there were investigating possible crimes, including kidnapping and sexual assault.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/gaza-flotilla-activists-allege-sexual-assault-and-in-israeli-detention

Iran destroyed 20 percent of US's MQ-9 Reaper drone fleet: Report
Iran has destroyed $1bn worth of MQ-9 Reaper Drones, or roughly 20 percent of the US’s pre-war inventory of the sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles, according to a report by Bloomberg on Friday. The report said that many of the drones were downed by Iran in flight, but that others had been destroyed on the ground when Iran targeted US military bases in the Gulf. The MQ-9 is both a surveillance drone and capable of carrying a payload, typically Hellfire missiles or Joint Direct Attack Munition guided bombs.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-destroyed-20-percent-uss-mq-9-reaper-drone-fleet-report

Morocco launches mass deportations to block Europe migration route
The operation is still ongoing, with authorities then moving their focus to operations in and around Tangier. Witnesses have described mass arrests, beatings, racist abuse and forced transfers toward the Algerian border. Sudanese and Chadian detainees were bused south and abandoned near border zones, while people from countries including Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Guinea were deported on flights departing Casablanca.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/morocco-launches-mass-deportations-block-europe-migration-route

Colombia: Clashes Between Indigenous Communities Left at Least Six Dead
Misak leaders claimed the death toll was as high as 10, although this information has not been officially confirmed. Sanchez ordered the deployment of 120 additional soldiers to contain the violence after meeting with the military command in the area on Thursday night.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/colombia-clashes-between-indigenous-communities-left-at-least-six-dead/

Brazil Senator Bolsonaro seeks White House meeting amid campaign crisis, sources say
Plans for the visit to Washington come as the senator's campaign weathers a crisis that has eroded his competitiveness in recent polling against the leftist incumbent, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, ahead of October elections. Bolsonaro was entangled this month in a ‌scandal ⁠around a record-breaking bank fraud investigation after he confirmed reports that he lined up millions of dollars in funding for a film about his father from Daniel Vorcaro, a banker now jailed over accusations of bribing officials and ⁠defrauding investors.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/brazil-senator-bolsonaro-seeks-white-house-meeting-amid-campaign-crisis-sources-2026-05-21/

US arms sales to Taiwan on ‘pause’ due to Iran war, says acting navy chief
Responding to Cao’s remarks, Taiwan’s presidential office spokesperson, Karen Kuo, said on Friday that Taipei had received “no information indicating that the US intends to make any adjustments to this arms sale”. But the announcement will be unwelcome news for Taipei, coming a week after Trump met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Beijing for a summit in which Washington’s multibillion-dollar weapons packages to Taiwan were high on the agenda.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/us-arms-sales-taiwan-pause-iran-war-says-acting-navy-chief

Delhi: Under Tin Roofs in 45°C, Slum Dwellers Await Relief
Despite claims in the Delhi Heat Action Plan that vulnerable settlements would be provided with cooling support, shaded relief spaces, drinking water access, and emergency heatwave assistance, residents say they continue to survive without basic facilities. Most homes in the cluster lack proper fans, coolers, and stable electricity, leaving families exposed to severe heat stress as temperatures in Delhi cross 45 degrees Celsius.
https://www.newsclick.in/delhi-under-tin-roofs-45degc-slum-dwellers-await-relief

Emperor penguins, Antarctic fur seals now on endangered species Red List
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently added the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) and the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) to its Red List of endangered species. The listing underlines the impact of climate change on Antarctica that is posing an existential threat to wildlife with rising sea levels and atmospheric temperatures.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/22/thpu-m22.html

News Anon 3.0 22-05-26 23:20:33 No.2820281

US green card applicants will now have to return to home countries to apply, DHS says
Foreigners seeking to adjust their immigration status in the United States to secure green cards will have to do so from outside the country via the state department, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said on Friday, in a move criticized by aid groups, policy analysts and immigration attorneys.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/22/green-card-applicants-trump-administration

Mahmoud Khalil’s attorneys to turn to US supreme court after ruling paves way for deportation
On Friday, the third circuit court of appeals upheld a January ruling by a three-judge panel, which had reversed a lower-court decision ordering Khalil’s release on bail last June. The ruling marks the latest chapter in Khalil’s months-long challenge of the government’s campaign against him. The appeals court’s decision marks a significant setback for him, but his lawyers insist he cannot be deported – for now.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/22/mahmoud-khalil-supreme-court-appeal-deportation

Judge tosses Kilmar Abrego Garcia charges, calls Trump administration prosecution ‘vindictive’
A federal judge in Tennessee on Friday dismissed human smuggling charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant whose mistaken deportation by the Trump administration became a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s broader immigration crackdown.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/kilmar-abrego-garcia-charges-dropped-trump-doj-case-vindictive.html

Tulsi Gabbard resigns as director of national intelligence, citing her husband’s health
In her resignation letter, which she posted on social media, Gabbard said she told Trump she would leave her job overseeing the coordination of 18 intelligence agencies on June 30. She said her husband had recently been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and “faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months.” “At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle,” she wrote in the letter, which was reported earlier by Fox News.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tulsi-gabbard-director-national-intelligence-iran-788f1f14259d72bd7936fa2e83149efa

‘Everything That’s Wrong With the Democratic Establishment’: Wasserman Schultz Slammed for Florida District Move
DeSantis split up the Democrat’s District 25 “into five different districts in his newly approved maps, leaving her with complicated options as Black Democratic leaders and candidates fight to keep her out of at least one of those districts,” the Miami Herald reported earlier this month. Despite that opposition, Wasserman Schultz announced in a Friday video featuring various local figures that she is indeed running there—in District 20.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/debbie-wasserman-schultz

RFK Jr. announces 'the largest autism fraud bust in American history' and it’s in Minnesota
McDonald said the accused had stolen money intended to house people who are homeless; to provide services for children with autism; and to help people with disabilities live independently. Two of the defendants indicted Thursday were accused of paying kickbacks to parents who brought their children to autism centers where the children were diagnosed with the neurological condition, “regardless of medical necessity,” and then billed for autism services that were never provided, McDonald said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/21/medicaid-fraud-minnesota-walz-rfk-00932502
https://archive.ph/cwX57

OP/ED News Anon 3.0 22-05-26 23:31:20 No.2820303

TKP-ML CC Statement: İbrahim Kaypakkaya Is Our Compass!: We Have Not Forgotten May 18, And We Will Not Let It Be Forgotten!
It has been 53 years since the assassination of the communist leader İbrahim Kaypakkaya. This period of time—long for a human life but short for societies—has validated a significant portion of the theses İbrahim Kaypakkaya put forward. The class struggle and social practice have more than sufficiently confirmed the views he defended as a young communist leader. History has proven İbrahim Kaypakkaya right. As his successors, we continue to draw inspiration from his struggle and expand his legacy by internalizing his stance toward life—the very stance that enabled him to create miracles. The 1960s and ’70s were years when political, social, and national liberation struggles developed and intensified, both globally and in our country. The momentum gained in ’68 had, by the time the ’70s arrived, undergone a qualitative leap within the framework of political struggle; the tools, methods, and paths of political struggle underwent a radical transformation. The youth’s struggle merged and developed with the spontaneous actions of the working class, peasant masses, and the laboring people as a whole.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/32985/

Grenfell: Nine years, £150 million spent and justice still delayed
THE Metropolitan Police announcement that 57 individuals and 20 companies may face criminal charges over the Grenfell Tower disaster was presented this week as a significant milestone in the search for justice. But for survivors, bereaved families, and the wider north Kensington community, the overwhelming feeling is not relief. It is frustration that it has taken more than nine years to reach this point. At long last, the first major hurdle in the criminal process appears close to completion. The Met says its investigation — Operation Northleigh — is nearing the stage where files will be passed to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which will then decide whether criminal charges should follow. Yet the scale of the delay raises unavoidable questions about the institutions responsible for delivering justice.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/grenfell-nine-years-ps150-million-spent-and-justice-still-delayed

International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the KKE: On Looting in the Soviet Tradition
At present, there are two dominant tactics employed by the bourgeoisie in the territories of the former Soviet Union against the communist movement. The first involves a complete ban on Communist Parties, their symbols, and their activities, as is the case in Ukraine and the Baltic states. The second involves the manipulation of the communist movement and the exploitation of the history of the Soviet Union in order to serve the contemporary objectives of the bourgeois classes, as is the case in Russia and Belarus. The distortion of Soviet history is characteristic of both approaches, as seen, for example, in the Goebbels-style propaganda surrounding the so-called “Holodomor” in Ukraine, or, conversely, in the portrayal of Lenin by the contemporary leadership of the Russian bourgeoisie as the “destroyer” of the magnificent Russian Empire — and, in contrast, in the presentation of Stalin as a “patriot”, stripped of his revolutionary ideology. The KKE has repeatedly denounced and condemned the persecution of communists and communist parties, as well as anti-communism and anti-Sovietism in all sides of bourgeois distortion. Particular mention must, however, be made of the shameful attempts to exploit and appropriate the history of the USSR and the communist movement. Such is the case of the newly emerged SOVINTERN, which seeks to kill two birds with one stone by invoking both the Soviet Union and the Comintern —the Communist International.
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Greece-On-Looting-in-the-Soviet-Tradition/

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> 🇧🇴 #Bolivia: An armed group calling itself the “Warriors of the Ayllus” in Oruro has released footage on social media declaring war to the current Bolivian government amid the country’s ongoing political and economic crisis.
< Amid the recent surge of this kind of videos from such groups, Bolivia’s Ministry of Defence released a statement expressing "concern" over the surge of "irregular groups" possessing high-caliber weapons in different parts of the country.

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