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NPR.ORG • 2026-05-12

Israel's government is expected to collapse over ultra-Orthodox military draft

The Gaza war and the need for more soldiers has placed more political pressure on the community to take part in military service. Last year, Israel's Supreme Court ordered the government to draft ultra-Orthodox Israelis.

Unfortunately, Nitwityahoo will remain Acting PM until they can form a new Goobermint.  Also, whoever new is picked will probably be a Right Wingnut, since the Conservative Party has a plurality of MPs.  Only the Lefties in the Liberal party are anti war there.

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OWENJONES.NEWS • 2026-05-12

New York Times confirms Israel using dogs to rape

There is now overwhelming evidence that the Israeli state is systematically using sexual violence against Palestinians.

The silence surrounding these crimes once again underlines the extent to which Israel's actions are whitewashed - and the extent to which Palestinian suffering is treated as though it simply does not matter.

Mother-Rapers! Father-stabbers! Father-Rapers! -Arlo Guthrie "Alice's Restaurant Massacree

Even Arlo didn't run into any DOG-RAPERS back in the 'Nam days. Times change.

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COUNTERPUNCH.ORG • 2026-05-12

US Imperialist War in Iran Looks Like an Economic Rescue Mission

Disaster on the way represents capitalism in crisis.

Changing modes of capitalism have ended up as that skewed form of imperialism that now propels war with Iran. The message of Marxist analyst Samir Amin resonates: "[C]apitalism is incapable of overcoming its fundamental contradictions." (2) That would be so, especially if working people, the great mass of humanity, rise up, mobilize, and say, No!

This will be no surprise to Diners familiar with Marxist analysis and the ongoing crisis in Capitalist economics, but the Iran war has little to do with the Iranian Nuke Program and much more to do with the waning power of the FSoA Dollar as the only financial debt instrument available for the Oil Trade on the Nation-State level.

The rise of the Chinese Renminby as the debt instrument of choice for evading economic sanctions and the advent of the BRICS clearing system for trades enables Oil trade completely independent of SWIFT & the Petrodollar, so the loss of this financial control system has driven FSoA Imperialists to attempt the physical control over the choke points of the global ocean based transportation of the oil.  This motivated the action against Venezuela directly before the Iran war, and also the threats to Cuba, Greenland and Canada to their sovereignty.

Will the escalating crisis lead to a workers revolt and the collapse of the Dollar as World Reserve Currency?  Will that lead inexorably to WWIII and direct conflict between thee FSoA and the PRoC?  It's looking more likely all the time, and this week's meeting between His Royal Chumpness and Xi may provide some clues.

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MIDDLEEASTEYE.NET • 2026-05-13

US heading for ‘checkmate’ and ‘total defeat’ in Iran war, says neocon Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan, one of the United States’ most prominent neoconservative voices and a long-time pro-Israel hawk, has warned that Washington is heading towards “total defeat” in its war on Iran - a setback he says “can neither be repaired nor ignored”.

Writing in The Atlantic, Kagan said the damage inflicted by the conflict cannot be reversed.  "There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done," he concluded bleakly.

FINALLY, some GOOD NEWZ about the war in Iran! 😀  Off the keyboard of a certified Neocon Jackass, no less.  Rarely are we treated to such a happy moment worthy of celebration and gloating!

The only bad aspects of the collapsing FSoA imperialist adventurism is in the near term that it will do increasingly stupid things trying to maintain its "preeminence", and in the longer term won't do much besides perhaps slightly slow the ongoing Collapse of Industrial Civilization.  It's far too late to repair the damage already done and there still is no replacement for the ever dwindling resources of energy, water and minerals necessary to maintain the current technological standard of living and population size.  The Great Dieoff of Homo Sapiens on Planet Earth will arrive regardless.  In fact it probably has already begun.

In the distant future however, life will go on for millions more years until the Sun goes Red Giant, any Homo Saps who do survive or evolve into something else will have the chance to start over and not repeat the mistakes made in the Age of Fossil Fuels.  You can't make an Omelet without Breaking a few Eggs. 😀

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