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Cuba has done it again.

Meet VAXIRA a therapeutic cancer vaccine developed by Cuban and Argentine scientists that helps the immune system recognise and destroy lung cancer cells. Approved in both Cuba and Argentina for advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

It works by mimicking a molecule found on cancer cells but almost entirely absent in healthy human tissue — meaning it targets tumours with remarkable precision and very few side effects.

Clinical trials showed a significant improvement in survival for advanced lung cancer patients, with 1-year survival nearly doubling compared to the control group. Real-world data shows median survival of up to 24.5 months in maintenance therapy.

Minimal side effects. Suitable for long-term use. Affordable and accessible — unlike many Western immunotherapies that price patients out of treatment.

And in 2025, VAXIRA received Cuba's National Technological Innovation Award. All of this achieved by a country under decades of US economic blockade.

The United States spends billions on cancer research. Cuba, under sanctions, develops vaccines the world hasn't seen before.

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Huawei - We are thankful to US for enabling our chip tech growth

When people asked how Huawei thought of the new chip tech approach for its growth, Xu replied that a major credit goes to the US. Without their “ban efforts”, the company wouldn’t have embarked on catching up with chip-related work.

According to the Rotating Chairman of Huawei, the external pressure from the US has forced the rapid growth of the Chinese semiconductor industry chain. He said:

“If the United States hadn’t forced our country, our companies, and our industry, we wouldn’t have done something like this. But we are also grateful to the US for enabling our country’s semiconductor industry chain to truly grow. Now the momentum is very good, and everyone recognizes and supports it.”

This is what Bolivia's highways look like at the moment. Each town & village blocks their stretch, and the union members in each community take turns at the barricades. This is part of the general strike against neoliberalism. Now entering week 3.

Bolivia's workers union confederation official statement: "There is only one demand: Resignation of the government. There is no turning back"

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https://xcancel.com/jonelmer/status/2060595808525775328

Hezbollah seriously wounded the commander of the IDF's 401st Armored Brigade after tracking him to a newly established forward HQ; he has been commander since the Qassam Brigades killed his predecessor in Jabaliya in October 2024.

Colombia's right-wing opposition are threatening their own country with a US military attack if they don't win tomorrow's elections. Latin American democracy is weak because it tolerates these people. Just saying this should merit a long prison sentence for terrorism & treason.

Regarding the issue of drug trafficking. Colombia became the epicenter of cocaine production under the numerous right-wing & pro-US authoritarian regimes. Uribe is accusing others of his own crimes.

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President Trump has sent Iran a revised peace deal with tougher terms -multiple US officials to the NYT. The "new, tougher proposal" is intended to put more pressure on Iran to accept a deal.

"The official added that Mr. Trump’s changes — a new, tougher proposal — were potentially intended to speed up the process by putting pressure on Iran to accept the framework already sent to Iran’s supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, for approval."

A "new, tougher proposal" that Iran probably already rejected previously is exactly how you speed things up.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/trump-iran-peace-framework.html

Polish President Nawrocki:

Unfortunately, President Zelensky has demonstrated that Ukraine, in terms of the mentality of glorifying bandits and murderers from the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, is not ready to be part of the European family.

There is no place in the European family for bandits and murderers who killed women and children, who murdered Poles.

Such bandits cannot be glorified, and the UPA cannot be glorified.

https://x.com/clashreport/status/2060769610660491446

Trump ekes out a W over Nixon and Bush to be... the most unpopular president of the last 12 US 2-term presidents... on day 491 of their tenure.

The laughably specific graphic aside, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Obamna was the most popular US President in living member but - nope! he was fucking hated by the end of his career. He really fooled 'em.

MidEastEye - Iran rejects Trump's terms of deal to lift Hormuz blockade

It sounds like they are no where near any deal.

critical mineral shaping up to be one of the worst supply bottlenecks for US defense contractors is the rare earth samarium (Sm, atomic number 62). China makes 100% of current production and unlike neodymium and dysprosium magnets, samarium-cobalt magnets are almost entirely used in military applications, making avoidance of export controls via dual-use subterfuge much more difficult. building one F-35 requires ~23 kg of samarium.

US missiles blown up in Iran and Israel [sic] will never be replaced | Inside China Business

from what I can tell the second tightest bottleneck is probably gallium

The Al-Jazeera TV channel, citing the Saudi Arabian ambassador in Washington, claims: "Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary of War, threatened to kill the Qatari Prime Minister in a phone conversation due to his support for Hamas and his uncompromising stance towards Iran."

FT and adrian zenz at it again with the uyghurs

https://archive.is/Z2er2

I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but let's look at the opening graphs.

In August 2024, the parents of Ekpar Asat made a long journey to a prison in the Chinese region of Xinjiang. Asat, who belongs to the Uyghur ethnic group, was detained by authorities in April 2016 on charges of “inciting ethnic hatred”. The founder of a popular Uyghur-language website, he had recently returned from attending a prestigious leadership programme in the US.

I immediately thought of school of the americas, so let's dig and see if we can learn more. Here, some harvard rag notes "She is referring to her brother, Ekpar Asat, a Uyghur entrepreneur and philanthropist who after participating in the U.S. State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program was detained by the Chinese government, then sentenced to 15 years in prison for “inciting ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination,” according to Amnesty International."

So what's the IVLP about? Here's what the state department says:

As the foundational professional exchange program of the U.S. government, the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) advances U.S. national security priorities and builds long-term relationships between Americans and international leaders in government, business, academia, and other fields through short-term professional exchanges that strengthen American communities.

I've recalibrated this thing to detect intelligence assets and it's going crazy

I'm not going to go point by point, but continue on if you'd like to read about bad stats and orientalism. it would be nice if at some point these articles talked about what was happening in the next country over in afghanistan instead of pretending history started in 2017.

Exclusive: US military personnel are being targeted using location data, Pentagon letter shows

US Central Command says it was warned that adversaries used location data to target troops
Lawmakers urge Pentagon to act, citing adtech industry as national security threat
Calls for disabling ad IDs, restricting location sharing, and moving away from Chrome on devices

WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - U.S. forces deployed to ​war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data, according to reports fielded by military officials, an illustration of how ‌the global surveillance economy is shaping the battlefield.

In a letter shared with Reuters by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, opens new tab, U.S. Central Command said it had “received multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or surveil U.S. personnel in theater." The message, sent on April 14, offered no further specifics, but Centcom's area of responsibility includes the Gulf, ​where U.S. forces are facing off against the Iranian military over the Strait of Hormuz.

The Reuters Iran Briefing newsletter keeps you informed with the latest developments and analysis of the Iran war. Sign up here. The disclosure was the first official confirmation that U.S. forces ​had been targeted in an active war zone, Wyden and a bipartisan group of legislators said in a letter sent on ⁠Thursday, opens new tab to the Pentagon.

"Commercial location data can be used to identify where U.S. troops congregate and their pattern of life, which can be exploited by adversaries ​to target attacks such as missiles, drones, and roadside bombs, as well as for counterintelligence purposes," the letter warned. Wyden said in a statement that it was ​time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat."

The Pentagon said in an email it would respond directly to the lawmakers but did not elaborate. The lawmakers said in their letter that their efforts to obtain more information from military officials about the reported targeting had been unsuccessful.

LOCATION DATA TRADE FUELS PRIVACY CONCERNS

Location data is widely used in digital ​advertising, which is a key source of revenue for many tech companies. Such data is typically collected from smartphones or other devices by apps or ​service providers before being sold to data brokers who collate and resell the data, sometimes via complex networks of intermediaries. Although the threat to privacy inherent in selling the details of ‌people's day-to-day ⁠movements on the open market has long been a matter of public discussion, its potential as a national security risk has recently drawn concern as well.

As far back as 2016, one U.S. defense contractor was able to leverage commercially available location data to track special operations forces from their bases in the United States to a sensitive staging post in Syria, according to an account first disclosed by the Wall Street Journal, opens new tab.

More recently, journalists at Wired and two German news outlets ​drew on billions of coordinates collected by ​a data broker to expose the granular ⁠comings and goings, opens new tab of people stationed at or around 11 U.S. military and intelligence sites in Germany.

Two groups that represent digital advertisers, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Association of National Advertisers, did not return emails seeking comment. The letter from ​U.S. lawmakers to the Pentagon said that, given what military officials know about the trade in location data, ​they should have acted ⁠faster to protect their personnel, for example by disabling the unique advertising ID attached to military-issued devices, automatically turning off location sharing on smartphones in the field, and steering staff away from Google's Chrome web browser toward more privacy-focused alternatives.

One of the letter's cosigners was U.S. Representative Pat Harrigan, a North Carolina Republican who was formerly ⁠a U.S. Army ​Special Forces officer. Harrigan said that browsers like Chrome "are built from the ground up to ​collect and share user data" and that every day they remain on government-issued devices "is another day we are handing our adversaries a weapon against our own troops."

In a statement, Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google said that ​Chrome had "industry leading security." The company added that it had "long advocated for stronger rules and safeguards against data brokers, opens new tab."

Reporting by Raphael Satter in Washington; Editing by Matthew Lewis

lol. Lmao.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/pentagon-spars-with-spacex-over-starlink-price-hike-during-iran-war-2026-05-26/

Reporter who investigated Jeffrey Epstein is ‘fleeing’ the US after alleged ‘direct energy weapons’ attack

nypost.com/2026/05/26/media/reporter-who-investigated-jeffrey-epstein-is-fleeing-the-us-after-alleged-attack/ archive.is/1YXkE

And just like that I believe in Havana syndrome lol

Bolivia's general strike is GROWING. The Chuquisaca region, that hadn't joined the strike, has now joined and built workers barricades surrounding city. Also, valley roads to Santa Cruz are all blocked off now for first time.

Week 1: 20 highways blocked

Week 2: 40

Week 3: 60+

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Patriotic factions within Bolivia's military have confirmed:

• US Embassy has ordered Bolivian govt to declare martial law to break the strikes

• Embassy has told President Paz: "We can't lose Bolivia"

• Bolivia's cabinet is divided, some don't want to implement the US orders

Patriotic factions in military & police keep Evo Morales and the rest of the movement informed of everything that's going on inside

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Iran says they aren't in a hurry to sign anything. oil is at 100$ and expected to rise beyond 150-200 towards the end of 2026.

Our interesting times are about to get even more interesting!

Source

Hezbollah editors excited to see cows before striking an anti air system

https://t.me/HezbollahMirror/16445

Yeesh.

The Guardian - The US and Israel are “actively working” to strip Jordan of its historic custodianship of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque complex, according to a report by Middle East Eye, citing multiple unnamed sources.

US, Jordanian and Palestinian officials, as well as western and Gulf Arab sources, told MEE that under the plan, championed by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and the US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, the authority of Jordan over the site would end and a new body created by the Israeli government would declare the al-Aqsa Mosque a “multi-faith centre”.

Two US officials told MEE that Washington had drafted a paper on how they envisaged the mosque’s future. The officials said that the Trump administration would like to see the al-Aqsa Mosque stripped of its Muslim identity, with the site turned into a landmark tourist attraction that hosts all three Abrahamic religions.

Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site, al-Aqsa is often a flashpoint and disagreements over access and its management have lead to unrest.

I somehow missed this;

The UN must open the Strait of Hormuz for us - Rubio

"What is the purpose of the UN?! The UN was supposed to be a place where you could peacefully resolve global conflict." 🤷‍♂️😎

“We are taking it to the UN”.

https://archive.ph/qEGfU

Nazitown, USA

How Ukrainian nazi collaborators smuggled into the US after World War II have created racist enclaves in our country, and developed influence over US politics for the past 86 years.

cont'd in response

Donald "The JOKESTER" Trump

NYT - President Trump on Wednesday warned the Gulf state of Oman, a U.S. ally, not to enter into any agreement with Iran to share control of the Strait of Hormuz or else face an American bombing campaign. Quickly after making the threat, Mr. Trump said he didn’t believe the United States would have to take such an action. “Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow them up,” he said during a cabinet meeting, responding to a reporter’s question about the strait. “They understand that. They’ll be fine.”

Iran has discussed partnering with Oman in a system charging fees for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz, ignoring the Trump administration’s warnings against demands for payment to pass through the critical international waterway. Mr. Trump said there would be serious repercussions should the two countries agree to move forward with such a deal.

“The strait is going to be open to everybody,” he said. “Nobody’s going to control it. We’re going to watch over it. We’ll watch over it, but nobody’s going to control it.” Oman’s foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, starting a monthslong war that spread to neighboring countries. In response, Iran closed the strait, a key passageway for global commerce, rocking the financial markets.

Despite talks about a potential deal to quickly reopen the strait, the likelihood of a swift diplomatic breakthrough seemed dim Wednesday after the United States and Iran ratcheted up hostilities this week.

https://xcancel.com/mb_ghalibaf/status/2060338759321715058#m

Iranian official on tentative deal with US: The core problem is emanating from the fundamental one: these guys can not make up their mind due to their susceptibility to provocations by the team Bibi et al.

The King is changing his mind or moving the goalposts every second, and his apostles are only trying to satisfy his 'changing' whims.

Oil News: traders are betting big that a deal is going to be signed.

Which means that oil is getting cheaper quickly, meaning that “demand destruction” for oil has been turned off.

Meanwhile actually available oil stocks are one or two weeks away from “operational stress” levels, perhaps 2 or at most 3 months away from “extreme crisis” levels, and we still don’t have a full picture of how bad the infrastructure damage in the middle east is.

In other words, just as the world is actually starting to run out of oil, demand for oil is being stimulated.

If I were a member of the parasitic investor class while still understanding dialectics, aside from wanting to hang myself I would be strongly betting on the fact that Bibi is going to find a way to scupper this cease-fire and I would be viewing this sell-off as an opportunity to go long on oil futures.

OilPrice - Oil Prices Suffer Biggest Weekly Collapse in Two Months

ICE Brent is set to post its largest weekly loss in two months, dropping by almost 10%, as media reports present a 60-day extension of the current ceasefire and a temporary Hormuz navigation deal as close to being a done deal.

OilPrice - Ceasefire Talks Trigger Massive Selloff in Crude Futures

July WTI crude oil suffered its largest weekly decline in months as traders aggressively removed geopolitical risk premium from the market on growing hopes that diplomacy between Washington and Tehran could eventually succeed. Through Thursday, May 28, July WTI crude oil traded between a high of $94.70 and a low of $87.11 before settling at $88.60, down $8.40, or 8.66%, for the week.

The selloff was notable because it occurred while many of the bullish supply factors that drove crude sharply higher earlier this year remained in place.

OilPrice - Supermajor Warns Oil Prices Could Hit $160 Within Weeks

[Goldman Sachs] calculated that of the 8.4 billion barrels in global oil inventories at the start of 2026, only 0.8 billion barrels were realistically available without pushing the system into operational stress. Long story short (and the long story can be found here), OECD commercial stocks could fall to operational stress levels by June, and then hit the global operational floor by September if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, assuming demand destruction stabilized at 5.5 mbd (with oil prices paradoxically dropping since the last JPM article, demand destruction has actually slowed).

Meanwhile, the biggest paradox during this period when the blocked Hormuz Strait meant that roughly 10 million barrels of oil wasn't reaching its intended destination each day, was that instead of prices going sharply higher to destroy demand, oil prices were actually dropping after peaking in late March and then again a month later, in effect incentivizing more demand.

That’s goldman sachs saying we at about 10% of buffer away from “operational stress”… Given the rate at which the buffer has been declining that gives us a week? Maybe two.

Even assuming a cease-fire is signed today, those container ships will take one or two months to reach port.

https://xcancel.com/calvinfroedge/status/2060978968740642998

An under appreciated point is that basically every ship in Hormuz is going to need to be dry docked after they get out to clean the barnacles off the hulls

Can't really deny that the state is fascist when they're doing this.

Gotta say "divisive nationalist" is a fun new way to describe fascists. Wonder how long it'll be until Hitler is described as a divisive nationalist.

EDIT: Oh yeah just wanna mention Zelensky also attended this.

https://t.me/stayfreeworld/66311

America has struck Iran again. I understand wanting to not fight during Eid and Hajj, but surely this is an unacceptable escalation.

Trump: "We don't need oil. We don't need the strait. We don't need anything."

I'm sure this will make the peace negos go even more smoothly. According to Bessent - the US seized $1 billion in Iranian crypto.

NYT - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at a Reagan Economic Forum event that the United States had seized $1 billion of Iranian cryptocurrency money as part of its effort to squeeze Iran’s economy. “Just outright grabbed the wallets,” Bessent said, referring to the accounts where digital currency is stored. “Some of them may be typing in right now and might not realize their wallet had been grabbed.”

That is a lot of damage, considering the Pentagon said that all Iranian missiles were intercepted.

According to publicly available EU natural gas reserves data, disregarding everything we know about the world, just running a SARIMA time series forecast, the EU will literally run out of natural gas, as this is the season when they should be refilling the gas Europe would use in the winter.

While Hezbollah posted this “coming soon” caption just now, the full video was exclusively released earlier on Iranian TV (and is somehow better than this screenshot implies)

some notes on technological developments in missiles and their geopolitical impacts https://xcancel.com/policytensor/status/2058837939287707785

An important technical reason why experts were sanguine about the military challenge posed by Iran is that, even as late as five years ago, Iranian missiles were thought to be too inaccurate to pose a significant threat. The only missile capable of reaching rear area bases in central Saudi Arabia, Israel and Jordan was the Shahab-3, which had a CEP of 2.5 km. All of this changes very dramatically and very rapidly. Especially with MaRV, the CEPs of Iranian MRBMs fall from >1 km to 300m and even down to 10m. The Israelis have been freaking out about the Khorramshahr, a powerful, highly accurate missile with a CEP of 30m. So Iran has very recently joined the ranks of the great missile powers. And this development was not fully anticipated or digested by the community of defense experts. To be sure, everyone knew Iranian strike capabilities were increasing. But it seems clear from my readings that the rapidity at which the balance of power was moving in Iran’s favor came as a surprise to pretty much everyone in the expert community.

An important lesson of this failure is that technical and force developments can be particularly rapid in the new missile age, and almost all of them move the balance against the distant power and in favor of the situated state. This was the mechanical process that transitioned the world from a unipolar to a multipolar one in a purely military sense in the space of less than a decade. All these idiots who want an arms race and a cold war with China are just poorly informed about the real prospects for the future balance of power, which are uniformly poor and cannot be reversed.

The mechanical process is the operation of the operational defense dominance based on tactical offense dominance of the mature precision strike regime. This operational defense dominance — the advantages of denial — imply that the strategic advantage is with the situated power and against the distant power trying to project power into the near-abroad of the situated power.

Yemeni air defenses shot down a US MQ-9 "Reaper" drone over Marib province:

https://southfront.press/u-s-just-lost-another-mq-9-drone-to-houthi-air-defenses-videos-photos/

Red Army Faction member Daniela Klette sentenced to 13 years in prison after decades of evading authorities.

Salute to the real ones who set the bar for leftist activities in the imperialist countries.

TASS: Russian forces launching strikes on military-industrial complex sites in Kiev — MFA

"All of this has become the last straw," the ministry noted, referring to Kiev’s strikes against civilians on Russian territory following the attack on Starobelsk. "Under the current circumstances, the Russian Armed Forces are launching a series of systematic strikes against Ukrainian military-industrial complex facilities in Kiev, including specific sites for the design, production, programming, and preparation for the use of drones employed by the Kiev regime with the assistance of NATO specialists responsible for supplying components, providing intelligence, and guidance," the statement noted.

The Foreign Ministry emphasized that "strikes will also be directed at decision-making centers and command posts." "Given that these facilities are scattered throughout Kiev, we warn foreign citizens, including diplomatic mission and international organization representative office personnel, of the need to leave the city as soon as possible. We also warn Ukrainian capital residents not to approach Zelensky’s regime's military and administrative infrastructure facilities," the diplomats warned.

PS: There were indeed two Oreshniks launched during the last attack. One struck an airfield in Bila Tserkva, near Kiev. The other struck somewhere near the front line around Donetsk. Some say it malfunctioned and impacted Russian-held territory, but Rybar says it hit a target near Slavyansk/Kramatorsk.

Exxon warns oil inventories will hit dangerously low levels in weeks, forcing prices to shoot higher - cnbc.com

• Oil inventories will hit “really, really low levels” in the coming weeks due to the Middle East conflict, said Exxon Mobil executive Neil Chapman.
• This will force the price of oil to shoot higher, Chapman said.
• Crude oil futures prices are below $100 right now as the market hopes for a U.S.-Iran deal.

The first bit

Exxon Mobil warned Thursday that oil inventories will fall to record low levels in coming weeks, forcing prices to spike and curbing demand. “We’re approaching unheard of inventory levels,” said Exxon Senior Vice President Neil Chapman at a conference hosted by Bernstein in New York. “I mean really, really low levels,” Chapman warned. “You can debate whether that’s going to hit, those really low levels, in two weeks or three weeks. Once you get to that point, then you’ll see price shoot up.”

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/2059523224082227584

⭕️ Trump’s Board of Peace has received zero dollars in its World Bank fund four months after launch — FT

• The financial fund set up by the World Bank for Trump’s Board of Peace has received no money from donors four months after its establishment, the Financial Times reported, citing four people familiar with the matter.
• Instead, donations have been routed through a JPMorgan account with no independent transparency requirements.
• Morocco’s ~$20 million has funded the office of Nickolay Mladenov, the board’s ‘high representative’ for postwar Gaza, and salaries for a Palestinian technocratic committee. The UAE provided $100 million to train a Gaza police force, but the program has yet to start and the funds are frozen.
• Member states had pledged $7 billion for the board’s Gaza relief package and Trump promised a further $10 billion in U.S. funding.
• ”Not one US dollar has been deployed for the rebuilding of Gaza,” two people familiar with postwar planning told the FT. No reconstruction contracts have been awarded.

https://xcancel.com/Osinttechnical/status/2060404208419910023

Update: Bulgaria has announced that it will eject US forces using Sofia airport at the end of June. The move comes after the United States failed to approve a visa-free system for Bulgarian visitors.

https://xcancel.com/ArmchairW/status/2059436156358439371

The 1st Azov Corps now has 40-80k troops. 3rd Corps, also Azov, also has 40-80k. =~100k+ Azovite soldiers. They are also constantly expanding

At this point Azov comprises a similar proportion of the AFU as the Waffen-SS did of the Nazi German military.

https://xcancel.com/rybar_en/status/2059270897811263760

Rocket "cities" have held out. US intelligence assessments contradict claims of major success from American and Israeli strikes on Iran. According to satellite imagery and other data, the IRGC has largely restored its underground rocket facilities. Debris has been cleared from damaged entrances, logistics restored, and the main cavern systems — carved into rock — remain functional. The strikes only achieved temporary disruption of launch capabilities. Iran has not only preserved its remaining arsenal but is actively replenishing it. Missile reserves and operational launchers have already grown since the early weeks of the campaign through serial production and assembly of pre-prepared components. New missiles with a range of around 4,000 km have also appeared. For Tehran, its rocket forces remain a core element of deterrence, compensating for weaknesses in air and naval power while securing leverage over the Strait of Hormuz.

TUNNELS TUNNELS TUNNELS