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Image by Emad El Byed. On May 24, Iran rejected President Trump’s latest fake peace deal, confirming that he had misrepresented what Iran had agreed to and that the two sides are still very far apart, on nuclear enrichment, on control of the Strait of Hormuz, on peace in Palestine and Lebanon, and on lifting US sanctions, paying war reparations and Iran’s $100 billion in frozen assets. Iran’s conditions for a peace agreement are necessarily uncompromising, in response to the US record of using negotiations as cover for sneak attacks, and the charade of one-sided “ceasefires with Israeli characteristics,” in…

Adam Johnson for TRNN Amazon founder and Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos made news earlier this week by claiming the reason he fired 30 percent of the Washington Post’s staff and rebranded it as a more conservative media outlet is because its previous iteration was not a “profitable enterprise” and it needed to be. This is consistent with previous arguments he’s made as to why he moved the traditionally centrist—if neoconservative on foreign policy—newspaper more visibly to the right wing since Trump took office in early 2025. SORKIN: Why lay people off at the Post? Why fire people? BEZOS: Because the Post needs…

Date of sighting: May 17, 2026Location of sighting: Ambler, Pennsylvania, USASource: NUFORC This report just in. An eyewitness saw a long cigar shaped UFO passing over Pennsylvania last week and the close up screenshot I made, has a tornado-like twisting cloud coming from above and touching the top of the UFO. Thats 100% alien there. No known tech can cause such an anomaly on any known aircraft. Scott C. Waring – UFO Sightings Daily Eyewitness states: Lights on object, made a sound, possible abduction, marks found on my body afterwards.  It was cigar shaped with blue lights and some weird terrestrial texture on the…

Spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $1 billion in a single week as capital rotated toward AI stocks and macro uncertainty weighed on sentiment, ending a six-week run that had pulled in $3.4 billion. Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded $1 billion in weekly net outflows, ending a six-week inflow streak that had drawn a combined $3.4 billion. The week started on a cautiously optimistic note, with Monday posting modest inflows of $27.29 million, according to data from SoSoValue. The tide turned sharply on Tuesday, when investors pulled $233.25 million from the funds. Selling pressure intensified on Wednesday, the worst single day of the…

Dating apps promise connection, chemistry, and maybe even love. For Ukrainian and Russian intelligence services, they also offer something else: data, emotional vulnerability, and a private channel to manipulate targets. When Russia launched its full-scale illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the front lines extended beyond the physical battlefield into the digital space. Among many other sites, dating platforms such as Tinder and its local equivalents became operational terrain, used to recruit intelligence assets, gather information and spread propaganda. Once a niche concern for intelligence professionals and those tracking foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), dating apps have become…

Joshua Scheer As economic desperation deepens and both major parties continue to hemorrhage working-class trust, conversations once dismissed as fringe are moving back toward the political center. In this wide-ranging discussion with Joshua Citarella on DoomScroll, union organizer and democratic socialist Claire Valdez argues that the crisis facing millions of Americans is not ideological confusion — it’s material reality. From collapsing labor protections and skyrocketing rent to healthcare profiteering and endless war spending, Valdez lays out a vision rooted in rebuilding union power, expanding social programs, and reconnecting politics to the daily struggles of ordinary people. What emerges is…

Image by Ömer Faruk Yıldız. Since October 7th, 2023, Israeli soldiers and civilians have posted videos documenting heinous crimes: murder and torture of incapacitated, disabled and blindfolded Palestinian detainees, murder of journalists and medical personnel, use of dogs as tools of abuse, destruction of civilian infrastructure, desecration of cemeteries and mockery of Muslim and Christian clerics and sacred sites, particularly in Jerusalem, Gaza and Lebanon. Recent testimonies from Gaza-bound flotilla activists detained by Israeli authorities are consistent and disturbing: physical and psychological abuse, denial of medication, water and toilet access, constant looping of Israel’s national anthem, sexual assault and what…

New layout here at the Grail – the news briefs are now right at the top of the page for easy access! But don’t be afraid to scroll down to find more fascinating content! Hype over ‘UFO shootdowns’ in 2023 gets popped by latest Pentagon UFO files. US law enforcement warns of ‘anti-tech extremism‘ as AI hatred grows. (Archived page link) The first signs of human cremation may date back 100,000 years. Is alien life hiding in plain sight, right here in our solar system? US Space Force should prepare to put active-duty troops on the Moon, report argues. Not…

Trump Town, Franklin County, Virginia. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. It rained on earth for 40 days and nights because, according to Genesis, “The Lord saw how great [was] the wickedness of the human race.” He was troubled and disappointed with his creation and acted violently to punish the human immorality and violence that had corrupted the earth. Noah was chosen as a possible savior, but his work was never fulfilled as envisaged. The world has continued for centuries to be filled with corruption, violence, brutality, and widespread sin. Immorality has been the name of the game until the present day,…