ADVISORY Watch: The World This Week — ‘Chaos of the old order,’ at 8 p.m. EDT. Joe Lauria of Consortium News talks again with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter. From CN intro: Chinese and Russian presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin “say unilateral efforts to rule the world ‘have failed’ and ‘a new type of international relations’ emerges despite ‘neocolonial tendencies’ bringing the ‘law of the jungle.'” U.S. President Donald Trump “mad over Iran and mulls Cuba invasion.” Click HERE later today for Lauria’s analytical article and tonight at 8 to livestream discussion; video to follow after live discussion is over.
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Links to reports from the Associated Press and Reuters; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for CUBA, LEBANON, WEST BANK and IRAN, and for UKRAINE 5-21-26.) — MCM
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Ukrainian drone attack triggers fire at a Russian oil terminal. From AP. A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at another Russian oil terminal overnight, local officials in Russia’s Krasnodar region said today, in what appeared to be the latest attack on Moscow’s vital oil industry. Authorities in the city of Novorossiysk said . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.
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Russia preparing strike on Ukraine using hypersonic ‘Oreshnik’ ballistic missile, Zelenskiy says, by Pavel Polityuk | Reuters KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made the announcement today citing intelligence from Ukraine, the U.S. and Europe — a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military to prepare options for retaliation against Ukraine for a drone strike on a student dorm in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine. READ MORE . . .
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