Ireland fans interrupt game in protest of upcoming Israel match

• Post author:Alaa Shamali
• Post published:29 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

The friendly match between the Republic of Ireland national football team and the Qatar national team on Thursday evening turned into a platform for public protest against the anticipated match against Israel in the UEFA Nations League. Irish fans threw soft tennis balls bearing the Palestinian flag onto the pitch in the 10th and 20th minutes, prompting the referee to temporarily suspend the match amidst an atmosphere charged with political messages and solidarity with Gaza. The fans also wrote the phrase “Stop the match ” and raised Palestinian flags and banners demanding the cancellation of the Ireland-Israel match, reflecting a surge…

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Israel lobbying US to murder chief Iranian peace negotiator

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:29 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

Founded as it is on a murderous, racist ideology — and run by a man using constant war to stay out of prison — Israel has no intention of allowing peace to break out between the US and Iran. Israel’s fascist security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir boasted that Israel would “not allow” a deal between Trump and Tehran to go through. The US promptly attacked Iran again in another appalling, but not shocking, display of bad faith. But the apartheid colony isn’t satisfied — and has been demanding that the US murder Iran’s chief negotiator, highly-educated parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. Tehran…

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US reimposes sanctions on UN’s Albanese for opposing Israel’s crimes

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:29 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

The Trump regime has put UN human rights advocate Francesca Albanese back under punitive sanctions for her continued opposition to and scrutiny of Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people. US judge Richard Leon had ordered the lifting of sanctions after legal action by her husband and daughter, who are US citizens, but the government appealed. Now a panel of three Washington DC appeal judges have put an “administrative stay” on Leon’s ruling. They described the stay as “procedural” only and insisted that they were making no judgment on the merits of Leon’s decision or the Trump regime’s appeal. But the White…

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Mandelson vetting issues Starmer ignored went way beyond Epstein

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:29 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

The massive issues Keir Starmer ignored about Peter Mandelson went far beyond the disgraced Mandelson’s fan-boying of serial child-rapist Jeffrey Epstein. New information from “multiple sources” indicates that UK Security Vetting (UKVI) raised concerns about numerous Mandelson relationships. These included his long-known closeness to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, links to Chinese finance minister Lan Fo’an and to Israeli military intelligence boss Tamir Hayman. All were flagged before Starmer appointed Mandelson as UK ambassador to the US — and ignored just as much Mandelson’s ardour for Epstein. A fourth compromising — and British — figure was also flagged, but has not yet…

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Humiliated Trump threatens to bomb Oman — a US ally — in latest bizarre rant

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:29 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

US president Donald Trump just threatened to bomb Oman, a US ally. Increasingly humiliated by his failing war against Iran, Trump has become more and more erratic. Oman was mediating the last US-Iran deal which Trump broke in February under pressure from Israel. Trump was waffling about a potential Pakistan-brokered peace deal with Iran when he made the bizarre threat. Tehran has said it wants Oman to help impose tolls on a re-opened Strait of Hormuz, a vital energy corridor. Trump, whose attack predictably led to the strait being closed in the first place, had a little tantrum about the idea:…

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Westminster won’t admit Scotland’s involvement in illegal Iran war

• Post author:Cameron Baillie
• Post published:29 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

Westminster is making Scotland complicit in Trump’s illegal, Zionist-led war on Iran. That is: concretely, materially and operationally complicit, via a publicly owned airport in South Ayrshire. Scotland’s Government claims it cannot legally close Prestwick to US Air Forces without Westminster, but the UK Government will not publicly account for its decisions. Westminster — An obfuscated Labour letter In early March, Scotland’s External Affairs Secretary Angus Robertson wrote to Darren Jones, Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, seeking urgent reassurance. The Scottish Government-owned airport, Robertson noted, was “not provided information about the purpose or mission of the aircraft using their facilities.” He…

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Scotland’s airport is complicit in illegal US-Zionist war on Iran

• Post author:Cameron Baillie
• Post published:29 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

Scotland is apparently complicit in Trump’s illegal, Zionist-led war on Iran. That is: concretely, materially and operationally complicit, via a publicly owned airport in South Ayrshire. Scotland — flights implicated in war crimes The National‘s analysis of flight tracking records reveals that US military aircraft departed Glasgow Prestwick Airport at least eight times in May 18–25. These seven days preceded Monday’s renewed strikes on Iran. Among aircraft identified were the C-17 Globemaster and the Lockheed C-130T Hercules. Both are heavy military transport planes, flying onwards to staging posts including Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily. The Sicilian bas is a key hub…

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Israel’s far-right defence minister openly pledges to ethnically cleanse Gaza

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:29 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

The settler-colonial state’s far-right defence minister, Israel Katz, has openly stated Israel’s intention to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Genocidal intentions have being central to Israeli state ideology. Lawyers and human rights groups attacked Katz. The Guardian reported on 29 May: Katz said the mass departure of Palestinians from Gaza would go hand in hand with the exclusion of Hamas from power. Katz himself said: We committed that Hamas will not rule Gaza civilly or militarily, and so it shall be, and also the voluntary emigration plan from Gaza will be implemented. Everything at the right timing and in the right manner. Yet…

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Former BBC Middle East correspondent: broadcaster was central to ‘Labour antisemitism’ scam

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:28 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

The BBC’s former Middle East correspondent has described how the broadcaster was a “prime mover” in the ‘Labour antisemitism’ scam that helped topple Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. Tim Llewellyn was writing a review, for Electronic Intifada, of Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt’s new book Killing Corbynism: Zionism’s War on Socialism. Llewellyn says that the BBC generated a “tidal wave of lies and misreporting” on Corbyn’s party and the left in general. He adds that this tidal wave was so large — and so unchallenged by so-called ‘mainstream’ journalists — that it is routinely parroted as fact. Often by those same hacks, despite being entirely…

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Question Time assembles panel of AI industry stooges for tonight’s special episode

• Post author:Alex/Rose Cocker
• Post published:28 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

BBC’s Question Time is at it again — this time, the show has put together a homogeneously pro-AI panel for tonight’s special on the environmentally ruinous technology. Green leader Zack Polanski went so far as to speculate that the entire episode was bought and paid for by the AI lobby. Likewise, journalist Caroline Cadwalladr characterised the show as laundering AI’s image in a similar manner to its performance with Nigel Farage. Long-time readers will already be familiar with the Canary’s distaste for the national broadcaster’s flagship panel show. Question Time has previously faced allegations of blocking pro-Palestine audience members, mis-labelling panelists to massage right-wing…

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Ian McKellen to lead protest against anti-LGBTQ+ laws in Commonwealth

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:28 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

Actor and LGBTQ+ rights campaigner Ian McKellen will launch a march in central London on Saturday 30 May. It will protest against the criminalisation of LGBTQ+ people in 29 Commonwealth member states under colonial-era laws originally imposed by the UK. The march starts at 12 noon, outside the Nigerian High Commission, 9 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5BX. LGBTQ+ people still at risk in Commonwealth Six Commonwealth countries have a maximum sentence of life in prison. In Uganda, Brunei and northern Nigerian states, same-sex relations can carry the death penalty. Many of those attending the protest are LGBTQ+ refugees who have fled persecution…

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Javier Bardem and Yasmin Finney tackle corporate intimidation in ‘SLAPP Suit’

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:28 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

Academy Award-winning actor Javier Bardem and Children’s and Family Emmy Award-nominated actress Yasmin Finney star in SLAPP Suit. It’s a new short film released globally by Greenpeace International on 28 May. SLAPP Suit dramatises the threat of, and resistance to, abusive SLAPP lawsuits. You can watch the film here. Billionaire bullies and corporate polluters use Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) to bury activists, journalists, whistleblowers, and non-profit organisations in legal fees, drain their time and resources, and ultimately make the cost of dissent too high. Greenpeace targeted by SLAPPs US-based fossil fuel pipeline company Energy Transfer has been waging back-to-back…

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Carns calls drones “most effective killing weapon” the same day he deploys mine hunting drones to Hormuz

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:28 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

Former special forces soldier-turned-defence minister Alistair Carns boasted on Wednesday that drones were the “most effective killing weapons” at a summit in Riga, Latvia. Thousands of miles away, the Ministry of Defence posted a video of Carns on Wednesday that showed him “droning about drones” on the RFA Lyme Bay, which they said had left Gibraltar for a mine-hunting mission in the Strait of Hormuz. The post said: RFA Lyme Bay has left Gibraltar, carrying underwater drones and cutting-edge minehunting kit, ahead of a potential deployment to safeguard navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. Alistair Carns explains why this autonomous tech…

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Graphic footage warning: Israel slaughters families in Eid journalist assassination strike

• Post author:Skwawkbox
• Post published:28 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

The occupation slaughtered families as it bombed at least one residential building in Gaza City trying to murder a journalist last night, 27 May 2026. Israel perpetrated the attack as Muslim families marked Eid al-Adha, one of Islam’s two main annual festivals. The colonisers also murdered civilians in Lebanon. Warning — disturbing footage. One video is attached directly as Meta has disabled embedding. Omar al-Gedi entered the building as it burned after the night-time airstrike. He filmed hideously-wounded victims being removed as fire-fighters tried to extinguish the flames: https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/gaza-city-bombing-270526-omarelgedi.mp4 He also captured a rescue worker carrying a dead child from the…

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Israel has killed 910 people in Gaza during ‘ceasefire’

• Post author:Charlie Jaay
• Post published:28 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

Content warning: this article features video footage of graphic injuries to children, and depicts video footage of dead children. Please exercise caution before reading ahead. The so-called ceasefire in Gaza has been in place for 227 days, as of 27 May 2026, but the humanitarian catastrophe is worsening every day. Attacks and killings continue to devastate civilian life while the Israeli occupation evades its obligations regarding entry of humanitarian aid. Martyrs and injured civilians arrive daily to under-resourced hospitals across the Strip. The Ministry of Health and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society report that bodies remain trapped under the rubble and…

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DWP hypes youth unemployment panic ahead of Milburn Review

• Post author:Rachel Charlton-Dailey
• Post published:28 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

The long-awaited interim report into the Milburn Review on youth unemployment is expected today. In typical style, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are already steering the corporate media in its benefits-hating direction. DWP Milburn review out today In November 2025, the department announced an independent review into why so many young people were Not in Employment, Education of Training (NEETs). The review is run by Alan Milburn. He has been prolific in wanting to strip disabled people of unemployment benefits. Additionally, the review will focus heavily on why kids aren’t working or in education. However, this is Labour so…

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Labour chair to Farage: report your so-called Russian hack to the authorities, or I will

• Post author:Alex/Rose Cocker
• Post published:28 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

Labour chair Anna Turley has issued an ultimatum to Nigel Farage: he has 24 hours to report his claim to have been a victim of a Russian hack to security services. If not, Turley plans to do it for him.  It’s “in the public and national interest” to make sure that a possible attack by a foreign state is investigated properly, according to the letter Turley sent to the Reform leader. Farage needs to sound the espionage alarms On 23 May, Farage claimed that counter-espionage experts employed by Reform had found proof that Russian hackers used spear phishing to break into…

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MAP aid worker and baby son injured during Israeli strikes on Gaza City

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:28 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

A staff member at Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) and her baby son have been injured in an Israeli military airstrike on a residential area of Gaza City. On the evening of Tuesday 26 May, a MAP programme officer sustained minor injuries when Israeli forces struck a residential building adjacent to her home. The attack also injured her baby son. Both are now in a stable condition. On the same evening, simultaneous Israeli military attacks targeted residential apartments and other civilian sites in Gaza City. They reportedly killed six people and injured several others. Mai Elawawda, MAP’s communications officer in Gaza,…

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Cost of Iran war forces US military to cut training budgets at home

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:28 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

The cost of the unprovoked US war on Iran is limiting routine training and maintenance at home. The military’s usual practice flights, training exercises, and the upkeep of equipment have all been affected as the American empire strains under the demands of the failing war. CNN reported: The Navy’s top officer, Adm. Daryl Caudle, told House Armed Services Committee lawmakers earlier this month that his 2026 budget “didn’t bake in [Operation] Epic Fury” and that the Navy faces impacts on “routine operations” as a result. That includes having to limit training exercises, flight training hours and training for new recruits, he…

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Beyond the bean: Coffee’s footprint vs small-format stimulants

• Post author:Nathan Spears
• Post published:28 May 2026
• Post last modified:8 June 2026

The morning cup of coffee has an impact that most consumers are unaware of. A real impact, in terms of carbon and water. New forms of stimulants are also appearing on the shelves and at the checkout in the UK, from caffeine pouches to concentrated shots, and they raise a legitimate question. The figures associated with a cup of coffee are higher than marketing tends to suggest. So how does coffee actually compare to small-format alternatives, per serving, by the kettle? The hidden weight of your morning brew Most of coffee’s environmental cost is paid before the beans leave the farm.…

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