From Evo Morales former President of Bolivia:

The United States ordered the government of Rodrigo Paz to carry out a military operation, with the support of the DEA and the U.S. Southern Command, to capture or kill me.

Among the promoters of that action are the former Minister of Government under Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada—who fled to Miami after the Black October Massacre (2003)—Carlos “Zorro” Sánchez Berzaín; and the Vice Minister of Social Defense, Ernesto Justiniano, who is in Washington.

Beyond that, the government is waging an intense campaign of defamation, insults, and baseless accusations, with advice from foreign experts in dirty war and fake news, such as the Argentine Fernando Cerimedo, sent to Bolivia by the right-winger Javier Milei, whose dirty operations have already been exposed by honest Bolivian journalists.

They are in the Tropics:
Ninth Army Division: Commander Col. Franz Andrade Loza. The government promised to promote him to general and appoint him commander of the Armed Forces if he “takes out Evo.”

The F-10 unit under the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces (Gen. Víctor Hugo Balderrama), led by Lt. Col. Carlos Giménez Ortuño, former aide to Jeanine Añez's Minister of Defense, Fernando López.

The CITE (paratrooper military unit) commanded by Lt. Col. Santiestevan, who was imprisoned for the massacres of the Añez regime in Sacaba and Senkata.

The CIE 298 (Army Intelligence Company) whose members trained at Cotapachi to carry out the operation in the Tropics.

F-10 snipers from the Challapata Ranger Regiment.

From the Ingavi VII Sajama Battalion, dozens of soldiers were sent, including lieutenant colonels, captains, lieutenants, and non-commissioned officers.

The Bolivian military will be under the command of U.S. Marines and Paraguayan DEA agents, who have no qualms about massacring brothers and sisters living in the Tropics.

Two months after Trump announced that the US would provide insurance to ships seeking to transit the Strait of Hormuz, the programme has not provided a single dollar of cover.

The scheme never got off the ground, according to insurance brokers, as it did not fulfil all the requirements needed for ships transiting the strait and was tied to a US naval escort for vessels, which has not been established.

But the up to $40bn programme has not yet been used at all, two people familiar with its operations said, even as insurance rates have been stuck at multiples of their prewar levels.
The scheme never got off the ground, according to insurance brokers, as it did not fulfil all the requirements needed for ships transiting the strait and was tied to a US naval escort for vessels, which has not been established.

Here is a very good analysis by John Konrad:

What if the White House has no intention of reopening the Strait of Hormuz?
What if this war is really about ships & tariffs?

And this:

"The Hormuz Hypothesis – What If the U.S. Navy Isn’t in a Hurry to Reopen the Strait?"

ZelenskyGate

According to Ukrainian MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak, Zelensky personally ordered to find money to bail Andriy Yermak out of jail.

US Treasury issues third extension of Russian oil waiver — as Tasnim reports Washington has agreed to suspend Iranian oil sanctions during negotiations.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday a new 30-day general license allowing “vulnerable nations” to access Russian oil currently stranded at sea — the third iteration of a waiver first introduced in mid-March after the US-Israeli war on Iran triggered the largest oil supply disruption in history.

US waivers won’t change Russian oil imports: Indian officials

India has been buying Russian crude before, during and after the waiver period, said Petroleum Ministry official Sujata Sharma.

Reuters:

India has been buying Russian ​oil irrespective of U.S. ‌sanctions waivers, Sujata Sharma, a joint secretary in the petroleum ​ministry, said on ​Monday.
"Regarding (the) American waiver on Russia, ⁠I would like to ​emphasize that we have ​been purchasing from Russia earlier ... I mean before waiver also, during ​waiver also, and ​now also," she told a media ‌briefing.

Chihuahua is barking again.
Lithuania called on NATO to attack Kaliningrad.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said NATO should demonstrate its ability to overcome Russian defenses in the Kaliningrad region, according Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung:

We must show the Russians that we can penetrate the small fortress they have built in Kaliningrad. NATO has the means to raze the Russian air defense and missile bases there to the ground if necessary.

While 🤡 Zelenskyy keeps warning all of Europe about Russia, it is Ukrainian drones that are increasingly becoming a real security problem.

Greece:

Athens told Kiev that after the detection of Ukrainian Cossack Mamai-type kamikaze drone in Lefkada, it should withdraw all drones that remain off the radar away from Greek coasts. In the diplomatic field, Athens has already sent a message in all directions that the risks posed to security and the environment in the seas surrounding Greece by Ukrainian drones cannot be ignored. At the bilateral level, however, Athens has already communicated with all the main allies, including the US which seems to have shown particular interest in this particular case. There is also a third scenario on the table, under which Greece will leverage its participation in the UN Security Council to take an initiative that will highlight the issue of navigation safety and the dangers of the uncontrolled use of USVs in populated and non-conflict areas.

‘There’s no ceasefire’: Sister of assassinated Hamas leader to The Grayzone

On May 16, a missile from an Israeli drone slammed into a Gaza City residential apartment building late in the evening, killing 7 people and wounding 50.

Among the dead is Izz al-Din al-Haddad, known as Abu Shuaib, the general commander of Hamas’ Al Qassam Brigades – effectively the leader of the resistance in Gaza

It is clearly aimed at weakening the resistance, while provoking it into open conflict as Israel bombards Southern Lebanon and edges once again toward war on Iran

Izz al-Din al-Haddad was considered a seminal figure in the advancement of Gaza’s armed resistance.

The Grayzone spoke to Haddad’s sister, Umm Saeed Al-Haddad, inside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Mosque in central Gaza. She slammed international institutions for failing to apply even a modicum of pressure to force Israel to abide by the ceasefire.

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@thegrayzonenews

🚨🚨🚨 The UN accuses Israel of committing EXTERMINATION in Gaza.

“Israel is responsible for extermination, murder, using starvation as a method of war..” —The UN Human Rights Council

Sweden: we're not a party to war in Ukraine.

Also Swedish Prime Minister Kristersson about Ukrainian drones using Baltic chihuahuas territory for attacks on Russia:

We should help Ukraine as much as possible to direct strikes in the right direction.

For years, the Imam Khomayni mosque and medical center provided free treatment and medicine to the people of Maachouq in South Lebanon.

That all ended yesterday morning, when Israeli forces decimated the building, and the adjacent civil defense headquarters, with two massive rocket strikes. Wyatt Reed reports from the scene.

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NATO and EU don't hide it anymore.

FT:

France is seeking to join a German-British plan to produce new long-range missiles as Europe races to strengthen its ability to strike deep inside Russia without the help of the US.