Your Torturous Headlines for May 12, 2026.


Posted by Jerry Alatalo

[Editor’s note: Here are WordPress Reader headlines from today posted by the 51 WordPress blogs I’m currently following. My sincere apology if the headlines are perceived as sources of depression over the precarious current state of the world; the articles attached to the headlines include positive messages, – at minimum, providing information which leads to a greater understanding of global conditions, an understanding or awareness essential for making wise/good decisions for improving conditions and/or increasing peace on Earth moving forward.]

Headlines:

‘Slow suffocation’: Oxygen crisis threatens patients at Gaza hospitals

Israel sent Iron Dome batteries, personnel to UAE during Iran war: US envoy

Hamas decries Israeli law allowing execution of its detainees as ‘new crime’

Bangladesh slams Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon

8 Israeli soldiers injured in clashes with Hezbollah during Lebanon incursion: Media

Knesset approves 1st reading of bill to place heritage sites in occupied West Bank under direct Israeli control

Your message for NHS nurses

Budget 2026: The Question Everyone Is Asking And The Answer Nobody’s Giving

Has El-Sisi driven up suicide rates in Egypt?

Report Highlights Concessions Made by Lebanese President Michel Aoun since Taking Office

At least seven times more being spent to damage climate and nature than protect it

Escalating US-Iranian Tensions Boost Gold and Oil Prices

Palestinians in Jerusalem receive only 7% of housing units

The Children Who Learn War Before They Learn The World

‘Starmageddon’ – The Anti-Polanski Smear Campaign That Ate Itself

Hebrew newspaper: Microsoft temporarily moves management of its Israeli branch to France

China Writer Dr. Kwan Lee is your short video hit machine. Learn the real stories behind the Talmud-Tanakh West’s Big Lie Propaganda Machine headlines… Dateline 260512

As We Approach 250 Years

Israeli Knesset approves law to establish military court for Hamas elite unit members

From “Mission Accomplished” to Missile Shortages: The Iran War Narrative Unravels

“Enough Is Enough”: Freed Gaza Flotilla Activists Demand the World Keep Fighting for Palestinian Prisoners and Breaking Israel’s Siege on Gaza

Israeli media attack Yamal after he waved Palestinian flag at Barcelona La Liga win celebrations

Mothers Are The Most Underestimated Force For Change

USDA Cuts Land-Access Grants, Leaving Young and Underserved Farmers in Limbo

UAE condemns hijacking of oil tanker off Yemen, expresses full solidarity with Egypt

Lena Petrova explores peace – in contrast to the omnipresent military geopolitical commenting

Iran warns of 90% uranium enrichment in case of renewed US-Israeli attack

Israeli army raids West Bank’s Ramallah, renews closure of Al Jazeera office

Occupation forces expel Catholic priest from Palestine amidst widespread anger in Christian circles

US report says UAE secretly carrying out attacks on Iran

Aramco warns world is nearing severe fuel crisis

Smotrich unveils plan to annex strategic territories in West Bank

Caveat Canvas: ShinyHunters Hacks the Education Sector

The death of professional journalism?

Will Trump’s failed Iran war provoke his break from Netanyahu’s ironclad grip?

The non-corporate nuclear news – week to 10 May

Christiane Amanpour Lays Out Her Fear for CNN With Blistering Attack on David Ellison’s CBS ‘Realignment’

Putin names condition for meeting with Zelensky

Covert NATO initiative turns film into anti-Russia battleground

The AI Mythos: If We Can Destroy the World, Imagine What We Can Do for Your Hedge Fund

Israel targets southern Lebanon with internationally banned phosphorus shells

“Existential”: Israel Quadruples Foreign-Influence Budget To Massive $730M

Press groups demand records on potentially corrupt Paramount acquisitions

Faced with a Global Financial and Economic Crisis, China Has Better Options than the US

Israeli Enemy Continues Brutal Aggression Across Southern Lebanese Towns

Why Political Anger in Australia Keeps Growing

The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians

The Great Australian Housing Panic

Motherhood in Gaza Looks Like Caregiving Even When There’s Nothing Left to Give

Israel used the Nakba to steal not only Palestinians’ land, but their financial wealth too

Israeli Soldiers Abduct Many Palestinians in Occupied West Bank

Armed Israeli Colonizers Destroy Agricultural Property, Seize Land in West Bank

The Psychic Being and Its Relation to the External Nature

The Front Fell Off The Coalition

Ted Turner: The Devil Behind Cable News

Podcast by Jasim Al-Azzawi with Phyllis Bennis on Israeli Genocide and Palestinians|Vanishing Dream

Great Satan at the Strait: Iran, International Law, and the Collapse of the “Rules-Based Order”

An AI Shift You Can’t Ignore Is Already Burying One of Medicine’s Most Promising Treatments

New York Times announces end of climate change hoax

Italy evacuates 72 Palestinian students from Gaza under university program

How Iran’s Strait of Hormuz cable sovereignty could reshape global internet governance

Israeli occupiers establish new illegal settlement outpost in West Bank, attack Palestinians

A Palestinian Boy Was Shot Dead by Israeli Troops. His Death Has No ‘Sociological Consequences’

Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport turning into ‘US military base’

Trump ‘frustrated’ with Cuba’s ability to withstand pressure, considers military action

Israel’s Smotrich orders the uprooting of 3,000 Palestinian trees in West Bank

Indonesia to deploy over 700 peacekeepers in southern Lebanon amid attacks, killings by Israel

Biden’s Genocide Squad Must Be Stopped Before They Strike Again

Palestinian prisoner dies of injuries from gunfire by Israeli occupiers in West Bank

‘War Is a Divine Mission’: The Influential Group Seeking to Bring the Israeli Army Under Torah Law

Iran says ready to give ‘memorable lesson’ to any aggression

Patrik Baab interviews Peter Hanseler

“Record Breaking” Adolescence Gets Its Inevitable Reward

Trump says Iran ceasefire on ‘massive life support,’ blasts Tehran’s response as ‘piece of garbage’

Heathrow passenger traffic falls amid Mideast conflict disruptions

UN peacekeepers in Lebanon record over 1,296 Israeli military strikes in last 3 days

Zionism Has Poisoned the UK’s Central Nervous System

Italy slams ‘too many, unacceptable’ attacks against Christians by Israel

Israeli army preparing to expand ground operations in Lebanon despite ceasefire: Report

Gaza, Doctors Under Attack

US says 62 commercial vessels redirected under naval blockade of Iran

Be Afraid….Be Very Afraid

EU cannot continue to be ‘bystanders’ on Gaza, West Bank, says Irish foreign minister

Pakistani, Saudi top diplomats discuss regional situation after Trump rejects Iranian response

Jiang Xueqin: “We Are Already in World War 3”

World’s top 10 firms gain nearly $4.2T amid Middle East war

From Shireen Abu Akleh to Amal Khalil, the killer is the same

Officials and activists are working to overturn Illinois’s anti-BDS law. Could their campaign become a national model?

That should be more-than-enough psychological torture for today.

Peace.

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The #Fascists are Lying about #ICE Murdering an Innocent Woman

Again thank you @rebeccawatson for this really insightful video about how #capitalism, #industry and #masscommunication #technology can mix into the highly toxic cocktail known as #fascism. #extremeright #ideology combined with #techneoliberalism, especially in the form of #bots and #ai, help produce an illusion of widespread agreement on completely outlandish lies, reinforcing the sense of impunity.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dnVo6FkG94U&si=ILTXm__L92pZE4rn

The Fascists are Lying about ICE Murdering an Innocent Woman

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Before digital media, print networks and pamphlet culture reshaped political belief in the early modern era.

A historical perspective on how communication technologies changed politics long before our own.

#Brewminate #History #MassCommunication

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Early Modern Mass Communication and Political Belief

An in-depth analysis of how print, communication networks, and information control reshaped political belief in the early modern world.

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#punjabuniversity #masscommunication #memories #drmehdi Two beautiful memories from my University days at Punjab University.

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