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Geopolitical Economy Report   OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, is in crisis after the United Arab Emirates (UAE), its third-largest producer, left the group. Donald Trump openly praised the decision, saying it is good for the United States. Ben Norton explains why the US government opposes OPEC, which is rooted in the Third World nationalist movements of the 1960s, which sought more economic resources for the Global South. The USA wants its Big Oil corporations to dominate the industry.

Lee Camp - Unredacted Tonight   Trump’s latest budget proposal cuts food stamps, Medicaid, and Pre-K while pushing military spending higher than the next 140 countries combined. The Washington Post even admits the Pentagon doesn’t even know how to spend that much money. Lee Camp breaks down exactly what the US could do with $1.5 trillion—if wanted to. 

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Times Now World   Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens on Thursday, condemning the interception of Gaza-bound aid vessels by the Israeli navy near Crete and calling on the Greek government to intervene.    Demonstrators accused authorities of failing to prevent or respond to the operation involving the Global Sumud Flotilla, with some alleging “criminal negligence.” Israel said it intercepted 22 vessels in international waters and detained activists, while organisers disputed the account and described the action as unlawful.    The incident has drawn criticism from several European countries and added to tensions surrounding aid access to Gaza. 

globinfo freexchange   Member of the Greek Parliament and leader of Plefsi Eleftherias party, Zoe Konstantopoulou, furiously condemned the fact that an Israeli warship illegally kidnapped activists carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, in a location between Peloponnese and Crete, within the Greek territory.  Konstantopoulou stated that the current corrupted Greek government has become a pawn of Netanyahu's Apartheid regime and connected the fact to the huge wiretapping scandal, as it has been proved that a former Mossad agent sold the spying software Predator to the Greek government. The software has been used by a team close to Mitsotakis, to trap the phones of a large number of politicians (even from the government itself), highly ranked members of the military, journalists and others. Mitsotakis regime has evolved into the most corrupted government since the fall of military junta in Greece, and according to a number of polls, its acceptance rate dived rapidly in record lows, ...

Israel has intercepted aid ‌ships bound for Gaza in international waters near Greece, flotilla organisers said on Thursday, decrying ‌the move as an “escalation of Israel’s impunity”. The Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza ​sailed from the Spanish port of Barcelona on April 12th, aiming to try to break the Israeli blockade. President Catherine Connolly’s sister Margaret Connolly is aboard one of the vessels forming part of the flotilla. The flotilla has said its objective is “breaking the illegal blockade on Gaza and establishing a people’s sea corridor” for food and medicines and other essential supplies. It also claims to have assembled the largest fleet dedicated to breaking the siege of Gaza, with more than 1,000 participants.   Full report:   https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2026/04/30/israel-intercepts-gaza-aid-flotilla-catherine-connollys-sister-is-part-of-organisers-say/  

Al Jazeera English  A spokesperson for the Global Sumud Flotilla has described Israel’s boarding of its vessels as “a straight-up attack on unarmed civilian boats in international waters." Press officer Gur Tsabar, speaking to Al Jazeera from Toronto, Canada, said the sea assault is taking place “hundreds of miles from Israel” with the flotilla being “surrounded and threatened at gunpoint." “This is illegal under international law. Israel has no jurisdiction in these waters. Boarding these boats amounts to illegal detention—potentially kidnapping on the high seas,” said Tsabar. “It’s critical that all governments act now. Every government has an obligation to protect the more than 400 civilians onboard and uphold international law. Silence in this moment is absolute complicity.”

UnHerd and Econoclasts     In this episode of The Econoclasts , Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the orthodox view that the newly established U.S. dollar swap lines for Gulf states are a charitable bailout for the Middle East, arguing instead that these facilities are a desperate signalling mechanism designed to bail out the American financial system and the petrodollar recycling machine, as the escalating war in Iran threatens to permanently dismantle U.S. economic hegemony.

The Jimmy Dore Show    

Glenn Diesen   Prof. Richard Wolff discusses how the Iran War undermines the petrodollar and the US-led international economic system that has sustained the US empire.