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Owen Jones   That is a colossal, colossal defeat, unprecedented for the United States, far worse than the other defeats that it suffered. It's turned Iran into a global power.   

Breaking Points   Krystal and Saagar are joined by Professor Marandi on the latest round of negotiations. 

BREAKING: Israel just carried out a horrific massacre in Maarakeh, South Lebanon. Dropping bombs on residential buildings. Children are being pulled from under the rubble of their own homes. Entire families wiped out. The scenes are devastating. pic.twitter.com/yaj3uH3jSV — sarah (@sahouraxo) May 26, 2026  

Danny Haiphong  As a shooting rocked the White House, US president Donald Trump was busy playing a dangerous game with Iran, touting a fake peace deal for public consumption while preparing for all out war with the Israeli regime. Danny Haiphong reviews the latest developments and explains what's really going on beyond the headlines.

The Grayzone    

Owen Jones   This is one crime in an overarching abomination. Thousands of people, including 800 at least, who were last seen in Israeli custody and then disappeared. No trace. The families have no idea where they are, no idea what happpened to them at all.  

The Jimmy Dore Show   Leaked audio from a Meta all-hands meeting reveals Mark Zuckerberg telling employees that the company is training AI models by having them "watch really smart people" at Meta perform tasks like coding, with the goal of dramatically improving AI capabilities—after which Meta laid off 8,000 workers via 4 a.m. emails and reassigned 7,000 more to AI-focused teams. Jimmy Dore and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger note that Zuckerberg acknowledged that Meta's engineers are "significantly higher" in quality than contract workers, making them ideal training data for AI that will eventually replace them, and that Meta has committed over $100 billion to AI capital expenditures while cutting jobs. Just hours before the layoffs, Meta donated nearly a million dollars to a pro-Becerra super PAC in California, which Jimmy calls an "investment in Zuckerberg's dystopian future." The segment concludes by noting that tech layoffs have hit 138,000...

Geopolitical Economy Report   It has become so widely accepted that the US lost the war with Iran that now even American neoconservative hawks admit it. Ben Norton explains why major neocons like Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol have turned against the war. They lament that Iran's victory reflects the decline of the US empire and the transition to a more multipolar world order. 

Owen Jones                    If this is what is being done to white westerners predominantly on camera, keep thinking what the hell are they doing to Palestinians behind closed doors where there is no cameras.  

CGTN   Russian President Vladimir Putin has wrapped up his state visit to China. The bilateral meeting in Beijing has led to the extension of the 25-year-long Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation, with high political mutual trust the backbone. Meanwhile, China and Russia issued a joint statement on promoting a multipolar world and a new type of international relations. What does the China-Russia relationship seriously mean to the two countries and to the world?