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THE REAL POLITICK WITH MARK SLEBODA: Putin in China and Russian EW Turns Baltic Drone Attacks Upside Down

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Why Must Americans Fly to China for Cutting-Edge Cancer Care?

by Godfree Roberts Published: May 21, 2026
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HERE COMES CHINA 
A Bulletin of Information and Discussion on China's Transformations


First run on Apr 18, 2026

As regular readers know, China is advancing—rapidly and simultaneously—on almost every technological frontier and has already surpassed the United States in Medical Science1, a backwater in America where funding, careers and fortunes go to develop pharmaceutical palliatives—while life expectancy continues falling. Ferocious media attacks on surgical/innovative trials failures, plus 1000-page trials applications leave the field open to Chinese scientists. Jacob Stern, an American medical scientist (PhD in protein design) is just back from a trip with VC Sid Sijbrandij. A few excerpts to tempt you to read his entire report:

Last August, Sid Sijbrandij and I traveled to Beijing for an experimental scan to look at a biomarker that’s specifically upregulated in his cancer.2 At that time, the only place we could do this was in China, using a molecule developed by Yang Zhi (杨志)’s group at Beijing Cancer Hospital. So that’s where we went. We were stunned. The whole experience — from international patient check-in, to preparation of the radio tracer, to injection, to imaging, to discussing the result with the physician, to leaving with a glossy printout of the whole-body scan — took two hours. Even in Germany, where clinics are experienced in using developmental tracers, this process would take most of a day. Beijing broadly and the hospital specifically were surprisingly straightforward to navigate for foreigners such as us who speak no Chinese.

The “investigator-initiated trial” (IIT) is an important fundamental concept to understand. Through IITs, individual physicians at major hospitals in China can propose and run studies for cell and gene therapies under the oversight of local scientific and ethics committees. There’s no need to clear a single, centralized national gate before enrolling patients. Compare that to the United States, where early trials are usually company-driven and require formal approval from a national regulatory body (like an IND filing with the FDA) before anything can begin. The tradeoff is pretty straightforward: the US system emphasizes uniform standards and upfront rigor, while China’s IIT model pushes decision-making closer to the doctor and the patient, making it easier to start trials quickly and iterate as data comes in.

Based on what I heard on the ground, it takes about 6 months to go from a first conversation between a doctor and a patient to that patient getting dosed, and people noted that exciting programs with support from senior investigators can go even faster. This means new therapies can get to patients faster, and companies and physicians start learning from and improving the underlying therapies earlier in their development.

On my trip, I was repeatedly quoted a timeline of 18 months from a company having an idea for a therapy to testing it in a patient. My lived experience from my week on the ground backs up this speed. I experienced a sense of urgency at every level. Not just from start-up companies themselves, but also the ecosystem of third-party vendors that perform services for these companies.

During a visit with a CDMO focused on cell therapy manufacturing in Suzhou, I asked the business development rep giving the presentation about the company’s experience with non-viral gene editing. He picked up his phone. As we were preparing to leave 10 minutes later, the principal scientist responsible for the non-viral editing platform caught us by the door. He answered my questions, and we figured out the next steps to evaluate the suitability of their platform for the non-viral editing approach our collaborator is using.

It is ironic to me that the ‘marketplace of reputation’ that seems to govern China’s IIT ecosystem is more market-oriented than the regulatory apparatus we use to govern early-stage trials in the US. Every system has its strengths and drawbacks, China’s included. The parts I saw up close show how the Chinese ecosystem is leaning into its strengths — velocity of science and engineering, urgency, close-knit relationships within the ecosystem, compassion for patients. I’m hopeful that, as a country, we can reflect on and actively lean into our strengths as an ecosystem too. For more, please visit sytse.com/cancer. Please write to us with thoughts or questions at cancer@sytse.com.—Thanks to Jacob Stern and ChinaTalk. From: Clinical Trial Abundance, Made in China. Flying to China for cancer care. APR 17. 2026. ChinaTalk.

How China does it


China hospital system

Chinese hospitals and medical centers are now in general far better equipped than American counterparts to treat patients efficiently and effectively.

Leon Liao’s perspective is so valuable that I’ve hoisted it from the comments: This American medical scientist’s experience in a Beijing hospital highlights more than just speed—it reveals the deeper institutional strengths of China’s healthcare system. China’s investigator-initiated trial (IIT) ecosystem operates with stronger reputation effects, physician-led decision-making, and local ethics/scientific oversight, making it in key ways more market-oriented than the current U.S. early-stage clinical trial system, which relies heavily on rigid top-down procedures.

The real advantage lies in China’s ability to deliver speed, cost predictability, and high technical credibility—simultaneously—which many Western systems struggle to provide. What was once dismissed as basic “medical tourism” has evolved in China into a sophisticated option, supported by integrated tertiary hospitals, fast diagnostic and treatment pathways, aggressive procurement, and high-throughput specialist environments.

China compresses timelines (e.g., an experimental biomarker scan in two hours or moving from trial idea to patient in 18 months) not through isolated miracles, but through tighter coordination among doctors, hospitals, CDMOs, and research platforms, combined with lower administrative friction and stronger system-level integration.Western healthcare’s core challenge is systemic: multi-payer fragmentation, administrative burdens, specialist shortages, and referral/approval bottlenecks turn speed itself into a scarce resource.

In contrast, China has chosen a different tradeoff—lower unit prices, higher physician intensity, and concentrated top-tier capabilities—in exchange for dramatically shorter waits.Formal regulatory review timelines can also be misleading. A 30-day FDA clock matters little if reaching the starting line already takes 12–18 months and millions of dollars in preparation. China’s faster hospitals are downstream of faster regulators and lower entry barriers for early clinical experimentation.

Caveat on sensitive areas


While system coordination explains many efficiency gains, domains like organ transplantation require extra scrutiny. Short wait times there raise legitimate questions about donor sourcing, transparency, and independent verification, even as China has increased official voluntary donations and built national allocation systems in recent years.In short, China’s edge is not merely cheaper care or more hospitals—it is a structural ability to reduce coordination costs and waiting times in complex medical processes, making it a rational choice for patients seeking timely, credible advanced care.

1 Most recent item in the newsletter: In 2010, China accounted for less than 8% of global clinical trials; by 2020, 

2 While Sid has no evidence of disease, we want to use biomarker-targeted PET tracers for imaging — both to look for potential recurrence, and to do personalized biodistribution analysis of druggable targets. B7-H3 was a top target for us, as his cancer has high expression of B7-H3; were his cancer to return, we would think of treating it with a B7-H3 targeted agent, possibly with a highly potent CAR-T that Kole Roybal and his group at UCSF are developing.
 

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China as a System @leonliao
Apr 18
Edited

 
This American medical scientist’s striking experience at a Beijing hospital perfectly complements my earlier post, Why Must Americans Fly to China for Cutting-Edge Cancer Care?

https://leonliao.substack.com/p/why-more-western-patients-are-coming

What matters here is not just speed at one hospital. It is the system behind that speed. China’s IIT ecosystem — shaped by reputation effects, physician-led decision-making, and oversight from local ethics and scientific committees — is, in an important sense, more market-oriented than the current American early-stage clinical trial system, because it relies more heavily on real-world judgment by frontline doctors, patients, and institutions, and less on rigid top-down procedures.

My own post approached the issue from the patient side and made a related point: more Western patients are coming to China not simply because China is cheaper, but because China is increasingly able to offer three things that many Western systems are finding harder and harder to provide at the same time: speed, cost predictability, and sufficiently high technical credibility.

For a long time, many people understood “medical tourism” as flying to Southeast Asia for dental work, cosmetic surgery, or routine procedures. But China is entering a much more sophisticated category of decision-making. What is emerging is not a fringe alternative, but a rational cross-border choice built on top-tier hospitals, stronger specialist capacity, fast-moving diagnostic and treatment pathways, and dramatically lower total cost.

That American scientist’s observations — a two-hour experimental biomarker scan, eighteen months from idea to patient, and extremely fast coordination among doctors, hospitals, CDMOs, and research platforms — are not isolated miracles. They are the output of the same institutional logic.

China’s advantage is not simply that it has “more hospitals.” Its strongest capabilities are concentrated inside large tertiary hospitals, where outpatient services, imaging, pathology, inpatient care, and surgery can be tightly integrated within a single organizational structure. On top of that, there is stronger price control, more aggressive procurement discipline, and a physician workforce operating under high-intensity, high-throughput conditions. The result is a system that is structurally better at compressing waiting time, reducing coordination costs, and turning complex medical processes into a more efficient service chain.

So the real question Western systems should be asking is not, “Why was this one scan in China so fast?” The deeper question is: why have so many Western healthcare systems concentrated the worst frictions of medicine precisely where patients are least able to bear them — waiting, referrals, approvals, opaque billing, and fragmented organizational boundaries?

That is why I think this post gets at something important: healthcare is, at its core, also a systems design problem. America’s problem is not an absolute lack of technology, nor a total absence of top hospitals. Its problem is that multi-payer fragmentation, administrative friction, and specialist supply constraints have turned speed itself into a scarce good. In Britain and Canada, the problem looks somewhat different, but the mechanism is similar: budget constraints and queue-based rationing often translate directly into waiting lists.

China is not costless. It has simply chosen a different set of costs. It compresses unit prices, pushes doctors harder, and concentrates top capabilities in exchange for higher throughput and shorter waits. That tradeoff has real downsides. But it also helps explain why, in a growing number of cases, China is starting to look less like a peripheral medical destination and more like a serious alternative for patients who need timely, credible care.


 
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The Synthesis Apr 22

The 60-day default approval at NMPA (deemed approved if no objection raised, post-2018 reform) is the operational expression of what you're describing. FDA's median IND review is 30 days, but the prep work behind that submission averages 12-18 months and seven figures. Speed at the hospital is downstream of speed at the regulator, and increasingly downstream of who is willing to bear the prep cost.


 
Leon Liao

China as a System @leonliaoApr 22

Exactly. This is why formal review timelines can be misleading. A 30-day FDA clock tells you very little if getting to the starting line already takes 12–18 months and seven figures. At that point, the real gatekeeper is not the nominal review period. It is the prep burden.

That is also why China’s speed should be understood as a whole-system phenomenon. Faster hospitals are downstream of faster regulators, and faster regulators are downstream of a system that imposes lower entry friction on early clinical experimentation. The question is no longer just who reviews faster on paper. It is who has built a system in which fewer things have to be painfully assembled before innovation can even touch a patient.


Te Time

Te Time Apr 18

They are also real good at finding organ donors. I think the wait time is two weeks.


 
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Apr 18

That's a Falun Gong meme. Even the US Department of State concluded that it's bs. Falun Gong is a business started by a secular scam artist looking to do a pyramid scheme where adherents are forced to continually buy new "holy texts".


The Chinese government crackdown started in 1994 because of the number of people who were going bankrupt from buying all those "holy texts". Then a Falun Gong genius staged an illegal protest in Tiananmen Square and the government decided to just shut the whole cult/scam down. Falun Gong is a business masquerading as a cult (like Scientology) derived from traditional Chinese spiritual and health beliefs (like western yoga) with restrictions on using modern medicine (like Jehovah's Witnesses).


It strictly educates and controls what its followers say and do, and is aim directly at taking down the Communist Party of China, so it happily profits from political arbitrage between China and the West. Falun Gong profits from Western fascination and ignorance of Chinese culture: their Shen Yun is billed as a spectacular Cirque du Soleil-style presentation of Chinese culture that the Communists [supposedly] destroyed.


In reality, it’s a Disneyfied caricature of Chinese culture to indoctrinate audiences about Falun Gong. Falun Gong runs a propaganda campaign that’s far more sophisticated than the Communist Party of China. (Maybe they have help from a foreign agency with long experience in that field?)

 

Leon Liao

China as a System @leonliaoApr 18

That is a much more sensitive category, and I would be careful not to confuse speed with legitimacy. In some areas of healthcare, China’s advantage really does come from stronger system coordination, lower friction, and faster execution. But organ transplantation is different. If wait times are unusually short, the question is no longer just institutional efficiency. It is also about donor sourcing, transparency, and whether the process can be independently verified. In that domain, speed by itself is not a clean signal of system strength.

To be fair, China’s officially reported organ donation and transplant volumes have been rising in recent years. In 2024, the official figures reported 6,744 organ donations and 24,684 transplant surgeries. China has also built out a more complete institutional framework over the past decade. Since 2015, voluntary citizen donation has been designated as the only legal source of organs, with the reform presented as being aligned with WHO principles and still undergoing further refinement. That includes new regulations that took effect in 2024, as well as COTRS, the national organ allocation system.

At the level of system design alone, it is entirely plausible that a national allocation platform, a high concentration of major hospitals, a dense cluster of leading transplant centers, and tighter multidisciplinary integration inside large hospitals could shorten the organizational timeline at several points in the process: identifying donors, coordinating across hospitals, retrieving and transporting organs, and moving patients into surgery quickly.

But the American problem is not simply “too few donors.” It is also a system with extremely long waiting lists, complex allocation rules, difficult cross-regional coordination, and much higher compliance and transparency requirements. Both official U.S. data and the GAO have shown that around 2025, the number of people waiting for transplants in the United States was still above 100,000. So long waits in the U.S. do not automatically mean another country is “miraculously efficient.” In many cases, they also reflect the fact that the U.S. is a system with high transparency, dense rules, and heavy oversight — but also very high friction.

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The Bust-Out Of ‘America’

by Indrajit Samarajiva Published: May 20, 2026
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The Bust-Out Of ‘America’
If you analyze ‘America’ politically, you’re making an error, unwittingly. ‘America’ is not a polity, people’s opinions have nothing to do with policy, it’s a business, pathologically. The war business is booming when bombs are flying and the healthcare business is making a killing when people are dying and the media business is talking money when they’re lying.

Understanding ‘America’ through its politics is like trying to understand Coca-Cola through its advertising. Coke isn’t trying to make ‘moments’ or ‘memories’ or ‘open happiness’ or anything so humane, they’re a corporation, do I need to explain? In the same way, ‘America’ isn’t trying to deliver ‘human rights’ or ‘democracy’ or ‘freedom’, are you insane? They’re all just lying in order to sell you something. Like Michael Corleone said, it’s not political, it’s strictly business.

The class structure of ‘America’ has always been oligarchy, ie rule by the rich, who in Marxian terms are really just placeholders for the artificial species I call Capital. At founding only a fraction of even the White population could vote. They immediately put down a debtors rebellion (Shay’s) of unpaid soldier because hell with them, even being a White man wasn’t enough, you had to be a propertied White man. ‘America’ is designed for rule by property and that has never changed and never will. That’s the whole business model and why mess with a bad thing?

Colonialism has always been a business, it’s important to understand this. If you read about England at the height of its colonial power, the people in the imperial core lived like shit, you almost feel bad for them. England made poverty (even more of) a crime to turn Australia into a debtors prison. In Sri Lanka, the crocodile ringed neighborhood the colonizers used was called Slave Island or also Kompanna Veediya (company town). It’s the same thing! Colonialism was always a business and the value accrued to shareholders, not citizens (an antiquated concept).

If you understand colonialism as a business you can understand that it never ended, it just rebranded. The banner of White Empire went from Lisbon to Amsterdam to London to Washington, changing marketing terms from monarchy to democracy, but never changing the underlying business model. Why change when you’re making bank?

The Colonial Business Model

If we accept that colonialism is a business and that the business never ended, what is the business model? It’s not terribly complicated. It’s Mafianomics 101.

A Bust-Out

Everything you need to know about what’s happening to (and from) ‘America’ is in this one scene from Goodfellas.

 

 

Or this other scene from The Sopranos,

 

 
The Mafianomics business model is simple, and what is happening is called a bust-out. You take over a business—when the owner gets into your debt or comes to you for protection against someone else—and then start running up bills on the joint’s credit. When the debts overwhelm the actual business you burn it and move onto the next one. You light a match. This is the colonial business model writ small.

In the exact same way, the White mafia has ‘busted-out’ entire continents. They corrupt local compradors, debt trap entire nations, strip the resources, and then ‘light a match.’ They have done this to every country on Earth and now there’s nothing left to bust-out, so they’re cannibalizing the imperial periphery (Europe, the UAE) before descending on their own corpse.

This is how you understand what’s happening today, with war everywhere, prices rising even in the imperial core, and yet the stock markets going gangbusters. Of course, stock markets are just the place where genteel gangs do their dirt in public. The seeming illogic of modern politics is simply an age-old mafia bust-out.

A Leveraged Buy-Out

In genteel gangland, however, this isn’t called a bust-out. It’s called a leveraged buyout (LBO). It’s the same thing with more lawyers. In an LBO, private equity guys (White word for oligarchs) borrow against a company (which they don’t own yet) to buy the company. If this sounds like a con, it’s because it is, but it’s legal because the bank’s in on it. ‘America’ has legalized corruption.

Once the PE gang takes over the company, they run up bills on the joint’s credit, unload assets out the back, fire people, and maybe do a bit of insider trading. Then when the underlying business inevitably fails, they leave it for dead and move onto the next one. It’s carnivorous capitalism. A genteel bust out.

When ‘Republicans’ said (in the 1980s) that they wanted to run government like a business, this is the business model. They have been busting out the world and their own country since then, stripping assets, bilking labor, and goosing the stock market to get paid now. Now, especially since Citizens United gave corporations ‘speech’ rights, they have completed a leveraged buyout of the US government, making the two-party system as redundant as Coke and Pepsi. And making analyzing their political positions as relevant as comparing marketing.

Now you can buy a Presidency for as little as 2 billion USD and bust out a multi-trillion dollar economy. It’s the biggest leveraged buyout in history, running up the faith and credit of the ‘United States’, looting the US Treasury, and lighting a match to the whole imperial economy. This seems cruel if you take it personally and insane if you take it politically, but remember. It’s nothing personal. It’s strictly business.

What’s Happening

This is the power that explains. We are witnessing a bust-out of the ‘United States,’ an LBO of ‘America,’ and lighting a match to the White Empire of centuries. This is what explains why the stock market goes up while everything else goes down. This is what explains all the wars against ‘America’s’ national interests, because shareholder interest (literally) trumps all. It’s really not that complicated if you stop believing the marketing and follow the money. If you ignore the politics and look at what colonialism always was. A business, built on bones.

In this sense, Trump is the perfect bag-man for the end of the ‘American’ experiment, running a country like a business and using liberal philosophy as marketing. Trump had no political experience, his first elected office was President. And he has a lot of experience with bankruptcy and fraud in many ways (from Trump Water to Trump Air to Trump Casinos) that is his business. And of course it’s not just Trump.

Obama busted people out of their homes and bailed out banks. He pretended to give them healthcare while actually entrenching the insurance companies. Biden busted-out the entire nation of Ukraine to unload expiring military supplies, and accellerated the genocide of Palestine as a going-out-of-business firepower sale and cut off the brief rise in living standards post-COVID to get back to business. They represent ‘America’ as much as Trump. This is the business of colonialism, and every US President is just a paid spokesman.

We are now at the stage in Goodfellas where they light a match to the restaurant and drive away. We are witnessing a last orgy of insider trading and profiting on controlled volatility while the strategic reserve of oil is emptied and even the home economy is hollowed out within. The peripheries of Empire are getting busted-out first but make no mistake, the whole thing is going bust. This is, inshallah, the end of it all. There’s no more out to bust, and no more leverage to be bought.

People may be like ‘this is bad for America!’ or ‘this is bad for Americans’ but this misses the point entirely. What do y’all have to do anything? You’re like the customers or workers of a company being bust-out by the Mafia, irrelevant. Colonialism was bad for everybody else in the world and after the colonizers ran through us, the colonial core is getting their just desserts in the end.

As Malcolm X said, chickens coming home to roost never made me feel bad, they always made me feel glad. Go cluck yourself, to put it indelicately. ‘America’ started as a scam by oligarchs and ends in a scam run by ‘private equity’. Call it the bust-out of the ‘United States’, the LBO of ‘America’, ‘America’s’ death throes by any other name would still reek.


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by Due Dissidence Published: May 19, 2026
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Israelis MELT DOWN Over NY Times' R*pe Exposé

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The team comments on the horrid depravity that currently permeates Israel.

Summary


The video transcript centers around the controversy sparked by a New York Times opinion piece written by Nicholas Kristoff, which alleges widespread and systematic sexual violence perpetrated by Israeli soldiers, settlers, and prison guards against Palestinians. Kristoff’s article aimed to highlight abuses faced daily by Palestinians—sexual violence as a weapon of war by Israel. The piece was met with fierce backlash, including accusations of anti-Semitism, blood libel, and lack of evidence, particularly from Israeli officials and pro-Israel commentators. Despite these attacks, The New York Times stood by Kristoff’s reporting, emphasizing his long-standing credibility and the thoroughness of his investigation, which included first-person survivor accounts, legal testimony, and corroborating evidence from international organizations.

The video also discusses the broader media landscape, noting how major outlets like CNN, AP, and BBC uncritically reported Israeli claims of sexual violence by Hamas without independently verifying the sealed evidence. It contrasts this with the skepticism and denial directed at Kristoff’s reporting on Israeli abuses. The controversy is framed within the context of entrenched Zionist positions that reject any narrative deviating from their official line, underscoring the difficulty of holding Israel accountable for alleged systemic abuses.

The transcript further explores the cultural and societal environment within Israel, highlighting disturbing examples from Israeli television where soldiers boast about using dogs to sexually abuse Palestinian prisoners, and where incitements to violence and genocidal rhetoric are met with laughter and approval. This environment is cited as evidence of a systemic culture of impunity and normalized cruelty. The video concludes by discussing the potential legal ramifications of the defamation lawsuit initiated by Israeli officials against Kristoff and The New York Times, expressing skepticism that the case will proceed to court due to the risk of exposing damaging evidence about Israeli conduct.

Highlights

  • [01:49] 📰 Kristoff reports widespread sexual violence by Israeli forces against Palestinians, backed by firsthand survivor accounts and international reports.
  • [07:45] ⚔️ The New York Times stands by Kristoff’s piece despite intense backlash and accusations of blood libel from Israeli officials.
  • [16:38] 🐕 Israeli soldiers openly joke about using dogs to sexually abuse Palestinian prisoners on Israeli TV, reflecting a sick societal attitude.
  • [20:02] 📡 Major media outlets uncritically published Israeli reports on Hamas sexual violence claims without independent verification.
  • [24:51] 🔍 Calls for Israeli government investigations into sexual abuse allegations met with silence from pro-Israel defenders.
  • [27:10] ⚖️ Netanyahu announces plans for legal action against Kristoff and The New York Times for defamation over the article.
  • [31:12] 💥 Israeli media personalities openly endorse violent, genocidal actions against Palestinians, normalized in public discourse.

Key Insights

  • [01:49] 📰 Sexual violence as a weapon of war is not unique to Hamas but is alleged to be systemic within Israeli security apparatus. Kristoff’s reporting compiles survivor testimonies, legal documentation, and international human rights reports to argue that sexual violence against Palestinians is pervasive and institutionalized, challenging the singular narrative of victimhood assigned to Israelis. This reframes the conflict’s human rights discourse and demands accountability beyond one-sided portrayals.

  • [07:45] 🛡️ The New York Times’ decision to stand by Kristoff underscores the tension between journalistic integrity and political pressures. Despite facing claims of anti-Semitism and blood libel, the Times defends Kristoff’s decades-long credibility and rigorous reporting standards. This highlights the difficulty major media face in covering contentious issues related to Israel without alienating powerful interest groups or internal stakeholders.

  • [16:38] 🐕 Public Israeli normalization of cruelty, including jokes about sexual abuse using dogs, reveals a deeply entrenched culture of dehumanization toward Palestinians. This public discourse, including laughter from audiences and tacit approval from hosts, signals a societal acceptance of violence that complicates efforts to reform or hold perpetrators accountable. It also undermines Israel’s international image and complicates legal defenses against allegations of systemic abuse.

  • [20:02] 📡 The uncritical media propagation of unverified Israeli claims of Hamas-perpetrated sexual violence contrasts starkly with the skepticism directed at allegations against Israeli forces.Major global news outlets published these claims without independent verification of sealed archives, indicating a potential bias or double standard in reporting that favors Israeli narratives while dismissing Palestinian victim testimonies and human rights concerns.

  • [24:51] 🔍 The failure of pro-Israel advocates to demand investigations into sexual violence allegations against Israeli forces suggests a selective concern for truth and justice. Rather than seeking transparency, opposition to Kristoff’s piece often relies on dismissing the claims outright, which undermines credibility and raises questions about the genuine commitment to human rights principles within these circles. The call for independent investigation is a litmus test for sincerity in defending Israel’s human rights record.

  • [27:10] ⚖️ Israel’s move to initiate a defamation lawsuit reflects a strategic attempt to silence or discredit critical reporting but faces significant legal risks. Given the extensive public evidence of abusive behavior by Israeli soldiers and settlers, proceeding to court could expose incriminating testimonies and media clips, potentially damaging Israel’s international standing. This legal tactic may be more about political theater than a genuine pursuit of justice.

  • [31:12] 💥 The openly genocidal rhetoric in Israeli media, often met with approval, points to a broader societal pathology that feeds into systemic violence and impunity. Such discourse normalizes extreme measures against Palestinians and reveals the ideological underpinnings of ongoing conflict dynamics. It also complicates peace prospects and challenges external actors who support Israel to reckon with the societal norms that perpetuate these abuses.

Conclusion

This video transcript offers a comprehensive examination of the explosive debate ignited by Nicholas Kristoff’s New York Times article about sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli forces. It situates the controversy within a larger context of media bias, political pressure, and societal attitudes in Israel that enable systemic abuses. The discussion reveals the complexity of navigating truth, accountability, and propaganda in a deeply polarized conflict, emphasizing the need for transparent investigations and critical engagement with all narratives to uphold human rights and justice.


 

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All Riot On The Northern Front

by Indrajit Samarajiva Published: May 19, 2026
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All Riot On The Northern Front

Let’s check in with Hezbollah on the northern front, because God knows they’re body-checking ‘Israel’ well enough. Hezbollah was never defeated, albeit depleted, but this has only repleted their ranks to display great feats of bravery, which we have first-person views of now, as discussed.

First, Context

‘Israel’ has invaded and occupied southern Lebanon, blowing up bridges, hospitals, homes, and generally trying to Gaza the place.

‘Israel’ has at least five divisions there. Their names are, I shit you not, Fire, Rage, Steel, Galilee, and Bang. These are stormtroopers, armor, armor, infantry, and reserves, disrespectively. They also have a lot of ‘civilian’ contractors (mainly for the purpose of denying them benefits) doing demolition work (with Caterpillar D9 Bulldozers, etc).



“Bint Jbeil and its surroundings no longer exist.” As this ‘Israeli’ OSINT person says rather proudly

The goal is the ethnic cleansing of predominantly Shia villages in southern Lebanon, to attack the base of Hezbollah as a people’s organization by attacking the people. They are of course targeting hospitals and healthcare, this is openly their thing now.


Lebanon Ministry of Health report on the targeting of healthcare

As Ha’aretz (the thinking man’s Der Stürmer) reports,

Khiam is ruined and desolate. It looks like not a single structure is standing. When one of the soldiers speaks of the "destruction of homes," his commander corrects him – "destruction of infrastructure."

Note that ‘Israelis’ don’t really lie in Hebrew, they don’t care to. But within that report you can also see how Hezbollah is responding. As the report continues,

The tractors and bulldozers are parked in a corner of the town after a long day of work. Along the way to the town, one can spot Defense Ministry contractors, who are civilians. While getting off the vehicles, two soldiers climb up a mound of rubble. These are stargazers of sorts: They are looking for drones. Within a few minutes, an "Air hammer!" call is heard, a heads-up that there may be a drone in the area. What do the soldiers do? Not very different from what they did in wars a century ago. They look for cover and jump behind a sandbank. Other soldiers try to neutralize the threat by firing their guns.

That is what Hezb is facing here, and you can see how they’re facing it. With a First-Person View against genocide.

FPVs

Max Planck said, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” First-Person View (FPV) Drones existed all through this fight, but for whatever reason Hezbollah didn’t use them much. But now an entire layer of top and middle management has been martyred and the new Hezbollah has seen the light.

None of this is to disparage those great martyrs that went before, the innovations that they pioneered (Kornets, larger drones, trained ground troops, intelligence units) form the backbone of the war effort. But that effort has four more arms now, in the form of quadcopters. Peace be upon those who went before, and more warpower to those that go forward.

Drone Technicalities

I lean on Jon Elmer’s technical reporting here, I recommend just watching his updates on Electronic Intifada, I’m just regurgitating.


The literal tech stack: fiber optic spool on the top, anti-tank warhead in middle (93mm PG-7VL), drone and battery valiantly keeping the whole thing afloat.

Elmer says Hezbollah immediately jumped to fiber-optic drones (which evolved out of radar-jamming in Ukraine slowly). These things, as you can see, have a big ‘fishing-line’ spool of fiber-optic line that literally flies the drone by wire. Hezbollah has then strapped their standard anti-tank shell (what looks like a 93mm PG-7VL) which is comically large ordance for a drone, I dunno how these things even fly, but they do.

Fiber-optics come with two benefits, they are unjammable and incredibly responsive. And using large rounds can cause significant damage even through a cope cage (the grills and netting placed around tanks since Ukraine). The only defense against these fishing lines with bomb bait is, wait for it, fishing net.





As the prophet Jesus said, talking about something else entirely, “Now as He walked by the Sea of Galilee, He saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers. And Jesus said unto them, ‘Come ye after Me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.’”

Since the Rocket-Propelled Grenade (RPG) shells Hezb uses are not, in fact, rocket-propelled, all ‘Israeli’ defensive mechanisms are like what the hell? For example, you can sometimes see the defensive Trophy system on Merkava tanks turn around, but it doesn’t fire. If it fired at FPV drones it would also be firing at every flipping bird, which would be absurd. FPV Drones are too slow-moving for the air defenses ‘Israel’ has evolved. It’s like the ‘slow blade’ in Dune, where the advent of personal shields took them back to sword-fighting because anything fast-moving would be stopped.

The only way to reliably intercept FPV drones is with dumb fishing wire net, which limits your freedom of movement and still has an entrance somewhere, or with smart, situation-aware soldiers using shotguns, which does not describe IOF home invaders and panty raiders. IOF soldiers still park their tanks with the hatches open, still do not cover their tanks with infantry, and hang out on the hood. And now I have seen them blown up in all three circumstances. They have learned nothing from Gaza, let alone from Ukraine.

Another technical aspect of these drone strikes is that they can take apart ‘Israeli’ armor (Namer transports, Merkava tanks) at the weak points. Even Caterpillar D9 bulldozers are relatively well-armored, but they still have doors, joints, ammunition stores, fuel tanks, and other spots where a well-placed round can cause catastrophic damage. And FPV drones can course correct up until the last moment to hit these exact points.

Drone Eventualities

As per the Iranian think tank Union Center, there were 73 FPV strikes in one monthish and by the time I did a report on their report, there’s a dozen more. While I honestly feel like I’ve seen every major Kornet strike, I cannot keep up with the FPV attacks of the last 24 hours. Here they are, for your priors.

 

 
Note what Hezb is targeting here, and how. The scenes open with multi-barrel rocket launchers, ie old-school but highly effective artillery. You can see the sons of the soil in the dirt, hand-assembling these things, next to pictures of the martyrs Nasrallah and Khamenei. Then they launch Hezbollah’s older, ‘third-person’ drones, ie mini-Shaheds. These operations hopefully hit something, but we can’t see, limiting their propaganda utility.

Then we get to the FPVs, flying with the missile. These scenes open with them targeting a JCB digger, ie the ‘civilian’ equipment ‘Israel’ uses to attack civilians. In the same way, they come across a wealth of demolition targets, and choose to hit a bulldozer right in the chink of its armor.

In these videos you can see the ruins the invaders have made of south Lebanon, demolishing houses and tearing up roads. Hezbollah is hitting the evil men who do this, and the machines they use to do so, and you can’t say it’s undeserved.

This is one of the best videos, not included in the montage, that shows them expertly targeting a command-and-control vehicle. Things are increasingly out of control for the ‘Israeli’ invasion of Lebanon, which was already not going well.

 

 

"أَبُو عِرْفَانِ پارسی - "This is the best Hezbollah FPV operation so far, and there are a few"

Drone Psychology

Describing the new drone threat, an IOF officer told Ha’aretz, “It’s a tactical threat, but not strategic,” but IOF soldiers and contractors are taking tactical dumps in their pants nonetheless. The biggest impact of FPVs is psychological. The IOF knows that they can get hit, as Janet Jackson said, anytime, anyplace and that puts the fear of God into otherwise g-dless people.

And in terms of propaganda, FPVs record at the same time as flying. So We are suddenly getting a lot of footage, unsettling the settlers terribly. In the past, for an anti-tank missile strike there would be one team spotting, one team shooting, and possibly another recording, and then someone editing the montage together. This could take days or weeks, not to mention the physical danger to everybody involved, and the video you got only showed impact from afar. Now they just take the footage from the drone, put a title card on it, and upload. And you see the asses and elbows of IOF soldiers running. The ordanance is less, but the pyschological impact is more.

This is important because the materiel you see getting blown can get replaced—the ‘Israeli’ conscript colony has received more than 115,600 tons of military equipment in 403 airlifts and 10 sealifts since this Iran War alone—but the conscripts and contractors operating it can break permanently. Many of them have already been deployed for years and in addition to Hezbollah fighters—described as ghosts—they now have drone fears. ‘Israel’s’ will to fight has been broken in Lebanon before, and inshallah will be again.

Finally, as context for these drone wars, it’s worth noting what ‘Israel’ uses its drones for. It used one for a strike on a father in a car, and then when his 12-year-old daughter ran away, it chased her down and killed her too. This is the absolute depravity of these people. Meanwhile the so-called terrorists are targeting exclusively military targets. So-called by who? Adjust your first-person view.


May 16th, 2026. Tagged Hezbollah, War, Technology

 

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