Welcome to democracyow democracynow.org the War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. President Trump’s claiming a deal has been reached to end the war with Iran, but Iranian officials say nothing has been finalized yet. Trump made the announcement on Thursday following two days of strikes and after threatening to take Harg Island, a key Iranian oil hub.
Trump spoke at the White House on Thursday. We just made a great settlement of the war with Iran and we’re going to be uh subject to finalization of documents which should get done over the next few days. >> Trump went on to say a signing ceremony could be held in Europe in the coming days. A spokesperson for Iran’s foreign ministry said the text of a deal is mostly finalized, but also said the US keeps quote changing their positions unquote. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel was not party to any new U Iran agreement.
On Thursday, forces struck another commercial tanker in the Gulf of Oman and the third US attack on a boat in the region this week. Oman’s military-ledd efforts to rescue the sailors. India’s condemned the strikes which of all targeted ships with crews from India. Three Indian sailors died in one of the strikes. US Central Command claimed the three boats were targeted for violating the US blockade of Iran and for failing to comply with US orders.
In India, the father of one of the sailors killed called for his son’s body to be returned home. I only have one demand that the mortal remains of my son be brought back. I want to know about his last moments. Was he provided rescue help or not? What were the circumstances that led to the death of three crew members of our country?
All others were rescued. Why not them? Elon Musk is poised to become the world’s first trillionaire when his rocket company SpaceX makes its debut on Wall Street today in the largest IPO in history. The company says it’s selling over 555 million shares at a price of $135 a share. Musk claims his company is worth over $1.
7 trillion. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren written to the Securities and Exchange Commission asking for the agency to investigate the SpaceX stock sale. She said, quote, “This is shaping up to be the most rigged IPO in American history.” Meanwhile, environmental and conservation groups have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a land swap that would give SpaceX more than 700 acres of a national wildlife refuge in South Texas. This is Becca Hosa of the South Texas Environmental Justice Network.
>> SpaceX getting more money means the rocket facility getting larger, creating more damages to poor people’s homes, dumping more pollution into the environment into onto our beach. Um, the SpaceX IPO means a bigger environmental disaster for this South Texas community. President Trump said Thursday he’s nominating Jay Clayton to be the next director of national intelligence to oversee the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies. Clayton’s US attorney for the Southern District of New York and former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Trump had faced bipartisan criticism for his decision last week to name MAGA loyalist Bill Py as acting director of national intelligence after Tulsi Gabbard announced she was resigning to show opposition to PY.
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers voted Thursday against a short-term extension of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act known as FISA. The provision is set to expire today. Many express fear PY would use the provision to gather intelligence to target critics of Trump. Trump’s new pick to be intelligence chief Jay Clayton has faced criticism as US attorney over his handling of the unsealing of grand jury materials records related to Jeffrey Epstein. The family of the Palestinian doctor Husam Abu Safia say they fear he’s being tortured in Israeli detention after the doctor appeared by video link at an Israeli Supreme Court hearing in Jerusalem.
One of the doctor’s sons, Ilas Abu Safia, told Al Jazzer, quote, “We did not only see the face of a father we have missed for many long months. We saw the marks of torture, pain, and exhaustion clearly etched on his face.” Dr. Husam Abu Safia has been detained without charge for over 500 days. Prior to his detention, Dr.
Abu Safi had served as a pediatrician and director of the Camil Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. His lawyer, Nasar Odes, spoke after Wednesday’s hearing. The doctor explained to us and also to the court that he is still suffering from severe back pain and neck pain as a result of an assault he suffered during his transfer 2 months ago from Nafa prison to NGV prison. He has not received treatment yet and needs medical followup due to chronic illnesses. He is experiencing vision problems due to the confiscation of his eyeglasses which he has not yet received.
Also, we continue to see signs of skin diseases that were on the doctor’s hands and are widespread in the political prisoner sections within Israeli prisons. These diseases have spread significantly and as a result of medical negligence. >> The Trump administration has issued fresh sanctions on Cuba’s oil and gas company as the island already faces a near total fuel and naval blockade and worsening humanitarian crisis. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the announcement Thursday, claiming without evidence that Cuban officials quote resell countless barrels of scarce energy on the secondary market, hoarding energy supplies for its military unquote. In response, Cuba’s Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on social media, quote, “The US Secretary of State, driven by vindictive sentiments of the elitist click that propelled his political career, is now further tightening the blockade.
” To justify this, he doesn’t resort to excuses prepared by his State Department, but rather to the usual vulgar lies, he said. Here in Britain, Prime Minister Kier Starmer is facing a growing political crisis. On Thursday, Britain’s Defense Secretary John Healey and Armed Forces Minister Al Kins resigned, accusing Starmer of failing to invest enough money in the military. This comes as Starmer faces pressure to shift government spending from welfare to warfare. Protests continue in Albania with thousands of people taken to the streets of the capital Tana demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ed Rama over the development of a massive resort linked to Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law.
The multi-billion dollar project would turn an abandoned Soviet weapons base known as Sazan into a luxury island resort. Protesters held signs that read Albania is not for sale. >> The government is corrupted. The opposition is corrupted. They are in this together.
So we hope we can reach something. It’s the first time that the we protest. The protest is at this scale. It’s the first time that no political party is uh uh included. So we are very happy to be here and we hope we can achieve something.
Pope Leo has appealed to world leaders to treat migrants more humanely. During a trip to the Canary Islands, he threw a wreath of flowers into the waves to remember those he called our brothers and sisters who had died while trying to reach the shores of Europe. >> We cannot grow accustomed to counting the dead. Human dignity has no passport and does not lose its value when crossing a border. May history not accuse us of turning the pain of those who suffer into a common sight along our shores.
Today, here by the sea, every individual that arrives asks us, “What remains of our humanity? Sooner or later, it will be known whether we protected life or whether we yielded to indifference.” >> Many migrants who’d fled to Spain’s Canary Islands praised Pope Leo’s trip. Sung Kamar is a migrant from Guinea. >> It gives you hope.
The Pope came for the migrants. I’m one of them. So, I’m happy to see the Pope. Maybe he can solve the migrants problems. >> In New Jersey, immigrant rights advocates say dozens of women detained at the Newark Ice Jail known as Delaney Hall have joined an ongoing hunger and labor strike.
That’s in its third week. Among their demands is for the jail to fire a female guard accused of sexually assaulting at least 10 immigrant women. The initial hunger and labor strike began May 22nd, led by an estimated 300 prisoners. In retaliation, activists say most of the hunger strikers have been transferred out of Delaney Hall and sent to other ICE jails in recent days. Delaney Hall is run by the for-profit company Geog Group.
In related news, the Jersey City Council has unanimously approved a resolution to divest from Citizens Bank as calls to boycott the bank row over its financing of Geog Group and Core Civic, two of the nation’s largest private operators of ICE jails. To see more on our coverage of Citizens Bank, you can go to democracynow.org. The State Department’s reportedly opened an investigation into the Iranianborn political analyst Treata Parsy in a move that could result in him being deported. This according to the online media outlet The Free Press.
Parsey, who holds a green card, has lived in the United States for 25 years. He co-founded the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the National Iranian American Council. In recent months, Parsley’s been a leading critic of Trump’s war in Iran and has appeared on numerous media outlets, including Democracy Now. To see our interviews with him, go to democracynow.org.
The FIFA World Cup kicked off Thursday with the opening match play between Mexico and South Africa at the iconic Estadio Aztec, the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City. Protests have continued against FIFA over its complicity with Trump’s policies and exorbitant ticket prices that have made matches inaccessible to most fans. FIFA has also faced backlash after Hades qualifying team was forced to change the design of its World Cup jersey when it was deemed too political by FIFA. The front of the jersey originally included a depiction of Hades final revolutionary battle for independence in 1803. And in a victory for housing rights in New York City, a landlord that owns about 5,000 apartments has agreed to wave millions of dollars in back rent after Mayor Zoran Mandani took action on behalf of thousands of tenants.
Summit Properties purchased 93 buildings from bankrupt owner Pinnacle Group in March. Many of the tenants said they had for years refused to pay rent to Pinnacle Group over unsafe living conditions in their buildings. Mayor Mani said the landlord responsible for quote more than 5,000 housing violations and 14,000 complaints unquote. Affordable housing and tenants rights have been at the center of Mam Dani’s agenda. And those are some of the headlines.
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