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Bragging of Wartime Iran Blockade, Trump Admits 'We're Like Pirates'
"We took over the cargo. We took over the oil. It’s a very profitable business," said the American president, of seizing ships many thousands of miles away from US waters. No mention of what the war of choice against Iran is costing the US taxpayer.
May 02, 2026
President Donald Trump on Friday night openly bragged about the US military acting "like pirates" in the world's oceans as he described recent activities of the US Navy incapacitating vessels at sea and then taking their cargo.
"We took over the cargo. We took over the oil. It’s a very profitable business," Trump said with a smile as the friendly crowd at the Forum Club in Palm Beach, Florida, cheered him on.
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Rights Group Petitions Israeli Supreme Court to Free Abu Safiya and 13 Other Gaza Doctors
By holding doctors from Gaza without charge, Physicians for Human Rights Israel said the military was "effectively paralyzing an entire healthcare system already made fragile by the ongoing destruction."
May 01, 2026
An Israeli human rights group is petitioning for the country's Supreme Court to order the release of 14 doctors from Gaza who have been imprisoned for more than a year without charges.
Among them is Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been detained without charges since December 2024 and this week had his detention extended by a district court, which Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) described as "unlawful."
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