Since 2018, more than 100 billion gallons of raw sewage filled with industrial chemicals and trash have poured into the Tijuana River, according to the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC).
On what the United States EPA is doing about this, see EPA.gov.
On the international agreement between United States and Mexico addressing the issue, see IBWC
In the meantime, the Trillionaires Club is cruising…On the lawsuit, see NAACP.
A handful of African nations are rejecting American health aid in 2026, outraged by the Trump administration’s demands for access to private health records and even minerals in exchange for lifesaving medicine…While the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of the Ebola crisis, has struck a deal with the United States, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Zambia have said no or dragged out negotiations… Talks with Zambia have stalled as the nation challenged Trump’s terms for a $2 billion American aid offer, calling U.S. demands for a critical-minerals deal, preferential treatment for U.S. companies and access to private health data unacceptable.
Zimbabwe was the first to reject a U.S. package, citing demands for extensive access to sensitive health data for American research and commercial use, without guaranteed benefits for the southern African country’s population. The U.S. aid offer totaled roughly $325 million, state media said…
The U.S. demand for pathogen and outbreak data has also raised concerns in Africa. Analysts suggest the U.S. is using bilateral deals to secure a competitive advantage for American pharmaceutical companies. Githinji Gitahi, chief executive of Amref Health Africa, a Nairobi-based nonprofit, warned that signing away health and specimen data weakens African nations’ negotiating power for access to future vaccines and treatments under WHO benefit-sharing programs.
Excerpt from Caroline Kimeu et al., Trump Wants Minerals, Health Data for Aid. African Nations Are Pushing Back, WSJ, May 31, 2026
In a nautical no-man’s-land 45 miles off the coast of Malaysia, tankers laden with sanctioned Iranian oil sit low in the water, waiting to offload their cargo to vessels bound for Chinese refineries…The Eastern Outer Port Limits, or EOPL, as the area is known in the shipping industry, has become a pivotal pit stop for the oil, serving as the location of choice for ship-to-ship transfers that Chinese buyers and Iranian sellers use to help dodge the sanctions. Located midway between Chinese and Iranian waters, the roughly 500-square-mile area usually has calm waters and is within Malaysia’s exclusive economic zone, yet outside of its territorial waters. That makes it a legal gray area where there’s little urgency for anyone to claim responsibility.
In one common scenario, a shadow fleet ship picks up oil in Iran and sets sail for the EOPL. There, it transfers the oil to another vessel. Then, the second ship proceeds to China, where the oil is offloaded and sent to a refinery. In addition to helping disguise the oil’s origin, the transfer often moves the crude from a sanctioned ship to an unsanctioned one, lowering risks for the Chinese port that receives it.
Between 2023 and 2025, the number of observed ship-to-ship transfers in the EOPL more than doubled, from 280 to 679, according to United Against Nuclear Iran, or UANI, a U.S.-based advocacy group that uses satellite data to track them, which cited strong Chinese demand.
[In addition] Bunker vessels loiter in the EOPL providing a steady supply of fuel. Support ships carrying supplies or repair crews are commissioned from the shore—at a hefty price, because of the remote location, and to compensate for the sanctions risks that come with servicing the shadow fleet. The area resembles a giant tanker parking lot, with dozens of ships.
Excerpt from Jon Emont et al., The High-Seas Black Market That Keeps Iran’s Illicit Oil Flowing, WSJ, May 27, 2026
The Ukrainian military’ is using commercial satellite imagery that goes directly to a soldier to guide real-time battle decisions….The same satellites used to monitor illegal fishing and update Google Maps have found a new and deadly application. The technology is a trans-Atlantic collaboration between Colorado-based Vantor, Dutch geospatial intelligence company Bravo1Alpha, U.S.-based Persistent Systems and Ukrainian defense firm Burevii. Vantor’s push into defense helped it reach $900 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025… Vantor’s images go directly from the satellite to the soldier’s tablet, phone or laptop in as little as 15 minutes, bypassing a centralized review in Kyiv that has tended to slow down the flow of intelligence to the front line by hours or days
Excerpt from Heather Somerville, Real-Time Satellite Intelligence Is Making Ukraine’s Drone Strikes Deadlier Than Ever, June 4, 2026
A new study led by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) finds that industrial-scale fishing has been removing substantial biomass from the ocean’s “twilight zone” for decades, challenging the common assumption that this vast midwater ecosystem remains largely unexploited. The research focuses on a poorly understood group of larger midwater fishes that the authors call the “dark web,” species, such as pomfrets and snake mackerels, that live in or move through the mesopelagic zone, roughly 200 to 1,000 meters below the surface. Unlike smaller fishes often sampled in research nets, larger species are frequently missed by traditional scientific surveys but are regularly caught in commercial fisheries…
The study identified evidence of heavy mesopelagic fishing pressure globally, including declining abundance, shrinking fish size, and pervasive under-reporting of fish catches that complicates fishery management.
Excerpt from Industrial fishing has been depleting midwater fish for decades, new WHOI study finds, Press Release, May 8, 2026
A Israeli task force has developed a list with thousands of names of people who planned or joined the October 7 attack. The list is used to kill or capture all those people. Hundreds have been struck from the list, in one of the most personal and highly technical targeting campaigns in the history of warfare. The campaign continues amid the demands of the war with Iran and a cease-fire agreement in Gaza. No participant is deemed too insignificant—down to the man who drove a tractor through a border fence that day. Nearly two years after he breached the border, the tractor driver was identified, located and blown up in an airstrike as he walked a narrow urban street in Gaza, according to footage released by Israel’s military.
Militants who videotaped their Oct. 7 exploits on phones or GoPro cameras to share on social media, or those who phoned home to brag, learned too late the degree of Israel’s surveillance acumen and desire for retribution…Agents from military intelligence and Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, pore over militants’ videos posted on social media…Agents run the images through facial recognition programs to sift for names, and comb through intercepted phone calls. They view location data from cell tower logs and interrogate Gazan detainees to uncover who did what.
Excerpt from Dov Lieber, Inside Israel’s High-Tech Campaign to Kill or Capture Every Oct. 7 Attackers, WSJ, 2026
Meta Platforms began laying off thousands of employees in May 2026 and reassigning thousands of others to AI-focused roles. The layoffs would affect 10% of the company, or roughly 8,000 employees, and that the company would also cancel plans to hire for 6,000 open roles….Meta is full steam ahead into a gargantuan effort to reimagine its workforce and become more nimble to compete with AI-native startups. The company has flattened teams and started tracking employees’ keystrokes and mouse clicks to help train its AI models on how to use computers.
Sentiment among the company’s staffers is at its most negative level on record. More than 1,500 employees have signed a petition demanding that Meta dies not collect employee “computer-use” data to train its AI models. When asked if there was a way to opt out of the AI computer-tracking program, a Meta executive replied that there wasn’t.
Excerpt from Meghan Bobrowsky et al, Meta Begins Laying Off Thousands of Employees as It Transforms Around AI Investments, WSJ, May 20, 2026
More than 60 auto suppliers in the U.S. today are owned by companies located in China. Those include large manufacturers of air bags, automotive glass, and steering systems. Overall, Chinese companies have amassed ownership stakes in about 5% of 10,000 suppliers in America….In April 2026, more than 50 House Republicans wrote to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. They urged the Trump administration to block Chinese automotive and battery companies from manufacturing in the U.S. Their letter warned that Chinese investment in the American auto-supply chain poses risk to domestic industries.
Some car companies have been taking steps to bring some component production home. Tesla started requiring its suppliers to exclude China-made components in the manufacturing of its cars in the U.S….Across the world, Chinese ownership of some of the biggest suppliers in the industry has steadily increased. In 2012, one Chinese company ranked among the top 100 global suppliers, , that number had jumped to 13 suppliers, and it is expected to reach 22 by the end of the decade.
In the U.S., carmakers have become closely tied to the work of Chinese-owned suppliers. Fuyao Glass America, a glass supplier, supplies Detroit’s three and other domestic auto manufacturers. Another company, CATL, is the world’s largest electric-vehicle battery manufacturer. Nexteer, a publicly traded global manufacturer of steering systems and drivelines, is controlled by a Chinese conglomerate and makes parts for top carmakers in the U.S. and China
Excerpt from Ryan Felton, Chinese companies have amassed ownership stakes in about 5% of 10,000 auto suppliers in America, WSJ, May 9, 2026
The Civil Commission Report was published in May 2026, According to the report, Hamas and its collaborators inflicted sexual violence in multiple locations, employing recurring patterns of abuse. The Civil Commission identified at least thirteen patterns of abuse across multiple sites, including: 1) Rape, gang rape, and other forms of sexual assaults; 2) Sexual torture, including intentional burning and mutilation; 3) Deliberate shootings to the head, face and genital area; 4) Killings and executions following or committed in conjunction with sexual violence; 5) Postmortem sexual abuse, humiliation, and desecration of bodies; 6) Forced nudity and exposure; 7) Handcuffing, binding, and restraint of victims; 8) Public displaying and parading of women and children; 9) Abduction of mothers and children; 10) Sexual violence inflicted in the presence or near vicinity of family members; 11) Filming and digital dissemination of sexual violence including use of social media to document, glorify, and amplify the atrocities; 12) Threats of forced marriage; 13) Rape and other forms of sexual violence against boys and men.
In the United States, the rapid acceleration of AI in border-security technology hit a fever pitch over in 2025-26 bringing new competitors into the industry and offering a new vision of what surveillance and border enforcement looks like. The Trump administration has made border security and immigration enforcement its top priority, and vendors have been eager to secure funding and contracts before political winds shift. Paul Allen, president of Airship AI, a surveillance intelligence system, said the administration’s emphasis on securing the border has led companies serving other sectors to begin applying their technologies to border security.
Even Amazon.com is getting in on the border-security game, displaying a tricked-out pickup truck equipped with systems to provide mobile monitoring of people or border threats via drones or other inputs. Representatives said the truck is a prototype of what Amazon could offer DHS. They added that the vehicle hasn’t been deployed to the border yet. The company has a specialized email account set up to recruit DHS business.
Most of the technology on display was autonomous and AI-equipped….Representatives of WilliamsRDM—whose products include solar panels that power covert cameras while disguised as rocks and litter—said the power demands of AI-linked systems are increasing the need for their products.
The government has touted technology as a way to find and apprehend potential smugglers and immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, saying it is more efficient than human power and, in some cases, less invasive than a physical border wall. Others have cried foul on what they see as dystopian Big Brother surveillance that is being rolled out with little public understanding and oversight.
Excerpt from Elizabeth Findell, Tump’s Border Spending Spurs Boom in AI-Infused Surveillance, WSJ, May 8, 2026
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