German carmaker Volkswagen is in talks with Israel's state-owned Rafael Advanced Defence Systems to shift production at one of its factories towards missile defence systems, according to a report by The Financial Times on...
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An Israeli drone strike has killed two Palestinians and wounded at least four others in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp , medics said, in the latest Israeli breach of a ceasefire for the occupied territory. The strike hit early...
By Wyatt REED and Max BLUMENTHAL Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Trump White House plagiarized its justification for attacking Iran from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the main DC outfit promoting...
- - - - Over the years, Coleman Hughes and I have had several discussions and debates on a wide range of topics. Since October 7, Hughes has become one of the country’s most stalwart and vocal defenders of...
Israel continued to launch attacks on southern Lebanese towns as well as the capital, Beirut , on Wednesday, amid fears that the Israeli military would annex Lebanese territory up to the Litani River . Lebanon's state media reported that...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has condemned the Israeli Knesset’s initial approval of a bill legislating the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners as a “serious act of state terrorism.” In a statement on Wednesday, Hamas underscored that this Knesset’s approval of the...
US-Israeli war on Iran enters day 26 as escalation widens and ceasefire signals diverge
Full ArticleTEHRAN, (PIC) The US-Israeli war on Iran entered its 26th day on Wednesday marked by intensifying military exchanges and a widening regional spillover even as tentative signs of diplomacy emerge amid clear differences between Washington and Tehran over the terms of...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continue escalating their targeting of freed Palestinian prisoners released under recent exchange deals, through repeated arrest campaigns, field interrogations, and ongoing questioning, in what appears to be a sustained policy of post-release persecution. The Palestinian Prisoners...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,265 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Wednesday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
GAZA, (PIC) As the difficulty of obtaining car oils increases, vehicles in the Gaza Strip have begun to face repeated breakdowns and engines are getting damaged as a result of using oils for longer periods than allowed, which is a temporary...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a large-scale arrest campaign in different areas of the West Bank at dawn Wednesday. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped three citizens after raiding their homes in Balata refugee camp near...
Weeks after an Israeli drone struck the Faculty of Sciences at the Lebanese University's Rafik Hariri Campus in Hadath, a southern suburb of Beirut, killing two prominent professors , the incident continues to fuel national outrage over what many...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A young man was martyred at dawn Wednesday after the Israeli occupation police opened fire at him in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel al‑Mukaber. According to the Jerusalem Governorate, 21-year-old Qasim Shuqairat was killed by Israeli police gunfire...
Iran targeted countries across the Middle East with a fresh torrent of missiles on Wednesday, hours after US President Donald Trump signalled tentative progress in diplomatic efforts to end the war. Iran fired a salvo of "precision-guided" missiles and drones...
Is Amazon Ads silencing Palestinian books?
Full ArticleIn late October 2023, Massachusetts-based independent publisher Interlink Publishing, one of the few Palestinian-owned publishers in the United States, launched a major promotion of its Palestinian catalogue on Amazon Ads. The aim, Harrison Williams , Interlink's Production and...
GAZA, (PIC) Two Palestinians were martyred and several others were injured in Israeli attacks in separate areas of the Gaza Strip last night and on Wednesday morning. According to Palestinian media sources, two people were martyred and others were wounded last night...
A World Order in Crisis: War, Power, and Resistance
Full ArticleBy Asoka Bandarage COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Mar 25 2026 (IPS) Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter prohibits member states from using threats or force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. Violating international law, the United States...
As the Trump administration mulls a ground deployment in Iran, veterans fear a grueling, long-term campaign lies ahead — and that the U.S. military may be ill-prepared to sustain it. First of all, ongoing preparations and deployments suggest the administration has...
The world has given Israel "a licence to torture Palestinians", a UN expert said Monday, with life in the occupied territories " a continuum of physical and mental suffering ". Francesca Albanese , the UN's special rapporteur on the rights...
Lebanese state media reported on Wednesday that Israeli strikes killed at least six people in a town and a Palestinian refugee camp in the southern Sidon area, and three more in another town. Israel has stepped up its campaign against...
UK police probe attack on Jewish ambulances
Full ArticleLondon's police chief pledged Monday over 250 more officers and "highly visible" armed patrols to protect the Jewish community after an arson attack on four volunteer ambulances run by a Jewish organisation next to a synagogue. The promise of...
DOHA, (PIC) A delegation of senior leaders from Hamas Movement offered condolences on Tuesday evening to the victims of the Qatari plane crash during a visit to four mourning gatherings held in Doha. The delegation included Mohammed Nazzal and Abdel Jabbar Said,...
GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian child was killed by Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, amid ongoing violations of the ceasefire agreement. Medical sources reported that 13-year-old Khaled Saif al-Din Suleiman Arada was killed after...
Europe is still unable to define and defend its own strategic interests. Dr Alain Gabon is Associate Professor of French Studies and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures at Virginia Wesleyan University in Virginia Beach, USA. Cross-posted...
Israel said on Tuesday that its military would take control of south Lebanon up to the Litani River, around 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the border, as deadly strikes pounded the country . In the latest unprecedented step by...
Israel has been ramping up its targeting of Palestinians over the past week in Gaza, killing field commanders from Hamas’s and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s military wings, despite a months-long ceasefire in place. Yahya Fayez Abu Labda, the commander...
Israel’s Knesset National Security Committee will be holding a final vote on Tuesday to advance the controversial death penalty bill that enables executions of Palestinians convicted of alleged "terror" offences. The bill, pushed by far-right National Security Minister...
Israel’s Knesset National Security Committee has approved a proposed death penalty bill against Palestinian detainees, advancing it to the second and third readings ahead of a final vote expected next week. The bill, pushed by far-right National Security Minister Itamar...
The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) on Tuesday called for the Israeli Football Association (IFA) to receive a ban after a FIFA report found "multiple breaches" of its anti-discrimination obligations. "We maintain our right and continue our efforts to ensure...
The Israeli army used a "double tap" strike when killing five-year-old Hind Rajab in 2024, analysis by a global campaign group found, as calls for accountability continue two years after the Palestinian's killing. The US-based Avaaz NGO revealed that...
Videos of young girls punching fiercely into a boxing bag, their bare feet kicking up sand between rows of refugee tents, go viral every time. But they capture more than just exercise in an unlikely setting. For the young girls...
After decades consolidating their control over Area C, Israeli settlers are expanding into Areas B and A — nominally under Palestinian Authority jurisdiction — and displacing communities, a joint investigation reveals. The post ‘Erasing the lines’: How settler outposts are...
Pakistan could see itself playing a significant role on the international stage should Islamabad successfully mediate a truce between the US and Iran , as the war in the MENA region stretches into its fourth week. US President Donald...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) uprooted dozens of olive trees near the main entrance of Kifl Hares town in northern Salfit and bulldozed swaths of land in eastern Qalqilya. Local sources told the WAFA news agency that Israeli forces...
Journalists from Al Jazeera were forced to abandon reporting in North London after being harassed and intimidated by a hostile crowd while covering an arson attack on Jewish community ambulances, as police intervened to...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation police have continued to bar Muslim worshipers from entering the Aqsa Mosque for the 25th consecutive day, citing the same security pretexts linked to the war on Iran to justify the closure of the holy...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) delivered on Tuesday evacuation and demolition notices for seven inhabited homes belonging to Palestinian families in the eastern neighborhood of Qalandia village, north of Jerusalem. The orders require the residents to vacate and demolish...
A father disappears, an infant returns with signs of torture: The story of Jawad Abu Nassar
Full ArticleGAZA, (PIC) What began as a routine outing on the second day of Eid al-Fitr turned into a harrowing ordeal for the Abu Nassar family in Gaza, ending with the disappearance of a father and the return of his infant son...
"The Week of Resistance Against Israeli Colonialism and Apartheid" officially began today, Tuesday, 24 March, during a conference organised by the Student Frameworks Secretariat at the Media Solidarity Centre in western Gaza City, under the slogan "Palestine Liberates...
Boy-Gangsters in High Office
Full ArticleEighty years ago, Aldous Huxley wrote that “in the field of international politics the gravest decisions are always taken not by reasonable adults but by boy-gangsters.” This metaphor, from his essay Science, Liberty and Peace , implies an immature,...
Israel intensified its assault on Lebanon on Tuesday, carrying out waves of strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs and across the south in what residents described a s a "night of terror". Multiple raids hit residential areas, including Bir...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens during raids in the West Bank on Tuesday. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped five ex-detainees from their homes in Qalqilya City and another citizen in the...
Five Palestinians have been injured by marauding Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, as residents continue to face a wave of attacks in the occupied territory. Jewish settlers ran over four Palestinian workers heading to work near the...
Iranian missiles strike Dimona, Eilat as Israel launches massive airstrikes deep inside Iran
Full ArticleTEHRAN, (PIC) The confrontation between Iran and Israel has entered a more intense phase, with both sides exchanging large-scale strikes targeting each other’s territory, amid signs of deeper US involvement and parallel diplomatic efforts. Iranian authorities reported that 636 people have been...
On World Water Day: Daily stories expose the collapse of life’s most basic right in Gaza
Full ArticleGAZA, (PIC) As the world marks World Water Day, celebrating the importance of this essential resource, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip endure a starkly different reality. Water, once a basic human right, has been reduced to a daily burden, a struggle...
GAZA, (PIC) Over two years of unrelenting Israeli aggression and displacement have pushed children and young people in the Gaza Strip into what the UN has described as a “profound mental health emergency,” with girls facing heightened risks. “We have more than...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers stole dozens of livestock from a Palestinian farm in the town of as-Samu, south of al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank, on Monday evening. According to al-Baidar Human Rights Organization, a group of settlers...
Americans are divided neatly along party lines on their opinion of U.S. military action against Iran, according to surveys conducted since the Iran war began on Feb. 28. But this is far from the only foreign policy issue dividing Americans...
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