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By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Felice Noelle Rodriguez KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 12 2026 (IPS) Transnational agribusinesses increasingly shape food policies worldwide. Claiming to best address recent food security concerns, they seek to profit more from innovations in food production,...

- - - - One of the year’s best feel-good news stories materialized late last month when Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin was forced to release more than 1,500 beagles who had been bred by the corporation to...

A New York Times investigation has found that Israel ran a coordinated, government-backed campaign to transform Eurovision into a soft-power tool, spending more than $1 million promoting its contestants while lobbying to remain in the contest...

The elections in the UK show beyond any doubt that the Labour party has completely lost the working class. John Westmoreland is a history teacher and UCU rep. He is an active member of the People’s Assembly and writes regularly for...

There is nothing Israel could do which would lead Germany to question its support for Zionism. Jurgen Mackert is Professor of Sociology at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He was a temporary Professor for the Structure of modern societies at...

The UK's local elections in May have offered a telling window into where British politics is heading. Arguably, they signal one of the most profound challenges to the post-World War II two-party system in modern Britain, as mainstream support...

Human rights groups have warned that a new Israeli bill proposing public trials and possible death sentences for Palestinians accused of involvement in the 7 October 2023 attack could violate international law and turn court proceedings into "show...

Israeli lawmakers on Monday approved a controversial bill that will establish a military tribunal for Palestinians accused of participating in the 7 October attack . Human rights groups have warned that public trials and possible death sentences could violate international...

The European Union approved a new wave of sanctions targeting Israeli settlers and organisations linked to violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during a meeting of the bloc's foreign ministers on Monday. EU...

An Israeli charity that offered to help Brits move to the West Bank has been photographed at an event in London, despite calls for it to be sanctioned. Shivat Zion had a stall at an ‘Aliyah Fair’, held in...

GAZA, (PIC) In a scene that summarizes the scale of the humanitarian disaster left by the Israeli war of genocide on the Gaza Strip, the families of the martyrs face worsening suffering in finding decent graves to bury their loved ones,...

The Israeli military said on Monday it had sentenced two soldiers to imprisonment after one of them was photographed placing a cigarette in the mouth of a statue of the Virgin Mary in southern Lebanon. An image...

Ruling the world is a tricky business The top story last week, at least in terms of shock value, might well be the ongoing saga of the Trump White House ballroom, which started out as a $200 million development off...

Ramallah, occupied West Bank - Israeli opposition leaders Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett have merged their parties under a single banner called Beyahad (Together), to challenge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in elections expected by October. The move revives...

GAZA, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army continues, since reaching the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip on October 10, 2025, to impose new field conditions through daily bombing operations and assassinations, in parallel with expanding military zones westward outside what is...

GAZA, (PIC) Inside one of the crowded displacement camps in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, the Palestinian child Mohammed Odeh feels his way with slow and cautious steps, after losing his eyesight due to the explosion...

Embattled British Prime Minister Keir Starmer came out fighting Monday, vowing to prove his "doubters" wrong as he sought to quell a growing threat to his leadership following disastrous election results. Starmer pledged his ruling Labour party would be...

US President Donald Trump has threatened to launch an expanded military operation against Iran dubbed "Project Freedom Plus" after rejecting Tehran's response to a US proposal aimed at ending the war . The remarks have raised questions about...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Old City in occupied Jerusalem is witnessing a continuous escalation in Israeli measures, after the installation of a new iron gate between Souq Al-Qattanin and Bab Al-Hadid, one of the most prominent paths leading to the holy...

An Israeli soldier was killed, and others were wounded in southern Lebanon in a Hezbollah explosive drone attack announced by the Israeli military on Monday, amid growing concern over the group's advanced drone warfare tactics . The Israeli...

Palestinian Mohammad Al-Asaasa never imagined that the first hours of grief following his elderly father's death, Haj Hussein Mohammad Hussein Al-Asaasa (Abu Ezzat), from the village of Al-Asaasa, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, would turn into...

The makers of a Gaza documentary shelved by the BBC won a BAFTA TV Award on Sunday, using their acceptance speeches to highlight the broadcaster's censorship after it refused to air the film. Gaza: Doctors Under Attack...

In the war-torn Gaza Strip , jute mallow—known locally as " Molokhia " and once associated with slow-cooked family meals—is now being dried, crushed, mixed with improvised liquids, and rolled into cigarettes as an alternative to tobacco,...

Aya waited three years before becoming pregnant with her first child. The then-21-year-old was already prepping a small room for the baby, eager to meet them. But two months into her pregnancy, Israel started its genocidal war. Israeli...

WEST BANK, (PIC) The West Bank is witnessing an increasing acceleration in the pace of Israeli settlement, manifested in the expansion of infrastructure projects and the construction of bypass roads in parallel with the escalation of settlement construction, in a context...

The Trump administration will host a new round of talks this week aimed at ending the latest warfare involving Israel and Lebanon. No new developments on the Lebanese front give reason for optimism that this round will yield an agreement that...

- - - - It is more in sorrow than anger that much of East and Southeast Asia perceives the US under Donald Trump to be drifting all too rapidly away. By default, the primary beneficiary is China, though there...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Warnings are escalating in Occupied Jerusalem over plans by extremist Temple Mount groups to carry out an unprecedented storming of Aqsa Mosque on Friday, May 15, coinciding with the so-called “Hebrew anniversary of Jerusalem’s occupation,” amid widespread Palestinian...

Why was Palestine not explicitly placed at the center of Iran’s ceasefire framework? Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. Cross-posted from Ramzy Baroud’s website Thinking Palestine For many years, being accused of being ‘pro-Iran’...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Hebrew reports revealed an Israeli plan to demolish a large commercial area east of al-Eizariya town, east of occupied Jerusalem, in a step that would completely close the E1 highway area to Palestinians, which is the axis that...

Violent Israeli settlers launched at least 20 attacks on Palestinians in various areas across the West Bank in two days, with reports detailing civilians being severely wounded and homes being set ablaze. The string of attacks, which...

An Israeli ministerial committee is set to review a far-right-sponsored bill aimed at repealing the 1993 Oslo Accords on Sunday. The bill, submitted by the Knesset Deputy Speaker Limor Son Har-Melech , would revoke the historic...

Former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg has said Israel failed to achieve its objectives in its war on Gaza , Lebanon and Iran , warning the country was sinking deeper into military and...