Global Voices

By Farhana Haque Rahman TORONTO, Canada, May 1 2026 (IPS) Press freedom is on the retreat across much of the world. As documented by recent global surveys authored by the UN and media institutes, the erosion of an independent, fearless and...

In recent remarks to Fox News, Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlined a plan to task the Lebanese army with disarming Hezbollah — an effort that could spark civil war in Lebanon. “That’s what we’re working towards establishing, is a system...

In the wake of the American-Israeli war on Iran, and Tehran’s retaliatory missile and drone attacks on Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members, Gulf Arab states are reassessing their long-held assumptions regarding the U.S. security umbrella. While it remains unlikely that...

An Israeli rights organisation petitioned Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday to demand the immediate release of 14 Palestinian doctors from Gaza who have been held without charge for more than a year. Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) said...

Italy condemns Israel's seizure of aid ships bound for Gaza and demands the immediate release of all Italians who have been "unlawfully detained," Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni 's office said on Thursday. Israel intercepted the vessels in international waters near...

Palestinian soccer federation President Jibril Rajoub refused to stand alongside Israel FA Vice-President Basim Sheikh Suliman in a heated moment at the FIFA Congress on Thursday. Both men were called to the stand by FIFA President Gianni Infantino...

A federal court has agreed to dismiss a lawsuit by a right-wing Israel lobby organization against the University of California, Berkeley, as part of an anti-Palestinian deal that will infringe on the free speech and academic freedom rights of members...

A growing rift between top Lebanese officials has thrown a wrench into Saudi efforts to help Lebanon's leaders forge a united position over historic negotiations with Israel, news agency Reuters reported on Thursday- citing Lebanese sources and foreign...

Throughout its long war on Iran, every tactic used by the United States has backfired. Professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi explains why Iran’s revolutionary spirit remains strong The United States, in its recent war on Iran, has completely misread the Iranian people...

By wilfully ignoring blatant US-Israeli acts of aggression, the EU is facilitating a global regime of impunity that contravenes its founding principles Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United Nations. He...

As Israel expands its war on Lebanon and openly discusses a new "northern border", many are once again confronting a question that has overshadowed the republic since its independence: why has the south so often been left to...

"When we boarded that plane, it felt like something was being ripped out of my chest… like I'd never see my family again… It was like something pulling at me with pliers, ripping a vein from my heart." These are the...

Rats and parasites are spreading through Gaza's camps for displaced Palestinians , biting children's fingers and toes as they sleep, gnawing through people's few remaining treasured possessions, and spreading disease, as Israel continues to restrict...

GAZA, (PIC) Ibrahim Saqr was not responding to an emergency when he was targeted. He was not rushing toward a bombing site or carrying the wounded in his arms. He was simply on his way to begin his daily shift as...

GAZA, (PIC) Gaza’s healthcare system is facing a looming oxygen supply crisis, as the destruction of production stations and restrictions on spare parts threaten the lives of patients, particularly those in intensive care units and neonatal wards. The scale of the damage...

By Mark CURTIS Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Because they’re part of it. Britain’s national media fails to recognise the influence – and even the existence – of an Israel lobby, our new...

Organisers of a Gaza -bound aid flotilla on Thursday said Israel's army had "kidnapped" 211 activists including a Paris city councillor in a raid in international waters off Greece. Helene Coron, a spokeswoman for the Global Sumud France,...

A large group of Israeli settlers stood atop a building in the Syrian village of Al-Hader in the occupied territory of Quneitra last week, waving the Israeli flag and chanting songs calling for the settlement of...

On Wednesday, Ali Shaath, head of the "National Committee for Managing the Gaza Strip ," announced initial Israeli approval to enter Gaza , signalling a tentative step toward new administrative arrangements in the war-torn coastal enclave. Although the...

The United States is floating a plan to train and equip select Lebanese army units to confront Hezbollah , reviving a fraught approach attempted in the early 1980s when Washington backed the Lebanese military to contain armed...

New maps of Gaza quietly issued by Israel a little more than a month ago have put thousands of forcibly displaced Palestinians inside an expanded restricted area, within boundaries the military says it can continue to...

The leaders of major media companies around the world, including The Associated Press, are calling on Israel's government to lift a ban keeping foreign journalists from being able to independently enter and report from Gaza...

Israel's army arrested around 175 activists from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in international waters off Greece, the Israeli foreign ministry and the flotilla's organisers said on Thursday. The ministry said in a statement it had intercepted more than 20...

Over the weekend, a group of American Muslims took part in a pilgrimage to the World War II Japanese internment camp of Manzanar in California, a way to honour and remember those who endured state-sanctioned discrimination and to...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said on Wednesday that Israel must fully implement the ceasefire between the two countries before beginning direct talks , after Israeli strikes killed more than 20 people over the last two days. Lebanon was drawn...

Some of the UK's leading humanitarian and human rights groups on Thursday are calling on the British government to suspend its trade agreement with Israel following the passing of its controversial death penalty law , which they warn is...

Five Palestine Action activists dismissed their lawyers today and addressed a jury directly about how they targeted an Israeli weapons factory in Bristol. The activists – Charlotte Head, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, Zoe Rogers, Leona Kamio, and Jordan Devlin – face charges...

More than 1 million people in Lebanon are expected to face a food insecurity crisis in the months ahead as a result of renewed conflict and mass displacement , a global hunger monitor said on Wednesday. A new analysis by...

An Israeli court on Tuesday extended the detention of renowned Palestinian doctor Dr Hussam Abu Safiya without any charges or trial, as calls for his release grew after more than a year in Israeli prison under harsh conditions. The...

Chairman of the American Conservative Union and former White House Director Matthew Schlapp recently offered a bit of illustrative wit. When asked about the 160 Iranian schoolgirls killed in an airstrike that a Pentagon probe and international human rights...

Kuwait has revoked the citizenship of US-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, just days after he was released from detention and left the country. The decision was issued on Wednesday by Kuwait’s Supreme Committee for Nationality Affairs, which ordered the withdrawal...

It has been a month since the Knesset approved a law that allows the execution of Palestinian prisoners , but in reality, Israel never really refrained from this practice. Already, during more than two years of genocide in Gaza, over...

If one wants to read a tale written with striking candour and a story that will evoke those feelings obscured deep within, then one should read Hannah Lillith Assadi's third novel, Paradiso 17 . Inspired by the life of...

Picture alliance/AA/Royal Court of Saudi Arabia. Source: International Politics & Society The war with Iran is exposing deep fractures beneath the surface of Gulf unity. Still, cooperation remains the only viable option. By Sebastian Sons BONN, Germany, Apr 29 2026...