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BBC editor’s libel case against Owen Jones falls at the first hurdle. Here’s why Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His website and...

Fake News, Media, Media Influence

A group of US lawmakers on Friday announced they had introduced the Justice for Hind Rajab Act, which would compel the US government to investigate and hold accountable those responsible for the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab in...

MENA

The Israeli army dropped a large number of leaflets over the Lebanese capital Beirut on Friday, some of which call on citizens to demand the disarmament of Hezbollah and insist that the decision should be in their hands rather than...

MENA

Israel’s escalating military campaign in Lebanon has led many analysts and observers to ask whether the tactics used in the genocidal war on Gaza are now being applied on a new front. Israeli strikes across Lebanon...

MENA

As Israel's bombardment of Lebanon forces hundreds of thousands from their homes and deepens an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis, Palestinian refugees in the country find themselves once again on the front lines of regional upheaval. Many...

Society

Six countries have filed their interventions in South Africa's genocide case against Israel and the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The Netherlands and Iceland filed interventions in the case on Wednesday, while the...

MENA

The Israeli military said it has dropped all charges against five soldiers who were accused of violently sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee in a military detention facility, triggering outrage among activists and human rights experts. The decision...

MENA

Speaking at a military camp in Khartoum on Saturday, Sudanese Armed Forces Assistant Commander-in-Chief Yasser al-Atta signaled the start of a process to integrate all irregular forces that have fought alongside the military during the war into the state’s security...

2023 Sudan War, Sudan Nashra

Heavy Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s capital on Thursday killed two renowned university professors, triggering outrage from activists and commentators who drew parallels with the war on Gaza, when scores of academics and writers were killed. The professors...

MENA

Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians on Thursday near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said, in what the Israeli military said was an attempted car ramming attack. "Two terrorists attempted to carry out a combined ramming and shooting...

MENA

UN chief Antonio Guterres called on Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah to "stop the war" at the start of a visit to Beirut on Friday, as Israel expanded its strikes across the country. Lebanon was drawn...

MENA

In the second year of Donald Trump’s second term, beginning with the kidnaping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on January 2, 2026, followed by the war of choice he has waged against Iran alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the...

War & Peace, Donald Trump, Global South

NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi everybody. Today is Thursday, March 5, 2026, and our dear friends, Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, are here with us. Welcome back, Richard and Michael. ⁣MICHAEL HUDSON: Good to be back. ⁣NIMA ALKHORSHID: I...

Economics, Finance, Geopolitics

WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli forces escalated their military measures early Friday across several areas of the West Bank, coinciding with attacks carried out by Israeli settlers against Palestinian property in several villages. In northern Ramallah and southern Nablus, Israeli forces closed the...

News, Arrests, Israeli violations

GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has welcomed the decision by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Iceland to formally join the case filed at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel over its genocidal war against Palestinians...

News, Gaza Strip, Hamas Movement

GAZA, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces on Friday continued to violate the Gaza ceasefire agreement by carrying out fresh airstrikes, artillery shelling, and gunfire in several areas east of the Gaza Strip. A local source reported that Israeli forces opened fire east and...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

The Israeli military said on Thursday it had dropped charges against five soldiers accused of raping and abusing a Palestinian detainee at the controversial high-security Sde Teiman prison, a case that had sparked widespread outrage. "In light of significant...

MENA

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Activists and social media influencers have launched a wide-ranging digital campaign under the hashtag #WeWillOpenOurAqsa, aiming to unify media messaging about the situation at Aqsa Mosque and break a digital blockade surrounding the issue. The initiative comes after...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Israeli violations

NABLUS, (PIC) The Hamas Movement condemned the burning of a mosque by extremist Jewish settlers in the town of Duma, southeast of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, describing the incident as a serious crime and a direct attack on...

News, Hamas Movement, settler violence

NABLUS, (PIC) Two Palestinian men were killed on Thursday evening after Israeli occupation forces opened fire near the Za’atara Junction, south of the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, reportedly over allegations that they attempted a vehicle-ramming attack. According to...

News, Israeli crimes, Israeli violations

Israel's closure of Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque has forced Palestinian Muslim worshippers to pray outside the holy site during the final ten nights of Ramadan. The situation marks a stark contrast with previous years, when tens of thousands...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) Relief and food supplies to the Gaza Strip have witnessed a sharp decline amid the continued restrictions imposed by Israel on the crossings, which has worsened the humanitarian crisis experienced by more than 2.4 million Palestinians in the Strip. The...

News, aid restrictions, Gaza Strip

Days before International Women’s Day, the European Commission presented a new Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2030. Its language, filled with ‘intersectionality’, ‘empowerment’, and ‘gender mainstreaming’, projects an ambitious vision. It promises progress, yet it deliberately omits the EU's complicity...

Voices

Francesca Albanese , the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, is calling for submissions on a study on genocide and the media amid the Gaza war. The research seeks to investigate the killings of and attacks...

World

More than 60 UK lawmakers are backing a parliamentary motion for widespread sanctions on Israel, as its government moves to annex the occupied West Bank. Labour MP Richard Burgon said he is pushing for sanctions on arms,...

World

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli settlers kidnapped a Palestinian young man from the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, on Thursday. Local sources reported that settlers abducted Issa Maher Zayed while he was heading to his land near the settlement outpost...

News, Occupied Jerusalem, Settler crimes

The Popular Mobilisation Forces ( PMF ) denied claims that Iraqi security forces searched its offices in Baghdad, calling the reports false. The group said that social media reports did not come from official sources. It urged...

MENA

Jewish settlers set fire to the Mohammad Fayyad Mosque in the village of Duma , south of Nablus , on Thursday morning, as several Palestinians were detained by Israeli forces across the West Bank. The settlers vandalised the mosque...

MENA

Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Israel is in talks with Somaliland officials to form a strategic security partnership, which might include granting Israel access to a military base or other security installation along the Somaliland coast from which it can launch...

Iran-war, Somalia, Horn-of-africa

Desde el 7 de octubre de 2023 el Estado de Israel está siendo gradualmente aniquilado. Y Estados Unidos no está siendo capaz de impedir esa aniquilación. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos: info@strategic-culture.su En la...

Español, Censorship, Iran

Since Israeli attacks on Lebanon expanded in recent days , the scale of displacement has risen sharply , according to data from the government's Disaster Management Unit and the Ministry of Social Affairs. Workers on the ground, however, say...

Society

A drone attack on Oman's Salalah Port on Wednesday has further tested ties between Iran and the Gulf sultanate, which acted as a key mediator between Tehran and Washington before the outbreak of war earlier this...

MENA

By Brian D. O’LEARY Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The bombs were American. The checkbook is American. Seven of the dead have American names. The Geneva talks ended without a deal on...

Editor's Choice, Benjamin Netanyahu, European Union

GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Center for Human Rights has strongly condemned what it described as Israel’s systematic targeting of Gaza’s fishing sector, warning that the campaign has escalated from imposing severe restrictions to the “comprehensive destruction” of a vital civilian industry. In...

News, Fishing restrictions, Gaza fishermen
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