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The trial of Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham, two prominent UK pro-Palestine activists and organisers, officially concluded on Tuesday, with a verdict set to be announced on 1 April. Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC),...

With oil selling for around $100 a barrel and the price in the United States of gasoline at the pump having increased 20% in two weeks, Americans have been thrust back into a 1970s-style mix of oil and insecurity in...

Yanis Varoufakis says that even if the war in Iran ends soon — which it likely will not — the economic consequences will be devastating and prolonged Alongside the death and destruction occurring all throughout the Middle East as the...

An Israeli police officer has been accused of seizing an ancient stone from a West Bank village, the latest act by 'amateur archaeologists ' using the military to nab artefacts from Palestinian areas or prove 'Jewish links' to Arab...

Joe Kent’s resignation is not an anomaly but an alarm: elite dissent is surfacing early because this war is built on deception. Joe Kent’s resignation is shocking, but not for the obvious reason. It is not shocking simply because it...

Surprised by the intensity of Hezbollah’s retaliatory attacks against it, Israel appears to be pivoting to sow internal chaos within Lebanon’s borders in a bid to trigger a catastrophic civil war. An attempted coup against the Lebanese military’s leadership may...

While it may have been able to take out Ayatollah Khamenei, the U.S.’ plans for regime change in Iran are not going as smoothly as they expected. With the Strait of Hormuz closed, the global economy is facing meltdown, and...

The US is seeing a spike in Islamophobia in the wake of the US-Israel war on Iran , adding to an already high level of hate over the past three years. A report issued on 9 March by the Centre...

Last week, Labour finally revealed its long-awaited definition of Islamophobia, which incidentally, it is now terming ‘anti-Muslim hate’. Some Muslims have welcomed the shift from the term ‘islamophobia’, which pathologises discrimination against Muslims as a justifiable fear. Others have accused the...

Since 28 February, the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members have been subjected to thousands of Iranian missiles and drones . The scale and persistence of these strikes have done more than damage military installations and civilian infrastructure. This Iranian...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Amid rapidly shifting regional dynamics and a world distracted by cascading crises, Israeli policies in occupied Jerusalem are accelerating with alarming intensity. What is unfolding is not a series of isolated measures, but a coordinated campaign to reshape...

By Jeffrey D. SACHS and Sybil FARES Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su On February 16, 2026, one of us ( Jeffrey Sachs ) sent a letter to the UN Security Council warning...

At least one person was killed in the UAE on Tuesday after being hit by falling debris from an intercepted missile, as Iran's attacks on the Gulf continue. The incident took place in the city’s Bani Yas...

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday that Iran's powerful national security chief Ali Larijani was "eliminated last night", along with the commander of the Islamic republic's Basij paramilitary force. The killing of Larijani, if confirmed by Tehran, would represent the...

GAZA, (PIC) The food crisis in the Gaza Strip has returned to the forefront once again, with the outbreak of the American, Israeli aggression on Iran, bringing back memories of pain and renewing them with the worsening humanitarian crisis and the...

The strategic space linking the Eastern Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean is increasingly operating as a single geopolitical theater in which maritime security, infrastructure connectivity, and supply-chain governance converge. This article argues that the Red Sea corridor...

Arms exports from Serbia to Israel rose sharply last year, reaching a record €114 million, a 140% increase compared with 2024, according to official data from the Belgrade Central Statistical Office. The Hebrew-language newspaper Haaretz reported...

Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, addresses the opening of the Seventieth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women. Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Mar 17 2026 (IPS) The 70th session of the Commission...

With oil selling for around $100 a barrel and the price in the United States of gasoline at the pump having increased 20% in two weeks, Americans have been thrust back into a 1970s-style mix of oil and insecurity in...

The U.S. military desperately needs drone capabilities for President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, and fast. Coincidentally, his sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr., are on the case. Indeed, the Trump brothers are pumping money into defense-tech oriented firms that have...

The Iranians have a vote on when the war ends. And they say that they are just getting started. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal...

Like all parents, I still hope to leave my son a better world than the one I grew up in. But at this point I’d settle for his being able to read the newspaper without the record for the dumbest...

Across the Middle East, cultural heritage stands at a crossroads, as the US-Israeli war on Iran escalates. From Tehran's Golestan palace to Tyre's Roman arches and Babylon's crumbling walls, the region's treasures face pressure from both...

New restrictions on movement and a deadly surge in settler violence in the occupied West Bank have raised fears that Israel is exploiting the war on Iran to accelerate its long-term goal of annexing the Palestinian territory....

If not stopped soon, this war could easily turn into a global conflagration, effectively into World War III. Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth...

From Heidegger’s Nazism to Habermas’s Zionism, the suffering of the ‘Other’ is of little consequence Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he teaches Comparative Literature,...

The European Union's funding and exporting of high-risk artificial intelligence (AI) systems is exacerbating existing human rights violations in Palestine and across the wider Middle East, according to a new report. Released on Monday by 7amleh,...

In hindsight, I shouldn’t have been surprised that it was so complicated to find out why the word “ Palestine ” was removed from some sections of the British Museum. The difficulty was there by design. After all, the only...

The UAE has doubled down in its support for Washington , saying that the US-Israeli war on Iran has made its relationship with its long-time ally even stronger, after Iran said it would end its attacks on Gulf...

This month marks the one-year anniversary of Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest by U.S. immigration officials, a moment that seemingly kicked off an increased wave of government suppression against the Palestine movement. Khalil, who was finally released from detention last June, spoke...

Gulf states are opening new land routes to ensure supplies reach their countries and exports continue, amid Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz , as governments stress they have enough water, food, and medicine...