The war on information in the West has tread new grounds since the genocide in Palestine. Journalists and media outlets who report on the imperialist endeavors of the ruling class increasingly find themselves under the boot of legislators who concoct...
The Muslim International Film Festival (MIFF) returns to London's Leicester Square from 2 to 5 July, with the same aim each year: to provide a platform for Muslim filmmakers from around the world and to bring their stories...
In March , Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow attacked Abdul El-Sayed over his plans to hold campaign rallies with pro-Palestinian Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, igniting a protracted, acrimonious debate over the future of the Democratic Party and criticism...
Welcome, We continue our coverage of the US-Iran war , Lebanon, Gaza, and the wider Middle East. Pakistani and Qatari mediators have said the indirect talks that concluded in Doha on Wednesday yieled 'positive progress' as both parties touched on contested...
A Hamas-affiliated security body in Gaza executed an alleged collaborator with Israel this week, accusing him of helping the Israeli military assassinate the commander of the group's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, Izz al-Din al-Haddad...
Every morning, crowds of people pack into the Karameh (King Hussein) border crossing between Palestine and Jordan . Children cry, patients wait, and expatriates watch their holidays disappear while remaining unable to cross. The crisis at the Karameh crossing (also...
Few Palestinians have crossed the King Hussein Bridge without returning with a story of long waits, delays, hardship—and, at times, even exploitation. Over the years, the bridge has ceased to be merely a border crossing connecting Palestinians with the outside...
Over the past several years, Muslim Americans across the US have seen a continuous string of attacks and threats against their mosques and community centres, amid wars in the region and domestic crackdowns on civil society. A fatal...
By Vijay PRASHAD Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su On June 23, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel released one of...
GAZA, (PIC) Palestinian resistance factions marked 1,000 days of Israel’s genocide in the Gaza Strip on Thursday by calling for national unity, an escalation of resistance and urgent action to end the war, as Gaza’s Government Media Office detailed the scale...
Dozens of media workers were left in financial limbo this week after one of the UK's largest banks closed the account of the left-wing outlet The Canary , preventing it from paying staff and contractors. The publication, known...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Dozens of Jewish settlers stormed the courtyards of the Aqsa Mosque on Thursday morning under heavy protection from Israeli forces, where they performed Talmudic rituals inside the compound. According to local sources in Occupied Jerusalem, the settlers entered through...
GENEVA, (PIC) The Board of Peace’s announcement of its intention to end the role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip is extremely concerning, the Euro-Med Monitor said in a statement on...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has condemned statements issued by the so-called Gaza Peace Council and the US administration regarding the future of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), including the declaration that the agency would...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces carried out demolition operations in Bethlehem, Nablus and Salfit in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. In Taqu’, southeast of Bethlehem, Israeli forces began demolishing a two-story Palestinian home in the Khirbet Al-Deir area, citing a...
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian footballer in Gaza on Wednesday, the latest in a series of attacks targeting the besieged enclave's sporting community . Saleem Al-Ashqar, goalkeeper of the Khadamat Khan Younis club, was killed in the town...
When Roger Waters sings, "I feel your pain from New York City" to Mona Miari, he is doing more than revisiting a Pink Floyd classic; he is sending a letter into the ruins of Gaza. It...
A mobile clinic supported by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in South Africa. The U.S. announced it would cut off funding for HIV projects in the country. Credit: Instagram By Ed Holt BRATISLAVA, Jul 2 2026 (IPS) A...
Syria's foreign minister, Asaad al-Shibani , arrived in Beirut on Thursday to meet Lebanese government leaders, in his first visit there since US President Donald Trump raised the possibility of Syrian forces combating Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. Syrian President...
Syria's foreign minister, Asaad al-Shibani , arrived in Beirut on Thursday to meet Lebanese government leaders, in his first visit there since US President Donald Trump raised the possibility of Syrian forces combating Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. Syrian President...
GAZA, (PIC) The Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Gaza issued a comprehensive diagnostic report reviewing the educational status in the Gaza Strip for the years (2023-2026), representing a reference and methodological document through which the ministry monitored the deep...
GAZA, (PIC) Nicola von Arx, Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), affirmed that the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains unsustainable and unacceptable, stressing that the suffering of residents has...
AMMAN / PNN / The French Media Development Agency (CFI), with funding from the French Development Agency (AFD), has concluded the five-year Qarib project with a regional conference and an awards ceremony recognising journalists and independent media organisations from four...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Jewish settler groups carried out a series of attacks and incursions across the occupied West Bank overnight and into Thursday morning, targeting Palestinian villages, residential communities, and civilian property. In the Nablus governorate, settlers raided the village of Burqa,...
WEST BANK, (PIC Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a series of overnight and early Thursday raids across multiple cities and towns in the West Bank, conducting house searches, arrests, and demolitions, while Israeli settlers intensified attacks on Palestinian communities and...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces continued their ceasefire violations across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, carrying out new demolitions, artillery shelling, and gunfire in multiple areas. A local source said Hisham Khaled Hamad, a resident of Rafah in southern Gaza, died from wounds...
Welcome, Here are the key updates of the day: - Qatar says indirect talks in Doha between the US and Iran see "positive progress", with oil prices falling in response to the news - - Tehran says a communication channel will...
By: Majid Maqbool - - - - The killing and maiming of children globally has increased to alarming levels, particularly in the murderous struggle between Israel and its foes, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Myanmar and Somalia as out-of-control...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said on Wednesday that escalating Israeli discussions about new plans to displace the population of the Gaza Strip underscore the seriousness of what he described as efforts to forcibly remove Palestinians by destroying the territory’s...
GAZA, (PIC) Spain has welcomed 20 Palestinian children from Gaza, accompanied by their families, as part of the sixth medical evacuation mission from the Strip to receive treatment in Spanish hospitals. Spanish Health Minister Mónica García announced the children’s arrival in a...
The Palestinian technocratic committee tasked with administering post-war Gaza said Wednesday it concluded two days of "highly productive" talks in Cyprus on easing humanitarian suffering and advancing plans to rebuild the territory. The National Committee for the Administration of...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has condemned the Israeli Knesset’s preliminary approval of a bill to restrict the Muslim call to prayer (adhan) at mosques in Occupied Jerusalem and the 1948-occupied territories, describing it as a dangerous escalation against Islamic...
At a speech in Jerusalem today, Mike Huckabee described Israel as “the 436th congressional district of the U.S.’” Speaking at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel announced Washington will build a permanent embassy in Jerusalem —...
History remembers those who committed atrocities. It also remembers those who looked away. Vijay Prashad is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. His most recent book (with Grieve Chelwa) is How the International Monetary Fund Suffocates Africa (from Inkani...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip /PNN / Stor by Nesma N Harazeen In a small tent stitched together with patterned fabric that offers little more than the illusion of walls, Palestinian writer Mahmoud Albasiony continues to write, surrounded by the...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Resistance Committees in Palestine issued a statement on Wednesday asserting that the remarks from the US-sponsored “Board of Peace” on eliminating UNRWA’s role in post-war Gaza exposed the complicity of this council and its members with the...
GAZA, (PIC) Sa’er Abu Daraz did not close his eyes all night. Grief hovered closer than sleep. In a single instant, he found his infant daughter, Suwar, not yet one year old, lying lifeless on the floor of their displacement tent....
Britain’s ruling class and PMC keep plumbing new depths Internal emails reveal changes resulted directly from complaints by pro-Israel activists, with the museum and its director subsequently misleading prominent critics Namir Shabibi is an independent investigative journalist Cross-posted from Middle East Eye...
The "Peace Council" is set to launch a pilot project within weeks to manage humanitarian shelters in parts of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, as Israeli military operations continue despite a ceasefire. Citing unnamed sources, Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported...
The innumerable assasinations, putsches, and proxy wars by the West are never mentioned with regard to post-War World II colonialism in Africa and Western Asia. Still, there are some useful takeaways in this piece. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to...
The Trump administration concluded a recent mineral deal with Kazakhstan that, not surprisingly, enriches not only Trump’s own family but that of his secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick. Trump’s two eldest sons, part owners of Dominari Securities, are set to...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army delivered demolition orders for three homes and other structures in the village of Susiya, south of al-Khalil in the West Bank, on Wednesday. A total of 20 individuals from the al-Nawaj’ah family, including women and children,...
Gaza Strip - US envoy Steve Witkoff announced Phase 2 of the Gaza ceasefire in January 2026. The plan on paper detailed how Israeli forces would begin withdrawing, an International Stabilisation Force (ISF) would move...
I had no intention of writing about the organisation I work for. Institutions should be judged by their work, not by opinion pieces written in their defence. But I am writing today because the allegations directed at the Committee to...
Labour deputy leader Lucy Powell has come under fire after attending a pro-Palestine reception in Parliament, with critics accusing senior government figures of attempting to distance themselves from policies they say enabled Israel's war on Gaza . Powell...
NEW YORK, (PIC) UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged world countries to cover a $100 million gap in funding for UNRWA, saying the body was nearing a breaking point after deep cost-cutting and austerity measures. Guterres told an ad hoc meeting...
By Ramzy BAROUD Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has every right to condition European relations with any other country or bloc on respect for...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist Jewish settlers set up new illegal outposts and carried out violations in different areas of the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, on Thursday. According to local sources, a group of settlers established a new outpost on swaths of...
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