GAZA, (PIC) When news of Gaza is mentioned, what is meant is not just a torrent of breaking headlines or numbers of martyrs and wounded that are repeated every day as a result of the Israeli aggression. What is meant is...
The UK's press regulator said it would be looking into complaints made following the alleged "smear campaign" against activist Misan Harriman after four major UK publications accused him of spreading "antisemitic" conspiracy theories. Confirming this to Novara Media...
By middle age, most of us have known friends who removed themselves from the group. Whether college buds or the work happy-hour crew, someone has proved ruinously unreliable or an unpleasant drunk, and wound up giving themselves the Reverse “Good...
Israeli forces have advanced to positions north of Lebanon's Litani River, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday, as Israel escalates attacks against what it claims to be Hezbollah assets after warning thousands more Lebanese to flee...
One of the innumerable stories of the crimes committed against the Sumud pariticpants by the Zionist Nazis Eugene Doyle is a writer based in Wellington. He has written extensively on the Middle East, as well as peace and security issues in...
GAZA, (PIC) During the Eid al‑Adha holiday, cemeteries in the Gaza Strip are no longer merely places of burial; they have become a central destination for thousands of families who have lost loved ones in the ongoing Israeli war since October...
- - - - Photo by Chelsea on Unsplash If I were to live my dream, I’d be on a patch of land that at least felt like the middle of nowhere. I’d have my home, my...
Despite social media giant TikTok’s ambitious campaigns to combat climate denial, go carbon neutral and support sustainable advertising on its wildly popular video platform, the company sponsored a Canadian right-wing conference featuring a retinue of long-established climate deniers...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 19 May 2026. After two years, Ghanaian journalists Bridget Otoo, Vanessa Edotom Boateng, and activist George Gyening Anyang, have won a court case against the Inspector General of Police and the...
By Jan Hennop and Matthew Walsh Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth is the headline speaker at Asia’s premier defence summit opening Friday, but China’s top officials aren’t expected despite weighty questions like Taiwan and the war in Iran. Chinese Defence Minister...
By: Ainur Rohmah - - - - Through plans to centralize exports of strategic commodities, expand the authority of state-owned enterprises and place the state back at the commanding heights of development, President Prabowo Subianto is attempting the most ambitious...
Israel's military said it launched an airstrike in the Beirut area on Thursday as a Lebanese source said an apartment was hit, the second such raid since an April ceasefire announcement. The escalation comes as Lebanon and Israel...
This month , as delegates from around the world gathered at the United Nations to talk about nuclear nonproliferation, the U.S. and Russia chose to remind everyone just how much destructive power they command. On May 12, Russia staged a test launch of its Sarmat...
A Blairite, a Brownite, a Corbynite and a Starmerite walk into a pub, and the person working behind the bar asks, “what are you drinking, Andy?” If you want a sense of Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham’s political compass, this...
When you benefit from an unjust system it can be difficult to recognize you’re living in one. It’s our job to continually point that out. By Joe LAURIA Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us:...
The Department of Health has said Hong Kong’s smoking rate dropped to a record low of 8.5 per cent, but it fell short of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended target. A man smokes in Hong Kong on October 20,...
This month, as delegates from around the world gathered at the United Nations to talk about nuclear nonproliferation, the U.S. and Russia chose to remind everyone just how much destructive power they command. On May 12, Russia staged a test launch...
“Democracy” is a slogan, a value-judgement more than it is a description, and a term of praise and abuse in political debates more than a defined programme. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Licensed under the...
Since October 2023 , Israel has occupied vast stretches of territory in Gaza, Syria and, most recently, Lebanon. Corporate media have been reluctant to use clear, direct language to characterize U.S.-backed Israeli land grabs in each of these places, preferring...
Picture three British Pakistani friends in their early twenties cruising down Manchester’s infamous Curry Mile — a.k.a. Wimmy Road, a.k.a. Wilmslow Road — about to embark on a lads’ night out in the North of England’s biggest halal...
“It’s got no anything,” President Donald Trump said of Somalia in a recent xenophobic rant. “All they do is run around shooting each other.” As is true of so much with this administration, every accusation is also a confession. U.S....
After two decades, long-suffering Gunners fans from across the diaspora have been rewarded with a Premier League win. So why has this sometimes beleaguered team earned such adulation? - Don’t already get The Long Wave in your inbox? Sign up here...
The reported US-Israeli plan to install Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as an Iranian equivalent of Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez is shocking, but not because Ahmadinejad is unknown. He is one of the most recognisable figures in the Islamic Republic’s recent history. It is...
The upcoming ASEAN-Russia summit may test whether ASEAN can keep Myanmar’s military leadership off the high-level regional stage it has so far denied them. Russia is preparing to host an ASEAN-Russia summit in Kazan from June 17 to 19 to...
Muslim faithful took part in the climactic ritual of the annual Hajj pilgrimage on Wednesday, symbolically stoning the devil near Mecca. From dawn, crowds of pilgrims gathered in the valley of Mina, southeast of the holy city of...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Lebanon’s health ministry announced that 31 people were killed and 40 others were wounded on Tuesday in Israeli airstrikes targeting the country’s south, marking one of the deadliest days in recent weeks. Lebanese and international media reported that the strikes...
An analysis of the current state of negotiations between Iran and the United States Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. As an...
Major French luxury department store Galeries Lafayette closed its first China flagship branch on Wednesday, over a decade after opening, pointing to sluggish domestic consumption and shifting spending habits. A sign is seen on the Galeries Lafayette department store in...
Central music venue The Aftermath has appealed for support as it seeks to settle accumulated back rent as part of a newly negotiated lease agreement with its landlord. An event at The Aftermath in 2018. Photo: The Aftermath,...
No force has reshaped American politics over the last decade more conspicuously or detrimentally than the expanding influence of the billionaire class. Since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling in 2010 opened the floodgates for unlimited political spending by billionaires...
At 11 am in the port of Kraten, on the north-eastern edge of the Kerkennah archipelago in south-eastern Tunisia, fishermen are untangling heaps of fishing nets piled along the waterfront as they prepare for the next trip out to sea. Head...
The following story is co-published with Nolan Higdon’s Substack . When a speaker at the University of Central Florida’s May 8, 2026, commencement ceremony declared, “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution,” it triggered...
Earlier this year, Declassified revealed that over 2,000 Britons served for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) since October 2023. This information would never have come to light using sources in Britain. The UK government does not collect data on...
Progressives across the US are sweeping the 2026 midterm primaries, reflecting a shift not only away from the US President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, but also from the Democratic establishment. So far, progressives —including candidates with...
Despite the ceasefire and tentative progress toward a memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran, the Persian Gulf has remained perilously volatile. In the past 24 hours alone, several rounds of fire have been exchanged between US and Iranian forces...
For the fourth year in a row, Hong Kong’s Victoria Park – historically the site of annual candlelight vigils to remember the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown – will host a patriotic food carnival on June 4....
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Nurina Malek KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 26 2026 (IPS) The Federal Reserve Bank’s turn to ‘reserve management’ exposes the limited policy options still available as the US seeks to protect itself against international stagflation stemming...
On May 19, a press release from the Nigerian military proclaimed that, in a joint operation with the United States, it dealt a “devastating blow” to ISIS and “eliminated” a senior leader and more than 170 fighters. The press release...
For all the uncertainty about what will happen next on the military and diplomatic front in the Iran war, there is certainty about what has already happened on the economic front. And it is not good. The world has seen a...
By: Daniel Mitchum - - - - Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi met South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung in Andong. Photo from the Office of Japan’s Prime Minister Japan and South Korea have agreed to set aside their frequent diplomatic...
Shares of key Chinese quantum computing companies have surged about 20% over two trading days after Washington announced a US$2 billion funding package for nine US firms, as investors bet that Beijing would respond with its own push to keep...
Regularisation campaigns create more equal and just societies and have benefits for everyone, but the public doesn’t often hear that message. Jean-Michel Lafleur is the Director of the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM) of the University of Liège (ULiège)...
The novel “Ultra Heavy: Edge of Empire” challenges the current woke trends that are bringing down literature. This is a hard hitting high-energy book about an interplanetary Russia in the year 3900 AD that mixes elements of sci-fi, big ideas,...
Syria completed the electoral process for its upcoming parliament on Sunday after voting concluded in the northeastern constituencies of Hasakah , Qamishli and Ain al-Arab (Kobane) , with authorities saying the country’s first legislative session...
Mohamed Salah bid an emotional farewell to Liverpool F.C. on Sunday, ending a historic era at Anfield as one of the club's greatest ever players and one of the most influential Arab and Muslim athletes in modern sport. The Egyptian...
Five years into Malawi’s flagship long-term development plan, government data shows a widening gap between the country’s industrial ambitions and progress. Malawi has completed 87% of the activities outlined in its national industrialisation plan. But only 40% of the plan’s targets...
Israel's security cabinet descended into infighting over how to respond to Hezbollah as the group's increasingly sophisticated drones continue to inflict losses on Israeli forces occupying parts of southern Lebanon . A five-hour cabinet meeting saw a heated exchange...
Will The Donald become Israel’s next Prime Minister? If Donald Trump seriously wants a second career after he destroys the United States and a large part of the world he would be well advised to consider becoming a stand-up comedian....
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