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What are the possible economic and financial consequences of the War of Aggression by the US and Israel against Iran? Dillon Maxwell is a member of the Socio-economics Policy Analysis and Research Collective (SPARC) and a PhD Economics candidate at SOAS,...

Western economics appear once again to be in turmoil Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Robert’s Blog Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license...

Sara Gandini Segue nostro Telegram . Dalla guerra al virus allo scontro con il nemico di turno: se prestiamo attenzione a queste tendenze ci accorgiamo che stiamo diventando tutti sacrificabili Correva il biennio 2020-2021 e, sotto gli effetti della pandemia...

By Dr. Rassem Bisharat Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights and Targeted Villages affirms that the on-the-ground realities in the area extending between Al-Sawahra al-Sharqiya, Abu Dis, and Al-Eizariya, along with the surrounding small and scattered Bedouin communities, indicate...

The US economic strangulation of Cuba has created unbearable hardships for the population. Medea Benjamin describes what she saw on a recent solidarity delegation and how we can break the blockade Medea Benjamin, a co-founder of the antiwar organization CODEPINK,...

Israeli forces are destroying more than 1,000 homes a day in Lebanon, according to a preliminary assessment by Lebanon’s National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), which described Israeli attacks on the country as an "unprecedented escalation". The report found...

As public institutions continue to collapse under the weight of widespread destruction in Gaza, essential services such as education and electricity have increasingly shifted into private hands. Families now find themselves forced to pay for services that were once...

By Martin WILLIAMS Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Officials from BAE Systems, Leonardo and Thales sit on advisory committees that oversee the ‘strategic direction’ of academic departments Arms industry executives have been given...

Four key points to keep in view as China implements its 15th Five-Year Plan c.groth Wed, 04/15/2026 - 14:51 picture alliance / Xinhua News Agency | Pu Xiaoxu Comment Apr 15, 2026 5 min read Four key points to keep...

A Hong Kong court has sentenced a university student to 10 days in prison for the indecent assault of two women on the MTR. West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts in Hong Kong, on September 19, 2024. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Wong Chun-ho,...

Hungary's outgoing Prime Minister, Viktor Orban , has long been considered Israel's closest ally in Europe and a staunch supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite his corruption scandals and multiple wars in the Middle East. Now that...

Across sub-Saharan Africa, the targeting of elderly people on accusations of witchcraft constitutes one of the continent’s most persistent and poorly monitored human rights crises. Tanzania, Zambia and Ghana have each confronted it in different ways, with limited success....

A Hong Kong press union has warned that the stalking of journalists has a “chilling effect” on press freedom, after the Security Bureau slammed the group over “groundless speculations” that law enforcement may have tailed reporters. File photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP....

If you set aside your logic and rational thought and listen instead to what Donald Trump and his media echo chamber is saying about the war with Iran you are hearing this: The US has wiped out Iran’s military capabilities. The nuclear...

A resident of the fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court housing estate in Tai Po has reported a suspected theft to authorities after photos taken inside her flat showed apparent signs of ransacking. A photo taken by a government social...

The war in the Middle East is elevating global financial stability risks through inflationary pressures that could cause funding markets to tighten, potentially straining non-banks, private credit and artificial intelligence borrowers, the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday. In...

Ronald Reagan’s budget director, David Stockman, spoke candidly years ago about why Republicans like tax cuts so much. In his 1986 book, The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed , he confided that tax cuts served the...

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 14 2026 (IPS) Trump 2.0 has been marked by the blatantly aggressive exercise of power to secure US interests as defined by him. While many recent trends even predate his first term, his...

If the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran is ultimately assessed as a defeat, some measure of blame could be cast on five pro-Israel “think tanks” that consistently promoted military action against the Islamic Republic in the eight months before it began,...

When I was a kid my parents made me and my brother go to shul (synagogue) every Saturday morning, even though they didn’t go themselves. It was only some time after my Barmitzvah that I plucked up the courage to...

Our dependence on fossil fuels does more than pollute our air. It destabilizes the world and empowers the ultra-wealthy to profit off of that volatility, leaving working families to pay the price. This dynamic has been on full display since...

A Fire Services Department commander involved in fighting the fatal Wang Fuk Court fire has told a probe committee that there was no record of firefighter Ho Wai-ho entering one of the estate’s buildings before his death. Senior Station Officer...

Hungary’s long-time prime minister Viktor Orban has been defeated in an election on Sunday, removing one of Israel’s closest allies inside the EU. This has raised fresh questions about whether the bloc could now move...

By Philip GIRALDI Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Trump and Israel will make sure the war against Iran continues During my most recent appearance on Judge Napolitano’s Judging Freedom on Wednesday I...

Pope Leo XIV headed to Algeria on Monday at the start of an 11-day tour of Africa, a major international trip that risked being overshadowed by criticism from US President Donald Trump. Leo will become the first ever leader of...

President Donald Trump ordered the US Navy on Sunday to block the crucial Strait of Hormuz shipping lane, after peace talks with Iran in Pakistan broke down without an agreement. In response to Trump's announcement, Iran's...

At least four Palestinians were injured and more than a dozen others detained during a new wave of Israeli military raids across the occupied West Bank from Saturday evening into Sunday. Early on Sunday morning, Israeli forces...

Top finance officials from around the world will convene in Washington this week under the shadow of the war in the Middle East , which has delivered a third major shock to the global economy after the Covid-19 pandemic...

JERUSALEM—Territorial buffers rarely, if ever, deliver the peace and security their advocates promise. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was seen as a neutral cordon between Russia and NATO. Instead, it became a zone of increasingly fierce geopolitical...

As of Friday, an independent committee investigating the deadly Tai Po fire has held 10 hearing sessions . Those who have testified include Wang Fuk Court residents as well as employees of firms responsible for fire safety and building...

Iran is drafting a law to impose transit fees on vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz , to be paid in its national currency, according to a senior parliamentarian, as the US warned it would...

Leo XIV will become the first pope to visit Algeria on Monday, taking a message of dialogue with Islam on a trip that also represents a personal pilgrimage for the American pontiff. Algeria is the first stop on...

By John Nguyet Erni Two US jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube last month crystallise, but do not resolve, the promises and contradictions of our legal commitments to both freedom of expression and the protection of children online. A smartphone...

A critique of how tech culture and venture capital are reshaping Muslim priorities, urging a return to spiritually grounded progress. “You will tread the same path as was trodden by those before you, inch by inch and step by step,...

Failure, for Netanyahu, is never an endpoint. It is a trigger. With no victory to claim and no strategic gains to present, he turned—once again—to Lebanon. Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle....

Amir Saeid Iravani, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations, addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías By Oritro Karim NEW YORK, Apr 10 2026 (IPS) The...

Last June , at a conference and retreat center not far from downtown Berkeley, California, around 100 people gathered to mull a new, techno-centric future of human reproduction. There was the physics professor moonlighting as a biotech company executive. There...

Vice President JD Vance is on his way to Pakistan for talks with Iranian officials in Islamabad on Saturday. Amid a shaky ceasefire, Vance is hoping to make progress toward ending a war that has sent global oil prices skyrocketing...