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Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei has been selected to take part in a torch-lighting ceremony for Israel's 'Independence Day', alongside a rabbinical judge who has publicly boasted about demolishing buildings in Gaza , according to Israeli...

MENA

Some Algerian political activists are lashing out at Egypt for reportedly supporting Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, a territory on Africa's northwest coast that has been at the centre of disputes with Algeria for decades. "Egypt takes sides with...

MENA

The crisis in central Europe and the Balkans looks to intensify, and sufficient attention needs to turn to this. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Most global attention is on the tenuous ceasefire...

Europe, Russia & CIS, Security

Weeks after a video of him in a military uniform spread widely online, declaring that "the criminal United States and the Zionist regime" would never gain access to Iran's oil, fifth-grader Alireza Jafari was killed alongside his father in a...

MENA

AI tools help campaigns become more effective for the candidates you like — and those you don’t Originally published on Global Voices Advox Illustration by Tactical Tech, with visual elements from Yiorgos Bagakis and Alessandro Cripsta, used with permission....

Advocacy, Artificial intelligence, Central Asia & Caucasus

Delicately tackling the themes of exile and the uneasy privilege of survival, Palestinian filmmaker Sawsan Qaoud' s documentary Gaza Grad was just presented at the Open Horizons section of the 28th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival . The film...

Culture

More than half of voters in the Republic of Cyprus want to shut down British military bases on the eastern Mediterranean island, a new poll has found. Britain still militarily occupies three per cent of Cyprus having refused to...

Archive, Europe, Military

On 27 October, Omer, a Community Development Committee member, supports health workers at the UNICEF-supported mobile clinic in Al Jadab village in Atbara, River Nile State. Through this initiative, UNICEF is restoring lifesaving healthcare services, such as nutrition, immunization, antenatal...

Armed Conflicts, Climate Change, Crime & Justice

New York City police arrested a member of a Jewish Defense League group known as JDL 613 , for plotting to assassinate a Palestinian-American leader. The suspect is Alexander Heifler, whose Linkedin account lists his employment as...

Unfiltered

The latest technology can prove decisive in war. Think of the atomic bomb in World War II. Or the stirrup in the Mongol conquest of Europe and the Middle East. More recently, after the two sides had been deadlocked...

War & Peace, AI, Technology

Atouf, West Bank - In the Jordan Valley village of Atouf, Palestinian farmers are hauling ladders, fences, and other agricultural equipment into their pick-up truck - preparing to leave their lands. “I invested NIS 150,000 [$48,800] in planting...

In-depth

By Jonathan COOK Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Binary thinking in the argument over whether the US or Israel is driving the illegal war on Iran obscures far more than it illuminates. The...

Editor's Choice, Gaza Strip, Iran

An analysis of Bangladesh’s first AI-saturated election, where seeing was no longer believing Originally published on Global Voices Advox A roadside campaign stall covered with large candidate banners, party iconography (a rice-stalk motif), and rows of photocopied flyers. Used...

Advocacy, Artificial intelligence, Bangladesh

Israel’s parliament passed on Monday a law mandating the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel who are convicted of lethal attacks labelled as “terrorism.” The amendment to Israel’s Penal Code bars any possibility of...

Israel-Palestine relations, Palestinians

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is reportedly recruiting children as young as 12 for security roles, as the Israeli-US war on Iran continues, Human Rights Watch has reported. The IRGC's 'Homeland Defending Combatants for Iran' Division...

MENA

Each year on 30 March, Palestinians mark Land Da y, which commemorates the events of 1976 when Israeli authorities confiscated thousands of dunams of land in the Galilee, the Triangle, and the Negev. The widespread theft sparked widespread protests among...

MENA

People accused of spying or cooperating with "hostile states" could face the death penalty and confiscation of all assets under a recently enhanced law, an Iranian judiciary spokesperson said, a month into the war with the United States...

MENA

The Palestine Digital Activism Forum opened on Monday, bringing together activists, journalists, and technologists to examine how control over digital narratives has become a struggle for survival in today’s online spaces . Organised by 7amleh , The Arab...

MENA

Earlier this month, the Labour government took the historic step of adopting a non-statutory definition of anti-Muslim hostility – seven years after the previous Conservative government committed to doing so. This definition was developed by an expert working group...

Perspectives

Donald Trump is not only endangering the world with his megalomania and greed, but will likely go down in history as a baron of lies. What is the real situation, given that the Western media actually believe Trump’s nonsense? By...

Guest Contributor

NewsGuard , a company that rates news outlets’ accuracy using what it calls “apolitical journalistic criteria … to identify reliable sources of information,” has filed a lawsuit to block the Federal Trade Commission’s demand for a list of all...

Column, Courts & Law, Media

Gideon Levy believes Israel’s rampant militarism has infected the minds of its entire population. Without an impossible reversal, the Jewish state’s destructive warpath will rage on. As the war between the United States, Israel, and Iran intensifies, the justifications for...

Geopolitics, National Politics, Article

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A Palestinian young man was martyred and two others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at them during raids in Jerusalem and the West Bank. According to local sources, a young man identified as Mustafa...

News, IOF raids, Israeli crimes

Iran's security forces are recruiting children as young as 12 to man checkpoints and perform other duties during the war in the capital, a Revolutionary Guards official told state TV on Thursday. Checkpoints have sprung up all around Tehran...

MENA

British officials had at least five meetings with a former Iranian army Colonel who sought to overthrow the regime in Tehran and promote a “military government”, declassified files show. The Colonel, Nasrullah Tavakoli, said in 1991 that he had been...

Middle East, Top Stories, Iran

In late October 2023, Massachusetts-based independent publisher Interlink Publishing, one of the few Palestinian-owned publishers in the United States, launched a major promotion of its Palestinian catalogue on Amazon Ads. The aim, Harrison Williams , Interlink's Production and...

Book Club

This statement was originally published on cipesa.org on 18 March 2026. Uganda’s Constitutional Court has delivered a major ruling that has outlawed several sections of the Computer Misuse Act, Cap 96, and ordered the government and its agencies to...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) delivered on Tuesday evacuation and demolition notices for seven inhabited homes belonging to Palestinian families in the eastern neighborhood of Qalandia village, north of Jerusalem. The orders require the residents to vacate and demolish...

News, Demolition policy, Displacement policy

Eighty years ago, Aldous Huxley wrote that “in the field of international politics the gravest decisions are always taken not by reasonable adults but by boy-gangsters.” This metaphor, from his essay Science, Liberty and Peace , implies an immature,...

War & Peace, Aldous Huxley, Cuba

This is an interview from 13 March 2026 This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy , taken or made as part of that person’s official duties. As a work of...

Economics, Finance, Geopolitics

The following story is co-published with Nolan Higdon’s Substack . “Tel Aviv, stripped of illusion, as you have never witnessed it,” read the caption above a viral March 2026 video showing missiles hammering the Israeli city...

Media, Military, Opinion

Joe Kent , Trump's former counterterror chief who resigned this week in protest at the Iran war , has accused White House advisors and pro-Israel lobbyists of manipulating the US president into launching the war. In an interview with US...

MENA

Amid rising regional tensions, the confrontation between the United States and Iran appears more complex than a direct military clash. The stakes are not measured solely by airstrikes or the scale of destruction but by each side’s strategic objectives and...

Perspectives

Raed Subhi was following the news that reached him after midnight on Saturday about Israeli soldiers opening fire on a Palestinian vehicle in the town of Tammoun, south of Tubas in the northern occupied West Bank . He never imagined...

MENA

A senior US counterterrorism official resigned on Tuesday to protest the US-Israeli war against Iran and said the Islamic Republic posed no imminent threat to the United States. "I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,"...

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