The conviction of two Palestine solidarity protest organisers in the UK, after lobbying by the Zionist lobby, is indicative of rising authoritarianism in Europe. Des Freedman is Professor of Media and Communications in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths,...
Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem early on Tuesday, raising an Israeli flag and performing Jewish rituals at the Muslim holy site. Settlers from the Jewish extremist "Temple Mount" movement entered the mosque's grounds under the...
BEIRUT, (PIC) A recent photo of an Israeli soldier smashing a statue of Jesus Christ with a sledgehammer in southern Lebanon has sparked widespread condemnation. The soldier was filmed smashing the statue in the Christian village of Debel in southern Lebanon, according...
Argentina's far-right President Javier Milei arrived in Tel Aviv on Sunday for a three-day visit during which he is expected to open his country’s embassy in Jerusalem and deepen ties with Israel . Milei’s arrival was given...
London’s mayor Sadiq Khan has been urged to intervene in a dispute between pro-Palestinian groups and police over a planned march for Nakba Day , after officers refused to approve the route while permitting a...
If one looks at the facts, one cannot help but suspect that the war in Iran will not only become the greatest military fiasco in the short history of the US, but will also knock the US off its throne...
Israel is running the show, and Trump is the mall security guard pretending he has authority before the cops arrive. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Lebanon continues to play a central, if...
- - - - On April 4, we announced the resumption of the weekly live Q-and-A session we did every Friday night during our SYSTEM UPDATE program when it was on Rumble. Those segments were often the most...
For Palestinian actor Adam Bakri , Eid in March was difficult. It was his first Eid without his father, legendary actor Mohammad Bakri , who sadly passed away in December 2025 at the age of 72. His...
LONDON, (PIC) In an exclusive field report by Al-Arab in UK (AUK), a high-level delegation of MPs, trade unionists, and human rights activists gathered outside the Metropolitan Police headquarters, “Scotland Yard.” The protest was held against what they termed “bias in...
Can the Indonesian government truly tame digital platforms? Originally published on Global Voices Advox Four tween boys crowd around a mobile phone in Jakarta, Indonesia. Image from Flickr . License CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 . Indonesia’s Minister of...
Many of the National Basketball Association’s biggest stars are quietly allying themselves with the State of Israel, making official visits to the country, meeting IDF troops, and investing in its national security industry. Meanwhile, individuals criticizing Israel and supporting Palestinian...
Thousands of teachers protested in Turkey on Thursday after two s chool shootings in two days left the country reeling, with the authorities cracking down on social media as crowds gathered for the funerals of nine victims of the...
- - - - Photo by Hartono Creative Studio on Unsplash For a while there, it seemed like the big topic on this Substack was so-called misinformation. I wrote a ton about it and, more accurately, the...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has distanced himself from intervening in a dispute between pro-Palestine organisers and British police over plans for a Nakba Day march after police in London refused to accept a protest...
The Metropolitan Police in London have refused to accept a letter from pro-Palestinian supporters calling for the reversal of a decision to block their annual march marking the Nakba. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley had refused permission for pro-Palestinian supporters to...
Senior research associate Emile Dirks spoke with Domino Theory about Xi Jinping’s view of national security in light of U.S. and Israeli cyber operations in Iran. Part of Xi’s strategy upon gaining power was to institute far-reaching...
Juman Simaan' s book Olive Growing in Palestine: Stories of Everyday Forms of Resistance (University of Georgia Press, 2026) does not commence with a description of the olive groves. Instead, it describes the presence of Israeli colonialism on...
- - - - President Obama meets then-President-elect Trump at the White House on November 10, 2016, courtesy of The Hill via YouTube. In August 2013 — in the wake of our Snowden reporting, which revealed the...
The Palestine Coalition in Britain confirmed its insistence on organising its annual march to commemorate the Nakba of Palestine, amid intensifying public pressure on British police to change their position rejecting the proposed route. The Stop the War Coalition...
Algerian poet Mohamed Tadjadit, winner of the Index 2025 Freedom of Expression Award in Arts, was recently jailed following trumped-up charges. He is also facing separate charges that mean he could face the death penalty. Tadjadit writes raw poetry rooted...
As the host and co-founder of Pacifica Radio’s “Democracy Now!” program, Amy Goodman is among the U.S. left’s leading journalists. Aired by 1,500 public radio and TV stations and currently celebrating 30 years of broadcasting, “Democracy Now!” is arguably independent...
Dozens of protesters were detained by police in New York City on Monday during demonstrations calling for the blocking of arms sales to Israel and an end to US military support for its ally. Demonstrators included the anti-war group...
This statement was originally published on cipesa.org on 12 April 2026. As Kenya looks ahead to the 2027 general elections, the rapid digitisation of the civic space presents both opportunities and risks. A February 2026 multi-stakeholder engagement organised by...
Israeli forces blew up a residential building inside the Tulkarm refugee camp on Friday, as settler attacks intensified across the occupied West Bank , targeting Palestinians and their property. Witnesses reported plumes of smoke rising over the...
GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that more than 21,000 patients in Gaza are awaiting urgent treatment abroad, accusing Israel of blocking their travel and worsening the health crisis in the Strip. In a statement on Saturday, the ministry rejected...
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...
We should not look too deeply at what got Trump in this mess. He’s just stupid and he surrounds himself with others who are much the same . Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us:...
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...
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...
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...
Britain former PM shows there’s no price to be paid for engineering mass slaughter in the service of western empire. Which is why those crimes not only continue, but grow in scale Jonathan Cook is the author of three books...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A very important film about Palestinian history has just come out. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and...
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...
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...
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...
“Nablus is at the centre of a huge prison, surrounded by fourteen Israeli settlements and many checkpoints which are closed by the army most of the time. How much longer do we have to suffer? They’ve destroyed Gaza...
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...
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