A few months after Hamas' October 7 attack , filmmaker Gillian Mosely was talking to a friend in Lebanon about the devastation unfolding in Gaza as Israel's genocidal campaign intensified. Like millions around the world, they were watching...
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The US-Israel war on Iran not only severely impacted regional insecurity, geopolitics, diplomacy, energy and trade, but it also signified a breakdown of the traditional international relations (IR) vocabulary used to interpret it. Words like war, deterrence, self-help, national security, and...
Privacy advocates celebrated Friday after a Republican-led effort to extend warrantless spying powers failed to advance in the US Senate in the early hours of the morning, with seven GOP lawmakers joining every Democrat except Sen. John Fetterman in opposition. The failed vote was another stumble for supporters of...
Storytelling, Not Rebuttal, May Be the Best Antidote to Misinformation About Reproductive Care
Full ArticleAround the world, millions of women rely on the drug mifepristone for abortion care. That’s put access to the drug in the crosshairs of anti-abortion activists both in the United States and in other countries. Yet as false claims about...
"It seems the Nakba will haunt us until our last day as Palestinian refugees ," Abu Walid al-Awad, a 65-year-old refugee whose family was expelled from the Palestinian village of Simsimah during the 1948 Nakba, began his...
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya moved to solitary confinement after appealing his detention extension
Full ArticleGAZA, (PIC) The legal team of Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, has revealed that Israeli prison authorities transferred him from the Negev detention facility to solitary confinement in Nafha Prison, where he is...
Ahead of the November midterm elections , President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have demanded Congress pass sweeping voting restrictions, including a requirement to show proof of citizenship to register — all in the name of election...
Saving the Planet Depends on Asia
Full ArticleEarly adopters pay a premium for their embrace of innovation. If you bought one of the first electric cars in the United States, you had limited range, long charging times, and very little infrastructure to support you on anything but...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has reiterated its readiness to hand over governance of the Gaza Strip to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza. In a statement released on Tuesday, Hamas accused the Israeli occupation regime and Nickolay Mladenov, the...
GAZA, (PIC) When the Palestinian scene is reduced to a round of aggression or breaking news, the most important element is lost: that the history of the Palestinian resistance is a long path shaped under British colonialism, deepened with the Nakba,...
Far-right Israeli ministers accused of inciting violence against Palestinians attended New York's annual Israel Day Parade on Sunday, while Zohran Mamdani became the first New York mayor in more than six decades to skip the event. The parade, held...
More than thirty years ago, I was imprisoned in Iran for eight years and tortured just for taking to the streets to demand freedom. When I first arrived in the United Kingdom, my mind was still trapped in...
Adam Hamawy has treated some of Gaza’s most critical patients —experience he hopes to bring to the US Congress if he wins the New Jersey primary on Tuesday. The first-time candidate, who is leading in the polls, is...
Adam Hamawy has treated some of Gaza’s most critical patients —experience he hopes to bring to the US Congress if he wins the New Jersey primary on Tuesday. The first-time candidate, who is leading in the polls, is...
Jordan said on Sunday it will allow a late start to work for public sector employees on World Cup matchdays to let fans enjoy the national team's debut appearance at the tournament. A decree from Prime Minister Jafar Hassan said official...
Jonathan Cook -Israeli claims about an Iran ‘threat’ were always a lie. Now we have proof
Full ArticleIt is not Tehran led by unhinged, genocidal megalomaniacs threatening the security of the region and the world. It is Tel Aviv and Washington Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of...
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...
BETHLEHEM /PNN/ By Monjed Jadou - Aida Youth Centre relaunched its “Right of Return Bazaar” for the fourth time during Eid al-Adha after a two-year hiatus, drawing broad official, public and economic participation in Bethlehem. The event, held at Aida refugee...
TikTok: The Climate-Denying Social Media App
Full ArticleDespite 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...
Dozens of Palestinians in Gaza City gathered on Thursday for funeral prayers for 10 people killed in Israeli strikes the night before, including five children and an elderly person, as well as a Hamas chief . More than 20...
Less than two weeks after Hamas named Mohammed Odeh as its new military commander, Israel eliminated him. The IDF also targeted a number of other high-profile Hamas members as the terrorist group continues refusing to disarm. The post IDF kills...
The Trump-led 'Board of Peace' is expected to hold talks with Hamas next week on transferring power to a new government for the Gaza Strip as part of efforts to advance the ceasefire agreement , Tony Blair has said. The...
Israel said on Wednesday that it had killed Mohammed Odeh, the reported new chief of Hamas ’s military wing, in a series of overnight air strikes on Gaza City, marking the latest in a string of targeted...
Michael Brenner: Hegemony?
Full ArticleWhat is hegemony? Is the United States losing it? By Michael BRENNER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su HEGEMONY. “Hegemony, Hegemon everywhere — but not a ‘definition’ in sight.” Talk about American foreign policy is...
After years of pursuit, Israel killed the commander of Hamas’s armed wing, Izz al-Din al-Haddad , in Gaza last week. Describing him as a key architect of the 7 October 2023 attacks, Israel framed the "complex intelligence-driven strike" as a...
From Guantánamo to Palestine, Washington has a long, brutal history of silencing, blacklisting, and deporting rapporteurs who dared tell the truth. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su When the United States government decided...
Here are the latest updates from this morning: - Lebanon witnessed a bloody night on Tuesday as Israeli forces carried out massacres across the country's south and east, killing at least 31 people, including children, according to the Lebanese Health...
The New Arab's live blog has now concluded. Here are some key updates from today: - A new draft peace deal received by Iran says Tehran would fully restore commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the US would end...
A profile of the late Edmund Phelps, a neoliberal economist until the end. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Picture by Cp2960 American Edmund Phelps recently...
COPENHAGEN, (PIC) Amnesty International, ActionAid International, and the Puls48 platform organized the “Run for Palestine” marathon, marking the 78th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe). The pro-Palestine marathon took place in seven Danish cities and concluded in Copenhagen last Sunday, drawing thousands...
EE.UU. sancionó a una relatora de la ONU, revelando su historial de acoso y castigo a quien le señala violaciones de derechos humanos. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos: info@strategic-culture.su Cuando el gobierno de Estados...
Anup Jagwani, Global Director for Farming and Agribusiness at the World Bank Group, addresses the World Seed Congress. Credit: Supplied By Friday Phiri LISBON, May 26 2026 (IPS) It is often said that the quality of seed determines the quality of...
The New York Times recently published Pulitzer Prize-winner Nicholas Kristof’s blockbuster account of IDF systematic rapes of Palestinian men and women detained at a notorious Gaza military prison camp, Sde Teiman (“fields of Yemen”). His account...
If this deal gets over the line, it will be dressed up as ‘everyone is a winner’, but the reality is that the US will have lost badly, and the Zionists know it. Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice...
BETHLEHEM / PNN/ Report By Monjed Jadou — The Nasrallah Al-Amouri family, originally displaced from the village of Dar al-Sheikh southwest of Jerusalem, is among many Palestinian families that have spent decades rebuilding their lives in Aida refugee camp...
Israel’s Education Ministry operated a secretive surveillance body that monitored teachers over political speech, with Palestinian educators emerging as the primary targets, an investigation by Israeli newspaper Haaretz alleges . The report detailed the activities...
The forgotten story of Palestinian Christians
Full ArticleBy Ramzy BAROUD Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed settlers, and...
Lebanon this week moved a step closer to opening a second international airport which could likely become a hub for low-cost travel in the country. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport announced that Sky Lounge Services...
Not long ago , a social media creator named Ludovico “Pato” Cordoni appeared on the TikTok account of the Italian utility company Plenitude. In the video, Cordoni takes the channel’s 116,600 followers on a trip to the company’s headquarters, where...
The majority of Jews worldwide could be living in Israel within the next decade, according to a new report by the UK-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research . The report, written by Professor Sergio Della Pergola and published on Wednesday,...
GAZA, (PIC) The scenes broadcast by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir of the activists of the “Freedom Flotilla” were not just individual behavior from a far-right minister, but turned within hours into a major international issue that reopened a long...
Jonathan Cook – Western leaders play their part in our charade democracies. Can you spot the tell?
Full ArticleThe super-rich and their vassals are deeply invested in the system because it richly rewards them. They’ll deploy everything they can – from the media to the ‘security’ forces – to prevent change Jonathan Cook is the author of three...
After the elimination of Al Qassam Brigades leader Izz al Din al Haddad on May 15, Hamas has reportedly turned to longtime senior member Mohammed Odeh to take the reins of the group’s military wing. As Hamas reportedly rearms and...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) When the name of the prisoners is mentioned in the Palestinian consciousness, it does not conjure up a figure in a statement or a passing piece of news in a bulletin. It conjures up suspended faces and ages, mothers...
LONDON, (PIC) In a first-of-its-kind event in the UK, drawing attention to the vital importance of documenting historical narratives and honoring those who lived through them, the Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB) held a prestigious ceremony on Monday evening, May 18,...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot and injured a Palestinian young man, bulldozed swaths of agricultural land and seized a building in the West Bank on Tuesday evening. According to local sources, the IOF opened fire at Kamal Abu...
When the Iran war began, the Trump administration told the American people that if the U.S. did not attack and assassinate Iran's leadership, the Islamic Republic could soon be launching missiles at U.S. cities . Now, as Americans absorb skyrocketing...
Internet access is often used as a tool to control the media during conflicts Originally published on Global Voices Advox Image from iMEdD, used with permission. This article by Elli Kostika, Katerina Voutsina, and Kelly Kiki is an excerpt...
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