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BETHLEHEM, West Bank (PNN) — A new episode of “Accountability,” a programme produced by Palestine News Network (PNN), examined two key aspects of Palestinian resilience: protecting traditional crafts and heritage…
This statement was originally published on mediarightsagenda.org on 2 October 2026. Introduction LAGOS, Friday, October 2, 2026: Concerned by reports of unresolved disruptions affecting access to TikTok in parts of…
Economics
The ideological roots of our Big Tech technocrats, and how tech is facilitating the elimination of the democratic gains that centuries of political struggle have earned Ame ricans Chris Hedges: An outgoing researcher at…
Geopolitics
Three years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the consequences of a decision driven by siege, settlement expansion and assaults on Al-Aqsa are still unfolding Sami Al-Arian is the Director of the Center for Islam and…
Technology
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AI agents don’t go rogue. That’s something only humans do. Nevertheless, a New York Times article – representative of much news coverage of AI – described an OpenAI hacking as “A.I. bots going rogue and independently…
Geopolitics
Trump, nosediving in the polls and bristling over a disastrous war on Iran, needs a scapegoat – and the Israeli prime minister best fits the bill Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian…
Ukraine
This summer, Microsoft announced that “it will extend its provision of technology support to Ukraine through the end of 2027,” providing technology, cybersecurity support, and other assistance to "help Ukraine maintain…
Media
When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state Jonathan Cook is the author of…
#Life
The most dangerous religious deepfake may not look strange at all. It may show a scholar we have listened to for twenty years sitting in a room much like the rooms from which he has taught before. His voice carries the…
BETHLEHEM /PNN/ Christian religious, civic and academic figures in Bethlehem have rejected remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly, in which he said Christian…
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Kathmandu’s arrest of a prominent political observer who shared critical reporting by The Grayzone is the latest sign that a government which promised reform may be more repressive than the one it forcibly replaced. The…
Economics
In 2021, the US supplied around 5% of all Europe’s gas. That figure is now 26% and rising. Nate Bear is a journalist, a pr/comms man for corporates, money funds, for non-profits, for climate orgs, for wildlife groups…
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A street market in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city. Residents are anxious about high inflation and also fear recent floods will drive food prices higher. Credit: Ant/IPS By Guy Dinmore, and a reporter in Yangon YANGON…
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Helen Clarkson, CEO, Climate Group at Climate Week NYC. Credit: Climate Group By Naureen Hossain NEW YORK, Sep 22 2026 (IPS) The Climate Group’s annual conference in New York City has attracted thousands of attendees…
Economics
Nika Dubrovsky speaks to Michael Hudson and Kathleen Tyson at the David Graeber Institute about the changing dynamics of the global system, including the rising importance of gold as a strategic asset. Cross-posted from…
Larry C. Johnson
Two things happened this weekend that belong in the same frame, though you will not see them connected anywhere in the Western press. Russia held a national election under a hail of drones and cyberattacks — and came…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The super-rich have already screwed up the planet in their pursuit of power and profit. AI simply gives them a new tool to hasten their story – and ours – to its dramatic finale Jonathan Cook is the author of three books…
The Israeli documentary Naza attracted considerable international media and political attention after winning the Venice Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize, despite not yet having reached the wider public. Following its…
Artificial Intelligence
A Republican Congressional candidate in Iowa has pitched himself as an anti-corruption crusader, swearing off corporate PAC donations and claiming to represent voters who’ve “been left behind by a broken political system…
Business & Economy
Sometime around late 2009, centrifuges at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant began malfunctioning. They would suddenly speed up or slow down, placing enormous stress on the delicate machinery. Centrifuges failed. The…
In Conversation
Dr Jean Kaseya, Director-General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), discusses fighting Ebola amid conflict, rebuilding public trust and the much bigger challenge of strengthening health…
Armed Conflicts
By Roberto Savio ROME, Sep 15 2026 (IPS) On 11 September 2001 I was in New York, on one of my frequent visits to the United Nations, to which I was tied by a consultancy contract. That morning I woke up late, around…
Geopolitics
The UK may end up assisting Tel Aviv by reinforcing a preposterous distinction between ‘illegal’ Jewish settlements and a supposedly ‘law-abiding’ Israel Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the…
Analysis
When I look back on all of my work over the last 30 years, one of the projects I’m most proud of is Meltdown , an audio series I did in 2021 with acclaimed director Alex Gibney that reveals the untold story of how…
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The death of Palestinian artist Sliman Anis Mansour stirred powerful memories. He passed away at Al-Makassed Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem on August 24, at the age of 79, bringing to a close a legacy that cannot…
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GAZA (PNN) — By Hanan Al-Rifi Under a sliver of light filtering through an opening in a small tent pitched over the rubble of a refugee camp, 50-year-old Suhail Abu Shawish sits repairing musical instruments that…
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (PNN) — As part of its “PNN Accountability” programme, PNN takes viewers to the town of Battir, west of Bethlehem, in an episode examining two issues affecting Palestinians from different…
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (PNN) — Palestine News Network (PNN), as part of its cooperation with the Palestine Press Workshop, has launched a new television programme, “PNN Accountability,” focusing on stories from the lives…
BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN/ This week’s episode of “PNN Accountability” examined two issues closely linked to the Palestinian presence on Palestinian land: alleged Israeli targeting of Palestinian women by settlers in…
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (PNN) Palestine News Network (PNN), as part of its cooperation with the Palestine Press Workshop, has launched a new television programme, “PNN Accountability,” focusing on the everyday concerns and…
Economics
A government has plenty of alternatives in dealing with its debt, but most are not palatable for financial speculators Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting at Sheffield University…
Human Rights
Anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in the United States, and yet Muslim political candidates are enjoying a banner year. Zohran Mamdani was elected the first Muslim mayor of New York City in 2025. This year, Abdul…
Israel
Israeli settlers attacked an NBC News crew in the village of Jalud over the weekend, injuring the network’s correspondent, Matt Bradley, as well as two other crew members and Aida Ahmed Abdullah, the Palestinian woman…
War & Peace
The dystopian future became the dystopian present last month when state-of-the-art artificial intelligence agents went rogue and conducted a cyberattack of their own volition. Two experimental OpenAI agents escaped their…
BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN / Al-Noor Association for Persons with Disabilities has launched a project aimed at strengthening protection, resilience and rights for marginalised women and girls with disabilities in Aida…
This statement was originally published on lesotho.misa.org on 23 August 2026. When a state handshake grants instant credibility to an outlet that answers to no one, who is truly to blame when the next viral lie takes…
This statement was originally published on zambia.misa.org on 13 August 2026. SECOND PRESS STATEMENT BY THE ZIKO LATHU CONSORTIUM AND THE GLOBAL PLATFORM NETWORK AS ZAMBIA VOTES – DELIVERED ON 13TH AUGUST 2026, AT THE…
AI Competition
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Here’s a realistic scenario how the next serious crisis around digital sovereignty will play out. It will not be a conventional cyberattack. An AI agent, pursuing an assigned objective, will identify another AI system as…
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Even before the Collective West launched a direct military war against Russia, Russia had already won the war: its army, its economy, and its people. By Peter Hanseler via ForumGeopolitia.com Hard Factors Russia’s Many…
Elections
On paper, Alexander Vindman’s loss in last week’s Florida Democratic Senate was a shocking upset. After all, Vindman had a 16-to-1 fundraising advantage and far more national name recognition than the winner —…
Fake News
Western media, by employing double standards, censorship, deceptive language, amplifying Israeli lies and dehumanizing Palestinians, facilitates the genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist…
Africa
Some of the over 56,000 returnees the Malawian government brought back home are assisted upon arrival. Credit: Thomas Kachere/IPS By Charles Mpaka BLANTYRE, Malawi, Aug 25 2026 (IPS) When the Malawian government…
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Here’s a realistic scenario how the next serious crisis around digital sovereignty will play out. It will not be a conventional cyberattack. An AI agent, pursuing an assigned objective, will identify another AI system as…
Larry C. Johnson
Al Shara aka Al Jolani, Sunni Terrorist For a quarter century the United States has told the world, and itself, a simple story about its role in the Middle East. On September 11, 2001, it was attacked by Sunni jihadists…
Editors Picks
From Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Aniston and Lionel Messi, celebrities across the world are hiring teams of Israeli bodyguards made up of former Shin Bet, Mossad, and Israeli special forces. But how safe…
Ebola
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The Trump administration’s ‘America first’ approach has contributed to the scale of the crisis now unfolding in one of the world’s poorest countries For months health experts have warned that the scale of the Ebola…
Geopolitics
This myth has helped to maintain Western support for the war but has not served Ukraine – a completely devastated country – well at all. Branko Marcetic is a staff writer with Jacobin magazine and the author of…