Press freedom, whistleblowers and misinformation — from Assange and WikiLeaks to state surveillance and the fight for a free press.
Bethlehem / Battir /PNN/ Monjed jadou In the heart of the historic village of Battir, renowned for its ancient agricultural terraces and traditional irrigation system, the annual “Battir Eggplant Market Festival” has been launched, drawing senior officials and local residents in...
Diplomacy has effectively its own language, and the sum total of that language is, in theory at least, the sum total of possible interactions between states in peacetime. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo licensed under the Creative...
In today’s newsletter: The past week shows how quickly images, rumours and right-wing political opportunism can eclipse the facts on the ground Good morning. Last week, an estimated 72,000 migrants began crossing into a tiny Spanish enclave on the tip of...
Donald Trump’s foreign policy features chaotic decision-making and bombastic rhetoric. But some of his half-baked ideas could have lasting consequences, creating escalation pathways that his successors may be unwilling to close. West Africa provides a crucial case study. Trump ordered strikes...
Donald Trump’s foreign policy features chaotic decision-making and bombastic rhetoric. But some of his half-baked ideas could have lasting consequences, creating escalation pathways that his successors may be unwilling to close. West Africa provides a crucial case study. Trump ordered strikes...
Millions of people around the world will now find themselves even more exposed to the criminal actions of predatory states. Unlike Khan’s accuser, they are unlikely to ever get their day in court Jonathan Cook is the author of three books...
French teens are about to start the school year with access to one less vice. On July 23, France’s Parliament approved legislation that will ban children under the age of 15 from accessing social media. Under the law — which President Emanuel...
On June 26, two official delegations — one from Israel and one from Lebanon — signed a framework agreement with great fanfare in Washington. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, openly enthusiastic, framed the event as paving the way toward “lasting...
Stein‘s Law: “if a thing cannot go on forever, it will stop.“ Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Most people have heard at least a version of what is called Stein‘s Law: “if a thing cannot go on forever,...
A U.S.-backed proposal to dismantle the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is sparking fear in Gaza about the future of the agency that has shaped every aspect of refugee life for nearly eight decades. Earlier this...
The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack . This morning as I took my daily walk with my son I was listening to the latest episode of The Big Picture , the Ringer’s colossus of a movies podcast, and...
Today’s top items: 1. Wang Huning tours Tibet - Wang Huning, Politburo Standing Committee member and CPPCC Chairman, inspected Tibet from July 19 to 22, Xinhua reports. Beyond Lhasa he went to Ngari Prefecture in the far west, with stops including...
In 2025, 13.5 million ‘zero-dose’ children did not receive vaccinations in their first year. More than half of these children live in fragile, conflict-affected or vulnerable countries, where immunization may be disrupted due to a number of factors. Credit: UNICEF By...
Every bomb dropped on Gaza was, in some part, paid for by American taxpayers. The United States has provided Israel with more military aid than any other country—over $3.8 billion annually under a long-standing agreement, with tens of billions more...
Credit: Luke Dray/Stringer via Getty Images. Source IMF By Martin Schindler, Nikola Spatafora and Andrew Tiffin WASHINGTON DC, Jul 22 2026 (IPS) A farmer in Kenya gets weather and planting advice on a basic phone. A teacher in Nigeria uses a chatbot to...
The Israeli government paid a Republican Party-aligned public affairs company $9.9 million to advertise and promote content in American social media and news sites, according to a new disclosure made to the Department of Justice. The firm, Targeted Communications Global,...
While the public is encouraged to blame immigrants, Muslims, the left, or ‘Israel haters’, the UK state is racing to erect a scaffolding of control to protect itself before we wake up to the deception Jonathan Cook is the author of...
The Bunker appears originally at the Project on Government Oversight and is republished here with permission. Drones have the Pentagon turning on itself: One day, it’s seeking fleets of ever-cheaper uncrewed planes to wage war. Two days later, it’s pleading for...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the launch of the preliminary report from the UN Independent Panel on AI. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jul 16 2026 (IPS) As the international community continues to weigh the good, the bad and...
BRUSSELS / PNN / Palestinian Minister of Finance Dr. Istifan Salameh said the Palestinian government has received broad international support and praise for its reform agenda, adding that growing confidence among international partners is helping mobilize additional political and financial backing....
BRUSSELS (PNN) – By Fairoz Odeh – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa signed a new financial support agreement with the European Union on Friday during a ceremony with European Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Šuica, on the sidelines of the High-Level...
Seventy-nine years ago this month, President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act , which quickly morphed into today’s metastasizing, often abusive, national security state. With the stroke of his pen, Truman blessed the creation of the National Security Council to...
When the Trump administration decided to "run" Venezuela through Acting President Delcy Rodríguez, the aim was to keep things quiet following its January 3 raid to snatch the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro. Stability, oil, no messy transition, no open-ended commitment. The...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Mustafa Barghouthi, secretary‑general of the Palestinian National Initiative, has affirmed that the brutal Israeli war of genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip has turned into a “war of human, humanitarian, and economic attrition,” unfolding in full...
PEN America, once a fearless advocate on behalf of persecuted writers around the globe, has become a shill for Zionism and American imperialism. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New...
The rapid spread of the virus has been intensified by misinformation and violence towards volunteers and treatment centres Nearly two months after the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed an Ebola outbreak in one province, the virus is continuing to...
This statement was originally published on cipesa.org on 1 July 2026. Across Africa, young people are engaging with public life through digital spaces. Social media platforms, messaging apps, livestreams, and short-form video are now part of how youth learn about public...
The life of still another Palestinian doctor abducted in Gaza by the Zionist Nazis is in danger Norman Finkelstein is is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian...
A Nation Based on Truth, Peace, and Love “For in your flaws, I see the strengths, The will to change, the power to be, The dream that once enchanted me, A promise of true liberty.” “America” — The Frontier Man Two hundred and fifty years after...
United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese shares stories of the immense suffering in Palestine and laments the gutting of international law in her new book, “When the World Sleeps”. Transcript Chris Hedges: Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories...
Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request show that the Selective Service recently gamed out what a military draft would look like in a future war. It would not resemble the one the nation lived through 55 years...
Washington called last week on United Nations member states to stop funding the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). Speaking at the UNRWA annual pledging conference where donor states gathered to raise funds for the agency, United States Ambassador to the...
NEW YORK, (PIC) The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday called on Israel to immediately release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, describing his detention as “arbitrary.” In a statement, the UNHRC said Israel’s...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Palestinian human rights institutions have warned that the lives of detained Palestinian doctors Hussam Abu Safiya and Marwan al-Hams are in grave danger due to their exposure to daily torture in Israeli prisons. The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and...
Anthropic received a letter on June 12, issued under Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. It instructed Anthropic to shut down its AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, its foreign-national employees included. Given its inability to filter...
The war on information in the West has tread new grounds since the genocide in Palestine. Journalists and media outlets who report on the imperialist endeavors of the ruling class increasingly find themselves under the boot of legislators who concoct...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has condemned statements issued by the so-called Gaza Peace Council and the US administration regarding the future of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), including the declaration that the agency would...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the launch of the preliminary report from the UN Independent Panel on AI. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten By Naureen Hossain UNITED NATIONS, Jul 2 2026 (IPS) The acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) and its capabilities is far outpacing...
The NY Times published an outrageous article on Wednesday that perpetuates the myth that Ukraine is inflicting massive casualties on Russia. I suppose this is just another part of the propaganda game to deceive the US public about Ukraine’s chances...
Hannah Arendt warned in 1948 that a Jewish state built without Jewish-Arab agreement would live by permanent war, fear and exclusion – a warning that now reads less like idealism than realism Robert Manne is Emeritus Professor of Politics and a...
Delegates gather for the opening plenary of the June UN Climate Meetings in Bonn. Credit: Kiara Worth / IISD/ENB By Felix Dodds and Chris Spence APEX, North Carolina / SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jun 30 2026 (IPS) With progress stalled on many issues, this...
The U.S. is in the midst of an acute mental health crisis . In late May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 19% of adults have been told by a physician or therapist that...
The number 11 resembles “bare sticks” in Chinese culture – a symbol of “going it alone.” Hong Kong Free Press is proudly entering its 11th year today, standing alone and independently, without being wedded to any billionaire, corporate conglomerate or...
GAZA, (PIC) A source within Gaza’s resistance security apparatus said on Friday that security agencies were closely monitoring what it described as a rise in suspicious and inflammatory calls targeting internal stability in the Gaza Strip. In a press statement, the source...
KINSHASA, DRC — When people first began dying in the dusty hills of Mongbwalu, a gold-mining town in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, few suspected Ebola. It all started in late April, when a nurse returned...
Pride month is a time for celebration of queer joy, art and culture. This year, however, many transgender Americans are reminded of Pride’s origins as they face hundreds of anti-trans bills being introduced nationwide. First...
Hidden under the guise of a civilian “countering disinformation” organization, British intelligence outfit MI6 has helped build a vast propaganda apparatus, leaked documents reveal. Once targeting only Russia, it has recently expanded its scope to Iran, Gaza, and beyond, as...
Sephora*, an 18-year-old mother of two, holds her baby girl at the Karibuni wa Mama Clinic supported by SOFEPADI in Bunia, Ituri province, DR Congo, on 25 November 2025. Originally from a remote village, she fled when armed clashes erupted...
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