Palestine

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh The US-Saudi nuclear agreement is not really about reactors. It’s about rules and Washington deciding its own rules are negotiable. That decision will ripple through the region soon after the first Saudi reactor breaks ground. Riyadh is calling...

NABLUS, occupied West Bank / PNN / Nablus Governor Ghassan Daghlas said Israeli military operations and attacks by Israeli settlers across the governorate have killed six Palestinians and left dozens injured or detained over the past two days, describing the developments...

NABLUS / PNN / Israeli settlers attacked several Palestinian villages in the Nablus and Ramallah areas on Friday, under the protection of Israeli forces, amid warnings of further assaults in the coming hours and days, Palestinian officials and local sources said. The...

On July 22 , the House of Representatives approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), H.R. 8800, for fiscal year 2027, which includes a provision expanding defense cooperation and integration between the United States and Israel. The vote was 216-212, largely along...

Last week, on July 13, 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a “whole-of-government” campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court, vowing to take it apart “brick by brick” if necessary. The ICC is the world’s permanent international criminal tribunal....

From the outset of the Ukraine war, Skidelsky took every opportunity to puncture the Russophobic stereotypes of Russian expansionism, aggression and authoritarianism used to justify the Western proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Geoffrey Roberts is a Member of the Royal...

Chinese Nuclear Power Plant Donald Trump made news briefly this week by proposing civil nuclear cooperation with Saudi Arabia that includes support for building nuclear reactors using US technology. This is not actually a new development. Discussions between the US and...

For decades, Iran has sought to diminish America’s military presence and political influence in the Middle East. Yet some ambitions carry within them the seeds of their own undoing. The very policies intended to push out the United States have...

Public opinion on Israel is shifting rapidly , but there was little evidence of that at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday. The Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee's discussion of "The Next Phase of the Abraham Accords" largely...

New legislation could kill the freedom to criticize the Jewish state The country that once was the United States of America is now, in its 250 th year, led by a president whose ignorance of history and policy is so profound...

Last month, thousands of migrants across South Africa packed their belongings and left their homes. Parents withdrew children from school, shopkeepers shuttered businesses, employers advised workers to stay away, and families dispersed across provincial borders in search of temporary refuge. The...

Beit Sahour, Occupied Palestinian Territory- Story By PNN | Monjed Jadou A broad community-led fundraising campaign has been launched in the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour to finance the purchase and long-term operation of a fully equipped ambulance, as local officials,...

The Metropolitan Police Service has reversed its decision to close a war crimes probe into UK nationals who fought for Israel amid the Gaza genocide, it can be revealed. The 240-page referral was first submitted by the Public Interest Law Centre...

Israel’s Haifa Refinery What’s going on with the Israeli hardliners? Following a security cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Smotrich said: The current situation, in which the conflict between Iran and the United States remains limited, is the right one...

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Iggy Rodriguez KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jul 23 2026 (IPS) Sunday’s World Cup final focused world attention on the stench of corruption, past and current, surrounding some of its main protagonists, including Argentina, and the presidents of FIFA,...

Shortly after four members of Congress returned from a fact-finding visit to Havana early last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a tranche of new sanctions against Cuba’s tourism, energy, trade and security sectors, the latest move in a...

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...

The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign welcomes yesterday’s powerful call from Amnesty International for all EU states not to facilitate the sale of Israel Bonds . The clear unequivocal call on Ireland, as home member state, not to approve or transfer the...

Late last July, as a famine unfolded in Gaza and Israeli settler attacks intensified in the West Bank, Wes Streeting texted a friend shortly before midnight. “Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes,” the then health secretary told Peter Mandelson...

Turkish author Ece Temelkuran’s books teach us to recognize fascism, resist fear and restore our faith in humanity. Forced to leave her home country due to political and economic repression under the dictatorship of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish author Ece Temelkuran...

Turkish author Ece Temelkuran’s books teach us to recognize fascism, resist fear and restore our faith in humanity. Forced to leave her home country due to political and economic repression under the dictatorship of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish author Ece Temelkuran...

BETHLEHEM, Occupied West Bank /PNN / Israeli forces carried out a sweeping wave of military raids across the occupied West Bank overnight and into Tuesday morning, storming cities, towns and refugee camps, detaining Palestinians, searching homes and clashing with residents, while...

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,...

Ece Temelkuran in “Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century” draws on her exile from Turkey to prepare us for a future we do not want but will be forced to endure. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist...

Ece Temelkuran in “Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century” draws on her exile from Turkey to prepare us for a future we do not want but will be forced to endure. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist...

Ece Temelkuran in “Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century” draws on her exile from Turkey to prepare us for a future we do not want but will be forced to endure. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist...

Israel’s largest arms firms angrily refused to answer questions from independent media at an arms fair in England on Monday. They had been invited to the Farnborough International Airshow despite being required by French authorities to cover their stands in black...

A ROUTE TO A PEACE PRIZE [A GUEST ARTICLE BY RYAN L. DUDLEY] JULY 21, 2026 According to rumors, President Trump is hoping to receive a Peace Prize. Unfortunately, his actions are counter-productive. He is bogged down in both the Ukraine War...

RAMALLAH, Occupied Palestine / PNN / Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank accelerated at an unprecedented pace during the first half of 2026, with Israeli authorities advancing 162 settlement plans targeting more than 22,650 dunums (22.65 square kilometers) of...

RAMALLAH, Occupied Palestine / PNN / Dr. Ramzi Khouri, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and head of the Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine, warned Monday that Israel's accelerating settlement expansion across the occupied...

RAMALLAH, Occupied Palestine / PNN/ The Israeli Prison Service has increasingly used rubber-coated bullets against Palestinian political prisoners in recent months, marking what the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) described Monday as a dangerous escalation in the treatment of detainees inside Israeli...

Israel extended the area under its control along Gaza’s eastern edge earlier this week, carrying out military operations in Gaza City and Deir al-Balah that forced people into displacement, eyewitnesses in both cities told Mada Masr. The two governorates lie adjacent...

Bethlehem / PNN/ The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media has launched a new study titled "Algorithms of Violence: Analysis of Behaviors, Representations, and Implications of Organized Crime on TikTok among Palestinian Society in Israel." The study examines the...

The EU – of governments that promise one thing and do another – gave the Ukrainian people its poison. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Introduction: From “solidarity” to strategy When Russia first entered Ukraine in February...

The U.S. war with Iran continues to be a major distraction, diverting attention from other problems even within the Middle East. The Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not want it any other way. An image of Iran as...

On Monday, Yemen’s Houthis announced a blockade of Saudi Arabia, marking a major escalation that could ratchet up pressure on global oil markets at a time when U.S. and global oil stockpiles are dangerously depleted . A Houthi blockade could also...

Newly leaked documents reveal that while the Yemeni Armed Forces escalated their military campaign and Red Sea Blockade against Israel during the genocide in Gaza, a secret intelligence alliance and a “sophisticated espionage network” were being formed between Saudi intelligence,...

Andy Burnham became UK Prime Minister today. If he is serious about changing the Labour Party, Burnham will have to break with an Atlanticist foreign policy which he has always supported. Barry Malone is an independent journalist and author of the...

Andy Burnham became UK Prime Minister today. If he is serious about changing the Labour Party, Burnham will have to break with an Atlanticist foreign policy which he has always supported. Barry Malone is an independent journalist and author of the...

Andy Burnham became UK Prime Minister today. If he is serious about changing the Labour Party, Burnham will have to break with an Atlanticist foreign policy which he has always supported. Barry Malone is an independent journalist and author of the...

My former Georgetown professor, John Esposito, passed away on July 15, 2026, just as the military campaign between the U.S. and Iran reignited in what is becoming America’s “Third Gulf War.” It was America’s first Gulf War in 1991 that led...

By Danaka KATOVICH Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In an era of high prices for fuel, food, and housing, an extra $4,000 could make a life-saving difference for many families. But instead, that’s what the average...