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West Asia is not returning to the old regional order. Too many assumptions have failed, and too many actors have discovered the limits of their power. For years, security in the region was treated as something that could be imposed:...

Opinion, Drone Warfare, Gaza War

Asia became prosperous in an era of predictable globalization. Open markets, cheap energy, integrated supply chains and export-led manufacturing transformed once-poor economies into the world’s most dynamic growth centers. But the very interdependence that powered Asia’s rise is now becoming...

Opinion, Asia Economy, Asia Exports

As the Kenyan people grapple with skyrocketing fuel costs precipitated by the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, their leaders are preoccupied with road and infrastructure upgrades as they prepare to host the Africa-France Summit next week. This high-level gathering marks the...

France, Kenya, Emmanuel-macron

The recent imposition of U.S. sanctions against the former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, marks the latest move by the administration of President Donald Trump in support of the government of President Felix Tshisekedi in its...

Trump, Sanctions, Rwanda

The Bunker appears originally at the Project on Government Oversight and is republished here with permission. Did The Bunker miss anything during our week away? Did the Strait of Hormuz re-open? Was Iran’s “ nuclear dust...

Pentagon-waste, Golden-dome, Golden-fleet

When the Abraham Accords were signed on the South Lawn of the White House five and a half years ago, the inevitable triumphalism that accompanies American diplomatic ceremonies obscured a more sober reality. The agreement between Israel and the United...

Middle East, Abraham Accords, Benjamin Netanyahu

Unless TACO Trump is bluffing, the US appears poised to unleash a new series of attacks on Iran using the Strait of Hormuz as an excuse. On Sunday afternoon, Donald Trump President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social...

Larry C. Johnson

I’m in love with my car Gotta feel for my automobile Get a grip on my boy racer rollbar Such a thrill when your radials squeal – Queen After attending the Auto China 2024 exhibition in Beijing, this writer declared...

China, 2026 Beijing Auto Show, American Auto Makers

By: Alexandre Quéru - - - - Albanese and Prabowo In February, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto signed a Security Treaty which the two governments have described as a quantum leap, cementing a...

Deep Harbor overwhelms Darius with its immense masjid, refugee camps and wide river, while tensions within the family deepen. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 |...

#Culture, #Life, featured

Dutch husband and wife and third unidentified person reported to have died, with three further people taken ill A suspected outbreak of the rare hantavirus infection on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean killed three people – including an elderly...

Cape Verde, Argentina, South Africa

What is happening now is not limited to the United States possibly experiencing its third defeat. It might be the collapse of a huge empire itself. Emmanuel Todd is a French historian, anthropologist, demographer, sociologist and political scientist at the National...

Geopolitics, Article, Emmanuel Todd

Tokayev riceve Herzog ad Astana: terre rare, intelligenza artificiale e Middle Corridor. Mentre l’Iron Dome israeliano è dispiegato negli Emirati, gli Accordi di Abramo si trasformano da trattato di pace mediorientale in architettura di contenimento trans-euroasiatica. I BRICS osservano. Segue...

Italiano, BRICS, Donald Trump

Geoffrey Rodgers spent most of his career at the intersection of semiconductor technology and go-to-market execution, with a focus on scaling businesses and bringing complex solutions to market. He previously led the Analog Go-To-Market motion at Synopsys following the acquisition...

CEO Interviews, Chiplet, asic

The real issue now for the world economy is the inevitable global shortages of essential commodities, not just oil, but oil products like air fuel and a whole range of raw materials needed to sustain agricultural and industrial production through...

Economics, Finance, Geopolitics

A surge of testimonies against sexual offenders was shared across social media in Egypt during the start of Ramadan. Hashtags with names and initials were published, screenshots stored, grievances expressed with pain, turning what is traditionally a season...

Unfiltered

GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has said that the Israeli occupation’s crimes against Palestinian journalists will not succeed in concealing the truth of its “terrorism and criminality.” On World Press Freedom Day, observed Sunday, Hamas emphasized the vital role of the media...

News, Hamas Movement, Israeli violations

Civil society groups have slammed Prime Minister Keir Starmer's threat to crack down on pro-Palestinian protests, describing it as an attack on democratic rights and warning against conflating British Jews with the actions of the Israeli government. Starmer told...

World

Egyptian singer Hany Shaker, one of the Middle East’s most famed music icons, passed away at 74 on Sunday after battling a long illness. The musician died at a hospital in Paris where he was undergoing medical treatment. His death followed...

Offbeat

Egyptian singer Hany Shaker, one of the Middle East’s most famed music icons, passed away at 74 on Sunday after battling a long illness. The musician died at a hospital in Paris where he was undergoing medical treatment. His death followed...

Offbeat

A vast cloying morass of injustice has visibly submerged the British legal systems in anything connected to Palestine. Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig Murray’s Blog n...

Geopolitics, National Politics, Article

GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian child was martyred on Sunday morning, succumbing to shrapnel wounds following an Israeli attack in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. According to local sources, an Israeli drone dropped a bomb in the Qizan Abu Rashwan area...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

Senior Israeli military officials are pushing to resume full-scale war on Gaza , arguing that current conditions are "the most suitable" to do so, according to reporting by Israeli Army Radio . In closed-door discussions, members of...

MENA

Sri Lankan police have arrested 37 Chinese nationals suspected of running a cyberscam centre in the capital Colombo, a spokesman said on Sunday, in the latest crackdown on foreign-run online fraud. A smartphone. Photo: freestocks, via Unsplash. The suspects, aged...

China, Law & Crime, AFP

NABLUS, (PIC) A Palestinian young man was martyred and others were wounded on Sunday when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at them in the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank. According to local sources, Israeli forces opened fire...

News, Israeli crimes, Palestinian martyrs

Saudi Arabia, Russia and five other OPEC+ countries increased their oil production quota on Sunday in an expected move aimed at demonstrating continuity at the cartel after the shock withdrawal of the United Arab Emirates . The seven major producers...

Economy

Israeli forces killed a young Palestinian man during a military raid on the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, amid an escalating wave of violence by the Israeli army and settlers . Soldiers stormed Nablus on...

MENA

Conditions placed by Washington on Iraqi prime minister-designate Ali al-Zaidi are expected to complicate his job in forming a new cabinet amid deep internal divisions , particularly in regard to Iran-backed militias. Zaidi’s appointment came after a months-long...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) Amid stalled reconstruction efforts and the continuing aftermath of war in Gaza, displaced Palestinians are resorting to primitive solutions to secure shelter, highlighting the depth of the humanitarian crisis and mounting living pressures. In the absence of any clear reconstruction...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli genocide

A paramilitary drone attack hit the family home of an army-aligned commander accused of atrocities, killing nine of his relatives, two sources within the militia he leads told AFP on Sunday. The sources said the strike, which occurred...

MENA

The Syrian army has begun to integrate brigades of Kurdish soldiers into its ranks, according to a senior military official. This comes several months after Syria's government reached an agreement with Kurdish authorities to gradually reunify the autonomous region...

MENA

ISTANBUL, (PIC) The Israeli occupation navy is making preparations to attack a new pro-Gaza flotilla expected to set sail soon from the town of Marmaris, Türkiye, heading to Gaza Strip in another attempt to challenge the blockade imposed on the war-ravaged...

News, Anti-siege journey, Gaza-bound flotilla

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) An Israeli armed settler has threatened a group of Palestinian children while they were playing football in the community of Khirbet Umm al-Kheir in Masafer Yatta, south of the occupied West Bank, in what officials describe as part of...

News, settler attacks, Settler violations

Respondents’ feelings about fighting for Ukraine were not as strong as their feelings about fighting for the United States or Israel. By Emma PALING Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Forty-four per cent...

Editor's Choice, Canada, Diplomacy

Israel’s extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir celebrated his 50th birthday with a cake featuring a noose on it, in reference to a recent death penalty law targeting Palestinian captives. Videos online showed the ultranationalist at the...

MENA

Search and rescue operation launched after service members reported missing near south-western city of Tan Tan Two US service members are missing in south-western Morocco after taking part in annual multinational military exercises in the North African country, the...

US military, Morocco, Africa

A small boat carrying migrants trying to cross the English Channel ran aground on a beach in northern France, leaving two dead and 16 people injured, including three with serious burns, authorities said Sunday. The vessel, carrying 82 people,...

World

By Emma SALISBURY Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Royal Navy is set to take a leading role in a multinational “ Hormuz Coalition ” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and...

Editor's Choice, Middle East, Persian Gulf
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