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Ukrainian drone strikes are devastating Russian communities. The city of Sevastopol, the largest in Russian-occupied Crimea, is the latest community to be hit, losing power as Ukrainian drones strike energy facilities in the region. Given the immense importance attached to...

Ukraine War, Block 3, Drone geeks

Oligarchs are now our greatest threat and they are out of control. The only hope for the good society is to build a world beyond their reach. Robin McAlpine is Head of Strategic Development at the Common Weal think-tank in Scotland....

Economics, Finance, Financial Institutions

Traffic levels in the Strait of Hormuz fell back from Wednesday's high, but vessels continued to use a non-Iranian-approved passage despite a ship being struck by a projectile, tracking platforms showed Friday. At least 42 commodity vessels, including tankers...

MENA

Egypt is mulling whether to approve a takeover bid for Pharos Energy, a move which would for the first time see an Israeli company take a direct interest in Egyptian energy assets. Israeli oil firm Ratio Petroleum this week agreed...

Energy

Israeli prosecutors filed rare charges against six settlers, including for "acts of terrorism", after an attack on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank that included the torching of a mosque, police said Friday. Authorities rarely punish...

MENA

Two Moroccan public figures have been sentenced to at least a decade in prison over a major drug trafficking scheme linked to a convicted Malian kingpin. The case implicates more than 20 people accused of playing a role in...

MENA

The leader of Yemen's Houthi movement has threatened to target any Israeli presence in Somaliland , accusing Israel of seeking to establish control over strategic waterways linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. Abdul...

MENA

(L-R) Horacio (Luis) Carvalho, CEO of Climate Change Ventures, and Faraz Khan, MBE, at London Climate Action Week. Carvalho's firm advises on carbon mitigation and green investment projects. They signed an MOU to develop markets with Brazilian CPR Verde (green...

Aid, Armed Conflicts, Asia-Pacific

Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar will this week propose an official recognition of the Armenian genocide in a move that will likely further escalate tensions between Israel and Turkey . Israel, which itself is widely accused of carrying out...

MENA

Prominent Tunisian rights activist Sihem Bensedrine told AFP on Friday that she had been sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges including falsifying part of a transitional justice commission's final report. Tunisia emerged from the...

MENA

This article was originally published by the Texas Observer , a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter , or follow them on Facebook , X , and Bluesky . Around 4 a.m. on...

Business & Economy, Courts & Law, Labor

Dozens of NGOs, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, called on Friday for international action to avert looming "atrocities" in the Sudanese city of El-Obeid . In an open letter addressed to member and observer states to the United...

MENA

The Swedish government has appointed senior diplomat Jessica Svärdström as its new ambassador to Syria, in a move paving the way for direct Swedish diplomatic representation in Damascus , after 14 years of downgraded presence. Svärdström is expected...

MENA

The foreign ministers of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt met in Cairo this week to discuss regional affairs in the wake of the Iran war. Their discussions ranged from security in the Gulf to developments in Lebanon and the...

US-Israeli war on Iran

From out of the horses’ mouths. “They have to be able to defend themselves,” Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall said on CNN, of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’ stockpile of ballistic missiles. Until a couple of weeks ago, Marshall, a...

Activism, Column, Middle East

Westwood, one of the most affluent neighborhoods on the Westside of Los Angeles, has long served as the symbolic capital of the Iranian diaspora. Restaurants advertise kebabs and saffron rice in Farsi, and a conversation started here often ends somewhere...

Activism, Immigration, Los Angeles

While El Salvador’s government promotes its countries’ beaches, volcanoes, and safe streets in gentrified neighborhoods, thousands of Salvadoran families are denouncing arbitrary detentions and seeking justice for relatives imprisoned under President Nayib Bukele’s extended state of emergency. The contrast is stark:...

Democracy & Governance, Environment, Human Rights

Israeli forces dropped leaflets over the southern Lebanese town of Mansouri on Friday, ordering residents to leave, Lebanese state media reported, the first such order issued since the latest ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect. A senior Lebanese military official...

MENA

When five pro-Palestine activists were arrested over an alleged break-in at an Israeli-owned weapons factory in southern Germany, prosecutors did not treat the case as an act of political protest or even simply as trespass and property damage. Instead, in...

World

BEIRUT, (PIC) Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem said on Friday that the resistance had thwarted a US-Israeli project in the region, arguing that recent developments had created a new reality in Lebanon and beyond. Qassem said Israel’s presence on Lebanese territory was not...

News, Hezbollah, Israeli aggression

None of these is a complete model. None has achieved the combination of technological self-sufficiency, financial independence, and industrial capacity that genuine sovereignty requires. What they demonstrate collectively is that the space for partial sovereignty exists, and that it can...

Latin America, Politics, Vietnam

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...

News, Gaza Strip, incitement

Issam Hijazi has always been deeply drawn to technology, discovering an early passion for programming and applications and even starting to code at just 12 years old. That curiosity quickly grew into a clear direction, guiding him from studying computer...

Interviews

By Norman LEWIS Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A committee established to defend democracy from manipulation has become the cheerleader for a system that treats democratic speech itself as a manipulable object....

Editor's Choice, Democracy, European Union

An pro-Palestinian activist group focused on tech giant Amazon has pledged to intensify its campaign over what it describes as the company’s complicity in the genocidal war in Gaza and its ties to Israel. Speaking to The New...

World

Intel’s 18A process technology has become one of the most scrutinized semiconductor manufacturing nodes in the industry. It represents Intel’s introduction of two major innovations: RibbonFET gate-all-around (GAA) transistors and PowerVia backside power delivery (BSPD). These technologies are intended to...

Foundries, Intel Foundry, gaa

China’s transnational interference threatens digital rights globally H.Seidl Fri, 06/26/2026 - 14:56 picture alliance / NurPhoto | Jaap Arriens Comment Jun 26, 2026 4 min read China’s transnational interference threatens digital rights globally Beijing’s coercive use of digital tools and...

Islands of Peace?

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Today, Okinawa remains one of the most militarized places on the planet. Its landscape is dominated by the current bases—thirty-one US and fifty-seven Japanese Self-Defense Force (SDF) facilities—alongside hundreds of memorials and museums to World War II. Threaded through this...

War & Peace, Japan, military bases

The Syrian Ministry of Information has made an announcement prohibiting the publication of "false news" and other "offensive" content on social media, raising concerns about freedom of expression in the country following the fall of the Assad regime. In...

MENA

At more than a thousand years old, Fes is considered the spiritual heartland of Morocco. It is known as the 'City of Saints' because several ascetics and learned figures are buried there, including the 12th-century Amazigh scholar...

Lifestyle

Credit: Jaime Saldarriaga/AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jun 26 2026 (IPS) On 21 June Colombians made their choice. By the narrowest of margins, Abelardo de la Espriella , a far-right criminal lawyer who’s never held elected office, became...

Active Citizens, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Tens of thousands of Palestinians performed Friday prayer at Aqsa Mosque despite heightened Israeli security measures in and around the holy site. The Islamic Waqf Department in Jerusalem said that approximately 75,000 worshipers attended prayers at the Mosque. According to...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Occupied Jerusalem

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su We go about our lives consuming products made by wage slaves under an oppression machine that is defended through constant mass military slaughter, and...

Editor's Choice, Racism, Society

WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli settlers carried out a series of attacks across the West Bank early Friday, targeting Palestinian homes, property, infrastructure and vehicles under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. In Masafer Yatta, south of al-Khalil, settlers stormed the area surrounding...

News, settler attacks, West Bank

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday marked the Islamic occasion of Ashura linking the holy day's themes of sacrifice and martyrdom to the city's diverse faith traditions and shared commitment to justice. Mamdani, a Shia Muslim who...

World

Fears over ‘huge community transmission’ as modelling predicts thousands of deaths in DRC by September The whereabouts of almost 300 people who have tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is unknown, according to Africa’s top public...

Global development, Global health, Ebola

The creator of a petition calling for an inquiry into pro-Israel influence in UK politics has spoken out after a tense Westminster Hall debate this week exposed sharp divisions over lobbying, political funding and free speech. Speaking to...

World

The UN's nuclear chief said Friday that Iran's pledge not to build a nuclear weapon would need "very strong" verification, as the United States and the Islamic republic negotiate a permanent settlement to end their war....

MENA
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