Taiwan

“Tax me all you want. I’m out.” In an interview with The Boston Globe , hedge-fund manager Paul Krager ominously predicted that the Massachusetts Fair Share Amendment—a four percent surtax on incomes above $1,000,0000—could “destroy the best city [Boston] and the...

The South China Sea’s waters turned choppy again just as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Manila to attend an ASEAN summit. On Monday, a new maritime clash between China and the Philippines sparked mutual recriminations between Beijing and...

Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su By Guan Ruohe and Wang Baokui Recently, NATO has continuously strengthened its military deployment in the High North and the Baltic Sea direction, intensively conducting multiple joint exercises such as...

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...

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh Baghdad, in a tenuous recovery and increased internal peace after the chaos of its post-2003 conflict years, is now trying to be Washington’s partner, Tehran’s neighbor and the Gulf’s investment prize all at once. But the war...

Focus on industrialisation in Africa New African will be publishing a series of articles on how the continent can move from its status as a producer of raw commodities to a fully-fledged industrial region. The following is the first in the...

Global investors are increasingly looking beyond the United States in search of undervalued growth opportunities. Europe, emerging markets, and regional markets with lower valuation multiples are once again attracting attention. Against this backdrop, Russian assets, which remain under a deep...

Nothing he says is taken seriously, as Tehran knows all along that Trump is always creating distractions. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The coming days and weeks will see Trump lower himself in the acid...

But Britain’s homelessness problem will take on a whole new meaning if he lets the country slide into a world war. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Andy Burnham took over as British prime minister this...

Health workers getting ready for duty at an mpox treatment centre in Lwiro in the Democratic Republic of Congo’, a hotspot for the pandemic that CD Africa handled in 2024. Credit: WHO By Busani Bafana BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jul 22 2026 (IPS) In September...

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...

By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jul 22 2026 (IPS) A proposal to restrict US visas to foreign journalists assigned to cover the US has triggered a strong protest from the New York-based Foreign Press Association (FPA). The FPA says it is dismayed by...

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...

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...

By CIVICUS Jul 22 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses land grabs and environmental damage linked to a luxury coastal resort project with Eva Kushova, Director of Destination Management Organisation Albania, a civil society organisation that supports sustainable tourism in Albanian destinations, seeking to...

Major General Mykhailo Drapatly Did you hear the story about Ukraine’s glorious defeat of the Russian army? Western media outlets during the last four weeks have been touting the amazing success of the Ukrainian army. So ask yourself… If you’re winning...

Four weeks ago, Pakistan looked like one of the biggest winners of the U.S.-Iran war. Its army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, shuttled between Washington, Tehran and Gulf capitals for months. As part of his efforts, Pakistan hosted the first face-to-face...

It sometimes seems easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Washington’s anti-China obsession. Congressional Republicans, on one side, are championing a staggering $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget that would cannibalize domestic programs to " deter China ."...

After ten years of upgrades, repairs, and program-related issues, the lead Zumwalt-class destroyer is finally returning to service this September. But it will have to go without the hypersonic missiles many hoped would give the troubled program a purpose. Thanks 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,...

The following biographical entry draws almost exclusively from an Arabic piece composed by Mawlānā Ḍiyāʾ al-Ḥaqq ʿAbd al-Aḥad, a graduate of Jāmiʿa Dār al-ʿUlūm, Karachi, and a former professor of Arabic literature and rhetoric at the Jāmiʿa Banūriyya ʿĀlamiyya. Mawlānā Muḥammad...

Today’s top items: 1. Stock market rescue progress - The government intervention to prop up stock prices worked Tuesday. The Shanghai Composite closed up 1.8% at 3,864.37, the Shenzhen Component up 4.8% at 14,264.29, while the ChiNext and STAR Market indexes...

They were promised glory, but instead they found themselves in hell Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su It Didn’t Turn Out the Way They Said It Would They had promised it would be over soon. They had...