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Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, elected in 2024 with nearly 60 percent of the vote, has continued many of her predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s policies while placing emphasis on clean energy, public-private investment, and aggressive mass digitalization. Her flagship...

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...

This story was originally published in the Daily Yonder. For more rural reporting and small-town stories visit dailyyonder.com . When Meredith Dean started the first Community Works chapters, she saw people reengaging in politics. “We were seeing more and more volunteers coming...

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . When the Strait of Hormuz first closed at the start of the 2026 Iran war , the world braced for the “ largest energy crisis...

On May 21, after a five-and-a-half week trial in Southampton Crown Court , England, three teenage boys walked out with 10 rape convictions between them , and went home. It began in November 2024 , when a 15-year-old girl walked to...

The release of China’s first-half economic data for 2026 has triggered familiar skepticism across Western media . As the second-quarter GDP growth moderated to 4.3 percent—bringing the first-half expansion to 4.7 percent—mainstream headlines were quick to double down on anxieties...

By Russell CONTRERAS, Delano MASSEY Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The semiquincentennial is becoming a proxy battle over patriotism, belonging and whether the country’s founding ideals should be celebrated as settled history or unfinished work. The...

By: Khanh Vu Duc Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Manila this week— attending the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference, the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, and the ASEAN Regional Forum — highlights a crucial geopolitical reality: while the Taiwan Strait...

By Lauren PEARLE Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In a deeply divided country, one issue is cutting through the noise: Americans increasingly agree that the affordability crisis is real and that it could get worse. A new...

Global Nobel Laureates at the Assembly on Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear War held last week in Rome. Credit: Katsuhiro Asagiri/INPS Japan. By Ariel F. Dumont BORGO LAUDATO SI’, Italy, Jul 21 2026 (IPS) “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” By...

The childish rivalry with Argentines, inflamed by the media, reveals moral weaknesses within Brazilian society. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Almost every people possesses what Carl Schmitt called the fundamental distinction between friend and enemy....

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...

Even superpowers depend on global supply chains. The real prize? Setting the rules others follow. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A structural and widespread phenomenon In contemporary strategic discourse, the term “technological sovereignty” has, over the...

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...

A Cairo special terrorism court postponed on Monday the trial of former Ultras White Knights leader Sayed Fahim, known as Sayed Moshagheb, and five others to September 22. The session was the first in the case against Moshagheb and his friends,...

In the 1980s and 90s, you would be amazed to see even one Black player in any European national squad – or, for that matter, even in club football. In the just-completed World Cup, Black players were everywhere, doing fantastic...

By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Jul 21 2026 (IPS) Despite rising geopolitical tensions, trade restrictions and calls to bring production back to domestic shores, the global economy remains more interconnected than it may appear. Trade through global value chains (GVCs) reached historic...

Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa, addresses a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York in December 1991. Credit: UN Photo/John Isaac By UN News UNITED NATIONS, Jul 21 2026 (IPS) Sixty-seven minutes. That is how long volunteers spent serving...

MQ-4C Triton Drone Tehran delivered to Washington via Pakistan in early April, a formalized demand for the withdrawal of US combat forces from military bases across the region. It sat in a package alongside the lifting of all sanctions and UN...

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...

Europe’s security fears are real and legitimate. But deploying nuclear-capable aircraft to Russia's doorstep is not the answer, and Washington's contradictions are making things worse. On March 2, French President Emmanuel Macron announced major changes to France’s nuclear deterrence doctrine: an...

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...

By: Ainur Rohmah Febrie: hot water What began as an investigation into a series of nationwide power outages has rapidly evolved into a rare confrontation between Indonesia’s two most powerful law enforcement institutions. Indonesia’s National Police, through its Anti-Corruption Task Force (Kortastipidkor),...

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...