Global Voices

There is a certain kind of “moderate” Muslim scholar whom empire adores: calm in tone, allergic to resistance, fluent in scripture, and permanently available to explain to the oppressed why their rebellion is impractical, premature, emotional, immoral, or insufficiently spreadsheeted....

On Friday, people across the US marked May Day by taking to the streets to advocate for workers’ rights, peace and democracy. In thousands of cities and towns across the country, people walked out of their jobs and classrooms...

The US war on Iran is leading the world to a global depression. Professor Richard Wolff places the current crisis in the context of the capitalist system and the decline of US hegemonic power. The global economic impacts of the...

The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the...

Freedom is at times taken to be the ultimate goal of politics, but it is a corrosive idea that looks different from where you start. For a drug addict, the last thing you need is more freedom when what you...

Putin and Araghchi Meet in St. Petersburg Donald Trump must have stayed at a Holiday Inn last night because when he departed the White House on Friday to head to Florida to give a speech at The Villages, geriatric community...

By Sophia Xu and Purple Romero Christine Li is a model and influencer, but not an actor, so when she saw herself playing a cruel character in a Chinese microdrama she felt bewildered, then angry and afraid. The 26-year-old is one...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A wave of outrage erupted across social media platforms in France after footage circulated showing a violent assault carried out by an Israeli settler against a French nun in Occupied Jerusalem. The incident quickly became a matter of public...

The firm defense of Mali this week indicates that Western intrigue will fail. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su An audacious coup attempt against the government in the West African state of Mali...

RAMALLAH, (PIC) While the world commemorates the first of May in celebration of workers’ rights and achievements, the Palestinian worker stands on the sidelines of this scene, burdened by heavy losses and suffering that transcends the boundaries of work into a...

Have you heard that the assassination attempt last weekend was faked? Whatever your brand of media, you probably did. This latest version of the “ Trump arranges fake assassination attempt to become more popular” theory goes something like this:...

As a gentle breeze sweeps across the Greek island of Syros, a giant Palestinian flag adorning the docked sailboat begins to stir. Activists here are busy at work, stocking up supplies and tightening the ropes ahead of what is meant...

Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . A surge in violence over the past week has swept through the village belt of North Darfur’s Tina locality and nearby areas, as abuses by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters against...

Arne Slot said Mohamed Salah "deserves a big send-off", confirming he expected the departing superstar to return from injury before the season is over. The Egypt forward, who will leave Anfield at the end of the campaign, was forced off in...

Former One Direction singer Zayn Malik’s family are encouraging his fans to donate to Palestine instead of giving flowers, as the singer recovers in hospital from a reported heart condition. The British-Pakistani singer pulled out of several...

Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are living with untreated complex fractures more than two years into Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave , as a collapsed healthcare system and restrictions on travel leave many unable to complete...

The sole suspect in the Golders Green stabbings on Wednesday had left a mental health hospital just days before the attacks, according to reports. Channel 4 News reported that the suspected attacker, British national Essa Suleiman, had...

Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents have called on Malians to rise up against the military-led government and transition to Sharia law, as multiple security sources said the group had set up checkpoints around the capital and seized a northern town. The latest...

A mass grave containing the bodies of 55 men and women has been discovered in the village of Mazra’et Al-Raheb southeast of Aleppo in Syria , local sources have told The New Arab. The Syrian National Commission for...

When news of the Epstein files first broke , I watched it unfold on a television I do not own, in a room I cannot leave, on a TV channel I did not choose. The framing I received about Jeffrey...

A top Israeli general has warned that rising Jewish settler violence in the occupied West Bank could trigger a violent Palestinian uprising. Major General Avi Bluth, head of the Israeli military's Central Command, described the phenomenon...

Members of the Solidarity Across Land Trades (SALT) trade union this week launched a campaign urging for the full boycott of companies linked with Israel , and urging workers to take action against organisations who they say benefit from...

Israeli police said Friday that they arrested a 36-year-old caught on video attacking a nun in the latest incident targeting Christians near Jerusalem's Old City. Police said the unnamed man was arrested after the attack Wednesday near David’s Tomb...

The extension of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran, reached on 8 April 2026 through Pakistani mediation and renewed on 22 April, reflects more than a temporary diplomatic adjustment to include a wider regional shift and...

As the smoke from intensified Middle East conflicts shrouds the Strait of Hormuz in spring 2026, the global economy finds itself teetering on a precarious edge. With the artery that carries about 20 percent of the world’s crude oil...