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Half a decade later and I still remember his voice. A young man lies on the ground, begging, pleading, screaming as another man, swinging a machete, forces him to place his right arm on a small wooden bench. The attacker...

War & Peace, videos, violence

The war on information in the West has tread new grounds since the genocide in Palestine. Journalists and media outlets who report on the imperialist endeavors of the ruling class increasingly find themselves under the boot of legislators who concoct...

EU politics, Geopolitics, Media Concentration

The Sudanese army and its allied forces have advanced to within 70 kilometres of El Geneina , the capital of West Darfur state, as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) redeployed troops from Kordofan in...

MENA

Even if President Donald J. Trump was indulging in negotiating talk when he said he is “not looking to renew” the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the remark gave US agriculture a case of nerves. And now he has officially decided against...

Trade, Block 2, Free trade

The last time the United States celebrated a big birthday, the country wasn’t feeling so great about itself, either. But if America in 1976 was hungover from Watergate and Vietnam, the bicentennial was still celebrated with a national singalong conducted...

Activism, Business & Economy, Column

The Muslim International Film Festival (MIFF) returns to London's Leicester Square from 2 to 5 July, with the same aim each year: to provide a platform for Muslim filmmakers from around the world and to bring their stories...

Culture

The sight of the U.S. flag enrages me. Seeing the ubiquitous flag waving so boldly in Puerto Rico fills my soul with colonial fury and bitter resentment. The flag’s existence here is a sinister reminder of over a century...

Activism, Column, Courts & Law

In March , Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow attacked Abdul El-Sayed over his plans to hold campaign rallies with pro-Palestinian Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, igniting a protracted, acrimonious debate over the future of the Democratic Party and criticism...

Activism, Column, Media

Welcome, We continue our coverage of the US-Iran war , Lebanon, Gaza, and the wider Middle East. Pakistani and Qatari mediators have said the indirect talks that concluded in Doha on Wednesday yieled 'positive progress' as both parties touched on contested...

MENA

- - - - From time to time, we hear about someone who did something awful getting pardoned. As someone who really does believe in things like redemption and second chances, I usually don’t lose a lot of sleep over...

A new study by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) warns that current plans to deploy more than 1.7 million satellites in Earth's orbit could cause serious damage to ground-based astronomy. To preserve the capabilities of modern telescopes, the total number...

Science

A Hamas-affiliated security body in Gaza executed an alleged collaborator with Israel this week, accusing him of helping the Israeli military assassinate the commander of the group's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, Izz al-Din al-Haddad...

MENA

If you had to go by the landing page for Freedom250, the mascot for the semiquincentennial celebration of America’s founding is Donald Trump . There is no better symbol. He tough-guys a finger out beneath the announcement, “WELCOME TO...

Activism, Business & Economy, Column

A bomb went off at a cafe in central Damascus on Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding 16, Syrian authorities said. The blast took place near the capital's Palace of Justice, a key government building, sparking scenes...

MENA

An explosion went off at a cafe in central Damascus on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding 22, Syrian authorities said. The blast took place near the capital's Palace of Justice, a key government building, sparking scenes...

MENA

Every morning, crowds of people pack into the Karameh (King Hussein) border crossing between Palestine and Jordan . Children cry, patients wait, and expatriates watch their holidays disappear while remaining unable to cross. The crisis at the Karameh crossing (also...

MENA

Over the past several years, Muslim Americans across the US have seen a continuous string of attacks and threats against their mosques and community centres, amid wars in the region and domestic crackdowns on civil society. A fatal...

World

Syria has completed the formation of its new People's Assembly, appointing the final 70 members of parliament as part of the country's political transition following the fall of the Assad regime. Meanwhile, security tensions persist along the Israeli border, where...

Long War Journal, News, IDF

The last time Lebanon and Israel signed an American-brokered agreement, it took less than a year to die. The 17 May Agreement of 1983 ended the state of war between the two countries, set out mutual recognition of sovereignty,...

Analysis

By Vijay PRASHAD Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su On June 23, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel released one of...

Editor's Choice, Gaza Strip, Genocide

By Rafael PINTO BORGES Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su If not for the piles of regulation produced by the Berlaymont, air conditioning would likely be far easier and cheaper to obtain...

Editor's Choice, bureaucracy, Climate Change

- - - - Our Q&A discussions are a lot of fun, and we’re grateful to everyone who submits their questions. If you missed any of our live shows, the full streams are available here on Substack. This week’s...

Dozens of media workers were left in financial limbo this week after one of the UK's largest banks closed the account of the left-wing outlet The Canary , preventing it from paying staff and contractors. The publication, known...

World

Even with advances in AI, automation, and advanced process technology, many semiconductor test operations still rely on reports generated hours after production has occurred. This creates a significant and growing problem. By the time engineers discover a yield excursion, parametric...

AI, EDA, yieldHUB

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Dozens of Jewish settlers stormed the courtyards of the Aqsa Mosque on Thursday morning under heavy protection from Israeli forces, where they performed Talmudic rituals inside the compound. According to local sources in Occupied Jerusalem, the settlers entered through...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Occupied Jerusalem

Susan George passed away in February of this year. It is good to have waited this long for the movement to give her a proper send-off, for we have finally absorbed the shock of her departure and realized what a...

Labor, Trade, & Finance, susan george

This article was first published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. It is republished under a Creative Commons license. Last month, my colleagues and I published an investigation into a Texas oil refinery startup, America First...

Technology, Anant Ambani, artifiical intelligence

GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has condemned statements issued by the so-called Gaza Peace Council and the US administration regarding the future of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), including the declaration that the agency would...

News, Gaza Strip, peace council

Iran and the US concluded a round of indirect talks in Doha on Wednesday, with mediators saying they made progress despite Tehran accusing Washington of violating parts of a recently signed memorandum of understanding. The technical talks, mediated by Qatar...

MENA

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian footballer in Gaza on Wednesday, the latest in a series of attacks targeting the besieged enclave's sporting community . Saleem Al-Ashqar, goalkeeper of the Khadamat Khan Younis club, was killed in the town...

MENA

Two Hong Kong men charged with conspiring to commit terrorist acts under the Beijing-imposed national security law have had their case adjourned to October, as proceedings to transfer the case to a higher court continue. West Kowloon Law Courts Building....

Hong Kong, Law & Crime, Politics & Protest

Netanyahu mulls cutting U.S. aid – a snub to Trump, or a prelude to a false flag attack that drags America back to war? Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Is Netanyahu...

Americas, Middle East, World

The United States has resumed some air shipments of US dollars to Iraq after suspending them for several months, according to two aides to the Iraqi prime minister cited by The New York Times...

MENA

Authorities say rainy season getting deadlier, with Ghana reporting 13 dead and floods hitting Benin, Togo and Nigeria Floods in Côte d’Ivoire have killed 59 people since May, the communication minister told a cabinet meeting in Abidjan. There are fears the toll...

Côte d’Ivoire, Flooding, Extreme weather

By: Nava Thakuria - - - - Photo from Council on Foreign Relations Myanmar’s civil war has settled into a pulverizing, multi-front stalemate in which neither side appears capable of a military victory with the Tatmadaw, as the junta’s military...

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