A truly bizarre series of events off the coast of Iran today that in my opinion were entirely provoked, if not staged, by the US. It started with multiple news reports that a US Army Apache helicopter had been shot...
Welcome. Here are the latest key updates: - The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said it carried out “self-defence strikes” against Iran after the downing of a US helicopter allegedly by Iranian forces over the Strait of Hormuz on Monday...
The leaders of North Korea and China adopted a “far-reaching blueprint” for bilateral ties during Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Pyongyang, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Wednesday. This picture taken and released by North Korea’s official...
The Hong Kong government has announced a series of special offers and freebies covering transport, culture, retail and dining as part of the celebrations to mark the 29th anniversary of the Handover. Celebrations for the anniversary of the Handover on...
A few weeks ago, I heard two seemingly contradictory views about Indonesia. One came from a business executive who has spent decades operating in the Southeast Asian nation. His broad assessment was that Indonesia is still too important to ignore....
Amazon and Sony among firms that may have sourced coltan, used in phones, from supply chains controlled by the M23 rebels, says Global Witness Leading global brands including Amazon, Ericsson and Sony are “likely” to have sourced minerals linked to a...
Niger, Mayahi, Village of Koren Habdjia. At the village health centre supported by UNICEF, mothers come for consultations with their children. This health centre provides care for childhood illnesses, maternal health, and pregnant women. It treats children for malnutrition and...
UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese presents her latest report before delegates at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on 23 March 2026. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Jun 10 2026 (IPS) For a...
GA During NPT Review Conference. Credit: Jonathan Granoff By Jonathan Granoff NEW YORK, Jun 10 2026 (IPS) Martin Luther King Jr. , when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, reminded us of “The fact that most of the time human...
A Hong Kong man who threw anti-government leaflets from his public housing flat has been sentenced to 10 months in prison after pleading guilty to committing seditious acts. West Kowloon Law Courts Building. File photo: Kelly Ho/HKFP. Raymond Wong appeared...
John Bolton is expected to plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information as part of a plea deal with the Justice Department, which charged him in October 2025 with 18 counts of mishandling sensitive information. According to the...
Buried deep inside a 192-page intelligence authorization bill is Section 622, titled “United States-Israel Intelligence Sharing Enhancement.” It would require the president, acting through the director of national intelligence and as necessary the secretary of defense, to “expand and enhance...
As it pushes for a record breaking $1.5 trillion defense budget, the Department of Defense wants lawmakers to water down restrictions on the infamous revolving door between the Pentagon and industry, inviting more undue influence from the defense sector. The DoD’s...
Cities see surge in attacks and extortion demands at clinics in townships, leaving patients and staff vulnerable The three gunmen showed up just 10 minutes after the security guards had arrived for the early morning shift. Tshiamo Nere* admits he was...
Since the beginning of the Iran war, Saudi Arabia has been grappling with how best to respond to the expansion of Middle East conflict. Having issued condemnations of Tehran’s strikes on the kingdom – and other Gulf states – in...
InSight Crime, a thinktank which claims to fuse “investigative journalism with academic rigor,” accuses Nicaragua’s government of “hiring assassins” to hunt down and kill opponents abroad. This bold accusation is based on no more than “circumstantial” evidence, strongly suggesting political...
Buried deep within the thousands of pages of the annual U.S. National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a single provision labeled Section 224 has quietly become one of the hottest political flashpoints in Washington this year. On the surface, it looks...
Hong Kong’s top decision-making body has proposed a flat 2 per cent pay rise for civil servants across all salary bands this year, lower than the suggested rates for middle-tier and senior government staff. Workers outside Hong Kong’s government headquarters....
Barbican, London This exhibition is so in love with the theoretical whimsy of utopian Panafrica that it loses superb artworks in an indigestible intellectual stew Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is a painter with the imagination of a great novelist. Her contribution to the...
Since January 2026, when the intensification of U.S. policies aimed at suffocating the Cuban people began, I have had the opportunity to travel to the island three times. Each time I return with my heart a little more broken, but...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from an Israeli strike in Gaza City rose on Tuesday evening after Malak Abdullah Qaddoum, a young Palestinian girl, succumbed to wounds she suffered two days earlier in an attack in western Gaza City. Local sources said...
On this Monday’s edition of The Target stream, Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh breaks down the confrontation between Israel and Iran, cutting through the propaganda and presenting the evidence available to suggest what damage was inflicted. After warning that any...
The United States is led by a sociopath who stands at the head of an American political economy and foreign policy in his image. Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host , The Collapse of Antiquity and The Destiny of Civilization are...
How we can stop runaway climate breakdown while tackling global inequality is perhaps the great challenge of our epoch. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michae l Roberts’ blog Picture by...
A new book, Capitalism at the Limit, explores how the socio-ecological dimension of our planetary crisis interacts with capitalism. Zeynep Öztürk is a PhD researcher at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. Her areas of interest include...
Israel is a deeply sick colonial power and it’s the responsibility of the world to free the Palestinians from this nightmare. Read the full article HERE . The post Al Jazeera – ‘They were laughing’: Israel’s use of rape...
On May 25, senior research associate Kate Robertson appeared before the Standing Senate Committee on National Security, Defence and Veterans Affairs to testify on Bill C-8. In her testimony, Robertson testified that targeted recommendations were needed to address constitutional...
President Xi Jinping has, over the years, drastically cut short his foreign travels. More like Chairman Mao, he prefers to host world leaders in Beijing. His foreign visits that averaged about 14 trips a year during 2013–19 fell to one...
A conflict of interests between Paris and Berlin has led to the termination of a joint aviation project, raising questions about Europe's ability to wage a war against Russia. Berlin and Paris Put Their Ambitions Above European Interests Germany and France...
The weekend exchange of strikes between Iran and Israel has put US President Donald Trump under even more domestic and international pressure to end the unpopular war he launched with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more than three months ago....
Xi Jinping's visit to Pyongyang and new agreements with Moscow have led to developments that, according to supporters of closer regional cooperation, make Western sanctions increasingly ineffective and potentially counterproductive for the United States. North Korea Develops Rapidly as a Nuclear...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has sharpened the tools of espionage and deception on all sides, giving spy agencies new power to identify and groom human sources while also arming adversaries with synthetic identities and deepfakes that are increasingly difficult to detect....
While in Wisconsin, President Donald Trump sat down with NBC News to discuss the ongoing U.S.-Iran military conflict. During the interview it was clear that Trump is fundamentally misreading the situation inside Iran. When asked about negotiations with the...
The 2026 World Cup will see more Arab teams than ever participate, with a total of eight teams and 208 players selected. Arab teams have featured often - but not frequently - in nearly 100 years of World Cup tournaments....
The financing required to build resilient water and sanitation systems continues to leave governments overburdened with debt repayments, excessive borrowing costs, and illicit financial flows. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/IPS By Mavis Owusu-Gyamfi and Francisca Tatchouop Belobe Jun 9 2026 (IPS) Somewhere...
As vehicles become increasingly software-defined, automotive semiconductor suppliers face growing pressure to deliver higher compute performance while maintaining strict requirements for power efficiency, reliability, and long-term product support. Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), electrification, … com/eda/370099-customized-foundation-ip-enables-the-next-generation-of-automotive-compute/">Customized Foundation IP Enables the...
Joseph Hanlon and Derrick Cameron respond to an article by Aditya Chakrabortty about a backward-looking government that remains in Tony Blair’s thrall Mozambique knows the importance of the zombie Blairites that Aditya Chakrabortty writes about ( Zombie Blairites...
More than 100 public figures, including Greta Thunberg, Bobby Vylan, Sally Rooney and Alaa Abd El Fattah, have signed an open letter warning that four UK pro-Palestine activists could effectively be sentenced as terrorists despite never...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Lebanon’s health ministry reported dozens of casualties as a result of Israeli strikes on different southern areas of the country on Tuesday. According to the ministry, an Israeli airstrike on the al-Masaken neighborhood in the southern city of Tyre killed...
Prominent Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya has been transferred to a maximum-security Israeli prison and placed in solitary confinement after being held for 17 months without charge, according to rights groups and family members, raising fresh...
Broad exemptions in a new bill to levy a tax on all state-owned companies’ profits could allow the government to give favorable treatment to powerful state actors, sources familiar with the drafting of the legislation told Mada Masr. The measure...
Military expenditure as a share of GDP is a key stress test of national priorities. While the US and China lead in raw dollars, the ranking changes dramatically when adjusted for economic size. Here are the top 20 countries where...
During the past few days, the fragile US-Israel-Iran ceasefire was put to the test with Israel and Iran striking each other for the first time since the 7/8 April ceasefire went into effect. This flare-up raised concerns about...
US Vice President JD Vance 's acknowledgement that American and Israeli interests "diverge" on Iran reflects an "unavoidable reality" that could bring Washington into direct conflict with Israel if a deal with Tehran is reached, an analyst told...
- - - - Photo by Ashni on Unsplash On Monday, I talked a lot about the problems of the biased press, and how we need to address it somehow if there’s a hope in hell of...
GAZA, (PIC) As Israel’s military assault continues on the ground in Gaza, another battle is unfolding in parallel in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, a very different kind of battle, centered on wording, guarantees and understandings. This round of negotiations revolves around a...
The problems of the new social insurance and pensions system will all be fixed by August, as promised by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbuly after Thursday’s Cabinet meeting . His remark extended, yet again, the deadline by which officials have promised...
The rapid emergence of AI-enabled personal computers is driving unprecedented demand for higher memory bandwidth, improved signal integrity and greater system reliability. To address these requirements, Rambus has introduced a complete client memory interface chipset for Clocked Unbuffered Dual In-Line...
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