TOKYO — Bond markets are cracking around the globe as geopolitical, technological and demographic trends simultaneously upend everything investors thought they knew about 2026. The turmoil is propelling borrowing costs to multi-year highs from Washington to London to Tokyo. It’s altering the...
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Tea’s Future Depends on Its Farmers
Full ArticleA tea picker in the Bearwell tea estate of Sri Lanka. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS By Boubaker Ben Belhassen ROME, May 20 2026 (IPS) The tea in your cup this morning began its journey in someone else’s hands. Hands whose work most...
In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence hardware, memory bandwidth and data movement have become just as important as raw compute power. Addressing this challenge head-on, Semidynamics has announced a strategic investment aimed at accelerating the development of its...
The intensity of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has increased significantly over the past week, with air strikes, artillery shelling and assassination operations escalating despite an existing ceasefire framework. Israel has stepped up strikes at an unprecedented pace...
Palestinians in the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, east of occupied East Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, are facing the imminent threat of forced displacement after Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich ordered preparations for the expulsion of its...
What the US-China rivalry means for the Middle East
Full ArticleAs Iran’s largest trading partner , China wields far greater influence over Tehran than any other nation worldwide. This is a reality that the Trump White House has sought to use to its advantage, as did the previous US administration,...
Arsenal supporters and pro-Palestinian activists have criticised the club’s new sponsorship deal with Deel, whose Israeli co-founder publicly backed Israel during the Gaza genocide. English Premier League champions Arsenal FC have come under fire after unveiling a new sleeve sponsor...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Al-Quds International Institution has warned that the Aqsa Mosque today stands at a dangerous juncture, facing direct Israeli steps to erase its Islamic identity and architecture, alongside persistent efforts to end the historic Jordanian role in overseeing the...
Post-2022 geopolitical developments and escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf have significantly strained relations between Iran and France, raising questions about the future of diplomatic engagement between the two countries. After the June 2025 military strike against Iran, France did...
In the past 48 hours, Israel has illegally intercepted all 50 boats that left Türkiye last week in the final leg of the Global Sumud Flotillas ' journey in an attempt to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza....
The breakaway state of Somaliland announced on Tuesday that it would be opening its embassy to Israel in the city of Jerusalem, joining only a handful of countries that have done so. "I am pleased to announce that the...
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates said that recent drone attacks targeting their territory originated from Iraq, increasing pressure on Baghdad to address the activities of Iranian-backed militias operating inside the country. The incidents come amid continued regional tensions...
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned Wednesday that the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz could "trigger a severe global food price crisis" in the coming months. Hormuz accounted for a fifth of global oil shipping before...
Kars4Kids, a US-based charity famous for its long-running car donation commercials, quietly funnelled tens of millions of dollars annually to an Orthodox Jewish organisation that funds trips Israel and bought property there, according to court findings...
Al-Khan al-Ahmar in the face of geographical liquidation and Israeli displacement plans
Full ArticleOCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The head of the village council for the gathering of al-Khan al-Ahmar east of the occupied city of Jerusalem, Eid al-Jahalin, launched a strong warning against the extreme danger of the decision of the Israeli finance minister, Bezalel...
By W. James ANTLE III Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Lindsey Graham and company say toppling Iran is worth a political bloodbath. Is it? President Donald Trump clearly wants the Iran War to...
Recent decades have witnessed a continuous evolution in children's book illustration. A growing focus on representation and diversity, including attention to conflicts in the Middle East and the impact of migrations, has brought a new and exciting generation of illustrators...
Shantanu Mukherjee, Director of the Economic Analysis and Policy Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), and Ingo Pitterle, Senior Economist and Officer-in-charge of the Global Economic Monitoring Branch of the Economic Analysis and...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Asra Media Office (AMO) said on Wednesday that detainees at Israel’s Ganot prison are facing extremely harsh conditions amid continued repression, starvation, medical neglect and the spread of disease and fungal infections inside prison sections. In a statement, the...
Dr Peter Stafford’s wife and four children are also being monitored for symptoms amid Ebola outbreak in Congo An American doctor who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been flown to Germany for treatment, along with his...
U.S. Coast Guard cutter USCGC Aquidneck (WPB-1309) in the Strait of Hormuz, with a large container ship visible in the background as it transits the critical global trade route (Dec. 2, 2020). Credit: MC2 Indra Beaufort By Lulseged Desta...
Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar called Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin "monsters" on Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival, where he is presenting his latest film "Bitter Christmas" in competition. "As Europeans, we are also obliged to become a kind...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem faces a new settlement plan, after the approval of the so-called District Planning Committee of the Israeli occupation municipality on a project to establish a large Haredi religious school in the...
Egyptian authorities are carrying out daily crackdowns on Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers, many of them elderly, women, and children, before deporting them back to the war-torn country as Cairo grapples with the influx of...
Resisting regime change in Cuba
Full ArticleBy Marjorie COHN Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Cuban people have vowed to resist a new U.S. invasion, writes Marjorie Cohn. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said the nation is a “free sovereign state”...
GAZA, (PIC) The al-Aqqad family in Gaza is still searching for two female relatives who disappeared more than two and a half years ago during an Israeli military incursion in Khan Yunis, as rights groups warn of a worsening forced disappearance...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Hamas Movement called Wednesday for stronger support for Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, warning that escalating Israeli violations at the Aqsa Mosque reflect a religious war and a broader plan to Judaize the city and its holy sites. Haroun...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,773 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Wednesday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
Where Legal Challenges Are Helping Deportees
Full ArticleAny immigration attorney knows that the government is never a truly equal adversary. Thanks to federal and state laws, it’s hard to sue the government. It commands immense power, budget, and judicial deference. In immigration law, that imbalance is perhaps...
Diplomatic efforts to secure a lasting ceasefire between the United States and Iran continued on Wednesday, as Pakistan's Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi travelled to Tehran for the second time in less than a week amid ongoing mediation between...
The US-Israeli war on Iran is exposing deep fissures in US-EU ties, with NATO allies increasingly resisting Washington’s unilateral approach and renewing calls for greater European strategic autonomy. The Historical Arc of Transatlantic Unity For over a century, the transatlantic...
"We have weapons, and we will kill you all like dogs," remarked Zionist leader David Ben-Gurion during an intense debate against a Bundist in Poland. Ben-Gurion's threatening outburst against a member of the socialist Jewish group reflected a mutual...
Despite Lebanese parliamentary joint committees reaching a consensual formula yesterday, 19 May, for the proposed general amnesty law , protests erupted in the streets, particularly by Islamist detainees, rejecting exceptions they believe would limit their actual benefit from the...
Dozens of Gaza-bound flotilla activists detained by Israel have launched a hunger strike in protest of their abduction and detention conditions, as the last remaining vessel attempting to reach Gaza was intercepted in international waters. At least...
At least 87 Gaza-bound flotilla activists detained by Israel have launched a hunger strike in protest of their abduction and detention conditions, as Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir circulated footage of himself taunting restrained detainees...
Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime intensifies anti-Russian measures in the religious sphere. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Ukrainian regime continues intensifying its persecution against the faith traditionally followed by the majority of the...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided several homes and kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens in the West Bank and Jerusalem last night and at dawn Wednesday. According to local sources, Israeli forces detained several young men and kidnaped...
Egypt announced it had not recorded any Ebola cases and had stepped up screening measures at ports of entry, as Middle Eastern countries respond to a growing outbreak in Central Africa that has already spread beyond the...
Israel moved closer on Wednesday to a snap election after lawmakers gave an initial nod to dissolve parliament, with opinion polls showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would lose the first national vote since October 2023. Israeli lawmakers voted almost unanimously...
Lam Hing Street in Kowloon Bay was filled with billowing smoke during the lunchtime rush hour on Wednesday, after a stove overheated at a restaurant. A fire in Kowloon Bay engulfed Lam Hing Street on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. Photo:...
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that rising global instability and unilateral political actions could push the international system toward a dangerous "law of the jungle” during high-level talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing. The statement came after negotiations between...
Washington must act to defuse the Baltic powder keg
Full ArticleThe Baltic States and the neighboring Russian exclave of Kaliningrad are widely regarded as the most dangerous potential flashpoint for a direct war between NATO and Russia; partly for genuine strategic reasons, and partly because of the intense paranoia at...
In yet another chapter pulled straight from the pages of Orwell, educators across Wales are being trained to identify and report “racist incidents” by toddlers. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In yet...
An Iranian citizen who holds permanent US residency has been released from prison in Iran and has returned to the United States, the State Department confirmed Tuesday. "The State Department happily welcomes the safe return of Shahab Dalili from...
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has warned that any renewed attack on the country would trigger a conflict extending beyond the Middle East, after US President Donald Trump said Washington may be forced to attack...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) When the name of the prisoners is mentioned in the Palestinian consciousness, it does not conjure up a figure in a statement or a passing piece of news in a bulletin. It conjures up suspended faces and ages, mothers...
“Tigre di carta”: è ora di uscire dalla NATO
Full ArticleLa NATO sta cadendo a pezzi? Considerando le tensioni tra i membri dell’alleanza, l’opposizione dell’UE ai piani di Trump e la presunta minaccia proveniente dalla Russia, per quanto tempo ancora resisterà questa unione difensiva-coloniale? Segue nostro Telegram . “L’Italia non...
LONDON, (PIC) In a first-of-its-kind event in the UK, drawing attention to the vital importance of documenting historical narratives and honoring those who lived through them, the Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB) held a prestigious ceremony on Monday evening, May 18,...
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