Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Europe’s protectionist turn challenges JapanScott Foster argues that Europe’s efforts to shield its automotive industry through local-content requirements and subsidy...
The global financial system is entering a period of profound transformation. Geopolitical tensions, supply chain realignments and increasingly volatile capital flows have exposed the vulnerabilities of an international monetary architecture that remains heavily dependent on a handful of reserve currencies....
The leader of Taiwan’s main opposition party said Friday she hopes to maintain engagement with the United States on the island’s defense capabilities, speaking on a two-week US visit aimed at growing trust with Washington. Taiwanese opposition leader and Kuomintang...
At the 23rd Shangri-La Dialogue 2026 held in Singapore and attended by 44 countries, the real story was not the reaffirmation of the US-led Indo-Pacific order but its slow, public unraveling. The Speech That Misread the Room The opening plenary...
On June 2, Cambodia initiated compulsory conciliation proceedings with Thailand under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). We did so to protect our national sovereignty and maritime rights after Thailand unilaterally walked away from a 25-year-old...
On Friday, Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire. A syndicate of investment banks priced SpaceX onto the Nasdaq at $135 a share Thursday night. When trading opened Friday, the stock leapt to $150, climbed as much as 30 percent...
There’s a lot of America happening this weekend. For good or ill. Sunday June 14 is Flag Day, commemorating the adoption of the Stars and Stripes 249 years ago . It is also the birthday of the current president of...
By Emily Wang Beijing cleaner Lin Meiqiong found her work a little easier the day she was paired with an unlikely new colleague — a tall, wheeled robot with AI-powered tidying skills. An X Square Robot carrying a bottle to...
Islam Times - Following the U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran, the Middle East has been exposed to rapid developments and profound shifts in the balance of regional and international powers. In this context, Khaled Al-Saadi, head of the Association of Palestinians...
The United Arab Emirates has agreed to unlock billions of dollars for Iran, four sources said, in a tactical shift after weeks of Iranian attacks on the wealthy Gulf Arab state during the US-Israeli war with the Islamic...
Islam Times - Global spending on nuclear weapons reached an unprecedented record of $119 billion in 2025, underscoring the intensifying strategic competition among the world's nuclear powers. At the same time, the nine nuclear-armed states, collectively possessing more than 12,000...
Iranian and US officials said Friday that a deal to end the war in the Middle East was closer than ever, with the mediator, Pakistan, also expressing optimism that an elusive agreement was within reach. But during weeks of...
The head of the Palestinian Football Association is waiting in Mexico City for permission to enter the United States, with other federation heads attending the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Jibril Rajoub went to the opening match between...
An aid convoy organised by the Vatican envoy to Lebanon that was headed for Christian villages in the country's south was stopped by the Israeli military and forced to change course, a convoy member told AFP...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem Governorate warned of a new settlement plan being pushed by the Israeli occupation municipality to establish what it describes as an “educational complex” in the Kafr Aqab neighborhood, north of occupied Jerusalem, on land...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Lebanon’s Hezbollah announced on Friday that it had repelled an Israeli ground incursion near the southern Lebanese town of Majdal Zoun, claiming it destroyed several Merkava tanks and a military vehicle and forced the Israeli force to withdraw after...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Three Palestinians were injured, one of them seriously, on Friday evening after dozens of armed Israeli settlers attacked the outskirts of the towns of Beitillu and Jamala, northwest of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, under the...
GAZA, (PIC) Sixty-two members of the US House of Representatives and Senate have called on the Trump administration to pressure Israel to lift restrictions on Palestinian patients seeking medical treatment and to reopen the medical corridor that previously allowed Gaza patients...
Concrete has already been poured inside Zohriya Garden, yet key details of the redevelopment of one of Cairo’s oldest botanical parks remain undisclosed despite months of public backlash. Sources informed of the garden’s affairs told Mada Masr that construction activity...
Data centres are oligarchy in aluminium and steel Robin McAlpine is Head of Strategic Development at the Common Weal think-tank in Scotland. Cross-posted from Common Weal Last week we did a Daily Briefing on the politics of data...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) More than 60,000 worshipers performed Friday prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque despite Israeli restrictions and obstacles imposed around occupied Jerusalem. Tens of thousands of worshipers filled the Mosque’s courtyards and covered prayer halls despite Israeli occupation police forces’ restrictions...
GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Center for Human Rights said on Friday that newly released official data from Gaza’s Health Ministry, along with figures published by Palestine newspaper on birth and miscarriage rates since the start of Israel’s military assault in October...
Senior fellow Cynthia Khoo writes that “pillars core to a functioning democracy are [being] reoriented around the false god of AI” in The Walrus. Khoo argues that Canada’s new AI strategy pays little attention to regulations or...
An Aegis destroyer, the crown jewel of late 20th-century naval engineering, crewed by hundreds of highly trained sailors, detects an incoming threat over the Red Sea. The ship’s computer calculates. The captain orders. A Standard Missile-2, representing roughly $2 million...
Writers do not only document the horror of conflict; they speak to a future that must exist beyond it Last week, thousands of readers gathered for a literary festival in Kyiv, risking air raids to hear from writers. Four...
Four Palestine Action activists have been sentenced to a combined total of more than 25 years in prison, after a judge ruled that they could be treated as terrorists. Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Zainab Rajwani were convicted...
Comic book author Marjane Satrapi passed away last week in Paris at age 56, just before conflict between Israel and her native Iran re-erupted. While her work has enjoyed enduring fame, the present conflict has made it more relevant than...
Four Palestine Action activists were sentenced as terrorists on Friday despite having only been convicted of criminal charges. They have also been jailed. This marks the first time in British legal history that a designation has been applied to...
Football today functions as the crystallization of the highest stages of capitalist exploitation Paweł Mościcki is a professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the author of numerous books and a blog: pawelmoscicki.net...
Israel's war on southern Lebanon has brought massive destruction, especially along the border region where around 70 towns and villages have been razed. Often with very short notice, residents have been forced to pick up whatever belongings they...
Israeli firm BlackCore, suspected of interfering in France's local elections in March, is also suspected of meddling in elections in New York City and Scotland, and operating in Angola and Togo, France's disinformation detection service, Viginum, said on Thursday. Last month,...
European overtures for renewing diplomacy with Russia smack of hypocrisy and duplicity. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su After four years of zero diplomacy, multiple rounds of economic sanctions aimed at crushing the...
An organisation representing Arabs in the UK has expressed alarm at the wave of anti-immigrant violence that struck Northern Ireland earlier this week. Hundreds of masked rioters burned families out of their homes and torched cars in...
The US administration is reportedly investigating Trita Parsi , an expert on Iranian foreign politics and an avid critic of the US-Israel war on Iran , according to US outlet The Free Press on Thursday. The pro-Israel...
Gaza requires urgent international attention. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. Cross-posted from Counterpunch What is happening in the besieged and devastated Strip at the moment by far exceeds an unfolding humanitarian disaster; it...
As the Israeli army continues to displaced residents of Lebanon amid ongoing threats and deadly attacks, a recent study published by the Beirut-based Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies found that around 85% of displaced people in...
Hear no evil, see no evil, punish no evil: The British Government’s policy on Israeli aggression against its citizens I picked up my friend, Cerie Bullivant, from Stansted airport on 23 May 2026. He had arrived there from Occupied Palestine via...
The Syrian Foreign Ministry has opened an investigation into a leak of documents and correspondence attributed to the ministry which were widely circulated on social media over the past few hours, while an informed source at the ministry denied that...
The Palestinian Authority’s war on the resistance is the continuation of a collaboration with colonialism that Palestinian elites have practised for more than a century oseph Massad is professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University, New York Cross-posted...
The human hand has 29 bones and 29 major joints. It contains over 100 ligaments, connected to 34 muscles in the palm alone, each one responsible for the minute negotiations that allow us to tie our shoes, thread a needle,...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has condemned a real estate fair in the capital advertising homes in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and said he has raised concerns with the Metropolitan Police over potentially unlawful sales at...
With the World Cup starting on June 11, workers, residents and activists in its 16 host cities across North America are mobilizing against the increased presence of police and Immigration Customs and Enforcement officers in communities of color during...
- - - - Photo by Luke Michael on Unsplash Social media isn’t real life, but sometimes, it’s all we actually get to see. For years, we’ve been told that the whole world hates us, that we’re...
This story was originally published by High Country News . After Katie Wilson was elected mayor in Seattle and Zohran Mamdani triumphed in New York City, USA Today warned its readers that America’s new...
On Wednesday, Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation that would scrutinize private equity’s growing influence over the defense industry. “For too long we've let private equity treat the defense industrial base like a profit center, buying up critical contractors with little scrutiny...
The US and Iran stepped back from the brink of returning to all-out war on June 11. Hours after saying the US military would carry out strikes against Iran for a third consecutive night, Donald Trump postponed the attack. The...
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Friday that the final text of a US-Iran peace deal had been agreed. "We can confirm that a final, agreed upon text of the peace deal has been reached and Pakistan is now...
Senior researcher Luis Fernando García participated in a Conversatorio Regional hosted by CELS, ODIA, Democracia en Red, and Vía Libre on “Technologies of state surveillance, democratic control, and protection of civil space.” Fernando García spoke about the abuse of spyware,...
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