Booms, , Busts, Inflation, Austerity, Central Bank Independence, and parallels of the gold standard with the US dollar standard Read Article HERE “Workers Also Have Their Place in the New State” (Portuguese). With acknowledgements to GrupoEscolar The post...
The EU formally sanctioned seven Israeli settlers and organisations on Thursday over violence against Palestinians and illegal settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. On 11 May, European Union foreign ministers agreed on the sanctions which had been stalled...
Of that, 10 gigawatts went to Africa and 39 GW to Asia, which is, again, a record in both instances. Percentage-wise, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia and Malaysia saw some of the biggest increases in PV imports from China in March compared...
Israel's military said it launched an airstrike in the Beirut area on Thursday as a Lebanese source said an apartment was hit, the second such raid since an April ceasefire announcement. The escalation comes as Lebanon and Israel...
Economist and diplomat Jeffrey Sachs is calling on German Chancellor Merz to begin immediate talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin about peace in Europe. University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The...
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My friend Simon Fisher, who has died aged 77, was the founder in 1992 of Responding to Conflict, a pioneering initiative to train people from around the globe in conflict transformation – the idea of building constructive change out of...
Matt Kennard shows in his new book that the bipartisan War on Terror laid the groundwork for the Trump presidency and the rise of fascism — now, with extremists empowered, we face the consequences. In the United States, but also...
Nikol Pashinyan's election platform, which presents Armenia as a "crossroads of peace,” could lead to financial collapse and a sharp fall of the dram amid conflict with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). Parliamentary elections in Armenia are approaching and will take...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Eid al‑Adha holiday started on Wednesday while 360 Palestinian children and 84 female prisoners remain separated from their families in Israeli jails, suffering deprivation and “systematic extermination.” “The number of child prisoners in Israeli jails is about 360, including...
The Trump-led 'Board of Peace' is expected to hold talks with Hamas next week on transferring power to a new government for the Gaza Strip as part of efforts to advance the ceasefire agreement , Tony Blair has said. The...
Israel has launched a new electronic land registration system for the occupied West Bank ’s Area C, a move that Palestinians and rights groups warn will accelerate de facto annexation of occupied land. The system, known as the “Land...
GAZA, (PIC) The usual joy of celebrating Eid al-Adha is absent this year from the impoverished Gaza Strip, which has been destroyed by the Israeli war of genocide, as its residents are unable to buy new clothes for their children, or...
Out of the USD 1.42 billion required for Somalia’s intervention plan, only USD 288 million was allocated Originally published on Global Voices A market in Somalia. Image by Jjumba Martin for Mercy Corps . As of May 2026,...
This article was co-published with The Intercept . A company run by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, hired by the Israeli government to push pro-Israel views on a major conservative media network, has directed $13 million from Israel...
Israeli troops and vehicles crossed the Litani River earlier this week to assume positions Tuesday on its northern bank on the outskirts of the Zawtar villages, where they are facing sustained pushback from Hezbollah forces. The advance represents a costly...
Lebanese ambulance crews have been prevented from entering Lebanese towns and villages hit by Israeli strikes, compounding the suffering of civilians on the ground as Israel persists with a deadly new wave of attacks. At least eleven people...
This story was originally published by ProPublica . When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a small North Carolina startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp...
- - - - Photo by Raymond Yeung on Unsplash If I’m being honest, I’m not the most responsible person in the world. I have some impulse control issues, which means I do some things without thinking...
This month , as delegates from around the world gathered at the United Nations to talk about nuclear nonproliferation, the U.S. and Russia chose to remind everyone just how much destructive power they command. On May 12, Russia staged a test launch of its Sarmat...
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur,” winner of this year’s prestigious Grand Prix at Cannes, is the curious case of a remake that doesn’t escape its original’s orbit, and doesn’t want to. It mirrors Claude Chabrol’s 1969 erotic thriller “La Femme infidèle” (The...
South Korea’s latest Starbucks controversy is not only about a badly judged marketing campaign. It is about a recurring political habit: When public outrage gathers force, powerful actors treat collective denunciation as a substitute for due process and proportionate judgment....
The immense economic and ecological risks being taken by the artificial intelligence industry have grown so impossibly large that no one — including the AI companies — has the means to gauge them. This historic boom,...
Chips&Media CFrame60 is a next-generation frame compression hardware IP designed to address the growing bandwidth and memory challenges in modern SoCs targeting imaging, video, AI, and display applications. Unlike conventional compression architectures that prioritize either bandwidth reduction or image quality,…...
Relatora da ONU para o Irã ignora sanções criminosas dos EUA e usa fontes imperialistas. Mandato é arma de guerra psicológica contra a revolução de 1979. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su...
GAZA, (PIC) Inside a dilapidated tent of only a few meters, set up inside one of the shelter centers in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, Samah Abu Daqqa sits on a piece of cloth spread over...
During his message for Eid al Adha, Ali Mohamad Rage, Shabaab’s top spokesman, congratulated the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), Al Qaeda’s branch in West Africa, for its recent victories in Mali. Rage also praised Al Qaeda...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has denounced the Israeli strike that killed and injured at least 30 civilians last night, calling it “a new crime” committed by the Israeli occupation army and a “renewed violation of the ceasefire agreement.” In a statement...
Shia National Movement leader Muqtada Al-Sadr announced the dissolution of the armed groups under his command, known as Saraya Al-Salam , with his armed supporters incorporating into the Iraqi state . He also called on...
Migrants sent from the US are being held at the Bamy hotel against their will and pressured to leave for their home countries - Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email - At first glance, the hotel looks like...
Quantum gate simulation complexity explodes as qubit counts increase. One way to manage this complexity in simulation on classical computers is through use of decision diagrams in place of matrices. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst,...
In April, China’s National Development and Reform Commission moved to unwind Meta’s planned US$2 billion acquisition of Manus, the AI-agent startup founded in Beijing that had relocated its headquarters to Singapore in mid-2025. Meta had agreed to buy the company...
BEIRUT, (PIC) At least 11 civilians, including children, were martyred in airstrikes targeting southern Lebanon at dawn Thursday, the second day of Eid al‑Adha. According to media sources, an ambulance crew from the Islamic Medical Association recovered three martyrs from beneath the...
Even after a ceasefire officially halted the US-Israel war with Iran on 8 April, the Gulf states have endured drone attacks originating from Iraq. Furthermore, there are growing indications that a large share of drones targeting these countries...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 21 May 2026. Respected Nigerian human rights lawyer and Member of the Board of Directors of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Femi Falana (SAN), has petitioned the African Commission...
The United Nations has placed Israel on its “blacklist” of entities suspected of committing sexual violence in conflict , placing the Israeli Prison Service and multiple other Israeli entities on the list. The UN's move follows...
A Blairite, a Brownite, a Corbynite and a Starmerite walk into a pub, and the person working behind the bar asks, “what are you drinking, Andy?” If you want a sense of Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham’s political compass, this...
The Trump administration will extend deportation protections and work permits for thousands of Lebanese nationals in the US for six months, according to a notice posted to the Federal Register on Wednesday. Some 11,000 people from Lebanon are covered...
For many young people in Jordan, there is a growing gap between finishing university and finding a job, with nearly 40% of youth unemployed , and even higher rates among young women, despite high levels of higher education. At the...
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan took part in the Hajj pilgrimage while New York’s Zohran Mamdani participated in public celebrations this week marking Eid al-Adha , the most important festival in the Islamic calendar. Khan shared a photo...
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WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank last night and on Thursday morning, raiding homes and kidnaping and assaulting Palestinian citizens. In al-Khalil, Israeli forces kidnaped six Palestinians and assaulted women and children during...
Former Yemeni president Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi has died in Saudi Arabia, a source in the Yemeni presidency told AFP on Thursday. Hadi, who was in his eighties, "died in the Saudi capital following a sudden health crisis",...
GAZA, (PIC) Eid al-Adha has arrived for the third consecutive year for the children of the Gaza Strip amid ongoing Israeli aggression, and an almost complete absence of manifestations of joy and rituals that were associated with this occasion in previous...
Former Qatar Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy and Industry Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah died on Wednesday, 27 May, in London at the age of 74. Al-Attiyah was considered one of the leading figures behind the development...
The Hong Kong government could raise civil servants’ salaries by up to 4.12 per cent this year and plans to introduce a revamped appraisal system for its employees in October, a minister has said. Hong Kong’s government headquarters. Photo: Kyle...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian families on Wednesday in the Khalayfa area east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Local activist Fares Kaabneh said that the settlers assaulted Palestinian families in the Khalayfa area near the...
The United States has reimposed sanctions on the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese , just days after quietly lifting the measures that had targeted her over her advocacy for Palestinian rights...
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