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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...

Global Risk-Reward Monitor

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....

Opinion, Bank Indonesia, Bilateral Currency Swap Arrangement

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...

Defence & Foreign Policy, Politics & Protest, Taiwan

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...

Columns, Politics, Southeast Asia

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...

Opinion, ASEAN, Block 2

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...

White-house, Iran-war, America-250

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...

MENA

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...

US

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...

MENA

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...

Sports

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...

News, Israeli occupation, Occupied Jerusalem

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...

Economics, Finance, Article

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...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Friday prayer

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...

News, Gaza children, Gaza Strip

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...

Military, Block 3, Drone Warfare

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...

Archive, Arms Trade, Middle East

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...

Middle East, Books, Imperialism

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...

World

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...

Economics, Geopolitics, Article

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...

MENA

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,...

MENA

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...

Business, Editorial, Europe

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...

World

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...

Geopolitics, Article, Ramzy Baroud

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...

MENA

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...

Perspectives

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...

MENA

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,...

Business & Economy, News, Technology

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...

World

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...

Activism, Immigration, News

- - - - 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...

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...

Defense, Private-equity, Defense-tech

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...

Opinion, Block 2, Donald Trump

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...

MENA

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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