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Tehran, Iran before the conflict began. Credit: Unsplash/Mohammad Takhsh By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jul 1 2026 (IPS) The on-again, off-again US-Iran peace negotiations, which have been disparaged by Israeli leaders, have resulted in a rare rift between the US and...

This will be a relatively short article. I want you to see for yourself how the CIA inspired Ukrainian propaganda is planting itself in the minds of people living in the United States. I have received a couple of messages...

Even as frustrations mount over Israeli military campaigns across the Middle East, governments keep buying weapons from Israel — making it one of the world's largest arms exporters. As experts tell Responsible Statecraft, Tel Aviv uses these weapons sales to lock...

This article is part of an RS series reflecting on the 250th anniversary of American Independence and its impact and meaning for modern U.S. foreign policy, war, and peace. In the run-up to America’s 250th anniversary, we’ve witnessed...

The numbers are stomach-turning. In less than 10 months, U.S. forces acting on orders from the Trump administration have killed 215 people in 63 aerial attacks on small boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific. Since the first attack...

Leader John Lee has said that the development of the Northern Metropolis tech hub and the city’s first five-year plan will be at the top of his agenda, as he addressed the city on the 29th...

By Nina Larson Tibetan and Uyghur representatives urged countries at a United Nations meeting last week to pressure China to repeal a new law they say is aimed at erasing minority communities. The United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo: Wikicommons....

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh - - - - The Pentagon’s mid-June decision to restore “US Pacific Command,” reversing a 2018 decision to rename the command as the Indo-Pacific Command, is not merely a bureaucratic rebranding. It is the clearest institutional...

During 2008’s presidential campaign, when Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of “palling around with domestic terrorists,” she was referring to the parents of Zayd Ayers Dohrn, author of “Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground”...

I have watched every FIFA soccer World Cup since 1982, when a skinny, curly-haired Diego Armando Maradona made his World Cup debut in Spain. I have lived through the brilliance of Zico, Socrates, and Falcao’s Brazil in 1982, Maradona’s Goal...

Iran's football team thanked the people of Tijuana on Tuesday for their hospitality at the World Cup following the side's group-stage elimination, saying Mexico had become "our second home and our second team". Political tensions between Tehran and Washington forced...

By Zoltán KOTTÁSZ Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Balázs Orbán says Péter Magyar’s government is following the same playbook as Donald Tusk in Poland, using state power to weaken conservative institutions while...

Syria's parliament is set to announce President Ahmed al-Sharaa's appointment of the remaining 70 MPs on Wednesday, in what has been described as an important step in finalising Syria 's People's Assembly. The announcement will see 70 vacant...

The current economic model is exhausted – it’s time to focus on production, skilled work, and industrial investment, Costas Lapavitsas is a Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.In September “Reindustrialise Britain”, that he...

Hannah Arendt warned in 1948 that a Jewish state built without Jewish-Arab agreement would live by permanent war, fear and exclusion – a warning that now reads less like idealism than realism Robert Manne is Emeritus Professor of Politics and a...

Here are reviews of a few books that I could not ignore analysing this summer. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Let’s start with How to...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump's bid to restrict birthright citizenship in a blow to one of his signature anti-immigration initiatives. The court, in an eagerly awaited decision on the final day of its current...

Collaboration between the Lebanese government, the country’s political elites, and Israel may push Lebanon toward domestic armed conflict. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Lebanon is going through one of the most...

The £5 million donation and its cover-up have revealed to the whole of the UK who Farage really is. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su An entire career disregarding parliamentary rules and taking millions from wealthy donors...

The Far North is no longer, in every respect, a frozen periphery, but an outpost of Euro-Atlantic security. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A theater that has lost its exceptional character...

Giant portraits of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , Iran's late supreme leader killed in US-Israeli airstrikes, hung from Tehran's Grand Mosalla on Tuesday as workers raced to prepare for his grand funeral ceremony. His funeral, initially delayed at the height of...

By Scott HORSLEY Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su More people in the United States are going hungry now than during the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic six years ago. A survey released...

Not long after the second Trump administration took office, a new power center emerged in Washington under the banner of “government efficiency.” Through the Department of Government Efficiency , or DOGE , Elon Musk...

SEOUL — The chat logs I read over as I searched for the name of just one teenage girl were incessant: “Does anyone still have her video? I want to watch it again. I heard she transferred to a school...

Delegates gather for the opening plenary of the June UN Climate Meetings in Bonn. Credit: Kiara Worth / IISD/ENB By Felix Dodds and Chris Spence APEX, North Carolina / SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jun 30 2026 (IPS) With progress stalled on...

The Israeli army launched fresh strikes on Gaza on Monday evening, setting ablaze around 200 tents for the displaced in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, and leaving thousands homeless once again. Residents told...