Senior research fellow Gary Miller spoke to Financial Times about attempts to exploit mobile network vulnerabilities to track US personnel during the Iran war. “Iran absolutely has capabilities to get real-time, immediate, and continuous location information,” he said. “It would surprise...
By CIVICUS Jul 17 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses the prospects for elections in Serbia with Rasa Nedeljkov, Programme Director at the Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability, a civil society organisation that monitors electoral processes and the rule of law in Serbia. Rasa...
The humanitarian situation in the Sudanese city of El-Obeid is worsening rapidly, the United Nations said Friday, as displacement camps swelled with new arrivals. The UN has been warning for weeks that atrocities similar to those committed during the paramilitary assault...
Johnson’s best imitation of Joseph McCarthy. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Speaker of the House Mike Johnson finalized the Republican plank for the upcoming midterm election. It will not be about affordability, inflation, and the...
Reuters reported that Iran’s leaders instructed the Houthis in Yemen to close Bab al Mandeb Strait, the maritime chokepoint at the southern end of the Red Sea, if the United States strikes Iran’s power infrastructure. The Houthis are also focused...
Päivi Räsänen says the loss of her UK travel authorization is the latest consequence of a controversial court ruling over her Christian views on marriage and sexuality. By Zolta Győri Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Finnish...
Turkey, caught between two systems, shifts the center of gravity of its strategic choices. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Turkey regains its position On July 7 and 8, 2026, Ankara hosted the 36 th summit of...
Madhulima Tewari is the CEO and founder of VerifAIX. After two decades building EDA tools, taping out chips, and working on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise AI applications, she teamed up with chip design and methodology leaders and university...
While the public is encouraged to blame immigrants, Muslims, the left, or ‘Israel haters’, the UK state is racing to erect a scaffolding of control to protect itself before we wake up to the deception Jonathan Cook is the author of...
The new (old) relevance of gold. NIKA DUBROVSKY Hello, everyone. I’m very happy to welcome Kathleen Tyson and Michael Hudson back to the David Graeber Institute . And today we are going to talk about gold — which is very fascinating, given...
Today, the two-state scenario is far-fetched to the point of delusion if not evasion. Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. The paperback edition of his latest book, War Made Invisible:...
The entire rotten system of dehumanizing exploitation and relentless warmongering needs to be prosecuted and vanquished – before it destroys humanity. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su If there’s a World Cup for war criminals, Trump...
Two former heads of government from the Elders group of international figures founded by Nelson Mandela on Friday warned of the potential disappearance of the Palestinian territories and called for an end to what they called Israeli "impunity". The call from...
A new Connecticut law directing the development of optional Islamic and Arabic studies resources for public schools has sparked backlash from MAGA activists and right-wing commentators, who have accused Democrats of promoting "Islamisation" in schools, while advocates insist the measure...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun’s scheduled visit to Washington next week could be overshadowed by a resumption of the US-Iran war , with less importance given to the Israel-Hezbollah front amid slow implementation of a framework deal. Aoun is expected to meet...
An orphanage fire that killed 11 people in Algeria during an intense heatwave has highlighted the growing fire risks facing the North African country , as authorities simultaneously battled more than 100 wildfires across several provinces. The blaze broke out late...
The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has launched legal proceedings in Portugal against an Israeli soldier, alleging his involvement in war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Gaza, the organisation told The New Arab on Friday. According to a criminal complaint...
The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack . The future of Warner Bros is again up in the air. Following yet another corporate restructuring – after having been partners or a subsidiary of Time, AOL, AT&T, and Discovery –...
Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . A new ceasefire proposal has reached Sudan’s Security and Defense Council. Following a meeting chaired on Sunday by Transitional Sovereignty Council head and military chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the council said it...
Good afternoon, and welcome to our live coverage: - The US has carried out strikes against Iranian sites for the sixth day in a row, killing at least eight people, specifically targeting bridges, airports, and power facilities. - - Iran has vowed to...
- - - - Photo by aboodi vesakaran on Unsplash Last night’s speech by President Trump wasn’t fun. Perhaps the least fun aspect of it is that it was so unsurprising. China sees the United States as an obstacle to its goal of becoming the...
The International Criminal Court has confirmed all 17 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Libyan militia commander Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri , committing him to trial in the first case from its Libya investigation to reach...
America’s bees and beekeepers are losing a valuable ally just when they need its help most. The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to soon close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center , a 6,500-acre agricultural research station in Maryland that is home...
Lindsey Graham’s sister took his Senate seat at 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon, and the shortest reading of American foreign policy this week is that nothing else about it changed. Darline Graham Nordone, 62, a state commissioner for the blind who...
The real message to be drawn from Trump ’s address to the nation Thursday night is that he will call into question the votes of every state and city that chooses a Democratic senator or representative in the 2026 midterm...
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh – Inside the bamboo shelter that functions as her home, Yasmin Ara sits quietly holding her infant son. Outside, neighbors carry heavy containers of water and sacks of rice along narrow streets, while children run between shelters....
There has been talk at the latest conferences about TSMC customers taking wafers to Intel for packaging. The question is why? Is it competitive pricing? Capacity? Supply chain diversity? CC Wei was asked about this during the last investor call...
An old photograph of Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal has gone viral as the pair prepare to face each other in the FIFA World Cup final nearly two decades after the image was taken. As Argentina and Spain are set to...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 7 July 2026. By Sulemana Braimah, Executive Director, Media Foundation for West Africa Summary: Since we launched The Fourth Estate as a non-profit investigative journalism project, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has...
Donald Trump's ambitious plan to rebuild Gaza has shrunk from a blueprint to fully reconstruct the devastated enclave into a limited pilot project near Rafah , raising fresh questions over whether months of Israeli military operations and restrictions have rendered...
Two earthquakes that hit north-central Venezuela on June 24 have killed at least 4,829 people, injured 16,740, and displaced approximately 18,000, according to government figures. The disaster has overwhelmed Venezuela’s emergency services and slowed political developments that had gained momentum...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 13 July 2026. The Bamako Cybercrime Court on July 6, 2026, rejected a provisional release request by Chahana Takiou, journalist and director of the biweekly newspaper Le 22 Septembre . Chahana Takiou has been...
As war looms, Yemen's airports and seaports could be a target after the Houthi group, which controls Sanaa and most northern governorates, launched what it called a plan to lift a suffocating blockade on Sanaa airport, other Yemeni airports, ports...
On the latest investor call the big story was the increase in CAPEX for 2026 and the expected CAPEX for 2027. TSMC raised the CAPEX ceiling for 2026 from US$56 billion to US$64 billion. My guess would be US$64 billion...
Four months out from the critical November midterms, President Donald Trump delivered a primetime address on Thursday night (July 16) attempting to sow doubt about the integrity of US elections, repeating well-worn lies about the 2020 contest that he lost and claiming...
Andy Burnham vowed Friday to "give hope" back to the British people as he was confirmed as the ruling Labour party's new leader, set to be the next UK prime minister. "People and places ... have been waiting too long for...
Aid workers are first known people to quarantine at facility, which sparked huge opposition in Kenya Seven American aid workers who had been in Congo to fight the Ebola outbreak are quarantining at a new isolation facility in Kenya after the...
Amidst a succession of financial shocks, the Middle East war being only the most recent, developing countries’ debt levels are alarmingly high and continuing to rise. These burdens make it even more difficult for governments in the Global South to...
Algerian police on Friday said a fire that killed 11 people at an orphanage in the capital was caused by an electrical spark from an air conditioning unit. The blaze broke out before dawn on Thursday at the childcare facility in...
Loose Women panellist Nadia Sawalha and her husband, film producer and councillor Mark Adderly, won their defamation case on Wednesday against prominent British newspapers The Daily Mail and Metro. Sawalha and Adderly secured a full apology and damages after the two...
An Indigenous community leader, Jackeline Mendoza Díaz, addresses participants during the webinar “Gold’s Dark Web: The Hidden Price of a Booming Market” on June 25, speaking about the devastating impacts of illegal and poorly regulated gold mining on Indigenous lands,...
The United States, once a respected diplomatic power, has become a “gang of assassins and executioners” who practice the treacherous murder of foreign leaders and negotiators under the guise of diplomacy. All of this costs the American people immensely in...
A Paris court overturned a ruling on Wednesday cancelling a conference on Palestine at the Collège de France, which was due to take place late last year. The conference, titled "Palestine and Europe: The Weight of the Past and Contemporary Dynamics,"...
A public inquiry committee’s lawyer has said that the government had an “unshirkable responsibility” over last year’s deadly Tai Po fire as he delivered closing statements at an investigation into the blaze and its rapid spread. Wang Fuk Court on May...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov as part of a larger government shakeup, setting the stage for an ugly political fight from which Zelensky will likely emerge victorious but not unbruised. Of all the things that have...
Tunisian authorities have resorted to rolling power cuts amid a severe heatwave , as many areas experienced power disruptions and outages after electricity demand rose by more than 30% above normal. With temperatures reaching record highs, Tunisia has entered the peak...
Hong Kong has enforced a blanket smoking ban at construction sites, with authorities issuing one HK$3,000 fixed penalty notice as of noon on the first day of the new policy. A construction site in Hong Kong. File photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. The Labour...
Hong Kong’s Legislative Council (LegCo) passed a bill that will allow for a joint-clearance arrangement at the revamped Huanggang Port border crossing with China. An artist’s impression of the new Huanggang Port. Photo: IDA Design Awards. The Huanggang Port Hong Kong Port...
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