Global Voices

It has long been the dream of the U.S. foreign policy elite to bring Japan and South Korea into a tighter alliance. Notoriously dismissive of history, American leaders don’t understand why the two countries can’t just overcome their past differences. For...

GAZA, (PIC) Palestinian prisoner advocacy organizations issued an urgent appeal on Wednesday to World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, calling for immediate intervention over the worsening health conditions of Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons. In a statement, the organizations...

US officials have released the text of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding, set to end the US-Israeli war on Iran , signed electronically on Monday and set to be signed in person on Friday, in Switzerland. The following is the...

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Wednesday hailed an understanding reached between Tehran and Washington to end the regional war as a "great victory", calling it a "pivotal point" for Lebanon. Although the US-Iran deal to end the...

On this Monday’s edition of The Target stream, Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh cuts through the corporate media’s spin on the newly agreed Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran, focusing on the broader issues that will determine...

While US President Donald Trump has recently hailed the resumption of oil flows from Gulf allies, Iran, too, appears to be gearing up to resume exports and trading. At least three tankers carrying some five million barrels...

Trump’s chokehold on oil, tariffs, and tech backfired – forging a new era of self-sufficient economies and generational confrontation Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture Foundation Professor...

The West, including, Britain have abandoned the rule of law. Now anything is permitted. Ideology and might make right. Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig Murray’s Blog...

In what sense could it be useful to show that western society is suffering from something analogous to schizophrenia? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Last week’s essay on the importance of psychological factors...

British politicians live in their own corrupt delusional reality, ignoring what their citizens want. That is not democracy. It is fascism. Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn...

Calls are mounting for an investigation after a London property fair marketed homes in Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian land , despite weeks of warnings from politicians, lawyers and human rights groups. The Great Israeli Real...

As Somalia’s private sector continues to expand, a new generation of entrepreneurs is emerging in industries that were once largely overlooked. Among them is Abdirahman Daacad, a Somali entrepreneur and business leader who has been involved in the development of...

Sources close to the Iraqi government told The New Arab on Wednesday that two shipments of US dollars arrived in Baghdad simultaneously during the visit of US envoy Tom Barrack to Iraq, as part of efforts to maintain...

A federal judge dismissed on Wednesday the US Justice Department's criminal indictment of Halkbank after President Donald Trump's administration reached a deal with the Turkish state-run lender, ending a prosecution brought in 2019. The bank's shares on the Istanbul...

As millions of fans around the world feast their eyes on the largest World Cup in history, co-hosted by the US, Canada, and Mexico, the event once again finds itself tangled up in ugly political realities. While the governing body,...

US President Donald Trump has suggested that Syria should intervene in Lebanon against Hezbollah, after weeks of speculation about this idea and denials from the Damascus government that it had any intention of getting involved in the conflict. On...

This story was originally published by ProPublica . Frank Ssekamwa says the United States presented his country with an impossible choice. If it accepted the terms of a new health assistance agreement, Uganda would have to give the...

Since February, Hussein* has been a regular at the insurance office. He has been returning frequently, trying to obtain a document proving he is uninsured. Without this document, he cannot complete the paperwork for the state to fund his heart...

The days of ground beef and chicken legs are long gone at the Ritenour Co-Care Food Pantry just outside St. Louis. The nonprofit has swapped out those staple proteins for cheaper ground chicken and hot dogs as it faces...

French police are using minor public order fines as a tool of racial discrimination against Black and Arab youths in working-class neighbourhoods, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch and two French advocacy groups. The 68-page...

In 1950, the U.S. State Department revoked Paul Robeson’s passport when he refused to sign an affidavit saying he was not a member of the Communist Party. The renowned singer, actor, athlete and activist filed a federal lawsuit in response,...

- - - - Photo by Aslam Sha on Unsplash For ages, the idea of anyone being worth a trillion dollars sounded like a four-year-old throwing out a big number for the sake of throwing out a...

Aymen Hussein made history on Tuesday by becoming the first Iraqi player to score at a World Cup since 1986, finding the net in the Lions of Mesopotamia's group-stage defeat to Norway. His header in the 39th minute briefly brought...

Less than 48 hours after Iran and the United States reached a deal to end the war and begin negotiations on a durable peace, Israeli attacks in Southern Lebanon killed at least four people, and Hezbollah carried out...

A major gap in the peace accords is the lack of measures to ensure justice or accountability for past atrocities. Unless those responsible – including commanders like Makenga – face consequences for their horrific crimes in eastern Congo, impunity will...

From Tehran’s point of view, that’s a whole new ball game. They survived everything that not one, but two nuclear powers threw at them. They have no trust whatsover about anything coming from Barbaria. Join us on Telegram , Twitter...

GAZA, (PIC) The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has confirmed the continuation of its meetings in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, with mediators and in the presence of the representative of the Peace Council, Nickolay Mladenov, to discuss mechanisms for implementing the clauses...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israel’s settlement policy represents a core pillar in the efforts to change the demographic balance in occupied Jerusalem, as the year 2025 witnessed the occupation municipality approving about 32 structural plans, which included the construction of about 7,200...

Tehran is preparing for the funeral of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in what authorities are portraying as both a historic farewell and a demonstration of national unity under the country's new leadership. More than 100 days...