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NAZARETH, (PIC) On the fiftieth anniversary of Land Day, Palestinians find themselves in what is described as one of the bloodiest and most complex phases in the history of their cause, with the ongoing assault and blockade on Gaza and the...

Reports, Land Day, Palestine

GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Strip has recently been experiencing a worsening crisis in the availability of vegetables and fruits, accompanied by a sharp increase in their prices, further increasing the suffering of residents already living under difficult economic and humanitarian conditions. Specialists...

Reports, Gaza markets, Gaza Strip

Even some mainstream economists are coming to accept that the neoclassical tradition is fundamentally broken. Walden Bello , a columnist for Foreign Policy in Focus , is the author or co-author of 26 books, the latest of which are...

Economics, Article, Walden Bello

In a positive twist, the Trump administration said it does not plan to block a Russian oil tanker from delivering 730,000 barrels of crude to Cuba, which has been suffering from acute fuel shortages since the U.S. imposed a de...

Cuba-embargo, Oil, Russia

In the late 19th century the British South Africa Company, founded by Cecil Rhodes, then prime minister of the Cape Colony, annexed territories south of the Zambezi in order to exploit their mineral resources. Before long, however, the white colonists...

Hizbullah responded to the killing of Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in late February by firing rockets into northern and central Israel. The IDF answered with large-scale reprisals against Lebanon. An intensive bombing campaign, also targeting Beirut, has so far...

Even though the Houthis have been badly weakened by US and Israeli attacks, they remain an ally that Tehran could call upon militarily in the event of serious setbacks or a stalemate. This would reverse the policy of Iran's late...

Will Vladimir Putin be the real winner of Trump and Netanyahu's war on Iran? The Russian federal budget for 2026 was based on an anticipated average of $59 per barrel of Urals crude and is now benefitting from soaring oil...

On Saturday 7 March 50,000 people marched in London in protest at the war Israel and the United States are waging in Iran. It was a notable turnout by the standards of other Western capitals, but pitiful compared to past...

The Trump administration has kept on the table the threat of escalating the confrontation with Iran as a necessary show of force. Yet underlying this rhetoric is a rising body of evidence—military, analytical, and historical—that indicates that a...

War & Peace, iran war

By Naïma Abdellaoui GENEVA, Mar 30 2026 (IPS) The United Nations was not founded to be comfortable; it was founded to be necessary. Created in the aftermath of catastrophe, its purpose was clear: to maintain international peace and security, to uphold...

Civil Society, Featured, Global

Islam Times - As the US and its allies intensify war and sanctions to pressure Iran, Tehran is turning the confrontation into a strategic edge: five weeks in, disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz have choked a significant share of...

Iran

Israel's arms industry has ramped up production of interceptor missiles and other munitions in response to the country's continued wars on Iran and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Haaretz reported. Production is expected to increase to four times the usual...

MENA

One month into the US-Israeli war, Iran is increasingly pursuing a strategy of economic attrition, targeting energy infrastructure and maritime routes with mass-produced, low-cost drones . This calculated operational shift is designed to impose continuously rising financial costs on its...

Analysis

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has said it destroyed a US E-3 AWACS surveillance aircraft in Friday’s strikes on the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia , which injured 12 US military personnel. The base, situated about 60 miles...

MENA

An attack on a gold mine in South Sudan , one of the world's poorest and most volatile countries, killed at least 73 people and wounded 25, the vice president said. The assault at the weekend targeted the mining area...

MENA

Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian health ministry and Israel's military said. The military told AFP that a man armed with a knife began running towards...

MENA

Lebanese judge Tarek Bitar has completed his investigation into the 2020 Beirut port blast, a years-long case that involves possible charges against dozens of people, a judicial official told AFP on Monday. Since 2023, the investigation into...

MENA

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged US President Donald Trump on Monday to stop the Iran war, saying only he could do so, and warned that fears of the oil price going above $200 a barrel were not...

MENA

It took the Trump administration, the Edison Laboratory of fraud, to finally figure out how to steal billions from nonwhite foreigners without first bombing and landing troops around their oil refineries. Here’s how they did it. In June...

Column, Courts & Law, Immigration

What should the American people , especially the hundreds of millions of their voters, expect former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden to do against the vicious, serial law-violating, violent, corrupt, agency-dismantling...

Activism, Column, Courts & Law

Iran on Monday defied Lebanon's expulsion order for its ambassador by saying he would stay, further increasing tensions in a country in the crosshairs of the latest fighting between the Iranian-backed Hezbollah and Israel. Lebanon had declared Ambassador Mohammad...

MENA

- - - - Photo by Bradley Andrews on Unsplash This past weekend had another series of “No Kings” rallies throughout the country. There was even one in the UK, which was directed at Trump and not,...

The Israeli army has admitted to photoshopping an image of Ali Shuaib , a journalist killed in an Israeli strike in south Lebanon on Saturday, after accusing the veteran reporter of being affiliated with Hezbollah. Shuaib, a correspondent...

MENA

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The US needs to help Israel harm people or else the people who are mad about being harmed might harm Israelis. It’s circular reasoning...

Editor's Choice, Christianity, Imperialism

TULKAREM, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) gunned down a 31-year-old Palestinian man at the Anab checkpoint to the east of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank on Monday, claiming that he was planning a car-ramming attack against IOF soldiers. Abdulrahman Abu al...

News, IOF crimes, Martyr

The Palestine Digital Activism Forum opened on Monday, bringing together activists, journalists, and technologists to examine how control over digital narratives has become a struggle for survival in today’s online spaces . Organised by 7amleh , The Arab...

MENA

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa started a visit to Berlin on Monday for talks on the Middle East war, rebuilding his country and the return of refugees, with critics saying his record on human rights is being ignored. On his...

World

The 3.5 percent rule says that if a peaceful protest movement reaches 3.5 percent of a country's population, then an authoritarian government is likely to collapse. The concept is increasingly being invoked by those who regularly demonstrate against US President...

World

GAZA, (PIC) Skin diseases are spreading at an alarming rate among children in the Gaza Strip due to the collapse of sanitation systems, extreme overcrowding, and a lack of clean water during the ongoing conflict. The World Health Organization (WHO) and local...

Infographic, Gaza children, Israeli genocide

Anger is mounting among Israelis fleeing the war with Iran via Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula , after authorities raised border crossing fees and hotels increased prices, according to Israeli media reports. The newspaper Israel Hayom said Egyptian...

MENA

A Metropolitan Police officer who was filmed “intimidating” Al Jazeera journalists in London has been suspended, after he was identified by Declassified . Special Constable David Soffer was at the front of a mob that surrounded the film crew last...

Archive, Media, Middle East

The Interior Ministry on Sunday released a video featuring a recorded interview with Ali Mahmoud Mohamed Abdel Wanis, who described his implication in militant operations for the Hassm movement. The ministry stated in the video that it had arrested Abdel...

Interior Ministry statements, Muslim Brotherhood abroad, Muslim Brotherhood arrests

In January 2024, China Baowu Steel Group issued the first tranche of a bond that raised CNY 10 billion (USD 1.45 billion) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Media reports described it as one of the largest corporate bond issuances...

Business, China in the world, Energy transition

By Ramzy BAROUD Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su I have always found it interesting, and at times revealing, when seasoned activists and intellectuals in the West, including those who see themselves as deeply...

Editor's Choice, Gaza Strip, Iran

With no path beyond sixth grade, some Afghan girls deliberately fail exams to remain in the classroom for one more year. Credit: Learning Together. By External Source KABUL, Mar 30 2026 (IPS) It is almost unheard of for a student to...

Asia-Pacific, Education, Gender

The emerging configuration does not present itself as a replica of NATO. On the contrary, it is characterized by a high degree of flexibility and the absence of formal collective defense obligations. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and...

Middle East, World, Diplomacy

Jussi-Pekka Penttinen is the chief executive officer, chief technical officer, and cofounder of Vexlum Ltd, an advanced laser technology company. With more than 15 years of experience, he is a leading researcher in the field of Vertical External Cavity Surface...

CEO Interviews, Jussi-Pekka Penttinen, VECSEL
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