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Digital exclusion is economic exclusion, and for Palestinians, it’s by design Originally published on Global Voices Advox Screenshot from video ‘Gaza’s electricity crisis deepens as Israeli strikes threaten vital solar panels,’ uploaded to YouTube by...

Access, Advocacy, Digital authoritarianism

If you have a Marxist insight into the workings of finance capital, you are much less likely to assume that all will be well with financial investment. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger...

Uncategorized, Article, Michael Roberts

Washington wanted to chain the world. He chained himself in a trajectory inverted from his own ambitions. In geopolitics as in history, there is an implacable law: the world does not bend to the desires of those who believe they...

Politics, USA, geoeconomics

GAZA, (PIC) Two Palestinian civilians were martyred and another one was wounded in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday evening. Medical sources reported two citizens, Mohamed an‑Namroti and Hussam al‑Jabri, were killed and a third person was injured...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

Russia is pitching a new stealthy, missile-armed answer to Asia’s rising demand for submarines, but sanctions, allegiances, and industrial realities could sink its export ambitions. This month, Defense Security Asia reported that Russia’s United Shipbuilding Corporation unveiled a new configuration...

Military, Amur-1650 Submarine, Block 2

North America’s World Cup summer has begun, and China is once again outside the tournament rather than inside it. That fact is familiar. But it should not be flattened into the usual joke about a country of 1.4 billion people...

China, Block 1, China Football

By Sringatin & MICROLAB MICROLAB Collective’s latest book , What We Carry, Under the Same Sky , features essays, poems, photographs and drawings by Indonesian migrant workers, reflecting on their life journeys from their home villages in Indonesia...

Community & Education, Opinion, Domestic Workers

Vinicius Junior scored a brilliant equaliser for Brazil in a 1-1 draw with Morocco on Saturday as the five-time World Cup winners made an uncertain start to the tournament in New Jersey. Ismael Saibari ran through to...

Sports

Iran open their World Cup Group G campaign against New Zealand in Los Angeles on Monday in a match shaped as much by events off the pitch as by the ambitions of two teams seeking a long-awaited breakthrough. The fixture will...

Sports

Dozens protested Saturday outside a foreign ministry office in Iran's northeastern city of Mashhad, chanting slogans against top diplomat Abbas Araghchi after a televised interview in which he discussed signing a peace deal with the US. In a video...

MENA

Qatar's Boualem Khoukhi stunned Switzerland with a late equaliser as the sides played out a 1-1 draw in their opening match at the World Cup on Saturday. A Breel Embolo penalty had broken the deadlock for Switzerland...

Sports

President Donald Trump is expected to discuss with U.S. allies at the G7 summit next week plans to remove mines from the Strait of Hormuz , as confidence grows for a deal, one official said. Trump and French President Emmanuel...

World

This wiil be short. Yesterday, Friday, I traveled to NYC to attend the Russia Day festivities at the Russian Mission to the UN. If you ever get invited, don’t miss a Russian party… great food and drink accompanied by good...

Larry C. Johnson

The war in Iran is driving up jet fuel prices and worsening supply strains for African airlines, forcing carriers to review routes and raising fresh concerns about the stability of the continent’s aviation network. The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) says...

Economy

Police in Kansas City, Mo., are investigating the theft of training equipment from England's World Cup team. Gear was taken from the team's vehicles sometime Friday night during their move from a training site in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., to its...

Sports

This live blog has now ended. Make sure to follow us for the latest news on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram . US President Donald Trump said a long-awaited deal to end the war in the...

MENA

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has called on Hezbollah to prioritise Lebanon’s interests over Iran’s, urging the group to support the government’s negotiation track with Israel under US mediation. In an interview with Reuters , Salam said...

MENA

Syrian security forces have arrested a former Assad official suspected of committing human rights abuses against civilians in Daraa province during the 2011 uprising, Syria's interior ministry said on Saturday. The ministry said it had taken into custody...

MENA

By Daniel Lawler The world’s largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found that the vast expanse of both new and ancient carcasses supports huge communities of deep-sea life. This...

Animals, China, Science & Technology

A Palestinian man with disabilities was shot multiple times and wounded by Israeli settlers on Saturday in the northern West Bank, amid heightened settler and military violence in the occupied territory. The 29-year-old man, who...

MENA

A shadowy Israeli company tied to online disinformation campaigns has been accused of operating a fake Palestinian charity, a new investigation has revealed. French cyber watchdog Viginum published evidence of BlackCore's links to an organisation called "Sadaqah Palestine", which...

MENA

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa told visitors that Damascus has no intention of intervening in Lebanon, according to AFP , days after US President Donald Trump suggested it might be willing to do so. One of those present, requesting...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces continue to accelerate the destruction of remaining homes and residential blocks in the Gaza Strip while expanding their territorial control by shifting the “yellow line” east of Gaza City. In a press release on Saturday, the...

News, Destruction policy, Gaza Strip

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has called US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in protest after American strikes on three largely Indian-crewed merchant vessels off Oman killed three Indians, upping the diplomatic ante. The call came after New Delhi...

World

A rotting body was found in the trunk of a car parked near the stadium where Iran's World Cup football team is training in Mexico, AFP news agency reported Friday. The gruesome discovery came with games underway...

Sports

Iran's state-run news agency said Saturday funeral processions for its former Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , would be held in July, as mediators say an agreement to end the war is close. The funeral, burial, and farewell ceremonies for...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 72,993 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Saturday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...

News, death toll, Gaza Strip

By Josh PAUL Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Upcoming Israeli elections give the U.S. president leverage he can use. The U.S.-Israel relationship has never been less popular in America, but at the same...

Editor's Choice, Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, whose government has mediated between Iran and the United States to end their war , said on Saturday a peace deal would "likely" be finalised within 24 hours. "We are closer to a peace deal...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian civilian was martyred and others were injured in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday. The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter said that a citizen was killed and several others were wounded, some critically, in...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

GAZA, (PIC) Designs sometimes meet in this world until they match, but the meanings behind them get farther apart until the point of meeting vanishes. In a tragic visual paradox circulated heavily by social media pioneers and news platforms, one of the...

Reports, Gaza Strip, Israeli genocide

Tens of thousands of asylum seekers in the Netherlands , including more than 17,000 Syrians , may have to wait several more years before receiving decisions on their applications, despite an overhaul of migration rules designed to speed...

MENA

NABLUS, (PIC) A Palestinian young man with special needs was shot and injured by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at the entrance of Duma town, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, on Saturday morning. The Red Crescent said that an...

News, Shooting attacks, West Bank

Czech police found cocaine in a Russian Orthodox bishop’s car – right after a seminarian accused him of sexual assault. Coincidence or Kremlin takedown? With no court ruling and helmet cams off, the West’s propaganda machine gets another scalp. Join...

Europe, Russia & CIS, Society
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