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What happened on the morning of April 8 is a true miracle. Or perhaps not. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Madness-on-Earth “A whole civilization will die tonight.” – Donald J. Trump This article...

Americas, Middle East, World

As Cuba’s economy struggles under the weight of a near-total American oil blockade, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) is pushing for a change in Washington’s policy toward the Caribbean island nation. Jayapal and fellow Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.) traveled last week to...

Cuba, Oil, Humanitarian-crisis

The two-week ceasefire between Tehran and Washington — at least for right now — is allowing a collective global exhale following an intense month of war. As of Wednesday, oil markets were rebounding , with prices dropping significantly from...

Enewsletter, Israel, Ceasefire

Amid its war on Iran — now frozen by a tenuous ceasefire — the Trump administration has been exploiting emergency waivers to fast-track controversial foreign arms sales to Israel and Gulf states, tossing Congressional oversight to the wayside. On...

Arms-control, Arms-sales, Rubio

The fragile truce between Iran and the United States entered its second day on Thursday, with Tehran threatening to resume hostilities as Israel launched a major bombardment of Lebanon . Washington and Tehran both claimed victory after agreeing to a...

MENA

The son of Iran's ousted shah said on Wednesday Iranians still "needed to free themselves" of their rulers after Washington and Tehran agreed to a two-week ceasefire . "What remains constant in our struggle as Iranians is to free...

MENA

Eleven leaders of a Turkish LGBT rights group went on trial Wednesday on charges of "obscenity" and "violating the protection of the family", their lawyer told AFP . The defendants, leaders of the Genc LGBTI+ association (Young LGBTI+...

MENA

Self-evidently, the news has been overwhelmingly focused on Washington’s current endeavor to unload $200 billion of imperial destruction upon Iran and its neighbors around the Persian Gulf. Well, and also upon all other users of petroleum products, LNG, LPGs, nitrogen...

Uncategorized

On March 23, CBS News published a national poll saying that two-thirds of the American people felt the Iran War was a war of choice rather than one of necessity. The war has grown even less popular since then. I...

Uncategorized

Qatar-based broadcaster Al Jazeera condemned the Wednesday killing of one of its journalists in an Israeli strike on Gaza, calling the death "a deliberate and targeted crime". "Al Jazeera Media Network strongly condemns the heinous crime of...

MENA

Turkish security forces have arrested nearly 200 people in a nationwide sweep one day after a shootout outside Israel's consulate in Istanbul , Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said Wednesday. Gurlek posted on X that officers had arrested 198 suspects in...

MENA

Iran now knows it has won the war and can now drive a hard bargain. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle...

Geopolitics, Article, Chris Hedges

A Syrian man accused of crimes against humanity denied dozens of charges of torture and sexual violence in the opening of his trial in the Netherlands on Wednesday. The 58-year-old, identified only as Rafiq al Q. due to Dutch...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said on Wednesday that the Israeli occupation has committed a new crime against journalism by assassinating journalist Mohammed Washah, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher in Gaza. In a press statement, Qassem said the killing is...

News, Gaza Strip, Hamas Movement

Three UN peacekeepers who died in Lebanon in March were likely killed by Israeli tank fire in one incident and by a Hezbollah improvised explosive device in another, according to a United Nations probe shared on Tuesday. "We have requested...

MENA

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel remains prepared to confront Iran if necessary, despite a truce reached between the United States and Iran . "Let me be clear: We still have objectives to complete, and...

MENA

Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, announced that a two-week ceasefire had been agreed between the US and Iran in the early hours of April 8. Delegates from both sides are expected to attend further talks in the Pakistani capital of...

Middle East, Block 2, Egypt

Islam Times - Behind Iran’s effective and multifaceted actions during the war lay a single, innovative strategy that gave these efforts coherence and striking impact. That unifying approach was the synergy among power-generating instruments. Under this framework, Iran’s combined actions...

Iran

Intel, Musk, and the Tweet That Launched a 1000 Ships on a Becalmed Sea Why do professional executives running major corporations frame a major moment in their company’s history with a tweet? Jerry Sanders, who passed away just last December, spent...

Foundries, Intel Foundry

Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to avoid any escalation in their armed conflict, during talks hosted by China in recent days, Beijing said on Wednesday. The neighbours and one-time allies have been locked in violent confrontation over claims...

World

By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, Apr 8 2026 (IPS) We live in a century of extraordinary achievement. Humanity has split the atom, mapped the genome, and sent astronauts to the Moon, with plans now underway to reach Mars. Our knowledge has...

Armed Conflicts, Biodiversity, Climate Action

The ceasefire’s durability will hinge on whether Trump can restrain Israel from undermining the diplomatic track. On this point, there should be no illusions Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Cross-posted...

Geopolitics, Article, Trita Parsi

In 1958 Senator John F. Kennedy, getting ready for his upcoming presidential campaign, said the United States faced a serious and dangerous missile gap. “The Soviet Union is rapidly building up a missile striking force that endangers our power to...

Military, Block 2, Ground Based Interceptor

Before he became one of the great diplomats of the twentieth century, Henry Kissinger wrote his dissertation about the Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich. Kissinger closely studied how European diplomats like Metternich constructed a new regional order after the defeat...

War & Peace, Donald Trump, henry kissinger

Modern automotive electronics are undergoing a rapid transformation driven by increasing compute demands, functional safety requirements, and the shift toward scalable semiconductor architectures. One of the most significant technological developments enabling this transformation is the adoption of multi-die system… com/eda/synopsys/368210-from-soc-to-system-in-package-transforming-automotive-compute-with-multi-die-integration/">From...

EDA, Synopsys, 2.5D interposers

Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su This was always about Civilization. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” History will register it with a gaze as pitiless as the...

Middle East, World, Donald Trump

On Tuesday, much to the relief of the world, US President Donald Trump pulled one of his biggest TACOs yet - and he wasn't serving up Mexican food. Known for dishing out threats on the global stage, ranging...

MENA

Just when a fragile glimmer of hope emerged in the Middle East, Israel has moved to extinguish it. By launching its largest wave of strikes in years against Beirut, the Bekaa Valley, and southern Lebanon — all Hezbollah’s strongholds —...

Ceasefire, Israel, Benjamin-netanyahu

Five weeks into the US–Israeli campaign against Iran and its allies, the region is reeling from widespread destruction. From heavy industrial losses in Iran to shattered infrastructure across the Gulf and Lebanon’s mass displacement, the toll has...

MENA

Ceasefires are often presented as moments of relief – pauses in violence that open the door to diplomacy. But sometimes they reveal something more consequential: who has actually gained from the war. The emerging ceasefire between the US, Israel and...

Middle East, Block 2, Donald Trump

Lebanon announced the reopening of the Masnaa border crossing with Syria starting Wednesday evening, state media said, after it had been closed for several days due to an Israeli threat to target it. "The Masnaa crossing will be reopened...

MENA

Over the past six weeks, Iran and Iraqi militias have subjected Iraq’s Kurdistan Region to a massive campaign of airstrikes . Regular drone and missile strikes have resulted in multiple deaths and caused significant economic and social disruption...

Analysis

Uncertainty surrounds how the strategic Strait of Hormuz will operate following a two-week ceasefire between the United States, Israel and Iran. A major escalation of the Middle East war was narrowly averted on Tuesday evening after Iran...

MENA

A Rohingya rights campaigner spearheading a genocide complaint filed in Indonesia against Myanmar's next president urged the Muslim world on Wednesday to oppose the junta accused of the abuses. Yasmin Ullah is one of 11 plaintiffs who lodged the...

World

NEW YORK, (PIC) The UN said that preliminary findings from its probe into the deaths of three Indonesian peacekeepers in Lebanon last month showed that one was killed by an Israeli tank projectile and two by an improvised explosive device that...

News, Israeli violations, Lebanon

Israeli settlers have for the first time established an illegal outpost within Jerusalem's city limits, according to local media. Residents of two Palestinian villages reported incursions by dozens of Jewish extremists, who attacked them with tear gas and rocks, and...

MENA

It will take months for jet fuel supplies and prices to normalise even with the Strait of Hormuz open, the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Wednesday. The Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route for...

Energy

Sixty-five-year-old farmer Rabie Abdel Azim, from the village of Gardu in Fayoum Governorate, was caught off guard this week when the price of a 50-kilogramme bag of fertiliser jumped 50% overnight. The price went up to EGP 1,200 ($22) from EGP...

Environment and Climate
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