The main problem with American policy in the Middle East is that Washington still does not understand whom it is dealing with. For decades, the West has continued negotiating with the East according to its own logic of compromise, diplomacy,...
Vampires preying on humanity & the planet…the US military is the World’s biggest threat …we are joined by investigative journalist @AbbyMartin to discuss her mind-blowing film ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ – a call to action for all Listen HERE The post...
RAMALLAH / PNN/ Economist Nabil Koukali said the Bank of Israel’s decision to cut interest rates to 3.75% reflects growing concern over an economic slowdown amid the impact of war and regional tensions, warning of direct repercussions for Palestinians closely...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday used his social media platform to boost prediction markets – a burgeoning industry from which Trump’s family stands to profit – and lashed out at state leaders working to regulate them, singling out officials in Illinois, New York...
Zelensky’s longtime business partner Timur Mindich fled Ukraine to Israel on a private jet with 800kg of gold + millions in cash — just hours before NABU raided his home. Read Article HERE The post Haaretz: Ukraine Seeks...
As Israel launched a new bombardment of Lebanon on Tuesday, its far-right Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir suggested that it was trying to derail ongoing peace negotiations between US President Donald Trump and Iran. During a press briefing on Tuesday, the influential settler-politician railed against...
European leaders decided not to evacuate their diplomats from Kyiv and accepted all associated risks. Those risks are enormous, as they could ultimately lead to the collapse of the Ukrainian front. EU's Decision Described as Criminal Negligence Officials in Brussels and...
As the US and Iran try to come to terms on a peace deal to end their months-long war, US President Donald Trump this week has introduced a new demand – that other countries in the Middle East sign on...
Some experts criticize White House approach and say not allowing Americans to return to US hurts treatment efforts The Trump administration is building a quarantine and treatment center in Kenya for Americans affected by the Ebola outbreak,...
On March 25, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act . In his speech introducing the law at a press conference, Sanders explained the thinking behind the proposal...
With over a trillion chips manufactured every year and application requirements evolving faster than ever (across automotive, HPC, and AI), the pressure on SoC design teams has never been higher with design space keeps growing and schedules keep shrinking. Indeed, for...
Russian nuclear deterrence is a European interest too. Communication channels are essential – this needs to be managed well. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture...
“Democracy” is a slogan, a value-judgement more than it is a description, and a term of praise and abuse in political debates more than a defined programme. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Licensed under the...
Israel said on Wednesday that it had killed Mohammed Odeh, the reported new chief of Hamas ’s military wing, in a series of overnight air strikes on Gaza City, marking the latest in a string of targeted...
Israel launched broad strikes on Lebanon including near the city of Tyre on Wednesday, as Hezbollah said its fighters clashed with Israeli forces beyond an Israeli-declared "yellow line" in the south despite a ceasefire. Israel last week vowed to...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation police kidnaped a Palestinian girl after assaulting her and forcibly removing her hijab near the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning. A video showed the moment police officers chased the girl near the Bab al-Hitta...
Malcolm Ducker, a British former RAF pilot, set sail earlier this month towards the Gaza Strip in the hopes of reaching the devastated enclave in an act of solidarity with the long-suffering people there. Ducker, who departed from Sicily,...
Four activists could be sentenced as terrorists next month despite not being convicted of terrorism offences. Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Rajwani are among several Palestine Action activists accused of raiding an Israeli weapons factory in Bristol in...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns of ‘catastrophic collision of disease and conflict’, as Uganda closes border with DRC The head of the World Health Organization has called for an immediate ceasefire in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to help tackle...
The first hijab-wearing Miss Wayne County rode through a Memorial Day parade in Michigan on Monday, drawing a wave of Islamophobic and racist backlash online, including from far-right and MAGA-aligned accounts. Ameera Hashwi, a Lebanese-American attorney, was...
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi urged armed factions on Wednesday to join state institutions, as the US mounts pressure on Baghdad to disarm groups backed by Iran . Zaidi, who only recently took office, has voiced support for the...
Palestinians marked Eid al-Adha in the West Bank amid continued economic recession and ongoing Israeli raids and attacks However, families have tried to hold on to their holiday traditions despite arrests, displacement and loss caused by the Israeli occupations. Despite...
- - - - Photo by Paulo Silva on Unsplash Zohran Mamdani, the current Mayor of New York City, ran his campaign as a socialist. He talked about the “warm embrace of collectivism” as if that were...
The 2026 Billionaire Tax Act initiative recently submitted enough signatures to be put on the California ballot for the November 2026 elections. Its goal is to raise revenue by imposing a one-time 5% wealth tax on California billionaires to...
Since October 2023 , Israel has occupied vast stretches of territory in Gaza, Syria and, most recently, Lebanon. Corporate media have been reluctant to use clear, direct language to characterize U.S.-backed Israeli land grabs in each of these places, preferring...
It is not fortuitous that many of the flags of western industrial democracies such as Britain, Sweden and Norway feature a cross. This harks backs to their Christian traditions. Conversely, more recent nation-states such as France, Italy and Germany shunned...
The semiconductor industry is entering a transformative new phase, driven by the convergence of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and increasingly complex chip architectures. That message took center stage during the keynote talks at the Siemens EDA User2User 2026 North America...
The Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) said Iranian drones and a missile struck one of its facilities near Erbil on May 25, wounding nine Peshmerga, while other camps were reportedly also targeted in recent weeks. Kurdish Iranian opposition groups, operating from...
Iranian state television said on Wednesday a draft framework deal with the United States included a commitment to lift the naval blockade on Iran , restore traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and the US to withdraw its forces...
In the space of five days, Xi Jinping hosted both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Beijing. Two summits, back to back, in the same capital, with the same host. The American president arrived with corporate executives and left with...
Picture three British Pakistani friends in their early twenties cruising down Manchester’s infamous Curry Mile — a.k.a. Wimmy Road, a.k.a. Wilmslow Road — about to embark on a lads’ night out in the North of England’s biggest halal...
Las Nuevas Rutas de la Seda/Iniciativa de la Franja y la Ruta (BRI) y sus ramificaciones, como la Ruta Marítima del Norte/Ruta de la Seda del Ártico, siguen más vivas que nunca. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has congratulated the Palestinian people and the Muslim Ummah on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, calling for the holiday to be a time to strengthen unity and solidarity, and to intensify all forms of support for...
360 Palestinian children and 84 women are spending the Eid al-Adha holiday in Israeli prisons, away from their families and suffering from deprivation, abuse and neglect. In total 9,400 Palestinians are in Israeli custody, amid reports of widespread...
What is hegemony? Is the United States losing it? By Michael BRENNER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su HEGEMONY. “Hegemony, Hegemon everywhere — but not a ‘definition’ in sight.” Talk about American foreign policy is...
After years of pursuit, Israel killed the commander of Hamas’s armed wing, Izz al-Din al-Haddad , in Gaza last week. Describing him as a key architect of the 7 October 2023 attacks, Israel framed the "complex intelligence-driven strike" as a...
Elsa Persson Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su He has criticized Swedish minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin (M) and does not believe it can be called vandalism when paint is thrown at buildings in connection...
“It’s got no anything,” President Donald Trump said of Somalia in a recent xenophobic rant. “All they do is run around shooting each other.” As is true of so much with this administration, every accusation is also a confession. U.S....
US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace has "zero" cash in its official fund, despite member countries pledging billions of dollars, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Trump first conceived of the board to rebuild Gaza, where...
After two decades, long-suffering Gunners fans from across the diaspora have been rewarded with a Premier League win. So why has this sometimes beleaguered team earned such adulation? - Don’t already get The Long Wave in your inbox? Sign up here...
Israel’s latest escalation in Lebanon suggests a deliberate strategy to separate its war on the country from wider regional diplomacy, raising questions about whether any forthcoming US-Iran deal can meaningfully put an end to Israel's attacks there. Israeli...
The I2U2 — that much-heralded “West Asian Quad” of India, Israel, the UAE, and the United States — is gathering dust. Launched with fanfare in July 2022 and billed as a transformative framework for regional integration, it has produced little...
Eid Mubarak and Hajj Mabroor to all our readers and your families, from the MuslimMatters team! May Allah accept our worship, our sacrifices, and increase us in remembrance of Him in these days. Related: The Best Actions for Eid al-Adh’ha [Imam...
The incapacity of a once great and vibrant civilisation to maintain an unequivocal commitment to the truth is a sad reflection of its current degraded condition. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In...
GAZA, (PIC) After a bloody day in which 14 Palestinians were martyred in Israeli attacks, tens of thousands of Palestinians performed the Eid al-Adha prayer in makeshift prayer areas and streets near the rubble of bombed homes and mosques in the...
Over 100,000 worshippers performed Eid al-Adha prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, amid a heavy deployment of Israeli occupation forces and arrests in the vicinity of the mosque. The Islamic Waqf...
The reported US-Israeli plan to install Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as an Iranian equivalent of Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez is shocking, but not because Ahmadinejad is unknown. He is one of the most recognisable figures in the Islamic Republic’s recent history. It is...
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated that the future of the republic's membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) should be decided not by him personally, but by the people of Armenia. "I say that the Armenian people must have an...
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