British far-right demonstrators have been accused of exploiting the murder of British student Henry Nowak to amplify Islamophobia - despite the incident having no links to Islam or Muslims In Southampton on Tuesday, a group of far-right individuals...
The 23rd edition of the FIFA World Cup is set to kick off in the US, Canada and Mexico in just over a week, with 48 teams competing in the biggest edition of the tournament yet, compared with...
US President Donald Trump's recent threat to “blow up” Oman if the country didn't “behave” was striking not only for its tone, but also for its target. Threatening a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member widely regarded as one of...
The bylaws for Egypt’s first ever asylum law were finally issued by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbuly on Monday — a full year after the legal deadline for their completion. In the belated set of regulations, the government gives itself a...
Beijing can fund itself cheaply and almost indefinitely – and thus can outlast the U.S. grand strategy to contain China. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online...
We face a choice. Tyranny or revolution. 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 East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief...
How well will western societies be able to cope with the enormous social, economic and even security stresses that they can expect over the next five years or so? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo:...
Rated on a scale from 1 (underdeveloped) to 7 (extensive and efficient by international standards), these 25 nations have the world’s poorest road infrastructure. Chad ranks at the very bottom with a score of just 1.9, followed closely by Madagascar...
GAZA, (PIC) May 2026 recorded the highest number of casualties in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the year. According to Gaza’s health ministry, 119 Palestinians were killed last month, a toll that reveals a marked escalation in the intensity of...
Between assurances from President Donald Trump that a peace agreement is all but wrapped up and renewed skirmishes, the price of oil rises and falls. Even at recent lows, crude’s price is 40% higher than in late February when the...
Thank You Congress and President Trump! By Philip GIRALDI Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Few Americans know the history of how Israel’s “wag the dog” relationship with the United States developed. Israel’s...
What if certain famous moments from the seerah have been misunderstood? A closer reading reveals a Prophet ﷺ of greater dignity and compassion than we sometimes give him credit for. When Popular Retellings Go Wrong Many Muslims first encounter the Seerah...
TSMC, the world’s largest contract semiconductor manufacturer, is significantly expanding its deployment of NVIDIA artificial intelligence and accelerated computing technologies throughout its chip design and manufacturing operations. The initiative represents one of the most comprehensive applications of AI...
Four Palestine Action activists could be sentenced as terrorists next month. New documents expose the UK government’s crackdown on pro-Palestine activism. By John McEVOY Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su - Activists could...
Ahead of the November midterm elections , President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have demanded Congress pass sweeping voting restrictions, including a requirement to show proof of citizenship to register — all in the name of election...
Several officials of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahda party, including its 84-year-old chief Rached Ghannouchi, were handed jail sentences on Tuesday ranging from 10 years to life in prison on terror charges, the party and reports said. Ghannouchi...
Famed “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley was fired Tuesday night. “We have parted ways with Scott Pelley,” Nick Bilton, the tech journalist who CBS News’ editor-in-chief Bari Weiss hired last week as the show’s new executive producer, wrote in...
- - - - Photo by Patrick Perkins on Unsplash We’ve all been more than a little taken aback by the renewed interest in socialism this century, and not just because we’ve seen the great socialist experiments...
Prominent Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour says Israeli authorities have barred her from travelling to Palestine with her family, citing her advocacy for Palestinian rights and support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Sarsour, one of the most...
The war against Iran may have resulted in some tactical victories for Israel and the United States on the battlefield, but Israel is not winning American public opinion and neither are those American leaders who ardently support it. This...
In an apparent step forward in longstanding plans to bring Iraq’s militias under state control, Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr pledged on 27 May to disband Saraya al-Salam , his affiliated militia. The populist leader in the same statement called for...
Welcome to our live blog. Here are the latest updates of the day: - Israel has continued striking Lebanon, including near Beirut, with nine people, including two paramedics, being killed. Lebanon's National News Agency said that strikes occurred...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli settler militias carried out a new wave of attacks across the West Bank over the past 24 hours, targeting Palestinian property, crops, homes and Bedouin communities under the protection of Israeli occupation forces (IOF). The most intense attacks...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The higher planning committee, which is affiliated with the Israeli occupation army, has approved the construction of 2,162 new settler units in illegal settlements across the northern and southern West Bank. According to Israel’s Channel 7, this move is...
Poet and political activist Ahmed Douma was sentenced to one year in prison with hard labor on Wednesday by the New Cairo Misdemeanors Court on the backdrop of his arrest and investigation for writing about the changing role of prisons...
Alexandre Pinheiro facilitates a GEF press conference at the conclusion of 71st GEF Council in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The conference was addressed by Fred Boltz, Manager, Programming, Claude Gascon, Interim CEO and Chizuru Aoki, Manager, MEAs and Funds Division. Credit:...
Slovenian authorities on Wednesday, 3 June, refused to allow an Israeli aircraft to land in Ljubljana, forcing it to change course and land in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, amid accusations that the decision was politically motivated. According to Israeli...
Apartheid is increasingly used to describe how Israel treats Palestinians, yet its global defenders continuously claim that the state of Israel ensures equality for all. The charge of apartheid is often dismissed as they point to the continued existence of...
An Egyptian court sentenced prominent activist and poet Ahmed Douma to a year in prison with labour for "spreading fake news" on Wednesday, state media Akhbar al-Youm reported. The sentence comes nearly three years after the former...
Early adopters pay a premium for their embrace of innovation. If you bought one of the first electric cars in the United States, you had limited range, long charging times, and very little infrastructure to support you on anything but...
GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian civilian was martyred in an Israeli strike on Wednesday, while another one was pronounced dead after succumbing to injuries sustained in an earlier attack in the Gaza Strip. Local sources reported that a civilian was killed in an...
Israel's fanatical finance minister announced on Wednesday a major expansion by more than 2,000 homes of three illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank . Most nations consider Israeli settlements there to be illegal under international law and...
In 2026, the U.S. population is estimated by the Census Bureau at nearly 343 million, about 135 times larger than the population in 1776. Credit: Shutterstock By Joseph Chamie PORTLAND, USA, Jun 3 2026 (IPS) In 2026, the population of the...
IPLM is not always prominent, nevertheless it is a very necessary aspect of semiconductor (and systems) design. Modern designs build on a wide range of IPs and subsystems, each evolving through multiple variants and versions, each with different PPA characteristics...
Another Hong Kong performance artist has been stopped and searched by plainclothes police after showing up in Causeway Bay on the eve of the Tiananmen crackdown anniversary. Artist Chan Mei-tung was stopped and searched by police after appearing in Causeway...
Ramallah, West Bank - The United States and Israel are reportedly working to end Jordan's decades-old custodianship of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, a move that could ignite conflict and trigger repercussions around the world. According to US, Jordanian,...
Amid the U.S. war on Iran and the looming prospect of conflict with Cuba, Democrats are gearing up for an especially bitter fight over next year’s Pentagon budget. As Punchbowl News reported Tuesday , Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) will introduce...
GAZA, (PIC) Despite the passage of about eight months since the declaration of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the calm that the residents were waiting for has not turned into a real sense of safety and psychological comfort. Between the continuous...
Nearly 60 percent of retired senior British military officers now working in the defence industry have appeared as expert commentators in UK media without any disclosure of their commercial ties, a conflict research charity has...
Bangladesh raised electricity prices by 16 per cent on Wednesday, the latest increase as the government seeks to ease pressure on state finances caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran. The South Asian nation of 170 million people depends heavily...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem Governorate monitored a wide and systematic escalation in Israeli occupation crimes in the past month of May, which included various aspects of life in the city, and directly affected the Palestinian residents and their...
French authorities said Wednesday that they had imposed two fines on Shein totalling more than 22 million euros (US$25.5 million), citing problems with product traceability, environmental labelling and delivery times. Shein app. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. The new penalties bring the...
Lebanon and Israel entered a second day of US-sponsored talks in Washington on Wednesday after US officials reported progress in negotiations, while French and Saudi envoys prepared visits to Beirut as part of efforts to secure a lasting ceasefire. The...
BEIRUT, (PIC) 12 people, including a paramedic, were martyred and others were wounded on Wednesday in Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Lebanese media reported one fatality in an Israeli strike on the town of Tibnin, and the death of a paramedic in another...
GAZA, (PIC) In a small displacement camp west of Al-Nuseirat Camp, dozens of children sit among tightly packed tents. Some try to invent games from scraps of wood or scattered pieces of plastic. There is no nearby public park, no equipped playground,...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed Sudan’s army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al‑Burhan in Ankara on Tuesday, in a visit that comes as Turkish‑made drones and other military hardware have become central to Sudanese army (SAF)...
When US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth took the podium at the recent Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, his words signaled a profound structural shift in the global security landscape. Declaring that the era of America subsidizing the defense of wealthy...
Fear, stigma and discrimination still affect whether people with albinism can safely attend school, travel freely, seek employment or earn a living. Credit: UN Photo/Marie Frechon. By Elizabeth Kamundia and Samer Muscati NAIROBI, Jun 3 2026 (IPS) When Patricia...
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