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Russia has now made the strategic decision in response to prepare for war in Europe Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture Foundation The de-escalation framework that unfolded...

Geopolitics, Alastair Crooke, Article

How Azov, founded by far-right ideologue Andriy Biletsky, went from white supremacist militia to a celebrated part of Norway’s Ukraine solidarity – and the uncomfortable truths being whitewashed. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact...

Editor's Choice, Nazism, Ukraine

It’s almost hard to remember nowadays, but before the pandemic a lot of us were worried about falling business dynamism in the United States. For whatever reason, Americans just weren’t starting companies — either high-growth startups or small businesses — at the...

Technology, AI Fraud, AI Job Creation

Türkiye hopes for a reset with the European Union during the upcoming Irish presidency — after a six-month deadlock with the Greek Cypriot presidency — and views the visit by three senior EU officials to Ankara as an indication of...

Türkiye

What sets human beings apart from other life forms is the possession of cognitive assets that makes them unique. One such asset is morality. Unfortunately, the West is currently demonstrating a decline of collective morality. Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian social...

Africa, Politics, Africa: Overcoming the Legacy of Colonialism

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian described the recent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement with the United States as a "significant achievement" and a "major victory" for his country, as it resulted in the lifting of a number of...

MENA

By Elena GUTIÉRREZ Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Cubans have lived through decades of U.S.-imposed deprivation. People in the U.S. now experiencing it themselves could learn from the resilience of their neighbors....

Editor's Choice, Cuba, Imperialism

When the United States and Iran announced an interim peace agreement after weeks of escalating conflict, something shifted in Sanaa. Houthi rhetoric moved, visibly and quickly, into victory-lap mode. The movement's leadership was no longer speaking the language of...

Inside MENA

When the United States and Iran announced an interim peace agreement after weeks of escalating conflict, something shifted in Sanaa. Houthi rhetoric moved, visibly and quickly, into victory-lap mode. The movement's leadership was no longer speaking the language of...

Inside MENA

Lebanon's US-backed framework agreement with Israel has triggered warnings from legal experts over whether Beirut may be limiting its ability to pursue Israel for war crimes committed on Lebanese territory. The concern centres on Article 13 of the agreement, signed...

MENA

The president of Saudi Arabia's Football Federation has announced his resignation after the Green Falcons were knocked out of the World Cup in the first round. Saudi Arabia finished bottom of Group H with two points, after...

Sports

Hezbollah has vowed to block the implementation of the US-backed framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel, as a majority of Lebanese political parties rejected or criticised the deal. In comments to The New Arab, senior Hezbollah...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 73,058 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Monday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...

News, death toll, Gaza Strip

The number of Iranian cyberattacks against Israel has tripled since the launch of the US-Israeli offensive against Iran this year, a senior Israeli security official was quoted as saying on Monday. Yossi Karadi, Director General of Israel's National Cyber...

MENA

Where the MOU is leading to Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig Murray’s Blog Kronborg Castle in Helsingor The provisional surrender document signed by Donald...

Economics, Energy, Geopolitics

Wall Street has spent nearly two decades operating on a flawed assumption about China’s financial intentions. Eventually, Beijing would want what Washington has: the world’s reserve currency, the deepest capital markets and the extraordinary geopolitical advantages that come with financial...

China, Block 2, China De-Dollarization

The Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a complaint with the US Department of Justice against the Israeli far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir over war crimes and abuses against Palestinians. In a statement on Saturday, the...

World

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank last night and at dawn Monday, raiding homes and kidnaping a number of Palestinian citizens. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped two citizens from Bethlehem City...

News, Arrests, IOF raids

Middle East producers are pushing ahead with loading oil and liquefied natural gas despite fresh ship attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and renewed strikes between the US and Iran in recent days, shipping data showed. Energy...

Energy

No one expected the Lebanese-Israeli negotiations in Washington, hosted by the US State Department, to produce a good agreement . Those of us considered moderates, without crossing into an endorsement of normalisation, might have accepted a painful bargain if...

Perspectives

A team of universities, led by Addis Ababa University, has joined forces to implement a four-year Intra-Africa academic mobility project aimed at strengthening agroforestry research and education for climate change mitigation. The project, dubbed Strengthening Agroforestry Research and Education for...

Africa, Africa Climate Wire, Climate Action

Russia has now made the strategic decision in response to prepare for war in Europe. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The de-escalation framework that unfolded in the U.S.-Iran Lucerne talks largely stayed...

Middle East, Russia & CIS, Security

GAZA, (PIC) Three Palestinian civilians, including a child, were martyred in an Israeli strike on Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on Monday. A local source reported that three Palestinians, including a child, were killed and others were wounded this morning in an...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

Good morning and welcome to our live coverage. Here are the latest updates: - The US and Iran have agreed to cease attacks in the Gulf after two days of mutual strikes that saw Iran attack shipping in the Gulf...

MENA

Capitalism’s rise concentrated property, corrupted courts, and birthed a two-party dictatorship. The Civil War ended slavery, yet the bourgeoisie had already buried popular rule. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su This is...

Americas, World, Capitalism

At Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne last week, US Vice President JD Vance announced that Iran had agreed to let United Nations nuclear inspectors back into the country and called it a first step toward permanently ending Tehran’s nuclear program — a...

Opinion, Ali Khamenei Assassination, Donald Trump

There is always a reason to return to Bursa, and it usually involves something delicious. This time, my journey back was inspired by the Türkiye Culture Route Festival, a massive initiative organized by the Culture and Tourism Ministry. Now in...

Arts & Life

China added 20 Japanese organisations including major companies to a blacklist on Monday over the export of items that can be used for both military and civilian purposes, escalating a months-long row between Beijing and Tokyo. Chinese and Japanese flags....

Business, China, Defence & Foreign Policy

Picture alliance / Anadolu | Magdalena Chodownik Source: International Politics and Society, Berlin By Sandra Weiss MEXICO CITY, Jun 29 2026 (IPS) Ever since the Berlin Wall fell 37 years ago and the communist Eastern Bloc collapsed, Cuba has been debating...

Democracy, Featured, Headlines

Tensions have again escalated in the Middle East, with the United States and Iran trading strikes around the Strait of Hormuz. It follows reports of an Iranian drone attack on a cargo ship trying to transit through the strait. Both...

Middle East, Block 1, Hormuz Blockade

With elections likely to be held in August, the young people in Haiti are moving ahead, creating opportunities in music and digitalization and agricultural cooperatives, which are reinventing food self-sufficiency. Credit: Shutterstock By Xavier Michon PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jun 29 2026 (IPS)...

Democracy, Economy & Trade, Featured

The two-day working visit of Turkey’s Foreign Minister to Russia, which has now concluded, proved noteworthy both for the number of meetings held and for the nature of the discussions. What, in the end, did Hakan Fidan bring that was...

Politics, Russia, Turkey

The United States is right to worry about losing ground to China in clinical research. But if Washington frames trial reform mainly as a race, it risks missing the larger prize: a faster, safer and more trusted model for developing...

US-China, Block 2, China Clinical Research

Washington's Iran hawks — including some Democrats and former Biden administration officials — are denouncing the Trump administration for agreeing to upfront sanctions relief and other confidence-building measures in its preliminary deal, or memorandum of understanding (MoU), with Tehran. But their...

Sanctions, Diplomacy, Iran-deal

This is the first in a RS series of articles reflecting on the 250th anniversary of American Independence and its impact and meaning for modern U.S. foreign policy, war, and peace. On the 250th anniversary of the founding of the...

Foreign-policy, America-250, Imperialism

Polish President Karol Nawrocki made headlines recently for stripping his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky of Poland’s highest honor over Kyiv’s decision to name a military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), a partisan formation responsible for massacres during World...

Ukraine-war, Russia, Volodymyr-zelensky
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