Saudi Arabia and the UAE are both very much victims of the war, but each has an entirely different approach to finding a working solution – if the Trump-Iran deal holds. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK...
The war in Ukraine has entered a phase in which truces no longer resemble a bridge to peace, but rather a parallel battlefield. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A Tactical Truce? The...
GAZA, (PIC) Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad described the course of negotiations over the Gaza Strip as long and complex, particularly given what he called dealing with a “criminal and fascist state committing genocide.” In statements to Al Jazeera Mubasher, Hamad said...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have leveled large areas of agricultural land east of al-Khalil and uprooted thousands of fruit-bearing trees during operations ongoing for three days, under the pretext of expanding Route 60. The PIC correspondent reported that Israeli...
BEIRUT, (PIC) Several Lebanese civilians, including women and children, were killed and others wounded on Wednesday in Israeli airstrikes targeting towns in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, amid continued ceasefire violations and escalating field confrontations. Hezbollah, in turn, announced a...
Donald Trump has paused “Project Freedom”, the US operation aimed at restoring commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. In a post on social media just days after the operation was first announced, Trump said he had made the decision...
When it comes to Ukraine’s largest corruption scandal, President Volodymyr Zelensky prefers to remain tight-lipped. Recent leaks, published by journalists and lawmakers over the past week, indicate that the largest corruption scandal affecting Zelensky ‘s inner circle has...
Despite clear calls for coordinated attacks, Meta did not act to safeguard these activist pages Originally published on Global Voices Advox Photo by Bastian Riccardi from Pexels. Used under a Pexels License . For the past...
When Stalin wanted to get rid of someone, he didn’t just have them executed with a shot to the back of the head. He attempted to remove the offending person from history as well by excising their name from encyclopedias...
GAZA, (PIC) The director of the Palestinian Center for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons, Nada Nabil, said the center documented more than 500 cases of missing persons, while it received about 4,000 reports regarding missing persons in the Gaza Strip. Estimates...
Islam Times - Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, responding to the proposed US draft resolution before the UN Security Council concerning the Strait of Hormuz, stated: "The only practical solution in the Strait of Hormuz is clear: a...
Healthy soils teeming microbes are the foundations of resilient, sustainable and global food production ecosystems. Credit: Fabiola Ortiz/IPS By Esther Ngumbi URBANA, Illinois, US, May 6 2026 (IPS) A newly published review in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment has...
Islam Times - The suspension of Donald Trump’s highly publicized “Project Freedom” just one day after its launch is not only a sign of Washington’s miscalculation regarding the feasibility and ease of implementing the plan; it also points to significant...
The entire world is laughing at the confusion in the White House, but the members of the Donald Trump administration remain unfazed – so deeply entrenched are they in a sense of exceptionalism that they can no longer substantiate. The Second...
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called today for the release of two Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) organizers who were kidnapped by Israeli forces last week and have been held in Israel since. Saif Abu Keshek...
Trump today seems torn between the prospect of ‘heavy’ military escalation and an extended Hormuz blockade Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal Putting two sides...
Iran’s economy appears to be deteriorating sharply as the United States maintains its blockade of Iranian ports alongside a sweeping sanctions regime. The US Treasury has imposed a series of economic, trade, and military sanctions on...
President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum on Wednesday for Iran to accept a deal to end the war or face intense renewed US bombing, the latest in a series of abrupt policy shifts. "Assuming Iran agrees to give what has...
CAIRO, (PIC) Member of Hamas’s political bureau Mousa Abu Marzouk has accused the Israeli occupation regime and the US administration of failing to honor the signed agreements over the Gaza Strip, stressing that “this came as no surprise.” In recent press remarks...
Unfortunately, understanding how the world works now, making sensible suggestions and carrying them out require exactly those skills and competencies which western governments and western societies have sent the last generation or more carefully destroying. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack...
When Gustavo Petro said he would replace Colombia’s fossil fuel exports with avocados in 2018, his pledge was largely met with derision – and memes. Eight years on, Petro is president, and Colombia just hosted the inaugural international conference on...
As millions of Brits are set to choose their local councillor on Thursday, many factors, including the cost of living, the rise of the far right, and the Gaza war, are likely to influence voters' decisions. While the governing...
In an episode of the Rest is Politics podcast aired in February 2025, British academic and ex-politician Rory Stewart asked the then newly appointed President of Syria, Ahmad Al-Sharaa, to name a few countries he is taking inspiration from as...
Syria may be preparing to dissolve a controversial body set up to manage the assets and affiliate organisations of the former ruling Baath Party and oversee civil society groups and trade unions. A source in the Syrian Foreign Ministry...
Publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw Hill sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence model Llama. The...
The leader urges the EU to protect independence of the international court and the UN and their ‘actions to end’ Gaza genocide Middle East Eye is an independently funded digital news organisation covering stories from the Middle East and...
After more than a decade of stagnation in the deployment of next-generation launch vehicles, Roscosmos is returning to the forefront of spaceflight with the new Soyuz-5 rocket. Soyuz-5 Designed for Rapid Satellite Deployment On April 30, the long-awaited first launch of...
An Israeli court has upheld the continued detention of Global Sumud Flotilla activists Thiago Avila and Saif Abu Keshek, despite legal challenges arguing their arrest in international waters was unlawful, as campaigners revealed Avila’s mother died while he...
The costs of the current US-Israel war on Iran are often measured in cold, macroeconomic abstractions. We hear of “supply disruptions,” “energy shocks,” and “inflationary pressures”. But behind the fluctuating price of a Brent crude barrel, there is a far...
The US Department of Homeland Security identified the US-Israeli war with Iran as a potential motive for the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump and senior members of his administration at a White House...
Don’t expect the war in Ukraine to end anytime soon Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He served as the Economic Counsellor at the British Embassy in Moscow from July 2014...
The world’s most vital trade artery is under siege. As the US launches "Project Freedom" to break the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, global shipping remains in a chokehold. This week, Bill Roggio sits down with shipping expert...
Iran has intensified attacks on Kurdish Iranian opposition groups in northern Iraq, targeting camps linked to the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran and Komala with drones in early May. The strikes are part of a broader campaign by Iran and...
On May 1 , organizers reported over 5,000 May Day Strong actions across the country — the most widespread distribution of U.S. May Day actions ever. Numbers are interesting, but they’re not nearly the whole story here. Because this May...
This statement was originally published on cipesa.org on 1 May 2026. In November 2026, Tanzania will be up for its fourth cycle review under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC). Ahead...
This story was originally published by Sentient . In the early 20th century , scientists discovered how to produce nitrate from air. This was key to the development of factory farming because nitrate is a very efficient fertilizer...
PARIS / PNN/ The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, represented by its president Nasser Abu Bakr, has been elected first vice president of the International Federation of Journalists during the organization’s world congress held in Paris, with broad participation from media unions...
Spain has become one of the most vocal European critics of Israel’s war on Gaza. Under Pedro Sánchez, Madrid has moved beyond rhetorical discomfort and tried to translate outrage into policy: recognition of Palestine , intervention at the International...
Contempt of court proceedings against a top human rights barrister are having a “chilling effect” across the British bar, leading lawyers tell Declassified . Rajiv Menon KC is accused of violating the judge’s orders in the trial of six...
The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . There’s a viral clip of Russell Brand that’s recently been making the rounds on social media. If you haven’t seen it, Brand — who is facing multiple...
GENEVA, (PIC) The UN Human Rights Office has called on Israel to “immediately and unconditionally release” two activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla, who were kidnaped by Israeli forces in international waters recently. “Israel must immediately and unconditionally release Global Sumud Flotilla...
Pro-Palestine groups and anti-racism organisations in Britain have intensified their mobilisation efforts for a major march to mark Nakba Day set to take place in London on 16 May after reaching an agreement with police over the...
The Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom has asked the Foreign Office to intervene in the British Museum's removal of references to Palestine from exhibits in response to pressure from pro-Israel groups. References to 'Palestine' and 'Palestinian' were removed...
Political insurgents Reform UK are set to make huge gains in British local elections on Thursday, as the far-right, anti-immigrant party draws increasing support from voters. "The UK has been flooded with illegal immigrants that shouldn't be here. They're...
Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has pointed to a high possibility of a diplomatic solution between Washington and Tehran despite continuing tensions and publicly divergent positions between the two...
BRUSSELS /PNN/ The Palestinian ambassador to the European Union, Belgium and Luxembourg, Amal Jadou Shakaa, called for stronger European action to uphold international law during a lecture at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel attended by more than 200 students and researchers. Speaking...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A video clip documented the moment Israeli occupation soldiers assaulted a Palestinian child with Down Syndrome in Shuafat refugee camp northeast of Jerusalem, and used him as a human shield during a military incursion, in a scene that...
Egypt and Lebanon signed an agreemen t on Wednesday to rehabilitate Lebanon's gas infrastructure, reviving a regional project to transport gas from Egypt to Lebanon via Jordan and Syria, with international backing, after it was suspended in 2011. The project...
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