This statement was originally published on rsf.org on 26 March 2026. Africa’s Great Lakes region is a sea of red and orange on the map of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, meaning the journalists...
Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi may have suffered a heart attack, one of her lawyers said Tuesday. Two of Mohammadi’s lawyers and her sister visited her in Zanjan Prison in northwestern Iran on Sunday,...
This statement was originally published on ipi.media on 26 March 2026. Military regimes in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso are widening crackdown on independent journalism, risking an information gap with regional and global consequences Following a series of military coups...
This statement was originally published on mediarightsagenda.org on 31 March 2026. Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today expressed concern over the poor allocation of funding for the implementation of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, 2011, in the 2026 Federal...
This statement was originally published on mediarightsagenda.org on 26 March 2026. In a landmark judgment, a Federal High Court in Warri, Delta State, has affirmed the constitutional right of all Nigerian citizens to record and publish matters of public...
A Tunisian court handed down a two-year prison sentence to news website editor Ghassen Ben Khelifa, in the latest prosecution targeting media workers, a move the journalists' union described as part of a "systemic" attack on...
It’s difficult to overestimate the extent to which this war is re-making the world order. Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host , The Collapse of Antiquity and The Destiny of Civilization are published by CounterPunch Books. Ben Norton is editor of the Geopolitical...
A very important film about Palestinian history has just come out. 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...
Whether Trump decides to retreat or doubles down on the Iran war, the global economy is heading for the double-headed python of stagflation. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from...
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday that they would target leading US technology firms like Apple, Google and Meta if more Iranian leaders were killed in "targeted assassinations". "These companies, starting from 8:00 pm (1630 GMT) Tehran time...
Brussels /PNN / The European Union has expressed strong concern following the approval of a death penalty bill by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. In a statement issued by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security...
In the view of General de Gaulle, “Treaties are like young girls and roses; they last while they last.” By that standard, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization seems to be wilting pretty fast. The Israeli-U.S. war on Iran has opened...
Bethlehem/PNN/ Addameer for Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, the Commission of Detainees Affairs, and the Palestinian Prisoners Club on Tuesday sent an urgent letter to European Union countries regarding Israel’s recently passed death penalty law targeting Palestinian prisoners. The...
The Indo-Pacific concept was built on the assumption that maritime power could span oceans, secure access, and shape events at a distance. That assumption no longer holds. Across Eurasia, advances in missile technology, layered air defense and long-range strike capabilities...
Spanish police on Tuesday said they had uncovered a technologically sophisticated and "maze-like" underground tunnel used to smuggle tonnes of hashish from Morocco to Spain 's North African exclave of Ceuta and Europe. The investigation found the site...
Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Tuesday confirmed the killing in a US-Israeli airstrike of a brigadier general sanctioned by the US in 2025 over an international network shipping oil to China and using profits to fund...
GAZA, (PIC) A large protest took place in Gaza on Tuesday outside the International Committee of the Red Cross, where families of Palestinian prisoners, former detainees, and advocacy groups voiced strong opposition to new Israeli legislation, particularly the proposed “prisoner execution...
For nearly 20 years, soybean traders have been honouring a pledge not to source from areas subject to deforestation in the Amazon. That agreement, known as the soy moratorium, is currently hollowing out. Experts fear deforestation could rise by a...
An American journalist was kidnapped Tuesday in Baghdad by a suspected Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group, the United States said, as regional security deteriorates following the US-Israeli attack on Iran. The State Department said it had warned the journalist of security risks...
Yesterday, 30th March, Apartheid Israel passed a new law to mandate the death penalty for Palestinians, and only Palestinians, ‘convicted’ of lethal ‘terrorism’. The death penalty is an immoral and abhorrent form of punishment, but has an added...
Palestine Legal is deeply appalled by last week's foiled assassination plot against Nerdeen Kiswani, a 31-year-old Palestinian activist and mother who has been a prominent voice and organizer for Palestinian liberation in New York City for over a decade. We...
Lebanon is preparing for the possibility that hundreds of thousands displaced by Israeli strikes and evacuation orders will not return home in the long term, Lebanese social affairs minister Haneen Sayed said on Tuesday. Sayed spoke to Reuters...
DOHA, (PIC) Hamas Political Bureau member Hussam Badran called for a comprehensive national mobilization, intensified resistance, and widespread public uprising to confront the “prisoner execution law.” Badran said that Palestinians face a historic test that goes beyond condemnation and requires concrete action,...
GAZA, (PIC) Abu Obeida, spokesperson for Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades, has called on Islamic resistance in Lebanon to step up efforts to capture Israeli soldiers in order to secure the release of Palestinian and Arab prisoners held in Israeli jails, particularly following...
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday the countries that have not joined the Middle East war but are struggling with fuel shortages should "go get your own oil" in the Strait of Hormuz. In a Truth Social...
WEST BANK (PIC) A group of Jewish settlers installed mobile homes (caravans) on Palestinian land in the village of Bireen, southeast of al-Khalil in the southern West Bank. Farid Barqan, head of the Bireen village council, said that settlers set up the...
A new J Street poll finds 60% of American Jews oppose the U.S. war on Iran. The poll of American Jews across the political spectrum, commissioned by J Street and conducted by GBAO strategies, found that 77% of respondents do not...
Four weeks into the war, Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon is facing fierce resistance that it has struggled to break. Despite more than 15 months of sustained airstrikes across Lebanon, entering the ground assault with control of...
China and Pakistan called on Tuesday for an immediate end to the war in the Middle East , and for peace talks as soon as possible, as they agreed to boost their cooperation on Iran. The two countries outlined a...
Palestinians held a vigil on Tuesday in Gaza City against Israel's newly-approved law allowing for the execution of Palestinian inmates accused of "terror" offences. The demonstration, which took place in front of the International Committee of the Red...
FIFA president Gianni Infantino told AFP Tuesday that Iran "will be at the World Cup" and will play their group matches in the United States as scheduled, despite the Middle East war. " Iran will be at...
Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial law allowing the death penalty for Palestinians accused of carrying out attacks against Israeli targets, with two Arab lawmakers among those who voted in favour. The Knesset approved the legislation late on Monday...
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is reportedly recruiting children as young as 12 for security roles, as the Israeli-US war on Iran continues, Human Rights Watch has reported. The IRGC's 'Homeland Defending Combatants for Iran' Division...
This story was originally published by ProPublica . In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed U.S. attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace. The cases included...
- - - - Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash I don’t like how divisive our politics are these days. I want us to find some kind of common ground with one another, if for no other...
By Chris HEDGES Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The most profound realities of human existence are often the ones that can never be measured or quantified. Wisdom. Beauty. Truth. Compassion. Courage. Love....
By Ron PAUL Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su As we begin a new week, the media is filled with reports that President Trump is ready to approve a US ground operation against...
In a positive twist , the Trump administration said it did not plan to block a Russian oil tanker from delivering 730,000 barrels of crude to Cuba, which has been suffering from acute fuel shortages since the U.S. imposed a...
A broker for US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly tried to make a “big investment” in a bundle of weapons stocks just weeks before the US and Israel launched their war on Iran, an assault that Hegseth has aggressively championed. Citing...
In forty plus years as a semiconductor professional I have never seen a semiconductor design ecosystem build as fast and as strong as RISC-V. As a result, RISC-V Now! has emerged as a pivotal gathering, a conference with...
Record global temperatures have pushed the amount of heat stored in the ocean to a new high, according to the latest data collected by the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This is a CATCH story This story is part of Dialogue...
The Gulf states are unified in calling for a de-escalation of the Middle East war, Qatar said on Tuesday as Tehran launched new strikes against its neighbours. "Our understanding is that there is a very unified position in the Gulf...
A Turkish national who kidnapped anti-Assad army officers and forcibly transferred them back to Syria has been arrested after 12 years at large, Turkey's intelligence agency said on Monday. Onder Sigircikoglu was captured on the Syria-Lebanon border in a...
The U.S. and Israeli war has, from its very beginning, violated both U.S. domestic and international law. The legal consequences go beyond specific violations. Washington and Tel Aviv’s breaches of the UN Charter and other legal frameworks also undermine the very...
Israel targeted and killed Ali Shuaib, an employee of the Hezbollah TV station Al Manar, and two others who worked for the pro-Hezbollah Al Mayadeen channel. The Israel Defense Forces claimed Shuaib was a Hezbollah Radwan Force operative using his...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Arab and Muslim foreign ministers have strongly condemned Israeli restrictions on freedom of worship in Jerusalem, denouncing the continued closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque and limitations imposed on access to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. In a joint statement,...
The outgoing head of the United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday he wanted an investigation into the killing of nearly 400 UNRWA staff during the Gaza war . "I believe that we need to have...
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa met UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London on Tuesday during his first visit to the UK, as Damascus steps up efforts to bolster relations with Western governments following the...
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