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This week, in Westminster Magistrates’ Court, two fellow civil society leaders — Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham — were convicted for actions they took as part of a peaceful protest. Their conviction marks a chilling moment for democratic...

The search for American journalist Shelly Kittleson , who was abducted in central Baghdad earlier this week, has now entered its sixth day, amid limited official updates and uncertainty over the nature of the case. Kittleson, an independent reporter who...

US President Donald Trump threatened in an expletive-laden post on Sunday to strike Iran's power plants and bridges if it does not reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz, after announcing the rescue of an airman in a "miraculous" operation. The...

American commandos deployed deep into Iranian territory to rescue a downed airman, US news outlets reported on Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump announced that the crew member had been recovered "safe and sound." Tehran said this week it...

GAZA, (PIC) Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned that Israeli restrictions on medical supplies entering the Gaza Strip are endangering thousands of patients amid critical shortages. “Every day, we see impacts of the restrictions on entry of medical supplies into Gaza in...

Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun on Sunday called for negotiations with Israel , saying dialogue was the only way to stop southern Lebanon from suffering the same devastation inflicted on Gaza, as Israeli bombardment and ground operations...

Nearly 30,000 people fled south Lebanon in the first moments after Hezbollah launched rockets over the border at the beginning of March. They had only a matter of hours before the Israeli military would issue sweeping evacuation orders for the...

A government press release meant to dismiss rumours about Malawi’s vice-president may instead have drawn attention to a deeper issue: the steady concentration of executive power at the presidency. On 28 March, the office of the president and cabinet issued a...

Iran launched a series of coordinated strikes targeting key infrastructure facilities across the Gulf on Saturday evening and into Sunday morning, hitting sites in Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain . The attacks sparked multiple fires...

Palestinian Christians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem have been celebrating Easter, despite the continued closure of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre by Israeli authorities and restrictions on movement. Christian churches following the Western calendar...

TUNIS, (PIC) Several members of the “Sumud Flotilla” in Tunisia revealed the imminent launch of a new land convoy and a sea flotilla toward the Gaza Strip, within the framework of efforts to support reconstruction, confirming that preparations are continuing despite...

An Israeli airstrike on a group of men in Gaza City on Sunday killed four Palestinian policemen , in the latest deadly breach of the ceasefire which has technically been in place since October 2025. Medical sources at...

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday urged "those who have the power to unleash wars" to "choose peace" in in his first Easter blessing as pontiff with the Middle East conflict raging. Catholics around the world marked the holiday...

By Kurt NIMMO Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Dear Leader practices the Straussian “noble lie.” Not long ago, Trump and crew claimed the evil mullahs in Iran slaughtered 30,000 of their own...

GAZA, (PIC) After two years of forced absence, 11 premature babies returned to the Gaza Strip, in one of the most moving humanitarian stories since the start of the Israeli aggression, where these children met their families for the first time...

Three Indonesian peacekeepers killed in two separate explosions in southern Lebanon last week were laid to rest in their hometowns on Sunday. Peacekeeper Farizal Rhomadhon, 28, died when a projectile exploded on 29 March in southern Lebanon, where Israel and...

Aid groups are warning that the war in the Middle East has upended their ability to get food and medicine to millions of people around the world in need, and that the suffering will deepen if the violence...

Some additional details on the ties between Washington and Ukrainian neo-Nazis. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Apparently, certain geopolitical dynamics follow a predictable pattern, even when they contradict official statements. The case...

Israeli military commanders have been been surprised by Hezbollah’s capabilities amid the war in Lebanon and now believe that only a negotiated settlement can end the war with Iran , without a change in the regime there,...

What we are witnessing right now in the Middle East is the Gazafication of warfare. Branko Marcetic is a staff writer with Jacobin magazine and the author of Yesterday’s Man: the Case Against Joe Biden. His work has appeared in...

GAZA, (PIC) Palestinian Child’s Day arrives this year amidst one of the darkest stages in modern history, with official data showing the scale of the catastrophe affecting children in Palestine, especially in the Gaza Strip, where war, siege, and health collapse...

The risk, as history teaches us, is that windows of opportunity will close before anyone decides to truly open them. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Trieste’s Golden Age and its rise Despite...

Where is this marriage of convenience heading? Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The sight of the Syrian President doing his world tour of western leaders will, for many, be distressing. This is,...

The consequences of the war with Iran will break Western hegemony and place significant resources and power into the hands of the Global South much more quickly than would have been the case under peaceful scenarios. Trump is merely deciding...

As the US prepares to escalate the war on Iran with a potential ground invasion, Col. Wilkerson divulges the long reticence of US military planners to engage Iran, and the folly of such an endeavor. More than one month into...

“Capitalist expansion was transient and also subject to regular and recurring crises of production and investment” Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Back in...

Peace is not merely the absence of fear. It stabilizes the conditions under which ordinary people can act, plan, invest, and raise families. Chaos, by contrast, is asymmetric. It falls hardest on those least equipped to bear it, displacing populations, destroying...