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Both Trump’s Iran war and the closely connected Israeli war for Jewish hegemony across the Middle East are unravelling fast. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online...

Geopolitics, Alastair Crooke, Article

Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto has unveiled one of the most consequentialeconomic interventions since the fall of Suharto: a plan to centralize exports of strategiccommodities — including palm oil, coal and ferroalloys — through a state-controlledstructure linked to the sovereign fund...

Opinion, economic naationalism, Indonesia

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Palestinian warnings are mounting over a new escalation at Aqsa Mosque, coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, amid expectations of attempts to impose Talmudic rituals inside the Mosque compound as settler incursions intensify and efforts continue to...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Israeli violations

GAZA, (PIC) In scenes that sparked widespread international condemnation, activists from the “Global Sumud Flotilla” and the “Freedom Flotilla Coalition” appeared handcuffed and forced onto the ground inside Ashdod Port, while Israeli occupation forces reportedly compelled them to listen to the...

News, Gaza Strip, Global Sumud Flotilla

Ever since North Korea suffered through the death of its first leader in 1994, a loss magnified by an economic collapse and a devastating famine, outside observers have likened the country to an airplane experiencing a serious malfunction. The major...

Democracy & Governance, Donald Trump, Flight 93

Less than a week after hosting Donald Trump, China’s leader Xi Jinping welcomed his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to Beijing. Unlike Trump’s visit, this was a routine meeting. The Chinese and Russian presidents have met more than 40 times since...

World, Block 2, china-russia

In early May, the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party submitted a bill calling for the formal revocation of the Oslo Accords, the framework governing relations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) since 1993. Although Israeli Prime...

Analysis

GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) has condemned, in the strongest terms, the Israeli destruction of the remaining homes in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. In a press release on Wednesday, PCHR described Israel’s targeting of what remained of Gaza...

News, Destruction policy, Gaza Strip

At the recent TSMC Technology Symposium 2026 , Siemens EDA reinforced its position as one of the key ecosystem partners supporting TSMC in the race toward AI-driven semiconductor design, advanced packaging, and next-generation process technologies. The annual forum has...

3D IC, Chiplet, EDA

In the past 48 hours, Israel has illegally intercepted all 50 boats that left Türkiye last week in the final leg of the Global Sumud Flotillas ' journey in an attempt to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza....

Society

The European Union is nearly ready to issue a sweeping new deportation regulation that rights groups say will usher in an “ICE‑style” enforcement regime across the bloc, normalising mass detention , home raids and offshore return centres...

World

This month, Israel and the United States are expected to begin negotiations on a new memorandum of understanding that would outline the United States’ plans to support Israel after the current agreement expires in 2028. Chances are this will look...

Column, Middle East, Military

The number of consumer complaints filed about the safety of meat, poultry and egg products jumped nearly 40% last year, to 2,016 from 1,443 in 2024, according to a new federal report. The report comes a year after the...

Courts & Law, Environment, Health & Wellness

- - - - Photo by Bruno Martins on Unsplash The problem I have with inclusivity, as a concept, isn’t that it’s inherently bad. I think opening things up to more people, in many instances, is good...

La cooperazione sino-russa si presenta oggi come uno dei principali fattori di equilibrio dell’ordine internazionale. Nel confronto con l’egemonismo statunitense, Pechino e Mosca rivendicano multilateralismo, sovranità, sicurezza condivisa e centralità delle Nazioni Unite. Segue nostro Telegram . La cooperazione tra...

Italiano, China, Diplomacy

Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa has publicly thanked his US counterpart Donald Trump after the latter sent him a gift of perfume to mark their November 2025 meeting at the White House. A post shared by...

Offbeat

TOKYO — Bond markets are cracking around the globe as geopolitical, technological and demographic trends simultaneously upend everything investors thought they knew about 2026. The turmoil is propelling borrowing costs to multi-year highs from Washington to London to Tokyo. It’s altering the...

Finance, 1997 Asian finanacial crisis, Bank of Japan

A tea picker in the Bearwell tea estate of Sri Lanka. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS By Boubaker Ben Belhassen ROME, May 20 2026 (IPS) The tea in your cup this morning began its journey in someone else’s hands. Hands whose work most...

Environment, Food and Agriculture, Global

The intensity of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has increased significantly over the past week, with air strikes, artillery shelling and assassination operations escalating despite an existing ceasefire framework. Israel has stepped up strikes at an unprecedented pace...

MENA

Palestinians in the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, east of occupied East Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, are facing the imminent threat of forced displacement after Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich ordered preparations for the expulsion of its...

MENA

Palestinians in the Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, east of occupied East Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, are facing the imminent threat of forced displacement after Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich ordered preparations for the expulsion of its...

MENA

As Iran’s largest trading partner , China wields far greater influence over Tehran than any other nation worldwide. This is a reality that the Trump White House has sought to use to its advantage, as did the previous US administration,...

Analysis

Arsenal supporters and pro-Palestinian activists have criticised the club’s new sponsorship deal with Deel, whose Israeli co-founder publicly backed Israel during the Gaza genocide. English Premier League champions Arsenal FC have come under fire after unveiling a new sleeve sponsor...

MENA

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Al-Quds International Institution has warned that the Aqsa Mosque today stands at a dangerous juncture, facing direct Israeli steps to erase its Islamic identity and architecture, alongside persistent efforts to end the historic Jordanian role in overseeing the...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Israeli violations

Estimados lectores en la gran traducción del día les traemos un artículo del investigador Anis Raiss en The Cradle. Vamos: Los Emiratos Árabes Unidos no necesitan que se les salve; lo que necesita salvarse es el orden del dólar....

Español, China, De-Dollarization

Post-2022 geopolitical developments and escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf have significantly strained relations between Iran and France, raising questions about the future of diplomatic engagement between the two countries. After the June 2025 military strike against Iran, France did...

Europe, Iran, Locations

The breakaway state of Somaliland announced on Tuesday that it would be opening its embassy to Israel in the city of Jerusalem, joining only a handful of countries that have done so. "I am pleased to announce that the...

MENA

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates said that recent drone attacks targeting their territory originated from Iraq, increasing pressure on Baghdad to address the activities of Iranian-backed militias operating inside the country. The incidents come amid continued regional tensions...

Long War Journal, News, Iran

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned Wednesday that the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz could "trigger a severe global food price crisis" in the coming months. Hormuz accounted for a fifth of global oil shipping before...

World

Kars4Kids, a US-based charity famous for its long-running car donation commercials, quietly funnelled tens of millions of dollars annually to an Orthodox Jewish organisation that funds trips Israel and bought property there, according to court findings...

World

By W. James ANTLE III Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Lindsey Graham and company say toppling Iran is worth a political bloodbath. Is it? President Donald Trump clearly wants the Iran War to...

Editor's Choice, Afghanistan, Donald Trump

I posted recently on an eye-catching advance in quantum computing, around neutral atom systems which might accelerate the transition to production-grade fault-tolerant quantum computing (QC). There are some further updates on this front, also I listened in on...

Quantum Computing, bernard murphy, Post Quantum Crypto

Recent decades have witnessed a continuous evolution in children's book illustration. A growing focus on representation and diversity, including attention to conflicts in the Middle East and the impact of migrations, has brought a new and exciting generation of illustrators...

Book Club

RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Asra Media Office (AMO) said on Wednesday that detainees at Israel’s Ganot prison are facing extremely harsh conditions amid continued repression, starvation, medical neglect and the spread of disease and fungal infections inside prison sections. In a statement, the...

News, Ganot prison, Palestinian prisoners

Dr Peter Stafford’s wife and four children are also being monitored for symptoms amid Ebola outbreak in Congo An American doctor who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been flown to Germany for treatment, along with his...

Ebola, Germany, World news

U.S. Coast Guard cutter USCGC Aquidneck (WPB-1309) in the Strait of Hormuz, with a large container ship visible in the background as it transits the critical global trade route (Dec. 2, 2020). Credit: MC2 Indra Beaufort By Lulseged Desta...

Armed Conflicts, Biodiversity, Climate Action
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