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Schiacciata tra l’austerità dell’UE, la pesante penetrazione tedesca nel suo tessuto economico e l’ostilità turca a fasi alterne, Atene, consapevole di possedere l’invidiabile posizione geografica di porta balcanica dell’Europa (cosa che l’ha resa anche particolarmente indifesa di fronte ai flussi...

Italiano, Diplomacy, Economy

Energy partnership will be one of the key items on the agenda when United States President Donald Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing from Wednesday to Friday, with Washington seeking Beijing’s commitment to resume regular purchases of American...

US-China, Block 1, China

In a crowded London auditorium, Nakba survivor Antoine Raffoul and Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos sit side by side and talk not about reconciliation or abstract "coexistence", but about genocide, return, and what it would mean to...

Interviews

BEIRUT, (PIC) Ten people, including two paramedics, were killed and several others were injured in continued Israeli airstrikes targeting multiple areas in southern Lebanon. Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said Tuesday that an Israeli strike directly targeted a civil defense team in the...

News, Israeli violations, Lebanon

The fundamental problem which advocates of the political West have with China is that its state-led economic model is outperforming American capitalism. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael...

Economics, Finance, Geopolitics

A lot of hopes are being pinned on replacing Keir Starmer, but Labour’s problems go much deeper than their leader. Tom Blackburn is a writer from Manchester. A founding co-editor of New Socialist, he has written for publications including The Guardian,...

National Politics, Article, Labour Party

Care underpins our society from childbearing to old-age, but it is not valued by capitalism because it is (usually) not commodified. Emma Holten is a feminist economist and writer. Her book Deficit (2024) sold more than 50.000 copies in Denmark and...

Economics, Finance, Solutions

“Facing the end of his tenure, the Prime Minister claims he ‘got the big political decisions right’. His refusal to face up to his disastrous record reflects the need for a new, transformative politics.” In Tribune . Read the article...

National Politics, Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer

A broad exploration of the challenges facing humanity and the capacity of socialist politics to rise to the occasion. C.J. Polychroniou is a political economist/political scientist who has taught and worked in numerous universities and research centers in Europe and the...

Solutions, Alexandra Boutri, Article

When Nablus-based journalist Ahmad Al-Bazz received an Israeli travel permit, he rushed to visit nearly 200 villages depopulated in the Nakba. Five years later, his new book offers a powerful visual archive of erasure. The post A Palestinian photographer’s ‘search...

Nakba, destroyed Palestinian villages, activestills

In a Tuesday hearing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth repeatedly rejected congressional concerns about depleting munitions stockpiles, dismissing them as “foolishly and unhealthily overstated.” “We know exactly what we have. We have plenty of what we need,” Hegseth told the House...

Congress, Iran-war, Munitions

A report alleging that Israel operated a secret military base in Iraq’s Najaf desert has sparked controversy and conflicting statements among Iraqi politicians and security forces. The report emerged amid sensitive political negotiations in Baghdad and broader tensions involving Iran-backed...

Long War Journal, News, Iraq

Microsoft has fired the head of its operations in Israel , Alon Haimovitch, and other senior figures, months after revelations about the Israeli subsidiary's use of Microsoft Azure cloud services to spy on Palestinians, Israeli business news...

World

Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) have launched a large-scale military operation in the deserts of Najaf and Karbala aimed at tightening security and reinforcing troop deployments, amid public anger over reports alleging the presence of an...

MENA

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine testified before the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on Tuesday ostensibly to justify the President’s request for an historic $1.5 trillion budget. Unfortunately, they offered...

Pentagon-budget, Iran-war, Pete-hesgeth

Iranian parliamentary spokesman Ebrahim Rezaei said on Tuesday that the country could enrich uranium up to 90 percent purity, a level considered weapons-grade, if Iran is attacked again. "One of Iran's options in the event of another...

MENA

Just when the world needs it most, the multilateral system is coming apart. The institutional spaces created to confront threats like war, authoritarianism, and ecological disaster are collapsing because of direct attacks and longstanding cracks in their foundations. The old global...

Democracy & Governance, Multilateralism

SAO PAULO, (PIC) Brazilian activist Thiago Avila returned to Sao Paulo on Monday following his detention and deportation from Israel, where he was tortured and witnessed abuses of Palestinian prisoners during 10 days in custody. Avila and Spanish national Saif Abu Keshek...

News, Flotilla activists, Israeli violations

Journalists on the frontlines and in exile share a commitment to truth Originally published on Global Voices Advox A woman journalist being interviewed. Image courtesy of ExileHub. Exile Hub is one of Global Voices’ partners in Southeast Asia, emerging...

Advocacy, Censorship, Digital authoritarianism

This story was originally published by THE CITY. Sign up to get the latest New York City news delivered to you each morning. A month before the first World Cup soccer match takes place at MetLife Stadium across the Hudson...

Business & Economy, News, Sports

Since 2014, U.S. lawmakers have introduced over 200 bills targeting the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The vast majority of these efforts have failed to pass, but more than 30 states have adopted anti-BDS laws. The first...

Activism, Courts & Law, Middle East

The United Nations condemned Tuesday the toll from swelling Israeli military operations and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank on children, with 70 Palestinian children killed since early 2025. "Children are paying an intolerable price for...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army continued its ceasefire violations for the 215th consecutive day on Tuesday morning by carrying out artillery shelling and gunfire attacks in different areas of the Gaza Strip. According to media sources, Israeli gunboats fired projectiles into...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

“ Shame! Shame! Shame!” chanted over a thousand voices at the May 4 meeting of the Box Elder County Commission in rural Utah as the three commissioners collected their things and quickly made their way toward the exit. Police...

Activism, Business & Economy, Courts & Law

Genocide denial frameworks identify recurring strategies: minimising victim numbers, victim-blaming, questioning witnesses, and reframing violence as unavoidable. Contemporary discourse surrounding Gaza reproduces many of these strategies, but also extends beyond classical typologies of denial. Unlike historical cases of genocide, which relied...

Voices

Em 1665, Natan de Gaza proclama Sabatai Zevi o Messias. Nasce o sabataísmo, mo-vimento messiânico que abala a diáspora judaica Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su [Estamos vendo a história de Sabatai...

Português, History, Judaism

Israeli forces occupying southern Lebanon have reportedly deployed lifelike mannequins dressed as soldiers inside homes and military positions in an attempt to lure and misdirect Hezbollah's increasingly effective first-person view (FPV) attack drones. Photographs circulated online in...

MENA

By Ron PAUL Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su Last week “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth insulted Americans by claiming that a 50 percent increase in the US military budget – from...

Editor's Choice, Pentagon, Pete Hegseth

Israeli forces crossed the Litani River in southern Lebanon during a covert, days-long operation that reportedly led to close-range clashes with Hezbollah fighters and injuries among Israeli soldiers, according to Israeli military and media...

MENA

US President Donald Trump met with his national security team on Monday, raising fears that he could re-launch attacks on Iran and resume the joint US-Israeli war on the country. The meeting came amid weeks of deadlock between Washington...

MENA

Paris hosted its first-ever Modest Fashion Week. And across the board, from the brands promoting their Muslim-friendly designs to the hijabi influencers flown out to promote, it seems to have been lauded as a success for inclusion and progression. However, there’s...

Perspectives

I have been arguing since 2014 that China is planned to establish its own version of the Monroe Doctrine. The argument was based primarily on the Chinese claim to more than 80% of the South China Sea (SCS) and the...

Asia Times, Opinion, Donald Trump

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said Tuesday that his Iran-backed group's weapons were not part of upcoming negotiations between Lebanon and Israel, and vowed his fighters would turn the battlefield into "hell" for Israeli forces . "Nobody outside Lebanon has...

MENA

New U.S. sanctions against Chinese companies just before Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing highlight the growing tendency to use economic pressure as a primary instrument of American diplomacy. Donald Trump plans to visit China from May 13 to 15. His...

China, Politics, USA

Israel deported on Sunday two foreign activists seized from a Gaza -bound flotilla, in what a rights group representing them described as a "punitive attack" on a civilian mission. Saif Abu Keshek, a Spanish national of Palestinian origin,...

MENA

RAMALLAH, (PIC) In one of the most dangerous legislative shifts within the Israeli political system in recent years, the Israeli Knesset has approved, in its second and third readings, a law that would allow the prosecution of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners...

Zionist Terrorism, Israeli crimes, Palestinian prisoners

Relentless Israeli airstrikes and a ground invasion of southern Lebanon , which began on 2 March, have forced more than one million people – roughly one-fifth of the population – to flee their homes, destroying entire villages, levelling infrastructure, and...

Society

A leading human rights barrister has won his appeal against contempt of court proceedings, which were levelled at him for a closing speech in the trial of Palestine Action activists. The court of appeal’s ruling on Tuesday in the case...

Archive, Middle East, Top Stories
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