Somaliland's Berbera Airport has undergone major expansion since late 2025, according to satellite imagery, fuelling speculation that the UAE is building a military base there to serve the strategic interests of Abu Dhabi and its allies, the United States and...
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“Why are Muslim women becoming feminists?” is the (not so) new “why are Muslim youth becoming radicalized?” sentiment… not amongst non-Muslims fearing the paths of angry young Muslims questioning Western socio-political hegemony, but amongst Muslims who are convinced that Muslim...
A source familiar with international discussions on the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip told The New Arab on Thursday that Israel is studying a phased reconstruction plan that will span several years. The plan would be implemented only if the...
By IHEARTRADIO Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A recent Quinnipiac University poll reveals that a significant portion of Americans feel the democratic system in the United States is not functioning effectively. According to the poll,...
Washington’s Lesson on Saying Goodbye
Full ArticleIn Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton , George Washington’s “Farewell Adress” is recreated in the song “ One Last Time .” The song captures one of the single most important founding stories that has supported U.S. democracy: Washington’s willingness to give up...
TSMC’s A16 technology , presented as Paper T1.5 at the June 2026 IEEE/JSAP VLSI Symposium , marks the company’s first angstrom-class CMOS platform combining enhanced nanosheet gate-all-around transistors with backside power delivery. The key integration feature is Super Power Rail...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Friday discussed with Army Commander General Rodolphe Haykal ongoing preparations to implement the Washington framework agreement in the designated " pilot zones ", where the Lebanese army is expected to deploy in parallel with an...
One can only imagine the scenes of obsequiousness and utter debasement as European politicians lined up to kiss Trump’s ring. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su What a turnaround. The NATO summit this week was heading...
With backlash against the artificial intelligence industry growing throughout the US, one government watchdog has created a database to help keep tabs on the people it describes as the biggest “AI villains.” The Revolving Door Project on Thursday launched a webpage that tracks the...
British journalist and documentarian Louis Theroux has described a new film on Gaza's wartime medical crisis as "a testament to something horrific", as he hosted a London premiere amplifying firsthand accounts from international doctors who worked inside the besieged enclave...
For over three decades, the standard playbook for taming inflation has remained virtually unchanged. Faced with surging prices, central banks invariably resort to hiking interest rates. The ripple effects are swift: demand cools, consumption slows and inflationary pressures gradually recede....
The world's largest nuclear-powered submarine, Russia's Project 941 Akula strategic missile submarine Dmitry Donskoy, has reached the 50th anniversary of the day its construction officially began. The milestone was announced by the Sevmash shipyard, where the legendary submarine was built. "Today...
Is the economic decline of Europe worse than the last decades of the Qing dynasty ? That’s a question posed by Luis Vassy, director of Sciences Po, one of France’s premier universities. It has caused something of a stir in...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday issued a presidential decree setting 28 November 2026 as the date for legislative elections , reviving the Palestinian electoral process after two decades of limbo, while presidential elections are scheduled for the first...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) More than 70,000 worshipers performed the Friday prayer at the Aqsa Mosque compound in Occupied Jerusalem despite Israeli restrictions. Hundreds of worshipers from Occupied Jerusalem’s Old City and Palestinian communities inside Israel gathered to pray at Aqsa Mosque and...
Did Pope Leo excommunicate SSPX over Israel?
Full ArticlePope Leo XIV's decision to declare the traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) in schism and excommunicate its bishops and priests has thrust one of Catholicism's most controversial movements back into the spotlight. While the immediate dispute centres on papal...
GAZA, (PIC) The waiting of the family of the martyr Muhammad Abu Khammash turned into a harsh ordeal that lasted nine days, during which it was unable to recover his body from an area east of Deir al-Balah under the control...
GAZA, (PIC) The Palestine Center for Prisoners Studies said Israeli occupation authorities are committing war crimes against detainees from the Gaza Strip inside Israeli prisons, alongside the ongoing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023. In a report issued on Thursday, the...
Donald Trump made use of the 250th anniversary of the United States not only to highlight his own achievements but also to go on the offensive against his opponents. At the same time, the 80-year-old Trump has been travelling across...
By: Emil Avdaliani - - - - The crisis in the Middle East has reinforced for China that, amid ongoing geopolitical fragmentation, economic resilience now depends on diversifying across multiple trade routes rather than relying too heavily on any single corridor. The immediate concern, of...
Waving flags, singing patriotic songs and carrying banners proclaiming " Egypt's men made us proud", thousands of supporters welcomed Egypt's national football team home on Friday after the Pharaohs produced the finest 2026 World Cup campaign in the country's history. Crowds...
From Arafat in 1988 to Trump’s travel bans, Washington turns the Headquarters Agreement into a weapon. Hosting the UN means spying, co-opting, and silencing. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In 2025, Donald Trump’s administration once...
Lull in US-Iran strikes raises hopes for diplomacy
Full ArticleNo fresh strikes were recorded overnight from either the United States or Iran, marking a tentative lull after days of escalating confrontation that had pushed the region to a return to wider war. The pause appears to coincide with r...
The treaty Australia and Fiji signed in Suva on July 6 is no ordinary defense pact. The Ocean of Peace Alliance, also known as the Veitacini Treaty, is explicit: An armed attack on either party in the Pacific is treated...
Two scenes encapsulate the reality in the southern Lebanese town of Ghandouriyeh today. The first is the determination of many families to return despite the extensive destruction caused by Israel. Many are choosing to sleep among the rubble of their damaged...
È davvero possibile che l’Ucraina abbia iniziato a sconfiggere la Russia? Oppure si tratta solo di un’illusione, creata per offrire agli sponsor occidentali l’immagine di un’Ucraina forte, alla quale occorre ancora stanziare miliardi di dollari? Gianandrea GAIANI Segue nostro Telegram . I russi...
Dr Dereje Wakjira, Director for the IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD). Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS By Isaiah Esipisu NAIROBI, Jul 10 2026 (IPS) At the 64th sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB64) under the UNFCCC in Bonn, Germany, the Local...
Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. European carmakers have too much capacityDiego Faßnacht reports that Volkswagen’s retrenchment reflects a broader structural crisis in Europe’s auto industry,...
TOKYO — The collapse of the US-Iran ceasefire is hitting Asia hard. Again. The region never really left the woods. It had been bracing for second-round shocks — surging food prices chief among them — so the calm around the...
Israel shared intelligence with the United States this week about an alleged new and "specific" plan by Iran to assassinate President Donald Trump, US media reported Thursday. The reports come as renewed US and Iranian attacks raised fears of a return...
By choosing German-Norwegian submarines over South Korean units, Canada did not just buy submarines—it chose the alliance architecture that will shape its place between the Atlantic and Pacific security orders. This month, multiple media outlets reported that Canada selected Germany’s...
As Israel's actions continue to divide US Jewish communities nearly three years into its genocide in Gaza, a new AP-NORC poll reveals that some of the biggest gaps are between religious and secular Jews. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Centre...
WEST BANK, (PIC) For Palestinians, the sound of an Israeli bulldozer is no longer just noise preceding the demolition of a wall or a house roof, but has rather become an announcement of the uprooting of an entire life. In just...
Syrian officials said late Thursday the country had captured an IS-linked cell responsible for two bomb blasts during French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Damascus earlier this week. The attacks cast a shadow over the first trip by a European Union...
Iran’s move on Hormuz is ultimately a short-term maneuver. And if it doesn’t get its act together soon, the whole region could turn against it. The new wave of US attacks against Iran has an undefined time frame, but at...
A replica of a mosque, placed on a bonfire in a pro-British town near Belfast, Northern Ireland , was set alight on Thursday night before police had a chance to remove what they described as a "hate display" that was...
Remember Your Humanity
Full ArticleKaren Hallberg By Karen Hallberg TOKYO, Japan, Jul 10 2026 (IPS) Eighty years since the dawn of the nuclear age, which began with the first nuclear test in New Mexico, USA, and with the tragic atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, humanity faces...
Three former crew members of a Thai cargo ship struck in the Strait of Hormuz in March filed a lawsuit Friday against the vessel’s operator over labour rights violations and unfair dismissal. The ship, the Mayuree Naree, was hit by a...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces continued violating the Gaza ceasefire on Thursday, carrying out artillery shelling, heavy gunfire, and demolition operations across several areas of the Gaza Strip. A local source reported that a Palestinian woman was wounded by Israeli military fire in...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli forces carried out a new wave of large-scale military raids and coordinated operations across the occupied West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem overnight and into Friday morning, triggering violent confrontations that left several Palestinians injured. The escalating incursions come...
Unesco report shows children lost out to servicing debt in 113 countries, with 18 spending five times more on loans Most developing countries spent less on education than they did repaying debt last year, according to the UN, at the same...
Welcome, Here are the key news stories of the day so far: - The United States and Iran are lowering tensions following days of strikes between the two. Shipping in the Strait of Hormuz plunged, negatively impacting markets - - Funeral ceremonies for the...
The Sour Crude Problem: Why America’s Refineries Depend on Imports and Why It is Relevant to the Strait of Hormuz
Full ArticleOil Refinery The US/Israeli war with Iran has focused the world’s attention on oil because of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. When the war started I thought oil was just oil. Okay… I was ignorant. But over the course...
The rapid spread of the virus has been intensified by misinformation and violence towards volunteers and treatment centres Nearly two months after the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed an Ebola outbreak in one province, the virus is continuing to...
Artificial intelligence is reshaping trade processes across Asia and the Pacific. However, despite growing interest, most economies have yet to deploy the technology at scale, according to a new study by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia...
On Monday, China test-fired a long-range submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) toward the South Pacific Ocean, drawing nervous reactions from countries across the Asia-Pacific region. While Beijing has described the maneuver simply as “ routine ” training, it is all but routine...
At a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Arctic security in March, Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) argued that “the U.S. cannot afford to fall behind Russia and China” in Arctic icebreakers. This framing has become a familiar refrain in Washington. As...
Is Lebanon hurtling towards a Libya-style civil war?
Full ArticleIn a recent interview, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, claimed that the Lebanese army was marginalizing Shiite military personnel in its ranks because of their reluctance to go after Hezbollah. “There are elements within the LAF, the Lebanese...
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