To develop surveillance and defense systems that could be deployed in the Taiwan Strait, the Taiwanese government is working with dozens of international space‑technology startups while nurturing local firms. Supported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Small and Medium Enterprise...
China has perfected the role of concerned onlooker as the Middle East conflict spreads across the region. Situated some 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometers) away from the action and with no direct role in the conflict, Beijing has a little more...
Marxist theorist and militant Chris Gilbert has been involved in the Bolivarian Revolution for two decades. In this interview, conducted on February 22, 2026, he offers an analytical reading that situates the recent escalation within the broader history of confrontation...
L’attacco pakistano alle principali città afghane nella notte di venerdì 27 febbraio segna un punto di svolta nell’ormai protratto conflitto di frontiera tra i due Paesi. Cerchiamo di comprendere le ragioni di questo nuovo fronte di guerra in Asia meridionale....
- - - - President Donald Trump speaks at a ‘Fighting Antisemitism’ event on September 19, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Every new war that the U.S . wages — at least over the past six decades — is accompanied by...
Corporate media of all stripes have rushed to support the U.S./Israeli attack on Iran, throwing objectivity and accuracy by the wayside in order to manufacture consent for regime change. On February 28, the U.S. and Israel launched a joint attack...
A US submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off the southern coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing 87 people. The submarine struck the ship with a torpedo, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, resulting in “quiet death”. The...
On 3 March 2026, at a public school in Mount Lebanon, UNICEF team is on the ground providing emergency supplies including mattresses, blankets, water, hygiene, baby and dignity kits UNICEF and other UN humanitarian agencies have begun mobilizing aid and...
GAZA, (PIC) The World Health Organization (WHO) warned Friday that medical supplies in the Gaza Strip have dropped to critically low levels amid declining access to medical shipments and continued restrictions on humanitarian aid. Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern...
BEIRUT, (PIC) The number of displaced people in Lebanon has risen to nearly half a million, most of them residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs and areas in southern Lebanon, amid an intensifying wave of Israeli airstrikes that has expanded across the...
The road out of southern Lebanon had no clear destination. For thousands of families fleeing renewed Israeli bombardment , the journey itself became its own catastrophe — hours of gridlock, dwindling fuel, and nowhere to go at the other...
GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian child was killed Friday evening by Israeli army gunfire in northern Gaza. Local sources reported that a 13-year-old boy was shot and killed in the Beit Lahia Project area in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Earlier in...
The embers of resistance – in Gaza, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen – have not been snuffed out. With the attack on Iran, they are being fanned into a fire Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian...
The latest war-driven global price panic is not an aberration but a constant state of being in the contemporary global economic. It is all so unstable that unless we take a new course, it will fall down sooner or later. Robin...
Extremist Israeli settlers have increased their attacks on Palestinians and their villages, amid the ongoing joint US and Israeli strikes on Iran. According to reports, Israeli settlers have escalated their attacks on residents under the protection of...
Russia has been giving Iran information to help it target US forces in the Gulf and elsewhere in the Middle East , the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing three anonymous intelligence officials. According to the report, Russia...
An appeal signed by 20 members of the Eisenhower Media Network, almost all of them American military veterans, to stop “this murderous war of aggression” that “is generating a dynamic that approaches Armageddon.” The Eisenhower Media Network is an organization...
This week efforts under the War Powers Act to check President Trump’s unconstitutional and unauthorized war in Iran failed on a mostly party line split in both the House and the Senate . The result isn’t all that surprising....
“We are made up of our memories,” Gisèle Pelicot writes in her book “A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides” about her life before and after the revelation that her husband of 50 years, Dominique Pelicot, had spent...
Bula Central School in Bula, Camarines Sur, Philippines, remain flooded a week after Tropical Storm Trami brought heavy rains and strong winds to much of the country in 2024. Extreme weather patterns such as this illustrate the type of intensified...
Humanity has to realize, and is realizing, that for the world to survive in peace, the United States and its Empire of Lies must be defeated. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will be leaving the post for a job as a special envoy, following an appearance before a U.S. Senate panel this week that provoked...
The US energy secretary said Friday the US Navy was preparing to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz "as soon as it's reasonable to do it," as traffic through the key trade route remains strangled due to...
Tel-Aviv instrumentalizará os EUA enquanto isso servir aos seus próprios interesses expansionistas. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su A Coalizão Epstein (EUA e Israel) iniciou no dia 28 de fevereiro uma guerra...
Planet Trumpland: An ABC from Hell: Arrogance, Belligerence, Chauvinism Let us start by stating that the civilised human being lives under and by the rule of law. Laws are sacrosanct, have been carefully drawn up over the centuries, are enforced by...
The United Arab Emirates is weighing freezing billions of dollars of Iranian assets held in the Gulf state, a move that could curb Tehran's access to foreign currency and global trade amid the US-Israeli war ,...
Drones hit an airport and oil facilities in southern Iraq on Friday, while in the north strikes and explosions mainly targeted Iranian militants . In Iraq's southern Basra province, "a drone crashed into the cargo terminal at Basra...
At 9am on the final day of May 2025, 70-year-old mountaineer Don Hilario Álvarez stopped at the edge of Mexico’s last glacier. And he listened. There it was, at an altitude of 5,300 metres: the soft crackling of melting ice....
Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer for a programming code library called Matplotlib , recently described a surreal encounter with an autonomous AI agent — a digital assistant created with a platform called OpenClaw . After he rejected a code contribution...
In the summer of 2002, the United States put together a military exercise with a name that broadcast the nation’s ambitions for projecting force not just into a New American Century, but beyond. Years in the planning, and costing...
- - - - Photo by Shaan Mark on Unsplash We’ve done a pretty good job of kicking Iran’s ass. We’ve had Israel’s help, mind you, and it hasn’t hurt our cause any that Iran is attacking...
The FBI manufactured plots to convince Trump that Iran sought to kill him, while Israel and its administration allies exploited the president’s deepest fears to keep him on the war path. “I got him before he got me,” an ebullient...
Since Monday, 1 March, Israel has implemented a field strategy focused on issuing evacuation warnings across large areas of Lebanon . The alerts began in the south before extending on Thursday, 5 March, to Beirut's southern...
The World Health Organisation said on Friday that medical supplies in Gaza were running critically low despite Israel's reopening of a key crossing this week. Supplies of some items such as gauze and needles have already run...
The Saudi Pro League is trying to carry on with games even as football in other Middle East countries is on hold because of the Iran war . The league staged one match Thursday - Damac beat Al-Riyadh...
Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has reassured local Islamic groups that he will withdraw from US President Donald Trump's ' Board of Peace ' if the platform does not benefit Palestinians , a government statement said on Friday. The participation of...
British police arrested four men on Friday on suspicion of helping Iran's intelligence services carry out surveillance of people and locations linked to the Jewish community in London. Detectives said one of the men was Iranian, while three had dual...
US President Donald Trump on Friday demanded Iran's "unconditional surrender" as the only acceptable outcome to end hostilities , while promising to help rebuild the country's economy if Tehran complied and installed new leadership. "There will be no...
Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is increasing shipments from the Red Sea, but the volumes are far from enough to offset the drop from the crisis-hit Strait of Hormuz, shipping data showed. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf producers - the United...
The leader of the Houthis, Abdul Malik al-Houthi , announced on Thursday that his group stands alongside Iran amid the US-Israeli war on the country , saying fighters from the Yemeni rebel movement are "ready to move militarily...
Several countries in the Persian Gulf are seriously considering declaring force majeure on some of their financial obligations to Western partners and potentially suspending major investment commitments. The discussions reflect growing concerns about the economic consequences of the military operation...
Iranian attacks on Qatar have altered the interests and daily routines of citizens and residents, particularly as they coincide with Ramadan , a month traditionally marked by family and social visits and late-night activities. From time to time,...
UAE authorities appear eager to project an image of normality as the country faces blowback from joint US-Israeli attacks on Iran , with airlines announcing the resumption of flights, and ministries and businesses stressing that tourism hotspots...
On Wednesday, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) told CNN that he would support new funding for the U.S. war with Iran — but only if Israel and Arab Gulf states help pay for it. “We’re using our taxpayer money to protect...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Palestinian worshipers performed the third Friday prayer of Ramadan near Damascus Gate in Occupied Jerusalem after Israeli authorities closed the Aqsa Mosque. Dozens of worshipers held the Friday prayer in Al-Masrara Market near Damascus Gate after Israeli occupation authorities...
The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a structural supply challenge that’s tightly coupled to exploding demand for advanced chips, especially those used in AI, HPC, and next-generation mobile and consumer devices. At the center of this vortex is...
In Japan, the youth group donated the proceeds from their recycling to single-mother families with hospitalized children through the NPO Keep Mama Smiling. Credit: Karuta Yamamoto. By Karuta Yamamoto TOKYO, Japan, Mar 6 2026 (IPS) From the beginning, this project was...
The Israeli military killed Hamas commander Wasim Atallah Ali in Tripoli on March 5. The IDF said that Ali was responsible for training the group’s branch in Lebanon. His elimination adds to the growing number of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic...
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