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The massacre at Starobelsk three weeks ago was yet another example of the BBC and Western media serving as blatant propaganda outlets to distort and prolong the conflict. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us:...

Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . Armed with the heavy weaponry that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continues to distribute among its allies across Darfur, the Salamat and Beni Halba tribes have been locked in days of...

The US House of Representatives adopted an amendment on Thursday to increase funding for an agricultural research project with Israel, a decision that underlines how Washington’s scientific cooperation is increasingly entangled with Israeli institutions embedded in the illegal...

The US-Israel war on Iran not only severely impacted regional insecurity, geopolitics, diplomacy, energy and trade, but it also signified a breakdown of the traditional international relations (IR) vocabulary used to interpret it. Words like war, deterrence, self-help, national security, and...

Is the Western economy on the brink of a worrying collapse? There are different views on this, but there is enough real world evidence to suggest our failure to prepare could be something we seriously regret. Robin McAlpine is Head of...

Ahead of their sentencing, four Palestine Action activists are applying to remove the judge in their case over his alleged bias, after news broke in May that he intends to sentence them as terrorists. Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona...

The British government has awarded US spy tech firm Palantir a multi-million-pound contract to manage a national police database despite growing public concern about the secretive company's influence over UK public services. The £9 million contract will see the...

Santa Claus and satire, postmen and prisoners – these are tiles in the rich mosaic of stories produced by Palestinian playwrights, given the prompt to write on whatever they want. These stories form part of Tomorrow Will Be A Palestinian...

An Israeli lawmaker who chairs the Knesset Education Committee was filmed attempting to cut through the fence of an Arab school during class hours on Thursday, prompting condemnation from Palestinian political leaders and local officials. Tzvi Succot,...

Claude Gascon, interim CEO of the GEF and Aziz Abduhakimov, Minister of Environment of the Republic of Uzbekistan, at the closing ceremony of the Eighth GEF Assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Gascon was presented with a traditional Uzbek outfit. Credit: Stella...

When President Ronald Reagan was staffing up the Pentagon for his first term, an obvious choice was the director of defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. That was Lawrence Korb, former naval flight officer and professor of...

A few months after Hamas' October 7 attack , filmmaker Gillian Mosley was talking to a friend in Lebanon about the devastation unfolding in Gaza as Israel's genocidal campaign intensified. Like millions around the world, they were watching...

Most discussion of artificial intelligence and work is about the future: which jobs may disappear, which skills may lose value, which workers may be replaced. But for millions of gig workers who work for online platforms such as Uber,...

- - - - Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash Normally, this would be a paywalled post, but I’m a little too pissed right now to bother. We all know who Graham Platner is. He’s the commie with...

Organizers in several cities across the country say they were forced to cancel historic Pride celebrations this month. Groups in several cities, including Tampa, Florida; Arlington, Texas; and Tucson, Arizona, cited a political environment that has made supporting queer...

“I have never written a memorial for a glacier — no one has,” laments the poet Andri Snær Magnason during Sara Dosa’s “Time and Water.” In 2019, Magnason was given the extraordinary task of writing an epitaph to Iceland’s Okjokull...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research issued a new policy analysis paper under the title “From Bab al-Silsila to Khan al-Ahmar: Re-engineering the environs of Jerusalem.” It provides an in-depth analytical reading of the most dangerous...

GAZA, (PIC) Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has documented testimonies from five Palestinian journalists from Gaza who were detained by Israeli occupation forces after Oct. 7, 2023, saying their accounts reveal abuse, interrogation and violations directly linked to their journalistic work. The journalists,...

There will be no agreement with Lebanon, and Israeli forces will not leave southern Lebanon unless Hezbollah agrees to a ceasefire and disarms, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet on Thursday evening. Hezbollah struck down a US-brokered proposal...

Reports of an explosion and alleged drone attack at Oman's Mina al Fahal port have raised questions about a further escalation of tensions in the Middle East, despite authorities insisting that crude export operations are continuing as normal....

A Model of Attritional Warfare Suggests Yes Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Persian Gulf war of USA/Israel against Iran has largely displaced reporting on the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Reading the news on...

By Augustin PALOKAJ Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Ironically, we could ask: “what would have happened if enlargement had not been a priority”. The fact that never in the history of the EU has...

A majority of Americans now hold unfavourable views of Israel , according to a new Pew Research Centre survey, with opposition particularly strong among younger voters and those on the political left amid continuing fallout from Israel's wars in...

Qatari officials have denied an Israeli report claiming that the non-profit organisation Qatar Foundation International has closed its educational operations in the US. The misleading report said that the NGO, affiliated with the state-led Qatar Foundation , was...

Around the world, millions of women rely on the drug mifepristone for abortion care. That’s put access to the drug in the crosshairs of anti-abortion activists both in the United States and in other countries. Yet as false claims about...

After more than three years of waging war against its neighbors, Israel appears to be more negatively regarded not only in the United States , where Israel’s image has been sinking since shortly after the outbreak of its war...

Restricting arms to the hands of the state in Iraq shifted from a recurring political slogan to an unprecedented actual test for Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi's government, after several armed factions announced the start of organisational steps to...