Global Voices

A Photo Essay by Tomohiro Oshima Japan has never declared itself a country of immigration. Through successive revisions of its immigration laws, the government has maintained that it “does not adopt an immigration policy.” It has absorbed foreign workers through...

Crimea In light of the Western propaganda portraying life in Russia as a horror show of economic chaos and deprivation, I decided to post an article submitted to me by an ex-pat American who currently resides in Simferopol. Let’s call...

Andy Burnham , Britain's likely next prime minister, on Friday ruled out calling a general election if he succeeds Keir Starmer, pledging to stick to the ruling party's most recent manifesto. Burnham - currently the only candidate to replace Starmer, who...

Iranians began to gather on Friday for the funeral ceremonies of slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei, as officials and international dignitaries paid their last respects to the man who ran the country for three-and-a-half decades. Iranian authorities have planned...

Hossam Abdelmaguid scored the winning penalty as Egypt made history by beating a dogged Australia 4-2 on penalties to reach the World Cup last 16 on Friday. A tense affair in which Egypt and their off-colour captain Mohamed...

Israele è insoddisfatto della posizione dell’amministrazione del presidente Trump e punta sullo spionaggio e sulla raccolta di materiale compromettente; del resto, non è una novità Segue nostro Telegram . All’inizio di giugno, la Defense Intelligence Agency (Dia) statunitense avrebbe emesso...

This statement was originally published on epd.eu on 3 May 2026. Just days before RightsCon 2026 was due to open in Lusaka, the Zambian government abruptly cancelled the event, silencing the world’s largest annual gathering of the global digital...

The MoU cat better slip out of its coma, fast. Otherwise, Total, Devastating Chaos is bound to prevail. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su These oh so meticulous Persians. How to impart to...

The gloves are off. There seems to be no other choice. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su There is a palpable sense now that Russia has significantly stepped up its military firepower...

Two Romanians previously convicted of a knife attack on an Iranian journalist outside his London home "on behalf of" Iran were jailed Friday for 12 and eight years respectively. George Stana, 25, and Nandito Badea, 21, were found guilty...

A highly sceptical take on AI. Cross-posted from Counterfire Picture by deepak pal Is AI Going to take my job? Statistically… no, but you’re not supposed to know that. The capacity for AI to eliminate jobs has been greatly...

What neither side can admit is that neither Brexit UK nor the EU has achieved any success in the past decade. John Rees is a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a co-founder of the Stop the...

Credit: Connie France/AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jul 3 2026 (IPS) Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has won Peru’s presidential runoff, narrowly defeating leftist Roberto Sánchez to become the country’s ninth president in a decade. She inherits a system so...

GAZA, (PIC) Today, Friday, marks a full 1,000 days since the war of genocide launched by the Israeli occupation forces on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, in full view and hearing of the world without the international community moving,...

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s national team may have bowed out of the World Cup after being eliminated by the United States on Wednesday, but their fans will be remembered for giving a platform to the Palestinian cause at...

The con of neoliberalism has gutted our democracy and paved the way for fascism. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle...

Whether it is the middle or working classes, or even the well-to-do, life can start to shrink in the face of extreme weather. Credit: Shutterstock By Philippe Benoit PARIS, Jul 3 2026 (IPS) If you pay close attention to the rhetoric...

Human rights organisations have raised concerns over the Lebanon-Israel framework agreement , warning that it "threatens to betray war crimes victims in Lebanon" due to its vague legal language that appears to be aimed at preventing citizens from...

Israel's Security Cabinet has approved a plan to establish 13 new settlements in the occupied West Bank , with Palestinian officials warning that the expansion will deepen territorial fragmentation and further isolate occupied East Jerusalem. According to...

On July 1, 2025, USAID laid off thousands of staff, including me. A year later, I’m still wrestling with what it all meant. The justifications offered at the time—that USAID was riddled with corruption, fraud, and waste—didn’t match reality as...

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has condemned the killing of Palestinian goalkeeper Saleem Khader Al-Ashqar by Israeli forces in Gaza this week, renewing calls for accountability amid Israel's killing of hundreds of athletes and sportspeople. In...

Former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei's funeral will begin on Friday, 3 July , more than four months after he was killed in a US-Israeli strike on his Tehran compound on 28 February. The ceremonies will run until Thursday, 9...

Authorities in Damascus have opened an investigation into Thursday’s deadly bombing in the heart of the Syrian capital , but the attack remains clouded by uncertainty over who carried it out and why. On Thursday afternoon, a bomb...

- - - - Photo by Nicolas Hoizey on Unsplash Last week, I wrote about what I called a new Dark Age . Basically, data is fragile; the internet could be wiped out, and we’d be...

Anthropic received a letter on June 12, issued under Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. It instructed Anthropic to shut down its AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, its foreign-national employees included. Given its inability to filter...

The British cosmetics retailer Lush has launched a new product on Thursday in support of the right to protest amid draconian measures within UK courts that threaten pro-Palestinian activism. Lush's new limited-edition "Resilience" bath bomb was designed...