Iran's newly created "Persian Gulf Strait Authority" said in a post on X on Wednesday that there will be a "controlled maritime zone" at the Strait of Hormuz . The authority, which was set to manage the strait, set...
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Caitlin Johnstone – They’re Not Mad At Ben-Gvir For Being Evil, They’re Mad At Him For Being Honest
Full ArticleThe West’s Epstein Class has criticised the actions of Zionist Nazi minister Bem Gvir before, but how often have we heard about their indignation as they continue to support Israel’s genocdie and war crimes? Caitlin Johnstone is a reader-supported independent...
President Donald Trump 's administration threatened to revoke the visas of the Palestinian delegation to the United Nations if the Palestinian ambassador refused to end his candidacy for the vice presidency of the UN General Assembly, according...
Good morning, readers! Welcome to another day of news, as everyone waits to see what the future holds. Meanwhile, here are the latest updates to start your day: - After much bluster by US President Donald Trump and various Iranian officials, both...
Tensions across the Middle East remain high as diplomatic efforts continue between Washington and Tehran, while conflicts in Gaza and southern Lebanon show little sign of easing. Here are the latest developments: • After weeks of escalating rhetoric from US President Donald...
TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION: ‘China Feels Emboldened to Globalise Its Political Red Lines’
Full ArticleBy CIVICUS May 21 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses the cancellation of RightsCon 2026 with Barbora Bukovská, Senior Director for Law and Policy at ARTICLE 19, a human rights organisation that works on freedom of expression and information around the world. Barbora...
The HAJJ. The Hajj is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is one of the Five Pillars of Islam — the core religious obligations that define Muslim practice. Every Muslim who is physically and financially able is...
The back-to-back summits in Beijing revealed not only China’s growing diplomatic confidence but also the emergence of a deeper Sino-Russian axis that increasingly challenges the foundations of the US-led global order. Donald Trump flew home from Beijing with Boeing orders...
Stoning The Jamarat: Naming The True Enemy
Full ArticleI attended Ḥajj at the end of 2006, just four months after embracing Islam. I was still in college with no real financial means, yet I was blessed with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join an American delegation. During that journey,...
In the tragic event that a sovereign state chooses to attack another, the party under attack will often shoot back. Russia experienced this after attacking Ukraine. The United States, Israel, and the Gulf Arab monarchies did as well after the...
Since the United States and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, the number of articles proclaiming the death of the petrodollar increased nearly as quickly as the price of oil. As a representative headline in the Japan Times declared...
As drones dominate warfare in the Middle East, Ukraine, and beyond, civilians are caught in the crosshairs. Hailing the machines as the future of war , the Pentagon is pouring funds into their development and procurement, as are other...
Critics of the May 2026 summit between President Trump and Xi Jinping, president of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), widely condemned the outcome as being long on pomp and ceremony but short on meaningful substantive results. They noted that...
A year has passed since conflict broke out between India and Pakistan, briefly raising fears of an all-out war between the two nuclear powers. While violent conflict between the neighbors has been commonplace for the past 80 years, this latest...
The Trump-Xi summit in Beijing may have projected calm at the leader level, but it should not be mistaken for strategic convergence. Whatever one makes of the new language of “constructive strategic stability,” the underlying reality is one of constrained...
La visita di Donald Trump in Cina rilancia la possibilità di una relazione sino-statunitense fondata su rispetto reciproco, coesistenza pacifica e cooperazione vantaggiosa, superando la logica dello scontro egemonico. Segue nostro Telegram . La frase di Xi Jinping secondo cui...
Japan’s NEC Corporation has launched a project to develop an Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) – a spacecraft designed to transport satellites to their intended orbits after they have separated from the rockets that lift them into space. Without an OTV,...
On central bankers, bond markets and the heated and irrational campaign to block the election of a progressive politician Read Article HERE The post Ann Pettifor: Phantoms, Left-Wing Candidates, ‘Febrile Conditions’ in Bond Markets… and President Petro’s Fight...
When the leaders of the United States and China met in Beijing on May 14 and 15, 2026, the global press coverage was predictable. Tariffs: Taiwan. Iran. Boeing. The coverage was accurate. It also missed the most important shift in...
Several countries have summoned Israeli ambassadors and condemned Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir after footage emerged showing detained activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla being restrained and humiliated following their abduction by Israeli forces in...
Both Trump’s Iran war and the closely connected Israeli war for Jewish hegemony across the Middle East are unravelling fast. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online...
Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto has unveiled one of the most consequentialeconomic interventions since the fall of Suharto: a plan to centralize exports of strategiccommodities — including palm oil, coal and ferroalloys — through a state-controlledstructure linked to the sovereign fund...
As diplomatic outrage erupts, Hamas condemns Israeli humiliation of “Sumud Flotilla” activists
Full ArticleGAZA, (PIC) Hamas said the scenes of “humiliation and abuse” overseen by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir against activists from the “Global Sumud Flotilla” following their detention reflect the “moral depravity and sadism” governing Israeli leaders. In a statement, the Movement...
BEIRUT, (PIC) The Lebanese health ministry announced today, Wednesday, that 31 people were killed and 61 others were injured in the past 24 hours. According to the ministry, the death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression, which started on March 2, 2026,...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Palestinian warnings are mounting over a new escalation at Aqsa Mosque, coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, amid expectations of attempts to impose Talmudic rituals inside the Mosque compound as settler incursions intensify and efforts continue to...
Jonathan Cook – Western leaders play their part in our charade democracies. Can you spot the tell?
Full ArticleThe super-rich and their vassals are deeply invested in the system because it richly rewards them. They’ll deploy everything they can – from the media to the ‘security’ forces – to prevent change Jonathan Cook is the author of three...
Israeli government approves plan to seize West Bank land under “archaeology and heritage” cover
Full ArticleWEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli government on Wednesday approved a sweeping 250 million shekel plan aimed at expanding control over archaeological sites in the occupied West Bank, in a move widely viewed as using “heritage and archaeology” to advance annexation policies...
Humiliation, abuse: Israeli forces drag “Sumud Flotilla” activists to Ashdod amid int’l condemnation
Full ArticleGAZA, (PIC) In scenes that sparked widespread international condemnation, activists from the “Global Sumud Flotilla” and the “Freedom Flotilla Coalition” appeared handcuffed and forced onto the ground inside Ashdod Port, while Israeli occupation forces reportedly compelled them to listen to the...
Conflict and aid cuts are hampering the fight against an outbreak of the deadly virus centred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo has faced the deadly threat of Ebola 16 times since...
After the elimination of Al Qassam Brigades leader Izz al Din al Haddad on May 15, Hamas has reportedly turned to longtime senior member Mohammed Odeh to take the reins of the group’s military wing. As Hamas reportedly rearms and...
What Can North Korea Tell Us about America’s Future?
Full ArticleEver since North Korea suffered through the death of its first leader in 1994, a loss magnified by an economic collapse and a devastating famine, outside observers have likened the country to an airplane experiencing a serious malfunction. The major...
You almost never wind up where you expect to, and quite often you can’t even work out how you got there Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” For the last four years or so, strategists and...
Less than a week after hosting Donald Trump, China’s leader Xi Jinping welcomed his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to Beijing. Unlike Trump’s visit, this was a routine meeting. The Chinese and Russian presidents have met more than 40 times since...
What happens if Israel ends the Oslo Accords?
Full ArticleIn early May, the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party submitted a bill calling for the formal revocation of the Oslo Accords, the framework governing relations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) since 1993. Although Israeli Prime...
GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) has condemned, in the strongest terms, the Israeli destruction of the remaining homes in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. In a press release on Wednesday, PCHR described Israel’s targeting of what remained of Gaza...
At the recent TSMC Technology Symposium 2026 , Siemens EDA reinforced its position as one of the key ecosystem partners supporting TSMC in the race toward AI-driven semiconductor design, advanced packaging, and next-generation process technologies. The annual forum has...
FIFA will ban supporters from displaying Iran’s pre-1979 Lion and Sun flag at stadiums during the upcoming World Cup , a move likely to spark criticism among parts of the Iranian diaspora and opposition...
Britain said on Wednesday it had secured a trade deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council worth $5 billion a year in the long run, deepening economic ties with allies in a region dealing with the fallout from the...
Iran has jailed a former goalkeeper for the national men's football team after he published earlier this year a post deeply critical of then-supreme leader Ali Khamenei, his wife said. The Mizan news agency of the Iranian...
In the past 48 hours, Israel has illegally intercepted all 50 boats that left Türkiye last week in the final leg of the Global Sumud Flotillas ' journey in an attempt to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza....
The European Union is nearly ready to issue a sweeping new deportation regulation that rights groups say will usher in an “ICE‑style” enforcement regime across the bloc, normalising mass detention , home raids and offshore return centres...
Expanding evacuation zone, Israeli-backed militia forcibly displaces hundreds of families from Deir al-Balah
Full ArticleHundreds of families were forced to flee Aboul Ajin, an area in east Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, after an Israeli-backed militia stormed the area and ordered residents to evacuate at gunpoint on Wednesday last week. Aboul Ajin straddles the...
This month, Israel and the United States are expected to begin negotiations on a new memorandum of understanding that would outline the United States’ plans to support Israel after the current agreement expires in 2028. Chances are this will look...
After USDA Cuts, Complaints Over Food Safety Spike
Full ArticleThe number of consumer complaints filed about the safety of meat, poultry and egg products jumped nearly 40% last year, to 2,016 from 1,443 in 2024, according to a new federal report. The report comes a year after the...
If this is 'inclusivity,' I don't want it
Full Article- - - - Photo by Bruno Martins on Unsplash The problem I have with inclusivity, as a concept, isn’t that it’s inherently bad. I think opening things up to more people, in many instances, is good...
La cooperazione sino-russa si presenta oggi come uno dei principali fattori di equilibrio dell’ordine internazionale. Nel confronto con l’egemonismo statunitense, Pechino e Mosca rivendicano multilateralismo, sovranità, sicurezza condivisa e centralità delle Nazioni Unite. Segue nostro Telegram . La cooperazione tra...
Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa has publicly thanked his US counterpart Donald Trump after the latter sent him a gift of perfume to mark their November 2025 meeting at the White House. A post shared by...
TOKYO — Bond markets are cracking around the globe as geopolitical, technological and demographic trends simultaneously upend everything investors thought they knew about 2026. The turmoil is propelling borrowing costs to multi-year highs from Washington to London to Tokyo. It’s altering the...
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