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In a remarkable commentary published at the end of June, a former leading economist in the Trump administration acknowledges (and endorses) what many have suspected: The function of Trump’s foreign economic policy is to act like a 21st-century...

Perspectives

GAZA, (PIC) Israeli forces continued violating the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Thursday through airstrikes, demolitions, and gunfire across multiple areas of the territory. Three Palestinians were killed Thursday evening in separate Israeli strikes targeting different parts of Gaza, while several...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli aggression

A popular Turkish comedian was arrested on arrival at Istanbul airport on Thursday for allegedly insulting Islam and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The arrest of Deniz Goktas, 32, came as the authorities have broadened a crackdown on...

MENA

China’s home prices continued to fall in the first half of 2026 as buyers held back, betting that values would drop farther. With sales volumes and prices both in decline, analysts see little sign of a near-term recovery. Data released on...

China, Bank for International Settlements, Block 1

La collaborazione tra il governo libanese, le élite politiche del Paese e Israele potrebbe spingere il Libano verso un conflitto armato interno. Segue nostro Telegram . Il Libano sta attraversando uno dei momenti più delicati della sua storia recente. Dopo...

Italiano, Civil War, Conflict

The United States has said it will prevent the United Nations from supporting an African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia starting next year, two documents showed, in a move that officials said is likely to end its operations. The...

MENA

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Eleven Palestinians were martyred and 191 others were injured, while the Israeli occupation forces detained 866 citizens in Jerusalem during the first half of 2026, according to a report issued by the Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem Governorate, which documented...

Jerusalem, Israeli violations, Occupied Jerusalem

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani told Lebanon's president on Thursday that Damascus had no intention of intervening militarily in his country despite US pressure to do so, according to the Lebanese presidency. Shaibani, who also invited President...

MENA

The Trump administration concluded a recent mineral deal with Kazakhstan that, not surprisingly, enriches not only Trump’s own family but that of his secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick. Trump’s two eldest sons, part owners of Dominari Securities, are set to...

Opinion, Cantor Fitzgerald, Donald Trump

Over the past two years, the Islamic Republic has engaged in at least 15 distinct ballistic missile operations from its territory against foreign targets. Despite a pause in these attacks in 2023, the 2024–2026 period resumed a trend of increasing...

Long War Journal, News, ballistic missiles

Half a decade later and I still remember his voice. A young man lies on the ground, begging, pleading, screaming as another man, swinging a machete, forces him to place his right arm on a small wooden bench. The attacker...

War & Peace, videos, violence

Chip-level vulnerability is becoming an existential threat for virtually all systems. The time to ensure your chip designs are resistant to these attacks is now. Caspia presented a webinar recently that provides important information on how to build attack-resistant chips....

AI, Caspia Technologies, Events

The war on information in the West has tread new grounds since the genocide in Palestine. Journalists and media outlets who report on the imperialist endeavors of the ruling class increasingly find themselves under the boot of legislators who concoct...

EU politics, Geopolitics, Media Concentration

Fiscal consolidation packages reduce approval, drive protests and raise the odds of a major government crisis – especially in downturns Philipp Heimberger is an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW) Anna Matzner is an economist at the...

Austerity, Economics, Neo-Liberalism in the EU

The Sudanese army and its allied forces have advanced to within 70 kilometres of El Geneina , the capital of West Darfur state, as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) redeployed troops from Kordofan in...

MENA

Even if President Donald J. Trump was indulging in negotiating talk when he said he is “not looking to renew” the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the remark gave US agriculture a case of nerves. And now he has officially decided against...

Trade, Block 3, Free trade

The last time the United States celebrated a big birthday, the country wasn’t feeling so great about itself, either. But if America in 1976 was hungover from Watergate and Vietnam, the bicentennial was still celebrated with a national singalong conducted...

Activism, Business & Economy, Column

The Muslim International Film Festival (MIFF) returns to London's Leicester Square from 2 to 5 July, with the same aim each year: to provide a platform for Muslim filmmakers from around the world and to bring their stories...

Culture

The sight of the U.S. flag enrages me. Seeing the ubiquitous flag waving so boldly in Puerto Rico fills my soul with colonial fury and bitter resentment. The flag’s existence here is a sinister reminder of over a century...

Activism, Column, Courts & Law

In March , Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow attacked Abdul El-Sayed over his plans to hold campaign rallies with pro-Palestinian Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, igniting a protracted, acrimonious debate over the future of the Democratic Party and criticism...

Activism, Column, Media

Welcome, We continue our coverage of the US-Iran war , Lebanon, Gaza, and the wider Middle East. Pakistani and Qatari mediators have said the indirect talks that concluded in Doha on Wednesday yieled 'positive progress' as both parties touched on contested...

MENA

- - - - From time to time, we hear about someone who did something awful getting pardoned. As someone who really does believe in things like redemption and second chances, I usually don’t lose a lot of sleep over...

A new study by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) warns that current plans to deploy more than 1.7 million satellites in Earth's orbit could cause serious damage to ground-based astronomy. To preserve the capabilities of modern telescopes, the total number...

Science

A Hamas-affiliated security body in Gaza executed an alleged collaborator with Israel this week, accusing him of helping the Israeli military assassinate the commander of the group's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, Izz al-Din al-Haddad...

MENA

If you had to go by the landing page for Freedom250, the mascot for the semiquincentennial celebration of America’s founding is Donald Trump . There is no better symbol. He tough-guys a finger out beneath the announcement, “WELCOME TO...

Activism, Business & Economy, Column

A bomb went off at a cafe in central Damascus on Thursday, killing at least five people and wounding 16, Syrian authorities said. The blast took place near the capital's Palace of Justice, a key government building, sparking scenes...

MENA

An explosion went off at a cafe in central Damascus on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding 22, Syrian authorities said. The blast took place near the capital's Palace of Justice, a key government building, sparking scenes...

MENA

A bomb blast at a cafe in central Damascus on Thursday killed nine people and wounded 20, Syrian authorities said. The blast took place near the capital's Palace of Justice, a key government building, sparking scenes of panic in...

MENA

Every morning, crowds of people pack into the Karameh (King Hussein) border crossing between Palestine and Jordan . Children cry, patients wait, and expatriates watch their holidays disappear while remaining unable to cross. The crisis at the Karameh crossing (also...

MENA

Over the past several years, Muslim Americans across the US have seen a continuous string of attacks and threats against their mosques and community centres, amid wars in the region and domestic crackdowns on civil society. A fatal...

World

Syria has completed the formation of its new People's Assembly, appointing the final 70 members of parliament as part of the country's political transition following the fall of the Assad regime. Meanwhile, security tensions persist along the Israeli border, where...

Long War Journal, News, IDF

The last time Lebanon and Israel signed an American-brokered agreement, it took less than a year to die. The 17 May Agreement of 1983 ended the state of war between the two countries, set out mutual recognition of sovereignty,...

Analysis

By Vijay PRASHAD Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su On June 23, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel released one of...

Editor's Choice, Gaza Strip, Genocide

By Rafael PINTO BORGES Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su If not for the piles of regulation produced by the Berlaymont, air conditioning would likely be far easier and cheaper to obtain...

Editor's Choice, bureaucracy, Climate Change

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