Democrats on the US House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday demanded that President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice “stop the cover-up” of former special counsel Jack Smith’s full investigation into Trump’s retention of classified documents following his first term, after new material sent...
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Quattro anni di guerra tra bilanci e propaganda
Full ArticleBuon senso vorrebbe che ucraini ed europei puntassero a chiudere il conflitto al più presto, prima che la sconfitta diventi disfatta, dal momento che non esiste nessuna possibilità che gli ucraini riconquistino i territori perduti o impediscano ai russi di...
Brussels/PNN/ In a joint statement, missions representing countries including Belgium, Canada, Denmark, the European Union, Ireland, Finland, France, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Switzerland denounced Israel's “settler terrorism” and expressed shock over recent killings...
The US Justice Department last October announced the largest asset seizure in American history: a cache of bitcoin then valued at $15 billion tied to the Cambodia-based Prince Group that prosecutors alleged oversaw an empire of human trafficking and industrial-scale...
C lick here to read the article on Asia Times. The Cayman Islands sits at the heart of a network of British financial jurisdictions. Together, they manage trillions in assets, influencing global capital flows and investment networks. China, which was...
A bombshell confession letter obtained by The Grayzone reveals Israeli intelligence recruited an asset in the Palestinian Red Crescent, who admitted using drugs and sexual blackmail to create a “network of informants” which could infiltrate and destroy resistance groups. A...
An Iranian ballistic missile exploded in Lebanese airspace shortly after Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi declared Tehran’s ambassador-designate in the country “persona non grata.” Official silence, coupled with Lebanese reporting that the missile was targeting an American asset in Lebanon,...
A useful round-up of the latest foreign policy developments, especially in the Middle East. Read the article HERE . President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan signs the guest book in the Roosevelt Room, Friday, August 8, 2025, before a bilateral meeting...
What was once covert, controversial, and constrained is now overt, normalised, and defended. Medea Benjamin is co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace. Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist and a researcher with CODEPINK. They are co-authors...
‘Economist Ann Pettifor explains how America’s industrial decline has its roots in the dismantling of the international monetary system established at Bretton Woods and in the rise of a global financial system that prioritizes capital mobility over production.’ In...
The former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency finds parallels in the lies over Iraq about nuclear weapons and the lies over Iran today. Interview by David Hearst, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. Cross-posted from Middle East...
The far-right had a successful local election, as did France Insoumise, but neither have shown that they can win the presidential election in 2027. Frédéric Sawicki is professor of political science at Paris 1 University of Panthéon-Sorbonne. Cross-posted from The...
Trump’s Terrifying Talent for Multitrashing
Full ArticleMaybe you’re reading this article while listening to a podcast. Or you’re participating in a dull Zoom meeting. Or you’re talking on the phone with a relative. Maybe you’ve just read the first three lines of this article three times without...
Nepal’s Gen Z Electoral Revolution
Full ArticleCredit: Sanjit Pariyar/NurPhoto via AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Mar 25 2026 (IPS) Less than six months after Nepal’s Generation Z rose up in protest , the country has a new prime minister. A 35-year-old former rapper who soundtracked the...
- State department to expand program on 2 April - - Algeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Tunisia, Cape Verde affected - - No apparent exceptions for athletes or officials - A newly expanded policy from the Trump administration could require travelers from five World...
US May Sieze Three Iranian Islands, Including Kharg, Targeting Critical Oil Routes & Military in Hormuz
Full ArticleWhile a significant amount of attention has been placed upon the Iranian island of Kharg, as a likely target for a US ground invasion, there are three other islands that may be in Washington’s scope. Although this has flown under...
The world risks slipping into a global recession if oil prices surge due to the war in Iran, the CEO of investment firm BlackRock has warned. Larry Fink said oil prices could climb as high as $150...
Around 230 students and teachers in Iran have been killed since US-Israeli attacks began, with over 600 schools and cultural sites damaged, according to the country’s Education Ministry on Tuesday. Iran’s Education Minister, Ali Reza Kazemi, said that...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday named veteran UN diplomat Jean Arnault as his personal envoy to support efforts to end the Middle East conflict, saying the "world is staring down the barrel of a wider war." Guterres told...
The home of Palme d’Or-winning Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami was damaged in overnight air strikes in Tehran , according to a statement from his son. Ahmad Kiarostami said in an Instagram post that the property was hit during...
Israeli authorities evicted 11 Palestinian families from their homes in east Jerusalem on Wednesday, an AFP journalist reported, a move that settlers have increasingly used to occupy the vacated properties. An AFP correspondent on the...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) Palestinian prisoner institutions directed an urgent appeal to the “free people of the world” to take immediate action to stop the draft law of executing Palestinian prisoners, warning of its imminent approval in the Israeli Knesset. The institutions said, in...
In the pursuit of advanced extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for high-NA patterning, metal oxide resists (MORs) offer significant promise but face challenges like critical dimension (CD) variation due to atmospheric interactions. Presented at SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning 2025 by...
The US-Israel war on Iran has opened Pandora’s box, and its impacts are likely to be felt for a long time. As the conflict unfolds, however, there is a growing divergence between US and Israeli aims regarding what they define...
An army-aligned Sudanese governor accused Ethiopia on Wednesday of having backed an offensive on the south, a day after Sudan's paramilitary forces said they had seized control of the border town of Kurmuk. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces...
An international deal to protect and sustainably use the ocean was hailed as “a triumph for multilateralism” and “a win for humanity” when it came into force on 17 January. But the very rules-based international order on...
The Moqattam Misdemeanor Court acquitted a defendant on charges of sexual harassment on Tuesday, shutting the door on the legal track pursued by Mariam Shawky after she published footage of the incident to document the harassment, prompting a viral response...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) displaced Palestinian families from 11 homes in the east Jerusalem district of Silwan, south of the Aqsa Mosque, on Wednesday. According to local sources, Israeli police forces and settlers wearing orange jackets stormed the...
AL-KHALIL, (PIC) Settler attacks are escalating in Wad al-Watawat in the town of Surif, north of al-Khalil, where residents face a recurring pattern of arson and nightly intimidation, within a broader context of field attacks documented by human rights reports as...
A Wednesday report from NBC News is raising concerns that President Donald Trump may be getting a rose-colored view of the war he started with Iran. According to NBC News, US military officials show Trump a daily two-minute video montage of operations conducted in the...
GAZA, (PIC) Nikolay Mladenov, the High Representative for Gaza at the Peace Council, described conditions in the Gaza Strip as “extremely dire,” revealing that a comprehensive framework for disarmament and the reintegration of armed groups is currently under discussion with relevant...
Iran has rejected the Donald Trump administration's 15-point plan aimed at pausing the war in the country , which has spread across the Middle East, calling it "unreasonable" and maintaining that it would end the war on...
The UN Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) called on Libyan authorities on Wednesday to release political activist Al-Mahdi Abdulati, saying he was arrested and detained last week. Abdulati was detained on 18 March in the port city of Misrata, UNSMIL...
Pod Couldn’t Save America
Full ArticleThe following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . I have little to say about the late Robert Mueller as a person, not just because I didn’t know him but because I count myself among those who believed, then...
At 4:00 a. m. on September 20, 1977, the sky over Petrozavodsk, Karelia, was illuminated by a phenomenon that defied the physics textbooks of the era. Witnesses described a massive glowing "jellyfish” hovering above the city, casting thin rays of...
German carmaker Volkswagen is in talks with Israel's state-owned Rafael Advanced Defence Systems to shift production at one of its factories towards missile defence systems, according to a report by The Financial Times on...
The UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday condemned Iran's "egregious attacks" on its Gulf neighbours and demanded full "reparation" for all victims of its strikes. The 47-member council backed a resolution brought by the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)...
The fall of the Assad regim e has seen Syria make some of the biggest gains in political rights, in Freedom House's ' Freedom of the World ' annual report, although some challenges remain. Syria increased freedoms by...
Destruction of America
Full Article- - - - Photo by Phil Hearing on Unsplash Our country stands on the brink of…well, something. And something bad. I won’t pretend to know precisely just how bad, but I know it won’t be mild. What...
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . On Monday , President Donald Trump ’s Department of the Interior announced that it will refund almost $1 billion to a...
Minnesota prosecutors escalated their fight with the Trump administration over Operation Metro Surge on Tuesday, filing a lawsuit seeking to force the federal government to turn over evidence in the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens and...
Markwayne Mullin was sworn in as Homeland Security Secretary on Tuesday, replacing Kristi Noem, who left her post after allegations of misusing government funds and having an extramarital affair with her advisor Corey Lewandowski. The previous day, he was...
Pro-Iran Iraqi militias expand attacks into Syria
Full ArticleIraqi armed factions that are aligned with Iran have expanded their daily attacks on military sites and what they say are US interests in Iraq and the region to include Syrian territory. This marks the first such expansion...
Senior researcher Alberto Fittarelli spoke with the New York Times about the double threat of AI-produced disinformation. “Verifying everything is incredibly exhausting, and not everyone can afford doing it,” Fittarelli says. In the fall, researchers at the...
The assassination of the Congo’s first prime minister has been shrouded in mystery – but the impending trial of a Belgian diplomat may provide answers - Don’t get The Long Wave delivered to your inbox? Sign up here - Patrice Lumumba...
An Israeli drone strike has killed two Palestinians and wounded at least four others in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp , medics said, in the latest Israeli breach of a ceasefire for the occupied territory. The strike hit early...
An air strike on a military base in Iraq's Anbar province has killed seven fighters and wounded 13, in what Baghdad said was "a heinous crime" and a serious violation of international law, amid a spike in...
By Wyatt REED and Max BLUMENTHAL Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Trump White House plagiarized its justification for attacking Iran from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, the main DC outfit promoting...
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