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A drone that smashed into a Romanian apartment building set off furious condemnation of Russia by Romania and its NATO allies on Friday but President Vladimir Putin insisted there was no evidence to blame his country. Two people...

World

In the first step towards shifting aid further into the shadows, the House’s 2027 NDAA would all but fuse the two countries’ armed forces together Ben Freeman is Director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute Cross-posted from...

Geopolitics, National Politics, Article

GAZA, (PIC) When news of Gaza is mentioned, what is meant is not just a torrent of breaking headlines or numbers of martyrs and wounded that are repeated every day as a result of the Israeli aggression. What is meant is...

Reports, Gaza Strip, Israeli genocide

The UK's press regulator said it would be looking into complaints made following the alleged "smear campaign" against activist Misan Harriman after four major UK publications accused him of spreading "antisemitic" conspiracy theories. Confirming this to Novara Media...

World

BEIRUT, (PIC) 20 people, including children, were killed and others were wounded in a series of intense Israeli airstrikes on Friday targeting multiple areas in southern Lebanon. According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, the Israeli occupation army carried out at least 29...

News, Israeli aggression, Lebanon

The U.S. is ready to restart attacks on Iran if a deal cannot be reached, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth warned on Saturday, as negotiators from Washington and Tehran worked to bridge major differences blocking an agreement. "Our ability to...

MENA

The Syrian government has launched an emergency response after rising water levels in the Euphrates River knocked dozens of water stations out of service and flooded thousands of hectares of farmland in the eastern province of Deir...

MENA

By Mustafa Abu Sway Despite Washington’s long-standing recognition of Jordan as the custodian of Muslim and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, including Al-Aqsa Mosque, Middle East Eye has reported that the US and Israel are “actively working” to dismantle this arrangement. The...

Jerusalem, Aqsa Mosque, Jordan custodianship

The personal consumption pattern is being dominated by strong expenditure by high-income households, which have reaped large income boosts as a result of rising interest rates and the share market growth. Meanwhile, the investment boom is being driven by massive investment...

Economics, Finance, Bill Miitchell

Trump incarna un cesarismo moderno che va valutato in base alla sua capacità di guidare la transizione verso la quarta rivoluzione industriale, scrive Joaquin Flores. Segue nostro Telegram . Il “cesarismo primordiale” di Donald Trump dovrebbe essere analizzato attraverso la...

Italiano, Donald Trump, France

A Brooklyn grocery store has voted to boycott Israeli products, in a decision that has turned one of New York 's best-known food cooperatives into a new flashpoint in the debate over Palestine solidarity and Israel's war on...

World

NABLUS, (PIC) Palestinian citizens from the town of Beita in Nablus managed last night to ward off a large-scale attack by extremist Jewish settlers on homes in the Jabel Bir Qawza area. Local sources reported that violent clashes erupted after settlers attacked...

News, Jewish terrorism, Settler crimes

BETHLEHEM /PNN/ By Monjed Jadou - Aida Youth Centre relaunched its “Right of Return Bazaar” for the fourth time during Eid al-Adha after a two-year hiatus, drawing broad official, public and economic participation in Bethlehem. The event, held at Aida refugee...

41,1629,1256

The hemisphere’s longest-running standoff may finally be reaching its breaking point — but not necessarily in the way anyone expects. Cuba, in the spring of 2026, feels exactly like that. After 67 years of communist rule, sustained by a rotating...

Opinion, Assembly of Cuba Resistance, Cuba

A quiet diplomatic battle is taking shape between the Philippines and Kyrgyzstan over the United Nations Security Council’s sole Asia-Pacific non-permanent seat for the 2027-2028 term. The General Assembly will elect new members on June 3. Long seen as the...

World, Block 3, Central Asia

On Sunday, Colombians will go to the polls for the first round of their presidential elections, a race that could radically reshape Colombia’s relations with the United States at a moment of political turmoil and polarization in Latin America. The key...

Colombia

(The preceding image is provided by my friend, “Cardiff.”) Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the United States is producing more oil than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined. He has made this statement multiple times in 2026, often emphasizing it as...

Larry C. Johnson

For a quarter-century, the price of computer software and accessories fell by roughly 5% annually. It was the modern economy’s most reliable disinflationary anchor. In late 2025, that anchor snapped. Last week, a technical note by three US Federal Reserve...

Technology, AI Economy, AI Energy Needs

Washington’s relationship with Russia appears likely to continue its decades-long decline, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying on May 22 that formal diplomatic talks over the Ukraine war are effectively frozen. US President Donald Trump’s last meeting with...

World, Alaska, Block 2

The United States and Iran are still inching towards a deal to extend the ceasefire in the Middle East war and provide a framework for longer-term peace talks, though both sides appear to differ on key points. With oil...

MENA

A grim, consequential watershed in the West’s conflict with Russia has arrived. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The murder of 21 Russian teenage students at a teacher-training college last week was an...

Americas, Editorial, Europe

By middle age, most of us have known friends who removed themselves from the group. Whether college buds or the work happy-hour crew, someone has proved ruinously unreliable or an unpleasant drunk, and wound up giving themselves the Reverse “Good...

Column, Courts & Law, Opinion

US President Donald Trump said Friday that he was making his decision on a potential deal with Iran, though Tehran insisted there was still "no final agreement" on ending the Middle East war . A report from Iran's...

MENA

Israeli forces have advanced to positions north of Lebanon's Litani River, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday, as Israel escalates attacks against what it claims to be Hezbollah assets after warning thousands more Lebanese to flee...

MENA

By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, May 29 2026 (IPS) ‘As record heat sweeps the world, the climate crisis is no longer a warning for the future, but a reality of the present.’ James Alix Michel Last week, Western Europe found...

Climate Action, Climate Change, Combating Desertification and Drought

As Israel intensifies its airstrikes on Lebanon despite an April ceasefire, one attack close to Lebanon’s largest dam and hydroelectric plant has triggered concerns that Tel Aviv could begin targeting the country’s key infrastructure. An airstrike on 26 May...

MENA

India and Pakistan are no strangers to heat. This time of year is the worst, as heat peaks before the monsoon brings cooler conditions from June. But this year’s heat is something else. Intense, sustained heat began in mid-April. Daily...

South Asia, heatstroke, high pressure systems

Israel announced it would be severing ties with the United Nations' Secretary-General's Office following the UN's decision to blacklist the state over using sexual violence in the war against Palestinians. Following the announcement, in a lengthy tweet, Israel condemned...

World

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls for ceasefire among armed groups to help avoid deaths from preventable disease The death rate of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is between 30% and 50%, the World Health Organization has said,...

Ebola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, World Health Organization

As a deal between the US and Iran appears close, questions have emerged about how the terms of US President Donald Trump's agreement with Iran compare with the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" (JCPOA),...

MENA

BEIRUT, (PIC) 11 children have been killed or injured on average every 24 hours in Lebanon over the last week, the UN’s children’s agency (UNICEF ) said on Friday, as Israel has expanded strikes across the country despite a ceasefire. A total...

News, Israeli aggression, Lebanon

Every year, in a gleaming hotel ballroom in Singapore, the Indo-Pacific strategic order gets set for a public display. This happens not through signing of communiqués or conventions but through who shows up, at what level, and what they dare...

Opinion, China, India

Israeli authorities imposed sweeping restrictions on the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, during Eid al-Adha , in what Palestinian officials describe as a new violation of the longstanding status quo of the religious...

MENA

GAZA, (PIC) During the Eid al‑Adha holiday, cemeteries in the Gaza Strip are no longer merely places of burial; they have become a central destination for thousands of families who have lost loved ones in the ongoing Israeli war since October...

News, Eid al-Adha, Gaza martyrs

- - - - Photo by Chelsea on Unsplash If I were to live my dream, I’d be on a patch of land that at least felt like the middle of nowhere. I’d have my home, my...

Despite social media giant TikTok’s ambitious campaigns to combat climate denial, go carbon neutral and support sustainable advertising on its wildly popular video platform, the company sponsored a Canadian right-wing conference featuring a retinue of long-established climate deniers...

Activism, Business & Economy, Environment

Citizen Lab doctoral fellow Swantje Lange spoke with the Hasso Plattner Institut (HPI) about sophisticated surveillance campaigns being used to exploit mobile networks, sharing that “the mobile network is highly opaque and extremely complex.” Lange also discussed a...

JD Vance ’s first claim to national attention was when he admitted to making up lies about pet-eating Haitian migrants. Vance justified the lie by saying that he was prepared to lie if that was needed to...

Activism, Column, Courts & Law

One of the great injustices of our current tax system is that working people often end up subsidizing the luxury consumption of the billionaire class. One example of this phenomena can be found in the world of private jets,...

Business & Economy, Column, Courts & Law

Engineering documentation has always been difficult to produce, maintain, and scale. But with the rise of generative AI, many organizations are asking a reasonable question: can a general-purpose large language model (LLM) like Claude automate the work? At first glance,...

AI, EDA, llmda.ai

Il prossimo summit della SCO è molto più di una riunione diplomatica di routine: è un momento-specchio in cui si riflettono le ambizioni, le contraddizioni e le possibilità di un ordine internazionale in costruzione Segue nostro Telegram . L’architettura della...

Italiano, Central Asia, China

Analysts have tried to make sense of US President Donald Trump’s second term with countless, sometimes contradictory, labels. He’s isolationist and transactional. He’s a populist. Or, more recently, a neoconservative. One way to make sense of both him and the...

World, Australia, Block 3

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has condemned the closure of the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday and until further notice, describing it as “a new crime” and a “blatant assault on one of...

News, Hamas Movement, Ibrahimi Mosque
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