GAZA, (PIC) Nine Palestinian citizens, including a child, were injured on Friday evening following Israeli airstrikes on a house in ash-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City. According to local sources, an Israeli warplane struck the house near Hamid Street in ash-Shati...
As geopolitical competition intensifies across multiple regions, countries capable of maintaining working relationships with rival powers are becoming increasingly valuable. While global attention remains centered on major-power rivalry, another category of states is quietly gaining strategic importance: middle powers able...
The so-called “free world” is an oxymoron. In truth, it is the very antithesis of freedom; it is its most absolute negation. The comparison is stark but necessary. When the United States invaded Iraq: no sanctions against Washington, no exclusion...
For three decades after the Cold War, Washington operated under a dangerous assumption: that military supremacy could indefinitely compensate for diplomatic exhaustion. The United States possessed the world’s most advanced armed forces, unmatched naval reach, and a financial system capable of weaponizing sanctions...
Putin, Araghchi, and Yi (AI Generated) Remember the word: “Security architecture.” Security architecture in the Persian Gulf, was used by President Putin and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi when speaking to Iran’s Foreign Minister during his visit to...
Ravi Kant’s recent Asia Times essay argues that the next world order will not be built like the old ones. Pax Britannica rested on sea lanes and finance. Pax Americana rested on markets, media and military reach. But the next...
Globally, hundreds of millions of users now interact regularly with AI companions. The World Health Organization has declared loneliness a global health threat. AI companions offer an immediate, if unproven, response. In 2014, Microsoft launched Xiaoice in China, an AI...
By: Toh Han Shih - - - - A recent crackdown on an international scam and human trafficking ring in Dubai involving the US and China, Dubai and Thailand may indicate warming relations between the US and China, ahead of...
Schiacciata tra l’austerità dell’UE, la pesante penetrazione tedesca nel suo tessuto economico e l’ostilità turca a fasi alterne, Atene, consapevole di possedere l’invidiabile posizione geografica di porta balcanica dell’Europa (cosa che l’ha resa anche particolarmente indifesa di fronte ai flussi...
The robot pauses at the edge of the room as an engineer checks its sensors. Then, with a soft mechanical hum, this humanoid machine begins to move. It lifts a mannequin from a bed, slowly and carefully. The engineers hold...
Federal Indictment Charges filed against Suburban Chicago Businessman with orchestrating $4 Million fraud schemes A suburban Chicago businessman from Indiana who operated a business in Orland Park, Illinois, has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly orchestrating a pair of...
Global stock markets diverged and oil prices rose Friday as fresh US-Iran clashes in the Strait of Hormuz jolted hopes for a deal to end the Middle East war and reopen the crucial waterway. While European bourses...
Washington has revised its proposed U.N. resolution demanding Iran halt attacks and mining in the Strait of Hormuz but the changes are unlikely to avert Chinese and Russian vetoes, diplomats said on Friday. A Chinese veto would...
EU leaders like Kaja Kallas, the bloc’s top foreign diplomat, have played dumb about the endless scandals seeping out of Kiev. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su There was more evidence this week...
“The Iran war weakens deterrence in Asia, undercuts confidence of US allies and partners, and makes conflict with China more likely.” That’s become an article of faith among those opposing the US fight with Iran. The US military – the...
GAZA, (PIC) Youssef Ajjisa, head of the International Committee to Break the Siege on Gaza, said Friday that several activists aboard the “Sumud Flotilla” were subjected to “horrific and blatant” Israeli abuses, including sexual assault, harassment, beatings, and violent dragging. In press...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said that the Movement is holding ongoing talks with mediators, especially Egypt, regarding the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement with Israel, saying that Tel Aviv’s insistence on disarmament before other tracks represents “a...
WEST BANK, (PIC) A Palestinian man and his child were injured on Friday in a settler attack in the Shuweika area near the town of al-Dhahiriya, south of al-Khalil. Local sources said a group of settlers assaulted the man and his child,...
Old headlines pop into my head at the oddest times. I was booking plane tickets for a family trip around the Fourth of July, noticing the difference in price from last year, and there it was, a 2004 Harper’s headline:...
Russia’s inability to conquer Ukraine is spurring unusually harsh public complaints over both the lack of military progress and the growing economic costs of the war, a pair of failures being blamed on President Vladimir Putin’s leadership. The damage caused...
Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, he has also been one...
Qatar 's prime minister called Friday for renewed diplomacy on an agreement with Iran as he met in Washington with Vice President JD Vance. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met with Vance and discussed Pakistani-led efforts to broker...
Credit: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, May 8 2026 (IPS) When Péter Magyar took the stage in Budapest on the night of 12 April, he told the crowd they had ‘liberated Hungary’. The hyperbole seemed justified....
Iran’s nuclear program is in ruins, but the threat is far from dead. Deputy Director of FDD's Non-Proliferation Program Andrea Stricker and Bill Roggio dive into the desperate gamble Tehran is making at the negotiating table with the US —...
Poor health, hunger, and malnutrition are not just symptoms of poverty—they are barriers to education, socialization, and hope. By Colin Greer and Reynard Loki C lick here to read the article on the Observatory . In Peoria, Illinois,...
America’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The...
By Mohammed A. Sayem SYLHET, Bangladesh, May 8 2026 (IPS) When catastrophic floods swept through the Haor wetlands of Sunamganj in 2022, they destroyed far more than homes and crops. They shattered childhoods. Jannat was only nine years old when floodwater...
UNICEF and partners established the first Primary Health Care (PHC) Centre and Child-Friendly Space/Learning Space in Jabalia, North Gaza on 12 January, 2026. Credit: UNICEF/Rawan Eleyan By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, May 8 2026 (IPS) Despite the implementation of a ceasefire...
On May 6, Israel conducted its first strike in the greater Beirut metropolitan area since the onset of a ceasefire on April 16. The strike targeted an apartment building in Dahiyeh, and one of the alleged fatalities was Ahmad Ghaleb...
Syria's interior ministry on Friday announced the arrest of a general from ousted president Bashar al-Assad's era, accusing him of involvement in a 2013 chemical attack on a suburb of the capital, Damascus . In August 2013, the...
Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . Shortly before midday on Monday, thick smoke rose over central Khartoum after a wave of drones strikes hit the international airport. Within 12 hours, Sudan recalled its ambassador to Addis Ababa,...
Mali 's government refuses to talk to "terrorist" armed groups, the foreign minister has said, days after jihadists and allied separatists mounted unprecdented attacks against the junta. The coordinated deadly offensive by Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists and Tuareg separatists on April...
Authorities in western Libya's city of Zawiya, which houses a major oil terminal and a large refinery, said on Friday they had launched a "large-scale operation" against criminal groups, as clashes and explosions were heard. Security forces and military units carried...
Over 300 Christian leaders from states across the US called on Congress this week to stop funding Israel and allow unimpeded aid into Gaza. Christian leaders from New York, California, New Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland, among others,...
There are no laws that the Zionist Nazi war criminals respect Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: bkampmark@gmail.com Cross-posted from Counterpunch Photograph Source: Mtvdanilo – CC BY 4.0 They...
A Yemeni man was recently killed while fighting alongside the Russian army in Ukraine , amid concerns over recruitment networks luring Yemeni youths into combat by exploiting their difficult living conditions and desire to migrate. Family members of...
The Indian economy remains vulnerable to global economic crises, particularly due to high energy import dependence and geopolitical disruptions. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Robert’s Blog Photo licensed under...
The United States Department of Defense (or War) has released, for the first time on its official website, a large archive of previously classified materials related to unidentified flying objects and unexplained aerial phenomena. The newly opened files contain eyewitness...
Mais uma vez, os europeus buscam sua própria autodestruição. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su O atual debate sobre a construção de um sistema de dissuasão nuclear pan-europeu revela mais uma etapa...
Egypt’s growing focus on luxury housing and smart-city developments is fuelling criticism over the government’s urban priorities, as millions struggle with soaring housing costs and declining purchasing power. The debate intensified after Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly inaugurated The...
M. K. BHADRAKUMAR Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos: info@strategic-culture.su Esta dialéctica eleva el nivel de riesgo para todas las partes. Ya están apareciendo en el estrecho de Ormuz los indicios de una peligrosa deriva...
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Friday met with veteran diplomat Simon Karam, the head of the delegation headed to Washington for planned talks with Israel next week . Lebanon and Israel's US ambassadors had previously met twice in Washington over...
“In the Afghan war, enter Sir Mortimer Durand” was the title of a story on 24 October 2012 by Myra MacDonald, then Reuters bureau chief in India. That was nine years before the Taliban took over the country...
Pro-Palestine activists disrupted Barclays’ Annual General Meeting in London on Thursday in protest against the bank’s financial links to Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza . Demonstrators accused the banking giant of "bankrolling genocide" and demanded it end its role...
In recent days, a new crisis has been escalating in the cities of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, concerning the disappearance of a shipment of US weapons that President Donald Trump said had been sent to...
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday and afterwards questioned why allies including Italy were not backing Washington's efforts to confront Iran and re-open the Strait of Hormuz . "I don't understand why anybody...
On April 30, 1945, the long-awaited words were broadcast in military reports: Red Army troops had taken the German Reichstag and raised the Banner of Victory above it. It was not yet complete victory – and, strictly speaking, it was...
This investigation was reported in collaboration between Inside Climate News and Columbia Journalism Investigations . This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for...
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