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Ece Temelkuran in “Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century” draws on her exile from Turkey to prepare us for a future we do not want but will be forced to endure. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist...

EU politics, Alienation, Article

The protest against Jared Kushner’s property developments is part of a broader anti-corruption movement spreading across the Balkans. John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. He is a contributing editor to Strategic Policy and a contributor to...

Corruption, Geopolitics, Solutions

Modern warfare, marked by the overwhelming dominance of drones in the skies, is forcing militaries around the world to search for effective ways to protect critical facilities. This challenge extends far beyond Russia's confrontation with the missile-and-drone capabilities of NATO...

World

- China remains Germany’s most important trading partner in January-May 2026 - Import surplus in trade with China increases to 42.8 billion euros (January-May 2025: +33.5 billion euros) - Road motor vehicle exports to China decline sharply Read Article HERE The post DeStatis – Germany:...

Economics, DeStatis, Link

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, elected in 2024 with nearly 60 percent of the vote, has continued many of her predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s policies while placing emphasis on clean energy, public-private investment, and aggressive mass digitalization. Her flagship...

Health, Human Rights, China

Israel’s largest arms firms angrily refused to answer questions from independent media at an arms fair in England on Monday. They had been invited to the Farnborough International Airshow despite being required by French authorities to cover their stands in black...

Archive, Arms Trade, Middle East

A ROUTE TO A PEACE PRIZE [A GUEST ARTICLE BY RYAN L. DUDLEY] JULY 21, 2026 According to rumors, President Trump is hoping to receive a Peace Prize. Unfortunately, his actions are counter-productive. He is bogged down in both the Ukraine War...

Guest Contributor

This story was originally published in the Daily Yonder. For more rural reporting and small-town stories visit dailyyonder.com . When Meredith Dean started the first Community Works chapters, she saw people reengaging in politics. “We were seeing more and more volunteers coming...

Activism, Belief & Religion, News

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . When the Strait of Hormuz first closed at the start of the 2026 Iran war , the world braced for the “ largest energy crisis...

Business & Economy, Middle East, Military

Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash I get that I and the rabid left will never see eye-to-eye on gender issues. It’s not that I’m interested in legislating how people live, even if I vehemently disagree with the so-called logic behind...

News

Iran has intensified drone and missile attacks on Kurdish Iranian opposition groups and energy infrastructure in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq amid renewed tensions with the United States. Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi is seeking to balance...

Long War Journal, News, Iran

The release of China’s first-half economic data for 2026 has triggered familiar skepticism across Western media . As the second-quarter GDP growth moderated to 4.3 percent—bringing the first-half expansion to 4.7 percent—mainstream headlines were quick to double down on anxieties...

Labor, Trade, & Finance, China, economy

By Russell CONTRERAS, Delano MASSEY Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The semiquincentennial is becoming a proxy battle over patriotism, belonging and whether the country’s founding ideals should be celebrated as settled history or unfinished work. The...

Editor's Choice, Donald Trump, independence

AI-powered platform identified four critical SoC bugs and helped prevent up to two weeks of potential development delays Semiconductor verification is increasingly constrained not by simulation capacity, but by the engineering effort required to understand why a simulation failed. Modern ASIC...

ChipAgents AI, EDA, 3D-integrated-circuit

By: Khanh Vu Duc Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Manila this week— attending the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference, the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, and the ASEAN Regional Forum — highlights a crucial geopolitical reality: while the Taiwan Strait...

News

By Lauren PEARLE Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In a deeply divided country, one issue is cutting through the noise: Americans increasingly agree that the affordability crisis is real and that it could get worse. A new...

Editor's Choice, Crisis, Economy

The symbolic departure of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer did not end in political rupture or dramatic collapse, but in a quiet administrative disappearance of authority. That detail is not incidental — it is diagnostic. It reflects a deeper condition...

Europe, Politics, The Great Britain

The childish rivalry with Argentines, inflamed by the media, reveals moral weaknesses within Brazilian society. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Almost every people possesses what Carl Schmitt called the fundamental distinction between friend and enemy....

Americas, Society, World

Hamas announced this month it would dissolve its government in Gaza to transfer control to a US-backed Palestinian committee. This was one of the mandates of the US-brokered peace deal between Israel and Hamas last year. While this means Hamas...

Middle East, Axis of Resistance, Block 3

When Donald Trump returned to the White House, he promised to avoid another Middle Eastern “forever war.” After the costly experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan, that pledge resonated with an American public weary of prolonged military intervention. For a brief...

Middle East, Afghanistan War, Bab-el-Mandeb Strait Blockade

Even superpowers depend on global supply chains. The real prize? Setting the rules others follow. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A structural and widespread phenomenon In contemporary strategic discourse, the term “technological sovereignty” has, over the...

Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe

Israel extended the area under its control along Gaza’s eastern edge earlier this week, carrying out military operations in Gaza City and Deir al-Balah that forced people into displacement, eyewitnesses in both cities told Mada Masr. The two governorates lie adjacent...

Politics, forced displacement, Israeli aggression on Gaza 2023

Bethlehem / PNN/ The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media has launched a new study titled "Algorithms of Violence: Analysis of Behaviors, Representations, and Implications of Organized Crime on TikTok among Palestinian Society in Israel." The study examines the...

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The US Navy’s delayed effort to equip its troubled Zumwalt-class destroyers with hypersonic missiles is testing whether the ships can finally gain a credible combat role without repeating their history of shifting missions, immature technologies and mounting costs. This month,...

Military, Block 2, Chinese Hypersonics

When Chinese scholars recently argued that Batanes was a natural extension of Taiwan — and therefore part of China’s territorial claim — they demonstrated how indigenous history and cultural ties can become entangled in contemporary geopolitical competition. Although the argument...

Southeast Asia, Bashi Channel, Batanes

The EU – of governments that promise one thing and do another – gave the Ukrainian people its poison. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Introduction: From “solidarity” to strategy When Russia first entered Ukraine in February...

Europe, Russia & CIS, World

In the 1980s and 90s, you would be amazed to see even one Black player in any European national squad – or, for that matter, even in club football. In the just-completed World Cup, Black players were everywhere, doing fantastic...

Opinion

By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Jul 21 2026 (IPS) Despite rising geopolitical tensions, trade restrictions and calls to bring production back to domestic shores, the global economy remains more interconnected than it may appear. Trade through global value chains (GVCs) reached historic...

Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Energy

Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa, addresses a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York in December 1991. Credit: UN Photo/John Isaac By UN News UNITED NATIONS, Jul 21 2026 (IPS) Sixty-seven minutes. That is how long volunteers spent serving...

Africa, Editors' Choice, Featured

Seoul’s deepening ties with the EU and NATO, as well as recent statements made by President of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Lee Jae Myung during foreign visits, suggest that by the end of 2026, South Korea may transition to...

Politics, South Korea, International politics

The U.S. war with Iran continues to be a major distraction, diverting attention from other problems even within the Middle East. The Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not want it any other way. An image of Iran as...

Benjamin-netanyahu, Israel, Israel-palestine

Europe’s security fears are real and legitimate. But deploying nuclear-capable aircraft to Russia's doorstep is not the answer, and Washington's contradictions are making things worse. On March 2, French President Emmanuel Macron announced major changes to France’s nuclear deterrence doctrine: an...

Emmanuel-macron, Nuclear-weapons, Nato

On Monday, Yemen’s Houthis announced a blockade of Saudi Arabia, marking a major escalation that could ratchet up pressure on global oil markets at a time when U.S. and global oil stockpiles are dangerously depleted . A Houthi blockade could also...

Houthis, Yemen, Saudi-arabia

The “disappearance” of Miraj Sheikh has become more than a missing-person case. It has emerged as the first major test of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government’s pledge to break decisively with the human rights practices that defined the final...

South Asia, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Nationalist Party
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