This infographic presents the top 10 countries whose citizens have been identified as foreign mercenaries in Ukraine, based on the calculations за Lostarmour, a Russian crowdsourcing portal that compiles and verifies open-source casualty data. Join us on Telegram , Twitter ,...
By Bruce FEIN Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Antifa and drug trafficking are hardly existential threats to the American way of life. The American Empire is the safest country in history. Among other things, we sport more...
Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Empires never surrender: they rot; there is no empire without an end. We have the rare opportunity to see the gringo empire turn into scum while it still retains...
The pause between the United States and Iran was merely the prelude to a new phase of the war. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The recent resumption of hostilities between the United States and Iran...
Brazil no longer plays “football-art,” nor does it manage to achieve results by appealing to “tactical awareness” and “efficiency.” Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Not a day has passed in the last month without Brazilians...
Trump’s war in Iran has confirmed wholesale that Israel owns him and the U.S. taxpayer. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Is Britain’s new prime minister about to stand up to the hugely powerful Israeli lobby?...
I recently drove to a gas station in Massachusetts to fill my tank with regular gas, the cheapest around, and, to my surprise, given what’s going on, it was only $4.59 a gallon. Okay, okay, I take back that “only” and...
In a speech given on Wednesday in honor of Nelson Mandela Day, New York’s mayor reflects on what Madiba can teach us in a fractured era What a privilege it is to be together to honor the leadership of the Nelson...
In the grand circus of American politics, Kentucky somehow keeps stealing the spotlight. In the latest ongoing saga, 84-year-old Senator Mitch McConnell has managed to create the ultimate stir: found unresponsive in his D.C. home more than two weeks ago,...
Gaza / PNN / The Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp confirmed the number of casualties, saying people were struck at the funeral for a Palestinian killed in a strike earlier on Friday. Israel and the Hamas resistance group agreed to...
Hat tip to Kevin Wamsley of Inside China Business. His recent video explaining the importance of China’s Beidou satellite navigation system provides a critical insight into the current success of Iran’s missile strikes on US and Israeli targets. It is...
Imagine a seafood restaurant overlooking the Aegean, with tables set just meters from the water. One of its guiding principles is to source as much line-caught fish as possible. In other words, it cares not only about how the fish...
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won a legislative victory on Friday with the passage of a revision to the Imperial Household Law, but she faced significant criticism for her management of the Diet as the ruling parties voted to extend the...
Vanadium is viewed as a critical mineral by the United States, the European Union, Russia, China and many other countries because of its importance to energy storage and industrial alloys. At the Astana Metals & Metallurgy (AMM) Congress, Ferro-Alloy Resources CEO Nicholas Bridgen discussed the...
Artificial intelligence should not be a solo performance by one country, but a symphony of international cooperation. That was Chinese President Xi Jinping’s framing on July 17, when he opened the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global...
It recently emerged that tech billionaire Peter Thiel is running a secret society that brings together fellow CEOs and billionaires with political leaders. Members reportedly include figures like NATO supreme commander Alexus Grynkewich and the son-in-law of US President Donald...
Driven by shifting domestic political dynamics and a transforming regional landscape, Bangladesh’s new prime minister, Tarique Rahman, who came to power after a landslide in February this year, has shelved plans to visit its most consequential neighbor, India, for the...
Hand-painted works are often wildly unfaithful to the movies they portray – reinterpretations that sometimes resulted in threats, insults and even physical attacks from viewers who felt duped Sitting on his porch in Teshie near Accra, Heavy J dipped a brush...
China is building an increasingly sophisticated anti-stealth network, but its effectiveness may depend less on individual radar performance than on its ability to integrate, maintain and operate the wider system under combat pressure. Last month, the China Aerospace Studies Institute...
Shoshana Bryen, senior director of Washington’s Jewish Policy Center and editor of inFOCUS Quarterly, died on Thursday, July 16, 2026. She was a longtime contributor to Asia Times of articles often written in collaboration with her husband, former US Under Secretary...
This is not sleepwalking into war. The European elites’ eyes are wide open and crazed. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The European Union has officially joined the war effort against Russia. This week, European Commission...
Credit: liujunrong/iStock by Getty Images - Source: IMF By Jean-Marc Natal and Azim Sadikov WASHINGTON DC, Jul 17 2026 (IPS) The largest disruption to the global oil market in decades should have sent prices soaring. But after spiking at the start of the...
July 17 marked the ninetieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The coup was a decisive event in the Spanish Revolution (1931-39). The defeat of the revolution was a seminal experience of the 20th century whose lessons...
Senior research fellow Gary Miller spoke to Financial Times about attempts to exploit mobile network vulnerabilities to track US personnel during the Iran war. “Iran absolutely has capabilities to get real-time, immediate, and continuous location information,” he said. “It would surprise...
By CIVICUS Jul 17 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses the prospects for elections in Serbia with Rasa Nedeljkov, Programme Director at the Center for Research, Transparency and Accountability, a civil society organisation that monitors electoral processes and the rule of law in Serbia. Rasa...
Your Humble Correspondent does not discuss Politics, because Politics are personal. The Somerset Thesis of Politics vs. Policy Everything that made you who you are – your History, your Family, your Employment, your Sexuality, your Morality – those incidentals which define your...
Johnson’s best imitation of Joseph McCarthy. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Speaker of the House Mike Johnson finalized the Republican plank for the upcoming midterm election. It will not be about affordability, inflation, and the...
Reuters reported that Iran’s leaders instructed the Houthis in Yemen to close Bab al Mandeb Strait, the maritime chokepoint at the southern end of the Red Sea, if the United States strikes Iran’s power infrastructure. The Houthis are also focused...
Päivi Räsänen says the loss of her UK travel authorization is the latest consequence of a controversial court ruling over her Christian views on marriage and sexuality. By Zolta Győri Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Finnish...
Turkey, caught between two systems, shifts the center of gravity of its strategic choices. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Turkey regains its position On July 7 and 8, 2026, Ankara hosted the 36 th summit of...
The new (old) relevance of gold. NIKA DUBROVSKY Hello, everyone. I’m very happy to welcome Kathleen Tyson and Michael Hudson back to the David Graeber Institute . And today we are going to talk about gold — which is very fascinating, given...
Madhulima Tewari is the CEO and founder of VerifAIX. After two decades building EDA tools, taping out chips, and working on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise AI applications, she teamed up with chip design and methodology leaders and university...
While the public is encouraged to blame immigrants, Muslims, the left, or ‘Israel haters’, the UK state is racing to erect a scaffolding of control to protect itself before we wake up to the deception Jonathan Cook is the author of...
Today, the two-state scenario is far-fetched to the point of delusion if not evasion. Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. The paperback edition of his latest book, War Made Invisible:...
The entire rotten system of dehumanizing exploitation and relentless warmongering needs to be prosecuted and vanquished – before it destroys humanity. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su If there’s a World Cup for war criminals, Trump...
The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack . The future of Warner Bros is again up in the air. Following yet another corporate restructuring – after having been partners or a subsidiary of Time, AOL, AT&T, and Discovery –...
Subscribe to our Lens on Sudan newsletter here . A new ceasefire proposal has reached Sudan’s Security and Defense Council. Following a meeting chaired on Sunday by Transitional Sovereignty Council head and military chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the council said it...
Photo by aboodi vesakaran on Unsplash Last night’s speech by President Trump wasn’t fun. Perhaps the least fun aspect of it is that it was so unsurprising. China sees the United States as an obstacle to its goal of becoming the...
America’s bees and beekeepers are losing a valuable ally just when they need its help most. The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to soon close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center , a 6,500-acre agricultural research station in Maryland that is home...
Lindsey Graham’s sister took his Senate seat at 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon, and the shortest reading of American foreign policy this week is that nothing else about it changed. Darline Graham Nordone, 62, a state commissioner for the blind who...
The real message to be drawn from Trump ’s address to the nation Thursday night is that he will call into question the votes of every state and city that chooses a Democratic senator or representative in the 2026 midterm...
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh – Inside the bamboo shelter that functions as her home, Yasmin Ara sits quietly holding her infant son. Outside, neighbors carry heavy containers of water and sacks of rice along narrow streets, while children run between shelters....
There has been talk at the latest conferences about TSMC customers taking wafers to Intel for packaging. The question is why? Is it competitive pricing? Capacity? Supply chain diversity? CC Wei was asked about this during the last investor call...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 7 July 2026. By Sulemana Braimah, Executive Director, Media Foundation for West Africa Summary: Since we launched The Fourth Estate as a non-profit investigative journalism project, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has...
Two earthquakes that hit north-central Venezuela on June 24 have killed at least 4,829 people, injured 16,740, and displaced approximately 18,000, according to government figures. The disaster has overwhelmed Venezuela’s emergency services and slowed political developments that had gained momentum...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 13 July 2026. The Bamako Cybercrime Court on July 6, 2026, rejected a provisional release request by Chahana Takiou, journalist and director of the biweekly newspaper Le 22 Septembre . Chahana Takiou has been...
Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. The Spahn affair hits Germany before an AfD breakthroughDiego Faßnacht reports that Jens Spahn’s surrogacy controversy has exposed a damaging...
On the latest investor call the big story was the increase in CAPEX for 2026 and the expected CAPEX for 2027. TSMC raised the CAPEX ceiling for 2026 from US$56 billion to US$64 billion. My guess would be US$64 billion...
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