A real policy push has emerged in the United States to extend certain legal protections to Americans who serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In 2024, members of Congress introduced H.R. 8445 , a bill that would amend...
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Alfred McCoy – American “Micro-Militarism”
Full ArticleOr How Defeat in the Iran War Will Accelerate American Global Decline Alfred W. McCoy is the Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His new book, just published, is Cold War on Five Continents: The Geopolitics...
Palestinian authorities call local elections in a Gaza community and the West Bank a success
Full ArticlePalestinian authorities said Sunday that local elections in a single Gaza community and the occupied West Bank were a success and called them a step toward a long-delayed presidential election in the territories and eventual statehood. The Palestinian...
For years, conversations about Muslim children’s books have centred around one word: representation . We’ve been rightly focused on ensuring that Muslim children see themselves on the page – that they recognise their names, their families, their skin tones,...
Iran's foreign minister returned to Islamabad on Sunday, ping-ponging from capital to capital as mediators hoped to keep peace talks between Tehran and the United States alive. Abbas Araghchi visited Oman's Muscat on Saturday after leaving Pakistan, and...
A Syrian court conducted the first hearing Sunday in the trial of ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad and senior figures from his government, one of whom appeared in person. Assad and his brother Maher have fled Syria and...
Hezbollah on Sunday rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's accusation that it was jeopardising a ceasefire and said it would keep responding to Israel's own violations and occupation of south Lebanon. In a statement, Hezbollah said its attacks...
Israeli strikes on Sunday killed at least three people in Gaza , including a woman, the enclave's civil defence agency said. Despite an October ceasefire, Gaza remains gripped by daily violence as Israeli strikes and attacks continue. "Three martyrs and...
An Israeli police officer confiscated a Hungarian flag from a protester during a demonstration in Israel last week on the grounds that it bore too much resemblance to a Palestinian flag , and that it could cause "provocation". The protester...
Israeli security officials and residents near the border with Egypt have raised concerns over planned Egyptian military exercises involving live fire close to the frontier, according to Israeli media reports. The concerns follow what was described...
Kuwait has revoked the citizenship of 1,266 people, including a former MP and a national team footballer, in the latest phase of a sweeping campaign authorities say is aimed at "cleansing" the country’s nationality records. The decision, issued...
Loyalists of President Mahmoud Abbas won most races in Palestinian municipal elections , election officials said on Sunday, in a vote that for the first time in nearly two decades included a city in the Gaza Strip...
Il Decreto Sicurezza è legge, e con essa il nuovo ordine tecno-biopolitico della “destra” italiana
Full ArticleCon 162 voti favorevoli, 102 contrari e un solo astenuto, l’Aula di Montecitorio ha sancito la conversione in legge del decreto Sicurezza fortemente voluto dal governo di Giorgia Meloni Segue nostro Telegram . La legge che divide: il voto di...
Eduardo Gonçalves and Blair Patrick Schuyler respond to an article on the myth at the heart of trophy hunting Regarding Cal Flyn’s article ( On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa’s...
As contradições da política armênia contemporânea
Full ArticlePashinyan e os nacionalistas armênios começam a entrar em conflito. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su A recente queima da bandeira turca por ativistas armênios ultranacionalistas, seguida da condenação pública do primeiro-ministro...
Israel's military issued new displacement orders for southern Lebanon on Sunday, ordering residents to leave seven towns that lie beyond the "buffer zone" it occupied before a ceasefire that has failed to bring a full halt to...
By Mehmet PERINCEK Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Cuban Revolution and anti-colonialism in historic perspective. Speech held at a round table discussion titled “Fidel Castro and World Politics: The Cuban Experience...
Pope rebukes German Church over same-sex blessings
Full ArticleBy Nick HALLET Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Leo XIV says formalised ceremonies exceed Vatican limits set under Francis. Pope Leo XIV has publicly rebuked the expansion of same-sex blessings...
President Donald Trump and officials in his administration were the likely targets of a suspect who fired on a security agent guarding the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, US Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche...
BEIRUT, (PIC) One person was killed and three others were injured in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Sunday evening. According to the National News Agency, an Israeli airstrike in the town of Burj Qalaouiyah in southern Lebanon killed one citizen...
Palestinians in the devastated Gaza Strip experienced moments of respite and joy this week, as dozens of couples got married in a charity-sponsored mass wedding on Friday. As many as 20,000 people gathered in the central city of...
Mali Defence Minister Sadio Camara was killed in an attack by al-Qaeda-linked group JNIM on his residence at the Kati military base outside Bamako on Saturday, France's RFI radio reported on Sunday. Attacks continued on Sunday,...
Al Qaeda’s Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM) and its allies in the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) conducted a massive, widespread offensive in Mali, from Bamako to Kidal, on Saturday. Several cities fell under the complete or partial...
On 8 December 2024, after more than five decades in power, the Assad regime in Syria was overthrown. Syrians, at home and abroad, erupted into celebrations and were joined by people across the region, including many Palestinians. Despite cultivating a pro-Palestinian...
The fragmentation of Romania’s coalition signals a broader loss of legitimacy in the European-centered political order. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Romania has been thrust back into a period of political uncertainty...
Escalation in southern Lebanon threatens ceasefire as conflict exposes deeper fault lines
Full ArticleBEIRUT, (PIC) Israeli military escalation in southern Lebanon has intensified, raising fears of a collapse of the fragile ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump, as airstrikes, displacement, and broader political tensions converge on the ground. Israeli forces launched a series of...
GAZA, (PIC) The Global Sumud Flotilla has completed its preparations in Italy to set sail on Sunday, aiming to break the Israeli blockade imposed on the war-ravaged Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian aid. The flotilla, a civilian initiative launched in 2025 with...
The controversial negotiations between Lebanon and Israel that took place on 14 and 23 April expose the contradictions sustaining conflicts in Lebanon and across the region. Direct talks were requested before the current war by Lebanon as part...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The reopening of the Sanur settlement is not merely about a handful of buildings perched on a hill in the northern West Bank, it carries a clear political message: what was once dismantled under past pressures can now...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Hordes of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards on Sunday morning, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to local sources, at least 77 settlers entered...
The first public trial in Syria of officials linked to the rule of former President Bashar Assad opened in Damascus on Sunday. Atef Najib, a former Syrian army brigadier general who was head of the Political Security...
The Global Sumoud Fleet has completed preparations in Italy to set sail on Sunday in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian aid, organisers said. The civilian initiative,...
GAZA, (PIC) The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported more than 17,000 cases of infection among displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip linked to rodents and external parasites since the beginning of the year, as health and humanitarian conditions continue to...
New fighting in Mali's Kidal between army and rebels
Full ArticleFresh fighting erupted Sunday in the key Malian town of Kidal between Tuareg rebels backed by Islamist militants and government forces supported by Russian mercenaries, a day after insurgents launched coordinated strikes across the restive Sahel...
Israeli military attacks killed at least four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday in several locations across the enclave, in their latest violation of the October 2025 ceasefire . Israeli tank shelling targeted a group of displaced...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers cut down hundreds of olive trees in the town of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah, in a new attack targeting Palestinian agricultural property in the occupied West Bank. Local sources reported that settlers from...
Israeli forces stormed a polling station during Palestinian local elections in the occupied West Bank on Saturday evening, injuring six people, as wider raids and settler attacks were reported across the territory. The vote formed part...
Bethlehem / PNN/ President Mahmoud Abbas sent a message to US President Donald Trump congratulating him on his safety following an assassination attempt that also targeted his wife and Vice President JD Vance. In the message, President Abbas expressed his condemnation and...
RAMALLAH / PNN / The Central Elections Commission announced on Sunday the final results of the local elections held in 183 local councils in the West Bank, in addition to the city of Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, including...
The Taliban government said on Saturday that Afghans who fled to Qatar , fearing reprisals over their collaboration with US forces, may return home "with full confidence". The administration of US President Donald Trump , which has...
Il Litani non è soltanto il principale fiume del Libano: è una linea di vita per acqua, agricoltura ed energia, ma anche uno spazio conteso da oltre un secolo. Oggi il progetto israeliano di controllo fino al fiume ripropone in...
Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah will miss the rest of the season after suffering a hamstring injury in a 3-1 Premier League win over Crystal Palace, Egypt national team director Ibrahim Hassan said on Saturday. The 33-year-old Egyptian...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and extremist Jewish groups assaulted Palestinian citizens in different areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem on Saturday evening, injuring a number of them. In southern al-Khalil, six citizens were injured on Saturday evening...
The ongoing conflict in Gaza is reshaping the moral and geopolitical landscape of the Middle East. Israel’s rhetoric toward Türkiye now signals more than a diplomatic rupture; it reveals a pattern of strategic antagonism in which war has become the...
Dean Baker – We Don’t Need Billionaires, and We Can Structure the Market So We Don’t Have Them
Full ArticleThe rise of the Epstein Class is the result of neo-liberalism, which is destroying the world politically, economically, and the climate. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from the Counterpunch By...
Iran said it is refusing to enter "imposed negotiations" as the prospect of a second round of direct talks between the US and Iran in Pakistan fades. Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian told Pakistan's Prime Minister...
Iran said it is refusing to enter "imposed negotiations" as the prospect of a second round of direct talks between the US and Iran in Pakistan fades. Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian told Pakistan's Prime Minister...
Iran said it is refusing to enter "imposed negotiations" as the prospect of a second round of direct talks between the US and Iran in Pakistan fades. Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian told Pakistan's Prime Minister...
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