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China’s mobile drone launcher is less a single weapon than a blueprint for dispersing airpower, exploiting civilian cover and exporting low-cost strike reach to states priced out of traditional military aviation. This month, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported...

Military, Beijing Institute of Technology, Belt and Road Initiative

When the Pentagon made Palantir’s Maven Smart System a formal “program of record” in March, it did more than approve software. It gave long-term status to a platform that analyzes data from satellites, drones, radars, sensors, and intelligence reports to...

Military, AI War, AI War Machine

Crimea In light of the Western propaganda portraying life in Russia as a horror show of economic chaos and deprivation, I decided to post an article submitted to me by an ex-pat American who currently resides in Simferopol. Let’s call...

Larry C. Johnson

The Liberal government, led by former central bank governor Mark Carney, has played the leading role in the development of this new multilateral bank, as part of its effort to drastically increase Canada’s military spending and cultivate military ties with...

- - - - In 1789, the framers of the American Constitution returned to Philadelphia to draft a Bill of Rights to protect the new country’s citizens from the government they had just created. James Madison, drawing inspiration from the...

Andy Burnham , Britain's likely next prime minister, on Friday ruled out calling a general election if he succeeds Keir Starmer, pledging to stick to the ruling party's most recent manifesto. Burnham - currently the only candidate to replace Starmer, who...

World

Iranians began to gather on Friday for the funeral ceremonies of slain supreme leader Ali Khamenei, as officials and international dignitaries paid their last respects to the man who ran the country for three-and-a-half decades. Iranian authorities have planned...

MENA

Syrian authorities said on Friday that they had begun trying suspects over a wave of deadly violence that tore through the Druze-majority Suweida province last year. The episode last July involved some of the worst internecine bloodshed the country...

MENA

Hossam Abdelmaguid scored the winning penalty as Egypt made history by beating a dogged Australia 4-2 on penalties to reach the World Cup last 16 on Friday. A tense affair in which Egypt and their off-colour captain Mohamed...

Sports

Israele è insoddisfatto della posizione dell’amministrazione del presidente Trump e punta sullo spionaggio e sulla raccolta di materiale compromettente; del resto, non è una novità Segue nostro Telegram . All’inizio di giugno, la Defense Intelligence Agency (Dia) statunitense avrebbe emesso...

Italiano, Intelligence service, Israel

The MoU cat better slip out of its coma, fast. Otherwise, Total, Devastating Chaos is bound to prevail. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su These oh so meticulous Persians. How to impart to...

Middle East, World, Iran

The gloves are off. There seems to be no other choice. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su There is a palpable sense now that Russia has significantly stepped up its military firepower...

Americas, Editorial, Europe

Two Romanians previously convicted of a knife attack on an Iranian journalist outside his London home "on behalf of" Iran were jailed Friday for 12 and eight years respectively. George Stana, 25, and Nandito Badea, 21, were found guilty...

World

A highly sceptical take on AI. Cross-posted from Counterfire Picture by deepak pal Is AI Going to take my job? Statistically… no, but you’re not supposed to know that. The capacity for AI to eliminate jobs has been greatly...

Solutions, Article, Artificial Intelligence

What neither side can admit is that neither Brexit UK nor the EU has achieved any success in the past decade. John Rees is a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a co-founder of the Stop the...

EU politics, EU-Institutions, National Politics

Credit: Connie France/AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jul 3 2026 (IPS) Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has won Peru’s presidential runoff, narrowly defeating leftist Roberto Sánchez to become the country’s ninth president in a decade. She inherits a system so...

Active Citizens, Civil Society, Crime & Justice

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s national team may have bowed out of the World Cup after being eliminated by the United States on Wednesday, but their fans will be remembered for giving a platform to the Palestinian cause at...

Sports

On a drizzly March day last year at the White House, President Donald J. Trump stood behind a podium to make a ​“beautiful announcement.” Hyundai, the Korean industrial giant, was investing nearly $6 billion in a new steel plant in Louisiana, which would supply domestic...

United States, Ascension Parish, Block 2

The con of neoliberalism has gutted our democracy and paved the way for fascism. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle...

Corruption, Economics, Lobbying

Yemen's Houthis threatened on Friday Saudi airports and vital assets should Riyadh violate its airspace or attempt to attack it, as the rebels accused the kingdom of trying to stop an Iranian plane from landing. The threats followed a time...

MENA

Whether it is the middle or working classes, or even the well-to-do, life can start to shrink in the face of extreme weather. Credit: Shutterstock By Philippe Benoit PARIS, Jul 3 2026 (IPS) If you pay close attention to the rhetoric...

Headlines, TerraViva United Nations, Extreme Weather

Human rights organisations have raised concerns over the Lebanon-Israel framework agreement , warning that it "threatens to betray war crimes victims in Lebanon" due to its vague legal language that appears to be aimed at preventing citizens from...

MENA

Israel's Security Cabinet has approved a plan to establish 13 new settlements in the occupied West Bank , with Palestinian officials warning that the expansion will deepen territorial fragmentation and further isolate occupied East Jerusalem. According to...

MENA

On July 1, 2025, USAID laid off thousands of staff, including me. A year later, I’m still wrestling with what it all meant. The justifications offered at the time—that USAID was riddled with corruption, fraud, and waste—didn’t match reality as...

Democracy & Governance, Aid, Civil Society

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has condemned the killing of Palestinian goalkeeper Saleem Khader Al-Ashqar by Israeli forces in Gaza this week, renewing calls for accountability amid Israel's killing of hundreds of athletes and sportspeople. In...

Sports

Former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei's funeral will begin on Friday, 3 July , more than four months after he was killed in a US-Israeli strike on his Tehran compound on 28 February. The ceremonies will run until Thursday, 9...

MENA

Our coverage has now ended. Here are the updates from today: - Preparations for the funeral of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei are ongoing, as foreign dignitaries begin to arrive to pay their respects. - - Top Iranian officials also...

MENA

Authorities in Damascus have opened an investigation into Thursday’s deadly bombing in the heart of the Syrian capital , but the attack remains clouded by uncertainty over who carried it out and why. On Thursday afternoon, a bomb...

MENA

Right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel is accusing Pope Leo XIV of doing the work of the Chinese Communist Party with his criticisms of artificial intelligence. According to a Thursday report from CNN, Thiel told the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Tuesday that the...

Technology, Antichrist, Artificial Intelligence

The World Cup group stage rarely unfolds according to predictions, but the opening rounds of the 2026 tournament have shattered expectations on an extraordinary scale. Football powers arrived with elite squads, heavy betting support, and championship ambitions. Instead, many walked...

Sport

Anthropic received a letter on June 12, issued under Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. It instructed Anthropic to shut down its AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, its foreign-national employees included. Given its inability to filter...

Labor, Trade, & Finance, AI, Anthropic

The city of Kashiwa in Chiba Prefecture, population 435,000, is quiet for its size. Lying less than an hour’s train ride to the northeast of mega-metropolis Tokyo, Kashiwa – home to many commuters and their families – presents a calm...

Asia Times, Northeast Asia, Chiba Prefecture

DAMASCUS, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has condemned the bombing of a café in the Syrian capital, Damascus, which killed and wounded several people. In a statement issued on Friday, the Movement denounced the targeting of civilians and the terrorizing of residents, describing...

News, Explosion, Hamas Movement

GAZA, (PIC) A Palestinian child was martyred and another wounded on Friday morning after an Israeli drone dropped a bomb on them in the Old City, east of Gaza City. Gaza’s Civil Defense said an Israeli quadcopter dropped the explosive device on...

News, Gaza Strip, Israeli ceasefire violations

Fifty members of the European Parliament have urged FIFA's ethics committee to investigate their president, Gianni Infantino, for awarding a ' peace prize ' to US President Donald Trump. The MEPs signed a letter supporting a complaint by British-based sports human...

Sports

The British cosmetics retailer Lush has launched a new product on Thursday in support of the right to protest amid draconian measures within UK courts that threaten pro-Palestinian activism. Lush's new limited-edition "Resilience" bath bomb was designed...

World
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