Instead of protesting and communicating with the people, the intermediate classes of Brazil have preferred to say amen to the government so as not to look bad. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su...
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Sabine Nkusi, who fled Kigali during the genocide, leads initiative aimed at challenging stigma of sexual violence As a 14-year-old, Sabine Nkusi witnessed the horrors of the genocide against the Tutsi in her home country of Rwanda. Fleeing Kigali with her...
The United States has launched new airstrikes across Iran this week as President Donald Trump, losing patience over the protracted negotiations to end the war, has leaned into violence to ratchet up the pressure on the Iranian leadership. The US...
Harrowing footage of a Belfast knife attack exploited and distorted by fundamentalist and far-right accounts in Britain and abroad, helping to fuel pogroms against migrants and Sudanese overnight which authorities feared could re-ignite later Wednesday. The 54-second clip, filmed...
Se l’Iran fosse costretto a compiere una dimostrazione di forza nucleare sotto gli occhi di tutto il mondo, la Cina ne trarrebbe la prova che la deterrenza statunitense è solo di facciata. Segue nostro Telegram . MOSCA e SAN PIETROBURGO...
Many families along the Euphrates had already survived war, displacement and poverty. Then the river began to rise. Within days, floodwaters engulfed farmland, knocked water stations out of service and forced families in Deir Ezzor and Raqqa to abandon...
On March 24, 2026, the Philippines declared a state of national energy emergency — the first country in the world to do so in response to the Middle East conflict and the disruption of the Strait of Hormuz. The declaration...
Escalation Blues
Full ArticleThe Empire of Piracy got back to bombing, leading to the inevitable Iranian response. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su So a $40 million U.S. Apache helicopter was targeted by a $20k Shaheed...
Is the Iran War tipping the Gulf away from the U.S.?
Full ArticleBy Ted SNIDER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The countries that have borne the brunt of Iranian retaliation have an incentive to diversify their security structures. On June 3, as messages continued to...
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks, during which Vucic declared the “iron friendship” between the two countries and his intention to significantly expand cooperation with China. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić’s five-day state visit to China...
Saudi Arabia is to allow the resumption of Lebanese exports to the kingdom, its official press agency reported on Wednesday, ending a years-long ban on the goods imposed amid concerns over the influence of Hezbollah in Lebanon . Saudi...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated his condemnation of the detention of UN and other personnel by the Houthis in Yemen and called for their immediate and unconditional release, his deputy spokesman said on Wednesday. Seventy-three UN personnel remain arbitrarily...
NEW YORK, (PIC) Colombian President Gustavo Petro has likened Israel to the “Nazi regime” in his new remarks on the genocide carried out against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Speaking at a recent UN Security Council meeting, president Petro condemned the Israeli...
The World Cup of Human Rights
Full ArticleRefugees and staff from the Center for Victims of Torture play soccer and celebrate human rights, Minneapolis, USA, June 2023. Credit: CVT By Simon Adams PERTH, Australia, Jun 11 2026 (IPS) This planet’s biggest sporting event—the FIFA Men’s World Cup—will soon...
Children dry fish in the sun at a village in the natural gas-rich Afungi peninsula of the northern Mozambique region. In countries including Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, and Mozambique, gas is extracted and exported to serve external markets, while domestic energy...
Ongoing popular protests in several areas of southern rural Hasakah , in northeastern Syria, have prompted authorities to announce urgent measures to address several service and living conditions issues, foremost among them the fuel crisis . Ahmed Al-Hilali, deputy...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a Palestinian physician and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, reportedly said during a recent court hearing that his detention by Israeli authorities lacks any legal justification. Dr. Abu Safiya affirmed that his...
When India placed the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance last year, attention naturally focused on the diplomatic and legal consequences of the decision. Yet the more consequential question may lie elsewhere: what happens when transparency begins to disappear from...
Hello! Welcome to our live coverage. Here are the key updates: - The United States military's Central Command (CENTCOM) launched attacks overnight "against multiple targets in Iran", saying the strikes were in "self-defence". These strikes came after US President Donald Trump...
AI and cloud services do not run in the air. They need land, power, water, cooling, fiber, permits, and a lot of physical infrastructure. Thailand is now seeing more of that demand land inside its industrial estate ecosystem. Thailand is...
On June 7, parliamentary elections were held in Armenia, as a result of which the ruling party can form a new government. What distinguished the 2026 elections, and is a parliamentary crisis looming? Crisis and frustration after military defeats After...
Global trade has once again been shaken by a dramatic shift in US protectionist policy, and Indonesia is once again in the crosshairs. The change has been driven by a series of targeted investigations conducted under Section 301 of the...
Trump’s Covert Oil Scam… Setting the Record Straight
Full ArticleOil Tanker Trump has reignited the war with Iran and it is going to be ugly. BORZZIKMAN reports that Iranian and Russian sources say that Iran destroyed 12 F-35 combat aircraft last night that were sheltered at a Jordanian airbase....
The Israeli military’s demolition of an entire village in Lebanon is “a Nakba of 2026,” the presence of hunting rifles and a Hezbollah flag is enough to have a Lebanese home designated “terrorist infrastructure,” and Israeli soldiers have operated there...
The time is ripe for European leaders to set aside the self-licking summits in European capitals and get in the room with the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia to orchestrate a modern-day Helsinki Conference. A durable peace for Ukraine will require...
It is virtually certain that the trade agreement between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico (USMCA) negotiated in President Donald Trump’s first term will not be renewed by the deadline of June 30. And indeed, Trump confirmed Wednesday that...
The military junta has detained thousands of political prisoners since the 2021 coup, and a pattern of gender-based abuses is becoming clear In August 2021, news spread across a Myanmar protesters’ network that Thazin*, an activist and former university student, had...
Cuba has been under a US trade embargo since the Eisenhower administration, although it was President John F. Kennedy who implemented a comprehensive embargo on all trade with Cuba. And while every subsequent administration has tried since to cause pain and suffering to...
Buried deep inside a 192-page intelligence authorization bill is Section 622, titled “United States-Israel Intelligence Sharing Enhancement.” It would require the president, acting through the director of national intelligence and as necessary the secretary of defense, to “expand and enhance intelligence sharing...
By: Toh Han Shih - - - - CMIOs Singaporean authorities are alleging foreign interference in the country’s domestic affairs, stoking racial divisions with South Asians as targets via a China-based platform allegedly sowing racial discord with online subject matter....
The Trump administration’s targeting of the Detroit metro area, the historic heart of the American auto industry and home to nearly a quarter million manufacturing workers, makes it clear that ICE is not engaging in narrow immigration enforcement but a...
The United States began a fresh round of strikes against multiple targets overnight in Iran, the US military said on Wednesday, hours after President Donald Trump vowed new attacks if no peace deal is secured. "The strikes...
When the US-Iran conflict escalated earlier this year, the immediate concern centered on oil prices and the Strait of Hormuz. But the real danger was never confined to crude oil. The crisis has evolved into a broader energy, logistics, fertilizer,...
It all started with a call to my family in a displacement camp in northern Gaza. Since internet lines rarely stay connected, I managed to send a message to the widow of my cousin – who was killed along with...
French President Emmanuel Macron Wednesday said his Ukrainian counterpart would attend the G7 summit next week in France to "rebuild consensus" on support for Ukraine, while leaders of four Arab states would be invited for talks on the...
Paper authors Hassan Ugail, Jan Ritch-Frel, Irina Matuzava, and David G. Stork have published their work in PLOS One Journal . You can read their article, “Verification of historical sketches via one-class learning on compact feature representations,” on the PLOS website . The...
Following the high-profile eliminations of two Hamas military wing leaders, the Israeli military turned to targeting lower-level officials in the group who are leading its rearmament push, as well as members of other Gaza terrorist organizations. The post IDF targets...
The UN nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors passed a US-backed resolution on Wednesday telling Iran to declare its remaining enriched uranium stocks and let inspectors verify them, which could complicate Washington's talks with Tehran. The move came within...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Religious Freedom Data Center reported on Wednesday a sharp rise in attacks and harassment targeting Palestinian Christians and Christian holy sites. According to the center, more than 88 incidents have been documented since the beginning of 2026, including...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli police forces on Wednesday demolished a Palestinian home in the Beit Hanina al-Tahta neighborhood north of Occupied East Jerusalem, leaving an entire family homeless. Local sources said Israeli troops, accompanied by heavy machinery, raided the area and demolished...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement said that the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision to reject a petition against the so-called “International Organizations Registration Law” is further evidence of the Israeli judiciary’s complicity in restricting the work of humanitarian and international organizations. In a...
La Via della Terra: come la crisi di Hormuz sta ridisegnando l’ordine economico globale a vantaggio dei BRICS+
Full ArticleLa terra sta riprendendo quello che il mare aveva preso. E lo Stretto di Hormuz — quella sottile linea d’acqua tra l’Oman e l’Iran — è il punto in cui la storia ha scelto di voltare pagina. Segue nostro Telegram...
Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert gave a keynote speech about the Greek spyware scandal at an event hosted by Eteron think tank in Athens in May. He described how the Citizen Lab helped bring to light the use...
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 25 May 2026. Mali’s media regulator has ordered the immediate suspension of the Saudi-owned television channel Al Arabiya , pulling it from all licensed broadcast packages in the country over...
June 10 marks a sweet celebration cherished by dessert lovers around the world — World Ice Cream Day. Among the many holidays dedicated to sweets and desserts, this one undoubtedly enjoys universal appeal. The occasion serves as a reminder of the...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, welcomed on Wednesday the report issued by Amnesty International, which documented the crime of ethnic cleansing targeting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The Movement said, in a press release, that the report confirms...
When Argentina lifted the World Cup in Qatar in 2022 , millions of supporters celebrated in the streets. Four years later, as the country heads into the 2026 tournament as defending champion — and possibly Lionel Messi's final World Cup...
Production in industry April 2026 (in real terms, provisional +0.4% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted) -0.5% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted) March 2026 (in real terms, revised -0.1% on the previous month...
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