Despite Lebanese parliamentary joint committees reaching a consensual formula yesterday, 19 May, for the proposed general amnesty law , protests erupted in the streets, particularly by Islamist detainees, rejecting exceptions they believe would limit their actual benefit from the...
Dozens of Gaza-bound flotilla activists detained by Israel have launched a hunger strike in protest of their abduction and detention conditions, as the last remaining vessel attempting to reach Gaza was intercepted in international waters. At least...
Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime intensifies anti-Russian measures in the religious sphere. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Ukrainian regime continues intensifying its persecution against the faith traditionally followed by the majority of the...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided several homes and kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens in the West Bank and Jerusalem last night and at dawn Wednesday. According to local sources, Israeli forces detained several young men and kidnaped...
Egypt announced it had not recorded any Ebola cases and had stepped up screening measures at ports of entry, as Middle Eastern countries respond to a growing outbreak in Central Africa that has already spread beyond the...
Israel moved closer on Wednesday to a snap election after lawmakers gave an initial nod to dissolve parliament, with opinion polls showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would lose the first national vote since October 2023. Israeli lawmakers voted almost unanimously...
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned that rising global instability and unilateral political actions could push the international system toward a dangerous "law of the jungle” during high-level talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing. The statement came after negotiations between...
The Baltic States and the neighboring Russian exclave of Kaliningrad are widely regarded as the most dangerous potential flashpoint for a direct war between NATO and Russia; partly for genuine strategic reasons, and partly because of the intense paranoia at...
In yet another chapter pulled straight from the pages of Orwell, educators across Wales are being trained to identify and report “racist incidents” by toddlers. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In yet...
An Iranian citizen who holds permanent US residency has been released from prison in Iran and has returned to the United States, the State Department confirmed Tuesday. "The State Department happily welcomes the safe return of Shahab Dalili from...
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has warned that any renewed attack on the country would trigger a conflict extending beyond the Middle East, after US President Donald Trump said Washington may be forced to attack...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) When the name of the prisoners is mentioned in the Palestinian consciousness, it does not conjure up a figure in a statement or a passing piece of news in a bulletin. It conjures up suspended faces and ages, mothers...
La NATO sta cadendo a pezzi? Considerando le tensioni tra i membri dell’alleanza, l’opposizione dell’UE ai piani di Trump e la presunta minaccia proveniente dalla Russia, per quanto tempo ancora resisterà questa unione difensiva-coloniale? Segue nostro Telegram . “L’Italia non...
LONDON, (PIC) In a first-of-its-kind event in the UK, drawing attention to the vital importance of documenting historical narratives and honoring those who lived through them, the Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB) held a prestigious ceremony on Monday evening, May 18,...
As US Muslims grieved in the wake of the fatal shooting at a San Diego mosque and Islamic centre, community leaders said they were heartbroken but not surprised by the attack. Monday's shooting, which left three community members dead,...
Members of La France Insoumise (France Unbowed Party) and dozens of their supporters, who gathered outside the National Assembly building last month, celebrated the removal of the Yadan bill from the parliamentary agenda. The proposal was introduced by...
Israel's parliament is expected to vote on Wednesday on a bill to dissolve itself, potentially bringing the next national election forward by a few weeks, which surveys predict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will lose. When is the ballot? An...
Trump’s China pilgrimage revealed not American strength but the exhaustion of an empire that increasingly mistakes spectacle for strategy, beneath smiling children and waving flags, standing between two civilizations moving in opposite psychological directions: one obsessed with image, the other...
Credit: Bibbi Abruzzini/Forus - Rabat, Morocco By Silla Ristimäki, Miguel Santibañez, Emeline Siale Ilolahia and Aoi Horiuchi HELSINKI, Finland / SANTIAGO, Chile / SUVA, Fiji / TOKYO, Japan, May 20 2026 (IPS) Just four years of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable...
The Sharjah Ports, Customs and Free Zones Authority announced on Sunday the launch of an integrated logistics corridor linking ports in Sharjah with Omani ports , most notably Sohar Port, via the emirate’s land crossings. The move has...
Credit: Amnesty International Vanuatu has spearheaded a UN General Assembly resolution, expected to be tabled on May 20, 2026, to endorse and operationalize the 2025 International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion, which confirmed that nations have binding legal duties...
India has withdrawn its bid to host the 2028 United Nations climate summit, a move that indicates a recalibration of its global climate engagement even as it projects itself as a leader in renewable energy and climate action. India’s environment...
GAZA, (PIC) One Palestinian was martyred by Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, amid ceasefire violations persisting for the 223rd consecutive day. According to media sources, fisherman Mohamed Shamlakh was killed this morning when an Israeli gunboat opened fire...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot and injured a Palestinian young man, bulldozed swaths of agricultural land and seized a building in the West Bank on Tuesday evening. According to local sources, the IOF opened fire at Kamal Abu...
Good morning, readers! For those just joining us, here are the latest updates: - US Vice President JD Vance has told a press conference that a lot of progress has been made on talks with Iran and that the US had...
Ama Qamata plays a teenage survivor of sexual violence in the DRC with compelling power, and searingly drawn footage of street life in Goma gives authentic edge Here is an underdog boxing movie from the Democratic Republic of the Congo that...
The global migration problem has not spared Japan, one of the world’s economic leaders. The country’s leadership has to take into account many objective factors when tackling it. The Demographic Situation Looks Increasingly Grim The idea of demographic exacerbation began...
I have been in contact with a friend who is privy to a source in West Asia that has some interesting insights into the behind the scenes activity to prevent a new US attack on Iran. Russia and China are...
A contract locking in 4 percent annualized wage increases was already insufficient the day it was ratified. The war against Iran—a war of aggression waged by US imperialism that is now directly raising the cost of living for workers across...
During a panel appearance at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum last month, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack managed to anger observers in both Turkey and Israel. Israelis took umbrage at his comments that both Israel and Hezbollah are “equally untrustworthy,”...
As President Donald Trump considers the path forward in Iran, Americans’ economic troubles are apparently not a concern. “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation,” Trump said in response to a reporter’s question last week about efforts to end the...
When the Iran war began, the Trump administration told the American people that if the U.S. did not attack and assassinate Iran's leadership, the Islamic Republic could soon be launching missiles at U.S. cities . Now, as Americans absorb skyrocketing...
The US Senate advanced a war-powers resolution on Tuesday that would end US military force against Iran unless President Donald Trump obtains Congress' authorisation, a rare rebuke of the Republican leader 80 days after US and...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) lost his bid for re-election to primary opponent Ed Gallrein 54% to 45% with nearly all votes counted on Tuesday night. Massie’s defeat will no doubt be seen as a triumph of both the continued durability of...
By: Ainur Rohmah - - - - Indonesia spent the last decade selling itself as Southeast Asia’s most promising industrial frontier — a democracy rich in minerals, open to foreign investment and determined to climb the global manufacturing ladder. Today,...
On May 14th, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) reintroduced the Selective Service Repeal Act, S. 4537). This bill already has the endorsement of dozens of peace and antiwar groups, draft resisters, religious organizations, antiwar...
Somewhere in the foothills of Nepal, old men still gather around a wooden board carved into a five-by-five grid, moving carved tigers and goats across its intersections with quiet concentration. The game is called Bagh-chal — literally, ‘Tiger Move’ —...
Zane Goebel, The University of Queensland; Sonia Roitman, The University of Queensland, and Udiana Dewi, University of Sydney Indonesia plans to build a “giant sea wall”, more than 500 kilometers long, to defend Java’s north coast from rising sea levels....
A US military investigation into a strike at a girls' school in Iran has been described as "complex" by a US military commander on Tuesday, saying that it was located on an active Iranian cruise missile...
The reported deployment of Pakistani troops, fighter aircraft and air defencs systems to Saudi Arabia under a confidential mutual defense agreement may prove to be one of the most significant yet understated developments in Middle Eastern security politics in recent...
The May 2026 rebalancing by Morgan Stanley Capital International may go down as one of the most consequential shocks in the modern history of Indonesia’s stock market. The sweeping removal of Indonesian companies from the prestigious MSCI global index family...
Tutt’altre prospettive, certo baldanzosamente ottimistiche, si sono invece dati i convenuti in terra russa, la convinzione tanto delle organizzazioni promotrici, quanto di tutte le altre forze presenti e aderenti al progetto, è quella di contraddire l’appiattimento equivocamente liberale della socialdemocrazia...
Internet access is often used as a tool to control the media during conflicts Originally published on Global Voices Advox Image from iMEdD, used with permission. This article is an excerpt from a longer piece , first published...
Turkey’s flashy unveiling of the Yildirimhan intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) revealed less about the missile itself than about the country’s accelerating drive toward strategic autonomy in an increasingly unstable Middle East. Reports this month on Yildirimhan’s debut at Istanbul’s SAHA...
Given the fact that there are nearly three-quarter of a million Israeli settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, EU sanctions on a handful of them looks like little more than political damage control. Eldar Mamedov is a Brussels-based foreign...
The United States cannot compete with China in the global goods market and this is the key to its decline, but it Uncle Sam will not be on his knees any time soon. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City...
A wide-ranging interview exploring US imperialism and the emerging multipolar world. Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host , The Collapse of Antiquity and The Destiny of Civilization are published by CounterPunch Books. Ali Alizadeh is an Iranian-British YouTuber and political commentator....
The following letter, signed “A. Lincoln” but without a return address or subject line, appeared in my email this morning. No sooner had I made a copy of the letter than it disappeared from my inbox. Despite its strange and...
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