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La mossa di Teheran sul pedaggio in yuan a Hormuz è la sfida più concreta al petrodollaro in cinquant’anni. E un ufficiale americano lo ammette. Segue nostro Telegram . C’è una frase che vale più di cento briefing del Pentagono....

Italiano, China, De-Dollarization

AL-KHALIL, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out demolition and land-clearing operations on Wednesday, targeting agricultural structures and a water well in the town of Al-Ramadin, south of al-Khalil. Local sources reported that the IOF raided the areas of Treet and Deir...

News, IOF, Israeli violations

The resistance intensified its operations over the weekend and launched dozens of strikes deep inside “Israel”. Targets included the Palmachim Airbase, the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems complex, and several military sites such as Stella Maris Base, Ein Shemer Base, and...

Geopolitics, Link

RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian Center for the Defense of Prisoners said Wednesday that this year’s Ramadan marks one of the harshest periods for Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons in more than four decades, amid escalating repressive measures. In a statement, the center...

News, Palestinian prisoners, Prisoner

Iran's state media said Wednesday that Israel attacked its South Pars gas field — the largest in the world and one that is shared with Qatar to the south across the Persian Gulf. Facilities associated with the gas field near Asaluyeh...

Energy

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israeli police forces arrested Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement inside Israel, on Wednesday evening while he was in Occupied Jerusalem. Witnesses reported that a special Israeli police unit arrested Sheikh Salah while he was in the...

News, Aqsa Mosque, Israeli violations

Street scen of Herat province. By External Source HERAT, Afghanistan, Mar 18 2026 (IPS) When Khadija Ahmadzada was arrested in Herat province of Afghanistan in January this year, it sparked widespread domestic and international protests. Women’s rights activists and social media...

Active Citizens, Asia-Pacific, Crime & Justice

As the Middle East confronts a rapidly escalating confrontation between the US, Israel, and Iran, the already fragile ceasefire in the war-torn Gaza Strip has returned to the centre of regional political calculations. What once appeared to be a...

Analysis

US Senator Jon Ossoff on Wednesday cornered Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard over President Donald Trump’s false claims that he launched a war with Iran because it was an “imminent” threat to US national security. During a Senate Select Intelligence Committee...

Middle East, Block 3, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard

US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack has denied a recent report that Washington was encouraging Damascus to "take action" against Hezbollah in Lebanon . Barrack took to X to refute a Reuters article published on Tuesday, which...

MENA

Italian prosecutors have confirmed the hacking of journalist Francesco Cancellato, who was alerted by WhatsApp of a suspected spyware attack last year. The Italian investigation validates Citizen Lab’s forensic analysis, which found that Cancellato’s phone was targeted by Paragon’s...

UK media conglomerate Sky is set to terminate a joint venture with the UAE over accusations it was broadcasting genocide denial and propaganda in relation to the war in Sudan , according to reports. The broadcaster is expected to withdraw...

MENA

Israel repeatedly struck central Beirut on Wednesday, with Lebanese authorities reporting a death toll of at least 12 including a director for Hezbollah 's Al Manar TV channel, and began striking river crossings in south Lebanon. Lebanon was drawn...

MENA

An international media association on Wednesday criticised an "unprovoked assault" by Israeli police on journalists in Jerusalem, which it said left a CNN producer with a fractured wrist. The Foreign Press Association (FPA) said police officers on Tuesday night...

MENA

Iraq 's gas imports from Iran were completely halted on Wednesday, authorities said, the latest blow to the country's battered economy reeling from the impact of the Middle East war. The country has been unwillingly drawn into the conflict triggered...

MENA

Ukraine has sent over 200 anti-drone military experts to the Gulf to help thwart Iranian attacks with more set to go, building on years of experience gained from the war with Russia. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine...

MENA

Iran is using a system of "selective passage" to control shipping through the Strait of Hormuz , effectively deciding which vessels are allowed to pass as the US and Israel's war on the country disrupts global...

MENA

As semiconductor manufacturing pushes deeper into the nanometer regime, computational lithography has evolved from a supporting step into a central pillar of advanced chip design. Mask synthesis, lithography simulation, and optical proximity correction (OPC) now demand unprecedented levels of accuracy...

EDA, Lithography, Siemens EDA

Geopolitics is less like chess and more like repairing a machine in a greasy workshop: pull one lever, and somewhere else a heavy transmission crashes down. Today, Washington appears to be gambling heavily on the Iran issue, while some American...

World

On the 17th day of Israel’s resumed war on Lebanon , which began on 2 March 2026, hospitals are under severe strain as Israeli strikes destroy buildings, including a 10-storey structure near a city centre, and have killed medical...

Society

Israel’s veiled threat to Moscow came just after Russian media warned traffic cameras in Moscow were vulnerable to the same exploits that Israel reportedly used to monitor Ayatollah Khamenei’s residence before assassinating him. Israeli military spokeswoman Anna Ukolova has drawn...

Israel-Palestine, Russia, Surveillance

Last year, a short play in a Chinese variety show sparked debate. The Sheep Comes! seemed to be an absurdist sketch with talking animals firing off one-liners and rapid retorts. But it reached into more serious themes, including...

Nature, Biodiversity, Culture

China has placed a powerful geopolitical card on the table-energy security in exchange for political accommodation. Its proposal to Taiwan is not merely a gesture of goodwill, but an attempt to insert a stabilizing fuse into the volatile circuitry of...

World

US intelligence concluded Wednesday that Iran was not rebuilding nuclear enrichment capacities that were destroyed in a June 2025 US-Israeli attack , contradicting President Donald Trump's justifications for his ongoing war . Tulsi Gabbard , a Trump ally...

MENA

Pakistan announced on Wednesday a "temporary pause" in hostilities with Afghanistan to mark the end of Ramadan, after Kabul promised to avenge the deaths of hundreds killed in a strike on a Kabul drug treatment centre. The...

World

Remember when the fossil fuel industry couldn’t stop talking about climate change? In 2020, when oil prices plunged in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Big Oil promoted efforts to cut carbon emissions and trumpeted various energy “innovations”: transforming algae...

Environment, Media, News

The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . On a recent episode of the London Review of Books’ podcast On Politics, James Butler hosted a conversation about the current state of Britain’s Labour Party with Sienna Rodgers (deputy editor...

Europe, Labor, Media

When the governing body of the Democratic Party convenes next month, it will face a challenge to its support for Israel. The Democratic National Committee has evaded the fact that large majorities of Democrats...

Middle East, Opinion, Politics

The Ministry of Defence is refusing to apologise for an official describing Declassified as “extreme” in a private briefing given to the Australian Attorney General’s office. Brigadier Geoffrey Dodds was found to have described Declassified...

Archive, Media, Military
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- - - - Photo by Nico Smit on Unsplash While America is actually really good at war, we also suck at “war.” What I mean is that when we decide to really go to war on another...

Iranian intelligence authorities announced Tuesday, 17 March, that they had located and confiscated hundreds of banned Starlink devices in a "complex and extensive" operation. The ministry said the operation relied on "intensive use" of advanced technological tools, which allowed authorities...

MENA

Almost 120,000 Syrians have returned to their country from neighbouring Lebanon since the latest war erupted between Israel and Hezbollah, according to International Organization for Migration figures provided to AFP on Wednesday. "As of 17...

MENA

Denmark 's Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit filed by four humanitarian organisations accusing the Scandinavian country of violating international law by exporting weapons to Israel. The Palestinian human rights association Al-Haq, ActionAid Denmark, and the Danish...

MENA

The Norwegian Refugee Council on Wednesday said hundreds of people were killed and wounded in this week's Pakistani air strike on a Kabul drug treatment clinic, in the first independent confirmation of the heavy toll. Pakistan's forces struck Kabul...

World

The latest heavy fighting between warring parties along Sudan's border with Chad has killed 17 people and many wounded, a medical group said. The attacks on Monday in Tina left 66 people in serious condition, Doctors Without Borders, also...

MENA

A Conservative MP has come under fire for calling public prayers during Ramadan "an act of dominance" in reference to an event organised in London’s Trafalgar Square , where people were invited to break their fast and...

World

Não será possível esconder a verdade do povo americano no longo prazo. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su Nos últimos desdobramentos do conflito no Oriente Médio, observa-se um fenômeno recorrente na política...

Português, Donald Trump, Iran

Esta questão aparenta ser de resposta simples. No entanto, a resposta não é inequívoca dependendo muito da classificação de defesa utilizada. Carlos Marinheiro e João Leal Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su...

Português, Defence, Economy

To combat climate change, the entire world has to make the transition away from fossil fuels. If a major emitter like the United States or India doesn’t substantially reduce its emissions, it will doom the entire enterprise. As never before...

Environment, Global Just Transition, climate change

Cogita-PRO, developed by Vtool , introduces a transformative approach to design verification by treating it as a big data challenge rather than a traditional debugging exercise. Released in February 2026, this tool shifts the focus from manual log and...

EDA, Events, Cogita-PRO

GAZA, (PIC) In the context of ongoing restrictions on the flow of aid into the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation authorities escalated their measures by suspending vital humanitarian shipments, which threatens to deepen the humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave. The occupation...

News, Aid ban, Gaza Strip

Kazakhstan has approved a new Constitution following a nationwide referendum held on March 15, marking one of the most significant political transformations in the country's modern history. According to official data, voter turnout exceeded 70%, with nearly 90% of participants supporting...

World

Big Pentagon contractors like Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman saw billions added to their market value Ben Freeman Janet, Abou-Elias Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The economic costs of the U.S. and...

Editor's Choice, Donald Trump, Iran
Trump Sabaoth
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Trump ha finalmente preso parte attiva a quella grande guerra che Israele dichiara essere la volontà di Dio, la Santa Guerra Mondiale. Segue nostro Telegram . Elezione e Mandato Sabaoth, termine biblico traslitterato che significa “Dio degli eserciti”, utilizzato per...

Italiano, Donald Trump, Iran
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