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Donald Trump has just offered Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a stealth fighter jet that Israel doesn’t want him to have, Congress hasn’t cleared him to sell, and Gulf capitals are already using it as leverage against Washington itself. A Deal Three...

Politics, Saudi Arabia, Turkey

I visited Omsk once, or at least its airport; we were en route from Moscow to Ulan Ade on the Mongolian border, and the Aeroflot flight landed there to refuel. (It was a memorable journey; this was still the Soviet Union, and...

Opinion, Climate Change, Common Dreams

As NATO convenes once again to double down on military spending, arms production and the logic of deterrence through superior firepower — this despite the alliance’s own members having repeatedly used force in violation of international law in recent years, in Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Libya, Syria and the...

Opinion, Climate Change, Common Dreams

For the second time since the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed, Washington and Tehran have slipped back into direct military confrontation. The United States struck “80 targets in Iran with precision munitions” after Iranian forces fired on several ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz without prior...

Middle East, Block 1, Global Shipping

For decades, the South Pacific was largely relegated to the margins of global politics. Today, it has undergone a seismic shift, transforming into the epicenter of great-power competition. The defense treaty signed by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Fijian...

World, Australia-Fiji Defense Deal, Belt and Road Initiative

By: Andy Wong Ming Jun - - - - With fertility rates hitting record lows in Asian-Pacific states including China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Singapore, the looming demographic cliff-edge is cutting into the numbers of people filling out their...

GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said the Israeli military is escalating its attacks against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip through continued bombardment and daily killings, describing Gaza’s streets as having become “killing stations.” In a press statement issued on Wednesday, Qassem...

News

JENIN, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces (IOF), accompanied by Jewish settlers, forced four Palestinian families from their homes in Khirbet Asaid, part of the town of Ya’bad in the Jenin Governorate, on Wednesday after raiding the area and assaulting residents. Resident Suheila Obeid...

News, Israeli crimes, Israeli violations

For decades, semiconductor innovation has been constrained not by imagination, but by engineering capacity. While transistor density has continued to advance, the process of building chips has remained fundamentally manual, fragmented across specifications, RTL, verification, debugging, coverage analysis, and signoff.…...

EDA, Events, Moores Lab (AI)

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- - - - Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash While the American left constantly argues that the right has shifted more and more extreme over the years, it’s kind of funny how they don’t seem to...

An Egyptian relief worker who organised World Cup match screenings for Palestinians in Gaza was killed in an Israeli strike just hours before Egypt's dramatic Round of 16 clash against Argentina, Palestinian media reported late on Tuesday. Mohammed Fawaz...

MENA

DOHA, (PIC) Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi has called for confronting the escalating demolition campaigns carried out by the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) across the West Bank and Jerusalem. Mardawi stressed on Wednesday that the relentless Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes and...

News, Demolition policy, Ethnic cleansing

Israeli and pro-Israeli media outlets on Wednesday announced the upcoming launch of a coalition in New York City aimed at countering the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, as well as anti-Zionist activism. The media push included...

World

Israeli settlers now control nearly a fifth of the occupied West Bank , according to a new report that details Israel's accelerating de facto annexation of Palestinian land. In a report titled Annus Mirabilis , released on Sunday, Israeli...

MENA

With Hormuz still squeezed and White House factions at war, who’s really playing whom? Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture Foundation Plan ‘A’ was to topple the...

Geopolitics, Article

RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) has held the Israeli prison service fully responsible for what happened to Palestinian prisoner Ghassan Zawahra, who sustained injuries after jailers opened fire at him three times in captivity. In a statement on Wednesday, PPS...

News, Israeli violations, Palestinian prisoners

United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese shares stories of the immense suffering in Palestine and laments the gutting of international law in her new book, “When the World Sleeps”. Transcript Chris Hedges: Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the...

Geopolitics, Article, Chris Hedges

Less than a month after a ceasefire was signed between the US and Iran, conflict has returned to the Middle East. The peace agreement Donald Trump signed at the palace of Versailles in France on June 18 – which he...

Middle East, Block 2, Donald Trump

A Qatari LNG tanker was still stuck off Oman on Wednesday awaiting salvage operations, shipping data showed, a day after it was hit by a projectile, while the US military said two other tankers had been targeted by...

MENA

Military tensions are rising across Yemen after the internationally recognised government, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, and the Houthi group deployed reinforcements to several front lines, raising fears that the country's fragile 2022 truce could unravel. The...

MENA

Syria's new constitutional court has been described as "an executive instrument with judicial veneer" after President Ahmed al-Sharaa appointed its judges without oversight from parliament or an independent judicial body. Sharaa appointed six members of the Supreme Constitutional Court on Monday,...

MENA

Egypt’s dramatic exit from the World Cup against Argentina on Tuesday night has triggered an outpouring of anger from fans, players and coaching staff, who have raised several grievances, including allegations of referee bias and a "rigging" of the...

Sports

President Donald Trump said this morning from the NATO Summit that the U.S. will give Ukraine the licenses to build America’s prestige Patriot Missile systems in Kyiv. "We're going to give a license to you to make Patriots....

Nato, Volodymyr-zelensky, Donald-trump

This piece was co-published with The 19th , a nonprofit newsroom covering gender, politics and policy. Taylor Townsell remembers her OB-GYN reassuring her that her IUD insertion would feel like “just a pinch.” The pain came a split second later....

Business & Economy, Health & Wellness, News

Imagine a public event 50 years from now in Kyiv. The convener speaks to the assembled crowd. “Before we begin,” she says, “I just want to say that we acknowledge that we are standing on and benefiting from land that has...

War & Peace, Native Americans, Red Cloud

Democrats trying to replace Graham Platner on the November ballot will have to make key decisions on whom to choose as his replacement and how, as pressure builds on the U.S. Senate candidate from Maine to drop out after...

Activism, News, Politics

Amidst a succession of financial shocks , the Iran war being only the most recent, developing countries’ debt levels are alarmingly high and continue to rise. These burdens make it even more difficult for governments in the Global...

Activism, Column, Economic Justice

If you’re like me , you don’t want to think about anything President Donald Trump is doing that you don’t have to think about. The horrific domestic police called ICE, for example, appears to have quieted down. So...

Column, Courts & Law, Immigration

New evidence has emerged suggesting senior US military officials ignored warnings that intelligence used to identify targets in Iran was years out of date before a strike that killed scores of children at a primary school, as calls...

World

In a country where xenophobia has a legacy, a recent well-funded iteration has emerged that feeds on post-apartheid failures and local insecurities - Don’t already get The Long Wave in your inbox? Sign up here - It’s been a terrifying few...

South Africa, Migration, Race

GAZA, (PIC) At least nine civilians were martyred and others were injured by Israeli gunfire on Wednesday, while another one succumbed to injuries sustained in a previous attack in the Gaza Strip. According to media sources, an Israeli drone bombed a car...

News, Ceasefire violations, Gaza Strip

Culture Minister Jihan Zaki resigned on Tuesday after a final court verdict upheld a decision that found her liable for plagiarizing the work of author Sohair Abdel Hamid in her book. The Court of Cassation rejected on Monday two appeals...

Culture Ministry, women in government

As part of his tour of the Pacific, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has signed a significant defense treaty with his Fijian counterpart Sitiveni Rabuka. Called the Ocean of Peace Alliance or Veitacini Treaty, the agreement is the latest step in...

World, ANZUS Treaty, Australia-Fiji Defense Deal

Transport Minister of the internationally-recognised Yemeni government Mohsen Haidra Al-Amri revealed plans to The New Arab to expand air transport in Yemen and end reliance on the national carrier as the sole operator, particularly...

MENA
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