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Those who argue that NATO is heading toward a gradual dissolution can point to concrete evidence, not mere impressions. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su Toward Ankara 2026 On July 7 and 8, in Ankara, the heads...

Americas, Europe, World

A spokesperson for the US Department of State told The New Arab that the United States has proposed a five-point plan to end the war in Sudan . The plan includes securing a humanitarian truce and ensuring the uninterrupted delivery of...

MENA

When Israel occupied southern Lebanon between 1982 and 2000, maintaining control meant thousands of soldiers stationed inside the territory, with reinforced military outposts and daily clashes with fighters from a newly founded Hezbollah waging a guerrilla insurgency. Nearly three decades later,...

Analysis

AI has become one of the few technologies in recent memory that organizations are simultaneously overestimating and underpreparing for. Across Asia-Pacific, investment levels suggest extraordinary confidence in AI’s ability to reshape enterprise performance. The organizational foundations required to realize that...

Opinion, AI Outcomes, AI Proof Gap

Four announcements were made on Monday, 13 July. Read together, they are the European Union's Palestine policy, complete. In Brussels, the Foreign Affairs Council — the first under Ireland's new presidency of the Council — spent its Middle East session on...

Unfiltered

La Dichiarazione d’Indipendenza non era una teoria filosofica astratta: era un atto di accusa giuridico contro l’occupazione, la tassazione senza consenso e il regime militare. Segue nostro Telegram . Tanto tempo fa La mattina del 4 luglio 1776, cinquantasei uomini riuniti a Filadelfia...

Italiano, British Empire, Colonialism

JAKARTA – Indonesia’s Bill on the Indonesia International Financial Center — first proposed in May 2024 to modernize the domestic financial sector and make Indonesia an Asia-Pacific capital hub — has become a top legislative priority. The government and House...

Opinion, Bali Financial Hub, Danantara

Mahmoud Khalil and his legal team have announced a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump and private organisations alleging a conspiracy to suppress pro-Palestinian speech, a move that could be an important case at a time of severe government crackdowns...

World

The US military will leave Iraq by the end of September, US and Iraqi officials said Tuesday, following a 23-year occupation that started with the 2003 illegal invasion against Saddam Hussein and ended with much smaller operations against the Islamic...

MENA

Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip have intensified in recent days, with homes, displacement camps , markets and public roads coming under near-daily attack, as residents and political analysts warn that the expanding military campaign is steadily shrinking the...

MENA

US forces have struck hundreds of Iranian targets – including in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas – over three consecutive nights in a bid by the US president, Donald Trump, to regain some modicum of control over the...

Middle East, Block 2, Global Shipping

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has threatened to close "all other export corridors that benefit the US and its allies", Iranian media reported, after Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz and the US reimposed a naval blockade of Iranian ports. "Regional...

World

Sixty years ago, the United States and the Soviet Union were embroiled in a race to the moon, which the US won. The 21st-century lunar contest, with China stepping in for the Soviet Union, has many similarities but also key...

US-China, Artemis III mission, Block 2

Welcome, Here are the key updates of the day: - US Central Command announced an end to the latest wave of attacks on Iran, as Iranian media report explosions across southern cities and on islands off its coast, as well as clashes...

MENA

Beijing’s long courtship of Indonesia’s Muslim communities reached a new milestone this month, when the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), the nation’s top body of Islamic scholars, traveled to China. The five-day “Digital Silk Road” program brought MUI council members to...

Opinion, Block 2, China Muslim Diplomacy

In the landscape of modern Arabic letters, few genres are as politically vital as Prison Literature, known in Arabic as adab al-sujūn. From the mid-twentieth century onwards, as totalitarian regimes, military dictatorships, and colonial occupations tightened their grip across the Arab...

Book Club

On 26 June 2026, Ibrahim Traoré , hailed as Africa's anti-imperialist hero, issued France an ultimatum to close its embassy in Ouagadougou, accusing Paris of "blatant neocolonial ambitions." Concurrently, he received the credentials of Israel's ambassador pledging to deepen bilateral cooperation...

Book Club

The WHO-led Women’s Integrated Cancer Services Program; the pilot programs were first implemented in Kenya in the Bungoma and Nyandarua counties. Credit: WHO/Yasin Abdullahi By Shuli Wong UNITED NATIONS, Jul 15 2026 (IPS) One in five people will be diagnosed with cancer in...

Aid, Economy & Trade, Global

Pride Parade participants march on the Elisabeth bridge in Budapest, Hungary on 27 June 2026. Credit: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jul 15 2026 (IPS) On the morning of 28 June, riot police sealed off Taksim Square with iron barriers...

Active Citizens, Asia-Pacific, Civil Society

There is a growing disconnect between how American voters think about safety and how Washington spends money in the name of national security. In a recent poll conducted by ReThink Media and the Costs of War Project at Brown University, when...

Ndaa, Donald-trump, Defense-budget

The Abraham Accords sought to succeed where decades of negotiations had failed. By separating Arab normalization with Israel from the Palestinian issue, the effort bypassed the core concept of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which explicitly tied the normalization to...

Uae, Kuwait, Donald-trump

North Korea and Russia have approaches to the value of human life and risk that are radically different from those of the West – a reality that US and South Korean defense planners must prepare for. State-sanctioned violence and militarism...

Opinion, Achille Mbembe, Block 2

By: B A Hamzah - - - - When strategic passages become instruments of coercion, everyone pays the price, as the world is relearning to its sorrow from Iran’s disruption of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz for the past four months. The dispute is...

News

France has made a “big deal” with Ukraine that includes billions of Euros in Ukrainian purchases of French systems and licenses to produce a number of weapons including SCALP/Storm Shadow, a long range cruise missile, Aster 30 interceptors for the...

Ukraine War, Block 3, France-Ukraine

Reprinted with permission from the Eisenhower Media Network’s Substack. Visit the Eisenhower Media Network. By: Major General Dennis Laich, US Army, (ret.) Executive Director, Eisenhower Media Network The first sentence of Thomas Paine’s classic 1776 essay, Common Sense, urged the...

Uncategorized

The latest U.S. strikes on Iran have put one of Donald Trump’s defining promises under pressure. He returned to the White House insisting that America could no longer keep paying for other countries’ wars. During the campaign, he pointed to...

Uncategorized

Spain ended France's dream of a third World Cup triumph on Tuesday, taming their star-studded attack in a 2-0 victory to reach the final against England or Argentina. Didier Deschamps' men were hot favourites to lift the trophy after a string...

Sports

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday abruptly scrapped a planned 20 percent levy on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz amid clashes with Iran, saying he would instead seek compensation from Gulf allies via trade deals. Trump said Middle Eastern leaders...

MENA

US forces carried out strikes against Iran for a fourth day in a row on Tuesday and reimposed a naval blockade to prevent ships from sailing to or from the country's ports. While US President Donald Trum backtracked on his threat...

MENA

Lebanon and Israel concluded the first day of Washington-mediated talks in Rome on Tuesday, a US official said, as Israel said it was ready to move forward with plans to withdraw from two parts of southern Lebanon . The US-brokered negotiations...

MENA

British prime minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham backed Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's controversial immigration crackdown in a parliamentary vote on Monday night. The wide-ranging bill would make it easier for authorities to deport asylum seekers and impose a "refugee tax" in return for...

World

PEN America has insisted it continues to defend Palestinian writers and regards Israel's actions in Gaza as "a genocide", after its outgoing president accused the organisation of sidelining Palestinians and resigned in protest, the organisation told The New Arab on...

MENA

The only “unity” on display in Paris was the closing of ranks by despicable elites who are tempting fate with war or revolution. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The ironic symbolism of this year’s Bastille...

Europe, World, Establishment

The author of ‘Empire of AI’, a book about OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, discusses technology, power and sovereignty. Alessio Giussani is the editor-in-chief of the Green European Journal . He was formerly contributing editor of Eurozine (Vienna) and a...

Solutions, Alessio Giussani, Article

NATO 3.0, where European countries do the heavy-lifting of arms spending to keep the US happy, is under construction. Dr. Joseph Gerson is the president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security; co-president of the International Peace Bureau; and...

Geopolitics, Article, Joseph Gerson

‘Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism’s tendency to replace living labor with machines can help shed light on how AI take-up may develop.’ In Jacobin . Read the article HERE . The post Branko Milanović – What Marx Can Tell Us About Artificial...

Finance, Artificial Intelligence, Branko Milanovic

RAMALLAH, (PIC) Palestinian prisoner advocacy organizations, together with several former detainees, launched an international campaign on Tuesday to combat sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli detention facilities. The campaign was announced during a press conference at the Al-Bireh Municipal Hall,...

News, Gaza Strip, Palestinian prisoners

The Kerala Chief Minister VD Satheesan’s choice of the New Indian Express editor Santwana Bhattacharya for his first major media interview after assuming office 50 days ago comes as no surprise. Both are noted intellectuals and humanists at the core...

Articles, AI in education sector, China
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