Once again an antidote to the daily war propaganda we are being fed by Western state and corporate media of the Epstein Class Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the...
Soaring oil prices and the blockade are preventing food, fuel and medicine being delivered to millions of people in desperate need, say NGOs The volatility of global oil prices caused by the US and Israel’s war on Iran is taking a...
Desperate to secure a conviction of Palestine Action defendants, a draconian British judge has forbidden them from referring to the principle of jury equity in their closing speeches. It is one of countless restrictions aimed at blocking the activists from...
The Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC), Idemitsu Maru, has passed through the Strait of Hormuz on its way to Nagoya with a cargo of 2 million barrels of oil from Saudi Arabia. The vessel also carries a reminder...
Cartoon by Nemo Trump assembled his national security team in Washington on Monday afternoon to figure out how to respond to Iran’s latest missive delivered via Pakistan — i.e., end the blockade and then we’ll talk about other issues. The...
The recent electoral defeat of Viktor Orban has drawn widespread attention, with most commentary focused on its implications for Europe and the Russia-Ukraine war. Yet this emphasis overlooks a broader strategic consequence: the potential disruption of China’s approach to Europe....
The anniversary of the operation to liberate the Kursk Region from Ukrainian nationalists, marked in Russia, coincided with the visit of high-ranking Russian officials to the DPRK and the opening of a memorial museum, underscoring the importance of this event...
China’s new law on Industrial and Supply Chain Security, which took effect immediately in early April, introduces a significant new layer of regulatory oversight targeting cross-border industrial activity and global supply chains. It will inevitably have far-reaching implications for multinational...
As a child, Azara Long often visited a linen shop on Sutter and Powell in San Francisco run by a Lebanese couple. Years later, she told a local newspaper that it was there, in that shop, that her path toward...
While recent global attention has focused on the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively held closed since late February in a move that has disrupted world energy supplies, a quieter but also important development has been taking shape in...
The US Department of Agriculture issued a Food Price Outlook on April 24 which showed significant increases in a range of food prices, with more on the way, due to the economic shocks caused by the Trump administration’s illegal war...
These days, everyone in Washington is talking about U.S. missile stockpiles. The previously niche topic has been thrust onto the front page of major newspapers and is discussed daily on television and radio programming. And for good reason. After the...
In remarks unlikely to endear him to U.S. President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, recently offered a brutally candid assessment of Washington’s war on Iran. "This whole affair is, to say the least, ill-considered," Merz said. "At the moment,...
Delegates at event in Cape Verde highlight opportunities from tech while stressing AI is no replacement for talent Last July, the Nigerian singer-songwriter Fave found herself caught up in a viral moment: an unauthorised version of a track featuring an AI...
South-east Asia, which relied heavily on the Middle East for energy and fertiliser, is desperately seeking to plug huge gaps in its supplies The European Union has sounded the alarm to countries in south-east Asia, urging them not to turn to...
On April 22, Indonesia’s finance minister went off-topic during a symposium and raised the possibility of tolling the Strait of Malacca in light of the current Hormuz crisis, drawing swift rejections from the foreign ministers of Singapore, Malaysia and even...
- - - - Thủ Thiêm’s future On March 26, Vietnamese state media announced that all households in Ho Chi Minh’s Thủ Thiêm New Urban Area had “agreed to move,” accepting compensation and resettlement. Domestic media had already announced that...
FIFA has approved a rule change allowing Afghan women footballers to play official international matches in FIFA competitions, giving players exiled since the Taliban's return to power a route back into international football. Afghanistan's women's national team has not played...
On April 17th, Congress voted to pass a brief 10-day extension of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). This sets the new expiration date for April 30th, 2026. Section 702 was added to FISA in 2008 with...
Well, it bears repeating. Again. The Iranians never had a nuke, had no near-term prospect of weaponizing their enriched uranium stockpiles, were not hell-bent on blowing up the world and were not two weeks from anything other than still another...
It is tempting to argue that Israel’s new military doctrine is predicated on perpetual war – but the reality is more complex. Not that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would object to such an arrangement. On the contrary, his relentless...
Libya's Tripoli Criminal Court on Tuesday convicted four members of "a criminal gang" involved in human trafficking, abductions for ransom and torture, with sentences up to 22 years, the attorney general's office said on its Facebook page. The attorney general's office...
Donald Trump 's picture will soon appear in some US passports, officials said Tuesday, shattering another norm as the president aggressively puts his personal stamp on government institutions. The State Department, following reports by Fox News and The...
WASHINGTON — King Charles III did not name President Donald Trump Tuesday when he acknowledged before a joint session of Congress the transatlantic tension between the United States and the United Kingdom, but he stressed that “America’s words carry weight...
The Lebanese health ministry said Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed eight people, including civil defence rescuers, and wounded two soldiers in the country's south, despite an ongoing ceasefire . The Israeli military, meanwhile, announced it had found and destroyed...
The Palestinian Football Association has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against FIFA's decision not to sanction Israel over clubs based in West Bank settlements , a senior PFA official said on Tuesday, as visa issues affecting...
A new website established by the Israeli government through a contract with Trump’s former campaign manager seeks to manipulate AI platforms into denying established accounts of Hind Rajab’s killing. Israel has created nine English language websites explicitly aimed at manipulating...
The Senate voted on Tuesday to block debate on an effort aimed at stopping President Donald Trump from taking military action against Cuba without authorization from Congress. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla) raised a point of order on the Senate floor,...
A New York apre la Conferenza di Revisione del Trattato di Non-Proliferazione Nucleare nel momento più drammatico dal 1986. Iran sull’orlo del ritiro, Israele fuori, New START scaduto, tutti gli arsenali in espansione. Cronaca di un’architettura che si sgretola. Segue...
The United Nations on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Algoney Hamdan Daglo Musa, younger brother of the head of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and three Colombian mercenaries accused of recruiting former Colombian personnel to fight in the country. A...
GAZA, (PIC) Former US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has held the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responsible for what she described as a “genocide” in Gaza, accusing the United States of being complicit. In an interview with Bloomberg,...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Palestine Center for Prisoners’ Studies has highlighted the Israeli authorities’ denial of essential medical assistive devices to prisoners, exacerbating their suffering and limiting their ability to cope with disabilities and various injuries. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the...
GAZA, (PIC) A spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Thameen Al-Kheetan, has urged Israeli authorities to lift all restrictions affecting basic necessities of life and allow the flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza...
A group of Jewish ultra-Orthodox anti-conscription protesters on Tuesday stormed the home of Israel's military police chief, barricading themselves in his garden in protest over moves to punish those who refuse to answer conscription call-ups. The move came after Israel's High...
U.S. intelligence agencies are studying how Iran would respond if President Donald Trump were to declare a unilateral victory in the two-month-old war that has killed thousands and become a political liability for the White House, two U.S....
A drone strike on the southern Sudanese city of Rabak has killed 11 people, a local hospital source told AFP on Tuesday, with a second drone strike reported further north in Khartoum state. A security source said the strike...
A Hamas operative who was killed during the recent war with Israel founded a Gaza-based charity that has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars online. The charity continues to solicit donations, including through a New York-headquartered platform. The post...
A major part of the genocide is to eliminate the ability of Palestinians in Gaza to feed themselves. Shahad Ali is an English literature student and writer from Gaza. Cross-posted from ScheerPost Before the Israeli war began, Gaza’s agricultural sector...
A pirate attack off Somalia is the work of a new group of "opportunistic criminals", security officials said on Tuesday, complicating a threat that costs the shipping industry billions of dollars. Piracy was rampant off the coast of Somalia in the...
Oil-rich and with limited exposure to international money markets, both Iran and Russia know how to manage war/proxy-war with the political West. Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He served as the...
Permanent war on its neighbours may appear to be a projection of strength, but Israel is fraying. Andrew Hammond currently teaches Turkish history at the Australian National University. He is the author of Popular Culture in North Africa and the Middle...
Iraq's air defence systems on Tuesday fired at a drone flying over Baghdad's fortified Green Zone where the US embassy is located, a military source told AFP . It was the first such incident in the Iraqi capital since a...
The case for South Korea hedging its relationship with the United States may have become harder to dismiss. Washington’s trade policies and the economic consequences of the US-Israeli war on Iran have raised the cost of close alignment at the...
Tunisian President Kais Saied on Tuesday ordered the dismissal of Energy and Industry Minister Fatma Thabet Chiboub, ahead of a parliament meeting to review controversial draft laws on renewable energy contracts. The dismissal was announced in a brief statement...
Last month, a data analyst at financial tech giant Intuit showed up to a company Zoom call in full IDF uniform. Intuit’s products include the widely-used tax return program TurboTax. This article was originally published by Do Not Panic! The...
A Tunisian court on Tuesday rejected the provisional release of two prominent journalists jailed on financial charges, with media rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) decrying "judicial harassment" against them. Since President Kais Saied staged a sweeping power grab in 2021...
Algeria goalkeeper Luca Zidane is a doubt for the World Cup after suffering a jaw and chin fracture while playing for his club Granada in Spain's second tier. The son of former France great Zinedine Zidane was taken off...
A German journalist who went missing in Syria more than three months ago is likely detained in a prison in Damascus, a lawyer for her said Tuesday, as international calls and pressure for her release mounted. "We assume that her health...
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