Israeli forces beat Brazilian activist Thiago Avila unconscious, threatened to kill him and subjected activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla to torture and abuse after intercepting the Gaza-bound aid mission in international waters last month, Avila...
China’s leader Xi Jinping made a publicity splash this week during the visit to Beijing of US President Donald Trump when he referred to a book titled The Thucydides Trap about the ancient Greek historian’s treatise on war. The book’s...
L’ostinazione anti-russa dell’Occidente nel suo complesso si è rivelata un fallimento totale. Segue nostro Telegram . La memoria storica che plasma il presente Il 9 maggio rappresenta una delle date più cariche di significato nella storia russa: il Giorno della...
- - - - Photo by Alen Kajtezovic on Unsplash AOC doesn’t think anyone can earn a billion dollars. Well, she doesn’t think, but that doesn’t stop her from saying stuff like how it’s impossible to earn...
As drones dominate warfare in the Middle East , Ukraine, and beyond, civilians are caught in the crosshairs. Hailing the machines as the future of war , the Pentagon is pouring funds into their development and procurement, as...
Two British nationals are among five activists who were forcibly brought into a Stuttgart courtroom by police on Wednesday after statements they wished to read were seized from them. This was the latest escalation in a case that their lawyers have...
Not long ago , a social media creator named Ludovico ‘Pato’ Cordoni appeared on the TikTok account of an Italian utility named Plenitude. In the video, Cordoni takes the channel’s 116,600 followers on a trip to the company’s headquarters, where...
Young people in the U.S. have won a major unsung victory: Starting in December, they will no longer be required to register or report their addresses for a possible military draft. But Congress has given the agency tasked with...
Is the United States headed for a second Civil War? According to a survey of likely midterm voters published by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights , 57% of Americans believe it is. Sixty-nine percent...
Demands grow for launch of formal discussion process on how country should address legacies of enslavement Emmanuel Macron is under pressure to open discussions on reparatory justice for France’s role in hundreds of years of enslavement of African people as he...
On 4 May, a barrage of drones struck Sudan’s international airport and several military installations in the capital of Khartoum. Sudan’s official army, known as the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), blamed Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
Video footage of bound Egyptians pleading for their release sent to relatives on Monday underscores the perilous fate of the crewmembers on board an oil tanker seized by Somali pirates off the coast of the Horn of Africa country at...
The majority of Jews worldwide could be living in Israel within the next decade, according to a new report by the UK-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research . The report, written by Professor Sergio Della Pergola and published on Wednesday,...
Quando Peter Thiel propuser algo que cause justa indignação popular, teremos de ouvir que somos satânicos e anticristãos. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su A nova eleição de Trump, ocorrida em 2024,...
No hay que olvidar que, si se necesita defender el capitalismo y la democracia, para eso está la CIA o un software viejo en manos de una empresa privada. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos:...
GAZA, (PIC) The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Thursday the recording of more than 125,000 cases of skin infections linked to rodents and parasites in the Gaza Strip, during the first five months of...
Comments by the father of Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa about people from the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zour have sparked outrage across Syria, prompting Sharaa to later issue an apology on behalf of his father. Hussein...
As the economies of BRICS countries continue to diversify and evolve, there is a growing need to align innovation, industrial growth, and entrepreneurial development with the principles of equity, sustainability, and inclusion. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and...
A recent article by Robert Kagan highlights the serious consequences of Trump’s military adventure. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su For years, the Western political and media establishment promoted the narrative that a...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Extremist Jewish settlers committed a series of crimes on Thursday in the occupied West Bank, reportedly stealing dozens of sheep and attacking Palestinian civilians and vehicles. According to local sources, a group of armed settlers infiltrated a sheep pen...
The recalibration of relations between the GCC and Iran, and their views of Israel, will be Trump’s legacy. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In recent days, a number of respected analysts have...
Russia’s hand is being forced to hit the new front to restore deterrence and avoid a total escalation. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The shooting down of a Ukrainian drone by a...
A Hezbollah drone attack in southern Lebanon on Wednesday seriously injured an Israeli military commander from the army unit identified as responsible for the killing of six-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza City. Colonel Meir Biderman, 41, is...
Tensions have arisen between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a potential deal with Iran, as the Israeli premier reportedly pushes to resume the war. Israel’s Channel 12 reported on Wednesday that a "difficult"...
Mourners gathered in a southern Lebanese town on Thursday to bury victims from an Israeli airstrike earlier this week that killed 14 people, the deadliest single bombing raid on Lebanon since the announcement of an alleged ceasefire last...
Pro-Palestine activists abducted and detained after Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) in international waters are being transferred for deportation to Turkey amid mounting allegations of abuse and mistreatment, according to Israeli legal advocacy group Adalah. In a...
Russia today wants to intensify its relationship with China and complains that China is not equally warm in return, treating Russia as a junior partner. Francois Godement observed acutely that Russia had “let out some public anxiety about China’s behavior. On...
Washington brokered a 45-day ceasefire extension between Israel and Lebanon last week, scheduling a fourth round of talks for June 2-3. Presidential Special Envoy Simon Karam is leading the Lebanese delegation. Hezbollah is not at the table, and...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Israel is considering closing its consulate in Istanbul, which was targeted in a shooting operation last April, an Israeli diplomat told AFP on Wednesday. The embassy in Ankara will remain open, although it has been without diplomatic staff since...
I was born in the UK (then still a part of Europe), so always eager to see them succeed. But I must admit that past behavior has reinforced the view that the EU’s only active “contribution” to progress is regulation....
Somaliland could be on the verge of gaining international recognition from a second country, the United Arab Emirates , nearly five months after being recognised by Israel in a controversial decision that sent shockwaves across the international...
Iranian filmmaker and playwright Karim Lakzadeh has long moved along the edges of form and genre. Graduating from a theatre school in 2004 and studying TV directing, he has developed into a filmmaker working between alternative fiction and multi-genre...
As millions of Muslims gather in Mecca in Saudi Arabia to perform the annual Hajj , Palestinians in Gaza mark three years of being unable to perform the pilgrimage due to Israeli genocidal war and ongoing border...
Rats have overrun a major Israeli naval training base in Haifa, exposing signs of decay and dysfunction inside Israel's military infrastructure as the country presses ahead with its wars across Gaza, Lebanon and the wider region. Staff...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) closed the headquarters of the Jenin Central Zakat Committee and confiscated its contents during a raid in Jenin City, and carried out assaults and arrests in other areas of the West Bank on...
When Iraqi officials confirmed in early May that Baghdad was finalising the purchase of 20 Turkish air defence systems following months of regional escalation , the announcement reflected more than another procurement deal. It signalled a broader transformation in how...
Top Democrats on a pair of panels in the US House of Representatives have demanded that Justice and Treasury department leaders answer for how they settled President Donald Trump’s $10 billion “sham” lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax...
The government’s first electricity tariff increases in almost two years were officially published last week by the Egyptian Electric Utility and Consumer Protection Regulatory Agency. The Electricity Ministry had announced the hikes in April, with a tariff sheet leaked to...
Iran's Supreme Leader has issued a directive that the country's near-weapons-grade uranium should not be sent abroad, hardening Tehran's stance on one of the main US demands at peace talks. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei's order could further frustrate US President Donald...
Syrian forces have joined military exercises outside the country for the first time since the fall of the Assad government, taking part alongside troops from 50 countries in Turkey 's large-scale EFES 2026 drills as Ankara deepens its...
GAZA, (PIC) The economy of the Gaza Strip is heading towards an unprecedented stage of structural disintegration, with the expansion of what is known by Israel as the “Yellow Line” and its transformation from a military and security measure into a...
Palestinians who have injuries caused by Israeli forces have continued for a full week a sit-in on the pavement opposite the cabinet headquarters in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, in protest against the suspension of their...
Odo Tevi, Permanent Representative of Vanuatu to the UN, speaks at the General Assembly. Credit : UN WEB TV By Naureen Hossain UNITED NATIONS, May 21 2026 (IPS) Member states this week (May 20) deliberated over a draft resolution on states’...
What happens when you put a prefect, an emo, a girl who runs an underground tuck shop, and the most popular girl in school together in detention? This is no punchline joke, but the premise of the new BBC Comedy Short...
The United States Treasury has removed Francesca Albanese from its sanctions list, a week after a federal judge blocked the measures imposed by the Trump administration over her advocacy for Palestinian rights and accountability for Israeli actions in...
The third film in Tarik Saleh’s ‘Cairo trilogy’ is a about a washed-up movie star who is bullied into starring in government propaganda Swedish-Egyptian film-maker Tarik Saleh has long been a brilliant satirist of the corruption and shabby political compromises and...
Hundreds of cases reported in the DRC after USAID has been dismantled and key scientific research canceled A previously undetected outbreak of Ebola is coursing through parts of central Africa, and the US appears to be doing little to help stop...
Xi's summits with Trump and Putin + China's economy loses momentum + Hong Kong dissidents c.groth Thu, 05/21/2026 - 11:57 picture alliance / Photoshot Download (pdf - 973.09 KB) MERICS Briefs MERICS China Essentials May 21, 2026 11 min read...
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