Many in the Middle East and world want to believe that we are on the brink of peace, but it is worth reminding ourselves why we find ourselves here in the first place. In simple terms, we are here because the...
His name is ‘Fossi’. He’s depicted as a swirl of grey smoke. And he’s liable to lose his temper whenever his classmates blame him for the climate crisis. Fossi is the protagonist of Our Hidden Powers: The Big Switch ,...
The UAE has stepped in to provide financial support to Bahrain as blowback from the war in the Middle East raises pressure on the island nation's economy. The two countries on Wednesday signed a currency swap agreement...
French energy giant TotalEnergies said Friday that it had shut down a major refinery on the eastern Gulf coast of Saudi Arabia after it was damaged during the US-Israeli war on Iran . The Saudi energy ministry had...
Last June , at a conference and retreat center not far from downtown Berkeley, California, around 100 people gathered to mull a new, techno-centric future of human reproduction. There was the physics professor moonlighting as a biotech company executive. There was...
A Badr misdemeanor court extended on Thursday the detention of prominent Egyptian activist and writer Ahmed Douma for an additional 15 days pending investigation, in a case that raised concerns among rights advocates for political detainees, especially those granted pardons....
- - - - Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash I get that teachers’ unions don’t exist to benefit education. They exist to benefit teachers, and sometimes, those two things might overlap, but they’re still very...
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . After taking a beating for the first year of the Trump administration, the beleaguered wind energy industry may finally...
Hamas is engaged in ongoing talks in Cairo with the US-backed "Board of Peace’s" High Representative for Gaza, Nikolay Mladenov , as well as representatives from mediating countries including Turkey, Qatar, Egypt and the United States, as Gaza marked...
Argentina’s far-right President Javier Milei has been selected to take part in a torch-lighting ceremony for Israel's 'Independence Day', alongside a rabbinical judge who has publicly boasted about demolishing buildings in Gaza , according to Israeli...
Lebanon is facing a food security crisis due to Israel's offensive against militant group Hezbollah , which has disrupted supplies of goods and pushed up prices, the United Nations World Food Programme said on Friday. A fragile two-day-old...
Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Japan and South Korea ride a one-day rally into growing uncertainty Scott Foster reports that a brief market rally driven...
Supporters of Palestine in Britain have launched a campaign to defend British-Palestinian plastic surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah, amid concerns that the General Medical Counci l (GMC) is seeking to bar him from practising due to his role in exposing...
Vice President JD Vance is on his way to Pakistan for talks with Iranian officials in Islamabad on Saturday. Amid a shaky ceasefire, Vance is hoping to make progress toward ending a war that has sent global oil prices skyrocketing...
The corruption trial of Istanbul's jailed opposition mayor entered its second month Thursday, in a case widely seen as a major setback for Turkey's opposition. Jailed since March last year, Ekrem Imamoglu of the main...
For more than five hours, experts and specialists in Washington discussed US President Donald Trump’s second term , focusing on US foreign policy in the Middle East, the war on Iran , and its implications for midterm elections,...
NATO survives as a bureaucratic structure, but the instrument of American hegemony—the mechanism through which Washington coerced compliance—is no longer operational. The Alliance as Billing Arrangement The myth was always more durable than the machinery. NATO presented itself as a...
Ukraine is in talks with Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain to cooperate in the security sector and share its drone defence expertise and technology, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Zelensky visited several Middle Eastern countries last month to offer Ukraine's...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Around 100,000 worshippers performed Friday prayers at the Aqsa Mosque, marking the first Friday since the end of a 40-day closure imposed by Israeli authorities under the pretext of “emergency conditions.” Thousands of Palestinians from Occupied Jerusalem and 1948-occupied...
GAZA / PNN/ Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders said conditions in the Gaza Strip remain “catastrophic” six months after a ceasefire took effect, warning that ongoing violence and restrictions on aid are continuing to cost lives. In a statement marking...
Indonesia said Friday it had submitted a joint statement on peacekeeper security with dozens of allied nations to the United Nations after three of its blue helmets were killed in Lebanon . In the joint statement, the countries urged...
Majlis speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf will be heading the Iranian delegation at talks in Islamabad with US officials (File photo) The glaring differences between the United States and Iran notwithstanding, the talks beginning in Islamabad tomorrow have a fairly good chance...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has defiantly declared that the sanctions imposed on Rwandan defence and security forces would not minimise its strength and integrity, emphasising: “They are among the finest that can be found anywhere”. On March 2, the...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has warned of a dangerous and unprecedented escalation in violations by Israeli occupation forces and settlers across the West Bank and Jerusalem, calling for unity to confront them. Hamas political bureau member Hussam Badran said on...
Attacks continued across the Gulf in the hours after the US-Iran ceasefire was announced on Wednesday. Dozens of ballistic missile and drones were launched from Iran, causing damage to key oil and gas infrastructure in several countries. Iranian media...
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Syria has sought to position itself as a diplomatic actor amid the regional conflict with Iran, maintaining relative stability while several neighboring states faced significant missile and drone attacks. Damascus has intensified high-level engagements with Turkey, the United States, and...
Once again, Washington is weaponizing the language of values — and the target is Russia’s near abroad and Central Asia’s strategic resources. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The United States has once...
GAZA, (PIC) The bread loaf crisis has returned to the forefront once again in the Gaza Strip, to impose a harsh daily reality on the residents, who have been lining up since the dawn hours in front of bakeries and points...
We should not look too deeply at what got Trump in this mess. He’s just stupid and he surrounds himself with others who are much the same . Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us:...
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains severely restricted despite the recent US-Iran ceasefire , with tensions rising after Donald Trump criticised Tehran’s handling of oil flows and cast doubt on the durability of the...
Whether or not the ceasefire with Iran holds, and whether or not Iran keeps its uranium stockpile and enrichment program, one thing is clear: nuclear dangers are growing. The Trump administration’s last round of threats against Iran was widely received as nuclear saber-rattling . U.S.-Israeli air strikes near...
Iran-linked hacker group Handala announced it had obtained and leaked thousands of images, documents, and videos belonging to former Israeli army chief of staff Herzl Halevi . The group said on Thursday it was behind the operation, marking another instance...
FDD Senior Fellow David Daoud and Bill Roggio examine the recent and fragile ceasefire in the ongoing Iran war. Will the fighting in southern Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah break the peace, and has the Iranian resistance movement missed a...
Sexual violence and threats of abuse against Palestinian men and women are part of the Israeli occupation forces' toolkit for oppression. A new report by NGO Equality Now cited one woman detainee who said an Israeli soldier threatened...
Grok has become a powerful tool for amplifying online gender-based violence (OGBV) Originally published on Global Voices Advox A screenshot from X (formerly Twitter) showing some X users using the AI chatbot Grok to sexualize women. By Victory Brown...
Europa ou Eurásia? Quem Pashinyan escolherá? E que devem fazer as organizações eurasiáticas, se ele escolher Bruxelas? Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su Recentemente, a Rússia deixou clara para a Armênia a...
The Pentagon has failed to comply with a court order to restore press access, a federal judge ruled Thursday, rejecting new restrictions put in place by the department after its prior rules were deemed unconstitutional. As part...
El principal imperativo sigue vigente —y concierne a todo el planeta—: cómo encontrar una cura para ese cáncer en Asia Occidental. Únete a nosotros en Telegram , Twitter y VK . Escríbenos: info@strategic-culture.su Esto siempre ha tenido que ver con...
Five Palestinians, including a schoolgirl, were killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Thursday, as journalists mourned the killing of an Al Jazeera reporter. The victims were killed in separate Israeli attacks amid a "ceasefire" theoretically...
For many Iranians, the ceasefire was a welcome development, not quite a cause for national celebration, yet far too significant to ignore, as it finally brought an end to relentless bombardment. But there are still segments of the...
The U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran have sparked intense debate over whether the attack is right or wrong from several perspectives: international law, morality, history, and realpolitik. At the center are questions of preemptive self-defense and humanitarian intervention. Join...
Farid al-Madhhan, the Syrian army defector also known as 'Caesar ', has sparked debate with a new Facebook post criticising the appointment of figures linked with the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad to positions in the current...
The fate of a Middle East ceasefire hung in the balance on Friday as Iranian and US negotiators prepared to meet in Pakistan for peace talks this weekend. Disputes over Lebanon and the Strait...
By Michael BRENNER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The United States – the cynosure of Western society — has committed moral suicide in Gaza; and the death certificate was issued in Iran,...
Large protests erupted in cities and towns across the United States following US President Donald Trump’s threat to annihilate Iran and Israel’s large-scale bombing of Beirut this week. In dozens of cities on Wednesday, thousands of protesters marched through...
US First Lady Melania Trump made a surprise statement on Thursday denying any knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse, or that she herself was a victim of the convicted sex offender. The 55-year-old's rare on-camera remarks at the...
The Americans announced victory and negotiations—the Iranians did the same. Israel couldn’t care less and continues its murderous rampage. I’ve never been more skeptical in my life and believe this is all a mirage. I hope I’m wrong. By Peter...
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