The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called today for the release of two Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) organizers who were kidnapped by Israeli forces last week and have been held in Israel since. Saif Abu Keshek...
Hardware emulation arose as a necessity out of the needs of the eighties. By the mid-1980s, semiconductor designs had outgrown the practical limits of gate-level simulation. Gate-level simulation delivered accuracy, but at glacial pace; silicon prototypes performed at real-speed but...
Trump today seems torn between the prospect of ‘heavy’ military escalation and an extended Hormuz blockade Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal Putting two sides...
Iran’s economy appears to be deteriorating sharply as the United States maintains its blockade of Iranian ports alongside a sweeping sanctions regime. The US Treasury has imposed a series of economic, trade, and military sanctions on...
President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum on Wednesday for Iran to accept a deal to end the war or face intense renewed US bombing, the latest in a series of abrupt policy shifts. "Assuming Iran agrees to give what has...
Unfortunately, understanding how the world works now, making sensible suggestions and carrying them out require exactly those skills and competencies which western governments and western societies have sent the last generation or more carefully destroying. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack...
When Gustavo Petro said he would replace Colombia’s fossil fuel exports with avocados in 2018, his pledge was largely met with derision – and memes. Eight years on, Petro is president, and Colombia just hosted the inaugural international conference on...
As millions of Brits are set to choose their local councillor on Thursday, many factors, including the cost of living, the rise of the far right, and the Gaza war, are likely to influence voters' decisions. While the governing...
In an episode of the Rest is Politics podcast aired in February 2025, British academic and ex-politician Rory Stewart asked the then newly appointed President of Syria, Ahmad Al-Sharaa, to name a few countries he is taking inspiration from as...
Syria may be preparing to dissolver a controversial body set up to manage the assets and affiliate organisations of the former ruling Baath Party and oversee civil society groups and trade unions. A source in the Syrian Foreign Ministry...
Publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw Hill sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence model Llama. The...
After more than a decade of stagnation in the deployment of next-generation launch vehicles, Roscosmos is returning to the forefront of spaceflight with the new Soyuz-5 rocket. Soyuz-5 Designed for Rapid Satellite Deployment On April 30, the long-awaited first launch of...
An Israeli court has upheld the continued detention of Global Sumud Flotilla activists Thiago Avila and Saif Abu Keshek, despite legal challenges arguing their arrest in international waters was unlawful, as campaigners revealed Avila’s mother died while he...
The costs of the current US-Israel war on Iran are often measured in cold, macroeconomic abstractions. We hear of “supply disruptions,” “energy shocks,” and “inflationary pressures”. But behind the fluctuating price of a Brent crude barrel, there is a far...
The US Department of Homeland Security identified the US-Israeli war with Iran as a potential motive for the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump and senior members of his administration at a White House...
The world’s most vital trade artery is under siege. As the US launches "Project Freedom" to break the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, global shipping remains in a chokehold. This week, Bill Roggio sits down with shipping expert...
Iran has intensified attacks on Kurdish Iranian opposition groups in northern Iraq, targeting camps linked to the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran and Komala with drones in early May. The strikes are part of a broader campaign by Iran and...
On May 1 , organizers reported over 5,000 May Day Strong actions across the country — the most widespread distribution of U.S. May Day actions ever. Numbers are interesting, but they’re not nearly the whole story here. Because this May...
This statement was originally published on cipesa.org on 1 May 2026. In November 2026, Tanzania will be up for its fourth cycle review under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC). Ahead...
This story was originally published by Sentient . In the early 20th century , scientists discovered how to produce nitrate from air. This was key to the development of factory farming because nitrate is a very efficient fertilizer...
PARIS / PNN/ The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, represented by its president Nasser Abu Bakr, has been elected first vice president of the International Federation of Journalists during the organization’s world congress held in Paris, with broad participation from media unions...
Spain has become one of the most vocal European critics of Israel’s war on Gaza. Under Pedro Sánchez, Madrid has moved beyond rhetorical discomfort and tried to translate outrage into policy: recognition of Palestine , intervention at the International...
Esiste un evidente divario tra gli obiettivi dichiarati e i risultati effettivi. Segue nostro Telegram . Profumo di follia Per alcuni possono sembrare oramai demodée, ma per l’Unione Europea sono ancora l’ultimo grido. Il ventesimo pacchetto di sanzioni dell’UE contro...
Contempt of court proceedings against a top human rights barrister are having a “chilling effect” across the British bar, leading lawyers tell Declassified . Rajiv Menon KC is accused of violating the judge’s orders in the trial of six...
The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . There’s a viral clip of Russell Brand that’s recently been making the rounds on social media. If you haven’t seen it, Brand — who is facing multiple...
GENEVA, (PIC) The UN Human Rights Office has called on Israel to “immediately and unconditionally release” two activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla, who were kidnaped by Israeli forces in international waters recently. “Israel must immediately and unconditionally release Global Sumud Flotilla...
Pro-Palestine groups and anti-racism organisations in Britain have intensified their mobilisation efforts for a major march to mark Nakba Day set to take place in London on 16 May after reaching an agreement with police over the...
The Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom has asked the Foreign Office to intervene in the British Museum's removal of references to Palestine from exhibits in response to pressure from pro-Israel groups. References to 'Palestine' and 'Palestinian' were removed...
O cessar-fogo tende a ser violado, mas, a depender da gravidade da violação, o custo para Kiev será alto. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su O anúncio de um cessar-fogo temporário pela...
Political insurgents Reform UK are set to make huge gains in British local elections on Thursday, as the far-right, anti-immigrant party draws increasing support from voters. "The UK has been flooded with illegal immigrants that shouldn't be here. They're...
Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has pointed to a high possibility of a diplomatic solution between Washington and Tehran despite continuing tensions and publicly divergent positions between the two...
BRUSSELS /PNN/ The Palestinian ambassador to the European Union, Belgium and Luxembourg, Amal Jadou Shakaa, called for stronger European action to uphold international law during a lecture at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel attended by more than 200 students and researchers. Speaking...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) A video clip documented the moment Israeli occupation soldiers assaulted a Palestinian child with Down Syndrome in Shuafat refugee camp northeast of Jerusalem, and used him as a human shield during a military incursion, in a scene that...
Egypt and Lebanon signed an agreemen t on Wednesday to rehabilitate Lebanon's gas infrastructure, reviving a regional project to transport gas from Egypt to Lebanon via Jordan and Syria, with international backing, after it was suspended in 2011. The project...
THE CIA WORLD FACTBOOK: R.I.P. [Guest article by Ryan L. Dudley] May 6, 2026 On February 4, 2026, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) quietly announced that the World Factbook was discontinued. No reason was given. https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/spotlighting-the-world-factbook-as-we-bid-a-fond-farewell It was interesting to watch the...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has offered condolences to Brazilian activist Thiago Avila following the death of his mother, while he remains in Israeli detention after participating in the Freedom Flotilla mission aimed at breaking the blockade on Gaza. In a statement...
Syrian forces have arrested Uzbek fighters during a security sweep in the northwest, after a dispute involving one of them escalated into protests outside a government security facility, two Syrian security officials said. The tensions began after authorities sought...
Tension is running high in parts of northwest Pakistan , particularly in regions inhabited by Pashtun and Baloch tribes across the north and southwest of the country, following the assassination of a prominent religious scholar who had played...
Trump ha asestado otro golpe a la UE. En concreto, Donald Trump anunció nuevos aranceles del 25% sobre los automóviles y camiones europeos con destino a Estados Unidos, eximiendo a los vehículos fabricados en EE. UU. La reacción de Europa...
Talks in Cairo over the future of Gaza’s ceasefire have stalled after days of discussions between the Board of Peace's High Representative Nickolay Mladenov and Palestinian officials, heightening concerns that Israel could soon resume large-scale military action...
Negotiations between Tehran and Washington mediated by Pakistan have made progress but "have not yet reached a level that could produce an agreement", Iranian sources familiar with the talks told The New Arab on Wednesday, dismissing...
During the renewed conflict with Israel, Hezbollah has increasingly relied on an arsenal of first-person view (FPV) drones that it amassed and developed over the 15 months of the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire. These drones, which are guided by fiber-optic cables instead...
Israeli forces on Tuesday attacked Palestinian Christians marking the Feast of St. George in the town of Al-Khader south of Bethlehem , the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. A convoy of Israeli army vehicles stormed the...
GAZA, (PIC) Three Palestinian citizens were martyred on Wednesday in the Gaza Strip following earlier Israeli attacks, amid ongoing ceasefire violations. According to media sources, a young man identified as Mohamed al-Attar succumbed to injuries he sustained two days ago in an...
More than 400 former diplomats, ministers, and senior officials on Wednesday urged the European Union to "act now" against Israel's illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank . The open letter comes as Israel intends to move forward with...
By Ted SNIDER Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su The Gulf states couldn’t stay out of a war launched from their territory. As the U.S. and Iran struggle to find common ground on...
Co-simulation, two or more simulations running concurrently in some manner, is not a new idea. I have written before about multiphysics systems able to model thermal, stress, CFD and other factors simultaneously. I just read a white paper from Siemens...
Food prices in 2027 are being influenced by choices made this spring, on farms and in capitals. Credit: Shutterstock By Maurizio Martina ROME, May 6 2026 (IPS) Across Europe, winter wheat is already in the ground. What farmers apply in the...
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