(2025-07-15). Israeli warplanes strike multiple installations in southern Syria. presstv.ir Israeli warplanes have carried out a new wave of aerial attacks on multiple installations in Syria's Suweida.
(2025-07-15). Turkey seeks to use Syria's extremists to undermine Lebanon-Cyprus ties: Report. presstv.ir Turkey eyes controlling the north of Lebanon after Ankara-backed extremist militants came to power in neighboring Syria, amid its "deep concern" over how any improvement in ties between Beirut and Cyprus could counter its influence in the Mediterranean, a report says.
(2025-07-15). Unpacking The Localism Manifesto: Solving Our Crises From The Bottom Up. popularresistance.org The United States is a failing country. Political leaders at all levels have failed to effectively solve the many crises we face such as the climate crisis, economic insecurity and growing inequality, and the need for affordable housing, education, and health care, and more. Action at the local level, where people have the most control, offers a pathway forward. Clearing the FOG speaks with Michael Shuman, author of A Localism Manifesto, which can be found at The Main Street Journal. Shuman explains how decentralized action works, the principles involved, and how it offers a radical new politics that can heal the…
(2025-07-15). At least 78 Palestinians killed across Gaza as Tel Aviv torpedoes ceasefire talks. presstv.ir Israeli regime forces have killed at least 78 Palestinians, including several aid seekers, in bombardment attacks across the Gaza Strip.
(2025-07-15). Concerns mounting over new energy crisis in EU as Russian gas transit via Ukraine ends. presstv.ir As the agreement allowing Russian gas transit through Ukraine to Europe expires on Tuesday, concerns are mounting over new energy crisis in EU.
(2025-07-15). ASEAN Can't Afford to Be Passive on Climate Change. unitedworldint.com Institutionalization of climate action is what's needed. By Mehmet Enes Be≈üer As the planet hurtles towards ecological tipping points, the climate crisis has reached not just an environmental crisis, but a civilizational emergency. Record-breaking heatwaves, disappearing coastlines, crashing biodiversity, and the oceans devouring land with an increasingly accelerating ferocity. Somewhere, this is felt—and politically under-served—more …
(2025-07-15). The Collapse of the Corporate University in the Time of Gaza. counterpunch.org 
Across the globe, we are living in a moment of profound crisis where the very essence of education as a democratic institution is under attack. In the United States, the assault on higher education is part of a broader war waged by authoritarian forces aiming to dismantle the pillars of not only academic freedom, dissent,
(2025-07-15). Iraqi Kurds protest power cuts, one killed: sources. newarab.com 
A man was killed in Residents in the Rawandz region, north east of Kurdistan's capital Arbil, said that protesters took to the streets and blocked a main highway leading to a border crossing with Iran. | Security forces intervened to open the road, leading to clashes with protesters, they said. | A medical source in the area's Ashti hospital said that "the body of a man who was killed by gunshot arrived…