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Silicon Valley built its reputation by making transistors smaller and smaller. For decades, each shrink delivered a predictable payoff: faster computers, cheaper computing power, new products and new industries. Moore’s Law became a self-reinforcing cycle. Lower costs expanded demand, rising...
Bethlehem / Battir /PNN/ Monjed jadou In the heart of the historic village of Battir, renowned for its ancient agricultural terraces and traditional irrigation system, the annual “Battir Eggplant Market Festival” has been launched, drawing senior officials and local residents in...
As the 2026 midterm elections near, polls show American voters’ top priority is the economy, including concerns that the unpopular U.S. war in Iran appears to be driving up prices at home . Might these voter concerns give Republican hawks pause? Apparently...
This statement was originally published on lesotho.misa.org on 12 June 2026. Lesotho’s first fully digital census has revealed surprising realities about the country’s population, but questions remain about public access to the data. As the nation embraces digital statistics, the absence...
What actually causes inflation? There are a number of theories. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Guglielmo Carchedi is Senior Researcher in the Department of Economics and Econometrics at the University of Amsterdam Cross-posted...
Investors Await Key US Employment Data Amid Strong Earnings Season Global financial markets traded cautiously on Friday as investors awaited the release of the closely watched United States jobs report, while rising oil prices driven by renewed Middle East tensions...
Action Against Hunger holds a commemoration event for the 17 staff members killed in Muttur, Sri Lanka on August 4th, 2006. Credit: Action Against Hunger By Rotimy Djossaya NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 7 2026 (IPS) This summer, an ambush on a marked humanitarian convoy...
Orwell would be proud Since the 2020 onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Malaysia’s Ministry of Communications and its executive arm, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission, have metastasized into one of Asia’s largest state information control agencies, raising concerns among civil...
Norman Finkelstein examines a report recently published by an Israeli “Civil Commission” headed by Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy Silenced No More—Sexual Terror Unveiled: The Untold Atrocities of October 7 and Against Hostages in Captivity. Norman Finkelstein is is an American political scientist...
Diplomacy has effectively its own language, and the sum total of that language is, in theory at least, the sum total of possible interactions between states in peacetime. Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo licensed under the Creative...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 ICYMI in The Lever : Trump is giving Big Oil the chance to cash in on public oil reserves. 👀 Watch: The master planners couldn’t have predicted this . 👇...
On the night of July 30, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that his newly minted “Board of Peace” had reached what he termed a historic agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and every other armed group in Gaza....
Trapped in a deadly mountain pass, the caravan fights for survival as Darius faces his greatest test yet. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part...
By CIVICUS Aug 5 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS speaks about China’s recently implemented Ethnic Unity Law with Gulchehra Hoja, a correspondent for Reporters Without Borders and a Uyghur activist and journalist known for her reporting on human rights abuses against Uyghur people in...
This example illustrates the danger we are facing with Artificial Inteeligence, as with its algorithms it selects false information that are given to us as facts Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and...
Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash When the left describes the right, they often claim that we’re into conspiracy theories, that we don’t live in a world of facts and reality, and that we’re easily misled by our leaders. And that’s a...
No one denies that the occupation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war have delivered severe blows to tourism in Bethlehem. However, reducing the crisis to these factors alone means avoiding part of the truth that we must confront. Tourism is not...
What did Dr. Anthony Fauci know, when did he know it and what did he hide from the American people? These were the questions at the center of a three-hour hearing served up last Wednesday by the Senate Committee on Homeland...
I stumbled across something pretty bizarre today when I queried one of the AI-search engines about Russia’s capture of territory in Ukraine in 2026. Here is what the Chinese KIMI claimed: The evidence from multiple sources — including Ukrainian official claims,...
By: Joe Heaver Hundreds of scamsters arrested in Bali While police raids on online scam operations in Indonesia are no longer a rare occurrence, with victims falling for sophisticated romance scams for a decade, the magnitude of fraud is astonishing, with the...
Wildfires have brought the issue of climate action back into the public debate, just as politicians had thought they were safe to dump it for good. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and co-founder of 350.org and...
Israel’s ‘spyware diplomacy’ should have every country in the world worrying about election interference by the zionist state. Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, best–selling author, filmmaker and co–founder of Declassified Australia. He’s written for the Guardian, the New York Times,...
Oil prices tumbled Tuesday as traders once again priced in a U.S.-Iran agreement before anyone had actually signed one. West Texas Intermediate was trading at $75.64 per barrel shortly before 2 p.m. ET, down $4.70, or 5.85%, while Brent had...
The Flame Within That Calls Us Home “The kingdom of God is within you.” — Luke 17:21, KJV I. The Faith That Became a Mask Christianity remains the West’s dominant religious inheritance and, across much of it, its largest professed faith. Churches still command...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 4 2026 (IPS) President Trump has blamed trade liberalisation advocated by globalists for US deindustrialisation. Instead, his own weaponisation of economic policies, instruments and institutions purport to ‘make America great again’ (MAGA). Jomo Kwame Sundaram Trump...
China will tighten its exit-entry rules from September 15 to stop experienced engineers from leaking knowhow in industries subject to export controls and deter tourists from visiting “high-risk” nations such as Japan. The State Council’s new regulation, which spans 19...
Continental Resources, the company founded by shale billionaire Harold Hamm, looks to expand in Vaca Muerta as international companies vie to develop Argentina’s proven prolific shale patch. Continental is set to bid in this year’s bid round for acreage in...
This monthly report is prepared for Sinocism by the excellent Sinification , an invaluable resource for understanding how domestic and international affairs are debated within the Chinese establishment. — Bill --- Note: The summaries included in this digest were drafted with AI...
IInternational experts have reported a uptick of human rights violations committed in Iran, notably arbitrary executions of protestors since January 2026. Credit: Amir Sarabadani/Wikimedia Commons By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Aug 3 2026 (IPS) Over the past several weeks, the humanitarian landscape in...
Credit: Joseph Barrientos on Unsplash By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, Aug 3 2026 (IPS) Earlier this year, I called publicly for a precautionary pause on deep-sea mining, arguing that it is not a rejection of progress, but a commitment to sound science. I...
Galala city, Egypt, the southern exit to the Suez Canal. Credit: Unsplash/M abnodey By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Aug 3 2026 (IPS) As the United States and Iran continue to escalate with military strikes across both fronts, the conflict took a new turn...
Dominica's geothermal power plant. As Caribbean countries seek to reduce their dependence on imported fossil fuels, renewable energy remains a key pillar of the regional resilience agenda advanced by CARICOM leaders. Credit: Alison Kentish/IPS By Alison Kentish GROS ISLET, Saint Lucia ,...
Global markets opened the week on a mixed note as optimism over renewed U.S.-Iran diplomacy sent oil prices sharply lower, while coordinated intervention by the United States and Japan boosted the Japanese yen. Investors welcomed signs that geopolitical tensions in...
Environmental groups have been campaigning to encourage banks and other financial institutions to divest from fossil fuels for years, with efforts growing stronger since the Covid-19 pandemic and the global push to transition away from oil, gas, and coal to...
Raytheon sponsors the Girl Scouts of America. BAE Systems is reading your toddlers their favorite fairytale stories. And Lockheed Martin funds children’s math and STEM festivals. This is done with great fanfare, supposedly to empower and inspire children to pursue...
CONTACT: media@palestinelegal.org July 31, 2026 – Carnegie Mellon University's statement is yet another desperate attempt to malign and attack its own students for speaking out in support of Palestinian rights. In response to a growing call from civil society groups defending...
This story was originally published by The City. Sign up to get the latest New York City news delivered to you each morning. Throughout the summer , inside a small, fluorescent-lit courtroom in Lower Manhattan , hundreds of migrant children, some...
It’s clear that Europe cannot continue like this. The scenes at Ceuta over the past 24 hours—an estimated 49,000 people crossing the border by land and sea, including hundreds of unaccompanied minors; at least 19 bodies pulled from the water;...
Spain and Morocco have reinforced security around the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after an unprecedented surge saw around 49,000 migrants cross by land and sea in a single day, making it one of the largest border breaches ever recorded at...
By CIVICUS Jul 31 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses disinformation campaigns targeting the LGBTQI+ community in Armenia with Hripsime Kizogyan, Executive Director of Pink Armenia, a community-based organisation that defends the human rights of LGBTQI+ people and advocates for policy change. Hripsime Kizogyan Ahead of...
By: Majid Maqbool The killing of a police constable in the Kashmir Valley city of Anantnag, allegedly by Islamists militants, has triggered one of the largest security crackdowns since India officially revoked the special status of the region in 2019, arresting...
Israel accused Hezbollah of launching an explosive-laden drone at its positions in the Ali Al Taher Ridge on July 29, despite a ceasefire that went into effect on June 19. Hezbollah has not claimed the attack or issued a denial...
Through a meme and a movement, Indian students have once again mobilized, this time in response to Chief Justice Surya Kant’s comparison of unemployed youth to “cockroaches” and “parasites” attacking the system. This remark led to the creation of the...
Josephine Sembeyo (in blue) competes during Kenya's World Athletics Under-20 trials in May, where she qualified for the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Oregon. Credit: Robert Kibet/IPS By Robert Kibet OLOITOKTOK, Kenya, Jul 30 2026 (IPS) Before sunrise each morning, 19-year-old Josephine Sembeyo...
In his national address on July 19, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega stated that when the country’s next elections take place in 2027, none who promoted a violent anti-government insurrection in 2018 will be allowed to stand for office. The pledge...
Stein‘s Law: “if a thing cannot go on forever, it will stop.“ Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Most people have heard at least a version of what is called Stein‘s Law: “if a thing cannot go on forever,...
Rahm Emmanuel was credited as saying, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” He was probably paraphrasing Machiavelli when he said it regarding the 2008 Financial Crisis, but he’s the one who used those words in that particular order. And,...
A U.S.-backed proposal to dismantle the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is sparking fear in Gaza about the future of the agency that has shaped every aspect of refugee life for nearly eight decades. Earlier this...
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