Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
As the deadly Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon continues, the fabulously wealthy banker-turned-“philanthropist” Antoun Sehnaoui has assembled a network of business and media operatives – and a fascist Christian goon squad – in Beirut and Washington dedicated to doing Israel’s...
Taiwan has condemned planned Chinese naval drills with an Indonesian warship off the island’s east coast, calling the exercise a dangerous provocation and accusing Beijing of trying to create the impression that it controls waters east of Taiwan. China’s Defence...
Brent Crude oil prices rose above $89 per barrel in early trade in Europe on Wednesday as Iran and the United States offered contrasting claims about who controls the Strait of Hormuz. Brent Crude prices were up by 0.64% at...
Oil flows from the Middle East have normalized, with Sunday traffic alone above pre-conflict averages, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said on Tuesday in a claim that appears not to be backed by ship-tracking data. On Tuesday, Secretary Wright...
Roberto Mosquera, a Cuban immigrant who has lived in the United States since 1980 and completed a prison sentence in 1996, was arrested by ICE last year and sent to a prison in Eswatini, a country in Africa he’d never...
Exiled Nicaraguans hold a national flag in the Church of San Francisco in San José, Costa Rica, at a service held on 19 April 2026 to commemorate the anniversary of protests in 2018. Credit: Ezequiel Becerra/AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay,...
US foreign policy, built on military intervention, sanctions, applying double standards, and making use of proxy conflicts, is not bolstering America’s global influence but is instead accelerating the emergence of alternative alliances, uniting countries opposed to Western dominance. After so...
Iran is set to join the New Development Bank (NDB), the development lender established by the BRICS group, Iranian central bank governor Abdolnaser Hemmati said on Wednesday, as Tehran seeks to deepen financial ties with emerging economies amid sweeping international...
Editor’s note: This is the eighth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary,...
Children play outside their home at a shelter in the Philippines. Credit: UNICEF/Joshua Estey By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Aug 12 2026 (IPS) On July 7, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres presented a report from the Special Rapporteur on the sale,...
Carol Koech, Vice President for Africa at the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet By Benson Kunchezera LILONGWE, Aug 12 2026 (IPS) For years, Malawi’s electricity supply has been at the mercy of droughts, floods and cyclones that have repeatedly exposed the...
When war changes, schools change. New technology, the politics of mass mobilization and campaign design, and novel tactics that defined Napoleonic warfare led to Gerhard von Scharnhorst’s reforms and the idea of lifelong education as a professional obligation. The pattern...
By Anis Chowdhury SYDNEY, Aug 12 2026 (IPS) Should anyone be surprised that Israel has rebuffed Donald Trump? The unconditional support of the US and its Western allies for Israel has emboldened the rogue state. Thus, Israel continues its genocide against the...
In the weeks since the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding collapsed, Washington and Tehran have used the time to strengthen their respective positions in the event negotiations resume. For the United States, this has largely taken the form of overt threats by President...
This week’s market headlines have been dominated by Gulf tensions, inflation, bond market concerns and renewed political pressure on the Federal Reserve. But beneath those developments, investors are watching three broader trends: the surprising strength of European bank stocks, Japanese...
Oil and gold prices climbed on Wednesday as geopolitical tensions intensified ahead of key U.S. inflation data, while investors assessed the potential impact on Federal Reserve interest rate policy. U.S. crude rose 0.61% to $83.71 a barrel, while Brent crude...
Russia has started importing fuels from India, Bloomberg reported today, citing Kpler data that shows one cargo of 42,000 tons of gasoline from Nayara Energy’s Vadinar refinery arriving in Russia earlier this month. The Vadinar refinery is partly owned by...
Renewable energy became an essential issue in G20 meetings due to the reality of climate change in recent decades. The campaign of the energy transition is one of the efforts to change energy resources from fossil fuel and coal to...
The Trump administration has launched a series of measures to ensure that US defense contractors source critical minerals domestically or from allied nations, building a supply chain that officials hope would break China’s monopoly over materials such as scandium and...
On July 19, President Donald Trump’s top Africa adviser, Massad Boulos, held a series of talks in Cairo with the foreign ministers of Egypt, Eritrea and Somalia. The participants framed the discussions as an effort to bolster security in the...
When the Taliban reclaimed power five years ago, China appeared poised to capitalize on Afghanistan’s new realities. Beijing quickly took important steps to establish de facto relations with the Islamic Emirate, such as keeping its embassy open in Kabul, maintaining direct...
Trump’s renewed talks with Tehran expose an uncomfortable reality: once war begins, foreign allies and their domestic networks can raise the political cost of ending it on American terms. President Donald Trump said this week that the United States was...
Struggling on her meagre pay, Faten Ben Omar El Azizi dreamed of reaching Europe. Then she joined thousands trying to reach a better life in Spain Football was the life Faten Ben Omar El Azizi had wanted. She had long played...
The migrant influx prompted recriminations and a tit-for-tat dispute between Italy and Spain. Putin, Erdoğan and others will have taken note Within hours of the first pictures of tens of thousands of migrants swimming the short distance from Morocco to the...
NEW YORK – Earlier hopes that China had beaten deflation took a hit this week. China’s consumer prices rose just 0.5% year-on-year in July, down from June’s 1% rate — the slowest pace in six months and the third straight...
The Trump-class battleship risks becoming more of a prestige project than a practical answer to the US Navy’s longstanding challenges in fleet modernization, emerging technologies and power projection. This month, the US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report estimating...
The Trump administration, following several media reports of a plague of weapons shortages, is trying to launch a frantic effort to reload. After two wars — Ukraine and the 2026 conflict with Iran — burned through interceptor stockpiles at a...
On July 30, Gaza’s parties signed a disarmament roadmap that Washington called a historic breakthrough, the latest turn in a sequencing fight this outlet has tracked closely for months. But a disarmed Gaza still cannot rebuild itself, and the deeper...
By: Pham Phan Long Humanity has entered the Anthropocene, an era in which human activity shapes Earth’s climate, ecosystems, rivers, and natural processes at planetary scale. Yet many institutions guiding development were built around a narrower vision of environmental impacts, focusing...
They took her trainers. That is the detail that survives, once the rest is stripped away – the belongings removed from the corpse, the shoes pulled from her feet, the shallow hole in woods sixty kilometers west of Kyiv. Anastasiia...
Over the last few years, there has been a significant change in how governments conceptualise and approach climate change. Climate change was previously seen as an environmental problem, and as a quandary that existed in a separate, often subordinate, sphere...
The Trump administration marked the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of U.S. independence with a series of statements in support of American empire. Despite the fact that Trump campaigned against endless war and the White House issued a National Security Strategy that rejected...
The war between the United States and Iran is rooted in events stretching back more than seventy years. As the major media continues to ignore the history, it is important to understand this essential backstory. If you’re wondering why the...
Whatever officially occurs next in the on-again/off-again negotiations towards a peace deal between the U.S. and Iran, unofficially Tehran knows that it has established de facto control over both the world’s two key maritime energy transit routes -- the Strait...
Two years ago, Alaska LNG was struggling to secure the private financing needed to move forward, with high Arctic construction costs, logistical complexities and massive upfront property tax burdens making lenders and potential Asian buyers hesitant to commit. But since...
By the early 2030s the US will have a “new” tank to replace the Abrams M1. The M1 was designed between 1972 and 1976, although many changes have been made over the years. The Abrams is the main heavy battle...
On 13 June 2025, Israel attacked Iranian nuclear facilities and military leadership over Iran’s uranium enrichment capacity, not even a confirmed decision of a weapon being built (Associated Press, 2025). Eight months later, a second attack, a joint US-Israeli operation,...
Batteries have been a hot topic for years amid the energy transition rush of many governments, but now, it has become even hotter as the search for alternatives to traditional energy becomes frantic. While lithium continues to dominate in both...
Recovering from the raid, Darius hallucinates his way through a promotion ceremony, only to stumble into a new disaster. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 |...
Temperature is often treated as a reliability clock. Increase the temperature, accelerate the failure mechanism, and estimate the equivalent field life. That approach can be useful—but only when the dominant failure mechanism is known, its thermal activation behavior is understood, and the...
The Middle East conflict and the heightened threats to shipping in the Red Sea have prompted China to boost the use of the Arctic to move containers from the Chinese east coast to Europe. The fast-melting Arctic ice offers an...
Vessel traffic at the Strait of Hormuz continues to decline as last week’s hopes of negotiations of a U.S.-Iran deal began to fade, yet again. As OilPrice notes, on Monday, only six commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz in either direction,...
Cambodia and China recently agreed to fast-track four priority infrastructure projects under the Diamond Hexagon cooperation framework, deepening a partnership that already accounts for roughly 75% of Cambodia’s foreign direct investment. The acceleration comes as Cambodia pursues its own ambitious...
Every country in the world, especially the United States, must now take Iran and what it want’s seriously. Vijay Prashad is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. His most recent book (with Grieve Chelwa) is How the International Monetary...
One year after the signing of a provisional peace deal in Washington, DC, American, Armenian, and Azerbaijani officials continue to exude optimism about the potential for stability and prosperity in the South Caucasus. But movement toward implementing the joint declaration...
Europe’s car industry has lost ground to China by failing to adapt to electrification, but it still makes up the largest share of European manufacturing jobs: if it is to survive, it will have to change quickly. Bela Galgóczi is a...
It should be obvious that it is the working class who will suffer most from climate breakdown, but sometimes the obvious must be pointed out again and again. Cross-posted from Counterfire Picture by Hong Kong Free Press Blue skies, blistering sun, scorched parks...
In purely military terms, the results of the first weeks of Operation Epic Fury were impressive. The initial strikes hit IRGC command centers, air-defense facilities, missile and drone positions, and military airfields. During the opening phase of the war, Iran’s...
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