Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Shop price inflation has hit a two-year high and is set to climb through the autumn as a surge in energy and commodity costs filters through to consumers, a top business group has found. The British Retail Consortium (BRC), which...
The earnings of America’s largest corporations — the S&P 500 — surged by an astounding 53 percent over the past year. But most Americans are losing ground . Wages have barely risen — yet a tomato today costs 40 percent more than...
Cuts to the nation’s largest food assistance program will likely spill over into schools, causing students to lose access to free breakfast and lunch. More than 1 million American children have lost access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP,...
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . This fall , 54 million K-12 students are headed back to the classroom for another year of lessons in all the classic subjects: math, English,...
Photo by McCarthy Beckan on Unsplash It’s funny how, without USAID to funnel money in different places and with ActBlue under investigation, we’re just not seeing the riots this year we normally see. It’s sort of odd, don’t you think? Maybe not. Celebrate...
Spot LNG prices in Asia jumped on Tuesday to the highest level since the 2026 winter, as buyers compete for spot cargoes amid the still-stalled LNG traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Asia’s spot LNG price jumped to as high...
There is a connection between Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cairo and Egyptian-Chinese cooperation in the fields of intelligence and defense technology, which is central to the strategic partnership between the two countries. President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cairo...
Today, Tuesday 1st September, the date that the Central Bank of Ireland was due to renew the Israel Bond prospectus, either by approval or transfer, it appears that no EU state is now authorising the sale of Israel Bonds. This disruption...
The U.S. installed a record-high energy storage capacity in the second quarter of the year as grid operators and utilities turned to storage to boost grid reliability and meet rising power demand, a new industry report showed on Tuesday. The...
BRICS de-dollarization is real but narrow: it is happening bilaterally, mostly under Russia and Iran’s sanctions duress, while the instruments meant to make it systemic — a common currency, BRICS Pay, “the Unit” — remain pilots, studies, or shelved proposals....
The 25th anniversary of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s annual gathering got underway August 31 in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, with discussions expected to focus on building trade and digital connections and fostering cultural exchanges. The agenda is seen as aimed...
Despite the overall trend toward older populations, substantial differences in age structures exist among countries. Credit: Shutterstock. By Joseph Chamie PORTLAND, USA, Sep 1 2026 (IPS) The age structures of populations vary considerably across countries. Some countries have relatively young populations, with large...
TODAY’S NUMBERS 6.7828 (Monday’s PBOC yuan fix, near-flat) · 21 (months of PBOC gold buying, a record) · <3% (yuan’s share of SWIFT payments, vs. 51% for the dollar). Beijing is capping the currency, buying gold and building payment rails...
The dystopian future became the dystopian present last month when state-of-the-art artificial intelligence agents went rogue and conducted a cyberattack of their own volition. Two experimental OpenAI agents escaped their supposedly sealed digital “sandbox” and hacked another AI-related company, Hugging...
Two oil supertankers have been hit by unknown projectiles while transiting the Strait of Hormuz outbound from the Persian Gulf, maritime risk management firm Marisks said on Tuesday, as tensions in the Middle East flared up again this week and...
Modern geopolitics increasingly resembles a lottery where the US draws a number, and the “winning” country receives not a prize but a shower of stones — as the crowd applauds, never asking why it is throwing them. Lottery has lots...
Nepal is facing one of its deadliest disasters in recent years after a glacier collapse on August 26 triggered a massive surge of ice, rock and mud across the country’s Himalayan border region with China. The disaster has devastated towns,...
The main monument to the new school of reparations appears to be Venezuela. Only recently, the country dominated the headlines: the American military operation, the capture of Nicolás Maduro, his removal to the United States, an interim government headed by...
Today marks the launch of the SIXTH year of the Muslim Book Awards! The Muslim Book Awards (MBA) is an annual celebration of Muslim voices in publishing, from mainstream publishers, Islamic publishers, or authors who self-publish. Hosted by MuslimMatters.org and featuring...
Pakhshan Azizi and a child. Photo credit: Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (WNCRI) By Clare Quirk JOHANNESBURG, Sep 1 2026 (IPS) In 2024, Kurdish social worker Pakhshan Azizi was sentenced to death. She remains incarcerated in Evin Prison,...
A massive Ukrainian drone attack at Russia’s Ust-Luga oil export terminal in the Baltic Sea has sparked a fire at the site as Ukraine continues to target Russian refineries and energy export infrastructure. Following a drone attack overnight, the Ust-Luga...
The prosecution of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is set to test how US courts apply international law in criminal cases involving foreign leaders and defendants captured abroad. Maduro, who has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges, is expected...
India’s imports of spot crude cargoes from producers such as the United States and Venezuela are being driven by the prevailing cargo and oil prices, the top executive of India’s state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has said. “Imports...
The American response to Southeast Asia’s industrial-scale scam compounds has been vigorous, even theatrical at times, yet it remains strikingly incomplete. In April 2026, the Justice Department’s Scam Center Strike Force seized 503 domains designed to impersonate legitimate trading platforms,...
Russia has condemned upcoming military exercises involving Japan, the United States and Australia, warning that the deployment of US Typhon missile systems on Japanese territory poses a direct threat to Russian national security. The dispute comes amid worsening tensions between...
Darius awakes in a strange land, only to stumble into the midst of an assassination attempt—and once again finds himself fighting for his life. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part...
My greatest challenge while flight testing collaborative combat aircraft was not troubleshooting errors at high speed in the cockpit. It was when, in a single keystroke, my job shifted from pilot to something like a dog handler — a supervisor...
One of the small costs of running money is that you stop having time to read the people you most want to read. For me, that is Matt Levine, whose Money Stuff column runs on Bloomberg, and who has spent...
Editor’s Note: While War on the Rocks has a high standard for allowing pseudonyms, this is an unusual case: U.S. Army Special Operations Command requires its uniformed personnel to use pseudonyms when writing for public consumption (Policy 23-16). Meek young...
Iran says it has sufficient foreign currency reserves to withstand growing US economic pressure, as Washington intensifies sanctions aimed at weakening Tehran’s economy and forcing it to change its policies. The statement comes amid severe economic pressures, including a record...
Homes and roads are covered in mud in Nuwakot District, Nepal, after devastating flash floods swept through central northern Nepal. Credit: UNICEF/Laxmi-Prasad-Ngakhusi By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Sep 1 2026 (IPS) On the morning of August 26, an unprecedented series of flash floods...
In April, President Donald Trump issued two Defense Production Act determinations covering grid infrastructure and large-scale energy infrastructure. One found that the country’s constrained electric grid posed an increasing threat to national defense and made grid infrastructure and its supply...
A U.S. oil company controlled by a Venezuelan business tycoon will replace Chinese and Russian operators of several Venezuelan oil fields, Reuters has reported, citing two unnamed U.S. officials. North American Blue Energy Partners, which is backed by the U.S....
Pakhshan Azizi. Credit: Photo credit: Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (WNCRI) By Pakhshan Azizi TEHRAN, Sep 1 2026 (IPS) Writing from the women’s ward of Evin Prison on 10 June 2026 , Kurdish political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi ,...
The Iran conflict and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have disrupted a major global oil supply route, forcing Asian importers to look for alternative sources. Oil producers across the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, have benefited by increasing...
Drylands landscape near Kitui, Kitui County - Kenya. Credit: Axel Fassio/CIFOR By Éliane Ubalijoro and Salina Abraham NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 1 2026 (IPS) Open a can of something fizzy and the reason the sugar doesn’t separate immediately is gum arabic , tapped by...
Indonesia wants China’s help building enough solar power to electrify 100 mid-sized cities without actually owning the capacity. On July 17 in Shanghai, Indonesia’s economy minister, Airlangga Hartarto, asked China’s trade minister, Wang Wentao, to invest in developing 100 gigawatts...
On August 17, Jared Kushner, Nickolay Mladenov and other Board of Peace representatives met with Binyamin Netanyahu to discuss the sequencing of Hamas disarmament and Israeli troop withdrawal, as well as Washington’s requests for Israel to restrict the use of...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram JAKARTA, Indonesia, Sep 1 2026 (IPS) The US dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency has been eroding gradually for decades. However, various US policies, including recent deliberately unexpected actions, have at times accelerated de-dollarisation. Jomo Kwame Sundaram Dollarisation Despite warnings...
Poland is increasingly shifting its defence procurement strategy toward domestic and Central European production as it builds one of Europe’s largest armies and seeks to reduce dependence on distant suppliers. The move reflects Warsaw’s growing concern over Russia and lessons...
Russian air attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding region have entered their sixth consecutive day, killing nine people and injuring more than a dozen, according to Ukrainian authorities. The latest strikes have intensified pressure on Ukraine’s capital as Moscow continues...
The French destabilization strategy in the Sahel and the Macronian figure of modern cynicism effectively confirm the barbaric nature of the neo-colonial imperial spasm. Curiously, Emmanuel Macron, who dreamed of being the refounder of an “uninhibited” relationship with Africa from...
The Persian Gulf’s extraordinary wealth has long rested on an assumption of stability. The past six months of war have shattered that certainty, exposing a fundamental weakness in Gulf economic models: producing oil and gas is only half the equation...
In July 2026, the White House released what it called the most ambitious rethinking of American science policy in decades. Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science advisor, penned a report titled “Science: A New Golden Age,” with the goal of charting a...
The US State Sponsors of Terrorism designation has always claimed to be a counterterrorism instrument. Syria’s removal, after 47 years on the list, confirms what analysts have argued for decades: it is a foreign policy lever, pulled and released according...
Despite the excitement around Donald Trump’s new sanctions and even the US strikes against the Iranian island of Larak just hours ago, much suggests that Trump is not seeking a dramatic ratcheting up of pressure on Iran. According to reports Sunday, the US military hit...
Odessa Port on the Black Sea Let me explain why Russia’s blockade is a lethal blow to Ukraine. Ukraine is, in economic terms, a country that lives or dies by roughly two hundred nautical miles of contested water off its southern...
The latest US trade fight with Canada should matter far beyond North America. After negotiations collapsed in August, President Donald Trump imposed 50% tariffs on about $20 billion of Canadian goods. Ottawa answered with tariffs on roughly the same value...
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