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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...

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....

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

A leading grassroots advocacy group for the rights of Iranian Americans called on the Trump administration Monday to rescind the recent message it sent when it announced new sanctions against ordinary Iranians—“that the US is at war with the Iranian people”—and to ensure that...

Today, the West Bank is a nightmare of vicious settlement expansion, land seizure, economic strangulation, settler violence and forced displacement. With the collusion of the Israeli military and police, the Israeli-occupied territories are effectively ruled by the Messianic far-right settlers...

Mystery continues about the strange visit by CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Moscow, flying there in a massive C-17 Globemaster, a military airlifter. While the Globemaster has a specially designed secure roll off and roll on module for top officials,...

Childhood is meant to be a journey of gradual awakenings; an accumulation of sunlit afternoons, scraped knees, carefree school days and the gradual safe unfurling of identity. However, for a Palestinian child growing up in the Israeli killing fields of...

Plastics remanufacturing is the industry everyone wishes they’d gotten into earlier, with McKinsey seeing as much as $75 billion in economic opportunity by 2035 for technologies capable of putting the world’s plastic waste back to work. And Denovia has just...

A landmark oil agreement between Washington and Caracas threatens to cut Chinese refiners off from a cherished source of discounted crude, handing the United States greater sway over global oil prices. US President Donald Trump announced on August 28 that...

In this issue: - The disaster in Nepal and Tibet - Xi at the SCO - State Council Executive meeting - Measures to expand and upgrade consumer goods consumption - Revised National Defense Mobilization Law - Signals for PRC-US AI dialogue - Cracking down excessive competition in...

Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, and its heavy crude is particularly well suited to the sophisticated refineries lining the U.S. Gulf Coast. More Venezuelan oil should help U.S. refiners, but that doesn’t translate directly into...

US President Donald Trump published a string of unhinged posts to his social media platform overnight Sunday and into Monday morning, including an artificial intelligence-generated video attempting to depict American forces bombing Kharg Island – Iran’s primary oil export terminal. The post, which drew mockery from...

SANGKLABURI – Nearly 500 kilometers away from Bangkok, Sangklaburi is a small-town in Kanchanaburi province, the western part of Thailand. It is surrounded by nature and wrapped in picturesque mountainsides. The province is bordered between Thailand and Myanmar. It is...

Intel’s next-generation 14A manufacturing process is showing unusually strong early progress, with defect density falling faster than the company expected. The improvement gives Intel a technical boost as it attempts to restore confidence in its manufacturing operation, win foundry customers...

The severe disruption of oil and gas flows out of the Persian Gulf resulting from the war between the U.S. and Israel and Iran, has saddled energy-importing nations with soaring bills, supply uncertainty, and a murky outlook. However, there has...

The renewed trade war between the United States and Canada adds even more uncertainty to the complex steel and aluminum supply chains critical for heavy manufacturing and North America’s automotive industry. Last week’s breakdown in trade talks led to a...

Norway is supposedly breaking with Brussels. Energy Minister Terje Aasland says the country will continue exploring for oil and gas in the Barents Sea despite European Union support for an Arctic drilling moratorium. He has also dismissed the old ambition...

Islam Times - Behind the mask and voice that people had come to know for years, Hudhaifa Al-Kahlout, known as “Abu Obaida,” lived away from the spotlight and the personal details that typically shape the public image of prominent figures....

Islam Times - In its media messaging regarding the northern front, the “Israeli” occupation forces [IOF] seek to portray themsleves as acting under the banner of humanitarianism, repeatedly promoting the narrative that their military aggression are focused solely on targets...

Chevron, India’s ONGC, GE Vernova, Eni and GeoPark are preparing to sign final energy agreements in Venezuela, bringing new foreign investment into the country’s oilfields and power infrastructure, Reuters reported Monday, citing five sources close to the preparations. Venezuela has...

Why would a victor today need to loot cities, haul away machinery and demand gold when, in the 21st century, it is possible to obtain oil fields for a hundred years, a transport corridor for nearly a century, and a...

Two days after President Trump called his new Venezuela agreement “the biggest oil deal in world history,” the story has already moved past the barrels themselves. A Pentagon spokesman contradicted the reported ownership structure. The company positioned to run the...

India’s crude imports fell in August, and Russia’s share declined with them, exposing a supply problem that seasonal refinery patterns alone cannot explain. The usual maintenance period at Indian plants comes toward the end of the monsoon, when domestic diesel...

The world’s largest oilfield services company is spending $3.4 billion to expand into the infrastructure behind the AI power boom. SLB said Monday it will acquire German cooling equipment maker Kelvion, more than doubling the revenue opportunity per gigawatt of...

Agentic AI was everywhere at DAC 2026. Various focus areas were presented that covered many parts of the chip design flow. Verification and debug were a popular topic since so much time is spent there. Analog design is another pressure...