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Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.

The temporary closure of the key onshore pipeline Saudi Arabia uses to bypass the Strait of Hormuz has added another shock to an oil market already struggling with six months of Middle East supply disruptions. And the damage now appears...

News

Today’s global financial system has broken away from its familiar, predictable tracks. Trade barriers, mounting national debt burdens, and hyper-fast capital shifts generate market swings that traditional policy tools can no longer handle. Central banks face a harsh reality: standard...

Emerging Markets, Banking, geoeconomics

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As he campaigns across the Lone Star State, Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton has seized upon Texans’ growing concern with artificial intelligence and adopted a hard-line stance, promising to crack down on rogue chatbots and rein in AI data centers’...

National Politics

The United States is desperate to claw back some of the global critical minerals share from China. Beijing has established near-total dominance in international supply chains over the last several decades through its far-reaching Belt and Road Initiative in addition...

News

With assorted economic and military crises boiling all across the Middle East in the wake of his disastrous decision to launch a war on Iran, President Trump will meet with Persian Gulf leaders in New York next week, on the margins...

News

Gasoline is expensive. Diesel is worse. Social media is melting down and has apparently decided America is running out of fuel. U.S. gasoline inventories rose 800,000 barrels last week to 207.7 million barrels, according to the EIA. Stocks are 5%...

News

Taiwan is moving toward a nuclear comeback barely a year after shutting its last reactor, as soaring LNG prices and mounting dependence on imported gas force a rethink of its energy strategy. The preparations are already tangible: Taipower has submitted...

News

Islam Times - The Saudi-American plans to predominate in the Arab world through chaos called for and encouraged Arab societies to join what came to be known as the “Arab Spring” of 2010–2015. In Yemen, specifically, the outcome was catastrophic...

Yemen

Imagine flying from South Africa to Antarctica, one of the most remote places on Earth. Then visualize making the journey on a jet powered, partially, by fuel made from left-over cooking oil. That’s from a headline today on Business Insider...

News

Sometime around late 2009, centrifuges at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant began malfunctioning. They would suddenly speed up or slow down, placing enormous stress on the delicate machinery. Centrifuges failed. The engineers trying to diagnose the problem had another problem:...

Business & Economy, Column, Opinion

For a second year in a row, the United States will deny access to the United Nations headquarters district to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority administers parts of the occupied West Bank. Why is this happening, where did...

Democracy & Governance, mahmoud abbas, Palestinian Authority

The war against Iran is putting new strains on U.S. military readiness by consuming munitions and missile defense interceptors, as well as through extended deployments, sustained operational demands, and the diversion of forces and attention from other theaters. Mark Cancian...

Podcasts, War On The Rocks

How long can Western nations serve as proxies to keep the US afloat? Michael Hudson (preview clip The United States is selling oil short, just as it has kept down the price of gold through financial manipulation, selling gold forward short...

Austerity, Economics, Energy

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The world of pop culture is ablaze with fury, as billionaire plutocrat Robert Kraft successfully pressured Ed Sheeran into dropping Macklemore from his North American tour over the rapper’s pro-Palestine statements. The incident has ignited widespread outrage, and blown up in...

Foreign Affairs, Front Page: Foreign Affairs, Front Page: Inside Stories

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is increasingly preoccupied with a singular structural shift: the move toward national currencies in trade and investment. While the official rhetoric emphasizes a collective drift away from the US dollar, a deeper analysis of member...

World

Kpler’s Matt Smith expects oil prices to keep grinding higher, with six and a half months of Middle East supply losses now working their way through gasoline and diesel prices. Smith told CNBC Thursday that oil prices have risen roughly...

News

This story was originally published by Sentient . Last November , the Trump administration proposed a regulation that would strip federal water pollution protections from wide swaths of wetlands in the United States. Now, 10 months later, the administration has updated...

Courts & Law, Environment, Health & Wellness

In 2020, the group Black Lives Matter became a driving force in American politics. They ostensibly rallied around the idea that black lives, you know, matter. A bold position, to be sure, because I wasn’t sure anyone really disagreed. Photo by...

News

The Houthis are routinely described as Iranian proxies. The description has become even more common as their military reach has expanded from northern Yemen toward the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb strait. Iran has supplied weapons, training, intelligence...

Column, Middle East, Military

By Joel Jorgensen, FlowAccel. The 2026 Siemens EDA and Wilson Research Group study just came out. Verification now eats close to half the schedule on every IC and FPGA program. I don’t doubt that number. What I don’t know is how...

3D IC, EDA, Siemens EDA

The US Congress on September 16 passed sweeping legislation targeting Russia and Iran, sending to President Donald Trump a sanctions package supporters say will increase pressure on Moscow and countries that help finance its war against Ukraine. The House of...

News

The 18th BRICS Summit, which took place on September 12-13 in New Delhi, reflected the world order’s transition to multipolarity. Türkiye, though sharing this ideology, was not among the summit’s participants. The list of participants in the Indian BRICS summit...

India, Politics, Turkey

The House voted Thursday to pass legislation that would place a new set of sanctions on Russia, drawing significant Democratic support despite opposition from party leadership. The bill, first introduced by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in 2025, was previously...

Ukraine-war, Congress, Sanctions

ASML’s grip on the most advanced corner of chip manufacturing is tightening. The Dutch company, already the sole supplier of extreme ultraviolet lithography systems, is winning broader industry support for High Numerical Aperture EUV, or High NA, its next-generation technology...

Intel Foundry, Lithography, Semiconductor

For most Americans, a foreign war becomes real when it affects the household budget. That moment has arrived. On September 11, the national average price of diesel climbed to $6.06 a gallon , up from roughly $3.71 a year earlier....

Energy, War & Peace, diesel

The soaring wind and solar capacity installations in Germany have created an unsustainable business and project economics environment in the sector amid slower grid expansion and electricity generation curtailments. In 2023, Germany crossed the 50% mark of the share of...

News

LNG prices have room to rise by about a third from the current very high levels amid low European gas inventories and fierce competition for spot supply between Europe and Asia, analysts and industry executives say. Europe is heading into...

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