Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
This story is from Floodlight , a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action. Sign up for Floodlight’s newsletter here . Across much of the U.S. , people have little way to know when the air they breathe...
Eurasia Publications announces the release of Economic Transition and Impact on the Energy Mix, the new expanded English edition by Yannis Bassias. The book continues the analytical path established in Cause and Effect, where the author introduced the principle that...
This statement was originally published on lesotho.misa.org The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA Lesotho) expresses severe outrage and unequivocal condemnation regarding the brutal abduction, interrogation, and physical torture of Newsday Media News Editor, human rights defender and a former Chairperson...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is considering significant changes to its plans to build a massive 5-gigawatt AI data center in Abu Dhabi in partnership with U.S. tech giants, after Iran started targeting American air bases and U.S.-linked critical infrastructure...
The US-China G-2 concept is both normatively exclusionary and strategically constraining. The inherent limits of a G-2 framework—hierarchy, power structure, and systematic constraints—make it a non-starter in a multipolar reality. Here, I completely agree; the concept of a G2 is...
Claims have been circulating on social media that the United States has only about two weeks of oil left. The calculation appears to compare the 286.6 million barrels currently held in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with roughly 20.7 million barrels...
According to the WHO, one in six people worldwide will be over the age of 60 by 2030. The number of people aged 80 or older is also likely to triple between 2020 and 2050. Over half of nursing homes...
Within the increasingly specialized field of peptide and metabolic signaling inquiry, AICAR has emerged as a particularly intriguing molecular subject due to its theorized relationship with cellular energy regulation, mitochondrial communication pathways, and adaptive biochemical signaling environments. Although often associated...
The large businesses in the UK have urged the government to remove taxes on electricity bills for business to make Britain more competitive and energy costs more affordable amid escalating energy prices that hurt both consumers and industry. In one...
Diesel just broke $6 a gallon nationwide for the first time in U.S. history, and Jeff Currie says $5 gasoline is likely to land before midterms. The founder and CEO of Real Macro, who spent more than a decade running...
It’s that time of year again. Time certainly flies when AI is chasing you! This year marks the 18th TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum, and it promises to be bigger and better than ever. My SemiWiki partners, Mike Gianfagna and Kalar...
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was established 43 years ago this November. Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on the heels of his 1982 Westminster Address to the British Parliament, the NED was the embodiment of the president’s...
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Yemen's Houthis captured the Red Sea port of Mocha on Thursday, taking the approach to the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, which connects the Red Sea (and the Suez Canal, beyond it) to the Gulf of Aden and...
Every headline number behind Vostok Oil — from the tanker fleet and shipping target to the resource base and flagship well — has failed to survive contact with what Rosneft has actually drilled, built, or shipped. Four trillion rubles into...
October WTI crude oil futures are trading at $101.26 early Friday, up $10.04 or 11.01% for the week so far. The contract traded as low as $90.87 before reaching $104.46, its strongest level since May. Last week, the market was...
Crude oil prices are poised for further increases and the trending trajectory is higher, as global inventory drawdowns have accelerated and China is back to buying significantly higher crude oil volumes than in the spring, Energy Aspects founder and market...
TODAY’S NUMBERS: 4.94% (US 10-year Treasury yield, near a three-year high) · 289 tonnes (record Q2 central-bank gold buying) · $53.9bn (Gulf funds’ record H1 dealmaking). Two kinds of state money are betting opposite ways in the same week —...
By CIVICUS Sep 11 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses the implications of the Philippines’ proposed anti-disinformation bill with Josalee Deinla, Secretary-General of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers, a civil society organisation that defends civil liberties in the Philippines. Josalee Deinla The Philippines’ House of...
An artisanal mining boom driven by war and poverty is causing a public health emergency, as chemicals poison soil, water and society In Abu Hamad, on the banks of the Nile, verdant orchards, gardens and fields once produced a bounty of...
On 2 September 2026, UNICEF staff and partners are distributing recreation kits at Child-Friendly Spaces (CFS) at the holding center for children affected by the recent flash floods in Nuwakot District, Bagmati Province, Nepal. By Shreya Komar UNITED NATIONS, Sep 11 2026...
Ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz slumped to single digits on Thursday, down from a 10-day average of 15 vessels that transited the chokepoint in both directions, Reuters reports, citing preliminary vessel-tracking data by Kpler as of early Friday....
Some environmental disasters announce themselves: a spill draws cameras, an apology, a cleanup crew. Most do not. They begin instead as paperwork — a mining permit, a revised land-use map, a supply contract signed in some distant boardroom. By the...
You cannot understand the executive power Donald Trump is wielding today if you do not understand how 9/11 was used to create that power. I have been perseverating on that truth in the lead-up to today’s 25-year anniversary of the terrorist...
China aims to have electric and hybrid vehicles account for as much as 70% of all passenger car sales by 2030, in a massive transport shift set to further dent oil demand for road fuels. As of the end of...
Pakistan is facing a difficult diplomatic test as escalating fighting between Saudi Arabia and Iran backed Houthi forces in Yemen threatens to undermine Islamabad’s attempt to maintain close ties with Riyadh while preserving its role as a channel to Tehran....
In 1884, an English schoolmaster wrote a short novel about a world with only length and breadth, whose inhabitants could not conceive of a third direction until one of them was lifted out of the plane and shown his own...
Crude oil prices could top $120 per barrel of Brent crude by the end of the year if fighting in the Middle East continues, RBC Capital Markets’ Helima Croft has warned, as quoted by Reuters. “Maritime traffic through the Bab...
Across three pieces I’ve written for Sonar21, I have been making one continuous argument: The war in Ukraine was not a crisis that erupted in 2022. It was the payoff of a deliberate, decades-long Western project to turn Ukraine into...
On the first night of the evacuation of Kabul, Aug. 15, 2021, a young mother found me in the crowd at Hamid Karzai International Airport. She had marked me, correctly, as someone who spoke her language. By the end of...
Africa’s healthcare system is in many ways at the core of the continent’s development – it influences virtually all other sectors, as well as political and social stability. It can also be a viable commercial enterprise, promising substantial returns on...
The United Nations is under greater strain than ever before in its 80- year history. Its authority, especially in situations of conflict, is being constantly challenged; attacks on its personnel are increasing; and massive cuts in funding and mounting member...
Last month the state parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) met in Geneva for the 12th Conference of the State Parties (CSP). The ATT has been negotiated to develop common and standard practices for regulating the international trade of...
In this deeply researched article, Onyekachi Wambu delves into the origins of the global cotton trade, its role in Britain’s Industrial Revolution, the rise of colonialism and immense wealth, the inhuman Atlantic Slave Trade and the enduring consequences of the...
Ukraine is increasingly turning to unmanned ground vehicles to reduce the exposure of soldiers on one of the world’s most heavily monitored battlefields, potentially accelerating a transformation in how wars are fought on land. Across the front line, Ukrainian military...
China’s state owned oil companies have spent years preparing for the possibility of major disruptions to global energy supplies, investments that are now helping Beijing manage the shock caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Since 2018, Sinopec,...
The national average price for diesel fuel in the United States topped $6 per gallon for the first time this Thursday, adding to already considerable pain at the pump ahead of the November midterm elections. The data comes from GasBuddy,...
Scott Bessent may have imagined a triumphant return to hedge fund row after his stint as US Treasury secretary. Right now, that homecoming looks like it needs a rewrite. Bessent came up under George Soros and Stanley Druckenmiller, and he’s...
The 11th of September, 2026, marks a quarter-century since the “9/11” attacks that killed three thousand Americans and set into motion a generation of the “Global War on Terror”. The anniversary will no doubt bring with it the very human...
Islam Times - US President Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas was less a governing address than a political performance designed to distract Americans from problems his administration has failed to solve. CNN’s Daniel Dale documented...
General Secretary and President To Lam’s state visit to Russia from September 7 to 9, 2026, was significant not because it reaffirmed a familiar narrative of traditional friendship, but because it showed how both Hanoi and Moscow are trying to...
Crude oil prices extended their climb this week, reaching the highest since May as hostilities in the Gulf continue and the prospect of peace gets even more remote. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $107.86 per...
World War Two continues to shape relations between Russia, China, Taiwan and Japan, with competing interpretations of the conflict increasingly intersecting with present day geopolitical tensions. The issue resurfaced last week when Russian diplomats in Taiwan screened a film about...
Growing concerns over the rapid development of artificial intelligence are prompting more U.S. lawmakers to call for stronger safeguards after two researchers at Anthropic warned that advanced AI could potentially threaten human survival within the next decade. The alarm intensified...
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 11 2026 (IPS) When over 130 world leaders arrive in New York for the high-level segment of the General Assembly next week– it will be rare to hear hard-hitting, headline-grabbing political statements from the podium. The speeches...
As industry insiders issue louder warnings about the catastrophic danger of unchecked artificial intelligence, Anthropic has revealed in a report out Thursday that it had to “disrupt” several attempts by scientists to use its AI models for research that could contribute to the...
In 2026, Lebanon finds itself at a historic crossroads. Fighting rages in the south, while political instability grips the north. The once “Switzerland of the Middle East” is enduring its most severe crisis since the 1975 civil war. Since the...
Britain's decision this week to ban all imports from illegal Israeli settlements carries huge moral resonance, but the real test comes next: Will the European Union (EU) – the single largest market in the world and Israel's biggest trading partner...
This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, where he pledged increased security assistance, signed critical minerals deals and warned the three countries’ recently-elected, ideologically-aligned leaders — two of them U.S. citizens — about China’s...
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