Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. On June 15, Japanese opposition lawmaker Chikage Koga said during a committee meeting in the upper house that children from economically disadvantaged families enlist in the Self-Defense Forces (SDF), while children...
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Costas Lapavitsas – Labour’s priority is rebuilding Britain’s productive base: Manchesterism is not enough
Full ArticleThe current economic model is exhausted – it’s time to focus on production, skilled work, and industrial investment, Costas Lapavitsas is a Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.In September “Reindustrialise Britain”, that he...
Hannah Arendt warned in 1948 that a Jewish state built without Jewish-Arab agreement would live by permanent war, fear and exclusion – a warning that now reads less like idealism than realism Robert Manne is Emeritus Professor of Politics and a...
Here are reviews of a few books that I could not ignore analysing this summer. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Let’s start with How to...
More than 2,000 anti-foreigner protesters march through Durban city centre as the arbitrary deadline passes for undocumented migrants to leave the country South Africa was holding its breath on Tuesday as mass anti-immigration protests were held across the country. They come...
A published report detailing how President Donald Trump’s eldest sons stand to profit from a tungsten mining deal negotiated by their billionaire father has sparked outraged calls for accountability, with Democratic lawmakers characterizing the taxpayer-funded project as yet another example of the administration’s...
- - - - Photo by René DeAnda on Unsplash We all know that the federal bureaucracy sucks. I can’t even get into all the ways it sucks, and that doesn’t count the fact that it’s still...
Red Bait Redux
Full ArticleNot long after the second Trump administration took office, a new power center emerged in Washington under the banner of “government efficiency.” Through the Department of Government Efficiency , or DOGE , Elon Musk...
SEOUL — The chat logs I read over as I searched for the name of just one teenage girl were incessant: “Does anyone still have her video? I want to watch it again. I heard she transferred to a school...
Protesters lit fires in Johannesburg's city centre on Tuesday as thousands joined an anti-immigration march, moving through the streets under the watch of police and private security personnel. Demonstrators carrying sticks and shields marched through the city, while police vehicles...
The UN Climate Talks in Bonn Just Failed. Why?
Full ArticleDelegates gather for the opening plenary of the June UN Climate Meetings in Bonn. Credit: Kiara Worth / IISD/ENB By Felix Dodds and Chris Spence APEX, North Carolina / SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jun 30 2026 (IPS) With progress stalled on...
The Israeli army launched fresh strikes on Gaza on Monday evening, setting ablaze around 200 tents for the displaced in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, and leaving thousands homeless once again. Residents told...
GAZA, (PIC) The Jabalia al-Nazla municipality in northern Gaza has issued an urgent appeal to international organizations, relief agencies, and global partners, calling for immediate action to save the area’s collapsing water supply system. In a statement released on Tuesday, local officials...
The Chip War with China Is Failing
Full ArticleThree years ago, Washington bet that restricting China’s access to advanced semiconductors would preserve American technological dominance. That bet is not paying off the way its architects imagined. A February 2026 analysis in American Affairs Journal...
The Sudanese army said it had retaken Kulbus, a strategic town near the Chadian border , in what appeared to be its biggest battlefield gain in western Darfur since the fall of El-Fasher last year. The Rapid Support Forces,...
Smart Farming Is Not the Future. It Is Already Here
Full ArticleSmart farming enables farmers to produce more with fewer resources, make better decisions under uncertainty, and reduce agriculture's environmental footprint. Credit: FAO By Beth Bechdol ROME, Jun 30 2026 (IPS) Farmers today are producing food under pressures that would have been...
Iraq's new government launched a sweeping anti-corruption campaign that resulted in dozens of arrests of politicians and senior officials across the country's political spectrum. The raids, carried out by elite security forces, are part of Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi's...
On Monday, the Department of Defense announced a new slate of appointees to the Defense Policy Board, a committee tasked with providing strategic advice and making recommendations to the Pentagon. Media outlets were quick to highlight the Pentagon’s selection of...
It has been nearly seven years since Lebanon became trapped in a series of crises that have touched almost every aspect of daily life. The country of around six million has endured a devastating financial collapse since 2019,...
CAIRO, (PIC) A Hamas delegation headed by Zaher Jabarin, the Movement’s West Bank chief, arrived in Cairo on Tuesday morning for talks with Egyptian officials and mediators on completing the implementation of the ceasefire agreement. Taher Al-Nunu, political adviser to the head...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) During the past 24 hours, extremist Jewish settler groups launched a new wave of violations and attacks in different areas of the occupied West Bank, targeting Palestinian citizens, homes, and agricultural property. In the northern Jordan Valley, settlers attacked...
JENIN, (PIC) Israel has killed the Palestinian Tawjihi student, Mohammed Abahra, from Yamun village in Jenin, and is continuing to hold his body for the sixth month. Mohammed’s father, a schoolteacher, announced that he would abstain from participating in supervising this year’s...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The head of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), Abdullah Al-Zaghari, called on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to take urgent and serious action to resume visits to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and use all available...
QED (Quick Error Detection) can be a powerful complementary addition to verification but can be subject to size constraints. This month’s paper looks at a fix for that limitation. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Raúl Camposano (Silicon Catalyst, entrepreneur,...
Climate change, ‘super-strong’ El Niño may push Hong Kong to record-high temperatures, Observatory warns
Full ArticleThe Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) has warned that the city may experience record-breaking high temperatures this year and next year due to climate change and forecasts of a “super-strong” El Niño event. A heatwave in Hong Kong in late May...
The breakaway state of Somaliland's opposition party has criticised the opening of a diplomatic office in Jerusalem, stating the move violates the constitution and could undermine foreign relations. In mid-June, the President of the self-declared breakaway region, Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi,...
NATO is adjusting to a shifting security landscape and the United States is not seeking to leave the alliance, Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler told Reuters ahead of a NATO summit in Ankara next week . Turkey...
The United Arab Emirates has said its nationals can travel to Lebanon, effective on Monday, lifting a weeks-long ban in place because of the war on Iran and concerns over Tehran's influence. The foreign ministry said "it...
Lebanon has extended an exemption allowing non-Lebanese residents who entered the country and wish to depart via land border crossings to do so without penalties. The renewed waiver, announced on Monday by Lebanon’s General Security and valid...
NEGEV, (PIC) Far-right Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich announced on Monday the completion of preparations to establish three Jewish settlements in the northern region of the Gaza Strip, pending approval from premier Benjamin Netanyahu. “The settlement administration, under my direction at the...
Over 85 per cent of homeowners at the fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court have accepted the government’s buyback offer, which will allow them to receive cash or a flat swap for a new subsidised unit. A kite near Wang Fuk Court...
As the United States and Iran continue negotiations over the future of the Strait of Hormuz , Europe finds itself largely absent from the diplomatic table. The latest rounds of talks, facilitated by Qatar and Pakistan, have focused on consolidating...
GAZA, (PIC) The prayer garment in the Gaza Strip is no longer merely an item of clothing women wear while performing their prayers. Amid the continuing genocide, it has become part of everyday life and a constant companion that rarely leaves...
Israel spent £50,000 lobbying Reform
Full ArticleReform UK’s deputy leader said last week that a parliamentary debate into Israeli influence on British politics was “antisemitic in its very motivation and at its core”. “As such, we should utterly reject it,” argued Richard Tice...
Strong marriages are built on more than tawakkul – they’re built on honest conversations about money. When Expectations Collide Khadija, a 26 year old woman living in New York, has been searching for a marriage partner for a few years now...
Asylum seekers in Britain could have to repay the state around £10,000 ($13,222) for accommodation and basic living support before becoming eligible to apply for settlement, the government said on Monday in its latest effort to deter illegal migration....
Some 400,000 displaced Lebanese have gone back to their areas of origin, according to officials, even as Israeli forces continue to occupy swathes of southern Lebanon . In an announcement on Monday , Social Affairs Minister Dr. Hanin El-Sayed...
Government fears repeat of anti-migrant violence in 2008 that led to looting and resulted in deaths of 62 people South African authorities have deployed police units to towns and cities around the country before planned demonstrations against undocumented foreign nationals...
The explosion in an elite district of Monaco exposed a trend that poses a danger to the European establishment — the transfer of Ukrainian criminal conflicts onto European territory. Monaco’s First Terror Attack Claims Ukrainian Life In Monaco, a hitman detonated...
The Asia-Pacific is experiencing an unprecedented transformation in ocean governance. Governments across the region are expanding marine protected areas, investing in blue carbon initiatives, deploying digital fisheries monitoring systems and positioning the ocean as a cornerstone of climate resilience and...
Ladidi Shaibu’s two siblings both gained asylum before the Trump administration’s changes to immigration policy. But instead of being allowed to join them, she is being deported to Uganda Growing up and living with albinism in rural Nigeria was tough for...
When I arrived in Cuba, I did not expect to be speaking Arabic. Organisers from the United States arrived at Mezquita Abdallah hours before the Jummah prayer to deliver bags full of Spanish translations of the Quran, donated by a...
GAZA, (PIC) The death toll from the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, which started on October 7, 2023, has surged to 73,066 martyrs, according to the health ministry on Tuesday morning. The ministry added that the total number of the...
US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin celebrated Iran's elimination from the World Cup , saying he did a "happy dance," Sports Business Journal reported on Monday. The Iranian team barely missed out on reaching the knockout...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out a series of raids across several cities and towns in the West Bank last night and on Tuesday, arresting at least one Palestinian, breaking into homes and forcing businesses to close. According...
In a seminal article, entitled “Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes,” Stephen Stedman writes that “peacemaking is a risky business.” The greatest source of risk “comes from spoilers—leaders and parties who believe that peace emerging from negotiations threatens their power, worldview...
Taiwanese investigators have raided the Taiwan offices of US company Super Micro Computer and two other tech firms, a prosecutor said Tuesday, as part of an expanded probe into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia AI chips to China. This handout...
Scores of residents have been left fearing for their future following the US government’s order to remove temporary protected status for Syrians and Haitians. On Thursday, the US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 vote along ideological lines that...
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