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The daily rate for commissioning a tanker topped $1 million for the first time in history amid a tightening supply of vessels to carry crude oil and fuels whose owners are willing to dare the Strait of Hormuz. The squeeze...
There is a new round of rumors about Xi’s health. I think the rumors are BS but since I have been getting lots of pings about it, it makes sense to address them. As I wrote in the Sinocism chat...
Authors : Dr Hakima Elhaite and Dr Anis H. Bajrektarevic Irregular migration between Morocco and the European Union is not a problem that can be solved through deterrence, nor through a single financial instrument. We propose here the creation of a...
Oil markets appear to have reached the inflection point that many analysts had predicted weeks ago as the Middle East conflict re-escalated with no diplomatic push in sight and global inventories continue to slump. Oil prices are back above $100...
I am back in Moscow for the first time in ten months, and the first thing that strikes you is the distance between the city in front of you and the city as it is described five thousand miles away....
Back in early February 2022, Vladimir Putin had his first in-person meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for nearly two years, at the opening of the Winter Olympics ceremony in Beijing. To avoid disrupting this landmark event for Xi...
Argentina's controversial right-wing president, Javier Milei, slashed inflation with a brutal dose of economic austerity, but this came at a steep social cost. The cost of living is spiraling higher, fueling household debt, loan delinquencies, and economic hardship. Industrial output,...
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve raised interest rates Wednesday for the first time in three years as inflation continues to dog the economy, largely driven by soaring gas and fuel oil prices while the war in Iran drags on. The...
The artificial intelligence boom is sending Southeast Asia’s natural gas demand projections through the roof – but prolonged price hikes triggered by the war in Iran could turn the region toward renewable energies instead. What is more, these competing market...
Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) took to ABC’s Sunday morning show to assure the public that the Democratic Party is taking strong measures to combat the AI Doomsday threat roiling the country. His prime example: a Democratic House...
In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, incumbent SPD premier Manuela Schwesig leads her AfD challenger, Leif-Erik Holm, 60% to 25% in head-to-head polling. It is not close. And her own party’s poll numbers show her governing coalition may not hold a parliamentary majority anyway....
Saudi Arabia’s oil supply crisis is rapidly becoming Europe’s problem. The September 10 attacks on Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline struck the system at multiple locations and damaged at least one pumping station, forcing Riyadh to shut down the Kingdom’s critical...
Continental Resources signed a memorandum of understanding with Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA on Wednesday to operate and develop the Ayacucho 2 Block in the Orinoco Belt, the company announced, with an estimated 30 billion barrels of resource in place...
🗳️ This is Midterm Madness , the only newsletter you need to stay up to date on election news. Key race updates, money trails, numbers that cut through the spin, and campaign moments that say more than official talking points...
Kazakhstan, which has major oil reserves, is not in a position to help offset a looming energy crisis by expanding production, industry analysts say. With the Strait of Hormuz blocked, Russia sanctioned and Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline knocked out of...
As public fears mount over an AI doomsday , AI firms just scored a big election win in a very small state. In Delaware last night, Attorney General Kathy Jennings won her Democratic primary, easily trouncing two challengers. The two-term...
In 2025, Jennifer Kavanaugh and Christopher McCallion wrote, “Armed Neutrality for Ukraine Is NATO’s Least Poor Option,” where they made the case for armed neutrality over full NATO membership as the wiser course for both Ukraine and NATO. A year...
Economics, politics, and philosophy for a new era Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World , was published November 2025. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global...
Our imperial overreach began 25 years ago with the War on Terror. It is being brought to a grim conclusion by Donald Trump’s war on Iran Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years...
Capitalism Moving Beyond Neoliberalism: Crises, Changes, and What Comes Next. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The 16th Annual Conference in Political Economy took place in Lisbon, Portugal last...
Russia, Germany, and the UN Enemy State Clause Michael von der Schulenburg worked for the United Nations in many crisis and war zones around the world for 34 years, including in the rank of UN Assistant Secretary-General. Since 2024, Schulenburg has...
A leaked European Commission impact assessment working document for the upcoming Renewable Energy Directive, RED IV, signals a potentially significant shift in renewable fuels policy after 2030. The draft's "preferred pacage" would replace binding national renewable hydrogen mandates with a...
Equinor plans to expand its global LNG portfolio to between 10 million and 15 million tons a year in the early 2030s, targeting European and Asian buyers left short on supply by the Strait of Hormuz blockade, Reuters reported Wednesday....
The track record of the far right, when it has wielded power, has been pretty dismal. The UK is still reeling economically from its exit from the European Union, a departure orchestrated by Nigel Farage and his band of xenophobes. Despite...
Chinese intelligence and strategic circles, such as the Beijing Institute for International Strategic Studies and research centers affiliated with the Chinese Ministry of State Security, view the visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Cairo and his meeting...
The Bank of England is facing mounting pressure to raise interest rates on Thursday amid a global bond market rout fuelled by concerns over runaway government borrowing and sticky inflation. Investors told Threadneedle Street it was “essential” to rein in...
In Ahmed Hassouna’s Gaza chronicle “Al Mowaten Osama” (“Citizen Osama”), a journalist becomes the story. Ignoring warnings to evacuate in mid-2024, independent reporter Osama Al-Ashi remains in northern Gaza to record the human toll of Israel’s assault. The result is...
Last week , the war in Ukraine reached deep inside the Russian Arctic. On Sept. 9, Ukrainian drones struck two natural gas processing plants in the Yamalo-Nenets region, about 1,900 miles from the Ukrainian border. This was Ukraine’s deepest strike on...
This story was originally published by The 19th . As Republicans gathered in Dallas for their pre-midterm convention last week, Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico focused on survivors of Jeffrey Epstein. Talarico got a tour of the Reading Room, a traveling...
There’s something very dangerous in believing that your cause is righteous. What it can lead to is the idea that the ends justify the means, no matter how wrong they might be or how trivial the gains might be. Photo by...
Russia will extend its ban on diesel exports for all fuel producers to October 31, Vedomosti reported Tuesday, citing delayed refinery maintenance and the need to rebuild fuel reserves before winter. The ban, expanded in July from traders and small...
On Sept. 14 — just two days after Dario Amodei, the chief executive officer of leading artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, called for “slowing down” the pace of AI development so guardrails could be put in place that would “greatly reduce...
String of female murder victims found near Johannesburg’s international airport, including five in the past week The discovery of the bodies of eight women around Johannesburg’s international airport, including five in the past week, has prompted an outpouring of fear, grief...
Arm is expanding its computing platform for an era in which artificial intelligence does more than respond to individual prompts. The company expects AI agents to operate continuously across phones, data centers, vehicles, robots and other physical systems—perceiving their surroundings,...
Royal Air Force (RAF) refuelling planes supported US strikes on Yemen that the Pentagon assessed “more likely than not” resulted in 281 civilian casualties, it has emerged. Britain’s involvement in the operation “may make them complicit in war crimes,” Human Rights...
Everybody is talking about the South African TV series The Polygamist, which has had social media buzzing with controversy and passionate discussion. But what has made this Netflix title such a massive global hit? Akumbu Uche digs deeper. S hortly after...
Europe’s benchmark natural gas prices held above the 80-euro mark early on Wednesday, staying close to 2022 highs, as low gas volumes in storage sites fuel concerns about winter supplies amid continued disruption and widening conflict in the Middle East....
Federal employment law operates under a completely different set of rules than private sector employment law. If you are facing disciplinary action or discrimination as a government employee, understanding these distinctions can mean the difference between protecting your career and...
TODAY’S NUMBERS: 5.00% (US 10-year Treasury yield, first close above that level since 2023) · 99.5 (Dollar Index, its highest in weeks) · $4,300 (Gold, per ounce) Two assets that almost never rally together are rallying together: investors are betting...
The US House Rules Committee has advanced legislation imposing tougher sanctions on Russia and Iran, clearing a key procedural hurdle for a possible House vote later this week but exposing deep Democratic concerns over the measure's expansion of presidential tariff...
Germany is considering expanding a key market incentive to encourage traders to raise gas storage levels ahead of the winter, a government source told Reuters on Wednesday as German gas sites are barely half full at present. Europe’s biggest economy...
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the BRICS cooperation mechanism. Over the past two decades, what began as a promising economic acronym has evolved into the premier platform for emerging markets and developing countries. Yet, as it marks this...
Announcement of visa restrictions follows Trump’s false claims of ‘white genocide’ taking place in South Africa The US has announced visa restrictions on some South Africans as Donald Trump’s administration continues to claim that South Africa’s government racially discriminates against white...
U.S. Coast Guard and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents last month boarded tankers to probe suspected cyber attacks on the vessels bound for the U.S. Gulf Coast that allegedly took place while the ships were transiting the Strait of...
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure and development programme linking Xinjiang, a region in China, to Pakistan’s deepwater Gwadar Port. It was launched as a flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (2015), and aimed to transform...
A new map of the world rescales the size of Africa and calls into question our perception of land, power and influence This month, the UN passed a resolution, brought to the assembly by Togo, to phase out the traditional Mercator...
The biggest Japanese LNG importer and largest power producer, JERA, plans to sell liquefied natural gas in the long term as part of a strategy to tap global LNG markets and sell any excess gas supply if domestic demand is...
U.S. officials held an undisclosed meeting with representatives of Yemen’s Houthis in Oman over the weekend, according to five sources familiar with the discussions, as the Iran backed group expands its control along Yemen’s Red Sea coast. The meeting took...
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