Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans The Bank of England and the British financial system were for centuries deeply involved in the enslavement and transatlantic trafficking of millions of African people, according...
At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, a humanoid robot named Tiangong Ultra ran the 100-meter sprint in a staggering 8.64 seconds, shattering Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s legendary human world record of 9.58 seconds. The internet laughed at the...
In one of our more important write-ups early this year, we discussed how AI is going to be our economics and AI is going to be our politics for years and decades ahead. The debate over controlling it is making that plain....
Spent an hour with Ali Borhani on FuturEarly discussing what to expect from the upcoming Xi Trump meeting. Ali Borhani is a geopolitical strategist, emerging markets geo-economic connoisseur, and the Managing Director of 3Sixty Strategic Advisors Ltd. , a London-based boutique...
As government watchdogs warn about dwindling U.S. stockpiles of major weapons systems, the Trump administration is moving ahead with billions of dollars in new arms sales to Saudi Arabia and Israel, adding further demand to U.S. weapons production lines. Earlier this...
President Donald Trump may have discovered a new opportunity to provoke a NATO ally. Last year, the White House created a brouhaha with Denmark (and other European countries) by insisting that Copenhagen sell Greenland to the United States. This time,...
The war in Iran that had to be over and won by the United States in about six weeks is now in its seventh month and the oil markets are starting to crack. Gone are most of the cushions the...
Jordanian Protests Nine weeks before the Houthis stunned the region by breaking out of their northern strongholds, Karl Miller told me it was coming. In a private note dated July 1, he reasoned that Mohammed bin Salman was running his familiar...
(Publisher’s note. The American AI doomsday debate is in full gear and dutifully chimed into by West European media. The most recent wave was kicked off by a September 6 blogpost by OpenAI chief scientist Jacub Pachocki, amplified on September 8 when Anthropic...
When a semi-anonymous social media user declared that the federal government had targeted her in a bizarre entrapment scheme, the paranoid claim snowballed into a more disturbing revelation: the Pentagon appears to be breaking the law by paying conservative influencers...
Chinese-made photovoltaic panels cost 12 cents a watt in 2026, down from $5-$6 at the turn of the millennium, and that price collapse is now powering rooftop solar installations from Pakistani cement plants to Philippine homes and Australian suburbs, according...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) tells Responsible Statecraft that he is initiating eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth because Congress has “exhausted every other remedy to make things right.” After a speech on the floor Tuesday, Massie said...
In this issue: 1. More weak August data 2. Advance work for Xi-Trump meeting 3. ICBC documents leak 4. New exit-entry rules go into effect The Feed: Business, Economy and Trade - Politics and Law - Foreign and Defense Affairs - Hong Kong - Tech...
About 1,200 AI agents inside one company’s internal evaluation found each other, organized, and attacked an unrelated third party. Nothing in the task specification asked for it. The consequences landed outside the organization that set the boundary—and that is what...
Back in late June, after the United States and Iran agreed to cease hostilities in the Persian Gulf for 60 days, oil prices took a dive. Two months later, Brent is trading at over $107 per barrel, and WTI is...
A new threat intelligence report from the AI company Anthropic has revealed that a Russian team scraped Ukrainian combat videos to train an autonomous “kamikaze” drone to choose its own targets and destroy them. Scraped footage is video content that...
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) continue to target US vessels and tankers violating the Strait of Hormuz blockade, as its advanced weapons program has aided its allies in Yemen to become the region’s second most feared ballistic missile power....
The artificial intelligence boom is driving a new wave of autonomous cyberattacks, posing a major and growing threat to critical infrastructure, including the energy grid. Ninety percent of state government chief intelligence officers recently reported that cyberattacks on critical services...
Before the end of this year, every resident of South Korea will have free and unmetered access to a general-purpose AI chatbot and a public service agent built on domestic models. The capacity to evaluate how those systems affect hiring,...
U.S. gross natural gas withdrawals reached 47.7 trillion cubic feet in 2025, with a small group of states accounting for most of the total. Much of this output comes from prolific shale formations such as the Permian, Marcellus, Haynesville, and...
I have long argued that Democrats’ 2026 midterm election prospects hinge on their party making a compelling anti-corruption argument against Donald Trump, the tech oligarchy and the larger Washington swamp. But with less than 50 days until the election, Democrats...
Rassemblement National made a brief ‘social turn’ at the end of the last decade, but with the Presidency now in sight Le Pen’s party has returned to its origins as a political force which aims to deliver for big business...
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026Time: 12:00-1:00 PM ETThe second joint webinar by RUSI and War on the Rocks: Two leading defense publications from both sides of the Atlantic present their expert panel. OverviewFor this edition of The Atlantic Brief, the Royal...
The far-right seeks to find identity divisions between different groups of ethnic minorities and migrants, setting them against one another. Deniz Torcu is Adjunct Professor of Globalization, Business and Media at IE University, Madrid. Cross-posted from The Conversation Picture by Taibhseoir On September 6,...
Undersea cables are indispensable to the emerging AI economies of the Gulf states, making them a major point of vulnerability that Iran could exploit if it chooses to move further up the escalation ladder. John Aitken is Associate and Senior Research...
ADNOC is buying tens of millions of barrels of deeply discounted Iraqi crude, processing much of it at home and freeing more of its own barrels for export through a route that avoids the Strait of Hormuz. The UAE producer...
The September 14 Cardiff memorandum is a coordinated pressure campaign timed to a uniquely weak moment for the union’s defenders — a fragile, freshly installed Downing Street and a fragmented pro-union vote — not a genuine step toward any referendum....
Despite the official Iranian view reiterated last week that it “does not control the Houthis [in Yemen]”, it was senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders in Tehran who ordered the 8 September attacks on Saudi Arabia, while several IRGC...
Like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS, the global grouping of emerging markets and developing countries, is intent on diminishing Western influence over the world economy. And just like the SCO summit earlier in September, the latest conclave of BRICS leaders...
Islam Times - The United Nations fact-finding committee has announced that a US airstrike on a house in the city of Kouhestak, Hormozgan Province, on September 1, while a wedding ceremony was taking place there, killed five civilians, including two...
Lydie Pace, France’s Central African origin soprano maestro is making headlines in some of the wold’s most prestigious opera houses. But, as Aissatou Diamanka-Besland writes, the road to musical glory has been long and hard. Before taking to the stage at...
Islam Times - Austria’s blocking of Mohammad Eslami’s attendance at the Vienna meeting, with the role of US pressure now coming to light, has not only called into question the host country’s obligations and Europe’s claims regarding international law, but...
Islam Times - Record VLCC rates on the Persian Gulf–China route, which have reached around $800,000 and, according to some reports, exceeded $860,000 per day, show that the risks surrounding the Strait of Hormuz are no longer merely military. The...
Deep-ultraviolet (DUV) immersion lithography remains a critical patterning technology for advanced semiconductor manufacturing. Using a 193 nm ArF exposure system with water between the projection lens and wafer, immersion lithography increases numerical aperture and enables smaller features than dry exposure....
Saudi Arabia suspends Yanbu oil loadings after halting its East-West pipeline, sending Brent back to $108. Asia’s Oil Crunch Sends Regional Benchmarks to Record Highs - Asia’s oil industry is facing a double whammy of supply shortages and better-than-expected demand,...
Vice President JD Vance said Monday that Washington was in direct contact with the Houthis as the group solidified its gains across Yemen’s Red Sea coast, arguing that the U.S. is “on top of” the rapidly deteriorating situation in the...
As a result of the Iran War, investors are now demanding greater compensation for holding government debt. This comes after more than a decade of ultra-low yields on government bonds that fueled an economic expansion. The forces driving this repricing...
Libya’s National Oil Corporation is threatening to declare force majeure after members of the security force assigned to protect the country’s oil infrastructure shut a pipeline valve and halted production at two fields. Production has stopped completely at the Hamada...
By offering Saudi Arabia intelligence and targeting help but declining direct military protection after the East-West pipeline strike, Washington has quietly redefined the 80-year security-for-oil bargain from a guarantee into a menu — and Riyadh’s own hedging over the past...
Diesel prices in the U.S. just climbed above the previous weekly record set in 2022, and the 2026 annual-average record is now within striking distance. Gasoline prices, while still elevated, are unlikely at this point to set a new annual...
During the national anthem of the first three 2016 NFL preseason games, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat down on his team’s bench between two Gatorade coolers. Few noticed, and nobody made mention of the gesture until a Black...
Fifteen years ago, during President Barack Obama’s first term, we co-founded RootsAction as an online progressive group challenging not only Republicans, but also the corporatism and militarism of the Democratic Party . RootsAction supported Bernie Sanders for president in 2016...
Do you remember being in kindergarten? I have vague recollections of the 70s wood paneling, the playground, and singing songs a whole lot. But then again, that was nearly half a century ago, and I’m doing good to remember yesterday,...
The following story is co-published with Nolan Higdon’s Substack . “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” read an open letter from Jacob Coxon , a former safety researcher for...
The detention of newly trained Somali soldiers in Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State has brought renewed attention to a Saudi-backed military training programme in Somalia and raised questions about the future deployment of the forces emerging from it. The incident, however,...
Ceva and LG Electronics have joined forces to remove one of the biggest obstacles to ultra-wideband adoption: integrating a complete radio, baseband and software stack into a production system-on-chip. Their joint platform combines Ceva-Waves UWB baseband intellectual property and software...
Federal regulators handed utilities a deadline this summer that has nothing to do with a storm or a heat wave. On July 16, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered the North American Electric Reliability Corporation to write mandatory reliability standards...
The phenomenon of the tradwife (traditional wife)—women who claim to want to live a “traditional life” by cooking, taking care of children, taking care of the household, and dressing femininely as the main source of happiness—has evolved from an individual...
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