Taiwan

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

Radhika Desai is a prominent Marxist political economist known for her work on geopolitical economy—a framework analyzing international relations through the lens of capitalist contradictions and the economic role of states . She is a Professor at the Department of Political...

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Chinese independent refiners may be about to start reducing their processing rates as international oil prices rise and supply from major exporters such as Venezuela and Iran dries up as a result of U.S. foreign policy decisions. “Teapots are unlikely...

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The global economy has entered the second half of the year with surprising strength despite two wars, sharply higher energy prices and persistent geopolitical disruption. Rather than triggering a broad slowdown, the shocks have so far been absorbed by an...

Economy, Defense, Economics

Authors: Jade McCulloch and Sopheak Srey* Nearly a year has passed since fighting along the Cambodia–Thailand border first forced families from their homes. Renewed hostilities in December 2025 brought another, far larger wave of displacement before a ceasefire was reached later...

Global Social Change, Cambodia, children

On September 1, a US airstrike hit a family compound in Kuhestak, southern Iran, as women and children gathered for a wedding celebration. At least five people were killed and dozens more injured. Associated Press reporters who visited the town...

Opinion, Amnesty International, Block 2

By Daud Khan ROME, Sep 9 2026 (IPS) Observing some of the changes over the last year and a half in the Government of the USA, one question that comes to mind is whether the greatest democracy in the world turning into...

Democracy, Freedom of Expression, Headlines

The AfD’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt is not a triumph of right‑wing extremism but a signal that German voters are tired of a system that spends billions on rearmament and Ukraine while forgetting its own citizens. For many Germans, voting for...

Columns, Europe, Politics

Washington will watch this week’s BRICS summit through the lens of China, Russia and de-dollarization — and miss the more consequential story: Asian priorities on development, technology, energy and connectivity are quietly reshaping what BRICS has become. India has long...

Opinion, Block 2, BRICS

It’s hard to determine who is more under siege today – the mullahs of Iran or the U.S. secretary of defense who is prosecuting the war against them. For months, negative stories about Secretary of War Pete Hegseth have peppered major...

Pete-hegseth, Iran-war, Donald-trump

Trying to pin the blame for the depletion of U.S. military stockpiles on something other than the war in Iran, President Donald Trump fell back on a usual scapegoat last week: Ukraine. “The Biden administration gave far more munitions away...

Donald-trump, Us-military, Eu

Last week, Norwegian authorities seized the Russian ship Professor Molchanov in Svalbard at the request of Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz. The vessel now sits immobilized in the port of Barentsburg, a settlement of Russian citizens on the Svalbard archipelago, which...

Norway, Russia, Ukraine

Key regions of the brain linked to movement, learning and emotions were affected and may lead to cognitive problems Babies born to mothers with anaemia have smaller brains, particularly in key regions linked to movement, learning and the regulation of emotion,...

Global development, Global health, Children's health

Oil prices continued to climb towards the $100 mark in early Asian trading on Wednesday after the U.S. destroyed five more Iranian crude tankers and Iran targeted U.S. forces in Jordan. These attacks are just the latest phase of a...

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Oil prices continued to climb towards the $100 mark in early Asian trading on Wednesday after the U.S. destroyed five more Iranian crude tankers and Iran targeted U.S. forces in Jordan. These attacks are just the latest phase of a...

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North Korea’s commissioning of the Kang Kon signals that its naval modernization is moving beyond fleet renewal toward a broader effort to reshape deterrence and strategic competition in Northeast Asian waters. On September 6, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...

Northeast Asia, AEGIS Destroyers, Block 2

Last week I was in England at a symposium with many Europeans and others from around the world. The main takeaway? Nonstop gratuitous insults of Donald Trump, America, and Americans – underpinned by complaints that America is “undependable” and “unpredictable”...

Opinion, Donald Trump, Trump Foreign Policy

On 12 August, NATO’s ambassadors met in Brussels to respond to a fortnight of Russian drones and missile debris crossing into Polish and Romanian airspace. The Alliance’s statement was unambiguous about responsibility—Russia, it said, “bears full responsibility for the airspace...

Defense, European Union, featured

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner wound up their visit to Kyiv on September 6 after visiting Moscow the day prior. The US special diplomatic duo met with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, respectively. Both offered solutions that the Russians seemed...

Opinion, Block 2, German Military

By: Toh Han Shih The landslide victory of Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s party in legislative elections on Aug. 23 may give him a mandate to continue his reforms – and certainly his influence – in Kazakhstan possibly even after he leaves...

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Asia’s long resilience to turmoil in the Strait of Hormuz is wearing thin. After months of burning through reserves and shielding consumers from the worst of it, the region’s oil importers are running out of room — and a shock...

Middle East, 1973 oil crisis, Block 1

A quarter-century has passed since the terrorist attack that killed almost 3,000 people in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. During the first seven years after that mass atrocity, Pentagon spending doubled. The aftermath of 9/11 was also a...

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More than six months after the U.S.-Iran war began, shipping traffic at the Strait of Hormuz remains disrupted, and oil prices are once again closing in on the $100 per barrel mark. The U.S. and Iran remain deadlocked at the...

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For the first four months of the war between the United States and Israel and Iran, oil traders remained largely bearish. The overwhelming expectation was that the war would end soon—even as July rolled around—and oil flows out of Hormuz...

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Authors: Janvi Singhi and Kanav Sharma* BRICS is moving into a more meaningful phase in its evolution. Its larger membership, considerable resources, population, and markets position it as a voice for the global south. Nevertheless, the fact that the BRICS...

Emerging Markets, BRICS, Economics

Are you a student, worker, or grassroots activist organizing for Palestinian freedom in your school, workplace, or city? Palestine Legal is just one call away from supporting you with: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AND ACTION PLANNING You or your organization are thinking about organizing...

Updates

The United Kingdom, France, and Canada joined forces on Tuesday to ban imports of goods and some services from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, where settlers and soldiers are assailing, displacing and killing Palestinians at an unprecedented rate with the backing of Prime Minister...

Middle East, Benjamin Netanyahu, Block 3

Samsung’s Hot Chips 2026 presentation, “HBM Base Die: How HBM Will Evolve Using Advanced Logic Processes,” argues that the base die beneath a High Bandwidth Memory stack is about to become far more than a communications layer. Traditionally, an HBM...

Events, Semiconductor, aHBM

Beyond its historical roots as a day to honor the achievements and contributions of workers, Labor Day has emerged as one of the largest retail sales weekends of the year in the U.S., second only to Black Friday. People usually...

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Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how...

Members, The Ukraine Compass

Ramallah /PNN / The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said 84 violations were recorded against Palestinian journalists in August 2026, including the death of a journalist in Israeli custody, the shooting injury of another, as well as arrests and field assaults, describing it...

43,41

Dreams are often about identity, because we’re figuring out who we are and what we need, and the beliefs and perspectives we hold,” says Wallace. “If you feel unfulfilled, undervalued or not the person you want to be in waking...

African Renaissance, Africa, Literature

A federal appeals panel appeared inclined Tuesday to let Washington, D.C.’s restrictions on natural gas in certain new buildings stand. The case turns on the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, or EPCA, which gives the Department of Energy authority to...

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Germany’s rulers face a deep crisis of political legitimacy. Cross-posted from Counterfire Left Party poster, Dessau, August 2026: ‘Never again is now!’ Photo: Robert Dale The election result in Sachsen-Anhalt came in fairly much as predicted, like a car crash in slow motion....

National Politics, Alternative for Germany, Article

The US can still blow up its enemies, but it cannot do so without also endangering its own operational forces. Vijay Prashad is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. His most recent book (with Grieve Chelwa) is How the...

Geopolitics, Article, Iran

Trump’s new head of monetary policy, Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh, recently announced the U.S. central bank doesn’t yet know how artificial intelligence will impact the economy, but he believes it “will leave us much better prepared for tomorrow.” Warsh, a...

Artificial Intelligence

The United States has imposed sanctions on a Turkish investment bank and two subsidiaries, accusing them of helping Iran move oil revenue and providing access to the international financial system as Washington intensifies its campaign to squeeze Tehran. The US...

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Chevron plans to double the number of drilling rigs it operates in Venezuela under a five-year expansion that targets roughly 600,000 barrels per day of production. CFO Eimear Bonner said Tuesday that Chevron will add rigs under new contract terms...

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This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 New in The Lever : A Senate front-runner oversaw product safety for a medical device that caused women “ life-altering harm .” 👀 Watch : Even conservatives realize that...

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