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The temporary closure of the key onshore pipeline Saudi Arabia uses to bypass the Strait of Hormuz has added another shock to an oil market already struggling with six months of Middle East supply disruptions. And the damage now appears...
Yemen’s Houthis have been surprising the world for years, and especially their less-than-friendly neighbors, Saudi Arabia and Israel. In addition to periodic strikes on their oil and gas facilities and military bases, the Houthis have recently added a victorious advance...
Today’s global financial system has broken away from its familiar, predictable tracks. Trade barriers, mounting national debt burdens, and hyper-fast capital shifts generate market swings that traditional policy tools can no longer handle. Central banks face a harsh reality: standard...
Turkey plans to spend $108 billion over the next ten years to develop its alternative energy infrastructure, eyeing 120 GW in installed wind and solar capacity. At the same time, Turkey is also spending heavily on securing long-term oil and...
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As he campaigns across the Lone Star State, Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton has seized upon Texans’ growing concern with artificial intelligence and adopted a hard-line stance, promising to crack down on rogue chatbots and rein in AI data centers’...
Karl Miller’s latest private assessment, dated September 16 and titled “Judgment Day Has Arrived,” makes a single governing claim about diesel, jet fuel, and kerosene: physical demand is now outrunning promptly deliverable supply. Not the price of the barrel —...
The United States is desperate to claw back some of the global critical minerals share from China. Beijing has established near-total dominance in international supply chains over the last several decades through its far-reaching Belt and Road Initiative in addition...
The discovery of the bodies of nine women in the same area on the outskirts of South Africa's biggest city, Johannesburg, in the last two months have prompted police to investigate if the killings are linked and being carried out...
The global fuel crisis is strengthening Russia’s position in the energy sector and geopolitics against the backdrop of rising prices and limited reserves. US Wants Best for Itself, but Things Turn Out as Usual The Wall Street Journal, in an article titled...
Since 1979, the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica have lost 12.5 trillion tons of mass. Data published in Scientific Data, based on satellite archives from NASA and the European Space Agency, reveals a stark discrepancy between the perceived drivers...
With assorted economic and military crises boiling all across the Middle East in the wake of his disastrous decision to launch a war on Iran, President Trump will meet with Persian Gulf leaders in New York next week, on the margins...
Gasoline is expensive. Diesel is worse. Social media is melting down and has apparently decided America is running out of fuel. U.S. gasoline inventories rose 800,000 barrels last week to 207.7 million barrels, according to the EIA. Stocks are 5%...
Russia’s seaborne oil product exports jumped 16.4% in August from July as several refineries returned from unplanned maintenance. The rebound still left Russian fuel exports 50% below August 2025 levels. Russia shipped 4.57 million metric tons of oil products last...
Taiwan is moving toward a nuclear comeback barely a year after shutting its last reactor, as soaring LNG prices and mounting dependence on imported gas force a rethink of its energy strategy. The preparations are already tangible: Taipower has submitted...
The year 2026 has brought sweeping change to Latin America’s relationship with the United States. Following a major military buildup in the Caribbean and strikes against vessels suspected of drug trafficking, U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Jan....
Islam Times - The Saudi-American plans to predominate in the Arab world through chaos called for and encouraged Arab societies to join what came to be known as the “Arab Spring” of 2010–2015. In Yemen, specifically, the outcome was catastrophic...
Imagine flying from South Africa to Antarctica, one of the most remote places on Earth. Then visualize making the journey on a jet powered, partially, by fuel made from left-over cooking oil. That’s from a headline today on Business Insider...
Islam Times - With their bodies torn apart, they were where they needed to be. On the battlefield, with severed fingers and eyes robbed of their sight, they took up arms in the arena of the Battle of the Mighty...
Sometime around late 2009, centrifuges at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant began malfunctioning. They would suddenly speed up or slow down, placing enormous stress on the delicate machinery. Centrifuges failed. The engineers trying to diagnose the problem had another problem:...
Islam Times - The crew of a Turkish cargo ship struck by Ukrainian drones has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court [ICC] over the attack, which claimed the life of one sailor and injured two others, lawyers said...
For a second year in a row, the United States will deny access to the United Nations headquarters district to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority administers parts of the occupied West Bank. Why is this happening, where did...
The war against Iran is putting new strains on U.S. military readiness by consuming munitions and missile defense interceptors, as well as through extended deployments, sustained operational demands, and the diversion of forces and attention from other theaters. Mark Cancian...
As Yemen’s Houthis ramp up the costs of war in the Gulf, Tehran is wagering on US elections to bring a political sea change Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United...
We must keep prising the fingers of the billionaire class off our throats until it is only the discredited, and morally bankrupt, who refuse to speak loudly in opposition to genocide Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the...
How long can Western nations serve as proxies to keep the US afloat? Michael Hudson (preview clip The United States is selling oil short, just as it has kept down the price of gold through financial manipulation, selling gold forward short...
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Today’s newsletter is abbreviated as I am helping my Mom go back into the hospital. Thanks for your understanding. Today’s top items: 1. National Advanced Manufacturing Conference - Xi issued “important instructions” on developing advanced manufacturing, conveyed at a two-day National Advanced...
The world of pop culture is ablaze with fury, as billionaire plutocrat Robert Kraft successfully pressured Ed Sheeran into dropping Macklemore from his North American tour over the rapper’s pro-Palestine statements. The incident has ignited widespread outrage, and blown up in...
RAMALLAH /PNN/ The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said journalists and media workers in the Gaza Strip are facing “exceptionally harsh conditions” amid the ongoing war, calling for the urgent medical evacuation of dozens of injured and ill reporters who cannot access adequate...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is increasingly preoccupied with a singular structural shift: the move toward national currencies in trade and investment. While the official rhetoric emphasizes a collective drift away from the US dollar, a deeper analysis of member...
Kpler’s Matt Smith expects oil prices to keep grinding higher, with six and a half months of Middle East supply losses now working their way through gasoline and diesel prices. Smith told CNBC Thursday that oil prices have risen roughly...
This story was originally published by Sentient . Last November , the Trump administration proposed a regulation that would strip federal water pollution protections from wide swaths of wetlands in the United States. Now, 10 months later, the administration has updated...
In 2020, the group Black Lives Matter became a driving force in American politics. They ostensibly rallied around the idea that black lives, you know, matter. A bold position, to be sure, because I wasn’t sure anyone really disagreed. Photo by...
The Houthis are routinely described as Iranian proxies. The description has become even more common as their military reach has expanded from northern Yemen toward the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb strait. Iran has supplied weapons, training, intelligence...
By Joel Jorgensen, FlowAccel. The 2026 Siemens EDA and Wilson Research Group study just came out. Verification now eats close to half the schedule on every IC and FPGA program. I don’t doubt that number. What I don’t know is how...
Ukraine hit overnight an oil refinery near Moscow, damaging a processing plant co-owned by Rosneft and Gazprom Neft, as Russia prepares to extend its ban on diesel exports through the end of October. In a sign that Ukraine and Russia...
The US Congress on September 16 passed sweeping legislation targeting Russia and Iran, sending to President Donald Trump a sanctions package supporters say will increase pressure on Moscow and countries that help finance its war against Ukraine. The House of...
Failing to deter a full-scale war with Israel and the United States, Iran has moved away from the strategic patience and military restraint that shaped much of its prewar approach, shifting toward a counter-escalation strategy that aims to transform the...
The 18th BRICS Summit, which took place on September 12-13 in New Delhi, reflected the world order’s transition to multipolarity. Türkiye, though sharing this ideology, was not among the summit’s participants. The list of participants in the Indian BRICS summit...
The House voted Thursday to pass legislation that would place a new set of sanctions on Russia, drawing significant Democratic support despite opposition from party leadership. The bill, first introduced by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in 2025, was previously...
The UK household energy bills could jump by between 25% and 30% in the first quarter of 2027 amid surging natural gas prices as the Middle East crisis drags on, analysts say, warning that the government may have to spend...
ASML’s grip on the most advanced corner of chip manufacturing is tightening. The Dutch company, already the sole supplier of extreme ultraviolet lithography systems, is winning broader industry support for High Numerical Aperture EUV, or High NA, its next-generation technology...
For most Americans, a foreign war becomes real when it affects the household budget. That moment has arrived. On September 11, the national average price of diesel climbed to $6.06 a gallon , up from roughly $3.71 a year earlier....
The soaring wind and solar capacity installations in Germany have created an unsustainable business and project economics environment in the sector amid slower grid expansion and electricity generation curtailments. In 2023, Germany crossed the 50% mark of the share of...
Closing plenary of the recent Kunming Dialogue. Credit: ENB-IISD/Anastasia Rodopoulou By Stella Paul KUNMING, China, Sep 17 2026 (IPS) The world may have enough money to protect nature. The bigger problem, according to the head of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD),...
LNG prices have room to rise by about a third from the current very high levels amid low European gas inventories and fierce competition for spot supply between Europe and Asia, analysts and industry executives say. Europe is heading into...
After losing much of its forests in recent decades, the country’s people have led the way in planting saplings across the country as part of the government’s Green Legacy Initiative When Halima Kedir first began planting trees, she was met with...
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