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

Good things are happening! Conservationists score two teaspoons of triumph, workers pour a tall glass of solidarity, attorneys general assemble for vital healthcare, and buffalo regain their home on the range. You Love To See It is a benefit of a...

You Love To See It

The Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 National Research Foundation (NRF) Awards went to two extraordinary and veteran scholars, Professor Jonathan Jansen and Professor Helen Rees. This accolade is awarded to individuals considered to have made extraordinary contributions of international standard...

News

The National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the FBI rarely sign the same document. On September 8 they jointly named six Chinese firms, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI, for industrial-scale distillation of American...

AI Competition, Artificial Intelligence, China

The 2026 National Research Foundation (https://www.nrf.ac.za/) (NRF) Awards honoured South Africa’s top researchers and scientists at a prestigious ceremony held on Thursday, 3 September 2026, at the Boardwalk Hotel and Casino in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape. This year’s event was held...

News

Sky News published a video this month that opens on a rigged explosive device and a pickaxe under a stark title card, “Inside the Taliban’s Museum of Death.” Three seconds pass before a voice explains anything. By the time special...

Opinion, Afghanistan, Amu TV

For much of modern history, the Arctic was protected by geography. Thick ice, brutal weather and distance kept it away from the busy arteries of global trade. That protection is fading. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s visit to...

Energy Geopolitics, Arctic, front

On September 11, 2001, the world watched as the World Trade Center, the twin towers that represented US global dominance, were struck by hijacked US commercial jetliners and came crashing to the ground. Nearly 3,000 people were killed, from high-powered executive to...

Opinion, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11 Terror Attacks

Islam Times - Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi on Friday ordered the formation of an investigative council and dismissed the commander of military operations in Maysan province after Saudi Arabia claimed that drones striking its East-West pipeline had been launched...

Iraq

Iran’s reported combat debut of a new anti-ship ballistic missile marks a potentially consequential shift in the Gulf conflict, where increasingly sophisticated targeting networks could turn US naval superiority into a more contested — and more escalatory — proposition. Iranian...

Military, Bab Al-Mandeb, Block 2

Twenty-five years on, it’s worth asking not what happened on September 11, 2001, but what Washington decided it meant — and whether those conclusions were the right ones. The attacks themselves were a genuine trauma and a genuine crime. But...

United States, 9/11 attacks, al-Qaeda

Islam Times - An informed security official has disclosed documented information about the activities of networks linked to Emirati capital to purchase land and property in parts of southern Syria and southern Lebanon, saying that the timing of these transactions...

United Arab Emirates

Every few months, somewhere in the world, a state expels or threatens to expel a category of foreign nationals, and the exchange that follows is almost scripted. The state cites its sovereign right to control its borders. A human rights...

International Law, featured, Human Rights

Brent is sitting a touch above $104 this morning, down slightly from yesterday's surge. The Strait of Hormuz, which used to move something like a fifth of the world's oil and LNG before the war, has been effectively shut since...

News

With the heightening of the current geopolitics, many African governments have increasingly welcomed economic, diplomatic, and security ties with Russia. And noticeably, Russia’s engagements in Africa rely on irregular means to expand its influence—reliance on military offerings has often become...

Economy, Africa, Economics

In a Thursday address at the GOP midterm convention that exalted President Donald Trump and demeaned his opponents as “extremists who openly hate our nation,” Vice President JD Vance hardly spoke about foreign policy. He did not mention the war in...

Iran-war, Jd-vance, Donald-trump

Credit: Conny Odengrund / Wiki Commons By Jordan Ryan Sep 11 2026 (IPS) Late in August I stood at Dag Hammarskjöld’s grave in Uppsala. It is a quiet place, a long way from New York and from the wars the United Nations exists...

Armed Conflicts, Global, Global Geopolitics

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, with the total rig count in the US rising to 591, up...

News

There is a sudden, alarming rise in experts warning of an apocalyptic ending for our AI adventure in only a few years. It is only one example of why we literally can’t let tech sociopaths control our society Robin McAlpine is...

Regulation, Article, Robin McAlpine

Did Bidenomics work? Why can Republicans coordinate campaign funds? And what happens to incumbents that democratic socialists defeat? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in LeverMind , our weekly news quiz testing your knowledge of the...

LeverMind Quiz

We have already begun reading Finkelstein’s newest book GAZA’S GRAVEDIGGERS: An Inquiry into Corruption in High Places and it is a monumental work exposing the corruption and perfidy of the Westerm Liberal Authoritarian Class Norman Finkelstein is is an American political...

Geopolitics, Article, Norman Finkelstein

Houthi strikes threaten Saudi oil exports as Brent hits $105 and Middle Eastern crude soars to $120. Friday, September 11, 2026 Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure have alerted the oil markets to the possibility of seeing even less...

News

Social scientists often see the individual as a product of society. But never, never underestimate the impact of personality on society. Or at least, some personalities. The only other personality in recent history who has had as great an impact...

War & Peace, 9/11, al-Qaeda

Supertanker rates on the Baltic Exchange's benchmark Middle East-to-China shipping route have surged to a staggering $800,000 a day. With US forces having destroyed five Iranian-linked tankers and Tehran threatening further escalation in recent days, prospects for near-term stabilization remain...

News

The following story is co-published with Denatured . (A version of this article was originally published at Salon.com on Sept. 19, 2001) Body No. 1 shattered all illusions of finding survivors. He was a curly-haired guy with a paunch and puffed red lips,...

Activism, Health & Wellness, Opinion

Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, on the surface it may seem that American foreign policy has followed a course filled with continuity. A quarter century ago, the U.S. launched the “global war on terrorism” in...

Activism, Interview, Military

Photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash When a man does something horrific, particularly toward a woman, there will inevitably be a chorus of women who label all men the same. When men take issue with being lumped in with monsters, we’re...

News

Eurasia Publications announces the release of Economic Transition and Impact on the Energy Mix, the new expanded English edition by Yannis Bassias. The book continues the analytical path established in Cause and Effect, where the author introduced the principle that...

Energy News, Books, Energy

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is considering significant changes to its plans to build a massive 5-gigawatt AI data center in Abu Dhabi in partnership with U.S. tech giants, after Iran started targeting American air bases and U.S.-linked critical infrastructure...

News

The US-China G-2 concept is both normatively exclusionary and strategically constraining. The inherent limits of a G-2 framework—hierarchy, power structure, and systematic constraints—make it a non-starter in a multipolar reality. Here, I completely agree; the concept of a G2 is...

South Asia, China, India

Claims have been circulating on social media that the United States has only about two weeks of oil left. The calculation appears to compare the 286.6 million barrels currently held in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with roughly 20.7 million barrels...

News

According to the WHO, one in six people worldwide will be over the age of 60 by 2030. The number of people aged 80 or older is also likely to triple between 2020 and 2050. Over half of nursing homes...

Tech News, Elderly, Health

Within the increasingly specialized field of peptide and metabolic signaling inquiry, AICAR has emerged as a particularly intriguing molecular subject due to its theorized relationship with cellular energy regulation, mitochondrial communication pathways, and adaptive biochemical signaling environments. Although often associated...

Health & Wellness, Health, peptides
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