Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
Good things are happening! A city plans to bottle subway hell, canoes beat out copper mines, crabbers cut the cord, and we celebrate a victory with a border wall fighter. You Love To See It is a benefit of a Lever...
HEBRON, West Bank / PNN / For residents of Khirbet Umm al-Khair in the southern Hebron Hills, fear has become part of daily life. Repeated attacks by Israeli settlers, along with efforts to pressure residents and drive them from their land,...
HEBRON, West Bank /PNN/ In towns across southern Hebron, particularly Deir Samet, Idhna and areas along the western border, the burning of electronic waste has become a persistent source of smoke and choking fumes, weighing on residents' daily lives and raising...
HEBRON, West Bank (PNN) — About 20 kilometres northwest of Hebron, the Palestinian town of Surif rises among mountain peaks, carrying stories passed down through generations. Here, stones are more than silent rocks. They stand as living witnesses to a long...
People fighting to contain rapidly growing outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo describe the obstacles and dangers they face Every day, Sophie Mwadawa Kabundo goes to her job as a nurse at an Ebola treatment centre in the north-east of...
Hebron / PNN / Demolitions of Palestinian homes and structures continue in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, one of the areas most affected by demolition and displacement policies. The demolitions have targeted inhabited homes, residential tents, water wells and agricultural structures,...
The ceasefire between Pakistan and Afghanistan resembles a ghost. It exists on paper but peace remains missing on the ground. Along the Durand Line, a 19th century colonial cartograph that Afghanistan has historically disputed, mistrust continues to deepen. Pakistan sees...
China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN), a Chinese state-owned energy company, is blacklisted by the US for stealing nuclear secrets. In South Korea, CGN runs five power plants, with a total generation capacity of 2.2 gigawatts (GW). The South Korean government...
An explainer of why the price of oil is nearing crisis level after all these months Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism....
Land can be surrendered only once. A security guarantee can be reconsidered whenever a government changes or another war demands Washington’s attention. This becomes the centre of the latest American effort to end the war in Ukraine. Steve Witkoff and...
Attempts to shield Israel against campus criticism took two blows this summer with a whistleblower and leading opposition politician questioning a government taskforce formed early in Donald Trump’s second term to combat campus antisemitism. Whistleblower Haley Van Erem, who resigned...
The Israeli government is running advertisements on a popular podcast hosted by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), raising questions about whether the staunchly pro-Israel lawmaker is indirectly receiving campaign funding from a foreign country. Radio and podcast giant iHeartMedia has syndicated Cruz’s...
Scott Bessent says he doesn’t understand why oil is going up. On Thursday, hours after announcing that Washington would keep its naval blockade and hit Iran with the toughest sanctions in history, the Treasury Secretary watched crude climb and told...
Islam Times - A new report from Washington casts doubt on the official account of Karoline Leavitt’s departure: Trump’s spokeswoman was identified as the main suspect in a confidential investigation into leaks about US weapons shortages and the damage caused...
On Saturday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry announced that a navigation map had been agreed upon in diplomatic talks with Oman. The Iranian spokesman emphasised that the agreement had been reached despite US “obstruction” and efforts to “hinder” the talks. Further,...
Speculation that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will run for president has been growing louder. Much of the buzz has been effusive, as in The Guardian ’s assessment that “it is hard to imagine anyone who better personifies a rebuke of the octogenarian...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel O. Ablakwa, after an intensive strategic consultation aimed at raising bilateral relations from vision to commitment, have agreed on a pack of measures for normalizing relations between the Confederation of...
China's energy strategy has largely shielded it from the fallout of the war in Iran and the resultant closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for global oil and gas trade. However, the country's newest five-year plan for...
Countries around the globe are racing to become the world’s first geologic hydrogen hotspot. A few years ago, the United States Department of Energy released a bombshell report that estimated that there are trillions of metric tons of natural hydrogen...
Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. ***IranU.S. strikes on Iranian soil tapered off in August after frequent exchanges throughout July. The hiatus seems...
Almost three years after the Gaza genocide began, the European Union is still being helpful to Israel and its weapons industry. A fresh example of the help being offered involves a “security research” project scheduled to begin in September. The Israel Innovation...
The extreme heat experienced across Europe in recent weeks has caused widespread disruption to nuclear power plants. Governments across the region have been forced to take extraordinary measures to keep nuclear facilities operating, but some are failing to meet their...
Iraq wants to more than double its oil production within six years. First, it needs OPEC to let it. Baghdad is targeting output of between 8 million and 10 million barrels per day, up from roughly 4 million bpd before...
China is challenging Russia’s stranglehold on Central Asia’s arms market. Uzbekistan appears to have taken delivery of four PRC-made ChengduJ-10CE multi-role combat aircraft, according to multiple reports, one of which includes a photo of one of the fighters supposedly acquired...
Venezuela has plenty of oil buyers again. What it does not have is enough functioning port infrastructure to get them their crude. Tankers are waiting as long as 30 days to load Venezuelan oil as aging terminals, power outages and...
Colombia’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of five books including: “These Chains Will Be...
Phillip Stanley-Marbell is the founder and CEO of Signaloid. Up until September 2025, he was a full Professor (Chair of Physical Computation) in the Electrical Engineering Division of the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he led...
The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States fell this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, with the total rig count in the US falling to 588, up...
Upcoming regional elections in the former East Germany promise a dramatic shift in political direction and are raising questions about the stability of Berlin's governing system. Alternative for Germany Expected to Win in Eastern German States Parliamentary elections are approaching in eastern...
The Iran war has pushed the global oil refining industry to the brink, signalling that diesel and gasoline prices may remain elevated for years. Deal or no deal, the global energy inflation shock is far from over. While oil markets...
TSMC’s photonics strategy is centered on integrating optical input-output with advanced logic, rather than selling conventional optical transceivers as standalone products. The company is developing a silicon-photonics foundry platform and a packaging architecture called TSMC-COUPE , or Compact Universal Photonic...
“Odyssey” and the Search for the Epic Cinema Paweł Mościcki is a professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the author of numerous books and a blog: pawelmoscicki.net as well as substack pawelmoscicki.substack.com Cross-posted from Pawel’s...
Solar power developers in India have started to add battery storage to photovoltaic projects to attract buyers and reduce the large share of curtailments for power supply that the grids are unable to absorb, Santosh Sarangi, Secretary of India’s Ministry...
From Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian to Jennifer Aniston and Lionel Messi, celebrities across the world are hiring teams of Israeli bodyguards made up of former Shin Bet, Mossad, and Israeli special forces. But how safe is it to entrust your...
Who’s leeching off small businesses? Where is Big Tech getting all its data? And Liberation Day for whom? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in LeverMind , our weekly news quiz testing your knowledge of the...
When Uzbekistan celebrates 35 years of independence on September 1st, Washington should do more than congratulate its people and government. It should recognize a strategic opportunity and make Uzbekistan the anchor of its policy in Central Asia. Uzbekistan is Central...
EDGE Group CEO Hamad Al Marar discusses the UAE’s push to build a globally competitive defense industry — and how technology, manufacturing and exports are shaping that ambition. Credit: CNBC via Reuters Connect. The post UAE defense firm EDGE Group wants...
Starvation is a particularly cruel and horrible way to die. Beginning with intense hunger and pain and followed by exhaustion and mental deterioration, starvation continues with the body gradually consuming its own tissues on a downward spiral toward death. The major...
Photo by Ben Karpinski on Unsplash “What? Have you been living under a rock?” That’s what we say to someone who hasn’t been plugged into whatever is happening that seems all-consuming to everyone else. For me, I’ve been under the rock to...
In the early 2000s , research carried out by biologist Lynne Sneddon revealed a striking pattern. Rainbow trout injected with a weak acid in their lips rubbed their mouths against the tank, rocked from side to side, and ignored food...
Atlanta community organizer Bassey Etuk opened a community defense workshop in June with a stark observation, and heads nodded around the crowded room. “Atlanta was a sanctuary city until the governor of Georgia made it illegal in 2009. Now Atlanta...
This story is originally published by DeSmog in partnership with the National Security Archive . When the Trump administration announced plans last year to repeal the federal government’s greenhouse gas reporting system, rather than celebrate, many oil and gas companies publicly urged...
The chipmakers are making money hand over fist, the energy providers are doing okay, the hyperscalers have less to show, and the AI companies are losing bucks bigtime. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy...
Hormuz traffic remains near a standstill as Trump’s ‘Economic D-Day’ campaign pushes Brent closer to $100. Friday, August 21, 2026 Transits through the Strait of Hormuz have been in single digits the entire week, with Trump’s announcement of an ‘Economic...
Ukraine overnight hit with drones an oil refinery in the Perm region, deep into Russian territory, as the Ukrainian military has been targeting Russia’s oil processing and exporting facilities on a nearly daily basis in the past few weeks. Ukrainian...
The MQ-9 Reaper defined US drone wars for two decades, but the next era may be shaped by a very different premise: not building unmanned aircraft to survive every fight, but fielding them cheaply and in enough numbers that losing...
Numbers Report – August 21, 2026 In the latest edition of the Numbers Report, we will take a look at some of the most interesting figures put out this week in the energy and metals sectors. Each week we’ll dig...
Saudi Arabia has boosted its crude oil exports from Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Sidi Kerir by about 33% in the month since the Houthis threatened Saudi oil shipments in the southern Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, tanker-tracking data...
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