Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
In this Monty-Python style animation, Uncle Sam tries to use forever wars, global piracy and corporate greed to Make America Great Again . But surreal, pudgy-footed, medieval rabbit cartoons have armed themselves with hypercomic weapons and are striking back against...
Did President Zelensky and the Ukrainian armed forces not listen to US Vice President JD Vance's warnings and request after all? On Wednesday a "massive" Ukrainian drone and missile strike was unleashed on Russia's port city of Novorossiysk, which badly damaged grain export...
On 7 August, Abelardo de la Espriella — a Colombian-Italian-American lawyer nicknamed “El Tigre,” whom Donald Trump had called a future “great president” months before a single vote was cast — was sworn in as Colombia’s president not in Bogotá’s...
The longer-than-expected closure of the Strait of Hormuz means that some part of the oil production in the Middle East will remain shut in through the end of next year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its latest...
Micron Technology has emerged as a critical supplier in the AI compute ecosystem, leveraging its leadership in advanced DRAM, High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), and NAND flash technologies to address rapidly growing demand from hyperscale data centers and AI accelerator platforms....
For decades, the joke was that nuclear fusion was and would always be 30 years away. But a rapid string of breakthroughs over the last five years, catalyzed by privatization and the pressure as well as the support of the...
Diesel prices surged earlier this week on news about yet another Ukrainian attack on a Russian refinery and a Houthi attack on a Saudi refining facility. Global fuel supply is already out of balance, and the continued refinery disruption will...
When 14-term Connecticut Rep. John Larson lost his Democratic primary to 47-year-old former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin yesterday, The New York Times framed it as an insurgent upstart “capitalizing on calls for generational change in the party.” But the money...
Who was forced to make peace: how the US war aims in Iran shifted from eliminating its nuclear capabilities to "opening” the Strait of Hormuz? This is the third part of the "Geopolitics in Simple Terms” series on the US...
The war between the US and Iran has driven up natural gas prices, particularly in Europe and Asia. Asia accounts for nearly 90% of liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments from key Middle East producers like Qatar and the UAE, while...
Kyaw Zwar Minn was ousted for declaring loyalty to Aung San Suu Kyi after 2021 coup but refused to leave his home Myanmar’s ousted ambassador to the UK has gone on trial on trespassing charges for refusing to leave a diplomatic...
In 2025, Nurlan Aliyev wrote, “The Mayhem of Russia’s “Research” Fleet,” where he argued that NATO must act decisively to safeguard critical undersea infrastructure from Russian sabotage attempts. A year later, we asked him to revisit his arguments. Image: Andrey Luzik via Wikimedia...
Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened Wednesday to seize European ships in retaliation for EU action against Russia’s shadow oil fleet, opening the possibility of direct Russian interference with commercial shipping as Europe steps up efforts to disrupt Moscow’s crude exports,...
The Pentagon acknowledged for the first time that U.S. military operations killed Yemeni civilians last year, in an annual report on civilian casualties it sent to members of Congress Tuesday. CENTCOM determined that three operations in Yemen last year “more likely...
What is happening to the US dollar? Why has the Federal Reserve set up a ‘pawnshop’ on its estate? Why do Japan’s low rates of interest threaten the US? Why are Europeans angered by US Treasury Secretary Bessant’s not-so-stealthy hedge-fund-style...
Our unwillingness to think about how to change our reality may simply be the noise of capitalism speaking through us. It’s time to find value in something more than a new iPhone or pair of jeans Jonathan Cook is the author...
Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza is a mirage, a conjuring trick in which peace is unilaterally declared as Israel seizes more Palestinian land and brings the genocide to its grim conclusion. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was...
Why are the rich not consuming? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World , was published November 2025. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global Inequality and...
Intel EMIB and Intel Foveros are advanced semiconductor-packaging technologies designed to combine multiple silicon dies, or chiplets, within one processor package. Both support heterogeneous integration: manufacturers can build different functions using the process technology best suited to each one, then...
John Bellamy Foster reflects on the enduring relevance of Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” in this fourth segment of our series on ecology and materialism. Marx’s foundations of ecological materialism are blended with the work of natural scientists and the Greek philosopher...
As energy companies explore innovative ways to increase clean power production and gain public support for new projects, many solar firms are investing in developing dual-purpose operations that utilise agricultural land for solar farms. A common criticism of solar farms...
🗳️ Welcome to Midterm Madness , the only newsletter you need to stay up to date on election news. Key race updates, money trails, numbers that cut through the spin, and campaign moments that say more than official talking points...
The world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s $2.3-trillion Government Pension Fund Global, posted a record-high profit of $185 billion for the first half of 2026, as Asian technology stocks boosted its returns and profit on the portfolio. Norway’s Government Pension...
The first Trump and Biden administrations took lifesaving measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, they issued stimulus checks that allowed people to eat and pay their rent, which became the most successful public welfare initiative in...
Vietnam is considered one of the few countries that have successfully maintained a balance between the competition for influence between the US and China in Southeast Asia. This success stems from upgrading relations with the US to a “Comprehensive Strategic...
Soft power, in the form of scientific cooperation, is helping to drive an expansion of China’s economic influence in Central Asia. Uzbekistan and China, for example, recently launched the joint hyperspectral satellite, Samarkand-2028, which will support applications in agriculture, environmental...
This story was originally published by ProPublica . A robot was on fire. Again. It was the summer of 2024, and the cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas were catching fire with startling regularity, according to four former...
Photo by Logan Voss on Unsplash I’m more than a little sick of talking about Anthony Fauci. The little dude who was so full of himself that he tried to argue every attack on him was an attack on science itself...
The Trump administration will put oil and gas leases covering more than 81 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico up for auction on Wednesday, August 12, in the third of 30 Gulf lease sales mandated under President Donald Trump’s...
Most people recognize that Donald Trump and his kids are stealing from us with both hands every day. But they are not as outraged as they should be because most have the view that everyone does it. While I will...
Remember that photo from Donald Trump’s first overseas trip as a president back in 2017? The new president was in Riyadh. Instead of going to Europe or Japan or Canada, Trump was making his first presidential trip to Saudi Arabia. And...
International youth Day 2026: Celebrating the Next Generation On the occasion of International Youth Day 2026, I would like to take this opportunity to celebrate and recognise the remarkable creativity, dedication, and potential of Somaliland’s young architecture students, particularly those graduating...
Norwegian aluminum producer Norsk Hydro's Alunorte plant in Brazil, one of the world's largest alumina refineries, reduced output by 50% following disruptions to natural gas availability. Bloomberg reports that disruptions to NatGas availability at Alunorte forced a 50% reduction in...
Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei's decision to formalize six senior military and security postings within 48 hours is less a personnel story than the closing chapter of a five-month improvisation. Read together, the appointments announced on August 10 show a...
America’s foreign policy, is markedly robust in its deal-making energy. Since January of last year, the second Trump administration has charged forward to bring rivals to the diplomatic table, organize peace processes, and find resolutions to many of the world’s...
Indian state-controlled oil refiners continue to search the market for spot crude supply as term deliveries are constrained by the ongoing crisis in the Middle East and its key oil chokepoint, the Strait of Hormuz. Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited...
Front-end SoC design has always been a balancing act between speed, accuracy, and the large amount of manual work required to get RTL, IPs, and collaterals to be aligned. In a recent webinar, Defacto CEO and founder Chouki Aktouf joined...
As Paris-based Canal+ completes its acquisition of MultiChoice and reshapes DStv while global streamers push into live sport, and young viewers accelerate the shift to digital, the question is who will control what Africa consumes in the entertainment space. One of...
The IEA has slashed its 2026 global oil supply forecast, with output now expected to plunge 4.3 million barrels per day this year as the failure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz pushes the market deeper into deficit. The latest...
Operation under way to rescue dozens missing after boat overturned by waves at world’s largest human-made lake At least 44 people have died after an overcrowded ferry capsized on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, police said. The boat had a capacity of 90...
We are seeing today a surge in heretical media outlets including Novara, Doubledown News, Drop Site, Byline Times, Middle East Eye – and of course Declassified UK. We have emerged thanks in part to a growing appreciation that the mainstream media...
Massive box-office receipts, for example in South Africa, for global blockbusters indicate that Africa’s movie appetite is growing but also mask a deeper shift as the volume of premium screens shrinks. Increasingly, African capital is expanding, and filmmakers are embracing...
Roberto Mosquera, a Cuban immigrant who has lived in the United States since 1980 and completed a prison sentence in 1996, was arrested by ICE last year and sent to a prison in Eswatini, a country in Africa he’d never...
On August 7, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey signed a defense pact that echoed Article 5 of NATO: an attack on one will be attack on all. The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement , for its vernacular, has sent shockwaves across...
The UK could see a power supply margin shortfall during the solar eclipse on Wednesday amid high demand in the new heatwave that is sweeping through Britain and the rest of Europe this week. There is no risk to customer...
Turkey’s parliament has passed legislation creating a framework for the disbandment of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), opening the way for Kurdish militants to return from northern Iraq and potentially be reintegrated into society. The move has brought hope to...
When Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed their joint defense agreement in Mecca on August 7, the alliance’s first test was already taking shape. A day before the signing, Saudi Arabia was preparing for the possibility of attacks by the Houthis...
South African scientist’s breakthrough research shows soil fungus could be used in fight against devastating crop pest Hearing about fields full of dead caterpillars enveloped in a mysterious white substance intrigued the South African scientist Letodi Luki Mathulwe. Something was killing...
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