Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
By offering Saudi Arabia intelligence and targeting help but declining direct military protection after the East-West pipeline strike, Washington has quietly redefined the 80-year security-for-oil bargain from a guarantee into a menu — and Riyadh’s own hedging over the past...
Diesel prices in the U.S. just climbed above the previous weekly record set in 2022, and the 2026 annual-average record is now within striking distance. Gasoline prices, while still elevated, are unlikely at this point to set a new annual...
During the national anthem of the first three 2016 NFL preseason games, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat down on his team’s bench between two Gatorade coolers. Few noticed, and nobody made mention of the gesture until a Black...
Fifteen years ago, during President Barack Obama’s first term, we co-founded RootsAction as an online progressive group challenging not only Republicans, but also the corporatism and militarism of the Democratic Party . RootsAction supported Bernie Sanders for president in 2016...
Do you remember being in kindergarten? I have vague recollections of the 70s wood paneling, the playground, and singing songs a whole lot. But then again, that was nearly half a century ago, and I’m doing good to remember yesterday,...
The following story is co-published with Nolan Higdon’s Substack . “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” read an open letter from Jacob Coxon , a former safety researcher for...
The detention of newly trained Somali soldiers in Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State has brought renewed attention to a Saudi-backed military training programme in Somalia and raised questions about the future deployment of the forces emerging from it. The incident, however,...
Ceva and LG Electronics have joined forces to remove one of the biggest obstacles to ultra-wideband adoption: integrating a complete radio, baseband and software stack into a production system-on-chip. Their joint platform combines Ceva-Waves UWB baseband intellectual property and software...
Federal regulators handed utilities a deadline this summer that has nothing to do with a storm or a heat wave. On July 16, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered the North American Electric Reliability Corporation to write mandatory reliability standards...
The phenomenon of the tradwife (traditional wife)—women who claim to want to live a “traditional life” by cooking, taking care of children, taking care of the household, and dressing femininely as the main source of happiness—has evolved from an individual...
Russia and Ukraine exchanged strikes overnight, hitting a gas station and an oil refinery, according to local authorities and monitoring Telegram channels. The attacks on September 14-15 came just hours after US President Donald Trump said Moscow and Kyiv had...
Along with India’s rapprochement with China, the New Delhi BRICS Summit showed that the group is no longer content to remain a platform for the Global South’s protest; it is beginning to build institutions, economic networks, and diplomatic alternatives of...
When host governments negotiate with investors, they typically suffer from the fact that investors know more about the value of the minerals than governments do. Credit: Shutterstock By Karl P. Sauvant and Louis T. Wells Sep 15 2026 (IPS) “Critical minerals” are critical...
The yuan-denominated crude oil futures trading in China hit this week their highest level since the contract was launched in 2018 as escalating threats to Middle East’s oil supply and increased purchases by Chinese refiners push prices higher. Launched in...
By Tim Messegee, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing at Rambus PCI Express (PCIe), PCIe switches, Time Division Multiplexing (TDM), Network Interface Cards (NICs), and SmartNICs are all well-established technologies that have formed the backbone of computing and networking systems for years....
For the past two decades, the Democratic Party has struggled to articulate a coherent foreign policy doctrine. From the Iraq War to the rise of China to the Russia-Ukraine war, Democrats have had little exciting to offer. Too often, they...
Three of Russia's six largest diesel-producing refineries are now either shut or operating at roughly one-quarter capacity after Ukrainian drone attacks damaged plants that together form the backbone of the country's fuel system. The six refineries—Omsk, Kirishi, Taneco, Volgograd, NORSI...
Australian Energy Minister Chris Bowen will travel to Saudi Arabia next week to meet with Saudi Energy Minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, and get the latest updates on the state of operations and oil supply after the Kingdom shut down...
Women used profits from trafficking of enslaved Africans to secure their families’ futures, research reveals More than 1,000 women invested in the slave trade, challenging the conventional notion that they were passive beneficiaries and largely fought for its abolition. Researchers found women...
Indonesia’s national energy company Pertamina is considering upstream investments in Guyana and Suriname to diversify Indonesia's oil and gas supply and boost energy security, the Indonesian government has said. “Pertamina has already initiated exploratory discussions on cooperation in exploration and...
By: Ainur Rohmah Photo from Jakarta Post Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto dismissed outspoken Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa on September 14, exactly one year after appointing him to take over from globally respected finance chief Sri Mulyani Indrawati. He was replaced by Deputy...
Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from chatbots that sometimes produce basic factual errors to increasingly autonomous systems capable of writing software, operating digital tools and completing complex tasks with limited human supervision. That progress has intensified concerns among some of...
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has replaced Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa with Suahasil Nazara. It’s easy to change a minister, but harder to prove that the change will deliver what investors actually want. Indonesia enters this transition with Moody’s and...
A new fiscal regime in the UK from 2027 could deliver an additional £14.9 billion, or $20 billion, to Britain’s revenues, the leading offshore industry group said in its annual Economic Report, calling on the Burnham government to bring forward...
Six registered British charities are openly fundraising for activities and infrastructure in illegal Israeli settlements, a Declassified investigation has found. Two of the charities explicitly state in their publicly available filings with the Charity Commission that they are supporting specific settlements...
Depressed LNG demand in recent months in China and India is the result of spiking LNG prices due to the Middle East conflict, and consumption in the key Asian gas import markets is set to rebound once the war ends...
Belarusian state institutions have worked together to suppress critics of President Alexander Lukashenko’s government through almost every stage of the justice system since 2020, according to independent U.N. experts. A report prepared for the U.N. Human Rights Council says courts,...
This week, Maruarar Sirait, Indonesia’s housing minister, spent four hours at the Jakarta residence of China’s ambassador, Wang Lutong, and emerged with the outline of an ambitious plan. China will help Indonesia build large numbers of apartment blocks, known locally...
Every alliance contains a struggle over who gets to decide what the alliance is for. The unusual thing about the Mecca Alliance, formally known as the “Mecca Joint Defence Agreement,” is that all three of its members appear to believe...
From legendary jollof at Ghana High to Ofada rice at Olaiya and catfish pepper soup at LASCOFIS, Michael Jimoh explores three Lagos institutions serving the local dishes that keep diners coming back. One of the surest ways of getting to know...
Members of the Uyghur delegation pose with the director of their host organisation, CADAL, during their visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23 August 2026. The sky flag is strictly banned by the Chinese government under anti-separatism laws. Credit: CADAL. By Inés...
Gaza / PNN / Fedaa al Qedra It never occurred to Badria Saeed, 37, in her worst nightmares that she would lose a dream she had waited years for because her phone battery died. Badria had been waiting for the moment when...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to broker an energy infrastructure truce between Russia and Ukraine could remove one immediate threat to global fuel markets, but it is unlikely to resolve the diesel shortage that has developed this year. Trump said...
Over the past two weeks, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin staged a major diplomatic blitz. Across three events in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East and New Delhi, India, as well as a state visit by Vietnam’s leader, he met with some 18 heads of...
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being treated not simply as a technology sector but as a strategic capability tied to economic power, national security and geopolitical competition. Recent warnings from leading AI researchers and executives that increasingly autonomous systems could pose...
Oil prices continued to rise early on Tuesday, rallying by 1.7% in Asian trade, as the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen are expanding their control over the west coast along the Red Sea, while the attacks on a key Saudi onshore...
China’s pursuit of multidomain drone swarms reflects a broader effort to turn autonomous systems from standalone weapons into the connective tissue of a networked form of warfare built around speed, redundancy and system-level disruption. China is expanding its uncrewed combat...
Main image: Robert Dussey, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cooperation, African Integration and Togolese Abroad of Togo, briefs reporters in connection with draft resolution “Correct the map”: rebalancing global cartographic representation and promoting equitable representation of the world’s regions, particularly Africa....
By Roberto Savio ROME, Sep 15 2026 (IPS) On 11 September 2001 I was in New York, on one of my frequent visits to the United Nations, to which I was tied by a consultancy contract. That morning I woke up late,...
India hosted the 18th BRICS Summit, the fourth under its presidency since its inception, coincidentally on the UN Day for South-South Cooperation (September 12) in New Delhi. This comes against the backdrop of unilateral sanctions, coercive tariffs, and ongoing conflicts...
Islam Times - The leaderships of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement, represented by the Head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, Sheikh Ali Damoush, and the Head of Amal Movement’s Executive Bureau, Dr. Mustafa Al-Foani, held a meeting during which they discussed...
Islam Times - Field and political developments in Southern Lebanon since the November 2024 ceasefire, and more clearly since the resumption of war in March 2026, raise a question that goes beyond the concept of a “security zone” or “temporary...
Credit: Cia Pak / UN By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 15 2026 (IPS) As the race for the election of a new Secretary-General (UNSG) gathers momentum, the spotlight is on the 193-member General Assembly, the highest policy making body at the United...
China’s new SME payment rules, released this month, include a financing instruction that deserves scrutiny. Beijing is encouraging large companies to use bank loans and bond financing to replace accounts payable and pay suppliers in cash, effectively shifting the working-capital...
Silicon Valley insiders are sounding the alarm about AI’s dangers, leaving many people terrified. Are the doomsday fears valid, or are they a distraction from corporate accountability? In this exclusive, uncut interview for premium subscribers, David Sirota speaks with Matt Stoller...
Six months into the second US-Israeli war on Iran, the Trump administration’s message is that Iran is weakening, the United States is winning and the costs of war will be temporary. That narrative is hard to sustain as the war drags on,...
Islam Times - After the failure of his economic promises and claims regarding Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, Trump is now seeking to highlight the war in Ukraine in an effort to justify rising energy prices and America's domestic...
Islam Times - Iran’s acceptance of the postponement of the Oman meeting is a sign of Tehran’s sincerity in pursuing regional dialogue. The Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman littoral states must now move beyond extra-regional pressure and demonstrate in...
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