Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.
What is happening to global food prices right now is not four separate stories. It is one supply shock being assembled in four places simultaneously — the Black Sea, the Sudan-Ethiopia border, Mexico’s energy sector, and China’s power grid, and...
The In an age when everyone is busy and eager to speak, the story of Khawlah bint Thaʿlabah reminds us that one of the most Prophetic qualities is simply to listen. By Rabiah Tul Adawiyah Mohamed Salleh We Are All Busy “We are...
bessent_pipe_dream Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promised something spectacular. “ Watch this space ,” he told a television interviewer, previewing “ measures like have never been seen in the history of the economic isolation of a country .” Paired with...
Declarations by Iran and the U.S. earlier this week make the prospect of peace in the Middle East even more distant, driving crude oil prices higher. Meanwhile, the diesel crack spread in the U.S. topped $100 per barrel for the...
When Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, Cuba was legally sovereign but in an extraordinarily asymmetric relationship with the United States. As Earl E. T. Smith, U.S. ambassador prior to the revolution, told Congress in 1960, “the American ambassador...
Nearly six months after the U.S. and Israel launched an operation to overthrow the Iranian government, it’s fair to say their assault hasn’t exactly gone according to plan. Still, the ensuing war has followed a clear, predictable logic. After decades of...
For those casually observing the war in Ukraine, the failure of Kyiv’s recent strikes on Russian territory to impact the battlefield might be disappointing, even inexplicable. For those who have paid close attention to the war, it is just the...
The idea that African nations must process their minerals at home has gained increased policy traction, and for good reason. After decades of exporting raw materials and importing finished products, the argument that Africa must capture more value from its...
Islam Times - Nearly 300 days after being shot and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE], Los Angeles-based journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias remains held at a California detention facility, where he says he has endured cockroaches in his cell,...
Michigan Republican Senate candidate former Rep. Mike Rogers holds millions in tech investments that could benefit from the data center boom, giving him a personal financial stake as he backs President Donald Trump’s push to fast-track artificial intelligence infrastructure. The...
The US increasingly prioritizes technological dominance, supply-chain security, industrial protection and strategic competition with China. Under Trump, this approach has become openly transactional and unilateral: tariffs, market access and security instruments are used to compel partners and competitors alike. The...
Last week we heard that US sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and other ships in the Middle East were being fed food that, from photos that surfaced in the media, looked worse than what you would feed...
Power Metals is advancing what it describes as North America’s only cesium project at a time when America’s defense ambitions are colliding with the reality of critical mineral supply chains. The U.S. imports 100% of its required cesium, a rare...
Photo by Chris Boland on Unsplash Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday is dead by his own hand. It seems that a lifetime of lies, once they caught up with him, was too much for him to handle. The disgrace was more...
U.S. oil companies dominating the shale patch are planning to trim their spending plans and instead take advantage of higher international oil prices to reduce debt and boost shareholder returns. This is bad news for production growth. Bloomberg reported earlier...
In this issue: - More weak July economic data - Premier Li chairs State Council Plenary session - Jiang Zemin Commemoration - Xi’s September visit - AI tokens and the intelligent economy - “Once Upon a Time in the Middle East” The Feed: Business, Economy and Trade...
The rise of automation, AI, and electric trucks can fundamentally change the freight transportation industry in the United States, leading to a revolution in transport fuel demand. Various vehicle and technology companies and U.S. cities and states have launched in...
The proposed Libya–Egypt crude oil pipeline has, surprisingly quickly, entered a phase in which Cairo and Tripoli are actively discussing it. The pipeline, expected to be 800 kilometers long, will connect Tobruk in eastern Libya to Egypt’s port of Alexandria,...
The U.S. has lost 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones, worth at least $1.3 billion, since the start of its war on Iran, the Washington Post reported Friday . The drones can cost between $30 and $50 million each, depending on their sensor...
President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to bomb a US ally in the Middle East if it gets in the way of a perpetually elusive deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Speaking with Fox News, Trump was asked about talks...
On August 6, 2026, there was a town hall meeting between US Navy officials including Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao and more than 200 family members of the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln, at the naval air station on...
Strategic shortfalls? Maybe in getting cobalt out of the Congo or rare earth powders from China or natural gas from Russia or oil from the Persian Gulf? Or maybe something closer to home. Thanks to climate change (yes, just say...
On Sunday, President Donald Trump abruptly announced that he had directed the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” major U.S.-South Korea military drills that began this week. In a post on Truth Social, Trump provided several reasons why: the exercises are too “costly,”...
Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how...
Carbon capture is still debated as if technical performance were the decisive question. Can a solvent remove carbon dioxide from flue gas? Can the CO2 be compressed, transported and injected underground? Will the storage remain secure? These questions matter, but...
Heatwaves not only affect the poor much more than the rich, they also contribute to widening inequality between the classes. Miqdad Asaria is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Policy at LSE and co-director of the MSc in Health...
Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia could potentially offer an alternative basis for power in the Middle East for more countries seeking alternatives to US-Israeli hegemony. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker...
A portrait of life under genocide. Hossam Shaker is a journalist and an author who has extensively covered the topic of migration in Europe. Cross-posted from Middl e East Eye Life under genocide has its familiar daily rituals. A discerning eye detects latent...
Russia has received its first gasoline cargo from India as Ukrainian attacks knock out refining capacity and a second wave of fuel shortages spreads across at least 10 Russian regions, Reuters reported on Monday. The roughly 68,000-metric-ton cargo was produced...
Since early March, a previously obscure waterway between Iran and Oman that very few people could name has become the subject of daily reporting around the world after Iran closed it in response to the attack on Iran by the...
The Information Controls Research Program (ICRP) (formerly known as the “Information Controls Fellowship Program) from the Open Technology Fund (OTF) supports applied research into how authoritarian governments in the most repressive information environments are restricting the free flow of information,...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 ICYMI in The Lever : New York just gave Elon Musk the keys to your money . 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - Can a DSA candidate pull off...
Lt. Gen. (ret.) Francis Beaudette, former commanding general of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, joins Ryan to discuss how his family history, service, and books shaped his path into and time in the Army. Together, they talk through his...
Chevron has announced a new oil and gas condensate discovery offshore Angola, hitting more than 2,000 feet of hydrocarbons in a Block 0 exploration well that could be tied directly into the company’s existing production infrastructure in the country. The...
U.S. importers hauled in more than 200,000 tonnes of refined copper in July, the biggest monthly volume in at least 12 years. Add that to what's already sitting in Comex warehouses, LME-registered stock and private port storage, and the country's...
When Patriot missiles drag down the US president’s approval rating and turn into election ballots — the fourth part of the “Geopolitics in Simple Terms” series dedicated to the US war with Iran and its consequences. Continued. Read Part I: America’s...
Libya’s electricity grid suffered another major collapse on Monday, knocking power plants offline across western, central and southern parts of the country, shutting down the Great Man-Made River water system, fueling widespread public anger in a country already divided between...
American actress and singer Hayden Panettiere has died at the age of 36. Her representative described her death as a tragedy. Police are currently investigating the circumstances. “She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought love and...
The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. Millions are in hiding. Those who have escaped Ukraine are fanned out across Europe, clinging to low-paying jobs and temporary housing. But Europe’s leaders are impatient with them. The...
Yemen’s Ansarallah launches deadly precision strikes on Saudi Arabia’s proxy forces as the blockade on Saudi Ports tightens the noose on an already suffering global oil market. In the latest episode of The Target stream, Mint Press News’ Robert Inlakesh...
When President Vladimir Putin sent his forces into Ukraine, the Kremlin appeared to be betting on a familiar axiom of European security: sheer Russian mass, backed by vast Soviet-era stockpiles and nuclear power, would overwhelm resistance. More than four years...
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . Darya Minovi was mapping pollution from medical sterilization plants across the country when many of the communities she was speaking to began asking the same...
The US is betting that a new generation of hypersonic cruise missiles can restore a decisive edge in long-range strike, but turning that ambition into a practical wartime capability will require overcoming challenges that extend well beyond speed and range...
As he was leaving office in 2017, President Barack Obama urged Americans concerned about where their country was headed to act. “If something needs fixing, then lace up your shoes and do some organizing,” he said in Time magazine ....
Grid constraints and rising coal-fired power generation in China led to soaring curtailment rates of solar and wind power generation in the first half of the year. China curtailed as much as 360 terawatt-hours (TWh) of solar and wind generation...
The images of chaos and confusion went global on social media within minutes: an estimated 70,000 Moroccans rushed the shores of Spain’s North African enclave Ceuta, climbing through holes in the chain-link fence and swimming around the barriers jutting into...
Rotten food, overflowing toilets into bunking areas, no room in the incoming missile shelters, confiscated cellphones that are the notification devices for incoming missiles, infrequent mail, social media closed down, were some of the issues that military families identified at the national conference...
Strain of virus with no vaccine has potential to overrun response impeded by conflict and misinformation Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are losing their battle to contain the country’s deadliest Ebola outbreak . DRC’s health ministry declared an...
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