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The war against Iran is putting new strains on U.S. military readiness by consuming munitions and missile defense interceptors, as well as through extended deployments, sustained operational demands, and the diversion of forces and attention from other theaters. Mark Cancian...
As Yemen’s Houthis ramp up the costs of war in the Gulf, Tehran is wagering on US elections to bring a political sea change Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United...
We must keep prising the fingers of the billionaire class off our throats until it is only the discredited, and morally bankrupt, who refuse to speak loudly in opposition to genocide Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the...
How long can Western nations serve as proxies to keep the US afloat? Michael Hudson (preview clip The United States is selling oil short, just as it has kept down the price of gold through financial manipulation, selling gold forward short...
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Today’s newsletter is abbreviated as I am helping my Mom go back into the hospital. Thanks for your understanding. Today’s top items: 1. National Advanced Manufacturing Conference - Xi issued “important instructions” on developing advanced manufacturing, conveyed at a two-day National Advanced...
The world of pop culture is ablaze with fury, as billionaire plutocrat Robert Kraft successfully pressured Ed Sheeran into dropping Macklemore from his North American tour over the rapper’s pro-Palestine statements. The incident has ignited widespread outrage, and blown up in...
RAMALLAH /PNN/ The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said journalists and media workers in the Gaza Strip are facing “exceptionally harsh conditions” amid the ongoing war, calling for the urgent medical evacuation of dozens of injured and ill reporters who cannot access adequate...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is increasingly preoccupied with a singular structural shift: the move toward national currencies in trade and investment. While the official rhetoric emphasizes a collective drift away from the US dollar, a deeper analysis of member...
Kpler’s Matt Smith expects oil prices to keep grinding higher, with six and a half months of Middle East supply losses now working their way through gasoline and diesel prices. Smith told CNBC Thursday that oil prices have risen roughly...
This story was originally published by Sentient . Last November , the Trump administration proposed a regulation that would strip federal water pollution protections from wide swaths of wetlands in the United States. Now, 10 months later, the administration has updated...
In 2020, the group Black Lives Matter became a driving force in American politics. They ostensibly rallied around the idea that black lives, you know, matter. A bold position, to be sure, because I wasn’t sure anyone really disagreed. Photo by...
The Houthis are routinely described as Iranian proxies. The description has become even more common as their military reach has expanded from northern Yemen toward the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb strait. Iran has supplied weapons, training, intelligence...
By Joel Jorgensen, FlowAccel. The 2026 Siemens EDA and Wilson Research Group study just came out. Verification now eats close to half the schedule on every IC and FPGA program. I don’t doubt that number. What I don’t know is how...
Ukraine hit overnight an oil refinery near Moscow, damaging a processing plant co-owned by Rosneft and Gazprom Neft, as Russia prepares to extend its ban on diesel exports through the end of October. In a sign that Ukraine and Russia...
The US Congress on September 16 passed sweeping legislation targeting Russia and Iran, sending to President Donald Trump a sanctions package supporters say will increase pressure on Moscow and countries that help finance its war against Ukraine. The House of...
Failing to deter a full-scale war with Israel and the United States, Iran has moved away from the strategic patience and military restraint that shaped much of its prewar approach, shifting toward a counter-escalation strategy that aims to transform the...
The 18th BRICS Summit, which took place on September 12-13 in New Delhi, reflected the world order’s transition to multipolarity. Türkiye, though sharing this ideology, was not among the summit’s participants. The list of participants in the Indian BRICS summit...
The House voted Thursday to pass legislation that would place a new set of sanctions on Russia, drawing significant Democratic support despite opposition from party leadership. The bill, first introduced by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in 2025, was previously...
The UK household energy bills could jump by between 25% and 30% in the first quarter of 2027 amid surging natural gas prices as the Middle East crisis drags on, analysts say, warning that the government may have to spend...
ASML’s grip on the most advanced corner of chip manufacturing is tightening. The Dutch company, already the sole supplier of extreme ultraviolet lithography systems, is winning broader industry support for High Numerical Aperture EUV, or High NA, its next-generation technology...
For most Americans, a foreign war becomes real when it affects the household budget. That moment has arrived. On September 11, the national average price of diesel climbed to $6.06 a gallon , up from roughly $3.71 a year earlier....
The soaring wind and solar capacity installations in Germany have created an unsustainable business and project economics environment in the sector amid slower grid expansion and electricity generation curtailments. In 2023, Germany crossed the 50% mark of the share of...
Closing plenary of the recent Kunming Dialogue. Credit: ENB-IISD/Anastasia Rodopoulou By Stella Paul KUNMING, China, Sep 17 2026 (IPS) The world may have enough money to protect nature. The bigger problem, according to the head of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD),...
LNG prices have room to rise by about a third from the current very high levels amid low European gas inventories and fierce competition for spot supply between Europe and Asia, analysts and industry executives say. Europe is heading into...
After losing much of its forests in recent decades, the country’s people have led the way in planting saplings across the country as part of the government’s Green Legacy Initiative When Halima Kedir first began planting trees, she was met with...
Canada’s oil-producing province of Alberta plans to announce in November a new preferential royalty framework to encourage companies to invest in new oil and gas production, Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith said at an industry event. As Alberta owns 81% of...
Russia’s war in Ukraine has become more than a test of military endurance. It has also become a live laboratory for modern warfare, exposing how quickly weapons, tactics and battlefield technology can change and raising difficult questions about whether NATO...
Diesel prices and margins will continue to grow amid tightening markets, but gasoline could offer even more upside as refiners currently prioritize diesel output, Goldman Sachs says. The investment bank is switching its key fuel market recommendation away from diesel...
Yemen’s Houthi movement has evolved from a local Zaydi Shi’ite revivalist group in the country’s northern mountains into a heavily armed force capable of threatening shipping routes, striking targets across the region and influencing the wider security balance in the...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip / PNN / As the back-to-school season approaches, preparations for the new academic year look dramatically different across the Gaza Strip, where families face harsh living conditions, shortages of school supplies and steep price increases for the...
In December 2024, the share of South Koreans ages 65 and older surpassed 20% for the first time, making it what demographers like us call a “super-aged society.” By August 2026 that share had risen further, to 22.1%. That label...
Gender discrimination begins early and accumulates over time, leading to a narrowing of job opportunities and loss of belonging as they get older. Credit: Shutterstock By Kim Samuel and Bridget Sleap TORONTO / LONDON, Sep 17 2026 (IPS) Chung Sun-cha started collecting cardboard,...
Historically, Africa has never hosted the Olympic Games due to the complications of finance, infrastructure and the scale of transport and accommodation required. In 2018, that changed, and Senegal was awarded the 2022 Youth Olympic Games, which were postponed until...
While Africa grows quality cotton, turning the crop into high-value products has been a consistent challenge. To break the cycle, Afreximbank’s African Textile Renaissance Plan aims to create a self-sustaining ecosystem that encompasses all the steps from growth to finished...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank /PNN/ When Walid Farrajah was 10, his uncle gave him a small group of chicks. What began as a simple childhood gift grew into a lifelong passion that has stayed with him alongside his career as a doctor. Today,...
The removal of subsidies may make electric vehicles a more attractive option for Nigerian drivers, but the industry still has to confront several structural challenges to succeed. A four-year-old company is betting on a comprehensive approach. On May 29, 2023, as...
India will continue prioritizing the energy security of its population despite attempts by the United States to squeeze Russian oil and gas exports, many of which go to India, the country’s Foreign Ministry said today. It also warned that any...
This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Brig. Gen. Steven P. Carpenter, the commanding general of Multi-Domain Command – Europe, the U.S. Army’s first multi-domain operations command, headquartered at Clay Kaserne in Mainz-Kastel, Germany. Multi-Domain Command – Europe serves...
The ‘shorthand’ labels placed on places and events have enormous power to establish stereotypes that can last forever. Africa has suffered from such negative labels for centuries. Time to put a stop to it. I love(d) Bridget Jones, the fictional heroine...
On Aug. 24, 2026, the Trump administration transmitted the text of the U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperation agreement to Congress. By doing so, the administration triggered the 90-day congressional review process described in the Atomic Energy Act and relaunched a debate about...
U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose additional tariffs on the European Union if the bloc moves ahead with a proposal to make Canada its first associate member, escalating tensions over the EU’s plans to deepen ties with Ottawa....
Demand for liquefied natural gas in Asia is set to decline this year by between 3% and 10% on higher prices, according to analysts cited by Reuters. This would be the second annual decline in Asian LNG demand, with the...
Europe is trying to reduce its dependence on foreign suppliers of critical minerals, but funding shortages, fragmented decision making and slow project development are threatening the European Union’s efforts to build more secure supply chains. The EU has set 2030...
U.S. and Chinese security experts are urging Washington and Beijing to establish safeguards for military artificial intelligence, warning that autonomous systems could trigger dangerous escalation if they interfere with nuclear command networks or conduct cyber operations without clear human authorization....
By CIVICUS Sep 17 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses renewed conflict and a growing crackdown on independent media in Ethiopia with Yonas Kedir, Editor-in-Chief of the independent news outlet Addis Standard, who was recently abducted and detained by government forces. Yonas Kedir Fighting has resumed...
U.S. President Donald Trump said he hoped the war against Iran was nearing an end as fighting between Saudi Arabia and Iran backed Houthi forces intensified in Yemen, adding a new front to a conflict that has already disrupted energy...
Last week, Indonesia’s Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs sent 32 officials to China for a 14-day training course on how to negotiate international economic deals. The Academy for International Business Officials, a school under China’s Ministry of Commerce, is running...
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