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Cross-strait tensions, the One-China policy and regional security around Taiwan and China.

Gloria Steinem, a towering figure in the feminist movement and a cultural icon who worked for decades to win more rights, protections and opportunities for women, died Wednesday, Sept. 2, at 92. Steinem also earned her fair share of criticism...

Activism, Ear to the Ground, Media

The world is undergoing a transformation driven by the exponential growth of artificial intelligence (AI)—a pace of change unprecedented in human history. Consequently, many people fear massive unemployment, along with other implications that could affect their livelihoods and quality of...

News

The Bureau of Land Management wants to cut the permitting time for some oil and gas projects in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve to as little as 60 days, according to a Friday press release. The proposed rule would replace separate...

News

First Lady of Sierra Leone, Dr. Fatima Maade Bio (center), and Bhuwan Ribhu of Just Rights for Children (left), outside the UN General Assembly. Credit: Naureen Hossain/IPS By Naureen Hossain UNITED NATIONS, Sep 4 2026 (IPS) As the 80th session of the UN...

Featured, Headlines, TerraViva United Nations

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will reportedly travel to Moscow and Kyiv this weekend in an effort to revive negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. It will mark the diplomatic duo’s first trip to Kyiv since President...

Russia, Ukraine, Diplomacy

In the lead-up to Tuesday’s primary election for New Hampshire’s open first congressional district, Democratic candidate and military veteran Maura Sullivan has touted her Obama administration credentials and private sector experience. Left unmentioned is her more recent work for a...

Elections

Ukraine’s top sanctions official says he remains optimistic about prospects for a sweeping Russia sanctions bill in the US Congress despite growing uncertainty over when the House of Representatives will take it up, as lawmakers face a sharply shortened legislative...

News

How are law enforcement paying for the surveillance state? Which companies pay their workers the least? And do Democratic voters want generational change? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in LeverMind , our weekly news quiz...

LeverMind Quiz

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States stayed the same this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, with the total rig count in the US staying at...

News

The UN in its servitude to the US and Israel seems hell bent on its own destruction Norman Finkelstein is is an American political scientist and activist. His primary fields of research are the politics of the Holocaust and the Israeli–Palestinian...

Geopolitics, Article, Norman Fineklstein

The rise is bond yields will be used by bond ‘vigilantes’ and pro-business governments to justify further cuts in government social spending and increased taxes on working people Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific...

Economics, Finance, Article

China and its crude oil buying behavior in the spring and summer have stabilized global oil markets as Beijing, not OPEC, is calling the shots now, according to Igor Sechin, chief executive of Russia’s biggest oil producer Rosneft. China has...

News

Diesel prices and refining cracks surge as tightening middle distillate supplies push Brent toward $95. Friday, September 04, 2026 Refined products have been the main driver of rising oil prices, particularly diesel as the outlook for global middle distillate supply...

News

UN data shows that Turkmenistan is making repairs to its energy infrastructure to seal major methane leaks, according to a report published by the Guardian. The improvements appear linked to efforts by Ashgabat to emerge from a self-imposed isolationist shell....

News

Many people in Silicon Valley like to talk about the importance of democracy. The CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, has repeatedly described the race to build artificial superintelligence as one between the democratic United States and an authoritarian China. “We...

Activism, Business & Economy, Column

The following is adapted from “ The Road to Medicare for All: A Call to Action ,” published by Routledge. In the early morning hours of Dec. 4, 2024, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare Inc. was gunned down outside the Hilton Hotel...

Activism, Arts & Culture, Book Excerpt

As his superyacht Boardwalk docked in Venice as part of the “ Freedom 250 Coastal Diplomacy Italy initiative ” in July, billionaire U.S. Ambassador Tilman J. Fertitta was greeted by protests. Fertitta was traveling across the country to meet “with local business...

Activism, Business & Economy, Courts & Law

This story was originally published by U.S. Right to Know , a nonprofit newsroom and public health research group. Twenty years ago , the Gates and Rockefeller foundations launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), promising agricultural transformation...

Activism, Africa, Business & Economy

There is a particular kind of political amnesia that can overtake movements in difficult times. We remember the victories but forget the arguments that preceded them. We remember the marches but forget the years of patient organizing that made them...

Activism, Arts & Culture, Books

Timothy Regan has substantial experience in analog/ mixed signal design and its supporting EDA technologies. His career began in linear engineering at Texas Instruments. He then worked as an applications specialist for both GE-Calma and Valid Logic Systems. After that, he...

CEO Interviews, migration and retargeting, Timothy Regan

Ukraine's defensive capability continues declining both on the battlefield and within Ukraine’s own defense industry. In August, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense adopted only three new systems, fewer than in the previous month. The trend is clearly favorable for Russia. The...

World

India’s authorities plan to introduce, from July 1, 2027 a regulation requiring developers of solar and wind energy projects to have battery storage installed at the sites in a bid to better manage the renewable energy output and reduce curtailments....

News

Healthy rangelands are built through long-term commitment, local leadership and sustained investment. Credit: Shutterstock By Samson Kuraru NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 4 2026 (IPS) Across the Kenya-Tanzania rangelands, communities have long understood a reality that the global community is increasingly recognising: healthy rangelands support...

Africa, Climate Change, Combating Desertification and Drought

China is buying ninety percent of Iran’s oil exports, settling transactions in renminbi, and hiding the rest beneath layers of shell companies. This is not defiance. It is a demonstration, conducted in plain sight, of exactly how far American economic...

Economy, Analysis, China

Iran pursues various tactics to bypass the U.S. blockade, which President Trump reimposed in the middle of July after the deal to make a deal collapsed, according to Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad. “The oil industry has not sat idle...

News

That day, Subash Tamang was mining sand along the banks of the Trishuli River near the Trishuli Hydropower Project, working alongside his wife, brother, sister-in-law, and two other family members. Suddenly, he noticed water gushing down from above the hydropower...

Active Citizens, Aid, Asia-Pacific

Children accompanied by their mothers receive routine vaccinations during a vaccination session at the Bunia health center in Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. By Shreya Komar UNITED NATIONS, Sep 4 2026 (IPS) While Uganda announced the end of its Ebola...

Africa, Aid, Headlines

European benchmark natural gas prices on Friday headed for their fourth consecutive weekly gain as the re-escalation in the Middle East dampened hopes that LNG flows from the Strait of Hormuz could normalize soon. The front-month price at the Dutch...

News

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict The U.S. restarted major strikes on Iran this week, hitting missile, radar, and other military installations along the southern coast and on Larak Island. Iran retaliated against U.S. positions across the Gulf and Jordan, and also...

News

Trump says the U.S. has effectively reopened the Strait of Hormuz, with 18 million barrels of oil reportedly crossing under American protection on Tuesday, close to the roughly 20 million bpd that moved through before the war. The problem is...

News

October WTI crude oil futures are trading at $91.80 Thursday night, up $8.36 or 10.02% for the week so far. The contract traded as low as $84.11 early in the week before reaching $93.14, its strongest level since late July....

News

Xi’s Cairo visit marks a strategic shift in the geopolitics of the Middle East. By strengthening its partnership with Cairo and promoting the concept of “regional autonomy,” China seeks to replace Western influence with a new architecture of security and...

China, Egypt, Politics

The first photographs of Nicolas Maduro inside an American detention facility surfaced this week as he waits for a trial that will not begin until June 2027. On the same weekend, Venezuela’s interim government confirmed something that got far less...

Energy, Chevron, oil

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Bessent gives orders to Japan’s Katayama and UedaScott Foster reports that US pressure on Japan to strengthen the yen and...

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Argentina’s President Javier Milei threatened to impose sanctions on oil companies drilling near the Falkland Islands, after reiterating his claim that the territory under British control is Argentine. The Falklands are “historically and legally” Argentine, Milei said in a televised...

News

Current and former leaders from across the continent argued that achieving Africa’s ambitious continental goals will require a far greater focus on implementation, accountability and institutional capacity. Lennox Yieke reports. The African Mindset Forum, hosted by the African School of Governance...

Society, African Mindset Forum, Events

NEW YORK – America’s trade deficit just widened to US$88.6 billion, its largest since March 2025 — and the political reflex in Washington is almost certain to be more, not fewer, tariffs and trade restrictions. The irony is that the...

Trade, AI Boom, Block 2
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