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

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...

Podcasts, War On The Rocks

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...

Austerity, Economics, Energy

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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...

Foreign Affairs, Front Page: Foreign Affairs, Front Page: Inside Stories

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...

World

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...

News

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...

Courts & Law, Environment, Health & Wellness

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...

News

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...

Column, Middle East, Military

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...

3D IC, EDA, Siemens EDA

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...

News

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...

India, Politics, Turkey

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...

Ukraine-war, Congress, Sanctions

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...

Intel Foundry, Lithography, Semiconductor

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....

Energy, War & Peace, diesel

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...

News

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...

News

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...

News

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...

Europe, Defense, Security

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...

News

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...

Middle East & Africa, Houthis, Security

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...

Northeast Asia, Japan Demographic Decline, South Korea

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...

Arts & Culture

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...

Economy, Industrialisation

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...

Partner Insight

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...

News

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...

Cogs of War, Army, Command and Control

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...

Opinion, Moky’s Musings

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...

Commentary, Diplomacy, Nuclear Weapons

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....

World News, Canada, European Union

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...

Europe, Economics, Geopolitics

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....

Science & Technology, Artificial Intelligence, China

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...

Active Citizens, Africa, Armed Conflicts

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...

World News, Iran, Security

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...

Opinion, Block 2, China-Indonesia
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