A powerful naval force is now concentrated from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean in support of continuing operations against the Islamic Republic of Iran — including two aircraft carriers, six amphibious assault ships, and 19 cruisers and destroyers....
The Bunker appears originally at the Project on Government Oversight and is republished here with permission. Drones have the Pentagon turning on itself: One day, it’s seeking fleets of ever-cheaper uncrewed planes to wage war. Two days later, it’s pleading for...
The president was in a humiliating bind. The American people were obsessed with the harrowing images of blindfolded and bound hostages beamed into their homes by the nightly newscasts, and they prayed their government would find a way to free them....
Hong Kong’s security chief has said booksellers have the responsibility to ensure the titles they sell do not threaten national security, following this week’s raids on two shops and the arrest of five people. Secretary for Security Chris Tang announces the...
This month, multiple media outlets reported that satellite imagery showed a detailed, full-scale replica of a US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer in China’s remote Taklamakan Desert. Construction of the 155-meter mock-up began around October 2025 at the Ruoqiang Test...
Read RFA coverage of this story in Uyghur Chinese authorities in Xinjiang’s regional capital Urumqi on July 4 arrested two Uyghur sisters and their mother for sending goods to their eldest sister in Turkey, and a third sister was arrested a...
Artificial intelligence should not be dominated by a single country, China’s President Xi Jinping said Friday, urging international cooperation on its development at a major conference in Shanghai. Chinese President Xi Jinping. File photo: The White House, via Flickr. Chinese AI models...
By: Kurniawan Arif Maspul - - - - The relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan has officially shifted from fragile diplomacy into an outbreak of direct confrontation and open war. Since February 27, when Pakistan’s defense minister declared open war and Pakistani aircraft struck Kabul, Kandahar,...
Map of the Strait of Hormuz. Credit: Wikimedia/Goran_tek-en By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 2026 (IPS) A continuation of hostilities within the Strait of Hormuz is once again threatening one of the world’s most critical supply chain arteries, posing another wave of...
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk visit to the Al Afad IDP camp, in Sudan. Credit: Anthony Headley/OHCHR It has been three years since the start of war in Sudan. Survivors and human rights defenders struggle to keep human rights a...
Jacobin cites recent DSA election victories to argue, in the form of friendly advice, that the Democratic Party establishment and trade union bureaucracy should not be distracted by the supposed “socialism” of the DSA. For their own good, they must...
“Deliberate cheating” by renovation contractors and professionals with oversight authority caused last year’s massive Tai Po fire and its rapid spread, a lawyer representing the Hong Kong government has told a public inquiry. People form a long queue in Tai Po...
“Just because someone is reentering the country does not mean their constitutional rights evaporate,” declared ADC President Jenin Younes. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) filed a time-sensitive motion in the Eastern District of Virginia’s federal court on behalf of journalist Max Blumenthal,...
Today’s top items: 1. World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization - Ahead of the Friday opening of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), Xi hosted a welcome banquet and Wang Yi signed an agreement with representatives from 29 countries for the establishment...
- - - - Our Q&A discussions are a lot of fun, and we’re grateful to everyone who submits their questions. If you missed any of our live shows, the full streams are available here on Substack. But this week is a little different! Instead...
Power of Siberia 2, a landmark natural gas pipeline that would link Russia and China, has hit a deadlock, with a gas-price gap so vast that Beijing has told Moscow to stop raising the subject altogether. Neither side has formally...
Agentrys is pioneering Agentic Design Automation (ADA) , a new paradigm for semiconductor engineering. Electronic Design Automation (EDA) has transformed the industry by automating engineering algorithms . Today, frontier AI can automate many engineering tasks by understanding specifications, generating RTL...
From Kosovo to migration, the Batista’s deal with the West is rotting from within. Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su On 12 May, Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, was the scene of a brutal gangland murder...
Increasingly short of men to fight, Ukraine is relying on foreign mercenaries to feed the meat grinder that the battlefield has become Join us on Telegram , X , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su In Ukraine, Latin mercenaries are becoming increasingly common,...
"On July 17, at 10.00 a.m. New York time (2:00 p.m. GMT), an informal meeting of the members of the UN Security Council on the Arria formula, convened by Russia, will be held under the theme 'The Power of Terror:...
Iraq’s Ministry of Finance issued an order imposing sanctions on Hezbollah-linked individuals and entities that mirrors US designations from March and June. Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi is currently visiting the United States, where he hopes to garner support...
KYIV – The dismissal of popular reform-minded Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has sent shockwaves through Ukrainian politics and society, leading to impromptu protests in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine on July 16. On the evening of July 15, Fedorov announced...
Related Blood and ICE in Minneapolis On July 7, agents in Houston shot and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo ; six days later, agents in Biddeford, Maine, shot and killed 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Durán Guerrero. These two killings during ICE traffic stops — along...
How Western capitalists use China-bashing to deflect attention from their soaring profits Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book The Visions of inequality, was published October 10, 2023. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global Inequality and More...
Professional video workflows demand a difficult combination of image quality, editing responsiveness, high throughput, and manageable silicon cost. Chips&Media’s WAVE-P addresses that combination as a dedicated hardware IP core for the Advanced Professional Video, or APV, codec. Designed for professional...
For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid penalising Israel’s illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on...
Only a popular uprising against globalist leaders in Europe and their proxy in Ukraine, will do A Sustainable Peace in Ukraine: Diplomacy, Neutrality, and the Limits of the Current Order Ian Proud was a member of His Britannic Majesty’s Diplomatic Service from...
President Donald Trump has suggested that another country could carry out a ground operation against Iran if the US decided to seize Kharg Island , raising questions over which of Washington's allies, if any, could realistically undertake such a mission. Speaking...
Creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel seemed feasible when President Bill Clinton hosted the signing of the Oslo accords at the White House in September 1993. The goal was reaffirmed in 2011 when 90 percent of the Senate...
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi met US President Donald Trump and other US officials during his first official visit to Washington since taking office. The talks focused on security cooperation, investment, and Iraq's plans to bring weapons held by...
On Jan. 6, 2021, in the aftermath of the attack on the Capitol in Washington, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Trump critic turned staunch ally, came full circle when he denounced the attack on the Capitol and the attempt...
A very political FIFA and an unsportsmanlike United States of America. Welcome to FIFA 2026. The most glaring story which was hardly covered in the international press was the fact that these grand sporting events, such as UEFA, such as the...
This story was originally published by ProPublica . A decade ago , the state of Florida stripped a teacher of her license for sexual abuse of a 16-year-old boy. Last year, she opened a private school there with ease. Her name and...
When President Trump declared the U.S.-Iran ceasefire “over” at the NATO summit in Ankara on July 8, calling Tehran’s leaders “cuckoo” and “scum,” he was reacting to strikes on commercial tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. He wasn’t responding to...
On July 16, Syrian authorities intercepted a weapons shipment concealed in an Iraqi oil tanker and bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon. The tanker contained a wide range of sophisticated weapons and components, including first-person-view drones, fiber-optic spools, drone warheads, anti-tank...
Three developments this week have highlighted Syria's gradual reintegration into the regional fold, as neighbouring states deepen economic, commercial and security ties with Damascus following the lifting of US and EU economic sanctions. Kuwait Airways resumed commercial flights to Damascus for...
This live blog has now ended, and will resume tomorrow morning. - Iran has issued a warning to the US that it will "crush the region's infrastructure" if it carries out any strikes on Iran's civilian sites, after the US military...
- - - - Photo by Bee on Unsplash In a society where people are free, some people will use that freedom irresponsibly. They might not mean to, granted, but that doesn’t change the fact that they haven’t used it in a wise manner. Years ago,...
Critics say Foreign Office figures send ‘global message about the role the country wants to play on international stage’ Labour’s foreign aid cuts mean reductions of as much as 90% in the bilateral support the UK will give to some African...
Dozens of Palestinians from Gaza remain imprisoned after completing their sentences, with at least seven more expected to face the same fate by the end of the year, a Palestinian prisoners' rights expert has told The New Arab. Riyad al-Ashqar, director...
Film director Andrei Konchalovsky and actress Yulia Vysotskaya have two children: daughter Maria and son Pyotr. Last autumn, Maria turned 25, but she has spent the past 13 years in a coma, where she remains to this day. In 2013,...
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. More recently, SuperNICs have emerged as the next generation...
Britain on Thursday announced sanctions targeting what it said are "illicit gold and finance networks" propping up rival factions in Sudan's devastating civil war. The foreign ministry said the war-torn country's gold trade worth billions of dollars was helping finance "weapons...
By: Tim Daiss - - - - For decades, nuclear power has occupied an uneasy place in Southeast Asia’s energy future. Governments periodically embraced it whenever electricity demand surged or fossil fuel prices spiked, only to retreat as construction costs mounted, financing evaporated, or public...
“It is no longer clear what is allowed and what is not. Uncertainty keeps people in their homes. The city has fallen silent, and businesses are struggling.” Credit: Learning Together. By External Source HERAT, Afghanistan, Jul 16 2026 (IPS) One morning in June,...
Iran has asked Yemen’s Houthi movement to stand ready to close the Red Sea oil route if the United States strikes Iranian power infrastructure, three sources told Reuters on Thursday. The idea has been discussed within the Islamic Republic's leadership, and...
The federal indictment of Raúl Castro on decades-old charges is just the latest escalation in a long-running U.S. campaign to justify invading Cuba. The case against the 95-year-old former Cuban president — based on his alleged involvement in the downing of two planes...
The adoption of the "Guwahati Declaration” by the Heads of Anti-Drug Agencies of BRICS countries on July 7, 2026, marks one of the most significant legal developments under India's BRICS chairmanship ahead of the 18th BRICS Leaders' Summit in New...
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