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By Sheila Aggarwal-Khan GENEVA, Oct 28 2026 (IPS) Governments today face an extraordinarily difficult set of tasks: cutting emissions, protecting nature, reducing pollution, creating jobs, strengthening economies, and…
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As artificial intelligence technologies grow ever more powerful, so do the risks they pose and with them the urgency of regulating AI. In July 2026, OpenAI’s advanced models hacked into AI company Hugging Face’s systems…
Biodiversity
Credit: Liv Arnesen By Liv Arnesen OSLO, Norway, Oct 28 2026 (IPS) A global boycott of Antarctic krill products is gathering support. As a Norwegian, I want my country – the world’s largest krill-fishing nation – to…
Africa
Credit: Shutterstock By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, Oct 28 2026 (IPS) On 21 September 1976, less than three months after independence, Seychelles took its seat in the General Assembly of the United Nations…
Larry C. Johnson
On Monday, while Donald Trump was publicly pondering whether to “make a deal” with Iran or “finish them off,” something happened in Tehran that should have set off alarms in every office of the State Department, assuming…
Asia-Pacific
Farwiza Farhan speaks about saving the Leuser Ecosystem at a Global Tipping Points Conference 2026. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 28 2026 (IPS) Forty-year-old Farwiza Farhan’s eyes light…
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This article first appeared on Pacific Forum and is republished with kind permission. Read the original here. With so much media focus in recent months on the war in Iran, it’s no surprise that Under Secretary of War for…
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Two Patrons, One Sunday On 25 October, two candidates who had campaigned with the open approval of a great power lost on the same evening. In Belgrade, Aleksandar Vučić, whom Vladimir Putin had told the Valdai Club he…
East Asia
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Likelihood of a summit between the leaders of the United States, China, and Russia at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit to be held in Shenzhen next month was first indicated by Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov…
We must soberly recognize that many factors weakening the Party’s advanced nature and harming its purity still exist; dangers that betray the original aspiration and mission and shake the Party’s foundations are growing…
Analysis
Most of the “if it can happen there, it can happen anywhere” vibe in the midterm elections has revolved around Michigan and its Senate race. The idea is that if a pro-Medicare For All, anti-war, anti-corruption candidate…
National Politics
What kind of future does France offer its young people? Vijay Prashad is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. His most recent book (with Grieve Chelwa) is How the International Monetary Fund…
EU politics
Finally, some signs that there may be European leaders willing to give peace a chance. Matthew Blackburn is a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs within the Research Group for Eastern…
Austerity
It’s better to look after elderly people before they get injured: a preventive approach to health would prioritise social care investment. Joan Costa-Font is a Professor of Health Economics and Head of the Department of…
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Fascist failed presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro is said to have fled to the US via fascist-run Argentina. The Trump regime is offering him safe haven as he runs from accountability for his alleged corruption…
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ChipAgents is expanding its agentic AI platform across digital and analog semiconductor engineering, aiming to connect fragmented design workflows through a common system that can plan tasks, operate engineering tools…
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The Guardian has reported on new findings by the Citizen Lab and SHARE Foundation that a Serbian professor and prominent supporter of the country’s student movement was targeted with Pegasus spyware. The investigation…
Photo by Thomas de LUZE on Unsplash I haven’t been writing as much as I usually did because my son’s leg is well and truly screwed, and he’s needed a lot more assistance than he might have for most other leg injuries…
Activism
In August, a contact in Iran sent me a message that I had to read three times before it could sink in. She would be deleting our chat history as well as her WhatsApp, she wrote, and it might be hard to reach her for a…
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S2C showcased FPGA prototyping and AI-assisted debugging at the sixth RISC-V Summit China, outlining how developers can validate complex processor designs and begin software development before first silicon. Its…
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Indonesia’s leaders promise that the country will be a world power by 2045, the centennial of its independence. Yet when shares plunge or smoke drifts abroad, officials reflexively blame foreigners. That blame game asks…
Human Rights
In late September, The Atlantic reported that U.S. President Donald Trump had greenlit plans to offer Russia sanctions relief in exchange for the release of political prisoners. With peace talks still deadlocked after…
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The geopolitical dynamics in the Middle East will remain fluid, regardless of the outcome of the war in the Persian Gulf. Virtually all regional actors are working to hedge their bets – in terms of security policy, but…
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The UK government is ‘leaning’ toward supporting the appointment of Lana Nusseibeh as the next secretary general of the United Nations. Incumbent Antonio Guterres ‘s term ends in December 2026. Nusseibeh speaks fluent…
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A new report by the United Nations’ human rights office finds that Israel is guilty of an array of war crimes and crimes against humanity – and of “continuing genocide” – across occupied Palestine. These crimes…
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The cryptocurrency industry is spending approximately $176 million to influence more than 100 US midterm election races, seeking to build a bipartisan network of lawmakers who can advance its regulatory priorities beyond…
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India’s leading news publishers are challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s digital privacy law, warning that its provisions could undermine investigative journalism, expose confidential sources and give authorities…
Civil Society
By Anwarul K. Chowdhury NEW YORK, Oct 27 2026 (IPS) The selection of the next Secretary-General of the United Nations has reached a critical juncture. It raises fundamental questions about fairness, transparency…
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As the Taliban enters its sixth year in power, it remains more powerful than it was before the Sept. 11 attacks. The Taliban’s flag flies in all of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. While only Russia has formally recognized…
Active Citizens
Members of the Global Catholic Congress pose with a poster supporting an end to child marriage. Credit: JRC By Kizito Makoye ROME & DAR ES SALAAM, Oct 27 2026 (IPS) The message from Just Rights for Children (JRC) was…
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All it took was one or two careless teenage girls giving the vermin a taste of their snacks and they became the most well-fed animals imaginable I’ve written a fair amount about my boarding school years in Nigeria in the…
Active Citizens
By Mandeep S.Tiwana NEW YORK, Oct 27 2026 (IPS) Notwithstanding last minute shenanigans and the possibility of backroom deals by powerful states, two women from Latin America are leading contenders in the race for the…
Armed Conflicts
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 27 2026 (IPS) Much of the world has been bemused by US President Donald Trump’s expectation of the Nobel Peace Prize. While aggressive towards most of the world, friend…
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The recently released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 depicts North Korea’s destructive invasion of South Korea, featuring the collapse of defensive positions, urban warfare, and a counteroffensive by US-ROK forces…
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The US needs to creatively combine two counter-drone capabilities it already has and do it quickly to deal with swarm attacks of drones and cruise missiles. The Russians are already doing it. Counter-drone warfare is…
Diplomacy
Before 1986, a city named Reykjavík was best remembered for the “Match of the Century.” International eyes fixated on Iceland’s capital for the World Chess Championship of 1972. The American prodigy Bobby Fischer…
Norway
The Trump administration’s latest initiative to end the war is creating heartburn in Europe. “We have to pressure the aggressor to stop the war, not the victim to surrender,” said European Union High Representative Kaja…
Larry C. Johnson
I spent enough years at the Central Intelligence Agency that I learned how to read the press stories that the agency’s friends place for it. Shane Harris’s new profile of CIA Director John Ratcliffe in The Atlantic…
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On 20 January 2026 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave an unusually frank assessment of the state of the international system. Carney argued that the rules-based international…
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By: Majid Maqbool The continuing Gen Z protests in India over an official revision of the electoral rolls have become a full-blown crisis for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The protests have been led and…
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Since the new era began, the Party has forcefully resolved prominent contradictions and problems affecting its long-term governance, the country’s lasting peace and stability, and the people’s happiness and wellbeing. It…
EU politics
The Serbian student movement has gone from protest to power within just two years. In Government, it will face significant internal and external pressures that will require the movement to keep organising and mobilising…
National Politics
Lula’s presidential election victory was against the odds, but he still faces major challenges in power. Guilherme Casarões is Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies at Florida International University. Cross-posted…
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On Spain’s housing movement and election. In ‘International Viewpoint’. Read the article HERE . A protester shakes a keyring while holding a banner that reads “¡Derecho a techo a justo precio!” (“Right to housing at a…
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Long read exploring the drivers of the youth revolt in France and elsewhere in Europe. Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural…
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Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. ***IranIndications of a return to direct…
Brazil’s Lula da Silva, at the age of 80, was re-elected president of Brazil on Sunday night, defeating his right-wing rival, Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, by a 52-48% margin: more than 4 million votes. The result was a…
War & Peace
Do I even faintly believe the times I’m living in? The simple answer is: no. Every now and then, I try to imagine going back in time to tell my long-dead parents about the world of President Donald Trump, which just…