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Russia is not about to collapse. It still occupies a large part of Ukraine, continues to fire hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities, and retains an enormous advantage in population and resources over its smaller neighbor. Yet four...

Ukraine War, Block 1, Drone Warfare

Since the 2013 Edward Snowden leaks, surveillance and debates surrounding it have become part of the American experience. In recent years, Ring video doorbell users have successfully pushed back against the company’s policy of sharing data with police departments ....

Israel, Surveillance, Iran-war

This week, President Donald Trump formally submitted the U.S.-Saudi civil nuclear agreement to Congress for review, moving the deal forward despite continuing to insist that Saudi Arabia normalize relations with Israel before it can take effect. This condition could stall the...

Israel, Saudi-arabia, Nuclear-non-proliferation

Understanding global geopolitics is complicated and challenging, especially today. Governments have complex relationships with each other at both the bilateral and multilateral levels. This situation certainly applies to the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, and the Democratic People’s...

Defense, China, featured

Ten years have passed since the International Arbitral Tribunal ruled in favor of the Philippines in its maritime case against China. The July 2016 award was hailed at the time as a landmark in international law, affirming Manila’s rights under...

Opinion, 2016 Arbitral Tribunal Ruling, ASEAN

By: Khanh Vu Duc Trump: like it or lump it Canada was supposed to be safe. America’s closest neighbor, a NATO member, a G7 democracy and a critical security partner, Canada is deeply integrated into the US economy. Energy, automobiles, minerals, food and...

News

Egypt’s gas sector is running short of domestic gas just as Cyprus prepares to become a producer. The recently approved Cronos project offshore Cyprus (expected to deliver up to 2.8 million tonnes per year of LNG from 202 offers...

News

The High Commission of Jamaica in Pretoria marked Jamaica's 64th Independence with a vibrant Jamaica 64 Sports Day, bringing together members of the diplomatic community, friends of Jamaica and guests for a day of friendly competition, camaraderie and Jamaican spirit. Jamaica...

News

Africa's economic narrative is changing — driven not by sentiment but by investment, infrastructure, innovation and a growing determination to turn the continent's enormous potential into tangible opportunities. This was the message at a recent engagement hosted by Africa Rising Global,...

News

The Trump administration is no friend of wind and solar. Axed subsidies and project suspensions have been the attitude towards those alternative forms of energy. Geothermal, however, is something else. The current Department of Energy is very much for it....

News

Intel’s Crescent Island is a discrete data-center GPU designed for agentic AI inference, where performance is constrained by more than matrix arithmetic. Multi-step agents impose latency through repeated model calls and tool interactions, consume large memory capacity for weights and...

Events, Intel Foundry, Semiconductor

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MANY GOVERNMENTS’ pro-Israeli votes in international forums like the U.N. starkly disregard the expressed views of their people, and they get away with it with help from media inattention and misdirection. From Albania to Morocco vociferous crowds show their low opinion...

Geopolitics, Ian Williams, Link

The Trump administration is reportedly in active discussions with Venezuela’s interim government to acquire a direct U.S. ownership stake in key Venezuelan oil fields. According to senior U.S. officials cited by Axios, the talks involve equity stakes in a select...

News

When Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet again in Washington, the most important question will not be whether they shake hands, announce another trade arrangement or produce a carefully worded communiqué. It will be whether two governments that increasingly treat...

AI Competition, Analysis, Artificial Intelligence

United States President Trump has strongly criticised wind power since coming into office, introducing several executive actions aimed at restricting the development of wind farms. Trump has particularly targeted offshore wind, leading to several projects being put on hold or...

News

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are tossing figurative darts at a US trial balloon connected to the intensifying race between the United States and China for leadership in AI development. Reuters reported on August 14 that the US State Department had drafted a note stating that...

News

As part of our continuing series, Geopolitics Made Simple, devoted to developments in the Middle East, we have already discussed the military power of the United States, Iran's response, the objectives of the war and the way domestic politics influences...

Opinion

Energean is in exclusive talks to buy a package of BP’s Egyptian oil and gas assets in a deal that could raise about $1 billion for the British energy major, Reuters reported Thursday exclusively, citing two people involved in the...

News

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The Trump administration increased its attacks on press freedom last week when the Department of Defense fired Stars and Stripes editor-in-chief Erik Slavin and reporter Lara Korte from the 165-year-old news outlet serving the U.S. military community. The outgoing editor...

Ear to the Ground, News, censorship

The Nordic-Baltic warmongering under the current conditions is therefore (i) irresponsible, (ii) hypocritical, (iii) immoral, and (iv) flirts with a disaster of immense proportions. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation:...

EU politics, Geopolitics, Article

The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. By late 2022 , Ukraine had rallied, with Western backing, and Russia’s invasion had wavered. The war was only several months old, but it already appeared the Russians...

Column, Europe, News

Architect Labs says it has created Redwood, an AI accelerator designed and verified almost entirely by artificial intelligence in less than two weeks. If independently validated and successfully translated from a programmable prototype into manufactured silicon, the project could represent...

AI, Semiconductor, AI software

With geopolitical situation heightening, the world’s players are strategically expressing their interest in Africa, and African countries are also choosing their development partners. Many researchers, often, say Africa is currently experiencing the ‘second political re-awakening’ as foreign players aggressively partition...

Middle East & Africa, Africa, China

The United States’ plans to revitalize Venezuela’s oil sector are moving at a snail’s pace. But it seems that plans are finally falling into place, with two different U.S. companies – SLB and Hunt Oil – announcing deals with the...

News

Global data-center electricity demand is growing at a remarkable pace, and no country is driving that growth more than the United States. The Energy Institute’s 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy helps put the scale of the change into perspective....

News

This article was originally published at Barn Raiser Media . Americans’ celebration of 250 years of independence invites reflection on the Declaration of Independence and its values of equality, liberty and democratic renewal. Those values are a beacon to guide where...

Opinion, citizens united, democracy

Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash I had no intention of writing about former Cambridge professor, the late Jason Arday. He took his own life; I can’t feel that bad about it, end of discussion. Or so I thought. Celebrate My B-Day with...

News

On May 25, Huawei semiconductor chief He Tingbo unveiled LogicFolding , an architecture intended to advance chip performance without relying on ever-smaller transistors. Presented alongside Huawei’s “ Tau Scaling Law ,” the approach prioritizes signal speed over transistor dimensions. It...

Lithography, Semiconductor, asml

Nordic energy company Fortum on Thursday said it had submitted a state aid application to start talks with the Swedish state on the terms and conditions to advance a new nuclear power project in Sweden as the Nordic country bets...

News

The consequences of flooding extend far beyond damaged roads and infrastructure. They reach America’s farmlands, the soul of America’s food supply. Credit: Shutterstock By Esther Ngumbi and Christy Gibson URBANA, Illinois, US, Aug 27 2026 (IPS) Across the U.S. Midwest , from Illinois...

Food and Agriculture, Headlines, North America

Why Advanced-Node Clock Networks Need More Than Timing Closure Timing closure has been one of the semiconductor industry’s most reliable measures of design readiness for decades. Static timing analysis (STA) is a critical enabler for this process. It allows analysis of...

ClockEdge, EDA, 2nm

Gold-Backed Yuan System While no shovel has yet broken ground on dedicated Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) vaults outside Hong Kong, the architecture of a Global South alternative trade settlement system based on a gold-backed yuan is in play. Building an underlying non-Western...

News

Pakistan’s Chief of Defense Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir’s trip to Iran on August 24 has ignited new hope for a negotiated end to the the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. He arrived in Tehran with “ fresh proposals...

War & Peace, Asim Munir, Iran

British police have run more than a dozen training sessions since 2023 for countries that the government has flagged for their poor human rights record, Declassified UK can reveal. The College of Policing, the professional body for policing in England and...

Archive, Intelligence, Middle East
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