A new wave of strikes hit Iran and the Gulf on Friday, as Israel and Tehran continued to wage a war that has delved the Middle East and the global economy into turmoil. Huge explosions were reported in Tehran...
Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) is refusing to tell the media or parliament how many Iranian civilians have been killed by US bombing missions from British air bases. Officials are also not commenting on whether target lists...
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi everybody. Today is Thursday, March 5, 2026, and our dear friends, Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, are here with us. Welcome back, Richard and Michael. MICHAEL HUDSON: Good to be back. NIMA ALKHORSHID: I...
Unsplash Fort of Goree Island, Senegal, was the site of one of the earliest European settlements in Western Africa. Source UN News The calls for reparatory justice can no longer be ignored, speakers at the fourth session of the United...
The new escalation between the US, Israel, and Iran challenges the official explanation for the war as a fight against a nuclear threat and points to a broader strategic calculation – maintaining a regional balance of power in which Israel...
Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. China’s export surge redraws global trade mapScott Foster reports that China’s early-year trade data show surging exports across ASEAN, Europe,...
For years, Gulf security has been discussed through the familiar vocabulary of oil, shipping lanes and missile defense. However, following the recent US missile strike on an Iranian freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island, which prompted Tehran to warn that...
Tinariwen went from Saharan weddings to Grammy-winning acclaim – but violence has forced the desert blues masters into exile. Now, a new generation is stepping in to help Since their formation in 1979, Tuareg guitar band Tinariwen have been constantly moving....
Iran’s new Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei (File photo) The stunning message from the first public message on Thursday by Iran’s new Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei is that “The Strait of Hormuz must remain closed.” In seven words, he...
Don’t expect any fireworks when Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi meets US President Donald Trump in Washington on March 19. Compared to Britain, Spain, France and the United States’ other erstwhile allies ー large and small (except for the Poles and a couple others) ー...
GAZA, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has welcomed the decision by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Iceland to formally join the case filed at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel over its genocidal war against Palestinians...
This month’s celebration marking the first anniversary of the Daya Anagata Nusantara Investment Management Agency, better known as Danantara, became a stage for Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto to showcase a set of numbers that, at first glance, appeared revolutionary. In...
GAZA, (PIC) Israeli occupation forces on Friday continued to violate the Gaza ceasefire agreement by carrying out fresh airstrikes, artillery shelling, and gunfire in several areas east of the Gaza Strip. A local source reported that Israeli forces opened fire east and...
The Women in Politics 2026 map from IPU and UN Women was launched at an event at CSW70, 11 March 2026. Credit: UN Women/Ryan Brown. Source: IPU New Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) – UN Women data show women remain far from...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Türkiye is engaged in intensive diplomacy to prevent the Iran-centered spiral of violence from widening, as he presented the Atatürk International Peace Award to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres in Ankara on March 12. Erdoğan said...
By any conventional measure, Europe is not a party to the US–Israeli war on Iran. European soldiers are not storming the Iranian plateau; European jets are not striking missile bases near Tehran. And yet, as the conflict widens from days...
China’s President Xi Jinping announced in February 2026 that from May 1 China would be granting zero-tariff treatment to 53 African countries. (That is all of them, bar Eswatini, which supports Taiwan.) China-Africa trade reached US$348 billion in 2025, up...
While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans As soon as the barrier broke, a flood of poison brought death to the river. Gushing through...
Afghan authorities said on Friday that Pakistan had carried out new strikes on Kabul and border provinces, killing four people in the capital. A Pakistani security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that Pakistan struck overnight, adding their...
The leaders of Iran, Israel and the United States all voiced defiance and vowed to fight on as the Middle East war approached the two-week mark on Friday, killing thousands of people, disrupting the lives of millions of others and...
The leaders of Iran, Israel and the United States all voiced defiance and vowed to fight on as the Middle East war approached the two-week mark on Friday, killing thousands of people, disrupting the lives of millions of others and...
As the Trump administration and its allies ramp up pressure on Havana following deadly bombing campaigns in Caracas and Tehran, an interlocutor that for decades has mediated turbulent U.S.-Cuba ties is re-emerging as a potential facilitator of a bilateral deal:...
When the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28 — an escalation that has already brought new suffering and uncertainty to millions of ordinary Iranians — the central debate quickly turned to whether the Islamic Republic...
When the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28 — an escalation that has already brought new suffering and uncertainty to millions of ordinary Iranians — the central debate quickly turned to whether the Islamic Republic...
As the world’s attention is focused on the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran, the United States has, with little fanfare, opened another front in its expanding campaign against so-called “narco-terrorism” in the Western Hemisphere. Since this new "war on...
This series is a collaboration between Dr. Ali and MuslimMatters , bringing Quranic wisdom to the questions Muslim families are navigating. Raising Children with Ikhlas in the Age of Social Media — Sincerity, Performance, and the Slow Drift There is...
One of the most common questions surrounding what will happen to Iran if it continues to blockade the Strait of Hormuz and to pummel Israel to the point of exhaustion is whether Israel will go nuclear. To answer this question...
The top story to emerge from Japan’s Lower House election on Febuary 8 was the overwhelming victory of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the implosion of the old left-wing opposition. But the other big...
Iran vowed on Thursday to make the United States regret attacking the Islamic republic and said it would keep up a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz that has sent oil prices soaring . The International Energy Agency...
A movie about the Nuremberg trials made the forbidden list even before the law was enacted Originally published on Global Voices Advox Screenshot taken from the official trailer of the film “Nuremberg,” via the Sony Pictures...
By: William Thatcher Dowell - - - - Ali Khamenei’s son and successor, Mojtaba What are the chances that Donald Trump will simply declare victory and forget about the war he created in Iran? No one doubts that Trump and...
UN rights chief Volker Turk said on Thursday he was "appalled" at reports that more than 200 civilians had been killed by drone attacks in Sudan since 4 March. In their battle for territory, both sides in...
The irony of the Big Lie about Iran’s alleged “47-Year War On America” is that the imperatives of Empire caused Washington to take actions in the decades after the February 1979 Iranian Revolution that amounted to the opposite – a...
President Trump has been on quite a roll. Since just the beginning of the year, he has kidnapped the Venezuela president, threatened to invade Greenland and Colombia, and has in just the last week dragged the U.S. – and seemingly...
War with Iran is being sold as “strategy,” but it looks a lot like habit. A familiar pattern repeats: vague objectives, elastic legal theories, and a confident promise that the costs will be contained. Then the bill arrives anyway, in...
2026 年 3 月5日，中国总理李强在 《政府工作报告》 中提到了2026年的“绿色发展目标”：以“碳达峰、碳中和”为牵引, 推进降碳、减污、扩绿、增长，增强绿色发展动能。 上个月，各个地方政府都完成、公布了地方 2026工作规划。对话地球整理、分析了这31份地方年度规划的能源、科技发展部分，并且跟专家进行了探讨。 整体而言，2026年地方政府工作的重点是：在超过 半数省份下调了 GDP 增长目标 和财政收入增速预期，以提振经济、内需作为首要任务的背景之下，无论是布局储能、氢能、风电、光伏，还是最新的人工智能和机器人，整体都更重视产业链的整合，以及这些投资带来的经济结果。 耀眼的储能、氢能、核能 前几年，储能快速发展有赖于“强制配储”政策，即新建风电和光伏项目必须配建储能。但2025年初 “136号文” 政策落地，储能建设不再依附于风光项目审批，而是必须依靠市场发展。根据对话地球早前的 观察 ，政策解绑后，中国储能扩张并未出现明显回落，市场还在增长。 2026 年各个省市的工作规划验证了这一点。31个省市自治区中，有19个省都在部署“新型储能”，就是以电力形式输出的储能技术；如果算上抽水蓄能，共有25个省在2026年的工作规划中提及储能。 不过19个提及新型储能的地区中，只有内蒙古、山西、上海、黑龙江 4个有明确储能装机数字写进了年度工作规划，其他的15地，更侧重在不同的储能产业链和技术上。其中，贵州、湖南、安徽、四川都提到了发展新能源汽车动力电池产业，以及机器人产业和储能配套发展； 江西省 则在发展固态储能电池技术，辽宁提到储能促进 绿氢氨醇 产业链的发展。 牛津能源研究所高级研究员候安德（Anders Hove）观察认为，“储能的发展更多地受市场驱动，而非目标或强制性规定……目前现货市场流动性尚不强，储能相关的激励机制也不够完善，但在136号文取消这些省级强制性规定后，储能市场表现良好。” 氢能是可能是最值得关注的增量。31个行政区中，21个表示2026年有氢能项目计划，而且氢能发展已经从过去“试点”扩展到“产业链”阶段。 例如，吉林、内蒙古、云南、辽宁、宁夏等多个省都都在强调“绿色氢能一体化”路径，即利用风光绿电制氢，再合成为绿氨绿醇等绿色燃料，解决消纳的同时提升价值。吉林今年准备 推进 5个百亿级绿色氢基能源一体化项目，而宁夏则推进 “氢氨谷” 源网荷储一体化项目； 在某些省份，氢能产业链正在跨区域联动。内蒙古和辽宁在2025年贯通了全国第一条大规模长距离输氢管道，今年还准备 规划 建设赤峰至锦州输氢氨醇管道，助力辽宁建设“绿色船燃储运加注中心”。这并不是个例，2025年，中国西部还建成了横跨重庆、贵州、广西三地的 渝黔桂“氢走廊” 。 2024-2025年，中国核电迎来快速 增长 。今年，核电进入了7个沿海省和自治区的年度规划：广东、山东、辽宁、福建、浙江、广西、海南。这些省份都有多个已经在建、需要扩建，或者新规划的核电项目。 另外值得关注的还有安徽、四川等内陆省份，虽然没有核电基地建设，但核聚变作为新兴技术被纳入到未来产业规划中。如安徽2026要完成紧凑型聚变能实验装置园区主体工程。 光伏、风电依然重要 2024-2025年，中国的光伏制造 内卷严重 。在31个省和自治区的2026年工作规划里，有14个省份提到明确的光伏项目的部署计划。只不过，比起大基地和装机数量的强调，今年更多省份更注重绿电的消纳互补，以及光伏产业链的应用。 在规划中，光伏大基地不再普遍。今年主要大力推进大型光伏基地的省份，只有新疆、内蒙古、宁夏、甘肃、青海5地。它们都处于中国西北人口密集度相对较低的地区，自身太阳能和风能的资源丰富。而且，这些写进省级规划的大型项目本身并不新，大多是“十四五”时期计延续下来的。 例如宁夏正在重点推进“毛乌素沙地风电光伏基地”及其电力外送工程，是“十四五”项目之一；青海提到的推进“格尔木东、海南清洁能源基地建设”，其中海南州清洁能源基地在2020年期间已经 颇具规模 。光伏大基地增量在内蒙古，该地准备推进建设“十四五”期间规划的6个沙戈荒大基地，另外争取规划3个沙戈荒大基地。 其他省份则强调多种能源互补的消纳，而非纯粹装机。以四川、山西、福建、山东、贵州这5个省为例，虽然也会强调大型基地建设，但更多强调光伏与水电、风电、煤电等各种能源集成，解决消纳问题，构建新型电力系统。在煤炭大省山西的规划中，政府强调煤电、新能源、储能等集成 融合发展 ，并且同时强调绿色工业园，推动绿电在省内的消纳。 还有一些省份属于“产业链组”，主要是指云南、安徽、浙江、辽宁这4省，它们在计划中更注重光伏制造业出口等相关链条的发展。例如， 云南...
A previously unknown organization called the Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right claimed responsibility for an explosion that targeted a synagogue in Liège, Belgium, and another unconfirmed attack at an unknown location in Greece this week. It is...
A group of more than 120 Democrats in the US House on Thursday pressed Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth on whether American forces used artificial intelligence in the deadly bombing of an elementary school in southern Iran. “What is the role of artificial intelligence, if any, in...
There are thousands of ships in the global oil tanker fleet, by some estimates nearly as many as 9000 (and that excludes sanctions vessels). Just a fraction of these are either waiting to enter the blockaded straits of...
Between March 11 and March 12, Iran and its allied militias continued launching drones and missiles across the Middle East, targeting energy infrastructure, airports, military bases, residential areas, diplomatic facilities, and maritime targets in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar,...
Israel renewed its strikes on Beirut on Thursday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning that if the Lebanese government did not disarm Hezbollah , Israel would do the job "on the ground". "You are playing with fire," Benjamin...
NASA is preparing for an imminent launch of Artemis II, a manned lunar flyby flight – the first in 50 years. While the launch is planned for April, and NASA announced on March 12th that the launch will go ahead,...
Germany has become the new big spender in the worldwide arms build-up, reveals think-tank data. But the billions diverted into weapons programmes are damaging an economy in need of education investment. Read Article HERE This photo is licensed under...
Nablus /PNN/ Two Palestinians were killed on Thursday evening by Israeli forces’ gunfire near the Za’tara junction, south of the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources. The Ministry of Health said it was informed...
RAMALLAH, West Bank / PNN / The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said Thursday that Israeli prosecutors have dropped charges against soldiers accused of raping a detainee from Gaza at the Sde Teiman military detention camp, a move the group said reflects a...
President Donald Trump suggested on Thursday that Iran's national football team should withdraw from the upcoming FIFA World Cup as a personal safety measure. Trump wrote on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns, that Iran is welcome...
L’aggressione imperialista-sionista contro l’Iran non mira solo a colpire Teheran: punta a intimidire il Sud globale e a spezzare la spinta multipolare incarnata da BRICS e cooperazione eurasiatica. Difendere l’Iran significa difendere sovranità, Carta ONU e diritto internazionale. Segue nostro...
Two deportees sent to Eswatini were from Somalia, one was from Sudan and one was from Tanzania The government of Eswatini announced on Thursday it received four more “third country” deportees from the United States, as part of...
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