The port of Corpus Christi has become one of two ports selected for a project aimed at integrating small modular reactors in a bid to expand the use of nuclear power in more industries—and propel SMR technology forward. Small modular...
While condemning President Donald Trump ’s “record level of lawbreaking,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told The Lever today that Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to use the newly expanded powers of the Oval Office to deliver their agenda should they win...
In this issue: - Xi at the SCO - China’s global strategy - Li Qiang meets US business delegation - Tax changes for foreigners - Auto industry overseas conduct guidelines - Latest issue of Qiushi The Feed: Business, Economy and Trade - Politics and Law - Foreign...
Xi, Modi and Putin in the same room is easy to read as a rival bloc assembling against Washington. The more accurate reading is harder for the US to counter: this is a gathering of countries that have decided American...
In recent years, the European Union has replaced one critical energy and security vulnerability with another heavy dependence for its green energy ambitions. As the EU has moved to phase out Russian energy imports and reduce the overall dependence on...
Solar energy is going gangbusters. The world is adding photovoltaic solar panels at a blistering rate, shattering its own records year after year, buoyed by a flood of ever-cheaper solar panels out of China. “We have a plentiful and cheap...
After years of volatile markets, lithium prices are soaring, and everyone wants a piece. As the battery storage sector goes gangbusters on a global scale, lithium spot prices are seeing a major windfall, with mining companies posting massive profits. As...
After two weeks of darkness, power has been restored to all the citizens of Gary, Indiana, an old, low income, lakefront, industrial city within sight of Chicago. The outage did get some national publicity, TV stories showing the residents of...
Corporate profits are skyrocketing as the AI boom continues, while workers continue to lose out. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Micha el Roberts’ blog As the central bankers of the world...
Burnham promised to end neoliberalism, but he has already U-turned on his most ambitious policies. Joe Gill has worked as a journalist in London, Venezuela and Oman, for newspapers including Financial Times, Morning Star and Middle East Eye. His focus is...
Walter Benjamin’s view of revolution, as an emergency break on a runaway train, is increasingly relevant in an era of war and climate breakdown. Chris Bambery is an author, political activist and commentator. His books include A People’s History of Scotland and...
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026Time: 12:00-1:00 PM ETThe second joint webinar by RUSI and War on the Rocks: Two leading defense publications from both sides of the Atlantic present their expert panel. OverviewFor this edition of The Atlantic Brief, the Royal...
President Xi Jinping pointed out that both China and Egypt are at a critical stage of development and rejuvenation. China has made a good start to the implementation of its 15th Five-Year Plan, while Egypt is advancing the building of...
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In 1967, a Maasai herder called Jumanne Mhero Ngoma stumbled across a clump of unusual violet crystals in the Mereli Hills near the Tanzanian city of Arusha. For his discovery, Ngoma was awarded 50,000 shillings – about $22 in today’s...
Before this week’s Grand Canyon flash floods left at least two people dead and stranded 80 in the national park, President Donald Trump’s Interior Department moved 300 specialized emergency response personnel from across the country to the capital — not...
The earnings of America’s largest corporations — the S&P 500 — surged by an astounding 53% over the past year. But most Americans are losing ground . Wages have barely risen — yet a tomato today costs 40% more than it did...
Cuts to the nation’s largest food assistance program will likely spill over into schools, causing students to lose access to free breakfast and lunch. More than 1 million American children have lost access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP,...
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . This fall , 54 million K-12 students are headed back to the classroom for another year of lessons in all the classic subjects: math, English,...
There is a connection between Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cairo and Egyptian-Chinese cooperation in the fields of intelligence and defense technology, which is central to the strategic partnership between the two countries. President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cairo...
Today, Tuesday 1st September, the date that the Central Bank of Ireland was due to renew the Israel Bond prospectus, either by approval or transfer, it appears that no EU state is now authorising the sale of Israel Bonds. This disruption...
The U.S. installed a record-high energy storage capacity in the second quarter of the year as grid operators and utilities turned to storage to boost grid reliability and meet rising power demand, a new industry report showed on Tuesday. The...
BRICS de-dollarization is real but narrow: it is happening bilaterally, mostly under Russia and Iran’s sanctions duress, while the instruments meant to make it systemic — a common currency, BRICS Pay, “the Unit” — remain pilots, studies, or shelved proposals....
The 25th anniversary of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s annual gathering got underway August 31 in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, with discussions expected to focus on building trade and digital connections and fostering cultural exchanges. The agenda is seen as aimed...
Despite the overall trend toward older populations, substantial differences in age structures exist among countries. Credit: Shutterstock. By Joseph Chamie PORTLAND, USA, Sep 1 2026 (IPS) The age structures of populations vary considerably across countries. Some countries have relatively young populations, with large...
Agentrys recently launched a new category of design technology, Agentic Design Automation (ADA). The approach promises to revolutionize AI deployment for chip design with technology that facilitates the building of targeted agentic design flows that get better with every run....
Solar power has just become the single largest electricity capacity source in China, toppling coal in a landmark achievement of the Chinese renewable energy rollout. Solar power capacity in China stood at 1,286 gigawatts (GW) at the end of July,...
TODAY’S NUMBERS 6.7828 (Monday’s PBOC yuan fix, near-flat) · 21 (months of PBOC gold buying, a record) · <3% (yuan’s share of SWIFT payments, vs. 51% for the dollar). Beijing is capping the currency, buying gold and building payment rails...
The dystopian future became the dystopian present last month when state-of-the-art artificial intelligence agents went rogue and conducted a cyberattack of their own volition. Two experimental OpenAI agents escaped their supposedly sealed digital “sandbox” and hacked another AI-related company, Hugging...
Nepal is facing one of its deadliest disasters in recent years after a glacier collapse on August 26 triggered a massive surge of ice, rock and mud across the country’s Himalayan border region with China. The disaster has devastated towns,...
The main monument to the new school of reparations appears to be Venezuela. Only recently, the country dominated the headlines: the American military operation, the capture of Nicolás Maduro, his removal to the United States, an interim government headed by...
Today marks the launch of the SIXTH year of the Muslim Book Awards! The Muslim Book Awards (MBA) is an annual celebration of Muslim voices in publishing, from mainstream publishers, Islamic publishers, or authors who self-publish. Hosted by MuslimMatters.org and featuring...
The prosecution of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is set to test how US courts apply international law in criminal cases involving foreign leaders and defendants captured abroad. Maduro, who has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges, is expected...
President Donald Trump announced Friday that the United States “has just entered into an Agreement” with Venezuela covering more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, secured “at no cost to the American Taxpayer.” He then proceeded to name Secretary...
President Donald Trump has entangled the United States in a war of choice with Iran that he cannot easily win or quit. The war was meant to be what Trump called “a little excursion” that would be over within a...
New wind power capacity in Europe reached 8.8 GW in the first half of the year, up about 30% from a year earlier, according to WindEurope data cited by Reuters. The annual increase was driven by Germany as well as...
Darius awakes in a strange land, only to stumble into the midst of an assassination attempt—and once again finds himself fighting for his life. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part...
My greatest challenge while flight testing collaborative combat aircraft was not troubleshooting errors at high speed in the cockpit. It was when, in a single keystroke, my job shifted from pilot to something like a dog handler — a supervisor...
One of the small costs of running money is that you stop having time to read the people you most want to read. For me, that is Matt Levine, whose Money Stuff column runs on Bloomberg, and who has spent...
In April, President Donald Trump issued two Defense Production Act determinations covering grid infrastructure and large-scale energy infrastructure. One found that the country’s constrained electric grid posed an increasing threat to national defense and made grid infrastructure and its supply...
Pakhshan Azizi. Credit: Photo credit: Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (WNCRI) By Pakhshan Azizi TEHRAN, Sep 1 2026 (IPS) Writing from the women’s ward of Evin Prison on 10 June 2026 , Kurdish political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi ,...
Drylands landscape near Kitui, Kitui County - Kenya. Credit: Axel Fassio/CIFOR By Éliane Ubalijoro and Salina Abraham NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 1 2026 (IPS) Open a can of something fizzy and the reason the sugar doesn’t separate immediately is gum arabic , tapped by...
Indonesia wants China’s help building enough solar power to electrify 100 mid-sized cities without actually owning the capacity. On July 17 in Shanghai, Indonesia’s economy minister, Airlangga Hartarto, asked China’s trade minister, Wang Wentao, to invest in developing 100 gigawatts...
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram JAKARTA, Indonesia, Sep 1 2026 (IPS) The US dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency has been eroding gradually for decades. However, various US policies, including recent deliberately unexpected actions, have at times accelerated de-dollarisation. Jomo Kwame Sundaram Dollarisation Despite warnings...
Malaysia is preparing to repatriate 1,476 Myanmar refugees on September 29 under a programme the government describes as voluntary. The move comes amid growing tensions over the presence of Myanmar refugees in Malaysia, with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim previously saying...
Russian air attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding region have entered their sixth consecutive day, killing nine people and injuring more than a dozen, according to Ukrainian authorities. The latest strikes have intensified pressure on Ukraine’s capital as Moscow continues...
The French destabilization strategy in the Sahel and the Macronian figure of modern cynicism effectively confirm the barbaric nature of the neo-colonial imperial spasm. Curiously, Emmanuel Macron, who dreamed of being the refounder of an “uninhibited” relationship with Africa from...
The Persian Gulf’s extraordinary wealth has long rested on an assumption of stability. The past six months of war have shattered that certainty, exposing a fundamental weakness in Gulf economic models: producing oil and gas is only half the equation...
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