The earnings of America’s largest corporations — the S&P 500 — surged by an astounding 53 percent over the past year. But most Americans are losing ground . Wages have barely risen — yet a tomato today costs 40 percent more than...
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 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...
In July 2026, the White House released what it called the most ambitious rethinking of American science policy in decades. Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science advisor, penned a report titled “Science: A New Golden Age,” with the goal of charting a...
Odessa Port on the Black Sea Let me explain why Russia’s blockade is a lethal blow to Ukraine. Ukraine is, in economic terms, a country that lives or dies by roughly two hundred nautical miles of contested water off its southern...
Today, the West Bank is a nightmare of vicious settlement expansion, land seizure, economic strangulation, settler violence and forced displacement. With the collusion of the Israeli military and police, the Israeli-occupied territories are effectively ruled by the Messianic far-right settlers...
Mystery continues about the strange visit by CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Moscow, flying there in a massive C-17 Globemaster, a military airlifter. While the Globemaster has a specially designed secure roll off and roll on module for top officials,...
A landmark oil agreement between Washington and Caracas threatens to cut Chinese refiners off from a cherished source of discounted crude, handing the United States greater sway over global oil prices. US President Donald Trump announced on August 28 that...
In this issue: - The disaster in Nepal and Tibet - Xi at the SCO - State Council Executive meeting - Measures to expand and upgrade consumer goods consumption - Revised National Defense Mobilization Law - Signals for PRC-US AI dialogue - Cracking down excessive competition in...
Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, and its heavy crude is particularly well suited to the sophisticated refineries lining the U.S. Gulf Coast. More Venezuelan oil should help U.S. refiners, but that doesn’t translate directly into...
SANGKLABURI – Nearly 500 kilometers away from Bangkok, Sangklaburi is a small-town in Kanchanaburi province, the western part of Thailand. It is surrounded by nature and wrapped in picturesque mountainsides. The province is bordered between Thailand and Myanmar. It is...
Intel’s next-generation 14A manufacturing process is showing unusually strong early progress, with defect density falling faster than the company expected. The improvement gives Intel a technical boost as it attempts to restore confidence in its manufacturing operation, win foundry customers...
The severe disruption of oil and gas flows out of the Persian Gulf resulting from the war between the U.S. and Israel and Iran, has saddled energy-importing nations with soaring bills, supply uncertainty, and a murky outlook. However, there has...
The renewed trade war between the United States and Canada adds even more uncertainty to the complex steel and aluminum supply chains critical for heavy manufacturing and North America’s automotive industry. Last week’s breakdown in trade talks led to a...
Norway is supposedly breaking with Brussels. Energy Minister Terje Aasland says the country will continue exploring for oil and gas in the Barents Sea despite European Union support for an Arctic drilling moratorium. He has also dismissed the old ambition...
Chevron, India’s ONGC, GE Vernova, Eni and GeoPark are preparing to sign final energy agreements in Venezuela, bringing new foreign investment into the country’s oilfields and power infrastructure, Reuters reported Monday, citing five sources close to the preparations. Venezuela has...
Why would a victor today need to loot cities, haul away machinery and demand gold when, in the 21st century, it is possible to obtain oil fields for a hundred years, a transport corridor for nearly a century, and a...
Trump wants to avoid a major flare-up before the mid-terms, but Iran may calculate that now is the time hit back hard. Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Cross-posted from Responsible Statecraft Despite...
Scandalous that a data sharing agreement between the EU and Israel is even a topic for discussion in Brussels – will these people ever learn? Raja Natour is a seasoned journalist and Middle East specialist with extensive experience covering Israel, Palestine,...
Roughly two years ahead of schedule, BP has started production from the Fayoum-4 well in Egypt’s West Nile Delta, adding around 80 million cubic feet per day of natural gas to a market where declining domestic production has forced Cairo...
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