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Meta recently open-sourced a capable, large-scale agent model — 30 billion parameters, a rough measure of the model’s size and complexity. It’s free, downloadable, and runs, per Meta’s own benchmarks, on a MacBook Pro with an M4 Max or M5...

AI, AgentDojo, Alibaba's ROME agent

As the artificial intelligence boom drives major energy demand growth and catalyzes an all-of-the-above approach to energy development, enhanced geothermal energy is catching a windfall of investment dollars and renewed policy interest. A new wave of next-gen geothermal energy projects...

News

A final deal between the United States and Iran is slipping further out of reach. Since the Memorandum of Understanding collapsed in July, the prospects for reviving it have deteriorated by the day. While Tehran publicly demands a return to...

News

Chevron will invest more than $7 billion in Venezuela over the next five years and more than double its oil production in the country to about 600,000 barrels per day, Reuters reported Wednesday. The investment follows new agreements with Venezuela...

News

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Midterm Madness

In 2025, Michael Hunzeker and Yuster Yu wrote, “Taiwan’s Biggest Problem in Steeling Itself for War With China is Cultural,” where they argued major cultural changes were needed in both Taiwan’s military and civilian society if it were to be...

Members, Rewind and Reconnoiter

With President Xi Jinping’s anticipated visit to Egypt in late August and early September, coinciding with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Bishkek (August 30 – September 3) and the Chinese president’s visits to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt, several questions...

Eurasia, Belt and Road, China

It was a rough night for Seth Moulton, a congressman challenging incumbent Ed Markey in Massachusetts’ Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. Seeing opportunity in an election season favoring anti-establishment candidates, Moulton billed himself as “one of Massachusetts’ rising progressive...

Analysis

The latest package of US sanctions on Iran is unlikely to achieve Washington’s objectives Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network,...

Economics, Geopolitics, National Politics

Donald Trump is determined to subvert the midterms. All that can save us, if he succeeds, is a national strike. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where...

National Politics, Article, Chris Hedges

A government has plenty of alternatives in dealing with its debt, but most are not palatable for financial speculators Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting at Sheffield University Management School., and Chartered Accountant, and Co-founder of the...

Economics, Finance, National Politics

Review of Odd Arne Westad’s “The Coming Storm” Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World , was published November 2025. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global...

Geopolitics, National Politics, Article

Anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in the United States, and yet Muslim political candidates are enjoying a banner year. Zohran Mamdani was elected the first Muslim mayor of New York City in 2025. This year, Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic...

Human Rights, Uncategorized, Abdul El-Sayed

Two high-level US Trump administration emissaries crashed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, holding talks with top Central Asian leaders and disrupting any appearance of unity among the gathering’s attendees. Leading participants in the SCO summit,...

News

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News , a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here . Fossil fuel emissions are pushing Earth’s climate toward a dangerous new phase of...

Environment, News, Science

For the rest of this week and until next Wednesday, we’re having a sale as a way to celebrate my 53rd birthday, which is today. In fact, I’m the one giving the gifts, because I’m offering a whopping 53 percent...

News

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned this week, raising a flurry of questions about whether his departure is part of a larger political reordering that has pushed skeptics of President Donald Trump ’s war policies to the margins. A longtime friend of...

Military, News, Politics

This story is produced by Floodlight , a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action, and The Guardian . Sign up for Floodlight’s newsletter here . The largest planned AI data center in New Jersey is being accused...

Business & Economy, Courts & Law, Environment

Last month, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom issued a highly anticipated decision in The Kingdom of Bahrain v. Shehabi and another (Shehabi). The claimants, two Bahraini dissidents living in the U.K., allegedly suffered psychological harm after Bahrain used...

News

This coming Saturday 5 th September will see large marches for Palestine take place across Ireland to demand the cancellation of the Ireland v Israel football matches in the Nations League. Under the slogan of ‘ Stop the Games – Not...

Press releases, Sporting Boycott

Bangladesh is moving towards military mobilization and starting negotiations with China for the acquisition of fighter aircraft J10CE equipped with PL-15. Reuters reported that the number of aircraft being considered would be between 20 and 24, the agreement worth $2.2billion...

Defense, Bangladesh, China

Kazakhstan plans to more than double its crude oil refining capacity by 2040 from current levels by expanding existing capacities and building a major new refinery, the country's Energy Ministry said on Wednesday, citing the government's 2025-2040 plan to boost...

News

During the night of August 23, 2026, armed gangs attacked Kenscoff, a mountain community overlooking Port-au-Prince. By the end of the assault, at least 47 people had been killed, including five children. Twenty-two others were injured, dozens were abducted, and...

Democracy & Governance, Erik Prince, Gangs

The plight of American journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem, who has been detained in Syria for more than eight months without any publicly announced charge or trial, is being considered by UN experts in Geneva this week. His case has been submitted...

#Current Affairs, Injustice, Middle-East

The European Union is facing growing concerns over alleged Russian hybrid operations on European territory after Germany concluded that Russia was responsible for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month. German authorities said their assessment was based on...

World News, Defense, European Union

The re-escalation in the Middle East and the Russian ban on diesel exports amid incessant Ukrainian drone attacks on refineries have pushed middle distillate cracks to record highs this week. The renewed exchange of strikes in and around the Strait...

News

The death of a British national, Bradley Townsend, killed in Ukraine in June while fighting for Russian forces has been widely reported in the media. “British traitor who joined Vladimir Putin’s army ‘killed by Ukraine drone'” splashed the Daily Star while...

Archive, Media, Middle East

Referendum result means fewer seats in parliament and new rules on candidates, ahead of December elections Guinea-Bissau voters have approved a new constitution, which critics say will undermine democracy, that significantly expands presidential powers ahead of elections due in December. According to...

Guinea-Bissau, Africa, World news

When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement at Al-Safa Palace on 7 August 2026, the joint statement was studiously silent about who the...

Defense, Bangladesh, Opinion

The United States has launched a new wave of attacks on Iran, marking a renewed escalation in a conflict that has remained deadlocked for months. Iran has responded with missile attacks on what it identified as US assets across several...

Middle East & Africa, Iran, Security

In August 2024, special forces from five Ukrainian military intelligence units crossed the Black Sea to raid Russian-held Kinburn Spit. The commandos of these units — Chimera, Aratta, Stuhna, Paragon, Terror, and the Siberian Battalion — landed, fought, destroyed equipment,...

Commentary, Future Warfare, Logistics

The summer of 2026 has raised questions once again among politicians, diplomats, and academics about whether Germany might be about to dither on Russia. Last month, a drone attack on German soil seemed designed to coerce Germany back into business...

Commentary, Diplomacy, Germany

Australia and the United States have announced a combined $580 million in funding for Pacific Island nations, highlighting growing competition with China for influence across the strategically important region. The funding comes as Pacific states face energy insecurity, organised crime...

World News, Australia, China

US President Donald Trump’s plan to secure direct access to Venezuela’s oil reserves could undermine the country’s efforts to revive its struggling energy sector. While Washington says the arrangement will accelerate reconstruction and strengthen US energy security, critics warn that...

Energy Geopolitics, Energy, Security

The 65-billion-barrel Venezuela oil deal is not proof that regime change was sold with a resource contract attached as its explicit precondition — the deal was announced eight months after Nicolás Maduro’s capture, not before it. But the actual innovation,...

Oil & Gas, Analysis, Economics

Asian financial markets came under heavy pressure on Wednesday as renewed US airstrikes on Iran intensified fears of further disruption to the global energy supply. Rising oil prices and a sharp increase in US government bond yields revived concerns over...

Finance, Asia, Economics

Taiwanese companies are planning an additional $20 billion in investment in the United States, driven largely by strong demand for artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies. The move comes as Washington pressures Taiwan’s technology industry to expand its US presence and...

World News, Artificial Intelligence, Economics

On 28 August, six months to the day after American and Israeli aircraft opened the war on Iran, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted that putting diplomacy back on track was not impossible. He had just held what he called creative...

Middle East & Africa, Defense, Diplomacy

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned this week, raising a flurry of questions about whether his departure is part of a larger political reordering that has pushed skeptics of President Donald Trump’s war policies to the margins. A long-time friend of Vice...

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