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An analysis of the current state of negotiations between Iran and the United States Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. As an...

Geopolitics, Article, Larry C. Johnson

Earlier this month, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood in front of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to defend the Trump administration’s record-breaking US$1.5 trillion military budget proposal for FY2027. According to the White House, this 66% year-over-year increase...

Opinion, Block 1, Donald Trump

Israeli forces struck Lebanon with more than 120 air raids on Tuesday, the sharpest single-day escalation since Israel resumed its bombing of the country in early March. The Lebanese health ministry said at least 31 people were killed and 40...

Beginning last week, waves of protesters taking part in nation-wide strikes gathered on the streets of Nairobi to demand the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum reduce its state-controlled fuel price. What initially began as a labor initiative soon grew into violent...

Kenya, Strait-of-hormuz, Iran

On May 22, the first train of Bogota’s new metro system made its initial trial run on the 15-mile elevated viaduct for Line 1. The line runs all the way from the southwestern part of the Colombian capital to Avenida...

Great-power-competition, Trump-administration, Colombia

While cybersecurity threats from large language models and amoral generative AI without guardrails make front-page headlines, Japanese engineering conglomerate Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has established a physical AI development center in San Jose, California. The purpose of the facility is...

Technology, AI Cybersecurity, Analog Devices

Notwithstanding the Al Jazeera report, there are still significant areas of disagreement that make a deal between Iran and the US unlikely. The Pakistan-Qatar mediation channel toward a possible memorandum of understanding remains active. But “active” does not...

Larry C. Johnson

By: Khanh Vu Duc - - - - When General Secretary and State President Tô Lâm steps onto the stage at the 2026 Shangri-La Dialogue, Vietnam’s “bamboo diplomacy” will once again be presented as a model of strategic flexibility. Supporters...

Eswatini is a country standing at a crossroads — and increasingly, at the edge of a cliff. The latest World Bank data paints a stark picture: one in three citizens is unemployed and nearly half the population lives in...

Africa, African Infrastructure Projects, energy security

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man inside the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank , the Palestinian health ministry said on Tuesday. "A citizen... was killed by Israeli fire in the Jenin camp, and ambulance...

MENA

When Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that any agreement with Iran must be “great and meaningful,” or there would be no agreement at all, he appeared to be drawing a wall between himself and Barack Obama’s nuclear deal. He...

Uncategorized

Israel pounded Lebanon with more than 120 air strikes on Tuesday in one of the heaviest days of bombing in weeks, Lebanese security sources said, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his military was deepening its...

MENA

On April 10, 2026, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung sparked controversy by sharing a social media video that compared wartime killings to the Holocaust and alleged that Israeli forces had tortured, and thrown from a rooftop, a Palestinian. Because the...

Opinion, China human rights, North Korea human rights

When then President Ronald Reagan was staffing up the Pentagon for his first term, an obvious choice was the director of defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. That was Lawrence Korb, former naval flight officer and professor of...

Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance, War & Peace

Parigi firma accordi di cooperazione geologica, Washington piazza una SPAC australiana sul giacimento più grande dell’Artico. Due strategie per la stessa isola: la scienza contro il Nasdaq, le lettere d’intenti contro le azioni. Segue nostro Telegram . La Groenlandia si...

Italiano, Arctic, France

Iranian authorities partially restored internet connectivity Tuesday after an almost three-month shutdown imposed against the backdrop of the war with Israel and the US , said a monitor, a senior official and sources inside the country. The shutdown...

MENA

The idea of Trump and Netanyahu was to destroy Iran as a force within the region, thereby forcing all countries in the Middle East to submit to their colonial plans. That clearly hasn’t happened. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of...

Geopolitics, Article, David Hearst

Tit-for-tat strikes between Iran and the US don’t seem to have scuppered a possible deal yet, but long term the threat Israel poses to Lebanon may make any lasting peace impossible. Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of...

Geopolitics, Article, Iran

A profile of the late Edmund Phelps, a neoliberal economist until the end. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Picture by Cp2960 American Edmund Phelps recently...

Economics, Article, Economists

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump surveyed his top military brass on the prospect of making war in Iran. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine urged caution, presciently predicting that a ramped-up campaign against Iran could lead its...

Opinion, United States, Christian nationalism

Syria's transitional leadership has located remnants of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's clandestine chemical weapons program, including raw materials and munitions similar to those used to carry out deadly gas attacks during the country's long-running civil war,...

MENA

The warning from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the U.S. and European governments to evacuate their diplomats and citizens from Kyiv before Russia launches “systematic strikes” marks a drastic escalation in the Ukraine conflict — with a serious risk...

Ukraine, Russia, Donald-trump

No force has reshaped American politics over the last decade more conspicuously or detrimentally than the expanding influence of the billionaire class. Since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling in 2010 opened the floodgates for unlimited political spending by billionaires...

Activism, Column, Economic Justice

A far‑right presidential frontrunner in Colombia is running on a promise to restore ties with Israel and bury the current government’s pro‑Palestine stance, a shift that could test the limits of Latin America’s solidarity with Gaza . Abelardo...

World

Egypt is expanding its exploration of lithium and other critical minerals in an effort to attract investment in an industry largely untouched in the country. On Sunday, Cairo announced it had signed a deal with Spanish company X-Calibur to carry...

Economy

A military delegation from Lebanon is heading to Washington on Tuesday for a security meeting with Israeli officials at the Pentagon scheduled for Friday, as intensified Israeli strikes on the country continue to kill dozens of people. President...

MENA

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- - - - Photo by Stephen Talas on Unsplash I’ve written three or four different posts for today. I’ve scrapped them all. Why? Because I’m dealing with a herniated disc in my lower back and have...

There is a particular kind of silence that follows a war’s opening salvos — the silence of think-tank papers being quietly archived, of cable-news predictions being scrubbed from the chyron, of confident assurances that “this time it will be different”...

Middle East, American public opinion, Block 2

On 20 May, Bolivia's president Rodrigo Paz Pereira, who was elected in November 2025, announced a ministerial reshuffle in response to pressure from protesters calling on him to resign. For weeks, demonstrations against price hikes and fuel shortages have brought...

The son of British right-wing politician Rupert Lowe has reportedly married a Muslim woman of Libyan descent, raising eyebrows given the Restore Britain founder’s frequent anti-Muslim and anti-immigration pronouncements. Reports in legacy and social media have suggested that the...

World

Aventura belica

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Atentativa de Kiev de reconquistar o apoio dos EUA parece não ter limites, mesmo que isso gere uma crise interna. A Ucrânia enviou especialistas em drones para o Golfo Pérsico para apoiar as ações contra o Irã, apesar de sofrer com...

Português, European Union, Military Industrial Complex

At 11 am in the port of Kraten, on the north-eastern edge of the Kerkennah archipelago in south-eastern Tunisia, fishermen are untangling heaps of fishing nets piled along the waterfront as they prepare for the next trip out to sea. Head...

Environment and Climate

The following story is co-published with Nolan Higdon’s Substack . When a speaker at the University of Central Florida’s May 8, 2026, commencement ceremony declared, “The rise of artificial intelligence is the next Industrial Revolution,” it triggered...

Activism, Business & Economy, Column

Il futuro non aspetta. E mentre i diplomatici occidentali discutono di procedure e principi, qualcuno – molto più a est – sta già gettando le basi per l’ordine di domani. Segue nostro Telegram . L’Ordine Mondiale in frantumi Sta accadendo...

Italiano, China, Diplomacy

GAZA, (PIC) The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) has accused the Israeli prison service of subjecting Gaza detainees to repression and torture, holding them in inhumane and unhealthy conditions within “Rakevet” prison’s cramped underground cells. In a statement released on Tuesday, PPS said...

News, gaza prisoners, Israeli violations

This story was originally published by THE CITY. Sign up to get the latest New York City news delivered to you each morning. Dozens of protesters blocked entrances to Delaney Hall , a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention...

Activism, Courts & Law, Immigration

Mogadishu, Somalia - When Israel announced last December that it would recognise Somaliland , speculation was rife over which countries might follow. Several names circulated in Somali political circles, particularly states with close ties to the breakaway republic. Ethiopia...

Analysis

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . When it comes to California’s climate future , the most important figure in the state’s chaotic governor’s race may not be any...

Activism, Business & Economy, Courts & Law

Armenia has officially announced the export of weapons for the first time in its history, though the headline-grabbing declaration leaves behind a number of unanswered questions: what exactly was sold, who purchased it, and why many believe the deal likely...

World

Recente ataque ucraniano contra dormitório em Lugansk parece ter motivado uma mudança de postura por parte da Rússia. Junte-se a nós no Telegram , Twitter e VK . Escreva para nós: info@strategic-culture.su Os recentes eventos na operação militar especial indicam...

Português, European Union, Proxy War

As semiconductor systems evolve toward heterogeneous integration, chiplets, 2.5D and 3D packaging, distributed observability, runtime adaptation, Fleet Learning, and lifecycle convergence governance, the industry is entering a fundamentally new operational reality. Convergence decisions are no longer driven only… com/3dic/369582-trusted-convergence-governance-preserving-admissibility-integrity-across-heterogeneous-semiconductor-systems/">Trusted Convergence Governance:...

3D IC, Chiplet, 3d packaging
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