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When Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, Cuba was legally sovereign but in an extraordinarily asymmetric relationship with the United States. As Earl E. T. Smith, U.S. ambassador prior to the revolution, told Congress in 1960, “the American ambassador...

Jimmy-carter, Fidel-castro, Soviet-union

Nearly six months after the U.S. and Israel launched an operation to overthrow the Iranian government, it’s fair to say their assault hasn’t exactly gone according to plan. Still, the ensuing war has followed a clear, predictable logic. After decades of...

Israel, Sanctions, Maximum-pressure

The idea that African nations must process their minerals at home has gained increased policy traction, and for good reason. After decades of exporting raw materials and importing finished products, the argument that Africa must capture more value from its...

Emerging Markets, Africa, Economics

By: Shim Jae Hoon In the words of government economists these days, South Korea hasn’t had it so good in years. Riding on the back of strong semiconductor exports, the economy this year is expected to post 3 percent growth for the...

News

Michigan Republican Senate candidate former Rep. Mike Rogers holds millions in tech investments that could benefit from the data center boom, giving him a personal financial stake as he backs President Donald Trump’s push to fast-track artificial intelligence infrastructure. The...

Elections

The US increasingly prioritizes technological dominance, supply-chain security, industrial protection and strategic competition with China. Under Trump, this approach has become openly transactional and unilateral: tariffs, market access and security instruments are used to compel partners and competitors alike. The...

Uncategorized

Power Metals is advancing what it describes as North America’s only cesium project at a time when America’s defense ambitions are colliding with the reality of critical mineral supply chains. The U.S. imports 100% of its required cesium, a rare...

News

Photo by Chris Boland on Unsplash Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday is dead by his own hand. It seems that a lifetime of lies, once they caught up with him, was too much for him to handle. The disgrace was more...

News

U.S. oil companies dominating the shale patch are planning to trim their spending plans and instead take advantage of higher international oil prices to reduce debt and boost shareholder returns. This is bad news for production growth. Bloomberg reported earlier...

News

The rise of automation, AI, and electric trucks can fundamentally change the freight transportation industry in the United States, leading to a revolution in transport fuel demand. Various vehicle and technology companies and U.S. cities and states have launched in...

News

The U.S. has lost 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones, worth at least $1.3 billion, since the start of its war on Iran, the Washington Post reported Friday . The drones can cost between $30 and $50 million each, depending on their sensor...

Drone, Reaper-drone, Cost-of-war

On August 6, 2026, there was a town hall meeting between US Navy officials including Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao and more than 200 family members of the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln, at the naval air station on...

Military, Block 2, Iran war 2026

Strategic shortfalls? Maybe in getting cobalt out of the Congo or rare earth powders from China or natural gas from Russia or oil from the Persian Gulf? Or maybe something closer to home. Thanks to climate change (yes, just say...

News

On August 14, North Korea issued a typical threat ahead of a major US-South Korean military exercise. “It is our consistent principle of ensuring security to respond to a new level of a threat with a new level of a...

Opinion, Donald Trump, Iran war 2026

On Sunday, President Donald Trump abruptly announced that he had directed the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” major U.S.-South Korea military drills that began this week. In a post on Truth Social, Trump provided several reasons why: the exercises are too “costly,”...

South-korea, Korean-peninsula, U-s-military

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how...

Members, The Ukraine Compass

Carbon capture is still debated as if technical performance were the decisive question. Can a solvent remove carbon dioxide from flue gas? Can the CO2 be compressed, transported and injected underground? Will the storage remain secure? These questions matter, but...

News

Heatwaves not only affect the poor much more than the rich, they also contribute to widening inequality between the classes. Miqdad Asaria is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Policy at LSE and co-director of the MSc in Health...

Climate Crisis, Inequality, Article

A portrait of life under genocide. Hossam Shaker is a journalist and an author who has extensively covered the topic of migration in Europe. Cross-posted from Middl e East Eye Life under genocide has its familiar daily rituals. A discerning eye detects latent...

Geopolitics, Article, Gaza

The Information Controls Research Program (ICRP) (formerly known as the “Information Controls Fellowship Program) from the Open Technology Fund (OTF) supports applied research into how authoritarian governments in the most repressive information environments are restricting the free flow of information,...

News

This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 ICYMI in The Lever : New York just gave Elon Musk the keys to your money . 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - Can a DSA candidate pull off...

Lever Daily

Lt. Gen. (ret.) Francis Beaudette, former commanding general of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, joins Ryan to discuss how his family history, service, and books shaped his path into and time in the Army. Together, they talk through his...

Podcasts, War On The Rocks

Chevron has announced a new oil and gas condensate discovery offshore Angola, hitting more than 2,000 feet of hydrocarbons in a Block 0 exploration well that could be tied directly into the company’s existing production infrastructure in the country. The...

News

AI was everywhere at DAC 2026, so I stopped by the booth of Rise Design Automation to chat with Ellie Burns to hear what’s new this year. Ellie shared that Rise DA has added a new AI-powered flow to go...

EDA, Rise Design Automation, Allan Klinck

Libya’s electricity grid suffered another major collapse on Monday, knocking power plants offline across western, central and southern parts of the country, shutting down the Great Man-Made River water system, fueling widespread public anger in a country already divided between...

News

The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. Millions are in hiding. Those who have escaped Ukraine are fanned out across Europe, clinging to low-paying jobs and temporary housing. But Europe’s leaders are impatient with them. The...

Column, Courts & Law, Europe

When President Vladimir Putin sent his forces into Ukraine, the Kremlin appeared to be betting on a familiar axiom of European security: sheer Russian mass, backed by vast Soviet-era stockpiles and nuclear power, would overwhelm resistance. More than four years...

News

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . Darya Minovi was mapping pollution from medical sterilization plants across the country when many of the communities she was speaking to began asking the same...

Courts & Law, Environment, Health & Wellness

As he was leaving office in 2017, President Barack Obama urged Americans concerned about where their country was headed to act. “If something needs fixing, then lace up your shoes and do some organizing,” he said in Time magazine ....

Activism, Column, Media

Grid constraints and rising coal-fired power generation in China led to soaring curtailment rates of solar and wind power generation in the first half of the year. China curtailed as much as 360 terawatt-hours (TWh) of solar and wind generation...

News

The images of chaos and confusion went global on social media within minutes: an estimated 70,000 Moroccans rushed the shores of Spain’s North African enclave Ceuta, climbing through holes in the chain-link fence and swimming around the barriers jutting into...

Courts & Law, Europe, Immigration

Strain of virus with no vaccine has potential to overrun response impeded by conflict and misinformation Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are losing their battle to contain the country’s deadliest Ebola outbreak . DRC’s health ministry declared an...

Ebola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda

Rising energy prices are poised to send UK inflation rearing back up, as economists warn that the summer boost to the economy could be fleeting. The rate of Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation is tipped to rise to 2.9 per...

News

Digital lending has made it easier for consumers to explore financial products online. Borrowers can now research lenders, check requirements, upload documents, and apply using a phone or computer. However, having more options can also make it harder to decide...

Finance, Economics, loans

Participants in traditional dress take part in a cultural welcome at the UNCCD COP17 venue in Ulaanbaatar on Aug. 17, 2026, highlighting the cultural diversity of communities whose livelihoods are closely linked to rangelands. Credit: UN photo By Kizito Makoye DAR ES...

Biodiversity, Combating Desertification and Drought, Development & Aid

In geopolitics, words do matter, and sometimes a deletion says a lot more than a thousand-page defense white paper. The Pentagon’s recent move to quietly strip the word “Indo” from the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, reverting to its Cold War-era title...

War & Peace, India, Indo-Pacific

China began the third quarter with weaker-than-expected key economic indicators, raising additional concerns about the health of its economy and its demand for crude oil in the coming months. Retail sales increased by just 0.6% in July from a year...

News

Federal Troops Regain Control Somali federal forces pushed opposition fighters out of Baidoa on Monday after hours of intense fighting in one of the country’s largest cities, residents told Reuters. The clashes left a number of people dead and marked...

World News, Military, Security
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