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On September 19, French President Emmanuel Macron touched down in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, France’s last remaining territory in North America. The tiny fishing archipelago is home to fewer than 6,000 people, all of them full French citizens, and it is relatively unknown...

Democracy & Governance, Canada, Donald Trump

Less than two months after his government hosted the NATO summit — which was framed as proof of Turkey’s pivotal role in transatlantic security — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has proposed full Turkish membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, an...

Middle East, Block 3, NATO

TotalEnergies expects its oil and gas production to grow by more than 3% every year until 2030 due to start-ups of new low-cost projects currently under development, the French supermajor said in its 2026 strategy and outlook on Monday. Overall...

News

A man carries his family’s food ration from a WFP distribution point to his shelter in Camp 11, Balukhali, Bangladesh, on September 24, 2026. Credit: Mohammed Zonaid/IPS By Mohammed Zonaid COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, Sep 28 2026 (IPS) For Mohammed Dullah, recent cuts in...

Aid, Asia-Pacific, Development & Aid

One of my fundamental beliefs about the world is that Ramez Naam ought to blog more. Ramez is one of the world’s greatest futurists — he predicted the solar and battery revolutions long before these were widely understood. If you were reading Ramez in...

Technology, AI Diminishing Returns, AI Recursive Self-Improvement

This paper is a reflective scholarly essay written from the author’s position as a doctoral candidate and scholar-practitioner. It draws on personal academic experience and established literature on scholarship and learning communities, and it is addressed to a broad audience...

Education, Social Issues, Academic success

The last Conservative government passed the Legacy Act, which shut down many routes to justice for victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Inquests were stopped, even when British soldiers fired the fatal shots. Labour’s manifesto pledged to pass a Troubles Bill...

Archive, Military, Afghanistan

I spent more than 20 years in U.S. Army air defense, much of it in cramped control stations where the difference between a successful engagement and a catastrophic loss came down to the soldier at the console. The radar did...

Commentary, Army, Lived Experience

Powerus, a US defense company with ties to President Donald Trump’s sons, drew scrutiny after signing a memorandum of understanding this month with the Pakistani Army and offering Islamabad access to Ukrainian drone technology, sparking debate over the deal’s potential...

Military, American Ventures, Aureus Greenway

Is Ankara a culinary capital? Most people would answer this question with a definitive “No!” But is that really the case? Ankara is often a misinterpreted city, not revealing itself at first glance. You have to be born there or...

Arts & Life

Crude oil prices started the week with a jump after President Trump rejected a peace deal proposal tabled by Iran last week at the UN General Assembly. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $107.24 per barrel,...

News

Helen Clark, Chair of the Board of Partners for the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), moderates the event "Financing for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health in a Time of Austerity", hosted by the Global Leaders Network. Credit:...

Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Financial Crisis

Taiwan must deepen cooperation with democratic partners on drone development as unmanned systems become increasingly important to modern warfare, President Lai Ching-te said on Monday, as the island steps up efforts to strengthen its domestic defence industry. Speaking in Chiayi...

World News, China, Defence

By CIVICUS Sep 28 2026 (IPS)  : CIVICUS discusses the role of art in climate and rights struggles in the Brazilian Amazon with Tom Wheeler, executive director and co-founder of Treesistance. Treesistance is a platform operated by the Netherlands-based Sinchi Foundation that partners...

Active Citizens, Arts, Biodiversity

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sep 28 2026 (IPS) The 1944 Bretton Woods (BW) conference accepted the US demand to use the dollar to settle international financial transactions. This arrangement would require a US balance-of-payments deficit to issue enough dollars. Jomo...

Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Financial Crisis

Fearing a security vacuum if UN peacekeepers leave southern Lebanon when their mandate expires December 31, the Lebanese government is desperately seeking an extension of the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) or the creation of a European-led multinational force to...

Israel-hezbollah, Israel, Hezbollah

Michael Petruzzello, a lobbyist known for helping to rehabilitate Saudi Arabia’s image in the wake of 9/11, the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, and famine in Yemen, is now registered as a foreign agent of the Saudi-backed government in Yemen. According to...

Saudi-arabia, Lobbying, Foreign-influence

Two Documents, One Winter On 25 September, EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen wrote to every member state warning of “a price crisis linking to a supply crisis”. His remedies read like a 2022 revival: keep injecting gas into storage, shave...

Energy Security, Analysis, Economics

By: Khanh Vu Duc Vietnamese President To Lam at a private talks with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Photo from VNA Vietnam’s new Strategic Partnership with Canada is ambitious. The Joint Statement issued on September 24 covers everything from trade, digital technologies...

News

‘Page Six Hollywood’ recently declared: “War of Open Letters Erupts Between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine Factions in Hollywood.” Only a few years ago, a headline like this would have seemed unthinkable. The article described an increasingly open struggle between pro-Palestine and...

Uncategorized

The Trump Administration is touting the new oil order in Venezuela as a tremendous opportunity for reviving the industry in the world’s biggest crude oil resource holder. The U.S.-led restructuring of the sector kicked out Russian and Chinese companies out...

News

As US President Donald Trump publicly rejected Iran’s proposal for a ceasefire and reopening the Strait of Hormuz this weekend, the Iranian foreign minister reiterated that “there is no alternative to a negotiated solution.” “There’s always hope for diplomacy,” though the Trump-led United...

Middle East, Block 3, Donald Trump

The Red Sea’s changing security order has brought Somaliland new diplomatic attention. President Irro’s challenge is to turn that attention into lasting economic, political and security relationships before regional competition determines the terms. For much of its modern history, Berbera has...

Law & Order, Opinion/Analysis, Politics/Diplomacy

Somaliland’s diplomatic outreach has entered a significant new phase following President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi Irro’s official visit to Washington. The visit reflects Somaliland’s efforts to position itself as a credible partner in regional security, economic development, and international investment. Discussions...

Opinion/Analysis, Somaliland, Berbera

By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level — the level of evil. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years...

Corruption, National Politics, Article

The warning signs of the coming crash keep multiplying. An upward trend in interest rates amid falling bond prices could be the crisis-triggering factor. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael...

Economics, Finance, Article

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in September that it will relinquish its authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act, a tool previously used to tackle climate change. This effectively removes any...

News

A Phone Call, a Denial, and a Meeting in Brussels On the evening of 23 September, Energy Secretary Chris Wright reportedly told energy executives that a 90-day ban on US diesel exports could come “within days”. The White House denied...

Oil & Gas, Analysis, Economics

How to govern academia and remedy the system’s existing glaring failings. Thomas Palley is an American economist who has served as the chief economist for the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The New School Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share...

Regulation, Article, Thomas Palley

This is Lever Weekly , a recap of our work from the past week. If you only read one email from us all week, this should be it. The Lever holds the powerful accountable through reader-supported investigative journalism that corporate media...

Lever Weekly

Nick Kuraye is the CEO of ScienceSoft, an AI transformation and software development company focused on regulated industries such as healthcare, insurance, and investment. The company has been in the market since 1989, delivering AI software solutions and supporting AI...

CEO Interviews, agentic ai, AI products

The return flight of an advanced Chinese (Y-9LG electronic warfare) and reconnaissance aircraft has raised widespread questions and intelligence concerns in Israel, after it was tracked via open-source flight data flying through Saudi airspace (near Yanbu and reaching the capital,...

Intelligence, China, Defense

China’s military conducted a joint naval and air training exercise near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, which China calls Huangyan Dao and the Philippines calls Bajo de Masinloc. The People’s Liberation Army Southern Theater Command described...

World News, China, Defense

Iran emphasized that diplomacy is the only way to resolve its issues with the United States and Israel. Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s rejection of Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end hostilities, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas...

World News, Diplomacy, Iran

A senior Taiwanese diplomat stated that the United States understands Taiwan’s defense needs and the military threat from China. Taiwan has been waiting for President Trump to approve a $14 billion arms sales package, following a previous $11 billion deal....

World News, China, Defense

Main image: Prof. Alice Veronica Lamwaka, a distinguished pharmacist and pharmacogenomics expert at Gulu University, Uganda, at work in the lab. Some 90% of people in the developing world still place great value on the holistic healing qualities of traditional medicines....

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