NEW YORK — The moment the US debt crossed US$40 trillion, it stopped being a number and became a gravitational force — one powerful enough to bend Asia’s bond markets, currencies and policy priorities. Officials in Tokyo know this better...
Photo highlighting the activities and successes of the 'Promoting Nature-based Solutions for Land Restoration while Strengthening National Monitoring Technical Working Group in Kenya: Phase 2' project funded by UK PACT. Credit: Anthony Ochieng/CIFOR-ICRAF By Lulseged Tamene Desta and Cargele Masso NAIROBI, Kenya,...
South Korea is betting extraordinary sums on artificial intelligence. President Lee Jae-myung has backed an 800 trillion won (US$578 billion) semiconductor expansion involving Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, promoted a new chip hub in the country’s southwest and joined Korean...
Results of the vote on the approval of the appointment of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN General Assembly, 24 July 2026. Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe By Samuel King BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug 26 2026 (IPS) On 24 July, the United Nations...
In March 2006, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denounced the essay by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," as a "a classical conspiratorial anti-Semitic analysis invoking the canards of Jewish power and Jewish control." In their...
A series of crises have roiled Libya over the last month, undermining a U.S.-led initiative to resolve the country’s profound political predicament and open its markets to American investment. Violent protests over deteriorating living conditions have surged in western cities under...
For decades, the assumption underpinning global politics was simple: American power, however imperfect, anchored the system. Allies might occasionally foster frustrations surrounding US unilateralism but stayed close to Washington because the alternative, a world without a clear anchor, seemed riskier....
Darline Graham won the Republican primary Tuesday and will likely win a full-term to fill her late brother Lindsey Graham’s U.S. Senate seat in the ruby red state of South Carolina in the upcoming November election. According to the latest tallies...
Mario Nawfal, based on our discussion today, inspired me to write this article. In the companion to this essay , I argued that Scott Bessent’s latest sanctions on Iran are toothless because Iran’s oil trade has walked out of the...
By: Tim Daiss The disruption of liquefied natural gas (LNG) flows through the Strait of Hormuz has exposed an uncomfortable reality for Taiwan. Its energy imports remain acutely vulnerable to events thousands of kilometers from its shores. However, the more troubling...
After decades confined largely to laboratories, nuclear fusion is beginning to attract the kind of money and industrial planning normally reserved for technologies expected to make it onto the grid. Global private investment in fusion hit a record $4.48 billion...
Three days after a prominent artificial intelligence investor and his wife donated $1 million to a political action committee boosting Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo’s reelection campaign, Lombardo publicly endorsed the state’s booming data-center buildout. A week later, the PAC...
The reported move of Amit Gupta, Jeff Dyck, and Ryan Silk from Siemens EDA to Synopsys matters because this is more than a routine transfer of experienced executives and engineers. Together, the three represent a concentrated body of expertise in...
In this issue: - PRC response to “Economic D-Day” - The Zhong Caiwen articles - Cadre accountability for environmental damage - Formaldehyde Kimchi? - Corruption investigators still looking at PLA Rocket Force The Feed: Business, Economy and Trade - Politics and Law - Foreign and Defense...
Bloomberg's continuous front-month uranium futures contract (UXA1 Comdty) briefly surged above $100 a pound in late January, driven by tightening supplies, renewed government support for nuclear power, and rising electricity demand from the AI infrastructure boom. Uranium futures then retreated...
Israeli Commanders warn their political leadership of a pending explosion in the occupied West Bank, while the United States unleashes a new economic offensive in a desperate attempt to pressure the Iranians to open to Strait of Hormuz. In the...
Norway has started production from the second stage of the Troll Phase 3 development, accelerating 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas from the Troll West reservoir and helping sustain high gas deliveries to Europe from one of the continent’s...
Andy Burnham has suggested tax rises could be on the cards in the looming Autumn Budget, warning he “won’t be unrealistic” over the state of the public purse. The Prime Minister quickly pledged to give people “breathing space” and ease...
A former Guantanamo detainee finds that many of those who were his inmates are now in power in Kabul and Damascus, picking-up the pieces of what the US empire left behind. Moazzam Begg is a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, author of...
In Episode 2 of the Muslim Money Matters mini-series, brother Adam Taufique breaks things down to the basics! What’s the difference between financial literacy and Islamic financial literacy? How should you start managing your money? Is it all just a...
Predictions of an oil price apocalypse from the closing of the Strait of Hormuz have not yet materialised, but the long run consequences are still set to be steep. Sam Fraser is a writer based in New York City. He holds...
Yemen’s shift from coffee to qat crops intensified ecological pressures in in the impoverished north, creating the conditions for the Houthis’ rise. Ibrahim Al-Marashi is Associate Professor of Middle East history at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM). He obtained his...
A full-scale trade war has erupted between the United States and Canada, with consequences that could have significant implications for Russia. The U.S.-Canada trade war turns personal In short, U.S. negotiators failed to reach an understanding with Canada over new tariffs on...
With Russian infrastructure being pummeled by Ukrainian drones, the Kremlin is hoping to sustain its war effort in Ukraine going by deepening defense cooperation with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It is uncertain, however, whether Astana and Tashkent will go along with...
Two years ago, abortion opponents in Missouri tried to defeat Amendment 3, a ballot initiative to enshrine reproductive rights in the state constitution, by falsely telling voters that it would allow gender transition surgeries for minors — even though it...
China on Tuesday signaled it would not end its ties and trade relations with Iran following the U.S. sanctions unveiled on Monday that target Chinese and Hong Kong entities for helping Iran do business. On Monday, the U.S. Administration announced...
In a case with serious repercussions for U.S. national security and for Brazil, a Clinton-appointed U.S. federal judge concluded that an immigration record entered in the Customs and Border Protection system during the Biden administration was fraudulent. The fraudulent record...
The artificial intelligence boom is supercharging the development of next-gen nuclear energy technology. Big Tech and private equity are catalyzing the research and development of cutting-edge approaches to round-the-clock clean energy production as hyperscalers add power-hungry data centers to the...
JENIN, West Bank /PNN / In a promising agricultural venture, Palestinian agronomist Amani Abu Naeem has successfully launched a local blueberry cultivation experiment through her project, “Blueberry Karm,” turning a small-scale trial into a budding enterprise after two years of work...
You’d never know it by the title, “Dancing in the Dark,” but the Washington Spectator’s recent investigation is about the various steps (mostly illegal) President Donald Trump is taking, including the use of enforcement tools and violence, to prepare to...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 ICYMI in The Lever : Private prisons are wading into our elections again. 🎧 Listen: How Obama waged his secret drone war . 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - The...
WASHINGTON — With just over two months until the November midterms, the U.S. Supreme Court gave way Monday for President Donald Trump to have a hand in regulating mail-in ballots nationwide, a voting method he has falsely claimed is rife...
MAWASI KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip / PNN / Report by Fidaa Mohammad Abdel-Jawad In the cramped corners of tents across Gaza, women hold on to fragments of mirrors almost as if they were pieces of their souls. In wartime, when a mirror...
Equinor sees a multi-billion LNG export project in Tanzania becoming more attractive for development amid the Middle East conflict that has crippled liquefied natural gas supply through the Strait of Hormuz, a senior executive at the Norwegian energy major said...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Report by Nesma Al-Harazin In a place where war has destroyed factories, closed businesses and upended livelihoods, some people are choosing to begin again — not from zero, but from what remains beneath the rubble. For some,...
The world’s biggest oil refiner, China’s state-held Sinopec, is looking to transform its business as domestic fuel sales crumble amid the electric vehicle boom. China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, as Sinopec is officially known, will be allocating more capital to...
Hey, Donald Trump couldn’t have made it clearer that he wanted to go to war with Iran, could he? You would think that even he wouldn’t have been dumb enough to start a war with that country, given the U.S. record...
Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash Yes, you may notice today’s title harkens back to Jack Nicholson as The Joker in Tim Burton’s first Batman movie. I’ve always liked that line, but I rarely use it. After all, he said it...
The war they chose: the Flying Tigers' fight against fascism By Einar Tangen Eighty-five years on, the Flying Tigers remain a reminder of what people from different countries can do when they choose to stand together against fascism. On Dec. 20, 1941, Japanese...
China’s Evolving Strategic Trade Settlement Framework While political chaos reigns a new economic order is evolving In reaction to the weaponization of SWIFT and aggressive trade moves by the US to contain China economically under Trump, then Biden, and Trump again, China...
Signoff-quality design tools are mandatory for signoff, though not so good for early design exploration. Signoff demands high accuracy in design description and high precision in analysis. The first requirement can’t be met early in design where architecture decisions are...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was in Jakarta from August 20 to 22, where he launched a new Comprehensive Strategic Dialogue, initiated a second round of the 2+2 dialogue between foreign and defense ministers, and held a separate meeting with...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (PNN) — Report by Nesma Al-Harazin As war has surrounded people in Gaza with fear, injury and displacement, veterinarian Mutasim Qadura has found himself confronting another, quieter kind of suffering: sick and injured animals in need of...
Norway’s energy major Equinor hopes to make a “pretty big” oil discovery offshore Namibia, the global exploration hotspot it has just entered, a senior company official said on Tuesday. Equinor hopes that the Petroleum Exploration License 90 (PEL 90) offshore...
A widening dispute over intellectual property protection may soon test whether the US-Vietnam Comprehensive Strategic Partnership is more than a mere diplomatic label. The Office of the US Trade Representative opened a Section 301 investigation into Vietnam in May after...
The three states in the Strait of Malacca, the vital shipping lane into Asia, have pledged to keep the world’s busiest maritime thoroughfare free and open to vessels amid the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle...
Response in Colombia continues after the 7.4 earthquake. In Barrio Lleras, Buenaventura, more than 54 houses have been destroyed or are at risk of collapse. Credit: UNICEF By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Aug 25 2026 (IPS) Over the past week, the humanitarian crisis...
Thirty-seven Russian army officers were given two weeks of military training in Britain in September 1995, declassified files show. The “intensive military cooperation” involved the Russians “driving tanks and firing a range of weapons”, and was paid for by Britain under...
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