The Trump administration is no friend of wind and solar. Axed subsidies and project suspensions have been the attitude towards those alternative forms of energy. Geothermal, however, is something else. The current Department of Energy is very much for it....
Intel’s Crescent Island is a discrete data-center GPU designed for agentic AI inference, where performance is constrained by more than matrix arithmetic. Multi-step agents impose latency through repeated model calls and tool interactions, consume large memory capacity for weights and...
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MANY GOVERNMENTS’ pro-Israeli votes in international forums like the U.N. starkly disregard the expressed views of their people, and they get away with it with help from media inattention and misdirection. From Albania to Morocco vociferous crowds show their low opinion...
The Trump administration is reportedly in active discussions with Venezuela’s interim government to acquire a direct U.S. ownership stake in key Venezuelan oil fields. According to senior U.S. officials cited by Axios, the talks involve equity stakes in a select...
When Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet again in Washington, the most important question will not be whether they shake hands, announce another trade arrangement or produce a carefully worded communiqué. It will be whether two governments that increasingly treat...
United States President Trump has strongly criticised wind power since coming into office, introducing several executive actions aimed at restricting the development of wind farms. Trump has particularly targeted offshore wind, leading to several projects being put on hold or...
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are tossing figurative darts at a US trial balloon connected to the intensifying race between the United States and China for leadership in AI development. Reuters reported on August 14 that the US State Department had drafted a note stating that...
As part of our continuing series, Geopolitics Made Simple, devoted to developments in the Middle East, we have already discussed the military power of the United States, Iran's response, the objectives of the war and the way domestic politics influences...
Energean is in exclusive talks to buy a package of BP’s Egyptian oil and gas assets in a deal that could raise about $1 billion for the British energy major, Reuters reported Thursday exclusively, citing two people involved in the...
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The Trump administration increased its attacks on press freedom last week when the Department of Defense fired Stars and Stripes editor-in-chief Erik Slavin and reporter Lara Korte from the 165-year-old news outlet serving the U.S. military community. The outgoing editor...
The Nordic-Baltic warmongering under the current conditions is therefore (i) irresponsible, (ii) hypocritical, (iii) immoral, and (iv) flirts with a disaster of immense proportions. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation:...
The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. By late 2022 , Ukraine had rallied, with Western backing, and Russia’s invasion had wavered. The war was only several months old, but it already appeared the Russians...
Architect Labs says it has created Redwood, an AI accelerator designed and verified almost entirely by artificial intelligence in less than two weeks. If independently validated and successfully translated from a programmable prototype into manufactured silicon, the project could represent...
In Robin Andersen’s new book, she chronicles how the U.S. media utilized their massive reach to help shield Israel from scrutiny as it perpetrated a genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges: Robin Anderson, the author of “The Complicit Lens,” documents how the Western...
With geopolitical situation heightening, the world’s players are strategically expressing their interest in Africa, and African countries are also choosing their development partners. Many researchers, often, say Africa is currently experiencing the ‘second political re-awakening’ as foreign players aggressively partition...
The United States’ plans to revitalize Venezuela’s oil sector are moving at a snail’s pace. But it seems that plans are finally falling into place, with two different U.S. companies – SLB and Hunt Oil – announcing deals with the...
Bankrupting the Wrong Economy Nima Alkhorshid: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, August 13, 2026, and our dear friends, Richard Wolf and Michael Hudson, are here with us. Welcome back. Let me start with just briefing what’s going on between Iran and the...
As many as 45 coal-fired power plants in India are currently operating with critically low levels of coal stocks, as electricity demand rises amid the strong El Nino but supply is disrupted by monsoon rains, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing...
Global data-center electricity demand is growing at a remarkable pace, and no country is driving that growth more than the United States. The Energy Institute’s 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy helps put the scale of the change into perspective....
This article was originally published at Barn Raiser Media . Americans’ celebration of 250 years of independence invites reflection on the Declaration of Independence and its values of equality, liberty and democratic renewal. Those values are a beacon to guide where...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Jordanian King Abdullah II held official talks in Beijing on Monday, August 24, 2026, focusing on de-escalation in the Middle East and the need for a just solution to the Palestinian issue. The Jordanian and...
Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash I had no intention of writing about former Cambridge professor, the late Jason Arday. He took his own life; I can’t feel that bad about it, end of discussion. Or so I thought. Celebrate My B-Day with...
Hungary’s change of government has led to the expected decisions on energy policy, which could result in serious financial losses for Russia. Budapest Makes the Decision Brussels Demands Budapest has described Russia’s actions as a threat to Hungary, Europe and the international...
On May 25, Huawei semiconductor chief He Tingbo unveiled LogicFolding , an architecture intended to advance chip performance without relying on ever-smaller transistors. Presented alongside Huawei’s “ Tau Scaling Law ,” the approach prioritizes signal speed over transistor dimensions. It...
ACCRA, Ghana — Elmina Castle is a historic crime scene for many Africans and African descendants. Every year, thousands of tourists, mostly diasporans wanting to connect with their ancestry, walk through its “Door of No Return,” through which enslaved people...
Nordic energy company Fortum on Thursday said it had submitted a state aid application to start talks with the Swedish state on the terms and conditions to advance a new nuclear power project in Sweden as the Nordic country bets...
The consequences of flooding extend far beyond damaged roads and infrastructure. They reach America’s farmlands, the soul of America’s food supply. Credit: Shutterstock By Esther Ngumbi and Christy Gibson URBANA, Illinois, US, Aug 27 2026 (IPS) Across the U.S. Midwest , from Illinois...
BEIT JALA / West Bank / PNN / From the Wadi al-Makhrour valley near Beit Jala, Palestinian activist Alice Kisiya has launched an initiative she says aims to protect the Palestinian Christian presence and church property, while pushing for international recognition...
Why Advanced-Node Clock Networks Need More Than Timing Closure Timing closure has been one of the semiconductor industry’s most reliable measures of design readiness for decades. Static timing analysis (STA) is a critical enabler for this process. It allows analysis of...
TODAY’S NUMBERS €210bn (frozen Russian assets Brussels wants to mobilize) · €90bn (fallback EU loan already agreed) · €23.1bn (Ukraine’s funding gap even with that fallback). The gap is why Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain and Poland are reviving the plan...
Gold-Backed Yuan System While no shovel has yet broken ground on dedicated Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) vaults outside Hong Kong, the architecture of a Global South alternative trade settlement system based on a gold-backed yuan is in play. Building an underlying non-Western...
Pakistan’s Chief of Defense Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir’s trip to Iran on August 24 has ignited new hope for a negotiated end to the the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. He arrived in Tehran with “ fresh proposals...
British police have run more than a dozen training sessions since 2023 for countries that the government has flagged for their poor human rights record, Declassified UK can reveal. The College of Policing, the professional body for policing in England and...
The War Enters a New Phase Six months after the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran, the conflict appears to be entering an endgame defined by economic pressure, military deterrence and a lack of a clear path to...
Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with a series of questions on the US and China, including a look at the likely toothless threats implied by Trump's "Economic D-Day" agenda, China's role or lack thereof in a breakdown...
Thailand plans to accelerate the rollout of renewable energy sources and embrace nuclear power for the first time to cut reliance on imported LNG in the wake of the Middle East crisis, Energy Minister Akanat Promphan told Bloomberg in an...
A beam clears its strength check with margin, then fails on deflection. The section goes up two sizes. Connection details, supporting members, and erection clearances get reworked behind it. The cause is usually the same: the section was screened on...
Poland has asked the European Commission to impose a €250 million ($291.3 million) fine on Meta, accusing the social media company of failing to adequately tackle fraudulent advertisements and scams on its platforms. Polish Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said...
Six months into the Iran war, OPEC+ is facing an unprecedented challenge to its influence over global oil markets. The alliance, which once had considerable power to shape prices by adjusting production, is now struggling to offset supply disruptions caused...
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Yet another tanker has been struck by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, the UK Maritime Trade Operations said today, as quoted by DPA. The report follows earlier attacks that continue despite efforts on the part of Pakistan and...
There is a harsh paradox in today’s sustainability debate. The tools for understanding environmental risk are becoming more sophisticated: financed emissions, climate-risk models, taxonomies, transition plans and carbon pricing are increasingly part of the language of business and finance. This...
China Radio International has been broadcasting since 1993. Its mission is to introduce China to the world and present the world to China. Broadcasting in 80 languages, it is one of the world's major international broadcasters. It operates a multi-language...
The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railways has been in the spotlight recently. Many observers have highlighted the project, which connects trade routes from China (Kashgar) through Kyrgyzstan to Andijan in Uzbekistan and then on to Europe, as part of an era of power...
Views of settlements in the Rasuwa district in north-central Nepal covered in mud following the devastating flash floods that swept through the area on Aug. 26, 2026, causing widespread destruction to homes, roads and other infrastructure. CREDIT: UNICEF/UN0914644/ Skanda Gautam By...
On paper, Alexander Vindman’s loss in last week’s Florida Democratic Senate was a shocking upset. After all, Vindman had a 16-to-1 fundraising advantage and far more national name recognition than the winner — progressive state Rep. Angie Nixon. But the results...
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