The Trump administration has opened another front in the global rare earths race, backing a new project in Madagascar as Washington accelerates efforts to break China’s grip on the critical minerals that power everything from advanced weapons and AI infrastructure...
We are still waiting for the July Politburo meeting. In this issue: - RMB and global imbalances - PRC sending missiles to Iran? - National Plan for Addressing Climate Change During the ‘15th Five-Year Plan - China’s commercial space expansion - 6-year-old dies after Shanghai gene-editing...
Female scholarship is not a relic of the past, but a living tradition that continues to enrich, guide, and strengthen Muslim communities around the world. Historical Fact In the realm of Islamic scholarship, female scholarship is sometimes defined as Islamic teachings that are...
The growth of neo-colonial tendencies, the current geopolitical developments, and the scramble for its resources by external countries in Africa: these are some of the issues researcher and business analyst Lipton Matthews has recently discussed in an interview conversation with...
Tightening global supply of oil and gas is putting Europe on course for a difficult winter this year due to the continent’s significant dependence on energy imports, despite energy transition ambitions. Gas in storage is much lower than it should...
For anyone tracking enterprise infrastructure, the storage landscape is moving at a breakneck pace. The explosive growth of generative AI, multi-million token context windows, and massive data-centric workloads have pushed traditional memory and storage architectures to their absolute limits. This August,...
Air conditioning has become a hot-button geopolitical issue as rising temperatures create dangerous conditions around the globe. Air-conditioning units are increasingly being considered as “essential infrastructure” as summer heat waves turn into a deadly and increasingly regular occurrence. But while...
The U.S. Department of Energy has picked five states led by Republican governors to potentially host nuclear fuel waste in exchange for billions of dollars of support to advance manufacturing in the full nuclear fuel cycle. These so-called Nuclear Lifecycle...
A 21-year-old German who had reportedly previously attempted to join the Islamic State allegedly carried out the deadly vehicle-ramming attack at Berlin's Pride festival, killing one person and injuring 29 others. The post Suspect in deadly Berlin Pride attack pledged allegiance...
Time and again, evidence has shown that proactive investments in anticipatory action, preparedness and mitigation can reduce the negative impacts of extreme weather events while minimizing economic losses. Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS By Esther Ngumbi URBANA, Illinois, US, Jul 29 2026 (IPS) Recently,...
BMW shares in Germany are down 36% so far this year, as the automaker's latest forecast downgrade was described by JPMorgan analyst Jose Asumendi as a "wake-up call for the auto industry." The outlook for BMW continues to deteriorate, with Bloomberg reporting...
Ukraine’s attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea marks the first direct link between the wars in Ukraine and Iran. While details of the July 25 incident are murky, Ukraine’s intelligence agency the SBU said its drones...
A fire broke out at natural gas facilities in the Damietta Port on Wednesday afternoon, the Petroleum Ministry said in a statement , without elaborating on the cause of the incident. Maritime security firm Ambrey said that a drone struck a...
About 3,300 years ago, in the region around the Mediterranean, civilization collapsed. That’s what the archaeological record shows: the spectacular disappearance of a number of thriving cultures in Greece, Anatolia, and the Middle East. The Minoan palaces, with their astonishing...
In 2021, Andrew Ivey wrote, “‘I Have Other Data’: The Guardia Nacional and the Entrenchment of Mexico’s Militarization’,” where he warned Mexico was headed toward a militarization trap. Five years later, amidst increased pressure from the Trump administration and the...
For ASIC design teams, the gap between RTL simulation and first silicon remains one of the most consequential stages of the development cycle. Simulation provides controllability and visibility, but it cannot always reproduce the software workloads, interface behavior, clock interactions,...
In a surprise development, the tiny South American nation of Guyana recently emerged as a major oil exporter. In a mere four years, the former British colony of one million went from first discovery to first oil. Guyana has cemented...
Commodity producing and trading giant Glencore expects to post a profit of $3.3 billion in its marketing division for the first half of the year, as extreme market volatility during the Iran war generated windfall earnings for the energy commodity...
Former Marine and New York Times journalist Thomas Gibbons-Neff recently returned to Afghanistan to find accountability and closure, specifically seeking out a Taliban commander he had battled in 2010. Bill Roggio and Will Selber break down the merits of Gibbons-Neff’s...
The U.S. ultimately will have to capitulate, with the result that Iran becomes a regional power. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture Foundation Trump ordered the U.S. military not...
The world continues to witness new geopolitical flashpoints, and another potential crisis may now be unfolding in Southeast Asia. At first glance, the latest dispute appears almost unusual: a Chinese naval serviceman struck a Philippine sailor with a wooden baton....
Rio Tinto and Glencore have posted near-record updates thanks to this year’s sky-high commodity prices and the uncertainty wrought by the Middle East conflict. Mining juggernaut Rio Tinto notched a 43 per cent jump in profit over the first six...
Stein‘s Law: “if a thing cannot go on forever, it will stop.“ Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Most people have heard at least a version of what is called Stein‘s Law: “if a thing cannot go on forever,...
Iranian-backed militias in Iraq escalated attacks on Saudi Arabia and the Kurdistan Region in late July, prompting US and Saudi airstrikes against militia logistics and weapons sites across Iraq. The escalation comes as Washington pressures Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al...
Rahm Emmanuel was credited as saying, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” He was probably paraphrasing Machiavelli when he said it regarding the 2008 Financial Crisis, but he’s the one who used those words in that particular order. And,...
Indian Oil Corp. is seeking 50% ownership stakes in very large gas carriers, a first for an Indian refiner, as the company prepares to transport higher volumes of U.S. liquefied petroleum gas under India’s plan to source up to one-quarter...
Contrary to Western mainstream mass media, the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in 2026 has failed to achieve its stated objectives and in the process accelerated the birth of a Middle East which will reshape the world order. 1. The Failures of...
A U.S.-backed proposal to dismantle the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is sparking fear in Gaza about the future of the agency that has shaped every aspect of refugee life for nearly eight decades. Earlier this...
Encouraged by Ukraine’s sustained advances in drone warfare, Western media is abuzz with the idea that Kyiv just might be able to defeat Russia after more than four years of bitter fighting. In May, Time magazine hailed Ukraine’s drone industry as giving Kyiv “the cards...
The following story is co-published with Tim Shorrock’s Substack newsletter, Empire Blues . When the flamboyant neoconservative R. James Woolsey passed away last week at the age of 84, The Washington Post and its fellow travelers in corporate media mourned him...
On July 23, 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met in Manila on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit. The meeting lasted thirty-seven minutes, making it the fourth bilateral encounter between the two...
In Part 2, John Bellamy Foster debunks the misconception that socialism and materialism had no role in the development of ecological analysis. His research shows that socialist transformation involves the transformation of human relations with nature, and that the modern...
Cajoled by Zelensky, Western media is dangerously upselling — again — Kyiv’s ability to win Stavroula Pabst is a reporter for Responsible Statecraft Cross-posted from Responsible Statecraft An anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine from 2015. (Photo courtesy Ministry of Defense of Ukraine/Wikimedia Commons) Encouraged...
The Chinese Communist Party (CPC) Congress scheduled for autumn 2027 could be one of the most delicate and significant in its history. President Xi Jinping will extend his power for a fourth five-year term and bring up an entire generation...
Crude oil inventories in the United States saw a decrease of 7.2 million barrels during the week ending July 24, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on Wednesday. The decrease brings commercial stockpiles to...
Intelligence circles in Beijing, specifically the Ninth Bureau of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (the de facto Chinese intelligence agency), view the Muslim Brotherhood’s current demonstrations in Libya and Tunisia and their attempts to extend them to Egypt’s immediate...
Washington is increasing pressure on China and India over their trade in Russian energy resources while seeking to block the future development of Russia's Arctic energy sector. US Senate Approves Pressure on Russia Through Third Countries The US Senate has approved a...
Taiwan has suspended approximately 500,000 metric tons of liquefied natural gas purchases from Papua New Guinea every six months, removing roughly $800 million of spot-market demand after Port Moresby ordered the closure of Taipei’s representative office. The decision leaves Taiwan’s...
The US Senate delivered one of its strongest bipartisan endorsements of Ukraine since President Donald Trump returned to office, voting 86-12 on July 28 to advance sweeping legislation aimed at tightening economic pressure on Russia and Iran. The procedural vote,...
CONTACT: media@palestinelegal.org July 29, 2026, Pittsburgh, PA — Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has opened Title VI investigations into 10 activists, barring 8 of them from campus after they painted pro-Palestinian messages on the university's century-old free speech fence. Today, Palestine Legal...
Oil prices surged more than 7% on Wednesday as renewed U.S.-Iran hostilities and fresh threats to shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb pushed WTI above $84 and Brent toward $90, confronting the Federal Reserve with another inflation shock just hours before...
As nuclear energy gains momentum amid energy security concerns and spiking power demand, global annual investment is seriously lagging the spending needed to reach the current capacity expansion goals, the nuclear industry's main body, the World Nuclear Association, said in...
By: Split Nguyen Six hundred miles from its headwaters in southeast China, the Red River flows through Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital city, and then through a broad, fertile delta on its way to the South China Sea. About 45 minutes’ drive downriver...
Chips&Media WAVE-J is a high-performance JPEG codec intellectual property core designed for advanced imaging systems that require very large image support, high throughput, flexible pixel formats, and integrated pre- and post-processing. It succeeds the CODAJ12V architecture while retaining compatibility with...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jul 29 2026 (IPS) Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (Republican of Kansas) rose to public attention in the 1950s with his allegations that hundreds of “Communists” had infiltrated the State Department and other...
Britain’s energy regulator, Ofgem, on Wednesday launched a consultation on a proposed commitment fee for data center projects as part of broad reforms to ensure network capacity is used for projects that are ready and able to connect. The proposal...
The pattern in Gaza was regime change dressed as counterterrorism: dismantle Hamas, and with it, any Palestinian governing authority capable of resisting Israeli control. That same pattern has now been exported to Iran—and Washington supplied much of the firepower. On February...
Democracy is not exhausted by the periodic holding of elections. It rests, above all, on the survival of the institutions that allow the will of the people to be freely expressed—and among these, none plays a more decisive role than...
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