Iran’s IRGC has been striking various US targets and an average of two to three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz on a daily basis, as gas prices hit working class Americans where it hurts. On this episode of The...
Ahead of a high-stakes US-China summit planned for September 24 at the White House, Beijing appears to be spotlighting its influence over Iran to gain leverage during negotiations with its chief geopolitical rival. Expectations for a US-China breakthrough on Iran...
ASML is exploring how to produce more than 110 extreme ultraviolet lithography machines in 2028, reflecting the extraordinary investment flowing into artificial intelligence infrastructure. The Dutch semiconductor-equipment company expects to manufacture at least 80 EUV systems in 2027 and is...
TotalEnergies has decided to invest in the development of the Ima gas field offshore Nigeria to increase supply for the expanding Nigeria LNG export plant, the French supermajor said on Wednesday. As operator and holder of a 40% interest in...
Camden Council’s investments in Palantir, the controversial AI company with ties to the Israeli military, have increased by over 1,200% since October 2023. The council’s overall holdings in companies complicit in Israel’s violation of Palestinian rights have risen in value by...
Sunil Bharti Mittal’s Airtel Money targets $9bn IPO in boost for ailing UK stock market A payments business that operates across Africa and is ultimately controlled by an Indian billionaire has announced its intention to float on the struggling London Stock...
Europe’s economy is showing greater resilience than expected despite rising energy costs and disruptions linked to conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, with business activity across the euro zone accelerating sharply in September. The euro zone’s private sector expanded...
The Kremlin has signalled that Russia’s position on potential peace talks with Ukraine remains unchanged, despite a planned meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in New York. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said...
By CIVICUS Sep 23 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses public art, gender-based violence and censorship in Iraqi Kurdistan with Tara Abdullah, a multidisciplinary visual artist from Sulaymaniyah who is currently based in Oslo, Norway as part of the Safemuse – Safe Havens for...
A new military agreement between the United States, Denmark and Greenland has eased some of the anxiety surrounding Washington’s ambitions in the Arctic, but it has not erased concerns among Greenlanders about an expanded American military presence. Greenlandic officials and...
A street market in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city. Residents are anxious about high inflation and also fear recent floods will drive food prices higher. Credit: Ant/IPS By Guy Dinmore, and a reporter in Yangon YANGON, Myanmar, Sep 23 2026 (IPS) Isolated and at...
The global economy is showing more resilience than expected in 2026, helped by a surge in investment linked to artificial intelligence, but the impact of the Middle East conflict on energy markets is becoming a growing threat to global growth....
We spare the reader another detailed story from Ukraine to establish the now-familiar point that battlefield technology changes faster than militaries can acquire, review, and field it. The villain in this story is easy to identify: bureaucracy. The fashionable remedies...
A district judge in Grand Rapids has dismissed a lawsuit brought against several oil supermajors that accused the companies of conspiring to interfere with competition in alternative energy and electric cars. The lawsuit was filed by Michigan Attorney General Dan...
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and US President Donald Trump welcomed what Seoul described as significant progress on a $350 billion strategic investment package during a 30 minute meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on...
For nearly a century, American global power has rested on a three-legged tripod: unmatched military firepower, the ubiquitous sovereignty of the US dollar and the intellectual dominance of its higher-education system. While aircraft carriers project hard power and Wall Street...
China has drawn a firm line around Taiwan, human rights and several other issues ahead of President Xi Jinping’s meeting with US President Donald Trump, signalling that Beijing intends to protect what it considers core interests while seeking greater stability...
The Trump administration came perilously close to launching another bombing campaign against Yemen this weekend. According to a September 20 New York Times report, US commanders had approved their targets, American troops were loading bombs onto warplanes, and an attack on Yemen’s Ansar Allah forces was...
At a space-security summit in Paris this month, Novaspace chief executive Pacôme Révillon put a number on something most of the room already suspected: defence-owned reconnaissance satellites launched worldwide between 2026 and 2035 will reach 2,306, against just 485 in...
As human beings we have always been sitting ducks to extinction’s cosmic whims. We are a few astronomical units away from a life-ending meteor or comet strike, the kind that wiped out the dinosaurs after they were their own animal...
Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples protest exclusion and lack of recognition at the UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Credit: Lucas Wasson for Rights and Resources Initiative By Bayarsaikhan Namsrai, Gregoria Jimenez Amaya, Isabel Davila Pereira and Stephen Basele ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia,...
Relations between Turkey and Russia have always been one of the most intriguing scenarios in the Great Game. The leaders of the two countries maintain frequent contacts and “hotlines,” foreign ministries regularly consult on the situation in the Caucasus and...
Rising bond yields have put the time value of money back on the table. Investors are right to watch borrowing costs, distant cash flows and businesses that swallow capital by the billion. Across much of innovation, however, the price of...
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met President Donald Trump for a brief 40 minutes on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York on Tuesday. According to reports, both looked optimistic and shared comments to that end. “I...
The Bunker appears originally at the Project on Government Oversight and is republished here with permission. You shouldn’t go to war without the backing of the U.S. Congress. President Donald Trump is learning that the hard way, as his — not...
In Benjamin Disraeli’s 1847 novel Tancred, there is a short line that Edward Said would return to more than a century later: “The East is a career.” Five words. But they tell us rather a lot. For generations of ambitious...
NATO, EU and E3 leaders are taking Europe down a path to be ready for war by 2030. In the light of European bellicosity, Russia could decide to start this sooner. If so, the US would be unwilling to fight...
I am in-between flights heading back to Florida. The trip to and from Moscow is arduous. Between flights and layovers I will spend a total of 32 hours traveling. Not for the faint of heart. I am not doing any...
By: Nava Thakuria Kaptai National Park located at the Rangamati District of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in southeastern Bangladesh. Wikimedia photo For nearly three decades, the Chittagong Hill Tracts in the hilly southeastern region of Bangladesh, have carried a contradiction at the...
Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill discuss Xi Jinping's visit to the United States and what to expect in Washington D.C. this week. First: Reactions to the meeting between Scott Bessent and He Lifeng in New York City Sunday,...
Reprinted with permission from The Kucinich Report. Instead of six more weeks of winter, we will have at least six more weeks of war, brought to us by Secretary Hegseth and his boss, President Trump, with the help of Speaker Johnson...
Reprinted from Gary Taphorn’s Substack: As we approach the three-year mark of the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Israel has signaled that it has every intention of continuing its massive bombing campaigns against Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and possibly other...
U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a fund to finance infrastructure rebuilding damaged in the war with Iran, offering $5 billion in U.S. money for starters. The information comes from the Wall Street Journal, which cited unnamed sources from Washington...
On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Tuesday, 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries followed the Trump administration’s lead by designating 24 cartels, prison gangs, and drug trafficking groups as foreign terrorist organizations...
We recorded this week’s episode of Sharp China earlier today, almost entirely about Xi’s visit tomorrow to Washington, DC. Look for it in your inboxes in less than twelve hours. In this issue: 1. Li Qiang goes to Shanghai to stress accelerating...
As Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump prepare to meet next week, artificial intelligence governance will stand as one of the most urgent yet fraught items on their agenda. The rapid evolution of AI models and autonomous...
The current focus of the world’s governments, business and media when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) is on the dangers it poses to jobs, democracy and even the future of humanity itself. For many of a certain generation, these...
The recent AI Infra Summit was exceptionally jam-packed, filled to the brim with compelling talks, overlapping tracks, and emerging technologies. Amid the noise of the event, there were many excellent presentations detailing the physical realities of scaling hardware. But one...
Emerging economies are going to see an explosion of energy demand over the coming decades. Countries like Brazil, India, Nigeria, and Indonesia are racing to expand their energy production and imports in order to keep up with rapid economic development....
The Washington Summit: The Gordian Knot Xi Jinping's visit will take place in America's central political theater. Donald Trump is operating under intense domestic pressures—lowest approval ratings in history, a 40 trillion and growing national debt, a budget that looks like a...
President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi “Cirro” is undertaking one of the most consequential international missions of his presidency. His visit to the United States has brought Somaliland’s campaign for international recognition directly into Washington’s congressional, diplomatic and foreign-policy circles before moving...
With diesel prices hitting all-time highs above $6.50 a gallon, there is a growing demand from farm states that the White House ban diesel exports from the United States.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said today that the administration is considering whether...
Operation Inherent Resolve is scheduled to end on Sept. 30, as remaining U.S. troops in northern Iraq complete their withdrawal. The United States formed Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve in October 2014 to bring together partners to...
A rare Lada Granta Sport S1600 race-spec liftback has appeared on the market in Tver, priced at 2,750,000 rubles (about $26,000). Built in 2015, the vehicle is described by the owner as being in new condition, having never participated in...
Three recent elections in Germany have shocked the German political caste Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime in Germany and an editor of BRAVE NEW EUROPE Photo: Wikimedia Commons Following a massive victory in the state election...
If U.S. forces leave Iraq by 30 September 2026, Washington should view the departure not as the end of its relationship with Baghdad but as an opportunity to redefine it. The U.S. will retain influence in Iraq, but it will...
The Ed Sheeran-Macklemore episode has exposed who has the real power in the music industry and why so many musicians are silent on the Gaza genocide. Robin Andersen is professor emerita of media studies at Fordham University. She is an award-winning author...
The unwillingness of Trump to come to the Saudis rescue is the latest signal of the weakness of US imperialism in the Middle East. John Rees is a writer, broadcaster and activist, and is one of the organisers of the People’s...
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