The global fuel crisis is strengthening Russia’s position in the energy sector and geopolitics against the backdrop of rising prices and limited reserves. US Wants Best for Itself, but Things Turn Out as Usual The Wall Street Journal, in an article titled...
With assorted economic and military crises boiling all across the Middle East in the wake of his disastrous decision to launch a war on Iran, President Trump will meet with Persian Gulf leaders in New York next week, on the margins...
Taiwan is moving toward a nuclear comeback barely a year after shutting its last reactor, as soaring LNG prices and mounting dependence on imported gas force a rethink of its energy strategy. The preparations are already tangible: Taipower has submitted...
The year 2026 has brought sweeping change to Latin America’s relationship with the United States. Following a major military buildup in the Caribbean and strikes against vessels suspected of drug trafficking, U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Jan....
Imagine flying from South Africa to Antarctica, one of the most remote places on Earth. Then visualize making the journey on a jet powered, partially, by fuel made from left-over cooking oil. That’s from a headline today on Business Insider...
Sometime around late 2009, centrifuges at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant began malfunctioning. They would suddenly speed up or slow down, placing enormous stress on the delicate machinery. Centrifuges failed. The engineers trying to diagnose the problem had another problem:...
For a second year in a row, the United States will deny access to the United Nations headquarters district to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority administers parts of the occupied West Bank. Why is this happening, where did...
As Yemen’s Houthis ramp up the costs of war in the Gulf, Tehran is wagering on US elections to bring a political sea change Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United...
We must keep prising the fingers of the billionaire class off our throats until it is only the discredited, and morally bankrupt, who refuse to speak loudly in opposition to genocide Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the...
Rising electrification rates remain the main pillar of global energy investment despite recent concerns about the existential threat that AI could pose for humanity, Fatih Birol, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), said on Thursday. “Electricity demand...
How long can Western nations serve as proxies to keep the US afloat? Michael Hudson (preview clip The United States is selling oil short, just as it has kept down the price of gold through financial manipulation, selling gold forward short...
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Today’s newsletter is abbreviated as I am helping my Mom go back into the hospital. Thanks for your understanding. Today’s top items: 1. National Advanced Manufacturing Conference - Xi issued “important instructions” on developing advanced manufacturing, conveyed at a two-day National Advanced...
The world of pop culture is ablaze with fury, as billionaire plutocrat Robert Kraft successfully pressured Ed Sheeran into dropping Macklemore from his North American tour over the rapper’s pro-Palestine statements. The incident has ignited widespread outrage, and blown up in...
RAMALLAH /PNN/ The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said journalists and media workers in the Gaza Strip are facing “exceptionally harsh conditions” amid the ongoing war, calling for the urgent medical evacuation of dozens of injured and ill reporters who cannot access adequate...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is increasingly preoccupied with a singular structural shift: the move toward national currencies in trade and investment. While the official rhetoric emphasizes a collective drift away from the US dollar, a deeper analysis of member...
Just days after Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reaffirmed an intention to reduce the country’s dependence on Russian natural gas imports, Russia’s provider, Gazprom Armenia, has taken the seemingly punitive step of announcing a prolonged cutoff of supplies. Pashinyan told...
This story was originally published by Sentient . Last November , the Trump administration proposed a regulation that would strip federal water pollution protections from wide swaths of wetlands in the United States. Now, 10 months later, the administration has updated...
In 2020, the group Black Lives Matter became a driving force in American politics. They ostensibly rallied around the idea that black lives, you know, matter. A bold position, to be sure, because I wasn’t sure anyone really disagreed. Photo by...
The Houthis are routinely described as Iranian proxies. The description has become even more common as their military reach has expanded from northern Yemen toward the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb strait. Iran has supplied weapons, training, intelligence...
Within days of the CDU’s worst-ever state election result, CSU leader Markus Söder ruled out any move against Chancellor Friedrich Merz “under no circumstances,” calling him the right man to stand by his own reform agenda. Read as loyalty, that...
Failing to deter a full-scale war with Israel and the United States, Iran has moved away from the strategic patience and military restraint that shaped much of its prewar approach, shifting toward a counter-escalation strategy that aims to transform the...
The US Congress on September 16 passed sweeping legislation targeting Russia and Iran, sending to President Donald Trump a sanctions package supporters say will increase pressure on Moscow and countries that help finance its war against Ukraine. The House of...
The House voted Thursday to pass legislation that would place a new set of sanctions on Russia, drawing significant Democratic support despite opposition from party leadership. The bill, first introduced by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in 2025, was previously...
The UK household energy bills could jump by between 25% and 30% in the first quarter of 2027 amid surging natural gas prices as the Middle East crisis drags on, analysts say, warning that the government may have to spend...
ASML’s grip on the most advanced corner of chip manufacturing is tightening. The Dutch company, already the sole supplier of extreme ultraviolet lithography systems, is winning broader industry support for High Numerical Aperture EUV, or High NA, its next-generation technology...
For most Americans, a foreign war becomes real when it affects the household budget. That moment has arrived. On September 11, the national average price of diesel climbed to $6.06 a gallon , up from roughly $3.71 a year earlier....
Closing an online scam center stops criminal activity, but it does not dismantle the network behind it. The people directing the operation may be in another country, while the money can move across borders through bank accounts or digital payment...
The soaring wind and solar capacity installations in Germany have created an unsustainable business and project economics environment in the sector amid slower grid expansion and electricity generation curtailments. In 2023, Germany crossed the 50% mark of the share of...
Closing plenary of the recent Kunming Dialogue. Credit: ENB-IISD/Anastasia Rodopoulou By Stella Paul KUNMING, China, Sep 17 2026 (IPS) The world may have enough money to protect nature. The bigger problem, according to the head of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD),...
TODAY’S NUMBERS $4,307 (gold, a record) · 4.99% (US 10-year Treasury yield, a 19-year high) · $104.59 (Brent crude, down for a second day). Record gold beside near-record yields isn’t ordinary risk-off trading — it’s central banks hedging against the...
Canada’s oil-producing province of Alberta plans to announce in November a new preferential royalty framework to encourage companies to invest in new oil and gas production, Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith said at an industry event. As Alberta owns 81% of...
From mortgages to auto loans to credit cards, borrowing is set to get even pricier. But the Federal Reserve’s decision on September 16, 2026, to hike its baseline interest rate also highlighted an increasingly confounding dilemma: It can raise the...
Russia’s war in Ukraine has become more than a test of military endurance. It has also become a live laboratory for modern warfare, exposing how quickly weapons, tactics and battlefield technology can change and raising difficult questions about whether NATO...
Diesel prices and margins will continue to grow amid tightening markets, but gasoline could offer even more upside as refiners currently prioritize diesel output, Goldman Sachs says. The investment bank is switching its key fuel market recommendation away from diesel...
Yemen’s Houthi movement has evolved from a local Zaydi Shi’ite revivalist group in the country’s northern mountains into a heavily armed force capable of threatening shipping routes, striking targets across the region and influencing the wider security balance in the...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip / PNN / As the back-to-school season approaches, preparations for the new academic year look dramatically different across the Gaza Strip, where families face harsh living conditions, shortages of school supplies and steep price increases for the...
In December 2024, the share of South Koreans ages 65 and older surpassed 20% for the first time, making it what demographers like us call a “super-aged society.” By August 2026 that share had risen further, to 22.1%. That label...
Gender discrimination begins early and accumulates over time, leading to a narrowing of job opportunities and loss of belonging as they get older. Credit: Shutterstock By Kim Samuel and Bridget Sleap TORONTO / LONDON, Sep 17 2026 (IPS) Chung Sun-cha started collecting cardboard,...
Historically, Africa has never hosted the Olympic Games due to the complications of finance, infrastructure and the scale of transport and accommodation required. In 2018, that changed, and Senegal was awarded the 2022 Youth Olympic Games, which were postponed until...
While Africa grows quality cotton, turning the crop into high-value products has been a consistent challenge. To break the cycle, Afreximbank’s African Textile Renaissance Plan aims to create a self-sustaining ecosystem that encompasses all the steps from growth to finished...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank /PNN/ When Walid Farrajah was 10, his uncle gave him a small group of chicks. What began as a simple childhood gift grew into a lifelong passion that has stayed with him alongside his career as a doctor. Today,...
A United Nations fact finding mission has said there are reasonable grounds to believe U.S. forces were responsible for two military strikes in Iran in February that amounted to war crimes, while also finding that Iranian authorities committed crimes against...
The removal of subsidies may make electric vehicles a more attractive option for Nigerian drivers, but the industry still has to confront several structural challenges to succeed. A four-year-old company is betting on a comprehensive approach. On May 29, 2023, as...
India will continue prioritizing the energy security of its population despite attempts by the United States to squeeze Russian oil and gas exports, many of which go to India, the country’s Foreign Ministry said today. It also warned that any...
This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Brig. Gen. Steven P. Carpenter, the commanding general of Multi-Domain Command – Europe, the U.S. Army’s first multi-domain operations command, headquartered at Clay Kaserne in Mainz-Kastel, Germany. Multi-Domain Command – Europe serves...
The ‘shorthand’ labels placed on places and events have enormous power to establish stereotypes that can last forever. Africa has suffered from such negative labels for centuries. Time to put a stop to it. I love(d) Bridget Jones, the fictional heroine...
On Aug. 24, 2026, the Trump administration transmitted the text of the U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperation agreement to Congress. By doing so, the administration triggered the 90-day congressional review process described in the Atomic Energy Act and relaunched a debate about...
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