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Intel’s strategic argument about enterprise AI is that the value of a model depends on the system that surrounds it. In an article by executives Bill Pearson and Anil Nanduri, the company positions open software as the…
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This phenomenon has been described by political scientists long ago. A recognition of this fact by someone who was close to former president Joe Biden is quite impressive. White House Press Secretary from 2022 to 2025…
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The standard explanations for why Taiwan is so important to the Chinese Communist Party are familiar: territorial integrity, credibility of deterrence commitments, great power competition with the United States, the…
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A group of UN Staffers outside the Secretariat. Credit: United Nations By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Oct 13 2026 (IPS) The United Nations has once again revived a longstanding problem that has been left lingering behind…
Armed Conflicts
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 13 2026 (IPS) The protracted demise of dollar-gold convertibility and associated fixed exchange rates did not end dollar hegemony. With crucial and timely help from…
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Famous Indian author Shashi Tharoor was famously quoted as saying: “Everything in India is recycled, even the dreams “ In October 2010, The Economist ran a cover titled “How India’s growth will outpace China,” citing…
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The Iran conflict has exposed a glaring blind spot in US war strategy. America can escalate in hours, but it can take years to rebuild the arsenal it consumes. Washington has begun addressing the arms-replenishment…
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Britain is clamping down even harder on critics who consider Western foreign policy to have been a catastrophic failure. We are fast approaching the point where expressing an alternative opinion can land you in jail. On…
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Republicans could be looking at a major wipeout in the midterm elections. Their tiny House majority was always going to be difficult to maintain, but the Senate should not be in play at all. Yet it surely is, with…
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At first the idea of mercy was something that helped me through the ordeal. But would real forgiveness be a form of Stockholm syndrome? I knew Mohamed Tahlil as a gentle pirate who oversaw a team of guards during the…
ASIA NARRATIVES China Systems Weekly: Political, Economic and Social Narratives Oct 5–Oct 11, 2026 Executive Assessment The developments from October 5–11 reveal a common structural shift: economic interdependence is…
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The United States and Britain, hoping to devise a winning formula for Ukraine, have decided to spend another half a billion dollars on a new military project called Sceptre. That is the name of a projectile which…
By: Cameron Magusic Photo from Georgetown University Acclaimed Uyghur poet and human rights advocate Abduweli Ayup has been invited to give a presentation at the Sorbonne University in Paris on Oct. 24, documenting…
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On October 9th, the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize Was awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African international lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid political prisoners on Robben Island, and went on to serve…
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In this issue: 1. Guidelines for developing new quality productive forces 2. Outcomes from EU-China trade talks 3. Improving new car design safety and quality 4. Cracking down on food safety violations The Feed…
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While European leaders appear unified in beating the drums of war, many workers in the supply chain do not seem so convinced, with strikes rocking some of the defence industry’s key producers. John Rees is a Visiting…
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If the AI hype is true, we won’t need to worry about fiscal deficits because growth will solve all problems. If they are wrong and the AI bubble bursts, interest rates will fall sharply. Dean Baker is the senior…
Economics
A new play exalts economist John Maynard Keynes as a prophet of the good life, but was he really? Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog by…
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By Frans Viljoen PRETORIA, South Africa, Oct 12 2026 (IPS) The awarding of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to distinguished South African jurist and international judge Navanethem “Navi” Pillay is about more than just the…
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A Licence Signed Before the Ink Was Dry On 9 October, three weeks after Donald Trump signed the most sweeping Russia sanctions statute of his presidency, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (the agency that…
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Chips&Media has announced a data compression technology aimed at one of the constraints in artificial intelligence hardware: moving data fast enough to keep processors busy. The South Korean semiconductor intellectual…
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In the decade between 1987 and 1997, Thailand’s economy was red hot, leading the pack of the so-called Southeast Asian tiger cubs with an average GDP growth rate of 8 per cent. Then came the apocalypse. On July 2, 1997…
“Go to college,” I was told, as many of you were. We were lectured on the importance of college and the implication was clear, even if you were fortune enough not to have it spelled out for you: failure to go to college…
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Maria Pappas shares immigrant roots, personal tragedies and lessons of faith at Arab American community book signing Cook County official Maria Pappas shares emotional stories of her Greek-American upbringing, struggles…
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As artificial intelligence (AI) workloads migrate to endpoint hardware, edge AI devices face immense pressure to deliver real-time inference within highly restrictive power and thermal envelopes. Traditional silicon…
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Poor Donald Trump. For the last 21 months he had to do a great deal of lying. He had to pretend at times that he really cared about the people dying in the Russo-Ukraine War, that he really wanted a deal that was good…
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Keysight Technologies is opening a new route for artificial intelligence into radio frequency engineering. Announced on October 6, 2026, its latest software capabilities let engineers connect their own AI agents and…
Democracy & Governance
I recently asked a Palestinian friend what she thought about the upcoming Israeli elections. “It’s like we’re on a train speeding toward a cliff,” she said, “and we’re being asked whether we’d prefer a conductor who…
Ukraine War
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During a quarter-century in power, Vladimir Putin has led Russia into three wars, in part aimed at restoring his country’s status as a world power via violent conquest . Each war began in a blitzkrieg-style display of…
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The recent Reuters headline, “US opens direct talks with Myanmar’s generals, reversing years of isolation,” describes a consequential diplomatic change. It is not a verdict that the junta has won, or that Myanmar’s…
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For years, ground autonomy lagged well behind its counterparts in the air. That gap is starting to close. Jonathan is joined by Ryan Hartman (Ondas Sentinel) and Scott Philips (Forterra) to examine what it takes to field…
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The American team thought it was signaling restraint. The Chinese team saw preparations for combat. In a closed-door Sino-American crisis simulation I helped organize in the 2010s — which the U.S. military funded as part…
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Religious leaders, representatives of international organizations and Kazakh officials gather for the 24th Secretariat meeting of the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions at the Palace of Peace and…
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While the caravan struggles along a muddy riverside path, tempers fray, Chen catches fish, merchants risk their necks for pistachios, and Darius waits anxiously for Ahmed and Weili to return. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part…
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For centuries, the environs of Didim in Mid-Aegean Türkiye have carried the whisper of prophecy. It was here, at the monumental Temple of Apollo, that pilgrims once walked the Sacred Way from ancient Miletus to consult…
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Artificial intelligence is rapidly making its way into national defense. Reconnaissance, early warning, target detection, mission planning—everywhere, machine-learning systems promise faster analysis, faster responses…
Trump’s Unlikely October Surprise The Russian Diesel Deal The agreement to import up to 1.8 million metric tons of Russian diesel is a transaction where the numbers, logistics and geopolitics overwhelmingly favour…
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The Russia-Ukraine War has become a real-time laboratory for the Chinese military, spurring rapid defensive modernization while exposing deep friction between its centralized command hierarchy and the decentralized…
Armenia
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Nikol Pashinyan’s policies are increasingly at odds with Armenia’s national interests. Instead of strengthening its security, the country is facing new and increasingly serious threats. The defeat in the Second Karabakh…
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Demanding the resignation of a minister is one thing. It is uncomfortable for a government, occasionally embarrassing for a prime minister, but ultimately manageable. Ministers can be sacrificed and their departures can…
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The Republican talking point about Biden-era fuel prices died in the Strait of Hormuz For four years Republicans had a simple message on energy: prices were higher under Joe Biden. It worked. Voters remembered $5…
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In his recent “State of the Force” address, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a 20% reduction to the number of general and flag officers, affecting an estimated 800 positions scheduled for January 1, 2027. His…
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When Ansar Allah—commonly referred to as the Houthis— seized Yemen’s Red Sea coastline and strategic islands in the Bab al-Mandab Strait on September 10, 2026, they appeared to gain the upper hand in Yemen’s long-running…
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In his recent “State of the Force” address, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a 20% reduction to the number of general and flag officers, affecting an estimated 800 positions scheduled for January 1, 2027. His…
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China’s artificial intelligence and digital-infrastructure investments in the Gulf Arab states are increasingly colliding with a far larger and more strategically privileged American technology presence, particularly in…
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Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel and Karl Deisseroth turned a light-sensitive protein from algae into a tool for switching brain cells on and off, giving the study of emotion, memory and behavior a causal, material basis. The…
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The US is seeking greater freedom of action and fewer international constraints, demanding more immediate returns from its alliances. But in doing so, it is undermining the institutions, partnerships, and credibility…
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That thou mayest rightly obey power, her bounds know; Those past, her nature and name is chang’d; to be Then humble to her is idolatry. ~ John Donne, Satire III Seven activists smashed their way into an engineering plant…