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In the race to secure the Democratic ticket for Massachusetts’ upcoming Senate race, Rep. Seth Moulton has put out a not-so-subtle call for ads targeting “voters under 40” highlighting that he’s “one of Massachusetts’ rising progressive stars” and a “next...

Elections

Hindutva boss Mohan Bagwat with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, his party’s most senior and notorious member. On August 29, more than 5,000 Indian Americans will fill Madison Square Garden for an event called “Universal Oneness Celebrations.” The keynote speaker is...

#Current Affairs, Anti-Muslim Bigotry, Canada

This statement was originally published on zambia.misa.org on 13 August 2026. SECOND PRESS STATEMENT BY THE ZIKO LATHU CONSORTIUM AND THE GLOBAL PLATFORM NETWORK AS ZAMBIA VOTES – DELIVERED ON 13TH AUGUST 2026, AT THE GLOBAL PLATFORM Good afternoon distinguished colleagues of...

News

Over the last two years, the EU and UK have emerged as leading actors in imposing sanctions on Russia. But people like Maria Demertzis, Professor at the European University Institute in Italy, have raised questions around the effectiveness of the...

News

An analysis of the coming energy crisis Steve Jermy is a Commodore (Rtd) Royal Navy. Naval commander, offshore energy CEO, strategic thinker Cross-posted from Steve Jermy’s substack “Mor Gallos” Photo: Screengrab 1. Executive Summary Introduction – this strategic analysis: forecasts an emerging and prolonged global...

Economics, Energy, Geopolitics

Politics tries to hide it but the only morality it is interested in these days is greed and avarice. It is this which has done endless damage and only a moral campaign can challenge it. Robin McAlpine is head of strategic...

DeGrowth, Economics, Environment

The massive data center capacity scale-up underway has focused attention on the scale of water required for these facilities to operate. Rystad Energy estimates that without water-saving measures in place, global water consumption by data centers could rise to 644...

News

The U.S.’ designation of U.K.-based activist collective Palestine Action as a global terrorist group is part of a wider project, concocted by far-right pro-Israel strategist Sebastian Gorka, to criminalize left-wing or pro-Palestine dissent against Trump’s rule. MintPress exposes this plan. The...

Daily Digest, Foreign Affairs, Front Page: Foreign Affairs

His foreign policy is roiling markets and spiking US Treasury bond yields, which touches everything in the American economy Karthik Sankaran is a senior research fellow in geoeconomics in the Global South program at the Quincy Institute Cross-posted from Responsible Statecraft Photo: Wikipedia Over...

Economics, Geopolitics, Article

Venezuela helped create OPEC. More than six decades later, it is considering walking away, and Washington appears perfectly happy to hold open the door. Caracas is weighing whether to leave the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Bloomberg reported Friday,...

News

Kazakhstan is trying to keep the Kremlin at arm’s length amid Russian efforts to lean on Central Asian states for help in bolstering Moscow’s staggering war economy. Ukraine’s ongoing drone campaign has inflicted severe damage on Russia’s energy infrastructure and...

News

More Gulf oil is moving again. Getting it out now costs a fortune. Earnings on the benchmark Saudi Arabia-to-China supertanker route surged to a record $647,000 per day on Thursday, according to Baltic Exchange data cited by Bloomberg. That is...

News

This story is a partnership with Drilled , an independent global newsroom focused on multimedia climate accountability reporting. Reporting for this story was funded in part by the Center for Media and Democracy. Strike up a conversation in Mandan, North Dakota, at...

Environment, News, propaganda

In the second quarter of 2026, the EU recorded a trade deficit of €21.8 billion, as goods imported from non-EU countries (€701.8 billion) exceeded exports (€680.0 billion). This is the first trade deficit registered since the second quarter of 2023,...

Economics, Eurostat, Link

Why is meat so expensive? Who’s pouring herself a cup of ambition? And who is Hasan Piker anyway? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in LeverMind , our weekly news quiz testing your knowledge of the...

LeverMind Quiz

UN Secretary-General António Guterres (at podium) briefs reporters on the status of the Ebola virus outbreak. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten By Shreya Komar UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 2026 (IPS) Following 42 consecutive days without a new confirmed case, The Africa Centres for Disease...

Africa, Aid, Headlines

“Don’t leave home without sunscreen!” “No tan is worth the risk!” “Protect the skin you’re in!” If you haven’t heard these sun protection slogans, you’ve certainly heard a litany of others. The current dermatological guidelines decree the sun’s rays as...

Arts & Culture, Book Review, Books

Lake Chungará and Parinacota volcano in northern Chile Credit: Gerd Breitenbach, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license By Céline Delacroix OTTAWA, Canada, Aug 28 2026 (IPS) This week is World Water Week , the annual conference of governments, business, and civil...

Active Citizens, Civil Society, Climate Action

Oil holds near $90 despite sweeping Iran sanctions as uncertainty over Hormuz transits keeps markets on edge. Friday, August 28, 2026 The US announcement of ‘toughest sanctions in history’ against Iran did relatively little to push oil prices away from...

News

JENIN, West Bank /PNN - An Israeli airstrike killed three Palestinians on Friday in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, including a man the Israeli military said was a Hamas operative, according to Israeli and local sources. The Israeli military said...

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Photo by Pix Tresa on Unsplash A while back, I talked about the kind of spread I wanted. It’s part of something I call Project Ithaca, just to have a name for it in my mind. I picked the name a...

News

Britain has played itself into the role of a would-be global and maritime power. Its desire to reclaim the great status it once enjoyed has driven London into such enormous expenditures that Britain has decided to bring Germany into the...

World

Even before the Collective West launched a direct military war against Russia, Russia had already won the war: its army, its economy, and its people. By Peter Hanseler via ForumGeopolitia.com Hard Factors Russia’s Many Enemies If one wants to determine which side will prevail...

Guest Contributor

Agentic artificial intelligence is likely to give the open-source electronic design automation market a meaningful boost. Its biggest contribution will not be the immediate replacement of established commercial platforms from Cadence, Synopsys, or Siemens. Instead, agentic AI can make open-source...

AI, EDA, chiplet research

The search is on for “Unstoppable Africans”. The Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) has opened nominations for a new community-led campaign to recognise and celebrate entrepreneurs, business leaders and changemakers whose ideas, leadership and actions are driving Africa’s economic transformation. The...

Partner Insight

Sudan’s war has entered a more dangerous phase after fighting spilled across the country’s borders, raising fresh concerns about the conflict’s regional consequences. The Chadian army accused the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) of carrying out an airstrike against a convoy...

Middle East & Africa, Chad, Defense

US President Donald Trump told reporters that he does not believe Moscow will attack a NATO nation amid rising concerns that Russian President Vladimir Putin will strike a Baltic country or other member state to test the Western alliance’s resolve....

News

In November 2025, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pulled an about-face on climate policy that caused a furor among the state’s environmentalists . Once an opponent of new fossil fuel infrastructure, the governor announced she would approve a new Trump-backed gas...

National Politics

Islamabad found a way to preserve economic activity with Tehran while completely ignoring threats of secondary sanctions from Washington. Pakistan Will Not Comply With US Sanctions Pakistan declared that it does not legally recognize and does not intend to comply with unilateral...

World

Amazon has expanded Germany’s largest-ever power purchase agreement (PPA), signed in June, and announced another four deals to buy power from four wind farms in Sweden as the e-commerce giant and other electricity-intensive hyperscalers look to power their rising AI...

News

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Ratcliffe’s Moscow visit highlights strategic divisionsJames Davis reports that John Ratcliffe’s Moscow visit exposed the widening gap between Washington and...

Global Risk-Reward Monitor

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Hormuz is “open”, but nowhere close to functioning normally. The U.S. has cleared mines from the internationally recognized shipping lanes and can technically get vessels through, but Iran’s military capability will still keep most commercial operators...

News

The war with Iran has handed Russia a strategic advantage in Ukraine. Washington is burning through the weapons Europe needs to deter Russia, moving military capacity into the Gulf and simultaneously telling NATO governments to take over more of their...

News

Many U.S. companies are experiencing long delays in getting export licenses to sell their goods in China. Most of these products, however, are already available in China. Furthermore, 82 percent of these firms say the products stuck in Commerce Department...

Labor, Trade, & Finance, China, Commerce Department

For decades, the dominant idea in corporate governance was that governments should regulate markets, while shareholders should own companies. Indonesia’s Danantara represents a different model: the state is not merely the regulator of business, but an active shareholder. That makes...

Opinion, Block 2, China State Capitalism

Munir’s Tehran mission was less about Iran joining the Mecca Pact and more about reviving U.S.–Iran talks and defusing regional tensions. Pakistan must now thread the needle between Riyadh and Tehran, turning the pact from a regional fault line into...

Iran, Locations, Pakistan

India is comfortably on track to meet its goal to have 500 gigawatts (GW) of non-fossil-fuel power capacity installed by 2030, after having just hit the 300 GW milestone, New and Renewable Energy Minister Pralhad Joshi said at an industry...

News

India Expands Defence Cooperation With US The Indian Army has signed an agreement with the United States to purchase Javelin anti tank missile systems, marking another step in the growing defence relationship between Washington and New Delhi. The value of...

World News, India, Security
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