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In late October, in a boardroom in Riyadh, executives from Red Sea Global and three Saudi lenders signed off on a SAR 6.5 billion ($1.73 billion) loan facility for AMAALA, the ultra-luxury wellness resort rising on the kingdom’s northern Red...

Travel & Leisure, Economics, luxury

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Iturup in mid-August 2026 has sparked debates and generated fresh discussions on ownership of the territory between officials in Russia and Japan. Iturup is the largest and northernmost of the Kuril islands, ownership of...

World News, Japan, Russia

Oil prices have soared in recent months as a result of the almost complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a key trade corridor connecting Asia and Europe. High fossil fuel prices have helped to drive up the profits of...

News

Jerry Chen, CEO and Founder of Upbeat Technology, received his Master of Science in ECE from the University of Texas at Austin. Started working as an IC design engineer in Silicon Valley at Intel, Lucent, Apple, and Procket Network since...

AI, CEO Interviews, RISC-V

AI's energy footprint is out of control. Hyperscalers are building out data centers faster than the energy industry can keep up with, pushing for the rapid buildout of any form of energy we have at our disposal, clean or dirty....

News

Take your pick of alarmist projections about the future of the global economy from top tech leaders. Monzo’s founder, Tom Blomfield, reckons unemployment will surge over the next five years as more and more human output is replaced by AI....

News

One of the things that I wish to address is the alienation, rejection, social isolation and the longing to belong that the mental patient has to suffer from and endure. I want to talk about psychosis, my personal experience, my...

African Renaissance, Mental health, Society

As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they explain the motives behind their activism. It is one of three such trials in...

Geopolitics, National Politics, Link

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As is the case of so many corporate internet media the youtube is being corrupted in soporate interest and propaganda. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting at Sheffield University Management School., and Chartered Accountant, and Co-founder of...

Media, Article, Richard Murphy

Southeast Asia may be winning the race to host the AI economy before it has answered a more uncomfortable question: how much power will the region actually gain from becoming indispensable to it? The signs of success are increasingly difficult...

Emerging Markets, Artificial Intelligence, digital economy

What actually causes inflation? There are a number of theories. Part 3 Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Guglielmo Carchedi is Senior Researcher in the Department of Economics and Econometrics the University of...

Economics, Article, Guglielmo Carchedi

On a new film about the Reagan-Gorbachev 1986 summit in Reykjavik Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World , was published November 2025. Cross-posed from...

Geopolitics, Article, Branko Milanović

The joint US–Japan yen intervention was not a currency-stability measure. It was Washington making sure Tokyo could keep funding its $550 billion commitment to American AI infrastructure — and it marks the moment monetary policy formally joined chip controls and...

Economy, Analysis, Artificial Intelligence

Employment across Germany’s automotive sector fell to 721,400 workers at the end of September, the lowest level recorded since mid-2011 when the industry employed 718,000 people. The federal statistics office reported the sector shed 48,700 positions over the 12 months...

Economics, Automotive World, Link

This article was originally published on Jonathan Larsen’s Substack. It is republished with permission. Less than a month after the June 2025 strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with US House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana)...

Middle East, Antisemitic tropes, Christian nationalists

Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman looks on during a meeting with US President Donald Trump, White House, Washington, November 18, 2025. The telephone call from the US Vice-President JD Vance to Prime Minister Narendra...

Articles, China, Donald Trump

The recent mass irregular migration incident in Ceuta should be seen as more than a border security issue. It is a significant test of the current relationship between Morocco and Spain—two neighboring states whose interests are increasingly entangled across migration,...

Europe, Diplomacy, European Union

Ukraine functions as a privateer vessel launched by a greater power to impose continuous costs on Russia. The campaign is deliberate, the alternatives are known to both sides, and the pace of events is designed to force Moscow into the...

Politics, Russia, Ukraine

The internet is going through a fundamental change. Information used to be scarce, and access to it was a source of power. Today, the problem is almost the opposite; there is too much information floating online. Almost any news story...

Economy, Artificial Intelligence, Economics

Six weeks before US and Israeli aircraft killed Iran’s supreme leader on February 28, a cluster of new, previously dormant crypto wallets began buying “Khamenei out by March” contracts on Polymarket. In the hours before the strike itself, six accounts...

Economy, Analysis, cryptocurrencies

The Trump administration is pushing for a homegrown nuclear power renaissance. The United States is still the largest producer of nuclear energy in the world, but that won’t last long without drastic changes in energy policy and investment at the...

News

When Zhu Rongji died in Beijing on August 12 at the age of 97, Asia lost one of the finest public servants of its modern era. He was the premier who opened China to the world, the plain-spoken technocrat who...

China, Block 2, China in WTO

Eighteen children among the people killed after ferry capsized on Lake Kariba Twenty-two more bodies have been recovered after a boat accident in Zimbabwe, taking the death toll to 68, police said on Saturday. The ferry capsized on Tuesday on Lake Kariba...

Zimbabwe, Africa, World news

As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they explain the motives behind their activism. It is one of three such trials...

Israel-Palestine, UK, Filton Six

Japan’s protest over Putin’s visit to the Kuril Islands is loud because its response is capped: Tokyo cannot meaningfully sanction the one Russian energy relationship — Sakhalin-2 LNG — it now depends on more than ever, after the Strait of...

Energy Security, Analysis, energy security

Border security tightened after social media posts call for another mass crossing into Spain’s north African territory Moroccan police have arrested 111 people as they tried to enter Spain’s north African territory of Ceuta, amid ⁠tightened security on both sides after...

Morocco, World news, Spain

Following a year of tighter sanctions and Ukrainian attacks on refineries, ports and tankers, Russia’s crude output has fallen further in the second half of 2026, severely affecting the nation’s crude production outlook. Factoring in these disruptions, Rystad Energy has...

News

Over the past 15 years, Mexico has faced a severe seaweed problem, with vast quantities of a brown seaweed known as sargassum washing up on beaches along the Caribbean coast and hitting the tourism industry hard. Researchers are yet to...

News

Good things are happening! Meta loses to a bunch of kids, Israel’s greatest friend makes enemies, Missourians keep Republicans in check, and climate protectors get justice. You Love To See It is a benefit of a Lever paid subscription. If you...

You Love To See It

There is a temptation to read current American foreign policy as incoherent. A transactional presidency dismantles alliances, antagonises partners, and lurches between confrontations without apparent strategic logic. On that reading, the contradictions accumulate until only one conclusion seems available, that...

Defense, China, Opinion

As the United States-Iran conflict draws renewed global attention to energy security, a quieter transformation is underway. Driven by the combined effects of El Niño and accelerating warming, the Gulf region is heating up significantly. Rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, and...

Emerging Markets, Climate Crisis, Development

Before the launch of Operation Epic Fury back in February, the Islamic Republic’s lashing out at both enemies and erstwhile friends, and the grinding stalemate that has ensued since major combat operations ended, the Gulf was one of the fastest...

Middle East & Africa, Economy, front
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