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According to a Wall Street Journal report citing US officials, President Trump has been privately weighing the possibility of declaring victory against Iran and ending the war without securing a nuclear deal , . Trump reportedly has floated to senior aides...

Larry C. Johnson

Myanmar’s military-backed government is pushing back against renewed efforts by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to address the country’s civil war, challenging the bloc’s special envoy and rejecting calls for the unconditional release of detained former leader Aung...

World News, ASEAN, Myanmar

Asian stocks rose on Monday, following Wall Street higher after weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs data reduced expectations of an immediate rise in borrowing costs. However, oil prices edged higher as uncertainty over efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz kept investors...

Finance, Asia, Economics

I am in Malatya to celebrate the Türkiye Culture Route Festival, organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, specifically for the gastronomy leg. The event is held at a different destination every other week, beginning with a tour of...

Arts & Life

Crude oil prices began this week with a gain following a statement by Iran setting six demands for a peace deal with the United States and claims from the Houthis that they had struck an Aramco refinery in Jazan. At...

News

For anyone in Europe who still viewed climate change as a problem for future generations, this summer’s extreme heat has offered a stark reality check. Record temperatures, droughts and wildfires are already imposing significant economic costs across the continent, disrupting...

Europe, Climate Crisis, Economics

Almost every day , the military tests various emerging technologies across the U.S ., including drone and counter-drone systems and GPS jamming. To a certain extent, this testing is inevitable. But, as experts told RS, the government has in many cases...

Drones, Counterdrone, Jamming

In the weeks since the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding collapsed, Washington and Tehran have used the time to strengthen their respective positions in the event negotiations resume. For the United States, this has largely taken the form of overt threats by...

Strait-of-hormuz, Trump-administration, Iran

For the first time in years, Washington is discussing Turkey's return to the F-35 program as a serious possibility. At the NATO summit in Ankara last month, President Donald Trump said he would lift the CAATSA sanctions that the U.S. imposed...

Israel, F-35, Donald-trump

In Brazil’s 2026 election, a voter may ask a chatbot which candidate best matches her priorities. Under Resolution No. 23.755/2026, which amended Brazil’s standing electoral-propaganda rules, the Superior Electoral Court, known as the TSE, prohibits AI providers from ranking, recommending, or...

Science & Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Brazil

By: Andy Wong Ming Jun In a dusty rural town 50 kilometers south of Manila, an elderly male patient sits in a simple clinic as he seeks medical treatment for the painful red spots on his ankles. During his medical consultation,...

News

On Friday, July 31, 2026, Lieutenant Commander James M. Ennes, Jr., US Navy, ret., slipped his cable and unfurled his sails. With the Great Pilot at the helm, he set a course to his final home port. LCDR Ennes, then...

Uncategorized

Reprinted with permission from The Jason Jones Show substack. Have you seen the ruling classes’ latest ploy for holding onto power rather than allow the public to hold them accountable through straightforward and honest elections? It’s clear as day to...

Uncategorized

For six years, India ran its China policy on one simple assumption: if you’re economically dependent on a rival with which you share a disputed border, that dependence is a liability. After the 2020 Himalayan clashes, New Delhi tightened the...

South Asia, Block 1, india-china border dispute

Military mobilization has always been a difficult issue for the European Union, just as difficult as the creation of a common European army. However, what was avoided until only a few years ago has now become unavoidable. Germany wants the...

Europe, Defense, European Union

When Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu recently warned that the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence could eventually create a purchasing power problem by reducing entry-level hiring, the reaction was predictable. The discussion quickly turned into a familiar debate over whether AI...

Opinion, India artificial intelligence, Replacing labor with AI

In the United States, President Trump aims to expand the country’s nuclear power capacity by developing new projects and restoring old reactors. However, restarting disused reactors is not as simple as just turning them back on, as rigorous safety standards...

News

A single bug on a full-chip SoC can pull engineers off roadmap work for days or even weeks. It involves massive waveforms, thousands of files of RTL and UVM, and dense specs that aren’t always perfect. Finding these bugs have...

Bronco AI, EDA, bronco ai

In my 45 years experience in the semiconductor industry, 43 of that in EDA and IP, I have never seen such a meteoric rise of an EDA company. I do remember money being raised for EDA in the early days...

ChipAgents AI, EDA, AI EDA companies

“All roads are now leading to ‘stagflation ’, where inflation rises, but economies do not expand. This is the story for Japan, Europe and even the US” Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger...

Economics, Finance, Geopolitics

Europe is currently contending with its third energy crisis in four years against the backdrop of near-constant global geopolitical friction and fracas. The continent’s over-reliance on foreign fossil fuel imports has been thrown into sharp relief in recent months and...

News

There is a familiar ritual in Washington’s foreign policy think tanks whenever two Middle Eastern states sign a memorandum of understanding, launch a joint economic council or hold their first-ever ministerial dialogue: the announcement is instantly upgraded, in the retelling,...

Opinion, Abraham Accords, Belt and Road Initiative

9 August 2026 Trump’s reckless war on Iran is threatening global economic collapse — as the region breaks out into a matrix of conflagrations, Trump seemingly has no way out. The United States and Israel’s attacks on Iran have inflamed West Asia...

Economics, Geopolitics, Alastair Crooke

Workers sought intervention from authorities on Sunday after management at Misr al-Amreya Spinning and Weaving Company in Alexandria decided to suspend operations at the factory indefinitely, according to four workers who spoke to Mada Masr. The management’s statement said the shutdown...

textile industry, worker strikes

Brendan Emery is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iQ Sense Technology. He has more than 25 years of international experience in animal health, having held senior commercial leadership roles with organisations including Boehringer Ingelheim and Norbrook Laboratories. Together with Co-Founder...

CEO Interviews, Semiconductor Services, Silicon Catalyst

Brendan Emery is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iQ Sense Technology. He has more than 25 years of international experience in animal health, having held senior commercial leadership roles with organisations including Boehringer Ingelheim and Norbrook Laboratories. Together with Co-Founder...

CEO Interviews, Semiconductor Services, Silicon Catalyst

To accelerate the global green transition, several energy companies are developing more durable and efficient renewable energy equipment, such as wind turbines and solar panels. This has been hugely successful in recent decades, with the creation of larger, stronger wind...

News

On Monday, as Taiwan entered the final week of its largest-ever Han Kuang war games, a Greek-owned Patriot battery arrived in Saudi Arabia to help blunt a fresh wave of Houthi strikes. Two days later, Ukraine’s air force disclosed that...

Defense, Economics, front

Sudan’s prolonged war is creating risks that extend well beyond its borders. The growing role of Islamist armed groups, including the Al-Baraa Bin Malik Brigade, could further complicate the country’s political and security landscape while creating new challenges for China’s...

Defense, China, Economics

El-Sayed’s victory exposes the cracks in America’s pro-Israel political consensus, showing that grassroots voters can now challenge establishment money and influence. More broadly, his victory signals that foreign policy is increasingly coming home to the ballot box, forcing Democrats to...

Politics, USA, Elections

This is Lever Weekly , a recap of our work from the past week. If you only read one email from us all week, this should be it. The Lever holds the powerful accountable through reader-supported investigative journalism that corporate media...

Lever Weekly

David Reeder became president and CEO of Entegris in 2025, with more than 20 years of semiconductor expertise across IDMs, fabless, foundry, systems, and component companies. Most recently, Dave served as Chief Financial Officer at Chewy where he successfully oversaw...

CEO Interviews, advanced logic, Advanced packaging

The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement is not really a well-organised military alliance. Instead, it looks more like a backup plan, in which three middle powers are essentially preparing for a situation where they can no longer fully depend on the...

Middle East & Africa, Defense, Opinion

Although Donald Trump insists that the Strait of Hormuz is open, it ain’t. There are no direct talks between Iran and US representatives. In fact, it looks like Pakistan’s attempt at mediation is going nowhere. Iran has been talking with...

Geopolitics, Larry C. Johnson, Link

Suppression or Reformatting? How Turkey’s Century-Old Equation Enters a New Phase. In May 2025, something happened that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago: the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), designated a terrorist organization in Turkey, announced its self-dissolution...

Politics, Turkey, Internal policy

For almost six decades, the United Arab Emirates had been a member of OPEC, but all of that came to an end on May 1, 2026, when Abu Dhabi announced its exit from OPEC as well as the OPEC+, which...

Oil & Gas, Analysis, Economics

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry Second European Department Director Yury Pilipson, "promoting the subject of unification between the two countries in the media is part of a campaign to shape Moldovan public opinion and create the impression of growing...

Russian Politics & Diplomacy

Although Donald Trump insists that the Strait of Hormuz is open, it ain’t. There are no direct talks between Iran and US representatives. In fact, it looks like Pakistan’s attempt at mediation is going nowhere. Iran has been talking with...

Larry C. Johnson

At roughly 4am on 30 July, a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile came down in farmland near Tarnawa-Kolonia, Poland, after Polish radar lost track of it seconds from impact. Within hours, the open-source geolocation collective GeoConfirmed had posted the exact coordinates,...

Intelligence, Analysis, Defense
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