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Samsung Electronics reported the most profitable quarter in its history on Thursday, with operating profit of 107.4 trillion won on revenue of 195.3 trillion won, and still watched its shares close more than 4% lower. At…
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When most people are asked “who controls hip hop?” they are unlikely to think of a 67-year-old Israeli Zionist who comes from a family of Israeli spies and state officials. But Lyor Cohen is the real deal. The brash…
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Two Answers in Two Days Forty-eight hours after the Student List won about 140 of the National Assembly’s 250 seats, two of its own accounts of how Serbia’s next government will be chosen already differed. The weekly…
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Israeli elections on Oct. 27 produced a complex result, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc nor the opposition alliance, led by Gadi Eisenkot, winning enough seats in the Knesset to form a government…
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For decades, militaries have chased the next revolution in warfare. But what actually makes a revolution in military affairs revolutionary? Is there one happening now? Does it matter? Is it just about drones and AI or…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
It is still early days, but things are not looking rosy for AI Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog It seems that Asian AI bubble has…
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Why Norway and Finland Were Right to Call Putin Glenn Diesen is a political scientist, political commentator, politician and professor at the Department of Business, History and Social Sciences, University of…
Geopolitics
Palestine Action is one of the only Western organizations utilizing direct action to impede the machinery of genocide fueling Israel’s apartheid project—triggering a full frontal attack from the West. The world watches…
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Faris Odeh was 14 when he stood alone in front of an Israeli tank with a stone in his hand. Ten days later, a Zionist soldier shot him dead. Hüseyin Doğru is a German journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Berlin…
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Israeli firms have contracts for the security and systems of Spain ‘s rail operator Renfe, whose trains were involved in the deadly crash this week that killed at 69 people. Anti-genocide activist Nicole Jenes quizzed…
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By Shahiduzzaman DHAKA, Bangladesh, Oct 29 2026 (IPS) Dowry is still persisting in society in one form or another. This deeply entrenched social practice continues deepen household poverty and cause violence against…
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Today’s note is just focused on the Fifth Plenum communiqué that was released earlier today. I have included a full bilingual translation of the brief communique the end. As expected, the Plenum approved the “Resolution…
Iowa
A political group dedicated to supporting farmers is pouring millions of dollars into advertisements targeting Republican candidates over policies that have hurt agricultural communities, including the rising cost of…
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On October 15–16, at the tail end of SEMICON West 2026, PDF Solutions held its 2026 CONNECT Conference at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco. PDF Solutions Vitals Santa Clara–based PDF Solutions is a semiconductor…
RAMALLAH / PNN / Palestinian farmers have harvested approximately 57% of the land targeted for this year's olive harvest, covering 445,000 dunams out of 780,000, despite attacks and field conditions that have hindered…
Active Citizens
Indigenous leaders from Brazil, DRC, Indonesia, Gambia, Peru and Thailand are named the Indigenous People’s Ambassadors for Primary Forests at COP17. Credit: Stella Paul/IPS By Stella Paul YEREVAN, Armenia, Oct 29 2026…
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An effective learned power model for a CPU could be a significant advantage in early estimation of power performance against realistic workloads in complex architectures. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence)…
HEBRON, West Bank / PNN / An ongoing Israeli military operation in Hebron has displaced 537 Palestinian families, comprising 3,361 people, and disrupted education for hundreds of thousands of students across the…
Democracy & Governance
The president who lost the first round won the runoff in an unprecedented turnaround. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finished behind Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round on October 4, 2026, with 45.16 percent of the vote to…
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The Fairford air base incident – considered by many to be a false flag to excuse greater UK collaboration in the US and Israel’s war on Iran – has taken yet another bizarre turn. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has…
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President Donald Trump is intensifying his campaign efforts in South Carolina as a surprisingly competitive Senate race threatens Republican control of a traditionally safe seat. With the midterm elections approaching…
Middle East & Africa
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Israel’s inconclusive election has left Benjamin Netanyahu in office as caretaker prime minister, but without a clear parliamentary majority. Although his Likud party emerged as the largest faction, an opposition bloc…
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Designed to dwarf even the Marshall Plan, the American program to rebuild Europe after World War II, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was first unveiled by President Xi Jinping in a 2013 speech at Nazarbayev…
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Murdoch ‘education’ hack Jack Grove is boasting about being shortlisted for a journalism award for his scribblings about the late Prof Jason Arday’s supposed “extensive plagiarism”. Mr Grove is so chuffed, in fact, that…
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Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill begin with five questions on the Fifth Plenum as Xi continues his corruption crackdowns and propaganda campaigns emphasize ideological unity and discipline. Topics include: The…
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As it concludes its successful and productive chairmanship of BRICS, India hosted the group’s traditional meeting of parliamentarians in its capital on October 26–27, 2026. Parliamentary diplomacy is a key component of…
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Amid the rapid expansion of AI and data centers alongside growing climate commitments as the demand for clean energy rises, nuclear power is increasingly viewed as a reliable source to fill the gaps and complement the…
Active Citizens
By CIVICUS Oct 29 2026 (IPS) CIVICUS discusses voter suppression ahead of the USA’s 2026 midterm elections with Aklima Khondoker, an Atlanta-based civil and voting rights attorney, civil society organisation executive…
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Writers are being bombarded daily with invitations from fake book groups and offers to publicise their work. For the scamming industry, aspiring authors can be a soft touch • This piece first appeared in the Dial ‘Hello…
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“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”-Soren Kierkegaard Though it will likely take another two years, the Trump era will assuredly end. When it does, America’s willingness to remediate…
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Villa Vie Odyssey If you want to understand what Washington’s war with Iran is costing ordinary people, forget the think-tank reports. Go to Sihanoukville, Cambodia, where a few hundred mostly American retirees spent…
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Jordan’s relationship with the United States is a tale of two cities. On the one hand, security cooperation between the two countries is excellent. Thousands of U.S. troops are deployed in the Hashemite Kingdom, with…
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The National Gallery of Victoria presents the first major Australian solo exhibition of the Melbourne artist, whose work references African studio photography, family archives, Catholic imagery and science fiction, while…
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As expected, the early Israeli exit polls indicate that Prime Minister Netanyahu and his prime adversary former chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot face deadlock. In the past 10-15 years, the country’s political center of…
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We had a long discussion of the Mbappé mess, and of the Fifth Plenum, on this week’s episode of Sharp China we recorded earlier today. Look for it in your inboxes/podcast players around 5AM ET Thursday. We still have no…
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In 2018, Barak Mendelsohn wrote, “Bound to Fail: Transnational Jihadism and the Aggregation Problem,” where he argued that transnational jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State would continue failing to turn…
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Date: Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ESTThe third joint webinar by RUSI and War on the Rocks: Two leading defense publications from both sides of the Atlantic present their expert panel.Overview:For this…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin received the US Special Representative Stephen Witkoff, Constantine Palace, St. Petersburg, October 21, 2026 The needle may not have moved on ending the Ukraine war but the joint phone…
Economics
“Empires decline because they can no longer afford the expanding costs of maintaining their hegemony” Jack Rasmus is a host for the radio show Alternative Visions , on the Progressive Radio Network, a journalist, a…
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It appears that Western Asia is withdrawing from US hegemony Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment . He is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor in the History Department at the…
National Politics
Orwell: “Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’.” Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Photo: Wikimedia Commons A spectre is haunting the…
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Israel’s opposition parties appeared to have secured enough Knesset seats in Tuesday’s elections to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from power and end a four-year reign marked by genocidal war in Gaza and…
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The following story is co-published with Joe Cirincione’s Substack . There is a lot going on right now, most of it involving elections around the world. Most of the news is positive — if you favor democracy…
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Of all the leaders of America’s allies, from Europe to Asia, no one has invested more in seeking the favor of Donald Trump than Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae. She has met Trump three times in person during her…
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Book Review by Branko Milanović As some people who follow my Substack might have been noticed I have been reading this Summer several books about the current Ukraine-Russia war. I find it very instructive and useful to…
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C. J. Hopkins, like so many anglo-saxons and other nationalities in Germany, has discovered that in reality democracy and rule of law do not exist in Germany. In fact they are inexorably dieing throughout Europe. C. J…
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Angelenos are in for a treat. Some little-known but extraordinarily consequential history is being presented in an absolutely riveting 50-actor immersive play aptly titled “Convention,” which opened at Hollywood’s…
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The easiest way to measure the size of Nov. 3’s coming Democratic wave is to count the number of times someone tells you what it means, which constituency gets the credit and which policy drew them in — before any of it…