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Walmart serves 280 million shoppers a week and churned out more than $22 billion in profit in the last fiscal year. So, suffice it to say, I was floored – and maybe even a bit flattered – when the retail behemoth issued…
Aid
Children in Gaza wait in the hope of receiving food. Credit: UN News By UN Women UNITED NATIONS, Oct 9 2026 (IPS) Since October 2023, 50,000 women and girls in Gaza have been killed or seriously injured. • UN Women…
South Asia
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India’s removal of approximately 130 million names from electoral rolls has triggered nationwide protests, with opposition parties accusing the Election Commission of conducting a voter verification drive that could…
Cogs of War
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A kill chain measured in seconds cannot depend on processes measured in weeks or months. The Pentagon recognizes that drone proliferation and AI-enabled lethal targeting are reducing decision cycles and increasing the…
Geopolitics
Thoughts on Gaza, China, and Afghan drug lords. Matthew Hoh is the Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network. A former Marine and State Department official who resigned in protest over the wars in Iraq and…
Commentary
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In 79 A.D., Gaius Plinius Secundus, known today as Pliny the Elder, was the supreme commander of the Roman imperial fleet, permanently stationed at Misenum near Naples. He died during the eruption of Vesuvius, after…
Technology
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When people think about what ChatGPT or other large language models are doing behind the scenes, it’s common to reach for the language of computing. You might assume there is a database, or a logical series of steps…
Biodiversity
By Madhu Rao and Tyson Miller SINGAPORE, Oct 9 2026 (IPS) When governments gather in Yerevan this month for the 17th UN Convention on Biological Diversity , they will weigh a promise nearly 200 countries adopted six…
Russia
Let’s imagine a bit of “future history” in Ukraine. It is February 2027. The Ukrainian winter has been unusually cold, and Russian air strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, transportation grid, and communications…
The-bunker
The Bunker appears originally at the Project on Government Oversight and is republished here with permission. The U.S. ended its military campaign in Iraq on September 30, as the final American combat troops based there…
Defense-industry
President Donald Trump traveled to Baltimore this week to announce a $7 billion deal with the defense tech firm Anduril to build autonomous submarines as well as components for the Navy’s Virginia-class attack…
Military
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South Korea’s maiden flight test of a domestic hypersonic glide vehicle highlights an accelerating bid to field counterstrike assets capable of bolstering autonomous deterrence against North Korea’s expanding nuclear…
Larry C. Johnson
On the morning of September 30, flydubai flight FZ1073, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, left Dubai for Tel Aviv with 174 passengers aboard, 27 of them children. About two and a half hours into the flight, the first officer attacked…
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A Chemical Nobody Had Heard Of On 3 October, five days before EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič landed in Beijing, China’s commerce ministry opened an anti-dumping investigation into p-nitrotoluene. It is a European…
Middle East & Africa
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The hour after detectionGulf security is usually discussed in terms of deterrence, military capability, and external partnerships. All three matter. But when a crisis begins, the deciding factor can be more modest…
Activism
“ Following Harry” is available on Amazon, Apple and other digital platforms starting Oct.13. For more info see: https://www.followingharry.org/ . Born in 1927 in Harlem, Grammy, Tony, Emmy and Oscar award-winner Harry…
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In a few hours the NBS will release September inflation and price data, and we should get more data on economic activity over the holiday period. In this issue: 1. European Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security in…
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This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 18 September 2026. On 14 September 2026, the National Cybercrime Court (Pôle national de lutte contre la cybercriminalité) in Bamako sentenced Abdrahamane Keïta…
This statement was originally published on mfwa.org on 18 September 2026. Guinea’s High Authority for Communication (HAC), has banned French international news channel, France 24 , from broadcasting nationwide with…
This statement was originally published on mediarightsagenda.org on 2 October 2026. Introduction LAGOS, Friday, October 2, 2026: Concerned by reports of unresolved disruptions affecting access to TikTok in parts of…
Opinion
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Several years ago, the US Army embarked on a sweeping small-arms revolution. Its previous service rifles, based on the M16 platform and its 5.56 mm cartridge, were deemed inadequate for modern combat. The result was the…
Ethiopia
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The escalating violence reflects deep domestic rifts – but is fuelled by broader geopolitical power games When the Nobel peace laureate is announced on Friday, the committee will be hoping that its choice ages better…
3D IC
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Intel Foundry published a two article series on chip power delivery that are worth reading. Here is a quick summary: Artificial intelligence is changing the requirements for semiconductor innovation. Faster transistors…
Economics
The ideological roots of our Big Tech technocrats, and how tech is facilitating the elimination of the democratic gains that centuries of political struggle have earned Ame ricans Chris Hedges: An outgoing researcher at…
Geopolitics
Channel 4 investigation shows how the UK government repeatedly failed to hold the Israeli army to account for war crimes Peter Oborne’s new book, Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza, was recently…
Wildlife
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Figure is highest ever recorded for species and confirms one of Indian Ocean’s greatest conservation success stories A landmark survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has revealed the once…
Activism
Since the Supreme Court handed down its infamous Citizens United ruling in 2010, billionaires have poured ever larger sums into candidates aligned with their interests. They now have American politics in a chokehold: In…
Imagination Technologies
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The rapid growth of AI at the edge is forcing SoC architects to rethink traditional processor designs. Dedicated NPUs deliver impressive performance for today’s models, but evolving AI workloads, increasing system…
Existential Threats or Economic Realities? The Fatal Flaw in Europe’s China Strategy The global economy in 2026 is increasingly defined by divergence. Developing Asia is driving global growth while the major Western…
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Paragon Solutions vowed not to sell its mobile spyware to governments with poor human rights records and to cut off customers who misuse its products. However, in 2025 researchers at the Citizen Lab confirmed that the…
War & Peace
Volodymyr Zelensky announced it in five short lines: “FP-7. First combat use. Thank you for the result. Next up: production. Glory to Ukraine!” On October 1, Ukraine fired its first homemade ballistic missile in combat…
Corporations
For 13 years, British tankers have filled up on Angolan crude oil and left behind a trail of what residents describe as systematic, routine destruction. One small patch of BP co-owned Angolan seabed – known as Kizomba A…
Middle East & Africa
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A drone strike on a Madinah power station did little physical damage. It confirmed something more consequential: the Houthi threat is no longer a feature of Yemen’s internal conflict but a projection of force against a…
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank / PNN / Israeli forces detained or subjected about 95 Palestinians to field interrogation overnight across the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said Thursday, describing…
BETHLEHEM, West Bank / PNN / The Popular Committee of Aida Refugee Camp participated in the annual Humanity Festival in France from Sept. 10-13, 2026, at the invitation of L’Humanité, the French newspaper affiliated with…
Military
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A flurry of landmark arms deals is reshaping Central Asia’s strategic landscape, as regional states leverage alternative defense suppliers to assert their sovereignty amid Russia’s waning dominance and an intensifying…
Global development
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With cancer cases rising fastest in poorer countries, Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu, president-elect of the Union for International Cancer Control, says Africa needs investment in research, diagnosis and prevention When Dr…
Kenya
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Refugee gig workers for tech companies don’t know how much they’ll be paid – if AI hasn’t already taken their jobs In a portable building in Kakuma, a refugee camp near Kenya ’s northern border with South Sudan , Grace…
South Sudan
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Renewed fighting is bringing a flow of wounded to Juba’s military hospital, where medics never know what the next day will bring By 11am on a recent Thursday, Dr Slobodan Mirosavljev had already seen two critically…
Arsenal of Innovation
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For America’s 250th anniversary, Cogs of War ran ten essays on innovations forged in wartime that subsequently diffused throughout the civilian economy, or had a lasting impact on society, governance, and Americans’…
Armed Conflicts
Ore containing copper, cobalt, and nickel, critical minerals that power the use of emerging technologies. Credit: Unsplash/Paul-Alain Hunt By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Oct 8 2026 (IPS) The demand for critical minerals…
Civil Society
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Oct 8 2026 (IPS) The seven candidates, still in the running for the post of UN Secretary-General (SG), have so far faced a barrage of questions, mostly from delegates and the news media…
Opinion
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Every year, the Indonesian government forgoes taxes it could collect. Through tax holidays, rate cuts and exemptions, it courts investment while easing the burden on households and small businesses. Economists call this…
Dayton-accords
Nationalists came out on top in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)’s October 4 election. Allies of Milorad Dodik, the de facto leader of the country’s Bosnian Serb entity, won decisively in Republika Srpska despite Dodik…
Iran-war
In September, as the media focused its attention on the conflict in the Strait of Hormuz and the debates at the U.N. General Assembly, some internal developments in Iran went all but unnoticed. On September 28, 32…
Always-at-war
Last week, after nearly two decades of fighting, the U.S. finally pulled the plug on its seemingly endless war in Iraq. Like our exit from Afghanistan just a few years ago, the end of fighting in Iraq was met with an…
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We are fortunate to live at an incredible moment in history. As more and more AI applications have become available, people have turned to them to seek advice, build businesses, express ideas, learn, and improve their…
Uncategorized
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Benjamin Netanyahu likes to translate Israel’s grief into American. At the United Nations last month, he took the dead of October 7 and multiplied them by the ratio of America’s population to Israel’s. The 1,200 Israelis…