America’s Asia-Pacific defense decentralization policy is rooted in a systemic crisis gripping its military-industrial complex. The breaking point has come to light amid its ongoing conflict with Iran, combined with a protracted maritime campaign against Houthi militants in the Red...
The annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) is in full swing in Shanghai. At the opening ceremony, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech, putting forward four proposals on jointly building a fair and equitable global AI governance system....
I have talked about the depletion of several categories of US battlefield missiles on recent podcasts and decided to give you the best available data to help you grasp the enormity of the problem. The tables below are based on...
Loneliness wears its finest clothes on Saturday afternoons, and it gathers by the hundred in hotel ballrooms, drawing the accomplished and the ordinary, the celebrated and the overlooked, each one quietly hoping to be chosen, each one just as quietly...
The August 4th Democratic primary for Michigan’s open Senate seat pits Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), backed by nearly $15 million (to-date) in support from a super PAC controlled by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), against Abdul El-Sayed, a...
In May and June, Bolivian police violently dispersed massive demonstrations in La Paz, detaining hundreds of protesters and injuring many more. The crackdown, capping over 50 days of protests demanding President Rodrigo Paz’s resignation, marked the sharpest escalation yet in...
Late last week, the Trump administration imposed what Brazilian officials had spent weeks bracing for: a fresh 25% tariff on most Brazilian exports, set to take effect July 22. The United States Trade Representative (USTR) framed the move as the conclusion...
Central Asia is a complex and geopolitically significant area, comprising five ethnic-based republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The region’s current security system is shaped by the interaction between external geopolitical competition and complex internal vulnerabilities. Externally, the geopolitical...
The debate over whether convicted child sex offender Shabir Ahmed should be deported from the United Kingdom to Pakistan is about far more than one offender. It has evolved into a test of how modern states balance domestic political pressures,...
The current state of democracy in the world is fragile. According to the V-Dem Project, which measures global democracy, 41% of the world’s population live in autocratizing countries — that is, those becoming more authoritarian. In fact, a “third wave...
Five months after Israel and the United States launched strikes that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader and ignited a wider war, the Strait of Hormuz has become the conflict’s most stubborn front, a 21-wide chokepoint where military power and diplomatic paralysis...
Ma: fallen tiger Since Chinese President Xi Jinping launched his anti-corruption campaign in late 2012, millions of Chinese officials have been taken down, including “flies” (minor officials) and “tigers” (senior officials). Recently, complications have emerged in Xi’s crusade, involving a tiger...
The war with Iran is driving fuel shortages and inflation around the world, deepening anti-American sentiment at a time when international confidence in the United States is already in decline. A June Pew survey found unfavorable views of the rising across 36...
A death sentence is supposed to be the moment a legal system proves it can be trusted with its gravest power. In November, Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal handed down exactly that verdict against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, for crimes...
For a few weeks at the start of 2026, the Taiwan Strait looked almost quiet. Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense recorded no People’s Liberation Army incursions into the island’s air defense identification zone on 13 of 28 days in February,...
Dr. Il Park is the Founder and CEO of Primemas Inc. Prior to founding Primemas, he was Vice President at SK hynix where he led memory solutions, design innovation, and CAE. Prior to that he was the head of the...
Here is the bottom line: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of leaving Gaza, either before Israel’s general elections – likely to be held in October – or after. Conceding an inch from the roughly 70 percent of...
Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. We have seen a major escalation between the US and Iran over the past 24 hours, but it is likely only a prelude to what appears to be coming next week. Tehran continues...
One thing that is always thrown by the wayside in times of war is the maintenance of the national soul. When faced with the inherent brutality of war, the emotions of the moment can overshadow the values we seek to...
The joint military exercises between Egypt and Turkey, particularly the Golden Eagle exercises, are a crucial strategic axis for reshaping the security landscape in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. They directly impact the protection of international economic interests,...
Nuclear giant Holtec International is betting big that its 300-megawatt small modular reactors are the future of atomic energy. On Friday, the Florida-headquartered firm filed paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in order to sell shares in the company on the...
Mohit Gupta founded TYLsemi to build chiplet-based intelligent power and connectivity solutions for AI infrastructure—an area where custom silicon has long been underserved. TYLsemi exists to provide the foundational chiplet platform that enables tailored custom silicon solutions for the evolving...
As Himalayan glaciers retreat and monsoon patterns collapse into unpredictability, the suspension of the world’s most durable water treaty is no longer a bilateral grievance. It is a governance gap opening at the worst possible moment. In June 2026 Pakistan’s...
While the Western media continues to hype Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russia as incredible military achievements that are sapping Russia’s will to fight, the reality is that Russia continues an unrelenting bombing and missile campaign that is destroying critical Ukrainian...
JULY 19, 2026 – I have had many requests to discuss the removal of Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. However, I wanted to hold off until this update to see how issues were developing. This is still a fast-moving and chaotic...
On the morning of 7 July, an Iranian vessel struck three commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Within 48 hours — at the NATO summit in Ankara, of all places, a continent away from the Gulf — President Trump...
Chinese intelligence and defense agencies are assessing the performance of the new Mossad chief, Roman Gofman, with great caution and interest, considering him a field military commander brought in to implement the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid...
On July 17, the Council of the European Union quietly froze the assets of one Russian executive and five companies belonging to a single corporate family, ABS Electro, for supplying electronic components that make Russia’s Shahed and Geran attack drones...
China hosts the 2026 World AI Conference (WAIC) and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in Shanghai from July 17 to 20, Chinese officials announced at a press briefing in Shanghai on Tuesday. The conference is set to be an...
On July 14 the crews of the Mombasa and the Al Bahiyah found out. Two UAE-flagged tankers were hit by Iranian cruise missiles in the southern lane, inside Omani territorial waters, according to the Emirati defense ministry. An Indian sailor...
Prosecuted for defending Palestinians’ right to resist, the MEP says Gaza has exposed a ‘complete divorce’ between governments and their publics Read Article HERE MEP Rima Hassan during the European Parliament Plenary, September 2024. (The Left/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) The post +972: Rima Hassan...
The Asia Pacific’s geopolitical balance is under change. While the U.S. remains the main architect of the plan, it is Australia that is becoming the executor of the strategy in the Oceania region. Through the signing of multiple defense agreements...
While the Western media continues to hype Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russia as incredible military achievements that are sapping Russia’s will to fight, the reality is that Russia continues an unrelenting bombing and missile campaign that is destroying critical Ukrainian...
Hat tip to Kevin Wamsley of Inside China Business. His recent video explaining the importance of China’s Beidou satellite navigation system provides a critical insight into the current success of Iran’s missile strikes on US and Israeli targets. It is...
In his new book, Roger Hallam of Extinction Rebellion provides tools for effective resistance to climate collapse under repressive systems We are living in an age of climate collapse, which will most likely result in mass displacement and death, warns Roger...
Amid the hospitality of the Afghans, Longwei tells a story, and Darius’s duel with Meilin ends with an unexpected trip to the Hakim’s wagon. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part...
Award-winning entomologist Dino Martins, known for his work on pollinators, shows in his latest book that even the most gruesome creatures have vital roles to play Dino J Martins has never been able to resist the small things. The renowned entomologist...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently launched a public attack on the International Criminal Court (ICC), vowing to “dismantle the ICC—brick by brick.” Washington’s position is that the ICC has no authority to try officials from non-member states—such as...
No water in Kuwait means no oil 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 University of Michigan Cross-posted from Informed Comment Kuwait City – Photo...
There are many Liberals, members of the Epstein Class, not to mention the Managerial and Professional Caste who claim that Neo-liberalism does not exist and cannot be defined. Richard Murphy shows how simple it is to understand the force that...
Incumbent Carlos Vila Nova hopes to defeat his former party and secure second term as independent Voters in São Tomé and Príncipe go to the polls for a presidential election on Sunday as one of Africa’s least populous countries seeks to...
The current architecture of international relations faces a profound, non-linear crisis that extends far beyond the traditional boundaries of regional military conflict. The ongoing military escalation in the Middle East — particularly around the region’s key maritime chokepoints, the Suez...
India has quietly crossed a threshold that Pakistan has no answer to —for the first time in the history of South Asian nuclear competition, one side may have nuclear warheads at sea, and the other has neither a submarine capable...
For decades, India has been working on nuclear energy. India has also been working on clean energy independence for decades. On June 26, both goals were achieved together at one place – Kalpakkam. India inaugurated a hydrogen production facility –...
The detention of Russian blogger and lawyer Ilya Remeslo marks another significant moment in Russia’s tightening restrictions on freedom of expression, illustrating how public criticism of President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine has become increasingly risky. Russian state...
I recently drove to a gas station in Massachusetts to fill my tank with regular gas, the cheapest around, and, to my surprise, given what’s going on, it was only $4.59 a gallon. Okay, okay, I take back that “only” and...
In a speech given on Wednesday in honor of Nelson Mandela Day, New York’s mayor reflects on what Madiba can teach us in a fractured era What a privilege it is to be together to honor the leadership of the Nelson...
In the grand circus of American politics, Kentucky somehow keeps stealing the spotlight. In the latest ongoing saga, 84-year-old Senator Mitch McConnell has managed to create the ultimate stir: found unresponsive in his D.C. home more than two weeks ago,...
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