Once again the EU demonstrates its helplessness. Besides, the Germans are experts in cheating in these matters. Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter...
Crude oil prices extended their climb today and are set for a sharp weekly gain as the war in the Middle East continues with little chance of peace. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $95.55 per...
An Accountant in Asheville On 31 August, in Asheville, North Carolina, Anton Siluanov sat down at a G20 finance ministers’ meeting for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine. When he tried to open a conversation about areas of mutual...
More than a week after the devastating August 26 flood in Nepal, rescue teams are searching damaged hydropower projects for people who may still be trapped inside tunnels. An engineers’ WhatsApp group has become an important source of real time...
By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, Sep 4 2026 (IPS) There is an older wisdom, quieter than the noise of our times, that whispers a simple truth: we are not the architects of nature, only its guests. Long before there were nations,...
The opening moves of a future US-China war over Taiwan may be made not across the Pacific but hundreds of kilometers above it, as both sides race to seize the orbital advantage that underpins modern military power. The US and...
The meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the sidelines of the SCO Bishkek summit laid a new foundation for constructive bilateral ties. Russo-Turkish Relations Take On New Tradition of Effective Growth At the summit marking...
This statement was originally published on mediarightsagenda.org on 18 August 2026. The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has ruled that access to the Internet is a right within the right to freedom of expression and is necessary for the achievement of...
This article, which originally appeared in Arab Digest, is republished with permission. Last week, Syria’s Kurds entered a new stage in their struggle for political recognition. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) formally announced their dissolution as part of a complicated...
Tucked away in the funding package passed by Congress this week is a provision that extends the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) through the end of 2028. The two-year extension of AGOA — a preferential trade deal that offers eligible...
The eerie silence of the ocean When people think of the South China Sea, they usually picture deep blue waters, peaceful waves over beautiful coral reefs, and busy shipping lanes filled with massive cargo ships. However, this calm surface often...
The Trump administration just announced it intends to let Wall Street investment advisers pour campaign cash into the coffers of politicians who control access to trillions of dollars in workers’ retirement savings. President Donald Trump’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said...
Togo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland The UN general assembly will vote on Friday on a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe...
By: Jens Kastner Taiwan officials inspect a wartime military trial exercise. Photo from Taiwan’s Military News Agency The Taiwanese military frequently reveals its soldiers’ full Chinese and English names to local media, putting it at odds with the counter-intelligence practices in places...
For decades, Venezuela has been one of China’s most important partners in Latin America and the largest recipient of Chinese government funds in Latin America, with Beijing lending Caracas tens of billions of dollars and accepting oil as repayment. Chinese...
We recorded this week’s episode of Sharp China earlier today - China's Global Strategy; Tragedy on the Nepal-Tibet Border; A 19-1 Vote at the G-20; TikTok Dodges Congress - and will come out at 5AM ET Friday, and will be...
The most consequential expansion of BRICS may happen without a new currency, a dramatic fall in dollar reserves, or another flag being added to the summit table. Modern Diplomacy’s latest data check on BRICS de-dollarization makes the immediate picture clear: the...
Big Tech is betting trillions of dollars on artificial intelligence, with a lot of that to be spent on building the data centers that would power large language models. Stock markets are reflecting this in Big Tech stocks, but that’s...
GAZA (PNN) — By Islam Al-Mazloom In a tent among the displaced, a piece of cloth can become a curtain, an empty can of peas a puppet, and a narrow street or small square a stage. Here, Palestinian artists are reinventing...
On August 26, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two Palestine advocacy groups—Palestine Action and Masar Badil—along with an anti-fascist group, Autistici/Inventati, designating them as Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) organizations. These designations seek...
Freedom Edge 26’s nuclear-capable bomber component, paired with unusually explicit official language about North Korea’s “nuclear and missile threats,” is not deterrence signaling aimed at Pyongyang — it is compensatory reassurance aimed at Seoul and Tokyo, timed to offset the...
It was a relatively subdued Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit for Chinese leader Xi Jinping. He departed the host city Bishkek having made few attention-grabbing headlines. There were no big announcements or viral moments, unlike at 2025’s SCO summit on Xi’s...
Abductions are resurging and may be spreading to new areas – with young children among the victims. A military response alone won’t work Early last month, Nigeria’s government announced the largest single-day hostage rescue in its history, with the freeing of...
War has always been a brutal engine of medical innovation, running on a feedback loop: Civilian breakthroughs are adapted for the battlefield, while battlefield necessity pushes advances back into civilian care. We asked three experts to identify the innovations from...
China’s oil consumption fell 9% year over year in the second quarter as expensive crude accelerated the use of electric cars, trucks, rail and industrial equipment. The decline helped cut China’s carbon dioxide emissions by 1% during the quarter, according...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 New on Lever Time : Susan Collins isn’t out of the woods yet . 👀 Watch: AOC tells The Lever about her 2028 calculus . 👇 Further down in this...
The drone strike that hit a gasoline tank at the Zawiya refinery in August was more than a security incident. Zawiya is Libya’s largest operating refining facility, and the National Oil Corporation warned that continued attacks could force operations to...
Dr. Karishma Manzur challenges the Democratic establishment in New Hampshire with an insurgent progressive senatorial campaign. Manzur aims to restore the true meaning of ‘public service.’ Transcript Chris Hedges: Dr. Karishma Manzur is a medical scientist with a PhD in biochemistry and molecular...
Money organized through finance is a bet on, and a catalyst for, a particular vision of the future. Arjun Jayadev teaches Economics at Azim Premji University and is a Senior Economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. J. W. Mason is...
Brazil's Congress passed a bill Wednesday letting the government block foreign takeovers of mining companies and scrutinize who gets access to the country's mineral reserves…the thing is, though...Brazil still can't turn its rare earth ore into a single magnet, and...
Afghans areno longer welcome by those who once helped them leave Afghanistan, abandoning them, no longer wanted. Western Values eh? Go figure. Kathy Gannon is the former AP News Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Four decades reporting the fault lines of...
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado is backing a long-term U.S. role in developing the country’s oil reserves, even as she questions who has the authority to sign the sweeping agreement announced by acting President Delcy Rodríguez. Machado said Thursday...
The architect of President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence plan to bulldoze environmental safeguards and restrict states from regulating the nascent technology just admitted he downplayed the tech’s existential risks. In a new blog post , he now says AI “rogue...
President Donald Trump is not content with gutting the U.S. National Park Service. After slashing its staff and budget, and opening up tracts of public land to mining and logging activities, the administration has spent the past year trying to...
I joke a lot about lawyers, but I do actually know more than a handful, and I like them well enough. They’re like any other group of people out there. Some are good, some are bad, and some can’t be...
Norway has seized a Russian commercial cruise ship off the Svalbard archipelago at the request of Ukrainian oil and gas firm Naftogaz, which is seeking enforcement of a $4.22 billion award over Russia’s asset expropriation when it annexed Crimea. “At...
The following story is co-published with Joe Cirincione’s Substack. Aug. 28 marked the beginning of the seventh month of a war Donald Trump began on a whim, waged incoherently and lost decisively. But in the demented, steadily shrinking Trump World, he...
Low-wage U.S. workers have faced multiple rising threats to their economic and personal security over the past year. Aggressive actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have terrorized immigrant workers, who are disproportionately represented at the bottom of the corporate...
In the climactic scene of Martin Ritt’s 1979 drama “Norma Rae,” Sally Field’s character climbs onto a cutting table in a textile mill, writes “UNION” in marker on a scrap of cardboard, and holds up the makeshift sign in silence. For...
The House passed legislation Thursday that would put federal funding at risk for universities that participate in certain boycotts of Israel, despite warnings from critics that the measure could chill political expression and effectively extend anti-boycott protections to Israeli settlements...
The timing of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Egypt in September 2026, coinciding with the signing of the (New Strategic Partnership Framework) between Ethiopia and the United States in August 2026, holds significant geopolitical importance. It serves as a...
Each year, people from across the world gather in a grove sacred to the Yoruba goddess Osun to be healed, conceive or realise their deepest wishes. But toxic lead, mercury and cyanide is leaching into the river 7Devotees in white clothing...
SK hynix’s Hot Chips 2026 presentation explains how High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is evolving to meet the extraordinary memory requirements of artificial intelligence. Its central message is that future progress will depend not only on better DRAM circuits but also...
Several Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent, have reportedly accessed compute power from GB300 chips remotely through data centers in Asian countries including Thailand, Malaysia and Japan. Less than a week after another Chinese company, Moonshot AI, released...
Since fighting began in late February, Iranian retaliation has reached U.S. bases and Gulf infrastructure while disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has repeatedly threatened energy exports and maritime trade. Roughly a fifth of global oil flows normally passes through...
OPEC’s second-largest producer, Iraq, more than doubled its crude oil exports via the Strait of Hormuz in August as it offered month-watering discounts for loadings at Basrah in the Persian Gulf and Iran allowed Iraqi oil cargoes to transit the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said there is still a possibility of reaching a peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine, while arguing that recent Ukrainian attacks on shipping and warnings over Russian airspace have made the resumption of negotiations...
Claim relating to 1960 attack on hundreds of protesters part of wave of litigation over apartheid crimes in South Africa The day dawned brightly on 21 March 1960, as residents of the South African township of Sharpeville gathered to protest against...
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