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Iran says it will announce a new restricted zone in the Gulf and publish maps for a new shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz in the coming days, adding another layer of tension around one of the world’s most...

World News, Defense, energy security

Editor’s note: This is the tenth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary,...

Arsenal of Innovation, Cogs of War, Military History

North Korea and Russia have opened their first road bridge across the Tumen River, marking another step in the rapidly expanding relationship between the two countries. The bridge is located near the existing Friendship Bridge, a rail crossing that has...

World News, Diplomacy, North Korea

On August 5, two years to the day after a mass uprising drove Sheikh Hasina from power, she announced from India that she would return to Bangladesh in December. Read as a forecast, the statement is implausible. Read as a...

Opinion, Awami League, Bangladesh

When Israeli warplanes struck the Abu al-Duhur airbase in Syria on Aug. 18, 2026, the smoke rose over the demolition of an old geopolitical assumption about the Middle East. This time, Israel directly targeted a strategic sphere of influence where...

Commentary, Israel, Military Strategy

A female fish seller at a Saigon market was contacting her clients via her a smart phone. Digital technology has accelerated and facilitated business operations in South-East Asia. Credit: Unsplash / Robson Hatsukami Morgan By Ruhimat Soerakoesoemah, Andrey Panteleev and Philip...

Artificial Intelligence, Asia-Pacific, Development & Aid

Figs mean summer — they represent the summer heat, where the sweet scent of fig trees mingles with the chirping of crickets and the singing cicadas. The scent of fig leaves on sleep-inducing lazy afternoons and the indescribable honey-like taste...

Arts & Life

Western coverage of Chinese artificial intelligence still tends to treat the competition as a model contest: can a Chinese company match the best American system? China is certainly in that race. But it is also pursuing a quieter route. Chinese...

Technology, Alibaba, Artificial Intelligence

A Truth Social post in which President Donald Trump declared that there are "too many non-working holidays in America” and demanded that “it must change,” went viral on X this week, with analysts — incorrectly — labeling the post Trump’s...

Donald-trump, Enewsletter, Iran

In his first non-Congressional public speech since his Republican primary loss to Ed Gallrhein, Thomas Massie brought some of the loudest energy to the Ron Paul Institute’s Washington conference on Saturday. He was full of jokes and promise for the...

Iran-war, Ron-paul, Thomas-massie

China’s endorsement of Egypt’s right to protect its water and food security marks a significant diplomatic development in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute. It does not amount to a formal rejection of Ethiopia’s dam, but it gives Cairo’s...

Middle East & Africa, China, Egypt

One problem with following innovation is that the extraordinary now arrives disguised as the weekly. A frontier model trained on more than 100,000 GPUs, several leading AI services stumbling in the same morning, a camera-chip company redesigning itself around edge...

Technology, AGI, AI agent civilizations

American bombs are now falling on Tehran, and while Donald Trump ultimately pulled the trigger, administrations before him—Republican and Democrat alike—constructed the gun, and even loaded it. In 1995, US president Bill Clinton issued executive orders banning US investment tied...

Uncategorized

After the signing of the Munich agreement in 1938 that allowed Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia, Winston Churchill spoke of the fate of that country in a powerful speech in the House of Commons: “Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken,...

South Asia, Afghan Press Freedom, Afghanistan

Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR) is about to become a game-changer for Eurasian energy trade, and Europe’s January 2027 ban on Russian LNG is pushing Moscow to bring it to life sooner than planned. LNG will remain its foundation, while...

News

An Oakland Institute analysis challenges claims that a large increase in mining is an unavoidable cost of replacing fossil fuels. Using International Energy Agency (IEA) data, Oakland calculated that wind, solar, renewable-power networks, grid batteries and electric vehicles accounted for...

News

Darius awakens to discover the guards have been betting on him; Weili makes a plea; and Longwei reveals a frightening secret. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part...

#Culture, #Life, featured

In line with Russia’s state policy, International Bridge Awards was established to recognize entrepreneurial contributions and to foster dialogue on attracting special talents to Russia. The International Bridge Awards was established for talented and ambitious professionals from around the world,...

Global Social Change, Culture, Interview

Priority number one is not the Ukraine-Russia war or the upheavalment (see genocide) in Gaza; however, there is a global disintegration of family life all over the world. Masses of people are forced by government legislation to be moved forcibly...

African Renaissance, Africa, Literature

While electric car and truck sales have grown more slowly than expected in recent years, prompting governments to rethink clean fuel targets and automakers to slow the pace of EV production, electric motorcycles are becoming increasingly popular in certain parts...

News

Advanced semiconductor packaging has become essential to improving computing performance as conventional transistor scaling grows more difficult and expensive. Instead of manufacturing an entire processor as one large monolithic die, chipmakers can divide it into smaller chiplets and combine logic,...

3D IC, Chiplet, Intel Foundry

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cairo represents a major strategic step that is reshaping the balance of power in the Middle East and raising deep concerns for both the United States and Israel. The American and Israeli concern stems...

Middle East & Africa, China, Defense

The Coming world depression requires a New International Economic Order led by Russia, China, and Iran Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics...

Economics, Energy, Finance

UNEP’s Limiting Overshoot report keeps plodding along the same timid route James Dyke is Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter Cross-posted from Technosphere Earth Overshoot is official. This week the United Nations Environment Programme published the report...

Climate Crisis, Article, James Dyke

Liam and Noel Gallagher of the band Oasis arrived at the Venice Film Festival via water taxi ahead of the documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger,” which highlights their reunion tour after years of feuding. When asked about Venice,...

Arts & Culture, Cinema, Music

Sander is an Applied-physics graduate from TU Delft. Worked at a semiconductor start-up during his studies, decided building a company would be the most interesting way to shape his career. In 2010, a TU Delft professor suggested combining light and...

CEO Interviews, AMOLF, Andries Effting

Oman, a major oil and gas producer, plans to expand its renewable energy capacity as part of its energy diversification and green transition goals. The government recently introduced new national policies to expand Oman’s green energy and cleantech industries and...

News

Germany has form in false flags. Making its claim of a Russian drone attack on the anniversary of a claim of being attacked by Poland in 1939 to begin its invasion is more than irony Craig Murray is a British former...

Geopolitics, National Politics, Article

The multipolar world has closely watched the importance of SCO’s 26th meeting of the Council of Heads of State, as it marked the “25 Years of the SCO: Together for Sustainable Peace, Development and Prosperity.” Introduction From 31 August to...

Central Asia, Locations, Politics

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It has not been much of a secret, but I am back in Russia with Judge Napolitano and a couple of other podcast luminaries, to participate in a series of academic seminars dedicated to finding a way for Russia and...

Larry C. Johnson

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip / PNN / The war in the Gaza Strip has devastated far more than people's homes and lives. It has also damaged agriculture, livestock, the environment and the livelihoods of thousands of families. Among those trying to...

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Voting in Saxony-Anhalt, eastern Germany, started on Sunday in a significant election where the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party may become the first far-right party to gain state power since World War Two. The AfD, led by 35-year-old Ulrich Siegmund,...

World News, AfD, Germany

Authors: Ahmad Ibrahim and Amna Hashmi* In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the ruling commandment “all animals are equal” survives the revolution word for word. Only a footnote is added later: some are more equal than others. According to Orwell’s argument,...

Defense, Economics, Opinion
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