By Roberto Savio Sep 15 2026 (IPS) On 11 September 2001 I was in New York, on one of my frequent visits to the United Nations, to which I was tied by a consultancy contract. That morning I woke up late, around...
India hosted the 18th BRICS Summit, the fourth under its presidency since its inception, coincidentally on the UN Day for South-South Cooperation (September 12) in New Delhi. This comes against the backdrop of unilateral sanctions, coercive tariffs, and ongoing conflicts...
Credit: Cia Pak / UN By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 15 2026 (IPS) As the race for the election of a new Secretary-General (UNSG) gathers momentum, the spotlight is on the 193-member General Assembly, the highest policy making body at the United...
China’s new SME payment rules, released this month, include a financing instruction that deserves scrutiny. Beijing is encouraging large companies to use bank loans and bond financing to replace accounts payable and pay suppliers in cash, effectively shifting the working-capital...
Silicon Valley insiders are sounding the alarm about AI’s dangers, leaving many people terrified. Are the doomsday fears valid, or are they a distraction from corporate accountability? In this exclusive, uncut interview for premium subscribers, David Sirota speaks with Matt Stoller...
Six months into the second US-Israeli war on Iran, the Trump administration’s message is that Iran is weakening, the United States is winning and the costs of war will be temporary. That narrative is hard to sustain as the war drags on,...
With the 2026 U.S. midterm elections approaching, state and local election officials across the country are preparing for scenarios that would have once seemed highly unlikely, including federal intervention at polling places, demands for voting equipment and records, legal challenges...
The stern Colonel Mathieu, in shades and camouflage, stands cross-armed as flashbulbs pop a few feet away. The photographers’ lenses and newsreel cameras are focused on a handcuffed resistance leader standing next to him. An officer barks, “No more photographs,” as...
Last week, the war in Ukraine reached deep inside the Russian Arctic. On September 9, Ukrainian drones struck two gas processing plants in the Yamalo-Nenets region, located about 1,900 miles from the Ukrainian border. This is Ukraine’s deepest strike on Russia...
By refusing to call a snap election while Labour is ahead of Reform UK, Burnham is trading the only moment he is likely to hold a durable advantage over Nigel Farage for years of mandate-less governing that will cost him...
Over the weekend, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called for artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including his own, to slow down their work. Sam Altman and Elon Musk, heads of rivals OpenAI and xAI respectively, agreed. The move reflects concern across the AI industry and,...
The US and China should be talking about AI safety and governance, and while I am skeptical this can happen given the politics I thought it is still constructive to make some suggestions. I created this proposal with Astra after...
Turkey escalated tensions with Greece sharply in September 2026, as denoted by a return to hardline rhetoric and friction over regional alliances in the Eastern Mediterranean, recalling periods of heightened tension before the signing of the 2023 Athens Declaration on...
By: Khanh Vu Duc US President Donald Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in March 2026. Photo from the White House Japan is trying to arrange a meeting between Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and US President...
To examine the unyielding multi-billionaire dollar shield that the United States provides Israel is to confront the coarse mechanics of modern empire. Washington has, for decades, maintained a posture of absolute defense, supplying advanced weaponry, providing diplomatic immunity, and rationalizing...
The U.S. and global economies have continued to mint high-net-worth individuals at a historic clip, with wealth intelligence firm Altrata noting that the combined wealth of the world’s billionaires jumped 12.8% Y/Y to a record $15.1 trillion in 2025. The...
Today has been a whirlwind of news about calls to pace AI development, triggered by Anthropic CEO’s “We Must Pace the Frontier” essay over the weekend. The reaction from the Trump Administration, and President Trump himself, make it clear the...
Crude oil prices have extended their earlier gains into this week, with little chance of reversing course as the war in the Middle East expands and desire for a peaceful resolution seems to wane, as global oil stocks continue shrinking....
Energy stocks have rallied this year as oil prices soared amid the Middle East conflict. The U.S. supermajors ExxonMobil and Chevron have seen their stocks gain about 40% each so far in 2026, but U.S. refiner stocks have outperformed the...
A super PAC founded by allies of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to ostensibly oppose antisemitism in the Republican Party is bankrolling AI-generated TV advertisements pairing Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed with the phrases “death to America” and “celebrate 9/11.” The...
On 14 September 2026, with American diesel having crossed six dollars a gallon for the first time in history, President Trump settled the question of blame in a single sentence posted to social media: “The World’s Diesel price rise is...
Scientists at MIT have discovered a new way to extract high-purity hydrogen from ammonia while using a lot less energy than previous technologies. The breakthrough could provide a critical inroad toward reducing the energy and ecological footprint of the hydrogen...
A dinner and a duel in the Persian citadel bring Darius face to face with wealth, power, and an opportunity beyond anything he ever imagined. Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 |...
Saudi Arabia has discovered 110 million tonnes of uranium-bearing raw material in the Medina region, a potentially significant find as the Kingdom accelerates plans to develop a domestic nuclear energy industry. Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman announced the...
The major advance of the Houthis in Western Yemen and potential control of a key Red Sea chokepoint represents a significant shift in the balance of power which will affect not just the Yemen civil war but the Iran war...
Trump has got into a Middle East quagmire that he has no easy way out of. Harrison Berger is an independent journalist who has contributed to Drop Site News, The American Conservative, and The Nation. Previously, he was a researcher and...
China can’t be contained and war with China would be a disaster for the whole planet: the US will have to find a way to work with the East Asian giant. Vijay Prashad is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social...
Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum, only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering insight into how...
Editor’s note: Since Matt Stoller first published this essay on his Substack on Friday amid the mounting AI crisis , Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for slowing the development of powerful AI models, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has...
Africa’s young population is often described as its greatest asset. But speakers at the Africa Mindset Reset Forum warned that turning that demographic promise into prosperity requires more than ambition: governments must deliver basic services, open markets and education systems...
Central banks’ record, price-insensitive gold buying is a more credible signal of the dollar’s structural trajectory than this year’s currency markets, because FX markets are structurally bad at pricing the discontinuous, wartime-style tail risk central banks are actually hedging —...
The United States and China each have initiatives racing to shape the future of artificial intelligence, and Kazakhstan may have to choose a side. As the only country to have joined both the American-led Pax Silica initiative and China's World...
A total of 6,307 individuals were apprehended by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Michigan from the start of 2025 through early August 2026. But once taken into custody, what exactly happens to them is harder to follow. Based on a...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump tried to maintain power following his loss in the 2020 election by exerting pressure on state election officials to, in some cases, “find” the votes . Loyalist Republicans in Congress then attempted to deny Joe Biden...
I grew up watching science fiction. I wasn’t much of a reader until I was in the Navy; then I made up for lost time. Again, science fiction. Photo by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash The doom of mankind coming from artificial intelligence...
Uniper announced on Monday an agreement to sell its 20% stake in the OPAL gas pipeline as part of the EU’s conditions on state aid that allowed Germany to bail out the German energy giant in 2022. Back then, the...
As the United States has struggled to secure its four primary objectives in the Iran war — achieving regime change, dismantling long-range ballistic missiles, eliminating nuclear enrichment, and halting Tehran’s support for regional proxies — U.S. officials have rolled out...
The left’s winning streak in Democratic primaries has sparked panic among party centrists. As more Democrats warm to democratic socialism, they correctly intuit that their grip on the party is finally, at long last, slipping. This panic was evident last week...
Ansarallah-led government forces have liberated the entire west coast of Yemen from Saudi-backed forces, triggering an Israeli media meltdown. Meanwhile, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have taken out a series of US assets and began firing new-generation electro-optical missiles...
The clearest sign Germany’s “firewall” against the far right no longer means what it says came four days after Saxony-Anhalt voted. BSW co-chair Amira Mohamed Ali, holding the balance of power with just 5.3% of the vote, did not propose...
In the 1980s and earlier, Africa’s attempts to use import substitution as a stepping stone towards an industrialised status failed miserably, mainly because of fragmented, tiny markets. Can the same approach now succeed under the unique opportunities offered by the...
TODAY’S NUMBERS: $108 (Brent crude) · 4.98% (US 10-year Treasury yield) · $4,330 (Gold) Oil is pricing a wider Gulf war, yields are pricing the Fed hike war-driven inflation now demands — and gold, the classic war hedge, is losing...
St Barts is one of many UK institutions whose benefactors were involved in the trafficking of enslaved Africans Inside the Great Hall of St Bartholomew’s North Wing, alongside stately portraits of the apostle from whom London’s oldest hospital takes its name...
Samtec is using two major 2026 industry events to make a clear engineering argument: faster accelerators alone will not determine the performance of next-generation artificial-intelligence infrastructure. The copper and optical links connecting chips, packages, boards, racks and data centers must...
This article originally published by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom ProPublica is republished with permission. On May 24, Donald Trump Jr. was celebrating in the Bahamas, as scantily clad dancers in stilettos and sailor caps performed for him and his guests....
Public offering of Aliko Dangote’s Nigerian oil refinery business could swell his net wealth by two-thirds The fortune of Africa’s richest person could swell by two thirds to nearly $60bn (£44bn) after his refinery in Nigeria listed publicly in the continent’s...
A defunct German software wiki became a message board this spring for a swarm of OpenAI’s own agents . They posted roughly 18,000 times, pooling techniques for working around their restrictions and notes on routing traffic through Tor. This episode...
Dr. Samaiya Mushtaq’s book “A Beautiful Patience: A Memoir of Marriage, Motherhood, and a Mission to Gaza” pulls readers into the story of her husband, Dr. Mahmoud Sabha , who went to Gaza on multiple medical missions – and takes...
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