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Indonesia’s strategic autonomy is often described as a diplomatic effort to avoid choosing sides. Increasingly, it is something more practical: an effort to avoid having too few choices. From Washington’s point of view…
Africa
Ethiopia has opened a new parliamentary term with a leadership appointment of considerable political and historical significance. Ahmed Shide, one of the country’s longest-serving senior economic policymakers and among…
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Electric aviation is advancing faster than many critics expected. Batteries will not remain confined to tiny experimental aircraft, and short regional routes are a credible early market. But electric aircraft will not…
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The United States is set to provide Uruguay with $6.5 million to combat organized crime. While seemingly a modest sum against the backdrop of billions in trade, this agreement is significant for its core provision: the…
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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 week, we bring you a curated selection of articles from…
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Southeast Asia's upstream merger and acquisition (M&A) conversation has moved from which international oil companies (IOCs) are leaving to who is buying their way in. Research from Rystad Energy shows a competitive cycle…
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This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 New in The Lever : Corporate Dems want you to forget 2024 . 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - The Epstein-y past of the new artificial intelligence…
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France Gripped by Widespread Student Protests France is facing a new wave of mass protests, this time originating from its high schools. What began as localized school blockades in Parisian suburbs in mid-September has…
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Southeast Asia's upstream merger and acquisition (M&A) conversation has moved from which international oil companies (IOCs) are leaving to who is buying their way in. Research from Rystad Energy shows a competitive cycle…
Analysis
Last month, during a panel discussion at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s (CBCF) Annual Legislative Conference , Angie Nixon started in on a critique of capitalism. For a moment, it sounded like she was going…
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The Enduring Human Appetite for Myth The human impulse to reshape history is as old as civilization itself, predating the internet by millennia. From the chronicles of ancient scribes to the pronouncements of rulers and…
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The signing of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 by President Trump on 18 September gives him a huge economic lever to effect massive political change in what is effectively a turbocharged…
Development & Aid
OECD PISA education performance: change in scores between 2009 to 2025, and 2025 scores. By Isabel Ortiz and Antonia Wulff BRUSSELS / GENEVA, Oct 5 2026 (IPS) The results of the OECD PISA 2025 report point to the marked…
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Indian state-owned refiner Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) prepares to issue a $3-billion bond to finance its share of a major offshore oil development in Brazil, as Indian companies move to expand in…
Belief & Religion
Five years after the U.S. withdrew its troops from Afghanistan and the Taliban returned to power, the group is now asking for something that once seemed almost unthinkable: the diplomatic and economic return of the…
Photo by Phil Hearing on Unsplash When people questioned the outcome of the 2020 election, they were automatically labeled conspiracy theorists, and we were told that there was no way anyone could steal an election…
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Record-high fuel prices and a record number of newly available affordable models have pushed electric vehicle sales in the European Union to an all-time high this year, Transport & Environment, a European advocacy group…
Business & Economy
This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . The Trump administration came close to fully dismantling the federal government’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from…
Activism
When Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin declared in September that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could serve warrants on individuals at polling places this fall, officials in Denver, a liberal city…
Activism
Behind this election’s dominant issue of affordability lies the record concentration of wealth at the top of America. The richest 0.001% of Americans — a handful of extraordinarily wealthy men — now controls more of the…
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The United States is contemplating a significant shift in its military posture, potentially redeploying forces from Europe to the Western Hemisphere to intensify the fight against Latin American drug cartels. Defense…
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The Earth and Mars emerged from nearly the same cosmic "cradle," but they were assembled in fundamentally different ways. This is the conclusion reached by authors of a new study published in Nature Astronomy, who have…
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is heading to Iceland, Greece, and Portugal on October 5-8 for talks on security, defense, energy, economic cooperation, and technology as NATO allies face growing security concerns over…
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Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert is quoted in an article in the Guardian about Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s increasing influence on AI dominance. “For the last 20 years, democracy has been in decline,” says…
Opinion
Reflecting on the UK’s long, hot summer, Clayton Goodwin finds a welcome new era of racial harmony mixed with right-wing bile. Which will prevail? London and, indeed, the whole of the United Kingdom has been hot this…
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I have watched Pakistan-Afghanistan relations long enough to distrust easy headlines, and last week’s news produced a few of them. At the Center-2026 (Tsentr-2026) war games in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region, Taliban…
Human Rights
In recent weeks, media coverage has amplified warnings from corporate CEOs and whistleblowers claiming that artificial intelligence (AI) poses an existential threat to humanity . The central argument emerging from the…
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Paul Krugman is the greatest econ writer in the world, and also a legendary economist. But I sometimes feel that he has a blind spot when it comes to the value of new technologies. In 1998 he famously wrote: The growth…
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After Guardian investigation uncovered drone strike that killed 12 civilians and injured many more, seven-year-old Abdiqadir Salah underwent vital operation in Mogadishu On the rickshaw ride to the hospital, Marian Haji…
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Britain’s domestic intelligence agency MI5 faces difficult questions at an inquiry into the 1989 murder of solicitor Pat Finucane, now under way in Belfast. Loyalist paramilitaries shot Finucane – a 39-year-old defence…
National Politics
The eruption of a mass housing movement in the past 10 days has put social class back on the agenda of Spanish politics and completely altered the dimensions of a high stakes General Election on 29 November. Ben Wray is…
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--- October is Islamic History Month in Canada! Islamic History Month is more than just a token formality: it’s an opportunity to do real da’wah, both within the Muslim community and outside of it. Hassam Munir talks…
Bethlehem / PNN / Between October 3 and 4, Israel deported four solidarity activists, three from the United States and one from Germany.They were supporting the community of Jamma’in at the start of the olive harvest…
Active Citizens
Social Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson speaks at the Social Democrats’ election night party in Stockholm on 13 September 2026. Credit: Jonas Ekstromer/TT News Agency/AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Oct 5 2026…
Military
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Indonesia is buying the weapons of a modern military at a pace rarely seen in its recent history. Rafale fighter jets are entering service, and the country has contracted for 48 KAAN fighters from Turkey. The navy has…
Cogs of War
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For eighty years, the Western alliance has anchored its strength in moral legitimacy, shared values, and the resulting credibility to shape international norms. NATO’s durability through the Cold War rested on more than…
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On Oct. 1, 2026, Beijing celebrated the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and the beginning of the end for the U.S. Air University’s China Aerospace Studies Institute. The institute was…
Europe
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The European Union has spent the past two years discussing how to restore its economic competitiveness. The harder question is whether it can implement the reforms it already knows it needs before political fragmentation…
Opinion
Africa’s own seed performance data show strong policies and weak delivery. The Africa Seed Summit in Eswatini must close that gap. A farmer in rural West Africa could be forgiven for assuming her government has done…
Health
One of the biggest health deficits across Africa is the currently unacceptably low levels of immunisation. These are exposing millions, especially children and other vulnerable groups, to deadly diseases that are…
Economy
Cotton has long been one of Africa’s most important agricultural commodities, supporting millions of rural jobs and generating vital export revenues. Yet the continent captures only a fraction of the wealth generated by…
Southeast Asia
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In June 2026, Indonesia’s Deputy Minister of Communications and Digital Nezar Patria put Indonesia’s share of ASEAN’s digital economy at around 40 percent, a figure that varies with the source and definition used, yet…
China
Late last month, Japan’s defense ministry made an unsettling announcement. A U.S. ground-based missile system, known as the Typhon and capable of firing Tomahawk missiles, would not return to the United States after…
Enewsletter
Reports that more oil is getting through the Strait of Hormuz have been heralded as a win for the Trump administration, but experts say this kind of happy talk hides the fact that the war remains in a quagmire. As…
Kurds
On September 21, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq officially announced the completion of the long-delayed unification and reorganization of its Peshmerga paramilitary forces under the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs (MoPA)…
East Asia
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Chinese Studies (Sinology) has undergone a radical transformation in recent years, no longer limited to the study of history and classical language but evolving into a strategic field focused on understanding China as a…
Africa
A community health worker examines a pregnant woman inside her home while family members look on, highlighting the growing challenges mothers face as extreme heat and climate-related pressures strain access to healthcare…
Larry C. Johnson
Once again Karl W. Miller has put numbers to a problem that most of the commentariat still treats as a temporary price spike. His latest forward outlook, “The Five-Year Global Energy Crisis,” dated October 3, makes an…