Authors: Stefanie Thamrin and Virgie Cerenata Nahusuly* Indonesia’s relationship with the C-130 Hercules is deeply rooted in its defence history. Since receiving its first C-130 in 1960, the aircraft has evolved beyond conventional military usage serving as a key transportation...
I have had the pleasure of working with Defacto Technologies for the past 10 years on SemiWiki and I am always impressed with their professionalism and ability to quickly address the challenges of complex SoC design. From my perspective, Defacto’s technology...
Indian protesters rallying Monday in New Delhi under the banner of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party were attacked by police as they marched toward the country’s Parliament demanding the resignation of the country’s education minister and denouncing the government of Prime...
Andy Burnham became UK Prime Minister today. If he is serious about changing the Labour Party, Burnham will have to break with an Atlanticist foreign policy which he has always supported. Barry Malone is an independent journalist and author of the...
It is prudent to remain highly sceptical of Burnham, but committing to eliminating rough sleeping on day one is not a bad start. Read the article HERE . The post Middle East Eye – Andy Burnham promises ‘new economic and political model’...
A rising share of profits in Europe are going into finance rather than productive investment. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Why is Europe falling behind in investment and...
The fall of popular Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who had overhauled Ukraine’s war strategy, shows Zelensky prioritises corruption over competence. Mark Episkopos is a Eurasia Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also an Adjunct Professor of...
‘Unwarranted ad breaks, entry bans on some foreign nationals, and political tampering with the game all made this a Trumpian World Cup. But if Donald Trump put his stamp on the world’s game, it’s also set a precedent for future...
Houthi rebels in Yemen on Monday announced they were imposing a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia in yet another threat to global petroleum supplies amid the US war on Iran. Yahya Saree, spokesperson for the Houthis, said in a video announcement that the militia would be...
You might think that an arch-conservative who has used his lifetime seat on the Supreme Court to send U.S. law back to the 1920s would take a victory lap and maybe chill just a bit. But no. Despite his success...
My former Georgetown professor, John Esposito, passed away on July 15, 2026, just as the military campaign between the U.S. and Iran reignited in what is becoming America’s “Third Gulf War.” It was America’s first Gulf War in 1991 that led...
The dismissal of former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov is explained not by internal political disagreements but by external competition over the distribution of billions of dollars allocated to Ukraine. Fedorov: Let's Replace Soldiers With Drones According to official figures released by...
The Armed Forces of Ukraine struck four tankers carrying Kazakh oil in Novorossiysk over the course of three days, ignoring a statement issued by Kazakhstan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In Kazakhstan, many welcomed the statement issued by the country's Ministry of...
Keysight Technologies returns to 2026 DAC , The Chips to Systems Conference this year as a Silver Sponsor and an “I LOVE DAC” sponsor, bringing its Design Engineering Software portfolio to Booth #927 at DAC 2026 , which runs July...
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 Ukrainians...
Nancy O'Brien Simpson OMG. OMG. OMG. This is incredible.My son-in-law Steven told me that the martyrdom of the Palestinians in Gaza would be the genesis of change. He was prescient in his prediction. The suffering of the Palestinian people, the images...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the opening session of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance, Geneva, Switzerland. Credit: UN Photo/Irina Popa By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Jul 20 2026 (IPS) Throughout July 2026, various United Nations (UN) bodies and global experts have...
The World Cup is a photographic image of the world, but it is overexposed. It is blurred though the filters of nationalist propaganda and individual heroics. At play are all the features of geopolitics: power games, big money, troubles with...
A food crisis rarely arrives with a bang. It slips in quietly—through smaller bags of rice, thinner meals, and prices that change faster than wages. Food is still there. What disappears first is the ability to afford it. For lower-income...
This story was originally published by ICT . The Namaygoosisagagun (Collins) First Nation has been destroyed by a fast moving fire that came on so quickly, people were forced to carry out an emergency evacuation; including some forced to flee by...
This article was originally published at Barn Raiser . In his address to the nation on July 16, President Trump charged, without evidence, that American elections are not secure and stated that Congress “must pass” the SAVE America Act. Less than a...
Photo by Giammarco Boscaro on Unsplash Once upon a time, I dreamed of being an academic. I thought that a life spent in scholarly pursuits would be one worth pursuing. Unfortunately for me, that dream was torn away from me by...
More than a century ago , Czech writer Karel Čapek invented the word “robot” for his play R.U.R. , Rossum’s Universal Robots , about a factory that churned out humanoid machines whose mission was to liberate real people from work....
In the United Arab Emirates, women hold half of all parliamentary seats, a threshold reached by only six national legislatures on Earth. In Afghanistan, a fellow member of the same fifty seven nation bloc, girls are barred by law from...
Policy Options between the Kerosene Shock and the Revision of the Emissions Trading System The war in Iran has led to kerosene prices roughly doubling and forced airlines to cancel thousands of flights. Some voices from the industry have used the crisis to...
Population ageing, including the point at which older adults outnumber younger people, is a global demographic phenomenon. Credit: Shutterstock By Joseph Chamie PORTLAND, USA, Jul 20 2026 (IPS) In many countries, older adults (aged 65 and above) now outnumber younger individuals (under the...
The June ceasefire did not produce a postwar order in the Strait of Hormuz. It produced a pause. And now that pause has given way to renewed U.S. strikes, Iranian retaliation across the Gulf, and another collapse in commercial confidence....
China’s construction of what may be the world’s largest naval replenishment ship signals its growing expeditionary ambitions — and highlights the vulnerability of the US’s base-dependent model of power projection. This month, multiple media outlets reported that satellite imagery and...
While the focus of global news remains on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz and the Russia-Ukraine war, a significant new arena of contestation has opened in the Bay of Bengal. In April this year, India’s National Maritime Security Strategy 2026...
Israel may be witnessing the twilight of Netanyahu’s era as security failures, war fatigue, and the rise of the Yashar party erode his aura of indispensability. In geopolitics, leaders who build their legacy on security often fall when that very...
Kenneth Jeyaretnam, a trained economist who gave up a career in finance to take over his father’s opposition Reform Party as secretary-general to tilt at unassailable Singaporean political windmills, died in London on July 18 at age 67, leaving a...
Delegates at the 11th Annual Global Conference on Energy Efficiency, organised by the International Energy Agency (IEA). Credit: Umar Manzoor Shah/IPS By Umar Manzoor Shah SRINAGAR, India, Jul 20 2026 (IPS) As geopolitical tensions, rising electricity demand and climate pressures reshape the global...
The conflict between the United States and Iran intensified on Monday, with both sides launching fresh military strikes that raised fears of a broader regional crisis threatening global energy supplies, maritime security and critical civilian infrastructure. While oil prices briefly...
A confrontation between Chinese coast guard personnel and Philippine navy sailors at the disputed Second Thomas Shoal has heightened tensions in the South China Sea, with Manila accusing Beijing of using force against its personnel during a resupply-related operation. The...
People collect signatures against the construction of a massive Mitsui Fudosan datacentre in Hino City, Tokyo, 19 April 2026. Credit: Yasushi Wada/The Yomiuri Shimbun via AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Jul 20 2026 (IPS) Few things unite Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters with...
European stocks traded cautiously on Monday as investors balanced escalating geopolitical risks in the Middle East against the start of another crucial corporate earnings season. Rising oil prices, renewed concerns over inflation, and uncertainty surrounding central bank policy kept markets...
Elders meet with Danny Seidemann, founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem, to discuss the E1 settlement plan and Jerusalem’s holy sites. Credit: Maya Levin / the Elders By the Elders LONDON, Jul 20 2026 (IPS) We have just concluded a visit to the West Bank,...
The third India-Australia Annual Summit in Melbourne on July 9 produced outcomes across defense, energy, critical minerals, technology and education — 18 in all. But by far the most significant deliverable centered on Australian uranium exports to India. After nearly...
It is a small irony of American history that the tool Genêt left behind, organized domestic pressure campaigns built to serve a foreign patron’s interests, would prove far more durable and far more useful than the man who improvised it....
Britain enters a new political chapter on Monday as Andy Burnham becomes the country’s seventh prime minister in just a decade, replacing Keir Starmer and inheriting an economy weighed down by sluggish growth, rising living costs, and mounting pressure on...
Somewhere, a hard drive is filling up with secrets no one can read yet, and its owner is waiting for the machine that opens them all at once. On March 30, 2026, that wait got shorter.Two independent research teams lowered...
The secretary of defense’s November announcement on acquisition reform laid out an unprecedented vision across the entire acquisition spectrum to improve the delivery speed of critical capabilities to our warfighters. One foundational pillar is the implementation of a commercial first...
While oil prices have retreated from the record highs triggered by the latest Iran conflict, global energy markets remain far from stable. Brent crude has fallen from its wartime peak of around $118 per barrel to roughly $85, creating the...
The United States is racing to secure global leadership in artificial intelligence, expand domestic manufacturing, electrify transportation, and modernize its economy. Yet beneath these ambitious goals lies an overlooked vulnerability that threatens to derail them all: an aging and increasingly...
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...
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