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The West’s spree of “shadow fleet” seizures might finally be coming to an end after what Putin just told his Pacific Fleet commanders during his visit to the Russian Far East. As he phrased it, “We can see that the officials...

Ukraine War, Block 2, Russian shadow fleet

Given the relentless demand for computing power, electronic components are in scarce supply. Prices for certain memory chips, known as DRAM, have surged by more than 50 percent in a single quarter this year, and have roughly quadrupled since last...

Cogs of War, Defense Tech, Industrial Policy

The 1930 comic history, 1066 and All That, made famous the British habit of reducing national history to a sequence of memorable dates. The modern Royal Navy has its own unhappy version of that calendar. Since 1945, a series of...

Commentary, Military History, Navy

For a fortnight beginning August 30, Tehran gets to feel wanted – first in Bishkek, at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, then in New Delhi at the BRICS summit, Iran’s leadership will sit among presidents and prime ministers who need...

Opinion, BRICS Summit, India

This article was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer-prizewinning investigative newsroom. A robot was on fire. Again. It was the summer of 2024, and the cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas were catching fire with startling...

Asia Times, Military, General Dynamics

Downpours flood the streets of Dhaka. Credit: Farid Ahmed/ IPS By Mohammad Zaman DHAKA, Bangladesh, Aug 13 2026 (IPS) Dhaka’s recent and recurrent flooding is often treated as a natural disaster, but rain is only the trigger. The deeper causes are political, planning...

Asia-Pacific, Climate Change, Development & Aid

Sailing container ship. Credit: Unsplash/Kinsey Wang By Maximilian Malawista UNITED NATIONS, Aug 13 2026 (IPS) Global goods trade reached approximately USD 13.7 trillion in the first half of 2026, up 12.5 percent from the same period in 2025, while services grew 10.5 percent,...

Armed Conflicts, Economy & Trade, Energy

Despite the ongoing stalemate in the U.S.-Iran talks and persistent risks to shipping in the Middle East, oil prices fell in Asian trading on Thursday, weighed down by cuts to 2026 oil demand forecasts from both OPEC and the International...

News

What Five Years of Directives Add Up To On August 10, 2026, Reporters Without Borders marked five years of Taliban rule with an assessment that Afghanistan has become, in the organization’s words, a prison for information. The report catalogs more...

South Asia, Afghanistan, Opinion

The Guardian published an article on Wednesday reporting that multiple sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to jump overboard as the ship’s deployment stretches into its ninth month and over 260 consecutive days at sea ....

Larry C. Johnson

For decades, U.S. policy in Lebanon has focused on the elimination of Hezbollah, or at least its military wing. But the Trump administration has taken this effort to new heights. The State Department is sponsoring the first ever direct talks between...

Hezbollah, Donald-trump, Iran-war

Opposition leader-in-exile Maria Corina Machado has hired veteran Republican lobbyists in Washington DC in what experts say is an effort to gain the support of the Trump administration as she continues to seek the Venezuelan presidency. Machado has retained lobbyist Ed...

News

The Bunker appears originally at the Project on Government Oversight and is republished here with permission. When you run out of munitions , start launching threats . That’s obviously President Donald Trump’s latest strategy (to misuse the word) as his promised...

Defense-budget, Iran-war, Trump-administration

Hakainde Hichilema is bidding for second term, but feud between him and family of Edgar Lungu, who died in 2025, continues As Zambians go to the polls, the ghost of the current president’s predecessor hangs over the elections. Hakainde Hichilema, 64, is...

Zambia, Africa, World news

In the city where Islam began, three leaders sat down last Friday and signed something the region has not seen before. Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif put their names to the Mecca...

Defense, Analysis, front

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has doubled down on his military and strategic alliance with Vladimir Putin and the Russian regime, betting that this axis will strengthen his own position for now. However, Kim’s strategic calculus depends on the...

Northeast Asia, Block 2, North Korea

Shenzhen will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit (APEC) in November 2026, particularly given its reputation as China’s Silicon Valley and a global hub for artificial intelligence and embodied intelligence. The city will showcase its advanced industrial ecosystem in robotics,...

Science & Technology, APEC, China

By: B A Hamzah The war against Iran has been going on for more than five months, running up against the adage that history teaches: wars are easier to start than to end. Tactical victories can become strategic defeats if they...

News

Zhu Rongji, born on October 23, 1928, died on August 12, 2026. He had been a prime minister, and a great modernizer of China’s financial system. Yet his legacy seems to have faded. Premier Zhu was the man who pushed...

China, Block 3, Chinese Economy

China’s mystery weapon aboard its experimental stealth corvette points to a wider naval race to harness directed energy for everything from deniable gray-zone coercion to defeating the drone swarms that threaten to overwhelm conventional ship defenses. This month, Defense Blog...

China, Block 1, China-Philippines

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in constant 2024 dollars), equal to the combined military spending of the next eighteen countries. Iran barely made...

Uncategorized

CNN reported this weekend that Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has privately urged senior Trump administration officials to look for an “off-ramp” from the war with Iran. According to three sources familiar with the discussions,...

Uncategorized

Bosnia is next on U.S. President Donald Trump’s disruption agenda, and an opaque energy deal riddled with conflicts of interest is at the heart of yet another of Washington’s transactional gambles based on insufficient knowledge. Since the second half of...

News

In this Monty-Python style animation, Uncle Sam tries to use forever wars, global piracy and corporate greed to Make America Great Again . But surreal, pudgy-footed, medieval rabbit cartoons have armed themselves with hypercomic weapons and are striking back against...

Guest Contributor

On 7 August, Abelardo de la Espriella — a Colombian-Italian-American lawyer nicknamed “El Tigre,” whom Donald Trump had called a future “great president” months before a single vote was cast — was sworn in as Colombia’s president not in Bogotá’s...

Americas, Analysis, Colombia

Micron Technology has emerged as a critical supplier in the AI compute ecosystem, leveraging its leadership in advanced DRAM, High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), and NAND flash technologies to address rapidly growing demand from hyperscale data centers and AI accelerator platforms....

Semiconductor, ddr, DDR-based memory

Diesel prices surged earlier this week on news about yet another Ukrainian attack on a Russian refinery and a Houthi attack on a Saudi refining facility. Global fuel supply is already out of balance, and the continued refinery disruption will...

News

When 14-term Connecticut Rep. John Larson lost his Democratic primary to 47-year-old former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin yesterday, The New York Times framed it as an insurgent upstart “capitalizing on calls for generational change in the party.” But the money...

Elections

The war between the US and Iran has driven up natural gas prices, particularly in Europe and Asia. Asia accounts for nearly 90% of liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments from key Middle East producers like Qatar and the UAE, while...

News

In 2025, Nurlan Aliyev wrote, “The Mayhem of Russia’s “Research” Fleet,” where he argued that NATO must act decisively to safeguard critical undersea infrastructure from Russian sabotage attempts. A year later, we asked him to revisit his arguments. Image: Andrey Luzik via Wikimedia...

Members, Rewind and Reconnoiter

Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened Wednesday to seize European ships in retaliation for EU action against Russia’s shadow oil fleet, opening the possibility of direct Russian interference with commercial shipping as Europe steps up efforts to disrupt Moscow’s crude exports,...

News

The Pentagon acknowledged for the first time that U.S. military operations killed Yemeni civilians last year, in an annual report on civilian casualties it sent to members of Congress Tuesday. CENTCOM determined that three operations in Yemen last year “more likely...

Pentagon, Civilian-casualties, Civilian-harm

What is happening to the US dollar? Why has the Federal Reserve set up a ‘pawnshop’ on its estate? Why do Japan’s low rates of interest threaten the US? Why are Europeans angered by US Treasury Secretary Bessant’s not-so-stealthy hedge-fund-style...

Climate Crisis, Economics, Financial Institutions

Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza is a mirage, a conjuring trick in which peace is unilaterally declared as Israel seizes more Palestinian land and brings the genocide to its grim conclusion. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was...

Geopolitics, Article, Chris Hedges

Why are the rich not consuming? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World , was published November 2025. Cross-posed from Branko Milanović’s blog Global Inequality and...

Economics, Inequality, Article

Intel EMIB and Intel Foveros are advanced semiconductor-packaging technologies designed to combine multiple silicon dies, or chiplets, within one processor package. Both support heterogeneous integration: manufacturers can build different functions using the process technology best suited to each one, then...

3D IC, Chiplet, Intel Foundry

As energy companies explore innovative ways to increase clean power production and gain public support for new projects, many solar firms are investing in developing dual-purpose operations that utilise agricultural land for solar farms. A common criticism of solar farms...

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