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UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the 23rd Anniversary of the bombing of the United Nations Headquarters in Baghdad. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten. By Naureen Hossain UNITED NATIONS, Aug 20 2026 (IPS) World Humanitarian Day celebrates humanitarian workers and...

Aid, Armed Conflicts, Artificial Intelligence

Fawzia Koofi, former Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, says the country is experiencing gender apartheid. By Ariel F. Dumont ROME, Aug 20 2026 (IPS) FIVE years after the Taliban returned to power, Fawzia Koofi, the former Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament,...

Aid, Editors' Choice, Featured

The reinstated U.S. blockade on Iranian oil exports is effectively preventing Tehran from exporting oil, making Iran’s oil volumes irrelevant for global oil market balances, Bob McNally, president of Rapidan Energy Group, told CNBC on Thursday. The U.S. brought back...

News

When Dave Nellist entered parliament in 1983 as the Labour MP for Coventry South East, he became one of Westminster’s best-known socialists. He was seen as a workers’ MP on a worker’s wage, donating more than half his salary to left-wing...

Archive, Intelligence, Dave Nellist

Military analysts are captivated by how the material nature of war is transforming in Ukraine. Unmanned systems have captured Russian infantry units, battered Russian naval and commercial ships, and even, with the help of on-board AI, conducted autonomous strikes deep...

Cogs of War, Autonomy, Defense Policy

For years, the Chinese military’s own newspaper has been making a promise it may no longer be able to keep. Whenever the People’s Liberation Army Daily (Jiefangjun Bao), the official newspaper of China’s Central Military Commission, discusses artificial intelligence and...

Commentary, Artificial Intelligence, Civil-Military Relations

U.S. President Donald Trump has warned that countries providing any form of economic support to Iran could face severe consequences, escalating Washington’s pressure campaign as the nearly six month old Iran war continues to disrupt regional trade and global energy...

Economy, Iran, Security

The Iran war has pushed the global energy system into a deeper crisis, with the disruption increasingly shifting from crude oil supplies to the refined fuels that power transportation, industry and economies worldwide. While global oil markets have adapted relatively...

Energy Security, Economics, Energy

The hardliner–pragmatist divide is a useful analytical framework for understanding the main disagreement over the war, but the reality of power within the Islamic Republic (IR) is more layered. Actors who find themselves on the same side of the debate...

Middle East & Africa, Defense, front

Yemen’s front lines have barely moved since the 2022 truce, but the war around them is changing. Ballistic missiles and drones are striking far beyond established positions, and forces associated with the internationally recognized, Saudi-backed government are responding more aggressively to...

Yemen-war, Houthis, Iran-war

Esmail Qaani has a habit of not announcing his visits to Baghdad. He simply appears, meets whoever needs meeting, and leaves before most Iraqis know he was there. His trip on August 10 was no different. The commander of Iran’s Quds...

Popular-mobilization-forces, Iran, Thomas-barrack

The Pentagon says it removed 25 years worth of annual weapons testing reports from public view late last month, a move that critics fear could hide potentially dangerous flaws in weapons systems. Justifying the move, the Defense Department said adversaries could...

Dote, Pentagon, Pentagon-wars

North Korean paramount leader Kim Jong-un has demonstrated he can make bold policy decisions. In 2013 he sought to frighten his senior officials into obedience by ordering the execution of his uncle and senior mentor Jang Song-thaek. In 2017 he...

Northeast Asia, Block 2, Doonald Trump

This delightful indie film portrays a Pakistan-American Muslim boy making the difficult transition from Islamic school to public high school. Mustache , a film written and directed by Imran J. Khan, was released on VOD (available to rent or buy) on...

#Culture, featured, Featured Culture

By Tita C. Valderama Image from Institute for Maritime and Ocean Affairs The Philippines is taking another legal and diplomatic step to assert its maritime rights in the West Philippine Sea, asking a United Nations commission to consider the 2016 South China...

News

Consider this hypothetical: Two apartment buildings share a single parking lot. Management from both Building A and Building B are engaged in negotiations over how the parking lot will be organized, painted, maintained, and paid for. Across the street is...

Uncategorized

Six months after Trumpy & Bibi launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran on February 28th, the so-called kinetic campaign has settled into a costly stalemate, at best. And a de facto military defeat as a practical matter. In fact, what...

Uncategorized

The world is installing wind turbines and solar panels faster than ever, but coal still generates more electricity than any other source, and by a huge margin. The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects coal-fired power plants to generate 10,974 terawatt-hours...

News

The threat reveals less about Oman and far more about how comprehensively the Iran war has gone off script for an administration that promised a quick, decisive victory. President Donald Trump did not set out to make an enemy of...

Americas, Analysis, Diplomacy

This story was originally published by Michigan Advance , a hard-hitting, nonprofit news site covering politics and policy across the state. Subscribe to their free daily newsletter HERE . Michigan Republican U.S. Senate nominee Mike Rogers collected nearly $100,000 from key...

News

Oilfield services giant SLB is preparing to reactivate as many as 15 drilling rigs in Venezuela, potentially removing one of the biggest obstacles to increasing the country’s crude production. SLB and energy-focused private equity firm Formentera Partners are working on...

News

Officials say all seven people onboard killed, including Telemundo executive and Ecuador intelligence chief Seven people, including five Americans, were killed when a safari helicopter crashed on Wednesday morning in a remote part of northern Kenya, according to local police and...

Kenya, US news, World news

Afshon Ostovar, one of the leading experts on Iran and the host of the members-only podcast The Iran Reckoning, is joined by War on the Rocks membership editor Kerry Anderson for a state-of-play conversation on the conflict between the United...

Podcasts, War On The Rocks

Passersby take part in a pickup football game organized by civilian search collectives on Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma during the World Cup, July 2026. © 2026 Jorge Peniche/Human Rights Watch By Jorge Peniche Aug 19 2026 (IPS) Weeks have gone by...

Headlines, Human Rights, Latin America & the Caribbean

Kyrgyzstan has provided some clarity on the source of the recent blackout that impacted four states in Central Asia, while vigorously denying blame for the cascading outage. Power outages were first reported in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek during the...

News

The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft has completed its first flight using just $5 worth of electricity, with Heart Aerospace’s 25,000-pound X1 demonstrator flying for 27 minutes and putting a megawatt-scale electric propulsion system through its first airborne test. Heart Aerospace’s...

News

The entire pacific and cosmopolitan spirit if the nineties is exposed as an ideological cover to service interests of the rich Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism...

Economics, Geopolitics, Article

Macroeconomics remains divorced from what is going on in the real economy Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license Source:...

Economics, Article, Michael Roberts

Key Takeaways from the webinar: Multi-agent intelligent assistant systems of the future will be architected to automate and augment SoC design and security verification and redefining semiconductor innovation, reshaping design, verification and security for the next generation of trusted silicon. The ESD...

ESD Alliance, Semiconductor Services, gen ai

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Midterm Madness

For months, Bangladesh and India had been attempting that favorite diplomatic maneuver, the “reset,” a word suggesting that international relations, like an obstinate Wi-Fi router, can be repaired by switching everything off and starting again. There was certainly plenty to...

South Asia, Bangladesh, Block 3
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