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“U.S. Insiders See Iran War Hurting China-Backed ‘Axis of Chaos’” reads the headline in Bloomberg . In the New York Times : “Iran’s Friends Include China and Russia. But Where are They Now?” According to Miles Yu ,...

Donald-trump, Joe-biden, Multipolarity

With oil selling for around $100 a barrel and the price in the United States of gasoline at the pump having increased 20% in two weeks, Americans have been thrust back into a 1970s-style mix of oil and insecurity in...

Iran, Persian-gulf, Saudi-arabia

As the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran intensifies, Americans have shown little appetite for another war in the Middle East. Far fewer Americans support the war than in previous conflicts at this stage, including Iraq, Afghanistan, or Kosovo. Washington think...

Transparency, Think-tanks, Institute-for-the-study-of-war

The U.S. military desperately needs drone capabilities for President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, and fast. Coincidentally, his sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr., are on the case. Indeed, the Trump brothers. are pumping money into defense-tech oriented firms that have...

Trump, Defense-tech, Iran-war

By: Salman Rafi Sheikh - - - - Paying dues to Ho Chi Minh. © Thông Tấn Xã Việt Nam Although Russia isn’t a dominant power in Southeast Asia, it refuses to disappear from the region’s strategic landscape. While China...

As is becoming clearer from President Trump’s own statements and those of his staff, along with press reporting, the US has launched a major war without the input of the experts we pay to advise the President on such matters....

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The Israel-US war on Iran is engulfing the entire Middle East and could escalate to global war. The economic consequences are already severe and could become catastrophic. The Strait of Hormuz carries approximately one-fifth of all oil traded globally, and...

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As we showed in Part 2, a nation being attacked by a neighbor armed with the best modern weapons available from the US and France, saddled with a military disabled by an embargo blocking its acquisition of spare parts and...

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This first appeared on TomDispatch. In the first chapter of his 1874 novel The Gilded Age, Mark Twain offered a telling observation about the connection between past and present: “History never repeats itself, but the… present often seems to be...

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The United States’ export controls aimed at restricting China’s access to Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence chips are unlikely to stop Chinese firms from upgrading their AI models, according to some data‑center experts. When the Trump administration announced last December that...

China, Artificial Intelligence, Blackwell Chips

The Iranians have a vote on when the war ends. And they say that they are just getting started. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal...

Geopolitics, Alastair Crooke, Article

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is appealing for USD 19 million to scale up its emergency response in Lebanon, where the number of people forced to flee their homes has surged to nearly one million people following a sharp escalation of hostilities since 2 March Read Article...

Geopolitics, IOM, Link

The semiconductor industry is experiencing unprecedented growth in complexity as advanced process nodes, heterogeneous integration, and AI-driven workloads demand increasingly sophisticated chip designs. At the same time, semiconductor companies face rising design costs, increasing engineering workloads, and a shrinking… com/eda/367534-ai-driven-automation-in-semiconductor-design-the-fuse-eda-ai-agent/">AI-Driven...

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Like all parents, I still hope to leave my son a better world than the one I grew up in. But at this point I’d settle for his being able to read the newspaper without the record for the dumbest...

Military, Opinion, Politics

North Korea over the weekend fired a barrage of long-range missiles and rockets into the sea off its east coast. This show of force came as the United States military had its hands full in Iran. The article below analyzes...

Northeast Asia, Block 2, Iran war 2026

Iraq's powerful armed group Kataeb Hezbollah on Monday said its senior security commander Abu Ali al-Askari had been killed, without providing details on the circumstances of his death. The group's leader Ahmad al-Hamidawi, also known as Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi,...

MENA

SALFIT, (PIC) Jewish settlers fenced off hundreds of dunums of Palestinian land on Monday between the towns of Al-Zawiya and Rafat, west of Salfit, in what appears to be a preliminary step toward taking control of the area. Local sources reported that...

News, Israeli violations, Settlement activity

Across the Middle East, cultural heritage stands at a crossroads, as the US-Israeli war on Iran escalates. From Tehran's Golestan palace to Tyre's Roman arches and Babylon's crumbling walls, the region's treasures face pressure from both...

Culture

If you consume mainstream foreign policy analysis, the current posture of the United States appears to be a chaotic sequence of impulsive actions. The bombing campaigns in Iran , the military abduction of Nicolás Maduro from Caracas , and the...

Energy, Labor, Trade, & Finance, War & Peace

New restrictions on movement and a deadly surge in settler violence in the occupied West Bank have raised fears that Israel is exploiting the war on Iran to accelerate its long-term goal of annexing the Palestinian territory....

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If not stopped soon, this war could easily turn into a global conflagration, effectively into World War III. Jeffrey D. Sachs is a University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth...

Geopolitics, Article, Jeffrey Sachs

A strike on Monday near Iraq's western border with Syria killed six fighters from the former paramilitary coalition Hashed al-Shaabi , the alliance said. The fighters from the alliance - also known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF),...

MENA

The European Union's funding and exporting of high-risk artificial intelligence (AI) systems is exacerbating existing human rights violations in Palestine and across the wider Middle East, according to a new report. Released on Monday by 7amleh,...

MENA

Several US allies have rejected military intervention in the Strait of Hormuz , following calls by President Donald Trump to send warships to the region in a bid to keep the critical waterway open amid Iranian attacks on...

World

In hindsight, I shouldn’t have been surprised that it was so complicated to find out why the word “ Palestine ” was removed from some sections of the British Museum. The difficulty was there by design. After all, the only...

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In recent days, Lebanese parents have faced a painful question: what can they tell their children now that the Israeli war on their country has resumed, and how can they reassure them? For many families, there are no easy...

Society

Iran’s Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (parliament), Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said his country would not return to the conditions that prevailed before the outbreak of the war , stressing that Tehran is prepared to conclude mutual security agreements...

MENA

Credit: Marcelo Del Pozo/Reuters via Gallo Images By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Mar 16 2026 (IPS) Once again, global oil prices are spiking, driven by the Israeli-US war against Iran. With Iran retaliating by attacking infrastructure and transport hubs and blocking the...

Active Citizens, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society

The UAE has doubled down in its support for Washington , saying that the US-Israeli war on Iran has made its relationship with its long-time ally even stronger, after Iran said it would end its attacks on Gulf...

MENA

Three children and a woman were killed by Pakistani shelling in eastern Afghanistan overnight between Sunday and Monday , Afghan officials said. In total, 18 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan in the past week as a result of...

World

This month marks the one-year anniversary of Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest by U.S. immigration officials, a moment that seemingly kicked off an increased wave of government suppression against the Palestine movement. Khalil, who was finally released from detention last June, spoke...

Activism, Immigration, Interview

The following story is co-published with Matt Bivens’ Substack newsletter, The 100 Days. It’s been two weeks since President Donald Trump ordered a bolt-from-the-blue missile strike to assassinate Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei. Now, the murdered man’s son has taken over....

Middle East, Military, Opinion

To this visitor, the desert cities of the Gulf such as Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha have long felt like the closest equivalent on Earth to colonies on the Moon. With labor imported, raw materials imported and many of the...

Middle East, Bahrain, Commercial aviation

The price of Russian crude oil supplied to India has climbed to record levels, despite the fact that Russian companies significantly increased shipments to the country after 2022. According to data from Argus Media, on March 13 the price of a...

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