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The U.S. midterm elections are all but guaranteed to be chaotic and contentious, but no matter what their results portend for 2028 and beyond, recent moves by the president of Nicaragua offer a cautionary example for anyone worried about the...

Activism, Courts & Law, Ear to the Ground

Saudi Arabia, which at the start of the Iran war redirected virtually all crude exports through its East-West pipeline to Yanbu on the Red Sea, has seen crude exports from Yanbu crumble by 41% to about 2.39 million barrels per...

News

The dual disruption of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb is tightening global oil flows, raising transport costs and fueling expectations of $100 oil. Friday, July 24, 2026 The double blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb has turbo-boosted...

News

For years, Washington treated economic sanctions as the Goldilocks instrument of foreign policy: tougher than diplomacy, safer than war, and cheap enough to impose without asking much of the American public. That formula is beginning to break down. Sanctions can...

Labor, Trade, & Finance, dollar, sanctions

A man walks past a sign reading 'unjustly persecuted' featuring journalist José Rubén Zamora, former CICIG lawyer Claudia González and Maya leaders Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclan in a Guatemala City, 12 May 2026. Credit: Johan Ordóñez/AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO,...

Active Citizens, Civil Society, Crime & Justice

Global liquefied natural gas exports grew by about 1.2 trillion cubic feet in 2025. The United States supplied approximately 1.10 trillion cubic feet of that increase. Put another way, roughly 93% of the world’s additional LNG came from the United...

News

Photo by Constantinos Kollias on Unsplash I haven’t talked a lot about Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey here, in part because while I have some issues with the casting—and how it’s fine to take European stories and make them “diverse” but, to...

News

On July 22 , the House of Representatives approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), H.R. 8800, for fiscal year 2027, which includes a provision expanding defense cooperation and integration between the United States and Israel. The vote was 216-212, largely along...

Courts & Law, Middle East, Military

This story was originally published by The 19th . The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has taken a step beyond most other women’s sports leagues by requiring genetic sex testing for female athletes. Despite being targeted at transgender women, this policy has the...

LGBTQIA+, News, Sports

Last month, the Boston Celtics traded 29-year-old superstar Jaylen Brown to their division rival, the Philadelphia 76ers. A former NBA finals MVP and vocal activist who is arguably a top-five player in the league, Boston settled for an overpriced, injury-prone,...

Activism, Column, Economic Justice

´US, a key player in narcotics trafficking. In some ways, life during the US occupation was even worse´ An Interview with Afghan Journalist Awaaz Armani Torn Afghanistan, facing the most severe humanitarian crisis in the world for decades. More than half the...

Opinion

While many were waiting for U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to acknowledge that the so-called Spirit of Anchorage had faded, another prominent member of the American elite was enthusiastically investing in the creation of humanoid combat robots. Somewhat surprisingly,...

Opinion

Senior fellow Gary Miller spoke with Cape Cellular about the exploitation of mobile network vulnerabilities to track US personnel during the Iran war. He also discussed a recent Citizen Lab report about commercial surveillance vendors using the global telecom interconnect ecosystem...

News

Syria is expanding energy and infrastructure cooperation as it seeks economic recovery and greater regional relevance. Damascus is also rebuilding state institutions, including graduating 1,000 new air force cadets. The post Syria focuses on energy deals, works to revive infrastructure and...

Long War Journal, News, Iraq

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Japan’s nuclear taboo is slowly unravelingScott Foster reports that Japanese officials are increasingly willing to debate nuclear weapons, nuclear sharing...

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As EU-China relations sink into mistrust, the European Parliament is attempting to reopen a political channel with Beijing. The question is whether Europe can move beyond bloc confrontation and recognize that engagement with China is not a concession but a...

China, Europe, Politics

Governments have become remarkably efficient at producing information. During crises, official statements, emergency regulations and public updates appear almost instantly. Yet recent global emergencies have exposed a fundamental paradox: more information does not necessarily create greater public trust. The COVID-19...

World News, Global Crisis, Health

Pakistan’s alliance of goods transporters has warned it could launch a nationwide strike over soaring fuel costs in another economic pressure that the South Asian country is feeling from the Middle East crisis. “Transporters across Pakistan should remain prepared; a...

News

Earlier this month, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was buried in his hometown of Mashhad after a four-day ceremony. Many international delegations were present, but each country will have chosen their representatives with the utmost care. Sending...

South Asia, Axis of Resistance, Axis of Sympathy

The “ Silicon Shield ” describes the idea that Taiwan’s central role in advanced semiconductor manufacturing raises the economic and strategic cost of military action against the island. The shield is not a literal defense system. It is a form...

China, Semiconductor, TSMC

Last week, on July 13, 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a “whole-of-government” campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court, vowing to take it apart “brick by brick” if necessary. The ICC is the world’s permanent international criminal tribunal....

Democracy & Governance, International Criminal Court, Trump administration

At least one oil tanker carrying Saudi crude oil has transited the Bab al-Mandeb Strait with its transponder switched off as risks to vessels in the Red Sea spiked this week after the Houthis announced a blockade on Saudi shipments...

News

September WTI crude oil futures were trading at $92.31 late Thursday, up $10.54 or 12.89% for the week. The contract posted a weekly low at $79.58 before climbing to a weekly high at $92.31. This was not a normal risk-premium...

News

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Iran has spent the week attacking the military infrastructure that allows the U.S. to wage war across the Middle East. After 12 consecutive nights of U.S. strikes on Iranian command centers, missile sites, air defenses and...

News

As an energy investor, I am sure you are aware of the expected impact of the AI boom. The servers that AI platforms require demand enormous amounts of power. That, along with expected demand increases from the continued growth of...

News

Trump likes to test big ideas in real time, and very publicly. Earlier this week, Washington was prepared to surrender one of its most valuable bargaining chips with Saudi Arabia, without the conditions one would expect from American foreign policy....

News

U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Friday after a technology-led selloff in the previous session, as investors assessed fresh corporate earnings, rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and new tariffs announced by the Trump administration. The S&P 500...

Finance, Economics, Markets

Zambians will vote on August 13 in presidential and parliamentary elections, with polls and investors widely expecting President Hakainde Hichilema to defeat a fragmented opposition led by Brian Mundubile. For investors, however, the central question extends beyond the election outcome....

Middle East & Africa, Africa, Zambia

On February 26, 2026 – 48 hours before the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury – Hangzhou-based MizarVision posted AI-annotated satellite imagery of F-22 Raptors at Ovda Air Base in Israel, carrier strike group positions in the Arabian...

Military, Block 2, Iran War

Germany’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that the government cannot revoke hundreds of promised resettlement places for Afghan nationals through a blanket decision, saying each case must be assessed individually. The ruling came after an Afghan mother and her two...

World News, Afghanistan, Germany

Japan has identified a high concentration of valuable heavy rare earth elements in deep sea mud recovered from waters near the remote Pacific island of Minamitori, marking another step in its efforts to reduce dependence on Chinese critical mineral supplies....

World News, Japan, Rare Earth Elements

The U.S. has identified cooperation on small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) as a key priority in its engagement with Southeast Asia as regional electricity demand continues to climb. Speaking after Secretary of State Marco Rubio attended the ASEAN Foreign Ministers'...

News

With the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) losing much of its diplomatic momentum, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been gradually reclaiming its centrality in the Indo-Pacific. The clearest evidence emerged this week as Manila hosted the ASEAN Foreign...

Southeast Asia, ASEAN, ASEAN centrality
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