On 23 August, it will be 100 days since the Bundibugyo strain was first reported. How did it became the DRC’s most deadly outbreak and what must be done to stop it becoming the world’s largest? Almost 100 days ago, Africa’s...
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Traffic police take statements from road crash victims at a health facility in Morogoro Region, Tanzania. The country's Basic Emergency Care (BEC) programme is strengthening the capacity of frontline health workers to provide life-saving treatment during the critical moments following...
When The Bed Walked Away [Part 2] – Primordial Muck
Full ArticleWhen the things around him begin to vanish, Bashir searches desperately for an explanation. This is part two of a two-part story. Read Part 1 * * * Cosmic Joke The afternoon was pleasantly cool, yet sweat poured down his face. He wiped his...
Crude oil imports into China are set to rise by about 1.2 million barrels per day in the final quarter of the year from the current one, although they will likely remain lower than pre-war levels, Bloomberg has reported, citing...
First gas from Australia’s Beetaloo shale basin is scheduled to start flowing next month, with initial production of 37 million cu m, Reuters has reported, noting hopes that the country could replicate the U.S. shale gas success story. The Beetaloo...
Russia is prepared to consider new proposals for ending the war in Ukraine, but Moscow says any settlement must account for what it describes as the “realities on the ground.” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow was ready...
Supporters of the Cockroach Janta party rally against the Minister of Education in Kolkata, India, 24 July 2026. Credit: Debarchan Chatterjee/NurPhoto via AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Aug 21 2026 (IPS) India’s strongman leader, Narendra Modi, has just been forced to do the...
When China agreed to suspend its sweeping new rare earth export controls in November 2025, Washington and Beijing appeared to have stepped away from another major escalation in their trade confrontation. The measures announced last October were suspended until November...
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS, addresses the General Assembly 2026 high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS. The meeting discussed the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the political declarations on HIV/AIDS. Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías By Shuli Wong UNITED NATIONS,...
Bessent Doesn’t Understand that He Can’t Weaponize the Dollar with Iran and Bank On It with China
Full ArticleTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent had a schizophrenic Thursday. Asked on CNBC why oil had jumped on the administration’s latest Iran threats, he professed bewilderment: “ I’m not sure why oil has popped up on this .” In separate remarks the...
For the last several months, relations between Ukraine and Poland — one of Ukraine’s main supporters in its war with Russia — have been unusually strained. The trigger for renewed mutual recriminations was the decision in June by Ukrainian president Volodymyr...
The Trump connected Polymarket is likely helping gamblers with inside military information cash in on wars the president wages. According to Reuters, a report by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, found that 152 “exceptionally successful” Polymarket wallets otherwise known as “Orcas”may have...
On July 23 the European Union used its newest sanctions tool for the first time. Buried inside its twenty first package against Russia was a mechanism that had not existed a year earlier: the power to ban transactions with any...
By: John Elliot Noel Tata The unexpected announcement on August 12 that Natarajan Chandrasekaran will not seek a third five-year term as executive chairman of Tata Sons, India’s biggest conglomerate, marks the climax of bitter family differences and ego clashes that have...
According to an exclusive report from POLITICO, Xi Jinping’s planned September visit to the United States has reportedly been shortened to just one day. If accurate, this would suggest that the outcomes and hard-won trust built during the two leaders’...
Donald Trump’s Board of Peace published a 15-point roadmap for Gaza in late July in which Hamas would hand its weapons to a committee of Palestinian technocrats, certified by an international verification body, and Israel would withdraw from the strip...
GEO Group contributed $1.4 million to a powerful super PAC that supports President Donald Trump and his political agenda just weeks after the private prison and immigration detention center operator scored two massive government contracts. According to Federal Election Commission records...
A Trump-Kim summit would be a spectacle like no other. A carnival extravaganza with the Korean Peninsula holding center stage, and every handshake, expression, seating arrangement, and stray remark dissected by troupes of North Korea pundits across the world’s news...
In this issue: - US may impose more sanctions on China over Iran? - Wang Yi in South Korea - Life for Evergrande founder - People’s Daily on AI governance - Supply chain weaponization against Taiwan - CASS attacks “pseudo-history” The Feed: Business, Economy and Trade -...
Washington is tightening the screws on Iran and loosening the rules on gasoline at the same time as Americans are paying more than $4 a gallon. The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday authorized an early switch to cheaper winter-grade gasoline,...
Agentrys believes that a purpose-built multi-agent system for chip design shouldn’t be a quarter-long project. Agentic AI systems are becoming quite popular to cut design time and increase quality for complex chip design projects. The challenge is finding the right...
Solar power is far and away the world’s fastest-growing form of energy production, beating out every other form of energy on Earth in 2025. Despite a recent political pivot away from renewable energies in the world’s largest economy, solar power...
Days after The Lever revealed that Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers held millions of dollars in stock that could benefit from his support for artificial intelligence-related development, he reversed his position and backed a statewide moratorium on new data...
Dark-money conservative groups and Big Oil interests have quietly mobilized behind a landmark Supreme Court case that could restrict when and how states and municipalities can seek climate damages from fossil fuel companies. At the center of the case is...
Apple customers in 110 countries received threat notifications recently alerting them to suspected spyware attacks targeting their devices, TechCrunch reports . Senior researcher John Scott-Railton says that the “scale and geographic diversity of public posts about receiving notifications are pretty unprecedented.” “For...
The world needs to burn less carbon. But while many countries have moved to limit the emissions produced within their own borders, some are also grappling with the emissions produced by their imports. The resulting policies walk a line between...
Continental Resources is getting substantially bigger in the Permian Basin. The privately held oil producer has agreed to acquire FireBird Energy II, adding roughly 54,000 net acres in the Midland Basin along with 32,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day...
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Juan Cole – Spoiled Rotten Donald Trump Can’t Buy His Way Out of the Mess He Made When He Started War With Iran
Full ArticleMost people do not know that the term “checkmate” in chess is a loan from Persian. “Shah-mat” means the king is confused and helpless. Trump may learn this hard way—but not without bringing much pain and suffering on people at...
Nate Bear – How Finland Destroyed Itself For NATO
Full ArticleFinland abandoned it’s socialist policies to embrace Russiphobia, join NATO and give billions of Euros to US and Israeli arms companies, thus furthering the interests of neo-liberalism and the Epstein Class Nate Bear is a journalist, a pr/comms man for corporates, money...
Abhi Kolpekwar, VP & General Manager, Digital Verification Technologies at Siemens EDA met with me at #DAC2026 to provide the big picture on smart verification tools, something they call Questa One . Their verification tools are infused with AI to...
Chris Hedges – The Dead
Full ArticleThe last act of death is not mortality but the erasure of memory. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau...
Ukraine has announced yet another "superweapon" — a domestically developed glide bomb. Russia has been successfully using this type of weapon for a long time. Now Ukraine has one as well. However, Russian military analysts have largely greeted the news...
The Russian Interior Ministry placed Michael Martens, a reporter for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, on an international wanted list. The criminal case against him stems from remarks the journalist made during a press conference in Belgrade, which investigators...
Washington has announced the launch of an unprecedented financial campaign that will target not only Tehran but also its key trading partners in Asia. Trump Declares Economic War on Iran US President Donald Trump has announced the start of the "most devastating...
The prediction markets were nearly certain: Francesca Hong would win Wisconsin’s Democratic primary for governor on Aug. 11. Polymarket put the upstart’s chances at 96%; Kalshi was only slightly less sure at 95.5%. Then the votes came in. Milwaukee County Executive...
The Democratic Healthcare Hoax
Full ArticleThe following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and fielded a question about “Medicare for All” from host Kristen Welker, who among other things noted his co-sponsorship of...
China has become the world’s largest renewable energy producer by accelerating the rollout of solar, wind, and battery storage projects, while in recent years it has also increased its oil and gas output. Efforts to expand its fossil fuel industry...
Colombia and Israel’s Cynical Disaster Diplomacy
Full ArticleOn the morning of Aug. 10 , a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia, leaving nearly 300 people dead, 4,000 injured and potentially thousands more missing by the latest count. The crisis created an early test for new far-right...
Coal India, the world’s single largest coal producer, has applied to establish a trading office in Singapore to trade critical minerals and iron ore in what would be the company’s first trading office outside India, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing...
For decades, the conventional narrative has been one in which renewables have been criticized for intermittency issues, whereas fossil fuels were the ones to provide energy security. The Iran war and protracted closure of the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz...
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The Conservatives have said that households could save about £540 a year after 2030 if net zero regulations are scrapped, with a commitment to make energy as cheap as possible. A report published by centre-right think tank Onward and backed...
Indian steelmakers are reeling from a jump in coking coal prices this year that is squeezing their margins and delaying capacity expansion in the steelmaking industry, analysts and industry executives tell Reuters. India relies on imports for as much as...
We’re very excited and really proud to announce that Apartheid Free Zone campaign has recruited more than 500 small businesses, unions, civil society and community groups, artistic collectives, sporting organisations, and many other spaces and places across Ireland. They join thousands...
Gaza / PNN / Amid the rubble of war in Gaza, Areej Al-Saafin is trying to reclaim what an injury took from her, particularly her passion for painting and the life that came to a standstill after she lost her right...
Ex-Evergrande Boss Hui Ka Yan gets Life in Prison
Full ArticleBy: Toh Han Shih Evergrande Song and Dance Troupe Hui Ka Yan, the founder and former chairman of China Evergrande Group, once the largest Chinese property developer with a stockmarket valuation above $50 billion, was sentenced to life in prison on corruption...
The Mecca Pact Wasn’t Built to Corner Iran
Full ArticleWhen Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement on August 7, they bound each state to treat an armed attack on any one of...
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