New details have emerged about the nationality of the pilot who was injured by his colleague aboard a Flydubai aircraft. As reported in Israel, the captain of the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight who was wounded is an Indian national named Smit...
This episode of Sharp China is outside the paywall. Show Notes: On today’s show Andrew and Bill talk through Xi Jinping’s trip to Washington last week, including low expectations that were met, lots of pageantry in between, why both sides are incentivized...
Nearly a decade after the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya people by Myanmar forces, satellite images show the insurgent Arakan Army is now emulating the killings and land grabs There are at least 10 camps like the one on the paddy fields...
Taiwan is allocating the equivalent of $13 billion for energy cost support for state power generation company Taipower and refiner CPC, Reuters has reported, to offset the sharp cost inflation resulting from the war in the Middle East. Taiwan is...
Britain’s energy giants stand to make huge profits in Venezuela amid a major diplomatic rapprochement between London and Caracas, it can be revealed. It comes in the wake of the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro earlier this year in a move described...
On the 25th of September, President of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen Rashad al-Alimi called for a general mobilisation of the Yemeni people against the Houthis and promised amnesty to Houthi defectors. From his base in Riyadh, he summoned...
During a recent training exercise in the western Pacific, a small group of engineers single-handedly saved the day.In the scenario, adversary covert forces used first-person view drones to intercept American helicopters that were shuttling between austere forward island airbases. Some...
Pakistan’s government is considering allowing power plants and private firms to directly import LNG procured on the spot market as the country has been struggling with an energy crisis since the Iran war crippled Qatar’s term supplies. Pakistan’s Energy Ministry...
By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, Oct 1 2026 (IPS) From a distance, an island nation can appear to possess everything: pristine waters, a thriving tourism industry and a strong cultural identity. Its income figures may suggest prosperity. James Alix Michel Yet those figures...
When a South Korean soldier stepped on a land mine in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on September 21, it might have been taken as a grim reminder of a war that never formally ended. Instead, the explosion has revealed something...
US President Donald Trump has unveiled up to $200 billion in new South Korean investment in the United States, presenting the commitments as a major economic victory for his administration. But Seoul quickly introduced a caveat that could complicate one...
US President Donald Trump is unlikely to receive this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but his confrontation with the international institutions and political actors involved in the award may still influence the Nobel Committee’s calculations when it announces the laureate on...
The Architecture of Empire Historical Conflict and Global Perceptions in the Transition from Unipolarity to Multipolarity I. The Foundations of a Sustainable Future The central contradiction of the American century is not simply that the United States has spent much of its history...
A Promise Meets a Midterm On 22 September, Donald Trump said he might support a ban or quantitative limit on US diesel exports. Soon afterwards his energy secretary, Chris Wright, softened this to “restrictions” that would be “voluntary.” Brussels was...
The global bond markets are a sensitive lot. And they’ve been having a particularly tricky time lately. Spooked by high inflation, high interest rates and high levels of government debt across the world, those markets have become less stable over the summer....
Thirty-six years after German reunification, the physical borders between the former Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) have long vanished from maps. Yet, a stark divide persists, most noticeably in the wallets of Germans. While...
Ethiopia is on the brink of another civil war. Last week, fighting between rebels and federal forces in the northern Tigray, Amhara, and Afar states left hundreds dead. These clashes may signal the start of a potentially devastating conflict in a...
This summer, Microsoft announced that “it will extend its provision of technology support to Ukraine through the end of 2027,” providing technology, cybersecurity support, and other assistance to help Ukraine maintain essential digital services during the war.” Not only U.S. weapons,...
During a speech at the United Nations last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, calling him a “tyrant.” “Now he wants to take over Syria,” Netanyahu said. “Well, that's not surprising because he calls...
The Man Not on the Ballot On Sunday, Željka Cvijanović of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), the ruling Bosnian Serb party, defends the Serb seat in Bosnia’s three-member national presidency. Her challenger is Marinko Božović, the joint candidate...
Human beings are constantly engaged in internal battles. According to Robert Greene in his book The 33 Strategies of War , humans have a continuous battle within themselves, reflecting a deeper psychological truth about personal transformation: growth doesn’t happen in...
Perhaps no country is as identified with the American war on terror that began twenty-five years ago than Afghanistan, its launchpad and the site of what is still the longest war in American history at the time of writing. September...
The European Union is embarking on diplomatic hand-to-hand combat with China in an effort to rework its trade with Beijing and show it is not a geopolitical weakling. Using unusually direct terms, the EU has given China a mid-October deadline...
Once again I am indebted to Karl W. Miller, whose analysis of the energy crisis unleashed by the war with Iran has become essential reading for me. Karl has a habit of seeing around corners. He anticipated the Houthi push...
Diesel in the US has climbed to more than US$6.50 a gallon, up about 75% from a year ago, and Asia is likely to pay for it in the form of higher interest rates. Expensive diesel keeps American inflation elevated,...
In 2023, the International Energy Agency predicted that by 2028 the world’s oil companies would produce more oil than people wanted to buy. Prices responded to that and similar projections of slowing oil demand, dropping too low to attract investment...
President Donald Trump’s top financial regulator just quietly passed a rule making it easier for a single president-appointed commissioner to unilaterally pass, alter, or repeal federal financial regulations. That means a single hand-picked Trump regulator could wield complete power over Wall...
At a time when international diplomacy is under extraordinary pressure, the proposed Muscat Process—advanced by a Group of Friends of the Process—deserves strong and sustained support. Its value lies not only in the possibility of achieving a particular political agreement...
It’s easy to forget that the western media – the so-called “free press” – likes to distinguish itself from media in authoritarian regimes on the basis that, unlike them, it asks critical questions of the powerful, reports facts objectively, and...
Hundreds of oil executives have flocked to Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas this week for the first major industry event in the country in decades. The Venezuela International Oil & Gas Summit is taking place nine months after the U.S....
An alarming security incident occurred on a FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv when a crew member reportedly attempted to crash the plane, stabbing the captain before passengers and other crew members intervened. Pilots flying as passengers aboard the...
The United States Department of Energy (DoE) is offering up $215 million in funding to help domestic firms develop the world’s first reliable quantum computer. The race to unlock quantum computing has heated up as the next-gen technology has arisen...
For decades, Africa has lagged the world in energy consumption, accounting for less than 5% of global energy supplies despite being home to a fifth of the world’s population. The continent also accounts for a mere 2% of global manufacturing...
Support such as for white Afrikaners and anti-communism reveals how US is redefining what qualifies as human rights With hours left before the funding expires, the Trump administration is pushing to direct more than $175m of the state department’s flagship human...
In his celebrated short stories about robots, science fiction author Isaac Asimov devised three laws to prevent machines from overpowering humans. First of all, robots could not, under any circumstances, harm humans. Following from this prime directive, they had to...
I spent a significant part of my career in the ASIC business. This segment of semiconductors has always been challenging, difficult and invigorating. There is something special about delivering a working custom chip that enables your customer to bring a...
The Board of Peace’s model for governing Palestine reflects designs for a new world order. Read Article HERE Jared Kushner, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Steve Witkoff attend the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace at the Donald J. Trump Institute...
President Trump announced plans to appoint a special coordinator for artificial intelligence, an "AI czar," within three to four days. The White House is also considering establishing a committee of about ten members to oversee the technology's development. These announcements...
The nature of the shortage of diesel and jet fuel is more complex than most people realize. Based on my analysis, a shortfall has existed since at least 2020. The shortage is not simply the result of the closure of...
🗳️ This is Midterm Madness , the only newsletter you need to stay up to date on election news. Key race updates, money trails, numbers that cut through the spin, and campaign moments that say more than official talking points...
Ukrainian lawmakers have been instructed to leave Kyiv and relocate to areas near the Romanian and Hungarian borders until October 17, amid intelligence that Russia plans to expand its strikes on the capital in early October, Eagle Intelligence Reports reported...
Over the better part of three days, President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington for a summit that drew international attention for its high-stakes agenda, from trade and AI to Taiwan. While some experts saw the summit...
It was the West’s mistaken analysis that has trapped the West into an escalatory staircase of actions that risk taking Europe to a war with Russia Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted...
The little-known decisions and breakthroughs—and the remarkable role of Robert Noyce—that helped shape the modern semiconductor industry by Sunil Mehta When people tell the story of how Silicon Valley came into being, they usually begin with a familiar sequence of events. The transistor...
All those institutions we were told were integral to democracy and world peace turn out to be the greatest threats. Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig Murray’s Blog Photo: ScreenGrab I have...
Keynes’ rejection of purposeful activity as desirable for humankind once the economic problem has been solved, and doubt on whether monotheistic religions will be needed once we reach abundance Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest...
As I write this, Ramadan is still about six months away. Some may wonder why we should speak about Ramadan now. Yet, over the years, I have noticed a distinct pattern: many of the wounds we hope to heal in...
When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,...
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