While governments allocate billions to armaments, young people are told that there is no money for education, affordable housing, or climate policies. From London to Paris and Brussels, they are no longer putting up with it and are questioning the foundations of our society. From London to Paris A spectre […]
East Asia
Ethiopia Is On The Brink Of War: Escalation Of Violence In The Horn Of Africa
Recent events in Ethiopia demonstrate how the middle powers of the region are trying to project their interests and use the emerging opportunities to destabilize their geopolitical opponents. On September 23, large–scale fighting began in Tigray, Akhmara and Afar provinces as the so-called Alliance for Survival began attacking government forces […]
The Russian-US Diesel Deal Advances Trump 2.0’s “Strategy Of Denial” Against China
Since China declined to radically accelerate multipolarity by defying the US’ sanctions against Russia and cutting Ukraine off from drone-related sales, it’s poetic justice for Russia to radically exacerbate the US’ pressure campaign against China through a resource-centric rapprochement with the US that will derail China’s superpower trajectory. Trump announced […]
Death In The Lab, Panic In The Media, And The Old Demons Of Biothreats
In early October 2026, 28-year-old Darya Shipilova, an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, died in Russia’s Irkutsk Region. The official wording from Rospotrebnadzor was pneumonia of undetermined etiology. No microorganisms linked to her professional activities were found in the samples. Two commissions […]
From Afghanistan To The Sahel: How Al-Qaeda’s Center Of Gravity Shifted, 25 Years After 9/11 (I)
Twenty-five years after al-Qaeda struck Washington and New York, the organization’s most active theater of operations isn’t in the Middle East or South Asia – it’s in a stretch of West Africa most Americans would struggle to locate on a map. New figures from the conflict monitor Acled show violence […]
What Are Russia’s Top Three Strategic Challenges?
The new “cordon sanitaire” that Trump 2.0 assembled around Russia, the difficulty in maintaining its Sino-Indo balancing act, and the broken feedback loops that afflict its Foreign Ministry are the main strategic risks that must be urgently addressed in order to most effectively ensure Russia’s future. Putin wisely advised Russians […]
Trump Blatantly Threatens And Rots In Public, Embarrassing America’s ‘Allies’
https://www.youtube.com/live/gOxYEK8pTsw?t=164s “INTEL Roundtable: Weekly Wrap 25-SEPT” Judge Napolitano, Larry Johnson, Karen Kwiatkowski 25 September 2026 02:44 Welcome here, a pleasure, guys. Thanks very much, uh, for joining us. Larry, I have to go to you first. You just spent three weeks in Russia. You participated in, uh, academic, uh, programs. […]
Nigeria’s China Problem
Trade statistics rarely tell a dramatic story on their own, but Nigeria’s latest import figures come close. In the first quarter of 2026, China supplied N5.10 trillion worth of goods to Nigeria compared with N2.81 trillion from the United States – already a substantial gap. By the second quarter, that […]
How Viable Is The Irtysh-Ob River System As A Eurasian Trade Corridor To The Arctic?
The economic and political costs are much too high, at least for the time being, to make this profitable. The South China Morning Post published an intriguing piece in late August about how China could use the Irtysh-Ob river system to connect to the Arctic Ocean via Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, and […]
When The Builders Sound The Alarm
There’s something structurally unusual about a stock selloff triggered not by a competitor’s bad news or a disappointing earnings report, but by the industry’s own leading executives publicly warning that their product might be dangerous. That’s essentially what happened Monday, as AI-linked stocks fell across every major market – Wall […]






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