- May 13th, 2026
The international monetary system was never neutral. It was the product of power, politics and post-war compromise, forged in July 1944 at the Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire. There, representatives of 44 Allied nations gathered to design a framework...
Beneath the gleaming skyline of Shanghai and the global dominance of China’s electric vehicle supply chains, a deeper unease is spreading across the world’s second-largest economy. Economists and policymakers alike are increasingly gripped by a sense of déjà vu —...
The intersection of cryptocurrency and suspected human trafficking intensified dramatically in 2025, with total transaction volumes reaching hundreds of millions of dollars across identified services — an 85% year-over-year increase. While the financial growth is stark, the true cost of...
The US technology firm Anthropic has found itself at the center of a growing international controversy following reports that its artificial intelligence model, Claude, was used by the Pentagon during a January 3 military operation in Venezuela that left 83...
US-Iran crisis: Another round of aircraft carrier deployments and ultimatums, another set of dire predictions about imminent war in the Middle East. Yet here we are again, watching Washington and Tehran engage in a ritualized choreography of brinkmanship that has...
Renewed Chinese and Pakistani investment in the long-delayed Reko Diq copper-gold project is reshaping perceptions of Balochistan, suggesting that major investors are reassessing both the scale of the province’s buried mineral wealth and the strategic logic of remaining engaged despite...
Iran marked the 47th anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution on February 11 under the shadow of extraordinary internal unrest and intensifying external threats, as fears grow that the United States and Israel could once again launch military strikes on...
As tensions once again rise across the Middle East, one question continues to perplex policymakers and military planners alike: how is Iran—battered by decades of sanctions, politically isolated, economically strained, and militarily degraded—still able to stand firm against the combined...
China’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign inside the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has reached its most dramatic and destabilizing phase yet, with the investigation of one of the country’s most senior generals shaking the foundations of the world’s largest military force. The...
The United States’ recent foreign policy posture — most starkly visible in Venezuela and Greenland — has raised unsettling questions about Washington’s direction on the world stage. From the alleged abduction of Venezuela’s president to explicit threats involving the annexation...
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