Last week, the United States said it had approved the sale of more than US$3 billion in munitions, bulldozers and related equipment to Israel, which has used American-made weapons to devastating effect in Gaza. The Turnberry property in southwest Scotland is one of two resorts that Trump owns in theContinue Reading
“Civilizations die by suicide, not by murder.”—Arnold Toynbee This observation by historian Arnold Toynbee encapsulates the strategic risk now facing U.S. power in the Indo-Pacific. While U.S. naval vessels continue their patrols and military hardware flows to allies, a dangerous pattern has emerged: the institutional foundations that translate military presenceContinue Reading
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation formally adopted early Saturday (Mar 8) an Arab League counter-proposal to US President Donald Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and displace its residents, calling on the international community to support the regional initiative. The decision by the 57-member grouping came at anContinue Reading
Rabha Seif Allam, of the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo, said “Egypt needs broad support” for its proposal. “This is an attempt to build a broad coalition that refuses the displacement” of Palestinians from Gaza, she said. Trump’s plan has already united Arab countries in opposition,Continue Reading
“18F was the people’s tech shop,” one fired 18F worker tells WIRED. “There’s a giant hole left by the closure of 18F. Requests from across the country for help far outpaced 18F’s capacity before the closure.” Like 18F, the United States Digital Service, which the Trump administration rebranded into DOGE,Continue Reading
The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations. Source linkContinue Reading
Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran are all typically seen as the largest threats to the U.S., but to what extent the public prioritizes these threats is less clear. The four have the independent means to threaten U.S. interests regionally, if not globally, while greater cooperation across the four createsContinue Reading
He pitched the reserve as a way to offset losses in spending power caused by inflation in the US dollar. On Thursday, Sacks reiterated that line of argument, posting on X, “The U.S. will not sell any bitcoin deposited into the Reserve. It will be kept as a store ofContinue Reading
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Friday (Mar 7) threatened new sanctions and tariffs on Russia over its bombardments of Ukraine, after previously suspending US aid to Kyiv in a stated bid to encourage diplomacy. “Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely ‘pounding’ Ukraine on the battlefield right now, IContinue Reading
In late 2021, Typhoon Rai, locally known as Supertyphoon Odette, rocked the Caraga and Southern Leyte regions of the Philippines. The Category 5 storm brought torrential rain, landslides, and storm surges that killed more than 400 people and temporarily displaced hundreds of thousands. It was just one of many “onceContinue Reading
