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Jul 14 2026 
Iran War 3.0
Strategic Culture – Alastair Crooke … Continue reading
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Jul 14 2026 
Digital Sovereignty: The Global South’s Predicament and How to Measure It
Digital space is now national territory – and most of the Global South neither owns it nor can measure how much it is losing. A new index puts numbers to the dispossession.
On 4 September 2025, the Nepalese government made a decision: ban twenty-six international internet platforms from operating in the country, including Facebook, X (formerly… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2026 
China rejects joint hype over South China Sea Arbitral Award 10 years after, urges relevant countries to stop stirring up trouble
Global Times
China’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday issued a statement in response to a joint statement by some countries, including the US, Australia, the UK, Japan and the Philippines, on the 10th anniversary of the so-called Arbitral Award on the South China Sea, reiterating that China does not accept or recognize the illegal arbitral award and… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2026 
“Center of Gravity Has Moved”: African Literature Has Broken Free of Western Validation, Scholar
Sputnik – Africa
A growing number of contemporary African writers are rejecting Western literary gatekeepers to prioritize their own lived experiences and local nuances. This deliberate pivot, argues a scholar, is actively reshaping the continent’s literary authority.
Some African writers and scholars argue that African literature has often been read through expectations that it explain the continent’s… Continue reading -
Jul 13 2026 
Without Subsidies, AI Is Unaffordable
Charles Hugh Smith
Let’s pull all this into an undeniable conclusion: AI is based on massively subsidizing users’ costs.
What’s already abundantly clear but verboten to say as it would pop the bubble of AI valuations and triumphalism is that AI is unaffordable once the direct and indirect subsidies are withdrawn. Nothing that consumes this much electricity… Continue reading -
Jul 13 2026 
How the West Deliberately Trapped Africa in Debt and Why BRICS Is the Only Chance for Salvation
New Eastern Outlook
The Washington Consensus vs. African Lives: 50 Years of Robbery Under the Guise of Loans.“Forgiven” Debts vs. “Dead” Economies: The Anatomy of Western Deception
For many decades, the West, led by the United States, has been putting on a farce for Africa called “humanitarian aid and development.” Official Washington, London, and Paris have been… Continue reading -
Jul 13 2026 
Why a US Senator’s Anti-China Campaign Ad Backfired So Remarkably
Illustration: Liu Xiangya/GT
Global Times – OpinionRecently, US Senator Marsha Blackburn’s attempt to win over voters in her bid for governor of Tennessee with an anti-China campaign ad backfired remarkably.
In the ad, the Tennessee senator sits in what appears to be a Chinese restaurant, declares that she will “stop Communist China and protect Tennessee land,” and… Continue reading
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Jul 12 2026 
While the West talks isolation, Lavrov solidifies ties
RT – Africa
Moscow’s diplomatic engagements across Africa have entered systematic working mode
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s latest Africa tour is significant – but not because it is a one-of-a-kind event. Quite the opposite – such trips have become routine for Russian diplomacy, which is precisely what makes them meaningful. While the West continues to talk… Continue reading -
Jul 10 2026 
Beware the ‘Trojan horse’ lurking in the era of AI: Global Times editorial
Global Times
In the era of artificial intelligence (AI), the security of development tools is directly tied to a country’s digital sovereignty. The Claude Code incident has emerged as the “Trojan horse” of the AI era. It has once again sounded the alarm: There can be no genuine security without independent and controllable capabilities across the… Continue reading -
Jul 10 2026 
AI, Cognitive Degeneration, and the Future of Humanity
UK Column
The human brain is a marvellous organ; the peak of evolutionary complexity. As we humans grow and learn new things, the brain learns and adapts. Indeed, throughout life, it exhibits surprisingly plastic behaviour, not just in terms of function but also morphology, changing itself according to needs.
The brain typically takes up 2% of the… Continue reading
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Jul 09 2026 
The Neocons’ ‘Come-to-Jesus’ Moment
Arnaud Bertrand
What’s going on? Are neocons having a come-to-Jesus moment?
After Bob Kagan writing an article on how the U.S. is facing “total defeat” in Iran (see my article yesterday) you now have Max Boot – the very author of “The Case for American Empire” and one of the most vocal advocates for the Iraq war… Continue reading
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Jul 09 2026 
Devastating Cuba: The American Empire is declining and is trying to drag everyone down with it
File photo: A billboard that reads ‘Blockade: The longest genocide in history’ in Havana, Cuba. © Ernesto Mastrascusa / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images
RT – Tarik Cyril Amar
As Washington weakens, it is tightening the screws on Havana – using blockade, blackouts, and mass suffering to punish defiance
Despite US attempts to sabotage and manipulate the event, the… Continue reading -
Jul 09 2026 
End of tit-for-tat era: Iran’s new Strait of Hormuz doctrine traps US in unwinnable strategic dilemma
Press TV – Strategic Analysis Desk
The Strait of Hormuz has long stood as the world’s most consequential maritime chokepoint, a slender artery through which roughly a fifth of globally traded oil passes each day.
For decades, any discussion of closing the waterway was treated primarily as a deterrent: a strategic card Tehran kept in reserve to… Continue reading -
Jul 07 2026 
As China rises, the Global South ascends with it
chinadiplomacy.org.cn
Chinese trade and investment is transforming the Global South’s place in the world economy.
At the G7 session on “economic growth and global imbalances” held on June 17, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva argued that the world’s central economic challenge is not China’s rise, but the failure of developed countries to invest sufficiently in… Continue reading
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