With multiple other routes coming undone Beijing ramps up efforts for a corridor through Iran and Türkiye to Europe.
Read more...The planned central hub for American digital—and dollar— supremacy goes up in flames, but Silicon Valley and Washington refuse to learn anything.
Read more...The War on Iran aims to break Tehran, curb a rising Sunni bloc, and secure Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. But it’s not working
Read more...As the US and Israel work to destroy Iranian education centers and cultural heritage sites, US oligarchs want to put a meter on knowledge.
Read more...After failed color revolution attempts, Washington tries reset with Georgia as it seeks to control Middle Corridor access to Black Sea.
Read more...With main routes clogged, other trade corridors struggle to launch and suffer setbacks from war as ‘heartland’ integration is delayed.
Read more...Panama “retakes” canal, and Blackrock-led consortium doubles down on efforts to acquire dozens of global ports from Hong Kong-based company, including ones in Persian Gulf and Red Sea.
Read more...Trump succeeds in talking investors out of the tree even as Iran war fundamentals and his approval rating decay.
Read more...How high construction and financing costs are likely to lead to even bigger electricity price increases than anticipated now.
Read more...Washington envisions the Caucasus as stepping stone into Central Asia, but it’s China that remains in dominant position there with both sides ironically working to strengthen same trade corridor.
Read more...Moscow and Tehran hold economic upper hand in the region, but current ruling groups in both Armenia and Azerbaijan are no longer responding to rational and mutual national interests.
Read more...A look at the shaky state of the US electric grid and how it came to be in such sorry shape.
Read more...Billionaire tech libertarians have long sought “freedom cities” free from government oversight. It increasingly looks like they’re going to get a “freedom country” instead.
Read more...Quelle surprise! More on how Venezuela’s oil production prospects fall way short of Trump hucksterism.
Read more...The damage to Ukraine’s grid is already so serious and hard to remedy that its future as a failed state is close to certain.
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