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Big Tech Is Borrowing Hundreds of Billions to Bet on AI – And the Bet Isn’t Paying Off (Yet)
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta and Oracle are borrowing at an unprecedented rate to fund AI infrastructure, even as memory prices climb and the revenue to justify the spending remains unproven Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Oracle built their market value over two decades on a specific financial identity, cash-generative software businesses that required comparatively little… Continue reading
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The Middle East on the Brink
The conflict is no longer confined to a single front, with Jordan, Kuwait, and the Gulf emerging as potential flashpoints in the next stage of the crisis. The latest developments suggest the conflict may be entering a far more dangerous phase. Based on the information I have reviewed, Iran allegedly carried out one of its… Continue reading
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The US has yet to fall on its own sword
The Unending War for Primacy: US Empire Survival Strategy, Iranian Resistance, and the Struggle for a Multipolar Order Editorial Analysis | July 2026 The confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz that began on July 7, 2026, represents not an isolated incident but the latest chapter in a continuous, decades-long war that the United States has… Continue reading
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The Reckoning of Artificial Intelligence
Debt, Delusion, and the Coming Tech Depression Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Venture Capital, Hyperscalers, Corporate Debt, Semiconductor Industry, US Defence Budget, Technology Policy, Financial Risk For the better part of a decade, the technology industry has presented itself as the engine of modernity and economic growth. Its leading firms were celebrated as paragons of efficiency, generating… Continue reading
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Decline on the World Stage
Strategic Solvency, Institutional Interventions, and the Structural Attrition of the Transnational System Editorial Analysis |July 2026 The Strategic Insolvency of Asymmetric Conflict The structural stability of a global superpower depends on maintaining strategic solvency, a condition where external military commitments remain balanced by domestic fiscal capacity and industrial endurance. The deployment of significant American military… Continue reading
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America’s Terrorist Pipeline For War with China
Two recent decisions to remove designated terrorist organisations from US lists sit inside a longer pattern of tactical realignment against China and Russia National Public Radio published a lengthy feature on 17 May 2026 profiling Uyghur fighters who helped topple the Assad government in Syria, describing them through interviews conducted in Idlib and Jisr al-Shughur… Continue reading
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America at Two Hundred and Fifty- A Spectacle of Decline and Questions Over Who Actually Rules
Food stamps, opioid deaths and a cage fight on the White House lawn, read against rival theories of American power On 14 June 2026, President Donald Trump marked his eightieth birthday and the run-up to the semiquincentennial of American independence with a mixed martial arts card staged on the South Lawn of the White House,… Continue reading
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The United States Exploits Information Vulnerability to Topple Nations
How the systematic weaponisation of media, civil society, and algorithmic infrastructure has supplanted conventional military force as the decisive instrument of geopolitical competition Editorial Analysis | June 2026 I. The Redefinition of Sovereignty in the Information Age Sovereignty, in the framework inherited from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, rested on territorial integrity, military capacity, and… Continue reading
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The $23,000 car America cannot buy
How fifteen years of Chinese industrial policy produced an electric vehicle Detroit cannot match and why tariffs may be solving the wrong problem General News Article | June 2026 (The headline image is the Geely Geome Xingyuan is a compact hatchback that sells for under $10,000) In 2023 BYD began selling a small electric hatchback… Continue reading
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AI Has Lost Public Trust
Why Growing Scepticism Towards Artificial Intelligence Reflects Political Economy Rather Than Fear of Technology Artificial intelligence has rapidly assumed a position once occupied by electrification, railways, telecommunications and the internet as the defining technology of its generation. Governments describe artificial intelligence as essential national infrastructure. Financial markets increasingly value companies according to their AI strategies… Continue reading
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