Iranian forces also targeted US bases in Bahrain and Kuwait in response to US strikes that began on Wednesday night Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Thursday that its forces targeted US aircraft at the al-Azraq air base in Jordan as part of its response to US strikes across southern Iran that began on Wednesday…
One of Sam Bankman-Fried’s final viable avenues to overturn his conviction closed Friday after a federal appeals court upheld both his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence, keeping the disgraced FTX founder behind bars. One of Sam Bankman-Fried’s last credible paths to freedom closed Friday as a federal appeals court upheld his fraud conviction and…
Economic pragmatism to overcome sanctions, geopolitical tensions, and self-inflicted losses. Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher. Despite ongoing geopolitical tensions, sanctions, and the fallout from Russia’s 2022 Special Military Operation in Ukraine, economic incentives are quietly positioning many Western companies for a potential return to the vast Russian market. While political narratives dominate…
It has been reported that ‘healthy life expectancy’ in the UK has fallen during the past decade. Disparity between the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of those in different regions of the UK has been described. A 20-year gap between the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of those in Richmond and the ‘healthy life expectancy’ of those in Blackpool has been…
An 8-A share registration filing, in this case for Nasdaq, is usually one of the last steps before an ETF goes live. BlackRock took another step toward introducing its bitcoin income exchange-traded fund on Nasdaq, filing a share registration document that often signals an imminent debut. The world’s largest asset manager filed the Form 8-A for the…
Ranked: Refugees Hosted Per Capita by Country See visuals like this from many other data creators on our Voronoi app. Download it for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Key Takeaways Lebanon hosts the world’s highest concentration of refugees, with 131 refugees per 1,000 residents. Most countries at the top…
A new study in the American Journal of Public Health traces how one of America’s most recognizable children’s meals was shaped by the same corporate strategies that helped sell cigarettes. Drawing on previously undisclosed internal documents, Laura Schmidt, Ph.D., found that Philip Morris applied its tobacco-industry playbook to develop, market and reformulate Lunchables. Tobacco giant…
Israeli authorities are recruiting ultranationalists and settlers into police units at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, with deputy commander Daniel Lerach publicly inviting those wanting to “implement sovereignty” to join. Temple Mount movements, which advocate for the mosque’s destruction to build a third Jewish temple, have encouraged followers to enlist. The Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem Governorate warns…
The creator of the Water H3RO, Joseph Johnson, stops by with friend of the show Tim James from Chemical Free Body to explain how the product structures the water. The device changes the molecular bonds of H2O and structures it into a more effective version known as H3O2. Health benefits include the removal of the…
Digital embassies justify the resource-sucking, land-grabbing, energy-consuming, water-depleting construction of data centers for total surveillance & control: perspective Digital embassies, where host countries build data centers in their citizens’ backyard for foreign nations to access, is a concept championed by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) for Global Change, and other…
