Cuba returns to the national and international spotlight at it faces both a severe national energy crisis and the potential of another large-scale U.S. military incursion in the Western Hemisphere. This is in the wake of a U.S.-driven and historic armed regime change in Venezuela, followed by a massive multi-front war led by U.S.-Israeli forces […]
When influential advanced artificial intelligence developer Anthropic recently clashed with the Pentagon over concerns about the use of its technology, national security experts and Silicon Valley observers seemed to take an unprecedented pause: How far should government go in using AI for military, surveillance and law enforcement missions? Anthropic was the trailblazer, the first of its kind used
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As we’re coming up on 40 years since human civilization’s largest and most deadly nuclear meltdown disaster, it’s worth exploring the circumstances that led to it. But while doing that, keep in mind: it’s not a matter of what went wrong, it’s a matter of who didn’t do what they were supposed to do. Assessing these disasters
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Since February 24, 2022, life in Ukraine changed overnight as Russian forces entered the country and began a full assault on the former, once nuclear-armed Soviet Eastern Bloc nation. Millions have fled their homes and found their daily lives destroyed. But the war’s impact does not only touch Ukraine. Neighboring countries, governments and people around
A full scale global trade war appears to be in full effect. The 10 percent across-the-board tariffs that President Trump has imposed on countries feeding imports into the United States has roiled policymakers, world leaders and markets. At first, it was the 25 percent tariffs on all steel and aluminum exports on Mexico and Canada,
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Since February 2014, Russia and Ukraine have been engaged in a complex and ongoing war that has not only impacted and bloodied both nations, but it has put the world – particularly Europe – on edge. Over the years, the war has escalated significantly in intensity and scale. It has also redefined and reshaped the
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A world once filled with mostly marine and fish noises is transforming into one of mostly human noises … and the marine life that lurks beneath can’t live like that.In 2020, when the pandemic decelerated international shipping, humpback whales returned home to the Glacier Bay in Alaska to spend the summer days feasting. They soon discovered what
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Homelessness has increased by more than 5 percent over the past few years – but, that’s not even capturing the full picture. Despite the specter of evictions, we’re paying scant attention to it. One of the most under-reported issues in America is the homeless crisis. Even with a major spike in evictions looming – as
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A primer on the explosive growth of cryptocurrency, how it works and where it’s headed… Subscribe Now For the past 3-4 years, cryptocurrencies have broken out of their collective bubbles, and burst onto the international stage. In almost every country on Earth, people are constantly talking about and, in many cases, buying, trading or selling
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With unprecedented levels of protest gripping the Caribbean island-nation in a post-Castro pandemic era, there is a growing cloud of uncertainty over what its future will hold. Rebellion is shaking Cuba to its core these days. Many Cubans on the isolated Communist-run island appear exhausted from one-party government. As a mix of pandemic, economic devastation,
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