Maxime Marquette
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ANALYSIS: South China Sea, Manila Turns Its Standoff With Beijing Into a Coalition Affair
On July 26, 2026 , the United States and Japan joined the Philippines for maritime exercises in the South China Sea , according to…
INVESTIGATION: Seven Billion in Retaliation, Washington's Written Admission on Clean Energy
The US Department of Energy admitted in court documents that it canceled $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects "based solely…
OPEN LETTER: West Bank, Settler Law and the Silence of Protectors
On July 24, 2026 , according to Al Jazeera , more than 20 Israeli settlers from the illegal outpost of Havat Gilad attacked Palestinian…
EDITORIAL: Twenty Billion for Football's Soul, FIFA Puts the World Cup Up for Sale
FIFA announced on July 28, 2026 that it plans to create a new, separate company, FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) , to manage commercial rights…
ANALYSIS: South Dakota, the Republican Machine Crushes the MAGA Insurgency
Sometimes one number tells the whole story of a quiet civil war inside a single party. 70.8 percent to 29.2 percent : that is…
INVESTIGATION: Reclassified Deaths, How the Pentagon Erases Iran War Losses From the Tables
On July 26, 2026 , the Pentagon changed how it accounts for casualties from Operation Epic Fury , folding recent deaths into a broader…
REPORT: Twenty Minutes of Tornado, the Fox Valley Saved by the Warning, Not by Luck
On July 27, 2026 , around noon, a tornado formed in eastern Wisconsin and touched down in the Fox Cities region, which includes Appleton…
ANALYSIS: Sudan, the Recapture of Bara Redraws the War's Logistics Map
On July 26, 2026 , Sudanese armed forces under General Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al-Bourhane carried out, according to Le Monde , an unexpected strategic…
ANALYSIS: Open Secure AI Alliance, Industry Arms Itself Before Washington Legislates
On July 27, 2026, Nvidia , Microsoft and CrowdStrike co-founded a cyberdefense alliance for open artificial intelligence, alongside the Linux Foundation and more than…