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COLUMN: SpaceX raises $25 billion — Wall Street goes wild, bonds are already trembling
On June 22, 2026, SpaceX announced its inaugural bond offering on the credit markets. On June 23, the order books opened. On June 26,…
COLUMN: American AI under seizure — when Washington cuts access to its own brains
On Friday, June 12, 2026, at 5:21 PM Eastern Time, a letter signed by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick landed in the inbox of Anthropic,…
COLUMN: The Turnberry accord approved June 25 — Trump torpedoes it all on the 26th
On June 25, 2026, in Luxembourg, the Council of the European Union formally adopted the two regulations implementing the trade agreement concluded between the…
COLUMN: Taiwan Expels, Beijing Returns — The South China Sea as a Full Dress Rehearsal
On June 7, 2026, Taiwan's coast guard deployed seven patrol vessels to intercept four Chinese government ships that had entered restricted waters located 30…
COLUMN: Trump, digital tax, and 100% tariffs — Europe held hostage by its own sovereignty
On June 26, 2026, just hours before a weekend that looked set to be calm, Donald Trump published a message on Truth Social that…
COLUMN: Ukraine strikes at the heart of Russia — negotiate from strength, or don't negotiate
In June 2026, Ukraine struck an oil refinery in the heart of Moscow — 10 miles from the Kremlin — twice in one week.…
COLUMN: Beijing and Africa — zero tariffs for 53 nations, free trade as an instrument of empire
On May 1, 2026, China officially implemented what Xi Jinping had announced on February 14, 2026 at the 39th African Union Summit in Addis…
COLUMN: Iran-USA in Lucerne — Four Working Groups to Defuse a Century of Mutual Distrust
There is something irreducibly banal — and extraordinary — about the image of American and Iranian technicians sitting around a table in Switzerland to…
COLUMN: Europe extends its Russia sanctions — a historic signal that deserves to be understood
On June 25, 2026, the Council of the European Union extended economic sanctions against Russia for a period of twelve months, through July 31,…