Fake Wars & Higher Prices: What A "Multipolar World Order" Really Means

Most indicators suggest that the Republicans in the House and Senate are going to face a brutal backlash from the American people in November. Polling with generic ballots suggest a big win for the Democrats and likely the loss of Republican control of both houses of Congress. There is little reason to cheer a Democratic […]

US Govt. Lab Launches Advanced Battery Lab To Help Power Grid Authored by Georgina Jedikovska via Interesting Engineering, The US has recently launched a new battery production line, which is expected to help researchers develop safer and cheaper energy storage technologies for the electric grid. PNNL's new prismatic cell line will allow researchers and industry partners to create, test and demonstrate real-world prismatic cells at an industrially relevant scale. (Andrea Starr/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)  The new line is housed at the Grid Storage Launchpad (GSL), a 93,000-square-foot research facility. It is run by...

China's Caribbean Listening Post? Satellite Imagery Shows Cuba Spy Base Completed The Center for Strategic and International Studies published a report using geospatial intelligence to show that construction of a circularly disposed antenna array in Cuba has been completed. CSIS states the circularly disposed antenna array in Cuba, just 240 miles miles from Miami, Florida, could be used to monitor or intercept radio transmissions across a wide range of frequencies in the region. The DC-based think tank added that the site may be linked to China and could be used to track...