China's Caribbean Listening Post? Satellite Imagery Shows Cuba Spy Base Completed

U.S. Wheat Crop Forecast To Hit Half-Century Low As Drought Hits Breadbasket Chicago wheat futures surged on Tuesday, hitting two-year highs after the USDA's latest WASDE report signaled a much tighter U.S. supply outlook than traders had anticipated. Production stress across America's breadbasket is now converging with a megadrought and mounting fertilizer constraints, adding upward pressure on prices at a time when global food prices are rising. 🌾Due to poor crop health and a record-low planted area, the United States will produce the smallest wheat volume since 1972. 2026 winter wheat output (67%...

What Might Transatlantic Security Look Like If The US Leaves NATO? Authored by Andrew Korybko, If NATO as a whole remains more or less intact upon the US’ hypothetical exit, and the US then reaches bilateral security deals with Poland, the Baltic States, and Turkiye, then not much would change from Russia’s perspective. Trump’s latest talk about the US leaving NATO is being taken seriously by many Europeans owing to his rage over their refusal to help him reopen the Strait of Hormuz, not to mention them denying the US access to its own bases...

Another day of intense Israeli attacks across Lebanon has left at least 36 more people killed and 209 others wounded, the majority of them civilians. Though nominally a war against Hezbollah, the attacks are increasingly targeting areas far from the front lines and without even tangential relation to Hezbollah. One of the attacks, for instance, […]