Israel Sets 3 Key 'Conditions' For Ending Occupation Of South Lebanon

Oracle Rises After Cloud Revenues Beat Thanks To Massive CapEx, Soaring Debt Earnings season may be over, but the occasional earnings reports are still trickling through, and moments ago we got the latest off-season report from the most indebted company in AI, Oracle, which reported adjusted revenue for the first quarter that beat the average analyst estimate, and which helped push the stock higher, but just barely above where it opened.  Here's what ORCL reported moments ago for its fiscal first quarter: Adjusted revenue $19.35 billion, +30% y/y, beating estimates of...

A World Turned Upside Down Authored by Alastair Crooke (former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum) via LewRockwell.com, Outline of a talk given at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 7 Sept 2026 Can civilizations pull together the fragments of older insights and knowing to give the context by which to make moral discourse intelligible again? The global future is often framed as being that of a multi-polar or multi-nodal world, with the implicit assumption that states would get along better - and would resolve their differences more easily...

Ukraine Pounds Major Moscow Refinery As Global Diesel Crisis Threatens Economic Shock Military conflicts, economic wars, and resource wars are converging ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter. Export restrictions on critical materials and energy products are adding economic pressure worldwide, raising the risk that supply disruptions and retaliatory measures widen existing conflicts. With no clear path to de-escalation, the potential for spillover from active war zones remains top of mind. The most pressing news so far this morning is that Ukraine launched a major overnight drone strike on Russia, hitting a Moscow...