The year was 1915, and before Henry Ford decided to turn a 2,000 acre stretch of land along the Rogue River into one of America’s largest manufacturing centers, he thought of turning it into a bird sanctuary. In a strange, roundabout way, that vision was recently achieved at the gargantuan Rogue Factory in Dearborn, Michigan, […]
Good News Network•Andy Corbley9 Sept
The US president seized a nation’s natural wealth in a modern-day version of gunboat diplomacy to feed his ego – not to lower Americans’ fuel bills Imperialism does not require a flag to be planted or a governor dispatched. It can be a powerful nation deciding who governs a smaller, weaker country, and on what terms and for whose benefit its resources will be developed. Donald Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, putting his deputy – Delcy Rodríguez – in his place as president, and then her signing a deal handing a fifth of the country’s proven oil reserves to the US , amount to a modern version of 19th-century gunboat diplomacy. Regime change supplied America’s commercial concession. This won’t bother Mr Trump. But it should. The US president has oversold his neocolonial spoils. The additional production Venezuela is supposed to bring online might bring down oil prices eventually, but not anytime soon. Crucially, what Mr Trump calls “t he biggest oil deal in history ” won’t cause the price at the pump to fall before November’s midterms. When so many American voters are struggling to pay energy bills , it’s hard to see how unrealised Orinoco Belt riches are going to help Republican candidates. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here . Continue reading...
The Guardian•Editorial9 Sept
Cameron Stanley talks up ‘revolutionary’ AI capabilities and says Washington working with Nato and Five Eyes partners The Pentagon’s top artificial intelligence official said on Tuesday that America’s closest allies lack the resources to keep pace with the US military’s adoption of AI, and that Washington is working to steer them away from mistakes it made along the way. “They don’t have the resources that we do, they don’t have the experience that we do, they don’t have the scale that we do,” Cameron Stanley, chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at the Department of Defense, said at an event at the Billington Cybersecurity summit. Of Nato and the Five Eyes, an intelligence-sharing partnership of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Stanley said Washington was “actively working with a number of our partners” so “they don’t make the same mistakes that we make”. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Joseph Gedeon in Washington9 Sept
Spencer Cox: America’s political divide is destroying families and friendships lead image
Since beginning his second term, the US president has said he wanted to use the word 'America' to rename a lake, a gulf and even a US state.
BBC9 Sept
The depletion of U.S. Patriot interceptors heightens NATO's vulnerability, potentially escalating tensions and risk of conflict with Russia.
CryptoBriefing•Estefano Gomez9 Sept
It is hoped that coordinated action minimises the blowback to any one country from Israel or America, our political editor writes.
BBC8 SeptIt is hoped that coordinated action minimises the blowback to any one country from Israel or America, our political editor writes.
BBC8 Sept
The seven exchange-traded funds, like the God Bless America fund, are investing in companies aligned with President Trump’s worldview.
The New York Times•Matthew Goldstein8 Sept
US-China AI tensions could reshape global tech dynamics, impacting defense, market access, and investor strategies amid rising geopolitical stakes.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team8 Sept
60 years ago, the first episode of Star Trek, featuring “Space: the final frontier” and the USS Enterprise, began its three-year mission of exploration on TV screens across America. The science-fiction television show created by Gene Roddenberry was set in the 23rd century and starred William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. The NBC show has since […]
Good News Network•Good News Network8 Sept
The third in a loose American trilogy follows the epic journey of a formerly enslaved man in the aftermath of the civil war But is not the story as good as the truth?” asks Tennyson Bouguereau, the narrator of Sebastian Barry’s The Newer World. Tennyson, a formerly enslaved man in post-civil war America, recounts his life story in ways that call to mind the age-old debate about whether it’s better to get our history from novelists or historians. While historians might argue that there is no contest, the question hints knowingly at the novelist’s counter-argument. It sent me searching for a line from Barry’s 2008 Costa-award winning novel, The Secret Scripture , in which the narrator describes history as “a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth”. In her Reith Lectures, Hilary Mantel suggested that history is “what’s left in the sieve when the centuries have run through it”, but I tend to think of it as more of a butterfly net. Historians chase after and capture the things they deem significant. They leave things out, often deliberately. Barry’s entire body of work is a prime example of fiction’s ability to fill history’s gaps, merging personal tragedies with national ones in ways that (dare I say) demonstrate the supremacy of the form – especially for those of us descended from people for whom history never cared one whit. I was therefore intrigued to learn that he had set out to write the story of a man like Tennyson. Barry’s earlier novels refracted Irish history through the lens of two fictional Irish families, the Dunnes and the McNultys. His first foray into this period of American history in Days Without End , for which he won his second Costa award, also followed one of the McNultys – Thomas McNulty flees the Irish famine for America, where he finds himself drawn into the genocidal work of clearing Native Americans off their land, and then, together with his lover and fellow soldier, John Cole, adopts a Lakota girl, Winona, whose family they have helped slaughter. Barry picked up Winona’s story in A Thousand Moons , published in 2020, which follows her fortunes as she, Thomas and John settle on the same farm outside Paris, Tennessee that is occupied by Tennyson and his twin sister Rosalee among others. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Sara Collins8 Sept
The surge in data center construction highlights a shift in economic priorities, emphasizing digital infrastructure over traditional real estate.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team8 Sept
Charles Hoskinson skips Cardano entirely and says a mother in America's most watched trial should be executed.
BeInCrypto•Lockridge Okoth7 Sept
US President Donald Trump has called for an end to Bombardier aircraft sales in the United States, accusing the Canadian manufacturer of living off American customers while refusing to build its business jets south of the border. The declaration is forceful, patriotic and slightly complicated by the fact that Bombardier already employs thousands of Americans. […]
Aviation24.be•André Orban7 Sept
Editor’s note: This is the tenth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, and winners will be selected by a reader vote undertaken through our newsletter later this summer. Prior installments can be found at the Arsenal of Innovation page.I was fortunate enough to do something that would be a benefit to mankind. It’s been an extremely satisfying discovery. I don’t think there’s anything like saving someone’s life to bring you satisfaction and happiness.– Stephanie Kwolek,
War on the Rocks•Julie George7 Sept
Rising debt service costs risk crowding out essential government spending, potentially stifling economic growth and fiscal stability.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team7 Sept
The significant job losses in the information sector may signal a shift in industry dynamics, potentially impacting innovation and economic growth.
CryptoBriefing•Editorial Team6 Sept
Strategy ranked fourth among the largest U.S. equity issuers in 2026 after issuing $20.9 billion in common and preferred stock, according to CEO Phong Le. The bitcoin treasury company trailed SpaceX, Alphabet, and Intel. Strategy Reaches the Top Four Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) joined some of America’s largest technology companies near the top of the […]
Bitcoin.com News•Kevin Helms5 Sept
Coinbase, America’s leading regulated centralized crypto exchange, has taken a regulatory step toward bringing single-stock perpetual contracts to the U.S. market by filing notice registrations with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its derivatives exchange and brokerage business. The crypto exchange confirmed the move in a post on X
TheNewsCrypto•Sarala4 Sept