Thresholds Of Survival
Jade McGlynn | 2026.01.14
Ukrainian citizens continue their efforts to resist and undermine Russia’s aggressive efforts to consolidate control over the occupied territories in Ukraine’s southern and eastern regions.
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Russian Sabotage Financing
Kinga Redlowska, et al. | 2026.01.14
Financing is an important yet overlooked element of Russian sabotage in Europe: it can act as both a facilitator and a tool of response.
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Minerals At War
Gracelin Baskaran and Samantha Dady | 2026.01.14
Across conflicts, the United States used stockpiles, price controls, public financing, and foreign procurement to manage mineral supply shocks—only to dismantle them in peacetime. History shows mineral security demands sustained industrial policy, not episodic investment.
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Layered Ambiguity
Louise Marie Hurel | 2026.01.14
The US operation to remove Maduro succeeded despite fundamental ambiguity about what cyber delivered but that opacity has strategic consequences.
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Two “Justice Missions”
Charles Parton | 2026.01.13
Will the American military operation in Venezuela influence Chinese plans?
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【黎智英案・求情第二日】
獨媒報導 | 2026.01.13
- 法庭處理黎智英等求情 民建聯工聯會發聲明促嚴懲
- 排隊黨於法庭大堂拍照「報更」 保安僅要求刪除照片
- 辯方求情指陳沛敏是公認出色記者 熱愛新聞當時無法隨便辭職
- 法官擇日判刑 認罪高層爭議量刑不應一概被綑綁10年以上
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Consider Iran Carefully
Ehud Eilam | 2026.01.13
Circumstances in Iran do not map easily onto the conditions in Venezuela that abetted Maduro’s kidnapping.
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【黎智英案・求情第一日】
獨媒報導 | 2026.01.12
- 控方反駁黎智英暴瘦 指體重僅跌0.8公斤仍屬「肥胖」
- 法官指黎智英獄中變肥不出奇 稱假期在家坐著不動也增磅
- 張劍虹求情指案情不屬「罪行重大」 指定法官李運騰：不切實際
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Profit From Preparation
Noam Unger and Madeleine McLean | 2026.01.12
A combination of extreme weather impacts and cuts to aid budgets mean that the next few years will be ripe for the rapid development and further scaling up of anticipatory action measures and prearranged finance approaches to better manage mounting disaster risk.
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Faith & Geopolitics Colliding
Henrietta Levin and Alison Bartel | 2026.01.09
The Dalai Lama is widely revered as an advocate for human rights and nonviolence, but Beijing considers him an existential threat. When the 90-year-old monk passes, a succession crisis will ignite geopolitical flashpoints that world leaders are not yet prepared to manage.
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