Team Mirai pushing to bring ‘digital democracy’ to Japan
The top story to emerge from Japan’s Lower House election on Febuary 8 was the overwhelming victory of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the...
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Iran war brings history’s largest oil supply disruption, says IEA
The International Energy Agency said Thursday that the US-Israeli war on Iran and its reverberating impacts across the region have sparked “the largest supply disruption in the history of the...
China’s all-nuke sub push may trigger an undersea arms race
China’s shift toward an all-nuclear submarine fleet could extend its strategic reach from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean while spurring a broader regional buildup of nuclear-powered undersea forces. This...
Natural fortress: How geography protects Iran’s regime
Iran’s strategic outlook is undeniably linked to its physical topography. The Iranian Plateau is a vast geographical region characterized by its mountainous terrain, with the Zagros and Elburz mountain ranges....
America and Israel share an enemy — not a strategy
As fighting spreads across the Gulf, the war is often portrayed as a unified campaign against Iran. It is not. The reality, as is often the case in the Middle...
Why it’s unlikely that Saudi Arabia wanted the US to...
A report in the Washington Post the day after the Iran war began suggested that Saudi Arabia and Israel had both lobbied Donald Trump to attack Iran. The Saudis swiftly...
US energy chief’s deleted Hormuz X post called market manipulation
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a former fracking executive, was accused on Tuesday of manipulating global markets after he posted a striking claim on social media. The American Navy, he wrote, had “successfully...
Trump’s Iran war and the dollar damage done
TOKYO — Whether US President Donald Trump cries “uncle” on the Iran war tomorrow or it drags on, the economic damage is already done on several fronts. For the globe’s...
Lack of grand, compelling narrative behind Iran war poll numbers
It’s clear that regime change is among the biggest objectives of the US war in Iran. “I have to be involved in the appointment” of Iran’s next leader, President Donald...
Trump: US Navy sank unarmed Iran ship because it was...
President Donald Trump said the US Navy chose to sink an Iranian frigate, killing more than 100 sailors last week, even though the ship posed no threat, because it was “more fun” than...
