Emerging Risks

Iran last week unveiled a handful of new missile systems and advanced war drones amid escalating threats to attack Israel if the Jewish state makes "even a small mistake" in the region, according to reports in Iran's state-controlled press.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov late on Monday said that the threat of nuclear war amid the war in Ukraine “should not be underestimated.” In an interview with Russian-state medi…

First comes the dehumanization. Then comes the killing.

"I don't think china is going to be a nation state by the end of the decade. I think that we're looking at disillusion." New Podcast with Peter Zeihan. Recorded on April 21st, 2022. Listen to the full interview here...https://www.cgai.ca/peter_zeihan_on_shifting_global_energy_r...

Russia has said that the threat of a nuclear war is "very, very significant."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that peace talks with Ukraine would continue, while warning there was a "real" danger of a World War III.

'There is no need to beat around the bush,' former parliament member Ali Motahari says; he argues Iran's failure was not keeping its plans a secret for long enough

According to Asharq Al-Awsat, the Arabic newspaper headquartered in London, “With Russia preoccupied with its war in Ukraine, Tehran is carrying out the process of filling the vacuum left by Moscow in Syria.” Just as Russia filled the vacuum that the U.S. left in the Middle East, Iran is filling the void that Russia is leaving by withdrawing from Syria. And this could portend a fundamental deterioration of regional stability.

Companies that build and repair bomb shelters in Switzerland are being overwhelmed with enquiries since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Demand is so high that raw materials for the shelters are in short supply.

The changes in my own life, your life over the past year reflected a country transforming at a velocity so fast it's difficult to capture. It will be up to historians to give it a proper name, but I think of it as a great unraveling. What happened? What unraveled, and why now? Recorded on February 15, 2022 Bari Weiss began her career as a mainstream media prodigy, landing coveted positions at the Wall Street Journal and the New York...

Russia could be trapped in a full-fledged proxy war with a vastly wealthier, more productive opponent supplying a tough, local client. Putin’s revisionism is, ideally, not just limited to Ukraine. He wants a different European security order – one with a much larger, semi-imperial role for Russia. Alas, no one besides Moscow wants that, so the West has swung dramatically behind Ukraine. The war is indeed a proxy war.

Gonorrhea, once an easily treated and relatively mild STI, is becoming a superbug, with major public health implications.

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FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Sunday that the current scale of espionage and cybersecurity threats from China were “unprecedented in history.” “The biggest threat we face as a c…

Russia plans to test nuclear missiles capable of hitting the United States and Europe by autumn, an official said. “The prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back within the realm of possibility,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said last month.

MOSCOW (AP) — A new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile is capable of carrying several hypersonic weapons, a senior Russian military officer said Sunday. Col. Gen. Sergei Karakayev, the commander of the Russian military's Strategic Missile Forces, said in televised remarks that the new Sarmat ICBM is designed to carry several Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles.

Putin and other Russian officials have repeatedly warned Russia could use nuclear weapons against NATO nations if they intervene in the Ukraine invasion.

The war between Russia and Ukraine is putting a massive strain on the global food supply. Food prices in the U.S. soared to record heights along with other c...

Ali Velshi reports on four separate instances of Kremlin-connected, extremely wealthy Russians with ties to the oil industry who have died by suicide since R...

Under-fives are falling ill but the scale of the outbreak, combined with a complete absence of the ‘usual suspects’, is baffling scientists

The Termination of Russian Oil - Peter Zeihan Russia Ukraine War UpdateFirst, infrastructure. All of Russia’s oil flows first travel by pipe—in some cases fo...

Have the field's dominant paradigms failed?

Experts say volume of dissent from Shanghai over zero-Covid measures challenging attempts to control information

Ukraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations.

The Cold War 2.0 reboot is far more perilous than the first Cold War’s fight against the Soviets

Japan, like Taiwan to the south, has reported a significant uptick in Chinese aircraft activity in its surrounding skies this past year.

Starvation will push and pull human psychology in unusual directions—it is one of the few things that can overcome fear of the authorities. When famine came to China 400 years ago, it made Chinese peasants receptive to the preachers of class war. When the government failed to provide crucial

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Thanks to its zero tolerance for Covid-19 cases, China was the only major economy to grow in 2020.While the rest of the world battled wave after wave of coro...