By Peiman Salehi for the Cradle The recent escalation in US–Venezuela tensions is often framed narrowly in tactical terms: the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker, new sanctions targeting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s inner circle, and a publicized diplomatic exchange with Moscow. Individually, these developments appear episodic. Together, they signal the decay of a coercive model that no longer delivers, […]
A US judge upheld President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new applications for H-1B visas, dealing a setback to tech companies that have long benefitted from recruiting highly skilled foreign nationals.
By The Cradle’s Egypt Correspondent Over the past decade, Egypt’s natural gas sector has shifted from a symbol of self-sufficiency and export ambition to a glaring indictment of the country’s fragile energy governance – and of the increasingly tangled web of politics and economics in the eastern Mediterranean. The latest Leviathan gas agreement with Israel – expanded even […]