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With the artificial intelligence boom reshaping the global economy, workers are racing to defend their rights as the ground shifts beneath them. A narrowly averted strike at Samsung Electronics in Korea this spring was a major test of labor’s ability to fight back. Weeks before the planned strike, a historic 40,000 Samsung workers rallied outside the company’s [...]

In March, Australia accounted for almost 10% of new global battery capacity, with 2,000 home batteries installed a day so far this year.

Cubans are living in a state of limbo, and it’s not clear that US military intervention would revitalize the Cuban economy.

Deal count hit a five-year low in the first half of 2026 and there may be worse to come, according to venture capital tracker Magnitt.

New heads for mining and defense industries will be tasked with accelerating national development.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration has directly spent $2.7 billion of taxpayer money on its crusade against wind power while pouring $1.1 billion into boosting coal, which critics say is pushing up Americans’ bills. They say the moves are evidence that the president aims to serve […]

Vijay Prashad, The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Every year, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of foodborne disease. This is the predictable outcome of a food economy organised around profit rather than the right to food. On 4 June 2026, the […]

Dangote's planned refinery in Kenya illustrates why ports, pipelines, power, and industry should be funded as interconnected systems rather than standalone megaprojects.

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell to its lowest level in weeks.