Germany’s green revolution continues to bedevil the country, chasing away German industry and raising electricity prices for households. Now the renewables push is claiming a new victim: coal and gas fired power plants. Reuters reports: Since renewable power from wind and solar power is fed into the grid at the expense of gas and coal, conventional […]

It’s been a busy summer for shale in the UK. The British Geological Survey released a study doubling the estimates for the country’s technically recoverable shale gas reserves, and last month David Cameron’s government promised to put in place the world’s “most generous tax regime” for shale gas. These measures are aimed at helping the UK […]

As the dust settles on yesterday’s bombshell news that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has bought the Washington Post, and as all the Twitter speculation and analysis begins to die down, one angle we still haven’t seen explored much is one we’ve been pointing to for the past year or so: Tech has discovered the state.This may be […]

The fog of war is thick over Syria, but one piece of news emerging from that fog could be significant: rebel forces are moving towards the Alawite heartland in the mountains of northwestern Syria.“Forces comprising 10 mainly Islamist brigades, including two al Qaeda-linked groups, advanced south to the outskirts of the Alawite village of Aramo, […]

The state of Connecticut is home to a high concentration of hedge funds, executives, and other wealthy residents, making the state one of America’s most important commercial corridors. But that doesn’t make it an easy place to live—for the poor or the rich, the young or the old. In fact, thanks to bad governance, the […]

It was “mission accomplished” and “death throes” in the Bush-Cheney years. It has been “on the run”, “decimated,” and “September 10” under the current leadership. The real truth, as many in the press are starting to see, is that President Obama’s counter-terrorism strategy has run into the ground. With the latest intercepted chatter indicating that […]

How much trouble is Chicago in? According to the New York Times front page this morning, this much trouble: The pension fund for retired Chicago teachers stands at risk of collapse. The city’s four funds for other retired city workers are short by $19.5 billion. At least one of the funds is in peril of […]

A Chinese-built mega-port in the capital of Sri Lanka began the process of opening for business today. The enormous facility was built mostly with Chinese money and resources and sits astride some of the most important maritime transport routes in the world. Operating at full capacity, it would be one of the 20-largest container ports in the […]

The US is enjoying a glut of cheap natural gas, courtesy of the shale boom, but it has largely kept the benefits of this revolution to itself. America needs to build liquefaction facilities—places where natural gas is compressed into a liquid form more conducive to shipping overseas. The Obama administration has dragged its feet on […]

India’s ruling Congress party might have opened Pandora’s box on a whole host of social and religious grievances across India with its attempt to create a new state, Telangana, in India’s southeast. Far away to the northeast, for example, different ethnic groups have gone on strike and staged violent protests in support of separate homelands for […]