[2025]... Remember when empty shipping containers were worth their weight in gold? Just a few years ago, after COVID-19 turned global logistics upside down, everyone was scrambling for metal boxes. Fast forward to May 2025, and the script has flipped completely.

Turns out we’ve got the opposite problem now. The shipping industry isn’t worrying about shortages anymore—they’re trying to figure out what to do with all these extra containers. Sluggish trade, political tensions, and new economic blocs have left ports with more capacity than they need. To understand how we got here, we need to rewind to the crisis days and track what changed.

France’s star-shaped fortress has fallen, and the colonial ledger is bleeding out in the desert sun. While Emmanuel Macron smiles for the cameras in Nairobi, Ibrahim Traoré is rewriting the rules of African sovereignty with blood, steel, and a 35% stake in the future.

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The END of FRANÇAFRIQUE: How TRAORÉ’S Masterstroke In LABAZANGA Destroyed MACRON’S Ambition?

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The US has launched a probe into more than 120 American-funded biological labs abroad, including in Ukraine, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told the New York Post on Monday.

Russia has consistently raised concerns about Pentagon-backed biological labs worldwide, particularly near its borders and in Ukraine, alleging that they are involved in bioweapons research.

Gabbard said that the move aims to halt risky virus experiments and follows President Donald Trump’s order restricting federal funding for “gain-of-function” research – studies that examine how viruses replicate and interact with human cells to increase their transmissibility.

To understand the scale of what India has surrendered in abandoning India’s relationship with Iran, one must understand what that relationship actually was—in civilisational, cultural, strategic and concrete economic terms. This was not a notional friendship maintained by diplomatic courtesy. It was one of the most substantive bilateral relationships in the region, built across millennia of shared civilisation and reinforced by decades of strategic investment and economic interdependence.

The price India paid for abandoning Iran

by Anand Teltumbde

On this day 125 years ago, Australians gathered at the Exhibition Building here in Melbourne for the opening of the first Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia under the Federal Constitution. The Tom Roberts painting of the event – The Big Picture – shows confidence and optimism for the future of Australia as a modern democratic nation. 125 years later that confidence and optimism that dissipated.

Gillian Triggs

Leaders from banks, asset managers, payment companies, and semiconductor companies are joining the delegation to smooth relations with Beijing and make major announcements, such as the sale of 500 Boeing aircraft...

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, begins his official visit to China this Wednesday, a highly anticipated three-day trip amid a tumultuous trade relationship, trade war, and Middle East conflict. He will be accompanied by 16 of the world's top executives, such as Elon Musk, Tim Cook, or Larry Fink.

Trump Takes Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and 14 Other Business Leaders on His Trip to China

PABLO R. SUANZES, WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT

We are told that the greatest threat to humanity is the nuclear weapon. The mushroom cloud has become the universal symbol of apocalypse, the image that ends history. But nuclear weapons are not the fundamental danger. They are its most dramatic expression. The deeper threat is the system that produces them, finances them, deploys them, and stands ready to use them. That system is imperialism.

On intervention and imperialism

I bring revolutionary May Day greetings here from Berlin, a city that knows bombs, that knows destruction and from which the Nazi war of extermination originated. In World War II, 70 million people lost their lives. Europe lay in ruins and workers all over the world swore: “Never again war, never again fascism!”

German imperialism’s third campaign for world domination

Christoph Vandreier

[This speech was delivered by Christoph Vandreier, National Secretary of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (Germany), at the 2026 May Day Online Rally, organized by the WSWS and the International Committee of the Fourth International.]

We are stepping into a period where multiple systemic failures are colliding rather than unfolding one at a time and the usual vocabulary of crisis feels inadequate. Overlapping conflicts, tightening energy markets, fraying social contracts, sovereign debt burdens that leave little room for maneuver, and an agricultural sector standing on the edge of a perfect storm.

2026 - Of Potatoes and Pitchforks

Both may come in handy

BY ASHES OF POMPEII

What happens when the world simply stops needing the US dollar? We aren't talking about a distant conspiracy theory—we are approaching a specific, mathematical threshold. Once global trade settled in dollars drops below 50%, the fundamental gravity of the global financial system changes entirely.

The Dollar’s 50% Tipping Point (The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History)

In this video, we break down the "physics" of reserve currencies, how the US dollar got its monopoly, and why the BRICS nations are systematically dismantling it. Most importantly, we reveal exactly what the world's central banks are aggressively accumulating to prepare for the inevitable paradigm shift—and how you can position yourself before the window closes.

Wealth doesn't disappear during a crisis; it simply transfers. Are you holding the right assets?

Last week “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth insulted Americans by claiming that a 50 percent increase in the US military budget – from an incomprehensible one trillion dollars to an impossible one and a half trillion – was a “fiscally responsible investment.”

“Thanks to President Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense budget, this War Department has moved from bureaucracy to business,” he said last Thursday.

A $1.5 Trillion Military Budget is a Gift to the Grifters

by Ron Paul

In a way he was right, though. The huge increase is much more about “business” than what is needed to protect the United States from potential invasion.

The Farrer by-election result marks a dramatic collapse in Liberal support and signals a broader shift in Australian politics as One Nation surges.

It is impossible to exaggerate the disastrous performance of the Liberal Party in the by-election for the seat of the party’s former (briefly) leader, Sussan Ley. In just over 12 months more than half of the people who voted Liberal when she was the candidate changed their allegiance and voted for One Nation or an independent.

David Solomon

In a new video released today [10/05/2026] by the channel Inside China Business, host Kevin Wamsley delivers a pointed critique of Western energy analysts and oil-industry insiders who predicted that China — the world’s largest importer of crude oil — would be crippled by the ongoing military disruptions in Venezuela and the Persian Gulf. Instead, the opposite has occurred: China is operating with significant crude-oil surpluses, while Western markets grapple with severe shortages and rapidly rising prices.

China’s Oil Resilience Amid Global Shock: “Experts” Caught Off Guard Again

by Larry C. Johnson

WE WOULD NOT PROMOTE PRODUCTS USUALLY, BUT ON THIS ONE WE WILL MAKE AN EXCEPTION... RENEWABLE/GREEN ENERGY DESERVES TO BE SEEN AROUND...

Sail Grand Prix (Sail GP) is known as the fastest race on water, using the wind to fly their incredible F50 boats at breathtaking speeds. Since they already master the wind on waves, it only made sense to harness that same power to run their event on land.

Apex Group Sail GP, Bermuda – Mobile Wind Turbine – Containerised Turbine (MC15)

We’ve built and supplied a custom, containerised portable wind turbine specifically for this event. Not only is this a feat of engineering, but it’s also the first-ever wind turbine on the island of Bermuda.