Counting the Cost of Epic Fury: the US-Iran Impasse

Posted by Editor | Apr 12, 2026 | GEOPOLITICS |

The silence in the Strait of Hormuz is the most expensive quiet in history. With Brent Crude hovering near $120 a barrel, the “success” of Operation Epic Fury is being debated not in military war rooms, but in the power-starved manufacturing hubs of Europe, or the Kigali markets. What began on February 28 as a joint U.S.-Israeli decapitation strike has devolved into a structural crisis that has pit allies against each other and turned the 2026 U.S. Mid-terms into a referendum on global stability.

The DRC will be federal, or will not be

Posted by Editor | Apr 06, 2026 | POLITICS & GOVERNANCE, DEBATES & IDEAS, DEBATES & IDEAS, DIPLOMACY, GEOPOLITICS, POLITICS & GOVERNANCE |

For decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been a giant trying to walk in shoes three sizes too small. As we move deeper into 2026, the laces are snapping. The “Grand Debate” that has haunted Congolese politics since the days of Lumumba and Kasavubu has returned with force: Should the DRC become a federal state, or is it destined for terminal fragmentation?
The thesis is as bold as it is polarizing, in other words: Is the DRC Too Big to Stay Centralized?

DRC Plunder: The Washington Mineral deal compromised

Posted by Editor | Mar 18, 2026 | COMMODITIES & MINERALS |

Special Report: The Tshisekedi “Sprint”—How the DRC’s New Elite Outpaced the Kleptocrats of the Past. Under international money-laundering investigation, the Clan has ignited a calculated chaos—integrating genocidaire militias and weaponizing xenophobia as a strategic smoke screen operation.