Dark-money conservative groups and Big Oil interests have quietly mobilized behind a landmark Supreme Court case that could restrict when and how states and municipalities can seek climate damages from fossil fuel companies. At the center of the case is...
Apple customers in 110 countries received threat notifications recently alerting them to suspected spyware attacks targeting their devices, TechCrunch reports . Senior researcher John Scott-Railton says that the “scale and geographic diversity of public posts about receiving notifications are pretty unprecedented.” “For...
The world needs to burn less carbon. But while many countries have moved to limit the emissions produced within their own borders, some are also grappling with the emissions produced by their imports. The resulting policies walk a line between...
Continental Resources is getting substantially bigger in the Permian Basin. The privately held oil producer has agreed to acquire FireBird Energy II, adding roughly 54,000 net acres in the Midland Basin along with 32,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 ICYMI in The Lever : This Senate candidate doesn’t care if AT&T spies on you. 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - Are taxpayers getting shortchanged by Moderna’s cancer vaccine? -...
Most people do not know that the term “checkmate” in chess is a loan from Persian. “Shah-mat” means the king is confused and helpless. Trump may learn this hard way—but not without bringing much pain and suffering on people at...
Finland abandoned it’s socialist policies to embrace Russiphobia, join NATO and give billions of Euros to US and Israeli arms companies, thus furthering the interests of neo-liberalism and the Epstein Class Nate Bear is a journalist, a pr/comms man for corporates, money...
Abhi Kolpekwar, VP & General Manager, Digital Verification Technologies at Siemens EDA met with me at #DAC2026 to provide the big picture on smart verification tools, something they call Questa One . Their verification tools are infused with AI to...
The last act of death is not mortality but the erasure of memory. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau...
Ukraine has announced yet another "superweapon" — a domestically developed glide bomb. Russia has been successfully using this type of weapon for a long time. Now Ukraine has one as well. However, Russian military analysts have largely greeted the news...
The Russian Interior Ministry placed Michael Martens, a reporter for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, on an international wanted list. The criminal case against him stems from remarks the journalist made during a press conference in Belgrade, which investigators...
Washington has announced the launch of an unprecedented financial campaign that will target not only Tehran but also its key trading partners in Asia. Trump Declares Economic War on Iran US President Donald Trump has announced the start of the "most devastating...
The prediction markets were nearly certain: Francesca Hong would win Wisconsin’s Democratic primary for governor on Aug. 11. Polymarket put the upstart’s chances at 96%; Kalshi was only slightly less sure at 95.5%. Then the votes came in. Milwaukee County Executive...
The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and fielded a question about “Medicare for All” from host Kristen Welker, who among other things noted his co-sponsorship of...
China has become the world’s largest renewable energy producer by accelerating the rollout of solar, wind, and battery storage projects, while in recent years it has also increased its oil and gas output. Efforts to expand its fossil fuel industry...
On the morning of Aug. 10 , a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia, leaving nearly 300 people dead, 4,000 injured and potentially thousands more missing by the latest count. The crisis created an early test for new far-right...
Coal India, the world’s single largest coal producer, has applied to establish a trading office in Singapore to trade critical minerals and iron ore in what would be the company’s first trading office outside India, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing...
For decades, the conventional narrative has been one in which renewables have been criticized for intermittency issues, whereas fossil fuels were the ones to provide energy security. The Iran war and protracted closure of the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz...
Our Q&A discussions are a lot of fun, and we’re grateful to everyone who submits their questions. If you missed any of our live shows, the full streams are available here on Substack. This week’s Q&A is tonight at 7:00 p.m....
The Conservatives have said that households could save about £540 a year after 2030 if net zero regulations are scrapped, with a commitment to make energy as cheap as possible. A report published by centre-right think tank Onward and backed...
Indian steelmakers are reeling from a jump in coking coal prices this year that is squeezing their margins and delaying capacity expansion in the steelmaking industry, analysts and industry executives tell Reuters. India relies on imports for as much as...
We’re very excited and really proud to announce that Apartheid Free Zone campaign has recruited more than 500 small businesses, unions, civil society and community groups, artistic collectives, sporting organisations, and many other spaces and places across Ireland. They join thousands...
Gaza / PNN / Amid the rubble of war in Gaza, Areej Al-Saafin is trying to reclaim what an injury took from her, particularly her passion for painting and the life that came to a standstill after she lost her right...
By: Toh Han Shih Evergrande Song and Dance Troupe Hui Ka Yan, the founder and former chairman of China Evergrande Group, once the largest Chinese property developer with a stockmarket valuation above $50 billion, was sentenced to life in prison on corruption...
When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement on August 7, they bound each state to treat an armed attack on any one of...
This is a collaboration with The American Prospect , a magazine about ideas, politics, and power . One of the top officials for an establishment-friendly political network playing a major role in Democratic primaries this election cycle also helms an astroturf...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the wreath-laying ceremony to commemorate the 23rd Anniversary of the bombing of the United Nations Headquarters in Baghdad. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten. By Naureen Hossain UNITED NATIONS, Aug 20 2026 (IPS) World Humanitarian Day celebrates humanitarian workers and...
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened any country helping Iran in any way with “tremendous economic consequences,” as the American Administration is ratcheting up economic pressure on Iran in the hope of ending the war it began in February. Late on...
Fawzia Koofi, former Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament, says the country is experiencing gender apartheid. By Ariel F. Dumont ROME, Aug 20 2026 (IPS) FIVE years after the Taliban returned to power, Fawzia Koofi, the former Deputy Speaker of the Afghan Parliament,...
The ADC is suing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin over the government’s seizure and attempted forensic search of Max Blumenthal’s phones after returned from a reporting trip to Iran. The lawsuit accuses the government of not only violating his Fourth Amendment...
Mudassir Sheikha left McKinsey to co-found Careem in 2012, putting in $50,000 of his own money. Seven years later, Uber agreed to acquire the company for $3.1 billion. Credit: CNBC via Reuters Connect. The post Careem’s founders put in $100,000. Seven...
The reinstated U.S. blockade on Iranian oil exports is effectively preventing Tehran from exporting oil, making Iran’s oil volumes irrelevant for global oil market balances, Bob McNally, president of Rapidan Energy Group, told CNBC on Thursday. The U.S. brought back...
BETHLEHEM / PNN/ The Central Elections Commission (CEC) announced today, Thursday, succeeding in increasing the percentage of registrants for the 2026 Legislative Elections to 87.2%, after adding over 32 thousand new registrants to the voters’ registry, bringing the total number of...
This episode of Sharp China is outside the paywall. Show Notes: On today's show Andrew and Bill with Wang Yi's visit to South Korea this week, including the fortunate timing for the PRC in the wake of President Trump's decision to scale...
When Dave Nellist entered parliament in 1983 as the Labour MP for Coventry South East, he became one of Westminster’s best-known socialists. He was seen as a workers’ MP on a worker’s wage, donating more than half his salary to left-wing...
The environmental toll of conventional cotton farming has prompted a shift among global fashion and retail brands towards organic, sustainable sourcing. Demand has been rising steadily, and Tanzania has emerged as one of the world’s prime suppliers. But climate change...
Military analysts are captivated by how the material nature of war is transforming in Ukraine. Unmanned systems have captured Russian infantry units, battered Russian naval and commercial ships, and even, with the help of on-board AI, conducted autonomous strikes deep...
Bethlehem /PNN / Human Rights Watch said escalating attacks by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank are increasingly driving the forced displacement of Palestinians, amid what it described as direct and indirect government support for the violence. In a statement, the...
For years, the Chinese military’s own newspaper has been making a promise it may no longer be able to keep. Whenever the People’s Liberation Army Daily (Jiefangjun Bao), the official newspaper of China’s Central Military Commission, discusses artificial intelligence and...
U.S. President Donald Trump has warned that countries providing any form of economic support to Iran could face severe consequences, escalating Washington’s pressure campaign as the nearly six month old Iran war continues to disrupt regional trade and global energy...
The Iran war has pushed the global energy system into a deeper crisis, with the disruption increasingly shifting from crude oil supplies to the refined fuels that power transportation, industry and economies worldwide. While global oil markets have adapted relatively...
Badi, whose real name is Badibanga Ndeka, is a Belgian-Congolese artist, rapper, author and curator based in Brussels. He blends hip-hop, Congolese rumba and electronic music to explore themes of identity, the diaspora and memory. Whether through a rap track, a...
In my previous piece — The Walls Have Doors Now — I argued that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s promised “ measures like have never been seen in the history of the economic isolation of a country ” would push against...
When ASEAN formally accorded Türkiye Dialogue Partner status on 21 July, Ankara gained more than diplomatic access. It gained a test of whether Turkish firms can operate across a region where currencies, contracts, carbon rules and political risks vary sharply...
In my previous piece — The Walls Have Doors Now — I argued that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s promised “ measures like have never been seen in the history of the economic isolation of a country ” would push against...
The hardliner–pragmatist divide is a useful analytical framework for understanding the main disagreement over the war, but the reality of power within the Islamic Republic (IR) is more layered. Actors who find themselves on the same side of the debate...
Yemen’s front lines have barely moved since the 2022 truce, but the war around them is changing. Ballistic missiles and drones are striking far beyond established positions, and forces associated with the internationally recognized, Saudi-backed government are responding more aggressively to...
Esmail Qaani has a habit of not announcing his visits to Baghdad. He simply appears, meets whoever needs meeting, and leaves before most Iraqis know he was there. His trip on August 10 was no different. The commander of Iran’s Quds...
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