Venezuela has signed deals with oilfield service major SLB and Hunt Oil Co. as part of efforts to boost investment in its key energy industry, Bloomberg reported, citing a TV statement made by the South American country’s oil minister, Paula...
As campaigning begins for Nigeria’s January elections, President Bola Tinubu faces a difficult test of both his economic reforms and his All Progressives Congress party’s more than decade-long record in power. Tinubu is seeking a second term against major challengers...
The United States and South Korea have long relied on their military alliance to deter North Korea and maintain stability on the Korean Peninsula. But President Donald Trump’s decision to substantially reduce U.S. participation in joint military exercises has introduced...
By Anis Chowdhury SYDNEY, Aug 19 2026 (IPS) The 13th of August marked the 100th birthday of Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz – in short Fidel Castro. Amidst an intensified US siege and the threat of invasion, Cubans commemorated their...
Crude oil prices extended their gains for the fourth day today as fresh tanker-tracking data suggests traffic via the Strait of Hormuz has slowed further amid harder rhetoric from both Iran and the United States, with both sides demonstrating an...
Originally published by Pacific Forum, this article is republished with permission. When US Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby addressed the Strategic Command Deterrence Symposium on August 5, he described an effort to provide the president with more “sensible nuclear...
Recent events in Ceuta have revived a debate that many had long regarded as little more than a historical dispute. That interpretation, however, fails to capture the issue’s contemporary strategic significance. Ceuta and Melilla now stand at the intersection of...
The Mecca Pact ranks among the most momentous developments to have reshaped the Middle East since the upheavals that followed the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023. Though defensive in nature, the agreement — which creates a mutual defense commitment between...
NATO continues to prepare for life without the United States, at least as the dominant alliance member. “Europeans are already backfilling what the U.S. cannot any longer promise,” explained Secretary-General Mark Rutte . America's foreign policy establishmentarians have long worried about...
Over the past week, Pentagon officials launched a broadside against reports of dire conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which has been deployed in the Middle East for more than eight months. Less than 24 hours after Defense Secretary...
(NOTE: I decided to try to synthesize the various articles I have written debunking the claims that Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah are the primary sources of terrorism. I hope you find this useful and can share it with friends who...
By: Majid Maqbool Aug. 5 marked the seventh anniversary of the demotion of Jammu and Kashmir from a state to two federally governed Union Territories (UTs). Seven years on, India’s decision to unilaterally withdraw special state status remains politically fraught as...
Leaked emails reveal Britain’s domestic spying service attempted to recruit a high-ranking BBC board member as a key agent of influence, at a time when the British state broadcaster was embroiled in a bitter legal and journalistic battle with MI5....
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On August 5, a rocket lifted off from the coast of China carrying a new satellite that Indonesia now calls Lampung-1. Named after a province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the satellite will help the province monitor its farms,...
The semiconductor industry doesn’t have a shortage of data. It has a shortage of ways to turn that data into useful manufacturing insights quickly enough to matter. That is the problem PDF Solutions’ Exensio solution has addressed for years. Built specifically...
AI is changing energy systems, but data centers are only a small part of the impact. Much has been written and said about how the data center and AI boom are consuming and will consume increasingly higher shares of global...
Green hydrogen research and development has found itself in limbo, once again. Enthusiasm for the resource’s potential as a clean energy solution in hard-to-abate sectors like steelmaking, shipping, and transportation has waxed and waned over the last decade as the...
In 2025, James Cameron wrote, “Eurodeterrent: A Vision for an Anglo-French Nuclear Force,” where he argued the United Kingdom and France should cooperate to develop a nuclear deterrent umbrella for Europe, independent of Washington. A year later, after French President...
October 4 presidential election in Latin America’s largest country will either be a significant global set-back for the Trumpian Right or another milestone in its advance. Medea Benjamin is co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK: Women for Peace. She is the...
Artificial intelligence is being used by big farming companies to intensify productivity regardless of the cost to animal welfare. Natasha Boyland is a Research Officer in the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the London School of Economics and Political...
Saudi Arabia spent weeks finding ways around the Strait of Hormuz. Now it is starting to send tankers straight back through it. Saudi Aramco resumed crude loadings from its Ras Tanura and Juaymah terminals inside the strait last week, ending...
YouTube is changing its view-counting system so a view will register when a video starts playing, potentially sending public view totals sharply higher while keeping its existing engagement metric for creators. Credit: BANG Showbiz via Reuters Connect The post YouTube to...
With college costs reaching new highs, The Princeton Review ranked schools based on how much financial aid is awarded and how satisfied students are with their packages. At several of the schools near the top of The Princeton Review’s list,...
Latvia's demand for massive funding from the EU budget is causing bewilderment and concern in Brussels over a potential wave of countries lining up for handouts. Latvia Wants Money to Maintain a Frontline State Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs said Latvia needs €7...
At Lürssen’s Berne yard on the Weser River, Floating Dock 10 holds a superyacht that isn’t going anywhere. The Dilbar — 156 metres long, with a 25-metre pool and two helipads — has sat there since 2022, frozen under EU...
Brent and WTI futures remain below $100 a barrel on Tuesday morning, partly suppressed by governments releasing strategic oil reserves into global markets. But the more serious issue is building downstream, where the Russia-Ukraine war, strikes against energy infrastructure, and...
The political decline in Uganda didn’t happen suddenly. It developed gradually, characterized by the tight, tense pace of a repressive state machine clashing with fragmented opposition. No one shows this widespread tension more clearly than Kizza Besigye, a doctor turned...
This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 ICYMI in The Lever : This Senate candidate has a data center problem . 👇 Further down in this newsletter: - The plutocracy running the White House. - Who’s purchasing Spirit...
The United States is interfering in the Brazilian presidential elections, pressuring the Brazilian electorate into voting for right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of disgraced former president, Jair Bolsonaro. If that does not work and President Lula da Silva secures...
On Tuesday, Israel bombed a Syrian airbase that Turkish officials have been helping to renovate, marking the latest escalation in the Israeli government’s effort to beat back Turkey’s influence in Syria. The strikes, which reportedly damaged an airstrip and a storage...
If you want to understand how the Supreme Court became the sinkhole of ideological extremism and corruption it is today under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts, you have to go back to the beginning and examine the institution’s...
Russia's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the Yabloko party, the sole officially registered party to openly oppose Moscow's war on Ukraine, against its removal from the ballot for September parliamentary elections. In a separate hearing on August 17,...
Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash Ibram X. Kendi is a name that most of you are familiar with, so when I tell you that he has thoughts on the death of Jason Arday, you probably have a good guess as...
Tehran has imposed a series of equations on the US-Israeli alliance, using covert and asymmetric warfare tactics, that may have just set in motion a series of regional shifts. In this episode of The Target stream, Mint Press News’ Robert...
This story was originally published by ProPublica . The U.S. recently reached a grim milestone: As of July 23, more measles cases have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2026 than in any year since 1991....
Last week news broke of a sweeping undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security in Minnesota early this year to infiltrate and surveil meetings and obtain the financial records of nonprofit groups and two of the country’s largest labor...
For nearly eight decades, East Asia’s security architecture rested on a predictable premise: Japan would remain a strictly defensive fortress, constrained by Article 9 of its 1947 constitution and its historical Senshu Boei (exclusively defense-oriented) doctrine. That foundational assumption has...
Romania has this week restarted a 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant to partially offset the generation lost by the closure of nuclear electricity output after the low water level on the Danube river forced a shutdown of the country’s only nuclear...
Britain faces a simple choice. While we still need oil and gas, do we produce more of it here, supporting jobs, investment, energy security and lower production emissions, or do we import more from overseas, which costs more and involves...
Benin, like a handful of other Sahelian states, is a major producer of cotton, but virtually all the production is exported to Asian and Western countries to be converted into higher-value products including fabrics. But an ambitious project centred on...
For years, “Free Palestine” and “No War on Iran” belonged mainly to marches, campus rallies, and the margins of congressional debate. In 2026, those slogans are beginning to acquire something Washington respects more readily: electoral consequences. The clearest evidence comes from...
Chinese President Xi Jinping, who faces enemies on many fronts, needs all the friends he can get as he seeks a fourth term. This is why Xi is handing out exceptional honors to two late Chinese leaders, President Jiang Zemin...
Power generation costs in Pakistan surged by 38% in July from a year earlier as the country paid the highest spot LNG prices in four years amid the supply disruption from the Middle East. The costs to generate electricity last...
Indigenous Peoples' organisations have called for better support for their meaningful participation at COP 17 and across this year’s Rio Conventions gatherings. Credit: Anastasia Rodopoulou/IISD/ENB By Naureen Hossain UNITED NATIONS, Aug 18 2026 (IPS) Indigenous communities have long advocated for the environment through...
The rapid rise of China’s Unitree Robotics has exposed a striking paradox at the centre of the U.S. China technology competition: some of the research that helped advance modern quadruped robotics was funded by the U.S. military, yet Chinese manufacturers...
A potentially very strong El Niño is emerging as a major risk for global agricultural markets, threatening to disrupt rainfall, raise temperatures and expose some of the world’s most important tropical crops to severe weather stress. The U.S. Climate Prediction...
Benjamin Netanyahu was handed an exit from Gaza, but he chose an election instead, ensuring his stay in power outlasts both war and peace in Gaza. Silence, Then Surrender to the Right For eight days after Donald Trump’s Board of...
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