The joint US–Japan yen intervention was not a currency-stability measure. It was Washington making sure Tokyo could keep funding its $550 billion commitment to American AI infrastructure — and it marks the moment monetary policy formally joined chip controls and...
Employment across Germany’s automotive sector fell to 721,400 workers at the end of September, the lowest level recorded since mid-2011 when the industry employed 718,000 people. The federal statistics office reported the sector shed 48,700 positions over the 12 months...
This article was originally published on Jonathan Larsen’s Substack. It is republished with permission. Less than a month after the June 2025 strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with US House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana)...
The US-led coalition leaves Iraq on Sept. 30, and Washington has attached a price to the exit: the country’s most powerful militias must hand their weapons to the state by the same day. Two months out, Baghdad is demonstrating the...
Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman looks on during a meeting with US President Donald Trump, White House, Washington, November 18, 2025. The telephone call from the US Vice-President JD Vance to Prime Minister Narendra...
The recent mass irregular migration incident in Ceuta should be seen as more than a border security issue. It is a significant test of the current relationship between Morocco and Spain—two neighboring states whose interests are increasingly entangled across migration,...
Ukraine functions as a privateer vessel launched by a greater power to impose continuous costs on Russia. The campaign is deliberate, the alternatives are known to both sides, and the pace of events is designed to force Moscow into the...
T-AOE 6 Supply Fast Combat Support Ship The images were mundane in a way that made them land harder than any battle footage: half-empty meal trays, a gray slab of processed meat, sailors rationing food among themselves so no one got...
The internet is going through a fundamental change. Information used to be scarce, and access to it was a source of power. Today, the problem is almost the opposite; there is too much information floating online. Almost any news story...
Aviation is often treated as one of oil's safest remaining markets. In 2026 that still looks like a reasonable assumption. Airlines are expected to consume around 104 billion gallons of fuel this year, sustainable aviation fuel remains below 1% of...
Six weeks before US and Israeli aircraft killed Iran’s supreme leader on February 28, a cluster of new, previously dormant crypto wallets began buying “Khamenei out by March” contracts on Polymarket. In the hours before the strike itself, six accounts...
The Trump administration is pushing for a homegrown nuclear power renaissance. The United States is still the largest producer of nuclear energy in the world, but that won’t last long without drastic changes in energy policy and investment at the...
When Zhu Rongji died in Beijing on August 12 at the age of 97, Asia lost one of the finest public servants of its modern era. He was the premier who opened China to the world, the plain-spoken technocrat who...
Eighteen children among the people killed after ferry capsized on Lake Kariba Twenty-two more bodies have been recovered after a boat accident in Zimbabwe, taking the death toll to 68, police said on Saturday. The ferry capsized on Tuesday on Lake Kariba...
With a new Prime Minister in office, it is uncertain whether the United Kingdom will continue accelerating its green transition or backtrack on climate pledges to support fossil fuel development. Many have speculated that the new Labour Party PM Andy...
As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they explain the motives behind their activism. It is one of three such trials...
Japan’s protest over Putin’s visit to the Kuril Islands is loud because its response is capped: Tokyo cannot meaningfully sanction the one Russian energy relationship — Sakhalin-2 LNG — it now depends on more than ever, after the Strait of...
Border security tightened after social media posts call for another mass crossing into Spain’s north African territory Moroccan police have arrested 111 people as they tried to enter Spain’s north African territory of Ceuta, amid tightened security on both sides after...
Following a year of tighter sanctions and Ukrainian attacks on refineries, ports and tankers, Russia’s crude output has fallen further in the second half of 2026, severely affecting the nation’s crude production outlook. Factoring in these disruptions, Rystad Energy has...
Bethlehem / PNN / Farmers in the town of Battir, west of Bethlehem, head to their fields, where agriculture has been tied for hundreds of years to a traditional irrigation system fed by spring water. The system remains in use today...
Over the past 15 years, Mexico has faced a severe seaweed problem, with vast quantities of a brown seaweed known as sargassum washing up on beaches along the Caribbean coast and hitting the tourism industry hard. Researchers are yet to...
Good things are happening! Meta loses to a bunch of kids, Israel’s greatest friend makes enemies, Missourians keep Republicans in check, and climate protectors get justice. You Love To See It is a benefit of a Lever paid subscription. If you...
The Documenting Oppression against Muslims (DOAM) organization has charted a series of anti-Muslim hate crimes, harassment, and assaults over the summer of 2026 in the United States, Britain, Canada, Ireland, Italy, and Belgium. The ten weeks since the end of...
There is a temptation to read current American foreign policy as incoherent. A transactional presidency dismantles alliances, antagonises partners, and lurches between confrontations without apparent strategic logic. On that reading, the contradictions accumulate until only one conclusion seems available, that...
As the United States-Iran conflict draws renewed global attention to energy security, a quieter transformation is underway. Driven by the combined effects of El Niño and accelerating warming, the Gulf region is heating up significantly. Rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, and...
There is a single sentence in a 2025 defense-industry study that ought to end a certain kind of complacency in Washington. Researchers at Govini, a firm that maps the Pentagon’s supply chains, found that more than 80,000 parts across roughly...
Before the launch of Operation Epic Fury back in February, the Islamic Republic’s lashing out at both enemies and erstwhile friends, and the grinding stalemate that has ensued since major combat operations ended, the Gulf was one of the fastest...
Reports in the military press and by MSNOW confirmed that a sailor aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln jumped into the Arabian Sea in an attempted suicide on August 3, and that other Navy personnel had been restrained from...
There is a single sentence in a 2025 defense-industry study that ought to end a certain kind of complacency in Washington. Researchers at Govini, a firm that maps the Pentagon’s supply chains, found that more than 80,000 parts across roughly...
On August 4, 2026, the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi released the Defense White Paper. The event represents not merely a routine policy step but also reflects a consistent series of measures aimed at preparing for a confrontation...
The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has forced hundreds of commercial ships onto longer routes around Africa, and Somali pirates are moving quickly to exploit the sudden increase in traffic off the continent’s eastern coast. Oil tankers MT...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ’s administration just quietly greenlit Elon Musk ’s long-running ambitions to build his own banking system into X, The Lever has learned from public records. The approval, which has not been previously reported, appears to...
In yet another remark that triggered alarm around the world, President Donald Trump said Friday that he planned to declare the Strait of Hormuz – which Iran has blockaded for much of the past five months over his and Israel’s illegal war...
On Monday, August 10, 2026, the 24th contingent of Chinese peacekeepers in Lebanon completed their mission of cleaning and restoring the UNIFIL Integrated Training Area in Naqoura, Lebanon, to high standards. They successfully passed the official inspection conducted by UNIFIL...
Big Tech companies are quietly moving farther and farther away from their decarbonization goals. Back in 2019, Amazon pledged to become carbon neutral by 2040, thereby setting a goalpost ten years ahead of the Paris climate agreement in a show...
Only an exceptionally strong El Niño will meaningfully ease Europe's LNG needs this winter, and forecasters currently rate that outcome as a long shot. Rystad Energy's analysis indicates that European winter temperatures would need to be at least 2 degrees...
As genocide continues in Gaza, the pro-Israel lobby in the US is stepping up its campaign against Palestinian cultural expression in the West. Now, the Anti-Defamation League , one of the world’s most influential anti-Palestinian hate groups, is demanding a major...
Oracle’s proposed $165 billion data center project in New Mexico has run into a decidedly low-tech problem: the natural gas pipeline meant to help power it won’t be ready on time. Energy Transfer subsidiary Transwestern Pipeline pushed the expected in-service...
On August 7th, with American warships blockading Iranian ports and Iranian fast boats still harassing tankers off the Omani coast, the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan gathered in Mecca and signed a single-paragraph pledge: an attack on one...
Several fires broke out at industrial facilities across Europe in a single day, with some of them ending in explosions. Three of the incidents occurred in close succession in the same city. The causes have not yet been announced, but...
Since returning to the White House in early 2025, President Donald Trump has consistently argued that the war in Ukraine should end through negotiations. He initially believed that direct engagement with Russian President Vladimir Putin could create conditions for a...
Governments knew what was coming. They failed to act because the political costs of taking on the corporate sector were too immense. Those corporations are now more powerful than ever Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian...
Who’s processing your taxes? How many data centers can a state have? And how’d Wisconsin’s elections go? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in LeverMind , our weekly news quiz testing your knowledge of the developments...
Kabul’s dispute with Islamabad over Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan sanctuaries is not a border quarrel. It is the clearest evidence yet that five years after seizing power, the Taliban has mastered control of Afghan territory without accepting what control is supposed to...
The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, with the total rig count in the US rising to 593, up...
At their Beijing summit on May 14, 2026, Chinese President Xi Jinping asked US President Donald Trump whether China and the United States could avoid the “Thucydides Trap,” in which rivalry between a rising power and an established one ends...
Ukraine is hardly a state – let alone an army – to which the media could realistically attribute an imminent military turnaround or even victory. Michael von der Schulenburg worked for the United Nations in many crisis and war zones around...
The United States is making steady strides in a critical mineral race, which has been considered by some to be yesterday’s war that the country already lost to China. Billions of dollars invested in public-private projects combined with reforms made through...
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