U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright this week said that the oil exports from the Middle East have rebounded to 15 million barrels per day (bpd) and even topped the pre-war average of 20 million bpd on Sunday. Vessel-tracking services and...
Leon Lauritsen is the CEO of Aras, a leading provider of digital thread solutions for product lifecycle management and engineering AI. He joined the company in 2022 through the acquisition of Minerva PLM, where he had been for over 20...
In late October, in a boardroom in Riyadh, executives from Red Sea Global and three Saudi lenders signed off on a SAR 6.5 billion ($1.73 billion) loan facility for AMAALA, the ultra-luxury wellness resort rising on the kingdom’s northern Red...
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Iturup in mid-August 2026 has sparked debates and generated fresh discussions on ownership of the territory between officials in Russia and Japan. Iturup is the largest and northernmost of the Kuril islands, ownership of...
Oil prices have soared in recent months as a result of the almost complete closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a key trade corridor connecting Asia and Europe. High fossil fuel prices have helped to drive up the profits of...
It is always hard to restart after vacation. I know I have missed things and will be doing some catchup over the next few days. The “Beidaihe Break” is over and I wanted to send out a shorter note before the...
AI's energy footprint is out of control. Hyperscalers are building out data centers faster than the energy industry can keep up with, pushing for the rapid buildout of any form of energy we have at our disposal, clean or dirty....
The Board of Peace is not a ceasefire-management mechanism drifting toward failure. It is a governance model built with the same structural fault line as the 1922 Mandate for Palestine: trusteeship over a population’s path to self-rule, with no authority...
The Republic of South Africa formally assumed the chairship of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Council of Ministers on 12 August 2026 in Durban, South Africa, from August 2026 to August 2027, following its tenure as interim chair since...
One of the things that I wish to address is the alienation, rejection, social isolation and the longing to belong that the mental patient has to suffer from and endure. I want to talk about psychosis, my personal experience, my...
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 in...
Trump’s pivot to economic pressure as the key to Iranian capitulation is not a credible strategy. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture Foundation President Trump took Secretary of War...
The government of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz approved a landmark bill to expand the powers of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the Domestic Intelligence Service (BfV) by 2027. This expansion grants them offensive and operational tools, including cyber counter-sabotage...
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As is the case of so many corporate internet media the youtube is being corrupted in soporate interest and propaganda. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting at Sheffield University Management School., and Chartered Accountant, and Co-founder of...
Southeast Asia may be winning the race to host the AI economy before it has answered a more uncomfortable question: how much power will the region actually gain from becoming indispensable to it? The signs of success are increasingly difficult...
What actually causes inflation? There are a number of theories. Part 3 Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Guglielmo Carchedi is Senior Researcher in the Department of Economics and Econometrics the University of...
On a new film about the Reagan-Gorbachev 1986 summit in Reykjavik Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World , was published November 2025. Cross-posed from...
Andrei Fesyun, deputy director for research, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University: “The timing was indeed good, I mean. This came during an inspection of naval exercises in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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