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The first photographs of Nicolas Maduro inside an American detention facility surfaced this week as he waits for a trial that will not begin until June 2027. On the same weekend, Venezuela’s interim government confirmed something that got far less...

Energy, Chevron, oil

Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Bessent gives orders to Japan’s Katayama and UedaScott Foster reports that US pressure on Japan to strengthen the yen and...

Global Risk-Reward Monitor

NEW YORK – America’s trade deficit just widened to US$88.6 billion, its largest since March 2025 — and the political reflex in Washington is almost certain to be more, not fewer, tariffs and trade restrictions. The irony is that the...

Trade, AI Boom, Block 2

The Trump administration has reportedly pressured several major U.S. space companies to reconsider attending a high profile international space summit in Paris organized by French President Emmanuel Macron. SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space and Starcloud canceled their planned attendance shortly...

World News, Climate Crisis, France

Prime Minister Andy Burnham is expected to approve the development of the Jackdaw natural gas field in the North Sea before the end of the month, the BBC reported, citing unnamed sources. The Jackdaw project, along with Rosebank, was initially...

News

A U.S. campaign to squeeze Iran’s economy by blocking its oil exports and tightening sanctions is increasingly putting pressure on Tehran, according to three senior Iranian sources cited by Reuters. Washington has intensified economic measures in an effort to force...

World News, Economics, Iran

Igor Sechin, chief executive of Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft, said China has taken a leading role in stabilising global oil markets, arguing that Beijing’s influence is increasingly outweighing that of OPEC. Speaking at a Russian Chinese business forum in...

World News, China, energy security

India’s economy grew 7.8% year on year in the April to June quarter, beating economists’ expectations of 7.1%. The strong performance was supported by investment, manufacturing and consumer demand. However, the unexpectedly high figure has triggered debate over whether India’s...

Finance, Economics, India

Most people around the world have probably come to know the American aircraft carrier in much the same way: through US Navy publicity films, Hollywood blockbusters, television news and political debates. For decades, these images taught us what an American...

Opinion, Block 2, Pattaya

Once again the EU demonstrates its helplessness. Besides, the Germans are experts in cheating in these matters. Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter...

Economics, EU-Institutions, Geopolitics

Crude oil prices extended their climb today and are set for a sharp weekly gain as the war in the Middle East continues with little chance of peace. At the time of writing, Brent crude was trading at $95.55 per...

News

An Accountant in Asheville On 31 August, in Asheville, North Carolina, Anton Siluanov sat down at a G20 finance ministers’ meeting for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine. When he tried to open a conversation about areas of mutual...

Eurasia, Analysis, Economics

More than a week after the devastating August 26 flood in Nepal, rescue teams are searching damaged hydropower projects for people who may still be trapped inside tunnels. An engineers’ WhatsApp group has become an important source of real time...

World News, flood, Nepal

By James Alix Michel VICTORIA, Seychelles, Sep 4 2026 (IPS) There is an older wisdom, quieter than the noise of our times, that whispers a simple truth: we are not the architects of nature, only its guests. Long before there were nations,...

Africa, Biodiversity, Climate Action

The opening moves of a future US-China war over Taiwan may be made not across the Pacific but hundreds of kilometers above it, as both sides race to seize the orbital advantage that underpins modern military power. The US and...

Military, Block 2, Electromagnetic Weapons

The meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the sidelines of the SCO Bishkek summit laid a new foundation for constructive bilateral ties. Russo-Turkish Relations Take On New Tradition of Effective Growth At the summit marking...

Politics, Russia, Turkey

This article, which originally appeared in Arab Digest, is republished with permission. Last week, Syria’s Kurds entered a new stage in their struggle for political recognition. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) formally announced their dissolution as part of a complicated...

Kurds, Ahmed-al-sharaa, Sdf

Tucked away in the funding package passed by Congress this week is a provision that extends the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) through the end of 2028. The two-year extension of AGOA — a preferential trade deal that offers eligible...

Trump-administration, Agoa, South-africa

The eerie silence of the ocean When people think of the South China Sea, they usually picture deep blue waters, peaceful waves over beautiful coral reefs, and busy shipping lanes filled with massive cargo ships. However, this calm surface often...

Southeast Asia, China, front

The Trump administration just announced it intends to let Wall Street investment advisers pour campaign cash into the coffers of politicians who control access to trillions of dollars in workers’ retirement savings. President Donald Trump’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said...

National Politics

Togo-sponsored resolution calls to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland The UN general assembly will vote on Friday on a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe...

Africa, United Nations, Maps

By: Jens Kastner Taiwan officials inspect a wartime military trial exercise. Photo from Taiwan’s Military News Agency The Taiwanese military frequently reveals its soldiers’ full Chinese and English names to local media, putting it at odds with the counter-intelligence practices in places...

News

For decades, Venezuela has been one of China’s most important partners in Latin America and the largest recipient of Chinese government funds in Latin America, with Beijing lending Caracas tens of billions of dollars and accepting oil as repayment. Chinese...

News

The most consequential expansion of BRICS may happen without a new currency, a dramatic fall in dollar reserves, or another flag being added to the summit table. Modern Diplomacy’s latest data check on BRICS de-dollarization makes the immediate picture clear: the...

Emerging Markets, BRICS, Economics

On August 26, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two Palestine advocacy groups—Palestine Action and Masar Badil—along with an anti-fascist group, Autistici/Inventati, designating them as Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) organizations. These designations seek...

Updates

Freedom Edge 26’s nuclear-capable bomber component, paired with unusually explicit official language about North Korea’s “nuclear and missile threats,” is not deterrence signaling aimed at Pyongyang — it is compensatory reassurance aimed at Seoul and Tokyo, timed to offset the...

East Asia, Analysis, featured

It was a relatively subdued Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit for Chinese leader Xi Jinping. He departed the host city Bishkek having made few attention-grabbing headlines. There were no big announcements or viral moments, unlike at 2025’s SCO summit on Xi’s...

News

War has always been a brutal engine of medical innovation, running on a feedback loop: Civilian breakthroughs are adapted for the battlefield, while battlefield necessity pushes advances back into civilian care. We asked three experts to identify the innovations from...

In Brief, Members

China’s oil consumption fell 9% year over year in the second quarter as expensive crude accelerated the use of electric cars, trucks, rail and industrial equipment. The decline helped cut China’s carbon dioxide emissions by 1% during the quarter, according...

News

This is a web version of The Lever ’s daily email newsletter. 🔥 New on Lever Time : Susan Collins isn’t out of the woods yet . 👀 Watch: AOC tells The Lever about her 2028 calculus . 👇 Further down in this...

Lever Daily

The drone strike that hit a gasoline tank at the Zawiya refinery in August was more than a security incident. Zawiya is Libya’s largest operating refining facility, and the National Oil Corporation warned that continued attacks could force operations to...

Emerging Markets, Economics, Investment

Dr. Karishma Manzur challenges the Democratic establishment in New Hampshire with an insurgent progressive senatorial campaign. Manzur aims to restore the true meaning of ‘public service.’ Transcript Chris Hedges: Dr. Karishma Manzur is a medical scientist with a PhD in biochemistry and molecular...

Economics, Inequality, National Politics

Brazil's Congress passed a bill Wednesday letting the government block foreign takeovers of mining companies and scrutinize who gets access to the country's mineral reserves…the thing is, though...Brazil still can't turn its rare earth ore into a single magnet, and...

News

Money organized through finance is a bet on, and a catalyst for, a particular vision of the future. Arjun Jayadev teaches Economics at Azim Premji University and is a Senior Economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. J. W. Mason is...

Economics, Energy, Finance

Afghans areno longer welcome by those who once helped them leave Afghanistan, abandoning them, no longer wanted. Western Values eh? Go figure. Kathy Gannon is the former AP News Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Four decades reporting the fault lines of...

Geopolitics, National Politics, Article

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado is backing a long-term U.S. role in developing the country’s oil reserves, even as she questions who has the authority to sign the sweeping agreement announced by acting President Delcy Rodríguez. Machado said Thursday...

News

The architect of President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence plan to bulldoze environmental safeguards and restrict states from regulating the nascent technology just admitted he downplayed the tech’s existential risks. In a new blog post , he now says AI “rogue...

Artificial Intelligence

President Donald Trump is not content with gutting the U.S. National Park Service. After slashing its staff and budget, and opening up tracts of public land to mining and logging activities, the administration has spent the past year trying to...

Activism, Business & Economy, Courts & Law

I joke a lot about lawyers, but I do actually know more than a handful, and I like them well enough. They’re like any other group of people out there. Some are good, some are bad, and some can’t be...

News

The following story is co-published with Joe Cirincione’s Substack. Aug. 28 marked the beginning of the seventh month of a war Donald Trump began on a whim, waged incoherently and lost decisively. But in the demented, steadily shrinking Trump World, he...

Column, Courts & Law, Middle East

Low-wage U.S. workers have faced multiple rising threats to their economic and personal security over the past year. Aggressive actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have terrorized immigrant workers, who are disproportionately represented at the bottom of the corporate...

Activism, Business & Economy, Column
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