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...
SBI7 Secretariat in a huddle. Credit: IISD/ENB | Danny By Stella Paul NAIROBI, Aug 18 2026 (IPS) Despite record participation in global biodiversity reporting and planning processes, countries remain off track to meet the world’s 2030 biodiversity goals, according to discussions that concluded...
Bethlehem / PNN / The Aida Social Youth Centre, in cooperation with Palestine News Network (PNN), has concluded a training course under the “Young Citizen for Podcasting” programme, held over two and a half months to train a group of children...
Yes. The US South Korea relationship has not broken down under Donald Trump, but it has become more transactional, cost focused and strategically uncertain. The latest decision to scale back joint military exercises highlights a broader evolution in which Washington...
Libya needs between $36 billion and $40 billion in foreign investment to expand its oil industry and raise output to 2 million barrels daily by the early 2030s, the Financial Times has reported, citing National Oil Corporation chairman Masoud Suleman....
Peacekeepers from Italy serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on a foot patrol with the Lebanese Armed Forces along the Blue Line in south Lebanon. Credit: UN Photo/Pasqual Gorriz By Oritro Karim UNITED NATIONS, Aug 18 2026 (IPS) Since...
What is happening to global food prices right now is not four separate stories. It is one supply shock being assembled in four places simultaneously — the Black Sea, the Sudan-Ethiopia border, Mexico’s energy sector, and China’s power grid, and...
The In an age when everyone is busy and eager to speak, the story of Khawlah bint Thaʿlabah reminds us that one of the most Prophetic qualities is simply to listen. By Rabiah Tul Adawiyah Mohamed Salleh We Are All Busy “We are...
bessent_pipe_dream Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promised something spectacular. “ Watch this space ,” he told a television interviewer, previewing “ measures like have never been seen in the history of the economic isolation of a country .” Paired with...
Declarations by Iran and the U.S. earlier this week make the prospect of peace in the Middle East even more distant, driving crude oil prices higher. Meanwhile, the diesel crack spread in the U.S. topped $100 per barrel for the...
Nearly six months after the U.S. and Israel launched an operation to overthrow the Iranian government, it’s fair to say their assault hasn’t exactly gone according to plan. Still, the ensuing war has followed a clear, predictable logic. After decades of...
When Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, Cuba was legally sovereign but in an extraordinarily asymmetric relationship with the United States. As Earl E. T. Smith, U.S. ambassador prior to the revolution, told Congress in 1960, “the American ambassador was...
The idea that African nations must process their minerals at home has gained increased policy traction, and for good reason. After decades of exporting raw materials and importing finished products, the argument that Africa must capture more value from its...
By: Shim Jae Hoon In the words of government economists these days, South Korea hasn’t had it so good in years. Riding on the back of strong semiconductor exports, the economy this year is expected to post 3 percent growth for the...
Michigan Republican Senate candidate former Rep. Mike Rogers holds millions in tech investments that could benefit from the data center boom, giving him a personal financial stake as he backs President Donald Trump’s push to fast-track artificial intelligence infrastructure. The...
The US increasingly prioritizes technological dominance, supply-chain security, industrial protection and strategic competition with China. Under Trump, this approach has become openly transactional and unilateral: tariffs, market access and security instruments are used to compel partners and competitors alike. The...
Reports that North Korea may send as many as 30,000 additional troops to support Russia’s war in Ukraine should be assessed as more than a mere transaction of manpower. Although their immediate impact on the battlefield could be limited, the...
Power Metals is advancing what it describes as North America’s only cesium project at a time when America’s defense ambitions are colliding with the reality of critical mineral supply chains. The U.S. imports 100% of its required cesium, a rare...
Photo by Chris Boland on Unsplash Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday is dead by his own hand. It seems that a lifetime of lies, once they caught up with him, was too much for him to handle. The disgrace was more...
U.S. oil companies dominating the shale patch are planning to trim their spending plans and instead take advantage of higher international oil prices to reduce debt and boost shareholder returns. This is bad news for production growth. Bloomberg reported earlier...
In this issue: - More weak July economic data - Premier Li chairs State Council Plenary session - Jiang Zemin Commemoration - Xi’s September visit - AI tokens and the intelligent economy - “Once Upon a Time in the Middle East” The Feed: Business, Economy and Trade...
When Money Stops Being Enough Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan should be read carefully. It does not prove that the Democratic Party has turned against Israel, nor that money has suddenly lost its power in American elections. El-Sayed won a...
The rise of automation, AI, and electric trucks can fundamentally change the freight transportation industry in the United States, leading to a revolution in transport fuel demand. Various vehicle and technology companies and U.S. cities and states have launched in...
The U.S. has lost 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones, worth at least $1.3 billion, since the start of its war on Iran, the Washington Post reported Friday . The drones can cost between $30 and $50 million each, depending on their sensor...
On August 6, 2026, there was a town hall meeting between US Navy officials including Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao and more than 200 family members of the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln, at the naval air station on...
Strategic shortfalls? Maybe in getting cobalt out of the Congo or rare earth powders from China or natural gas from Russia or oil from the Persian Gulf? Or maybe something closer to home. Thanks to climate change (yes, just say...
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