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Links 6/18/2024 | naked capitalism


Studies uncover the critical role of sleep in the formation of memories ScienceDaily (Kevin W)

Scientists try to solve bird flu mystery: Why there’s so much virus in Michigan wastewater Detroit Free Press (ma)

States looking to loosen raw milk regulations despite concerns Philadelphia Inquirer (Robin K)

Is That Drink Worth It to You? New York Times (Dr. Kevin)

#COVID-19

Study shows 12% long-COVID prevalence following Omicron infection CIDRAP

Months after being diagnosed with COVID-19, one in five people are still suffering from symptoms, new research finds ABC Australia

Climate/Environment

Japanese startup plans to vaporize space junk using ground lasers Interesting Engineering (Chuck L)

It’s the grid, stupid! Geoff Russell (guurst)

Massive fraud revealed in fake Chinese climate projects subsidised by the German fossil fuel industry in service of meeting arbitrary and deeply stupid emissions quotas Eugyppius (Micael T)

China?

The US wants to decouple its military supplies from China – but can it? South China Morning Post

China targets EU pork in tit-for-tat trade spat Asia Times (Kevin W)

Free trade frenzy: the hidden costs of South Asia’s economic gamble CADTM

India

Four Years after the Galwan Clash: Ongoing India-China Tensions Financial Express

Africa

‘We need the world to wake up’: Sudan facing world’s deadliest famine in 40 years Guardian

Surge in rebel attacks sparks deadly protests in eastern Congo Reuters

European Disunion

‘Euro crisis threat’ as French borrowing costs match Portugal for first time in 20 years Telegraph

Germany presents new military service model to start conscription from next year Euractiv

Old Blighty

Thatcherism, austerity, Brexit, Liz Truss… goodbye and good riddance to all that Guardian (Kevin W)

British meddling in Macedonia backfires, exposing coup machinations The Grayzone (Kevin W)

British Army Delays Provision of New Badges Due to Paranoia Over Chinese Spying Sputnik (Kevin W)

More Brits are falling behind on their mortgage payments than at any point in the past seven years, according to the latest data from the Bank of England Mirror

Gaza

‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 255: Netanyahu dissolves Israel’s war cabinet Mondoweiss

Gallant rejects Macron’s proposed trilateral task force to defuse Hezbollah tensions Times of Israel (Kevin W)

Extremist Israeli settlers to hold meeting on ‘occupying south Lebanon’ New Arab (Kevin W)

Israel welcome to invade Lebanon, resistance is ready: Hezbollah MP The Cradle (guurst)

US Navy faces ‘most intense combat since World War II’ against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels, defense experts say Associated Press

We Spent a Billion Dollars Fighting the Houthis… and Lost Antiwar.com (Kevin W)

Israel’s Top Court Suspends October 7 Probe Antiwar.com (Kevin W)

New Not-So-Cold War

Kremlin views NATO’s rhetoric on putting nukes on alert as escalation TASS

Syraqistan

Biden’s Weird Saudi Obsession Daniel Larison

Big Brother Is Watching You Watch

CBDCs Are Instruments Of Control—And They’re Here Forbes

Immigration

Deadly border technologies are increasingly employed to violently deter migration The Conversation

Imperial Collapse Watch

How the US Mopped Up a Third of Global Capital Flows Since Covid. De-dollarization narrative swept aside by overseas investors Bloomberg

Is Türkiye needed in BRICS? ВЗГЛЯД.РУ via machine translation (Micael T)

The relevance of Dickens’ “Tale of Two Cities” to present-day international relations Gilbert Doctorow (guurst)

Trump

US must be saved from WWIII – Trump RT

Biden

EXCLUSIVE Secret Democrat plot to replace Biden revealed: How Clinton, Obama, Pelosi and Schumer will topple the aging President… and when they’ll do it Daily Mail (Li)

GOP Clown Car

Far-right Republicans’ latest target? No-fault divorce Guardian (Kevin W). My understanding is 3/4 of the divorces in the US are initiated by the wife.

Attack, attack, attack DRB (Anthony L). On Roger Stone.

Our No Longer Free Press

Surgeon General Wants Tobacco-Style Warning Applied To Social Media Platforms NBC

A Message About Noam Chomsky: An Update Media Lens (Chuck L)

Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable Nomea (Micale T)

The Bezzle

US sues Adobe for ‘deceiving’ subscriptions that are too hard to cancel The Verge

Meta Accused of Trying To Discredit Ad Researchers The Register

French Court Orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco To Poison DNS To Stop Piracy TorrentFreak

(Kevin W)

Class Warfare

US executive pay rises at fastest rate in 14 years Financial Times

McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now The Verge (Kevin W)

McDonald’s makes major change to drive-thrus after mishaps go viral Daily Mail (BC)

Is Populism Possible Without Demagoguery? Noah Millman (Micael T). Kill me now. The original populists were not demagogues.

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