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Links 7/26/2024 | naked capitalism


Tosca and the baby seagulls One Garden Against the World

A World Built for House Sparrows (excerpt) Flaming Hydra

Trail cameras capture first-of-its-kind footage of ‘one of the rarest’ feline species in the world: ‘An incredibly encouraging sign’ The Cooldown

Gizmo the dog went missing in Las Vegas in 2015. He’s been found alive after 9 years AP

The surprising thing sharks can teach us about life WaPo

Private Equity Firms Should Prepare for Increased Scrutiny as DOJ Puts False Claims Violations Under the Microscope National Law Review

Side Letter: Alaska plays offence Private Equity International

David Rubenstein’s daughter resigns Alaska fund post after cronyism claims FT

Private Equity Investors Plead for More Clarity on NAV Loans Bloomberg. “Private equity firms should alert investors before they borrow against their funds’ assets — especially when using so-called net-asset-value loans to juice returns, according to new guidelines from a trade group for such investors.”

Climate

Scientists call for greater study of glacier geoengineering options Guardian

Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation Nature. From the Abstract: “We estimate a collapse of the AMOC to occur around mid-century under the current scenario of future emissions.”

Wildfires ravage western Canada as Trudeau sends in military to help Anadolu Agency

Park Fire rips across 125,000 acres in northern California Wildfire Today

Life at 115F: a sweltering summer pushes Las Vegas to the brink Guardian

Capitalist catastrophism and eco-apartheid Geoforum From the Abstract: “Capitalist catastrophism has three characteristics. First, a newfound ability for social movements and theorists to imagine post-capitalist futures combined with an inability to realize them. Second, cascading and mutually amplifying social and ecological crises that outrun the capacities of states and capital to contain them. Third, an unevenly distributed cancellation of human and non-human futures.”

Water

Could humans run on water? Physics World

Syndemics

US bankrolls a third of global Pandemic Fund. Can it get congressional support? Endpoints News

Where is COVID-19 spreading? These states have the highest COVID rates USA Today

Data: COVID shaved 2.6 years from life expectancy—much more in some groups—in India Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy

China?

China sets launch date for world’s first thorium molten salt nuclear power station South China Morning Post

Can China smash the Airbus-Boeing duopoly? The Economist

South China Sea: Is the Philippines becoming a gateway for the West’s Indo-Pacific interests? Channel News Asia

India

George Harrison, Ravi Shankar & The Journey Of The Sitar Madras Courier

Bangladesh continues curfew amid mass arrests of protesters Anadolu Agency

Africa

Evil Empires? New Left Review

Syraqistan

Atlantis Is Lost: How the Israeli Army’s Plan to Flood Hamas’ Network of Tunnels Under Gaza Failed Haaretz. The deck: “Israel started by adopting an old and unsuitable plan, continued by ignoring professional advice and the possible danger to the abductees – and ended quietly a few months later, anyone saying whether it achieved anything at all. Haaretz surveys profiles the Atlantis project – a predictable military failure which no one stopped until it was too late.”

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American Surgeon Who Volunteered in Gaza Says IDF Snipers Shoot Toddlers Antiwar.com. The deck: “‘No toddler gets shot twice by mistake,’ said Dr. Mark Perlmutter.”

US humiliated itself ‘for the sake of a child killer’: Turkey’s former president Turkish Minute

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Netanyahu irked by “critical” Harris comments Axios. Commentary:

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Illegal sale of Palestinian land embraced by Biden, governors, mayors and city councilmembers MR Online

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‘Pressure for this to succeed’: Will Fatah-Hamas unity deal hold? Al Jazeera

The Buffer Zone Phenomenal World

The Assad visit to Moscow two days ago about which you have heard nothing Gilbert Doctorow

Why President Pezeshkian’s Election is Good News Pluralia. Iran.

European Disunion

Brussels abandons crackdown on overfishing FT

Arson attacks paralyze French high-speed rail network hours before start of Olympics AP

Dear Old Blighty

Health regulator not fit for purpose – Streeting BBC

New Not-So-Cold War

Ukraine’s hopes and challenges after long wait for F-16s BBC

NATO’s false promises are encouraging misplaced Ukrainian hopes Politico

EU transfers $2.2b from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine Straits Times. “Proceeds from.”

‘Hong Kong has gone rogue’: US report details entrepôt’s shipping links to Russia, Iran and North Korea Splash 247

Press review: China mediates on Ukraine and forecasting foreign policy under Kamala Harris TASS

South of the Border

Venezuela presidential candidates hold final rallies ahead of election Al Jazeera

Farming Is Hip in Brazil, Where a New Generation Is Outpacing the US Bloomberg

2024

Barack and Michelle Obama endorse Kamala Harris, giving her expected but crucial support AP

Seven Lessons from Joe Biden’s Candidacy The Bulwark

The Supremes

Justice Kagan says there needs to be a way to enforce the US Supreme Court’s new ethics code AP

How the most right-wing appeals court was reined in by the Supreme Court this term USA Today

Digital Watch

OpenAI to launch ‘SearchGPT’ in challenge to Google FT

This Machine Exposes Privacy Violations Wired

CrowdStrike Is Too Big to Fail RAND

Healthcare

We may finally know how the placebo effect relieves pain New Scientist

Boeing

NASA says astronauts stuck at space station until troubled Boeing capsule can be fixed France24

To Secure Undersea Cables, Take Lessons from the British Empire’s All-Red Line U.S. Naval Institute

Imperial Collapse Watch

How Four U.S. Presidents Unleashed Economic Warfare Across the Globe WaPo. Commentary:

What I Saw at the Discover-Capital One Merger Hearing Next City

Class Warfare

Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns AP

The Ju/’hoansi protocol Aeon

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