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‘Miracle’ Japan penguin found two weeks after escape Channel News Asia
Soft Landing? New Left Review
Top US Fed official broke central bank’s trading rules, watchdog says FT
Climate
‘Never believed it would happen’: Residents flee from explosive Bridge fire LA Times. Commentary:
Incredible photo of the #BridgeFire in the mountains behind downtown Los Angeles. pic.twitter.com/QhwCc5ve4F
— Dylan Raines (@RainesOfEarth) September 11, 2024
As Fires Burn And More Wildfire Regions Talk Job Cuts, Congress Argues Over 2025 Budget The Hotshot Wake Up
Brazil grapples with fire pandemic as climate woes intensify BNE Intellinews
Defund Indonesia’s Deadly Peat Fires The Diplomat
* * * More than 375,000 without power in Louisiana as Hurricane Francine moves through Times-Picayune
* * * Hard to make and inefficient to use, hydrogen won’t save the climate BNE Intellinews
The Next President Will Be a Climate-Disaster President The Atlantic
Water
Innovative air-to-water tech using liquid desiccant makes affordable, renewable water Monga Bay
Quantifying Winters Rights (PDF) 48 William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review 659 (2024)
Syndemics
Novavax or Nothing? For Some, It’s Their COVID Vaccine Choice WebMD
Sequencing-Based Detection of Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus in Wastewater in Ten Cities NEJM
How did a Missouri resident catch bird flu spreading in livestock? What we know so far Kansas City Star. Meanwhile:
> At meeting this week, @NIAIDNews‘s @DrJeanneM said of recent bird flu case in Missouri:
– “quite nervous” about case
– “predisposition to pulmonary infection”
– no contact to anything “remotely” tied to H5N1
– @CDCgov can’t sequence much because high CThttps://t.co/GT6IhhNUoo https://t.co/u8Fozna5uY pic.twitter.com/2ipmieDkYK— Alexander Tin (@Alexander_Tin) September 11, 2024
China?
Why are young Chinese lying flat? They need hope and opportunities South China Morning Post
How China has ‘throttled’ its private sector FT
China’s firms seek to avoid pitfalls in search of key EV metal in Latin America: analysts South China Morning Post
Myanmar
Making Sense of the Mess in Myanmar’s Shan State The Irrawaddy
India
One-Way Traffic London Review of Books
Africa
Instability in Somalia Endangers the Entire Horn of Africa Black Agenda Report
Syraqistan
Inside the Movement to Settle Southern Lebanon Jewish Currents
Israeli Historian: This Is Exactly What Genocide Looks Like Jacobin. From July, still germane.
Dear Old Blighty
New Not-So-Cold War
Is Iran supplying ballistic missiles to Russia for the Ukraine war? Al Jazeera
UK will allow Ukraine to strike Russia with Storm Shadow missiles Ukrainske Pravda
Ukraine’s Kursk Incursion Is a Two-Edged Sword The American Conservative
Nuland fuels theory that Western powers killed 2022 peace deal Responsible Statecraft
Individuals Over Institutions: Ukraine’s Government Reshuffle Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Russia claims it prevented Ukrainian attempt to take control of Black Sea drilling rig Anadolu Agency
2024
Debate in nuclear-armed former colony fails to reassure global community Al Jazeera. More:
#BREAKING Scholars say detribalised native young in England are easy targets for radicalisation by far-white extremists promising return to mythical days of glory, irresistible to generation raised on ancient gables about 1966 but that has only known failure and disappointment.
— gathara (@gathara) August 5, 2024
The Great Debate: Trump Talked Substance But Kamala Won on Tone and Looks Pluralis
RFK Jr. suggests independent support for Trump will drop in wake of debate The Hill
California considers first-in-the-nation phone discounts for undocumented immigrants Politico
Our Famously Free Press
My Youtube Channel Deleted for Hate Speech Larry Johnson
9/11
At Least Two Saudi Officials May Have Deliberately Assisted 9/11 Hijackers, New Evidence Suggests ProPublica
The War on Terror Was Not a Morality Tale War on the Rocks
The World Trade Center Attack September 11, 2001 Susan Sontag. Still germane.
Police State Watch
Digital Watch
As major web browser makers snuggle up to AI, these skeptical holdouts remain The Register
Groves of Academe
In the spirit of libearal inquiry:
New faculty guidelines from Barnard College at Columbia University. Professors are not allowed to post signs on their door “that support a geopolitical view or perspective”. When talking about “geopolitical views or perspectives”, faculty must talk about both sides. pic.twitter.com/ol39ppYIWJ
— Layla 🪬 (@itslaylas) September 11, 2024
Supply Chain
What keeps shipowners up at night? Splash 247
Imperial Collapse Watch
Why America Should Drop Its Obsession With Being No. 1 Foreign Policy
Class Warfare
US child poverty nearly tripled between 2021 and 2023 Polygraph. Handy chart:
New Census Bureau data: In 2023, the US child poverty rate reached 13.7 percent.
In 2021, the child poverty rate was 5.2 percent. pic.twitter.com/c3UYAXi64F
— Stephen Semler (@stephensemler) September 11, 2024
Critical labor contract vote for Boeing, IAM 751 today Leeham News and Analysis
Strike Concerns at U.S. Ports Looms Large Over Shipping gCaptain
Can a National Strike Save a Closed Plant? A Town Depends On It. Workday Magazine
Worker Solidarity Is the Best Strategy to Defeat Rising Fascism Labor Notes
The Aral Sea Volcano Café
Antidote du jour (Charles J Sharp):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
