Tosca and the Baby Seagull A garden facing the world
A world made for sparrows (Excerpt) Flame Hydra
Trail camera captures first footage of world’s ‘rarest’ feline: ‘A very encouraging sign’ cool down
Gizmo the dog went missing in Las Vegas in 2015 and was found alive nine years later. AP
Surprising things sharks can teach us about life The Washington Post
Private equity firms must prepare for increased scrutiny as Department of Justice ramps up scrutiny of false claims violations National Law Review
Side letter: Alaska is aggressive Private Equity International
David Rubenstein’s daughter resigns from Alaska Endowment post following allegations of nepotism FT
Private equity investors call for clarity on NAV loans Bloomberg. “Private equity firms should warn investors before borrowing against their funds’ assets, especially if they use so-called net asset value loans to boost returns, according to new guidelines issued by an industry group to such investors.”
climate
Scientists call for further study of glacier geoengineering options Guardian
Warning of approaching collapse of Atlantic meridional circulation Nature. From the abstract: “Under current future emissions scenarios, we predict that AMOC collapse will occur around the middle of this century.”
Trudeau deploys military to help as wildfires rage in western Canada Anadolu Agency
Park Fire burns 125,000 acres in Northern California Today’s wildfires
Life at 115 degrees: Sweltering summer pushes Las Vegas to the limit Guardian
Capitalist Catastrophe and Eco-Apartheid From the Geoforum abstract: “The catastrophe discourse of capitalism has three characteristics: first, the new capacity of social movements and theorists to imagine post-capitalist futures and the inability to realise them; second, cascading and mutually amplifying social and environmental crises that exceed the capacity of the state and capital to contain; and third, the uneven cancellation of human and non-human futures.”
water
Can humans run on water? The world of physics
Syndemics
US funds one-third of Global Pandemic Fund. Will it get Congressional support? Endpoint News
Where is COVID-19 spreading? States with the highest infection rates USA Today
Fact: COVID-19 has reduced life expectancy in India by 2.6 years, but some groups have seen a further decline Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
China?
China sets start-up date for world’s first thorium molten salt nuclear power plant South China Morning Post
South China Sea: Is the Philippines becoming a gateway for Western interests in the Indo-Pacific? Channel News Asia
India
George Harrison, Ravi Shankar & The Journey of the Sitar Madras Courier
Bangladesh curfew continues amid mass arrests of protesters Anadolu Agency
Africa
An evil empire? New Left Review
Shiraksta
Atlantis is Lost: How the Israeli military’s plan to flood Hamas’ tunnel network beneath Gaza failed Haaretz. Summary: “Israel started by adopting an old and inadequate plan, continued to ignore expert advice and the potential dangers to the abduction victims, and then quietly ended months later with no one saying anything about how nothing had been accomplished. The Haaretz investigation outlines the Atlantis plan: a predictable military failure that no one stopped until it was too late.”
* * * American surgeon who volunteered in Gaza claims IDF sniper shot toddler Antiwar.com. Deck: “‘No young child can be accidentally shot twice,’ says Dr. Mark Perlmutter.”
US humiliated itself ‘because of child murder’: Turkish ex-president Türkiye’s One Minute
* * * Netanyahu outraged by Harris’ ‘critical’ remarks Axios. Commentary:
Some may charitably argue that Kamala Harris has shown more “empathy” for the Palestinians than Biden, but she has not called for any shift in the guiding policy of unlimited U.S. support for Israeli genocide.
She also embraces the dehumanization of Palestinians as a leading… https://t.co/u9azrh86up
— Aaron Mate (@aaronjmate) July 25, 2024
meanwhile:
Read my full statement regarding yesterday’s protests in Washington DC. pic.twitter.com/zJpZvdQDt9
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) July 25, 2024
Biden, Governors, Mayors, City Council Members Support Illegal Sale of Palestinian Land MR Online
* * * ‘Pressure to succeed’: Will the Fatah-Hamas unity agreement hold? Al Jazeera
Buffer Zone An amazing world
You haven’t heard anything about President Assad’s visit to Moscow two days ago. Gilbert Doctorow
Why President Pezechkian’s election is good news Plural. Iran.
European Separation
Brussels abandons overfishing crackdown FT
Arson attack paralyzes France’s high-speed rail network just hours before Olympics start AP
Dear Old England
A new cold war
Ukraine’s long wait for the F-16: hopes and challenges BBC
NATO’s false promises are feeding Ukraine’s false hopes POLITICO
EU transfers $2.2 billion in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine The Straits Times. “Revenues.”
Press Review: China mediates Ukraine issue, predicts Kamala Harris administration’s foreign policy TASS
South of the Border
Venezuelan presidential candidates hold final rally before elections Al Jazeera
Agriculture becomes popular in Brazil as new generation overtakes US Bloomberg
2024
Barack and Michelle Obama endorsed Kamala Harris, giving her expected but significant backing. AP
The Supremes
Justice Kagan says there needs to be a way to enforce the U.S. Supreme Court’s new ethics rules AP
How the Supreme Court managed to tame a far-right appeals court this term USA Today
Digital Watches
OpenAI launches “SearchGPT” to compete with Google FT
health care
We may finally understand how the placebo effect relieves pain New Scientist
Boeing
To secure undersea cables, we should learn lessons from the British Empire’s “All Red Lines” US Naval Research Laboratory
Empire Collapse Watch
How four US presidents unleashed economic wars around the world WaPo. Explanation:
I rarely praise the mainstream media, but this is truly journalism at its finest by the Washington Post, exposing the economic war the US is waging against many countries in the world, especially the poor ones. Currently, 60% of poor countries are under US sanctions.
Here’s their analysis… pic.twitter.com/3OSKTCRE58
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) July 25, 2024
What I saw at the Discover-Capital One merger hearing Next City
Class struggle
Video game actors go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns AP
Today’s antidote (Dandy 1022):
See yesterday’s link and the Antidote du Jour here.
