Links 7/17/2023 | naked capitalism
What to know about Louisiana’s newest invasive fish Axios New Orleans. No opposable thumbs? Good. Huge granite ‘body’ on far side of the moon offers clues to ancient lunar volcanoes…
How Federal Law Can Protect All Workers on Sweltering Summer Days | naked capitalism
By Tom Conway, the international president of the United Steelworkers Union (USW). This article was produced by the Independent Media Institute. The heat index soared to 111 degrees in Houston, Texas, but…
Smoke Pollution From Canadian Wildfires Returns to Parts of U.S.
Air polluted by the Canadian wildfires is back in the United States this week. There are nearly 900 wildfires burning across Canada, but the smoke this week will be coming…
A Positive Covid Milestone
The United States has reached a milestone in the long struggle against Covid: The total number of Americans dying each day — from any cause — is no longer historically…
Recork the Champagne: Sweden’s NATO Accession Deal With Turkiye Still Faces Hurdles | naked capitalism
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave NATO the public relations boost it so desperately wanted during the Vilnius summit. First, he released the neo-Nazi Azov commanders back to Ukraine in…
U.S. Heat Wave Shows No Signs of Abating
A relentless heat wave that has been sending temperatures into the triple digits and has put roughly a third of the United States under a heat advisory is not showing…
Opinion | America Can’t Build a Green Economy Without China
Roughly a century ago, when Henry Ford revolutionized modern car production, engineers from France, Japan, Germany and the Soviet Union flocked to Detroit to learn how to copy his miraculous…
One Reason China Is Willing to Engage Again: Its Troubled Economy
Three months ago it appeared that China’s economy was on track to recover relatively quickly after being closed off to the world during the pandemic. Consumers were spending again. Exports…
Far From the Front, They Stand in Honor of Ukraine
Every morning at the stroke of nine, in the western Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi, the entire town square comes to a standstill for a moment of silence to mourn the…
Opinion | The House G.O.P. Bomb-throwers May End Up Bombing Their Majority
This purity-over-progress approach isn’t just making life awkward for the speaker. It is making the entire Republican conference look like a pack of obstructionist zealots. This may play well in…