Killer whales sink yacht after 45-minute attack, Polish tour company says CBS
Orcas Are Learning Terrifying New Behaviors Scientific American
Fed’s Barr Sees Stability Risk in Private Crypto Stablecoins Bloomberg
When Is It a Depression & Not a Rolling Sectoral Readjustment Rotation? Brad DeLong’s Grasping Reality
Claudia Sahm: ‘We do not need a recession, but we may get one’ FT
Ignorance or Lies? The single worst economic scare-mongering bullshit ever encountered. Rodger Malcolm Mitchell, #Monetary Sovereignty
This is a Wonderful Market for Dollar Cost Averaging A Wealth of Common Sense
Climate
‘Hot mess’ as Earth heads for warmest year on record in 2023 FT
McKinsey & Company pushes fossil fuel interests as advisor to UN climate talks, whistleblowers say France24
#COVID19
Study suggests mass vaccination programs cut COVID cases in Japan 65% Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
‘Endemic’ SARS-CoV-2 and the death of public health John Snow Project (Sub-Boreal).
Pulse oximeters’ inaccuracies in darker-skinned people require urgent action, AGs tell FDA STAT
Water
‘Oceans are hugely complex’: modelling marine microbes is key to climate forecasts Nature
European Disunion
Israel’s nuclear option remark raises ‘huge number of questions’: Russia Al Jazeera
Media Stories On Ukraine Point To War’s End Tipp Insight
The Fight Between Cataphiles and Underground Police in the Paris Catacombs Atlas Obscura
Course Correction? New Left Review
Terror and the Secondary Trauma of Social Media RAND
China?
America’s Real China Problem Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, Project Syndicate
China and Ecological Security: The seeds of conflict, or the roots of détente? The Center for Climate & Security
China flags readiness to work with US ‘at all levels’ ahead of Apec summit South China Morning Post
US, China hold ‘constructive’ arms control talks Channel News Asia
With Two Wars Raging, China Tests America in Asia Foreign Policy
Myanmar
Myanmar rebels capture provincial town as anti-junta offensive widens Channel News Asia
New Not-So-Cold War
‘Strategic objectives not achieved’: Has Ukraine’s counteroffensive failed? BBC
If the West cannot win this war, then what war can it win? – Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Ukrainska Pravda. Good question!
America’s Withdrawal From Afghanistan Did Not Spur Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Foreign Affairs
Cooperation and Long Persuasion: A New American Foreign Policy and Russia Approach for the 21st Century Gordon Hahn, Russian and Eurasian Politics
Another Interview With Dominique De Villepin On The Conflict In Palestine (As Translated By Arnaud Bertrand) Moon of Alabama
Putin-Loving Bigots Must Stop Whining About Defense Spending and the Economy (excerpt) Matt Taibbi, Racket News
Marching Toward a Night of the Long Knives in Ukraine Simplicius the Thinker
Syraqistan
Military briefing: the battle for Gaza City FT
900,000 Palestinians still in Gaza City, northern Strip: Interior Ministry Anadolu Agency. That’s a lot.
US, Israel to open second front in Lebanon Indian Punchline. Alternatively:
Turkish soldiers will eventually fight in Gaza.
Erdoğan is sensitive to timing, he is mobilizing the country.
This is going to happen, it’s a mistake to dismiss him.
Erdoğan is the one man in Middle East with the capability to destroy Israel.
Pay Attention!
— Douglas Macgregor (@DougAMacgregor) November 7, 2023
Netanyahu says Israel will have ‘overall security responsibility’ in Gaza after war Guardian
US says does not support Israeli ‘reoccupation’ of Gaza after war Al Jazeera
Tourism to Israel sees 76% decline in October since war on Gaza Anadolu Agency
Israel’s Wartime Economy Can’t Hold Up Forever Foreign Policy
Biden’s outreach to US Arabs, Muslims ‘falling flat’ amid Israel-Gaza war Al Jazeera
US diplomats write internal memo criticizing administration’s Israel policy Anadolu Agency
Jewish New Yorkers occupy Statue of Liberty to demand Israel-Gaza ceasefire Al Jazeera
Biden Administration
House votes to censure Rashida Tlaib over anti-Israel comments FOX
Supply Chain
Ship technology and human questions Hellenic Shipping News
Republican Funhouse
Inside Peter Thiel’s powerful Silicon Valley network which started with a student paper Fortune
Spook Country
Lawmakers Say FBI Can Keep Its Prized Surveillance Tool, but It’ll Need a Warrant Gizmodo
Digital Watch
What caused Optus’s nationwide outage, and how long was it down for? Here’s what we know ABC Australia
Sports Desk
Maxwell 201* brings home the Australian miracle and a place in the World Cup semi-final ESPN
Exclusive: Alleged fake matches plague cricket in France France24
The Scandal That Never Happened ProPublica
Class Warfare
The Workers Who Make Your Clothes Want Higher Pay. Who Should Pony Up? WSJ
Campus labor activism spreads to undergrads Marketplace
Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist Nature
These Moons Are Dark and Frozen. So How Can They Have Oceans? Quanta
Inside the Frat-Boy Crime Ring That Swept the South Vanity Fair
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