Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth? Scientific American
All the recessions that didn’t happen Yahoo News
This Rare Asteroid May Be Worth 70,000 Times the Global Economy. Now NASA Is Sending a Spaceship to Explore It. Robb Report
Climate
Signs of Everglades recovery emerge. Long way to go but ‘trending in the right direction’ Miami Herald
The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness The Economist (Furzy Mouse).
Why measuring the economic value of ecosystems is important World Economic Forum
#COVID19
The gray swan: model-based assessment of the risk of sudden failure of hybrid immunity to SARS-CoV-2 medRxiv. From the Abstract: “Our findings suggest large jumps in viral evolution may cause failure of population immunity resulting in sudden increases in mortality. As a rise in mortality will only become apparent in the weeks following a wave of disease, reactive public health strategies will not be able to provide meaningful risk mitigation. Learning to live with the virus could thus lead to large death tolls with very little warning.” The infamous CDC “green map” is the very definition of a “reactive public health strategy,”
Vaccine may limit long-COVID impact, studies show, but controlled trials needed Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
There is more to Sars-CoV-2 than meets the eye Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Girl who died of bird flu did not have widely-circulating variant Nature
Dear Old Blighty
Sunak’s Windsor agreement splits Tory Eurosceptics FT
What’s at Stake in Northern Ireland Trade Deal NYT
Britain’s Economic Model Is Crumbling, but Its Politicians Don’t Want to Face Reality Jacobin
Mother of Parliaments:
China?
As South China Sea trigger points grow even beyond US control, what will China do? South China Morning Post
Inside China’s Peace Plan for Ukraine Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Why China Is Not a Superpower Foreign Policy
Former Malaysia PM, 1MDB ex-CEO cleared of audit tampering charges Reuters
Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market Reuters. Singapore left out of the headline, oddly.
The Lucky Country
Robodebt and the empathy bypass The Monthly
South of the Border
As US Reengages Maduro, Oil Giants Earn Deals — and Venezuelans Protest Truthout
New Not-So-Cold War
You And Whose Army? Trying to Understand the World. Well worth a read.
Lessons from the Melian Dialogue: A Case Against Providing Military Support for Ukraine The National Interest
Ukraine WILL become a NATO member in the ‘long-term’, head of the alliance says Daily Mail
Hungary calls on EU states to stop sending arms to Ukraine and work for peace (Google translation) La Tampa
Bakhmut on the brink as Ukraine signals retreat The Hill
Representative of Ukraine’s intelligence explains why Russians set out to “liberate” Bryansk Oblast from Putin’s regime Ukrainska Pravda. Commentary:
With evidence coming through, now looks more and more legit — the work of far right Russian-turned-Ukrainian nut jobs taking advantage of porous Russian border. https://t.co/IhnZihB3zZ
— Oliver Carroll (@olliecarroll) March 2, 2023
Rather clean uniforms in this latest stunt. Worn by “Far right Russian nut jobs”? Who would fund such a thing?
US to send more ammo, folding armored bridges to Ukraine AP
Poland to produce over 800 South Korean K2 tanks as part of order for Polish army Andalou Agency
At secret location, Ukrainians train on ‘game changer’ German weapon South China Morning Post
Assessing the Economic Value of Military Materiel Philip Pilkington, American Affairs
Ukraine finds stepping up mobilisation is not so easy The Economist
U.S. hosts war games for Ukraine ahead of next phase of Russia conflict Reuters
Biden Administration
Government system for protecting farmworkers plagued by staff turnover and lack of outreach Investigate Midwest
Parents push back on allegations against St. Louis transgender center. ‘I’m baffled.’ St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Commentary:
Reed’s assertions are inherently credible because they are 1.) consistent with the reasons the Tavistock Britain was shuttered, 2.) line up with what dozens of parents of ROGD have been saying, 3.) fit with what gender clinics themselves told Reuters: https://t.co/Yf8XV8kZtz pic.twitter.com/vfQAymHg9i
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) March 2, 2023
Our Famously Free Press
Lots of Twitter Files and Nowhere to Go Yasha Levine
Guy Debord’s Warning of “The Role of the Expert”: A Philosophical Perspective on the Rise of Fact-Checking The Internationalist
The Bezzle
Technology Behind Crypto Can Also Improve Payments, Providing a Public Good International Monetary Fund
Supply Chain
War In Ukraine Has Had a Structural Change In Global Shipping Hellenic Shipping News
Zietgeist Watch
How I Changed My Mind on Social Media and Teen Depression Richard Hanania’s Newsletter
The Supposed Economic Benefits Of Marriage Could Be Outweighed By The Financial Risk Of Divorce Dealbreaker
Realignment and Legitimacy
Exposed: Dallas Humber, Narrator Of Neo-Nazi ‘Terrorgram,’ Promoter Of Mass Shootings HuffPo
Police State Watch
OK, So Maybe Those Gummies Didn’t Contain Heroin or Fentanyl After All CIty Life
Imperial Collapse Watch
‘Havana syndrome’ not caused by foreign adversary, US intelligence says Guardian. Mass hysteria in the foreign policy establishment? How very unexpected!
The Reckoning That Wasn’t Andrew Bacevich, Foreign Affairs
Patrick Lawrence: The Return of Non-Alignment Scheer Post
Robot dogs are taking over the US military Task and Purpose (Re Silc). They’re not dogs. They’re roaches with four legs.
Class Warfare
Where are all the missing workers? Politico. Takin’ ‘er easy for all us sinners?
You may have heard of the ‘union boom.’ The numbers tell a different story NPR
Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing Quanta
Living on a Deadline in the Nuclear Age. Some Personal News From Daniel Ellsberg Antiwar.com (Rev Kev).
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Bonus antidote:
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
