‘Encouraging News’: Endangered Vaquitas Hanging On in Gulf of California, Expedition Finds Eco Watch
Côte d’Illusion The Baffler
Cosmic Luck: NASA’s Apollo 11 Moon Quarantine Broke Down New York Times
Climate/Environment
Ancient fish, modern problem: How the pallid sturgeon could be a warning for the Missouri River Harvest Public Media
Shell pivots back to oil to win over investors Reuters
The case for a (mostly) car-free world Canadian Dimension
I know there are a million people sharing temperature anomaly charts and maps lately, but there’s a good reason for that. This is totally bonkers and people who look at this stuff routinely can’t believe their eyes. Something very weird is happening. pic.twitter.com/vZ9eKEs22b
— Brian McNoldy (@BMcNoldy) June 10, 2023
Water
Kazakhstan: Authorities declare state of emergency over Caspian Eurasianet
#COVID-19
Someone in Ohio is shedding new strain of COVID into sewers, professor says Cleveland.com
China?
China wants to launch a moon-orbiting telescope array as soon as 2026 Space.com
New Not-So-Cold War
The Object of War imetatronink
Security guarantees, then Polish troops, and finally US troops The Duran (video).
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The Problem Child of Europe Foreign Affairs. From 1940, still germane. Lambert: “Gets wilder and wilder as it goes on.”
D-DAY: HOW THE US SUPPORTED HITLER’S RISE TO POWER The Real News Network. From 2019, still germane.
Bitter at US Snub, Kosovo Leader Signals Hard Line Amid Flareup Bloomberg
South of the Border
The AMLO Project New Left Review
Honduras requests entry to BRICS-led development bank on China trip Reuters
Development Banks Fund Factory Farming in Ecuador Consortium News
Syraqistan
Turkey-UAE honeymoon on horizon after Erdogan’s win, economic deals Al Monitor
Turkey’s increasing balance sheet risks Intellinews
2024
CORNEL WEST, THE PITFALLS OF BOURGEOIS POLITICS, AND FORGING A NEW FUTURE AMONG THE RUBBLE Hampton Institute
Healthcare
Why Does Research Focus on Treating Depression Rather Than Preventing It? Mad in America
B-a-a-a-a-d Banks
UBS Completes Credit Suisse Takeover to Create Bank Titan Bloomberg
Imperial Collapse Watch
US Military is NOT PREPARED For What Is Coming | Scott Ritter Exclusive Interview
Our Famously Free Press
Jonathan Swift’s Lilliputian Reasoning Consortium New
Class Warfare
A Microsoft worker who successfully unionized sees a ‘wave of labor organizing that will take over the country.’ Insider
Antidote du jour (via):
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