The Forgotten History of the Financial Crisis Foreign Affairs
How the world’s oldest bank brought a city to its knees FT
Climate
Paris Agreement thresholds crossed Arctic News
The Global Temperature Just Went Bump The Atlantic
Syndemics
The US Government Has Abandoned Us to Endless COVID. We Can Do Better. TruthOut
Is COVID endemic yet? Yep, says the CDC. Here’s what that means NPR. Commentary:
If you look at the spread in any level of detail you can see the it is a series of superimposed epidemics.
Sometimes that looks like a high or low plateau.
It is constantly present… but not a truly steady state.
— Dr Noor Bari (@NjbBari3) August 11, 2024
USOPC CEO on Lyles’ COVID: ‘Not everybody is going to make it through the games healthy’ Nexstar
After Ben Affleck’s daughter urges everyone to wear a mask, the teens who say they NEVER stop wearing one Daily Mail
China?
China’s third plenum highlights the quiet rise of political theorist Wang Huning South China Morning Post
Multinationals sound alarm over weak demand in China FT
Myanmar
Forgotten war in Burma, ignored war in Myanmar New Mandala
Bangladesh chief justice, central bank chief quit amid protests, officials say Channel News Asia
The conundrums of Bangladeshi politics People’s Dispatch
India
Indian market regulator chief held investments in offshore funds used by Adani Group: Report Anadolu Agency
Gonna Make You a (Bangsawan) Star JSTOR Daily
The Cyberspace Impact of a Maritime Crisis in Southeast Asia The Diplomat
Syraqistan
Iran says will ‘decisively’ make Israel pay for acts of aggression but Iran seeks to prevent realization of Israel ‘dream’ of regional war: Acting FM Press TV
US president’s terse warning to Iran about possible Israel attack: ‘Don’t’ Anadolu Agency
Deadly Israeli strike on Gaza City school draws international condemnation France24
Dear Old Blighty
Riots response strengthens Keir Starmer’s claim Labour is ‘political wing of the British people’ Politico
Fascist violence and the imaginative failure of the Labour government Crooked Timber
Keir Starmer’s Reluctant Anti-Fascism All That is Solid…
Skin in the Game Craig Murray
Deprivation, a flashpoint and misinformation: How 2024 echoed the 2011 riots iNews
You will be refused bail even if you only watched riots from the sidelines, judge warns Telegraph
Why Scotland may have avoided far-right unrest BBC
We can breathe! London Review of Books
New Not-So-Cold War
Russia Pushes Back at Ukraine’s Cross-Border Assault, but Kyiv Presses On NYT
Gas, nuclear power plants, negotiations, destabilization in the Russian Federation: what are the tasks of the Kursk operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and how it is going (Yandex Translate) Strana
The logic of Ukraine’s Kursk offensive The Spectator
White House says US is finding out about Ukraine’s goals and strategy in Kursk Oblast Ukrainska Pravda. Oh.
Rescuing NATO from crisis Responsible Statecraft
A Dark Masterpiece of Ukrainian Anti-Diplomacy: Offending the Global South by Loudly Supporting Insurgents and Terrorists in Africa Tarik Cyril Amar
China, Russia to reintroduce barter trade for the first time in 30 years to avoid US sanctions BNE Intellinews
Thousands protest in Serbia’s Belgrade against lithium mining project Al Jazeera
The protests in Serbia are about more than lithium BNE Intellinews
2024
Trump’s 270-Page Dossier of JD Vance’s ‘Vulnerabilities’ Hacked by Iran The Daily Beast
Trump assassination attempt: 3 key takeaways from newly released bodycam FOX
Inside the powerful Peter Thiel network that anointed JD Vance WaPo
Aaron Sorkin Says If He Made ‘The West Wing’ Today, People Wouldn’t Recognize “Reasonable” Republican Party Hollywood Reporter
Kamala Harris finally fields questions from press after dodging media for 18 days since becoming Dem nominee FOX. No doubt not asked:
Don’t worry it’s not like Kamala Harris’s closest advisor Tony West is the general counsel of this abusive company. https://t.co/P1cfnhkOGK
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) August 9, 2024
Harris campaign: Walz ‘misspoke’ on handling weapons ‘in war’ The Hill
The Supremes
Major Questions in the Trenches (PDF) SSRN. “This article surveys and performs an empirical analysis of the 44 decisions applying the doctrine which have been decided by lower federal courts in the eighteen months since West Virginia.”
Spook Country
Secret Service busted into a salon to let people use the bathroom during a Kamala Harris fundraiser, business owner says Business Insider
ASIO, Burgess and the miasma of spookdom Pearls and Irritations. Australia.
The Bezzle
The One-Hour Nurse Visits That Let Insurers Collect $15 Billion From Medicare WSJ (IM Doc).
Whatever else is claimed about it, crypto is not a currency Funding the Future
Digital Watch
OpenAI Generates More Turmoil Spyglass
UK monopoly police launch full blown probe of Amazon’s Anthropic tie-up The Register. The deck: “Poor cloud titans, just trying to give a helping hand to AI startups valued at billions of dollars.”
Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO, dead at 56 The Hill
Zeitgeist Watch
No films, no music, no sleep: Is ‘raw-dogging’ long flights heroic or foolish? BBC
Boeing
Boeing’s New CEO Is Hands On. He’s Being Handed a Company in Crisis. WSJ
Class Warfare
The Well-Off People Who Can’t Spend Money The Atlantic
Beer and salt among Roman ‘mega-industries’ BBC
Recommended Reading: Captured States Nina Illingworth
Antidote du jour (Nhobgood):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
