Why is an Ecuador forest petitioning for the rights to a song? Al Jazeera

Invasive mussel found in North America for first time, posing immediate threat in California’s Delta LA Times

The US economic boom is a mirage FT

The future of finance Bank of International Settlements

Climate

What’s on the agenda at COP29? Straits Times

Why geography lessons are the key to climate awareness Guardian

Syndemics

Los Angeles County Health Dept. Statement on H5 Avian Flu Detected In Wastewater Avian Flu Diary

COVID is still a problem, and we need to do more to stop it Lexington Herald-Leader

China?

How China’s smaller private firms may be paying the price for huge local government debts South China Morning Post

China Claims Discovery of Seabed Spying Devices Maritime Executive

US government looking into Chinese enriched uranium imports, officials say S&P Global

Human Capital Accumulation in China and India in 20th Century Nitin Kumar Bharti and Li Yang (PDF). Commentary:

Myanmar

Myanmar junta chief to make first China visit since seizing power Channel News Asia

Mekong Dams Are Undermining the Region’s Climate, Economic Health The Diplomat

Joint Russia sea drills signal start of Indonesian foreign policy shift Channel News Asia

Syraqistan

4 people arrested from Netanyahu’s office in security leak case Anadolu Agency

Court: Documents Leaked Through Netanyahu’s Office Could Have Hindered Hamas Hostage Release Haaretz

Netanyahu Spy Scandal: Leak Sabotaged Hostage Deal in Order to Save His Skin Tikun Olam

Israel investigates leaks that appear to have bolstered Netanyahu as Gaza truce talks stalled AP

Israel’s Devastating Defeat in Lebanon/Iran Exposed! (video) (interview) Chas Freeman, Dialogue Works

Pilot Cult: The White Supremacy Behind Israel’s Ill-Fated Iran Strategy Alon Mizrahi. On the recent failed strike.

Illegal Israeli settlers attack industrial area in central West Bank, burn Palestinian vehicles Anadolu Agency

Still wrecked from past Israeli raids, hospitals in northern Gaza come under attack again AP

Egypt reports $6B loss from Houthi attacks on commercial shipping Hellenic Shipping News

The ultranationalist TV channel fast becoming Israel’s most-watched news source Guardian

Intel reportedly scaling back R&D teams in Israel — several hundred talented staff will be laid off Tom’s Hardware

European Disunion

Germany’s top economic panel gripped by strife amid internal lawsuit FT

Dear Old Blighty

All about the Outcome London Review of Books. Labour Party.

‘The NHS sold out its staff’: Doctors whose lives were devastated by long COVID to sue health service Sky News

New Not-So-Cold War

Ukraine needs 500,000 more troops amid slowing mobilization, senior lawmaker says Kyiv Independent

Game Plan: After Ukraine CEPA

Fires break out in 2 Kyiv’s districts due to wreckage from Russian drones Ukrainska Pravda

Report: Russian LNG Fleet Makes Stops in France for Repairs Maritime Executive

Georgian Dream’s hold over rural areas won it the election BNE Intellinews

Moldova’s pro-Western president wins second term in runoff overshadowed by Russian meddling claims AP

Biden Administration

Competition at a Crossroads: A Comparative Guide to Recent White House Records on Antimonopoly Policy (PDF) American Economic Liberties Project

2024

Harris, Trump both see paths to victory as election nears The Hill

“Every Choice Is Loss”: Voters on Their Decision Amid Genocide in Gaza The Intercept

Gambling on ‘vibes’ — why the betting markets are getting the election all wrong The HIll

Prediction Markets Give Trump a November Surprise John Authers, Bloomberg

Monopoly Round-Up: The Stakes of the Election Matt Stoller, BIG

Elite School Will Provide Counselors for Students Distressed by Election NYT

Instagram-famous squirrel is euthanized after heartbroken owner pleaded with New York state to get him back Daily Mail

Conservative Social Media Rallies Around Peanut the Euthanized Squirrel The Wrap

Investors should ignore the election noise FT

Realignment and Legitimacy

Are We on the Cusp of a New Political Order? NYT

No Exit Opportunities: Business Models and Political Thought in Silicon Valley American Affairs Journal

Digital Watch

Linus Torvalds kicked the Russians out of Linux, now they’re creating a sovereign Linux community in Russia — Ministry of Digital Development steps in Tom’s Hardware

Hunt for Bitcoin’s elusive creator Satoshi Nakamoto hits another dead-end BBC

Zeitgeist Watch

The time change:

The Final Frontier

‘Cosmic inflation:’ did the early cosmos balloon in size? A mirror universe going backwards in time may be a simpler explanation Space.coml

Imperial Collapse Watch

Bunker Down The Baffler

Class Warfare

New York Times tech staffers could walk off the job on Election Day in ongoing contract spat NY Post

Unconventional Labor Talks Begin Railway Age

What is politics for? Richard Murphy, Funding the Future

Chains of Credit: The Entrepreneurial Advantage of Slavery JSTOR Daily

Quincy Jones, Master of All Things Musical, Dies at 91 Hollywood Reporter

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Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (“Because markets”). I don’t much care about the “ism” that delivers the benefits, although whichever one does have to put common humanity first, as opposed to markets. Could be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. I don’t much care, as long as the benefits are delivered. To me, the key issue — and this is why Medicare for All is always first with me — is the tens of thousands of excess “deaths from despair,” as described by the Case-Deaton study, and other recent studies. That enormous body count makes Medicare for All, at the very least, a moral and strategic imperative. And that level of suffering and organic damage makes the concerns of identity politics — even the worthy fight to help the refugees Bush, Obama, and Clinton’s wars created — bright shiny objects by comparison. Hence my frustration with the news flow — currently in my view the swirling intersection of two, separate Shock Doctrine campaigns, one by the Administration, and the other by out-of-power liberals and their allies in the State and in the press — a news flow that constantly forces me to focus on matters that I regard as of secondary importance to the excess deaths. What kind of political economy is it that halts or even reverses the increases in life expectancy that civilized societies have achieved? I am also very hopeful that the continuing destruction of both party establishments will open the space for voices supporting programs similar to those I have listed; let’s call such voices “the left.” Volatility creates opportunity, especially if the Democrat establishment, which puts markets first and opposes all such programs, isn’t allowed to get back into the saddle. Eyes on the prize! I love the tactical level, and secretly love even the horse race, since I’ve been blogging about it daily for fourteen years, but everything I write has this perspective at the back of it.