Malaysia to resume hunt for flight MH370, 10 years after it vanished Channel News Asia
Everything sucks because no one knows what they are doing Dougald Lamont’s Substack
Chartbook 340 Against synecdoche! … A plural taxonomy of capitalist globalization Adam Tooze, Chartbook
Climate/Environment
In a Major Reversal, the World Bank Is Backing Mega Dams Yale Environment 360
Transfer and Transition Phenomenal World
Bangladesh’s Shift Toward Salt-tolerant Agriculture Offers Lessons in Climate Resilience Earth Island Journal
Pandemics
Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots NPR
China?
US announces military aid packages for Taiwan Taiwan News
Arming Taiwan to aid ‘Taiwan independence’ is like ‘playing with fire and will get the US burned,’ says Chinese FM Global Times
Old Blighty
A food apocalypse is coming Unherd
Trump taps ‘Apprentice’ producer Mark Burnett as special envoy to UK Business Standard
BREAKING: Keir Starmer picks close friend of Jeffrey Epstein Peter Mandelson as new UK ambassador to US.
Here is “Petie”, as Epstein called him, wearing a £21,000 Patek Philippe watch whilst shopping with the paedophile in the Caribbean island of St Barts in 2005 pic.twitter.com/rLQ6QoCYzd
— Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) December 19, 2024
O Canada
The conservative-tech alliance is coming to Canada Disconnect
Syraqistan
Houthi ‘hypersonic missile’ slams into Tel Aviv area, sixteen lightly wounded The Jerusalem Post
US airstrikes hit Houthi missile storage and command facility in Yemen: CENTCOM Al Arabiya
US fighter shot down in ‘apparent case of friendly fire’ over Red Sea Reuters
Yemen in open war with US, ‘Israel’, not tit-for-tat: Ansar Allah Al Mayadeen
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Turkiye demands end of US support to Kurdish militants in control of northeast Syria The Cradle
US senators introduce bill to sanction Turkey over military action against Kurds in Syria Turkish Minute
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Israeli forces attack two hospitals and a school in Gaza, kills 8 Al Jazeera
The Fight to Stop US Arms to Israel is Gaining Momentum Inkstick
US Judge Finds Israel’s NSO Group Liable for Hacking in WhatsApp Lawsuit Asharq Al-Awsat
Archaeologists discover possible ancient Israelite palace in Jordan The Jerusalem Post. Commentary:
Trouble ahead for Jordan? pic.twitter.com/UiQe9TWgFY
— Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) December 22, 2024
New Not-So-Cold War
SITREP 12/21/24: Things Heat Up in Kherson, Ukraine Losses Update, and More Simplicius
Ukraine faces difficult decisions over acute shortage of frontline troops The Guardian
RUSSIA Strikes SBU HQ, Officials Hit. KIEV Shocked Hits Back Rylsk. EU Aims To Derail TRUMP Alexander Mercouris, YouTube. Mercouris contends, based on two fresh Financial Times articles, and also discusses Yves’ post What Happens When Trump’s “Negotiations” Over Ukraine Quickly Hit the Wall? to conclude that the planned Trump ceasefire negotiations are very unlikely to succeed and Ukraine and the EU/NATO are trying to use them to ensnare Trump in Project Ukraine.
Ukraine’s First All-Robot Assault Force Just Won Its First Battle Forbes
Ukraine collects vast war data trove to train AI models Reuters
Why sanctions against Russia have failed Ian Proud, Strategic Culture
Anti-Migrant Wave Rises in Russia Following General’s Murder Times of Central Asia
European Disunion
“Pro-AfD” terror attack in Germany Thomas Fazi
Germany moves to protect top court against far right Deutsche Welle
‘Powerful consiglieri’ run von der Leyen’s Commission, EU transparency chief says Politico
Commission’s ‘NGO gag order’ will boost corporate lobby power Corporate Europe Observatory
Global Elections
Electoral Democracy in 2024 (With Special Reference to Senegal and Ghana) Sawahil
Biden Administration
The US finalizes CHIPS Act funding for Samsung and Texas Instruments The Verge
Trump Transition
Trump: Panama will lose control of Canal if it continues to ‘rip-off’ US The Hill
America First? Phenomenal World
Biden’s antitrust crackdown on tech M&As may linger into Trump’s reign The Register
EXCLUSIVE: Where is Congresswoman Kay Granger? Dallas Express
Democrats en Déshabillé
Why Democrats can’t get over the grief of losing to Donald Trump Salon
The Supremes
The Equal Right to Exclude: Religious Speech and the Road to 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis California Law Review
Obama Legacy
Elon Musk’s Journey from Obama to Trump Aligns With Many Americans Newsweek
Police State Watch
When the Feds Are Still Watching The Nation
Missouri Governor Frees Eric DeValkenaere, the First White Cop in KC History Convicted for Lynching a Black Person Kansas City Defender
City Billed Family of Man Killed During Police Pursuit for Damage to Cop’s Car The City
AI
ACLU Points Out More Problems With AI-Generated Police Reports Tech Dirt
Big Tech’s AI Blackmail Boondoggle
Groves of Academe
Despite censorship and intimidation we continue to demand: no more research for genocide at MIT Mondoweiss
Sports Desk
Rickey Henderson, Oakland baseball legend, dies at 65 The Oaklandside
Guillotine Watch
Media’s empathetic coverage of Luigi Mangione reveals an obsession with humanizing white male suspects The Guardian. Commentary:
The Guardian here – much like all US media – is trying to make sure we don’t think about the corruption and fatal crimes of the U.S. healthcare system, of health insurance companies.
For the same core reason our media obfuscates & justifies the genocide in Gaza, it is now… https://t.co/qMvzw9oKQ1
— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) December 21, 2024
UnitedHealth’s Optum continues mental health payment delays, despite saying they have ended Clear Health Costs
THERE’S A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH THE NUCLEAR WAR BUNKERS THE RICH ARE BUYING Futurism
Class Warfare
How the rich stole Christmas Red Flag
Five Decades of Stagnant Wages Dollars & Sense
THE WHOLE EQUATION: CAN “NEOLIBERALISM” EXPLAIN EVERYTHING? LPE Project
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