Airlines cancel Bali flights after volcano spews ash miles into the sky Al Jazeera

Climate

COP29: No clear signs of peak for fossil fuel CO2 emissions, say scientists S&P Global

COP29: Pay up or face climate-led disaster for humanity, warns UN chief Business Standard

Oil and gas are a ‘gift of God’, says COP29 host BBC

Does Exxon fear the collapse of the CCS house of cards? Bud’s Offshore Energy

Time to freak out? How the existential terror of hurricanes can fuel climate change denial The Conversation

Syndemics

USDA Announces 5 New HPAI H5 Poultry Outbreaks Affecting 2.5 Million Birds Avian Flu Diary

China?

China arms itself for potential trade war with Donald Trump FT. Commentary:

China’s luxury market loses shine as Bain study shows spending decline South China Morning Post

The sheer scale of it:

Gravity’s Eastern Voyage The Royal Society

Poverty a Dead Political Issue in Increasingly Divided Japanese Society Nippon.com

Malaysia to protest to Philippines over its new maritime laws Reuters. China, too. Commentary:

Myanmar

Unions file complaints over Myanmar garment production Channel News Asia

The Koreas

A World Without Men: Inside South Korea’s 4B Movement New York Magazine

Pop hit APT too distracting for S Korea’s exam-stressed students BBC

India

Can India benefit from Trump’s bid to end the Russia-Ukraine war? South China Morning Post

India’s import dependence on key pharma ingredients may reduce by half Business Standard

India shows all the signs of a failed middle-income country — first face them to fix things Economic Times

Syraqistan

Israeli army tells residents south of Beirut to evacuate ahead of attack Anadolu Agency

Two Weeks in Beirut Craig Murray

Only Netanyahu Could Have Chosen a Cushier Trump Foreign Policy Team

UN nuclear chief in Iran to ‘reach diplomatic solutions’ Channel News Asia

Zionists in Amsterdam Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News

European Disunion

EU must take its destiny into its own hands after Trump’s election – EU chief diplomat Borrell Ukrainska Pravda

Europe’s richest man Bernard Arnault is suing X owner Elon Musk Fortune

Dear Old Blighty

Britain must treat tech giants like nation states, minister warns The Times

New Not-So-Cold War

Captain Ajax: Let’s be realistic – we’re fighting with sticks and stones. It all comes down to numbers Ukrainska Pravda

Ukraine’s bonds jump as investors bet Trump will end war FT

Europe Can Take Over America’s Role in Ukraine Foreign Policy

Let’s Make a Deep State Peace Deal WSJ

Fourth Estate Begins Conditioning Ground for Removal of Defiant Zelensky China, Simplicius the Thinker

Corruption looms over Ukraine’s massive reconstruction effort France24

Ukrainian railways report extensive damage due to war Ukrainska Pravda

The View from Moscow The Nation

Russia’s economy is tougher than it looks, no chance of a crisis in the next 3-5 years – CASE BNE Intellinews

South of the Border

Putin Approves Supply of 80,000 Tons of Fuel to Cuba Resumen

How Naval Interdiction Could Help Curb Haiti’s Gangs War on the Rocks

Peru’s Chancay mega port to become Latin America’s gateway to Asia CGTN

One dead after attack on Brazil’s Supreme Court BBC

Trump Transition

What’s DOGE? Musk’s new political appointment under Trump is a crypto joke TechCrunch. Commentary:

House spending leaders on Musk plan: We’ll see Politico

‘Trump opens Gaetz of hell’ with attorney general pick France24

Fetterman rips Gaetz pick: ‘God tier kind of trolling just to trigger a meltdown’ FOX

All the Big Tech leaders congratulating Donald Trump The Verge

2024

GOP holds onto House majority — clinching the trifecta Politico

Abortion Closed Form

Dealignment New Left Review

Democrats en Déshabillé

Do-list:

Digital Watch

Apple Quietly Introduced iPhone Reboot Code Which is Locking Out Cops 404 Media

The Final Frontier

Read the chilling testimony of Navy veteran due to testify on UFO cover up: ‘We’re being visited’ Daily Mail

This Black Hole Is Eating So Much Matter that It Defies Known Science 404 Media

Zeitgeist Watch

A 13-Year-Old With Autism Got Arrested After His Backpack Sparked Fear. Only His Stuffed Bunny Was Inside. ProPublica

Poetry Nook

Auden’s Island The Hedgehog Review

Imperial Collapse Watch

“He gets on base”:

Class Warfare

Viewpoint: To Unify the Working Class, Put Workers First Labor Notes

The problem is the nation-state Crooked Timber

Unions walk away from US East Coast ports contract negotiations Seatrade Maritime

When You Cross Pinochet With a Cyberpunk Dystopia… The Anarchist Library. Freedom zones.

Some Preliminary Considerations on Legal Personhood for Nonhuman and Future Entities (PDF) Graz Law Working Paper No. 09-2024

Antidote du jour (H. Zell):

See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.

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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.