Why Do Banks Fail? Three Facts About Failing Banks Liberty Street Economics
High growth doesn’t tell the story of the US economy FT
Wall Street Took Over a Vital Sign Language Service—And Started Union Busting Workday Magazine
Climate
New global climate finance draft poses challenges for developing world Business Standard
Climate change is increasing hurricane wind speeds, study finds Axios
Pacific Northwest reeling from bomb cyclone; atmospheric river targets California USA Today
Almost half of Spain’s flood victims were aged 70 or over, data shows Euronews
Syndemics
USDA: California Announces 63 More Infected Dairy Herds (n=398) – More Poultry Outbreaks in 7 States Avian Flu Diary
Human Cases of Bird Flu Confirmed to Be Occurring Undetected in The US Science Alert
Five Years On: A Covid Retrospective Nate Bear, ¡Do Not Panic!
India
Three Bank of America bankers in India depart over alleged client tips FT
Sri Lanka’s president makes U-turn on IMF bailout Channel News Asia
Syraqistan
Top war-crimes court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and others in Israel-Hamas fighting AP
Starmer backs arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu: Israeli Prime Minister ‘will be arrested if he enters the UK’ Daily Mail
Biden calls ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders ‘outrageous’ Anadolu Agency
Israel’s ‘Day After’ Plan for Gaza Is No Secret if You Know Where to Look Haaretz
Israel’s state prosecution indicts main suspect in Netanyahu’s office leak scandal Anadolu Agency
Tehran to launch ‘new and advanced’ centrifuges in response to IAEA censure France24
The Koreas
South Korea’s Dockyards: A New Factor in Korea-US Military Burden-sharing The Diplomat
Ukraine Is Now a Proxy War for Asian Powers RAND
New Not-So-Cold War
What I Am Talking About… Andrei Martyanov, Reminiscence of the Future…. Videos.
Russia fired experimental missile at Ukraine, says Vladimir Putin FT
Ukraine Fires US Missiles at Russia Risking Wider War Joe Lauria, Consortium News
‘New’ Russian missile used against Ukraine not hypersonic, defense officials say FOX
Thunderbolt from the Skies: Putin’s Doomsday Weapon Puts NATO on Final Notice Simplicius, Simplicius the Thinker
Biden’s ATACMS Gambit on Ukraine Could Blow up in America’s Face The National Interest
New Missiles Won’t Change Ukraine’s Broken War Math Foreign Policy
Using Missiles as Diplomacy: Ukraine & Russia w/John Mearsheimer (video) Daniel Davis / Deep Dive, YouTube
Glenn Greenwald: Dangerous New Escalation in Russia, & Our Blackmailed Politicians (video) Tucker Carlson, YouTube
Russia targets three of Ukrainian largest energy company’s five operating thermal power plants over the weekend Ukrainska Pravda
Analysts outline three scenarios for Ukraine’s winter blackouts BNE Intellinews
Hybrid warfare? China sabotaging Baltic Sea cables would be ‘super surprising’, experts say France24
Suspected undersea cable sabotage had ‘little-to-no observable impact’ on internet service and quality — Cloudflare says suspected sabotage incident mitigated with redundant design Tom’s Hardware
Trump may be right about Ukraine’s endgame FT
The New Great Game
After a slow start, the Georgian protests are gathering momentum BNE Intellinews
Systematic election violations in Georgia aimed to secure ruling party victory, say local NGOs JAM News
South of the Border
Lula and Xi sign dozens of trade deals as Brazil-China ties deepen Al Jazeera
Brazil’s Federal Police indict Jair Bolsonaro, two generals and 34 others for coup attempt El Pais
Venezuelans Debate 30-Year Plan for Popular Democracy in Historic Bloc Congress Venezuelanalysis
Trump Transition
Ex-Trump deputy press secretary: No Treasury pick yet because ‘it’s a long list of folks’ The HIll
Michael Pollan Is Not Endorsing RFK Jr. Poliitico
We’ve got a bigger problem now Closed Form. MAHA.
Democrats strike deal to get more Biden judges confirmed before Congress adjourns AP
Our Famously Free Press
A Legal Showdown Over Press Freedom The Free Press
Spook Country
The FBI and DHS leaders won’t testify publicly about national security threats before the Senate AP
I Don’t Own a Cellphone. Can This Privacy-Focused Network Change That? 404 Media
Healthcare
How Stem Cells Stay Young The Scientist
Book Nook
Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.” Vanity Fair
Leaving Cormac: Life Lessons From My Correspondence with Lee McCarthy Literary Hub
Digital Watch
How Google Spent 15 Years Creating a Culture of Concealment NYT The deck: “Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.”
What you need to know about the proposed measures designed to curb Google’s search monopoly AP
Zeitgeist Watch
Clonazepam, popular anxiety-reducing drug, recalled nationwide for ‘possibly life-threatening’ error FOX
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Who coined the term dystopian? What is considered the earliest dystopian novel? Daily Mail
Guillotine Watch
Billionaires Are Bad: Revisiting 50 Shades of Grey in the Age of Mega-Rich Creepers Literary Hub
Class Warfare
Michigan Nurses Win the Largest Union Election in Years Labor Notes
The 51st: Building a worker-led newsroom from the ashes of DCist Editor and Publisher
General Strike 2028 Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic
How Native Americans Guarded Their Societies Against Tyranny JSTOR Daily
Antidote du jour (Romano Gianluca):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
