The Journey of a Sea Bean: In Praise of the Ocean’s Smallest Gifts Literary Hub

The Argonaut Octopus Has Mastered The Free Ride Defector

Trump’s fat tails FT

Climate

Cop16: the world’s largest meeting to save nature has ended with no clear path ahead The Conversation

A pivotal year for global renewable energy transition: navigating the opportunities S&P Global

Sea ice alert Arctic News

Amazon deforestation drops to nine-year low, says Brazil France24

Water

Will Lake Powell become Lake Mud? Inside the growing sediment crisis Deseret News

Syndemics

Preprint: Emergence of a Novel Reassortant Clade 2.3.2.1c Avian Influenza A/H5N1 Virus Associated with Human Cases in Cambodia Avian Flu Diary

China?

China’s Xi calls for ‘stable’ US ties in message to Trump Channel News Asia

Chinese premier pledges broader opening-up for foreign-funded firms CGTN

India

US elections and their impact on Indian equities BNE Intellinews

Germany’s Pivot to India The Diplomat

Apple to build hostel facilities for 100,000 women workers across India (excerpt) Business Standard

Trash troubles: How India can deal with its staggering amount of plastic waste Channel News Asia

Syraqistan

We are witnessing the final stage of genocide in Gaza Guardian

Israel, Blackmail & the Presidents Consortium News

The Rewards and Risks of Islamic Finance JSTOR Daily

European Disunion

Europe’s winter gas supplies at risk from market disruptions FT

New Not-So-Cold War

Total of 148 clashes on battlefield in Ukraine over past day: Pokrovsk and Kurakhove fronts remain hottest Ukrainska Pravda

Ukraine War well beyond Trump-Harris election Responsible Statecraft. The deck: “Experts: Kyiv is losing no matter who takes the White House. The question is, who will end it before time runs out?”

Even Donald Trump Can’t Afford to Lose the Ukraine War Foreign Policy

Trump advised to freeze war in Ukraine, but has yet to make decision – WSJ and Republican senator says war in Ukraine has reached a stalemate and must be ended Ukrainska Pravda. Rubio.

Biden ‘rushing’ billions in aid to Ukraine as Trump win fuels uncertainty Al Jazeera

South Korea ‘not ruling out’ sending weapons directly to Ukraine France24

Ukraine – North Korean Soldiers Are “Disguised As Buryats” Moon of Alabama. Big if true:

Mystery of a 2nd Sabotage Team (Google translate) Bild. The deck: “Too small! Too wobbly! Diving experts are certain: The 15-meter yacht “Andromeda” could not possibly have been the base for the massive Nord Stream sabotage.”

The New Great Game

Daily protests, repeat elections: what’s opposition’s plan in Georgia? JAM News

Georgia’s opposition announces daily protests as part of campaign of ‘resistance’ BNE Intellinews

2024

Election Aftermath: Notes on the ‘Grand Realignment’ Simplicius the Thinker

Bernie Sanders slams Democratic Party’s ‘disastrous’ campaign strategy following Harris’ loss Anadolu Strategy

Transcript of WION interview, 6 November 2024 Gilbert Doctorow

Against Hyping Civil War and Mass Violence RAND

Voted in America? This Site Doxed You 404 Media

Ranked Choice Voting Initiatives Massively Fail Reason

The Game Theory of Democracy NYT

Trump Transition

Election 2024: The sun rises on Trump’s resurgent MAGA era Axios

Trump is Eyeing Iran Hawk Brian Hook as First Foreign Policy Pick Dropsite

Billionaire hedge fund manager lines himself up for Treasury secretary role FT

The view from countries where Trump’s win really matters BBC

EU has wish list for Trump, but support for his tough China agenda will be expected South China Morning Post

The US is about to make a sharp turn on climate policy MIT Technology Review

SEC Crypto Enforcement Slated for Major Rollback Under Trump Bloomberg

RFK Jr. says he won’t ‘take away anybody’s vaccines’ after Trump win The Hill.

Trump likely to uphold CHIPS Act despite his campaign rhetoric, experts say CNBC

Realignment and Legitimacy

US court reluctant to blow up Boy Scouts’ $2.46 billion sex abuse settlement Reuters

Fascism, from The Theory of Capitalist Development Paul Sweezy, MR Online (1942).

The Final Frontier

World’s 1st wooden satellite arrives at ISS for key orbital test Space.com

Digital Watch

Australia plans social media ban for under-16s BBC

Thousands of election gamblers anticipate betting jackpot after Trump win Reuters

Feral Hog Watch

Islands of the Feral Pigs Hakai Daily

Guillotine Watch

Why posh people don’t toilet train their pets: As rows over ‘deep pee stains’ and ‘pungent odours’ end up in court, expert reveals what’s behind a lax attitude to housebreaking Daily Mail

Class Warfare

Boeing Machinists End 53-Day Strike with 38 Percent Raise Labor Notes

Dozens of New York Times tech workers cross the picket line on Election Day Business Insider

Why even progressive US voters are America Firsters Middle East Eye

The Pleasure of Being Left Alone The Marginalian

Antidote du jour (Chuck Homler / FocusOnWildlife.Me ):

Bonus antidote:

See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.

Print Friendly, PDF & Email
This entry was posted in Guest Post, Links on by Lambert Strether.

About Lambert Strether

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.