Cave Fish Adolescence Means Sprouting Taste Buds in Weird Places Scientific American

Climate

…HELENE STRENGTHENING AND EXPECTED TO BRING CATASTROPHIC WINDS AND STORM SURGE TO THE NORTHEASTERN GULF COAST… …PREPARATIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY SHOULD BE RUSHED TO COMPLETION… National Hurricane Center, NOAA. Map:

Storm surge:

Implications:

Solar Housing Is Actually Kind of Retro! JSTOR Daily

People hugely underestimate the carbon footprints of the 1 per cent The New Scientist

China’s accelerating green transition FT

Syndemics

Free COVID tests 2024: Gov website crashes, date appears Fast Company

US to donate 1 million mpox vaccine doses to halt outbreak in Africa Channel News Asia

China?

China Weighs $142 Billion Capital Injection Into Top Banks Bloomberg

China lifts markets with promise of more support for economy FT

China Gives Rare Handouts to Boost Sentiment Before Long Holiday Bloomberg

Why did China test-fire an ICBM into the Pacific Ocean and what are the likely implications? Channell News Asia

China Puts All Three Carriers to Sea Simultaneously For the First Time: How Powerful is the Fleet Today? Military Watch

China’s warships gift and funding naval base in Cambodia: Could it put regional dynamics in choppy waters? Channel News Asia

Japanese Vehicle Makers Mired in Wide-Ranging Fraud Scandal Nippon.com

Myanmar

Myanmar is Not About to Become a ‘Fractured’ State The Diplomat

India

Why Millions Go Unaccounted for in India’s Invisible Slum Crisis The Diplomat

Syraqistan

Israel is repeating its Gaza assault in Lebanon. Why? Al Jazeera

Israel’s war on Lebanon: What arms does Hezbollah have? Middle East Eye

Despite Low Odds, Israel’s Escalation in Lebanon Could Kickstart Talks on Gaza and the North Haaretz

Biden: ‘All-out war’ still possible as Israel and Hezbollah fighting escalates PBS

Exclusive: Iran brokering talks to send advanced Russian missiles to Yemen’s Houthis, sources say Reuters

Israeli soldiers filmed throwing bodies from a West Bank roof France24

In Israel’s prisons, skin diseases are a method of punishment 972 Magazine

The War That Would Not End Franklin Foer, The Atlantic

European Disunion

Deutsche Boerse, Nasdaq targetted in EU antitrust probe Reuters

A Coup in Brussels Thomas Fazi, Compact

Dear Old Blighty

£20k Starmer donation for son’s ‘study break’ lasted a month after exams ended The Sqwakbox

So, Jeremy Corbyn IS involved in setting up a new political party. But who told the Guardian? Canary

A crisis at the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper has exposed the Zionist media web and the ‘Get Corbyn’ campaign Middle East Monitor

NHS drops another billion on tech in the hope of finally going digital The Register

New Not-So-Cold War

What is Zelenskiy’s real Plan B? BNE Intellinews. Commentary:

What Does it Mean to Win the War in Ukraine? The National Interest

Ukraine Is About To Get Pledges Of $8 Billion In U.S. Weapons—Including Precision Glide Bombs Forbes

‘General Winter’ is about to unleash his wrath on Ukraine RT

Collapsing Defensive Lines and Offensive Dreams in Ukraine Gordon Hahn

Ukraine Is Already Striking Deep Inside Russia New Lines Magazine

France to prepare and fully equip Ukrainian brigade Ukrainska Pravda

Tom Massie: Washington purposely blacking out Ukraine casualty data Responsible Statecraft

Putin outlines new rules for Russian use of vast nuclear arsenal Al Jazeera

Putin’s Silence on Kursk Offensive Might Be a Giant Mistake RAND

2024

What the U.S. Election Means for Ukraine Alexander Vindman, Foreign Affairs

Trump says Ukraine is ‘demolished’ and dismisses its defense against Russia’s invasion AP

Why a Trump Loss is Best for Conservatives Ordinary Times

‘A perfect storm of stunning failure’: Senate probe finds huge Secret Service errors at Trump rally Politico

Lobbyists exploit massive loophole to wine and dine lawmakers, aides at fancy getaways Politico

The Supremes

Supreme Court allows Marcellus Williams to be executed SCOTUSblog

A Supreme Court Justice Warned That a Ruling Would Cause “Large-Scale Disruption.” The Effects Are Already Being Felt. ProPublica

The Counter-Constitutional Movement: The Assault on America’s Defining Principles Jonathan Turley

Spook Country

Why Everything We Think We Know About Spies Is Wrong Literary Hub

Health

Chronopsychiatry British Journal of Psychiatry

Boeing

Boeing’s supply chain shudders as workers walk and production slows FT

The Final Frontier

Earth is about to get a second moon… but what will it mean for the lit world? Literary Hub

Imperial Collapse Watch

US Navy Oiler Runs Aground, Forcing Carrier Strike Group to Scramble for Fuel gCaptain. Commentary:

Ohio judge approves $600 million settlement for residents near fiery East Palestine train derailment FOX

Class Warfare

Strike Threat Wins Boarding and Retro Pay at American Airlines Labor Notes

10 workers fired after forming union get $450K Colorado Sun

Recovering the Agricultural New Deal: Its Foundations, Legacies, and Losses Nonsite.org

Death of the Department Store London Review of Books

Antidote du jour (Cary Bass-Deschênes ):

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.