Links 5/29/2024 | bare capitalism

May 29, 2024 admin Finance 0

Laughter: Can humor ease tension in times of separation? MPR (Chuck L)

Something Amazing Happens to Wolves Infected by an Unknown Mind Altering Scientist (Chuck L)

Charles Taylor’s Greatest Failure A History of Higher Education (Anthony L)

Here’s to Amazing Architects: On Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing’s “Horror in Architecture” Los Angeles Book Review (Anthony L)

The teacher did everything she could to keep the kids off their phones. He stops in frustration. The Wall Street Journal (Paul R)

Farm Workers Face High Exposure to Avian Influenza, But Testing Hasn’t Reached Them KFF Health News

#Covid 19

New subvariants of COVID-19 become dominant strains in Canadian CTV

Neurological manifestations related to COVID-19 in Parkinson’s disease: is ferroptosis a suspect? The environment

China?

IMF raises China growth forecast but warns on industrial policy The Financial Times

Expulsion of Chinese Students Spreads Confusion From Yale to UVA Bloomberg

Blacklisted Chinese Companies Rebrand as American to Dodge Crackdown Wall Street Journal

Climate/Environment

Global Sales of Polluting SUVs Hit Record High in 2023, Data Shows Guardian

Lawyers for Plastics Makers: Prepare for PFAS ‘Star’ Lawsuits New York Times

Paint Brightly Colored Plastic, Anti-Litter Researchers Tell Watchdog Firms. This has been known, Wellie, probably since the beginning of efforts to revive plastic. So why does it stink now, and why do you pretend this is a novel issue? I have long been annoyed when so-called eco-friendly products use plastic containers, and even worse that are not white or clear.

Crippling drought in Zambia threatens millions with starvation, minister says Guardian Similar reports in other publications of Morocco, Zimbabwe; Flooded crops in Kenya.

Temperatures in Pakistan fall to 52 C in heatwave Reuters

The breakup of Europe

How successful the far right is in the new Europeans of the Financial Times

State foundation to help vulnerable young people – provide attractive housing for children of workers Hem&Hyra (Micael T)

The hashtag #JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juin is very popular on X: Hidalgo will swim in the Seine, and Macron can join him! 4-4-2. (Michael T)

Gaza

Israeli, Egyptian Forces Exchange Border Fire Amid Airstrikes in Rafah Refugee Camp Military Watch

Col. Douglas Macgregor: Climbing the Borders of Israel Judge Napolitano, YouTube. Macgregor says this is a Big Deal and says the Egyptians on the street have abandoned the war.

Israel-Hamas war: No ‘massive land operation’ in Rafah – US DW If you believe this, I have a bridge I would like to sell you. Reports of tanks in Rafah: Gaza live: Israeli tanks move deeper into Rafah as death toll rises Middle East Eye

Rafah Tent Massacre Daniel Larison

Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposes The Guardian. For those who read the footnotes in the case of South Africa and the ICJ, South Africa first sent several notes to the ICC asking it to get out of bed regarding the war crimes in Gaza. It then opened an ICJ case and used the petition to the ICC as part of its evidence that Israel was included in the claim of existence of the conflict. Now we know why the ICC initially did not respond.

Surveillance and interference: Israel’s covert war on the ICC exposed 972 (guurst). From our partner in the ICC investigation.

Former UN envoy writes that they ‘finished’ in Israeli shelling among 36,000 Palestinian deaths Anadolu Agency. Like our own Nikki Haley.

How Israeli prison doctors help torture Palestinian prisoners Mondoweiss

The New Cold War

Alexander Mercouris said on Tuesday that the plans were designed in the same way and that the first reports of damage seem to be exaggerated, and that it will be back to work in full within a few hours. Also discussed, he explained how there were no signs of alarming Russian officials, such as canceled meetings, emergency meetings, or Putin returning to Moscow. But these are defensive outfits, not part of the SMO:

Russia’s Most Active Electronic Warfare Is Changing the Air on the Front Line – Military Watch Reports

PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Endgame in Ukraine – Endless War, Amen Consortium News (Kevin W)

What Ukraine Hawks Miss About War American Conservatives

The Caucuses

Georgia’s EU Ambitions Threatened by Controversial New Law RFE/RL. They are greedy.

Imperial Collapse Watch

Masters of War: Looking for a new world order in Munich Harpers (Anthony L)

These Factors May Be Behind Scientific Reports of Extremely High Suicide Rates (Chuck L)

Biden

Chairman RFK Jr. super PAC to publish tell-all memoir about mother of Hunter Biden’s child CNBC Doubt this will make any difference with voters but will drive Team Biden nuts.

Trump

Judge Cannon denies special counsel’s request to bar Trump from making statements about ABC law enforcement

In Trump’s Trial, De Niro Nails De Niro Matt Taibbi

Immigration to another country

US Immigration: How many people come to the US and where do they come from? Angry Bear

A coalition that wants the state to dismantle FirstEnergy to meet at the Statehouse to put pressure on WOSU (Carla R). Domestic activism!!

Wall Street Moves to Fastest Trade Settlement in Century Bloomberg

The AI

Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of DialogueGPT New York Times. (Anthony L, note published in 2023)

Bezzle

America’s Best Housing Bubbles, April 2024 Update. Biggest Price Drops from 2022 Peak in San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix, Portland, Denver, Las Vegas, Dallas Wolf Richter

Class War

Liberalism as a Way of Life Damon Linker. Anthony L: “O my God, I worship only You”

All eligible must have awards Times Higher Education (Anthony L)

You can force employees to return to the office, but not the good ones! RTE (Paul R)

Magic Words Compact Magazine by David Graeber

Antidote du jour. Art S: “My very small pond has not been blessed with anything larger than water beetles for several years. This spring; frog!”

And a bonus:

See yesterday’s links and the Antidote du Jour here.

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