Research finds that dogs can smell your stress – and make decisions accordingly NPR
World markets are always under the Anadolu Agency
Amazon Shares Slide as Costs Rise, Revenue Outlook Disappoints WSJ
Intel to lay off 15,000 workers TechCrunch
Private Equity Giants Invest Over $200M in State Races to Protect Their Profitable Tax Loophole Revealed by CMD
Finance should pay close attention to the risk of FT submarine cables
The weather
Born to Measure: Researchers Reveal Origin of Climate-Controlling Particles (press release) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
How India’s vulture decline led to 500,000 deaths BBC
Plants and their pollinators are increasingly out of sync with Grist
Cold Water Physics May Jump-Start Complex Life Quanta
With Oil Enza LA Abile Noema
Syndemics
First print: A Clinical Investigation into H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus Epizootics on Two Dairy Farms Journal of Avian Influenza
Incidence of heart attack and stroke lower after vaccination against COVID-19 (press release) University of Cambridge
China?
PBOC Adviser Releases Unusual Criticism of China’s Economic Policies Bloomberg
In the 30th round of negotiations on the border dispute, China and India agreed to speed up negotiations South China Morning Post.
Comment: China is still the world’s largest emitter, but it is also an emerging power in climate diplomacy Channel News Asia
EU firms oppose European Commission plan to probe private investment in China South China Morning Post
Rescuers in China race to find missing people, dykes after floods caused by Typhoon Gaemi Channel News Asia
New Left Review of Bloody July. Bangladesh
India
The Great Neoliberal Hindutva Show: Ambani-Modi and the Cultural Industry of Marriage MR Online
Indonesia’s decision to issue mining permits to religious groups sparks internal conflict, criticized by environmentalists Channel News Asia
Syracistan
Read the call between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Netanyahu from Israel Whitehouse.gov
US to use forces again to protect Israel from Iran retaliation, says Biden FT
The US is preparing to counter an Iranian attack on Israel in a few days, US officials told Axios. Comment:
3. But now, Iranian leaders have understood that Netanyahu and other major leaders in Israel are looking for a way out of the strategic defeat they are facing.
Their only way to win is a broad war. @glcarlstrom make an important point here:
— Esfandyar Batmanghelidj (@yarbatman) July 31, 2024
British Defense Secretary John Healey visits Israel to ease tensions Jerusalem Post
****** Sanctifying Death: Why Israelis Celebrate the Haaretz Massacre
****** The chaos of impunity shows Israel proudly accepting its crimes 972 Magazine
Israel returns Gaza sex offender to detention center Middle East Monitor. Comment:
🚨The wife of an IDF rapist soldier announces her full support for her husband who raped a Palestinian prisoner so violently that he was hospitalized due to a perforated intestine, severe injuries to the kidney and lungs, and broken ribs”. pic.twitter.com/5p8t0Im9FK
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) July 31, 2024
The Great Game
“The US Has No Strong Power Over Baku, But It Has a Plan”: Opinion from Yerevan JAM News
The division of Europe
European growth is slowing in the US as well, as Germany remains the eurozone’s economic problem child AP. Comment:
The most important European companies are a company that sells obesity drugs to Americans and a company that sells handbags to Asians. We should be very proud. pic.twitter.com/M7Nf1Z3Ipb
— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) August 1, 2024
Hello Old Blighty
Far Right’s Southport Rampage All Hard
‘Southport was just a spark’: UK in turmoil as far-right seizes on knife attack tragedy France24
Governments do not borrow from the financial markets to finance the future
South of the Border
The US insists that Edmundo Gonzalez is a candidate for the presidency of Venezuela Anadolu Agency
The New Cold War
Zelenskiy calls for a referendum on handing over land to Russia’s BNE Intellinews
Kremlin comments on the idea of Russia’s participation in the second Peace Conference and the possibility of negotiations Ukrainska Pravda
Zelenskyy: Ukraine will negotiate a security agreement with another European country Ukrainska Pravda
Should Ukraine join NATO? Caretaker. Comment:
That is actually a thought-provoking point made by Orban in a recent speech (arguing that “The people of Western Europe, in all respects [now express] greatness instead of greatness” and they have become “angry little ones”.
He says this…
– Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) July 31, 2024
****** Russian Army Delivers Another Abrams Tank To Ukraine With Military Watch
Back to the Future of Comms RAND
On the Road: Moldova Currently Three Quarks Every Day
****** Americans freed by Russia in massive prisoner swap come to US Al Jazeera
The upper ones
Common Political Foundations of Originalism and Cost-benefit Analysis (PDF) Jonathan S. Masur and Eric A. Posner, SSRN
A digital clock
Will AI pay its own way? Wall Street wants the tech world to show its money The Register
US court blocks net neutrality rules for Biden administration Reuters
After Only Fans, AI ‘girlfriends’ are the next tech for lonely men Al Jazeera
Turkey blocks Instagram amid row over ‘censorship’ of Al Jazeera
The Olympics
Simone Biles regains the all-around gymnastics crown for a sixth Olympic gold France24
Do the best shoes used in Olympic races distort the results? FT
Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony Testament to Doing Things “The French Way” Nippon.com
it’s 420
Reducing the Opioid Epidemic: The Role of Cannabinoids in Chronic Pain Management – A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Evidence and Practices (preprint) medRxiv
The Final Frontier
After the ISS: The era of the independent space station visits Space.com
Class War
New ‘Battery Belt’ Opens Front for Planning in Southern Labor Notes
Los Angeles gave families $1,000 a month in the largest income driver in the country. Now the results are in. Business Insider
People Hate at the DMV But It’s Good. Tressie McMillan Cottom, NYT
Ridin’ Dirty: The Essential Reference for the Freight Hopping Anarchist Library
Antidote du jour (Dave Pape):
See yesterday’s links and the Antidote du Jour here.
