Tosca and the child seagulls One Backyard In opposition to the World
A World Constructed for Home Sparrows (excerpt) Flaming Hydra
Gizmo the canine went lacking in Las Vegas in 2015. He’s been discovered alive after 9 years AP
The shocking factor sharks can educate us about life WaPo
Non-public Fairness Companies Ought to Put together for Elevated Scrutiny as DOJ Places False Claims Violations Beneath the Microscope Nationwide Legislation Assessment
Facet Letter: Alaska performs offence Non-public Fairness Worldwide
David Rubenstein’s daughter resigns Alaska fund submit after cronyism claims FT
Non-public Fairness Traders Plead for Extra Readability on NAV Loans Bloomberg. “Non-public fairness corporations ought to alert traders earlier than they borrow towards their funds’ property — particularly when utilizing so-called net-asset-value loans to juice returns, in accordance with new tips from a commerce group for such traders.”
Local weather
Scientists name for higher examine of glacier geoengineering choices Guardian
Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation Nature. From the Summary: “We estimate a collapse of the AMOC to happen round mid-century below the present situation of future emissions.”
Wildfires ravage western Canada as Trudeau sends in navy to assist Anadolu Company
Park Hearth rips throughout 125,000 acres in northern California Wildfire At the moment
Life at 115F: a sweltering summer time pushes Las Vegas to the brink Guardian
Capitalist catastrophism and eco-apartheid Geoforum From the Summary: “Capitalist catastrophism has three traits. First, a newfound means for social actions and theorists to think about post-capitalist futures mixed with an incapacity to comprehend them. Second, cascading and mutually amplifying social and ecological crises that outrun the capacities of states and capital to comprise them. Third, an inconsistently distributed cancellation of human and non-human futures.”
Water
Might people run on water? Physics World
Syndemics
US bankrolls a 3rd of worldwide Pandemic Fund. Can it get congressional assist? Endpoints Information
The place is COVID-19 spreading? These states have the very best COVID charges USA At the moment
Information: COVID shaved 2.6 years from life expectancy—way more in some teams—in India Middle for Infectious Illness Analysis and Coverage
China?
China units launch date for world’s first thorium molten salt nuclear energy station South China Morning Submit
Can China smash the Airbus-Boeing duopoly? The Economist
South China Sea: Is the Philippines turning into a gateway for the West’s Indo-Pacific pursuits? Channel Information Asia
India
George Harrison, Ravi Shankar & The Journey Of The Sitar Madras Courier
Bangladesh continues curfew amid mass arrests of protesters Anadolu Company
Africa
Evil Empires? New Left Assessment
Syraqistan
Atlantis Is Misplaced: How the Israeli Military’s Plan to Flood Hamas’ Community of Tunnels Beneath Gaza Failed Haaretz. The deck: “Israel began by adopting an previous and unsuitable plan, continued by ignoring skilled recommendation and the potential hazard to the abductees – and ended quietly just a few months later, anybody saying whether or not it achieved something in any respect. Haaretz surveys profiles the Atlantis venture – a predictable navy failure which nobody stopped till it was too late.”
* * * American Surgeon Who Volunteered in Gaza Says IDF Snipers Shoot Toddlers Antiwar.com. The deck: “‘No toddler will get shot twice by mistake,’ stated Dr. Mark Perlmutter.”
US humiliated itself ‘for the sake of a kid killer’: Turkey’s former president Turkish Minute
* * * Netanyahu irked by “crucial” Harris feedback Axios. Commentary:
Some will approvingly declare that Kamala Harris is displaying extra “empathy” for Palestinians than Biden. However she’s not calling for a single shift within the guiding coverage of unfettered US assist for Israeli mass homicide.
She’s additionally adopting the guiding dehumanization of Palestinians… https://t.co/u9azrh86up
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) July 25, 2024
In the meantime:
Learn my full assertion on the protests in Washington, D.C. yesterday. pic.twitter.com/zJpZvdQDt9
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) July 25, 2024
Unlawful sale of Palestinian land embraced by Biden, governors, mayors and metropolis councilmembers MR On-line
* * * ‘Strain for this to succeed’: Will Fatah-Hamas unity deal maintain? Al Jazeera
The Buffer Zone Phenomenal World
The Assad go to to Moscow two days in the past about which you might have heard nothing Gilbert Doctorow
Why President Pezeshkian’s Election is Good Information Pluralia. Iran.
European Disunion
Brussels abandons crackdown on overfishing FT
Arson assaults paralyze French high-speed rail community hours earlier than begin of Olympics AP
Pricey Previous Blighty
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
Ukraine’s hopes and challenges after lengthy anticipate F-16s BBC
NATO’s false guarantees are encouraging misplaced Ukrainian hopes Politico
EU transfers $2.2b from frozen Russian property to Ukraine Straits Occasions. “Proceeds from.”
Press evaluate: China mediates on Ukraine and forecasting overseas coverage below Kamala Harris TASS
South of the Border
Venezuela presidential candidates maintain remaining rallies forward of election Al Jazeera
Farming Is Hip in Brazil, The place a New Era Is Outpacing the US Bloomberg
2024
Barack and Michelle Obama endorse Kamala Harris, giving her anticipated however essential assist AP
Seven Classes from Joe Biden’s Candidacy The Bulwark
The Supremes
Justice Kagan says there must be a strategy to implement the US Supreme Courtroom’s new ethics code AP
How essentially the most right-wing appeals courtroom was reined in by the Supreme Courtroom this time period USA At the moment
Digital Watch
OpenAI to launch ‘SearchGPT’ in problem to Google FT
Healthcare
We might lastly understand how the placebo impact relieves ache New Scientist
Boeing
NASA says astronauts caught at area station till troubled Boeing capsule might be fastened France24
To Safe Undersea Cables, Take Classes from the British Empire’s All-Pink Line U.S. Naval Institute
Imperial Collapse Watch
How 4 U.S. Presidents Unleashed Financial Warfare Throughout the Globe WaPo. Commentary:
I not often reward mainstream media however that is really journalism at its perfect by WaPo, revealing the financial warfare that the US wages towards a lot of the world, and particularly towards poor nations, with 60% of them right now below US sanctions!
Here’s what their evaluation… pic.twitter.com/3OSKTCRE58
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) July 25, 2024
What I Noticed on the Uncover-Capital One Merger Listening to Subsequent Metropolis
Class Warfare
Online game performers will go on strike over synthetic intelligence issues AP
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