Welcoming the Wolf at the Door Barn Raiser
Billions Down The Toilet As Private Equity Firms Take Bath On Hot New ‘Continuation Vehicle’ Strategy Benzinga
Climate/Environment
Profitable Poisons Climate & Capitalism
This engineered fungus cuts emissions and tastes like meat ScienceDaily
Not to mention that part of the logic of cultured meat (besides reducing methane) is to conserve land by more efficiently converting crops to meat than livestock. It does this by replacing many of the metabolic functions of the livestock with exosomatic energy use.
— george elliot (@GeorgeE33179) November 30, 2025
Japan oysters dying ‘en masse’, likely due to warmer sea, say officials Straits Times
Water
Water-pocalyse in parts of Asia: Why are floods that claimed 900 lives so deadly? Firstpost
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown The Guardian
Drought Emergency Declared for Athens Region; State Fast-Tracks Vital Water Projects iefimerida
Pandemics
Our Culture of Coerced Infection The View from the Wayside
Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests CIDRAP
Demanding more of public health Briarpatch
Japan
Einar Tangen: The U.S. Instigates Japan-China Conflict Glenn Diesen (Video)
China?
Hong Kong acts to quell anger after deadly building blaze Straits Times
Hong Kong is China’s most underestimated strategic asset Asia Times
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China’s factory activity unexpectedly contracts in November, missing estimates, private survey shows CNBC
Macartney 2.0? China’s Economic Structure, Trade Patterns and Western Mercantilist Simulacra Warwick Powell
Beijing flags Malaysia–US trade pact, urges Kuala Lumpur to re-examine priorities Intellinews
India
How CIA Secretly Triggered Sino-Indian War Kit Klarenberg
Indian outreach to Taliban is ratcheting up Afghan-Pakistani tensions WaPo
HANG TOGETHER, HANG SEPARATELY – PUTIN AND MODI TAKE THE BEN FRANKLIN LINE John Helmer
Syraqistan
AI-powered surveillance firms are gunning for a share of the Gaza spoils +972 Magazine
Brothers, 8 and 11, killed in south Gaza strike; IDF: ‘Suspects’ crossed Yellow Line Times of Israel
Trump’s Gaza ‘stabilisation force’ under threat as states reconsider involvement New Arab
Ben-Gvir Promotes Officer Whose Soldiers Shot Dead Surrendered Palestinians Haaretz
Netanyahu turns to Israel’s president for pardon in corruption cases The Cradle
US asks Lebanon to return undetonated GBU-39 bomb used by IAF, fearing it could reach Russia, China Jerusalem Post
Africa
Guinea-Bissau army head elbows in The Continent
Exclusive: The first proof of the use of chemical weapons in Sudan’s civil war France24. Commentary:
🚨 SUDAN CHEMICAL WEAPONS CLAIM – France24 just dropped a “major investigation” saying SAF used chlorine barrel bombs north of Khartoum in Sept 2024.
Key points the report didn’t mention:
•Sudanese Ministry of Health released a full public report in September 2025 after… pic.twitter.com/VGUzLWIySM
— Amadeus Cush⚜️ (@BurkeanRealist) November 29, 2025
O Canada
Canada pursues Gulf markets as its weapons fuel war in Sudan Canadian Dimension
Canada’s feminist foreign aid in action in Ukraine Canadian Affairs
Old Blighty
Cuts to insulation scheme will leave homes cold over winter, experts say The Guardian
European Disunion
Tens of thousands protest as far-right AfD forms new youth group DPA vs. Antifa agitation turns violent in Germany, bolstering Trump administration’s foreign terror label Fox News
Poland’s President Nawrocki cancels Orbán meeting after Hungarian PM’s Putin visit Notes from Poland
New Not-So-Cold War
Yermak down? Events in Ukraine
General Zaluzhnyi attacks Zelenskiy’s administration in apparent bid for the presidency Intellinews. When you’ve lost Lindsey…
I read with great interest former Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi’s opinion piece about the history of the Ukrainian conflict and the way forward.
The summary of the history of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine was spot on and the…
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) November 30, 2025
Russia is Moving Much Faster than US Military Experts Claim… Who Could Have Predicted That? Larry Johnson
Ukraine’s been retreating all year. US wants a temporary freeze to save its asset and block Russia. The Ukrainian elite are wary, fearing the loss of endless funds. Negotiations are about “securing the bag”, but the bag’s shrinking, so dead weight like Mindich & Yermak gets cut.
— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) November 30, 2025
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine WSJ
Going on the ‘Offensive’ Against Russia: Desperate Europe Dreams of Changing Calculus of Its Decline Simplicius
Energy Engagement
Shadow Fleet Crisis Deepens: Third Tanker Incident off Senegal Follows Black Sea Drone Strikes gCaptain
Kazakhstan Tells Ukraine To Stop Attacking Terminal After Oil Exports Halted Reuters
Iran says it captured Eswatini-flagged tanker in Strait of Hormuz Middle East Eye
Chinese oil imports boom, with giant volumes going to strategic reserves. How much? Nobody knows. Kevin Walmsley
A German court may have just shattered one of the Biden era’s biggest lies Jonathan Turley, The Hill
South of the Border
Lawmakers raise alarms about possible war crimes after second boat strike report The Hill
Trump Downplays Venezuelan Airspace Threat As US Mulls New Steps Bloomberg
US gave Venezuela’s Maduro chance to leave country: senator AFP
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Milei challenges Argentina’s longstanding human rights policies Buenos Aires Times
Milei launches ‘Isaac Accords’ to expand Israeli influence in Latin America The Cradle
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The Angry Tide of the Latin American far right Countercurrents
Honduran Electoral Council Publishes Partial Results as President Castro Warns of Irregularities TeleSur
WHAT HONDURAS’S ELECTION MEANS FOR PRÓSPERA, A BILLIONAIRE UTOPIA Nacla
Turkiye
PKK urges Turkey to free Ocalan, warns peace process will halt France24
Trump 2.0
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends New York Times. Shocker.
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence New York Times
Spook Country
How the CIA Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Partisanship The After-Action Report
False Flag Watch
Why the Washington DC Shooting Looks Like a False Flag Countercurrents
Imperial Collapse Watch
Blowback, Boomerangs, and the Imperial Doom Loop Un-Diplomatic
Isn’t one of the most obvious features of China’s success that it’s built on capacity to discipline its capitalist firms – including the “inevitable chiselers in their ranks.” Brings to mind this observation from FDR, seemingly lost to Western posterity. https://t.co/IAzOdHlbtK https://t.co/8QCfeZHE3q pic.twitter.com/U8GJ4SoOpA
— Nikhil Pal Singh (@nikhil_palsingh) November 30, 2025
Poetic Justice – China’s Deindustrialization That Never Came — And Why the West Can No Longer Sell to China
A response to @RobinBHarding article “China is making trade impossible”
For years, Western analysts warned of China’s impending “deindustrialization.” (collapse). It was… https://t.co/arMdgd38f6
— America-China Watcher (@PandemicTruther) November 29, 2025
Private Chinese company rolls out Mach 7 hypersonic missile at nearly 90% lower cost Interesting Engineering
Pardon Me; Saving The Dollar Mark Wauck
The Bezzle
$25B crypto lending market now led by ‘transparent’ players: Galaxy Coin Telegraph
Crypto’s Most Trusted Stablecoin Given Lowest Possible ‘Weak’ Rating By Major TradFi Agency Gizmodo
The Tether folks are in the early innings of running a massive interest rate trade. How I read this audit is they think the Fed will cut rates which crushes their interest income. In response, they are buying gold and $BTC that should in theory moon as the price of money falls.… pic.twitter.com/ZGhQRP4SVF
— Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) November 29, 2025
BRICS
How Resilient is BRICS in the Storm of Geopolitics? – Part 2 Peter Hanseler (Part 1)
BRICS and Nuclear War Julian MacFarlane
Airbus Software Situation
How Solar Flares Could Have Corrupted An Airbus Plane Gizmodo
Antitrust
Monopoly Round-Up: Is Biden’s One Good Achievement – Antitrust – Still Intact? Matt Stoller
Letting Facebook off the hook (and Google too) Zephyr Teachout
Thanksgiving Leftovers
Indian Head Penny — A Thanksgiving Story Enlightened Omnivore
Class Warfare
Heaven bless the retail worker Gwen Frisbie-Fulton
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