Links 12/1/2025 | naked capitalism - TheAdviserMagazine.com

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