Links 8/13/2025 | naked capitalism

We Don’t Have to Anthropomorphize Animals to Care About Them The Revelator

Jobs and Hints of Recession Dollars & Sense

CPI report: Core inflation rises by most in six months, stoking tariff-driven price concerns Yahoo! Finance

Can I Eat Instant Noodles Every Day? Experts Break Down The Health Impact StudyFinds

Why these hairy caterpillars swarm every decade – then vanish without a trace EurekAlert!

Neoliberal Peace-Building: Profiting From Destruction and Reconstruction Green European Journal

Climate/Environment

Military diverting critical materials from renewables The Ecologist

Three killed in European wildfires as heatwave intensifies AFP

Much of the Northern Hemisphere gripped by heat Balanced Weather

Evacuations urged in Juneau as glacial outburst flooding appears imminent Anchorage Daily News

Sea Level Rise in the U.S.A. Open Mind

Coral skeletons show sea-level rise began accelerating earlier than previously thought National University of Singapore

Strategically bringing back beavers could support healthy and climate-resilient watersheds Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Pandemics

Study Shows that Mitochondrial Dysfunctionin Long COVID and ME/CFSis a CONSEQUENCE or EFFECT.and the ROOT CAUSE is at the Vascular Level,which can be transmitted through the blood:https://t.co/hFnRW3HbOUFindings support our statements from years ago:https://t.co/9J0OTs8Ka4 pic.twitter.com/xJxfYfrCqU

— Dr. Gustavo Aguirre-Chang (@Aguirre1Gustavo) August 11, 2025

Work Impairment and Financial Outcomes Among Adults With vs Without Long COVID JAMA Network

Covid outbreak panic: Attorney warns of Covid surge in Florida’s infamous Alligator Alcatraz immigration jailEconomic Times

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JAVMA: Companion Animals and H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza: Cause for Concern? Avian Flu Diary

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Measles case confirmed on Air Canada flight from Newark to Toronto last month, officials say CBC

The Koreas

N. Korea holds firing drills ahead of planned S. Korea-U.S. joint military exercises Yonhap

India

Sanctions Choke Crude Shipments to Indian Refiner Nayara Bloomberg

In India, Trump’s tariffs spark calls to boycott American goods Reuters

After 5 years of no connectivity, India and China to resume direct flights as early as next month The Economic Times

China?

China’s push to promote its currency accelerates with landmark Fortescue loan South China Morning Post

The collision of Chinese destroyer DDG 164 w Chinese Coast Guard 3104 while chasing the Philippines Coast Guard ship shows that while China produces warships like dumplings, training enough qualified personnel will be a bottleneck pic.twitter.com/Nnu2XzMhWU

— Carl Zha (@CarlZha) August 12, 2025

Old Blighty

UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought 404 Media

UK AI boom at risk as Digital Realty warns of power and planning gridlock Capacity

Syraqistan

Israeli Forces Kill 89 Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours Antiwar

Time for Israel to take off the gloves Israel Hayom

Israel is in talks to possibly resettle Palestinians from Gaza in South Sudan AP News

Trump signals support for Israel plan, says Hamas ‘can’t stay’ in Gaza New Arab

BIG: Netanyahu told i24 he feels on a “historic and spiritual mission” and strongly identifies with the vision of “Greater Israel,” encompassing land beyond Israel’s current borders, including areas slated for a Palestinian state and parts of Jordan and Egypt.

He framed his… pic.twitter.com/zjNvqsTVoQ

— Clash Report (@clashreport) August 12, 2025

US FLEW SPY FLIGHTS FOR UK MONTHS BEFORE MOD ADMITTED IT Declassified UK

Recognizing a Palestinian State Is a Rebuke to Hamas Antony Blinken, WSJ. “But France, Canada and the U.K. are doing it too hastily. The plan won’t work without conditions.”

New Zealand opposition co-leader ejected from parliament for seeking support for bill to sanction Israel Anadolu Agency

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Damascus requests Russian patrols in south Syria to ‘limit’ Israeli incursions: Report The Cradle

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Pezeshkian’s defense of diplomacy, fealty to Khamenei muddies waters in Iran Amwaj

Over 20,000 arrested in Iran on suspicion of espionage during war with Israel The Cradle

European Disunion

Far-right AfD overtakes CDU/CSU in latest German poll Turkiye Today

New Not-So-Cold War

The Collapse Begins: Russian Forces Spearhead Largest Single-Day Breakthrough of War Simplicius

Ukraine will not cede land that could be Russian springboard for new war, Zelenskyy says The Guardian

He won’t run away from the light… We reveal the secret calculations: Zelenskiy’s hose leads to the UAE! AydInlIk (machine translation)

On Trump’s Panic: Ukraine’s Forces In Operational Crisis As Pokrovsk Front Crumbles/Why The Trump Putin Alaska Meeting Is A Dead Letter – The War Is Not Over! Mark Sleboda

Foreign Recruits Killed in Ukraine as Missile Hits Camp’s Mess Hall New York Times

“Men who illegally flee abroad damage Ukraine’s image, so we are increasing the number of border patrols and deploying drones and video cameras,” said State Border Guard Service spokesman Demchenko.

What actually damages Ukraine’s image is violent mobilization, when men are… pic.twitter.com/0srGnS55s2

— Marta Havryshko (@HavryshkoMarta) August 12, 2025

Ukraine plotting new provocation to sabotage Putin-Trump meeting – MOD RT

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian Telegram channels are becoming increasingly more convinced that Ukraine may soon attempt an armoured incursion into the Russian Bryansk region, similar to what occurred in Kursk last year.

This belief is supported by troop and equipment movements in Ukraines… pic.twitter.com/amYFZ46me7

— Heyman_101 (@SU_57R) August 11, 2025

White House is already downplaying expectation for Trump-Putin meeting painting it as only a step toward peace The Independent

Everything we know as Trump meets with European leaders and Zelensky for emergency virtual summit The Independent

Europe overtakes US as main supplier of military aid to Ukraine Intellinews

From mistranslation to military gospel: the strange life of the ‘Gerasimov Doctrine’ Brian McDonald

Caucasus

Russia State Duma proposes ban on imports of goods from Azerbaijan News.am

Kremlin propagandist Solovyov threatens ‘special military operation’ against Azerbaijan OC Media

Armenia’s Pashinyan, Azerbaijan’s Aliyev are now his ‘good friends,’ Trump says News.am. A Kissinger quote comes to mind.

Iran’s president to visit Armenia next week amid Zangezur dispute – media Iran International

Spook Country

The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus Wired

“Liberation Day”

Tariffs wiping out American farmers on all sides, and farm equipment manufacturers are laying off Kevin Walmsley

Trump 2.0

Trump Administration Threatens Retaliation Against Countries Backing Shipping’s Net Zero Emissions Plan Reuters

White House to conduct review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions to ensure they fit with Trump’s view of American history ABC News

Police State Watch

Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest WaPo

Judge orders ICE to stop forcing detainees to sleep on dirty concrete floors Politico

“Unheard of and ominous”: Trump’s D.C. homelessness crackdown perplexes advocates Axios

Oh, they want to Gaza everything now. https://t.co/07nYixiRkM

— Laurie Kilmartin (@anylaurie16) August 13, 2025

Democrats en déshabillé

Nearly two years of unspeakable crimes against humanity and this is the best the Democratic party has to offer pic.twitter.com/Ia0tu2Upoj

— Rob (@robrousseau) August 10, 2025

Re: national guard on patrol in WashingtonAdams and Hochul sent the national guard into the NYC subway system. You can see them at the major hubs either looking bored or on their phones. Washington, BTW with a falling crime rate, will be the same.

— Margaret Kimberley (@freedomrideblog) August 11, 2025

Weimar Republic

Texas Republicans and Democrats, locked in redistricting battle, weaponize flood response Texas Tribune

L’affaire Epstein

Judge rejects Trump administration’s request to unseal grand jury testimony in Ghislaine Maxwell case ABC News

RussiaGate

Classified Leaks Back in Focus in Russiagate Investigation Matt Taibbi

Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System New York Times

lol nytimes congratulates itself for timing this leak of alleged “partial Russian” hacks with the Trump-Putin summit.

No better way to distract from the Times’ daily Gaza journalistic malpractice than to revive the ol’ Russiagate glory https://t.co/04vPHKyvQX pic.twitter.com/5XloocoRaJ

— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) August 12, 2025

Brave New World

China unveils bionic antelope robot to observe endangered Tibetan species Interesting Engineering

MAHA

Firm Tied to Trump Jr. Debuts Direct Sales Product for Pharma Bloomberg

NIH director: mRNA vaccine contracts were canceled because public lacks trust in technology STAT

Abortion

Texas DA once paid for abortion — then charged a woman who had one with murder, court filing claims Houston Chronicle

AI

A new gold rush? How AI is transforming San Francisco Los Angeles Times

Members of Congress Increasingly Take Jobs as AI Lobbyists Lee Fang

Musk threatens to sue Apple so Grok can get top App Store ranking Ars Technica

Sam Altman and Elon Musk Trade Barbs Over Who Is More Full of Shit Gizmodo

Eliza-pilled Internal exile

Groves of Academe

After crushing dissent, U.S. universities are deepening ties with Israeli academia 972 Magazine

Our Famously Free Press

The BBC helped kill Anas al-Sharif. Its reporting will kill more journalists Jonathan Cook

How Western Media Laid The Groundwork For A Holocaust Do Not Panic!

THREAD. Today’s orders by Trump federalizing D.C. police and deploying National Guard in D.C. in response to “out of control” crime are authoritarian. But I want to comment on something subtle lurking beneath the surface.

— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) August 11, 2025

Are Bellingcat and the OCCRP ‘Independent’ Media? The Realist Review

Supply Chain

Lithium price jump exposes China’s chokehold on supply Asia Times

AI data centers to worsen copper shortage – BNEF Mining

Healthcare?

Why more doctors can’t make ends meet Axios

Antitrust

America’s Largest Landlord to Stop Using RealPage Rent-Setting Software, Makes Deal With DOJ ProPublica

Class Warfare

When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans Nonsite

Feeding Community When Government Aid Runs Dry Sapiens

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