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Ohio man who suffered 20,000 bee-stings expected to recover, family says The Guardian (Resilc)

The Summer Everyone Saw the Sharks Slate (Resilc)

Investigators, Citing Looting, Have Seized 27 Antiquities From the Met NYT

Book banning in U.S. schools has reached an all-time high: What this means, and how we got here Grid (Resilc)

The Battle for ‘Cop City’ Rolling Stone (TH)

The Search for Scientific Proof for Premonitions The New Republic

#COVID-19

CanSino’s inhaled Covid-19 vaccine gets emergency use approval in China Bangkok Post

Covid app that detects virus in your voice ‘more accurate than lateral flow tests’ The Telegraph

Climate/Environment

U.S. Solar Bottlenecks Are Causing A Resurgence In Coal OilPrice (Resilc)

China?

How to make EVs without China’s supply chain Asia Times (Resilc)

The US shoots itself in the foot with sanctions against Chinese PV products: industry insider Global Times

China’s Visa Alternative Cuts Off Russian Banks Over Sanctions – RBC Moscow Times

Tiny Tuvalu to ‘stand firm’ with Taiwan as Pacific competition hots up Reuters

Myanmar

Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing to visit Russia Mizzima

Sri Lanka

IMF chief pleased that Sri Lanka reached staff-level deal for $2.9 billion Business Standard

India

Spotting the Truth and the Hype About INS Vikrant’s Domestic Sourcing of Material The Wire

India’s Electric Vehicle Push Is Riding on Mopeds and Rickshaws NYT (Resilc)

In Affidavit, Former RSS Worker Claims Top Right Wing Leaders Involved in Nanded Blast The Wire

Syraqistan

Iraq PM hosts US delegation for talks in Baghdad

Four sides benefit from unstable Iraq Tehran Times

Türkiye hosts Libya’s rival prime ministers on same dates Daily Sabah

Old Blighty

Liz Truss warns against predictions of an ‘Armageddon scenario’ and tells Laura Kuenssberg that Britain has the right ‘spirit’ to get through energy crisis – while promising ‘immediate’ action to help if she becomes Tory leader TOMORROW Daily Mail (Resilc)

New Not-So-Cold War

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant partly goes offline amid fighting CBS

Zelensky says Russia is using ‘nuclear weapon’ by occupying Zaporizhzhia The Hill

Keeping What Matters In Focus. Reminiscence of the Future (ctlieee)

Moment of truth in the Ukraine war Indian Punchline

Ukraine War Day #192: Back To School! Awful Avalanche (guurst)

Lavrov warns Moldova about threats to peacekeepers AP

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev says West is playing ‘chess game with death’ The National

Ukraine PM meets German Chancellor Scholz seeking more military support DW

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China Is Quietly Reselling Its Excess Russian LNG To Europe OilPrice (KS)

Russia’s Sberbank to sell off sanctions-hit Swiss subsidiary ABC

Italy’s Salvini says West should rethink sanctions for Russia Politico

EU states bordering Russia searching for ways to halt tourist entry ERR

Steel mill applies for reduced working hours due to energy costs Swissinfo

Will the energy crisis spell the end for German bakeries? DW

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Why Gorbachev Was One of the Greatest Failures in History CounterPunch (Resilc)

Chileans reject new, progressive constitution NPR

Imperial Collapse Watch

Airmen brace for special duty pay cut in 2023 Military Times

Trump Raid

Trump calls Biden ‘an enemy of the state’ The Hill

GOP Clown Car

How a Record Cash Haul Vanished for Senate Republicans NYT (furzy)

Abortion

The VA says it will provide abortions in some cases even in states where it’s banned NPR

Study raises red flags about corporatization of health care, OHSU investigator says OHSU

The Bezzle

Crypto real estate: the property market built on digital assets FT

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has slammed bitcoin as pointless, wasteful, and in large part a Ponzi scheme. Here are the economist’s 12 best quotes about crypto over the past decade. Insider (Resilc)

Hackers Compromise The Youtube Channel of The South Korean Government To Promote a Crypto Scam CryptoPotato

Supply Chain/Inflation

Germany’s government agrees on €65 billion relief package amid soaring energy prices DW

World food prices drop for fifth consecutive month: FAO UN News

Class Warfare

New York City sues Starbucks for firing union-organizing barista The Guardian (Resilc)

Qatar deports workers who protested against unpaid salaries Middle East Eye

Trader Joe’s broke labor laws in effort to stop stores unionizing, workers say The Guardian (Resilc)

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See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.



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