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“I Love Debauching People!”: The Trailblazing Ways of Ireland’s Greatest Travel Writer Afar
EARLY MODERN MEDICINE, POISON & APOTHECARY Crime Reads
Let Them Eat Fermented Protein Literary Review
Transcript: 50th Anniversary of Watergate: Inside the Case WaPo
Old World Warblers London Review of Books
Reshuffled Rivers Bolster the Amazon’s Hyper-Biodiversity Wired
Apple Wants to End Passwords for Everything. Here’s How It Would Work. WSJ
125 years ago, bicyclists paved the way for the Lake Washington Path — Seattle’s first long, paved bike path Seattle Times
Material and immaterial Times Literary Supplement. The deck: Why we should care about cloth and how it’s made
#COVID-19
Should you take a booster shot? As Covid-19 cases rise again, here’s what the experts say Scroll. A view from India.
WHO’s Early Probe Into COVID-19 Suggests Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood Market Amplified Pandemic Republic World
Understanding long Covid will take the lived experiences of long haulers Stat
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WTO patent waiver is the need of the hour The Hans India
WTO meet | Piyush Goyal Slams Developed Countries For Not Helping Developing Nations During COVID Republic World
US health, human rights grps today: WTO Fails Basic “Do No Further Harm” Test on Eve of Ministerial. Nations Must Reject “Poison Pill” COVID Text that Adds Obstacles to Meds Access, Doesn’t Waive IP Barriers. US Govt: Deliver WTO Waiver for all COVID Medshttps://t.co/nuIdZgOxmS
— Lori Wallach (@WallachLori) June 10, 2022
New Not-So-Cold-War
A case study in American propaganda Responsible Statecraft
Russia-Ukraine live: Moscow ‘destroys’ depot with western weapons Al Jazeera
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China Avers Sanctions On Russia ‘not Helpful’ To Stop War; Reiterates Call For Dialogue Republic World
At Shangri-La Dialogue, Ukraine War and US-China Tensions In Focus Amidst India’s Absence The Wire
Creating cold war conditions in Asia isn’t easy Indian Punchline
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Estonia and the Russian World Gilbert Doctorow
La belle France
A Mélenchon Government Would Shake the Foundations of Neoliberalism in Europe Jacobin
Takeaways from the first round of France’s parliamentary elections France 24
1/6
Former Trump campaign manager to testify at ‘Big Lie’ hearing Reuters
U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger says Trump lacks ‘mental capability’ to be president again if he believed election was stolen Chicago Tribune
Gunz
Senators strike bipartisan gun safety agreement Politico
‘Bipartisan’ Senate Deal on Guns Deemed “Pathetically Weak” Common Dreams
Shithole countryhttps://t.co/iZP2eaJkrI
— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) June 12, 2022
Gonna be wild when Democrats don’t end the filibuster and pass their agenda for fear of what Republicans would do in the majority without the filibuster — and then Republicans take power and end the filibuster anyway and do whatever they want.
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) June 12, 2022
Chinese hackers exploited years-old software flaws to break into telecom giants MIT Technology Review
Syraqistan
Brookings president resigns amid FBI foreign lobbying probe AP
Biden Administration
Joe Biden’s Submissive — and Highly Revealing — Embrace of Saudi Despots Glenn Greenwald
Dems increasingly question whether unpopular Biden should be party’s nominee in 2024: report NY Post
Storms at the Summit of the Americas Counterpunch
China?
Messy Summit of the Americas highlights contrast in US, China hosting styles South China Morning Post
Japan: What’s behind Okinawans’ falling life expectancy? Deustche Welle.
Imperial Collapse Watch
Top Gun And American Decline American Conservative
The Supremes
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was put on the court because she was a big business friendly social climber. Her choices always reflected that. https://t.co/mOeaaZoITS
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) June 12, 2022
‘Extraordinarily Self-Centered’: As a Roe Reversal Looms, RBG Admirers Wrestle with Her Legacy Politico
Shortages
Gas prices hit new record high The Hill
Rethinking Prison Tourism Marshall Project
Class Warfare
While Elites Fret About Inflation and Worker Wages, CEOs Are Robbing Us Blind Jacobin
No House for You, Kid Los Angeles Review of Books
Dire Straits New York Review of Books
Our Famously Free Press
A New Muckraking Newspaper From Ralph Nader Takes On Congress and Its Dirty Secrets Capital & Main
California Dreaming
The California exodus continues as residents head south of the border CNBC
Climate Change
India pushes for funding to mitigate climate crisis risk Hindustan Times
The race against time to breed a wheat to survive the climate crisis Guardian
Amid global warming, Bangladesh’s historic coastal mosques stare at an uncertain future Scroll
Waste Watch
If Plastic Comes From Fossil Fuels, Why Isn’t It Biodegradable? The Wire
What would happen if we stopped using plastic? BBC
Your Kitchen Doesn’t Need Plastic Cling Wrap Treehugger
How to fight food waste: From laws to artificial intelligence Deutsche Welle
Expecting food waste ‘tsunami,’ California recyclers focus on infrastructure and end markets Waste Duve
Turkey
Explained: Turkey’s battered economy and Erdogan’s attempts to fix it Middle East Eye
Japan: What’s behind Okinawans’ falling life expectancy? Deustche Welle.
India
Enrollment Falls In Private Schools Due To Covid-19-Induced Income Shock India Spend
Elderly couple’s lawsuit demanding grandkids highlights woes of Indians who choose to be childfree Scroll
India firing up orders for its homegrown Astra missile Asia Times
Heatwave in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and UP to continue till June 14, says weather department Scroll
‘Rajapaksa Said Modi Insisted on Adani for Power Project’, Says Sri Lanka Electricity Chief The Wire
In Rajasthan, villagers are planting trees on weddings and funerals to help restore degraded land Scroll
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