Links 11/24/2025 | naked capitalism

Following the Life of an Abandoned Bull in Nepal Sapiens

Social media isn’t driving the teenage “loneliness epidemic” Mike Males

Climate/Environment

COP 30: it’s no joke The Next Recession

Warning! This “Colorful Chart” is Censored by IPCC Climate Uncensored

Home Prices on a Warming Planet New York Times

An arcane type of property insurer is surging on the Gulf Coast E&E News

Pandemics

Washington DOH Statement: Grays Harbor County Resident Dies From Complications of Avian Influenza Avian Flu Diary

Two countries.

Two charts.

A very similar (and concerning) trend.

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Can you think of anything that happened in 2020 which is still affecting huge swathes of people on an ongoing basis and which may help explain this worrying trend?

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— Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 (@_CatintheHat) November 22, 2025

Canada’s measles setback is a symptom of deeper sickness Canada Healthwatch

Africa

US Bombs Somalia for 100th Time This Year Antiwar

Empire of gold: The UAE’s expanding grip on Africa’s mineral wealth The Cradle

Japan

Japan’s Yonaguni arming up for a Taiwan war with China Asia Times

Japan PM Takaichi Wants to Get Closer to Prabowo on Defense Jakarta Globe

India

India Turns to U.S. Energy to Shield Itself From Massive Tariffs Oil Price

1962 conflict a Tibet-handiwork by US to prevent Sino-India rapprochement? Tibetan Review

China?

China’s power equipment firms ride AI-driven boom amid demand from US, emerging markets South China Morning Post

These “rural” homes are in Zhejiang.

The neighborhood is also connected to the city by subway.

China is changing… pic.twitter.com/skK2v2p4vP

— Jason Smith – 上官杰文 (@ShangguanJiewen) November 21, 2025

Syraqistan

As It Prepares for Multifront Wars of Attrition, the IDF Faces a Manpower Crunch and Spiraling Costs Haaretz

The shadowy double dealing behind the UNSC Resolution legitimising Trump’s final solution for Gaza Vanessa Beeley

U.S. to Scale Back Command Center in Israel, Aims to Relocate Gazans to Israeli-held Areas Haaretz

Germany’s decision to take in donkeys from Gaza for treatment – but not children – has sparked outrage Middle East Monitor

NEW | Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz describes her post–October 7 campus intervention tour to save Jewish students who reject Zionism.

She describes college students who separate antisemitism from antizionism as “irrational” and confused, and in need of realignment, so they… pic.twitter.com/K1cOHrjU0p

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) November 23, 2025

Evidence on Israel and JFK Assassination Builds as the Nukes He Tried to Stop Threaten Humanity Sam Husseini

Hezbollah confirms top commander Ali Tabatabai killed in Israeli strike in Beirut Anadolu Agency

Makran or Bust: Tehran’s water crisis gets worse Peter Frankopan

European Disunion

As US-China rivalry redefines economic warfare, Europe scrambles for its dictionary South China Morning Post

Mass layoffs and welfare cuts: Germany at the center of the European crisis WSWS

Income needed to avoid poverty: How do European thresholds compare? Euronews

Old Blighty

One number you really need to know Matt Goodwin

Royal Navy Shadows Russian Warships Through English Channel as Maritime Tensions Escalate gCaptain

New Not-So-Cold War

Ukraine Seeks NATO-like Shield From US, Counter-Plan Says Bloomberg. Negotiating among themselves further away from Russian position.

Russia Will Not Make the Same Mistake It Did With Minsk II Larry Johnson

US and Ukraine promise ‘updated’ peace framework after criticism of pro-Russian points in original plan The Guardian

Who wrote the 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine? Intellinews

Full text of European counter-proposal to US Ukraine peace plan Reuters

Europe’s Delusional Counter-Proposal Glenn Diesen

🇺🇦 A new piece by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius confirms earlier reports that Trump’s peace plan — at Kiev’s request — includes a clause on postwar amnesty.

According to Ignatius, this was added to “reassure Zelensky and his government members that they won’t face… https://t.co/qTiEtoXyhr pic.twitter.com/hptgaWaXbz

— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) November 23, 2025

The most likely outcome of a deepened Ukrainian corruption scandal is not an end to the war but an attempted escalation of it via a new Ukrainian “Kerensky Government” – probably packed to the rafters with actual Nazis – vowing to fight the war to the literal last Ukrainian. https://t.co/R6CannFoh7

— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) November 24, 2025

South of the Border

White House considers leaflet drop to pressure Maduro on his birthday WaPo

Bolsonaro arrested in preventative detention months after conviction for coup attempt Brasil de Fato

L’affaire Epstein

The CPA and the Lawyer Who Served Jeffrey Epstein—and Control His Fortune and Secrets WSJ

Inside the extended courtship linking Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, and Israeli officials San Francisco Standard

Larry Summers and the Hunger Games Ann Pettifor

Trump 2.0

Trump Makes Surprising U-Turn On Plans To Deploy National Guard To New York City Huff Post

Elon Musk once called DOGE ‘the chainsaw for bureaucracy,’ but it has quietly ceased to exist well ahead of schedule, report says Fortune

GOP Funhouse

Marjorie Taylor Greene refutes reports that she’s considering running for president CBS News

Democrats en déshabillé

Maine’s Platner: ‘If I Had My Way’ Google and Palantir ‘Wouldn’t Exist’ Washington Free Beacon

The Uniparty

Does the US Congress know what socialism is? Richard Murphy

Our Famously Free Press

The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine The Intercept

You Don’t Hate The Mass Media Enough Caitline Johnstone

Accelerationists

Court Filings Allege Meta Downplayed Risks to Children and Misled the Public TIME

Is Marc Andreessen just flat-out dumb? NonZero Newsletter

Wars Come Home

UAW Local Forced to Pay $315,000 to 3 Zionist Union Members Payday Report

Imperial Collapse Watch

Why are military aircraft accidents spiking? Responsible Statecraft

Runaway Short-Termism New York Review

My G-20 Report Karl Sanchez

Is the Multipolar World Dead? Lily Lynch

BRICS states team up with EU to “put a price on carbon” Edward Slavsquat

Guillotine Watch

How billionaires took over American politics WaPo

The Bezzle

Napster Said It Raised $3 Billion From A Mystery Investor. Now The ‘Investor’ And ‘Money’ Are Gone Forbes

Turkey Talk

Did the Iroquois Really Influence the Birth of the Union? Hogeland’s Bad History

The Hidden Secret of Thanksgiving that is Actually Pretty Amazing Pax Culinaria

Immigration

NEWS: Noem Moves Hard Against Legal Migrant Health Benefits Migrant Insider

Police State Watch

Border Patrol is taking the powers they want. Borderland Talk with Jenn Budd

“We’re Broken”: As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Are Leaving in Droves for ICE ProPublica

A viral arrest, a drunken brawl and an overdose: the last days of a notorious Border Patrol agent Long Beach Post

The FBI Wants AI Surveillance Drones With Facial Recognition The Intercept

Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts FT

Microsoft’s New Windows AI Feature Comes With Warnings About Malware and Data Theft It’s Foss

Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup’s robots could ‘fracture a human skull’ CNBC

Why Is Everyone’s Robot Folding Clothes? IEEE Spectrum

What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality New York Times

Texas men indicted in plot to take over Haitian island and enslave women and children NPR

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