Links 12/10/2025 | naked capitalism

The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago Science

Global Seaborne Trade Reaches Historic $35 Trillion as Regional Shifts Reshape Maritime Flows gCaptain

US scientists design first highway that wirelessly charges electric trucks on the go Interesting Engineering

Australia has banned social media for kids under 16. How does it work? Straits Times

Climate/Environment

‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’ The Guardian

Heavy rainfall and flooding continue to plague the Pacific Northwest Balanced Weather

Study links rising temperatures to reduced sleep in US adults Keck School of Medicine of USC

UK National Emergency Briefing Wakes Up World Pressenza

Pandemics

Is the comparison between HIV & SARS-CoV-2 correct or useful? Let’s not go all black & white, and instead just look at how they are different and how they rhyme, and at the implications, shall we? Mini-🧵 1/ https://t.co/tG5DCChgXK

— FluSCIM Lucas Gonzalez (@lucasgonzalez) December 7, 2025

I’m an Infectious Diseases Doctor. Our Pipeline of Experts Is in Distress. MedPage Today

China?

China fears its manufacturing is shrinking too fast and too far The East Is Read

China’s Rural Reform: A History Not Designed but Discovered Pekingnology

India

Why are tech giants Microsoft and Amazon betting big on AI in India? Firstpost

Thailand- Cambodia Conflict

Cambodia retaliates in renewed clashes with Thailand as death toll mounts to 10 France24

Syraqistan

Revealed: Israel Used Palantir Technologies In Pager Terrorist Attack In Lebanon. The Dissident

Hamas says no second phase for Gaza ceasefire until Israel ceases ‘violations’ France24

Israel remained leading killer of journalists in 2025: RSF Al Jazeera

Tony Blair ‘dropped’ from Trump’s Gaza ‘board of peace’Middle East Eye

The Gaza “Ceasefire,” the Media/Think Tank Establishment, and Post-Meaning Sawahil

‘Economic peace’ comes to Lebanon: The committee paving a new border order The Cradle

UAE royal brothers’ ties with West threatened by Sudan massacre The Telegraph

What Does the Trump National Security Strategy Mean for Iran? Larry Johnson

Africa

South Africa’s hydrogen extractive frontier: climate action or recolonisation? Review of African Political Economy

Firms or Families? Another installment in the Mission 300 electrification debate Ken Opalo

O Canada

MAID increases — Ottawa holds firm Canadian Affairs. “‘[Medical Assistance in Dying] is no longer this exceptional procedure to facilitate the dying process,’ says expert in wake of Health Canada’s latest MAID report.”

Old Blighty

UK’s largest pro-Palestine prison hunger strike in decades sends activists to hospital New Arab

UK ‘incapable’ of maintaining nuclear submarine capability as expert issues brutal verdict Daily Express

European Disunion

Europe needs heed the invitation in the US National Security Strategy and return power to its nation states Ian Proud

Eighty Years After Yalta: Europe’s Return to Irrelevance Kautilya the Contemplator

New Not-So-Cold War

E3 meeting in London proposes alternative Ukraine war 20-point peace plan Intellinews

Member of UK armed forces killed in ‘tragic accident’ in Ukraine, says MoD The Guardian

Do You Believe in Coincidence… Was the CIA Involved in Operation Spiderweb and Israel’s June 12 Attack on Iran? Larry Johnson

TRUMP FOR PEACE IS BELIEVING IN FATHER CHRISTMAS — PUTIN AND MODI DON’T John Helmer

Lithuania declares state of emergency over smuggler balloons from Belarus Al Jazeera

The West’s century-long war against Russia — part four Thomas Fazi

South of the Border

US fighter jets approach Venezuelan airspace in closely watched flyover Anadolu Agency

“Oil and ideology.” Patrick Lawrence, The Floutist

MS-13 AND TRUMP BACKED THE SAME PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN HONDURAS The Intercept

Pentagon Redefines Drugs as Combat Threat, Justifying Strikes on Survivors The After-Action Report

The Great Game

Why Washington can’t outbid Beijing and Moscow in Central Asia ThinkChina

L’affaire Epstein

“Ask Jeffrey”: Epstein Ran Wexner’s Pro-Israel Philanthropy Machine, Emails Reveal Drop Site

Trump 2.0

Trump hails economic record, calls affordability concerns Democratic ‘hoax’ Anadolu Agency

More people crowdfunded basic needs in 2025, GoFundMe report shows Fast Company

A new threat to affordability – just in time for winter CNN

AI can help address America’s affordability crisis The Hill. Is this what the administration is banking on?

Trump’s Billionaire Education Secretary Makes ‘Backroom Deal’ to Shaft Low-Income Borrowers Common Dreams

Democrats en déshabillé

Democrats end 30-year losing streak in Miami as Trump-backed candidate falls short Fox News

Analysing The Imperialist Left – Interview With Gabriel Rockhill Decline and Fall

The Supremes

Supreme Court Orders New Review of Religious Exemptions to School Vaccines Education Week

Imperial Collapse Watch

Trump: Nvidia Can Sell H200 AI Chips to China, But US Will Get a 25% Cut PC Mag

Economic Statecraft on Chaos Mode False Positive

Preventing empire collapse The Duran (Video)

Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill The Register

America is Losing Power Projects When It Needs Them Most Distilled

The USA’s airports look like third world countries and are barely functioning but it’s fine because you can do pull-ups in them now. https://t.co/NSd5a12U1s

— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) December 9, 2025

Screening Room

Rage, Radicalism, and Netflix-Style Propaganda Un-Diplomatic

Guillotine Watch

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds The Guardian

Immigration

CBP Announces Plan to Look at Foreign Tourists’ Social Media Activity Prior to U.S. Entry Gizmodo

Police State Watch

Florida blacklists CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood as ‘foreign terrorist organizations’ The Cradle

Senate Report Exposes Systematic Abuse of U.S. Citizens by ICE and CBP, Directly Contradicting Noem’s Denials Migrant Insider

Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 404 Media

Healthcare?

Dr. Oz Called Prior Authorization “a Pox.” Now He’s Spreading It. The Economic Populist

These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills. ProPublica

The Bezzle

How Tesla bilks taxpayers Oligarch Watch

Class Warfare

Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout Groundwork Collaborative

Price Shocks are Redistribution Shocks: Systemically Significant Prices for Inequality in the United States University of Massachusetts Amherst. A summary thread:

The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it’s not just inflation—it’s a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest. In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A 🧵https://t.co/i8J5zQAURx pic.twitter.com/0MDZ8MrM9f

— Isabella M Weber (@IsabellaMWeber) December 8, 2025

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