Links 9/6/2025 | naked capitalism

The actual disaster isn’t local weather change, ecologist Sandra Diaz says Aljazeera

Bossons Glacier
2022 | 2025
These 3 yrs present probably the most spectacular collapse ever! 😱
The Mt Blanc massif and Chamonix icescape won’t ever be the identical… 🔥😭
Glaciers at the moment are fully out of context with the local weather zone by which they’re positioned! 🌡️
📷 MeteoValledAosta pic.twitter.com/QPuzL57A4v
— Melaine Le Roy (@subfossilguy) September 4, 2025

The ocean carbon sink is ailing: 10% drop in CO₂ absorption seen throughout report 2023 marine warmth wave PhysOrg

Carbon seize set to be much less helpful in tackling local weather change, scientists warn Monetary Occasions

These clear home windows can secretly produce solar energy ScienceDaily (Chuck L). Very cool. However can they be made cheaply sufficient?

China?

All 76 weapons at China 2025 navy parade defined. 47 are model new Binkov’s Battleground, YouTube
Kim, Xi hail bond as North Korea says it’s going to defend China’s pursuits Aljazeera

Koreas

How a High Secret SEAL Workforce 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Aside New York Occasions (Micael T)

India

India disavows ‘Tianjin spirit’, turns to EU Indian Punchline (Chuck L). Right this moment’s should learn. Counters the put up SCO=BRICS anti-globalist cheerleading, at the very least so far as India and China are involved. Conor had a raft of hyperlinks on the time of the SCO, many from Indian sources and non-US China specialists. Almost all highlighted a protracted listing of thorny points India and China would wish to work by for there to be marked enchancment of their relationship.
Punjab floods threaten to devastate India’s rice harvest Unbiased
Has India ‘weaponised water’ to intentionally flood Pakistan? Aljazeera

Fitch Says Extreme Unrest Might Weigh on Indonesia’s Credit score Profile Bloomberg

Africa

Lethal land dispute in northern Ghana displaces almost 50,000 individuals France24
UN report warns of potential struggle crimes, crimes towards humanity in DR Congo Anadolu Company

South of the Border

Rubio’s assertion is pure escalation signaling, framing the U.S. Navy’s strike on a Venezuelan vessel not as an remoted interdiction however as a doctrine shift.
He’s successfully telegraphing that this administration will deal with any suspected “narco-terrorist” boat, Tren de Aragua,… pic.twitter.com/wxQNZgxwfp
— Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) September 4, 2025

European Disunion

France faces sovereign ranking take a look at amid political chaos Reuters
Europe Faces $1 Trillion Rearmament Invoice as U.S. Weighs Troop Cuts. OilPrice
Norwegians to select new parliament in tightly fought election clouded by geopolitical angst Reuters
And in case you are not prepared (to struggle), I’ll use pressure Nachdenkseiten through machine translation (Micael T)
Public broadcaster refuses to offer data on the growth of the fact-checking community Multipolar through machine translation (Micael T)
One other NATO state getting ready to conscript girls RT (Kevin W)
It smells too little of beer, cigarettes and sweat Aftonbladet through machine translation. Micael T: “Class evaluation of the just lately revealed Swedish Canon. Right here is the canon.

Outdated Blighty

Britain is within the eye of the monetary storm Traders are shedding confidence Unherd
The Israeli president’s invitation to the UK exhibits Starmer is an confederate to genocide Council Property Media

Israel v. The Resistance

Whereas Gaza’s fighters maintain the road below siege, Mahmoud Abbas’s Presidential Workplace has been funding and arming one of the infamous Israeli-backed militias within the Strip, the Yasser Abu Shabab gang, also called the “Widespread Forces.” pic.twitter.com/6rpTORPfA3
— Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) September 4, 2025
US sanctions Palestinian rights teams who requested high court docket for Israel struggle crimes investigation CNN
Will Most cancers Show to be One other Weapon in Israel’s Struggle in Gaza? Joshua Frank, TomDispatch
Revealed: The ships carrying gas and arms to Israel Center East Eye
Israel can’t cease Alon Mizrahi. He’s a bit verbose, however there’s a transcript and his massive level is is smart.
Israel threatens to unleash biblical plagues on Yemen’s Houthis Aljazeera

New Not-So-Chilly Struggle

Chancellor seeks to hide Germany’s missile provides to Kiev — Russia intel company TASS (guurst)
Germany’s Merz calls for ‘financial exhaustion’ of Russia RT (Micael T). And I desire a pony.
Western troops in Ukraine could be ‘reputable targets’, Putin says Guardian (Kevin W). One other instance of Russia having to endlessly repeat the identical level for it to have an opportunity of the West accepting it.
“‘Staged actions’ in Ukraine.” The Floutist
Putin in Primorye & Vladivostok Karl Sanchez
Sweden accuses Russia of GPS jamming over Baltic Sea BBC

Imperial Collapse Watch

Appears like Eldridge Colby, the arch Realist who actually wrote the guide on containing China, and whom I consider wrote this, has made his evaluation of US capabilities and the geostrategic steadiness of energy, and determined that the US can’t realistically maintain the road within the Western… https://t.co/sNyKDWPwml
— Collingwood 🇬🇧 (@admcollingwood) September 5, 2025
Vital. Do click on by:
That is truly some extent I have been that means to make for some time.
Reform of the US Military: The Infantry Mind Drain
The US Military’s “line” infantry items are in follow fourth-rate formations which were systematically stripped of proficient personnel.⬇️
How is that this? Properly, it is… https://t.co/jOIgdvReXJ pic.twitter.com/VjevOvJQvo
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) September 6, 2025
Xi-Modi-Putin financial axis hardens as Trump tariffs backfire Asia Occasions (Kevin W)
Siberia? The LNG Revolution? Julian Macfarlane
The parable of central financial institution independence Thomas Fazi. The half that Fazi omits is that at the very least within the US, Congress has lengthy been comfortable to permit the Fed to have interaction in mission creeps so they might keep away from blame for unhealthy financial outcomes.

Trump 2.0

Extra Profitable: Trump Bombs Ship Smuggling 30,000 Kilos Of Pumpkin Spice Babylon Bee. If you’ve misplaced The Bee…
RFK Jr. can’t reply probably the most primary questions on COVID deaths or Medicare prices, however he’s able to push junk science and rent frauds to do it. pic.twitter.com/0GFiu916t4
— BreakThrough Information (@BTnewsroom) September 4, 2025
GOP senators sign to Trump that Kennedy is on skinny ice The Hill. Wake me when this will get to be greater than a moist noodle lashing. However…..
RFK Jr Is Instantly in Actual Bother Futurism

Tariffs

We’re not even 5 months previous Liberation Day and already:
– Job market has fully collapsed.
– We’re in a recession.
– Inflation is surging.
– Our exports are collapsing because the world is boycotting us.
– We don’t have a single precise commerce deal in impact.
Why did we do that…
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) September 5, 2025
John Deere, a U.S. Icon, Is Undermined by Tariffs and Struggling Farmers New York Occasions (Chuck L)

Immigration

Decide blocks Trump administration’s ending of authorized protections for 1.1M Venezuelans and Haitians Related Press (Kevin W)

L’affaire Epstein

BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie simply dropped a bomb.
He named one of many billionaires in Epstein’s black guide, John Paulson.
Paulson isn’t just a few wealthy man. He’s a serious GOP donor, pumping cash into the Republican Get together, the Speaker of the Home, and Trump’s marketing campaign. And… pic.twitter.com/9lHn39gVx9
— Mario (@PawlowskiMario) September 4, 2025
DOJ responds to official’s Epstein feedback in hidden-camera video The Hill

Mamdani

Trump’s deadline to skinny NYC mayoral race subject in bid to cease Zohran Mamdani New York Publish
Adams Considers Dropping Out of Race After Secret Assembly in Florida New York Occasions
Eric Adams eyed by Trump for Saudi Arabia ambassadorship Politico
Profitable is not the Democratic Get together’s purpose, successful with out the left is. Till that modifications, prepare for lots extra shedding https://t.co/rmRsWj3glZ
— Stephen Semler (@stephensemler) September 4, 2025

Financial system

Provide Chain Dangers from Geopolitical Battle. Procurement Journal

Antitrust

EU Slaps Google with $3.5 Billion Antitrust High quality: A Breakthrough Ruling DevDiscourse
The tech antitrust renaissance could already be over The Verge

Salesforce simply introduced it minimize 4,000 buyer help jobs… and Marc Benioff is saying it’s due to AI. Joe Sirianni (Micael T)

The Bezzle

Writing Workshops Are Fucking Ineffective The Republic of Letters (Micael T)

Guillotine Watch

Tesla proposes Elon Musk pay package deal that would make him the world’s first trillionaire CNN (Kevin W)
Musk invokes “rape of Europe” in anti-immigrant rant Musk Watch

Class Warfare

Age of Invention: The Century-Lengthy Despair Anton Howes. Vital despite the fact that a historic instance.
Underneath Trump, the Federal Commerce Fee is abandoning its ban on noncompetes NPR (Kevin W)

Antidote du jour (through):

And a bonus (Chuck L). Clearly a sensible and delicate primate:

A uncommon close-up of the elusive Golden Langur, one of many solely identified primates that actively avoids people pic.twitter.com/cdnpqMntjR
— Nature is Superb ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) September 4, 2025

A second bonus (Chuck L):