The real crisis isn’t climate change, ecologist Sandra Diaz says Aljazeera
Bossons Glacier
2022 | 2025These 3 yrs show the most impressive collapse ever! 😱
The Mt Blanc massif and Chamonix icescape will never be the same… 🔥😭
Glaciers are now completely out of context with the climate zone in which they are located! 🌡️
📷 MeteoValledAosta pic.twitter.com/QPuzL57A4v
— Melaine Le Roy (@subfossilguy) September 4, 2025
The ocean carbon sink is ailing: 10% drop in CO₂ absorption seen during record 2023 marine heat wave PhysOrg
Carbon capture set to be less useful in tackling climate change, scientists warn Financial Times
These clear windows can secretly produce solar power ScienceDaily (Chuck L). Very cool. But can they be made cheaply enough?
China?
All 76 weapons at China 2025 military parade explained. 47 are brand new Binkov’s Battleground, YouTube
Kim, Xi hail bond as North Korea says it will protect China’s interests Aljazeera
Koreas
How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart New York Times (Micael T)
India
India disavows ‘Tianjin spirit’, turns to EU Indian Punchline (Chuck L). Today’s must read. Counters the post SCO=BRICS anti-globalist cheerleading, at least as far as India and China are concerned. Conor had a raft of links at the time of the SCO, many from Indian sources and non-US China experts. Nearly all highlighted a long list of thorny issues India and China would need to work through for there to be marked improvement in their relationship.
Punjab floods threaten to devastate India’s rice harvest Independent
Has India ‘weaponised water’ to deliberately flood Pakistan? Aljazeera
Fitch Says Severe Unrest May Weigh on Indonesia’s Credit Profile Bloomberg
Africa
Deadly land dispute in northern Ghana displaces nearly 50,000 people France24
UN report warns of possible war crimes, crimes against humanity in DR Congo Anadolu Agency
South of the Border
Rubio’s statement is pure escalation signaling, framing the U.S. Navy’s strike on a Venezuelan vessel not as an isolated interdiction but as a doctrine shift.
He’s effectively telegraphing that this administration will treat any suspected “narco-terrorist” boat, Tren de Aragua,… pic.twitter.com/wxQNZgxwfp
— Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) September 4, 2025
European Disunion
France faces sovereign rating test amid political chaos Reuters
Europe Faces $1 Trillion Rearmament Bill as U.S. Weighs Troop Cuts. OilPrice
Norwegians to pick new parliament in tightly fought election clouded by geopolitical angst Reuters
And if you are not willing (to war), I will use force Nachdenkseiten via machine translation (Micael T)
Public broadcaster refuses to provide information on the expansion of the fact-checking network Multipolar via machine translation (Micael T)
Another NATO state preparing to conscript women RT (Kevin W)
It smells too little of beer, cigarettes and sweat Aftonbladet via machine translation. Micael T: “Class analysis of the recently published Swedish Canon. Here is the canon.
Old Blighty
Britain is in the eye of the financial storm Investors are losing confidence Unherd
The Israeli president’s invitation to the UK shows Starmer is an accomplice to genocide Council Estate Media
Israel v. The Resistance
While Gaza’s fighters hold the line under siege, Mahmoud Abbas’s Presidential Office has been funding and arming one of the most notorious Israeli-backed militias in the Strip, the Yasser Abu Shabab gang, also known as the “Popular Forces.” pic.twitter.com/6rpTORPfA3
— Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) September 4, 2025
US sanctions Palestinian rights groups who asked top court for Israel war crimes investigation CNN
Will Cancer Prove to be Another Weapon in Israel’s War in Gaza? Joshua Frank, TomDispatch
Revealed: The ships carrying fuel and arms to Israel Middle East Eye
Israel can’t stop Alon Mizrahi. He is a bit verbose, but there is a transcript and his big point is makes sense.
Israel threatens to unleash biblical plagues on Yemen’s Houthis Aljazeera
New Not-So-Cold War
Chancellor seeks to conceal Germany’s missile supplies to Kiev — Russia intel agency TASS (guurst)
Germany’s Merz demands ‘economic exhaustion’ of Russia RT (Micael T). And I want a pony.
Western troops in Ukraine would be ‘legitimate targets’, Putin says Guardian (Kevin W). Another example of Russia having to endlessly repeat the same point for it to have a chance of the West accepting it.
“‘Staged actions’ in Ukraine.” The Floutist
Putin in Primorye & Vladivostok Karl Sanchez
Imperial Collapse Watch
Looks like Eldridge Colby, the arch Realist who literally wrote the book on containing China, and whom I believe wrote this, has made his assessment of US capabilities and the geostrategic balance of power, and decided that the US cannot realistically hold the line in the Western… https://t.co/sNyKDWPwml
— Collingwood 🇬🇧 (@admcollingwood) September 5, 2025
Important. Do click through:
This is actually a point I’ve been meaning to make for a while.
Reform of the US Army: The Infantry Brain Drain
The US Army’s “line” infantry units are in practice fourth-rate formations that have been systematically stripped of talented personnel.⬇️
How is this? Well, it’s… https://t.co/jOIgdvReXJ pic.twitter.com/VjevOvJQvo
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) September 6, 2025
Xi-Modi-Putin economic axis hardens as Trump tariffs backfire Asia Times (Kevin W)
Siberia? The LNG Revolution? Julian Macfarlane
The myth of central bank independence Thomas Fazi. The part that Fazi omits is that at least in the US, Congress has long been happy to allow the Fed to engage in mission creeps so they could avoid blame for bad economic outcomes.
Trump 2.0
More Winning: Trump Bombs Ship Smuggling 30,000 Kilos Of Pumpkin Spice Babylon Bee. When you’ve lost The Bee…
RFK Jr. can’t answer the most basic questions on COVID deaths or Medicare costs, but he’s ready to push junk science and hire frauds to do it. pic.twitter.com/0GFiu916t4
— BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom) September 4, 2025
GOP senators signal to Trump that Kennedy is on thin ice The Hill. Wake me when this gets to be more than a wet noodle lashing. But…..
RFK Jr Is Suddenly in Real Trouble Futurism
Tariffs
We’re not even 5 months past Liberation Day and already:
– Job market has completely collapsed.
– We are in a recession.
– Inflation is surging.
– Our exports are collapsing as the world is boycotting us.
– We don’t have a single actual trade deal in effect.Why did we do this…
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) September 5, 2025
John Deere, a U.S. Icon, Is Undermined by Tariffs and Struggling Farmers New York Times (Chuck L)
Immigration
Judge blocks Trump administration’s ending of legal protections for 1.1M Venezuelans and Haitians Associated Press (Kevin W)
L’affaire Epstein
BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie just dropped a bomb.
He named one of the billionaires in Epstein’s black book, John Paulson.
Paulson isn’t just some rich guy. He’s a major GOP donor, pumping money into the Republican Party, the Speaker of the House, and Trump’s campaign. And… pic.twitter.com/9lHn39gVx9
— Mario (@PawlowskiMario) September 4, 2025
DOJ responds to official’s Epstein comments in hidden-camera video The Hill
Mamdani
Trump’s deadline to thin NYC mayoral race field in bid to stop Zohran Mamdani New York Post
Adams Considers Dropping Out of Race After Secret Meeting in Florida New York Times
Eric Adams eyed by Trump for Saudi Arabia ambassadorship Politico
Winning isn’t the Democratic Party’s goal, winning without the left is. Until that changes, get ready for a lot more losing https://t.co/rmRsWj3glZ
— Stephen Semler (@stephensemler) September 4, 2025
Economy
Supply Chain Risks from Geopolitical Conflict. Procurement Magazine
Antitrust
EU Slaps Google with $3.5 Billion Antitrust Fine: A Breakthrough Ruling DevDiscourse
The tech antitrust renaissance may already be over The Verge
AI
Salesforce just announced it cut 4,000 customer support jobs… and Marc Benioff is saying it’s because of AI. Joe Sirianni (Micael T)
The Bezzle
Writing Workshops Are Fucking Useless The Republic of Letters (Micael T)
Guillotine Watch
Tesla proposes Elon Musk pay package that could 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-Long Depression Anton Howes. Important even though a historical example.
Under Trump, the Federal Trade Commission is abandoning its ban on noncompetes NPR (Kevin W)
Antidote du jour (via):
And a bonus (Chuck L). Clearly a smart and sensitive primate:
A rare close-up of the elusive Golden Langur, one of the only known primates that actively avoids humans pic.twitter.com/cdnpqMntjR
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) September 4, 2025
A second bonus (Chuck L):
Woman pretends to faint to see how her geese react. pic.twitter.com/21sN3sH2r9
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) September 6, 2025
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
