- Jul 21 – Not Knowing The 'Enemy'
Related:
– Trump’s astonishing battering of Brazil – MAGA bullying is backfiring, boosting Lula’s government (archived) – Economist
– U.S.-Brazil Feud Could Speed Up De-Dollarization – FP
– Cracks widen in Japan and US’s interpretation of tariff trade deal (archived) – FT
– Window dressing – The Japan-U.S. “investment deal” – Warwick Powell
– Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life – LRB
- Jul 22 – Ukraine – Zelenski Ends Independence Of Anti-Corruption Institutions
- Jul 24 – Ukraine – Zelenski's Backtracking Shows Fatal Weakness
Related:
– Zelenskyy MPs balk at restoring anti-corruption bodies over “revenge” fears (archived) – FT
– "Servants of the people" are ready to vote for a new draft law on the return of NABU powers – MP (in Russian) – Strana
– COMMENT: The war in Ukraine is over and its EU aspirations are dead for now – Intellinews
- Jul 25 – Famine In Palestine – 400,000+ Are Already Dead
Related:
– ‘Double tap’ airstrikes: How Israel targets Gaza rescue efforts – 972mag
– John Mearsheimer: ‘the Jewish state is behaving like Nazis' (video) – Katie Halper
– As Gaza starves, Israel’s far right sees a dream coming true – Washington Post
– They're Starving Civilians To Steal A Palestinian Territory, And They're Lying About It – Caitlin Johnstone– Israel is changing the legal system governing the West Bank to accelerate annexation: report – Mondoweiss
– “No One Is Coming”: Why Christians in the Middle East Are Facing a New Age of Menace and Betrayal. – Elijah Magnier
- Jul 26 – Taiwan's Voters Reject Anti-Chinese Recall Plot
Related:
– ‘Failure’ for Taiwan’s William Lai as all 24 opposition KMT lawmakers survive mass recall vote – SCMP
– Recall vote shows DPP's manipulation runs against Taiwan people's will: mainland spokesperson – Global Times
– A billion dollars' worth of Nvidia chips fell off a truck and found their way to China, report says – The Register
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Other issues:
Russiagate:
- In Brutal Document Release, the Russia Hoax is Finally Exposed – Racket
Official claim that Putin "aspired" to help Trump was based on four pieces of evidence, all bogus, even "ridiculous," according to long-suppressed report just released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard - How Obama Admin Turned ‘Unverifiable’ Report Into Russiagate Dynamite – Paul Sperry / Real Clear Investigations
- US intel concealed high-level doubts about "Russian interference", docs reveal – Aaron Maté / Real Clear Investigations
- Intel and Law Enforcement Tried to Entrap Trump – Sonar21
- Fact-Checking Glenn Kessler – Start your Pinocchios… – Racket
- New DNI Docs Reveal Washington Post’s Central Role In Russiagate Hoax – Federalist
- Silence of the Lambs: The Media Ignores Declassified Documents on the Manufacturing of the Russian Conspiracy – Jonathan Turley
- New Reports on Russian Interference Don’t Show What Trump Says They Do (archived) – NY Times
Epstein:
- Musk sought to stoke the Trump-Epstein scandal. Mission accomplished. (archived) – Washington Post
- Trump’s MAGA allies zero in on Ghislaine Maxwell as Epstein furor persists (archived) – Washington Post
- The Mystery of Ghislaine Maxwell: Does Epstein’s Associate Have an Untold Story? – Jonathan Turley
- The Insane Multitude of Misconceptions About the Epstein Case – Michael Tracey
- Cryptocurrency, Epstein and the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle – The Connector
The Bezzle:
- Private equity firms flip assets to themselves in record numbers (archived) – FT
Use of continuation funds to cash out investors comes amid prolonged downturn in dealmaking - Issue 89 – Crypto wins in Washington with midnight calls, chocolate bars, and a $141 million threat – Citation Needed
- Capitalism Devours Crypto … by blowing up and looting DeFi to enrich TradFi – Ann Pettifor
- AI-fueled crypto scams are booming, up 456% — and no one is safe, expert warns – NY Post
- SoftBank and OpenAI’s $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground – MSN
- Is SoftBank Still Backing OpenAI? – Ed Zitron
Remarkable, but not fitting elsewhere:
- Too rich for BRICS, too Russian for Brussels – Brian McDonald
- Binge, borrow and deal: Europe digs deep to buy U.S. arms for Ukraine (archived) – Washington Post
- How Western democracy died – Real change is an illusion – Unherd
- Democrats Get Lowest Rating From Voters in 35 Years, WSJ Poll Finds (archived) – WSJ
- Michael Hudson: Church and Finance – From the Crusades to World War I – Naked Capitalism
- Effects of international sanctions on age-specific mortality: a cross-national panel data analysis – Lancet
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …