For Smart, Social Crows, Pennsylvania is a Warm Winter Oasis Allegheny Front
DNA Reveals German Family Has Lived in Same Village for 3,000 Years Greek Reporter
What We Call Progress Boston Review
Climate/Environment
Wall Street’s gas addiction fuels the AI boom, derails climate progress Private Equity Stakeholder Project
Can an Imperiled Frog Stop Oil Drilling Near Denver Suburbs? Residents Hope So. Capital & Main
Global Rush for Copper Hits the Amazon Inside Climate News
Dozens feared dead as section of copper mine collapses in DR Congo Anadolu Agency
Plastic Planet Phenomenal World
Pandemics
Washington State DOH: H5N5 Avian influenza confirmed in Grays Harbor County resident Avian Flu Diary
Dear doctors M (Is) Living With Long Covid
The Koreas
Top US admiral says South Korea’s new submarine should keep China in check Straits Times
Anduril is building MASC autonomous warships with HD Hyundai Naval News
Japan
Takaichi’s ambitions continue to unfold Observing Japan
The CCP’s Kryptonite Matt Turpin. Belligerence cheerleading from a Hoover Institution fellow and senior advisor at Palantir.
Japan sends envoy to China to calm escalating spat, media reports Channel News Asia
China?
China’s people are on a grueling treadmill Asia Times
India
Seven Reasons Why RSS Lobbying in Washington DC is Alarming The Wire
How Pakistan’s Spending Blitz Helped Win Over Trump and Flip U.S. Policy New York Times
Syraqistan
Shadowy Firm Run by Israeli-Estonian Has Gotten Hundreds of Palestinians Out of Gaza Haaretz
Scoop: Israel wants Trump to condition F-35 sale to Saudi Arabia on Israel normalization Axios
Iran turns to cloud seeding as historic drought deepens Firstpost
In world first, Israel begins pumping desalinated water into depleted Sea of Galilee Times of Israel
Euphrates River Becomes the Last Battle Line in Syria’s Civil War Drop Site
O Canada
95-Year-Old Human Rights Scholar Richard Falk Interrogated for Hours by Canada Countercurrents
European Disunion
Trump trade negotiator hits out at EU delays in cutting tariffs and rules FT
Very useful that all this is clearer now. Don’t believe in a Christian god, oppose American wars, anarchist, Marxist, anti-capitalist? Then you’re a terrorist and the US will come after you. And Europe will roll over, of course https://t.co/q037T3wVGD pic.twitter.com/wH2kjfy8OG
— Nate Bear (@NateB_Panic) November 16, 2025
German auction house cancels sale of Holocaust artefacts after outcry The Guardian
German ambassador says Polish opposition “helping Putin” with WWII reparations claims Notes from Poland
New Not-So-Cold War
The outcome of the UN vote on Russia’s resolution to “combat the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism, and other forms of racism and intolerance.”
Basically the West against the rest of the world.
Two key US allies broke ranks: Israel backed the motion and Turkey abstained. pic.twitter.com/fCylrQz1Vb
— Brian McDonald (@27khv) November 16, 2025
Ukraine’s best defence against Putin’s energy war is more attacks on Russia’s oil refining sector Chatham House. Let me know how that works out.
Greece To Supply Ukraine With US Natural Gas For Winter Bloomberg. Let me know how that works out.
Serbia’s US-Sanctioned Oil Firm NIS Gets Three Months To Find Buyer Reuters
Novorossiysk Resumes Oil Loadings After Ukrainian Attack Devdiscourse
SITREP 11/16/25: Overblown Energy Strikes on Russia Again Mask UA Frontline Collapse Simplicius
Bottleneck on the border, truckers baffled by major snarl-up on Kazakhstan-Russia frontier Intellinews
Africa
US Launches a Series of Airstrikes in Somalia, Civilians Reported Killed Antiwar
Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa Climate Drift
South of the Border
U.S. military announces latest strike on an alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific NBC News
The CIA’s Cartel The After-Action Report
What is really happening in Venezuela? US attacks and economic situation explained Geopolitical Economy Report
Venezuela Reports Localized Sabotage of Power Grid; Satellite Communications Disrupted Orinoco Tribune
Trump signals possible talks with Maduro as US ramps up Caribbean military campaign Anadolu Agency
BREAKING Mexican protest exposed:
Left is the “One piece” flag from Nepal & right, the same flag from these Mexican Gen Z “protests”.
90 million pesos have been spent in 2 months, with accounts linked to the Atlas Network, a CIA cut out linked to regime change ops in LATAM… pic.twitter.com/op1NtmeKHA
— Fiorella Isabel (@FiorellaIsabelM) November 16, 2025
L’affaire Epstein
Trump, in reversal, calls on House GOP to vote to release Epstein files The Hill
The Clayton appointment is so unreal.
Geoffrey Berman was pressured to step down by the first Trump admin roughly a year after prosecuting Epstein in 2019 (as I recall it was around the time when Berman was targeting Steve Bannon). Bill Barr tried to have Clayton replace him in… https://t.co/GuOZlDB8rI
— Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) November 16, 2025
The Blast Radius of Jeff Epstein BIG by Matt Stoller. With a focus on Larry Summers and his fabulous career.
Epstein Gave NY Times Journalist Tips About Trump. Why Did They Never Get Reported? The Intercept
⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱JUST IN: U.S Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene:
“I think the right question to ask is, was Jeffrey Epstein working for Israel?”pic.twitter.com/i9s5mVV60Y
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws1) November 16, 2025
Trump 2.0
THE LONGEST GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IN U.S. HISTORY ENDS WITHOUT AMELIORATING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS Notes on the Crises
Even though Congress approved the funding for NIH here’s what’s going on now: All NIH Oct & November grant application submission deadlines to be rescheduled….no new dates yet. All study sections & council meetings to be rescheduled at some point too. See below. Where is the $… https://t.co/oyGgCs5mRS
— Pearl Freier (@PearlF) November 16, 2025
GOP Funhouse
Republicans clash over surprise phone records provision that could enrich senators The Hill
Young MAGA Is Souring on Israel American Conservative
Once He Was ‘Just Asking Questions.’ Now Tucker Carlson Is the Question New York Times
Are 30-40% of conservative Gen Z staffers really Groypers? UnHerd
Democrats en déshabillé
The Democrats’ health care rhetoric is a sham Bleeding Heartland
Former First Lady Michelle Obama:
“Don’t even look at me about running, because you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman. So don’t waste my time. We got a lot of growing up to do” pic.twitter.com/zr8xLRki4S
— HOT SPOT (@HotSpotHotSpot) November 16, 2025
Immigration
‘Tread Carefully’: What a $112 Million Verdict Could Mean for Local Police Working With ICE NOTUS
Imperial Collapse Watch
Robert Skidelsky: After Globalisation – Return of Fascism & War Glenn Diesen (Video)
Republicans’ Latest Gambit to Deny Rural Veterans Health Care Barn Raiser
Mamdani
What Mamdani Can Learn from Past and Present Public Grocery Projects Food and Power
AI
Goofing on Meta’s AI Crawler Information Camouflage
Ex-Disney star makes the ‘most evil’ app ever. It barely even works San Francisco Standard
Most states don’t disclose which companies get data center incentives, report finds Kansas Reflector
The songs remain the same Internal Exile
Groves of Academe
The Harvard Endowment’s Biggest Public Investment is Now Bitcoin Gizmodo
Antitrust
Ballroom Blitz: Union Pacific donates to White House ballroom while proposing massive merger Flatwater Free Press
Economy
America’s corporate meltdown: 655 big firms bankrupt as 2025 crisis surges to 15-year high Economic Times
Screening Room
Ghosts in the Balcony: A Cross-Country Trip to 58 Theaters Fighting to Survive The Ankler
The Friendly Skies
RyanAir Refuses Refund for Man Who Missed Flight After Knife Attack AV Geekery
Trump administration axes Biden-era rule to provide passenger compensation for delayed flights The Points Guy
Guillotine Watch
Americans Want Billionaires Out Of Politics—And Think They’re A Threat To Democracy, Poll Shows Forbes
Class Warfare
Whatever happened to U.B.I.? Read Max
Selling a Defective Dream New York Review
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
“Scoop: Israel wants Trump to condition F-35 sale to Saudi Arabia on Israel normalization”
Now that is chutzpah. They are demanding the Saudis sign up to the Abraham Accords first. In fact, Israel is telling Trump that they have a veto on American regional arms sale and have the right to attach any conditions that they want to an an American sale of weaponry. I got an idea. How about this for the next headline-
‘Scoop: Saudi Arabia wants Trump to condition F-35 purchase to Israel allowing a Palestinian State.’
lmao. the littoral waters off of Korea are the worst places for a nuclear sub.
lmao. total waste of money, when, for the same price, a nation can buy >3x more convretional subs that would accomplish the same littoral mission. (quantity is its own qualty)
but hey, Natsec Establishment Koreans, for some reason, really love the ego boost of having the same toys as France and UK.
The Empire thanks you for your service.
German auction house cancels sale of Holocaust artefacts after outcry The Guardian
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There were coins, tokens and currency issued for a number of holocaust camps and whatnot.
Łódź Ghetto Marks came in coins & currency. There wasn’t much of a market for these when I was in the biz, more of a curiosity.
I probably bought and sold many dozens of these over the years, and I see they still aren’t in much demand.
https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/poland-10-mark-km-tn3-1943-cuid-1092608-duid-1571471.
It was weird with coins versus other artifacts, as if they got a pass.
When i’d go to Germany often for coin shows in the 1980’s the law was that anything with a swastika had to be covered up, and you’d see things like Nazi medals with a little dab of white tape over the offending symbol, but nobody seemed to care in regards to 3rd Reich coins from 1933 to 1945, almost all of which had a swastika on them.
“Trump, in reversal, calls on House GOP to vote to release Epstein files”
Interestingly I heard a comment on the radio this AM on the way into work that said that even if this becomes a go, it might be possible for the DOJ to say they can’t release the files at this time because of the active investigation recently authorized by Trump against people/entities like Clinton and JP Morgan. I’m not sure how accurate that logic is, but it would make sense as to why the investigation was started (in part) and why Trump did his about face.
‘Suppressed News.
@SuppressedNws1
20h
⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱JUST IN: U.S Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene:
“I think the right question to ask is, was Jeffrey Epstein working for Israel?” ‘
Can you imagine what would have happened if anybody had asked such a question only last year? That person would have been cancelled, the social media dogs would have been set on her and there would have been a major effort to denounce her as antisemitic. She would have been flogged over this from pillar to post. But now? People are asking questions and once asked, will demand an answer. Then again, a year ago I would never have imagined Marjorie Taylor Greene to be one of those asking such questions
Epstein affair very strange to us in the UK.Poor old Andy,(rightly) stripped and vilified worldwide yet,one assumes,a battalion of Yanks hiding safely behind him.BTW were there no other names mentioned in the recent memories?
In other news, top US admirals could not keep Yemen in check, and moved onto fighting fishing boats.
Solar punk
It’s a well done article in most areas. They do get the business models and how all that is working correct.
As solar has gotten cheaper more and more companies have been made to install, repair, sell and the finance part to
It’s exciting to see the proliferation of this happen without much western support of ngos and governments. It’s truly indigenous now.
It’s been 100% China that has created this by their producing all of the products.
Right now solar in China is 10 cents ( has been for going on 3 yrs) a watt, and probably we won’t see that get any lower, and it doesn’t need to
Batteries have made the biggest difference, first going to lithium and with the prices dropping drastically in the last years. Old lead just didn’t last and that is why most systems failed.
Sodium should drop that even more in the next year or so.
Inverters have also dramatically improved in quality, features, efficiency and lower price. Almost everything in the us offgrid market is from China. And gridtied is becoming more and more Chinese.
Brian McDonald’s tweet about the UN vote on Russia’s resolution to “combat the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism, and other forms of racism and intolerance” could hardly be more clear. Just yesterday in Links we were talking about how “western values” and “liberal democracy” are euphemisms for something.
Ghosts in the Balcony: A Cross-Country Trip to 58 Theaters Fighting to Survive The Ankler
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A plethora of movie theaters built in the 1920’s and then the Great Depression, done killed Vaudeville.
Streaming was doing in going to the movies, and then Covid played like the Great Depression and killed movie theaters, some of which don’t know it yet, at least 58 of them.
I’m wistful about it, as both my flying days and going to the movies seemed to curtail after 9/11. With the former I just lost interest in particular after the shoe debacle, I know it sounds trite but I just didn’t want to bother anymore and besides road trips are more fun, you get to observe the country and people up close-not from 30,000 feet. I have 6 domestic flights under my belt since the turn of the century.
I went to the movies probably once a week from when I was a teenager until CGI shows up big time about the same time as 9/11 as it turned out, combined with living in a small town where the octoplex in Visalia 40 miles away has the size screen you can now buy @ Wal*Mart for a grandido in tv form, no thanks.
The big thing that movies lost was before the dawn of the internet, it was a rare shared experience that was a sure-fire conversation starter if you and the other person both saw it together separately.
‘Brian McDonald
@27khv
The outcome of the UN vote on Russia’s resolution to “combat the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism, and other forms of racism and intolerance.”
Basically the West against the rest of the world.’
For those interested, a reply showed the voting board for this vote-
https://xcancel.com/27khv/status/1990146868718760379#m
The Russians have been putting this anti-Nazi resolution for the past twenty years. Things have changed though. That results board is more or less the same for every year but it was not always so. Going by memory here but before the 2014 coup in the Ukraine, I seem to remember that there were only two countries that would vote against this anti-Nazi resolution – the US and Israel.