Psychologists Find Strange Twist In The Human-Dog Emotional Bond StudyFinds
Water leak in the Louvre damages hundreds of works, museum says The Guardian
Researchers Concerned to Find That Five-Year-Olds Are Already Deeply Hooked on Brain Rot Content Futurism
The Last People Before the Internet Kneeling Bus
Climate/Environment
IS CLIMATE CHANGE AN EXTERNALITY? LPE Project
Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global The Conversation
Irrigation water and drought fuel rising human-elephant conflict Down to Earth
Comparing climate models with observations The Climate Brink
Pandemics
Scientists Uncover How COVID-19 Variants Outsmart the Immune System Mount Sinai
Until the Government prioritises clean air in classrooms, nothing is going to change in education.
Schools will continue to have perpetually ill pupils, perpetually ill staff & perpetual disruption.
Harm will compound harm and everything will be much harder than it should be. pic.twitter.com/eOw8Abwo1m
— Steve B (@75ThunderRoad) December 7, 2025
African swine fever outbreak in Spain may have leaked from research lab, officials say The Guardian
Japan
Radar locked Observing Japan
Japan frustrated at Trump administration’s silence over row with China FT
China?
China’s November exports top expectations, imports underperform Reuters
China’s exports to U.S. extend double-digit declines, dropping 29% in November, despite trade truce CNBC
What do Chinese people think of the US? How has the sentiment changed over the last 10–15 years? China Translated
India
Why Everyone is Dressing the Same: How Global Aesthetics are Quietly Erasing India’s Wardrobe Identity India Narrative
Thailand-Cambodia Conflict
Thailand launches airstrikes against Cambodia in border flare-up Channel News Asia
Syraqistan
Disgusting
“There’s another woman in my life…Israel I love her so much”
“We are going to train 100,000 Christian ambassadors to be ambassadors in their own country for the state of Israel, to defend Israel’s brand and to combat anti-semitism
FOZ teams up with Blackboard to… pic.twitter.com/n7ltAfoWig
— Seethroughitall (@seethroughit2) December 7, 2025
Israel Redefines its Military Position in Gaza as a New Internal Frontier TeleSur
Hamas official says the group ready to discuss ‘freezing or storing’ its weapons AP
Netanyahu held ‘secret meeting’ with Tony Blair over post-war Gaza plans New Arab
CIA and Turkey’s MIT planning secret air base to monitor the Middle East Intelligence Online
Old Blighty
Revealed: Hidden scandal of NHS staff exposed to cancer-causing chemical deemed the ‘next asbestos’ The Independent
The Filton Trial Craig Murray
Your Party members told to stop waiting for orders from above, push democracy from the ground up The Canary
European Disunion
America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe Programmable Mutter
X deactivates European Commission’s ad account after the company was fined €120M TechCrunch
As Trump goes on the attack, von der Leyen goes into hiding Euractiv
US security plan: EU’s Kallas downplays fear of rift in ties DW
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Germany news: Shop bankruptcies surge across Germany DW
European industry faces ‘life or death,’ Macron says — and China needs to help Politico
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US to hand over 250 heavy armored vehicles to Poland under $1 offer for military use Interesting Engineering
‘I’d defend our nation’: Poles prepare for growing threat of war The Guardian
New Not-So-Cold War
The New Diplomatic Fault Line: How Moscow is Pitting Washington Against Europe Kautilya the Contemplator
London vs Washington Events in Ukraine
Monroe Doctrine 2.0: Euro Edition Venik
John Coltrane Through a Russian Prism: Part 1 – Religious Philosophy and ‘God-Seeking’ Gordon Hahn
SITREP 12/7/25: Russian Tech Advances, New Mass Energy Grid Attacks, Mirnograd Enters Final Phase Simplicius
Ukrainian Propaganda Merchants Working in Overdrive to Deny Reality Larry Johnson
As others have said, this is actual grassroots Ukrainian civil society in action.
Then there’s the other western-paid “civil society”, an elite urban class that’s the loudest advocate for bussifying the Ukrainian masses. Our media has made sure we only hear the forever-war class. https://t.co/sP1iRojuB2— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) December 7, 2025
IAEA issues new Chernobyl safety warning RT. “The agency has found the protective structure over the 1986 reactor critically damaged after a drone strike.”
Africa
Drone strikes on Sudan kindergarten, hospital kill 50, including children New Arab
‘Only a miracle can end this nightmare’: Eritreans fear new Ethiopia war France24
Nigeria says it deployed jets, troops to Benin to ‘dislodge coup plotters’ Al Jazeera. Commentary:
I think Nigeria is officially over tonight.
Bombing your neighbour because a white guy in Paris told you too.
Carrying out airstrikes against a fellow African country because Emmanuel Macron wanted you to.
Only apartheid South Africa ever did something like this.
It’s over.
— David Hundeyin (@DavidHundeyin) December 7, 2025
South of the Border
US flew 69 recon missions and hundreds of fighter sorties near Venezuela Nov-Dec, focusing northwest coast and capital. Targets: oil refineries, airfields, ports along Colombia border. https://t.co/QGqYi7x5Ts pic.twitter.com/tvVOHwEDz5
— Rybar in English (@rybar_en) December 7, 2025
Honduras Plunges Into Post-Election Turmoil as Electoral Official Alleges “Monumental Fraud” Drop Site
Trump 2.0
Trump pushes foreign food crackdown as grocery prices rise Axios
Trump Militarized Cities in ICE Crackdowns. Is Militarizing the Ballot Box Next? Truthout
Democrats en déshabillé
Democratic Senators Who Trump Accused of ‘Sedition’ Form Legal Defense Funds NOTUS
The Uniparty
The U.S. House releases annual defense bill. Here’s what it includes Deseret News
Imperial Collapse Watch
The Soviet Union and the “Golden Age” of the West Top War
A New National Security Strategy China Articles
Part I: A National Security Strategy Preying on Disorder Un-Diplomatic. Part II: America, Super-Predator
Accelerationists
Billionaire Palantir Co-Founder Pushes Return of Public Hangings as Part of ‘Masculine Leadership’ Initiative Common Dreams
Why Does the End of the World Look So Profitable? OilPrice
The accelerator is on the floor for autonomous vehicles TechCrunch
All of Russia’s Porsches Were Bricked By a Mysterious Satellite Outage Auto Blog
Police State Watch
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals Ken Klippenstein
USA: New Findings Reveal Human Rights Violations at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome Detention Centers Amnesty International
Groves of Academe
Accommodation Nation The Atlantic
Antitrust
Our Famously Free Press
A Journalist Reported From Palestine. YouTube Deleted His Account Claiming He’s an Iranian Agent. The Intercept
AI
A ‘code red’ for AI Blood in the Machine
AI agents and the 90% problem High Capacity
OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT says posts appearing to show in-app ads are ‘not real or not ads’ Engagdet
Economy
Why these 2 stocks have shockingly blown away Nvidia Yahoo! Finance. Dollar Tree and Dollar General.
Guillotine Watch
The System Has No Reverse America’s Undoing
Class warfare (on the top) Pawel Moscicki
Zeitgeist Watch
Tim Robinson Understands What The Boys Are Going Through Defector
Class Warfare
Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now Labor Notes
How not to talk about capitalism New Statesman
What’s it take to be Santa? New research shows that even atypical candidates can be successful in the role Oregon State University
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
“Billionaire Palantir Co-Founder Pushes Return of Public Hangings as Part of ‘Masculine Leadership’ Initiative”
Venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale maybe trying to justify this on the grounds of “masculine leadership” but I would guess that it would be more about money and the opportunities to monetize public hangings. So if you want to attend in person, how much will you have to pay for a ticket to this event. Different prices according to seating arrangements? Then there would be the selling of rights to have this televised or live-streamed on a place like YouTube. Then online I am sure that there would be a store where you could buy souvenirs such as t-shirts saying ‘Just Hanging Around.’ And you can be sure that people like Joe Lonsdale would be there in the background earning commissions and the like every step of the way. Of course people like this would have no idea of real world problems and applications so probably people being hung would dangle and choke for minutes instead of the professional drop and snap.