How the Warsaw Ghetto beat back typhus during World War II Ars Technica
Football Mad From the days I first started reading Amis fils – 1981 – when he was just read as a a writer and not as a great man of letters. But boy, could the dude write!
Ending The War Against The Climate Movement Too Much Information. David Sirota.
Toronto International Film Festival 2020: When Icons Look Into The Mirror The Wire
Lukashenko seeks Putin’s help in attempt to survive mass protests Al Jazeera
How Algorithms Are Changing What We Read Online The Walrus
AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes MIT Technology Review
Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism? Literary Hub
Hate the Sin, Not the Book The Atlantic
GRANDSON OF OVERTHROWN CHILEAN PRESIDENT SALVADOR ALLENDE DEFENDS VENEZUELA AGAINST US COUP ATTEMPT Grayzone
Hurricane Alley
Hurricane Sally Has Rapidly Intensified and Additional Strengthening Is Possible as It Crawls Toward the Gulf Coast Weather Underground
#COVID-19
Bill Gates slams ‘shocking’ U.S. response to Covid-19 pandemic Stat
Hong Kong poised for human trials of nasal spray vaccine Asia Times
Coronavirus: vaccine scandals haunt China’s winter flu shot drive SCMP
Covid-19: Won’t be enough vaccines for whole world for 4 to 5 years, says Serum Institute chief Scroll
Don’t Let the Pandemic End a 100-Year-Old Soccer Legacy NYT
How the Aging Immune System Makes Older People Vulnerable to Covid-19 NYT
Covid-19 Test Maker Examines False-Positive Results in Nursing Homes WSJ
New York City’s Day of Reckoning Is at Hand Bloomberg
No, The Russians Aren’t About To Win The Coronavirus Vaccine Race American Conservative. I quibble with the assumption that it’s only the Russians who are cutting corners with vaccine development – if they in fact, indeed are.
Americans are raiding retirement savings during coronavirus pandemic CNBC
West Coast Wildfires
As dangers rise, many fear their California Dream is fading San Francisco Chronicle
Jerry Brown on a California Exodus: ‘Tell Me: Where Are You Going to Go?’ New York Times
US West Coast fires: Trump fans flames of climate row in California BBC
Sanders Says Climate Disaster Is Much More Expensive Than a Green New Deal TruthOut
Two major Antarctic glaciers are tearing loose from their restraints, scientists say Wapo
Brexit
Johnson Intended to Break the Withdrawal Agreement Even Before He Signed It Craig Murray
Boris Johnson suffers rebellion over contentious Brexit bill FT
Julian Assange
WATCH: CN Live! Daily Video Report on the Assange Hearing–Day 5 Consortium News
2020
The Race For an Obscure Texas Office Could Have a Lasting Impact on Climate Change Capital & Main
States plow forward with pot, with or without Congress Politico
Crowd aims ‘lock him up’ chant at Obama during Trump rally The Hill
Let’s Fret the Night Together NYT
Biden, Trump jockey over climate as wildfires overtake campaigns Al Jazeera
Scrutiny of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy intensifies Yahoo
Class Warfare
The Literary Scene in the Great Depression (and Today) Counterpunch
The Big Corporate Rescue and the America That’s Too Small to Save ProPublica
Eviction filings by big landlords surged after Trump issued ban Los Angeles Daily News
Welcome, Emerging Tech Policy Leaders! Charles Koch Institute
The Misguided Antitrust Attack on Big Tech WSJ. Exactly what you would expect Phil Gramm and J>erry Ellig to say.
Here’s part of my testimony today. https://t.co/TrmfLEMAXe
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) September 15, 2020
Russiagate
Democrats Ignore US Military’s Refutation Of ‘Russian Bounties’ Story Caitlin Johnstone
India
Nine Former Police Officers Call Delhi Riots Investigation ‘Flawed’ The Wire
Hindi is not a language of knowledge anymore. Mediocrity has stifled its soul The Print
Reading the Evolution of Censorship and Sedition in India The Wire
China?
US issues restrictions on import of Xinjiang cotton and apparel products, citing forced labour SCMP
Trump Transition
Why Trump Has Been Good For Europe American Conservative
The People v. Donald J. Trump Such wishful pearl clutching! Today’s amusement.
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