God Dog n+1
Celestial Detector: Weighing Lives from Below E-Flux
Climate/Environment
Building toward disaster: Growth collides with rising seas in Charleston Floodlight
California lawmakers pass measures to expand oil production in Central Valley, restrict offshore drilling Los Angeles Times
Goodbye to Grangemouth LRB
Liberté, égalité, radioactivité Works in Progress
Trump sends fracking CEO to Europe to sell climate denial—and gas HEATED
Nepal
Nepal PM seeks calm, promises to meet protesters’ push to ‘end corruption’ Al Jazeera
Sri Lanka’s crisis shows how debt is devouring the Global South Al Jazeera
China?
Tariffs and TikTok to dominate another round of US-China trade talks Yahoo! Finance
China Probes U.S. Chip Sector On Eve Of Trade Talks Investor’s Business Daily
China’s trade with Africa outracing the rest of world, supplanting North America Kevin Walmsley
Not So Neatly Divided: Global Public Opinion on China Asia Society
China’s Green Leap Outward: The rapid scale- up of overseas Chinese clean-tech manufacturing investments Net Zero Policy Lab
Is China’s High Speed Railway System Massively Overbuilt, just Overbuilt, or will be Overbuilt? JRUrbaneNetwork
Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Finance Minister Siluanov: The SCO Will Create a Depository to Replace Euroclear and Clearstream Karl Sanchez
The Lucky Country
Australia to spend $8 billion on nuclear sub shipyard DW
Old Blighty
Britain’s largest far-right protest capitalises on Starmer’s xenophobic, anti-working-class agenda WSWS
Starmer tells Tommy Robinson he ‘will not surrender’ British flag to violence The Telegraph
Musk warns ‘violence is coming to you’ RT
It’s Your Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To Craig Murray
Africa
Exclusive-Congo-Rwanda draft deal outlines role of US, others in revamp of minerals sector Reuters
Syraqistan
300,000 Palestinians Forced To Flee as Israeli Strikes Pound Gaza City Antiwar
Israel launches ‘most violent’ strikes on Gaza since 7 October The Cradle
Everything is out of control, the city is burning completely, completely.
Gaza💔💔 pic.twitter.com/bUglsMOeWW
— Dr.Hamza Alsharif 🇵🇸 (@Hamzasharif5750) September 14, 2025
Another day in occupied politics, another humiliation ritual. Marco Rubio and Mike Huckabee land in Al-Quds and immediately line up beside Netanyahu and the clerics of the Zionist entity, bowing at the so-called “Western Wall.”
What passes for pilgrimage here isn’t faith but… pic.twitter.com/c00UNXOe6L
— Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) September 14, 2025
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 BREAKING: Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) confirms that President Trump “FEARS FOR HIS LIFE because of ISRAEL”
His White House sources also exposed that ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE was caught placing “electronic devices” on the emergency vehicles of Trump’s Secret Service pic.twitter.com/FZLA7tXSME
— Legitimate Targets (@LegitTargets) September 14, 2025
Zionist Lawfare Operation Facing Collapse? Kit Klarenberg
1st Tunisian ship departs as part of Gaza-bound aid flotilla to break Israeli siege Anadolu Agency
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Sharaa says agreement with Moscow enabled swift fall of Assad The Cradle
European Disunion
Germany: Merz’s CDU set to win in NRW, AfD makes big gains DW
EU counterterrorism chief: Let cops read WhatsApp chats Politico
View of Macron and Europe from Tiananmen Square Pluralia
New Not-So-Cold War
Kyiv puts defence needs for 2026 at $120 billion – even if Russia’s war ends Euractiv
Ukraine strikes one of Russia’s top oil refineries, causing explosions and sparking fire Euronews
Romania says a drone breached its airspace during Russian strikes on Ukraine France 24
Trump Finally Outwits Europe and the Neocons on Ukraine? Simplicius
Hungary and Slovakia must quit Russian gas and nuclear, Trump envoy warns Politico
Speaking this weekend at the Yalta European Security Conference in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine, Ret. Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, stated that Russia is losing in its ongoing war against Ukraine, “If he [Putin] was winning, he’d be in Kyiv. If he was… pic.twitter.com/5FkyrQ4VD3
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) September 15, 2025
Five-year-old Russian child listed on Ukraine’s database of unwanted persons TASS. Also known as the “kill list.”
Cruise Missile Launchers Guarding the Russian Arctic Strike Simulated Adversaries During Exercises Military Watch
Russian and Belarusian Air Defences Jointly Repel Simulated Western Attack Military Watch
Weimar Republic
Charlie Kirk assassination suspect under ‘special watch’ in custody, being kept in separate housing unit Fox News
Utah governor says suspect in Charlie Kirk assassination is not cooperating with authorities CBS News
Gov. Cox provides update on Charlie Kirk shooting investigation, including new details about suspect’s roommate Salt Lake Tribune
Reflections on Violence Unpopular Front
Bullets and Ballots: The Legacy of Charlie Kirk The Scholar’s Stage
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2 arrested after explosive found under news media vehicle in Salt Lake City KSLTV5
Imperial Collapse Watch
Decline and Fall Arthur Goldhammer
Bluff and Counter Bluff en route to the Guillotine Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Accelerationists
The Stories We Tell Hauntologies by Elia Ayoub
South of the Border
F-35s Arrive In Puerto Rico For Counter-Drug Operation The War Zone. Apparently we’re meant to believe the vaunted F-35s gonna do what a half century of the war on drugs couldn’t.
The invention of “Venezuela drugs” The Anti-Empire Project
Venezuela Denounces US Navy for Illegal Boarding of Fishing Boat in Venezuelan Exclusive Economic Zone Orinoco Tribune
Trump 2.0
SEC to notify businesses of technical violations before taking action, FT reports Reuters
Do you feel like a failure? LRB
Police State Watch
NEW BILL WOULD GIVE MARCO RUBIO “THOUGHT POLICE” POWER TO REVOKE U.S. PASSPORTS The Intercept
Workers taken to hospital after FBI uses furnace to burn seized meth BBC
Our Famously Free Press
Trump shares call for media ‘accountability’ with ‘Charlie Kirk Act’ after shooting The Independent
It’s probably worth flagging the fact that the president of the United States is promoting the establishment of a Ministry of Truth to restrict speech in a suggested law called the “Charlie Kirk Act”.
President Trump’s Truth Social account posted a viral video from TikTok on… pic.twitter.com/CZSdYuCPAg
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) September 14, 2025
Antitrust
Monopoly Round-Up: Did the Death Blow of Hollywood Just Happen? BIG by Matt Stoller
Healthcare?
Appeals ruling threatens routine care access for Medicaid enrollees at Planned Parenthood Ohio Capital Journal
Immigration
1/ A repatriated Korean worker from the Hyundai-LG battery factory secretly wrote a detention diary about their 7-day experience in ICE custody in Georgia. The worker says ICE officers mocked them with words like as “North Korea” and “Rocket Man” despite holding a business visa. https://t.co/1TfpaYRgVu
— Raphael Rashid (@koryodynasty) September 14, 2025
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
The Eyes of Chihuahua Texas Observer
AI
Understanding AI as a social technology Programmable Mutter
Chinese tech scientists have jumped ahead of US counterparts in global downloads of open-source AI programs. “As hard as it is for us all to swallow, I think we’re behind now,” said Ali Farhadi of Seattle’s Allen Institute for ai, quoted in the Economist. 1/7 pic.twitter.com/4ey6pkACbo
— Nury Vittachi (@NuryVittachi) September 15, 2025
The Friendly Skies
Toxic Fumes Are Leaking Into Airplanes, Sickening Crews and Passengers WSJ
Guillotine Watch
Fox News host apologizes for ‘extremely callous’ remarks on unhoused people The Guardian
The Coziest Place on the Moon: An Illustrated Fable about How to Live with Loneliness and What It Means to Love, Inspired by a Real NASA Discovery The Marginalian
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