China hits back after Biden calls Xi a 'dictator' (archive.ph)
Russian agents attempted assassination of CIA informant in US (m.jpost.com)
Russian agents made an attempt to assassinate a former Russian agent turned CIA informant on American soil in 2020, according to multiple sources.
Biden & Modi Must Address Grave Human Rights Concerns During Summit (www.commondreams.org)
Kerala is rolling out free broadband for its poorest citizens. What’s stopping your government? (www.theguardian.com)
The Incline and Decline of US Supremacy in Global Diplomacy: Europeans’ Self-inflicted Problems (www.thisdaylive.com)
Judge Worked for Same British Government Departments That Have Pursued Assange (consortiumnews.com)
Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering (arstechnica.com)
Jujuy Rises Up Against Repression & Regressive Reforms (peoplesdispatch.org)
De-dollarization: Egypt drubs dollar in trade with BRICS nations (www.firstpost.com)
Most patents granted in 2022: Asian firms dominate US list (www.thestack.technology)
Andrew Tate charged with rape and human trafficking (www.bbc.co.uk)
The Emergence of a New Non-Alignment: The Twenty-Fourth Newsletter (thetricontinental.org)
‘I’ve Never Regretted Doing It’: Daniel Ellsberg (1931–2023) (popularresistance.org)
Fifty years after exposing US lies about the Vietnam war, Daniel Ellsberg said the culture of official secrecy had gotten worse....
Dan Ellsberg's Parting Plea: Don't Wait (original.antiwar.com)
Hydrogen Hype Bubbles Over at German Gas Lobby Conference (www.desmog.com)
UK Home Secretsry Suella Braverman encourages police chiefs to use stop and search powers more often to "seize dangerous weapons and prevent more knife crime attacks" (news.sky.com)
140+ Economists & Experts Call on Paris Summit Leaders to Redirect Trillions in Public Money (www.commondreams.org)
Climate Change is Intensifying Humanitarian Crisis in War-Affected Yemen (peoplesdispatch.org)
Polycrisis, Unraveling, Simplification, or Collapse: Coming Soon to a Planet Near You? (www.resilience.org)
The Cascade Institute notes that “a global polycrisis occurs when crises in multiple global systems become causally entangled in ways that significantly degrade humanity’s prospects. These interacting crises produce harms greater than the sum of those the crises would produce in isolation, were their host systems not so...