Sunday, June 28: This day in history AP. On this day in 1914, Gavrilo Princip assassinated the archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie. setting off WW 1. Also on this day in 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed.
Human rights activists want to use AI to help prove war crimes in court MIT Technology Review
8 Slowest Animals in the World TreeHugger
This Group Is Dedicated To People Posting Really Expensive Accidents And Mistakes, And Here Are 45 Of The Worst Ones Bored Panda. Having just suffered a catastrophic compter-ending coffee spill – my first in decades – I can empathize.
I Quit James Heathers
CRISPR Gene Editing in Human Embryos Wreaks Chromosome Mayhem Nature (guurst)
The freedom of driving New Statesman
#COVID-19
How Spain Shamed Itself by Leaving the Elderly to Die Under Coronavirus Jacobin
Measures to protect Trump from coronavirus scale up even as he seeks to move on CNN
Airlines banning passengers who refuse to wear masks on flights NY Post
Coronavirus: Florida and Texas reverse reopening as US cases pass 2.5m BBC
A travesty’: North Carolina grapples with reopening as Covid-19 cases surge Guardian. My mother and many family members live in NC.
Texas cities say state is making pandemic worse The Hill
Inspector General May Not Stem Deadly COVID-19 Outbreaks at L.A. Nursing Homes Capital & Main
The High Price of Cheap Meat Der Spiegel
The Sickness in Our Food Supply New York Review of Books. Michael Pollan.
Why the American Consumer Has Fewer Choices—Maybe for Good WSJ
Dick Cheney says WEAR A MASK. #realmenwearmasks pic.twitter.com/iBfVoa7ypL
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) June 26, 2020
Science/Medicine
Can tocilizumab calm the cytokine storm of COVID-19? Lancet
Watch: It’s not just the lungs: The Covid-19 virus attacks like no other ‘respiratory’ infection Stat
UK
The blundering British political class has shown the same incompetence in both fighting wars and coronavirus Independent Patrick Cockburn
Black Injustice Tipping Point
We Can End Qualified Immunity Tomorrow Boston Review
What Are Cops Really Thinking When Routine Arrests Turn Violent? Marshall Project
Princeton Dumps Woodrow Wilson’s Name Over ‘Persistent’ Racism Bloomberg
Glamour, glitz and artificially light skin: Bollywood stars in their own racism row Guardian
Class Warfare
Will Bill Barr Screw Up the Google Monopolization Case? Matt Stoller
Justice Department expected to file antitrust suit against Google Politico (furzy)
Hedge funds eye new corporate structure in Singapore FT
No More Free-Lunch Bailouts Project Syndicate
35% Americans missed mortgage payments. Almost half looking to sell their homes because they fear they can’t afford their homes. A financial tsunami bearing down on the American Dream, and the political class is paralyzed by its own corruption & rothttps://t.co/4IcIA2fBAR
— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) June 26, 2020
Korea
The Korean War Atrocities No One Wants To Talk About American Conservatve
Israel
Egypt
Egyptians create their own silver lining to coronavirus Qantara
Russia
US Ambassador posts a message to the Russian people The Saker (GF)
This Russia-Afghanistan Story Is Western Propaganda At Its Most Vile Caitlin Johnstone
Syraqistan
The War That Time Forgot Counterpunch
Imperial Collapse Watch
How Hegemony Ends Foreign Affairs
India
Modi government should embrace NREGA without trying to defend the indefensible Scroll
COVID Lockdown: How India’s Food Supply Chain First Tightened and then Recovered The Wire
India locusts: Swarm sweeps into Delhi suburb Gurgaon BBC
India’s coronavirus cases pass half a million Al Jazeera
Coronavirus: How Delhi ‘wasted’ lockdown to become India’s biggest hotspot BBC
China?
Big Brother IS Watching You Watch
TikTok and 53 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data Ars Technica
The EARN IT Act would force online platforms to be overseen by a 19-person commission dominated by federal law enforcement agencies. Protecting user privacy and encryption won’t be on their list of priorities. https://t.co/9K4BTdo9ZD
— EFF (@EFF) June 20, 2020
Julian Assange
Watch: Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald talks about the new superseding indictment against Julian Assange #FreePresshttps://t.co/h2C0W3nn6A
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 26, 2020
737 MAX
Exclusive: Boeing 737 MAX certification flight tests to begin on Monday – sources Reuters
Trump Transition
Antidote du Jour. TH: “This one is a Western-wood Peewee. He was hanging out near the visitor center in Anza Borego, CA.”:
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
