The Year of the Tiger 2022: predictions, food & celebrations South China Morning Post
Overweight armadillos put on a post-Christmas diet BBC
U.S. science no longer leads the world. Here’s how top advisers say the nation should respond Science
A Matter of Emphasis American Scholar
Napoleon’s gravity-defying 325km road BBC
Mapping fiction: the complicated relationship between authors and literary maps Guardian
Why Buster Keaton is today’s most influential actor BBC
The Internet Is Failing Moms-to-Be Wired
Discrimination by the Numbers MIT Technology Review
What’s behind legal dispute between Qatar Airways and Airbus? Al Jazeera
Cruise ship changes course to Bahamas after U.S. issues arrest warrant Axios (The Rev Kev)
What the hell are apartment pants? Vogue India
The U-2 spy plane: white knuckles from the get-go Asia Times
Mutinying soldiers detain Burkina Faso President Kabore Agence France-Presse
#COVID-19
An upper bound on one-to-one exposure to infectious human respiratory particles Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesces
Covid-19 vaccines and treatments: we must have raw data, now BMJ (flora) Hoisted from comments.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in pediatric oncology units: A lesson of resilience and hope Cancer
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Lunar New Year reunions in limbo for China’s migrant workers as nation races to curb Covid-19 South China Morning Post
Omicron: zero spread, not zero cases, is IOC’s target for Winter Olympics with 72 positive tests detected so far in pre-Games build-up South China Morning Post
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Omicron in community transmission stage in India, dominant strain in metros: Genome sequencing body Scroll
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Europe Eases Pandemic Curbs on Omicron’s Waning Scare Factor Bloomberg
Police fire water cannon, tear gas at Brussels COVID protest Al Jazeera
German Covid protests turn nasty in row over rules and vaccinations BBC
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The media blackout on Fauci’s damning emails The Spectator
FBI SOUGHT DOCUMENTS RELATED TO U.S.-FUNDED CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH IN CHINA Intercept
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Vaccine Apartheid Has Reinforced US Empire Jacobin
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Nursing home families blast Hochul for excluding victims fund in state budget NY Post
COVID testing firm piled unprocessed swabs in trash bags, billed feds $113M Ars Technica (Dr. Kevin)
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Urgent call for sperm donors as Birmingham banks run dry after two year Covid closure Birmigham Live (Dr. Kevin)
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Severe shortage of nurses in UK children’s intensive care units Guardian
In Hospital Strained by Omicron, Weary Nurses Treat Too Many Patients WSJ
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Two years ago on January 23rd,@DanielBausch2 from @LSHTM gave a talk on “Outbreak Preparedness and Response: Challenges and Opportunities in a Rapidly Changing World” at @YaleEMD. How long ago that seems. 1/ pic.twitter.com/wk9HOITNOA
— Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) January 23, 2022
Julian Assange
Julian Assange wins first stage of attempt to appeal against extradition Guardian
Class Warfare
The Billionaire Side Hustle That Neoliberalism Created Common Dreams
Because no community is too small. Chesapeake News Guild (RK)
The Case for Strategic Price Policies Project Syndicate. James Galbraith
Imagine being a coop and still union busting. Just absolute clown strategies.https://t.co/qSsPpaS9Dl
— David Smith (@Catfish_Man) January 23, 2022
“I make the most money I’ve ever made, but I’m still broke and struggling”@abhabhattarai talks to >dozen workers, including many who said that despite considerable pay raises, they were hard-pressed cover basic expenses in a time of soaring inflation https://t.co/r2K1J2P4Wx
— Rachel Leah Siegel (@rachsieg) January 22, 2022
Biden Administration
On student loans, Biden doesn’t have an answer yet The Hill. A year into his presidency and he’s still dithering on this?
As Immigration Plummeted, Conservatives Falsely Accused Biden of Fueling a Crisis Intercept (furzy)
Epidemic of insanity strikes America’s leaders Asia Times
Biden’s Asia Policy, 1 Year In The Diplomat
Florida redistricting plan faces opposition from DeSantis The Hill
Democrats en déshabillé
Arizona Democratic Party censures Sinema over voting rights stance Politico
Can Revolution Take Root In Rhode Island? Daily Poster
What Ike’s military industrial complex speech didn’t say Responsible Statecraft
New Cold War
Beware the Cult of Cadwalladr Craig Murray
Symposium: What would US intervention over Ukraine really look like? Responsible statecraft
UKRAINE CRISIS: German Navy Chief Resigns; Britain Spreads Fears of Russian ‘Coup’ & Wider War Consortium News. Linked to an account of the event yesterday – discussed in comments; still germane.
Secret of ‘microwave weapons’ targeting US diplomats revealed RT (MH)
“It’s too soon to stop investigating the possibility of mass attack by undetectable brain-eating mystery lasers.” Signed, the Washington Post editorial board (our heads protected by metal pots) https://t.co/AsmCazk4aV
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 23, 2022
“British intelligence fed the information to [Carol Cadwalladr] via another source…Yet no evidence to support the claim has ever been produced, and as we have seen, Cadwalladr isn’t trying to say that it was true. In short, it was disinformation.”https://t.co/uRm7uLtDTP
— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) January 23, 2022
Climate
As Caucasian Glaciers Melt, Locals Face the Future With Stoicism Moscow Times
Funding for Greenhouse Gas Regulation in Danger Despite Huge New Mexico Budget Capitalal & Main.
Health Care
`Antimicrobial resistance now causes more deaths than HIV/AIDS and malaria worldwide – new study The Conversation
The Powerful Case for Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease The Wire
Indonesia
Syraqistan
Biden Is Failing Yemen Common Dreams
Iran regains UN voting rights RT (The Rev Kev)
Afghanistan: Taliban envoys start talks in Norway Deutsche Welle
India
Forgotten heroes now being remembered, says PM Modi as he unveils Netaji’s hologram at India Gate Scroll
The Bose Hologram Showcases Neither Bose nor Technology but Modi The Wire
China abduction claims spark political uproar in India Asia Times
Modi government’s duty to act on calls for violence against minorities: Ex-UN adviser on genocide Scroll
China?
UK Intelligence Agency Targets China’s United Front The Diplomat
How China and Russia forged a friendship after bridging decades-old differences South China Morning Post
Antidote du Jour. Tracie H: “This little fellow is a Ruby-crowned Kinglet seen at the Huntington Library/Museum Gardens in San Marino, California.”
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
