Heatwave cooks mussels in their shells on California shore Guardian
Cool reprieve for parts of Europe as Germany roasts AFP
San Francisco Will Spend $600,000 to Erase History NYT
11-foot-tall bird discovered in Crimea TreeHugger. That’s a big bird.
DARPA develops ‘smart grass’ that yells at you for walking on it Duffelblog
Renewable electricity beat out coal for the first time in April Ars Technica
The Pentagon’s Outsized Part in the Climate Fight NYRB Bill McKibben.
NASA just made a stunning discovery about how fracking fuels global warming Think Progress (David L)
Vancouver, Richmond Push to Hold Big Oil Accountable for Climate Damages Climate Liability News
California Burning
PG&E Update: Utility Blamed For More Fires International Business Times
GND
Apple, Amazon, and the rest of Big Tech all have a lot to learn from the Green New Deal Fast Company
THE INFRASTRUCTURE MESS CAUSING COUNTLESS INTERNET OUTAGES Wired
More Than a Fifth of All European Flights Delayed in May BNN Bloomberg
Sudan braces for ‘millions march’ as defiant protesters regroup Al Jazeera
2020
The biggest loser in the presidential debates: Planet Earth MIT Technology Review
Sidney Ember’s Secret Sources FAIR
Elizabeth Warren Thinks We Need More Diplomats New York magazine. In her own words: Revitalizing Diplomacy: A 21st Century Foreign Service Medium
The Forever War Is So Normalized That Opposing It Is “Isolationism” Caitlin Johnstone (The Rev Kev)
Biden sees support from Democrats slip 10 points after debate The Hill UserFriendly:
“best news i’ve seen in months.”
Medical Care
‘Rising Enthusiasm for Medicare for All’ Has Provoked Dramatic Surge in Industry-Backed Lobbying: Report Common Dreams
American caravan arrives in Canadian ‘birthplace of insulin’ for cheaper medicine Reuters
Class Warfare
Deadly day for workers refocuses spotlight on industry safety progress Waste Dive
Financial worries keep most Americans up at night Bloomberg
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes to Face Trial Next Year on Fraud Charges WSJ
Tariff Tantrum
Apple moves Mac Pro production from Texas to China Ars Technica
Xi-Trump summit in Osaka brings trade truce, more talks and hope for Huawei SCMP
Trump ‘allows’ Huawei to buy some ‘non-national security’ tech… if China buys more US farm produce RT (The Rev Kev)
G20
G20 summit: World leaders agree on climate deal Deutsche Welle
Russia-India-China share a room with a view Asia Times (The Rev Kev). Pepe Escobar.
North Korea
Trump meets North Korea’s Kim on DMZ between the two Koreas Reuters
Big Brother IS Watching You Watch
The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat MIT Technology Review
Face-Reading AI Will Tell Police When Suspects Are Hiding Truth Bloomberg
Julian Assange
Power Versus the Press: The Extradition Cases of Pinochet & Assange Consortium News
Syraqistan
The people of the Middle East should be reassured by one thing – their autocrats are no longer a global anomaly Independent, Robert Fisk.
Migrant Watch
Horrific pictures of drowned migrants should not distract us from the fact that far more people die on EU borders Independent. Patrick Cockburn.
Italy migrants: Rescue ship captain arrested at Lampedusa port BBC
737 MAX
Boeing Loses Another 737 MAX Customer Forbes
Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers Bloomberg (Craig H.)
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India
Decisions on US-India Issues Will Not Be Taken by the Pompeos and the Jaishankars The Wire
Indian central bank wants scrutiny of shadow bankers Asia Times
During the Indian election, news audiences consumed a wide and diverse range of sources Nieman Lab
Trump Transition
America’s Economic Blockades and International Law Project Syndicate
“I’m Not Willing to Do That”: Trump Says He Won’t Take Climate Action Because It Would Threaten Corporate Profits Common Dreams
What Russia Rightfully Remembers, America Forgets Truthdig Scott Ritter
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