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List of articles I recently found interesting to read.

• The Global Rise of Narco-Pentecostalism. Gangsters — and sometimes pastors — are using evangelical Christian networks and beliefs to stamp their authority on illicit trades, from Brazil to Nigeria and beyond
• Moving Towards Life. Exploring the correspondence of June Jordan and Audre Lorde, Marina Magloire assembles an archive of a Black feminist falling-out over Zionism.
• Microplastics are infiltrating brain tissue, studies show: ‘There’s nowhere left untouched’. Twenty-four brain samples collected in early 2024 measured on average about 0.5% plastic by weight
• They All Got Mysterious Brain Diseases. They’re Fighting to Learn Why. Doctors in Canada have identified dozens of patients with similar, unexplained symptoms — a scientific puzzle that has now become a political maelstrom. (bypass Paywall)
• **The Pandemic Problem: Humans Infect Animals Infect Humans Infect…**Infectious diseases hop from animals to humans and back again, giving pathogens multiple chances to evolve and spread even further
• Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official tally
• Hezbollah: 10 Things You Need To Know. Plus an extra one and a list of resources.
• Scientists Found a Surprising Way to Make Fungus Happy. The discovery that sound improves the growth rate of beneficial fungus suggests that dirges in the dirt may help restore forests. (bypass PayWall)
• Journalist or Russian spy? The strange case of Pablo González. As a Spanish reporter, Pablo González charmed his way into Russian opposition circles and covered Putin’s wars. Then, in 2022, he was arrested on suspicion of espionage. Many former associates now believe that he betrayed them
• The Madness They Suffer From. The Ghosts of Israel's Future, Part IV
• How children starve. In Gaza, hunger is taking a toll on the bodies of children. The impact can last a lifetime
• The Salmon and the Tomato. In an exclusive for The New Climate, an investigative photojournalist explores the links between the global food system modern slavery.
• The New Artificial Intelligentsia. In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.
• X Is a White-Supremacist Site. Elon Musk has made one of Twitter’s most glaring problems into a core feature on X. (bypass Paywall)
• Once upon a time in Dahiyeh: Israel's destruction of a people
• To Understand Egypt, Meet My Friend, a Political Prisoner (bypass Paywall)
• In Sudan, the People’s Revolution Versus the Elite’s Counterrevolution. Elites profit off war at the expense of one of the most powerful movements for emancipation in the 21st century.
• Would you have stayed in London’s ‘tight knit’ communities? New research challenges our nostalgia for a world where family stayed close and neighbours were on hand to lend a pint of milk
• The Cradle of Internationalism. Few people have been cast further across this threshold than the people of Haiti.
• Rafael Nadal Found Process In Pain. When Rafael Nadal first appeared on court, my 13-year-old mind was too simple to make sense of him.