links for 2024-W43

2024-10-27 is 2024-W43-7*
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the divide between Shia and Sunnis is beginning to melt / John Mearsheimer (!?)*

truth tends to have a marked anti-Israel bias (!?)*

“remaking the Middle East”: destroying the world as we have known it (!?)*

queerer than we can suppose / Haldane (!?)

four stages of acceptance / Haldane (!? !* !*)

Aaron Maté on current events* / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W43-3*

the Darién (mis)adventure (!?)

Portugal, Madeira, and the birth of modern capitalism (!?)

the longest-running bilateral alliance, temporarily suspended 1580–1640 (!?)

Portuguese Empire before union with Spain in 1580 (!?) / map*

lightly edited transcript of Jacob Needleman’s afterword to the Dhammapada (!?)*

without an overlay of magical beliefs, religious doctrine, or striving … / Robert Saltzman(!?)**

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