Daily News 07/24
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Scary Headline Today: 40% of the World Population Lives in Water Scarce Areas
UN’s worst-case scenario: Energy and fertilizer shock from Iran war could push nearly 19 million more into chronic hunger by 2030 The Iran war has done more than send oil prices spiking and shut down shipping through the Strait of Hormuz—it could reshape how many people go hungry through the rest of the decade to nearly 19 million more across Asia and Africa combined, according to a UN report released Tuesday. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 report, published jointly by five UN agencies, modeled what happens to global hunger through 2030 under competing assumptions about how long the fallout from this year’s conflict in the Middle East lasts. In the most pessimistic scenario, in which strikes on oil and gas infrastructure in the Persian Gulf take years to repair, the report projects 522 million people will be undernourished in 2030 compared to the 503 million in a pre-conflict baseline
Video: East CoBREAKING “This Isn’t A Heat Wave” Top Scientist’s Warning About What’s Overast | Heat Dome. One of the planet’s strongest heat domes is descending on the East Coast, and Dr. Michael Mann, the nation’s leading climate scientist, tells Jim Acosta exactly why this keeps happening. Mann warns that heat domes have nearly tripled in the last fifty years — driven by human-caused warming from the continued burning of fossil fuels — and says extreme heat is the deadliest weather there is, triggering heart attacks and strokes. With New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore all threatening 100-degree records this week, Mann lays out what’s really trapping the heat over your head — and why it’s not going away.
A “Super El Niño” Could Be Catastrophic“El Niño” is officially here, but this may only be the beginning of a dangerously supercharged weather event. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasts a 63% possibility of a very strong or “Super El Niño” starting between November and January. El Niño is the warm phase of a natural climate pattern across the tropical Pacific Ocean that emerges from variations in winds and sea surface temperatures. The phenomenon affects global temperatures, atmospheric circulation, precipitation levels, and other key variables that play a major role in weather and agricultural production. The world’s oceans act like a battery, absorbing immense amounts of heat from the atmosphere and 91% of greenhouse gas emissions. The warmer the ocean, the stronger the El Niño—which means that capitalist-driven climate change intensifies these weather phenomena. The hottest year on record was 2024, and 2026 is likely to surpass it. Boosted by this heat, El Niño could potentially lead to serious problems for millions of workers, who can’t retreat to doomsday bunkers. Heavier atmospheric river events in California, heavy rainfall across the Southwest, and coastal erosion along both the Pacific and the Atlantic seaboards could lead to extreme floods, mudslides, and hurricane-level winds. The northern US could also see drier winters and longer heatwaves, amplifying devastating droughts and wildfires, like the ones experienced last year in Canada. The picture is even starker globally. For major agricultural exporters like India, Indonesia, Brazil, and Australia, experts anticipate major heatwaves and droughts, with failing monsoon seasons in some regions and devastating floods in others. The resulting crop failures would only deepen the food crisis already triggered by fertilizer shortages resulting from the Iran War. In short, a Super El Niño could pose an existential threat for over 500 million small farmers.
Video: Dead Pool Isn’t the End — What Happens After Hoover Dam StopsAt Hoover Dam, a countdown to a catastrophic failure has already begun. It’s not for “dead pool”—it’s for a number even more dangerous: 1,035 feet. As of July 2026, Lake Mead’s water level is just feet above this “hydropower cliff,” a point where the physics of water pressure turn against the dam itself. The water level becomes so low that it boils from the pressure drop alone, a phenomenon called cavitation that physically rips apart the dam’s steel turbines. When that happens, power generation could collapse by 70% almost instantly, threatening the grid for millions. This isn’t a future prediction; it’s a crisis happening right now. The U.S. government is engaged in a desperate shell game, deliberately draining Lake Powell upstream to keep Lake Mead on life support, sacrificing one reservoir to save another. But even this strategy faces a hard deadline. On December 31, 2026, the entire legal framework managing the Colorado River—the treaties, the drought plans, the water-sharing agreements—all expires. Without a new deal between seven fiercely divided states, the system that provides water for 40 million people faces total chaos. Yet, one city has a secret survival plan. Las Vegas spent over $1.5 billion on an audacious engineering project, the “Third Straw” and the Low Lake Level Pumping Station, which allows it to pump water from an elevation 20 feet below dead pool. Even if Hoover Dam completely stops releasing water downstream to California, Arizona, and Mexico, Las Vegas’s taps will keep running. This documentary explores what happens after the dam stops. It’s a story of engineering that saves one city while stranding everyone else, of last-minute multi-million-dollar water deals just to buy a few more weeks, and of the final, desperate battle to rewrite the rules for a river that was promised away a century ago. When the clock strikes midnight, who survives?
Wednesday briefing: How Trump’s Iran gamble has produced a crisis reshaping the global order In today’s newsletter: A White House operating without expertise, strategy or restraint is stuck in a conflict with no easy way out, which is sending economic shockwaves far beyond its own borders
Oil price passes $100 a barrel again as Middle East conflict esc
‘Imagine All the Better Things That Could Have Been Done’: Trump Has Blown $37.5 Billion on Iran War
Ukraine: America’s Enduring Proxy War on RussiaIn his farewell address of January 1961, Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans against the “acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex,” and the danger that “public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” Sixty-five years on, Eisenhower’s warnings have been repeatedly and tragically vindicated. American democracy hangs by a thread, while the military-industrial complex, now including Silicon Valley, runs American foreign policy over the objections of the American people.
US-Saudi nuclear deal relies on it recognising Israel, says Trump – Middle East crisis live
Nonproliferation Experts Say Congress Must Reject Trump-Saudi Nuclear DealOne expert described the reported deal as “tantamount to the United States giving up on nonproliferation.” Nonproliferation experts are raising alarms after Reuters reported on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration plans to ask Congress to approve a deal that could allow Saudi Arabia to develop nuclear weapons. According to Reuters, an agreement crafted by the Trump administration would allow the US to share nuclear powertechnology with the Saudis without proper safeguards that “would stop materials being used in nuclear weapons programs.
Regime Change Mission Foiled: Yemen’s Ansarallah Uncover Saudi-Mossad-CIA Espionage Network to Decapitate Resistance LeadersNewly leaked documents reveal that while the Yemeni Armed Forces escalated their military campaign and Red Sea Blockade against Israel during the genocide in Gaza, a secret intelligence alliance and a “sophisticated espionage network” were being formed between Saudi intelligence, Israel’s Mossad and the CIA inside Riyadh to achieve regime change in Sana’a through political assasinations, dismantling Ansarallah from within, defecting military officials and gathering intelligence through charitable aid organizations.
Why Trump’s Allies in Israel & AIPAC’s on the Hill are in Trouble The winds of political change are blowing within Israel. A refreshing development is the emergence of the “A Place for Us All” Party, an alliance of Israelis and Israeli Arabs, which arose from the “Standing Together” social grassroots movement. Headed by Alon-Lee Green and Rula Daood. the movement’s membership has grown to 7,000 members from a few hundred since October 7. Notably, it has earned the support of many prominent Israelis including actress Natalie Portman. She called this movement, “one of the most courageous and exciting developments in Israel-Palestine in recent years,” saying, “The establishment wants to tell us that this is impossible – They want to minimize what these incredible leaders are doing here right now, and they’re terrified of what this movement represents.” This is a revolutionary development in Israeli politics, and what she called, “a new path based on equality and partnership.” Things are changing in the US, as well. On July 15th, 103 Democrats voted to cut $3.3B in aid to Israel in the State Department spending bill. This is a profound expression of rejection of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership by a majority of House Democrats. While this vote is only symbolic for now, it represents a tectonic shift within the Democratic Party and a dramatic reckoning.
The Chris Hedges Report: Trump’s Phantom Enemies The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for blacklisting and criminalizing all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent. The State Department’s 100-page report on Cuba’s “campaign of subversion against the United States,” along with Donald Trump’s assertion that “Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure,” lays the groundwork for dictatorship. Elections will be sabotaged in the name of “national security.” Left-wing dissent will be criminalized in the name of “combating terrorism.” Democracy will be snuffed out in the name of protecting “freedom.” Trump, who has lately taken to issuing warnings about a communist plot to take over America, posits that an island of 9.6 million people — nearly 90 percent of whom live in extreme poverty amid extended blackouts due to decades of U.S. economic warfare — is an existential threat. These accusations are not meant to be rational. They, like the charge that our elections are manipulated, are transparent excuses to go after institutions and individuals that are seen as threatening Trump and the Republican Party’s absolute grip on power. While Cuba has supposedly “carried out one of the most durable and damaging foreign intelligence penetrations in American history” Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, as well as non-state groups, “have the capability to compromise U.S. election infrastructure.”
The Brokovich Report: How To Fight A Quarry In Less Than 90 Days The Brokovich Report: How To Fight A Quarry In Less Than 90 Days “We were told nobody wins these fights.” Here’s how a group of concerned citizens in Indiana won anyway. In March 2026, residents of a quiet valley in Fort Wayne, Indiana, learned that a limestone quarry, complete with an asphalt plant, a concrete plant, and a mini rail yard (a complex of 1,600 total acres) was headed for the land next to their elementary school, across from a brand-new hospital campus, and up against a protected wetland called Eagle Marsh. Eighty-one days later, the Board of Zoning Appeals voted 4–0 to deny it. The developer withdrew everything else that same night. The numbers you need to know: 12,842 signatures. 44 organizations. 1 unanimous vote. We connected with Shawn McCarthy, one of the people who helped lead that fight, because this story is proof that ordinary people can beat a well-funded developer. I want you to know exactly how these fights get won, lost, and set up to happen again.