Recommended articles for 1/28/2018 by my website followers who are obviously engaged activists

I have been ailing from symptoms of a bad cold or moderate flu. I am grateful that these engaged activists, Caren and Christopher from northern Oregon, are helping me maintain my site and contributing to posts. Here are the best of their recommendations:

• The Atlantic Council & Latin American Regime Change  The Atlantic Council is one of most powerful organizations that make up the Deep State, the transnational capitalist ruling class that make all major decisions behind the facades of US-led Empire governments.

• Unpacking the Shadowy Outfit Behind 2017’s Biggest Fake News Story 

• Robert Parry's Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews  We have lost one of our great journalists.

• Empire Files: Death & Biostitutes - The US Opioid Crisis

• Not Even Orwell or Huxley Could Have Imagined 'Totalitarian' Threat Posed by Facebook and Google, Warns Soros  "WTF? Soros defending free speech???" Wonders never cease!

• Octopus Genes In Industrial Pot?  Derrick Jensen discovers the inevitable dynamics of capitalism in the growing concentration of the marijuana industry.