Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, December 31, 2019

• What we're told about ISIS is a lie (full show) reported by Michele Greenstein on the Rick Sanchez program from RT. Although guest-speakers on this program engage in rapid-fire delivery of their comments, Greenstein focuses on the Deep State and its propaganda organs, and as such I view the first 20:10 minutes as essential viewing.

• US Embassy in Iraq evacuated amid angry protests over airstrike on PMU from PressTV (Iran).

• As Honduras Collapses, Its People are Forced to Flee by Laura Carlsen from CounterPunch.

• Congress Just Passed Nightmare Legislation that Strips Trillions in Wealth from the Middle Class by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• Bolivian Vassals Are Merely Aping Their Imperial Masters by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Police in Hong Kong Brutalized by Rioters While Attacked by the Western Press by Andre Vltchek from Dissident Voice. 

• ‘I’m slowly dying here’: ‘Sedated’ Assange tells friend during Christmas Eve call from UK prison as health concerns mount from RT.

• Fires create hellish conditions across Australia by Mike Head from World Socialist Web Site.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, December 30, 2019

• Social Media and Social Control: How Silicon Valley Serves the US State Department by Morgan Artyukhina from Mint Press News.

• Beating the Western Media Blockade: Ideas, Infrastructure, Solidarity by Jorge Capelán and Stephen Sefton from Internationalist 360°.

• The class war election by Des Freedman from CounterFire (Britain).

Two posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, December 29, 2019

• Chronicles of a fading-out civilization from Maize.

• On giving up hope by Jeppe Dyrendom Graugaard from Pattern Which Connects.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, December 28, 2019

• America, Where Great Literature Kicked the Bucket by Andre Vltchek from New Eastern Outlook. 

• China detaining millions of Uyghurs? Serious problems with claims by US-backed NGO and far-right researcher ‘led by God’ against Beijing by Ajit Singh and Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone.

• From Colluding With Hitler Against the USSR to an Anti-Hitler Coalition by Yuriy Rubtsov from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: You might also be interested in my commentary that I wrote for a post entitled "Countdown to 'Full Spectrum Dominance'")

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, December 27, 2019

• Limited Hangout: A Deep State Psyops Few Know About by Guy Crittenden from Solarian.

• We Are the Ones Who Will Awaken the Dawn by Vijay Prashad from The Tricontinental.

• Goldman Sachs Federally-Insured Bank Loses $1.2 Billion in Interest Rate Derivative Bets by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, December 26, 2019

• End-of-life anxiety and finding meaning in a collapsing climate by Leonie Joubert from Our Burning Planet (aka Daily Maverick--New Zealand) (Note: I didn't know what to do about this post because this website blocks access to those computers who block ads. Another website you can access the article is Living Resilience, but one can't access the links in the latter website. I have ad blocking software on my primary browser; so to access such articles from blocking sites, I have downloaded a second web browser which I use to access articles on such websites and don't load any ad blocking software to the browser. That way I don't have to remember to re-activate or mess with my ad blocking software on my primary browser. Incidentally, the ads on Our Burning Planet are not obnoxiously all over the article as in more commercial websites.)

• The Amazon at a Tipping Point by Robert Hunziker from CounterPunch.

• Trump and the Stock Market Are the Winners in the Fed’s Repo Loan Binge; Here’s the Losers by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• Banking Nature, a 1:26:39 video posted on Thought Maybe. (I thank an activist, Caren, for this recommendation.) 

• Planetary arson and amplifying feedbacks: No alternative to CO2 drawdown by Andrew Glikson, an Earth and climate scientist, posted on Arctic News.

Sanctions, Security and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline

Click here to access article by Binoy Kampmark from OffGuardian. 

This is huge. And I think it is the beginning of the end for the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. European politicos are logically adamant about securing cheaper energy from Russia to fuel its profit-making industries, and they don't mind smacking the Empire (see this and this) to secure this energy. US sanctions against Europe will only increase the independence of Europe from the core Empire which includes Britain. I also think that Eric Zuesse is correct when he argues that "UK’s Tory Victory Likely to Bind U.S. & UK against Europe & Asia". 

However I can't go along with his elaborate argument that racism which is in the history of the Britain Empire accounts for this. Zuesse is a social-democrat and must find a way to justify this turn of events--see his remarks related to his statement "That’s not what capitalism was supposed to be". Racism was very prevalent around the turn of the century till late 1930s. But it has been diminishing in the post-war era as a useful divide and conquer weapon of the Empire's capitalist ruling classes (against workers) as color minorities have increased in population (customers) throughout the Empire. Anti-immigrant sentiment is now used in place of racism or as a substitute for racism.

So, what comes next? Either the Empire will execute an all-out attack against Russia, China, and Iran or the Earth's habitat will no longer support human life, or both. We ordinary people are "screwed" one way or another.

How the US Created the Cold War

Click here to access article by Eric Zuesse from Washington's Blog.

Unfortunately, the false history of WWII has been written by the ruling classes of the current US/Anglo/Zionist Empire through their well-paid propaganda agents throughout institutions of the Empire. In contrast, Zuesse offers a valuable source of the real truth, but his insights are limited by his social-democratic political orientation. 

This article (not the article posted in Strategic Culture Foundation--an edited version that left out his statement about "capitalism"--cleared up a number of questions I had about Eric Zuesse, the author. I have written several (at least) articles complaining about his use of the feudal term "aristocracy" instead of "ruling class" in his numerous articles. I saw this as reflecting his indoctrination in capitalist views mostly influenced by many years of education in US schools that he obviously had experienced. I was not wrong. In this article he clearly defines himself as a "progressive" by which he means his commitment to social democracy, a subset of capitalist ideologies, as illustrated by what has existed in the Scandinavian countries particularly after WWII when they had elaborate social welfare programs constructed on top of capitalist economies. Also, he is an admirer of FDR who saw the necessity of more elaborate welfare programs to preserve capitalism through the Great Depression. I gathered this from several paragraphs in the article such as:

Even other parts of that post-FDR system, such as the IMF, have served as siphons from publics around the world into the bank-accounts of the U.S. aristocracy and of its allied aristocracies. That’s not what capitalism was supposed to be. [Really?]

 And another quote:

Those weren’t “socialist” countries; they were dictatorial socialist (i.e., communist) countries, as opposed to democratic socialist (i.e., progressive) countries such as in Scandinavia — the proper term for what the Soviet alliance was is “communist,” not “socialist” — and there was a very big difference between the Scandinavian countries, versus the communist countries (though the U.S. regime wants to slur one by the other so as to sucker fools against democratic socialism — progressivism).

In other words, his "progressivism" is social democratic. He evidently believes that capitalism could be compatible with a sustainable Earth and that it could remain peaceful and just in spite of abundant contrary evidence throughout the relatively short history of capitalism.

Of further interest to me was a link in this article that brought me to an article in a publication that is followed by a section of the ruling class. This was published in Foreign Policy and entitled "The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan … Stalin Did" that added a great deal of clarity regarding the use of atomic bombs on Japan as well as the budding Empire's intentions toward the Soviet Union.

Zuesse's contributions to the geopolitical realities of our world are essential, but what isn't essential is his left-liberal views (capitalism can be reformed, his use of "aristocracy" instead of "ruling class", etc.) about these realities. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, December 20, 2019

• Capitalism and the Limits of Greening by Carl Boggs from CounterPunch.

• Corbyn was our Father Gapon. They have yet to meet our Lenin by John Wight from his weblog. (Note: you will need to know what "PLP" means.)

• US-China (Still Unsigned) Phase 1 Trade Deal by Jack Rasmus from his weblog.

• After addicting US to opioids, they’re selling cure. Mollye Barrows joins Rick Sanchez on his RT program to share her research. 

• The War on Terror - The Plot to Rule the Middle East. Bonnie Faulkner interviews Christopher Bollyn on her one hour program Guns and Butter which is carried live from WBAI in New York City and several affiliated stations across the Pacific Network. Her program was banned last year from KPFA in Berkeley, California (see this and this).

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, December 19, 2019

• COP25: Never have so many governments done so little for so many by Pete Dolack from his weblog Systematic Disorder.

• Extinction in 2020? from Arctic News.

• Biosphere Collapse? by Robert Hunziker from CounterPunch.

• Indo-Pak Nuclear Confrontation: First Use Policy and the Race Towards Armageddon by N.D. Jayaprakash from CounterPunch.

• Washington’s Refined Art of Torturing China May Ignite a War by Andre Vltchek from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: I found striking similarities in travel experiences with that of the author who is nominally an American journalist (in essence a citizen of the world). I experienced the same phenomenon in my short trip to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in about 1983 that he experienced in his travels in Russia in the early years of Yeltsin rule and more recently in China: the notable effect of Western propaganda on the citizens of Russia and China.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, December 18, 2019

• The News Churn Memory Hole: How The MSM Lies Even When Telling The Truth by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: She sounds exasperated, but keeps plugging away at exposing the truth in the face off overwhelming presence of fake news and gaslighting (def.) furnished by corporate media. Other individual voices have tried to do the same--click on links to access their latest efforts: like satirist C.J. Hopkins and humorists like Lee Camp and Jimmy Dore; truth tellers like Bernard of Moon of Alabama, Eric Zuesse, Eva Bartlett, Vanessa Beeley, Abby Martin; whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, and persecuted whistleblowers like Julian Assange and Chelsea/Bradley Manning. But nothing seems to change.) 

• When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job by John H. Richardson from Esquire.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, December 16, 2019

• Who is responsible for the climate crisis? by Jason Moore from Maize. (Note: one of my "best posts")

• Glacial melt creates Andes time bomb by Kieran Cooke from Climate News Network.

• COP25 video: Messages from climate marchers to politicians by Josh Gabbatiss from Carbon Brief.

•  No Justification For The Existence of Any Kind of Charter School by Shawgi Tell from Dissident Voice.

Note to readers: Change of policy

Many times in the past I've made clear that humans face two fundamental threats to their existence: one from a catastrophic nuclear war brought on by mostly the transnational capitalist class in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire; and two, a longer range problem due to the operations of the capitalist system which is well on its way to destroying our ecosystem that supports humans and so many other species. Previously I have limited all posts to one month from the current date, however because the second threat to our human existence moves more slowly (although it is picking up speed due to its accelerating momentum), I've decided to remove this requirement from posts related to this general subject.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, December 15, 2019

• Dr Peter Carter | Expert IPPC Reviewer | COP25 from Extinction Rebellion via YouTube.

• New Study: Greenland is melting seven times faster than 30 years ago. A post from Just Have a Think via YouTube.

• “The conversation we need to have with our children about climate change” by Jeppe Dyrendom Graugaard (Denmark) from his weblog Refiguring.

• COP25 video: Messages from climate marchers to politicians by Josh Gabbatiss from Carbon Brief (based in Britain).

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, December 13, 2019

Early news and commentary on yesterday's British elections

• How Boris Johnson’s election gamble paid off by Elizabeth Piper from Reuters (a news service mostly owned by the British ruling class).

• Jeremy Corbyn: ‘I will not lead Labour at next election’ from BBC.

• Campaigners demand law banning political lies as think-tank warns 'disinformation is becoming normalised' in elections by Cahal Milmo from Inews.

• National (counter) Revolution wins over Radical Reformism, Neocons win over Globalisers, War wins over Peace from Defend Democracy Press.

• Someone Interfered In The UK Election, And It Wasn’t Russia by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Corbyn’s Defeat has slain the Left’s Last Illusion by Jonathan Cook from his weblog. (The best analysis in my opinion.)

• UK's Johnson wins parliamentary majority, Corbyn to stand down from PressTV (Iran).

• Corbyn Is the Lesser Evil from Russia Insider.

Other commentary and news:

• In its anti-‘Medicare for All’ push, the health insurance industry pulls from an old playbook from The Conversation. 

• Award-Winning Journalist Vanessa Beeley Faces “Deplatforming” at Six Canadian Venues by Michael Welch from Global Research (based in Canada). 

• Media bias: Why Putin-Ukraine deal gets no coverage from Rick Sanchez's show on RT America.

Two cynical videos for our entertainment in the last days of our species for Thursday, December 12, 2019

• MSNBC’s Fake Concern For The Climate Crisis, a 7:50m video from Lee Camps show Redacted Tonight via YouTube.

• Obama/Bush/Trump Lied Repeatedly About Afghan War-- Documents Reveal, a 27:04m video from The Jimmy Dore Show via YouTube.

Posts that I especially recommend for yesterday and today: Wednesday, December 11, 2019

• NIST Publishes New FAQ on Its Refusal to Release Key Building 7 Data by Ted Walter from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

• Trump-Pelosi Trade Maneuvers: USMCA, China Tariffs, & Brazil-Argentina Steel by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. (Note: You will need to know who AMLO is.)

• Human Rights from an Indigenous Perspective by Ollantay Itzamná from Internationalist 360°. 

• The true legacy of US central banker Paul Volcker (1927–2019) by Nick Beams from World Socialist Web Site.

• WADA Sporting Ban is Part of West’s New Cold War Against Russia. This post features an interview with 21st Century Wire's Patrick Henningsen via RT. 

• NATO Secretary General Targets ‘Rising China’: Why Cold War Newspeak Never Went Away by Cynthia Chung from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control by Edward Curtin from his weblog. 

• Russiagate media smears against Corbyn brought to you by US and UK military-intelligence apparatus by Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone.

• The Deep State by Alex Diaz from BSNews (Britain). (Note: More about smearing Corbin.)

• The Most Significant Afghanistan Papers Revelation Is How Difficult They Were To Make Public by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• How Many Types of “Good” Capitalism Are There? by Shawgi Tell from Dissident Voice. 

• A system that steals from our future by Ian Angus from Climate & Capitalism.

• The portent of runaway greenhouse warming by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News.

Commentary regarding yesterday's post: Wikipedia Fraud EXPOSED

Click here to access article by the "administrator" of Disruptive Fare. 

First, I need to apologize to the activist who sent me this article. It was re-posted on Tyler Durden's Zerohedge which he sent me. I, out of habit, saw that the original post was from Disruptive Fare, and I gave them credit for the post. (Actually, as an aside comment, I have a strong suspicion that both websites are run by the same person or persons.)

I thought the post was very revealing to those who have over the years came to trust Wikipedia as an honest and independent source of information. It still is for many entries, but over the years the website has seen powerful/rich influences that have subverted many entries to serve their interests. All that they needed was a lot of money to hire people to do their subversive work by submitting 500 entries, following their rules of documenting, and qualifying as an "editor". It didn't matter that the documentation was from spurious or self-serving sources. Long ago I saw this weakness and knew that Wikipedia was eventually to succumb to those with vast amounts of money. But that's true of every institution in capitalist society. They and their supporters with their concentrated wealth/power have been harnessed to serve only the interests of the capitalist class: the preservation of their system, the accumulation of wealth, and power.

Fortunately, Karl Marx and his followers have long ago contributed to an understanding of classes and how societies are structured according to the needs of the dominant class. This class analysis is, in my opinion, the greatest of all of his gifts toward the understanding of social and historical development of societies. This commentary intends to use class analysis to understand why the website Disruptive Fare have used this issue of the corruption of Wikipedia.

While perusing the website of Disruptive Fare, I noticed several clues to its class identity: the sidebar that cited stock market data and the supportive passages of Trump's policies, in a addition to the incisive and thorough analysis of the Wikipedia issue. And the latter post attacks some main institutions of capitalist society: CIA and Big Pharma, an industry that has grown to be a self-serving behemoth that interferes with attempts to provide affordable healthcare for all Americans. This take on the issue of Wikipedia frames the issue much like left-wing analysts do--the corruption of a website due to the power and money of concentrated wealth. Yet the "administrator" as an author of the commentary is very supportive of Trump. What gives?

I've long ago pointed to the resentment of the older ruling capitalist class toward the neo-conservatives who have taken over the ruling capitalist class beginning most demonstrably with the Reagan administration. I pointed this out more than five years ago with my commentary to Amed's post "Who the hell are the Henry Jackson Society?" (now located here). I identified this new group of capitalists as neoconservatives who as transnational capitalists under the US Empire were taking over for the transnational ruling capitalist class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. 

Since then there have been signs that the older ruling class, which I will identify as "old-fashioned capitalists", have terrifically resented this takeover. These latter people include Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, Paul Craig Roberts (he served in the Reagan administration and his comments are always positive in relation to this administration which brought in the "neocons"), Tyler Durden, the Mises Institute, and a host of others. Ron Unz is the latest to establish a website to counter the influence of the neoconservatives by appealing to a variety of ruling class critics and posting their articles. But there is a whiff of antisemitism to his website with increasing references to "Jews" rather than Zionists. This trait, too, is common among old-fashioned conservatives.

What these two capitalist factions have in common is their basic contempt for working people who do not live off of Wall Street stocks and bonds, but instead live off of their labor producing actual goods and services. This theme runs like lace through all of their commentaries mostly by totally ignoring the contributions of working people, the overwhelming majority of people.

I won't belabor this commentary further, but will cite an obviously biased take on the Zerohedge website which can apply to all old-fashioned conservatives.

Two posts that an activist sent me to further your understanding of these difficult times

• This is what mind control looks like uploaded to YouTube by Robert Boudrias.

• Wikipedia Fraud EXPOSED: Troll farms and the CIA have hijacked the once open platform by the "administrator" of Disruptive Fare. (This post needs some analysis; but in general it is quite revealing. I have posted several articles (here, here, here, and here) in the past referring to Wikipedia's subversion by powerful interests. Furthermore, I found the website Disruptive Fare most interesting, but I don't have time today to analyze it--probably tomorrow. For now, look at other posts on his home page--you will need to scroll down past the lead article to view his other posts.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, December 9, 2019

• “The Cost Of Sanity, In This Society, Is A Certain Level Of Alienation” by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Journalist: Newsweek Suppressed OPCW Scandal And Threatened Me With Legal Action by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• West Point Professor Builds a Case Against the U.S. Army by David Swanson from World Beyond War. 

• On Those Questionable Jobs Numbers….Again! by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. (Note: Is the ruling capitalist class desperate enough to lie to extend their predatory system?)

• Why the UK establishment hates Jeremy Corbyn by Johanna Ross from Brics.

• US and UK military-intelligence apparatus campaigns to destroy Jeremy Corbyn by Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone.

• The Planned 1933 Fascist Coup in America by Larry Romanoff from Global Research. (Note: For history buffs like myself who have wondered why FDR seemingly colluded to cover up this crucial event.)

• Capitalism versus Life on Earth by Ian Angus from Climate & Capitalism.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, December 6, 2019

While waiting for the ecosystem to collapse, I'm hearing sounds that suggest the destructive iceberg of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire and its army, NATO, is breaking up. What do you think? Even Canada, the Empire's colony to the north, is part of this noisy background. 

• NATO is “Brain Dead” by Peter Koenig from New Eastern Outlook.

• NATO Splits Reveal Alliance is Redundant, an editorial from the Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Hong Kong — Pure Western Insanity by Peter Koenig from New Eastern Outlook.

• Fake News By Omission :  The Mass Media’s Cowardly Distortion Tool by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Bolivia Returned to Being a Country Governed by the U.S., Neo-Nazis and Narcos translated from Misión Verdad and re-posted on Internationalist 360º.

• Latin America: Imperialist Subversion Forges Full Speed Ahead posted on Granma (Cuba) and re-posted on Internationalist 360º (probably safer for you to read).

• Greenland ice melt feeds glacier instability by Tim Radford from Climate News Network.

NATO summit dominated by growing inter-state conflicts

Click here to access article by Alex Lantier from World Socialist Web Site.

Lantier summarizes what I believe are the signs to the collapse of the capitalist US/Anglo/Zionist Empire which rose from the ashes of the German Nazi version of this capitalist Empire. WWII was not fought to end fascism as the Empire's propagandists want you to believe, but the ultimate contest between a German-capitalist led and a British-capitalist led fascist capitalism. The Nazi Empire was originally funded and supported by Western capitalists of all countries, but as soon as they saw Nazis stalled at the gates of Moscow, the capital of a first socialist experiment, they immediately allied themselves with the preservation of the British Empire. The current fascist Empire (in "democratic" clothes) has been the final result of the devastating conflict of WWII. 

But this Empire is seeing its end days. To revise a weather folklore, I believe that the Empire will not go out like a lamb, but like a wounded lion which thrashes around to impress his fellow lions (capitalists) that he is still dominant among the creatures of the earth--think Bolivia and Venezuela after the Syrian debacle. The Fed is stuffing our failing banks with their "printed" money to stave of the massive debts that the Empire has created to impose its dominance on the rest of world. The signs are everywhere.

But let me not assure you that we residents of the Empire will not suffer "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune". The ensuing series of catastrophes will soon engulf us and end in the extinction of humans. In contrast to this inspiring video we are doomed as a species. We might have changed things back in 2012, but we surely can't while approaching 2020. The artillery of our oceans and skies are so locked and loaded with capitalist-produced carbon that our fate is already decided. 

We are entering a new "brave world" in which our capitalist masters may still be brought to justice--hopefully! For us, this can only be a bitter-sweet reward to see that this class of sociopathic people, who have destroyed ours and so many other species, and whose exploitation of the Earth and all of its working people has brought them so much temporary wealth and power, will finally share in our fate--extinction.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, December 3, 2019

(Blogger's note: I have been fighting influenza for nearly a week; so if the posts are not up to the standard of previous ones, I apologize.)

• Leading climate researchers: we are in a climate emergency, facing existential risks by David Spratt from Climate Code Red.

• Failed Action On The Climate Crisis Makes Resistance Imperative by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese from Popular Resistance.

• The fantasy world continues by Michael Roberts from his weblog.

• Venezuela's Counter-Attack by Eric Striker from National Justice.

• Technocracy now: The US is working to turn Lebanon’s anti-corruption protests against Hezbollah [part 1 of 2] by Rania Khalek from The Grayzone.

• Crack down on genomic surveillance by Yves Moreau from Nature.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, November 30, 2019

• The Grand Illusion by Carl Boggs from CounterPunch.

• Member of Ukraine’s Parliament Leaks Trove of Biden Financial Records by Eric Zuesse from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• How the U.S. Caused the Breakup of the Soviet Union: after an introduction by Sean Gervasi and Dennis Riches, a Sean Gervasi 1992 lecture captured on 1:31:14 hour video (via YouTube) posted on Global Research. (I recommend following the transcript provided at the bottom of the article while listening to the lecture on YouTube.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, November 28, 2019

Bolivia:

• Bolivia: Let’s Wake up. Please by Nacho Levy from Internationalist 360°. 

• The U.S. Launches Itself in the Most Violent Way Imaginable to Definitively Seize Bolivia by Argentine sociologist Atilio Boron from Internationalist 360°.

• Evidence talks: U.S. government propelled coup in Bolivia by W. T. Whitney, Jr from Defend Democracy Press.

• The New York Times’ Long History of Endorsing US-Backed Coups by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• Bolivia, laboratory of a new destabilization strategy by Thierry Meyssan (France) from his weblog Voltaire Network. (Note: You will need to know about "Ustashe".)

Other articles:

• Iran says eight CIA 'elements' arrested in connection with protests from Middle East Eye.

• The explosion in Lebanon has been delayed: until when? by Kuwaiti independent journalist Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

• Just Part of Doing Business by Ron Jacobs from CounterPunch.

• New Study: "Russian Trolls" Did Not "Sow Discord" - They Influenced No One by Bernhard (Germany) from Moon of Alabama. 

• Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against by Timothy M. Lenton from Nature. (Note: As most of you know, I have already decided that it is too late.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, November 27, 2019

• Narrative Managers Faceplant In Hilarious OPCW Scandal Spin Job by Caitlin Johnstone (Australian) from her weblog.

• Google’s Quayside Project: Big Brother and the Privatization of Public Space by Guy Crittenden from Solarian.

• This Russian TV of Extreme Police Brutality Against Yellow Vests in Paris Will Shock You - Western Media Silent from Russia Insider. 

• Melting of Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets: Atmospheric CO2 and The Shift of Climate Zones by Dr. Andrew Glikson from Global Research.

• Accelerating greenhouse gas levels from Arctic News.

To keep informed about the planet's humans, I especially recommend these posts today: Tuesday, November 26, 2019

• Hong Kong elections: pro-democracy camp wins 17 out of 18 districts while city leader says she will reflect on the result by Jeffie Lam, Sum Lok-kei, and Ng Kang-chung from South China Morning Post (based in Hong Kong). 

• Blinded Palestinian Journalist Exposes Israel’s Increasing Violence Against Media by Delilah Boxstein from Mint Press News. 

• Amnesty International Toes US Gov’t Line in Urging Unrest in Iran by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• Iran’s ‘only crime is we decided not to fold’ by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• Now the Interim of US Self-Deception Over Bolivia by Patrick Lawrence from Consortium News. 

• “Internal dynamics” or “external influence” in the Arab world? by Onur Sinan Güzaltan from United World (Turkey).

• What’s Behind the Subprime Consumer Loan Implosion? by Wolf Richter from his weblog Wolf Street.

• The breach of the Paris Agreement by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News.

• New U.N. climate report offers ‘bleak’ emissions forecast by Nathaniel Gronewald from Science. (Note: This was from the original source E&E News that is behind a paywall.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, November 23, 2019

• Trump Is Appeasing the Wrong People by Steve Brown from The Duran. (Note: The author demonstrates an insightful understanding of the well-hidden forces (the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's Deep State) at work to shape the world's most important economic and political events.)

• Americans Usually Support Ethnic Cleansing When Their Government Does by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: As usual Zuesse offers an insightful and well documented analysis of US foreign policies.)

• Bolivia’s Coup Gov’t Targets Alternative Media as Crackdown Turns Increasingly Violent by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• US occupying Syria oil wells, looting resources: Damascus envoy to UN from PressTV (Iran). 

• Why The Hong Kong Riots Are Coming To An End by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• Climate emergency (2): The scientific case by David Spratt from Climate Code Red (based in Australia).

Two posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, November 22, 2019

• Bolivia, Lithium and Hijacking the Environmental Movement by Guy Crittenden from Solarian (based in Canada). 

• Obama Tells Dems Don't Be "Too Far Left" by Jimmy Dore and his show in Philadelphia (via YouTube).

Posts I especially recommend for today: Thursday, November 21, 2019

• The impeachment crisis and American imperialism by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site.

• Ukrainian MP Claims $7.4 Billion Obama-Linked Laundering, Puts Biden Group Take At $16.5 Million by Tyler Durden from ZeroHedge. (Note: I couldn't access the translation of the video--this might be because I haven't registered with Twitter.)

• Fascists R Us: Trump and Pompeo’s Deny That Israeli Squatting on Palestinian Land Is Illegal by Juan Cole from Common Dreams.

• Latest US Moves in Syria Reveal True Objectives of Imperialism by James O'Neill from New Eastern Outlook.

• Scandinavia on the Skids: The Failure of Social Democracy by Ron Ridenour from The Greanville Post. (Note: I've read considerable reliable literature on the history of the Scandinavian version of social democracy and I thoroughly agree with Ridenour's assessment.) 

• What’s Really Happening in Lebanon? by Laith Marouf from BS News (based in Britain). 

• Craig Murray on Assange: "Swedes should be ashamed of the way they've been played by the CIA" from RT (via YouTube).

Posts I especially recommend for today: Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Bolivia:

• Coups easy in Latin America when US controls military – professor by Jeb Sprague from RT America.

• Bolivia: Chaos hits Cochabamba as police and pro-Morales protesters clash from Ruptly via YouTube. 

• Evo and the Movements: A Long Process of Degradation by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui from Capitalism Nature Socialism. (Note: This contain some apparently legitimate criticism of Evo Morales and the MAS party.)

• Bolivia: A Color Revolution or a New Surge for Latin American Independence? by Peter Koenig from Dissident Voice. 

Other posts:

• Reclaiming Your Inner Fascist by C. J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc.

• General Shows Trump Maps of Oil Fields To Keep US Troops in Syria by Josiah Thayer from Antiwar.

• Now That Assange Is Safely Locked Up, Sweden Drops Its “Investigation” by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Assange rape case dropped: Sweden abandons probe that led to WikiLeaks co-founder’s asylum in UK’s Ecuadorian embassy from Defend Democracy Press. 

• NYT’s “Leaked” Chinese Files Story Covers For Terrorism by Tony Cartalucci from New Eastern Outlook. (Note; I couldn't access the article directly from their website (censorship?), but I found a way to access it indirectly from Startpage.com, a search engine I sometimes use.

• Chemical watchdog manipulated Douma attack report - whistleblower from RT. 

• New report finds costs of climate change impacts often underestimated by Dana Nuccitelli from Yale Climate Connections.

Posts I especially recommend for today: Tuesday, November 19, 2019

• God Save the Queen. The US Destruction of the British Empire [and the rise of the US/British/Zionist Empire replacing the fascist empires of Germany and Japan] by Larry Romanoff from Global Research. (Thanks go to activist Caren administrator of Titanic Lifeboat Academy who posted this article.)

• French Yellow Vests Celebrate First Birthday, Converge With Planned Labor Strikes by a longtime activist Richard Greeman from CounterPunch.

• Capital Not Ideology by Michael Roberts from Socialist Economist.

• US National Debt Spiked by $1.3 Trillion in 12 Months, to $23 Tn. But Who Bought This Pile of Treasury Securities? by Wolf Richter from his weblog Wolfstreet.

Posts I especially recommend for today: Monday, November 18, 2019

• America’s enforcer in the Middle East. Paul Graham interviews (36:35m) Stephen Gowans who in my opinion is a leading political analyst in the world.

• The US and Iran in Iraq: Protestors take over the streets, demanding government reforms “or else” by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

• China, USA and the Geopolitics of Lithium by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. 

• Bolivia – A Color Revolution – or a New Surge for Latin American Independence? by Peter Koenig from The Greanville Post.

• Is the Middle East Beginning a Self-Correction? by Alistair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• The Hugely Important OPCW Scandal Keeps Unfolding. Here’s Why No One’s Talking About It. By Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Scientists’ climate gap is narrowing by Alex Kirby from Climate News Network. 

• Wall Street Journal investigation confirms Google operates censorship blacklist by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site. (Note: WSWS and other websites are not all that is being censored by Google and YouTube which is owned by Google. Looking last night I ran into countless videos that were blocked by YouTube or its "owners" or the Deep State: see this, this, or any of these films: Money As Debt 2: Promises Unleashed; The Money Masters; Creature from Jekyll Island; 1929- The Great Wall St Crash & Depression; Fiat Empire- Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution; War By Deception: The shadow government and shadow economy; etc. (scroll down to see all these blocked films)

Posts I especially recommend for today: Saturday, November 16, 2019

Bolivia:

• Interview: President Evo Morales on the Real Situation in Bolivia from 21st Century Wire.

• Bolivian Army Massacres Peaceful Protesters in Cochabamba from Internationalist 360°.

• Top Bolivian coup plotters trained by US military’s School of the Americas, served as attachés in FBI police programs by Jeb Sprague from The Greyzone. 

• VIVA EVO! Morales Overthrown, But Bolivian Socialism Will Endure by Andre Vltchek from 21st Century Wire.

• The Removal of Morales is a Minor Victory in a Series of Losses for Washington by Paul Antonopoulos from Brics.

Other posts:

• Former US Secretary of State Kissinger points to danger of “catastrophic” conflict between US and China by Nick Beams (Australian) from World Socialist Web Site.

• Seeking to cultivate fascistic base, Trump pardons two war criminals and promotes a third by Evan Blake from World Socialist Web Site. 

• Epstein Is Alive (Part 2) -- No DNA Test! from Fort Russ News (FRN).

• Watch the Arctic’s sea ice slowly disappear by Sid Perkins from Science.

• 2020 El Nino could start 18 degree temperature rise by Sam Carana from Arctic News.

Posts I especially recommend for today: Friday, November 15, 2019

• Bolivia Does Not Exist by Vijay Prashad from The Tricontinental.

• The Bolivia coup shows that the global class conflict is a war by Rainer Shea from his weblog.

• The Fed Has Created the Big Lie for Congress on its Repo Loans while the New York Fed Blocks Freedom of Information Requests by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Who Will Foot the Bill for America’s Military Bases Overseas? by Vladimir Platov from New Eastern Outlook. 

• NATO: A Dangerous Dumbo Elephant in the General Assembly Room by Phil Butler from New Eastern Outlook.

• Social Media Censorship Reaches New Heights as Twitter Permanently Bans Dissent by Mnar Muhawesh who is the founder of Mint Press News (Minneapolis).

• Underreported Arctic Methane Release by Stuart Scott from Scientists Warning.

• Portents of continental-scale fires as the Earth warms by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News.

Short list of articles that I especially recommend today: Thursday, November 14, 2019

• Understanding the Deep State’s Propaganda by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• ISIS Captives Offer a Convenient Pawn in Turkey’s Syria Chess Game by Vanessa Beeley from Mint Press News.

• “No No You Guys, THIS US-Backed Coup Is Perfectly Legitimate!” by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• The Colonial Era Never Ended by Guy Crittenden from Solariun.

Posts I especially recommend for today: Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Bolivia:

• "It's Now or Never": Bolivian Elite Destroying the Country by Edu Montesanti from TeleSur. 

• First Lessons from the Fascist Coup in Bolivia by Luis Alfonso Mena S. from Internationalist 360°.

• Lessons To Learn From The Coup In Bolivia by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• A few short comments about the Fascist coup in Bolivia by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

Other posts:

• Narrative Managers In Overdrive After Death Of White Helmets Founder by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• U.S. Globalists’ Come Up with New Design for Pitching Turkey, Iran, Armenia, Russia against One Another from United World International. 

• US exports covert ‘Syria model’ of permanent war (Full show) from RT. "Rick Sanchez reports on the covert operations against Syrian President Bashar Assad, orchestrated by the CIA and Saudi Arabia, which led to the creation of Islamic State and caused 500,000 deaths and displaced 10 million people. He explains how the US government can maintain perpetual war only by routinely misinforming the public. Then RT America’s Michele Greenstein and RT producer Dr. Enrique Riviera join to discuss the US hand in fomenting unrest and upheaval in Hong Kong and Bolivia. The Federal Reserve has given another $112 billion to Wall Street. Hardly a sign of a 'thriving economy.' David Stockman, former budget director for President Ronald Reagan and author of 'Peak Trump: The Undrainable Swamp and the Fantasy of MAGA' joins Rick Sanchez to share his insights. [And] RT America's Faran Fronczak joins Rick Sanchez to discuss Project Nightingale, a secret project to give Google access to the medical records of millions." (To 24:27m)

• Tulsi Demands Info On Saudi Involvement In 911 Attacks. Jimmy Dore interviews Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (via YouTube).

• Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist by Clark Mindock from Independent.

• David Stockman: True US economy about to be ‘revealed’. Rick Sanchez interviews David Stockman on his RT program. "The Federal Reserve has given another $112 billion to Wall Street. Hardly a sign of a 'thriving economy.' David Stockman, former budget director for President Ronald Reagan and author of 'Peak Trump: The Undrainable Swamp and the Fantasy of MAGA' joins Rick Sanchez to share his insights. He argues the market 'can’t digest' all the money flooding into Wall Street and that the Federal Reserve responded with panic.

• Global climate treaty is not working by Tim Radford from Climate News Network. 

Posts I especially recommend for today: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 (edited at 1:54 PM & 5:50 PM CT mainly to add one more entry & comments)

The Coup in Bolivia:

• President Morales Calls Out U.S. Foreign Policy as Trump Listens in UN Security Council Meeting, uploaded onto YouTube by Representative Press. (Note: especially watch until 6:25m.) I have a hunch that this was when the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire decided to get rid of Morales because he spoke too much truth in front of the Security Council of the United Nations--they wouldn't want to be embarrassed any further by Morales or anybody who speaks the truth. The same applies to independent journalists and real whistleblowers.

• Bolivia coup led by Christian fascist paramilitary leader and multi-millionaire – with foreign support by Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton from The Grayzone. 

• Bolivia’s Evo Morales forced out by coup by Andrea Lobo from World Socialist Web Site.

Other posts:

• How Surveillance and Propaganda Work in ‘the Free World’ by Brian Cloughley from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Google Collecting Medical Data on Millions Without Informing Patients or Doctors by Yves Smith from her weblog Naked Capitalism.

• Cornering and Strangulating Iran Has Backfired on Israel by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: you will need to know the meaning of British slang for "at sixes and sevens".)

• Hong Kong - "Marginal Violence" Fails To Win More Protest Support by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• Founder of White Helmets found dead outside his home in Istanbul from Al-Masdar Al-'Arabi (The Arab Source). (Note: see also these links about James Le Mesurier--here, here, and here.

• The Fed’s Repo Bailout and JPMorgan’s 38 Trading Floors by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• How You Know We’re Seeing The Death of Truth from Lee Camp's Redacted Tonight show on RT.

• Revolutionaries shouldn’t rely on liberals by Rainer Shea from his weblog.

Posts I especially recommend for today: Monday, November 11, 2019

• Ignoring Climate Catastrophes by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.

• Bolivia: President Evo Morales Resigns Amid Right-Wing Coup from Telesur. Also, in relation to this event Internationalist 360° has been following developments in Bolivia: read their posts entitled "Bolivia Coup d’état: Evo Morales Resigns in the Face of Fascist Attack" and "The Coup in Bolivia: Five Lessons".

• November 11: Remembering the Tragedy and Legacy of World War I by H. Patricia Hynes from Antiwar.

Posts I especially recommend reading today: Sunday, November 10, 2019

• On Contact: Resistance & the Left with Paul Street, posted on RT.  Chris Hedges interviews Street. 

• Epstein, Al Baghdadi and the Point by Russell Bentley from Fort Russ.

• Lebanon and Iraq protestors: The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia are fed up with Iran 3/4 by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

• Qatar – Education as a Weapon by Andre Vltchek from New Eastern Outlook.

Deep Adaptation Forum and Extinction Rebellion in Britain

I have received posts from a serious climate activist about the activities of what I refer to as upper-middle class activists in Britain who identify as Deep Adaptation Forum and associate themselves with Extinction Rebellion. (I have not re-posted all of them; and those I have posted, I didn't read all of them.) 

It is clear that the British are leading this embryonic movement that is growing worldwide. The posts should be regarded as the very beginning of the acknowledgement and confrontation concerning the climate crisis, and the threat of human species extinction. The posts feature Prof. Jem Bendell (in one post, also Matthew Slater) who has delivered a number of talks to Deep Adaptation groups associated with this movement. However, I think regarding this subject, there are no experts about what we should do or think about human extinction, which is becoming incontrovertible by the week. The Forum's concern is just a reflection of the advantages of membership in the upper-middle class in mainly capitalist Britain that has allowed this highly trained class of people to become informed about this subject.

These "experts" often glibly mention that dealing with this subject should somehow be liberating and even mention the rewards of joy, love, and healing to those willing to confront the subject. Some, like Bendell, even mention in passing that capitalism has some relation to our extinction, but that is as far as they go in exploring the subject. Bendell approves of the age-old religions such as Buddhism and Sufism, and suggests that they might be helpful. 

It is clear to me that many organizers and the leaders of Deep Adaptation groups are recommending only individualist solutions for dealing with the unthinkable and recommending that commiserating with other upper-middle class people will be helpful. And always added to that is the requirement of non-violence. We wouldn't want to upset our capitalist masters who fear violence, but never hesitate to use violence against others if they threaten their system that delivers to them so much wealth and power over the rest of us (sarcasm). But enough of my bias. Read his scripted and/or listen to his talks, which depart occasionally from his script with ad lib remarks, to see what you think.

• Hope in a time of climate chaos – a speech to psychotherapists by Jem Bendell

• Will We Care Enough to Matter to Them? Climate Justice, Solidarity and Deep Adaptation. By Jem Bendell.

• The Spiritual Invitation of Climate Chaos by Jem Bendell.

• Leadership for Deep Adaptation by Jem Bendell. 

• Why Deep Adaptation needs re-localisation by Matthew Slater and Jem Bendell.

• Foundations of Sustainable Leadership 2020  A course description (and costs) delivered by Jem Bendell at University of Cumbria based in Carlisle, Britain. 

• Deep Adaptation Forum. Various links related to this website.

Posts that I expecially recommend for today: Wednesday, November 6, 2019

• World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency by William J Ripple and others from BioScience - Oxford University Press. 

• The Creation of Society’s Shared Hallucinations (2014) by Roger Boyd from Resilience. (Note: this was introduced and recommended by this current post.)

• A record CO2 rise rate since the KT dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago by Andrew Glikson (Earth and climate scientist and associated with Australian National University) from Arctic News.

• California’s crises and the prospects for socialist revolution by Rainer Shea from his weblog.

• We need to talk about … Green New Deal and other necessary vocabulary for our times by Anne Ryan from Fiesta.  

• US congressional panel outlines next phase of dirty war on Syria: Occupy oil fields and block reconstruction by Ben Norton from The Grayzone.

• U.S. Citizens in Ukraine – The Flies Come Home to Roost by Russell Bentley from Fort Russ News.

Posts that I especially liked or enjoyed, and want to share them with you today: Tuesday, November 5, 2019

• Transitions: There Is Infinite Hope, But Not For Us by Barbara Cecil & Dahr Jamail from Last Born in the Wilderness. (Note: thanks go to Titanic Lifeboat Academy for alerting me to this fine article.) 

• Climate Change from the Inside Out: Shock. Grief. Respond. Relief. Repeat by Vicki Robin from Living Resilience. (Note: I can identify with much of her feelings.)

• California of Fire and Profit by Luca Celada, translated from an Italian website and re-posted on Global Research.

• Troops To “Guard” Syrian Oil… And All Other Oil from Lee Camp's Redacted Tonight posted on RT (via YouTube). 

• The Ministry of Wiki-Truth by CJ Hopkins, America's premier satirist, from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (Note: I started noticing the subversion of posts in Wikipedia several years ago.)

Today's posts (Monday, November 4, 2019) I think are especially important for activists

• CrossTalk on Max Blumenthal: Arresting speech from RT. (Notes: it is clear that our ruling class is going after journalists who are not approved by them, and few people know about it--truth is dangerous! I thank an activist for alerting me to this post.)

• New land height metric raises sea level rise risk by Tim Radford from Climate News Network.

• The United States has produced very few anti-imperialists. Noam Chomsky is not among them. By Stephen Gowans from his weblog.

• US Embassy Pressures Thailand Over Monsanto Poison Ban by Joseph Thomas from New Eastern Outlook. (An illustration of "our" government promoting corporate profits onto other countries regardless of environmental consequences.)

• “Robbing” Syria’s Oil to Thwart Syria’s Recovery by Salman Rafi Sheikh from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: Analysis of the Empire's latest move in Syria. Esper is the current Secretary of Defense. The sentence beginning with "It is obvious that the bid to control Syria’s oil has nothing with the fight against terrorism;" should read as "It is obvious that the bid to control Syria’s oil has nothing [to do] with the fight against terrorism;")

• The Truth About The Syrian Arab Army by Vanessa Beeley, the extraordinary independent British journalist, from BSNews.

• The Incredible Shrinking Overton Window by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: the "Overton Window" is essentially what is regarded by our ruling class as acceptable or legitimate for discussion and debate.)

Two posts I especially recommend for today: Saturday, November 2, 2019

• The “Deep State” Has Been Redefined as Career Bureaucrats Doing Their Patriotic Duty by Edward Curtin from his weblog.

• Questions Remain Over Alleged Death of Islamic State Leader, an editorial from Strategic Culture Foundation.

Posts that I especially recommend for today: Friday, November 1, 2019

• Another look at the Federal Reserve’s panic in September 2019 and solutions to the crisis by Eric Toussaint from the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt. 

• The Third Hand In The Middle East: How Saudi Arabia and the US manipulate international politics with social media by Emad Abshenass from United World (based in Turkey).

• Politics of the worst: U.S. is taking Syria's oil by Bobby Naderi from China Global Television Network.

• Rebuilding Syria – without Syria’s oil by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times (based in Singapore).

• Twitter’s ban on political advertisement: A new move to censor the internet by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site.

• Watch: Banking Nature [a 1:26:47 video] posted on the Wrong Kind of Green.

Posts for today, Wednesday, October 30, 2019, that I especially recommend to people who want to know and understand how the ravages of capitalism are affecting the worldwide victims of the system.

• Interview: Syrian Girl on Trump’s Latest U-Turn in Syria, a 44:17m in-depth interview with "Syrian Girl", who, I believe, is now residing in Australia having fled, like many Syrians, the dangers of living in her war-torn country. The interview is posted on 21st Century Wire (British based) and conducted by Patrick Henningsen, an American.

• Trump’s lethal betrayal to Syrian Kurds is systematic, deeper than reported by Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli, the chief editor of The Indicter, a weblog based in Sweden.

• Interview: Andre Vltchek on Popular Uprisings in Chile, Hong Kong, Lebanon and beyond, a little more than an hour interview with Andre Vltchek, a naturalized American citizen who has traveled to many areas of the world to investigate and report on his observations. The interview is posted on 21st Century Wire (British based) and conducted by Patrick Henningsen, an American. 

• Federal Reserve Spokesman Explains How It Creates Money Out of Thin Air to Pump Out to Wall Street by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Why Lebanon And Iraq Are At The Brink Of Further Strife by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• The Plundering of Ukraine by Corrupt American Democrats by Israel Shamir from The Unz Review.  

• How the US Regime ‘Justifies’ the Theft of Syria’s Oil by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Down the Rabbit Hole: The Multiple Deaths, Resurrections and Retirement of Boogeyman al-Baghdadi by Torchy Blane from Winter Watch: Speaking Truth to Power.

• If capitalism isn’t overthrown, things will get a lot worse by Rainer Shea from his weblog (based in northern California).

Posts I especially recommend to you for today: Tuesday, October 29, 2019

• POLL: Brainwashed Liberals Love The CIA Most! from The Jimmy Dore Show via YouTube. 

• Caliph closure: ‘He died like a dog’ by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• POTUS Murder Mystery Hour: Trump and The Illusive Al-Baghdadi from 21st Century Wire. "SUNDAY WIRE host Patrick Henningsen explores America’s latest made-for-TV psychodrama".  

• Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the forgotten history of Iraq by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site.

• This charge is 100% false': Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal arrested months after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence by Ben Norton from The Grayzone. 

• Reagan Official Says Cut Military Spending! Panel SCREAMS! from The Jimmy Dore Show.

• FBI Never Stopped Unlawful Spying on Dissidents, from Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford.

• Endorsing The Deep State Endangers Democracy by Bernhard from Moon of Alabama.

• OPCW Losing Credibility As Even More Revelations Surface On Douma by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Lebanese PM Hariri submits his resignation amid ongoing anti-govt. protests from PressTV.

• Washington’s Truth-Lovers are Out of the Closet in Time for the Election Race by Jean Perier from New Eastern Outlook. 

• Greta Thunberg Speaks the Horrific Truth of Humanity’s Fate by "xraymike79" from Collapse of Industrial Civilization. (Note: my re-post is a little late, but important from this author who is a longtime activist warning us about the climate crisis.)

Posts I especially recommend to you for today: Sunday, October 27, 2019

• American Dream is Sunk by Phil Butler from New Eastern Outlook (an independent website based in Russia)

• US Tries to Reverse Syrian Fortunes with “Baghdadi Raid” by Tony Cartalucci from New Eastern Outlook.

• 'This Ship is Sinking' Says Former Bush Official - Empire Files. "Abby Martin interviews retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former national security advisor to the Reagan administration, who spent years as an assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell during both Bush administrations." From Telesur via YouTube.

• Millionaire Democrat Tells Voters To SWALLOW IT! from The Jimmy Dore Show.

• Greta’s Song: ‘I want you to panic!’ from Climate & Capitalism.

• The Great Firewall of China - book review. Reviewed by Elaine Graham-Leigh from CounterFire (Britain).

• Lenin ‘Judas’ Moreno – Ecuador’s Story of Betrayal and Resistance by Joaquin Flores from Strategic Culture Foundation (independent website based in Russia).

Posts I especially recommend to you for today: Friday, October 25, 2019

• US Democrats Cultivated the Barbarism of ISIS by Jonathan Cook from Consortium News. (This is an exceptional post. Don't skip over The Jimmy Dore Show insert--it's hilarious.)

• Syria - The Kurds Want To Play On Both Sides by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• The United States, Turkey and the SDF: The Internal War Between Syria’s Enemies by Federico Pieraccini from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Trump and NY Times Admit US Imperialist War in Syria by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• ‘This Is Oil Country!’ – Climate Protests And The Left by the editor of Media Lens. 

• XR: A Socialist Perspective by John Molyneux from Rebel (Ireland).

• In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s special report on the ocean and cryosphere from Carbon Brief. 

• Fed Ups Its Wall Street Bailout to $690 Billion a Week as Media Snoozes by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Hunter Biden Cries When Asked About Ukraine Corruption from The Jimmy Dore Show. (I am including this post for your entertainment.)