I especially recommend these posts for today: Friday, October 18, 2019

• State of the climate: Low sea ice and near-record warmth define 2019 to date by Zeke Hausfather from Carbon Brief (based in Britain).

• Now retired, top U.S. environmental scientist feels free to speak her mind by Warren Cornwall from Science.

• UN official’s briefing on torture of Assange boycotted by US media by Oscar Grefell from World Socialist Web Site. (The RT picture referred to in the article is posted here.) 

• Tulsi Nails it on National TV… US Regime-Change Wars by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Capitalism ‘Good’ & ‘Bad’: A Reply to Stiglitz and Macron by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. 

• The IMF in figures: Debtors vs creditors from Reuters via Canada.com.

• The IMF convenes in Washington, deaf to the suffering it causes across the planet by Vijay Prashad from Salon. 

• How Billionaire Charter School Funders Corrupted the School Leadership Pipeline by Jeff Bryant from Common Dreams.

• Propaganda Works Better Than Censorship by Bhaskar Chakravorti from Bloomberg.

I especially recommend these posts for today: Thursday, October 17, 2019

• How Capitalism ‘Solved’ the Nitrogen Crisis (continued) by Ian Angus from Climate & Capitalism. 

• WSJ, NYT Celebrate ‘Shale Revolution’ for Investor Class, Despite Its Leading to Our Doom by Joshua Cho from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting. (I thank an activist for alerting me to this article.)

• Counting Down to Civilization’s Collapse + Inequality, Climate Change, and America’s Destabilization by Rainer Shea from the author's weblog Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist. (I thank an activist for alerting me to this article.)

• Inequality, climate change, and America’s destabilization by Rainer Shea (US independent analyst) from the author's weblog Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist.

• How The Win-Win-Win-Win Plan For Syria's Northeast Succeeds by Bernhard (independent analyst from Germany) from his weblog Moon of Alabama. (Note: "SNC" refers to the Syrian National Council.)

• Jeffrey Epstein Again Disappears From View, but What About Mossad? by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Under Fire from Ukraine and Misperceived by the West, The People of the DPR Share Their Stories by Eva Bartlett from Mint Press News. 

• The fight to overturn the latest corporate coup at Pacifica has only begun by Pete Dolack from his weblog Systemic Disorder. This development is in line with a long list of subversive events to subvert and destroy Pacifica Radio, a listener sponsored radio network. In the 1980s I volunteered at the Berkeley, California radio station that is a founding member and major part of this network, and have posted articles from this source.) 

I especially recommend these posts for today: Wednesday, October 16, 2019

• “We would never board a plane if we only arrive in half the cases, but this is the method in international climate policymaking”--an interview with Australian climate researcher David Spratt conducted by a member of the German magazine Energiewende Magazin. The interview is translated and posted on Climate Code Red, a website based in Australia that is concerned with the climate crisis.

• US-China Mini-Trade Deal: Trump Takes the Money and Runs by Jack Rasmus from his weblog.

• Analysis: US Abandons Kurds + Turkey’s Awkward Hand in Syria by Tony Cartalucci from 21st Century Wire.

I especially recommend these posts for today: Tuesday, October 15, 2019

• The CIA Goes HBCU [Historically Black Colleges and Universities] by Glen Ford from the Black Agenda Report.

• News Articles on the Fed’s Secret Trillions in Loans to Wall Street During the Last Crisis Have Been Purged from Bloomberg News by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• The Art of the Flank: India and Other Asian Nations Join the Polar Silk Road by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Kurds Rejoin Sovereign Syria – US Loses War Justification [4:36m podcast] by Glen Ford from the Black Agenda Report.

• Kurds face stark options after US pullback by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times. 

The options for the YPG Kurds are stark. They are slowly realizing they were used by the Pentagon as mercenaries. Either they become a part of the Syrian federation, giving up some autonomy and their hyper-nationalist dreams, or they will have to share the region they live in with at least two million Sunni Arab refugees relocated under Turkish Army protection.

The end of the dream is nigh ....

• Syrian Exposes Media Lies About Syria Withdrawal, a 8:20m YouTube post, by "Syrian Girl".

• Syrian Government Regains Control Over Country's Northeastern Parts by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• Day 7 of Turkey Syria offensive: Latest updates from PressTV (Iran).

I especially recommend these posts for today: Monday, October 14, 2019

• Greenland’s dying ice by Paul Voosen from Science.

• Extreme heatwaves pose spreading threat by Tim Radford from Climate News Network.

• Climate Activists Block Roads by Bank of England - Photos, Video from Sputnik International.

• Is America Ready for Socialism? Finian Cunningham interviews American professor of politics Colin S. Cavell posted on Strategic Culture Foundation. (This professor knows his American history.)

• Behind Hong Kong’s black terror by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times (based in Hong Kong). 

• Indigenous-Led Protests Rock Ecuador Decrying IMF Deal and Demanding Moreno’s Resignation by Julian Cola from Mint Press News.

• University Woes: Academics and Scholarship in Crisis. The Managerial Class Gets Uppity by Dr. Binoy Kampmark from Counter Information (based in Scotland).

• Class Struggle is Still the Issue by Ann Robertson from CounterPunch.

• FBI & CIA Implementing Coup On Trump? from The Jimmy Dore Show. 

• DC’s Atlantic Council raked in funding from Hunter Biden’s corruption-stained employer while courting his VP father
  by Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone.

[Special Post] The Syrian Kurds Agree to a Deal with the Government of Syria

In this major development, and likely turning point in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's quest to inject chaos into Syria starting back in roughly 2011, many online posts are announcing that the Syrian Kurds, backed formerly by US troops in northern and northeastern Syria, are forced by circumstances to reach an agreement with the Syrian government. First, let's see the posts by the Empire's main propaganda organs: The New York Times, followed by the British propaganda service, Reuters, and the Times of Israel:

• Abandoned by U.S. in Syria, Kurds Find New Ally in American Foe by Ben Hubbard, Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt and Patrick Kingsley from The New York Times. 

• Russia-backed Syrian forces step in as U.S. retreats by Ellen Francis and Tuvan Gumrukcu from Reuters.

• Kurds announce deal with Syria on troop deployment to confront Turkey by Rouba El Husseini from The Times of Israel.

Now I list posts from around the world:

• Syrian troops sweep into north after Kurdish deal with Damascus by Michael Safi and Bethan McKernan from The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland).

• Kurds announce deal with Damascus as Turkey pushes deep into Syria via AFP, a French news service, from The Hindu (India). 

• 400 Kurdish YPG Militants Leave Manbij Under Deal With Damascus (VIDEO) from Sputknik (Russia owned international news service). 

• Kurds announce deal with Damascus as Turkey pushes deep into Syria from Channel News Asia (based in Singapore).

• Washington’s Sum of All Fears: Kurdish Militants Cut a Deal with Damascus by Patrick Henningsen from 21st Century Wire (left-wing website based mostly in Britain).

• Syrian Government Regains Control Over Country's Northeastern Parts by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama (independent analyst from Germany).