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.)