Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, January 4, 2020

With the killing of a high ranking Iran official while visiting Iraq is a signal that the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire is now baring its fascist claws for all to see. Only diehard and thoroughly indoctrinated Americans and their sycophants across the world will be blind from seeing what the last capitalist empire is made of. No, not democracy or the rule of law, but the fascist style of mafia gangsters that capitalists have become. It appears that our capitalist masters have decided to use violence against their resisting enemies to prolong their rule and have abandoned their quest to overcome the more powerful environmental threats of nature. They know something that most of us do not: they cannot defeat nature. But it's a pity that we will go down with them.

These are today's posts mostly about our descent into the gangster world:

• US starts the Raging Twenties declaring war on Iran by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• The murder of Qassem Soleimani and assassination as state policy by Bill Van Auken from World Socialist Web Site.

• OPCW leaks expose ‘criminal’ Syria cover-up — and US media is silent by Aaron Maté from The Grayzone. 

• Ruling class bereft of answers while catastrophic fires escalate across Australia by James Cogan from World Socialist Web Site.

• Few countries on track to meet Paris climate goals by Sarah Kennedy from Yale Climate Connections.

Are you sure you want to read today's posts? If you do, these are my recommendations for today: Friday, January 3, 2020

Iranian crisis:  (I don't know where, but in one of the many articles I read refers to an Iraqi group by the name of Kataeb Hezbollah. Michelle Greenstein explains (from RT) what she knows about this group.)

• US assassinates top Iranian general as 4,000 troops readied for Iraq intervention by Bill Van Auken from World Socialist Web Site.

• U.S. Will Come To Regret Its Assassination of Qassim Soleimani by Bernhard from Moon of Alabama.  

• Iran says US crossed ‘red lines’ by assassinating Qassem Soleimani from Al-Masdar Al-‘Arabi (The Arab Source). 

• US Assassination Of Top Iranian Military Official May Ignite World War by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (You should know what PMF refers to.)

• Fear of a Major Mideast War by Joe Lauria from Consortium News.

• Angry Iranians rally in huge numbers to call for revenge from PressTV (Iran). 

• Iran Leader vows 'harsh revenge' following assassination of Gen. Soleimani from PressTV (Iran).

• Irreplaceable General: Will war in the Middle East follow the death of Soleimani? from United World (based in Turkey). 

Other posts that may interest you:

• Turkish Parliament Approves Invasion of Libya from Internationalist 360°.

• Libya: The Battle for Tripoli Enters its Final Days originally from Al Arab but translated and posted on Internationalist 360°.

• The Crisis in Mediterranean from Defend Democracy Press. 

• How the US was hoist by its own petard in Iraq and the wishful thinking of its thinktanks. By Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

• The Dangers of Privatized Intelligence by Joyce Nelson CounterPunch.

• Why Is Wall Street the Only Industry in America With Access to the Fed’s Endless Money Machine? by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.  

• Assange and Manning: The Slow Execution of the Voices of Freedom by Massoud Nayeri from Global Research. 

• ‘US is torturing Chelsea Manning’: Top UN official says her treatment is ‘cruel and degrading’ from RT.

• Chelsea Manning should be a hero – Galloway on UN support for Whistleblower a 7:12m video from RT. 

Capitalism's ongoing degradation of our home planet Earth:

• ‘Insect apocalypse’ poses risk to all life on Earth, conservationists warn by Damian Carrington from Defend Democracy Press.

• Australia’s Angry Summer: This Is What Climate Change Looks Like from Defend Democracy Press. 

• Atlantic current could falter before 2100 by Tim Radford from Climate News Network. (This conservative website always underestimates the acceleration of climatic events, in my opinion.)

Two posts by Stephen Gowans that I especially recommend today: Thursday, January 2, 2020

I consider Gowans to be one of a handful of top geopolitical analysts in today's world. Here are two very recent posts by him:

• Washington’s Xinjiang smear

• Kim Jong Un: Until the US shows it’s interested in peace, North Korea will continue to build strategic weapons

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, January 1, 2020

• Full-Spectrum Fubar by Paul Edwards from CounterPunch.

• These Charts Show Why the Fed Is Still in a Panic Over the Repo Loan Market by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Putin Reminds the West: Those Who Ignore History Are Doomed to Repeat it by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: Putin's understanding of history is absolutely correct.)

• The Left is Dying Because it’s Turned Into a Bonfire of Vanities by Australian Umair Haque from Eudaimonics. (Note: I think Patrice Greanville, editor, is absolutely correct in his note prefacing the re-posted article in The Greanville Post.)

• Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’ from Defend Democracy Press. 

• Allseas will not resume work on Nord Stream II project. Germany miffed, but will do nothing. Gazprom subsidiary will finish it. A translated re-post originally from Deutsche Welle, a mainstream German publication, on Fort Russ News.

Examples of what I think are "grasping at straws" in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire:

• Bank of England unveils climate stress test by Kieran Cooke from Climate News Network. 

• The super-cool materials that send heat to space by XiaoZhi Lim from Nature.

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.