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.)