Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, February 7, 2020

• The Psychology of Existential Risk: Moral Judgments about Human Extinction by Stefan Schubert from Practical Ethics (Oxford University). (Note: He addresses the subject of nuclear war, but, of course, much of this applies to the climate crisis.)

• Corporations as private sovereign powers: the case of Total by Alain Deneault from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt). (Note: The author focuses on the "French" energy corporation as an example of a transnational corporation.) He concludes his essay with this statement about his examination of the example of a transnational corporation, Total:

We need to treat Total not just as a large energy corporation, but rather as a private, multi- and transnational, private, sovereign power that serves the interests [profits] of a highly diversified shareholder base and intervenes [power] in innumerable political, cultural, social, financial, industrial and academic issues. [my insertions]

• World Conquest: The United States’ Global Military Crusade (1945- ) by Eric Waddell from Global Research (based in Canada).

• Biological Weapons: A Useful and Timely Factual Overview (Part I) by Larry Romanoff from Global Research. 

• Bats, Gene Editing and Bioweapons: Recent DARPA Experiments Raise Concerns Amid Coronavirus Outbreak by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond. 

• Election Politics: From Chaos to an Emerging Political Consciousness? by Renee Parsons from Global Research. 

• Liberté, égalité… créativité? RT looks at France’s most inventive forms of protest (videos) from RT. 

• German TV Exposes the Lies That Entrapped Julian Assange by Ray McGovern from Consortium News. 

• The Syrian Russian Turksih Idlib Stand-Of – Erdogan’s Last Stand? by Ghassan Kadi from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, January 13, 2020

• Breakfeast with Blackrock & Co. translated and posted on German economist Norbert Häring's weblog. (Note: there is every reason to believe that some members of the major asset management giants are also members of the highly secretive Deep State, the directors of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

Jens Berger, editor of the popular progressive German Website "NachDenkSeiten", has just published an eye-opening book on the power of the three asset management giants BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street (in German). I have been allowed to publish the first chapter as an appetizer, which translates as "Breakfeast with BlackRock & Co." 

• The former Head of Turkey’s Military Intelligence: a turning point for the Middle East by Elif İlhamoğlu from United World (independent website based in Turkey).

• The Tenuous Deployment of US Troops in Iraq by Abdul Rahman from Internationalist 360°. 

• Heads of Libya's warring sides in Russia for talks from Al Jazeera (based in Qatar). 

• Understanding France’s General Strike in the Context of the Yellow Vests and Global Class Warfare from Radical Education Department. 

• USA: Overview of Auto Workers' Strike by Internationalist Workers’ Group and posted on Libcom. 

• Under US pressure, social media companies censor critical content and suspend Venezuelan, Iranian, and Syrian accounts by Ben Norton from The Grayzone.

• World War III by CJ Hopkins, master political satirist, from his website Consent Factory. (Note: Caitlin Johnstone's effort in her latest article is entering the competition.) 

• Unearthing the Capitalocene: Towards a Reparations Ecology by Jason W. Moore and
  Raj Patel from Roar. (Note: We learn from sociologists from their article written in 2017 that the climate crisis is caused by capitalism. But all evidence by the majority of climate scientists suggests that this was written before the extinction of our human and most other species became inevitable.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, January 11, 2020

• Iran: Ukrainian plane brought down 'due to human error' from PressTV (Iran).

• Iranian Armed Forces Say They Inadvertently Shot Down The Ukrainian Plane - Updated by Bernhard from Moon of Alabama.

• Iraqi PM asks US to begin withdrawal process in Iraq from Al-Masdar Al-'Arabi ("The Arab Source", based in Lebanon). 

• France strikes: nurses, teachers and lawyers join pension protests by Angelique Chrisafis from Defend Democracy Press.

• Cabin Porn from Maize.

See if you have the stomach to read today's articles: Friday, January 10, 2020

• The Deeper Story Behind the Assassination of Soleimani by Federico Pieraccini from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• A New Middle East “made in Iran” is about to be born by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

• The Democrats pass Pelosi’s phony antiwar resolution by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site. 

• “Trump Didn’t Get the Message!” Iran’s Military, Iraqi Militia Pledge More Retaliation! from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• Iran’s Hero has Fallen, and Now the World is an Even More Dangerous Place by Andre Vltchek from New Eastern Outlook. 

• Why Trump's Iran Conflict Cannot Be Stopped Or Unwound from The Jimmy Dore Show.

• Iran’s IRGC Aerospace Chief on US casualties/damages/future retaliation steps posted on Middle East Observer. 

• VIDEO – American Soldiers Heard in Tape of Iran’s Retaliation by Joaquin Flores from Fort Russ News.

• Strikes Paralyze France for Fifth Consecutive Week from Fort Russ News.

• ‘Deathly silent’: Ecologist describes Australian wildfires’ devastating aftermath by Dyani Lewis from Nature. 

• As the World Burns, the Powerful Go on Holiday by Kenn Orphan from CounterPunch.

• Ice-free Arctic Ocean allowed ancient carbon leaks by Tim Radford from Climate News Network.

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.

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 recommend for today: Tuesday, October 22, 2019

• World in flames: why are protests raging around the globe? from RT.

• Protest from Euronews.

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

• The Faux Outcry Over President Trump’s Syria Decision by Ronald Enzweiler from AntiWar.

• Americans Are Dangerously Out of Touch With Reality by Ulson Gunnar from New Eastern Outlook (independent weblog based in Russia).

• Tulsi Gabbard Is Right, and Nancy Pelosi Wrong. It Was US Democrats Who Helped Cultivate the Barbarism of ISIS by Jonathan Cook from Global Research (based in Canada).

• A Call for a Coup Plus a Week Like No Other for Tulsi Gabbard by Philip Giraldi from Global Research. 

• Don’t Railroad Julian Assange to Virginia. An editorial from Consortium News.

• Putin-Erdogan meeting aims to organise differences and shorten the gap between allies by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

Posts I recommend for today: Monday, October 21, 2019

• The Putin-Nazis Are Coming (Again)! by CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (Hopkins is America's best satirist.)
  

• General strike paralyzes Catalonia as over half-a-million demonstrate in Barcelona by Alejandro López from World Socialist Web Site.

• Kurdistan, imagined by French colonialism by Thierry Meyssan from his weblog Voltaire Network.

• A Panicked Israel Is a Dangerous Israel by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Oligarchs Will Crash System to Boot Trump. An online video in an interview with Paul Craig Roberts conducted by Greg Hunter from his weblog USAWatchdog. (Thanks go to an activist for alerting me to this interview.)

• We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe by Joel M. Moskowitz from Scientific American. 

• The Hong Kong protests fit the definition of a fascist movement by Rainer Shea from his weblog. 

‘March of anger’: Thousands of cops protest in Paris over working conditions, pension reforms & suicides

Click here to access article and videos posted on RT. 

French cops are protesting about the neglectful treatment by their government. This is another variation on the fatal flaw that I temporarily referred to in my abortive post on 9/28/2019 (I intend to finish this and post it under "General Information" in the upper right-hand corner of my website.)" Before I decided to abbreviate the post and to develop the idea further in the future, it read (in part): 

I've reached the conclusion that the human species are largely ruled by [individualistic] materialism in the sense that they follow their instincts toward pleasure or positive reinforcement in the short term future. This is a fatal flaw that condemns this species to extinction along with many other life forms on this planet.

This morality has not only infected the thinking of the current ruling capitalist classes, but all class structured societies when they began some 10,000 years ago when humans settled in agricultural communities and there was a surplus of wealth produced. Class structured societies began to be developed whereby ruling classes appropriated for themselves and their families the surplus. They abandoned the morality of survival of the nomadic band and replaced it with the morality of what's best for the extended family, and this new morality passed down through our species' relatively brief history to our current ruling capitalist classes. This new morality was very well expressed by Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister who said: 

...you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first.

Now in the present day, humans are increasingly threatened with extinction by their excessive alteration of the climate and environment. To survive, the relatively recent morality must be abandoned in favor of the earlier one and expanded to the human species and toward life forms in general. Humans must realize that they are an integral part of the web of life that exists on this unique planet Earth. The cops in this post demonstrate the current dominant morality. But cops, and humans in general, don't have much time to move to the earlier morality. So, will they succeed, or perish along with many other species? Stay tuned, but better yet, stay active in favor of survival.

Articles I recommend for today: Monday, September 9, 2019

• Chris Hedges’ compelling interview with VICE News in 2015, a re-post from The Greanville Post.

• The Whitewashing of The Nazis by Christopher Black from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: Black is a Canadian and his listing of the Netflix film is likely titled "My Honor Was Loyalty" for US patrons of Netflix.)

• The US Economic War on France by  Terje Maloy from Counter Information (Britain).

• Are Jeffrey Epstein’s secrets buried with him? Aron Mate of The Grayzone interviews Leonard Goodman, criminal defense attorney, writer, and media publisher in Chicago. 

• Exclusive: How the US is pushing protesters to attack China. Michele Greenstein of Rick Sanchez' program from RTAmerica (via YouTube) reports from Hong Kong on the ongoing protests and the key individuals and organizations giving the uprising its direction and examines their links to Washington and the US-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED). 

• US is Behind Hong Kong Protests Says US Policymaker by Tony Cartalucci from New Eastern Outlook.

• ‘The New Normal’: Trump’s ‘China Bind’ Can Be Iran’s Opportunity by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Biometric Fight: Facebook Defeated on Facial Recognition, But Google, Amazon Still Pushing Ahead from 21st Century Wire. 

• When the denial bubble bursts: an Israeli kibbutz faces the Nakba by Salman Abu Sitta from Mondoweiss.

•  Climate Catastrophe Comes for Europe by Conn M. Hallinan from his weblog Dispatches from the Edge.

Articles recommended for Friday, July 19, 2019

• Hidden in Plain Sight: The Shocking Origins of the Jeffrey Epstein Case by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News.

• Inside the Yellow Vests: What the Western media will not report (Part 3) by Ollie Richardson from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty (transcript) from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• Western intellectuals freak over ‘Frankenstein’ China by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times. 

• WikiLeaks Editor Kristinn Hrafnsson, Michael Isikoff, Pepe Escobar, As’ad AbuKhalil on CN Live! Friday 2pm EDT from Consortium News.

• Drug companies poured 76 billion opioid pills into US neighborhoods in just six years by Genevieve Leigh from World Socialist Web Site. 

Articles recommended for Monday, July 8, 2019

• The International Spy Museum in DC: Lies, Spies, and Paranoia by Melvin Goodman from CounterPunch.

• Yellow Vests: The undercover cop scandal that the Macron regime tries to cover up by Ollie Richardson from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. 

• US Now Admits it is Funding "Occupy Central" by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. 

• Ex-FBI, CIA Officials Draw Withering Fire on Russiagate by Ray McGovern from Consortium News.

Yellow Vest Realities and Reactions [updated]

Click here to access a nearly one hour interview with Prof. Gabriel Rockhill of Villanova University conducted by KPFA's C. S. Soong.

I was most interested in the observations and analysis of Rockhill about French intellectual's lack of support, and even criticism of, the Yellow Vest Movement. This suggests support for my observations that the rich capitalist ruling class in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire has co-opted the highly trained and indoctrinated upper-middle class in their class warfare against other working classes. Unfortunately, he doesn't explain how this was done. But it seems obvious to me: material rewards and the threat of unemployment. Because of technological advancements and the awareness of intellectuals as "opinion leaders" who play a crucial role in capitalist society, the capitalist ruling class must support them in order for today's capitalism to sustain itself.

Mutu: rethinking our radical media

Click here to access article by "E & J" from Libcom (Britain). 

Although I am not an anarchist, who I think are too limited in their thinking, I am delighted by this post which reports on a rising network of grassroots independent media in France. The establishment of such networks is exactly what I think is vitally needed to counter the crushing oppression of ruling class corporate media. Media corporations serve only as propaganda and psychological warfare operations of the ruling capitalist class to create confusion and a false consciousness among ordinary people.

In May 2018, we attended a conference of the Mutu network in France, a network of local radical media websites which operate much like Indymedia did, but with a completely transparent editorial process.

We were blown away to discover how each of these sites, many we hadn’t even heard of, were acting as hubs for the various social movements taking place in cities and regions across France, focusing on local struggles and issues. With this focus, they became places where people went to find out about social conflicts when they broke out. But as we listened to descriptions of these sites connecting with groups of striking workers or occupying students, we also realised they function to draw together the various struggles within a given locality into a multi-faceted working-class movement.

France's Yellow Vests, State Violence and The Way Forward

Click here to access an 1:37:01 interview with "three-time French Presidential candidate, Jacques Cheminade, President of the French party Solidarité et Progrès", conducted by Dr. Kirk Meighoo (Trinidad and Tobago). (Updated at 1:10 PM CT)

I am posting this as a way of acquanting you with another independent thinker, Dr. Meighoo, whose interview with "The Sake" I posted today. But, in addition, I think the views of Jacques Cheminade, as well as Dr. Meighoo, are also insightful regarding the ongoing Yellow Vests protests and general issues facing most ordinary people today. On the subject of global warming and some other subjects, I obviously don't agree with the two.

Recommended articles for Monday, May 6, 2019

• A million species 'threatened with extinction' by Arthur Wyns from the Ecologist.

• US Troops In Syria For "Long Haul" Atop "A Lot Of Oil Resources": Pentagon Official by Tyler Durden from ZeroHedge.

• Failed Coup in Venezuela Intensifies Battle at Embassy from Black Alliance for Peace.

• The nationalist “socialism” of Bernie Sanders by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site.

• Gaza ceasefire holding following bloody weekend from Middle East Eye.

• The Palestinian Authority tax crisis is a no-win situation for Netanyahu by Jonathan Cook from The National.

• We’re all actors in the New Silk Road play by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• The Yellow Vest Salpêtrière Hospital hoax: I reported live from there as it happened by Ramin Mazaheri from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• In Upcoming Elections EU Parliament Faces Long List of Enemies by Attilio Moro from Consortium News. 

Articles recommended to keep you informed for Wednesday, April 24, 2019

• Julian Assange was denied access to lawyers, visitors in Britain’s Belmarsh prison by Oscar Grenfell from World Socialist Web Site.

• Can Saudi Arabia Still Sway The Oil Market? by Tsvetana Paraskova from OilPrice.com. 

• Ukraine 2019 Election- Ukraine Rejects Maidan Bandera and Revolution by George Eliason from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• Men with French passports crossing from Libya are linked to Haftar: Tunisian source from Middle East Eye.

Online articles recommended for Saturday, April 20, 2019

• Earth Day, Planetary Boundaries, and the Green New Deal by Howie Hawkins from Dissident Voice.

Conversion to an ecologically sustainable and just economy cannot happen under the capitalist system. Capitalism’s competitive structure drives blind, relentless growth that is consuming and destroying the biosphere. Its competitive international structure breeds wars for resources, markets, cheap labor, and geopolitical military advantages. With the nuclear weapons of the nuclear powers on hair-trigger alert and a new nuclear arms race now underway, the capitalist system will annihilate us if we don’t replace it with an ecosocialist system first.

• Before Ousting Assange, Moreno Government Spied on the Journalist for Over a Year by "jimmysllama" from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis). Excellent piece of investigative reporting.

• China's Belt and Road Continues to Win Over Europe While Technocrats Scream and Howl by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• France braces for 'yellow vest' flare-up amid anger over rush of riches for cathedral from PressTV (Iran). 

Articles recommended for Friday, April 19, 2019

After perusing a number of articles from normally reliable sources, my mind is boggled. I can hardly see what the future has in store for us except anything other than major changes.

• Why Isn’t Oil-Rich Russia Helping Its Syrian “Ally” Survive The Fuel Crisis? by Andrew Korybko from Eurasia Future. (This article is by an American, who lives in Russia, and who normally approves of Russian actions.)

• Middle East Resistance Is Stiffening by Tom Luongo from Russia News Now (I am posting this from the latter website because of ongoing problems with accessing the original post on Strategic Culture Foundation.)

• Six months after it begins, the oligarchs/Macron versus Gilets Jaunes battle is still raging and will keep on by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from his blog A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• 5G: The Dominoes Are Starting To Fall by Claire Edwards from her blog Take Back Your Power.

•  Climate science supports youth protests by Alex Kirby from Climate News Network.

• Google 'disables' Press TV’s YouTube account without prior warning from PressTV (Iran). (Google's censorship strikes again!)

Articles recommended to deepen your understanding of what is going on in the world as of 4/17/2019

• The Latin American Left’s Setbacks: What Does It All Mean? This is an interview with Prof. Steve Ellner posted on Venezuelanalysis.com.

• Extreme heat is growing threat to harvests by Tim Radford from Climate News Network. 

• Gallup Quietly Admits ‘Israeli vs. Palestinian’ Sympathy Polls Are Misleading by Grant Smith from Antiwar.com.

• 10 Things We Know Thanks to WikiLeaks by "Juventud Rebelde" from Network in Defense of Humanity. 

• Protests organized across Europe, demanding action to prevent climate change by Vyshakh T from Peoples Dispatch. 

• Julian Assange and the Agenda for Global War by Prof. James Petras from Global Research. 

• Yellow Vests Struggle to Reinvent Democracy by Richard Greeman from The Bullet (Canada).