Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, March 10, 2021

• No Safety Data? No Problem! by Rosemary Frei from her weblog.

• Predictive Programming Vaccine Mass Sterilization Depopulation Agenda On Amazon ‘Utopia’ Show (5:27) from EarthNewspaper. (Note: This is an actual film production (series) by Amazon, Inc.) My reaction: Is it "predictive" or an attempt to exploit a conspiracy theory? Seems like it expands on a theme promoted by Bill Gates who is the top funder of UN's World Health Organization which officially declared the pandemic.

• WSJ Editorial Board: Facebook Censors Scientific Debate by Megan Redshaw from Children's Health Defense. 

• Why It’s Necessary to End NATO by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation (based in Russia but international in scope).  

• Empire Update: US Kisses Saudi Crown + Taliban’s Tet Offensive featuring Abbie Martin reporting the adventures of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire during the week in a 8:38m video from Media Roots. (Note: She reports more news than the title of this post acknowledges.) My reaction: This would be good for Americans to watch this weekly report instead of TV "news" reports by media corporations.
  

• Chaos In Ukraine Is Making An Epic Comeback from South Front. (Note: This post includes a 3:48m video report and transcript.) My reaction: This is another report on how true Joe Biden's statement that "America is back". The main capitalist ruling class is back after the Trump interruption and returning to their favorite strategies to counter Russia's influence as illustrated by Ukrainian developments reported in this post and the bombing and missile strikes on Syria. Among the developments in Ukraine are those that the ruling class is already implementing here in the USA:

It all started with the shutting down of opposition TV channels and immediately moved to attacks on the largest and most popular opposition party – “Opposition Platform – For Life!”.Opposition leaders were then sanctioned, for being “Putin agents”, and many of its members were openly censored and persecuted. Then it came down to censoring and persecuted another well-known opposition figure – Anatoly Shariy, and his party.

Websites were pulled down, accounts were banned, cases were opened against those against President Volodymyr Zelensky and his “Servant of the People” party. 

• Lawyers' Committee targets sham FBI probe of 2001 anthrax attacks by Craig McKeefrom Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

• BREAKING: Jaw-Dropping Development In Malcolm X Assassination featuring Lee Camp at his YouTube channel reporting a new eye-opening development related to the assassination of Malcolm X. This is direct evidence, that many people have suspected over the many years since the assassination: that the NYC police department is responsible for this murder. Of course, the latter was acting according to orders issued by the ruling capitalist class to silence him because they didn't like his efforts at raising the consciousness of poor African-Americans. This incident will never be reported by mainstream "news" corporations who will continue serving the ruling class with the dissemination of propaganda.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, March 1, 2021

• WATCH: Numb. From Off-Guardian (based in Britain).  
  

This powerful short film from British teenager Liv McNeil tells one story of millions, of how lockdown is punishing children by denying them education, social contact and generally a normal life.

• Doctrine of Redundant Coercion: The State Department Document Shaping Relations with Latin America and the Caribbean by Jorge Elbaum from Internationalist 360°. My reaction: Although he fails to clarify what he means by the "Doctrine of Redundant Coercion", he does clarify the difference between the Biden and Trump administrations:

Last Wednesday, the United States returned to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) after three years of absence, decided by the Donald Trump administration. The first speech of the new Secretary of State Antony Blinken, however, did not differ one iota from the reasons given by the Republican for leaving this multilateral institution.

In August 2020, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) disseminated through the White House website the Western Hemisphere Strategic Framework, a document in which the objectives of the global strategy were adapted to the particularities of Latin America and the Caribbean. Both documents were removed from the official U.S. government website during the week following Joe Biden’s inauguration. According to accredited journalists in Washington, the underlying reason for the deletion is not due to any rectification or future mutation of the Doctrine, but to its necessary adaptation to a more diplomatic language.

 

By doing so, he also clarifies the difference between administration regarding internal policies of the USA. It is all about style and language to hide their real motives to promote policies that serve corporate interests but, at the same time, to wrap-up their policies in more appealing words in order to sell them to ordinary Americans. In other words, the core ruling capitalist class (Deep State) prefers to use more sophisticated methods of selling policies that corporations have developed to sell policies that result in greater profits and power for them--and frequently at the expense of ordinary Americans.

• The Universe Is Just Trying To See Itself by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. My commentary follows:
  

I agree with her use of the eye as a metaphor for seeing truth, but after she introduced god-stuff I lost her. I regard the need for truth another way. 

 

While the eye wants to see the truth, the brain often corrupts the truth-seeing eye by placing priorities on other material needs such as hunger, shelter, clothing, etc. If a human wants to raise a family, the eye and brain are brought into greater conflict. The brain often corrupts what the eye sees by the increased importance of sustaining longer-range fulfillment of the material needs spouse and children. Thus, humans often prefer the lies of people with more power to the truth that the eye sees; because powerful people can, in a class-structured society, often provides opportunities for this longer-range stability. 

 

What are class structured societies? They are societies in which some humans have more wealth, power, and opportunities than others. 

 

Because humans have always lived in class-structured societies since recorded history (roughly 10,000 years), such history is filled with stories about the conflicts between the eyes and brains of humans. Therefore, humans must decide to rid themselves of classes to form genuine classless societies and achieve equality in order to eliminate such conflicts and to be fully human.

• How the CIA Helped to Crush Turkey’s Post-War Left by T.J. Coles from Internationalist 360°. My reaction: This is another accurate historical report on the efforts of the prime secretive agency of the Deep State, the CIA, to create a world safe for the creation of a combined US and British empire in order to promote the corporate interests of profit and power throughout the post-WWII world. It became obvious to many that there was little difference between policies pursued by fascist Germany, Italy, and Japan from that of the British Empire and their American cousins. It was all about style. Whereas the former frequently used authoritarian methods of force (police and military) to enforce their policies, the latter preferred, and often used, subtler methods of salesmanship (propaganda) and subversion (bribery)--although they didn't hesitate to use coercion when their preferred methods failed. In addition, the British and American capitalists also used their worldwide monopoly of "news" networks (Reuters, AP, BBC, etc.) to help sell their policies.

• 💥CAUGHT: BBC/Reuters Paid To Do Government Propaganda featuring Jimmy Dore on his channel on YouTube doing an interview with Max Blumenthal, founder of The Grayzone, discussing the latter's research on corporate media propaganda. This is a best post.

• They say that great myths die hard … by "The Ister" for "The Saker" weblog. (Note: The article is mostly about Saudi Arabia and power politics of the Middle East.)
  

• Violent US-backed Hong Kong-Style Mobs in Thailand Continue by Brian Berletic, an ex-Marine living with his family in Thailand, from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, December 15, 2020

• Socialist Media - The New Rules featuring JP Sears, a comedian doing a parody of YouTube censorship rules. My reaction: I got a chuckle over this, but it is obvious that Sears has been thoroughly indoctrinated in US propaganda that has the socialist/communist countries as the source of all evil. He believes this despite the fact that they are the countries, according to this pervasive propaganda, that are the sworn enemies of US and all capitalist countries. This illustrates the power of propaganda to instill in subjects over all their lives the narratives of their propaganda. You can still be entertained by his satire here.
  

• Dismantling tyranny by Paul Cudenec from Winter Oak (based in Britain). 

• The Cyberpandemic Has Begun: SolarWinds + FireEye – Anything can happen now by Ice Age Farmer (Christian) from his weblog. (Note: I again don't want to spread panic, but this looks real based on articles reported in Newsweek, a major ruling class source.)
  

• How Gulf states became business partners in Israel's occupation by Jonathan Cook from Middle East Eye (based in London). 

• Will This Be the Radicalization of Black Lives Matter? by Ajamu Baraka from Internationalist 360°.
  

• Critical and Revolutionary Theory from Internationalist 360° featuring a 35:00m video appearance (after which is a Q&A to the full 1 hr and 31m--I'm still listening to it) of Gabriel Rockhill, who I consider the best Marxist intellectual in the USA, lecturing on this subject. A best post. (Note: This post is appropriate mostly for advanced students of the subject, and for those who are concerned about mostly post-war subversion of Marxist oriented intellectuals.) My reaction: I especially learned a lot about the history of the subversion of Marxist oriented intellectuals (beginning about 24 minutes into his lecture) or "the policing of the left border of acceptable [Marxist] critique" that especially occurred due to influence of CIA agents in the post-WWII period. I have personally noticed the corruption of "acceptable critique". 

• How NPR Divides and Conquers by David Rovics from CounterPunch.
  

• Brexit Bluster Exposes the Waning of English Power by Patrick Cockburn from CounterPunch. Call for your responses: I don't understand the Brexit issue, and especially it's influence the people of Northern Ireland. If anyone understands the issue in whole or in part, I invite emails responses to Ron, goatmeal36@yahoo.com. Is Cockburn right about his argument that Brexit represents a waning of British power?

• Menacing Methane – An Analysis by Robert Hunziker from CounterPunch. (Note: I listened to Dr. Peter Wadhams' hour and half lecture. However, Hunziker provides a good summary of his lecture in which he cited an immediate warning of a methane burst which will likely have catastrophic consequences for humans. If this article is of interest to you, you might also find this post interesting.) My commentary follows:

Wadhams has trained as a physical scientist who is rather pessimistic about humans solving this problem. However, where I, who has trained as a political sociologist through mostly independent study and experience, differ from him in that he blames the "ignorance" of humans in general for this lack of concern of the threats posed by the climate crisis, whereas I blame primarily the capitalist classes of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire which control all institutions of their societies. 

These capitalists are entirely addicted to their system of capitalism which has delivered to them so much profits and power that now they have created a powerful ruling class and an Empire. Therefore, it is no surprise that this Empire dominates the UN and its climate organization IPCC which he faults for having consistently underestimated the dangers of the climate crisis. It is obvious to me, and I'm joined by increasing others, that capitalism and the health of the planet are in direct opposition to each other.

During this current pandemic declared by the UN's World Health Organization, we see the obvious corruption of the UN agency through Bill Gates' top funding of the organization, but the majority of humans don't see his influence as corruption thanks to capitalist media coverage. Here in the USA the threats posed by the climate crisis is known by "climate change" which suggest a relatively benign threat thanks to the same capitalist media coverage. Wadhams, as a top climate scientist, claims that the threat is imminent.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, October 16, 2020

• 'Don't get yourselves caught': How the British state allowed its secret agents to commit crime by Ian Cobain from Middle East Eye (based in London). This is the best of the best posts on my website. My reaction follows:
  

This report is prime reading for anyone who wishes to gain an understanding of how "liberal" or bourgeois (capitalist) democracies work. The latter must have secret agencies operating outside of the law that follow the diktats of the ruling capitalist class. This report only deals with British agencies that during the course of their operations commit crimes. It does not report on other agencies, whose top leaders answer to the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's Deep State, that are engaged in shady operations which undermine any semblance of democracy such as propaganda activities. If you think that Britain is not an essential part of the Empire, and, as such, has no implications for the rest of the Empire, you likely won't believe it has anything to do with government operations in the USA. Brainwashed others will dismiss it entirely. However, it is essential reading by any US activist or revolutionary organization that aims to be effective. For people involved in the latter, this rare report must be studied.

• The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It by Gabriel Rockhill from CounterPunch. The author provides the post-WWII details after the Deep State, a kind of board of directors for the emerging USA, concluded that 

... it was understood that the best way to construct the fascist international was to do so under liberal cover, meaning through clandestine operations that maintained a liberal façade. While this probably sounds like hyperbole to those whose understanding of history has been formatted by bourgeois social science, which focuses almost exclusively on visible government and the aforementioned liberal cover, the history of the invisible government of the national security apparatus suggests that fascism, far from being defeated in WWII, was successfully internationalized.

• 94 page PDF details Deep State-Media collusion to destroy Trump posted by Alex Christoforou of his 19:34m video interview with Alexander Mercouris. (Note: I have ignored this issue known as "russiagate", because I viewed it as another absurd disinformation distraction from reality. I have barely enough energy and time to follow what I think is reality.)

• Running Out of Time… October Surprise Redux? by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation.  (My reaction: I remember well the reliable reports after Reagan's election in 1980 reporting that the CIA rigged the election for Reagan. Giraldi reports on other possible shenanigans perpetrated by the Deep State that obviously wants Trump removed. But, who cares? Both political parties serve the rich ruling class of capitalists and not ordinary Americans.)

• Top 50 US Think Tanks Receive Over $1b From Gov, Defense Contractors by Barbara Boland from Anti-Empire.

• Google & Oracle to Monitor Americans Who Get Warp Speed’s Covid-19 Vaccine for up to Two Years by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: Webb reveals the close connected relationship between Big Pharma and government operations, among other things.)
  

• Fight Racism, Imperialism, and the Current Crisis: A Program to Unify the Exploited and Oppressed from Left Voice. (My reaction: I've only read about the first 1/4 of this lengthy article, and I agree with it so far. But, in the past I viewed the people behind this website a bit naive.)
  

• Bandar bin Sultan, prince of chaos, strikes again by David Herst from the Middle East Eye. 

 

I've only covered about 1/3 of my list of 50 credible websites before I ran out of time and energy. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, March 13, 2020

• Multi-agency report highlights increasing signs and impacts of climate change in atmosphere, land and oceans from World Meteorological Association. (Note: "National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, WMO Regional Climate Centres and dozens of scientific experts contributed to this report.")

• Habitat, Habitat, Habitat by Guy McPherson from his series Edge of Extinction (via YouTube).

• Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse by Craig Collins from CounterPunch. 

• COVID-19 Side Effects: Reality and Clarity by Kathleen Wallace from CounterPunch.

• US authorities in disarray and paralysis in face of Covid-19 emergency by Benjamin Mateus from World Socialist Web Site. 

• The Virus & the Working Class by Jack Rasmus from his weblog.

• News-Nugget About The Coronavirus Pandemic by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• Iraq condemns US airstrikes; says soldiers, police, civilians killed from PressTV (Iran).

• Why Is The U.S. Launching A New War On Iraq? by Bernhard from Moon of Alabama. 

• Judge Releases Manning After Suicide Attempt, Effectively Fines Her Supporters $256,000 by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• New OPCW whistleblower slams 'abhorrent mistreatment' of Douma investigators by Aaron Mate from The Grayzone. 

• SUNFED versus World Bank by Eric Toussaint from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt).

• Universities are forging ties with the FBI as US cracks down on foreign influence by Nidhi Subbaraman from Nature. 

• How Mohammed bin Salman's biggest gamble may cost him the throne by David Hearst from Middle East Eye.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, March 12, 2020

• The other global emergency: Coronavirus in the time of climate change from Covering Climate Now.

• White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations - sources by Aram Roston and Marisa Taylor from Reuters.

• How black swans are shaping planet panic by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• In a Europe Closed Down by the Coronavirus the EU Opens its Doors to the US Army. Could the Defender become the Invader of Europe? by Manlio Dinucci from Global Research.

• Fake News Starts in Washington: Perception Management and Influence Operations Manipulate Public Opinion by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Coronavirus Fearmongering Demonstrates U.S. Imperialism is a Drag on Humanity by Danny Haiphong from Internationalist 360°.

• Russia Rejects Turkey’s Proposal to Jointly Steal Syria’s Oil, Erdogan Threatens Turning to US Instead by Drago Bosnic from FRN (Fort Russ News).

• Chelsea Manning attempted suicide while in jail for refusing to testify against WikiLeaks – lawyers from RT-USA. 

• Saudi Women’s Rights Activists Pull Back Curtain on Crown Prince by Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold from Consortium News.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, March 9, 2020

• Climate Catastrophe and Socialist Strategy by Diego Lotito from Left Voice.

• Extinction Dialogues: Adventures on the Troll Farm featuring Guy McPherson via YouTube. 

• Out Like a Lion by Caren Black from her website Titanic Lifeboat Academy.

• From Franklin to Epstein: The Cover-Up Continues. Bonnie Faulkner of Guns + Butter interviews Nick Bryant who "discusses his book, The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse and Betrayal and Confessions of a D.C. Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies and Blackmail that he co-wrote with Henry W. Vinson, which parallels the child trafficking networks partially exposed in the current Jeffrey Epstein scandal ...."

• Sugar and Spice and Everything Vice: the Empire’s Sin City of London by Cynthia Chung from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: I've had many posts on the City of London, and the best, as I recall, are this and this. But if you want to see all my posts (including commentaries), you might enter "City of London" on one of my search engines.)

• At least 20 princes detained in mass purge by Saudi crown prince by David Hearst from Middle East Eye. 

• Putin helps Erdogan climb down from the tree with a ceasefire agreement. By Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

• Who was Udo Ulfkotte? Meet the Fake Journalist Whose Ghost Writer was the CIA by Enrico Vigna from FRN (Fort Russ News). 

Posts I especially recommend reading today: Sunday, November 10, 2019

• On Contact: Resistance & the Left with Paul Street, posted on RT.  Chris Hedges interviews Street. 

• Epstein, Al Baghdadi and the Point by Russell Bentley from Fort Russ.

• Lebanon and Iraq protestors: The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia are fed up with Iran 3/4 by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

• Qatar – Education as a Weapon by Andre Vltchek from New Eastern Outlook.

Posts that I especially recommend for today: Friday, November 1, 2019

• Another look at the Federal Reserve’s panic in September 2019 and solutions to the crisis by Eric Toussaint from the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt. 

• The Third Hand In The Middle East: How Saudi Arabia and the US manipulate international politics with social media by Emad Abshenass from United World (based in Turkey).

• Politics of the worst: U.S. is taking Syria's oil by Bobby Naderi from China Global Television Network.

• Rebuilding Syria – without Syria’s oil by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times (based in Singapore).

• Twitter’s ban on political advertisement: A new move to censor the internet by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site.

• Watch: Banking Nature [a 1:26:47 video] posted on the Wrong Kind of Green.

Articles I especially recommend today: Friday, September 20, 2019

• American Psychopathy by John Steppling from Wrong Kind of Green.

• 'No Planet B': Hundreds of thousands join global climate strike from Al Jazeera.

• 'Worse than Hurricane Harvey': At least 2 dead as Imelda overwhelms Texas with' incredibly dangerous' flooding. Posted from USA Today.

• China and the Prospects for a Global Ecological Civilization by David Schwartzman from Climate & Capitalism. 

• Unipolar Governance of the Multipolar World by Ismael Hossein-Zadeh from CounterPunch.

• Iran vs Saudi Arabia: it’s game-over by Ghassan Kadi from A bird's eyeview of the Vineyard. 

• The Crisis Over The Attack On Saudi Oil Infrastructure Is Over - We Now Wait For the Next One by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• The Deep State Is Dragging Trump Into War With Iran by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• 9/11: the deep state false flag that keeps on condoning Western terrorism at home and around the world by Jeff J. Brown from China Rising.

• The Snowden Conundrum by Yvonne Lorenzo from The Unz Review.

• UK worsens Julian Assange’s persecution as US seeks extradition, Aron Mate interviews (via YouTube) Kristinn Hrafnsson, editor-in-chief of Wikileaks. Posted on The Grayzone.

Articles I especially recommend for today: Thursday, September 19, 2019

• Don’t Smile for the Camera by Andrew P. Napolitano from Antiwar.

• Cutting air pollution would not cause ‘near-term spike’ in global warming by Robert McSweeney from CarbonBrief.  

• No One To Save Us But Ourselves by Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin from Rebel (Ireland).

• Trump’s Re-election? Did the Federal Reserve Already “Decide the 2020 US Election”? by F. William Engdahl from Global Research. 

• Houthi rebels overturned the chessboard by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• China, Russia and Iran: Basis of the New Geopolitical Order by James ONeill from New Eastern Outlook. 

• Latin America and the US: The chains of indebtedness by Marco A. Gandásegui from Cuba-Network in Defense of Humanity.

Articles I recommend today: Monday, September 16, 2019

• Damage At Saudi Oil Plant Points To Well Targeted Swarm Attack by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• Russia warns against ‘hasty conclusions’ over attacks on Saudi oil facilities from PressTV (Iran).

• Will the IMF, FED, Negative Interest and Digital Money Kill the Western Economy? by Peter Koenig from New Eastern Outlook. 

• The New American Oil Empire Built on Sand by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook.

How Syria Defeated the 2012-2019 Invasion by US & Al-Qaeda

Click here to access article by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation.

"How" to me is not the important part of this article. Rather the well documented article is important because it lays out the realities of the war on Syria as planned mainly by the US, Saudia Arabia, and Turkey. It is a must read especially for people who have any doubts about the coverup of these realities by media corporations in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Only the 9/11 false-flag project was worse (for Americans) as a propaganda coverup to deceive Americans and others in the Empire in order to prepare them for regime change operations in the Middle East. His lead paragraph begins to describe this reality:

At long last, Syria’s army and Russia’s air force are no longer being threatened with World War III by the US and its allies if they proceed to destroy the tens of thousands of Al-Qaida-led jihadists whom the US had helped to train and arm (and had been protecting in Syria ever since December 2012) in order to overthrow Syria’s non-sectarian Government and replace it by a fundamentalist-Sunni Government which the royal Sauds who own Saudi Arabia would appoint. All throughout that war, those Al-Qaeda-led ‘moderate rebels’ had been organized from the governate or province of Idlib (or Idleb). But now, most (if not all) of their leadership are dead.

Articles recommended for Thursday, May 30, 2019.

• Climate Capitalists -- this is actually a collection of relevant articles posted on Winter Oak, a British based website.

• Amid grave concerns for his health, Assange transferred to Belmarsh Prison medical wing by Oscar Grenfell from World Socialist Web Site.

• Mecca summits: Saudi Arabia is using holy sites to score political goals by Madawi al-Rasheed from Middle East Eye. 

• China’s Media Wars: Not Your Average David Anymore by Grete Mautner from New Eastern Outlook.

•  How Google creates your reality -- from the News with Rick Sanchez on RT via YouTube.

• The Impact of the European Parliament Election on Iran’s Foreign Policy by Mani Mehrabi from United World (based in Turkey).

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.

An Iran-Syria ‘Belt & Road’: A Far-Reaching Geopolitical Strategy Unfolds

Click here to access article by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. (I've had difficulties with this link and if you do also, I advise accessing the article via ZeroHedge.)

I encountered this article on Monday the 25th of March, but I didn't realize the full significance that it had. It appears to me that Crooke sees a series of bumbling attempts by the Trump administration that risks calamitous consequences for the Empire in their strategy to weaken Iran. Poised against this strategy is the China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Characterizing BRI as a "far-reaching geopolitical strategy" is perhaps an understatement as to its ultimate effects.

As we saw yesterday in Escobar's article and commentary I posted yesterday, President Xi of China is in meetings with the presidents of France and Germany to clear away their objections to BRI.  It is also very clear that both Macron and Merkel are very concerned about the tempting incentives presented by BRI for their own European capitalists. Thus, the meetings are critically important in this giant struggle for the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire to maintain their dominant position in the world. (See also an article by Deena Stryker.)

If President Xi should succeed, it will have a number of very adverse consequences for the Empire's anti-Iran strategies. Iran, as Crooke points out, is a key participant in China's BRI. Thus the Empire's transnational capitalist class would not only incur a devastating setback in its project to punish Iran, but far worse. China's BRI would link up Asia, Russia, and Europe and thus consolidate a victory for a multipolar world. Keep in mind that the Empire has already suffered a defeat in its Syrian campaign which struggle was really against Russian efforts to link Europe's economy with that of Russia.

Muddying this picture is the US Deep State's concern about their long favorable relationship with Saudi Arabia following the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, an important Saudi citizen employed by the Washington Post, a key Empire newspaper. As Crooke points out, there is a section of the Deep State that is very worried about their longstanding relationship with Saudi Arabia which has been essential to supporting the US dollar as the primary world's currency following the Vietnam War when USA went off the gold standard.

Thus, Crooke concludes his article with this insightful statement:

Well, the pivot for countering this unfavourable US conjuncture rests on one man: MbS. America’s entire foreign policy, and that of its ally, Israel, has pivoted around this erratic, highly-flawed, psychologically-impaired figure. The NYT leak from CIA officials, with its unqualified endorsement through a NYT board editorial, suggest that the CIA and MI6 have concluded that US global interests cannot be left in such unreliable, unsafe hands.

What this ultimately might mean is unclear, but such a leak would suggest that it stems from a concerted CIA professional assessment (i.e. that it is not just a partisan party warfare). Trump may not concur, or like it much, but the CIA when it does form such a definitive view, is no force to be lightly trifled with.

Europe pays the price of a US decision: where will European ISIS go?

Click here to access article by Kuwaiti-born independent journalist Elijah Magnier from his blog.

Another independent journalist discloses another dirty and very open secret of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Anyone who refuses to believe the fictional realities as presented by the Empire's corporate media already knows this dirty secret because there have been hundreds of reports from independent sources to confirm it. Yes, the Empire and its allies (Saudi Arabia and its satellites) have emptied their prisons of deviants, trained them to become terrorists, outfitted them with weapons and brand-spanking new Toyota trucks, and launched them into Syria to destabilize the government. Now that ISIS, the Empire's terrorist mercenary army, has been defeated, almost nobody wants them. This poses a quandary for most members of the Empire and their allies. The Empire also used Kurds for this purpose and now they are abandoning them. There are no crimes that our capitalist masters will find unacceptable if it serves their interests of power and profits.

Reshaping the Middle East: why the West should stop its Interventions (Part 2)

Click here to access article by Elijah J Magnier from his blog.

This Kuwaiti-born independent journalist provides a summary of the past decades of US, Israeli, and Saudi interventions in the Middle East, and the consequences are not good for the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. He reaches several conclusions after he poses the question: So, what has this global intervention brought about?

Bahrain opposition begins armed resistance against ‘Saudi occupation’

Click here if you wish to access the following video directly from the Middle East Observer.

A prominent Bahraini opposition leader says his al-Wefaq movement has begun carrying out increasingly sophisticated armed resistance operations against the ruling al-Khalifa government and the “Saudi occupation”.

Sayyed Murtada al-Sanadi said that the ruling al-Khalifa monarchy and its Saudi backers gave no opportunity for dialogue or negotiations despite eight years of peaceful protests by the opposition.

I've recently wondered what happened to the Bahraini protests of which I posted numerous articles in 2011 (see this, this, and this). Well, it appears that they have evolved into an armed resistance against the rule of the Saudi friendly family rule of Khalifa. Although Bahrain is supposed to be a constitutional monarchy, look at the Wikipedia entry to find out who staffs all the important government posts. Incidentally, or maybe not, the US Empire has a major naval base in Bahrain that supports the Fifth Fleet. 

After Lebanon 2006, Syria 2011 and Iraq 2014, the “Arab NATO” and a Sunni-Shia war to revive

Click here to access article by Elijah J. Magnier, an independent Kuwaiti journalist, from his blog.

According to this perceptive author, with failure after failure to topple one Mid-East nation after another, the US Empire will in desperation use various divide-and-conquer strategies to maintain control over the oil and gas rich area. 

The failure of this strategy has pushed the US establishment towards two new options: the first, of using media to reveal Saudi Arabia’s intention to harm the Iranian economy and assassinate its military commanders. The second is to promote and advertise for an “Arab (Sunni) NATO Army”. The goal is to keep the possibility of sectarian war alive.