Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, April 13, 2021

• 💥Pure, Unalloyed Evil by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. This is a best post.

• Most Diabetic, Heart Disease & Alzheimer’s Deaths Categorized As “Covid” Deaths (UK) by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• Margin Debt Has Exploded by 49 Percent in One Year to $814 Billion. The Actual Figure May Be in the Trillions. Here’s Why. By Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. (Note: The Martens explain how the capitalist ruling class keep easy money flowing to Wall Street investors while they hide the real amounts.)
  

• Meditations On US Forces Firing A Howitzer Into The Empty Desert “Just To Say We’re Here” by Australian Caitlin Johnstone, an independent blogger.

• CNN - Ukrainian Trains With Heavy Weapons Going East Are 'Russian Aggression' by Bernhard, an independent German blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama. My reaction: Bernhard spots another example of "news" as anti-Russian propaganda.
  

• Why is the US Involving Turkey in Afghanistan? by Salman Rafi Sheikh from New Eastern Outlook. My commentary follows:

I ask myself why is this important? I should stick to articles that are of fundamental importance to human survival which I believe is the quest for social justice that only socialism (public ownership and control of the economy) can provide in the remaining days of humans.

 

We humans depend on one another to shape our world, and to do that we depend on one another for all things, and especially to tell the truth about our existence. Unfortunately, there are among us sociopaths that are under-socialized to the extent that they strive for only objectives that make them richer and more powerful. Sociopaths will always lie to obtain their self-seeking goals. But the rest of us are not perfect and there is a little sociopathy in all of us. It takes a lot of hard work to determine what is really going on. Unfortunately for humans this weakness will result in our extinction. You see, the hardcore sociopaths among us don't understand that we humans are only one part of the huge web of life found on our exceptional Earth.

 

I believe that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a hardcore sociopath. And the transnational capitalist directors of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire know this and play (manipulate) him in their power game to rule the world. They know this because they themselves are sociopaths. ("It takes one to know one.") Sociopathy is a fundamental part of their perspective regarding how they perceive human nature. They use all people by playing on this human weakness. They have lured Erdogan with the bait of extending his power ambitions in their contest for global domination against the Russia/China/Iran bloc which is threatening their global domination.

 

Erdogan and Turkey are especially useful for the Empire directors to control and contain China because Uyghurs are of Turkish descent and mostly Muslim who make up (according to Wikipedia) about 45% of the population of Xinjiang, a strategic western province of China that these directors are currently active attempting to destabilize it. (see map) Salman Rafi Sheikh, the author of this article, knows this and is pointing it out to us.

 

Yesterday I was astonished to learn that apparently Erdogan has succumbed to this manipulation when I read this astonishing article which I immediately posted.

• Why NATO Destroyed Libya Ten Years Ago by Manlio Dinucci from Global Research, a Canadian aggregator website.
  

• Sweden Axes Gates Mad Global Warming Scheme by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: I advise you to skip this post.) My reaction: I have posted other articles by this geopolitical analyst because of his specialty of knowledge, but there are some specialists who think they know everything about everything. These specialists who write outside of their well-honed knowledge should be ignored. If you, against my advice, read the article, have you noticed that he doesn't supply any documentation or links to support his contention in the following quote despite it being against all evidence supplied by independent global-warming scientists?

... in fact the Earth has slowly been cooling as we enter what some astrophysicists estimate could be several decades of global cooling caused by a Grand Solar Minimum cycle we entered in 2020.

 

Bill Gates may be mad, but global warming is real.

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, April 12, 2021

• Michael Yeadon Interview – Former Pfizer VP Speaks Out On Dangers Of mRNA Vaccines & COVID Illusion (51:14m) from The Last American Vagabond. 

• 💥Why I Won’t Take the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine — a Scientist’s Perspective by Ken Biegeleisen, M.D., Ph.D. from Children's Health Defense. This is a best post. (Note: In addition to DNA-based vaccine that Johnson & Johnson produces, Biegeleisen also gives his reservations about RNA vaccines of other manufacturers.)

• Federal Government Illegally Pressured Facebook to Censor CHD Website, Social Media Content, Lawsuit Alleges by Children's Health Defense Team.
  

• 💥The Military Origins of Facebook (part 1 of 2) by Whitney Webb from her weblog Unlimited Hangout. This is a best post.
  

From the increasing sophistication of US intelligence/military contractor Palantir’s predictive policing programs to the formal announcement of the Justice Department’s Disruption and Early Engagement Program in 2019 to Biden’s first budget, which contains $111 million for pursuing and managing “increasing domestic terrorism caseloads,” the steady advance toward a precrime-centered “war on domestic terror” has been notable under every post-9/11 presidential administration.

.... And, while Facebook has long sought to portray itself as a “town square” that allows people from across the world to connect, a deeper look into its apparently military origins and continual military connections reveals that the world’s largest social network was always intended to act as a surveillance tool to identify and target domestic dissent.

• Being on the Left Involves Losing a Lot by Nathan J. Robinson from Current Affairs. My reaction: So why keep fighting against corporations within the capitalist system? Better in the years to come to organize the fight against capitalism and for socialism, that is, the public ownership and control of the economy to serve social needs, not private needs of billionaires.

• The Shallowness of ‘What Tech Calls Thinking’ by Matthew James Seidel from Current Affairs.

• The FUNNIEST Russia-Gate Headlines Of All Time featuring Jimmy Dore (a comedian from his Rokfin video channel--58:35m) together with Aaron Maté from The Grayzone and Ron Placone hilariously reviewing numerous Russia-Gate headlines from major media corporations. 

• "Horror On St Vincent" - Only Vaccinated Evacuees Able To Flee Amid Fears Of Next Big Volcanic Eruption by Tyler Durden from his weblog ZeroHedge. (Note: You will need to scroll down to the article.)

• Mission Accomplished: The Corbett Report Removed From YouTube from an article by James Corbett from his weblog The Corbett Report.
  

• Sunbeams From Cucumbers: The View From the Khanate of Kaganstan by Patrick Armstrong from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: This is mostly about the evidence of the ignorance displayed the Kagans (Robert Kagan, theorist husband and Victoria Nuland, operative wife) which are playing such a big role in the born-again Obama administration--the redux of the Biden administration.) My reaction: With Zionist players like this, what's to worry us? Except maybe a global nuclear war.

• Kerry Lunges Into India With Anti-BRI Agenda Bringing Green Suicide for All by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: This will bring more evidence of a dying empire (US/Anglo/Zionist Empire) that will ultimately affect all Americans (see article above).

As the China-Russian-Iran alliance continues to gain new momentum spreading win-win cooperation and development across Asia, Africa and the World, the dying unipolar system run by detached militarists, financiers and technocrats is doubling down on its weird mix of 1) a “scorched earth” offensive threat to “dissuade” China and Russia from continuing on their current trajectory and 2) a “positive” green game on which nations are invited to tie their destinies as an alternative to China’s BRI [Belt and Road Initiative]. [my insertion]

• U.S. cultivating 'rebel forces' around the world (part 4 of 4) by Dennis Etler, PhD from CGTN (China's major daily newspaper online). (Note: You can access his rather brief articles in this series here: part 1, part 2, and part 3.)

• Questions about BBC producer’s ties to UK intelligence follow ‘Mayday’ White Helmets whitewash by Kit Klarenberg from The Grayzone.

• The Chinese-Russian-Iranian Alliance Ushers in a New Hope for the Middle East by Matthew Ehret from his weblog on Substack.

• Three China reads: 1, the Uighurs by Philip Roddis from his personal weblog Steel City Scribblings (Britain).
  

• Turkey Demands Return of Crimea, Suppression of Donbass, NATO Membership for Ukraine by Rick Rozoff from Internationalist 360°. My reaction: Amazing turn of events!

• Ukraine’s Top Commander Invokes NATO’s Article 5 Military Assistance Clause as West Continues to Oversee Ukraine’s War in the Donbass by Rick Rozoff from Internationalist 360°. My reaction: This, and the above post, are from the same author and website known to be reliable. If these reports are true, they indicate that the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire is embarking on an aggressive road that leads to a global nuclear war!

• Why It Is Not Advised by Andrei Martyanov from "The Saker" weblog. 

• Dangers of Wars threatening Humankind. By Zamir Awan from "The Saker" weblog.

• Pentagon campaign to recruit Vietnam as military ally against China exposed delusions of US war strategy by Gareth Porter from The Grayzone.
  

• CNN - Ukrainian Trains With Heavy Weapons Going East Are 'Russian Aggression' by Bernhard, a German independent blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• Incentives: Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin possible moves – Donbass crisis. By David Sant from "The Saker" weblog.

• What kind of “Peace” are Britain’s Private Military Companies Bringing to the Middle East? by Vladimir Odintsov from New Eastern Outlook. 

• “CHINA BAD”, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Debt as a Weapon to Exploit Other Countries by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room.

• Who Will Go Extinct featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson on his YouTube video channel (2:38m) briefly stating what he has determined as inevitable in spite of human illusions that we are an exceptional species commonly found in mythology and religions.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, February 9, 2021

•  Essential reading to understand the COVID19 fraud. By Vanessa Beeley, a Brit, from her weblog The Wall Will Fall. This is a best post because of its extensive documentation.

• Is it True that the New Variants are Very Dangerous? by Rosemary Frei, MSc, from her weblog. (Note: This post features a 9:18m video that features Frei summarizing her report that follows in the post.)

• Trust the Science by Dave Cullen, an Irishman, in a satirical 9:37m video from his Bitchute channel Computing Forever.
  

• Stanford Medical Prof: Scientists Are Being Censored For Sharing “Alternative” Info About COVID by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• Revealed: How Facebook Plans to Read Your Brain from Children's Health Defense.
  

• The (New Normal) War on Domestic Terror by CJ Hopkins from his satirical weblog Consent Factory, Inc. My reaction: No doubt the NY Times triggered this response by calling for a "Reality Czar". I think Hopkins could be put out of the satirical business by reading/watching mainstream media. They increasingly write/show their own self-targeting satire.

• Joe Biden and the Revenge of the Behaviorists (Why Statistical Thinking Can Get You Killed) by Matthew Ehret from FRN (Fort Russ News). My reaction: This post reveals how scientists can, and often do, serve the capitalist ruling class, who are already corrupted by wealth and power, by manipulating data to support ruling class policies. Such scientists are rewarded with comfortable careers for the benefit of themselves and their families. The necessity of preserving their privileged life-styles is often too alluring for scientists, especially when they already have sociopathic tendencies.
  

• Democrats WANT To Lose The Midterms: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian, from her weblog. My reaction: She knows far more about the USA than most Americans. I wonder if her American husband has something to do with this.

• Really Existing Capitalism is Crony Capitalism by Rod Driver from Elephants in the Room, his weblog on Medium's website.

• Canadian Government Delays Mandatory Traveler Quarantine featuring an interview with John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which appears to be a non-profit center that is independent of the government, conducted by James Corbett, a Canadian, from The Corbett Report. (Note: Canada is very much a part of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire being a former member of the British Empire. Many of Carpay's comments apply to Americans. Of course, we are both citizens of the same imperialist Empire.)

The Canadian government announced it was going to subject Canadian residents to mandatory quarantine, at their own expense, after returning from international travel, regardless of their negative COVID status. After public backlash and the threat of legal action, the government is now delaying those plans, but some are alleging that the government has already arrested Canadians arriving in the country by air and transported them to a secret hotel location. Joining us to discuss this developing story and what Canadians can do about it is John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.

• MSM accused of keeping America devided | Can it get worse? from RT (via YouTube).

• Collective Hysteria: Western Leaders Work to Alter the Definition of Reality by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Retail Traders Are the New Lab Rats in High Frequency Trading Schemes by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 
  

• U.S., Taiwan Manipulate Chip Supplies To Press For War With China by Bernhard, a German independent blogger from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• China newsbrief and sitrep by Godfree Roberts from "The Saker Blog".
  

• Farmers’ Protest in India: Price of Failure Will Be immense by Colin Todhunter (a Brit who has lived a number of years in India) from CounterPunch. My reaction: What is happening in India is representative of the worldwide effects of capitalist development through the corporatization (def. American English) of agriculture.

The plan to radically restructure agrifood in the country is being sold to the public under the guise of ‘modernising’ the sector. And this is to be carried out by self-proclaimed ‘wealth creators’ like Zuckerberg, Bezos and Ambani who are highly experienced at creating wealth – for themselves.

• How Ecuador’s US-backed, coup-supporting ‘ecosocialist’ candidate Yaku Pérez aids the right-wing by Ben Norton from The Grayzone. My reaction: Note how similar this is in the USA, the center of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Subversive Empire agents now have control of the Democratic Party which traditionally supported workers (within a capitalist framework).

• Bolivia Heading Towards Cooperative Politics and Economy by Ron Ridenour from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Turkish Proxies Launch Missiles At Joint Russian-Syrian HQ In Southern Idlib [Syria] from Southfront. (Note: The post includes a transcript of the 3:53m video.)
  

• Key points regarding abrupt, irreversible climate change featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson (via YouTube) summarizes the main peer-reviewed documents that support his view of abrupt climate change.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, December 28, 2020

• Mass Media Propaganda Is Enemy #1: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. My reaction to the first part of her post: She identifies the very core of neofascism which is the control of the public's minds regarding their reality.

• The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump by Glenn Greewald from Substack. This is a best post.
  

• Here's What's Wrong With COVID-19 Case Counts by Robert Hagen, MD from Medpage Today. (Note: PCR positive tests = cases)

• CDC Issues New Guidelines, Launches Probe After 1000s Negatively-Affected Following COVID-19 Vaccination by Tyler Durden from ZeroHedge. 
  

• Government program tapped to pay for COVID-19 vaccine injuries rarely sides with consumers by Ken Alltucker from USA Today.

• WARNING: Covid Vaccines! by Peter Koenig from Dissident Voice.
  

• Weighing in on Wireless: New Report on ‘Havana Syndrome’ + Palm Coast Keeps 5G Tower at Bay + More by Shannon Koenig from Children's Health Defense. My reaction: Whenever profits can be made in a capitalist society, the capitalist-controlled state will always permit it. (Also read this.)

• Turkey pivots to the center of The New Great Game by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker". My reaction: Turkey under Erdogan erratically appears to be playing games, and Escobar tries his hand at unraveling them.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, October 19, 2020

Social media giants are consistently censoring information that the main ruling class doesn't like:

• Twitter Silences Top Trump COVID Task Force Expert from ZeroHedge.
• Does This Explain Why Facebook Was So Quick To Suppress Hunter Biden Revelations? from The Burning Platform.
• Twitter censors .gov website. Facebook meddles in New Zealand election from The Duran.

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Posts that I especially recommend today and some commentaries: Thursday, April 30, 2020

• Public Health and Private Profits Under COVID-19 Pandemic by Yves Smith from Naked Capitalism. 

• Dr. Ioannidis on Results of Coronacirus Studies from Journey Pictures via YouTube. (Note: Stanford University professor Dr. John Ioannidis reports on data from various parts of the world and their implications for coping with such a virulent virus as Covid-19.)

My comments: According to early data from this higlyly qualified source and other competent sources, Covid-19 is not more fatal than influenza. You should behave rationally to protect yourself from suffering from this virus. However, if you believe what media corporations, which have a record of spreading lies, are telling you that you should fear for your lives, then I have several fine bridges to sell you.

I am 84 years old with chronic bronchitis, and I see myself as extremely vulnerable to this virus. Thus, I am observing carefully all social distance advisories as should all people in my condition. (Edited comment for clarity of my views based on date between 4:30 PM and 6:45 PM CT.)

• Latest Stimulus Screwing Of America Explained w/Dylan Ratigan from The Jimmy Dore Show (via YouTube).

• Douglas Valentine Interview - How The COVID-19 Police State Was Born In Vietnam conducted by Whitney Webb in a 1:20:25 interview posted on The Last American Vagabond. (Note: I have only had the time to listen to some of this one hour plus interview. I will listen to it in full later.)

Next day commentary: I don't see that Valentine's thesis that the ruling class used the Phoenix Program, which they used in Vietnam, has been used to suppress dissent in the USA. Our masters have used a variety of sources to increase their control of society, but they have done this while perserving the ideology of a "democratic" society that has a number of civil liberties. The use of propaganda through the infiltration of media corporations was primarily applied in the USA and to lessor extent to the European countries of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Vietnam's society was not the same as US's society. Thus, they have used a variety of means, including their experience in Vietnam, to exercise more control over dissidents in the USA. The only transfer of the Phoenix Program was the use of computers to identify dissidents, but that was perfectly logical to use updated technology to track dissidents. His observations did describe the growing militarization of US society to control dissent that have occurred over many recent decades, but again that was only logical and the roots go back to all fascist regimes. All of these methods were designed to control populations under their control to counter any threats to their capitalist system.

• Fighting the Invisible Enemy: Imperial Fascism, Not Covid-19 by Lauren Smith from Internationalist 360°. (This is a call to action.)

• Backing the Wrong Horseman by Craig Murray (Scotland) from his weblog. (Note: You will need to know about the "Four Horsemen".)

• The Gates Foundation and the War on Cash by Colin Todhunter from Off-Guardian.

• Welcome to the era of the Great Disillusionment by Jonathan Cook from his weblog. (Note: I hope that this is the "era of the Great Disillusionment", but I have doubts. We have been lied to for many decades since WWII. Media corporations lied before this, but their lying was not as systemized and consciously controlled as it is today.)

• Fed’s Powell Tells Reporters Fed Has Only “Lending Powers” – So How Does It Own $5.5 Trillion of Securities? by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s Anti-China Campaign Strategy is Part of a Broader Imperialist War Against China by Danny Haiphong from Black Agenda Report.

• The Victory America Won for Fascism and Nazism After WWII by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

My commentary: I've spent entirely too much time on this article, and I advise you to avoid it in the interests of efficiency of your time to understand current monumental issues that confront humans. Zuesse's tremendous efforts in this article is to establish, once and for all, his social-democratic understanding of these these current issues. His views are a product of a post-war education in which social-democractic views were still fashionable on college campuses and those espousing them were amply rewarded. To hold his social-democratic views is to ignore the innumerable historical events of capitalist exploitation of workers that preceded WWII. Some of these events I have written about in my "best posts" category.

I only draw attention to this article because this perspective still exists among American intellectuals, and its influence is pernicious to say the least. To restore capitalism as it was before WWII is impossible, but that is what many American bloggers like Paul Craig Roberts, old-fashion conservatives like Pat Buchanan, and historians like Eric Zuesse want to do. If, on the other hand, you see capitalism as a system that evolves or develops over time into complete capitalist class rule (fascism), you will see social-democracy as a dead end, and work for system change.

• Turkey courts Washington as disillusionment with Russia grows by Ragip Soylu from Middle East Eye.

“Recent developments in our region, particularly in Syria and Libya, have once again demonstrated the importance of upholding the Turkish-US alliance and cooperation at full strength,” Erdogan wrote.

One Turkish official, speaking anonymously, told Middle East Eye that Ankara’s calculation has been changing since its military clashed with the Syrian government in the country's Iblib province, where nearly 60 Turkish soldiers had been killed in February.

My question: Could the unpredictiable Erdogan simply be playing USA and Russia off against each other (def.) similar to the prime ministers of India?

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: Wednesday, March 11, 2020

• We Did Start the Fire: Climate Change & the Curse of Hope by John Halstead from Gods & Radicals Press. 

• Extinction Dialogues: Am I a Typical Academic? featuring Guy McPherson, this time from his website Nature Bats Last instead of via YouTube.

• Jacobin: From the “Dirty Break” to the Democratic Party by Nathaniel Flakin from Left Voice.

• News for March 10 with Rick Sanchez from RTAmerica. Note: Sanchez focuses on a range of very important topics that takes the full program (27:37). I highly recommend this news program to watch daily.

High levels of radiation in the area around Fukushima, Japan have been discovered at locations intended for the 2020 Summer Olympics. Is the international sporting event in danger? RT America’s Michele Greenstein explains the lasting impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Then Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist at Beyond Nuclear, joins Rick Sanchez to share his expertise. RT America’s Alex Mihailovich reports on the economic downturn in the airline industry before former director of Government, Public and Family Affairs for the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) Jamie Finch shares his insights. Pulitzer-winning author and host of “On Contact” Chris Hedges joins Rick Sanchez to discuss the influence of lobbyists on establishment media in their coverage of politics and that donors, bankers and billionaires have on the US political process. Plus, RT America's Sayeh Tavangar reports on the role that fracking in the US played in fomenting the oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia.

• An Estimated 85,000 Turkish-Backed Terrorists are Fighting in Syria and Libya, While Thousands are in Terrorist Training Camps in Turkey by Drago Bosnic from FRN (Fort Russ News). (Note: Non-Empire journalists have reported that Turkey has been on the team (along with Saudi Arabia, Britain, and Israel) which was coordinated by the USA in order destroy the Syrian government beginning in 2011, and I have re-posted many of these reports. For example, read Washington’s Secret War on Syria. Also, see this from 1983!)

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 that I especially recommend today: Saturday, March 7, 2020

• Global Warming on a Rampage by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.

• Mailbag Love: How Can You Help? from Guy McPherson's weblog Nature Bats Last.

• How I try to break climate silence by BaerbelW from Skeptical Science. (Note: This German scientist takes us through the many ways climate crisis deniers try to deceive us, and simultaneously promotes critical thinking. But alas, she only devotes two sentences to a claim that "There is also hope: We already have much of the technology we need to solve climate change. We 'just' have to deploy it at scale." And she follows these two sentences by saying "this clear for scientists". But this is not true. Many scientists remain in doubt that we can solve this problem, and some, like McPherson, have already decided that it is too late.)

• Greta Thunberg | Youth Strike 4 Climate | Bristol, UK featuring Greta from Extinction Rebellion (via YouTube). (Note: She rallies British children to protest the inaction by adults (in the ruling class) who "despite all the beautiful words and promises from elected officials" (and the people who employ them in the capitalist ruling class) about  preventing climate destabilization, but the latter will result in the destruction of the children's futures and they sense that.)

Satirical comedians discover that capitalist controlled elections are corrupt, but they don't connect them to elections held in capitalist nations or nations held by ruling classes of any kind. The result is cynicism. The following two posts illustrate that:

• Voter Suppression, Closed Polling Places, Rigged Media & More featuring Lee Camp and his how Redacted Tonight from RT (via YouTube).

• Establishment Hacks Deny Establishment Colluding Against Bernie featuring Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show from RT (via YouTube). 

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• Joe Biden in 2020 Duplicates Hillary Clinton in 2016 by Eric Zuesse from Global Research. 

• Two Charts Explain Why Wall Street Banks Are Under So Much Selling Pressure by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. (They explain a lot more.)

• Putin saves Erdogan from himself by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times. 

• Donbass and Syria – A Perfect Storm Approaching? by Russell Bentley from FRN (Fort Russ News) (Note: Notice the background of the author, and he has a website.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, March 6, 2020

• Network news’s climate disappearing act—will 2020 be different? from Covering Climate Now.

• The Film Series Tackling Climate Change Despair by Jennimai Nguyen from The Cut, a subsection of New York Magazine. 

• Erdogan and Putin’s talks on Idlib: a brief analysis from United World (based in Turkey). 

• Inside the World Uyghur Congress: The US-backed right-wing regime change network seeking the 'fall of China' by Ajit Singh from The Grayzone.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, March 5, 2020

• The Automatic Earth composed by Steven Bryant from his website.

The Automatic Earth, for wind ensemble + electronics, addresses the ongoing climate catastrophe and evokes the psychological effect of the impending disruptive change to our entire way of living on the planet, even under a best-case scenario. Our way of life is unsustainable, therefore it will not continue. The piece weaves together two threads: the climate crisis, and the technological transformation of what it is to be human. The tandem acceleration of technological wonder and ecological catastrophe means, at best, a strange, unrecognizable future, likely within our own lifetimes. I do not know if we will survive as a species: if we continue as we are now, average world temperature will increase around 8ªC within eighty years, which would result in runaway warming and a Venus-like atmosphere that virtually no life on earth can withstand. If we do survive, it will be via monumental feats of geo-engineering and human re-engineering, surpassed only by an extraordinary change in our willingness to cooperate with each other. Humanity will be forever altered. This way of life will die. The question is whether or not we will die with it.

• ClearCut – The Wages of Dominion by John Riggs from Edge Effects. The title implies reference to the mythology of Judeo-Christian religions:

... God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

• Scott Morrison's duty is to protect the Australian people. There is no greater threat than climate disruption. By David Spratt and Ian Dunlop from Climate Code Red (based in Australia). (Note: Scott Morrison is Prime Minister of Australia.)

• Is the U.S. Fracking Boom Based on Fraud? by Justin Mikulka from Desmog.

• The Long History of Elite Rule: What Will It Take To End It? by Chuck Churchill from CounterPunch. (Note: My translation: "The Long History of Ruling Classes: ...")

• Stop Calling It A “Stutter” :  Here Are Dozens Of Examples Of Biden’s Dementia Symptoms by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Bernie Needs New Strategy For Biden His “Good Friend” featuring Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show (via YouTube). (Note: Because Dore is once again (like in 2016) disillusioned by Bernie's (Sanders) namby-pamby (def.) campaign, he goes off on a rant against Sanders and his advisors for running such a campaign. Also, see this about another such comedian.)

• Putin-Erdogan meeting: a storm is expected over the “mother of all battles” in Idlib; Ayn al Arab is at stake by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, March 2, 2020

• Coronavirus Effect on Global Warming and Global Warming Impact on Pandemic Risks by Canadian climate scientist Paul Beckwith from his weblog. (Note: There are four 15 minute videos in this post--the first video is essential. The last video is not recommended.)

• XR History 2018-2019 | Extinction Rebellion from Extinction Rebellion channel of YouTube. 

• Hunger threat as tropical fish seek cooler waters by Paul Brown from Climate News Network. 

• Action Against Fossil Fuel Extraction (at Big Ben, London) from the Extinction Rebellion channel of YouTube.

• Erdogan: Idlib is mine by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog. 

• Erdogan is weaponizing refugees and immigrants. Turkish secret services are sending thousands to Greece from Defend Democracy Press.

• The Armoured Glass Box is an Instrument of Torture by Craig Murray from his weblog.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, February 28, 2020

• Blast from the Past - James Hansen on David Letterman in 2009 from UPFSI, downloaded from YouTube by Stuart H. Scott, founder of Scientists Warning.org. 

Back in 2009, before the holiday season, Dr. James Hansen appeared on the Tonight Show with David Letterman.  I downloaded a file copy so I could show it offline.  Some time later the interview was purged from the channel.  Luckily I had saved that copy.  I posted it on my personal YouTube channel where it's gotten about 7k views over six years.
  
Well here goes, folks.  Everything he said then is just as true now.  We have made zero progress towards reducing our carbon emissions, and the Money Boys are still trying to figure out how to 'make a buck' off of the current climate emergency. 

• Coronavirus Update featuring Guy McPherson, retired Professor of Biology, from his YouTube channel Edge of Extinction. (Note: In this episode, McPherson offers a very startling prediction about global warming that is based on very questionable statistics (according to him). You should know of his past analyses about the effect of aerosols on global warming: see this, or if you are not technically challenged, see this.) 

• Different Crises: Coronavirus & Climate Change posted on Skeptical Science.

• Bernie Sanders and the Military Industrial Complex. Bernie 2.0 by Ann Garrison from Global Research. 

• Freedom Rider: Bernie Sanders' Foreign Policy Trap by Margaret Kimberley from Black Agenda Report.

• America’s Hundred Year War on Socialism by Deena Stryker from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: Although Stryker doesn't exactly address "America's Hundred Year War on Socialism", she offers sound observations about the current election scene in the USA.)

• Syrian journalist corrects the record on mainstream media’s absurd Idlib coverage featuring Anya Parampil on YouTube video and posted on The Grayzone.

• Syria - Deadly Bomb Strike Warns Turkey To End Its Escapades by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• NATO: From Covert Sponsor to Artillery for Terrorists in Syria by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Turkey Now Claims Syria’s Idlib Province as Turkish Territory by Eric Zuesse from The Duran.

• “Russian threat” and Russophobia are the only motive for uniting NATO by Edgars Palladis from The Duran. 

• Are Russia and Turkey on a collision course? by The Saker (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. 

• Last Updates on the Idlib: Are Turkey and Russia on the brink of war? by Elif İlhamoğlu from United World (based in Turkey).

• This Assange “Trial” Is A Self-Contradictory Kafkaesque Nightmare by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• ‘Religious operations’: How British propagandists used Islam to wage cultural Cold War by Ian Cobain from Middle East Eye.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, February 26, 2020

• When will the Amazon hit a tipping point? by Ignacio Amigo from Nature.

• Scientists Don't Know Why? by Guy McPherson from Edge of Extinction (via YouTube).

• Fossil-Fuel Subsidies Must End by Geoffrey Supran and others from Scientific American. (Note: Now that it is too late, banks and financiers are starting to worry.)

• Middle East dystopia? Peter Lavelle interviews geopolitical analyst Alastair Crooke about his observations about the Middle East. From RT (via YouTube).

• With Grenell Appointment, the Israel Lobby’s Foothold on US Intelligence Grows Even Stronger by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News. 

• Don’t Worry, Centrists. Bernie Isn’t Radical. By Ted Rall from CounterPunch. (But, what about (to the ruling capitalist class) the sacred cows of insurance companies and Big Pharma?)

• Debunking The Smear That Assange Recklessly Published Unredacted Documents by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day 2 by Craig Murray (British) from his weblog. (Note: "QC" means in Latin Queen's Counsel: a British lawyer of high rank.

• Vanderbilt oligarch heir Anderson Cooper worked at CIA in college by Ben Norton from The Grayzone.

• RAND's controversial report says more about the think tank than Turkey by Ali Cinar from TRT World (based in Turkey). (Note: "ab extra" means from the outside according to Wikipedia.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, February 20, 2020

• Methane emissions from fossil fuels ‘severely underestimated’ by Robert McSweeney from Carbon Brief.

• Climate Disinformation from Union of Concerned Scientists.

• Record Antarctic temperatures fuel sea level worry by Alex Kirby from Climate News Network.

• Just a Tiny Fraction of America’s Plastic Can Actually Be Recycled, Report Finds from Yale Environment 360.

• Report Attacks Industry Campaign to Fix Natural Gas’s Climate PR Problem by Dana Drugmand from Desmog.

• Is Iran ill-advised to finance its regional allies while under sanctions? by Elijah J. Magnier from his weblog. My commentary follows:

One likely wouldn't be able to understand the Middle East conflicts without this journalist. And one wouldn't likely understand this article without having following events closely in the Middle East for over 30 years. Capitalists of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire have viewed this region, which is rich in fossil fuels, as a strategic factor in their obsessive desire to rule the world. 

Ordinary Americans, coping with rising inflation, particularly health-related costs (see the next posted article), and tenuous employment do not have the time to understand even the details of this long history. They are focused on surviving. In this vacuum of understanding, Americans, and others throughout the Empire, have also been brainwashed on a massive scale by media corporations, Hollywood films, and schools to believe that their countries were fighting terrorism in the Middle East.

Americans have been the target of the transnational capitalist Empire as much as nations in the Middle East. Although they have been manipulated by home grown terrorism perpetrated by agents of the Empire, Americans and other ordinary people in the nations of the Empire have not suffered terrorism on a much larger scale--terrorist Jihadi armies. These were organized by agents of Empire and their allies,  and suffered by nations in the Middle East who have opposed the Empire. And, Americans don't understand the devastating effects of economic sanctions on the lives of ordinary people in the Middle East.

However, for those Americans, who have had the time and followed closely the events in the Middle East from more independent sources for the past many decades, this article is priceless toward their understanding of the current scene today in that unfortunate region.

• Sanders’ surge in the polls triggers new provocations by media, Democratic establishment by Barry Grey from World Socialist Web Site. 

There are growing concerns within the party apparatus and much of the corporate elite that wins for Sanders in Nevada and South Carolina could set him up for victories on Super Tuesday that would make his nomination unstoppable. The response of the corporate media and the party establishment has been twofold: to promote the candidacy of Bloomberg and launch new political provocations aimed at derailing the Sanders campaign.

• China’s Massive Coronavirus Study Covering 44,000 Cases Reveals the True Nature of the Virus by Drago Bosnic from FRN (Fort Russ News).

• Syria - Turkey's Bluff Is Called - Media Opposition Sources Run By British Intelligence by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, February 11, 2020

• Extinction Foretold, Extinction Ignored by Guy R. McPherson from CounterPunch.

• Explainer: Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change by Robert McSweeney from Carbon Brief.

• Keep War, Environmental Degradation And Profit Out Of Space by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers from Popular Resistance.

• The indispensable nation and its nonexistent democracy! by Daniel Patrick Welch from PressTV (Iran). 

• Sanders asks for recanvass of 25 Iowa caucus precincts from RT/USA.

• Puppet Pete Says Revolution And The Status Quo Aren’t Mutually Exclusive by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog (Australia).

• Syria - Turkey Invades Idleb But Its Bluff Will Be Called by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

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: Thursday, February 6, 2020

• Extinction Dialogues: I Agree, Except for the Part About Earth as a Ball of Ice from Guy McPherson's weblog Nature Bats Last. 

• This is NOT natural from Open Mind.

• Rosa Luxemburg and debt as an imperialist instrument by Eric Toussaint from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt). (Note: Toussaint quotes extensively from the writings of Luxemburg to explain how Western capitalist bankers use loans to control and oppress other countries.)

• Was the 1945 Yalta Conference a Mirage? by Michael Jabara Carley from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: Carley in this essay correctly argues that the Yalta Conference was a mirage because the Western capitalist powers have always been in a "cold war" (hostile relationship) with the Soviets except for a brief period during WWII. But he doesn't explain this as being a contest between ruling classes in Western capitalist nations vs the Soviet Union which did not allow capitalists. Although a very honest historian (very much like Eric Zuesse), he does not have a class or system analysis of WWII, the history of which has been re-written by mainstream Western historians (see his article entitled "History as Propaganda: Why the USSR Did Not ‘Win’ World War II"). It is essential to have a class or system analysis in order to thoroughly understand geopolitics, but one must first have a truthful history of WWII which historian Carley has.)

• Would Turkey choose US or Russia, given a choice? from the Rick Sanchez program on RT. Sanchez interviews former Pentagon official Michael Maloof about the recent "kerfuffle" between Turkey's Erdogan and Russia's Putin. (Note: Erdogan seems to be playing both sides for Turkey's or Erdogan's benefit. Also read an article entitled "Difficult ally or Eurasian enemy? Turkey in the eyes of American think tanks" from United World, and independent weblog which is based in Turkey.) 

• US Policy Vs. Iran: Apex Desperation by Tony Cartalucci from New Eastern Outlook.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, January 31, 2020

Blogger's Note: Because the bigger, more imminent threat (more than the pollution of carbon) to the human species is a global nuclear war, I am forced to post many articles related to world geo-political events in what I think is now the start of the disintegration of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. We live in a very dangerous world.

• Human Extinction Now Imminent and Inevitable? by Robert J. Burrowes from Wall Street International Magazine.

• Britain leaves the European Union: Against nationalism, For the United Socialist States of Europe! from World Socialist Web Site.

• Brexit and the world: The risks and opportunities for non-European countries from United World (independent analysts based in Turkey).

• Did the US just concede defeat in China tech war? by David P. Goldman from Asia Times. 

• Globalization – A sneaky overview by Naresh Jotwani from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• U.S in the Middle-East: Preparing for Disaster by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from The Unz Review. 

• Why we need a socialist solution to climate change by John Molyneux from Global Ecosocialist Network. (I now think it is too late for this.)

• The Merchants of Death by "FD" from The Internationalists. 

• Rewriting History of World War II Is Ominous Warning from the editors of Strategic Culture Foundation. (The victors always re-write history.)

• Nobody Sets Out To Become A War Propagandist. It Just Sort Of Happens. By Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• American Dream meets the Chinese Dream: A Nightmare on Fuyao Avenue by Dyjbas from Internationalist Communist Tendency.

• FBI probes use of Israeli firm's spyware in personal and government hacks from The New Arab. 

• Trump Is A Symptom Of A Larger Problem from The Jimmy Dore Show (via YouTube).

• Saudi, UAE trying to partition Iraq – fmr Pentagon official from RTAmerica. "The US has stopped all weapon deliveries to Iraq over security concerns, according to an Air Force spokesman. Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof weighs in."

• Erdoğan’s Outburst Against Russia Reveals Frustration by "InfoBrics" from The Duran (based in Cyprus).