Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, May 30, 2021

• The ‘New Normal’ Lexicon by Ian Jenkins from Off-Guardian.

• Is Ivermectin the new Penicillin? by Dr. Justus R. Hope, MD fro The Desert Review. (Note: This post from an unnamed activist source (according to his wishes) writes the following:  

Vermectin, an anti-parasitic drug placed the same radioactive category as Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for the treatment of COVID-19, has reemerged as a promising treatment in the battle to extinguish the pandemic. 

 

New York Times best-selling author Michael Capuzzo has called it the "drug that cracked Covid," writing that there are “hundreds of thousands, actually millions, of people around the world, from Uttar Pradesh in India to Peru to Brazil, who are living and not dying.”

 

Doctors in India are big fans.  

• Coronavirus Fact-Check #11: Is Sars-Cov-2 a bioweapon? from Off-Guardian. My reaction: I certainly take issue with their conclusions:

Maybe the virus was grown in a lab, maybe it just jumped from bats to people. Since all evidence suggests it’s not very dangerous, it doesn’t really matter.

The debate sure does make a good distraction though. 

 

Does it matter that many after the age of 70 died from it if it was designed and used as a bioweapon for whatever purpose? What about all the severe restrictions on people's civil rights that were dictated by various governments of the world based on the declaration of WHO that the threat constituted a pandemic and the virtual diktats by the CDC or similar agencies throughout governments of the world? What about the censorship that was imposed on many other relevant medical specialists who differed about various aspects of the declared pandemic?

• The Bogus January 6 Commission Poses a Real Threat to Freedom by James Bovard from Mises Institute. (Note: Mises Institute is a nationalist capitalist website/weblog which features old-fashioned capitalists who no longer control the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. The latter is controlled by "neoliberals" or transnational capitalists.)
  

• ‘Stop the Monopoly Madness’: Biden Urged to Block Amazon’s $8.5 Billion Purchase of MGM by Jake Johnson from Children's Health Defense.
  

• Obama's Labor Secretary Joins Union Busters featuring Jimmy Dore of the Jimmy Dore Show (via his YouTube channel).

• Once a US Soldier, Always Wounded, Always Losing! by Paul Haeder from Dissident Voice.

... we can either prepare for the ultimate disaster that disaster capitalism gives us, or, put our heads back in that sand ....

• The Conscious Resistance Network Presents: The Pyramid of Power Ep. 4 – The Hollywood-Military-Intelligence-Complex by Derrick Broze from Activist Post.  My brief commentary follows: 

I remember one of the first acts formally announcing a Cold War against the Soviet Union after the conclusion of WWII (1st article) was Winston Churchill's speech in Fulton, Missouri (with Pres. Harry Truman on the stage) in 1946 declaring that an "iron curtain has descended" across Europe. This was a shock to the American people because we had been allied in WWII with the Soviet Union against the Axis powers. 

 

 

This was followed a year later with the Un-American Activities Committee investigations of Hollywood playwrights, directors, and actors that weren't sufficiently anti-communist enough to suit the interests of the capitalist ruling class. This constituted a major purge of all left-wing influential people associated with the Hollywood film industry in order to stifle any kind of dissent and further propagandize people into smearing any kind of socialism. Churchill's visceral hatred of the Russian Revolution and his role beginning with the capitalist intervention in the Russian Civil War made him an exceptionally qualified person (in the eyes of the ruling capitalist class) to announce this new effort against the Soviet Union. 

• Biden Cynically Politicizes Lab-Leak Theory to Bash China by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• The politics of the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis by Stephen Gowans from his weblog What's Left. Gowans concludes his article with this statement:

If Biden were genuinely interested in learning how to prevent a future pandemic he would be exploring how to prevent zoonotic spillovers, both in nature, and in the lab. On the other hand, if he’s interested in tarring the reputation of a country he has labelled a competitor, as his predecessor was, he is proceeding along the right path. Unfortunately, that path has nothing to do with protecting humanity from future pandemics.

• Loophole lets soya farmers tear down the Amazon by Andrew Wasley , Alexandra Heal , André Campos, and Daniel Camargos from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
  

• Methane and the mass extinction of species by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News. 

• The Net Zero Mirage by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.
  

• Ask an Ecologist Anything -- Saturday, May 29, 2021 featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has focused on the climate crisis, from his YouTube channel. (Note: This has been removed from YouTube by the administrators of this platform. Apparently he said something which they, in their scientific wisdom, do not like.)
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, March 3, 2021

• Investigation Links Fauci to Controversial Experiments That May Have Led to Pandemic with a commentary from Children's Health Defense. My reaction: This looks like an accurate and important piece of investigative research from a mainstream TV network that usually offers news from a Republican Party perspective.

• Do As I Say, Not As I Do by Todd Hayen, PhD from Off-Guardian. (Note: This is regarding the infantilization of world societies following the World Health Organization's (of the UN) official declaration of the current pandemic.)

• Vaccine Passports Were Always Part of the Plan Dave Cullen, an Irishman, arguing in support of the title (with documentation) in a 12:40m video from his Bitchute channel Computing Forever.
  

• Lawyers Promise ‘Nuremberg Trials’ Against All Behind COVID Scam by Jean-Michel Grau from Principia Scientific International.
  

• America's back! Bombs away! a 1:02m video from RT.

• Israel and US fear Iran... and not because of its nuclear weapons featuring a 5:08m video commenting on the title from RT.
  

• Laws Apparently Just Don’t Apply to Presidents by Nathan J. Robinson from Current Affairs. 

• Tearing down 'China domination' propaganda from CGTM. (Note: The post includes a 3:13m post in which Paul Craig Roberts comments.) 

• Putin Blasts W.E.F. Honchos at Davos Gabfest by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. 

• The watchdogs of imperialism and the Uyghur genocide slander by Stephen Gowans, a Canadian, from his weblog What's Left. 

• Senator Ossoff Drops a Bombshell: “The 12 or 13 Largest Banks” Got the Trillions from the Fed’s Repo Loans Last Year by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• Biden's Protection of Murderous Saudi Despots Shows the Hidden Reality of U.S. Foreign Policy by Glenn Greenwald from his website on Substack. My commentary follows: 

Greenwald argues that the myth of this administration opposing tyranny is just that--a myth. He discloses a secret that most Americans naively believe: that their government pursues moral objectives. This grand deception hides many truths that their government not only is immoral like any criminal gang, but a bigger insight that their government is only a facade behind which a tiny class of capitalists rules all the nation and transnational capitalists rule the nations of the Empire. Many activists are aware of the first deception, but fail to recognize the second. And virtually all Americans fail to know that their elections along with the complex of myths regarding democracy are all deceptions. They are living and working in a world much like that of the film The Truman Show. 

• The Age of Social Murder by Chris Hedges from ScheerPost. My reaction: I am posting this article only to criticize it. I am turned off most of his writing by the moral denunciations of his targets in the government and oligarchy. His articles often read like sermons (he trained in a seminary to be a sermonizer) castigating sinners in the government and the rich for their sins. He seldom mentions the capitalist system which I firmly believe accounts for most of his "evil-doers". Besides this fundamental criticism, I don't accept his take on the current pandemic in which he largely accepts what the mainstream media report about the pandemic.

• Big Oil Is Really Scared! w/ Steven Donziger (Web Exclusive) featuring an interview conducted by Lee Camp (via his Redacted Tonight channel on YouTube) with Steven Donziger, the lead attorney who won a court case in 2011 against Chevron for their harmful practices in Ecuador. Donziger, who is suffering from Chevron's backlash ("Then Chevron went after Donziger. He's currently one of the US's many political prisoners."), brings this forever case up-to-date.
  

• Oceans, Carbon and Heat. Have we wrecked another equilibrium? from Just Have a Think featuring Dave Borlace explaining in this 12:04 YouTube video that the oceans are becoming more acidic and the effects of that.

• Science Update: Backtracking on Geoengineering? a 6:25m video featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, a scientist who has specialized in the impending climate destabilization crisis, from his YouTube channel. He cites and clarifies important new research that has the potential to at least delay this crisis!

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020

• The Establishment’s Plan to Divide Part 2: COVID-19, Election 2020, and The Great Reset by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. My reaction: I think Broze spends too much time on how Trump functions to divide Americans, and not enough time devoted to exposing the carefully designed ruling class agenda of fomenting fear and chaos among ordinary Americans. Trump is a natural-born American capitalist of a nationalist variety, but the transnational ("neoliberal") ruling class intentionally creates chaos among ordinary Americans as a method to install more authoritarian measures. They want to do this as a part of their global domination project that I have exposed numerous times. Transnational capitalists see Trump, who unconsciously stirs up conflict, as an upstart who is detracting from their finely honed control methods, and as such, they are greatly irritated by him. They only included the clownish Trump on the 2016 ballot to ensure the victory of their chosen candidate Hillary Clinton; but they were surprised, as I was, that many voters simply withheld their votes with disgust from Clinton, and as a result, Trump was elected (by the electoral college but not by popular vote).

• Media Gunning For Scott Atlas Because He Keeps Exposing Coronavirus Lies from Political Patrol.
  

• Big donors fund state parties at record levels by Reid Wilson from The Hill. (Note: This article gives only one part of the ruling class's control over elections which is an integral part of American capitalists' fake democracy. See also this evidence.)
  

• Brave New Money, part 1 and part 2 of a 2-part series. By Norbert Häring, a German blogger and economist, from his weblog Money and more. (Note: I think that this is a summary of his book by the same title.) My reaction: I think that digital money is a part of the The Great Reset project that the Empire wishes to accomplish with the pandemic. I assume that if they are successful, this will give them ever greater control (domination) over their populations. Control and domination is what the Empire and capitalism are all about.
  

• Like a Rowboat in a Typhoon: Why 2020 Center-Right Yankee Election Outcomes are Dead in the Water by Bruce Lerro from Planning Beyond Capitalism. 

• LIVE UPDATES: ASSANGE HEARING DAY SEVENTEEN—US Intel Spying on Assange Detailed in Court, Including Plans to Kidnap or Poison Him by Joe Lauria from Consortium News. My reaction: I am not posting articles on the trial of Assange because I see the court in Britain as a "kangaroo court", I assume that Assange will be either killed in the British prison or he will be extradited to USA where he will await a similar fate.

• Carolyn L. Karcher: “Zionism Was Always A Settler Colonial Ideology” by Mohsen Abdelmoumen from American Herald Tribune. (Note: The author interviews Karcher who is a long time activist, retired professor, and author.)
  

• Western government-funded intelligence cutouts trained Syrian opposition leaders, planted stories in media outlets from BBC to Al Jazeera, and ran a cadre of journalists. A trove of leaked documents exposes the propaganda network. By Ben Norton from The Grayzone.

• Thai Protests are Anti-Chinese, Not "Pro-Democracy" by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: Cartalucci is an American living in Thailand.)

• For an egalitarian, cooperative road to an ecosocialist future from Green Left (based in Australia).
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, July 16, 2020

• Why Face Masks Don’t Work, According To Science by Ben Swann from RT (via YouTube, sourced from Truth in Media).

So much debate over whether or not we should be wearing masks in order to fight COVlD but multiple scientific studies over the past decade have already settled this question. Not only do medical masks not prevent the spread of the virus, but a 1995 study proves that wearing a cloth mask can put you at greater risk for infection. Ben Swann breaks down the science.

• Literally Thousands of Doctors and Scientists Have Come Out Against Fauci’s Lockdowns Including a Nobel Prize-Winning Biophysicist. The Media Just Doesn’t Want You to Know by Michael Thau from Red State. (You might be also interested in a brief comment by Dr. Ioannidis, a world-renowned epidemiologist at Stanford.) My brief commentary follows.

Previous to today I have never encountered so much cynicism and doubts about the government's handling of this pandemic and mainstream media's coverage of this event. Examples include this and this.

• Covid-19: Phase 1 of the "Permanent Crisis" by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review.

• Agro-imperialism in the time of Covid-19 from GRAIN. 

• The Battle of Seattle was Fought by the Pro-war “Left” in Northern Syria by Max Parry from Dissident Voice. (Note: You should know about today's frequent references to "Wokist cult" by listening to the first three minutes of this RT post.) (My reaction: Parry exposes much of the shallow thinking of today's leftists.)

• The Maxwell Family Business: Espionage by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond. 

• The faulty science, doomism, and flawed conclusions of Deep Adaptation by Thomas Nicholas, Galen Hall, and Colleen Schmidt from Scientists Warning. (Note: This contains counter-arguments to those who believe, as I do, that humans are doomed as a species.)

• Interview with Julian Assange's Father by Denis Rogatyuk from The Grayzone.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, May 19, 2020

• Bill Gates and the Population Control Grid by James Corbett from his weblog.

The question that Corbett poses in his final comment is not "who is Bill Gates?". Gates is simply taking advantage of the advances of technology, which is inevitable, as is his unconscious assumption that capitalism is an uncontravertible fact of reality. He has been immersed with this idea all of his life while living in the center of the capitalist empire and benefiting from the system with enormous profits and power. Gates is not an evil ogre who wants to intentionally enslave mankind. He is merely a brainwashed human wanting to logically take advantage of technology for the benefit of capitalists, like himself. Hence, the real question is: is the existence of capitalism necessary? and the answer is: in the time remaining for the human species is the necessity of comprehensive socialism: a rule by and for the people. Advanced technology should benefit all the people, and not a tiny transnational class of capitalists. 

But the latter class is so addicted to power and profits that it will take a monumental effort, in the time remaining, to overthrow their system and replace it with socialism.

• Security State Using Coronavirus To Implement Orwellian Nightmare from The Jimmy Dore Show (via YouTube) featuring Dore interviewing Whitney Webb who reads from a secret report that was released under the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act).

• INTERVIEW: Can Dr. Judy Mikovits be Trusted? The Truth about her Arrest from FRN (based in Serbia) which features journalist Ben Swann interviewing Dr. Judy Mikovits about "the truth behind the arrest of Dr. Judy Mikovits" and related subjects. (Note: You may also be interested in my re-post regarding Mikovits on May 14.)

• Profiting from Coronavirus by Craig Murray (Scotland) from his weblog. 

• Our Civilisational Quagmire – Looking Truth in the Eye by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Taxpayers Are on the Hook for 98 Percent of the Fed’s $6.98 Trillion Balance Sheet by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

(Note: This is all I have time for.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, May 6, 2020

• Corona Tyranny and Death by Famine by Peter Koenig from Dissident Voice. 

• Coronavirus and global US bio-laboratories around the world from United World (based in Turkey). 

The US and its allies have launched a massive information attack. The goal is to accuse China of spreading the virus, impose sanctions and other restrictions or use the threat of their imposition in a geopolitical struggle. It is possible that the US may use the situation as an excuse to refuse to pay its debt to China.

• US Government Fears China will Give Away COVID-19 Vaccine for Free by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

My commentary: In the land of capitalism giving stuff away for free is a sin against the system which places profit as the cornerstone of the system.

My only criticism of this article is that Macleod writes that the "government fears" this. What Americans must realize that the government is only a facade that serves a similar function as the facades of western towns do for the Hollywood film industry. While the latter facades are useful methods to reconstruct western towns of the 19th century, the government facade serves to hide the predatory capitalist ruling class behind a facade of "democracy", elections, a civil rights, rule of law, etc. This view of America has been engrained in US citizens by propaganda over centuries and in all institutions, and as a result we see the facade as real. The author should write that "the capitalist ruling class fears China will give away ....".

• TEXAS – The Cure for Corona – A Dose of Reality by Russell ‘Texas’ Bonner Bentley from FRN (Fort Russ News). (This article is about the deception game which is the favorite game played by the ruling class, but it's at our expense.)

• Nearly Half of US Adults in Credit Card Debt due to Lockdown by Drago Bosnic from FRN. 

• America’s Design Causes It to Fail the COVID-19 Challenge by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

My reaction (I only scanned it.) : This is a lengthy piece full of documentations that support his arguments.  Yet, I can't help but notice that Zuesse is having a harder time denying the class structure of American society, its ruling class, and the system that they derive from--capitalism. He refers to the ruling class as the "super-rich (the country’s actual dictators)" as if the system and its class structure had nothing to do with the "super-rich". He hints at revolution. So, this is progress. Zuesse may eventually turn out to be a consciousness raising agent that Lenin referred to in his document "What is to be done?" Let us hope so.

• Civil Liberty Vanishes by Craig Murray (Scotland) from his weblog.

• Venezuela: Two US Citizens Captured in Botched Coup Attempt from Venezuelan Analysis. (Note: You may also interested in these reports: here and here.)

• A Massive “COVID-19” Cover Up Is Underway & ‘US Mercenaries’ Caught In Venezuelan Coup Attempt by Ryan Cristián from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: This is only the lead-off report of the attempted coup in Venezuela. This report is only a part of The Daily Wrap Up in which Cristián reports on a variety of news reports. If you have time to listen to the entire program, an hour and 40 minutes, I recommend it and other of their posts; but I do not have the time and immunology expertise to post them on my website.)

• Help Us Cover the Julian Assange Story from Consortium News. (Note: For those of you who ignore the fate of Assange, please read another article about this victim of the Empire's oppression.)

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: Sunday, March 1, 2020

• Rising tides will leave no choice for US millions by Tim Radford from Climate News Network.

• Climate Accountability from Union of Concerned Scientists.

• Economy vs. Ecology featuring a 22:09m talk by environmentalist Stuart H. Scott at the 2014 COP-20 in Lima, Peru (via YouTube). (Note: Because he was educated in the USA, he often refers to capitalism as euphemisms like money economy and "neoclassical economics".)

• Across the World, Voters Are Losing Faith in Government by Eric Levitz from New York Magazine. 

• Humanity Is Making A Very Important Decision When It Comes To Assange by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• The Ruling Class Will Stop at Nothing by Kenn Orphan from his weblog.

Once again the Middle East is heating up with the threat of major wars. The following posts shed some light of this latest threat that could escalate into a global nuclear war catastrophe:

• War tensions mount in wake of strike on Turkish troops in Syria by Bill Van Auken from World Socialist Web Site.

• Large Turkish military convoy enters northwestern Syria, heads to front-line area: video from AMN.

• Russian Air Force launches wide-scale attack across Idlib to stop militant advance from AMN.

• Idlib: Deadly Turkish Strikes against the Syrian Army and Hezbollah from Resistance News.

• Escalation: US assumes naval attack posture, a commentary by George Ades from FRN (Fort Russ News). 

• The threat of a nuclear war between the US and Russia is now at its greatest since 1983 by Scott Ritter from Defend Democracy Press.

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: Tuesday, February 18, 2020

• Video: BlackRock CEO warns of increasing climate risks to investors by Peter Sinclair from Yale Climate Connections.

(Note: BlackRock, the largest investment managing company for the transnational capitalist ruling class, is supposedly going "green". But BlackRock is also the "biggest driver of climate chaos you've never heard of." Although it is too late to be concerned about the environment, maybe it's a good thing that capitalists are starting to wake up. But it isn't. As Mark Kramer admitted "The problem is, investors don’t read sustainability reports.", and I think that this was probably an announcement that was written by their public relations department. Also read this and this.)

• Hearing a silent spring by "jeppe" from PatternWhichConnects.

• UK airports must shut to reach 2050 climate target by Paul Brown from Climate News Network. 

• ‘Burned At The Stake’ – The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Demolishes The Fake Claims Targeting Julian Assange by David Edwards from Media Lens. 

• The Destruction of Libya: Posturing Predators; Lethal Lies by Robert Snefjella from Countercurrents. 

• Syria - Aleppo Is Fully Liberated But The War Will Continue by Bernhard from Moon of Alabama.  (Note: If you read the comments section, you will need to know what "HTS" means.) 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Note: Today I have been overwhelmed with articles that appear essential reading. I must eliminate some posts. This problem may be expected, and more, as the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire is threatened by disintegration.

• How Government and Media Are Prepping America for a Failed 2020 Election by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News. (I regard this as a post of the month!)

•  Moksha by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Israel's hard-right and US Evangelicals unite for the heist of the century by Antony Loewenstein from TRT World (independent source based in Turkey).

• U.S. Demands Iraq Either Join U.S. War Against Iran or Be Destroyed by Eric Zuesse ("That’s not what capitalism was supposed to be.") from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. 

• The FBI Has Been Lying About Seth Rich by Craig Murray (British) from his weblog. (Note: So what else is new? See my post from 2016.)

• The Nasty Secret Behind Aramco, ISIS and Trump in Syria by Gordon Duff from New Eastern Outlook. 

• “Shit-Life Syndrome,” Trump Voters, and Clueless Dems by Bruce E. Levine from CounterPunch. (Note: This is an archetypal example of liberal views that are frequently posted on CounterPunch. Notice the condescending view of most poor people in the USA: "shit-life syndrome". They are poor people who are surviving victims of a capitalist ruling class "education" and easily influenced by sophisticated, constant Deep State propaganda.)

• Anti-Cash-Alliance Suffers Setback in Their Home-Town New York by Norbert Häring (German) from his weblog Money and more.

These are two posts for people who have advanced knowledge of the Middle East:

• Muqtada al-Sadr, US occupation & the Iraqi Resistance from Middle East Observer. 

• Analysis of the Iranian missile strikes on Ayn Al Asad Airbase by Haider from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, January 24, 2020

  

• History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin by Wil S. Hylton from The Atlantic.

• Warning: Climate change will bring major new health risks for kids by Kathleen E. Bachynski from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

• Paris climate goals may be beyond reach by Alex Kirby from Climate News Network (Note: this is a rather conservative website on the climate crisis.)

• Press Release—IT IS NOW 100 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT by Gayle Spinazze from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 

• The Long History of Elite Rule: What Will It Take To End It? by Chuck Churchill from CounterPunch.

• World’s Super Rich Meet in Davos to Discuss the Climate Change Problem they Created by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. 

• The Troubling Decline of International Law by Craig Murray (British) from his weblog. (Note: Capitalists have long bragged about their nations' fake democracies which include the rule of law. The trouble is that this class has always made the laws, organized their court systems, appointed the judges, etc. Now it seems that this rule of law is too burdensome for the ruling classes. They now opt for outright violence or the threat of violence--fascism.)

• WikiLeaks Editor: US Is Saying First Amendment Doesn’t Apply To Foreigners In Assange Case by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, January 20, 2020

• NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal 2019 Second Warmest Year on Record from NASA.

• Australia's heat and bushfires are signs of fundamental shifts in its climate by Peter Sinclair from Yale Climate Connections. 

• Climate change “spin” as Davos gathering confronts mounting environmental and economic crisis by Nick Beams from World Socialist Web Site.

• Why 'Corporate Social Responsibility Is a Hoax by Álvaro de Regil Castilla from Climate & Capitalism. (Note: The headline offers old news, but the author goes on to argue that "Subsequently, I gradually realized that an even larger hoax is our belief that we live in democratic societies."

• Trump’s Latest Plan for Iran: Regime Disruption by Eli Lake from Bloomberg. (Note: What is significant about his argument is that some top geopolitical analysts are supporting his argument. See this and this.)

• Yes Minister Fan Fiction by Craig Murray from his weblog (British). (He satirizes British politicians regarding Britain's treatment (use of social identity politics) of Julian Assange. Murray may explain why British activists did, and are doing, so little to protest and rescue Assange.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other posts that may interest you:

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

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

• The Crisis in Mediterranean from Defend Democracy Press. 

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

• The Dangers of Privatized Intelligence by Joyce Nelson CounterPunch.

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

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

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

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

Capitalism's ongoing degradation of our home planet Earth:

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, December 31, 2019

• What we're told about ISIS is a lie (full show) reported by Michele Greenstein on the Rick Sanchez program from RT. Although guest-speakers on this program engage in rapid-fire delivery of their comments, Greenstein focuses on the Deep State and its propaganda organs, and as such I view the first 20:10 minutes as essential viewing.

• US Embassy in Iraq evacuated amid angry protests over airstrike on PMU from PressTV (Iran).

• As Honduras Collapses, Its People are Forced to Flee by Laura Carlsen from CounterPunch.

• Congress Just Passed Nightmare Legislation that Strips Trillions in Wealth from the Middle Class by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• Bolivian Vassals Are Merely Aping Their Imperial Masters by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Police in Hong Kong Brutalized by Rioters While Attacked by the Western Press by Andre Vltchek from Dissident Voice. 

• ‘I’m slowly dying here’: ‘Sedated’ Assange tells friend during Christmas Eve call from UK prison as health concerns mount from RT.

• Fires create hellish conditions across Australia by Mike Head from World Socialist Web Site.

Posts I especially recommend for today: Thursday, November 21, 2019

• The impeachment crisis and American imperialism by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site.

• Ukrainian MP Claims $7.4 Billion Obama-Linked Laundering, Puts Biden Group Take At $16.5 Million by Tyler Durden from ZeroHedge. (Note: I couldn't access the translation of the video--this might be because I haven't registered with Twitter.)

• Fascists R Us: Trump and Pompeo’s Deny That Israeli Squatting on Palestinian Land Is Illegal by Juan Cole from Common Dreams.

• Latest US Moves in Syria Reveal True Objectives of Imperialism by James O'Neill from New Eastern Outlook.

• Scandinavia on the Skids: The Failure of Social Democracy by Ron Ridenour from The Greanville Post. (Note: I've read considerable reliable literature on the history of the Scandinavian version of social democracy and I thoroughly agree with Ridenour's assessment.) 

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

• Craig Murray on Assange: "Swedes should be ashamed of the way they've been played by the CIA" from RT (via YouTube).

Posts I especially recommend for today: Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Bolivia:

• Coups easy in Latin America when US controls military – professor by Jeb Sprague from RT America.

• Bolivia: Chaos hits Cochabamba as police and pro-Morales protesters clash from Ruptly via YouTube. 

• Evo and the Movements: A Long Process of Degradation by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui from Capitalism Nature Socialism. (Note: This contain some apparently legitimate criticism of Evo Morales and the MAS party.)

• Bolivia: A Color Revolution or a New Surge for Latin American Independence? by Peter Koenig from Dissident Voice. 

Other posts:

• Reclaiming Your Inner Fascist by C. J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc.

• General Shows Trump Maps of Oil Fields To Keep US Troops in Syria by Josiah Thayer from Antiwar.

• Now That Assange Is Safely Locked Up, Sweden Drops Its “Investigation” by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Assange rape case dropped: Sweden abandons probe that led to WikiLeaks co-founder’s asylum in UK’s Ecuadorian embassy from Defend Democracy Press. 

• NYT’s “Leaked” Chinese Files Story Covers For Terrorism by Tony Cartalucci from New Eastern Outlook. (Note; I couldn't access the article directly from their website (censorship?), but I found a way to access it indirectly from Startpage.com, a search engine I sometimes use.

• Chemical watchdog manipulated Douma attack report - whistleblower from RT. 

• New report finds costs of climate change impacts often underestimated by Dana Nuccitelli from Yale Climate Connections.

Posts I especially recommend for today: Wednesday, October 23, 2019

• Burn, Neoliberalism, Burn by Pepe Escobar from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• When U.S. Officials Ignore The President The Outcome Is Chaos by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama (Germany).

• Assange in Court by Craig Murry (British) from his weblog.

• Only Cowards And Sadists Support The Persecution Of Assange by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Chile erupts in popular uprising against capitalist injustice by Karla Martin and Sebastian from Liberation.  

• Who lost Russia? Part 1 and Part 2. By William H. Warrick III who is a physician practicing in Florida. Clearly this doctor knows history, but I can't agree with all of the minor details he mentions and the emphasis he puts on these details. From A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• How Hong Kong youth are indoctrinated to hate China, a report by Michele Greenstein, who is in Hong Kong, on the Rick Sanchez program from RTAmerica (via YouTube).

• US troops are staying in Syria to ‘keep the oil’ – and have already killed hundreds over it by Ben Norton from The Grayzone. 

• The Ongoing Persecution of  [real] Whistleblowers: The 1917 Espionage Act from Lee Camp's comedy and satirical show on RTAmerica. 

• Tipping Points: Could the climate collapse? from Skeptical Science. (Two points: As most people know who follow my weblog, I believe we humans have already moved Earth's biosphere beyond some tipping points and we are destined for extinction. But what do I know? Granted I've been following reports from scientific sources for the past 50 years, but I am no expert. Secondly, I know that all of you will not find any humor in this piece, but I am posting it because many people find it unthinkable to contemplate thoughts about human extinction, and a humorous take on it can influence these people.)

Articles I espeically recommend today: Saturday, October 5, 2019

• Turkish scientist gets 15-month sentence for publishing environmental study by Kristen McTighe from Science.

• Who Says There’s No Climate Emergency? by Dr. Alison Green, National Director of Scientists Warning in the  UK, from Scientists Warning.

• “Julian has reached a point where he may die”—Assange’s father John Shipton speaks with the WSWS by Johannes Stern from World Socialist Web Site.

• Ecuadorian government arrests hundreds and deploys military against nationwide strike by Andrea Lobo from World Socialist Web Site.

• Iraq's protests: All you need to know in 500 words from Al Jazeera.