I especially recommend these posts for today: Friday, October 18, 2019

• State of the climate: Low sea ice and near-record warmth define 2019 to date by Zeke Hausfather from Carbon Brief (based in Britain).

• Now retired, top U.S. environmental scientist feels free to speak her mind by Warren Cornwall from Science.

• UN official’s briefing on torture of Assange boycotted by US media by Oscar Grefell from World Socialist Web Site. (The RT picture referred to in the article is posted here.) 

• Tulsi Nails it on National TV… US Regime-Change Wars by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Capitalism ‘Good’ & ‘Bad’: A Reply to Stiglitz and Macron by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. 

• The IMF in figures: Debtors vs creditors from Reuters via Canada.com.

• The IMF convenes in Washington, deaf to the suffering it causes across the planet by Vijay Prashad from Salon. 

• How Billionaire Charter School Funders Corrupted the School Leadership Pipeline by Jeff Bryant from Common Dreams.

• Propaganda Works Better Than Censorship by Bhaskar Chakravorti from Bloomberg.

I especially recommend these posts for today: Thursday, October 17, 2019

• How Capitalism ‘Solved’ the Nitrogen Crisis (continued) by Ian Angus from Climate & Capitalism. 

• WSJ, NYT Celebrate ‘Shale Revolution’ for Investor Class, Despite Its Leading to Our Doom by Joshua Cho from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting. (I thank an activist for alerting me to this article.)

• Counting Down to Civilization’s Collapse + Inequality, Climate Change, and America’s Destabilization by Rainer Shea from the author's weblog Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist. (I thank an activist for alerting me to this article.)

• Inequality, climate change, and America’s destabilization by Rainer Shea (US independent analyst) from the author's weblog Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist.

• How The Win-Win-Win-Win Plan For Syria's Northeast Succeeds by Bernhard (independent analyst from Germany) from his weblog Moon of Alabama. (Note: "SNC" refers to the Syrian National Council.)

• Jeffrey Epstein Again Disappears From View, but What About Mossad? by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Under Fire from Ukraine and Misperceived by the West, The People of the DPR Share Their Stories by Eva Bartlett from Mint Press News. 

• The fight to overturn the latest corporate coup at Pacifica has only begun by Pete Dolack from his weblog Systemic Disorder. This development is in line with a long list of subversive events to subvert and destroy Pacifica Radio, a listener sponsored radio network. In the 1980s I volunteered at the Berkeley, California radio station that is a founding member and major part of this network, and have posted articles from this source.) 

I especially recommend these posts for today: Wednesday, October 16, 2019

• “We would never board a plane if we only arrive in half the cases, but this is the method in international climate policymaking”--an interview with Australian climate researcher David Spratt conducted by a member of the German magazine Energiewende Magazin. The interview is translated and posted on Climate Code Red, a website based in Australia that is concerned with the climate crisis.

• US-China Mini-Trade Deal: Trump Takes the Money and Runs by Jack Rasmus from his weblog.

• Analysis: US Abandons Kurds + Turkey’s Awkward Hand in Syria by Tony Cartalucci from 21st Century Wire.

I especially recommend these posts for today: Tuesday, October 15, 2019

• The CIA Goes HBCU [Historically Black Colleges and Universities] by Glen Ford from the Black Agenda Report.

• News Articles on the Fed’s Secret Trillions in Loans to Wall Street During the Last Crisis Have Been Purged from Bloomberg News by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• The Art of the Flank: India and Other Asian Nations Join the Polar Silk Road by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Kurds Rejoin Sovereign Syria – US Loses War Justification [4:36m podcast] by Glen Ford from the Black Agenda Report.

• Kurds face stark options after US pullback by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times. 

The options for the YPG Kurds are stark. They are slowly realizing they were used by the Pentagon as mercenaries. Either they become a part of the Syrian federation, giving up some autonomy and their hyper-nationalist dreams, or they will have to share the region they live in with at least two million Sunni Arab refugees relocated under Turkish Army protection.

The end of the dream is nigh ....

• Syrian Exposes Media Lies About Syria Withdrawal, a 8:20m YouTube post, by "Syrian Girl".

• Syrian Government Regains Control Over Country's Northeastern Parts by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• Day 7 of Turkey Syria offensive: Latest updates from PressTV (Iran).

I especially recommend these posts for today: Monday, October 14, 2019

• Greenland’s dying ice by Paul Voosen from Science.

• Extreme heatwaves pose spreading threat by Tim Radford from Climate News Network.

• Climate Activists Block Roads by Bank of England - Photos, Video from Sputnik International.

• Is America Ready for Socialism? Finian Cunningham interviews American professor of politics Colin S. Cavell posted on Strategic Culture Foundation. (This professor knows his American history.)

• Behind Hong Kong’s black terror by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times (based in Hong Kong). 

• Indigenous-Led Protests Rock Ecuador Decrying IMF Deal and Demanding Moreno’s Resignation by Julian Cola from Mint Press News.

• University Woes: Academics and Scholarship in Crisis. The Managerial Class Gets Uppity by Dr. Binoy Kampmark from Counter Information (based in Scotland).

• Class Struggle is Still the Issue by Ann Robertson from CounterPunch.

• FBI & CIA Implementing Coup On Trump? from The Jimmy Dore Show. 

• DC’s Atlantic Council raked in funding from Hunter Biden’s corruption-stained employer while courting his VP father
  by Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone.

[Special Post] The Syrian Kurds Agree to a Deal with the Government of Syria

In this major development, and likely turning point in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's quest to inject chaos into Syria starting back in roughly 2011, many online posts are announcing that the Syrian Kurds, backed formerly by US troops in northern and northeastern Syria, are forced by circumstances to reach an agreement with the Syrian government. First, let's see the posts by the Empire's main propaganda organs: The New York Times, followed by the British propaganda service, Reuters, and the Times of Israel:

• Abandoned by U.S. in Syria, Kurds Find New Ally in American Foe by Ben Hubbard, Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt and Patrick Kingsley from The New York Times. 

• Russia-backed Syrian forces step in as U.S. retreats by Ellen Francis and Tuvan Gumrukcu from Reuters.

• Kurds announce deal with Syria on troop deployment to confront Turkey by Rouba El Husseini from The Times of Israel.

Now I list posts from around the world:

• Syrian troops sweep into north after Kurdish deal with Damascus by Michael Safi and Bethan McKernan from The Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland).

• Kurds announce deal with Damascus as Turkey pushes deep into Syria via AFP, a French news service, from The Hindu (India). 

• 400 Kurdish YPG Militants Leave Manbij Under Deal With Damascus (VIDEO) from Sputknik (Russia owned international news service). 

• Kurds announce deal with Damascus as Turkey pushes deep into Syria from Channel News Asia (based in Singapore).

• Washington’s Sum of All Fears: Kurdish Militants Cut a Deal with Damascus by Patrick Henningsen from 21st Century Wire (left-wing website based mostly in Britain).

• Syrian Government Regains Control Over Country's Northeastern Parts by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama (independent analyst from Germany).

Posts I especially recommend for today: Saturday, October 12, 2019 (updated)

• Climate Change: All Talk No Action by Graham Peebles from Dissident Voice.

• Methane SOS by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.

• The Last Moments of Indonesia as We Know It by Andre Vltchek from New Eastern Outlook.

• We're in a permanent coup by Matt Taibbi from his private weblog. (He apparently doesn't know that we've had a semi-overt coup since the murder of JFK, and this coup was a culmination of preparations that neo-fascists have planned since the American Century was announced in 1940.)

Posts I especially recommend for today: Friday, October 11, 2019

• No Class by John Steppling from Dissident Voice.

• Spooks Turned Spox: US Media Now Filled With Former Intelligence Agents by Tyler Durden from ZeroHedge. (I thank an activist for alerting me to this article.)

• The irrationality of capitalism: Millions cut off from electricity, lives endangered by California utility PG&E by Evan Blake from World Socialist Web Site.

• Capitalism and climate change by Ammar Ali Jan from The News International (Pakistan).

• Major Media Bury Groundbreaking Studies of Pentagon’s Massive Carbon Bootprint by Joshua Cho from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR).

I especially recommend these posts for today: Thursday, October 10, 2019 (updated)

• Trump admits US killed millions in war based on lies by Bill Van Auken from World Socialist Web Site.

• Who Are the Real Friends of the Troops? by Jacob G. Hornberger from his weblog The Future of Freedom Foundation.

• Ukraine whistleblowers are actually CIA agents – Lee Stranahan from RT America (via YouTube). (In case your interested: Official readout: President Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky from The Washington Post.)

• US TV networks now filled with ex-spies, already state-run from RT America. (Note: starts at about 16 seconds into the video).

• CIA got footage of Assange friend Pamela Anderson in loo – Galloway from RT America.

• Syria - Turkey Again Invades by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• Turkey’s safe-zone and refugee peace-corridor is a cover for encroachment by Sarah Abed from BRICS information portal. 

• How IMF sabotages economies with debt (Ecuador breaking) from Rick Sanchez, RT America.

• Return to Russia: Crimeans Tell the Real Story of the 2014 Referendum and Their Lives Since by Eva Bartlett from Mint Press News.

• The ‘Whistleblower’ Probably Isn’t by Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone. (An activist just emailed this article to me.)

Posts I especially recommend for today: Wednesday, October 9, 2019

• Climate Change: A Socialist Solution by John Molyneux from Rebel (Republic of Ireland).

• Tracking foreign interference in Hong Kong by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• The World Can End But Charter Schools Are Here To Stay Forever by Shawgi Tell from Dissident Voice (based in Canada).

Posts that I especially recommend for today: Tuesday, October 8, 2019

• Syrian Kurds will be the biggest losers: America and Russia on the verge of the abyss in Syria by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog. 

• Fed Says It Will Offer $310 Billion More in Term Loans to Wall Street as Over 68,000 Job Cuts Planned at Mega Banks by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• Trump Fails to Gain the Confidence of North Korea from Radio Sputnik. "Journalist and author Stephen Gowans [a Canadian] joined Radio Sputnik’s By Any Means Necessary [a podcast program from Sputnik Int.] Monday to discuss how the US is failing to build the much-needed confidence of North Korea that’s necessary to strike a working deal on denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula."

Posts I recommend for today: Monday, October 7, 2019

• Udo Ulfkotte: Bought Journalists. Terje Maloy, a Norwegian, translated into English 49 minutes of the 136 minute lecture delivered to a German audience in 2015 by former German journalist Udo Ulfkotte. Maloy then posted it on his website which occasionally includes posts in English.

• 'Stab in the back': Kurdish forces decry US pullout from Syria from Al Jazeera.

• A Syrian Opinion on US Pull out off #Syria 2019 by Syrian Girl via YouTube. (Starts at 2:38m)

• Syria - Trump Gives A Green Light For Another Turkish Invasion by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

Posts that I especially recommend for today: Sunday, October 6, 2019

• ‘How Dare You!’ The Climate Crisis And The Public Demand For Real Action by the editor of Media Lens.

• College Bubble Bursting—Left Hardest Hit. Too Bad. By Lance Welton from VDare.

• Judicial Watch Uncovers Secret Mueller Discussions from Judicial Watch. (I thank an activist for alerting me to this article.)

• The US-Iran silent war is transformed into an “Iraq uprising” by Elijah J. Magnier from his weblog.

Funding The Climate Breakdown : How can it be stopped?

Click here to access an 11:17m video from Just Have a Think via YouTube.

I think this latest installment from Just Have a Think is an excellent example of what Cory Morningstar has thoroughly exposed about capitalism's funding of reform efforts to subvert the protests concerning the climate crisis. Note particularly what Dave Borlace, the narrator, says about selecting "our banks" who will in turn, presumably because of our influence, fund efforts at mitigating the crisis. Absolute nonsense! Yes, they will set up some banks for this purpose, but meanwhile the major banks will continue to do business as usual.  And if we are fooled, we will see an increasing climate and environmental deterioration which will eventually end in the extinction of human and most other species.

I don't know if the narrator is a naive dupe or whether he is consciously serving the ruling capitalist classes. But I do know that privately owned banks, which make up the Federal Reserve and control it, do not serve the general public in our societies, but only one tiny part of it--the ruling capitalist class.

I repudiate my recommendation that you subscribe to this YouTube channel as I previously recommended in the last paragraph of the post on September 27, 2019.

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.

I especially recommend these posts for Friday, October 4, 2019

• Trumpenstein Must Be Destroyed! by master satirist CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (Note: I start off with his political satire the title of which is a play on the Frankenstein monster theme. This is the spoonful of sugar (humor) that helps the medicine (the more serious issues) go down.)

• Newly-Declassified U.S. Government Documents: The West Supported the Creation of ISIS by the blogger at Washington's Blog.

• US Task Force Smoking Gun smuggles weapons to Syria: Serbia files (part 2) by Dilyana Gaytandzhieva from Arms Watch. 

• Elite UK military unit secretly trained by leftist regime-change advocate Gilbert Achcar and other academics by Ben Norton from The Grayzone.

Other articles I found today, October 3, 2019, and recommend to you

• Capitalism and the climate disaster: The issues posed by the worldwide protests by Bryan Dyne from World Socialist Web Site.

• Nuclear War: Just Another Day by Colin Todhunter from Dissident Voice.

• Wealth Identity Politics: Billionaires Acting Like A Persecuted Minority Is Peak Capitalism by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Trump Administration Provides New Evidence for a Saudi Connection to 9/11 by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• ‘UK’s out of petrol, justify murdering protesters’: Exam question to get into Eton goes viral from RT.

• Former Israeli Intel Official Claims Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Worked for Israeli Intel by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News. 

• Dangerous Detention: Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison by Binoy Kampmark from CounterPunch.

• Britain’s Unconvicted Prisoner: Keeping Assange on Lockdown for Neocons in Washington by Nina Cross from 21st Century News Wire.

• Jewish Genius by Linh Dinh from The Unz Review. 

• Galaxy on Collision Course With Our Milky Way Discovered to Have Cannibalised Neighbours from Sputnik International.

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

Click here to access article and videos posted on RT. 

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

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

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

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

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

Articles I especially recommend for Wednesday, October 2, 2019

• Watch, before it gets deleted. A 3:58m YouTube video of a veteran's tirade against participating in "criminal wars".

• White Helmets and Hala Systems: the grotesque militarisation of ‘humanitarianism’ in Syria by Vanessa Beeley from BSNews.

• Twitter Suspends Accounts For Propaganda, Has Literal Propagandist As High-Level Executive by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Painting Cats by Todd Smith from Dissident Voice.

• “Maybe we should change the system” by David Ruccio from Real-World Economics Review Blog.

• Capitalism’s triumph: Labor rights violated in every country on Earth by Pete Dolack from Systemic Disorder.

• Capitalism ‘Solves’ the Nitrogen Crisis: A Brief History by Ian Angus from Climate & Capitalism.

Where Are the Indictments of Those Implicated in the Coup Attempt Against Trump?

Click here to access article by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog.

Added to this smear campaign against Donald Trump by NPR was performed by America's Public Broadcast Service (PBS) during a two hour anti-Trump barrage about Saudi Arabia which I viewed last night on television. They made sure that Trump was identified with the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Obviously, PBS had all this programming prepared months and even some instances, years ahead of time. Is the timing coincidental coming after the Deep State decided to initiate impeachment proceedings against him because of his "crime" against their chosen candidate, Joe Biden? (This reminds me of the extraordinary efforts to elect Ronald Reagan.)

By the way, I don't go along with Roberts' loyalty to the Republican Party. Both parties, that we are allowed to vote for, represent the capitalist class and their opportunistic supporters, mostly well-paid upper-middle class people, who are indispensable for the system to function.