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[ad_1] Former Navy officer Matt Bracken has warned that the U.S. could face an abrupt societal collapse – triggered by coordinated attacks on global energy chokepoints – during a recent appearance on the “Health Ranger Report” with the Health Ranger Mike Adams and Michael Yon. Bracken, as reported by Adams, coined the term “World War E” to describe the global conflict over energy resources that now extends across multiple theaters simultaneously – linking events in Europe, the Middle East and Asia [1]. The conflict involves Houthi forces in Yemen announcing interdiction of Saudi exports through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Iranian…

[ad_1] Oil and gas well flaring in the San Joaquin Valley of southern California. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Reducing rampant pollution across the United States was so important that when Congress passed many environmental protection laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, it didn’t want to leave enforcement only to the executive branch. Congress specifically wrote into those laws ways for citizens to enforce them through the courts when the government does not act to address the problem. Called “citizen suit provisions,” those parts of the laws allow regular people and advocacy groups…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Jason Gamble – Unsplash The rooftop of Azotea de la India in Centro Habana offers respite. At this elevation, just peaking over the rival buildings, the sea breeze races across the island struggling to combat the heat that blankets the streets below. This place is a Cuban archive, an unmatched collection of vinyl records from a bygone era of cultural production, curated alongside a Cuban cocktail class. Dayle and Pancho are a Cuban-Italian couple skilled as artists, craftspeople and historians. When they are not hosting listening sessions, this space is a haven for artists and other creatives…

[ad_1] In Australia, Ian Minus was fined $1,500 dollars (U.S. $1,050) after being convicted of knowingly displaying a Nazi symbol in public without reasonable excuse. Minus wore a T-shirt with a banned Nazi swastika outside a royal commission investigating antisemitism in Sydney. The judge said the protest was insensitive and especially offensive because it took place near hearings where Jewish people were sharing their experiences with antisemitism. Minus claimed he was protesting restrictions on free speech and the war in Gaza. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Street art, Portland, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. So much going on. Existential crises. Fundamental needs. Short and long term agendas. Sounds heard all around the world. Much to think about. Much to do. But does the following also deserve some notice? I think maybe it does. Truth is under accelerating assault. Trust is dying. Trump lies at every opportunity. Familiar generalized market duplicity persists. Mainstream media pervasively manipulates. But something related somehow simultaneously smaller and larger now grows steadily stronger to also pervert our lives. Something ridiculously trivial yet also savagely scary threatens to turn us all into…

[ad_1] Photo by Edwin Hooper With every passing day, the wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East are taking on a larger regional cast and threatening to meld.  The mindless nature of the growing confrontation points to more friction on the horizon. There is a linkage between the Russian-Ukrainian confrontation and the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran and its surrogates.  Last week, Ukraine struck an Iranian commercial cargo ship in the Caspian Sea that was reportedly taking military equipment from Iran to Russia.  It took diplomatic calls to defuse the crisis and to dissuade Iran from striking back. This incident…

[ad_1] NA “Democratic Socialism” is a growing movement on the US political left. Thus, it’s important to pay attention to its ideas, and outline where they go wrong. My Cato Institute colleague Alex Nowrasteh recently posted a succinct, but thorough and insightful critique of ten ideas in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) platform. DSA is probably the best-known currently active socialist organization in the US. Here’s an excerpt: 1. “Under socialism, ‘You have no debt. You don’t need health insurance. You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord, because comfortable housing is a human right.'” There are prices…

[ad_1] He put the correct mortality estimate in his own notebook, published it under his own name, and gave Congress a figure three to five times higher. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Morocco, Spain and the Makings of a Crisis [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The White House runs a mob-style extortion racket that will bankrupt the country the way the U.S. president bankrupted his casinos. The Don – by Mr. Fish. By Chris HedgesScheerpost I visited Donald Trump’s Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City the day before it closed in October 2016. The casino had two huge white gates flanked by 2-ton white, cast-stone elephants. Its entrance was topped by an array of 70 turquoise and teal fiberglass minarets and a dozen gold-tipped domes. A neon sign with red and gold lettering read: “Trump Taj Mahal Casino and Resort.” A lighted fountain in front…