the unbalanced evolution of homo sapiens

failed evolution Post-Reagan bipartisan dictatorship before Trump era: 1) Oligarchy elects its golden boy. 2) The puppet immediately uses deficit as an excuse for more public-spending cuts, which leads automatically to more tax-cuts for the super-rich. 3) More money and power goes to the 1%. 4) Inequality grows. Deficit grows. 5) Repeat from step 2. Trump era: 1) Oligarchy elects its golden boy. 2) The puppet immediately passes more tax-cuts for the super-rich with that trickle-down BS as an excuse. 3) More money and power goes to the 1%. 4) Inequality grows. Deficit grows. 5) The puppet uses deficit as an excuse for more public-spending cuts, which leads automatically to more tax-cuts for the super-rich. 6) Repeat from step 3.

Long-seething tensions in the Middle East are coming to a boil once again as tit-for-tat verbal salvos between the U.S. and Iran have moved beyond tweets and declarations alone and are now shifting toward the realm of concrete actions and demonstrations of military force. On Thursday, U.S. officials reported that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) began large-scale naval exercises in the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and Strait of Hormuz. Hundreds of IRGC personnel and dozens of small fast craft are taking part in the war games, which come months ahead of schedule. Analysts are interpreting the measure as a warning from Tehran to Washington that if Iran is prevented from selling its oil to world markets through sanctions or other means, the country reserves the right to retaliate by blocking the Strait of Hormuz to U.S. oil tankers. Twenty percent of the world’s oil is transmitted through the artery, which is seen as the world’s most important tran

In Yemen’s Hodeida province, fishing is no longer the main activity practiced by most residents, instead, the hunt for civilians trapped under the rubble of structures destroyed by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, using U.S. weapons, has come to take people’s time. “ He went out to search for something to eat … I wish I was dead instead of him, ” shouted 50-year-old Saleem, standing next to the body of his son at the al-Thawrah hospital in Hodeida. Saleem’s son was killed in a double-tap airstrike targeting a fishing harbor on Thursday in Yemen’s western province of Hodeida. The coalition launched its initial salvo of Thursday’s airstrikes on a fish market known as “fishing harbor,” killing tens of fishermen and wounding others who were later transferred to al-Thawrah hospital, which would be targeted by coalition bombs a short time later. The fish market was targeted again not long after the first strikes hit. So far 60 people are believed to have been kille

Arreaza thanked the solidarity shown by various governments and organizations in rejection of the attack against President Maduro The foreign minister of Venezuela Jorge Arreaza said Sunday that the attack against President Nicolas Maduro a day earlier was a manifestation of frustration against the president and against those in positions of state. Arreaza said that the investigations so far point to an involvement by the United States and Colombia. " There is no doubt about the origin of these attacks coming from a Miami-Bogota-Caracas axis, " he said in a foreign minister. The statements were made during an encounter with the diplomatic corps accredited in the country to explain the assassination attempt against the president. Arreaza thanked the solidarity shown by various governments and organizations in rejection of the attack against the president. The attack against President Maduro took place at the 81st anniversary of the B

How a nearly unknown businessman named Khaled al Ahmad became Damascus’ secret liaison to the West and quietly dealt Syria’s grinding war to a close by Rania Khalek Part 1 After seven years of grinding war, the Syrian government has achieved victory. According to current and former international officials and diplomats as well as UN officials, credit or blame for the Syrian government’s recent victories in East Ghouta and then in the south — along with the tacit acceptance these sweeping military successes received — can be placed on one man. He is Khaled al Ahmad, a Syrian government emissary and businessman who masterminded the Syrian government’s reconciliation strategy. Al Ahmad is the secret diplomat who has exerted exceptional tolls of energy building bridges with the enemies of Damascus. Despite his central role in bringing one of the worst conflicts since World War Two to an end, he remains almost totally unknown in international media and has scarcely been di

Did Nicaragua’s Sandinista government really kill 300+ peaceful protesters? A forensic analysis of the death toll exposes the claim as a dangerous lie. by Max Blumenthal Part 2 - Partisan human rights NGOs as a regime change weapon Hendrix’s study surveys the deaths recorded by the three main Nicaraguan human rights organizations. They are the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH), whose involvement was requested by the government of Nicaragua on May 13th; and the Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights (ANPDH). These are the organizations that Congress, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and international soft power organizations like Human Rights Watch have relied on for their understanding of the violence that has gripped Nicaragua. While in Nicaragua, I learned how members of CENIDH and ANPDH actively participated in the campaign to remove the Sandinista government. For instance, I was to

It is no coincidence that some of the world’s most ardent imperialists are behind the cynical exploitation of one heinous murder — of British MP Jo Cox — to enable global mass-murder as well as human trafficking under the pretext of “ethical” and “humanitarian” intervention. by Vanessa Beeley and Whitney Webb Part 3 - Jo Cox and the White Helmets Beyond her public calls for intervention, Cox also founded and co-chaired the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) “Friends of Syria” from 2015 until her death a year later. She was again partnered in this endeavor by Andrew Mitchell, who was also co-chair of the APPG. During that time, Cox hosted several events on behalf of the group, many of them promoting pro-regime-change speakers from groups like the European Council on Foreign Relations and the National Coalition for Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces. More recent events hosted by the group have included speakers from the U.S. think-tank Atlantic Council, largely

globinfo freexchange Donald Trump is using his trade wars to support the part of the US capital that has heavily lost from free trade globalization, which is more powerful than ever in our days. This is also part of the Trump agenda to persuade Americans for his "patriotic devotion" based on his "America First" slogan. The reality is that the US empire was always conducting trade wars that included not only tariffs on specific products, but even deliberately created cartels. In the early 90s the Clinton administration uncritically adopted the neoliberal doctrine from Ronald Reagan and continued the big fraud against the majority of the Americans. On the one hand, the Clinton administration was selling the big fairy tale of neoliberalism to the American public: free market capitalism would bring prosperity for all through that trickle-down fiasco. And it was translated, as always, in further cuts in public spending - more tax-cu

The United States should be held accountable for Saudi-led airstrikes that hit a hospital and fish market, killing at least two dozen civilians in the Yemeni port, Health Ministry said as thousands protested the attack. A spokesman for the Houthi-affiliated health ministry said on Friday that “ the United States bears full responsibility ” for the deadly attack, adding that “ the United Nations, its organizations and the international community have remained silent in the face of the aggression ” from the US-backed, Saudi-led coalition that invaded Yemen in 2015. According to the ministry, at least 55 people, including women and children, have been killed in the airstrikes. Reuters reported 28 were killed in the air raids, while China’s Xinhua said the death toll stood at 70 early on Friday. A ministry spokesman called the bombings a “ war crime ” and accused the Saudi coalition of engaging in a “ double tap strike ” aimed at targeting first responders.