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Gen. Kao said that Taiwan lost its military advantage in the 1980s and China’s economic boom has led to great advancements in its military strength. He claimed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is no longer the version seen in the 1950s and ’60s and called on “brothers from the three armed services” to show “loyalty and filial piety” to China. He added “the time is right” for generals leading the three branches of Taiwan’s military to “stand up and set things right.” Kao alleged that Taiwan’s “hard-won democracy and freedom have been destroyed by the DPP.”

Kao urged Taiwan’s generals to rise up “for the sake of national righteousness” and to “save the people of Taiwan from turmoil.” In an apparent reference to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, Kao said that when “D-Day” arrives, Taiwan’s armed forces “must respond by overthrowing this DPP scam ring in one fell swoop.”

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—You can always count on the less reality-anchored pundits to say out loud what the rest are thinking in private. Support for internet censorship is now a mainstream position among the so-called “moderates” of the warmongering corporatist Democratic Party, not just for people to their right but for people to their left as well. If it were up to these freaks the entire internet would just be a bunch of Wall Street liberals agreeing with each other that Trump is bad and Jen Psaki is a strong yet sensual warrior princess.

The Emma Vigeland tweet that Dore was riffing on in the clip was more hand-wringing about a “red-brown alliance” that all grown adults should realize by now was never anything other than a narrative management campaign to keep leftists from moving too far from the establishment-authorized Overton window of acceptable opinion.

Powerful videos for activists, revealing the indecency and betrayals of the Democratic party leaders, and why the duopoly must be rejected and eliminated. Jimmy also deconstructs the Obama myth, showing that, as a loyal servant of the oligarchy and therefore an efficient frontman and manager for the US empire, he also presided over a regime of appalling criminality and social reactionism. And what’s more, although a bit dulled, the myth continues. Some people never learn. Or simply refuse the truth as too painful.

N. CUNNINGHAM—From devastating wildfires to rising methane emissions, Earth’s vital signs are continuing to deteriorate, scientists warn. An urgent global phaseout of fossil fuels is needed, they say, reiterating calls for “transformative change,” which is “needed now more than ever to protect life on Earth and remain within as many planetary boundaries as possible.”

The warning comes roughly a year and a half after a global coalition of 11,000 climate scientists declared a climate emergency, warning that global action was needed to avoid “untold suffering due to the climate crisis.” The new paper examining Earth’s vital signs, published in the journal BioScience, is authored by some of the same scientists who helped spearhead the climate emergency declaration.

ALEX MERCOURIS describes the rationales behind Russia’s current superiority in anti-ship and strategic missiles, along with peerless air defense systems, such as the S-400 and S-500.