ABOMINATIONS

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.

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—We’re fed non-stop messaging that we’re inadequate unless we buy certain products, that mass military slaughter is normal, that madness is sanity, and that you’re the problem if you can’t keep your head above water in a system that’s designed to drown you, and people wonder why there’s a mental health crisis. 

The history of filthy anticommunism in the USA, as eloquent as you can find it. And keep in mind that Woodrow Wilson, yea, the revered Wilson, the Southern racist canonized by official historians as a great statesman and peacemaker (selling us WWI as the “war to end all wars”) was in the thick of it all actively destroying American democracy, instead of safeguarding it.

Western imperialist aggression against China has been colossal, unrelenting and sociopathic in nature. The invaders’ depraved actions, amply documented, wipe out all claims to representing a superior civilisation. And most of these nations, particularly the Anglo-American alliance, are still trying to impose their supremacy on the Chinese people (as well as on other nations seeking genuine independence from the US-led bloc), by threats, coercion, and outright violence.  This historical summary, facilitated by our colleague Rebecca Chan, should leave no doubt as to the moral bankruptcy of the West, its image of progressivism and benevolence a cruel farce maintained only by the world’s most cynical and sophisticated machinery of propaganda. It is indeed expertly manufactured ignorance that shields these criminal ruling elites from well-deserved public retribution. 

Since the US has moved to the step of landing a military cargo plane in Taiwan island, escalating the situation to a tipping point of military action, each step they take may trigger military friction and confrontation. They must understand the mainland is much better prepared for this kind of clash, both in terms of real action and willpower.