AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE

MICHAEL PARENTI—”Though reflexively labeled an “extremist” by capitalist apologists, Parenti never aspired to anything worthy of that label. As he himself put it in his book,  Dirty Truths: “Those of us designated as ‘extreme leftists’ actually want rather moderate and civil things: a clean environment, a fair tax structure, use of social production for social needs, expansion of public sector production, serious cuts in a bloated military budget, affordable housing, decently paying jobs, equal justice for all, and the like.” Such desires can be construed as ‘extreme,’ he explained, “only in the sense of being extremely at odds with the dominant interests of the status quo. In the face of such gross injustice and class privilege, considerations of social justice and betterment take on the appearance of ‘extreme’ measures.”

JULIAN MACFARLANE—Some people disputed my comments in previous posts about the unlikelihood of an American military assault on Iran citing Jeffrey Sachs, the economist who advised Gorbachev and Yeltsin on destroying the Russian economy. “Nuff” said about Sachs!

Suffice to say, he has rather less authority in the military sphere than Professor Ichi and Professor Chappy, who practice fighting every day. But it seems that I was right, and I am officially y’know “disabled” according to Johns Hopkins.

GARLAND NIXON—In this detailed commentary, Garland Nixon provides a critical analysis of recent U.S. actions in Venezuela, specifically focusing on a kidnapping operation targeting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Nixon frames this act as part of a broader pattern of U.S. imperialism characterized by neoconservative ideology and disguised as “protecting” people from dictatorships to seize natural resources. He argues that such operations do not equate to full-scale war or regime change but rather are criminal acts intended to destabilize countries rich in resources like oil and lithium. Nixon contextualizes this event within a long history of U.S. interventions in Latin America and elsewhere, citing past kidnappings such as that of Hugo Chávez and Haiti’s Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

DD—The video transcript centers around Tucker Carlson’s recent public commentary on the controversial topic of Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to Israeli intelligence, and the circumstances surrounding Charlie Kirk’s death and legacy. Carlson’s remarks, initially made at the Turning Point USA conference, sparked significant backlash due to their sensitive nature, particularly his emphasis on Epstein’s foreign intelligence ties, especially to Israel. Notably, Carlson shares that he initially hesitated to discuss Epstein because it would upset Charlie Kirk’s donors, but Kirk encouraged him to proceed fully. The transcript also touches on the reaction from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Kirk’s death, which Carlson describes as self-serving and opportunistic.

EAB—Take home message: “normal” sized oil field discoveries are of no importance, our oilconomy requires the discovery of new GIANT conventional oil fields which by their definition, by their size, are the easiest to discover seismically but…

THERE ARE NO MORE CONVENTIONAL GIANT OILFIELDS TO BE FOUND in any accessible locations and anybody who disputes this, such as the “drill baby drill” MAGAs, are simply dumb, baby, dumb. I will later explain the drilling paradox, which HAS PROVEN IN REAL LIFE that no amount of money thrown at any drilling frenzy will EVER tap any sizable economically extractable oil ANYWHERE.

Note that current global oil consumption is reported as 100 million barrels per day. That means if a brand new giant oilfield with 500 million barrels of economically extractable oil is found, it will last the world just five days!