The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 3rd December 2016

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1. ‘Trump’s Syria’

   https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/368964-trump-end-syrian-conflict/

   “With the arrival of Donald Trump into the White House, the various factions fighting Syria’s proxy war are also on the move. Western-backed rebels are in retreat, and continued Washington support is unlikely. Is the conflict coming to an end?

   CrossTalking with Kamal Alam, Martin Jay, and Ivan Eland.”

2. Episode 1001

   https://www.rt.com/shows/keiser-report/369081-episode-max-keiser-1001/

   “Every week Max Keiser & Stacy Herbert look at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines.

   In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss neoliberalism “striking back” as China gets to have a plan: one that involves buying up German high tech companies.

   In the second half, Max visits Piedmont Biofuels, a community-scale biodiesel project in Pittsboro, North Carolina, to talk to its president and co-founder, Lyle Estill.”

3. ‘The Orwellian War On Skepticism’

   http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-03/orwellian-war-skepticism

   “Under the cover of battling “fake news,” the mainstream U.S. news media and officialdom are taking aim at journalistic skepticism when it is directed at the pronouncements of the U.S. government and its allies.

   One might have hoped that the alarm about “fake news” would remind major U.S. news outlets, such as The Washington Post and The New York Times, about the value of journalistic skepticism. However, instead, it seems to have done the opposite…

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