Recommended articles for Thursday, 7/5/2018

• Facebook Algorithm Flags The Declaration Of Independence As “Hate Speech” by Mac Slavo from LewRockwell.com. (Thanks to a tip from an activist.)

• NED Pursues Regime Change by Playing the Long Game by Edward Hunt from Lobe Lob. 

The open talk of U.S. meddling in other countries around the world was so commonplace that the U.S. mass media spent no time covering the hearing, even though the speakers did encounter some pushback. Not all members of Congress are on board with the programs.

The "open talk of US meddling in other countries" and the fact that it is absent in corporate media is not because it is so commonplace. It is because media corporations are controlled by the same ruling class as are government agencies. They simply don't want the public to know about the "democracy promotion" activities of their NGOs. They have never publicized such activities.

• Ten years after the Wall Street crash, record stock buybacks and mergers by Gabriel Black from World Socialist Web Site.

The only comment I have to make is that this phenomenon of increasing concentration of ownership/wealth/power is inevitable for those who are ruled by a capitalist system. Thus, this is the story of not only the past 10 years, but it is the story of capitalism. And, the end result is always fascism.