Recommended articles for Thursday, February 7, 2019

• Venezuela Blitz - Part 2: Press Freedom, Sanctions And Oil from Media Lens (Britain). (To me the insights reported in this article are so completely obvious, but there are so many ordinary Americans and Brits who have been brainwashed and need to be exposed to them.)

• Saker Interview with Michael Hudson on Venezuela posted on The Unz Review. ("The Saker" interviews Hudson to access his views on the economics of imperialism as reflected in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's relations with Venezuela.)

• ‘5G Will Be a Global Catastrophe’: Activist Warns of Massive ‘Human Guinea Pigs’ Trial from 21st Century Wire. (This article provides a good summary of where the issue stands today. Of course, nowadays anything that stands in the way of profits is not studied because profits/power under capitalism are "über alles".)

• Plutocratic Policy, Not Truth, Comes With a Bodyguard of Lies by David Swanson from Washington's Blog. 

Reformists (they were formerly called "liberals") such as Swanson view the system of capitalism as being like gravity--a fact of reality--instead of a man-made system designed to advance the acquisition of wealth and power by a small group. Thus to obscure reality, Swanson substitutes "plutocracy" to designate the possession of power and extreme wealth by a tiny minority instead of capitalism which has provided this tiny class with tremendous power and extreme wealth. He obviously believes, like so many others, that we can have capitalism without extreme inequality of influence and wealth. Such a belief flies in the face of all the devastation and the wars of the 20th century, and the gross inequality that we see today.

If I were simple-minded, it would be easily to conclude that the reason that humans will go extinct is because of people like Swanson. A more balanced conclusion would be that people like Swanson have contributed to the lack of resistance to a system that will cause the extinction of humans.