Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Posts that I especially recommend for yesterday and today: Wednesday, December 11, 2019

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Posts that I especially recommend for yesterday and today: Wednesday, December 11, 2019

NIST Publishes New FAQ on Its Refusal to Release Key Building 7 Data by Ted Walter from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

Trump-Pelosi Trade Maneuvers: USMCA, China Tariffs, & Brazil-Argentina Steel by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. (Note: You will need to know who AMLO is.)

Human Rights from an Indigenous Perspective by Ollantay Itzamná from Internationalist 360°.

The true legacy of US central banker Paul Volcker (1927–2019) by Nick Beams from World Socialist Web Site.

WADA Sporting Ban is Part of West’s New Cold War Against Russia. This post features an interview with 21st Century Wire's Patrick Henningsen via RT.

NATO Secretary General Targets ‘Rising China’: Why Cold War Newspeak Never Went Away by Cynthia Chung from Strategic Culture Foundation.

The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control by Edward Curtin from his weblog.

Russiagate media smears against Corbyn brought to you by US and UK military-intelligence apparatus by Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone.

The Deep State by Alex Diaz from BSNews (Britain). (Note: More about smearing Corbin.)

The Most Significant Afghanistan Papers Revelation Is How Difficult They Were To Make Public by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

How Many Types of “Good” Capitalism Are There? by Shawgi Tell from Dissident Voice.

A system that steals from our future by Ian Angus from Climate & Capitalism.

The portent of runaway greenhouse warming by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News.