Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, March 30, 2020

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

Monday, March 30, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, March 30, 2020

Liberal Elite More Deadly Than Coronavirus by Mike Pappas from Left Voice.

Dr. Fauci and COVID-19 Priorities: Therapeutics Now or Vaccines Later? (Video) from Children's Health Defense.

Corporations Are Broke. It’s Time to Cut Up Their Credit Cards. By Christian Parenti and Dante Dallavalle from Jacobin.

Covid-19 has already sparked huge state intervention. We should go further and start requisitioning the empty homes of the rich by Dr.Lisa McKenzie from RT.

Why American Workers Have Been Left Out of Our Life-and-Death Decision-Making by Sharon Block from The American Prospect.

There’s No Better Time To Break This Mental Prison featuring Lee Camp of the Redacted Tonight Show on RT (via YouTube).

Why Are Progressives Voting For Ultimate Screwing Of America? Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show discusses this issue with Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone.

Icahn Called BlackRock “An Extremely Dangerous Company”; the Fed Has Chosen It to Manage Its Corporate Bond Bailout Programs by Pam and Russ Martens from Wall Street on Parade.

Is the U.S. Able to Handle COVID-19? – Global Prospects Hang on This Question by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.

The Coronavirus, public debt and life by Lujan Miranda from CADTM.

The Post-Coronavirus World Will Be Far Worse Than the Pre-Coronavirus World by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation.

US 'granting waivers' to release Iranian assets for coronavirus fight: Iranian sources by Rohollah Faghihi from Middle East Eye. (Note: This is about 3rd party sanctions, that is, corporations that do business with Iran. Meanwhile, the USA is imposing more sanctions on Iran.)

Iran FM: US ‘medical terrorism’ leading to ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ from PressTV (Iran).

Will the Coronavirus be the Demise of the European Union? by Valery Kulikov from New Eastern Outlook.

Pedro Aznar asks a CRUCIAL question by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

‘We need to be alert’: Scientists fear second coronavirus wave as China’s lockdowns ease by David Cyranoski from Nature.

Edge of Extinction: Please Stop Wishing for Extinction by Guy McPherson directly from his weblog Nature Bats Last.