Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, May 5, 2020

• For the Workers of the World the Pandemic is Based on Inequality by Pasqualina Curcio from Resumen. (Note: I thank an American activist for this post.)

• The Disconnect Between the Stock Market and the Real Economy Is Destroying Our Lives by Hamilton Nolan from In These Times.

• The Sleeping Giant by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: This is a political allegory. See if you can identify the referents to the characters. Also notice that it is unfinished. What will the giant do the next time he wakes up? Only the future will tell. But you are a tiny cell of that giant, or should be, as an informed activist. What will you do?)

• Now more than ever, supporting abolition of the debt is a priority! by Brigitte Marti from Women in and Beyond the Global. 

• The scarring by Michael Roberts from his weblog. (Note: This is how a Marxist economist looks at recessions, and now we are in the "mother of all recessions".)

• COVID-19 “CARES Act” Bankrolls AlI Post-Human Education by John Klyczek from Dissident Voice. (Note: The author argues that the CARES Act promotes the future of education. Learn what this future is like.)

• Only the Poor Starve: Hunger in the Time of Covid by Graham Peebles from Dissident Voice. 

My reaction: I hope he is right about his optimistic future:

Consistent with the new time we are moving into, a shift in collective consciousness is taking place among large numbers of people all over the world. To accommodate this shift, this new awareness that is slowly emerging, new ways of thinking, new institutions and structures are badly needed, including crucially a radically overhauled socio-economic system. A flexible evolving model anchored in certain Principles of Goodness: Unity, sharing and justice.

This common-sense trinity is interdependent and encourages values of cooperation and understanding, responsibility and tolerance.

• Towards A New World Order? The Global Debt Crisis and the Privatization of the State by Prof Michel Chossudovsky from his weblog Global Research.

• LEAKED: Wall Street Told Investors Not To Invest In Cures! featuring Lee Camp (via YouTube) of the Redacted Tonight show. Camp illustrates the logic of capitalism regarding your health. 

• As Death Toll Increases Blame China Campaign Intensifies by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama (Germany). (Note: He provides much evidence that our ruling class are using this pandemic to prepare us for war with China.)