Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, June 2, 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

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, June 2, 2020

The Police Are Not What You Think featuring Lee Camp (of Redacted Tonight) from RT (via YouTube). (My reaction: Maybe in communities that are heavily African-Americans and other colored minorities, these communities should start their own enforcement services to intervene in disputes among their populations.)

How did the protest end up here? | Crowd chants ‘eat the rich’ at BLM rally in Beverly Hills from RT (via YouTube). (My reaction: This is evidence that some white Americans and others are starting to realize that class warfare is occurring in the USA.)

Their Violence and Ours by Nathaniel Flakin from Left Voice.

Agent Provocateurs: Police at Protests All Over the Country Caught Destroying Property by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis).

The Focus on Looting Shows How Our Systems of Power Value Capital Over Human Lives by Eli Day from In These Times.

Top Ten Signs We’re Living in a Police State by Ryan Cristián from The Last American Vagabond.

“We Are Trying to Build Humanity”—Vijay Prashad on Chinese Socialism & Internationalism Today from the Qiao Collective.

How America’s largest corporations loot black communities by C.J. Werleman from TRT World (Turkey).

Americans Should Definitely Be the Cops of the World by Marko Marjanović from Anti-Empire. (My reaction: This satirical article suggests that people all over the world are recognizing the defects of American police forces. However, are the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire not already trying to police the world?)

Doctors Against Borders (Lockdowns) by Ron Clutz from his weblog Science Matters.

Commentary: It's high time Fauci and the rest of the 'experts' were made to answer some questions from The Blaze.

German Official Leaks Report Denouncing Corona as ‘A Global False Alarm’ by Daniele Pozzati from Strategic Culture Foundation.

Why they hate Sweden by Fraser Myers from Spiked.

Anti-Abortion Forces Would Impose Slavery-like Controls on Black Women’s Bodies by Margaret Kimberley, with occasional remarks by Glen Ford, from Black Agenda Report.

China’s poverty-annihilation miracle by Adnan Afirat from United World (Turkey).

An Arrested Middle East – The ‘New Strategy for Securing the Realm’ Dissipates by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.