- Defund Fascism, Blue and Orange by Paul Street from CounterPunch. My commentary follows:
Although Street gives an accurate description of the largely colored underclass (but not exclusively so) of capitalist America, he ignores the indispensable part that fascism plays in capitalism to deal with the problem of surplus workers that is an integral part of capitalist rule. This I think largely comes from a misunderstanding of fascism which confuses many people in the USA. (This is not an accident: capitalist ideological agents carefully craft propaganda to confuse people on this subject and many others.)
Fascism is basically an attitude that encourages coercion in one form or another. The fundamental source of this attitude is from the capitalist morality as described by Margaret Thatcher: looking only to the welfare of the individual and of one's family:...you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first.Therefore fascist methods are employed to deal with capitalist's main antagonists (the unemployed, poverty stricken, etc, (and let us not forget other competitive capitalists), and they can range from the threat of violence to indirect forms by controlling jobs and careers (traditionally favored by capitalists) to controlling the narratives (including censorship) that shape people's understanding of issues. (Caitlin Johnstone writes extensively about the latter subject.) Nowadays the three are combined in various combinations.
- Twitter spreads paid US gov’t propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads by Ben Norton from The Grayzone.
- Bombshell Report: Fed Is Aware that Big Banks Are Rigging their Stress Tests and Letting Them Get Away with It by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
- Trump and Biden, Two Ignoble Minds Here O’erthrown by Andrew Levine from CounterPunch.
- Global Destruction,
The COVID-19 Lockdown: Economic and Social Impacts by Peter Koenig from Global Research. (Note: A "best posts" article.)
- Trump Names Stanford Professor [Dr. Scott W. Atlas] Critical of Lockdowns to White House Covid Task Force from Anti-Empire. (Note: This article was first published on a British website Daily Mail; but because the latter insist on showing ads, I have posted it from the Anti-Empire website. I encourage you to read a further article by Dr. Scott W. Atlas posted on The Hill.)
- MAJOR: Tens of Thousands of Quebecois Stage Mass March Against Plandemic Tyranny by Joaquin Flores from FRN (Fort Russ News, based in Serbia).
- Putin and Russia Are Facing a Very Serious Crisis in Belarus by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from The Unz Review. (Note: Because I posted an article about Belarus yesterday, I thought it apt to include this post today from an author who has ancestral roots in the military and middle-class in Russia and who knows the geopolitics very well in this area. It looks like an attempted color revolution by the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire is going on there with the apparent participation of the Ukrainian government. You will need to know what about some of his more obscure references, but I trust you will look them up on the internet. For another take on this phenomenon, you might be interested in Nikopetr's article from The Internationalists entitled "Winds of Change in Belarus: Neither Dictatorship Nor Democracy Offer Anything for the Working Class".)
- The U.S. Needs to Address Its Climate Migration Problem by Daniel Cusick from Scientific American.