Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, Aug. 16, 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

Sunday, August 16, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020

The New Normal: “Covert Moral Enhancement” for “coronavirus defectors” by Kit Knightly from the Off-Guardian.

Pull Back the Curtain on Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Service and Out Pops Koch Money by Pam and Russ Martens of Wall Street on Parade. (My reaction: It is not only the money of the Koch brothers (David has died) that are involved.--it is most money of the ruling class.

Don’t Forgive Bastards: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

How We Could Wind Up Banned From Discussing An October Surprise On Social Media This Election by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (She refers to internecine capitalist elections this November at the US center of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

Weaponized Social Media Fuels "Youth" Protests by Tony Cartalucci from ATN (AltThaiNews). My commentary follows:

Is the capitalist US/Anglo/Zionist Empire using corporate social media to stir up and guide protests in Belarus, Thailand, and even now in the USA? I don't know yet if this phenomenon is essentially happening in Belarus and the USA, but I'm sure agents of the ruling classes are involved. We'll probably know for sure about Belarus when snipers are brought in, as happened in 2014 in Ukraine, to ensure victory for the fascist forces of the Empire.

The transnational capitalist ruling classes, who have homes in many nations throughout their Empire, think nothing of using their effective weapons against their oppressed people in their home countries. Remember they use well-paid careers of highly trained professionals to implement these programs against the real interests of working classes. The perfect antidote to this is to ensure that real democratically elected leaders are responsive to the demands of their supporters and not the capitalist ruling classes of the Empire.

W ho Profits from the Beirut Blast? by Pepe Escobar from BSNews (based in Britain). (Note 1: I am continuing my posting of articles on other websites because Asia Times, which Escobar usually writes for, now puts Escobar's articles behind a paywall. Note 2: Escobar adds suspicious details regarding the Beirut bombing.)

I've run out of time and energy before completing today's articles that I "especially recommend".