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

Sunday, August 2, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020

National Eviction Nightmare! People Chaining Themselves To Eviction Courts! featuring Jimmy Dore exclaiming about the "Eviction Nightmare" (via YouTube).

Boston Marathon Bombing Death Sentence Vacated by Federal Court of Appeals by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog. First a quote from the article, then my commentary follows:

Nevertheless, the federal appeals court ruling opens a wedge by admitting that something was wrong, and Dzhokhar’s punishment has to be reconsidered in a new trial. If there were attorneys and bar associations that served justice rather than career and money, they could use the opening provided by the First Circuit to blow up the hoax conviction of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev together with the hoax false flag Boston Marathon Bombing. This, I think, is the message from the US Appeals Court of the First Circuit. The Appeals Court opens the opportunity, but if no one cares, the Appeals Court is not going to take the hit for declaring an innocent person innocent.

A country whose lawyers no longer will fight for justice, but only for money, is a lost and destroyed country.

Roberts criticizes lawyers for succumbing to their socialization in a thoroughly capitalist country. Lawyers are human, and they see that taking on the powerful US ruling class is an exercise in futility, worse yet, it may be suicidal, that is, without a public that is conscious of a class-structured society, capitalism, a ruling class that essentially owns the country, etc. For those of you who don't know your history simply because you were never taught it, Marxist concepts have been expunged during the McCarthy period. (Bruce Lerro explained it very well.) The capitalist ruling class has completely taken control of every institution and is dictating the narratives that shape people's consciousness.

Gigantic Demonstration Against the New Normal in Berlin, Police Crack Down from Anti-Empire. (My reaction: At least in Germany, many people are free to form their own political consciousness. These people are unlike people in the USA and Britain who are mostly thoroughly brainwashed. Be sure to watch the video supplied by "Southern", a commentor (fourth one).)

Fact Check: Progressive Hero Margaret Sanger Was a Racist Eugenicist by James Corbett from his weblog.

Red Flags Soar As Big Pharma Will Be Exempt From COVID-19 Vaccine Liability Claims by Tyler Durden from his weblog ZeroHedge. (Note: I was confused by this article because I thought the 1986 Act had already granted the pharmaceutical corporations exemption from liability claims, I consulted another activist (he is unnamed according to his wishes). He was confused as I was, but he subsequently sent me an article entitled "Liability for Vaccine Injury: The United States, the European Union, and the Developing World" which addresses this issue. (I thank him for his contribution.)