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

Monday, November 2, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, November 2, 2020

  • Election Special Part 3: How The Bipartisan Swamp Is Engineering Election Chaos In Philadelphia featuring a review of internet documents that suggest a campaign of chaos, of which Philadelphia is the epicenter, and discussion with Whitney Webb and Ryan Cristián of The Last American Vagabond. (My reaction: This presentation is in video format and over three hours in length. If you have followed this website or have been reasonably well-informed by alternative independent media, I think you could skip this. If you are time constrained, I recommend the next post.)
  • Why is the Corporate Media Predicting a “Dark Winter”? from Vaccine Impact. (Note: An important video in this article has been removed by the management of YouTube. It still exists but on another software. What I like about this film is the narrator who is a very ordinary American, but who has learned to think critically.)
I have wondered how billionaire Pierre Omidyar's financial backing would affect the Intercept's website. I think it was inevitable that Omidyar's identification with capitalism would influence how the Intercept handled certain issues. Now finally the facts come out that the management have been editing Greenwald's views on major events. 
I noticed that Naomi Klein joined the attack on Greenwald by arguing that he was not censored, but "edited"--as if there was a difference between editing one's views and censorship. This is another example of how people of the upper-middle-class, along with many of the middle-class, identify with the ruling class when "push comes to shove". Posing often as critics of the capitalist system, but when things get really critical, they reveal their true loyalties. If many years of indoctrination while attending universities failed to corrupt them, they soon succumbed to the many benefits from their collaboration with the capitalist ruling class whose overwhelming power and wealth could not exist without such people.
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