Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, December 14, 2020

• The myth of “net zero emissions by 2050” by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News.
  

• Did You Think the New Laws Were Only About the Farmers? by P. Sainath from The Wire (based in India).

• How to Cure America’s Vaccine Paranoia by Sonali Kolhatkar posted on CounterPunch. My commentary follows: 

This article is another illustration of when "push comes to shove" (def.) "liberals" will always go with the capitalist ruling class and their government. What the author has written--and she has impeccable liberal credentials--in my opinion, supports censorship of non-governmental highly trained experts. What she has written supports government policies that mandates vaccines directly or indirectly by tolerating businesses which discriminate against those who don't trust pharmaceutical corporations which have a record of profiting off drugs like opioids. After all, her main argument is that people who don't trust pharmaceutical corporations and government fake health agencies impair the health of others. This is an argument that we, the people, must be "shoved" by mandatory laws into compliance which will force people who don't trust for-profit pharmaceutical corporations and which are indemnified from lawsuits, to take their vaccines. This is the same argument that the government, which are controlled by the capitalist ruling class, are the final authority on what's best for Americans. What happened to the belief that government derives from the consent of the governed? and the Bill of Rights which protects basic freedoms of minorities? Oops? I think we caught them on a very slippery slope to fascist capitalism?

• Coronavirus Fact-Check #9: Is the vaccine safe? by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.

• Coronavirus Protocols as Tools of Repression by Ann Garrison from Black Agenda Report.

• Radical De-Globalization: Finding Back Our Freedom and Sovereignty: Tyrants Don’t Create Tyranny. Your Obedience Does. By Peter Koenig from Global Research. This is a best post.

• Tyranny During Its Reign Is Unrecognized by Its Victims by Donald J. Boudreaux from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• Why this campaign of terror? Never outside war time have populations been subjected to such outrageous assault and battery by government propaganda machines by Gillian Dymond from Off-Guardian. My sarcastic reaction: Because they care about your health even though they refuse to pass a universal Medicare bill.

• You Have No Obligation To Conform To A Wildly Sick Society by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Antisemitism Claims Mask a Reign of Political and Cultural Terror Across Europe by Jonathan Cook from The Unz Review.

• The Great Reset: The Final Assault on the Living Planet [It’s Not a Social Dilemma – It’s the Calculay ted Destruction of the Social, Part III] by Cory Morningstar from Wrong Kind of Green. 

• Latest Cover-Ups by Western Governments Over Their Funding of Terrorist Groups by Vanessa Beeley from Covert Geopolitics. 

• John Pilger: The Most Lethal Virus Is Not COVID. It Is War from Mint Press News.

• How race politics liberated the elites by Matthew Crawford from Unherd (based in Britain). 

For the new Left, then, it was not capitalism but the democratic social order altogether that was the source of oppression — not just of black people, or of workers, but of us, the college bourgeoisie. The civil rights movement of black Americans became the template for subsequent claims by women, gays and transgender persons, each based on a further discovery of moral failing buried deep in the heart of America. Hence a further license, indeed mandate, granted to individual conscience, as against the claims of the nation.

My reaction: The "new Left", that is, ("liberals") were influenced, as always, by the ruling class who had an interest in shaping them into this thought disorder--thinking that society was the problem, not capitalism.

• G20 debt proposal continues to favour creditors from Bretton Woods Project.
  

• Trump’s Last Chance to Snub the Deep State by Ron Ridenour from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: It might be his last chance, but I hardly think he will do it because such pardons will "snub" the entire capitalist ruling class of which he is a prime member.