Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, April 4, 2020

• This is a Global Pandemic – Let’s Treat it as Such by Adam Hanieh from Defend Democracy Press.

• A New Humanity, A New World by Owei Lakemfa from Internationalist 360°.

• The class issues in the coronavirus pandemic by Niles Niemuth from World Socialist Web Site. 

• COVID-19: Seeds of Revolution Grown on Capitalism’s Corpse? by Gilbert Mercier from News Junkie Post. 

• How To Tell Real News From Useless Narrative Fluff by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Coronavirus pandemic will inevitably cause food crisis by "InfoBrics" from The Duran.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, April 3, 2020

While sheltering-in-place these critical and independent thinkers offer their views on the current situation. I personally favor the posts about Connecticut workers from Left Voice, Caitlin Johnstone's weblog, and from Black Agenda Report.

• Ground Control to Planet Lockdown: This Is Only a Test by Pepe Escobar from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: Escobar shares his observations about the coronavirus pandemic and considers various theories, in the spirit of "never let a crisis go to waste", to explain it as useful for the finance directors of the transnational capitalist empire, otherwise known as the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

• COVID-19 Quarantines: “This Is What a Police State Is Like” by Scott Cooper from Left Voice.

• Connecticut Workers Put Forward Plan of Action by William Lewis from Left Voice. (Note: This is an example of workers proposing to take control of their society because the ruling capitalist class has botched the job.)

• How It Starts by Craig Murray from his weblog. (Note: One of Britain's foremost independent and critical thinkers expresses his views on the current crisis.)

• We are Not Allowed to Watch, Listen and Read what We Want, Anymore by Andre Vltchek from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: This writer shares his thoughts while apparently sheltering-in-place in Europe.)

• Someone’s Screwing You, And It Ain’t China: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• COVID-19: The Capitalist Emperor Has no Clothes by Ajamu Baraka from Black Agenda Report.

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• China rolls out the Health Silk Road by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• COVID-19: Cuomo’s Bubble is Starting to Burst by Joe Lauria from Consortium News.

• Fed’s Balance Sheet Blasts to $5.8 Trillion; Suggests Fed Is Back to Bailing Out Foreign Banks along with Wall Street by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, April 2, 2020

• Fired Amazon Strike Leader Has Powerful Message featuring Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show) interviewing Christian Smalls (via YouTube), the Amazon supervisor who was fired by Amazon for trying to protect his fellow workers, and explaining his experience related to the firing. If you liked this, you might be interested in Dore's post entitled "Workers Are Striking From Coast To Coast!!" in which he reports that workers are striking without union support all across America, and vents his anger.

• This Is The Largest Theft Ever In US History. Lee Camp (of Redacted Tonight) vents his anger (via YouTube) about the latest "stimulus" bill passed by Congress that overwhelmingly serves the interest of capitalists.

• Covid 19 & the FORGOTTEN Working Class by Jack Rasmus from his weblog.

• US pushes conspiracy theory on China’s coronavirus death toll to deflect from Trump administration failures by Ajit Singh from The Grayzone.

My commentary: One thing I've noticed in both corporate media and government actions is that nothing has changed with either of them during this pandemic. They're both continuing as usual: media corporations like CNN, MSNBC, PBS, etc. are continuing their anti-Trump bias and Fox News is continuing showing various members of the Trump administration bloviating how great they are doing. Meanwhile, the government continues its assault on Venezuela, Iran, and China via increasing sanctions and threats. Domestically the Trump administration continues to weaken environmental protections. And, last but not least. the Fed is using the the crisis to bail out major banks while putting our nation (that's us) deeper in debt.

• Pentagon Orders All Installations to Stop Reporting COVID-19 Infections and Deaths by Ann Garrison from Black Agenda Report.

• Coronavirus exposes the many weaknesses in the US healthcare system by Ali Cinar from TRT World (based in Turkey).

• The Men and Women Who Shrank the U.S. Ventilator Supply by Andrea Beaty from The American Prospect. 

• Strict lockdowns and rapid tests: How poorer countries are bracing for coronavirus by Amy Maxmen from Nature.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, March 31, 2020

• COVID-19 Crisis Positive Side Effects: End of Dog-Eat-Dog Civilization? by Gilbert Mercier from News Junkie Post. 

• The Pandemic and the End of the Neoliberal Era by Atilio A. Boron from Internationalist 360°.

My commentary to both above articles: To be sure, the pandemic is wrecking havoc on the capitalist system (neoliberalism is only the current developmental phase); but as effective as the pandemic will be in damaging the capitalist system, it looks to me that it is only a dress rehearsal for the inevitable extinction of most life on our planet Earth due to global warming caused by excessive and obsessive industrial that capitalism demands. The cessation of industrial activities during this pandemic will only hasten rising temperatures as explained by Guy McPherson. But at least this pandemic makes it possible in the near future for humans to gain greater dignity by realizing that their economic system is responsible for this cataclysmic end. I believe that this realization is the best we can hope for, and humans can partially redeem themselves if they can establish socialist institutions in socialist societies before their demise.                                                                          

• China Boasts 93% Recovery Rate, No New Cases in Hubei for Sixth Day After Saying Local Covid-19 Spread ‘Stopped’ by Drago Bosnic from FRN (Fort Russ News).

• The profit system is sabotaging the struggle against the coronavirus by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site. 

• Brave Republican Stands Against Stimulus ALONE. This post features an agitated Jimmy Dore who is struggling with disillusionment over so-called progressives in a political system that was constructed by the ruling capitalist class. But he is making progress to come up with some more effective strategies to attack this class and for the benefit of workers. If you like this post, you might be interested in another post by Jimmy Dore who shows what's now happening in Sicily could easily happen in the USA. 

• The coronavirus: Two opposing worlds by Onur Sinan Güzaltan from United World (based in Turkey). 

• Kushner Squeezes Tenants While Lining Up for Bailout Money by Alexander Sammon from The American Prospect.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, March 30, 2020

• Liberal Elite More Deadly Than Coronavirus by Mike Pappas from Left Voice. 

• Dr. Fauci and COVID-19 Priorities: Therapeutics Now or Vaccines Later? (Video) from Children's Health Defense.

• Corporations Are Broke. It’s Time to Cut Up Their Credit Cards. By Christian Parenti and Dante Dallavalle from Jacobin.

• Covid-19 has already sparked huge state intervention. We should go further and start requisitioning the empty homes of the rich by Dr.Lisa McKenzie from RT.

• Why American Workers Have Been Left Out of Our Life-and-Death Decision-Making by Sharon Block from The American Prospect.

• There’s No Better Time To Break This Mental Prison featuring Lee Camp of the Redacted Tonight Show on RT (via YouTube).

• Why Are Progressives Voting For Ultimate Screwing Of America? Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show discusses this issue with Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone.

• Icahn Called BlackRock “An Extremely Dangerous Company”; the Fed Has Chosen It to Manage Its Corporate Bond Bailout Programs by Pam and Russ Martens from Wall Street on Parade. 

• Is the U.S. Able to Handle COVID-19? – Global Prospects Hang on This Question by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• The Coronavirus, public debt and life by Lujan Miranda from CADTM.

• The Post-Coronavirus World Will Be Far Worse Than the Pre-Coronavirus World by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• US 'granting waivers' to release Iranian assets for coronavirus fight: Iranian sources by Rohollah Faghihi from Middle East Eye. (Note: This is about 3rd party sanctions, that is, corporations that do business with Iran. Meanwhile, the USA is imposing more sanctions on Iran.)

• Iran FM: US ‘medical terrorism’ leading to ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ from PressTV (Iran).

• Will the Coronavirus be the Demise of the European Union? by Valery Kulikov from New Eastern Outlook.

• Pedro Aznar asks a CRUCIAL question by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• ‘We need to be alert’: Scientists fear second coronavirus wave as China’s lockdowns ease by David Cyranoski from Nature.

• Edge of Extinction: Please Stop Wishing for Extinction by Guy McPherson directly from his weblog Nature Bats Last.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, March 29, 2020

The political spectrum in the USA has shifted significantly to the right since WWII . This is largely because our ruling capitalist class decided to build an empire in 1941 when the well-connected (to the ruling class) Henry Luce, owner and editor of Time Magazine, announced the "American Century". During the 1930s many in the ruling class throughout advanced capitalist countries expressed sympathies and actual deeds in support of fascist Germany and Italy. I have read many books (read, for example, Big Business and Hitler by Jacques R. Pauwels) that also support this fact. 

Since Luce's announcement, US intellectuals and propagandists have revised American history of the 20th century to reflect benign and humanitarian influences that the US has had on the world. This revised history has permeated all institutions of the USA including especially Hollywood films and education. The CIA has taken control over media and filled it, and the minds of Americans, with fake news such as Russia-gate themes and other fantasies. (See my commentary here.)

The effect that this has had on American society has been a marked shift in the political spectrum toward the right-wing. Another related effect is that during the current crisis of the pandemic, Americans are thoroughly confused and frustrated about how our masters are dealing with this crisis, and a wave of growing frustration and anger exists as is evident in today's post by Jimmy Dore.

• It’s Okay To Be Uncertain What’s Happening And Where This Is All Going by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• "If Getting Us Into $6 Trillion More Debt Doesn’t Matter, Then Why Not $350 Trillion?" by Tyler Durden from his weblog ZeroHedge.

• Bernie Sanders Hasn’t Quite Captured What Wall Street Does: It’s Actually a Fraud-Monetization System with a Money-Printing Unit Called the New York Fed by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. (I missed this fine post from Jan. 21st.)

• Lawmakers' priority is to bail out large corporations – Hedges from RT (via YouTube).  

• How Bernie & Warren Sold Us Out Over Stimulus Bill. Jimmy Dore interviews Matt Stoller, a research director with the American Economic Liberties Project. (Note: I am posting this as only an example of confused and angry "left-wing" thinking in America.)

• It Is A Time Of Crisis And U.S. Foreign Policy Is Becoming Unhinged by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• How the US is using Covid-19 to fight its political battles by Elif İlhamoğlu from United World (based in Turkey).

• Italy leans on Russia after the EU fails to deliver by Steven Sahiounie from The Duran.

• US continues to block Iranian assets needed to buy medical equipment to fight COVID-19: Foreign Ministry official from PressTV. 

• Debunking clickbaits – expert: “not just a flu” and “not a bioweapon”. Joe Rogan interviews Michael Osterholm who "is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease epidemiology" and based in Minneapolis. This is posted on A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. (I don't doubt his qualifications, but I'm not yet convinced that coronavirus is not a bioweapon. I wasn't convinced that the virus was a bioweapon. I just waited for further evidence.)