Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, June 4, 2020

• Pro-BLM Demonstrations Sweep Across Europe by Guillaume Durocher from The Unz Review.

• Don’t Fall for the Myth of the “Outside Agitator” in Racial Justice Protests by Glenn Houlihan from Jacobin.

• The “Corona Hoax”, The Proliferation of Racial Riots. Towards a Military Lockdown? by Peter Koenig from Global Research.

• Enough with the Consensus Already! by Thierry Meyssan (French) from his weblog VoltaireNet.

• COVID-19: ‘The Facts Changed – But Government Lockdown Policy Didn’t’ from 21st Century Wire. 

• Biosecurity and Politics by Giorgio Agamben from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• The pandemic and George Floyd: A biopolitical trap of poverty and racism by Sam Hamad from TRT World. 

• Propaganda and Engineering Consent for Empire with Mark Crispin Miller. Abby Martin interviews Professor Mark Crispin Miller, professor of Media Studies at New York University from Telesur (via YouTube). (This qualifies for the "best posts" category.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, June 3, 2020

• The Capitalists of the 21st Century by Norbert Häring (Germany) from his weblog Money and more. (Note: I've assigned this as a "best posts" category.) My commentary follows:

I notice this morning that there is a slew (def. #3) of posts alleging that the protest movement is being manipulated (see this, this, and this--btw, I've since removed The Duran from my recommended list of websites.) There is certainly manipulation going, but what type, to what extent, and who benefits is too soon to tell.) What is certain is that the Empire's transnational capitalist ruling class does not want a "crisis to go to waste". It's immediately apparent that the Deep State wants to get rid of Trump, but what else, to my mind, is yet to be determined. It's clear to me that police forces all across American represent the mailed fist of fascist capitalism, and as such they won't disappear or become transformed into protecting the people as their official mission. So, it appears to me that the protest movement is moving toward a clash with the ruling class.

Häring has read a book by this title (The Capitalists of the 21st Century by Werner Rügemer) which apparently the article is a summary of the book according to Häring. This article contains a considerable amount to learn about the latest phase of capitalism. For example from the following section:

This, our capitalism – or death for all

The wealth of the BlackRock milieu is increasing, but the national economies and the infrastructure important for the majority of the population – schools, apartments, hospitals, water pipes, sewage treatment plants – are decaying or being privatized and made more expensive by the capital organizers. Climate warming is being accelerated. Armament profits boom with the invention of new enemies. While the new capital masters have created diverse collective forms for themselves, they are destroying the remnants of previous collective forms of dependent employees and maneuvering them into professionally staged, ultimately joyless, sick loneliness.

With the inward war of the new, even more US-led capitalists against democracy, against the rule of law and the welfare state, they also became more outwardly aggressive. They wage declared and undeclared wars through their governments and military and intelligence services, expand their global military presence, secretly and openly arm their representatives. Even nuclear war on European soil becomes a calculated, incalculable possibility. Motto: This, our capitalism or death for all.

I think this is an important article and book that activists can learn much from. It looks to me like the current protest movement, if it is to evolve into something more that that, is confronting a powerful force. And I think that the above motto means that the ruling capitalist class are like an alcoholic, in the final stage of addiction, who will risk everything--even death--to obtain their drugs of domination, control, and wealth that the capitalist system provides them with in such abundance. (Btw, the nerve center and the real capital of this highly invisable capitalist ruling class appears to be East Wenatchee, Washington and behind the Sabey Data Center (also see this.) This way they can take advantage of taxpayer-funded cheap energy to power their data centers. The hydroelectric power plants, built by workers in the Great Depression of the 1930s, on the Columbia River produce the cheapest electricity in the USA. It is also the home of the soccer-field-sized data centers run by Yahoo, Microsoft and Dell. Do you think 21st century capitalists are dumb? I admit that they may be, but they have all the money to hire people with brains to run their data centers, the government, and everything else.

But, I fear that today's youth are ill-equipped by so many years of indoctrination, propaganda, and entertaining distractions that they are hardly a match for such a goliath of a capitalist ruling class.

• Why America’s revolution won’t be televised by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• If you can't beat'em ... by cartoonist Terry Everton from Dissident Voice. 

• Rebellion and Repression: Capitalism’s Long Hot Summer Begins by Ben Becker from Internationalist 360°.

• It’s a Class War Now Too by Joshua Frank from Defend Democracy Press.

• Are we about to see a Colour Revolution in the United States? by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

• VIDEO – Here are the Horrifying things I learned at a Contact Tracing Class from FRN (based in Serbia). 

• Facts Vs. Fake by Peter Koenig from Dissident Voice.

THIS IS ALL I HAVE TIME AND ENERGY FOR.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, June 2, 2020

• The Police Are Not What You Think featuring Lee Camp (of Redacted Tonight) from RT (via YouTube). (My reaction: Maybe in communities that are heavily African-Americans and other colored minorities, these communities should start their own enforcement services to intervene in disputes among their populations.)

• How did the protest end up here? | Crowd chants ‘eat the rich’ at BLM rally in Beverly Hills from RT (via YouTube). (My reaction: This is evidence that some white Americans and others are starting to realize that class warfare is occurring in the USA.)

• Their Violence and Ours by Nathaniel Flakin from Left Voice.

• Agent Provocateurs: Police at Protests All Over the Country Caught Destroying Property by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis).

• The Focus on Looting Shows How Our Systems of Power Value Capital Over Human Lives by Eli Day from In These Times. 

• Top Ten Signs We’re Living in a Police State by Ryan Cristián from The Last American Vagabond.

• “We Are Trying to Build Humanity”—Vijay Prashad on Chinese Socialism & Internationalism Today from the Qiao Collective.

• How America’s largest corporations loot black communities by C.J. Werleman from TRT World (Turkey).

• Americans Should Definitely Be the Cops of the World by Marko Marjanović from Anti-Empire. (My reaction: This satirical article suggests that people all over the world are recognizing the defects of American police forces. However, are the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire not already trying to police the world?)

• Doctors Against Borders (Lockdowns) by Ron Clutz from his weblog Science Matters.

• Commentary: It's high time Fauci and the rest of the 'experts' were made to answer some questions from The Blaze.

• German Official Leaks Report Denouncing Corona as ‘A Global False Alarm’ by Daniele Pozzati from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Why they hate Sweden by Fraser Myers from Spiked.

• Anti-Abortion Forces Would Impose Slavery-like Controls on Black Women’s Bodies by Margaret Kimberley, with occasional remarks by Glen Ford, from Black Agenda Report.

• China’s poverty-annihilation miracle by Adnan Afirat from United World (Turkey).

• An Arrested Middle East – The ‘New Strategy for Securing the Realm’ Dissipates by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, June 1, 2020

• The George Floyd Killing in Minneapolis Exposes the Failures of Police Reform by Alice Speri, Alleen Brown, and Mara Hvistendahl from The Intercept.

• From Soft to Hard Fascism: “Get In Your House Right Now!” by Kurt Nimmo from his weblog Another Day in the Empire.

• Many US Journalists Arrested After New York Times Falsely Claims That Doesn’t Happen In America by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Undercover cops or protesters picking out bad seeds? from RT (via YouTube). 

• We Are All Jakarta by David Swanson from his weblog Let's Try Democracy.

• The Propaganda Multiplier from Swiss Policy Research. (Note: This post might provide you with all you need to know about fundamental media corporations.)

• Unsanitized: BlackRock Is Buyer and Seller by David Dayen from The American Prospect.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, May 31, 2020

• Young White Men Abuse George Floyd Protests For Violence And Looting by Bernhard (Germany) from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• US has deadliest police culture in modern world - George Floyd family co-counsel from RT (via YouTube). (Note: Police Unions are very strong with the sole exception to other labor unions in the USA. Could it be that they are protecting the ruling capitalist class?)

• Police Deny Any Connection to Mysterious Minneapolis “Umbrella Man” Saboteur by Raul Diego from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis). (Note: This is the latest example regarding police infiltration of protests in order to discredit the latter.)

• Nothing Is Certain But Death, Taxes, And Police Infiltration Of US Protests by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• As Chief Prosecutor, Klobuchar Declined to Bring Charges Against Cop that Killed George Floyd by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• LAPD’s Hollywood Office: How The Department Shaped ABC’s ‘The Rookie’ from Shadowproof. (Note: This shows how the ruling class shapes views about fascist cop-killers in the USA.)

• U.S. Lectures World on Human Rights as Cops Kill Blacks With Impunity by  Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• “Germ-Ridden Masses” – How America’s Wealthy Elite Describe the Rest of Us by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• In the West: Propaganda, Hysteria and Truly Foul Breath! by Andre Vltchek from Dissident Voice.

• Nobel prize-winning scientist: the Covid-19 epidemic was never exponential by Freddie Sayers from Unherd. (Note: The scientist uses Hubei province, and the capital of this province is Wuhan.)

• “It’s all Bullsh*t” – 3 Leaks that Sink the Covid Narrative by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.

• Sunrise Movement Being Co-Opted By Biden Task Force by Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show (via YouTube). My reaction: Even liberal Jimmy Dore sees through the attempt to co-opt the Sunrise Movement.)