Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, June 26, 2020

• Cash4Covid – How hospitals are making money off the coronavirus by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

• “Covid-19 Has Turned Public Health into a Patient-Killing Experiment” by Catte Black from Off-Guardian. Note: The author quotes the latest discoverer, Dr. Meryl Nass MD, of questionable medical practices:

"Why is public health being turned on its head? REMAP-Covid is the third major multicenter clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine to give toxic doses to Covid patients. Who or what is behind this concerted effort to maim or kill patients in order to kill any appearance of benefit from hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of Covid-19?"

My reaction: Could it be that agents of Big Pharma have influence medical practioners to do so in order to discredit the cheaply produced hydroxychloroquine?

• Swedish Confidence Levels Jump as Covid-19 Concern Recedes by Niclas Rolander from Bloomberg. 

• Washington Sailing on Collision Course With China by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• How Racism Is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order by Richard D. Wolff from Brave New Europe. 

• End It by an editor from Fever. (Note: I have now added this website to my list of roughly 50 sources after being notified by an activist that it contained articles of interest to me.) 

• Bloomberg Drops a Bombshell on the Fed’s Big Bank Stress Tests Set for Release Today by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• ‘Six Months To Avert Climate Crisis’: Climate Breakdown And The Corporate Media by David Cromwell, senior editor of Media Lens.

• Why North Korea blew up the inter-Korean liaison office – What's Left by Stephen Gowans from his weblog What's Left. (Note: Another example--if you need one--of corporate media's exploitation of news as propaganda serving the Empire.)

• US destruction of North Korea must not be forgotten by Brett Wilkins from Asia Times.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, June 24, 2020

• Behind the Veil of the Protest Movement, the War on the American People Is Gaining Pace by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review.

• Stanford prof: Median infection fatality rate of coronavirus for those under 70 is just 0.04% by Daniel Payne from Just the News.

• Testing fraud explained by Canadian David Crow from his weblog Brasscheck TV. My commentary follows:

Because so many times during the last 10 years I've documented examples of authorities employed by the capitalist ruling class have lied (here's another current example), I have concluded that they rule by deception. Crowe has entitled his website after a book (which I've read) by a well-known 1920s sceptic and critical thinker, Upton Sinclair, who revealed so much corruption and lies during that period. I think that Crowe is another critical sceptic of our age.

I have been so troubled by the reports which take statistics and tests reported by corporate media TV as absolute facts without any nuances or details about how they could be misleading and problematic, I have looked around for critical analysts who do. I am convinced that David Crowe is such a person.

This post contains two videos by Crowe. The first one is where he critically analyzes health test results, and the second uses the same skills regarding Anthony Fauci who is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984. You might also be interested in a recent post by another critical analyst, Kevin Barrett, entitled "Tony Fauci is Corrupt to the Core!"

• Colorado Adopts Mandatory Vaccinations for Children by Renée Parsons from Off-Guardian.

• Cops Criminalize Protest; Psychiatrists Medicalize It by Susan Rosenthal from her weblog. (Note: Rosenthal has practiced as a psychiatrist (probably retired) and knows her colleagues and the profession very well. She is currently living in Canada.)

• The True Financial Pulse of America’s Families by David Silberman from The American Prospect.

• Why an Arab-Israeli diplomat's assault is no surprise by Jonathan Cook from The National (Abu Dhabi). (My reaction: We are all Palestinians now! You see, it matters not that we are Americans--the Empire's transnational ruling class is at war with all workers. They dare to because they imagine that they "own" AI and robots that can replace most of us.)

An Israeli diplomat filed a complaint last week with police after he was pulled to the ground in Jerusalem by four security guards, who knelt on his neck for five minutes as he cried out: “I can’t breathe." 

There are obvious echoes of the treatment of George Floyd, an African-American killed by police in Minneapolis last month. His death triggered mass protests against police brutality and reinvigorated the Black Lives Matter movement. The incident in Jerusalem, by contrast, attracted only minor attention – even in Israel.

• Suicidal Empire by Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestinian) from his weblog Popular Resistance. 

• May All Be Revealed by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Another New Study Points to the Dangers of Geoengineering the Climate by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. 

• Staggering Heat, Extreme Weather, and Reporting the Climate Connection from Covering Climate Now. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, June 23, 2020

• Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid by Ellen Brown from The Unz Review. (My reaction: I believe this is a very important article on this private investment entity for, and by, the rich. I believe it is a very important component of what Brown refers to as an "almost a shadow government", or what I and others are now referring to as an existing "Deep State" that lies behind the facade of our "democratic" government.

• U.S. Supreme Court Reaffirms U.S. Police State by Eric Zuesse from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. My brief commentary:

Zuesse, a social-democratic indoctrinated historian, shows his alertness by recognizing this as a singular (def. #3) event by the Supreme Court, one of the fundamental branches of US government. Because of this, cops (and they know it) like Derek Chauvin have the Deep State's permission to kill citizens regardless of the circumstances. (See how the fascist faction of the ruling class after WWII purged all institutions of people who held any leftist views.)

But instead of sourcing this as rooted in the early US capitalist class whose "Founding Fathers" established their government of the USA, Zuesse implies that indecent people have been appointed in recent years to the Supreme Court. The latter has, starting in 1983 (of course cops killed people before then, but the people didn't have the courage, or were so foolish, to attempt to take legal actions against the police), ruled that killing people in the line of duty was okay, and the June 15th ruling confirms that. (Did you hear that from media corporations?)   Zuesse writes:

This isn’t a failure ONLY by the U.S. Supreme Court. It is instead an expression of the American system as it now exists, and which failure renders the U.S. Constitution itself almost meaningless, especially as regards the rights of the people and the obligations of federal officials at all levels in the government. There is no accountability; there is only blame. And, as in any authoritarian system, all blame goes downward, and all praise goes upward. That’s the reality. The U.S. Constitution is by now just a string of words. America’s Founders are dead, gone, and no longer really even an influence. That’s the reality. Pretending otherwise won’t fix anything. Drastic changes are needed. And the American public has proven itself not up to the challenge, still refuses to face the reality. This is system-failure. And the public refuses to face it.

And, he goes on to write that only a Constitutional Amendment can changes things. He's right, and Chauvin and other cops will keep on killing and protecting the ruling class.

• Dr. Fauci Admits He LIED About Mask Safety! featuring Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show via YouTube). (My reaction: I don't trust anything that corporate media reports on this virus. The most trusted source that I've found is from Swiss Policy Research.)

• Will the Coronavirus Widen the Rift Between US and Europe? by Arthur Evans from FRN (based in Serbia). (My reaction: Cracks are appearing in the European section of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

• America: A War Machine on Top of a Police State by Caitlin Johnstone from American Herald Tribune. (Note: This time Johnstone writes on a different weblog.)

America is a war machine on top of a police state on top of a mass media psyop. Only people who are willing to keep these psychopathic mechanisms in place are permitted to ascend to presidential candidacy. While all the news cameras focus on the relatively minor differences between presidents and presidential candidates, you can learn a lot more about America and what drives it by looking at their similarities.

• Tensions in Lebanon are Rising by Vladimir Platov from New Eastern Outlook. (My reaction: Tensions are appearing all over the world as economies deteriorate, and violence appears as a result of the Empire's transnational capitalists who attempt to maintain their empire. This trend will only accelerate due to global warming.) 

Only notes today: Monday, June 22, 2020

Notes: 

• I discovered while editing Elijah J. Magnier as a recommended weblog that I had never entered his exceptional weblog on my list. Generally, I think his is one of the best regarding the understanding of geopolitical interests of the Middle East. Sadly, he has had to put his weblog behind a paywall, and I will no longer be citing his articles. But, his weblog will remain on the recommended list.

• Due to dental work, I will not attempt to post articles today.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, June 21, 2020

• Socialism and Dignity: We Don’t Need Their Cops by Stephen Millies from Internationalist 360°. 

• The Supreme Court’s Insidious Development of Qualified Immunity by Nimra Azmi from Just Security. (My reaction: This offers more proof that police forces in America have been used by the capitalist ruling class as a defense against workers. Destroying the immunity of police that permits them to commit outrageous acts against members of the wider public must be eliminated before the overthrow of capitalist ruling classes (as Colorada has recently done) is accomplished.

• Our Current Dilemmas Go Much Deeper Than Racism by Prof. Anthony Hall from American Herald Tribune. 

• Washington Struggles to Manage the Crisis, But Israel Continues to Benefit by Philip Giraldi from The Unz Review.

• The Federal Reserve Has Its Own Police and Is Part of a Vast Surveillance Center – Should You Worry? by Pam and Russ Martens from Wall Street on Parade.