- Protecting Individual Rights December 2020in the Era of COVID-19 from Children's Health Defense.
- Remember Overwhelmed Hospitals Across the US Three Years Ago? by Jeremy Hammond from his weblog.
- Judge Temporarily Blocks Cuomo’s Indoor Dining Ban in Ongoing Lawsuit by Ethan Yang from American Institute for Economic Research.
- The Leadership Institute: PR School for Right-wingers by Karl Grossmany from CounterPunch.
- With "Biden" in the White House, the Kremlin Now Needs to Change Gear by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) for The Unz Review. My commentary follows:
Raevsky is an American whose Russian ancestry in the White Armies (largely British supported) has enabled him to become the most informed American about Russian politics. His ancestry has shaped his views of today's Russia, and as such he is a Russian patriot. The Russia of today is not the Soviet Union, a revolutionary government in the early years that became soon ruled by Stalin and his loyal bureaucracy under the onslaught of 14 capitalist armies and failure of the revolutionaries to spread their revolution in the advanced capitalist countries.
Today's Russia has opted to follow the path of China with a mixed economy (mixture of capitalist and state enterprises with the government in command) in order to pursue an independent path that is in opposition to the hegemonic US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. As a Russian patriot, he is on board with that path which has already shown signs of strengthening.
The development of a Russia-China threat to the Empire exists because the capitalist directors of the Empire have so far refused to withdraw their commitment to hegemony. This is unfortunate because it means that China and Russia must accelerate their economic growth to counter the Empire's goal of world hegemony. By doing so, they will hasten the destruction of the environment and cause accelerated deterioration of the climate thereby contributing to the extinction of humans and most other species. However, I see no other good choice.
- Ajamu Baraka: We Are Entering a New Totalitarian Era featuring a discussion between
Ajamu Baraka and Ann Garrison from Black Agenda Report.
- Why Biden installing Obama-era hawks in senior roles and preparing to fire up the War Machine again is very bad news for Syrians by Vanessa Beeley from her weblog The Wall Will Fall.
- The Israel-UAE Project Which Will Damage Egypt And Force Saudi Normalization by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: Click on the following map to enlarge.)
- Dijjywan—Dijjydo or Dijjydon’t? by Fred Reed from The Unz Review. (Note: This is an examination of China's digital money that is about to be released.) My reaction: This development will only make a radical democracy more essential than ever. I don't expect the appearance of radical democracy before the extinction of humans.
- A Domestic Terrorism Law? War on Dissent Will Proceed Full Speed Ahead by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Now that our masters set the Great Reset in motion, they expect, and will get, backlash from all those workers who they consider expendable. Hang on to your seats because the future looks like an extremely bumpy ride.
- Newspeak in the 21st Century: How to Become a Model Citizen in the New Era of Domestic Warfare by Cynthia Chung from Strategic Culture Foundation.
Though you are well on your way to becoming a model citizen in the 21st century, you still have a little ways to go. It is for this reason that a guide to 21st century Newspeak has been recently released to make sure that well-intentioned citizens like yourself are fully informed of what is required of you in terms of appropriate behaviour, as well as appropriate thoughts, and though this will take a little more time, appropriate instincts.
Don't worry, she provides the guide, or the updated version of Orwell's Newspeak, in this article.
But I notice, and object to, this clause which reveals the influence of a North American "education". Chung, a Canadian writes: "All of these means are necessary if we are to realise that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism, ...." She evidently doesn't realize the extensive threats that collectives posed for the capitalist enemies of socialism. Her use of "collective" and "collectivism", which was always used in association with an historical effort to gather individual worker skills to confront the overwhelming power of capitalists, shows that she, too, is a victim of capitalist indoctrination.
- The Liberation of Auschwitz from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note this statement: "Today, the liberation of the largest Nazi death camp by Russia's Red Army is a fact that is largely missing from the western collective memory.")
