- Tyranny By Propaganda Is Tyranny By Force by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.
- AP and Atlantic Council Anoint Me “COVID Conspiracy Super-Spreader”— and Erase Ron Unz by Kevin Barrett from his weblog Truth Jihad. My reaction: Barret is one of those activists who is fighting ruling class propaganda that Johnstone is referring to in the above article.
- Cultural Deafness Defines the West by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.
Quite simply, that being so invested, so immersed, in one particular ‘reality’, others’ ‘truths’ then will not – cannot – be heard. They do not stand out proud above the endless flat plain of consensual discourse. They cannot penetrate the hardened shell of a prevailing narrative bubble, or claim the attention of élites so invested in managing their own version of reality.
The ‘Big Weakness’? The élites come to believe their own narratives – forgetting that the narrative was conceived as an illusion, one among others, created to capture the imagination within their society (not others’).
- How Conspiracy Theorizing May Soon Get You Labelled a ‘Domestic Terrorist’ by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: The ruling class would not know how to recognize the truth if it was staring them in the face. The tend to believe their own propaganda.
- Corporate Criminals by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room. My reaction: Corporations only serve the ruling capitalist class, and as such they wreck havoc on the rest of the population in every society. Corporations together with the financiers (banks, the Fed, etc.) are the motors of capitalism that exist to extract wealth from societies, and they use this wealth to further their power and control over societies.
- Corporate Concentration in the US Food System Makes Food More Expensive and Less Accessible by Philip H. Howard and Mary Hendrickson from Common Dreams.
- How FCC and Big Telecom Makes Us ‘the Dummies’ by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. from Children's Health Defense.
- New Documents Reveal More British Efforts To Undermine Russia by Bernhard (a German independent blogger) from his weblog Moon of Alabama.