Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, February 19, 2021

• March 1st Reopen America by Bold Business Owners For Liberty (3:43) featuring a small business owner in Florida calling for the complete opening of US businesses on March 1st free of any Covid-19 restrictions.

• Catastrophe Capitalism Has Gone Intergalactic featuring Lee Camp in discussion with Andrews Lee, a correspondent on a privately owned "lunar colony" in 2062! (Note: This is satire about our future.)
  

• Politico’s Defense News, Brought to You by Northrop Grumman by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. My reaction: The point is obvious, but that applies for capitalist funding of media in general.
  

How can media be relied upon to report honestly on these industries or hold them to account if that media is being directly funded by them? Should we really expect journalists to be breaking stories about pharmaceutical price gouging, the enormous power of Silicon Valley, or the devastation caused by fossil-fuel company pollution if those companies are essentially paying their wages?

Advertising works, not only on consumers, but on outlets as well.

• Russia holds the key to German sovereignty by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• Emails Reveal US Officials Joined With Agrochemical Giant Bayer to Stop Mexico's Glyphosate Ban by Kenny Stancil from Common Dreams.
  

• Global Ice Melt: Much Faster Than Predicted by Evan Lim from State of the Planet.

• Millions will die if world fails on climate promises by Tim Radford from Climate News Network. My reaction: As long the international class of capitalists drive policies, we will not see them keep climate promises. Furthermore, the nations (especially their governments) that they reside in will not suffer any significant consequences for their failures, but the people who reside in them definitely will.