- Urgent Open Letter from Doctors and Scientists to the European Medicines Agency regarding COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Concerns from Doctors for Covid Ethics.
- Digital Health Pass: IBM and Moderna Hook Up to Capitalize on COVID Reset by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.
- More Countries Adopt Vaccine Passports To 'Boost Tourism' by Tyler Durden from his weblog ZeroHedge.
- Bill Gates’ Global AIDS Fund Provided With $3.5 Billion in Coronavirus Stimulus Package by Richard Moorhead from Big League Politics.
- Twitter Demands Allegiance to NATO? featuring Ben Swann informs us about the propaganda activities of Twitter, a giant social media corporation, in a 6:46m video from ISE.
- Western Media Is Using Women’s Rights In Afghanistan To Justify Continuation Of US Troop Presence by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
- Militarization of Colombia is a Key Aspect of U.S. Hemispheric Control by Vicente Guevara from Internationalist 360°. My rather brief commentary follows:
The rich US capitalist ruling class using direct threat of violence supplied by the US military have succeeded in using Columbia as a base to control all of South America. They have done this under the guise of fighting the trafficking of illicit drugs, and, of course, against any violation of human rights. However, their real intentions were to control South America for the benefit of US corporations.
Meanwhile, this self-seeking wealth and power ruling class have used censorship and propaganda to keep out any hint of their real intentions from ordinary Americans who have in the past enjoyed some of the benefits of this control. As long as some of the benefits kept coming for ordinary Americans and they were distracted by all the entertainment that the ruling class supplied to them, they ignored what their government, controlled by capitalists, was doing to the rest of the world. Thus, our masters have depended on the ignorance of their subjects regarding their real intentions.
It is becoming increasingly clear to ordinary Americans that they have been deceived about a number of issues by their masters in the ruling class. Whether a sufficient number of ordinary people wake up to this fact to challenge these policies remains to be seen. A positive outcome requires ordinary Americans to identify with ordinary people, not only Colombians but all people of the world because they have all been targets for exploitation by capitalist ruling classes.
- How Bad Does the Western Media Lie? by Brian Berletic, an ex-Marine living with his family in Thailand, from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.
- Finding Meaning Under A Meaningless System by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian independent blogger.
- Raging Twenties: A Presentation of Pepe Escobar’s New Book by Pepe Escobar from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: This post takes us beyond a mere self-promotion of a new book to a perspective on world events.)
- Aid for Profit: The Dark History of USAID by Saheli Khastagir from Current Affairs. (Note: This general policy used government aid to underdeveloped nations following WWII to serve the profit needs of US corporations by tying aid to purchases from US corporations.)
- Russell Brand on royalty and power featuring Russell Brand, a British comedian, in a 9:39m video is from Steel City Scribblings, a British
website, offering unique comments, insights, and facts regarding the current
British monarchy.
- When American Small Towns Loved Socialism by Dave Nance, Noah Van Sciver, Paul Buhle, and Steve Max from Yes!. (Note: This post is for those of you who, through no fault of your own, are ignorant of the real history of the USA. Also, I think that the contents of this post don't justify the headline that only "small towns loved socialism".)
- History Shows Privatized Space Colonization Will Be Disastrous by Elic Weitzel from Dissident Voice. (Note: The post offers real history lessons for ordinary Americans.)
- The financialization of environment protection by Riccardo De Cristano from Climate & Capitalism.