- 20+ Countries Suspend AstraZeneca Vaccine While EU & WHO Keep Pushing It As “Safe & Effective” featuring Ryan Cristián Whitney Webb (brief appearance of Whitney Webb) using a variety of online platforms in the first 55 minutes of the 1:04:25 audio/video post addressing issues related to the title of this post.
- 💥Intersectional Imperialism: A Wholesome Menace by Alex Rubinstein from his weblog on Substack. This is a best post. My reaction: This post is a most revealing exposé of identity politics ("wokeism") and how it is used to legitimize the most heinous acts and policies of the capitalist ruling class both within and without the USA. This strategy has its roots in the advanced technology of advertising so necessary to sell all the shoddy and unnecessary products of late-stage capitalism--the selling of anything.
- How Do Big Media Outlets So Often "Independently Confirm" Each Other's Falsehoods? by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog at Substack.
- Do U.S. and UK Have the World’s Most-Censored Press? by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Although Zuesse avoids Marxist terms like ruling class, and instead prefers feudal words like "aristocracy" because a Marxist lexicon is verboten in the advanced capitalist societies, his description of the ruling class and their fake version of democracy is "spot-on".
- Joe Biden Unlawful Agression [sic] in Syria Signals the Endgame in the Region by Vanessa Beeley from UK Column.
- Trump admin insider reveals how US military sabotaged peace agreement to prolong Afghanistan war by Gareth Porter from The Grayzone.
- America's National Humiliation by Eurasia by Max Parry from The Unz Review.
- The Arab Spring: A social media revolution? from Middle East Eye. (Note: This post is an 8:13m video.)
- Wet Bulb Temperature. Life or death? featuring Dave Borlace from his channel, Just Have a Think, in a 10:25m YouTube video explaining a threat to human-related to global warming.
Wet bulb temperature sounds almost comical, but the implications of it's [sic] extremes could not be more serious. And as our planet's atmosphere continues to warm, our tropical regions move ever closer to posing that existential threat to billions of people.
- Science Update: Amazon Rainforest Warms Earth featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson summarizing in his YouTube channel (7:17m) what scientists have reported about the Amazon rainforest.