- Covid’s IFR just keeps DROPPING by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.
- The Lockdown Paradigm Is Collapsing by Jeffrey A. Tucker from American Institute for Economic Research.
- Simple Ways to Keep Your Immune System Strong by Dr. Vernon Coleman, a Brit, from his weblog. (Note: This article includes a video of his talk and transcript.)
- How Stalin Canceled 'Hamlet' in the Soviet Union—and What It Can Teach Us about Cancel Culture by Jon Miltimore from Foundation for Economic Education. My reaction: Ruling class experts of propaganda has turned so many liberals (dreamy reformist capitalists) into intolerant "virtuous" bigots who obsessively want to divert attention away from the growing inequality among the world's poor. This is based on the religion of absolute god-like authority figures who know what's best for us--American-style capitalism and away from any consideration of socialist ideas. Thus they, or the authoritative talking-heads you see on TV, read scripts that wrap themselves in virtue and censor all ideas that don't fit with the American goose of capitalism, a goose which continues to lay so many golden eggs for billionaires.
- There is No Substitute for the Rank and File: Thoughts on Amazon Unionization by Tatiana Cozzarelli from Left Voice.
- A Trader’s Federal Lawsuit Against JPMorgan Chase Offers a Window into the Crime Culture at the Five Felony-Count Bank by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
- You reap what you sow by Natalie Bennett from Ecologist (a British weblog).
That we live on a hugely degraded, biologically impoverished planet, in which natural ecosystems are battered, abused, barely clinging on, is now emerging into public consciousness. But the corresponding rise of the superweed, and increasing vulnerability of our crop species, has yet to so register.
- The deafening sound of silence in the West (Open Thread #15) by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog.
- Russia Increases Its Defense, While U.S. Backs Down From Provoking WWIII by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation.
- Why Cryptocurrency Is A Giant Fraud by Nathan J. Robinson from Current Affairs.
- The US Withdrawal From Afghanistan May Just Lead To Privatized War by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
- Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for Agrifood Must Not Succeed by Colin Todhunter from Dissident Voice.
- The Doomsday Glacier Lives up to its Billing by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.
- Rapid Loss of Habitat for Homo sapiens by Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has focused on the climate crisis, from Academia. (Note: You will need to download this brief paper, and I recommend Acrobat Reader. But notice the installer wants you to select a list of additional software. Decide for yourself if you want them.)
- 💥In our hurry to conquer nature and death, we have made a new religion of science by Jonathan Cook from his weblog. This is a best post.
Were we not so technology obsessed, were we not so greedy, were we not so terrified of insecurity and death, if we did not see our bodies and minds as separate, and humans as separate from everything else, we might pause to ponder whether our approach is not a little misguided.
Science and technology can be wonderful things. They can advance our knowledge of ourselves and the world we inhabit. But they need to be conducted with a sense of humility we increasingly seem incapable of. We are not conquerors of our bodies, or the planet, or the universe – and if we imagine we are, we will soon find out that the battle we are waging is one we can never hope to win.
