- The Newest Big Pharma Scam Exposed by Thom Hartmann from his weblog. My reaction: the new Big Pharma scam is really old.
- The U.S. Banking System Is More Dangerous Today than in 1929, Thanks to the Fed’s Reg U and Swaps – Two Well-Kept Secrets from the Senate Banking Committee by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. (Note: The Martens give you a dose of the financial history of the 1930s and more recent times.) My reaction: The Martens show how the beholden Congressional US Senate gave away the "store" of the nation's wealth to the ruling class consisting of mostly major capitalists and financiers.
- BEST OF OFFG: “Questions you aren’t supposed to ask about ISIS” by Catte Black from Off-Guardian. (Note: This is a reproduction of a 2015 article from the Off-Guardian.) My reaction: This article exhibits the reasons why you should follow Off-Guardian.
- Behind NATO’s ‘Cognitive Warfare’: ‘Battle for Your Brain’ Waged by Western Militaries by Ben Norton from The Grayzone.
Western governments in the NATO military alliance are developing tactics of “cognitive warfare,” using the supposed threats of China and Russia to justify waging a “battle for your brain” in the “human domain,” to “make everyone a weapon.”
My reaction: It looks like our imperial masters and their Canadian sycophants are mostly engaging in wishful thinking, but this post reveals what their motives and intentions are: to control the minds of their subjects.
- Bellingcat funded by US and UK intelligence contractors that aided extremists in Syria by Kit Klarenberg from The Grayzone.
- The UN Food Summit Ignored Indigenous People and Pushed The Great Reset Agenda by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.
- As EU hopes fade, Russia, China fill voids across Western Balkans by Mersiha Gadzo from Al Jazeera.
- Nobel Committee Gets Peace Prize Wrong Yet Again by David Swanson from OpEdNews.
- Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, Signaling Support for Free Press by David Marks from Children's Health Defense. My reaction: You, and others, might read this ambiguously title wrongly because the article correctly reports on the award to two journalists and the Nobel Committee 'signals support for "a precondition for democracy and lasting peace"'. The conjunction "and" does not suggest that their organization approves of the Nobel Committee's selection of the two journalists. Read the article and see if I'm right. You will find remarks like the following in the article.
Intolerance of ideas that don’t conform with government directives, mimicked by a compliant media, is not solely the domain of repressive regimes or fascist dictatorships. There isn’t a country today where freedom of expression has not been threatened.
This includes the United States, where any journalist or writer who contradicts the government injunctions concerning vaccines is deemed an outlaw.
- When the Inevitable Becomes the Criminal by Jeffrey St. Clair from CounterPunch.
- How capitalism shackles the fight against climate change by Scott Scheffer from Struggle for Socialism.
What the mainstream journalists and scientific studies omit is the weakness of capitalist government responses, the conspiracy of sabotage by big corporations and banks, and the meticulously concealed contribution of the imperialist U.S. military to pollution and climate change.
The fight against global warming is shackled by capitalists chasing down profits at all costs. That planet-threatening quest for markets and money isn’t a policy that can be changed by electoral politics. It’s an inherent trait of the capitalist system. The fight against climate change must be a revolutionary struggle against capitalism and imperialism.
- 330+ Scientists Tell Biden: Stop All New Fossil Fuel Projects Now from Children's Health Defense.
Polls show that 72% of Californians want an end to off-shore drilling. But their voices are smothered by the filthy loot pumped into the coffers of the governments of many of the communities most victimized by the oil industry. The city of Long Beach, for example, banked more than $1.4 billion from the offshore oil operations between 2010 and 2014 alone.
The politicians, from Newsom to Biden (who just approved Enbridge’s ghastly Line 3 pipeline and opened 82 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico to new drilling), haven’t merely turned a blind eye, they’ve been fully complicit in the ongoing mutilation of our coasts.
The politicians, from Newsom to Biden (who just approved Enbridge’s ghastly Line 3 pipeline and opened 82 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico to new drilling), haven’t merely turned a blind eye, they’ve been fully complicit in the ongoing mutilation of our coasts.