- More than 10,000 Physicians and Medical Scientists Sign “Rome Declaration” in Protest, Launch New Information Platform from Global Covid Summit.
- Must Watch: Sr. British Medical Journal Editor Exposing COVID Vaccine Efficacy Goes Viral by Arjun Walia from The Pulse.
- Vaccinated People Are Dying of All Causes 6-1 Over Unvaccinated by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog. (Note: Very well documented. This documentation supports the article's headline.)
- FDA Recommends COVID Vaccine for Children; AAPS Urges Caution from AAPS (Association of American Physicians and Surgeons).
- Pfizer secretly added heart attack drug to children’s COVID vaccines … but why? by Ethan Huff from Immunization.News. (Note: Very well documented.)
- Biden team won’t admit it, but the COVID-19 pandemic is over by Kelly Sadler from The Washington Times. My brief commentary follows:
I don't usually post articles from right-wing media corporations; but because the ruling capitalist class has switched from backing the right-wing political party to confuse their subjects (US citizens) from the Republican to the Democratic parties, I feel justified in posting this article. The ruling class changed their backing--of the two political parties that they allow to dominate elections--because they have so ruined any weak tendency for the Democratic Party to back issues favoring the working class and they felt safe to do so.
And it worked! The ruling class has so confused the Democratic electorate, which traditionally supported civil rights and workers, but now supports the dictatorial measures against working people. Furthermore, to add to the confusion, they have also supported the spread of fake ideologies such as critical race theory and "woke" policies via their corporate media.
Whether the highly exaggerated and poorly managed pandemic is over is a moot question that will be decided in the future.
- You Can’t Abolish the States Institutions without Abolishing the State that Created Them from Grassroots Thinking. My reaction: I was already preset to criticize this article for mistaking the "state" for the system of capitalism, but I soon discovered that it attacks the "capitalist state". It is published online by an African-American group that is not fooled by the antics of the ruling capitalist class as in the above commentary.
- Are Black People the Crash Test Dummies for Democrats? by Pascal Robert from Black Agenda Report. (Note: Robert uses this title as a metaphor for the fakery of the Democratic Party.)
This time the corporate faction of the Democratic party deployed the Black political class and its media acolytes to neutralize the rising cry for social democracy and anti-capitalist politics.
What we are seeing is the failure of Democrats’ cynical post Obama strategy of focusing on racial grievance discourse divorced from materialist policy. That strategy was supposed to both shut down the possibility of any social democracy, or Sanders-type politics that would benefit most Black people, while secondly using Blacks as crash test dummies to fight Trump. That strategy has blown up in the Democrats face and is doing nothing but feeding the reactionary right.
What we are seeing is the failure of Democrats’ cynical post Obama strategy of focusing on racial grievance discourse divorced from materialist policy. That strategy was supposed to both shut down the possibility of any social democracy, or Sanders-type politics that would benefit most Black people, while secondly using Blacks as crash test dummies to fight Trump. That strategy has blown up in the Democrats face and is doing nothing but feeding the reactionary right.
My reaction: Although he clearly touts social democracy (capitalism with a comprehensive welfare system), he clearly sees through the fake progressives in the Democratic Party for what they are. Can I conclude that most African-American people see this as the usual fakery from the ruling class? Maybe, but I have doubts. I only wish that he and the Black Agenda Report also would see through the fakery of social democracy as the solution to the natural tendency of capitalism to turn into fascism where you won't "own", i.e., control anything (including your lives), but "you will be happy".
- Democrats Are Profoundly Committed to Criminal Justice Reform -- For Everyone But Their Enemies by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog at Substack.
... a profound dilemma is visible from the momentum of this movement: a large bulk of liberal politics is driven by precisely the opposite impulses. The most loyal Democratic partisans are frequently venerating prosecutors, advocating for harsh criminal punishments, championing punitive theories of criminal law that have long been rejected by liberal jurists and, above all else, often demanding the longest and harshest punishments in "the carceral state” for a large group of people.
Why are so many Democrats simultaneously chanting radical criminal reform slogans to abolish or greatly reduce the police and the prison state while simultaneously demanding harsh prison terms for so many people under the classic law-and-order ideology they claim to oppose?
Why are so many Democrats simultaneously chanting radical criminal reform slogans to abolish or greatly reduce the police and the prison state while simultaneously demanding harsh prison terms for so many people under the classic law-and-order ideology they claim to oppose?
My reaction: There won't ever be police reform under the capitalist system with the ruling class exploiting those below them, and is worst the farther you go below them. In addition, the ruling class depends on police forces to enforce their interests. Police forces protect the safety of the ruling class, not ordinary people.
- A “Deadly Attack” on the Capitol? by Jacob G. Hornberger from The Future of Freedom Foundation.
- The Great Resignation from RT's channel on YouTube (00:59). My reaction: Under capitalism, the "owner" can purchase Robots and realize profits from their use. Working people like scientists and technicians built these robots to replace you.
- Facebook Is Openly Building Dystopia from Redacted Tonight's channel on YouTube (04:41).
- Bloomberg CIA Apologia Accidentally Vindicates China’s Strict Domestic Policies by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband, Tim Foley, also reading the script (but you may miss supporting examples, illustrations, etc.)--from her weblog. My commentary follows:
I think the statement introducing this essay is "spot-on": "Bloomberg CIA Apologia Accidentally Vindicates China’s Strict Domestic Policies".
But it does more. It reveals what their response is to this failure to wreck harm on China. The ruling class's directors want greater results from their "intelligence" agencies, and they are willing to spend money to get greater results as is indicated by this paragraph from the Bloomberg article:
Some of the people interviewed by Bloomberg said that such announcements are more symbolic than substantive and need to be backed up by increases in spending and staffing to have credibility.
I agree with her statement near the end of the essay which states:
So Beijing’s anti-corruption crackdowns, widespread surveillance and strict control over Chinese society is making it harder for the CIA to undermine that nation, and now the CIA is expressing its frustration through the billionaire media. Which shows that China is acting entirely in self-defense when it implements these policies.
- The Gulf Allies Of Biden Want To Turn Lebanon Into Another Yemen If They Do Not Bow by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
- Iraq’s Current Crisis A Direct Result Of US “Humanitarian Assistance” And Military Intervention by Ryan Cristián from The Last American Vagabond.
- Afghanistan: between pipelines and ISIS-K, the Americans are still in play by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
- The whitewashing murder day by Andrei Raevsky, founder of "The Saker" weblog.
- The road to zero emissions is strewn with "alternative facts" by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News.
- COP26: How to Pay the Rich Nations’ Climate Debt by Léonce Ndikumana from Common Dreams.
- Corn Belt N2O emissions outweigh soil carbon storage by Ian Angus from Climate & Capitalism.