- The Censorship, Destruction And Pilfering Of America And The World by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a brief video presentation (02:19) by Robert Kennedy, Jr. from EarthNewspaper.
- Court Deals New Blow to ‘Fatally Flawed’ Biden Vaccine Mandates, But What Does That Mean? from Children's Health Defense. (Note: This rather lengthy article reflects the complexity of the issue, but it supplies important details.)
- UBC Immunologist Cautions People On COVID Vaccine Safety & Efficacy by Arjun Walia from The Pulse (a Canadian website). (Note: The UBC refers to University of British Columbia.)
- Why have we doctors been silent? by Lucie Wilk from TCW Defending Freedom, a British website.
As an NHS hospital doctor, I have had a front-row seat as the drama of the coronavirus pandemic has unfolded. It has been a year and a half of confusion, frustration and anger for me as I’ve watched our profession drawn into complicity with what I anticipate will be regarded as one of the most egregious public health disasters in history.
I have watched as ‘the science’ has been presented on the national stage flanked by Union Jack flags as an unassailable truth.
- 💥Biden infrastructure bill targets China by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site. This is a best post for covering all aspects of the bill.
While the bill is being touted as $1 trillion devoted to rebuilding roads, bridges, airports and seaports, as well as expanding rural broadband and providing other necessary repairs to crumbling physical infrastructure, only $550 billion is new money. The rest was already appropriated last year under the Trump administration and is being redirected.
In terms of the actual infrastructure needs of a modern, 21st century society, the bill provides only a drop in the bucket. The $1 trillion is spread out over ten years, for an average of only $100 billion a year, far less than the typical infrastructure legislation for roads and bridges alone in previous decades.
- The Church of State: Taxonomy of a New Religion by Max Borders from Institute for Economic Research. My reaction: Borders doesn't blame anyone or socioeconomic class, as he writes in his introduction:
Darkness
descends over civilization and freedom. It flows not from any external
threat but from within the human heart. We are beings capable of
happiness and flourishing, but sometimes we push our fears and anxieties
into the shadows. There they fester. And from those deep psychological
bowers, fear and anxiety reemerge transformed.
To
live right now, then, is to live in paradox. Despite conditions of
relative peace and abundance, a psychosocial pathology has taken hold.
It manifests itself as something like a replacement religion. Where
people once turned to their temples and communities for reassurance,
more turn now to political authority.
- CIA Director Burns Goes to Moscow by Philip Giraldi from The Unz Review.
One has to wonder who exactly selected someone as toxic as Victoria Nuland to go to Russia, but worse was to come after her return to America. Any Putin-Biden summit meeting is now less likely than it was several weeks ago as right after Nuland’s departure for the United States, the bilateral relationship worsened. The NATO headquarters in Brussels declared several Russian diplomats ‘personae non gratae’, and the Russian Foreign Ministry responded to the provocation by sending home all NATO representatives present at diplomatic missions in Russia. In response back in the United States, the media and some Congressmen and Biden Administration officials immediately began to press forward with their plans to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, a vital or even existential issue for Russia that guarantees to scuttle any attempts to actually improve relations. And the White House continues to make a bad situation worse by suggesting that it has an obligation to “defend Ukraine.”
So why was CIA Director William Burns in Moscow and what did he accomplish? God only knows!
So why was CIA Director William Burns in Moscow and what did he accomplish? God only knows!
- U.S. Terrorism 101: The Bert Sacks Story by Edward Curtin for his weblog Behind the Curtain.
- Cubans Say They Are More Excited About School Reopening Than Regime Change by Medea Benjamin from Mint Press News.
- Israel’s Designation of Palestinian Human Rights Groups as Terrorist Orgs Baffles Europe by Miko Peled from Mint Press News.
- How Saudi State Media Feeds Fake News to Israeli, Western Audiences by Robert Inlakesh from Mint Press News.
- Hate speech and misinformation in Ethiopia’s war from Al Jazeera (to 11:25). My reaction: In their efforts to balance the reporting, Al Jazeera tries to express both sides. However, notice that the reported fake news is funded by US-based corporations like CNN, Facebook, and Twitter. Even the Ethiopian journalist Nima Elbagir is employed by CNN. (Let me remind you that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the UN's WHO, is from the northern Tigray province of Ethiopia. Coincidence? I think not. Here is one commentary on the WHO chief.)
- After Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan, the chaos is spreading to Ethiopia and soon to Eritrea by Thierry Meyssan, a French geopolitical analyst, from Voltairnet. 💥My commentary follows:
If you to understand this article, you must know about the Rumsfeld/Cebrowski doctrine, an important doctrine of the Pentagon and a major driving force shaping US foreign policies. Fortunately, Meyssan has explained that topic also. In May of this year, he posted an article (The Rumsfeld/Cebrowski doctrine) exploring this topic in which he wrote the following:
The final word on the project was in the "Office of Force Transformation," created by Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon in the days following the 9/11 attacks. It was occupied by Admiral Arthur Cebrowski. This famous strategist had been the designer of the computerization of the armed forces [5]. One could believe that this Office was a way to finish his work. But no one disputed this reorganization anymore. No, he was there to transform the mission of the U.S. armed forces, as the few recordings of his lectures in military academies attest.
Arthur Cebrowski spent three years lecturing to all senior U.S. officers, thus to all current general officers. The target determined by Admiral Cebrowski is not only the "wider Middle East", but all regions not integrated into the globalized economy.
What he was teaching was quite simple. The world economy was becoming globalized. To remain the world’s leading power, the United States had to adapt to financial capitalism. The best way to do this was to ensure that developed countries could exploit the natural resources of poor countries without political obstacles.
Arthur Cebrowski spent three years lecturing to all senior U.S. officers, thus to all current general officers. The target determined by Admiral Cebrowski is not only the "wider Middle East", but all regions not integrated into the globalized economy.
What he was teaching was quite simple. The world economy was becoming globalized. To remain the world’s leading power, the United States had to adapt to financial capitalism. The best way to do this was to ensure that developed countries could exploit the natural resources of poor countries without political obstacles.
Ordinary Americans must understand the objective of the original cabal in 1940 which I have elaborated on in this article. But if you don't trust my judgment, you surely must trust Prof. Stephen Wertheim, a historian at Columbia University, who recently wrote a book entitled Tomorrow, the World that provided details of a 1940 conspiracy. They were right-wing ruling class figures, ensconced in the Council on Foreign Relations and the State Department, and swearing to secrecy their launch of a project destined to make the USA the dominate force in the world. Because today they are so confident about their powers of control, they have now released a book openly announcing and celebrating this achievement.
I argue that ordinary thinking Americans must understand this decades-long project of the ruling capitalist class in order to understand many of the issues of today, including especially the Covid pandemic, the decimation of workers and a large sector of the middle class, and their mad continuation of aggressive policies which may lead to a nuclear war conflagration.
With this book, the capitalist class has declared victory over their sleepy and sleeping subjects--ordinary Americans. They have so manipulated and distracted public opinion with their ownership/control of major media and entertainment corporations that they have neutralized ordinary Americans while they pursued the goal of global supremacy. Only the ecological forces of this planet can oppose and defeat them, and they will soon with the destabilization of the Earth's climate.
- At COP26, the only person arrested and charged was a Communist. By Zoe Alexandra and Vijay Prashad from Peoples Dispatch.
Amid the deepening climate crisis, it has become increasingly clear that capitalism is not only the root of the problem, but it also offers no viable solutions. Police cracked down on those that bore the clarion call “socialism or extinction”.
- Glasgow’s ‘Conference of the Polluters’ again confirms that global arson needs local fire extinguishers by Patrick Bond from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt). Bond writes in the introduction to this essay:
The United Nations COP26 Glasgow Climate Pact signed on November 14 is another confirmation of what we learned in Durban in 2011, at the 17th UN climate summit. As expressed by Indigenous activist Ta’Kaiya Blaney (from the Tla A’min Nation in western Canada): ‘COP26 is a performance. It is an illusion constructed to save the capitalist economy rooted in resource extraction and colonialism.’