We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Monday, November 8, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, November 8, 2021

Dr Peter Doshi, associate editor of the British Medical Journal(BMJ), discusses the total lack of scientific process behind the development and roll out Covid vaccines in a meeting called by Senator Ron Johnson on the topic of vaccine mandates.

Peter Doshi is an associate professor of pharmaceutical health services research in the School of Pharmacy and associate editor at The BMJ. His research focuses on policies related to drug safety and effectiveness evaluation in the context of regulation, evidence-based medicine, and debates over access to data.
What else can you expect of "news" from the ruling capitalist class and their media corporations? 
 
I spent nearly 30 minutes trying to ascertain the ownership of NBC which is theoretically owned by Comcast. I couldn't remember the name of Tegna Inc. which owns the NBC affiliates, but I finally discovered it on my own website using search engines. (You may have glanced at the black and white notice following many of their programs on NBC affiliated stations.) It was conveniently located near the CIA headquarters in Langley, VA, but has moved further down the road to Tyson, VA (you will see Langley in the right corner).
 
You can see the complicated picture of how the ruling class and their major corporations manage to hide their concentration of ownership/control of media.
  • Young Voters Done With Biden & Democrats featuring Jimmy Dore commenting on some news from his channel on YouTube (11:33). My reaction: Dore argues for a new party forgetting once again that the ruling capitalist class has an iron hold on US elections. The chances that a new political party can challenge the established two parties is infinitesimal.
Investigative journalist Tim Shorrock discusses CSIS's (Center for Strategic and International Studies) links to the CIA, as well as how it's managed to shape public opinion and foreign policy with regard to the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea]. CSIS is an influential think tank that produces reports on the DPRK and China and is funded by military contractors like Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing, as well as the governments of the US, Japan, and UAE. [my insertion]

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  • COP26: Emitters Sue To Chill Climate Measures by Manuel Pérez-Rocha from Consortium News. (Note: I tried and failed to access this article on Inequality, the original source as I always do, so I had to post it from Consortium News.)
  • NATO Malign Influence Corrupting Serbian Academe by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Dr. Miloš Ković, a faculty member in the history department at Belgrade, Serbia, simply opposes the NATO-sponsored re-writing of history. 
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