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

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, December 2, 2021

Hayley Hodgson, 26, moved to Darwin from Melbourne to escape the never-ending lockdowns — only to find herself locked up in a Covid Internment Camp without even having the virus.

She’s just returned from a 14-day detention at Howard Springs, the 2000-capacity Covid camp outside Darwin to which regional Covid cases are transported by the authorities. In an exclusive interview with Freddie Sayers, she recounted her experiences.
  • 💥The Strategic Conflict of the 21st Century and its Effects on Latin America by Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein from Internationalist 360°. This is a best post. (Note: There are several typo errors in this article that you should overlook and forgive.) My reaction: Because I am overawed at the scope of this essay or presentation, I still do not know what to make of this post. First, Gelfenstein cogently offers an exceptional geopolitical analysis of the present confrontation of the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire with the emerging powers of Russia and China, but then he applies this analysis to the implications for policies that Latin American and Caribbean countries should pursue.
The Pentagon has ordered more Aircraft Carriers to the Pacific to preempt conflict with China. Meanwhile, Washington plans to deploy fighter and bomber planes to Guam and Australia to counter Beijing. The two world powers are engaged in a new arms race.
 
China and Russia, have developed and successfully tested hypersonic weapons systems while the US has yet to do so. RT America's Trinity Chavez reports on the US military's unflinching global bellicosity and tremendous expense to taxpayers. Then former naval intelligence officer John Jordan shares his insights.
America is coming to face an ominous crossroads, in her view, which boils down to this: will the United States embrace socialism or will it descend into fascism?

Dr Harriet Fraad lives in New York City. She has been a practicing psychotherapist and hypnotherapist for nearly four decades. She is also a political activist, a founding member of the women’s liberation movement in the United States during the late 1960s and co-founder of the journal Rethinking Marxism.
  • Epstein’s shadow: 5 takeaways from Ghislaine Maxwell trial. This post gives us an update on the latest happenings in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's assistant, via RTs channel on YouTube (01:46). (Note: They have both been accused of "entertaining" important political members of the Empire with underage girls. Epstein is reportedly dead from a mysterious "suicide".)
Americans live under a governmental regime that openly breaks its own laws. The government not only believes it can do whatever it can get away with politically, not only believes that it can torture its foreign foes and claim the torture is a state secret, not only can bribe and coerce witnesses into saying what the government wants to hear, but it also can authorize criminals to commit crimes.
This book is about capitalism, racism, misogyny, and the many ways American industry upholds and recreates power imbalances. Sports often presents an exaggerated version of these problems, but the way these problems manifest in sports mirror how they occur in every other aspect of American life. 
Is this the same Democratic administration that promotes "woke" policies, "cancel culture", Critical Race Theory, etc.? 
 
Yes, the ruling capitalist class decided to back the Democratic Party in order to fool Americans who were concerned about racism and civil liberties--the concerns of mainly and superficially the well-educated and indoctrinated high-tech professionals. They used their control of all major media corporations to bring about this apparent change. 
 
The US and British ruling classes are no different than the Nazis which, if you think about it, makes perfect sense. The end objective of capitalism is fascism. Racism is a tool used historically to divide Americans and Europeans, many of whom are not racists, by the current de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire to advance their objective of world domination. 
#NoMore Censorship of Africa’s Roving Digital Army of Peace                   Ethiopians Rally for Peace and Against Corporate Media Lies
 
What exactly is the #NoMore movement? On November 1st, a group of activists, fed up with almost a year of war between the US-backed Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the federal government of Ethiopia, initiated a campaign calling for “no more” war, “no more” support for TPLF by the US, “no more” disinformation by the mainstream media and “no more” sanctions on Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. Accordingly, these demands were popularly expressed in the hashtag #NoMore.
Steve St. Angelo of the SRSrocco Report returns to continue our conversation on how the world is going off the Energy Cliff and how we are never going back to normal. We are seeing the peak and decline of this global hi-tech complex economy. He believes the elite are powerless to stop the falling Energy Return On Investment (EROI) and that a lot of their wealth is going to be wiped out, just as in past history (e.g. late Bronze Age). He sees us hitting the energy peak at 2025 and the likelihood of military conflicts as a consequence. Russia is looking to the Arctic and China is in serious trouble. We don't have enough energy to make the transition to the Green Economy and therefore things like the metaverse, cryptocurrencies, and EVs won't be possible at scale due to the lack of energy and an electric grid already at capacity. This would make maintaining a global digital technocracy difficult.
at
Labels: