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 9, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, December 9, 2021

  • Q&A #4: The Coming Crisis? by Geert Vanden Bossche from Voice For Science and Solidarity. My reaction: Now that Robert Kennedy, Jr. has thoroughly exposed Fauci as committed to his own stocks in Big Pharma; if you need specific advice regarding Covid-19 and its variants, you should follow Bossche's website among others that are qualified and are not compromised by owning stocks in pharmaceutical corporations.
  • Operation Extermination--the Plan to Decimate the Human Immune System with a Lab-Generated Pathogen by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. My reaction: I don't have the expertise to know whether these experts are right, but it fits with my view that our ruling capitalist classes are perfectly capable of doing the most evil deeds to save themselves. The latter refers to the abrupt climate destabilization that many scientists are concerned about, but are not given sufficient voice by media corporations.
  • What Putin really told Biden by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times (Singapore). (Note: You might be also interested in a post by Finian Cunningham.) My reaction: This take on Putin's statements by Escobar, who I believe is the world's top journalist, is based on previously made statements by Putin, the Russian government, and consistent with reports in Russian media. On the other hand, Biden's statements are based on previously made statements via the ruling class's US government and media. Contrast US reports via major media with China's Global Times report on the conversation.
  • US Hegemony Doesn’t Make The World More Peaceful, It Makes It More Dangerous 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 reaction: What Johnstone doesn't understand is that the ruling capitalist class has taken over the ruling class since WWII to ensure that the world is dominated by the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire. This is explained by my essay, and supporting links, written in May of 2020 and more recently supported by a professor of history, Stephen Wertheim, in his book Tomorrow the World, published by Harvard University Press. There are considerable reasons to think that his voice is that of the US ruling capitalist class confessing that an imperialist cabal took over the ruling class beginning in 1940.
  • Science Update: Arctic Snow Transitions to Rain featuring the views and analysis of Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel (11:31), who has fearlessly focused his attention throughout his career on the climate crisis. 
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