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

Saturday, February 5, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, February 5, 2022

  • ‘Vaccine Mania’: Fauci, Big Pharma Detail Plans for ‘Indefinite’ Rollout of Shots by Dr. Joseph Mercola from Children's Health Defense. My reaction: Makes perfect sense because since JFK Jr.'s The Real Anthony Fauci has been published, he made the case that Fauci owned stocks in Big Pharma with documentation. The ruling capitalist class has gotten behind Fauci policies (the daily dose of propaganda emanating from media corporations is evidence) in order to make wealth an additional incentive for Fauci and associates. One can always discern US policies, and they have always been anti-Russian since the Revolution in 1917, by focusing on their propaganda machinery, the mainstream media--see my commentary in the first post here.
Most Americans watch news programs obsessively to learn about what is happening in the world. But watching what they are permitted to watch, and readily available, is a disaster for any desirable outcome for ordinary Americans. I've since concluded that what the Empire's media corporations report in their "news" programs is an indication of what the "globalists" want their audience to believe in order to promote their interests of profit and power. This applies to their extensive coverage of the nationwide protests prompted by the murder of George Floyd and other victims, but this as yet to be fully determined as how the extensive coverage benefits ruling class interests.
  • James Corbett: Biosecurity is the New Governance Paradigm for the Planet featuring an interview with James Corbett of The Corbett Report using Geopolitics and Empire's channel on Odysee (54:45). My reaction: In this post Corbett is introduced as an "anarchist", which surprised me because he has left the "agorist" label which is a specific branch of anarchism. He, like others, eschews a class analysis which is a contribution of Karl Marx, and is a fundamental system of analysis that I use to understand societies. Unfortunately, Corbett recognizes as merely propaganda the scientific work of so many scientists--that of global warming and its effects on the near-term end of humans and most other species. He touches on class at 27:50 in the interview describing David Rothkopf's Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making which was published in 2009. Every dominant class sees itself as superior as a way of justifying themselves as a ruling class. This is behind the Great Reset, a transnational capitalist ideology that sees capitalists as innately superior to justify their position as top dog in societies and dictating what lies in the future for the rest of humankind.
  • This Is Impossible To Ignore featuring Russell Brand, a British comedian turned activist, commenting on mainstream media coverage of the Canadian Freedom Convoy using Brand's channel on YouTube (10:45).
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