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

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, March 15, 2022

  • It’s All Starting To Make Sense features Russell Brand, a British comedian turned serious activist, from his channel on YouTube (16:24). My reaction: Brand using satire accurately compares the WHO (World Health Organization of the UN) with the WEF (World Economic Forum) as he finds similarities. Brand suspects a conspiracy between the two organizations.
Judging from the incoming reports, it appears that the US carried out bio warfare programmes in Ukraine in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 (BWATA), according to Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law, who drafted BWATA and has been fighting against the spread of bioweapons since 1983. 
 
My reaction: I suspect that Covid-19 was also developed in such laboratories. I don't know where I read that Pres. Zelensky of Ukraine had a luxury home in Florida as an inducement for complicity with the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire to prevent Europeans from gaining access to Russian energy and minerals, the crucial objective of the Empire.
The elimination of Russian media across the West and to a greater extent from across US-based social media platforms used worldwide, is a stark demonstration of the power the West still wields within global information space.

It is a wake-up call for nations around the globe regarding the threat of leaving a nation’s information space not only completely undefended, but entirely dominated by foreign interests. 
 
And later, Berletic writes:

The torrent of disinformation flowing out of US-based social media networks – targeting anyone across the global public dependent on these networks for a lack of local alternatives – is shaping opinions and helping generate support for Western foreign policy objectives even within nations directly threatened by the West and its foreign policy.
  • Gonzalo Lira - A False Flag Is Coming by Bernhard, an astute German blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama. (Note: I suspect Bernhard originally set up his weblog to deceive authorities that it was coming from within the USA. I think his weblog is addressed to an American audience.) My reaction: This post features two videos of Lira, who lives in Ukraine, argues that a false-flag is in the near future planned by the desperate fascist regime in Ukraine in order to bring in the full force of the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire, and their army (NATO). Bernhard agrees.
That sequence of events has a long history, but behind it all is an ideological fanaticism that overtook certain elements of the Western powers – and I’m thinking here in particular of the cult known as neoconservatism (the name is a misnomer as they have their roots in Trotskyism, not conservatism) – who saw the collapse of the Soviet Union as an opportunity not for peace and stability, but for the establishing of a US-led Globalist hegemon, with “Full Spectrum Dominance”, as one of their number once put it. 
 
Because I have widely read on all subjects, particularly those that have anything to with geopolitics, I've never encountered "Trotskyism" as an ideology separate from Leninism. Trotsky merely tried to continue the Leninist version of Marxism, and he was especially opposed by Stalinists which established an ideology of socialism in one country--the USSR in the late 1930s in order to appease capitalist countries. I think Slane is wrong about this specific argument. 
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