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, March 31, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, March 31, 2022

  • Hügo Krüger: COVID19 Fraud Uses the Same HIV/AIDS Playbook, The Cure is the Disease features Krüger interviewed by an unnamed person from Geopolitics & Empire's channel on Odysee (54:57). My reaction: This interview illustrates the overwhelming fact that our masters in the ruling capitalist class are using cures to kill off us ordinary people which Robert Kennedy, Jr. thoroughly documents in his recent book The Real Anthony Fauci.
  • This Is More Than A War features Russell Brand, a British comedian and former drug addict turned serious political critic--from his channel on YouTube (00:55). 
  • Western Media Confirms Ukrainian War Crimes features Brian Berletic, an independent ex-Marine who currently resides in Thailand, who reports on the war in Ukraine, reviewing Russia's military strategies in Syria, not merely the war crimes by the Kiev regime as the title suggests--from his channel (The New Atlas) on Rumble (14:48).
  • Video Transcript: Media Refuses to Retract their "Russian Disinformation" Lie Even as NYT & WP Authenticate the Emails by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. My late reaction: I think Greenwald's research proving that Hunter Biden was true, but delayed because of the CIA's opposition to the story and they didn't wanted it interfere with Joe Biden's election. Greenwald's understanding of US society is superficial because he blames the Democratic Party which the ruling class has assigned to manipulate the minds of Americans. He doesn't understand that the self-serving, ruling capitalist class, which controls every institution in the the USA has chosen the highly secretive CIA and the Democratic Party (for obvious reasons) lead-roles in the manipulations of the minds of ordinary Americans.
On March 10 when CIA director Bill Burns addressed the U.S. Senate and declared “Russia is losing the information war over Ukraine”, he repeated a claim that had already been amplified by Anglo-American media since the start of Russia’s military operations in Ukraine. Though his statement is factually true, it doesn’t tell us why and mainly reflects the West’s perspective. As usual the reality is a lot more complicated.

The U.S. information warfare capability is unparalleled ....

My reaction: I haven't yet read the article, but it depends on what populations of which nations. This is true for my fellow Americans, but there are many other nations. And the Empire grossly distorts and lies about what information they provide. The days of the monopoly of the Empire's global information agencies are over.
  • Left-Wing YouTubers Co-opted By Security State features Caleb Maupin, who exposes the co-optation of leftist groups and psy-ops supported by media corporations both funded by governments that associate with the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire, interviewed by Jimmy Dore on his channel on YouTube (26:02).
The US push to revive the JCPOA with Iran has accelerated in the wake of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. As many reports have indicated, the ongoing talks in Vienna are very close to a successful outcome. As other reports have also indicated, the US is also willing to lift sanctions on Iran, including removing the Revolutionary Guards’ designation as a terrorist group. For the Iranians, this news certainly sounds great after facing years of completely unjustified sanctions. But the key question here is: why is this happening at such a fast pace, especially after the Joe Biden administration refused, soon after coming into power only last year, to re-join the JCPOA and lift the Trump-era sanctions? The pace of these talks and the concessions that the US is willing to concede are both tied to the overall strategy of scuttling the Russian economy by manipulating the global oil production and supply. [my emphasis]
Last Thursday, the Acting Foreign Minister of the Taliban interim government Amir Khan Muttaqi made a stunning remark to greet the visiting Chinese Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kabul when he said, “This is the most important high-level delegation received by Afghanistan.” It spoke volumes about the quiet success of Beijing’s diplomacy to turn the tables in the Hindu Kush.
 
  • The Economics of Climate Destruction features Dr. Luiz Marquesis. who is a Professor of Environmental History at the State University of Campinas in São Paolo, Brazil in an interview from Facing Future's channel on YouTube (20:55).
#Capitalism is at the root of the environmental collapse tightening its grip on the Earth's biosphere, leading to the probable collapse of local #ecosystems, and food shortages throughout the world.  Dr. Luiz Marques, a leading proponent of #EcologicalEconomics (http://isecoeco.org) shows why an economy based on continuous exponential growth, is unsustainable.  He takes us along a timeline of destruction beginning in 1950, and accelerating from 1990 on, when most of the emissions have occurred.
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