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, April 9, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, April 9, 2022

  • ‘People’s Health Alliance’ established to help people with Covid-19 Vaccine Injuries from The Exposé, a British website, from their channel on Odysee (33:02). (Note: The NHS referred to in the video is a reference to the government's National Health Service, a token medical service for all British people.) My reaction: We clearly need such a service here in the USA because the established medical clinics are not doing their job of protecting the health of the people.
Katherine Macbean, who is spearheading the nationwide PHA initiative, said they were aware of an urgent need to support and treat people adversely affected by the Covid-19 injections.
  • Ukraine: The Broader Geopolitical Conflict by Vijay Prashad from Consortium News. My reaction: Prashad seems to agree with Mike Whitney whose post on Febr. 11 testifies about the conflict in Ukraine. It is about the independence of Europe and the subordination of Russia to the Empire to prevent the integration of the economies of Europe and Russia. Such an event will spell the ultimate end of the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire. This contention supports the argument that we should be closely following the events in Ukraine and Europe. Prashad writes as follows:
The principal axis of Russia’s war is not actually Ukraine, though it bears the brunt of it today. It is whether Europe can be permitted to forge projects independently of the U.S. and its North Atlantic agenda.
 
Later he writes:
 
Fearful of the great changes occurring in Eurasia, the U.S. acted on commercial and diplomatic and military fronts. Commercially, the U.S. tried to substitute European reliance on Russian natural gas by promising to supply Europe with Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from both U.S. suppliers and Gulf Arab states.

Since LNG is far more expensive than piped gas, this was not an enticing commercial deal.
 
I predict that Europeans will ultimately choose the integration of the economies--a rational choice. Whether this result becomes before the climate destabilization really sets in is anybody's guess.
  • West Blames Russia for Using Missile Only Ukraine Has by Brian Berletic, an independent geopolitical expert and ex-Marine who currently resides with his family in Thailand, argues that Ukrainian missiles are blamed on Russia in the Empire's propaganda--from his channel on Rumble (11:19). (Note: The text is to introduce the post.) My reaction: See also Bernhard's (Moon of Alabama) take of this alleged incident here.
  • Capitalism normalizes death: From COVID-19 to the threat of nuclear war by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site. My reaction: Are the ruling capitalist class of the Empire (de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire) preparing us for a nuclear war in their war on Russia (and China) and to preserve their class rule over the world? Damon assembles evidence to favor the affirmative.
  • LIVE: Extinction Rebellion is back! Our mission: Stop Fossil Filth! from Extinction Rebellion, a British organization that protests the British government complicity in favoring fossil fuels--from their channel on YouTube (all day). My reaction: Let us look in on the today's ongoing protest by this organization. (Note: The text of this post is to introduce the post.)
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