Surviving Capitalism (Not) : 7/3/22

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

Sunday, July 3, 2022

A message to my readers

I have discovered that my new format is best given my advanced age and limitations. I have focused on honest independent websites to keep you informed during this age of ubiquitous propaganda.

I peruse these websites in addition to about 10 others, but the changes I have made do not list articles that impressed me. By "peruse" I mean much for superficial reading of these articles.

I have made almost daily changes to my monthly listing of recommended websites for you to follow. I post the monthly lists early in the month, but so far I have made almost daily changes to clarify, add additional websites, and other edits to my monthly lists. These daily changes throughout the month won't be specified in my edited updates. Thus, you will need to occasionally refer to these monthly lists. I will transfer the lists from the updated previous month to the new month early in the month.

Article of the year: "How Spooks and Establishment Journalists Are Circling The Wagons"

💥Click here to access article by Jonathan Cook from Mint Press News and posted on 6/30/2022. I discovered this first in Cook's Substack account on July 1st, but it exceeded Substack's length and Substack published a condensed version. It was first published entirely on June 30 on Mint Press News. I have been impressed with Cook's writing before, but this article I think is excellent.

It is an especially valuable article because it shows that the ruling class's CIA and its agents have infiltrated all the major news organizations, especially in the 21st century. This accounts for the fact that all major news corporations have all filled the ruling capitalist class's propaganda like never before. They spread the ruling class propaganda before the 21st century but it was due to the indirect influence of the ruling class. Now the mainstream media corporations have all been corrupted throughout the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire by this transnational ruling class, and it is exactly why they are entirely filled with this class's propaganda. Given that this class rules over much of Latin America and much of Europe besides the USA and what was left of the British Empire after WWII in addition to the Zionist (right-wing Jews) planted in Palestine in what is now called Israel, the mainstream propaganda has a virtual monopoly on the spread of information throughout the world. It is no wonder that much of the world has swallowed whole this transnational capitalist class's propaganda as we are witnessing today throughout the Empire, especially Europe, in connection with the conflict in Ukraine.

It is also the reason for this website. In 2009 I was increasingly aware of this corruption, and in late 2009 I started this website.