Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, June 11, 2021

• Fauci Declares Himself INFALLIBLE! featuring Jimmy Dore (via his YouTube channel--15:36m) exposing Dr. Fauci, a government bureaucrat in charge of our health, for what he is--sociopathic liar. My reaction: You have to be a "sociopathic liar" to serve the ruling class.
  

• Interview 1648 -- New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato featuring James Corbett and James Evan Pilato discussing the latest news which includes Japan's Olympics, cyber-attacks (and other fake propaganda "Reset" ploys), vaccination stories, etc., and Corbett's inferences based on these reports. 

• 💥The Lie That A Kinder, Gentler US Empire Is Possible by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband reading the script, which is also provided in the article from her weblog. This is a best post because she defines the core problem.
  

As long as the US is the center of a globe-spanning empire, it will be necessary to keep Americans too poor, too busy and too confused to interfere with the operation of the machine. You cannot allow a critical mass of Americans to have enough money to spend on political campaign donations, to have enough free time to research what’s actually happening in their world, to be sufficiently stress-free to look up and realize that your government is murdering children in their name, and also keep the empire running smoothly. You cannot have an imperialist oligarchy who runs things and also have income and wealth equality. 

 

Johnstone concludes her article with this insightful statement about any effective solution: 

It’s not that you can’t beat the machine, it’s that you can’t beat the machine using the tools the machine has given you. A grassroots effort to wake each other up to reality is a very achievable goal, and once enough eyes are open, anything is possible.

• US in Afghanistan: A War By Any Other Name... by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.
  

• The United States Started the Korean War from the YouTube channel of Tales of the American Empire. (Note: This is a short, authentic history of our post-WWII policies toward Asia.) My reaction: This history has been re-written by US historians that were motivated by career aspirations. They could not aspire to a career in academia unless they rewrote history to conform to the empire-building efforts of the cabal that took control in the post-WWII ruling class. This is a rare opportunity for you to recover a small part of the real history. 

• Biden's DHS Attacks Pipeline Protestors featuring Jimmy Dore (via his YouTube channel--7:31m) to reveal a true history of two single, but related, events--the protests that people organized in opposition to the Keystone pipeline in North Dakota and similar protests in northern Minnesota. My reaction: And many of you depend upon reports by media corporations to cover the news!

• Pinkwashing: Why Big Corporations Drape Themselves in Rainbows by Pablo Herón from Left Voice.
  

• A Sinister Agenda Behind California Water Crisis? by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: Engdahl is one of the geopolitical experts, who are in denial of the climate crisis. He proposes a conspiracy theory which is rooted in government regulatory agencies where there is none. Such experts and most state bureaucrats and politicians view environmental regulations to save threatened species in a destabilizing climate as an "agenda" serving only negligible "special interests". Therefore expect such regulations will be dropped (or not enforced) in order to save us humans. This is only a  short-term solution to our future to the problem of the destabilization of the climate on our planet-Earth. Our masters in the ruling capitalist already know this, but their inherent drive to sustain profits will only accelerate their population reduction agenda known as the Great Reset in order to save themselves and their "beautiful" system of capitalism. The system depends on ever expanding growth on a planet that has finite resources. Something will have to give way. I look for more trouble in our future.

• The World is Changing, But Do the Americans Recognise It by James ONeill from New Eastern Outlook.
  

• Let there be no doubt about it from Extinction Rebellion in Britain (via their YouTube channel--03:53m)
  

• Explained: Quintero and Wiens 2013 featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--04:36m) and has fearlessly focused on the climate crisis, examining a research study regarding the adaptability of species to adjust to abrupt climate changes. (Note: This is a key question for our human species: can we adapt to rather dramatic changes in climate that McPherson foresees?)
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, May 14, 2021

• The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan? by Nicholas Wade from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Science is supposedly a self-correcting community of experts who constantly check each other’s work. So why didn’t other virologists point out that the Andersen group’s argument was full of absurdly large holes? Perhaps because in today’s universities speech can be very costly. Careers can be destroyed for stepping out of line. Any virologist who challenges the community’s declared view risks having his next grant application turned down by the panel of fellow virologists that advises the government grant distribution agency.

The Daszak and Andersen letters were really political, not scientific, statements, yet were amazingly effective.

• How the CIA cultivates a fake left: From the cultural cold war to intersectional imperialism by Ben Norton posted on this article from Moderate Rebels.
  

• 💥The Markets Are Rigged by James Corbett from The Corbett Report with audio, video (47:11m) & transcript. This is a best post. My reaction: Corbett keeps on investigating the capitalist Wall Street markets and discovers in this post that the "markets are rigged", with government collusion, by top capitalists who are in control of central banks throughout the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. This discovery might lead him to adopt a Marxist perspective, which will replace his anarchist (agorist--a specific type) ideology, with a self-serving ruling class. But that is verboten in a capitalist society, especially in the heart of a capitalist Empire. So, we will continue on with descriptions of "oligarchic billionaires" who control the stock market for self-serving ends. Corbett will likely not conclude that a ruling capitalist class controls every institution in a capitalist society, that is, that they control media corporations, education, opinion shapers (thesaurus) like Hollywood films, etc.
  

• 💥Denying the Demonic by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain. This is a best post. My commentary follows: 

This is a "best post" because Curtin exposes the insight that demons are a part of what it is to be human: "For they are part of ourselves, not alien beings, as the tragedy of human history has shown us time and again." And Curtin ends with a death-bed confession by James Jesus Angleton, who many believe was a sinister "devil" along with his boss Alan Dulles of the CIA. It seems that we are all susceptible to the classic conditioning of Ivan Pavlov, and it appears that power is the irresistible drug that we all occasionally aspire to have. People who designate others as being "evil people" are the latter who find this drug to be irresistible. It may be, and probably is, our "Achilles heel" that now threatens us with extinction as a species, in addition to so many others, on planet Earth--or elsewhere should a few of us manage to migrate to other planets.

 

But, what if a ruling class consists of these people that are sometimes designated as "evil people"? What if these people infest all ruling classes? What if the nature of ruling classes infect all advanced societies? These questions suggest a Marxist perspective which is heavily censored throughout all advanced capitalist societies. What about mixed societies (mixed between privately owned and controlled enterprises and those which the government owns)? I do not know, so I will confine my comments to capitalist societies represented by the leading nations under the control of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire (US, Britain, and Israel)  

• Latest Bizarre Chapter of “War on Drugs”: U.S. Special Forces Train Drug Cartel Enforcers Linked to Rape, Torture and Decapitation of Victims by Zach El Parece from CovertAction Magazine.

• We Should All Be Worried About The United Nations Food Systems Summit. From A Growing Culture.
  

• Palestine: It is Not a Conflict, It is Colonialism by Carolina Bracco from Internationalist 360°. (Also I especially recommend Vanessa Beeley's elaborate take on the ongoing strife in a 1:05 hr interview conducted by Gordon Dimmack, a Brit who has a channel on YouTube. Beeley currently lives in Syria.)
  

Israel sought not only to sustain its military supremacy in the region but also, like any colonial project, to present itself as a superior and more civilized population. The identification of the Palestinians as a primitive and violent rabble in contrast to the sophisticated, cultured and European Israeli society supports this feeling of superiority, while reinforcing the unequivocal link with its European origin and American endorsement. After all, it is these states that finance Israeli military policy. Hence the immanence of the security discourse, which in turn enables the practices of oppression, discrimination and murder by transforming them into practices of defense and revenge.

• Fifteen Thoughts On Palestine by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian independent blogger, from her weblog.

• Silencing Supporters Of B.D.S. featuring Max Blumenthal (of The Grayzone) on Jimmy Dore's YouTube channel expressing his views on the subject. (Note: You will need to know what B.D.S. means.)

• Escalation In Palestine - Hizbullah Is Ready To Join The Fight by Bernhard, an independent German blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• Turning The Clock Back To 2001 - CIA, Others Prepare A New Resistance Against The Taliban by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
  

• Explained: Strona and Bradshaw 2018 features Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has focused on the climate crisis, starting a series on his YouTube channel discussing reports from peer-reviewed websites (this one is from Scientific Reports) published in 2018).
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday & Sunday, May 8 & 9, 2021

• Bill Gates Vaccines: What Does He Want – Your Health Or Your Money? by Russell Brand, a British comedian, (10:38m) from EarthNewspaper. 

• CDC Changes Rules for Counting Breakthrough Cases, as More Fully Vaccinated People Test Positive by Megan Redshaw from Children's Health Defense. 

• Antony Blinken Continues to Lecture the World on Values His Administration Aggressively Violates by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack.
  

• Important Update by Whitney Webb from her channel at Rokfin. My reaction: I, too, have been an avid follower of Webb's contributions, and I am sorry to learn of this bad news. I know that we should not rely on one source, but she was a bright light that revealed so much about our reality.
  

• Interview w/ Ryan Cristian of The Last American Vagabond by someone who has a channel at Rokfin. My reaction: I can't figure out who the interviewer is, but it is someone who is an ordinary uninformed American who has questions about media corporations and their messages related to the Coalvid-19 pandemic. This "someone" interviews Ryan Cristián, who has done extensive research into the pandemic and who has been censored by major platforms. The ruling class, the controllers of our mainstream culture, have devised a "cancel culture" to convince most Americans to not listen to people who question the details related to the pandemic. The interviewer is not afraid to listen to Cristián who has been a target to not listen to. Cristián patiently explains the sources of his doubts about the coverage of mainstream media. If you are someone who has listened to people like Cristián or have done your own research and have concluded that the "authorities" have no scientific basis for justifying their onerous restrictions on your freedom, then you can very well ignore this article.

• The Woke CIA PsyOp by Abby Martin from her channel on YouTube. (Note: I can't find this post on her primary websites: The Empire Files or Media Roots.)

• After Mega Banks Supervised by the Fed Lose Over $10 Billion to a Highly Leveraged Hedge Fund, Fed Puts Lipstick on a Pig in its Financial Stability Report by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• White Helmets corruption scandal deepens: Dutch gov’t investigated parent org for fraud, but covered it up by Ben Norton from The Grayzone.
  

• Biden's Ukraine Scandal by Syrian Girl from her channel on YouTube.
  

• US Encirclement of China: A Progress Report by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.
  

• Palestinian Infant Sustains Punching-Related Injury In Violent Clash With Israeli Police from Australian Caitlin Johnstone's weblog. My reaction: This is a perfect parody of news corporation's reporting on the ongoing struggle for Palestinians to survive in their own land. 

• In Wake of HRW Apartheid Report, Israeli Propagandists Launch Global PR Offensive by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• US Troops Trying to Break Through from Afghanistan into Central Asia by Valery Kulikov from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: The author considers it too expensive for the USA and coalition forces to move their military equipment and supplies back to their home countries. But where will they go? The rest of his analysis is devoted to this question.)

• Unmasking Myanmar's Racist Genocidal US-backed Opposition by Brian Berletic (formerly "Tony Cartalucci") from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: To watch the video that the article contains, you may need to reinstall this article. Then select YouTube's source for the video--YouTube is constantly playing games with us. Now it appears that they make it difficult to access their videos contained in articles.) My reaction: Berletic has settled in Thailand after serving in the US Marines. He has devoted himself to uncovering the lies of the US ruling class in that area. We are lucky to have him uncover some of the lies we are told by the ruling class's media corporations. Therefore, we need to support him.

• Nobel Prize Laureates and Other Experts Issue Urgent Call for Action After ‘Our Planet, Our Future’ Summit from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, May 7, 2021

• CDC Specifies PCR Test Cycle Threshold For Vaccinated Individuals: What Does This Mean? by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• Covid Vaccines: The Tip of the Iceberg from Swiss Policy Research. 

• Federal Gov’t Telling Facebook to Silence Those With Vaccine Safety Concerns Says Lawsuit by Matt "Agorist" (I can't believe this is a real name) from The Free Thought Project.
  

• Viral CIA Recruitment Video Features "Cisgender Millennial" Who Says "I Am Unapologetically Me" from Forbes' YouTube channel. My reaction: If you want to see an example of "woke" propaganda using identity politics, view this as a prime example from the US's Deep State and its prime subversive agency, the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). I don't know if it is over-the-top as propaganda because they've received a lot of flack or ridicule from some minor news shows, Fox's Tucker Carlson, Lee Camp, and of course Jimmy Dore. Even Newsweek magazine has expressed doubts about it. (Here is an exposé of the real CIA that Oliver Stone has done.) However, the Deep State doesn't use ineffectual propaganda. They have likely tested this on American audiences and determined that much of the American public was susceptible to its message. It must be emphasized for our gullible fellow-Americans that the CIA is engaging in such subversive activities today as illustrated in a recent report by Bernard, a German blogger. This CIA recruitment ad is further evidence--if you need some--that the ruling capitalist class today considers the general American public as enemies to be manipulated.

• USAID admits to Venezuela regime change fraud by Anya Parampil from The Grayzone. (Note: I've just found that if I access YouTube videos directly from independent websites that I receive an error message. But if I access them directly from YouTube, I succeed. Thus if you access this video from the "Watch on YouTube" caption on the lower left-hand corner, you will succeed.)

• An empire in love with its Afghan cemetery by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• US Establishment Recycling “WMD” Iraq War Propaganda For Iran by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.

• Oceanographers Find “Heat Bombs” Destroying Arctic Sea Ice by Scripps Institution of Oceanography from SciTechDaily.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, April 25, 2021

• 7 Reasons Why a Vaccine Passport (Pass, Certificate or Whatever They Want to Call It) Should Give Us Pause for Thought by Nick Corbishley from Naked Capitalism.

• Alison Morrow Interview – MSM COVID Blind Spots, Willful Misinformation Or Manufacturing Consent? from The Last American Vagabond featuring Ryan Cristián interviewing Morrow (1:03:52) who worked in MSM and quit them after realizing that they were engaged in propaganda. (Note: Cristián and Morrow focus much of their discussion on why people engage in propaganda.) My reaction: Sociopathic people will rationalize all their cooperative efforts with propagandists because they want to sustain careers to furnish their families with all the goodies they want above all other considerations. I refer to it as the Thatcher principle of amorality: "there is no such thing as society, there are only individuals and their families".
  

• Why The Main Argument Against Withdrawing US Troops Is Bogus by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian independent blogger from her weblog. (Note: This article includes narration and transcript of her article.)

• Israel No Longer Has A ‘Deterrence Capacity’ And Its Attempts To Revive It May Prove Too Dangerous by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, April 21, 2021

• Covid’s IFR just keeps DROPPING by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.
  

• The Lockdown Paradigm Is Collapsing by Jeffrey A. Tucker from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• Simple Ways to Keep Your Immune System Strong by Dr. Vernon Coleman, a Brit, from his weblog. (Note: This article includes a video of his talk and transcript.)
  

• How Stalin Canceled 'Hamlet' in the Soviet Union—and What It Can Teach Us about Cancel Culture by Jon Miltimore from Foundation for Economic Education. My reaction: Ruling class experts of propaganda has turned so many liberals (dreamy reformist capitalists) into intolerant "virtuous" bigots who obsessively want to divert attention away from the growing inequality among the world's poor. This is based on the religion of absolute god-like authority figures who know what's best for us--American-style capitalism and away from any consideration of socialist ideas. Thus they, or the authoritative talking-heads you see on TV, read scripts that wrap themselves in virtue and censor all ideas that don't fit with the American goose of capitalism, a goose which continues to lay so many golden eggs for billionaires.

• There is No Substitute for the Rank and File: Thoughts on Amazon Unionization by Tatiana Cozzarelli from Left Voice. 

• A Trader’s Federal Lawsuit Against JPMorgan Chase Offers a Window into the Crime Culture at the Five Felony-Count Bank by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• You reap what you sow by Natalie Bennett from Ecologist (a British weblog).

That we live on a hugely degraded, biologically impoverished planet, in which natural ecosystems are battered, abused, barely clinging on, is now emerging into public consciousness. But the corresponding rise of the superweed, and increasing vulnerability of our crop species, has yet to so register.

• The deafening sound of silence in the West (Open Thread #15) by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog.
  

• Russia Increases Its Defense, While U.S. Backs Down From Provoking WWIII by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Why Cryptocurrency Is A Giant Fraud by Nathan J. Robinson from Current Affairs.

• The US Withdrawal From Afghanistan May Just Lead To Privatized War by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond. 

• Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for Agrifood Must Not Succeed by Colin Todhunter from Dissident Voice. 

• The Doomsday Glacier Lives up to its Billing by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.
  

• Rapid Loss of Habitat for Homo sapiens by Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has focused on the climate crisis, from Academia. (Note: You will need to download this brief paper, and I recommend Acrobat Reader. But notice the installer wants you to select a list of additional software. Decide for yourself if you want them.)

• 💥In our hurry to conquer nature and death, we have made a new religion of science by Jonathan Cook from his weblog. This is a best post.
  

Were we not so technology obsessed, were we not so greedy, were we not so terrified of insecurity and death, if we did not see our bodies and minds as separate, and humans as separate from everything else, we might pause to ponder whether our approach is not a little misguided.

Science and technology can be wonderful things. They can advance our knowledge of ourselves and the world we inhabit. But they need to be conducted with a sense of humility we increasingly seem incapable of. We are not conquerors of our bodies, or the planet, or the universe – and if we imagine we are, we will soon find out that the battle we are waging is one we can never hope to win.

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, April 19, 2021

• EU not to renew AstraZeneca, J&J Covid-19 vaccine contracts on expiry from Business Standard. 

• Another day, another dollar | Pfizer defends price for its COVID vaccine from RT's channel on YouTube (3:18m)

• If Johnson & Johnson Coronavirus Vaccine Shots Are Halted Because of Blood Clots, Why Have Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Shots Not Also Been Halted? by Adam Dick from Ron Paul Institute.
  

• Pathogens in One Lesson, Courtesy of Sunetra Gupta by Jeffrey A. Tucker from American Institute for Economic Research. (Note: This is essentially a book review of Gupta's book entitled Pandemics: Our Fears and the Facts.)

• Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for the Future of Food by Colin Todhunter (a Brit) from Off-Guardian. 

• The truth about doublespeak: Is it lying or just being persuasive? by researchers at the University of Waterloo from Phys Org.
  

• Cold War Liberalism and the Labor Movement: The Epic Fail by Richard Moser from CounterPunch. 

• Wall Street’s Mega Bank CEOs To Be Hauled Before Congress in May; Nobody Will Say Why by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. Note: The Martens soon dash hopes that anything substantial will come of the hearings.

If past is prologue, which we pray it is not, the hearings will use such a buckshot approach to questioning the witnesses that there will be no meaningful takeaway to the public from the hearings.

 

Later they go on to argue:

 

While each of these issues are critical to the national debate, dumping them all into one hearing where the Congressional questioner together with the witness get just a combined five minutes does a disservice to the seriousness of each issue. In fact, this approach has served to hold back change on Wall Street as news reporters simply grab the single most titillating detail from each hearing and put that in a headline. 

 

I argue that the purpose of the hearings will be to give the appearance that Congresspeople are protecting the people from the shenanigans of the major financial institutions. The bank CEOs are closer to the ruling capitalist class (if not a part of it) than the Congresspeople who are treated as mere employees of the ruling class. 

• How the US Enforces Exploitative Economic Policies: The IMF and the World Bank by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room.

• Biden Approves DAPL! Betrays Native Americans Again featuring Jimmy Dore citing various mainstream reports regarding that the wealthy who contribute far more than the poor and Justin Jackson offering his comments on Dore's YouTube channel (9:08m).
  

• Deliberate Attempts to Downplay the Science: Karl Grossman Interviews Dr. Devra Davis  in a 29 minute YouTube video from Environmental Health Trust.
  

• Western US States Prepare For 1st-Ever Water Shortage Declaration; Hoover Dam Hydroelectric Generation At Risk by Tyler Durden from his weblog ZeroHedge.

• Opium poppy production in Afghanistan from Global Research. (Note: This article is posted on Esri a company that is devoted to "A geographic information system (GIS) is a framework for gathering, managing, and analyzing data." However, because there is no date or an author on this post which originated from Esri, I have decided to post it from Global Research as an exception to my usual policy to post articles from their original websites.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, April 16, 2021

• Vaccine Passports in a Failed State by Margaret Kimberley from Black Agenda Report.
  

• 💥The CIA Used To Infiltrate The Media. Now The CIA Is The Media. By Australian independent blogger Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. This is a best post.
  

Back in the good old days, when things were more innocent and simple, the psychopathic Central Intelligence Agency had to covertly infiltrate the news media to manipulate the information Americans were consuming about their nation and the world. Nowadays, there is no meaningful separation between the news media and the CIA at all.

 

They not only have taken over media corporations, but they and other agents of the ruling capitalist class have set up fake left media organizations and websites (Spectre is a recent prime example) posing as left-wing organizations critical of US interests but really serving as issue gatekeepers to the ruling class. Amy Goodman and her weblog "Democracy Now!" is a prime example. Goodman does not allow anyone on her show that is critical of the government's narrative on 9/11 or the major assassinations (John or Robert Kennedy or ML King). As I've reported in 2015 Goodman and her show along with others has been generously funded by "philanthropic" organizations. Wikipedia is another example (See this, this, this, this, and this.) Also, The Intercept, owned by billionaire Pierre Omidyar, is another similar project. But probably worst of all, they've revised history books, history as portrayed in films, etc. to reflect their self-serving propaganda.

• The Hawks Who Want War With Iran Are Working Overtime by Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold from Jacobin. My reaction: The hawks are working overtime to stave off defeat everywhere that threatens their US/Anglo/Zionist Empire--and they are threatened everywhere. Remember "America is back!" As the transnational capitalist directors of the Empire are seeing their empire go into decline, their actions speak of desperation. Because we as families enjoyed some of the stolen wealth because of residing in an empire, we citizens of the Empire are destined to go down to defeat with them.

• Contrary to What Biden Said, U.S. Warfare in Afghanistan is Set to Continue by Norman Solomon from CounterPunch. (Note: You may also be interested in an article entitled "White House Won’t Say If Special Forces Will Leave Afghanistan Under Biden’s Withdrawal Plan"). My brief commentary follows: 

The Empire's appointed leaders cannot ever tell the truth because if they told the truth we would immediately rebel. So, they continue to lie to us and we continue to believe them ... as long as enough of their goodies pour in. Ah, but there is the catch! The Covid-19 pandemic is the perfect excuse that the ruling class has for the deterioration of the economy.

 

💥If you want to hear an important, but longer analysis and related matters by a well-known socialist, Brian Becker, you should listen to his 33 minute interview on Lee Camp's show Redacted Tonight via a YouTube video. This is a best post.

• Biden Re-Hires Trump's Ambassador to RUSSIA! featuring Jimmy Dore and company (Aaron Maté and Ron Placone) using Biden's inconsistent policy to comedic effect, but also Maté offers a serious interpretation.

• Addressing America’s Homelessness and Squalor: What We Could Do If Cared by Eleanor Goldfield from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis).
  

• Just Like in the US, Policing in Israel is Rooted in Racist Violence by Jessica Buxbaum from Mint Press News.
  

• Australia Buries Afghan War Crimes, Toes U.S. Hostile Line on China by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Of course, Australia being an integral part of the former British Empire, they are now an integral part of the existing US/Anglo/Zionist Empire and they follow the diktats of the transnational capitalist directors of the Empire.

• The CIA Armed Libyan Terrorists with Carlton Meyer narrating a 10:53m report from a YouTube channel "Tales of the Empire" about Edwin Wilson, a former CIA agent, who was caught supplying Libyan terrorists with explosives.
  

• Free Trade Is Code For Forced Trade by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room.
  

• Iran & Russia set to sign comprehensive strategic agreement: TV Report from Middle East Observer.
  

• How a US-led Un-Holly Alliance is Preventing Syria’s Normalisation by Salman Rafi Sheikh from New Eastern Outlook. 

• The Silencing of the Lambs by Andrea Halewood from Off-Guardian.
  

• When We Go Extinct by Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has focused on the climate crisis, from his YouTube channel. 

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, April 15, 2021

• From RussiaGate to UkraineGate: Route to Apocalypse by Oliver Boyd-Barrett from Mint Press News. 

Within three months of the ascendancy of Joseph Biden to the presidency of the United States, the world teeters on the edge of nuclear war, whether by design or accident, as Russia reports that the U.S. is placing considerable pressure on Ukraine to attack the independent republics of the Donbass for which Russia provides logistical support. The U.S. European Command has raised its alert status to the highest level and warned of a “potential imminent crisis.” 

• Western Media Eager to See Ukraine Use US-Supplied Weapons Against Russia by Dave DeCamp from Anti-War.
  

• CNN’s Blatant Disinformation About Russia-Ukraine Activity by Michael Averko from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• The latest US moves against Russia (OPEN THREAD #11) UPDATED!!! by "the Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog.
  

• Putin’s Ukrainian Judo by Dmitry Orlov from "The Saker" weblog. (Note: I hesitate to use Wikipedia regarding Orlov anymore since I gradually observed their corruption by other operatives (2nd article and commentary). My reaction: I think Orlov's assessment is quite accurate, and I miss his clear voice and acute judgement since he put his articles behind a paywall. However, I don't always agree with his commentaries that he is always rather too willing to share with the public. He often expresses opinions without supporting documentation. In this article he demonstrates a startling amount information regarding both Ukraine, Europe, and Putin. I thank an activist who sent me this article.

• It’s The Media’s Job To Normalize War: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Australian independent blogger Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• China’s Deep Dark Secrets featuring Lee Camp reporting articles on horrendous human rights practices by China's government, but he "discovers" they are all about the USA (for comedic effect) in his (4:08m) YouTube channel. 

• Financial fiction part two: the new ones (SPACs, NFTs, cryptocurrencies) by Michael Roberts, a British Marxist economist from his weblog.
  

• Biden Declares Afghan War To End On 9/11 -- For Reals! featuring Jimmy Dore (from his YouTube channel) doing his comedic commentary regarding our fake democracy and Aaron Maté (The Grayzone) commenting on the announcement by Pres. Biden that the US will withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
  

• Australia’s Self-Inflicted Economic Woes Continue by Joseph Thomas from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: Of course Australia is very much a part of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, The same applies to Europe and NATO, but European capitalists are looking at all the profits they are missing from playing along with the Empire, and may decide to no longer go along with Empire directives. Then it's game over for the Empire, and the directors of the Empire know it.

• Indian monsoons becoming more chaotic from Climate & Capitalism.

• Washington could not be happier with Ecuador’s new president by Paul Antonopoulos from Brics.
  

• Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loop #6, Climate-Change Summary featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson reading a summary of scientific reports via his YouTube channel.

• Climate change : The daily consequences we're choosing to ignore. This video features Dave Borlace from his channel, Just Have a Think, in a 13:56m YouTube video, commenting on recent reports from Lancet, the British renowned medical journal.

• Waves of anger | Japan's neighbors decry plan to dump Fukushima water into sea a 3:09m video from RT's channel on YouTube.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, April 8, 2021

• 💥Glenn Greenwald: Why American Journalism Sucks featuring Jimmy Dore (via his YouTube channel--19:31m) interviewing Glenn Greenwald regarding the deterioration of American journalism as a profession. This is a best post. My reaction: Greenwald attacks mostly the Democratic Party, but he doesn't know that the capitalist ruling class has completely taken over the political party, which has traditionally favored working people, in order to convince most Americans of the validity of their news coverage. But he offers the crucial insight that the ruling class uses their control over careers to control any potentially dissident journalists.

• WEF Warns of a Cyber Attack Leading to Systemic Collapse of the Global Financial System by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond. 

• Four Words Gates and His Pals Despise: Democracy & Minimum Support Price by Colin Todhunter (based in Britain, but lived a long time in India) posted on Off-Guardian.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and an assortment of high-profile figures and policymakers are pushing for unregulated gene-editing technologies, the rollout of bio-synthetic food created in laboratories, the expanded use of patented seeds and the rollback of subsidies and support for farmers in places like  India.

These neoliberal evangelists despise democracy and believe that state machinery and public money should only facilitate the ambitions of their unaccountable mega-corporations.

• What is Australia’s Problem with China? by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. My reaction: Berletic exposes that the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire is engaging in an information war to cover up their opposition to China's rise.

• Lying Is Their Business: U.S. Propaganda Against China – The Steve Bannon Connection by Christopher Black, a real international human rights lawyer from Canada, posted on Strategic Culture Foundation. Black writes:

In late January 2021, NATO think tank, The Atlantic Council, published a paper termed, The Longer Telegram, which sets out a proposed strategy for the United States to achieve domination of the world, a strategy which focuses on China as the main obstacle to that domination, with Russia now considered an “irritant.” It is the fantasy of megalomaniacs who sit in dark rooms dreaming of world power and achieving it using any means necessary, including world war.

It is in essence a propaganda document designed to not only proclaim a new world war, the American war against China, but to try to justify this war. It describes a China that does not exist except in the fantasies of these right wing ideologues.

• The Real Reason We’re Still In Afghanistan featuring Lee Camp, an online comedian, in a 6:40m YouTube video, parodying why Trump was countermanded in a peace deal when Trump ordered it at the beginning of his administration. (Note: Camp in his parody reveals that some other entity, probably the Defense Department, rules America more than the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, that is, the president.) My reaction: This experience demonstrates that the Defense Department answers to the ruling US capitalist class over which they control. This, in my opinion, is not necessarily bad because Trump with his impulsive personality was more likely to use nuclear weapons than the ruling class.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, March 17, 2021

• 20+ Countries Suspend AstraZeneca Vaccine While EU & WHO Keep Pushing It As “Safe & Effective” featuring Ryan Cristián Whitney Webb (brief appearance of Whitney Webb) using a variety of online platforms in the first 55 minutes of the 1:04:25 audio/video post addressing issues related to the title of this post.

• 💥Intersectional Imperialism: A Wholesome Menace by Alex Rubinstein from his weblog on Substack. This is a best post. My reaction: This post is a most revealing exposé of identity politics ("wokeism") and how it is used to legitimize the most heinous acts and policies of the capitalist ruling class both within and without the USA. This strategy has its roots in the advanced technology of advertising so necessary to sell all the shoddy and unnecessary products of late-stage capitalism--the selling of anything.
  

• How Do Big Media Outlets So Often "Independently Confirm" Each Other's Falsehoods? by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog at Substack. 

• Do U.S. and UK Have the World’s Most-Censored Press? by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Although Zuesse avoids Marxist terms like ruling class, and instead prefers feudal words like "aristocracy" because a Marxist lexicon is verboten in the advanced capitalist societies, his description of the ruling class and their fake version of democracy is "spot-on".

• Joe Biden Unlawful Agression [sic] in Syria Signals the Endgame in the Region by Vanessa Beeley from UK Column.
  

• Trump admin insider reveals how US military sabotaged peace agreement to prolong Afghanistan war by Gareth Porter from The Grayzone.
  

• America's National Humiliation by Eurasia by Max Parry from The Unz Review.
  

• The Arab Spring: A social media revolution? from Middle East Eye. (Note: This post is an 8:13m video.)

• Wet Bulb Temperature. Life or death? featuring Dave Borlace from his channel, Just Have a Think, in a 10:25m YouTube video explaining a threat to human-related to global warming.

Wet bulb temperature sounds almost comical, but the implications of it's [sic] extremes could not be more serious. And as our planet's atmosphere continues to warm, our tropical regions move ever closer to posing that existential threat to billions of people.

• Science Update: Amazon Rainforest Warms Earth featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson summarizing in his YouTube channel (7:17m) what scientists have reported about the Amazon rainforest.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, March 11, 2021

• Urgent Open Letter from Doctors and Scientists to the European Medicines Agency regarding COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Concerns from Doctors for Covid Ethics.
  

• Digital Health Pass: IBM and Moderna Hook Up to Capitalize on COVID Reset by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.

• More Countries Adopt Vaccine Passports To 'Boost Tourism' by Tyler Durden from his weblog ZeroHedge.
  

• Bill Gates’ Global AIDS Fund Provided With $3.5 Billion in Coronavirus Stimulus Package by Richard Moorhead from Big League Politics.
  

• Twitter Demands Allegiance to NATO? featuring Ben Swann informs us about the propaganda activities of Twitter, a giant social media corporation, in a 6:46m video from ISE.

• Western Media Is Using Women’s Rights In Afghanistan To Justify Continuation Of US Troop Presence by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
  

• Militarization of Colombia is a Key Aspect of U.S. Hemispheric Control by Vicente Guevara from Internationalist 360°. My rather brief commentary follows: 

The rich US capitalist ruling class using direct threat of violence supplied by the US military have succeeded in using Columbia as a base to control all of South America. They have done this under the guise of fighting the trafficking of illicit drugs, and, of course, against any violation of human rights. However, their real intentions were to control South America for the benefit of US corporations. 

 

Meanwhile, this self-seeking wealth and power ruling class have used censorship and propaganda to keep out any hint of their real intentions from ordinary Americans who have in the past enjoyed some of the benefits of this control. As long as some of the benefits kept coming for ordinary Americans and they were distracted by all the entertainment that the ruling class supplied to them, they ignored what their government, controlled by capitalists, was doing to the rest of the world. Thus, our masters have depended on the ignorance of their subjects regarding their real intentions. 

 

It is becoming increasingly clear to ordinary Americans that they have been deceived about a number of issues by their masters in the ruling class. Whether a sufficient number of ordinary people wake up to this fact to challenge these policies remains to be seen. A positive outcome requires ordinary Americans to identify with ordinary people, not only Colombians but all people of the world because they have all been targets for exploitation by capitalist ruling classes.

• How Bad Does the Western Media Lie? by Brian Berletic, an ex-Marine living with his family in Thailand, from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.
  

• Finding Meaning Under A Meaningless System by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian independent blogger. 

• Raging Twenties: A Presentation of Pepe Escobar’s New Book by Pepe Escobar from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: This post takes us beyond a mere self-promotion of a new book to a perspective on world events.)

• Aid for Profit: The Dark History of USAID by Saheli Khastagir from Current Affairs. (Note: This general policy used government aid to underdeveloped nations following WWII to serve the profit needs of US corporations by tying aid to purchases from US corporations.)

• Russell Brand on royalty and power featuring Russell Brand, a British comedian, in a 9:39m video is from Steel City Scribblings, a British website, offering unique comments, insights, and facts regarding the current British monarchy.
  

• When American Small Towns Loved Socialism by Dave Nance, Noah Van Sciver, Paul Buhle, and Steve Max from Yes!. (Note: This post is for those of you who, through no fault of your own, are ignorant of the real history of the USA. Also, I think that the contents of this post don't justify the headline that only "small towns loved socialism".)

• History Shows Privatized Space Colonization Will Be Disastrous by Elic Weitzel from Dissident Voice. (Note: The post offers real history lessons for ordinary Americans.)

• The financialization of environment protection by Riccardo De Cristano from Climate & Capitalism.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, March 9, 2021

• Vaccine Diabolus and the Impending Wave of Rare Neurodegenerative Disorders by Mike Whitney from Global Research.
  

Is it the reputable scientists, virologists, epidemiologists and other medical experts who don’t have a stake in the outcome and who base their judgements on the science alone, or is it the conflicted state bureaucrats, the public health toadies and the billionaire activists who control the media and whose shadowy and sinister motives are still not clear?

Most people know the answer to that question already. It’s obvious.

• No COVID Vaccine? No Travel, Air Force Officials Say by Pam Long from Children's Health Defense. 

• The Brutal Attack on Scientific Dissent by Paul E. Alexander from American Institute for Economic Research. (Note: It would be helpful to know what "Age of Lysenkoism" means.)

• Perspectives on the Pandemic: "The Illusion of Evidence Based Medicine" from Journeyman Pictures, based in Britain, featuring author and professor Leemon McHenry, PhD explains why articles in prominent medical journals have been corrupted by the profit interests of giant pharmaceutical industries.

• Another Independent News Show Gets Shut Down. This 13:51m YouTube video features Jimmy Dore and a guest Kit Cabello whose channel has been censored by YouTube. My reaction: It's amazing why Dore's channel hasn't been censored. My hunch is that he has a very large following. 

• Enforcing Orthodoxy by Patrick Lawrence from Consortium News. (Note: Based on another example of ruling class censorship (Consortium News), Lawrence comments on the significance of censorship.)
  

• Reclaiming Our Common Home by Vandana Shiva from Yes!. My reaction: I think that the basic needs of humans must be equitably shared. But at the same time, humans must learn about the fact that they are one of a vast number of species in the web of life on planet Earth, and act responsibly. Neither one of my conditions will be met as long as self-serving classes rule over humans. From scientific reports I've read during the past 45 years, I think that humans living in class-structured societies have not acted responsibly and they will become extinct as well as many other species on our exceptional planet Earth.
  

• Wherefore Art Thou Ghislaine Maxwell? And who are your friends? by Philip Giraldi from The Unz Review.

• Biden and the ‘Yellow Brick Road’ by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation (based in Russia but international in scope). (Note: "4IR" means "fourth industrial revolution" which was announced by Klaus Schwab by the Great Reset. The latter is a project decided by our masters, the billionaires in the transnational capitalist ruling class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

Crooke writes:

 

America’s position as ‘global leader’, Stephen Wertheim has observed in his book Tomorrow the World, was premised on a set of impermanent and atypical post-war circumstances that handed primacy to the U.S.; but Wertheim then goes on to underscore how “those days of incontestable unipolarity are over, and cannot be wished back”. The U.S. empire is, then, at an impasse: Its moral and political justification of overseeing a global order shaped to its norms is now beyond its capabilities (militarily or financially) to maintain.

 

His view differs from mine in that he sees only an American empire, whereas I see the reality of a transnational capitalist empire built on the ruins of the former British Empire combined with the military power of the USA and extended by their combined power over numerous other nations, primarily Europe and Israel. This is the history since WWII of the development of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire which has largely replaced the Nazi ambitions of the Third Reich. 

 

However, in the end Crooke returns to the political dynamics of the USA to imply that most Americans simply want to return to "normal" and will not go along with this delusional agenda. Although his metaphor using "Alice in Wonderland" is clever, I don't think this implication is accurate. I don't see that ordinary Americans will become a significant factor in the future. I believe that too many Americans have been so brainwashed by fake history, capitalist culture, and the advantages that Americans have enjoyed since WWII to be an effective actor in the future. I also believe that our present ruling class suffer from a dangerous delusion, one among many others, of omnipotence that will make the near future much more dangerous than what Crooke suggests.

• U.S. Launches New Afghanistan Initiative Which Is Unlikely To Fly by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama. (Note: He brings us up-to-date on efforts by the US State Department to get US official forces out of Afghanistan.)

["The Biden regime"] needs some face saving period of 'peace in Afghanistan' to justify a pull out. It also wants to keep some CIA counter-terrorism force in the country which is something the Taliban are unlikely to allow.

• Govt-Linked CSIS Urges DC To Partner with Social Media Firms To “Promote Protests Movements” by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.
  

• Excessive Wealth Disorder is Destroying Our Societies by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room.

• Introduction: Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loops featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson (in a 2:27m YouTube video), a scientist who has specialized on the near-term climate destabilization crisis.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, February 11, 2021

• Further Proof that U.S. & UK are One Empire, Not Two by Eric Zuesse from The Duran. Finally, he gets around to noticing after its origins in 1946.

• New NORAD Warfare Strategies and Canada’s Role in the Great Game Revisited by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Although I don't agree with his main thesis that the British ruling class has taken the initiative and was the main actor behind the construction of what became the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire (it was a transnational capitalist project), this paragraph got my attention:
  

Anyone who has read Cynthia Chung’s Dr. Strangelove’s Spoonbenders will quickly realize why using AI to pick up algorithms that would normally be missed by human analysts, and generate hair-trigger decisions to counter threats from Eurasia creates a mountain of trouble for humanity, as glitches and mis-readings of Russian/Chinese intentions can easily escalate unstoppably into a nuclear retaliation by deductive/inductive machine thinking.

• Why is America getting a new $100 billion nuclear weapon? by Elisabeth Eaves from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
  

• Empire Files: Afghanistan Mercenary Shocker + US Says Nuclear War “Very Real Possibility” featuring Abby Martin reporting via a 5:44m video on two topics from Media Roots.
  

• The Big Tech Exodus Has Begun — Join Us! (Updated) from Activist Post.
  

• New US Military Base in Northeast Syria Latest of Biden’s Warlike Moves by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

•  Interview 1618 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato featuring James Corbett and Pilato reporting and sarcastically commenting on the news. Posted on The Corbett Report in a 22:08m video with links to relevant documents. The topics they discuss: The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election [from Time Magazine]; Germany Hired Koch Institute And Other Scientists To Justify Unconstitutional Lockdowns; and Nevada Bill Would Allow Tech Companies to Create Governments.
  

• Lithium, Batteries and Climate Change by Jonathan Neale from Climate & Capitalism.
  

• U.S. State Department Admits Signs Point To C0VlD Created in Wuhan Lab featuring Ben Swann examining the latest evidence from the Wuhan lab. Posted on ISE.

• Coronavirus Scandal Breaking in Merkel’s Germany. False Positives and the Drosten PCR Test by F. William Engdahl from Global Research.

• ‘Unseen Enemy’: Coronavirus as an archetype of perception. By Ludovic Noble from Off-Guardian (based in Britain).
  

• The Fire Next Time by Rebecca Gordon from Tom Dispatch. (Note: You will need to scroll down to the article following Tom Engelhardt's introduction. I am posting this article only to criticize its weaknesses.) My commentary follows:

Although well-meaning, this is a post that exemplifies the blindness that has infected American "progressives" and (political) liberals (in the contemporary sense--def#5) since WWII. The tremendous war effort and reactionary historians succeeded to erase the memory of radicalism that appeared in the 1930s. Gordon also exemplifies a person who has been thoroughly brainwashed by the secret cabal that has taken over not only American education but every other institution in the USA. This aggressive capitalist ruling class now rules over an Empire built on the ashes of the war when the US first reigned supreme in its military and economy.

She is the perfect product of an "education" that forgot the rising tide of the appeal that truly radical parties had on ordinary Americans. Gone is the memory of general strikes that hit San Francisco, Minneapolis, and many other cities. Gone are the memories of this radical appeal when Soviet citizens enjoyed rising standards of living and no unemployment. Gone, too, is the memory of FDR's reply to the charge that he was promoting socialism. Gone are Upton Sinclair's and John Steinbeck's descriptions of life during the Great Depression. Gone are the reports of US capitalists' approval of fascist developments in Germany and Italy. So much has been erased from history that is taught in American schools; and what was not erased, has been revised by historians that serve the ruling class.

Gordon (and by inference, Tom Dispatch and CounterPunch who re-posted this article) supports the "correct political line" of the day by condemning Trump's faction of the capitalist ruling class, but not capitalism which has led the nation and world towards either, in the short-run, nuclear war, or, in the long-run, climate destabilization and extinction of nearly all life on our Earth. 

But, no worries, because our masters have a plan to avert climate destabilization. It's called the Great Reset. But carefully disguised in the plan is population reduction, and that reduction is ridding our working class of low-level workers, including small businessmen, who do not contribute to the wealth accumulation of today's corporations and many of their billionaire owners.

• Arranging The Middle East Narrative To Push The Agenda Forward from South Front.
  

• The Fight for Belarus: An Interview with Nadezhda Sablina by Kayla Pop from Internationalist 360°.

• Extinction Foretold, Extinction Ignored featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson (via YouTube) summarizing the document he wrote by the same title.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, June 28, 2020

• Up to 300 Million People May Be Infected by Covid-19, Stanford Guru John Ioannidis Says from Greek American.

• Anti-Maskers: Right or Selfish? featuring former professor of physics at the University of Ottawa, Denis Rancourt, PhD posted on Dissident Voice. (Note: I added a link to Denis Rancourt today--6/29/2020.)

• COVID19 PCR Tests are Scientifically Meaningless by Torsten Engelbrecht and Konstantin Demeter from Off-Guardian.

• Mass-Tracking COVI-PASS Immunity Passports Slated to Roll Out in 15 Countries by Raul Diego from Mint Press News. 

• Sweden’s Covid expert says ‘world went mad’ with lockdowns by Niclas Rolander from The Print (based in New Dehli, India). (Note: You may also be interested in this article entitled "Sweden turns on WHO for saying it had suffered 'very significant resurgence' of Covid-19".)

• U.S. University Requiring Both Flu and COVID-19 Vaccines for Students to Enter Campus from 21st Century Wire. 

• Bill Gates says ‘final hurdle’ to distributing a Covid-19 vaccine will be convincing people to TAKE IT from RT.

• What Happens if Congress and the White House Let Unemployment Benefits Expire? by Stephen Lendman from Global Research. (My reaction: Could it be that the ruling class will punish further those "deplorables" who refused to vote in the last election for their (the ruling class's) preferred candidate?)

• This Russia-Afghanistan Story Is Western Propaganda At Its Most Vile by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (My reaction: She exposes another current lie!)

• US Middle East Wars Far from Over from Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: My mega-posts have been so concerned with the 2020 "pandemic" that I've neglected that our Deep State is continuing in their media corporations to omit and lie about other of their adventures.)

• Oil Tankers Carrying Two Months of Venezuelan Output Stuck at Sea by Marianna Parraga from Anti-Empire. (Note: This is only one example of their use of sanctions to starve people residing in countries that the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire does not like.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, February 19, 2020

• ‘And Then – Nothing. Silence’: The Deadly Facade Of ‘Democracy’ by David Cromwell, editor, from Media Lens. 

• Arctic Ocean February 2020 from Arctic News. 

• Edge of Extinction: Bank for International Settlements Warns of Financial Crisis from Climate Change featuring Guy McPherson (via YouTube) commenting on an article about BIS that was posted on Desmogblog in January. 

• The CIA and the Media by Carl Bernstein from Internationalist 360°. 

(Note: This is a re-post of a 1977 article by Bernstein that made into Rolling Stone Magazine which represented a more militant, anti-establishment media organization that was gradually disappeared by the efforts of the same CIA and other media corporations. 

Those were the days when activists were really challenging the ruling class! They are beginning to appear again among those who have discouraged by their experiences in carefully managed elections (also see this). Back then even Congress tried to stand up to the secret, unaccountable spy services. Idaho's Sen. Frank Church vigorously defended the public's right to know and aggressively attacked several secret agencies during his years in office. Incidentally--or maybe not--he lost his next election and died conveniently a few years later at the age of 59.

The CIA went on to infiltrate media corporations in the USA and throughout the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, and co-opt journalists like Alsop. With the 9/11 false flag operation the ruling capitalist class intimidated Congress so much that they caved in completely to the military-industrial complex. Meanwhile the ruling class persecutes real journalists like Julian Assange. This is where we are today.

• Trump Plans to Keep U.S. Troops Permanently in Iraq by Eric Zuess from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• BIS Praises Indian Milestone Toward Totalitarianism as an Example for the World by Norbert Häring from his weblog Money and more. (Note: The Empire is apparently using India as a dry run for the introduction of the same intrusive methods to apply to citizens of the Empire.)

• International situation and Radical Alternatives by Eric Toussaint from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt).

• Revising the history of WWII by Lucas Leiroz from Brics. (Note: Revising history is increasingly necessary to serve the interests of the Neo-fascist US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

• The American Cowboy - Iranian Mullah Showdown: Countdown to World War Trump IV by Hall Gardner from Wall Street International Magazine.  (Although I don't agree with all of it, this article appears to offer an excellent political analysis of existing relations between the Empire and Iran.)

• Afghan Election Drama Threatens Trump's Deal With The Taliban by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, December 19, 2019

• COP25: Never have so many governments done so little for so many by Pete Dolack from his weblog Systematic Disorder.

• Extinction in 2020? from Arctic News.

• Biosphere Collapse? by Robert Hunziker from CounterPunch.

• Indo-Pak Nuclear Confrontation: First Use Policy and the Race Towards Armageddon by N.D. Jayaprakash from CounterPunch.

• Washington’s Refined Art of Torturing China May Ignite a War by Andre Vltchek from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: I found striking similarities in travel experiences with that of the author who is nominally an American journalist (in essence a citizen of the world). I experienced the same phenomenon in my short trip to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in about 1983 that he experienced in his travels in Russia in the early years of Yeltsin rule and more recently in China: the notable effect of Western propaganda on the citizens of Russia and China.)