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 today: Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020

• REVEALED: UK Officials Inflated COVID Hospital Numbers at Height of ‘Pandemic’ from 21st Century Wire.
  

• Are You Ready for the “No One Could Have Known” Routine? by Thomas Harrington from Off-Guardian. (My reaction: This is worse than even Harrington argues. The lies we've been told has been going on in this dramatic fashion since WWII.)
  

• As COVID-1984 Accelerates Bill Gates Blames ‘Freedom’ For Spread of the Virus by Avatar Dewey Fernfield from The Duran. This post features Spiro Skouras via YouTube elaborating and commenting on this effort for all citizens residing in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire to submit to the capitalist ruling classes' vaccination program.

• Exclusive Interview: Ben Swann and Plandemic Creator Mikki Willis from ISE. (Note: Swann interviews Willis who is the producer, director, and writer of films, "Plandemic 2: Indoctornation" (censored by Facebook) as well as "Plandemic 1" (censored by YouTube). (Note: "Indoctornation" is a play on the word "indoctrination". Notice the entry of the latter film on Wikipedia. I think this qualifies for the "best posts" category.)

• Company Set to Manufacture COVID-19 Vaccine for US Intentionally Sold Faulty Biodefense Products by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond.

• What is the WHO? – Questions For Corbett #066 featuring James Corbett essentially arguing via video that the WHO of the United Nations has been subverted into policies favoring Big Pharma. (My reaction: Who'd a thunk-it?)
  

• On Covid-19 And Authoritarian Abuses by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: You may be also interested in this post.) My brief commentary follows:

In this post she is obviously frustrated by all the verbal abuse she has been getting via Twitter and other social media from people who have succumbed to the hysteria that media corporations have been filling the airways with. In her home country of Australia, the citizens have been experiencing probably the most draconian measures ever (and likely the worst in the world) from government authorities over this covid-19 pandemic.  

This is the result of many years of brainwashing via disinformation and censorship spewed by capitalist's control of media, education, and entertainment in which they have scrubbed out real history and substituted self-serving propaganda and entertaining distractions. I fear the worst.

• US Smears Those Questioning Latest Claims vs. China by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: If this was of interest to you, you may also may be interested in this post.)
  

• Cruelty with a Point: The Continuing US Immiseration of Syria by Stephen Gowans from What's Left.

• What the Belarusian opposition offers by Timoschuk from The Duran.
  

• U.S. Judge Urges Supreme Court to End U.S. Police State It Imposes by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. My commentary follows:

The social-democratic Zuesse must have had a very difficult time in dealing with this subject. I note that he references Jim Crow laws only once. This is much before the FDR administration that he so idolizes as an ideal America. He writes: 

The U.S. Constitution is by now just a string of words. America’s Founders are dead, gone, and no longer really even an influence. That’s the reality. 

In its original form the Constitution when it was written by "America's Founders" (often reverentially referred to as "Founding Fathers") favored the rich property owners. Contrast the latter document with the Declaration of Independence also written by "America's Founders" when they wanted citizens to take up arms for their cause of independence from Britain. Quite a difference, indeed! You see, the British government put up obstacles for the "Founding Fathers" in the form of taxes and restrictions on enterprises that would compete with British manufacturers.  

The "Founding Fathers" were overwhelmingly property owners of slaves who needed the latter to provide the labor to make them rich, never intended to include the "Bill of Rights". This was only forced upon them by citizens of the 13 colonies. And indeed, they never expected their militias and police forces to abide by the Bill of Rights. Police forces are the last defense against the people who are feared by all ruling classes. After nearly 150 years, this ruling class used the capitalist system to accumulate ownership and control over nearly all of the USA and much of the world. The crimes committed here by our masters are multiplied by at least a factor of 10 throughout much of the world.

Thus, I recommend only reading the first two paragraphs of the essay. The rest is absolute social-democratic rubbish.

• OBAMA Says "Nobody Above the Law"! featuring Jimmy Dore commenting (via YouTube) on Barack Obama's speech at a recent Democratic convention. (My reaction: He only satirizes Obama for the lies he told at the convention and during his presidency. With all the lies people have been subject to since WWII, it is no wonder why so many people are questioning the current covid-19 information that ruling class media hysterically spreads!)
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020

Bait-&-Switch: How they’ve changed the Covid conversation by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.
VIDEO: Spanish Doctor Destroys Government-Media COVID ‘Crisis’ Narrative from 21st Century Wire via YouTube.

Is This Fraud Ever Going to End? by Dr. Vernon Coleman (a Brit) from his channel on YouTube.

‘No Jab, No Pay’: Australia to Use UBI, Benefit Payments to Enforce Vaccine Compliance from 21st Century Wire.


Why Is Desperately Poor India Beating New York’s COVID-19 Response? by Adam Mill from American Greatness.

The Real Reason Why Blackstone is Courting the Pentagon by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: This article belongs in the "best posts" category. It is an outstanding example of the investigative reporting by Webb who is tracking the leading members of the Deep State who shape policies of the ruling capitalist class.)
All Spying All the Time by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano from Creators. (Note: I recommend spending a few moments to watch the editorial cartoons on this website.)


Will Belarus Become the Next Banderastan? by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from The Unz Review. (Note: Raevsky uses an odd spelling ("Ianukovich") for the Western conventional spelling of "Yanukovych", the former head of the Ukrainian government.)

My commentary follows:

Raevsky is clearly the best informed writer on the web who understands what is going on in Belarus. The Empire is using their color-revolution strategies to subvert the Belarus's government and co-opt many opposition groups by funding the latter. I cannot understand why the opposing independent nations cannot come up with appropriate defense against these color revolutions. One would think that the Russian and Belarus leadership, after the Ukraine experience, would have devised effective counter strategies to prevent this from happening especially in a border state like Belarus.

Apparently only genuine democratic nations (instead of fake democracies) can withstand these strategies, but these nations have not yet appeared and I doubt that they will appear before climate destabilization puts an end to humans and most other species. If indeed by a miracle such nations did appear in the time remaining, it would still be too late to save humanity because climate destabilization has already set in. But this miraculous event would served to redeem (def) the human species for their roughly 10, 000 years of acceptance of self-serving ruling class societies.


A Closer Look At Belarusian Opposition’s Heavily Anti-Russian National Policy Plans from South Front.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020

• The Evilness of America’s Ruling Class by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. My commentary follows:

Remarkably, Zuesse uses the term "ruling class" two times, but then reverts to using "oligarchy" and "aristocracy"--maybe he is progressing. Zuesse is the only social-democrat who is still frequently published on the internet. Most often social-democrats settle for highly regulated capitalism, but of course, capitalist ruling classes have always prevented this except during a period of extreme stress such as the Great Depression when there were only mild forms of regulation. Thus Zuesse always has fond memories of FDR.

"Ruling class" is a term used frequently by Marxist or revolutionary socialists to describe class structured societies that have existed since civilization was established around 10,000 years ago. The relations between social-democrats and Marxists have been contentious since the appearance of social-democrats mainly in Britain in the late 1800s. I suspect that such exponents saw that their careers were impaired by Marxist concepts, and to safeguard their careers, adopted this tame form of socialism. In the current USA only academic historians, who specialize in Marxist literature and are known as "Marxians", are allowed to work. Revolutionary Marxists were purged by the ruling class around 1950 during the McCarthy period (as explained by Bruce Lerro).

Most frequently Zuesse is listed as a "historian", sometimes as an "investigative historian". But I have never found his biography: where he was educated, the degrees he's earned, anything about his career, and where he worked as a historian. This is strange given that his articles have been published prolifically on the internet. Don't misunderstand me, I like many of his articles which contain many links to documentation that are overlooked by others. I only fault him for his social-democratic concepts which tend to hide the real nature of organized capitalist class rule by using terms such as "oligarchy" and "aristocracy".

• Democrat think tank calls for color revolution if Trump wins election (Video) featuring Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris discussing an article in the Washington Examiner. The post is from The Duran. (Note: The video discussion lasts until 18:15m).

 

• Australia: Willing Pawn in US Struggle with China by Tony Cartalucci from New Eastern Outlook. (My reaction: Of course! Isn't Australia a part of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire?)

• Viral Fake Footage Of “Chinese” Atrocities Shows The Power Of Narrative Spin by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (My reaction: Isn't it obvious that the power of money lies behind the "power of narrative spin"?)

• Western media’s favorite Hong Kong ‘freedom struggle writer’ is American ex-Amnesty staffer in yellowface by Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone. (Note: Blumenthal "outs" "Kong Tsung-gan" as Brian Kern.) 

 

• Invasion of the New Normals by CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (My reaction: Could it be that the typical satire of Hopkins has turned serious in the "New Normal"?)

 

• How bad is covid really? (A Swedish doctor’s perspective) posted by Sebastian Rushworth M.D. from his weblog. (If you liked this post, you may also be interested another post entitled "COVID-19 Down in Sweden Thanks to Invisible Face Masks" from Anti-Empire.)

 

• Dr. Judy Mikovits and the Real Plague Infecting Humanity by Mark Taliano from his website.

• Academia Stoops to Defamation over Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Groundless Accusations against 2 World-class Scientists by Elizabeth Woodworth from Global Research.

• The COVID 2nd Wave Will Tear Our Communities Apart by Stewart Brennan from AlternativeViews. 

 

• A Conversation with John Ioannidis. In this post epidemiologist John Ioannidis submits to a rather aggressive questioning by Saurabh Jha, MD of The Health Care Blog.

 

•  The World on Fire by Robert Hunziker from CounterCurrents.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, January 20, 2020

• NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal 2019 Second Warmest Year on Record from NASA.

• Australia's heat and bushfires are signs of fundamental shifts in its climate by Peter Sinclair from Yale Climate Connections. 

• Climate change “spin” as Davos gathering confronts mounting environmental and economic crisis by Nick Beams from World Socialist Web Site.

• Why 'Corporate Social Responsibility Is a Hoax by Álvaro de Regil Castilla from Climate & Capitalism. (Note: The headline offers old news, but the author goes on to argue that "Subsequently, I gradually realized that an even larger hoax is our belief that we live in democratic societies."

• Trump’s Latest Plan for Iran: Regime Disruption by Eli Lake from Bloomberg. (Note: What is significant about his argument is that some top geopolitical analysts are supporting his argument. See this and this.)

• Yes Minister Fan Fiction by Craig Murray from his weblog (British). (He satirizes British politicians regarding Britain's treatment (use of social identity politics) of Julian Assange. Murray may explain why British activists did, and are doing, so little to protest and rescue Assange.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, January 12, 2020

• So The US Is Invading Iraq Again by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• CNN Video of U.S. Airbase Ruins: Iran entirely destroys Airbase – ‘Unimaginable damage!’ by Joaquin Flores from Fort Russ News. 

• Will Qassem Soleimani's Letter Reach Its Destination? by Onur Sinan Güzaltan from United World (independent based in Turkey).

• Syrian Pres. Adviser: Assad & Putin surprise meeting part of Axis response to Soleimani’s killing from Middle East Observer (sourced from Al-Mayadeen TV in Arabic and translated).

• The Fed Protects Gamblers at the Expense of the Economy by Ellen Brown from TruthDig. 

• How Arctic Ocean Blue Ocean State Will Crush Humanity Like a Bug by climate scientist Paul Beckwith from his weblog.

• Debunked Australian Bushfire Conspiracy Theories Were Pushed by Alex Jones, Murdoch Media by Justin Mikulka from Desmog.

• Death to the Jackals by Alberto Tundo from Maize. 

See if you have the stomach to read today's articles: Friday, January 10, 2020

• The Deeper Story Behind the Assassination of Soleimani by Federico Pieraccini from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• A New Middle East “made in Iran” is about to be born by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

• The Democrats pass Pelosi’s phony antiwar resolution by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site. 

• “Trump Didn’t Get the Message!” Iran’s Military, Iraqi Militia Pledge More Retaliation! from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• Iran’s Hero has Fallen, and Now the World is an Even More Dangerous Place by Andre Vltchek from New Eastern Outlook. 

• Why Trump's Iran Conflict Cannot Be Stopped Or Unwound from The Jimmy Dore Show.

• Iran’s IRGC Aerospace Chief on US casualties/damages/future retaliation steps posted on Middle East Observer. 

• VIDEO – American Soldiers Heard in Tape of Iran’s Retaliation by Joaquin Flores from Fort Russ News.

• Strikes Paralyze France for Fifth Consecutive Week from Fort Russ News.

• ‘Deathly silent’: Ecologist describes Australian wildfires’ devastating aftermath by Dyani Lewis from Nature. 

• As the World Burns, the Powerful Go on Holiday by Kenn Orphan from CounterPunch.

• Ice-free Arctic Ocean allowed ancient carbon leaks by Tim Radford from Climate News Network.