Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, June 16, 2021

• Alternative Visions - Inflation, Infrastructure ‘Smoke & Mirrors’, & Keynes’ Economics by Prof. Jack Rasmus from Alternative Visions in a 53:43m audio presentation. (Note: Rasmus attempts to explain what is the reality of the economy in contrast to what corporate media is reporting.) My reaction: Although he often frames events too much in the economy as Republican versus Democrats, I believe his interpretation of what corporate media currently reports is on the right track versus what is really going on. From my own experience, I also can agree with him in his introduction that readings of outstanding authors in the original is different from careerist and indoctrinated academics who provide skewed interpretations of what these authors wrote. To his credit, Rasmus has read much by these authors. I look forward to future posts in this series.

• It’s Now Official: The Financial House that Jamie Dimon Built Is the Riskiest Bank in the United States by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Tupac Shakur Would Have Turned 50 Today–If He Hadn’t Threatened Deal Between Drug Traffickers and U.S. Banks Making Billions Laundering CIA Drug Money by John Potash from Covert Action Magazine.
  

• Creating enemies: China reacts to NATO targeting it by Rick Rozoff from Anti-Bellum.
  

• Biden wants NATO to project the strength it doesn’t have by Scott Ritter from RT.
  

• Science Update: Climate Change Leads to Reduced Atmospheric Oxygen featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--07:45m), who has fearlessly focused on the climate crisis, examining a research study reported in the Guardian.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, May 10, 2021

• Janet Yellen Is Attempting to Consolidate the Fed’s Power to “Supervise” Wall Street Banks by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. My reaction: Notice the last paragraph in which the Marten's reveal their gullibility and naiveté about Biden. Biden answers to the ruling class much as Yellen does.
  

• Google CAUGHT Helping CIA Spy On You featuring Jimmy Dore, normally a comic (def--#3), seriously exposing the CIA, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc., the rest of their media corporations and their role in subverting real news coverage in the USA. (Note: "establishment" = the ruling capitalist class.) My reaction: I wish the general population could be as informed about our masters as comics like Dore, Hopkins, and R. Brand are.

• The American Cyber Stasi Will Suppress All Digital Dissent In Biden’s Dystopia by Andrew Korybko from Off-Guardian. 

• We can defeat the corporate media’s war to snuff out independent journalism by Jonathan Cook from Dissident Voice.
  

• 💥Propaganda and the Media: Part 1 – Introduction by Larry Romanoff from "The Saker" blog. This is a best post. (Note: You will need to know what "DDoS" means.) My reaction (Revised my reaction at 6:30 AM CT on Tuesday.): This knowledgeable person packs a lot of insights and factual history in this post. I especially found his comments about Chinese news media helpful. I rarely agree 100% with my posts, but I agree with probably 95% of this post. No one person knows everything! That is why we are social animals and depend on each other for the truth, among other important things. However, we are up against a US/Anglo/Zionist Empire that intentionally deceives us. I will provide my differences from Romanoff in future commentaries or reactions.
  

• USAID admits to Venezuela regime change fraud featuring Anya Parampil and Red Lines' channel on YouTube revealing a well-kept secret. From The Grayzone. (Note: Because YouTube is playing games with left-wing and independent websites, you will need to watch the video directly on YouTube.)

• History: The Kent State May 4, 1970 Shootings. New Documents Surface, Raise Serious Questions by Taylor Hudak, a journalist, and Alan Frank, the son of an important figure in the incident from Global Research.
  

• What’s Really Happening In Jerusalem featuring Ryan Cristián interviewing Robert Inlakesh on his take on what is happening in Israel.
  

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 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 Wednesday, March 31, 2021 (I ran out of time)

• Fear of Fairy Tales by John Steppling from his weblog. (Note: Steppling is currently living with his family in Norway. He has a strong background as an American playwright, director of plays, etc., and he apparently is highly educated. I find his posts rather challenging because I don't know how his frequent quotes and images relate to the substance of his articles. He is obviously very disturbed particularly with the current pandemic particularly its impact on children.)
  

💥Thus, I especially recommend Steppling's rather lengthy (1:23:54) conversation (via some technology) with Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Johan Eddebo found  at Aesthetic Resistance (Post #35) (also in the link at the end of the above article). I encourage you to listen to this profound conversation among these highly educated people regarding the significance of the pandemic and its impact on people.) This is a best post.

• Vandana Shiva on the Taking Down of Bill Gates' Empires features Dr. Joseph Mercola in conversation (57:47) with Dr. Vandana Shiva from Marcola's weblog. (Note: This is the first video on the page.)

• What The 2007 Financial Crisis Taught Us About Corrupt Bankers by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room on Medium.com.
  

• Washington’s Hegemonic Ambitions Defy Multipolar Reality, Risking Catastrophic Conflict by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: Cunningham's introduction precedes an interview with Glenn Diesen who is a professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and author of several books.)
  

• The Problem Isn’t Human Nature, The Problem Is A Few Manipulative Sociopaths by Caitlin Johnstone, an independent Australian blogger, from her weblog. My commentary follows: 

Johnstone writes in the article "Someone who says it’s human nature to be selfish, competitive, predatory, exploitative, tyrannical, vicious, brutish and violent isn’t telling you about human nature, they’re telling you about their own nature." Maybe so, but she apparently doesn't yet realize that the capitalist system is based on this view of human nature. Capitalists, and those unwitting people that support them, likely wouldn't dare admit to the negative characteristics but would swear that people are basically selfish. Thus, they would go on to support the capitalist system either completely oblivious to the more negative consequent behaviors listed above and would offer absurd rationalizations for them.

We are fed propaganda to cover-up the heinous crimes the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire commits directly or indirectly. Read a current post entitled The True Story of the Rwandan Genocide from Current Affairs for an example of a major crime (a massacre of at least 500,000 people). This is about who really was responsible for what has been "universally acknowledged as one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century".

• Faced with ICC Investigation, Apartheid Israel Asserts Moral Superiority Over The Victims of Its Terror by Miko Peled from Mint Press News.
  

• Opposing All Governments Equally Is Supporting The Most Powerful Government by Caitlin Johnstone, an independent Australian blogger, from her weblog. My reaction: This is only one fundamental reason why I think shallow-thinking anarchists are nuts.

• Tanzania’s Late President Magufuli: ‘Science Denier’ or Threat to Empire? by Jeremy Loffredo and Whitney Webb from Unlimited Hangout.
  

• Open-Source Versus Patent Monopoly Financing of Drug Development by Dean Baker from CounterPunch. My reaction: The trouble with Baker is that he takes an eighth-grade-civics- class view of how the government of the ruling class works. Thus, he doesn't see that capitalists run the puppet show that the government performs. Patents are one major way they (the capitalist ruling class) have of stealing profits from ordinary workers. Look at Bill Gates and how he accumulated his vast wealth. 

• Twisting the Law by Steve Martinot from CounterPunch. (Note: The following note was published within the article following the article: "[This article contains excerpts from a work in progress called “Brutality: a Study of Police Culture in the US,” which is also looking for a publisher.]". You might also be interested in this post from CGTM, a major Chinese news corporation, via Reuters.
  

• If the Minimum Wage Had Increased as Much as Wall Street Bonuses Since 1985, It Would Be Worth $44 Today by Sarah Anderson from CounterPunch.

• Ecuador’s poisoned loans from the World Bank and the IMF by Eric Toussaint from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt) [Part 1 of the Series].
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, January 29, 2021

• Lessons From Portland’s Protest Movement by Sunnivie Brydum from Yes! (This article features a 3:45m video explain how the movement succeeded over four months.) 

• Gamestop–And the Game That Never Stops by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. My reaction: Rasmus describe how the capitalist system works to make the some of the rich richer and the poor poorer.

• Contradictions of Finance Capitalism by Richard Peet from Monthly Review. My reaction: You will learn about the evolution of industrial capitalism into finance capitalism that began around 1950 and accelerated in the 1980s and beyond. They added finance to their wealth and thereby increased their power over the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. They sought cheap labor all over the world, invested in, and loaned money to, companies that exploited this cheap labor. The also bought many homes in foreign lands which added to their neoliberal outlook (trans-nationalism). The de-industrialization of the USA was the result.  The author reveal that he had an education in North America by ending his article with an affirmation of democratic socialism and a rightward move for the Monthly Review. Democratic socialism in the USA commonly means a welfare-state type of a capitalist economy. In other words, a fake representation of socialism.
  

• What Carbon Budget? from Arctic News. 

• Is the NHS overwhelmed by incoming COVID-19 patients? by Ludovic Noble from Off-Guardian (based in Britain). 

• Conflicts of Interest Taint Investigations Into COVID Origins by Dr. Joseph Mercola from Children's Health Defense. 

• Under Federal Law, Can Your Employer Makte You Get the COVID Vaccine? by Greg Glaser and Mary Holland from Children's Health Defense. (Note: Those who do not choose the vaccine may want to read this article entitled "Forced to Get the COVID Vaccine? ICAN May Be Able to Help."
  

• 329 Deaths + 9,516 Other Injuries Reported Following COVID Vaccine, Latest CDC Data Show from Children's Health Defense. (Note: These stats are never reported by corporate TV stations.) 

• January 6th: Cops, Vigilantes, and the Ruling Class by Richard Moser from Be Freedom. 

• Reuters vs. Thailand: Why Does the Western Media Always Lie? by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. My commentary follows: 

I have followed this ex-Marine for the last 10 years, and I've always found his reports about political issues, whether they were about Thailand or some other country, to be absolutely spot-on (to use a British expression). Thus I trust his presentation and analyses of issues.

As Caitlin Johnstone frequently and convincingly writes, "Whoever controls the narrative controls the world." This is never more true than in today's world because the communication of ideas has become under such tight control by a relatively few capitalists than ever before. This point is driven into our consciousness no better than this article by Berletic. The solution is obvious: take away their ownership/control of communication properties. But that would be the ultimate evil of communism, you declare in an angry voice! The thorough indoctrination of your mind by capitalist ruling classes who control all institutions is the problem preventing any future progress and ensuring our ultimate doom.

• Biden Attacks Farms – Comprehensive War on Global Food Supply – Engineered Famine by the "Ice Age Farmer" from his weblog. (Note: This post features his 27:35m report on his YouTube channel.) My reaction: I don't know much about farming, the production of crops, the world's food supply, etc. I would like to learn of your responses to this report by writing to me at goatmeal36@yahoo.com.)

• 2020 Annual Wrap Up: The Going Direct Reset — The Central Bankers Make Their Move with John Titus in 4 minute video report posted by Catherine Austin Fitts from her weblog Solari Report. 

• Solutions: Survival Currency featuring James Corbett of The Corbett Report giving his introduction and recommendations for a survival currency. (Note: Although I have only listened to 25 minutes of his one hour talk, I think it is worth your time.) 
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, November 19, 2020

• EcoHealth Alliance orchestrated key scientists’ statement on “natural origin” of SARS-CoV-2 from USRTK (U.S. Right to Know). (Note: The Lancet is a prominent medical journal based in Britain.)

• Pfizer’s Experimental Covid-19 Vaccine—What You’re Not Being Told by Johnny Vedmore from Unlimited Hangout.
  

• Beyond COVID-19: the Power Struggle Over Alternatives for Health Care Reform by John P. Geyman from CounterPunch. (My reaction: And then the ruling class pretends to care about our health!)

Corporatization, privatization, a shift from not-for-profit to for-profit health care, and the growth of investor-owned corporate health care have been dominant themes in the transformation of U. S. health care since the 1980s. We have seen a 3,000 percent growth in the numbers of administrators and managers [with their focus on profit] compared to a minimal growth in the numbers of physicians. [My insertion]

• Crisis, What Crisis? Hypocrisy and Public Health in the UK by Rosemary Mason & Colin Todhunter from Off-Guardian.

Since that time, we have seen lockdowns, an ongoing government-backed fear campaign, fundamental rights being stripped away, dissent censored, inflated COVID-19 death numbers and the use of a flawed PCR test to label perfectly healthy individuals as COVID-19 ‘cases’ in order to fit the narrative of a ‘second wave’. 

But, just for a moment, consider an alternative scenario… 

The government is extremely worried about a substance that could be contributing to a spiraling public health crisis that has been decades in the making. It has been detected in food and in urine. The government has therefore decided to carry out mass urine testing. It has found millions of ‘cases’. ....

But the government does nothing. It does not just do nothing but actively facilitates the marketing of this substance and collude with its manufacturers.  [Sorry for the inconsistent formatting.]

And the name of this ‘stuff’? Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide. The main culprit – Monsanto’s Roundup. But it is not just glyphosate. It is the cocktail of agricultural chemicals that have been in use for decades.

• The crisis triggered by the pandemic and the economic policy of the European Union by Daniel Albarracín from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt).

The Covid-19 pandemic has overwhelmed our species due to its impact on public health, but even more because of the depth of the economic depression it has unleashed, causing a social and employment disaster which plunges us into uncertainty.

The European Deep State follows the lead of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, of which they are an integral part. The author provides an illustration of an informal theme frequently used by the directors of the Empire first identified by journalist Vanessa Beeley that was going in Syria: problem, reaction, and solution. Currently they have initiated the problem (as yet unproven, but likely) of the covid-19 pandemic which adversely impacts public health and the economies of nations of the world, then their media corporations hype the threat which caused widespread fear, and finally, they offer solutions: highly profitable (for them) vaccines and the rest of the Great Reset package: digital money and authoritarian decisions (more censorship and surveillance) by major tech corporations. All of these programs are designed to enhance the profits and power of the transnational capitalist ruling classes in Europe, and offer the transnational capitalist class's solution to the climate crisis by depopulating "useless eaters" (people who don't contribute to the power and profits of the Empire and their corporations).

The design of the European Union, despite the propaganda and its founding myths, is not conceived to protect its citizens in general, let alone its working classes. Its cornerstones are the defence of the freedom of movement of capital and goods and, when and as appropriate, the mobility of people within its borders, to achieve more profitability and competitiveness for its companies. The aspects of cohesion it may contain do not counteracting [sic] this priority.

• The Secret Agenda of the World Bank and IMF by Peter Koenig from New Eastern Outlook.
  

• Rapper Lord Jamar: 'George Soros Controls Black Lives Matter - It's NOT Our Movement' by Jay Greenberg from Neon Nettle featuring a video interview with rapper Lord Jamar. (My reaction: I know I'm getting past my expiry date when website authors refer to "leftists" as supporting the ruling class. It is an illustration of the shifting political spectrum here in the USA.)
  

• The ECB would (not really) like to know your opinion on the digital euro – let them know by Norbert Häring, a German economist, from his weblog Money and More.

• Militarism and the Populist Playbook by Craig Murray, a Scottish activist, from his weblog.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, October 14, 2020

• Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime by Gabriel Rockhill from CounterPunch. (Note: Rockhill is using the term "liberalism" in the classic sense which means the ideology of capitalism.) My commentary follows:

I agree with most of this article with the exception being that he does not distinguish capitalist "democracy" or,  a more familiar and equivalent term, "bourgeois democracy", from socialist democracy. Lenin laid down the theoretical framework for the latter, but immediately after the Russian Revolution, Russia was under attack mainly by Britain, France, Japan, and the USA--especially by Britain which interfered with Lenin's plans. Also the quashing of the Communist party in Germany contributed to the distortion of Lenin's plans and resulted in a bureaucratic ruling class headed by the authoritarian Stalin. 

A socialist democracy has yet to be created or established, and it doesn't seem likely to appear given the limited amount time humans have due to the threat posed by the ecological crisis and the bellicose and aggressive nature of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. The latter poses the threat of a catastrophic nuclear war.

To be sure, after WWII the Western intellectual apologists for capitalism had to extensively ignore the reality of the fascist roots in capitalism, and went on to extensively rewrite the history of WWII that is de rigueur throughout the present day Empire.

I think there is a basic conflict between capitalism and socialism, and that is the question of allegiance to the extended family versus society. If one chooses family, capitalism provides the means to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of families which are the owners of economic property (and their supporters) over those who don't own economic property.

This is a powerful motive force which is the basis for many conflicts among humans, particularly those who, otherwise support socialist policies; but faced with the loss of jobs and careers, that would bring poverty to their families, many choose a capitalist path. The choice of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was capitalism, and she greatly benefited from her choice. She described her choice in a nutshell that embarrassed a number of members of the capitalist class because it was so true. She said there was no such thing as society, there were only families, and added that maybe neighbors as well.

Capitalist ruling classes have often used this control over jobs and careers in an exaggerated way to co-op people into activities that they would otherwise not engage. This is especially true of highly educated people necessary to maintain and protect all the capitalist machinery necessary for the system to enhance the wealth and power of the ruling class. This practice has led to the corruption of many highly trained professional and managerial people throughout every institution in the Empire.

• U.S. Government Awards Contracts to Seven Organizations with Ties to Gates Foundation, DARPA, Big Tech by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.

• Open letter from medical doctors and health professionals to all Belgian authorities and all Belgian media. From Docs4opendebate.
  

• James Corbett Encourages You To Do Your Own Research from Corbett's website. (My reaction: The only problem with Corbett's views is that he blames the "media" for using experts as a way to support their authoritarian directions. He doesn't yet see that a capitalist ruling class controls major media corporations.)

• If the Main Stream Narrative Was a Conspiracy, a 3:30m video featuring JP Sears from his channel (via YouTube) doing a parody of what he has learned about the coronavirus from media corporations. 
  

• Airlines Test ‘Proof-of-Immunity’ Technology, Privacy Watchdogs Call It ‘Troubling’ by Jeremy Loffredo from Children's Health Defense.
  

• How the IMF and World Bank Turned a Pandemic into a Public Relations Stunt by Walden Bello from Foreign Policy in Focus.

• Hefty profits for top US banks as millions face social disaster by Shannon Jones from World Socialist Web Site. 

• WARNING: COVID-19 Vaccine Partnership with AstraZeneca a Threat to Public Health by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. 

• High Temperatures October 2020 from Arctic News. 

• The Battle for Hope in the Anthropocene by Jethro Gauld, Ph.D. Researcher from Scientists Warning. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020

• Massive money laundering | Top banks accused of playing part in movement of $2 trillion from RT (via YouTube). My reaction: Could it be that our masters in the ruling capitalist class are criminals just as drug traffickers and (their) terrorists are?

• There’s a Pattern of Corporate Media Censoring News About Wall Street Banks’ Crimes by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• Merciless virus | Poor hit hardest by the COVID pandemic from RT (via YouTube). My reaction: Could it be that our masters in the ruling capitalist class are engaging in class warfare as they have done in the past several hundred years? If you believe that they care about your health, that is, if you are a "useless eater", and, if you are not one of their "essential workers" or highly trained and rewarded technical and professional workers and don't contribute to the power and wealth of the ruling class of major capitalists (often deceptively referred to by social-democrats as simply "billionaires"), I have several fine bridges to sell you.

• Lies, Damned Lies and Health Statistics – the Deadly Danger of False Positives by Dr Michael Yeadon (a Brit) from Lockdown Sceptics. (Note: You are likely to need some knowledge of science to fully appreciate this article.)

• Facts about Covid-19 from Swiss Policy Research. (Note: I regard this always updated website to be the most reliable source of information regarding the "pandemic".)
  

• A Ukrainian/CIA Plot To Incite Belarus Against Russia Unraveled - The NYT Story Thereof Is Hiding The Failure by Bernhard (an independent German blogger) from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• Why It is Likelier that the U.S. Government Had Alexei Navalny Poisoned by Eric Zuesse from Dissident Voice.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, Sept. 14, 2020

• The Social Dilemma film from Thought Maybe. My critical review of the 1 hour and 33 minute film follows: 
  

The film, Social Dilemma, a production by Netflix corporation, begins with an opening quote by Sophocles "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse." and ends with the statement "Let's have a conversation about fixing it.". Nothing in between in the more than 133 minutes of the film addresses the fundamental and critical problem that needs to be "fixed" (or replaced)--capitalism. Various technology experts in the film casually mention that the present technology of social media serves to persuade people to buy products, for ulterior political aims, and to manipulate people to create more profits for the giant technology corporations. But that's it. They obviously cannot connect these effects to the system of capitalism.

Throughout the film we follow the life of a social media addict and his behaviors that are affected by this addiction. But, mostly he does like most addicts do: succumb to his addiction by being distant from his family, inattention at school, and poor self-esteem. The film provides disturbing information that social media corporations like Facebook, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, etc. are causing, and the many adverse effects on mostly young people: increasing suicide rates among young users, poor performance at school, deleterious effects on family cohesion, etc.

The message is clear for the audience of the film: technology is the problem and those who have created it need to fix it. These technologists recommend a few specific fixes such as greater regulation of social media corporations, parents limiting the time allowed for young people to use social media, etc., but nothing related to the underlying system of capitalism.

To be sure, not only social media has caused serious problems, but the whole internet technology as directed by capitalist bosses has caused serious problems. What these technologist-speakers fail to uncover is the man-made system of capitalism that has brought this "curse" to societies, instead the film focuses on the devastating effects of social media on mostly young people, and methods to "fix" them so that they can reduce the harmful effects. 

These technologists-speakers are the perfect product of the ruling capitalist class whose control of every institution--education, media, entertainment, etc.--has ensured that they remain oblivious to the underlying system of capitalism that controls the use of social media to promote an increase profits of capitalists and their control of society.

Back in the 1980s technologists were initially fascinated with its promise to enrich people's lives by making access to information more convenient, connecting people instantly to friends and loved ones separated by hundreds of miles, and managing their daily affairs so conveniently. They initially saw this technology as simply "so cool" to be involved with. In the early years, they accomplished much and the future looked promising.

However, the ruling capitalist class began to see that this technology could be harnessed to reap greater profits, provide greater surveillance on potential troublemakers, and enable 24/7 propaganda to ensure that their subjects receive the “right” information about what was happening in the world. They slowly, but deliberately, set about to develop this technology to serve these interests, and Silicon Valley took off. Now that they have introduced artificial intelligence (AI) to radically increase the harmful effects on young people, the effects of social media look frightening. 

Meanwhile, as social media technology developed, the ruling class continued the ongoing indoctrination of capitalist values and discouraged the belief that any other system was even possible. Thus, these former young innovative technologists, like all Americans, remained naively committed to capitalism as they got older. The indoctrination encouraged the belief that no other system was even possible. This film produced by Netflix corporation serves to ensure that these technology "fixers" and the general audience remain in ignorance.

• The Plan to Silence Doctors Once and For All from Bitchute. (Note: This 4:43m video features Spiro Skouras talking about plan.)

• The Sudden Reversal on Facial Masks: Mandated Public Masking in Wisconsin, USA by Prof. Bill Willers from Global Research (based in Canada). 

• From Paul Wolfowitz (2005-2007) to David Malpass (2019): the US President’s men control the World Bank by Eric Toussaint from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt). 

• America’s “Good” Wars by Alan Johnstone from Dissident Voice. (Although he uses little documentation to back up his history of WWII, he clearly knows his history. I have read widely about WWII and can verify his history of the war. This history is largely unknown to Americans because they have been so subject to the Empire's propaganda about this war, and all the other wars since.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020

• Belarusian President Lukashenko Says IMF Offered A Billion USD Bribe to Impose Covid-19 Lockdown by Joaquin Flores from FRN (Fort Russ News which is based in Serbia). My reaction: "This fact can be verified using most search engines." I did this and am satisfied that the report is factual: see this, this, and this. This report is another illustration of the use of money to influence how people behave; and in this case, regarding a nation's leader. In many cases, the influence of money applies to politicians who need money to finance their candidacy in government elections, professional people who have careers to protect to support a comfortable lifestyle, and workers who want to protect their jobs that are needed for their, and their families', very survival. Concentrated wealth is promoted under capitalism. The system often leads to decisions that harm most people, but benefit their ruling classes. The system needs to be abolished and substituted for one that promotes egalitarian and thoroughly democratic societies. 

• UK’s MSM has slavishly obeyed the govt over Covid like the docile arm of a despotic state. I know, because I was part of it by Matt Drake from RT. My reaction: Of course the same obedient-like behavior of ordinary people applies to most governments fronted by ruling classes on our planet Earth. I think that this phenomenon is a result of roughly 10,000 years of domination of ruling classes that they have obtained through various forms of violence. This experience has engendered in ordinary people a belief in the superiority of their masters, and that their "superiors" have innate abilities that we ordinary people do not have.  Many of the upper-middle-class, whose support is needed for the current ruling class of capitalists to exist, also are convinced of this through their socialization. Such propaganda is pervasive in class-ridden societies.

• Let’s Give Trump Some Credit—On Labor Day He Threw Down the Gauntlet to the Corrupt Military Brass by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog. My reaction: What he, who is intensely loyal to capitalism, fails to recognize is that the system of capitalism inevitably produces the use of money to influence decisions.

• No, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Didn’t Spawn 250,000 Coronavirus Cases by Elizabeth Nolan Brown from Anti-Empire. (Note: Also see this report.) My reaction: I've recently been to Sioux Falls, South Dakota and discovered their small businesses are thriving--unfortunately their workers enjoy near minimum wages--and their economy is too, to the extent possible for small business enterprises. Such propaganda, laughable or not, is believed by many of those who follow media controlled by the ruling capitalist class.

• Flu is killing more people than Covid19, and has been for months by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

• DHS Head Chad Wolf Adopts Language of War in Threats Against Portland Protesters by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. My reaction: Whenever the ruling class is threatened, they respond by the use of force whether Constitutional or not.

• Belarus: A Catalyst for Regime Change and the Peace Alternative by Roger D. Harris from Mint Press News. (Note: Excellent journalism!)

• Allegiant Stadium In Vegas to Be America’s First Pro Sports Venue to Open Cashless (from 0:00m to 7:25m) from The Corbett Report. My reaction: This happening, the promotion of digital money, is another benefit, among a number of other benefits to the ruling class derived from their engineered "pandemic crisis".
  

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

• “COVID Vaccines” and “Genetically Modified Humans” by Dr. Carrie Madej and Mark Taliano from Global Research. (Note: Dr. Madej offers a commonsense explanation of the highly profitable Gates' vaccines that may be forced upon us. Highly recommended.

• Pharma Tries to Cash in on Covid Shutdowns With Its Best-Selling Drug by Martha Rosenberg from CounterPunch.

• Oxford epidemiologists: suppression strategy is not viable featuring two Oxford epidemiologists (via YouTube) discussing the problems of non-scientific (non-evidenced based) advice and other issues regarding the Covid-19 pandemic.

• GloboCap Über Alles by master satirist CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. 

• Goldman Sachs Makes Record Profits Amid Economic Crisis for the Working Class by Tatiana Cozzarelli from Left Voice. My commentary follows:

Although this article concentrates on one bank, it is clear that the author only points to Goldman Sachs as an example of major banks and corporations in the USA as an example of the wide effects on different social-economic classes in the USA, "the land of the free and the home of the brave".

Although I am aware of the social and economic inequalities of my existance in the USA, I learned much more from reading a book entitled The Capitalists of the 21st Century. I also learned that I was unaware of the full extent that transnational capitalists have enriched and empowered themselves at the expense of ordinary US citizens. And, the same is becoming true to citizens throughout the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. 

When you read this book, you will learn about major self-serving capital organizers--BlackRock appears to be the worst--that have owned governments throughout the Empire, regard corporations as commadities to bet on in their casino on Wall Street, that have created news corpoations as propaganda organs, and as a result are imposing enormous suffering on ordinary people. This book explains why top members of this ruling class regard ordinary people, who they have brainwashed and lied to (the biggest lie is that they pretend to care about our health), as "dumb fucks" and "deplorables". These "giant vampire squids" that have tentacles in all our institutions are quite different from the major corporations and banks that ruled most of the world in the 20th century. 

I won't do a review of the book because Norbert Häring has already done this for me, but I have added it to my recommended list of books and I urge you to read it.

(Note: To my consternation, my paperback does not include an index, and I am unable to determine if a hardback edition contains an index or not.)

• Millions in the US face disaster as $600 federal unemployment aid set to end this week by Jacob Crosse from World Socialist Web Site.

• The Fed Rides to the Rescue of JPMorgan and Citi Again – This Time It’s Their Commercial Real Estate Mortgages by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Masked, Homeless, and Desolate by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain. 

• CoronaShock and Socialism from Tricontinental and re-posted by Titanic Lifeboat Academy, a sister website. (Note: I thank an activist for alerting me to this fine article.) My reaction: The contrast regarding the effects of the coronavirus pandemic in other countries with mixed economies to what is happening in the USA is stark. Not only people in these countries are suffering very limited effects of the virus, but they are not suffering the economic and social effects that people in the advanced capitalist country like the USA are suffering.

• Cold Wars and Profit by Craig Murray (Scotsman) from his weblog. 

• Cancel Government Secrecy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• NYT, FBI, Spy inside WH. NEW DOCS prove COUP plot to remove Trump by Alex Christoforou from The Duran. My commentary follows:  

Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris assemble the evidence of the Deep State's obsessive effort to remove the Trump administration, but they do not point to a "Deep State", the real government of the USA. They go on in a dramatic fashion to point to "plotters" that are creating an "existential crisis" for the US government and the American people. They miss the greater significance of internecine strife among the capitalist ruling class because the American people voted the wrong way in 2016 for the chief executive officer of the USA. Because of this obsession with Donald Trump, a renegade capitalist who refuses to take orders from the Deep State, the latter are now pursuing a reckless course of action with the Covid-19 pandemic (among other reasons) to undermine his chances for re-election in November's elections.)

• China’s Economy – and Globalization – A Look into the Future by Peter Koenig from New Eastern Outlook.

• US attorney general explains the real reason Washington is hostile to China by Stephen Gowans from his weblog What's Left.

• Influential DC-based Ukrainian think tank hosts neo-Nazi activist convicted for racist violence by Moss Robeson from The Grayzone.

The US-Ukraine Foundation hosted notorious neo-Nazi militant Diana Vynohradova in a webinar this month. While legitimizing Ukrainian white supremacists, the think tank has forged close ties with foreign policy elites in Washington. 

• Climate change blamed for China flood disaster by Katrina Yu from Al Jazeera.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, July 5, 2020

• How BlackRock exploited the COVID-19 pandemic. RT interviews Ellen Brown about her latest article in which she says that BlackRock, a core Deep State actor, should be broken up as a cartel. What do you think the chances are of that happening?

• The Mask as a Symbol of Subjugation by Bill Willers from Dissident Voice. 

• Conspiracy Theories Malign And Benign – Face Masks And Israeli Training Of US Police by David Edwards, an editor of the Media Lens (British) weblog. I direct you to his examination of a "conspiracy theory" regarding the official advice about wearing face mask beginning with "Last week, Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens" and ending just before "Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory". I don't want people to think that I cherry-pick my independent sources (from government, corporations, and the ruling class) in order to support my points. Edwards gives the best argument that I have seen that supports the official advice to wear a face mask during the pandemic. He regards the opposing arguments as a conspiracy theory. My commentary follows:

I think that Edwards defends obedience to authorities as the best way to deal with health issues. The problem is that government officials been so often discredited in the past (see only one example) by leaks, evidence, and corruption that they can no longer be trusted. The trust in government officials has been so undermined in the past 60 years that they have very little credibility with many of the public, especially with our more astute and informed members.

He cites as one such authroity, "Cambridge University". I did a little research on his claim and found that the lead professor was a plant epidemiologist. According to Wikipedia, "Plant disease epidemiologists strive for an understanding of the cause and effects of disease and develop strategies to intervene in situations where crop losses may occur." Doesn't Cambridge U. have no epidemiologists that specialize in human diseases? And, what about Stanford University's Dr. John Ioannidis (epidemiologist for humans) who found that the coronavirus was similar to the seasonal flu which was met with draconian measures to combat it. Also, see an excerpts from research studies regarding use of face masks.

• Meet Remdesivir – a pill the US government swallows whole from RT (via YouTube). Also, you might be interested in a fuller coverage of this topic from Global Research and Defend Democracy Press.

• Are Children Really Recovering 99.9584% of the Time From COVID-19? by H. Ealy and others from Children's Health Defense. 

• Leigh Dundas, an attorney in Orange County, California, whose message on Facebook argues against stringent measures that may be imposed upon students in public schools.

• The Swedish Approach to the Coronavirus Pandemic from Journeyman Pictures (via YouTube). 

• More evidence that most coronavirus cases are now weaker than the flu by Daniel Horowitz ·from Conservative Review.

• ‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists by Asher Moses from Voice of Action.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, June 26, 2020

• Cash4Covid – How hospitals are making money off the coronavirus by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

• “Covid-19 Has Turned Public Health into a Patient-Killing Experiment” by Catte Black from Off-Guardian. Note: The author quotes the latest discoverer, Dr. Meryl Nass MD, of questionable medical practices:

"Why is public health being turned on its head? REMAP-Covid is the third major multicenter clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine to give toxic doses to Covid patients. Who or what is behind this concerted effort to maim or kill patients in order to kill any appearance of benefit from hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of Covid-19?"

My reaction: Could it be that agents of Big Pharma have influence medical practioners to do so in order to discredit the cheaply produced hydroxychloroquine?

• Swedish Confidence Levels Jump as Covid-19 Concern Recedes by Niclas Rolander from Bloomberg. 

• Washington Sailing on Collision Course With China by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• How Racism Is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order by Richard D. Wolff from Brave New Europe. 

• End It by an editor from Fever. (Note: I have now added this website to my list of roughly 50 sources after being notified by an activist that it contained articles of interest to me.) 

• Bloomberg Drops a Bombshell on the Fed’s Big Bank Stress Tests Set for Release Today by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• ‘Six Months To Avert Climate Crisis’: Climate Breakdown And The Corporate Media by David Cromwell, senior editor of Media Lens.

• Why North Korea blew up the inter-Korean liaison office – What's Left by Stephen Gowans from his weblog What's Left. (Note: Another example--if you need one--of corporate media's exploitation of news as propaganda serving the Empire.)

• US destruction of North Korea must not be forgotten by Brett Wilkins from Asia Times.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, June 23, 2020

• Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid by Ellen Brown from The Unz Review. (My reaction: I believe this is a very important article on this private investment entity for, and by, the rich. I believe it is a very important component of what Brown refers to as an "almost a shadow government", or what I and others are now referring to as an existing "Deep State" that lies behind the facade of our "democratic" government.

• U.S. Supreme Court Reaffirms U.S. Police State by Eric Zuesse from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. My brief commentary:

Zuesse, a social-democratic indoctrinated historian, shows his alertness by recognizing this as a singular (def. #3) event by the Supreme Court, one of the fundamental branches of US government. Because of this, cops (and they know it) like Derek Chauvin have the Deep State's permission to kill citizens regardless of the circumstances. (See how the fascist faction of the ruling class after WWII purged all institutions of people who held any leftist views.)

But instead of sourcing this as rooted in the early US capitalist class whose "Founding Fathers" established their government of the USA, Zuesse implies that indecent people have been appointed in recent years to the Supreme Court. The latter has, starting in 1983 (of course cops killed people before then, but the people didn't have the courage, or were so foolish, to attempt to take legal actions against the police), ruled that killing people in the line of duty was okay, and the June 15th ruling confirms that. (Did you hear that from media corporations?)   Zuesse writes:

This isn’t a failure ONLY by the U.S. Supreme Court. It is instead an expression of the American system as it now exists, and which failure renders the U.S. Constitution itself almost meaningless, especially as regards the rights of the people and the obligations of federal officials at all levels in the government. There is no accountability; there is only blame. And, as in any authoritarian system, all blame goes downward, and all praise goes upward. That’s the reality. 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. Pretending otherwise won’t fix anything. Drastic changes are needed. And the American public has proven itself not up to the challenge, still refuses to face the reality. This is system-failure. And the public refuses to face it.

And, he goes on to write that only a Constitutional Amendment can changes things. He's right, and Chauvin and other cops will keep on killing and protecting the ruling class.

• Dr. Fauci Admits He LIED About Mask Safety! featuring Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show via YouTube). (My reaction: I don't trust anything that corporate media reports on this virus. The most trusted source that I've found is from Swiss Policy Research.)

• Will the Coronavirus Widen the Rift Between US and Europe? by Arthur Evans from FRN (based in Serbia). (My reaction: Cracks are appearing in the European section of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

• America: A War Machine on Top of a Police State by Caitlin Johnstone from American Herald Tribune. (Note: This time Johnstone writes on a different weblog.)

America is a war machine on top of a police state on top of a mass media psyop. Only people who are willing to keep these psychopathic mechanisms in place are permitted to ascend to presidential candidacy. While all the news cameras focus on the relatively minor differences between presidents and presidential candidates, you can learn a lot more about America and what drives it by looking at their similarities.

• Tensions in Lebanon are Rising by Vladimir Platov from New Eastern Outlook. (My reaction: Tensions are appearing all over the world as economies deteriorate, and violence appears as a result of the Empire's transnational capitalists who attempt to maintain their empire. This trend will only accelerate due to global warming.) 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, June 8, 2020

• Capitalism Always Produces Racism by Sam Miller from Left Voice.

• FBI launches open attack on ‘foreign’ alternative media outlets challenging US foreign policy by Gareth Porter from The Grayzone.

• Investors Were Being Blocked from Fund Withdrawals Months Before the Pandemic by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• They Don’t Care About The Data, And They Never Have by Allan Stevo from LewRockwell.

• This Has Been the First Global Infodemic of the Information Age — But Are We Now Immune? By Marko Marjanović from Anti-Empire.

• The Establishment Only Dislikes Trump Because He Puts an Ugly Face by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. My reaction: Also because he doesn't follow orders from the Deep State--he's a "loose cannon" within the rightwing.

• Despite pandemic, CO2 hits new record from Climate & Capitalism.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, June 7, 2020

• Anti-Communism is a Fundamentalist Religion, Now Followed by Billions by Andre Vltchek from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: I must thank an activist, Caren, for alerting me to this post.) My commentary follows:

Not only anti-Communism is a religion, but capitalism is as well. Unlike Vltchek, I was thoroughly indoctrinated in capitalism having been born and raised in the USA. But I was exposed to other versions of political reality in my young adult years. So I gradually became immune to the incessant propaganda that I was subject to the rest of my life. Because I had doubts in 1959 and subsequent years about what I was told to believe about Cuba and its revolution, and I sought out obscure periodicals in the library at a university that I was attending. These provided a very different version of political reality regarding their revolution. Since then, I uncovered one lie after another while being subject to an incessant, 24/7 propaganda barrage disparaging communism (a Marxist variant on the theme of socialism) and celebrating the fake version of "democracy" which I soon discovered as the bourgeous or capitalist version of democracy. I became convinced that capitalism was the root cause of so many social problems.

However Vltchek never directly answered the question posed early in his article in a quote apparently by his friend Aleksandr Buzgalin: “How is it possible that a system so logical, progressive, and so superior to what is, up till now, governing the world, failed to permanently overthrow the nihilism and brutality of capitalism, imperialism and neo-colonialism?” Obviously he lays the blame on capitalist propaganda. But, what would you expect other than their use of propaganda together with all other weapons at their disposal in order to destroy a system that was a major threat to capitalist rule?

I have since studied this question and have concluded that the Soviet Union was so damaged after their revolution in 1917 due to foreign invasions and trade boycotts by capitalist countries that they soon succumbed to a self-serving bureaucracy led by Joseph Stalin, and from which they never recovered. In effect, a bureaucratic ruling class was established. In addition, Lenin and his Bolsheviks knew that in order to succeed, other revolutions needed to occur in advanced capitalist countries which did not happen because they were crushed by the capitalist ruling classes.

Now I would answer this question by stating that "a system so logical, progressive, and so superior" to capitalism is no guarantee that it will survive and thrive. Even if the USSR had anything like a real communism, history has offered proof of this. I think that a communist system might still succeed if humans had a future beyond a century with the (doubtful) assumption that humans could avert a catastrophic nuclear war. But they do not. Because capitalist activities have so polluted our skies, oceans, and trees with greenhouse gases, the human species has insured its own extinction within a few decades. 

Karl Marx got one thing wrong--the inevitability of communism for the salvation of humans. Why should humans unlike all other species have this quality of endurance?

• The Most Revealing Footage On Police Brutality Is These Cops Applauding Its Perpetrators by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Homicidal Cops Caught On Police Radio by Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show via YouTube). 

• Is the Coronavirus Scare a Psychological Operation? by Kevin Ryan from Off-Guardian.

• The Shallow Deep-State Goes Deeper as It Moves Toward Martial Law by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain.

• BlackRock Authored the Bailout Plan Before There Was a Crisis – Now It’s Been Hired by three Central Banks to Implement the Plan by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• CNBC Makes Up V-Shaped Charts To Support False Claims Of Economic Recovery by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, June 1, 2020

• The George Floyd Killing in Minneapolis Exposes the Failures of Police Reform by Alice Speri, Alleen Brown, and Mara Hvistendahl from The Intercept.

• From Soft to Hard Fascism: “Get In Your House Right Now!” by Kurt Nimmo from his weblog Another Day in the Empire.

• Many US Journalists Arrested After New York Times Falsely Claims That Doesn’t Happen In America by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Undercover cops or protesters picking out bad seeds? from RT (via YouTube). 

• We Are All Jakarta by David Swanson from his weblog Let's Try Democracy.

• The Propaganda Multiplier from Swiss Policy Research. (Note: This post might provide you with all you need to know about fundamental media corporations.)

• Unsanitized: BlackRock Is Buyer and Seller by David Dayen from The American Prospect.