Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, June 15, 2021

•  Targeting Russia and China Instead of the Real Enemy – Capitalist Inequality by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• The Enduring False Narrative About the PULSE Massacre Shows the Power of Media Propaganda by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog at Substack.

• Censorship: Facebook Has Removed 16 Million Pieces of Content & Added ‘Warnings’ On 167 Million by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

The censorship of information is at an all time high, but do people really recognize the extent to which it has been and is being carried out? A recent article published in the British Medical Journal by journalist Laurie Clarke has highlighted the fact that Facebook has already removed at least 16 million pieces of content from its platform and added warnings to approximately 167 million others. YouTube has removed nearly 1 million videos related to, according to them, “dangerous or misleading covid-19 medical information.” 

• Conformity: The Vice of the Coward Stacey Rudin from her weblog on Medium.

• REVEALED: Soros Bankrolls AOC’s Anti-Billionaire NYC Mayoral Candidate Maya Wiley. By Natalie Winters from The National Pulse. My reaction: These are great times for women of color to make it into political offices. There is only one catch: They must carry- out orders of their masters in the capitalist ruling class. This is another manifestation of the ruling class wrapping themselves in virtue.
  

• Sanctions on Syria – a silent death and killing hope by Vanessa Beeley from her weblog The Wall Will Fall. 

This is the latest panel discussion hosted by the International Manifesto Group on Sunday 13th June 2021.

 
Economic sanctions are becoming an increasingly popular foreign policy instrument in Western countries, deployed alone or in conjunction with military and/or diplomatic interventions to achieve strategic political and policy goals, such as ostensibly protecting individuals and states from the behaviour of wrongdoers. Because economic sanctions are considered less violent than direct military assault, they are often supported by many on the left and the peace movement, who reluctantly accept the policy as a necessary evil.

This panel, part of a broader series on sanctions, will focus on their public health effects, through an analysis of five case studies: Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Syria and Iran. All but one of these countries are currently under sanctions by both Canada and the United States.

 

(Note: This post is only Beeley's contribution to this discussion regarding Syria as a victim of economic sanctions that was a part of the general discussions about the effects, particularly on small countries, from the use of economic sanctions. Only large, financially stable nations like Russia and China can prevent sanctions from doing major damage to their nations.)

 

My reaction: The weapon of economic sanctions is the 21st century's weapon of choice that formerly was accomplished by what Gen. Smedley Butler referred to as a "racket" that was the weapon of choice for the US prior to WWII. (After WWII such invasions were replaced by subversive actions. Economic sanctions were added to subversive efforts in the 21st century. This was especially evident in Syria, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran.) Butler was referring to the invasions of Latin American countries, much like organized crime used in major North American cities, to threaten small businesses with harm if they didn't financially dole out bribes to Mafia figures to prevent further harm. 

• Amazon Buys MGM Amidst Antitrust Court Case featuring Naomi Karavani of the Redacted Tonight show. (comical satire)
  

Naomi Karavani focuses on Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com, Inc. in this Weekly Offensive. Bezos recently announced his plan to head to space on a commercial flight with his company Blue Origin. The announcement of his space flight came amid a flurry of bad press over tax evasion, questions about antitrust violations, Amazon's $8.45 billion purchase of MGM, and a global corporate tax proposal from the G7 that could leave Amazon out.

• The Same Shady People Own Big Pharma and the Media by Dr. Joseph Mercola from his weblog.
  

• The US-Russia Summit by Patrick Lawrence from Consortium News.
  

• Empire of Clowns vs. Yellow Peril by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.

• How U.S. and UK Information-Warfare Fronts Ignited Anti-Government Protests in Belarus by Kit Klarenberg from CovertAction Magazine.
  

• Who is Naftali Bennett? from RT America. 

• The Truth About the California Water Crisis by Joshua Frank from CounterPunch.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, May 18, 2021

• Eric Clapton’s Anti-Vaccine Diatribe Blames ‘Propaganda’ for ‘Disastrous’ Experience by Daniel Kreps from Rolling Stone.

• How the CDC is manipulating data to prop-up “vaccine effectiveness” by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

• How Bill Gates & Big Pharma used children as “guinea pigs”…and got away with it. By Bernard Marx from Off-Guardian.
  

• Russell Brand: Is There a ‘Deliberate Attempt’ to Hide Origins of COVID? featuring a 17:32m video of British Russell Brand from Children's Health Defense asking all kinds of questions to unravel the mysteries of the origins of Covid-19 illness that has been used to rationalize a worldwide pandemic and health restrictions on our civil liberties of lock-downs, mask-wearing, and social distancing, all of which bankrupted an unknown number of small businesses and enriched billionaires. My brief commentary follows: 

I have been through all this before with the assassinations of the Kennedys, Malcolm X, Martin L. King, 9/11, the invasion of Iraq, etc. All the dissenting reports were heavily censored combined with media corporations promoting the official views. I have long concluded that these crimes were committed by a fascist clique in the US ruling capitalist class devoted to building a powerful, world-dominating, capitalist empire combining the military might of the USA with what was left of the British Empire following WWII. Israel, and Zionist financial power, was added later.

• 💥Propaganda and the Media – Deception on a Grand Scale – Part 2 by Larry Romanoff from "The Saker Blog". This is a best post. (Note: Romanoff analyses Empire propaganda for what it is: another weapon in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's quest to dominate the world. First, he devotes considerable space to treat how the propaganda machine works against China, next in Mexico, and finally in the implied Empire's capture of the WHO and their sterilization efforts of the developing countries.) 

It is important to keep in mind that ‘the media’ is not some amorphous, inanimate object but a group of real people with names, who plan, script and conduct these propaganda campaigns. I have had encounters with some of these ‘reporters’ and ‘columnists’. Many of them qualify as gangsters, acting as front men for a criminal enterprise, using their public power to shield and defend those who should be imprisoned and trashing anyone who stands in their way.

In contrast to hearing much media noise on a topic, we sometimes have only a deafening silence which is equally a guarantee of propaganda, this time in the form of censorship. When the entire Western media unanimously have no comment on an important current topic, we can be certain that much has happened behind the scenes to ensure this result.

• Newsweek blows lid off American 60,000-person strong “secret army” by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst, from BRICS.
  

• Sober-Minded Socialism by Devin Thomas O'Shea from Current Affairs. My reaction: Although I seem to be immune from any kind of addiction and I despise the established religions, I think that Alcoholics Anonymous is onto something.

• Non-compliance at Travel Checkpoints featuring Dan Dicks in 13:21m interview from Corbett's website regarding an onerous encounter with the RCMP, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, while traveling in British Columbia. My reaction: I think we all must disturb and resist in any way we can. Mario Savio (of UC Berkeley) words expressed in 1964 seem relevant here:
  

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

• 'No Dogs, No Irish, No Blacks' by Dustin Broadbery from The Cogent.

• Biden Continues To Support Israel's Warcrimes by Bernhard, an independent German blogger from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
  

• Netanyahu Warns Biden Not to Get Involved by Philip Giraldi from The Unz Review. 

• Israel’s Crimes and the Extermination of the Palestinian People by Stella Calloni from Internationalist 360°.

• Gaza Fights for Freedom, a film directed by Abby Martin regarding Israeli attacks on Gaza from Vimeo.

• Killing Gaza: Dan Cohen & Max Blumenthal’s documentary shows life under Israel’s bombs and siege from The Grayzone. (Note: This describes and furnishes a 1:36:49 hr. documentary.)

• Leak Exposes Fissures in Iranian Establishment and Power Shift to Hard-Liners by Gareth Porter from Consortium News.
  

• The Climate Crisis Is Nothing To Worry About! featuring Lee Camp satirizing the mainstream treatment of the climate crisis from his YouTube channel (2:18m).

• Extinction by 2027 by Malcolm Light from Arctic News.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, May 16, 2021

• W.H.O and World Leaders must answer serious questions in the upcoming trials for Crimes against Humanity in a 2:38m from Covid Call To Humanity. (Note: I am posting this from a secondary website because it is much more concise, but read the original source if you want to get into greater detail on this topic.) 

• Seychelles: world’s most vaccinated country see surges in COVID-19 cases, as USA changes rules for testing vaccinated people from The COVID Blog. 
  

• The Concept of Planned Obsolescence: The Push for Big Pharma’s Booster Shots and Annual Vaccinations from Silent Crow News. 

• Governments Around The World Offer Extravagant Bribes In Desperate Effort To Increase COVID Vaccine Uptake by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.

• Pediatricians Primed to Lead COVID Vaccination Efforts as Kids Become Eligible + More by Children's Health Defense Team. 

• Restricting Freedom Didn’t Defeat Covid by John Tamny from American Institute for Economic Research.

• 💥We Must Awaken from “Corona Coma”, Reject “Great Reset” Robotic Technocracy and Assert Our Common Humanity by Jack Dresser from Global Research. This is a best post.

How about considering real democracy? This would require a wholly novel plan rather than simply reciting a self-congratulatory word without substance upon examination.

Democracy is for psychologically mature adults. Citizen responsibility for self-governance must involve knowledge acquisition, sober reflection, evidence examination and reasoned discussion built into everyday public life. It must require sound collective judgment and moral responsibility for all local, regional and national decisions. To create a grown-up nation retrieved from the grip of ruling-class psychopaths who have long disempowered, neglected, exploited and abused us along with much of the world, we must mature into political grown-ups.

• The 5G Experiment: Another Crime Against Humanity from Brave New World. My reaction: wherever there is profit to be gained by capitalists, safety goes out the window.
  

• Dems Unhinged Attack On Rose McGowan For Telling Truth featuring Jimmy Dore and McGowan telling truth about our fake democracy, from Dore's channel (20:59m) on YouTube.  If you liked this, you may very well be interested in a later segment of this interview entitled Biden Is The End Of #MeToo of this interview. And also, you may be interested in this post entitled "Hillary Clinton's War Monger Appointed By Biden". My reaction to the latter post: Dore is discovering the real difference between the two parties governing our "democracy": the Democrats are cleverer at deception strategies whereas the Republicans act according to their beliefs that the rich should get richer and the poor be damn by ed.
  

• Glenn Greenwald: Intercept Targets Journalists Of Color featuring Jimmy Dore and his guest Greenwald from Dore's YouTube channel. (Note: This piece covers the Intercept's distorted attacks on low-level journalists who report actual scenes. This report on the Intercept is typical of all mainstream journalists.) My reaction: Fortunately, Greenwald "wised up" (def.) about the Intercept and their billionaire owners in their efforts to use and co-opt him. But sadly, Greenwald is an exception among professional journalists "on the make" (def.)

• How the Rich Hide Their Wealth: Tax Havens and Capital Flight by Rod Driver from Global Research (based in Canada).
  

• The West has created an imaginary, evil China for its people to hate and fear – and it’s working by Maitreya Bhakal from RT.

• In London, a Kangaroo Court Ambush Is Being Set for China by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• Alliance of Democracies Summit: The Glass House Where the Power Elite Gather to Throw Stones by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• Facebook, Social Media Giants Admit to Silencing Palestinian Voices Online by Jessica Buxbaum from Mint Press News.

• Norman Finkelstein speaks to MEE about Israel’s latest offensive featuring a video interview (2:27m) with Finkelstein from Middle East Eye.

• Palestinians in Israel now face far right mob violence backed by the state by Jonathan Cook from Global Research, based in Canada. (Note: I am posting this from a secondary source because Google, or a similar source, is blocking it from Middle East Eye.)
  

• There Will Be War by Timothy Alexander Guzman from Silent Crow News.

• The Peace of Wild Things, a short poem by Wendell Berry from Vimeo.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, March 24, 2021

• After a Year Under Lockdown, Will Our Freedoms Survive the Tyranny of COVID-19? by John W. Whitehead from his weblog The Rutherford Institute.
  

• We Are Living Through a Time of Fear – Not Just of the Virus, but of Each Other by Jonathan Cook, a top British journalist living in Jerusalem, from Global Research. (Note: This post includes a 10:11m video via YouTube featuring a commentary by Russel Brand, a British counterpart to Jimmy Dore.)
  

• White Hats, Black Hats,…Grey Hats? from the CT [Connecticut] Freedom Alliance Blog.

It doesn’t take long to realize that we aren’t having a debate about the science of vaccines. We aren’t debating the authority of the evidence. We are debating the authority of the person. The most ingenious thing the pharmaceutical industry ever did was purchase the majority of the advertising for every network and cable news program. With that grand gesture, the media became little more than a pharmaceutical industry spokesperson, functioning as its mouthpiece of propaganda. The media doesn’t report “science.”

 

Also, read about the legal victory in Connecticut achieved by the efforts of the Freedom Alliance.

• Canadian Economist Dispels 4 Myths About Socialism by Steve Lalla from Internationalist 360°. My reaction: Although Canadian political economist Radhika Desai said in a recent interview: "While Desai acknowledged that there were problems that led to famines in Russia and China, she added that the severity and mismanagement of the crises were perhaps exaggerated.", she didn't mention the vigorous subversive and military attacks by the leading capitalist nations on any nation that even considers a move to public ownership of their economy or in any way demonstrates independent policies from the predations of capitalist corporations. Also, she omitted the constant anti-socialist propaganda that people in capitalist countries are subject to.

• Interview with Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates and the philantro-imperialism. Posted by Pangea, an Italian channel of YouTube in a 26:37m video. (Note: Shiva explains how billionaires and the largest foundations, established by major corporations, have taken control of the world (or the nations of the Empire and much of the United Nations) through their purchase of patents (intellectual property), and the disastrous effects on ordinary people throughout the planet.)

• “The Big Picture” Is Ignored in the COVID Debate. What Is the End Game? by Peter Koenig from Global Research.

• 💥The U.S. Intelligence Community, Flouting Laws, is Increasingly Involving Itself in Domestic Politics by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. A best post.
  

• Washington’s Obsession with China Expands by Brian Berletic for New Eastern Outlook.

• China issues report urging U.S. to drop double standard on human rights from CGTN (China's major newspaper).
  

• Welcome to Shocked and Awed 21st Century Geopolitics by Pepe Escobar, a top Brazilian journalist, from Global Research.
  

• Debunk And Discredit The Empire’s Propaganda: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone, an independent Australian, from her weblog.  My reaction: She has done so much to "debunk the Empire's propaganda".

• US Gins Up a “Credible” Iranian Nuclear Menace Befitting Its Own Stockpile by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.

• “The Lion and the Eagle”: The Interaction of the British and American Empires (1783-1972): A review of Kathleen Burk's book by Jim Miles from Global Research. My reaction: I like to post real history articles because my fellow Americans have been largely fed fake histories in their schooling. Miles corrects some of the mistakes Burk makes to build a sound history of the collaboration of both the British and the American Empires to coalesce in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire that threatens much of the world today. 
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, March 12, 2021

• Another Epidemiologist Calls Out Facebook “Fact-Checkers” & Calls It A “Scam” by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• Debunking Virology With Dr. Thomas Cowan, Dr. Andrew Kaufman and Dr. Stefano Scoglio featuring Derrick Broze who listens to the explanations of three specialists about isolation of viruses versus the fairly recent practice of virologist's claim that they claim the isolation of SARS-COV-2 virus which result in Covid-19 illness. This is a 41:26m video discussion posted from EarthNewspaper's channel of Bitchute. (Note: This explanation is not that the disease of Covid-19 doesn't exist, but the development of vaccines to prevent the disease is not valid from a scientific perspective.)
  

• Vaccine Secrets from Children's Health Defense. (Note: A cartoonist's conspiracy theories factual reporting on vaccines in the USA. But these facts are secrets that Big Pharma, their sponsored Congress, government bureaucrats, media corporations, and capitalist-funded "fact-checkers" don't want you to know. Such facts are documented on this website.)

• 'Who cares?' | NY House speaker launches impeachment probe into Cuomo from RT. My reaction: This will never be reported by media corporations.
  

• Brace Yourselves For The Most Dramatic Shift In The Standard Of Living In All Of U.S. History by Michael Snyder from Activist Post.
  

• Mainstream Journalism Doesn’t Exist: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian, from her weblog.

• Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor its Writers: to Bar Critiques of Journalists by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. (Note: This is a late posting at around 3:24 PM CT today.) Referring to these journalists working for mostly media corporations, he writes:
  

The reason these little hall monitors do not consider this to be “real reporting” is because they do not care about — except when they venerate — real power centers like security state agencies (CIA/FBI/NSA/DHS) or the Pentagon, Wall Street hedge funds, Silicon Valley monopolies, repressive regimes. They think “reporting” means writing what those agencies and power centers tell them to say, or ruining the reputations of people for saying bad words on 4Chan and expressing prohibited thoughts with Facebook memes and Clubhouse chats. That is all they recognize as journalism; everything else is “harassment” because real reporting makes the lives of elites and people who wield real influence more difficult ....

• Popular Twitter Account Exposed As Shill Paid To Smear Progressives featuring Jimmy Dore on his YouTube channel (23:07m) reporting on his discovery of a person getting paid to get on Twitter to spread propaganda.
  

• Massive Secret UK Propaganda Campaign in Former Soviet Republics Seeds Contempt by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.

Such granular levels of information could only be dreamed of by Allen Dulles and the CIA’s disinformation efforts behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. But, today, our digitally-integrated world allows for such dystopian dreams to become a reality. At the same time, it makes exposing these operations that much easier.

• 💥Bernays and Propaganda – Propaganda Continues Unabated – Part 5 by Larry Romanoff from "The Saker" blog. This is a best post.

• Fukushima Meltdowns Turn Ten, Still Getting Worse by William Boardman from Dissident Voice. Boardman's conclusion is the following:

Nuclear power has always been a corrupt enterprise, but in Japan now that corruption is coming back to hold its perpetrators accountable. On February 19, the Tokyo High Court ordered the government and TEPCO to pay damages of $2.63 million to 43 people who were forced to evacuate from their homes by the Fukushima disaster. The presiding judge called the government’s regulatory inaction “extremely unreasonable.” There are as many as 30 more such suits pending in Japanese courts.

• Maine Farm Girl & Kansas Grain Farmer Talk Climate on The Train by Rivera Sun from CounterPunch.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, February 10, 2021

• The Disarticulation of Pandemic War Propaganda by Raul Diego from Mint Press News. In this post Diego presents a mountain of evidence that a propaganda project is being imposed on the US and (likely) European populations that China is responsible for most of the onerous restrictions imposed on populations worldwide. The sub-headline says what his prodigious research has uncovered: "An investigative analysis takes apart a hackneyed piece of propaganda authored by an international alt-right clique with links to the Pentagon." Read the post for the detailed and supporting evidence.

• Who Wanted Pandemic Lockdowns? by Jeffrey A. Tucker from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• ‘It’s the Vaccines, Stupid’ — New Book Exposes Corruption That Led to HPV Vaccines and Injuries by Mary Holland from Children's Health Defense.
  

• Facebook Hires NATO Press Officer Ben Nimmo as Intelligence Chief by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence from Boom Bust channel of RT (via YouTube).
  

In an era where artificial intelligence seems to be rapidly developing by the day, should society begin to question to reliability of the fairly novel technology? We hear from co-host Ben Swann and cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright on the potential shortfalls of the computer intelligence and the perils that could accompany complete reliance.

• Bernie's Pro-War Advisor Joins Biden Administration. This post features Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal, via Dore's YouTube channel, commenting on this latest development in relation to fake Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders in order to win elections.

• Establishment's Secret Project To Control 2020 Election & Censor Critics Revealed. This post features Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal, via Dore's YouTube channel, commenting on a report in Time Magazine that reveals secret organizations funded by powerful members of the capitalist ruling class to influence media corporations to censor negative reports that regarding Joe Biden, Democratic Party candidate. 

• From Concentration Camps to Overflow Facilities: With Biden in Charge, Media Forgets Kids in Cages by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. Another post from MPN that illustrates how mainstream media hypocritically serves the Deep State by avoiding subjects that embarrasses them, and what the Deep State, the directors of the ruling class, don't want you to know. 

• The Mechanism of Invisible Hand, Invisible Cage, and Invisible Empire over Humanity and Nature by Hiroyuki Hamada from Dissident Voice.
  

• New NORAD Warfare Strategies and Canada’s Role in the Great Game Revisited by Matthew Ehret (a Canadian geopolitical analyst) from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Why Russia is driving the West crazy by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker Blog".  

• The Headless Chicken and the Bear by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from "The Saker Blog". I regard Raevsky, who now lives in the USA, as the foremost expert on Russian politics writing in English today. Thus, this statement near the end of the article caught my eye:

For these reasons I would call the probability of an actual military clash between US/NATO and/or Russia/China as “likely in 2021”. As for the future of NS2, I always assumed that EU politicians can count their Euros and realize that the EU needs that project way more than Russia. Frankly, I am not so sure now: counting on the mental abilities of a headless chicken is probably not a good idea! Neither is counting on the courage of the type of politicians whom Boris Johnson once called “supine invertebrate protoplasmic jellies“.

You will need to know what his use of "3B+PU" means. I found what it means in another article he has written--"3 Balts plus Poland and the Ukraine". ("NS2" in the paragraph above means Nord Stream 2, the natural gas pipeline nearing completion which is posing a problem for European political leaders not wanting to offend the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire who have been dead-set (def.) against it.

• Why Israel is joining the Pentagon’s 'Arab Nato' by Jonathan Cook from Middle East Eye.

• Wish You Were Here by John Steppling from his weblog. (Note: Steppling is an American playwright who currently lives in Norway, but has traveled extensively throughout the world. Not only has he traveled, but he has lived in numerous countries. In this post, he muses about the significance of travel, identifies its roots in colonialism, and generally how travel serves, and has served, the ruling classes from a historical and cultural perspective.)

• Science Update: More Rain, More Flooding, More Methane featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson (via YouTube) reporting on the latest peer-reviewed reports on the above.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, February 3, 2021

• The Flight of the Covid Quacks by Robert E. Wright from American Institute for Economic Research.   

• Judge Scraps ‘Secret Science’ Rule by "Climate Nexus", a department of Children's Health Defense. 

• Mental Health System Fails Kids as COVID Creates ‘Unprecedented Need’ by "Kaiser Health News" from Children's Health Defense.

• New Report From Rep. Katie Porter Reveals How Big Pharma Pursues 'Killer Profits' at the Expense of Americans' Health by Brett Wilkins from Common Dreams.

• Newsweek Caught Lying For Biden About $2000 checks featuring Jimmy Dore revealing, via his YouTube channel, that President Joe Biden lied about the $2000 check. My reaction: What else is new?
  

• Biden’s Nominee For New Cabinet-Level Science Position is Epstein-Linked Geneticist by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond.

• The Biden Government Running True to Form by James O'Neill from Dissident Voice. My reaction: I'll bet you didn't learn of this report while watching TV.
  

• This Is Why They Attack Him - Putin Explains Why We Need New Economic Policies by Bernhard (a German independent blogger) from his weblog Moon of Alabama. (My reaction: The title refers to the theme in this report, and, in addition, you can learn what you are missing by reading this article. You will also learn what corporations like NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, NPR, CNN, etc. fail to inform you. They want you to be ignorant of what goes on in the world, and fill you with propaganda that serves billionaires so that you will end up being compliant serfs. If this article interests you, you might also add to your information about the real world by reading this.
  

• Taking on Telecom’s “5G” by David Rosen from CounterPunch. My reaction: Of course, taking on the Telecom's "5G" is like taking on the capitalist system. This issue is about the very core of capitalism to make profits and thereby create influence in the sacred halls of Congress.

• How Are They Going to Come at Us? by Howard Lisnoff from CounterPunch.

• ‘Cancel the Rents’: People Across the US Mobilize Calling for Housing Relief from People's Dispatch. My reaction: This is another way that the ruling class can impose the divide and conquer strategy on the American people. Landlords have substantial mortgages and bills to pay for upkeep of their properties. With ordinary Americans looking out for their own interest and their family's interests, we can expect more turmoil in the days ahead.

• The Lesson Of The BLM Protests: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Are UN climate talks leading to a global dictatorship? by by Simon Butler from Climate & Capitalism. My reaction: Butler's central criticism of the book is: "Climate Leviathan warns that a worldwide imperial state is on the agenda, but provides no credible arguments or evidence." But, maybe that's obvious, and therefore no need to supply evidence.

• With Anti-IMF Candidate Surging in Polls, Ecuador’s Moreno Flies To DC Amid Talk of Suspending Election by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. My reaction: Maybe this Empire's puppet is worried about the outcome of the election, and he wants to know how he can manage the election results in order to win. The ruling class of the USA are experts at this skill.

• US Pressure on China; The Thai Connection by Christopher Black (lives in Canada) from New Eastern Outlook.

• Science Update: Soils Sequestering Carbon featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson via his channel on YouTube reporting the latest scientific news related to the climate crisis. In the video he summarizes a report from his longer article on his website, Nature Bats Last.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, January 7, 2021

• The Assange saga: Practicing real journalism is criminally insane by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• Gray Lady’s Sad Decline: New York Times Shills for Pharma Under Guise of ‘Fact Checking’ from Children's Health Defense. 

• ‘Perfectly Healthy’ Florida Doctor Dies Weeks After Getting Pfizer COVID Vaccine from Children's Health Defense. 

• MSM Already Using Capitol Hill Riot To Call For More Internet Censorship by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Joe Biden’s Professed Foreign Policy: How We Will Know What He Really Means? by Seth Harris from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: I am posting this article because of its defects, not because of its merits.) My commentary follows:

This website seems to be moving to the right as reflected in its posting of articles about world political events. This article is a blatant example of a naïve approach to American politics that only a recent graduate of a four-year American college graduate who has majored in political science would demonstrate. There is no hint of a Deep State, that is, a well-connected financiers, corporate executives, and other major capitalists who firmly control what Congress does using secret "intelligence" agencies to circumvent Congress and design propaganda that is propagated by their control of nearly all media organizations. After all, they fund the campaigns of "your" representatives in Congress. They are a ruling class who quite literally own the country and much of the economy residing in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. As such, they control millions on jobs and careers. Their ownership gives them powerful control over every institution. I would like to offer an alternative view which is much more realistic than the nonsensical question stated by this author.

Granted, it is difficult to determine what our masters are up to, but there are ways to find out. First, regard all TV coverage as propaganda that is designed to sweeten the deeds of our ruling masters in the eyes of the general public. Do not watch TV to learn what is going on in the world and the USA. Whatever coverage they provide via their TV networks, you must consider their reporting only as a promotion of their interests of profits and power. "News" is the product of corporate TV networks which are owned by the ruling class. They are addicted to "substances" of profit and power and the capitalist system which deliver these addictive drugs to them. Corporate TV will always craft their propaganda as a way to con you into behaving and believing in ways that promote their agendas. You probably already can readily see through the commercials that try their best to promote their sponsor's products. You must also learn to analyze the "news" offered to you by corporations,

Become aware of all the tricks used by propagandists to sell their news-products: psy-ops, gas-lighting, CIA's practices to manipulate public opinion, sources of information that have a history of corruption by funding sources, all the mind control techniques, "factcheckers" acting to censor debate, etc. These are all indications of what I call neofascism, an updated version of old-fashioned fascism that relies more on control of your mind than it does by threats of bodily harm. What people don't usually know is how history has been re-written (an example of manufacturing reality) to favor capitalist interests.

Second, choose other more independent websites and other publications to know what is really going on in the world. I have lists posted on my website (on the right side) that I trust. You can start there. But media organizations change and you must be aware of these changes. Always examine documentation to ferret out what is the author's opinion from what is suggested by evidence.

Third, read books that alternative websites promote and give greater clarity to issues which you are concerned about. Our masters believe you don't read books, so they don't police and censor books like they do other media. Many authors will frequently write analyses in books that they will not elsewhere.

• America’s Richest 1% Owned 5% in 1990, Own 36% Today by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. A best post.

• What’s Up with the Great Reset? by Stacey Rudin from American Institute for Economic Research. 

Posts that I especially recommend for days: Saturday & Sunday, December 12 & 13, 2020

• The Friedman doctrine in the 21st century by Michael Roberts from his weblog The Next Recession. 

• AOC Schooled By NFL’s Justin Jackson On Forcing Med4all Vote Now! featuring Jimmy Dore blasting AOC (Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) as a careerist--her career comes first rather than needs of her constituents. My reaction: She will definitely lose her position in Congress if she crosses Pelosi. Look what happened to Sen. 

• Vaccinated Vs. Unvaccinated: The Study The CDC Refused To Do — Interview with Dr. Weiler conducted by Spiro Skouras from Activist Post.

• The COVID Vaccine Is Here… And So Are Potential Side Effects… featuring Spiro Skouras reviewing some of the negative history of vaccinations. This 18:15m video was on his YouTube channel.

• How the Media Wants You To Think featuring JP Sears, a comedian, and others performing their versions of fascist collaborators in a 3:17 post on his channel belonging to YouTube. (satire) He also has been threatened by YouTube about the loss of his channel.
  

• Yes, Bill Gates Said That. Here’s the Proof. By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and posted on Children's Health Defense.
  

• Cynical US policy on Syria revealed: to Hell with the people by Vanessa Beeley from her weblog The Wall Will Fall.
  

• YouTube Bans Creators From Questioning 2020 Presidential Election; Bans Investigating Possible Fraud by Ben Swann from ISE.

• Imperialism 2.0: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, November 17, 2020

• Science Update: November 17, 2020 featuring Guy McPherson commenting on the latest scientific news related to the climate crisis from his Nature Bats Last (YouTube channel).
  

• Top Pfizer Whistleblower Trashes Company’s Vaccine ‘Breakthrough’ Spin by John O'Sullivan from Principia Scientific International (based in Britain).

• The Oligarchs Are Ramping Up Censorship In Big Way featuring Lee Camp of Redacted Tonight channel of YouTube commenting on censorship and violations of our privacy. 

• The Secret Agenda of the World Bank and IMF by Peter Koenig from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• Pfizer Vaccine 90% Effective Claim Unsubstantiated by Peer-Review Journals and World Health Organization by Rob Verkerk PhD from Children's Health Defense.

• The Fed Man Song (to the music of Beatles ‘The Taxman’) by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. (Note: He lists all the Fed's printing of money in the past year and giving it to investors and banks to support the stock market.)
  

• All Wars Must End! by Christopher Black from New Eastern Outlook (based in Russia, but international in writers whose articles they publish).

• Social Media as a Weapon by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: Since Berletic "outed" himself recently, having used the pen-name "Tony Cartalucci" previously. He is currently using video clips to address issues, but still providing many references to back up his arguments. He, together with his family, has lived in Thailand for a least 10 years.) My commentary follows:

In this video clip, Berletic reveals how US social media-tech corporations such as Facebook and Twitter have functioned in Thailand and neighboring countries as a weapon to destabilize their governments and shape their policies to bring into alignment with US policies and political interests. 

I've argued many times that the neofascism as practiced by the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire has shaped classic fascism by greatly enhancing the manipulation of information that targeted populations receive. This weapon was first used in WWI, and to the surprise of their propaganda agents, the methods used were astonishingly successful in turning the American public from neutrality to active support for the USA to enter the war. They used propaganda to portray the Germans as diabolical people. After the war, these same techniques were used, and developed, in advertising to motivate consumers to purchase the many products of corporations.

The Nazis also used propaganda to motivate their populations to go to war; but because the science of propaganda was still rudimentary, Nazis mostly relied on force or the threat of force. This is the classic view of Nazism which current Empire propagandists try so hard to differentiate from today's rule. I've tried throughout the more than 10 years of blogging to describe this process. (See this commentary, for example.) But our capitalist masters didn't stop there--they rewrote history, and their concentration of wealth and power of the post-WWII years brought increased control over jobs and careers. Those that didn't subscribe to their agendas were left to dead-end jobs or to starve to death, and those that contributed to their agendas were well remunerated and enjoyed comfortable careers. 

Fascism is predominately the last stage of capitalism, and it depends on methods of control of populations. I argue that it matters not what forms this control takes--whether it is accomplished through the threat of force or control of information or the manipulation of information that a population is permitted to access--it is still fascism. Censorship is increasing exponentially. But our masters have methods beyond the mere access to information: they have used psy-ops to create chaos and fear in their populations which makes it easier for them to impose policies that increase their control over populations. I choose to call these advanced methods "neofascism". To be sure, the directors of the Empire continue to use the threat of violence to ensure a population's compliance when their propaganda techniques fail to work. 

A contemporary writer by the name of Gabriel Rockhill seems to have a real grasp of this neofascism, but he chooses to call it plain fascism. I recommend to you the following posts featuring his articles:

Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t!;
Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime; The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It; Liberalism & Fascism: The Good Cop & Bad Cop of Capitalism; A Counter-History of Fascism and Liberalism

• How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps by Joseph Cox from Vice.

• 6 Factors Which Point to a Rigged Election by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

• Biden Transition Team: Nothing “Progressive” About Millionaires and CEOs by Denis Churilov from FRN.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, November 3, 2020

• Assange and the Empire by Paul Edwards from CounterPunch. This is a best post because of my commentary which follows:  

The post is more about the defeat of "Trumpism", an embarrassing reminder of earlier capitalist rule, than it is about Assange. What will triumph in the election will be a slicked up version of capitalism that is soon to be naked, fascist-capitalism. Edwards tries to sooth our feelings by claiming that ...

... it’s undeniable that more people have more exposure to more sound data than was ever conceivable before, and in spite of Capitalism doing all it can to pollute all information streams, more Americans are more aware, if dimly, that Exceptionalist notions they’ve been schooled to embrace are somehow desafinado, as the bossa nova song had it: out of tune.

But, in the paragraph before he admits the fact that "Americans have not had the mental or psychological capacity to take it [the many crimes of the Empire] in and act on it." This was because they were seduced to believe in the fascist credo that "there is no such thing as society--there are only families" as Thatcher revealed so bluntly to the embarrassment of the ruling capitalist class. The slicked-up version of fascist-capitalism has since WWII used this theme to subvert any notion of class struggle. 

No, I will take no comfort in his observations that although we have access to more information than ever before because we chose to ignore it out of "moral cowardice". I disagree. Fascist-capitalists saw our human weakness: a preference for the more powerful motive-force of striving for one's family rather than for a more abstract just society. They exploited this weakness, and their control of our jobs/careers, which the system of capitalism delivered to them, to successfully counter any notions of revolutionary social justice among the great majority of humans.

And I take no comfort in his claim that we are a failing empire. We humans are a failed species. We will all go down to ignominious defeat by our failure to defeat capitalism. We are destined to disappear on this very unique planet Earth because of capitalism's mantra--limitless growth on a finite planet. We will disappear as a species, along with many others because we have under capitalism destroyed natural conditions on the planet that supports humans, that is, if we don't disappear earlier in a nuclear mushroom cloud.

• The US Empire Is A Smiley-Faced Serial Killer by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.
  

• Police “Reform” = Counterinsurgency from Black Agenda Report.

• Election Day: One Thing’s for Sure, an Imperialist Will Win by Dave DeCamp from Anti-Empire.
  

• US elections 2020: The legal peril Donald Trump faces if he loses the election by Umar A Farooq from Middle East Eye (based in London). (My reaction: I wouldn't be at all surprised that the transnational ruling class will seek to punish this upstart's (Trump's) challenge to their authority.)

• This Week in the Guardian #16 – Presidential Election Special from Off-Guardian.
  

• America After the Election: A Few Hard Truths About the Things that Won’t Change by John W. Whitehead from his weblog The Rutherford Institute. 

• Extreme Poverty Skyrocketing - But Why? featuring Lee Camp commenting (via YouTube) on the state of the economy. Satire? or is this a big joke? I'm not sure.
  

• WHO Admits Gates-Backed Vaccine Caused Recent Polio Outbreak in Africa from FRN.

• Apprehending the False Promise of Biosecurity: Unmasking Usurpation by Fear Merchants by David T. Ratcliffe from Ratical.

• COVID and Its Man-Made Gigantic Collateral Damage: The Great Reset – A Call for Civil Disobedience by Peter Koenig from Global Research. (Note: This post also includes a 28 minute discussion of the topic between Koenig and Prof. Chossudovsky, founder of Global Research.)

• RFK, Jr.: Why The Defender featuring RFK, Jr. in a 2:28m video from his website Children's Health Defense. (My reaction: If he keeps telling the truth, he will be assassinated like his father and uncle.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, October 23, 2020

• The Head of Operation Warp Speed & The Gates Foundation Are Pushing BioElectronics & Vaccine Patches by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.

• FDA Lets Pfizer Test Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine on U.S. Children from Children's Health Defense.
  

• Working to End Human Violence in the Time of COVID-19 by Robert J. Burrowes from Global Research. 

• 16 Glaring Parallels Between the 9/11 and COVID Ops by Makia Freeman from Global Research. 

• "A Truly Orwellian Culture" - Amazon Removes COVID Skeptic's Book For Violating Content Guidelines Tyler Durden from ZeroHedge. (Note: I am posting this not because I agree with everything in the article, but I'm against any kind of censorship. The article offers evidence based facts that is questioning the stories about covid-19 that is spread by media corporations under the direct control of the capitalist ruling class.)

• The moment for change is now, a 18:17m video about a panel of European doctors, other professionals, and massive demonstrations protesting the fear-base reports on the "pandemic" and censorship by media corporations and the draconian violations of civil rights due to the policies of the government authorities. This post is from a channel of YouTube called "Kai Stuht Creative Caravan".  

• The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is “Agenda ID2020” by Peter Koenig from Global Research. (Note: This is a re-post of a foresightful article by Koenig from March of this year.)

• World Doctors Alliance: “We Do Not Have A Medical Pandemic.” Fake News? by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution. 

• Video: RFK, Jr. Launches Children’s Health Defense Europe in Berlin from Children's Health Defense.

• FDA Lets Pfizer Test Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine on U.S. Children from Children's Health Defense.

• The Fact Checkers, a 5:15m video featuring comedian JP Sears doing a parody of "fact checkers" from his YouTube channel AwakenWithJP.
  

• Press Conference: Response Brief Filed in Landmark Case Against FCC from Children's Health Defense. (Note: Children's Health Defense is legally challenging the FDA's dismissive challenge to 5G technology based on scientific evidence. My reaction: Nothing is allowed to stand in the way of big profits by corporations. Corporations are addicted to profits (and power) under capitalism, and with profits come power ... over us.
  

• How Big Ag Tries To Silence Critics featuring a 5:28m video of Naomi Karavani of the Redacted Tonight channel of YouTube doing a parody of Big Ag: agricultural corporations like Bayer-Monsanto, Conagra, Tyson Foods, and meat packers. These corporations are also growing huge and powerful under capitalism like all corporations in other industries.
  

In her "Weekly Offensive" Naomi Karavani dives into how the pandemic has revealed the flaws in the factory farm food production system. More people are becoming aware that Big Animal Agriculture spreads disease, and is bad for the environment, workers, and animals. The industry is fighting back against these valid criticism and their desperation is laughable.

• Goldman Sachs Criminally Charged by Justice Department – and Its Stock Closes Up $2.49 by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

The U.S. Department of Justice is being played like a fiddle at a tractor meet. Those big white shoe law firms that handle increasingly dirty cases against the mega banks on Wall Street have twice, in a period of just three weeks, managed to get the Justice Department to announce settlements of landmark criminal cases against two of the largest banks on Wall Street on the day of presidential debates when the public and the media are not paying attention to Wall Street.

• Killing Unknown by Hiroyuki Hamada from Off-Guardian. My reaction: The only real solution is revolution! This is a best post!
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, October 20, 2020

• Walking Into A Nuclear Nightmare by Christopher Black (Canadian human rights lawyer) from New Eastern Outlook.

• US Seeks to Prolong Terrorism in Syria, Not Defeat It by Tony Cartalucci from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: I regard Cartalucci, who is living in Thailand, a very reliable source. I have often posted his articles over the last 10+ years because he always backs up his arguments with documentation. If you liked this article and if your interested in Thailand, you may also be interested in the latest article by this author from his website.)

• Palestine – Anniversary of the Death of a Child by Peter Koenig from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: He summarizes the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's ("west") responsibility for the establishment of Israel and its crimes against Palestinian people.)

• The MAS Victory: An Initial Assessment by Bolivian Socialists from La Izquierda Diario Bolivia (translated and posted on the website of Left Voice). (Note: This is a much more cautious report on the Bolivian elections. See this short video. Meanwhile media corporations are having a hard time explaining this early election outcome to its readers.)

• Twitter, Biden and the New York Post – Social Media Censorship Kicks up a Gear by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

• “This is an unbelievable failure of journalism.” by Stefania Maurizi from ExBerliner (a German website). (Note: I thank an activist for alerting me to this post.)
  

• Vanessa Beeley Debunks A BBC Hit Piece from The Corbett Report in which James Corbett, the host, interviews Beeley, an honest British journalist who has reported on the Empire's subversive activities in Syria, activities of the White Helmets, her experience with the BBC, and other subjects related to this topic in a 28:51m video interview.

• The Colour of Disenchantment by John Steppling from his weblog. (Note: This is a lengthy, intellectual essay on how the ruling class controls all indoctrination to prevent any discourse harmful to capitalism (aka "liberalism), an ideology that supports the power and wealth of their class whose members own very substantial economic property.)

• First-of-its-kind examination shows how widely pharma showers campaign cash at the state level by Lev Facher and Kaitlyn Bartley from Stat. (Note: The post illustrates only how Big Pharma influences elections, but this is true about every other major industry, the corporations in each industry (view this as another example), and the capitalist ruling class in general.)
  

• World Doctors Alliance: “We Do Not Have A Medical Pandemic.” Fake News? by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution. 

Why are tens of thousands of doctors and scientists all over the world being ridiculed and in many cases censored for sharing their research and opinions? (This post is the latest example.)

• How Remote Learning Impacts Children’s Health and Well-Being by Katelyn Esmonde and Keshia Pollack Porter from Children's Health Defense.

• Housing Justice Activists Saving People Every Day! featuring Lee Camp engaging in parody to criticize public policies regarding eviction of people who can no longer afford their rent. 

• Large-Scale Permafrost Thawing by Robert Hunziker from CounterPunch.
  

• 'The Last and Most Important Advice I Will Ever Give' Dr. Meyer Hillman from the Extinction Rebellion channel via YouTube. My reaction: I agree with his statement that climate change is now "exponential and irreversible". And I agree that elected officials are not going to do anything. The latter are nearly always supported by capitalists who are not concerned sufficiently about climate destabilization because it will hurt the latter's immediate profits and eventually their power.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, October 16, 2020

• 'Don't get yourselves caught': How the British state allowed its secret agents to commit crime by Ian Cobain from Middle East Eye (based in London). This is the best of the best posts on my website. My reaction follows:
  

This report is prime reading for anyone who wishes to gain an understanding of how "liberal" or bourgeois (capitalist) democracies work. The latter must have secret agencies operating outside of the law that follow the diktats of the ruling capitalist class. This report only deals with British agencies that during the course of their operations commit crimes. It does not report on other agencies, whose top leaders answer to the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's Deep State, that are engaged in shady operations which undermine any semblance of democracy such as propaganda activities. If you think that Britain is not an essential part of the Empire, and, as such, has no implications for the rest of the Empire, you likely won't believe it has anything to do with government operations in the USA. Brainwashed others will dismiss it entirely. However, it is essential reading by any US activist or revolutionary organization that aims to be effective. For people involved in the latter, this rare report must be studied.

• The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It by Gabriel Rockhill from CounterPunch. The author provides the post-WWII details after the Deep State, a kind of board of directors for the emerging USA, concluded that 

... it was understood that the best way to construct the fascist international was to do so under liberal cover, meaning through clandestine operations that maintained a liberal façade. While this probably sounds like hyperbole to those whose understanding of history has been formatted by bourgeois social science, which focuses almost exclusively on visible government and the aforementioned liberal cover, the history of the invisible government of the national security apparatus suggests that fascism, far from being defeated in WWII, was successfully internationalized.

• 94 page PDF details Deep State-Media collusion to destroy Trump posted by Alex Christoforou of his 19:34m video interview with Alexander Mercouris. (Note: I have ignored this issue known as "russiagate", because I viewed it as another absurd disinformation distraction from reality. I have barely enough energy and time to follow what I think is reality.)

• Running Out of Time… October Surprise Redux? by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation.  (My reaction: I remember well the reliable reports after Reagan's election in 1980 reporting that the CIA rigged the election for Reagan. Giraldi reports on other possible shenanigans perpetrated by the Deep State that obviously wants Trump removed. But, who cares? Both political parties serve the rich ruling class of capitalists and not ordinary Americans.)

• Top 50 US Think Tanks Receive Over $1b From Gov, Defense Contractors by Barbara Boland from Anti-Empire.

• Google & Oracle to Monitor Americans Who Get Warp Speed’s Covid-19 Vaccine for up to Two Years by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: Webb reveals the close connected relationship between Big Pharma and government operations, among other things.)
  

• Fight Racism, Imperialism, and the Current Crisis: A Program to Unify the Exploited and Oppressed from Left Voice. (My reaction: I've only read about the first 1/4 of this lengthy article, and I agree with it so far. But, in the past I viewed the people behind this website a bit naive.)
  

• Bandar bin Sultan, prince of chaos, strikes again by David Herst from the Middle East Eye. 

 

I've only covered about 1/3 of my list of 50 credible websites before I ran out of time and energy. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020

• U.S. sanctions Russian research institute that developed Covid-19 vaccine by Ben Norton from The Grayzone. 

• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Holds a Press Conference in Berlin After Launching CHD’s Europe Chapter from Children's Health Defense. (Note: Kennedy expands on previous arguments that Big Pharma has corrupted governments to address concerns about 5G, digital money, and fake news spread by media corporations.)

• Big Pharma’s Covid-19 Profiteers by Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone.
  

• Trump Isn't the Worst President, But He is the Most American by Nicky Reid from his weblog Exile in Happy Valley. (My reaction: Like Reid, I can't tell which is the worst candidate for president. However, I haven't voted for president and other candidates for federal offices since the late sixties when the Deep State of the ruling class assassinated so many people who opposed the direction the country was going. I think that this practice illustrates that elections don't matter in capitalist nations that pretend to be "democracies".)

• 18 out of 20 Members of Facebook’s Censorship Board Have Some Ties to George Soros by Sharyl Attkisson from Anti-Empire. 

• Who Buys This Phony ‘Anti-Semitism’ Smear Language? by Stuart Littlewood from American Herald Tribune.

• This is powerful by Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 ~ 2018 RIP) from Adbusters (based in Canada).

• Hello, internet user. By Dan Hackett (worldhangover.com) from Adbusters. 

• Liberalism: the two-faced tyranny of wealth from Organic Radicals (based in Seattle, but international). (My reaction: "Liberalism", as used here and by most non-Americans, is used as a synonym for capitalism. Actually it is the ideology which tries to sell the system of capitalism as the best system.)
  

• Record High Greenland Ice Sheet Melt by Paul Beckwith from his weblog. (Note: I've had difficulty accessing his article for the past several weeks. I found that copying the address of his website and pasting it in another tab most helpful.)
  

• Guy McPherson: Climate Change and the Debate on Near Term Extinction of Humans and all Life on Earth posted on Global Research. (After the introduction, this recording features scientist McPherson explains (on Aug. 26) the science that indicate near-term extinction of humans.)
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020

• Left Gatekeepers Through the New Left: Monitored Rebellion (Part 2) by Bruce Lerro from Dissident Voice. (Note: I guess was so impressed with Part 1 that I overlooked Part 2.)

• Is This a Remake of the 1941 Hitler Stalin Great War? by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. 

• Our beautifully democratic wars by Philip Roddis from Off-Guardian.

• Iran and China terrify the Empire, but why? by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. (Note: If you liked this post, I recommend another entitled "US concerned about Serbia’s intention to buy Chinese weapons".)
  

• Man Killed by Bomb During Belarus Color Revolution Attempt, Biden Openly Supports Protests by Drago Bosnic from FRN (Fort Russ News, based in Serbia).

• US Meddling in Thai Politics Continues by Joseph Thomas from New Eastern Outlook. 

• New Report Reveals US Special Forces Active in 22 African Countries by Alan Macleod from Internationalist 360°. 
  

• Biden Pick His VP -- KAMALA Is A Cop! featuring Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show) doing his take (via YouTube) of Biden's pick for Vice-President in the November elections. (You might also be interested to learn more about Harris from this older post from The Grayzone.)

• Yale Study To Manipulate Americans Into Taking C0VlD Vaccine featuring Ben Swann and his take on a Yale study from the Digital Freedom channel of YouTube. 

• Pharma Lobbying & Corruption featuring Robert F. Kenney, Jr. commenting briefly, via Children's Health Defense YouTube channel on the role of Big Pharma in our society.

• 'Western' Media Falsely Claim That Russia's Covid-19 Vaccine Is Ready To Go by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• Letters From Melbourne, a ‘Ghost Town Police State’ Under Brutal Covid Lockdown by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• What is the best way to measure rates of covid immunity? by Sebastian Rushworth M.D. from his weblog. (Note: He was trained as physician at a medical school on Long Island, but is practicing in Sweden.)