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 Wednesday, April 28, 2021

• mRNA vaccines: Pros and cons by Dennis Etler from CGTN, (Note: I post this from a credible source in the interest of balanced reporting.) My reaction: "It seems that many people are highly skeptical of this and other new technologies." People are skeptical because they have been lied to consistently about important events. And, when the ruling class puts so much fear, uses fake statistics (from PCR tests, bribe hospitals, pressure doctors to claim patients died for Covid-19, etc.), and with billionaires behind the promotion of mRNA vaccines, there are sound reasons to be suspicious.

• A Letter to a Friend Who Recently Had Gene Therapy from New BraveWorld.

• Do Vaccines Make Us Healthier? by Children's Health Defense Team from their The Defender weblog. (Note: This article consists of a 14:31m video review of medical research.)
  

• How the Media Helped Democrats Spin the Pandemic by Arthur Tarley from Current Affairs.

• UK Hiring COVID Marshals to Patrol Streets Until 2023 Despite Lockdown Restrictions Supposedly Ending in June by Paul Joseph Watson from Summit News, a British media company.
  

• Vienna Shadow Play Hangs over Iran Nuke Deal by Pepe Escobar from Global Research. (Note: The "JCPOA" refers to this concise explanation.)
  

Iranian missile technology as top strategic deterrence. Now that’s the shadowplay that turns Vienna into a sideshow.

• The CIA Has Been Taking Over for Decades — Even Former Presidents Tried to Warn Us by Lee Camp from Scheerpost. (Note: For more background, read my commentary to a previous post,)

• World police: Washington seeks to imprison foreign businesspeople for violating illegal US sanctions by Stansfield Smith from The Grayzone. (Note: Smith goes explains in detail all the effects that the Empire's capitalists can impose on individuals and citizens through the use of sanctions on the targeted countries.)
  

• When Did the “Cold War” End? Part III by Vladimir Acosta from Internationalist 360°. (Note: Because our institutions will rarely tell the truth, I always like to inform people of a true history. This article reports on the period from the fall of the Soviet Union, and is an accurate piece of history as you will ever find.)

• US Role Behind the Defeat of Ecuador’s Leftist Presidential Candidate by Roger Harris from Mint Press News. My short commentary follows: 

There is much to be learned about this story that Harris doesn't mention. It is the story of the human species whose failure to adapt to the web of life on our quite exceptional planet will cause our species, along with many others, to become extinct within decades. Sadly, it is much too late to do anything to prevent this from happening.

 

It is also a story of capitalism, a system that promotes the accumulation of wealth within families who use all manner of sociopathic weapons to accumulate their wealth: violence, bribes, deception, etc. And with wealth comes power and control. In the latter stages of capitalism that we are in now, we find wealth/power consolidated in very few hands, and, like their ancestors, capitalists will do everything they can to enhance their wealth/power: the use of mainly deception, bribes, and their control over careers. But these weapons don't assure success for capitalists in every situation. Then they, like their ancestors, can rely on the use of outright violence that stems from their overwhelming control over military and police. Have noticed that government spending on the military has gone up substantially every year? 

• The CIA’s Chinese Walls by Craig Murray, an independent blogger from Scotland, from his weblog.

• The Global Deep State: A New World Order Brought to You by COVID-19 by John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead from their weblog The Rutherford Institute. (Note: I prefer the more accurate term: the "Empire's transnational capitalist Deep State" rather than the "Global Deep State". It's not global without Russia and China.
  

• China and Africa: the Black Alliance for Peace’s AFRICOM Watch Bulletin by Danny Haiphong from Black Agenda Report.
  

• HI-SEAS Mars/Moon Habitat: Scientists Don Spacesuits to Explore Hawaiian Lava Tubes As if They Were on Mars by European Geosciences Union from SciTechDaily. My reaction: I wonder if you know that most space travel research, which is very expensive, is supported by ruling classes of capitalists who want to escape Earth when it becomes inhabitable due to their rule. This is entirely the reason for this article inclusion--therefore, don't read it. Just thought you should know.
  

• Biden’s Climate Plan: It’s Too Late for Gradualism by Howie Hawkins from CounterPunch. 

• Pollution Report: Oceans are ‘at the precipice of disaster’ from Climate & Capitalism.

• More Than a Third of Antarctic Ice Shelf Area at Risk of Collapse As Planet Warms from SciTechDaily. 

• Science Update: Human Population Growth features Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has focused on the climate crisis, from his YouTube channel in a 6:06m YouTube video. My reaction: Notice he says roughly at 02:36m "too many rich people like those from the United States and Japan and western Europe and the so-called First World--that's what brought us to the brink. That's what brings us this mess that we're in right now." Aren't all these countries a part of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire that practice thoroughly a capitalist system? And he wrongly includes under the heading "rich people" all the people in these countries. I forgive him because he is a biologist--not a social scientist nor much less, a socialist social scientist.
  

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, March 29, 2021

• How the Rich Distort Politics by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room. My reaction: Read this if you still have doubts about the sustainability of capitalism.
  

• Google and the CI@: Are Multinational Corporations Part of the Establishment? a 9:56m video from Insight History via their channel on YouTube.
  

• It’s Time to Bust the Tech Talent Pipeline by Isobel van Hagen from Current Affairs. (Note: Read this article if you want to know about the latest CIA effort to recruit young students into serving the capitalist ruling class's Big Tech corporations.)
  

Palantir, the CIA-backed software startup, provides near-omniscient “crime-predicting” military surveillance for U.S. intelligence operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. It has also built technology accused of creating racist feedback loops in “predictive policing” software. The company, which recently went public, was co-founded by Peter Thiel—the Trump-backing venture capitalist billionaire who, in a display of comic book-style villainy, literally wants to inject himself with young people’s blood.

• “The Western Firewall is Complete”: The CIA’s Vast Modern Anti-Communist Propaganda Effort by Rainer Shea from Internationalist 360°. My commentary follows: 

Shea's argument is correct that the CIA's Western firewall is complete in the sense that they control all major organs of media corporations and that they will use this giant propaganda machine, combined with AI, to ever greater efforts to confuse people and propagandize people within the USA and throughout the world. 

 

However, I disagree with his allegiance to Stalinism and his identification of the latter with Marxism/Leninism. Stalinism is a worn-out version of Marxism-Leninism which created a bureaucratic class under Joseph Stalin's paranoid control in the Soviet Union.  

 

The Russian people saved themselves from being slaves of capitalism under the control of German Nazis which were strongly supported by international capitalists. This is the basic reason that his type of rule ended with his death and all pretensions of working class control vanished with Stalin's disappearance. With the failure of the classic fascist nations in WWII, mostly English-speaking capitalists emerged and organized their own fascist empire after the war under the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.

 

However, the peoples of Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and all the exploited peoples of planet Earth have risen from the ashes of WWII to confront this powerful, hegemonic Empire, and it looks like they are going to win. But their win will be a Pyrrhic victory because the victors will then face the onslaught of a destabilizing climate. The latter will result in the inability to support human and most other life forms due to the devastation of the environment and, finally, the destabilization of the climate caused by capitalist rule over the past several centuries.

 

The strength of this article is in the descriptions of the fact that the CIA has taken over the control of major media corporations and has turned them into a media of 24/7 Empire propaganda. 

• The Suez Transport Collapse a Look into the World’s Fragility by Valery Kulikov from New Eastern Outlook. In my rather simplified comment above, I left out a lot of details. My commentary for this article, which follows, will provide some additional details:
  

This article contains one expression of Russian and China fantasies, but totally ignores the reality of the climate crisis. 

 

After WWII some nations which had devastated economies and other underdeveloped nations rose under the difficulties of the Cold War to form mixed economies which combined forms of capitalist enterprises under the guidance and supervision of socialist ruling classes. China was a prime example and the first to combine the two systems. These were compromises that suited the advanced capitalists of the Empire because they initially were able to profit from China's cheap labor. The Soviet Union soon collapsed and reformed with a largely mixed economy, and the two nations led the way to lead all other nations wanting to be independent from the burdens of serving exclusively the nations of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.

 

China and Russia are leaders of this mixed economy movement throughout the world, but I believe they are indulging in fantasies of their own much like the more purely capitalist countries of the Empire. Although members of both ruling classes are expressing more concern about the developing destabilization of the climate, they are both pursuing capitalist development policies. Thus, those nations of the Empire have their Great Reset fantasy; but Russia and China have other fantasies that largely ignore the developing climate crisis, but necessary for their dedication of independence from the hegemonic Empire. 

• Journalists Attack the Powerless, Then Self-Victimize to Bar Criticisms of Themselves by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack.
  

• Propaganda By Omission: Libya, Syria, Venezuela And The UK by David Cromwell from Media Lens.
  

• The Fact That Americans Think Biden Has Changed Things Shows How Narrative Rules Our World by Caitlin Johnstone, an independent Australian blogger.

• Political Economy vs. Federal Fairy Tales by James Bovard from American Institute for Economic Research.

• COVAX and AstraZeneca: Tools of a Humanitarian Extortion Operation from Misión Verdad. (Note: Misión Verdad, which means "Mission Truth" is a Venezuelan collective--see this and this.)
  

• The “Unvaccinated” Question: What is to be done with us? by CJ Hopkins, a master satirist, from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc.

• The Great Unvaxxed by TE Creus from Off-Guardian.
  

• Iran-China: the 21st century Silk Road connection by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• Climate Campaigners Say 'Listen to the Science' as New Study Shows Earth Now Warmer Than Any Time in Last 12,000 Years by Brett Wilkins from Common Dreams.

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 Wednesday, March 3, 2021

• Investigation Links Fauci to Controversial Experiments That May Have Led to Pandemic with a commentary from Children's Health Defense. My reaction: This looks like an accurate and important piece of investigative research from a mainstream TV network that usually offers news from a Republican Party perspective.

• Do As I Say, Not As I Do by Todd Hayen, PhD from Off-Guardian. (Note: This is regarding the infantilization of world societies following the World Health Organization's (of the UN) official declaration of the current pandemic.)

• Vaccine Passports Were Always Part of the Plan Dave Cullen, an Irishman, arguing in support of the title (with documentation) in a 12:40m video from his Bitchute channel Computing Forever.
  

• Lawyers Promise ‘Nuremberg Trials’ Against All Behind COVID Scam by Jean-Michel Grau from Principia Scientific International.
  

• America's back! Bombs away! a 1:02m video from RT.

• Israel and US fear Iran... and not because of its nuclear weapons featuring a 5:08m video commenting on the title from RT.
  

• Laws Apparently Just Don’t Apply to Presidents by Nathan J. Robinson from Current Affairs. 

• Tearing down 'China domination' propaganda from CGTM. (Note: The post includes a 3:13m post in which Paul Craig Roberts comments.) 

• Putin Blasts W.E.F. Honchos at Davos Gabfest by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. 

• The watchdogs of imperialism and the Uyghur genocide slander by Stephen Gowans, a Canadian, from his weblog What's Left. 

• Senator Ossoff Drops a Bombshell: “The 12 or 13 Largest Banks” Got the Trillions from the Fed’s Repo Loans Last Year by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• Biden's Protection of Murderous Saudi Despots Shows the Hidden Reality of U.S. Foreign Policy by Glenn Greenwald from his website on Substack. My commentary follows: 

Greenwald argues that the myth of this administration opposing tyranny is just that--a myth. He discloses a secret that most Americans naively believe: that their government pursues moral objectives. This grand deception hides many truths that their government not only is immoral like any criminal gang, but a bigger insight that their government is only a facade behind which a tiny class of capitalists rules all the nation and transnational capitalists rule the nations of the Empire. Many activists are aware of the first deception, but fail to recognize the second. And virtually all Americans fail to know that their elections along with the complex of myths regarding democracy are all deceptions. They are living and working in a world much like that of the film The Truman Show. 

• The Age of Social Murder by Chris Hedges from ScheerPost. My reaction: I am posting this article only to criticize it. I am turned off most of his writing by the moral denunciations of his targets in the government and oligarchy. His articles often read like sermons (he trained in a seminary to be a sermonizer) castigating sinners in the government and the rich for their sins. He seldom mentions the capitalist system which I firmly believe accounts for most of his "evil-doers". Besides this fundamental criticism, I don't accept his take on the current pandemic in which he largely accepts what the mainstream media report about the pandemic.

• Big Oil Is Really Scared! w/ Steven Donziger (Web Exclusive) featuring an interview conducted by Lee Camp (via his Redacted Tonight channel on YouTube) with Steven Donziger, the lead attorney who won a court case in 2011 against Chevron for their harmful practices in Ecuador. Donziger, who is suffering from Chevron's backlash ("Then Chevron went after Donziger. He's currently one of the US's many political prisoners."), brings this forever case up-to-date.
  

• Oceans, Carbon and Heat. Have we wrecked another equilibrium? from Just Have a Think featuring Dave Borlace explaining in this 12:04 YouTube video that the oceans are becoming more acidic and the effects of that.

• Science Update: Backtracking on Geoengineering? a 6:25m video featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, a scientist who has specialized in the impending climate destabilization crisis, from his YouTube channel. He cites and clarifies important new research that has the potential to at least delay this crisis!

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, February 23, 2021

• 💥Dr Simone Gold "The truth about the CV 19 vaccine" from America's Frontline Doctors via their channel on uncensored Bitchute. This is a best post that was forwarded to me by a truth-seeking-activist from Oregon. I wish there were more such activists.
  

Presentation of 3 January 2021. "In the middle of that day we took a break and we walked over to the Supreme Court, and that was the video that got 20 million views. It gets 20 million views not because I can sing as Beyonce, but because human beings recognize truth. We have something inside of us, right. I really emphasize that point. Within an hour all of the platforms censored us simultaneously. [...] YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, facebook, Twitter, all of them."

• Neoliberals Seek to Establish Their Own Brand of Fascism by Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford in a 22:10m audio format from Black Agenda Report.
  

• Capitol Riots were a Dark Day for American Journalism by Patrick Cockburn from CounterPunch. (Note: Be sure to read the link to the Greenwald article, if you haven't already. I posted it on my website some time ago.)
  

• What Is Bill Gates Up To? with Max Blumenthal on The Jimmy Dore channel of Rokfin offering what he knows about Bill Gates in an 18:08m video.

• The Art of Being a Spectacularly Misguided Oracle by Pepe Escobar from Global Research.
  

• Iran Picked Up the Glove Thrown by Israeli Secret Services by Vladimir Platov from New Eastern Outlook. (Platov uses the metaphor of "the glove" to stand for the assassination of scientists.)

• Snowstorms, the Breach of the Arctic Vortex and the Effects of Ice Meltwater on the Oceans by Dr. Andrew Glikson from Global Research. My reaction: Prof. Chossudovsky who founded this website, has in the distant past (over one decade) been always negative about scientific evidence that indicated over-all global warming. But it seems that he has changed by recognizing scientific evidence that indicates climate destabilization along with abrupt global warming.

The extreme rate at which the global warming and the shift of climate zones are taking place virtually within a period less than one generation-long, faster than major past warming events such as at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary 56 million years ago, renders the term “climate change” hardly appropriate, since what we are looking at is a sudden and abrupt event.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, January 5, 2021

• “Russian Hacking”: NATO PsyOp Revealed from Swiss Policy Research. My reaction: The US/Anglo/Zionist Empire specializes in psy-ops. I think the pandemic is one such psy-op. The general American public has still not realized that the US capitalist ruling class see them also as an enemy. But when they do, it will be "lights out" (def. #2) for the ruling class.

• Russia vs a Biden Administration by The Saker (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog. My reaction: He knows more about Russia that most experts know, and he foresees a dim future for the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.

• EU-China investment agreement raises tensions with US by Nick Beams from World Socialist Web Site. My reaction: Another setback for the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire!

• A Changing World, but the West Remains Locked in a Time Warp by James O'Neill from Dissident Voice.
  

• Assange Wins. the Cost: Press Freedom Is Crushed, and Dissent Labelled Mental Illness by Jonathan Cook from his weblog. See also what Glenn Greenwald and Chris Hedges think about this decision.

• Taking ownership: The Western world is responsible for our own COVID-19 self-destruction by Jordan Schachtel from his weblog The Dossier. My reaction: Although I think that Empire agents planned the pandemic as a cover for a number of nefarious reasons, I can't prove it. If the geopolitical strategy against China was a part of their cover, it has proved to be futile. However, many other dubious objectives might be achieved by these agents including (but not limited to) population reduction, the introduction of digital money, introduction of sophisticated technology that will have adverse consequences for ordinary people, but will enormously benefit the ruling capitalist class.

• The Raging 2020s. Soleimani Geopolitics, One Year On by Pepe Escobar from Global Research.
  

• Climate Change? ‘Yes, Please’ Says Russia by Climate Change? ‘Yes, Please’ Says Russia from secondarily Anti-Empire, but primarily from NY Times (I refuse to post it from the NY Times, a primary agent of Empire propaganda). This is a best post. My reaction: This is an important lengthy article in that it points to many near-term geopolitical implications of global warming for regions in Siberia, Canada, and the northern regions across the globe. It is a complicated picture, but Russia and China seem to be aware of it and doing the most to reap the benefits from this phenomenon:

Ultimately, it is the clumsy maneuvering of the United States that might prove most responsible for making Putin’s eastern development agenda a success. American tariffs, imposed as part of the Trump administration’s trade war with China, led to China’s own retaliatory tariffs on U.S. soybeans, creating the largest catalyst for Chinese buyers to look north for new markets. According to the U.S. Congressional Research Service, China’s total food and agricultural imports from Russia increased 61 percent in 2017 and 2018, yet another example of the U.S. failure to see the chessboard when it comes to the intricate geopolitical implications of climate change.

But, of course, the NY Times, the pre-eminent newspaper of the Empire, is primarily concerned about the geopolitical implications, and not about the longer-range implications for humans and other species.

• Seven years to ground zero for the climate crisis? by Tim Radford from Climate News Network. My reaction: In my opinion, we have already passed the point of no return leading to climate catastrophe.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 (might add posts later)

• Nineteen Tragic Facts About Covid 19 by Bill Quigley from Dissident Voice.

• WATCH: Ask The Experts (Covid-19 Vaccine) from Off-Guardian. 

• US hits Search and Destroy against the New Silk Roads by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• Watchdog Report: Fed’s Billions in Emergency Repo Loans to Wall Street Didn’t Go Away in June; They Just Went Dark by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• New Research Shows 'Pandemic Profits' of Billionaires Could Fully Fund $3,000 Stimulus Checks for Every Person in US by Jake Johnson from Common Dreams. 

• BREAKING - More Repubs Than Dems Vote Against Military Budget featuring Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show and posted on his YouTube channel.
  

• COVID Whistle Blower RAIDED with Gestapo Tactics! featuring Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show and posted on his YouTube channel.
  

• Protecting Individual Rights: Can COVID Vaccines Be Mandated? from Children's Health Defense.

• Want Vaccines Fast? Suspend Intellectual Property Rights by Dean Baker, Achal Prabhala and Arjun Jayadev from CounterPunch. My commentary follows:
  

With the assumption that mainstream reports are accurate regarding the current pandemic, I don't care of you read the article or not because the more informed readers will know beforehand the gist of this story as an illustration of how capitalism functions. Such readers already know the rest of the story. They will already know the socially dubious ways property owners have by taking advantage of public subsidies to acquire more of this type of intellectual property for their own, and their families', benefit.

But, aren't the authors indulging in a bit of confusing contradictions? Their only defense is an argument that matters of life and death deserve some suspensions of capitalist rules which "liberals" such as these authors like to argue. But this is a specious argument that soon collapses under the weight of another argument that people should be provided all necessary goods for their health and survivability such as shelter, food, sufficient clothing, and health care. But why stop there? 

Don't people need to be productive so that they can contribute to an economy that supplies these needs? The first thought that comes to mind is education, and then training in a productive specialty. Shouldn't all people have access to these fundamental needs? Is the capitalist system which considers all property, intellectual and real economic property, as privately owned and controlled to be used for their, and their families', benefit? Isn't this system, which has succeeded in bringing vast types of all property under private control for the benefit of a relatively few individuals and their families, considered almost sacred by it proponents, many of whom "own" much of this property? Because property rights are considered by such people as sacred, does this not justify in the minds of these people the right to exploit others, force others to comply with property owners ideas and demands with threats of harm, even maim or kill them? But you say, that is fascism! (Neo-fascism, which is prevalent today, relies more on controlling your mind with censorship and manipulation of information. However, if that doesn't work there is always the police and military to enforce compliance.)

In spite of the heavy censorship provided by media corporations, you might know that this happening everywhere in the world today. Given such thoughts, you might reconsider your commitment to capitalism by supporting efforts to end all property rights (except over personal property). But, you say in horror, that would be socialism/communism!

• Black Dirt Farm Collective: Building a Self-Sufficient Community by Kayla Soren from CounterPunch. My commentary follows:

This collective type of ownership of economic property is often described as a alternative to capitalist enterprise, even as a revolutionary alternative for some enthusiastic supporters. The latter are usually employed in educational institutions and enjoy comfortable careers. 

Some 50+ years ago even I was taken in by their rhetoric. I studied them in the few obscure sources that I discovered, and even participated in a few collective type enterprises.  However, the proponents rhetoric failed to live up to the reality I encountered. Such enterprises barely survived, and most workers had to supplement their income from conventional sources of employment. Many failed or were taken over by private owners who turned them into conventional industries. 

It seems that conventional enterprises are supported by the legal, educational, and social institutions of capitalist countries and collective enterprises are not. This adversely affects collective enterprises in two decisive ways: 1) such enterprises could not compete with conventional enterprises because of lower costs of labor for the latter, and 2) many people who participate in these enterprises have experienced capitalist culture all their lives. 

The first difference results in the employment of people exclusively based on their philosophical preference of working in such a collective enterprise, but not on their skills or productivity, and because less productive members can't fired. The second reason resulted in workers who were socialized in selfishness and competitiveness of the larger culture and were unable to function effectively in a collective enterprise.

• Dangerous Provocations Ahead for Iran by "Tony Cartalucci" from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: Once again the author relies on a Brooking's document to demonstrate the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's plans for Iran. This is sound because the ruling capitalist class never allows exposure to their plans in a mainstream source which are for self-serving propaganda purposes only.

• General Flynn, QAnon and the US Elections [and this post] USA: General Flynn calls for suspension of the Constitution both by Thierry Meyssan from his weblog VoltaireNet.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, November 30, 2020

• WATCH: Covid-19 Deaths – A Look at US Data by from his Off Guardian. For a very short alternate summary of this hour long video, see the statement at 8:05m at this link (you will need to enlarge the statement by clicking of the "Fullscreen" button or some other method.)

• Why the WHO faked a pandemic – Forbes 2010. By Vanessa Beeley from her weblog The Wall Will Fall.
  

• Video: Covid-Gate, The Political Virus by Prof Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research (based in Canada). 

• The Past Lives On: The Elite Strategy To Divide and Conquer by Edward Curtin, a retired professor of sociology, from his weblog Behind the Curtain.
  

• Here's Why You Should Skip the Covid Vaccine by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review.

• Well, This is Odd… featuring Dave Cullen, an Irishman, from his YouTube channel Computing Forever. 

• No Vaccine No Freedom: Responding to Vaccine Discussion on Irish Television by Dave Cullen on his Bitchute channel Computing Forever.
  

• Senator Questions Mark Zuckerberg On Censorship After Facebook Whistleblower Comes Forward by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.
  

• America’s Future Is Liberal Fascism Sporting a Smiley Shirt and Armed With a Syringe by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• A Long-Forgotten CIA Document From WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on Today's U.S. Politics and Wars by Glenn Greenwald from Substack. This is a best post.
  

• Zero Point: Our 4th Industrial Revolution Against Their Great Reset by Joaquin Flores from Strategic Culture Foundation. (I've removed this post after a careful reading of it.)
  

• The Rich Are Cheering Wall Street’s Latest Records. Americans of Modest Means Are Draining 401(k)s. By Sam Pizzigati from Common Dreams.

• The State You May Not Criticise by Craig Murray, a Scottish blogger, from his weblog.
  

• Assassination of top Iranian nuclear scientist sparks a blame game in Tehran by Rohollah Faghihi in Tehran from Middle East Eye (based in London). See also this article from the same source. Brian Berletic via his Land Destroyer Report has deduced the following argument from his reading of a 2009 Brooking Institution's report:

Creating the deal, sabotaging it, and using it as a pretext to pursue military aggression against Iran was always the plan - long before the JCPOA was ever signed. 

With prospects of the plan being revived already unlikely - and more so with this recent escalation - the only path left and just as Brookings in their 2009 paper planned years ago, is toward wider conflict between the US and Iran.

I think that the astute leadership in Iran understands the games the Empire plays.

• The Great Reset: The Final Assault on the Living Planet [It’s Not a Social Dilemma – It’s the Calculated Destruction of the Social Part III] by Cory Morningstar from Wrong Kind of Green. (Note: If you can follow a style that features enlarged quotes, graphics, Tweets and small font writing that is highly detailed and promises insights on the Empire's plans under the Great Reset, this post is for you. I can only recommend that you read the last section headed "The Dire Ecological Impacts & Consequences that Lie Ahead".)
  

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.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, July 18, 2020

• UK gov’t (finally) admits Covid statistics are inaccurate by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.

• NHS Consultant Says Staff Are Being Silenced Over COVID-19 from The Bernician.

• How Sweden Faced COVID-19 Without Lockdowns by Jon Miltimore from Catalyst. 

• Portland Mayor Condemns Masked Federal Agents Abducting Protesters by Alan Macleod from Internationalist 360°. (My reaction: This Democratic Mayor, because he depends on the political party funds to be re-elected, attributes this Gestapo tactic to Trump. But the Deep State, who largely governs America (except for Trump that likes to annoy them), is perfectly able to order this operation.) 

• Buffer Overflow: the Ghastly Future of Work by Fred Reed from The Unz Review. 

• The US and Britain Building up Infowar via Social Media by Vladimir Platov from New Eastern Outlook.

• Israel collaborated with Holocaust distortion for geopolitical reasons: Top historian featuring comments by prominent Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer from PressTV (Iran). 

• ‘Anti-vax’ labelling and the mainstream media: Who is coordinating this? by Elizabeth Hart from Children's Health Defense.

• Anti-racism uprisings: HK youth's lessons on the West by Andre Vltchek from China Daily (China). (Note: You will need to know what "HKSAR" means.)

• When Hezbollah flags up the China and Iran options, the US trembles by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog. (Note: I am posting this article because he posts much of the article for free--not behind a paywall.)

• Iraqi PMF leader: Operations on US forces to escalate day by day from Middle East Observer.

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

• How Democrats Are Deceived by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. My summary follows:

In this article Zuesse refers to ordinary citizens who register as "Democrats" in the fake elections that are held in the USA while examining the CIA engineered coup in Ukraine in 2014. Zuesse uses his well-trained skills as an historian to uncover the key true story of what happened in contrast to the fake stories published by media corporations to deceive US citizens. He also cites an obviously CIA written entry for the "Ukrainian Revolution"  in Wikipedia to manipulate public opinion in addition to mainstream media coverage in support of the ruling class's version of events. He accomplishes all of this in a rather short article. Amazing!

• Propaganda Brainwashing, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Corporatism is a Feature of Capitalism, not a Bug by Signý A. from Left Voice.

• Iran-China pact turbocharges the New Silk Roads by Pepe Escobar from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. (Note: Because Asia Times, the original source of the article, is now behind a paywall, I am posting other sources for Escobar's articles appearing on their website.)

• You Have the Right to Keep Silent If You Want to Remain Employed by Terry Everton from Dissident Voice.

• Race, Class & Protest in the United States Today by Ajamu Baraka from LookLeft.

• Looks Like Sweden Was Right After All by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. 

• As warming approaches 1.5°C, talk of a carbon budget for the Paris targets is delusional by David Spratt from Climate Code Red. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monnday, June 29, 2020

• The pandemic risk of an accidental lab leak of enhanced flu virus: unacceptably high by Lynn C. Klotz from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

• How a False Hydroxychloroquine Narrative Was Created. “Dangerous” When Used for Covid-19 by Dr. Meryl Nass from Global Research.

• The New (Pathologized) Totalitarianism by C. J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc.

• Only Idiots Believe The CIA, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Fed Launches Corporate Bond Buying Program, Gobbling Up Fossil Fuels and Tobacco Bonds by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• While the World Burns, the Road Map to War with Iran Continues by Timothy Alexander Guzman from Global Research. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, March 30, 2020

• Liberal Elite More Deadly Than Coronavirus by Mike Pappas from Left Voice. 

• Dr. Fauci and COVID-19 Priorities: Therapeutics Now or Vaccines Later? (Video) from Children's Health Defense.

• Corporations Are Broke. It’s Time to Cut Up Their Credit Cards. By Christian Parenti and Dante Dallavalle from Jacobin.

• Covid-19 has already sparked huge state intervention. We should go further and start requisitioning the empty homes of the rich by Dr.Lisa McKenzie from RT.

• Why American Workers Have Been Left Out of Our Life-and-Death Decision-Making by Sharon Block from The American Prospect.

• There’s No Better Time To Break This Mental Prison featuring Lee Camp of the Redacted Tonight Show on RT (via YouTube).

• Why Are Progressives Voting For Ultimate Screwing Of America? Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show discusses this issue with Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone.

• Icahn Called BlackRock “An Extremely Dangerous Company”; the Fed Has Chosen It to Manage Its Corporate Bond Bailout Programs by Pam and Russ Martens from Wall Street on Parade. 

• Is the U.S. Able to Handle COVID-19? – Global Prospects Hang on This Question by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• The Coronavirus, public debt and life by Lujan Miranda from CADTM.

• The Post-Coronavirus World Will Be Far Worse Than the Pre-Coronavirus World by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• US 'granting waivers' to release Iranian assets for coronavirus fight: Iranian sources by Rohollah Faghihi from Middle East Eye. (Note: This is about 3rd party sanctions, that is, corporations that do business with Iran. Meanwhile, the USA is imposing more sanctions on Iran.)

• Iran FM: US ‘medical terrorism’ leading to ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ from PressTV (Iran).

• Will the Coronavirus be the Demise of the European Union? by Valery Kulikov from New Eastern Outlook.

• Pedro Aznar asks a CRUCIAL question by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• ‘We need to be alert’: Scientists fear second coronavirus wave as China’s lockdowns ease by David Cyranoski from Nature.

• Edge of Extinction: Please Stop Wishing for Extinction by Guy McPherson directly from his weblog Nature Bats Last.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, March 24, 2020

• Will “Deaths of Despair” Outpace Deaths From Coronavirus? by Toby Rogers, Ph.D. from Children's Health Defense.

• Doing Nothing or Nothing Doing? by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain.

A few years ago I wrote a piece for Labor Day suggesting that it become a “do-nothing day.” It was a bit satirical but of course had a serious point as satire does. I had little hope that my recommendation would be adopted. Now that we are suffering from coronavirus panic and people are being told to shelter in their homes, many are no doubt suffering withdrawal symptoms from having to slow down. After all, how many cookies can you bake, television and movies watch, liquor drink, emails and texts send and receive, toilet paper rolls count, etc.?

I am well aware that this enforced idleness has inflicted enormous economic damage on regular working people world-wide, as I believe it is meant to do. The psychological damage is incalculable. The super-rich will no doubt profit mightily from the coronavirus crisis while the poor and middle-classes, small business owners, and the elderly will suffer greatly.

• Scientists exposed to coronavirus wonder: why weren’t we notified? by Amy Maxmen from Nature.

... US health officials seem to be deprioritizing this targeted approach in favour of social-distancing measures, as is the United Kingdom. Such behaviour is a matter of concern for the WHO, which recommends both strategies. “We have not seen an urgent enough escalation in testing, isolation and contact tracing, which is the backbone of the response,” said director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a press briefing on 16 March. “We cannot stop this pandemic if we don’t know who is infected,” he said. “You cannot fight a fire blindfolded.”

• Quarantine Meditations: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Coronavirus: Working-Class Internationalism as an Antidote to the Crisis by Josefina L. Martínez from Left Voice.

... the only progressive way out of the coronavirus crisis can come from working-class action, both nationally and internationally. And to bet on it, we need from now on to promote an emergency program that allows the exploited and oppressed not to come out defeated, dispersed, and impoverished by this crisis, but rather as an active force, more organized and conscious of its own strength. At the same time, it is the working class that is most exposed to contagion, in conditions of precarious work, with terrible transport systems, without safety and hygiene conditions in the companies.

In the face of the disaster to which the capitalists have led us, it is necessary to show that it is the workers themselves who can take all the necessary measures: not only from the point of view of guaranteeing work, stopping massive layoffs, and maintaining wages, but also providing food and medical resources for the entire poor population — and not only for a rich minority. This will only be possible if workers’ democratic control from below can be imposed in the workplace in an effort to secure and convert production to meet social priorities.

(Note: If you liked this article, you may also like another post from this source entitled "Workers’ Control Against the Pandemic".)

• Trump intensifies murderous Iran sanctions during COVID-19 crisis by Aaron Maté from The Grayzone. (Note: Maté interviews Assal Rad of the Research Fellow at the National Iranian American Council in this 16:49m video.)

• Will the US and Israel strike Iran amid the COVID-19 outbreak? from United World (based in Turkey).

• ‘Helicopter Money’: This Is the Game-Changer Geo-Politically by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• The New Federal Reserve as Garbage Can for All Capitalist Debt by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. 

• COVID-19: All Truth Has Three Stages by Larry Romanoff from Global Research.

• Everything Accomplished During the Great Depression to Make Capitalism Workable Has Been Taken Away Resulting in Economic Crisis that Only Debt Forgiveness Can Mitigate by Craig Paul Roberts from his weblog. (Note: He wants to save capitalism.)

• From Cluster Bombs to Toxic Waste: Saudi Arabia is Creating the Next Fallujah in Yemen by Ahmed Abdulkareem from Mint Press News. (Note: This is one of the crimes against humanity that our masters want you to forget during this coronavirus pandemic.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, March 22, 2020

• REVEALED: U.S Plan for Military Rule under Coronavirus Threat – Newsweek by a "Guest Author" from FRN (Fort Russ News). (Note: It is necessary that you read the explanation following "Readers" in which Joaquin Flores explains that the post from Eurasia Daily is only a summary of the post from a Newsweek article posted in early February, and the link to this post is available in the article. The reading of the latter article is mandatory.)

My commentary: Notice that the Newsweek article uses variations on the word "secret" government legislation dating back to the Eisenhower administration. This process was accelerated during both natural and man-made threats to the US government, but expecially the latter after 9/11. We've witnessed this phenomenon grow ever since; and now with the coronvirus and the government negligence to establish an effective public healthcare system, a military junta takeover is becoming a realistic probability.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff codified these rules in October 2018, reminding commanders that they could decide, on their own authority, to "engage temporarily" in military control in circumstances "where prior authorization by the President is impossible" or where local authorities "are unable to control the situation." A new Trump-era Pentagon directive calls it "extreme situations." In all cases, even where a military commander declares martial law, the directives say that civil rule has to be restored as soon as possible. [My emphasis.] 

Now that it is likely too late, will people take Peter Koenig's warning in 2016 seriously? Do you actuallly believe that the present anemic capitalist version of "democracy" will ever be restored? If so, I have a fine bridge to sell you.

• Coronavirus Will Eventually Get Better But America Never Will by Michael McCaffrey from Internationalist 360°.

• The Latest Plague So Far Is a Brilliant Success by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Lack of Leadership at the Top During a Crisis by Wayne Madsen from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Covid-19: propaganda and manipulation by Thierry Meyssan (French) from his weblog Voltairenet. 

• Iran to Mass Produce Chinese Corona Drug: Official from Iran Front Page.

• Hollywood Celebrities Are Psyops Wrapped In Human Skin by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Is the Global Pandemic a Product of the Elite’s Malthusian Agenda and U.S. Bio-warfare? by Max Parry from Dissident Voice.