Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, June 17, 2021

• Pfizer & Moderna Fail To Respond To British Medical Journal About COVID Vaccine Safety Concerns by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution. 

An article published in the British Medical Journal by Dr. Peter Doshi titled “Covid-19 Vaccines: In The Rush for Regulatory Approval, Do We Need More Data?” raises concerns regarding COVID-19 vaccine rollout, and one of them is the bio-distribution of the vaccine. This refers to the examination and study of where the vaccine and its ingredients go once injected into the body. Having sped up the approval process of these vaccines, it has been claimed that no compromises in the process of examining their safety were made. But the fact that no study for tracking the distribution of the vaccine within the human body was conducted for any of the authorized vaccines, we cannot say this is true.

• The Real B3W-NATO Agenda by Pepe Escobar from Global Research.
  

• America’s Soup-Brained President Says The US Never Interferes In Other Countries’ Elections by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband also reading the script, from her weblog.

Western news media exists to funnel propaganda into the minds of the public. It is controlled by plutocrats who work in alliance with opaque government agencies to weave narratives about why the US government needs to do the things it had already planned on doing anyway. This gets more obvious by the day.

• Edelman PR and the Manufacturing of “Trust” by Johnny Vedmore from Unlimited Hangout. My reaction: Are the new propagandists hiding under the cover of PR firms like Edelman PR? I think so. Read this article to enlighten yourself on the World Economic Forum's use of the latter firm to establish "trust" in their leadership and the Great Reset.

The Edelman firm has not only been a vehicle for laundering the public images of big corporations, but it is also used by various governments worldwide, which allows it access to all the major halls of power. Edelman is also deeply involved with the World Economic Forum, with Richard Edelman not only an official agenda contributor to the WEF, but his firm managing the very image of the globalist organization, which is advocating for a “great reset” to launch us into what the WEF terms “the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Edelman was also represented during the suspiciously timed Event 201 pandemic simulation of 2019, which was arranged by the WEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

• What MSM prefers to ignore about Biden-Putin summit features Ben Swann responding to questions regarding the deficiencies of billionaire owned & controlled media corporations, via RT's channel on YouTube (6:02m).
  

• 💥Isabel Maxwell: Israel’s “Back Door” Into Silicon Valley by Whitney Webb from her weblog Unlimited Hangout. This is a best post.
  

By moving in “the same circles as her father” and vowing to “work only on things involving Israel,” Isabel Maxwell became a pivotal liaison for the entry of Israeli intelligence-linked tech firms into Silicon Valley with the help of Microsoft’s two co-founders, Paul Allen and Bill Gates.

 

My reaction: Webb's prodigious and documented research uncovers many of Maxwell's ties, and that of her father, Jeffrey Epstein, to longtime Israeli intelligence circles as well as large US tech firms.

• Relentless Digitalization: Is a Cashless Economy a Real Threat to Privacy and Civil Liberties? by Sophia Wright from Global Research. My reaction: Again, digitization is only a tool to be used to surveil and control us or to promote a more convenient way of living for ordinary people. It depends on whether this is controlled by a self-serving ruling class or it is controlled by us (ordinary people). It looks very much like it will be used by the former.

• New Book: Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission by Ray McGinnis, the book's author, from Global Research. (Note: I give credit to Global Research for this article because they have formatted it concisely. The primary source provides a reservoir of information, and encourages you to examine unanswered questions about 9/11, a profoundly pivotal 21st century event.)

• The Breaking Of The Corporate Media Monopoly by David Edwards from Media Lens (a British media watchdog). Edwards writes:

These alternative articles were ‘being shared more widely online than the views of mainstream newspaper commentators’. Remarkably, ‘Nothing from the BBC, the Guardian or the Daily Mail comes close’ to the most-shared alternative media pieces. The Canary reported that it had doubled the number of visitors to its site to six million in May. A story by Evolve Politics, run by just two people, was shared 55,000 times on Facebook and was read at least 200,000 times. These websites ‘explicitly offer a counter-narrative to what they deride as the “MSM” or mainstream media’.

Indeed, the evidence is now simply overwhelming – the 100-year big business monopoly of the mass media has been broken.

 

My reaction: Hopeful, but I remain skeptical.

• From Steel City Scribblings, a British weblog run by an independent blogger.
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, April 18, 2021

• Open Letter to a Friend Who “Tested Positive”…and Should Have Known Better by Jerry Bernini from Off-Guardian. 

• Are Conversations About COVID Vaccines Fracturing Your Family? Here’s What You Need to Know. By Children's Health Defense Team from their website.   

• On Contact: Securing Democracy with Glenn Greenwald featuring Chris Hodges interviewing Greenwald on Hodges' YouTube channel (25:32m). 

• Uganda Dictatorship: Imperialism’s Pearl of Africa featuring Abbie Martin speaking in a 16 minute YouTube video from her weblog Media Roots about the history of Uganda that continues today under the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.

• A School for Spooks: The London University Department Churning Out NATO Spies by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.
  

A prestigious university located in the heart of London, King’s College has, in its own words, “a number of contracts and agreements with various departments within government, including the Cabinet Office, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the Ministry of Defence.” Some of those contracts are up to 10 years long. The university has so far refused to elaborate on the agreements, telling investigative news outlet Declassified UK that doing so could undermine U.K. security services.

• Three China reads: 3, Global reach by Philip Roddis, an independent British blogger, from his personal weblog Steel City Scribblings. 
  

• So Who Wants a Hot War? by Pepe Escobar from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• US President Joe Biden’s Shameful Push for War with China and Russia by John Stanton from Dissident Voice.
  

• Ukraine Plays with Fire as NATO Moves Dangerously Close to Russia’s Border by Denis Lukyanov from Internationalist 360°.

• Why Xinjiang is Emerging as the Epicenter of the U.S. Cold War on China by Vijay Prashad and Jie Xiong from Internationalist 360°.

• How to Keep Poor Countries Poor — The Absurdity of Comparative Advantage by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room. My reaction: The article describes how the capitalist system works on an international scale.
  

• How the Rich Keep Workers Poor — Outsourcing and Sweatshops by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room. My reaction: Notice that he only makes unidentified references to "a system". He is another author who regards capitalism as another reality like the sun, moon, and stars instead of man-made. Therefore his recommended "solutions" are merely reforms and absolutely ineffective.

• Military Bases Housing Migrant Children Plagued by Serial Sexual Abuse Claims by Whitney Webb from her weblog Unlimited Hangout. 

• Six Months to Prevent a Hostile Takeover of Food Systems, and 25 Years to Transform Them by Nick Jacobs from Common Dreams.

... the keys of the food system are already being handed over to data platforms, e-commerce giants, and private equity firms. This could mean dismantling the diversified food webs that sustain 70% of the world's population and provide environmental resilience. It could mean putting the food security of billions of people at the mercy of high-risk AI-controlled farming systems and opaque supply corridors.

And yet, there is nothing inevitable about this dystopian future. 

 

I think that as long as we tolerate capitalism and its goal to maximize only profits, a dystopian future is guaranteed. I am not only referencing the ultimate extinction that we will inevitably experience, but I am arguing that in the time we have left if we do not reject capitalism and replace it with socialism (a system of governance that publicly owns and controls the economy for the benefit of all people) that a near-term dystopian future is guaranteed.

• Fukushima Daiichi Radioactive Dumping and the Summer Olympics in Japan In Question by Vladimir Odintsov from New Eastern Outlook.
  
   
  ... according to Kyodo, which recently conducted a social survey of residents about the holding of the Olympics in Tokyo, most Japanese residents oppose its holding in 2021. 39% of the Japanese surveyed were in favor of canceling the Games, and about 33% were in favor of postponing the Olympics. Only 24.5% of Japanese residents are positive about the fact that thousands of athletes from all over the world will come to the Japanese capital in the summer of 2021. [I supplied this link.]

  
  

  In these conditions, the new Japanese government, balancing on the mood of the population of its country, has been looking for an opportunity for several months to find an objective reason for canceling the Olympic Games and report it “without losing face.” Finally, as reported by the British The Times, citing responsible sources, the Japanese government is still tacitly inclined to the decision to cancel the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo “because of the Covid-19 pandemic”, intending, nevertheless, to claim the right to hosting the 2032 Games.

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, April 13, 2021

• 💥Pure, Unalloyed Evil by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. This is a best post.

• Most Diabetic, Heart Disease & Alzheimer’s Deaths Categorized As “Covid” Deaths (UK) by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• Margin Debt Has Exploded by 49 Percent in One Year to $814 Billion. The Actual Figure May Be in the Trillions. Here’s Why. By Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. (Note: The Martens explain how the capitalist ruling class keep easy money flowing to Wall Street investors while they hide the real amounts.)
  

• Meditations On US Forces Firing A Howitzer Into The Empty Desert “Just To Say We’re Here” by Australian Caitlin Johnstone, an independent blogger.

• CNN - Ukrainian Trains With Heavy Weapons Going East Are 'Russian Aggression' by Bernhard, an independent German blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama. My reaction: Bernhard spots another example of "news" as anti-Russian propaganda.
  

• Why is the US Involving Turkey in Afghanistan? by Salman Rafi Sheikh from New Eastern Outlook. My commentary follows:

I ask myself why is this important? I should stick to articles that are of fundamental importance to human survival which I believe is the quest for social justice that only socialism (public ownership and control of the economy) can provide in the remaining days of humans.

 

We humans depend on one another to shape our world, and to do that we depend on one another for all things, and especially to tell the truth about our existence. Unfortunately, there are among us sociopaths that are under-socialized to the extent that they strive for only objectives that make them richer and more powerful. Sociopaths will always lie to obtain their self-seeking goals. But the rest of us are not perfect and there is a little sociopathy in all of us. It takes a lot of hard work to determine what is really going on. Unfortunately for humans this weakness will result in our extinction. You see, the hardcore sociopaths among us don't understand that we humans are only one part of the huge web of life found on our exceptional Earth.

 

I believe that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a hardcore sociopath. And the transnational capitalist directors of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire know this and play (manipulate) him in their power game to rule the world. They know this because they themselves are sociopaths. ("It takes one to know one.") Sociopathy is a fundamental part of their perspective regarding how they perceive human nature. They use all people by playing on this human weakness. They have lured Erdogan with the bait of extending his power ambitions in their contest for global domination against the Russia/China/Iran bloc which is threatening their global domination.

 

Erdogan and Turkey are especially useful for the Empire directors to control and contain China because Uyghurs are of Turkish descent and mostly Muslim who make up (according to Wikipedia) about 45% of the population of Xinjiang, a strategic western province of China that these directors are currently active attempting to destabilize it. (see map) Salman Rafi Sheikh, the author of this article, knows this and is pointing it out to us.

 

Yesterday I was astonished to learn that apparently Erdogan has succumbed to this manipulation when I read this astonishing article which I immediately posted.

• Why NATO Destroyed Libya Ten Years Ago by Manlio Dinucci from Global Research, a Canadian aggregator website.
  

• Sweden Axes Gates Mad Global Warming Scheme by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: I advise you to skip this post.) My reaction: I have posted other articles by this geopolitical analyst because of his specialty of knowledge, but there are some specialists who think they know everything about everything. These specialists who write outside of their well-honed knowledge should be ignored. If you, against my advice, read the article, have you noticed that he doesn't supply any documentation or links to support his contention in the following quote despite it being against all evidence supplied by independent global-warming scientists?

... in fact the Earth has slowly been cooling as we enter what some astrophysicists estimate could be several decades of global cooling caused by a Grand Solar Minimum cycle we entered in 2020.

 

Bill Gates may be mad, but global warming is real.

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, March 10, 2021

• No Safety Data? No Problem! by Rosemary Frei from her weblog.

• Predictive Programming Vaccine Mass Sterilization Depopulation Agenda On Amazon ‘Utopia’ Show (5:27) from EarthNewspaper. (Note: This is an actual film production (series) by Amazon, Inc.) My reaction: Is it "predictive" or an attempt to exploit a conspiracy theory? Seems like it expands on a theme promoted by Bill Gates who is the top funder of UN's World Health Organization which officially declared the pandemic.

• WSJ Editorial Board: Facebook Censors Scientific Debate by Megan Redshaw from Children's Health Defense. 

• Why It’s Necessary to End NATO by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation (based in Russia but international in scope).  

• Empire Update: US Kisses Saudi Crown + Taliban’s Tet Offensive featuring Abbie Martin reporting the adventures of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire during the week in a 8:38m video from Media Roots. (Note: She reports more news than the title of this post acknowledges.) My reaction: This would be good for Americans to watch this weekly report instead of TV "news" reports by media corporations.
  

• Chaos In Ukraine Is Making An Epic Comeback from South Front. (Note: This post includes a 3:48m video report and transcript.) My reaction: This is another report on how true Joe Biden's statement that "America is back". The main capitalist ruling class is back after the Trump interruption and returning to their favorite strategies to counter Russia's influence as illustrated by Ukrainian developments reported in this post and the bombing and missile strikes on Syria. Among the developments in Ukraine are those that the ruling class is already implementing here in the USA:

It all started with the shutting down of opposition TV channels and immediately moved to attacks on the largest and most popular opposition party – “Opposition Platform – For Life!”.Opposition leaders were then sanctioned, for being “Putin agents”, and many of its members were openly censored and persecuted. Then it came down to censoring and persecuted another well-known opposition figure – Anatoly Shariy, and his party.

Websites were pulled down, accounts were banned, cases were opened against those against President Volodymyr Zelensky and his “Servant of the People” party. 

• Lawyers' Committee targets sham FBI probe of 2001 anthrax attacks by Craig McKeefrom Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

• BREAKING: Jaw-Dropping Development In Malcolm X Assassination featuring Lee Camp at his YouTube channel reporting a new eye-opening development related to the assassination of Malcolm X. This is direct evidence, that many people have suspected over the many years since the assassination: that the NYC police department is responsible for this murder. Of course, the latter was acting according to orders issued by the ruling capitalist class to silence him because they didn't like his efforts at raising the consciousness of poor African-Americans. This incident will never be reported by mainstream "news" corporations who will continue serving the ruling class with the dissemination of propaganda.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, March 8, 2021

• Cui Bono? The COVID-19 ‘Conspiracy’ from Architects for Social Housing, a British website. (Note: A lengthy post.)

• It’s Here: First Court Case Against Mandatory Vaccination: Attorney Interview featuring Spiro Skouras (via YouTube) interviewing an attorney representing clients, "first responders", who have been required to get vaccinations.

• CALLED IT: WaPo calls anti-vaxxers “domestic terrorists” by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.
  

• The New Normal (Phase 2) by CJ Hopkins, a master satirist, who gives mostly a straight critical report from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. of the conditions in Europe (a little in the US) regarding how the authorities are dealing with the pandemic and its significance. 

• Dems Limit Stimulus Check Eligibility After Slashing Unemployment and another post entitled Intercept Reporter Caught Lying Again About Third Parties featuring Jimmy Dore exposing the fake democracy we enjoy in the USA in a 9:04m and 17:22m videos via YouTube. My commentary follows: 
  

I don't like his framing of what I consider a subversion of the Democratic Party as left-right on the political spectrum. Terms like left and right refer to different classes under a class structure society. In the current era we see mostly capitalist structured societies. 

 

The right-wing capitalist agencies of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire have used subversion of political parties as they have successfully used to subvert entire movements and nations. All they need to do is link benefits or money to the change of orientation to reflect capitalist interests and values. This is the secret of their success. 

 

Remember that most people are motivated by benefits and money they receive from a ruling class. This is the Thatcher principle that that defines a weakness of humans: "...there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families." This ignores the role of different benefits accrues to various social-economic classes under any class-structured society. A capitalist ruling class always, and necessarily, must obscure the role of classes in order to exploit other classes.

 

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

• Charter School Disinformation About Families Being the Most Important “Stakeholders” by Shawgi Tell from Dissident Voice. (Note: I added this post at 3:10 PM CT.)
  

• Home Invasions: All the Ways the Government Can Lay Siege to Your Property by John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead from Dissident Voice.
  

• NATO Video Talks ‘Diversity, Respect, Embrace’ But Critics See Through the Wash Job by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. 

• Return of the Leviathan: The Fascist Roots of the CIA and the True Origin of the Cold War [part 1 of 3] by Cynthia Chung from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: Chung bases her history of the growth of the CIA on original documents and other writers who did likewise which is the responsibility of every good historian. WWII was really fought by the British and their American allies to preserve the capitalist system and what was left of the British Empire, but they temporarily needed the Soviet Union to accomplish this. However, the history of this period has been re-written by propaganda hacks hired by the subversive cabal lodged in the State Department and Wall Street and their fake history has been subsequently taught in US schools, media, and Hollywood films. Most Americans and many others have no idea of the real history of this period. This project was intentionally undertaken after WWII to prepare Americans and others for the Cold War against the Soviet Union and their bureaucratically controlled socialist-type of economy, and to build a capitalist empire of their own in place of the Nazi's Third Reich. Her history dovetails nicely with my historical posts regarding WWII (see this and this).

• Me and my doubts by Philip Roddis, a Brit, from his weblog Steel City Scribblings.

• VIDEO: With a Second War on Terror Looming, a New Film Explores the Grave Abuses of the First by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog at Substack. (Note: I posted this at 3:15 PM CT.)
  

• Going Dark Documentary Watch Party featuring Dr. Guy McPherson and his partner, Pauline Schneider, in a rather personal chat beginning about 2 minutes into the YouTube video. They go on to do a historical summary of his efforts to educate the public on his discovery (approximately 2012) that human life, and most other species, on planet Earth will soon come to an end, and finally answering questions at 47:25m until the end (1:32:30). 
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, February 20, 2021

• Coronapocalypse; Big Pharma's Doomsday Vaccine #666 by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review.

• The Twilight Zone: Covid, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Eugenics by Peter Koenig from Global Research. 

• The Pandemic Modellers Have a Conflict of Interest Problem featuring Rosemary Frei on a 5:58m video from Vimeo reporting on the conflicts of interest of key players of coronavirus in Britain.

• Meanwhile, in Australia | Melbourne COVID-skeptics rally results in arrests from Ruptly via RT and YouTube.
  

• Dr. Cornel West Is A Free Man featuring West along with Jimmy Dore from the latter's channel on Rokfin. (Note: Listen to the 10:12m video to find out what the title means, and other insights.)

• Understanding the Dangers of Innovation Zones and Smart Cities by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. My reaction: You, too, can be smart by living in a smart city. (sarcasm)

• Role of NGOs in Promoting Neo-Colonialism by Syed Ehtisham from CounterCurrents. (Note: Read this to find out about NGOs. They can be used for good or for evil. The US/Anglo/Zionist Empire often uses them for subversion of nations that they do not like. This report offers extensive documentation.)
  

• Schwab Family Values by Johnny Vedmore from Unlimited Hangout.

... the past that Klaus Schwab has worked to hide is explored in detail, revealing the involvement of the Schwab family, not only in the Nazi quest for an atomic bomb, but apartheid South Africa’s illegal nuclear programme. Especially revealing is the history of Klaus’ father, Eugen Schwab, who led the Nazi-supported German branch of a Swiss engineering firm into the war as a prominent military contractor. That company, Escher-Wyss, would use slave labor to produce machinery critical to the Nazi war effort as well as the Nazi’s effort to produce heavy water for its nuclear program. Years later, at the same company, a young Klaus Schwab served on the board of directors when the decision was made to furnish the racist apartheid regime of South Africa with the necessary equipment to further its quest to become a nuclear power.

• They Don’t Work To Kill All Dissent, They Just Keep It From Going Mainstream by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

In a society that maintains the illusion of freedom in order to prevent outrage and revolution, it does not serve rulers to stifle all dissent. Just the opposite in fact: their interests are served by having a small number of dissidents hanging around the fringes of society creating the illusion of freedom. If Johnny Hempshirt over there is allowed to stand on a soapbox and criticize the US war machine, then the US must be a free country.

So they don’t work to silence all dissent. What they do is work to make sure that dissent never hits a critical mass and goes mainstream.

My commentary follows:

This grabbed my attention because I don't see my lifetime of telling the truth (as I see it) has done much good. The capitalist ruling class has to maintain the illusion of freedom and "democracy" by keeping dissidents marginalized to the numerical fringes of acceptable debate. That way they can "eat their cake, and have it too", that is, they can preserve their propaganda about freedom and democracy, and at the same time, manage their self-serving rule.

 

I was only once asked, and this was in person, how I had permitted to write such vigorous criticism about the rule of capitalism. I answered that it didn't matter to the ruling class if a few voices criticized the social-political arrangements under their rule because it was permitted only to a few dissidents in order to maintain the illusion of democracy and civil rights. However, I've noticed in the last several years that I don't see any of my posts go viral, but I occasionally did before there was a concerted effort to marginalize dissident voices. I agree with Johnstone--they are only worried about numbers of dissidents.

 

I don't share her optimism that eventually things will change. I'm particularly concerned about the word "eventually"--that is, if we had enough time, we might eliminate the ruling capitalist class. I don't think we human animals have much time left on planet Earth before we also become extinct after our (I hold the capitalist classes primarily responsible) destabilization of the climate really sets in. I think we have devoted too (def #2) much time to ancient religions which erroneously put us in the center of the universe. We have failed to recognize that we are a part of the web of life on planet Earth. In the meantime, I and other dissidents will continue our work to tell the truth about our ruling class and the system which serves them with so much wealth and power.

However, I think we should also accept our ultimate defeat. Our masters in the ruling class (I hold upper-middle-class workers and their self-centered concerns primarily responsible) have been much too clever with their control of information. Unfortunately, we human animals can't seem to overcome the weakness of our species' Achilles heel, that is, the devotion to ourselves and our families; and instead with a class consciousness, a dedication to overcoming our subservience to a ruling class. Perhaps Margaret Thatcher was right when she said "there was no such thing as society, there were only individuals and their families".

• Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. 

• Facebook: Genocide is Cool but Don’t Threaten our Profits by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis). (Note: You may also be interested in a post from Off-Guardian regarding Facebook's operations in Australia.) My reaction: The title could be improved by stating after "Facebook" the phrase "Genocide is Cool When It Doesn't Threaten Our Profits". 

• The Nature of Money by M.K. Anderson from Current Affairs. My reaction: The author is an accountant and his closing comments reflect his views on the use of money in our existing capitalist societies:

... it’s a tool used to describe workers with the goal of extracting wealth and labor from them. It is an incredibly poor tool for holding the wealthy accountable, and so we will have to come up with other methods.

• Talking with Jack Rasmus about Well Street and Us featuring host of the program, Michael Albert of RevolutionZ interviewing Rasmus about the stock market in a 52-minute podcast.
  

• NATO announces huge expansion of ops in Iraq, after Trump wind-down from RT via YouTube. (Note: This 2:09m video features Scott Ritter who offers a commentary on this NATO announcement. Also, see how Bernhard, a German independent blogger, reports on this news.) My reaction: I'll bet this news won't be reported in corporate media.
  

• The Greater Danger of Israeli Provocations in Syria by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.
  

• Biden's policy of containing China, Russia and Iran is no longer viable by Marco Carnelos from Middle East Eye (based in London). My reaction: I think this policy of containment could also lead to a nuclear war.

• How Democratic is China? by Godfree Roberts from his weblog Here Comes China!
  

• UN Report: Action Needed Now to Solve Triple Emergency from Climate & Capitalism. (Note: This is an example of a report that will never be published in mainstream media.) 
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020

This morning I only got through to 1/3 of the 50 websites that I normally peruse to select articles for your greater understanding of the world we live in. I've simply run out time. I was so fascinated by the many articles I found--there are several "best posts" among them. I will start you off with something light: a satirical comedian's take on censorship.

• What It’s Like Getting Censored on YouTube featuring comedian JP Sears. 

• How an “Act of God” Pandemic is Destroying the West by Michael Hudson from his weblog. (I neglected to credit an activist for alerting me to this article.)
  

• Julian Assange trial: the mask of Empire has fallen by Pepe Escobar posted on A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. 

• NATO’s Slow-Motion Blitzkrieg Eastward by Ulson Gunnar from New Eastern Outlook.

• Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Statement About the Situation in Belarus issued via this Russian press office and authored by S.N. Ivanov and posted on "The Saker".  

• BLM's War on the Deplorables by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. A best post.
  

• Hyperinflation, Fascism and War: How the New World Order May Be Defeated Once More by Matthew Ehret from "The Saker". (Note: I didn't read all of this rather lengthy article, but I will. I was so impressed by his knowledge of history during this period about which I have read widely. I need to followup with subjects and books he suggested. A best post.)

• New Technologies, TikTok, Competition, and “Free” and Human Labor: An Interview with Economist Paula Bach. This article was posted on Left Voice. (Note: The article was translated from a transcript in Spanish and found on a Spanish website. She has an exceptional knowledge about this important subject. I found at times that I didn't understand all of her references and arguments, but I learned a lot. Maybe you can do better. You will need to know about "unicorn companies" This is another best post.)
  

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

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

• Arctic Ocean February 2020 from Arctic News. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend for yesterday and today: Wednesday, December 11, 2019

• NIST Publishes New FAQ on Its Refusal to Release Key Building 7 Data by Ted Walter from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

• Trump-Pelosi Trade Maneuvers: USMCA, China Tariffs, & Brazil-Argentina Steel by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. (Note: You will need to know who AMLO is.)

• Human Rights from an Indigenous Perspective by Ollantay Itzamná from Internationalist 360°. 

• The true legacy of US central banker Paul Volcker (1927–2019) by Nick Beams from World Socialist Web Site.

• WADA Sporting Ban is Part of West’s New Cold War Against Russia. This post features an interview with 21st Century Wire's Patrick Henningsen via RT. 

• NATO Secretary General Targets ‘Rising China’: Why Cold War Newspeak Never Went Away by Cynthia Chung from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control by Edward Curtin from his weblog. 

• Russiagate media smears against Corbyn brought to you by US and UK military-intelligence apparatus by Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone.

• The Deep State by Alex Diaz from BSNews (Britain). (Note: More about smearing Corbin.)

• The Most Significant Afghanistan Papers Revelation Is How Difficult They Were To Make Public by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• How Many Types of “Good” Capitalism Are There? by Shawgi Tell from Dissident Voice. 

• A system that steals from our future by Ian Angus from Climate & Capitalism.

• The portent of runaway greenhouse warming by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, December 6, 2019

While waiting for the ecosystem to collapse, I'm hearing sounds that suggest the destructive iceberg of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire and its army, NATO, is breaking up. What do you think? Even Canada, the Empire's colony to the north, is part of this noisy background. 

• NATO is “Brain Dead” by Peter Koenig from New Eastern Outlook.

• NATO Splits Reveal Alliance is Redundant, an editorial from the Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Hong Kong — Pure Western Insanity by Peter Koenig from New Eastern Outlook.

• Fake News By Omission :  The Mass Media’s Cowardly Distortion Tool by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Bolivia Returned to Being a Country Governed by the U.S., Neo-Nazis and Narcos translated from Misión Verdad and re-posted on Internationalist 360º.

• Latin America: Imperialist Subversion Forges Full Speed Ahead posted on Granma (Cuba) and re-posted on Internationalist 360º (probably safer for you to read).

• Greenland ice melt feeds glacier instability by Tim Radford from Climate News Network.

Recommended articles for Thursday, August 8, 2019

• China Just Went Nuclear In The Trade War, And There Is No Turning Back Now by Michael Snyder from End of the American Dream.

• The Western Alliance Is Falling Apart by Peter Koenig from Global Research.

• American Exceptionalism = Mass Murder by Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report.

• New Fears for Julian Assange from Consortium News.

• Trump in El Paso: The culprit returns to the scene of the crime by Eric London from World Socialist Web Site.

NATO’s China Double-Think

Click here to access article by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

Cunningham starts out by castigating such fools as NATO’s Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg of Norway and other such lackeys of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, but sees the directors of the Empire digging their own graves by their bellicose actions and threats. 

As the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire experience one military defeat after another, threatened by the desertion of countries from the petro-dollar, and mounting debts to 23 trillion dollars, the directors of this Empire are now panicking by threatening everybody and thus, digging its own grave. Such is Cunningham's argument--and I firmly believe he is correct. Because of this I also believe that we are entering a very dangerous phase of the demise of the Empire, and with its demise the shocking effects on the people of the USA.

Articles recommended for Tuesday, July 30, 2019

• Revelations on the attacks of 2004 and 2017 in Spain by Thierry Meyssan from his weblog Voltaire Network.

• The Manson Murders, JFK, 9/11, and the Psychopathy of Power by Kevin Barrett from The Unz Review.

The Dismemberment Of Yugoslavia 20 Years On

Click here to access article by R. S. Ahthion (he is clearly British) from Medium.

Little did the American people, who were busy amusing themselves with distractions, know that this well-doused in self-serving propaganda campaign to justify the attack on Yugoslavia in 1999 by using NATO's air force, would be the start of much more aggressive campaigns in other countries and to secure their control of the energy-rich Middle East. (But first our masters had to arrange for the 9/11 project to be accomplished to put ordinary Americans in a fighting mood.) He continues on to reveal the hypocrisies and lies of the justifying propaganda campaign.

Later Ahthion argues that "market socialism" and Yugoslavia's ties to the neoliberal institutions like the IMF and World Bank weakened and prepared the way for this nation's destruction by the Empire's army, NATO. (He refers to the Empire using the bland phrase "western nations".) He also argues that after the Soviet Union disintegrated, the directorate of the capitalist Empire ("western nations") arrogantly began more aggressive campaigns to rule the world. They no longer needed Yugoslavia to counter the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia's brand of socialism had to be destroyed. And, as they say, the rest is history.

The Global Power Elite: A Transnational Class

Click here if you wish to directly access this 13:10 video from The Real News Network in which author and researcher Peter Phillips is interviewed.

The author of a new book entitled Giants: The Global Power Elite has obviously done his "homework" and knows what he is talking about. He reports about how much of the world is directed by three private organizations: the Group of Thirty, the Trilateral Commission, and the Atlantic Council. The only thing that he not directly state, but implied with the fact that these organizations are based in the USA, is that they are the "hidden hand" behind the US-led Empire which has its own army called NATO and media (MSM). The Deep State refers to the "hidden hand" behind the US government. Thus, the Deep State exercises considerable influence over these three organizations. This is what George H.W. Bush was talking about when he referred to a "new world order" in 1991 during a speech when he also ordered an attack on Iraq. He meant a world under the control of the US Empire and the transnational capitalists.

This is an historic moment. We have in this past year made great progress in ending the long era of conflict and cold war. We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations.

When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders.

You simply must watch this video, after which you may want to buy the book.

Trump, NATO and ‘Russian aggression’

Click here to access article by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

Escobar continues his long-standing argument, that the US Empire is succumbing to the leadership of China and Russia, convincingly by interpreting the latest Trump's actions at the recent NATO meeting in Brussels, the European headquarters of the US-led Empire.

... Trump’s demand for 4% of GDP on defense spending for all NATO members will never fly. The sales pitch should be seen for what it is: a tentative “invitation” for an increased EU and NATO shopping spree on US military hardware.

In a nutshell, the key factor remains that Trump’s Brussels blitzkrieg did make his case. Russia cannot be a “threat” and a reliable energy partner at the same time. As much as NATO poodles may be terrified of “Russian aggression”, the facts spell out they won’t put their money where their rhetorical hysteria is.

But will the Deep State and its Empire go down willingly? Stay tuned, or better yet, stay aware and active. 

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Trump's behavior at the NATO meeting and the upcoming meeting with Putin in Helsinki deserves great satire, and Finian Cunningham supplies it with his piece "Trump Defects to Russia?"

'The Kurds': Internationalists or Narrow Nationalists?

Click here to access article by Marcel Cartier (see also this and this) from TeleSur.

This article is an excellent followup of another article (by the same author) which I posted on the 14th of April with my commentary (please read my commentary if you are not familiar with it). In that article I discussed my confusion about the goals of the Syrian Kurds based in Rojava, Syria and referred to by various names (Kurdish Freedom Movement or KCK,  Democratic Union Party or PYD, the Kurdish People's Protection Units or YPG). They are oriented around the ideas promoted by Abdullah Ocalan who, in turn, has been strongly influenced by the libertarian socialist ideology of American Murray Bookchin.

In this current article Cartier does not deal with the confusion that I mentioned in my commentary to my earlier post regarding US military installations on territory under the control of Syrian Kurds, however he declares from a visit to the region and interviews with many Syrian Kurds that their orientation differs radically from Iraqi Kurds led by Masoud Barzani who have managed with the help of the US to carve out a mostly independent region in northern Iraq. Cartier declares that the Syrian Kurds have no intention of playing along with the plans by the Empire and associates to dismember Syria.

From viewing the second video (produced by "Films for Action") of the three included in the article, you will learn that Turkey's policies under Erdogan are actively supporting ISIS to carry out his obsessive concern to suppress any kind of Kurdish independence. This corroborates the many articles I posted several years ago that documented Turkey's support for the ISIS terrorists and their collaboration with NATO, Saudi Arabia (and their feudal Arab allies), and Israel to dismember Syria. As you can see, there is an complex stew of motives of the various actors participating in the project to dismember Syria arrayed against the forces of the Syrian government, Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah.

RASHIDEEN MASSACRE: Children Lured to their Slaughter by NATO State Terrorists

Click here to access article by Vanessa Beeley from 21st Century Wire. 

On April 15th 2017, the people of Kafarya and Foua were attacked, their children mown down deliberately, by a suicide bomb or expolosive detonation, that targeted these innocent children who had been lured to their deaths by NATO and Gulf state terrorists, including Ahrar al Sham and Nusra Front (Al Qaeda). [my link]

This British woman who describes herself as an independent researcher, writer and photographer reports on the details of the horrific massacre of 200 civilians, including 116 children. The terrorist armies, two of which committed this crime, are sponsored, organized, supported, and trained by the US-led Empire, Turkey, Israel, and their associated medieval kingdoms of Saudi Arabia, etc, all of which have their own reasons for bringing down the Syrian government.

As far as I know the first terrorist army, the "Contras", was organized in Honduras by government agents of the US to terrorize the people of nearby Nicaragua because they had the temerity of electing a government which pursued independent policies which tried to serve the needs of their people and not corporations. In 1982 on a visit I saw first hand the destruction they wrecked on schools, clinics, and cooperatives organized by the Nicaraguan Sandinista government. After years of terrorist attacks by the Contras, the Nicaraguan people capitulated in the 1990 election which saw the election of people more acceptable to the US's ruling class. From Wikipedia:

After the U.S. Congress prohibited federal funding of the contras in 1983, the Reagan administration nonetheless illegally continued to back them by covertly selling arms to Iran and channeling the proceeds to the contras (the Iran–Contra affair), for which several members of the Reagan administration were convicted of felonies. The International Court of Justice, in regard to the case of Nicaragua v. United States in 1984, found, "the United States of America was under an obligation to make reparation to the Republic of Nicaragua for all injury caused to Nicaragua by certain breaches of obligations under customary international law and treaty-law committed by the United States of America". During the war between the contras and the Sandinistas, 30,000 people were killed.

In the Nicaraguan general election, 1990, a coalition of anti-Sandinista parties (from the left and right of the political spectrum) led by Violeta Chamorro, the widow of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, defeated the Sandinistas. The defeat shocked the Sandinistas, who had expected to win. Commentators such as Noam Chomsky and Brian Willson attributed the outcome to the U.S.-contra threats to continue the war if the Sandinistas retained power, the general war-weariness of the Nicaraguan population, and the abysmal Nicaraguan economic situation.

Ruling class agents of the US learned the usefulness of such terrorist armies from this experience and together with their allies in the Mid-East are using various terrorist armies to bring down the Syrian government because they too do not serve the needs of the Empire and their collaborators in crime. Similar terrorist armies have been used by Empire agents in Afghanistan, Libya, and elsewhere to a lessor extent to overturn intimidate governments and breakup nations. 

George Galloway on Why He Still Backs Brexit

Click here to access article by Joe Emersberger from TeleSur.

The EU has nothing to do with internationalism nor with anti-racism as those suffering the lash of racism and islamophobia in mainland Europe know. And those sinking in the Mediterranean trying and failing to enter Fortress Europe know.

It is nothing to do with peace either, as the people of Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Iraq, Libya Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Mali and others know. The EU is the political wing of NATO.