Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, June 1, 2021

• Depopulation and the mRNA Vaccine: The New York Times Predicts Massive Population Reduction by Peter Koenig from Global Research. 

• The Veterans We Dare not Remember on Memorial Day by Michael Hoffman, historian, from his weblog. My reaction: Compare two different posts I found on "Michael Hoffman"--on Amazon and the corrupted entry on Wikipedia.
  

• US Troops Die For World Domination, Not Freedom by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband reading the script, which is provided, from her weblog. 

The irony of course is that capitalism was supposed to offer something different. It was meant to offer a life of more leisure and free time. Technology was supposed to advance in ways that would bring public holidays every month, possibly even every week. Luminaries like economist John Maynard Keynes dreamt of a 15-hour work week by 2030. Yet capitalism has produced the exact opposite. Its effect has been to preserve and extend work. It has also created problems in the content and meaning of work.

• The need to work less is a matter of life and death by Prof. David Spencer from the Leeds University Business School in Britain.
  

• How to Access the Library of Alexandria featuring James Corbett of The Corbet Report. (Note: Corbett uses the "Library of Alexandria" as metaphor for hard-to-find books).

• 💥Israel, a Beachead in the Middle East by Stephan Gowans at the Institute for the Critical Study of Society (ICSS Marxist). This is a best post. (Note: This is a webinar featuring a talk by Gowans via YouTube arranged by this Oakland, California Institute. Gowans' talk begins after the introduction at 03:59m and ends at 58:36m followed by a Q&A. (I recommend the talk only because he has recently done extensive research on Israel which resulted in a book.)

One US military leader has called Israel “the intelligence equivalent of five CIAs.” An Israeli cabinet minister likens his country to “the equivalent of a dozen US aircraft carriers,” while the Jerusalem Post defines Israel as the executive of a “superior Western military force that” protects “America’s interests in the region.” Arab leaders have called Israel “a club the United States uses against the Arabs,” and “a poisoned dagger implanted in the heart of the Arab nation.”

In his latest book, Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East, Stephen Gowans challenges the specious argument that Israel controls US foreign policy, tracing the development of the self-declared Jewish state, from its conception in the ideas of Theodore Herzl, to its birth as a European colony, through its efforts to suppress regional liberation movements, to its emergence as an extension of the Pentagon, integrated into the US empire as a pro-imperialist Sparta of the Middle East.

• Not Forgetting Palestine by Craig Murray, a Scotsman, from his weblog.
  

• Colombia: “The Government Murders with Impunity because the U.S. Empire is Behind it.” by Carlos Aznarez from  Internationalist 360°. (Note: This is a report of the US's major beachhead in South America to police that continent for any nation that aspires to become independent.) My reaction: This is another instance where the well-indoctrinated American people, many of whom are struggling to survive, ignore such a report--if they are exposed to it at all.

• 💥Sitrep: Here Comes China: Buried lies & betrayals – Viruses, Nukes – and a Plasma sun from "The Saker" weblog. (Note: This is a best post especially for readers who want to follow developments in China from Chinese sources of information--not from Western propaganda sources.)
  

• Over a third of heat-related deaths caused by global warming from Climate & Capitalism. (Note: This research study was reported in a peer-reviewed British science journal.)

• The Yenisey River sheds its icy coat from RT via YouTube. My reaction: More evidence of global warming that is currently threatening human species (and most others). Isn't it ironic to see a Wikipedia entry on this river in Russia's Siberia before which YouTube warns you about Russian influence in a quote from a corrupted Wikipedia entry?
  

• Means of Extinction: Conspicuous Consumption featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--3:20m) who has focused on the climate crisis. My reaction: Because McPherson is a physical scientist and not a social scientist, he is not aware that capitalism, and its propaganda machine of advertising, constantly exhorts people to consume unnecessary products to promote profits and power for the capitalist ruling classes. Thus capitalism has caused the climate crisis which McPherson argues with much evidence that abrupt global warming will result in the extinction of humans and most other species inhabiting the Earth. That is precisely why capitalists are now energetically exploring other planets in the hope of migrating there after they have spoiled the Earth for humans.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, May 11, 2021

• An army of Big Biotech companies is using psych tactics to ‘create vaccine demand’ by Celeste McGovern from Life Site.
  

• Melinda Gates Was Concerned About Her Husband’s Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein, WSJ Reveals by Arjun Walia originally from the Wall Street Journal (behind a paywall) but reported on Collective Evolution. 

• At $49.1 Trillion, the U.S. Stock Market Is Larger than the Combined GDP of the U.S., China, Japan and Germany by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. My reaction: I don't advise you to waste your time communicating with your "Senators and House Reps" that the Martens do in their last paragraph.
  

• Panel: Why Russia fears another Nazi attack featuring Rick Sanchez of RT asking questions of two Russian experts regarding Russia's celebration of the victory over Nazi Germany. My reaction: They make the point, which I often make, that history of WWII has been largely rewritten for the people located in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Could it be that the Russian people fear another attack by NATO fascist forces that are amassed near the border with Russia?

• Keep Weapons Out of Space — ‘The New War-Fighting Domain’ by Brian Cloughley from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Cloughley cites a 1967 agreement to keep weapons out of space signed by all leading nations, but provides evidence that since 1982 US presidents and their military keeps developing space weapons. I suggest you ask American Indians if the USA abides by (def.) their agreements.

• Escalation In Palestine by Bernhard, a German independent blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama. My reaction: There have been many reports of tensions heating up between the Israeli government and the Palestinians and antagonistic Arabs in the region. I wonder what is going on.

• Meet the Neo-Nazi Advising Colombian Police on How to Break the National Strike by Dan Cohen from Mint News Press.

The U.S. gave these helicopters, free of charge, to Colombia as part of what’s known as Plan Colombia – a massive military aid package that was ostensibly about fighting drug traffickers, but was really about defeating the leftist FARC counterinsurgency and punishing their base of support among peasants in rural areas.

In 2016, the FARC and government made a peace deal, so aside from a few holdouts, the FARC doesn’t exist.

Meanwhile, there’s more cocaine coming out of Colombia than ever, and the international drug cartels are more powerful than ever.

  

My reaction: Columbia is an integral part of Plan Columbia which was designed to control Venezuela if not all of South America for the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. (See this and this.) I remember in the late 1980s attending in Oregon a report from an independent journalist who spoke of the many atrocities against labor leaders which was ignored by the Colombian government, and the reality of this was well hidden by US corporate media.

• World’s winds intensifying at shocking pace by "Lori" from The Resident channel on RT.
  

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 Wednesday, April 7, 2021

• Biohazards News Tracker: Best articles on SARS-CoV-2 origins, biolabs and gain of function research by Sainath Suryanarayanan from U.S. Right to Know. 

• The Coming Antibiotic-Resistance Pandemic that Could Make COVID Look Like the Flu by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• YouTube Censors Florida Governor DeSantis and His Science Advisors by Jeffrey A. Tucker from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• Berlin Now Requires Negative COVID Test For Entry Into Non-Essential Businesses by Joe Martino from Collective Evolution. 

• ‘This Week’ With Mary + Polly: Vaccine Passports, ‘Trusted Voices,’ Vaccinating Teens + More from Children's Health Defense. 

• Jab-erwacky (or, Why Are People So Crazy about Being Guinea Pigs?) by Michael Lesher from Off-Guardian.
  

• Dr. Ryan Cole Blows The Whole COVID-19 Propaganda Away by Bill Sardi from LewRockwell.
  

• Stand in the Park featuring James Corbett from his weblog urging us to get outdoors while some of us still can.
  

• Is 2021’s Fictional Cyberattack Simulation Prepping Us For a Cyber Pandemic? by Robert Wheeler from The Organic Prepper. (Note: I am including this post to warn you that my posts could be interrupted or shut down anytime.)

• From Debs to the DSA? Rescuing America’s Revolutionary Tradition by Ben Fredericks from Left Voice. (Note: I believe, based on a rapid perusal) that this is a rare, honest attempt to look at the history of left revolutionary movements within socialism. The article is for those who have read widely on leftist movements and revolutionary parties.)
  

• The Anti-Asian Attacks are the Pre-Show for Mass Anti-White Attacks by Andrew Anglin from the Daily Stormer.  My commentary follows:

I found this post initially on The Unz Review (I always try to post articles from their original sources) which is an old-fashioned conservative website. I have re-posted some of their article in the past that I thought were well-written and documented. But this piece touched off a series of thoughts in my brain that related to my increasing curiosity related to what I have noticed recently on TV. TV, I believe, is heavily influenced by the secret services who see this medium as a powerful propaganda tool to be used to propagate their insidious propaganda themes on behalf of the capitalist ruling class.

I have a well-tuned sixth sense about media corporations and their collaboration with the secret services that are under the control of the capitalist ruling class. I have noticed an increasing trend that suggests that mind manipulators in the secret services are up to something: the rather startling nearly consistent use of African-Americans in nationwide commercials. 

 

But I was mystified as to what use this trend suggested ... that is until I read this article. I think this almost consistent use of African-Americans in commercials plus the recent widespread publicity about racist attacks of Asian-Americans by Black-Americans fit well with the favorite ruling classes strategy to sow interracial wars among Americans. You know--the old divide and conquer strategy.

 

Although I agree with the author of this article when he argues that these attacks on Asian-Americans represent an intermediate stage, but I differ when he predicts that the ultimate purpose is for a UN takeover of the USA. I see that these two recent trends fit well with the chaos strategy that the secret services have used to destabilize other countries beginning with Chile and El Salvador (see my commentary here, my reaction here (1st post), and my commentary here (7th post). I now believe that the two rather startling developments signal a chaos strategy designed against the American public to usher in a new authoritarian regime as was the case when the chaos strategy was used to target the destabilization of other nations. 

Perhaps the transnational ruling capitalist class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire now see ordinary Americans as the target to be conquered and prepared to fit in their New World Order, or the latest version of this--the Great Reset. What do you think?

 

• 💥Whitney Webb Interview – Tanzania Coup, Rising Technocracy & The 4th Industrial Revolution featuring Webb who has returned from Chile, where she was needed to conduct personal affairs, interviewed by Ryan Cristián, host of this show from The Last American Vagabond. This is a best post. My reaction (based on only 15 minutes of listening to this program which lasts nearly an hour and a quarter--I will listen to the remainder after finishing this weblog): In this fascinating interview, Webb describes Chile as exemplifying the worst aspects of the USA, but if you think Chile is divorced from the reality in the USA, think again. The transnational capitalist class, who have homes scattered all over their Empire, doesn't divide up the world into nations. Remember, they see the world, or at least, their Empire as a whole. You, as American citizens, don't matter to them.
  

• Moth-Eaten Eviction Moratorium Leaves Hundreds of Thousands Without a Roof by Eleanor Goldfield from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis).
  

• The Mainstream Worldview Is As Garbage As Mainstream Music And Movies by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.  
  

• Methanol for the CoV2 Hypodermic Chemical Experiment by Paul Haeder from Dissident Voice.

• Confrontation and Propaganda Continue Against Russia by Brian Cloughley from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Ukraine redux: war, Russophobia and Pipelineistan by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• China Rises in Latin America as Sun Sets on the Monroe Doctrine by Martin Sieff from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• 💥My New Book on Journalism, Exposing Corruption, and the Resulting Risks, Dangers and Societal Changes by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog at Substack. This is a best post.

• Myanmar: US-backed Opposition is ARMED [or "your tax dollars at work"] by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. 

• Churchill, International Jews and the Holocaust: A Revisionist Analysis by Paul Grubach from Inconvenient History. (Note: This is a rare, honest (based on my broad readings of history) attempt to show how Churchill, who shared much of his antisemitism with the Nazis, colluded with the Zionists to attain power.)
  

• 'We Have to Act': Atmospheric CO2 Passes 420 PPM for First Time Ever by Kenny Stancil from Common Dreams.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, March 31, 2021 (I ran out of time)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, March 14, 2021

• 💥Bill Gates’ Foundation Funded ‘DNA Mining’ Using COVID-19 Tests featuring Ryan Cristián in an excerpt (36:34m) from his regular show "The Daily Wrap Up 3/6/21" (lasting nearly five hours) posted on The Last American Vagabond. (Note: Cristián reports with documented evidence numerous unsavory connections between not only Big Pharma working under "public-private partnerships" with government agencies, but China as well.  He reads extensively from an article published online by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) shocking revelations which disclose the corrupting influences of international pharmaceutical corporations, in collusion with various governments, Congressional leaders, Bill Gates, etc.) This is a best post. My reaction follows: There have been so many qualified people who have raised serious questions and objections regarding these vaccines (here is another) that I wouldn't get a vaccine if they paid me a small fortune to get it.
  

• Why Are Drugmakers Who Caused Opioid Crisis in Charge of Solving the Pandemic? featuring Russell Brand, a British entertainer, arguing that "It makes sense ... that some people have doubts about allowing corporations with a history of prioritizing profits over people to be in charge of solving the pandemic" in a 15:41m video posted on the Children's Health Defense website.
  

• Patreon plans to suspend my page, please read by Whitney Webb from Patreon. 

• Congressional Testimony: The Leading Activists for Online Censorship Are Corporate Journalists by Glenn Greenwald from his Substack weblog. (Note: This is a late post.)
  

• 💥If The Rich Were Propagandizing Us, We’d Have Heard About It In The News by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian independent blogger from her weblog. This is a best post. 

• Atlantic Council Hawks Enraged as Think Tank Publishes Slightly Less Anti-Russia Article by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. (Note. This post also gives a lot of valuable information on the Atlantic Council, described by Macleod as a "pre-eminent foreign policy think tank". I think he is correct.) 

• The 4 Steps To Evolving Past Capitalism features Lee Camp in an 11:54m video via his YouTube channel explaining four steps (with occasional interjections of humor) that we can take to lead us away from capitalism.

• The Watchdogs of Imperialism and the Uyghur Genocide Slander by Stephen Harper from Dissident Voice.
  

• Neoliberalism Was Born in Chile. Neoliberalism Will Die in Chile. By Vijay Prashad, a report of his conversation with Daniel Jadue, the Mayor of Recolita, Chile, a section of Santiago, Chile. The post is from Internationalist 360°.

• US Will Seek to Meddle in Thai Constitutional Referendum by Brian Berletic, an independent blogger living in Thailand, from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: This post features a 3:03m video explaining his views.)

• Vanessa Beeley on Biden’s Escalation of War on Syria Amid the Pandemic features Beeley being interview by Mnar Muhawesh Adley, the founder of Mint Press News (Minneapolis). (Note: Beeley is a British journalist who has specialized in Syrian political affairs, and has spent a lot of time in Syria.)
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, March 11, 2021

• Urgent Open Letter from Doctors and Scientists to the European Medicines Agency regarding COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Concerns from Doctors for Covid Ethics.
  

• Digital Health Pass: IBM and Moderna Hook Up to Capitalize on COVID Reset by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.

• More Countries Adopt Vaccine Passports To 'Boost Tourism' by Tyler Durden from his weblog ZeroHedge.
  

• Bill Gates’ Global AIDS Fund Provided With $3.5 Billion in Coronavirus Stimulus Package by Richard Moorhead from Big League Politics.
  

• Twitter Demands Allegiance to NATO? featuring Ben Swann informs us about the propaganda activities of Twitter, a giant social media corporation, in a 6:46m video from ISE.

• Western Media Is Using Women’s Rights In Afghanistan To Justify Continuation Of US Troop Presence by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
  

• Militarization of Colombia is a Key Aspect of U.S. Hemispheric Control by Vicente Guevara from Internationalist 360°. My rather brief commentary follows: 

The rich US capitalist ruling class using direct threat of violence supplied by the US military have succeeded in using Columbia as a base to control all of South America. They have done this under the guise of fighting the trafficking of illicit drugs, and, of course, against any violation of human rights. However, their real intentions were to control South America for the benefit of US corporations. 

 

Meanwhile, this self-seeking wealth and power ruling class have used censorship and propaganda to keep out any hint of their real intentions from ordinary Americans who have in the past enjoyed some of the benefits of this control. As long as some of the benefits kept coming for ordinary Americans and they were distracted by all the entertainment that the ruling class supplied to them, they ignored what their government, controlled by capitalists, was doing to the rest of the world. Thus, our masters have depended on the ignorance of their subjects regarding their real intentions. 

 

It is becoming increasingly clear to ordinary Americans that they have been deceived about a number of issues by their masters in the ruling class. Whether a sufficient number of ordinary people wake up to this fact to challenge these policies remains to be seen. A positive outcome requires ordinary Americans to identify with ordinary people, not only Colombians but all people of the world because they have all been targets for exploitation by capitalist ruling classes.

• How Bad Does the Western Media Lie? by Brian Berletic, an ex-Marine living with his family in Thailand, from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.
  

• Finding Meaning Under A Meaningless System by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian independent blogger. 

• Raging Twenties: A Presentation of Pepe Escobar’s New Book by Pepe Escobar from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: This post takes us beyond a mere self-promotion of a new book to a perspective on world events.)

• Aid for Profit: The Dark History of USAID by Saheli Khastagir from Current Affairs. (Note: This general policy used government aid to underdeveloped nations following WWII to serve the profit needs of US corporations by tying aid to purchases from US corporations.)

• Russell Brand on royalty and power featuring Russell Brand, a British comedian, in a 9:39m video is from Steel City Scribblings, a British website, offering unique comments, insights, and facts regarding the current British monarchy.
  

• When American Small Towns Loved Socialism by Dave Nance, Noah Van Sciver, Paul Buhle, and Steve Max from Yes!. (Note: This post is for those of you who, through no fault of your own, are ignorant of the real history of the USA. Also, I think that the contents of this post don't justify the headline that only "small towns loved socialism".)

• History Shows Privatized Space Colonization Will Be Disastrous by Elic Weitzel from Dissident Voice. (Note: The post offers real history lessons for ordinary Americans.)

• The financialization of environment protection by Riccardo De Cristano from Climate & Capitalism.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, February 28 , 2021

• The Coronavirus Vaccine: The Real Danger is “Agenda ID2020”. Vaccination as a Platform for “Digital Identity” [and update] by Peter Koenig from Global Research. (Note: If you didn't read the original post from nearly a year ago, you may be interest in reading this article. In any case, you may be interested in reading his current update.)

• Federal law prohibits employers and others from requiring vaccination with a Covid-19 vaccine distributed under an EUA [Emergency Use Authorization] by Aaron Siri from Stat.

• As Predicted: Immunity Passports Are No Longer a Fantasy by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. 

• Socialism-in-Practice Was a Nightmare, Not Utopia by Richard M. Ebeling from American Institute for Economic Research. (Note: I am posting this as an example of an anti-socialist propaganda that is often used in various forms to put-down any hint of support of socialist aspirations reflected in the writings of mostly young people.) My commentary follows:

I was immediately turned-off when I read this post about the Soviet Union. It is a piece which illustrates anti-Russian propaganda and the way in which socialism is taught in US schools beginning in elementary school through major universities, throughout every other institution, and throughout much of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. It is almost impossible for students to escape being taught this history of the Soviet Union. I sensed this in my own education, and consequently I relied mostly on university libraries and from original writings about Russia’s Revolution of 1917 to obtain an accurate history about their revolution. Nowadays, writers about the subject, and even most radical activists, have a severely distorted history of this constantly maligned country by all the institutions of capitalism.

It obvious that education in capitalist countries must of necessity distort knowledge of this subject because the true history of this period reveals the most heinous acts of Western capitalist countries against the Soviet Union following their revolution. Socialism/communism is the direct opposite of capitalism. The former advocates public control and ownership of the economy whereas in the latter the economy is owned and controlled by private parties which inevitably results in what we have today: gross inequality of wealth, income, and opportunities, that is, a tiny class of powerful billionaires who control everything throughout the capitalist empire among an ocean of powerless, poverty stricken people and indebted nations to banks controlled by capitalists. Only a few nations have resisted this trend--Russia, China, and Iran. But to leaders of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, any independence from their control of the world is unacceptable.

Eberling ignores, or is missing, the real history of these recalcitrant nations. Anywhere in the world where socialist-minded leaders have taken power, they were immediately met with powerful opposition from capitalist nations: in Cuba, Chile, Iran, Russia, China, etc. Lessor nations that evince any independence will be crushed in one way or another (debts to the IMF, sanctions, subversion, color revolutions), and failing all these methods—outright military invasions.

The Soviet Union was a first intentional socialist project that was attempted by dedicated revolutionaries. After their revolution in 1917 they we were met with invasions from 14 different capitalist nations, primarily Britain but including substantial military forces of the USA, Czechoslovakia, and Japan. Russia was already experiencing severe hardships from their participation in WWI, and following the revolution they had to deal with the White Army of the opposition that were mostly funded by the British. The revolutionaries had to contend with a civil war in an impoverished nation while fighting off the invasions of other countries.

The leaders, mainly Lenin and Trotsky, had no illusions about the prospects of victory. They saw that they needed revolutions in advanced capitalist countries, mainly Germany, to have a chance at all. But after the assassinations of Germany's radical leaders, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebnecht, the German revolution was defeated. A few years after the successful Russian Revolution Lenin soon died after being wounded in an assassination attempt, and that left Trotsky as the only ideologically inspired leader of the government. Stalin managed to take control of the bureaucracy and, as they say, the rest is history. Stalin’s control of the Soviet Union was characterized by a ruthless, one man rule, and resulted in a gross distortion of socialism that relied on a bureaucracy inherited from Czarist Russia. Although the Russians in WWII broke the back of the invading Nazi armies and was responsible in large part for the defeat of Nazi Germany, after the war the bureaucracy evolved into a self-serving, privileged ruling class in control of workers and the rest of Russian society. An accurate history of the Russia revolution and subsequent events, which I, with difficulty, managed to obtain from original sources, supports this interpretation.

• America Condemns Putin & Xi but Supports Gangsters by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: Zuesse, like all writers for major online weblogs, have to use circumlocutions for the word ruling class. Here he uses the feudal term "aristocracy" which means ruling class. This is because the latter words are verboten in polite intellectual society, or any word that is in the Marxist lexicon. That is because Marxism is strictly verboten or any related concept like communism or "socialism" in the Marxist definition. Socialism is often currently used, but the ruling class authorities have redefined the concept from that of public ownership of the economy to the current meaning: a more generous capitalist ruling class that provide extra welfare support for the workers--the provision of nationalized medical benefits is the latest related concept. Such intentionally used Marxist words are thought-crimes in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.) 

My reaction: This an adult take on political reality. If you believe that "authorities" are good and you believe what they tell you to believe, you are indulging in childish fantasies. The reality is that we are being ruled by organized gangsters like Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman al-Saud or prominent political friends of sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. These gangsters, through their well-paid hacks (def--see nouns), go to great lengths to make you believe in their legitimacy or the legitimacy of their government or their social arrangements.

• Precedent Trump from his weblog The Corbett Report featuring James Corbett (via a 47:32m video) making progress by piercing through political illusions that have been created by the ruling class for (at least) the last 75 years. (Note: If you want to learn about that large segment of the US population who are confused about political issues, you must listen to this post. At least Corbett has reached an understanding that voting is not a solution to our many problems. However, Corbett has not destroyed all illusions of capitalist rule to reach an understanding that capitalism is the problem, but he is making progress.)

• Privatizing Emotions by John Steppling from his weblog. (Note: Steppling (who now lives in Norway) has had a long career in theater mostly as a playwright. He shares his insights, and those of others, about power and powerlessness.)

• Gaslighting: “do not question the reality you are being force-fed” by Ian Jenkins, a comment that Vanessa Beeley wants to share with you and posted on her weblog The Wall Will Fall.  

• America’s Domestic War on Terror: Under Domestic Terrorism Laws, Anyone Who Disagrees with the Government Can Be Considered a Terrorist by Timothy Alexander Guzman from his weblog Silent Crow News.

• Bullshit Spoken In An Assertive Tone: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 
  

• How a 'religious extremist' fabricates a Xinjiang 'genocide' report from CGTM, a major Chinese news website. 

• Democracy Now amplifies State Department propaganda campaign against China behind progressive cover by Danny Haiphong from The Grayzone.
  

• Artificial Intelligence Takes Over Drive-Thru Orders At This Fast-Food Restaurant by Tyer Durden from his weblog ZeroHedge.
  

• US NED 2021 - Thailand: More Money, More Sedition featuring Brian Berletic, an ex-Marine who is now living in Thailand, from his weblog Land Destroyer Report reporting in a 8:58m video on NED's funding of agencies interfering in Thailand politics. (Note: NED funds agencies in every nation that the Deep State, the secretive directorate of the capitalist ruling class, regards as important for their strategic interests. This is only one example. See the next example, Ecuador, in the post that follows this.)

• U.S.-Backed Ecuador Government Tries Stopping Socialist Electoral Victory by Ron Ridenour from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• Giant iceberg calves from Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf from RT via a 1:05m YouTube video.
  

• How We Go Extinct, a 3:13m video (via YouTube) featuring retired scientist Guy McPherson from his channel on YouTube.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, February 17, 2021

• Beyond Lucrative: Jeffrey Epstein’s Billionaire Tax Avoidance Assistance Business by Daniel Hemel and Bob Lord from Inequality.

• US Election 2020: From Conspiracy Theory to Conspiracy Fact by Andrew Korybko from Off-Guardian (based in Britain).
  

• How Gov’t Hides The Real Unemployment Rate featuring Lee Camp charges the government with lying about unemployment, but he doesn't explain how in this 4:05m YouTube video.

• The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. My reaction: What Greenwald misses is that the Deep State has taken over completely what honest journalism ever aspired to be throughout the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Only getting rid of capitalists, and all other hegemonic social-economic classes, can there ever be an honest media.

• The Empire Attacks BDS For The Same Reason Nixon Started The Drug War by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. My reaction: Nixon's anti-(illicit) drug policies were well understood by activists in the early 1970s, but the public completely bought the lies. Now mainstream politicians, who are employed by the capitalist ruling class, are trying to profit off of marijuana sales to the consternation of the older-age public--the same people who bought the lies of the ruling class in the 1970s and beyond.

• News Anchor Suggests Using Drone Strikes on Trump Supporters featuring Ben Swann of ISE trying via a 13 minute video presentation to correct the lies of contemporary "journalists" that have contributed to actual terrorism using the actual history of lies spread by ruling class media corporations. Such sociopathic "journalists" will still be hired by media corporations and will enjoy comfortable careers in the future, and a gullible public, while also pursuing comfortable careers, will continue to believe them. This self-reinforcing phenomenon will continue until sufficient numbers of the public will not accept such lies because they have been exposed to independent media.

• The Empty Promise of Western-Style "Equality" and "Democracy" by Brian Berletic patiently giving a corrective presentation via a 5:27m video to mythical concepts like "Illuminati". Capitalist ruling class media like to encourage such myths that detract their gullible listeners from them and their dastardly deeds.

• How Governments and the Media Help Corporations Get Away With Their Crimes by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room.
  

• 💥Global Coup d’État: Mapping the Corporate Takeover of Global Governance. This 31:14m video (and transcript) appears to be a collaboration between two non-profit agencies--Global Political Economy (GPE) and Transnational Institute (TNI). This post is undoubtedly a best post. My commentary follows:

I have posted numerous articles from the latter organization, but I've only recently discovered GPE. This video features Lynn Fries of the Global Political Economy (GPE) conducting an interview with Nick Buxton of TNI. This essential post points out the subversion of the United Nations by corporations. Previously, I've posted articles that have explored the ways that secretive capitalist agencies like the CIA have subverted governments to promote Empire interests, but now they are corrupting the UN with their class-based motives of profit and power.

My impression of TNI was of a do-gooder (def) type of organization that believes that capitalism and a meaningful democracy were not incompatible. Reflecting on Buxton's remarks, I believe they are waking up to their contradictions. (See my remarks about this organization a year ago.)

(Note: Every time I consider retiring from maintaining this website, I encounter an excellent article that I want to spread far and wide. As long as this keeps up, I won't retire until forced to by ill-health. If there is someone out there in the blogosphere that can help out, I would greatly appreciate it.)

• China overtakes U.S. as the EU's largest trading partner by Katherine Berjikian from CGTN (China's main newspaper). 

• The Reshaping of Global Agriculture: The WEF Agenda Behind India’s Modi Government’s “Farm Reform” by F. William Engdahl from Global Research. 

• Update on Syria by Vanessa Beeley, an independent British journalist, from her weblog The Wall Will Fall. You may also be interested in an update provided by South Front.
  

• The Arab Spring Failed But the Rage Against Misery and Injustice Continues by Patrick Cockburn from CounterPunch.

• US, OAS, Colombia Try to Steal Ecuador’s Election from Popular Socialist Candidate, While Spreading Fake News from Internationalist 360°. 

• Science Update: Arctic Permafrost, Mines Releasing Carbon, a 6:21m video featuring Prof. Guy McPherson (retired) giving an update from the latest scientific news (peer-reviewed journals) about the climate crisis. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, February 14, 2021

• The Guardian Revealed Its True Face in Sacking a Columnist for Criticising US Military Aid to Israel by Jonathan Cook from CounterPunch.

• The West Refuses To Recognize Palestinian Democratic Election Outcomes by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond. 

• Caught In The Act - New York Times "Selectively Misquotes" Scientists To Fit Its "Prescribed Narrative" by Bernhard (a German independent blogger) from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
  

• With Argentina, the Condor Plan Closed the “Circle of Death!” by Gabriela Calloti from Internationalist 360°. This is what I lived through in the 1970s and '80s:

The expert began her presentation by indicating that the “concrete base” of Operation Condor was in Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet after the overthrow of Salvador Allende in September 1973. Plan Condor and Operation Condor were launched by U.S. intelligence services. 

Operation Condor included three phases designed by the FBI (U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation) and with input from the CIA (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency). They were aimed at “finishing off all the important exiles abroad in each of the Southern Cone countries”, she explained. 

Included in this scheme was the training of Latin American military personnel at the U.S. Southern Command and the meetings of the U.S. Armed Forces. This “ensured the dependence of our region”, she affirmed. Referring to the founding of the Condor Plan, she said that it took place on November 25, 1975 in Chile at the invitation of General Manuel Contreras, head of the Chilean political police DINA (National Intelligence Directorate) with the participation of Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

But this US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's subversion of nations continues today especially in Belarus, Russia, Myanmar, and China under the banner of "human rights".

• Atlantic Council Braces for Opportunities of Potential Bioterror Attack by Raul Diego from Mint Press News. My reaction: Could this be a projected (def) cover for the Empire's plans? The US/Anglo/Zionist Empire has never stopped developing bio-weapons since they employed such weapons in the Korean War (read This Must Be the Place (2013) by Dave Chaddock).

• Pentagon Tries to Pretend that it’s Engaged in “Harmless Activities” in Syria by Vladimir Platov from New Eastern Outlook.

• Conspiracy Theories Are Caused By Government Secrecy by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. My reaction: She writes: "All the fixation on the way unregulated speech on the internet has contributed to the circulation of conspiracy theories conveniently ignores the real cause of those theories: government secrecy." I would go further: If government agencies and their collaborators in media corporations did not intentionally lie about their actions, there would be no need for conspiracy theories. It is secrecy, censorship of independent media, and deception that necessitates the appearance of conspiracy theories. Clearly, more Americans than ever before are mistrustful about information released from government sources and media corporations. There is a distinct feeling that they've been lied to so much in the past: the assassinations of JFK, ML King, RK, Malcolm X, the Vietnam War, 9/11, War on Terror, etc.

• 💥Opening the CIA’s Can of Worms by Edward Curtin from Off-Guardian. This is a best post. I've read widely on, and carefully followed, the CIA for a long time, and they represent the active arm of the Deep State that long ago decided to build an empire that rules the world.
  

• NATO’s Road To Perdition With Ukraine, an editorial from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• When America Voted Out Fascism: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• The New Normal requires a NEW Response by Catte Black and Vanessa Beeley from Off-Guardian (based in Britain). (Note: You will to know what PTB means--the Powers that Be--I hate such references to the ruling capitalist classes. "Elites", "the rich", "billionaires", or "oligarchies" aren't much better.) My reaction: People are beginning to get impatient with their governments' management of this pandemic.

• The “pandemic” modelling cabal have a serious conflict of interest by Rosemary Frei, MSc, from The Wall Will Fall (Vanessa Beeley's weblog).

• Farmers’ Protest in India – Price of Failure Will Be immense by Colin Todhunter (an independent blogger who has lived a number of years in India) from Off-Guardian (based in Britain).
  

• Climate-Change Summary featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson (via YouTube) summarizing the science which indicates abrupt climate change (via YouTube).
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, February 9, 2021

•  Essential reading to understand the COVID19 fraud. By Vanessa Beeley, a Brit, from her weblog The Wall Will Fall. This is a best post because of its extensive documentation.

• Is it True that the New Variants are Very Dangerous? by Rosemary Frei, MSc, from her weblog. (Note: This post features a 9:18m video that features Frei summarizing her report that follows in the post.)

• Trust the Science by Dave Cullen, an Irishman, in a satirical 9:37m video from his Bitchute channel Computing Forever.
  

• Stanford Medical Prof: Scientists Are Being Censored For Sharing “Alternative” Info About COVID by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• Revealed: How Facebook Plans to Read Your Brain from Children's Health Defense.
  

• The (New Normal) War on Domestic Terror by CJ Hopkins from his satirical weblog Consent Factory, Inc. My reaction: No doubt the NY Times triggered this response by calling for a "Reality Czar". I think Hopkins could be put out of the satirical business by reading/watching mainstream media. They increasingly write/show their own self-targeting satire.

• Joe Biden and the Revenge of the Behaviorists (Why Statistical Thinking Can Get You Killed) by Matthew Ehret from FRN (Fort Russ News). My reaction: This post reveals how scientists can, and often do, serve the capitalist ruling class, who are already corrupted by wealth and power, by manipulating data to support ruling class policies. Such scientists are rewarded with comfortable careers for the benefit of themselves and their families. The necessity of preserving their privileged life-styles is often too alluring for scientists, especially when they already have sociopathic tendencies.
  

• Democrats WANT To Lose The Midterms: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian, from her weblog. My reaction: She knows far more about the USA than most Americans. I wonder if her American husband has something to do with this.

• Really Existing Capitalism is Crony Capitalism by Rod Driver from Elephants in the Room, his weblog on Medium's website.

• Canadian Government Delays Mandatory Traveler Quarantine featuring an interview with John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which appears to be a non-profit center that is independent of the government, conducted by James Corbett, a Canadian, from The Corbett Report. (Note: Canada is very much a part of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire being a former member of the British Empire. Many of Carpay's comments apply to Americans. Of course, we are both citizens of the same imperialist Empire.)

The Canadian government announced it was going to subject Canadian residents to mandatory quarantine, at their own expense, after returning from international travel, regardless of their negative COVID status. After public backlash and the threat of legal action, the government is now delaying those plans, but some are alleging that the government has already arrested Canadians arriving in the country by air and transported them to a secret hotel location. Joining us to discuss this developing story and what Canadians can do about it is John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms.

• MSM accused of keeping America devided | Can it get worse? from RT (via YouTube).

• Collective Hysteria: Western Leaders Work to Alter the Definition of Reality by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Retail Traders Are the New Lab Rats in High Frequency Trading Schemes by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 
  

• U.S., Taiwan Manipulate Chip Supplies To Press For War With China by Bernhard, a German independent blogger from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• China newsbrief and sitrep by Godfree Roberts from "The Saker Blog".
  

• Farmers’ Protest in India: Price of Failure Will Be immense by Colin Todhunter (a Brit who has lived a number of years in India) from CounterPunch. My reaction: What is happening in India is representative of the worldwide effects of capitalist development through the corporatization (def. American English) of agriculture.

The plan to radically restructure agrifood in the country is being sold to the public under the guise of ‘modernising’ the sector. And this is to be carried out by self-proclaimed ‘wealth creators’ like Zuckerberg, Bezos and Ambani who are highly experienced at creating wealth – for themselves.

• How Ecuador’s US-backed, coup-supporting ‘ecosocialist’ candidate Yaku Pérez aids the right-wing by Ben Norton from The Grayzone. My reaction: Note how similar this is in the USA, the center of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Subversive Empire agents now have control of the Democratic Party which traditionally supported workers (within a capitalist framework).

• Bolivia Heading Towards Cooperative Politics and Economy by Ron Ridenour from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Turkish Proxies Launch Missiles At Joint Russian-Syrian HQ In Southern Idlib [Syria] from Southfront. (Note: The post includes a transcript of the 3:53m video.)
  

• Key points regarding abrupt, irreversible climate change featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson (via YouTube) summarizes the main peer-reviewed documents that support his view of abrupt climate change.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, February 5, 2021

• Defeat the Police: Beyond "Defund" or "Community Control" by Omedi Ochieng from Spectre.

• After COVID, Davos Moves to The “Great Reset” by F. William Engdahl from Global Research. This is a best post.
  

• “COVID-19 The Great Reset” – “Delete” Humanity by Peter Koenig from Global Research.
  

• Fascism is Capitalism That Really Means It by Rob Urie from CounterPunch. My commentary follows:

CounterPunch runs Urie's articles occasionally to demonstrate their radicalness, but this is all pretense. Usually they post articles that support the ruling capitalist class with emphasis on criticisms of the government. However, the legitimacy of capitalist classes is increasingly being called into question and doubts are rising. The people at CounterPunch don't want to be left behind. Worse yet, nowadays pretense is omnipresent in our capitalist culture.

Because the rising capitalist in the 18th century had a sufficient answer to the existential quandaries of humans, and the rule of a small group of aristocracy, which based their rule on inheritance, whose ancestors had conquered lands and enjoyed papal support for their rule, became no longer viable. Capitalists were able to attain state power based on individual "ownership" of economic property. This class took power away from feudal authorities and soon learned that "ownership" of economic property brought other rewards such as political influence. Under this class's system of capitalism, economic property became a commodity to be purchased in some market; and today this class has, through the consolidation of property into a few hands, taken control of many nations.

Starting in the late 20th century, capitalist classes used feudal inheritance laws to consolidate vast economic properties. They soon saw opportunities in other nations to acquire property which gave them more influence within their native countries and beyond. They no longer felt bound in nation-states in order to pursue their goals of ever increasing consolidation of property. Thus, arose a transnational class of capitalists with an ideology of neoliberalism. ("neo" of course means new, and "liberal" refers to the classic definition of capitalist ideology. They, as a ruling class, have imposed this term because it sounds much nicer than transnational capitalism.) Wherever possible, this new class has removed national barriers from restrictions that nations have imposed on the exchange of commodities.

It was soon to become apparent that the capitalist belief that you could simply buy economic property in some market and accumulate ever increasing profits and power was mistaken. It could, and did, lead to many other social problems like gross inequality, crime, wars, etc. Soon people learned that the source of individual wealth was strongly influenced by class that you were born into which gave advantages such as educational opportunities, opportunities provided by family wealth, political and economic social connections, etc. The new Protestant Christian sects of the Reformation can no longer convince most people to support capitalist rule.

However by this time, ruling capitalist classes gained so much social and political power that they could limit such recognition and impose the values and norms of capitalism. This is when pretense and capitalist propaganda really set into motion. In the 21st century this trend was followed by increasing amounts of censorship and propaganda that validated capitalism and capitalist rule. This is where we are today: capitalist class overwhelming control of nations, powerless citizens, omnipresent censorship, surveillance of communications, and ruling class propaganda that is designed to hide truthful reporting of events, and the use of various sophisticated means of manipulation of thoughts of sub-classes. And, the frequent collapses of capitalist economies is contributing to this feeling of illegitimacy.  In short, the philosophical foundations of capitalism are increasingly being seen as illegitimate. What is much worse, the dominant system of capitalism is in terminal conflict with the forces of nature which will produce dramatic climatic crises, and will likely end with the extinction of humans and most other species that exist today.

• A Domestic Terrorism Law? War on Dissent Will Proceed Full Speed Ahead by Phil Giraldi from The Council for the National Interest.
  

• You Never Know by David Perez from Off-Guardian, and independent weblog based in Britain.
  

• Techno Fascism Is On The Rise With Jordan Chariton featuring Lee Camp and Chariton to discuss over a 48:51m video censorship practiced by social media corporations on Camp's YouTube channel.
  

• Reality Czars and Brain-chipped Monkeys featuring James Corbett and James Evan Pilato commenting with their anarchist orientation on the latest news. 

• Coming to Your Neighborhood? Amazon Delivery Vans With ‘Roaming Eyes’ Cameras by Brett Wilkins from Children's Health Defense. 

• Technopopulism and the Online Class War by Jonathan Culbreath from The Bellows.

• Dear Congress: You Won’t Be Able to Say You Weren’t Informed About 9/11 from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. 

• Piers Corbyn and Free Speech by Craig Murray (an independent blogger from Scotland) from his weblog.
  

• Is the Current Climate Catastrophe Irreversible? by Vladimir Danilov from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: The future looks to me far worse than the author's. Note that he leaves his pessimistic essay on an insane false-hope. Anyone who believes that the Biden administration will rescue us from climate destabilization should seek psychiatric help.

• You’re Not A Radical, You’re Just Sane by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. My reaction: I depend on Johnstone and others to keep me sane.

• India Shuts Down Internet Around New Delhi As The Corporate Takeover of Food Continues by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution (I don't recommend most of the articles on this website).
  

• Myanmar Crisis Explained... by Brian Berletic, an ex-Marine who lives in Thailand, from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.

• Ecuador: US-Backed Gov’t Scrambles to Privatize the Central Bank Before Elections from Mint Press News.

• American Marines Reclaimed Northern China in 1945 from Tales of the American Empire via their YouTube channel in a 6:59m video. (Note: This is for history buffs who got a history that was extensively revised and taught in American public schools.)