Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, May 26, 2021

• Lockdowns Need to Be Intellectually Discredited Once and For All by Ethan Yang from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• 💥The Cover-Up Continues: The Truth About Bill Gates, Microsoft, and Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Webb from her weblog Unlimited Hangout.  This is a best post because it is an excellent example of independent investigative journalism.
  

• Transcript – Guns and Butter Interview with Bonnie Faulkner March 8, 2021 [posted on 5/18/21] from Wrench in Gears. (Note: Notice the link to the actual interview broadcast on WBAI in New York. Also, during the interview Faulkner asks a key question after she introduces the question: "I was taught that one of the main [characteristics of] capitalism is that it must grow or expand. You have written that 'in order for capitalism to continue on a beautiful planet of finite resources, the plan is to shift growth to digital realms' which is what you’ve been discussing. How is virtual capitalism going to piggyback on real-world capitalism?") [my insertion] 

• A People’s Guide to the War Industry -2: Profits & Deception by Christian Sorensen from Consortium News.
  

• America’s Chief Exports Are Marvel Movies And Human Suffering: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Australian Caitlin Johnstone and her American husband providing the narration of this article.
  

• Biden Doesn’t Want Rules and Order Everywhere by Brian Cloughley from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

Rejection of a resolution calling for “respect for international humanitarian law” is not consistent with Washington’s intention to abide by the “rules-based international order” which is apparently the solution to all the world’s problems — providing the rules are not applied to Israel.

• CrossTalk: Heavy hand of tech from RT's channel of YouTube (24:28m).

Has Big Tech poisoned our politics or has it merely revealed deep social and political divisions? With each passing day making that determination becomes more and more difficult. Those who have the power to control our social interactions define what we understand to be reality. This is simply tyrannical.

CrossTalking with Ron Placone and Suzie Dawson.

 

My reaction: Of course Big Tech is controlled by the ruling capitalist class! It is another weapon in their vast arsenal that is aimed at all those that are not on board with the agendas and the interests of the ruling class.

• The Nazi Past of US Geopolitics by Thomas Klikauer and Norman Simms from CounterPunch. My commentary follows: 

This short history does not reveal the history of collusion by the Western capitalist ruling classes with German Nazis to crush the anti-capitalist Soviet Union and to rid the world of any kind of socialism that threatens the rule of capitalists. After WWII this history of their past collusion with Nazis has been rewritten to eliminate nearly all references to true history. This was especially true of most giant corporations like the Ford Company, IT&T, General Motors, etc. who kept their German industries running throughout WWII. 

 

Early in the war, conspirators, mostly in the State Department, saw the opportunity to construct another empire out of the remnants of the former British Empire with the intact industry and powerful military forces of the USA. (This was all laid out in earlier posts: here, here, and here.) But present generations know none of this history because it has been scrubbed from history books by historians appointed by the governors of their new empire, the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire (Israel and the right-wing power of Zionist finance were added later).

 

Today we see the current reactionary forces at work in the Empire's capitalist ruling classes to rid themselves of the burden of supporting poor people by eliminating "useless eaters" to lessen the threat climate destabilization confronting them so they can resume business as usual. Like I wrote in a commentary on 2/7/2021:

 

... this is a dangerous thought. Imagine that our masters in the ruling class have in their deluded thinking reached a conclusion that in order to save themselves [as their capitalist system] they must get rid of us untermenschen? They might in this belief decide that we ordinary humans are "useless eaters" and expendable, or worse yet like "communists" or anti-capitalists--class enemies, and kill us all in order to save themselves from the climate crisis, which they have caused, and they know is coming sooner or later. Perhaps the Great Reset is one such delusion. [my present insertion]

 

Our masters are presently busy trying to eliminate labor laws that guarantee workers' rights using the excuse of protecting the health of workers based on recommendations from CDC and OSHA, and the incessant propaganda about their contrived "pandemic". They are busy creating a two-tier society in which "good Germans" are extended all kinds of privileges based on their good behavior and the rest of us are denied travel and access to many services. 

• The First World War, Cecile Rhodes and “Conspiracy Facts” by David William Pear from Global Research. (Note: Another real history lesson.)
  

• Greetings from “New Normal” Germany! by CJ Hopkins. an American playwright and political satirist, who currently lives in Germany. He is mostly serious in this post, and describes the current living conditions of the German "new normal"  which is currently threatening to come to the USA.
  

Last week, here in “New Normal” Germany, the government (which, it goes without saying, bears no resemblance to the Nazi regime, or any other totalitarian regime) implemented a social-segregation system that bans anyone who refuses to publicly conform to the official “New Normal” ideology from participating in German society. From now on, only those who have an official “vaccination pass” or proof of a negative PCR test are allowed to sit down and eat at restaurants, shop at “non-essential” stores, or go to bars, or the cinema, or wherever. 

• Bernie Coddles Biden Instead Of Pushing Him featuring comedian Jimmy Dore from his YouTube channel. This time he returns to his normal comedic political satire, and he uses it to satirize Sen. Bernie Sanders. 

• How a fascist party brought into Israel’s parliament by Netanyahu helped him start the war he wanted by David Sheen from The Grayzone.

• Washington's, Not Myanmar's "National Unity Government" by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. 
  

• Douma: Three Years On How: independent media shot down the false “chemical attack” narrative by Eva Bartlett, Canada's outstanding independent journalist, from Off-Guardian.
  

•  Scientists Sound Alarm: Unprecedented Mercury Accumulation in Pacific Ocean Trenches by Aarhus University from SciTechDaily.

• Science Update: Arctic Summit 2021 featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has for many years focused on the climate crisis, and from his YouTube channel (09:56m).

• 84% of US West plunged into dangerous drought featuring Lori Harfenist using RT's channel to podcast this report.

The entire western half of the United States, from the Pacific Coast, across the great basin and the desert of the southwest, up through the rockies to the northern plains, is currently being ravaged by a drought so bad that many are now calling it a megadrought, the worst one the country has seen in 1200 years.

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, May 17, 2021

• Why Did Twitter Censor An Eminent Infectious Disease Expert For His Opinion On COVID Vaccines? by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• James Patrick with CJ Hopkins on the Covidian Cult featuring CJ Hopkins, who currently lives in Berlin, in interview (a little over an hour) from Ovalmedia's channel on YouTube. (Note: This starts at 1:06hr.) My reaction: I can't stand the smile on Patrick's face; but if you can get past this, I highly recommend listening to Hopkin's comments.
  

• Why is the FDA funded in part by the companies it regulates? by Beth Daley from The Conversation.
  

• Report Reveals Major Corporations Are Funding Lawmakers Behind Anti-Democracy Bills by Brett Wilkins from Common Dreams. (My reaction: Surprise, surprise!)

• MSM "Independently Confirms" Totally False Stories features Lee Camp from his YouTube channel, satirically commenting on this topic.
  

• U.S. And Its Allies Try to Split the World in Two by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: You may need to know what "BJP" means.) My commentary follows: 

I love this author because he documents, which I can learn from, so many of his historical arguments, and because his understanding of history is most similar to mine compared to others identified currently identified as "investigative historians" (I've yet to find his credentials, but he clearly knows history). But we part company as to whether the Democratic and Republican parties matter in the fake democracy such as ours. Furthermore, Zuesse is an unapologetic devotee of FDR which I am decidedly not.

 

Roosevelt was a strange capitalist in that he didn't make his millions (today that would be billions) during his lifetime, but lived off of investments that he inherited from his early ancestors from Holland. He himself was an avid follower of ancestry, and he described an ancestor whose wealth was obtained through the China trade, or in other words, he may have engaged in drug trafficking. 

 

His neighbors, the Astors, Rockefellers, and Vanderbilts, were far richer. But he grew up with them and attended the same schools as them: Groton, a private prep school, and Harvard. However, possibly adding to his character was his coming down with polio just when started a career in politics. FDR later established the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation. Corporate media cooperated with him to ignore his affliction which confined him to a wheelchair.

 

Thus, when he was attacked by a political adversary because of his support for government programs to help the poor in the Great Depression, he once said that he was "saving capitalism". And, he did.

• Five Characteristics of Neoimperialism: Building on Lenin's Theory of Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century by Cheng Enfu and Lu Baolin from Monthly Review.
  

• Mounting Violence Casts Doubt Over the Project of Progressive "Reform" Prosecutors by Ralph Cipriano with an introduction by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack.

• United States withdraws from Afghanistan? Not really by Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad from Peoples Dispatch. 

• The mask of “liberal democracy” falls with a bang by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" Blog.
  

• What is Left for Palestine? by Craig Murray, a Scotsman, from his weblog.
  

• The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman, a book by this author presented online from Middle East Archive. (Note: Or you can buy this book for $15 or $16.)
  

• Zero by 2050 or 2030? 1.5b°C or 2°C? Overshoot or not? Demystifying carbon budgets. By David Spratt, an Australian research coordinator, from his weblog Climate Code Red. 

• Sombre truths behind bright green lies by Paul Cudenec from Winter Oak (based in Britain).

• Extinction Monologues: A/C Busted! featuring Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has focused on the climate crisis, from his YouTube channel.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, March 2, 2021

• Nudge Strategies: Persuasive Vaccine Messages featuring Dave Cullen, an Irishman, from his Bitchute channel Computing Forever in a 6:57m video.

• After Years of Propaganda, American Views of Russia and China Hit Historic Lows by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis). My reaction: I'm amazed at the apparent effectiveness of the ruling class's propaganda.

• The United States of (Capitalist) Misery by Philip Roddis, a Brit, from his weblog Steel City Scribblings.
  

• Real Reason CORNEL WEST Denied Tenure From Harvard. This post features Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal discussing (in a 20:19m video) the denial of tenure and other matters related to the "antisemitism" smear that Zionist figures use to attack anyone who criticizes Israeli discriminatory policies. You should start the video at 2:15m if you have already seen the prior video featuring Cornel West on the Jimmy Dore channel of YouTube.

• Bernays and Propaganda – The Transition to Education and Commerce – Part 4 by Larry Romanoff from "The Saker" weblog. 

By the early 1900s, Lippman and Bernays had learned from experience the methods of creating an extensive, false, and emotionally-provocative imagery and to use this fabricated mythology to control the perceptions and manipulate the opinions and behavior of the population of an entire nation. It had first been done for political purposes during wartime, to create immense racial hatred and push a nation into war, but was clearly just as applicable to political and commercial ambitions. At the same time, the wealthy elite of the nation created the higher echelons of an American educational system that would use essentially the same principles to entrench themselves in perpetuity by maintaining the bewildered herd as a kind of feudal colony of impoverished consumers. Those controlling the banks and large corporations were not content to stop with the educational system when they realised the broader possibilities of influencing the population through a nationwide scale of propaganda disguised as advertising, which led in turn to the creation and rapid development of the American advertising industry based almost entirely on the principles Lippman and Bernays identified. We then had the media, beginning with print and radio but rapidly including the movies and then television, being the vehicles through which this grand plan of population control would be executed.

• The ‘Cancel Culture’ phenomenon: kind of hate-hush all over the world by Ghassan and Intibah Kadi from "The Saker" weblog. 

• War Mongering for Artificial Intelligence by Binoy Kampmark from Off-Guardian.
  

• Putin Laid it All Out: “The So-called Policy of Containing Russia” by Pepe Escobar from Global Research.

• The Significance of China Surpassing US as EU’s Top Trade Partner by Brian Berletic from New Eastern Outlook.
  

• On British colonialism, antisemitism, and Palestinian rights by Avi Shlaim from Middle East Eye (based in London).

• The Western Propaganda War on Myanmar by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: Berletic, to his astonishment, reveals that the Thai government is funding pro-NATO propaganda. This post added to yesterday's Dore interview with Blumenthal of The Grayzone suggests that Western-based international news agencies are weapons used by Western governments' intelligence agencies to engage in psychological warfare in various countries.) My commentary follows: 

There are many indications that the CIA, NSA, etc. are engaging in influencing the minds of Americans within this country, and that news reporting is transformed into propaganda to promote capitalist ruling class interests here and abroad. I don't think it is an exaggeration to state that we in America, and many other places in the world, are living in a kind of "Truman Show", a programmed reality that was produced by our masters in the capitalist ruling class. Or, using the concept of Caitlin Johnstone, we are living in a "narrative matrix" to suggest that the ruling class's control of all ideological institutions is producing a fake reality for most of us. They do this by using fake news and propaganda, via their ownership and control of media corporations, that they spread throughout all the other ideological institutions (education, entertainment, etc.) in order to control people's minds, especially within the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. 

 

This practice is the essence of neo-fascism, an updated version of old-fashioned fascism, now used by our contemporary masters in the ruling class in contrast to the classic fascism of German and Italian history (reliance on police terror). To be sure, the latter used elements of fake news and propaganda, but they relied on hard fascist methods because of the underdevelopment of propaganda during their rule. However, whenever the methods of neofascism fail, our contemporary masters don't hesitate to use the police and military forces to put down opposition.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, January 12, 2021

• An Exhausted Planet Limps Into 2021 by Robert Hunziker from CounterPunch. My reaction: The only thing that I can disagree with this article is this sentence: "Adopt eco economics as a healthy replacement for the neoliberal brand of forever-growth capitalism, cruising along on a golden paved road to never-never land of fantasy and ecstasy." Plain capitalism was never going to restrain itself from "the forever-growth" phenomenon because the wealth and power that the system delivers to families is too powerfully addictive. Transnational capitalism (they call it "neoliberalism") is only an updated version of capitalism, and it is not responsible for our crisis. It is the system itself. The denial of this fact only comforts upper-middle-class careerists who find the thought distasteful, that their role was essential by assisting capitalists to own and control everything on Earth. They want to shed their guilt in pursuit of their own comfortable lives by denying their collusion with capitalists, and that they might be also responsible for this crisis that threatens all life on Earth.
  

• DHS's Facial/Iris Recognition Can ID Airline Passengers Wearing Masks from Mass Private I: Privacy, Civil Rights And Homeland Insecurity Issues. (Note: I know absolutely nothing about this website, but they use extensive documentation from knowledgeable sources.)

• Apartheid News by Bernhard (German blogger) from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler by Glenn Greenwald from Substack.
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, October 12, 2020

• Are You Outsourcing Your Truth? featuring JP Sears, a satirical comedian, on his channel via YouTube.
  

• Battlefield Social Media: The West's Growing Censorship by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.

• Two Types of Terror in Michigan by James Bovard from AIER (American Institute for Economic Research).

• DAMAGE CONTROL: WHO Develops Amnesia, Claims It Never Liked Lockdowns by Alex Turner-Cohen from Anti-Empire. (I had to look up what "penny-drop" means.)
  

• The cruelty of the Covid-secure classroom by Molly Kingsley from Spiked.

• COVID Versus a Natural Catastrophe by Peter Koenig from Global Research.
  

• Dr. Reiner Fuellmich ~ Crimes Against Humanity by Suzanne Maresca from Golden Age of Gaia.

Dr. Fuellmich of Germany discusses the findings of the International Corona Investigative Committee that was formed on July 10, 2020 by four lawyers. The committee is made up of lawyers, doctors, and scientists who together have reached the conclusion that COVID may well be the greatest crime against Humanity in history. They originally set out to determine ~ 

How dangerous is the virus, really? 

What is the significance of a positive test? 

What collateral damage has been caused by the corona measures in regards to the world’s health and economy?

• The Covid-19 Roadmap: Towards Global Economic Chaos and Societal Destruction by Prof Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research.
  

• The Shoddiness of ‘Big Think’ Media by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. (My reaction: I'm not going to fault Zuesse from using the word "aristocracy" instead of "ruling class" which is my preference in the second to the last paragraph. Simply substitute his word for my preference and then the article becomes very insightful. The use of "aristocracy" is necessary in order to be published in any of today's prestigious websites because the phrase "ruling class" implies a Marxist influence which is verboten especially in the West. Apparently it doesn't matter how independent the websites are from Western capitalist publication sources. However, I know Zuesse well enough to conclude that he has been a faithful product of the American educational system. Still, his articles should be read because he reveals so much about the ruling class (excuse me, "aristocracy"😉).
  

• Hearing Reveals US Govt’s Invisible Hand in Protests Around the World by Dave DeCamp from Antiwar. 

• Not News But A Juicy Collection Of Narratives - How The New York Times Failed Its Readers by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
  

• The Campaign to “Kill” the BDS Movement Against Israel Extends Far and Wide by Caren Holmes from Jacobin.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020

• The Establishment’s Plan to Divide Part 2: COVID-19, Election 2020, and The Great Reset by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. My reaction: I think Broze spends too much time on how Trump functions to divide Americans, and not enough time devoted to exposing the carefully designed ruling class agenda of fomenting fear and chaos among ordinary Americans. Trump is a natural-born American capitalist of a nationalist variety, but the transnational ("neoliberal") ruling class intentionally creates chaos among ordinary Americans as a method to install more authoritarian measures. They want to do this as a part of their global domination project that I have exposed numerous times. Transnational capitalists see Trump, who unconsciously stirs up conflict, as an upstart who is detracting from their finely honed control methods, and as such, they are greatly irritated by him. They only included the clownish Trump on the 2016 ballot to ensure the victory of their chosen candidate Hillary Clinton; but they were surprised, as I was, that many voters simply withheld their votes with disgust from Clinton, and as a result, Trump was elected (by the electoral college but not by popular vote).

• Media Gunning For Scott Atlas Because He Keeps Exposing Coronavirus Lies from Political Patrol.
  

• Big donors fund state parties at record levels by Reid Wilson from The Hill. (Note: This article gives only one part of the ruling class's control over elections which is an integral part of American capitalists' fake democracy. See also this evidence.)
  

• Brave New Money, part 1 and part 2 of a 2-part series. By Norbert Häring, a German blogger and economist, from his weblog Money and more. (Note: I think that this is a summary of his book by the same title.) My reaction: I think that digital money is a part of the The Great Reset project that the Empire wishes to accomplish with the pandemic. I assume that if they are successful, this will give them ever greater control (domination) over their populations. Control and domination is what the Empire and capitalism are all about.
  

• Like a Rowboat in a Typhoon: Why 2020 Center-Right Yankee Election Outcomes are Dead in the Water by Bruce Lerro from Planning Beyond Capitalism. 

• LIVE UPDATES: ASSANGE HEARING DAY SEVENTEEN—US Intel Spying on Assange Detailed in Court, Including Plans to Kidnap or Poison Him by Joe Lauria from Consortium News. My reaction: I am not posting articles on the trial of Assange because I see the court in Britain as a "kangaroo court", I assume that Assange will be either killed in the British prison or he will be extradited to USA where he will await a similar fate.

• Carolyn L. Karcher: “Zionism Was Always A Settler Colonial Ideology” by Mohsen Abdelmoumen from American Herald Tribune. (Note: The author interviews Karcher who is a long time activist, retired professor, and author.)
  

• Western government-funded intelligence cutouts trained Syrian opposition leaders, planted stories in media outlets from BBC to Al Jazeera, and ran a cadre of journalists. A trove of leaked documents exposes the propaganda network. By Ben Norton from The Grayzone.

• Thai Protests are Anti-Chinese, Not "Pro-Democracy" by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: Cartalucci is an American living in Thailand.)

• For an egalitarian, cooperative road to an ecosocialist future from Green Left (based in Australia).
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, February 4, 2020

I apologize for the lateness of this post. It is a result of computer problems I experienced yesterday and a dental problem I experienced this morning.

• The Apocalypse Will Not Be Televised by "xraymike79" from Collapse of Industrial Civilization.

• Doomsday Clocks and Apple Watches by John Eskow from CounterPunch. (Note: This article discusses the more imminent of threats to the human species--global nuclear war implemented by the capitalist ruling classes that direct the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

• Australia Is Still Burning. Will The Media Stay With The Story? from Covering Climate Now. 

• World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency by Ripple et al from BioScience.

• Plastic Meets the Road and Capitalism’s Role in Climate Change by Paul Haeder from Dissident Voice. (Note: He reports about the views of a recent visitor-speaker, Pat DeLaquil, an energy policy expert, in Newport, Oregon. I know Newport and Waldport, where Haeder lives, very well; so I was particularly interested in the recognition by DeLaquil of capitalism's role in environmental degradation. But we differ: Pat DeLaquil apparently believes that there is still time for a capitalist economy which can turn from its degradation. I do not: even if capitalism could re-position itself to safeguard the environment (with which I totally disagree)--it is too late.

• A Cold War lesson for the climate change era: Why we need a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty by Tzeporah Berman, Peter Newell, and Matthew Stilwell from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 

• The United States of America’s Doll House: A Vast Tapestry of Lies and Illusions by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain. (Note: To my recollection, he never mentions capitalism as the source of our major difficulties. Thus, I assume he is a social democrat and agrees with Eric Zuesse who wrote "That’s not what capitalism was supposed to be.") 

• Big Banks Admit True Fear Is Socialism from Lee Camp's Redacted Tonight show on RT (via YouTube).  

• In honour of Syrian Arab Army and allies REAL war on terror by Vanessa Beeley from Patreon.

• Pro-Israel Buttigieg backer Seth Klarman is top funder of group behind Iowa’s disastrous voting app by Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone.

• Putin Prepares To Release Iowa Caucus Results by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama. (Note: This German blogger reacts with sarcasm to US elections. We must be the laughingstock of much of the world outside of the US.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, December 20, 2019

• Capitalism and the Limits of Greening by Carl Boggs from CounterPunch.

• Corbyn was our Father Gapon. They have yet to meet our Lenin by John Wight from his weblog. (Note: you will need to know what "PLP" means.)

• US-China (Still Unsigned) Phase 1 Trade Deal by Jack Rasmus from his weblog.

• After addicting US to opioids, they’re selling cure. Mollye Barrows joins Rick Sanchez on his RT program to share her research. 

• The War on Terror - The Plot to Rule the Middle East. Bonnie Faulkner interviews Christopher Bollyn on her one hour program Guns and Butter which is carried live from WBAI in New York City and several affiliated stations across the Pacific Network. Her program was banned last year from KPFA in Berkeley, California (see this and this).

Commentary regarding yesterday's post: Wikipedia Fraud EXPOSED

Click here to access article by the "administrator" of Disruptive Fare. 

First, I need to apologize to the activist who sent me this article. It was re-posted on Tyler Durden's Zerohedge which he sent me. I, out of habit, saw that the original post was from Disruptive Fare, and I gave them credit for the post. (Actually, as an aside comment, I have a strong suspicion that both websites are run by the same person or persons.)

I thought the post was very revealing to those who have over the years came to trust Wikipedia as an honest and independent source of information. It still is for many entries, but over the years the website has seen powerful/rich influences that have subverted many entries to serve their interests. All that they needed was a lot of money to hire people to do their subversive work by submitting 500 entries, following their rules of documenting, and qualifying as an "editor". It didn't matter that the documentation was from spurious or self-serving sources. Long ago I saw this weakness and knew that Wikipedia was eventually to succumb to those with vast amounts of money. But that's true of every institution in capitalist society. They and their supporters with their concentrated wealth/power have been harnessed to serve only the interests of the capitalist class: the preservation of their system, the accumulation of wealth, and power.

Fortunately, Karl Marx and his followers have long ago contributed to an understanding of classes and how societies are structured according to the needs of the dominant class. This class analysis is, in my opinion, the greatest of all of his gifts toward the understanding of social and historical development of societies. This commentary intends to use class analysis to understand why the website Disruptive Fare have used this issue of the corruption of Wikipedia.

While perusing the website of Disruptive Fare, I noticed several clues to its class identity: the sidebar that cited stock market data and the supportive passages of Trump's policies, in a addition to the incisive and thorough analysis of the Wikipedia issue. And the latter post attacks some main institutions of capitalist society: CIA and Big Pharma, an industry that has grown to be a self-serving behemoth that interferes with attempts to provide affordable healthcare for all Americans. This take on the issue of Wikipedia frames the issue much like left-wing analysts do--the corruption of a website due to the power and money of concentrated wealth. Yet the "administrator" as an author of the commentary is very supportive of Trump. What gives?

I've long ago pointed to the resentment of the older ruling capitalist class toward the neo-conservatives who have taken over the ruling capitalist class beginning most demonstrably with the Reagan administration. I pointed this out more than five years ago with my commentary to Amed's post "Who the hell are the Henry Jackson Society?" (now located here). I identified this new group of capitalists as neoconservatives who as transnational capitalists under the US Empire were taking over for the transnational ruling capitalist class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. 

Since then there have been signs that the older ruling class, which I will identify as "old-fashioned capitalists", have terrifically resented this takeover. These latter people include Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, Paul Craig Roberts (he served in the Reagan administration and his comments are always positive in relation to this administration which brought in the "neocons"), Tyler Durden, the Mises Institute, and a host of others. Ron Unz is the latest to establish a website to counter the influence of the neoconservatives by appealing to a variety of ruling class critics and posting their articles. But there is a whiff of antisemitism to his website with increasing references to "Jews" rather than Zionists. This trait, too, is common among old-fashioned conservatives.

What these two capitalist factions have in common is their basic contempt for working people who do not live off of Wall Street stocks and bonds, but instead live off of their labor producing actual goods and services. This theme runs like lace through all of their commentaries mostly by totally ignoring the contributions of working people, the overwhelming majority of people.

I won't belabor this commentary further, but will cite an obviously biased take on the Zerohedge website which can apply to all old-fashioned conservatives.

How the Alliance of Intelligence & Organized Crime Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein

Click here to access to a nearly one hour interview conducted by Bonnie Faulkner of Guns & Butter with Whitney Webb who has established credibility because of her investigative research published online by Mint Press News and other websites.

We get to hear the voice of Webb via Faulkner's program and learn so much about the complex web of criminal links among the capitalist ruling class. After listening to Webb, you will find it hard to argue that her information is an exaggeration that capitalism has evolved into organized crime in the USA and its associated empire, the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.

Recommended articles for Friday, August 16, 2019 (updated as of 1:42 PM CT)

• We Need to Talk About Search by James Corbett (a Canadian living in Japan) from his weblog The Corbett Report.

• Lies, Damned Lies, and Sustainable Development by Bill Willers from Dissident Voice.

• La Danse Mossad: Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein by Jennifer Matsui from CounterPunch.

• As climate crisis grows, temperatures set global records from Climate & Capitalism.

• Time is running out by David Ruccio from Real-World Economics Review Blog.

• Fighting For Freedom In The Heart Of The Global Capitalist Empire by John Laurits from his weblog Revolution Dispatch.

Articles recommended for Wednesday, July 31, 2019

• Philip Weiss: The role of Jewish Democrats in bill that could imprison Israel boycotters for 20 years by Philip Weiss from If Americans Knew. 

• Climatic Change hits the Arctic by Jessica Corbett from Defend Democracy Press.

• Torturing and Exterminating Assange to terrorize journalists around the globe by Nick Miller from Defend Democracy Press.

• Alaska Governor Demolishes Climate Research by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.

• How a Small Group of Pro-Israel Activists Blacklisted MintPress on Wikipedia by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News.

Recommended articles for Thursday, July 25, 2019

• New book launched: ‘An important contribution to the fight to stop capitalist destruction’, a book review of System Change Not Climate Change by Valerie Lannon from Climate & Capitalism

• End Forever War? Divest Zionism by Kurt Nimmo from his weblog Another Day in the Empire.

• War Profiteers and the Demise of the US Military-Industrial Complex by Dmitry Orlov from his weblog Club Orlov. 

• Pentagon May Have To Explain Their 1,000 Bases, a post via YouTube from Redacted Tonight.

• People Think Epstein Was a Spy for an Intelligence Agency — and They Might Be Right by Derrick Broze from Activist Post.

Penguin, Rothschild and Zionist Pressure [updated]

Click here to access article by Gilad Atzmon (British) from his weblog.

This post is for those of you who have been targets of false accusations of being anti-Semitic, have been profoundly disturbed by the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's use of Israel use as a "Beachhead in the Middle East" (Gowans), and equally disturbed by the equivalence of Jews with Zionists.

Penguin announced this week that in response to claims of ‘antisemitism’ it has stopped printing Col. Pedro Baños’ best selling book, “How They Rule the World.”

The scandal erupted when it was revealed that passages in the original Spanish edition of the book related to the Rothschild dynasty were omitted from the Penguin Random House English translation. The meaning of this deletion is in itself devastating. It suggests that Penguin attempted to kosherize a book by editing and deleting sections so it would  not offend Jewish sensitivities.

And George Galloway, a British member of parliament, agrees:

 

Articles recommended for Thursday, June 13, 2019

• Today's Attacks On Ships In The Gulf Of Oman Are Not In Iran's Interest - Or Are They? (Updated) by Bernhard from his blog Moon of Alabama.

• Propaganda Is The Root Of All Our Problems by Caitlin Johnstone from her blog.

• US gears up for World War III with largest defense contract in history by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site. 

• ‘Mirthless Laugh’ - The Persecution And Torture Of Julian Assange from Media Lens.

• US Senators meet with Jewish leaders in semi-secret annual event by Alison Weir from If Americans Knew.

I'm back, and posts selected by activists while on vacation -- updated

I arrived home yesterday from a long and exhausting drive from the West Coast of the USA to the Midwest where I now live. I enjoyed visits with some very astute activists who have followed my blog for a number of years.

I recommend the following articles (updated at 9:20 AM) that I missed while on vacation and which were forwarded to me by fellow activists who share serious concerns about the catastrophes that we are currently experiencing and lie ahead under this crisis-prone capitalist system. In the future I expect to be adding commentaries to the posts that I select and want to share with you.

• Newly Released FBI Docs Shed Light on Apparent Mossad Foreknowledge of 9/11 Attacks by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News.

• What is the Relationship Between Loneliness and Capitalism? by an anonymous writer for Dandelion Salad.  (This post included numerous important articles by other commentators related to the same subject.)

• The End of Supergiants: And What It Means by Dr. Louis Arnoux from Damn the Matrix.

• The Struggle Is the Meaning by Craig Murray from his blog (Britain).

Articles recommended for Monday, April 29, 2019

• The advent of extreme weather events and climate tipping points by Dr Andrew Glikson from Countercurrents.org. 

• Voices from Inside the Besieged Venezuelan Embassy by Alexander Rubenstein and Wyatt Reed from Mint Press News. 

• Trump’s America, Netanyahu’s Israel by Adam Shatz from London Review of Books.

"The Holocaust" Is a Myth That Conceals Our Shame

Click here to access article by Kevin Barrett posted on The Unz Review. 

The author makes a good point about how history is often distorted by the use of victimization, and with particular emphasis on the current success of the victimization of the Jews that Zionists constantly use. As I was reading, I was wondering where he was going with this because he seemed to imply that it is human nature or institutional religion that are the root causes of this phenomenon. But finally at the end, he finds hope in the mysticism of various religions to rescue human nature and its culture from the "murderous lies" of such mythologies.

Ultimately it is the mystical dimension of traditional religion that holds the most hope for overcoming the murderous lies at the heart of human nature and culture.

I notice that he never mentions class or rulers and the uses of victimization to secure their rule. In contrast, he diverts attention from such a view, from socialists who argue that the analysis of class structure accounts for most of human history, and that the history of WWII in particular was a history of competing capitalist empires for world dominance. The US, Anglo, Zionist Empire won. Hence the ascendance of the myth of Jewish victimization which serves to diminish all the other victims.

... all culture is based on murder and lies, can we ever stop killing and lying? Marxists think a materialist utopia would do the trick. But murderous and uncontrollable mimetic-desire-driven envy is ubiquitous, even (especially) among those whose material needs are fully satisfied.

Perhaps Barrett is also serving the powerful of today.

Trump’s support for Zionism includes defining US Jews as foreigners

Click here to access article by Stephen Gowans from his blog What's Left.

Gowans expands on some comments by Trump to illustrate the latter's ignorant view that all Jews look to Israel for their identity. This is only a short step away from seeing Jews as a foreign element in an otherwise Christian society and a legitimate target for hostility. However, this attitude of Jews belonging in the apartheid state of Israel is also shared by Zionist Jews.

Jews as an ethnic group have always excelled in finance because of the Christian and Muslim history of forbidding their members to charge for lending. (Jews also could not charge interest on loans to other Jews.) The almost instinctive attitude against usury was common before capitalism first rose in the 17th century. After the capitalist ruling classes overturned feudal authorities, usury became a common feature of our world. Because Jews had already established a foothold in this business, they became prominent financiers and as such played a very significant role in capitalist enterprise. Ruling classes, both feudal and capitalist, in the past often used hostility against Jews, who were mostly workers, as a "divide and rule" weapon against workers throughout the Christian world.

Gowans goes on to argue that anti-Semites among Western nations favored Zionism and its support for Jews having their own state and thus getting rid of them. This dovetailed well with Zionist objectives. However, Zionist leaders, especially in the 20th century, have nearly always allied themselves with powerful ruling capitalist classes in order to achieve their objectives. Zionist leaders even negotiated with Nazis to facilitate the emigration of German Jews to Palestine. And, as they say, the rest is history.

At this point he argues:

It is not Christian Zionism, or a sincere (though misplaced) effort to protect Jews from anti-Semitism, that motivate Western governments to support Israel. Nor is US foreign policy in thrall to wealthy Jews and their lobbying efforts, a theory propounded by people whose grasp of the forces that shape US imperialism is tenuous at best. Instead, Western support for Israel is grounded in economic interests.

Then he introduces us to British communist Rajani Palme Dutt and his views to further explain why Western capitalist countries have historically supported the state of Israel. Read the article to find out.