We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Video of the month: "Is the Ukrainian War on its Own People Now Over?"

Click here to access article by Henry Kamens from New Eastern Outlook. This article contains a 💥link to vital (may be) censored information--watch video while you still can.
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Sunday, July 3, 2022

Article of the year: "How Spooks and Establishment Journalists Are Circling The Wagons"

💥Click here to access article by Jonathan Cook from Mint Press News and posted on 6/30/2022. I discovered this first in Cook's Substack account on July 1st, but it exceeded Substack's length and Substack published a condensed version. It was first published entirely on June 30 on Mint Press News.  I have been impressed with Cook's writing before, but this article I think is excellent.

 

It is an especially valuable article because it shows that the ruling class's CIA and its agents have infiltrated all the major news organizations, especially in the 21st century. This accounts for the fact that all major news corporations have all filled the ruling capitalist class's propaganda like never before. They spread the ruling class propaganda before the 21st century but it was due to the indirect influence of the ruling class. Now the mainstream media corporations have all been corrupted throughout the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire by this transnational ruling class, and it is exactly why they are entirely filled with this class's propaganda. Given that this class rules over much of Latin America and much of Europe besides the USA and what was left of the British Empire after WWII in addition to the Zionist (right-wing Jews) planted in Palestine in what is now called Israel, the mainstream propaganda has a virtual monopoly on the spread of information throughout the world. It is no wonder that much of the world has swallowed whole this transnational capitalist class's propaganda as we are witnessing today throughout the Empire, especially Europe, in connection with the conflict in Ukraine. 

 

It is also the reason for this website. In 2009 I was increasingly aware of this corruption, and in late 2009 I started this website.

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Friday, June 3, 2022

Article of the month: "Why Is It So Hard to Finnish Nazism? NATO’s Growing Suicide Pact Threatens to Light the World on Fire"

💥Click here to access article by Canadian Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation and posted 6/3/2022. This is dedicated to those of you who have studied the rewritten history from your days in school. The rewritten history was accomplished by the ruling capitalist classes of the post-WWII and de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire. This capitalist Empire includes the USA, what was left of the British Empire after WWII, Israel, most of Europe, and much of Latin America.

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Thursday, April 14, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, April 14, 2022

Justifying lockdowns and endorsing the “threat” of Covid is doing the establishment’s work for it.
  • A Free Person Is One Who Owns His Own Labor by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog. My reaction: Roberts argues that the modern-day American owns his labor the same as the historical American slaves owned theirs! Yet, the ruling capitalist class, which essentially owns the government, determines the government's tax policies. This is quite a dramatic conclusion for a capitalist supporter to make.
  • The Assange Case Invalidates US Criticisms Of Russia: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband, Tim Foley, also reading the script (06:02) in the audio section of her article, but you may miss supporting examples, illustrations, etc.)--from her weblog. (Note: In this post, Foley missed entire paragraphs.) My reaction: She's right that this war in being implanted in the minds of ordinary people using propaganda and psy-ops, and most ordinary Americans are either "falling for it" (def.#2) or totally ignoring it while they focus on their individual lives. They do this in order to survive in an advanced capitalist system.
The accusations against Russia are the lying justification for a policy of military escalation. First, the war plans were laid down; then the accusations were made to justify them.
 
My reaction: The CEOs of the military-industrial complex must be happy! They are in control of government policies supporting constant wars, especially using the Ukrainian people as cannon fodder.
  • Kremlin issues final warning to Kiev 'decision-making centers' features Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris discussing the significance of the decision by the Russian leaders that they will attack decision-making structures in Kiev if they continue to attack Russian territory--from Duran's channel on YouTube (32:23).
The merchants of Death—Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, et al—gathered in Washington on Wednesday like a flock of vultures descending on roadkill.
For many decades, the term ‘new world order’ has been discussed obsessively in the United States, yet few have any idea where the concept originated from and where the individuals who promote this grand vision wish to lead humanity. But one thing is for sure, Russia is having none of it.

This week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov remarked that one of the goals of Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine is to end the U.S.-dominated world order, which is categorically at odds with Russia and its ally’s desire for a multipolar global system.
  • Michael Raw - The Hunger Games features Ross Ashcroft interviewing a British (as far as I can determine) agricultural expert on the effect of food prices as a function of supply--from Renegade's channel on YouTube (02:09).
Benjamin Norton speaks with Pakistani scholar Junaid S. Ahmad about the US-backed coup against Prime Minister Imran Khan, aimed at reversing his alliance with China, Russia, and Iran and support for Palestine.
 
My reaction: It seems that the US ruling class always supports, and develops ties with, the military in foreign countries. 
  • India’s rich keep getting richer features Aunindyo Chakravarty, a journalist in India, from Peoples Dispatch using Newsclickin's channel on YouTube (14:26). My reaction: He gives a good explanation of how capitalism brought this about under previous government administrations of India.
  • An Inconvenient Apocalypse features various climate specialists discussing the impending climate crisis--from Facing Future's channel on YouTube (34:38).
The dream of endless bounty is over. We must save as much of nature as is still possible, and end the wealth concentrating system that is destroying it. Wes Jackson, in his no-nonsense fashion, explains how our ecological collapse began with #agriculture, when we started to remove carbon from the soil to grow crops, then from the forests to build ships, and finally from the deep ground to build civilizations. Now we need to power down as we face irreversible changes.
 
Inconvenient, to say the least. Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen envision a transition - to fewer and less - to life without dense energy, with less destructive systems of agriculture. They chart a collective, realistic path for humanity - not only to survive, but also to emerge on the other side with a renewed appreciation of the larger living world, recognizing that the rediscovery of nature, and of human connection is the greatest renaissance of all. 
 
My reaction: The scientists leave out the system that has caused all of the destruction of the ecosystem of the Earth--capitalism. They have all obviously been educated in capitalist societies. 
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, April 13, 2022

California Assembly Bill #2098 was introduced on February 14, 2022. If passed, the bill would “designate the dissemination or promotion of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or ‘COVID-19,’ as unprofessional conduct.” 

Translation: It’s corporate-sponsored censorship aimed at taking away power from health professionals who see through the COVID bullshit.
  • This Is A Deeply Ominous Sign features Russell Brand, a British comedian and former drug addict turned serious political critic--from his channel on YouTube (19:24). 
  • The Real Cost Of The Gig Economy features host Ross Ashcroft interviewing writer and filmmaker, Shannon Walsh, to discuss the topic--from Renegade's channel on YouTube (27:50).
  • Universities Follow the Politics, Not the Science by Daniel Nuccio from The Pulse. My reaction: This is true of every institution in the "free world", that is, except for a few, in the nations that make up the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire. This latter sometimes appears to be an open psychiatric ward of the world.
The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a suicidal war with Russia.
  • What is NATO Doing in Latin America? from Internationalist 360°.                                                               
  • 💥Michael Tracey on the Refugee Crisis and US Troop Buildup in Poland features Mnar Adley, founder of Mint Press News, interviewing (1:21:22) Michael Tracey by phone an independent journalist, who has just returned from the Polish border with Ukraine and who is now in London--from Mint Press News. This is a best post. (Note: I listened to all of this fascinating interview which will cause me to be late in posting other articles and doing what I intended to do--an elaborate commentary. I'll try to do the latter tomorrow. The text introduces video and audio versions of the interview. Michael's Substack address is: <https://michaelsnyder.substack.com/>)
  • A Love Letter To All Draft Dodgers by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband, Tim Foley, also reading the script (04:27) in the audio section of her article, but you may miss supporting examples, illustrations, etc.)--from her weblog.
As a regular conflict, the ongoing Ukraine war is being fought with kinetic weapons and traditional power projection platforms in conventional operational battlefields. However, its span transcends the domain of military statecraft. It goes much further. In fact, this unfolding confrontation must also be understood as a major clash in the rising strategic competition to determine the future architecture of the global financial and monetary system – a dangerous game played for the highest stakes.
 
My reaction: The Empire (the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire) now controls the international monetary system and this control has very much worried the directors of the Empire. This together with the dominance of world affairs are the major reasons why the directors and their monopoly media lie so much to their own populations. Russia is leading this challenge of these issues in addition to their existence as a nation. This is precisely why the war in Ukraine matters so much.
The Washington Post – owned by billionaire oligarch Jeff Bezos, who has CIA and Pentagon contracts – has called for censoring Chinese news outlets on social media, while praising Silicon Valley for purging Russian publications.
The press release by the State Department states that ‘the United States reiterates its grave concern over continuing reports of ethnically-motivated atrocities committed by Amhara authorities in western Tigray, Ethiopia, including those described in the recent joint report by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. In particular, we are deeply troubled by the report’s finding that these acts amount to ethnic cleansing’. (4) The USA is not known siding with the truth. It has almost always sided with the TPLF (Tigrayan forces) disregarding the atrocities committed against the people of Ethiopia and in particular the Amhara people both by TPLF and Oromo nationalists (OLF). The Ethiopian Government reacted to the joint report and stated that ‘The biased ethnic undertone of the report from organisations that paint themselves as defenders of human rights and the implications of reckless misrepresentation of facts on the ground did not go unnoticed’. [my emphasis] 
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Should everyone get a fourth booster shot against COVID? Certainly, if the FDA is to be believed. But maybe not, if we’re to believe insiders at the very same agency who have spoken out and insisted that the scientific case for boosters among the general public has not been made. But who cares about science when the pharmaceutical industry has profits to make?

Jimmy and The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal discuss the uniquely American phenomenon of demanding boosters for all regardless of the science.
  • It All Makes Sense Now features Russell Brand, a British comedian and former drug addict turned serious political critic--from his channel on YouTube (17:58).
What’s the truth of the covid origins? A bombshell article by Vanity Fair based on more than 100,000 leaked documents uncovers some damning revelations.
As debate over ‘The Science’ has increased, more and more people have started to question whether or not there is more to COVID-19 in terms of underlying agendas, in particular with respect to global-level actors such as the World Economic Forum (WEF), the World Health Organisation (WHO) and so-called ‘Big Pharma’. In the early days of COVID-19 any such talk was immediately dismissed as ‘conspiratorial’ nonsense and, broadly speaking, people raising non-mainstream doubts about any aspect of the COVID-19 issue were subjected to vilification by ‘authoritative’ voices and corporate media. Such dynamics were very much in evidence with respect to speculation about the origins of COVID-19. And yet, today, the so-called ‘lab leak theory’ has moved from a ‘sphere of deviance’ to a ‘sphere of legitimate controversy’ with many people, from mainstream science and corporate media to popular podcasts, discussing it.
  • 💥We Have Eight Months Left features Dr. Vernon Coleman from EarthNewspaper. This is a best post. (Note: The post follows with a rough transcript of his address--38:54.)
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal addresses the April 10, 2022 Defeat The Mandates rally in Los Angeles, demanding public workers who refused the jab be given back their jobs and slamming the corporate state that generated $65,000 per minute for Pfizer and Moderna while millions sank into destitution. Blumenthal also urged solidarity for Julian Assange, describing his silencing as a precedent for the current wave of censorship: "In a corporate state, character assassination, censorship, and official silencing is the price of telling the truth."
  • 💥How The U.S. Does 'Diplomacy' by Bernhard, a German independent blogger from his weblog Moon of Alabama. This is a best post. Bernhard's opening statement is as follows: 
The U.S. doesn't do diplomacy. Every country has its own [ruling class] interests. But the U.S. and its pricks in the State Department insist that its interests must have priority over all others. Any country that disagrees with that will be called out on this or that issue or will even get sanctioned. [my insertion]

My commentary follows:
 
From a socialist point of view, I argue that, up to now in modern history, societies reveal a certain structure characterized by social classes ranging from a ruling class and ordinary people that make up a working class. Thus, nowadays one must think of societies ruled over by capitalist ruling class interests of profit and power. In advanced capitalist societies, one must think of monopolistic capitalist ruling classes that are often tempted to become fascist ruling classes like the Nazis in Germany and the present ruling classes in the transnational capitalists in the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire. The latter rule by arbitrary "mandates". As we have seen, such mandates often bypass the respective constitutions and legal policies of entire nations in the whole world due to the capture by the Empire of the UN's World Health Organization. 
 
So, you have the Empire insisting on dominance over the entire world which are the reasons for the war in Ukraine and the ongoing conflicts in the south China Sea and Taiwan between the Empire and China. Russia and China, which are mixed socialist and capitalist nations, are spearheading efforts to establish a multipolar world. 
 
The end result will be the end of the Empire, capitalism, and we will eventually see the construction of truly independent socialist societies, that is, if we humans, and most other species, are not disappeared by the impending climate destabilization--which is likely.
When the 'boy mayor' of Cleveland took a stand against privatization of public power, the region's elites deployed every weapon in their arsenal against him, including attempted assassination.
  • UK Newspaper Hides Ukraine Truth in Plain Sight features Brian Berletic, an independent geopolitical expert and ex-Marine who for a lengthy time has lived in Thailand with his family--from his channel on YouTube (16:13) demolishing news sources (propagandistic) from Ukraine. 
  • Poking The Bear features Ross Ashcroft, host of Renegade's channel on YouTube (27:57) interviewing, once again, Scott Ritter, a recognized military expert. 
Britain’s MI5 has always maintained that the UK is just four away meals from anarchy. So with fractured supply chains, rising costs and failing agricultural policy, how worried should the Brits - who are net importers of food - be?
 
Ross Ashcroft is joined by agricultural analyst Michael Raw to discuss our national food security.
No, the US State Department does not care about human rights abuses. Blinken’s remarks are just the latest in a series of shots across the bow that the US empire has been firing at New Delhi to warn it against moving into alignment with Moscow.
Since objective reality has no place in United States foreign policy, it is interesting to look at how the US sees itself and how it regards other countries that are doing what Russia is doing or worse. When it comes to its own self-perception, America’s so-called leaders believe that their global leadership role is one by right and they can do no wrong by virtue of a quality referred to as “American exceptionalism.” That is of course a mythical attribute created to permit the United States to get away with mass murder and regime change without any consequences.

A principal beneficiary of American financial and political largesse is, of course, Israel, which consists not only of people “chosen” by Yahweh but also by the media, the United States Senate, House of Representatives and the White House.
Amid the ongoing global inflation crisis, NATO heads of state and mainstream media repeat a mantra that high energy prices are a direct result of Putin’s actions in Ukraine since end of February. The reality is that it is the western sanctions that are responsible. Those sanctions including cutting SWIFT interbank access for key Russian banks and some of the most severe sanctions ever imposed, are hardly having an impact on the military actions in Ukraine. What many overlook is the fact that they are increasingly impacting the economies of the West, especially the EU and USA. A closer look at the state of the global supply of diesel fuel is alarming. But Western sanctions planners at the US Treasury and the EU know fully well what they are doing. And it bodes ill for the world economy.
  • BREAKING: Lawmakers from Imran Khan's party resign from Pakistani parliament from The Cradle, based in Columbia. My reaction: Also see "Imran Khan: The fall of Pakistan's populist prime minister" from Middle East Eye, based in London. I want to direct your attention to the 48 minute interview conducted by two representatives of the Middle East Eye which, I think, reveals Khan as a leveled-headed Pakistani statesman.
This conflict of aims by ‘the West’ comes at a time when global warming and climate change are reaching a ‘now or never’ tipping point, where the Paris target to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5C cannot be met. In presenting the latest IPCC report on climate change (which supposedly outlines ‘solutions’ to mitigate global warming and meet targets), UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres commented: “The facts are undeniable. This abdication of leadership (by governments) is criminal.”
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Monday, April 11, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, April 11, 2022

Lockdowns were never part of conventional public health measures. In 1968, 1-4 million people died in the H2N3 influenza pandemic; businesses and schools never closed, and large events were not cancelled. One thing we never did until 2020 was lockdown entire populations. And we did not do this because it does not work. In 2020 we had no empirical evidence that it would work, only flawed mathematical models whose predications [predictions] were not just slightly off, but wildly off by several orders of magnitude. [my editing]
On June 18, 2021, an evolutionary biologist named Jesse D. Bloom sent the draft of an unpublished scientific paper he’d written to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to the president of the United States. A bespectacled, boyish-looking 43-year-old often clad in short-sleeved checkered shirts, Bloom specializes in the study of how viruses evolve. “He is the most ethical scientist I know,” said Sergei Pond, a fellow evolutionary biologist. “He wants to dig deep and discover the truth.”

More than a year into the pandemic, the genesis of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was still a mystery. ....
 
Bloom’s paper was the product of detective work he’d undertaken after noticing that a number of early SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences mentioned in a published paper from China had somehow vanished without a trace. 
The bird flu outbreak is not real.

That should be everyone’s starting point – with everything, really – assume the media is lying and wait for them to prove they’re not.

Always doubt the press.

Always.
  • This Is Impossible To Ignore features Russell Brand, a British comedian and former drug addict turned serious political critic--from his channel on YouTube (18:10).  
The war in Ukraine was instigated by the imperialist powers through the relentless expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe, the transformation of Ukraine into a NATO arsenal and staging grounds for attacks on Russia, and the refusal to negotiate over Russia’s demands for security guarantees.

The US and NATO want the war to continue. The objective—as blurted out by Biden in his Warsaw speech—is regime change in Russia.
  • Could NATO-Supplied Arms Change Ukraine's Fate? features Brian Berletic, an independent geopolitical expert and ex-Marine who for a lengthy time has lived in Thailand with his family--from his channel on Rumble (14:58). Note: The text is an introduction and summary of the video and begins as follows:
NATO has claimed it would begin sending more significant, heavier weapons to Ukraine including armored vehicles, missiles, and even floating discussion over tanks and warplanes.

However there are serious complications going unmentioned across the Western media: 
"The UK and the European Union (EU) will indeed be on a collision course this week over sanctioning Russian gas supplies after Brussels ignored a plea to set a clear timetable to eliminate supplies," says Dr Mamdouh G. Salameh, an international oil economist and visiting professor of energy economics at the ESCP Europe Business School in London.
  • On March 22, as a result of a strong storm in the Black Sea, the system of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which provides more than two-thirds of Kazakhstan’s total oil exports, was damaged, as a result of which the export of Kazakh oil was threatened.
  • It should be particularly noted that, in addition to the weather factor, Kazakhstan’s reduction in the amount of oil supplied to the European market is due to delays in the repair work as a result of the unscrupulous behavior of Western partners who refused to supply mechanisms damaged in the storm.
  • Thus, Western suppliers have demonstrated not only to the CPC, but also to the whole world their unreliability as business partners, and therefore, it is unlikely that anyone will trust them with mutual cooperation after the current US sanctions frenzy ends. And it will certainly end, since Western countries themselves are already suffering more from anti-Russian sanctions, and riots of discontent among the population in them will inevitably lead to a change not only of the sanctions policy, but also of governments in a number of states. 
It looks to me like in the near future, the Empire is winning in the contest in Ukraine between Russia and the West (the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire); but in the long term, anything could happen. It all depends on the Europeans and their attitudes about the loss of reliable petroleum supplies.
  • A World At Odds: The Great Principles Wipe by Phil Butler from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: Suppose his recent late night's epiphany is correct? Are we being reprogrammed for a new reality, the one in which resembles Aldous Huxley's or George Orwell's dystopian future?
We’re undergoing a morality and mind wipe no psychothriller novelist ever imagined. The idea came to me like a bolt, snapping me from a deep sleep last night. Something about all that’s been going on has gnawed at me, as I am sure it has you, for months now. And now I know what it is. We’re being prepared for those artificial wombs that Aldous Huxley conjured up for his post-dystopian Utopia in the novel Brave New World.

I will leave these questions for you to answer.
While staff members of The Kyiv Independent grandstand about how “independent journalism is the cornerstone of democracy,” they are quietly being funded by Western governments – a fact that should ring alarm bells with critical media consumers.
The most powerful empire that has ever existed, which is circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and continuously works to destroy any nation who challenges its global dominion, claims that it is in a global power struggle against “authoritarianism”.

And because the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire has a monopoly on information services ...

Russia will lose the propaganda war on every front, at least in the west. It will lose every narrative dispute about alleged war crimes in the court of public opinion, whether those allegations are true or not. The US military is beatable, the US dollar is beatable, but the US propaganda machine is an unstoppable juggernaut. 
 
It is only small websites with relatively few followers like mine that produces accurate information from unbrainwashed, critical thinking, and informed people, but I worry each day that I will be cut off from the internet.

It’s actually really disturbing that US empire managers now feel comfortable just leaking the fact that they are blatantly lying to the public to win a psywar against Putin. It means they’re confident they can get the public to consciously consent to their rulers lying to them for their own good.

But, read the rest of the article to see the way the brainwashed, uniformed, and uncritically-thinking people see the war in Ukraine--the same way they see the official narratives of the assassinations (Kennedys, MK King, Malcolm X, etc.), 9/11, the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, the invasion of Iraq, the "pandemic", etc. It's the same way the victims during the 1930s eugenics movement asked the authorities as reported by Edwin Black in his book War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race: 

Like so many [around 60,000], Mary never understood what was happening. She recalled the day doctors told her. "They asked me, 'Do you know what this meeting is for?' I said, 'No, sir! I don't. ''Well this is a meeting you go through when you have to have a serious operation, and it's for your health.' Well,' I said, 'if it's for my health, then I guess I'll go through with it." See, I didn't know any difference." Mary didn't learn she was sterilized until five years after her operation. [my insertion]
  • Assessing the Combat in Ukraine: Learning from Mistakes by Elijah J. Magnier from Internationalist 360°. My reaction: According to Magnier, there are nine lessons that Russian militaries must learn in order to defeat NATO and the Nazi forces in Ukraine. He concludes with this statement:
All anti-American forces are watching the battle to learn lessons from it, hoping that it will not last much longer. Meanwhile, the sanctions war between the West and Russia is just beginning and can be expected to considerably harm both sides and their respective populations.
Instead of doing a chemical weapons false flag, the West  [the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire] has decided to do random traditional weapons attacks against civilians in the Ukraine. [my insertion]

I don’t think anyone who isn’t a totally brainwashed American believes this garbage.
  • 💥Inflating A Cold War State Of Mind features Ross Ashcroft interviewing Matthias Weik, an author, financial expert, and Alex Krainer, founder of Krainer Analytics from Renegade's channel on YouTube (27:21). This is a best post. (Note: Weik and Krainer discuss the important topic of inflation and printing money, the central bankers of the Empire (the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire) are practicing and the consequences for ordinary people.) My reaction: The Empire needs the war in Ukraine, but ordinary people don't. The question is: who will ultimately determine policies.
Khan's ouster comes amid his cooling relations with the powerful military and an economy struggling with high inflation and a plummeting Pakistani rupee. The opposition has charged Khan’s government with economic mismanagement.

Khan has claimed the U.S. worked behind the scenes to bring him down, purportedly because of Washington's displeasure over his independent foreign policy choices, which often favor China and Russia. He has occasionally defied America and stridently criticized America's post 9/11 war on terror. Khan said America was deeply disturbed by his visit to Russia and his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Feb. 24, the start of the devastating war in Ukraine.
The lingering suspicion unfolds a reasoned impression that Imran Khan – the hurriedly ousted PM’s failure is the net success of the nine skeleton grouped parties – “Democratic Front.” This Front is not formed by the people but by the few discontented figures eager to grab political power by any means. It would be illogical to describe the opposition as democratic as so many of them are listed indicted criminals, thugs, killers and failed politicians of the recent past. The current political chaos does not signal any ingenious mechanism of rational perception to appreciate the necessity of political change engineered by the few against many – the masses of Pakistan. 
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Friday, April 8, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, April 8, 2022

I've decided to handle lengthy posts like I handled yesterday's posts: listen to a part of it to get the overall theme of the post. I was mistaken as a special article that I recommended for your attention. You see, I have a rather good nose for where the post is going; but after listening to the whole discussion following my daily posts, I concluded that I should not have included this article with the other recommended posts. Let me explain.
 
I noticed that this discussion was a kind of commiseration among the group which was largely made up of Mint Press news analysts. I fault the founder Mnar Adley for this mistake. Although she was of Middle East ancestry and was influenced by her ties with this latter culture, she was clearly influenced by her formative years in the USA. This culture was This culture was in the form of overwhelming influences by the capitalist ruling class that went out of its way to discourage any socialist ideas. I am speaking especially of the rich Marxist influences that are suppressed in American culture. 
 
I encountered this in my formal education at a major university on the west coast following my one year experience at a small progressive college. At the latter institution I found myself surrounded by "red-diaper babies" and their ideas. I filed away their ideas but I subsequently found that these ideas explained much of what is occurring in the political world. This experience encouraged me to seek out Marxist literature in the vast collection of the library located at the major university. I discovered that such ideas are explained much better than conventional explanations of major geopolitical events. In the balance of my formal education, I pursued such ideas and was a serious student of sociology. 
 
However, my chosen path was not easy. I readily discovered that my new understanding of geopolitical and other sociological events was not welcome by other students and, to my shock, even by my professors. But in my nearly obsessive search for truth, I pursued Marxist ideas anyway in spite of this opposition. I experienced loneliness throughout my formal advanced education and was getting accustomed to it. Having graduated with a BA in sociology, I saw major difficulties in the post-graduate years ahead, and decided to pursue a post-graduate program that prepared me for a reasonably lucrative job. 

What consisted of this Marxist education in the USA? I learned that a capitalist society was fractured into different classes: a tiny ruling class which imposed their values and perspectives on those classes below them, followed by the upper middle class of highly trained specialists, and a middle class comprised of small to middle sized businesses, and the vast majority were lumped into the working class. And, I studied throughout my adult years the use of propaganda everywhere in order to cohere the adult population into subscribers and supporters of capitalist interests. 

This lengthy explanation was to explain how my life's education and experiences have differed from that of the great majority of ordinary Americans, and an explanation for my error in recommending this article. Nearly all Americans are exposed to this conventional upbringing while living in the USA, and it's very difficult to avoid it. 

In my post formal education years, I read widely and some of this reading consisted of histories written by people who experienced it. Thus, I arrived at the lengthy exposition of my political orientation as expressed in my articles entitled "Countdown to 'Full Spectrum Dominance'" and "Fake leaders and ineffective movements".
 
Regarding my opposition to yesterday's post entitled "Cancel Culture and Polarization in the Age of COVID: How To Agree To Disagree", I discovered this was all about their experience of losing friends and relationships with family members as a reaction to their very realistic views. In short, it was about commiseration. In contrast, I have lived this experience all my life and was accustomed to it. Their actual knowledge of the way the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire works cannot be explained by the cultural influences of US culture. Thus, the enlightened employees of Mint Press News are losing friends and family members from those that have been indoctrinated by the ubiquitous (def.) propaganda received while living in the USA, and they are suffering because of this loss. 
  • Twitter IS “State-Affiliated Media” by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband, Tim Foley, also reading the script (07:47) in the audio section of her article, but you may miss supporting examples, illustrations, etc.)--from her weblog.
The biggest news of today’s cycle is the wild admission by the Pentagon, U.S. media, etc., that the U.S. has in fact employed a “strategy” of outright lying and making up fake intelligence to ‘combat Russia’. [see here]
  • Edge of Extinction: Maybe I'm Wrong [I hope] features the views and analysis of Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--08:36), who has fearlessly focused his attention throughout much of his prior career and retirement on the climate crisis.
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Thursday, April 7, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, April 7, 2022

For centuries the left in the United States has stood against authoritarianism and government repression, and for civil liberties and the cause of the working class. Yet with the advent of COVID and the resulting pandemic, many on the left have abandoned all of those values, acquiescing to the demands of the pharmaceutical industry and co-opted government agencies to support lockdowns, vaccine mandates and vaccine passports.
  • They Wouldn’t, Would They? features, a British comedian turned serious analyst of political events--from Brand's channel on YouTube (00:52). 
  • Lee Camp on censoring anti-war voices features Camp being interviewed by Alexandria Zoe from Peoples Dispatch's channel on YouTube (18:14). (Note: The text acts as an introduction to the video.)
  • Sanctions - The Blowback featuring an interview with economist Michael Hudson from Renegade's channel on YouTube (27:57).
  • 💥The Necessity of Russian Victory in Ukraine: “I Don’t Want Peace. I Want War and I Want War to Finish it’s Awful Business.” features a video discussion by various participants. I only post Scott Ritter's view starting at 54:50 to expound his view of the war in Ukraine because I believe it is the one that has special merit. This is a best post. (Note: The video presentation by Ritter is from 54:50 to the end of his presentation at 109:15 which is 14:25 total time.) My reaction: We are seeing censorship applied with the war in Ukraine as we did in the corona pandemic, and I don't think that this is a mere coincidence. I don't know who wrote the following statement, but I fully agree with the first paragraph:
In this webinar titled “The First Casualty of War is Truth”, Scott Ritter delivered a powerful statement, departing from Western left hypocrisy. I concur with his assessment. Russia’s operation in Ukraine merits the full support of anti-imperialists throughout the world.
 
As a punishment for speaking the truth about the war in Ukraine, his twitter account was suspended.
  • Violent Inflation Riots Begin by Chris Martenson from his weblog PeakPosperity. (Note: This post includes a text summary, a visual and an audio presentation.)
  • Unless FullFact.org Says So Then It’s Not True, The UK Government Advises by Rhoda Wilson from The Exposé, a British based website. My reaction: It looks like the Brits are being subjected to the same censorship that we, in the USA, are facing. But this is not surprising. After all, Britain is in the same empire as the US--the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire as the USA.
This is Part 2 of Facing Future TV’s discussion with Dr. Luiz Marquez about his upcoming book, The Decisive Decade. Dr. Marques is a Professor of Environmental History at the State University of Campinas in São Paolo, Brazil. Here we discuss how war, overconsumption, pollution and ecological destruction are accelerating the #climate crisis while harming our health and the planet. This is fueled by global #capitalism and the grip of corporate control which rages unchecked. We must evolve to defeat the climate crisis - and this includes true accountability for corporate agents of ruin. Dr. Luiz Marques, a leading proponent of #EcologicalEconomics (http://isecoeco.org) shows why an economy based on continuous exponential growth, is unsustainable.
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Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, April 5, 2022

The war in Ukraine is a tragedy for those immediately impacted but for all of us as well. Particularly if we do not recognise the threat it conceals and act powerfully in response to this deeper threat.

For 5,000 years elites have been pitting us against each other – at work, on the battlefield, in life generally – by drawing attention to, and magnifying, superficial differences (based on gender, race, religion, class, nationality….), exacerbating conflicts and convincing us that they are acting in our own best interests when we do what they tell us via their agents in government, the corporate media and elsewhere, and that human solidarity is worth nothing.

Well, one day very soon now, we would do well to realize that in the end only three things matter: Human solidarity is essential if we are to survive this existential crisis, our true enemy is not each other but the insane Global Elite, and we must act powerfully and nonviolently if we are to defeat it.

A human future worth living will be short otherwise.
  • More sanctions against Russia would further harm Europe, ‘keep crisis from ending’ by  By Yang Sheng and Chi Jingyi from the Global Times, a Chinese major publication reputedly the voice of the Chinese Communist Party. My reaction: Ordinary Europeans will wake up sooner or later to the fact that their well-being is dependent on trade with Russia. That will spell the end (def.) of a unilateral world dominated by the de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire.
  • The Kremlin Never Learns by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog. My reaction: The invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces did not "win" the propaganda war as seen by Roberts. However, the propaganda war did not influence Pres. Putin's decision to invade Ukraine. It was to de-Nazify Ukraine and to eliminate a threat to Russia if NATO established bases in their nation. The propaganda war will take care of itself in the next few years as populations (especially Europeans) wake up to the real facts.
The Solomon Islands is in the process of working out a security pact with China which would allow Chinese police and soldiers to help maintain order in the country upon request. The West has decried this deal as a sign of growing Chinese influence, but fail to point out the context within which this pact is necessary for both the Solomon Islands and China.

It has been the US, Australia, and Taiwan who have undermined the peace, stability, and security of the Solomon Islands for years, forcing Honiara to find a more reliable security partner. China is already a reliable and important economic partner, thus Honiara believes China will make a suitable security partner. 
It is quite understandable that the West has always preferred to fight only with foreign hands, and it is now supplying Ukrainian neo-Nazis with huge quantities of high-tech weapons, as UK and US planes deliver weapons to Kiev in a race against time.  Weapons, including US-made Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, are arriving in Ukraine, yet Western governments claim at every corner that the West is supposedly not directly engaged in conflict with Russia. Why? This time they have found cheap cannon fodder on Ukrainian territory, who will now die by the thousands and then by the tens of thousands and millions in the name of the West who commands them.

The same is happening in far away Yemen, where Western rulers have waged a fratricidal war with the hands of the Saudis in the name of their mercenary financial interests.
  • What You Need To Know About The Great Reset features Joe Martino from The Pulse (based in Canada). My reaction: It seems so obvious that the solutions put forth by the rich and powerful only serve themselves as a tiny socioeconomic class. In other words, the Great Reset is wrapped up in clumsy propaganda designed to serve the tiny classes of the capitalist rich and powerful in order fool, once again, ordinary people in the working classes of the world. The core belief associated with the Great Reset, "You will own nothing and be happy", is a recipe for the rich and powerful to own everything and be gloriously happy because they will have us "by the short hairs" (def.).
  • This Could Change Everything features Russell Brand, a British comedian and former drug addict turned serious political critic, from his channel on YouTube (12:06). 
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