Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, June 4, 2021

• ‘Self-Spreading’ Vaccines Pose Multiple Risks to Society — Including the End of Informed Consent by Children's Health Defense Team.

• China urges U.S. to clarify doubts over its bio-labs from CGTN, a major online Chinese news website, in a 01:12m video podcast by Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin.

• 💥From 1980s Neoliberalism to the ‘New Normal’ by Colin Todhunter from Dissident Voice. This is a best post. My reaction: Todhunter captures the appearance of the accelerated concentration of capital in the last several decades. Still not convinced? See this 45:23m video via Bitchute.
  

• The FBI's Strange Anthrax Investigation Sheds Light on COVID Lab-Leak Theory and Fauci's Emails by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. Note: Greenwald summarizes his research including the 2001 mysterious anthrax events, and concludes with the following paragraph:

We do not know for sure if the COVID-19 virus escaped from the Wuhan lab, another lab, or jumped from animals to humans. But what we do know for certain — from the anthrax investigation — is that governments most definitely conduct the sort of research that could produce novel coronaviruses. Dr. Rosenberg, the subject of the 2002 New Yorker article, was suggesting that the F.B.I. was purposely impeding its own investigation because they knew that the anthrax actually came from the U.S. government’s own lab and wanted to prevent exposure of the real bio-research that is done there. We should again ponder why the pervasive mainstream doubts about the F.B.I.’s case against Ivins have been memory-holed. We should also reflect on what we learned about government research into highly lethal viruses and bacterial strains from that still-strange episode.

• Biden’s Phony Fiscal Policy: Cuts Corp Taxes & Infrastructure Spending by Jack Rasmus from his weblog.
  

• Russiagate target Kilimnik speaks out on ‘spy’ claims, Trump-Russia conspiracy theories by Aaron Maté from The Grayzone. My reaction: lying is an integral characteristic of our masters in the capitalist ruling class.
  

• Arctic Sea Ice Thinning Up to Twice As Fast as Expected by University College London from SciTechDaily.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, May 30, 2021

• The ‘New Normal’ Lexicon by Ian Jenkins from Off-Guardian.

• Is Ivermectin the new Penicillin? by Dr. Justus R. Hope, MD fro The Desert Review. (Note: This post from an unnamed activist source (according to his wishes) writes the following:  

Vermectin, an anti-parasitic drug placed the same radioactive category as Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for the treatment of COVID-19, has reemerged as a promising treatment in the battle to extinguish the pandemic. 

 

New York Times best-selling author Michael Capuzzo has called it the "drug that cracked Covid," writing that there are “hundreds of thousands, actually millions, of people around the world, from Uttar Pradesh in India to Peru to Brazil, who are living and not dying.”

 

Doctors in India are big fans.  

• Coronavirus Fact-Check #11: Is Sars-Cov-2 a bioweapon? from Off-Guardian. My reaction: I certainly take issue with their conclusions:

Maybe the virus was grown in a lab, maybe it just jumped from bats to people. Since all evidence suggests it’s not very dangerous, it doesn’t really matter.

The debate sure does make a good distraction though. 

 

Does it matter that many after the age of 70 died from it if it was designed and used as a bioweapon for whatever purpose? What about all the severe restrictions on people's civil rights that were dictated by various governments of the world based on the declaration of WHO that the threat constituted a pandemic and the virtual diktats by the CDC or similar agencies throughout governments of the world? What about the censorship that was imposed on many other relevant medical specialists who differed about various aspects of the declared pandemic?

• The Bogus January 6 Commission Poses a Real Threat to Freedom by James Bovard from Mises Institute. (Note: Mises Institute is a nationalist capitalist website/weblog which features old-fashioned capitalists who no longer control the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. The latter is controlled by "neoliberals" or transnational capitalists.)
  

• ‘Stop the Monopoly Madness’: Biden Urged to Block Amazon’s $8.5 Billion Purchase of MGM by Jake Johnson from Children's Health Defense.
  

• Obama's Labor Secretary Joins Union Busters featuring Jimmy Dore of the Jimmy Dore Show (via his YouTube channel).

• Once a US Soldier, Always Wounded, Always Losing! by Paul Haeder from Dissident Voice.

... we can either prepare for the ultimate disaster that disaster capitalism gives us, or, put our heads back in that sand ....

• The Conscious Resistance Network Presents: The Pyramid of Power Ep. 4 – The Hollywood-Military-Intelligence-Complex by Derrick Broze from Activist Post.  My brief commentary follows: 

I remember one of the first acts formally announcing a Cold War against the Soviet Union after the conclusion of WWII (1st article) was Winston Churchill's speech in Fulton, Missouri (with Pres. Harry Truman on the stage) in 1946 declaring that an "iron curtain has descended" across Europe. This was a shock to the American people because we had been allied in WWII with the Soviet Union against the Axis powers. 

 

 

This was followed a year later with the Un-American Activities Committee investigations of Hollywood playwrights, directors, and actors that weren't sufficiently anti-communist enough to suit the interests of the capitalist ruling class. This constituted a major purge of all left-wing influential people associated with the Hollywood film industry in order to stifle any kind of dissent and further propagandize people into smearing any kind of socialism. Churchill's visceral hatred of the Russian Revolution and his role beginning with the capitalist intervention in the Russian Civil War made him an exceptionally qualified person (in the eyes of the ruling capitalist class) to announce this new effort against the Soviet Union. 

• Biden Cynically Politicizes Lab-Leak Theory to Bash China by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• The politics of the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis by Stephen Gowans from his weblog What's Left. Gowans concludes his article with this statement:

If Biden were genuinely interested in learning how to prevent a future pandemic he would be exploring how to prevent zoonotic spillovers, both in nature, and in the lab. On the other hand, if he’s interested in tarring the reputation of a country he has labelled a competitor, as his predecessor was, he is proceeding along the right path. Unfortunately, that path has nothing to do with protecting humanity from future pandemics.

• Loophole lets soya farmers tear down the Amazon by Andrew Wasley , Alexandra Heal , André Campos, and Daniel Camargos from The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
  

• Methane and the mass extinction of species by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News. 

• The Net Zero Mirage by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.
  

• Ask an Ecologist Anything -- Saturday, May 29, 2021 featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has focused on the climate crisis, from his YouTube channel. (Note: This has been removed from YouTube by the administrators of this platform. Apparently he said something which they, in their scientific wisdom, do not like.)
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, May 13, 2021

• The Corona Crisis: Has “Depopulation” Already Begun? by Peter Koenig from Global Research. 
  

• Russia Is Seriously Concerned About US Biolabs In Former Soviet States by Andrew Korybko from OneWorld. 

• Who Dunnit Bill? Melinda Gates Sought Divorce After Epstein Reports by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• A mainstream outlet accepted my pitch on what media refuses to say – then refused to let me say it by Matthew Alford from The Grayzone. He writes toward the end of the article:
  

... when it comes to Western power, I think something more fundamental is taking place than normal biases and differences of opinion. Indeed, it is standard – even when it comes to the most vicious applications of British and American foreign policy – that Western mainstream media simply ghosts pivotal critical content that is staring it right in the face.

 

(Note: You will need to know what "ghosts" (def. #3) mean as used as a transitive verb.) My reaction: Alford doesn't elaborate on his implication of "something more fundamental is taking place than normal biases and differences of opinion". Let me explain what the "something" is: it's blatant censorship.

• Was Folk Music a Commie Plot? by Mat Callahan from Monthly Review.

From the beginning of the twentieth century until 1929, purveyors of record players, radios, sheet music, and musical instruments had made large fortunes and proved useful in forging a culture with which people in the United States could identify. In many ways, the music industry was a nation-building force, which the country’s rulers needed to legitimize and propagate their claims. Now, after almost total collapse during the depression, the industry reestablished itself with new instruments, new sounds, and, above all, a new public attuned to bright lights and the big city.
 

In this context, the revival of folk music—that is, music derived from rural southern sources, unamplified, and, to a large extent, comprised of old songs of anonymous origin—was more than just another fad. Folk music encapsulated longings for an idyllic past, for a time before crass commercialism turned music into a commodity, and for relationships between musicians and audiences that were egalitarian and holistic. Folk music continues to have an appeal for these reasons today. 

 

My reaction: This post provides a real history of a cultural movement that was a threat to the ruling class which decided to launch an empire combining their military dominance with what was left of the British Empire. They smeared this folk music movement as Russian-Communist inspired. These folk musicians were hounded and persecuted by the FBI in an effort to destroy it. This cultural phenomenon flourished in the post-WWII years when the fascist coup began with the use of the atomic bomb in Japan and continued with the McCarthy attacks on anyone who dared to voice opinions different from what the ruling class coup-leaders allowed. But they could not destroy it until the conclusion of the Vietnam War when this folk music movement and their influence also ended. After that, youth devoted themselves to "turning-on and dropping-out" to the Beetles tunes and rock-and-roll music. Now we see the same ruling class, which owns nearly everything and able to censor at will, able to pull-off successfully 9/11, the Iraq invasion, and the current pandemic with its lockdowns, shutting small businesses, and vaccines which hugely profits the pharmaceutical corporations with the latter immune from prosecution when their vaccines harm people. (I added to this reaction at 8:38 PM CT.)

• On Nakba Day, Israelis Forced to Guiltily Confront a Secret by Jonathan Cook from Dissident Voice. My reaction: Please notice that Israel is very much a part of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.

• Poisoning the Planet’s Web of Life by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, April 10, 2021

• How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points into the Press by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. My reaction: Perhaps this is a part of a Deep State movement to transform government functions to private enterprise in order to avoid any government involvement.

AMSTERDAM — Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news collective,” “transforming investigative journalism” (Big Think), and an unequivocal “force for good” (South China Morning Post). Indeed, outside of a few alternative news sites, it is very hard to hear a negative word against Bellingcat, such is the gushing praise for the outlet founded in 2014.

This is troubling, because the evidence compiled in this investigation suggests Bellingcat is far from independent and neutral, as it is funded by Western governments, staffed with former military and state intelligence officers, repeats official narratives against enemy states, and serves as a key part in what could be called a “spook to Bellingcat to corporate media propaganda pipeline,” presenting Western government narratives as independent research.

• Lee Camp: How Corporate America Supports Racism, Hatred & Exploitation (in New & Fun Ways!) from Scheerpost,
  

• 💥New Revelations on Germ Warfare: It’s Time for a Reckoning with Our History from the Korean War by Jeffrey Kaye from CounterPunch. This is a best post. My commentary follows (which I edited extensively at 3:52 PM CT):

Because most Americans believed that they were the "good guys", partly as a result of understandable WWII propaganda but also because of post-war propaganda throughout all institutions (media, entertainment--Hollywood, and education) that continued unceasingly to the present time. Most Americans believe that they are still the "good guys", the "commies" were the new "bad guys", and the rest of the fairy tales the TV and radio corporations told them in the post-WWII years. 

 

The fascist-leaning, world-dominating aspiring ruling class grew inside the State Department initially through efforts like Wall Street lawyers like John Foster Dulles, Sec. of State, and his brother, Allen Dulles, the eventual head of the unaccountable CIA, together with key members of the Council of Foreign Relations. A subversive coterie of people in both organizations swore an oath of secrecy as to their aims of building an empire after defeating the equally gross ambitions of the German Nazis and their dreams of establishing a German Reich.

 

I need at this point to make a slight detour in my essay to deal with the positive implications of two fairly recent posts (here--9th post and here--2nd post) by authors who I hold in much esteem--Alastair Crooke and Pepe Escobar.  On the strength of these positive references, I ordered the book shortly thereafter. But I was severely disappointed. Stephen Wertheim, the author of Tomorrow the World, has written with huge doses of gaslighting approval of these subversive Americans and their quest to build what is now (what I call) the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Although the description of pro-fascist tendencies of corporate leaders supporting fascist ideas in the 1930s (also here, and my commentary here) is missing in his book, Wertheim devotes almost his entire book on peripheral issues such as "isolationists" vs internationalists with the latter, due to force of circumstances, morphed into imposing American might on the rest of the world to ensure a Pax Americana from a world faced with endless wars! His book is an apologia for this fascist coterie's secret project of building an empire! I have read widely and from a variety of sources on the lead up to WWII, and I have reached a different conclusion (see here and here). This fascist coterie had to swear an oath to secrecy, which Wertheim admits, because they were going against the wishes not only of the FDR administration but the American people. (FDR didn't trust them.) You can read the history of that period by reading a real history of that period in my recommended books section.

 

Back to my commentary on the above article: I was living in Honolulu, HI in the late 1970's when I met a Korean War veteran and prisoner of war who opted to stay in China after the War because he was so disgusted about the US using bio-warfare against the Koreans and Chinese troops that he didn't want to return home (along with many others who refused repatriation). I don't remember his name, but he was given special permission by the State Department to return home to visit his family. I filed this experience away in my memory. Then in early 2017 I read This Must be the Place by Dave Chaddock and I was convinced that US forces used bio-warfare against Koreans and Chinese. (Read my previous posts here and here.) 

 

I also think that the CIA were so taken by their cover story that American prisoners were somehow brainwashed that they began to study methods of controlling individual's minds. I was convinced of this when I later read reports (like this and this) that the CIA had been pursuing such research at McGill University in Montreal. I wondered if they didn't use these techniques on Sirhan Sirhan to assassinate Robert Kennedy after listening to this interview with a lawyer, William Pepper, that attempted to defend Sirhan Sirhan. I wondered further if they didn't use these techniques on domestic "terrorists" reportedly engaged in mass shootings many of whom were mentally ill or unstable.

• Disappear the System: A Critical Hegemonic Function of Capitalist Media by Paul Street from CounterPunch.

• Ukraine, Taiwan… Two-Prong U.S. Aggression Toward Russia, China an editorial from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

Presidents come and go, elections take place periodically, but the power and policymaking resides with deep state planners whose loyalty is not to any particular party but rather to the furtherance of imperial objectives regarding America’s presumed global position and privileges.

• West’s Propaganda War vs. China Continues (6:55m video) by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. 

• Carbon dioxide levels now at highest level in 3.6 million years from Climate & Capitalism.

• The ocean is becoming more stable – and that’s not good news by Phil Hosewood from Climate & Capitalism.
  

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: Sunday, November 22, 2020

• Portuguese Court Rules PCR Tests “Unreliable” & Quarantines “Unlawful” from Off-Guardian.
  

• An Education in Viruses and Public Health, from Michael Yeadon, Former VP of Pfizer featuring Yeadon in a 32:49m video speaking about covid-19 illness from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• GLENN GREENWALD on The Media Elite! on The Jimmy Dore Show. (Note: Greenwald answers piercing questions from Dore about his quarrel with the Intercept, and the pressures put on journalists who try to do honest reports.)

• GLENN GREENWALD Calls Out AOC's Fake Progressiveness posted on The Jimmy Dore Show. This is a best post. (Note: "AOC" stands for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In this fascinating teleconferencing discussion (38:42m), Dore begins asking Greenwald some probing questions about censorship in the broadcasts owned by most media corporations, and Greenwald offers some fascinating and sophisticated insights not only about censorship, but other political subjects in plain everyday language that ordinary people use and understand.)
  

• False Flags and the Dawn of Bioterrorism featuring James Corbett explaining what is meant about the expression "false flag attack", the use of terrorism and recent forms of bio-terrorism as a false flag attacks. Posted on his weblog The Corbett Report. (Note: The US was criticized for using bio-terrorism, which was thoroughly covered up, in the Korean War. Read This Must Be the Place by Dave Chaddock.)
  

• Anthrax To COVID: The Ongoing Anthrax Deception That Created The BioSecurity State & COVID-19 featuring Ryan Cristián of The Last American Vagabond conducting a 52:13m interview with "David Meiswinkle, President Executive Director of Lawyer’s Committee For 9/11 Inquiry, here to discuss the current status of their ongoing uphill battle to gain some semblance of government accountability and transparency in regard to 9/11 and the subsequent (and clearly interconnected) anthrax false flag." (Note: Meiswinkle mentions "Daschle"--this is Sen. Tom Daschle from South Dakota who was reticent about passing the Patriot Act.   
  

• Predictive Programming? Israeli Publishers Have Been Writing About a COVID-Like Pandemic for Years by Raul Diego from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis). A best post. My reaction: I'm especially impressed with his analysis of the psychological preparations for the public to accept a new pandemic and the restrictions imposed upon them. If the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's Deep State were not responsible for this pandemic, they certainly were prepared to bring it off successfully.

• New York Times Job Listing Shows How Western Propaganda Operates by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. This is a best post because she highlights capitalist propaganda as a kind of religion for some people (sociopaths) who want to advance their careers and, by the way, to insure the comforts of their families. (Recall here Margaret Thatcher's statement that there is no such thing as society, there are only families.) Beliefs that support families are the cornerstone of capitalism in contrast to working class loyalties. These sociopaths don't question what they write. It is all to curry favor from their bosses in order to advance their careers and the comforts of their families. This is true of most upper-middle-class people, and some middle class people, who have adopted the sociopathic religion of capitalism.

• The Fight Against Cop “Unions”: An International Debate Nathaniel Flakin from Left Voice.
  

• CEO's GRILLED over Whistleblower Evidence of De-platforming Collusion Between Big Tech featuring an 8:47 video with Ben Swann of ISE pointing to a US Senate hearing which questioned, under oath, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, hedging his answers to questions from Sen. Hawley from Missouri about collusion with other "platforms", specifically Google and Twitter, regarding censorship.

• Dominion Part of Council That Disputed Election Integrity Concerns in DHS Statement by Jeff Carlson from The Epoch Times. 

• Lord Malloch Brown Revealed: The British Hand Behind the Coup Shows Its Scales Again by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• Unspeakable Memories: The Day John Kennedy Died by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain. (Note: Global Research is currently posting several articles on the JFK assassination.) My reaction follows: 

My memory was very much the same as Curtin's emotional experiences. But there were differences. One major difference is that I was already a genuine socialist (by this I mean that people should own and control the economy to distinguish from social democrats like Bernie Sanders who only supposedly believe in a strong welfare state but with private ownership of the economy), and as such I found it completely understandable that the growing fascist Deep State could not tolerate a peace-loving president. I concluded that this incident was a sign of worse things to come, and was a least intellectually prepared for them. I, too, was enrolled in sociology course; but when this happened in addition to other experiences, I decided to abandon plans for an academic career in political sociology because I knew that academia was already filled with professors who, in order to protect their careers, had already sold out to the capitalist ruling class.

• G20: the debt solution by Michael Roberts from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt). (Note: This article would be better entitled "Capitalist Nations Cannot Agree on the Global Debt Problem".)
  

• MAJOR: Beijing Warns ‘Five Eyes’ Could be Poked Blind if China’s Sovereignty, Security Harmed by Drago Bosnic from FRN (Fort Russ News--based in Serbia).
  

• iLaw's US-Funded Charter Proposal REJECTED featuring a 2:30m video presentation by Brian Berletic ("Tony Cartalucci") from his weblog Land Destroyer Report summarizing the Thai government's rejection of the rewriting of Thailand's constitution to permit US funded parties to participate in Thailand's government.

• Sick Britain’s Orwellian Dystopia by Finian Cunningham from Sputnik (based in Russia).

• The China Moment by Peter Koenig from New Eastern Outlook.
  

• RCEP Set to Supercharge the New Silk Roads by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times via The Unz Review. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, October 21, 2020

• Facebook labels 2+2=4 “misinformation” by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

• ‘TRUTH’ With RFK, Jr. and Mark Crispin Miller: Propaganda, Censorship and the ‘Lockdown Left’ in a 54:58m video-discussion that is posted on Children's Health Defense. (Note: Prof. Miller, a leftist professor at NY University, and Robert Kennedy, Jr. discuss the closing of public inquiry and questioning of government health authorities. Both apparently (my old ears didn't understand a lot of Kennedy's comments) they see this as an historical trend that has been closing during the past recent decades. Even the "left", particularly in America, are going along with this trend. During this discussion, Prof. Miller reports (beginning at 19:12m) on this own case at NY University where he is currently being pressured to resign because he has asked his students to examine research studies that are not in conformance with government diktats.) My reaction: This trend has been reinforced by the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of transnational capitalists. In other words, this is an inevitable trend wherever capitalism exists.

• Justice Rising Day 1 Focuses on 9/11 Truth Legal Efforts by Craig McKee from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
  

• Chomsky: OPCW cover-up of Syria probe is ‘shocking’ by Aaron Maté of The Grayzone. (Note: This post features Noam Chomsky giving his comments regarding the imposition in the UN Security Council of censorship by the Empire's ruling class to ban testimony of a former director of the OPCW (Organization of the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) regarding possible violations of treaty obligations by the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's use of chemical weapons in Syria.

The censorship recently extended to the UN Security Council, where the US, UK, and France blocked former OPCW Director General José Bustani from testifying in support of the inspectors whose findings were kept from the public.

• The Fed Did a Lot of Talking Yesterday about a Big Bank Failure: Should We Worry? by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

What does it say about our federal regulatory structure when the same dangers that blew up the U.S. financial system, the U.S. economy and the U.S. housing market in 2008 are still with us today? What does it say about who is really in control of Congress?

• Collapse of Capitalism by Bruce Lerro from Planning Beyond Capitalism.

Capitalism is in more trouble now than it ever was when it was fighting against socialism. What Marx had to say about the crisis in capitalism is truer now than ever before. 

On the whole, if you’ve held on to the American Dream, we hope you’ll realize the American Dream is over. Capitalists have “left the building” and have gone on to invest in other countries. We say this not to say you cannot dream. Rather, we’d like you to join us in another kind of collective dream.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, June 11, 2020 (two "best posts" articles in this mega-post)

• The Fight to Abolish the Police Is the Fight to Abolish Capitalism by Carmin Maffea from Left Voice. (Note: I've assigned this to a "best posts" category".)

Since police exist to protect private property and repress the working class, there needs to be a revolutionary force composed of the working class that opposes capitalism and its violent guard dogs. In the current struggle, though spontaneous and scattered, there is a massive worldwide revolt against police that is forcing major concessions from the state. With this unprecedented solidarity, there is a potential to organize this force into one that directly opposes the police, other state agents, and capitalism itself.

• Community Control Vs. Defunding the Police: A Critical Analysis by Max Rameau and Netfa Freeman from Black Agenda Report.

• Parallels between Minneapolis and Jerusalem are more than skin deep by Jonathan Cook from Middle East Eye. (My reaction: We are all Palestinians now!)

• From Gekaufte Journalisten to Gekaufte Wissenschaftler by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: You will need to know what the German words mean: "Bought Journalists to Bought Scientists". Also the reference to "Dr. Udo Ulfkotte".) 

• The Corruption of Science. The Hydroxychloroquine Lancet Study Scandal. Who Was Behind It? Anthony Fauci’s Intent To Block HCQ on Behalf of Big Pharma by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky from his website Global Research.

• Why does the public tolerate its biological warfare? by Eric Zuesse from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. (Note: I also put this in a "best posts" category.) My reaction follows:

The social-democratic Zuesse emailed me about five years ago to denigrate my website. Since then I've witnessed one exemplary article after another authored by him. He is now using his skills as a trained historian to uncover the many secrets of the military-industrial complex that is a key component of the transnational capitalist US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Hopefully, he will evolve into a hardcore anti-capitalist and socialist.

• Defund the Police, Defund the Military by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies from Dissident Voice. My reaction is as follows:

I especially like the following paragraph:

Americans are getting a small taste of the fire and fury that the U.S. military and its allies inflict on people overseas on a regular basis from Iraq and Afghanistan to Yemen and Palestine, and the intimidation felt by the people of Iran, Venezuela, North Korea and other countries that have long lived under U.S. threats to bomb, attack or invade them.

Hopefully young people in particular during their confinement to their homes and that of their parents while not having distracting entertainment have become aware of the crimes committed by our ruling class in foreign countries.

• Wikipedia formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing by Ben Norton from The Grayzone. My commentary:

I've seen this development over the past five years. I think it is inevitable that the capitalist employed agents of the management of news and information, just as they have done to corporate media, would try to take over Wikipedia. I have used Wikipedia as documentation in the past, but I will now, more than ever, scrutinize for bias in their posts.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, May 29, 2020 (part 2 of 2)

•  Fabricated Shocks and Open Windows by Mark Taliano from Global Research.

• A Rendezvous with Destiny? by Nomi Prins from TomDispatch.

My commentary: This is an excellent illustration of a social democratic take on the latest capitalist crisis. Prins harkens, along with Engelhardt, us back to the Great Depression which they see as similar to the current crisis. Unfortunately for capitalism-loving social democrats, this time is different. I see the current crisis as brought about by the predictable reckless behavior of a ruling class that aspired to do too much: build a dominant capitalist empire while pursuing the accumulation and consolidation of all the wealth on the planet. 

I believe, even without further evidence, that this capitalist class engineered the current pandemic primarily as cover for bailing out their banks while providing a number of other benefiits such as increasing fuel for their piromaniacal attacks on China and to rid themselves of "useless eaters" of elderly retired folks and surplus workers. I believe this because I have witnessed their astonishing criminal record of the assassination of the Kennedys, the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and domestic others as well as all the foreign adventures to subvert or attack others who stood in their way of building a capitalist world empire. I believe that these criminals have been responsible for many false-flag attacks both domestic and foreign with 9/11 being their most brilliant achievement.

But this time it is different. This pandemic is a desperate gamble for them to hold onto power, and to me the outcomes look to be very different than the Great Depression. You see, I was born in the middle of the Great Depression, and I know first-hand what it was like for my parents.

Biowarfare has been seen as an unpredictable weapon, and for this reason it has been banned by most capitalist ruling classes. But to our ambitious masters who, like good fascists, saw that with sufficient research and development they could engineer it as a controlled type of weapon that could be useful in particular circumstances. The current situation with defeats abroad and economic crises domestically, in desperation, they gamblled that this was such a situation. The results are yet to be determined.

• U.S. Debt Crisis Comes into View as Fed’s Balance Sheet Explodes Past $7 Trillion by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• How Patriarchy and Capitalism Combine to Aggravate the Oppression of Women by Denise Comanne from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt).

(Note: I've run out of time and energy for today.) 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, May 29, 2020 (part 1 of 2)

• BREAKING: FULL TEXT – TRUMP PLACES YOUTUBE TWITTER FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM – UNDER PUBLIC CONTROL: Trump Decrees that these are part of the 'Public Square' from FRN (based in Serbia). 

My reaction: Great! But why not media corporations and their fake news and manipulation of the minds of the public? "Who'd a thought" (def.) that a Republican administration would do this? This shows that sometimes we, the people, can benefit from the internecine battles of the capitalist ruling class. (updated commentary at 10:16 AM CT.)

• The Stupid Insanity of Biological-Warfare R&D by Eric Zuesse from The Duran. 

My commentary: I love it when Zuesse uses his academic training as an historian to dig up evidence form obscure sources that serves to validate my thesis that US right-wing capitalists had already decided to build an empire at the conclusion of WWII. But my thesis was that they had decided before that, yes, before the war--read the  evidence in my commentary here. 

Furthermore, he goes on to argue with evidence that imperialist USA never stopped developing biological weapons after the war in order to suppress any nation that impeded their progress to establish an capitalist American Empire in order to destroy the Bolshevik threat and rule the world much like the Nazis attempted to do. Evidence was also comprehensively furnished by Dave Chaddock, in his book This Must Be the Place, that the US used bio-weapons in the Korean War.

I am confident that in the future there will be evidence that will slowly leak out which will serve to prove that the US was responsible for this latest pandemic. Zuesse apparently thinks so too. But, of course, our masters will try and largely succeed to suppress this evidence from the American people.

• Anarchy in the USSA by Steve Brown from The Duran. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, May 22, 2020 (part 1 of 2 parts)

• 10C Above Baseline by Robert Hunziker from CounterPunch.

“Business as usual” has not slowed down one iota in 62 years ever since Mauna Loa Observatory started collecting CO2 data in 1958. Noticeably, it has already accelerated+60% this century.

"It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." And the TeeVee got humans so frightened and  worried about a little pandemic!

• New Evidence Suggests the United States Government may have Engineered Covid-19 by Malcolm Harris from The Duran. Be sure to watch the YouTube video at the end of the article before the censors take it down.

The narrator in this video clip failed to mention that the USA used a biological weapon during the Korean War. Although she cites many disconcerting documented facts, her inferences about China and WHO are not supported. Maybe she wanted to get past the censors.

• The Giant Virus in the Room: Corporate Vaccine Makers Need More Pandemics, to Grow by Dy Chery from News Junkie Post. 

• EXPOSED: Bill Gates Funding Partnerships and Moderna – America’s Tangled Vaccine Web from FRN (based in Serbia). 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, May 13, 2020

• Who’s in a Catch-22? by Joseph Natoli from CounterPunch. (Note: He uses "pace" in this sentence, "The escape valve from this cynical scenario is broadcasting our national self-proclaimed humanitarian priorities, pace Wall Street." to mean "with due reference to", a preposition.)

• CDC Fudging Numbers to Create Medical Tyranny & Hysteria – Coronavirus and Dodgy Death Numbers by F. William Engdahl from FRN (Fort Russ News).

• Holding Healthcare Hostage: The Making of a Ventilator Crisis by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.

• Lock Step – The eerily prescient pandemic scenario of the Rockefeller Foundation by Norbert Häring from his weblog Money and More.

• The U.S. Response to Covid-19 Has Lavished Wealth on the Rich by Miles Kampf-Lassin from In These Times.

• The Fed Hasn’t Spent a Dime Yet for Main Street Versus $735 Billion for Wall Street by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• YouTube CEO Admits Users Don’t Like Boosting of “Authoritative” Mainstream Channels, But They Do it Anyway by Paul Joseph Watson from Summit News. 

• The mind-blowing history at Fort Detrick by Ceng Jing from CGTN (China).

• How Big Wireless Lobbied Governments to Build 5G For Citizen Data Collection and Surveillance by Derrick Broze from Mint Press News.

• REVEALED: How a British-backed media operation tried to turn Alawites against Assad by Ian Cobain, Harun al-Aswad, and Mustafa Abu Sneineh from Middle East Eye. 

• State Control is not Socialism from Libcom. (My reaction: This is a question of which class controls the state.)

• ‘We are the vaccine against unilateralism’: Non-Aligned Movement gathers in Venezuela to resist dictatorship of dollar by Anya Parampil from The Grayzone.

Posts that I especially recommend and a commentary for today:Saturday, April 25, 2020

• The Deadliest Pandemic by Paul Edwards from CounterPunch.

• Part 1: How the Chinese Authorities and the World Health Organization Handled the Coronavirus by Vijay Prashad from Independent Media Institute. (My reaction: The report (with documentation) clashes with the endless narratives transmitted by corporate media and US officials that blame Chinese officials for the delay in alerting the rest of the world about the pandemic. So, who do you believe? I believe Prashad, not only because of his honest character, but because of the contents of this well-documented report.) 

• World Food Programme warns: COVID-19 pandemic will cause “famines of biblical proportions” by Jean Shaoul from Defend Democracy Press.

• Russia warns US about biological weapons concern by Joaquin Flores from FRN (Fort Russ News). (Note: This international treaty (1972) which banned biological weapons corresponds to Francis Boyle's attempts to ban the US government's production of biological weapons in 1990. But if you believe that the US government functions according to laws or agreements, I have a bridge to sell you (def.). But if you don't agree with the last statement, you are in good company (def.) with American Indians.) 

• As US passes 50,000 deaths, workers strike against back-to-work campaign by Shannon Jones and Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site. (Note: I'm posting this only in order to respond to it.)

My commentary: I've noticed that the this website's editors have consistently advocated for worker's safely in response to the threat of the current pandemic. And, I've also noticed their lack of concern about the government's refusal to offer any significant support for millions of non-essential workers. WSWS seems in agreement with the ruling class's obvious view that corresponds to a condescending quote (1789) attributed to Queen Marie Antoinette "let them eat cake", which referred to the French ruling class's utter lack of concern for the millions of French who where facing famine.

It seems to me that the huge numbers of "non-essential" workers and the owner's of small businesses are facing simular threats to their survival: loss of homes (due to evictions and inability to maintain mortgage payments), can't afford medical care, instability of families (divorces and spouse problems) in addition to feeding their families. These workers may be non-essential to the capitalist ruling class, but their jobs are essential to them. Perhaps this attitude is related to the ruling class's solution to the climate crisis--depopulation. But I remain astounded by WSWS's stance on this issue.

One cannot blame these workers if they insist on returning to their jobs, but the small business owners do not have this option. However, many workers are employed by small business owners. Perhaps it is time to consider other options. (Also, be sure to see the next post.)

• Many Strikes Are Coming Before Nov. Election & After. w/Jane McAlevey from The Jimmy Dore Show (via YouTube). (Note: McAlevey, a labor organizer, continues talking about how to organize workers.)

• Capitalism Can’t Be Repaired – Coronavirus Shows Its Huge Weaknesses by Richard D. Wolff from Brave New Europe. 

• Would We Have Already Had a COVID-19 Vaccine Under Socialism? by Vanessa A. Bee  from In These Times.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, April 23, 2020 (Added the first post at 12:43 PM CT)

• We cannot expect capitalists to manage a pandemic by Susan Rosenthal from her weblog. 

• Diseased System in Shut-Lockdown: Never a Better Time to Fight for Socialism by Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report. 

My commentary: I scanned this article and discovered that I differ from Ford as to the history of socialism in the Soviet Union. After reading widely in their history, I conclude that socialism only lasted a few years. Soon after Lenin died and Stalin consolidated control of the government, the Soviet Union deteriorated into what I call "bureaucratism" (others call it "state capitalism").

The original Bolsheviks were exhausted fighting the Allies among the capitalist countries and the White armies, the embargos, etc. After Lenin died and the Stalinists consolidated control, the Soviet bureaucracy (also called "nomenklatura") gradually served themselves extra privileges denied to ordinary Russians: they appointed themselves to advanced positions in the bureaucracy, they got their children into the best schools and later into the best careers, they shopped at exclusive stores, etc.)

• Revisting Lenin’s “What is to be Done?” After Bernie Sanders by Tatiana Cozzarelli from Left Voice.

• Why Post-Coronavirus America Will Have Massive Poverty by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Landlords Illegally Evicting Tenants, Despite Federal Restrictions by Rebecca Burns from The American Prospect.

• WATCH: Planet of the Humans [Full Film] from Wrong Kind of Green. Blogger's Note: Because I have not viewed this film yet, I cannot recommend it personally. Although I have reservations from the people who have endorsed it, I am posting this because Wrong Kind of Green has promoted it:

This compelling, must-see movie – a full-frontal assault on our sacred cows – is guaranteed to generate anger, debate, and, hopefully, a willingness to see our survival in a new way—before it’s too late.

• In Light of the Global Pandemic, Focus Attention on the People posted in English on Defend Democracy Press. (Note: I believe this effort, along with all other efforts, is too late. I also believe that the first order of business is to overthrow capitalism (not "changes" or reforms) and install a sustainable system to redeem humans who have been responsible for the destruction of the environment that sustains life.)

• Merchants of death: Multibillion-dollar bailout for arms industry amid rising COVID-19 toll by Bill Van Auken from World Socialist Web Site.

• The AngloZionists Are Launching a Strategic PSYOP Against China by "The Saker" (Andrei Rsevsky) from The Unz Review. (Note: You may be interested in the frustrated and angry reactions that a descendant (read B. Faulkner's intro of Raevsky) of White Russian refugees has toward US government officials during this pandemic.)

• Human Lab Rats: The U.S. Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments by John W. Whitehead from Dissident Voice.

• ‘Republic of hunger’ in the Time of ‘Lockdown’ by Shashi Kant Tripathi from United World (based in Turkey). 

• US rewards for Hezbollah leaders’ heads: How do they affect the organisation? by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

My commentary: This distinguished Middle Eastern journalist writes how the rich US/Anglo/Zionist Empire operates in regions of the Middle East that are not under their control. The ruling capitalist classes control nearly all media in the countries they control, and thus control the narratives (control the perceptions of reality among populations) published/broadcast by media outlets throughout their Empire. 

However, the directors of the Empire (major capitalists) must resort to crude bounties on leaders who are their antagonists and independent of Empire influences in the Middle East. Magnier reports that these bounties inevitably backfire. Instead, such leader-antagonists receive rewards in terms of status and perks that other, more cooperative (with the Empire) leaders do not.

This reaction is in stark contrast with media corporations within the Empire. After many years of infiltrating these corporations, the directors of the Empire now have complete control of media (formerly they had only partial control), and thus control all information that their populations receive. The directors of the Empire do this by rewarding easily corrupted journalists with lucrative careers. The latter careerists joined many other "professionals" (particularly in education) in the upper-middle class (Malcolm X referred to them as house niggers: he used this term when speaking to largely African-American audiences, but YouTube purged these videos) who enjoy the many fruits of capitalist rule.

This is the primary secret of the Empire's success; and need I add, the demise of humans and most other species on the unique planet Earth.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, April 9, 2020

• COVID-19: A Question of POWER by Susan Rosenthal from her weblog.

• What Does Wuhan Tell Us? from CGTN (China), a 6:58m video that features Zou Yue, a native of Wuhan, speaking in English about the lessons that the world should have learned from the experience of the people of Wuhan.

• The Project for a New American Century and the Age of Bioweapons: 20 Years of Psychological Terror by Matthew Ehret (Canadian) from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• The irreversible emissions of a permafrost ‘tipping point’ by Dr. Christina Schädel from Carbon Brief.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, March 29, 2020

The political spectrum in the USA has shifted significantly to the right since WWII . This is largely because our ruling capitalist class decided to build an empire in 1941 when the well-connected (to the ruling class) Henry Luce, owner and editor of Time Magazine, announced the "American Century". During the 1930s many in the ruling class throughout advanced capitalist countries expressed sympathies and actual deeds in support of fascist Germany and Italy. I have read many books (read, for example, Big Business and Hitler by Jacques R. Pauwels) that also support this fact. 

Since Luce's announcement, US intellectuals and propagandists have revised American history of the 20th century to reflect benign and humanitarian influences that the US has had on the world. This revised history has permeated all institutions of the USA including especially Hollywood films and education. The CIA has taken control over media and filled it, and the minds of Americans, with fake news such as Russia-gate themes and other fantasies. (See my commentary here.)

The effect that this has had on American society has been a marked shift in the political spectrum toward the right-wing. Another related effect is that during the current crisis of the pandemic, Americans are thoroughly confused and frustrated about how our masters are dealing with this crisis, and a wave of growing frustration and anger exists as is evident in today's post by Jimmy Dore.

• It’s Okay To Be Uncertain What’s Happening And Where This Is All Going by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• "If Getting Us Into $6 Trillion More Debt Doesn’t Matter, Then Why Not $350 Trillion?" by Tyler Durden from his weblog ZeroHedge.

• Bernie Sanders Hasn’t Quite Captured What Wall Street Does: It’s Actually a Fraud-Monetization System with a Money-Printing Unit Called the New York Fed by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. (I missed this fine post from Jan. 21st.)

• Lawmakers' priority is to bail out large corporations – Hedges from RT (via YouTube).  

• How Bernie & Warren Sold Us Out Over Stimulus Bill. Jimmy Dore interviews Matt Stoller, a research director with the American Economic Liberties Project. (Note: I am posting this as only an example of confused and angry "left-wing" thinking in America.)

• It Is A Time Of Crisis And U.S. Foreign Policy Is Becoming Unhinged by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• How the US is using Covid-19 to fight its political battles by Elif İlhamoğlu from United World (based in Turkey).

• Italy leans on Russia after the EU fails to deliver by Steven Sahiounie from The Duran.

• US continues to block Iranian assets needed to buy medical equipment to fight COVID-19: Foreign Ministry official from PressTV. 

• Debunking clickbaits – expert: “not just a flu” and “not a bioweapon”. Joe Rogan interviews Michael Osterholm who "is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease epidemiology" and based in Minneapolis. This is posted on A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. (I don't doubt his qualifications, but I'm not yet convinced that coronavirus is not a bioweapon. I wasn't convinced that the virus was a bioweapon. I just waited for further evidence.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, March 16, 2020

• BigPharma’s Role: U.S. sanctions lead to global rise in Coronavirus by Sara Flounders from Workers World. 

• The Surrealism of the Information War by Gilbert Mercier from News Junkie Post. (Note: Mercier uses this article to point to other insightful articles that the author has produced in order to keep us focused on the real capitalist plague that will end in our vanishing as a species. If the efforts to combat this latest virus had been applied to ending capitalist ruling classes' assault of the Earth, we might have been able to save our human species (and most other species). But that would have caused the end of capitalism and its ruling classes. The latter have given, and continue to give, greater priority to their rule than they do to all living species on planet Earth.)

In their confusion and thirst for truth, people get caught like flies on tasty propaganda glue. The intricate labyrinths built by the information warriors prevent the real discourse, which should be about how to survive the imminent systemic collapse of global capitalism. It cannot be otherwise when global corporate imperialism itself controls the discourse worldwide. Hypnotized by a myriad of vanishing points, humans might be on a course to vanish.

• US capitalism’s response to the pandemic: Nothing for health care, unlimited cash for Wall Street by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site. (Note: Recent actions by our masters, the capitalist ruling class, demonstrate once again their primary concern: to keep their system and Empire functioning which results in gross inequality and the assault on our planet Earth.)

• Is Peace on the Korean Peninsula Achievable? by Stephen Gowans from his weblog.

My commentary: While people are currently absorbed in the current crisis of coronavirus, they shouldn't forget about other issues related to crucial propaganda products serving our masters in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Gowans, a top geopoitical Canadian analyst who knows real history, takes apart much of the propaganda laden history relating to Korea of the 20th and 21st centuries. In this rather lengthy article he reveals the true nature of this history which is very much alive today not only in Korea, but those classified as "enemies" in the rest of the world that the Empire is confronting. I have read Bruce Cumings excellent two volumes on Korea (look in the recommended books section of this weblog for volume 1) that he mentions in the article as a basis of my knowledge about the true history of the Korean conflict. 

• The Bush Administration’s Secret Biowarfare Agenda by Stephen Lendman from a re-posted article in Global Research. (Note: This article outlines the extensive history of US biowarfare programs (as of 2008) not only associated with the "Bush administration", but to all US administrations since the Empire was launched after WWII. Lendman gives little emphasis on biowarfare used by the US during the Korean War. I recommend reading a book entitled This Must Be the Place by Dave Chaddock to inform you about this history.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, March 15, 2020

• White House Removes Public Health Experts from Coronavirus Discussions by Michael Halpern from Union of Concerned Scientists.

• How much is coronavirus spreading under the radar? by Amy Maxmen from Nature.

• A 70-Year War on ‘Propaganda’ Built by the CIA by Cynthia Chung from Internationalist 360°.

• Economic Effect of Coronavirus Could Be Revolutionary by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog.

• Trump’s Response to the Pandemic: Demagogy for Workers and Billions for Billionaires by Ana Rivera from Left Voice.

We need self-organization from the below, with unions and social organizations at the forefront, taking adequate measures to demand a real health emergency plan to stop the Coronavirus and the chaos to which the capitalists and their governments are leading us. The unions have to fight for the workers and be a tool to get medicare, paid leave, and everything else that the crisis for the working class demands. The working class has a major role to play in resolving the crisis.

• Looking at the Military Aspects of Biological Warfare by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky)  from The Unz Review. 

• Was Coronavirus a Biowarfare Attack Against China? by "OldMicrobiologist" from The Unz Review.