Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, April 26, 2021

• Pfizer is obsessed with one thing in this pandemic. And it’s not saving lives by Nick Dearden from Global Justice Now. 

• The Real Agenda of the Gates Foundation by Jacob Levich from Aspects of India's Economy. (Note: This post is in four parts, each of which is of a normal length common to my articles.)
  

... the Gates Foundation, like the MNCs it so closely resembles, seeks to manufacture consent for its activities through the manipulation of public opinion. Happily, not everyone is fooled: popular resistance to the designs of Big Philanthropy is mounting. The struggle is broad-based, ranging from the women activists who exposed the criminal activities of PATH in India, to the anti-sterilization activities of African-American groups like The Rebecca Project, to the anti-vaccine agitations in Pakistan following the revelation that the CIA had used immunization programs as cover for DNA collection. Surely a worldwide campaign to eradicate the toxic philanthropy and infectious propaganda of the Gates Foundation would be in the best traditions of public health.

• 10 Covid-Skeptic Memes to Get You Through the Day by Kim Usbourne from Off-Guardian. (This article is a humorous take on the pandemic with a touch of sarcasm.)

• The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine by Jon Jureidini and Leemon B. McHenry, a book review from New Books Network.
  

• 💥Maturity Is Discovering How Everything You Believe Is A Lie by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. This is a best post. My reaction: Her weblog posts are getting more and more philosophical. And, I notice the male narration has a distinctly American accent to it. I also know that Caitlin is married to an American. Doubts creep in about who is running this weblog and how much. Anyway, I very much like their posts because much of them have the clear ring of truth.

• 💥Xi's Boao Forum Speech And The Messed Up Reporting Around It by Bernhard, an independent German blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama. This is a best post. (Note: If this interests you, you may also be interested in Jimmy Dore's 9:42m reaction.) My reaction: I gave this as a best post because I think it represents all major news agencies in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Reuters is more fundamental than major media corporations because it determines news coverage that media corporations distribute to their customers. Bernhard leaves a very cogent summary:

The Reuters piece about Xi's speech at Boao is framed with a 'western' mindset and colored by 'western' hegemonic ideology. It leaves out the essence of the speech then adds bits that make the reader assume that the high level international event is a solely Chinese one, thereby disturbing its context.

It does not inform but propagandizes.

• Union Labor’s Great Detour: 1947 to 2021 featuring Jack Rasmus regarding an accurate history of the labor movement (in an audio format lasting nearly an hour) since the 1930s beginning with the Wagner Act. (Note: This was during the late industrial capitalist phase of capitalism much-touted by Prof. Michael Hudson, son of Trotskyist parents.) My reaction: Hudson's parents must be "rolling in their graves"--(def.).

• Economic Collapse Continues Uninterrupted by Shawgi Tell from Dissident Voice.

• The Fed Has Misled the Public about the “Strength” of the Wall Street Mega Banks: This Chart Shows the True Picture by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• 175 Years of Border Invasions: The Anniversary of the U.S. War on Mexico and the Roots of Northward Migration by David Vine from Council on Hemispheric Affairs.
  

• Challenged on Syria cover-up, OPCW chief lies and US-UK-France evade by Aaron Maté from The Grayzone.
  

• NYT Investigates U.S. Jewish Billionaire Funding For Anti-Islamists - Then Distracts With Loads Of Anti-Russian Slander by Bernhard, an independent German blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama. (Note: Bernhard seems to attack international news coverage as provided by the NY Times. See his latest post.)
  

• The Billionaires Who Couldn’t Kick Straight by Sam Pizzigati from CounterPunch. My reaction: Even the culture of capitalism has spread to sports in Europe after first corrupting it in the USA and Britain, the two main organizers of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Could one expect otherwise?
  

So the future of global football’s ecosystem remains perilous. In a world where wealth keeps concentrating at ferocious rates, the sport’s more egalitarian traditions will always be at risk. We can’t expect free and fair sports, in other words, as long as billionaires in search of playthings and profits still walk the Earth.

• Visions of the Future featuring James Corbet (57:25m) from his weblog, The Corbett Report, pointing to what will happen in the future as reported by our masters in the transnational capitalist class, or in Corbett's words, the "would-be controllers of the world" have planned for us.
  

• The Best Intentions of Sir Ronald Cohen: Building the Crypto-Corrals of Social Investment by Raul Diego from Mint Press News. (Note: Read this if your interested to learn about a leading driver of the Great Reset.)
  

• Southern Command Goes to War by Jorge Elbaum from Internationalist 360°.
  

• A History of the CIA in Congo by T.J. Coles from CounterPunch. The ruling class's CIA has figured to release their heavily redacted documents to the public because they no longer fear a backlash from them. Coles documented his report primarily on released CIA documents in the early 2000s; the last was released in 03/09/2012. I counted 13 such documents (not counting the CIA's historian written with comprehensive disclaimers). The CIA lies beyond the official government facade that was created by the early Founding Fathers who feared democratic rule. (See my commentary here.) You see, the public won't believe that the same operations are conducted today by this very secretive service accountable to no one but the ruling capitalist class.

• Edge of Extinction: Australian Wildfires Warmed the Atmosphere features Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has focused on the climate crisis, from his YouTube channel in a 3:03m video.
  

Exceptionally good posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, March 16, 2021

• 💥Canadian Doctors Speak Out from "Jacois" via his/her Bitchute channel because it was censored on YouTube.
  

• Halt All Covid-19 Mass Vaccination Immediately (Open Letter to the WHO) — Vaccine Research Expert from Dryburgh. (Note: I am posting this because of an activist who sent it to me.) My reaction: But Bossche doesn't mention any lack of concern regarding mRNA vaccines that all the other immunology specialists have expressed concern about. He seems to regard the current "vaccines" as traditional vaccines.)

• The Curious Case of Geert Vanden Bossche by Rosemary Frei from her weblog. (Note: This is a challenging critical review of Bosshe's recent letter.)

• Nazi Healthcare Revived Across the Five Eyes: Killing Useless Eaters and Biden’s COVID Relief Bill by Matthew Ehret from Off-Guardian. 

• When it comes to vaccines, suddenly “from vs with” matters again: The media’s attitude to possible vaccine-related injuries highlights how INSANE the “Covid deaths” count always was by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.
  

• Helping America Soar Again: Recommendations for Domestic Air Travel from America's Frontline Doctors.

• You Know “We’ll Never Know,” Don’t You?: Review of Adam Curtis’s six-part documentary ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’ by Edward Curtin from Off-Guardian.

• The Impending Financial Collapse, Crypto and Anti-Lockdown Protests by Dave Cullen, an Irishman, from his Bitchute channel. (Note: I don't necessarily accept all of his opinions, but his comments should be thoughtfully considered.)
  

• 💥James Corbett Interview – COVID-19 Censorship, Technocracy & The Amazing Country Of Digital Gulag features Ryan Cristián in a discussion lasting nearly an hour and seven minutes with Corbett, a Canadian, regarding Patreon's letter that effectively tries to censor him, problems with Japan's postal system, and the coming digital gulag which will imprison all of us by restricting our communication of information. This is a best post. My reaction: Of course, the digital gulag is powered by the private ownership of communication-technology under the rules of capitalism in contrast to Corbett's arguments that focuses on government authorities. Of course, government authorities are controlled by billionaires in the capitalist ruling class.

• Sanitized Tyranny: The Weaponization of Truth by Michael K. Emerson from Dissident Voice. 
  

• Bill Gates Wants to Realize Global Vision in His Lifetime by Dr. Joseph Mercola from his weblog.

• Rachel Maddow's Jaw-Dropping Propaganda For Dems Stimulus Bill featuring Jimmy Dore (and Ron Placone) in this 32:29m YouTube video angrily exposing the function of Rachel Maddow, other celebrities, and TV corporations: the management of consent and dissent.

• How Democrats Abandoned You In Relief Bill featuring Jimmy Dore (and Ron Placone) exposing the Democratic Party for their hypocrisy in a 5:20m YouTube video. 

• Shifty Shifters: Movers and Shapers like a Trillion Locusts by Paul Haeder from Dissident Voice.

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

• Ten Years Since Beginning of Failed Regime-Change Operation Against Syria by Paul Antonopoulos from AntiWar. (This post offers a general observation of the results of the 10-year war on Syria led by US forces.

• 5 former OPCW officials join prominent voices to call out Syria cover-up by Aaron Maté from The Grayzone. (This post offers a recent update regarding the UN investigation of the crimes committed in Syria involving the White Helmets. a propaganda organization used by US & British intelligence agencies to help enlist support for their war efforts in Syria from people who live in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)
  

• Do we know what we’re doing? by Tone Lanzillo from Duluth Reader, an alternative website in Duluth, Minnesota. My reaction: I strongly suspect that this post applies to all US cities.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, January 19, 2021

• Freedom Airway featuring a 24:22m interview with Professor Delores Cahill, who has a degree in molecular biology, conducted by James Corbett from his weblog The Corbett Report.
  

Professor Delores Cahill joins the deprogram today to discuss a solution for freedom-respecting travel in the age of COVID. The Freedom Airway & Freedom Travel Alliance is seeking to create travel options that don’t require travelers to submit to vaccination, face masks or quarantines.

• Government Mistakes Provided the Breeding Ground for the Mutant Virus, Which it is Now Using as an Alibi for Its Failures by Patrick Cockburn from CounterPunch. My reaction: Cockburn's observations regarding the poorest areas of Britain produces an argument that the ruling class's government knowingly allowed the coronavirus to mutate and spread among the poor. Because Britain's poorest go without immediate access to quality medical services and that they had to keep working to survive, the ruling class had perfect alibis to cull the poor from their nation. Could the rich directors of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire have engineered this virus in their secret bio-weapon laboratories in order to cull the "useless eaters" from their population? One might suspect so because they are guilty of other social crimes (wars for one) of this magnitude. This suspicion leads one to the insight that the global pandemic is a class war that the Empire's capitalist ruling classes are committed to winning.

• Why I Became a “Covid Denier” by Kevin Smith from Off-Guardian (based in Britain).
  

• January 6 Was An Inside Job featuring in a 26:03m podcast Abby Martin, Mike Prysner, and Brian Becker, who has made a study of the Jan. 6 incident, discuss why they think it was an "inside job". I suspect that it was a Deep State project carried out by the secret intelligence services to prepare the public (psy-op) for more legislation curbing civil-rights of the general public. But I do not agree with them in their prediction that the "powers that be" will legally go after Trump to the extent of imprisoning him. If you have a special interest in this event, you may be also interested in a piece of investigative journalism entitled "Was Trump Ousted from the Military Chain of Command?" from the same website.

• How Billionaires Transfer Blame to Others by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Zuesse is always careful to portray the US government as determined by an "aristocracy" of wealth in order to avoid the Marxist expression "ruling class". You see, any hint of Marxism is verboten in the USA.

• Russia Withdraws From Open Skies Treaty After US Departure by Om Marathe from Anti-Empire.
  

• Continuity of Agenda: Trump’s was Obama’s will be Biden’s Asia Strategy by Brian Berletic (an American who lives in Thailand) from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. My reaction: This is so because the Deep State ("Tony Cartalucci" was the pen-name for Berletic) actually determines the policies of the US government, and most especially its foreign policies.

• Evolution of the external debt of developing countries between 2000 and 2019 by Eric Toussaint and Milan Rivié from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt). 

• Indian Farmers on the Frontline Against Global Capitalism by Colin Todhunter (British blogger) from Dissident Voice. 

• US makes aggressive opening move on Russian chessboard by M. K. Bhadrakumar from his weblog Indian Punchline. My reaction: He is convincing in his argument that the USA or by extension, the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire will attempt to use the "divide and conquer" strategy in a move in the dangerous global chess game.

• New Leaks Show How British Spies Infiltrate And Undermine Lebanon's Security Services by Bernhard, a German blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• US economic decline and global instability by "Phillyguy" from "The Saker" weblog. (Note: I roughly skimmed this lengthy article for accuracy, and I found no errors.)

• Reimagining the World: Agroecology vs Post-COVID Plunder by Colin Todhunter from Off-Guardian.
  

• Destroying the Web of Life: The Destruction of Earth’s Biodiversity Is Accelerating by Robert J. Burrowes from Global Research.

One species – Homo sapiens – is annihilating life on Earth, driving at least 200 species to extinction each day. In the time it took you to read this article, another species of life on Earth vanished into the fossil record.

My reaction: After researching this subject for more than 40 years, I hold the opinion that it is already too late to save our species; but that to redeem ourselves, we must fight capitalists and their addictions to profits and power by establishing our ownership and control over the economies of the world.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, December 18, 2020

• Mysterious Death of Vaccine Safety Advocate Brandy Vaughn featuring Ben Swann, posted on ISE, investigating attempts not only to silence critics of vaccine safety consideration but an astonishing number number of deaths of these critics.

• How Will We Know That a COVID-19 Vaccine is Safe? from Children's Health Defense. This is a best post, and this post is essential for you to read/view it because it has become a widespread issue that affects nearly all of us.
  

This presentation is the result of a collaborative effort between Dr. Mumper and the team of doctors, scientists and researchers affiliated with Children’s Health Defense.

• Why Black People Cannot Trust the Pfizer Vaccine by Wesley Muhammad from The Unz Review.

• Challenge The System. Featuring Jimmy Dore from his YouTube channel.
  

• How To Raise Weak Children During Lockdowns featuring JP Sears, a comedian (to 3:32m) who specializes in parody, expresses his take on current parenting skills on his YouTube channel. 

• The Economic Reset with Ernst Wolff featuring the latter being interviewed by Dave Cullen from his YouTube channel Computing Forever. This is a best post. (Note: Wolff shows how the Great Reset (he refers to it as a "restart"), which will have extreme consequences for our economies and societies, is hidden from public view by the covid crisis. The latter is functioning as a cover for astounding changes in our economies.) My reaction: It is no wonder that our masters in the capitalist ruling classes are pushing the covid crisis so vigorously.
  

• This Book Turns Everything You Thought You Knew About North Korea Upside Down by Jeremy Kuzmarov from CovertAction Magazine. My reaction: I'm inclined to support everything that the author revealed about North Korea in Abrams’ new book, Immovable Object: North Korea’s 70 Years at War with American Power. I have read a lot about North Korea from more independent sources to arrive at the conclusion that this material is absolutely believable.

• After Recruiting For ISIS Anand Gopal Justifies The War Crimes The U.S. Committed While Removing It by Bernhard (independent blogger from Germany) from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
  

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

• What’s Not Being Said About Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook.

• Hammer and Scorecard: Big Tech’s Drive to End Democracy by Matthew Ehret from The Canadian Patriot. (Note: I noticed that I could not access the article from FRN where I first encountered this article, but I could from Ehret's website The Canadian Patriot. I reported this incident to FRN, and I got a reply that they thought the Deep State has been active again censoring information.) My reaction to the article: I see that many alternative media sites are posting articles challenging the election of Biden/Harris. I have no direct interest in this battle between fascists factions, but hopefully the outcome will result in Americans questioning the election results, and, hopefully, to eventually discover that their much ballyhooed "democracy" is a sham designed to deceive them like many other shams.
  

• Why Propaganda is Vital In Upholding The Illusion of a Democracy by Cynthia Chung (and Matthew Ehret) from their weblog The Canadian Patriot.

• Elite transnational fascism from Winter Oak (based in Britain).
  

• Public-Safety Ratings of the World’s Countries by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Meet the Filthy Rich War Hawks That Make up Biden’s New Foreign Policy Team by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• This Isn’t Feminism, It’s Imperialism In Pumps by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Pandemic Panhandling Update by David Rovics from Dissident Voice. (Note: I thought it would be good to hear from someone totally immersed in the gig economy.)
  

• Arctic Methane. Has 2020 triggered a tipping point? from Just Have a Think channel (via YouTube). 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, October 14, 2020

• Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime by Gabriel Rockhill from CounterPunch. (Note: Rockhill is using the term "liberalism" in the classic sense which means the ideology of capitalism.) My commentary follows:

I agree with most of this article with the exception being that he does not distinguish capitalist "democracy" or,  a more familiar and equivalent term, "bourgeois democracy", from socialist democracy. Lenin laid down the theoretical framework for the latter, but immediately after the Russian Revolution, Russia was under attack mainly by Britain, France, Japan, and the USA--especially by Britain which interfered with Lenin's plans. Also the quashing of the Communist party in Germany contributed to the distortion of Lenin's plans and resulted in a bureaucratic ruling class headed by the authoritarian Stalin. 

A socialist democracy has yet to be created or established, and it doesn't seem likely to appear given the limited amount time humans have due to the threat posed by the ecological crisis and the bellicose and aggressive nature of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. The latter poses the threat of a catastrophic nuclear war.

To be sure, after WWII the Western intellectual apologists for capitalism had to extensively ignore the reality of the fascist roots in capitalism, and went on to extensively rewrite the history of WWII that is de rigueur throughout the present day Empire.

I think there is a basic conflict between capitalism and socialism, and that is the question of allegiance to the extended family versus society. If one chooses family, capitalism provides the means to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of families which are the owners of economic property (and their supporters) over those who don't own economic property.

This is a powerful motive force which is the basis for many conflicts among humans, particularly those who, otherwise support socialist policies; but faced with the loss of jobs and careers, that would bring poverty to their families, many choose a capitalist path. The choice of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was capitalism, and she greatly benefited from her choice. She described her choice in a nutshell that embarrassed a number of members of the capitalist class because it was so true. She said there was no such thing as society, there were only families, and added that maybe neighbors as well.

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

• U.S. Government Awards Contracts to Seven Organizations with Ties to Gates Foundation, DARPA, Big Tech by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.

• Open letter from medical doctors and health professionals to all Belgian authorities and all Belgian media. From Docs4opendebate.
  

• James Corbett Encourages You To Do Your Own Research from Corbett's website. (My reaction: The only problem with Corbett's views is that he blames the "media" for using experts as a way to support their authoritarian directions. He doesn't yet see that a capitalist ruling class controls major media corporations.)

• If the Main Stream Narrative Was a Conspiracy, a 3:30m video featuring JP Sears from his channel (via YouTube) doing a parody of what he has learned about the coronavirus from media corporations. 
  

• Airlines Test ‘Proof-of-Immunity’ Technology, Privacy Watchdogs Call It ‘Troubling’ by Jeremy Loffredo from Children's Health Defense.
  

• How the IMF and World Bank Turned a Pandemic into a Public Relations Stunt by Walden Bello from Foreign Policy in Focus.

• Hefty profits for top US banks as millions face social disaster by Shannon Jones from World Socialist Web Site. 

• WARNING: COVID-19 Vaccine Partnership with AstraZeneca a Threat to Public Health by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. 

• High Temperatures October 2020 from Arctic News. 

• The Battle for Hope in the Anthropocene by Jethro Gauld, Ph.D. Researcher from Scientists Warning. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, October 13, 2020

• Klaus Schwab and his great fascist reset from Winter Oak. My commentary follows (On 10/15/2020 I edited this entry to include the much distorted and propagandized the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact by Western historians): 

This rather lengthy article exposes the Great Reset project as a wet dream of the current transnational capitalist ruling class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. I think that the author places too much emphasis on the similarities on the current scene in America with that of 1930s fascism in Germany and Italy, and not enough emphasis on this vision of the Great Reset as a rather desperate fantasy of the transnational capitalists of the 21st century. Fascism is endemic to any capitalist system. Fascist capitalist classes use mostly crude methods of censorship, surveillance, and police state measures, while most other capitalist countries favor pseudo-democratic methods of controlled elections and carefully crafted propaganda that infects every institution.

Capitalism's trajectory was always headed in the direction of fascism, especially when capitalist countries are threatened. That is precisely why before WWII, during most of the 1930s, capitalist ruling classes in all the other "democratic" nations mostly supported the fascist regimes in Germany and Italy. This support was motivated by the twin threats to capitalist regimes posed by the Great Depression and the rise of the Soviet Union which forbid any significant private ownership of the economy. The latter's system of socialism was a blasphemy to the church in which capitalists worship.

The British ruling class was especially disturbed by any country that promoted socialist policies; and when the Soviet Union appeared, they viewed it as a threat to their system and Empire. But Germany didn't exactly follow the British script for them to head east through Czechoslovakia and destroy the Soviet system. Instead they invaded Poland which held defense treaties with Britain and France. The German government had just signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with the Soviet Union which permitted the two powers to partition Poland between them. 

The allies have made much of that in their propaganda and the rewriting of the history of WWII. But having failed to form an anti-fascist alliance with the Western powers, the Soviets opted to gain time to prepare for the expected invasion of their country by Germany. As a result the Soviets in August of 1939 signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany in which they would carve up Poland between themselves. Shorty thereafter the Nazis invaded Poland and formally started WWII.

After eight months of a phony war with Britain, Nazi Germany invaded France and the Low Countries, and it became clear to the British that Germany was a threat to the British Empire. It was then that British capitalists switched their support (Neville Chamberlain) from the imperialist policies of Germany and Italy to an organizing (Winston Churchill) of capitalist friends of British capitalists to protect their British Empire.

Germany initially overran France on other European countries and went on to attack Britain. The German capitalist ruling class was motivated by resentment that France and Britain demonstrated in the Versailles Treaty after WWI, and the overt fascists of the ruling German capitalist class soon represented a threat to the British Empire and their dominance in the world. WWII left Britain in ruins, so the British ruling class, and what remained of the Empire, teamed up with the American capitalists to form a new capitalist empire (they later added Israel) to counter the socialism found in the Soviet Union and to restore capitalist control of the world. And, as they say, the rest is history. (Read Big Business and Hitler by Jacques R. Pauwels for further information on this subject.)

• Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t! by Gabriel Rockhill from CounterPunch. (Note: The author writes in style which is abstract and academic.)
  

• Breaking Pres. Trump "Total Declassification" of Documents Related To Russia Investigation featuring Ben Swann of ISE commenting on this development.

• No 2nd stimulus? Time to admit both parties want to destroy the average American by Ramin Mazaheri from the "Saker's" weblog.
  

• The WHO Has Let the Cat Out of the Bag: COVID-19 Is Now More About Politics Than Public Health by Daniel Wild from Anti-Empire.  

• Being made invisible by Stephen Sefton from Tortilla con Sal. 

Few are surprised that defenders of Julian Assange against the UK injustice system are misrepresented or excluded by imperialist country governments supported by all the disinformation outlets their countries' oligarchs control. However, scientists questioning public policy on COVID-19 find themselves marginalized not only by dominant liberal opinion but also by majority progressive opinion too. Eminent scientists like John Ioannides, Sunetra Gupta, Sucharit Bhakdi, Alexander Kekulé, Dolores Cahill and dozens of others find themselves in effect, if not disappeared, certainly generally excluded from public discussion.

• Belgian health experts demand full investigation into WHO for faking COVID-19 pandemic by Ethan Huff from Pharmaceutical Fraud.

• NHS Consultant Says Staff Are Being Silenced Over COVID-19 by Michael O'Bernicia from his weblog The Bernician.

• Dr Kevin Corbett Interview 4th October 2020 by "David" who interviews Corbett from the Northern Exposure channel of YouTube. (Note: I don't know anything about Dr. Corbett other than what is provided in the interview, and I don't know anything about "David" who apparently lives in Scotland. I was impressed by Dr. Corbett's interesting comments, and I encountered similar arguments from a "Piece of Mindful" website entitled “Covid-19” = AIDS with emPHAsis.)

• The Covidian Cult by C.J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (Note: I haven't read the article to determine whether it is satire or cogent observations, but I'm impressed with this satirist so much that I'm posting it anyway. Hopkins is an American currently living in Germany.)

 

Sorry, but I've again run out time and energy to complete the list of websites that contain articles which I think are credible.  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How dangerous is the virus, really? 

What is the significance of a positive test? 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020

• Plandemic II: Indoctornation from ISE. (Note: Because I don't want to take your time to listen to excessive ramblings of commentators and analysts, I rarely post videos over one hour. The videos I post must give important insights on current major problems.) My commentary follows below:

This is a 1hr and 15min video that sums up numerous points made on my website that concentration wealth, that the capitalist system promotes, creates enormous private power that overwhelms and corrupts not only industries, but governments particularly within the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. In the 21st century this power mostly takes the form of control of media, that is, the news and information you receive by media corporations that ruling classes control. The latter also control careers and jobs which sustain families within the nations of the Empire. In the case of the current covid-19 virus, this power has influenced even UN agencies to collude with the Empire's ruling class concentrated wealth.

• Vaccine Fundamentalism—War Metaphors in the Covid-19 Response, Vaccine Policy, and Public Health, Part 2 by Nate Doromal from Children's Health Defense.
  

• Censorship Claims Another Victim: Honest-Journalism Giant, Del Bigtree’s “The Highwire” by Robert Kennedy, Jr. from Children's Health Defense.
  

• If you are reading this, you might be a conspiracy theorist by John Steppling from Off-Guardian (based in Britain).

• Send in the Clowns for the Circus Is in Town by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain. 

• How does COVID-19 compare to World War III? from the Rick Sanchez Show on RT (via YouTube). This 3:53m video features Ben Swann commenting on a McKenzie Institute study which compared a world war to the shut down of the economy beyond 100 days.

• CODENAME: Operation Virus Identification 2019; the Elitist Plan to Remake Society by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review.
  

• Oliver Stone on challenging Hollywood convention & film as a ‘disappearing’ art form. Anya Parampil of The Grayzone interviews Oliver Stone, filmmaker and veteran of the Vietnam War, in this 53:37m video.

• #GeneralStrike: After a Summer in the Streets, Americans are Ready for Something More by Olivia Wood from Left Voice.

• US-Funded Agitators in Hong Kong Back Thai Protests by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: Last I heard he was living in Thailand, and knows the region very well.)
  

• The Fake News About Iran & the Taliban Aims to Achieve Three Strategic Objectives by Andrew Korybko from Global Research.

• Greenland Succumbs by Robert Hunziker from CounterPunch. 

• Methane Hydrates Tipping Point threatens to get crossed from Arctic News.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020

• Managing the Narrative by Philip Giraldi from The Unz Review. 

• Lebanon: Pearl on the New Silk Road or Zone of Dark Age Chaos by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Here's Why the "Impossible" Economic Collapse Is Unavoidable by Charles Hugh Smith from his weblog. (My reaction: His argument makes a lot of sense to me. I continue to see that this shutdown of parts of the economy by the ruling class as "desperate" venture because it carries extremely high risk to their rule. This together with their use of fake news, propaganda, and censorship practiced by their media corporations, I see as indicating deep frustration and desperation. Hopefully, they will not be desperate enough to opt for a nuclear war conflagration.)

• What Will Not Recover: Government by Jeffrey A. Tucker from American Institute of Economic Research. (My reaction: Even doubts about this risky venture comes from the writers for the ruling class. Of course, the latter regard the government is some separate entity from the capitalist ruling class. Because the latter "own" all three branches of their government, they control it.) 

• How To Deal With Vocal Vaccine Deniers – #PropagandaWatch featuring Canadian James Corbett from his website, The Corbett Report, addressing his views about the latest promotion of vaccines to deal with covid-19. (Note: Canada is an integral part of the transnational capitalist US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

• The Specter of a Fascist Coup by Trump Haunts the U.S. – There’s Worse to Worry About by Roger D. Harris from Mint Press News. (My reaction: Harris mostly represents fascism as "jack-boot fascism" that plagued humans in certain countries before the new US, Anglo, Zionist Empire took control of most of the world. Since WWII this Empire crafted a new version (neo-fascism?) that emphasized control of careers/jobs and cleverly designed propaganda/censorship in addition to jack-boot fascism.
  

Incidentally, I was a member of the Peace and Freedom Party in San Francisco in the 1980s.)

• Poland and Lithuania are escalating events in Belarus as they did with Maidan by Paul Antonopoulos from BRICS. (Note: Details coming out of the Belarus political crisis appears that Belarus is a re-run of the Ukraine subversion by the Empire.)

Again, I have run out of energy and time to cover all of my sources.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020

• The Dollar Standard Slipping Out of Control? by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. My commentary follows:
  

Crooke has an interesting background in British diplomacy, MI-6 spy analyst, and now geopolitical analyst. In this article he attempts to unravel the mysteries of global currencies, and in particular, the Federal Reserve's printing money and giving it mostly to US banks and corporations. His analysis explains this as an attempt to make US dollars cheaper and easier for the US government to pay off its soaring debts.

It is about U.S. explosive debt accumulation, on account of the Coronavirus lockdown. In a world where there is already over $100 trillion in dollar-denominated debt, on which the U.S. cannot default; nor will it ever be repaid. It can therefore only be inflated away. That is to say the debt can only be managed through debasing the currency. (Debt jubilees are viewed as beyond the pale.)

One thing to keep in mind: Control of the Federal Reserve lies mostly in the real ruling class that owns most of the USA--the financial and dominant part of the ruling capitalist class. However, these fabulously rich and powerful people are split between domestic financiers but are increasingly being challenged by transnational capitalists or "globalists". The latter see the cheapening of dollar as a hindrance to their transnational capitalist profits and are becoming worried about the US dollar as a prime global currency.

But keep in mind, these problems exist regardless of which capitalist party wins the elections. Elections are mostly irrelevant in this fake democracy in order to distract workers from the real issues. International workers, particularly highly skilled and trained workers who are essential to make economies run, have been largely co-opted with lucrative careers into serving capitalists. Capitalists have nothing much to do but to bet on stocks, bonds, and currencies in their Wall Street casinos. Meanwhile, ordinary workers are left to struggle to feed, clothe, and house their families on a planet that is increasingly threatened by global warming.

• Stories Of Economic Despair From America’s Worst Economic Downturn Since The Great Depression Of The 1930s by Michael Snyder from End Of The American Dream.

• US GDP Collapses & Economic Rebound Fades by Jack Rasmus from his weblog.
  

• A Crisis of Capitalist "Civilisation" from The Internationalists.

• CDC Director Admits Hospitals Have Monetary ‘Incentive’ to Inflate Coronavirus Death Count by Chris Enloe from Anti-Empire.

•  Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence. From Swiss Policy Research.

• What They are Not Telling You! The Mask’s Impact on Your Health by Laura Ingraham, Dr. Pascal Sacré, and Dr. Russell Blaylock from Global Research.
  

• Masks are a Psychological Preparation for Mandatory Vaccinations by Bill Willers from Dissident Voice.

• New Book Due Out September 1 posted by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain. (Note: I am promoting this book, SEEKING TRUTH IN A COUNTRY OF LIES, on the basis of Curtin's past record of excellent posts on his weblog.)

• Shape Yourself Into The Perfect Weapon Against The Empire by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: Very inspiring in a time filled with despair!)

• Document exposes new US plot to overthrow Nicaragua’s elected socialist gov’t by Ben Norton from The Grayzone.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, July 15, 2020

• COVID-19 Corruption: Wealthy and Well Connected Get Rich while People Suffer by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers from Dissident Voice.

• Warnings Grow: “We Are in a Massive Economic Downturn” by Pam and Russ Martins from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• The Media's Jihad against Sweden's No-Lockdown Policy Ignores Key Facts by Ryan McMaken from Mises Institute. (My reaction: And, the Swedes didn't destroy much of the economy that sustained "deplorables" working people.)

• Rockefeller Foundation keeps working on their autocratic Lock Step scenario by Norbert Häring (German economist) from his weblog Money and more.

• America, You’ve Been Blacklisted: McCarthyism Refashioned for a New Age by John W. Whitehead from his weblog The Rutherford Institute.

• USA: Warrior Cops by Morgan Artyukhina from Internationalist 360°.

• The Great American Firewall: On the Question of Censorship by Danny Haiphong from Black Agenda Report. (One proviso (def.): Freedom of speech is upheld if a person is not considered influential. I can get by with calling for revolution, pointing to a Deep State, criticizing imperial policies, etc. because I am not a major influencer. I write on a Google weblog to express such ideas, but I have received very little harassment except for one incident briefly described here. That way they can have their cake (can proclaim that there is freedom of speech) and eat their cake too--threatening with the loss of their careers anyone who is a major figure from espousing subversive views in any media.) 

• The Gates Foundation’s “Green Revolution” in Africa: Agribusiness Wins, Small Scale Farmers Lose by Ann Garrison from Black Agenda Report. (Note: This article offers an example of the secret of capitalism. Obviously, Bill Gates does not need billions of dollars to live on, but he has acquired this huge amount in order to influence (power) major events. Power is the psychological drug that drives capitalists to do what they do.)

• The Future for China by Eric Zuesse from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. My commentary follows:

Zuesse is a social democrat who loves FDR as an example of a US ruling class that held such promise. He has forgotten or overlooked the history before FDR came on the scene. Zuesse loved the capitalism as was practiced during FDR's administrations while ignoring the earlier history of the numerous massacres by private armies and public militias of union organizers, 12 hour days that workers were forced to work, the cheap child labor employed by capitalists to build their fortunes, the imperialist history of the US from 1898 onwards, the seizure of the control of our money by private banking interests (the Fed), the constant cycle of recessions or depressions since the second half of the 19th century, the history of slavery, Native American massacres, etc.

FDR inherited his wealth from an investor in the opium trade (also see yesterday's post "Protecting the American Opium Trade") who engaged in the drug trade that was forced on China. Old wealth shaped his personality to a large extent much as old wealth shaped John Kennedy and his progrssive politics. FDR and Kennedy had some sympathies for ordinary people and their problems. Both of them were never anti-capitalists--they grew up in families and friends who were steeped in old wealth. These two were the exceptions to a ruling class that has aggressively pursued power, and used power derived from their concentrated wealth to create their own Empire after WWII. John Kennedy was assassinated, and FDR was subjected to an attempted removal from office. Much more typical since WWII is the rise of the neo-fascist element in the ruling class who set the ambitious goal of constructing their own empire.

• In Commune: The Panal 2021 by Katrina Kozarek from Internationalist 360°. My reaction follows:

It appears that the commune structure first articulated by Hugo Chavez and implemented by millions of ordinary folks in Venezuela evolved into a powerful force that today has saved Venezuela from the imperialist ravages of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Together with the people of China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, etc. they are standing up to the Empire and surviving. Eventually this combination of forces can defeat the Empire. It will most likely be too late to save humans, but such people will serve to redeem their species marred by the hideous stain left by self-serving ruling classes during the last several thousand years.

As I recently explained in a major post why US activists cannot succeed in overcoming this ruling class:

The fundamental reason why US activists and revolutionary movements have not been effective, nor in the future will they be, is that they have been subject to a long and comprehensive process of capitalist propaganda and indoctrination. As a result, working people along with fake leaders are ignorant of American history and of the heinous effects of US actions on the rest of the world. They have been divided into mutually distrustful and hostile camps, brainwashed, obedient, distracted by vacuous entertainment, and unhealthy due to capitalist propaganda that would only allow them to be mere spectators in sports, and from a poor diet of cheap"fast foods" prepared for them by giant corporations. There is no reason to expect such people to lead or form an effective revolutionary movement. What we will see at most are pseudo movements and fake leaders who promise solutions to our many problems. We will probably need to look beyond the people of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire to see genuine leaders and revolutionary movements.

• The Deep State Expanding Military Ops in Northeastern Syria by Drago Bosnic from FRN (based in Serbia).  (My reaction: Remember that Trump wanted to withdraw troops from northern Syria? He could not. That is because US military serves the Deep State, the US ruling class, much like local police forces. The financiers and corporate executives in the Deep State have always made sure that the instruments of violence and coercion always obeyed them--not office holders in our fake democracy.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, July 2, 2020

• Global Economic Lockdown - with Peter Koenig and Ellen Brown from the Guns & Butter website. (Note: Bonnie Faulkner interviews two of the greatest contemporary minds on the current economic crisis created by the current pandemic. I wasn't impressed by Brown's articles until she demonstrated some deeper insights with the recent article entitled "Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid". I have never doubted Koenig's understanding of recent world events. I've only had time to listen to 30 minutes of the nearly one hour program but will listen to the remainder after I've finished blogging. Very important!)  

• CHD Responds to Accusation of Spreading “Misinformation” on Facebook by Jeremy R. Hammond and the Children’s Health Defense Team from Children's Health Defense.

• WHO’s Conflict of Interest? by David Macilwain from American Herald Tribune.

• The Media Sabotage of Hydroxychloroquine Use for COVID-19: Doctors Worldwide Protest the Disaster by Elizabeth Woodworth from Global Research.

• Dr. Vernon Coleman: Your Government Wants You Dead – BANNED from YouTube from Health Impact News (Texas). (My reaction: Your government is controlled by the same people who "own" and control most everything--the billionaires. The man-made system that creates billionaires is called capitalism.)

• Russia Bounty-Hunter Story Another Pulp Fiction Release by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. (My reaction: Just when you think the lies spread by mainstream media corporations could not get any worse, they do. They must be desperate. For another devastating attack on this fake news, see this.)

• Syria, Corporate Media Lies, and the True Face of Imperialism: An Interview with Richard Medhurst by Danny Haiphong from Black Agenda Report.

• Protest and Power by Glen Ford from the Black Agenda Report. 

• ‘Ordinary’ Israelis Don’t Perceive Themselves As Ordinary People by Rima Najjar from Medium.

• How Foreign Debt Undermines Sovereignty by Ndongo Samba Sylla from Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Foundation).

• New Law Liberates Hong Kong From U.S. Interference by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

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: Wednesday, May 20, 2020

• The Journey of the Jobless by Kalena Thomhave from The American Prospect.

• The US is Dramatically Overcounting Coronavirus Deaths by John R. Lott, Jr. from Townhall.

• The Global COVID Lockdown Is Pushing the Third World to the Brink by Daniel Ben-Ami from Anti-Empire. 

• VIDEO: Lukashenko Publicly Calls Out Putin for Blundering With Lockdown — Putin’s Reaction Says It All by Marko Marjanović from Anti-Empire.

• Sweden has pioneered an alternative to lockdown – and it works by Fredrik Erixon from The Spectator (Britain). 

• The Fable of the Chinese Whistleblower by Stephen S. Roach and Weijian Shan from Project Syndicate.

• How Bill Gates Controls Global Messaging and Censorship by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. from Children's Health Defense. 

• As Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine Takes The Lead, Its Chief Medical Officer’s Recent Promotion of “Gene-Editing Vaccines” Comes to Light by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond.

• Which Side of the “Vaccine Information War” Are You On? posted by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. 

• Lord Sumption on the UK Lockdown BBC News downloaded to YouTube by Masood Saeed.

• China updates its ‘Art of (Hybrid) War’ by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times. 

• Global Capitalism, “World Government” and the Corona Crisis by Prof Michel Chossudovsky from his website Global Research (Canada).

• On the Need for Balance In All Things by Palestinian-Canadian Ghada Chehade from her weblog Ghada's Soapbox.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, May 5, 2020

• For the Workers of the World the Pandemic is Based on Inequality by Pasqualina Curcio from Resumen. (Note: I thank an American activist for this post.)

• The Disconnect Between the Stock Market and the Real Economy Is Destroying Our Lives by Hamilton Nolan from In These Times.

• The Sleeping Giant by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: This is a political allegory. See if you can identify the referents to the characters. Also notice that it is unfinished. What will the giant do the next time he wakes up? Only the future will tell. But you are a tiny cell of that giant, or should be, as an informed activist. What will you do?)

• Now more than ever, supporting abolition of the debt is a priority! by Brigitte Marti from Women in and Beyond the Global. 

• The scarring by Michael Roberts from his weblog. (Note: This is how a Marxist economist looks at recessions, and now we are in the "mother of all recessions".)

• COVID-19 “CARES Act” Bankrolls AlI Post-Human Education by John Klyczek from Dissident Voice. (Note: The author argues that the CARES Act promotes the future of education. Learn what this future is like.)

• Only the Poor Starve: Hunger in the Time of Covid by Graham Peebles from Dissident Voice. 

My reaction: I hope he is right about his optimistic future:

Consistent with the new time we are moving into, a shift in collective consciousness is taking place among large numbers of people all over the world. To accommodate this shift, this new awareness that is slowly emerging, new ways of thinking, new institutions and structures are badly needed, including crucially a radically overhauled socio-economic system. A flexible evolving model anchored in certain Principles of Goodness: Unity, sharing and justice.

This common-sense trinity is interdependent and encourages values of cooperation and understanding, responsibility and tolerance.

• Towards A New World Order? The Global Debt Crisis and the Privatization of the State by Prof Michel Chossudovsky from his weblog Global Research.

• LEAKED: Wall Street Told Investors Not To Invest In Cures! featuring Lee Camp (via YouTube) of the Redacted Tonight show. Camp illustrates the logic of capitalism regarding your health. 

• As Death Toll Increases Blame China Campaign Intensifies by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama (Germany). (Note: He provides much evidence that our ruling class are using this pandemic to prepare us for war with China.) 

Posts that I especially recommend today and some commentaries: Thursday, April 30, 2020

• Public Health and Private Profits Under COVID-19 Pandemic by Yves Smith from Naked Capitalism. 

• Dr. Ioannidis on Results of Coronacirus Studies from Journey Pictures via YouTube. (Note: Stanford University professor Dr. John Ioannidis reports on data from various parts of the world and their implications for coping with such a virulent virus as Covid-19.)

My comments: According to early data from this higlyly qualified source and other competent sources, Covid-19 is not more fatal than influenza. You should behave rationally to protect yourself from suffering from this virus. However, if you believe what media corporations, which have a record of spreading lies, are telling you that you should fear for your lives, then I have several fine bridges to sell you.

I am 84 years old with chronic bronchitis, and I see myself as extremely vulnerable to this virus. Thus, I am observing carefully all social distance advisories as should all people in my condition. (Edited comment for clarity of my views based on date between 4:30 PM and 6:45 PM CT.)

• Latest Stimulus Screwing Of America Explained w/Dylan Ratigan from The Jimmy Dore Show (via YouTube).

• Douglas Valentine Interview - How The COVID-19 Police State Was Born In Vietnam conducted by Whitney Webb in a 1:20:25 interview posted on The Last American Vagabond. (Note: I have only had the time to listen to some of this one hour plus interview. I will listen to it in full later.)

Next day commentary: I don't see that Valentine's thesis that the ruling class used the Phoenix Program, which they used in Vietnam, has been used to suppress dissent in the USA. Our masters have used a variety of sources to increase their control of society, but they have done this while perserving the ideology of a "democratic" society that has a number of civil liberties. The use of propaganda through the infiltration of media corporations was primarily applied in the USA and to lessor extent to the European countries of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Vietnam's society was not the same as US's society. Thus, they have used a variety of means, including their experience in Vietnam, to exercise more control over dissidents in the USA. The only transfer of the Phoenix Program was the use of computers to identify dissidents, but that was perfectly logical to use updated technology to track dissidents. His observations did describe the growing militarization of US society to control dissent that have occurred over many recent decades, but again that was only logical and the roots go back to all fascist regimes. All of these methods were designed to control populations under their control to counter any threats to their capitalist system.

• Fighting the Invisible Enemy: Imperial Fascism, Not Covid-19 by Lauren Smith from Internationalist 360°. (This is a call to action.)

• Backing the Wrong Horseman by Craig Murray (Scotland) from his weblog. (Note: You will need to know about the "Four Horsemen".)

• The Gates Foundation and the War on Cash by Colin Todhunter from Off-Guardian.

• Welcome to the era of the Great Disillusionment by Jonathan Cook from his weblog. (Note: I hope that this is the "era of the Great Disillusionment", but I have doubts. We have been lied to for many decades since WWII. Media corporations lied before this, but their lying was not as systemized and consciously controlled as it is today.)

• Fed’s Powell Tells Reporters Fed Has Only “Lending Powers” – So How Does It Own $5.5 Trillion of Securities? by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s Anti-China Campaign Strategy is Part of a Broader Imperialist War Against China by Danny Haiphong from Black Agenda Report.

• The Victory America Won for Fascism and Nazism After WWII by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

My commentary: I've spent entirely too much time on this article, and I advise you to avoid it in the interests of efficiency of your time to understand current monumental issues that confront humans. Zuesse's tremendous efforts in this article is to establish, once and for all, his social-democratic understanding of these these current issues. His views are a product of a post-war education in which social-democractic views were still fashionable on college campuses and those espousing them were amply rewarded. To hold his social-democratic views is to ignore the innumerable historical events of capitalist exploitation of workers that preceded WWII. Some of these events I have written about in my "best posts" category.

I only draw attention to this article because this perspective still exists among American intellectuals, and its influence is pernicious to say the least. To restore capitalism as it was before WWII is impossible, but that is what many American bloggers like Paul Craig Roberts, old-fashion conservatives like Pat Buchanan, and historians like Eric Zuesse want to do. If, on the other hand, you see capitalism as a system that evolves or develops over time into complete capitalist class rule (fascism), you will see social-democracy as a dead end, and work for system change.

• Turkey courts Washington as disillusionment with Russia grows by Ragip Soylu from Middle East Eye.

“Recent developments in our region, particularly in Syria and Libya, have once again demonstrated the importance of upholding the Turkish-US alliance and cooperation at full strength,” Erdogan wrote.

One Turkish official, speaking anonymously, told Middle East Eye that Ankara’s calculation has been changing since its military clashed with the Syrian government in the country's Iblib province, where nearly 60 Turkish soldiers had been killed in February.

My question: Could the unpredictiable Erdogan simply be playing USA and Russia off against each other (def.) similar to the prime ministers of India?