Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, April 5, 2021

• Real COVID death rate 0.15% from Left Lockdown Sceptics: Socialist anti-lockdown news and analysis. My reaction: This figure was furnished by a research study conducted by Stanford epidemiologist John P.A. Ioannidis, and was peer-reviewed. But the ruling class has its approved "experts", and Ioannidis is not on the list. Therefore, it will be totally ignored by the ruling class's major media corporations. Instead, we will get uninterrupted fear campaigns with their insistence that we should wear masks, experience soul-crushing lockdowns, and take our "medicine" in the form of untested, experimental vaccinations. 

• Fighting lockdown in California: A US teacher speaks from Sceptics.  "Left Lockdown Sceptics interviews Andy Libson, an American anti-lockdown high school teacher and revolutionary socialist"

• Scenes From 2030 by TE Creus from Off-Guardian.

• Complicity/Collusion by Korvus Korax from Off-Guardian
  

• Global Casinos: Financial Markets are a Fraudsters Paradise by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room.
  

• Tax havens and Capital Flight by Rod Driver from Elephants in the Room. 

• We’re on Our Own: Texas in the Aftermath by Holly Lewis and Snehal Shingavi from Spectre.  

• A Damned Murder Inc: Kennedy’s Battle Against the Leviathan [Part 3 of 3] by Cynthia Chung from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: I missed posting Part 2, but the link is in this article.) My commentary follows:

You cannot understand the present unless you were furnished with accurate information about the past (history). Unfortunately for you, you have been given a history written by the secret services of the USA, mainly by the CIA. However, Cynthia Chung, who has done enormous research, has liberated true history from the fake that you have been fed by institutions that are all under the control of the capitalist ruling class.

• How Russia 'Weaponized' 111 Times by Bernhard, an independent German blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
  

• New Yorker Uses Cartoons to Boost “Uyghur Genocide” Myth by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. My reaction: The busy, trying-to-survive ordinary Americans usually swallow US imperialist propaganda, but Berletic makes a herculean effort trying to expose it for what it is--lies.
  

• 💥A Quintessential Eastern Marxist State: A Review of A.B. Abrams’ Immovable Object: North Korea’s 70 Years at War with American Power by Stephen Gowans from his weblog What's Left. A best post.

• 💥Humans, Nature and the Illusion of Separateness by Kenn Orphan from CounterPunch. Orphan writes about the key cause of this huge calamity:

... capitalism cannot do anything but accumulate more and more capital. And capital is virtually everything that exists, from the raw minerals and petrol deep in the earth’s crust, to the fish in the sea and trees in the boreal range, to governments and politicians, to our own personal information and preferences. It has created a global arrangement of power that must use obfuscation and violence, or its threat, as a way of keeping the engine running. 

 

Orphan forgot to include racism in the weapons that the tiny class of capitalists has used against the survival of humans. Racism has been used to divide humans so that capitalists can continue plundering and destabilizing the Earth's miracle ecosystem that supports all life.

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, March 23, 2021

(Sorry for the late posting for Tuesday--I have been preoccupied by personal matters--I thought I had already uploaded it.)

• Scientists Explain The Catastrophic Impact of Covid Forced Societal Lockdowns by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution. 

• Anti-lockdown protests sweep across Europe as infection numbers surge from RT (4:32m).
  

• Humanity will not be saved by vaccines by Stelios Elliniadis from Defend Democracy Press.

• The New Normal “Reality” Police by master satirist CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factor, Inc.

• A History of Warring on the Homefront by Mickey Huff from Dissident Voice (originally from Project Censored). (Note: I am posting this article/video from Dissident Voice because the latter have conveniently included the film of which this review on the film is based. Also, this is essential reading/viewing for all those fellow Americans who missed the actual history of American working people and were brainwashed by their history classes in the USA.)

• On One Day Last Year, the Fed Had $495.7 Billion in Loans Outstanding to Unnamed Wall Street Trading Houses by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• The Brand-Spanking-New Space Race from South Front.

• Flashmobs for Freedom featuring James Corbett in a 27:40m video from The Corbett Report 
  

• Syria - The War Is Resuming On Several Fronts by Bernhard, a German independent blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• OPCW Whistle Blowers Debunk Cover-Up & U.S. Propaganda featuring Jimmy Dore interviewing Aaron Maté of The Grayzone what has learned about the disinformation and censorship involved in the ruling class's reporting  of "chemical attacks" in Syria directed by the Assad government from Dore's Rokfin channel (26:22m).  
  

• Make Way for Kamala Harris, the Deep State’s Dream President by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• A Green-Washed Global Economy – A Delusion That May Crash It by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Thoughts On The Iraq Invasion by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian independent blogger, from her weblog. My reaction: She knows far more than Alfred McCoy, a prominent American historian, does about the mindset of the current American ruling class. Now that the core of the ruling class, combining the resources and wealth of the USA, the British Empire, and international Zionist Jewry, is back under Joe Biden, they intend to resurrect their longstanding project to rule the world (commentary).

• Code Pink & Why Peace Can Never Break Out (w/ Medea Benjamin) featuring Lee Camp of Redacted Tonight interviewing Benjamin, a longtime anti-war activist, via RT's channel of YouTube (33:59m).
  

• Capitalizing on conflict: How defense contractors and foreign nations lobby for arms sales by Dan Auble from Open Secrets.
  

• Project Veritas Obtains Never-Before-Seen Images Inside Texas Detention Facility … Illegal Immigrants are Cornered in Tight Spaces and Wrapped in Space Blankets on the Floor from Project Veritas.

• “Bad Reception” Film (2003) about the Wireless Revolution and Opposition to Cell Towers in San Francisco (Free Online) by B. N. Frank from Activist Post.
  

• Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialisation of India by Colin Todhunter, a Brit who has lived for a long time in India, from CounterPunch. My reaction: This is a manifestation of neoliberalism as illustrated in India, not "colonial deindustrialization".

• The American Terror State by Donald Monaco from Global Research.
  

• Dispatches from the Congo: The Truth Behind US Claims of ISIS Presence posted on Internationalist 360° featuring Kambale Musavuli from the Centre of Research on the Congo explaining, in a 21:09m video, how US-backed forces are engaging in massacres on behalf of corrupt political leaders while also covering this in media reports as "fighting terrorism" and protecting "human rights" of local populations. My reaction: Surprise, surprise! (a cynical remark).

• John Magufuli: Death of an African Freedom Fighter by Celia Farber from The Solari Report.
  

• Unnamed Western Officials Spread Dubious Claims About Iran by Dave DeCamp from AntiWar.
  

• That Time A Leaked Memo Proved The US Weaponizes ‘Human Rights’ Against Nations Like China by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• What Will Go Extinct featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson in his channel on YouTube (7:10m).
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, February 11, 2021

• Further Proof that U.S. & UK are One Empire, Not Two by Eric Zuesse from The Duran. Finally, he gets around to noticing after its origins in 1946.

• New NORAD Warfare Strategies and Canada’s Role in the Great Game Revisited by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Although I don't agree with his main thesis that the British ruling class has taken the initiative and was the main actor behind the construction of what became the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire (it was a transnational capitalist project), this paragraph got my attention:
  

Anyone who has read Cynthia Chung’s Dr. Strangelove’s Spoonbenders will quickly realize why using AI to pick up algorithms that would normally be missed by human analysts, and generate hair-trigger decisions to counter threats from Eurasia creates a mountain of trouble for humanity, as glitches and mis-readings of Russian/Chinese intentions can easily escalate unstoppably into a nuclear retaliation by deductive/inductive machine thinking.

• Why is America getting a new $100 billion nuclear weapon? by Elisabeth Eaves from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
  

• Empire Files: Afghanistan Mercenary Shocker + US Says Nuclear War “Very Real Possibility” featuring Abby Martin reporting via a 5:44m video on two topics from Media Roots.
  

• The Big Tech Exodus Has Begun — Join Us! (Updated) from Activist Post.
  

• New US Military Base in Northeast Syria Latest of Biden’s Warlike Moves by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

•  Interview 1618 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato featuring James Corbett and Pilato reporting and sarcastically commenting on the news. Posted on The Corbett Report in a 22:08m video with links to relevant documents. The topics they discuss: The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election [from Time Magazine]; Germany Hired Koch Institute And Other Scientists To Justify Unconstitutional Lockdowns; and Nevada Bill Would Allow Tech Companies to Create Governments.
  

• Lithium, Batteries and Climate Change by Jonathan Neale from Climate & Capitalism.
  

• U.S. State Department Admits Signs Point To C0VlD Created in Wuhan Lab featuring Ben Swann examining the latest evidence from the Wuhan lab. Posted on ISE.

• Coronavirus Scandal Breaking in Merkel’s Germany. False Positives and the Drosten PCR Test by F. William Engdahl from Global Research.

• ‘Unseen Enemy’: Coronavirus as an archetype of perception. By Ludovic Noble from Off-Guardian (based in Britain).
  

• The Fire Next Time by Rebecca Gordon from Tom Dispatch. (Note: You will need to scroll down to the article following Tom Engelhardt's introduction. I am posting this article only to criticize its weaknesses.) My commentary follows:

Although well-meaning, this is a post that exemplifies the blindness that has infected American "progressives" and (political) liberals (in the contemporary sense--def#5) since WWII. The tremendous war effort and reactionary historians succeeded to erase the memory of radicalism that appeared in the 1930s. Gordon also exemplifies a person who has been thoroughly brainwashed by the secret cabal that has taken over not only American education but every other institution in the USA. This aggressive capitalist ruling class now rules over an Empire built on the ashes of the war when the US first reigned supreme in its military and economy.

She is the perfect product of an "education" that forgot the rising tide of the appeal that truly radical parties had on ordinary Americans. Gone is the memory of general strikes that hit San Francisco, Minneapolis, and many other cities. Gone are the memories of this radical appeal when Soviet citizens enjoyed rising standards of living and no unemployment. Gone, too, is the memory of FDR's reply to the charge that he was promoting socialism. Gone are Upton Sinclair's and John Steinbeck's descriptions of life during the Great Depression. Gone are the reports of US capitalists' approval of fascist developments in Germany and Italy. So much has been erased from history that is taught in American schools; and what was not erased, has been revised by historians that serve the ruling class.

Gordon (and by inference, Tom Dispatch and CounterPunch who re-posted this article) supports the "correct political line" of the day by condemning Trump's faction of the capitalist ruling class, but not capitalism which has led the nation and world towards either, in the short-run, nuclear war, or, in the long-run, climate destabilization and extinction of nearly all life on our Earth. 

But, no worries, because our masters have a plan to avert climate destabilization. It's called the Great Reset. But carefully disguised in the plan is population reduction, and that reduction is ridding our working class of low-level workers, including small businessmen, who do not contribute to the wealth accumulation of today's corporations and many of their billionaire owners.

• Arranging The Middle East Narrative To Push The Agenda Forward from South Front.
  

• The Fight for Belarus: An Interview with Nadezhda Sablina by Kayla Pop from Internationalist 360°.

• Extinction Foretold, Extinction Ignored featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson (via YouTube) summarizing the document he wrote by the same title.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020

• Is There A Flu Shot / COVID Link? – Questions For Corbett featuring Canadian James Corbett (who lives in Japan) from his website. (Note: This post was inspired by a personal experience that I had last November. I received the flu shot in early November and I came down with the flu a day or two later. This was a shocking experience for me because it was unprecedented of getting flu shots in the last 30 years. If I came done with flu, it was always in the spring of the following year. I am otherwise a very healthy 84 year old (83 last year), and haven't come down with covid-19, but I've wondered about this strange happening ever since. This post offers some correlations and research studies that suggests there may be a link between getting flu shots and covid-19 illness.)   

• Scotland Changes Definition of COVID Hospitalization. Number Drops From 262 to 46 from Anti-Empire.

• Prime Minister & CMO of Canada Sued For Extreme & Unnecessary COVID-19 Measures by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• Washington Post Is Right That 5G Is a Lie, But Wrong About the Reason by Dafna Tachover from Children's Health Defense.
  

• A “Persistent Eye in the Sky” Coming to a City Near You? by Medea Benjamin and Barry Summers from Dissident Voice.

• Federal Judge Rules Pennsylvania Lockdown “Unconstitutional” by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

• Virtual School Dangers: The Hazards of a Police State Education During COVID-19 by John W. Whitehead from his weblog.
  

• Why Are Governments Trying to Fast-Track Unlicensed, Experimental COVID Vaccines? from 21st Century Wire (based in Britain). (Note: A second video emphasizes the major influence of Bill Gates on British policies.) 

• How Xinjiang “Interferes” with the EU-China Deal by Pepe Escobar via Global Research.
  

• Fake News About Iran, Russia, China Is U.S. Journalism's Daily Bread by Bernhard (German) from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• Temperatures threaten to become unbearable from Arctic News.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020

• NYT Piece Finds PCR Test Not Fit for Purpose – Stunning Admission [VIDEO] by the editors of Europe Reloaded.

• “STOP the Manipulation, Masks, Lies, Fear…”- international collective of healthcare professionals via Europe Reloaded. Original source for our French readers is here.

• Give all our youngsters a chance to study again, writes Professor CARL HENEGHAN from the Daily Mail (a British newspaper).

• All 77 NFL Players Who Tested Positive For COVID-19 Were False Positives – They Didn’t Really Have It by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.
  

• “Corona World” Video Game Lets You Kill the Covidiots! – #PropagandaWatch by James Corbett from his website.

• RFK, Jr. and CHD Take Action on Safety Concerns over Moderna’s COVID Vaccine by the Children’s Health Defense Team from their website. 

• Riots for Neo-Liberalism: ANTIFA & BLM Are the Global Elites’ Useful Thugs by Daniele Pozzati from Strategic Culture Foundation. My commentary follows:

Previously I have tended to avoid arguments regarding the riots going on currently in major cities of the USA. They have been increasingly characterized by two opposing groups--antifascists and fascists. I have done this because of the following reasons: I didn't know enough about the participants and I didn't want to alienate participants on the antifascist side that were involved with sincere beliefs in their organizations. 

Much of today's neofascism is manipulated by well-trained agents of the ruling capitalist class who have infiltrated all activist groups in order to control and manipulate them. To be sure, there are a number of people who sincerely believe that they are fighting racism or fascism, but are being increasingly manipulated by these subversive agents. You see, the directors of the ruling class have learned that they can control all antagonistic movements in order to manipulate them for their own ends. This analysis applies to all activist groups: BLM, Antifa, and hardcore fascists.  

The directors of the ruling class have long honed the weapon of organized chaos into a strategy to dominate whole societies. They have done this for many decades notably in places like El Salvador, Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine. The ruling class likes to experiment abroad with strategies of oppression and control, and those deemed effective are applied in the home countries of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.  

This, I believe, is going on now to a significant extent. Such subversive agents have found in the past that if they can control these groups, they can create chaos in societies with the result that ordinary people look to Empire sponsored groups that promise order to get rid of the chaos. If successful, ordinary people will support those with the necessary force and phony promises to restore order: armed forces sponsored by the Empire attacking established police forces, or the police and military organizations that the Empire already controls. 

It is necessary to find antidotes to this chaos strategy, infiltration, and surveillance in order to build effective revolutionary organizations. I don't have a recipe for this, but I'm sure that activists can create their own given enough time--but time is in short supply. All I recommend is that any effective strategy must include real democratic principles and practices whether in activist organizations or in nations like Belarus. With the latter accomplished--and it is a major feat--an effective activist group must continue to devise methods to thwart surveillance. All of these tasks would have been much easier decades ago; but now, although much more difficult, it is imperative and in a short time. Perhaps the latest stunt, the covid-19 pandemic, promulgated by the ruling class has awaken activists sufficiently that they can accomplish these tasks in the time remaining for homo sapiens on planet Earth.

• The Rise of Authoritarianism: From Parasite Stress Theory to Lockstep by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.
  

• Meet the “Violet” Successors to the White Helmets’ Syria Propaganda Throne by Vanessa Beeley (British) from "Unlimited Hangout". 
  

• Morning Headlines: September 1, 2020 with scientist Guy McPherson (via YouTube) of Nature Bats Last. (Note: He comments about the glowing news from Wall Street contrasted with reality.)

• Jimmy speaks at the People's Party Convention 2020! featuring Jimmy Dore addressing (via YouTube) a People's Convention.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020

• How the Billionaires Control American Elections by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: This is a summary of  Glenn Greenwald's article on July 9 entitled "How the House Armed Services Committee, in the Middle of a Pandemic, Approved a Huge Military Budget and More War in Afghanistan" (and uploaded on YouTube which carried Zuesse's title). However, if you are one of those American who are described by Zuesse as Americans who "just vote and pay taxes", dumbed-down by Empire propaganda, and distracted with entertainment by well-paid careerists appointed by agents of the ruling class ("billionaires"), you should probably pay attention to the Intercept's article and listen to Greenwald's full address. Most Americans, after 75 years of brainwashing have no idea about real world politics and its real history. But, this is not the fault of ordinary Americans. This was intentionally done by the capitalist ruling class that was bent on establishing an American Empire much like the Nazis in Germany had tried to do, and Great Britain succeeded in doing for hundreds of years.)
  

• Let’s Defund the Pentagon, Too by John Horgan from Scientific American. (Another article that may interest you is entitled "A 'Brazen Giveaway' GOP HEALS Act is a $30 Billion Bonanza for the Pentagon" by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News".
  

• Elon Musk and the Overthrow of Democracy in Bolivia by Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano from The Bullet (Canada).
  

• UK’s Stunning Hypocrisy over Hong Kong by Joseph Thomas from New Eastern Outlook.

• School closures do not slow the spread of Covid-19, according to Finnish-Swedish official study from InProportion2 (Britain). (This website, I believe, offers the best consolidated evidence of the many issues and information related to coronavirus.)

• Open Letter: Refuting Politifact’s “fact check” by Torsten Engelbrecht from Off-Guardian.

• TikTok, Epstein, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.
  

• DARPA’s Man in Wuhan by Raul Diego from Unlimited Hanglout. (This is quite a piece of detailed investigative reporting. First of all, one should know about DARPA.)

• Millions face economic and social disaster as Wall Street celebrates by Jerry White from World Socialist Web Site.

• What South Korea’s ballistic missiles say about South Korea, the United States, and the UN Security Council by Stephen Gowans from What's Left.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, July 25, 2020

• Who is the Most Dangerous Fascist? by Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report. My commentary follows:
  

Ford demonstrates his much improved analytical skills with this essay. He, for the first time that I can recall, distinguishes the difference between old-fashioned fascism and the new slicked-up brand of what I prefer to name neo-fascism. The latter has relied on mostly mind control techniques made possible by the advancements of what the ruling class prefers to call "public relations". This they do by controlling the thoughts and information of the "hoi polloi" who they regard as "dumb fucks" and "deplorables". With the indispensable aid of the highly trained upper-middle-class, the ruling class has made their fortunes and power by their co-optation of this class by rewarding them with lucrative careers and insuring their well-being.

As long as the ruling class oppressed other people of the world through endless direct and indirect military operations and directing their police to ruthlessly crushed any opposition coming from black and brown Americans, "good" Americans went along. The ruling class using neofascist techniques: ubiquitous propaganda that we were protecting foreign people from "human rights" violations, that we are a "democracy", White Helmets, etc, the "good" ordinary Americans, distracted by endless entertainment, willingly went along. 

But now when America and its Empire appear to be suffering defeats one after another, the ruling class is frustrated and worried that they are losing control (read about an example of a power/control-freak). Hence they are engaging in a dangerous gamble with this hyped-up corona pandemic to punish ordinary Americans for voting the wrong way in 2016 (and other reasons) while enjoying the current spectacle of Trump's old-fashioned fascism that will likely wreck his chances for a second term. The neofascism of the main ruling class will seem like a blessing compared to Trumps old-fashioned fascism, but appearances are deceiving. Where this will end is anybody's guess, but it looks like there will be two likely scenarios: a global nuclear war or else a slow agonizing cooking of the occupants of our planet Earth. In any case, I think we are entering the final stages of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. One thing is certain: there are many dangerous years ahead with widespread suffering for ordinary people of the world, including many "good" (obedient) Americans.

• Media Continues to Misreport Unemployment: 31.8 Million People on State & Federal Unemployment Insurance. Week 18 of U.S. Labor Market Collapse by Wolf Richter from Wolf Street.
  

• New CDC and WHO Study Proves No Evidence Face Masks Prevent Virus featuring Ben Swann, journalist, who explains again why, in spite of the objections of Facebook "fact-checkers", proves that randomized control research studies prove that there is no evidence in support of wearing a face mask to prevent transmission of coronavirus. Posted on Swann's website Truth in Media.

• If COVID Fatalities Were 90.2% Lower, How Would You Feel About Schools Reopening? by H. Ealy and others from Children's Health Defense.

• And this is all just the beginning from The Crowhouse channel via YouTube. (Note: This video begins at 50 seconds in order to miss the ad.)
  

• Did Sweden Get COVID Right? by Dr. Joseph Mercola from his weblog.
  

• MAJOR: UK Officially Admits Its Test And Trace Program is Unlawful, Breaches Citizens’ Privacy by Drago Bosnic from FRN (based in Serbia).
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, July 22, 2020

• Corruption in The Medical Field: US Doctors Threatened Over Hydroxychlorquine Use. Dr. Fauci is Blocking HCQ by Prof Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research.

• Gates and Gov. Cuomo Take Advantage of COVID-19 and Re-Imagine the NY Education System by Curtis Cost from Children's Health Defense. 

• U.S. Claims Diplomatic Immunity For Covid-19 - Shuts Down Chinese Consulate by Bernhard (German) from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• WOOPSIE! Lockdown May Cost 200,000 Lives, UK Government Report Shows by Sarah Knapton from Anti-Empire. 

• Russian Scientist Says Second COVID Wave Impossible in Moscow, the City Already Well on Its Way to Herd Immunity byJohn Helmer from Anti-Empire.

• COVID-19 Cases At Carswell Spike To More Than 500 As Reality Winner Tests Positive, Faces Retaliation by Kevin Gosztola from ShadowProof. (Note: Although Gosztola mentions the sister of Leigh Winner several times, I could not find Leigh's name mentioned once. Leigh Winner is a whistleblower accused, convicted, and imprisoned by a ruling class court of revealing government classified secrets. She, according to her sister, is not showing symptoms yet, but has been tested positive for COVID-19 and faces further punishment by prison authorities.)

• Catch and Kill: The Protection Racket Used by Trump, Weinstein, Epstein and Wall Street by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. (Note: The Martens disclose the more sophisticated means of censorship used by the ruling capitalist class.)

• The “Russia Report”: Deep State reinforcing delusion to spread fear and seize power by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

... it’s just the latest of the Deep State’s plays to secure as much power as possible as quickly as possible. If anything, it already feels old-fashioned, being authored in a pre-Covid world, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be put to use in service of the world’s “new normal”.

• Washington’s Anti-Chinese “Pan-Asian Alliance” by Tony Cartalucci from New Eastern Outlook.

•  Extreme Heat Is a Climate Story. So Are its Unequal Impacts. From Covering Climate Now.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, December 16, 2019

• Who is responsible for the climate crisis? by Jason Moore from Maize. (Note: one of my "best posts")

• Glacial melt creates Andes time bomb by Kieran Cooke from Climate News Network.

• COP25 video: Messages from climate marchers to politicians by Josh Gabbatiss from Carbon Brief.

•  No Justification For The Existence of Any Kind of Charter School by Shawgi Tell from Dissident Voice.

I especially recommend these posts for today: Friday, October 18, 2019

• State of the climate: Low sea ice and near-record warmth define 2019 to date by Zeke Hausfather from Carbon Brief (based in Britain).

• Now retired, top U.S. environmental scientist feels free to speak her mind by Warren Cornwall from Science.

• UN official’s briefing on torture of Assange boycotted by US media by Oscar Grefell from World Socialist Web Site. (The RT picture referred to in the article is posted here.) 

• Tulsi Nails it on National TV… US Regime-Change Wars by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Capitalism ‘Good’ & ‘Bad’: A Reply to Stiglitz and Macron by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. 

• The IMF in figures: Debtors vs creditors from Reuters via Canada.com.

• The IMF convenes in Washington, deaf to the suffering it causes across the planet by Vijay Prashad from Salon. 

• How Billionaire Charter School Funders Corrupted the School Leadership Pipeline by Jeff Bryant from Common Dreams.

• Propaganda Works Better Than Censorship by Bhaskar Chakravorti from Bloomberg.

Posts I especially recommend for today: Wednesday, October 9, 2019

• Climate Change: A Socialist Solution by John Molyneux from Rebel (Republic of Ireland).

• Tracking foreign interference in Hong Kong by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• The World Can End But Charter Schools Are Here To Stay Forever by Shawgi Tell from Dissident Voice (based in Canada).

Posts that I especially recommend for today: Sunday, October 6, 2019

• ‘How Dare You!’ The Climate Crisis And The Public Demand For Real Action by the editor of Media Lens.

• College Bubble Bursting—Left Hardest Hit. Too Bad. By Lance Welton from VDare.

• Judicial Watch Uncovers Secret Mueller Discussions from Judicial Watch. (I thank an activist for alerting me to this article.)

• The US-Iran silent war is transformed into an “Iraq uprising” by Elijah J. Magnier from his weblog.

Articles I especially recommend for today: Thursday, September 26, 2019 (Added one more article at 3:50 PM CT)

• CNBC Anchor Ron Insana: Building 7 a ‘Controlled Implosion’ by Ted Walter from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

• Student Loan Crisis Fuels Military Recruitment Boom, a video from The Jimmy Dore Show via YouTube.

• Massive US military convoy enters northeastern Syria from Iraq from AMN (Mid-East). 

• The Illusion of Saving the World by Kirkpatrick Sale from CounterPunch.

Articles recommended for Tuesday, August 6, 2019

• US to ring China with missiles in nuclear arms race by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site.

• Charter School Apologia by Shawgi Tell from Dissident Voice.

• More Fake Happy News About Jobs by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog.

• What kind of rebellion will it take to save humanity from extinction? by Pip Hinman from Green Left Weekly (Australia).

• Nuclear power somehow always makes a loss by Paul Brown from Climate News Network.

• Attack on Iran would be an attack on Russia by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• The Military-Industrial Jobs Scam by Nia Harris, Cassandra Stimpson, and Ben Freeman from TomDispatch.

• Europe’s record heat melted Swiss glaciers by Chelsea Harvey from Science.

• Brazilian institute head fired after clashing with nation’s president over deforestation data by Herton Escobar from Science.

Can Twenty-First Century Fascism Resolve the Crisis of Global Capitalism?

Click here to access article by William I. Robinson from Radical Political Economy.

Because I am seeing my energy declining at my age of nearly 83, I debated on whether I should offer a critique of this seriously flawed article. I prefer re-posting articles that really aim at understanding this deteriorating world at the hands of transnational capitalism. 

So, first off, I would answer the question in the headline. No, 21st century capitalism or any capitalism cannot ultimately ever resolve their various crises. Robinson declares that it can: "A fascist outcome to the crisis of global capitalism is not inevitable." Thus, he appears to be a reformist. Secondly, I find his use of "Trumpism" as not valid. "Isms" always imply an ideology. Ascribing Trump's style in the White House does not qualify. 

I also recently read his book Into the Tempest where his outlook on world political and economic affairs was limited to that of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's world. This is not the whole world. There are nations that are contesting the neoliberal and imperialist policies of the Empire and succeeding. Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela come to mind. I think the efforts of those nations could very well impose a major reverse in the actions of the Empire. Europe is showing signs of waffling over their allegiance to the Empire. His book totally ignores this challenge.

I think Robinson is a product of US academia in which he has been exposed to pressures to conform to capitalist views and experienced a lot of censorship in materials he's been exposed to. He in his education was not likely exposed to the writings of Marx, Durkheim, and other radical writers and historians. I know I wasn't. I had to access their views independently by going to the college library, assuming that it is large enough.

Inside the neoliberal laboratory preparing for the theft of Venezuela’s economy

Click here to access article by Canadian Justin Podur from his blog.

This article illustrates the latest use of co-option by the ruling capitalist class to assimilate the well-trained upper-middle class to support the project of advanced capitalist US/Anglo/Zionist Empire--world domination. Because these people have had years of training and survived the filtering out process of institutions of "higher learning", they have been selected from the top universities of the Empire (such as Harvard) to engage their well-honed talents to the Empire's regime-change project in Venezuela. They will be well rewarded by enjoying safe, highly paid careers in academia.

... US foreign policy mobilizes every available resource for regime change and for counterinsurgency. Among those resources, you will always find academics. The pen may not always be mightier than the sword, but behind every US-backed war on a foreign people there will be a body of scholarly work.

The academic laboratory of the Venezuelan coup has the highest academic pedigree of all—it’s housed at Harvard.

Charter School Promoters Terrified of Growing Opposition to Their Full-Frontal Assault on Public Education

Click here to access article by Shawgi Tell from Dissident Voice. 

Charter schools mainly enrich major owners of capital while masquerading as education arrangements that “empower parents,” “increase choice,” “serve the kids,” and “close the achievement gap.” The rich and those who wittingly and unwittingly agree with them believe that the chaos, anarchy, and violence of the so-called “free market” is a modern and socially responsible way to organize mass public education in a society based on mass industrial production.

Because the tide is slowly but surely turning against their wrecking activities, supporters and beneficiaries of charter schools are becoming even more arrogant and belligerent in their efforts to expand charter schools.

The global struggle of teachers

Click here to access article by Jerry White from World Socialist Web Site. 

I frequently read in more independent websites that teachers are involved in labor strikes not only in many locations across the USA but in other lands across the globe. Such coverage is always omitted by our masters in their media corporations just like they refuse to cover the Gilet Juanes' ongoing protests in France for obvious reasons: the careful management of information that we are allowed to receive to protect the power and profit interests of the ruling transnational capitalist class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. White attempts a summary of these strikes and their significance. 

Teachers have won popular support because they are fighting for fundamental rights and because all workers are facing the same conditions—declining incomes and skyrocketing living costs, precarious employment and endless attacks on social rights, including health care and pensions—which were won over generations of struggle.

The developing movement among teachers is an initial expression of a rebellion that will inevitably extend into broader layers of the working class, particularly industrial workers in key sectors such as auto, steel and other areas of manufacturing. It is a movement that will be compelled to address not only the immediate questions of wages and working conditions, but the great issues that face workers in every country—social inequality, the shredding of democratic rights, the growth of authoritarian forms of rule and the mounting danger of catastrophic war.

Recommended articles for Thursday, January 17, 2019

• Israel's Top Commander Finally Spills Secrets Of "Invisible War" In Syria by Tyler Durden from ZeroHedge.

• Pro-Israel groups are trying to split the Women’s March with a Zionist alternative by Amith Gupta from Mondoweiss.

• A graphic depicting the concentration of wealth amidst poor people of the Earth posted on Real-World Economics Review Blog. 

• Bases, Bases, Everywhere... by Nick Turse from TomDispatch. (If you wish to skip Engelhardt's introduction, you should direct your cursor down to the article.)

• Amnesty International’s Troubling Collaboration with UK & US Intelligence by Alexander Rubinstein from Mint Press News.  (This article reports on another illustration of how the Deep State's directors orders their secret services to infiltrate and control every substantial media organization in the USA and in many of the countries under the control of the US-led capitalist Empire.)

• American ‘Liberal’ Delusions on Trump by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. (You should be aware that the US political spectrum has rather dramatically shifted to the right since the false-flag event of 9/11.)

• 3 reasons to pay attention to the LA teacher strike by Erin McHenry-Sorber, Assistant Professor of Higher Education, West Virginia University from The Conversation.