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

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

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

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

 

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

 

Doctors in India are big fans.  

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

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

The debate sure does make a good distraction though. 

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, May 28, 2021

• Good news: Mild COVID-19 induces lasting antibody protection by Tamara Bhandari from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

• Covid-19: Who fact checks health and science on Facebook? by Laurie Clarke from the BMJ (British Medical Journal).
  

• So the Ruling Class Was WRONG WRONG WRONG About Covid-19. What Else Are They Wrong About? by Lance Welton (a pseudonym) from The Unz Review. 

• Alarming Casualty Rates for mRNA Vaccines Warrant Urgent Action F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: I thank an activist for sending me this post.)

• 9 New ‘Vaccine Billionaires’ Amass Combined Net Worth of $19.3 Billion During Pandemic by Children's Health Defense Team from their website/weblog.
  

• Will the Pandemic Promote Political Power in Perpetuity? by James Bovard from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• 💥Whitney Webb Interview – Cyber Hacks, White Powders Scares & Vaccine Tracking, It’s All Come To Pass from The Last American Vagabond (1:47:47hr). This is a best post. (Note: I hesitated to post this because of its length, but I thought it important because Webb brings us up-to-date on her personal circumstances, and other observations on important topics based on her extensive research efforts. This interview begins at 0:22m.) My reaction: She does not let Ryan Cristián dominate the interview. This post is especially for independent thinkers who are not programmed what and how to think about various important issues.
  

• The Smarmy Sacrilege of Corporate Divinity Consultants by Adam Vander Tuig from Current Affairs.
  

• Washington is playing a losing game with China by Chas W Freeman Jr, of Brown University from East Asia Forum.

• 💥“Xinjiang in My Eyes”: Debunking the Lies and Anti-China Propaganda Focusing on China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region by Peter Koenig from Global Research. This is a best post.
  

• Sombre truths behind bright green lies by Paul Cudenec from Winter Oak (Acorn), a British website. (Note: This post is essentially a book review in which the author clearly likes the book. In his review Cudenec spots three truths. "But wait, there's more." He argues that there are two more additional truths for a total of five.) My reaction: I have followed articles by top scientists since the 1970s, and, in contrast to this author, I have arrived at the conclusion that it is far too late for the human species and most other species to survive the ravages of capitalism on our very unique planet. But what do I know? I agree with, and follow, retired professor Guy McPherson who as a devoted climate scientist has specialized many years in the independent study of the subject, and has reached similar conclusions which convinced me that my gut-felling was right. That is why a few years ago I changed the title of my weblog/website to "Surviving Capitalism" by adding the word "(not)" to the title. But, in the meantime, I have not abandoned my promotion of real socialism (the economy owned and controlled by all of the people) and my hatred of capitalism. I see this intellectual position, if somehow accomplished, as redemption for the centuries that humans have allowed capitalists to rule.

• Squad Finally Strategized Votes -- To Fund The Police!?!? featuring Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show) using his YouTube channel (16:34m) with Ron Placone to satirize The Squad and their vote to furnish more funds to the police.
  

• Australia Is A Giant US Military Base With Kangaroos by Australian Caitlin Johnstone, with her American husband furnishing an audio narrative, from her weblog. 

• Eisenhower rejected military chiefs’ demand for nuclear war on China, classified account of ’58 Taiwan Strait crisis reveals by Gareth Porter from The Grayzone.

• House Hearing: Only Jamie Dimon’s Microphone Mysteriously Malfunctions During Pivotal Questioning by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• What Will Israel Do to Counter Hezbollah’s Missiles? by Elijah J. Magnier from Internationalist 360°. (Note: Magnier's weblog is behind a paywall.) My reaction: One cannot expect first-rate journalists and political analysts to work for nothing. Unfortunately, many of us have next-to-nothing.

• Syria, Israel, the Resistance bloc and Syrian elections – Vanessa Beeley on Syria Insider. From Beeley's website via YouTube (11:55m). (Note: Syria Insider Weekly is obviously a Syrian radio/TV station and Beeley is a British journalist currently living in Syria.)

• The Company They Keep by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• New climate predictions increase likelihood of temporarily reaching 1.5 °C in next 5 years from the World Meteorological Association.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, May 18, 2021

• Eric Clapton’s Anti-Vaccine Diatribe Blames ‘Propaganda’ for ‘Disastrous’ Experience by Daniel Kreps from Rolling Stone.

• How the CDC is manipulating data to prop-up “vaccine effectiveness” by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

• How Bill Gates & Big Pharma used children as “guinea pigs”…and got away with it. By Bernard Marx from Off-Guardian.
  

• Russell Brand: Is There a ‘Deliberate Attempt’ to Hide Origins of COVID? featuring a 17:32m video of British Russell Brand from Children's Health Defense asking all kinds of questions to unravel the mysteries of the origins of Covid-19 illness that has been used to rationalize a worldwide pandemic and health restrictions on our civil liberties of lock-downs, mask-wearing, and social distancing, all of which bankrupted an unknown number of small businesses and enriched billionaires. My brief commentary follows: 

I have been through all this before with the assassinations of the Kennedys, Malcolm X, Martin L. King, 9/11, the invasion of Iraq, etc. All the dissenting reports were heavily censored combined with media corporations promoting the official views. I have long concluded that these crimes were committed by a fascist clique in the US ruling capitalist class devoted to building a powerful, world-dominating, capitalist empire combining the military might of the USA with what was left of the British Empire following WWII. Israel, and Zionist financial power, was added later.

• 💥Propaganda and the Media – Deception on a Grand Scale – Part 2 by Larry Romanoff from "The Saker Blog". This is a best post. (Note: Romanoff analyses Empire propaganda for what it is: another weapon in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's quest to dominate the world. First, he devotes considerable space to treat how the propaganda machine works against China, next in Mexico, and finally in the implied Empire's capture of the WHO and their sterilization efforts of the developing countries.) 

It is important to keep in mind that ‘the media’ is not some amorphous, inanimate object but a group of real people with names, who plan, script and conduct these propaganda campaigns. I have had encounters with some of these ‘reporters’ and ‘columnists’. Many of them qualify as gangsters, acting as front men for a criminal enterprise, using their public power to shield and defend those who should be imprisoned and trashing anyone who stands in their way.

In contrast to hearing much media noise on a topic, we sometimes have only a deafening silence which is equally a guarantee of propaganda, this time in the form of censorship. When the entire Western media unanimously have no comment on an important current topic, we can be certain that much has happened behind the scenes to ensure this result.

• Newsweek blows lid off American 60,000-person strong “secret army” by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst, from BRICS.
  

• Sober-Minded Socialism by Devin Thomas O'Shea from Current Affairs. My reaction: Although I seem to be immune from any kind of addiction and I despise the established religions, I think that Alcoholics Anonymous is onto something.

• Non-compliance at Travel Checkpoints featuring Dan Dicks in 13:21m interview from Corbett's website regarding an onerous encounter with the RCMP, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, while traveling in British Columbia. My reaction: I think we all must disturb and resist in any way we can. Mario Savio (of UC Berkeley) words expressed in 1964 seem relevant here:
  

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

• 'No Dogs, No Irish, No Blacks' by Dustin Broadbery from The Cogent.

• Biden Continues To Support Israel's Warcrimes by Bernhard, an independent German blogger from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
  

• Netanyahu Warns Biden Not to Get Involved by Philip Giraldi from The Unz Review. 

• Israel’s Crimes and the Extermination of the Palestinian People by Stella Calloni from Internationalist 360°.

• Gaza Fights for Freedom, a film directed by Abby Martin regarding Israeli attacks on Gaza from Vimeo.

• Killing Gaza: Dan Cohen & Max Blumenthal’s documentary shows life under Israel’s bombs and siege from The Grayzone. (Note: This describes and furnishes a 1:36:49 hr. documentary.)

• Leak Exposes Fissures in Iranian Establishment and Power Shift to Hard-Liners by Gareth Porter from Consortium News.
  

• The Climate Crisis Is Nothing To Worry About! featuring Lee Camp satirizing the mainstream treatment of the climate crisis from his YouTube channel (2:18m).

• Extinction by 2027 by Malcolm Light from Arctic News.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, February 22, 2021

• 💥Government Docs From 2002 Reveal 20 Year Plan To ‘Alter Evolution’ With Nanotechnology, a one hour excerpt from Ryan Cristián's usual several hours talk video-talk show posted on The Last American Vagabond. This is clearly a best post. (Note: I encountered several technical problems while accessing this audio-video program. Cristián has helpfully posted this essential and very interesting post on various websites. He quotes from various government documents (which he cites) starting from more than 20 years ago that clearly is alarming about research combining the fields of biotechnology, information technology, and nanotechnology to modify human behavior and engineer bioweapons which serve various interests of the ruling capitalist class. The resemblance of the recent Klaus Schwab's Reset speech and this research is uncanny, to say the least. This ongoing research is accompanied by government drives in support of censorship.)
  

• The ‘Transition’ of the Élites by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: In this essay Crooke, a British ex-MI6 agent, diplomat, now geopolitical analyst, sees the core of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, the USA, as being fragmented by generations and factions. Perhaps the imperialist USA is in a dying phase in which fragmentation is the last phase. It is to be hoped because I have never before experienced such a deep feeling of living in an insane nation.

• The Arab Spring – A Personal Story by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: You will need to know the meaning of the British phrase "came a cropper".) My reaction: Suddenly news about the ongoing riots and protests in Bahrain dropped out of sight. This story fills in the gap of missing information about the attempted, and very genuine, revolution in Bahrain beginning in 2010. It also confirms my theory that all mainstream media concentrate their reporting on events that are crucial to their masters in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. This experience together with the MSM's extensive coverage of Arab Spring events in Egypt helped me to see that the 24/7 TV coverage by MSM about the exaggerated "corona pandemic" is largely serving the Empire's policy interests.

• RED ALERT: Food Supply Chain Shutting Down as Blackouts Spread – Grand Solar Minimum by Christian of the Ice Age Farmer. My reaction: This applies to my theory in the above post: why so scant coverage of this event in MSM? (I haven't seen much coverage, but I don't watch MSM often.) Could it be that they don't want to alarm people, or provoke perceived adversarial nations? One can only speculate.

• How Individuals Become Excessively Wealthy by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room on Medium. 

• Why it is important to keep talking about Syria featuring explanations given by Vanessa Beeley on the 7 minute video excerpt from Beeley's weblog The Wall Will Fall.
  

• The external debt of Developing Countries: a Timebomb (Part 2) by Eric Toussaint and Milan Rivié from CADTM.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, October 15, 2020

• While We Were Distracted: The World “Roll Up Your Sleeve” Congress by Mary Christine from The Burning Platform.

• White House Task Force, Dr. Scott Atlas: 5 Simple Facts About COVID-19 from CNSNews.
  

• The Fact-Free COVID Dystopia featuring Tom Woods, a senior fellow of the Mises Institute, lampooning the government's and the WHO's handling of the coronavirus illness. (Note: The Mises Institute is a capitalist think tank that takes a very narrow view of capitalism.)

• The Great Reset | The global elite's plan for the planet from a 3:38m video on RT's channel via YouTube. (My reaction: I think it would be more accurate to write the "Empire's plan".)
  

• The 2020 Election Bamboozle: We Are All Victims of the Deep State’s Con Game by John Whitehead from his weblog The Rutherford Institute.

• Britain’s secret state and the need for whistle-blowing by Katharine Gun from Declassified UK (obviously a British website).
  

• WATCH: The Parallels Between 9/11 and Covid19 featuring Dave Ryan commenting on the close resemblance the current "pandemic" has with the events following 9/11. Posted on Off-Guardian. (This is a best post.)

Kevin Ryan‘s video presentation for the 9/11 Truth Film Festival, held in September to mark the 19th anniversary, discusses the many parallels between the Covid19 narrative, and roll out of the “official conspiracy theory” in the wake of 9/11. 

• A Game of Nuclear Chicken with Russia and China by Michael Klare from TomDispatch. 

• The Fed Wants the Public to Know It Can Withhold Information Under an Executive Order and Defy Subpoenas from Courts and Congress by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. (My reaction: Obviously I don't agree with the first sentence, and I think the Federal Reserve is where the Deep State, a kind of board of directors of the US (if not the Empire), is largely centered.)
  

• The Show Trial of Julian Assange Is an Attack on the Right to Dissent by Megan Sherman from Global Research.

• BBC To Launch Character Assassination Program On Journalists Who Investigated White Helmets’ Links To Al-Qaeda In Syria by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
  

• Open Letter to All Governments, International Institutions and Lenders. By John Whitehead from Global Week of Action for Debt Cancellation -- taking place on October 10 to 17 [2020]. (My reaction: Whitehead is no anti-capitalist, but like many pundits he favors a return to a period before the transnational capitalists ("neoliberals") took over. He is mistaken. Capitalism always tends toward the concentration of wealth and power.)

• Lighting up the Elite’s Solutions will Still Smell of Sulphur by Paul Haeder from Dissident Voice. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, July 21, 2020

• Coronavirus and the End of Authority by Christopher Roach from American Greatness. (My reaction: Americans have been lied to so many times (even much more often than they realize) that they are having a growing problem, especially among young people, with trusting authorities. The author misses the mark when he designates a managerial class that is responsible. The latter is merely the highly educated trained and indoctrinated upper-middle-class people who are devoted entirely to their well-paid careers and who dutifully serve the ruling class as long as they are getting paid.)

• Toronto Children’s Hospital Recommends Back to School without Masks or Social Distancing. Detailed Report by John C. A. Manley from Global Research. (Note: Here are school policies based on science.)

• WATCH: Your Body, Their Choice from Off-Guardian. 

• This Is a Financial Extinction Event by Charles Hugh Smith from his weblog Of Two Minds.

• America’s hidden economic crisis: Widespread wage cuts by Megan Cassella from Politico.  (Note: Also Lee Camp points to this.) 

• The Only Obstacle To A Healthy World Is Government Secrecy And Propaganda by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Hezbollah, The Source of All Troubles in Lebanon and the Middle East by Elijah J. Magnier from his weblog behind a paywall and re-posted on American Herald Tribune. 

• Global Warming and Ocean Acidification Accelerate by Manuel Garcia, Jr. from CounterPunch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, March 12, 2020

• The other global emergency: Coronavirus in the time of climate change from Covering Climate Now.

• White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations - sources by Aram Roston and Marisa Taylor from Reuters.

• How black swans are shaping planet panic by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• In a Europe Closed Down by the Coronavirus the EU Opens its Doors to the US Army. Could the Defender become the Invader of Europe? by Manlio Dinucci from Global Research.

• Fake News Starts in Washington: Perception Management and Influence Operations Manipulate Public Opinion by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Coronavirus Fearmongering Demonstrates U.S. Imperialism is a Drag on Humanity by Danny Haiphong from Internationalist 360°.

• Russia Rejects Turkey’s Proposal to Jointly Steal Syria’s Oil, Erdogan Threatens Turning to US Instead by Drago Bosnic from FRN (Fort Russ News).

• Chelsea Manning attempted suicide while in jail for refusing to testify against WikiLeaks – lawyers from RT-USA. 

• Saudi Women’s Rights Activists Pull Back Curtain on Crown Prince by Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold from Consortium News.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, February 13, 2020

• The Role of a Teacher by Guy McPherson from his weblog Nature Bats Last. 

• Climate goes extreme! by John Cook from Skeptical Science.

• Critique of Capitalism by Bengi Akbulut from Post-Capitalist Possibilities.

• Cap and Trade Is Supposed to Solve Climate Change, but Oil and Gas Company Emissions Are Up by Lisa Song from ProPublica.

• ‘Burned At The Stake’ – The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Demolishes The Fake Claims Targeting Julian Assange by David Edwards from Media Lens.

• Free All Political Prisoners –- Including Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning by Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report.

• US spied on governments for decades through secret ownership of Swiss encryption firm by Kevin Reed from World Socialist Web Site. 

• State-backed Alliance for Securing Democracy disinfo shop falsely smears The Grayzone as ‘state-backed’ by Alex Rubinstein from The Grayzone.

• Facebook Censoring Reporting On Buttigieg Cheating from The Jimmy Dore Show.

• Crowd Chants “Wall Street Pete!” At Buttigieg In New Hampshire from The Jimmy Dore Show.

Washington experiencing ‘mutiny’ over Syrian conflict

Click here to access article featuring an RT interview with Alastair Crooke, a former MI6 analyst.

The last Crooke's answer to RT's question is most revealing:

RT: The trust between US and Russia took a major blow over the past week with American coalition planes hitting the Syrian army and the Humanitarian Aid convoy being hit. Do you think there's still a chance for cooperation?

AC: I think it is very clear that the attempt to have a détente, and after all this is not the first president to try and attempt a détente with Russia. Eisenhower was the first and that was sunk by the CIA and the Gary Powers incident [The incident occurred in 1960 when an American U-2 spy plane, flown by CIA pilot Gary Powers. Powers parachuted to safety and was released by Soviet officials after two years imprisonment- Ed]. What we are seeing now is the sinking of President Obama’s attempt at a détente with Russia. He is facing a concerted opposition of the Department of Defense, the CIA, the New York Times, Washington Post and the Democratic candidate. Can he prevail against that? I don’t think so. From what we’ve just seen, it is not likely. So, all this noise and accusations are basically about America trying to get advantage back out of an unpromising situation. Just as we saw during the MH17 incident in Ukraine, immediately going and accusing Russia of being behind it before the facts were known, before any investigation was made. We see the same thing here, going straight online saying, of course, Russia is responsible for everything that has happened. This is just the war of narratives that the West is very good at because it controls completely the mainstream media.

The "concerted oppostition" is none other than the Deep State, the well-hidden fascist financial oligarchy who really controls the USA behind the facade of capitalist's version of "democracy". Most are members of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Articles recommended for Friday, June 28, 2019

• ‘National security’ isn’t journalists’ job – Ben Swann, 6:54m video interview via YouTube from RT. Also, read this report entitled "NY Times admits it sends stories to US government for approval before publication" from The Grayzone by Ben Norton.

• Survey: Americans Have Remarkably Ignorant Attitude Toward Nukes And North Korea by Caitlin Johnstone (Australian) from her blog.

• Iran holds 'last chance' talks with EU to save nuclear deal from PressTV (Iran).

• Revolving Door: Conflicts, corruption in media, a 7:30m video featuring a report by Mechele Greenstein on "The News with Rick Sanchez" posted on RT via YouTube.

Articles recommended for Sunday, June 16, 2019

• Convenient “Tanker Attacks” as US Seeks War with Iran by Tony Cartalucci from New Eastern Outlook (independent analyst published in an independent Russian website).

• Trump offered to suspend sanctions while negotiating with Iran, Khamenei rejected the offer: more attacks expected by Elijah J. Magnier from his blog (an independent journalist from Kuwait).

• How Trump's "Maximum Pressure" Campaign Against Iran Now Works Against Him by Bernhard from his blog Moon of Alabama (independent--Germany). 

• The Gulf of Credibility by Craig Murray from his blog (independent--Britain).

• Shinzo Abe in Iran: a dove of peace or a foreshadower of mayhem? from United World International (independent--Turkey).

• Russia Expert’s 2017 Prophecy About The Nuclear Threat Of Russiagate Is Coming True by Caitlin Johnstone from her blog (independent--Australia).

• When the Deep State Controls Deep Thinking and Russophobia by Phil Butler from New Eastern Outlook (independent US commentator published in an independent Russian website.)

• 'Better Chance of Being Acquitted in Saudi Arabia Than in US' – Assange Associate from Sputnik, a website sponsored by the Russian government.  

• Why did the UK court deferred Assange extradition hearing to next year? from The Indicter, an independent website located in Sweden. 

• Denver’s ‘Right to Survive’ Ballot Initiative Voted Down by Alex from Unicorn Riot (US independent website).

• Police Fusion Center Tied to Fake Social Media Accounts by Andrew Neef from Unicorn Riot.

Articles recommended for Tuesday, May 7, 2019

• Overwhelming evidence shows global biodiversity in crisis from Climate & Capitalism.

• Climate-change induced “sinking” of Jakarta pushes government to relocate the capital by Sandipan Talukdar from Peoples Dispatch.

• What progressives don’t see by Eric Schechter from The Greanville Post.

• Intel and Law Enforcement Tried to Entrap Trump by Larry C Johnson from Sic Semper Tyrannis.

• Denmark depriving Europe of right for gas on orders from Washington from United World International.

Articles I recommend today: Thursday, May 2, 2019

• U.S. Gov’t. Plan, Dated 23 February 2018, for Coup in Venezuela, Now Leaks Out by Eric Zuesse from The Greanville Post.

• Venezuela - Guaidó Got Snookered - White House Starts Beating War Drums by Bernhard from his blog Moon of Alabama (Germany).

• US progressives offer ray of hope and resistance as military threats against Venezuela intensify by John McEvoy from The Canary (Britain).

• As Thai-Chinese Relations Grow, So do US Threats by Joseph Thomas from New Eastern Outlook.

• Pompeo Lies, Cheats and Steals (But He’s Still a Good Christian) by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation.

Posts recommended for Tuesday, April 16, 2019

• Tucker Carlson Defends Assange. Huh? from The Jimmy Dore Show via YouTube.

• Secret Plutonium Shipment by Maggie Gundersen from Fairewinds Energy Education.

• US Tax Day 2019: Sixty giant corporations pay zero income tax by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site.

FBI Sued for Failure to Provide 9/11 Evidence to Congress

Click here to access a podcast of a nearly one hour discussion conducted by Bonnie Faulkner with people who are prominently involved in this lawsuit and posted on Guns & Butter.

Here is the written introduction:

The Lawyers Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, along with 9/11 victim family members have filed a joint federal lawsuit against the US Department of Justice and the FBI for their failure to perform a congressionally mandated assessment of any evidence known to the FBI that was not considered by the 9/11 Commission related to any factors that contributed in any manner to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. David Meiswinkle, Mick Harrison, Barbara Honegger and Richard Gage provide a broad overview of both the lawsuit and the filing of a grand jury petition; the seven counts of relevant evidence included in the complaint which also cites the destruction by the FBI of evidence related to the "High Fivers"; the Executive Director and Commissioners of the 9/11 Review Commission along with its twelve staff members; next steps in the legal process and what a successful outcome would look like.

A Conspiracy Theorist Confesses to his Petty Crimes

Click here to access article by Edward Curtin from his blog.

Curtin with his tongue very much in his cheek confesses to his petty crimes of formulating conspiracy theories. 

Be sure to access the link to the CIA’s 1967 secret Dispatch. Yes, here is documented proof that a secret, a publicly unaccountable branch of the government has been engaging in psychological warfare on American citizens to counter any questioning of the Deep State's nefarious activities. Shocking! (sarcasm)

Specifically, in April 1967, the CIA wrote a dispatch which coined the term “conspiracy theories” … and recommended methods for discrediting such theories.  The dispatch was marked “psych” –  short for “psychological operations” or disinformation –  and “CS” for the CIA’s “Clandestine Services” unit.

The dispatch was produced in responses to a Freedom of Information Act request by the New York Times in 1976.

The dispatch states:

The Prisoner Says No to Big Brother

Click here to access article by John Pilger from his blog.

Pilger reports on a recent visit with Julian Assange in which the parallels between Julian Assange and George Orwell's characters and themes are striking.  He uses Assange's courageous example to inspire all of us to:

... stop scrolling. Organise. Occupy. Insist. Persist. Make a noise. Take direct action. Be brave and stay brave. Defy the thought police.

War is not peace, freedom is not slavery, ignorance is not strength. If Julian can stand up to Big Brother, so can you: so can all of us.

The Vice President’s Men

Click here to access article by Seymour Hersh from London Review of Books. (Edited at 6:23 PM CT to correct and clarify my commentary.)

Note that Hersh can no longer be published in the USA because his writings contain too much truth for the ruling class to tolerate. It appears that he is too popular and credible within the USA to being allowed to publish his writings by a US based publishing outfit. You see, the truth about our wars and government must be prevented at all costs which includes the legitimate charge of censorship, and above all, to maintain the fiction of some kind of official constitutional government and quasi-democracy. 

Hersh can't help writing about specific topics that undermine this fiction: it because he is obsessed with a drive to report the truth wherever he finds evidence to support some version of the truth. As is clear in Hersh's recent book Reporter, he relies heavily on government informants. In this rather lengthy article Hersh reports on how George (Herbert Walker) Bush set up a secret government within the official government to evade the onerous laws to curb the actions of the CIA which had been passed in 1976 in the aftermath of the (Sen.) Church Committee’s hearings.

It is not a general exposé of the crimes committed by our masters in the Deep State that control our government and their secret services. Relying mostly on his government informants, Hersh specifically targets what occurred in the Reagan administration with Vice-President George H.W. Bush thoroughly in charge. In this piece, he often refers to an "officer" who reportedly worked for Vice-Admiral Arthur Moreau who, in turn, was setup by Bush to work effectively as a CIA director (working around the official CIA Director Bill Casey) in the White House.

Typically our masters order their media corporations to fire such truth-tellers and/or smear them so that no one pays attention to them, but Hersh has too much credibility. This is another illustration of how the ruling class are increasingly resorting to fascist methods of control because the usual methods of capitalist control of employees no longer works to curb the writings of the independent and determined Hersh; and because they have long been engaged in "high crimes and misdemeanors", they don't want anyone writing about it. Therefore, he is dangerous and must be effectively blocked from any publications that Americans might read.

Normally our masters stay far removed from the glare of publicity, but in the case of George H.W. Bush, who had a Deep State heritage beginning with banker and Nazi supporter Prescott Bush, posed quite a challenge for them to keep Bush in a low profile. They set up a popular front man, former GE salesman and B-grade actor Ronald Reagan, who our capitalist masters had their media corporations focus on and glamorize in order to distract attention from who was really running the government.

The article requires one to have an extensive knowledge of what occurred, at least officially, in the Reagan years. I expect that this article will often be referred to and used for documentation in other broader essays about our secret government.

(You might also be interested in Bernhard's take (Moon of Alabama) on the article in his post "Seymour Hersh: George H.W. Bush Team Leaked To Media To Reveal CIA's Iran-Contra Affair".)

Some interesting new information about 9/11

Click here to access article posted by the editor of True Publica on their British-based website. 

Don't let the bland title of this article deter you from reading it--it's powerful! More and more people are questioning the official government story about history's top false-flag event: 9/11. Likewise the directorate of the ruling capitalist class (otherwise known as the Deep State), which controls our government and much of the Anglo-American Empire, are fighting back with the old canard about such questioning of official reports: questioning equals "conspiracy theory". This article from a major alternative British website furnishes details about the breakdown of belief in the government's 9/11 mythology while citing other major examples of government lies.