Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, April 28, 2021

• mRNA vaccines: Pros and cons by Dennis Etler from CGTN, (Note: I post this from a credible source in the interest of balanced reporting.) My reaction: "It seems that many people are highly skeptical of this and other new technologies." People are skeptical because they have been lied to consistently about important events. And, when the ruling class puts so much fear, uses fake statistics (from PCR tests, bribe hospitals, pressure doctors to claim patients died for Covid-19, etc.), and with billionaires behind the promotion of mRNA vaccines, there are sound reasons to be suspicious.

• A Letter to a Friend Who Recently Had Gene Therapy from New BraveWorld.

• Do Vaccines Make Us Healthier? by Children's Health Defense Team from their The Defender weblog. (Note: This article consists of a 14:31m video review of medical research.)
  

• How the Media Helped Democrats Spin the Pandemic by Arthur Tarley from Current Affairs.

• UK Hiring COVID Marshals to Patrol Streets Until 2023 Despite Lockdown Restrictions Supposedly Ending in June by Paul Joseph Watson from Summit News, a British media company.
  

• Vienna Shadow Play Hangs over Iran Nuke Deal by Pepe Escobar from Global Research. (Note: The "JCPOA" refers to this concise explanation.)
  

Iranian missile technology as top strategic deterrence. Now that’s the shadowplay that turns Vienna into a sideshow.

• The CIA Has Been Taking Over for Decades — Even Former Presidents Tried to Warn Us by Lee Camp from Scheerpost. (Note: For more background, read my commentary to a previous post,)

• World police: Washington seeks to imprison foreign businesspeople for violating illegal US sanctions by Stansfield Smith from The Grayzone. (Note: Smith goes explains in detail all the effects that the Empire's capitalists can impose on individuals and citizens through the use of sanctions on the targeted countries.)
  

• When Did the “Cold War” End? Part III by Vladimir Acosta from Internationalist 360°. (Note: Because our institutions will rarely tell the truth, I always like to inform people of a true history. This article reports on the period from the fall of the Soviet Union, and is an accurate piece of history as you will ever find.)

• US Role Behind the Defeat of Ecuador’s Leftist Presidential Candidate by Roger Harris from Mint Press News. My short commentary follows: 

There is much to be learned about this story that Harris doesn't mention. It is the story of the human species whose failure to adapt to the web of life on our quite exceptional planet will cause our species, along with many others, to become extinct within decades. Sadly, it is much too late to do anything to prevent this from happening.

 

It is also a story of capitalism, a system that promotes the accumulation of wealth within families who use all manner of sociopathic weapons to accumulate their wealth: violence, bribes, deception, etc. And with wealth comes power and control. In the latter stages of capitalism that we are in now, we find wealth/power consolidated in very few hands, and, like their ancestors, capitalists will do everything they can to enhance their wealth/power: the use of mainly deception, bribes, and their control over careers. But these weapons don't assure success for capitalists in every situation. Then they, like their ancestors, can rely on the use of outright violence that stems from their overwhelming control over military and police. Have noticed that government spending on the military has gone up substantially every year? 

• The CIA’s Chinese Walls by Craig Murray, an independent blogger from Scotland, from his weblog.

• The Global Deep State: A New World Order Brought to You by COVID-19 by John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead from their weblog The Rutherford Institute. (Note: I prefer the more accurate term: the "Empire's transnational capitalist Deep State" rather than the "Global Deep State". It's not global without Russia and China.
  

• China and Africa: the Black Alliance for Peace’s AFRICOM Watch Bulletin by Danny Haiphong from Black Agenda Report.
  

• HI-SEAS Mars/Moon Habitat: Scientists Don Spacesuits to Explore Hawaiian Lava Tubes As if They Were on Mars by European Geosciences Union from SciTechDaily. My reaction: I wonder if you know that most space travel research, which is very expensive, is supported by ruling classes of capitalists who want to escape Earth when it becomes inhabitable due to their rule. This is entirely the reason for this article inclusion--therefore, don't read it. Just thought you should know.
  

• Biden’s Climate Plan: It’s Too Late for Gradualism by Howie Hawkins from CounterPunch. 

• Pollution Report: Oceans are ‘at the precipice of disaster’ from Climate & Capitalism.

• More Than a Third of Antarctic Ice Shelf Area at Risk of Collapse As Planet Warms from SciTechDaily. 

• Science Update: Human Population Growth features Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has focused on the climate crisis, from his YouTube channel in a 6:06m YouTube video. My reaction: Notice he says roughly at 02:36m "too many rich people like those from the United States and Japan and western Europe and the so-called First World--that's what brought us to the brink. That's what brings us this mess that we're in right now." Aren't all these countries a part of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire that practice thoroughly a capitalist system? And he wrongly includes under the heading "rich people" all the people in these countries. I forgive him because he is a biologist--not a social scientist nor much less, a socialist social scientist.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, April 21, 2021

• Covid’s IFR just keeps DROPPING by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.
  

• The Lockdown Paradigm Is Collapsing by Jeffrey A. Tucker from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• Simple Ways to Keep Your Immune System Strong by Dr. Vernon Coleman, a Brit, from his weblog. (Note: This article includes a video of his talk and transcript.)
  

• How Stalin Canceled 'Hamlet' in the Soviet Union—and What It Can Teach Us about Cancel Culture by Jon Miltimore from Foundation for Economic Education. My reaction: Ruling class experts of propaganda has turned so many liberals (dreamy reformist capitalists) into intolerant "virtuous" bigots who obsessively want to divert attention away from the growing inequality among the world's poor. This is based on the religion of absolute god-like authority figures who know what's best for us--American-style capitalism and away from any consideration of socialist ideas. Thus they, or the authoritative talking-heads you see on TV, read scripts that wrap themselves in virtue and censor all ideas that don't fit with the American goose of capitalism, a goose which continues to lay so many golden eggs for billionaires.

• There is No Substitute for the Rank and File: Thoughts on Amazon Unionization by Tatiana Cozzarelli from Left Voice. 

• A Trader’s Federal Lawsuit Against JPMorgan Chase Offers a Window into the Crime Culture at the Five Felony-Count Bank by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• You reap what you sow by Natalie Bennett from Ecologist (a British weblog).

That we live on a hugely degraded, biologically impoverished planet, in which natural ecosystems are battered, abused, barely clinging on, is now emerging into public consciousness. But the corresponding rise of the superweed, and increasing vulnerability of our crop species, has yet to so register.

• The deafening sound of silence in the West (Open Thread #15) by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog.
  

• Russia Increases Its Defense, While U.S. Backs Down From Provoking WWIII by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Why Cryptocurrency Is A Giant Fraud by Nathan J. Robinson from Current Affairs.

• The US Withdrawal From Afghanistan May Just Lead To Privatized War by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond. 

• Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for Agrifood Must Not Succeed by Colin Todhunter from Dissident Voice. 

• The Doomsday Glacier Lives up to its Billing by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.
  

• Rapid Loss of Habitat for Homo sapiens by Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has focused on the climate crisis, from Academia. (Note: You will need to download this brief paper, and I recommend Acrobat Reader. But notice the installer wants you to select a list of additional software. Decide for yourself if you want them.)

• 💥In our hurry to conquer nature and death, we have made a new religion of science by Jonathan Cook from his weblog. This is a best post.
  

Were we not so technology obsessed, were we not so greedy, were we not so terrified of insecurity and death, if we did not see our bodies and minds as separate, and humans as separate from everything else, we might pause to ponder whether our approach is not a little misguided.

Science and technology can be wonderful things. They can advance our knowledge of ourselves and the world we inhabit. But they need to be conducted with a sense of humility we increasingly seem incapable of. We are not conquerors of our bodies, or the planet, or the universe – and if we imagine we are, we will soon find out that the battle we are waging is one we can never hope to win.

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, April 7, 2021

• Biohazards News Tracker: Best articles on SARS-CoV-2 origins, biolabs and gain of function research by Sainath Suryanarayanan from U.S. Right to Know. 

• The Coming Antibiotic-Resistance Pandemic that Could Make COVID Look Like the Flu by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• YouTube Censors Florida Governor DeSantis and His Science Advisors by Jeffrey A. Tucker from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• Berlin Now Requires Negative COVID Test For Entry Into Non-Essential Businesses by Joe Martino from Collective Evolution. 

• ‘This Week’ With Mary + Polly: Vaccine Passports, ‘Trusted Voices,’ Vaccinating Teens + More from Children's Health Defense. 

• Jab-erwacky (or, Why Are People So Crazy about Being Guinea Pigs?) by Michael Lesher from Off-Guardian.
  

• Dr. Ryan Cole Blows The Whole COVID-19 Propaganda Away by Bill Sardi from LewRockwell.
  

• Stand in the Park featuring James Corbett from his weblog urging us to get outdoors while some of us still can.
  

• Is 2021’s Fictional Cyberattack Simulation Prepping Us For a Cyber Pandemic? by Robert Wheeler from The Organic Prepper. (Note: I am including this post to warn you that my posts could be interrupted or shut down anytime.)

• From Debs to the DSA? Rescuing America’s Revolutionary Tradition by Ben Fredericks from Left Voice. (Note: I believe, based on a rapid perusal) that this is a rare, honest attempt to look at the history of left revolutionary movements within socialism. The article is for those who have read widely on leftist movements and revolutionary parties.)
  

• The Anti-Asian Attacks are the Pre-Show for Mass Anti-White Attacks by Andrew Anglin from the Daily Stormer.  My commentary follows:

I found this post initially on The Unz Review (I always try to post articles from their original sources) which is an old-fashioned conservative website. I have re-posted some of their article in the past that I thought were well-written and documented. But this piece touched off a series of thoughts in my brain that related to my increasing curiosity related to what I have noticed recently on TV. TV, I believe, is heavily influenced by the secret services who see this medium as a powerful propaganda tool to be used to propagate their insidious propaganda themes on behalf of the capitalist ruling class.

I have a well-tuned sixth sense about media corporations and their collaboration with the secret services that are under the control of the capitalist ruling class. I have noticed an increasing trend that suggests that mind manipulators in the secret services are up to something: the rather startling nearly consistent use of African-Americans in nationwide commercials. 

 

But I was mystified as to what use this trend suggested ... that is until I read this article. I think this almost consistent use of African-Americans in commercials plus the recent widespread publicity about racist attacks of Asian-Americans by Black-Americans fit well with the favorite ruling classes strategy to sow interracial wars among Americans. You know--the old divide and conquer strategy.

 

Although I agree with the author of this article when he argues that these attacks on Asian-Americans represent an intermediate stage, but I differ when he predicts that the ultimate purpose is for a UN takeover of the USA. I see that these two recent trends fit well with the chaos strategy that the secret services have used to destabilize other countries beginning with Chile and El Salvador (see my commentary here, my reaction here (1st post), and my commentary here (7th post). I now believe that the two rather startling developments signal a chaos strategy designed against the American public to usher in a new authoritarian regime as was the case when the chaos strategy was used to target the destabilization of other nations. 

Perhaps the transnational ruling capitalist class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire now see ordinary Americans as the target to be conquered and prepared to fit in their New World Order, or the latest version of this--the Great Reset. What do you think?

 

• 💥Whitney Webb Interview – Tanzania Coup, Rising Technocracy & The 4th Industrial Revolution featuring Webb who has returned from Chile, where she was needed to conduct personal affairs, interviewed by Ryan Cristián, host of this show from The Last American Vagabond. This is a best post. My reaction (based on only 15 minutes of listening to this program which lasts nearly an hour and a quarter--I will listen to the remainder after finishing this weblog): In this fascinating interview, Webb describes Chile as exemplifying the worst aspects of the USA, but if you think Chile is divorced from the reality in the USA, think again. The transnational capitalist class, who have homes scattered all over their Empire, doesn't divide up the world into nations. Remember, they see the world, or at least, their Empire as a whole. You, as American citizens, don't matter to them.
  

• Moth-Eaten Eviction Moratorium Leaves Hundreds of Thousands Without a Roof by Eleanor Goldfield from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis).
  

• The Mainstream Worldview Is As Garbage As Mainstream Music And Movies by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.  
  

• Methanol for the CoV2 Hypodermic Chemical Experiment by Paul Haeder from Dissident Voice.

• Confrontation and Propaganda Continue Against Russia by Brian Cloughley from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Ukraine redux: war, Russophobia and Pipelineistan by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• China Rises in Latin America as Sun Sets on the Monroe Doctrine by Martin Sieff from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• 💥My New Book on Journalism, Exposing Corruption, and the Resulting Risks, Dangers and Societal Changes by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog at Substack. This is a best post.

• Myanmar: US-backed Opposition is ARMED [or "your tax dollars at work"] by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. 

• Churchill, International Jews and the Holocaust: A Revisionist Analysis by Paul Grubach from Inconvenient History. (Note: This is a rare, honest (based on my broad readings of history) attempt to show how Churchill, who shared much of his antisemitism with the Nazis, colluded with the Zionists to attain power.)
  

• 'We Have to Act': Atmospheric CO2 Passes 420 PPM for First Time Ever by Kenny Stancil from Common Dreams.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, April 6, 2021

• Feds Won’t Mandate Vaccine Passports, But Will Help States, Businesses, Schools Develop Standards by Megan Redshaw from Children's Health Defense. 

• Epidemiologist: We Could Have Reached Natural Herd Immunity in 6 Weeks features Rob Verkerk Ph.D. conducting an interview (1:12:27) with epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski, Ph.D. Clearly Wittknowski is not on the list of the ruling class's approved scientists list.

• Biden’s Infrastructure Plan by Jack Rasmus from Alternative Visions. (Note: Rasmus discusses the deceptions related to Biden's vaunted infrastructure plan in a 57:13m audio recording.)

• Pepe Escobar Joins Jeff J. Brown for a Great Conversation about the US, EU, China, Russia, Iran and DPRK [North Korea], plus much more. This is posted on The Greanville Post. (Note: I especially recommend listening to Escobar's opening statement (first 20 and half minutes) regarding diplomatic efforts of the US vis-à-vis China and Russia. Brown, who has lived and worked in China for about 16 years, and Escobar are good friends. Brown, who is now retired, lives in Brussels. Escobar lives in Thailand. Escobar is, in my opinion, is one of the top geo-political journalists in the world. I recommend the rest of the conversation (the whole 1 hr 10m interview) for those who are well informed about international politics.
  

• China and Russia Launch a ‘Global Resistance Economy’ by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. My commentary follows:

I agree with Crooke's argument that following the meeting at Anchorage between the USA and China, and that China no longer believes in a cooperative arrangement that can be obtained with the US or the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. However, I cannot agree with his following assertion:

 

Socialism versus capitalism? No, it is a long time since the U.S. was a capitalist economy; it’s hardly even a market economy today. It has become, more and more, a rentier economy since leaving the gold standard (in 1971). 

 

Capitalism, like all other systems, has stages that it goes through just like the old colonial relationships that Euro-Americans had prior to WWII with the relatively pre-industrialized countries of the world in contrast to the essentially neo-colonial relationships the former had with the latter since WWII. The post-WWII era saw the frequent use of financial weapons that was first exposed in the writings of John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. 

 

Similarly capitalism in the Empire has moved beyond industrialization to the financialization stage by their pursuit of neoliberalist policies which accumulate wealth with the less risky interest of loans from the IMF, World Bank, and international banks located in the Empire. Also, these finance capitalists use loans as weapons to pry open less advanced economies for exploitation by Empire corporations. Crooke is evidently too influenced by the writings of Michael Hudson who ignores the exploitation of American workers by "captains of industry" (to the chagrin of his Trotskyist parents) and champions the previous phase of capitalism--industrialization.

 

Now we, who reside within the Empire, increasingly witness the use of censorship and manipulation of information that has replaced to a considerable extent more authoritarian methods of old-fashioned fascism. We, who reside in the Empire, are now in a neo-fascist phase of capitalism where capitalist ruling classes rely much more heavily on the control of information that is allowed to ordinary people. (To be sure, if the latter methods fail, the ruling class uses police and soldiers to crush all opposition.) Those who reside outside of the Empire are frequently subject to subversive efforts by agents of the hyper-aggressive capitalist Empire.

• Bombshell book in Germany revives 9/11 as a business model, a book review by Pepe Escobar of Lars Schall book entitled Denken wie der Feind – 20 Jahre Ausnahmezustand 9/11 und die Geopolitik des Terrors from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• Dealing With Demons by Larry Romanoff from "The Saker" weblog. My reaction: This is a very lengthy post, but also a very interesting one from an author who is probably Canadian (based on his spelling of "organisers" below), retired and living in Shanghai, China. His report refers to the city of Wuhan and a single province, Hebei, of China which, I believe, was the only province that had numerous temporary restrictions imposed on its citizens. See the province in the center of China on the map below:

 

 I include two paragraphs from the article which offer some significant reasons why China dealt with the corona virus much more effectively than other Western countries including our own:

 

One reason the Chinese were able to deal with the epidemic while the UK and USA stumbled in the dark is that the Chinese think, with considerable justification, that they have been under biological attack, on and off since c.1950, and were therefore prepared with well-laid plans and competent organisers to respond to such an event. As soon as the central government learned the specific nature of the outbreak, it responded massively and to a very large extent the population understood the necessity of what was asked of them and cooperated.


The main objective of China’s Government is the rejuvenation of China, in part demonstrably evidenced by the determined efforts made for the betterment and the well-being of its population, which is reflected in the credibility and high level of trust the Chinese people place in their government. These concepts don’t exist in the west. In the US, the “world’s model for everything”, a virus epidemic is seen through lenses of profiteering by large corporations, sick people not being humans in need of assistance but merely a new lucrative “market” – for those with money to pay. An American hospital is not a place for healing the sick but a kind of barnyard filled with cash cows to milk. This is one fundamental reason underlying America’s chaotic and hopeless approach to dealing with the epidemic. The Trump administration failed to help itself and refused to help even its friends, on the one hand ignoring the suffering and extreme difficulties in China and wasting its time scoring cheap political points on the world stage, happy with the loss of life and the economic damage China was suffering. 

 

I want to add only two fundamental reasons for the difference of outcomes. One, is that Americans have been lied to so often in the past 70 years (the assassinations, 9/11, invasion of Iraq, etc.) that many Americans no longer believe what the authorities and major media corporations tell me--whereas the Chinese completely trust their authorities and follow their instructions to the letter. Two, I believe that the ruling capitalist class has zero interest in the health of ordinary Americans. They see them as only sources of profit. 

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).
  

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 for Friday, March 12, 2021

• Another Epidemiologist Calls Out Facebook “Fact-Checkers” & Calls It A “Scam” by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• Debunking Virology With Dr. Thomas Cowan, Dr. Andrew Kaufman and Dr. Stefano Scoglio featuring Derrick Broze who listens to the explanations of three specialists about isolation of viruses versus the fairly recent practice of virologist's claim that they claim the isolation of SARS-COV-2 virus which result in Covid-19 illness. This is a 41:26m video discussion posted from EarthNewspaper's channel of Bitchute. (Note: This explanation is not that the disease of Covid-19 doesn't exist, but the development of vaccines to prevent the disease is not valid from a scientific perspective.)
  

• Vaccine Secrets from Children's Health Defense. (Note: A cartoonist's conspiracy theories factual reporting on vaccines in the USA. But these facts are secrets that Big Pharma, their sponsored Congress, government bureaucrats, media corporations, and capitalist-funded "fact-checkers" don't want you to know. Such facts are documented on this website.)

• 'Who cares?' | NY House speaker launches impeachment probe into Cuomo from RT. My reaction: This will never be reported by media corporations.
  

• Brace Yourselves For The Most Dramatic Shift In The Standard Of Living In All Of U.S. History by Michael Snyder from Activist Post.
  

• Mainstream Journalism Doesn’t Exist: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian, from her weblog.

• Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor its Writers: to Bar Critiques of Journalists by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. (Note: This is a late posting at around 3:24 PM CT today.) Referring to these journalists working for mostly media corporations, he writes:
  

The reason these little hall monitors do not consider this to be “real reporting” is because they do not care about — except when they venerate — real power centers like security state agencies (CIA/FBI/NSA/DHS) or the Pentagon, Wall Street hedge funds, Silicon Valley monopolies, repressive regimes. They think “reporting” means writing what those agencies and power centers tell them to say, or ruining the reputations of people for saying bad words on 4Chan and expressing prohibited thoughts with Facebook memes and Clubhouse chats. That is all they recognize as journalism; everything else is “harassment” because real reporting makes the lives of elites and people who wield real influence more difficult ....

• Popular Twitter Account Exposed As Shill Paid To Smear Progressives featuring Jimmy Dore on his YouTube channel (23:07m) reporting on his discovery of a person getting paid to get on Twitter to spread propaganda.
  

• Massive Secret UK Propaganda Campaign in Former Soviet Republics Seeds Contempt by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.

Such granular levels of information could only be dreamed of by Allen Dulles and the CIA’s disinformation efforts behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. But, today, our digitally-integrated world allows for such dystopian dreams to become a reality. At the same time, it makes exposing these operations that much easier.

• 💥Bernays and Propaganda – Propaganda Continues Unabated – Part 5 by Larry Romanoff from "The Saker" blog. This is a best post.

• Fukushima Meltdowns Turn Ten, Still Getting Worse by William Boardman from Dissident Voice. Boardman's conclusion is the following:

Nuclear power has always been a corrupt enterprise, but in Japan now that corruption is coming back to hold its perpetrators accountable. On February 19, the Tokyo High Court ordered the government and TEPCO to pay damages of $2.63 million to 43 people who were forced to evacuate from their homes by the Fukushima disaster. The presiding judge called the government’s regulatory inaction “extremely unreasonable.” There are as many as 30 more such suits pending in Japanese courts.

• Maine Farm Girl & Kansas Grain Farmer Talk Climate on The Train by Rivera Sun from CounterPunch.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, March 9, 2021

• Vaccine Diabolus and the Impending Wave of Rare Neurodegenerative Disorders by Mike Whitney from Global Research.
  

Is it the reputable scientists, virologists, epidemiologists and other medical experts who don’t have a stake in the outcome and who base their judgements on the science alone, or is it the conflicted state bureaucrats, the public health toadies and the billionaire activists who control the media and whose shadowy and sinister motives are still not clear?

Most people know the answer to that question already. It’s obvious.

• No COVID Vaccine? No Travel, Air Force Officials Say by Pam Long from Children's Health Defense. 

• The Brutal Attack on Scientific Dissent by Paul E. Alexander from American Institute for Economic Research. (Note: It would be helpful to know what "Age of Lysenkoism" means.)

• Perspectives on the Pandemic: "The Illusion of Evidence Based Medicine" from Journeyman Pictures, based in Britain, featuring author and professor Leemon McHenry, PhD explains why articles in prominent medical journals have been corrupted by the profit interests of giant pharmaceutical industries.

• Another Independent News Show Gets Shut Down. This 13:51m YouTube video features Jimmy Dore and a guest Kit Cabello whose channel has been censored by YouTube. My reaction: It's amazing why Dore's channel hasn't been censored. My hunch is that he has a very large following. 

• Enforcing Orthodoxy by Patrick Lawrence from Consortium News. (Note: Based on another example of ruling class censorship (Consortium News), Lawrence comments on the significance of censorship.)
  

• Reclaiming Our Common Home by Vandana Shiva from Yes!. My reaction: I think that the basic needs of humans must be equitably shared. But at the same time, humans must learn about the fact that they are one of a vast number of species in the web of life on planet Earth, and act responsibly. Neither one of my conditions will be met as long as self-serving classes rule over humans. From scientific reports I've read during the past 45 years, I think that humans living in class-structured societies have not acted responsibly and they will become extinct as well as many other species on our exceptional planet Earth.
  

• Wherefore Art Thou Ghislaine Maxwell? And who are your friends? by Philip Giraldi from The Unz Review.

• Biden and the ‘Yellow Brick Road’ by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation (based in Russia but international in scope). (Note: "4IR" means "fourth industrial revolution" which was announced by Klaus Schwab by the Great Reset. The latter is a project decided by our masters, the billionaires in the transnational capitalist ruling class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

Crooke writes:

 

America’s position as ‘global leader’, Stephen Wertheim has observed in his book Tomorrow the World, was premised on a set of impermanent and atypical post-war circumstances that handed primacy to the U.S.; but Wertheim then goes on to underscore how “those days of incontestable unipolarity are over, and cannot be wished back”. The U.S. empire is, then, at an impasse: Its moral and political justification of overseeing a global order shaped to its norms is now beyond its capabilities (militarily or financially) to maintain.

 

His view differs from mine in that he sees only an American empire, whereas I see the reality of a transnational capitalist empire built on the ruins of the former British Empire combined with the military power of the USA and extended by their combined power over numerous other nations, primarily Europe and Israel. This is the history since WWII of the development of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire which has largely replaced the Nazi ambitions of the Third Reich. 

 

However, in the end Crooke returns to the political dynamics of the USA to imply that most Americans simply want to return to "normal" and will not go along with this delusional agenda. Although his metaphor using "Alice in Wonderland" is clever, I don't think this implication is accurate. I don't see that ordinary Americans will become a significant factor in the future. I believe that too many Americans have been so brainwashed by fake history, capitalist culture, and the advantages that Americans have enjoyed since WWII to be an effective actor in the future. I also believe that our present ruling class suffer from a dangerous delusion, one among many others, of omnipotence that will make the near future much more dangerous than what Crooke suggests.

• U.S. Launches New Afghanistan Initiative Which Is Unlikely To Fly by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama. (Note: He brings us up-to-date on efforts by the US State Department to get US official forces out of Afghanistan.)

["The Biden regime"] needs some face saving period of 'peace in Afghanistan' to justify a pull out. It also wants to keep some CIA counter-terrorism force in the country which is something the Taliban are unlikely to allow.

• Govt-Linked CSIS Urges DC To Partner with Social Media Firms To “Promote Protests Movements” by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.
  

• Excessive Wealth Disorder is Destroying Our Societies by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room.

• Introduction: Self-Reinforcing Feedback Loops featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson (in a 2:27m YouTube video), a scientist who has specialized on the near-term climate destabilization crisis.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, February 24, 2021

• PCR Testing Saga: Were We Duped? by Dr. Joseph Mercola from Children's Health Defense.

• Cuomo Says Don't Trust "Experts" On Covid To Distract From Scandal. This post features Jimmy Dore, via his YouTube channel, showing and commenting on excuses that Gov. of New York Andrew M. Cuomo offered when he was caught lying and defending his earlier nursing home policies that caused numerous deaths.

• The Vaccine (Dis)Information War by CJ Hopkins, a master satirist from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc.

• Synthetic mRNA Covid vaccines: A Risk-Benefit Analysis by Sadaf Gilani from Off-Guardian.
  

• Whitney Webb on the Oxford-AstraZeneca Eugenics Links featuring a 36:53m interview by James Corbett with Webb from Corbett's website.

• Is the "Variant" Being Used to Scare People Into Getting Vaccinated?? by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review.

• By Putting Big Pharma’s Patents before Patients, Doctors Will Further Erode Trust in Experts by Jonathan Cook from his weblog.

• 💥House Democrats, Targeting Right-Wing Cable Outlets, Are Assaulting Core Press Freedoms by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. A best post.
  

• How and Why Government Creates Disease Panic by Barry Brownstein from American Institute for Economic Research. (Note: I don't support everything he argues, but his arguments that good news is suppressed and censored is "spot-on".)

• Censorship Gone Bonkers - 'Be A Good Citizen!' by Bernhard, a German independent blogger from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
  

• Is Switzerland Sliding into Dictatorship? Social Coercion, Privileges to Those Who Accept the Covid Vaccine by Peter Koenig from Global Research.
  

• Techno-Censorship: The Slippery Slope from Censoring “Disinformation” to Silencing Truth by John Whitehead from Activist Post. 

• 20 Years Of Media Lens: A Selection Of Remarkable Replies From Journalists from Media Lens.

... journalists are the ultimate corporate insiders looking out at a world to be manipulated and pacified from the heart of Elite Media Club. Journalism, particularly broadcast journalism, is far too important to people with power for it to be any other way.

• Secretly, Biden’s Foreign Policies Are Trump’s Foreign Policies by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: In the last paragraph, substitute "capitalist ruling class" for his use of "aristocracy". You see, he is a product of American education which, like all institutions, any Marxist concepts have been carefully expunged.)
  

• The Fascist ‘Big Lies’ – Deceptive Names Are Back by Wayne Madsen from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• BBC, Reuters Caught Running Secret IO by Brian Berletic, an ex-Marine living with his family in Thailand, from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.

• Within a Matter of Months, the Fed’s Balance Sheet Will Hit $8 Trillion; These Charts Tell the Rest of the Story by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• Part II – Western Capital’s Long Chinese Mission: From Opium to COVID Vaccine Credentials by Raul Diego from Mint Press News. (Note: FDR linked his fortune to an ancestor who engaged in the China trade, and most likely it was opium.)

In this second part of “Dragon’s Blood Harvest at the Dawn of Human Capital Markets,” we will examine the virtually unbroken history between American power-brokers and the highest echelons of power in China — a history that harkens back to the earliest days of capitalism, slavery, and the opium trade and that established a permanent pipeline for the transfer of technology and medical and scientific knowledge to China through Western philanthropic organizations dating back to the early nineteenth century.

Towards the second half of the twentieth century, even as China’s post-war communist revolution seemed to diminish Western influence in the country, these early links to American academic, scientific, and banking circles were never completely severed. By 1971, diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Mao’s China were officially restored, just in time for the wholesale transfer of American manufacturing to China under the auspices of the “opening” of the Asian continent.

• China To Expand Weather Modification Program & Make A Large Portion of Their Climate Artificial by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• 💥We’re Secretly All Just Temporary Passengers on Spaceship Earth. By "xraymike79" from Collapse of Industrial Civilization. This is a best post.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, February 10, 2021

• The Disarticulation of Pandemic War Propaganda by Raul Diego from Mint Press News. In this post Diego presents a mountain of evidence that a propaganda project is being imposed on the US and (likely) European populations that China is responsible for most of the onerous restrictions imposed on populations worldwide. The sub-headline says what his prodigious research has uncovered: "An investigative analysis takes apart a hackneyed piece of propaganda authored by an international alt-right clique with links to the Pentagon." Read the post for the detailed and supporting evidence.

• Who Wanted Pandemic Lockdowns? by Jeffrey A. Tucker from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• ‘It’s the Vaccines, Stupid’ — New Book Exposes Corruption That Led to HPV Vaccines and Injuries by Mary Holland from Children's Health Defense.
  

• Facebook Hires NATO Press Officer Ben Nimmo as Intelligence Chief by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence from Boom Bust channel of RT (via YouTube).
  

In an era where artificial intelligence seems to be rapidly developing by the day, should society begin to question to reliability of the fairly novel technology? We hear from co-host Ben Swann and cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright on the potential shortfalls of the computer intelligence and the perils that could accompany complete reliance.

• Bernie's Pro-War Advisor Joins Biden Administration. This post features Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal, via Dore's YouTube channel, commenting on this latest development in relation to fake Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders in order to win elections.

• Establishment's Secret Project To Control 2020 Election & Censor Critics Revealed. This post features Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal, via Dore's YouTube channel, commenting on a report in Time Magazine that reveals secret organizations funded by powerful members of the capitalist ruling class to influence media corporations to censor negative reports that regarding Joe Biden, Democratic Party candidate. 

• From Concentration Camps to Overflow Facilities: With Biden in Charge, Media Forgets Kids in Cages by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. Another post from MPN that illustrates how mainstream media hypocritically serves the Deep State by avoiding subjects that embarrasses them, and what the Deep State, the directors of the ruling class, don't want you to know. 

• The Mechanism of Invisible Hand, Invisible Cage, and Invisible Empire over Humanity and Nature by Hiroyuki Hamada from Dissident Voice.
  

• New NORAD Warfare Strategies and Canada’s Role in the Great Game Revisited by Matthew Ehret (a Canadian geopolitical analyst) from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Why Russia is driving the West crazy by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker Blog".  

• The Headless Chicken and the Bear by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from "The Saker Blog". I regard Raevsky, who now lives in the USA, as the foremost expert on Russian politics writing in English today. Thus, this statement near the end of the article caught my eye:

For these reasons I would call the probability of an actual military clash between US/NATO and/or Russia/China as “likely in 2021”. As for the future of NS2, I always assumed that EU politicians can count their Euros and realize that the EU needs that project way more than Russia. Frankly, I am not so sure now: counting on the mental abilities of a headless chicken is probably not a good idea! Neither is counting on the courage of the type of politicians whom Boris Johnson once called “supine invertebrate protoplasmic jellies“.

You will need to know what his use of "3B+PU" means. I found what it means in another article he has written--"3 Balts plus Poland and the Ukraine". ("NS2" in the paragraph above means Nord Stream 2, the natural gas pipeline nearing completion which is posing a problem for European political leaders not wanting to offend the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire who have been dead-set (def.) against it.

• Why Israel is joining the Pentagon’s 'Arab Nato' by Jonathan Cook from Middle East Eye.

• Wish You Were Here by John Steppling from his weblog. (Note: Steppling is an American playwright who currently lives in Norway, but has traveled extensively throughout the world. Not only has he traveled, but he has lived in numerous countries. In this post, he muses about the significance of travel, identifies its roots in colonialism, and generally how travel serves, and has served, the ruling classes from a historical and cultural perspective.)

• Science Update: More Rain, More Flooding, More Methane featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson (via YouTube) reporting on the latest peer-reviewed reports on the above.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, February 3, 2021

• The Flight of the Covid Quacks by Robert E. Wright from American Institute for Economic Research.   

• Judge Scraps ‘Secret Science’ Rule by "Climate Nexus", a department of Children's Health Defense. 

• Mental Health System Fails Kids as COVID Creates ‘Unprecedented Need’ by "Kaiser Health News" from Children's Health Defense.

• New Report From Rep. Katie Porter Reveals How Big Pharma Pursues 'Killer Profits' at the Expense of Americans' Health by Brett Wilkins from Common Dreams.

• Newsweek Caught Lying For Biden About $2000 checks featuring Jimmy Dore revealing, via his YouTube channel, that President Joe Biden lied about the $2000 check. My reaction: What else is new?
  

• Biden’s Nominee For New Cabinet-Level Science Position is Epstein-Linked Geneticist by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond.

• The Biden Government Running True to Form by James O'Neill from Dissident Voice. My reaction: I'll bet you didn't learn of this report while watching TV.
  

• This Is Why They Attack Him - Putin Explains Why We Need New Economic Policies by Bernhard (a German independent blogger) from his weblog Moon of Alabama. (My reaction: The title refers to the theme in this report, and, in addition, you can learn what you are missing by reading this article. You will also learn what corporations like NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, NPR, CNN, etc. fail to inform you. They want you to be ignorant of what goes on in the world, and fill you with propaganda that serves billionaires so that you will end up being compliant serfs. If this article interests you, you might also add to your information about the real world by reading this.
  

• Taking on Telecom’s “5G” by David Rosen from CounterPunch. My reaction: Of course, taking on the Telecom's "5G" is like taking on the capitalist system. This issue is about the very core of capitalism to make profits and thereby create influence in the sacred halls of Congress.

• How Are They Going to Come at Us? by Howard Lisnoff from CounterPunch.

• ‘Cancel the Rents’: People Across the US Mobilize Calling for Housing Relief from People's Dispatch. My reaction: This is another way that the ruling class can impose the divide and conquer strategy on the American people. Landlords have substantial mortgages and bills to pay for upkeep of their properties. With ordinary Americans looking out for their own interest and their family's interests, we can expect more turmoil in the days ahead.

• The Lesson Of The BLM Protests: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Are UN climate talks leading to a global dictatorship? by by Simon Butler from Climate & Capitalism. My reaction: Butler's central criticism of the book is: "Climate Leviathan warns that a worldwide imperial state is on the agenda, but provides no credible arguments or evidence." But, maybe that's obvious, and therefore no need to supply evidence.

• With Anti-IMF Candidate Surging in Polls, Ecuador’s Moreno Flies To DC Amid Talk of Suspending Election by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. My reaction: Maybe this Empire's puppet is worried about the outcome of the election, and he wants to know how he can manage the election results in order to win. The ruling class of the USA are experts at this skill.

• US Pressure on China; The Thai Connection by Christopher Black (lives in Canada) from New Eastern Outlook.

• Science Update: Soils Sequestering Carbon featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson via his channel on YouTube reporting the latest scientific news related to the climate crisis. In the video he summarizes a report from his longer article on his website, Nature Bats Last.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, January 24, 2021

• The Will to Believe: Americans and their Divine Masters by Edward Curtin from Off-Guardian.
  

• That’s All Folks! by CJ Hopkins, a master satirist who offers his take on the exit of Pres. Trump from the White House and related matters.  

• Mob mentality: Capitol riot exploited to expand the national security state that failed to stop it by Aaron Maté from The Grayzone.
  

• Catherine Austin Fitts on The State of Our Currencies featuring James Corbett and Catherine Austin Fitts discussing solutions at a high level of abstraction via 33:34m video from The Corbett Report. My reaction: I don't normally post such discussions, but this post sounds so promising. Because their discussion is such a high level of abstraction, I can't understand most of what they are talking about. Can you? But I will be patient and wait for further clarification.

• Telegram Passes 500 Million Users As People Seek Facebook & Twitter (Big Tech) Alternatives by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.
  

• The Enthronement of False Dimitry, and What Will Happen Next by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• The Illusion of Democracy: Government by the Rich for the Even Richer by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room. My reaction: He seriously understates our fake democracy.
  

• Confessions of a Deprogrammed Trump Supporter by Canadian Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. My commentary follows: 

In this article Ehret is doing an obvious parody of a "deprogrammed" Trump supporter which is showing signs of becoming the latest fake theme in today's "news" provided by media corporations in America (see also this post). 

Matthew Ehret is developing of following. He is becoming a "political genius" by increasing numbers of acolytes of America and abroad. He joins a list of several other "geniuses" (James Corbett, Derrick Broze, etc.) of American politics who are proposing to lead the way out of the political mess the country is in. Ehret's articles are posted on popular critical websites like Strategic Culture Foundation and Fort Russ News (the latter appears to be posting exclusively his articles). Let me be clear--I don't share this current fawning and fashionable trend. I occasionally post articles authored by these people that shed some light on current problems. Although these "geniuses" function as good critics of American politics, they don't offer any effective solutions to this growing crisis of capitalist rule.

Ehret is another carefully guided well-read person whose mind has been prepared by 75 years of Empire "education" that forbade any reference to Marxist thought or ideas. In 1963 I graduated from a major university with a BA degree in political sociology, but I was never assigned a reading by Marx or Marxist oriented writers! I had to use the university's library to read such literature.

• What Snowden's Exile Says About America by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Berletic is an American, and former member of the Marine Corps, who lives in Thailand.)
  

• Nationwide Dementiafest: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Faces of Lockdowns by Amelia Janaskie, Jenin Younes, and Taleed Brown from American Institute for Economic Research. (Note: This post features three people from New York City who comment (via video) about the effects of the pandemic on the people they serve and on themselves. None of the three videos are longer than 12:04m. If this interested you, you may also be interested in a video on how the lockdown is affecting French students.)
  

• Risks of the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine – Dr. Louise Lagendijk (video) posted by Vanessa Beeley on her weblog The Wall Will Fall.
  

• Can US Workers Be Dismissed for Refusing to Be Vaxxed? by Stephen Lendman from Global Research.
  

• The Vaccine Race: Yet Another US Weapon for World Domination by Valery Kulikov from New Eastern Outlook. 

• Decentralization Urgent as Big Tech Condemns Free Speech by Dr. Joseph Mercola from his weblog Mercola.

• The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Is the covid ‘pandemic’ merely economic theatre? by Maribel Tuff from Off-Guardian. (Note: This post offers some relatively different views on the pandemic and related matters.)
  

• Indian Farmers on the Frontline Against Global Capitalism by Colin Todhunter from Off-Guardian.
  

• Deir Ezzor is a Sign of Things to Come by "The Ister" for "The Saker" Blog.
  

• Realizing the Dream of Communal Cities: A Conversation with Jennifer Lemus and José Luis Sifontes by Cira Pascual Marquina from Internationalist 360°. My commentary follows:

Although ordinary people in this article credit Hugo Chávez for their communal structure, I think that such people should be credited for the realization of bottom-up control of their nation of Venezuela come true. They have been severely tested by the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire and have passed the test.

In a two week visit in late 2005 in which we visited various communes and listening to officials, I wasn't impressed by their support. I don't think that the bureaucrats that were appointed by Chavez truly believed that such a project was possible--even Chavez didn't take the communal structure seriously enough. Chavez too often used the communal structure as a political base for his elections, and I found some of the officials in his government unaware of the details of the communal structure. My commentary in 2010 reveals my doubts about the Venezuelan radical experiment.

But thanks to ordinary people like Lemus and Sifontes, the nation is on the way to implementing the dreams of Chavez and the people of Venezuela.

• Twitter Latin America coordinator exposed as right-wing operative, amid anti-AMLO social media purge by Ben Norton from The Grayzone.
  

• Gen Z’s Call to Arms: Climate Crisis, to 9:57m video from RT (via a YouTube channel) in which Holland Cooke interviews Dr. Reese Halter, biologist and author.

Gen Z activists worldwide are answering a call to arms, as climate change continues to be a looming existential threat. Biologist and author of “The Gen Z Emergency” Dr. Reese Halter explains how our click-happy consumer culture has fueled the decline of global ecosystems. The youth of 2021 are taking matters into their own hands, acknowledging the failures of their predecessors to combat ecological extinction events.

• Complex Life Threatened by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.