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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, January 17, 2021

• The Swiss Force a Referendum Challenging Government Lockdown by Sam Jones of the Financial Times via Anti-Empire. (Note: I am posting this from Anti-Empire's website to avoid a paywall from the Financial Times.)
  

• COUP, COUP, KACHOO… by Paul Edwards from The Greanville Post.

• 9/11 Justice in 2021: An Interview with Ted Walter featuring Walter, a high-profile activist who is associated with various 9/11 organizations demanding an independent study of the 9/11 event which was the greatest psy-op in history. He is currently Director of Strategy and Development at AE911Truth from which this interview is sourced. Except for a self-disclosure of Walter's background as a teacher in Philadelphia, I could find no other information regarding the educational credentials of Ted Walter. However, the AE911Truth organization consists of mostly architects and engineers who see the obvious flaws of the government's official account of the 9/11 event.
  

• Dean Baker On Beating Inequality & COVID-19: Tackle Patent and Copyright Monopolies featuring Lynn Fries of GPEnewsdocs' channel via YouTube interviewing Dean Baker, a prominent liberal (in today's meaning in the US) economist in a 37:24m video. My commentary follows: 

Baker is completely unaware that he is exposing the contradictions between the logic of capitalism as applied to the current health pandemic that is creating havoc among people who do not have access to medical care and low-cost drugs and the profit motive of capitalist actors. He doesn't realize that under advanced capitalism drugs are only considered a commodity like any other to enrich those who have ownership (and control) over intellectual patents. Advanced capitalism is where the capitalist class has so much consolidated wealth and power that they control government institutions that supposedly serve the people. Baker, whose career as a well-paid economist has been comfortably serving capitalist institutions for the benefit of himself and his family, still isn't aware of the contradictions of capitalism that promotes the welfare of a tiny class of rich capitalists against the well-being of the overwhelming majority of the world's population.

• News Trends & Stories, Part II with Dr. Joseph P. Farrell featuring Catherine Fitts and her observations about the heroes amongst medical people who helped people at the risk of their careers in a 3:34m video from her website.

• Raskolnikov’s Dream Come True by Edward Curtin from Off-Guardian. This a best post.
  

• In The Aftermath of the Capitol Raid, The Facial Recognition Threat Persists by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.

• Biden Admin - Redux Deep State, Empire & Censorship featuring Chris Hedges interviewing Glenn Greenwald on the incoming Biden administration from RT via channel on YouTube. This is a best post.
  

• Silicon Valley and WEF-Backed Foundation Announce Global Initiative for COVID-19 Vaccine Records by Whitney Webb from her website Unlimited Hangout. 

Silicon Valley’s most influential companies, alongside healthcare companies, US intelligence contractors and the Commons Project Foundation, recently launched the Vaccination Credential Initiative. The initiative’s ambitions reach far beyond vaccines and will have major implications for civil liberties.

• Norway Officials ‘Not Alarmed’ by Deaths of 23 Elderly People After COVID Vaccine from Children's Health Defense.
  

• Big Tech and the Democratic Party Are Leading America to a Fascist Future by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Bidenfreude: Covid-19 in Post-Trump U.S. by Rob Wallace from Climate & Capitalism.

• Is the US Isolating China? Or Itself? by Joseph Thomas from New Eastern Outlook. 

... the US is waving around a broken stick and has run out of carrots. China on the other hand, waves around a big stick and one not aimed at players in the region, but at America and its retreat across the Pacific. China is also enjoying an abundance of carrots which to offer potential allies. 

For all of these reasons, the US, through its own foreign policy, is isolating itself, not China and it is a trend that will only continue into the foreseeable future until the US is able to forego its position above all other nations and accept a constructive position among them instead.

• If Anything The United States Is The “Home Base” Of Al-Qaeda, Not Iran by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
  

• The Russian Revolution: Separating Truth from Myth by Max Parry from The Unz Review. My reaction: I've encountered this propaganda so often. This article describes how capitalist ideologists tried to re-write the history of the Russian Revolution to conform to capitalist propaganda. But the irony is that his capitalist masters fired Prof. Antony Sutton in 1976 from Stanford's Hoover Institution after he wrote in his book Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler that international capitalists funded the rise of the Nazi Party. Sutton was highly erratic in his interpretation of history, but so were his peers who were trying to ingratiate themselves with their capitalist bosses to provide support for their propaganda.

• Social Media Giants Ban Trump, but the Real Censorship is of Palestinians by Jessica Buxbaum from Mint Press News.
  

Posts will be spotty this week: Tuesday, December 22 through Saturday, December 26, 2020

I expect to have a full posting on Sunday, December 27, 2020.

• The Myth of a Golden Age of American liberalism by Chris Orlet from CounterPunch. My commentary follows:

I will always take notice of the use of "liberal" and "liberalism" to describe politics in the USA, and this grabbed my attention coming from a magazine online group that were earlier actual descendants of the British aristocracy that were replaced by "liberals" in the contemporary sense. I have over my adult lifetime puzzled over the lack of distinction with the usage of words related to "liberalism", and earlier in the magazine and later in the online posts that CounterPunch has run its articles. It is confusing when I discover the word in articles in other publications. I don't know which definition is meant except by the intellectual content framed by the author. There were, and continues to be, two definitions of the word which I will explain.

The original definition is now regarded as a "classical" definition of the word. While writing his commentary, I found to my surprise the distinction recognized in an article written only last summer by Robert Longley and posted on ThoughtCo's website entitled "What Is Classical Liberalism? Definition and Examples". In this article he distinguishes the two in one sentence: "Today, classical liberalism is viewed in contrast to the more politically-progressive philosophy of social liberalism." Thus, the argument here is that the current use of "liberalism" is only a subset of what is now termed "classical liberalism", the ideology of capitalism. And, according to his definition, the current use of the word prevalent throughout especially the USA means only a kind of social form of classical liberalism with its emphasis on civil rights supposedly guaranteed by the Constitution. Notice that this definition does not in any way disturb liberalism in its classical meaning.

History has demonstrated that "social liberalism" is essentially propaganda used by the capitalist ruling classes to prettify the essential inequalities of capitalism and to diminish the use of classical liberalism, the ideology of capitalism. This propaganda serves to hide the social harms in the forms of racism, poverty, exploitation, wars, etc. that have been done to the general population under capitalist regimes that have always favored the enrichment of the few over the health and welfare of the many. These crimes are the result of capitalism and its self-serving ideology of classical liberalism and today's liberalism ("social liberalism") that has functioned over the past several centuries to create the conditions of today. Can you who identify as liberals in the contemporary sense continue to ignore these conditions: lack of access to healthcare, widespread poverty, racism, neverending wars, and the destabilization of the climate which is threatening to end nearly all life on planet Earth including humans? 

Now our masters in the capitalist ruling classes have promised us more social harms to come under the Great Reset where, according to promises by them, we "will own nothing and be happy". Could this be another ideology like "social liberalism" that serves to hide their wet-dream of total control over us, that is, a "new world order" under their control and serving only their needs? If you like the present social-economic reality or are thoroughly indoctrinated by the propaganda of the current ruling class, then you will obey them like sheep headed down the chute to be slaughtered; but if not, you need to see what they have planned for us, actively oppose their plans, and then destroy their system of capitalism, that is, private ownership of the economy, that has given them so much power and wealth but has caused so much destruction on societies today. [I have done some editing of this commentary on 12/25/2020 to clarify my argument.]

• With Biden's New Threats, the Russia Discourse is More Reckless and Dangerous Than Ever by Glenn Greenwald from Substack.

• World Economic Forum Tabs Mass Murderers to Promote The Great Reset by Steve Lalla from Internationalist 360°. 

• Johns Hopkins newspaper removes study examining COVID death rate by Benjamin Zeisloft from Campus Reform.

• CHD Article on Big-Picture Look at Current Pandemic Beneficiaries Accepted by Peer-Reviewed Journal from Children's Health Defense. (Note: The fact that this article was accepted by the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research is a recognition of it importance that I overlooked earlier in this month.) My reaction: The rather lengthy article contains what the ruling class has planned for us ordinary people (not billionaires and their sycophants) according to the Great Reset project.

• Is Society Collapsing? by Kirkpatrick Sale from CounterPunch. My reaction: He should win the bet, but the financial circumstances of the escrow holder will determine the winner. If he/she is a member of the ruling class of capitalists, he will lose the bet. But if she/he is a worker, he will win the bet. If he/she is in between, who knows? If society is collapsing, all humans will ultimately lose because humans need societies to exist.

• The PCR Deception by Derrick Broze from The Conscious Resistance. (Note: You can also access this 15:07m video from ISE.) 

• Propaganda Pandemic: The Craziest COVID Claims Of The Year by Dan Cohen from Mint Press News. 

• Climate and environmental crisis: Sorcerer’s apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF by Eric Toussaint from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt which is based in Belgium but international). His conclusion:

The promoters of the dominant productivist model and of the capitalist system first denied the existence of a major issue, namely the environmental damage and climate change, and they still actively support policies that worsen the situation. Next, when their position became impossible to uphold, they made the headlines in international media by publishing a report on the issue, thus attempting to give credence to the idea that international institutions and the governments of the most industrialized countries have taken the measure of this serious problem, while in fact it had been deliberately concealed for decades. At the end of the day, those who defend the current system [capitalism] imply that it can solve a problem it is largely responsible for, thus permitting its own perpetuation. It is urgent to understand that the only fair and sustainable solution involves a radical questioning of this productivist capitalist system, which cannot but generate environmental damage and careering inequalities. [my insertion]

• The Future of Vaccines featuring James Corbett, a Canadian, delivering his research about the new mRNA vaccine supposedly to treat SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 illness in a 41:34m video from his weblog The Corbett Report. This is a best post. 

If the Gateses and the Faucis and the representatives of the international medical establishment get their way, life will not return to normal until the entire planet is vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2. What many do not yet understand, however, is that the vaccines that are being developed for SARS-Cov-2 are unlike any vaccines that have ever been used on the human population before. And, as radically different as these vaccines appear, they represent only the very beginning of a complete transformation of vaccine technology that is currently taking place in research labs across the planet. This is a study of The Future of Vaccines.

• The Dangerous Alliance of Rothschild and the Vatican of Francis by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook.

• WHO Quietly Changes “Herd Immunity” Definition In Stunning Display Of Orwellian Social Engineering featuring Ryan Cristián reporting and commenting ("concisely" in a 24:26 post--the first video which starts at 2:35m) on a significant change on the UN World Health Organization (WHO) website's definition of "herd immunity" that suspiciously implies that they are pushing an agenda to promote vaccinations. He also refers to a Tweet by Dr. Sam Bailey who indicates that excess mortality rates are influenced by pressure on physicians to record any deaths that could conceivably tied to COVID-19 illness. (Be sure to view a post on Bitchute for Bailey's explanation about excess deaths which demolishes WHO's declaration of a pandemic.) I also have previously reported evidence that hospitals are being paid more for deaths "caused" by this illness.

• Covid-1984 And The Agendas To Come with James Perloff. In this Activist Post Spiro Skouras interviews "author, journalist and recently retired registered nurse, James Perloff" in a 54:10m video interview in which Perloff discloses that his book was banned by Amazon. I note that he asserts (at 17:57m) that the future that we can expect is "bolshevism in America". This is another example of the confusion by current critical activists who mix up fascism with bolshevism which forbad private ownership of the economy as existed in Western capitalist countries. Perloff's use of the term bolshevism only applies to the Stalinist rule of the Soviet Union after bolshevists in that country were attacked mainly by viscerally anti-communist armies of the British ruling class (also 13 armies of other capitalist ruling classes of nations including the USA) which aligned themselves with the small Russian capitalist class and caused a civil war. This eventually caused Stalin's takeover of the Soviet Union. Then the nation was ruled autocratically by Stalin, who was a supreme nationalist (not an imperialists that Western propagandists portrayed him as), and together with his loyal followers in the bureaucracy formed a new self-serving ruling class. This example demonstrates the effectiveness, and the confusion of activists, resulting from 75 years of anti-communist propaganda. 

• Twelve Times the Lockdowners Were Wrong by Phillip W. Magness from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, July 19, 2020

• The Great Reset Fraud by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. My commentary follows:

I am getting sick and tired of pointing to the biases of post WWII intellectuals like Zuesse and now Ehret. Their adoration of FDR is always evident and they stay comfortably away from naming the system. Ehret names the system "oligarchism" to avoid naming it capitalism. His only mention of it is when he quotes WEF (World Economic Forum) head Klaus Schwab who doesn't hesitate to name the system which has given so much wealth and power to his peers. That's right, you have to be a major capitalist or sycophant to name the system. All others must engage in Orwell's "newspeak". This phenomenon is another characteristic of people who have been "educated" in North American educational institutions of higher education since WWII. Bruce Lerro described the purge of leftwing intellectuals during the McCarthy period (early 1950s), and such people nowadays live in fear for their careers if they should take the name "capitalism" in vain (def. #3). Most avoid the term altogether.

The June 3 event named The Great Reset organized by the WEF is another piece of evidence why I think that the current coronavirus pandemic was instigated by agents of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. The transnational capitalists have not even blinked at the appearance of this pandemic. All the evidence suggests that they engineered it to solve many of their problems such as a perfect cover for a 2nd bank bailouts by the Federal Reserve, their obsession with getting rid of Trump after the next election, ridding themselves of "useless eaters" (retired workers and the "deplorables"), their attempt to reduce the burden of population on the environment, etc. After the assassinations of the Kennedys, MLK, etc., the phony War of Drugs, 9/11, the Iraq invasions, the phony War on Terrorism, etc, why should we not believe that this pandemic was caused by them?

• Media Mask-Mania, or Covid19 Groupthink by Michael Lesher from Off-Guardian.

• Cogs in the Climate Machine by Julia Steinberger, Swiss-American ecological economist at the University of Leeds, from Scientists’ Warning. (Note: I do not know why there are gaps in this article, but keep scrolling down to the end of the article.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, March 30, 2020

• Liberal Elite More Deadly Than Coronavirus by Mike Pappas from Left Voice. 

• Dr. Fauci and COVID-19 Priorities: Therapeutics Now or Vaccines Later? (Video) from Children's Health Defense.

• Corporations Are Broke. It’s Time to Cut Up Their Credit Cards. By Christian Parenti and Dante Dallavalle from Jacobin.

• Covid-19 has already sparked huge state intervention. We should go further and start requisitioning the empty homes of the rich by Dr.Lisa McKenzie from RT.

• Why American Workers Have Been Left Out of Our Life-and-Death Decision-Making by Sharon Block from The American Prospect.

• There’s No Better Time To Break This Mental Prison featuring Lee Camp of the Redacted Tonight Show on RT (via YouTube).

• Why Are Progressives Voting For Ultimate Screwing Of America? Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show discusses this issue with Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone.

• Icahn Called BlackRock “An Extremely Dangerous Company”; the Fed Has Chosen It to Manage Its Corporate Bond Bailout Programs by Pam and Russ Martens from Wall Street on Parade. 

• Is the U.S. Able to Handle COVID-19? – Global Prospects Hang on This Question by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• The Coronavirus, public debt and life by Lujan Miranda from CADTM.

• The Post-Coronavirus World Will Be Far Worse Than the Pre-Coronavirus World by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• US 'granting waivers' to release Iranian assets for coronavirus fight: Iranian sources by Rohollah Faghihi from Middle East Eye. (Note: This is about 3rd party sanctions, that is, corporations that do business with Iran. Meanwhile, the USA is imposing more sanctions on Iran.)

• Iran FM: US ‘medical terrorism’ leading to ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ from PressTV (Iran).

• Will the Coronavirus be the Demise of the European Union? by Valery Kulikov from New Eastern Outlook.

• Pedro Aznar asks a CRUCIAL question by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• ‘We need to be alert’: Scientists fear second coronavirus wave as China’s lockdowns ease by David Cyranoski from Nature.

• Edge of Extinction: Please Stop Wishing for Extinction by Guy McPherson directly from his weblog Nature Bats Last.

How the US Created the Cold War

Click here to access article by Eric Zuesse from Washington's Blog.

Unfortunately, the false history of WWII has been written by the ruling classes of the current US/Anglo/Zionist Empire through their well-paid propaganda agents throughout institutions of the Empire. In contrast, Zuesse offers a valuable source of the real truth, but his insights are limited by his social-democratic political orientation. 

This article (not the article posted in Strategic Culture Foundation--an edited version that left out his statement about "capitalism"--cleared up a number of questions I had about Eric Zuesse, the author. I have written several (at least) articles complaining about his use of the feudal term "aristocracy" instead of "ruling class" in his numerous articles. I saw this as reflecting his indoctrination in capitalist views mostly influenced by many years of education in US schools that he obviously had experienced. I was not wrong. In this article he clearly defines himself as a "progressive" by which he means his commitment to social democracy, a subset of capitalist ideologies, as illustrated by what has existed in the Scandinavian countries particularly after WWII when they had elaborate social welfare programs constructed on top of capitalist economies. Also, he is an admirer of FDR who saw the necessity of more elaborate welfare programs to preserve capitalism through the Great Depression. I gathered this from several paragraphs in the article such as:

Even other parts of that post-FDR system, such as the IMF, have served as siphons from publics around the world into the bank-accounts of the U.S. aristocracy and of its allied aristocracies. That’s not what capitalism was supposed to be. [Really?]

 And another quote:

Those weren’t “socialist” countries; they were dictatorial socialist (i.e., communist) countries, as opposed to democratic socialist (i.e., progressive) countries such as in Scandinavia — the proper term for what the Soviet alliance was is “communist,” not “socialist” — and there was a very big difference between the Scandinavian countries, versus the communist countries (though the U.S. regime wants to slur one by the other so as to sucker fools against democratic socialism — progressivism).

In other words, his "progressivism" is social democratic. He evidently believes that capitalism could be compatible with a sustainable Earth and that it could remain peaceful and just in spite of abundant contrary evidence throughout the relatively short history of capitalism.

Of further interest to me was a link in this article that brought me to an article in a publication that is followed by a section of the ruling class. This was published in Foreign Policy and entitled "The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan … Stalin Did" that added a great deal of clarity regarding the use of atomic bombs on Japan as well as the budding Empire's intentions toward the Soviet Union.

Zuesse's contributions to the geopolitical realities of our world are essential, but what isn't essential is his left-liberal views (capitalism can be reformed, his use of "aristocracy" instead of "ruling class", etc.) about these realities. 

Posts I especially recommend to you for today: Tuesday, October 29, 2019

• POLL: Brainwashed Liberals Love The CIA Most! from The Jimmy Dore Show via YouTube. 

• Caliph closure: ‘He died like a dog’ by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• POTUS Murder Mystery Hour: Trump and The Illusive Al-Baghdadi from 21st Century Wire. "SUNDAY WIRE host Patrick Henningsen explores America’s latest made-for-TV psychodrama".  

• Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the forgotten history of Iraq by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site.

• This charge is 100% false': Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal arrested months after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence by Ben Norton from The Grayzone. 

• Reagan Official Says Cut Military Spending! Panel SCREAMS! from The Jimmy Dore Show.

• FBI Never Stopped Unlawful Spying on Dissidents, from Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford.

• Endorsing The Deep State Endangers Democracy by Bernhard from Moon of Alabama.

• OPCW Losing Credibility As Even More Revelations Surface On Douma by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Lebanese PM Hariri submits his resignation amid ongoing anti-govt. protests from PressTV.

• Washington’s Truth-Lovers are Out of the Closet in Time for the Election Race by Jean Perier from New Eastern Outlook. 

• Greta Thunberg Speaks the Horrific Truth of Humanity’s Fate by "xraymike79" from Collapse of Industrial Civilization. (Note: my re-post is a little late, but important from this author who is a longtime activist warning us about the climate crisis.)

Revealing While Concealing the “Invisible” Government’s Conspiracies

Click here to access article by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtin. 

Curtin takes aim at political critics of our masters in the Deep State such as Christopher Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Alexander Cockburn by arguing that they have, in effect, colluded with them in order to conceal deeper truths about their machinations and manipulations of perceptions. I think they have performed this service for the Deep State in order to protect their careers or because they were fundamentally conflicted about revealing too much of their crimes. In the case of Cockburn, he was conflicted by his aristocratic ancestry which gave him an income to pursue a career as a dissident and critic. In the case of Noam Chomsky, he wants to maintain his academic position and the privileges that goes along with this status. 

Our masters are very adept at managing the consent and dissent of the broad masses of their societies. They learned much of the power of money, which they possessed being a capitalist ruling class, to manipulate such critics in not revealing too much about their anti-social and war crimes. These people are what Malcolm X described as "house niggers". They are a part of the numerous cadre of upper-middle class, highly educated and well paid technicians that the ruling class depends on to keep their capitalist system running.

Bernie's Disappointing Venezuela Tweet

Jimmy Dore interviews Mike Prysner and Abby Martin who have just returned from Venezuela. He asks them about their reactions to Bernie Sanders' statement and other matters. It appears to me from their remarks that Bernie could do a rerun of his actions in 2016 (sheepherding activists into the Democratic Party) and get away with it. See if you agree.

Recommended articles for Thursday, January 17, 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The World Order That’s Now Emerging

Click here to access article by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Commentary edited for greater clarity at 4:15 PM CT.)

There are numerous errors in this article which in the first example illustrates sloppiness on the part of the author and the editor for this website, but following this error are errors due to long years of indoctrination that is an integral part of all education in the capitalist US-led (trans-national) Empire.

The first error is so obvious that I wonder about the editorship of this website. Zuesse's mathematical skills seem to be lacking when he divides 13.7% by .32% which is clearly more than 4.28. The correct calculation is 42.8. Thus those killed in the Soviet Union were 42.8 times greater than US killed in WWII. (11/22/2018: This error has now been corrected.)

The remaining errors he commits are the result of the long years of indoctrination he received to insure that he was thoroughly convinced of virtues of capitalism and likewise convinced of the failures of Marxist theories. The remainder of his essay provides numerous examples of this. 

... the USSR’s communist regime was additionally hobbled by Karl Marx’s labor theory of value, which produced prices that contained no useful information about demand and thus no constructive information for planners.

Whatever the weaknesses were of the Soviet Union, one was not charging much less for essentials like housing and food. Of course, they clearly had other measures to determine demand other than market prices. Thus, housing was dirt-cheap (like only a few dollars per month) and food likewise. This is true of every country claiming to be socialist. Socialism requires that such essentials as shelter and food not be a commodity the price of which is determined by the market. If there is a shortage of such items, genuine socialist societies will always resort to rationing.

Throughout his posts he typically avoids referring to capitalism, ruling class, etc. by always using the feudal term "aristocracy" instead of the capitalist ruling class. He summarizes his liberal/left bias by stating:

America’s post-WW-II dominance, combined with Marx’s crippling economic theory, and produced the exodus of East Europeans to The West.

He goes on to argue that the great errors of the US "aristocracy" (sic) was to embark on a goal of world domination and adopted a "greed is good" orientation--not that capitalist systems inevitably result in ruling classes and must forever seek the accumulation of wealth in order exercise control/dominance otherwise they will be absorbed by others who gain more wealth and power. Thus, one often hears from capitalists about the necessity to grow or die. Zuesse avoids the intrinsic antisocial nature of the system by implying that this was simply an error of judgement by the US "aristocracy" (sic).

Otherwise the essay is excellent in that it argues that we are on a path that will lead to a devastating WWIII, and is supported by excellent documentation. Also Zuesse accurately directs our attention to the two main weapons used by the US Empire to rule the world: military dominance and the maintenance of the US dollar as the world's currency.

Could it be that his perspective has found sympathy with the editors of this Russian website because Russian society has a large component of a capitalist contingent in their economy and government? In any case, I think you can agree that Zuesse's views illustrate what passes for a liberal-left perspective in America, and as such retards the rejection of a system that will be the death of all of us.

Articles recommended for Wednesday, September 26, 2018

• The New York Times promotes the Democratic Socialists of America by Genevieve Leigh from World Socialist Web Site.

Is the ruling capitalist class promoting the Democratic Socialists of America party as the new sheepherder, replacing Bernie Sanders, to lead American sheep into one of their political corrals? The author's report suggests so.

The New York Times promotes the DSA because, far from posing a threat to the capitalist system, the DSA is a principal political instrument for the Democratic Party to block and divert a leftward movement of workers and young people. Those looking for genuine socialism, including workers and young people who have joined the DSA, should be advised that such a program will not come out of the pages of the bourgeois press.

• Why reform won’t work by Eric Schechter from The Greanville Post. 

This short and to-the-point essay is right on the mark about some fundamental insights: reform doesn't work when a system is basically flawed; we humans have forgotten that we took a wrong turn some 10,000 years ago in tolerating dominant and self-centered sociopaths; as a consequence we can't, or refuse to, see the way out of our psychological box.

• Trump delivers fascistic tirade at the United Nations by Bill Van Auken from World Socialist Web Site.

An Online Vigil in Defense of Julian Assange With Daniel Ellsberg, Craig Murray, Bill Binney and Ray McGovern

Click here to access article and lengthy (nearly 4 hrs) video posted on ConsortiumNews which was conceived by an international group of people and organized as United in solidarity for Julian Assange. They are rightfully concerned about the whistleblower-in-chief and the ongoing Empire's vendetta against him. 

This is a monumental task for this movement to protect and free Julian Assange from further harassment by agents of the Empire. However, it is evident to me that they are operating with a limited budget: the quality of the recordings, the lack of publicity up to now in alternative news media, and other mishaps. I wish to make clear that I am wholly in support of such actions even though I am offering some criticisms.

I have only listened to the first interview with Bill Binney conducted by New Zealander Suzie Dawson, and thus my commentary mostly applies to him although I think his thoughts are representative of the group as a whole.

Binney, a former employee of the National Security Agency (NSA), the Empire's primary spy agency, expands with his intimate knowledge of the NSA and the threat posed to them by whistleblowers such as Julian Assange. He offers numerous examples of NSA's lies, violations of laws and the Constitution, conspiracies by the NSA to keep Congress from meddling into their criminal affairs of running the Empire, and keeping the public in ignorance about their nefarious activities. However, his remarks only suggest the corruption of government by powerful private agencies and individuals, and the necessity to fight this corruption which he argues is leading to a "totalitarian government". Although at one point he refers to a "deep state", he nowhere expands on the implications of this. 

This ideological position precisely identifies where most of the US educated left exist. Although they might occasionally use words like "deep state", they refuse to believe that the concept refers to anything other than private entities trying to take over what, in their mind, is a genuine democratic government. They simply don't believe that our their (capitalist) government was established as a democratic facade which hides the rule by a class of self-serving owners and made possible by the system their ancestors created called capitalism.

For anything of significance to change in our nation and its Empire requires a rejection of the entire liberal mythology and the recognition of the reality of rule by a self-serving tiny class. I am not referring to the modern sense of liberal, but to the classic liberalism of the self-serving capitalist revolutionaries like John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton that still exists today.  The modern sense of liberalism is simply a deceptive construct to distract people from reality.

I am convinced that only ordinary people who, after suffering so much pain and poverty, finally reject capitalism and take matters in their own hands to establish a system that works for them. This conviction means that "educated" upper-middle class leftists can not alone accomplish any significance change. They are frequently too indoctrinated and compromised by the rewards provided to them by ruling capitalists to risk anything for the establishment of another system. At least I hope that they can free Julian Assange.

Recommended articles for Wednesday, July 18, 2018

• Climb Down From the Summit of Hostile Propaganda by Norman Solomon from ConsortiumNews.

• Trump’s Treasonous Traitor Summit or: How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New McCarthyism by CJ Hopkins from CounterPunch. 

• Syrian War Report – July 17, 2018: Militants Are On Full Retreat In Southern Syria from South Front.

• EFF Sues to Invalidate FOSTA, an Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law by David Greene from Electronic Frontier Foundation.

American Pravda: Breaching the Media Barrier [updated]

Click here to access article by Ron Unz from his website The Unz Review. (Thanks go to an activist who alerted me to this article.) I added a link to Phil Butler's article on 6/13/2018.

Taking Unz's argument at face value, I think the article serves more to illustrate that members especially of the upper-middle class are disturbed by the gross lies that corporate media are spreading than it serves to argue for an effective strategy to counter their lies. 

The capitalist system is based on private ownership of any productive enterprises in societies. Thus the owners inevitably evolve into a class with considerable power over the rest of society and over time, because of the dynamics of capitalism, ownership becomes concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. The security of the vast majority of people are faced with increasing wars and precarity, and they naturally engage in all sorts of resistance. To counter such resistance, the owner class must counter this resistance by using their media to spread ever greater deceptions about what they are doing in the world. This is precisely what is happening today.

The class that has contributed heavily to this end-development of capitalism is the well-rewarded upper-middle class of technologists, scientists, and highly educated trained and indoctrinated professionals in every field of endeavor. (Phil Butler is an excellent example of this phenomenon.) Currently even they, in spite of receiving many rewards and perks, are having a difficult time believing the lies that are constantly spewed by their counterparts in corporate media. As a consequence many, such as Ron Unz, Patrick Buchanan, Paul Craig Roberts, Ron Paul, Andrei Raevsky (The Saker), Bernhard (blogger for Moon of Alabama) are now defecting--some such as Chris Hedges more than others. As a consequence Unz has not posted any of Hedges' writings on his website since 2016, and he was published frequently on his website previously. 

I noticed on the right side of this posting that he posted an interview with David Harvey, a noted American Marxist, conducted by Chris Hedges. Because David Harvey has not appeared on this website before, it seems to me that Harvey's post was juxtaposed with this article in order to establish his neutrality and credibility regarding capitalism. Considering the evidence of his postings as a whole, I think Unz, as a member of the upper-middle class and a conservative, is worried about the fascist direction that his masters in capitalist ruling class are going. Thus, he and his fellow-rebels are waking up and smelling the foul odors emanating from the increasing fascist actions taken by their masters in the capitalist class and they are defecting--but only so far. Not far enough to challenge the system from which they have benefited so much, but are only desperately striving to return to an earlier stage of capitalism like in the 20th century when they, as an upper-middle class, flourished. 

However, there is another argument that one could make--I won't because I prefer to believe that Unz is honest--that he and agents of the ruling class are cleverly trying to co-opt alternative media to tame it and capture its audience as much as possible so that the threats posed by this opposition media are diminished.

Russia and the War Party

Click here to access article by Carl Boggs from The Greanville Post. 

More examples of well-rewarded liberals promoting the imperial agenda of the US-led Empire.

The steady deterioration of American political discourse seems to have reached its lowest ebb in historical memory, visible in the rightward shift of both Democrats and Republicans. One sign is the frenzied Democratic assault on Republicans from the right, especially in foreign policy. Another is the resounding silence on the most crucial problems facing humanity: threat of catastrophic war, nuclear arms race, ecological crisis, health-care debacle, the worsening miseries of global capitalism. Tabloid-style spectacles have increasingly filled media space. Still another sign is the intensifying anti-Russia hysteria promoted by unhinged liberals in Congress and the corporate media, reminiscent of the worst McCarthyism.

Another example of this descent into absurdity is the book Russian Roulette, by liberals Michael Isikoff and David Corn – Beltway writers whose shrill anti-Russian crusade has received highest accolades by the New York Times and such promoters of the permanent warfare state as Rachel Maddow ....

Another Beautiful Soul: Counterpunching the Global Assault on Dissent

Click here to access article by Canadian Stephen Gowans from What's Left. 

Gowans provides a perfect illustration of a well indoctrinated and very likely an upper middle class person who is heavily promoted by liberal media such as CounterPunch and Truthdig because she likes to promote identity politics and support Empire policies. Although trained in physics and astronomy, Sonali Kolhatkar has become the darling of the liberal-oriented, supposedly "alternative" media industry. She has, and will be, given all kinds of rewards and encouragement to continue in this line of work because she has so well served to justify and rationalize the policies of the ruling capitalist class to politically liberal Americans.

Kolhatkar’s professions of neutrality notwithstanding, it’s clear whose side she’s on in the matter of the US war to impose neo-colonial slavery on Syria (and after Syria, Iran), but it’s not clear why. She certainly hasn’t arrived at her position by reasoned analysis; none is offered. Her disquisition is embarrassingly unsophisticated. She appears to be unaware of the issues that lie at the root of the conflict. She’s oblivious to the reality that mass media are jingoistic. And she’s incapable of recognizing glaring lapses of her own logic. We can only wonder what Counterpunch saw in her piece.

Recommended articles for Sunday 4/8/2018

• The Occupation of the American Mind, a one hour and 25 minute film produced by The Media Education Foundation and delivered to you by Vimeo and posted by The Real News. "A documentary film narrated by legendary musician and activist Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame trains a harsh light on Israel's [and Zionists'] decades-long propaganda war in the U.S."

• Marches, Voting and Social Change by Gary Olson from The Greanville Post. 

The recent March for Our Lives, started by remarkable high school students but taken over by the Democratic Party and financed by wealthy corporate and Hollywood patrons, drew effusive praise from mainstream political pundits. But anyone who’s followed gun control knows the Democrats have never stood up to the NRA. In truth, national level Democrats seized on an opportunity to coopt young people and channel them into electoral gains for themselves. 

Our economic and political rulers are vexed that students of color were standing in solidarity with Parkland while simultaneously linking that shooting with systemic violence in Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore. They worry that  young people are becoming concerned with a wide range of issues far beyond gun control and will seek solutions outside the two-party status quo.

• The Doomsday Machine: 00:00:10 Seconds to Midnight. Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, Geopolitics and the Dollar from Global Research. Although the author describes the tenuous position of human existence in today's world, he doesn't realize that sooner or later capitalists' addiction to the drugs of profit and power would inevitably and ultimately threaten our existence. He exhibits his ignorance--or possibly cowardice--by using the abstract term "the powers that be". And this ignorance and sometimes cowardice has infected millions, especially in the co-opted upper-middle class, that capitalists depend on so much to keep their system that delivers their drugs functioning.

I have lived my whole life under the notifications of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and their Doomsday Clock. It is currently set a two minutes to midnight after many years of variance, some as far away as seventeen minutes. After reading Daniel Ellsberg’s The Doomsday Machine, it would probably be more appropriate to move it forward to ten seconds before midnight. A combination of two main factors – global climate change and nuclear weapons launch on warning risks – puts not only humanity but virtually all species under threat of extinction. 

• State Dept Accuses Russia And Syria Of Gassing Civilians Before Any Investigation by Caitlin Johnstone (Australian) from her website. This false-flag event has been widely predicted by informed and honest people who know that the Empire's ruling class has become desperate and degenerate. After all, it must be acknowledged that they've gotten away with so many other crimes: the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the 9/11 false-flag event, etc., and most of the people believed their fairy tales which were widely disseminated by their media corporations.

Some recommended posts for 2/9/2018

• "What You Aren't Being Told About NPR" by Lee Camp of RT's Redacted Tonight program. Because I've seen the former liberal (this label means that they favored popular interests within a capitalist society) National Public Radio morph over the past 40 years into a right-wing propaganda radio network called "NPR" that is sponsored by right-wing people like the Koch brothers, I delight in posting this Lee Camp's satire of the radio network.

• "Corruption is Legal in America". This YouTube video was uploaded by apparently well-meaning people at Represent.Us, a group that advocates citizens' use of referendums to by-pass legislatures and Congress to prevent big capitalists from funding candidates and their support for the interests of the rich. However, seeing that they have received favorable media exposure from The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN, NBC, etc., I rather doubt their sincerity. It is likely an example of how the capitalist ruling class prefers to co-opt any studies and reforms groups in order to lead them into dead-end political activity--much like the Bernie Sanders campaign of last year in the Democratic Party. Anyway, the Princeton study is a very worthy one, and one that I referred to last year here on my website. This 5:50m YouTube video summarizes the study very well.

• "Why is U.S. not globally condemned for its military occupation of Syria?" by Eric Zuesse from The Greanville Post. Although the author denies that Trump is the contemporary version of Hitler, Trump is a corporate fascist because he loves the military establishment and the generals, and he doesn't hesitate to use, or threaten to use, actual military violence to get his way. That is the authentic face of advanced capitalism once it decides to take off the mask of their fake version of democracy. In this post I don't think that Zuesse makes a solid argument to support the title of the post. I think he is only referring to the many nations under the US-led Empire, but not the whole world. Here in the USA very little has been broadcast or publicized in corporate media about the incident; and what little there was, was mostly lies.