Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, May 24, 2021

• 10 Covid-Skeptic Memes to Get You Through the Day – Part 3 by Kim Usbourne from Off-Guardian.
  

• America’s Public Health System Is Utterly Corrupt by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog.
  

• Imagining Year 2020 Without Fauci, Redfield, USIAID, and the CDC by John Tamny from American Institute for Economic Research. My reaction: From my personal experience, I find "cancel culture" highly effective in limiting the views of ordinary Americans, particularly in relation to Americans believing whatever CDC and Dr. Fauci say despite abundant evidence to the contrary. "Cancel culture" is a ruling class sub-ideology that justifies censorship of those who have dissenting views, a characteristic of historical fascist-style capitalism. Worse yet, "cancel culture" is encouraging, and largely succeeding, in getting ordinary Americans to ignore dissident views related to the pandemic no matter how qualified they are on the subject.
  

• Slavoj Žižek, Emergency Capitalism, and the Capitulation of the Left by Fabio Vighi from The Philosophical Salon.

• How Billionaire Foundations Fund NGOs to Advance US Foreign Policy Goals by Rick Sterling from Dissident Voice.
  

• A People’s Guide to the War Industry by Christian Sorensen from Consortium News.

• The Disintegrated States of America by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker Blog". (Note: This post is essentially a book review of Disintegration: Indicators of the Coming American Collapse, a recent book authored by Andrei Martyanov that has had a marked influence on Escobar's thinking.)
  

• Manufacturing Consent for War: 70 Years of CIA Coups, Assassinations, False Flag Operations and Mass Murder by Jeremy Kuzmarov from Internationalist 360°. (Note: This post is a book review of Vijay Prashad's book entitled "Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations".) 

• America’s ‘Deal of the Century’ in Flames After Israel Pounds Gaza by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• The US Isn’t An Israel Puppet, Israel Isn’t A US Puppet: It’s One Empire by Caitlin Johnstone, an independent Australian blogger, with her American husband's narration of her post. (Note: This is consistent with my longtime designation of the empire: US/Anglo/Zionist Empire which I argue reflects reality.)

• Israeli Soldiers Murder Palestinian Child And Kidnap Young Men In The Village Of Bil’in by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
  

• U.S. hypocrisy on human rights shines bright on Palestine by Danny Haiphong from CGTN, China's major online news publication. My reaction: Ordinary Americans are too absorbed with surviving, subject to brainwashing propaganda, and other distracting nonsense, that they will ignore reports like this.

• 'She was too vocal': Outrage grows over AP journalist fired for pro-Palestine views by MEE staff from Middle East Eye (based in London).
  

• We’re wired to care for others featuring an interview conducted by Sophie Shevardnadze of Tbilisi, Georgia (Sophie&Co.) with Patricia Churchland, a retired neuroscientist from San Diego, California, from Shevardnadze's RT channel on YouTube. My reaction: Although Churchland's theory of human nature as social animals makes sense, she admits that her field of neuroscience are unable to fully explain the phenomenon of sociopaths ("psychopaths"). Could it be that the man-made system of capitalism rewards "psychopaths" with wealth and power? 

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, April 29, 2021

• Vaccine Passports Used To Create A Lesser Class of Citizens? features Ben Swann discussing the subject from ISE.

• What will we lose? by Alex Bartlett from Off-Guardian (Note: The author is living and working in the Ontario province of Canada.) 

• 💥How The CDC Manipulated The Coronavirus by Dr. David Martin (2:20m video) from EarthNewspaper. Until the allegations are refuted by a credible source, this is a best post.

•  Legal worries on EU's 'green certificates' for Covid travel by Ciarán McCollum from  EUobserver.

• Covid Public Health Policies Are Killing the Elderly, Deliberately Pt. I from the Alliance for Human Research Protection. 

• Amid Widespread Disease, Death, and Poverty, the Major Powers Increased Their Military Spending in 2020 by Lawrence Wittner from Common Dreams.

• Award-winning Journalist Julian Assange Languishes in a British Super Max Prison at the Behest of the Biden Regime by Dr. Leon Tressell from Global Research.

"The United States and its NATO allies have weaponised the issue of human rights; using it to attack their geopolitical opponents particularly Russia and China. Sadly, the mainstream media in the West fails to point out the glaring hypocrisy of this weaponisation of human rights."

In Mid February, the Biden regime indicated that it was carrying out an ‘inter agency’ review with a view to closing Guantánamo Bay by the end of the president’s term of office. Sounds eerily familiar. Barack Obama within days of taking office also promised to close the infamous prison which stills holds 40 people in detention.

The overwhelming majority of media outlets in the West carrying news of Biden’s promise fail their readers. They fail to remind their readers that the journalist, who exposed the violations of human rights committed by the US at Guantánamo Bay, is locked up in a British supermax prison.

• They Lie and Then They Lie Some More by Phil Butler from New Eastern Outlook.

• Lavrov Calls Out Perfidious Albion in EU Diplomat Spat by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Reject Mainstream Culture: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog, but narrated by somebody else with a distinctly American accent. 

My reaction: I particularly liked this insight from "The Edge of the Narrative Matrix":

 

When people object to criticisms of the US-centralized empire, it isn’t because those criticisms are unfounded. It’s because if those criticisms are valid, it will mean everything they believe about the world is wrong. It would be a kind of death for them, and people fear death. Because perception is reality, finding out that your entire worldview is wrong is experientially the same as losing your entire world. Losing your entire world, your belief systems, your knowing, your understanding and all the stability it gives you, is like experiencing death.

That’s why we’ve got whole cognitive defense systems in place designed to keep information that is incongruous with our worldview out of our heads. We protect our worldview like we’re protecting our own identity, because, in a very real sense, we are.

 

And those "cognitive defense systems" have been put in our heads over the past 75 years by the ruling capitalist class via all their institutions in order to protect their system, which, not coincidentally, supplies them with so much wealth and power, from any "alternative" thoughts. Sadly for many, it already is too late.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, January 3 , 2021

• The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom and Tyranny by Glenn Greenwald from Substack. 

• Let’s Be Absolutely Clear What’s At Stake In The Assange Case by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Never Forget How The MSM Smeared Assange: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (She starts off with an essay regarding the ongoing persecution of Assange, and ends up with thoughts related to his truth-telling.) My reaction: It seems that the ruling class is so immersed in lies that it cannot tolerate the truth, and the lying has been getting even worse because of well-paid careerists who can't, or won't, see the ultimate consequences. Unfortunately, the ruling capitalist class is sustained on lies, and they control our country.
  

• Facts About The Fact Checkers featuring JP Sears, a comedian, doing a parody on "fact-checkers" via his channel on YouTube to 3:28m, after which is a commercial.

• The criminal WHO blows its own cover: fake PCR test by Jon Rappoport from his weblog.

• 50 Percent of Healthcare Workers in Riverside County, California Refuse To Take COVID Vaccine by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• What Vaccine Trials? by Iain Davis from Off-Guardian.

• Reiner Fuellmich | Full Interview In Berlin | Planet Lockdown (24:56) from EarthNewspaper. (Note: Fuellmich provides an update on the current German legal challenges that he is involved in. He says that "If we can convince a court of law that this is a false statement [re the validity of PCR tests], then the whole house of cards will come crashing down ....)

• How and Why the $2,000 Covid-19 Stimulus Checks Were Defeated by Eric Zuesse from Dissident Voice.

• DSA Deny Their Own Manifesto Not To Advocate #ForceTheVote featuring Jimmy Dore using his YouTube channel to point out the hypocrisy of DSA and AOC. (Note: The 12:30m video does not explain what DSA is. These are the initials of the Democratic Socialists of America.) My reaction: Dore is right that the "progressives" in Congress are poseurs. They exist to pretend that the USA's government functions "democratically", but conservatives who are "democratically" elected stand in their way of progressive legislation. These "progressives" function as a cover for the capitalist ruling class to hide their self-serving agendas of profit and power. He is politically correct going after these "progressives" like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to expose what they are really all about--protecting their careers in Congress. This is a necessary step in a process to awaken the American people how "their" government representatives are all poseurs, that is, they pretend to serve their constituents back home while faithfully serving the ruling capitalist class who fund their political campaigns.
  

• Republican Senator tries to prevent the US from an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood by Steven Sahiounie from Mideast Discourse. Note: The significance of this article is not about Republican senators trying to prevent US-MB ties, but the close alliance between the US's ruling class and the Muslim Brotherhood (terrorism) will be largely restored during Biden's administration.

• Study Highlights Blinding Moral Bias Against Questioning Lockdowns by Ethan Yang from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• Good Science vs Bad Science and Propaganda: A review of [WTC Building] Seven by Dr. Piers Robinson from Off-Guardian. My reaction: He reminds us of all the lies told by the ruling class regarding events of 9/11. Can we trust their government bureaucrats to tell the truth about Covid-19 in spite of all the contrary and censored evidence supplied by medical specialists? I think not!

• Suckered into Stupid Wars by Jay Janson from Dissident Voice.

• American Capitalism’s Endless Military Drive by Yanis Iqbal from Dissident Voice.
  

• Chilean Masses Send Political Centrists Packing by Barbara MacLean from Planning Beyond Capitalism. My commentary follows:

I noticed this article and found that it was a copy of an article posted on The Greanville Post, but whose headline did not reflect the contents. When I saw the dramatic headline, I immediately inferred that it was at least influenced by Patrice Greanville, the founder of The Greanville Post. I also read the "About" section of The Greanville Post and could find no mention of him. Perhaps he is no longer with this website, but he is clearly the founder. I ran some of his posts many years ago, but after some time I found them to be strongly biased toward revolutionary developments. The article, or rather the title--"Chile Votes to End Capitalist Rule", by Greanville is an excellent example of that bias.

Maclean's title is much more appropriate given the contents of the article. Although Greanville gives an important historical context of this event, the rewriting of their constitution, the contents no way suggests that "Chile Votes to End Capitalist Rule". Following a year of street protests, the Chilean ruling class has enabled the people to vote on writing a new constitution. But that is a long way from ending capitalist rule in Chile. The capitalist ruling class is likely to "manage" public opinion so that a bourgeois democracy results. After reading three other articles on this subject from Al Jazeera, Independent, and Internationalist 360°, I concluded that the latter website was the most objective along with the first video (of three) posted in Greanville's article. It is not likely that capitalism will be replaced by socialism (public ownership of the means of production), but that some elements of social democracy will be introduced in Chile.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, December 21, 2020

• Important Announcement! Major Channel Update by Dave Cullen of Computing Forever channel of YouTube. (Note: He talks about his experience with censorship on YouTube, and he is going to Bitchute to avoid censorship. So, access his channel on Bitchute if you like his videos.)

• AOC Interview Signals She's Unwilling to Fight Pelosi For Medicare 4 All featuring Jimmy Dore from his YouTube channel. My reaction: Here is Dore trying his damnest to use the existing democratic machinery to pass legislation that has some semblance to univerisal health care. I wish him luck because his efforts are futile because the capitalist ruling class rules the USA behind their facade of "democracy", and they don't want Medicare for All. If AOC and the progressive members of Congress vote for universal Medicare, they will not return to Congress mainly because they depend on the rich ruling capitalist class for re-election campaign funds. That's the "beautful" secret of liberal democracy (also see "bourgeois democracy").

• Why It’s Good To Push Politicians To Do The Right Thing (Even When They Probably Won’t) by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

As we discussed yesterday, Americans will not be given Medicare for All despite overwhelming public support because an immense amount of power depends on keeping them in a state of financial struggle so they don’t interfere in the affairs of a nation which serves as the hub of a global empire. The US political system does not exist to serve the interests of Americans, it exists to serve the interests of the empire. No part of that system is there to protect the people from the powerful; it’s there to protect the powerful from the people.

• How dangerous is the Covid mutation? by Tom Chivers from Unherd (based in Britain). 

• Personal Liberty Sacrificed at the Altar of Covid Public Safety by Adam Creighton from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• Twelve Principles of Public Health by Dr. Martin Kulldorff from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• 2020: The Year We Let Ourselves Be Infantilised And Dehumanised by Rob Slane from The BlogMire.

• The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d’État and the “Great Reset” by Prof Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research.

• Militarized Pandemic Science: Why is the Pentagon Funding the EcoHealth Alliance? by Sam Husseini from CounterPunch. 

• Medical Informed Consent, Nuremberg, and the Covid Vaccine by Dave Ratcliffe from Ratical Earth Journal.

• Research Arm of Congress Confirms that Mnuchin Never Released Bulk of CARES Act Money Earmarked for Fed’s Emergency Loans by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• Utopia, Coming to a World Near You by Patrick Corbett from Off-Guardian (based in Britain and created by ex-Guardian journalists).

• Covid’s Logic by Kyrie Eleison from The St. Marcel Initiative. My reaction: Could this be what our capitalist masters have planned for us? And, to save themselves?
  

• The Hidden Truth About the NDAA 2021 by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.
  

• The Politics of Thinking and Cultural Warfare Explored (Darwin, Kepler, Shakespeare and More) by Matthew Ehret from FRN (based in Serbia). 

Some of the most pressing questions now being raised by thinking citizens watching the unravelling of their worlds include:

Why are so many highly educated people willing to give up their innate power to think in order to have shadowy experts tell them what is true and how to behave?

Why are so many of our fellow citizens so willing to give up their rights and freedoms to protect themselves from invisible threats like viruses with a 99.9% survival rate or changing climate which used to be called “the weather” having little to do with human activity?

Why are so many people incapable, and unwilling to accept the idea of conspiracy, or intention as an efficient, existent phenomenon in world affairs when such things as “Great Reset” are being spoken allowed by misanthropic billionaires on a daily basis?

• Ex-UK Ambassador: war on Syria continues with US occupation, sanctions, propaganda by Aaron Maté from The Grayzone.
  

• The Never-Ending Story by Andrew Joyce from The Unz Review.
  

• Imperial Intent: Destroying India’s Farm Sector by Colin Todhunter (a Brit who has lived many years in India) from CounterPunch.

The dominant narrative calls this ‘globalisation’, a euphemism for a predatory neoliberal capitalism based on endless profit growth, crises of overproduction, overaccumulation and market saturation and a need to constantly seek out and exploit new, untapped (foreign) markets to maintain profitability. 

In India, we can see the implications very clearly.

• The éminence grise of Third Positionism: the neofascist ideologue Gabriele Adinolfi from FOIA Research. (Note: This article is from authentic historians who are particularly interested in the historical development of the pro-capitalist right-wing. As Gabriel Rockhill argued recently in his article entitled "The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It", US right-wing capitalists merely took up the fascist mantel after WWII and combined with what was left of the British Empire to create a new US/Anglo/Zionist Empire (later Zionist Israel were admitted) that promotes the same old-fashioned elements of fascism, plus some new ones, to deceive workers wherever it serves the global capitalist interests of the new Empire. See my history of WWII.)
  

Posts that I especially recommend for days: Saturday & Sunday, December 12 & 13, 2020

• The Friedman doctrine in the 21st century by Michael Roberts from his weblog The Next Recession. 

• AOC Schooled By NFL’s Justin Jackson On Forcing Med4all Vote Now! featuring Jimmy Dore blasting AOC (Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) as a careerist--her career comes first rather than needs of her constituents. My reaction: She will definitely lose her position in Congress if she crosses Pelosi. Look what happened to Sen. 

• Vaccinated Vs. Unvaccinated: The Study The CDC Refused To Do — Interview with Dr. Weiler conducted by Spiro Skouras from Activist Post.

• The COVID Vaccine Is Here… And So Are Potential Side Effects… featuring Spiro Skouras reviewing some of the negative history of vaccinations. This 18:15m video was on his YouTube channel.

• How the Media Wants You To Think featuring JP Sears, a comedian, and others performing their versions of fascist collaborators in a 3:17 post on his channel belonging to YouTube. (satire) He also has been threatened by YouTube about the loss of his channel.
  

• Yes, Bill Gates Said That. Here’s the Proof. By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and posted on Children's Health Defense.
  

• Cynical US policy on Syria revealed: to Hell with the people by Vanessa Beeley from her weblog The Wall Will Fall.
  

• YouTube Bans Creators From Questioning 2020 Presidential Election; Bans Investigating Possible Fraud by Ben Swann from ISE.

• Imperialism 2.0: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 (might add posts later)

• Nineteen Tragic Facts About Covid 19 by Bill Quigley from Dissident Voice.

• WATCH: Ask The Experts (Covid-19 Vaccine) from Off-Guardian. 

• US hits Search and Destroy against the New Silk Roads by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• Watchdog Report: Fed’s Billions in Emergency Repo Loans to Wall Street Didn’t Go Away in June; They Just Went Dark by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• New Research Shows 'Pandemic Profits' of Billionaires Could Fully Fund $3,000 Stimulus Checks for Every Person in US by Jake Johnson from Common Dreams. 

• BREAKING - More Repubs Than Dems Vote Against Military Budget featuring Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show and posted on his YouTube channel.
  

• COVID Whistle Blower RAIDED with Gestapo Tactics! featuring Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show and posted on his YouTube channel.
  

• Protecting Individual Rights: Can COVID Vaccines Be Mandated? from Children's Health Defense.

• Want Vaccines Fast? Suspend Intellectual Property Rights by Dean Baker, Achal Prabhala and Arjun Jayadev from CounterPunch. My commentary follows:
  

With the assumption that mainstream reports are accurate regarding the current pandemic, I don't care of you read the article or not because the more informed readers will know beforehand the gist of this story as an illustration of how capitalism functions. Such readers already know the rest of the story. They will already know the socially dubious ways property owners have by taking advantage of public subsidies to acquire more of this type of intellectual property for their own, and their families', benefit.

But, aren't the authors indulging in a bit of confusing contradictions? Their only defense is an argument that matters of life and death deserve some suspensions of capitalist rules which "liberals" such as these authors like to argue. But this is a specious argument that soon collapses under the weight of another argument that people should be provided all necessary goods for their health and survivability such as shelter, food, sufficient clothing, and health care. But why stop there? 

Don't people need to be productive so that they can contribute to an economy that supplies these needs? The first thought that comes to mind is education, and then training in a productive specialty. Shouldn't all people have access to these fundamental needs? Is the capitalist system which considers all property, intellectual and real economic property, as privately owned and controlled to be used for their, and their families', benefit? Isn't this system, which has succeeded in bringing vast types of all property under private control for the benefit of a relatively few individuals and their families, considered almost sacred by it proponents, many of whom "own" much of this property? Because property rights are considered by such people as sacred, does this not justify in the minds of these people the right to exploit others, force others to comply with property owners ideas and demands with threats of harm, even maim or kill them? But you say, that is fascism! (Neo-fascism, which is prevalent today, relies more on controlling your mind with censorship and manipulation of information. However, if that doesn't work there is always the police and military to enforce compliance.)

In spite of the heavy censorship provided by media corporations, you might know that this happening everywhere in the world today. Given such thoughts, you might reconsider your commitment to capitalism by supporting efforts to end all property rights (except over personal property). But, you say in horror, that would be socialism/communism!

• Black Dirt Farm Collective: Building a Self-Sufficient Community by Kayla Soren from CounterPunch. My commentary follows:

This collective type of ownership of economic property is often described as a alternative to capitalist enterprise, even as a revolutionary alternative for some enthusiastic supporters. The latter are usually employed in educational institutions and enjoy comfortable careers. 

Some 50+ years ago even I was taken in by their rhetoric. I studied them in the few obscure sources that I discovered, and even participated in a few collective type enterprises.  However, the proponents rhetoric failed to live up to the reality I encountered. Such enterprises barely survived, and most workers had to supplement their income from conventional sources of employment. Many failed or were taken over by private owners who turned them into conventional industries. 

It seems that conventional enterprises are supported by the legal, educational, and social institutions of capitalist countries and collective enterprises are not. This adversely affects collective enterprises in two decisive ways: 1) such enterprises could not compete with conventional enterprises because of lower costs of labor for the latter, and 2) many people who participate in these enterprises have experienced capitalist culture all their lives. 

The first difference results in the employment of people exclusively based on their philosophical preference of working in such a collective enterprise, but not on their skills or productivity, and because less productive members can't fired. The second reason resulted in workers who were socialized in selfishness and competitiveness of the larger culture and were unable to function effectively in a collective enterprise.

• Dangerous Provocations Ahead for Iran by "Tony Cartalucci" from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: Once again the author relies on a Brooking's document to demonstrate the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's plans for Iran. This is sound because the ruling capitalist class never allows exposure to their plans in a mainstream source which are for self-serving propaganda purposes only.

• General Flynn, QAnon and the US Elections [and this post] USA: General Flynn calls for suspension of the Constitution both by Thierry Meyssan from his weblog VoltaireNet.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, November 29, 2020

• 75% of the $454 Billion CARES Act Money Never Went to the Fed; It Was Invested by a Mnuchin Slush Fund Called the ESF by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• Mad Dog Mattis not so mad with Globalist agenda, says America First is over (from The Duran) featuring Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris discussing Mattis's statement reported by RT: "General James Mattis wants to replace ‘America First’…with alliances that see ‘America equal, but more equal than others’" I don't think it is necessary to listen to more than eight minutes of this video. My criticism follows: 

They lampoon Mattis for making these statements which he obviously made to please the incoming administration of neoliberalists ("globalists", transnational interests of global corporations and finance organizations). What these two discussants don't understand is that the transnational capitalist class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire function in so many countries, and they don't like business dealings with so many countries which have different tariffs and regulations. For their convenience, they want them all to be the same. 

These capitalists (financiers, CEOs of corporations, etc.) have homes in many countries in which they travel to by private jets (without the necessity of wearing masks, social distancing, etc.), and they naturally see the world differently. They have no allegiance to any one nation, but they hold allegiance to the Empire which largely controls most of these more peripheral countries. The Empire controls most of these countries because they furnish them loans to them to buy their products. Most of the nations controlled by the Empire are indebted up to their necks in international finance organizations like the IMF, World Bank, and all the Western banks. These finance people of the Empire largely control the foreign and many domestic policies of these peripheral nations, and they are quintessentially neoliberals or "globalists".

• No Longer Trust ‘Elections’ in ‘Democracies’ by Eric Zuesse and posted on Paul Craig Roberts. 

• A Short Comment on a Big Danger [surveillance] by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. [My insertion.]
  

• Fascism - America's DNA featuring Prof. Gabriel Rockhil explaining fascism to host Chris Hodges on the latter's RT channel of YouTube. This is a best post. Although Hedges, according to his training in American academia, likes to present fascism as being exemplified by Trump and racist organizations (which tend to divide workers), Rockhill makes clear the ideological necessity of fascist-capitalism to ally itself with anti-worker organizations and ideologies influenced by socialist and communist parties who vigorously oppose private ownership of the economy or any government that serves the needs of the general public rather than the needs of capitalists. Hence, fascism is in the DNA of American capitalism.
  

• COVID DATA: Suppress the data that does not fit the narrative! posted and commentary by "FreeSpeechFan" from The Duran using a YouTube post from the Toronto Sun.

• COVID-19 Has A 99.95% Survival Rate For People Under 70 – Stanford Professor of Medicine by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• Biggest HYPOCRITE Award: Andrew CUOMO! by Jimmy Dore (of the Jimmy Dore Show using his YouTube channel) satirizing Cuomo as a hypocrite because he was caught lying to his TV audience just days before Thanksgiving.

• “Dark Winter”: Millions of Americans Are Expected to Lose Their Homes by AJ Nelson from We Are Change.

• The Planet Cannot Begin to Heal Until We Rip the Mask off the West’s War Machine by Jonathan Cook from Dissident Voice.
  

• Blinded by a Blizzard of Data by Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan from American Institute for Economic Research.

... in May and June, although the number of new Covid cases steadily rose, the percentage of tests coming back positive declined, indicating that the rising case numbers were due less to increased cases than to increased testing. And while the media says (correctly) that the number of daily cases in November is setting records, they do not report that this is largely due to increased testing. The fraction of tests that are coming back positive, while rising, is on par with what the US experienced in mid May. 

We can blame this persistent lack of context on a perfect storm of politicians seeking to be “doing something,” media seeking to sell advertising, and people paying enough attention to be scared, but not enough to understand.

The authors blame the distorted presentation of data on the lack of context. But there are many contributing factors such as the faulty test of PCR (see this, this, and this from the inventor of the PCR test.) I regard the lack of context and all other distortions of data to have been deliberately performed by the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's transnational (neoliberal) ruling class that has engaged in a new "9/11" project to spread fear among populations in order to prepare the groundwork for the Great Reset. The success that the Empire's ruling class has had with their exaggerated corona crisis is an illustration of their comprehensive power that I've often written about.

• ‘How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship, Hate Journalism’ by Dr. Joseph Mercola from Children's Health Defense.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, October 16, 2020

• 'Don't get yourselves caught': How the British state allowed its secret agents to commit crime by Ian Cobain from Middle East Eye (based in London). This is the best of the best posts on my website. My reaction follows:
  

This report is prime reading for anyone who wishes to gain an understanding of how "liberal" or bourgeois (capitalist) democracies work. The latter must have secret agencies operating outside of the law that follow the diktats of the ruling capitalist class. This report only deals with British agencies that during the course of their operations commit crimes. It does not report on other agencies, whose top leaders answer to the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire's Deep State, that are engaged in shady operations which undermine any semblance of democracy such as propaganda activities. If you think that Britain is not an essential part of the Empire, and, as such, has no implications for the rest of the Empire, you likely won't believe it has anything to do with government operations in the USA. Brainwashed others will dismiss it entirely. However, it is essential reading by any US activist or revolutionary organization that aims to be effective. For people involved in the latter, this rare report must be studied.

• The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It by Gabriel Rockhill from CounterPunch. The author provides the post-WWII details after the Deep State, a kind of board of directors for the emerging USA, concluded that 

... it was understood that the best way to construct the fascist international was to do so under liberal cover, meaning through clandestine operations that maintained a liberal façade. While this probably sounds like hyperbole to those whose understanding of history has been formatted by bourgeois social science, which focuses almost exclusively on visible government and the aforementioned liberal cover, the history of the invisible government of the national security apparatus suggests that fascism, far from being defeated in WWII, was successfully internationalized.

• 94 page PDF details Deep State-Media collusion to destroy Trump posted by Alex Christoforou of his 19:34m video interview with Alexander Mercouris. (Note: I have ignored this issue known as "russiagate", because I viewed it as another absurd disinformation distraction from reality. I have barely enough energy and time to follow what I think is reality.)

• Running Out of Time… October Surprise Redux? by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation.  (My reaction: I remember well the reliable reports after Reagan's election in 1980 reporting that the CIA rigged the election for Reagan. Giraldi reports on other possible shenanigans perpetrated by the Deep State that obviously wants Trump removed. But, who cares? Both political parties serve the rich ruling class of capitalists and not ordinary Americans.)

• Top 50 US Think Tanks Receive Over $1b From Gov, Defense Contractors by Barbara Boland from Anti-Empire.

• Google & Oracle to Monitor Americans Who Get Warp Speed’s Covid-19 Vaccine for up to Two Years by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: Webb reveals the close connected relationship between Big Pharma and government operations, among other things.)
  

• Fight Racism, Imperialism, and the Current Crisis: A Program to Unify the Exploited and Oppressed from Left Voice. (My reaction: I've only read about the first 1/4 of this lengthy article, and I agree with it so far. But, in the past I viewed the people behind this website a bit naive.)
  

• Bandar bin Sultan, prince of chaos, strikes again by David Herst from the Middle East Eye. 

 

I've only covered about 1/3 of my list of 50 credible websites before I ran out of time and energy. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, May 14, 2020

• Professor Dolores Cahill Debunking the Corona Narrative from the channel Computing Forever (on YouTube) and posted on Gumshoe News that is based in Australia. (Note: More and more medical doctors and scientists are coming forward to challenge the pervasive fear campaign on major media. We have heard from the Bakersfield, California doctors here (which was censored on YouTube) and here, the Dr. Ioannidis of Stanford University here, and others; but now we hear from the highly qualified Prof. Cahill who thoroughly debunks the fear campaign. If you wish to skip the introduction and Cahill's opening remarks about more details regarding her qualifications, you may want to start listening at 9:08m.)

• COVID CHAOS: A Closer Look At Coronavirus Testing from 21st Century Wire.

• UKC News: COVID Lockdown ‘Stop Light’ System, Evidence of Gov’t Using MSM for PsyOps from 21st Century Wire. 

• Video: Dr. Judy Mikovits Exposes Dr. Fauci Contradicting Statements On Hydroxychloroquine posted by Joaquin Flores from FRN (Fort Russ News).

• Cuomo: Slashing and Privatizing Education is “The New Normal” by Francesca Gomes from Left Voice.

• Wall Street Will Likely Be the Only Winners in the Pandemic Housing Crisis by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. 

• And They're Gone! The Obscenity of Dr. Fauci's Jobs-Mageddon by David Stockman posted on LewRockwell. (Note: I've published from this site because Stockman's website is behind a paywall. "Mageddon" as defined by Wikipedia.)

• How The Trump Administration Inserts 'Blame China' Propaganda Into Main Stream Media by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• Psychological warfare misses its mark: China is winning the Covid-19 media war by Orçun Göktürk from United World (based in Turkey).  

• American Weapons Manufacturers Are Thriving Even as the US Economy Suffers by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, April 23, 2020 (Added the first post at 12:43 PM CT)

• We cannot expect capitalists to manage a pandemic by Susan Rosenthal from her weblog. 

• Diseased System in Shut-Lockdown: Never a Better Time to Fight for Socialism by Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report. 

My commentary: I scanned this article and discovered that I differ from Ford as to the history of socialism in the Soviet Union. After reading widely in their history, I conclude that socialism only lasted a few years. Soon after Lenin died and Stalin consolidated control of the government, the Soviet Union deteriorated into what I call "bureaucratism" (others call it "state capitalism").

The original Bolsheviks were exhausted fighting the Allies among the capitalist countries and the White armies, the embargos, etc. After Lenin died and the Stalinists consolidated control, the Soviet bureaucracy (also called "nomenklatura") gradually served themselves extra privileges denied to ordinary Russians: they appointed themselves to advanced positions in the bureaucracy, they got their children into the best schools and later into the best careers, they shopped at exclusive stores, etc.)

• Revisting Lenin’s “What is to be Done?” After Bernie Sanders by Tatiana Cozzarelli from Left Voice.

• Why Post-Coronavirus America Will Have Massive Poverty by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Landlords Illegally Evicting Tenants, Despite Federal Restrictions by Rebecca Burns from The American Prospect.

• WATCH: Planet of the Humans [Full Film] from Wrong Kind of Green. Blogger's Note: Because I have not viewed this film yet, I cannot recommend it personally. Although I have reservations from the people who have endorsed it, I am posting this because Wrong Kind of Green has promoted it:

This compelling, must-see movie – a full-frontal assault on our sacred cows – is guaranteed to generate anger, debate, and, hopefully, a willingness to see our survival in a new way—before it’s too late.

• In Light of the Global Pandemic, Focus Attention on the People posted in English on Defend Democracy Press. (Note: I believe this effort, along with all other efforts, is too late. I also believe that the first order of business is to overthrow capitalism (not "changes" or reforms) and install a sustainable system to redeem humans who have been responsible for the destruction of the environment that sustains life.)

• Merchants of death: Multibillion-dollar bailout for arms industry amid rising COVID-19 toll by Bill Van Auken from World Socialist Web Site.

• The AngloZionists Are Launching a Strategic PSYOP Against China by "The Saker" (Andrei Rsevsky) from The Unz Review. (Note: You may be interested in the frustrated and angry reactions that a descendant (read B. Faulkner's intro of Raevsky) of White Russian refugees has toward US government officials during this pandemic.)

• Human Lab Rats: The U.S. Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments by John W. Whitehead from Dissident Voice.

• ‘Republic of hunger’ in the Time of ‘Lockdown’ by Shashi Kant Tripathi from United World (based in Turkey). 

• US rewards for Hezbollah leaders’ heads: How do they affect the organisation? by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

My commentary: This distinguished Middle Eastern journalist writes how the rich US/Anglo/Zionist Empire operates in regions of the Middle East that are not under their control. The ruling capitalist classes control nearly all media in the countries they control, and thus control the narratives (control the perceptions of reality among populations) published/broadcast by media outlets throughout their Empire. 

However, the directors of the Empire (major capitalists) must resort to crude bounties on leaders who are their antagonists and independent of Empire influences in the Middle East. Magnier reports that these bounties inevitably backfire. Instead, such leader-antagonists receive rewards in terms of status and perks that other, more cooperative (with the Empire) leaders do not.

This reaction is in stark contrast with media corporations within the Empire. After many years of infiltrating these corporations, the directors of the Empire now have complete control of media (formerly they had only partial control), and thus control all information that their populations receive. The directors of the Empire do this by rewarding easily corrupted journalists with lucrative careers. The latter careerists joined many other "professionals" (particularly in education) in the upper-middle class (Malcolm X referred to them as house niggers: he used this term when speaking to largely African-American audiences, but YouTube purged these videos) who enjoy the many fruits of capitalist rule.

This is the primary secret of the Empire's success; and need I add, the demise of humans and most other species on the unique planet Earth.

Posts I especially recommend for today: Friday, November 15, 2019

• Bolivia Does Not Exist by Vijay Prashad from The Tricontinental.

• The Bolivia coup shows that the global class conflict is a war by Rainer Shea from his weblog.

• The Fed Has Created the Big Lie for Congress on its Repo Loans while the New York Fed Blocks Freedom of Information Requests by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Who Will Foot the Bill for America’s Military Bases Overseas? by Vladimir Platov from New Eastern Outlook. 

• NATO: A Dangerous Dumbo Elephant in the General Assembly Room by Phil Butler from New Eastern Outlook.

• Social Media Censorship Reaches New Heights as Twitter Permanently Bans Dissent by Mnar Muhawesh who is the founder of Mint Press News (Minneapolis).

• Underreported Arctic Methane Release by Stuart Scott from Scientists Warning.

• Portents of continental-scale fires as the Earth warms by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News.

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.)

Recommended articles for Thursday, July 25, 2019

• New book launched: ‘An important contribution to the fight to stop capitalist destruction’, a book review of System Change Not Climate Change by Valerie Lannon from Climate & Capitalism

• End Forever War? Divest Zionism by Kurt Nimmo from his weblog Another Day in the Empire.

• War Profiteers and the Demise of the US Military-Industrial Complex by Dmitry Orlov from his weblog Club Orlov. 

• Pentagon May Have To Explain Their 1,000 Bases, a post via YouTube from Redacted Tonight.

• People Think Epstein Was a Spy for an Intelligence Agency — and They Might Be Right by Derrick Broze from Activist Post.

Articles recommended for Thursday, June 13, 2019

• Today's Attacks On Ships In The Gulf Of Oman Are Not In Iran's Interest - Or Are They? (Updated) by Bernhard from his blog Moon of Alabama.

• Propaganda Is The Root Of All Our Problems by Caitlin Johnstone from her blog.

• US gears up for World War III with largest defense contract in history by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site. 

• ‘Mirthless Laugh’ - The Persecution And Torture Of Julian Assange from Media Lens.

• US Senators meet with Jewish leaders in semi-secret annual event by Alison Weir from If Americans Knew.

Trump’s Defense Spending Is Out of Control, and Poised to Get Worse

Click here to access article by Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone.

Isn't it laughable how the two political parties which we are allowed to vote for in our great American democracy are in total agreement about the use of violence abroad and cutting "entitlements" like Social Security domestically?

A bipartisan commission has determined that President Trump’s recent record defense bill is insufficiently massive to keep America safe, and we should spend more, while cutting “entitlements.”

Articles recommended for Thursday, September 20, 2018

• Russia reveals the MH17 ‘smoking gun’ by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard Blasts America’s Support for Al-Qaeda in Syria, as Trump Threatens Further Military Action by Mohamed Elmaazi from Global Research.

• America: The garrison state by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site.

As Social Security and Medicare Go Bankrupt, US Gives $10.5 Million a DAY to Israel

Click here to access article by Rachel Blevins from Activist Post. 

The article includes other immoral and criminal spending on nefarious activities beyond support for Israel such as the never-ending wars in the Middle East. But such reckless spending at the expense of taking care of our elderly citizens omits our contribution to NATO and military support for many countries near Russia in order to intimidate the Russian government, the numerous US military bases strewn all over the world, the CIA which has a history of overthrowing governments on behalf of the Empire's corporations, the numerous "aid" programs designed to corrupt foreign governments and their officials and to support fake non-political NGOs which prepare the groundwork among foreign citizens to undermine their governments. This list doesn't include the domestic uses to surveil its citizens, subsidies and tax breaks to corporations, and on and on. 

These sad facts provide proof that the Empire's trans-national capitalist class is really concerned about the precarious nature of its control over the world and not the welfare of its citizens. That is precisely why they must deceive their citizens into believing that they are concerned about humanitarian issues.

A current example of the latter is the ubiquitous coverage they give in their corporate media of the separation of children from their parents under the government's immigration policies. This is not new, but it has been increasing under the Trump administration. Meanwhile they give military support to the feudal regime in Saudi Arabia which results in the starvation of the people, especially the children, of Yemen--but you won't see this covered in corporate media. 

The Deep State (the informal, behind the official scenes capitalist board of directors of the US-led Empire), which is smarting from their defeat in the last presidential election of their candidate Hillary Clinton, are using their news and information media to discredit Trump in every way they can to prepare citizens for his removal from office. The Deep State is not accustomed to losing, but in recent years they have been losing everywhere. Sooner or later the American people--not only the elderly--will suffer catastrophic consequences from these policies and their failure to overthrow this capitalist regime and establish a social system that is truly their own.

An Afghan Year: My Road from Soldier to Socialism

Click here to access article by Adam Denker from The Greanville Post.

I found reading this article to be an emotionally gripping experience. Denker sounds like a very ordinary young American:

I joined the National Guard to pay for college. I didn’t really think of the consequences at the time. After all: I’m an American, I was raised to worship my country and adore the military, and I did. Receiving a college education seemed like fair payment for "service to my country".

 It was a transforming experience for him.

... the worst part was what I was slowly being forced to accept: everything I had believed in my whole life was a lie. I had always been a patriotic American. I believed we weren’t perfect but that we were “the good guys.” I truly believed that the Afghans wanted us there, that we were protecting and helping them. But now, as I saw the war around me, and why it was being fought, as well as the inhuman attitude towards even the Afghan civilians that my fellow soldiers had, I couldn’t keep believing this lie.

There was no greater example of the lie than the contractors who were there.

But the worst was yet to come. Read (if you can) what he experienced and concluded looking at a five or six year old girl who was searching for and collecting old Soviet mines from a field. 

It’s not about cutting taxes for the rich

Click here to access article by Jim O'Reilly from his blog Comments on Global Political Economy.

In a recent blog post, Paul Krugman branded the healthcare bill as “pure class warfare, with extra contempt” and said it’s really “all about the tax cuts”. While he’s certainly right about class warfare, I think he overstates the brutality of this particular battle versus the great many preceding it. What I’ll quarrel with here, though, is the idea that the central goal of the conservatives is as simple as cutting taxes for the rich. I believe the driving dynamic is not about monetary taxes but is instead deeply fundamental to the system itself. It is very old.

This retired (and my favorite) banker, who I believe now lives in Denver, knows of what he writes when he argues that healthcare issues are about power. But I also wonder if the US ruling class is getting worried about financing its many military adventures and subversive operations abroad to support their hegemonic aspirations. Thus they are doing everything they can to cut back domestic expenditures to their working class.