We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Showing posts with label neo-liberalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neo-liberalism. Show all posts

Friday, June 4, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, June 4, 2021

We do not know for sure if the COVID-19 virus escaped from the Wuhan lab, another lab, or jumped from animals to humans. But what we do know for certain — from the anthrax investigation — is that governments most definitely conduct the sort of research that could produce novel coronaviruses. Dr. Rosenberg, the subject of the 2002 New Yorker article, was suggesting that the F.B.I. was purposely impeding its own investigation because they knew that the anthrax actually came from the U.S. government’s own lab and wanted to prevent exposure of the real bio-research that is done there. We should again ponder why the pervasive mainstream doubts about the F.B.I.’s case against Ivins have been memory-holed. We should also reflect on what we learned about government research into highly lethal viruses and bacterial strains from that still-strange episode.
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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, May 4, 2021

At first, having done some research on "Henele" who is a naturopathic physician, I decided not to post this interview on my website; but after reading the entire transcript of the interview, I felt that "Henele" was making a sincere effort to investigate the pandemic which others of my posts weren't asking the appropriate questions, were ignoring discrepancies, and having a too narrow of focus. I personally was frustrated last summer after learning from a very sociable person that she knew of no one who was afflicted with Covid-19 in our town of 12,000, but she qualified her position by saying that she knew of hospital statistics in a nearby large city that many people have come down with Covid-19 illness. Then I kept noticing reports of doctors being pressured by health authorities to declare the coronavirus reason for someone dying, and hospitals being offered money incentives to diagnose deaths due to Covid-19 illnesses. 
 
I had in an early career with a state Department of Rehabilitation directly experienced the gross inflation of numbers of "rehabilitations" to justify higher budgets and was pressured to "play along with the game". After a while and learning that this was the same situation in many states, it disturbed me so much that I ended up quitting an entire career that I had trained for.
 
My suspicion is that the ruling capitalist class, for various reasons, intentionally brought about this pandemic. They first created Covid-19 illness and somehow spread it in China, their number one enemy. The concentration of ownership in private enterprise and the concentration of the medical professions (no longer can doctors afford to set up a private practice) under chains of authority (bureaucracy) that physicians can be easily controlled. 
And he follows this caption with the first paragraph as follows:
 
One of the primary plagues of corporate journalism, which I have documented more times than I can count, just reared its ugly head again to deceive millions of people with fake news. When one large news outlet publishes a false story based on whispers from anonymous security state agents with the CIA or FBI, other news outlets quickly purport that they have “independently confirmed” the false story, in order to bolster its credibility (oh, it must be true since other outlets have also confirmed it). 
  • Recognizing Lies about Latin America: Seven Tips by Laura Wells from Dissident Voice. My reaction: She immediately starts with a false assumption: "A focus on lies about Latin America is important because we do care about how the US treats other people ...". Unfortunately, that is not true. Being focused on surviving and otherwise distracted, Americans mostly ignore how the government treats other people in foreign lands. They mostly believe what their told by the "talking heads" on major TV stations. But her advice on detecting lies is spot-on.
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Monday, April 5, 2021

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

  • Real COVID death rate 0.15% from Left Lockdown Sceptics: Socialist anti-lockdown news and analysis. My reaction: This figure was furnished by a research study conducted by Stanford epidemiologist John P.A. Ioannidis, and was peer-reviewed. But the ruling class has its approved "experts", and Ioannidis is not on the list. Therefore, it will be totally ignored by the ruling class's major media corporations. Instead, we will get uninterrupted fear campaigns with their insistence that we should wear masks, experience soul-crushing lockdowns, and take our "medicine" in the form of untested, experimental vaccinations. 
You cannot understand the present unless you were furnished with accurate information about the past (history). Unfortunately for you, you have been given a history written by the secret services of the USA, mainly by the CIA. However, Cynthia Chung, who has done enormous research, has liberated true history from the fake that you have been fed by institutions that are all under the control of the capitalist ruling class.
  • New Yorker Uses Cartoons to Boost “Uyghur Genocide” Myth by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. My reaction: The busy, trying-to-survive ordinary Americans usually swallow US imperialist propaganda, but Berletic makes a herculean effort trying to expose it for what it is--lies.
... capitalism cannot do anything but accumulate more and more capital. And capital is virtually everything that exists, from the raw minerals and petrol deep in the earth’s crust, to the fish in the sea and trees in the boreal range, to governments and politicians, to our own personal information and preferences. It has created a global arrangement of power that must use obfuscation and violence, or its threat, as a way of keeping the engine running. 
 
Orphan forgot to include racism in the weapons that the tiny class of capitalists has used against the survival of humans. Racism has been used to divide humans so that capitalists can continue plundering and destabilizing the Earth's miracle ecosystem that supports all life.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

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

(Sorry for the late posting for Tuesday--I have been preoccupied by personal matters--I thought I had already uploaded it.)
  • A History of Warring on the Homefront by Mickey Huff from Dissident Voice (originally from Project Censored). (Note: I am posting this article/video from Dissident Voice because the latter have conveniently included the film of which this review on the film is based. Also, this is essential reading/viewing for all those fellow Americans who missed the actual history of American working people and were brainwashed by their history classes in the USA.)
  • OPCW Whistle Blowers Debunk Cover-Up & U.S. Propaganda featuring Jimmy Dore interviewing Aaron Maté of The Grayzone what has learned about the disinformation and censorship involved in the ruling class's reporting  of "chemical attacks" in Syria directed by the Assad government from Dore's Rokfin channel (26:22m).  
  • Thoughts On The Iraq Invasion by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian independent blogger, from her weblog. My reaction: She knows far more than Alfred McCoy, a prominent American historian, does about the mindset of the current American ruling class. Now that the core of the ruling class, combining the resources and wealth of the USA, the British Empire, and international Zionist Jewry, is back under Joe Biden, they intend to resurrect their longstanding project to rule the world (commentary).
  • Dispatches from the Congo: The Truth Behind US Claims of ISIS Presence posted on Internationalist 360° featuring Kambale Musavuli from the Centre of Research on the Congo explaining, in a 21:09m video, how US-backed forces are engaging in massacres on behalf of corrupt political leaders while also covering this in media reports as "fighting terrorism" and protecting "human rights" of local populations. My reaction: Surprise, surprise! (a cynical remark).
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Sunday, March 14, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, March 14, 2021

  • 💥Bill Gates’ Foundation Funded ‘DNA Mining’ Using COVID-19 Tests featuring Ryan Cristián in an excerpt (36:34m) from his regular show "The Daily Wrap Up 3/6/21" (lasting nearly five hours) posted on The Last American Vagabond. (Note: Cristián reports with documented evidence numerous unsavory connections between not only Big Pharma working under "public-private partnerships" with government agencies, but China as well.  He reads extensively from an article published online by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) shocking revelations which disclose the corrupting influences of international pharmaceutical corporations, in collusion with various governments, Congressional leaders, Bill Gates, etc.) This is a best post. My reaction follows: There have been so many qualified people who have raised serious questions and objections regarding these vaccines (here is another) that I wouldn't get a vaccine if they paid me a small fortune to get it.
  • The 4 Steps To Evolving Past Capitalism features Lee Camp in an 11:54m video via his YouTube channel explaining four steps (with occasional interjections of humor) that we can take to lead us away from capitalism.
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Thursday, March 4, 2021

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, March 4, 2021

  • Dr. James Lyons-Weiler PHD Interview – PEG, TEG & The Known Dangers Of The COVID Vaccines features Ryan Cristián, host from The Last American Vagabond, interviewing another medical scientist, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler PhD, who has challenged the government medical establishment over vaccine information that they have approved. The problems with this post are: Wieler's report is rather technical and the interview lasts 1:18:32m (it starts at about .50m). 
Joining me today is Dr. James Lyons-Weiler PhD, here to discuss the potential dangers of the mRNA COVID-19 injections. We will focus on how James called out the presence of unsafe epitopes as well as PEG within these injections, before they were being used, and how today the real-world data is verifying his claims. Finally, we go over TEG and the EPA’s newly authorized (for emergency use) ‘Chemical Air Treatment’ and how this only adds to the potential for damaging reactions. All of this was ignored, dismissed and disparaged by the very institutions charged with keeping you safe in exactly this way.
  • New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato from The Corbett Report and features the reporting of various topics, the first one is about what is a new "1984" policy from Los Angles public schools regarding a requirement for a "pass ap" to attend schools in a 24:56m video.
  • Skeletons in the Neoliberal Cupboard by Thomas Klikauer and Norman Simms from CounterPunch. My reaction: I can think of another skeleton: as the rich get richer and more powerful because they have mastered the game of capitalism aided by the wealth and power of their family and ancestors, they have also taken on an illusory omnipotent attitude. This neoliberal development is characterized by thinking that they, the rich and powerful transnational class of capitalists, are an exceptional race apart of the mass of humans; and because of the latter, they can dictate future societal arrangements (think the Great Reset) to the rest of us using mostly deceptive means. You see, the rest of us are too dumb to follow their commands so that they must deceive us into playing along with their plans by planting the idea that such plans are good for us and inevitable. And, they want us to love them while deceiving us.
  • Progressives Sell Out Workers on $15 Minimum Wage featuring Jimmy Dore exclaiming about the reluctance of the Democratic Party to push this legislation in Congress via a 24:15m video on his YouTube channel. My reaction: Dore is in the process of discovering how undemocratic Congress is and that both parties have to push policies that favor the capitalist ruling class. To do this, the Democrats, as a party supposedly favoring the working class, have to engage in deceptions far more than the Republicans.)
  • What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like? by Jeremy Lent from Yes!. (Note: It should be obvious that I don't agree with any ancillary statements that authors make in my posts. An example for this post is the statement that Biden is saner than Trump--this is questionable.)
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

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

Presentation of 3 January 2021. "In the middle of that day we took a break and we walked over to the Supreme Court, and that was the video that got 20 million views. It gets 20 million views not because I can sing as Beyonce, but because human beings recognize truth. We have something inside of us, right. I really emphasize that point. Within an hour all of the platforms censored us simultaneously. [...] YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, facebook, Twitter, all of them."
  • Snowstorms, the Breach of the Arctic Vortex and the Effects of Ice Meltwater on the Oceans by Dr. Andrew Glikson from Global Research. My reaction: Prof. Chossudovsky who founded this website, has in the distant past (over one decade) been always negative about scientific evidence that indicated over-all global warming. But it seems that he has changed by recognizing scientific evidence that indicates climate destabilization along with abrupt global warming.
The extreme rate at which the global warming and the shift of climate zones are taking place virtually within a period less than one generation-long, faster than major past warming events such as at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary 56 million years ago, renders the term “climate change” hardly appropriate, since what we are looking at is a sudden and abrupt event.
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    Thursday, February 4, 2021

    Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, February 4, 2021

    • Atlantic Council Pens Anonymously Authored Expose Calling for Regime Change in China by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. My reaction: This group is represented by unelected members sponsored and promoted by the international capitalist class that has created the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. This document contains the real intentions of this transnational ruling class that is in control of the Empire, and all the government agencies of the Empire will carry out this plan. You probably thought that official legislative bodies whose members consist of "democratically" elected members actually made both foreign and domestic policies. Sorry to disillusion you. It is a primary function of media corporations, but will be supported by all institutions, to convince you of the latter.
    It is hard to discern what events were crucial in the fulfillment of the empire builders in 1941 as they launched their project to what became the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, the "New World Order" of today. But one such event noted by many people interested in true history, and Prof. Curtin and I are among them, is the assassination of President John Kennedy. I remember very well the details of the event, and that verified details pointed to a coup d'état by what many scholars began naming as a Deep State, the real capitalist rulers of their growing empire. Although I don't recall Curtin's use of the concept of the Deep State, he was clearly disturbed by this event because it clashed with all the conventional political ideas with which he had been indoctrinated.
    One important agent of this Deep State was the long-time director of the highly secretive Deep State, the CIA, was Allan Dulles. Pres. Kennedy was in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt. Kennedy was no anti-capitalist as was Roosevelt, but he, like Roosevelt, believed in social justice among and within nations. The fact that capitalism was antithetical to social justice escaped both leaders, and Kennedy, and maybe even Roosevelt was (many suspect this) assassinated for this error in judgment.
    Professor (of Sociology) Curtin is one such scholar (shortly to be dismissed from his employment), and he has closely followed the events and the coverup by government authorities, media, and all institutions since it happened in 1963. Thus, Curtin can be named as an expert on this historic event, and the author of this new book added clarity to his understanding.
    This is just more anti-Chinese propaganda (disinformation) that highly secret agencies proliferate from the media corporations and the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire that they serve. This propaganda, like all the other efforts such as the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia, censoring real independent bloggers, etc. are designed to control the minds of the American populace. 
    The first step is to turn off your TV (for entertainment only) and get the real news from thoroughly independent bloggers. But you say, which are "thoroughly independent"?  That is the critical challenge of our times! Most of us are trying to merely survive and don't have time to devote to any challenge. This is unlike the fabulously rich who can spend very little of their money to hire desperate folks like us to go online and spread disinformation.
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    Sunday, November 29, 2020

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

    • 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".
    • 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.
    ... 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.
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    Monday, November 23, 2020

    Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, November 23, 2020

    • James Corbett Explains The Great Reset on The Highwire from his weblog The Corbett Report in which he explains to Del Bigtree, a troubled ordinary person (from Colorado, and has a weblog) who expresses worries of his own about the Great Reset that powerful figures have planned for us. My reaction: Notice that Corbett, the outspoken anarchist, does not point fingers at government authorities, but powerful transnational capitalist figures. Apparently he doesn't know that government authorities are just tools controlled by ruling capitalist classes. Corbett, the anarchist, espouses "decentralization" but without taking away the concentration of private ownership of the economy.
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    Monday, November 16, 2020

    Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, November 16, 2020

    • AOC is WRONG About Biden's Chief Of Staff! featuring Jimmy Dore of the Jimmy Dore Show (via his YouTube channel) sarcastically commenting on the latest Biden appointment as Chief of Staff. (Note: Dore only gets around to AOC's (prominent Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) Tweet at 8:00m in which she approves of Biden's choice.) My commentary follows: 
    The Deep State's (essentially the capitalist board of directors that determine the real policies of our government) choice for president is a sociopath, and it is perfectly understandable that he chooses other sociopaths (also read this) to head the Deep State's government. I think that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has realized that serving the Deep State is a highly advantageous way to advance one's career in government. But, as many others object by saying, they wanted the other fascist gang to control "our" government! I hate to disillusion Trump supporters by revealing that the main ruling class represented by the Deep State never lost control of the government, only its largely titular head. They continued their control of the military, the vast network of "intelligence" organizations, most of Congress, the Supreme Court, and many other institutions similar to their control of media corporations.
    With the concentration of greenhouse gases rising by approximately 47% during the last century and a half, faster than almost any observed rise in the Cenozoic geological record, the term “climate change” refers to an extreme shift in state of the atmosphere-ocean system. The greenhouse gas rise and temperature rise rates are faster than those of the K-T mass extinction, the Paleocene-Eocene extinction and the last glacial termination.
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    Monday, August 10, 2020

    Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, Aug. 10, 2020

    • What we can learn from the Swedish paradox by Freddie Sayers from UnHerd. (Note: Sayers, who is British, uses a European meaning of libertarians who emphasize individual freedom from government in contrast to the US version which puts more emphasis on laissez-faire capitalism, that is, more emphasis on freedom of capitalist enterprises from government regulation.)
    • The Undoing Of Illusions: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: Johnstone uses the theme of "narrative matrix" to denote the capitalist ruling class control of all ideological institutions. They do this by using fake news and propaganda that they spread via their ownership and control of media corporations and the control of other ideological institutions (education, entertainment, etc.) in order to control people's minds especially within their US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. This practice is the essence of soft fascism in contrast to the often hard fascism of German and Italian history (reliance on police terror). To be sure, the latter used elements of fake news and propaganda, but they relied on hard fascist methods because of the underdevelopment of propaganda during their rule.) (Editor's note: I edited this note to include comments regarding soft and hard fascism @ 3:50 PM CT.)
    • Who Profits from the Beirut Blast? by Pepe Escobar from Global Research. (Note: Because Escobar's excellent articles in Asia Times are now behind a paywall, I will be posting his articles from secondary sources in the future.)
    • The Jakarta Method: How the U.S. Used Mass Murder To Beat Communism by Daniel Larison from The American Conservative. (Note: I'm posting this mainly because it offers lessons on the US political spectrum, and secondarily because it reminds us of the history of ruling class crimes. The conservatives who write for this website are often labeled as "paleoconservatives" (old-fashioned conservatives) in contrast to neoliberals, often referred to as "ziocons" (Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Dick Cheney, etc. most of whom were brought into government during Reagan's administration). Neoliberals or "ziocons" (because of strong Zionist influence) are favored by transnational capitalists who have aggressively pursued an empire compared to more nationalist conservatives who support national capitalist interests. I think that Fox News publishing empire has mixed feelings about Trump because of his more nationalist orientation in contrast with his aggressive foreign policies. Neoliberals have taken over control of the Democratic Party, whereas the paleoconservatives are mostly found in the Republican Party, but there is little of substance to differentiate the two-party system of the capitalist ruling class.)
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    Wednesday, July 1, 2020

    Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, July 1, 2020

    A "globalist" is another word for members of the Deep State who make nearly all of the decisions of their US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. It is convenient to regard a globalist as a member of the Empire's board of directors who the author realistically describes. But he errs a bit when he writes "You made basically the same mistake twice, in fact! Letting a technology get away from you." And then he described TV of the 1960s as obstructing their agenda in Vietnam. But I argue that they had not yet perfected their control of the media. Now they have.
    Have you noticed that main the ruling capitalist class ("globalist") control of the media has distorted coverage of news into self-serving ("globalist") propaganda? Here I'm referring to mainstream news that they control, that is, the primary sources they control: NY Times, Washington Post, TV networks such as NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS which most American watch obsessively believing that they follow the "news".
    I first noticed an unsual phenomenon when these TV networks extensively covered the toppling of Mubarik in Egypt in 2011. I also learned in an obscure website that Frank G. Wisner, Jr. was dispatched to Egypt. Since then I learned that the Empire controlled the Muslim Brotherhood, and they were behind it. So, I began to think that maybe the "news" coverage provided to Americans was shaped by some subversive organization to cover "news" that they wanted in order to advance Empire interests to the exclusion of events that they didn't want Americans to know, and otherwise shape the "news" to reflect the interests of the transnational ruling class. 
    Back in the 1960s and '70s there was a number of reports that the CIA, a secret organ of the ruling class ("globalists"), was behind the efforts to control media corporations. Of course, the CIA denied this interpretation and said that all such accusations were just "conspiracy theories". 
    In 2015 I first became aware of Tegna corporation (see this and this) which now owns 66 television stations in 54 markets (including NBC and affiliates), was located at Mclean, Va where a branch office of the CIA was located (a few miles from Langley). (Now I discover they've moved a few miles down to Tyson, VA.)
    Recently, however, I've had time to watch more TV network coverage of events. Of course, I knew that the "liberal" news corporations (NY Times, Washington Post, TV networks such as NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS) were lined up against Donald Trump, and their coverage reflected this bias, while Fox News supported Trump (I'm not arguing that Fox News is any better). But I also noticed, switching from one channel to another, that the evening news programs from NBC, ABC, and CBS seemed to cover the same topics, although not in the same order, with a feel-good segment at the end of their broadcasts. I've since noticed this consistently. This mysterious phenomenon was not true of local stations, but they generally follow the themes and style of major media.
    Most Americans watch news programs obsessively to learn about what is happening in the world. But watching what they are permitted to watch, and readily available, is a disaster for any desirable outcome for ordinary Americans. I've since concluded that what the Empire's media corporations report in their "news" programs is an indication of what the "globalists" want their audience to believe in order to promote their interests of profit and power. This applies to their extensive coverage of the nationwide protests prompted by the murder of George Floyd and other victims, but this as yet to be fully determined as how the extensive coverage benefits ruling class interests.
    • Know Your Enemy: The Dangerous Futility of Pseudo-Philanthropic Neoliberalism (The fourth in a seven-part, multi-week series of commentary on the COVID-19 crisis) by Prof. Radhika Desai from Defend Democracy Press. (Note: Desai attempts in the article to trace the history of capitalism down till today which he describes as an unsustainable "pseudo-philanthropic neoliberalism" most exemplified by Bill Gates. It makes much sense to me, but you decide for yourself.)
    I've run out of time and energy. 
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    Sunday, January 19, 2020

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

    As regards the letter to “CEOs,” it’s telling them to transition as fast as is reasonably possible out of fossil-fuel investments and into renewable-fuel ones, in order to become less vulnerable to the shock, when it does hit. This makes good sense: keeping the clients comfortable, while telling the CEOs: “Make major moves on this ASAP!”
    If you think for a moment that capitalist ruling classes are serious about global warming, "I have a bridge to sell you" (def).
    On the show this week, Chris Hedges, discusses the outsized influence of the writer, Ayn Rand, on America’s business and financial elite with New York University professor and author, Lisa Duggan.
     Duggan’s new book is entitled “Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed.” 
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    Monday, September 23, 2019

    Why Evidence of Iran’s Role in Attack Doesn’t Matter

    Click here to access article by Gareth Porter from The American Conservative.

    It is interesting to see old-fashioned conservatives, who are devoted readers of  The American Conservative, attacking the aggressive actions of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. They were displaced by another faction of capitalists (many see these as neo-fascists) labeled neoliberals by our corporate media, a transnational class of capitalists, who are currently pursuing world domination through their Empire. Having lost their control of the ruling capitalist class, these old-fashioned conservatives are resentful of this new faction of capitalists because their aggressive policies lead to many costly wars and threaten their investments in other countries.
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    Sunday, June 30, 2019

    The IMF and World Bank: Partners In Backwardness

    Click here to access a nearly one hour interview conducted by Bonnie Faulkner with economist Michael Hudson. 

    In this interview Faulkner revisits Hudson's 1974 book Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire, and Hudson explains how the budding US Empire engineered at the close of WWII the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to always favor the capitalist wealthy at the expense of working classes all over the world to enlist the support of  the world's capitalists for the leadership of the US Empire. This was at a time when most of the world was in ruins, except for the USA, from WWII . 

     These institutions have shaped most of world as we know it today: a neoliberal economic order in the world which facilitated Empire corporations at the expense of Third World nations. Thus, agents of the Empire essentially bribed local elites, small cliques of capitalists, to support this arrangement. 
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    Wednesday, March 27, 2019

    Viet Nam’s Economics Miracle Haunts US-DPRK Talks

    Click here to access article by Caleb Maupin from New Eastern Outlook.

    The author argues that Russia, China, and other such states are socialist because they use central planning by their governments, have nationalized key industries, and allocated significant resources to acquire technological expertise. I would not identify them as socialist, but mixed economies. Also these countries have failed to take major steps to prevent the destabilization of the climate, but they are vigorously challenging a uni-polar world with the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire as the dominant power. Perhaps it can be argued that it was impossible to do both.

    However, this may be an issue only of semantics. Otherwise his argument that these mixed ("socialist") economies perform much better than neoliberal economies, that is, the advanced capitalist economies that make up the Empire or that of former governments in eastern Europe that used central planning, sounds convincing. Regarding the latter, he writes:
    In eastern Europe, capitalism, not socialism, brought about an economic collapse. As free market policies swept the region, the results were utterly catastrophic. Governments sold off state enterprises and let Wall Street and London set up shop. The result was mass unemployment; mass starvation accompanied a drastic rise in crimes such as the drug trade and human trafficking. However, amid the failure, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund thundered that “free markets” and neoliberalism were the only way forward. Milton Friedman and Jeffrey Sachs became the respected voices, and their policies of deregulation and economic plunder expanded far beyond the former Eastern Bloc. In South and Central America, and in Africa, the promises of free market capitalism creating prosperity and abundance never materialized. 
    His main thesis that the Empire fears the success of DPRK's economy is well argued. 

    (His reference to Jim Roger (sic) should have a link to Jim Rogers.)
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    Thursday, March 14, 2019

    Yellow Vests: The search for a “collective Robespierre”, for a new Incorruptible!

    Click here to access article by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, a Greek journalist, posted on United World (based in Turkey).  (A "best post".)

    I'm beginning to regard the author as a very deep thinker. 

    In this article he has reported on conversations with various people in France in order to make make sense of the Yellow Vest movement. He has learned much. The ordinary French people are coming together, learning from each other and their rich history of revolution, and from all appearances, to be in an incipient stage of developing a revolutionary consciousness that could challenge the rule of their neoliberal masters (the current rule of transnational capitalists). 
    The French popular classes have proven that they possess enough accumulated social intelligence and political experience, on the one hand, to demolish the arguments of the Neoliberals and, on the other, to articulate their demands of radical control of the political system, long ago bought and controlled by the Financial Oligarchy.
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    Wednesday, February 13, 2019

    Russiagate Is Finished

    Click here to access article by Bernhard from his blog Moon of Alabama. (I thank an activist for alerting me to this article.)

     Contrary to what this author argues, I believe that the pressure on Trump in the form of "Russia-gate" accomplished much for the Deep State, the invisible, behind-the-scenes directorate of the USA. Probably chief among these accomplishments are that they have forced Trump to install many "ziocons" (neoliberals) in his administration which are pursuing much more aggressive foreign policies. 

    I don't think that the conspiracy attacks on Trump have "run out of steam" as Bernhard argues. After all, they never depended on evidence. It was sufficient to repeat the charges 24/7 on their media corporations to get many of the American people convinced. Only now with the Trump administration's move against the government of Venezuela do we see them backing off of the Russia-gate ploy as C.J. Hopkins noticed yesterday.
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    Monday, December 3, 2018

    US coal firm launches NAFTA suit against Alberta over coal phase-out

    Click here to access article from ISDS Platform.

    The ISDS Platform, a non-profit NGO, tracks such cases throughout the world. I am posting this article to illustrate the powerful control that the advanced version of capitalism, neoliberalism, has, and that their capitalist beneficiaries enjoy, under the domination of the US-led Empire. One little clause that is inserted in every neoliberal agreement requires a nation to submit to a private court any laws that are passed that might result in a loss to private owners. 
    ISDS is a mechanism included in many trade and investment agreements to settle disputes. Settling these investor disputes relies on arbitration rather than public courts. Under agreements which include ISDS mechanisms, a company from one signatory state investing in another signatory state can argue that new laws or regulations could negatively affect its expected profits or investment potential, and seek compensation in a binding arbitration tribunal. Corporations typically seek compensation which may amount to millions or billions of US dollars.
    Capitalists have always regarded the ownership of economic property as sacred. International corporations have managed with the backing of the US Empire to insert such clauses in every economic agreement between and among nations. Nations must accept such neoliberal clauses if they want to do business with nations under the control of the US Empire which is most of the world. Also recalcitrant nations will likely be denied loans from international banking agencies such as the IMF and the World Bank. Such agreements are especially onerous for nations that have suffered many decades, even centuries, of exploitation by foreign corporations under colonial regimes.

    In this example where a Canadian province decided to stop coal production as a means to allay global warming, they are likely to be forced to pay billions of dollars in compensation to the coal companies. While reading this article, you might also notice other examples this organization has tracked.
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