Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, June 11, 2021

• Fauci Declares Himself INFALLIBLE! featuring Jimmy Dore (via his YouTube channel--15:36m) exposing Dr. Fauci, a government bureaucrat in charge of our health, for what he is--sociopathic liar. My reaction: You have to be a "sociopathic liar" to serve the ruling class.
  

• Interview 1648 -- New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato featuring James Corbett and James Evan Pilato discussing the latest news which includes Japan's Olympics, cyber-attacks (and other fake propaganda "Reset" ploys), vaccination stories, etc., and Corbett's inferences based on these reports. 

• 💥The Lie That A Kinder, Gentler US Empire Is Possible by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband reading the script, which is also provided in the article from her weblog. This is a best post because she defines the core problem.
  

As long as the US is the center of a globe-spanning empire, it will be necessary to keep Americans too poor, too busy and too confused to interfere with the operation of the machine. You cannot allow a critical mass of Americans to have enough money to spend on political campaign donations, to have enough free time to research what’s actually happening in their world, to be sufficiently stress-free to look up and realize that your government is murdering children in their name, and also keep the empire running smoothly. You cannot have an imperialist oligarchy who runs things and also have income and wealth equality. 

 

Johnstone concludes her article with this insightful statement about any effective solution: 

It’s not that you can’t beat the machine, it’s that you can’t beat the machine using the tools the machine has given you. A grassroots effort to wake each other up to reality is a very achievable goal, and once enough eyes are open, anything is possible.

• US in Afghanistan: A War By Any Other Name... by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.
  

• The United States Started the Korean War from the YouTube channel of Tales of the American Empire. (Note: This is a short, authentic history of our post-WWII policies toward Asia.) My reaction: This history has been re-written by US historians that were motivated by career aspirations. They could not aspire to a career in academia unless they rewrote history to conform to the empire-building efforts of the cabal that took control in the post-WWII ruling class. This is a rare opportunity for you to recover a small part of the real history. 

• Biden's DHS Attacks Pipeline Protestors featuring Jimmy Dore (via his YouTube channel--7:31m) to reveal a true history of two single, but related, events--the protests that people organized in opposition to the Keystone pipeline in North Dakota and similar protests in northern Minnesota. My reaction: And many of you depend upon reports by media corporations to cover the news!

• Pinkwashing: Why Big Corporations Drape Themselves in Rainbows by Pablo Herón from Left Voice.
  

• A Sinister Agenda Behind California Water Crisis? by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. My reaction: Engdahl is one of the geopolitical experts, who are in denial of the climate crisis. He proposes a conspiracy theory which is rooted in government regulatory agencies where there is none. Such experts and most state bureaucrats and politicians view environmental regulations to save threatened species in a destabilizing climate as an "agenda" serving only negligible "special interests". Therefore expect such regulations will be dropped (or not enforced) in order to save us humans. This is only a  short-term solution to our future to the problem of the destabilization of the climate on our planet-Earth. Our masters in the ruling capitalist already know this, but their inherent drive to sustain profits will only accelerate their population reduction agenda known as the Great Reset in order to save themselves and their "beautiful" system of capitalism. The system depends on ever expanding growth on a planet that has finite resources. Something will have to give way. I look for more trouble in our future.

• The World is Changing, But Do the Americans Recognise It by James ONeill from New Eastern Outlook.
  

• Let there be no doubt about it from Extinction Rebellion in Britain (via their YouTube channel--03:53m)
  

• Explained: Quintero and Wiens 2013 featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--04:36m) and has fearlessly focused on the climate crisis, examining a research study regarding the adaptability of species to adjust to abrupt climate changes. (Note: This is a key question for our human species: can we adapt to rather dramatic changes in climate that McPherson foresees?)
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, January 15, 2021

•  Charles Walker heart-felt speech on Covid-19 lockdown in UK posted by Vanessa Beeley from her weblog The Wall Will Fall. 

• “I Am Open”: 50,000 Italian Restaurant Owners Plan to Ignore Lockdown from Off-Guardian.
  

• Unpacking the Aftermath of Trump’s Coup Attempt With Brian Becker, featuring an interview with Becker, a longtime activist and host of The Socialist Program, conducted by Dan Cohen from Mint Press News. My commentary follows:

Just to be clear, I don't know for certain what happened in Washington DC on January 6, but I tend to think that Americans are so naive about "intelligence" agencies' abilities to manipulate the views of ordinary Americans that they are taking what is reported by corporate media at face value. Because Becker has been active in revolutionary movements all of his adult life, he is no ordinary American. I knew of him while living in the San Franciso Bay Area in the 1980s. However, he with his obsession regarding older forms of fascism tends to see the older forms of fascism everywhere. He, too, fails to see the new forms, of what I refer to, as "neofascism".

Becker doesn't seem to be aware of neofascist forms of mind control that capitalist ruling classes have developed since WWII as reflected in foreign reports of color revolutions and other psychological operations (psy-ops) that have been designed and implemented for the past 75 years to crush any revolutionary forces or to install a new more "cooperative" regime. The "intelligence" agents have since learned more sophisticated methods of shaping views of ordinary people (see my commentary to the Harris article on Jan. 7) residing in US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Because ordinary Americans do not follow reports of such incidents in foreign lands, they are so ignorant when these techniques are used against them. They are "babes in the woods" (def). 

Since January 6 I've been reading reports that reveal that key Congressional figures were refused requests for more security. I am inclined to believe the report by David Mathisen in his article "The Capitol Hill Fiasco 2021" and its implications. It was likely a psychological operation by secret agencies of the Empire to pave the way to more laws restricting civil liberties, promoting censorship and surveillance of dissidents, and other nefarious objectives.

• The New America of Terror and Discontent by Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null from Global Research (based in Canada). 
  

• You Are Surrounded by Propaganda by Rod Driver from Elephants in the Room. (Note: This is Part 13 of a series of an unknown total articles.

• ‘Organized’ March to Capitol Was Not Permitted, Rally Organizers Warned White House by Greg Palast from Consortium News. 

• The Infowar Intensifies featuring James Corbett and James Evan Pilato discussing current issues from The Corbett Report.

• The Government Is Serious About Creating Mind-Controlled Weapons by Edd Gent from Live Science. 
  

• The Stock Market Is Broken as a Bellwether; Here’s How to Fix It by Pam Martens from her (& Russ Martens') weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• Impeachment is more dangerous than Trump by Michael Tracey from UnHerd (Britain).

• Organizations Funded by the NED from Swiss Policy Research.

• Anteroom of Our Own Extinction by John Steppling from Dissident Voice.
  

• With Dire Assessment, Scientists Warn Humanity in Denial of Looming 'Collapse of Civilization as We Know It' by Jessica Corbett from Common Dreams.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020

• Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life by Vandana Shiva from CounterPunch. (This is a best post.)

• A Socialist Case Against Howie Hawkins and the Green Party by Ezra Brain from Left Voice.
  

• Senate GOP releases report on Hunter Biden's dealings in Ukraine from The Duran (based in Cyprus). My reaction: It is hard to know which candidate among the two candidates in the "democratic" election that we are allowed to vote for is worse. But, you are not forced to vote for either--that is our very limited freedom!

• André Vltchek Remembered by Peter Koenig and Andre, friend by Farooque Chowdhury from Internationalist 360°. My reaction: Another fine human being lost in the battle of human survival against the forces of capitalism which can only support the interests of a few capitalists. He will not be the last.

• The Pandemic is a Test Run – #PropagandaWatch by Canadian James Corbett from his weblog. (I do not endorse this post.) My commentary follows (or here are the reasons why I don't endorse this post.):

Unfortunately, Corbett pans the overwhelming evidence provided by independent scientists that we have already "baked-in" sufficient greenhouse gases in the planet's upper atmosphere and the oceans to insure dramatic changes in the climate such that planet Earth will no longer be able to sustain human and many other species. In short, we, humans--an "exceptional" species, will disappear (along with most others).

He does so for two basic reasons: 1) because he is an anarchist produced by the indoctrination-loaded educational system throughout the capitalist Empire to ensure that their graduates are not "contaminated" with any anti-capitalist ideas; and 2) because he refuses to recognize the unthinkable--that we humans depend on a rather unique environment which does not appear on nearly all other planets. He refuses to accept scientific evidence that in the future the conditions of the planet Earth will be dramatically altered because of capitalism's incessant search for profits, and that they have loaded our atmosphere, oceans, and other places on the planet with greenhouse gases. 

Thus, Corbett fails to recognize the reasons why their latest "Reset" project is their attempt to cope with this very real concern, along with many other problems facing the capitalist Empire. He refuses to accept scientific evidence that in the future the conditions of the planet Earth will dramatically change because of capitalism's incessant packing of our atmosphere, oceans, and other places on the planet with greenhouse gases. He doesn't distinguish independent scientists from scientists employed by capitalist industries and from government bureaucrats, employed by the ruling class, posing as authorities. He refuses to recognize that the system is the source of not only abrupt climate destabilization, but so many other problems facing humans. Finally, Corbett fails to recognize the reasons why the Empire's latest "Reset" project is their attempt to cope with this very real concern, along with many other problems facing the capitalist Empire.

• Throw Sand In The Gears Of The Machine by Caitlin Johnstone (an Australian) from her weblog.

Humanity [human species] will continue along its self-destructive trajectory until the masses use the power of their numbers to force real change. Humanity will not use the power of its numbers to force real change as long as it’s being successfully propagandized not to do so. The oligarchic propaganda machine is therefore the primary barrier to our transition from our self-destructive patterns into a healthy collaborative relationship with each other and with our ecosystem. 

So throw sand in the gears of the machine. If enough of us throw enough sand, we can cause the whole thing to break down.   

And she continues on to give her advice on how we should "throw sand in the gears" of what she identifies as the "oligarchic propaganda machine".

• Nations Should Begin Removing Facebook, Twitter, and Google from Their Information Space by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.

• Science and Soft Totalitarianism by Brian Jones from The American Conservative. 

• UK’s “Daily Covid Deaths” didn’t die in one day & didn’t all have Covid by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.

• Chief Science Officer for Pfizer Says "Second Wave" Faked on False-Positive COVID Tests, "Pandemic is Over" by Ralph Lopez from HubPages.  

These posts today are all I have time for.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020

• Has an ‘Anti-Science’ Sentiment Overtaken the United States? by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. My reaction: This article is about the corruption of many scientists and public health bureaucrats by the capitalist ruling class to serve their agenda of profits and power. Knowledgeable skeptics are increasingly questioning these people and their collusion with the agenda of the ruling class.

What they question is corporate-funded science, conflicts of interest, and scientism – an almost religious reverence for science which views the field as incapable of corruption.

• The Cost of Resistance by Chris Hedges from Scheerpost.

• Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Two: Running Low on Oxygen by Ian Angus from Climate & Capitalism.

• The Dying Planet Report 2020 by Robert Hunziker from CounterPunch. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020

• Reconsidering the Presidential Election by "The Saker" (Andre Raevsky) from The Unz Review. My commentary follows: 

It looks like Raevsky (and PCR--Paul Craig Roberts) has fallen for the chaos strategy (see my first post on September 4). I think the dominant section of the ruling class is using the strategy to stir-up more chaos, but they have no intention of following through with their threats. Let me explain. 

The capitalist ruling class, or the dominant section of it which now consists of big financiers, deeply resents this upstart as president, but they value their acquisition of wealth more. Their wealth depends on corporate profits so that the latter can pay back the loans that financiers (via The Fed) have so generously supplied them with. This more realistic scenario needs stability, and chaos following the election cannot ensure that. Thus, they will accept the election results even though Trump is the winner--unless they have gone stark raving mad, which is unlikely--but this result is looking more doubtful as we approach the November elections. During the first four years of his administration the dominant section of the ruling class demonstrated that they can work with Trump to accomplish many of their goals.

Of course, for ordinary people the choice is, and has always been under capitalist rule, between the lesser of two evils. Why choose? Simply withhold your vote entirely from either presidential candidate and all of the candidates sponsored by the two parties. The only real solution is revolution!

• Unipolar Spin: Why Imperial Leftists Vilify Russia’s Social Democracy by Joaquin Flores from Strategic Culture Foundutation. (Note: There is one glaring typographical error in this essay: the phrase "only to hand it to Moscow for now particular reason." should read "only to hand it to Moscow for no particular reason.")  My reaction: I don't agree with all of his arguments blaming anarchists and pseudo-leftists for the misinformation about Russia, but I totally agree with his description of Russia, the influence of money that has corrupted journalists over the years, and the CIA's infiltration and subsequent control of media corporations. The CIA left journalists with two choices: either you parrot our line and you enjoy a comfortable standard of living (including financing a family) or you earn substandard wages (and not having the resources to raise a family) working for an alternative and independent media organization. This is a very challenging choice to make!
  

• Twitter Censors Blog After Exposing US Funding Protests in Thailand by Tony Cartalucci from Land Destroyer Report. (Note: This an illustration of the above argument in the commentary. Although I don't know if Cartalucci, who lives in Thailand, has his own family, but I very much doubt it. I think he made the right choice!)
  

• Belarussian SpecOp Team Neutralizes a Terrorist Group Planning a Maidan-Style Uprising (VIDEO) by Drago Bosnic from FRN (Fort Russ News, based in Serbia).

• ‘Rogue’ Chinese Virologist Joins Twitter, Publishes “Smoking Gun” Evidence COVID-19 Created In Lab from Europe Reloaded.

• Community and World United, We Say No! from Children's Health Defense.

• 9/11: A Catalyst For Consciousness Evolution by Joe Martino from Collective Evolution. 

Unfortunately, I didn't finish all of the approximately 50 websites I peruse each morning, but this selection is all I have the energy and time for.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, Aug. 28, 2020

Today's Note: I have been overwhelmed by so many brilliant posts today, and I can't thank the authors and the websites/weblogs enough! My faith in human beings has been restored! 

• The COVID19 Scamdemic – Part 1 by Iain Davis from Off-Guardian (based in Britain). (Note: Certainly a best post.)
  

• Meet the IDF-Linked Cybersecurity Group “Protecting” US Hospitals ‘Pro Bono’ by Whitney Webb from her weblog "Unlimited Hangout". (Note: Because of time constraints, I did not read all of this article. However, I have such faith in this author that I am certain of its top quality.)

• In the Grip of Treason: A Powerful Call to Action by "New Earth Project" via Truth Comes to Light. (My reaction: I do not know if Sasha Stone's recommendation for action following his specific advice at roughly 20:25m is sound or not, but I applaud his outrage. Now I fully understand why Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian blogger, recently became so depressed. This is another best post.)
  

• Definitive Eurasian Alliance Is Closer Than You Think by Pepe Escobar via The Unz Review. (My reaction: If Escobar's information is correct--and I think it is--the directors of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire must be shaking in their boots. A best post.)

I've run out of time and energy, but I recommend the following links that I have reviewed:

 

*MAJOR: Tikhanovskaya Officially Admits US Promised to Prop up Belarus Opposition - Fort Russ   WATCH: French Professor says there is no second wave – OffGuardian  * Police Told Right-Wing Kenosha Killer “We Appreciate You” Just Before Deadly Shootings   *Millennials can’t afford property so don’t care about protecting it. Why are we surprised they’re setting fires and smashing cars? — RT Op-ed  *Beset by rioters & criminals & ruled by shady oligarchs, here are 6 reasons why my beloved USA is becoming a banana republic — RT Op-ed  *BREAKING: Germany Bans Coronavirus Protest – OffGuardian   *We Gawk at Nonsense Political Theater While the Real Enemies Go Unnoticed - CounterPunch.org  *Normal Has Failed. Be As Weird As You Like. – Caitlin Johnstone   *Facebook FactCheckers Bought and Paid for By Gates Foundation? - Videos - ise.media   *Vladimir Putin – Interview with Rossiya TV channel | The Vineyard of the Saker  

And I haven't got time to review this interview, but check it out, that is, if you have time: 

• Our Interview With ‘Plandemic’ Director Mikki Willis Addresses Some Big Questions from Collective Evolution.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, July 23, 2020

• 5 Reasons Your Friends Mistrust COVID19 Case Numbers by Author Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. (My reaction: If you think that the capitalist ruling class or their employees in the government care about your health, I have a couple of fine bridges to sell you.)

• U.S. Orders Up to 600 Million Doses of Pfizer, BioNTech Covid Vaccine by James Paton from Bloomberg. 

• Dispatches from the War: To Dr. Scott Atlas and Dr. John Ioannidis by Jon Rappoport from his weblog.

• Why the Bill Gates global health empire promises more empire and less public health by Jeremy Loffredo and Michele Greenstein from The Grayzone.

• Climate change: Summers could become 'too hot for humans' by David Shukman from BBC News. 

• Killing Americans. Health Departments Aren’t Equipped to Respond. From Covering Climate Now.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, May 28, 2020 -- one is a "best posts"

• Position paper from Medical Professionals and Scientists for Health, Freedom and Democracy (their new website). 

• Canadian Cities Hit by Pandemic Lockdown. Vulnerable to BlackRock’s Privatization Agenda by Joyce Nelson from Global Research (based in Canada). 

• German Medical Doctor Katrin Korb - Speech via YouTube.

• CrossTalk Bullhorns, Quarantine Edition: No strategy from the Cross Talk Show on RT. (Note: The host discusses the topic "strategy" with guests Dmitry Babich and Alexander Mercouris.)

• Lock Step: How the Rockefeller Foundation wants to implement its autocratic pandemic scenario by Norbert Häring from his weblog Money and More.

• US Declares Vaccine War on the World by Prabir Purkayastha from Internationalist 360°. (Note: You will need to know about TRIPS Agreement and patent pools.)

• The Injection Fraud – It’s Not a Vaccine by Catherine Fitts from her weblog Soleri Report. 

• Facts Vs. Fake. A Worldwide Lockdown of Everything by Peter Koenig from Global Research. 

• Left Gatekeepers Through the New Left: Monitored Rebellion Part II by Bruce Lerro from Planning Beyond Capitalism. (Note: I encourage you to read Part I of his series. This clearly is in a "best posts" category.)

• Collaborators and Resisters by Bill Willers from Dissident Voice.

• How Patriarchy and Capitalism Combine to Aggravate the Oppression of Women by Denise Comanne from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt).

• Michael Jordan’s “Last Dance:” A Celebration of the American Nightmare by Danny Haiphong from Black Agenda Report.

Posts that I especially recommend and commentaries for today:Monday, April 27, 2020

• The New York Fed Is Exercising Powers Never Bestowed on It by any Law by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. (Although these bloggers are advocating only reforms to the capitalist system, they contribute much to enhance our understand of the powerful Federal Reserve that capitalist agents try to keep hidden.)

• Narrative Managers Argue China-Like Internet Censorship Is Needed by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• The New “Normal”: We Do Have Some Say in All This by Brett Jordan from Global Research. 

• Bill Gates pretends that Event 201 never happened by Norbert Häring, a German economist, from his weblog Money and more. (Note: Be sure to click on the link "video on control of public opinion". Viewing this video, you will need to see beyond the polite delivery and nice smiles to reach the underlying attitude of managing public opinion that was necessary to pull off this project, maybe the current pandemic crisis, and future projects planned for us by the capitalist ruling class.)

• The New Meaning of Genocide by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• “Artificial Intelligence Plan" That Became "Coronavirus Plan” & “China Did It” Narrative Is WMDs 2.0  (My summary: This post features a report by Whitney Webb and discussion of the report between her and  Ryan Cristián, the founder and editor of the website The Last American Vagabond. Webb's insightful comments are in the segment that runs between 7:27m to 39:10m of the more than three hours of the podcast. The remainder of the post is mostly devoted to a rant, or maybe a tirade, by Cristián about the manipulations of corporate media to get us to hate China, those who are duped by these media corporations, Donald Trump, and the recent Cares Act which is giving billions to wealthy individuals and corporations.  

Cristián joins Jimmy Dore in being shocked and angry about all the political events which have been recently happening and have been reported for many years in left-wing alternative media. Cristián does not yet identify these perpetrators as the Deep State, instead he describes them as little more than "bad guys".) However, could he and Dore be "canaries in the coal mine" (def.) who are the forerunners of "surplus"  workers when they also wake up in the months to come? I think that the anger of these two may be an advanced warning of things to come (def.).

• The Era of Mass Strikes Begins on May 1, First Day of General Strike Campaign by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers from Dissident Voice. 

• Dissident British ex-diplomat Craig Murray indicted for blog posts in Kafkaesque case by Ben Norton from The Grayzone.

Articles on Assange's arrest and its meaning for Friday, April 12, 2019

• Why Julian Assange’s Extradition Must Be Opposed at All Costs by Nozomi Hayase from AntiWar.

• Here’s Why the Book Julian Assange Was Holding When He Was Arrested is Vitally Important by Matt Agorist from The Free Thought Project.

• After 7 Years of Deceptions About Assange, the US Readies for Its First Media Rendition by Jonathan Cook from The Unz Review. 

• The Age of Injustice by Paul Craig Roberts from his blog. 

• Assange’s Lawyer Says Wikileaks Founder’s Life In Danger If Extradited To U.S. "According to a report by Reuters, on Thursday, Julian Assange’s lawyer ...." (video)

• 10 Reasons Assange Should Walk Free by David Swanson from War Is a Crime.

• Assange retaining secrets as ‘insurance policy’ via an RT video by a friend who visited Assange recently.

• Jesse Ventura defends Assange, attacks Bush and Cheney via an RT video.

• Worldwide outrage over arrest of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange by Niles Niemuth from World Socialist Web Site. 

• My Speech For The Melbourne Free Assange Rally by Caitlin Johnstone from her blog.

“Into the Storm” [Au coeur d'une revolution populaire]: A Short Film Devoted to Yellow Vests Act 18 in Paris

Click here if you wish to access a 23:35m film by French camera operator Julien Rogue and introduction directly from Stalker Zone. 

You won't find this material on any corporate or so-called "public media" like PBS, NPR, BBC, etc. because the ruling capitalist class wants to keep you dumbed-down and easily controlled.

French camera operator Julien Rogue, who was present on March 16th in Paris when the Yellow Vests made it clear to Macron that his fake “grand debate” will not succeed to sweep national discontent under the carpet, has made and published a 24-minute film entitled “Into the storm: At the heart of a popular revolution”, the introductory text of which is translated and presented below…

A film created in the heart of act 18 of the Yellow Vests in Paris on March 16th 2019. I bring you with me on this totally incredible day, where chaos mixes with hope, witnessing extraordinary violence, immersion in the heart of Paris, but also, through the spectrum of my lens, to relive this day, which will go down in the history as one of the most violent of the Yellow Vests movement. I wanted to make a summary of what I experienced during act 18 in Paris, but then… I didn’t have the words.

So, in the face of so many things to say and so much to describe, I preferred to leave room for images, showing all that I could film through this film.

Articles recommended for Wedesday, March 20, 2019

• Retired US general calls for invasion of Venezuela and assassination of its president by Mohamed Elmaazi from The Canary (Britain)

• French Unions Call General Strike For Better Pay, Retirement, Education from RIFI: The World and All Its Voices [France]

• 'Defy the Thought Police', Stand With Assange by John Pilger from TeleSur.

• Craziest Bernie Smears Of All Time! A video from The Jimmy Dore Show. 

• America’s Venezuela Strategy: Coup By Sheer Narrative Control by Caitlin Johnstone from her blog. 

The Yellow Vests: a leftist movement which does not want to be called leftist! [Part 3 of 3]

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

It is precisely because of their willingness to succeed that the “masses” isolate anything that could divide them or have a negative impact on the movement’s further development. For example, despite the fact that 70% of the demands of the movement are identical to the political programme of the left-wing “France Insoumise”, the Vests have so far prevented it from playing any significant role in their activities, keeping their distance from it.

Hence, in France, at present, we see the development of a movement which seems to be very “left-wing” in terms of principles, ideas, demands, values or slogans, but which does not wish to be called “left”.

Besides, the “radicalism” of French society, as in other western countries, is manifested towards both the “radical left” and the “radical right” and in the ranks of the Yellow Vest movement one can find supporters and even cadres of parties from both ends of the political spectrum, as well as apolitical citizens. Thus, if the Yellow Vests were to start expressing any political party preferences, they would automatically lose part of the support they enjoy, becoming an easy target for their opponents and undermining their struggle.

Bahrain opposition begins armed resistance against ‘Saudi occupation’

Click here if you wish to access the following video directly from the Middle East Observer.

A prominent Bahraini opposition leader says his al-Wefaq movement has begun carrying out increasingly sophisticated armed resistance operations against the ruling al-Khalifa government and the “Saudi occupation”.

Sayyed Murtada al-Sanadi said that the ruling al-Khalifa monarchy and its Saudi backers gave no opportunity for dialogue or negotiations despite eight years of peaceful protests by the opposition.

I've recently wondered what happened to the Bahraini protests of which I posted numerous articles in 2011 (see this, this, and this). Well, it appears that they have evolved into an armed resistance against the rule of the Saudi friendly family rule of Khalifa. Although Bahrain is supposed to be a constitutional monarchy, look at the Wikipedia entry to find out who staffs all the important government posts. Incidentally, or maybe not, the US Empire has a major naval base in Bahrain that supports the Fifth Fleet. 

Democracy Or Extinction

Click here to access article by an editor of Media Lens (Britain).

The article opens with some very important questions: 

What will it take for governments to take real action on climate? When will they declare an emergency and do what needs to be done? How much concerted, peaceful public action will be required to disrupt the current economic and political system that is driving humanity to the brink of extinction?

And it ends with this paragraph:

We have now had three decades of increasingly alarming reports from climate scientists since the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was set up in 1988. Last October, the IPCC warned that we only had 12 years left to turn things around, taking radical action now. But alarm bells from scientists have not, and will not, stop governments in their tracks. Only peaceful and massive concerted action from citizens around the world stands a chance of doing that at this desperately late stage. 

Notice that the author places much emphasis on "peaceful" efforts to stop this chain of events to will result in human extinction. Why is it that we must be peaceful in the face of our own extinction? I am not prone to violence, but I will engage in it if my life is seriously threatened. Show me a species that doesn't fight for survival! I don't mean that we should engage in reckless violence, but I do think that we must not exclude any means for survival, especially if it is organized: because we are facing a powerful, well-armed enemy of the people.

Take a look at my revolutionary proposal as one illustration of how we might save ourselves.

However, I do like his overall arguments and facts, and especially this one:

To any reader unsettled by the scare word 'socialism', simply replace it with 'democracy': a genuinely inclusive system where the general population has proper input and control, and does not simply have its wishes overridden by a tiny elite that enriches itself at our, and the planet's, expense.

Ten Lessons from the Yellow Vests

Click here to access article by Étienne Dolet from It’s Going Down.  (At 10:50 AM CT, I added the last paragraph to my commentary for greater clarity of my views.)

The author presents some excellent lessons to be learned from experiences of past anti-capitalist movements. We must study the history of each movement to build on their successes and to eliminate their weaknesses, or we will go down with the capitalist ruling classes in their final acts of self destruction. 

I especially liked this passage that emphasized the need to build networks and organization based on bottom-up principles:

... dire need to continue to develop networks of alternative media that provide a bottom-up account of radical social movements. Sites like Révolution Permanente, Wikipedia, and Mediapart are providing some of the more reliable coverage in French, along with Enough Is Enough, CrimethInc., and IGD in English. But these platforms could have greater visibility and support, and be part of a larger network of resources to help educate and agitate for revolutionary social transformation. They are an essential part of the anti-capitalist toolkit, and we need to continue to build autonomous but federated activist media platforms that can inform the public by developing the counter-narratives necessary for the coordination of mass revolutionary movements.

On the other hand, I haven't had much sympathy for anarchists. I think too many of their actions have been informed by a profound lack of historical information. From my experience, the average anarchist suffers from myopia, that is, they can only see in what is in front of them, or their immediate experience of repression. They lack years of study of authentic material that might give them insights on battling the far more sophisticated ruling classes. Thus, they are often deceived and led down paths that accomplish nothing constructive. 

A recent post from this website entitled "The Threat to Rojava: An Anarchist in Syria Speaks on the Real Meaning of Trump’s Withdrawal" offers an illustration of this. The author(s) is/are much too close to the Kurds to maintain any objectivity, and his/her/their lack of understanding of the geopolitics of the region also permeates this perspective. The author/authors can only see what is in front of him/her/them.

An effective revolutionary movement must understand what they are doing because the ruling capitalist classes have abundant resources and highly skilled upper-middle-class people, who they have pampered and co-opted, to mislead them down dead-end paths of activity. We must do our political homework to be effective! We must build our own organizations of independent journalists and educators, which are always informed by bottom-up organizing principles, to help us understand what is really going on in the world, and we must support and defend these journalists (Julian Assange is a prime example) and educators from persecution from capitalist authorities.

A sound revolutionary movement will have successes, and these successes will lead to other successful outcomes. You can't expect comfortable, highly educated, upper-middle-class people to abandon their advantages without some promise of success.

Watch the 9th Vigil for Assange Live Here Tonight

Click here if wish to access the announcement directly from Consortium News.

Consortium News will broadcast live the 9th Online Vigil for Julian Assange as the pressure continues to mount on the WikiLeaks publisher. Among the special guests tonight will be journalist and filmmaker John Pilger, who has just visited Assange at the Ecuador embassy in London.

Join us tonight beginning at 8 pm U.S. EST for the latest Unity4J vigil in support of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. The show will begin with CN Editor Joe Lauria interviewing John Pilger, who’s just been to see Assange.

Articles about the "yellow-jacket" protests in France

• The Revolution and its meaning by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos from United World International (My educated guess is that this website is based in Turkey.)

• The Yellow Vests: Spontaneous Anger or Precursor to Revolution? by Donald Courter from United World International (My educated guess is that this website is based in Turkey.)  

• Yellow-vest protests in France- An extraordinary political school from LeftEast (I think that this website is based in Romania.) 

• France in crisis from Defend Democracy Press. This post contains a number of articles.

• Despite Macron’s TV Mea Culpa, France Set for Showdown by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Paris 08.12.18: Yellow Vests shift to the left from ReelNews via YouTube.

The yellow vests movement in France is now shifting decisively to the left, as shown by the huge anti-capitalist bloc in Paris on the December 8. Led by prominent campaigners against police violence, The Adama Committee for Justice and Truth, it included railworkers, striking postal workers, other rank and file workers, students, migrant workers groups, important collectives such as The Rosa Parks Collective, sex workers, LGBTQ groups and many more. The mood has changed completely since the horrific mass arrest at a school in a Paris banlieue; now workers are calling for a general strike, and the student movement is exploding with schools and universities blockaded throughout the country. [my link]

Watch Vigil for Assange

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ConsortiumNews broadcast the latest vigil for Julian Assange as the publisher comes under new pressure to be expelled from Ecuador’s London embassy, while charges await him in the United States.

The broadcast was Friday night. With Ray McGovern, Chris Hedges, Margaret Kimberly, Suzie Dawson and more:

The detention and isolation from the world of Julian Assange

Click here to access article by Stefania Maurizi from la Repubblica (an Italian website).

They are destroying him slowly. They are doing it through an indefinite detention which has been going on for the last eight years with no end in sight. Julian Assange has become one of the most widely known icons of freedom of the press and the struggle against state secrecy. Recently, his detention in the Ecuadorian embassy in London has been joined by isolation, strict rules and various forms of pressure which seem to have no other purpose than to break him down. A grip meant to destroy his physical and mental ability to resist until he either breaks down or he steps out of the Ecuadorian embassy, unleashing the beginning of his own end. Because if he does step out, he will be arrested by the UK authorities, and at that point the US could request his extradition so that they can put him in jail for publishing classified US documents. Julian Assange is in extremely precarious conditions.

After eight months of failed attempts, la Repubblica was finally able to visit the WikiLeaks founder in the Ecuadorian embassy in London ....