Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, April 10, 2021

• How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points into the Press by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. My reaction: Perhaps this is a part of a Deep State movement to transform government functions to private enterprise in order to avoid any government involvement.

AMSTERDAM — Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news collective,” “transforming investigative journalism” (Big Think), and an unequivocal “force for good” (South China Morning Post). Indeed, outside of a few alternative news sites, it is very hard to hear a negative word against Bellingcat, such is the gushing praise for the outlet founded in 2014.

This is troubling, because the evidence compiled in this investigation suggests Bellingcat is far from independent and neutral, as it is funded by Western governments, staffed with former military and state intelligence officers, repeats official narratives against enemy states, and serves as a key part in what could be called a “spook to Bellingcat to corporate media propaganda pipeline,” presenting Western government narratives as independent research.

• Lee Camp: How Corporate America Supports Racism, Hatred & Exploitation (in New & Fun Ways!) from Scheerpost,
  

• 💥New Revelations on Germ Warfare: It’s Time for a Reckoning with Our History from the Korean War by Jeffrey Kaye from CounterPunch. This is a best post. My commentary follows (which I edited extensively at 3:52 PM CT):

Because most Americans believed that they were the "good guys", partly as a result of understandable WWII propaganda but also because of post-war propaganda throughout all institutions (media, entertainment--Hollywood, and education) that continued unceasingly to the present time. Most Americans believe that they are still the "good guys", the "commies" were the new "bad guys", and the rest of the fairy tales the TV and radio corporations told them in the post-WWII years. 

 

The fascist-leaning, world-dominating aspiring ruling class grew inside the State Department initially through efforts like Wall Street lawyers like John Foster Dulles, Sec. of State, and his brother, Allen Dulles, the eventual head of the unaccountable CIA, together with key members of the Council of Foreign Relations. A subversive coterie of people in both organizations swore an oath of secrecy as to their aims of building an empire after defeating the equally gross ambitions of the German Nazis and their dreams of establishing a German Reich.

 

I need at this point to make a slight detour in my essay to deal with the positive implications of two fairly recent posts (here--9th post and here--2nd post) by authors who I hold in much esteem--Alastair Crooke and Pepe Escobar.  On the strength of these positive references, I ordered the book shortly thereafter. But I was severely disappointed. Stephen Wertheim, the author of Tomorrow the World, has written with huge doses of gaslighting approval of these subversive Americans and their quest to build what is now (what I call) the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Although the description of pro-fascist tendencies of corporate leaders supporting fascist ideas in the 1930s (also here, and my commentary here) is missing in his book, Wertheim devotes almost his entire book on peripheral issues such as "isolationists" vs internationalists with the latter, due to force of circumstances, morphed into imposing American might on the rest of the world to ensure a Pax Americana from a world faced with endless wars! His book is an apologia for this fascist coterie's secret project of building an empire! I have read widely and from a variety of sources on the lead up to WWII, and I have reached a different conclusion (see here and here). This fascist coterie had to swear an oath to secrecy, which Wertheim admits, because they were going against the wishes not only of the FDR administration but the American people. (FDR didn't trust them.) You can read the history of that period by reading a real history of that period in my recommended books section.

 

Back to my commentary on the above article: I was living in Honolulu, HI in the late 1970's when I met a Korean War veteran and prisoner of war who opted to stay in China after the War because he was so disgusted about the US using bio-warfare against the Koreans and Chinese troops that he didn't want to return home (along with many others who refused repatriation). I don't remember his name, but he was given special permission by the State Department to return home to visit his family. I filed this experience away in my memory. Then in early 2017 I read This Must be the Place by Dave Chaddock and I was convinced that US forces used bio-warfare against Koreans and Chinese. (Read my previous posts here and here.) 

 

I also think that the CIA were so taken by their cover story that American prisoners were somehow brainwashed that they began to study methods of controlling individual's minds. I was convinced of this when I later read reports (like this and this) that the CIA had been pursuing such research at McGill University in Montreal. I wondered if they didn't use these techniques on Sirhan Sirhan to assassinate Robert Kennedy after listening to this interview with a lawyer, William Pepper, that attempted to defend Sirhan Sirhan. I wondered further if they didn't use these techniques on domestic "terrorists" reportedly engaged in mass shootings many of whom were mentally ill or unstable.

• Disappear the System: A Critical Hegemonic Function of Capitalist Media by Paul Street from CounterPunch.

• Ukraine, Taiwan… Two-Prong U.S. Aggression Toward Russia, China an editorial from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

Presidents come and go, elections take place periodically, but the power and policymaking resides with deep state planners whose loyalty is not to any particular party but rather to the furtherance of imperial objectives regarding America’s presumed global position and privileges.

• West’s Propaganda War vs. China Continues (6:55m video) by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. 

• Carbon dioxide levels now at highest level in 3.6 million years from Climate & Capitalism.

• The ocean is becoming more stable – and that’s not good news by Phil Hosewood from Climate & Capitalism.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, March 21, 2021

• Why Do They Keep Doing It? by Patrick Armstrong from Strategic Culture Foundation (based in Russia but they post international writers). My reaction: It's what the ruling class in the USA has been devoted to since the US entered WWII--building a capitalist empire (commentary). This goal was to maximize their wealth and to enhance their power. It has become an obsession without which life has no meaning for them.
  

• The Great Reset is Here: Follow the Money by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. My commentary follows:

This post is dripping with cynicism by Engdahl who has business expertise combined with knowledge of geopolitics, however is someone lacking in knowledge upon the impending climate crisis that scientists have studied and have warned us about. This criticism also applies to a number of experts such as Guy McPherson, who has expertise in physical sciences and has specialized in global warming, but who sometimes wanders into other areas like psychology, anthropology, philosophy, etc. People have an expertise in a certain area and must stick to that area, and not assume an all-knowing wisdom. 

 

Christian Westbrook (Ice Age Farmer) is a farmer who has dabbled a bit in sunspots and concludes that the whole ecology movement is suspect, that there is no climate crisis, etc. Engdahl clearly is a climate-warming denier even though he lacks scientific knowledge that McPherson has and the many independent scientists who have been warning us that the destabilization of our climate is driving us to extinction. 

 

Engdahl, Westbrook, and activists have been duped so many times by ruling class experts that it is understandable why they question everything and distrust everything that authorities tell them, but they even distrust what more independent experts say. These examples, and many others, are why I don't have faith that Western activists can achieve a recognition of who their real opponents are, and replace capitalism with a socialist system within the time remaining before humans become extinct.

 

However, this post is valuable in that Engdahl has information about how members of the US/Anglo/Zionist ruling class are conspiring to save capitalism, a system that has given capitalists so much wealth and power. Top members of the ruling class have clearly listened to the independent physical scientists and their research about the growing climate crisis. Thus, they have come up with a plan (too late) called the Great Reset in a desperate attempt to save themselves from this crisis. But it is far too late, and anyway capitalism and a sustainable climate are a contradiction that they refuse to recognize because of their obsession with wealth and power that the system supplies them with such abundance.

• The TRUTH About War Crimes featuring Lee Camp, via his YouTube channel in an 11:20m post, using sarcastic humor to attack our mainstream news so conveniently furnished by media corporations to brainwash Americans. My reaction: He uses reports from alternative media, which few people watch, as a means to attack ubiquitous reports by media corporations like CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, NPR, PBS, and their local affiliates. However, most Americans watch and take seriously the latter reports as witnessed during this pandemic by complying with lockdown orders, wearing masks, social distancing, taking their vaccines, etc. without questions or doubts. 

• Russiagate Rolls On, Giving Biden Political Cover by Joe Lauria from Consortium News. 

• Captain America – The Man with Two Brains by Larry Romanoff from "The Saker" weblog. This is an epilogue to his series of articles listed below that explains much about Americans.

Introduction – If America Dissolves… https://thesaker.is/if-america-dissolves/
Bernays and Propaganda – Part 1 of 5 — https://thesaker.is/bernays-and-propaganda/
Bernays and Propaganda – Part 2 of 5 — The Marketing of War — https://thesaker.is/bernays-and-propaganda-the-marketing-of-war/
Bernays and Propaganda – Part 3 of 5 –– Democracy Control – http://thesaker.is/bernays-and-propaganda-democracy-control/
Bernays and Propaganda – Part 4 of 5 –The Transition to Education and Commerce – http://thesaker.is/bernays-and-propaganda-the-transition-to-education-and-commerce-part-4/
Bernays and Propaganda – Part 5 of 5 — Propaganda Continues Unabated — http://thesaker.is/bernays-and-propaganda-propaganda-continues-unabated-part-5/
Epilogue – Captain America –The Man with Two Brains 

My reaction: I'm not sure about his argument about Americans having two disconnected mind-sets, but I can agree with his last paragraph:

 

This is what Lippman and Bernays (and their European masters) did to the American people – reprogrammed an entire nation in equally as brutal a fashion as did the US with the Philippines, and the UK with Hong Kong, in this case creating an entire society of deluded, hysterical, and profoundly sick killer-consumers with a totally fictional history. It is probably fair to say that these men had good and fertile material to work with, a composition of the worst features of Christianity, native ignorance, and insatiable greed, but still we need to give credit where credit is due. Americans have always been racist and violent, but it was Lippman and Bernays who turned them into serial killers celebrating their Afghan “bug splats” (1) in the national media. And it was in this fertile and evil soil that American Presidents, Secretaries of State and Defense Secretaries so lushly sprouted into the longest string of sociopathic genocidal killers in history. Democracy never had a chance. 

 

Oh, I forgot that most Americans don't know their true history as influenced by Bernays and Lippman. Romanoff goes into detail about this history in parts 4 and 5--links to those articles I have provided above.

• America's Secret Government features Chris Hodges, in a 27:09m of his YouTube channel, interviewing David Talbot, author of The Devil's Chessboard, about the growth of the "secret government" initially under the Dulles brothers (Alan and John Foster Dulles). My commentary follows:

This is a true history of the USA's establishment of a fascist-like cabal of ruling class figures who have attained overwhelming power and established the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire replacing the fascist empire of Nazi Germany. Talbot only gives us a smattering of details of the history of this Deep State (Talbot uses this term at about 21:54m) which has now rewritten history, infiltrated all media corporations, and spread their agents throughout all US institutions and abroad in Europe. 

 

This very cleverly hidden Deep State has for many years total control over all institutions and government of the USA and most of their Empire of which contemporary activists have only a rudimentary understanding. I have grown up with this development since the end of WWII and became aware of this development following the assassination of the Kennedy brothers and the constant lies fed by our media corporations during the Vietnam War. I have posted many articles warning of this development, the most important and most recent of which is my commentary for this post.

 

To attain an understanding of this insidious growth of fascism in the USA and the brainwashing you received from every institution, most important of which are schools you attended, you need to read many of the books that I recommended on the right-hand side of this weblog. 

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, March 19, 2021

• The Chicken Little act isn't working – COVID Mania is wearing off by Jordan Schachtel from his weblog The Dossier.
  

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

• World Wide Rally For Freedom featuring James Corbett and James Evan Pilato in a 28:34m video first commenting on media corporation's reporting on the upcoming worldwide protests of the pandemic restrictions. After about 18 minutes they talk about censorship issues.
  

• Columbia University Caught Lying For Biden Over Stimulus Bill featuring Jimmy Dore using his channel at Rokfin in a 12:26m video to expose a current example of Columbia University's participation in the ruling class's management of consent/dissent. 

• 💥VIDEO: With Katie Herzog on the Expansion of LGBTQ Identity and How it is Wielded in Political Discourse featuring Glenn Greenwald and Herzog, from Greenwald's weblog on Substack. This is a best post. (Note: I received this post from Greenwald shortly before I finished work on yesterday's post, and wanted to thoroughly read and understand it--which I subsequently did.) My commentary follows:
  

The ruling capitalist class has used the social identity trick for many years to elect first Barack Obama and then in their attempt to elect Hillary Clinton. Now they have expanded their scope of operations to other social identity groups and smear anyone who challenges them (in addition to anyone who questions their pandemic policies). They do this in order to divide us into hating each other, to distract us from forming other ideas that might be influenced by class politics, and to divert our attention away from real issues of inequality under a capitalist system. 

 

I think they expanded their psychology operation to extend to other identity groups after they failed to elect Hillary Clinton to the presidency. But they saw it as useful because it greatly influenced the upper-middle-class of college-educated professionals which is their core constituency. They drew on their highly trained advertising and public relations experts to study how to "sell" ruling class policies to the rest of the American society. I think Eric London was right when he wrote the following:

 

Identity politics has become a key mechanism through which the next 9 percent situated below the top 1 percent advances its grievances within the political establishment, fighting for “space” in the universities, trade unions, political parties, state apparatus, and corporate media. This layer, which forms a principal social base for the Democratic Party, is generally pro-war and supportive of the right-wing policies that have produced a soaring stock market. 

 

Comics like Jimmy Dore exposed their feminist trick, and radical film reviewers like Michael Walsh did likewise in his review of Hollywood film. Satirists like CJ Hopkins cited in 2018 the advantages that this project of social identity had for our masters in the ruling class. He argued that its appeal extended to other groups and all classes of society. But our masters didn't quit--they had finally found the magic key to the manipulation of the general population. 

 

Over the years the public opinion shapers improved on his project by using it against major dissidents to control and limit their influence on the general population. They discovered last year the benefits of declaring a pandemic: it enabled them to add censorship to their project by using "fact- checkers" to prohibit the use of privately owned social platforms by disobedient dissidents in order to limit their influence. Now they have turned their new weapon on the likes of Glenn Greenwald and Katie Herzog whose writings challenged their newfound weapon. This could not be tolerated. The two in this post, besides commiserating with each other, explain the victimization as a phenomenon of recent converts to prior forbidden social identities as the source of the attacks on them. However, unlike Walsh and Hopkins, the two do not explicitly link this recent persecution to a ruling class that doesn't like their brand of independent journalism.

• New Cold War is Built on Humanitarian Interventionist Lies and Dismissal of Actual War Crimes by Danny Haiphong from Black Agenda Report.
  

• The Puppet Masters: Is There Really a Deep State? by Philip Geraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation (based in Russia, but independent and international). My reaction: For a long time I have suspected Geraldi to be an agent of one of the Empire's many secret services, and now I am sure. You see, they have heavily infiltrated many news agencies located in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire in order to shape public opinion according to the orders of the Deep State. For the past several years Geraldi has posed as a supporter of Palestinian rights and in opposition to Israeli policies to the extent that one could label him with an anti-Semitic bias. However, now that he is firmly established in various publications and has collected an audience of mostly left-wingers, his bosses in the Deep State ordered him to obscure the CIA, the foremost US secret service, and gaslight the Deep State, the hidden, real government of the USA. In this article he poo-poos the concept of a Deep State, reverses the role they play in relation to their secret services, and he conflates the term "Deep State" with "establishment". Contrary to his assertion, the concept of "deep state" was not coined by a Turkish author, but by Peter Dale Scott. You see, for more than 50 years, I have observed and read about the subversive actions of the CIA, the hidden government represented by the Deep State, and I've developed an advanced "nose" for detecting such fake opinion-shapers. In this case, the stench is overwhelming.

• Vanessa Beeley Interview – Inside The West’s Illegal Yemen Occupation & CIA Caught Rescuing al-Qaeda featuring a 1:08:11 video posted on The Last American Vagabond in which Ryan Cristián interviewing Beeley regarding her meeting with the Yemeni's ambassador to Syria where she presently lives.
  

• The Anti-Semitic Birth of the Zionist State: A History of Israel’s Self-Hating Founders by Miko Peled from Mint Press News.
  

• Myanmar: Hidden Opposition Violence by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. My reaction: I have covered Berletic's reports, when he was known as "Tony Cartalucci", for many years, and I've always found them to be reliable. In this post he takes a report from a Western news agency and shows by reading line by line how it is scripting reports from other "color revolutions", whose activists are funded via Western NGOs, to hide what is really going on--starting a revolution in Myanmar.

• Overshoot or Omnicide? by Sam Carana from his weblog Arctic News. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, December 29, 2020

• 2020: The Year We Lost Our Common Sense, Courage and Civil Liberties by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Meet The Pseudo-Left Imperialists Fighting Against Universal Healthcare by Dan Cohen from Mint Press News. (Note: This post includes a transcript.)

• The Lawsuit That Could End Covid-1984 with Dr. Pam Popper in which Spiro Skouras from Activist Post interviews Popper. (Note: This is about working legally within the capitalist system to change the onerous effects of the current pandemic.)

• 2020: The Year the Tree of Liberty Was Torched by John W. Whitehead from The Rutherford Institute. My reaction: 2020 was not the "year the tree of liberty was torched". It has been happening ever since capitalism took over from feudal authorities some several hundred years ago. The bourgeios proponents merely replaced the feudal authorities.
  

We could transform this nation if only Americans would work together to harness the power of their discontent and push back against the government’s overreach, excesses and abuse.

Targeting a capitalist government for this situation is the problem which all anarchists will embrace, but will accomplish nothing. The only solution is revolution, that is, a change from an advanced capitalist system to a democratically empowered socialist system. Anarchists, agorists, libertarians (as practiced in America), etc. have much to learn. But will they learn it in time to avert the impending catastrophes of nuclear war or the destabilization of our climate? Stay tuned and stay informed.

• 11 questions / 11 answers about the new global debt crisis and how it can be radically reduced (part 1 of 5) by Eric Toussaint , Olivier Bonfond, and Mats Lucia Bayer from CATM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt). (Note: I doubt that I will be posting the other parts because Toussaint has previously written so much about this topic.)
  

• Another Flawed Data Model from Imperial College to Blame for Latest UK Lockdown by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond.

• Should Dr. Birx Be Forgiven For Breaking Her Own Rules? by Ethan Yang from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• A More Honest Perspective of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null from Global Research. (Note: This is a kind of summary of previous articles that I've posted.)

• Another Vatican Insider: COVID Is Being Used By “Certain Forces” To Advance Their “Evil Agenda” by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• The 'Mighty Wurlitzer' - How U.S. Financed 'Human Rights' Organizations Create Anti-Chinese Headlines by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• Update : Transcript Added : A Hard Look at Rent and Rent Seeking with Michael Hudson & Pepe Escobar from "The Saker". 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, December 17, 2020

• When Deplorables Become Ungovernables by Pepe Escobar from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Barbarians at the barn: private equity sinks its teeth into agriculture from GRAIN. Note: I am posting this lengthy article to show you that investors and managers of worker and government pension funds are taking over farmland all over the world and causing many problems for humans and the environment to add to their wealth. This is how capitalist practices serves the food needs of humans the profits and power needs of a tiny minority of capitalists and associated professionals working in Wall Street.
  

It is disconcerting that the biggest players in the private equity industry are people’s pension funds, followed by governments’ development finance institutions. They are responsible, yet there is zero connection between them and the people whose money they are investing, much less between them and the communities impacted by these investments.

• Twitter Says It Will REMOVE All Posts Claiming Vaccines Can Harm People by Steve Watson from Summit News.

• Cheers for College Football’s Victory over Covid-19 Fear by Alan W. Dowd from American Institute for Economic Research.

• Year Zero by CJ Hopkins, a political satirist, from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. 

2020 was GloboCap Year Zero. The year when the global capitalist ruling classes did away with the illusion of democracy and reminded everyone who is actually in charge, and exactly what happens when anyone challenges them. 

In the relatively short span of the last ten months, societies throughout the world have been transformed beyond recognition. Constitutional rights have been suspended. Protest has been banned. Dissent is being censored.

• AOC's Gas Lighting Gets Called Out On Twitter! featuring Jimmy Dore, from his YouTube channel, attacking AOC (Rep. Alexandria Casio-Cortez) in a 22:41m video.

• Quantitative Easing Is the Biggest Sham Ever (S3 E2) featuring John Titus explaining in his Best Evidence channel of YouTube, QE and other shinanigans played on us by the Federal Reserve. (Note: Other important resources are included in this post.)

• New World Next Year 2021 featuring James Corbett and James Pilato offering an-end-of-the-review and some hopeful predictions about next year. It lasts nearly 34 minutes and is posted on The Corbett Report.

• Federal Regulators Are Rewriting Environmental Rules So a Massive Pipeline Can Be Built by Ken Ward Jr. from ProPublica.

• Temperatures keep rising from Arctic News.
  

• Life Without Lies from the YouTube channel of Journeyman Pictures, a one minute preview entitled "The Troublemaker". This is a best post because it is so urgent.
  

Facing up to the climate crisis on a journey of self-discovery
It is in times of crisis that we find out what really matters to us, that we get to discover who we really are, as individuals and as a society. The Troublemaker delves deep into the ideas and emotions behind the international wave of civil protest, born in the face of the unfolding climate crisis. Through the eyes of a visionary leader who co-founded ‘Extinction Rebellion’, and a previously law-abiding citizen inspired to take action, The Troublemaker aspires to stir the audience from passive resistance to a life-affirming defence of our future. Now that we understand more about what a ‘global crisis’ feels like, it can no longer be ignored.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, December 14, 2020

• The myth of “net zero emissions by 2050” by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News.
  

• Did You Think the New Laws Were Only About the Farmers? by P. Sainath from The Wire (based in India).

• How to Cure America’s Vaccine Paranoia by Sonali Kolhatkar posted on CounterPunch. My commentary follows: 

This article is another illustration of when "push comes to shove" (def.) "liberals" will always go with the capitalist ruling class and their government. What the author has written--and she has impeccable liberal credentials--in my opinion, supports censorship of non-governmental highly trained experts. What she has written supports government policies that mandates vaccines directly or indirectly by tolerating businesses which discriminate against those who don't trust pharmaceutical corporations which have a record of profiting off drugs like opioids. After all, her main argument is that people who don't trust pharmaceutical corporations and government fake health agencies impair the health of others. This is an argument that we, the people, must be "shoved" by mandatory laws into compliance which will force people who don't trust for-profit pharmaceutical corporations and which are indemnified from lawsuits, to take their vaccines. This is the same argument that the government, which are controlled by the capitalist ruling class, are the final authority on what's best for Americans. What happened to the belief that government derives from the consent of the governed? and the Bill of Rights which protects basic freedoms of minorities? Oops? I think we caught them on a very slippery slope to fascist capitalism?

• Coronavirus Fact-Check #9: Is the vaccine safe? by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.

• Coronavirus Protocols as Tools of Repression by Ann Garrison from Black Agenda Report.

• Radical De-Globalization: Finding Back Our Freedom and Sovereignty: Tyrants Don’t Create Tyranny. Your Obedience Does. By Peter Koenig from Global Research. This is a best post.

• Tyranny During Its Reign Is Unrecognized by Its Victims by Donald J. Boudreaux from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• Why this campaign of terror? Never outside war time have populations been subjected to such outrageous assault and battery by government propaganda machines by Gillian Dymond from Off-Guardian. My sarcastic reaction: Because they care about your health even though they refuse to pass a universal Medicare bill.

• You Have No Obligation To Conform To A Wildly Sick Society by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Antisemitism Claims Mask a Reign of Political and Cultural Terror Across Europe by Jonathan Cook from The Unz Review.

• The Great Reset: The Final Assault on the Living Planet [It’s Not a Social Dilemma – It’s the Calculay ted Destruction of the Social, Part III] by Cory Morningstar from Wrong Kind of Green. 

• Latest Cover-Ups by Western Governments Over Their Funding of Terrorist Groups by Vanessa Beeley from Covert Geopolitics. 

• John Pilger: The Most Lethal Virus Is Not COVID. It Is War from Mint Press News.

• How race politics liberated the elites by Matthew Crawford from Unherd (based in Britain). 

For the new Left, then, it was not capitalism but the democratic social order altogether that was the source of oppression — not just of black people, or of workers, but of us, the college bourgeoisie. The civil rights movement of black Americans became the template for subsequent claims by women, gays and transgender persons, each based on a further discovery of moral failing buried deep in the heart of America. Hence a further license, indeed mandate, granted to individual conscience, as against the claims of the nation.

My reaction: The "new Left", that is, ("liberals") were influenced, as always, by the ruling class who had an interest in shaping them into this thought disorder--thinking that society was the problem, not capitalism.

• G20 debt proposal continues to favour creditors from Bretton Woods Project.
  

• Trump’s Last Chance to Snub the Deep State by Ron Ridenour from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: It might be his last chance, but I hardly think he will do it because such pardons will "snub" the entire capitalist ruling class of which he is a prime member.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, December 8, 2020

• ‘Buy It or Else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s Strategy to Force Farmers to Buy GMO Seeds and Pesticides by Johnathan Hettinger from Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. 

• Palantir’s Tiberius, Race, and the Public Health Panopticon [part 2 of 3] by Jeremy Loffredo and Whitney Webb from Unlimited Hangout. This is a best post.

Part 1 of this series on Operation Warp Speed and Race, “The Johns Hopkins, CDC Plan to Mask Medical Experimentation on Minorities as ‘Racial Justice,’” explored Warp Speed’s vaccine allocation plan in depth. That plan utilizes a phased approach aimed at “populations of focus” that had been identified in advance by various government organizations, including the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

The main focus of this allocation strategy is to deliver vaccines first to racial minorities and in such a way as to make them feel “at ease” and not like “guinea pigs.” This is particularly glaring given that these minorities will be receiving an experimental vaccine that allocation-strategy documents admit is likely to cause “certain adverse effects . . . more frequently in certain population subgroups,” with research showing that those “subgroups” most at risk of experiencing adverse effects are these same racial minorities.

• Florida Department of Health Quietly Requires Labs to Report Cycle Threshold of Troubled PCR Test by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.

The fact that the Florida Department of Health is taking this step is a sign that an increasing number of health professionals and regulators are questioning the accuracy of the PCR test. The PCR is the most common lab test being used to detect COVID-19. This incredibly sensitive technique was developed by Berkeley scientist Kary Mullis, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993. The test is designed to detect the presence of a virus by amplifying the virus’ genetic material so it can be detected by scientists. The test is viewed as the gold standard, however, it is not without problems.

• US Media, Pols Rage After Venezuelans Defy US Empire to Re-elect Socialists by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.   

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

• Oh No! Hospitals Are Overwhelmed! Raging Surges Reported In…1957…2000…2003…2016… by statistician William M. Briggs from his weblog. 

• Lockdown Politics -- the Great Travesty by Carl Boggs from The Unz Review.

• The Blizzard of Bogus Journalism on Covid by Jeffrey A. Tucker from American Institute for Economic Research.

• Asymptomatic Spread Revisited by Jeffrey A. Tucker from American Institute for Economic Research.

• 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.
  

• The Germans Are Back! by C.J. Hopkins, a master satirist, from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc.

• Surprise! America Is Getting Another Psycho For Secretary Of State by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• VIDEO: Top Biden advisors Flournoy and Blinken promise smarter, more secretive permanent war policy by Dan Cohen from The Grayzone. (Note: This piece, which includes 12:17m video, was obviously written before Tony Blinken was appointed as Sec. of State by Biden.) My reaction: The same capitalist transnational ideology (aka "neoliberalism") of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, that guides appointments of the Biden administration and carried out by Deep State agents, frames all of Biden's decisions and will continue to be.)
  

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.

• Biden Transition Team Says First Amendment is Flawed Because It Permits “Hate Speech” by Paul Craig Roberts, the renegade Republican who was in the Reagan administration. Posted on his weblog. My reaction: I think we can expect an acceleration of censorship in the Biden administration.

• US vs China: Why the US Delisted Uyghur Terrorists by Brian Berletic from his Land Destroyer Report. Also, you may be interested in this post by the same author entitled "VIDEO: Thailand's Monarchy and Why the US Targets It".
  

• The Imperative To Achieve National Improved Medicare For All by Margaret Flowers from Dissident Voice. My reaction: I can hardly believe this post! She evidently doesn't believe the Princeton Study. I think we can only hope for the awakening of the vast majority of ordinary Americans to the realization that the Deep State and their government couldn't care less about the health needs of the American populace.
  

• Who’s World Order?? by Matthew Ehret from "The Saker" weblog. 

• Accelerated global warming and stadial cooling events: IPCC oversights regarding future climate trends from Arctic News.

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.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, November 6, 2020

• Glenn Greenwald on resigning from his own publication due to censorship from Fox's Tucker Carlson Tonight via YouTube. (Note: Not only Greenwald left the Guardian media complex, but many of the journalists writing for Off-Guardian's website have done so also. This is because of issues of censorship. I wonder where Greenwald will go now to publish his articles.)

• It Not About Right or Left, Its About Neoliberalism. Mickey Huff on Big Tech’s Efforts To Purge Dissent by Raul Diego from Mint Press News. (Note: The opinion piece is mostly about the censorship views of Huff who has recently joined the staff at this website.) 

My reaction: Huff's views of censorship are only superficial in that he adopts the narrow popular political spectrum of Americans that has been shaped by ruling class media corporations since WWII, but he doesn't see the larger picture that the capitalist ruling class are now adopting more overt censorship as a strategy to manage the minds of ordinary Americans.

• Censorship’s slope is always slippery & the Internet Archive’s embrace of biased ‘fact-checking’ proves it by Helen Buyniski from RT. My reaction: I thought we could access Archive's website to avoid censorship by social media, but we learn in this post that Archive has joined efforts of censorship by hiring "fact-checkers".
  

• Don’t Fool Yourself: Your Biden Vote Was Not A “Vote Against Fascism” by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• American Election Is Not a Reset For Better Global Relations from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• A Biden Presidency Means "The Return of the Blob" by Pepe Escobar from "The Unz Review".

• Banana Follies: The Mother of All Color Revolutions by Pepe Escobar from Global Research.
  

• New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato from The Corbett Report in this 22:25m video presentation. (My reaction: These anarchists, who believe that the state, rather than the social-economic system, is responsible for crimes against the people, report on the significance of the recent US election. However, they unintentionally provide an accurate report on many of the "crimes" committed by the Deep State, the board of directors of the various countries of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)
  

• Putin prepares for worse case scenario Biden assault on Armenia & Syria by Alex Christoforou in a 12:19m video presentation from The Duran. (Note: If the analysis of Christoforou's interests you, you may also be interested in this post.)  My commentary follows:

It was very little doubt in my mind that Biden/Harris will win the "election" either by "hook or by crook" (see also this post). The ruling class, of course, rules, and in this election they were determined that their candidate would win. They might make mistakes occasionally (Trump in 2016 was such a mistake), but they control elections much like every other institution. And it was clear from their media coverage ever since Trump mistakenly won the election in 2016, that the core ruling class of transnational fascist-capitalists ("neoliberals" or literally the new capitalists) were going to correct this mistake.

I am posting this because I think that Christoforou has the best specific prognostication regarding the Empire's foreign policy which argues for the US support for destabilizing countries near the "under-belly" of Russia including Syria. I think they, that is, the ruling transnational ruling class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire, have already begun to implement this plan. 

I note that towards the end of this presentation, Christoforou reports the efforts by Google's YouTube to take away his income. We simply must support his efforts to bring clarity to so many political issues, or else he will go away. 

I think that ruling class will increase its efforts at censorship by such de-funding efforts of anyone who exposes the criminal actions of this class. I've noticed that Google has introduced new software that is making my blogging efforts much harder, and I have noticed other problems on other websites to confuse readers, or make them much more difficult to read or follow. I appeal to you to let me know immediately of problems of my website whenever you find them by contacting me a goatmeal36@yahoo.com.

• Why Taking US NED Money is Wrong by Brian Berletic ("Tony Cartalucci") from his Land Destroyer Report. (Note: We get to see who "Tony Cartalucci", a pen name, really is in this 7:48m video presentation.) 
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, November 5, 2020

• Trump Was Never the Real Problem by Kenn Orphan from CounterPunch. My commentary follows: 

Although I can agree with his statements about Trump, he never identifies the "Real Problem" that is the neo-fascism of the transnational capitalist class. In fact, he seems to believe, like many current "leftists", that they are something different than the old-fashioned fascists. This is totally false. 

As I have explained in a previous essay, the transnational capitalists are the latest version of advanced capitalist rule which absorbed much of the classic fascism exhibited by the German Nazis in the 1930s and early 1940s. US capitalists merely joined with the British capitalists and what was left of the British Empire and the largely destroyed nations of Europe after WWII to construct a new empire. The new empire's ruling class consolidated their control over much of Europe with Operation Gladio and infiltration of media corporations. In 1967 they added the fascist international Jewry, at the time were mostly European capitalists, which the British had set up to control the oil-rich Middle East from Arab nationalists. The new empire can be legitimately named as US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. 

The current "Great Reset" that the Empire's ruling class and the UN's corrupted agency WHO (World Health Organization) have imposed on the world is mainly designed to get rid of "useless eaters" that I've seen used frequently in describing various aspects of their plan. This expression has a history mostly hidden in the classic fascist past (see this and this). The project is mainly designed to reduce populations, and it is the Empire's plan to cope with the climate crisis which they know is real. If the "Great Reset" contributes to their profits and power, so much the better.

• The Pleasures of Deception by Fernando Buen Abad from Internationalist 360°.

• The American Herald Tribune is no more along with 26 other domains. This was reported in an article from Anti-War entitled DOJ Seizes 27 Domains, Claims They are Controlled by Iran by Dave DeCamp. (I've been wondering why I haven't been able to access their website for several days.) My commentary follows:

This is one more piece of evidence that we are living in a fascist nation that fears the truth. Because the Empire's ruling class censored these websites, they no longer hide behind the fiction that they are "platforms" like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube which maintain an ongoing project of censorship and are loaded with propaganda serving the Empire's ruling class of capitalists. 

I expect that my domain will also disappear one day, but they will go after the big ones first. Notice that this latest censorship news is not reported by media corporations. That's because the ruling capitalist class approves. They only cover events, distorted coverage at best, because they want you to believe in their interpretations. Such censorship events are not covered because they want you to believe the much ballyhooed propaganda that America enjoys a free press (media).

• Angelina Jolie’s MI6 Interview Shows Just How Connected Hollywood Is To the Deep State by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How to Mislead All Humanity. Using a “Test” To Lock Down Society by Dr. Pascal Sacré from Global Research. 

• “New Normal”on Social Distancing and the Facemask: Neglectful Caring and Compassionate Tyranny by John C. A. Manley from Global Research.

• COVID testing: We've been duped by A. Castellitto from American Thinker.

• Brainwashing the Masses: 6 Companies Own Almost ALL of the Media in the U.S. – Using Medical “Doctors” to Sell Their Message from Health Impact News. 
  

• Europe's COVID-19 Spending Spree Unmasked from OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project).

• The Election: How Did This Happen?! featuring Jimmy Dore reviewing the election in a 5:27m video (via YouTube) presentation.

• The Four Layers of Reality featuring Lee Camp (via his YouTube channel) commenting on US elections before the current election.
  

• Fukushima, the Nuclear Pandemic Spreads by Manlio Dinucci from Global Research.  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, October 29, 2020

• The Truth about the Corona Virus Vaccine from The Corbett Report.

• Incentivised Vaccine Trials: Kill (or maim) a friend and get £100 by John Goss from Off-Guardian (based in Britain).
  

• The virus-story: breaking the chains of medical civilization by Joe Rappoport from his blog. 

• What Can Americans Learn from New York’s Shrewd Governor, Andrew Cuomo? Managing Covid-19 by Barbara Nimri Aziz from Global Research.
  

• Libertà, libertà, libertà! from Winter Oak, a British based anarchist website. (Note: You will learn that protests against the covid-19 restrictions are being held all over Europe. You may want to peruse the rest of this website's articles for this month.)

• Election Special: Pre-Planned 2020 Election Chaos and the “New 9/11” (Part 1) from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: I am posting this because Whitney Webb joins Ryan Cristián in discussing the topic in a two hour and 27 minute discussion. I have in the past resisted posting the latter's "Daily Show" because he has a case of "diarrhea of the mouth" in which he takes so much of our time to review current events. I have only listened to about 20 minutes, but I intend to listen to the rest of the discussion later. However, I view Whitney Webb's knowledge as a veritable encyclopedia of Empire's Deep State agents (CIA, Israeli, other secret government agencies, and/or outsourced to private corporations) events, and her statements are all based on extensive research.) 

• The MAS Victory, the Coup, and the Fight for Socialism: Interview with a Bolivian Revolutionary by Violeta Tamayo from Left Voice. 

• Peasants in the Struggle for our Rights, against the Virus of Capital and Patriarchy! from La Via Campesina.
  

General Note: Because of the many deceptions by the ruling class in their Great Reset project, I have neglected one of the main themes of this website--climate destabilization. This selection of posts will only partially make up for this interruption.

• Post-doom with Michael Dowd from Dowd's YouTube's channel "thegreatstory". (Note: Michael Dowd discusses with Paul Beckwith, a Canadian climate scientist, in an approximately one hour interview, the latter's take on future events relating to the climate crisis that we may expect happen. You should not miss this best post.)
  

• Political Appointees Fire NOAA Scientists, Replace Them With Climate Deniers by "Climate Nexus" team from Children's Health Defense.

• Exxon Spends Millions on Facebook To Keep the Fossil Fuel Industry Alive by Christine MacDonald from In These Times.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, October 3, 2020

• Giorgio Agamben and the Biopolitics of COVID-19 by Simon Elmer from Architects for Social Housing, a British website. (Note: Although this post is past my informal rule of limiting posts to one month, I will post it anyway because of its startling clarity about the dangers of the "new normal" which is being promoted by all authorities of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. (Note: This article is about the writings of an Italian philosopher, Giorgio Agamben, but applies to the political scene in Britain. It is a rather lengthy article, but one that should be read to understand the nature of the "Great Reset" project, a bio-politics that the Empire is promoting with the covid-19 pandemic. It is a best post. 
  

• Big Business Is Swallowing the World, Thanks to Lockdowns and Bailouts by Austan Goolsbee and posted on Anti-Empire. (Note: the original source was NY Times, but in this post I have detoured a bit from my usual practice of posting only from original source. I have my personal limits, and in this example I will not post to a source that has been engaging in disinformation almost continuously. But like a broken clock, they sometimes give the time accurately--twice a day.)

• Response To Trump Covid Diagnosis Shows His ‘Opposition’ Always Saw Him As Part Of The Club by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: She offers another take  on Democratic Party's switch from hostility to sympathy for Trump because he tested positive for one of their covid-19 tests.)

• Capitalism – not ‘humanity’ – is killing the world’s wildlife by Anna Pigott from Climate & Capitalism.
  

• The Powerful and Obnoxious Odor of Mendacity by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain.

• Daniel Korski: The Intelligence-Linked Mastermind Behind the UK’s Orwellian Healthtech Advisory Board by Johnny Vedmore from "Unlimited Hangout". (My reaction: If you like investigative journalism, this is an example of the finest.)

• ‘You are Dust, You Are Dead, We’re Coming To Get You’- Julian Assange Is Hearing Voices by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution. (My reaction: Another failure of the anemic British left to come to the aid of people, who are vital to their agendas, before the British authorities captured him.)

I did not get through all of my credible websites to pursue articles that may be of your special interest before I ran out of time and energy.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, Sept. 11, 2020

• The coronavirus conspiracy: What did they know, and when did they know it? by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site. (Note: You can read another article from this website for further details.) My commentary follows:

The authors carefully follow the logic of events regarding the Deep State's version of the pandemic (as reported by the ruling class's control major media corporations and the CDC), but adhere to the statistics of the CDC (Center of Disease Control) regarding the victims of the covid-19 illness. This website's uniform coverage of the events related to the covid-19 pandemic by staff members of this website appears have been influenced by their leader, David North. Thus, their coverage of the pandemic conforms to the hysterically exaggerated reaction of the Deep State, the directors of the ruling capitalist class, who used the pandemic to spread fear and accomplish radical changes in the economy known as The Great Reset". As I wrote on August 27 following the post entitled "The Carney/Freeland Green Reset Shapes Canada’s ‘New Normal’": 

It is no secret that the Empire is worried about the challenge that independent nations, such as China, Russia, and Iran are posing for their dominance in our overburdened planet. However, they are worried about several other issues: over- population, the unsustainability of the operations under the existing capitalist system, the financial quagmire that they find themselves in, and excessive burdens posed by "useless eaters" such as old and lame people on their nation's treasuries. I firmly believe that the present covid-19 crisis, whether engineered by Empire agents or not (likely it was), has resulted in the "Great Reset" project which is designed to deal with all the above problems.         

It is obvious that the Empire's transnational capitalist ruling class is not concerned about all the onerous effects that their project will impose on workers, but the members are only concerned with all of their problems, and number one is China. It is my opinion that they are using this covid-19 crisis as cover for all of their problems. Using this crisis as cover permits them to impose all kinds of restrictions on their populations which in normal times would be illegal and unconstitutional.

No doubt the intelligence officers, who take their orders from the Deep State, and who briefed Trump and Congressional leaders, likely grossly exaggerated the threat in their reports in order to instill fear in them. There is little doubt that the virus is highly contagious to people who have compromised immune systems, but to shut down entire economies is an extraordinary reaction. (Edited this last sentence on Sept. 12, 10 Am CT, to add greater accuracy.)

• From 9/11 to the Great Reset by Pepe Escobar from The Unz Review. (Note: Another best post.)
  

• Let’s Not Fall into the Empire’s Trap by Jorge Capelán from Internationalist 360°. (Note: If this post interests you, you might also be interested in another article by Andre Vltchek.)
  

• You're a guinea pig! Your body, their choice! by "ReallyGraceful" (via YouTube).
  

• COVID-19: ‘We Don’t Want to be Governed by Fear Anymore’ – French Doctors & Academics Unite from Europe Reloaded.

• It's Time To Wake Up from Computing Forever YouTube channel.
  

• 19 Years Later, Questions Still Hang Over the 9/11 Attacks by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. 

• Not Just an Orchard, Not Merely a Field, We Demand the Whole World by Vijay Prashad from Dissident Voice.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, Sept. 6, 2020

• ELECTION 2020: Bourgeois Democracy Meets Global Governance by Diana Johnstone from Consortium News. (A best post.) My reaction: I don't like the introduction to this article by the editors of Consortium News:    

Diana Johnstone considers the fun and games surrounding the possibility of a disputed U.S. election result and concludes that the future is being planned elsewhere, for instance at the next meeting in Davos.

First, I don't like this conspiracy by the Deep State referred to as "fun and games"; and second, I don't like the conspiracy as "being planned elsewhere, for instance at the next meeting in Davos". (The Deep State is referred to only once by Johnstone as "the permanent State": "In reality, Democrats know that they have managed to keep the permanent State, including the military and intelligence agencies, on their side throughout Trump’s presidency.") 

Regarding  the 2nd objection, it appears from Johnstone's report that the conspiracy has already been planned and to some extent implemented--and I have no reason to doubt it.    

My first objection has to do with the casual attitude that the editors display regarding this conspiracy. To be sure, all political processes in the USA have been conspiracy-driven since the USA was founded, but this is a thinly disguised conspiratorial plan that requires a major coup d'état with the public's participation through a grand media hoax that is already being implemented by media corporations that the Deep State controls.       

By keeping Americans angry and distracted by the partisan divide through pre-planned election chaos, a “New America” waits in the wings – one that is coming regardless of what happens on election day. That is, of course, unless Americans quickly wake up to the ruse.

Johnstone accurately recognizes that elected officials are mere pawns who are used by the ruling class to fool the public into believing that they live in some sort of a democracy. 

(Also, read this and this (both posts recommended by an activist) and this for additional information about this subject.)    

• How to End America’s Destructive Hegemony by Drago Bosnic from FRN (Fort Russ News--based in Serbia.)

• Fabricating a Pandemic – Who Could Organize It and Why by Gregory Sinaisky from Off-Guardian.  

(This collection of articles is all I have the time and energy for.) 

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

• The World Through the Eyes of a Globalist by Steven Yates from The Unz Review. My commentary follows: 

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.)

• Pandemic profiteering: Gilead Sciences cashes in on COVID-19 by Bryan Dyne from World Socialists Web Site. 

I've run out of time and energy. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, June 23, 2020

• Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid by Ellen Brown from The Unz Review. (My reaction: I believe this is a very important article on this private investment entity for, and by, the rich. I believe it is a very important component of what Brown refers to as an "almost a shadow government", or what I and others are now referring to as an existing "Deep State" that lies behind the facade of our "democratic" government.

• U.S. Supreme Court Reaffirms U.S. Police State by Eric Zuesse from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. My brief commentary:

Zuesse, a social-democratic indoctrinated historian, shows his alertness by recognizing this as a singular (def. #3) event by the Supreme Court, one of the fundamental branches of US government. Because of this, cops (and they know it) like Derek Chauvin have the Deep State's permission to kill citizens regardless of the circumstances. (See how the fascist faction of the ruling class after WWII purged all institutions of people who held any leftist views.)

But instead of sourcing this as rooted in the early US capitalist class whose "Founding Fathers" established their government of the USA, Zuesse implies that indecent people have been appointed in recent years to the Supreme Court. The latter has, starting in 1983 (of course cops killed people before then, but the people didn't have the courage, or were so foolish, to attempt to take legal actions against the police), ruled that killing people in the line of duty was okay, and the June 15th ruling confirms that. (Did you hear that from media corporations?)   Zuesse writes:

This isn’t a failure ONLY by the U.S. Supreme Court. It is instead an expression of the American system as it now exists, and which failure renders the U.S. Constitution itself almost meaningless, especially as regards the rights of the people and the obligations of federal officials at all levels in the government. There is no accountability; there is only blame. And, as in any authoritarian system, all blame goes downward, and all praise goes upward. That’s the reality. The U.S. Constitution is by now just a string of words. America’s Founders are dead, gone, and no longer really even an influence. That’s the reality. Pretending otherwise won’t fix anything. Drastic changes are needed. And the American public has proven itself not up to the challenge, still refuses to face the reality. This is system-failure. And the public refuses to face it.

And, he goes on to write that only a Constitutional Amendment can changes things. He's right, and Chauvin and other cops will keep on killing and protecting the ruling class.

• Dr. Fauci Admits He LIED About Mask Safety! featuring Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show via YouTube). (My reaction: I don't trust anything that corporate media reports on this virus. The most trusted source that I've found is from Swiss Policy Research.)

• Will the Coronavirus Widen the Rift Between US and Europe? by Arthur Evans from FRN (based in Serbia). (My reaction: Cracks are appearing in the European section of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

• America: A War Machine on Top of a Police State by Caitlin Johnstone from American Herald Tribune. (Note: This time Johnstone writes on a different weblog.)

America is a war machine on top of a police state on top of a mass media psyop. Only people who are willing to keep these psychopathic mechanisms in place are permitted to ascend to presidential candidacy. While all the news cameras focus on the relatively minor differences between presidents and presidential candidates, you can learn a lot more about America and what drives it by looking at their similarities.

• Tensions in Lebanon are Rising by Vladimir Platov from New Eastern Outlook. (My reaction: Tensions are appearing all over the world as economies deteriorate, and violence appears as a result of the Empire's transnational capitalists who attempt to maintain their empire. This trend will only accelerate due to global warming.)