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: Friday, December 18, 2020

• Mysterious Death of Vaccine Safety Advocate Brandy Vaughn featuring Ben Swann, posted on ISE, investigating attempts not only to silence critics of vaccine safety consideration but an astonishing number number of deaths of these critics.

• How Will We Know That a COVID-19 Vaccine is Safe? from Children's Health Defense. This is a best post, and this post is essential for you to read/view it because it has become a widespread issue that affects nearly all of us.
  

This presentation is the result of a collaborative effort between Dr. Mumper and the team of doctors, scientists and researchers affiliated with Children’s Health Defense.

• Why Black People Cannot Trust the Pfizer Vaccine by Wesley Muhammad from The Unz Review.

• Challenge The System. Featuring Jimmy Dore from his YouTube channel.
  

• How To Raise Weak Children During Lockdowns featuring JP Sears, a comedian (to 3:32m) who specializes in parody, expresses his take on current parenting skills on his YouTube channel. 

• The Economic Reset with Ernst Wolff featuring the latter being interviewed by Dave Cullen from his YouTube channel Computing Forever. This is a best post. (Note: Wolff shows how the Great Reset (he refers to it as a "restart"), which will have extreme consequences for our economies and societies, is hidden from public view by the covid crisis. The latter is functioning as a cover for astounding changes in our economies.) My reaction: It is no wonder that our masters in the capitalist ruling classes are pushing the covid crisis so vigorously.
  

• This Book Turns Everything You Thought You Knew About North Korea Upside Down by Jeremy Kuzmarov from CovertAction Magazine. My reaction: I'm inclined to support everything that the author revealed about North Korea in Abrams’ new book, Immovable Object: North Korea’s 70 Years at War with American Power. I have read a lot about North Korea from more independent sources to arrive at the conclusion that this material is absolutely believable.

• After Recruiting For ISIS Anand Gopal Justifies The War Crimes The U.S. Committed While Removing It by Bernhard (independent blogger from Germany) from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, October 19, 2020

Social media giants are consistently censoring information that the main ruling class doesn't like:

• Twitter Silences Top Trump COVID Task Force Expert from ZeroHedge.
• Does This Explain Why Facebook Was So Quick To Suppress Hunter Biden Revelations? from The Burning Platform.
• Twitter censors .gov website. Facebook meddles in New Zealand election from The Duran.

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Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, October 9, 2020

• If the Pandemic Thinking Was Applied To Everything by comedian JP Sears from his AwakenWithJP channel via YouTube. (I thought I would start you off with something humorous.)
  

• California Mandates All Food Must Be Consumed Through IV To Ensure Masks Are Never Removed from The Babylon Bee. (This is satire. Maybe because of reports like this.)
  

• ‘Lockdown Is More Harmful Than COVID’ – Stanford Professor of Medicine by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.

• New DARPA-Funded Tech Promises to Diagnose COVID-19 Through Implantable Biochip by Raul Diego from Mint Press News (Minneapolis).

• Secretive HHS AI Platform to Predict US Covid-19 Outbreaks Weeks in Advance by Whitney Webb from her website "Unlimited Hangout". (This is a best post.)

• Michelle Obama Can't Make Case for Candidate Offering NOTHING! featuring Jimmy Dore commenting on Michelle Obama's political pitch (via YouTube).

• Nobody for President: Voting Legitimizes a Fraudulent Democracy by William Hawes and Jason Holland from Dissident Voice.

• ‘None Of It Reported’: How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial by David Edwards from BS News (based in Britain). 
  

• Battlefield Social Media: The West's Growing Censorship by Ulson Gunnar from New Eastern Outlook.
  

• Savior of Capitalism by Alan Johnstone from Dissident Voice. My reaction: This article rebuts all the liberals and social-democrats like Eric Zuesse who absolutely adore FDR's administrations which protected the capitalist system from itself.

• Breaking Pres. Trump "Total Declassification" of Documents Related To Russia Investigation featuring Ben Swann and his information about this subject from ISE.
  

• Those “Commie Folksingers” and the FBI by Ron Jacobs from CounterPunch.
  

• Eternal Impunity of Capitalism’s Crimes by Paul Haeder from Dissident Voice.
  

• Russia and China Both Subject to Unrelenting Economic and Social Warfare by James O'Neill from Dissident Voice.

• Surviving the age of extreme heat by Alex Smith (a Canadian) from Climate Code Red (based in Australia). (Note: It seems to me that this is mostly about not surviving.)
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020

• Triumph of the Oligarchs by Joel Kotkin from The American Mind.

• Curve Flat, Still in Lockdown, Billions Wasted on Ventilators by Dr. Joseph Mercola from his website Mercola: Take Control of Your Health. (Note: Even using the questionable statistics from the CDC, he concludes that various states over reacted.)

• What is Covid-19, SARS-2. How is it Tested? How is It Measured? The Fear Campaign Has No Scientific Basis by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research (based in Canada). 

• How the West followed China into lockdown from Spiked. (Note: Paddy Hannam, of Spiked, interviews Karl Wennberg, a Swedish sociologist, regarding his views following his research regarding various nations and their responses to the covid-19 pandemic.)

Karl Wennberg: We found that rather than factoring in the heterogeneous situation each country was in, decision-makers followed the actions of neighbouring countries to a very large degree. .... 

To understand why this has happened, it is important to think about psychological factors. Humans are greatly influenced by the behaviour of other humans, and specifically those they compare themselves with. Key decision-makers obviously compare themselves to other key decision-makers, and hope to be perceived as better than them, or at least not any worse than them. The desire to not be seen to have performed worse is incredibly important when it comes to explaining the decisions made around Covid-19. ....

• The Fed Provides an Unlimited Money Lifeline to Wall Street; 30 Million Americans Facing Eviction Get a No-Money 4-Month Plan by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• Hancock’s Half-Hour by Stephen McMurray from Off-Guardian (based in Britain). (Note: It appears that there is a new TV show that satirizes the current restrictions imposed people by government authorities. But it appears to me that this TV show can only be viewed in Britain.)

A brand new TV show has just been announced called Hancock’s Half-Hour. Over the course of 30 minutes the main character, Hapless Hancock, playing the part of the Health Secretary, will highlight all the government’s absurd policies and fake facts and figures surrounding the covid situation.

• Let’s not fall into the empire’s trap by Jorge Capelán from Off-Guardian.  (Note: This post provides a link to an original Spanish-language version of this article.)

• Novichok, Navalny, Nordstream, Nonsense by Craig Murray (a Scotsman) from his weblog. (My reaction: Murray demolishes their latest fake story being widely circulated by US media corporations.)

• Richard Gage Delivers Updates on 9/11 Truth from The Corbett Report. (Note: James Corbett interviews Richard Gage of AE911Truth, an organization made up of architects and engineers that dispute the official story, to explain his organization's views about the 9/11 tragedy on this 19th anniversary.)

• In the Worst of Times, the Billionaire Elite Plunder Working Class America by Nick Baker from CounterPunch.
  

• Facebook Hires an Israeli Censor by Philip Giraldi from American Herald Tribune.
  

• Media Silence: Israel Has Been Bombing Lebanon, Gaza and Syria This Week by Robert Inlakesh from 21st Century Wire.

• You Can Have Peace Or The US Empire. You Can’t Have Both. By Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog (Australia).
  

• 'Full Frontal Attack on Rule of Law': Trump Sanctions Top ICC Officials Probing US War Crimes in Afghanistan by Jessica Corbett from Common Dreams.

•  New Normal Gleichschaltung, or: The Storming of the Reichstag Building on 29 August, 2020 by CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc.
  

• The unthinkable consequences of global warming by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News.
  

• Margaret Atwood who briefly urges action regarding the climate crisis (via YouTube). (Note: As you may know, if you have followed my weblog, I finally concluded last December that it was already too late.)
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020

• REVEALED: UK Officials Inflated COVID Hospital Numbers at Height of ‘Pandemic’ from 21st Century Wire.
  

• Are You Ready for the “No One Could Have Known” Routine? by Thomas Harrington from Off-Guardian. (My reaction: This is worse than even Harrington argues. The lies we've been told has been going on in this dramatic fashion since WWII.)
  

• As COVID-1984 Accelerates Bill Gates Blames ‘Freedom’ For Spread of the Virus by Avatar Dewey Fernfield from The Duran. This post features Spiro Skouras via YouTube elaborating and commenting on this effort for all citizens residing in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire to submit to the capitalist ruling classes' vaccination program.

• Exclusive Interview: Ben Swann and Plandemic Creator Mikki Willis from ISE. (Note: Swann interviews Willis who is the producer, director, and writer of films, "Plandemic 2: Indoctornation" (censored by Facebook) as well as "Plandemic 1" (censored by YouTube). (Note: "Indoctornation" is a play on the word "indoctrination". Notice the entry of the latter film on Wikipedia. I think this qualifies for the "best posts" category.)

• Company Set to Manufacture COVID-19 Vaccine for US Intentionally Sold Faulty Biodefense Products by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond.

• What is the WHO? – Questions For Corbett #066 featuring James Corbett essentially arguing via video that the WHO of the United Nations has been subverted into policies favoring Big Pharma. (My reaction: Who'd a thunk-it?)
  

• On Covid-19 And Authoritarian Abuses by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: You may be also interested in this post.) My brief commentary follows:

In this post she is obviously frustrated by all the verbal abuse she has been getting via Twitter and other social media from people who have succumbed to the hysteria that media corporations have been filling the airways with. In her home country of Australia, the citizens have been experiencing probably the most draconian measures ever (and likely the worst in the world) from government authorities over this covid-19 pandemic.  

This is the result of many years of brainwashing via disinformation and censorship spewed by capitalist's control of media, education, and entertainment in which they have scrubbed out real history and substituted self-serving propaganda and entertaining distractions. I fear the worst.

• US Smears Those Questioning Latest Claims vs. China by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: If this was of interest to you, you may also may be interested in this post.)
  

• Cruelty with a Point: The Continuing US Immiseration of Syria by Stephen Gowans from What's Left.

• What the Belarusian opposition offers by Timoschuk from The Duran.
  

• U.S. Judge Urges Supreme Court to End U.S. Police State It Imposes by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. My commentary follows:

The social-democratic Zuesse must have had a very difficult time in dealing with this subject. I note that he references Jim Crow laws only once. This is much before the FDR administration that he so idolizes as an ideal America. He writes: 

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. 

In its original form the Constitution when it was written by "America's Founders" (often reverentially referred to as "Founding Fathers") favored the rich property owners. Contrast the latter document with the Declaration of Independence also written by "America's Founders" when they wanted citizens to take up arms for their cause of independence from Britain. Quite a difference, indeed! You see, the British government put up obstacles for the "Founding Fathers" in the form of taxes and restrictions on enterprises that would compete with British manufacturers.  

The "Founding Fathers" were overwhelmingly property owners of slaves who needed the latter to provide the labor to make them rich, never intended to include the "Bill of Rights". This was only forced upon them by citizens of the 13 colonies. And indeed, they never expected their militias and police forces to abide by the Bill of Rights. Police forces are the last defense against the people who are feared by all ruling classes. After nearly 150 years, this ruling class used the capitalist system to accumulate ownership and control over nearly all of the USA and much of the world. The crimes committed here by our masters are multiplied by at least a factor of 10 throughout much of the world.

Thus, I recommend only reading the first two paragraphs of the essay. The rest is absolute social-democratic rubbish.

• OBAMA Says "Nobody Above the Law"! featuring Jimmy Dore commenting (via YouTube) on Barack Obama's speech at a recent Democratic convention. (My reaction: He only satirizes Obama for the lies he told at the convention and during his presidency. With all the lies people have been subject to since WWII, it is no wonder why so many people are questioning the current covid-19 information that ruling class media hysterically spreads!)
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, May 29, 2020 (part 2 of 2)

•  Fabricated Shocks and Open Windows by Mark Taliano from Global Research.

• A Rendezvous with Destiny? by Nomi Prins from TomDispatch.

My commentary: This is an excellent illustration of a social democratic take on the latest capitalist crisis. Prins harkens, along with Engelhardt, us back to the Great Depression which they see as similar to the current crisis. Unfortunately for capitalism-loving social democrats, this time is different. I see the current crisis as brought about by the predictable reckless behavior of a ruling class that aspired to do too much: build a dominant capitalist empire while pursuing the accumulation and consolidation of all the wealth on the planet. 

I believe, even without further evidence, that this capitalist class engineered the current pandemic primarily as cover for bailing out their banks while providing a number of other benefiits such as increasing fuel for their piromaniacal attacks on China and to rid themselves of "useless eaters" of elderly retired folks and surplus workers. I believe this because I have witnessed their astonishing criminal record of the assassination of the Kennedys, the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and domestic others as well as all the foreign adventures to subvert or attack others who stood in their way of building a capitalist world empire. I believe that these criminals have been responsible for many false-flag attacks both domestic and foreign with 9/11 being their most brilliant achievement.

But this time it is different. This pandemic is a desperate gamble for them to hold onto power, and to me the outcomes look to be very different than the Great Depression. You see, I was born in the middle of the Great Depression, and I know first-hand what it was like for my parents.

Biowarfare has been seen as an unpredictable weapon, and for this reason it has been banned by most capitalist ruling classes. But to our ambitious masters who, like good fascists, saw that with sufficient research and development they could engineer it as a controlled type of weapon that could be useful in particular circumstances. The current situation with defeats abroad and economic crises domestically, in desperation, they gamblled that this was such a situation. The results are yet to be determined.

• U.S. Debt Crisis Comes into View as Fed’s Balance Sheet Explodes Past $7 Trillion by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

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

(Note: I've run out of time and energy for today.) 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, March 24, 2020

• Will “Deaths of Despair” Outpace Deaths From Coronavirus? by Toby Rogers, Ph.D. from Children's Health Defense.

• Doing Nothing or Nothing Doing? by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain.

A few years ago I wrote a piece for Labor Day suggesting that it become a “do-nothing day.” It was a bit satirical but of course had a serious point as satire does. I had little hope that my recommendation would be adopted. Now that we are suffering from coronavirus panic and people are being told to shelter in their homes, many are no doubt suffering withdrawal symptoms from having to slow down. After all, how many cookies can you bake, television and movies watch, liquor drink, emails and texts send and receive, toilet paper rolls count, etc.?

I am well aware that this enforced idleness has inflicted enormous economic damage on regular working people world-wide, as I believe it is meant to do. The psychological damage is incalculable. The super-rich will no doubt profit mightily from the coronavirus crisis while the poor and middle-classes, small business owners, and the elderly will suffer greatly.

• Scientists exposed to coronavirus wonder: why weren’t we notified? by Amy Maxmen from Nature.

... US health officials seem to be deprioritizing this targeted approach in favour of social-distancing measures, as is the United Kingdom. Such behaviour is a matter of concern for the WHO, which recommends both strategies. “We have not seen an urgent enough escalation in testing, isolation and contact tracing, which is the backbone of the response,” said director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a press briefing on 16 March. “We cannot stop this pandemic if we don’t know who is infected,” he said. “You cannot fight a fire blindfolded.”

• Quarantine Meditations: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Coronavirus: Working-Class Internationalism as an Antidote to the Crisis by Josefina L. Martínez from Left Voice.

... the only progressive way out of the coronavirus crisis can come from working-class action, both nationally and internationally. And to bet on it, we need from now on to promote an emergency program that allows the exploited and oppressed not to come out defeated, dispersed, and impoverished by this crisis, but rather as an active force, more organized and conscious of its own strength. At the same time, it is the working class that is most exposed to contagion, in conditions of precarious work, with terrible transport systems, without safety and hygiene conditions in the companies.

In the face of the disaster to which the capitalists have led us, it is necessary to show that it is the workers themselves who can take all the necessary measures: not only from the point of view of guaranteeing work, stopping massive layoffs, and maintaining wages, but also providing food and medical resources for the entire poor population — and not only for a rich minority. This will only be possible if workers’ democratic control from below can be imposed in the workplace in an effort to secure and convert production to meet social priorities.

(Note: If you liked this article, you may also like another post from this source entitled "Workers’ Control Against the Pandemic".)

• Trump intensifies murderous Iran sanctions during COVID-19 crisis by Aaron Maté from The Grayzone. (Note: Maté interviews Assal Rad of the Research Fellow at the National Iranian American Council in this 16:49m video.)

• Will the US and Israel strike Iran amid the COVID-19 outbreak? from United World (based in Turkey).

• ‘Helicopter Money’: This Is the Game-Changer Geo-Politically by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• The New Federal Reserve as Garbage Can for All Capitalist Debt by Jack Rasmus from his weblog. 

• COVID-19: All Truth Has Three Stages by Larry Romanoff from Global Research.

• Everything Accomplished During the Great Depression to Make Capitalism Workable Has Been Taken Away Resulting in Economic Crisis that Only Debt Forgiveness Can Mitigate by Craig Paul Roberts from his weblog. (Note: He wants to save capitalism.)

• From Cluster Bombs to Toxic Waste: Saudi Arabia is Creating the Next Fallujah in Yemen by Ahmed Abdulkareem from Mint Press News. (Note: This is one of the crimes against humanity that our masters want you to forget during this coronavirus pandemic.)

Posts I especially recommend for today: Monday, November 18, 2019

• America’s enforcer in the Middle East. Paul Graham interviews (36:35m) Stephen Gowans who in my opinion is a leading political analyst in the world.

• The US and Iran in Iraq: Protestors take over the streets, demanding government reforms “or else” by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

• China, USA and the Geopolitics of Lithium by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. 

• Bolivia – A Color Revolution – or a New Surge for Latin American Independence? by Peter Koenig from The Greanville Post.

• Is the Middle East Beginning a Self-Correction? by Alistair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• The Hugely Important OPCW Scandal Keeps Unfolding. Here’s Why No One’s Talking About It. By Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Scientists’ climate gap is narrowing by Alex Kirby from Climate News Network. 

• Wall Street Journal investigation confirms Google operates censorship blacklist by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site. (Note: WSWS and other websites are not all that is being censored by Google and YouTube which is owned by Google. Looking last night I ran into countless videos that were blocked by YouTube or its "owners" or the Deep State: see this, this, or any of these films: Money As Debt 2: Promises Unleashed; The Money Masters; Creature from Jekyll Island; 1929- The Great Wall St Crash & Depression; Fiat Empire- Why the Federal Reserve Violates the U.S. Constitution; War By Deception: The shadow government and shadow economy; etc. (scroll down to see all these blocked films)

Posts I especially recommend to you for today: Sunday, October 27, 2019

• American Dream is Sunk by Phil Butler from New Eastern Outlook (an independent website based in Russia)

• US Tries to Reverse Syrian Fortunes with “Baghdadi Raid” by Tony Cartalucci from New Eastern Outlook.

• 'This Ship is Sinking' Says Former Bush Official - Empire Files. "Abby Martin interviews retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former national security advisor to the Reagan administration, who spent years as an assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell during both Bush administrations." From Telesur via YouTube.

• Millionaire Democrat Tells Voters To SWALLOW IT! from The Jimmy Dore Show.

• Greta’s Song: ‘I want you to panic!’ from Climate & Capitalism.

• The Great Firewall of China - book review. Reviewed by Elaine Graham-Leigh from CounterFire (Britain).

• Lenin ‘Judas’ Moreno – Ecuador’s Story of Betrayal and Resistance by Joaquin Flores from Strategic Culture Foundation (independent website based in Russia).

Posts I especially recommend to you today: Thursday, October 24, 2019

• Twitter Editor Exposed As Military PsyOps Officer from The Jimmy Dore Show. (Note: This post and the following post are to lend some humor to today's awful news.)

• Women Are CEO’s Of Top Weapons Manufactures from The Jimmy Dore Show. (Note: We learn contrary to the propaganda in support of the social identity theme in order to distract angry dissenters that women are CEOs of America's top weapons corporations. I presume this is equal opportunity to cash in on war crimes.)

• Assange’s Extradition Is a Case About the Crimes of Empire by Nozomi Hayase from Antiwar. 

• Global Warming Is Not Part of Natural Climate Variability by Mark Fischetti from Scientific American.

• Video: Dorian’s Deadly Stall – How Climate Change is Weaponizing Hurricanes by "greenman3610" from Skeptical Science. 

• What’s Really Happening in Lebanon? by Laith Marouf from BS News (Britain).

• Chile: “This is Not About 30 Pesos but 30 Years of Abuses” by Sergio Pintado from Internationalist 360°. 

• THE ANGRY ARAB: Trump & the Turkish Invasion of Northern Syria by As`ad AbuKhalil from Consortium News.

Articles I especially recommend for Wednesday, October 2, 2019

• Watch, before it gets deleted. A 3:58m YouTube video of a veteran's tirade against participating in "criminal wars".

• White Helmets and Hala Systems: the grotesque militarisation of ‘humanitarianism’ in Syria by Vanessa Beeley from BSNews.

• Twitter Suspends Accounts For Propaganda, Has Literal Propagandist As High-Level Executive by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Painting Cats by Todd Smith from Dissident Voice.

• “Maybe we should change the system” by David Ruccio from Real-World Economics Review Blog.

• Capitalism’s triumph: Labor rights violated in every country on Earth by Pete Dolack from Systemic Disorder.

• Capitalism ‘Solves’ the Nitrogen Crisis: A Brief History by Ian Angus from Climate & Capitalism.

The Dismemberment Of Yugoslavia 20 Years On

Click here to access article by R. S. Ahthion (he is clearly British) from Medium.

Little did the American people, who were busy amusing themselves with distractions, know that this well-doused in self-serving propaganda campaign to justify the attack on Yugoslavia in 1999 by using NATO's air force, would be the start of much more aggressive campaigns in other countries and to secure their control of the energy-rich Middle East. (But first our masters had to arrange for the 9/11 project to be accomplished to put ordinary Americans in a fighting mood.) He continues on to reveal the hypocrisies and lies of the justifying propaganda campaign.

Later Ahthion argues that "market socialism" and Yugoslavia's ties to the neoliberal institutions like the IMF and World Bank weakened and prepared the way for this nation's destruction by the Empire's army, NATO. (He refers to the Empire using the bland phrase "western nations".) He also argues that after the Soviet Union disintegrated, the directorate of the capitalist Empire ("western nations") arrogantly began more aggressive campaigns to rule the world. They no longer needed Yugoslavia to counter the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia's brand of socialism had to be destroyed. And, as they say, the rest is history.

Savagery and Its Promoters and Profiteers

Click here to access some sort of book review by David Swanson of Max Blumenthal's book entitled The Management of Savagery posted on Washington's Blog.

I wrote the words "some sort of book review" to indicate that Swanson does not offer any comment on Blumenthal's book. Swanson seems to take Blumenthal's interpretations of major political events in the past several decades at face value. In fact, he soon gives up any attempt at evaluation of his arguments and starts listing all of Blumenthal's interpretations of these events. 

Blumenthal apparently believes that Arab jihadists had it in for America because of misguided policies that ultimately targeted Arabs but were designed to be against the former Soviet Union. As for 9/11, well that was a tragic incident that our incompetent government allowed to happen, and that "9/11 Truthers" were taking attention "away from what the U.S. government had done to provoke those crimes and to allow them to occur." The inescapable implication of all this is that our government pursued reckless and mistaken policies against the Soviet Union using fanatics and backing countries like Saudi Arabia. If our government had not pursued such policies, all would be well in the world.

Wow!

I haven't read the book; but if Swanson's reporting is correct, I think that Blumenthal is running some sort of damage control for the Deep State's policies, and he may be employed by them to do just that. The only way that such "alternative" political analysts will be believed if they offer some form of "red meat" to the howling dogs of left-wing critics. Blumenthal appears to have done just that by his online posts criticizing US policies in Venezuela and in the Middle East. However, by characterizing US policies as only mistakes, he relieves the government of major responsibility of criminal acts. Worst of all, he impugns the work of "9/11 Truthers", the efforts of architects and engineers, to obtain the real story of 9/11! It's hard not to believe that he is, in reality, running some sort of damage control among those left-wing critics who have been exposed to evidence of major crimes, coverups, and criminal deceptions engineered by the Deep State via their government officials. 

Note from America: An Easter Message – When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State

Click here to access article by John W Whitehead from TruePublica (Britain). 

When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. In the current governmental climate, where laws that run counter to the dictates of the US Constitution are made in secret, passed without debate, and upheld by secret courts that operate behind closed doors, obeying one’s conscience and speaking truth to the power of the police state can render you an “enemy of the state.”

That list of so-called “enemies of the state” is growing.

Blundering American Ambassadors Unmask the War on Terror

Click here to access article by David Boyajian from Foreign Policy Journal.  (Commentary edited for greater clarity at 12:25 PM CT.)

American officials downplay how “allies” such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia support terrorists lest the US government’s support of terrorism also be exposed.

The author reviews the glaring lies of the officials, who serve the capitalist ruling class, regarding US's participation in the hiring of mercenary terrorist armies in an alliance with the feudal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to implement the Empire's imperialist policies in the Middle East. In their defense couldn't these officials now plead that they were only "following orders" from their superiors? Like the Nazi war criminals who lost WWII and the German Reich? Like the Saudi butchers have so dramatically illustrated in recent years? 

Humans seem to have a genetic flaw that causes them to submit to "authorities" whether the earthly representatives of gods of their own creation, sociopathic leaders, or those who demonstrate a temporary command of weapons that can cause severe injury or kill. Humans have demonstrated this character flaw for roughly the last 10,000 years, or about 2% of human existence, as they settled down into communities after mastering the growing of their own food. This period saw the emergence of tiny privileged social classes that ruled over the vast majority using instruments of violence. Bringing human history up to date, during this period humans with their gift of intelligence have also mastered the creation of weapons of mass destruction that now threaten their own extinction. What could explain such a self-destructive flaw other than it is simply genetic?

I've been considering a theory that the conscious awareness of our own temporary existence is so terrible for many of us that we have been only able to cope by dominating or killing others. This murderous instinct somehow gives some of us a temporary sense of invulnerability, which for some, becomes an addictive habit. Likewise, those of us who are the victims of such violence have an almost obsessive need to cling to life by submitting to those with power who we come to idolize as superior humans. Over time this survival instinct instills in many people the need to seek their own advantage at the expense of others by serving those with "authority" which causes us to lie, and in some instances, to commit war crimes to please our "superiors".

Religions created by humans have also reinforced this orientation by declaring that we are above nature, from which we have arisen, and causes us to believe that nature should serve us. Religions claim that there are gods that will protect us, and give us permission to dominate or slaughter others who don't share such beliefs or who have their own gods to protect them. Species come and go as our planet experiments with so many life forms. Maybe our time is up. 

Do you have a better explanation?

The US pretends to support the independence of Syria and Iraq

Click here to access article by Elijah J. Magnier, an independent journalist from Kuwait (if my memory serves me correctly). 

I regard this independent journalist as very reliable as a source of reports about the ongoing strife in the Middle East. No one is perfect, but from my daily observations of reports from other informed sources, I believe his reports are the best one can reasonably expect from any individual journalist.

In this piece he reports on statements by US diplomat Bert (sic) Brett H. McGurk at a recent meeting of the Institute for Strategic Studies, a British based "think tank", in Manama, Bahrain. One never knows if such statements are made because the speaker believes them or because he is "following orders" from his superiors, the ultimate ones in the authority hierarchy being the ruling class of the US-led capitalist Empire. Magnier writes:

The US is mustering all its diplomacy against Iran in preparation for unilateral implementation of full sanctions against the Islamic Republic, expected on the fourth of November. This is why McGurk is attacking Iran in Syria and Iran.

(If you have forgotten the fairly recent history of events in Bahrain, a colony of the US Empire, do a search using the search engines on the right-hand side of my website to remind you.)

“Is This What We Destroy Lives For?” Iraq, Afghanistan Vets’ Guilt, Unanswered Questions Spike Suicide Rate

Click here to access article by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News. 

Baffled by the increase in the rate of suicides by young veterans, the experts seem to overlook the explanations of these veterans in their suicide notes.

For instance, the suicide note of Daniel Somers, an Iraq war veteran who took his own life at age 30, stated that his PTSD was largely the result of having been ordered to “participate in things” including “war crimes, crimes against humanity.” Somers noted that “though I did not participate willingly, and made what I thought was my best effort to stop these events, there are some things that a person simply cannot come back from.”

Indeed, some of the atrocities that have been conducted by U.S. troops in Iraq include orders to slaughter all “military age men” in a given area, torturing detainees, raping children, massacring groups of civilians, and sodomizing prisoners with broom sticks.

Whose Side is the CIA on?

Click here to access an interview with Douglas Valentine with an introduction by Kim Petersen posted on Dissident Voice. 

Valentine has contributed so much to reveal the criminal secrets of the CIA, and much of it can be accessed directly or indirectly in this article. It must be understood that the word "criminal" must be understood in the context of what ordinary people refer to as gross anti-social acts, but the concept doesn't apply to class structured nations in which a ruling class commit such crimes. A crime is always an official crime when it seriously offends the ruling class of any society. The CIA, like all government secret agencies, functions in complete secrecy to protect the interests of the ruling capitalist class (from domestic dissidents as well as foreign antagonists) who created them. Thus, they commit crimes (in the ordinary sense) with impunity.

I've always wondered how Valentine could get away with hoodwinking so many CIA officers into revealing such criminal activities. Valentine offers an explanation. He convinced CIA Director William E. Colby that he was on the side of the Empire because he had written a book about his father in WWII (The Hotel Tacloban), his conventional appearance, he was not seen as a journalist, didn't ask any direct questions regarding the dirty secrets of the CIA, and most importantly (in my view) because of the military chain of command in the CIA and because of the practice of compartmentalization (CIA agents were given only information that they needed to know to carry out their assignments).

Also I've always wondered how the CIA could have let him get away with reporting their dirty secrets without any reprisals (much less by losing his life). Because as Sen. Chuck Schumer stated, the CIA and other secret agencies that serve the ruling class "have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you". I've never read of any harm or threats that have come to Valentine. Of course, they have gone out of their way to insure that very few Americans have learned of his disclosures. 

Perhaps this is the major way that our masters control dissent and opposition in the USA: they prevent any information inimical to their interests from being picked up by the vast majority of Americans. Our masters have gained complete control over the spread of information. I offer my own experience as an example: I have written about a revolutionary strategy to overthrow the rule of the capitalist class, and I've suffered very few consequences except for one late night journey--no, doubt picked up through emails to my sister--when I was threatened with being run off the road, and was followed clear to my home. Because my website and comments have been read by a relatively few people, I don't represent any threat to them. And, I am retired thus that they cannot threaten my access to jobs. 

The answer to the question in the title, "Whose Side is the CIA On?", is simply "their side": that of the tiny ruling capitalist class that created them.