Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, June 1, 2021

• Depopulation and the mRNA Vaccine: The New York Times Predicts Massive Population Reduction by Peter Koenig from Global Research. 

• The Veterans We Dare not Remember on Memorial Day by Michael Hoffman, historian, from his weblog. My reaction: Compare two different posts I found on "Michael Hoffman"--on Amazon and the corrupted entry on Wikipedia.
  

• US Troops Die For World Domination, Not Freedom by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband reading the script, which is provided, from her weblog. 

The irony of course is that capitalism was supposed to offer something different. It was meant to offer a life of more leisure and free time. Technology was supposed to advance in ways that would bring public holidays every month, possibly even every week. Luminaries like economist John Maynard Keynes dreamt of a 15-hour work week by 2030. Yet capitalism has produced the exact opposite. Its effect has been to preserve and extend work. It has also created problems in the content and meaning of work.

• The need to work less is a matter of life and death by Prof. David Spencer from the Leeds University Business School in Britain.
  

• How to Access the Library of Alexandria featuring James Corbett of The Corbet Report. (Note: Corbett uses the "Library of Alexandria" as metaphor for hard-to-find books).

• 💥Israel, a Beachead in the Middle East by Stephan Gowans at the Institute for the Critical Study of Society (ICSS Marxist). This is a best post. (Note: This is a webinar featuring a talk by Gowans via YouTube arranged by this Oakland, California Institute. Gowans' talk begins after the introduction at 03:59m and ends at 58:36m followed by a Q&A. (I recommend the talk only because he has recently done extensive research on Israel which resulted in a book.)

One US military leader has called Israel “the intelligence equivalent of five CIAs.” An Israeli cabinet minister likens his country to “the equivalent of a dozen US aircraft carriers,” while the Jerusalem Post defines Israel as the executive of a “superior Western military force that” protects “America’s interests in the region.” Arab leaders have called Israel “a club the United States uses against the Arabs,” and “a poisoned dagger implanted in the heart of the Arab nation.”

In his latest book, Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East, Stephen Gowans challenges the specious argument that Israel controls US foreign policy, tracing the development of the self-declared Jewish state, from its conception in the ideas of Theodore Herzl, to its birth as a European colony, through its efforts to suppress regional liberation movements, to its emergence as an extension of the Pentagon, integrated into the US empire as a pro-imperialist Sparta of the Middle East.

• Not Forgetting Palestine by Craig Murray, a Scotsman, from his weblog.
  

• Colombia: “The Government Murders with Impunity because the U.S. Empire is Behind it.” by Carlos Aznarez from  Internationalist 360°. (Note: This is a report of the US's major beachhead in South America to police that continent for any nation that aspires to become independent.) My reaction: This is another instance where the well-indoctrinated American people, many of whom are struggling to survive, ignore such a report--if they are exposed to it at all.

• 💥Sitrep: Here Comes China: Buried lies & betrayals – Viruses, Nukes – and a Plasma sun from "The Saker" weblog. (Note: This is a best post especially for readers who want to follow developments in China from Chinese sources of information--not from Western propaganda sources.)
  

• Over a third of heat-related deaths caused by global warming from Climate & Capitalism. (Note: This research study was reported in a peer-reviewed British science journal.)

• The Yenisey River sheds its icy coat from RT via YouTube. My reaction: More evidence of global warming that is currently threatening human species (and most others). Isn't it ironic to see a Wikipedia entry on this river in Russia's Siberia before which YouTube warns you about Russian influence in a quote from a corrupted Wikipedia entry?
  

• Means of Extinction: Conspicuous Consumption featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist (via his YouTube channel--3:20m) who has focused on the climate crisis. My reaction: Because McPherson is a physical scientist and not a social scientist, he is not aware that capitalism, and its propaganda machine of advertising, constantly exhorts people to consume unnecessary products to promote profits and power for the capitalist ruling classes. Thus capitalism has caused the climate crisis which McPherson argues with much evidence that abrupt global warming will result in the extinction of humans and most other species inhabiting the Earth. That is precisely why capitalists are now energetically exploring other planets in the hope of migrating there after they have spoiled the Earth for humans.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, May 26, 2021

• Lockdowns Need to Be Intellectually Discredited Once and For All by Ethan Yang from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• 💥The Cover-Up Continues: The Truth About Bill Gates, Microsoft, and Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Webb from her weblog Unlimited Hangout.  This is a best post because it is an excellent example of independent investigative journalism.
  

• Transcript – Guns and Butter Interview with Bonnie Faulkner March 8, 2021 [posted on 5/18/21] from Wrench in Gears. (Note: Notice the link to the actual interview broadcast on WBAI in New York. Also, during the interview Faulkner asks a key question after she introduces the question: "I was taught that one of the main [characteristics of] capitalism is that it must grow or expand. You have written that 'in order for capitalism to continue on a beautiful planet of finite resources, the plan is to shift growth to digital realms' which is what you’ve been discussing. How is virtual capitalism going to piggyback on real-world capitalism?") [my insertion] 

• A People’s Guide to the War Industry -2: Profits & Deception by Christian Sorensen from Consortium News.
  

• America’s Chief Exports Are Marvel Movies And Human Suffering: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Australian Caitlin Johnstone and her American husband providing the narration of this article.
  

• Biden Doesn’t Want Rules and Order Everywhere by Brian Cloughley from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

Rejection of a resolution calling for “respect for international humanitarian law” is not consistent with Washington’s intention to abide by the “rules-based international order” which is apparently the solution to all the world’s problems — providing the rules are not applied to Israel.

• CrossTalk: Heavy hand of tech from RT's channel of YouTube (24:28m).

Has Big Tech poisoned our politics or has it merely revealed deep social and political divisions? With each passing day making that determination becomes more and more difficult. Those who have the power to control our social interactions define what we understand to be reality. This is simply tyrannical.

CrossTalking with Ron Placone and Suzie Dawson.

 

My reaction: Of course Big Tech is controlled by the ruling capitalist class! It is another weapon in their vast arsenal that is aimed at all those that are not on board with the agendas and the interests of the ruling class.

• The Nazi Past of US Geopolitics by Thomas Klikauer and Norman Simms from CounterPunch. My commentary follows: 

This short history does not reveal the history of collusion by the Western capitalist ruling classes with German Nazis to crush the anti-capitalist Soviet Union and to rid the world of any kind of socialism that threatens the rule of capitalists. After WWII this history of their past collusion with Nazis has been rewritten to eliminate nearly all references to true history. This was especially true of most giant corporations like the Ford Company, IT&T, General Motors, etc. who kept their German industries running throughout WWII. 

 

Early in the war, conspirators, mostly in the State Department, saw the opportunity to construct another empire out of the remnants of the former British Empire with the intact industry and powerful military forces of the USA. (This was all laid out in earlier posts: here, here, and here.) But present generations know none of this history because it has been scrubbed from history books by historians appointed by the governors of their new empire, the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire (Israel and the right-wing power of Zionist finance were added later).

 

Today we see the current reactionary forces at work in the Empire's capitalist ruling classes to rid themselves of the burden of supporting poor people by eliminating "useless eaters" to lessen the threat climate destabilization confronting them so they can resume business as usual. Like I wrote in a commentary on 2/7/2021:

 

... this is a dangerous thought. Imagine that our masters in the ruling class have in their deluded thinking reached a conclusion that in order to save themselves [as their capitalist system] they must get rid of us untermenschen? They might in this belief decide that we ordinary humans are "useless eaters" and expendable, or worse yet like "communists" or anti-capitalists--class enemies, and kill us all in order to save themselves from the climate crisis, which they have caused, and they know is coming sooner or later. Perhaps the Great Reset is one such delusion. [my present insertion]

 

Our masters are presently busy trying to eliminate labor laws that guarantee workers' rights using the excuse of protecting the health of workers based on recommendations from CDC and OSHA, and the incessant propaganda about their contrived "pandemic". They are busy creating a two-tier society in which "good Germans" are extended all kinds of privileges based on their good behavior and the rest of us are denied travel and access to many services. 

• The First World War, Cecile Rhodes and “Conspiracy Facts” by David William Pear from Global Research. (Note: Another real history lesson.)
  

• Greetings from “New Normal” Germany! by CJ Hopkins. an American playwright and political satirist, who currently lives in Germany. He is mostly serious in this post, and describes the current living conditions of the German "new normal"  which is currently threatening to come to the USA.
  

Last week, here in “New Normal” Germany, the government (which, it goes without saying, bears no resemblance to the Nazi regime, or any other totalitarian regime) implemented a social-segregation system that bans anyone who refuses to publicly conform to the official “New Normal” ideology from participating in German society. From now on, only those who have an official “vaccination pass” or proof of a negative PCR test are allowed to sit down and eat at restaurants, shop at “non-essential” stores, or go to bars, or the cinema, or wherever. 

• Bernie Coddles Biden Instead Of Pushing Him featuring comedian Jimmy Dore from his YouTube channel. This time he returns to his normal comedic political satire, and he uses it to satirize Sen. Bernie Sanders. 

• How a fascist party brought into Israel’s parliament by Netanyahu helped him start the war he wanted by David Sheen from The Grayzone.

• Washington's, Not Myanmar's "National Unity Government" by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. 
  

• Douma: Three Years On How: independent media shot down the false “chemical attack” narrative by Eva Bartlett, Canada's outstanding independent journalist, from Off-Guardian.
  

•  Scientists Sound Alarm: Unprecedented Mercury Accumulation in Pacific Ocean Trenches by Aarhus University from SciTechDaily.

• Science Update: Arctic Summit 2021 featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson, an independent scientist who has for many years focused on the climate crisis, and from his YouTube channel (09:56m).

• 84% of US West plunged into dangerous drought featuring Lori Harfenist using RT's channel to podcast this report.

The entire western half of the United States, from the Pacific Coast, across the great basin and the desert of the southwest, up through the rockies to the northern plains, is currently being ravaged by a drought so bad that many are now calling it a megadrought, the worst one the country has seen in 1200 years.

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, May 2, 2021

• Twitter Censors Peer Reviewed Mask Study by Dr. Joseph Mercola from his weblog. 

• Efforts to Silence the Debate on Vaccination Safety: The Weaponization of the CDC Against Public Health by Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null from Global Research. 

• 💥On The Pandemic | “The Illusion Of Evidence Based Medicine”, a 41:42m video produced by Journeyman Pictures posted on EarthNewspaper. This is a best post. (Note: I listed this as a "best post" after I viewed it in full at 4:45 PM CT on 5/3/2021.)
  

• Killing Democracy Once and for All: The Global Elite’s Coup d’Etat that Is Destroying Life as We Know It by Robert J. Burrowes from Global Research.

• The Myth of Authority by Darren Allen from Off-Guardian (based in Britain).
  

• Biggest Cover-Up Since Iraq Exposed by Journalist Aaron Maté and featuring Jimmy Dore,  exposing the lies related to the coverup of the official OPCW investigation of chemical weapons used by the Syrian government against their own people. (Note: Aaron Maté has especially devoted lot of work in uncovering this major censorship story. Read this, this, and this for starters, only a part of which I posted many articles on my website.) My reaction: the concentration of ownership of corporations of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire has gone on so long that the CIA and other secretive "intelligence" agencies have over the past 75 years completely turned US, other foreign media corporations, and even some UN agencies toward serving the agenda of world conquest by the Empire. This is understandable when you've seen Bill Gates, as a top funder of the UN's World Health Organization (notice how this is reported in US media corporations--often their reporting is only listed by governments.), overwhelmingly adopt measures advocated by Gates with the latter billionaire influencing the coverage of international media corporations.

• Archegos Unpacked: Equity Derivative Contracts Held by Federally-Insured Banks Have Exploded from $737 Billion to $4.197 Trillion Since the Crash of 2008 by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• 💥Brave New Cancel Culture World by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog. This is a best post. (Note: You should be familiar with the terms "woke revolution" (see this and this) and "cancel culture" (see this and this).) My reaction: I commonly consider the first term as meaning "to wrap yourself in virtue" which implies a fake ethical position, and a corollary of that is "cancel culture" which is used to mean that you don't have to listen to anybody if they offend you, and in order to justify censorship or the allegation of "fake news). The ruling class uses the latter term to shame those they consider "anti-vaxxers", to justify the denial for such people to access to private and public services, and to censor opinions that differ from what the ruling class approves. I consider both terms to be useful for the ruling class to justify their policies of self-serving virtue and intolerance of those opposing their diktats (def.).
  

• TV Review: The Class Struggle at Superstore by Eric Dirnbach from Labor Notes. (Note: This is a review of a TV series ("Superstore") that has recently ended.)
  

• Xinjiang shakedown: US anti-China lobby cashed in on ‘forced labor’ campaign that cost Uyghur workers their jobs by Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone. My reaction: This exposes US State Department's policy of "human rights", used to justify anti-China actions relating to the Uyghurs, for what it is--fakery.
  

• Worldwide glacier retreat speeds up from Climate & Capitalism.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, March 7, 2021

• What’s Not Being Said About the Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine. “Human Guinea Pigs”? by F. William Engdahl from Global Research. (Note: NIAID refers to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.)
  

• The Problem with Conspiracy Theories by Kevin Ryan from his weblog Dig Within. My reaction: the ruling classes' governments can only issue conspiracy theories, not citizens (sarcasm).
  

• Corporate ‘Mindfulness’ Programs Are an Abomination by Thom James Carter from Current Affairs. 

• Bioethics and the New Eugenics featuring James Corbett from his weblog focusing on "death panels" passed under the "Obamacare" law and similar laws in Canada in a 39:33m video. My reaction: This is a good way to get rid of "useless eaters" (sarcasm). Unfortunately, true to his commitment to anarchism, he points to governments, and occasionally, billionaires, or in this video academic eugenicists, but never to the capitalist ruling classes who control governments or, indirectly, academic appointments.
  

• Democrats Kill Minimum Wage In Senate featuring Jimmy Dore on his Rokfin channel.
  

• US Continues Crusade Against Nord Stream 2 by Brian Berletic from Land Destroyer Report. 

• How Did the Life Insurance Industry Survive the Pandemic? by Robert E. Wright from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• Approaching a Risky 1.5°C Global Overshoot by Robert Hunziker from CommonCurrents.

• Confirm Methane's Importance from Arctic News.
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend today: 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: Wednesday, October 14, 2020

• Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime by Gabriel Rockhill from CounterPunch. (Note: Rockhill is using the term "liberalism" in the classic sense which means the ideology of capitalism.) My commentary follows:

I agree with most of this article with the exception being that he does not distinguish capitalist "democracy" or,  a more familiar and equivalent term, "bourgeois democracy", from socialist democracy. Lenin laid down the theoretical framework for the latter, but immediately after the Russian Revolution, Russia was under attack mainly by Britain, France, Japan, and the USA--especially by Britain which interfered with Lenin's plans. Also the quashing of the Communist party in Germany contributed to the distortion of Lenin's plans and resulted in a bureaucratic ruling class headed by the authoritarian Stalin. 

A socialist democracy has yet to be created or established, and it doesn't seem likely to appear given the limited amount time humans have due to the threat posed by the ecological crisis and the bellicose and aggressive nature of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. The latter poses the threat of a catastrophic nuclear war.

To be sure, after WWII the Western intellectual apologists for capitalism had to extensively ignore the reality of the fascist roots in capitalism, and went on to extensively rewrite the history of WWII that is de rigueur throughout the present day Empire.

I think there is a basic conflict between capitalism and socialism, and that is the question of allegiance to the extended family versus society. If one chooses family, capitalism provides the means to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of families which are the owners of economic property (and their supporters) over those who don't own economic property.

This is a powerful motive force which is the basis for many conflicts among humans, particularly those who, otherwise support socialist policies; but faced with the loss of jobs and careers, that would bring poverty to their families, many choose a capitalist path. The choice of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was capitalism, and she greatly benefited from her choice. She described her choice in a nutshell that embarrassed a number of members of the capitalist class because it was so true. She said there was no such thing as society, there were only families, and added that maybe neighbors as well.

Capitalist ruling classes have often used this control over jobs and careers in an exaggerated way to co-op people into activities that they would otherwise not engage. This is especially true of highly educated people necessary to maintain and protect all the capitalist machinery necessary for the system to enhance the wealth and power of the ruling class. This practice has led to the corruption of many highly trained professional and managerial people throughout every institution in the Empire.

• U.S. Government Awards Contracts to Seven Organizations with Ties to Gates Foundation, DARPA, Big Tech by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.

• Open letter from medical doctors and health professionals to all Belgian authorities and all Belgian media. From Docs4opendebate.
  

• James Corbett Encourages You To Do Your Own Research from Corbett's website. (My reaction: The only problem with Corbett's views is that he blames the "media" for using experts as a way to support their authoritarian directions. He doesn't yet see that a capitalist ruling class controls major media corporations.)

• If the Main Stream Narrative Was a Conspiracy, a 3:30m video featuring JP Sears from his channel (via YouTube) doing a parody of what he has learned about the coronavirus from media corporations. 
  

• Airlines Test ‘Proof-of-Immunity’ Technology, Privacy Watchdogs Call It ‘Troubling’ by Jeremy Loffredo from Children's Health Defense.
  

• How the IMF and World Bank Turned a Pandemic into a Public Relations Stunt by Walden Bello from Foreign Policy in Focus.

• Hefty profits for top US banks as millions face social disaster by Shannon Jones from World Socialist Web Site. 

• WARNING: COVID-19 Vaccine Partnership with AstraZeneca a Threat to Public Health by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. 

• High Temperatures October 2020 from Arctic News. 

• The Battle for Hope in the Anthropocene by Jethro Gauld, Ph.D. Researcher from Scientists Warning. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, October 13, 2020

• Klaus Schwab and his great fascist reset from Winter Oak. My commentary follows (On 10/15/2020 I edited this entry to include the much distorted and propagandized the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact by Western historians): 

This rather lengthy article exposes the Great Reset project as a wet dream of the current transnational capitalist ruling class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. I think that the author places too much emphasis on the similarities on the current scene in America with that of 1930s fascism in Germany and Italy, and not enough emphasis on this vision of the Great Reset as a rather desperate fantasy of the transnational capitalists of the 21st century. Fascism is endemic to any capitalist system. Fascist capitalist classes use mostly crude methods of censorship, surveillance, and police state measures, while most other capitalist countries favor pseudo-democratic methods of controlled elections and carefully crafted propaganda that infects every institution.

Capitalism's trajectory was always headed in the direction of fascism, especially when capitalist countries are threatened. That is precisely why before WWII, during most of the 1930s, capitalist ruling classes in all the other "democratic" nations mostly supported the fascist regimes in Germany and Italy. This support was motivated by the twin threats to capitalist regimes posed by the Great Depression and the rise of the Soviet Union which forbid any significant private ownership of the economy. The latter's system of socialism was a blasphemy to the church in which capitalists worship.

The British ruling class was especially disturbed by any country that promoted socialist policies; and when the Soviet Union appeared, they viewed it as a threat to their system and Empire. But Germany didn't exactly follow the British script for them to head east through Czechoslovakia and destroy the Soviet system. Instead they invaded Poland which held defense treaties with Britain and France. The German government had just signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with the Soviet Union which permitted the two powers to partition Poland between them. 

The allies have made much of that in their propaganda and the rewriting of the history of WWII. But having failed to form an anti-fascist alliance with the Western powers, the Soviets opted to gain time to prepare for the expected invasion of their country by Germany. As a result the Soviets in August of 1939 signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany in which they would carve up Poland between themselves. Shorty thereafter the Nazis invaded Poland and formally started WWII.

After eight months of a phony war with Britain, Nazi Germany invaded France and the Low Countries, and it became clear to the British that Germany was a threat to the British Empire. It was then that British capitalists switched their support (Neville Chamberlain) from the imperialist policies of Germany and Italy to an organizing (Winston Churchill) of capitalist friends of British capitalists to protect their British Empire.

Germany initially overran France on other European countries and went on to attack Britain. The German capitalist ruling class was motivated by resentment that France and Britain demonstrated in the Versailles Treaty after WWI, and the overt fascists of the ruling German capitalist class soon represented a threat to the British Empire and their dominance in the world. WWII left Britain in ruins, so the British ruling class, and what remained of the Empire, teamed up with the American capitalists to form a new capitalist empire (they later added Israel) to counter the socialism found in the Soviet Union and to restore capitalist control of the world. And, as they say, the rest is history. (Read Big Business and Hitler by Jacques R. Pauwels for further information on this subject.)

• Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t! by Gabriel Rockhill from CounterPunch. (Note: The author writes in style which is abstract and academic.)
  

• Breaking Pres. Trump "Total Declassification" of Documents Related To Russia Investigation featuring Ben Swann of ISE commenting on this development.

• No 2nd stimulus? Time to admit both parties want to destroy the average American by Ramin Mazaheri from the "Saker's" weblog.
  

• The WHO Has Let the Cat Out of the Bag: COVID-19 Is Now More About Politics Than Public Health by Daniel Wild from Anti-Empire.  

• Being made invisible by Stephen Sefton from Tortilla con Sal. 

Few are surprised that defenders of Julian Assange against the UK injustice system are misrepresented or excluded by imperialist country governments supported by all the disinformation outlets their countries' oligarchs control. However, scientists questioning public policy on COVID-19 find themselves marginalized not only by dominant liberal opinion but also by majority progressive opinion too. Eminent scientists like John Ioannides, Sunetra Gupta, Sucharit Bhakdi, Alexander Kekulé, Dolores Cahill and dozens of others find themselves in effect, if not disappeared, certainly generally excluded from public discussion.

• Belgian health experts demand full investigation into WHO for faking COVID-19 pandemic by Ethan Huff from Pharmaceutical Fraud.

• NHS Consultant Says Staff Are Being Silenced Over COVID-19 by Michael O'Bernicia from his weblog The Bernician.

• Dr Kevin Corbett Interview 4th October 2020 by "David" who interviews Corbett from the Northern Exposure channel of YouTube. (Note: I don't know anything about Dr. Corbett other than what is provided in the interview, and I don't know anything about "David" who apparently lives in Scotland. I was impressed by Dr. Corbett's interesting comments, and I encountered similar arguments from a "Piece of Mindful" website entitled “Covid-19” = AIDS with emPHAsis.)

• The Covidian Cult by C.J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (Note: I haven't read the article to determine whether it is satire or cogent observations, but I'm impressed with this satirist so much that I'm posting it anyway. Hopkins is an American currently living in Germany.)

 

Sorry, but I've again run out time and energy to complete the list of websites that contain articles which I think are credible.  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, October 4, 2020

• Truth Seeker by Jim Meehan MD from his website which apparently is being updated. (Note: Meehan's covid-19 website challenges many of the conventional beliefs about the pandemic spread by media corporations and supported by government health authorities such as the wearing of masks, lockdowns, vaccinations, etc. One thing he does agree with them regarding the prevention of covid-19 is the benefits of social distancing. Dr. Meehan often points to Big Pharma and their huge profits as the cause of their recommendations. Kate Porter of Children's Health Defense apparently agrees with him. I have no health credentials, but I find his assembling of scientific evidence compelling in support of his challenges. In the absence of reliable information regarding the illness, we as individuals must decide for ourselves regarding measures to maintain our health.)

• We Are Being Lied To! Here Is How… by Spiro Skouras from Activist Post. (My reaction: I've read numerous articles that the PCR test produced a substantial number of false positives. Skouras provides details on the fallibility of PCR test. Listening to media corporations and government health authorities, the accuracy of the PCR test is a fact, and often the positive results are added to their reports on covid-19 "cases".)

• No jobs, so what future? Half the world’s workforce on the edge. By Ned Temko from The Christian Science Monitor.

• What They Are Not Talking About: War and Peace, Healthcare and Jobs Are Non-Issues by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: I thank an activist for alerting me to this article.)

• Germany’s Extra-Parliamentary Corona Investigative Commission Launching a Class Action Suit Against Corona Criminals by Peter Koenig from Global Research. (Note: The author reports that legal challenges to government health edicts are being used in Germany and the USA, under the latter's Class Action Suits, for personal damages due to loss of jobs, income, etc.)

• Twitter is Blocking Access to OffG’s Content by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.

• The CIA's Plot To POISON Julian Assange! Featuring Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show), and he interviews Max Blumenthal (The Grayzone), the source of the information.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020

• Massive money laundering | Top banks accused of playing part in movement of $2 trillion from RT (via YouTube). My reaction: Could it be that our masters in the ruling capitalist class are criminals just as drug traffickers and (their) terrorists are?

• There’s a Pattern of Corporate Media Censoring News About Wall Street Banks’ Crimes by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• Merciless virus | Poor hit hardest by the COVID pandemic from RT (via YouTube). My reaction: Could it be that our masters in the ruling capitalist class are engaging in class warfare as they have done in the past several hundred years? If you believe that they care about your health, that is, if you are a "useless eater", and, if you are not one of their "essential workers" or highly trained and rewarded technical and professional workers and don't contribute to the power and wealth of the ruling class of major capitalists (often deceptively referred to by social-democrats as simply "billionaires"), I have several fine bridges to sell you.

• Lies, Damned Lies and Health Statistics – the Deadly Danger of False Positives by Dr Michael Yeadon (a Brit) from Lockdown Sceptics. (Note: You are likely to need some knowledge of science to fully appreciate this article.)

• Facts about Covid-19 from Swiss Policy Research. (Note: I regard this always updated website to be the most reliable source of information regarding the "pandemic".)
  

• A Ukrainian/CIA Plot To Incite Belarus Against Russia Unraveled - The NYT Story Thereof Is Hiding The Failure by Bernhard (an independent German blogger) from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• Why It is Likelier that the U.S. Government Had Alexei Navalny Poisoned by Eric Zuesse from Dissident Voice.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020

• The Melbourne Syndrome by Steve Kates from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• America's Metastasizing Class Wars by Charles Hugh Smith from his weblog Of Two Minds.
  

• America’s Current Jobs ‘Great Depression’ by Jack Rasmus from his weblog.
  

• Why The ‘Journalists’ Don’t Like Julian by Jeremy Salt from American Herald Tribune. My commentary follows:

The essay barely skims the surface of what is wrong about journalism as practiced in mostly capitalist countries. The author's very treatment of this subject betrays his bias toward capitalism and the capitalist ruling class. His views are summed up in two sentences near the end of the essay: 

... journalists have power, the power and the money of the institution behind them. Assange has no institution behind him. Indeed, the institutions are all against him. A media which used him up has abandoned him.  

This begs the question of what kind of basic "institution [is] behind them" (the critics of Assange, that is, most journalists)? The fundamental institution behind most journalists is capitalism and the morality of capitalism that Margaret Thatcher, a total sociopath, revealed to the embarrassment of her masters in the ruling class:   

...there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.

Constrast this moral code with that of Caitlin Johnstone.

Upper-middle-class people who serve the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire are rewarded for on-the-job behaviors that supports the moral code illustrated by brainwashed Thatcher, but are unemployed if they behave according to Johnstone's moral code. Unfortunately, most journalists conform to their boss's expectations which conform to the ruling class's moral code because they need to protect their well-paid careers to support their families. Thus, all institutions (education, media, and entertained) controlled by capitalists insure their rule by indoctrinating their working classes according to capitalist morality.

• Contrived Spectacles of “Protecting and Caring for the People” by Thomas Harrington from Off-Guardian.

• COVID-911: From Homeland Security to Biosecurity by James Corbett from his weblog The Corbett Report.

• WATCH: 9 Demolitions and 1 Fire from Off-Guardian.
  

• 9/11 Two Decades On… A Legacy of Horrors and Imperial Defeat by the editor from Strategic Culture Foundation.

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

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020

• Politics and Violence Go Hand in Hand by Thomas Knapp from CounterPunch. My commentary follows:

This article touches more on true wisdom than it appears. But it only touches the surface. There is a whole lot more beneath the surface that I would like draw your attention to. It is the ultimate question on how we humans should live. Unfortunately for our species, we are just cognizant enough to realize that our individual existence is only temporary. But this insight is an unacceptable truth which becomes an ultimate evil.  This realization has caused humans to neurotically believe in delusions: an after-life and an obsession with acquiring power, and especially power over other humans.

You see, we humans think that we are unlike other species which are doomed to only a temporary existence. Most religions teach us that there is some sort of an afterlife. Also we frequently believe that other species exist in order to serve our needs. We humans have long held belief systems, or religions, that put our species at the center of the universe. But religion is only one method to overcome this dreadful consciousness. Domination of other humans has become a major means to ward off this unthinkable fate. Thus, our human history has been marred by attempts to use violence to coerce others to serve our needs. Only recently we have become aware that we humans are only a tiny part of the web of life on our planet Earth; and while we search the universe for other life forms, we haven't yet found any. 

It is apparent that a major part of our existence is in families and clans, and down through the ages we humans have used this organic structure to impose power over other families and clans, and this often has taken some form of violence: outright physical violence, the threat of such violence, and/or the deprivation of the material means of existence such as denying them access to water, food, shelter, jobs, etc. 

Our species' history has produced various systems to socialize entire societies, along with the assistance of religious authorities, to inculcate beliefs among populations that their system was divinely sanctioned, and of course it is the best and only system possible. But people eventually noticed that a certain segments of their societies held more power and material benefits than others. These were designated as ruling classes which consisted of families and clans that used their systems to obtain disproportionate rewards, and sometimes these rewards were extremely disproportionate.  

Human history can be considered as a series of changes of systems, and the latter all have the same characteristics: use of physical force or the threat of such force with a supporting ideology to impose their disproportionate rule on other classes of humans.  Social scientists have identified such systems as rule by military or religious classes; feudalism: rule by those who, or their heirs, of conquered lands; and in our present- day, capitalism. Capitalist families continue to place special value only on families and clans instead of whole societies, but uses a hidden class commitment to capitalism which enables and sustains a ruling class.

Our existing capitalist ruling class continues this sordid history via the private purchase of the economy and awarding the owners of property of nearly unlimited rights. This system uses the denial of life sustenance needs, in addition to the use of violence, mostly directed on those who oppose the system. Capitalists have a built-in tendency to reduce the sustenance needs of workers to a bare minimum, and to deny aid to those who do not contribute to the wealth and power of the capitalist ruling class.  

Currently there is a growing awareness of the unsustainability of capitalism: of the extreme inequality of wealth distribution that is inherent in the capitalist system, the contradictions that are obvious in the capitalist requirement of infinite growth on a finite planet, the lack of awareness by our masters that we humans constitute minuscule part in the web of life on our unique planet Earth. Under capitalism, militaristic ruling classes are currently threatening a nuclear war catastrophe which will end our very existence.

• Social media fact-checking, brought to you by the Deep State by Daniel Espinosa from Off-Guardian. (Note: This is a best post.)

• The political battle over a COVD vaccine: your health is of no concern by Jon Rappoport from his weblog.

• Gates' Keepers of Journalism by Dr. Joseph Mercola from his health weblog.  

• EXCLUSIVE: Covid Vaccine Patent Warned of Deliberate Coronavirus Release from ISE. (Note: Ben Swann reports on a surprising discovery.)

• Bipartisan effort to oust the outsider Trump makes 2nd US stimulus unlikely by Ramin Mazaheri from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• In the Footsteps of Rome: Maybe It No Longer Matters Who's Emperor by Charles Hugh Smith from his weblog Of Two Minds.

• Meet the “Violet” Successors to the White Helmets’ Syria Propaganda Throne by Vaneesa Beeley from BS News (based in Britain).
  

• Will Self-Taught, A.I. and Robotics Be the End of Us? from 21st Century Wire. (Note: In a one hour video program, a panel of artificial intelligence (AI) experts contribute their understanding to this topic.)

• From 9/11 to Covid-19: 19 Years of Media Lies. By Dr. Eric Beeth from Global Research.
  

• Why Aren’t Insurers 9/11 Truthers? – Questions For Corbett #067 from The Corbett Report.

• What Could Happen, Part 2: Time for a New Revolution by Alan Johnstone from Dissident Voice.
  

• Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean, Part One: Corrosive Seas by Ian Angus from Climate & Capitalism.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020

Bait-&-Switch: How they’ve changed the Covid conversation by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.
VIDEO: Spanish Doctor Destroys Government-Media COVID ‘Crisis’ Narrative from 21st Century Wire via YouTube.

Is This Fraud Ever Going to End? by Dr. Vernon Coleman (a Brit) from his channel on YouTube.

‘No Jab, No Pay’: Australia to Use UBI, Benefit Payments to Enforce Vaccine Compliance from 21st Century Wire.


Why Is Desperately Poor India Beating New York’s COVID-19 Response? by Adam Mill from American Greatness.

The Real Reason Why Blackstone is Courting the Pentagon by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: This article belongs in the "best posts" category. It is an outstanding example of the investigative reporting by Webb who is tracking the leading members of the Deep State who shape policies of the ruling capitalist class.)
All Spying All the Time by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano from Creators. (Note: I recommend spending a few moments to watch the editorial cartoons on this website.)


Will Belarus Become the Next Banderastan? by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from The Unz Review. (Note: Raevsky uses an odd spelling ("Ianukovich") for the Western conventional spelling of "Yanukovych", the former head of the Ukrainian government.)

My commentary follows:

Raevsky is clearly the best informed writer on the web who understands what is going on in Belarus. The Empire is using their color-revolution strategies to subvert the Belarus's government and co-opt many opposition groups by funding the latter. I cannot understand why the opposing independent nations cannot come up with appropriate defense against these color revolutions. One would think that the Russian and Belarus leadership, after the Ukraine experience, would have devised effective counter strategies to prevent this from happening especially in a border state like Belarus.

Apparently only genuine democratic nations (instead of fake democracies) can withstand these strategies, but these nations have not yet appeared and I doubt that they will appear before climate destabilization puts an end to humans and most other species. If indeed by a miracle such nations did appear in the time remaining, it would still be too late to save humanity because climate destabilization has already set in. But this miraculous event would served to redeem (def) the human species for their roughly 10, 000 years of acceptance of self-serving ruling class societies.


A Closer Look At Belarusian Opposition’s Heavily Anti-Russian National Policy Plans from South Front.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020

• After White House, Congress cut aid to unemployed, evictions and food lines spread across the US by Jacob Crosse from World Socialist Web Site. (My reaction: The assault on the "deplorables" and the "dumb-fucks" continues.)

• Biden picks former law-and-order prosecutor Kamala Harris to be his Democratic running mate by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site.
  

• Kamala Is A Cop Except For Billionaire Banksters! featuring Jimmy Dore ranting and Max Blumenthal offering his observations about the Democratic Party candidates, via YouTube. (My reaction: Can you imagine a worse election that are facing the people of the USA in November?! Our masters in the ruling class are both extremely corrupt and extremely cynical about the American people.)
  

• America Desperately Needs a Second Opinion by Jeff Harris from the Ron Paul Institute.

• Consent Rescinded. By Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: She rescinds all the themes with which ideological agents of the capitalist ruling class infected her mind much like a virus when she was younger and more naive. Can you join her?)

• A quick update on Belarus by "The Saker" from his weblog A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. (Note: this is an update to yesterday's re-post about the subversive efforts of the US Empire to change the government of Belarus.)

• Dead Zones: Industrial Agriculture versus Ocean Life by Ian Angus from Climate & Capitalism.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020

• How the Fascists Won World War II by H. Bruce Franklin from CounterPunch. My reaction follows:

Franklin barely skims the surface of this phenomenon: the avoidance of Allied bombing in WWII to targets that had ties to Western capitalist corporations. I recommend that you read Trading with the Enemy by Charles Higham, Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler by Anthony Sutton, Nazi Nexus by Edwin Black, and Big Business and Hitler by Jacques Pauwels (the latest, and in my opinion, the best). Obviously, the same applies to plants owned by purely US corporations: Opel owned by General Motors and Ford-Werke. My clarification about WWII--see commentary.

• Black Labor from Chattel Slavery to Wage Slavery by Sam Marcy from Internationalist 360°. (My reaction: Nothing proves Marx's emphasis on labor than capitalists' use of slave labor to exploit the value they found in the Americas. Capitalists could conquer these territories but they could not exploit them. Early on, they couldn't get enough Europeans workers to come to the Americas so they had to engage in slave labor to exploit their new conquered territories.

As Marx was to write, “It is slavery that gave the colonies their value; it is the colonies that have created world trade, and it is world trade that is the precondition of large-scale industry. Thus slavery is an economic category of the greatest importance.”

• Why the Working Class is Key posted on the website of The internationalists.
  

• Americans, War – Slow Learners by Patrick Armstrong from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• 5 Ways “The New Normal” is Getting Worse and Worse by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.

• Ben Swann Interview – Decades Of Mask Science Came To One Conclusion, So Why Can’t We Talk About It? Ryan Cristián posts the Ben Swann interview on his weblog The Last American Vagabond. (Note: The interview lasts for 33:08m. I admit I have a bias against Cristián because of his excessively long comments (up to three hours) on his Daily Wrap-Up show. Why he thinks that anyone has time to listen to his show is beyond my understanding. Anyway, listen to Ben Swann and be sure to notice the studies about masks below the video.)

• The Fix Was In: Latest ACIP Meeting’s Public Comments Featured a Who’s Who Among Vaccine Promoters by Kari Bundy, CHD Communications Assistant, from Children's Health Defense.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, July 21, 2020

• Coronavirus and the End of Authority by Christopher Roach from American Greatness. (My reaction: Americans have been lied to so many times (even much more often than they realize) that they are having a growing problem, especially among young people, with trusting authorities. The author misses the mark when he designates a managerial class that is responsible. The latter is merely the highly educated trained and indoctrinated upper-middle-class people who are devoted entirely to their well-paid careers and who dutifully serve the ruling class as long as they are getting paid.)

• Toronto Children’s Hospital Recommends Back to School without Masks or Social Distancing. Detailed Report by John C. A. Manley from Global Research. (Note: Here are school policies based on science.)

• WATCH: Your Body, Their Choice from Off-Guardian. 

• This Is a Financial Extinction Event by Charles Hugh Smith from his weblog Of Two Minds.

• America’s hidden economic crisis: Widespread wage cuts by Megan Cassella from Politico.  (Note: Also Lee Camp points to this.) 

• The Only Obstacle To A Healthy World Is Government Secrecy And Propaganda by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Hezbollah, The Source of All Troubles in Lebanon and the Middle East by Elijah J. Magnier from his weblog behind a paywall and re-posted on American Herald Tribune. 

• Global Warming and Ocean Acidification Accelerate by Manuel Garcia, Jr. from CounterPunch.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, July 20, 2020

• “COVID Vaccines” and “Genetically Modified Humans” by Dr. Carrie Madej and Mark Taliano from Global Research. (Note: Dr. Madej offers a commonsense explanation of the highly profitable Gates' vaccines that may be forced upon us. Highly recommended.

• Pharma Tries to Cash in on Covid Shutdowns With Its Best-Selling Drug by Martha Rosenberg from CounterPunch.

• Oxford epidemiologists: suppression strategy is not viable featuring two Oxford epidemiologists (via YouTube) discussing the problems of non-scientific (non-evidenced based) advice and other issues regarding the Covid-19 pandemic.

• GloboCap Über Alles by master satirist CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. 

• Goldman Sachs Makes Record Profits Amid Economic Crisis for the Working Class by Tatiana Cozzarelli from Left Voice. My commentary follows:

Although this article concentrates on one bank, it is clear that the author only points to Goldman Sachs as an example of major banks and corporations in the USA as an example of the wide effects on different social-economic classes in the USA, "the land of the free and the home of the brave".

Although I am aware of the social and economic inequalities of my existance in the USA, I learned much more from reading a book entitled The Capitalists of the 21st Century. I also learned that I was unaware of the full extent that transnational capitalists have enriched and empowered themselves at the expense of ordinary US citizens. And, the same is becoming true to citizens throughout the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. 

When you read this book, you will learn about major self-serving capital organizers--BlackRock appears to be the worst--that have owned governments throughout the Empire, regard corporations as commadities to bet on in their casino on Wall Street, that have created news corpoations as propaganda organs, and as a result are imposing enormous suffering on ordinary people. This book explains why top members of this ruling class regard ordinary people, who they have brainwashed and lied to (the biggest lie is that they pretend to care about our health), as "dumb fucks" and "deplorables". These "giant vampire squids" that have tentacles in all our institutions are quite different from the major corporations and banks that ruled most of the world in the 20th century. 

I won't do a review of the book because Norbert Häring has already done this for me, but I have added it to my recommended list of books and I urge you to read it.

(Note: To my consternation, my paperback does not include an index, and I am unable to determine if a hardback edition contains an index or not.)

• Millions in the US face disaster as $600 federal unemployment aid set to end this week by Jacob Crosse from World Socialist Web Site.

• The Fed Rides to the Rescue of JPMorgan and Citi Again – This Time It’s Their Commercial Real Estate Mortgages by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Masked, Homeless, and Desolate by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain. 

• CoronaShock and Socialism from Tricontinental and re-posted by Titanic Lifeboat Academy, a sister website. (Note: I thank an activist for alerting me to this fine article.) My reaction: The contrast regarding the effects of the coronavirus pandemic in other countries with mixed economies to what is happening in the USA is stark. Not only people in these countries are suffering very limited effects of the virus, but they are not suffering the economic and social effects that people in the advanced capitalist country like the USA are suffering.

• Cold Wars and Profit by Craig Murray (Scotsman) from his weblog. 

• Cancel Government Secrecy: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• NYT, FBI, Spy inside WH. NEW DOCS prove COUP plot to remove Trump by Alex Christoforou from The Duran. My commentary follows:  

Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris assemble the evidence of the Deep State's obsessive effort to remove the Trump administration, but they do not point to a "Deep State", the real government of the USA. They go on in a dramatic fashion to point to "plotters" that are creating an "existential crisis" for the US government and the American people. They miss the greater significance of internecine strife among the capitalist ruling class because the American people voted the wrong way in 2016 for the chief executive officer of the USA. Because of this obsession with Donald Trump, a renegade capitalist who refuses to take orders from the Deep State, the latter are now pursuing a reckless course of action with the Covid-19 pandemic (among other reasons) to undermine his chances for re-election in November's elections.)

• China’s Economy – and Globalization – A Look into the Future by Peter Koenig from New Eastern Outlook.

• US attorney general explains the real reason Washington is hostile to China by Stephen Gowans from his weblog What's Left.

• Influential DC-based Ukrainian think tank hosts neo-Nazi activist convicted for racist violence by Moss Robeson from The Grayzone.

The US-Ukraine Foundation hosted notorious neo-Nazi militant Diana Vynohradova in a webinar this month. While legitimizing Ukrainian white supremacists, the think tank has forged close ties with foreign policy elites in Washington. 

• Climate change blamed for China flood disaster by Katrina Yu from Al Jazeera.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, July 18, 2020

• UK gov’t (finally) admits Covid statistics are inaccurate by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.

• NHS Consultant Says Staff Are Being Silenced Over COVID-19 from The Bernician.

• How Sweden Faced COVID-19 Without Lockdowns by Jon Miltimore from Catalyst. 

• Portland Mayor Condemns Masked Federal Agents Abducting Protesters by Alan Macleod from Internationalist 360°. (My reaction: This Democratic Mayor, because he depends on the political party funds to be re-elected, attributes this Gestapo tactic to Trump. But the Deep State, who largely governs America (except for Trump that likes to annoy them), is perfectly able to order this operation.) 

• Buffer Overflow: the Ghastly Future of Work by Fred Reed from The Unz Review. 

• The US and Britain Building up Infowar via Social Media by Vladimir Platov from New Eastern Outlook.

• Israel collaborated with Holocaust distortion for geopolitical reasons: Top historian featuring comments by prominent Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer from PressTV (Iran). 

• ‘Anti-vax’ labelling and the mainstream media: Who is coordinating this? by Elizabeth Hart from Children's Health Defense.

• Anti-racism uprisings: HK youth's lessons on the West by Andre Vltchek from China Daily (China). (Note: You will need to know what "HKSAR" means.)

• When Hezbollah flags up the China and Iran options, the US trembles by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog. (Note: I am posting this article because he posts much of the article for free--not behind a paywall.)

• Iraqi PMF leader: Operations on US forces to escalate day by day from Middle East Observer.