A.K. 47 - 47 Selections from the Works of Alexandra Kollontai

Click here to access the podcasts by Kristen R. Ghodsee who is a professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. 

She reads her selection of 47 writings of Alexandra Kollontai (occasionally interspersing explanatory comments), a Russian revolutionary author nearly a century ago. In these writings Kollontai, among other subjects, explains how even our emotional lives and social relations have been determined by societies with ruling classes (especially Episodes 8-15) after humans settled in agricultural communities. Kollontai writing nearly a hundred years ago even extrapolates into the future what these will look like in a classless socialist society. (Note: I encountered a few technical problems in this series.)

Unfortunately the Soviet Union, under constant attacks (invasions and trade embargoes) by the Western capitalist nations, soon came under the authoritarian control of Stalin after Lenin died from wounds in an assassination attempt in 1918. The socialist revolution degenerated under the rule of this dictator who surrounded himself with supporting bureaucrats which eventually became a self-serving ruling class. However, under Stalin's rule women were still better off than their Western counterparts as Ghodsee explains in another article entitled No Scrubs.

Also unfortunately, we as a species, and most others, are destined to become extinct due to the trashing of our environment by capitalist nations before a socialist society can even be realized.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, January 31, 2020

Blogger's Note: Because the bigger, more imminent threat (more than the pollution of carbon) to the human species is a global nuclear war, I am forced to post many articles related to world geo-political events in what I think is now the start of the disintegration of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. We live in a very dangerous world.

• Human Extinction Now Imminent and Inevitable? by Robert J. Burrowes from Wall Street International Magazine.

• Britain leaves the European Union: Against nationalism, For the United Socialist States of Europe! from World Socialist Web Site.

• Brexit and the world: The risks and opportunities for non-European countries from United World (independent analysts based in Turkey).

• Did the US just concede defeat in China tech war? by David P. Goldman from Asia Times. 

• Globalization – A sneaky overview by Naresh Jotwani from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• U.S in the Middle-East: Preparing for Disaster by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from The Unz Review. 

• Why we need a socialist solution to climate change by John Molyneux from Global Ecosocialist Network. (I now think it is too late for this.)

• The Merchants of Death by "FD" from The Internationalists. 

• Rewriting History of World War II Is Ominous Warning from the editors of Strategic Culture Foundation. (The victors always re-write history.)

• Nobody Sets Out To Become A War Propagandist. It Just Sort Of Happens. By Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• American Dream meets the Chinese Dream: A Nightmare on Fuyao Avenue by Dyjbas from Internationalist Communist Tendency.

• FBI probes use of Israeli firm's spyware in personal and government hacks from The New Arab. 

• Trump Is A Symptom Of A Larger Problem from The Jimmy Dore Show (via YouTube).

• Saudi, UAE trying to partition Iraq – fmr Pentagon official from RTAmerica. "The US has stopped all weapon deliveries to Iraq over security concerns, according to an Air Force spokesman. Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof weighs in."

• Erdoğan’s Outburst Against Russia Reveals Frustration by "InfoBrics" from The Duran (based in Cyprus).

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, January 30, 2020

• State of the climate: How the world warmed in 2019 by Zeke Hausfather from Carbon Brief.

• Corporate Control and the Climate Meltdown from Scientists Warning (via YouTube).

• Extinction Foretold, Extinction Ignored by Guy McPherson from his weblog Nature Bats Last. 

• Hovering in Cyberspace by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtin.

• US Announces Three New Bases in Iraq After Iraqis Demand Full Withdrawal by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Note: Today I have been overwhelmed with articles that appear essential reading. I must eliminate some posts. This problem may be expected, and more, as the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire is threatened by disintegration.

• How Government and Media Are Prepping America for a Failed 2020 Election by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News. (I regard this as a post of the month!)

•  Moksha by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Israel's hard-right and US Evangelicals unite for the heist of the century by Antony Loewenstein from TRT World (independent source based in Turkey).

• U.S. Demands Iraq Either Join U.S. War Against Iran or Be Destroyed by Eric Zuesse ("That’s not what capitalism was supposed to be.") from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. 

• The FBI Has Been Lying About Seth Rich by Craig Murray (British) from his weblog. (Note: So what else is new? See my post from 2016.)

• The Nasty Secret Behind Aramco, ISIS and Trump in Syria by Gordon Duff from New Eastern Outlook. 

• “Shit-Life Syndrome,” Trump Voters, and Clueless Dems by Bruce E. Levine from CounterPunch. (Note: This is an archetypal example of liberal views that are frequently posted on CounterPunch. Notice the condescending view of most poor people in the USA: "shit-life syndrome". They are poor people who are surviving victims of a capitalist ruling class "education" and easily influenced by sophisticated, constant Deep State propaganda.)

• Anti-Cash-Alliance Suffers Setback in Their Home-Town New York by Norbert Häring (German) from his weblog Money and more.

These are two posts for people who have advanced knowledge of the Middle East:

• Muqtada al-Sadr, US occupation & the Iraqi Resistance from Middle East Observer. 

• Analysis of the Iranian missile strikes on Ayn Al Asad Airbase by Haider from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, January 28, 2020

• Underreported Arctic Methane Release by Stuart Scott from Scientists Warning.

• Central Bankers Go Green… Why? by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Climate journalism and fossil fuel ads: an unholy marriage? by Dawn Stover from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 

• Hundreds of Thousands Protest in Iraq to Demand Ouster of US Troops from Financial Tribune (Iran).

• Calling a Coup a Coup: The State Department Ignores the Law, Again by Brett Heinz from Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). (Because laws are passed means nothing to our evolved Neo-fascist ruling class.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, January 27, 2020

• A Defense of Climate Tragedy, or What the Scientists Got Wrong about “The Uninhabitable Earth” by Genevieve Guenther from Medium.

• Poll finds strong majority support for declaring a climate emergency by David Spratt from Renew Economy.

• Dead President Walking by USA's foremost political satirist CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc.

• The Soleimani assassination: the operation that broke the taboo by Yakup Asian from United World (an indepedent website based in Turkey.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, January 25, 2020

• The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells from New York magazine.

• 2020 starts with the plain prospect of rising heat by Tim Radford from Climate News Central.

• Against Pacifism from The internationalists. 

• Iran is ready to attack again: Will the US forces withdraw from Iraq? by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog. 

• Aftermath: The Iran War After The Soleimani Assassination by Jim Kavanagh from The Polemicist.

• Houthis Anticipate US Assassination Attempts by Ahmed Abdulkareem from Internationalist 360°.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, January 24, 2020

  

• History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin by Wil S. Hylton from The Atlantic.

• Warning: Climate change will bring major new health risks for kids by Kathleen E. Bachynski from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

• Paris climate goals may be beyond reach by Alex Kirby from Climate News Network (Note: this is a rather conservative website on the climate crisis.)

• Press Release—IT IS NOW 100 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT by Gayle Spinazze from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 

• The Long History of Elite Rule: What Will It Take To End It? by Chuck Churchill from CounterPunch.

• World’s Super Rich Meet in Davos to Discuss the Climate Change Problem they Created by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. 

• The Troubling Decline of International Law by Craig Murray (British) from his weblog. (Note: Capitalists have long bragged about their nations' fake democracies which include the rule of law. The trouble is that this class has always made the laws, organized their court systems, appointed the judges, etc. Now it seems that this rule of law is too burdensome for the ruling classes. They now opt for outright violence or the threat of violence--fascism.)

• WikiLeaks Editor: US Is Saying First Amendment Doesn’t Apply To Foreigners In Assange Case by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

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

• World accumulation & Planetary life, or, why capitalism will not survive until the ‘last tree is cut’ by Jason W. Moore from Radical Political Economy.

• Lack of action on climate change leads to warmest decade ever recorded by James Cogan from World Socialist Web Site.

• Busting Cold War propaganda: What China is really like from The Grayzone.

Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Danny Haiphong, a contributing editor at the Black Agenda Report, about his recent, eye-opening two-week-long trip to China.

• Immediate US withdrawal due to its violation of the agreement and Iraq sovereignty by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog. (Note: The assassination of an Iranian official visiting Iraq has led to the exposure of  the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire as an occupying force in Iraq. This combined with the US occupying oil fields in Syria and ignoring international laws has made much of the rest of the world to see the US and its Empire as outlaws (fascists.)

• The prosecution of Glenn Greenwald and the global war on free speech by James Cogan from World Socialist Web Site.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, January 22, 2020

• The Case for Ecological Reparations: A Conversation with Jason W. Moore by Stepha Velednitsky from Edge Effects. 

• Wahrheit Macht Frei… Truth Sets You Free by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Washington Desperation Drives Nuclear Proliferation by Ulson Gunnar from New Eastern Outlook.  

• How a Hidden Parliamentary Session Revealed Trump’s True Motives in Iraq by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News.

• We Work, They Scam: The Art of the Con in Terminal-Stage Capitalism by William Hawes from Dissident Voice.

• Can your boss now access your private medical data? "NRS correspondent Michele Greenstein talks to Rick Sanchez about Big Tech getting between your doctor and you."

• Greta Thunberg | Averting a Climate Apocalypse | Davos 2020. "'I've been told telling people about the climate crisis is a very dangerous thing to do' Greta Thunberg speaks at Davos 2020." (Note: This is like if she were talking to a group of hardcore alcoholics that they should stop drinking.)

• Progressives Frustrated With Bernie’s Capitulation Strategy, from The Jimmy Dore Show. (Note: Memory challenged and frustrated Bernie cultists are getting angry. Sorry to have posted this video, but I couldn't help wondering about the sanity of my fellow Americans.)

Orwell’s 1984 is a paranoid piece of anti-communist propaganda [a critical review]

Click here to access article by Rainer Shea, a re-post of the article on his own website earlier in the month, and posted on The Greanville Post.

This is a contemporary expression of an old Stalinist view on George Orwell re-regurgitated by Shea, a young blogger in northern California. Yes, like Patrice Greanville, editor and founder of The Greanville Post, I too have been impressed with his knowledge of history. 

However, I soon became aware of his immaturity. He is like a typical 19-year-old blogger who views history as led by stereotypically good guys and bad guys, not as human beings with strengths and weaknesses, and people who make errors. He can say nothing bad about Stalinists (and often defends them--see here and here) and criticizes as "bad guys" like George Orwell who, at the risk of his life and health, went and fought against openly fascists and on the side of the democratically elected Spanish Republic in 1936 in a civil war that proved to be a dress rehearsal for WWII. Shea's citing as supporting documentation, a clearly Stalinist website (The Stalin Society), in this article is suggestive evidence that he has been coached by someone who has an old-fashioned pro-Stalinist view of the Soviet Union.

My readings regarding the Soviet Union, the anti-Bolshevik crusade led by British imperialist Winston Churchill and other capitalist cold warriors has led me to the following view on George Orwell. Orwell was influenced by his experience primarily in the Spanish Civil War as detailed by his book Homage to Catalonia. In this war he fought against the fascist forces of Germany and Italy who came to the rescue of the democratically elected Spanish Republic against the right-wing opposition. Meanwhile, the leading capitalist nations of USA, Britain, and France cynically stood by in neutrality and pretend isolationism. 

Stalin's behavior was informed by his superficial commitment to communist ideology and most of all by his authoritarian desire to maintain power which was reinforced by a nationalist view of the Soviet Union. Briefly put, this orientation led him to a visceral hatred to anyone challenging his authority and his support for the protection of the Soviet Union. Thus purges characterized his rule. When he saw the growing support by Western capitalist countries for Hitler's aggression, he supported the popular front as a first means of preventing the threat of Germany's invasion of his country. (A few years later he signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany as a means to provide time to enable the buildup of Soviet forces.) This support of Stalin's popular front policy occurred while Orwell was fighting in Spain, and led to the Soviet Union withdrawing support for the forces defending the Spanish Republic. 

However, Stalin not only withdrew support of Russian forces, but actively fought against those defending the Republic that they had previously supported. Orwell understandably could not tolerate this betrayal and especially their use of specious, self-serving propaganda to justify this betrayal. This is described graphically in his book Homage to Catalonia, and it left a deep impression upon him. Hence, his book Nineteen Eighty-Four published in 1949, and which is widely viewed by capitalist agents as an exclusive attack on the Soviet Union. But what is less popular is a view that all self-serving ruling classes can, and do, use such propaganda techniques. Orwell saw the British ruling class use such techniques to support the cynical war effort to preserve their Empire, and he merely extrapolated their advanced use in the future. Stalin and his supporters merely used these techniques to rationalize his rule and his supporters in the self-serving bureaucratic ruling class using the Communist ideology that Lenin and Trotsky had created. The reality of Stalinist rule clashed severely with this ideology.

Stalin to this day is widely popular in Russia among people who saw him as successfully defending their country. These people ascribe too much to his leadership and not enough to themselves, or rather, their ancestors who fought for their country against the fascist invaders who wanted to make them slaves of the Third Reich. Most of the captured Soviet fighters ended up as slaves put to work in Nazi weapons factories and were worked literally to death. (In 1957-58 I served in a medical unit of the US Army while stationed in Germany. A sergeant in my unit visited a cemetery associated with Bergen-Belsen prison camp, and to his surprise he didn't find many Jewish names, but mostly Russian names on graves of people who died in the concentration camp.)

The author of this article, Shea, has resurrected an old, tired debate among communists and communist-minded historians: the Trotskyists versus Stalinists. I come down on the side of Trotskyists and Leninists who foresaw that the communist revolutionary movement could not succeed in such a backward country as Russia. Rather they saw a need for revolutions in more advanced countries, especially Germany, as necessary to advance what would become an international workers movement to take power for themselves and support their interests. This did not happen largely because the nascent German ruling class of capitalists in 1919 foresaw the dangers of this movement and assassinated both Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, leaders of the Communist Revolutionary party in Germany, and ruthlessly put down the socialist movement existing in Germany after WWI.

Thus, the history of the human species reveals that this species could not overcome their DNA to protect and advance their own small groups. This defect had served their species for nearly 200,000 years which was characterized by families and clans and ruling classes instead of workers of all countries. When capitalist ruling classes arose based on the private ownership of economic property, they became obsessed with wealth and power through their exploitation both workers, who created marvelous economic benefits, and nature. These ruling classes in their ignorance and arrogance could not adapt to nature and its web of life, and like all other such species, have doomed their human species to extinction.

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

• How did climate change get so controversial? by John Cook from Skeptical Science.

• The Capitalocene and Planetary Justice by Jason W. Moore from Titanic Lifeboat Academy.

• How To Be A Mentally Sovereign Human by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

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

• NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal 2019 Second Warmest Year on Record from NASA.

• Australia's heat and bushfires are signs of fundamental shifts in its climate by Peter Sinclair from Yale Climate Connections. 

• Climate change “spin” as Davos gathering confronts mounting environmental and economic crisis by Nick Beams from World Socialist Web Site.

• Why 'Corporate Social Responsibility Is a Hoax by Álvaro de Regil Castilla from Climate & Capitalism. (Note: The headline offers old news, but the author goes on to argue that "Subsequently, I gradually realized that an even larger hoax is our belief that we live in democratic societies."

• Trump’s Latest Plan for Iran: Regime Disruption by Eli Lake from Bloomberg. (Note: What is significant about his argument is that some top geopolitical analysts are supporting his argument. See this and this.)

• Yes Minister Fan Fiction by Craig Murray from his weblog (British). (He satirizes British politicians regarding Britain's treatment (use of social identity politics) of Julian Assange. Murray may explain why British activists did, and are doing, so little to protest and rescue Assange.)

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

• Global Warming and the Future of Investing by Eric Zuesse from The Duran (based in Cyprus). Author of the foolish statement "That’s not what capitalism was supposed to be." ends his report with a rather favorable statement about BlackRock:

As regards the letter to “CEOs,” it’s telling them to transition as fast as is reasonably possible out of fossil-fuel investments and into renewable-fuel ones, in order to become less vulnerable to the shock, when it does hit. This makes good sense: keeping the clients comfortable, while telling the CEOs: “Make major moves on this ASAP!”

If you think for a moment that capitalist ruling classes are serious about global warming, "I have a bridge to sell you" (def).

• Australia’s Fires Give Us a Glimpse of What’s Coming by Jeff Sparrow from Jacobin.

• In neoliberalism’s end, a new world’s beginning an editorial from New Frame (based in South Africa). (Note: These folks still have hope.)

• How Khalifa Haftar’s secret ties with Israel fuel chaos in Libya from TRT World (based in Turkey).

• Secret Wars, Forgotten Betrayals, Global Tyranny. Who Is Really in Charge of the U.S. Military? by Cynthia Chung from Strategic Culture Foundation (independent. international, and based in Russia).

• Ayn Rand with Prof. Lisa Duggan from Chris Hedges' show "On Contact" from RT via YouTube. 

On the show this week, Chris Hedges, discusses the outsized influence of the writer, Ayn Rand, on America’s business and financial elite with New York University professor and author, Lisa Duggan.

 Duggan’s new book is entitled “Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed.” 

• How America Became Capitalist - book review by Dominic Alexander from Counterfire (Britain).

• MAJOR: 16 U.S soldiers killed in Iranian strikes on al-Asad base in Iraq by Joaquin Flores from Fort Russ News (apparently based in Belgrade, Serbia).

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, January 17, 2020

• How climate change influenced Australia's unprecedented fires by Dana Nuccitelli from Yale Climate Connections.

• Lords of Food from Maize.

• No Crisis gone to waste: IMF celebrates signs of approaching global financial crisis by Joaquin Flores from Fort Russ News.

• Trump’s Feeble Phase 1 China-US Trade Deal by Jack Rasmus from his weblog.

• How a Hidden Parliamentary Session Revealed Trump’s True Motives in Iraq by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, January 17, 2020

• The Rumbling Methane Enigma by Robert Hunziker from CounterPunch.

• Could Humans Go Extinct Within Years? from Arctic News.

• Climate crisis dominates the top risks in World Economic Forum report ahead of Davos by Rachel Koning Beals, News Editor at Market Watch. 

• Critique of Capitalism – Dr. Marguerite Mendell from Post-Capitalist Possibilities. (Note: Dr. Mendell still has hope.)

• Battle of the Ages to stop Eurasian integration by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times. 

• America’s Long History of Meddling in Russia by Ted Rall from CounterPunch. (Note: This cartoonist misses the larger historical fact that the USA and its secret "intelligence" subversive services has meddled in most countries of the world since WWII while building the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, January 16, 2020

• Climate explained: why some people still think climate change isn’t real from The Conversation. (Note: The article's explanation is especially true of capitalist societies organized to promote the wealth and power of these ruling classes.)

• The Australian firestorms: portents of a planetary future by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News. 

• Murdoch under fire over climate ‘denial’ stance from Asia Times.

• Critique of Capitalism – Jason W. Moore, a 9:39m video featuring Moore via YouTube.

• Why Iraq is contemplating buying long-range Russian air defence missiles by Paul Iddon from The New Arab.

• Reading Sun Tzu in Tehran by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• JPMorgan’s Historic Earnings Confirm that Fed Loans Are Subsidizing Profits on Wall Street by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from Wall Street on Parade. (Note: With the economy overwhelming controlled by major corporations, most especially financial institutions, I don't see why people are surprised by the latter serving their own interests. The Fed, which is privately owned by major banks which, in turn, are owned by major capitalists, is in control of our currency and the issuing of loans to themselves. The fact that the law regarding the Fed states that the institution should serve the needs of the nation is another illustration of how laws are made to camouflage the dominance of major capitalists.)

• Capitalism in America: How a Dismal Decimal is Robbing Americans Blind by Jon Hellevig from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. 

• US War of Terror Continues: Assassinating Iran's Top Anti-ISIS General by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.

• BBC chiefs deny propaganda role as papers reveal links to intelligence services by Steve Sweeney from the Morning Star (British newspaper).

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, January 15, 2020

• King Tides and Who’s King of the Hill? by Paul Haeder from Dissident Voice. (Note: I visited Waldport, Oregon, a small town on the Pacific coast, many times while living in Eugene, OR to visit a friend. It sounds like Haeder like myself is becoming pessimistic about American culture shaped by advanced capitalism and its ability to cope with global warming which is so obvious to the inhabitants of Waldport.) 

Yep, we were sleeping when all the psy-ops, info-wars, algorithmic predictive shit came barreling into our lives. And complicit in the entire colonization of our minds, bodies, hearts, souls, futures and fates by a Brave New World corporate SOP and a big brother government. 

• World pulling back from petrodollar: Russia, China — Saudis next? "'Boom Bust' host Christy Ai joins Rick Sanchez [of RT America via YouTube] to discuss the US dollar and its exclusive relationship with oil and how it is traded."

• Slaveship Earth & the World-Historical: Imagination in the Age of Climate Crisis (Pdf) by Jason W. Moore from Pews News. (Note: You will need to have a Pdf reader on your device to access the article.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tueday, January 14, 2020

• Iraq is the Next battleground by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog.

• The Long Planned U.S. Assassinations In Iraq Will Increase Its Political Chaos by Bernhard (based in Germany) from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• How long will you stay complicit? A Question for UK, Canada, France, and Germany by Tom Winter from Fort Russ News. 

• Dylan Howard on Epstein's rich and powerful friends from RT America via YouTube.

• Military campaign pushes forward – Erdogan’s imperial ambitions threaten Libya (this is a followup news item posted yesterday) from Fort Russ News. 

• How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era by Raj Patel and Jason W Moore from The Guardian.

An explanation of why I will be emphasizing more posts on the destruction of our Earth's habitat

The lies and confusing information supplied by Western media corporations are becoming overwhelming particularly since the murder of Qassem Suleimani, the beloved anti-terrorist general of Iran. Media corporations are now piling lies upon lies to protect their agenda to crush any opposition to the US/Anglo/Zionist world that they serve. I with many others in alternative media have tried (largely in vain) to alert citizens of countries that are ruled by their self-serving capitalist ruling classes to expose these lies. I with only a handful of others have tried to explain what they are doing is logically and inevitably derived from the capitalist system.

I've tried to explain that this Empire was rooted in the outcome of WWII which left the USA relatively undamaged. WWII started as result of support by Western capitalist ruling class for fascist Germany and its aims to counter Bolshevism in the Soviet Union, but the British Empire soon became threatened by the monster that they had co-created. The US capitalist ruling class foresaw their opportunity to establish their own capitalist empire by supporting the British. Later international Jewry associated with the fascist Zionist Movement also joined this embryonic empire after they took over Palestine thanks to the British. Zionist Israel were allowed to join the Empire after demonstrating their fealty and support of Empire objectives in the Middle East.

One of the weapons promulgated by the US ruling class throughout their growing Empire, the nations of which pretended to be democracies, was the systematic use of advanced propaganda methods to persuade their populations to go along with their class ambitions to accumulate wealth and power throughout the world. Logically the Empire pursued policies of containment and roll-back of the Soviet Union and any nation that were attracted to socialist ideas, that is, the public ownership of any significant enterprises. The empire builders with their secret services gradually took over control of all media and entertainment corporations, every other institution including even educational institutions to install fake versions of history and contemporary affairs. The people of the Empire, particularly in the USA, have been saturated so long with capitalist and Empire propaganda that they have been thoroughly indoctrinated to believe in a fake version of their geopolitical world.

With the rise of China, Russia, and Iran and associated countries, who insist on a multi-lateral world, all of which have more mixed economies, the Empire has in past few years experienced dramatic setbacks. The Empire and its ruling capitalist classes are severely threatened by this situation, and their obsession with unimpeded capitalism under their control has brought the world into numerous crises. Added to these crises is contradictory position of capitalism with the health of our Earth's habitat that can support human and many other species. Because the rising countries are devoted to raising the standard of living of their inhabitants, they understandably have mixed feelings about this destruction of the planets ecosystem and their contributions to such destruction by the use of fossil fuels. This, I believe, is a brief description of where we are today.

All of the preceding commentary is supplied to explain why I am overwhelmed with the task of countering the incessant and pervasive propaganda that has led to a warped consciousness of most citizens living in the Empire. Although feel inadequate to free people's consciousness from the Empire's propaganda regarding their political opponents, in future posts I will concentrate more on our understanding of our terminal existence as a species due to the capitalist system's assault on the ecosystem of our planet Earth. 

I will continue to post articles countering only the most outrageous lies. But I advise my readers to follow posts on my recommend list of websites (at the right) to correct the lies, and I recommend following RT (for American readers, I advise following Rich Sanchez news) for more current news of the world.