Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, April 4, 2020

• This is a Global Pandemic – Let’s Treat it as Such by Adam Hanieh from Defend Democracy Press.

• A New Humanity, A New World by Owei Lakemfa from Internationalist 360°.

• The class issues in the coronavirus pandemic by Niles Niemuth from World Socialist Web Site. 

• COVID-19: Seeds of Revolution Grown on Capitalism’s Corpse? by Gilbert Mercier from News Junkie Post. 

• How To Tell Real News From Useless Narrative Fluff by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Coronavirus pandemic will inevitably cause food crisis by "InfoBrics" from The Duran.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, April 3, 2020

While sheltering-in-place these critical and independent thinkers offer their views on the current situation. I personally favor the posts about Connecticut workers from Left Voice, Caitlin Johnstone's weblog, and from Black Agenda Report.

• Ground Control to Planet Lockdown: This Is Only a Test by Pepe Escobar from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: Escobar shares his observations about the coronavirus pandemic and considers various theories, in the spirit of "never let a crisis go to waste", to explain it as useful for the finance directors of the transnational capitalist empire, otherwise known as the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

• COVID-19 Quarantines: “This Is What a Police State Is Like” by Scott Cooper from Left Voice.

• Connecticut Workers Put Forward Plan of Action by William Lewis from Left Voice. (Note: This is an example of workers proposing to take control of their society because the ruling capitalist class has botched the job.)

• How It Starts by Craig Murray from his weblog. (Note: One of Britain's foremost independent and critical thinkers expresses his views on the current crisis.)

• We are Not Allowed to Watch, Listen and Read what We Want, Anymore by Andre Vltchek from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: This writer shares his thoughts while apparently sheltering-in-place in Europe.)

• Someone’s Screwing You, And It Ain’t China: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• COVID-19: The Capitalist Emperor Has no Clothes by Ajamu Baraka from Black Agenda Report.

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• China rolls out the Health Silk Road by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• COVID-19: Cuomo’s Bubble is Starting to Burst by Joe Lauria from Consortium News.

• Fed’s Balance Sheet Blasts to $5.8 Trillion; Suggests Fed Is Back to Bailing Out Foreign Banks along with Wall Street by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, April 2, 2020

• Fired Amazon Strike Leader Has Powerful Message featuring Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show) interviewing Christian Smalls (via YouTube), the Amazon supervisor who was fired by Amazon for trying to protect his fellow workers, and explaining his experience related to the firing. If you liked this, you might be interested in Dore's post entitled "Workers Are Striking From Coast To Coast!!" in which he reports that workers are striking without union support all across America, and vents his anger.

• This Is The Largest Theft Ever In US History. Lee Camp (of Redacted Tonight) vents his anger (via YouTube) about the latest "stimulus" bill passed by Congress that overwhelmingly serves the interest of capitalists.

• Covid 19 & the FORGOTTEN Working Class by Jack Rasmus from his weblog.

• US pushes conspiracy theory on China’s coronavirus death toll to deflect from Trump administration failures by Ajit Singh from The Grayzone.

My commentary: One thing I've noticed in both corporate media and government actions is that nothing has changed with either of them during this pandemic. They're both continuing as usual: media corporations like CNN, MSNBC, PBS, etc. are continuing their anti-Trump bias and Fox News is continuing showing various members of the Trump administration bloviating how great they are doing. Meanwhile, the government continues its assault on Venezuela, Iran, and China via increasing sanctions and threats. Domestically the Trump administration continues to weaken environmental protections. And, last but not least. the Fed is using the the crisis to bail out major banks while putting our nation (that's us) deeper in debt.

• Pentagon Orders All Installations to Stop Reporting COVID-19 Infections and Deaths by Ann Garrison from Black Agenda Report.

• Coronavirus exposes the many weaknesses in the US healthcare system by Ali Cinar from TRT World (based in Turkey).

• The Men and Women Who Shrank the U.S. Ventilator Supply by Andrea Beaty from The American Prospect. 

• Strict lockdowns and rapid tests: How poorer countries are bracing for coronavirus by Amy Maxmen from Nature.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, March 31, 2020

• COVID-19 Crisis Positive Side Effects: End of Dog-Eat-Dog Civilization? by Gilbert Mercier from News Junkie Post. 

• The Pandemic and the End of the Neoliberal Era by Atilio A. Boron from Internationalist 360°.

My commentary to both above articles: To be sure, the pandemic is wrecking havoc on the capitalist system (neoliberalism is only the current developmental phase); but as effective as the pandemic will be in damaging the capitalist system, it looks to me that it is only a dress rehearsal for the inevitable extinction of most life on our planet Earth due to global warming caused by excessive and obsessive industrial that capitalism demands. The cessation of industrial activities during this pandemic will only hasten rising temperatures as explained by Guy McPherson. But at least this pandemic makes it possible in the near future for humans to gain greater dignity by realizing that their economic system is responsible for this cataclysmic end. I believe that this realization is the best we can hope for, and humans can partially redeem themselves if they can establish socialist institutions in socialist societies before their demise.                                                                          

• China Boasts 93% Recovery Rate, No New Cases in Hubei for Sixth Day After Saying Local Covid-19 Spread ‘Stopped’ by Drago Bosnic from FRN (Fort Russ News).

• The profit system is sabotaging the struggle against the coronavirus by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site. 

• Brave Republican Stands Against Stimulus ALONE. This post features an agitated Jimmy Dore who is struggling with disillusionment over so-called progressives in a political system that was constructed by the ruling capitalist class. But he is making progress to come up with some more effective strategies to attack this class and for the benefit of workers. If you like this post, you might be interested in another post by Jimmy Dore who shows what's now happening in Sicily could easily happen in the USA. 

• The coronavirus: Two opposing worlds by Onur Sinan Güzaltan from United World (based in Turkey). 

• Kushner Squeezes Tenants While Lining Up for Bailout Money by Alexander Sammon from The American Prospect.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, March 30, 2020

• Liberal Elite More Deadly Than Coronavirus by Mike Pappas from Left Voice. 

• Dr. Fauci and COVID-19 Priorities: Therapeutics Now or Vaccines Later? (Video) from Children's Health Defense.

• Corporations Are Broke. It’s Time to Cut Up Their Credit Cards. By Christian Parenti and Dante Dallavalle from Jacobin.

• Covid-19 has already sparked huge state intervention. We should go further and start requisitioning the empty homes of the rich by Dr.Lisa McKenzie from RT.

• Why American Workers Have Been Left Out of Our Life-and-Death Decision-Making by Sharon Block from The American Prospect.

• There’s No Better Time To Break This Mental Prison featuring Lee Camp of the Redacted Tonight Show on RT (via YouTube).

• Why Are Progressives Voting For Ultimate Screwing Of America? Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show discusses this issue with Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone.

• Icahn Called BlackRock “An Extremely Dangerous Company”; the Fed Has Chosen It to Manage Its Corporate Bond Bailout Programs by Pam and Russ Martens from Wall Street on Parade. 

• Is the U.S. Able to Handle COVID-19? – Global Prospects Hang on This Question by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• The Coronavirus, public debt and life by Lujan Miranda from CADTM.

• The Post-Coronavirus World Will Be Far Worse Than the Pre-Coronavirus World by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• US 'granting waivers' to release Iranian assets for coronavirus fight: Iranian sources by Rohollah Faghihi from Middle East Eye. (Note: This is about 3rd party sanctions, that is, corporations that do business with Iran. Meanwhile, the USA is imposing more sanctions on Iran.)

• Iran FM: US ‘medical terrorism’ leading to ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ from PressTV (Iran).

• Will the Coronavirus be the Demise of the European Union? by Valery Kulikov from New Eastern Outlook.

• Pedro Aznar asks a CRUCIAL question by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog A bird's eye view of the Vineyard.

• ‘We need to be alert’: Scientists fear second coronavirus wave as China’s lockdowns ease by David Cyranoski from Nature.

• Edge of Extinction: Please Stop Wishing for Extinction by Guy McPherson directly from his weblog Nature Bats Last.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, March 29, 2020

The political spectrum in the USA has shifted significantly to the right since WWII . This is largely because our ruling capitalist class decided to build an empire in 1941 when the well-connected (to the ruling class) Henry Luce, owner and editor of Time Magazine, announced the "American Century". During the 1930s many in the ruling class throughout advanced capitalist countries expressed sympathies and actual deeds in support of fascist Germany and Italy. I have read many books (read, for example, Big Business and Hitler by Jacques R. Pauwels) that also support this fact. 

Since Luce's announcement, US intellectuals and propagandists have revised American history of the 20th century to reflect benign and humanitarian influences that the US has had on the world. This revised history has permeated all institutions of the USA including especially Hollywood films and education. The CIA has taken control over media and filled it, and the minds of Americans, with fake news such as Russia-gate themes and other fantasies. (See my commentary here.)

The effect that this has had on American society has been a marked shift in the political spectrum toward the right-wing. Another related effect is that during the current crisis of the pandemic, Americans are thoroughly confused and frustrated about how our masters are dealing with this crisis, and a wave of growing frustration and anger exists as is evident in today's post by Jimmy Dore.

• It’s Okay To Be Uncertain What’s Happening And Where This Is All Going by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• "If Getting Us Into $6 Trillion More Debt Doesn’t Matter, Then Why Not $350 Trillion?" by Tyler Durden from his weblog ZeroHedge.

• Bernie Sanders Hasn’t Quite Captured What Wall Street Does: It’s Actually a Fraud-Monetization System with a Money-Printing Unit Called the New York Fed by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. (I missed this fine post from Jan. 21st.)

• Lawmakers' priority is to bail out large corporations – Hedges from RT (via YouTube).  

• How Bernie & Warren Sold Us Out Over Stimulus Bill. Jimmy Dore interviews Matt Stoller, a research director with the American Economic Liberties Project. (Note: I am posting this as only an example of confused and angry "left-wing" thinking in America.)

• It Is A Time Of Crisis And U.S. Foreign Policy Is Becoming Unhinged by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• How the US is using Covid-19 to fight its political battles by Elif İlhamoğlu from United World (based in Turkey).

• Italy leans on Russia after the EU fails to deliver by Steven Sahiounie from The Duran.

• US continues to block Iranian assets needed to buy medical equipment to fight COVID-19: Foreign Ministry official from PressTV. 

• Debunking clickbaits – expert: “not just a flu” and “not a bioweapon”. Joe Rogan interviews Michael Osterholm who "is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease epidemiology" and based in Minneapolis. This is posted on A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. (I don't doubt his qualifications, but I'm not yet convinced that coronavirus is not a bioweapon. I wasn't convinced that the virus was a bioweapon. I just waited for further evidence.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, March 27, 2020

I am posting articles mostly about the coronavirus pandemic from what I believe are credible sources and/or writers. I will not pretend that anyone is infallible, because they are not. I think they are honestly using their best judgement to figure out what is going on with the pandemic and the best course of action. You must form, as always, your own opinions.

• Why is the U.S. so Exceptionally Vulnerable to Covid-19? by Nicolas J.S. Davies from Dissident Voice.

• Democrats and Republicans to the Rescue… of Corporations by Robert Belano from Left Voice. 

• A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data by John P.A. Ioannidis from Stat. (My comment: So we should do nothing? In the following one hour interview a few days later he seems to suggest otherwise: that any new interventions must be based on evidence or data.

• Tens of thousands of scientists are redeploying to fight coronavirus by Giuliana Viglione from Nature. 

• We Won’t Go Back to Normal, Because Normal Was the Problem by Vijay Prashad from The Tricontinental.

• All The Craziest Things About America Are Being Highlighted By This Virus by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Manufactured Pandemic: Testing People for Any Strain of a Coronavirus, Not Specifically for COVID-19 posted by Julian Rose on Global Research, but the article is by an anonymous author. 

• Why France is hiding a cheap and tested virus cure by Pepe Escobar from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. (Note: I originally accessed the article on Asia Times but can't find it now.) 

• Does the Coronavirus Pandemic Serve a Global Agenda? by Senta Depuydt from Children's Health Defense.

• New York Fed Has Allowed Dangerous Wall Street Banks to Have Lower Loan Loss Reserves than at time of 2008 Crash by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• Trump’s Horrific Reaction to the Coronavirus – Is this What the Hong Kong Rioters Wanted? bu Andre Vltchek from Global Research.

• Will China’s economy also be crushed by the coronavirus? by Adnan Akirat from United World (based in Turkey). 

• Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt won’t be reproduced for Greece and Developing Countries by Eric Toussaint from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt).

• Joe Biden Accused Of Sexual Assault By Former Staffer by Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show via YouTube.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, March 26, 2020

• To confront capitalism’s multifaceted crisis the bankers must be expropriated and the banks socialised (Part 2 of the series: The Capitalist Pandemic, Coronavirus and the Economic Crisis) by Eric Toussaint from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt).

• Stimulus Bill: The Fed and Treasury’s Slush Fund Is Actually $4 Trillion by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Coronavirus: What Newsweek Failed to Mention About “Continuity of Government” by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News.

• The War on Death by C. J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (satire)

The point is, the global capitalist empire (for whatever reasons, real or imagined) has turned on the MINDLESS HYSTERIA machine, and dialed it up as high as it goes. People are in full-blown headless chicken mode. No one (or hardly anyone) is thinking, or listening to dissenting opinions, or paying attention to official statistics, or common sense, or anything else that contradicts the War on Death narrative.

• What We Can Learn From A Pandemic “Tabletop Exercise”? by Mary Holland from Children's Health Defense. 

• The Staggering Collapse of U.S. Intelligence on the Coronavirus by Scott Ritter from The American Conservative.

• PBS Report on the 'Doomsday Glacier' by Scientist Warning (via YouTube).

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, March 25, 2020

• Shortage of ventilators [respirators] explained by Dr. Emily Porter of Austin, Texas (via YouTube). (Note: There is not only a shortage of ventilators but also test kits and facemasks, the latter especially for hospital workers, which are necessary to seriously limit the damage done to our population. It seems common sense that only telling people to shelter-in-place ensures that infected people will spread the virus to their families. Only people who test positive must be quarantined. And, Jimmy Dore wonders why Facebook has waited until a few days ago to donate 720,000 facemasks.)

• Trump Administration Endangers the Lives of Health Care Workers by Anita Desikan from Union of Concerned Scientists. (Note: Blaming things on Trump seems to be so fashionable these days, but I don't buy it. Still, I think that this article presents credible information regarding our health system and its weaknesses.)

• Coronavirus pandemic reveals the demise of the US as a world leader by Georgio Cafiero from TRT World (based in Turkey).

• Op-Ed: The US Must Protect Communities and Workers But We Need Our Leaders to Stop Bending to the Oil and Gas Industry by a "guest" from Desmog. (Note: What else can one expect in a capitalist society where profits and power are the first priority among the ruling class?)

• COVID-19’s Psychosocial Impacts by Elena Martin, MPH and Joshua Morganstein, MD from Scientific American.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, March 23, 2020 (Added content to Children's Health Defense article at 4:50 PM CT))

• Climate gentrification threatens Miami's last affordable housing by Irina Ivanova from CBS News. (Note: This may be a harbinger of things to come that illustrate class-based social consequences of rising sea levels that are caused by global warming. As always in a capitalist system the poor will be initially impacted far more than the rich.)

• Late-Stage Imperial Omni-Crisis: Death by Virus and Internal Contradictions by Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report.

• Does the Coronavirus Pandemic Serve a Global Agenda? by Senta Depuydt from Children's Health Defense. (Note: Depuydt provides evidence of the overwhelming influence of major pharmaceutical corporations and political bias against the Empire's opponents like China. She puts less emphasis on the availability of testing for coronavirus (which I think is of critical importance) and the ineffectiveness of quarantining, but she does write the following in one paragraph:

The current power struggle in France about coronavirus strategies between health officials and the country’s leading expert is truly eye opening. Professor Didier Raoult, who is one of the world’s top 5 scientists on communicable diseases and leads the high tech research center on infectious diseases, IHU – mediterranée Marseilles, argued that the approach of mass quarantine is both inefficient and outdated and that large scale testing and treatment of suspected cases achieves far better results.

The author puts much more emphasis on effective, low cost treatment of the virus that Chinese experience has proven.  But can we be surprised with evidence of capitalist ruling classes protecting their own interests of profit and power in their strategies to combat this virus?

At one point Depuydt provides us with this insightful comment:

It is undeniable that the coronavirus epidemic has come on the scene at a crucial moment, when people everywhere are in revolt against the power of international financial institutions and multinational pharmaceutical corporations, whose stranglehold on governments is no longer hidden. Many scandals have shaken confidence. The bankruptcy of an aberrant economic system is accelerating, and attempts to start a third world war are multiplying. While it is impossible to know how the “coronavirus pandemic” will influence the redistribution of power, it is certain that many are seeking to have Covid-19 serve the political interests of a global governance project. [Her emphasis.]

• “The Coming War On China”  –  Watch John Pilger’s Powerfully Relevant Documentary by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, March 22, 2020

• REVEALED: U.S Plan for Military Rule under Coronavirus Threat – Newsweek by a "Guest Author" from FRN (Fort Russ News). (Note: It is necessary that you read the explanation following "Readers" in which Joaquin Flores explains that the post from Eurasia Daily is only a summary of the post from a Newsweek article posted in early February, and the link to this post is available in the article. The reading of the latter article is mandatory.)

My commentary: Notice that the Newsweek article uses variations on the word "secret" government legislation dating back to the Eisenhower administration. This process was accelerated during both natural and man-made threats to the US government, but expecially the latter after 9/11. We've witnessed this phenomenon grow ever since; and now with the coronvirus and the government negligence to establish an effective public healthcare system, a military junta takeover is becoming a realistic probability.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff codified these rules in October 2018, reminding commanders that they could decide, on their own authority, to "engage temporarily" in military control in circumstances "where prior authorization by the President is impossible" or where local authorities "are unable to control the situation." A new Trump-era Pentagon directive calls it "extreme situations." In all cases, even where a military commander declares martial law, the directives say that civil rule has to be restored as soon as possible. [My emphasis.] 

Now that it is likely too late, will people take Peter Koenig's warning in 2016 seriously? Do you actuallly believe that the present anemic capitalist version of "democracy" will ever be restored? If so, I have a fine bridge to sell you.

• Coronavirus Will Eventually Get Better But America Never Will by Michael McCaffrey from Internationalist 360°.

• The Latest Plague So Far Is a Brilliant Success by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Lack of Leadership at the Top During a Crisis by Wayne Madsen from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Covid-19: propaganda and manipulation by Thierry Meyssan (French) from his weblog Voltairenet. 

• Iran to Mass Produce Chinese Corona Drug: Official from Iran Front Page.

• Hollywood Celebrities Are Psyops Wrapped In Human Skin by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Is the Global Pandemic a Product of the Elite’s Malthusian Agenda and U.S. Bio-warfare? by Max Parry from Dissident Voice.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, March 21, 2020

• Covert coronavirus infections could be seeding new outbreaks by Jane Qiu from Nature. 

• The Show Must Go On. Event 201: The 2019 Fictional Pandemic Exercise [World Economic Forum, Gates Foundation et al.] by Cory Morningstar from Wrong Kind of Green. (Note: Morningstar reports on an exercise conducted by the Empire's real decision-makers (the rich and financiers whom we are all indebted to) and government leaders who are essentially their employees that carry out their directives in various governments of the capitalist US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Coincidence?

The fictional pandemic exercise titled Event 201 was a high level simulation exercise that took place on October 18, 2019, at The Pierre, a luxury hotel in Manhattan NY. High-level global participants gathered to explore ideas as to how to mitigate devastating worldwide economic and societal impacts that would result from “a severe, highly transmissible intercontinental outbreak”. [Source] The exercise was built around a fictionalized CAPS virus, a naturally occurring coronavirus (not unlike SARS or MERS) which originated in bats, but for the fictional exercise, it had emerged from pigs.

The event was held by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

To help you to decide at least tentatively, you should also read an article by F. William Engdahl entitled "Coronavirus, Vaccines and the Gates Foundation" from Global Research.)

• COVID19: Global Fascist Lockdown or Catalyst of a Radical Paradigm Shift? Gilbert Mercier Speaks on Collapse Chronicles. (Note: The interview with Mercier (French) was conducted by Sam Mitchell of Collapse Chronicles", a YouTube channel hosted by Mitchell.  The actual verbal interview on YouTube follows the heavily edited transcript of the interview posted on News Junkie Post.)

• Why Assume There Will Be a 2020 election? General Butler and the ‘Wall Street Putsch’ Revisited by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: Ehret, educated in Canada, knows the history of fascism far better than nost Americans. US schools, and people "educated" in these schools, are subject to revised history that suits the interests of the ruling capitalist class. Although FDR saved capitalism that is controlled by mostly sociopathic people, he was a moral human being that abhorred the suffering of working men and women.

• Expert: US sanctions on Iran, Venezuela during pandemic could be genocidal by Aaron Maté who interviews an expert regarding US sanctions. From The Grayzone. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, March 20, 2020

• The Coronavirus Is Not the Plague: The Plague Is US by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain. (Note: Curtin refers to a metaphor in a novel by Camus, who wrote a book called The Plague in 1947, to warn us of a likely use of today's plague, the coronavirus. Camus used the metaphor, a plague, as representing the fascist forces that he experienced in Vichy France which collaborated with the Nazis during WWII. Curtin sees this metaphor as being relevant today and as a warning that fascist forces here in the USA, which are very much alive today, will likely use this very real plague of the coronavirus to keep us docile, obedient, and distracted from the crimes they are committing in the world.)

• COVID-19: The Mutilated World Is Moved by the Nurses and Doctors by Vijay Prashad from Consortium News. (Note: In contrast to the warning by Curtin, he writes with a passionate appeal that this coronavirus plague should spur our efforts to demand that an effective public health system be established throughout the world. But he also warns us that "the world’s heads of governments rely upon fear to bewilder their populations; they thrive on panics of one kind or another.")

• The Cocoon Sessions Episode 2: People Aren’t The Problem, Capitalism Is. This is a series by Caitlin and Tim Foley from her weblog. (Note: They discuss various issues related to the stress we are experiencing dealing with the coronavirus that is impacting our lives.)

• COVID-19 Coronavirus: The Crisis--Guest: Michel Chossudovsky. Bonnie Faulkner interviews Chossudovsky, founder of Global Research, in an hour-long program to find out what he knows about this present coronavirus pandemic. 

In a world in which is dominated by tiny rich and powerful ruling classes whose interests of profit and power impels them to serve their interests against the interests of the great majority of the world's population, corruption and conspiracies are likely in operation. Michel Chossudovsky reviews the contradictions and discrepancies, that he knows about, to challenge the reports that we are getting in mainstream media. Faulkner asks many questions about  governments and non-profits, and Chossudovsky shares his knowledge which suggests that all these bodies are substantially influenced by the rich and powerful.

I don't necessarily endorse his views (nor any of the others that I post), but I post all of those who are credible and sincerely trying to decipher the truth about our world. The latter has been thoroughly distorted by rich and powerful capitalists who I am convinced by an abundance of evidence that they are totally self-serving. 

• What We Must Learn From Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong by Julian Vigo from Dissident Voice. (Note: This seems like sound advice.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, March 19, 2020

• 9/11 Truth, Coronavirus Truth: Zionist Hysteria, MSM Lockdown by Kevin Barrett from The Unz Review. (Note: This article is not to be read casually. It must be studied, and to study it, is to check out all the links he has provided that you are not thoroughly familiar with. Barrett is a scholar who provides evidence via links to provide support for his views. Barrett taught at the University of Wisconsin until he was blacklisted in 2006.

• Coronavirus and the NWO: The Iron Heel becomes reality from United World (based in Turkey).

• Bernie Sanders draws his campaign to an end: The political lessons by Joseph Kishore from World Socialist Web Site. 

• How Victims of the US’ “Maximum Pressure” Campaign Are Coping with Coronavirus by Vanessa Beeley from Mint Press News.

• The Capitalist Pandemic, Coronavirus and the Economic Crisis (Part 1) by Eric Toussaint from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt).

• Wall Street’s Crisis Began Four Months Before the First Reported Death from Coronavirus in China; Here’s the Proof by Pam Martens and Russ Marten from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• Viral Reactions: The Smugness of Celebrity Self-Isolation by Binoy Kampmark from Dissident Voice.

• Commentary: Collectivism plays indispensable role in China's COVID-19 fight by the editor of Xinhuanet (China). (Note: Thanks for this article goes to Caren from Oregon.)

Meanwhile, the coming climate crisis, driven by the operations of the capitalist system, will wipe most life forms from the planet Earth. Scientific indications warning of this crisis continue to be reported:

• Methane, Earthquake and Sudden Stratospheric Warming from Arctic News.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, March 18, 2020

• The coronavirus pandemic in five powerful charts by Ewen Callaway and others from Nature. 

• Coronavirus: The Plot Thickens from The Duran.

• China locked in hybrid war with US by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

Read the article to see how he reaches this conclusion: 

We are still barely starting to understand the consequences of Covid-19 for the future of neoliberal turbo-capitalism. What’s certain is that the whole global economy has been hit by an insidious, literally invisible circuit breaker. This may be just a “coincidence.” Or this may be, as some are boldly arguing, part of a possible, massive psy-op creating the perfect geopolitlcal and social engineering environment for full-spectrum dominance.

• Fed Announces Program for Wall Street Banks to Pledge Plunging Stocks to Get Trillions in Loans at ¼ Percent Interest by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• Pandemic Highlights How Horrible Capitalism Is featuring Lee Camp of his show Redacted Tonight (via YouTube) offering his views about the contradictions of public health and capitalism.

• Covid-19 Global Lockdown by C. J. Hopkins, master satirist, from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. With ironic satire Hopkins writes :
  

I mean, it’s not like the global capitalist empire was right in the middle of a War on Populism (a war that it has been losing up to now) and wanted to take this opportunity to crank up some disaster capitalism, terrorize the global public into a frenzy of selfish and irrational panic, and just flex its muscles to remind everybody what could happen if we all keep screwing around by voting for “populists,” tearing up Paris, leaving the European Union, and otherwise interfering with the forward march of global capitalism.

No, it certainly isn’t like that. It is an actual plague that is probably going to kill you and your entire family if you don’t do exactly what you’re told. So, forget this little thought experiment, and prepare yourself for global lockdown. It probably won’t be so bad … unless they decide they need to run the part of exercise where it goes on too long, and people get squirrelly, and start rebelling, and looting, and otherwise not cooperating, and the military is eventually forced to deploy those Urban Unrest Suppression Vehicles, and those Anti-Domestic-Terror Forces, and …

• Coronavirus: Iran death toll surpasses 1,000 from Middle East Eye.

• ‘US Threatening Countries Seeking to Help Iran in Fight against Corona’ from Iran Front Page. 

• Italy and UK rely on help from Cuba, China, Venezuela to fight coronavirus – as US steps up brutal sanctions by Ben Norton from The Grayzone.

• Podcast: Cocoon Sessions, Episode 1 featuring Australian Caitlin Johnstone (from her weblog) and somebody named "Tim Foley" who probably is her American husband. This is a new series that they have started to apparently help people who are dealing with this health crisis and the additional stress that it has caused in our lives. I haven't listened to much of this long casual discussion (1:11:32) with Foley because I simply don't have the time, but you might be interested.

• Podcast: Vanessa Beeley Unpacks the Idlib Crisis and the Fight for Syria’s Oil, Gas and Water from Mint Press News featuring Beeley, who is in Damascus, demonstrating her excellent journalistic skills by reporting what's currently going on in the Syrian conflict in this 46:11m long-distance interview. (Note: I am especially gratified to learn that Mint Press News has added Beeley, in addition to Whitney Webb, to their list of credible journalists.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, March 17, 2020

• Climate Push Loses Momentum as World Fights Coronavirus by Laura Millan Lombrana from Bloomberg Green. 

• Hidden Danger of Ecological Collapse by Robert Hunziker from Defend Democracy Press.

• Is the Global Pandemic a Product of the Elite’s Malthusian Agenda and U.S. Biowarfare? by Max Parry from The Unz Review.

• Bats, Gene Editing and Bioweapons: Recent DARPA Experiments Raise Concerns Amid Coronavirus Outbreak by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond.

• New evidence suggests coronavirus may have originated in the US from United World (based in Turkey).

• Nine Thoughts On COVID-19 And What’s Coming by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Coronavirus: Doctors advise. The government does not listen by Gabriel Levy from his weblog People and Nature.

• What China’s coronavirus response can teach the rest of the world by David Cyranoski from Nature. 

• Addendum to My ‘Economic Recovery Program’ by Jack Rasmus from his weblog.

• Liberalism: the two-faced tyranny of wealth from Organic Radicals. 

• Arizona Election Official Bizarrely Announces Poll Closings by Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show via YouTube).

• The Exit Polls Are Not Adding Up by Lee Camp (of Redacted Tonight via YouTube).

• Six Feet Apart but Still Together: The Sanders vs. Biden Debate by Ezra Brain from Left Voice.

• Trillion Dollar Nuke ‘Upgrade’ – Not An Arms Race? by Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams from Antiwar. 

• Mozambique : Credit Suisse is liable for the $2 bn secret debt by Joseph Hanlon from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt).

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, March 16, 2020

• BigPharma’s Role: U.S. sanctions lead to global rise in Coronavirus by Sara Flounders from Workers World. 

• The Surrealism of the Information War by Gilbert Mercier from News Junkie Post. (Note: Mercier uses this article to point to other insightful articles that the author has produced in order to keep us focused on the real capitalist plague that will end in our vanishing as a species. If the efforts to combat this latest virus had been applied to ending capitalist ruling classes' assault of the Earth, we might have been able to save our human species (and most other species). But that would have caused the end of capitalism and its ruling classes. The latter have given, and continue to give, greater priority to their rule than they do to all living species on planet Earth.)

In their confusion and thirst for truth, people get caught like flies on tasty propaganda glue. The intricate labyrinths built by the information warriors prevent the real discourse, which should be about how to survive the imminent systemic collapse of global capitalism. It cannot be otherwise when global corporate imperialism itself controls the discourse worldwide. Hypnotized by a myriad of vanishing points, humans might be on a course to vanish.

• US capitalism’s response to the pandemic: Nothing for health care, unlimited cash for Wall Street by Andre Damon from World Socialist Web Site. (Note: Recent actions by our masters, the capitalist ruling class, demonstrate once again their primary concern: to keep their system and Empire functioning which results in gross inequality and the assault on our planet Earth.)

• Is Peace on the Korean Peninsula Achievable? by Stephen Gowans from his weblog.

My commentary: While people are currently absorbed in the current crisis of coronavirus, they shouldn't forget about other issues related to crucial propaganda products serving our masters in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Gowans, a top geopoitical Canadian analyst who knows real history, takes apart much of the propaganda laden history relating to Korea of the 20th and 21st centuries. In this rather lengthy article he reveals the true nature of this history which is very much alive today not only in Korea, but those classified as "enemies" in the rest of the world that the Empire is confronting. I have read Bruce Cumings excellent two volumes on Korea (look in the recommended books section of this weblog for volume 1) that he mentions in the article as a basis of my knowledge about the true history of the Korean conflict. 

• The Bush Administration’s Secret Biowarfare Agenda by Stephen Lendman from a re-posted article in Global Research. (Note: This article outlines the extensive history of US biowarfare programs (as of 2008) not only associated with the "Bush administration", but to all US administrations since the Empire was launched after WWII. Lendman gives little emphasis on biowarfare used by the US during the Korean War. I recommend reading a book entitled This Must Be the Place by Dave Chaddock to inform you about this history.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, March 15, 2020

• White House Removes Public Health Experts from Coronavirus Discussions by Michael Halpern from Union of Concerned Scientists.

• How much is coronavirus spreading under the radar? by Amy Maxmen from Nature.

• A 70-Year War on ‘Propaganda’ Built by the CIA by Cynthia Chung from Internationalist 360°.

• Economic Effect of Coronavirus Could Be Revolutionary by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog.

• Trump’s Response to the Pandemic: Demagogy for Workers and Billions for Billionaires by Ana Rivera from Left Voice.

We need self-organization from the below, with unions and social organizations at the forefront, taking adequate measures to demand a real health emergency plan to stop the Coronavirus and the chaos to which the capitalists and their governments are leading us. The unions have to fight for the workers and be a tool to get medicare, paid leave, and everything else that the crisis for the working class demands. The working class has a major role to play in resolving the crisis.

• Looking at the Military Aspects of Biological Warfare by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky)  from The Unz Review. 

• Was Coronavirus a Biowarfare Attack Against China? by "OldMicrobiologist" from The Unz Review. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, March 14, 2020

• NATO and COVID-19: a Parasitical Disease in Europe by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

The Defender-Europe 20 military exercise is obviously directed against Russia. So why is it patently inconsistent with the otherwise drastic measures such as limiting crowd sizes, closing schools, cancelling political and sporting events, limiting travel, etc. that many nations are taking to limit the spread of this new Coronavirus that originated in China? Don't misunderstand me--this is a real threat especially to elderly. Meanwhile, this viral attack and NATO countries severe reactions could be the catalyst that tips capitalist economies into collapse if recent adverse effects on capitalist economies continue.  I will await further information on this topic before I consider any suspicions of a 9/11 type of false-flag event to serve several fascist and imperalist interests of the Empire's Deep State, the trans-national finance capitalists whom we are all literally in debt to. (Also, see this --I restored the link to the Voltaire website after discovering that it ultimately went to Facebook. Hopefully it will remain.) Ruling capitalist classes are perfectly capable of gross crimes against humans such as this as they have demonstrated in the past. Whether or not they are capable of this crime, only future events and whistleblowers can reveal. (Update: I noticed this article on the following Monday that Germany is withdrawing their participation in the exercise.)

• US Intel Agencies Played Unsettling Role in Classified and “9/11-like” Coronavirus Response Plan by Whitney Webb from Mint Press News. 

• Toilet Paper Is the People’s Vaccine by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain. (Note: I had revised the formatting of my comment when I inadvertently erased my comment. I had a personal experience today with this startling phenomenon, followed by Curtin's article which proposed a theory to explain it. I was not convinced of his theory, but I don't have any other explanation for this irrational practice.)

• Fake News Alert: Washington Post hypes fake news on coronavirus ‘burial pits’ in Iran  by Erin Cunningham and Dalton Bennett of the Washington Post via PressTV (Iran). (Note: This "news" report was picked up by all sorts of mainstream media and minor US media outlets that function as repeaters of propaganda from mainstream media corporations.)

• Tulsi’s Emergency UBI Plan & More For Coronavirus. Tulsi Gabbard, who is now excluded from candidate debates by the Democratic Party, appears with Jimmy Dore (via a YouTube channel) to offer her recommendations to cope with the Coronavirus and the experience of Hawaiians who she represents in Congress.

• COVID-19 death rates not what they seem, 'misleading and naive' (full show) featuring Rick Sanchez from his show on RT. (Note: I can't recommend this enough for you to stay reasonably informed on most important topics of today.) 

With the last post I have run out of time and energy. Sorry, but I have tasks I need to do.