A "best posts" post that I especially recommend today: Friday, June 19, 2020

• Climate Crisis, Pandemics and Bad Governance: Humanity’s Existential Threats by Gilbert Mercier from his weblog News Junkie Post. (Note: No one could express this existential crisis--climate crisis, pandemic, and bad governance--better than Mercier.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, June 18, 2020

• STUDIES: 60% of people naturally RESISTANT to SARS-COV-2 from Off-Guardian. (Note: You will need to know the SARS-COV-2 is the virus that causes the illness Covid-19.) 

•  Struggle Theater: Don’t Let Theatrics Shroud the Reality of Systemic Oppression by Eleanor Goldfield from Mint Press News. My commentary: 

The capitalist ruling class has chosen to rule mostly by deception to make things look good on the outside to hide the fascism that lies just below the surface. This includes theatrics among governing bodies, management of the news that we are allowed to observe, increasing censorship of information contrary to the interests of this ruling class, differential enforcement of laws, etc. Unfortunately, ordinary brainwashed European-Americans are usually oblivious to most of these deceptions, and all Americans are deceived as to the underlying reason for racist practices to persist: divide the working class in order to control them, and to create chaos to promote more "(their) law and (their) order" when things quiet down. ("their" in the last sentence refers to the capitalist ruling class.)

• The Enemy Within: A Story of the Purge of American Intelligence by Cynthia Chung from Strategic Culture Foundation. My commentary:

Except for the social-democratic introduction, this article dove-tails with one of my major theses: that the fascist section of the American capitalist ruling class planned before US entered WWII to advance an agenda for the US to establish a world-dominating Empire. I have no doubt after WWII concluded that this fascist section of the US ruling class aligned themselves with Churchill, an obsessive Soviet-hating figure who had a long history of fighting Bolshevism. The US ruling class merged with the exhausted and depleted remnants of the British Empire to establish a new US controlled empire which went on to establish a transnational capitalist US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.

• Freedom Rider: Churchill, Columbus and Leopold Fall Down by Margaret Kimberley from Black Agenda Report.

• Nixon-Trump vs. the Strategy of Tension by Pepe Escobar from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• The Secret Reason Billionaires Love a Pandemic by Lee Camp from Consortium News. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, June 13, 2020

Announcement: My posts will be spotty during next week when I am on vacation starting tomorrow.

• We’re Headed for a Hot, Dark Summer by Eric Levitz from New York magazine. My commentary follows:

I don't think we humans have much to look forward to in the years ahead. As we, as a species, degrade our environment through the activities of our ruling capitalist classes who compulsively pursue profit and power, the future looks increasingly dim as we approach the final decades of our existence. Don't misunderstand me, I think if the latter were disappeared from the Earth today, we are doomed anyway by their cumulative past activities. I think most scientists who are not compromised by their careers in commercial corporations and the government would agree with retired biogist Guy McPherson.

The news these years will be filled with rather depressing reports about very hot summers, huge unemployment, economic crises, domestic riots, and ongoing conflicts in the rest of the world (which has been usually ignored by most Americans). The US/Anglo/Zionist Empire will desperately cling to power by issuing threats of, and inflicting, violence on the rest of the world. The well-hidden Deep State actors who control this Empire will even consider catastrophic nuclear war on those countries which are capable of opposing their imperial activities. I think that the re-energized domestic enemies will, in their opposition, be too little and too late to stop them. Sorry for this prognostication.

• Corporate Media Are Focusing on Race—and Dodging Class by Norman Solomon from Common Dreams. 

• Narrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, June 11, 2020 (two "best posts" articles in this mega-post)

• The Fight to Abolish the Police Is the Fight to Abolish Capitalism by Carmin Maffea from Left Voice. (Note: I've assigned this to a "best posts" category".)

Since police exist to protect private property and repress the working class, there needs to be a revolutionary force composed of the working class that opposes capitalism and its violent guard dogs. In the current struggle, though spontaneous and scattered, there is a massive worldwide revolt against police that is forcing major concessions from the state. With this unprecedented solidarity, there is a potential to organize this force into one that directly opposes the police, other state agents, and capitalism itself.

• Community Control Vs. Defunding the Police: A Critical Analysis by Max Rameau and Netfa Freeman from Black Agenda Report.

• Parallels between Minneapolis and Jerusalem are more than skin deep by Jonathan Cook from Middle East Eye. (My reaction: We are all Palestinians now!)

• From Gekaufte Journalisten to Gekaufte Wissenschaftler by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: You will need to know what the German words mean: "Bought Journalists to Bought Scientists". Also the reference to "Dr. Udo Ulfkotte".) 

• The Corruption of Science. The Hydroxychloroquine Lancet Study Scandal. Who Was Behind It? Anthony Fauci’s Intent To Block HCQ on Behalf of Big Pharma by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky from his website Global Research.

• Why does the public tolerate its biological warfare? by Eric Zuesse from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. (Note: I also put this in a "best posts" category.) My reaction follows:

The social-democratic Zuesse emailed me about five years ago to denigrate my website. Since then I've witnessed one exemplary article after another authored by him. He is now using his skills as a trained historian to uncover the many secrets of the military-industrial complex that is a key component of the transnational capitalist US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Hopefully, he will evolve into a hardcore anti-capitalist and socialist.

• Defund the Police, Defund the Military by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies from Dissident Voice. My reaction is as follows:

I especially like the following paragraph:

Americans are getting a small taste of the fire and fury that the U.S. military and its allies inflict on people overseas on a regular basis from Iraq and Afghanistan to Yemen and Palestine, and the intimidation felt by the people of Iran, Venezuela, North Korea and other countries that have long lived under U.S. threats to bomb, attack or invade them.

Hopefully young people in particular during their confinement to their homes and that of their parents while not having distracting entertainment have become aware of the crimes committed by our ruling class in foreign countries.

• Wikipedia formally censors The Grayzone as regime-change advocates monopolize editing by Ben Norton from The Grayzone. My commentary:

I've seen this development over the past five years. I think it is inevitable that the capitalist employed agents of the management of news and information, just as they have done to corporate media, would try to take over Wikipedia. I have used Wikipedia as documentation in the past, but I will now, more than ever, scrutinize for bias in their posts.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, June 10, 2020

• LOCKDOWN LUNACY: The Thinking Person’s Guide by J.B. Handley from Children's Health Defense.

• The (Undercover) Epicenter Nurse: Watch, Weep, and Rage. John Kirby of Journeyman Pictures interviews a nurse from Florida who helped out at a New York City hospital serving mostly low-income patients. Posted by Edward Curtin on his weblog. The following was provided by Journeyman Pictures (via YouTube) on the nurse:

Erin Marie Olszewski is a Nurse-turned-investigative journalist, who has spent the last few months on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, on the inside in two radically different settings. Two hospitals. One private, the other public. One in Florida, the other in New York. 

And not just any New York public hospital, but the "epicenter of the epicenter" itself, the infamous Elmhurst in Donald Trump's Queens. As a result of these diametrically opposed experiences, she has the ultimate "perspective on the pandemic". She has been where there have been the most deaths attributed to Covid-19 and where there have been the least. 

Erin enlisted in the Army when she was 17. She deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Part of her duties involved overseeing aid disbursement and improvements to hospital facilities. While in country she received the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service, and was wounded in combat. Erin eventually retired as a sergeant, and became a civilian nurse in 2012. 

Erin is a medical freedom and informed consent advocate. She co-founded the Florida Freedom Alliance but no longer has any connection with the organization.

• Facebook Relies on Gates-Funded W.H.O. to Define ‘Vaccine Misinformation’ by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Chairman, Children’s Health Defense from their website.

• The Fed Just Pulled Off Another Backdoor Bailout of Wall Street by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• Dr. Wolfgang Streeck: “We Are Being Governed by An Oligarchy”. Mohsen Abdelmoumen of American Herald Tribune interviews Streeck, a German sociologist specializing in economics.

• One Earth, Not One Percent from Scientist's Warning website. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, June 9, 2020

• Over the Rainbow: Paths of Resistance After George Floyd by Jim Kavanagh from CounterPunch. 

My reaction: The author explains how the ruling capitalist class is running out of options to contain the resistance of poverty-stricken people that is an integral part of capitalist rule. But, at this late date is social-democracy a realistic option that Kavanagh seems to favor? Is social-democracy, capitalism with a more human face, a bias of CounterPunch (because the core administrators of this website live off of the ownership of stocks, bonds, etc.)? My answers: "no!" to the first question, and "yes!" to the second. But, the more important question is: what will the ruling class do to contain the new resistance that has appeared following the George Floyd protests? Could they be desperate enough to use the armageddon option--a nuclear war? I have no answers to these questions.

• Manipulating the Message: Police Attacks on Free Press and the Fencing in of Humanity by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.

• Tucker: Black Lives Matter is now a political party featuring Tucker Carlson of Fox News (via YouTube) giving his commentary regarding the growing movement by the new resistance to defund police departments all across the USA. He omits any need felt by the new resistance to construct new police departments that serve the people. My commentary follows:

Carlson represents a more authoritarian faction of the ruling capitalist class, and he, of course, regards this as "insane". The existing militarized police agencies have a history of serving the defense of the capitalist class to contain any opposition from ordinary people and to carry out their racist policies that served to divide and conquer the working class. This is a redline issue for the ruling class, much like the right to own guns that must not be crossed. But this is also a fundamental issue for the new resistance to get the police out of all instiutions--particulary the schools. So, it will be very interesting to see what happens to this effort to abolish the existing police organizations across America. 

• Podcast: Pandemic Profiteering – How Billionaires Are Looting American Taxpayers by Mnar Muhawesh from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis). (Note: Muhawesh interviews senior staff writer Alan Macleod regarding the subject in this nearly 42-minute interview.)  

• The Democratic Party Exists To Co-Opt And Kill Authentic Change Movements by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• A Pipelineistan fable for our times by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, June 8, 2020

• Capitalism Always Produces Racism by Sam Miller from Left Voice.

• FBI launches open attack on ‘foreign’ alternative media outlets challenging US foreign policy by Gareth Porter from The Grayzone.

• Investors Were Being Blocked from Fund Withdrawals Months Before the Pandemic by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• They Don’t Care About The Data, And They Never Have by Allan Stevo from LewRockwell.

• This Has Been the First Global Infodemic of the Information Age — But Are We Now Immune? By Marko Marjanović from Anti-Empire.

• The Establishment Only Dislikes Trump Because He Puts an Ugly Face by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. My reaction: Also because he doesn't follow orders from the Deep State--he's a "loose cannon" within the rightwing.

• Despite pandemic, CO2 hits new record from Climate & Capitalism.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, June 7, 2020

• Anti-Communism is a Fundamentalist Religion, Now Followed by Billions by Andre Vltchek from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: I must thank an activist, Caren, for alerting me to this post.) My commentary follows:

Not only anti-Communism is a religion, but capitalism is as well. Unlike Vltchek, I was thoroughly indoctrinated in capitalism having been born and raised in the USA. But I was exposed to other versions of political reality in my young adult years. So I gradually became immune to the incessant propaganda that I was subject to the rest of my life. Because I had doubts in 1959 and subsequent years about what I was told to believe about Cuba and its revolution, and I sought out obscure periodicals in the library at a university that I was attending. These provided a very different version of political reality regarding their revolution. Since then, I uncovered one lie after another while being subject to an incessant, 24/7 propaganda barrage disparaging communism (a Marxist variant on the theme of socialism) and celebrating the fake version of "democracy" which I soon discovered as the bourgeous or capitalist version of democracy. I became convinced that capitalism was the root cause of so many social problems.

However Vltchek never directly answered the question posed early in his article in a quote apparently by his friend Aleksandr Buzgalin: “How is it possible that a system so logical, progressive, and so superior to what is, up till now, governing the world, failed to permanently overthrow the nihilism and brutality of capitalism, imperialism and neo-colonialism?” Obviously he lays the blame on capitalist propaganda. But, what would you expect other than their use of propaganda together with all other weapons at their disposal in order to destroy a system that was a major threat to capitalist rule?

I have since studied this question and have concluded that the Soviet Union was so damaged after their revolution in 1917 due to foreign invasions and trade boycotts by capitalist countries that they soon succumbed to a self-serving bureaucracy led by Joseph Stalin, and from which they never recovered. In effect, a bureaucratic ruling class was established. In addition, Lenin and his Bolsheviks knew that in order to succeed, other revolutions needed to occur in advanced capitalist countries which did not happen because they were crushed by the capitalist ruling classes.

Now I would answer this question by stating that "a system so logical, progressive, and so superior" to capitalism is no guarantee that it will survive and thrive. Even if the USSR had anything like a real communism, history has offered proof of this. I think that a communist system might still succeed if humans had a future beyond a century with the (doubtful) assumption that humans could avert a catastrophic nuclear war. But they do not. Because capitalist activities have so polluted our skies, oceans, and trees with greenhouse gases, the human species has insured its own extinction within a few decades. 

Karl Marx got one thing wrong--the inevitability of communism for the salvation of humans. Why should humans unlike all other species have this quality of endurance?

• The Most Revealing Footage On Police Brutality Is These Cops Applauding Its Perpetrators by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Homicidal Cops Caught On Police Radio by Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show via YouTube). 

• Is the Coronavirus Scare a Psychological Operation? by Kevin Ryan from Off-Guardian.

• The Shallow Deep-State Goes Deeper as It Moves Toward Martial Law by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain.

• BlackRock Authored the Bailout Plan Before There Was a Crisis – Now It’s Been Hired by three Central Banks to Implement the Plan by Pam Martens and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• CNBC Makes Up V-Shaped Charts To Support False Claims Of Economic Recovery by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, June 4, 2020

• Pro-BLM Demonstrations Sweep Across Europe by Guillaume Durocher from The Unz Review.

• Don’t Fall for the Myth of the “Outside Agitator” in Racial Justice Protests by Glenn Houlihan from Jacobin.

• The “Corona Hoax”, The Proliferation of Racial Riots. Towards a Military Lockdown? by Peter Koenig from Global Research.

• Enough with the Consensus Already! by Thierry Meyssan (French) from his weblog VoltaireNet.

• COVID-19: ‘The Facts Changed – But Government Lockdown Policy Didn’t’ from 21st Century Wire. 

• Biosecurity and Politics by Giorgio Agamben from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• The pandemic and George Floyd: A biopolitical trap of poverty and racism by Sam Hamad from TRT World. 

• Propaganda and Engineering Consent for Empire with Mark Crispin Miller. Abby Martin interviews Professor Mark Crispin Miller, professor of Media Studies at New York University from Telesur (via YouTube). (This qualifies for the "best posts" category.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, June 3, 2020

• The Capitalists of the 21st Century by Norbert Häring (Germany) from his weblog Money and more. (Note: I've assigned this as a "best posts" category.) My commentary follows:

I notice this morning that there is a slew (def. #3) of posts alleging that the protest movement is being manipulated (see this, this, and this--btw, I've since removed The Duran from my recommended list of websites.) There is certainly manipulation going, but what type, to what extent, and who benefits is too soon to tell.) What is certain is that the Empire's transnational capitalist ruling class does not want a "crisis to go to waste". It's immediately apparent that the Deep State wants to get rid of Trump, but what else, to my mind, is yet to be determined. It's clear to me that police forces all across American represent the mailed fist of fascist capitalism, and as such they won't disappear or become transformed into protecting the people as their official mission. So, it appears to me that the protest movement is moving toward a clash with the ruling class.

Häring has read a book by this title (The Capitalists of the 21st Century by Werner Rügemer) which apparently the article is a summary of the book according to Häring. This article contains a considerable amount to learn about the latest phase of capitalism. For example from the following section:

This, our capitalism – or death for all

The wealth of the BlackRock milieu is increasing, but the national economies and the infrastructure important for the majority of the population – schools, apartments, hospitals, water pipes, sewage treatment plants – are decaying or being privatized and made more expensive by the capital organizers. Climate warming is being accelerated. Armament profits boom with the invention of new enemies. While the new capital masters have created diverse collective forms for themselves, they are destroying the remnants of previous collective forms of dependent employees and maneuvering them into professionally staged, ultimately joyless, sick loneliness.

With the inward war of the new, even more US-led capitalists against democracy, against the rule of law and the welfare state, they also became more outwardly aggressive. They wage declared and undeclared wars through their governments and military and intelligence services, expand their global military presence, secretly and openly arm their representatives. Even nuclear war on European soil becomes a calculated, incalculable possibility. Motto: This, our capitalism or death for all.

I think this is an important article and book that activists can learn much from. It looks to me like the current protest movement, if it is to evolve into something more that that, is confronting a powerful force. And I think that the above motto means that the ruling capitalist class are like an alcoholic, in the final stage of addiction, who will risk everything--even death--to obtain their drugs of domination, control, and wealth that the capitalist system provides them with in such abundance. (Btw, the nerve center and the real capital of this highly invisable capitalist ruling class appears to be East Wenatchee, Washington and behind the Sabey Data Center (also see this.) This way they can take advantage of taxpayer-funded cheap energy to power their data centers. The hydroelectric power plants, built by workers in the Great Depression of the 1930s, on the Columbia River produce the cheapest electricity in the USA. It is also the home of the soccer-field-sized data centers run by Yahoo, Microsoft and Dell. Do you think 21st century capitalists are dumb? I admit that they may be, but they have all the money to hire people with brains to run their data centers, the government, and everything else.

But, I fear that today's youth are ill-equipped by so many years of indoctrination, propaganda, and entertaining distractions that they are hardly a match for such a goliath of a capitalist ruling class.

• Why America’s revolution won’t be televised by Pepe Escobar from Asia Times.

• If you can't beat'em ... by cartoonist Terry Everton from Dissident Voice. 

• Rebellion and Repression: Capitalism’s Long Hot Summer Begins by Ben Becker from Internationalist 360°.

• It’s a Class War Now Too by Joshua Frank from Defend Democracy Press.

• Are we about to see a Colour Revolution in the United States? by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

• VIDEO – Here are the Horrifying things I learned at a Contact Tracing Class from FRN (based in Serbia). 

• Facts Vs. Fake by Peter Koenig from Dissident Voice.

THIS IS ALL I HAVE TIME AND ENERGY FOR.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, June 2, 2020

• The Police Are Not What You Think featuring Lee Camp (of Redacted Tonight) from RT (via YouTube). (My reaction: Maybe in communities that are heavily African-Americans and other colored minorities, these communities should start their own enforcement services to intervene in disputes among their populations.)

• How did the protest end up here? | Crowd chants ‘eat the rich’ at BLM rally in Beverly Hills from RT (via YouTube). (My reaction: This is evidence that some white Americans and others are starting to realize that class warfare is occurring in the USA.)

• Their Violence and Ours by Nathaniel Flakin from Left Voice.

• Agent Provocateurs: Police at Protests All Over the Country Caught Destroying Property by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis).

• The Focus on Looting Shows How Our Systems of Power Value Capital Over Human Lives by Eli Day from In These Times. 

• Top Ten Signs We’re Living in a Police State by Ryan Cristián from The Last American Vagabond.

• “We Are Trying to Build Humanity”—Vijay Prashad on Chinese Socialism & Internationalism Today from the Qiao Collective.

• How America’s largest corporations loot black communities by C.J. Werleman from TRT World (Turkey).

• Americans Should Definitely Be the Cops of the World by Marko Marjanović from Anti-Empire. (My reaction: This satirical article suggests that people all over the world are recognizing the defects of American police forces. However, are the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire not already trying to police the world?)

• Doctors Against Borders (Lockdowns) by Ron Clutz from his weblog Science Matters.

• Commentary: It's high time Fauci and the rest of the 'experts' were made to answer some questions from The Blaze.

• German Official Leaks Report Denouncing Corona as ‘A Global False Alarm’ by Daniele Pozzati from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Why they hate Sweden by Fraser Myers from Spiked.

• Anti-Abortion Forces Would Impose Slavery-like Controls on Black Women’s Bodies by Margaret Kimberley, with occasional remarks by Glen Ford, from Black Agenda Report.

• China’s poverty-annihilation miracle by Adnan Afirat from United World (Turkey).

• An Arrested Middle East – The ‘New Strategy for Securing the Realm’ Dissipates by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, June 1, 2020

• The George Floyd Killing in Minneapolis Exposes the Failures of Police Reform by Alice Speri, Alleen Brown, and Mara Hvistendahl from The Intercept.

• From Soft to Hard Fascism: “Get In Your House Right Now!” by Kurt Nimmo from his weblog Another Day in the Empire.

• Many US Journalists Arrested After New York Times Falsely Claims That Doesn’t Happen In America by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Undercover cops or protesters picking out bad seeds? from RT (via YouTube). 

• We Are All Jakarta by David Swanson from his weblog Let's Try Democracy.

• The Propaganda Multiplier from Swiss Policy Research. (Note: This post might provide you with all you need to know about fundamental media corporations.)

• Unsanitized: BlackRock Is Buyer and Seller by David Dayen from The American Prospect.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, May 31, 2020

• Young White Men Abuse George Floyd Protests For Violence And Looting by Bernhard (Germany) from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• US has deadliest police culture in modern world - George Floyd family co-counsel from RT (via YouTube). (Note: Police Unions are very strong with the sole exception to other labor unions in the USA. Could it be that they are protecting the ruling capitalist class?)

• Police Deny Any Connection to Mysterious Minneapolis “Umbrella Man” Saboteur by Raul Diego from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis). (Note: This is the latest example regarding police infiltration of protests in order to discredit the latter.)

• Nothing Is Certain But Death, Taxes, And Police Infiltration Of US Protests by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• As Chief Prosecutor, Klobuchar Declined to Bring Charges Against Cop that Killed George Floyd by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• LAPD’s Hollywood Office: How The Department Shaped ABC’s ‘The Rookie’ from Shadowproof. (Note: This shows how the ruling class shapes views about fascist cop-killers in the USA.)

• U.S. Lectures World on Human Rights as Cops Kill Blacks With Impunity by  Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• “Germ-Ridden Masses” – How America’s Wealthy Elite Describe the Rest of Us by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• In the West: Propaganda, Hysteria and Truly Foul Breath! by Andre Vltchek from Dissident Voice.

• Nobel prize-winning scientist: the Covid-19 epidemic was never exponential by Freddie Sayers from Unherd. (Note: The scientist uses Hubei province, and the capital of this province is Wuhan.)

• “It’s all Bullsh*t” – 3 Leaks that Sink the Covid Narrative by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.

• Sunrise Movement Being Co-Opted By Biden Task Force by Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show (via YouTube). My reaction: Even liberal Jimmy Dore sees through the attempt to co-opt the Sunrise Movement.) 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, May 29, 2020 (part 1 of 2)

• BREAKING: FULL TEXT – TRUMP PLACES YOUTUBE TWITTER FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM – UNDER PUBLIC CONTROL: Trump Decrees that these are part of the 'Public Square' from FRN (based in Serbia). 

My reaction: Great! But why not media corporations and their fake news and manipulation of the minds of the public? "Who'd a thought" (def.) that a Republican administration would do this? This shows that sometimes we, the people, can benefit from the internecine battles of the capitalist ruling class. (updated commentary at 10:16 AM CT.)

• The Stupid Insanity of Biological-Warfare R&D by Eric Zuesse from The Duran. 

My commentary: I love it when Zuesse uses his academic training as an historian to dig up evidence form obscure sources that serves to validate my thesis that US right-wing capitalists had already decided to build an empire at the conclusion of WWII. But my thesis was that they had decided before that, yes, before the war--read the  evidence in my commentary here. 

Furthermore, he goes on to argue with evidence that imperialist USA never stopped developing biological weapons after the war in order to suppress any nation that impeded their progress to establish an capitalist American Empire in order to destroy the Bolshevik threat and rule the world much like the Nazis attempted to do. Evidence was also comprehensively furnished by Dave Chaddock, in his book This Must Be the Place, that the US used bio-weapons in the Korean War.

I am confident that in the future there will be evidence that will slowly leak out which will serve to prove that the US was responsible for this latest pandemic. Zuesse apparently thinks so too. But, of course, our masters will try and largely succeed to suppress this evidence from the American people.

• Anarchy in the USSA by Steve Brown from The Duran. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, May 28, 2020 -- one is a "best posts"

• Position paper from Medical Professionals and Scientists for Health, Freedom and Democracy (their new website). 

• Canadian Cities Hit by Pandemic Lockdown. Vulnerable to BlackRock’s Privatization Agenda by Joyce Nelson from Global Research (based in Canada). 

• German Medical Doctor Katrin Korb - Speech via YouTube.

• CrossTalk Bullhorns, Quarantine Edition: No strategy from the Cross Talk Show on RT. (Note: The host discusses the topic "strategy" with guests Dmitry Babich and Alexander Mercouris.)

• Lock Step: How the Rockefeller Foundation wants to implement its autocratic pandemic scenario by Norbert Häring from his weblog Money and More.

• US Declares Vaccine War on the World by Prabir Purkayastha from Internationalist 360°. (Note: You will need to know about TRIPS Agreement and patent pools.)

• The Injection Fraud – It’s Not a Vaccine by Catherine Fitts from her weblog Soleri Report. 

• Facts Vs. Fake. A Worldwide Lockdown of Everything by Peter Koenig from Global Research. 

• Left Gatekeepers Through the New Left: Monitored Rebellion Part II by Bruce Lerro from Planning Beyond Capitalism. (Note: I encourage you to read Part I of his series. This clearly is in a "best posts" category.)

• Collaborators and Resisters by Bill Willers from Dissident Voice.

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

• Michael Jordan’s “Last Dance:” A Celebration of the American Nightmare by Danny Haiphong from Black Agenda Report.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, May 24, 2020

• Facts about Covid-19 from Swiss Policy Research.

• US Billionaires’ Net Worth up $434 Billion Since Shutdown Start. We're all in this together! from Anti-Empire.

• Bill Gates’ Web of Dark Money and Influence – Part 1: Philanthropic Narrative Shaping posted by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. 

• Calm Down We're Only Doing Fascism Until There Is a Vaccine. By Marko Marjanović from Anti-Empire.

• Coronavirus Pt3 – Testing: What are we doing? What does it mean? by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny from Vaxxter.

• You Don’t Need Invasive Tech for Successful Contact Tracing. Here’s How It Works. By Caroline Chen from ProPublica. 

My commentary: "The Key to Successful Contact Tracing? Trust." Chen has gotten onto something. Although citizens in China and South Korea trusted their governments, can we trust ours? If you think so, I have a couple of fine bridges to sell you.

• Coronavirus and the Constitution: Entering the Not-So-Brave New World by Prof. Lynn Wolfe from Global Research.

• Millions forced to choose between hunger or Covid-19 from Grain.

• The ‘Battle’ Against COVID-19 in a Fragmented World, Has Ruined Billions of Lives by Andre Vltchek from 21st Century Wire.

• Big Brother meets COVID-19 by Susan Rosenthal from her weblog. (Thanks go to an activist for alerting me to this article.)

• Why We Stay Asleep When Covid-19 Is Trying to Wake Us Up by Kelly Brogan, MD, Ali Zeck, and Sayer Ji from Brogan's weblog.

• Workers Fight for Their Lives by Michelle Chen from In These Times.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, May 22, 2020 (part 2 of 2 parts)

(Note: I have posted today's articles in two parts because I was worried about YouTube censors taking down an article in part one before you could view the video contained in this article.)

• COVID-19 Has Replaced Osama bin Laden as the Fall Guy for Lost Liberties by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• COVID-19: What Does Being Positive Really Mean? What Are We Really Detecting? by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny from Vaxxter.

• Washington’s New Anti-China Strategy by Thierry Meyssan from his weblog VoltaireNet (France). 

• Podcast: Aaron Mate Debunks RussiaGate and Discusses How Liberals Came to Love Bush-Era Neocons, an interview conducted by Mnar Muhawesh, founder of Mint Press News.

•  A Doctor a Day Letter - Signed uploaded from Scribd by Fox News.

More than 600 doctors signed a letter urging President Trump to end the nationwide coronavirus shutdowns and referred to orders issued by states that keep businesses closed as a “mass casualty incident” with devastating consequences. (From Washington Examiner)

• Fever: class struggle under pandemic from Fever: Class struggle under pandemic. (This article, written by the founders, introduces a new website.)

• Covid-19 Profiteers Are Making a Killing by Amber Colón Núñez from In These Times.

• Fed Chair Powell Promises “Transparency,” then Draws the Dark Curtain Tighter by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• The Progressive International: The Center Left Attempts to Rescue Capitalism by Facundo Aguirre from Left Voice. (Note: This is about social-democrats trying to rescue capitalism.) 

• The Corona pandemic and the Struggle for our Peoples’ Resources and Food Sovereignty by Omar Aziki from TNI. 

• Potentially Fatal Combinations of Humidity and Heat Are Emerging Across the Globe by Kevin Krajick from State of the Planet. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, May 22, 2020 (part 1 of 2 parts)

• 10C Above Baseline by Robert Hunziker from CounterPunch.

“Business as usual” has not slowed down one iota in 62 years ever since Mauna Loa Observatory started collecting CO2 data in 1958. Noticeably, it has already accelerated+60% this century.

"It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." And the TeeVee got humans so frightened and  worried about a little pandemic!

• New Evidence Suggests the United States Government may have Engineered Covid-19 by Malcolm Harris from The Duran. Be sure to watch the YouTube video at the end of the article before the censors take it down.

The narrator in this video clip failed to mention that the USA used a biological weapon during the Korean War. Although she cites many disconcerting documented facts, her inferences about China and WHO are not supported. Maybe she wanted to get past the censors.

• The Giant Virus in the Room: Corporate Vaccine Makers Need More Pandemics, to Grow by Dy Chery from News Junkie Post. 

• EXPOSED: Bill Gates Funding Partnerships and Moderna – America’s Tangled Vaccine Web from FRN (based in Serbia). 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, May 21, 2020

• How the United States Government Failed to Prepare for the Global Pandemic by Vijay Prashad from CounterPunch. (Note: You must be aware of the difference between SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.)

• Brave New Normal (Part 2) by C.J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (Note: Part 1 is here.)

• Pandemic 2020: From Statistical Fraud to Controlled Society by Vincent Mathieu from Global Research. (Note: I think "DSP" must be explained here.)

• Vaccine Wars in the USA by Russell Bentley from FRN (based in Serbia).

• Capitalism vs. science: The lessons of the 36-hour Moderna vaccine frenzy by Benjamin Mateus from World Socialist Web Site. 

• Food shortage prompts clashes between hungry protesters & police | COVID-19 lockdown from RT (via YouTube).

• 1) The Journey of the Jobless by Kalena Thomhave , and 2) Everybody Hates the SBA by Alexander Sammon both from The American Prospect.  (Note: I've included two articles explaining how many Americans are suffering from job losses.)

• Some Truths about Falsehoods by Fernando Buen Abad from Resumen. (Note: I thank Caren, an activist, for alerting me to this article.)

• Life as Commons by Stavros Stavrides from Undisciplined Environments. 

• How To Understand All This China Stuff by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.