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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Why Face Masks Don’t Work, According To Science by Ben Swann from RT (via YouTube, sourced from Truth in Media).

So much debate over whether or not we should be wearing masks in order to fight COVlD but multiple scientific studies over the past decade have already settled this question. Not only do medical masks not prevent the spread of the virus, but a 1995 study proves that wearing a cloth mask can put you at greater risk for infection. Ben Swann breaks down the science.

• Literally Thousands of Doctors and Scientists Have Come Out Against Fauci’s Lockdowns Including a Nobel Prize-Winning Biophysicist. The Media Just Doesn’t Want You to Know by Michael Thau from Red State. (You might be also interested in a brief comment by Dr. Ioannidis, a world-renowned epidemiologist at Stanford.) My brief commentary follows.

Previous to today I have never encountered so much cynicism and doubts about the government's handling of this pandemic and mainstream media's coverage of this event. Examples include this and this.

• Covid-19: Phase 1 of the "Permanent Crisis" by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review.

• Agro-imperialism in the time of Covid-19 from GRAIN. 

• The Battle of Seattle was Fought by the Pro-war “Left” in Northern Syria by Max Parry from Dissident Voice. (Note: You should know about today's frequent references to "Wokist cult" by listening to the first three minutes of this RT post.) (My reaction: Parry exposes much of the shallow thinking of today's leftists.)

• The Maxwell Family Business: Espionage by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond. 

• The faulty science, doomism, and flawed conclusions of Deep Adaptation by Thomas Nicholas, Galen Hall, and Colleen Schmidt from Scientists Warning. (Note: This contains counter-arguments to those who believe, as I do, that humans are doomed as a species.)

• Interview with Julian Assange's Father by Denis Rogatyuk from The Grayzone.

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

• COVID-19 Corruption: Wealthy and Well Connected Get Rich while People Suffer by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers from Dissident Voice.

• Warnings Grow: “We Are in a Massive Economic Downturn” by Pam and Russ Martins from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• The Media's Jihad against Sweden's No-Lockdown Policy Ignores Key Facts by Ryan McMaken from Mises Institute. (My reaction: And, the Swedes didn't destroy much of the economy that sustained "deplorables" working people.)

• Rockefeller Foundation keeps working on their autocratic Lock Step scenario by Norbert Häring (German economist) from his weblog Money and more.

• America, You’ve Been Blacklisted: McCarthyism Refashioned for a New Age by John W. Whitehead from his weblog The Rutherford Institute.

• USA: Warrior Cops by Morgan Artyukhina from Internationalist 360°.

• The Great American Firewall: On the Question of Censorship by Danny Haiphong from Black Agenda Report. (One proviso (def.): Freedom of speech is upheld if a person is not considered influential. I can get by with calling for revolution, pointing to a Deep State, criticizing imperial policies, etc. because I am not a major influencer. I write on a Google weblog to express such ideas, but I have received very little harassment except for one incident briefly described here. That way they can have their cake (can proclaim that there is freedom of speech) and eat their cake too--threatening with the loss of their careers anyone who is a major figure from espousing subversive views in any media.) 

• The Gates Foundation’s “Green Revolution” in Africa: Agribusiness Wins, Small Scale Farmers Lose by Ann Garrison from Black Agenda Report. (Note: This article offers an example of the secret of capitalism. Obviously, Bill Gates does not need billions of dollars to live on, but he has acquired this huge amount in order to influence (power) major events. Power is the psychological drug that drives capitalists to do what they do.)

• The Future for China by Eric Zuesse from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. My commentary follows:

Zuesse is a social democrat who loves FDR as an example of a US ruling class that held such promise. He has forgotten or overlooked the history before FDR came on the scene. Zuesse loved the capitalism as was practiced during FDR's administrations while ignoring the earlier history of the numerous massacres by private armies and public militias of union organizers, 12 hour days that workers were forced to work, the cheap child labor employed by capitalists to build their fortunes, the imperialist history of the US from 1898 onwards, the seizure of the control of our money by private banking interests (the Fed), the constant cycle of recessions or depressions since the second half of the 19th century, the history of slavery, Native American massacres, etc.

FDR inherited his wealth from an investor in the opium trade (also see yesterday's post "Protecting the American Opium Trade") who engaged in the drug trade that was forced on China. Old wealth shaped his personality to a large extent much as old wealth shaped John Kennedy and his progrssive politics. FDR and Kennedy had some sympathies for ordinary people and their problems. Both of them were never anti-capitalists--they grew up in families and friends who were steeped in old wealth. These two were the exceptions to a ruling class that has aggressively pursued power, and used power derived from their concentrated wealth to create their own Empire after WWII. John Kennedy was assassinated, and FDR was subjected to an attempted removal from office. Much more typical since WWII is the rise of the neo-fascist element in the ruling class who set the ambitious goal of constructing their own empire.

• In Commune: The Panal 2021 by Katrina Kozarek from Internationalist 360°. My reaction follows:

It appears that the commune structure first articulated by Hugo Chavez and implemented by millions of ordinary folks in Venezuela evolved into a powerful force that today has saved Venezuela from the imperialist ravages of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Together with the people of China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, etc. they are standing up to the Empire and surviving. Eventually this combination of forces can defeat the Empire. It will most likely be too late to save humans, but such people will serve to redeem their species marred by the hideous stain left by self-serving ruling classes during the last several thousand years.

As I recently explained in a major post why US activists cannot succeed in overcoming this ruling class:

The fundamental reason why US activists and revolutionary movements have not been effective, nor in the future will they be, is that they have been subject to a long and comprehensive process of capitalist propaganda and indoctrination. As a result, working people along with fake leaders are ignorant of American history and of the heinous effects of US actions on the rest of the world. They have been divided into mutually distrustful and hostile camps, brainwashed, obedient, distracted by vacuous entertainment, and unhealthy due to capitalist propaganda that would only allow them to be mere spectators in sports, and from a poor diet of cheap"fast foods" prepared for them by giant corporations. There is no reason to expect such people to lead or form an effective revolutionary movement. What we will see at most are pseudo movements and fake leaders who promise solutions to our many problems. We will probably need to look beyond the people of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire to see genuine leaders and revolutionary movements.

• The Deep State Expanding Military Ops in Northeastern Syria by Drago Bosnic from FRN (based in Serbia).  (My reaction: Remember that Trump wanted to withdraw troops from northern Syria? He could not. That is because US military serves the Deep State, the US ruling class, much like local police forces. The financiers and corporate executives in the Deep State have always made sure that the instruments of violence and coercion always obeyed them--not office holders in our fake democracy.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, July 14, 2020

• COVID HELL: Record Temperatures and Shortages Will Test The Patience Of Americans This Summer by Michael Snyder from FRN (based in Serbia).

• Psychologically Locked Down by Rob Slane from The Blogmire.

• On the Political Implications of the Pandemic-Induced Capitalist Crisis by Danny Haiphong from American Herald Tribune.

And it will take a mass movement of the working class, with Black people and oppressed people in the lead, to chart a new course for the United States that is driven by the ideological and material demand for socialism rather than the reactionary scapegoating and political repression inherent in the capitalist system.

What are the chances of that happening?

• ‘Cancel Culture’ hypocrites cancel open debate and foreign countries by Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone. (My reaction:  Academic careerists try to "cancel" real critics of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

• Miserable Bankruptcy of Neoliberal “Takeover” Reports by Shawgi Tell from Dissident Voice. 

• Classism by Terry Everton (political cartoonist) from Dissident Voice.

• Protecting the American Opium Trade from Tales of the American Empire, a YouTube channel. (Note: A little history of how early American and British capitalists (including an ancestor of FDR) aggressively gained their wealth from the opium trade with China.)

Official history makes frequent references to the British tea trade as a vital part of the British empire in the 1800s. It’s hard to understand how trading tea could be so profitable, until one learns that opium was a major component of the tea trade. Opium is a powerful and addictive pain killer that is often refined into heroin. It was banned by governments a century ago, but the opium trade continues to this day with secret approval by government officials. The American government has used the US military to protect the opium trade for two centuries and evidence shows this continues. The extent of this protection is open for debate, but if one connects the dots the image is ugly.

• RFK, Jr. talks with Dr. Andy Wakefield about his new movie, 1986: The Act. This post is from Children's Health Defense. (Note: This is about a movie made by Wakefield regarding Big Pharma's control over the government which resulted in the latter protecting the exorbitant profits of pharmaceutical corporations while permitting Big Pharma to severely impact the health of some young people. The film costs $12.99 to view. I have seen it and recommend it to those who have a special interest in this subject.)

Posts that I especially recommend today:Sunday, July 12, 2020

• How Democrats Are Deceived by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. My summary follows:

In this article Zuesse refers to ordinary citizens who register as "Democrats" in the fake elections that are held in the USA while examining the CIA engineered coup in Ukraine in 2014. Zuesse uses his well-trained skills as an historian to uncover the key true story of what happened in contrast to the fake stories published by media corporations to deceive US citizens. He also cites an obviously CIA written entry for the "Ukrainian Revolution"  in Wikipedia to manipulate public opinion in addition to mainstream media coverage in support of the ruling class's version of events. He accomplishes all of this in a rather short article. Amazing!

• Propaganda Brainwashing, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Corporatism is a Feature of Capitalism, not a Bug by Signý A. from Left Voice.

• Iran-China pact turbocharges the New Silk Roads by Pepe Escobar from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. (Note: Because Asia Times, the original source of the article, is now behind a paywall, I am posting other sources for Escobar's articles appearing on their website.)

• You Have the Right to Keep Silent If You Want to Remain Employed by Terry Everton from Dissident Voice.

• Race, Class & Protest in the United States Today by Ajamu Baraka from LookLeft.

• Looks Like Sweden Was Right After All by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. 

• As warming approaches 1.5°C, talk of a carbon budget for the Paris targets is delusional by David Spratt from Climate Code Red. 

Posts that I especially recommend today:Thursday, July 9, 2020

• As Long As Mass Media Propaganda Exists, Democracy Is A Sham by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (My reaction: Propaganda is an indispensable element added to fascism to create the neofascism of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. It is a crucial weapon along with the re-writing of history added to the traditional weapons of fascism (example: the militarization of police) in order to control their populations. "Democracy" has nothing to do with fascism of either type.)

• Lying, accusations major elements of US foreign policy: Iran from Press TV (Iran). (My reaction: This is precisely why Mike Pompeo is US Secretary of State. He is a consummate liar by his own admission. 

• Beware of Right Deviations That Have Emerged from the Three-Headed Crisis of US Imperialism by Danny Haiphong from Internationalist 360°. (Note: Haiphong is referring to right-libertarianism as found in the US, but not the European version which is quite different.)

• COVID-19 Exposes the Weakness of a Major Theory Used to Justify Capitalism by Richard D. Wolff from a German website Brave New Europe. My commentary follows:

Prof. Wolff is what we are left with to expose the weaknesses of capitalism after the great ideological purge of the late 1940s and '50s (see this and this). This period that saw the careers of Hollywood producers, directors, and actors destroyed along with true leftist intellectuals was very well described by Bruce Lerr. 

As a result, we now we see a very few tamed leftists who pose as true socialists like Wolff attacking the weaknesses of capitalism regarding the provision of health services of our country. (Or we see intellectuals like Wilkinson avoiding the topic of capitalism as a class-based system in preference to the highly abstract and meaningless "Business".) Wolff has been playing to the crowd, and "dissident" websites like CounterPunch, as a safe "Marxist" by promoting worker cooperatives within a capitalist system. He knows, or should know, that worker cooperatives cannot compete with private enterprises because the former serve the welfare of workers, whereas the private enterprises regard workers as expensive commondities that they must reduce in order to compete in the marketplace vis-a-vis other companies.

By attacking capitalist health services he stays on very safe ground because the capitalist system cannot serve the whole population with health services--it was never designed for this purpose. Capitalism is inherently a class based system. It was designed to serve a tiny class which has over the centuries accumulated capital in ever concentrated amounts and in ever smaller hands. Today major capitalists hold more money than entire countries along with their enormous power to subvert entire countries (and even the UN), including our own, and today's events reflect that fact. It is obvious that capitalists could never prepare for a pandemic. It's simply not "efficient" use of resources that were designed only to serve the needs of a tiny minority--capitalists.

• WATCH: Just a Little Prick – Part 1 by Dr. Vernon Coleman from Off-Guardian. (Note: I post this from the latter website because the article is better formatted compared to the author's website.) 

• The “Second Wave”: Politics Influences the “Science” of COVID-19. Flawed Data, Flawed Models by Josh Mitteldorf from Global Research. (Note: I recently sought a definition of "cases" as used by the CDC and gave up after 20 minutes. According to this article "cases" are merely those who test positive.)

• COVID-19: Confirmed Wuhan Man-Made Coronavirus Chimera Enters Vaccine Design by Dady Chery from News Junkie Post. 

• 80-85 Percent of Supposed US “COVID Hospitalizations” Actually Hospitalized for Something Else by Joseph Guzman from Anti-Empire.

• Coronavirus: Why everyone was wrong by Beda M Stadler from Medium.

• New Docs: NIH Owns Half of Moderna Vaccine by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. from Children's Health Defense.  

• Vaccine Bait & Switch: As Millions Pulled From WHO, Trump Gives Billions To Gates-Founded GAVI by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.

• From coincidences to coincidences, the Boston connexion serves Remdesivir? by Xavier Azalbert and Eric Gyssler from FranceSoir. 

• Why the Bill Gates global health empire promises more empire and less public health by Jeremy Loffredo and Michele Greenstein from The Grayzone. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, July 8, 2020

• LancetGate: “Scientific Corona Lies” and Big Pharma Corruption. Hydroxychloroquine versus Gilead’s Remdesivir by Prof Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research.  

• Hydroxychloroquine and fake news by Jeremy Gordon from The Duran.

• Stanford Doctor Confirms What We’ve Been Saying for Months by Joe Hoft from Gateway Pundit.

• ‘Anti-vaxxers’ and ‘Experts’ -Time to Look Behind the Labels by Elizabeth Hart from Children's Health Defense.

• Is This The Shape of Things To Come? from Computing Forever (via YouTube).

• There Is No Second Autopsy of George Floyd’s Death by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog. 

• Freedom Rider: The Police Defunding Con Game by Margaret Kimberley from Black Agenda Report.

• Arctic Sea Ice at Record Low for Time of Year from Arctic News.

• In An Insane World, Madness Looks Moderate And Sanity Looks Radical by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• When US Backed A Mass Murder Program In Indonesia: Interview With Vincent Bevins On ‘The Jakarta Method’ that features Kevin Gosztola and Rania Khalek interviewing Vincent Bevins, the author of The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World, and posted on ShadowProof. My commentary follows:
  

Bevins has learned much about a key event in the establishment of the transnational capitalist (US, Anglo, Zionist) Empire from his research and employment at the LA Times and as a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post, two of the mainstream media corporation complex. But his knowledge has only been obtained 50-60 years after the event which resulted in a million lives lost and another million locked up concentration camps in Indonesia after the CIA coup against President Sukarno. At the time I and a few other anti-capitalist activists knew sparse details of this massacre from reading left-wing publications. We obtained only superficial and propaganda-laced "knowledge" from mainstream corporate media.

The point is this: Much of the foreign crimes of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire have been covered up, and it takes years of research and foreign travel to piece together the details of this horrendous history of the Empire. Now we face similar events in the USA, but now the agents of this Empire have gained so much successful experience lying to, and censoring information from, ordinary people that they are at a considerable disadvantage. Tony Cartalucci  provides an explaination.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, July 6, 2020

• Under Cover Of COVID, Israeli Gov-Tied Companies Justify AI-Powered Monitoring Of Americans featuring Whitney Webb (up till 34:50m) along with Ryan Cristián discussing the main topic suggested by the title. Posted on The Last American Vagabond.

• The United States of inequality (PDF) by David Ruccio from Real-World Economics Review. If you are particularly interested in this subject, you might be interested in an article by Marshall Auerback and an article by Ann Pettifor who delve into this subject in greater detail.

• Are the Democrats a Political Party or a CIA-Backed Fifth Column? by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review.

• Biosphere Warming in Numbers by Manuel García, Jr. from CounterPunch.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, July 5, 2020

• How BlackRock exploited the COVID-19 pandemic. RT interviews Ellen Brown about her latest article in which she says that BlackRock, a core Deep State actor, should be broken up as a cartel. What do you think the chances are of that happening?

• The Mask as a Symbol of Subjugation by Bill Willers from Dissident Voice. 

• Conspiracy Theories Malign And Benign – Face Masks And Israeli Training Of US Police by David Edwards, an editor of the Media Lens (British) weblog. I direct you to his examination of a "conspiracy theory" regarding the official advice about wearing face mask beginning with "Last week, Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens" and ending just before "Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory". I don't want people to think that I cherry-pick my independent sources (from government, corporations, and the ruling class) in order to support my points. Edwards gives the best argument that I have seen that supports the official advice to wear a face mask during the pandemic. He regards the opposing arguments as a conspiracy theory. My commentary follows:

I think that Edwards defends obedience to authorities as the best way to deal with health issues. The problem is that government officials been so often discredited in the past (see only one example) by leaks, evidence, and corruption that they can no longer be trusted. The trust in government officials has been so undermined in the past 60 years that they have very little credibility with many of the public, especially with our more astute and informed members.

He cites as one such authroity, "Cambridge University". I did a little research on his claim and found that the lead professor was a plant epidemiologist. According to Wikipedia, "Plant disease epidemiologists strive for an understanding of the cause and effects of disease and develop strategies to intervene in situations where crop losses may occur." Doesn't Cambridge U. have no epidemiologists that specialize in human diseases? And, what about Stanford University's Dr. John Ioannidis (epidemiologist for humans) who found that the coronavirus was similar to the seasonal flu which was met with draconian measures to combat it. Also, see an excerpts from research studies regarding use of face masks.

• Meet Remdesivir – a pill the US government swallows whole from RT (via YouTube). Also, you might be interested in a fuller coverage of this topic from Global Research and Defend Democracy Press.

• Are Children Really Recovering 99.9584% of the Time From COVID-19? by H. Ealy and others from Children's Health Defense. 

• Leigh Dundas, an attorney in Orange County, California, whose message on Facebook argues against stringent measures that may be imposed upon students in public schools.

• The Swedish Approach to the Coronavirus Pandemic from Journeyman Pictures (via YouTube). 

• More evidence that most coronavirus cases are now weaker than the flu by Daniel Horowitz ·from Conservative Review.

• ‘Collapse of civilisation is the most likely outcome’: top climate scientists by Asher Moses from Voice of Action.

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

• Global Economic Lockdown - with Peter Koenig and Ellen Brown from the Guns & Butter website. (Note: Bonnie Faulkner interviews two of the greatest contemporary minds on the current economic crisis created by the current pandemic. I wasn't impressed by Brown's articles until she demonstrated some deeper insights with the recent article entitled "Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid". I have never doubted Koenig's understanding of recent world events. I've only had time to listen to 30 minutes of the nearly one hour program but will listen to the remainder after I've finished blogging. Very important!)  

• CHD Responds to Accusation of Spreading “Misinformation” on Facebook by Jeremy R. Hammond and the Children’s Health Defense Team from Children's Health Defense.

• WHO’s Conflict of Interest? by David Macilwain from American Herald Tribune.

• The Media Sabotage of Hydroxychloroquine Use for COVID-19: Doctors Worldwide Protest the Disaster by Elizabeth Woodworth from Global Research.

• Dr. Vernon Coleman: Your Government Wants You Dead – BANNED from YouTube from Health Impact News (Texas). (My reaction: Your government is controlled by the same people who "own" and control most everything--the billionaires. The man-made system that creates billionaires is called capitalism.)

• Russia Bounty-Hunter Story Another Pulp Fiction Release by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. (My reaction: Just when you think the lies spread by mainstream media corporations could not get any worse, they do. They must be desperate. For another devastating attack on this fake news, see this.)

• Syria, Corporate Media Lies, and the True Face of Imperialism: An Interview with Richard Medhurst by Danny Haiphong from Black Agenda Report.

• Protest and Power by Glen Ford from the Black Agenda Report. 

• ‘Ordinary’ Israelis Don’t Perceive Themselves As Ordinary People by Rima Najjar from Medium.

• How Foreign Debt Undermines Sovereignty by Ndongo Samba Sylla from Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (Foundation).

• New Law Liberates Hong Kong From U.S. Interference by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, July 1, 2020

• The World Through the Eyes of a Globalist by Steven Yates from The Unz Review. My commentary follows: 

A "globalist" is another word for members of the Deep State who make nearly all of the decisions of their US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. It is convenient to regard a globalist as a member of the Empire's board of directors who the author realistically describes. But he errs a bit when he writes "You made basically the same mistake twice, in fact! Letting a technology get away from you." And then he described TV of the 1960s as obstructing their agenda in Vietnam. But I argue that they had not yet perfected their control of the media. Now they have.

Have you noticed that main the ruling capitalist class ("globalist") control of the media has distorted coverage of news into self-serving ("globalist") propaganda? Here I'm referring to mainstream news that they control, that is, the primary sources they control: NY Times, Washington Post, TV networks such as NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS which most American watch obsessively believing that they follow the "news".

I first noticed an unsual phenomenon when these TV networks extensively covered the toppling of Mubarik in Egypt in 2011. I also learned in an obscure website that Frank G. Wisner, Jr. was dispatched to Egypt. Since then I learned that the Empire controlled the Muslim Brotherhood, and they were behind it. So, I began to think that maybe the "news" coverage provided to Americans was shaped by some subversive organization to cover "news" that they wanted in order to advance Empire interests to the exclusion of events that they didn't want Americans to know, and otherwise shape the "news" to reflect the interests of the transnational ruling class. 

Back in the 1960s and '70s there was a number of reports that the CIA, a secret organ of the ruling class ("globalists"), was behind the efforts to control media corporations. Of course, the CIA denied this interpretation and said that all such accusations were just "conspiracy theories". 

In 2015 I first became aware of Tegna corporation (see this and this) which now owns 66 television stations in 54 markets (including NBC and affiliates), was located at Mclean, Va where a branch office of the CIA was located (a few miles from Langley). (Now I discover they've moved a few miles down to Tyson, VA.)

Recently, however, I've had time to watch more TV network coverage of events. Of course, I knew that the "liberal" news corporations (NY Times, Washington Post, TV networks such as NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS) were lined up against Donald Trump, and their coverage reflected this bias, while Fox News supported Trump (I'm not arguing that Fox News is any better). But I also noticed, switching from one channel to another, that the evening news programs from NBC, ABC, and CBS seemed to cover the same topics, although not in the same order, with a feel-good segment at the end of their broadcasts. I've since noticed this consistently. This mysterious phenomenon was not true of local stations, but they generally follow the themes and style of major media.

Most Americans watch news programs obsessively to learn about what is happening in the world. But watching what they are permitted to watch, and readily available, is a disaster for any desirable outcome for ordinary Americans. I've since concluded that what the Empire's media corporations report in their "news" programs is an indication of what the "globalists" want their audience to believe in order to promote their interests of profit and power. This applies to their extensive coverage of the nationwide protests prompted by the murder of George Floyd and other victims, but this as yet to be fully determined as how the extensive coverage benefits ruling class interests.

• Know Your Enemy: The Dangerous Futility of Pseudo-Philanthropic Neoliberalism (The fourth in a seven-part, multi-week series of commentary on the COVID-19 crisis) by Prof. Radhika Desai from Defend Democracy Press. (Note: Desai attempts in the article to trace the history of capitalism down till today which he describes as an unsustainable "pseudo-philanthropic neoliberalism" most exemplified by Bill Gates. It makes much sense to me, but you decide for yourself.)

• Pandemic profiteering: Gilead Sciences cashes in on COVID-19 by Bryan Dyne from World Socialists Web Site. 

I've run out of time and energy. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, June 30, 2020

• The Co-opting of Activism by the [Deep] State by Dustin Broadbery from Off-Guardian.

• US Gov website falsely inflating Care Home Covid deaths from Off-Guardian.

• The Covid-BLM Diversion; "Shock Therapy" Behind a Smokescreen of Hysteria and Racial Incitement by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review.

• The Media is Lying About the ‘Second Wave’ by Ron Paul from his weblog.

• Unsanitized: Time to Seize Drug Patents by David Dayen from The American Prospect. 

• WHO’s Conflict of Interest? by David Macilwain from American Herald Tribune.

• Real Revolution Means Expanding Consciousness, Both Outwardly And Inwardly by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• Capitalism is a Class-Divided, Racist, Sexist Horror Without End from The Internationalists.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monnday, June 29, 2020

• The pandemic risk of an accidental lab leak of enhanced flu virus: unacceptably high by Lynn C. Klotz from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

• How a False Hydroxychloroquine Narrative Was Created. “Dangerous” When Used for Covid-19 by Dr. Meryl Nass from Global Research.

• The New (Pathologized) Totalitarianism by C. J. Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc.

• Only Idiots Believe The CIA, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Fed Launches Corporate Bond Buying Program, Gobbling Up Fossil Fuels and Tobacco Bonds by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• While the World Burns, the Road Map to War with Iran Continues by Timothy Alexander Guzman from Global Research. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, June 28, 2020

• Up to 300 Million People May Be Infected by Covid-19, Stanford Guru John Ioannidis Says from Greek American.

• Anti-Maskers: Right or Selfish? featuring former professor of physics at the University of Ottawa, Denis Rancourt, PhD posted on Dissident Voice. (Note: I added a link to Denis Rancourt today--6/29/2020.)

• COVID19 PCR Tests are Scientifically Meaningless by Torsten Engelbrecht and Konstantin Demeter from Off-Guardian.

• Mass-Tracking COVI-PASS Immunity Passports Slated to Roll Out in 15 Countries by Raul Diego from Mint Press News. 

• Sweden’s Covid expert says ‘world went mad’ with lockdowns by Niclas Rolander from The Print (based in New Dehli, India). (Note: You may also be interested in this article entitled "Sweden turns on WHO for saying it had suffered 'very significant resurgence' of Covid-19".)

• U.S. University Requiring Both Flu and COVID-19 Vaccines for Students to Enter Campus from 21st Century Wire. 

• Bill Gates says ‘final hurdle’ to distributing a Covid-19 vaccine will be convincing people to TAKE IT from RT.

• What Happens if Congress and the White House Let Unemployment Benefits Expire? by Stephen Lendman from Global Research. (My reaction: Could it be that the ruling class will punish further those "deplorables" who refused to vote in the last election for their (the ruling class's) preferred candidate?)

• This Russia-Afghanistan Story Is Western Propaganda At Its Most Vile by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (My reaction: She exposes another current lie!)

• US Middle East Wars Far from Over from Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: My mega-posts have been so concerned with the 2020 "pandemic" that I've neglected that our Deep State is continuing in their media corporations to omit and lie about other of their adventures.)

• Oil Tankers Carrying Two Months of Venezuelan Output Stuck at Sea by Marianna Parraga from Anti-Empire. (Note: This is only one example of their use of sanctions to starve people residing in countries that the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire does not like.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, June 26, 2020

• Cash4Covid – How hospitals are making money off the coronavirus by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

• “Covid-19 Has Turned Public Health into a Patient-Killing Experiment” by Catte Black from Off-Guardian. Note: The author quotes the latest discoverer, Dr. Meryl Nass MD, of questionable medical practices:

"Why is public health being turned on its head? REMAP-Covid is the third major multicenter clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine to give toxic doses to Covid patients. Who or what is behind this concerted effort to maim or kill patients in order to kill any appearance of benefit from hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of Covid-19?"

My reaction: Could it be that agents of Big Pharma have influence medical practioners to do so in order to discredit the cheaply produced hydroxychloroquine?

• Swedish Confidence Levels Jump as Covid-19 Concern Recedes by Niclas Rolander from Bloomberg. 

• Washington Sailing on Collision Course With China by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• How Racism Is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order by Richard D. Wolff from Brave New Europe. 

• End It by an editor from Fever. (Note: I have now added this website to my list of roughly 50 sources after being notified by an activist that it contained articles of interest to me.) 

• Bloomberg Drops a Bombshell on the Fed’s Big Bank Stress Tests Set for Release Today by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.

• ‘Six Months To Avert Climate Crisis’: Climate Breakdown And The Corporate Media by David Cromwell, senior editor of Media Lens.

• Why North Korea blew up the inter-Korean liaison office – What's Left by Stephen Gowans from his weblog What's Left. (Note: Another example--if you need one--of corporate media's exploitation of news as propaganda serving the Empire.)

• US destruction of North Korea must not be forgotten by Brett Wilkins from Asia Times.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, June 24, 2020

• Behind the Veil of the Protest Movement, the War on the American People Is Gaining Pace by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review.

• Stanford prof: Median infection fatality rate of coronavirus for those under 70 is just 0.04% by Daniel Payne from Just the News.

• Testing fraud explained by Canadian David Crow from his weblog Brasscheck TV. My commentary follows:

Because so many times during the last 10 years I've documented examples of authorities employed by the capitalist ruling class have lied (here's another current example), I have concluded that they rule by deception. Crowe has entitled his website after a book (which I've read) by a well-known 1920s sceptic and critical thinker, Upton Sinclair, who revealed so much corruption and lies during that period. I think that Crowe is another critical sceptic of our age.

I have been so troubled by the reports which take statistics and tests reported by corporate media TV as absolute facts without any nuances or details about how they could be misleading and problematic, I have looked around for critical analysts who do. I am convinced that David Crowe is such a person.

This post contains two videos by Crowe. The first one is where he critically analyzes health test results, and the second uses the same skills regarding Anthony Fauci who is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984. You might also be interested in a recent post by another critical analyst, Kevin Barrett, entitled "Tony Fauci is Corrupt to the Core!"

• Colorado Adopts Mandatory Vaccinations for Children by Renée Parsons from Off-Guardian.

• Cops Criminalize Protest; Psychiatrists Medicalize It by Susan Rosenthal from her weblog. (Note: Rosenthal has practiced as a psychiatrist (probably retired) and knows her colleagues and the profession very well. She is currently living in Canada.)

• The True Financial Pulse of America’s Families by David Silberman from The American Prospect.

• Why an Arab-Israeli diplomat's assault is no surprise by Jonathan Cook from The National (Abu Dhabi). (My reaction: We are all Palestinians now! You see, it matters not that we are Americans--the Empire's transnational ruling class is at war with all workers. They dare to because they imagine that they "own" AI and robots that can replace most of us.)

An Israeli diplomat filed a complaint last week with police after he was pulled to the ground in Jerusalem by four security guards, who knelt on his neck for five minutes as he cried out: “I can’t breathe." 

There are obvious echoes of the treatment of George Floyd, an African-American killed by police in Minneapolis last month. His death triggered mass protests against police brutality and reinvigorated the Black Lives Matter movement. The incident in Jerusalem, by contrast, attracted only minor attention – even in Israel.

• Suicidal Empire by Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestinian) from his weblog Popular Resistance. 

• May All Be Revealed by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Another New Study Points to the Dangers of Geoengineering the Climate by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. 

• Staggering Heat, Extreme Weather, and Reporting the Climate Connection from Covering Climate Now. 

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, June 23, 2020

• Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid by Ellen Brown from The Unz Review. (My reaction: I believe this is a very important article on this private investment entity for, and by, the rich. I believe it is a very important component of what Brown refers to as an "almost a shadow government", or what I and others are now referring to as an existing "Deep State" that lies behind the facade of our "democratic" government.

• U.S. Supreme Court Reaffirms U.S. Police State by Eric Zuesse from A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. My brief commentary:

Zuesse, a social-democratic indoctrinated historian, shows his alertness by recognizing this as a singular (def. #3) event by the Supreme Court, one of the fundamental branches of US government. Because of this, cops (and they know it) like Derek Chauvin have the Deep State's permission to kill citizens regardless of the circumstances. (See how the fascist faction of the ruling class after WWII purged all institutions of people who held any leftist views.)

But instead of sourcing this as rooted in the early US capitalist class whose "Founding Fathers" established their government of the USA, Zuesse implies that indecent people have been appointed in recent years to the Supreme Court. The latter has, starting in 1983 (of course cops killed people before then, but the people didn't have the courage, or were so foolish, to attempt to take legal actions against the police), ruled that killing people in the line of duty was okay, and the June 15th ruling confirms that. (Did you hear that from media corporations?)   Zuesse writes:

This isn’t a failure ONLY by the U.S. Supreme Court. It is instead an expression of the American system as it now exists, and which failure renders the U.S. Constitution itself almost meaningless, especially as regards the rights of the people and the obligations of federal officials at all levels in the government. There is no accountability; there is only blame. And, as in any authoritarian system, all blame goes downward, and all praise goes upward. That’s the reality. The U.S. Constitution is by now just a string of words. America’s Founders are dead, gone, and no longer really even an influence. That’s the reality. Pretending otherwise won’t fix anything. Drastic changes are needed. And the American public has proven itself not up to the challenge, still refuses to face the reality. This is system-failure. And the public refuses to face it.

And, he goes on to write that only a Constitutional Amendment can changes things. He's right, and Chauvin and other cops will keep on killing and protecting the ruling class.

• Dr. Fauci Admits He LIED About Mask Safety! featuring Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show via YouTube). (My reaction: I don't trust anything that corporate media reports on this virus. The most trusted source that I've found is from Swiss Policy Research.)

• Will the Coronavirus Widen the Rift Between US and Europe? by Arthur Evans from FRN (based in Serbia). (My reaction: Cracks are appearing in the European section of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.)

• America: A War Machine on Top of a Police State by Caitlin Johnstone from American Herald Tribune. (Note: This time Johnstone writes on a different weblog.)

America is a war machine on top of a police state on top of a mass media psyop. Only people who are willing to keep these psychopathic mechanisms in place are permitted to ascend to presidential candidacy. While all the news cameras focus on the relatively minor differences between presidents and presidential candidates, you can learn a lot more about America and what drives it by looking at their similarities.

• Tensions in Lebanon are Rising by Vladimir Platov from New Eastern Outlook. (My reaction: Tensions are appearing all over the world as economies deteriorate, and violence appears as a result of the Empire's transnational capitalists who attempt to maintain their empire. This trend will only accelerate due to global warming.) 

Only notes today: Monday, June 22, 2020

Notes: 

• I discovered while editing Elijah J. Magnier as a recommended weblog that I had never entered his exceptional weblog on my list. Generally, I think his is one of the best regarding the understanding of geopolitical interests of the Middle East. Sadly, he has had to put his weblog behind a paywall, and I will no longer be citing his articles. But, his weblog will remain on the recommended list.

• Due to dental work, I will not attempt to post articles today.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, June 21, 2020

• Socialism and Dignity: We Don’t Need Their Cops by Stephen Millies from Internationalist 360°. 

• The Supreme Court’s Insidious Development of Qualified Immunity by Nimra Azmi from Just Security. (My reaction: This offers more proof that police forces in America have been used by the capitalist ruling class as a defense against workers. Destroying the immunity of police that permits them to commit outrageous acts against members of the wider public must be eliminated before the overthrow of capitalist ruling classes (as Colorada has recently done) is accomplished.

• Our Current Dilemmas Go Much Deeper Than Racism by Prof. Anthony Hall from American Herald Tribune. 

• Washington Struggles to Manage the Crisis, But Israel Continues to Benefit by Philip Giraldi from The Unz Review.

• The Federal Reserve Has Its Own Police and Is Part of a Vast Surveillance Center – Should You Worry? by Pam and Russ Martens from Wall Street on Parade.

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.)