Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020

• How the Billionaires Control American Elections by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: This is a summary of  Glenn Greenwald's article on July 9 entitled "How the House Armed Services Committee, in the Middle of a Pandemic, Approved a Huge Military Budget and More War in Afghanistan" (and uploaded on YouTube which carried Zuesse's title). However, if you are one of those American who are described by Zuesse as Americans who "just vote and pay taxes", dumbed-down by Empire propaganda, and distracted with entertainment by well-paid careerists appointed by agents of the ruling class ("billionaires"), you should probably pay attention to the Intercept's article and listen to Greenwald's full address. Most Americans, after 75 years of brainwashing have no idea about real world politics and its real history. But, this is not the fault of ordinary Americans. This was intentionally done by the capitalist ruling class that was bent on establishing an American Empire much like the Nazis in Germany had tried to do, and Great Britain succeeded in doing for hundreds of years.)
  

• Let’s Defund the Pentagon, Too by John Horgan from Scientific American. (Another article that may interest you is entitled "A 'Brazen Giveaway' GOP HEALS Act is a $30 Billion Bonanza for the Pentagon" by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News".
  

• Elon Musk and the Overthrow of Democracy in Bolivia by Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano from The Bullet (Canada).
  

• UK’s Stunning Hypocrisy over Hong Kong by Joseph Thomas from New Eastern Outlook.

• School closures do not slow the spread of Covid-19, according to Finnish-Swedish official study from InProportion2 (Britain). (This website, I believe, offers the best consolidated evidence of the many issues and information related to coronavirus.)

• Open Letter: Refuting Politifact’s “fact check” by Torsten Engelbrecht from Off-Guardian.

• TikTok, Epstein, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.
  

• DARPA’s Man in Wuhan by Raul Diego from Unlimited Hanglout. (This is quite a piece of detailed investigative reporting. First of all, one should know about DARPA.)

• Millions face economic and social disaster as Wall Street celebrates by Jerry White from World Socialist Web Site.

• What South Korea’s ballistic missiles say about South Korea, the United States, and the UN Security Council by Stephen Gowans from What's Left.
  

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

• The Ultimate Divide and Conquer by Russ Bangs from Off-Guardian. (This is assigned a "best posts" category.)

• COVID19, The Great Reset & The New Normal by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. (This is also an exceptional article--probably the best this month.)
  

• WHO Now Claims COVID ‘Not Seasonal’ and Will Be One Constant ‘Big Wave’ from 21st Century.

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

• Crash the Economy, Burn the Cities, Infect the People: the Evil Plan to Remake America by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. (My reaction: A very wise and insightful analysis. Hopefully--and it is a desperate hope--that dissident Americans are up to the challenge "to scupper the plan".
  

• Slavery of Fear by Gilbert Mercier from News Junkie Post.

• How to Take Back Control of Your Mind by Cynthia Chung from Strategic Culture Foundation. (My reaction: She mostly addresses, in a somewhat convoluted fashion, the issue of how to brainwash a person, but, I think, not to emphasize methods to  "take back control of your mind". But the lesson is there: that understanding the past can fortify you against this unceasing brainwashing that we are all subject to by living in the capitalist US/Anglo/Zionist Empire where the past is re-written.)

• U.S. Household Eviction Crisis: 43% of American Renters Now Face Risk of Eviction by Eric Zuesse from Global Research. (My reaction: I can't restrain the impulse to ask the social-democratic (def.) Zuesse: How is capitalism working out for ya?)

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

• Combat breathing: The spirit of rebellion in the US by Nigel C Gibson from New Frame, a South African website.

• The White Black Nationalist Color Revolution by CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (My reaction: I think Hopkins is too cynical. Okay, so the ruling class has instituted a well-funded and organized color revolution, but the people don't have to go along with their agenda. The suffering people can organize themselves and establish their own agenda independent of the ruling class who want to provoke chaos in order to establish a more overt fascism in their backyard. But are the people capable of doing this? It is too soon to determine the outcome. But just because the ruling class, confident in having brainwashed most Americans, has decided to desperately gamble with stirring up the American people, the latter according to Hopkins should resist this desperate move by quietly submitting to their program.)

• Don’t. Side. With. The. Powerful. by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.
  

• Are worst-case climate scenarios less likely, as media reports of a new scientific paper suggest? by David Spratt from his weblog Climate Code Red. (Note: His short answer is "no". This is another example of wishful thinking that is normal for the ruling class who are faced with their own demise as a ruling class.)

• FDA Director Peter Marks and the Ever-Shifting COVID Vaccine Narrative by Robert F, Kennedy, Jr., Chairman, Children’s Health Defense from the latter's website.
  

• YouTube outlaws “contradicting” the World Health Organization by Catte Black from Off-Guardian.

• COVID-19-driven famine | The pandemic might see millions of children go hungry, a video from RT.

• The curse of ‘both-sidesism’: How climate denial skewed media coverage for 30 years by Joseph Winters from Grist.
  

• Elon Musk Confesses to Lithium Coup in Bolivia from TeleSur.

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

• The U.S. Empire Is Ending? A Turning Point in World History by Eric Zuesse from Global Research.

• WHO Hired the PR Firm Behind the Kuwaiti Incubator Babies Lie by Kevin McCauley from Anti-Empire. (Note: At first I was skeptical of this post because there was no supporting link to its allegation in the headline. At first, I thought it may be in the original post from a trade website O’Dweyer’s PR News. I then went on a hunt for supporting documentation for about 20 minutes to uncover the supporting link which should have been included in this post.)

• Post-Brexit Agrochemical Apocalypse for the UK? by Colin Todhunter from Off-Guardian.

• WATCH: The Face Mask Debate from Off-Guardian. (Note: I am posting this re-post from the original source because it offers more links about the debate.)

• The U.S. Empire Is Ending? A Turning Point in World History by Eric Zuesse from Global Research.

• Gunshot To Head, Parkinson's Disease, Deaths In Palm Beach Incorrectly Attributed To COVID-19 by Tyler Durden from ZeroHedge.

• As US Eviction Crisis Looms, Remember That Poverty Is Weaponized By The Elite by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• From Covid to crime: how media hype distorts risk by Tom Chivers from UnHerd.

• Cybereason Announces New Plans to “Accelerate” Access to US Govt Networks Ahead of 2020 Election by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond.

While these narratives have asserted that China, Russia and/or Iran will be to blame for such attacks, it is worth noting that a tight-knit web of Israeli state-owned and private companies tied to Israeli military intelligence now run the software controlling key parts of the power grid in New York, California and elsewhere in the U.S.; are the main global producers of deep fakes; and the main providers of “security” software for self-driving and semi-self-driving cars, the quantity of which on U.S. streets has grown dramatically as a result of the coronavirus crisis. 

With Cybereason’s newly announced push to run its software on critical U.S. government networks at both the federal and state levels, the company’s history of simulating terror attacks on critical U.S. infrastructure and their openly admitted and on-going ties to Israeli military intelligence deserve more scrutiny than ever as the U.S. election draws closer.

• The Rising Resistance to the New Abnormal by Dave Cullen from the channel Computing Forever (via YouTube). (Note: I recommend listening to all of it. Cullen gets better as the video goes along.)

• Edge of Extinction: 1, 2, 3, UNICORNS! featuring Guy McPherson commenting in a short video on his European trip. From his YouTube channel Nature Bats Last.

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

• Iran-Russia-China: a strategic alliance is born while the US loses ground and allies by Elijah J Magnier from his weblog. My reaction: this remainder of an article, the full text of which lies behind a well-deserved paywall, points to a real fact that, I think, lies behind the global project of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire: the current coronavirus pandemic. The transnational capitalist class that rules the Empire is deeply frustrated, and out of this frustration, desperately lashing out at not only the "deplorables" and the "dumb fucks" in the USA, but the whole world, or most of the world they control. Future events will reveal the validity or invalidity of this argument.

• Boogaloo Movement: USA Far Right is Growing Thanks to Donald Trump by Robert Fantina from Peace Data. My commentary follows:

The author argues, which most social-democratic people are arguing on CounterPunch, that Trump represents a fascist position which people must disavow and by electing Joe Biden, the ruling class candidate. The established ruling class has cleverly provoked this response from Trump via their media, but it is only a ploy. 

This way they can have it both ways: blame Trump for fascist methods and pretend to be anti-fascist. Either way, they win the election. They prefer their methods of soft fascism by controlling the propaganda-laced information that the public receives, but they don't really reject hard fascism. Now some people are wondering if Trump will leave office even if he loses the election, but this is a phony and misleading argument that Democracy Now is noted for.

The main ruling class has command of the armed forces and "intelligence" agencies, and they can remove him anytime they want as they did with the assassination of John Kennedy--and he won the election. Kennedy deeply offended the ruling class by not joining them in their imperial adventures in Cuba and Vietnam. Trump does what the main ruling classes choose not to do, but approve anyway.

• Sweden: the One Chart That Matters by Mike Whitney from The Unz Review. 

• Masters and Slaves by Keith Mann, a Brit, from his weblog.  

• Narrative Is Crumbling by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

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

• Arctic sea ice could disappear completely within two months' time from Arctic News. 

• A Front-Row Seat for the Arctic’s Final Summers With Ice by Laura Millan Lombrana and others from Bloomberg.

• Wildfires off to slow start in much of the West, but trouble expected starting in mid-July by Jeff Masters, Ph.D. from Yale Climate Connections. 

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

• Who is the Most Dangerous Fascist? by Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report. My commentary follows:
  

Ford demonstrates his much improved analytical skills with this essay. He, for the first time that I can recall, distinguishes the difference between old-fashioned fascism and the new slicked-up brand of what I prefer to name neo-fascism. The latter has relied on mostly mind control techniques made possible by the advancements of what the ruling class prefers to call "public relations". This they do by controlling the thoughts and information of the "hoi polloi" who they regard as "dumb fucks" and "deplorables". With the indispensable aid of the highly trained upper-middle-class, the ruling class has made their fortunes and power by their co-optation of this class by rewarding them with lucrative careers and insuring their well-being.

As long as the ruling class oppressed other people of the world through endless direct and indirect military operations and directing their police to ruthlessly crushed any opposition coming from black and brown Americans, "good" Americans went along. The ruling class using neofascist techniques: ubiquitous propaganda that we were protecting foreign people from "human rights" violations, that we are a "democracy", White Helmets, etc, the "good" ordinary Americans, distracted by endless entertainment, willingly went along. 

But now when America and its Empire appear to be suffering defeats one after another, the ruling class is frustrated and worried that they are losing control (read about an example of a power/control-freak). Hence they are engaging in a dangerous gamble with this hyped-up corona pandemic to punish ordinary Americans for voting the wrong way in 2016 (and other reasons) while enjoying the current spectacle of Trump's old-fashioned fascism that will likely wreck his chances for a second term. The neofascism of the main ruling class will seem like a blessing compared to Trumps old-fashioned fascism, but appearances are deceiving. Where this will end is anybody's guess, but it looks like there will be two likely scenarios: a global nuclear war or else a slow agonizing cooking of the occupants of our planet Earth. In any case, I think we are entering the final stages of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. One thing is certain: there are many dangerous years ahead with widespread suffering for ordinary people of the world, including many "good" (obedient) Americans.

• Media Continues to Misreport Unemployment: 31.8 Million People on State & Federal Unemployment Insurance. Week 18 of U.S. Labor Market Collapse by Wolf Richter from Wolf Street.
  

• New CDC and WHO Study Proves No Evidence Face Masks Prevent Virus featuring Ben Swann, journalist, who explains again why, in spite of the objections of Facebook "fact-checkers", proves that randomized control research studies prove that there is no evidence in support of wearing a face mask to prevent transmission of coronavirus. Posted on Swann's website Truth in Media.

• If COVID Fatalities Were 90.2% Lower, How Would You Feel About Schools Reopening? by H. Ealy and others from Children's Health Defense.

• And this is all just the beginning from The Crowhouse channel via YouTube. (Note: This video begins at 50 seconds in order to miss the ad.)
  

• Did Sweden Get COVID Right? by Dr. Joseph Mercola from his weblog.
  

• MAJOR: UK Officially Admits Its Test And Trace Program is Unlawful, Breaches Citizens’ Privacy by Drago Bosnic from FRN (based in Serbia).
  

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

• Video: Germany’s COVID-19 Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry. This was posted on Global Research, a Canadian website. Note: I've spent an extraordinary time researching this article and the German website ACU which, translated into English, means Extra-Parliamentary Corona Committee of Inquiry. I recommend reading the English transcript which I accessed by the previous link. Dr. Heiko Schöning appears to be an ordinary German physician, I don't know about Dr. Bodo Schiffmann except that he appears to be an ordinary German physician. The last speaker is Prof. Haditsch who is, according to his testimony, a well-qualified specialist:

My personal motivation for participating in this is basically that I am a specialist in microbiology, virology, and infection epidemiology, and that, from a professional point of view, I am deeply appalled by the completely unobjective, unprofessional approach in this matter.

• Video: The COVID-19 Lockdown: Economic and Social Impacts posted on Global Research. Peter Koenig is interviewed by Prof Michel Chossudovsky regard the pandemic lockdown.

• The COVID Panic Is a Lesson in Using Statistics to Get Your Way in Politics by Ryan McMaken from Mises Institute.

• John Ioannidis Warned COVID-19 Could Be a “Once-In-A-Century” Data Fiasco. He Was Right by Jon Miltimore from Foundation for Economic Education. 

• Heated Vaccine Debate - Kennedy Jr. vs Dershowitz from Valuetainment channel of YouTube. (Note: I am posting this debate because Edward Curtin has endorsed it. Kennedy is a veritable encyclopedia of information on this topic. I usually do not post any articles or videos that are over one hour.)

• Judy Mikovits & Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. posted on The Press and the Public Project and the video was produced by Vimeo (this is only part 1 of 3). (Note: The video starts at about 35 seconds. Also, I direct you to the research about masks that is included at the bottom of the page.)

• Trump, Congress condemn unemployed to starve by  Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site.

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

• 5 Reasons Your Friends Mistrust COVID19 Case Numbers by Author Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. (My reaction: If you think that the capitalist ruling class or their employees in the government care about your health, I have a couple of fine bridges to sell you.)

• U.S. Orders Up to 600 Million Doses of Pfizer, BioNTech Covid Vaccine by James Paton from Bloomberg. 

• Dispatches from the War: To Dr. Scott Atlas and Dr. John Ioannidis by Jon Rappoport from his weblog.

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

• Climate change: Summers could become 'too hot for humans' by David Shukman from BBC News. 

• Killing Americans. Health Departments Aren’t Equipped to Respond. From Covering Climate Now.

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

• Corruption in The Medical Field: US Doctors Threatened Over Hydroxychlorquine Use. Dr. Fauci is Blocking HCQ by Prof Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research.

• Gates and Gov. Cuomo Take Advantage of COVID-19 and Re-Imagine the NY Education System by Curtis Cost from Children's Health Defense. 

• U.S. Claims Diplomatic Immunity For Covid-19 - Shuts Down Chinese Consulate by Bernhard (German) from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• WOOPSIE! Lockdown May Cost 200,000 Lives, UK Government Report Shows by Sarah Knapton from Anti-Empire. 

• Russian Scientist Says Second COVID Wave Impossible in Moscow, the City Already Well on Its Way to Herd Immunity byJohn Helmer from Anti-Empire.

• COVID-19 Cases At Carswell Spike To More Than 500 As Reality Winner Tests Positive, Faces Retaliation by Kevin Gosztola from ShadowProof. (Note: Although Gosztola mentions the sister of Leigh Winner several times, I could not find Leigh's name mentioned once. Leigh Winner is a whistleblower accused, convicted, and imprisoned by a ruling class court of revealing government classified secrets. She, according to her sister, is not showing symptoms yet, but has been tested positive for COVID-19 and faces further punishment by prison authorities.)

• Catch and Kill: The Protection Racket Used by Trump, Weinstein, Epstein and Wall Street by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. (Note: The Martens disclose the more sophisticated means of censorship used by the ruling capitalist class.)

• The “Russia Report”: Deep State reinforcing delusion to spread fear and seize power by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. 

... it’s just the latest of the Deep State’s plays to secure as much power as possible as quickly as possible. If anything, it already feels old-fashioned, being authored in a pre-Covid world, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be put to use in service of the world’s “new normal”.

• Washington’s Anti-Chinese “Pan-Asian Alliance” by Tony Cartalucci from New Eastern Outlook.

•  Extreme Heat Is a Climate Story. So Are its Unequal Impacts. From Covering Climate Now.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• The Great Reset Fraud by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. My commentary follows:

I am getting sick and tired of pointing to the biases of post WWII intellectuals like Zuesse and now Ehret. Their adoration of FDR is always evident and they stay comfortably away from naming the system. Ehret names the system "oligarchism" to avoid naming it capitalism. His only mention of it is when he quotes WEF (World Economic Forum) head Klaus Schwab who doesn't hesitate to name the system which has given so much wealth and power to his peers. That's right, you have to be a major capitalist or sycophant to name the system. All others must engage in Orwell's "newspeak". This phenomenon is another characteristic of people who have been "educated" in North American educational institutions of higher education since WWII. Bruce Lerro described the purge of leftwing intellectuals during the McCarthy period (early 1950s), and such people nowadays live in fear for their careers if they should take the name "capitalism" in vain (def. #3). Most avoid the term altogether.

The June 3 event named The Great Reset organized by the WEF is another piece of evidence why I think that the current coronavirus pandemic was instigated by agents of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. The transnational capitalists have not even blinked at the appearance of this pandemic. All the evidence suggests that they engineered it to solve many of their problems such as a perfect cover for a 2nd bank bailouts by the Federal Reserve, their obsession with getting rid of Trump after the next election, ridding themselves of "useless eaters" (retired workers and the "deplorables"), their attempt to reduce the burden of population on the environment, etc. After the assassinations of the Kennedys, MLK, etc., the phony War of Drugs, 9/11, the Iraq invasions, the phony War on Terrorism, etc, why should we not believe that this pandemic was caused by them?

• Media Mask-Mania, or Covid19 Groupthink by Michael Lesher from Off-Guardian.

• Cogs in the Climate Machine by Julia Steinberger, Swiss-American ecological economist at the University of Leeds, from Scientists’ Warning. (Note: I do not know why there are gaps in this article, but keep scrolling down to the end of the article.)

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.