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.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I especially like the following paragraph:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This, our capitalism – or death for all

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THIS IS ALL I HAVE TIME AND ENERGY FOR.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Why they hate Sweden by Fraser Myers from Spiked.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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