Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, January 28, 2021

• Protecting Individual Rights December 2020in the Era of COVID-19 from Children's Health Defense.
  

• Remember Overwhelmed Hospitals Across the US Three Years Ago? by Jeremy Hammond from his weblog.

• Judge Temporarily Blocks Cuomo’s Indoor Dining Ban in Ongoing Lawsuit by Ethan Yang from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• The Leadership Institute: PR School for Right-wingers by Karl Grossmany from CounterPunch. 

• With "Biden" in the White House, the Kremlin Now Needs to Change Gear by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) for The Unz Review. My commentary follows: 

Raevsky is an American whose Russian ancestry in the White Armies (largely British supported) has enabled him to become the most informed American about Russian politics. His ancestry has shaped his views of today's Russia, and as such he is a Russian patriot. The Russia of today is not the Soviet Union, a revolutionary government in the early years that became soon ruled by Stalin and his loyal bureaucracy under the onslaught of 14 capitalist armies and failure of the revolutionaries to spread their revolution in the advanced capitalist countries. 

Today's Russia has opted to follow the path of China with a mixed economy (mixture of capitalist and state enterprises with the government in command) in order to pursue an independent path that is in opposition to the hegemonic US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. As a Russian patriot, he is on board with that path which has already shown signs of strengthening. 

The development of a Russia-China threat to the Empire exists because the capitalist directors of the Empire have so far refused to withdraw their commitment to hegemony. This is unfortunate because it means that China and Russia must accelerate their economic growth to counter the Empire's goal of world hegemony. By doing so, they will hasten the destruction of the environment and cause accelerated deterioration of the climate thereby contributing to the extinction of humans and most other species. However, I see no other good choice.

• Ajamu Baraka: We Are Entering a New Totalitarian Era featuring a discussion between
  Ajamu Baraka and Ann Garrison from Black Agenda Report.

• Why Biden installing Obama-era hawks in senior roles and preparing to fire up the War Machine again is very bad news for Syrians by Vanessa Beeley from her weblog The Wall Will Fall.
  

• The Israel-UAE Project Which Will Damage Egypt And Force Saudi Normalization by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: Click on the following map to enlarge.)

• Dijjywan—Dijjydo or Dijjydon’t? by Fred Reed from The Unz Review. (Note: This is an examination of China's digital money that is about to be released.) My reaction: This development will only make a radical democracy more essential than ever. I don't expect the appearance of radical democracy before the extinction of humans.

• A Domestic Terrorism Law? War on Dissent Will Proceed Full Speed Ahead by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Now that our masters set the Great Reset in motion, they expect, and will get, backlash from all those workers who they consider expendable. Hang on to your seats because the future looks like an extremely bumpy ride.

• Newspeak in the 21st Century: How to Become a Model Citizen in the New Era of Domestic Warfare by Cynthia Chung from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

Though you are well on your way to becoming a model citizen in the 21st century, you still have a little ways to go. It is for this reason that a guide to 21st century Newspeak has been recently released to make sure that well-intentioned citizens like yourself are fully informed of what is required of you in terms of appropriate behaviour, as well as appropriate thoughts, and though this will take a little more time, appropriate instincts.

Don't worry, she provides the guide, or the updated version of Orwell's Newspeak, in this article.

But I notice, and object to, this clause which reveals the influence of a North American "education". Chung, a Canadian writes: "All of these means are necessary if we are to realise that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism, ...." She evidently doesn't realize the extensive threats that collectives posed for the capitalist enemies of socialism. Her use of "collective" and "collectivism", which was always used in association with an historical effort to gather individual worker skills to confront the overwhelming power of capitalists, shows that she, too, is a victim of capitalist indoctrination.

• The Liberation of Auschwitz from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note this statement: "Today, the liberation of the largest Nazi death camp by Russia's Red Army is a fact that is largely missing from the western collective memory.")
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, January 27, 2021

• COVID causes widest inequality gap in over a century from Oxfam via their channel on YouTube. 

• The Great Reopening featuring James Corbett from The Corbett Report reporting on the beginning of a worldwide reopening of small businesses.

• Supporting Democracy Abroad If It Gives The ‘Right’ Results by Rod Driver from Elephants in the Room via Medium.

• US media hide malignant and destabilizing US actions in plain sight, while accusing an official enemy of the same by Stephan Gowans (a Canadian geopolitical analyst) from his weblog What's Left.

• Individual Rights and Freedoms Under Siege in Era of COVID by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. from Children's Health Defense.
  

• Reflecting the Authoritarian Climate, Washington Will Remain Militarized Until At Least March by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack.

• Pesticide-Coated Seeds: Huge Risks to Food System, Little Benefit to Farmers by Daniel Raichel from Children's Health Defense. 
  

• Is it too late to avoid 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming? from Just Have a Think channel on YouTube.

• Science Update: January 27, 2021 featuring Dr. Guy McPherson reviewing the latest scienfic findings in peer-reviewed science literature (via his channel on YouTube).
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, January 26, 2021

• New Stanford Study Claims Lockdowns Are Not Effective To Stop Spread of COVID by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.
  

• Poor Nations Left Reeling After Bill Gates Advised Oxford to Ditch Open Source COVID Vaccine by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis).   

... behind the scenes, the Oxford team reneged on their promise, signing an exclusive deal with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, who made no commitment to selling the lifesaving vaccine at a low price. Even less well-known is that the decision was taken at the behest of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. “We went to Oxford and said, ‘Hey, you’re doing brilliant work,’” Gates said, “But…you really need to team up.” The 65-year-old tech tycoon is a strong proponent of patents and spends much of his time shaping global health policy. 

James Love, director of Knowledge Ecology International, a nonprofit that works to expand access to medical technology, said that “Gates has staked out this outsized role in the vaccine world…He has an ideological belief that the intellectual property system is a wonderful mechanism that is necessary for innovation and prosperity.” 

The decision to put profit before people is likely to have a devastating impact on the Global South.

• ‘The health of the people should be the supreme law’ by Elliot Sperber from Climate & Capitalism. 

• Right On Cue For Biden, WHO Admits High-Cycle PCR Tests Produce COVID False Positives by Tyler Durden from ZeroHedge.  

• Twitter Rolls Out New Wikipedia-Like Program To Narrative Manage Tweets by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. A best post.

• Hillary Clinton set to produce TV show about female Kurdish fighters by Alex MacDonald from Middle East Eye (based in London). My reaction: Is this a sign of things to come: renewed efforts by the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire to re-engage in Syria now that Joe Biden, another Deep State acolyte, is in office? I think--yes. I view propaganda as one of the best signals that point to changes in Empire policies. The directors of the Empire regard manipulation of views, especially targeting the American audience, as a primary means to reach their objectives. The fact that this high-profile representative of the ruling class has joined an effort using identity politics as a weapon to encourage a renewed effort to conquer Syria is an important omen of one objective of the Empire's foreign policy.
  

• Meet Antony ‘Blinkered’ – Biden’s Choice for America’s Top Diplomat by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. My commentary follows: 

I see Cunningham's accurate portrayal of the new Sec. of State as another indication that the US is returning to the more "sophisticated" capitalist ruling class faction that has ruled American during the past 75 years except during the recent brief Trump regime. It is a difference of style and some substance between the older fascism of Trump and the return to the more sophisticated style and substance of neofascism that is used by the main ruling class.

Neofascism uses a more updated version of propaganda and psychological operations than did the older authoritarian style epitomized by the Nazis which used crude propaganda and censorship. The main faction of the capitalist ruling class regarded Trump and his followers as rank amateurs and an unfortunate accident. Now they will return to the more sophisticated methods of neofascism (fascism 2.0) and to their objective to establish a new world order under their control (see also a longer, detailed history of past efforts at establishing a capitalist "new world order").

• Internecine and Existential Struggles in a Transformed World by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation.

... much has changed .... The structure of the U.S. economy now is unrecognisably different to the myth of U.S. capitalism: Asset markets have been severed from their true returns, and soar away – unconstrained from any anchor in cash earnings; price discovery, via market interaction, no longer exists; markets are not free, but Treasury managed; enterprise capitalism has morphed into monopolistic oligarchism; innovation and small businesses have been crushed; fewer Americans work for younger companies; inequality is rampant; money printing and debt are no longer limited by any prudent considerations – but rather as an exciting MMT ‘opportunity’ ahead; and interest rates no longer act as the mechanism by which capital is directed to its most effective and productive, use. Big changes, all.

• How the FBI Created Domestic Terrorism: 80 Years of Psychological Warfare Revealed by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation.

... if it is revealed that the thing we call “terrorism”, is something other than a naturally occurring, self-organized phenomenon, but rather something which only exists due to vast support from western political agencies, then a very different conclusion must be arrived at which may be disturbing for some.

• US Targets China over Tibet by Brian Berletic from New Eastern Outlook. 

• The ‘Humanitarian’ Left Still Ignores the Lessons of Iraq, Libya and Syria to Cheer on More War by Jonathan Cook from Transcend Media Service.
  

• US-backed Billionaire Hides Behind Class Warfare Rhetoric by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. My reaction: Simply amazing that the supporters of a billionaire family would turn reality on its head! Berletic is convincing in this view regarding Thailand's politics due to his establishment of a record of authentic journalism on other geopolitical subjects.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, January 24, 2021

• The Will to Believe: Americans and their Divine Masters by Edward Curtin from Off-Guardian.
  

• That’s All Folks! by CJ Hopkins, a master satirist who offers his take on the exit of Pres. Trump from the White House and related matters.  

• Mob mentality: Capitol riot exploited to expand the national security state that failed to stop it by Aaron Maté from The Grayzone.
  

• Catherine Austin Fitts on The State of Our Currencies featuring James Corbett and Catherine Austin Fitts discussing solutions at a high level of abstraction via 33:34m video from The Corbett Report. My reaction: I don't normally post such discussions, but this post sounds so promising. Because their discussion is such a high level of abstraction, I can't understand most of what they are talking about. Can you? But I will be patient and wait for further clarification.

• Telegram Passes 500 Million Users As People Seek Facebook & Twitter (Big Tech) Alternatives by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution.
  

• The Enthronement of False Dimitry, and What Will Happen Next by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• The Illusion of Democracy: Government by the Rich for the Even Richer by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room. My reaction: He seriously understates our fake democracy.
  

• Confessions of a Deprogrammed Trump Supporter by Canadian Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. My commentary follows: 

In this article Ehret is doing an obvious parody of a "deprogrammed" Trump supporter which is showing signs of becoming the latest fake theme in today's "news" provided by media corporations in America (see also this post). 

Matthew Ehret is developing of following. He is becoming a "political genius" by increasing numbers of acolytes of America and abroad. He joins a list of several other "geniuses" (James Corbett, Derrick Broze, etc.) of American politics who are proposing to lead the way out of the political mess the country is in. Ehret's articles are posted on popular critical websites like Strategic Culture Foundation and Fort Russ News (the latter appears to be posting exclusively his articles). Let me be clear--I don't share this current fawning and fashionable trend. I occasionally post articles authored by these people that shed some light on current problems. Although these "geniuses" function as good critics of American politics, they don't offer any effective solutions to this growing crisis of capitalist rule.

Ehret is another carefully guided well-read person whose mind has been prepared by 75 years of Empire "education" that forbade any reference to Marxist thought or ideas. In 1963 I graduated from a major university with a BA degree in political sociology, but I was never assigned a reading by Marx or Marxist oriented writers! I had to use the university's library to read such literature.

• What Snowden's Exile Says About America by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Berletic is an American, and former member of the Marine Corps, who lives in Thailand.)
  

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

• Faces of Lockdowns by Amelia Janaskie, Jenin Younes, and Taleed Brown from American Institute for Economic Research. (Note: This post features three people from New York City who comment (via video) about the effects of the pandemic on the people they serve and on themselves. None of the three videos are longer than 12:04m. If this interested you, you may also be interested in a video on how the lockdown is affecting French students.)
  

• Risks of the Pfizer BioNtech vaccine – Dr. Louise Lagendijk (video) posted by Vanessa Beeley on her weblog The Wall Will Fall.
  

• Can US Workers Be Dismissed for Refusing to Be Vaxxed? by Stephen Lendman from Global Research.
  

• The Vaccine Race: Yet Another US Weapon for World Domination by Valery Kulikov from New Eastern Outlook. 

• Decentralization Urgent as Big Tech Condemns Free Speech by Dr. Joseph Mercola from his weblog Mercola.

• The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Is the covid ‘pandemic’ merely economic theatre? by Maribel Tuff from Off-Guardian. (Note: This post offers some relatively different views on the pandemic and related matters.)
  

• Indian Farmers on the Frontline Against Global Capitalism by Colin Todhunter from Off-Guardian.
  

• Deir Ezzor is a Sign of Things to Come by "The Ister" for "The Saker" Blog.
  

• Realizing the Dream of Communal Cities: A Conversation with Jennifer Lemus and José Luis Sifontes by Cira Pascual Marquina from Internationalist 360°. My commentary follows:

Although ordinary people in this article credit Hugo Chávez for their communal structure, I think that such people should be credited for the realization of bottom-up control of their nation of Venezuela come true. They have been severely tested by the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire and have passed the test.

In a two week visit in late 2005 in which we visited various communes and listening to officials, I wasn't impressed by their support. I don't think that the bureaucrats that were appointed by Chavez truly believed that such a project was possible--even Chavez didn't take the communal structure seriously enough. Chavez too often used the communal structure as a political base for his elections, and I found some of the officials in his government unaware of the details of the communal structure. My commentary in 2010 reveals my doubts about the Venezuelan radical experiment.

But thanks to ordinary people like Lemus and Sifontes, the nation is on the way to implementing the dreams of Chavez and the people of Venezuela.

• Twitter Latin America coordinator exposed as right-wing operative, amid anti-AMLO social media purge by Ben Norton from The Grayzone.
  

• Gen Z’s Call to Arms: Climate Crisis, to 9:57m video from RT (via a YouTube channel) in which Holland Cooke interviews Dr. Reese Halter, biologist and author.

Gen Z activists worldwide are answering a call to arms, as climate change continues to be a looming existential threat. Biologist and author of “The Gen Z Emergency” Dr. Reese Halter explains how our click-happy consumer culture has fueled the decline of global ecosystems. The youth of 2021 are taking matters into their own hands, acknowledging the failures of their predecessors to combat ecological extinction events.

• Complex Life Threatened by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, January 22, 2021

• Experts Warn Civil Rights Fallout from COVID Could be Far Worse Than the Pandemic Itself by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.

• Biden's back | George Galloway’s take on what’s next for America from the channel of RT on YouTube.

• Why Donald Trump Had to Go by Peter Koenig from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• Mob mentality: Capitol riot exploited to expand the national security state that failed to stop it featuring Max Blumenthal, who lives near the downtown in Washington DC, giving his on-the-spot views of recent events in a 57 minute interview conducted by Aaron Maté from The Grayzone. My reaction: Blumenthal's on-the-scene report lends support that the January 6th supposed attack of Congress was a pre-planned psychological operation.

• Fake Lower Class Coup, Real Upper Class Bigotry, Near Social Collapse by Frank Scott from Dissident Voice. 
  

• New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato featuring both James commenting initially regarding planned proposals by billionaire Bill Gates and later other crimes that are being committed by our ruling class posted on The Corbett Report. True to his anarchist ideology, Corbett declares that people like Bill Gates is "not the font (def. #2)" (around 4:20m) of these crimes, "the government is the problem" (12:35m). He does not yet identify the system and its rewards in the form of wealth and power that seems to always end up in the hands of a tiny class of billionaire capitalists. He continues to mix-up the problem, the capitalist system, with the government which is only a facade constructed by the ancestors of the ruling class and sponsored by this tiny class of billionaires--a ruling class whose power shapes all of our institutions. I can't wait for his "solutions" (sarcasm).

• The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d’État and the “Great Reset” by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research. This is an E-book summarizing all of his articles regarding the "pandemic". My commentary follows:

The Covid-19 pandemic which is real but exaggerated to a great extent by ruling class's control of the media, using bribes to hospitals to identify an upper-respiratory illness as Covid-19, pressure on doctors to diagnose anything that looks like coronavirus to do the same, tests like PCR that the creator of the test, Kary Mullis, severely criticizes as inappropriate, censorship of all voices in opposition no matter how qualified they are, etc.

I can't entirely figure out where Chossudovsky's views are coming from. He has in prior years severely criticized those who worried about the deterioration of our environment and the climate crisis. He hints of that position in this article by writing:

The same philanthropic foundations (Rockefeller, Ford, Soros, et al) which are the unspoken architects of the “Great Reset” and “Global Governance” are also involved in (generously) financing Climate Change activism, the Extinction Rebellion, the World Social Forum, Black Lives Matters, LGBT, et al.

He mixes in the climate crisis with all the nefarious projects that are sponsored by the capitalist ruling class. The latter, which is unsolvable under their system, has been worrying them since The Club of Rome issued its 1972 report "The Limits to Growth" which correctly recognizes that infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible. However, the emphasis was on population growth which ironically had been previously celebrated by capitalist sources because the increase of population always meant more customers for their products. The international capitalist ruling classes have been worried about this problem ever since. The Great Reset is often cited by critics as an example of a population reduction project, that is, a reduction of "useless eaters" (those who do not contribute to the profits of major corporations) as a major objective of its project under the cover of protecting people's health.

Perhaps he, too, is an anarchist.

• Zoom Privilege: How Lockdowns Made the Rich Richer by Jordan Schachtel from American Institute for Economic Research.

• Washington Post “Expert” Linked to Defense Companies Hypes North Korea Missile Threat by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

Presented as a neutral authority, the Washington Post did not inform its readers that the IISS is largely funded and overseen by the weapons industry, with five of its six most generous contributors — Airbus, BAE Systems, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon — major defense manufacturers, each donating six-figure sums. The IISS’ council includes a former NATO Secretary General and previously included the CEO of Lockheed Martin.

• Another Mega Group Spy Scandal? Samanage, Sabotage, and the SolarWinds Hack by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond. (Note: Because this article deals with a lot technical information regarding computers, it would be helpful for one to have some knowledge of computer science.)

• Navalny Should Be Released by Craig Murray, a whistleblower from Scotland, an article from his weblog that gives us a true scoop (with his recommendations) about the latest Empire propaganda project regarding a Russian "dissident".
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, January 21, 2021

• America's Social Credit System by Felix Rex from his channel on YouTube. (Note: The main message of the video starts at 2:41m and ends at 15:06m.)
  

• The Making of US Empire at the dawning of its end by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker Blog". My reaction: This is essentially a book review of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy by Stephen Wertheim. Escobar clearly approves of this history of the formation of the US Empire, which I have for several years named "US/Anglo/Zionist Empire". Wertheim's history appears to dovetail nicely with my version of the origins of this empire contained in such posts as "Countdown to 'Full Spectrum Dominance'" and "Understanding America’s Many Wars".
  

• After 'Incredible First Steps' on KXL and Paris, Biden Urged to 'Go Further' on Climate by Jessica Corbett from Common Dreams. My reaction: This liberal (in the current sense in the USA that promises only reforms to the capitalist system benefiting ordinary people) website celebrates the return to "normal": by thinking that the Biden administration will go forward to enact serious environmental regulations. The latter will only pretend as they have for so many years. Such liberals will be silent with the disappointing results, and they will be well-rewarded with solid careers for their silence. The capitalist ruling class, which supports both parties in our "democracy", will never compromise their system in any way that interferes with their access to their highly addictive drugs of wealth and power. But the corrupted Democratic Party will now promote the ruling class's agenda that results in the culling of "deplorable" workers ("useless eaters") not only in America, but across the globe as their preferred way to cope with the climate crisis. As for foreign policy, which few Americans pay attention to, it will be more of the same.

• Vaccine Will Not Reverse Economic Problems by Shawgi Tell from Dissident Voice.
  

• The peril of high atmospheric methane levels by Andrew Glikson from Arctic News.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, January 20, 2021

• Same Networks that Sold Us War Promote Pfizer’s Vaccines featuring Brian Berletic in a 9:28m video (via YouTube) from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.

• Italian Doctors Sanctioned for Raising Questions About COVID Vaccine by Michael Day from Anti-Empire. 

• Two Years to Stop the Spread: Australia to Shut Borders Until 2022 Despite Vaccine by Michael Day from The BMJ.

• The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming by Glenn Greenwald from Substack. 

• 15a) War Propaganda 2: The Cult of Militarism by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room. My commentary follows: 
  
  I detected two biases in this otherwise excellent article: the understandable bias of George Orwell and the bias of Rod Driver whose immersion in capitalist propaganda explains his bias. I'll not get into all the propaganda uses of the word "communism", but it is a word that is diametrically opposed to capitalism, and this explains why communism is always and everywhere trashed in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.
  
  You have to know about the history of the Soviet Union to understand how this word is used to defame communism. You have to know about the visceral hatred and actual deeds that capitalist ideologues have toward, and against, any system that opposes the private ownership and control of the economy. But you will have a hard time to access information about either subject in any location where the Empire exists--such is the power of capitalist ruling classes to censor and propagandize any subject.
  
  Understanding Orwell's attitude toward the Soviet Union is derived from his experience fighting for the newly elected government in Spain during the 1930s. This experience added to an understanding of the history of the Soviet Union illuminates Orwell's attitude toward what he saw as "communism", but in reality was central planning of the economy by a privileged bureaucratic class as represented by Stalinist rule. To create this understanding, read my commentary of a year ago in which I criticized Rainer Shea's article and explained why the Soviet Union withdrew forces from the Spanish Civil War. I would add the factual history that the Soviets were severely degraded by the constant invasions from many capitalist countries, mainly by the British Empire that aspired to rule the world and which had a visceral antagonism against any form of socialism, or public ownership and control of the economy.
   
• I’m Blocked From Uploading to GooTube (and Other News) by James Corbett from his weblog The Corbett Report.  
  

• A Soviet Dissident Explains American Censorship by Barry Brownstein from American Institute for Economic Research.  
  

• Biden Lifts Health Care Plan From Insurance Lobbyists by Andrew Perez and Julia Rock from The Daily Poster. 
  

• Here Are 18 Ways Trump Supported The Swamp During His Presidency by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, January 19, 2021

• Freedom Airway featuring a 24:22m interview with Professor Delores Cahill, who has a degree in molecular biology, conducted by James Corbett from his weblog The Corbett Report.
  

Professor Delores Cahill joins the deprogram today to discuss a solution for freedom-respecting travel in the age of COVID. The Freedom Airway & Freedom Travel Alliance is seeking to create travel options that don’t require travelers to submit to vaccination, face masks or quarantines.

• Government Mistakes Provided the Breeding Ground for the Mutant Virus, Which it is Now Using as an Alibi for Its Failures by Patrick Cockburn from CounterPunch. My reaction: Cockburn's observations regarding the poorest areas of Britain produces an argument that the ruling class's government knowingly allowed the coronavirus to mutate and spread among the poor. Because Britain's poorest go without immediate access to quality medical services and that they had to keep working to survive, the ruling class had perfect alibis to cull the poor from their nation. Could the rich directors of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire have engineered this virus in their secret bio-weapon laboratories in order to cull the "useless eaters" from their population? One might suspect so because they are guilty of other social crimes (wars for one) of this magnitude. This suspicion leads one to the insight that the global pandemic is a class war that the Empire's capitalist ruling classes are committed to winning.

• Why I Became a “Covid Denier” by Kevin Smith from Off-Guardian (based in Britain).
  

• January 6 Was An Inside Job featuring in a 26:03m podcast Abby Martin, Mike Prysner, and Brian Becker, who has made a study of the Jan. 6 incident, discuss why they think it was an "inside job". I suspect that it was a Deep State project carried out by the secret intelligence services to prepare the public (psy-op) for more legislation curbing civil-rights of the general public. But I do not agree with them in their prediction that the "powers that be" will legally go after Trump to the extent of imprisoning him. If you have a special interest in this event, you may be also interested in a piece of investigative journalism entitled "Was Trump Ousted from the Military Chain of Command?" from the same website.

• How Billionaires Transfer Blame to Others by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: Zuesse is always careful to portray the US government as determined by an "aristocracy" of wealth in order to avoid the Marxist expression "ruling class". You see, any hint of Marxism is verboten in the USA.

• Russia Withdraws From Open Skies Treaty After US Departure by Om Marathe from Anti-Empire.
  

• Continuity of Agenda: Trump’s was Obama’s will be Biden’s Asia Strategy by Brian Berletic (an American who lives in Thailand) from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. My reaction: This is so because the Deep State ("Tony Cartalucci" was the pen-name for Berletic) actually determines the policies of the US government, and most especially its foreign policies.

• Evolution of the external debt of developing countries between 2000 and 2019 by Eric Toussaint and Milan Rivié from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt). 

• Indian Farmers on the Frontline Against Global Capitalism by Colin Todhunter (British blogger) from Dissident Voice. 

• US makes aggressive opening move on Russian chessboard by M. K. Bhadrakumar from his weblog Indian Punchline. My reaction: He is convincing in his argument that the USA or by extension, the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire will attempt to use the "divide and conquer" strategy in a move in the dangerous global chess game.

• New Leaks Show How British Spies Infiltrate And Undermine Lebanon's Security Services by Bernhard, a German blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• US economic decline and global instability by "Phillyguy" from "The Saker" weblog. (Note: I roughly skimmed this lengthy article for accuracy, and I found no errors.)

• Reimagining the World: Agroecology vs Post-COVID Plunder by Colin Todhunter from Off-Guardian.
  

• Destroying the Web of Life: The Destruction of Earth’s Biodiversity Is Accelerating by Robert J. Burrowes from Global Research.

One species – Homo sapiens – is annihilating life on Earth, driving at least 200 species to extinction each day. In the time it took you to read this article, another species of life on Earth vanished into the fossil record.

My reaction: After researching this subject for more than 40 years, I hold the opinion that it is already too late to save our species; but that to redeem ourselves, we must fight capitalists and their addictions to profits and power by establishing our ownership and control over the economies of the world.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, January 18, 2021

• The History of US and British Support to Mussolini’s Fascism by Shane Quinn from Internationalist 360°. My commentary follows: 

This article is entirely accurate, but it will be a surprise, and likely not to be believed by ordinary Americans and others. This history contradicts the "history" that most children have been exposed to in their educational experience in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire that is now the dominant force in the world. As capitalism evolved into its natural end-state of fascism among many of the leading capitalist powers in the 1920s and '30s, it was natural that leading political figures of all the capitalist states were drawn to the fascist leaders of that period. But this didn't last, because the leading capitalist power of that time was the British Empire, and it was threatened by the rise and power of fascist Germany and their allies.

“Signor Mussolini” would only become a problem for Churchill and colleagues in the latter stages of his fascist rule, when British interests were threatened by the despot’s colonial ambitions.

It is unfortunate that Quinn did not develop the many implications of this historical development and the rewriting of history that was subsequently done by most historians, and especially those upper-middle-class propagandists and careerists employed by the ruling classes of the USA and throughout the British Empire. It demonstrates the power of ruling classes that is often missed by ordinary people. The latter are reared to be compulsively obedient to authorities who are employees of the capitalist ruling ruling classes. Notice I didn't mention actual members of the ruling class because they mostly stayed invisible by controlling the authorities with job and career opportunities. Often employees were thoroughly indoctrinated and co-opted by the ruling class to engage in sociopathic activities that would please their bosses.

This tale is so pregnant with many insights about humans, but I will explore only one of them. It is obvious that propaganda played an enormous role in changing the views of ordinary people who mostly had to struggle to maintain themselves and their families. This lack of time and the effects of indoctrination provided by their masters to respect and obey their authorities encouraged ordinary people to believe what they were told by mostly upper-middle-class authorities. The latter's well-paid careers were controlled by the mostly invisible capitalist ruling classes.

This actual history of the author explains why the British Empire and allies suddenly found themselves disenamored with, and severely threatened by, their fellow capitalists in the Axis nations to the extent that they joined their arch-enemy, the Soviets, to defeat the competing capitalist empire represented by the Axis powers. (This was especially evident in the behavior of Prime Minister Winston Churchill who had a visceral hatred of the Soviets. FDR often played a conciliatory role when he and Churchill met with Stalin.) If Germany had not launched their major air attacks on British cities after more the eight months since they declared war on Germany (the "phony war") and instead had headed east through Czechoslovakia to invade the Soviet Union, actual history might be telling us a very different story. (See my history of the war.) However, Germany had always competed with Britain to be the dominant force in the world, and their defeat in WWI left a residue of revengeful taste in their collective mouths.

Thus, the Allied capitalist ruling classes of WWII suddenly found themselves in a very different situation. The British ruling class was severely threatened by the growing fascist countries and gathered their Empire forces, warmed up their relations with the USA (which saw threats to their interests from a rising fascist Japan), and even established relations with their arch-nemesis the Soviet Union in order to defeat the threat of the German, Italian, Japanese threat to their British Empire.

However, they had to deal with their previous history of approval of fascist powers in order to prepare their ordinary citizens to fight this threat to the British Empire. The history of this propaganda project was successful beyond their wildest dreams. As a result, they had to banish Allied history from any hints of previous support for fascism. They didn't overlook its successful accomplishment and its lessons for further control of the minds of ordinary people via advanced propaganda technology. We are now seeing in America the fruits of this development in blatant examples of censorship, heavily biased anti-Trump propaganda, and psychological operations such as 9/11 and the exaggerated corona pandemic.

• Iraqi People are Forcing Washington to Withdraw its Troops by Vladimir Platov from New Eastern Outlook. (Note: You may also be interested in a related report.)
  

• Who Is Bill Gates? A series of four by James Corbett from his weblog The Corbett Report. (Note: This excellent series was posted in May 2020, but he is playing such a major role in today's pandemic that I am posting this now.)

• Study Finds ‘Specific & Significant Risk’ Of ADE/Reactions From COVID Vaccines, And How It Was Hidden From You featuring Ryan Cristián commenting on a recent study from a medical journal that indicate significant risks from the Covid-19 vaccine in a 30 minute video from The Last American Vagabond.

• The Corona Crisis: The Conspiracy Is Obvious. Here Are Facts to Construct a Theory by Jack Dresser from Global Research. This is a best post.

• Peer-Reviewed Study "Did Not Find Evidence" Lockdowns Were Effective In Stopping COVID Spread by Tyler Durden from his weblog ZeroHedge.

• Microsoft, Big Tech Coalition Developing Rockefeller Funded COVID Passports by Steve Watson from Summit News.
  

• The Politics of Insanity: Sick or Sinful? by S. M. Smyth from Global Research. 

Perhaps this is a world of moral, not mental, illness. A sickness of the soul. And it is easy to sell one’s soul to the Devil if one has no moral sense, if it is a shrivelled appendage like a spiritual appendix. No longer needed, surplus to requirements, a useless eater of our body energy. Better to cut it out in one clean, surgical strike. 

Can a whole culture fall prey to a collective soul-sickness, poisoned with the Kool-Aid of a warrior death cult? Can “this is war!” lose its power to thrill in the boardrooms, sports stadia, and fields of battle? Can Veblen’s “predatory culture” evolve past the need for “full spectrum dominance?”

• Psychological Attack on the UK by Dr Bruce Scott from UK Column (Britain). My reaction: This sounds so familiar. The pressures to conform have personally affected me. I might have to move.

• Violating Science, WHO Changes Meaning of Herd Immunity by Dr. Joseph Mercola from Children's Health Defense. (Note: I'm posting this article from the latter because the original website lies behind a subscription-wall.)
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, January 17, 2021

• The Swiss Force a Referendum Challenging Government Lockdown by Sam Jones of the Financial Times via Anti-Empire. (Note: I am posting this from Anti-Empire's website to avoid a paywall from the Financial Times.)
  

• COUP, COUP, KACHOO… by Paul Edwards from The Greanville Post.

• 9/11 Justice in 2021: An Interview with Ted Walter featuring Walter, a high-profile activist who is associated with various 9/11 organizations demanding an independent study of the 9/11 event which was the greatest psy-op in history. He is currently Director of Strategy and Development at AE911Truth from which this interview is sourced. Except for a self-disclosure of Walter's background as a teacher in Philadelphia, I could find no other information regarding the educational credentials of Ted Walter. However, the AE911Truth organization consists of mostly architects and engineers who see the obvious flaws of the government's official account of the 9/11 event.
  

• Dean Baker On Beating Inequality & COVID-19: Tackle Patent and Copyright Monopolies featuring Lynn Fries of GPEnewsdocs' channel via YouTube interviewing Dean Baker, a prominent liberal (in today's meaning in the US) economist in a 37:24m video. My commentary follows: 

Baker is completely unaware that he is exposing the contradictions between the logic of capitalism as applied to the current health pandemic that is creating havoc among people who do not have access to medical care and low-cost drugs and the profit motive of capitalist actors. He doesn't realize that under advanced capitalism drugs are only considered a commodity like any other to enrich those who have ownership (and control) over intellectual patents. Advanced capitalism is where the capitalist class has so much consolidated wealth and power that they control government institutions that supposedly serve the people. Baker, whose career as a well-paid economist has been comfortably serving capitalist institutions for the benefit of himself and his family, still isn't aware of the contradictions of capitalism that promotes the welfare of a tiny class of rich capitalists against the well-being of the overwhelming majority of the world's population.

• News Trends & Stories, Part II with Dr. Joseph P. Farrell featuring Catherine Fitts and her observations about the heroes amongst medical people who helped people at the risk of their careers in a 3:34m video from her website.

• Raskolnikov’s Dream Come True by Edward Curtin from Off-Guardian. This a best post.
  

• In The Aftermath of the Capitol Raid, The Facial Recognition Threat Persists by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.

• Biden Admin - Redux Deep State, Empire & Censorship featuring Chris Hedges interviewing Glenn Greenwald on the incoming Biden administration from RT via channel on YouTube. This is a best post.
  

• Silicon Valley and WEF-Backed Foundation Announce Global Initiative for COVID-19 Vaccine Records by Whitney Webb from her website Unlimited Hangout. 

Silicon Valley’s most influential companies, alongside healthcare companies, US intelligence contractors and the Commons Project Foundation, recently launched the Vaccination Credential Initiative. The initiative’s ambitions reach far beyond vaccines and will have major implications for civil liberties.

• Norway Officials ‘Not Alarmed’ by Deaths of 23 Elderly People After COVID Vaccine from Children's Health Defense.
  

• Big Tech and the Democratic Party Are Leading America to a Fascist Future by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Bidenfreude: Covid-19 in Post-Trump U.S. by Rob Wallace from Climate & Capitalism.

• Is the US Isolating China? Or Itself? by Joseph Thomas from New Eastern Outlook. 

... the US is waving around a broken stick and has run out of carrots. China on the other hand, waves around a big stick and one not aimed at players in the region, but at America and its retreat across the Pacific. China is also enjoying an abundance of carrots which to offer potential allies. 

For all of these reasons, the US, through its own foreign policy, is isolating itself, not China and it is a trend that will only continue into the foreseeable future until the US is able to forego its position above all other nations and accept a constructive position among them instead.

• If Anything The United States Is The “Home Base” Of Al-Qaeda, Not Iran by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
  

• The Russian Revolution: Separating Truth from Myth by Max Parry from The Unz Review. My reaction: I've encountered this propaganda so often. This article describes how capitalist ideologists tried to re-write the history of the Russian Revolution to conform to capitalist propaganda. But the irony is that his capitalist masters fired Prof. Antony Sutton in 1976 from Stanford's Hoover Institution after he wrote in his book Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler that international capitalists funded the rise of the Nazi Party. Sutton was highly erratic in his interpretation of history, but so were his peers who were trying to ingratiate themselves with their capitalist bosses to provide support for their propaganda.

• Social Media Giants Ban Trump, but the Real Censorship is of Palestinians by Jessica Buxbaum from Mint Press News.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, January 15, 2021

•  Charles Walker heart-felt speech on Covid-19 lockdown in UK posted by Vanessa Beeley from her weblog The Wall Will Fall. 

• “I Am Open”: 50,000 Italian Restaurant Owners Plan to Ignore Lockdown from Off-Guardian.
  

• Unpacking the Aftermath of Trump’s Coup Attempt With Brian Becker, featuring an interview with Becker, a longtime activist and host of The Socialist Program, conducted by Dan Cohen from Mint Press News. My commentary follows:

Just to be clear, I don't know for certain what happened in Washington DC on January 6, but I tend to think that Americans are so naive about "intelligence" agencies' abilities to manipulate the views of ordinary Americans that they are taking what is reported by corporate media at face value. Because Becker has been active in revolutionary movements all of his adult life, he is no ordinary American. I knew of him while living in the San Franciso Bay Area in the 1980s. However, he with his obsession regarding older forms of fascism tends to see the older forms of fascism everywhere. He, too, fails to see the new forms, of what I refer to, as "neofascism".

Becker doesn't seem to be aware of neofascist forms of mind control that capitalist ruling classes have developed since WWII as reflected in foreign reports of color revolutions and other psychological operations (psy-ops) that have been designed and implemented for the past 75 years to crush any revolutionary forces or to install a new more "cooperative" regime. The "intelligence" agents have since learned more sophisticated methods of shaping views of ordinary people (see my commentary to the Harris article on Jan. 7) residing in US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Because ordinary Americans do not follow reports of such incidents in foreign lands, they are so ignorant when these techniques are used against them. They are "babes in the woods" (def). 

Since January 6 I've been reading reports that reveal that key Congressional figures were refused requests for more security. I am inclined to believe the report by David Mathisen in his article "The Capitol Hill Fiasco 2021" and its implications. It was likely a psychological operation by secret agencies of the Empire to pave the way to more laws restricting civil liberties, promoting censorship and surveillance of dissidents, and other nefarious objectives.

• The New America of Terror and Discontent by Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null from Global Research (based in Canada). 
  

• You Are Surrounded by Propaganda by Rod Driver from Elephants in the Room. (Note: This is Part 13 of a series of an unknown total articles.

• ‘Organized’ March to Capitol Was Not Permitted, Rally Organizers Warned White House by Greg Palast from Consortium News. 

• The Infowar Intensifies featuring James Corbett and James Evan Pilato discussing current issues from The Corbett Report.

• The Government Is Serious About Creating Mind-Controlled Weapons by Edd Gent from Live Science. 
  

• The Stock Market Is Broken as a Bellwether; Here’s How to Fix It by Pam Martens from her (& Russ Martens') weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• Impeachment is more dangerous than Trump by Michael Tracey from UnHerd (Britain).

• Organizations Funded by the NED from Swiss Policy Research.

• Anteroom of Our Own Extinction by John Steppling from Dissident Voice.
  

• With Dire Assessment, Scientists Warn Humanity in Denial of Looming 'Collapse of Civilization as We Know It' by Jessica Corbett from Common Dreams.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, January 14, 2021

• Upper Ocean Temperatures Set a New High Record in 2020 from Climate & Capitalism.

• Escaping the Singularity: Why Artificial Intelligence Will Not Save the Planet by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.
  

• ‘TRUTH’ With RFK, Jr. and Author Jason Shurka: The Vaccine Safety Movement from Children's Health Defense which features Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. answering questions from Shurka via 48:25m video on YouTube.

• Tech censorship: how paranoid should we be? This 36:15m video from Unherd (British) features Freddie Sayers interviewing Glenn Greenwald regarding the accelerating trend of social media giants censoring views they don't like.

• Chaos agent: Right-wing blames US Capitol riot on notorious instigator banished by Black Lives Matter by Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone. My reaction: Most activists are unaware that capitalist agencies of the Deep State like the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. All the "intelligence" agencies use agent provocateurs to disrupt any activities by movements, both foreign and domestic, anyone who interferes with the power and profits of the capitalist ruling class. Because most activists don't pay attention to accurate foreign news provided by independent sources, they are often naive about the domestic uses of agent provocateurs. Fortunately, Blumenthal isn't, and at least some members of BLM are not. Such agent provocateurs are very well paid and follow capitalist moral principles that all capitalists adhere to: what is best for me, my family, and is sanctioned by powerful authorities are the right course of action.
  

• SHOCKER: AOC endorses #ForceTheVote, Embarrasses Her Defenders! featuring Jimmy Dore (via YouTube) pointing to the hypocrises of Congresswoman and careerist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez regarding her stand on impeaching Trump.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, January 13, 2021

• #ForceTheVote Splits DSA Membership From Leadership featuring Jimmy Dore in a 22:12m video exposing the fake socialist party DSA (Democratic Socialists of America).

• Say goodbye to free speech from #Pollybites channel on YouTube. 

• Trump impeached for ‘record’ 2nd time from Off-Guardian.
  

• Congressional Hypocrisy and the Crackdown by James Bovard from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• Americans Are Being Divided As The War on Domestic Terror Expands by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. 

• 9/11 Was the Prelude. 1/6 Is the Holy Grail by Pepe Escobar from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Democrats Launch Their Assault on Red State America by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog.
  

• Exploiting the chaos to impose more surveillance and censorship by Rainer Shea from his weblog.
  

• Amber Waves by Martin Empson from Climate & Capitalism. (Note: This is a review of a book by the same title authored by Catherine Zabinski.) Empson writes: 

Wheat however is no longer simply food. It is a commodity that is both highly profitable and a weapon in the arsenal of imperialist nations — particularly the United States. The vast wheat farms of the American Midwest enabled the US to shape the world in its own interest. Zabinski points out that the “Green Revolution” was less about feeding the world and more about fighting “Red Revolution” in the Global South. Like the ruling classes of the first states the US saw the Green Revolution as a way of ensuring its own [capitalist] ideals dominated around the world. But the experience for many recipient countries was much more negative as home-grown agriculture was undermined. [my insertion]

• Large US military convoy enters Syria from neighboring Iraq from AMN (Al-Masdar News). My reaction: And the "war-beat" goes on. Self-absorbed, throughly indoctrinated American workers have no idea how various regions of the world suffer US violence because they only watch self-serving US/Anglo/Zionist Empire propaganda from corporate TV. Also, much of the USA ignores the almost daily raids by Israeli airplanes on Palestinians and adjacent countries. Now that the Deep State is increasingly turning against most Americans, hopefully they will awaken to the devastation imposed on them in the future, learn about the worldwide suffering at the hands of the Empire, and identify with all the "wretched of the earth".

• Rumors Spread of a 2024 Presidential Run as Pompeo Paves Way for Future Wars by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• Western Imperialism and the Role of Sub-imperialism in the Global South by Patrick Bond from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt). 

• Agroecology and Post-COVID Plunder by Colin Todhunter (a Brit) from Global Research.

• ‘This Week’ With Mary + Polly: The Pope’s ‘Stunning’ Hard Sell on COVID Vaccines + More from Children's Health Defense.
  

• New research: nitrous oxide emissions 300 times more powerful than CO₂ are jeopardising Earth’s future by Beth Daley, Editor and General Manager, from The Conversation.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, January 12, 2021

• An Exhausted Planet Limps Into 2021 by Robert Hunziker from CounterPunch. My reaction: The only thing that I can disagree with this article is this sentence: "Adopt eco economics as a healthy replacement for the neoliberal brand of forever-growth capitalism, cruising along on a golden paved road to never-never land of fantasy and ecstasy." Plain capitalism was never going to restrain itself from "the forever-growth" phenomenon because the wealth and power that the system delivers to families is too powerfully addictive. Transnational capitalism (they call it "neoliberalism") is only an updated version of capitalism, and it is not responsible for our crisis. It is the system itself. The denial of this fact only comforts upper-middle-class careerists who find the thought distasteful, that their role was essential by assisting capitalists to own and control everything on Earth. They want to shed their guilt in pursuit of their own comfortable lives by denying their collusion with capitalists, and that they might be also responsible for this crisis that threatens all life on Earth.
  

• DHS's Facial/Iris Recognition Can ID Airline Passengers Wearing Masks from Mass Private I: Privacy, Civil Rights And Homeland Insecurity Issues. (Note: I know absolutely nothing about this website, but they use extensive documentation from knowledgeable sources.)

• Apartheid News by Bernhard (German blogger) from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• How Silicon Valley, in a Show of Monopolistic Force, Destroyed Parler by Glenn Greenwald from Substack.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, January 11, 2021

• Genetic Engineering, Agriculture and Brexit: Treachery in Our Midst by Colin Todhunter (based in Britain) from Off-Guardian. My reaction: Now I understand why the directors of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire have been so ambivalent toward Brexit--they don't want to lose Europe, but they don't like the European resistance to gene editing.
  

• ASSA 2021: part two – the radical answers by Michael Roberts (lives in Britain) from his weblog. I regard this as a best post because he exposes Michael Hudson for what he is-- champion of industrial capitalism and not a socialist as he is often portrayed in left-wing weblogs in the USA.
  

• Are You Ready for Total (Ideological) War? by master-satirist CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. 

So, welcome to 2021! If last week was any indication, it is going to be quite an exciting year. It is going to be the year in which GloboCap reminds everyone who is actually in charge and restores “normality” throughout the world, or at least attempts to restore “normality,” or the “New Normality,” or the “Great Normal Reset,” or “The New Normal War on Domestic Terror” … or whatever they eventually decide to call it. 

In any event, whatever they call it, GloboCap is done playing grab-ass.

• The Arctic's 'Last Ice Area' Is Showing Worrying Signs of Fragility by David Nield from Science Alert.   

• Michael Dowd - Post-doom Compost Theology featuring Dowd, a religious person who is kowledgable about science, explains his views of the future in a 49:53m video in Michael Shaw's channel The Great Story via YouTube. My reaction: I notice he doesn't mention capitalist culture as being unsustainable.
  

• The Abuse of Science in the Corona Crisis by Michael Esfeld from American Institute for Economic Research. 

• Three Eminent Epidemiologists Explain Why They Strongly Oppose Lockdowns For Covid-19 by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution. (This post also contains a 32:26m video.)
  

• The Great Reset | Dystopian Sci-Fi Short Film by Zackary Denman via YouTube. 

• The Great Covid Class War by Alex Gutentag from The Bellows.

• Can Twitter exist in a democracy? by Ed West from Unherd (based in Britain). My reaction: I guess that we don't have a democracy, but I don't think we ever did.
  

• Lights Out for the City on the Hill by Stephen Karganovic from Strategic Culture Foundation.

The fact that after four years in office their symbolic champion has nothing to show, yet in the midst of economic collapse he was still able to garner about eighty million votes, is a huge sign. It is a sobering warning to the ruling elite that blatant electoral manipulation and ruthless information censorship may serve as Band-Aid solutions, but are losing their effectiveness. 

You can pull the tiger’s tail only so much before it pounces.

Hopefully, his analysis is correct. Also, notice that he uses "ruling elite". In our crazy time, you can't get away with using a Marxist term "ruling class"--although he comes close--if you want to be published. Class analysis is strictly "verboten". This is another example of thought control by our capitalist masters.

• Non-MAGA Activists Caught in Social Media War as Twitter Begins Purge by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis).
  

• We Cannot Let Yesterday’s Farce Become Tomorrow’s Tragedy from Spectre. My reaction: This online post takes the right-wing and their attack on Congress rather seriously. But who is the right-wing? The Trump supporters or the ruling capitalist class that owns the government and likes to play psy-ops with their enemies? I think the latter. Do the ruling class regard ordinary Americans as the enemy? Yes! is my firm answer.

• CIA Conspiracy to Flood Black Communities with Crack Exposed in Explosive Netflix Documentary by Matt Agorist from The Free Thought Project. My reaction: Well, well whadya know, a media corporation is finally taking notice of Gary Webb's work from 25 years ago! However, I couldn't find a title for the film in the article.