Posts that I especially recommend for Saturday, April 10, 2021

• How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points into the Press by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. My reaction: Perhaps this is a part of a Deep State movement to transform government functions to private enterprise in order to avoid any government involvement.

AMSTERDAM — Investigative site Bellingcat is the toast of the popular press. In the past month alone, it has been described as “an intelligence agency for the people” (ABC Australia), a “transparent” and “innovative” (New Yorker) “independent news collective,” “transforming investigative journalism” (Big Think), and an unequivocal “force for good” (South China Morning Post). Indeed, outside of a few alternative news sites, it is very hard to hear a negative word against Bellingcat, such is the gushing praise for the outlet founded in 2014.

This is troubling, because the evidence compiled in this investigation suggests Bellingcat is far from independent and neutral, as it is funded by Western governments, staffed with former military and state intelligence officers, repeats official narratives against enemy states, and serves as a key part in what could be called a “spook to Bellingcat to corporate media propaganda pipeline,” presenting Western government narratives as independent research.

• Lee Camp: How Corporate America Supports Racism, Hatred & Exploitation (in New & Fun Ways!) from Scheerpost,
  

• 💥New Revelations on Germ Warfare: It’s Time for a Reckoning with Our History from the Korean War by Jeffrey Kaye from CounterPunch. This is a best post. My commentary follows (which I edited extensively at 3:52 PM CT):

Because most Americans believed that they were the "good guys", partly as a result of understandable WWII propaganda but also because of post-war propaganda throughout all institutions (media, entertainment--Hollywood, and education) that continued unceasingly to the present time. Most Americans believe that they are still the "good guys", the "commies" were the new "bad guys", and the rest of the fairy tales the TV and radio corporations told them in the post-WWII years. 

 

The fascist-leaning, world-dominating aspiring ruling class grew inside the State Department initially through efforts like Wall Street lawyers like John Foster Dulles, Sec. of State, and his brother, Allen Dulles, the eventual head of the unaccountable CIA, together with key members of the Council of Foreign Relations. A subversive coterie of people in both organizations swore an oath of secrecy as to their aims of building an empire after defeating the equally gross ambitions of the German Nazis and their dreams of establishing a German Reich.

 

I need at this point to make a slight detour in my essay to deal with the positive implications of two fairly recent posts (here--9th post and here--2nd post) by authors who I hold in much esteem--Alastair Crooke and Pepe Escobar.  On the strength of these positive references, I ordered the book shortly thereafter. But I was severely disappointed. Stephen Wertheim, the author of Tomorrow the World, has written with huge doses of gaslighting approval of these subversive Americans and their quest to build what is now (what I call) the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. Although the description of pro-fascist tendencies of corporate leaders supporting fascist ideas in the 1930s (also here, and my commentary here) is missing in his book, Wertheim devotes almost his entire book on peripheral issues such as "isolationists" vs internationalists with the latter, due to force of circumstances, morphed into imposing American might on the rest of the world to ensure a Pax Americana from a world faced with endless wars! His book is an apologia for this fascist coterie's secret project of building an empire! I have read widely and from a variety of sources on the lead up to WWII, and I have reached a different conclusion (see here and here). This fascist coterie had to swear an oath to secrecy, which Wertheim admits, because they were going against the wishes not only of the FDR administration but the American people. (FDR didn't trust them.) You can read the history of that period by reading a real history of that period in my recommended books section.

 

Back to my commentary on the above article: I was living in Honolulu, HI in the late 1970's when I met a Korean War veteran and prisoner of war who opted to stay in China after the War because he was so disgusted about the US using bio-warfare against the Koreans and Chinese troops that he didn't want to return home (along with many others who refused repatriation). I don't remember his name, but he was given special permission by the State Department to return home to visit his family. I filed this experience away in my memory. Then in early 2017 I read This Must be the Place by Dave Chaddock and I was convinced that US forces used bio-warfare against Koreans and Chinese. (Read my previous posts here and here.) 

 

I also think that the CIA were so taken by their cover story that American prisoners were somehow brainwashed that they began to study methods of controlling individual's minds. I was convinced of this when I later read reports (like this and this) that the CIA had been pursuing such research at McGill University in Montreal. I wondered if they didn't use these techniques on Sirhan Sirhan to assassinate Robert Kennedy after listening to this interview with a lawyer, William Pepper, that attempted to defend Sirhan Sirhan. I wondered further if they didn't use these techniques on domestic "terrorists" reportedly engaged in mass shootings many of whom were mentally ill or unstable.

• Disappear the System: A Critical Hegemonic Function of Capitalist Media by Paul Street from CounterPunch.

• Ukraine, Taiwan… Two-Prong U.S. Aggression Toward Russia, China an editorial from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

Presidents come and go, elections take place periodically, but the power and policymaking resides with deep state planners whose loyalty is not to any particular party but rather to the furtherance of imperial objectives regarding America’s presumed global position and privileges.

• West’s Propaganda War vs. China Continues (6:55m video) by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. 

• Carbon dioxide levels now at highest level in 3.6 million years from Climate & Capitalism.

• The ocean is becoming more stable – and that’s not good news by Phil Hosewood from Climate & Capitalism.
  

Note: I will not be posting today Friday, April 9, 2021 because of personal affairs, instead I will likely be posting tomorrow.

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, April 8, 2021

• 💥Glenn Greenwald: Why American Journalism Sucks featuring Jimmy Dore (via his YouTube channel--19:31m) interviewing Glenn Greenwald regarding the deterioration of American journalism as a profession. This is a best post. My reaction: Greenwald attacks mostly the Democratic Party, but he doesn't know that the capitalist ruling class has completely taken over the political party, which has traditionally favored working people, in order to convince most Americans of the validity of their news coverage. But he offers the crucial insight that the ruling class uses their control over careers to control any potentially dissident journalists.

• WEF Warns of a Cyber Attack Leading to Systemic Collapse of the Global Financial System by Whitney Webb from The Last American Vagabond. 

• Four Words Gates and His Pals Despise: Democracy & Minimum Support Price by Colin Todhunter (based in Britain, but lived a long time in India) posted on Off-Guardian.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and an assortment of high-profile figures and policymakers are pushing for unregulated gene-editing technologies, the rollout of bio-synthetic food created in laboratories, the expanded use of patented seeds and the rollback of subsidies and support for farmers in places like  India.

These neoliberal evangelists despise democracy and believe that state machinery and public money should only facilitate the ambitions of their unaccountable mega-corporations.

• What is Australia’s Problem with China? by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. My reaction: Berletic exposes that the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire is engaging in an information war to cover up their opposition to China's rise.

• Lying Is Their Business: U.S. Propaganda Against China – The Steve Bannon Connection by Christopher Black, a real international human rights lawyer from Canada, posted on Strategic Culture Foundation. Black writes:

In late January 2021, NATO think tank, The Atlantic Council, published a paper termed, The Longer Telegram, which sets out a proposed strategy for the United States to achieve domination of the world, a strategy which focuses on China as the main obstacle to that domination, with Russia now considered an “irritant.” It is the fantasy of megalomaniacs who sit in dark rooms dreaming of world power and achieving it using any means necessary, including world war.

It is in essence a propaganda document designed to not only proclaim a new world war, the American war against China, but to try to justify this war. It describes a China that does not exist except in the fantasies of these right wing ideologues.

• The Real Reason We’re Still In Afghanistan featuring Lee Camp, an online comedian, in a 6:40m YouTube video, parodying why Trump was countermanded in a peace deal when Trump ordered it at the beginning of his administration. (Note: Camp in his parody reveals that some other entity, probably the Defense Department, rules America more than the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, that is, the president.) My reaction: This experience demonstrates that the Defense Department answers to the ruling US capitalist class over which they control. This, in my opinion, is not necessarily bad because Trump with his impulsive personality was more likely to use nuclear weapons than the ruling class.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, April 7, 2021

• Biohazards News Tracker: Best articles on SARS-CoV-2 origins, biolabs and gain of function research by Sainath Suryanarayanan from U.S. Right to Know. 

• The Coming Antibiotic-Resistance Pandemic that Could Make COVID Look Like the Flu by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.

• YouTube Censors Florida Governor DeSantis and His Science Advisors by Jeffrey A. Tucker from American Institute for Economic Research.
  

• Berlin Now Requires Negative COVID Test For Entry Into Non-Essential Businesses by Joe Martino from Collective Evolution. 

• ‘This Week’ With Mary + Polly: Vaccine Passports, ‘Trusted Voices,’ Vaccinating Teens + More from Children's Health Defense. 

• Jab-erwacky (or, Why Are People So Crazy about Being Guinea Pigs?) by Michael Lesher from Off-Guardian.
  

• Dr. Ryan Cole Blows The Whole COVID-19 Propaganda Away by Bill Sardi from LewRockwell.
  

• Stand in the Park featuring James Corbett from his weblog urging us to get outdoors while some of us still can.
  

• Is 2021’s Fictional Cyberattack Simulation Prepping Us For a Cyber Pandemic? by Robert Wheeler from The Organic Prepper. (Note: I am including this post to warn you that my posts could be interrupted or shut down anytime.)

• From Debs to the DSA? Rescuing America’s Revolutionary Tradition by Ben Fredericks from Left Voice. (Note: I believe, based on a rapid perusal) that this is a rare, honest attempt to look at the history of left revolutionary movements within socialism. The article is for those who have read widely on leftist movements and revolutionary parties.)
  

• The Anti-Asian Attacks are the Pre-Show for Mass Anti-White Attacks by Andrew Anglin from the Daily Stormer.  My commentary follows:

I found this post initially on The Unz Review (I always try to post articles from their original sources) which is an old-fashioned conservative website. I have re-posted some of their article in the past that I thought were well-written and documented. But this piece touched off a series of thoughts in my brain that related to my increasing curiosity related to what I have noticed recently on TV. TV, I believe, is heavily influenced by the secret services who see this medium as a powerful propaganda tool to be used to propagate their insidious propaganda themes on behalf of the capitalist ruling class.

I have a well-tuned sixth sense about media corporations and their collaboration with the secret services that are under the control of the capitalist ruling class. I have noticed an increasing trend that suggests that mind manipulators in the secret services are up to something: the rather startling nearly consistent use of African-Americans in nationwide commercials. 

 

But I was mystified as to what use this trend suggested ... that is until I read this article. I think this almost consistent use of African-Americans in commercials plus the recent widespread publicity about racist attacks of Asian-Americans by Black-Americans fit well with the favorite ruling classes strategy to sow interracial wars among Americans. You know--the old divide and conquer strategy.

 

Although I agree with the author of this article when he argues that these attacks on Asian-Americans represent an intermediate stage, but I differ when he predicts that the ultimate purpose is for a UN takeover of the USA. I see that these two recent trends fit well with the chaos strategy that the secret services have used to destabilize other countries beginning with Chile and El Salvador (see my commentary here, my reaction here (1st post), and my commentary here (7th post). I now believe that the two rather startling developments signal a chaos strategy designed against the American public to usher in a new authoritarian regime as was the case when the chaos strategy was used to target the destabilization of other nations. 

Perhaps the transnational ruling capitalist class of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire now see ordinary Americans as the target to be conquered and prepared to fit in their New World Order, or the latest version of this--the Great Reset. What do you think?

 

• 💥Whitney Webb Interview – Tanzania Coup, Rising Technocracy & The 4th Industrial Revolution featuring Webb who has returned from Chile, where she was needed to conduct personal affairs, interviewed by Ryan Cristián, host of this show from The Last American Vagabond. This is a best post. My reaction (based on only 15 minutes of listening to this program which lasts nearly an hour and a quarter--I will listen to the remainder after finishing this weblog): In this fascinating interview, Webb describes Chile as exemplifying the worst aspects of the USA, but if you think Chile is divorced from the reality in the USA, think again. The transnational capitalist class, who have homes scattered all over their Empire, doesn't divide up the world into nations. Remember, they see the world, or at least, their Empire as a whole. You, as American citizens, don't matter to them.
  

• Moth-Eaten Eviction Moratorium Leaves Hundreds of Thousands Without a Roof by Eleanor Goldfield from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis).
  

• The Mainstream Worldview Is As Garbage As Mainstream Music And Movies by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.  
  

• Methanol for the CoV2 Hypodermic Chemical Experiment by Paul Haeder from Dissident Voice.

• Confrontation and Propaganda Continue Against Russia by Brian Cloughley from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• Ukraine redux: war, Russophobia and Pipelineistan by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• China Rises in Latin America as Sun Sets on the Monroe Doctrine by Martin Sieff from Strategic Culture Foundation.
  

• 💥My New Book on Journalism, Exposing Corruption, and the Resulting Risks, Dangers and Societal Changes by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog at Substack. This is a best post.

• Myanmar: US-backed Opposition is ARMED [or "your tax dollars at work"] by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. 

• Churchill, International Jews and the Holocaust: A Revisionist Analysis by Paul Grubach from Inconvenient History. (Note: This is a rare, honest (based on my broad readings of history) attempt to show how Churchill, who shared much of his antisemitism with the Nazis, colluded with the Zionists to attain power.)
  

• 'We Have to Act': Atmospheric CO2 Passes 420 PPM for First Time Ever by Kenny Stancil from Common Dreams.
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, April 6, 2021

• Feds Won’t Mandate Vaccine Passports, But Will Help States, Businesses, Schools Develop Standards by Megan Redshaw from Children's Health Defense. 

• Epidemiologist: We Could Have Reached Natural Herd Immunity in 6 Weeks features Rob Verkerk Ph.D. conducting an interview (1:12:27) with epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski, Ph.D. Clearly Wittknowski is not on the list of the ruling class's approved scientists list.

• Biden’s Infrastructure Plan by Jack Rasmus from Alternative Visions. (Note: Rasmus discusses the deceptions related to Biden's vaunted infrastructure plan in a 57:13m audio recording.)

• Pepe Escobar Joins Jeff J. Brown for a Great Conversation about the US, EU, China, Russia, Iran and DPRK [North Korea], plus much more. This is posted on The Greanville Post. (Note: I especially recommend listening to Escobar's opening statement (first 20 and half minutes) regarding diplomatic efforts of the US vis-à-vis China and Russia. Brown, who has lived and worked in China for about 16 years, and Escobar are good friends. Brown, who is now retired, lives in Brussels. Escobar lives in Thailand. Escobar is, in my opinion, is one of the top geo-political journalists in the world. I recommend the rest of the conversation (the whole 1 hr 10m interview) for those who are well informed about international politics.
  

• China and Russia Launch a ‘Global Resistance Economy’ by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. My commentary follows:

I agree with Crooke's argument that following the meeting at Anchorage between the USA and China, and that China no longer believes in a cooperative arrangement that can be obtained with the US or the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. However, I cannot agree with his following assertion:

 

Socialism versus capitalism? No, it is a long time since the U.S. was a capitalist economy; it’s hardly even a market economy today. It has become, more and more, a rentier economy since leaving the gold standard (in 1971). 

 

Capitalism, like all other systems, has stages that it goes through just like the old colonial relationships that Euro-Americans had prior to WWII with the relatively pre-industrialized countries of the world in contrast to the essentially neo-colonial relationships the former had with the latter since WWII. The post-WWII era saw the frequent use of financial weapons that was first exposed in the writings of John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. 

 

Similarly capitalism in the Empire has moved beyond industrialization to the financialization stage by their pursuit of neoliberalist policies which accumulate wealth with the less risky interest of loans from the IMF, World Bank, and international banks located in the Empire. Also, these finance capitalists use loans as weapons to pry open less advanced economies for exploitation by Empire corporations. Crooke is evidently too influenced by the writings of Michael Hudson who ignores the exploitation of American workers by "captains of industry" (to the chagrin of his Trotskyist parents) and champions the previous phase of capitalism--industrialization.

 

Now we, who reside within the Empire, increasingly witness the use of censorship and manipulation of information that has replaced to a considerable extent more authoritarian methods of old-fashioned fascism. We, who reside in the Empire, are now in a neo-fascist phase of capitalism where capitalist ruling classes rely much more heavily on the control of information that is allowed to ordinary people. (To be sure, if the latter methods fail, the ruling class uses police and soldiers to crush all opposition.) Those who reside outside of the Empire are frequently subject to subversive efforts by agents of the hyper-aggressive capitalist Empire.

• Bombshell book in Germany revives 9/11 as a business model, a book review by Pepe Escobar of Lars Schall book entitled Denken wie der Feind – 20 Jahre Ausnahmezustand 9/11 und die Geopolitik des Terrors from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• Dealing With Demons by Larry Romanoff from "The Saker" weblog. My reaction: This is a very lengthy post, but also a very interesting one from an author who is probably Canadian (based on his spelling of "organisers" below), retired and living in Shanghai, China. His report refers to the city of Wuhan and a single province, Hebei, of China which, I believe, was the only province that had numerous temporary restrictions imposed on its citizens. See the province in the center of China on the map below:

 

 I include two paragraphs from the article which offer some significant reasons why China dealt with the corona virus much more effectively than other Western countries including our own:

 

One reason the Chinese were able to deal with the epidemic while the UK and USA stumbled in the dark is that the Chinese think, with considerable justification, that they have been under biological attack, on and off since c.1950, and were therefore prepared with well-laid plans and competent organisers to respond to such an event. As soon as the central government learned the specific nature of the outbreak, it responded massively and to a very large extent the population understood the necessity of what was asked of them and cooperated.


The main objective of China’s Government is the rejuvenation of China, in part demonstrably evidenced by the determined efforts made for the betterment and the well-being of its population, which is reflected in the credibility and high level of trust the Chinese people place in their government. These concepts don’t exist in the west. In the US, the “world’s model for everything”, a virus epidemic is seen through lenses of profiteering by large corporations, sick people not being humans in need of assistance but merely a new lucrative “market” – for those with money to pay. An American hospital is not a place for healing the sick but a kind of barnyard filled with cash cows to milk. This is one fundamental reason underlying America’s chaotic and hopeless approach to dealing with the epidemic. The Trump administration failed to help itself and refused to help even its friends, on the one hand ignoring the suffering and extreme difficulties in China and wasting its time scoring cheap political points on the world stage, happy with the loss of life and the economic damage China was suffering. 

 

I want to add only two fundamental reasons for the difference of outcomes. One, is that Americans have been lied to so often in the past 70 years (the assassinations, 9/11, invasion of Iraq, etc.) that many Americans no longer believe what the authorities and major media corporations tell me--whereas the Chinese completely trust their authorities and follow their instructions to the letter. Two, I believe that the ruling capitalist class has zero interest in the health of ordinary Americans. They see them as only sources of profit. 

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, April 5, 2021

• Real COVID death rate 0.15% from Left Lockdown Sceptics: Socialist anti-lockdown news and analysis. My reaction: This figure was furnished by a research study conducted by Stanford epidemiologist John P.A. Ioannidis, and was peer-reviewed. But the ruling class has its approved "experts", and Ioannidis is not on the list. Therefore, it will be totally ignored by the ruling class's major media corporations. Instead, we will get uninterrupted fear campaigns with their insistence that we should wear masks, experience soul-crushing lockdowns, and take our "medicine" in the form of untested, experimental vaccinations. 

• Fighting lockdown in California: A US teacher speaks from Sceptics.  "Left Lockdown Sceptics interviews Andy Libson, an American anti-lockdown high school teacher and revolutionary socialist"

• Scenes From 2030 by TE Creus from Off-Guardian.

• Complicity/Collusion by Korvus Korax from Off-Guardian
  

• Global Casinos: Financial Markets are a Fraudsters Paradise by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room.
  

• Tax havens and Capital Flight by Rod Driver from Elephants in the Room. 

• We’re on Our Own: Texas in the Aftermath by Holly Lewis and Snehal Shingavi from Spectre.  

• A Damned Murder Inc: Kennedy’s Battle Against the Leviathan [Part 3 of 3] by Cynthia Chung from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: I missed posting Part 2, but the link is in this article.) My commentary follows:

You cannot understand the present unless you were furnished with accurate information about the past (history). Unfortunately for you, you have been given a history written by the secret services of the USA, mainly by the CIA. However, Cynthia Chung, who has done enormous research, has liberated true history from the fake that you have been fed by institutions that are all under the control of the capitalist ruling class.

• How Russia 'Weaponized' 111 Times by Bernhard, an independent German blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
  

• New Yorker Uses Cartoons to Boost “Uyghur Genocide” Myth by Brian Berletic from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. My reaction: The busy, trying-to-survive ordinary Americans usually swallow US imperialist propaganda, but Berletic makes a herculean effort trying to expose it for what it is--lies.
  

• 💥A Quintessential Eastern Marxist State: A Review of A.B. Abrams’ Immovable Object: North Korea’s 70 Years at War with American Power by Stephen Gowans from his weblog What's Left. A best post.

• 💥Humans, Nature and the Illusion of Separateness by Kenn Orphan from CounterPunch. Orphan writes about the key cause of this huge calamity:

... capitalism cannot do anything but accumulate more and more capital. And capital is virtually everything that exists, from the raw minerals and petrol deep in the earth’s crust, to the fish in the sea and trees in the boreal range, to governments and politicians, to our own personal information and preferences. It has created a global arrangement of power that must use obfuscation and violence, or its threat, as a way of keeping the engine running. 

 

Orphan forgot to include racism in the weapons that the tiny class of capitalists has used against the survival of humans. Racism has been used to divide humans so that capitalists can continue plundering and destabilizing the Earth's miracle ecosystem that supports all life.

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, March 31, 2021 (I ran out of time)

• Fear of Fairy Tales by John Steppling from his weblog. (Note: Steppling is currently living with his family in Norway. He has a strong background as an American playwright, director of plays, etc., and he apparently is highly educated. I find his posts rather challenging because I don't know how his frequent quotes and images relate to the substance of his articles. He is obviously very disturbed particularly with the current pandemic particularly its impact on children.)
  

💥Thus, I especially recommend Steppling's rather lengthy (1:23:54) conversation (via some technology) with Cory Morningstar, Hiroyuki Hamada, and Johan Eddebo found  at Aesthetic Resistance (Post #35) (also in the link at the end of the above article). I encourage you to listen to this profound conversation among these highly educated people regarding the significance of the pandemic and its impact on people.) This is a best post.

• Vandana Shiva on the Taking Down of Bill Gates' Empires features Dr. Joseph Mercola in conversation (57:47) with Dr. Vandana Shiva from Marcola's weblog. (Note: This is the first video on the page.)

• What The 2007 Financial Crisis Taught Us About Corrupt Bankers by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room on Medium.com.
  

• Washington’s Hegemonic Ambitions Defy Multipolar Reality, Risking Catastrophic Conflict by Finian Cunningham from Strategic Culture Foundation. (Note: Cunningham's introduction precedes an interview with Glenn Diesen who is a professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and author of several books.)
  

• The Problem Isn’t Human Nature, The Problem Is A Few Manipulative Sociopaths by Caitlin Johnstone, an independent Australian blogger, from her weblog. My commentary follows: 

Johnstone writes in the article "Someone who says it’s human nature to be selfish, competitive, predatory, exploitative, tyrannical, vicious, brutish and violent isn’t telling you about human nature, they’re telling you about their own nature." Maybe so, but she apparently doesn't yet realize that the capitalist system is based on this view of human nature. Capitalists, and those unwitting people that support them, likely wouldn't dare admit to the negative characteristics but would swear that people are basically selfish. Thus, they would go on to support the capitalist system either completely oblivious to the more negative consequent behaviors listed above and would offer absurd rationalizations for them.

We are fed propaganda to cover-up the heinous crimes the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire commits directly or indirectly. Read a current post entitled The True Story of the Rwandan Genocide from Current Affairs for an example of a major crime (a massacre of at least 500,000 people). This is about who really was responsible for what has been "universally acknowledged as one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century".

• Faced with ICC Investigation, Apartheid Israel Asserts Moral Superiority Over The Victims of Its Terror by Miko Peled from Mint Press News.
  

• Opposing All Governments Equally Is Supporting The Most Powerful Government by Caitlin Johnstone, an independent Australian blogger, from her weblog. My reaction: This is only one fundamental reason why I think shallow-thinking anarchists are nuts.

• Tanzania’s Late President Magufuli: ‘Science Denier’ or Threat to Empire? by Jeremy Loffredo and Whitney Webb from Unlimited Hangout.
  

• Open-Source Versus Patent Monopoly Financing of Drug Development by Dean Baker from CounterPunch. My reaction: The trouble with Baker is that he takes an eighth-grade-civics- class view of how the government of the ruling class works. Thus, he doesn't see that capitalists run the puppet show that the government performs. Patents are one major way they (the capitalist ruling class) have of stealing profits from ordinary workers. Look at Bill Gates and how he accumulated his vast wealth. 

• Twisting the Law by Steve Martinot from CounterPunch. (Note: The following note was published within the article following the article: "[This article contains excerpts from a work in progress called “Brutality: a Study of Police Culture in the US,” which is also looking for a publisher.]". You might also be interested in this post from CGTM, a major Chinese news corporation, via Reuters.
  

• If the Minimum Wage Had Increased as Much as Wall Street Bonuses Since 1985, It Would Be Worth $44 Today by Sarah Anderson from CounterPunch.

• Ecuador’s poisoned loans from the World Bank and the IMF by Eric Toussaint from CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt) [Part 1 of the Series].
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Monday, March 29, 2021

• How the Rich Distort Politics by Rod Driver from his weblog Elephants in the Room. My reaction: Read this if you still have doubts about the sustainability of capitalism.
  

• Google and the CI@: Are Multinational Corporations Part of the Establishment? a 9:56m video from Insight History via their channel on YouTube.
  

• It’s Time to Bust the Tech Talent Pipeline by Isobel van Hagen from Current Affairs. (Note: Read this article if you want to know about the latest CIA effort to recruit young students into serving the capitalist ruling class's Big Tech corporations.)
  

Palantir, the CIA-backed software startup, provides near-omniscient “crime-predicting” military surveillance for U.S. intelligence operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. It has also built technology accused of creating racist feedback loops in “predictive policing” software. The company, which recently went public, was co-founded by Peter Thiel—the Trump-backing venture capitalist billionaire who, in a display of comic book-style villainy, literally wants to inject himself with young people’s blood.

• “The Western Firewall is Complete”: The CIA’s Vast Modern Anti-Communist Propaganda Effort by Rainer Shea from Internationalist 360°. My commentary follows: 

Shea's argument is correct that the CIA's Western firewall is complete in the sense that they control all major organs of media corporations and that they will use this giant propaganda machine, combined with AI, to ever greater efforts to confuse people and propagandize people within the USA and throughout the world. 

 

However, I disagree with his allegiance to Stalinism and his identification of the latter with Marxism/Leninism. Stalinism is a worn-out version of Marxism-Leninism which created a bureaucratic class under Joseph Stalin's paranoid control in the Soviet Union.  

 

The Russian people saved themselves from being slaves of capitalism under the control of German Nazis which were strongly supported by international capitalists. This is the basic reason that his type of rule ended with his death and all pretensions of working class control vanished with Stalin's disappearance. With the failure of the classic fascist nations in WWII, mostly English-speaking capitalists emerged and organized their own fascist empire after the war under the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.

 

However, the peoples of Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and all the exploited peoples of planet Earth have risen from the ashes of WWII to confront this powerful, hegemonic Empire, and it looks like they are going to win. But their win will be a Pyrrhic victory because the victors will then face the onslaught of a destabilizing climate. The latter will result in the inability to support human and most other life forms due to the devastation of the environment and, finally, the destabilization of the climate caused by capitalist rule over the past several centuries.

 

The strength of this article is in the descriptions of the fact that the CIA has taken over the control of major media corporations and has turned them into a media of 24/7 Empire propaganda. 

• The Suez Transport Collapse a Look into the World’s Fragility by Valery Kulikov from New Eastern Outlook. In my rather simplified comment above, I left out a lot of details. My commentary for this article, which follows, will provide some additional details:
  

This article contains one expression of Russian and China fantasies, but totally ignores the reality of the climate crisis. 

 

After WWII some nations which had devastated economies and other underdeveloped nations rose under the difficulties of the Cold War to form mixed economies which combined forms of capitalist enterprises under the guidance and supervision of socialist ruling classes. China was a prime example and the first to combine the two systems. These were compromises that suited the advanced capitalists of the Empire because they initially were able to profit from China's cheap labor. The Soviet Union soon collapsed and reformed with a largely mixed economy, and the two nations led the way to lead all other nations wanting to be independent from the burdens of serving exclusively the nations of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.

 

China and Russia are leaders of this mixed economy movement throughout the world, but I believe they are indulging in fantasies of their own much like the more purely capitalist countries of the Empire. Although members of both ruling classes are expressing more concern about the developing destabilization of the climate, they are both pursuing capitalist development policies. Thus, those nations of the Empire have their Great Reset fantasy; but Russia and China have other fantasies that largely ignore the developing climate crisis, but necessary for their dedication of independence from the hegemonic Empire. 

• Journalists Attack the Powerless, Then Self-Victimize to Bar Criticisms of Themselves by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack.
  

• Propaganda By Omission: Libya, Syria, Venezuela And The UK by David Cromwell from Media Lens.
  

• The Fact That Americans Think Biden Has Changed Things Shows How Narrative Rules Our World by Caitlin Johnstone, an independent Australian blogger.

• Political Economy vs. Federal Fairy Tales by James Bovard from American Institute for Economic Research.

• COVAX and AstraZeneca: Tools of a Humanitarian Extortion Operation from Misión Verdad. (Note: Misión Verdad, which means "Mission Truth" is a Venezuelan collective--see this and this.)
  

• The “Unvaccinated” Question: What is to be done with us? by CJ Hopkins, a master satirist, from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc.

• The Great Unvaxxed by TE Creus from Off-Guardian.
  

• Iran-China: the 21st century Silk Road connection by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.
  

• Climate Campaigners Say 'Listen to the Science' as New Study Shows Earth Now Warmer Than Any Time in Last 12,000 Years by Brett Wilkins from Common Dreams.

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, March 28, 2021

• Lockdowns Worsen the Health Crisis by Kiley Holliday and Jenin Younes from American Institute for Economic Research.

• “Making something out of nothing”: PCR tests, CT values and false positives by Niels Harrit PhD from Off-Guardian.
  

• Ask Congress to Investigate COVID Origins and Government Response to Pandemic from Children's Health Defense.

• Covid Vaccine: The New Sacred Cow by Computing Forever featuring Dave Cullen, an Irishman, in a 14:56m video from the Bitchute channel of EarthNewspaper.
  

• Smart Cities: Digital Prisons of The Great Reset by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond. My commentary follows: 

   
  
  The Great Reset is all about our masters' fantasy: the transnational capitalist ruling classes, who are directors of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire and have a fantasy about saving their system of capitalism. Our billionaire masters are finally concerned about preventing the climate crisis and destroying their beloved system of capitalism, which is a system of organized plunder of the Earth's resources and the labor of working people. 

   

  Thus, it is more of the same: the ruling class is trying to co-opt us into following their self-serving plan to save capitalism for the future. If you like their past record of exploitation, never-ending wars, extreme inequality, full-spectrum control of everything, etc., you will absolutely love their plan for the Great Reset of capitalism. Brose expressed it in a nutshell when he wrote:
  
  
  
  In truth, the push for smart cities, the UN SDGs, and the Great Reset is based in a deeper agenda to monitor, control, and direct all life on the planet using technology. The true agenda of the WEF and the United Nations is to establish a global Technocratic State where alleged experts and technologists make decisions for the vast majority of the people in the name of saving the environment.
  
  
  
  The description of our masters' plans sound familiar. Doesn't it sound like what we experienced during this pandemic where dissenting voices about pandemic policies, contrary medical evidence, and scientific arguments from equally qualified experts are all dismissed or silenced? And you are confined to your homes, must wear masks, and get "vaccinated" with potentially unsafe and unknown substances in order to work or travel? And they're promising to make us happy despite owning nothing--because they will own, and thereby control, everything! Do you want such a world?
  
  
  Just because they have recognized (too late) that unlimited growth, which capitalism requires, on a finite planet is impossible, we should follow them meekly and their self-serving fantasy-plan. I think not!   
  

• Congress, in a Five-Hour Hearing, Demands Tech CEOs Censor the Internet Even More Aggressively by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. Greenwald writes about the Congressional hearing in which Republican members of the Committee largely joined Democrats demanding more censorship:

Words cannot convey how chilling and authoritarian this all is: watching government officials, hour after hour, demand censorship of political speech and threaten punishment for failures to obey. As I detailed last month, the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that the state violates the First Amendment’s free speech guarantee when they coerce private actors to censor for them — exactly the tyrannical goal to which these hearings are singularly devoted. 

 

And he concludes with this statement:

 

We are taught from childhood that a defining hallmark of repressive regimes is that political officials wield power to silence ideas and people they dislike, and that, conversely, what makes the U.S. a “free” society is the guarantee that American leaders are barred from doing so. It is impossible to reconcile that claim with what happened in that House hearing room over the course of five hours on Thursday. 

• In Quest of a Multi-Polar World featuring Pepe Escobar in conversation with Michael Hudson from Consortium News. 

• US/NATO vs. Russia-China in a hybrid war to the finish by Pepe Escobar from "The Saker" weblog.

• Rise Up, Say the Birds to the Bread by Edward Curtin from Off-Guardian.
  

• How the Suez canal blockage could impact global supply chains by Sulaiman Lkaderi, a 2:32m video from Middle East Eye.
  

• An Old Green Colonial Trick: Israel Masking Land Grabs as Environmental Conservation by Jessica Buxbaum from Mint Press News (based in Minneapolis).

• How to start a housing co-op by Mira Luna from Shareable.
  

• Direct Observations by NASA Confirm that Humans are Throwing Earth’s Energy Budget off Balance by NASA from SciTechDaily.

The team found that human activities have caused the radiative forcing on Earth to increase by about 0.5 Watts per square meter from 2003 to 2018. The increase is mostly from greenhouse gases emissions from things like power generation, transport and industrial manufacturing. Reduced reflective aerosols are also contributing to the imbalance.

Posts that I especially recommend for Friday, March 26, 2021

• Speaking Naturally with Dr Geert Vanden Bossche featuring Rob Verkerk PhD interviewing ex-pharma, ex-GAVI, ex-Gates vaccinologist Dr Geert Vanden Bossche in a 1:27:39 video from Alliance for Natural Health International. (Note: This article has been re-posted by Children's Health Defense). My reaction: Because I have not had the training necessary to evaluate Bossche's argument and my reduced hearing of what he argues (particularly with heavily accented English, but due primarily to advanced age), I cannot say that his position is correct or not. But I insist that all highly-trained specialists be heard in the efforts to prevent Covid-19 infections, and I condemn all efforts to silence these experts which have been occurring in profit-dedicated capitalist societies.

• We Must Start Planning For a Permanent Pandemic by Andreas Kluth from Bloomberg.
  

• Chemical Company Chooses Profits Over People, Makes Weedkiller Cheaper, Not Safer by Carey Gillam from Children's Health Defense. My reaction: This is the danger of harmful products being introduced in societies because of capitalism's focus on profits above all else.

• Senator Warren: “BlackRock Manages More Assets than the Entire GDP of Japan.” (How About JPMorgan Chase Having Custody of Assets That Are 5.8 Times the GDP of Japan.) by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• Nord Stream 2 Sanctions Loom amid Major Russian Imports [to the USA] in a 7:53m video from RT's channel of YouTube.

Posts that I especially recommend for Thursday, March 25, 2021

• Facts about Covid-19 features an updated report from the Swiss Policy Research website. 

• A Year of Billionaire Pandemic Gains by Chuck Collins from Institute of Policy Studies. 

• 💥Why COVID Policies Are A War Against Humanity by Neenah Payne from Activist Post. This is a best post. (I only scanned this, but it provides so much good material and so many important links to documentation. I will read it carefully later.) My brief and later (at 6:36 PM CDT) commentary follows: 

Although I have some objections and qualifications regarding this post, I generally approve of the importance of this post. Regarding my objections and qualifications, I object to the sanctification of our "Founding Fathers" in the (38:49m) interview with Vera Sharav. The only member of the Founding Fathers who objected to some of actions of the rest of the ruling class at that time was Jefferson. But he also had slaves which were needed to furnish labor on his plantation. 

 

I also object to her propaganda-like allegations that (at 21:49m) the "same thing happened in Soviet regime and the Chinese regime". She has obviously been fed this information as indoctrination to hate the Soviet Union and Communist China. But what she directly experienced in Nazi Germany and the USA is undoubtedly true.

• Suez Canal Blocked: A “Worst Case Scenario for Global Trade” by Christian Westbrook from his weblog the Ice Age Farmer. (Note: This reminds me of a post earlier this month from U.S. Right To Know entitled "Bill Gates Food Tracker".) My brief commentary follows: 

I don't know if this event is the global trade disrupting event that the author makes of it (with documentation), but it fits within his theory about the coming food crisis, fulfilling the Great Reset agenda, and that we should all plan to localize our food supply. It is the latter that I differ from him. 

 

I see a growing movement of contemporary activists that want to localize our lifestyles to cope with the transnational effort (neoliberalism) to globalize all trade and to supply our daily requirements by major corporations. This development (see also this and this) promises physical and other separations from the neoliberal agenda of advanced capitalist nations as a solution to all of our social problems. This is dead wrong.

 

Not only does it take away from efforts to topple capitalist regimes and replace them with real socialist systems, but it also supplies a wrong solution to most of the major problems confronting us: a world facing a global nuclear war, extreme economic inequality, and the presence of tiny self-serving ruling classes and dictatorial regimes.

• New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato from The Corbett Report.
  
  After 10 Years of Civil War in Syria, US (Quietly) Declares Defeat but Won’t Go Home by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News. My reaction: US forces continue to occupy 1/3 of Syrian territory and bleed the Syrian economy of their precious oil resources. Maybe the ruling class has settled for a nation that is weak and unstable. It looks to me like the ruling class has turned much of its aggressiveness and rage from foreign affairs toward potential activist groups within the USA by promoting policies of surveillance and increasing onerous laws against their civil rights. 
  

• Bogus Claims Of Iran Plan To Attack Washington DC Work To Justify War by Robert Inlakesh from The Last American Vagabond.
  

• Washington's Obsession with China Expands by Brian Berletic, an ex-Marine living with his family in Thailand, from his weblog Land Destroyer Report. (Note: Berletic reveals that the actions by the US government indicate that the primary concern of its foreign policy toward China is motivated by a concern to advance the profits US corporations and other transnational corporations under the control of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire.) My reaction: This applies to all policies promoted by the Empire. It is the expression of neofascism (essentially governments corrupted by the promotion of power and profits by the Empire's ruling capitalist classes) which saw the replacement of the fascist nations led by Nazi Germany in the last century with the new US/Anglo/Zionist Empire since then.

• China Hit With Sobering Splash of Reality as Alaskan Talks Melt Under Heat of U.S. Belligerence by Matthew Ehret from Strategic Culture Foundation. My reaction: The first major conference (in Alaska) revealed that the Biden administration is totally committed to the old cold war tactics that were implemented by previous administrations. Although not unexpected, this warmed-over cold war strategy spells doom for the latest would-be Empire.

In the ensuing days of meetings, it should not come as a surprise that very little in the way of serious conflict resolution occurred. In fact, the only solid points of agreement which the U.S. side would permit involved two joint protocols that fall perfectly into alignment with the Malthusian closed system objectives of the Great Reset agenda attempting to reign in a post-nation state world order in the wake of the oncoming economic meltdown.

 

Eric Zuesse agrees with Ehret in his latest article.

• Newly discovered eyewitness account puts NIST in a corner on WTC 7 explosions by Craig McKee from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. My reaction: The truth is closing in on the lies that government officials, under the direction of ruling class players, told about 9/11, but there are still so many other lies to  deal with.

• Haiti: The United Nations and the US-Backed Regime of Terror by Pierre Michel Chéry from Internationalist 360°.

Haiti is heading for days of great misfortune. Haitians, for the most part, are increasingly convinced that the United Nations considers them as enemies to be eliminated. We are no longer in the conspiratorial scenarios in which Haitians were seen as prime targets by resentful Western leaders, thirsting for revenge for the 1803 defeat of the French generals at Saint-Domingue. For those readers who think it is inconceivable to claim that the United Nations intends to establish a regime of terror in Haiti, let them think again by looking at what has happened or is still happening in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Iraq, Libya, Syria and, above all, in Egypt, where the arrival of the Muslim Brotherhood to power democratically led to a military coup and a very bloody repression (1).

The United Nations is trying to establish a regime of terror in Haiti. To prove it, ....

Posts that I especially recommend for Wednesday, March 24, 2021

• After a Year Under Lockdown, Will Our Freedoms Survive the Tyranny of COVID-19? by John W. Whitehead from his weblog The Rutherford Institute.
  

• We Are Living Through a Time of Fear – Not Just of the Virus, but of Each Other by Jonathan Cook, a top British journalist living in Jerusalem, from Global Research. (Note: This post includes a 10:11m video via YouTube featuring a commentary by Russel Brand, a British counterpart to Jimmy Dore.)
  

• White Hats, Black Hats,…Grey Hats? from the CT [Connecticut] Freedom Alliance Blog.

It doesn’t take long to realize that we aren’t having a debate about the science of vaccines. We aren’t debating the authority of the evidence. We are debating the authority of the person. The most ingenious thing the pharmaceutical industry ever did was purchase the majority of the advertising for every network and cable news program. With that grand gesture, the media became little more than a pharmaceutical industry spokesperson, functioning as its mouthpiece of propaganda. The media doesn’t report “science.”

 

Also, read about the legal victory in Connecticut achieved by the efforts of the Freedom Alliance.

• Canadian Economist Dispels 4 Myths About Socialism by Steve Lalla from Internationalist 360°. My reaction: Although Canadian political economist Radhika Desai said in a recent interview: "While Desai acknowledged that there were problems that led to famines in Russia and China, she added that the severity and mismanagement of the crises were perhaps exaggerated.", she didn't mention the vigorous subversive and military attacks by the leading capitalist nations on any nation that even considers a move to public ownership of their economy or in any way demonstrates independent policies from the predations of capitalist corporations. Also, she omitted the constant anti-socialist propaganda that people in capitalist countries are subject to.

• Interview with Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates and the philantro-imperialism. Posted by Pangea, an Italian channel of YouTube in a 26:37m video. (Note: Shiva explains how billionaires and the largest foundations, established by major corporations, have taken control of the world (or the nations of the Empire and much of the United Nations) through their purchase of patents (intellectual property), and the disastrous effects on ordinary people throughout the planet.)

• “The Big Picture” Is Ignored in the COVID Debate. What Is the End Game? by Peter Koenig from Global Research.

• 💥The U.S. Intelligence Community, Flouting Laws, is Increasingly Involving Itself in Domestic Politics by Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. A best post.
  

• Washington’s Obsession with China Expands by Brian Berletic for New Eastern Outlook.

• China issues report urging U.S. to drop double standard on human rights from CGTN (China's major newspaper).
  

• Welcome to Shocked and Awed 21st Century Geopolitics by Pepe Escobar, a top Brazilian journalist, from Global Research.
  

• Debunk And Discredit The Empire’s Propaganda: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone, an independent Australian, from her weblog.  My reaction: She has done so much to "debunk the Empire's propaganda".

• US Gins Up a “Credible” Iranian Nuclear Menace Befitting Its Own Stockpile by Raul Diego from Mint Press News.

• “The Lion and the Eagle”: The Interaction of the British and American Empires (1783-1972): A review of Kathleen Burk's book by Jim Miles from Global Research. My reaction: I like to post real history articles because my fellow Americans have been largely fed fake histories in their schooling. Miles corrects some of the mistakes Burk makes to build a sound history of the collaboration of both the British and the American Empires to coalesce in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire that threatens much of the world today. 
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Tuesday, March 23, 2021

(Sorry for the late posting for Tuesday--I have been preoccupied by personal matters--I thought I had already uploaded it.)

• Scientists Explain The Catastrophic Impact of Covid Forced Societal Lockdowns by Arjun Walia from Collective Evolution. 

• Anti-lockdown protests sweep across Europe as infection numbers surge from RT (4:32m).
  

• Humanity will not be saved by vaccines by Stelios Elliniadis from Defend Democracy Press.

• The New Normal “Reality” Police by master satirist CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factor, Inc.

• A History of Warring on the Homefront by Mickey Huff from Dissident Voice (originally from Project Censored). (Note: I am posting this article/video from Dissident Voice because the latter have conveniently included the film of which this review on the film is based. Also, this is essential reading/viewing for all those fellow Americans who missed the actual history of American working people and were brainwashed by their history classes in the USA.)

• On One Day Last Year, the Fed Had $495.7 Billion in Loans Outstanding to Unnamed Wall Street Trading Houses by Pam & Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade. 

• The Brand-Spanking-New Space Race from South Front.

• Flashmobs for Freedom featuring James Corbett in a 27:40m video from The Corbett Report 
  

• Syria - The War Is Resuming On Several Fronts by Bernhard, a German independent blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama. 

• OPCW Whistle Blowers Debunk Cover-Up & U.S. Propaganda featuring Jimmy Dore interviewing Aaron Maté of The Grayzone what has learned about the disinformation and censorship involved in the ruling class's reporting  of "chemical attacks" in Syria directed by the Assad government from Dore's Rokfin channel (26:22m).  
  

• Make Way for Kamala Harris, the Deep State’s Dream President by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• A Green-Washed Global Economy – A Delusion That May Crash It by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. 

• Thoughts On The Iraq Invasion by Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian independent blogger, from her weblog. My reaction: She knows far more than Alfred McCoy, a prominent American historian, does about the mindset of the current American ruling class. Now that the core of the ruling class, combining the resources and wealth of the USA, the British Empire, and international Zionist Jewry, is back under Joe Biden, they intend to resurrect their longstanding project to rule the world (commentary).

• Code Pink & Why Peace Can Never Break Out (w/ Medea Benjamin) featuring Lee Camp of Redacted Tonight interviewing Benjamin, a longtime anti-war activist, via RT's channel of YouTube (33:59m).
  

• Capitalizing on conflict: How defense contractors and foreign nations lobby for arms sales by Dan Auble from Open Secrets.
  

• Project Veritas Obtains Never-Before-Seen Images Inside Texas Detention Facility … Illegal Immigrants are Cornered in Tight Spaces and Wrapped in Space Blankets on the Floor from Project Veritas.

• “Bad Reception” Film (2003) about the Wireless Revolution and Opposition to Cell Towers in San Francisco (Free Online) by B. N. Frank from Activist Post.
  

• Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialisation of India by Colin Todhunter, a Brit who has lived for a long time in India, from CounterPunch. My reaction: This is a manifestation of neoliberalism as illustrated in India, not "colonial deindustrialization".

• The American Terror State by Donald Monaco from Global Research.
  

• Dispatches from the Congo: The Truth Behind US Claims of ISIS Presence posted on Internationalist 360° featuring Kambale Musavuli from the Centre of Research on the Congo explaining, in a 21:09m video, how US-backed forces are engaging in massacres on behalf of corrupt political leaders while also covering this in media reports as "fighting terrorism" and protecting "human rights" of local populations. My reaction: Surprise, surprise! (a cynical remark).

• John Magufuli: Death of an African Freedom Fighter by Celia Farber from The Solari Report.
  

• Unnamed Western Officials Spread Dubious Claims About Iran by Dave DeCamp from AntiWar.
  

• That Time A Leaked Memo Proved The US Weaponizes ‘Human Rights’ Against Nations Like China by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. 

• What Will Go Extinct featuring Prof. (retired) Guy McPherson in his channel on YouTube (7:10m).
  

Posts that I especially recommend for Sunday, March 21, 2021

• Why Do They Keep Doing It? by Patrick Armstrong from Strategic Culture Foundation (based in Russia but they post international writers). My reaction: It's what the ruling class in the USA has been devoted to since the US entered WWII--building a capitalist empire (commentary). This goal was to maximize their wealth and to enhance their power. It has become an obsession without which life has no meaning for them.
  

• The Great Reset is Here: Follow the Money by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. My commentary follows:

This post is dripping with cynicism by Engdahl who has business expertise combined with knowledge of geopolitics, however is someone lacking in knowledge upon the impending climate crisis that scientists have studied and have warned us about. This criticism also applies to a number of experts such as Guy McPherson, who has expertise in physical sciences and has specialized in global warming, but who sometimes wanders into other areas like psychology, anthropology, philosophy, etc. People have an expertise in a certain area and must stick to that area, and not assume an all-knowing wisdom. 

 

Christian Westbrook (Ice Age Farmer) is a farmer who has dabbled a bit in sunspots and concludes that the whole ecology movement is suspect, that there is no climate crisis, etc. Engdahl clearly is a climate-warming denier even though he lacks scientific knowledge that McPherson has and the many independent scientists who have been warning us that the destabilization of our climate is driving us to extinction. 

 

Engdahl, Westbrook, and activists have been duped so many times by ruling class experts that it is understandable why they question everything and distrust everything that authorities tell them, but they even distrust what more independent experts say. These examples, and many others, are why I don't have faith that Western activists can achieve a recognition of who their real opponents are, and replace capitalism with a socialist system within the time remaining before humans become extinct.

 

However, this post is valuable in that Engdahl has information about how members of the US/Anglo/Zionist ruling class are conspiring to save capitalism, a system that has given capitalists so much wealth and power. Top members of the ruling class have clearly listened to the independent physical scientists and their research about the growing climate crisis. Thus, they have come up with a plan (too late) called the Great Reset in a desperate attempt to save themselves from this crisis. But it is far too late, and anyway capitalism and a sustainable climate are a contradiction that they refuse to recognize because of their obsession with wealth and power that the system supplies them with such abundance.

• The TRUTH About War Crimes featuring Lee Camp, via his YouTube channel in an 11:20m post, using sarcastic humor to attack our mainstream news so conveniently furnished by media corporations to brainwash Americans. My reaction: He uses reports from alternative media, which few people watch, as a means to attack ubiquitous reports by media corporations like CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, NPR, PBS, and their local affiliates. However, most Americans watch and take seriously the latter reports as witnessed during this pandemic by complying with lockdown orders, wearing masks, social distancing, taking their vaccines, etc. without questions or doubts. 

• Russiagate Rolls On, Giving Biden Political Cover by Joe Lauria from Consortium News. 

• Captain America – The Man with Two Brains by Larry Romanoff from "The Saker" weblog. This is an epilogue to his series of articles listed below that explains much about Americans.

Introduction – If America Dissolves… https://thesaker.is/if-america-dissolves/
Bernays and Propaganda – Part 1 of 5 — https://thesaker.is/bernays-and-propaganda/
Bernays and Propaganda – Part 2 of 5 — The Marketing of War — https://thesaker.is/bernays-and-propaganda-the-marketing-of-war/
Bernays and Propaganda – Part 3 of 5 –– Democracy Control – http://thesaker.is/bernays-and-propaganda-democracy-control/
Bernays and Propaganda – Part 4 of 5 –The Transition to Education and Commerce – http://thesaker.is/bernays-and-propaganda-the-transition-to-education-and-commerce-part-4/
Bernays and Propaganda – Part 5 of 5 — Propaganda Continues Unabated — http://thesaker.is/bernays-and-propaganda-propaganda-continues-unabated-part-5/
Epilogue – Captain America –The Man with Two Brains 

My reaction: I'm not sure about his argument about Americans having two disconnected mind-sets, but I can agree with his last paragraph:

 

This is what Lippman and Bernays (and their European masters) did to the American people – reprogrammed an entire nation in equally as brutal a fashion as did the US with the Philippines, and the UK with Hong Kong, in this case creating an entire society of deluded, hysterical, and profoundly sick killer-consumers with a totally fictional history. It is probably fair to say that these men had good and fertile material to work with, a composition of the worst features of Christianity, native ignorance, and insatiable greed, but still we need to give credit where credit is due. Americans have always been racist and violent, but it was Lippman and Bernays who turned them into serial killers celebrating their Afghan “bug splats” (1) in the national media. And it was in this fertile and evil soil that American Presidents, Secretaries of State and Defense Secretaries so lushly sprouted into the longest string of sociopathic genocidal killers in history. Democracy never had a chance. 

 

Oh, I forgot that most Americans don't know their true history as influenced by Bernays and Lippman. Romanoff goes into detail about this history in parts 4 and 5--links to those articles I have provided above.

• America's Secret Government features Chris Hodges, in a 27:09m of his YouTube channel, interviewing David Talbot, author of The Devil's Chessboard, about the growth of the "secret government" initially under the Dulles brothers (Alan and John Foster Dulles). My commentary follows:

This is a true history of the USA's establishment of a fascist-like cabal of ruling class figures who have attained overwhelming power and established the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire replacing the fascist empire of Nazi Germany. Talbot only gives us a smattering of details of the history of this Deep State (Talbot uses this term at about 21:54m) which has now rewritten history, infiltrated all media corporations, and spread their agents throughout all US institutions and abroad in Europe. 

 

This very cleverly hidden Deep State has for many years total control over all institutions and government of the USA and most of their Empire of which contemporary activists have only a rudimentary understanding. I have grown up with this development since the end of WWII and became aware of this development following the assassination of the Kennedy brothers and the constant lies fed by our media corporations during the Vietnam War. I have posted many articles warning of this development, the most important and most recent of which is my commentary for this post.

 

To attain an understanding of this insidious growth of fascism in the USA and the brainwashing you received from every institution, most important of which are schools you attended, you need to read many of the books that I recommended on the right-hand side of this weblog.