Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020

• After White House, Congress cut aid to unemployed, evictions and food lines spread across the US by Jacob Crosse from World Socialist Web Site. (My reaction: The assault on the "deplorables" and the "dumb-fucks" continues.)

• Biden picks former law-and-order prosecutor Kamala Harris to be his Democratic running mate by Patrick Martin from World Socialist Web Site.
  

• Kamala Is A Cop Except For Billionaire Banksters! featuring Jimmy Dore ranting and Max Blumenthal offering his observations about the Democratic Party candidates, via YouTube. (My reaction: Can you imagine a worse election that are facing the people of the USA in November?! Our masters in the ruling class are both extremely corrupt and extremely cynical about the American people.)
  

• America Desperately Needs a Second Opinion by Jeff Harris from the Ron Paul Institute.

• Consent Rescinded. By Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: She rescinds all the themes with which ideological agents of the capitalist ruling class infected her mind much like a virus when she was younger and more naive. Can you join her?)

• A quick update on Belarus by "The Saker" from his weblog A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. (Note: this is an update to yesterday's re-post about the subversive efforts of the US Empire to change the government of Belarus.)

• Dead Zones: Industrial Agriculture versus Ocean Life by Ian Angus from Climate & Capitalism.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020

• Left Gatekeepers Through the New Left: Monitored Rebellion (Part 2) by Bruce Lerro from Dissident Voice. (Note: I guess was so impressed with Part 1 that I overlooked Part 2.)

• Is This a Remake of the 1941 Hitler Stalin Great War? by F. William Engdahl from New Eastern Outlook. 

• Our beautifully democratic wars by Philip Roddis from Off-Guardian.

• Iran and China terrify the Empire, but why? by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from his weblog A bird's eye view of the Vineyard. (Note: If you liked this post, I recommend another entitled "US concerned about Serbia’s intention to buy Chinese weapons".)
  

• Man Killed by Bomb During Belarus Color Revolution Attempt, Biden Openly Supports Protests by Drago Bosnic from FRN (Fort Russ News, based in Serbia).

• US Meddling in Thai Politics Continues by Joseph Thomas from New Eastern Outlook. 

• New Report Reveals US Special Forces Active in 22 African Countries by Alan Macleod from Internationalist 360°. 
  

• Biden Pick His VP -- KAMALA Is A Cop! featuring Jimmy Dore (of The Jimmy Dore Show) doing his take (via YouTube) of Biden's pick for Vice-President in the November elections. (You might also be interested to learn more about Harris from this older post from The Grayzone.)

• Yale Study To Manipulate Americans Into Taking C0VlD Vaccine featuring Ben Swann and his take on a Yale study from the Digital Freedom channel of YouTube. 

• Pharma Lobbying & Corruption featuring Robert F. Kenney, Jr. commenting briefly, via Children's Health Defense YouTube channel on the role of Big Pharma in our society.

• 'Western' Media Falsely Claim That Russia's Covid-19 Vaccine Is Ready To Go by Bernhard from his weblog Moon of Alabama.

• Letters From Melbourne, a ‘Ghost Town Police State’ Under Brutal Covid Lockdown by Robert Bridge from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• What is the best way to measure rates of covid immunity? by Sebastian Rushworth M.D. from his weblog. (Note: He was trained as physician at a medical school on Long Island, but is practicing in Sweden.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020

• Defund Fascism, Blue and Orange by Paul Street from CounterPunch. My commentary follows:

Although Street gives an accurate description of the largely colored underclass (but not exclusively so) of capitalist America, he ignores the indispensable part that fascism plays in capitalism to deal with the problem of surplus workers that is an integral part of capitalist rule. This I think largely comes from a misunderstanding of fascism which confuses many people in the USA. (This is not an accident: capitalist ideological agents carefully craft propaganda to confuse people on this subject and many others.)

Fascism is basically an attitude that encourages coercion in one form or another. The fundamental source of this attitude is from the capitalist morality as described by Margaret Thatcher: looking only to the welfare of the individual and of one's family:

 ...you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first.

Therefore fascist methods are employed to deal with capitalist's main antagonists (the unemployed, poverty stricken, etc, (and let us not forget other competitive capitalists), and they can range from the threat of violence to indirect forms by controlling jobs and careers (traditionally favored by capitalists) to controlling the narratives (including censorship) that shape people's understanding of issues. (Caitlin Johnstone writes extensively about the latter subject.) Nowadays the three are combined in various combinations.

• Twitter spreads paid US gov’t propaganda while falsely claiming it bans state media ads by Ben Norton from The Grayzone.
  

• Bombshell Report: Fed Is Aware that Big Banks Are Rigging their Stress Tests and Letting Them Get Away with It by Pam and Russ Martens from their weblog Wall Street on Parade.
  

• Trump and Biden, Two Ignoble Minds Here O’erthrown by Andrew Levine from CounterPunch.

• Global Destruction, 
The COVID-19 Lockdown: Economic and Social Impacts by Peter Koenig from Global Research. (Note: A "best posts" article.)
  

• Trump Names Stanford Professor [Dr. Scott W. Atlas] Critical of Lockdowns to White House Covid Task Force from Anti-Empire. (Note: This article was first published on a British website Daily Mail; but because the latter insist on showing ads, I have posted it from the Anti-Empire website. I encourage you to read a further article by Dr. Scott W. Atlas posted on The Hill.)
  

• MAJOR: Tens of Thousands of Quebecois Stage Mass March Against Plandemic Tyranny by Joaquin Flores from FRN (Fort Russ News, based in Serbia).

• Putin and Russia Are Facing a Very Serious Crisis in Belarus by "The Saker" (Andrei Raevsky) from The Unz Review. (Note: Because I posted an article about Belarus yesterday, I thought it apt to include this post today from an author who has ancestral roots in the military and middle-class in Russia and who knows the geopolitics very well in this area. It looks like an attempted color revolution by the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire is going on there with the apparent participation of the Ukrainian government. You will need to know what about some of his more obscure references, but I trust you will look them up on the internet. For another take on this phenomenon, you might be interested in Nikopetr's article from The Internationalists entitled "Winds of Change in Belarus: Neither Dictatorship Nor Democracy Offer Anything for the Working Class".)

• The U.S. Needs to Address Its Climate Migration Problem by Daniel Cusick from Scientific American.

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, Aug. 10, 2020

• Is Big Pharma More Interested in Profiteering Than Protecting Us From Coronavirus? by F. Douglas Stephenson from CounterPunch.

• The COVID-19 Vaccine. The Imposition of Compulsory Vaccination with a Biometric Health Passport? by Dr. Pascal Sacré from Global Research. 

• What we can learn from the Swedish paradox by Freddie Sayers from UnHerd. (Note: Sayers, who is British, uses a European meaning of libertarians who emphasize individual freedom from government in contrast to the US version which puts more emphasis on laissez-faire capitalism, that is, more emphasis on freedom of capitalist enterprises from government regulation.)

• Alexandr Lukashenko – a president with scruples by John Goss from Off-Guardian.
  

• Revolutionaries Living in a System of Growing Fascism by Howard Lisnoff from CounterPunch.

• The Undoing Of Illusions: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: Johnstone uses the theme of "narrative matrix" to denote the capitalist ruling class control of all ideological institutions. They do this by using fake news and propaganda that they spread via their ownership and control of media corporations and the control of other ideological institutions (education, entertainment, etc.) in order to control people's minds especially within their US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. This practice is the essence of soft fascism in contrast to the often hard fascism of German and Italian history (reliance on police terror). To be sure, the latter used elements of fake news and propaganda, but they relied on hard fascist methods because of the underdevelopment of propaganda during their rule.) (Editor's note: I edited this note to include comments regarding soft and hard fascism @ 3:50 PM CT.)
  

• Who Profits from the Beirut Blast? by Pepe Escobar from Global Research. (Note: Because Escobar's excellent articles in Asia Times are now behind a paywall, I will be posting his articles from secondary sources in the future.)

• Biden’s Ukrainegate Problem by Gerald Sussman from CounterPunch.
  

• The Jakarta Method: How the U.S. Used Mass Murder To Beat Communism by Daniel Larison from The American Conservative. (Note: I'm posting this mainly because it offers lessons on the US political spectrum, and secondarily because it reminds us of the history of ruling class crimes. The conservatives who write for this website are often labeled as "paleoconservatives" (old-fashioned conservatives) in contrast to neoliberals, often referred to as "ziocons" (Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Dick Cheney, etc. most of whom were brought into government during Reagan's administration). Neoliberals or "ziocons" (because of strong Zionist influence) are favored by transnational capitalists who have aggressively pursued an empire compared to more nationalist conservatives who support national capitalist interests. I think that Fox News publishing empire has mixed feelings about Trump because of his more nationalist orientation in contrast with his aggressive foreign policies. Neoliberals have taken over control of the Democratic Party, whereas the paleoconservatives are mostly found in the Republican Party, but there is little of substance to differentiate the two-party system of the capitalist ruling class.)

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020

• The Evilness of America’s Ruling Class by Eric Zuesse from Strategic Culture Foundation. My commentary follows:

Remarkably, Zuesse uses the term "ruling class" two times, but then reverts to using "oligarchy" and "aristocracy"--maybe he is progressing. Zuesse is the only social-democrat who is still frequently published on the internet. Most often social-democrats settle for highly regulated capitalism, but of course, capitalist ruling classes have always prevented this except during a period of extreme stress such as the Great Depression when there were only mild forms of regulation. Thus Zuesse always has fond memories of FDR.

"Ruling class" is a term used frequently by Marxist or revolutionary socialists to describe class structured societies that have existed since civilization was established around 10,000 years ago. The relations between social-democrats and Marxists have been contentious since the appearance of social-democrats mainly in Britain in the late 1800s. I suspect that such exponents saw that their careers were impaired by Marxist concepts, and to safeguard their careers, adopted this tame form of socialism. In the current USA only academic historians, who specialize in Marxist literature and are known as "Marxians", are allowed to work. Revolutionary Marxists were purged by the ruling class around 1950 during the McCarthy period (as explained by Bruce Lerro).

Most frequently Zuesse is listed as a "historian", sometimes as an "investigative historian". But I have never found his biography: where he was educated, the degrees he's earned, anything about his career, and where he worked as a historian. This is strange given that his articles have been published prolifically on the internet. Don't misunderstand me, I like many of his articles which contain many links to documentation that are overlooked by others. I only fault him for his social-democratic concepts which tend to hide the real nature of organized capitalist class rule by using terms such as "oligarchy" and "aristocracy".

• Democrat think tank calls for color revolution if Trump wins election (Video) featuring Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris discussing an article in the Washington Examiner. The post is from The Duran. (Note: The video discussion lasts until 18:15m).

 

• Australia: Willing Pawn in US Struggle with China by Tony Cartalucci from New Eastern Outlook. (My reaction: Of course! Isn't Australia a part of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire?)

• Viral Fake Footage Of “Chinese” Atrocities Shows The Power Of Narrative Spin by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (My reaction: Isn't it obvious that the power of money lies behind the "power of narrative spin"?)

• Western media’s favorite Hong Kong ‘freedom struggle writer’ is American ex-Amnesty staffer in yellowface by Max Blumenthal from The Grayzone. (Note: Blumenthal "outs" "Kong Tsung-gan" as Brian Kern.) 

 

• Invasion of the New Normals by CJ Hopkins from his weblog Consent Factory, Inc. (My reaction: Could it be that the typical satire of Hopkins has turned serious in the "New Normal"?)

 

• How bad is covid really? (A Swedish doctor’s perspective) posted by Sebastian Rushworth M.D. from his weblog. (If you liked this post, you may also be interested another post entitled "COVID-19 Down in Sweden Thanks to Invisible Face Masks" from Anti-Empire.)

 

• Dr. Judy Mikovits and the Real Plague Infecting Humanity by Mark Taliano from his website.

• Academia Stoops to Defamation over Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Groundless Accusations against 2 World-class Scientists by Elizabeth Woodworth from Global Research.

• The COVID 2nd Wave Will Tear Our Communities Apart by Stewart Brennan from AlternativeViews. 

 

• A Conversation with John Ioannidis. In this post epidemiologist John Ioannidis submits to a rather aggressive questioning by Saurabh Jha, MD of The Health Care Blog.

 

•  The World on Fire by Robert Hunziker from CounterCurrents.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020 [two "best posts"]

• The News that Didn't Make the News from Project Censored. (Note: This is a film trailer of the film "Project Censored The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News". You can watch the entire film free at this website, but I think we, that is, if we are able, should support the filmmakers. This post belongs in the "best posts" category on my website. I will attach it to the list of my recommended films only after viewing it to see if it meets my criteria for recommending it.) 11:00 PM CT--Note: After watching this old film about censorship, I realized that it was a liberal take on the theme of censorship back in mostly 2012. (The film was officially released in 2013.) Censorship and manipulation of the news is much more worse now than then, and I apologize for posting this. My excuse is that I am forced by time restrictions to make more snap judgements, and this permits errors to creep into my posts. I will try to avoid such errors in the future.
  

• US credit outlook rated “negative” as concerns mount over dollar’s global role by Nick Beams from World Socialist Web Site. (My reaction is as follows: I have much respect for Nick Beams, a longtime socialist from Australia. Unlike most of the writers for this website, he consistently maintains his independence by reporting his independent views. But I've noticed a transition for this website from an independent voice of socialist writers to one of collaborating with the media corporations during this "pandemic" in order to exaggerate the fear aspects of the virus by posting articles about the dangers to workers. To be sure, those private enterprises that still employ workers ("essential workers") during this pandemic have little concern for the safety of workers as they do for the population at large, but the website has not run a single article regarding the fake and manipulated numbers that government authorities are reporting in order to spread fear. I have also noticed that Chairman David North has disappeared from the website. Could it be that he is ailing from the virus and has editorial control of website posts?) 

• Exposing US Color Revolution in Thailand Aimed at China by Tony Cartalucci from his weblog Land Destroyer Report.

• Fact-Checking a “Fact-Checker”: A Response to HealthFeedback.org by Rosemary Frei from Off-Guardian.

• COVID-19: Are we being misled again by Big Pharma? from Third World Network.

• These Two Charts Should Land Dr. Fauci in Prison by Jim Hoft from FRN (Fort Russ Network--based in Serbia). 
  

• “Conspiracy Theory” – What Is It? by Peter Koenig from Global Research. (Note: This article is about much more than the term "conspiracy theory". It is mainly about the ruling classes control of the narratives about the current pandemic. This post is also in the "best posts" category.)

• Beirut Explosion Lays Groundwork for Regime Change Push by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian. (Note: The author goes on to provide evidence that the "regime change push" has ardent supporters among those in the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire. But he also writes "In short, we don’t know exactly what happened yet, or who is to blame. Also, you may want to read Elijah J. Magnier's take on the same subject. Hopefully, if any change comes about related to their government, it will be to the advantage of the Lebanese people in general. )

• Lebanon's corrupt, colonial system leads to explosion catastrophe. Aaron Maté of The Grayzone interviews a resident of Beirut, Rania Masri, lecturer and activist, about her views of the latest tragedy.
  

• ‘Worst case’ emissions scenario is best match for reality from Climate & Capitalism.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020

• How the Fascists Won World War II by H. Bruce Franklin from CounterPunch. My reaction follows:

Franklin barely skims the surface of this phenomenon: the avoidance of Allied bombing in WWII to targets that had ties to Western capitalist corporations. I recommend that you read Trading with the Enemy by Charles Higham, Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler by Anthony Sutton, Nazi Nexus by Edwin Black, and Big Business and Hitler by Jacques Pauwels (the latest, and in my opinion, the best). Obviously, the same applies to plants owned by purely US corporations: Opel owned by General Motors and Ford-Werke. My clarification about WWII--see commentary.

• Black Labor from Chattel Slavery to Wage Slavery by Sam Marcy from Internationalist 360°. (My reaction: Nothing proves Marx's emphasis on labor than capitalists' use of slave labor to exploit the value they found in the Americas. Capitalists could conquer these territories but they could not exploit them. Early on, they couldn't get enough Europeans workers to come to the Americas so they had to engage in slave labor to exploit their new conquered territories.

As Marx was to write, “It is slavery that gave the colonies their value; it is the colonies that have created world trade, and it is world trade that is the precondition of large-scale industry. Thus slavery is an economic category of the greatest importance.”

• Why the Working Class is Key posted on the website of The internationalists.
  

• Americans, War – Slow Learners by Patrick Armstrong from Strategic Culture Foundation.

• 5 Ways “The New Normal” is Getting Worse and Worse by Kit Knightly from Off-Guardian.

• Ben Swann Interview – Decades Of Mask Science Came To One Conclusion, So Why Can’t We Talk About It? Ryan Cristián posts the Ben Swann interview on his weblog The Last American Vagabond. (Note: The interview lasts for 33:08m. I admit I have a bias against Cristián because of his excessively long comments (up to three hours) on his Daily Wrap-Up show. Why he thinks that anyone has time to listen to his show is beyond my understanding. Anyway, listen to Ben Swann and be sure to notice the studies about masks below the video.)

• The Fix Was In: Latest ACIP Meeting’s Public Comments Featured a Who’s Who Among Vaccine Promoters by Kari Bundy, CHD Communications Assistant, from Children's Health Defense.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020

• National Security Alert: COVID Tests Scientifically Fraudulent, Epidemic of False Positives by David DeGraw, Torsten Engelbrecht, and Konstantin Demeter from Quantum Politics. (Note: I don't want to add to the confusion about this current pandemic, but I see media corporations only harping one alarming theme: that of the dangerous aspects of the pandemic and to convince their viewers that only a vaccine can finally offer a cure for it. The ruling capitalist class who owns these corporations (as well as the pharmaceutical corporations and most of America) don't have a credible track record having sold us in the past on so many fake propaganda themes: war on drugs, 9/11 tragedy, war on terrorism, the invasion of Iraq, etc. I don't pretend to understand all of this article, but it seems to me to offer alternative and credible views of this pandemic by including links to solid documentation.)

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

• The Shunning of Nutritional Science and Self-Care in the Public COVID-19 Narrative by Dr. Alan Palmer from Children's Health Defense.

• Big Oil Knew Climate Change Could Be ‘Catastrophic.’ Study Shows Heat Could Become Deadlier Than Infectious Diseases by Dana Drugmand from Desmog.

• North Hole 2020? from Arctic News.

• Here’s All The Ridiculous Military Pork Baked Into The Proposed COVID-19 Bill by Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway from The Drive. (Most people don't know how ruling class employees (Senators and Representatives) in Congress hide military expenditures in other bills.)

• Beirut Blast Wrap-up by Bernhard (German) from his weblog Moon of Alabama. (My reaction: I can't think of a more reliable source than this one about the catastrophe that the inhabitants of Beirut have suffered on top of their suffering from economic collapse!)
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020

• The Dollar Standard Slipping Out of Control? by Alastair Crooke from Strategic Culture Foundation. My commentary follows:
  

Crooke has an interesting background in British diplomacy, MI-6 spy analyst, and now geopolitical analyst. In this article he attempts to unravel the mysteries of global currencies, and in particular, the Federal Reserve's printing money and giving it mostly to US banks and corporations. His analysis explains this as an attempt to make US dollars cheaper and easier for the US government to pay off its soaring debts.

It is about U.S. explosive debt accumulation, on account of the Coronavirus lockdown. In a world where there is already over $100 trillion in dollar-denominated debt, on which the U.S. cannot default; nor will it ever be repaid. It can therefore only be inflated away. That is to say the debt can only be managed through debasing the currency. (Debt jubilees are viewed as beyond the pale.)

One thing to keep in mind: Control of the Federal Reserve lies mostly in the real ruling class that owns most of the USA--the financial and dominant part of the ruling capitalist class. However, these fabulously rich and powerful people are split between domestic financiers but are increasingly being challenged by transnational capitalists or "globalists". The latter see the cheapening of dollar as a hindrance to their transnational capitalist profits and are becoming worried about the US dollar as a prime global currency.

But keep in mind, these problems exist regardless of which capitalist party wins the elections. Elections are mostly irrelevant in this fake democracy in order to distract workers from the real issues. International workers, particularly highly skilled and trained workers who are essential to make economies run, have been largely co-opted with lucrative careers into serving capitalists. Capitalists have nothing much to do but to bet on stocks, bonds, and currencies in their Wall Street casinos. Meanwhile, ordinary workers are left to struggle to feed, clothe, and house their families on a planet that is increasingly threatened by global warming.

• Stories Of Economic Despair From America’s Worst Economic Downturn Since The Great Depression Of The 1930s by Michael Snyder from End Of The American Dream.

• US GDP Collapses & Economic Rebound Fades by Jack Rasmus from his weblog.
  

• A Crisis of Capitalist "Civilisation" from The Internationalists.

• CDC Director Admits Hospitals Have Monetary ‘Incentive’ to Inflate Coronavirus Death Count by Chris Enloe from Anti-Empire.

•  Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence. From Swiss Policy Research.

• What They are Not Telling You! The Mask’s Impact on Your Health by Laura Ingraham, Dr. Pascal Sacré, and Dr. Russell Blaylock from Global Research.
  

• Masks are a Psychological Preparation for Mandatory Vaccinations by Bill Willers from Dissident Voice.

• New Book Due Out September 1 posted by Edward Curtin from his weblog Behind the Curtain. (Note: I am promoting this book, SEEKING TRUTH IN A COUNTRY OF LIES, on the basis of Curtin's past record of excellent posts on his weblog.)

• Shape Yourself Into The Perfect Weapon Against The Empire by Australian Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog. (Note: Very inspiring in a time filled with despair!)

• Document exposes new US plot to overthrow Nicaragua’s elected socialist gov’t by Ben Norton from The Grayzone.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Monday, Aug. 3, 2020

• Do Not Let Them Train You by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.
  

• America’s Frontline Doctors’ website removed after viral video censored by John C. A. Manley from Off-Guardian. (Note: If you liked this, you may also be interested in these articles: this article (from an epidemiology journal), "Doctors for The Truth – all over the world", "Remdesivir for Covid-19: $1.6 Billion for a “Modestly Beneficial” Drug?", and one entitled "Video: Hollywood Celebrities and the Covid-19 Fear Campaign".

• LOCKDOWN LUNACY 3.0—It’s over. By J.B. Handley from Children's Health Defense. (Note: Also, you might be interested in the following articles: "Who is Behind 'Fake News'? Mainstream Media Use Fake Videos and Images" and "New Study: COVID Restrictions Killing 10,000 Children per Month, ‘Wasting’ and ‘Stunting’ Millions More".) (My reaction: While reading these articles, I recalled my thoughts last night while viewing the film The New American Century (2009) which I've now added to films that I recommend. I thought it was ridiculous for my fellow Americans to be caught up in the post-9/11 frenzy of hating Muslims which they viewed as "terrorists".)

• Racism, Sexism, Classism – The Necessary Incoherence Of ‘Mainstream’ Ethical Debate by David Edwards from Media Lens.

• XIII Theses on the Imminent Ecological Catastrophe and the (Revolutionary) Means of  Averting It. By Michael Löwy from Global Ecosocialist Network.
  

Posts that I especially recommend today: Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020

• National Eviction Nightmare! People Chaining Themselves To Eviction Courts! featuring Jimmy Dore exclaiming about the "Eviction Nightmare" (via YouTube).
  

• Boston Marathon Bombing Death Sentence Vacated by Federal Court of Appeals by Paul Craig Roberts from his weblog. First a quote from the article, then my commentary follows:

Nevertheless, the federal appeals court ruling opens a wedge by admitting that something was wrong, and Dzhokhar’s punishment has to be reconsidered in a new trial. If there were attorneys and bar associations that served justice rather than career and money, they could use the opening provided by the First Circuit to blow up the hoax conviction of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev together with the hoax false flag Boston Marathon Bombing. This, I think, is the message from the US Appeals Court of the First Circuit. The Appeals Court opens the opportunity, but if no one cares, the Appeals Court is not going to take the hit for declaring an innocent person innocent.

A country whose lawyers no longer will fight for justice, but only for money, is a lost and destroyed country.

Roberts criticizes lawyers for succumbing to their socialization in a thoroughly capitalist country. Lawyers are human, and they see that taking on the powerful US ruling class is an exercise in futility, worse yet, it may be suicidal, that is, without a public that is conscious of a class-structured society, capitalism, a ruling class that essentially owns the country, etc. For those of you who don't know your history simply because you were never taught it, Marxist concepts have been expunged during the McCarthy period. (Bruce Lerro explained it very well.) The capitalist ruling class has completely taken control of every institution and is dictating the narratives that shape people's consciousness.

• Gigantic Demonstration Against the New Normal in Berlin, Police Crack Down from Anti-Empire. (My reaction: At least in Germany, many people are free to form their own political consciousness. These people are unlike people in the USA and Britain who are mostly thoroughly brainwashed. Be sure to watch the video supplied by "Southern", a commentor (fourth one).)

• Fact Check: Progressive Hero Margaret Sanger Was a Racist Eugenicist by James Corbett from his weblog.
  

• Red Flags Soar As Big Pharma Will Be Exempt From COVID-19 Vaccine Liability Claims by Tyler Durden from his weblog ZeroHedge. (Note: I was confused by this article because I thought the 1986 Act had already granted the pharmaceutical corporations exemption from liability claims, I consulted another activist (he is unnamed according to his wishes). He was confused as I was, but he subsequently sent me an article entitled "Liability for Vaccine Injury: The United States, the European Union, and the Developing World" which addresses this issue. (I thank him for his contribution.)
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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