Bulletin N° 1096 

“The Iceman Cometh”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etEFM_B9YS0&feature=youtu.be

(3:20:59)

written by Eugene O'Neill

directed by Sidney Lumet, 1960

Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar's patrons from their "lying pipe dreams."

 

 

 

 

Subject: Applied Philosophy: “The Malthusian Imperative.”

 

 

Grenoble

March 26, 2023

 

 

Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,

 

Below please find my open letter to Celia Farber, founder/editor of The Truth Barrier and author of two March 18 articles: “Am I Bigoted Against Atheists Or Socialists?”,  and “An Apology”.

 

 

          Grenoble

March 18, 2023

 

Dear Celia Farber,

Thank you for your well-written essay and for your courage to enter into a dialogue disagreeing with the Capitalist/Communist binary opposition, which we have endured ad nauseam since before the Russian Revolution. The German Marxist intellectual leader, Karl Kautsky, wrote on the eve of the Russian revolution, in 1917, "Either Lenin is wrong or Marx was wrong; they both cannot be right." If you have the time to study the writings of these two intellectual giants - Marx and Lenin - you will certainly find that their logic was quite different. Who was right and who was wrong is another matter, as they wrote in different environments; these two intellectuals have simply offered a sketch, the final production awaits us. We can no more blame them for the crimes of the 20th Century than we can blame Sir Isaac Newton for not taking into account the principles of quantum mechanics, or Charles Darwin for not including the roles of DNA and RNA in this theory of evolution.

You have presented very thought-provoking views on social change, although I'm not convinced that I could join you in endorsing “Elitist Theory” over “Class Theory” as an approach to explain where we are today. Marx 's  massive critique of capitalism is complex. If you've read The Communist Manifesto (1848), which he wrote while still in his 20's, you can see that his polemic against the various Idealists was to defend a holistic (which is to say systemic) view of the social dynamics of which we are all a part.

His conclusion, at this early stage of his work, was that capitalists are digging their own grave. Some 23 years later, he attempted to dissuade the Communards of Paris in 1871 from attempting a workers’ revolution and replacing capitalist control in France with democratic control by the ordinary people; he told them they would be massacred, and they were. I believe Marx was a humanist and a revolutionary scientist whom you would have respected and enjoyed talking with.

Blaming “Communists” for the mass murder of millions, makes no more sense to me than blaming Christians for the hideous tortures and mass murders under the Inquisition, not to mention the dubious role of Christian leaders today, often (but not always) supporting capitalist wars and the exploitative hierarchy of inequalities.

These are some of the reasons that social class interests explain more to me than individual proclivities of so-called “Elites.” I encourage you to continue your research. You are a gifted writer, and your research opportunities should be expanded.

 

And thanks for sharing your thoughts so candidly.

 

with best regards,

Francis Feeley

 

P.S. One good secondary source of information and analysis are the books by NYU Professor Bertell Ollman. His careful reading of Marx has produced many insights into Marx's mythology and his sincere intentions on insisting we live in a social system in which we are dominated by a “ruling class,” whether we know it or not, and the sooner we understand the illegitimate limitations under which we are forced to live, the closer we are to gaining true emancipation. But along that path there are many distractions and illusions which secure the power of capitalists over us. Yes, the capitalist class is revolutionary! But its revolutionary objectives are not ours. And today we stand once again on the precipice of mass destruction. Perhaps you will be the one to write the 21st-century edition of What is to be Done? (1902), motivated as Lenin was in anticipation of World War I, and preparing for the rescue of millions of lives with the categorical refusal to fight in a fratricidal war.

 

The context is everything!

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The 22 + items below are articles and essays selected this week from the critical Anglophone social media which shed light on the secular teleology of capitalist exploitation (i.e. the extinction of our species by means of a parasitic process).

 

 

Sincerely,

Francis McCollum Feeley

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Professeur honoraire de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur des Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org

 

a.

A heuristic proposition for the non-dogmatic.

“When A Top Bolshevik Revealed All To A True Believer: The Deep Truth About Marxism, The Religion Of Revolution, And Why ‘Wall St.’ Paid For It”

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/when-a-top-bolshevik-revealed-all?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber

Marxists Will Be Shocked But So Will “Free Market Capitalism” True Believers

“Sometimes we want there to be more poverty because that will lead to more worker misery which leads to more revolution.”

“The comintern was nothing but a toy in the hands of finance”

”Big banks are the inventors of the revolution.”

“The money God is the new God.”

”The bankers are revolutionaries? You must be insane.”

 

Since I began listening to this mind blowing lecture by Jay Dyer this weekend, and now listened a second time, and created outtake clips to post here, I won’t use words like “communism” as I once did. Nor “capitalism.” Listen to the whole lecture and you will see that the Federal Reserve banking system is the secret father of “communism” and in its essence, as Dyer says, “revolutionary.” They are in no way natural enemies, but 100% collaborators and partners in perpetual revolution, made possible by the Federal Reserve fiat banking system.


Jay Dyer explains all.

Two clips I pulled for those who may not listen to the whole thing, followed by the whole stunning broadcast, at bottom. (con’d) . . .

 

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Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Circulation of Fictitious Capital

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E_LNUDXjW8&feature=youtu.be

with David Harvey

(37:21)

 

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 “The Fed and The ECB”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPxe_x8eqJU

with Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris, and Tom Luongo

(1:36:32)

 

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NGOs Are The Deep State's Trojan Horses

https://www.corbettreport.com/ngo/

with James Corbett

(17:46)

The Trojan horse was the earliest recorded military psyop. That psyop continues to be deployed on unsuspecting populations and it is just as useful as ever, but today's tricksters have donned the mantle of philanthropy, and their Trojan horses are not wooden statues but non-governmental organizations offering "aid" to foreign nations. In today's edition of The Corbett Report, we'll learn about how NGOs are the deep state's Trojan horses.

 

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Another 25 Books You Should Read

https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/another-another-25-books-you-should?utm_source=email&publication_id=725827&post_id=56086397

by James Corbett

 

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Historical Archives of another Capitalist Revolution: “Pandemic Parallax View”

https://ratical.org/PandemicParallaxView/index.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#NAING

by David T. Ratcliffe

Editor’s Note: this is a melding of archive and witness to the Spiritual World War humanity is being confronted with. Summon the courage to break free of the United States of Denial.

“A striking feature of our culture includes the specific set of illusions presented by commercial print and broadcast media which promote a representation of reality through omission, distortion, lack of contextual analysis, and disinforming opinion stated as obvious, incontestable fact. It is always our choice what lens we adopt to view the world and our place in it.”

David Ratcliffe, 23 Sep 2015

 

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“The eLibrary is on eFire

https://www.corbettreport.com/nwnw513/

with James Corbett and James Evens Pilato

(23:40)

 

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Biden and the ICC: ‘A New Level of Farce’

https://scheerpost.com/2023/03/22/patrick-lawrence-biden-and-the-icc-a-new-level-of-farce/

by Patrick Lawrence

There are many things to say about the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin on charges that the Russian president directed the abduction and deportation of thousands of  children from eastern Ukraine in the early months of the intervention that began a year ago. Let us settle on three of these things. 

Straight off the top, the ICC’s action announced on March 17 is ridiculous in any number of ways. Its  legality is questionable at the very least. Its premise appears to bear no relationship with reality; it will have no appreciable effect. It is a political gesture dressed up as law and, as a political gesture dressed up as law, it is sheer propaganda, nothing more. 

If an institution such as the ICC behaves ridiculously in these ways, it is not doing its credibility a great deal of good. To ask what use the ICC serves, despite its elevated purpose when it was founded 25 years ago, seems to be a good question.  

There is a history behind this kind of conduct. This is the second thing to say about what the ICC has just done. If we study this history even briefly, we are likely to be upset, because this history indicates that the many international institutions to which humanity has looked as a source of impartial order for the past 70–odd years do not work as intended. And they were fated not to work as intended so long as the United States insists, as it has since the 1945 victories, on global dominance. This is a case of either/or: We can have a stable world order on the basis of the U.N. Charter or other such instruments of international law, or we can have the American imperium, but we cannot have both. 

This leads us to the third thing to say about the ICC’s decision to issue a warrant for a head of state’s arrest. And the third thing to say is the one that seems to me to require our attention most urgently if we are to understand the world in which we live. 

We must think hard now about what the political philosophers call the state of exception. This notion has a history, too, and it is a very grim one. The state of exception describes powers that make law and at the same time proclaim themselves above the law. The history of this concept runs from the Romans through the European monarchies on up to the Nazi regime. 

In this last case, the Third Reich operated under a continual state of exception as  against a temporary state of exception deriving from an unforeseen emergency. And to proceed to our point, the U.S. has claimed for itself a similarly continual state of exception since the early Cold War years. Its relations with the ICC are a clear manifestation of this reality. 

 

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US bombed Nord Stream to prolong the Ukraine proxy war

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/03/02/seymour-hersh-us-bombed-nord-stream-to-prolong-the-ukraine-proxy-war/

with Aaron Maté and Seymour Hersh

(44:36)

 

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“How America destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cOWwd6zShM&feature=youtu.be

 with Chris Hedges and Seymour Hersh

(38:25)

Seymour Hersh joins The Chris Hedges Report to explain his report, and why corporate media and the US government are so intent on dismissing him.

 

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“Why Is Tucker The Only One???”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=865_nNdrjkU&feature=youtu.be

with Jimmy Dore

(7:31)

 

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It’s the trust in the authority, stupid!

https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/22/its-the-trust-in-the-authority-stupid/

by Iain Davis

The world is apparently descending into chaos. With events such as the recent collapse of SVB bank adding to the problems allegedly caused by the pseudopandemic and the war in Ukraine, it is easy to feel overwhelmed.

Only a few years ago it was widely recognised that, by nearly every measure, global life outcomes were all improving. Suddenly, we’re all haunted by the spectres of conquest, war, famine and death.

From the cost of living, energy and food crisis, to the threat of a widening international conflict, a climate disaster and now global financial collapse, we seem to be gripped by a global polycrisis.

If there is a polycrisis it is entirely man-made.

The good news is we can build something better if we have the will. We are many and we are powerful, while those who seek to exploit crisis to control us are neither.

We just need to understand the problem: our trust in authority.

 

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Neoliberalism's anti-democratic stealth revolution

https://therealnews.com/wendy-brown-neoliberalisms-anti-democratic-stealth-revolution

with Maximillian Alvarez and Wendy Brown

(37:13)

Half a century of neoliberalism has transformed the politics of the globe. The supremacy of free market ideology has stripped away the commons and reduced most states to their purely military and repressive functions. In this urgent discussion on the relationship between neoliberalism and the corrosion of democracy, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with Professor Wendy Brown. 

Wendy L. Brown is an American political theorist. She is the UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Her latest book is Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution.

 

 

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IRAQ 20 YEARS: Sam HusseiniThe Lies, and Lies About the Lies, About the Invasion

Biden talking up Iraq invasion on NBC’s Meet the Press with Tim Russert. (NBC News screenshot)

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/20/iraq-20-years-sam-husseini-the-lies-and-lies-about-the-lies-about-the-invasion/

by Sam Husseini

 

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Commemorations of the Attack on Iraq March 20th and Libya March 19th Reaffirm that the U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination Remains the Greatest Threat to International Peace on our Planet

https://www.blackagendareport.com/commemorations-attack-iraq-march-20th-and-libya-march-19th-reaffirm-useunato-axis-domination

by Ajamu Baraka

Iraq and Libya were both targeted by the U.S. in the month of March. The anniversaries of these war crimes must be commemorated, and the nature of the US/EU/NATO war machine must be understood.

"The International Criminal Court should uphold an objective and impartial stance, respect the jurisdictional immunity enjoyed by the head of state in accordance with international law, exercise its functions and powers prudently by the law, interpret and apply international law in good faith, and avoid politicization and double standards." (Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin)

This commentary really should be part two from the piece I wrote last week in the run-up to the anti-war mobilization that took place March 18th which commemorated the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. In that article I made a similar argument about why the U.S. should be seen as the greatest threat to the survival of collective humanity on our planet.

That point, however, needs to be reinforced because in typical arrogance, on the eve of that mobilization and the official March 20th date of the U.S. invasion, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Russia President Vladimir Putin while Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Tony Blair and Barack Obama, responsible for horrific crimes against humanity and literally millions of deaths combined in Serbia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria, walk around as free individuals.

It would be comical if it was not so deadly serious and absurd. Just a couple of years ago when the ICC signaled under the leadership of the Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda wanted to conduct an investigation into possible crimes in Afghanistan by the U.S. state, the Trump Administration told the court in no uncertain terms that the Court would be subjected to the full wrath of the U.S. government and the Court quietly demurred in favor of a national probe that everyone knew was a sham.

This is just part of the infuriating double standards that Chinese spokesperson Wang Wenbin refers to. For many in the global South, the “neutral” international mechanisms and structures created to uphold international law have lost significant credibility outside of the West.

The politicization of the ICC on the Ukrainian war and the unprincipled participation of the United Nations that provided political cover for the invasion and occupation of Haiti after the devastating earthquake in 2010 are just two examples of how international structures ostensibly committed to upholding international law and the UN Charter are now seen as corrupt instruments of a dying U.S. and Western colonial empire.

How did we get here?

It is not a mere historical coincidence that the world became a much more dangerous place with the escalation of conflicts that threatened international peace in the 1990s. Without the countervailing force of the Soviet Union, the delusional white supremacistsmaking U.S. policy believed that the next century was going to be a century of unrestrained U.S. domination.

And who would be dominated? Largely the nations of the global South but also Europe with an accelerated integration plan in 1993 that the U.S. supported because it was seen as a more efficient mechanism for deploying U.S. capital and further solidifying trade relations with the huge and lucrative European Market.

Central to the assertion of U.S. global power, however, was the judicious use of military force. “Full Spectrum Dominance” was the strategic objective that would ensure the realization of the “Project for a New American Century” (PNAC ). There was just one challenge that had to be overcome. The U.S. population still suffered from the affliction labeled the Vietnam syndrome .” Traumatized by the defeat in Vietnam the population was still reticent about giving its full support to foreign engagements that could develop into a possible military confrontation.

How was this challenge overcome? Human rights.

Humanitarian interventionism ,” with its corollary the “responsibility to protect" would emerge in the late 90s as one of the most innovative propaganda tools ever created. Produced by Western human rights community and championed by psychopaths like Samantha Power, the humanitarianism of the benevolent empire became the ideological instrument that allowed the U.S. to fully commit itself to military options to advance the interests of U.S. corporate and financial interests globally while being fully supported by the U.S. population.

 

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“War Made Easy: Norman Solomon on How Mainstream Media Helped Pave Way for U.S. Invasion of Iraq”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi1CWb82CpI&feature=youtu.be

with Norman Solomon

(14:13)

 

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IRAQ 20 YEARS: “The Lords of Chaos”

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/20/iraq-20-years-chris-hedges-the-lords-of-chaos/

by  Chris Hedges

 

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How Team Bush Escaped Justice Over Iraq

Nov. 24, 2004: U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld applauding President George W. Bush during his remarks at the Pentagon on a military spending bill. (DoD, Helene C. Stikkel)

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/21/how-team-bush-escaped-justice-over-iraq/

by Marjorie Cohn

For 20 years the leaders of the U.S. and the U.K. have avoided criminal accountability, writes Marjorie Cohn. But just one year after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the International Criminal Court charged him with war crimes.

 

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The Fabulist Arrogance of US Power

https://www.blackagendareport.com/fabulist-arrogance-us-power

by Ann Garrison

The U.S. reserves for itself the right to commit crimes all over the world. Yet it also refuses to participate in any war crimes prosecution and even passed a law giving itself the right to invade the International Criminal Court at the Hague should an American or an ally face justice.

 

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“How the war machine took over the Democrats”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b079rbpYIzU

with Dennis Kucinich

(33:56)

There was once a wing of the Democratic Party that stood up to the war industry. J. William Fulbright, George McGovern, Gene McCarthy, Mike Gravel, William Proxmire, and, of course, Dennis Kucinich. But that was largely decades ago. The new Democrats, especially with the presidency of Bill Clinton, became shills not only for corporate America, but the arms industry. The massive military budget, $858 billion in military spending allocated for fiscal year 2023, is an increase of $45 billion over the Biden administration's budget request, and nearly $80 billion more than the amount appropriated by Congress for the current fiscal year. What happened to the Democratic Party? Why has it become impossible to question war and the massive expenditures on arms? Why is such questioning political suicide? Why can't a Democrat ask, especially at a time of economic hardship and huge deficits, how much we are going to divert to the war in Ukraine, which has already consumed some $60 billion? Former presidential candidate and eight-term Congressperson Dennis Kucinich joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the past half century of the Democrats, and how the war machine conquered the party.

 

 

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d.

The UN's New Rules for Ruling the World,

and what does Secretary-General of the UN António Guterres stand for?

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-uns-new-rules-for-ruling-the?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Robert W Malone

 

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Top Universities: Tools of the WEF

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/top-universities-tools-of-the-wef?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Robert Malone

The WEFs committee of presidents from the world’s leading universities

     One of the most unsettling events of the past three years has been the globalized, coordinated messaging of socio-economic missives and policies throughout the world. All of us in the liberty movement have wondered… who is controlling this? How does this happen?

     I remember spending time last fall with Nick Hudson of the Pandata Group (Panda). We were discussing transgender policies across the world. We both were very disturbed, not just by the policies but also how they came about. How did the policies of teaching of non-binary genders in schools and the importance of youth “transitioning” spread across world so quickly? How is it possible that South Africa would be immersed in the same battles for “trans rights,” as the USA and as of most of Europe? Of course, it isn’t possible without coordination.

     Then our minds turned not just to the pandemic policies of masking, mandates and lockdowns, but to climate change, the elimination of gas fueled cars, Agenda 2030, the move to eliminate private ownership items such as autos and housing, digital IDs, digital currency, 15-minute cities, taking away private land for conservation, globalized censorship, etc. not just one country, but across the world. The coordinated list seems endless.
    I don’t remember a period in my life where most of the world governments agreed on so much. Where did these policies originate? Who is co-ordinating them? How did this happen?

     Well today, a reader of this substack wrote me about their discovery that the World Economic Forum has a formal committee of presidents from the world’s best universities. That these presidents are coming together regularly to discus and decide policy at the top universities in the world. These presidents are committed to supporting the World Economic Forum.

From the WEF website:

 

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https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/another-another-25-books-you-should?utm_source=email&publication_id=725827&post_id=56086397

by James Corbett

 

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A Truly Must Read Substack Piece: Mark Crispin Miller On The NYT October Surprise Mea Culpa

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/the-must-read-substack-piece-of-2023?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber

Read the comments as well. Now we have the entire template/playbook for advanced propaganda and psychological operations.

 

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NYT Catches Up to Parry But Still Falls Short on October Surprise

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/22/nyt-catches-up-to-parry-but-still-falls-short-on-october-surprise/

by Nat Parry

No matter how much evidence Robert Parry produced over the years poking holes in the official story, the establishment media declined to re-examine the case or treat it seriously, writes Nat Parry.

 

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e.

BEIJING LIVE - with George Galloway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk6cphOIqH8

or

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1vOGwMNbvjbxB

with George Galloway

(2:08:40)

 

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Dangerous Motives Behind US Aggression Toward Russia and China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlNPa2qDJbg&feature=youtu.be

with Richard Wolff

(25:59)

 

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CovertAction Bulletin – “Great Power Conflict: U.S. Puts China in Crosshairs”

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/03/15/covertaction-bulletin-great-power-conflict-u-s-puts-china-in-crosshairs/?mc_cid=33202baf0e&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

with Rachel Hu et Chris Garaffa

(audio, 55:18)

 

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Next diplomatic victory on the horizon, Syria and Turkey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx49ZjlIafo&feature=youtu.be

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

(11:20)

 

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Anti-China Propaganda DISMANTLED On BBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHebZc85618

with Jimmy Dore

(5:25)

Economist, policy analyst and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs appeared on BBC in April 2021 to talk about international cooperation on climate change and instantly pushed back against the host’s framing of China as a rampant human rights abuser while letting the U.S. off the hook for minor offenses like the war in Iraq, Guantanamo and the CIA torture program. Sachs also challenged the host’s suggestion that Sachs was appearing as a stand-in for the United States government, a proposition he vehemently denied.

 

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U.S. Is Lying About China Being A “Threat!” – Says Fmr Australian Prime Minister

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GJzEOkyOkM

with Jimmy Dore

(4:07)

Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating for some reason is being allowed to tell the truth about the alleged “threat” posed by China to the United States and other western nations. China represents no military challenge to the U.S., Keating says, but is a legitimate rising economic power, and that’s why the U.S. feels the need to assert greater military control over the entire Pacific Rim.

 

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China-Russia meeting; deepening economic, energy and military cooperation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzx0QfcWaog&feature=youtu.be

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

(28:25)

 

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President Xi Jinping’s Epic Visit to Moscow and What It Means for the World

https://www.globalresearch.ca/president-xi-jinping-epic-visit-moscow-what-means-world/5813268

by Peter Koenig and Press TV

 

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“China's Rise as Global Superpower & Decline of U.S. Empire After Iraq Invasion"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=317sSDF6nQA&feature=youtu.be

with Andrew Bacevich

(21:03)

Andrew Bacevich is a historian, co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a retired Army colonel. He joins us for a wide-ranging conversation about China's 12-point peace plan for Ukraine, how Beijing is taking on a more assertive role in world affairs, and the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. There is "no question" that the 2003 invasion was a war crime, says Bacevich, and he condemns its supporters' "unwillingness to grapple" with their culpability.

 

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“Putin & Xi have met - NOW WHAT in Ukraine?”

https://www.youtube.com/live/B2F0lrdyOhA?feature=share

with Judge Napolitano and Col Doug Macgregor

(30:04)

 

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Douglas Macgregor: An Aggressive onslaught

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z8sYvqPSDg

The Cartoon Version

(11:33)

 

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Joe Rogan and Russell Brand on Censorship, Control and Media

https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/joe-rogan-russell-brand-censorship-control-media

with Joe Rogan and Russell Brand

(censored)

Rogan and Brand tell it all, including the pivotal 'ivermectin moment,' which exposed the fact the media is beholden to their 'handlers' who give them exorbitant amounts of advertising revenue.

 

Story at-a-glance

·         Podcast host Joe Rogan interviewed comedian and activist Russell Brand, discussing the overarching agenda of control that’s accelerated since the pandemic

·         The pandemic brought to light how quickly reality can move from that safe space where “everything’s OK” to one that’s Orwellian, with rampant censorship and smear campaigns against any and all dissent

·         Brand feels an obligation to ensure a distinction is made between the empirical facts that are discussed and the joy of speculation

·         Openly discussing controversial topics from all sides builds credibility while censorship ultimately leads to a loss of trust and authority

·         Tech giants use demonetization to get people to stop posting certain types of content online without it appearing as outright censorship

 

Has the apocalypse already happened? Are we hurdling toward a post-AI reality where it’s impossible to know what’s real and what’s fake? Podcast host Joe Rogan interviewed comedian and activist Russell Brand, delving into these questions and more, including the overarching agenda of control that’s accelerated since the pandemic.

 

Regarding the apocalypse, Brand likened it to homeless people living their lives in tents on the street, essentially “living a hunter-gatherer lifestyle in contemporary America, or living a post-apocalyptic lifestyle in contemporary America.”1

“You know, when you’re in comfortable … spaces, you feel like everything’s OK, the end of the world is impossible. And it just seems like entertainment when you hear about nuclear treaties being torn up, that it can’t actually happen. But, of course it can. It’s so temporal,” Brand says.2

 

The pandemic brought to light how quickly reality can move from that safe space where “everything’s OK” to one that’s Orwellian, with rampant censorship and smear campaigns against any and all dissent.

 

With Each New Reality, You Become More ‘Porous’

What most people see and hear online is a carefully orchestrated narrative — one that globalists weren’t expecting people like Rogan and Brand to disrupt. “What our obligation is, as people that participate in this conversation, is to ensure that there is a distinction made between the empirical facts that are discussed and … the sort of joy of speculation,” Brand says.3

 

But many ideas that sound far-fetched — like a social credit system — have already been implemented in other countries, like China. Rogan explains he was warned, “They’re going to try to implement a social credit score system, and your money is going to be tied to decentralized digital currency.”4

 

“And your money will be tied to your social credit score system and you step out of line, you won’t be able to buy things, you won’t be able to travel, you won’t be able to do anything. They’re going to try to keep you within a 15-minute radius of your home. And they’re starting to do that in places. Yeah, all of it’s real.”5

 

So, too, is the fact that “centralized systems of corruption that bypass democracy” exist, while the military-industrial complex “through their overt and covert connections to government” is able to “dictate … [or] at least influence, foreign policy.” But, Brand says, once you open your eyes to the truths of these matters, you become “porous” and ready to absorb even more of the truth:6

 

“They’ve obviously got an agenda. And it’s their agenda that is driving the discourse, not the facts of the matter. And I suppose, in a way, we should be grateful that they are unwilling to have these open conversations — that they’re not willing to get people on with various views, opposing views, to listen to people that they disagree with, to openly criticize the establishment.

 

Because what I’ve been able to learn in the last couple of years is if you start focusing on the relationship between Big Pharma and the media, or Big Pharma and the government, just by focusing on that, you can really create clear narratives of corruption, hypocrisy, dishonesty, those things are there.

 

But me, because my background is not a journalist, it’s not a conventional education, I’m sort of open to the more extraordinary, exciting, visceral ideas, which once in a while proved to be true … but then you become kind of porous.”

‘The Middle Is Where the Propaganda Operates’

 

Brand believes there’s power to be had when you’re open to having conversations with all sides, however, while censorship ultimately leads to a loss of trust and authority. During the pandemic, he describes the “ivermectin moment” as pivotal in revealing the need for open conversation.

 

When Rogan, who is unvaxxed, revealed he’d treated his bout of COVID-19 with ivermectin and other remedies — fully recovering within three days — he was openly attacked. But Rogan believes it ultimately made the mainstream press lose credibility:7

 

“When you had CNN and MSNBC and all these different Cable News Network shows calling it [ivermectin] horse dewormer, when it was a drug that won the Nobel Prize for the inventor of it, it’s a drug that has had billions — literally billions — of prescriptions filled. It’s a drug that saved lives of drug addicts.

 

It’s on the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines, and for them to have the gall and the sheer audacity to just out and out lie to people about what a medication is — and it’s used on humans far more than it’s used on horses.

And that they were calling that horse dewormer to try to mock me because they knew that I was unvaccinated, and I kicked COVID very quickly. And they did not want that narrative out there. And they were beholden to their handlers. They were beholden to the people that give them exorbitant amounts of money in advertising revenue. And they … followed in line, and they all piled on. And they lost … credibility.”

 

Many believed the media lies, regarding not only ivermectin but other pandemic measures, like face masks and lockdowns. But not everyone will — and this is where the chance for transformation lies. However, those in the middle are vulnerable to being influenced by the propaganda. Brand notes:8

 

“I heard this thing that that guy, Pavlov of the dogs, you know, he did other experimentation, the results of which were that 20% of people are highly susceptible to hypnosis, and similarly highly susceptible to placebos … It will be effective under … the right conditions … and the same with hypnosis, and 20% of people will not be hypnotized and will not respond to placebos.

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The middle 60% is where propaganda operates. How many of that middle 60% can you persuade? And I was just astonished that authoritarianism could suddenly be repackaged in this manner, that authoritarianism could tell you that war is a good thing, that authoritarianism can tell you that Big Pharma is a good thing, that being locked in your home is good.”

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Only Big Pharma Solutions Allowed

A key illustration of the corruption was the blatant vilification of any COVID-19 solution that wasn’t tied to Big Pharma. “Convenient that of all the remedies, that only the ones that are controlled by pharmaceutical companies are the ones that get highlighted,” Rogan says.9 “And one … of the best pieces of evidence for that is vitamin D.”

 

One recent study found giving vitamin D to people with COVID-19 cut risk of death from SARS-CoV-2 by 51% and reduced risk of admission to the intensive care unit by 72%.10 I also launched an information campaign to raise awareness about the use of vitamin D for COVID-19 back in June 2020. My own vitamin D review was published October 31, 2020, in the high-impact, peer-reviewed journal Nutrients.11

 

At the time, 14 observational studies suggested vitamin D levels are inversely linked with the incidence or severity of COVID-19, and my paper concluded, “The evidence seems strong enough that people and physicians can use or recommend vitamin D supplements to prevent or treat COVID-19.”12

 

Yet, I was widely vilified and discredited in the media for bringing attention to vitamin D’s potential for COVID-19. If this information had been allowed out, Rogan wonders, how many deaths could have been prevented?13

 

“There was a recent study that estimated somewhere in the range of 70% of all hospitalizations and deaths from COVID could have been prevented with vitamin D … I remember reading that article going, that is the most insane thing I’ve ever seen in my life. And when did they know that this was true?

 

Because if they just started handing out vitamin D — it’s readily available, so easy to get, so easy to make, so cheap — they just handed out vitamin D to everybody.

How many deaths could they have prevented? If that really is the case that high doses of vitamin D, along with you know, it’s great with magnesium and vitamin K, but if they educated people about nutrients, yes, about the value of nutrition, the value of supplementation? Yes. How many people could have been saved? And how cheaply could that have been done?”

 

Big Tech Gets Activists to Self-Censor

Both Rogan and Brand moved platforms online due to censorship. In May 2020, Rogan signed an exclusivity contract with Spotify for his “Joe Rogan Experience Podcast.”14 Rogan received $100 million for the deal; however, he said the move away from YouTube was intentional to fight back against its censorship — and particularly YouTube’s decision to block differing opinions on COVID-19, as he wanted to interview a variety of doctors and experts about it.

 

The tech giants use demonetization to get people to stop posting certain types of content, without it appearing as outright censorship. Instead, it appears as self-censorship. Rogan says:15

 

“Advertisements that are on YouTube, those people that are spending all that money, they can dictate what they want to be advertised on. And then they said, ‘Look, I don’t want to be on anything that talks about COVID or anything where they talk about Ukraine …

 

So OK. They just say, ‘Oh, well, we’ve got to stop people from doing that. What’s the best way?’ Well, the best way to self-censor? Or how do you get people to self-censor? You impact them economically. How do we do that and not make it look like we’re censoring them? We give strikes, giving strikes or demonetized.”

 

Brand experienced the same issues on YouTube and switched to Rumble as a result:16

“When YouTube was our primary platform, we would look at your [Rogan’s] content. All right, that’s the title of this Rogan video and this is the content. OK? Well, we can try that. And then we would get demonetized. And it becomes like a weird algebra.

You change this word, you change that word, you have to or you have, there’s certain things you just can’t say. This is what Rumble fundamentally offered. They gave me a good deal and the assurance that we’re not going to censor you.”

Take Action and Embrace the Uncomfortable

 

Even when the truth is heard by a sizeable minority, many don’t take action. But this is part of enacting positive change, whether it be for freedom and autonomy or your personal health.

 

“You have to take the action, and it usually involves suffering,” Brand says. “And yeah, that’s a hard thing to sell. People don’t want that. Now, they don’t want that information that you can tell people there’s a quick fix and an easy way. But whether it’s getting off drugs, becoming a standup comedian or accomplishing stuff in a martial art, normally it means you incrementally, day by day, hour by hour, session by session, you are going to experience a degree of suffering.”17

 

While you may feel powerless to fight back against globalist agendas and Big Tech censorship, by embracing changes you can control, you can make a difference in your own life and beyond. Rogan explains:18

 

“You don’t realize that in embracing discomfort and forcing yourself to do something very uncomfortable that you can control, like an ice bath, like a sauna, like a run, like a workout, you are eliminating another form of discomfort. You can do that. It’s one of the reasons why I’ve been able to mitigate all the stress and issues that come with success and with fame.

 

Your body is almost like a battery. And when you don’t use it, it’s almost like the juice runs over the side and it becomes unmanageable. But when you use it, you have a certain requirement that your body has to go through every day, because I think we evolved in a very specific way. I think we evolved running away from predators, protecting ourselves from invading tribes.

 

And this is just a natural part of being a human being, every human being. And I think that if you don’t give your body something to do it … [messes] with your brain, and I think that’s where a lot of people’s anxiety comes from, a lot of people’s insecurities.”

 

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Stop the presses! The New York Times reports the TRUTH about the "October Surprise," which is not a "conspiracy theory" after all

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/stop-the-presses-the-new-york-times?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Moved by conscience, now that Jimmy Carter is in hospice, a new witness has come forth to set the record straight at last—revealing that John Connally also was involved in that election theft

 

The Corbett Report

“Dissent Into Madness: Crazy Conspiracy Theorists”

https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/dissent-into-madness-crazy-conspiracy?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by James Corbett    

 

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Former UN Weapons Inspector Reports that U.S. Drone Forced Down in Black Sea Was Gathering Intelligence for Ukrainian Forces

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/03/20/former-un-weapons-inspector-reports-that-u-s-drone-forced-down-in-black-sea-was-gathering-intelligence-for-ukrainian-forces/?mc_cid=43be6e04db&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

by Jeremy Kuzmarov

 

 

 “Playing RUSSIAN ROULETTE”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku6i1pTdkbE&feature=youtu.be

with John Mearsheimer |

(12:49)

 

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Growing Proxy War Between U.S. and Russia & Downing of U.S. Drone in Black Sea"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww13NhR1Uy4

with Jeremy Scahill

(9:20)

 

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Ukraine TRAPPED In Russian Crossfire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCDiw6eg04E&feature=youtu.be

with Scott Ritter, and  Stephen Gardner

(35:13)

Scott Ritter joins Stephen Gardner on this exclusive interview to discuss the Russia Ukraine war, the conflict of Bakhmut, the bad feelings between Putin and Zelenskyy and how this war will end. Russia rained down over 80 missile on Ukraine last night after figuring out how to bypass their air defense systems. Scott Ritter and Stephen Gardner also discuss military predictions of Colonel Douglas Macgregor on how this war will end and Putin's next military moves.

 

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Q & A: “Bakhmut heats up”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=365T823KiOs

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

(1:07:01)

 

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ICC Orders Putin Arrest, Russia Controls 70% Bakhmut, Encircling Avdeevka; Xi Moscow Trip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEm4cX6B3gk

with Alexander Mercouris

(1:18:22)  

 

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How Does an Economic System so Hostile to Life Endure for Centuries?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/12/how-does-an-economic-system-so-hostile-to-life-endure-for-centuries/

Economic Update: “How Austerity Paves the Way for

by Pete Dolack

 

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Economic Update: “How Austerity Paves the Way for

Fascism”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIpi5Ui88MU

with Richard Wolff

(29:57)

 

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Alternative Solutions to the Banking Crisis - #SolutionsWatch

https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-banking/

with James Corbett and Ellen Brown

(23:58)  

 

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The Cover-Up

https://scheerpost.com/2023/03/22/seymour-hersh-the-cover-up/

by Seymour Hersh

This story is a follow up to Seymour Hersh’s original report on the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage. To read the full report, subscribe to Hersh’s Substack here.

It’s been six weeks since I published a report, based on anonymous sourcing, naming President Joe Biden as the official who ordered the mysterious destruction last September of Nord Stream 2, a new $11-billion pipeline that was scheduled to double the volume of natural gas delivered from Russia to Germany. The story gained traction in Germany and Western Europe, but was subject to a near media blackout in the US. Two weeks ago, after a visit by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Washington, US and German intelligence agencies attempted to add to the blackout by feeding the New York Times and the German weekly Die Zeit false cover stories to counter the report that Biden and US operatives were responsible for the pipelines’ destruction.

Press aides for the White House and Central Intelligence Agency have consistently denied that America was responsible for exploding the pipelines, and those pro forma denials were more than enough for the White House press corps. There is no evidence that any reporter assigned there has yet to ask the White House press secretary whether Biden had done what any serious leader would do: formally “task” the American intelligence community to conduct a deep investigation, with all of its assets, and find out just who had done the deed in the Baltic Sea. According to a source within the intelligence community, the president has not done so, nor will he. Why not? Because he knows the answer.

Sarah Miller—an energy expert and an editor at Energy Intelligence, which publishes leading trade journals—explained to me in an interview why the pipeline story has been big news in Germany and Western Europe. “The destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines in September led to a further surge of natural gas prices that were already six or more times pre-crisis levels,” she said. “Nord Stream was blown up in late September. German gas imports peaked a month later, in October, at 10 times pre-crisis levels. Electricity prices across Europe were pulled up, and governments spent as much as 800 billion euros, by some estimates, shielding households and businesses from the impact. Gas prices, reflecting the mild winter in Europe, have now fallen back to roughly a quarter of the October peak, but they are still between two and three times pre-crisis levels and are more than three times current US rates. Over the last year, German and other European manufacturers closed their most energy-intensive operations, such as fertilizer and glass production, and it’s unclear when, if ever, those plants will reopen. Europe is scrambling to get solar and wind capacity in place, but it may not come soon enough to save large chunks of German industry.” (Miller writes a blog on Medium.)

In early March, President Biden hosted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington. The trip included only two public events—a brief pro forma exchange of compliments between Biden and Scholz before the White House press corps, with no questions allowed; and a CNN interview with Scholz by Fareed Zakaria, who did not touch on the pipeline allegations. The chancellor had flown to Washington with no members of the German press on board, no formal dinner scheduled, and the two world leaders were not slated to conduct a press conference, as routinely happens at such high-profile meetings. Instead, it was later reported that Biden and Scholz had an 80-minute meeting, with no aides present for much of the time. There have been no statements or written understandings made public since then by either government, but I was told by someone with access to diplomatic intelligence that there was a discussion of the pipeline exposé and, as a result, certain elements in the Central Intelligence Agency were asked to prepare a cover story in collaboration with German intelligence that would provide the American and German press with an alternative version for the destruction of Nord Stream 2. In the words of the intelligence community, the agency was “to pulse the system” in an effort to discount the claim that Biden had ordered the pipelines’ destruction.

At this point, it must be noted that Chancellor Scholz, whether or not he was alerted of the destruction of the pipeline in advance—still an open question—has clearly been complicit since last fall in support of the Biden Administration’s cover-up of its operation in the Baltic Sea.

 

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How America destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cOWwd6zShM

with Chris Hedges and Seymour Hersh

(38:25)

 

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“WE NEED TO END THIS”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHOIDuEe6j4

with John Mearsheimer

(8:40)

 

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“Ukraine is CRUMBLING Under Putin's Military Offensive”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwIc4cPWdEs

with Col. Douglas Macgregor

(34:27)

 

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Ukraine Soldiers Kidnapping New “Recruits” In Broad Daylight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVW76qrG4wc&feature=youtu.be

with Jimmy Dore

(7:55)

 

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Truth About Ukraine/Russia NOT What You Think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm8QfxZ3HHw

with Jimmy Dore and Max Blumenthal

(37:55)

While the Biden administration and its mouthpieces in the mainstream corporate media beat the drums for war while labeling Putin an imperialist warmonger, few bother to mention the decades of intensive American “meddling” in Russian and Ukrainian affairs that have inexorably led to the current crisis.

 

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Final Chapter in the Donbass front w/Dima from Military Summary Channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyAADTu5X4k

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

 (1:39:40)

 

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“A Ferocious Offensive”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dLVr55TRo8

(11:01)

with Douglas Macgregor    

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France Protests. Macron's exit strategy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COrQ5T3D0dY

with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris

 (23:22)

 

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A General Strike in France - 4 Challenges to Capitalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23JmrpB4aEw&feature=youtu.be

 with Richard Wolff

(11:25)

 

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LA’s Low Wage School Workers Go ON STRIKE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcNj9jlSjk8

with Jimmy Dore

(8:30)

 

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Global Capitalism: Challenging Capitalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkQgML6NtfU&feature=youtu.be

with Richard Wolff

(1:03 :17)

 

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European antiwar protests gain strength as NATO’s Ukraine proxy war escalates

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/02/27/europeans-protest-natos-proxy-war/

by Stavroula Pabst and Max Blumenthal

Europeans are storming the streets in unprecedented numbers to protest NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine and their own declining living standards. The Grayzone has covered demonstrations and interviewed protest leaders in several countries since the war erupted.

 

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Top Biden officials address pro-war rally led by Ukrainian Nazi supporters

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/03/04/biden-officials-ukraine-rally-nazi/

by Alexander Rubinstein

High-ranking Biden foreign policy officials including USAID Administrator, Samantha Power, and Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Karen Donfried, observed the first anniversary of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. There, on February 25, 2023, they rallied alongside a band of Beltway-based Ukrainian activists dedicated to honoring and fundraising for ultra-nationalists and war criminals. The demonstrators demanded that the US send F-16 fighter jets to Kiev and “punish Russia” by any means necessary.

 

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VIDEO: Germany prosecutes citizen for condemning aid to Ukrainian Nazis

https://thegrayzone.com/2023/03/08/germany-prosecutes-aid-ukrainian-nazis/

with Max Blumenthal

(44:50)

 

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“Germans Down & Russians Out”

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/21/diana-johnstone-germans-down-russians-out/

by Diana Johnstone

On the purpose of NATO: “To keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down” — saying attributed to Lord Hastings Ismay, the secretary general of NATO 1952-1957.

Divide and rule is the eternal law of Empire. 

Above all, don’t let other big guys get together. Keep them at each other’s throats.  Half a century ago, stuck in the unwinnable Vietnam war, President Richard M. Nixon heeded Henry Kissinger’s advice to open relations with Beijing in order to deepen the split between the Soviet Union and China.

But which big guys, and when? Priorities have evidently shifted. Eight years ago, America’s most influential, private geostrategic analyst, George Friedman, defined the current dominant U.S. divide et impera priority, at work in Ukraine.

“The primordial interest of the United States is the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united, they’re the only force that could threaten us,” Friedman explained. 

Russia’s main interest has always been to have a neutral buffer zone in Eastern Europe. But the U.S. purpose is to build a hostile cordon sanitaire from the Baltic to the Black Sea, as a definitive barrier separating Russia from Germany.

“Russia knows it. Russia believes the United States intends to break the Russian Federation,” said Friedman, jokingly adding that he thought the intention was not to kill Russia but only to make it suffer.

 

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James Corbett Redpills the Croatians on CBDC

https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1792-james-corbett-redpills-the-croatians-on-cbdc/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

with James Corbett

(1:00:41)

viaSLOBODNIpodcast: In this edition of the Redpill series, James Corbett talks to Andrija Klarić of the Slobodni podcast about (CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies). As Croatians enter the Brave New Monetary World of the globalists by joining the eurozone, they suddenly find themselves on the doorstep of the EU's coming central bank digital currencies. James explains why CBDCs are a bad thing and what the people of Croatia (and others around the world) can do to fend off this threat to human liberty.

 

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Today We're All Irish: Debt Serfdom Comes to America

https://www.globalresearch.ca/today-we-re-all-irish-debt-serfdom-comes-to-america/8349

by Ellen Brown

March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day, when people of all national origins raise a glass and declare, “Today we’re all a bit Irish!” This may be truer than we know. The Irish were driven to America by debt, and they are leading the Western world in household debt today. The London Daily Telegraph reported on March 13, 2008 that household debt in Ireland has reached 190 percent of disposable income, the highest in the developed world; and that the Irish banking system is suffering such acute strains from the downturn in the housing market that it may have to nationalize its banks.1 The same may soon be happening in the United States, and for much the same reasons.

Debt Drives the Irish to America

A short review of the history of the Irish in North America reveals that few were here before 1845, when a disease struck the potato crops of Ireland, wiping out the chief or only source of food for many poor farmers. Famine continued for the next five years, killing over 2.5 million people.

 

“God put the blight on the potatoes,” complained the Irish farmers, “but England put the hunger upon Ireland.”

 

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FLASHBACK: G20 Rules Make Bank Bail-ins a Reality (2015)

https://www.corbettreport.com/flashback-bail-in/

with James Corbett

(33:41)

 

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This is Fascism, SVB Bailout Edition

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/17/this-is-fascism-svb-bailout-edition/

by Rob Urie

The very public failure of SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) is raising concerns of a renewed wave of bank failures that threatens Western economies. The subtext is residual fear that the earlier (mid-2000’s) bank crisis was never adequately addressed. The very bankers who sank the banking system back then were handed trillions in public largesse to cover their losses, but the system of Wall Street provision of credit to fuel capitalism was never reconsidered. As then Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner put it, ‘the US doesn’t do nationalization (of banks).’

Part of the political calculus behind the earlier bailouts was the role of Wall Street in support of American imperialism. Neoliberalism was claimed in a constructive way to be ‘war by other means’ because it transferred wealth from the economic periphery to the center without a shot being fired. Trade was to replace warfare went the theory. That the US has been the most capitalist and the most militaristic nation in the world over the last century has done little to discredit this theory amongst true believers. These true believers now run the US.

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“Crypto Contagion Banks Get the Runs”

https://www.corbettreport.com/nwnw512/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

with James Corbett and James Evan Pilato

(27:53)

 

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“The Death of Culture: How Lies Killed Books”

https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/the-death-of-culture-how-lies-killed

from Robert Malone

This essay by Naomi Wolf is an amazing song of remorse and mourning for the lost and compromised intellectual culture of New York City. A funerary dirge. This is what happens when a government or non-governmental actively purchases and compromises the integrity of artists, intellectuals and influencers. Read and weep. And then join the refugees of a once great intellectual tradition of questioning and examination, a tradition of constant quest for truth. We will be waiting for you by the campfire as we seek to build a new future.

 

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“Purveyors of Hate”

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/purveyors-of-hate?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Robert W Malone MD, MS

Real life observations from the front lines of the information wars

 

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Georgian Maidan: Fake it till you make it?

https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/georgian-maidan-fake-it-till-you

by Edward Slavsquat

NED is ready to crack skulls for Democracy in Georgia, but are Georgians?

TBILISI, GEORGIA - After several days of completely organic protests in Tbilisi, on March 9 the ruling party in the land of Kartvelians, Georgian Dream, withdrew legislation that would have compelled foreign-funded media outlets and other paragons of virtue to register as “agents of foreign influence.”

 

The US Embassy in Georgia celebrated the capitulation with a triumphant press release . . . .

 

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Georgian Maidan: An unwilling foreign agent's perspective:

An exclusive Q&A with a Tbilisi-based NGO-milker

https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/georgian-maidan-an-unwilling-foreign?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Edward Slavsquat

 

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“Every Single Thing We Were Told Is a LIE”

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/dr-michael-yeadon-every-single-thing?isFreemail=true

by Dr. Mike Yeadon

 

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News from Underground by Mark Crispin Miller

“California meteorologist passes out on camera; truck veers off road, smashes through bus stop in Adelaide; SUV crashes into a cafe in Houston (VIDEOS)”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/california-meteorologist-passes-out-8e9?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Three (seeming) "vaccine" injuries—luckily non-fatal (so far)—caught on camera

 

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“In memory of those who ‘died suddenly’ in the United States and worldwide, March 6-March 13, 2023”

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-c0d?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Musicians in the US (2), Brazil, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Spain (2), South Africa, Burma, China and Japan; doctors in Brazil, Germany, Tunisia, Ukraine, Russia (2) and New Zealand; & more

 

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Covid-19: Pfizer vaccine suspected of killing 125 young Europeans, the overwhelming majority (were) healthy

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/covid-19-pfizer-vaccine-suspected?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Robert W Malone

Investigative journalism from Portugal.

 

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In memory of those who "died suddenly" in the United States and worldwide, March 14-March 21, 2023

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-those-who-died-suddenly-e90?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

Musicians in US (2), Canada (2), Mexico, Suriname, Brazil (2), UK, Germany, Denmark, Poland, S. Africa; athletes &/or coaches in US, Cuba, Colombia, Brazil, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Ukraine; & more

 

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The wide, wide world of sports is really sick

https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/the-wide-wide-world-of-sports-is-9eb?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Mark Crispin Miller

OU's Gentry Williams, Kansas coach Bill Self, sportscaster Mike Francesca, wrestler Alexa Bliss have "health scares"; Steve McMichael battling ALS; golfer Jon Rahm can't play; wrestler Bray Wyatt MIA

 

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Vaccine collusion in UK Parliament?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpGcEf2yCok

with Dr. John Campbell

(6:32)

 

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“Post covid myocarditis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNics0Q_yyo&feature=youtu.be

with Dr. John Campbell

(14:46)

 

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“Vaccinated Countries Have Highest EXCESS DEATH Rates”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G1SWjL7gmQ

with Dr. John Campbell

(15:22)

 

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Japanese Lawmaker: Deaths In Japan Have Sky-Rocketed To Numbers Not Seen Since WW2

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/japanese-lawmaker-deaths-in-japan?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber

260 Cases JUST In His Firm's Investigation Where The Doctor In Charge Reported Probable Link Between Shots And Death

Japanese lawmaker Mr. Hirofumi, Yanagase speaks out: “Just in the reported cases alone, there have been as many as 2001 cases of suspected vaccine-induced deaths. There are 52 cases where a pathologist has performed an autopsy and reported that there is a link between the…” https://t.co/mOjaG00ZPm

 

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Record Excess Deaths in the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia — 1:1000 Population Died in 2022

https://www.globalresearch.ca/record-excess-deaths-canadian-province-nova-scotia-11000-population-died-2022/5813232

by Dr. William Makis

A March 7, 2023 CBC article headline reads: “Nova Scotia tight-lipped about spike in deaths – Unexpectedly high numbers of people are dying in an untimely fashion,’ expert says” (click here)

All highly COVID-19 vaccinated countries and jurisdictions are seeing record excess deaths on the order of 1 per 1000 population in 2022.

·         USA – 270,000 in 2022 (source: Ethical Skeptic, BMC Skidmore, USMortality.com)

·         Germany – 103,000 in 2022 (source: German govt, OECD, EuroMOMO click here)

·         UK – 54,000 in 2022 (source: BBC click here)

·         Japan – 91,000 in 2022 (source: click here)

·         Australia – 42,000 in 2022 (source: click here)

·         Alberta – 4000 in 2022 (source: click here)

Now we can add the small Canadian province of Nova Scotia to the list.

 

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Pharma PhD Nurse Saw "Covid" Patients Killed, Has Colleagues Admitting It On Secret Recordings: Hospital Refused Religious Exemption To "Hasten Death" So She Hired A Lawyer, And Went Public

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/pharma-phd-nurse-saw-covid-patients?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber

Tom Renz: "The Hospital Killing Fields Were A Real Thing. We have more evidence than you could possibly imagine."

One nurse called it “taking care of business,” and was annoyed his colleague from a previous shift had failed to murder a patient with morphine.

 

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Attack on Antiwar Activists Exemplifies Russophobia Among “Leftist” Apologists for Western Imperialism and a Fascist-Loving Regime

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/03/19/attack-on-antiwar-activists-exemplifies-russophobia-among-leftist-apologists-for-western-imperialism-and-a-fascist-loving-regime/?mc_cid=02a35597ab&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

by Charles Pierce

CounterPunch podcaster Eric Draitser has published a hit piece attacking veteran anti-war activists Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies in the form of a review of their new book, War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless War.

 

Eric Draitser [Source: rt.com]

 

His review, published on January 27 by an obscure avowedly socialist online magazine named Tempest, and subsequently republished by left-liberal magazines Portside, and Left Links, heaps contempt upon said book and its authors.

I submitted a version of this critique to Tempest, which declined to publish but offered no explanation as to why. Draitser accuses the authors, and also that part of the left which rejects his Russophobic analysis, as having committed an “abandonment of every principle of internationalism, solidarity, and anti-colonial and anti-imperial politics,” and he evidently imagines himself as the absolute authority on such matters.

 

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Peace In Ukraine Is “Unacceptable” Says Biden Spokesman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMiEBZDbAP4&feature=youtu.be

with Jimmy Dore

(6:42)

In an effort to get ahead of any possible progress toward peace in Ukraine that might come of Chinese Premier Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow, White House spokesman John Kirby insisted that no ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia could possibly happen, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken going so far as to say a cessation of hostilities would violate the U.N. charter!

 

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Russia's economic sovereignty: status update

https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/russias-economic-sovereignty-status?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Edward Slavsquat

“We have increased our economic sovereignty many times over. After all, what did our enemy count on? That we would collapse in 2-3 weeks or in a month,” Russian president Vladimir Putin said during his visit to the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant last week.

Is Putin’s gloating justified? Yes … and no.

 

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Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: “Daniel Ellsberg, Government Dishonesty & Nuclear Weapons”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVtgOUUR5zs

with David Harvey

(24:22)

 

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Palestine in Pictures: February 2023

https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-pictures-february-2023/37281

by The Electronic Intifada

 

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Face the facts: Israel relies on settler violence

https://electronicintifada.net/content/face-facts-israel-relies-settler-violence/37306

by Ahmed Abu Artema

Bezalel Smotrich is one of the main pillars in the current Israeli government. Although generally described as the finance minister, his work is not confined to curbing inflation.

His broad portfolio gives him partial responsibility for the defense ministry and a major role in administering Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

A far-right extremist, Smotrich has used his new platform to incite violence. Just days after Israeli settlers carried out a pogrom in Huwwara – killing one Palestinian and inflicting huge destruction on homes, businesses and vehicles – Smotrich called for that West Bank village to be “wiped out” by the Israeli state.

That racist statement was denounced internationally. Ned Price, spokesperson for the US State Department, called it “irresponsible” and “repugnant.”

Smotrich is not the only member of the Israeli government who supported the crimes by settlers in Huwwara.

 

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After the great march, the long recovery

https://electronicintifada.net/content/after-great-march-long-recovery/37376

by Ahmed Al-Sammak and Asma Abu Amra

Mahmoud Malakha had just arrived at Gaza’s eastern boundary during the Great March of Return on 6 April 2018, when an Israeli sniper shot him in the leg.

Malakha was one of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza who participated in the demonstrations at the Gaza-Israel boundary every Friday from March 2018 to September 2019.

The protests arose as an attempt to highlight the Palestinian right to return to the land from which their parents or grandparents were forcefully expelled during the 1947-49 Nakba, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were driven from their homes to make way for the establishment of Israel.

In response to the protests, the Israeli military deployed snipers, live bullets, rubber bullets and tear gas canisters. Two hundred and fourteen Palestinians, including 46 children, were killed, and over 36,100 were wounded, among them nearly 8,800 children.

One Israeli soldier was killed and seven others injured during the demonstrations.

Mahmoud, who is now 34, was transferred to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, where doctors learned that the bullet had severed an artery and destroyed some bones.

With such critical injuries, repeated attempts were made for Mahmoud to be transferred to hospitals in Jerusalem or Egypt, both better able to provide the care he needed.

But every request for a travel permit was denied by the Israeli military for “security reasons.” Israel controls who is allowed to travel in and out of Gaza, and communicates its wishes with Egypt, with whom it maintains coordination over the Rafah crossing.

“I underwent nine surgeries a few months after the injury. They told me my leg had to be amputated, but I refused, hoping I could get treatment,” said Mahmoud, a father of four.

He tried to travel to Jordan with mediation from Medicins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders). But he had to go through the Beit Hanoun (Erez) checkpoint, and Israel demanded he undergo an intelligence interrogation to pass. He was advised to refuse.

A number of patients and their companions wind up in Israeli prison in similar circumstances.

 

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Martin Forde interview makes UK's fake media left squirm

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/martin-forde-interview-makes-uks-fake-media-left-squirm

by Asa Winstanley

(13:55)

The senior British lawyer whose inquiry into Labour Party racism concluded that anti-Semitism allegations had been “weaponized” against former left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn has finally spoken to the media.

“Anti-Black racism, Islamophobia isn’t taken as seriously as anti-Semitism” in Labour, Martin Forde told Al Jazeera on Thursday.

Forde spoke to Al Jazeera’s investigative unit in a new episode of The Labour Files series released online. You can watch the whole interview in the video below.

The interview has prompted increased criticism of Labour from some of the small cohort of liberals passing for “leftists” permitted to have a mainstream profile in British media – such as Owen Jones and Aaron Bastani.

 

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Smotrich unmasks Israel's truly genocidal face

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/smotrich-unmasks-israels-truly-genocidal-face

by Ali Abunimah

Bezalel Smotrich, the ultra-far-right Israeli finance minister, declared in Paris on Sunday that Palestinians do not exist.

There is “no such thing as Palestinians because there’s no such thing as the Palestinian people,” Smotrich said.

His remarks were “met with applause and cheers from attendees,” The Times of Israel noted and as videos of the event show.

Smotrich went further, declaring that he – a West Bank settler – is a “real” Palestinian.

 

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French court throws out Israel-instigated ban on Palestine event

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/french-court-throws-out-israel-instigated-ban-palestine-event

by Ali Abunimah

In an important victory for free speech and human rights in France, a court in the eastern city of Nancy overturned a government order banning an event featuring Salah Hammouri, the Palestinian French lawyer and former political prisoner expelled by Israeli occupation authorities from his native Jerusalem in December.

The judge called the order a serious and manifestly illegal violation of the right to free speech.

The French government ban on the event in Nancy – imposed at the instigation of the Israeli embassy – was only the latest attack on Hammouri in an ongoing campaign to silence him by the administration of President Emmanuel Macron and France’s Israel lobby.

The court’s decision came down on Thursday evening just about an hour before the scheduled start of the event, titled “A son of Jerusalem expelled from the land of his birth by Israel” and co-sponsored by Association France Palestine Solidarité and Amnesty International France.

The event went ahead without incident.

 

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Indonesia's Betrayal of Palestine: Hosting Israel in Under-20 World Cup

https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-sportswashing-u-20-indonesia-muslim-countries/284073/

by Miko Peled

As though someone was trying to prove me right, a few days after I published the article “By Recognizing Israel, Muslim Countries Are Betraying the Palestinian Cause,” I received a message from friends in Indonesia. The piece talks about the seemingly unstoppable movement within majority Muslim and Arab countries pushing towards normalizing relations with Israel. The message from my Indonesian friends mentioned that Indonesia will be hosting the Under-20 world football (soccer) championships this summer. The Israeli team qualified and will be participating, and as of the time these words are being written, the Indonesian government is permitting the Israeli team to enter the country and play.

I was asked to send a video urging the Indonesian government to refrain from allowing the Israeli team to enter. The video has gone viral in Indonesia and has been shown on television and mentioned in the local press, adding to an ongoing campaign to ask the government to maintain the country’s long-standing stance against Zionism.

 

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Uruguay’s Right-Wing President Threatens to Turn Back Clock to the Dark Age of Early Cold War

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/03/18/uruguays-right-wing-president-threatens-to-turn-back-clock-to-the-dark-age-of-early-cold-war/?mc_cid=eb4e733241&mc_eid=7ddd08c64d

by Victor Rodriguez

 

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“Stop Cop City”

https://www.blackagendareport.com/stop-cop-city-0

with Margaret Kimberley

(audio, 22:52)

 

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Policing Cannot Fix the Problems of Inequality and Racism

https://scheerpost.com/2023/03/19/policing-cannot-fix-the-problems-of-inequality-and-racism/

by Dan Siegel

Millions of people hit the streets around the world when George Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis police in May 2020. We demanded criminal prosecution of the white cop who choked Mr. Floyd and called for dramatic changes to U.S. police departments to prevent the killings of innocent Black men. 

What changes? Reforms have become cliches – hiring police officers who look like the communities they patrol, Black police chiefs, police review boards, court oversight, restrictions on chokeholds, eliminating no-knock warrants, limitations on the use of “non-lethal” police weapons and more. 

On Jan. 7, 2023, five Memphis police officers beat and kicked Tyre Nichols to death. Similar to 46-year old George Floyd, Tyre Nichols was a Black man, 29, unarmed, and guilty, at most, of trivial criminal conduct; police claimed that they stopped him for reckless driving and that he tried to run away from them. The four officers charged in the Floyd case were multiracial working under a Black police chief. In Mr. Nichols’ case, the five cops who murdered him were Black, working in a police department with a Black woman chief. 

Oakland, California, has been under federal court oversight since February 2003. A few weeks ago, Oakland’s new mayor, Sheng Thao, fired Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong for his failure to discipline an officer who had been leading a crime suppression campaign in Oakland’s Chinatown. Armstrong, a Black Oakland native, was the latest in a series of chiefs who seemed unable to hold subordinates responsible for their own misconduct.

 

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Dioxins In East Palestine "Hundreds Of Times Greater" Than Safe Level & Trump/Putin To Be Arrested?

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/dioxins-east-palestine-hundreds-times-greater-than-safe-level-trump-putin-to-be-arrested/

with Ryan Cristián

(2:49:20)

 

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US War Crimes But Obsesses Over Trump Trivialities

https://www.blackagendareport.com/20-years-after-iraq-corporate-media-defends-us-war-crimes-obsesses-over-trump-trivialities

by Margaret Kimberley

 

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How Wall Street Gave Us Trump w/Michael Hudson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSvcB55R8jM&t=201s

with Jimmy Dore

(36:04)

 

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'Regulation' Is Not a Mantra

https://scheerpost.com/2023/03/22/regulation-is-not-a-mantra/

by Dean Baker

An item in Ezra Klein’s NYT column yesterday really grabbed by attention. Ezra cited a Wall Street Journal column that claimed that the Federal Reserve Board’s stress tests would not have detected Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) problems, because its stress tests did not consider interest rate risk.

This struck me as close to crazy. How could a stress test not consider interest rate risk? I recalled the stress tests that the Fed and Treasury performed very publicly in March of 2009, in the middle of the financial crisis. These tests did not consider interest rate risk for the simple reason that, at that point in time, soaring interest rates seemed about as likely as a Martian invasion.

I had not been following the Fed’s stress tests since that time, but I assumed that they did adjust them for circumstances. I recall back in 2002, when I first became concerned about the housing bubble, being on a radio show with the chief economist from Fannie Mae. He assured me that they could not have serious problems with a decline in housing prices, since they regularly stress test their assets. Their tests included a large rise in interest rates. (When the bubble finally burst, Fannie Mae, along with Freddie Mac, collapsed in the summer of 2008 and have been in conservatorship ever since.)

Anyhow, this exchange led me to believe that regulators applied some common sense to their stress test exercises and examined how bank assets would fare in all bad, but plausible, circumstances. In the years 2020-21, when 10-year Treasury rates were at times flirting with 1.0 percent, a sharp rise in interest rates had to be seen as a plausible, even if unlikely, possibility.

 

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Georgia's Dream, Soros' Nightmare

https://www.corbettreport.com/waggaman-georgia/

with James Corbett ands Riley Waggaman (aka Edward Slavsquat)

(21:46)

The deep staters at the NED and their loyal lapdogs in the controlled corporate press want you to believe that Georgia just erupted in an explosion of democracy, with valiant protesters spontaneously taking to the streets to demand that NED and Open Society-funded colour revolutionaries be allowed to operate on their soil without government oversight . . . but this is a lie. Helping us to dissect this lie is our man in Tbilisi, Riley Waggaman (aka Edward Slavsquat).

 

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Things are getting very sustainable

The stuff of nightmares. Image credit: Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat)

https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/things-are-getting-very-sustainable?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Edward Slavsquat

Moscow bravely marches forward with SDGs, ESG, and other STDs.

Is Russia developing in a sustainable way?

Only time will tell, but as we documented in June—and in July, and then again in October—things are looking extremely sustainable.

But perhaps it’s time for a Sustainability Update? Lots of sustainable and socially responsible things have been happening in Russia, and it’s very sad that these heartwarming developments don’t receive sustained coverage in the Queen’s English.

Russia’s Uniparty lectures students about the joys of ESG

At the end of December, United Russia—the permanent ruling party of cattle-tag crusaders—organized a series of talks, “People and the State: Priorities of Sustainable Development.”

Held at universities across the country, the lectures were designed to compliment United Russia’s “Green Economy” project.

 

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Putin & Xi's Moscow agreements
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/putin-and-xis-moscow-agreements?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
by Edward Slavsquat

We made a no-nonsense list for you because no one else would
It was a big week for Russia-China experts, who collectively managed to write 10,000 hot takes about what happened in Moscow without explaining what actually happened in Moscow.
Is there a reason why all Russia-China commentary disintegrates into esoteric abstractions by the second paragraph? Can someone just tell us what Putin and Xi agreed to do together? Like, what did they physically sign, and what was printed on these sheets of paper that they signed?
Is that asking too much? Yes; of course.
As a public service we’ve compiled The Agreements. No editorializing. Just the hard facts here at E. Slavsquat.
(The Kremlin helpfully published a list of fourteen agreements inked during Xi’s visit. Unhelpfully, the Kremlin did not include the relevant texts/statements that correspond to each agreement. So we did a bit of digging—with mixed results.)
Here you g
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For Second Time, US Seeks to Sabotage a Russo-Ukraine Negotiated Peace

https://www.globalresearch.ca/second-time-us-seeks-sabotage-russo-ukraine-negotiated-peace/5813025

by Walt Zlotow

As Ukraine sinks into collapse from Russia’s invasion the US provoked, the death and destruction has made no dent on Uncle Sam’s inhumane conscience.

A year ago when NATO member Turkey neared a 15 point negotiated settlement, the US and UK each sent a top official to Kyiv not to request, but demand that Ukraine President Zelensky walk away to keep fighting. That grotesque demand led to over 100,000 unnecessary Ukraine deaths over the next year. A third of the Ukraine economy vanished. Six million left Ukraine and another six million relocated.

The US didn’t blow up a negotiated peace to inflict this carnage on Ukraine. They simply wanted, in the words of US war emissary, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, to keep the war going to “weaken Russia”. That was an abomination that should shame every peace loving American.

 

Today begins US sabotage 2.0 of a new Russo Ukraine peace proposal. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Moscow to meet with Russian President Putin and virtually with Ukraine President Zelensky to possibly negotiate peace. War weary Zelensky expressed openness to Xi’s 12 point peace proposal.

President Biden should be thrilled that peace in the war may be at hand. Instead he’s apoplectic. His national security spokesman John Kirby offered,

“We don’t support calls for a ceasefire right now. We certainly don’t support calls for a ceasefire that would be called for by the PRC in a meeting in Moscow that would simply benefit Russia.”

Once again it’s not about ending a war destroying Ukraine as a functioning state. And God forbid peace be brokered by our other arch enemy China in America’s 21stcentury Cold War that could quickly go nuclear. Outside of the US and Australia, the rest of the world in cheering on China’s peace efforts. Even European NATO countries are likely tho silently on board. They’re not thrilled about the US blowing up the Nord Steam pipeline and tripling their energy costs to degrade Russia.

By preventing a March, 2022 peace agreement, the US blew a chance for an agreement that would have reverted to the pre-invasion territorial lines. An easily prevented year of war means any new peace agreement will likely see the annexation of the Donbas provinces and the Ukrainian oblasts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.

Once again the US has overplayed its hand ….

Read, also: Why Did US Torpedo April Ukraine War Negotiated Settlement?

 

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Breaking: "Second Russia Offensive" (SRO): Vladimir Sharpens the Cleaver; Volodymyr Fattens the Calf

https://www.globalresearch.ca/vladimir-sharpens-cleaver-volodymyr-fattens-calf/5812795

by William Walter Kay

NATO prophesied a Second Russian Offensive (SRO) on the muddy heals of rasputitsa [Spring]. Then when queried, on February 13, about upcoming festivities, Secretary-General Stoltenberg imparted: “we are seeing the start already.” The SRO crept imperceptibly. April Fools’ came early.  

The Russo-Ukrainian War’s 800-kilometer front bisects the Donbass with a 240-kilometer incision. The SRO engages a segment of Donbass-situated line, with the Russian-held city, Donetsk, at its strategic core. The SRO’s operational theatre contiguously connects 5 small Ukrainian-held cities: (north-to-south) Bakhmut, Chavis Yar, Avdiivka, Marinka and Vuhledar

As missiles fly, Bakhmut sits 120 kilometers northeast of Vuhledar. Curves add length to lines; as do flanks of advancing Russian saliants. From the saliant northwest of Bakhmut to the southwestern environs of Vuhledar – the SRO’s battleline extends 160 kilometers; a third laying within or along urban terrain.

 

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From: Groucho Marx

Date: Mon, 20 March 2023

               

It's okay with me if you would like to share this information with others.

I recently discovered this group THIRD ACT.

You might want to explore more about this organisation.

I included a link below.

Stay well, do good work and keep in touch.

Byron

https://thirdact.org/national-day-of-action/

 

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“THIRD ACT”

“Experienced Americans” are the fastest-growing part of the population: 10,000 people a day pass the 60-year mark. That means that there’s no way to make the changes that must be made to protect our planet and society unless we bring our power into play.

 

https://www.mobilize.us/thirdact/event/551812/

Time

Tuesday, March 21

11:30am – 12:30pm PDT

Location

Chase Bank

101 W Broadway Ste 100

San Diego, C 92101  

 


About this event

On Tuesday morning, San Diegans will tell Chase Bank and Citibank to STOP business as usual - STOP funding new and existing oil and gas projects that destroy the environment - or we will STOP using their services.

The event will feature a bank card cutting table with an online pledge authored by SanDiego350 Youth and resources for clean energy banking, etc. Other highlights include a Climate Changer ResilienSEATM dancer and a call and response flash mob.

Speakers are Theo Martien, SanDiego350 Youth; Brenda Garcia Millan, Climate Action Campaign; and Clovis Honore, Interfaith Coalition for Earth Justice. Third Act’s Sheila Dershowitz will report back to the gathering about what she learned from her conversation with the local bank managers.

Wear simple white and black attire (no logo or prints) and green accessories.

Third Act SoCal, Sierra Club, SanDiego350, SanDiego350 Youth, Climate Action Campaign, ACT, Hammond Climate Solutions, Surfrider and the Interfaith Coalition for Earth Justice have organized the event.

 

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After registering for this event on this sign-up page, please feel free to also join the Facebook event page here and invite your friends!

 

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Chomsky and Ellsberg on “the Present Danger”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fEuUQsvDOM&feature=youtu.be

with Paul Jay

(35:52)

 

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How Julian Assange Saved Edward Snowden’s Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooC8DOW1TBk

with Jimmy Dore

(13:42)

 

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Q&A with Noam Chomsky about “the Future of our world”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUOvpIOAmYk&feature=youtu.be

by the University of Arizona

(52:43)

 

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Michael Hudson - Changes in Superimperialism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtHX23Trvy4&t=83s

with Michael Hudson

(56:41)

Nearly 50 years after the original publication of "Superimperialism", Michael Hudson revisits how the lucrative dollar-based economic system that the US set up after WWII has evolved with the rise of China and the Covid-19 pandemic. What financial weapons is the US likely to use, and does China's de-dollarisation protect it from such attacks?

 

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Global Capitalism: “Challenging Capitalism”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkQgML6NtfU&feature=youtu.be

with Richard Wolff

(1:03:17)

 

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Economic Update: “How Austerity Paves the Way for Fascism”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIpi5Ui88MU&feature=youtu.be

with Richard Wolff

(29:57)

 

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The Plan to Tag Us for the New World Order Slave System- Interview with Dr. Vladimir Zelenko

https://www.bitchute.com/video/aNnwbasRlglJ/

with Dr. Vladimir Zelenko

(1:04:27)

 

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Jeffrey Sachs Interview - A New Economic Model"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSUQBwglQmI&feature=youtu.be

with Jeffery Sachs

(35:30)

 

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Friday Funnies: Move on, Nothing to see here

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/friday-funnies-move-on-nothing-to?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Robert W Malone

The Banality of Evil starts with a failure to think: Hannah Arendt

 

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Legacy Media Now Calls US Destruction of Iraq “..one of the greatest blunders in American military history,” blames it for rise of Trump, and asks if US has ‘learned the lessons’.”

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/legacy-media-now-calls-us-destruction?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

by Celia Farber

“YES, we have and it is this: Not to believe a WORD from mass media/military industrial complex. Not one word. This is the only ‘lesson.’ The destruction of Iraq was called ‘Nation Building’.”

”This was fraud, and I can’t say that often enough. No mistake—fraud.”

—Ray McGovern  

 

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Global Research – March 17, 2023

Selected Articles

“On the 20th Anniversary of Invasion of Iraq, It Must be Clear: The U.S. Is the Greatest Threat to World Peace and Collective Humanity

https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-on-the-20th-anniversary-of-invasion-of-iraq-it-must-be-clear-the-u-s-is-the-greatest-threat-to-world-peace-and-collective-humanity/5812297

 

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The Defender - March 19, 2023

Children’s Health Defense

“Most Read News of the Week”

https://childrenshealthdefense.salsalabs.org/3-19-23defenderweekly?wvpId=f0b6826b-15ae-4c2a-9662-3001033b9406  

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Children’s Health Defense - March 20, 2023

“Food Security Is National Security” + “The Boy in 7 Billion” + More on CHD.TV

https://childrenshealthdefense.salsalabs.org/chdtv_03_18_23_copy1?wvpId=f0b6826b-15ae-4c2a-9662-3001033b9406

 

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From Dr. Mercola's Censored Library

“The Biggest COVID Question: What Will Happen in 10 years?”

https://takecontrol.substack.com/

 

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The Defender - March 22, 2023

Children’s Health Defense

“Obesity Tied to 'Food Swamps' + Whale Deaths Prompt Questions About Wind Projects + More”

http://support.childrenshealthdefense.org/site/MessageViewer?dlv_id=5161&em_id=1781.0

 

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Pandemic Parallax View

“The Historical Archive Of The Last Three Years and Beyond”

https://ratical.org/PandemicParallaxView/index.html#NAING