CITIZENS COUNTER-PROPAGANDA

BRUCE LERRO—What these New Age physicists were saying was that because subatomic particles were unstable (both a wave and a particle) the observer had to make a “decision” as to which to measure. If you couldn’t decide whether a subatomic particle was a wave or a particle without a state of consciousness, that meant that consciousness was at the heart of matter. We were told that western science has finally caught up with the wise ancients of the East. At a liberal arts New Age university I taught at, we had a science teacher who taught a class called “Quantum Physics and Eastern Mysticism”. No one in the class was required to take any preliminary physics classes in order to take the class. We had students walking around the campus holding court about the mysteries of quantum mechanics when most of them knew nothing about physics. Here we have the New Age spirituality.

China, according to this report, is clearly acting wisely to keep its population from being exposed to constant lies and decadent Western cultural toxicity, the cultural diet consumed by Americans and much of the “West”, with dreadful results. But this is the same reason China judiciously erected a censorship wall to keep US disinformation OUT of China. Thus, while the US-led establishment imposes ever stronger doses of conformity and censorship in all media, including the Internet, China seems to be doing the same, but there’s a huge difference: In the US the censorship bans the truth for the sake of its puny but all powerful criminal capitalist oligarchy, it privileges lies to bolster a sick and criminal system. In China, they do the opposite: they keep the sickening LIES from circulating freely. As this report suggests, Russia —mainly for historico-cultural reasons —may be doing something similar to Cina, which is certainly good for Russia. 

GABRIEL ROCKHILL—It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched in a privileged ivory tower, disconnected from the real world, embroiled in meaningless academic debates over specialized minutia, or floating in the abstruse clouds of high-minded theory, intellectuals are frequently portrayed as not only cut off from political reality but as incapable of having any meaningful impact on it. The Central Intelligence Agency thinks otherwise.

Ben Norton tells it like it is about Cuba, and how the Empire is doubling down on its longstanding demonisation campaign against Cuba in the hope of promoting a regime downfall. Norton denounces the US fake news offensive against Cuba, an effort that has even used pro-government demonstrations as “evidence” of anti-communist protests. The clueless US population, of course,can;t tell which is which.

The 79-year-old Zuma is a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle that he joined when he was 17, serving a 10-year prison sentence on Robben Island in the 1960s alongside Nelson Mandela. Zuma was also a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) until 1990. He has played a major role in the ANC ever since. This, his professed support for the poor farmers and workers, and a significant degree of patronage, has enabled him to retain a measure of popular support, despite being mired for years in scandals and facing a long-postponed trial for fraud, corruption and racketeering.