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Daily News Digest June 3, 2016
As the Capitalist Robber Barons Steal from the 99% — Only the 1% Voted For Austerity — The 99% Should Decide On Austerity — Not Just The 1% Who Profit From Austerity!
Laura Gray’s cartoon from the front page of The Militant August 18, 1945, under the banner headline: “There Is No Peace”:
The Only Victors In War: The War Profiteers! Laura Gray’s cartoon from the front page of The Militant August 18, 1945, under the banner headline: “There Is No Peace”: 
Income inequality is not a concern of Wall Street’s money addicts: End Wall Street’s Wars! Occupy Wall Street!
Occupy Wall Street Identified The Enemy — The 1% That Own and Control The Wealth! Unlike The Trade Union Misleaders, Nor The Misleaders Of The Oppressed Who Strive To Be In ‘Partnership’ With The 1% . As They Also Strive To Hold Up The ‘Fig Leaf’To Cover Up The Naked Rule Of The 1%!
Images of the Day:
Imperialist Wars:
Made in the West:
Quotes of the Day:
The U.S. claim that it is waging a global “war on terror” is the biggest lie of the 21st century, a mega-fiction on the same historical scale of evil as Hitler’s claim that he was defending Germany from an assault by world Jewry, or that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was a Christianizing mission. In reality, the U.S. is the birth mother and chief nurturer of the global jihadist network – a truth recognized by most of the world’s people, including the 82 percent of Syrians that believe “the U.S. created the Islamic State.” (Even 62 percent of Syrians in Islamic State-controlled regions believe this to be true.) Only “exceptionalism”-addled Americans and colonial-minded Europeans give Washington’s insane cover story the slightest credibility. However, it is dangerous in the extreme for any country to state the fact clearly: that it is the United States that has inflicted Islamic jihadist terror on the world. Once the charade has been abandoned; once there is no longer the international pretense that Washington is not the Mother Of All Terror, what kind of dialogue is possible with the crazed and desperate perpetrator? What do you do with a superpower criminal, once you have accused him of such unspeakable evil? — Glen Ford, There is No U.S. War Against ISIS; Instead, Obama is Protecting His “Assets”
Tokyo Electric Power Company’s chief of decommissioning at Fukushima, Naohiro Masuda, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that the company hoped to locate the fuel and start removing it by 2021. However, Masuda says the technology needed to remove the fuel has yet to be invented. “Once we can find out the condition of the melted fuel and identify its location, I believe we can develop the necessary tools to retrieve it,” Masuda told ABC. — Fukushima Nuclear Plant Operator Says 600 Tons of Melted Fuel Is Missing
Video the Day:
Scheer Intelligence: Nomi Prins and the Washington/Wall Street Connection
U.S.
The New Facade for Regime Change: a Brief History of Humanitarian Interventionism by Vijay Prashad 
U.S. No. 1 Slaver: How U.S. Invasions and War Have Exacerbated Slavery in 3 Countries Short-sighted wars have destabilized regions, creating fertile ground for illegal slavers. By Kali Holloway
Environment:
Mass Murder — Deregulation: At least 33 US cities used water testing ‘cheats’ over lead concerns — Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals testing regimes similar to that of Flint were in place in major cities including Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia By Oliver Milman and Jessica Glenza 
Ongoing/Big Energy Disasters!:
Passing Ban, Scottish Parliament Declares: ‘No Ifs, No Buts, No Fracking’ Non-binding fracking ban signals ‘growing consensus that stopping climate change means we have to say no to new fossil fuels like fracked gas.’ By Deirdre Fulton
Why There Could Be More Blasts Like 2015 ExxonMobil Torrance Oil Refinery Explosion, Putting Millions At Risk By Larry Buhl
Fukushima: ‘Dancing in the Dark’: Fukushima Nuclear Plant Operator Says 600 Tons of Melted Fuel Is Missing By Denisse Moreno 
Energy News:
01:18 AM EST on June 2nd, 2016 | TV: “Truly unsettling” discovery at Fukushima… problem “far greater than previously thought” — Boss reveals 600 tons of fuel melted, can’t find it — Top Official: “Nobody really knows where fuel is”… We may never be able to get it and just leave wherever — “Uncontrollable fission” is continuing under site (VIDEO)
Black Liberation/Civil Rights:
Late
There is No U.S. War Against ISIS; Instead, Obama is Protecting His “Assets” : Washington has no substitute for the jihadists, who have been a tool of U.S. policy since the last days of President Jimmy Carter’s administration by BAR executive editor Glen Ford 
Labor:
Economy:
The Rich Can Relax: Barron’s Says “The Stock Market Won’t Crash – Yet” By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
This new wave of the revolution in the African continent comes at a time of global crisis of capitalism and the beginning of the revolutionary stirring of the masses of working people and the youth in the advanced capitalist countries. The weak, rotten, and dependent “national” bourgeoisie in the African continent has proven to be completely unable to develop any of these countries on a progressive basis. The lesson to be learnt is clear: only with the abolition of capitalism, led by the young working class which has developed in recent decades, and linking up with the revolutionary movement in advanced capitalist countries can any perspective for the future be offered. Armed with the ideas of revolutionary Marxism and the legacy of Amílcar Cabral, Thomas Sankara, and other revolutionaries, it is time to hoist the flag of the African revolution once again and to struggle until victory. A luta continua! — Amílcar Cabral and the African Revolution – Part Two
Amílcar Cabral and the African Revolution – Part Two by Arturo Rodríguez 
Health, Education, and Welfare:
The Highly Questionable Blueprint for Charter School Takeover in Your City or Region — Oakland, California, is the below-the-radar model to drain the public schools of their funding. By Bill Raden 