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During This Economic Crisis, Capitalism’s Three-Point Political Program: 1.Austerity,2. Scapegoat Blacks, Minorities, and ‘Illegal’ Immigrants for Unemployment, and 3. The Iron Heel (Fascism)! For Decades, Blacks Have Been Subjected to The Iron Heel! Currently, the US Capitalist Class is Divided Over When — Not If, to Apply It to Everyone!
Due to Years of Austerity, Cuts to Public Health Care, And An Anti-Science and Profiteering President, The United States Now Leads the World In Coronavirus Cases and Deaths in the World!
Always Remember: That President Obama, With a Majority Democrat Legislature Supported the Wall Street Bailout and Remember, That he Established, in writing, the United States Capitalist Austerity Program. — The Race to the Bottom/Pauperization of the 99%!
Democracy?: 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!! Under Austerity, All of the World Will Eventually Be Pauperized, Humbled, and Desecrated Like Greece and Puerto Rico.! Socialism Means True Democracy, that the 99% Will Rule, Not the Few!
Quotes of the Day:
The Covid Pandemic Has Shown That the World cannot act collectively to Eradicate the Virus! Big Pharma’s Profits Prevent Collective Action.
Lastly, we actually are on this collectively. No nation can repair this by itself, although China, the US, the EU, India and Japan shall be central. Particular person international locations will pioneer possible paths. However agreements have to be reached, particularly between China and the US. Equally, wealthy international locations should assist poor ones, as the prime minister of Bangladesh has pointed out in the FT. — What is the least we need from COP26?
Videos of the Day:
United States:
The United States is not a Democracy (A government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly)! Only the 1%, through. their ownership of the Reublicrats, who profit from war and the war budget, voted for War and the war budget — A policy, which Gore Vidal called a Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. — The 99% Should Decide On War — Not Just The 1% Who Profit From War! Under a Democracy, The 99% would have the right to vote on the policy of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace! Every ‘Tax. Reform’ From President Kennedy has Been an incrase in taxes from the Poor,the Woking Class, and the Middle Class, to the Rich! —The United States takes from the poor and gives to the Rich. Tax the Rich! — They Can Afford To Pay!
Why is U.S. Military Spending Increasing to New, Outlandish Levels? Although critics of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan to increase funding for U.S. education, healthcare, and action against climate catastrophe say the United States can’t afford it, there are no such qualms about ramping up funding for the U.S. military. This May, the Pentagon asked Congress to fund a $715 billion budget for Fiscal 2022—an increase of $10 billion over the previous year. Together with another $38 billion requested for military-related programs at other government agencies, this would bring total U.S. military spending to $753 billion
Environment: 
We Demand Real Zero, Not Net Zero! Net zero emissions and other false solutions allow polluters to continue polluting Declaration adopted by the Oilwatch International Global Gathering in Nigeria, October 19-21. Oilwatch International network members, community representatives from oil regions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), the academia and the media met in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State, Nigeria, between 19–21 of October 2021, physically and virtually, for the maiden edition of the Oilwatch International Global Gathering. The gathering, which had the theme Demanding Real Zero, Not Net Zero aimed to present the way out of the climate quagmire and present real options for climate action. The Global Gathering looked critically at the false solutions to Climate Change including the Net Zero concept which world leaders, corporations and investors are echoing as the world gets ready for COP26.
‘Not Just Immoral, Deadly’: How Corporate Lobbyists Ramped Up Spending Ahead of COP26 “The fossil fuel lobby’s grimy fingerprints are all over yet another congressional deadlock on meaningful climate action,” warned one campaigner.
Climate Emergency Includes the Threat of ‘Nuclear Winter’ Wishful thinking aside, the threat of nuclear war has not receded. When world leaders gather in Scotland next week for the COP26 climate change conference, activists will be pushing for drastic action to end the world’s catastrophic reliance on fossil fuels. Consciousness about the climate emergency has skyrocketed in recent years, while government responses remain meager. But one aspect of extreme climate jeopardy—“nuclear winter”—has hardly reached the stage of dim awareness
What is the least we need from COP26? What pledges have to be made by the events assembly at COP26 in Glasgow if there is to be a superb probability of maintaining the enhance in temperatures above pre-industrial ranges to lower than 1.5°C, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommends? The reply, as I argued last week, is that they have to be far more formidable: above all, they need to chop emissions far sooner.It is not sufficient to supply St Augustine’s vow of “chastity, but not yet”. Pledges of “internet zero” thirty years from now are too straightforward. It is mandatory to chop emissions by near 40 per cent by 2030, as a substitute. The curve of emissions have to be bent downwards now. That is economically and technologically possible, albeit onerous. Ten years therefore, will probably be too late to keep away from irreversible injury with out resort to the risky geoengineering not too long ago mentioned by Gernot Wagner.Between 2017 and 2021, the proportion of world emissions coated by some type of “internet zero” goal jumped greater than 65 proportion factors, to greater than 70 per cent. But the “nationally decided contributions” (NDCs) agreed at COP21 in Paris, in 2015, are far from tight sufficient to attain the wanted reductions in emissions, particularly by 2030. In that 12 months, pledged emissions will exceed the higher restrict imposed by the really useful 1.5°C ceiling by 20-23 gigatonnes of CO2 equal.
Civil Rights/ Black Liberation:
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Russell “Maroon” Shoatz Free, But Other Political Prisoners Languish The demand for freedom of political prisoners must be consistently made for their sakes and for all at risk of joining them in the future.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Biden is No FDR and Build Back Better Legislation Proves It The idea that Joe Biden is “most progressive president since FDR” is a propaganda device meant to quiet criticism from the Democratic Party left and force them to stand down.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review ESSAY: The African Woman Today, Ama Ata Aidoo, 1992. Ama Ata Aidoo has provided some of the most clear-eyed and materialist analyses of the social and political life of women on the African continent.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor Taiwan Demonstrates that the American Empire is a Paper Tiger Taiwan has long been the rationale for meddling in China’s affairs but the latest interference poses great danger for “paper tiger” nation.
Josmar Trujiloo How Prosecutors Use Conspiracy and Questionable Testimony in “Gang” Cases Conspiracy laws, RICO statutes and “gang” designations are tools of police and prosecutorial misconduct and the maintenance of the mass incarceration state.
Stephen Sefton Why Defending Nicaragua is Important The U.S. effort to destabilize Nicaragua is an ongoing crime against that nation’s people. Anti-imperialists must defend the Nicaraguan government.
Monica Cruz Puerto Ricans Resist Austerity Measures and Corporate Corruption Five years after PROMESA was signed into law which established the control of the Fiscal Control Board over the island’s economy, conditions in Puerto Rico are worse than ever before.
Daniela Gabor, Ndongo Samba Sylla Planting Budgetary Time Bombs in Africa: the Macron Doctrine En Marche French president Emmanuel Macron ensnares African nations in risky privatization schemes, a continuation of the colonial relationship.
Labor:
Before Shooting, IATSE Film Crew on “Rust” Walked Off Set to Protest Conditions We look at how the tragic shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during the filming of Rust last Thursday on a set in New Mexico is drawing attention to cost-cutting decisions and overall safety in the film industry. Yahoo News is reporting the gun that killed Hutchins had been used by crew members just hours beforehand for live-ammunition target practice. The film’s lead actor and producer Alec Baldwin later shot the revolver after he was reportedly handed it by the first assistant director, David Halls, who told him it was a “cold gun,” meaning it was not loaded with live ammunition. Halls was fired in 2019 from his position as assistant director on the movie “Freedom’s Path” after a gun “unexpectedly discharged” and injured a crew member. All of this happened after some of the unionized IATSE below-the-line crew members had walked off the set of Rust earlier on the day of the shooting to protest their housing, payment and working conditions. New Mexico is a “right to work” state, so producers were able to hire nonunion replacements and continue working on the film. We speak with Dutch Merrick, prop master and armorer for over 25 years and past president of IATSE Local 44 Property Craftspersons, Hollywood, who notes, “Hollywood handles firearms every single day,” and calls the process “carefully regulated.” Despite safety protocol and expertise, he says, Hollywood crews are getting “worked to death” with 80- to 100-hour workweeks, which he suggests played into the accidental shooting.
Economy:
House Hearing: Pricewaterhouse Coopers Signed Off on Evergrande’s Books, Which Counted “Unbuilt and Unsold Properties” as Assets In 2012, short seller Citron Research released a 57-page report alleging fraudulent accounting at China Evergrande Group, the now teetering Chinese property development conglomerate that is causing severe anxiety in global markets. After spelling out six specific forms of accounting fraud that it believed to be taking place, the Citron report noted the following: “Meanwhile, Evergrande’s auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Hong Kong office) has continued to provide an unqualified opinion.” The author of the Citron report, Andrew Left, received a 5-year trading ban in Hong Kong by the Hong Kong Market Misconduct Tribunal over what it alleged was a false report.
World:
Lebanese Ruling Class Haggles With the IMF While Masses Starve As Lebanon’s economic crisis deepens, the Lebanese ruling class continues to manoeuvre and haggle over debt repayment to its imperialist creditors, ignoring the plight of the people. As talks with the IMF stall, it is the Lebanese masses who pay the price. Between fuel shortages, medicine shortages, and hyperinflation, the Lebanese workers and youth face a scenario of complete societal collapse.
Michael Roberts Blog: Helping the ‘deserving poor’…?
Rishi Sunak, the UK finance minister and richest man in the UK parliament in his autumn budget announced a cut in the bank surcharge, levied on their profits, from 8% to 3% from April 2023 “to cushion the City from the impact of the rise in corporation tax.” This is a tax giveaway of £3bn over the life of parliament to big banks which have just announced record profits.This compares with £5bn cuts in universal credit for the working poor, only relieved by a reduction in the so-called taper rate which will return £2bn over the life of parliament. So the banks are to get £3bn relief and working poor are to get net cuts.
Health, Education, and Welfare:
The government of the United States can pass laws in a few days to spend tens of trillions of dollars for war and the bailout of Wall Street and the bankers. Yet, those who pass universal healthcare for themselves, but cannot spend even one trillion dollars for universal health for those who are ‘governed’! This is what is considered, by the powers to be, a democracy and part of the democratic way. — Roland Sheppard, Let the People Vote on Healthcare!
Broken Britannia Sleepwalks as the Pandemic Worsens The UK now has one of the highest per capita infection rates in the world: 4 times higher than Germany, 9 times higher than France, and 25 times higher than Spain. Last Thursday the UK recorded more than 50,000 infections in a single day, a higher number than the figure for Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal combined.
Another Example of Capitalism as a Failed System: World CaAnpilalism Was Aware of the Danger of Cornovavirus Threat Over 5 Years Ago and Did Nothing!: Under Capitalism — Human Lives Don’t Matter Capitalism Does Not, and Never Has, Worked for the Masses! In Its Death Agony, Capitalism Is Traveling About The World Like The Four Horsemen of the The Apocalypse, Spreading Racism, War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. The future of Humanity Is Now At stake!
