Daily News 09/22
Daily News 09/22
Daily News Archives Since June 2026
The Systemic Racism of the United States and Capitalism
For Dr. King, the silence that he spoke of – the silence of white moderates who believed in the work of the Civil Rights Movement but who did little to support it – had dire consequences. This silence enabled racism, discrimination, oppression, and violence against African Americans not only during Dr. King’s life…but this silence still enables racism, discrimination, oppression, and violence against African Americans and other people of color today.— Martin Luther King – The Silence of Our Friends
The World Conference on Racism held in Durban, South Africa, several years ago, not only raised the issue of Israel as an apartheid state, but also raised the issue of reparations for the colonialized world due to centuries of rape and plunder of the world’s masses by capitalism. Most of the arguments on this subject were first written by Karl Marx, over 130 years ago in “Capital”, Volume One, Part VIII, Chapter 31, (the) “Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist”.
This often-overlooked chapter is very important in today’s world.
Industrial Capitalism did not come into being due to the gradual primitive accumulation of capital, but rather the industrial revolution was fueled by the wealth plundered from the colonialized world in the name of Christianity. This is the historic material basis for modern racism as an ideology, which is used to justify the holocaust perpetuated upon the majority of the world during the period of the subjugation of the colonial world to European/United States capitalist imperialism.
Karl Marx was one of the first to oppose the colonial oppression of the world’s masses. He did not mince his words in, this chapter of Capital, he wrote:
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement, and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalized the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. … If money … comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek, capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.
For Taking a Stand for Equality and Civil Rights, Colin Kaepernick was Blackballed by the 49ers and the Entire NFL! The Knee Heard ’Round the World “I joked at the time that you should offer to stand for “The Star-Spangled Banner” in exchange for playing the never-mentioned third verse.” An interview with Colin Kaepernick about his new memoir of football, protest and betrayal at the dawn of the Trump era. uring the national anthem of the first three 2016 NFL preseason games, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat down on his team’s bench between two Gatorade coolers. Few noticed, and nobody made mention of the gesture until a Black reporter for NFL Network named Steve Wyche asked him about it following the third exhibition tilt, a home game against the Green Bay Packers. Wyche’s interview with Kaepernick put the quiet protest on newsfeeds across the country. Then, shortly after police shot and killed Alton Sterling and Philando Castile within a 48-hour period — Kaepernick and a teammate, safety Eric Reid, went a step further before the final preseason game on Sept. 1. Instead of sitting on the bench during the anthem, they took a knee. The rest is civil rights and sports history.
Correct Lyric for “The Star-Spangled Banner” Third Verse
And where is that band who so vauntingly sworeThat the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,A home and a country, shall leave us no more?Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.No refuge could save the hireling and slave,From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O’er the land of the free, and the hom of the brave. O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall standBetween their lov’d home and the war’s desolation,Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued landPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,And this be our motto: “In God is our trust;”And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall waveO’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
Black People Being Elected to Public Office was a False Image of Inclusion: Since the Cooptations of Black ‘Leaders’ Into the Democratic Party, After Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. had Been Assinated, the United States has Been Resegrgated 5he Liberal Democrates are As Silent as Church Mice! “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. Editorial: The Resegregation of the United States. The whole process of resgregation started with the system of urban redevelopment, after the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. This paved the way for the Civil Rights Movement to be co-opopted by the Democratic Party. (Read my essay The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights Movement.)
Black and African Studies Programs Are Disappearing From College Campuses Over a dozen public and private colleges and universities in the US have closed, merged, or scaled back these programs.
Some Black Los Angelenos May Soon Receive Environmental Reparations New legislation would steer $5 million collected from penalized oil wells into cash aid for 1,000 nearby households.
Indigenous Tribes Form Resistance Camp Against Proposed Copper Mine in Michigan
Big Tech Is Trampling Native Treaty Rights to Build Data Centers
Arab Americans Feel Betrayed After Michigan Grants $1M to Israeli Contractor Rep. Rashida Tlaib says Capture Systems has “no place in our state and should not be receiving a dime of public funds.”
‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warnThe planetary life support systems relied upon by humans have deteriorated to their worst levels ever recorded amid ongoing pollution and habitat destruction, according to a key yet grim annual update by scientistsNew report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
Trump Targets Big Bad Wolves, but Ranchers Say Other Administration Actions Drive Their WoesWhile ranchers support eliminating federal protections for wolves, data shows the predators kill few cattle. Trump’s lifting of tariffs on foreign beef, however, is hitting cattlemen’s walle’
Climate Change Primed Nepal Glacier for Deadly Collapse A new attribution study shows how warming rocks, thawing permafrost and melting ice formations created a catastrophic chain of impacts report.
How the End of USAID Eroded Global Environmental Goal An analysis finds the cancellation of $1 billion in annual funding weakened protections around the world and undermined U.S. interests.
Whales Have Rebounded in the Southern Ocean. Scientists Worry Commercial Fishing Could Threaten Their Comeback. Researchers are alling for for stricter regulations on krill fishing in Antarctica as climate change shrinks the habitat of whales’ primary prey.
We’re not in a new Gilded Age in America: inequality is now far worseToday’s wealth gap is much bigger, and the country’s richest have much more power than they once did. It’s an Age of Oligarchy
Networks halt TV pool coverage of Trump after CNN White House ban – live NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox News, the fourth other networks that make up the White House TV pool, decided they would cease coverage in solidarity with banned CNN
The Houthis’ offensive is the latest spillover from Trump’s Iran disaster Trump’s mess has rekindled Yemen’s civil war and a years-long conflict between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia The Houthis’ offensive is the latest spillover from Trump’s Iran disaster. When the US and Israel launched a war of aggression against Iran in late February, Tehran’s allies in the Middle East jumped into the fray. Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia fired rockets at Israel, while Shia militias in Iraq attacked US bases and diplomatic outposts. But the Houthis, who control large parts of Yemen, mostly stayed on the sidelines. Over the past few weeks, however, the Houthis have changed their tactics and have entered the conflict in full force. They led a rapid advance along Yemen’s Red Sea coast, seizing a strategic port city and several islands that gave the militia control over the Bab al-Mandab strait, a vital waterway for energy shipments and other global trade. Thanks to Donald Trump’s war, Iran and its allies now dominate the Middle East’s two major regional energy chokepoints: Bab al-Mandab and the strait of Hormuz.
Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy deals made with dozens of countries. An in-depth investigation reveals the ‘show of force’ costing American taxpayers millions
The RCI is mobilising to defend the Cuban Revolution! Suffocated by US imperialism, Cuba is facing the most perilous crisis in its history. Sections of the RCI from across the planet are mobilising worldwide in October to defend the Cuban Revolution!