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During This Economic Crisis, Capitalism’s Three Point Political Program: Austerity, Scapegoat Blacks, Minorities, and ‘Illegal’ Immigrants for Unemployment, and The Iron Heel.
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.
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From Martin Luther King’s Last Speech, April 3, 1968, I’ve Been to The Mountaintop: . . . Now about injunctions: We have an injunction and we’re going into court tomorrow morning to fight this illegal, unconstitutional injunction. All we say to America is, “Be true to what you said on paper.” If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, MAYBE I COULD UNDERSTAND SOME OF THESE ILLEGAL INJUNCTIONS. Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they HAVEN’T committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for RIGHTS. And so just as I say, WE AREN’T GOING TO LET ANY DOGS OR WATER HOSES TURN US AROUND, we aren’t going to let any injunction turn us around.
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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 Republicrats and who profit from war and the war budget, vote 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!
‘He Is Unhinged’: San Juan Mayor Rips Trump for Lies About Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief“He can huff and puff all he wants but he cannot escape the death of 3,000 on his watch.” That was San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz’s response to President Donald Trump’s Monday night tweet-storm, in which he once again inflated the amount of federal aid Puerto Rico has received since Hurricane Maria and attacked Cruz as “crazed and incompetent.” “He is unhinged,” Cruz tweeted in response to the president’s rant, which came after a GOP emergency aid bill stalled in the Senate, in part due to Democratic opposition over the
legislation’s inadequate relief to Puerto Rico. By Jake Johnson
‘Outrageous Stunt’: Jewish Groups Accuse GOP of Weaponizing Anti-Semitism to Prolong Slaughter in Yemen“Just as they did earlier this year, Republican leaders may again shamefully exploit concerns over bigotry against Jews to stall a totally unrelated bill that would help put an end to U.S. support for the war in Yemen.” Jewish advocacy groups on Monday condemned House Republicans for once againattempting to weaponize anti-Semitism to derail the Yemen War Powers resolution, which seeks to end U.S. complicity in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. By Jake Johnson
Putting Numbers in Context: a Winnable Battle Our Side Doesn’t Want to Fight Polls consistently show that the public hugely overestimates the share of the budget that goes to items like SNAP (food stamps), Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), and foreign aid. People will typically give answers in the range of 20 to 30 percent of the budget for these categories of spending. In reality, the shares are 1.5 percent for SNAP, 0.4 percent for TANF, and 0.4 percent for foreign aid. By Dean Baker
America’s Dirty War on Immigrant Children“These aren’t people. These are animals” – Donald Trump, May 17, 2018 President Trump is right about one thing: there is an emergency; indeed we would call it a humanitarian catastrophe at the U.S. Southern Border.[1] It is also a demographic, political and moral catastrophe. However, the chaotic ‘solutions’ devised by former Attorney General Sessions and embraced by ICE and Homeland Security has brought us ever deeper into the unthinkable, Primo Levi’s ‘Grey Zone’. By Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco – Nancy Scheper-Hughes
The Liberal Betrayal of America’s Most Vulnerable It’s no secret that the U.S. incarcerates a shocking number of its own people, primarily the poor and people of color. 2.3 million Americans currently being held in prisons, the country has the largest prison population in the world. But even as awareness of mass incarceration grows, two crucial questions remain at the heart of the debate on prison reform: Why does the U.S. imprison so many people, and how do we change our toxic approach? These are the issues Tony Platt, author of “Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States,” and Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer discuss in the latest installment of “Scheer Intelligence.” By Robert Sheer
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Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Was Assaassinated. The Following Audios Tell the Story:
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Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford:Black Agenda Radio, Week of April 1, 2019in April 4 NATO meeting a desecration of MLK’s legacy; Dahoud Andre: Haiti wants to be rid of puppet president; Mumia: Puerto Rico proves US ill will toward Latin America; Selinka Makana on telling our peoples stories through Our own lives.
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Economy:
As U.S. Economy Weakens, Economists Struggle to Predict Next RecessionMany of the people who completely missed the worst recession since the Great Depression are trying to get out front and tell us about the next one on the way. The big item glowing in their crystal ball is an inversion of the yield curve. There has been an inversion of the yield curve before nearly every prior recession and we have never had an inversion of the yield curve without seeing a recession in the next two years. By Dean Baker
Mega Banks Tell SEC: Derivatives Could Blow Up Wall Street AgainThe most recent 10Ks (annual reports) filed by the largest Wall Street banks covering their financial condition as of December 31, 2018, provide the strongest argument thus far for Congress to enact legislation to separate the Federally insured, deposit-taking commercial banks from the trading casinos on Wall Street. In other words, Congress needs to restore the Glass-Steagall Act, which kept the U.S. financial system safe for 66 years until its repeal in 1999. By Pam Martens
World:
Bombing Gaza as a Campaign Slogan On March 25, 2019 while the major media fixated on Trump and his potential indictments in regards to Russia, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing his own political opponents, an upcoming election and five potential indictments back home, stood with President Trump in Washington, DC. Trump signed an executive order that recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Once Syrian, and not internationally recognized, the Golan Heights is a section of land taken by the Israelis in the 1967 war despite being a violation of international law as spelled out in Security Council Resolution 497.
Revolutionary congress in Pakistan: a marvellous eventThe Pakistan Congress of the IMT opened, as per tradition, with revolutionary poems. The Congress assembled in the main hall of the electrical and hydro workers’ union in the centre of Lahore. The mood was (appropriately) electric, but it was also tempered by the tragic death of a young comrade from Dadu in Sindh, who was involved in a train accident on the way to the Congress. By Lal Salaam
Only the Struggle Matters Paris— In the small chapel to the right at the entrance of the neoclassical Church of Saint-Sulpice is a large mural by Eugène Delacroix, The painter, atthe end of his career and suffering from the tuberculous laryngitis that would soon kill him, depicted a story from Genesis. “Jacob is travelling with the flocks and other gifts he is taking to his brother Esau in the hope of appeasing his anger,” Delacroix wrote in 1861 when the painting was completed. “A stranger appears, blocking his path, and engages him in a fierce struggle – The holy books see this struggle as a symbol of the trials God sometimes sends His chosen ones.” By Chris Hedges
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 ‘govern’, pass universal healthcare for themselves, but they cannot spend even one trillion dollars for universal health for those who are ‘governed’! This is what is considered, by the powers the to be, a democracy and part of the democratic way. — Roland Sheppard, Let The People Vote on Healthcare!
As a Dead Canary in the Twitter Coal Mine By Elizabeth Keyes Growing censorship was a given. How long for me in Twitter heaven? Like Paul Revere I spread the alarm. Countless cases of corp/government harm. My tweets to mass peeps found on-line. We citizen journalists of like mind. TWEET, RE-TWEET, LIKE, REPLY – four precious years. My missionary zeal enjoyed no fear. Twitter’s ex-glorious platform of access Finally struck me dumb for Left excess. “Account suspended” lowered boom’s epitaph. (Three weeks and counting, I’ve gotten the shaft!) Assange’s fate awaits us, one by one. Remember him when your own time comes.
We’re Heading Toward a Rural Health Care EmergencyWe’ve got a rural health care emergency on the horizon. Rural hospitals are closing or teetering on the brink of closure at an alarming rate. More than a hundred have closed since 2005 and hundreds more are on life support. Long-term care facilities are vanishing across rural America or being bought up by large corporations who care about profit, not the care of our loved ones.By Barb Kalbach
Bernie Sanders Says ‘Thousands of People Will Literally Die’ If Trump Healthcare Agenda Succeeds“I think we should join the rest of the industrialized world, guarantee healthcare to all people as a right.” “Trump has an idea on healthcare. His idea is to throw 32 million Americans off of their health insurance.”
