Daily News Digest October 15, 2019
Daily News Digest Achives
Since World War I, ‘the war to end all wars’, there have been perpetual wars for perpetual peace, this Laura Gray’s cartoon from the front page of The Militant August 18, 1945, under banner headline: “There Is No Peace” Could Still Be Published Today!
During This Economic Crisis, Capitalism’s Three Point Political Program: Austerity, Scapegoat Blacks, Minorities, and ‘Illegal’ Immigrants for Unemployment, and The Iron Heel.
The Capitalist Austerity Program = It’s Become the Race to the Botom! The 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 — The 99% Will Rule! — Not the Few!
Images of the Day:
Columbus Day:The North American Indian Holocaust
This Quote Was Made By Jomo Kenyatta the Former President Of Kenya. African Population
When The Came 
Signe Eilkenson: Benjamin Franklin High School Still Closed 
Quotes of the Day:
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, Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist, 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.
Videos Of the Day:
Months After Ice Raids, an Impoverished Mississippi Community is Still Reeling
Hagibis Has Caused Death And Destruction Throughout Japan.
U.S.:
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! The United States takes from the poor and gives to the Rich.
The National Debt Merry-go-round: U.S. Treasury Set to Borrow $1 Trillion for a Second Year to Finance the Deficit The U.S. Treasury Department is set to maintain elevated sales of long-term debt to finance the government’s widening budget deficit, with new issuance projected to top $1 trillion for a second-straight year. Many strategists at primary-dealer firms predict that this Wednesday’s quarterly refunding announcement will see the Treasury maintain note and bond sales at the record high levels they have boosted them to in recent months. . . . The total amount of 3-, 10- and 30-year securities to be offered at next week’s refunding auctions is seen by most at $84 billion. While that’s $1 billion more than the total for these maturities three months ago, that’s only because the size of the three-year sale was already nudged higher in December.
The Charity Racket: CEO of Goodwill Raked In Almost $730,000 in Salary While Paying Employees with Disabilities Pennies Outed by the petition and an NBC expos five years ago that reported workers’ wages being as little as $0.58 an hour, the $3 billion nonprofit’s company-wide practices have yet to change. Current company reviews on “Greedwill” also reveal their below minimum wage injustices. Exceeding $400,000 (and in one case up to $1.3M) in individual salary for 23 regional CEOs, according to Omaha World Herald, Goodwill clearly could afford to do better for their employees.
The Age of Radical Evil We live in an age of radical evil. The architects of this evil are despoiling the earth and driving the human species toward extinction. They are stripping us of our most basic civil liberties and freedoms. They are orchestrating the growing social inequity, concentrating wealth and power in the hands of a cabal of global oligarchs. They are destroying our democratic institutions, turning elected office into a system of legalized bribery, stacking our courts with judges who invert constitutional rights so that unlimited corporate money invested in political campaigns is disguised as the right to petition the government or a form of free speech. Their seizure of power has vomited up demagogues and con artists including Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, each the distortion of a failed democracy. They are turning America’s poor communities into internal militarized colonies where police carry out lethal campaigns of terror and use the blunt instrument of mass incarceration as a tool of social control. They are waging endless wars in the Middle East and diverting half of all discretionary spending to a bloated military. They are placing the rights of the corporation above the rights of the citizen. Chris Hedges 
Environment:
Why Typhoon Hagibis Packed Such a Deadly, Devastating Punch in Japan Storm’s track, intensity, and 24- to 48-hour rainfall totals stand out from past storm events Typhoon Hagibis proved to be extraordinarily devastating for northern Japan when it struck this weekend, unleashing more than three feet of rain in just 24 hours in some locations, causing widespread flash flooding as well as river flooding. The storm has killed at least 58, according to the Japanese public broadcaster NHK. One reason the storm caused such severe impacts is that the inner core of the typhoon, with its heaviest rains and highest winds, remained intact as it swept across Tokyo and dumped heavy rains across northeastern Japan as well. According to reporting from The Washington Post’s Simon Denyer, by Sunday, more than 20 rivers in central and northeastern Japan had burst their banks, flooding more than 1,000 homes in cities, towns and villages. By Andrew Freedman
The IMF Thinks Carbon Taxes Will Stop the Climate Crisis. That’s a Terrible Idea The IMF’s proposed $75-per-ton tax would exacerbate rampant inequality. There are better ways to fund decarbonization well-circulated statistic this week, from a new book by the University of California, Berkeley, economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, shows that the richest 400 families in the United States now pay a lower tax rate than the bottom 50% of families. Those 400 families – the 0.01% – own more wealth than 60% of households in the US. The top 0.1% own more than 80%. Rates for the top 0.01% and the bottom 50% have been creeping closer since 1960. Also this week, the Guardian’s polluters series found that just 20 private and state-owned fossilfuel producers are responsible for 35% of manmade carbon dioxide and methane emissions over a similar period. By Kate Aronoff
‘Stop Funding Ecocide’: Extinction Rebellion Protesters Target London Financial District “The city of London is a preeminent nexus of power in the global system that is killing our world.” By Jake Johnson
Rescue Operations Underway in Japan After Typhoon Hagibis Kills Dozens and Causes ‘Immense Damage’ “How many more extreme weather events like this should happen til all governments & corporations act seriously on the #climatebreakdown?” By Jessica Corbett
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
Labor:
Spreading strike wave shows potential for GM workers to expand struggle to Ford and Fiat-Chrysler As 48,000 General Motors workers complete one month on strike to win back lost wages and benefits, end the hated tier system, secure permanent status for all temps and defeat attacks on health care, they are being reinforced by new battalions of the working class entering into struggle. The critical issue they face is breaking the isolation imposed by the United Auto Workers and extending the strike to Ford and Fiat Chrysler as the first step in mobilizing the working class across the US and internationally against the drive by the international banks and corporations to reduce workers to at-will temps with no rights and poverty wages. The current GM strike is now the longest national auto strike since GM workers struck for 67 days in 1970. A measure of the treachery of the UAW is the fact that 460,000 GM workers struck in the last national strike as compared to less than 50,000 today. By Jerry White
UAW’s ‘Concession Stand’ Negotiations: Auto Strike In Peril: UAW, GM Prepare to End Strike and Impose Contract Betrayal The four-week strike by 48,000 General Motors workers is in danger. Dueling statements released by the company and the United Auto Workers make clear that both sides are frantically searching for a way to shut down the strike as soon as possible and force through sweeping concessions. Last night, UAW Vice President for GM Terry Dittes issued a statement that must be taken as an urgent warning by all workers. “A short time ago, today, Friday, October 11, 2019, we counterproposed to the Company’s last offer,” Dittes wrote. Stating that the union’s new offer covered all outstanding issues, the letter pointed to the likelihood of an agreement, declaring, “If GM accepts and agrees to this group of proposals, we will have a Tentative Agreement.” Indicating that the UAW was prepared to accept further concessions beyond those already in its new counteroffer, Dittes added, “We will continue to work, again, over this weekend to reach a Tentative Agreement.” By Tom Hall
Economy:
News Articles on the Fed’s Secret Trillions in Loans to Wall Street During the Last Crisis Have Been Purged from Bloomberg News Mark Pittman was the Bloomberg News reporter responsible for the Bloomberg lawsuit against the Federal Reserve seeking the names of the banks and their share of the trillions of dollars that the Fed was secretly funneling to them during the financial crisis. Pittman had already shared in a Gerald Loeb award for Bloomberg’s five-part series, “Wall Street’s Faustian Bargain,” and many felt he was a lock for a Pulitzer. But one week before Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was to sit for his Senate Confirmation hearing on his reappointment to another term as Fed Chairman, Pittman died of a heart attack at age 52 on November 25, 2009. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
IMT rejects jail sentences for Catalan political prisoners Nine Catalan political prisoners, who have been held in remand for almost two years, have been given lengthy jail sentences of between 9 and 13 years by the Spanish Supreme Court for sedition and misuse of public funds. And what was their “crime?” The organisation of the Catalan independence referendum on 1 October 2017. This is a scandalous, undemocratic ruling that reveals the rottenness of the Spanish 1978 regime. The International Marxist Tendency rejects these outrageous sentences and calls on the labour, socialist and democratic forces of the world to mobilise against them with all their might.
Kurds Strike Deal With Syrian Government to Battle Turkey’s Offensive After Trump Orders Evacuation of Remaining US Troops “About 130,000 people have been displaced in Syria… with at least 60 civilian casualties in Syria and 18 dead in Turkey.” Kurdish forces in northern Syria announced Sunday that the Syrian government has agreed to deploy troops to battle an ongoing Turkish offensive against the Kurds after U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper confirmed that President Donald Trump has ordered the withdrawal of the remaining 1,000 American troops in the region. By Jessica Corbett
