During This Economic Crisis, Capitalism’s Three Point Political Program: Austerity, Scapegoat Blacks, Minorities, and ‘Illegal’ Immigrants for Unemployment, and The Iron Heel.
Always Remember That Obamba Supported the Wall Street Bailout and Remember That President Obama, With a Majority Democrat Legislature, Started the United States Capitalist Austerity Program — The Race to the Botom or 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!
Economic Update: The Capitalist Corporation This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff examines the structure and functioning of the large capitalist corporations dominating modern economies. He discusses their basic economics and influence on politics and criticizes rationales for corporate profits such as “risks” and “entrepreneurship,” and he also explores the parallels
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.
Seeking to Deport Haitians, the Trump Administration Is Counting Deaths in Displacement Camps as “Progress” since haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake in 2010, an estimated 59,000 Haitians have been granted Temporary Protected Status, which allows the nationals of countries designated unsafe due to “extraordinary and temporary” conditions to live and work legally in the United States. But in November 2017, the Trump administration abruptly terminated TPS for Haitians, setting off multiple battles in court. If the government prevails, current Haitian TPS recipients — many of whom have children who are U.S. citizens — could be deported to a country that is now in the midst of an escalating crisis.A federal judge, in temporarily blocking the policy in April, found evidence that the decision was made in “bad faith” by Trump’s Department of Homeland Security, which went “fishing for reasons” to end Haitians’ eligibility for TPS and ignored relevant facts about the persistence of hazardous conditions in the country. By Isabel Macdonald
NYC’s Biggest Shelter Contractor Makes Millions, Offers Shoddy FacilitiesAnnie was already retired when she lost her apartment. With no source of income save for her Social Security work benefits, it wasn’t long before she ended up in the New York City shelter system. That’s where she would learn the name Acacia Network. Acacia is the largest provider of homeless housing in New York’s metropolitan area, but it is not just a shelter operator. Over the decades, Acacia has built a small empire with connections running up the ladder of city government. It has amassed a web of interconnected nonprofits and for-profits that offer shelter, affordable housing, addiction and medical services, and security. According to the city’s Department of Homeless Services website, Acacia manages “750 individual family units and four buildings for approximately 550 homeless adults.” By Walker Bragman & Alex Kotch
Presidential Candidates Refuse to Discuss the Country’s Worst Crisis In September 2015, I wrote a three–part series for Truthdig on homelessness. “Homelessness doesn’t rate a mention on the presidential campaign trail,” I wrote. “The subject is ignored or followed sporadically in the national media outside of policy oriented journals. Washington is happy to leave it in the hands of local politicians, cops and reporters who cover city halls and city streets. Out of sight and out of mind is the American treatment of the homeless.” Since I wrote those articles, the homeless population in Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous county, has grown from more than 44,000 to about 59,000. In the city of Los Angeles alone, the number of homeless people has increased from more than 25,000 to over 36,000. Nationally, the homeless numbers have grown, too. By Bill Boyarsky
FILE – In this April 13, 2009 file photo, a “No trespassing” sign is seen at the edge of a homeless camp in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
Environment:
‘We Should Be Worried’: Study Confirms Fear That Intense Ocean Acidification Portends Ecological Collapse “We have been warned.” The acidification of the Earth’s oceans, which climate scientists warn is a dangerous effect of continued carbon emissions, was behind a mass extinction event 66 million years ago, according to a new study. Small-shelled marine organisms survived the meteorite that struck the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, according to researchers at the GFZ geosciences research center in Potsdam, Germany, but the subsequent sharp drop in pH levels in the ocean caused the marine life to go extinct. “We show ocean acidification can precipitate ecological collapse,” Michael Henehan, who led the study, told The Guardian. By Julia ConleyWe Can’t Solve the Plastics Crisis With Other Disposables South Florida nature center recently posted a picture of a baby turtle that its staff found along the coastline. The animal died shortly after washing up on the shore. When they dissected it, they found 104 pieces of plastic in its stomach. Like other social media posts showing turtles harmed by plastic waste, the picture went viral.Scientists have found that every minute, the equivalent of one dump truckload of plastic gets into the ocean. That plastic is not only ingested by half of the world’s sea turtles but also kills 1 million seabirds every year, encourages the growth of pathogens that can harm coral, and releases cancer-causing and endocrine-disrupting pollutants. By Dharna Noor
Global Wildfires Are Raging, Leaving Long-Lasting Damage The world is burning. Record or near-record temperatures, combined with drought in many areas, are contributing to yet another record-setting summer for wildfires. California has been largely spared so far this year, but wildfires in the Amazon rainforest and in or near the Arctic Circle are ringing alarm bells, as is a sharp increase in wildfires in Southern Europe. By Robert Walker
Tubman House is a community center serving working class families in Boston
Building is owned by nonprofit self-help group which serves mainly black areas
The group, United South End Settlements, says it had no choice but to sell
USES was founded 120 years ago to help black people settle in Boston
Buyer is a real estate developer that plans to ‘repurpose’ 40-year-old structure
It will build a six-story mixed-use building that will have 66 condos
The estimated cost of the deal is ‘well over’ $20million, the developer said
As part of deal, developer will donate 2,300 square feet to USES
Locals have protested the sale, saying it is part of larger gentrification trend
Is Waller County in The Green Book?: Black Man Found Hanging In The Same Jail Where Sandra Bland DiedThe Waller County Jail was supposed to implement reforms after Bland’s death An African-American inmate was recently found dead after apparently hanging himself in the same Texas jail where Sandra Bland also died in 2015, the Houston Chronicle reported. Authorities at the Waller County jail said on Wednesday that Evan Lyndell Parker, 34, attempted suicide on Jan. 25 and died two days later in a hospital. By Nigel Roberts By Eoin Higgins
Black Agenda Radio for Week of Monday, October 21, 2019 Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford Duboisian Scholar to Address BAR Gathering on “Building a Black Left” /
Obama’s War in Syria Led to Trump’s War in Syria / Poor, Black LGBTQ Youth Still Suffering
Duboisian Scholar to Address BAR Gathering on “Building a Black Left” Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford “Decades ago, much of the Black Left “turned its back on Black working people in the interest of aligning with the liberal establishment that controls the Democratic Party,” said Dr Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based Duboisian scholar and activist. Monteiro will speak at Black Agenda Report’s 13th Anniversary celebration at the People’s Forum in New York City, on Saturday, October 26, under the theme: “Towards a Left that is Worthy of Black People and the Working Class.”
Obama’s War in Syria Led to Trump’s War in Syria Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford Democrats pretend that that bloodshed in Syria is Donald Trump’s legacy, but Black Alliance for Peace national organizer Ajamu Baraka says, “We have to remind people of the role that the Obama administration played in engaging in regime change war in Syria.” Baraka is also an editor and columnist for Black Agenda Report, and will speak at BAR’s 13th anniversary celebration at the People’s Forum in New York City, October 26th.
Poor, Black LGBTQ Youth Still Suffering Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford Although LGBTQ communities have a much higher political profile than in the past, Mustafa Sullivan, director of FIERCE, an organization that builds leadership among LGBTQ youth of color in New York City, says “that didn’t change our economic condition, just because some folks got on the national stage. We’re still suffering in those jails, next to Black straight men,” and from violence and poverty.
High School Protesters In Chile Demonstrate At Subways Against A Fare Hike.The Movement Has Exploded In Recent Days. (Photo: ebelDiaz/Facebook)
Economy:
WeWork’s Unraveling Is Another Indictment of Wall Street’s Universal Bank Model WeWork is just one more in a long series of Wall Street scandals that prove that the universal banking model is little more than a thinly-disguised wealth transfer system from the pockets of average Americans to the 1 percent. Just two months ago WeWork’s two lead Wall Street underwriters, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, were planning to offer WeWork’s shares to the public investor at a valuation in excess of $47 billion. Now we are learning that the company may run out of money next month and has an actual valuation of $8 billion or less. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
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!
Videos Of the Day:
We Can’t Solve the Plastics Crisis With Other Disposables South Florida nature center recently posted a picture of a baby turtle that its staff found along the coastline. The animal died shortly after washing up on the shore. When they dissected it, they found 104 pieces of plastic in its stomach. Like other social media posts showing turtles harmed by plastic waste, the picture went viral.Scientists have found that every minute, the equivalent of one dump truckload of plastic gets into the ocean. That plastic is not only ingested by half of the world’s sea turtles but also kills 1 million seabirds every year, encourages the growth of pathogens that can harm coral, and releases cancer-causing and endocrine-disrupting pollutants. By Dharna Noor
