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!
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 War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. The very future of Humanity Is Now At stake!
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! 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!
Don’t Ever Forget That All Of The Republicrats And The Progressivecrates Voted For The Wall Street Bailout Again!!! Just Remember That Even A Jackass Dosen’t Stub Its Toes On The Same Stone Twice! Stop Voting For Evi — Only Evil Can Come From The ‘Lesser Evil’!
Mainstream Media Blind Spots In The Coronavirus Crisis The mainstream media let Trump’s blunders dominate the COVID-19 narrative, neglecting their chance for a nuanced look at public health, incarceration, farmers, and homelessness.
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 Reublicrats 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 Bill Passed Unanimously and No Progressivecrates Noticed It?: (‘Yes Virgina, There is a Santa Claus’): Analysis Reveals ‘Rotten, Un-American Giveaway’ GOP Buried in COVID-19 Relief Package to Overwhelmingly Benefit Millionaires Democratic lawmakers and progressive critics expressed outrage Tuesday after a nonpartisan congressional body found that nearly 82% of benefits from a Republican tax provision in the most recent coronavirus relief package will go to the nation’s millionaires and billionaires and cost taxpayers an estimated $90 billion this year alone. By Jessica Corbett
Trump’s Depraved Indiffence Murder!: The National Security Council Gave Trump a 69-Page Pandemic Plan Three Years Ago — He Ignored It On Wednesday, Politico reported the details of a 69-page pandemic response playbook given to President Donald Trump’s team by the National Security Council, outlining key steps the federal government should take to coordinate a response and contain the crisis — and revealed how the White House was catastrophically late to implement the plan’s major suggestions at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. “The Trump administration, state officials and even individual hospital workers are now racing against each other to get the necessary masks, gloves and other safety equipment to fight coronavirus — a scramble that hospitals and doctors say has come too late and left them at risk,” wrote Dan Diamond and Nahal Toolsi. “But according to a previously unrevealed White House playbook, the government should’ve begun a federal-wide effort to procure that personal protective equipment at least two months ago.” By Matthew Chapman
Intensifying Sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, Trump Is Weaponizing Coronavirus Doctors from the Cuban Medical Mission carry out rapid tests for COVID-19 on employees of the metro in Caracas, Venezuela. President Trump’s intensification of sanctions against Venezuela and Iran during a pandemic constitutes a crime against humanity. s the entire world grapples with the most devastating pandemic of the modern era, the United States is pouring kerosene on the fire in Iran and Venezuela. The U.S. government has maintained punishing sanctions against the people of Iran and Venezuela to engineer regime change. But instead of ending the sanctions to help Iranians and Venezuelans fight the coronavirus, the Trump administration has expanded them and exacerbated the danger they pose. “The world is facing the risk of an unprecedented humanitarian disaster,” the International Association of Democratic Lawyers wrote in a statement calling on the U.S. government to immediately lift all sanctions against Iran and Venezuela. By Marjorie Cohn
Doctors from the Cuban Medical Mission carry out rapid tests for COVID-19 on employees of the metro in Caracas, Venezuela. President Trump’s intensification of sanctions against Venezuela and Iran during a pandemic constitutes a crime against humanity.
COVID-19 Is Exposing the Violence of US Foreign Policy as Virus Spreads On Wednesday morning, the total number of COVID-19 cases worldwide trembled on the brink of 2 million people, with more than 127,000 recorded deaths. These numbers are probably an undercount, given the state secrecy of some nations, and because people were dying of COVID-19 before anyone knew its name. In the United States, the total number of documented COVID-19 cases has surpassed 600,000 people, with more than 26,000 documented deaths. These numbers are almost certainly lower than the actual totals because coronavirus testing in this country remains a cruel joke, and again, because people were probably dying of this before it was properly labeled. By William Rivers Pitt
People in protective clothing prepare a grave for the body of a COVID-19 victim on April 10, 2020, in Skard Village, Iran.
Our Crumbling Infrstruture:1 in 3 U.S. Bridges Needs Repair or Replacement Over one-third of U.S. bridges need repair work or replacement, according to ARTBA’s sixth annual analysis of the latest U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Bridge Inventory (NBI) database (2019). States with the largest number of structurally deficient bridges are:
Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Infectious Disease, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science Thanks to breakthroughs in production and food science, agribusiness has been able to devise new ways to grow more food and get it more places more quickly. There is no shortage of news items on the hundreds of thousands of hybrid poultry—each animal genetically identical to the next—packed together in megabarns, grown out in a matter of months, then slaughtered, processed, and shipped to the other side of the globe. Less well known are the deadly pathogens mutating in, and emerging out of, these specialized agro-environments. In fact, many of the most dangerous new diseases in humans can be traced back to such food systems, among them Campylobacter, Nipah virus, Q fever, hepatitis E, and a variety of novel influenza variants.Civil Rights/ Black Liberation:
Labor:
With Working Americans’ Survival at Stake, the US is Bailing Out the Richest Without significant oversight, Congress’s economic relief bill will leave millions of everyday Americans in financial peril. Amid a humanitarian crisis compounded by mass layoffs and collapsing economic activity, the last course our legislators should be following is the one they appear to be on right now: bailing out shareholders and executives who, while enriching themselves, spent the past decade pushing business corporations to the edge of insolvency. The very survival of working-class households is now at stake. Yet the $500bn dollars of public money that Congress’s relief bill provides will be used for a corporate bailout, with the only oversight in the hands of an independent council similar to the one used in the 2008 financial crisis. While that body was able to report misuses of taxpayer money, it could do nothing to stop them.
Trump’s Treasury Secretary Munchkin: ‘Beyond Predatory’: Trump Treasury Gives Banks Green Light to Seize $1,200 Stimulus Checks to Pay Off Debts “The Treasury Department is pointing out opportunities for banks and debt collectors to steal Americans’ relief checks out from under them.” President Donald Trump’s Treasury Department has given U.S. banks a green light to seize a portion or all of the one-time $1,200 coronavirus relief payments meant to help Americans cope with financial hardship and instead use the money to pay off individuals’ outstanding debts—a move consumer advocates decried as cruel and unacceptable By Jake Johnson
Economy:
A Strange Timeline at JPMorgan Chase Includes a Meeting with Fed Chair Jay Powell“This begs the question: did the U.S. have a Wall Street banking crisis similar to 2008 long before there was a pandemic crisis?” From 3 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, February 19 of this year, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome (Jay) Powell met in the anteroom to his office in Washington, D.C. with Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase. Adding to the unusual nature of this meeting, the Chief Financial Officer of JPMorgan Chase, Jennifer Piepszak, had traveled with Dimon from New York to Washington, D.C. to attend this meeting. During the entire month of February, Powell met with no other CEO or CFO of any other Wall Street mega bank. We obtained this information from a review of the Fed Chairman’s daily calendar. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
Health, Science, 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 ‘governn’, 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 to be, a democracy and part of the democratic way. — Roland Sheppard, Let the People Vote on Healthcare!
Ignorance is Strength!: Trump Administration Quietly Cuts Funding to the Nation’s Poorest Schools Thanks to an under-the-radar bookkeeping change at the Department of Education, hundreds of rural schools across the US are set to lose vital funds. As reported in the New York Times, the department has changed the eligibility criteria for the Rural and Low-Income School Programme, which provides funding for school districts in some of the poorest parts of the country. The change will make it harder for districts to demonstrate their eligibility, meaning hundreds of them will lose tens of thousands of dollars – and in some cases much more. By Andrew Naughtie
If Exxon
Civil Rights/ Black Liberation:
