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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! And Now the Total Caronavirs Deaths in the United States are Over 20% of the Total Death in the Entire World!
Another Example Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capilalism Was Aware of the Danger of Cornovavirus Threat 4 Years Ago and Did Nothing!
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!
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The Democratic Party is a servant of corporate capital, and cannot possibly be converted to a people’s party. The rise and demise of Bernie Sanders proves the point. As we at BAR always maintained, the Democratic Party would split or scuttle itself rather than become a vehicle for an anti-austerity presidential candidate. Sanders was the Great Gray Hope of folks that imagine easy roads to victory over the most vicious and voracious ruling class in human history, but that was pure fantasy. In the end, Sanders chose to remain in the good graces of the party rather than use the presidential candidacy bully pulpit to agitate for the people. He punked out as a champion of the people’s health and economic welfare at the very moment that Covid-19 emerged as a catastrophe. The real resistance to the Lords of Capital must come from the streets and workplaces, Fighting parties are born in struggle. Only fools believe they can infiltrate the corporate duopoly and turn it to the people’s purposes. — Whose Crisis?: When the People Lose, the Corporate Parties and the Rich Win
Until the corporate mindset is eliminated from the way we relate to one another to the world around us, until we create communities based on compassion, cooperation, justice, love, calls to local managers, refusing to understand race and respond to it’s presence among residents, will fail to effect change. Letters to corporate headquarters will become evidence of someone not “happy” with life in the “community”–a community intended foremost to provide a profit for owners. Let’s hope the younger generation has had enough of corporate communities. Lenore Jean Daniels, PhD
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California And Trump Push Geoengineering—A Fraught Climate Crisis Fix California has endorsed the use of direct air capture to reverse engineer the climate crisis with technology. The controversial method already has Big Oil’s support—and the Trump administration’s
United States:
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.
Hey Hey What do You Say: How Many People Will Trump Kill Today? (The Current United States Coronavirus Dearh Count is Now Over 76,000 !)
CDC Offered Detailed Guidance on Safely Reopening Businesses. White House Said Report Would ‘Never See the Light of Day’ “One more instance of this administration undercutting experts for its own political benefit.” Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were told by the White House that the agency’s detailed guidance on reopening local economies would “never see the light of day,” according to an Associated Press report published Thursday. The guidance was set to be released last Friday and provided specific advice for local officials and business owners as many states begin to reopen. It covered safety protocols that should be in place before restaurants, childcare facilities, and other venues can begin operating as normal again. By Julia Conley
Epidemiologist Slams U.S. Coronavirus Response: ‘Close To Genocide By Default’ “What else do you call mass death by public policy?” asked Yale’s Gregg Gonsalves, as draft FEMA documents project 3,000 deaths a day. “How many people will die this summer, before Election Day?” tweeted Gregg Gonsalves, co-director of Yale’s Global Health Justice Partnership, on Wednesday morning, the day after President Donald Trump said the White House’s coronavirus task force would be wound down despite case numbers still rising. (Trump, however, tweeted later Wednesday morning that the group “will continue on indefinitely with its focus on SAFETY & OPENING UP OUR COUNTRY AGAIN.”) By By Lee Moran
Day After Trump Says Testing Makes ‘Ourselves Look Bad,’ Harvard Researchers Call for Tripling of Testing as Covid-19 Deaths Surge (He Looks Like the Mass Murderer That He Is!) “I think what people have to remember is that the virus isn’t gone. The disease isn’t gone.” Less than one day after President Donald Trump declared publicly that “by doing all this testing we make ourselves look bad,” new research from the Harvard Global Health Institute out Thursday morning reveals that nationwide testing is dangerously behind where it needs to be in order to curb the intensifying Covid-19 pandemic gripping the United States. By Eoin Higgins,
‘Just Straight Cronyism’: Top Trump and GOP Donor Picked to Lead US Postal Service in Time of Crisis The U.S. Postal Service’s Board of Governors—which is controlled by appointees of President Donald Trump—announced late Wednesday that it has unanimously selected a top Trump and GOP donor to serve as postmaster general, installing an ally of the White House to lead a popular agency that has long been a target of right-wing reforms and is currently under severe threat of collapse due to the Covid-19 crisis. By Jake Johnson
‘Get Back to Work!’ Is the Clarion Call of White Christian Nationalism “As the racial, class and demographic implications of the coronavirus are in full view, eugenics dictates that the elderly, prisoners, people of color, immigrants and poor and working folks who are vulnerable and unable to work at home via Zoom are expendable. Once again, white Christian nationalists prioritize profits over lives. This time, they worship an unholy triumvirate of the Golden Calf, White Jesus and Donald Trump.” By David A. Love, JD
Environment:
As Agri-Business Lets Food Rot: New ‘Alarming’ Research Shows Nearly 1 in 5 Children in US Going Without Enough Food Amid Coronavirus Crisis The economic crisis that has come in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak has left nearly a fifth of children in the U.S. without enough food, according to new research from the Hamilton Project, and one in three households in the country food insecure. By Eoin Higgins
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Return to ‘Business as Usual’ Means Climate Catastrophe: World’s Mayors Demand Transformative Green Covid-19 Recovery “Half-measures that maintain the status quo won’t move the needle or protect us from the next crisis.”Nearly 40 mayors representing more than 700 million people in cities across the globe are calling for a transformative recovery from the Covid-19 crisis that fundamentally alters global economic and energy systems, warning that a mere return to “business as usual” means accepting a world barreling toward climate catastrophe. By Jake Johnson
Whose Crisis?: When the People Lose, the Corporate Parties and the Rich Win The Democratic Party is a servant of corporate capital and cannot possibly be converted to a people’s party. The rise and demise of Bernie Sanders proves the point. “The people were force-fed the reality that the United States has no health care system capable of defending the public against invading viruses.” The crisis of late stage capitalism emerged full-blown in the first months of 2020, when the U.S. corporate state lost its legitimacy by proving both incapable and unwilling to protect the lives and livelihoods of the people it governs. For the first time in almost a century, the great bulk of the population has lost confidence in the US State’s ability to provide for the public good, and a growing minority perceives the national government as a tool of oligarchy – a term that only came into general American usage in the tumultuous period since the previous presidential election cycle. By Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Freedom Rider: Joe Biden and the Black Misleaders The black misleadership class has no shame, only narrow ambitions. They are now called out to rescue the man who looks very much like a loser. “Stacey Abrams couched her criticisms of Trump with criticisms of Xi Jinping and blather about defeating communism.” Black Agenda Report was quite intentional in coining the term black misleadership class. The misleaders include Democratic Party politicians and allies in civil rights organizations, journalism, churches, and the foundation world. This group is entirely self-interested as they work to get funding for pet projects, well paid jobs, election to office, media attention, or all of the above. They are subservient to the Democratic Party and its donor class while giving the impression of working in the interests of black people. By Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
In the People’s War against COVID-19, Socialism Offers Victory while Capitalism Spells Defeat Socialist societies are capable of doing much more to contain diseases like Covid-19, such as rapid testing, neighborhood food deliveries, and the use of AI technology to trace contacts and symptoms. “In struggle to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the biggest enemy of the people is not partial lockdown orders, but capitalism itself.” No one should be surprised that the most individualistic and atomized of all capitalist societies, the United States, is struggling to curb the spread of COVID-19. In recent weeks, white supremacist and libertarian forces representing the most impassioned stewards of imperial decline have gathered in states across the country to protest partial lockdown orders. A deeply dangerous narrative exists in the United States that characterizes partial lockdown orders to contain the virus as an example of “medical martial law” and a wholly ineffective means of containing the virus. The absence of any political and social infrastructure that places the needs of people rather than profit in command of society has only allowed this libertarian narrative to fester and grow within the United States. However, in struggle to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the biggest enemy of the people is not partial lockdown orders, but capitalism itself. By Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
United States of Distraction: A Book Review The authors recount and document the descent into “post-truth” partisan journalism from the alt-right to the right, liberal, and even independent left media, between 2016 and now. “Team Clinton had imagined Trump would be the easiest Republican to beat, but the strategy backfired.” The complete title of Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon’s book is United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It). Their story begins in 2016, when Donald Trump was slaughtering all reason with his racist and nativist appeals to those left behind by the globalist deindustrialization of America. Male dominance, misogyny, and homophobia were part of the package. An earthquake had already split the country, and Trump widened the fault. He even urged fanatics to beat up dissenters at his rallies. By Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Coronavirus and the Politics of Disposability When the dust settles, as in all U.S. disasters, there will be a tale to tell of who mattered and who was sacrificed. “The people whose disposability is on widest display are those who work in immediate-risk industries: the financially precarious service workers, the health care workers tasked with ‘equity work.’” In the final chapter, “The Space Traders,” of his 1992 book Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Persistence of Racism , Derrick Bell, Harvard Law School’s first tenured black professor, described a fictive world eerily similar to the one we know today. Local and federal governments ostensibly had no money. “Decades of conservative, laissez-faire capitalism had emptied the coffers of all but a few of the very rich,” the narrator says. Because of a host of poor choices, the country “was struggling to survive like any third-world nation,” and financial exigencies “curtailed all but the most necessary services.” The parallels are acute: “the environment was in shambles, as reflected by the fact that the sick and elderly had to wear special masks whenever they ventured out-of-doors.” By Shaun Ossei-Owusu
The Makings of A Capitalist Dystopia Colonized people, with a horrific historical connection to both science and medicine in this country, must examine science in service of the state. “In the push to ‘re-open’ the economy, we are seeing many AI-driven technologies become more widely adopted and implemented as a response to COVID-19.” As the days of the pandemic tick by, we are witnessing overwhelming evidence that the U.S. is using COVID-19 as an instrument to institute a capitalist dystopia. But this is no blockbuster Hollywood film. This is today’s new potential reality through the national security state apparatus. While there is no denying that people are suffering (and dying) from COVID-19 and neoliberal austerity, we must be acutely aware that the state’s reaction is not protecting us from the virus. By Erica Caines 
US Prisons Are Vectors of Disease The penal system remains a source of diseases that spread among prisoners at rates far exceeding those in the communities from which they came. “As black men are disproportionately incarcerated, infectious disease spreads disproportionally in black communities.” Everyone, it seems, is telling us that we are all “in this together.” The World Health Organization, the First Minister of Scotland, LL Cool J, and Gayle King among them. This seems to mean, for most, that people should think of others when deciding whether to cancel events, whether to go to the beach, and exactly how much toilet paper to buy. It means that our actions affect others, but it also means that ultimately our own fates are tied with others’. If we each do our part to “flatten the curve,” then we can minimize damage to institutions that bear on our well-being, like schools, hospitals, and the stock market. It’s basically appealing to a sort of enlightened self-interest in all of us. By Sarah Lustbader
Fighting the Invisible Enemy: Imperial Fascism 2020, Not Covid-19 What could possibly be a more effective way to seal borders, discourage protest, and position the United States into perfect alignment for WWIII?“At minimum, one could convincingly argue that the arrival of COVID-19 is fortuitous for certain economic sectors within the United States.” What could possibly be a better way to usher in a racist New World Order , that’s hell-bent on population control, than an invisible enemy that gets nearly everyone to gladly jail themselves, fear physical contact with their family, friends, and neighbors, and that disproportionately kills the impoverished and African Americans ? By Lauren Smith
COVID-19 and America – The Fire This Time It is immoral if not criminal for the US to increase sanctions through its “maximum pressure campaigns” against Venezuela, Iran, Cuba and Palestine. “Weaponizing disease for political purposes to bring about regime change is the same as germ warfare and should be considered a crime against humanity.” Time catches up with kingdoms and crushes them, gets its teeth into doctrines and rends them; time reveals the foundations on which any kingdom rests, and eats at those foundations, and it destroys doctrines by proving them to be untrue. — James Baldwin “Down At The Cross,” 1963 By Wilmer J. Leon III
Over 70 Percent of Jobless Americans Didn’t Receive March Unemployment Benefits The problem is even worse in Southeastern states like Florida, where fewer than 8% of applicants received benefits. “Congress left the distribution of the benefits to individual states, leaving unemployed Americans to face a ‘hodgepodge of different state rules.” The vast majority of Americans who lost their jobs did not receive unemployment benefits in March, despite federal and state efforts to ramp up aid to jobless Americans after large swaths of the economy shut down to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Millions of Americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits in March but 71% of them did not receive their benefits that month, delaying aid as laid-off workers struggled to pay rent and cover basic expenses, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by the Pew Research Center . Just 2.1 million of about 7.37 million applicants received their benefits, mostly through their states’ regular unemployment insurance programs. Bu Igor Derysh
Tribute to My Beloved Sister Barbara Allimadi – Fighter for Justice in Uganda We owe it to Barbara to march those extra miles and create a new Uganda. “She was arrested multiple times for leading protests against the regime.” Many people who know my sister Barbara Allimadi who passed away on Monday night in Uganda will remember her as a tireless and fearless fighter for justice, human rights, and democracy. She’s being referred to as a “lioness” by many of her colleagues in the struggle on social media postings. By Milton G. Allimadi
Overcrowded DRC Prisons ‘Ticking Time-Bomb’ for COVID-19 Pandemic he Democratic Republic of Congo’s main prisons are filled at 432 percent on average, making them some of the most overcrowded in the world. “Munzenze was called the ‘most terrible’ prison in Africa by a UN official.” Goma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo — Delcasse Lukumbu lies awake at night on the dirty concrete floor of Goma’s Munzenze prison fearing for his life. Surrounded on all sides by hundreds of inmates, the political activist, who was sent to Munzenze a few weeks ago, has no way of keeping a safe distance from others to prevent the spread of coronavirus. By Peter Young
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(Our ‘Friends’ In) Congress Sets Up Taxpayers to Eat $454 Billion of Wall Street’s Losses. Where Is the Outrage? Beginning on March 24 of this year, Larry Kudlow, the White House Economic Advisor, began to roll out the most deviously designed bailout of Wall Street in the history of America. After the Federal Reserve’s secret $29 trillion bailout of Wall Street from 2007 to 2010, and the exposure of that by a government audit and in-depth report by the Levy Economics Institute in 2011, Kudlow was going to have to come up with a brilliant strategy to sell another multi-trillion-dollar Wall Street bailout to the American people. The scheme was brilliant (in an evil genius sort of way) and audacious in employing an Orwellian form of reverse-speak. The plan to bail out Wall Street would be sold to the American people as a rescue of “Main Street.” It was critical, however, that all of the officials speaking to the media repeat the words “Main Street” over and over.By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
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More Details Emerge Of The Mercenary Military Coup Plot in Venezuela We said from the very beginning that the Venezuelan opposition and the US administration were responsible for the attempted mercenary coup foiled in Venezuela on 3 May. As days go by, more details emerge which confirm that assessment. Yesterday, 6 May, Venezuela announced the arrest of more members of the mercenary expeditionary force that was to carry out the coup. In a press conference with the attendance of the international media, president Maduro gave more details about the attempted coup. During the press conference, Maduro showed a video clip featuring US mercenary and former Special Forces soldier Luke Denman: one of two US mercenaries arrested as part of the mercenary force. By Jorge Martin
Britain: Bosses’ Pressure Mounts As End of Lockdown Looms The bosses are pushing ever harder for workers to return to work. And the Tory government is giving them free rein to restart the economy without the necessary safety measures. The labour movement must organise a fightback. By Ben Curry
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!
