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!
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!
Industrial Capitalism did not come into being due to the gradual primitive accumulation of capital, but rather the industrial revolution was fueled by the wealth plundered from the colonialized world in the name of Christianity. This is the historic material basis for modern racism as an ideology, which is used to justify the holocaust perpetuated upon the majority of the world during the period of the subjugation of the colonial world to European/United States capitalist imperialism.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”, Volume One, Part VIII, Chapter 31, (the) “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.
. . .Therefore the capitalist class is applying the Precautionary Principle, in order to be prepared to apply the The Iron Heal to quash any upsurge. As their spokesman, Obama, is and has been slowly but surely setting up the police state The Iron Heal. As Obama moves toward disarming the people and the working class, he is organizing an extra-legal domestic police force as capitalism, with Obama their spokesman, establishes a gradual slide into a police state. The office of the President now has the power to declare martial law, if there is a ‘threat of teorrism” or protests that are ‘deemed terrorist’,in the United States — That would be the Envy of Hitler! — Obama Left Trump the Power to Declare Martial Law!
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.
Freedom Rider: Black Misleaders Seek to End Protest The nationwide protests have forced the Black quisling class to reveal themselves as agents of the racial and economic status quo. “Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms was among the worst.” The aftermath of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis, Minnesota police has created a national political crisis. The revulsion caused by this latest killing caught on camera spawned protests in Minneapolis and all over the country. Black people are the angriest, knowing they are at risk of the same treatment and because most police killings rarely result in convictions. By BAR senior columnistMargaret Kimberley Stephen Jackson is Right: Justice for George Floyd Requires Power to the People The police and the military not only protect the private property of the rich but also act as shock troops for the violent oppression of Black Americans and the racially subjugated everywhere. “Community control of the police could serve as the basis for building a broader movement for the self-determination of oppressed peoples in the United States.” Black America is heartbroken and angered by the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. Floyd’s murder occurred in the third month of a pandemic that has taken over 100,000 lives overall and a disproportionate number of Black Americans. The Black masses in Minnesota have taken to the streets to not only call for justice for Floyd and his family but also to stand up to centuries of state sanctioned white supremacist violence. If George Floyd teaches us anything, it is that COVID-19 is not the only contagion in the U.S. that needs to be eradicated. Floyd’s close friend and former NBA player Stephen Jackson shared his heartfelt response to the tragedy, the content of which should spark a conversation about the kind of power that is needed to eradicate the centuries-old contagion of white supremacy. By Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing EditorNo Compromise, No Retreat: Defeat the War Against the African/Black People in the U.S. and Abroad The justice for George Floyd mobilizations today reflected the state’s worst nightmare – a multi-national and multi-racial action initiated by Black people with Black leadership. “A shift must occur away from the focus on individual justice for Floyd back to a critique and opposition to the ongoing structural violence of the system.” So, we say: Justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland; for our political prisoners; for the super-exploited Black and Brown working class; for oppressed Indigenous nations; and for the millions subjected to U.S. warmongering, sanctions and criminality. We say this to shift the focus from the individualization of this week’s rebellion back to the objective structures of white supremacist, global colonial/capitalist domination. (BAP Newsletter ) By Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnistHeadline News The world as we know it may be at the cusp of radical change, but right now it just looks like a blizzard of urgent headlines. “Louisville police shot dead the city’s beloved Black ‘BBQ Man,’ aka ‘Ya-Ya.’” That’s all I could muster today, given how hard it is to stop chasing headlines around the Web and focus more deeply as the citizenry struggles toward something better or further descends into violent dystopia. News can tyrannize attention, and I imagine that Black Agenda Report readers are suffering the same tyranny as I am. Executive Editor Glen Ford told me he was when I told him that I didn’t know what I could do this week besides headline news. By Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor Shooting and looting started: 400 years ago Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residenceShooting, looting, scalping, lynching,
Raping, torturing their way across
the continent—400 years ago—
Colonial settler thugs launched this
endless crimson tide rolling down on
Today…Colonial settler thugs launched this
endless crimson tide leaving in-
visible yellow crime
scene tape crisscrossing Tallahassee
to Seattle; San Diego to Bangor…
Black Lives Extinguished, Black Ancestors’ Bodies Desecrated We are killed in the streets while we are alive and then our bodies are dug up and thrown away like trash when businesses require the land for profit making. “In the 1800’s they would have used a rope; today they use a boot, bullets or the deadly neck chokehold.” This week, the progressive community is deeply traumatized over the slaughter of innocent Black people and the determination of ruling elites in politics, media and civil societies to patch up a deprived, debased and white supremacist system. One prime example is Minneapolis officials charging Officer Derek Chauvin with 3rd degree murder and manslaughter. Is this charge a revisiting of the idea that Africans are 3/5th human? White supremacy fault lines have intentionally deepened and the murder and incarceration of young, primarily black men, is the norm — in fact, it is expected. Black leadership, usually channeled through corporate sponsorship called the Democratic Party, has completely failed. By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnistThe Promise of Street Rebellions The flames burned both for Floyd and for the vanishing dream of a moral economy. “In America the processes of racial subjection and material dispossession are inseparable.” As we emerged from a weekend in which legions of protesters in Minneapolis and other cities faced extreme police aggression, it was crucial that we develop a clear analysis of events. What we witnessed over the last few days was a crisis within a crisis within a crisis. By Russell RickfordWe Can’t Breathe Can and should America continue to breathe if it continues to suffocate African American people and our communities? “Leaders of grassroots black communities’ demanding equality and justice are commonly perceived as enemies of the state.” “To be Black in America and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time”. — James Baldwin Protests and violence erupted in at least 30 US cities in response to the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man. A white Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer, Derek Chauvin, is charged with Floyd’s murder. The officer had his knee on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 45 seconds. Two minutes and 53 seconds of this was after Floyd was not responsive after gasping for air and stating numerous times, “I can’t breathe.” By Dante J. JamesPolicing in the US is Not About Enforcing Law. It’s About Enforcing White Supremacy If we had something approaching equal justice, would we still even be the United States? “Mr. Floyd was not human to these officers.” On Friday the CNN journalist Omar Jimenez was arrested on live television as he covered protests of police brutality in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jimenez identifies as African American and Hispanic, and when the cops confronted him, he did just what minority parents tell their kids to do. Jimenez cooperated; he was respectful, deferential even. He said “we can move back to where you like … We are getting out of your way … Wherever you want us, we will go.” By
Paul ButlerMurder of Black Youth in Rio de Janeiro Shows Racist Nature of Policing in Brazil Pandemic or not, Brazilian police kill multiples of Black youth every day of the year. Fourteen year-old João Pedro Mattos Pinto joins the list of tens of thousands. “There was a huge reduction of people on the streets, but the violence did not decrease” The recent murder of a teen in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil has thrown light on the racist nature of policing in the country. The 14-year-old Black student, João Pedro Mattos Pinto, was killed during an operation of the Federal Police (PF) and of the Coordinator of Special Resources (Core) in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro on the afternoon of May 18, Monday. He was hit in the stomach when he was playing in the yard of his house. The adolescent was taken away in a helicopter of the civil police after being shot. His family was provided no information about his whereabouts till the morning of May 19. By People Dispatch Staff
Protest against the people killed in a police operation last month at the Mare slum, during a demonstration in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 2, 2013. Photo: MARCOS DE PAULA/ESTADAO CONTEUDO (Agencia Estado via AP Images)
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Donald Trump Orders Up His Own Praetorian Guard, Including Black Hawk Helicopters and the 82nd Airborne with BayonetsU.S. President Donald Trump, the leader of a country which heretofore viewed itself as a beacon of democracy to the rest of the world, is now using military helicopters, a designated commander in combat fatigues, and military police to protect himself from peaceful protesters outside the White House. Trump has bigger, and more dangerous plans. James LaPorta of the Associated Press reported yesterday that combat troops from the 82nd Airborne have been moved just outside of Washington D.C., are armed with bayonets, and may be called in by the President. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
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
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Minneapolis School Board to Vote on Ending Contract With Police Over Failure to ‘See Humanity in Our Students’ The school district cannot “claim to fight institutional racism” while aligned with the police department, said a board member. By Julia Conley
To Provide Safety and Solidarity, DC Residents Open Doors to Protesting Teens Cornered by Police Crackdown “I hope that they go out there today, peacefully as they did yesterday, and not blink,” said Rahul Dubey, who sheltered dozens of people, “because our country needs them.” By Eoin Higgins
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Freedom Rider: Black Misleaders Seek to End Protest The nationwide protests have forced the Black quisling class to reveal themselves as agents of the racial and economic status quo. “Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms was among the worst.” The aftermath of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis, Minnesota police has created a national political crisis. The revulsion caused by this latest killing caught on camera spawned protests in Minneapolis and all over the country. Black people are the angriest, knowing they are at risk of the same treatment and because most police killings rarely result in convictions. By BAR senior columnistMargaret Kimberley
No Compromise, No Retreat: Defeat the War Against the African/Black People in the U.S. and Abroad The justice for George Floyd mobilizations today reflected the state’s worst nightmare – a multi-national and multi-racial action initiated by Black people with Black leadership. “A shift must occur away from the focus on individual justice for Floyd back to a critique and opposition to the ongoing structural violence of the system.” So, we say: Justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland; for our political prisoners; for the super-exploited Black and Brown working class; for oppressed Indigenous nations; and for the millions subjected to U.S. warmongering, sanctions and criminality. We say this to shift the focus from the individualization of this week’s rebellion back to the objective structures of white supremacist, global colonial/capitalist domination. (BAP Newsletter ) By Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Headline News The world as we know it may be at the cusp of radical change, but right now it just looks like a blizzard of urgent headlines. “Louisville police shot dead the city’s beloved Black ‘BBQ Man,’ aka ‘Ya-Ya.’” That’s all I could muster today, given how hard it is to stop chasing headlines around the Web and focus more deeply as the citizenry struggles toward something better or further descends into violent dystopia. News can tyrannize attention, and I imagine that Black Agenda Report readers are suffering the same tyranny as I am. Executive Editor Glen Ford told me he was when I told him that I didn’t know what I could do this week besides headline news. By Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Shooting, looting, scalping, lynching,
The Promise of Street Rebellions The flames burned both for Floyd and for the vanishing dream of a moral economy. “In America the processes of racial subjection and material dispossession are inseparable.” As we emerged from a weekend in which legions of protesters in Minneapolis and other cities faced extreme police aggression, it was crucial that we develop a clear analysis of events. What we witnessed over the last few days was a crisis within a crisis within a crisis. By Russell Rickford
We Can’t Breathe Can and should America continue to breathe if it continues to suffocate African American people and our communities? “Leaders of grassroots black communities’ demanding equality and justice are commonly perceived as enemies of the state.” “To be Black in America and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time”. — James Baldwin Protests and violence erupted in at least 30 US cities in response to the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man. A white Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer, Derek Chauvin, is charged with Floyd’s murder. The officer had his knee on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 45 seconds. Two minutes and 53 seconds of this was after Floyd was not responsive after gasping for air and stating numerous times, “I can’t breathe.” By Dante J. James
Policing in the US is Not About Enforcing Law. It’s About Enforcing White Supremacy If we had something approaching equal justice, would we still even be the United States? “Mr. Floyd was not human to these officers.” On Friday the CNN journalist Omar Jimenez was arrested on live television as he covered protests of police brutality in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jimenez identifies as African American and Hispanic, and when the cops confronted him, he did just what minority parents tell their kids to do. Jimenez cooperated; he was respectful, deferential even. He said “we can move back to where you like … We are getting out of your way … Wherever you want us, we will go.” By
Murder of Black Youth in Rio de Janeiro Shows Racist Nature of Policing in Brazil Pandemic or not, Brazilian police kill multiples of Black youth every day of the year. Fourteen year-old João Pedro Mattos Pinto joins the list of tens of thousands. “There was a huge reduction of people on the streets, but the violence did not decrease” The recent murder of a teen in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil has thrown light on the racist nature of policing in the country. The 14-year-old Black student, João Pedro Mattos Pinto, was killed during an operation of the Federal Police (PF) and of the Coordinator of Special Resources (Core) in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro on the afternoon of May 18, Monday. He was hit in the stomach when he was playing in the yard of his house. The adolescent was taken away in a helicopter of the civil police after being shot. His family was provided no information about his whereabouts till the morning of May 19. By People Dispatch Staff
