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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!
Under Capitalism — Human Lives Don’t Matter 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 Racism, War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. The very future of Humanity Is Now At stake! By Roland Sheppard
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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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem. — Malcolm X
I celebrate and support the Declaration of Independence as a revolutionary document. Due the present destructive course of American capitalism, which in its quest for a Pax Americana and its perpetual wars, puts the property rights of capitalism and their ‘right’ to make a profit before, to paraphrase the Declaration of Independence, our unalienable Rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness — the right to a safe habitat for humanity and our very existence as a species; it therefore follows, that, To secure these rights, it is our right and our duty, to throw off such an economic system and its government to provide our own ‘New World Order’ to provide for our future security. To quote Fidel Castro, “Tomorrow it will be too late to do what we should have done a long time ago.” — Roland Sheppard
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour. — Frederick Douglas, July 5, 1852
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Who Controls The Money When We Defund Police? Do we trust the police to defund and restructure themselves? Will community control really guarantee permanent changes to policing as we know it today?
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.
Coronavirus and the Crises of United States Capitalism The United States is facing a number of interrelated crises: the coronavirus, the economy, institutional racism, including police violence against African Americans, disarray in the Federal government and climate change. There is a new upsurge in virus infections, especially in those states that have rushed to reopen their economies. Spikes in new cases are being reported in 36 states as of June 29. The June 28 New York Times headline, “Cases soaring as leadership on virus fails”, summed it up By Barry Sheppard
As COVID Burns Through the South and West, Trump Fans the Flames As his voters burn on a pyre of his creation, Trump remains in denial, even as Pence urges him to wear a damn mask. Donald Trump has labored since March to imagine himself into a world where COVID-19 will go away in time to save his re-election campaign. Sure, people were getting sick and dying by the thousands in places like New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Detroit, but those weren’t “his voters,” so Trump decided they weren’t his problem. By William Rivers Pitt
The Kafkaesque Imperium: Julian Assange and the Second Superseding Indictment The Kafkaesque Imperium has taken yet another absurd step towards mean absurdity with another superseding indictment against Julian Assange. This move by the US Department of Justice seems to have surprised those involved in his extradition proceedings. Mark Summers QC, one of the members of the Assange legal team, did not conceal his astonishment at the call over hearing at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court. “We are surprised by the timing of this development. We were surprised to hear about it in the press.” By Binoy Kampmark
Biden Compared Indicted War Criminal to “George Washington” In 2010, current Democratic Party presidential hopeful Joe Biden Jr. referred to Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader Hashim Thaci as the “George Washington of Kosovo.” By Jeremy Kuzmarov
Environment:
Editorial: Climate change is Already Here. 2020 Could Be Your Last Chance To Stop An Apocalypse The world is drifting steadily toward a climate catastrophe. For many of us, that’s been clear for a few years or maybe a decade or even a few decades.But others have known that a reckoning was coming for much longer. A Swedish scientist first calculated in 1896 that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere could lead to warmer global temperatures. By the 1930s, scientists were measuring the increase, and in the late 1960s, they had documented the impact of melting ice in Antarctica. By 1977, Exxon-Mobil had recognized its own role in the warming of the ocean, the polar ice melt and the rising sea level. By The Times Editorial Board
Exclusive: Water Firms Discharged Raw Sewage Into England’s Rivers 200,000 Times in 2019 Untreated effluent flowed into waterways for more than 1.5m hours, data shows English water companies have handed more than £2bn a year on average to shareholders since they were privatised three decades ago, according to analysis for the Guardian. The payouts in dividends to shareholders of parent companies between 1991 and 2019 amount to £57bn – nearly half the sum they spent on maintaining and improving the country’s pipes and treatment plants in that period. By Sandra Laville and Niamh McIntyre
Russia: Siberian oil spill and capitalism’s climate catastrophes Rinat Akhmetchin, the Mayor of Norilsk, an industrial city in Russia, has been charged with negligence following a catastrophic oil spill from a local power plant. The spill has been ongoing since 29 May, with over 20,000 tonnes of diesel seeping into the surrounding soil and waterways. On 4 June, the Kremlin issued a state of emergency in Norilsk. The city is situated in Siberia, inside the Arctic Circle, where the local ecology is already severely disturbed due to some extremely worrying symptoms of climate change: a product of the irrational, rotten capitalist system, which is placing the planet in peril. Joe Russell
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
Housing Activists Unite to Fight Mass Evictions and Defund Police As COVID-19’s second wave bears down, nearly half of all states’ eviction moratoria have already expired or are set to expire in the next two months. A federal moratorium that bans evictions of people in rentals backed by the government expires July 25. To make matters worse, the CARES Act’s supplemental boost to unemployment insurance ends July 31. Candice Bernd
Protest and Power Building People’s Power is the vital arena of struggle under late stage of capitalism, when the “system” is not only objectively failing, but the people know it is
coming apart at the seams. By Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
. Freedom Rider: Russia, Afghanistan, and the Big Lie Far from being an enemy, Russia assisted the U.S. and its coalition in their fight against the Taliban By Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Neocolonial African Conservation Inspired by “Tarzan” Ann Garrison responds to a critic of neocolonial nature “conservation” in Africa, and discusses US-backed threats to national sovereignty and all forms of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo. By Ann Garrison responds to a critic of neocolonial nature “conservation” in Africa, and discusses US-backed threats to national sovereignty and all forms of life in the Democratic Republic of Congo. By Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Syria, Corporate Media Lies, and the True Face of Imperialism: An Interview with Richard Medhurst If independent media want to be a real counterweight to establishment media, they must challenge the status quo in its entirety. By Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
How Do You Spell Desecration of African Burials?: “Nigger!”
Much of the nation may be repudiating white supremacy, but not Montgomery County, Maryland, which is paving over sacred Black ground in an attempt to bury its own racist history. By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Amiri Poem for Boss Tweet
Who tolt us ‘bout an unknown 19th of June—
who the TikTok teens cast as buffoon? Who? By Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Is “Black Lives Matter” a Therapeutic Mantra for White Guilt? Many who took to the streets were out there to engage in a form of mass group therapy. By Mark P. Fancher
Interrogating Systemic Racism and the White Academic Field The US university is marked by the dominance of intellectual white liberalism in tension and complicity with conservative nationalism and neoliberalism. “We need an unprecedented support for the units and areas that have contributed the most to understand and to combat racism: Africana Studies and the related fields.” “As a university and as an academic institution, you can say we are against systemic racism. But you as an academic institution are systemic racism.” Kalin Pont-Tate, co-chair of the Black Student Union at the University of California, Riverside.[1] By Nelson Maldonado-Torres
A Southern Vanguard, The Lost History of Communism Below the Mason-Dixon LineThe Struggle to Abolish the Police is Not New Alabama Communists helped lay the foundation for the organized civil rights movement that emerged in the late 1940s and early ’50s. By Robert Greene II 
The Struggle to Abolish the Police is Not New Prison and police abolition were key to the thinking of many midcentury civil rights activists. By Garrett Felber
A Black Scholar on How Today’s Abolitionist Movement Can Fundamentally Change the Country If there’s ever a time when a Reconstruction might actually lead to democratization and the end of American imperialism, this is the opportunity, says Robin D.G. Kelley. By Jeremy Scahill and Robin D.G. Kelley
The Self-Confessed Bankruptcy of Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba Jackson, Mississippi’s Black mayor is celebrated as a “radical” in some quarters, but his cops kill, maim and abuse Black people just like police forces everywhere in the US. By Adofo Minka
Labor:
In US and Canada, Migrants Caring for COVID Patients Lack Basic Protections Incoherent, inhumane, insulting — that is how Wilner Cayo described the Canadian province of Quebec’s treatment of asylum seekers laboring in the health care sector during the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Advocates estimate that hundreds of asylum seekers, many of whom arrived in Canada via the United States since 2017, are working in long-term care homes and elderly residences for low pay and at great personal risk. By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours
It’s Not Just Meat: All Farm and Food Workers Are in Peril COVID-19 outbreaks are now reaching far beyond the meatpacking industry. Migrant farmworkers in fruit orchards and vegetable fields, long the targets of intense exploitation, are seeing their health put in even greater jeopardy as they’re pushed to feed an increasingly voracious supply chain in pandemic-time. By Stan Cox
Economy:
Shadow Government Statistics Alternate Unemployment Charts The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers. The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment.
The Banks Profit Risk Free! (R.S.)Citigroup Has Made a Sap of the Fed: It’s Borrowing at 0.35 % from the Fed While Charging Struggling Consumers 27.4 % on Credit Cards The first thing you need to know about Citibank and its parent, Citigroup, is that they have an extensive rap sheet. (See here). The second thing you need to know is that Citigroup is a serial predator that perpetually promises its regulators that it’s going to reform, but never does. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
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
The Plundering Big Pharma/Government Robber Barons: ‘A Scandal’: Contracts Show Trump Giving Big Pharma Free Rein to Price Gouge Taxpayer-Funded Coronavirus Drugs “The amount of money the government is throwing at companies is unprecedented. Normally when you write bigger checks, you should have more leverage, not less leverage.” By Jake Johnson
Amid Pandemic, Oklahoma Residents Vote to Expand Medicaid Coverage The measure officially amends the state constitution, making it harder for opponents to alter or remove the expansion. measure to expand Medicaid coverage in Oklahoma passed by a slim, 1 percent margin on Tuesday night, as the state grapples with growing concerns over coronavirus in recent weeks. By Chris Walker
