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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!
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!
Image of the Day:
At a Tuesday House hearing, Congressman Sean Casten said that according to a Forbes analysis, there were $582 billion in stock buybacks in 2018 which represented more than a 52 percent increase over 2017. Forbes estimated that the majority of that increase was due to the tax cuts stemming from the tax overhaul passed by Republicans in Congress. Casten went on to explain that foreigners own 35 percent of U.S. stocks, meaning that taxpayers effectively sent $203 billion, or 35 percent of that $582 billion in stock buybacks, to foreigners. Now, think about who it is that will live a diminished quality of life as a result of the debt the U.S. took on to give those tax cuts to corporations to use on buybacks benefitting foreign investors and the wealthiest Americans who own the bulk of the stock market. It’s our children and grandchildren that we are burying under this national debt buildup that is heavily weighted to benefit Wall Street rather than workers, families or the small business owner on Main Street. —The Central Bank of Israel Doesn’t Want You to Know What U.S. Stocks It Owns; Neither Does the SEC
Videos of the Day:
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.
When It Come to Profits, Capitalists Have No Ethics! Defying ‘Logic and the Law,’ HHS Inspector General Allows Trump’s Vaccine Czar to Maintain Big Pharma Investments The IG has given a green light for Slaoui to use his public office for self-enrichment, a practice that has become frighteningly common within the Trump administration.” Ethics watchdogs on Wednesday slammed a ruling by the Health and Human Services Department’s inspector general, who decided this week that Moncef Slaoui, a former pharmaceutical executive now heading the Trump administration’s coronavirus vaccine task force, does not have to disclose or divest his investments in the industry. By Julia Conley
Covid-19 (United States): The Pandemic Rages and Trump Doesn’t Care Because the Trump administration has utterly failed to organize or even propose a national plan to deal with the corona virus, the United States has been in the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic since February up to the present. In states that opened up their economies way too early and too fast in the South and West have experienced a sharp upturn in cases and hospitalizations. An upturn in deaths will certainly follow. Thirty-nine states have also seen an upturn in cases, but most not as much as in the South and West. This has caused the number of new cases in the U.S. each day to revolve around 60,000 and climbing. That compares with around 30,000 in the March-April previous peak. The daily figure never fell below 20,000. There never was a “flattening of the curve.” By Barry Sheppard
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
There is no democracy in the United States! — Just democracy for the 1%! When the order in the United States is economic and social inequality. The slogan ‘Law and Order’ means the maintenance of that order— Rich 1% First and the poorest of the 99% last!. Real democracy means that we all share the wealth equally! —Roland Sheppard
Democrats Will Never Choose Transformative Change – So Give Them No Choice An existential political crisis for the racial capitalist order will only happen when the left puts forward a viable political alternative. By Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Freedom Rider: Propaganda Won’t Get Rid of Trump The biggest threat to Biden’s chances is the continuing suppression of black votes and the refusal of the Democrats to do anything about it.. By Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
The Great American Firewall: On the Question of Censorship It should not surprise anyone that China would take protective measures against the threat of U.S. imperialism in the realm of cyber technology. By Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The Gates Foundation’s “Green Revolution” in Africa: Agribusiness Wins, Small Scale Farmers Lose Ann Garrison interviews Timothy Wise on why US-style corporate agriculture pushed by billionaire Bill Gates has been disastrous for Africa.By Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
AFRICOM and the Guise of Terrorism If AFRICOM’s mission is to fight terrorism, then why have terror attacks increased five-fold since the US began its military occupation of the continent? By Tunde Osazua
Shelter in Race-Class Place are told to shelter in savagely unequal places where the necessities of life are scarce and Covid-19 is most lethal. By Paul Street
Storming the Bastille: #BlackLivesMatter, “Allies” and the Fear of Black Revolt Does the belatedness and ubiquity/banality of allyship echo an anxiety about the enormous restraint that African Americans have exercised? By Kathryn Bedecarré
How Black and Brown Workers Are Redefining Strikes in the Digital COVID Age White labor leaders are failing to understand non-traditional organizing that has developed from viral social media movements. By Mike Elk
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Dump the Democrats The Democrats are likely to put forward a Black woman prosecutor to legitimize the mass incarceration plague that Joe Biden helped inflict on Black America. By Riva Enteen
Ajamju Baraka on Race, Class and Protest in the United States Black Alliance for Peace national organizer Ajamu Baraka urged vigilance against US “attempts to control the narrative” of the Black Lives Matter movement. By Look Left Staff
Truth + Justice = Green Party’s Trailblazing World Peace Platform With ballot access in most states and a comprehensive new program for world peace, the Green’s national ticket is ready to battle the oligarchs’ duopoly. By Lauren Smith
Labor:
United States: Unions to Strike For Black Lives More unions are stepping up to join the anti-racist fight in the Unites States, as the disproportionate impact of corona virus hits oppressed communities. They are a high percentage of essential workers in the hospital, medical support, retail and food service industries. By Malik Miah
Economy:
Money Capital vs Life Capital: the War of Values We Live or Die Under the name of ‘growth’, self-multiplying private money sequences turn all that exists into ever more of their own demand with no life necessity regulating them. We now know a few billionaires own more than the majority of the world. What is not tracked is how they exponentially increase their fortunes by massive pollution and depletion of all that supports life to auto-maximize their profits – from the air and the water to the ice-caps and the biomes of our soil and guts. This is shamefully called ‘the free market’, and ‘overpopulation’ of the poor is still blamed for the results. By John Mcmurtry – Jeffery Klaehn
The Central Bank of Israel Doesn’t Want You to Know What U.S. Stocks It Owns; Neither Does the SEC It’s no wonder that American citizens are receiving just a tiny snippet of critical news from mainstream media. Federal regulators have set a new low in withholding documents that the public and the media are entitled to under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). These censored documents could inform us on what’s really driving policy decisions in Washington.Take our latest FOIA brush with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Foreign central banks and sovereign wealth funds are required under law to report their publicly-traded U.S. stock positions no later than 45 days after the end of each calendar quarter. This is done on Form 13F, which is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, if those stock holdings reach $100 million or more. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
The Slave Trade Funded the Capitalists Industrial Revolution: How British Capitalism Grew Rich Through Slavery The Black Lives Matter movement has helped to shine a light on Britain’s own racist, colonial history. Fiona Lali looks at the origins of British capitalism, which came into being – in the words of Marx – with “blood dripping from every pore”. By Fiona Lali
Bolivians Take to the Streets to Protest Against the Añez Gov’t Bolivia’s Workers Central (COB) Tuesday called for tens of thousands of people to hold a mass protest in several cities against the coup-born regime led by Jeanine Añez.
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
Chinese Mainland Reports No New Domestic COVID-19 Cases Of the six imported cases, three were reported in Shanghai and the other three were reported in Shanxi, Chongqing and Yunnan respectively. Chinese health authority said Wednesday that it received reports of six new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Tuesday, and all of them were imported.
Laura Gray’s cartoon from the front page of The Militant August 18, 1945, Under the Banner Headline: “There Is No Peace”
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Environment:
Black Agenda Report July 16, 2017