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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!
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Even relatively small increases in ocean acidity reduce the capacity of corals to build skeletons, which in turn reduces their capacity to create protective habitat for the Reef’s marine life. The rate of skeleton formation, known as calcification, is already likely to have been affected, resulting in slower growth rates and weaker coral structures. However, the impact of acidification is likely to vary between coral species and between organisms. The predicted warming of the oceans speeds up the calcification process, potentially counteracting to some extent the negative effects of decreasing ocean pH at some reefs. — Ocean acidification
“A spectre is haunting Europe,” states the Communist Manifesto, “the spectre of Communism.” This is what the ruling class fears, faced with this meltdown of the capitalist system. What is being prepared, is not revolution in this or that country, but world revolution. As Trotsky once commented, those who are looking for a comfortable peaceful life, have chosen the wrong time to be born. “The crisis facing mankind is a crisis of leadership”, explained Trotsky in the Transitional Programme. Building this leadership still remains the task facing us. Under the banner of Marxism, with its clear programme, strategy and tactics, this can be resolved. Never in our lifetimes has there been such a favourable situation as now. One successful socialist revolution in one country will set the world aflame. One victory would set off a chain reaction and lay the basis for a socialist Britain and a Socialist United States of Europe, as the stepping stone towards a world federation of socialist states. — The Present Situation: No Parallels In History
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.
Capitalist Agriculture And Covid-19: A Deadly Combination A socialist biologist explains the tight links between new viruses, industrial food production, and the profitability of multinational corporations. The new coronavirus is keeping the world in a state of shock. But instead of fighting the structural causes of the pandemic, the government is focusing on emergency measures. Yaak Pabst, for the German socialist magazine Marx21, spoke to evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu (Monthly Review Press, 2016), about the dangers of Covid-19 and the responsibility of agribusiness and sustainable solutions to combat infectious diseases. You have been researching epidemics and their causes for several years. In your book Big Farms Make Big Flu you attempt to draw these connections between industrial farming practices, organic farming and viral epidemiology. What are your insights? The real danger of each new outbreak is the failure, or (better put) the expedient refusal to grasp that each new Covid-19 is no isolated incident. The increased occurrence of viruses is closely linked to food production and the profitability of multinational corporations. Anyone who aims to understand why viruses are becoming more dangerous must investigate the industrial model of agriculture and, more specifically, livestock production. At present, few governments, and few scientists, are prepared to do so. When the new outbreaks spring up, governments, the media, and even most of the medical establishment are so focused on each separate emergency that they dismiss the structural causes that are driving multiple marginalised pathogens into sudden global celebrity, one after the other.
Capitalism is Destroying ‘Safe Operating Space’ for Humanity, Warn Scientists Published by Insurge Intelligence, crowdfunding systems journalism for the planetary emergency. Support us to report where others fear to tread.The COVID19 pandemic has exposed a strange anomaly in the global economy. If it doesn’t keep growing endlessly, it just breaks. Grow, or die.But there’s a deeper problem. New scientific research confirms that capitalism’s structural obsession with endless growth is destroying the very conditions for human survival on planet Earth.A landmark study in the journal Nature Communications, “Scientists’ warning on affluence” — by scientists in Australia, Switzerland and the UK — concludes that the most fundamental driver of environmental destruction is the overconsumption of the super-rich.
Global Warming and Ocean Acidification Accelerate The global warming of the biosphere and its consequent acidification of the oceans is a complex of geophysical, biological and ecological, and sociological phenomena that are all accelerating. There is much that humanity could do to slow that acceleration, and to enact strategies for its own protection from Nature’s escalating assaults on civilization by the grand feedback loop of anthropogenic global warming climate change, but there is really nothing humanity can do to stop it. By Manuel García, Jr.
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
Maroons As Movement Role Models The contemporary Black struggle should draw on the experience and example of maroons, the escaped slaves that formed communities of freedom beyond the reach of the slave masters, said Willie Jamaal Wright, a professor of Geography and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. Wright wrote a recent article on “The Morphology of Marronage.” Maroon communities “served as models of cooperative economics, of cooperative living,” and “a model of sacrifice” that is needed today, said Wright.
Move 9 are Free – Mumia is Next Born in prison to Move organization members incarcerated in the death of a Philadelphia cop in 1978, Mike Africa Jr. has waited and worked for four decades to see his surviving family members in freedom. Now his mission is to free political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal “so that he can be with his family, the way that my father is with his family now.”
The Historical Quest for a Black Nation Thanks to the New African Independence Movement of the 1970s, today’s Democratic politicians are discussing reparations for Black Americans, said Edward Onaci, a professor of history at Ursinus College. Onaci is author of the book, “Free the Land: The Republic of New Africa and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State.”
Labor:
Millions in The US Face Disaster as $600 Federal Unemployment Aid Set To End This Week For nearly 31 million people in the United States this week, more so than any since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year, is one of extreme worry and anxiety. Two limited but vital provisions in the CARES Act, the $600 weekly enhanced federal unemployment benefit and a moratorium on evictions from federally insured or federally financed housing, are both set to expire by the end of this month. By Jacob Crosse
Economy:
Dodd-Frank Is 10 Years Old Today and the Fed Is Back to Bailing Out Wall Street Today marks the 10th Anniversary of the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, named after its two sponsors, former Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and former Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA). The massive piece of legislation was signed into law on July 21, 2010 by President Barack Obama at a time when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress – meaning there was no excuse not to put tough Wall Street reform legislation in place. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
The Conversion Of Hagia Sophia Into A Mosque, Erdogan’s Plans And His “Gift” To The Greek Bourgeoisie With a presidential decree signed on 10 July, Erdogan’s regime decided to convert Hagia Sophia, a historical Byzantine church built in 534 AD, from a museum into a place of Muslim worship. The Byzantine monument was turned into a museum in 1934 with a decree from the founder of the modern bourgeois state, Kemal Ataturk, and marked the secular character of the Turkish state. The conversion is a symbolic act that seeks to emphasise the neo-Ottoman imperialist plans of the “Sultan” Erdogan and the reactionary Turkish bourgeoisie. By Ilias Kyrousis
The Present Situation: No Parallels In History The pandemic has triggered an unprecedented crisis of capitalism. The ruling class has no solution for how to get out of this. Consciousness will be shaken and transformed by these events. We must prepare for world revolution. By Rob Sewell
Education, Health, Science, 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
Oxford Coronavirus Vaccine Triggers Immune Response, Trial Shows Early results also indicate vaccine is safe, raising hopes it could help end pandemic Oxford University’s experimental coronavirus vaccine is safe and generated a strong immune response in the people who volunteered to help trial it, researchers have said, raising hopes it could contribute to ending the pandemic. Prof Sarah Gilbert, from Oxford’s Jenner Institute, said the scientists were more than happy with the first results, which showed good immunity after a single dose of vaccine. By Sarah Boseley
Florida: Educators Sue to Block Unsafe Reopening Along with educators and parents, the Florida Education Association (FEA) filed suit Monday against Gov. Ron DeSantis, Commissioner Richard Corcoran, the Florida Department of Education, the Florida State Board of Education and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez to safeguard the health and welfare of public school students, educators and the community at large. The lawsuit intends to stop the reckless and unsafe reopening of public school campuses as coronavirus infections surge statewide. By Diane Ravitch
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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‘Fascism Coming to a City Near You’: Trump Pledges to Deploy Secret Police Units to Major US Cities The president also praised federal agents for doing a “fantastic job” with a widely condemned crackdown on Portland, Oregon. By Jessica Corbett
Environment:
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 20, 2020 With Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford