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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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After the assassination of Martin Luther King and the subsequent rebellions in the inner cities protesting his assassination, the Democratic Party’s “war on poverty” started laying dollars on any potential Black leaders and grooming Black Candidates. John Lewis, formally of SNCC, became enlightened, he ignored the Black Panthers and saw the Democratic Party, symbolized by a jackass, as his party. Most of what W.E. B. Dubois described as the “talented tenth” were bought off by this process. The more radical concepts that Martin Luther King and Malcolm X had developed at the time of their deaths disappeared from the scene. No one took up where they left off. The governmental policy, directed towards the ‘leaders’ of the civil rights movement, of the carrot (dollarism) and the stick (assassinations) had proven to be successful. — Roland Sheppard, The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights Movement
Videos of the Day:
Why You Should Give a F*ck | Ep. 8 | Crime We discuss the way the U.S. approaches different types of crime and how certain acts arguably shouldn’t be considered crimes.
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.
“Unrest” Is Not the Enemy. Fascism Is. As Black Lives Matter protests continue to play out around the country, images of protesters squaring off with police in Portland have inflamed debates about “peacefulness,” violence and respectability. Some liberal figures have argued that Trump’s law and order narrative is facilitated by imagery of police dueling with protesters, and that unity will be needed to halt the march of fascism. Such critics have pointed to the riots of the late ‘60s, claiming that the Civil Rights Movement was derailed by those who resorted to violent tactics in the streets. As someone who has been calling on people for years to lock arms against the threat of fascism, regardless of personal difference, I can appreciate some of the sentiments behind these assertions. But I, too, see some tired historical patterns at work.By Kelly Hayes
The Vote For More Money Fro Pepetual Ear Money For War is Bi-Partisn
How Bad is the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act? Somehow, Congress couldn’t find the time last week to renew extended unemployment benefits or the federal moratorium on evictions. Congress had something more pressing to think about than 30 million unemployed Americans: the Pentagon budget. On July 21 and 23, the House of Representatives and the Senate approved their versions of the Pentagon’s annual spending bill, the National Defense Authorization Act. To paraphrase Douglas Adams’ comment about the universe, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 is big. Really big. Weighing in at $740.5 billion, the NDAA for FY 2021 casts its Brobdingnagian shadow over the military budgets of the next eleven countries combined. It didn’t need to be that big. Earlier in the week, the House and Senate rejected amendments to the NDAA which would have reduced next year’s Pentagon budget by 10%. A 10% cut would have made $74 billion available for responding to the coronavirus pandemic and other needs of people who aren’t generals. By Charles Pierson
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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
The Black-White Disability Gap Increases with Age With the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) happening this weekend as Black Lives Matter protests continue, it’s a good time to look at the intersection between race and disability in the United States. The figure below compares disability rates by age, sex, and race for non-Latinx adults. The data in the figure comes from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). A person is counted as disabled if they answer “yes” to any one of five questions in the survey. By Shawn Fremstad
The Black Caucus and the Dictatorship of (White) Capital Black politics does not exist in the Democratic Party, because the duopoly system serves only the corporate rulers. Black politics does not exist in the Democratic Party, because the duopoly system serves only the corporate rulers. “Clearly, the Democratic Party is the mechanism that spawns and nurtures Black politicians answerable to the Dictatorship of (White) Capital.” What makes the U.S. “chattering classes” so worthless is their refusal to talk about anything except those subjects that are approved for public discourse by the Lords of Capital, as certified by the high priests of corporate media. If the chattering classes were permitted to discuss truly important subjects – such as, Who Rules? — their yammering might hold some social value. However, the obvious fact of corporate dictatorship is also the great taboo. When the overarching reality of our times – the Dictatorship of (White) Capital, from which all of the planet’s existential crises flow — is verboten, haram, unspeakable, most of what’s left to busy the lips is mindless, meaningless chatter that is utterly useless to the task of fixing what ails society. By Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Freedom Rider: Let the Movement Be Radical Craven black misleaders jumped at the chance to side with white corporate power against radical white allies. Craven black misleaders jumped at the chance to side with white corporate power against radical white allies. “Decades of movement stagnation and lack of political education has made black people less likely to push the envelope.” The unprecedented size and diversity of the new protest movement is something that black people should welcome. Portland, Oregon is now the epicenter of media and public attention after the Trump administration sent Border Patrol and other Homeland Security forces there. His effort to make political hay has reenergized radical forces and makes clear what is at stake. By Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
The Free Speech Fetish is American Exceptionalism on Steroids ” is little more than an exercise in white insecurity and opportunism among so-called liberal sections of the establishment. Harper’s “Letter” is little more than an exercise in white insecurity and opportunism among so-called liberal sections of the establishment. “Anyone engaged in a struggle for liberation should oppose corporations determining what is ‘free speech’ and what is ‘hate speech.’” By Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
No to the New Cold war with China The African radical, anti-imperialist, internationalist movement, sees the Chinese state and the Chinese people much differently than the U.S. state The African radical, anti-imperialist, internationalist movement, sees the Chinese state and the Chinese people much differently than the U.S. state and its ruling class. “We must name the Pan-European white supremacist colonial/capitalist patriarchy as an existential threat to all of humanity.” The author delivered the following remarks on July 25 to a webinar titled “No to the New Cold War with China,” By Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The low Barr-Boss Tweet Rapid Response to COVID-19 By Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence “If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.” ― Angela Y. Davis“If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.” ― Angela Y. Davis Lying anarchists, agitators, communists, Marxists
say he’s going Pinochet by the bright light of day…
Misdirection? Distraction? No way! Only 140,000—
well, maybe twenty times that—have died under
enlightened leadership of low Barr/Boss Tweet… (More)
Tearing Down Black America More than half the 1.2 million Americans displaced by “urban renewal” were Black.“At its peak in the mid-1960s, urban renewal displaced a minimum of 50,000 families annually.” When James Baldwin visited San Francisco in 1963 to film a documentary about U.S. racism, he encountered neighborhoods in turmoil: the city was seizing properties through eminent domain, razing them, and turning them over to private developers. Part of a massive, federal urban renewal program, nearly 5,000 families—no fewer than 20,000 residents, the majority of them people of color—were being displaced from rental homes, private property, and businesses in the Western Addition neighborhoods. Baldwin spoke to a Black teenager who had just lost his home and watched as his neighborhood was destroyed. He told Baldwin: “I’ve got no country. I’ve got no flag.” Soon after, Baldwin would say: “I couldn’t say you do. I don’t have any evidence to prove that he does.” By Brent Cebul
Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition “Interest convergence” and “pragmatic compromise” are euphemisms for what might better be called opportunism and truth-avoidance. “Progressive academics performed for Obama the labor that Van Jones provided to Trump.” In their July 2020, post “Was Angela Davis a Panther ?” the Black Revolutionary Guard (BRG) asks and answers a query raised as a pretext for dismissing harsh critiques of an important progressive ally. They note that Davis was not a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP), but the Panthers considered her “a comrade and fellow raveler.” By Joy James
“This is the Scene of a Crime”: An African Artist/Activist Journey, Part II An interview with Dr. Karen Wilson- Ama’Echefu. “I started singing a couple of spirituals, but then ‘This is the scene of a crime’ just started flowing out of me.” Dr. Karen Wilson-Ama’Echefu is a modern day griot. She bears witness to the culture of Africa and the diaspora through storytelling, singing, teaching, dancing and music. Karen grew up in Harlem, New York but resides in Washington, DC where she contributes to the political culture and struggles currently underway in the tri-state area that includes Maryland and Virginia. Her doctorate degree is in US History and she conducts workshops on Arts in Education across the United States. By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist
Oh Boya: If It’s Goya, It Has To Be No Good Goya’s CEO thinks Trump is a “blessing,” so the brand has been cursed with a boycott. “Black and Brown consumers are looking for new ways to avoid this popular brand and its cultural commodification.” At a net worth of over one-billion dollars, the Unanue clan is one of the richest Spanish-speaking families in the US. They made most of their money selling Caribbean foods and spices to the world—an example of white Latinx profiting off the backs of Blacks. By Will Guzman
The Poor People’s Economic and Human Right Campaign: a Case for How Change Works With no well-financed publicity department and no links to the machinery of big party politics, movements like PPEHRC can sometimes seem lost in plain sight. “Taking up collections to cover funeral costs has become as integral to the fabric of poor people’s organizing as growing and distributing food.” By Belinda Davis
A View from the Faultlines of National Oppression and Class Contradictions They try to kriminalize the righteous rage of the people. “This slaughtering has a historical context and foundation.” Oppressive power, oppressive governments, the elites, the privileged, those who benefit from the status quo and the institutions that move to protect, facilitate, and reinforce that status always move to kkkriminalize those who rebel against it or attack it. This has been the case throughout his story. Those in power and particularly with oppressive power, get to make the rules and have those rules legitimized, often through force or coercion (prison). By Shaka Shakur
Labor:
Multiple Jobholders: Who Are They and How Are They Impacted by the Pandemic? According to the Current Population Survey (CPS), 8.1 million employees worked one or more additional jobs in a typical week in 2019. As the figure below shows, the number of these “employee multiple jobholders” had been trending upward since 2013 before the pandemic hit. (We use the term “employee multiple jobholders” here because, as we discuss further below, the CPS does not capture “nonemployee multiple jobholders”.) Over the same period, the percentage of all employees who are multiple jobholders has been stable (at about 5 percent of all employees), so the increase in the number of employee multiple jobholders before the pandemic was driven by the underlying increase in employment. Since the pandemic, the number of employee multiple jobholders has fallen precipitously. In April 2020, 5.4 million employees reported working one or more additional jobs, a decline of 2.7 million, or 33 percent, since 2019. In June 2020, the number of employee multiple jobholders rebounded slightly to 6.1 million employees (4.3 percent) but remains far below the pre-pandemic level. By Hye Jin Rho And Shawn Fremstad
Economy:
It’s Our Money with Ellen Brown – “It’s a War”So says renowned economist Michael Hudson in the concluding part of our recent interview with him. Hudson makes no bones about the deadly serious game being played by the world’s financial powers and their intention to create a new feudal economic order. Hudson sees the privatization of public assets and institutions, like the Fed’s take-over of the Treasury a hundred years ago, as evidence that our struggle for people-focused public policy is being overwhelmed by debt at the hands of capitalism and greed. But people are rising-up as our guest Rickey Gard Diamond, author of “Screwnomics”, says in her recent article in Ms. Magazine “How Public Banks Make Black Lives Matter”. She talks with us about women and minorities becoming agents for change in the evolving public discourse about our money.
World:
EU rescue deal: crisis, cuts and class struggle on the order of the day The leaders of the EU have come to an agreement on a new rescue package for the ailing trading bloc. But this is a show of mutual weakness, not solidarity; and the working class will be asked to foot the bill. Crisis and chaos continue to loom on the horizon. By Josh Holroyd
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
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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