Daily News Digest October 12, 2020

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!    For Decades, Blacks Have Been Subjected to The Iron Heel!   Currently, the US Capitalist Class is Divided Over When — Not If, to Apply It to Everyone!

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 Deaths in the Entire World!

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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CapitalismQuotes 0f the Day:

In September, between 7 and 11 million households reported that their children did not get enough to eat in the last seven days. — One-Third of Americans Can’t Pay Their Bills as Stimulus Talks Stall

Videos of the Day:

Is It Time to Talk About Armed Self-Defense for Black People? Is there a place for armed self-defense among Black freedom fighters today? Jacqueline Luqman talks history and strategy with Dr. Akinyele Umoja.

Breaking: Another Cop Charged With Assault, Another Example of a Broken System

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. Rax the Rich!  — They Can Afford To Pay!

Times Reveals Trump Secured Massive Windfall Then Poured Millions Into 2016 Campaign, Sparking Calls for Federal Probe “The more we learn about what Trump is hiding in his tax returns, the worse it looks.” The New York Times continued its explosive reporting on President Donald Trump’s tax records on Friday by divulging that he engineered an eight-figure windfall shortly before contributing $10 million to his “self-funded” 2016 presidential campaign—which sparked fresh calls for probing the president’s tax and business practices. “The more we learn about what Trump is hiding in his tax returns, the worse it looks,” Tax March tweeted Friday with a link to the report. The group is leading a coalition of progressive organizations behind the #WePaidMore campaign to raise awareness about the country’s “utterly rigged” tax system, as demonstrated by Trump’s actions. By Jessica CorbettA Threat to a Fair Election’: Experts Warn of Danger Posed by Armed Pro-Trump Poll Watchers “This is the stuff of our worst nightmares.”  Following President Donald Trump’s refusal last month to denounce white supremacists along with his longstanding pattern of undermining democratic norms—and in the wake of the FBI’s interception of a plot by right-wing domestic terrorists to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and overthrow the state government—fears are mounting about the danger posed by far-right paramilitary groups heeding Trump’s call to “go into the polls and watch very carefully.” By Kenny Stancil

Why America’s Economic War on China is Failing U.S. President Donald Trump—supported by most of the U.S. establishment—deepened the U.S. government’s assault on the Chinese economy. The “trade war” seemed to play well with Trump’s political base, who somehow hoped that an economic attack on China would miraculously create economic prosperity for them. In 2018, Trump slapped tariffs on more than $200 billion worth of various Chinese goods. Then, Trump’s administration went after Chinese high-tech firms such as Huawei, ZTE, ByteDance (the owners of TikTok), and WeChat. None of this has worked very well. Trump faces negative legal judgments about his “trade war,” and the U.S. economy slips into negative territory. It is not just Trump. Both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are committed to a policy that will not cause China to surrender to U.S. ambitions. Whether or not the U.S. can backtrack from this policy orientation and begin a dialogue with China remains to be seen; doing so would be, of course, desirable. By Vijay Prashad – John RossMurder He Said: Trump’s Regime Is Getting Deadlier By the Day It’s Worth Going Through the President’s Methods of Murder in What Has Become a Pernicious Regime in Ways Even He Didn’t Anticipate Yes, when he was running for president, he did indeed say: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.” Then he won — and this November 3rd (or thereafter), whether he wins or loses, we’re likely to find out that, when it comes to his base, he was right. He may not have lost a vote. Yes, Donald Trump is indeed a murderer, but here’s where his prediction fell desperately short: as president, he’s proven to be anything but a smalltime killer. It wasn’t as if he went out one day, on New York City’s Fifth Avenue or even in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and shot a couple of people. Nothing so minimalist for The Donald! Nor is it as if, say, he had ploughed “the Beast” (as his presidential Cadillac is known) into a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters, as so many other drivers have done this year. Let’s face it: that’s for his apprentices, not the showman himself. After all, Donald J. Trump has proven to be America’s twenty-first-century maestro of death and destruction, the P.T. Barnum of, as he put it predictively enough in his Inaugural Address, “American carnage.” In fact, he’s been a master of carnage in a way no one could then have imagined. By Tom EngelhardtEnvironment:

Wild Aware “Pears grown in Argentina, packed in Thailand and then sold in the United States.” We believe that the geographical map is very explanatory of how much this system is definitely impacting the planet.Transporting a product for tens of thousands of kilometers means enormously increasing its impact on the environment in terms of CO2 emissions, then doing it to pack it in plastic is even more absurd. The best choice is always to buy local fruit and vegetables, in season and obviously loose. Do you agree?Civil Rights/Black Liberation:

Marxism and Indigenous Liberation Capitalism always is and always will be an enemy of Native people. – Vern Harper, Following the Red Path: The Native People’s Caravan, 1974 (p. 92) Climate catastrophes have increased support for Indigenous land and water defenders, whose mutually beneficial relationship with the environment makes a lot more sense than the slash, poison, and burn disaster of capitalism. How can non-native people best support Indigenous struggles? What is the relationship between workers’ struggles for socialism and Indigenous struggles for sovereignty? Does marxism have anything useful to contribute?  Much has been written about the resumed antagonism between marxism and Native struggles. This conflict is the result of two factors: capitalist efforts to drive a racist wedge between Indigenous and workers’ struggles; and the destructive role of ‘managerial marxists’* who promote a ‘socialism’ that promises freedom and delivers the opposite.   This article addresses the contribution of Indigenous struggles to marxist theory, why ‘managerial marxism’ cannot end Native oppression, and how the revolutionary marxist principle of self-determination links the struggles of Indigenous peoples with those of the global working class. By Susan Rosenthal

Labor:

Economy:

Again, there is nothing new in the story of labour being replaced by machines.  It is the essence of industrial capitalism.  The so-called ‘industrial revolution’ of the early 19^thcentury saw millions of craftsmen and skilled artisans replaced by machines.  Real wages were stagnant or even fell as craftsmen’s incomes vanished and the gains of the new industries went to their owners. Engels noted this result in his brilliant book, The condition of the working class in England (1844).  The machine-owning industrialists grew “rich on the misery of the mass of wage earners”.  Now the pandemic slump is creating the conditions for the wiping out of jobs across the board as happened in that period after the slump of the third decade of the 1800s.  The third decade of this century could see the same. — Michael Roberts

World:

George Monbiot’s Excuses for Not Speaking Out Loudly in Defense of Assange Simply Won’t Wash Faced with a barrage of criticism from some of his followers, George Monbiot, the Guardian’s supposedly fearless, leftwing columnist, offered up two extraordinarily feeble excuses this week for failing to provide more than cursory support for Julian Assange over the past month, as the Wikileaks founder has endured extradition hearings in a London courtroom. By Jonathan Cook

Golden Dawn leaders convicted! A great victory for the antifacist movement in Greece! The Greek courts have convicted the leaders of the fascist organisation Golden Dawn for a series of murderous attacks. This was a direct result of pressure on the bourgeois from the workers and youth, who are the only force that can stand against the menace of fascism. The Greek courts have convicted the leaders of the fascist organisation Golden Dawn for a series of murderous attacks. This was a direct result of pressure on the bourgeois from the workers and youth, who are the only force that can stand against the menace of fascism. By Konstantinos AvgerosEducation, 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 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