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Another Example Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capilalism Was Aware of the Danger of Cornovavirus Threat Over 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!
Laura Gray’s cartoon from the front page of The Militant August 18, 1945, Under the Banner Headline: “There Is No Peace”
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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As early as 1886, German health laws prohibited women and children from working in factories processing lead paint and lead sugar.[6] In 1786, Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter warning a friend about the hazards of lead and lead paint, which he considered well-established. — Lead Paint
Our problems will never be solved by the white man. The only way that our problem will be solved is when the black man wakes up, clean himself up, stand on his own feet and stop begging the white man, and take immediate steps to do for ourselves the things that we have been waiting on the white man to do for us. Once we do for self then we will be able to solve our own problems’ “The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the “smiling” fox. One is the wolf, the other is a fox. No matter what, they’ll both eat you. — Malcolm X
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. Rax the Rich! — They Can Afford To Pay!
The Pauperization of the United States: As Trump and GOP Refuse Aid Package, Studies Show 8 Million Forced Into Poverty Since McConnell Let Relief Expire “It’s really important that we reinstate some of the lost benefits” that were extended as part of the CARES Act, one researcher said. The authors of two separate poverty studies out of three top universities said Thursday that their findings make the unmistakable case for more federal economic aid for families struggling to make ends meet during the coronavirus pandemic. Seven months after Congress passed the CARES Act, which included expanded unemployment benefits and one-time direct payments of $1,200 for many adults and $500 per child, the package’s positive impact on poverty levels have already been reversed, according to a study by researchers at Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy and one out of the University of Chicago and Notre Dame. By Julia Conley
The Art of the Weapons Deal in the Age of Trump The president has tried to capitalize on arms sales to the Middle East to consolidate his political position at home throughout his tenure. The United States has the dubious distinction of being the world’s leading arms dealer. It dominates the global trade in a historic fashion and nowhere is that domination more complete than in the endlessly war-torn Middle East. There, believe it or not, the U.S. controls nearly half the arms market. From Yemen to Libya to Egypt, sales by this country and its allies are playing a significant role in fueling some of the world’s most devastating conflicts. But Donald Trump, even before he was felled by Covid-19 and sent to Walter Reed Medical Center, could not have cared less, as long as he thought such trafficking in the tools of death and destruction would help his political prospects. By William D. Hartung
COVID Has Led People to Save More. Now Economists Are Upset. Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 I spent the first 35 years of my working life in a big northeastern city. I was a weekend spendthrift like many a callow youth, but even that could never quite explain how I was always struggling to stay solvent from paycheck to paycheck, even in those spans when I made (relatively) good money. The thing is, most everyone I knew was trapped on some version of the same hamster wheel. All of them worked their hands raw, all of them had enough money to pay for housing and food, but almost nobody I knew was able to assemble a savings account that held more than a few hundred bucks.This is hardly rare; according to Motley Fool reporter Maurie Backman, “69 percent of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings…. Worse yet, 45 percent of Americans say they have $0 in savings. That’s right — not so much as a dollar socked away in a bank account.” By William Rivers Pitt
Does Trump Have Power to Pardon Himself? His Supreme Court Nominee Won’t Say. During her confirmation hearings on Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, refused to give her opinion on an important question that’s come up over the past four years: whether sitting presidents have the power to pardon themselves. The question is particularly important for Barrett to answer, as Trump has asserted in the past that he does have the right to pardon himself if he wants to do so. Trump has also used his presidential authority to grant a number of questionable pardons, especially to his friends and political allies, during his presidential tenure. Chris Walker
Amy Coney Barrett’s Take on Voting Rights Act Exposes Her Entire Legal Philosophy As a Lie Barrett claims to defer to the original meaning of statutes, but when it comes to the Voting Rights Act, that deference is out the window. A single, dominant theme has emerged from Amy Coney Barrett’s testimony during her confirmation hearing for the U.S. Supreme Court this week: She is, she has repeatedly said, a “textualist” who believes that the plain meaning of a statute reigns supreme, that the job of writing those laws belongs strictly to Congress, and not to the courts. She’s lying — and the lie was exposed nakedly in her assessment of the Supreme Court’s 2013 gutting of the Voting Rights Act.
He Sought Asylum After Ms-13 Tried to Kill Him. Amy Coney Barrett Sent Him Back Into Danger. Barrett has a thin record on immigration but could play a key role in this hyperpartisan area of law on the Supreme Court. In early MARCH 2013, Gerson Alvarenga-Flores was in a taxi with three friends, on his way to a birthday party in a rural town outside of La Unión, El Salvador. Suddenly, two men with rifles appeared in the road ahead and signaled for the taxi to stop. The men were both members of the MS-13 gang. When the passengers refused to exit the taxi, the gang members began shooting. Three of the passengers were shot: One was grazed by a bullet, another severely wounded — though he would survive — and a third killed on the spot. Alvarenga had remained in the taxi, which had started reversing away during the scramble. He was left without a scratch. He went to the police, who told him that “they couldn’t be responsible for what had happened or for our lives,” according to a transcript of his asylum hearing. By John Washington
Environment:
The Depraved Indifferenae of the Unit States, As It Murder Children!: 23 Million US Homes Remain Lead-Contaminated Years After Flint Made Headlines Flint, Michigan, made headlines starting in 2015, when 5 percent of the city’s young children tested high for the toxic metal lead in their blood. As the story unfolded, it became clear that the children of Flint were victims of a massive failure of government to eliminate environmental racism — a century-long failure to control the lead industry and the secondary industries that put lead into products for public consumption (chiefly gasoline, batteries, water pipes, paint). In 2017, a report by the Michigan Civil Rights Commission concluded that the Flint toxicity crisis resulted from systemic racism, but this is nothing new. A 1952 report on toxic lead in children in Baltimore found that the rate of poisoning among Black people was 7.5 times as high as among whites, and numerous studies have found similar results since then. The racial disparity in exposure to lead is mainly caused by low income and neighborhood segregation, which in combination consign Black people disproportionately to old, contaminated housing. During decades of environmental injustice, governments have consistently failed to act. Now the Trump administration is extending governmental failure by cutting funding for responsible agencies, reducing requirements for lead abatement, and ignoring opportunities to save the Treasury large sums of money while preventing harm to children by cleaning up lead in homes, water pipes and soil.Now the Trump administration is extending governmental failure by cutting funding for responsible agencies, reducing requirements for lead abatement, and ignoring opportunities to save the Treasury large sums of money while preventing harm to children by cleaning up lead in homes, water pipes and soil. By Peter Montague 
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
United States: Next Steps For Black Lives Matter Movement, Elections and Beyond “I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.” ‒ Malcolm X, from an interview in the final weeks of his life, in 1965. President Donald Trump has thrown his support to white nationalists and supremacists. His anti-Black racism and anti-democratic views are on display every day. He sees the extremists as an important part of his base. By Malik Miah
Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor: The Useful Tool: Kamala “Heartbeat Away” Harris
If Biden wins, Kamala Harris will be put forward as a kind of “co-president,” as a palliative for the lack of substantive relief from the forces that are plaguing Black lives.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist:
Freedom Rider: Left Out of the Debate
If the needs of the people aren’t being addressed, what is the purpose of putting Biden and Harris into office?
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor:
The United States is a Sick Society That Produced Two Sick Options for President
THe US dictatorship of capital provides the people with a non-choice between two vile and racist presidential candidates.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor: Freeing “Hotel Rwanda” Hero Paul Rusesabagina The man portrayed by Don Cheadle in the movie about mass slaughter in Rwanda was kidnapped and jailed by the country’s dictator, writes Ann Garrison.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence:
… Freakish flight of the fearless Fly …There sat the morally constipated politician fartin’ ‘round with truth like an amateur magician… Locked, loaded, flinging fecal matter at a class mate…
Robin D.G. Kelly:
Getting to Freedom City
the 1960s LA communities of color prioritized a radical tradition of care and the transformative power of art and politics.
Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent: Health Justice and Black Liberation: Dána-Ain Davis
We can disentangle care from capitalism by increasing community-generated and community-led models of caring.
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat: A Milestone for South African Shack Dwellers MovementAbahlali baseMjondolo celebrates 15 years of revolutionary struggle for land, housing and dignity.
Interview by Alex N. Press: Why They Let Breonna Taylor’s Killer Go Free People in Louisville were in motion, but the politicians shy away from “the massive transformative changes that we demand.”
Jay Willis: Feuding With Donald Trump Is Not Police Reform
Democratic mayors denounce Trump’s brutality but fail to keep their own cops from beating and gassing protesters.
Wilmer J. Leon III:
The “Non-Aligned” Nations Realign
The formerly colonized peoples of the planet say No to US bullying, sanctions and regime change. “The ‘Third World’ sees the US as a monster.”
Labor:
Economy:
Shadow Government Statistics Alternate Inflation Charts Alternate Inflation Charts The CPI chart on the home page reflects our estimate of inflation for today as if it were calculated the same way it was in 1990. The CPI on the Alternate Data Series tab here reflects the CPI as if it were calculated using the methodologies in place in 1980. In general terms, methodological shifts in government reporting have depressed reported inflation, moving the concept of the CPI away from being a measure of the cost of living needed to maintain a constant standard of living. 
The Fed Wants the Public to Know It Can Withhold Information Under an Executive Order and Defy Subpoenas from Courts and Congress You could hear a lot of throat clearing from the live mic at the table where Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett sat yesterday as Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) brilliantly exposed the tentacles of the corporate and fossil fuels money that was attempting to ram her onto the U.S. Supreme Court. (See the full video of the presentation by Whitehouse below.) As a former U.S. Attorney for the Justice Department and former Attorney General of Rhode Island, Whitehouse knows corruption when he sees it. By Pam Martens and Russ Marten
World:
Socialism or Barbarism: Where is Haiti Going? The following article explains the situation in Haiti, where President Jovenel Moïse is hurtling towards naked dictatorship. With parliament dissolved in January, he is ruling by decree (with the support of Haiti’s capitalist mafioso and foreign imperialism), murdering and terrorising all opponents to his authority. The workers, youth and poor must organise on a class basis to overthrow this rotten system! Please read, share and add your organisation’s name to this solidarity statement.
International solidarity with the Haitian revolution: down with the injustice of the Moïse regime! We ask worker and student activists and organisations around the world to show their solidarity with the struggle in Haiti by sharing this statement, taking pictures and making statements of their own on social media using the…
How Modi is Changing Laws to Help Imperialists Dominate India’s Agriculture The two bills rushed through India’s parliament on September 20 were objectionable in every conceivable sense. The very fact that they were being rammed through the Rajya Sabha, without being put to vote despite demands for a division, was grossly anti-democratic. The fact that the Center made unilateral and fundamental changes in agricultural marketing arrangements that fall within the State List of the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution was a blow against federalism. To resurrect the pre-independence arrangement under which the peasantry was exposed to the capitalist market without any support of the state, and which crushed it during the Great Depression of the 1930s, was a betrayal of the promise of independence. To pit millions of small peasants against the might of a handful of private buyers, as the bills propose to do, is to open them up to monopsonistic exploitation, meaning exploitation by a single or a few buyers. By Prabhat Patnaik
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 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
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