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!
Finally, on the health aspects of COVID-19, it is becoming clearer that this virus can leave long-lasting damage to people who catch it, but do not die. What is called ‘long COVID’ can cause disorders in brain, lungs, heart, gut, liver and skin that often persist, something that is not the case with flu. — COVID and the Trade-Off
If we dedicate war memorials to the memory of men and women, who are cut down before their time, these (Workplaces) are war memorials. . . . — Homer Seguin, Video: Before Their Time” Cancer & Health And Safety On Our Jobs. Cancer & Health And Safety On Our Jobs (Video)
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!
Racism, Democracy in the ‘Land of the Free’United States President Donald Trump’s appointee to the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett, will likely be confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate on October 26. Barrett is on the far right among judges. She is a member of a fringe religious group that believes the husband is the spiritual “head” of the household. Unsurprisingly, she is a vocal opponent to women’s right to abortion and rejects climate science. Barrett will fill the space left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who died on September 19. Trump’s choice and the mad rush to get Barrett confirmed just nine days before the election, was a calculated move to increase the right-wing majority on the court. Why? Firstly, because if Trump loses, the Republicans plan to challenge the vote in the courts and the Supreme Court may decide who is President. Having a six person majority makes it more likely that would be Trump. By Barry SheppardOur President, The Psycopath and Hypocrite: New York Times: Tax Records Show Trump Maintains Chinese Bank Account President Donald Trump’s tax records show he has pursued expansive business projects in China for years and even maintains a Chinese bank account, The New York Times reported Tuesday, disclosures that deal a blow to the President’s efforts to paint Democratic nominee Joe Biden as the presidential candidate who is soft on China. An analysis of Trump’s tax records by the Times shows that the President holds a previously unreported bank account in China that was not included on his public financial disclosures because it is held under a corporate name. Trump also maintains bank accounts in Britain and Ireland. The Chinese account, the newspaper said, is controlled by Trump International Hotels Management and it paid $188,561 in taxes in the country from 2013 to 2015. By Paul LeBlancUS Presidential Campaign Spectacle: Distracts from Essential Issues while Playing the Race Card With the seemingly interminable US presidential campaign season mercifully drawing to a close, the buzz is about a possible coup. That would make the US one of the few countries in recent history to experience regime change not masterminded by a US embassy, because there is no US embassy in Washington. By Roger Harris
Divest / Invest The US today spends more than $80 billion a year incarcerating 2.3 million people in state and federal prisons, local jails, youth facilities and deportation centers. That’s $80 billion that comes out of public coffers and goes into public confinement.With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many were shocked to see woman, children and migrants—including many pre-trial and pre-hearing—who had never been convicted of anything crammed into overcrowded lock-ups that might as well have been petri dishes for community spread of the disease. By the middle of October, close to 150,000 residents and almost 30,000 staff and workers had tested positive. 1,122 detainees and 42 staff had died according to the Behind Bars Covid Data Project of UCLA. By Laura FlandersTrump State Department Plan to Declare Human Rights Groups ‘Anti-Semitic’ Slammed as ‘Desperate,’ ‘Obscene’ The designation would target humanitarian organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Oxfam, sources said. The destruction of Palestinian homes, often to make way for exclusively Jewish settler colonization, has been condemned many times by the United Nations and the global community—with the notable exception of the United States. (Photo: Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) By Brett Wilkins
The destruction of Palestinian homes, often to make way for exclusively Jewish settler colonization, has been condemned many times by the United Nations and the global community—with the notable exception of the United States. (Photo: Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist: Freedom Rider: Biden and Liberal Censorship It is Democrats and the technology companies which support them that are doing most of the censoring that is identified with fascist societies.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor: Say Racism’s Name, and Fight it with Solidarity Black Lives Matter is the internal enemy while China is considered the most dangerous foe to U.S. hegemony.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor: America’s Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DRC This is an excellent chronicling of the Rwandan government’s racist policies toward the majority Hutu population, writes Ann Garrison.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence: Lawless low Barr’s depths of depravity Brutal Boss Tweet extorts the border— Lawless low Barr screams, “Law and order!” $campaign manager masquerading as proper copper— Third Reich thug; mirror-avoiding
Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent: Health Justice and Black Liberation: Dr. Angel Love Miles Health and disability are interrelated and distinctive social categories that have significant implications for the black community.
David Pleasant: Atro-city: Savannah, the Afro-fetish-city The African Exposition at the Savannah Riverside Plant “is one of the most intense examples of fetishization, colonialism, exoticism, and dehumanization” the author has ever scene.
Margaret Flowers: Liberals and Fascists Both Love Capitalism It is important to look at the bigger picture lest we focus on the wrong issue and play into the hands of the ruling class.
Signatories from the Use of Force Community Working Group: A Public Letter to Mayor Lightfoot: A Call for Leadership The Chicago Police Department’s new use-of-force policy input process is a sham, designed only to create the illusion of community engagement.
How Trump Gutted Osha And Workplace Safety Rules Trump’s attack on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has left workers vulnerable to Covid-19. The coronavirus had already begun tearing through the JBS Foods beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, when Kim Cordova wrote to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in late March. Cordova, the president of UFCW Local 7, asked the federal agency to send inspectors to that plant, where 3,000 members of the union work, as well as to five other businesses where members of the local work. Many of the JBS workers, who cut, process, and package the meat from the newly slaughtered animals, had begun to fall sick with Covid-19. Yet JBS hadn’t provided the workers with masks and in some cases had advised specifically against wearing them, according to Cordova. The workers didn’t have enough room to distance themselves from their co-workers in the cafeteria, the locker rooms, or elsewhere around the plant. Although Cordova had been in direct communication with the management at JBS about the health hazards at the plant, the largest of its kind in the country, talks had recently hit a wall. By Sharon Lerner
The War at the Point of Production: The ‘Killing Fields’ of the United States Like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, world imperialism spreads War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death, throughout the world. Author Gore Vidal describes this era as ‘Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace’. One perpetual war, which is not openly publicized, is the war for profits. It takes place every single day at the point of production, and is killing increasing numbers of workers every year. Today, workers are used as ‘cannon fodder’ both in the war in Iraq and in the war for profits at home. Workplaces have become perpetual ‘killing fields’.According to Lisa Cullen, the author of A Job To Die For, “Every day, 165 Americans die from occupational diseases and 18 more die from a work related injury. On the same day, more than 36,400 non-fatal injuries and 3,200 illnesses will occur in America’s workplaces.” Every year 60,225 Americans die from occupational diseases while 6,570 more die from work-related injuries. In that same year, more than 13,286,000 non-fatal injuries and 1,168,000 illnesses occur in America’s workplaces. Again: “Each year, this unknown workplace epidemic extends into nearby communities to claim the lives of 218 innocent bystanders and injure another 68,000.”(1) By Roland Sheppard (1998 )
Indiana Harbor Canal, looking at Inland Steel, Northern Indiana, and southeast Chicago. Indiana Harbor Canal, was home to four or five steel mills in a row along the shore of Lake Michigan, including LTV Steel, US Steel’s Gary Works, and the Burns Harbor plant of Bethlehem Steel. Some would also include the defunct AcmeSteel. (Photo courtesy of Samuel Love) It is “arguably the most polluted waterway in the country (the only waterway to fail every beneficial use” — Thomas Frank
Economy:
COVID and the Trade-Off Last April, as the coronavirus pandemic took off, I ventured into an analysis of its health and economic impact. As I said at the time, “It is a risky thing to start analysing the COVID stats and coming up with some conclusions at this still early stage of the pandemic. It is even riskier for an economist to delve into areas beyond his or her supposed expertise. But after looking at myriads of articles, heaps of data and lots of presentations by people who ought to know what they are talking about, I cannot resist putting my dollar on the table.”I think it is worth rereading that post, because, looking back, I think my analysis has held up pretty well six months later. At the end of that post, I concluded the following things. First, COVID-19 has a much higher mortality rate than flu. Second, without containment it would have increased the annual mortality rates of most countries by over 80%. Third, containment has worked in driving down potential deaths from millions to hundreds of thousands (unfortunately over a million so far). Fourth, because most governments were unprepared and lacked sufficient healthcare facilities, they were forced into varying degrees of lockdowns, bringing the world economy to a standstill. Fifth, the more severe the lockdown and the more health facilities available means generally that there will be fewer deaths; and sixth, the ‘lockdown lite’ approach risks more deaths without offering a stronger economy as a trade-off. By Michael Roberts
World:
The Spectre Haunting China’s Internet: Socialism’s Comeback Among the Youth We have received the following report of events taking place on Chinese internet fora and social media. It shows that, despite the CCP’s totalitarian regime, the crisis of capitalism is still radicalising Chinese youths, who express their discontent online in creative ways. We believe it is valuable to publish this for our international readers, showing a process which is not readily visible through official statistics and reporting. By Sima HeiFrance: Attack in Conflans and the Hypocrisy of “National Unity” This statement by our French comrades condemns the brutal assassination of a teacher in the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine suburb of Paris by an Islamic fundamentalist. We reject hypocritical attempts by the right wing in France to exploit this tragedy as part of a propaganda war against Muslims. Imperialism is responsible for creating the poisoned soil in which fundamentalism flourishes.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
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!
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Our President, The Psycopath and Hypocrite: New York Times: Tax Records Show Trump Maintains Chinese Bank Account President Donald Trump’s tax records show he has pursued expansive business projects in China for years and even maintains a Chinese bank account, The New York Times reported Tuesday, disclosures that deal a blow to the President’s efforts to paint Democratic nominee Joe Biden as the presidential candidate who is soft on China. An analysis of Trump’s tax records by the Times shows that the President holds a previously unreported bank account in China that was not included on his public financial disclosures because it is held under a corporate name. Trump also maintains bank accounts in Britain and Ireland. The Chinese account, the newspaper said, is controlled by Trump International Hotels Management and it paid $188,561 in taxes in the country from 2013 to 2015. By Paul LeBlanc
US Presidential Campaign Spectacle: Distracts from Essential Issues while Playing the Race Card With the seemingly interminable US presidential campaign season mercifully drawing to a close, the buzz is about a possible coup. That would make the US one of the few countries in recent history to experience regime change not masterminded by a US embassy, because there is no US embassy in Washington. By Roger Harris
Trump State Department Plan to Declare Human Rights Groups ‘Anti-Semitic’ Slammed as ‘Desperate,’ ‘Obscene’ The designation would target humanitarian organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Oxfam, sources said. The destruction of Palestinian homes, often to make way for exclusively Jewish settler colonization, has been condemned many times by the United Nations and the global community—with the notable exception of the United States. (Photo: Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) By Brett Wilkins
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor: Peace, Black Self-Determination, and the Duopoly Trap Corporate institutions and their Black servants conspire to hide the fact that the Black American worldview is profoundly Left on issues of peace and social justice.
Education, Health, Science, and Welfare: