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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 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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The Looting of the World: Gave Rise to Capitalism:
The genesis of the industrial capitalist did not proceed in such a gradual way as that of the farmer. Doubtless many small guild-masters, and yet more independent small artisans, or even wage labourers, transformed themselves into small capitalists, and (by gradually extending exploitation of wage labour and corresponding accumulation) into full-blown capitalists. In the infancy of capitalist production, things often happened as in the infancy of medieval towns, where the question, which of the escaped serfs should be master and which servant, was in great part decided by the earlier or later date of their flight. The snail’s pace of this method corresponded in no wise with the commercial requirements of the new world market that the great discoveries of the end of the 15th century created. But the middle ages had handed down two distinct forms of capital, which mature in the most different economic social formations, and which before the era of the capitalist mode of production, are considered as capital quand même [all the same] — usurer’s capital and merchant’s capital. . . . The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement, and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalized the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. … If money … comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek, capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt. — Capital, Chapter Thirty-One: Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist
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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!
Us Workers Support for Democrat/Republican Duopoly at All Time Low!
America’s Imperial Expenditures and Escapades Are Stranger Than Fiction Who needs dystopian novelists or absurd satirists when otherwise banal bureaucrats of the U.S. national security state do the job for them? It’s an old story with a new tech-savvy twist. It makes for a strange state of affairs here in year 20 of the crusade formerly known as the “war on terror.” Just last week, two assumedly unrelated stories offered case studies (or are they clinics) in America’s national security politics and procedures of absurdity. Fit for Heller: An (Open) Secret Intel Budget First, there was a passing annual footnote in the Pentagon’s bland bureaucratic budget line. Part of that military budget goes to what Defense News labeled the” Pentagon’s secret intelligence fund” – last year they went with “black intel funding.” Its officially titled the more mundane Military Intelligence Program, or MIP. Last week’s obligatory announcement was that Congress appropriated $23.1 billion for its operations in fiscal year 2020, a nine year high. In fact, the boys on the Hill tacked on a $100 million dollar bonus on top of the Pentagon’s request. So super sleuth are the MIP’s black ops, that the DOD waits until after the fiscal year to admit how many tax dollars unknowingly funded missions the tax-payers aren’t allowed to know about. By Maj. Danny Sjursen War Wasn’t a Campaign Issue. What Does That Mean for the Next Presidency? It is an Indication that the U.S. war industry has flourished regardless of who occupies the White House.During the last presidential debate, Donald Trump and Joe Biden sparred over the pressing domestic problems of racism, health care, climate change, the economy and the pandemic, along with the alleged Chinese, Russian and Iranian interference in the elections. But substantive discussions of foreign policy and the threat of nuclear war were off the table. The same was true in earlier debates, including the primaries. Moderators didn’t ask, and the candidates didn’t tell. This is critical since relations with Russia, China and Iran are the worst they’ve been in decades under the Trump administration. And nuclear war looms more menacing than since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. By Barbara Koeppel
Trump and Biden: Cold-War Dinosaurs If Americans have a modicum of memory, it is clear that baseless, warmongering accusations have time and time again been the precursor for winning consent over upcoming imperialist hostility. Accusing Iraq of harboring “weapons of mass destruction” in 2003, those that care to remember the administration of former President George W. Bush recalled the widespread condemnation from the left over how a lie cost over 1 million lives. By Julia Kassem
On Trump’s Megalomania I have been observing Trump since 2016. He is a despot in a business suit. He is undermining the government and the health of Americans and the natural world. He says he’s a billionaire and proud of it. And to prove how far he stands from the wishes and aspiration of Americans, he filled his cabinet mostly with billionaires. By Evaggelos Vallianatos
The Ending of the Jamal Khashoggi Case Has Left A Number of Questions – But It Was Always Going To This is one of a number of events around the world this week that should give us pause, says Robert Fisk They get away with it, don’t they? The Israelis, of course, stealing more land, the cruel Arab dictators, the fraudulent Donald Trump with his absurd, childish, avaricious “peace plans” for the Middle East. But it was the Saudis again, this week, whose act of clemency to Jamal Khashoggi’s murderers – a lifting of the death sentences at the supposed request of his family – which somehow set a new template of mendacity. Other examples to follow.
Environment:
Trump Admin to Give $1.4 Billion to Try to Revive the Nuclear Power Industry A new study, however, raises serious doubts about the low carbon emissions claimed by proponents of nuclear power. The nuclear power industry may be getting a new lease on life, thanks to a $1.4 billion taxpayer subsidy from the Trump administration. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in August approved the design of a new kind of nuclear power reactor invented by NuScale Power, a startup company with offices in Corvallis and Portland, Oregon. By Peter Montague 
Nuclear Radiation Alert: Could You Have A Dirty Bomb Next Door? Many years ago, I woke up on a Sunday morning to find three State Police Bomb Squad cars and one truck pulling a bomb disposal trailer parked on the lot next door to our home in rural Connecticut. The heavily wooded lot next door did not have a house on it, only a small shed at that back end that the owner was using as he began to clear the lot in order to build on it. To make a long story short, it turned out that the teenager, who’s dad owned the property next door, built a dozen live pipe bombs in that shed at the back of the property. Luckily for Maggie, our young son, and me, none of those pipe bombs exploded while he was out there making them! By Arnie Gundersen
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
Policing the Pandemic: How the City of Albuquerque Criminalizes People Living on the Streets Instead of helping unsheltered people find support and housing, the City of Albuquerque’s Family and Community Services Department has been working closely with Albuquerque police to break up tent encampments, to check for warrants, and to identify people for police to arrest or issue criminal citations. By Keegan James Sarmiento Kloer – David Correia
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor:The Billionaires’ Duopoly Wins on Tuesday Allegiance to the Democratic half of the duopoly – whether active or passive – is still allegiance to corporate rule, not a strategy for transformative change.
Howie Hawkins Whatever Happened to Left Solidarity?In hopes of getting rid of Trump, progressives have followed Trump to the right.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist: Freedom Rider: Campaign Confusion in the Age of Collapse Biden always obliges Trump by denying that he will do anything that rank and file Democrats want and that would in fact
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor:Neoliberal capitalism is incapable of containing the pandemic or facilitating an economic recovery for the masses.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence: Bankrolling blu klux klans? Rhythms of red, white, blue ‘party’ lights flashing beneath screaming sirens; The rush of warm crimson drawing 2, 4, 6, 8, 10—and then some…
Ameer Hasan Loggins: We’re All Living in a Future Created by SlaveryThe carceral class is made up of persons of African descent who are systematically stigmatized as unfit for freedom and deserving of the dehumanization that comes with being incarcerated
Erica Caines: Black Bolivia and the Socialist Electoral Triumph Indigenous and Afro-Bolivians spent every day resisting the coup to complete the socialist aspirations of their party.
Jahan Chowdhry, BAR Comments Editor: Letters from Our ReadersOct This week you discussed the role of racism in foreign policy, Black America
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor: BAR Book Forum: Danielle Morgan’s “Laughing to Keep From Dying” There is nothing strange about Black folks laughing at the sheer immensity of ways we can die.
Gwendolyn Wallace and Roberto Sirvent:Health Justice and Black Liberation: Antoine Johnson We have to consume things with Black liberation and environmental justice in mind.
Gregory N. Heires: Paul Robeson’s American Ballad Brilliant and amazingly multitalented, Robeson was once among the most popular men in the U.S;, but became a non-person under relentless red-baiting
Kameron Hurt: Free Ruchell “Cinque” Magee! Ruchell Magee is the longest-held political prisoner in the United States and the world.
Liza Featherstone: Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed at Fifty Even as many more people around the world have access to education, schooling everywhere remains intertwined with systems of oppression, including racism and capitalism
Lautaro Rivara: Haiti and a Long History of Assault For fifteen years Latin American nations collaborated in the military occupation of Haiti, but have yet to apologize for their crimes.
Sam Biddle: Twitter Surveillance Startup Targets Communities of Color for Cops Insiders say Dataminr’s “algorithmic” Twitter search involves human staffers perpetuating confirmation biases, searching specific neighborhoods, streets, and even housing complexes for crime.
Tithi Bhattachary: Capitalism Made Women Of Color More Vulnerable To The COVID Recession Black women and Latinas have performed the bulk of the essential work during lockdown and borne the brunt of the recession.
Labor:
Economy:
Fred Real Gross Domestic Product Q3 2020: -2.8%
The Dow Has Lost 1,815 Points in the Past Three Trading Sessions: The Wall of Worry It Was Climbing Has Become a Wall of Chaos On Monday the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 650 points. On Tuesday, the Dow lost another 222 points. Yesterday, the Dow closed near the lows of the day, plunging 943 points by the closing bell. The pain was broad-based with only one of the Dow’s 30 component stocks closing in the green: that was The Travelers Companies, a property and casualty insurer. Market sentiment has turned bearish in no small part because of the unrelenting pandemic, the lack of a new stimulus bill from Congress, and the selloff in oil. All three are interrelated. As of 7:40 a.m. this morning, West Texas Intermediate (the U.S. domestic crude) was trading at $35.90, down 4 percent on the day and down 10 percent from its $40 handle last week. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
Poland: Judicial Ban on Abortion is An Attack on the Working Class! 22 October 2020 will go down in history as the day when, after years of attacks on women’s rights, the right finally got its way and drastically curtailed the right to abortion in Poland. This time, it was not the legislature or the executive that became a tool in the hands of conservatives, but the judiciary that is so cherished by the opposition.Those who are to uphold the constitution and interpret it – that is, the judges of the Constitutional Tribunal – turned out to be pure reactionaries. Do we need more emphatic proof that the entire bourgeois system of the Third Polish Republic is anti-woman, anti-worker and anti-human? According to the official interpretation, the cornerstone of this state – that is, its basic law – orders women to give birth against their will. They must bring to the world children marred with terrible deformities and diseases, only to die in agony, causing incurable trauma to their parents. By Jan Żarski
BLM Stands With #Endsars Movement in Nigeria Black Lives Matter (BLM) leaders from many organisations and alliances in the United States have expressed strong support for Nigerian students and working people in their #ENDSARS protests against state violence. More than 69 civilians were shot dead on October 20-21. Twelve people were killed in the Nigerian capital Lagos and 57 in other cities. Nigerian president Muhammad Buhari said the security forces were responding to “hooliganism” and used “extreme restraint”. He called the protesters “thugs” and criminals. By Malik Miah
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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