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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!
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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Given the existing class distribution as it regards race, the fiscal austerity on which Mr. Biden built his career has already diminished the economic lots of Blacks more than Whites. This wasn’t necessarily the result of racist intent. Poor and working-class people receive a larger percentage of their income from social spending than the rich. Bill Clinton’s cuts in social spending in the 1990s caused a large increase in deep poverty in the 2000s. The concept that the fiscal austerity that Joe Biden fetishizes produces disparate outcomes that disproportionately harm Blacks is apparently difficult for bourgeois Whites to grasp. But the failure to understand it will have serious consequences for economically vulnerable people. — Rob Urie, Liberalism, Class and the Politics of Austerity
To those who believe that government conspiracies can’t possibly happen, Day Of Deceit could prove to them otherwise. Stinnett’s well-documented book makes a convincing case that the highest officials of the government—including the highest official—fooled and deceived millions of Americans about one of the most important days in the history of the country. It now has to be considered one of the most definitive—if not the definitive—book on the subject. Gore Vidal has said, “…Robert Stinnet has come up with most of the smoking guns. Day Of Deceit shows that the famous ‘surprise’ attack was no surprise to our war-minded rulers…” And John Toland, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Pearl Harbor book, Infamy, said, “Step by step, Stinnett goes through the prelude to war, using new documents to reveal the terrible secrets that have never been disclosed to the public. It is disturbing that eleven presidents, including those I admired, kept the truth from the public until Stinnett’s Freedom of Information Act requests finally persuaded the Navy to release the evidence.” — Do Freedom of Information Act Files Prove FDR Had Foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor?
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!
New Version But Same Old Permanent War President: Because She Was Wrong About Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Libya, Daniel Ellsberg Joins Campaign Against Flournoy Declaring that “we do not need a hawk with relationships with the weapons industry,” Nobel Prize-winning peace activist Jody Williams also urged Biden not to pick Michèle Flournoy as defense secretary. Legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and Nobel Prize-winning peace activist Jody Williams on Friday both joined a grassroots progressive campaign urging President-elect Joe Biden not to nominate Michèle Flournoy as his Pentagon chief, warning her ties to the weapons industry, hawkish record, and current positions disqualify her for the powerful role. By Jake Johnson
How Racist Capitalism Fuels COVID Long before Donald Trump, racial capitalism had doomed North America’s attempt to meet the challenge of the Covid pandemic. Yet in the middle of the pandemic when Black Lives Matter protests broke out, it seemed reasonable to demand the impossible – an end to profit-driven white supremacy. These two pivotal events graphically reveal our competing realities. By Scott Weinstein
The DSA’s Dirty Break Strategy: A Balance The “dirty break” is the name of the strategy advanced by the Democratic Socialists of America’s self-styled Marxist pole, the Bread & Roses caucus. In essence, the dirty break idea is to run socialists on the Democratic Party ballot line with the aim of consolidating sufficient forces to break off and form a social democratic party at some undetermined point in the future. With the Democratic Party underperforming in the November 3 election, what lessons have the Dirty Break Socialists (henceforth DBS) learned and what path forward do they envision? For the DBS and the rest of the DSA, the election day delivered a bad outcome for Democrats overall, but it was a good night for the left and, in particular, for democratic socialism. In support of this idea, they cite the success of DSA-endorsed candidates and ballot initiatives. From a Marxist perspective, however, deeper questions need to be asked than whether this or that candidate for office won an election. Are these successes increasing working class confidence and power? Are they heightening proletarian class consciousness and independence? Do they advance the socialist movement beyond electoralism? The answer to all of these key questions is no. By Ahmed K.
Environment:
12 Major Impacts of Global Climate Change in 2020 Every year since 1993, the World Meteorological Organization has issued a report on the State of the Global Climate for the previous year. The provisional text of the report on State of the Global Climate 2020, released this week for discussion and review, shows that climate change continued its relentless march in 2020, which is on track to be one of the three warmest years on record. The World Meteorological Organization’s draft report on global climate change in 2020 describes continued deterioration on all fronts. Every year since 1993, the World Meteorological Organization has issued a report on the State of the Global Climate for the previous year. The provisional text of the report on State of the Global Climate 2020, released this week for discussion and review, shows that climate change continued its relentless march in 2020, which is on track to be one of the three warmest years on record.
The Risks Posed by Water Privatization In the Public Interest | July 2020 ongress is currently considering the Voluntary Partnership for Distressed Water Systems Act (S 2596) as part of America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2020. This legislation contains incentives that could compel struggling water systems to enter into risky privatization schemes. Moreover, the bill waives enforcement actions for three years after entering into a privatization contract, with no mechanisms to ensure that the system complies with important water regulations. Water privatization has often proven to be harmful to communities, workers, and the environment, and simply cannot and should not be relied on to help struggling water systems. By In the Public Interest
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
Remembering The Politics Of Fred Hampton’s Assassination By Chicago Police The Chicago Police Department, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and even the FBI played nefarious roles in the killing. Fred Hampton, one of the major figures in the original Black Panther Party that rose to prominence during the civil rights era in the 1960s, was assassinated on Dec. 4, 1969. Friday marks the 51st year since he was killed by police in an example of the politics of law enforcement using unnecessary force against Black men — an unfortunate trend that has lingered for centuries in America and continues to thrive in 2020.
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor: BLM Chapters Demand “Accountability” from Trio that Cashed in on the Movement Ten chapters of the national Black Lives Matter organization are in open revolt against the individuals that have treated the mass movement as their personal vehicle for upward political, professional and financial advancement.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor: Ethiopia: Civil War and Nation Building in the 21st Century In light of the Ethiopian central government’s military clash with regional forces in Tigray province, Ann Garrison speaks with a member of the Oromo people, the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist: Freedom Rider: Israel and the U.S. Assassinate Peace Israel and Saudi Arabia are doing everything in their power to prevent Biden from rejoining the nuclear agreement — and Biden’s team has nothing to say.
Black Agenda Review Team: The Black Agenda Review: A Manifesto of First Principles The Black Agenda Review will function as a weekly supplement to the regular editorial content of the Black Agenda Report.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist: Will This Be the Radicalization of Black Lives Matter? Ten Black Lives Matter chapters are demanding that those who have amassed millions of dollars in the movement’s name submit to both a financial and political accounting.
Jerusalem Demsas: How tevent Up to 40 Million People from Being Evicted Millions of Americans face eviction in a “completely predictable and entirely preventable” crisis as the CDC’s moratorium is set to expire on New Year’s Eve.
Seth Sandronsky: Study Shows Blacks and Latinos Make Up Bulk of Temporary “Gig” Workers Eighty-three percent of blue-collar temp assignments are staffed by non-white workers in Illinois, a state where non-white workers are just 35 percent of the workforce.
Andrew King: Woke Capitalism: The Poison Pill of Liberal Anti-Racism Both capitalist parties, and members of the black misleadership class, intentionally play the game of racial politics in order to obscure and ignore issues of class and poverty.
Peoples Dispatch Staff:
It’s Payback Time for Bolivian Socialists The newly elected MAS government has opened investigations against several members of the coup-regime that seized power last year.
Peoples Dispatch Staff: It’s Payback Time for Bolivian Socialists The newly elected MAS government has opened investigations against several members of the coup-regime that seized power last year\
Judi Rever and Benedict Moran: Top-Secret Testimonies Implicate Rwanda’s President in War Crimes Previously suppressed evidence shows that dictator Paul Kagame’s forces slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Hutus – the other side of the Rwandan genocide.
Labor:
Economy:
OCC Says JPMorgan Chase Has $29.1 Trillion of Custody Assets; That’s $8 Trillion More than the Assets of All Banks in the U.S. On November 24 the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) fined JPMorgan Chase $250 million for wrongdoing that was apparently too deplorable to be spoken out loud to the public. The specific details were cloaked in this phrase: “failure to maintain adequate internal controls and internal audit over its fiduciary business.” By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
General Cienfuegos: the Rottenness of The Mexican State And the Hypocrisy of US Imperialism On 15 October, retired General Salvador Cienfuegos was arrested when he arrived with his family at the Los Angeles airport. The US authorities took him into custody under serious accusations of money laundering and drug trafficking. This was no ordinary arrest. Cienfuegos had served as head of the armed forces and Mexico’s Minister of Defence under Peña Nieto’s presidency in 2012-18. This incident unleashed a major diplomatic crisis between Mexico and the United States. The prestige of the Mexican army (and much else besides) was put at stake. On 20 November, the General Attorney of the United States withdrew the charges and repatriated Cienfuegos to Mexico. He has since remained scot-free.
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 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
Since World War I, ‘the war to end all wars’, there have been perpetual wars for perpetual peace, this 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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