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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!
Quotes 0f the Day:
There is a settler organization registered in the U.S. that is working tirelessly to dispossess me and my family and other people from the neighborhood. — Settlement Push in East Jerusalem Neighborhood Shows Israeli “Apartheid”
Videos of the Day:
Meet the Riot Squad: Right-Wing Reporters Whose Viral Videos are Used to Smear BLM In the year since George Floyd’s murder, conservative news outlets have endlessly hyped distorted stories about violence at Black Lives Matter protests. Key videos they used come from a tight-knit group of eight young journalists.
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 ownershipof the Reublicrats, who profit from war and the war budget, voted 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. Tax the Rich! — They Can Afford To Pay!
“[The] Biden administration must be held accountable for being complicit in escalating the violence and failing to prevent civilian deaths and suffering.” —Jamil Dakwar, ACLU” : ‘Criminal Complicity’: Outrage as Biden Pushes $735 Million Weapons Sale to Israel Amid Gaza Slaughter “Approving more weapons to Israel would add fuel to the fire and would only embolden Israel to continue its bombardments on Gaza.” Human rights advocates warned Monday that the Biden administration is deepening U.S. complicity in the Netanyahu regime’s ongoing massacre of civilians in Gaza by attempting to push through a $735 million sale of so-called “precision-guided weapons” to Israel. By Jake Johnson
Tax-Exempt U.S. Nonprofits Fuel Israeli Settler Push To Evict Palestinians U.S. charities are funding Israeli settler organizations working to evict Palestinians from their East Jerusalem homes. On may 6, right-wing Israeli officials descended on Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, to show their support for the settler movement’s push to displace Palestinian residents and take their homes. One of the officials was Aryeh King, a deputy mayor of Jerusalem and settler who lives in the Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amud. In an exchange caught on camera, King mocked Palestinian activist Mohammed Abu Hummus for being shot by Israeli forces in his backside, and then, pointing at his head, said, “It’s a pity it didn’t go in here.” It was a wish for the death of a Palestinian. The remarks turned a spotlight on King’s involvement in the saga of Sheikh Jarrah, the Palestinian neighborhood targeted by Israeli settlers that is at the heart of the current crisis in Israel-Palestine. The impending removal of Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah fueled tensions in Jerusalem, which spiraled out of the holy city into Gaza and the rest of Israel-Palestine. Israeli airstrikes are now blanketing Gaza, with Palestinian groups firing rockets back; both Jewish and Palestinian mobs are roaming cities in Israel, beating up whoever they can find. King is one of the players, among others, who has stoked tensions in Sheikh Jarrah, the site of a long-simmering crisis. In 2007, King started the Israel Land Fund, and since then, the group has worked to buy land in Palestinian neighborhoods throughout occupied East Jerusalem to sell to Jewish settlers. The Israel Land Fund isn’t trying to dominate East Jerusalem by itself. It’s doing it with the help of private American donors, who get tax deductions for the money they give to U.S.-based nonprofits who funnel the money to Israeli settlements. The overwhelming majority of the Israel Land Fund’s budget comes from the Central Fund of Israel, a U.S.-based nonprofit. By Alex Kane
The 1%’s Media Monopoly ‘Big Lies’ are Leading the Charge For the New Jim Crow, Against Freedom of the Press, Freedom of Assembly, and the Great Economic Divide!
The author fails or refuses to explain that the mass media is the property of the capitalist class and an instrument of that class. The recent consolidations, revealed by this book, have now made this fact abundantly clear. The media monopoly no longer has the “fig leaf” of honesty and journalistic integrity. For example, one program that always tried to give the impression of “journalistic integrity” was the CBS show 60 Minutes. The current reality of this program was exposed by the movie The Insider. (In that movie the show’s producers rolled over for the tobacco monopoly.) In the past few years, Monsanto has been able to call upon their corporate class brothers to disrupt the publication of books and to prevent broadcast journalists to expose the problems of their genetically engineered bioproducts. It is now close to impossible to get the truth published by the main stream publishing houses. Investigative reporters, authors and scientists have to go to small publishing houses that cannot reach large sections of the population. The “War on Terrorism” is also the demonstration of manufactured news. If you click from TV channel to TV channel, you see the same news. The Orwellian concepts that “War is Peace,””Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength,” are the messages of the day, as world imperialism terrorizes oppressed nations with bombs, cluster bombs, and radioactivity, and attacks upon the Bill of Rights to “Defend Democracy.” Last years “Freedom Fighters” are “Today’s Terrorists” and possibly next year’s “Freedom Fighters” once again! — 2002 Roland Sheppard, The Media Monopoly
Environment:
Asia’s Cities are Worst Hit in Warming World Climate change, water shortage and pollution are worst for Asia’s cities, researchers say. The rest of us have a lucky escape. It’s bad news for residents of Jakarta. People living in Delhi, Chennai or Wuhan do not fare much better. A new study has found that a wide range of environmental and climate change threats are worst for Asia’s cities, with the rest of the planet getting off more lightly. The study, by the analysis and forecasting group Verisk Maplecroft, looks primarily at the risks posed to businesses operating and investing in various urban centres.Based on such factors as pollution, a lack of water, extreme heat and general vulnerability to climate change, 99 of the 100 most risk-prone cities in the world are in Asia, with the Indonesian capital Jakarta topping the list and cities in India close behind. By Kieran C
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
Activists Push for Charges to Be Dropped Against Demonstrators for Black Lives In early June 2020, a young Black mother who had just finished grocery shopping with her husband and 2-year-old child in Austin, Texas, was abducted by agents in an unmarked vehicle as part of a joint mission launched by the FBI and the Texas Department of Public Safety in cooperation with former Austin District Attorney Margaret Moore. After arresting her in the parking lot, she faced a state jail felony for burglary and a rioting charge for allegedly livestreaming a protest outside of a Target in solidarity with Black liberation uprisings in May, according to the Drop the Charges coalition, a decentralized network of organizations and individuals supporting those criminalized for uprisings against police brutality. Her bail was set at around $10,000, her attorney George Lobb told Truthout. Ella Fassler
Labor:
Economy:
The Economic Results of Aparthide and Bombs: The Unending Nightmare of Gaza The bombs rain down on Gaza city and the rest of the strip compounding the nightmare that Gaza is already for the people living there. Gaza, measuring 375 square kilometers (145 square miles) is home to around 2 million Palestinians, more than half of them refugees. Since 2007, the besieged enclave has been under a crippling Israeli and Egyptian blockade that has gutted its economy and deprived its inhabitants of many vital commodities, including food, fuel and medicine. The people of Gaza have been confined to the enclave of the Strip and subject to a land, air and sea embargo. The entry of goods has been reduced to a minimum, while external trade and exports have been stopped. Meanwhile, the population has very limited access to safe water and lack of regular electricity supply or even a proper sewage system. The poverty rate in the Gaza Strip has reached 80% during the more than decade-long Israeli blockade, according to the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions. In addition, 77% of homes in Gaza have been destroyed and damaged by Israeli attacks leaving thousands of families homeless or displaced amid a crippled reconstruction process, according to Anne Jellema, head of Run4, a Netherlands-based relief foundation. Unemployment and poverty is pretty bad in the whole of the West Bank but it is much worse in Gaza, where the poverty rate as defined by the World Bank (with a very low threshold) was 56% in 2018 compared to 19% in the West Bank and with two-thirds of young people unemployed. Moreover, people in Gaza suffer from much deeper poverty, with a “poverty gap”—the ratio between the average income of the poor and the poverty line—almost six times the level in the West Bank. These figures have been compiled by UNCTAD in a comprehensive report. By Michael Roberts
Are Record-Setting Commodity Prices a Result of Demand or Futures Manipulation? During the current month of May, 2021, the following commodities have all set record high prices: lumber, iron ore, steel and copper. The volatility in the price of lumber this month has looked not all that dissimilar to the crazy price swings in the shares of GameStop, which have been under investigation for months by the U.S. Senate Banking and House Financial Services Committees. Thus far, however, there have been no announced hearings into what is causing these wild moves in commodity prices. From 2016 through 2019, lumber prices traded between $300 and $600 per 1,000 board feet. During just this month, however, lumber has spiked to as high as $1,733.50. It closed on Friday at $1,390. These skyrocketing prices in commodities are more than a little peculiar. The federal government believes that the economy of the U.S. is at such grave risk that Congress needed to infuse $1.9 trillion into the economy in a stimulus bill passed just two months ago. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
This Must End I am writing this letter looking at my terrified 6-year old son, who keeps putting his hands over his ears trying to block the sounds of Israel’s bombardment, my two daughters, aged 13 and 10 and my wife. These faces show the anxiety of not knowing where they can be safe now. My two older sons, 16 and 15, sit stunned and silent and I know they are reliving the memories of the previous three offensives on Gaza Strip and the family members we lost. These are the feelings that every family in the Gaza strip are living through. By Dr Yasser Abu Jamei
Settlement Push in East Jerusalem Neighborhood Shows Israeli “Apartheid” Opinions are shifting on the contentious label — and Israeli settlers’ threat to evict a Palestinian family in Sheikh Jarrah show why. Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, was on national U.S. television several times last week. After appearing on CNN, MSNBC, and “Democracy Now!,” El-Kurd was accosted by Israeli soldiers and forced out of his neighborhood. The dramatic video ricocheted around the internet. On Thursday, El-Kurd was back on U.S. television. “Thank God for social media,” he told “Democracy Now!,” “because it appears to me that the world is finally waking up to the fact that Israel is an apartheid state and it treats Palestinians with such dehumanization.” By Dalia Hatuqa
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
Another Example Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capilalism Was Aware of the Danger of Cornovavirus Threat Over 5 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!
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!
