Daily News Digest Archives
Images Of the Day:
Latuff Global Solidarity With Palestine
Capitalism Does Not Care if Older People Die: Old People Arn’t Profitable Workers!: Covid Deaths by Age
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!
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 of the Day:
Carl Sagan. Sadist Lessons of History
The Other Main Similarity With The Influenza Pandemic Is Something That Is Perhaps The Ultimate Inequality: Lives And Deaths That Are Not Even Recorded At All. The Official Numbers Of Those Testing Positive For Covid-19 In Most Countries Have Been Hugely Underestimated — Not Least Because Rich Countries Bought Almost All The Tests. In Kenya, The Government Is Still Testing About 3,000 People A Day, And Tests Cost As Much As $100. The UK Is Testing A Million People A Day. The Economist Magazine Estimates That The True Death Toll From Covid-19 So Far Is More Like 10 Million People, Not 3 Million, And That Two Thirds Of These Deaths Have Not Been In Rich Nations But In Poor And Middle-Income Countries. In Egypt, The Level Of Excess Deaths (The Difference In The Total Number Of Deaths In A Crisis Compared To Those Expected Under Normal Conditions) Is 13 Times The Number Of Official Deaths From Covid-19. Yet The Story Of The Last Year Has Been Dominated By Deaths In Rich Nations, And The History Of The First Year Of This Pandemic Is Likely To Be So Too. This Inequality In Reporting And Measuring, Leading To The Sense That This Pandemic Was Not Very Serious In The Developing World Over The Last Year, Has In Turn Had A Major Impact On The Response. The Drive To Get Vaccines To The Developing World Has Been Criminally Inadequate And Continues To Be So. — Inequalities Are Shaping How The Pandemic Is Being Fought
Videos 0f the Day:
Biden Is Going “Full Steam Ahead” on Trump’s Nuclear Weapons Spending Plans
The True Price of Coal Over 1,000 union coal miners in Brookwood, Alabama, have been on strike since April 1. While industries around the world depend on the coal these workers pull out of the ground, few know the toll this work
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!
‘No Climate, No Deal’: Dems Warn Biden Against Cutting Green Energy From Infrastructure Plan Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Mitch McConnell and the Koch brothers are not worth setting the planet on fire for,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “Biden and Senate Dems should take a step back and ask themselves if playing patty-cake with GOP senators is really worth the dismantling of people’s voting rights, setting the planet on fire, allowing massive corporations and the wealthy to not pay their fair share of taxes, etc.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Mitch McConnell and the Koch brothers are not worth setting the planet on fire for,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. By Jake Johnson
The 1%. By Definition, Are Anti-Democracy! AOC Blasts Manchin for Dark Money Ties, Suggests He’s “Intertwined” With Kochs Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) on Tuesday questioned whether Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-West Virginia) stated reasons for opposing voting rights legislation and filibuster abolition are as straightforward as he claims they are. Manchin claimed in an op-ed this weekend that he is against Democrats’ marquee voting rights legislation, the For the People Act, also known as H.R.1 or S.1, because Republicans are opposed to it, and therefore, it’s not bipartisan. But Ocasio-Cortez says that she doesn’t believe that that’s the real reason behind Manchin obstructing the legislation. “H.R.1 stands up against lobbyists and dark money. I would reckon to think that this is probably just as much a part of Joe Manchin’s calculus as anything else,” casio-Cortez told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Tuesday. “Because when it comes to this bipartisan argument, I gotta tell you, I don’t buy it. Because Joe Manchin has voted for bills that have not been bipartisan before — look at the American Rescue Plan.” By Sharon Zhang
The NYPD is Still Stopping And Frisking Black People at Disproportionate Rates When New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was running for his job eight years ago, pitching himself as a champion of progressive values and police reformer, he promised to end “a stop-and-frisk era that unfairly targets people of color.” Last week, as a crowded field of mayoral candidates sparred about public safety and policing during the first in-person forum of this campaign season, the infamous New York Police Department practice was back on the debate stage. Some candidates claimed credit for their role in ending it, while others accused their competitors of wanting to return to the days when officers stopped, questioned, and searched tens of thousands of mostly Black and Latino New Yorkers. But stop-and-frisk never actually ended, and New Yorkers of color have continued to bear the brunt of it — even last year, when the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the city and many of its residents stayed home. By Alice Speri
Environment: 
THE BIG CON: ‘Net zero’ Emissions is a Dangerous Hoax Corporate ‘climate pledges’ mask inaction and support business as usual A new report published Wednesday by a trio of progressive advocacy groups lifts the veil on so-called “net zero” climate pledges, which are often touted by corporations and governments as solutions to the climate emergency, but which the paper’s authors argue are merely a dangerous form of greenwashing that should be eschewed in favor of Real Zero policies based on meaningful, near-term commitments to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The Big Con: How Big Polluters Are Advancing a ‘Net Zero’ Climate Agenda to Delay, Deceive, and Deny was published by Corporate Accountability, the Global Forest Coalition, and Friends of the Earth International, and is endorsed by over 60 environmental organizations. The paper comes ahead of this November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland and amid proliferating pledges from polluting corporations and governments to achieve what they claim is carbon neutrality—increasingly via dubious offsets—by some distant date, often the year 2050. By Brett Wilkins
A Massive Fish Kill Continues on Klamath River The Karuk Tribe in Northern California has declared a state of climate emergency in response to record low precipitation in the Klamath Basin as a massive juvenile salmon kill unfolds on the Klamath River. “This emergency declaration acknowledges the reality that climate change is upon us, and the dangers that it poses to rivers, forests, wildlife and communities,” according to the Tribe in their “Resolution Declaring a State of Emergency Due to Climate Change.” The resolution points out “there has been a consensus among 97% of Climate scientists that Climate Change is a reality.”It also said the Karuk Tribe’s fish monitoring efforts currently detect a greater than 95% prevalence of infection among Chinook and Coho Salmon. By Dan Bacher
Oil Drilling in the ‘Land of Water’: ExxonMobil Hunts for More Fossil Fuels in Guyana Amid Sea Level Rise Fears ExxonMobil says a 9 billion barrel oilfield off the low-lying South American nation’s coast could soon outpace Permian production. ExxonMobil says a 9 billion barrel oilfield off the low-lying South American nation’s coast could soon outpace Permian production. By Sharon Kelly
Towards a Fuller Awareness About Our Endangered World In “Under a White Sky,” Elizabeth Kolbert’s conversational prose draws readers across earth’s land, waters and air, animating a prismatic what’s-what of human follies and their unintended consequences. Elizabeth Kolbert tells startling stories from all over the globe. Her latest book, “Under A White Sky: The Nature of the Future,” stays her signature course. If you’re up for being shaken into fuller awareness about our endangered world —via a time-traveling chronicle of “the people trying to solve problems created by people trying to solve problems”—there are few more competent or companionable guides. Kolbert’s conversational prose draws readers across earth’s land, waters and air, animating a prismatic what’s-what of human follies and their unintended consequences. Metaphor, mythology, and literary references often frame the science, underlining life’s beautiful essences under threat. She mines past and present debacles due to ignorance, arrogance, and or finesses a remarkable amount of detail and background into her text. Reviewed By Louise Rubacky
Pathway to Global Climate Catastrophe is Clear Global climate catastrophe could be nearer than we think. New research suggests how it could happen. Here is a set of circumstances that could trigger global climate catastrophe. The Greenland ice sheet could begin a process of irreversible melting. As it does, greater quantities of fresh water would flood into the Arctic Ocean, to further slow the already slowing Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, that great flow of water sometimes called the Gulf Stream that distributes warmth from the tropics. But as the Atlantic flow weakens, so rises the probability of increased and sustained drought and dieback in the Amazon rainforest: the entire region could begin to tip inexorably into savannah. By Tim Radford
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
Black Agenda Report
Freedom Rider: The Truth About Defunding Police
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
“Defunding” the police has often turned out to be an accounting trick, but community control of police – a righteous demand – must also ensure that all government functions address human needs.
Corporate Think Tank Reveals How Profit-Driven Motives Drive New Cold War against China
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
The same report paradoxically acknowledges the failure of the economic model the U.S. has tried to impose on the rest of the world.
TRANSCRIPT: Gerald Horne: Haiti and African Liberation in the Americas
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
The Haitian Revolution was not only a victory for the millions of enslaved Africans in the Americas, it was a victory for all working class people.”
Prelude to War? The US/NATO, Egypt, and Ethiopian Sovereignty
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Ethiopian American activist and community organizer Benyam Kitaw tells Ann Garrison that US hostility toward Ethiopia could lead to further sanctions, economic pressure, and perhaps even war.
Ladee Blu: Another Monroe Doctrine delivery system / Raytheon’s Craven Raven
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Co-signing for mass murder ‘Mowing the grass…’
Ladee Blu dissemenating The Monroe Doctrine — this is what
Black faces in high places looks like:
From Black Wall Street to Black Capitalism
Too Black
Contrary to the Black capitalist myth, most Greenwood residents were low wage working people employed by whites and living in substandard housing.
How to Wreck a Black Nation In the Age of “Black Lives Matter”
Taytu Bitul
Today’s colonialists recruit Black politicians and Black terrorist groups who are willing to play along.
“New Bones” Abolitionism, Communism, and Captive Maternals
Joy James
Joy James uses poet Lucille Clifton’s image of “new bones” to reflect on a series of revolutionary anniversaries in 2021 and the nature of political leadership.
BAR Book Forum: Rachel Afi Quinn’s “Being La Dominicana”
Rachel Afi Quinn
Dominican racial logic frequently contradicts what US scholars think they know about how race works.
BAR Book Forum: Tiffany N. Florvil’s “Mobilizing Black Germany”
Tiffany N. Florvil
Black History Month strengthened Black German claims of kinship with their nation and the larger diaspora..
The Great “Awokening” and Ruling Class Uses for Racial Grievance Discourse
Pascal Robert
The Black political class is wedded to the centrist Democrats for its “fatback and biscuits” patronage.
Jail Populations Back Up After COVID-19
Weihua Li, Beth Schwartzapfel, Michael R. Sisak and Camille Fassett
Judges, prosecutors and sheriffs in many states sent people home instead of to jail last year, but new data suggests the change is not lasting.
Exposing the Motive for the Sudden Wave of Attacks on Schools That Teach Critical Race Theory
Jeff Bryant
What appears to be a dispute about academics is really a political tactic in the ongoing campaign to privatize public schools.
Leftist Anti-Anti-Imperialism: Supporting Imperialism but with Caveats
Roger D. Harris
The phony Left dabbles in R2P interventions and claims the world is plagued by a plethora of imperialisms, thus letting the superpower and its allies off the hook.
AFRICOM Military’s Exercise: The Art of Creating New Pretexts for Propagating US Interests
Pavan Kulkami
An AFRICOM-sponsored military exercise in the Mediterranean Sea, ostensibly to combat “irregular migration” and trafficking, is really about further militarizing Africa.
New Investigation Reveals Role of Israeli Operatives in Colombia’s “Political Genocide”
Dan Cohen
Known as the “Red Dance,” the systematic murder of the Patriotic Union in Colombia was apparently concocted by one of the most decorated spies in Israeli history.
Labor:
These Charts Prove That Workers Are Not Keeping Up With the Rise In the Cost of Living!FRED Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average
World:
Education, Health, Science, and Welfare: