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Capitalism Is a Threat to Humanity! The ‘Tipping Point’ Has Come!
‘Biggest Story in the World Right Now’: Humanity Has Flipped Amazon From Carbon Sink to Source The findings, said one expert, “show that the uncertain future is happening now.” Though recent research has elevated concerns about the Amazon putting more CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than it absorbs, the new findings, published in the journal Nature, were presented as a “first” by scientists and climate reporters. 
Daily News Digest July 16, 2021
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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 of the Day:
“The collective wealth of the small group of people inside that Sun Valley resort is estimated to be a trillion dollars – meaning that confiscating it all could end homelessness in America for the next decade, with a few hundred billion left over. Instead of pursuing this obviously good idea, we opt instead to leave all of that wealth in the hands of the rich, so that Sun Valley attendees Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson can use it to race one another to become the biggest asshole ever to go to space.” — Tariq Ali
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 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!
Palestinian Feminists Are Resisting Colonization by Fighting Sexual Violence Earlier this summer, several news outlets reported that the Palestinian American Community Center (PACC) in New Jersey, where Palestinian Americans gather for community organizing, civic engagement and humanitarian relief efforts was “bombarded with threats for 7 hours.” Yet perhaps due to the patriarchal culture underlying the U.S. media, the news reporters did not give much focus to the highly gendered and sexualized nature of these threats, which were laced with language about sexual violence and rape: Caller: “Is this the terrorist community center?” Caller: “I’m going to come rape you and give you a taste of your own medicine.” 
Who Authorizes America’s Wars and Why Do They Never End? War is a cancer on our democracy. Sometimes, as I consider America’s never-ending wars of this century, I can’t help thinking of those lyrics from the Edwin Starr song, “(War, huh) Yeah! (What is it good for?) Absolutely nothing!” I mean, remind me, what good have those disastrous, failed, still largely ongoing conflicts done for this country? Or for you? Or for me?
Sports Teams: the Everlasting Tax Shelter for Billionaires Remember the Everlasting Gobstopper from Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory? It was a candy for children with “very little pocket money.” It lasted forever, never getting smaller, and was perpetually flavorful. There’s a non-fiction equivalent, except it’s not for children — or anyone else — with “very little pocket money.” Or even average pocket money. Actually, it’s only for billionaires, or perhaps a centi-millionaire or two. We call it the Everlasting Tax Shelter, but it’s more commonly known as a sports team/
Environment:
How Promoting Nuclear Energy is The Opposite 0f Climate Action Why former climate deniers pivot to cheerleading for big nuke. Nuclear investment not only delivers a hell of a lot less bang for your buck in terms of decarbonizing, but it excels at one thing: diverting investment away from genuinely viable solutions.
Hotter Worlds Cut Humans’ Size − And Their Brains? In a greenhouse world, humans’ size could shrink. And there is a hint of hazard to thinking capacity as well. As global temperatures rise, humankind might be about to shrink small − and possibly even think small. New research has once again linked creatures’ stature, including humans’ size, with climate conditions and, less certainly, brain size.
Black Liberation/Civil Rights:
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Biden Is Silent on Filibuster as Texas Dems Face Arrest to Protect Voting Rights Austin, Texas—Texas Democrats and progressive voting rights advocates at the state capitol expressed disappointment Tuesday after President Joe Biden’s speech on voting rights at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia failed to mention the Senate filibuster. The president remained silent on the issue even as he framed this year’s wave of state-level voter suppression laws as “the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War.”
Rights Groups Fight Back Against ‘Punitive and Unjust’ Anti-Protest Law in Florida “H.B. 1 is undemocratic legislation that has stifled our constitutional rights by obstructing the activity of Black community organizers. H.B.1 must be repealed, abolished, or simply outlawed.”
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist: Freedom Rider: U.S. Out of Haiti!
The United States playing any role in Haiti’s future is akin to the fox being left in charge of the henhouse.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor:
What Did We Learn from the CPC’s 100th Anniversary? Leadership Matters
There is a lesson to be learned from the differences in recent U.S. and Chinese historical celebrations.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review:DOCUMENT: James Weldon Johnson, Self-Determining Haiti, 1920 Iin 1920, Self-Determining Haiti remains a remarkable example of investigative journalism and advocacy and a damning testament to the perils and pitfalls of US military interventi
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence: Pigment of your Imagination: Black magic mascots, props and sops? Could the pigment of your imagination cause Black magic mascots, props, sops— Black faces in high places— to short-circuit electrical gray spaces?
Ajamu Baraka, BAR Editor and columnist: Defend the Cuba Revolution and Struggle for More Socialism, Not Less! Millions have turned away from the illusions and corruption of capitalism toward the possibility of organizing a society informed by the values of cooperation, equality, community, peace, and life.
Branko Marcetic: The Julian Assange Media Blackout Must End Embarrassed by revelations, the Biden administration has now offered several “assurances” they would allow Assange to apply for transfer to a prison in his home country of Australia to serve out hi
Erica X Eisen: Blackness and the Bomb Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it is long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts during the Cold War.
Sarah Leonard: How Amazon Exploited a Weakened America Amazon will not stop squeezing every drop from workers until those workers have more power.
Ximena Bustillo: “Rampant Issues”: Black Farmers are Still Left Out at USDA Farmers of color received less than one percent of the payments even though they are five percent of all U.S. farmers.
Labor:
Economy:
U.S.-China Near-War Status Report It’s the summer of 2026, five years after the Biden administration identified the People’s Republic of China as the principal threat to U.S. security and Congress passed a raft of laws mandating a society-wide mobilization to ensure permanent U.S. domination of the Asia-Pacific region. Although major armed conflict between the United States and China has not yet broken out, numerous crises have erupted in the western Pacific and the two countries are constantly poised for war. International diplomacy has largely broken down, with talks over climate change, pandemic relief, and nuclear nonproliferation at a standstill. For most security analysts, it’s not a matter of if a U.S.-China war will erupt, but when.
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!
‘Texas Style Justice’: Texas Offers $10,000 to Private Citizens to Enforce Abortion Ban
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!
World: