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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 (Fascism)! 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:
“If commitments fall short at the end of this COP, countries must revisit their national climate plans and policies – not every five years (but) every year and every moment.”
“Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink. We face a stark choice: Either we stop it — or it stops us. It’s time to say: enough.”
“Enough of brutalizing biodiversity. Enough of killing ourselves with carbon. Enough of treating nature like a toilet. Enough of burning and drilling and mining our way deeper.”
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, 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! Every ‘Tax. Reform’ From President Kennedy has Been an incrase in taxes from the Poor,the Woking Class, and the Middle Class, to the Rich! —The United States takes from the poor and gives to the Rich. Tax the Rich! — They Can Afford To Pay!
Tax the 1% not the 99%!: Who gets taxed and how much is a class issue. The labor bureaucracy, in their partnership with Capital and the Democratic Party does not think so! they would not be able sell support for ‘lessor evill’the Democrats. Every tax ‘reform’ since President Eisenhower has been a shift in the from taxes from the 99% t0 the 1%! Due this treachery and Default , Taxation has been used by the right, as an issue to oppose education and social services etc.! (Workers have not gotten a real wage increase since the 1972 wage price freeze!) See Shadow Government Statistics Real Average Weekly Earnings
Those That Govern, Profit From Global Warming!: One in Four US Senators Still Hold Fossil Fuel Investments Even as World Burns Reporting reveals the households of at least 28 senators own a combined minimum of $3.7 million and as much as $12.6 million in fossil fuel assets. As President Joe Biden aims to assure the world that the United States will fulfill its promise to slash its greenhouse gas emissions in half from 2005 levels by the end of the decade, a new report published Friday reveals that the members of the U.S. Senate who would have to pass climate legislation are heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry.
Millions of workers and youth in the US are fed up with the two parties of the capitalist class: the Republicans and the Democrats. The lack of a mass working-class party leaves voters with little real choice: either vote for one of the ruling class’s parties; cast a protest vote for a tiny third party; or abstain altogether. But why is there no mass workers’ party in the US? Why have past attempts to build one failed? What lessons can we learn from history to change this in the future? By reviewing the major political battles in the history of the US class struggle, Tom Trottier shows that workers in this country have taken the road of class independence many times before—only to be held back and betrayed by leaders and organizations that were not up to the tasks before them. By drawing out the lessons from these struggles and learning from the mistakes that were made, a new generation of revolutionaries can prepare for the turbulent times ahead.” — The Fight for a Mass Workers’ Party in the US
Put bluntly, is the Democratic Party an agent of democracy, or oligarchy? The past month’s Congressional debacle confirms Aristotle description of democracy: Many states have constitutions that are democratic in form, he wrote, but actually are oligarchies. The reason, he explained, is that democracies tend to evolve into oligarchies as a result of the increasing concentration and polarization of wealth. That gives the leading families control of the political system. (In his schema, oligarchies aim at making themselves hereditary aristocracies.). The translation of wealth into political control has been accelerating since the 1980s, and almost all increase in U.S. wealth and income in the year and a half since the Covid-19 outbreak struck in spring 2020 has accrued to the One Percent in the form of rising stock, bond and real estate prices. In the non-financial economy, prices charged by the oil, pharmaceutical and IT monopolies have also increased, while housing prices have risen nearly 20 percent in the last twelve months. These sectors are the largest lobbyists and political campaign contributors. The Democratic leadership policy is to back the candidates who are able to raise the most money. For most candidates the lion’s share come from these lobbyists and special interests, for whom their donations are a business investment. Only a minority of progressive candidates have been able to raise enough in small sums from many individuals to become political players. — Is This the End of the Unreformable Democratic Party?
The End Result of ‘Lessor Evilism’ is More Evil: Democratic Moderates Aren’t the Answer to Right-Wing Republicanism. They Are the Cause. Another election, another shellacking. Democrats are returning to the political reality that predated the quantum singularity of Biden’s anti-Trump coalition: adrift, ideologically divided and, as always, arguing over whether to chase swing voters or work hard to energize their progressive left base. At the root of the Democrats’ problem is rightward drift. The 50-yard line of American politics has moved so far right that Richard Nixon would be considered a liberal Democrat today. How did we get here? In part it’s due to the moderates who control the party leadership—not just because they don’t fight for liberal values hard enough (though that’s true), but because of an intended consequence few people focus upon: their campaigning reinforces the right.
Do not Weep. For War is Profitable!: Warnings of ‘More Death and Suffering’ in Yemen as US Moves to Sell Saudis Missiles The Biden administration called the proposed sale of $650 million in air-to-air missiles “fully consistent” with its efforts to end the war that’s killed, wounded, displaced, and starved millions of Yemenis.
Sanders Slams Democrats’ Tax Break for the Wealthy as “Beyond Unacceptable” Democrats are currently considering including a tax break for the wealthy in the reconciliation bill — but Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) has rejected the proposal, calling the idea “beyond unacceptable.”
The Confederacy Votes for A White Supremacist—Is That News? It’s one freaking election. One in an off-off year in a state that was once the capital of the Confederacy. A right-wing multimillionaire who attacked the book of a Nobel Prize winner as if it were a pornographic snuff film being shown as an after-school special barely beat the corporate hack who was the sitting governor. Virginia is not a microcosm of the US as much as it is a microcosm of the South. White supremacy dies hard in a land conceived as a slavers paradise; a land whose history is based in the freedom to own other humans in perpetuity. Despite the suburban soccer moms of Fairfax County, it is the hollers of the Blue Ridge mountains, the Christian college of Lynchburg, and even the bourgeois fans of Hokie football that control the levers of power in Richmond.It’s not the end of democracy. That ended years ago. Like George Bush’s hanging chad victory in 2000 and Donald Trump’s electoral but not popular vote win in 2016, it’s just another nail in the coffin. Or like Joe Biden’s win in 2020, where the corporate leadership of the Democratic Party twisted arms, promised paydays to politicians and otherwise forced the left-leaning primary candidates into a line behind Joe. Just like it is doing now in Congress as it morphs a bill designed to help working people into one that will mostly help the corporations that give most people in Congress their true payday.
Environment: 
The Covid Pandemic Has Proven, That, Under Capitalism, Collective Action of Nations is Longer Possible! Every Solution to Potential Humancide, That Iv’e Seen, States That Collective Action is Nesessay to Prevent the Catastrophe of Severe Global Warming! To Have Collective Action A New Economic World is Necessay! — A Global Ecosocialist Society
Talking the Talk On Climate Change
Thousands Begin Youth March Through Glasgow(11/5)
Greta Thunberg Accuses World Leaders of ‘Pure Madness’ for Climate Failures at COP26 Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg on Friday branded the UN climate summit in Glasgow a “failure” during a mass protest in the Scottish city demanding swifter action from leaders to address the emergency. Thunberg said pledges from some nations made during COP26 to accelerate their emissions cuts amounted to little more than “a two-week long celebration of business as usual and blah, blah, blah”. “It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure,” she told the thousands of people at the protest
“Let’s say it without flinching: the fossil fuel industry is destroying our future. The #ClimateCrisis […] is caused by specific investments by specific people in specific things. Change those, and we can change the future”
Humanity’s Enemies: US Oil Giants Top List of Lobby Offenders Holding Back Climate Action Report into lobbying tactics names ExxonMobil and Chevron as worst, while carmaker Toyota takes thirdExxonMobil and Chevron are the world’s most obstructive organisations when it comes to governments setting climate policies, according to research into the “prolific and highly sophisticated” lobbying ploys used by the fossil fuel industry. The biggest US oil companies, as well as American Petroleum Institute, a lobby group, were found to be the worst offenders in a global report by lobbying experts at the thinktank InfluenceMap. It concluded that companies were manipulating governments to take “incredibly dangerous paths” in their approach to climate action.
Financing the Climate COP26 trundles on in Glasgow with little sign that anything significant is being agreed towards reversing global warming and ending the degradation of nature. Beneath all the media headlines, governments and corporations are not putting their money where their mouths are. The financial support for measures to reduce carbon emissions and other destruction of the environment is pitiful. In 2009, the major rich nations promised they would send at least $100bn a year in climate finance to poorer countries by 2020. That understanding formed the basis of the 2015 Paris climate accord, which aimed to limit global warming to well below 2C, ideally 1.5C. But on the eve of COP26, donor countries admitted they had missed that target in 2020. Now they expect to reach it in 2022 or 2023, years later than planned.
‘Greenwashing = Murder’: Climate Movement Marches Against Polluters’ Lies in Glasgow “I’m marching to take a stand against all companies harming the planet while offering inexcusably skewed perceptions of themselves. “In broad daylight,” warned Greta Thunberg, “we are being gaslit by corporates and governments but we are exposing the climate lies.”
Collapse Total: New Tactics and Strategies for the Climate Justice Movement As fossil fuel investment and projects jump from country to country, as their destruction-ridden profit keeps on building on the collapse of the climate, tactics and strategies on the global scale must be tried. The social alliance to take on global capitalism must be global, radical, popular, tactically, and strategically focused, while at the same time flexible and imaginative.
Civil Rights/ Black Liberation:
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Elections and the Illusion of Black Political Power Black politicians may be openly conservative or pretend leftists but their constituents rarely get what they need.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka on U.S. Ethiopian Policy Ledet Muleta is the host of Prime Media’s “Prime Time.” She spoke with Ajamu Baraka, National Organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace on October 30.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor BAR Book Forum: Kyle T. Mays’ “An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Kyle T. Mays.
Netfa Freeman Why Black Revolutionaries Must Stand with the People of Nicaragua While the US government haggles over the cost of providing basic human rights to its citizens, it is also targeting countries like Nicaragua that struggle to guarantee these rights to all of it
Pavan Kulkarni Sudanese March Yet Again, Demanding Full-Fledged Civilian Rule The people of Sudan are protesting against the US and NATO trained coup leaders. They demand civilian rule and the rights to self-determination guaranteed under international law.
Alan MacLeod The United States is Organizing a Color Revolution in Cuba for November 15
The U.S. continues its brazen attacks against the Cuban people, having announced its role in upcoming “protests” taking place on November 15.
Brett Wilkins Bolivian President Warns ‘Carbon Colonialism’ Won’t Solve Climate Crisis Bolivia’s president Luis Arce used the COP26 summit to speak against “green capitalism” offered by the rich capitalist nations and in favor of alternatives which put humanity at the center.
Salifu Mack Don’t Ignore the 2021 Tribunal on Genocide The International Tribunal on US Human Rights Abuses against Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples declared that the U.S. is still guilty of genocide, 70 years after the petition, “We Charge Genocide” was submitted to the United Nations.
Nu’man Abd al-Wahid Decolonising Dunkirk – Genocidal White Supremacists at War with Each Other The history of World War II often repeats the narrative of good vs. bad Europeans. In reality, Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium perpetrated as many atrocities as the Germans.
Labor:
Shadow Government Statists Alternate Unemployment Charts October 2021 ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment is 25.1% The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers. The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment.
Since June 2009 Americans have lived in the false reality of a recovering economy. Various fake news and manipulated statistics have been used to create this false impression. However, indicators that really count have not supported the false picture and were ignored. For example, it is normal in a recovering or expanding economy for the labor force participation rate to rise as people enter the workforce to take advantage of the job opportunities. During the decade of the long recovery, from June 2009 through Octobe 2021, the labor force participation rate consistently fell from 65.7 to 61.6 percent. —Paul Craig Roberts, The Diminishing American Economy
Stock markets hit new highs. First, central banks pump in credit money to the banks and corporate profits rise. Then corporations use the extra zero cost funds not to invest in productive assets but to buy back their own shares. The result: record high stock prices. The perfect circle. And it’s all concentrated in the FAANGs The top 20 companies by buyback volumes in the US S&P accounted for more than half of all the buybacks completed, according to Silverblatt. The top five companies (Apple, Alphabet, Oracle, Facebook and Microsoft) accounted for 30 per cent. — Michael Roberts Blog
Poverty in the Pandemic The COVID19 pandemic slump has raised poverty across the globe. JP Morgan economists have tried to measure the increase in poverty using household income and consumption survey data from the World Bank’s PovcalNet database. JPM define the poor (or those in deep poverty) as living on less than $2 per day (which is the ludicrously low World Bank level); ‘those vulnerable to slipping into poverty’ as living on $2-$10 per day (which is really a better measure of poverty); ‘middle income’ are those living on $10-50 a day (some leeway for a life); and then ‘high-income’ as living on more than $50 per day or about $18,000 a year. Before COVID, about half of the 6.5bn people living in the so-called ‘emerging markets’ could be considered ‘middle income’. That means that at least 3bn are in dire poverty (‘economically vulnerable’ or worse).
Shadow Government Statistics Daily Update (November 4th to 5th)
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Third-Quarter and September 2021 U.S. Real Merchandise Trade Deficits Were the Deepest in Modern Reporting
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November 2021 FOMC Announced It Would Taper Its Regular $120 Billion in Monthly Asset Purchases by $15 Billion in November and by Another $15 Billion in December 2021; Such Would Continue, Assuming the Rather Doubtful Presumption of No Further Economic Downturn, and That No “… Risks Emerge That Could Impede the Attainment of the [FOMC] Committee’s Goals”
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University of Michigan’s October Consumer Sentiment Continued to Hold Near Its New Pandemic Trough
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“Advance” Third-Quarter 2021 Annualized Real GDP Growth of 2.02% Was Entirely in Increased Inventories, Where Final Sales Declined at an Annualized Pace of 0.07% (-0.07%): the First Decline Since the Great-Recession, Outside of the Initial Pandemic-Collapsed Quarters
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Separately, Third-Quarter ShadowsStats Corrected GDP Contracted by 0.05% (-0.05%) • Headline Year-to-Year GDP Inflation Hit a 38-Plus Year High of 4.53% •
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September 2021 Money Supply Growth Continued Surging at Record High Levels
World:
Portugal: Government Falls As “Geringonça” Crumbles – What are the Tasks of the Left? The voting down of the state budget indicates a qualitative change in the political situation in Portugal. An early election next year will happen in a political context very different from that of the previous period. After six years of collaboration between the Communist Party (PCP) and the Left Bloc (BE) with the Socialist Party (PS) government, the “geringonça” (“contraption” – the name by which the unlikely deal struck between the three parties became known) is dead.
Health, Education, 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!
The Fight For A Mass Workers’ Party in the US!
TAnother Example of Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capitalism 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!
Economy:
