Images of the Day:
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:
The number of people Living in Poverty in the United States in 2020 was estimated at 37.3 million, up by about 3.3 million or 9.7% from 2019. The official Poverty Rate in 2020 was 11.4%, up from 10.5% in 2019. As noted by the Census Bureau, “This is the first increase in poverty after five consecutive annual declines.” As an aside, the Census Bureau uses the lowest possible inflation rates (CPI-U Research Series) for deflating economic activity in its annual report. That means the resulting, inflation-adjusted detail here shows significantly overstated (overly positive) economic and income numbers) — Shadow Government Statistics
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!
Capitalism’s Drive Toward the Iron Heel! — Democrats Fail to Defend the Rights ot the 99%! Democrats’ Failure to Effectively Champion Voting Rights May Cost Them in 2022 For the past year, since the 2020 presidential election, the Republican Party has waged war on the democratic process. It has initiated phony “audits” of swing-state election results that former President Donald Trump falsely claimed were rigged against him. State GOP parties have purged Trump critics, including fellow Republicans, from positions of power. And in Georgia and elsewhere, state legislators have passed laws that make it easier for the governing party to purge election officials who don’t bend to partisan claims of fraud.
No End to the Washington Post’s War on Whistleblowers In an article assessing Facebook last month, Washington Post writer Molly Roberts attacked whistleblowers for demonstrating a “lack of loyalty” to their institutions and described their actions as “betrayal.” Roberts argued that it took “gumption” for whistleblowers to decide that they are right and that the leaders above them are wrong. She wrote that these actions “look like “individualism to some and narcissism to others.” In fact, the nation needs more whistleblowers, particularly after the corruption of the Trump presidency. . . . Investigative reporters of the Washington Post often have their exposes because of whistleblowers. Watergate and Deep Throat is the enduring example. In his excellent new book, “Midnight in Washington,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) documents the necessity of whistleblowers to the Congress, particularly the congressional intelligence committees. As Schiff states, without whistleblowers the congress “would be almost completely reliant on the intelligence agencies to self report any problems.”
Environment: 
The Covid Pandemic Has Proven, That, Under Capitalism, Collective Action of Nations is No 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! As Rosa Lunenburg Stated Over a Hundred Years Ago: Socialism or Barbatism! In 2021 the slogan shout be Ecosocilalism or Humanicide!— A Global Ecosocialist Society!
‘Profiting from Our Suffering’: Vulnerable Groups Challenge Big Polluters to Stop Dodging Liability Fossil fuel companies’ responsibility for climate crises was brought to international attention after Super-Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines during COP 19. Eight years later, with COP 26 delegates marking Loss and Damage Day yesterday, world leaders are again convened at a climate summit and balking at loss and damage agendas, while an inquiry into carbon majors’ liability for Haiyan is still forthcoming.
The Most Basic of All Human Rights: Clean Water The most outrageous injustice is that the same people who lack access to water and sanitation are usually the ones most vulnerable to the effects of climate change—and the least responsible for causing it in the first place.
Vast Under-Reporting of Countries’ Emissions Leaves COP Negotiators Working with Flawed Data The 196 countries involved in implementing the Paris climate agreement have under-reported their greenhouse gas emissions by 8.5 to 13.3 billion tonnes per year, leaving delegates gathered in Glasgow for a final week of COP 26 negotiations to do their work on a foundation of flawed data, the Washington Post concludes in a deep-dive investigative piece published Sunday. The review of emissions data filed with the United Nations climate secretariat “reveals a giant gap between what nations declare their emissions to be versus the greenhouse gases they are sending into the atmosphere,” the Post reports. The difference between the data and the reality is “big enough to move the needle on how much the Earth will warm.”
Santa Susana Field Lab Meltdown & Woolsey Fire: Take These Beautiful Words… Fairewinds Energy Education is proud that our recent scientific analysis of the spread of radiation from the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL) nuclear test site near Los Angeles (LA), California, has been covered extensively by the California press. Good peer-reviewed science is an essential tool when citizens speak truth to power! In her article featured by The Science & Environmental Health Network, Carmi Orenstein, MPH, details extensive SSFL radioactive contamination from a different perspective than anyone else. In Take These Beautiful Words: The 1959 Santa Susana Field Lab Disaster, the 2018 Woolsey Fire, and the Right to a Safe Environment, Ms. Orenstein identifies the human right to live in a safe environment. That concept should not be revolutionary, so why is it? We all have the right to breathe clean air, drink fresh water, and eat safe food. Corporations, states, and the federal government have a human rights responsibility to protect all of us and not put the financial interests of the military-industrial complex before people.
Drill, Baby, Drill: Capitalism’s Only Plan for Climate Is Collapse If we continue not acting against the real cause of the climate crisis—the capitalist mode of production and the capitalist worldview—they will take it as a social license to carry on with collapse.This past week’s flurry of announcements over “ambitious action” by governments during the COP26 in Glasgow has been justly received with scepticism by climate justice activists and the general public (and enthusiastic support by the media in general). During this same period important revelations of the massive gap in terms of necessary emission cuts and country’s plans emerged, as the broader rejection of greenwashing became pervasive. The narrative of false solutions and green capitalism doesn’t work. Yesterday, the revelation that over 800 oil & gas wells are being planned for drilling still this year and in 2022, in the report “Drill, Baby, Drill“, makes it clear that the proceedings of COP26 are mostly propaganda, as the only real, mandatory and contractualized plan global capitalism has for the climate crisis is collapse.
Extreme Greenland Ice Melt Raised Global Flood Risk: Study! 11/ 01/21 The 3.5 trillion tonnes of Greenland’s ice sheet that has melted over the past decade has raised global sea levels by one centimetre and is heightening worldwide flood risks, new research showed on Monday. The ice sheet atop the world’s largest island contains enough frozen water to lift oceans some six metres (20 feet) globally, and extreme melting events there have been increasing in frequency for at least 40 years.
First Draft of COP26 Decision Text Slammed as ‘Love Letter’ to Fossil Fuel Industry What the hell have they been doing? We are out of time. Glasgow must mean a total and immediate fossil fuel phase-out “To keep 1.5 alive,” said the head of Greenpeace, “fossil fuels phase-out” must be added, and “countries must come back next year to close the gap.”
Countries’ Climate Pledges Built On Flawed Data, Post Investigation Finds Malaysia’s latest catalogue of its greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations reads like a report from a parallel universe. The 285-page document suggests that Malaysia’s trees are absorbing carbon four times faster than similar forests in neighboring Indonesia. The surprising claim has allowed the country to subtract over 243 million tons of carbon dioxide from its 2016 inventory — slashing 73 percent of emissions from its bottom line. Want to know how much a ton of greenhouse gases really amounts to? Use our calculator throughout the story. Across the world, many countries underreport their greenhouse gas emissions in their reports to the United Nations, a Washington Post investigation has found. An examination of 196 country reports reveals a giant gap between what nations declare their emissions to be versus the greenhouse gases they are sending into the atmosphere. The gap ranges from at least 8.5 billion to as high as 13.3 billion tons a year of underreported emissions — big enough to move the needle on how much the Earth will warm. The plan to save the world from the worst of climate change is built on data. But the data the world is relying on is inaccurate.
Civil Rights/ Black Liberation:
Labor:
Economy:
The COVID Supply Chain Breakdown Can Be Traced to Capitalist Globalization Alog-jam of container ships waiting to dock and unload in Los Angeles ports. Semiconductor shortages generating a backlog of orders around the world for computers and electronic devices. A massive container ship beached in the Suez Canal clogging up global merchant sea traffic. Rising energy prices due to delivery delays in oil and natural gas. Shortages of food and consumer items in stores. The global economy’s transportation and logistical infrastructure appears to have broken down in recent months, threatening global commerce at the moment when the world economy is trying to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
New Fed Report Shows High Leverage Poses Threat to U.S. Financial Stability: From Life Insurance Companies to Hedge Funds The word “leverage” appears 107 times in the Federal Reserve’s Financial Stability Report that was released yesterday. The second mention provides a warning of what happens when leverage blows up the financial system – something Americans learned all too well in 2008: “Excessive leverage within the financial sector increases the risk that financial institutions will not have the ability to absorb even modest losses when hit by adverse shocks. In those situations, institutions will be forced to cut back lending, sell their assets, or, in extreme cases, shut down. Such responses can substantially impair credit access for households and businesses.”
World:
Global Jurists Say International Law ‘Requires’ Rich Nations to Stop Blocking Patent Waiver “States have, at the very least, a duty not to obstruct TRIPS waiver negotiations,” reads a legal opinion endorsed by 85 jurists from around the world. A legal opinion published Monday by the International Commission of Jurists argues that the rich countries currently stonewalling a proposed patent waiver for Covid-19 vaccines are violating their “obligations to realize the rights to health, equality, life, and science.”
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!
Twilight Capitalism Twilight capitalism: Karl Marx and the decay of the profit system is the best book on Marxist political economy in 2021. Authored by Murray EG Smith, Jonah Butovsky and Josh Watterton, these Canadian-based Marxist economists have delivered a comprehensive and often original analysis of global capitalism in the 21st century. The book begins with the ‘here and now’ – and so with COVID pandemic. Over two chapters, the authors spell out the origins and course of the pandemic, making, in my view, a key point. The COVID slump may have been triggered by a global health crisis, but even before the pandemic struck, global capitalism had been in a period of depression exhibited by low economic growth and poor productive investment and, above all, by low and falling profitability of capital – the key ingredient of ‘twilight capitalism’.
