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A Systemic High-Five!
The Kyle Rittenhouse’s Acquittal is the result of the Systemic Racismof the the United States!: The actions of the Kenocha racists police, the jury selection, the decisions of judge reek of Systmic Racism! What if a Black teenager and his mother drove accoss state lines,with an assault rifle, to protest a white racist demonstration and killed two white racist demonstrators and wounded another. The cops would have killed or wounded the teenager. If that teenage went to a trial, he would have gotten the maximum sentence of lynched! The compaison of the two demonstrates the Systemic Racism of the United States!
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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:
If the past two years have shown us anything, it is that the climate crisis is already here. In the US alone 2021 brought us freak snowstorms in Texas, murderous heatwaves in the Pacific Northwest, and hurricanes like Ida and Elsa sowing destruction from the Gulf Coast to New York City. Global heating is at its heart a question of justice. It will disproportionately impact low-income communities and communities of color. The truth is, these disparities are already being felt across multiple American communities on the frontline of the climate crisis, from undocumented communities excluded from emergency relief during the California wildfires to Federal Emergency Management Agency aid actually widening the racial wealth gap in the aftermath of disasters. — Isabella Shraiman
Maximilien de Robespierre: To defend the oppressed against their oppressors, to plead the cause of the weak against the strong who exploit and crush them, this is the duty of all hearts that have not been spoiled by egoism and corruption… It is so sweet to devote oneself to one’s fellows that I do not know how there can be so many unfortunates still without support or defenders. As for me, my life’s task will be to help those who suffer and to pursue through my avenging speech those who take pleasure in the pain of others. How happy I will be if my feeble efforts are crowned with success and if, at the price of my devotion and sacrifices, my reputation is not tarnished by the crimes of the oppressors I will fight.
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!
Tony Platt: California’s Grim Genocidal Past Implicates the University of California Tony Platt’s recently re-released book, “Grave Matters” digs into the Golden State’s dark history of not only massacring Indigenous Peoples, but later desecrating their graves and excavating their remains without their descendants’ consent. The United States of America is founded on the original sin of Native American genocide and the myth that the Indigenous Peoples that lived on these lands for thousands of years had no right to it. White settler colonialism is not just a stain on the country’s history, it is its very raison d’etre. To this day, all non-Native Americans live on stolen land. The prosperous, liberal state of California is not exempt from this original sin, nor has it made reparations for the devastation of Indigenous Peoples and their lands. In a recently reissued book, Tony Platt, the acclaimed author of 10 books and professor emeritus who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and California State University, Sacramento, uncovers another more recent abhorrence committed against Native Californians by one of the state’s most revered institutions, the University of California, Berkeley.
How Many Dead Kids Before We Admit US “National Security” Is a Lie? How many people have to die by our hands—how big do the piles of women’s and children’s corpses have to get—before mass murder (war) begins looming as wrong? 
COP26 Is Over. When Will Congress Do Its Part And Stop Subsidizing Extinction The Diplomatic Effort Behind COP26 — The United Nations Climate Conference — Failed To Meet The Scale Of The Climate Emergency. While An Agreement Was Reached To Phase Out “Inefficient” Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Even This Was Watered Down In Last-Minute Negotiations. Too Little, Too Late For Frontline Communities On The Edge Of Extinction. Every Year, Governments Throw Trillions Of Public Dollars At Oil, Gas And Coal Companies. In The Past 30 Years, Just 100 Of These Companies Are Responsible For Over 70 Percent Of The Emissions Causing Climate Chaos. The Shortcomings Of COP26 Means Active Citizens Must Push National Governments To End These Ridiculous Fossil Fuel Handouts — Including In The United States.Thanks To A Web Of Tax Loopholes, Credits And Deductions, Congress Subsidizes The Fossil Fuel Industry To The Tune Of $20 Billion Per Year.
Environment:
The Streets of New Orleans After 18 months of lockdowns and travel restrictions, we decided it was time to hit the streets and visit some of our “environmental justice communities” on the Gulf Coast. Environmental Justice Communities (EJC) are non-white or working-class neighborhoods that have been flooded, burned, poisoned, or impoverished by the petrochemical, biomedical, transportation, real estate, timber, animal agriculture, or financial service industries. Another way of putting it is that residents in these neighborhoods are the screwed of the screwed. Whereas poverty and discrimination typically expose people to substandard housing, poor municipal services and street crime, industrial pollution in EJC communities additionally subjects residents to discomfort, ugliness, and disease. Global warming has made these impacts even worse, for example by flooding mines and factories, spreading toxic agents into adjacent residential neighborhoods.
COP26: What You’d Expect When Oil Companies Are in and Environmentalists Are OutThe annual get-together of the world’s governments, where in most years they express concern about global warming and announce they will continue to talk about it, was not quite the usual washout this year, as small progress was made, at least theoretically. But even if this year’s promises come to fruition, the new round of pledges fall well short of what is needed. The 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, otherwise known as COP26, concluded its two weeks in Glasgow with congratulations all around for themselves by government participants, as is traditionally the case. If you were to judge by the participants’ pronouncement, you’d think the environment is on the verge of being saved.
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
Still Searching for Justice in Oklahoma Julius Jones, a man who has been on death row for almost 20 years and has always maintained his innocence, was granted clemency by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt. That’s the good news. I am happy that the government will not kill another black man today. I am overjoyed that his mother will see him again. I applaud the tireless work of Cece Jones-Davis and others who have had a hand in bringing this to pass. But this was not a win. Kevin Stitt did not listen to his Pardon and Parole Board who voted 3-1 to recommend that Jones’ death sentence be commuted to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Instead, he allowed Jones to sit on death row, contemplating his impending doom, and then, when there were only four hours left, announced the decision to commute his sentence to life without the possibility of parole with the following stipulation: As a condition of granting clemency, Stitt ordered that Jones shall never be eligible to apply for or be considered for a commutation, pardon, or parole for the rest of his life.
Marjorie Cohn: Arbery’s Killers Are Using the Logic of Slave Patrols to Defend Themselves The testimony has concluded in the Georgia murder trial of the three white men who targeted Ahmaud Arbery because he was Black and then killed him. Evidence presented at trial transported us back to the days of the infamous slave patrols. Gregory McMichael, his son Travis, and William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. are on trial for killing Arbery on February 23, 2020, during a purported “citizen’s arrest.” Racism has infected every aspect of this case — from the defendants’ racial profiling of Arbery, to the 10-week delay in filing charges, to the seating of a nearly all-white jury, to the defendants’ racist statements, to the defense’s attempt to ban Black pastors from attending the trial. Beginning in 1704, slave patrols empowered every white person to control the movements and activities of every Black person. Citizen’s arrest laws date back to 13th century Europe and were later brought to the British North American colonies. In 1863, Georgia adopted a citizen’s arrest statute to replace the slave patrols with another avenue to vigilante “justice.” The law deputized any white Georgian to seize and detain any Black person on suspicion of being an escaped slave.
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor Censorship is the Last Gasp of the Liberal Class It is the liberal class which is determined to censor as much of public discourse as possible.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence Officer Prodigy “The police are not here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve sorder.” —Richard J. Daley
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, BAR editor and columnist F.W. de Klerk: Requiem for a Racist Murderer F.W. de Klerk was the last apartheid president of South Africa.
Roger D. Harris Nicaragua Has a Public Relations Problem, Not a Democracy Problem Nicaragua’s recent elections were conducted with transparency and freedom of choice for voters. The only problem is with the United States and its determination to undo the will of Nicaraguans and overthrow the government they elected. U.S. corporate media act as governmental spokespeople and aid in the manipulation.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist COP26: Greenwashing and Plutocratic Misadventures For all the policy failures of COP26 it may actually be an inflection point in history — a point where social and political conditions force a transformation of consciousness and politics that can usher in epochal change.
Monthly Review Online COP26 Was a Failure But the People’s Alternative Can Still Be a Success COP26 ended the way climate summits always do, with promises for change from countries which have every intention of keeping the status quo.
Basav Sen We’re About to Pass Up a Generational Opportunity to Stem the Climate Crisis In this extensive interview, socialist activist and writer Issa Shivji discusses the peasantry, capitalist development and socialismSteve D. Whitaker So Said, Not So Easily Done The island nations of the Caribbean are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Columnist A Dirty Occupation: The UN’s Criminal Enterprise and Ecological Catastrophe in Haiti What are the environmental and ecological impacts of large-scale military occupations by the United Nations “peacekeeping” missions?
Issa Shivji Let a Hundred Socialist Flowers Bloom: A Conversation with Issa Shivji In this extensive interview, socialist activist and writer Issa Shivji discusses the peasantry, capitalist development and socialism.
Editors, The Black Agenda Review EXCERPT: Genocide: The Social Lynching of Africans and their descendants in Brazil, Abdias do Nascimento The late Brazilian intellectual, artist, and activist Abdias do Nascimento argues that racial democracy is premised on an idea of racial mixing that not only valorizes whiteness, but is predicated on the dilution and disappearance of the African race — on an annihilationist practice of “genocide.”
Labor:
Economy:
Whither the Global Economy? How is the global recovery after the COVID pandemic going? The economic consensus is that the major economies are recovering fast, driven by rising consumer spending and corporate investment. The problem ahead is not a return to sustained economic growth but the risk of higher or more long-lasting inflation in the prices of goods and services that could force central banks and other lenders to raise interest rates. And that might lead to bankruptcies among highly-indebted companies and then a new financial crash. While that risk is clearly there over the next couple of years, will there really be a sustained recovery in economic growth over the next five years? Let’s remind ourselves of the official forecasts. The IMF reckons that by 2024 global GDP will still be 2.8% below where it thought world GDP would have been before the pandemic slump. And the relative loss of income is much higher in the so-called emerging economies – excluding China, the loss is close to 8% of GDP in Asia and 4-6% in the rest of the Global South. Indeed, the forecasts for annual average real GDP growth in virtually all the major economies are for lower growth in this decade compared to the decade of 2010s – which I called the Long Depression.
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Pandemic-Driven U.S. Economic Collapse Continues to Harden in a Protracted “L”-Shaped Non-Recovery with a Potential Renewed Downturn
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Key Economic Series Show Not Only That the Pandemic-Driven Economic Collapse Has Been Worse Than Headlined, But Also That the Still-Unfolding Recovery Has Been Much Weaker Than Indicated
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Severe Systemic Structural Damage from the Shutdown Is Forestalling Meaningful Economic Rebound into 2023 or Beyond, Irrespective of the Advances in Coronavirus Vaccinations
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Panicked, Unlimited Federal Reserve Money Creation and Federal Government Deficit Spending Continue and Likely Will Expand, Fueling Accelerating, Major Domestic Inflation
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With Fundamental Dollar Debasement Intensifying, Holding Physical Gold and Silver Protects the Purchasing Power of One’s Assets, Irrespective of Any Near-Term Central Bank or Other Machinations to the Contrary.
World:
Newly Released Documents Expose How US Intelligence Meddled in Venezuelan Elections via Social Media Recently released documents have shed light on a US program to interfere in Venezuelan elections using America’s interference in the electoral process in Venezuela is laid bare in a series of files that reveal how Washington provided significant investment to train political activists in campaigning effectively online. Documents released to researchers under the US Freedom of Information Act have revealed how US intelligence fronts weaponized social media to promote Venezuela’s right-wing opposition, and assist their election to parliament, thus laying the foundations for Washington’s appointment of Juan Guaido as the country’s leader in January 2019.
Education.Health,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!
Shadow Government Statistics: General Healines