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Humanity Will Not be Covid Free, Until the Vaccines are Free For the Whole World
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Going Down fhe Road to Hell!: The Never Ending Pandemic
Another Example Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capilalism Ws 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”, is Still True for Today’s World!
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!
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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 and who profit from war and the war budget, vote 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 th poor and gives to the Rich. Tax the Rich! — They Can Afford to Pay!
Hedges: Democrats, the More Effective Evil The US is a de facto one-party state where the ideology of national security is sacrosanct, unsustainable debt props up the empire and the primary business is war. When all else fails, when you are clueless about how to halt a 7.5% inflation rate, when your Build Back Better bill is gutted, when you renege on your promise to raise the minimum wage or forgive student debt, when you can’t halt the Republican suppression of voting rights, when you have no idea how to handle the pandemic which has claimed 900,000 lives – 16% of the world’s total deaths although we are less than 5% of the world’s population – when the stock market fluctuates on wild rollercoaster rides of highs and lows, when what little help the government offered to the labor force — half of whom, 80 million, experienced a period of unemployment last year — sees the termination of the extended unemployment benefits, rental assistance, forbearance for student loans, emergency checks, the moratorium on evictions and expansion of the child tax credits, when you watch passively as the ecocide gathers momentum, then you must make the public afraid of enemies, foreign and domestic. You must manufacture an existential threat. Terrorists at home. Russians and Chinese abroad. Expand state power in the name of national security. Beat the drums of war. War is the antidote to divert public attention from government corruption and incompetence. No one plays the game better than the Democratic Party. The Democrats, as journalist and co-founder of Black Agenda Report Glen Ford said, are not the lesser evil, they are the more effective evil.
Trump is Following Hitler’s Notebook Telling “Big Lies: The Beer Hall Putsch was a Dress Rehearsal of Hitler’s Riseto Power — Trump’s ‘01/06/220 Courp’ Maybe a Dress Rehearsal.: GOP Calling Trump Coup Effort ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’ Should Still Be Frontpage News The media has a responsibility to tell Americans that a major party now openly endorses using violence to overturn elections. It’s sadly unsurprising that majorities of Republicans report believing the ridiculous lie that the 2020 election was stolen—something not even GOP-led investigations have found a shred of evidence for.
Trump’s Illegal Document Shredding May Haunt Him in January 6 Investigation All of this contempt for the rules of governance is being laid bare by the House committee investigating January 6. Last week, the National Archives confirmed what The Washington Post, in a classic understatement, labeled Donald Trump’s “unusual” habit of ripping up official government documents. Time after time, sensitive documents, that were legally required to be kept intact and which ought to have been deposited with the National Archives, were torn into tiny pieces and thrown to the White House floor. Following these childish displays of petulance and/or ignorance of protocol, Trump’s staffers had to perform the absurd and degrading job of sweeping up and storing the pieces so as to try to keep the most powerful man on Earth out of more legal jeopardy, since destroying and making disappear government documents is, obviously, a crime, a violation of the Presidential Records Act. And, once the gophers had rescued the fragments, lowly paid civil servants were then given the unenviable job of scotch taping them back together again.
Biden’s Decision to Freeze Afghan Money is Tantamount to Mass After The Biden administration made the initially bold decision last summer to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan. announced on Friday, he intends to divide the assets of the Afghan central bank, which is held by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, between humanitarian groups and the families of 9/11 victims. This decision puts Biden on a path that will cause more death and destruction in Afghanistan than was caused by the 20-year war he ended.
Environment —Ecosocialism or Ecocide!:
Capitalism’s Prrofiteers to the Wurld: “Burn BabyBurn’: Most Mega-Corporations’ Net-Zero Pledges Are Hollow, Report Finds n the wake of COP26, a lot of ink has been spilled on how mega-corporations, under pressure from consumers and environmentally aware shareholders, are stepping up to the plate with promises to go entirely carbon neutral within a few years or decades. Yet, a shocking new study of 25 mega-corporations, released this month by the NewClimate Institute and Climate Market Watch, finds that much of this is smoke and mirrors. In fact, the researchers conclude, in reality, the emissions-reduction strategies for these companies, with a cumulative revenue of over $3 trillion and a greenhouse gas footprint equaling 5 percent of the world’s total, add up to only a 40 percent reduction rather than the 100 percent rollback implied by “net zero.” As worryingly, by 2030 the reductions would only amount to 23 percent as compared to 2019.
Flourishing Plants Show Warming Antarctica Undergoing ‘Major Change’ Dramatic spread of native plants over past decade is evidence of accelerating shifts in fragile polar ecosystem, study finds Antarctica’s two native flowering plants are spreading rapidly as temperatures warm, according to the first study to show changes in fragile polar ecosystems have accelerated in the past decade. The increase in plants since 2009 has been greater than the previous 50 years combined, coinciding with rapidly rising air temperatures and a reduction in the number of fur seals, according to researchers working on Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands.
February Is Black History Month’
The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights Movement By Roland Sheppard (This article was originally publish on September 5, 2006, by Counterpunch.com under the title: Where Will Blacks Find Justice? The Civil Rights Movement is Dead and So is the Democratic Party.) The first civil and human rights movement by and for Black people started during the Civil War and the period of Black Reconstruction that followed. It was a time of radical hopes for many freed slaves. But it was also a time of betrayal. Then President Andrew Johnson and the non-radical Republicans, in collusion with the Democratic Party, the party of slavery, sold out the early post-war promises for full equality and “40 acres and a mule”. Instead, the promise of equality was soon replaced by the restoration of the property rights of the former slave owners in the South. This was accomplished by the Compromise of 1877. Thomas Nast,at that times illestrated the results ofthat betrayal.
This Prison in California Forced Incarcerated People to Drink Arsenic for Years On April 5, 2012, three years into his stay at Kern Valley State Prison (KVSP) in Delano, California, Silus Valson sought medical attention for severe headache, stomach pain, diarrhea, vomiting and dark urine. The next day, he was transferred to the local hospital’s intensive care unit for impaired heart function. He suspects his medical issues resulted from drinking water with high arsenic levels at KVSP between 2009 and 2012. “Drinking that water, it wears down your body, and we’ve been drinking it for years,” Valson says. He says that prison officials informed incarcerated people about the water contamination but failed to act. “The real issue is that they had enough information to tell us that the water source wasn’t safe, but they didn’t give us an alternate water source. They knew that over time this was going to be a health issue,” Valson told Truthout.
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Brutal Stock Deterioration: 46 Percent of Nasdaq Stocks Are More than 50 Percent Below their 52-Week High he stock market indices that get all the headlines have failed to capture the brutal deterioration that has been occurring for months among the individual stock components of those indices. In early February, Bank of America reported that 46 percent of Nasdaq’s component companies were more than 50 percent below their 52-week highs. And the deterioration in breadth began long before February.
World:
Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua: The US-Russia Conflict Enters a New Phase As soon as Moscow received an American response to its security demands in Ukraine, it answered indirectly by announcing greater military integration between it and three South American countries, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba. Washington’s response, on January 26, to Russia’s demands of withdrawing NATO forces from Eastern Europe and ending talks about a possible Kyiv membership in the US-led alliance, was noncommittal. For its part, the US spoke of ‘a diplomatic path’, which will address Russian demands through ‘confidence-building measures’. For Russia, such elusive language is clearly a non-starter.
Britain: Workers Under Attack – The Time For Action Is Now! With inflation soaring, the bankers and bosses are trying to shift their costs onto the working class. But it is the capitalists who should pay for this crisis. The trade unions must launch a united fightback. There is no time to lose. The phrase ‘shock and awe’ was often used by the imperialist ruling class to describe their brutal military strategy in the Iraq war. More than a million victims were cynically described as ‘collateral damage’. The British working class is now facing its own war, a war on its living standards, where they are regarded as ‘collateral damage’ in securing profits for the bosses.
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 they 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!
Schools in Crisis and Systems Failure: An SOS A return to a normal that was never good enough On returning to in-person school for what many hoped might be a “normal school year” in September 2021, I realized that a not-so-subtle shift had occurred in me. I was relieved to be back in the building with my colleagues and overjoyed to see my students in person instead of on Zoom, but I felt crushed by the sensory overwhelm of it all. More than ever, it feels as if we’re urging students to make themselves more vulnerable by investing in a future that’s increasingly hard for them (and us) to imagine. Exiled American whistleblower Edward Snowden on Friday joined global critics who are decrying news outlets for encouraging war with their coverage of rising tensions between the United States and Russia—where he has lived since 2013—over Ukraine.
School Vouchers are a ‘slow Coup’ of Public Education \Last month, the Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss (who published my recent argument supporting the “community school” approach to public schooling) featured an enlightening opinion piece by a professor of education named Sarah M. Stitzlein. To sum it up, Stitzlein powerfully explains how private school vouchers, which deploy public money for families to use at private and religious schools, harm our civic life. This echoes what Allen Mikaelian and I argue in our new book, The Privatization of Everything: “Politicians and the private sector offer privatization projects as a cheaper, more efficient alternative, [but] the real reason for privatization is the slow forced march toward dismantling democratic control.”In other words, privatization—of public schools, water systems, roads, the U.S. Postal Service, and other public goods—is, as one of our chapters puts it, a “slow coup.”
