Daily News Digest July 5, 2022

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Frederic Douglas

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!

Quotes of the Day:

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. — (1852) Frederick Douglass, “What, yo The Slave, Is the Fourth of July”

Greenpeace Brazil said in response to the alarming figures that the far-right Bolsonaro government’s systematic rampage against basic environmental protections is responsible for the surge in rainforest fires and overall deforestation, which have helped transform parts of the Amazon—long known as a key carbon “sink”—into sources of planet-warming greenhouse gas.     “Agribusiness is hitting new records for forest destruction as the dry season arrives in the Amazon,” said Cristiane Mazzetti, a spokesperson for Greenpeace Brazil. “Illegal burnings and deforestation have accelerated over the last three years as a direct result of the Brazilian government’s anti-environmental agenda that encourages the destruction of the forest.” — ‘Tipping Point of No Return’ Feared as Amazon Rainforest Fires Surge  

Harmful algae blooms, as researchers call them, are not just Lake Erie’s problem. Nearly every state is impacted by the toxic blooms, which threaten wildlife, vital economic resources and public health, according to the U.S. National Office for Harmful Algal Blooms. In 2018, a toxic bloom in Oregon’s Detroit Lake reportedly caused panic in Salem, and now both Oregon and Ohio require water utilities to test for algae toxins. More states could soon follow suit. Researchers are now studying harmful blooms in the Chukchi Sea, a remote sea in the Arctic Ocean, which was once thought to be too cold to support toxic algae. Indigenous fishers harvest the same waters for food. Scientists say there are multiple causes of algae blooms, but heavier rains and warmer waters associated with climate change are combining with water pollution to exacerbate the problem. — CDC Warns Public to Avoid the Toxic Algae “Blooming” in Warming Waters

Videos of the Day:

Invasion And Immigration Are Two Sides To The Same CoinUnited 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. Taxthe Rich!  — They Can Afford to Pay! 

The only thing Capitalism has to offer for the future, more wars, more global warming/economic destruction, more pandemics, and less democracy and more of the Iron Heel!:

   United States Style Democracy: This Right-Wing U.S. Supreme Court Is the New King George III Our most fundamental rights are being trampled by a tyrannical, unaccountable, and unelected force. The Declaration of Independence begins with the famous words, crafted by Thomas Jefferson:     “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed .

Blue MAGA’s Big Lie Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, the Rev. Al Sharpton last week suggested that the left was as much to blame as Christian nationalists for the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Why? Because Hillary Clinton lost the electoral college vote in 2016.  ‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ Democrats (also known as Blue MAGAs) love to blame their party’s shortcomings and monumental incompetence on the left. The left is their boogeyman. They despise the left more than they hate the far right.

Naomi Klein: The US Is in the Midst of a ‘Shock-and-Awe Judicial Coup’“The rolling judicial coup coming from this court is by no means over,” warned the author of “The Shock Doctrine.” Renowned environmentalist and author Naomi Klein argued Thursday that over the past week, the United States experienced the early stages of a “rolling judicial coup” as the Supreme Court took a sledgehammer to abortion rights, gun control laws, and the federal government’s authority to tackle greenhouse gas emissions that are fueling the global climate emergency.     “We have witnessed a shock-and-awe judicial coup,” Klein wrote in a column for The Intercept, pointing also to the right-wing high court’s decisions to weaken Indigenous sovereignty and further undermine the separation of church and state.

War Profiteering, Ecocide & Policing: BlackRock Vies for Corporate Hall of Shame BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset management firm, has been nominated for the 2022 Corporate Hall of Shame by our friends at Corporate Accountability. BlackRock has nearly $10 trillion in assets under management. That’s more than the GDP of every country in the world except for the United States and China. BlackRock is a top shareholder across a wide range of global industries that include oil and gas, technology, retail, big banks, healthcare, weapons manufacturing, and much more. All this makes BlackRock one of the most powerful corporate actors on the planet, whose influence touches every aspect of our daily lives.

Environment —Ecosocialism or Ecocide!:

‘Tipping Point of No Return’ Feared as Amazon Rainforest Fires Surge “Up to now, the Biden administration has only legitimized the Brazilian government’s anti-Indigenous and anti-environmental agenda,” said Greenpeace USA.

Pearl Harbor’s Toxic Water Caused by Shoddy Management, Navy Finds US military investigation points to human error after fuel leak that poisoned thousands The investigation, released on Thursday, is the first detailed account of how jet fuel from the Red Hill bulk fuel storage facility, a huge second-world-war-era military-run tank farm in the hills above Pearl Harbor, leaked into a well that supplied water to housing and offices in and around the sprawling base.

Pearl Harbor Water Poisoning: US Military Families Say They Continue To Fall Ill When second world war-era storage tanks leaked into Hawaii residents’ water supply in December thousands got sick

Civil Rights/Black Liberation:

Men in Blue Continue ‘Legal Lynching’:  Hundreds March in Akron Enraged by Police Killing of Jayland Walker “The police can do whatever they want,” said one local resident through tears. “They can take our children’s lives and think it’s okay.” Hundreds of people in Akron, Ohio gathered outside the police department’s headquarters and marched through the city late Sunday, demanding justice for Jayland Walker after police footage was released showing that the 25-year-old Black man had been fatally shot from behind at least 60 times by officers as he tried to flee from a traffic stop on  6/27/22,

Labor:

Economy:

The Supreme Court’s EPA Decision Is One More Win for Charles Koch’s Dystopian America Imagine a country that allows a private fossil fuels conglomerate (or its billionaire boss, Charles Koch, the 17th richest person in the world according to Forbes) to get away with the following:

The Inequality Pandemic

Billionaire wealth and corporate profits have soared to record levels during the COVID-19 pandemic, while over a quarter of a billion more people could crash to extreme levels of poverty in 2022 because of coronavirus, rising global inequality, and the shock of food price rises supercharged by the war in Ukraine. Oxfam’s research has found that:

  • Billionaires have seen their fortunes increase as much in 24 months as they did in 23 years.
  • Billionaires in the food and energy sectors have seen their fortunes increase by a billion dollars every two days. Food and energy prices have increased to their highest levels in decades. 62 new food billionaires have been created.
  • The combined crises of COVID-19, rising inequality, and rising food prices could push as many as 263 million people into extreme poverty in 2022, reversing decades of progress. This is the equivalent of one million people every 33 hours.
  • At the same time a new billionaire has been minted on average every 30 hours during the pandemic.
  • This means that in the same time it took on average to create a new billionaire during the pandemic, one million people could be pushed into extreme poverty this year….

World:

We Are te Master Race

Israeli Genocide: Chomsky on Israeli Apartheid, Celebrity Activists, BDS, and the One-State Solution “The brazenness of Israeli actions is pretty striking. They do what they want, knowing the United States will support them. Well, this is much worse than what happened in South Africa; it’s not an effort to somehow accommodate the Palestinian population as a suppressed workforce, it’s just to get rid of them.”

NATO’s Expansion and New Strategic Concept Broaden the Prospect of ArmageddonA bleak future lies ahead. The 2022 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit, which was held in Madrid, Spain, from June 28-30, has produced a new strategic concept for an alliance which only a few years ago was declared “brain-dead” by French President Emmanuel Macron that will define its future for the next ten years.     Indeed, thanks to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the world’s largest military alliance has made a comeback, and with a vengeance. Russia has once again become its main target. The new strategic concept names it as the “most significant and direct threat to the security of allies and to the peace and stability of the Euro-Atlantic area.”

The Mass Ethnic Cleansing of Syrian Kurds is  Collateral Damage From the War in Ukraine Kurds are suffering the greatest collateral damage form the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian refugees attract global attention, but the Ukraine war has opened the door wide to the mass expulsion of two million Syrian Kurds, which is likely to take place in the coming months. Turkey is threatening to complete the ethnic cleansing of Kurds from northern Syria which it began five years ago.

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!   

Ron Kovic: The Dark Irony of This Patriotic Orgy and the Celebration of War Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic, author of “Born on the Fourth of July” and subject of Oliver Stone’s iconic Vietnam War film, will mark his 76 th birthday watching a war that portends the end of civilization. Ron Kovic, literally “Born on the Fourth of July,” author of his classic anti-war memoir and subject of the Oliver Stone film based on the book, marks the day of patriotic zealotry with dread. Kovic was inspired to enlist as a US marine and fight in Vietnam, answering President John F. Kennedy’s call to serve country before self.      The result failed both the country and the young marine, who was severely wounded in action in a war that he believes betrayed the nation’s stated ideals and left him a paraplegic, bound for a half century to his wheelchair but freeing his voice to speak as clearly as anyone on the dark folly of war.     It’s a folly that has suddenly reasserted itself in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and NATO expansion with a dangerous fury matching the most frightening events of the Cold War and carrying an even greater prospect of a nuclear war that would end life on this planet. Most alarming is that the worldwide peace movement that Kovic came to embody and which he vigorously attempts to rally is almost non-existent.