Images of the Day:
Republicartes Are Comming for You!
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!
Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capilalism Has Been Aware of the Comming Catastrophe of Global Warming for Over 5 Decades 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!
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:
As we continue to see more and more extreme weather events around the world, he said, it is outrageous that climate action is being put on the back burner as global emissions of greenhouse gases are still rising, putting all of us—everywhere—in growing danger. — Amid Pakistan Wreckage, UN Chief Warns Against ‘Sleepwalking Toward’ Planetary ‘Destruction
Has our failure to provide universal healthcare access contributed to many unnecessary deaths? Yes… Is it finally time to build an effective public health system? Yes! — Pandemic, Profit-Driven Healthcare System Blamed for Historic Decline in US Life Expectancy
United States Domestic Terrorism: History Has repeated itself! Today. The United Satates uses extrs-legal white racist groups, like Proud Boys, and the police to terrorize the Black Community, and the U.S government to over through the gains of the civil rights movement!: 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 of that betrayal. How did they accomplish this betrayal? The answer is simple— The answer is simple —By the Use of Terrorism! — They used police and terroristic Ku Klux Klan violence. These extra-legal and ‘legal’ activities laid the basis for the overthrow of Black Reconstruction and the institutionalization of legal segregation (Jim Crow) in the former slave states. To enforce Jim Crow, Black people were, for decades, indiscriminately lynched and framed. — Roland Sheppard, The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights Movement
Videos of the Day:
“We Can’t Go It Alone”: Jackson, Miss., Mayor Lumumba on Water Catastrophe in Majority-Black City
Cooperation Jackson’s Kali Akuno: Climate Crisis Impact Worse in Black Cities Facing Disinvestment
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. Taxthe Rich! — They Can Afford to Pay!
The United States of Imperialist Piracy: 6 Million Afghans Facing Famine as US Refuses to Return $7 Billion in Seized Funds The U.S. is still collectively punishing the people of Afghanistan. For millions of Afghans facing starvation, the war never ended. “Biden should immediately reverse his executive order,” said one humanitarian. “With millions of Afghans impoverished and starving, the U.S. must return to the Afghan people what is rightfully theirs.
Our Voting Rights Are at Stake in Upcoming Supreme Court Ruling The court’s ruling in “Moore v. Harper” will shape whether multiracial democracy has a future in the United States. Soon, the U.S. Supreme Court will once again rule on whether multiracial democracy has a future in the United States. The highest court is expected to rule on Moore v. Harper by June 2023, and the stakes of the case couldn’t be higher. If it goes the wrong way, this case could unleash widespread purges of voters from voting rolls, dramatic restrictions to popular early voting hours and locations, discriminatory barriers to voting access, and fewer protections against voter intimidation. How we got here begins with North Carolina’s last redistricting case to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019, when the justices themselves laid out a path for voters to pick their leaders — not the other way around.
Why Talk about Loans? On island USA, we are debating whether it is unfair and unjust to forgive some college loans. We are oblivious to the rest of the planet, where college education in developed countries is of course free. We are also oblivious to our own historic role in educating masses of people, despite powerful opposition. In 1857, President James Buchanan vetoed the bill that would have established federal-aided universities, declaring that it violated state’s rights and set a dangerous precedent of federal aid to education. But in 1862 a similar bill, the Morrill Act, passed thanks the wartime absence of congressmen from the slaveholding states; this established the land-grant colleges for working-class young men—and, later, women. The US was also a world leader in guarantying a free twelve-grade education for all children. Although the southern states sabotaged the national law with their phony “separate but equal” schools for black children, the post-World War II civil rights movement in 1954 (in Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka) made that free twelve-grade public education at least the law of the land.
The Missing ‘Peace’ in $13.5 Billion of Military Aid to Ukraine We cannot call for peace in Ukraine while simultaneously supplying that country with advanced rocket systems and missiles that could lead to a direct war between the US and Russia, the world’s most heavily armed nuclear nations. The Department of Defense recently announced it would send nearly $3 billion more in weapons and assistance to Ukraine. The White House news of the largest Ukraine arms package yet—rockets, drones, 350,000 rounds of ammunition—was drowned out by President Biden’s announcement to cancel federal student loan debt for almost half of the country’s 43-million debt-saddled people. So while our nation debated whether U.S. citizens should be burdened with huge predatory interest for seeking an education; predatory weapons of war were given the greenlight for Ukraine, even though there’s no accountability for who will receive those weapons, including the neo-Nazi Azov Batallion, an official wing of the Ukrainian military.
Living in a Sci-fi World half a century ago, I would have laughed in your face. Donald Trump becoming president? You must be kidding! If you want a bizarre image, just imagine him in the company of Abraham Lincoln. I mean, really, what’s happened to us? Not, of course, that we haven’t had bizarre politicians in Washington before. I still remember watching the mad, red-baiting Senator Joseph McCarthy on our new black-and-white television set in April 1953. He was a brute and looked it (though, to my nine-year-old mind, he also seemed like every belligerent dad I knew). Still, whatever he was, he wasn’t president of the United States. At the time, that was former World War II military commander Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Environment: Ecocide or Ecosocialism!:
The trouble with scientific neutrality A familiar counter argument to scientist involvement in civil disobedience is that this risks undermining the integrity of science. The legitimacy of scientists is said to rest on their status as impartial, objective or ‘neutral’ observers, and the idea that science and politics should remain separate. However, these ways of linking science and society are not founded on absolute principles; rather, they exist as partially applied assumptions based on historical precedent17. We need to ask how well these inherited norms are serving us in a time of existential environmental crisis. Moreover, no dialogue between science and society can ever be value neutral, and it should not aim to be6,18. The widespread notion that sober presentation of evidence by an ‘honest broker’ to those with power will accomplish the best interests of populations is itself not a neutral perspective on the world; it is instead conveniently unthreatening to the status quo and often rather naive5,6,14. Misgivings about how civil disobedience by scientists may be perceived by the wider public may also be misplaced. In general terms, studies have found the credibility of scientists is not undermined by advocacy7,19; on the contrary, many members of the public expect scientists to use their knowledge to advocate for the public good7. — Civil Disobedience by Scientists Helps Press for Urgent Climate Action Time is short to secure a liveable and sustainable future; yet, inaction from governments, industry and civil society is setting the course for 3.2 °C of warming, with all the cascading and catastrophic consequences that this implies. In this context, when does civil disobedience by scientists become justified?
Amid Pakistan Wreckage, UN Chief Warns Against ‘Sleepwalking Toward’ Planetary ‘Destruction’ Amid Pakistan Wreckage, UN Chief Warns Against ‘Sleepwalking Toward’ Planetary ‘Destruction’ “Today, it’s Pakistan. Tomorrow, it could be your country,” said António Guterres. As Pakistan and the United Nations asked the world for $160 million in response to catastrophic flooding in the country, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday also issued a broader warning about the human-caused climate emergency.
Mike Davis, California’s ‘Prophet of Doom’, On Activism in a Dying World: ‘Despair Is Useless’ His warnings of ecological and social breakdown have proved accurate. But with months to live, Davis is anything but defeated For decades, the southern California writer Mike Davis has obsessively documented the dark side of the Golden state – its wildfires, earthquakes, megalomaniac real estate developers and violent police departments. In essays like The Case for Letting Malibu Burn, Davis has argued that California’s natural disasters are not really natural at all, but the result of greed, racism, and lack of foresight from the region’s power brokers. In City of Quartz – published in 1990, two years before the Rodney King uprising – he depicted Los Angeles as a white supremacist police state that had successfully marketed itself as paradise.
‘Protect These Giants,’ Say 122K Public Comments Urging Biden to Conserve Old-Growth Forests “By letting old-growth and mature trees grow, we’ll be safeguarding carbon, clean water and air, and biodiversity,” said one campaigner. “Our climate and future generations depend on it.” A coalition of environmental groups on Tuesday delivered more than 122,000 public comments calling on the Biden administration to protect old-growth forests on public lands from logging as a key component of U.S. climate policy.
Climate Scientists Urge More Civil Disobedience to Signal ‘How Deep in the Sh*t We Are’ New paper argues direct action “by scientists has the potential to cut through the myriad complexities… surrounding the climate crisis in a way that less visible and dispassionate evidence provision does not.” “We have long since arrived at the point at which civil disobedience by scientists has become justified.” That’s according to an article published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change by five climate scientists—Stuart Capstick, Aaron Thierry, Emily Cox, Steve Westlake, and Julia K. Steinberger—and political scientist Oscar Berglund, who focuses on civil disobedience and social movements.
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
Jackson Water Crisis Heaps More Disruption on City’s Schoolchildren Children in Mississippi capital to return to virtual learning: ‘We have no idea when our kids will go back in person’ As the flooding in Jackson, Mississippi, continues to upend the lives of tens of thousands of residents, the city’s youngest are struggling to continue their schooling. Erica Jones, an educator for the last 21 years and president of the Mississippi Association of Educators, said the 20,000 students in the predominantly Black and impoverished school district are dealing with yet another disruption after the pandemic.
Labor:
Public Approval of Unions Hits 57-Year High, Polling Finds Public approval of unions has risen a remarkable 23 percent just over the past 13 years. Approval of unions among the American public has hit its highest point since 1965 amid a series of victories won by the labor movement over the past years, new polling finds. According to a Gallup poll released on Tuesday, 71 percent of Americans approve of unions. This is the highest approval recorded in 57 years, and is close to the all-time high of 75 percent recorded by Gallup in the mid-1950s.
Behind the ‘Economic Policy’ Façade, It’s Class WarAt the end of July, an economic adviser working for Bank of America wrote a memo that got leaked. It made bluntly explicit the long-standing common knowledge among savvy investment advisers: those “economic policies” debated among politicians, economists, and dutiful mass media operate at two different levels. On the public level, debaters discuss what “we” need to do to fix “our economy’s problems.” It reeks of that “we are all in this together” language that reminds us of commercial greeting card poetry. On the other, private level, insiders discuss how the government should respond to economic problems in ways that boost employers’ profits even if at employees’ or the public’s expense. Insiders express their preferred solutions in that nicely neutered term: “policies.” Inflation, that “problem” torturing capitalist economies these days, offers us the first example of such policies. Inflation is a general increase in prices. Employers, not employees, decide the prices to charge for whatever goods and services their employees’ labor produces. Employers are at most 1 percent of the population while employees and their families constitute most of the other 99 percent. That 1 percent is not accountable to the other 99 percent of the population. Inflations directly impact—reduce—the standards of living of the 99 percent. The only exceptions are those employees who are able to raise their wages or salaries at least as fast as inflation raises prices. That is a tiny minority of the employees in general and also right now during the 2022 U.S. inflation. If inflation raises prices faster or more than wages, that represents a redistribution of income and wealth upward from employees to employers. Simply put, raising or protecting profits motivates employers’ price-setting decisions. Indirectly, inflation deeply impacts societies that suffer them, yet no democratic process determines where, when, or how employers’ decisions to inflate prices lead to those impacts. In modern capitalism, inflation reveals the class struggle in economics. There it operates without the constraints that formal democracy (voting) imposes on politics.
Economy:
Foley & Lardner Scrub Any Mention of Chris Kise from their Website after He Agrees to Represent Trump in Mar-a-Lago Court Case According to NBC News and confirmed by Reuters, Donald Trump has located a new lawyer that is willing to step into the Palm Beach, Florida court case involving the U.S. Justice Department’s raid at Trump’s beach resort/hotel/event-venue and private residence known simply as Mar-a-Lago. (For background, see our previous report: Mar-a-Lago: Thousands of People of Questionable Character Have Visited this Resort/Hotel in the 18 Months That Trump Stashed Top Secret Documents There.)
World:
BBC Bias and Liberal Hypocrisy Former ‘Newsnight’ host Emily Maitlis has rocked the boat by accusing the Tories of influencing political coverage at the BBC. In truth, however, the whole mainstream media acts as a mouthpiece for the ruling class. We need a workers’ media. Emily Maitlis, the former lead anchor of BBC’s Newsnight, has caused a stir by revealing how the Tory government censors and pressures the state broadcaster, in order to portray the former in a positive light. In her recent 45-minute James MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Maitlis railed against populism, including Boris, Trump, and (apparently) Corbyn; claimed that the Beeb has succumbed to government diktats; and outed an “active agent of the Conservative party…[who] now sits, acting as the arbiter of BBC impartiality”.
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 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!
Remember the Fall and Winter Seasons are the Time for Covid to Devlope more Varients!: ‘Pandemic Is Far From Over’: People’s CDC Tells Congress to Fund Covid Response “You must choose a healthier, more equitable pandemic response,” the coalition wrote in a letter. “We all deserve better.” rogressive coalition called the People’s CDC on Tuesday criticized the federal government for releasing a “horrifying set” of relaxed public health guidelines earlier this month and urged lawmakers to allocate sufficient funding to ensure that everyone has free access to masks, tests, treatments, vaccines, and other resources needed to defeat Covid-19. “The pandemic is far from over,” the People’s CDC said in a statement, pointing to hundreds of Covid deaths per day in the U.S. alone, rising child hospitalizations, and a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing that roughly 20% of adults develop longterm symptoms or complications after being infected, often called Long Covid.
Pandemic, Profit-Driven Healthcare System Blamed for Historic Decline in US Life Expectancy On average, Americans are expected to live nearly three fewer years than they were in 2019. In what experts said is an indictment of the U.S. healthcare system and persistent economic and racial inequality, federal health researchers on Wednesday released data showing the U.S. saw the largest decline in life expectancy in nearly a century during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic, with Americans now expected to live nearly three fewer years than they were in 2019.