Daily News Digest January 1, 2023
The Cuban Revolution Inspired Me to Become A Socialist, it Made Believe That the TenD ays That Shaked the World in Russia 1917 was Again Possible! Every New Year I Celebrate the Triumph of the Cuban Revolution Triumph of the Revolution (Spanish: Triunfo de la Revolución) also known as Liberation Day (Spanish: Día de la Liberación) is a celebration in Cuba of the anniversary of the victory of the revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959 which established the present government in Cuba. The previous president, Fulgencio Batista fled the country on 31 December 1958. The holiday is celebrated on January 1 every year.
2023 Image of the Year: Latuff: Genocide Joe
Images of the Day:
Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust 
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”
Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capitalism Has Been Aware of the Comming Catastrophe of Global Warming 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 very future of Humanity Is Now At stake!
During This Economic Crisis, Capitalism’s Three-Point Political Program: Austerity, Scapegoat Blacks, Minorities, and ‘Illegal’ Immigrants for Unemployment, andThe 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:
However, in recent years, world leaders have stressed the need to limit global warming to 1.5°C by the end of this century. That’s because the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates that crossing the 1.5°C threshold risks unleashing far more severe climate change impacts, including more frequent and severe droughts, heatwaves, and rainfall. — The Paris Agreement
If ever an emperor had no clothes, it is apartheid Israel as it parades across the West as the innocent victim of “terrorists” who have no cause. During his controversial presidency of the Islamic Republic, 2005–2013, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a right-wing populist who spoke for Iran’s unmodernized millions, famously asserted that Israel had no place on a map of Middle East nations. I mention this because I do not want to be misunderstood on this following point. Does Israel as currently constituted and as it currently conducts itself have a right to exist? Does it honor the responsibilities that come with nationhood? I do not have answers to questions so complex as these, but it seems to me time, as the killing goes on in Gaza and as Israelis are radicalized rightward, to pose them. To rotate the gaze briefly, I wonder if there is another nation on earth whose circumstances are so blurred as America’s on the eve of 2024. The judiciary, in plain sight, is even further than Israel’s along on the path to fatal compromise. But we must not mention this. If that preposterous Colorado Supreme Court decision has anything to tell us, it is that those opposed to a presumed presidential candidate are abusing the law—not superior ideas or policies, not the preferences of voters—to keep him out of office. This cannot be mentioned, either—not in the polite company of the liberal authoritarians responsible for these abuses. Atop all this sits a president whose obvious mental incompetence is spoken of only when the topic cannot be avoided and most of the time apologetically. Joe Biden is just short of his “I am not a crook” moment, and corporate media now take to saying this for him. Since he seems to be incapable of competing for his own reelection, the corporate press and the broadcasters are apparently prepared to campaign for him. — Patrick Lawrence: To Retrieve History It Is Our 2024 Project.
Videos of the Day:
Four Deaths That Shaped Modern American History
How U.S. Oil Production Reached An All-Time High in 2023
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 Republicrats 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 the poor and gives to the Rich. Tax the Rich! — They Can Afford ford To Pay! Both Parties Support U.S. Capitalism’s Wars! (The Only War the Democrats Opposed was the Civil War!)
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both. — Louis D. Brandeis Quotes
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. MLK, Beyond Vietnam
2023: The Year the Bubble of US Leadership Burst If Ukraine exemplifies yet another iconic U.S. military failure, and BRICS the changing of the guard in the economic realm, the sadistic savagery in Gaza repudiates the moral right of the U.S. to lead… anything. Year-ends invite retrospectives. And every year is, by definition, “unprecedented.” After all, it has never occurred before. But “unprecedented” is a cliche that drains the very word of its intended impact. The year 2023 is not so much “unprecedented” as it is “epochal,” a “turning point,” or, as in the terminology I choose, “The Year the Bubble Burst.” That implies rapidity, for bursting happens quickly, and irreversibility, for burst bubbles don’t reassemble themselves. This bursting is especially true on the foreign front where the U.S. has been the global leader since the end of the Cold War, if not since the end of World War II. The bubble of U.S. leadership in the world burst in 2023 because of the combined impact of three events: Ukraine, BRICS, and Gaza
Despite The Media Monopoly’s ‘Spin’: Young Americans in the Lead to Stop Israeli Genocide The mainstream media in the United States has been and continues to be pro-Israel. Concerning Israel’s war against the Palestinians in Gaza, it is trumpeting the position of the White House and the large majority of Democratic and Republican politicians in Congress. The December 19 New York Times reported on a Times/Siena College poll of registered voters that found “younger Americans far more critical than older voters of both Israel’s conduct and of the administration’s response to the war in Gaza.” To the question asked by pollsters, “In the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians, which side do you sympathize with more?” there was a sharp generational gap. Among 18 to 29 year olds, 46 percent said they sympathize more with the Palestinians, and 27 percent said with Israel. Nine percent said they sympathize with both, and 19 percent said they either didn’t know or refused to answer.
Once Again, Biden Bypasses Congress to Approve Arms Sale to Israel “When Israel runs out of rockets to murder children with they simply hold their hand out to daddy for more,” said one critic.Citing “the urgency of Israel’s defensive needs,” the Biden administration on Friday said it would bypass Congress for the second time this month to approve an immediate arms sale to the key Middle East ally as it continues to wage a genocidal war against Gaza.
Ukraine Needs a Cease-Fire, Not Biden’s $50 Billion Escalation There is a growing gap between the goals of Washington D.C.’s war lobby and the realities on the ground in Ukraine. It’s clear that Ukraine needs more support. What isn’t clear is why the latest White House spending package includes $50 billion in additional military funding, which is more than Ukraine has received from the United States since the war began in early 2022. This could a very dangerous escalation of the risk of nuclear war, at a time when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock already stands closer to “midnight” than ever.
Law for the 99% and Law for the 1%!: Why Rudy Giuliani Can Declare Bankruptcy While Homeowners Can’t The prevailing myth that America has a “free market” existing outside and apart from government prevents us from understanding that the very rules by which the market runs—including the basic one about what to do when someone can’t or won’t pay what they owe—are made by lawmakers. Bankruptcy was designed so people could start over, but these days, the only ones starting over are those with enough political clout to shape bankruptcy laws to their liking. Within days of a nearly $150 million judgment against former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani for defaming Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the election workers Giuliani falsely claimed stole the 2020 election in Georgia for President Joe Biden, Giuliani filed for bankruptcy.
Hunger in the United States (Updated December 2023) Hunger and food insecurity are real issues for some American families. With a total population of approximately 330 million people, roughly 12% are food insecure. They do not have reliable, steady access to food. In this article, we will dive in and look at specific statistics regarding hunger in the United States including:
- 12% of the population in the US struggle with hunger -about 41 million people
- There are 38 million Americans that struggle with poverty
- Households with children that are headed by a single woman have the highest rate of food insecurity
- 7% of all children do not know where their next meal is coming from
- 22 million children rely on school for their meals
- 12% of senior citizens experience food insecurity
- Poverty is directly correlated to hunger, and the poverty rate is going down
- The average monthly income for those who use food assistance programs is $813/month
- The average cost of a meal in America is $3.02.
- New Mexico, Mississippi and Louisiana have some of the highest rates of hunge
United States:
U.S. Funded Palestinian Genocide:
South Africa Charges Israel With Genocide at Int’l Court of Justice, as Global South Charges West With Hypocrisy South African society has had extensive experience with racial Apartheid (segregation and humiliation) and with genocide, which is defined in international law this way: “Genocide is the intentional a physical destruction of a social group in its entirety, or the intentional annihilation of such a significant part of the group that it is no longer able to reproduce itself biologically or culturally,” So writes Mohamed Adhikari in his book, The Anatomy of a South African Genocide : The Extermination of the Cape San Peoples, Ohio University Press, 2011.
Israel: South Africa Is Anti-Semitic to Invoke Genocide Convention False accusations of anti-semitism are all Israel and its defenders have left. It’s the toolbox.only tool left in their toolbox. South Africa has invoked the Genocide Convention, formally launching a case at the UN’s international court of justice accusing Israel of genocide for its mass atrocities in the Gaza Strip. Israel immediately responded by (deep sigh) accusing South Africa of “blood libel”. Blood libel, for those who don’t know, refers to the way medieval Europeans would falsely accuse Jews of murdering Christians in blood sacrifices in order to justify persecuting them. Which is to say, Israel has responded to South Africa’s accusations by accusing South Africa of anti-semitism.
Environment:
One of Many Ways to Begin to End Global Warming: Expose ‘Greenwashing’ — Tax the Polluters 100%! After World War II Rosa Luxenburg Coined the Slogan: ‘S0cialism or Barbaism’! Now the Slogan Should Be: ‘Ecosocialism or Ecocide’!
Black Liberation/Civil Rights:
From Taser Face to the Goon Squad: the Year in Police Crime
Labor:
Occupational Cancer: Capitalism Refuses to Protect Wokers! A proper study, of workplace carcinogenic exposure, has yet to done even though the study of occupational studies of workers have played a central role in identifying the causes of human cancer. From The War at the Point of Production: The ‘Killing Fields’ of the United States:
One of the best descriptions of the government’s attitude to workers’ health and safety can be found in a paper by Peter F. Infante, former director of standards for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). It was presented before the President’s Cancer Panel meeting on Lung Cancer: Societal and Clinical Implications, October 5, 1995, at Tysons Corner, Virginia. And was also published in the Winter 1995 issue of New Solutions with the title: Cancer and Blue-Collar Workers: Who Cares? In this article Infante wrote: . . .
Conclusion #1: A much greater national effort to the NIOSH budget for the purpose of developing in the study of occupational carcinogens is better control technology that will result in the required. Our failure to make that effort is resulting in a disproportionate (and preventable) cancer burden being borne by blue collar workers. Conclusion #2: More funding needs to be allocated to the NIOSH budget for reduction of human exposure to carcinogenic substances found in the workplace. . . .In the early 1900s, canaries were routinely taken down into the mines. The men used these canaries to give them the first sign of possible disaster or death. When the canaries passed out or died, the men knew that there was a problem with exposure to carbon monoxide and immediate action was needed. The analogy here is clear. Blue-collar workers appear to be the canaries in our society for identifying human chemical carcinogens in the general environment. The fact that occupational cancer is a sentinel for identifying carcinogenic exposures in the general environment is reason alone to justify an intensified cancer research effort in the workplace. Yet, our efforts to study their exposures to carcinogens, or to develop technology to decrease that exposure, or to develop safe substitutes have been relatively minimal.”
In 2017, The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization, Agreed. “Studies of workers have played a central role in identifying the causes of human cancer.”:
Studies of workers have played a central role in identifying the causes of human cancer. Data compiled from the IARC Monographs from its initiation in 1971 through 2017 indicate that the number of recognised occupational carcinogens has increased progressively in recent decades. This trend may have been facilitated by advances in study quality, notably in quantitative exposure assessment, and in the global growth of the scientific literature base. Despite notable progress, there continues to be a need for research on the causes of work-related cancer. Epidemiologic evidence is inadequate or entirely lacking for the majority of the over 1000 agents evaluated by IARC; many more agents present in workplaces have never been evaluated for carcinogenicity. There is also a need to identify the numbers of exposed workers by geographic location and to produce quantitative exposure data as a basis for hazard identification, exposure-response estimation and risk assessment. — Conclusions Identifying occupational Carcinogens: An Update From the IARC Monographs (2017)
Economy:
World:
‘They Attacked Us. They Displaced Us’: Grieving Sudanese Confront Swedish Oil Giant Over Their Days Of Slaughter A historic trial, which will call on 61 witnesses worldwide, is expected to set a precedent for global corporations in foreign jurisdictions . . . In Sweden’s largest-ever trial, Ian Lundin, a Swede, and Alex Schneiter, who is Swiss, stand accused of asking Sudan’s government to make its army and allied militia responsible for security at one of Lundin Oil’s exploration fields. This led to aerial bombings, civilian killings and the burning of entire villages, according to the prosecution. Both men deny the charges.
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