Daily News Digest July 5, 2024
Images of the Day:
Bendib: Loonie vs. Zombie
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”
The Rise of Capitalism was Under the Banner of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity! Now There is Less Liberty, More Inequality, and Less Fraternity of Humanity! Every Day, From Global Warming to Global War There is a New Example of Capitalism in Imperialist Decay!
Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capitalism Has Been Aware of the Comming Catastrophe of Global Warming Over 6 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 Five Horsemen of the the Apocalypse, Spreading Racism, War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, and Misinformation! 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, and 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! Globaly, With the Current Gaza War, The Right of Assembly is Under Attack! Due to Years of Austerity, Cuts to Public Health Care, And An Anti-Science and Profiteering President, The United States Still Leads the World In Coronavirus Cases and Deaths in the World!
The Majority of the World, Despite the Media Monopoly’s Lies, are Opposed to the Palestinian Genocide and Global Warming — The 1% Minority Funds Them! At, this Time in History, Capitalism is Exposing the Fact That it is Opposed to Majority Rule/Democracy!
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:
If Biden was Raly Sincere about the Environment: Since the Supreme has Given the Presidency new Powers, Biden Should Decare a National Climate/Environmental Emergency! And Rule, Through an Executive Order, That the Environmental Regulators Should, and Not the Courts, Regulate the Problems Caused by Pollution, Global Warming, Worker Rights, etc.!
Vide0s of the Day:
Richard Wolff on the Decline of the US empire and the Rise of China and BRICS
“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech
Science, Not Scaremongering: St. Vincent & Grenadines PM on Hurricane Beryl & Climate Crisis
Black Agenda Radio June 28, 2024
Sharpton and Black Misleaders Support the Occupation of Haiti
Congress Must Restore Preclearance Provision to the Voting Rights Act
Washington DC Communities Mobilize Against New Crime Bill
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 : My own Government, I cannot be Silent. ― Martin Luther King Jr.
To this day, we have a government and state apparatus that is designed to “protect the minority of the opulent against the majority” Democracy for white and wealthy men only! — My Forefathers and The 1%’s Forefathers
This Civilization Is Deeply Unnatural There is nothing natural about this. The way things are. The way we are living. If this was the natural and healthy way for human society to exist, it wouldn’t require mountains of propaganda spin to keep it going. There is nothing natural about this. The way things are. The way we are living. If this was the natural and healthy way for human society to exist, it wouldn’t require mountains of propaganda spin to keep it going. Without copious amounts of mental narratives being fed to us by people in power, it would never occur to anyone that it’s a good or normal idea to commit to wars of aggression on the other side of the planet, or to back genocides, or to militarize globally with hundreds of military outposts around the world, or to foster systems which allow a few people to have far too much while others have far too little, or to destroy the biosphere we depend on for survival for the sake of shareholder profits. It would never occur to us to accept these things if we weren’t living our lives saturated in a nonstop barrage of narratives explaining that we should accept them.
To Further Insure Protection of the Minority of the Opulent Against the Majority: The Supreme Court Wants a Dictator The right-wing court is engaged in a radical revolution to upend U.S. democracy. MONDAY’S SUPREME COURT ruling granting far-reaching presidential immunity gives the lie to decades of right-wing propaganda about the real purpose of the long conservative campaign to take over the court. Generationsof conservative pseudointellectuals have argued that the mission of the Federalist Society, the powerful conservative legal group that has seeded the Supreme Court with its zombie-like members, was to bring the court back to its original mandate under the Constitution. The right-wing pundits who promoted the Federalist Society were always a little vague on what their version of “originalism” really entailed, which led to widespread suspicions that it just meant whatever was politically beneficial to conservatives. The ruling on presidential immunity is just the latest piece of evidence that shows that originalism was just a confidence game by the right to gain power. The court’s conservative majority has revealed itself to be a corrupt political machine with both short- and long-term goals. Today, the court is determined to protect Donald Trump and the Republican Party; longer-term, its mandate is to protect and defend the powers of those who will enable white minority rule in America for years to come.
Marjorie Cohn: The Supreme Court Has Made It Official: US Presidents Are Now Monarchs The Supreme Court’s “Trump v. United States” ruling gives Donald Trump “legal” cover for past and future lawbreaking. Today, Americans celebrate Independence Day, commemorating the Declaration of Independence when the colonists threw off the yoke of King George III. When they crafted it, the framers of the Constitution established three co-equal branches of government to check and balance each other. But the Supreme Court’s shocking decision in Trump v. United States takes us back to the bad old days of the monarchy. The reactionary supermajority held that presidents have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for core official acts, and presumptive immunity for all other official acts.
The US Supreme Court Has Opened the Door for a Fascist American King The Court has exposed itself as a nakedly political—and reactionary—institution, and the existential dangers it poses must be met by mass mobilization and fierce resistance. “The president is not above the law,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts before ruling that President Trump is above the law. In a Monday decision both shocking and unsurprising, the Supreme Court’s reactionary six-member majority ruled that the president of the United States has “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution for acts relating to “core constitutional duties.” An elementary school civics student taught that ours, supposedly, is a “government of laws and not of men,” would recognize the dangers of this ruling.
U.S. Funded Palestinian Genocide:
Pali-Rican Solidarities: The Dizzying Parallels of Colonial Occupation As I sit to write this piece, bombs rain down in Rafah and all of Gaza. Settler encroachments into the occupied West Bank intensify. Nina* sends me a message on Instagram, a picture of Palestinian journalist, Bisan Owda and a group of men, holding up a Puerto Rican flag. Nina is in tears. I, too, feel them welling up in my throat. Two hundred sixty eight days. Nine months. Seven and a half decades. One hundred twenty six years. My people have been fighting colonial occupation. Nina* and I, who many nights stayed up talking about the parallels between the Puerto Rican struggle and the Native American struggle, discuss once again the parallels between Palestine and Puerto Rico. The parallels between Puerto Ricans and Palestinians are many – both occupied territories, both subject to experimentation with bombs and medicine, both experiencing disaster capitalism, both experiencing forced displacement, both dying – one slowly through austerity measures and the other rapidly through the onslaught of bombs by occupation forces. After Hurricane María ravaged our homeland, my Puerto Rican research participants each declared resoundingly – “El desastre real es el colonialismo.” So, too, for Palestinians – the real disaster is colonialism.
Israel Has Forcibly Displaced 1.9 Million Palestinians in Gaza Israel’s assault has displaced over 1 million people just since May, a UN human rights official said.
Environment:
Fund Climate! — Not Genocide! 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’!
We Must Hold These Monsters to Account!
Thousands Evacuated Amid Northern California Wildfire and Heatwave “It cannot be stressed enough that this is an exceptionally dangerous and lethal situation,” the National Weather Service warned. California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in a northern county where a major wildfire has burned thousands of acres and forced the evacuation of thousands of residents amid near-record heat throughout much of the Golden State fueled by human-caused global heating.
Black Liberation/Civil Rights:
Reproductive Health Funding Remains “Shackled” as Abortion Rights Are Decimated During a critical election year, sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations risk losing funding.
- Julian Assange Freed by the Prospect of Justice After seven years of asylum in Ecuador’s embassy in London and another five years imprisoned by the United Kingdom, Julian Assange is finally a free man.
- ESSAY: Assassinations at Home and Abroad, Jemima Pierre, 2012 The US Supreme Court’s decision to grant the President of the United States “absolute immunity” merely codifies criminal behavior by all US presidents.
- Democrats No Longer Have an Excuse for Holding a Virtual Convention Biden’s debate meltdown has Democrats scrambling, but they no longer have an excuse for holding a virtual convention.
- Political Deadlock Continues in Efforts to Open Peace Talks in Sudan The SAF still accuses the United Arab Emirates of supporting the RSF and the crisis continues for the people of Sudan.
- The Kenyan Intervention in Haiti: Another Wave of “Diplomatic” Terrorism The invasion of Haiti that has just begun with the arrival of Kenyan police, was long in the making. It is the end result of a long imperialist war of destabilization and propaganda against the country. Kenya’s involvement is said to be a better solution than previous interventions, but it is just a cover for the goals of western imperialist machinations.
- The Sports World’s Selective Moral Indignation Part II The imbalanced and prejudiced criteria by which the International Olympic Committee chooses to take action against countries reveal the political and moral inconsistencies reflective of other international bodies. During this genocide in Gaza, the contradictions are glaringly evident.
- The Terrible Origins of July 4th As the Fourth of July grows closer, let us examine the reality of “independence day”. BAR is republishing this articlefrom 2021. The causes of the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence are rarely taught in this country. The American colonists chafed under British rules limiting their settlements and feared they would end slavery. The “patriots” motives were anything but noble. “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.” — Declaration of Independence
- The psychology of oppression and liberation As the world watches the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a thorough reading and understanding of Frantz Fanon’s writings around colonialism, revolution, and psychology are critical to the struggle for Palestinian liberation, and liberation for us all.
- Dear Haiti, our Kenyan police are a problem Kenya’s police are notorious for their violence and disregard for the Kenyan people. As they arrive in Haiti for the “security support” mission, Haitians should be aware of the brutality they will bring to their nation.
- How the N.Y.P.D. Quietly Shuts Down Discipline Cases Against Officers Police Commissioner Edward Caban has often relied on an obscure authority to intervene when officers are accused of serious wrongdoing, often handing out little to no punishment.
Labor:
Economy:
Just Like Rome in Decline! — The Decadent Class!:
Grand Jury Transcript in Jeffrey Epstein Case Is Released, Raising Questions about Epstein’s Darkest Secrets Being Protected in JPMorgan Cases On Monday, the transcript of the July 19, 2006 grand jury proceedings involving sexual assaults and rape by Jeffrey Epstein against underage girls in Palm Beach County, Florida was released by a Circuit Court. The Palm Beach Post newspaper had sued in that court for release of the transcript in 2019 in order to shine more light on how Florida State Attorney, Barry Krischer, had ignored a powder keg of evidence against Epstein that had been developed by the Palm Beach Police and cut a sweetheart deal under pressure from Epstein’s attorneys. Florida legislation, signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis, called for the transcript to be released on or after July 1, in response to the extensive public interest in the case.
World:
UK: Ruling Paves Way for Businesses and Public to Sue Water Firms Over Sewage Decision by supreme court means water companies could be sued for damage caused by dumping of human waste. Water companies could face a spate of legal challenges by people and businesses affected by sewage pollution after a ruling that United Utilities could be sued by a private company for damage caused by the dumping of human waste. Lawyers said it was a “watershed moment” as the courts had previously ruled that penalties for water companies were a matter for the regulator, and companies could not sue firms for damage caused to their property by sewage pollution. The Manchester Ship Canal Company, which has been trying since 2010 to bring a claim against United Utilities, has alleged that discharges from 121 sewage outfalls within its networks constituted a trespass. In February 2012, the high court ruled in favour of United Utilities, but this was later overturned by the court of appeal, and then restored by the supreme court in 2014. Then, in March 2021, the high court ruled it was the role of regulators and not the courts to address problems caused by sewage dumping.
Kenya: Ruto Resorts To Deception, Manoeuvres and Provocation The storming of the Kenyan parliament building by revolutionary youth last week stunned the world and left Kenyan politicians and the ruling class in a state of panic and disarray. Brute force could not clear the masses off the streets. The regime has been forced to resort to new methods: a sly combination of deception, manoeuvres and provocations. Officially, Ruto has killed the Finance Bill, although in theory parliament could still pass it. In actual fact, it has already become abundantly clear that he intends to carry out the same economic policy against the workers and poor by other meansBut for large numbers of young Kenyans, it’s no longer just about Finance Bill 2024. After last Tuesday and Thursday’s events, when regime bullets left 30 dead (according to official figures), millions have resolved that this regime must fall.
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
SCOTUS Ruling on Federal Power May Have Major Ramifications for Health Care Experts say patients and providers should brace for more uncertainty and less stability in the health care system.