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During This Economic Crisis, Capitalism’s Three Point Political Program: 1. Austerity, 2. Scapegoating Blacks, Minorities, and ‘Illegal Immigrants’ for Unemployment, and 3. The Iron Heel.
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!
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Capitalists, in Order to Maintain/Increase their Profit Rates, are on a Rabid Austerity Drive to Overthrow the Gains of the Labor, Civil Rights, and Other Social Movements, with the support of the Bureaucrtic Misleaders of these Movements. — Roland Sheppard
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Despite Fightback, Top Principals Say Schools Still Facing Painful Layoffs, Increased Class Sizes On the latest episode of The Real Baltimore, leading principals Ashley Cook, Job Grotsky and Matt Hornbeck discuss what equitable funding would mean for Baltimore public schools, the advantages enjoyed by charter schools, and what it takes to make a school ‘great’.
U.S.:
Spicer Exposed His Pro-NAZI Outlook:
Trump doesn’t know his history – and neither does Sean Spicer The White House press spokesperson apparently could not grasp that Hitler used a chemical weapon called Zyklon B, with which the Nazis gassed up to a million of the six million Jews slaughtered in the Holocaust By Robert Fisk
Syria: Where the Rubber Meets the Road “Our U.S. Army contacts in the area have told us this is not what happened. There was no Syrian ‘chemical weapons attack.’ Instead, a Syrian aircraft bombed an al-Qaeda-in-Syria ammunition depot that turned out to be full of noxious chemicals and a strong wind blew the chemical-laden cloud over a nearby village where many consequently died…..This is what the Russians and Syrians have been saying and – more important –what they appear to believe happened.” — Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, 20 former members of the US Intelligence Community (names below) by Mike Whitney 
Trump Should Rethink Syria Escalation by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Black Liberation/Civil Rights
The Thirteenth Amendment Provided for Prison Slavery: The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
The ‘War on Drugs’ was/is a Racist Excuse for the United States to Begin the Process to Overthrow the Gains of the Civil Rights Movement and to Establish The New Jim Crow and Convict Labor Slavery:
- About 14 million Whites and 2.6 million African Americans report using an illicit dru
- 5 times as many Whites are using drugs as African Americans, yet African Americans are sent to prison for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of Whites
- African Americans represent 12% of the total population of drug users, but 38% of those arrested for drug offenses, and 59% of those in state prison for a drug offense.
- African Americans serve virtually as much time in prison for a drug offense (58.7 months) as whites do for a violent offense (61.7 months). (Sentencing Project)
Freedom Rider: Trump Joins Democrats in the War Party The Trump who upset the War Party with his stated opposition to regime change and willingness to lessen tensions with Russia has combusted in orange fireballs of war. In the wake of the attack on Syria, Bernie Sanders “proves himself to be a phony progressive, supporting the empire while claiming there is some difference between himself and his once and future rival, Clinton.” And, the pink pussy hat crowd? “They aren’t resisting anything at all.” by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Anti-Russia Madness Attempts to Suppress the Bi-Partisan Triple Evils of Capitalism, Racism, and War Washington’s “anti-Russia madness” has distracted attention from every other issue, including what Dr. Martin Luther King called “the triple evils” of war, capitalism, and white supremacy. As Trump surrenders to the “Deep State,” working class and poor folks sink deeper into economic misery. The anti-war movement has decayed to an infantile state, the Black liberation movement has yet to revive itself, and the Democrats are worse than useless. by Danny Haiphong 
The Community Had a Duty to Shut Down the Montgomery County Hearing on the Bethesda African Burial Ground Black community members attempting to preserve an ancestral burial ground charge they were “deceived, misled and ambushed” by officials in suburban Montgomery County, Maryland. The Bethesda African Cemetery was already buried under a parking lot. Now the county has assigned an all-white team to determine if there are bodies in the cemetery – after booting two renowned Black experts off the case. Activists call the county’s conduct “criminal.” by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Adebayo
God Squares Off with the Devil in Syria and Rwanda The propagandists of imperial war come in many packages, trailing the slime of mass death behind them. The Canadian ex-general Romeo Dallaire proudly bears the “white man’s burden” to punish Rwandans who were on the wrong (not the U.S.) side in their country’s civil war. He cites God as his proof. NPR’s Scott Simon deploys a familiar radio voice to condemn Washington’s targets to Hell. Neither cares that they have helped kill six million Congolese. by Ann Garrison 
Deportation of African and Other Black Immigrants Is Quietly Increasing And No One Is Taking Note “Fully one-third of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers are African” – the fastest growing immigrant group — and deportations of Black immigrants are expected to soar under Trump. The White House has placed bans on three countries — Somalia, Libya and Sudan — that account for huge numbers of Black refugees. The 50,000 undocumented Irish immigrants have little to fear. “These policies are designed to reduce to the number of Black and brown people.” by David Love
Remembering South African Struggle Hero Chris Hani: Lessons for Today South African communist leader Chris Hani was assassinated by white racists 27 years ago, removing him from the scene during the nation’s transition to Black rule. Hani fought careerism and corruption in the revolutionary movement. Today, the “tradition of internal debate” that Hani promoted “has become eroded, and criticism keeps being silenced as sowing disunity.” by Arianna Lissoni
Capitalism, Racism and the History of South Africa The African National Congress has failed to nationalize industries, redistribute the land, or tackle other goals of the Freedom Charter. Instead, it deliberately created a Black capitalist class, through the government’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policy. But Black capitalism will not free South Africa from imperialism. “It will help to cement ties between the South African bourgeoisie and the imperialist bourgeoisie.” by Sehlare Makgetlaneng 
History: How African Muslims “Civilized Spain” For most of human history, northern Europe was a barbarian realm, to which it reverted with the fall of Rome. Muslim Moors from Africa civilized Spain. “In the 10th century, Cordoba was not just the capital of Moorish Spain but also the most important and modern city in Europe.” Moorish advances in science and philosophy “helped propel Europe out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance.” by Garikai Chengu
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Ongoing Big Energy Crisis:
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World:
Melenchon’s meteoric rise in French presidential elections – the ruling class in panic The possibility of a second round pitching Le Pen against Melenchon has been described by the The Economist as the “nightmare option”. The polls show that Melenchon would beat Le Pen with 57 percent against 43. Reflecting the fears of the ruling class, the spread between French and German bonds has shot up to 75 basis points (from around 30 at the end of last year). The Financial Times points out that this “election is already the most unpredictable in a generation” and adds that “the three leading candidates in the polls now come from outside the mainstream political parties.” Jorge Martin
North of Ireland: What lies behind the collapse of Stormont? The power-sharing deal in the North of Ireland, established with the Good Friday Agreement, has broken down. The old system of rule no longer works, an indication of the pressures that flow from the economic crisis. Gerry Ruddy looks at why and how this has come about. By Gerry Ruddy in Belfast 
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