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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 Those Who Profit From Austerity! Under Austerity, All of the World Will Eventually Be Pauperized, Humbled, and Desecrated Like Greece and Puerto Rico!
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Obama Has Passed His Baton to Trump: Obama leading the Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse — US Imperialism Spreading War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. Copyright Steve Bell 2009/All Rights Reserved
Britain’s Clear Choice
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We’ve just published a manifesto that’s different from anything you’ve seen before. It has electrified politics. No more can people say there’s no difference between the parties. Our manifesto starts from what you want, and that’s a country run for the many, not the few. For the last seven years, our people have lived through the opposite — a Britain run for the rich, the elite and the vested interests. Labour’s mission over the next five years is to change all that. Our manifesto spells out how — with a programme that is radical and responsible. Whatever your age or situation, if you want to help build a fairer Britain where no one is held back, our manifesto is for you. — Jeremy Corbyn
Whether by design or accident, Corbyn stole a march on his critics – both amongst the Tories and the Labour right wing – last week with the leak of the Labour election manifesto, which was widely and warmly welcomed by the British public. Across the board, Corbyn’s promises — to end austerity; renationalise the railways and Royal Mail; and build 100,000 council homes per year — have been shown to be extremely popular in poll after poll. — Mass rallies seen as Corbyn Labour campaign takes off
. . . At the time of their assassinations, both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X were embarking on a course in opposition to the capitalist system. It is clear from reading and listening to their final speeches that they had both evolved to similar conclusions as to capitalism’s role in the maintenance of racism. That is why they were neutralized. . . . Unlike Malcolm X, who never got the opportunity to act upon his convictions, Martin Luther King was organizing a movement to obtain his stated goals when he was assassinated in Memphis. He was in Memphis to build “the coalition of an energized section of labor, Negroes, unemployed, and welfare recipients” in support of striking municipal garbage workers. If such a force had been launched, the whole power of the antiwar and civil rights movement in the 1960s could have transformed the labor movement and become “the source of power that reshapes economic relationships and ushers in a breakthrough to a new level of social reform.” Such a coalition, as King envisioned it thirty-three years ago, is needed today. The best tribute to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X would be to begin anew to build a movement based on the ideas and the concepts that they had developed at the time of their untimely deaths. Unfortunately, the civil rights movement, after Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, subordinated independent mass struggle in the streets to electoral activity: to elect Democrats. Black Democratic politicians under the slogan: “vote for me and I’ll set you free,” began distributing “war on poverty” money to Black organizations. What W.E.B. DuBois called the “talented tenth” got government jobs and became comfortable. This whole process demobilized the civil rights movement of the Black masses, who were subsequently left behind. Today, the bankruptcy of this policy has come home to roost upon all workers as pensions, wages, our standard of living, etc., are under attack and devalued by inflation. Blacks and other minorities especially have faced the brunt of these attacks. They are disproportionately among the ranks of the unemployed and the underemployed. — Roland Sheppard, Why the Government Assassinated Malcolm X And Martin Luther King Jr.
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Afghanistan: U.S. Poised to Extend a War it Can’t Win Military historian Andrew Bacevich says the U.S. is could soon escalate the Afghan war rather than face the tough questions it would take to end it
Corbyn’s New Labour Manifesto Fires Up Base, Angers UK Elites Thomas Barlow of UK’s Real Media says Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s new “For the Many, Not the Few” manifesto puts sweeping progressive change on the table, much to the chagrin of the British political and media establishment
U.S.:
The Death and Agony of Perpetual War: The World Hasn’t Had This Many People Dying of Starvation and Disease Since World War II And the United States is complicit in their death. Not since World War II have more human beings been at risk from disease and starvation than at this very moment. On March 10, Stephen O’Brien, undersecretary general of the United Nations for humanitarian affairs, informed the Security Council that 20 million people in three African countries—Nigeria, Somalia, and South Sudan—as well as in Yemen were likely to die if not provided with emergency food and medical aid. “We are at a critical point in history,” he declared. “Already at the beginning of the year we are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the UN.” Without coordinated international action, he added, “people will simply starve to death [or] suffer and die from disease.” By Michael T. Klare
Black Liberation/Civil Rights:
Malcolm X in the 21st Century Many have wondered out loud, “What would El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X be doing at 92 years of age?” Our Black Shining Prince was born on May 19th, 1925 and joined the ancestors on February 21, 1925. by Norman Richmond
Jeff Sessions, Eric Holder and Mass Black Incarceration — Revisited and Revised Attorney General Jeff Session is a nightmare, but Eric Holder, his Black predecessor, was among those that opened the door to racial profiling, “pretext” traffic stops, and mandatory minimum sentences during the Clinton era. The vaunted criminal justice “reforms” that are credited to Obama and Holder are so ephemeral, they have been wiped out by a single Jeff Sessions memo. by BAR executive editor Glen Ford 
Freedom Rider: No Tears for the FBI Pity the poor FBI agents. Reportedly, the morale of the secret police has suffered since their former director, James Comey, was cashiered by President Trump. If the FBI has, indeed, been rendered ineffectual, that’s a blessing. “We can only hope that their condition is so serious that they no longer want to target individuals and groups for surveillance, arrest and imprisonment.” by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley 
Karen Spellman and the SNCC Legacy Project –Black Power Chronicle When did the “Civil Rights Movement” morph into the “Black Power Era” — or is that a false dichotomy. The best testimony on that question comes from those who participated in the process — people like Karen Spellman, an early activist with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and currently co-director of the Black Power Chronicles. by BAR Editor and Columnist, Dr. Marsha Adebayo
Peace Activists Confront Amy Goodman on Biased Syria Coverage Amy Goodman, the producer and host of Democracy Now!, has long angered much of her progressive audience with her biased coverage of the proxy U.S. war against Syria. A Veterans for Peace chapter wants to give Goodman a piece of their minds. “The warmongers in Washington seem determined to use the story of Assad bombing his own people with chemical weapons. The MSM plays that story big time, and Amy Goodman echoes it on DN.” by Ann Garrison
Environment:
A Strong Case Against a Pesticide Does Not Faze E.P.A. Under Trump Some of the most compelling evidence linking a widely used pesticide to developmental problems in children stems from what scientists call a “natural” experiment. By Roni Caryn Rabin 
Farmworkers encounter pesticide dangers The shocking and sad part is that the active ingredient in the insecticide the workers were exposed to is chlorpyrifos, which was slated to be banned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Obama administration. However, in March that ban was canceled. The EPA said there wasn’t enough solid evidence. Chlorpyrifos is reported to cause severe neurotoxic symptoms in humans if touched, inhaled, or eaten. By Victoria Sanchez De Alba 
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Economy:
Mohamed El-Erian: ‘We get signals that the system is under enormous stress’ Leading economist and investor believes world leaders, and global capitalism, have reached fork in road between equality and chaos By Nils Pratley and Jill Treanor 
A Crisis of Confidence in Government Can Harm U.S. Economic Growth When the Commerce Department released its data on April 28 for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter, it signaled the slowest growth in three years. The economy had grown at a tepid 0.7 percent annual rate as a result of weak consumer spending. The individual consumer matters greatly to growth in the U.S., accounting for more than two-thirds of economic activity. In the first quarter, consumer spending registered at a 0.3 percent rate, a pace not seen since the depths of the financial crisis in the fourth quarter of 2009. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
Mass rallies seen as Corbyn Labour campaign takes off With only a few weeks to go until election day, Labour’s campaign to boot out the Tories is gathering momentum and the gap in the polls is narrowing. Despite a concerted and co-ordinated effort by the Tories, the right-wing press, and the Blairites to discredit Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader and his campaign are cutting through the web of lies and slanders by appealing directly to workers and youth on the basis of mass rallies and a bold and radical programme. By Socialist Appeal (UK) 
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