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 Who Profit From Austerity! Under Austerity, All of the World Will Eventually Be Pauperized, Humbled, and Desecrated Like Greece and Puerto Rico!
The unsayable in Britain’s general election campaign is this. The causes of the Manchester atrocity, in which 22 mostly young people were murdered by a jihadist, are being suppressed to protect the secrets of British foreign policy. Critical questions – such as why the security service MI5 maintained terrorist “assets” in Manchester and why the government did not warn the public of the threat in their midst – remain unanswered, deflected by the promise of an internal “review”. The alleged suicide bomber, Salman Abedi, was part of an extremist group, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, that thrived in Manchester and was cultivated and used by MI5 for more than 20 years. The LIFG is proscribed by Britain as a terrorist organisation which seeks a “hardline Islamic state” in Libya and “is part of the wider global Islamist extremist movement, as inspired by al-Qaida”. The “smoking gun” is that when Theresa May was Home Secretary, LIFG jihadists were allowed to travel unhindered across Europe and encouraged to engage in “battle”: first to remove Mu’ammar Gadaffi in Libya, then to join al-Qaida affiliated groups in Syria. Last year, the FBI reportedly placed Abedi on a “terrorist watch list” and warned MI5 that his group was looking for a “political target” in Britain. Why wasn’t he apprehended and the network around him prevented from planning and executing the atrocity on 22 May? These questions arise because of an FBI leak that demolished the “lone wolf” spin in the wake of the 22 May attack – thus, the panicky, uncharacteristic outrage directed at Washington from London and Donald Trump’s apology. — John Pilger, Terror in Britain: What Did the Prime Minister Know?
In fact, terrorism and imperialism go hand in hand, and feed off from each other. Reactionary Islamic fundamentalist terrorists justify their actions in reaction to imperialist intervention in the Middle East, and vice-versa. This is clearly demonstrated as more details have emerged about the identity and background of the Manchester bomber Salman Abedi. His father belonged to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, an organisation created in the 1990s as part of the reactionary jihadi struggle in Afghanistan, funded and aided by Western imperialism. The group had close links with Al-Qaeda. The LIFG went on to conduct terrorist activities against the Gaddafi regime in Libya and carried out an assassination attempt against Gaddafi himself in 1996, one which former MI6 operative David Shayler says was funded by the British intelligence services. The clamp down which followed sent many LIFG members to the UK where they were given asylum. A decade later, during Bush’s “war on terror”, the imperialists struck a deal with Gaddafi (and also with Bashar al-Assad), which led in 2005 to the banning of LIFG as a terrorist organisation. It was information from the MI6 which led the CIA to arrest one of the LIFG leaders Abdelhakim Belhadj, who was then “renditioned” to Libya where he was jailed. However, in 2011, the British authorities changed their policy, once again, and as part of the French-British spurred imperialist intervention in Libya by NATO, LIFG connected men, many of whom were being watched by the British secret services, were given passports and allowed to travel to Libya to fight Gaddafi. The fall of Gaddafi left the country in the throes of different warring Islamic fundamentalist and warlord factions and allowed ISIS to set up a basis where it had none before. It was this chain of events which finally led to the Manchester bomber joining or connecting with ISIS. The link between British imperialist wars abroad and terrorism at home is therefore clear for all to see, as Jeremy Corbyn correctly pointed out in the aftermath of the Manchester atrocity. — London terrorist attack: don’t let the Tories talk of “our values”
Arctic Climate Warming Twice as Fast As Anywhere Else Prof. Subhankar Banerjee, Editor of “Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point,” talks about the effect President Trump’s climate policies will have on the Arctic and on the rest of the planet
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Obama’s AFRICM Program in Africa and His Establishment of U.S. Military Bases in Every Country in Africa, Paved the Way for the Greater Looting of Africa: New Report Shows Corporations and Western Governments Continue to Profit from Looting of Africa A recent report published by a coalition of African and British social justice organizations lays bare the truth that foreign corporations and wealthy governments continue to profit from the looting of the world’s most impoverished continent. By Benjamin Dangl The conspiracy of capitalism and the capitalist state, once hidden by the fig leaf of democracy, is exposed at Standing Rock. : Standing Rock Documents Expose Inner Workings of “Surveillance-Industrial Complex” Leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline. By Alleen Brown, Will Parrish, and Alice SperiCorbynize This Trumped Up World Making Jeremy Corbyn the Prime Minister of the U.K. would do more for the world and everyone in it than either of the two available outcomes of any recent U.S. election could have done. Here in the U.S. I always protest that I am not against elections, I think we should have one some day. Well, now we have one — only it’s across the pond. By David Swanson The Killing Field of the Middle East: In Iraq and Syria, US-Led Coalition Killing Increasing Number of Civilians “We have been killing a lot of civilians in and around Raqqa for quite some time now, yet these incidents are rarely admitted by the coalition and there is almost no interest from international media.” By Common Dreams staff Black Liberation/Civil Rights:
Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry brands the NAACP “irrelevant” in a May 30 New York Times opo-ed without the bother of naming a single issue on which she disagrees with them. Shallow bran farts like this only make the New York Times because Harris-Perry is the unofficial spokeslady for a different faction of the black political class eager to supplant their elders under the brokerage model of black leadership we’ve been saddled with since Booker T;. Washington. A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The United States is ranked #1 in global warming emitions (Ranking Global Warming Contributions by Country) but, actually, the United States has contributed far more global warming admission, if you consider the 800 U.S. military bases and wars, throughout the world. From The Military Pumps Out Staggering Quantities of Toxic Waste, Water and Air Pollution and Radiation Environmentalists are ignoring the elephant in the room … the world’s largest polluter: . . . The Pentagon is also one of the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the world … and yet has a blanket exemption from all greenhouse gas treaties.The defense department also uses open-air burn pits which send a parade of horribles into the air. Sea life is not exempt. And the military has long been is a flagrant user of chemical weapons and depleted uranium . . . which can trash ecosystems and human health. And Despite our unorthodox presidential election, America’s overseas military bases are largely taken for granted in today’s foreign policy debates. The U.S. maintains a veritable empire of military bases throughout the world— about 800 of them in more than 70 countries. Many view our bases as a symbol of our status as the dominant world power. But America’s forward-deployed military posture incurs substantial costs and disadvantages, exposing the U.S. to vulnerabilities and unintended consequences. (See:Why We Should Close America’s Overseas Military Bases)
From the above one would think that the U.S. military would be the environonmental groups would make the Pentagon and the U.S. military their #1 target. And yet, the environmental/ global warming groups do not target the U.S. military and very rarely bring point this out, for they are controlled by the 1% through their allegiance to the Democratic Party. If the environmental/ global warming groups broke with the Democratic Party they could united with the anti-war groups throughout the world to form a powerful ant-war/environmental movement and change the world!
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Oil and Plastic are Choking the Planet People who deny that humans are wreaking havoc on the planet’s life-support systems astound me. When confronted with the obvious damage we’re doing to the biosphere — from climate change to water and air pollution to swirling plastic patches in the oceans — some dismiss the reality or employ logical fallacies to discredit the messengers. It’s one thing to argue over solutions, but to reject the need for them is suicidal. And to claim people can’t talk about fossil fuels and climate change because they use fossil fuel–derived products, such as plastic keyboards, is nonsensical. By David SuzukiLabor:
Why the London Terror Attack Happened Now One has to wonder why terrorists like those who struck on Saturday night in London, and earlier in Manchester, launched their attacks now. It is difficult not to infer that their violence was timed to influence the UK election this coming Thursday. by Jonathan Cook
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The conspiracy of capitalism and the capitalist state, once hidden by the fig leaf of democracy, is exposed at Standing Rock. : Standing Rock Documents Expose Inner Workings of “Surveillance-Industrial Complex” Leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline. By Alleen Brown, Will Parrish, and Alice Speri
Corbynize This Trumped Up World Making Jeremy Corbyn the Prime Minister of the U.K. would do more for the world and everyone in it than either of the two available outcomes of any recent U.S. election could have done. Here in the U.S. I always protest that I am not against elections, I think we should have one some day. Well, now we have one — only it’s across the pond. By David Swanson 
The Killing Field of the Middle East: In Iraq and Syria, US-Led Coalition Killing Increasing Number of Civilians “We have been killing a lot of civilians in and around Raqqa for quite some time now, yet these incidents are rarely admitted by the coalition and there is almost no interest from international media.” By Common Dreams staff
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