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“Creating A Race War To Hide
The Revolution”
May 31, 2020
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Subject: The Two-Party Political System in the Capitalist Political Economy: An “Axiomatic Evil”?
June 5, 2020
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
Today, we find the late capitalist system rapidly descending into a vortex aiming towards an abyss, and the vertigo is palpable for almost all of us. This series of crises – manufactured and otherwise – risks to careen entirely out of control. And while capitalist engineers are attempting to save the system from total collapse, and minimumize the loss of assets, the rest of us wish to save humanity by disempowering the capitalists and by creating a new political economy that is based on cooperation and serving human needs, instead of a predatory labor exploitation and human sacrifices at the altar of “possessive individualism” and the almighty “profit motive.”
It’s instructive how contemporary discussions are often an echo of past concerns. The debate between Reform and Revolution is not new, and nowhere can we find a better historic illustration of this dilema than in the life of Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926). I recently picked up my old ragged copy of the paperback I bought years ago and had lent out many times. It was Ray Ginger’s biography, Eugene V. Debs: The Making of an American Radical (1949), which was written from a classic liberal perspective, and praised by none other than the Democratic Party gatekeeper himself, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who christened it, from his chair at Harvard University, as “One of the most distinguished biographies of the year.”
This biography is dated, but it's still instructive in that it describes
the life and political evolution of a man brought up in a liberal milieu and
educated to believe in political justice, while living in the epicenter of
American industrial capitalism at the moment of its creation. We see him evolve
into a socialist revolutionary, wrestling with questions such as political reform
vs. social revolution? ; moral evolution vs. class struggle? ; direct action
vs. representative democracy? More recent works on the life of Eugene Debs
treat these same central issues. (See the 2019 PBS documentary : The
Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs, with Danny Glover.)
Before the age of 20, Eugene Debs abandoned his aspirations to become a successful businessman and gravitated towards labor union organizing. He had participated in several labor unions before joining the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in February 1875, and became exceedingly active in the organization. In 1877 he served as a delegate of the Terre Haute lodge to the organization's national convention and was elected associate editor of the BLF's monthly organ, Firemen's Magazine, in 1878. Two years later, he was appointed Grand Secretary and Treasurer of the BLF and became editor of The Magazine in July 1880. He remained the magazine's editor until September 1894.
At the same time, Debs became a prominent figure in the community where he lived. He served two terms as Terre Haute's city clerk from September 1879 to September 1883, and in the fall of 1884, he was elected to the Indiana General Assembly as a Democrat, where he served for only one term.
The evolution in Debs’ thinking as the world around him changed is instructive.
During
the early 1880s, Debs' writing stressed themes of self-upliftment: temperance,
hard work, and honesty. Debs also held the view that "labor and capital
are friends" and opposed strikes as a means of settling differences. The
Brotherhood had never authorized a strike from its founding in 1873 to 1887, a
record which Debs was proud of. Railroad companies cultivated the Brotherhood
and granted them perks like free transportation to their conventions for the delegates.
Debs also invited railroad president Henry C. Lord to write for the magazine.
Summarizing Debs' thought in this period, historian David A. Shannon wrote:
"Debs's desideratum was one of peace and co-operation between labor and
capital, but he expected management to treat labor with respect, honor and
social equality". (excerpt from Wikipedia article: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs)
Professor Ray Ginger comments on the contradictions that piqued Debs’ thinking in this period: “Late in 1885, The Magazine carried an astonishing article about the use of dynamite in labor disputes:”
‘Legitimate warfare in the future is to be in the
interest of the weak, the oppressed,
those who aspire to be free.
Dynamite is to be a potent weapon in the contest.’
Ginger goes on to comment on the historical significance of this 1885 article published in the BLF Magazine which was edited by Eugene Debs.
Just seven months later came the Haymarket
episode. Although Debs could truthfully have claimed that he did not endorse
the use of violence, his arguments would have been brushed aside during that
frenzied affair. The phrases about dynamite as ‘a potent weapon’ of ‘legitimate
warfare’ were sufficient provocation for the employers to move against the
entire BLF.
Chicago,
long known for the bitterness and violence of its labor struggles, was the
national center of the eight-hour day campaign. The employers there were united
in opposition to the shorter workday; the workers were equally determined to
win their demand. On May Day, 1886, more than forty thousand workingmen put
down their tools in the demonstration which climaxed the campaign. The entire
city fearfully awaited the menacing outbreak. The wait was brief. On May 3, the
police killed a striker at the McCormick reaper works, where fourteen hundred
men had been locked out for months. The anarchists immediately called a meeting
at Haymarket Square for the next evening to protest the killing. The meeting
was entirely peaceful until a police captain led a large troop of his men to
disperse the audience. As the patrol approached the crowd, a bomb was thrown into
their ranks and seven policemen were killed or fatally wounded. Labor leaders
and ordinary workers throughout the city were picked up by the police and
finally eight anarchists and unionists, several of them leader in the
eight-hour movement, were indicted for the bombing.
Only two of the accused men had been
anywhere near the meeting, and both of them were demonstrably innocent of
throwing the bomb, but the judge presented a new theory in his charge to the
jury: If the past language of the accused had been such as to incite violence,
they are guilty of this crime, even if they knew nothing about it and were not
present when it was committed. On a principle which violated the basic rules of
American law, in a courtroom clotted with prejudice, the eight men were
convicted of murder.
The public protest against this verdict
was prompt and eloquent. Not merely labor leaders, but United States Senators
and wealthy bankers, exclaimed that the judge was biased, that the jury was
hand-picked, that the entire proceedings were highly improper. But Eugene Debs,
never famous for reticence, was truly in a dilemma. He had no sympathy for the
anarchist doctrines of the accused men; he had often criticized the use of
violence and had declared that the class struggle was only ‘the creation of
diseased brains.’ His objection to the Haymarket trial was based on other factors:
the irregular proceedings, a belief that the indictment was a punishment of free speech, a conviction that the employers
were trying to frame eight labor leaders.
Only one theory seems to explain Debs’ unusual
silence. Any protest on his part might have called attention to the article about
dynamite in The Magazine, with the result of dire punishment for the
entire BLF. Perhaps Debs felt that he was forced to choose between treachery to
his own union and treachery to the men convicted of murder. There is no
evidence that Debs discussed this problem with anybody. For five months he
wrestled with it in silence, and doubtless in torment.
Finally he could no longer remain silent.
The higher courts had denied appeals for the convicted men. The last hope to
save their lives lay in securing clemency from the governor of Illinois. Eugene
Debs, in a fervent article in The Magazine, singled out the right of
free speech as the major issue in the case. A free press and free speech he
called ‘the twin glories of American government . . . . Let this verdict stand,
let it become the prentice of the courts, let it go unrevoked, and free speech
is as dead in America as it is in Russia.’ The attack on freedom of expression
was doomed to failure: ‘Ideas and opinions escape the death penalty, the
halter, the faggot, and the wheel.’
Debs spoke too late to help save the lives
of the condemned men. One of them committed suicide, four were hanged, three were
sent to prison. Eugene Debs never mentioned the role he had played in the
defense campaign for the HAYMARKET MARTYRS. But for forty years he cherished
the memory of these men. He wrote newspaper articles about them. He referred to
them often in his speeches. He made frequent pilgrimages to Waldheim Cemetery
in Chicago, where the executed men were buried. These eight men became, to Eugene
Debs, ‘the first martyrs in the cause of industrial freedom.” Eleven years
after the execution, Debs sang to their memory: ‘aye, I would take them, if I
could, from peaceful slumber in their martyr graves – I would place joint to
joint in their dislocated necks – I would make the halter the symbol of
redemption – I would restore the flesh to their skeleton bones – their eyes
should again flash defiance to the enemies of humanity, and their tongs, again,
more eloquent than all the heroes of oratory, should speak the truth to a
gainsaying world. Alas, this cannot be done – but something can be done. The
stigma fixed upon their names by an outrageous trial can be forever obliterated
and their fame be made to shine with resplendent glory on the pages of
history.’(pp.64-66)
Debs thinking continued to evolve. Following the
Homestead Strike of 1892, he expressed more clearly than ever before a new
class consciousness in the pages of The Magazine:
‘If the year
1892 taught the workingmen any lesson
worthy of
heed, it was that the capitalist class, like
the
devilfish, had grasped them with its tentacles
and was
dragging them down to fathomless depths
of degradation.
To escape the prehensile clutch
of these
monsters, constitutes a standing challenge
to organized labor for 1893.’(cited by Zinn in People’s History, p.272)
We see again how events continued to radicalize Debs, transforming him from an ardent social reformer into a revolutionary socialist. At the outset of the economic Panic of 1893, the Pullman Palace Car Company, under the direction of George Pullman decided to reduce its work force from 5,500 workers to 3,300 and cut wages by 25 percent, citing falling revenue as the reason.
In 1893, Debs helped organized one of the first industrial unions in the United States, the American Railway Union (ARU), for unskilled workers. He was elected president of the ARU upon its founding, and under his leadership this Union successfully struck the Great Northern Railway in April 1894, winning most of its demands. In 1894, Debs became involved in the Pullman Strike. The workers at Pullman were mostly anti-union conservatives, living in Pullman’s Company Town , under the owner’s paternalistic care. When Pullman’s betrayal became apparent, they had nowhere to turn, and reluctantly went to the American Railway Union convention in Chicago to ask for help. There Debs told them that they were welcome to join the ARU, not to be ashamed of their past mistakes; that the struggle against the tyranny of capital was a collective struggle and everyone was learning this in his own way. The convention voted to support the Pullman workers, and the ARU went on strike again from May 11 to July 20, refusing to work on trains carrying Pullman Palace Cars, which was in fact most trains circulating at the time across the western portion of the United States.
By the end of this strike, which lasted from May 11 to July 20, 1894, thirty strikers were killed and thousands were blacklisted. An estimated $80 million worth of property was damaged, and Debs was charged with contempt of court when a Chicago judge order an injunction. As a leader of the ARU, Debs was convicted of federal charges for defying a court injunction against the strike and served six months in prison. At Woodstock Penitentiary in Illinois, Debs was visited by the Milwaukee socialist Victor Berger, who gave him a copy to Das Capital and other socialist literature to study. Debs emerged six months later as a committed adherent of the international socialist movement. He later wrote:
‘I began to
read and think and dissect the anatomy of the
system in
which workingmen, however organized, could be
shattered and
battered and splintered at a single stroke.
The writings
of Bellamy and Blatchford early appealed
to me. The Cooperative Commonwealth of
Gronlund also
impressed me,
but the writings of Kautsky were so clear
and
conclusive that I readily grasped, not merely his
argument, but
also caught the spirit of his socialist
utterance –
and I thank him and all who helped me
out of
darkness into light.’(E. Debs, ‘How I Became a Socialist,’ 1902)
The fierce repression on the part of the state, led to the dissolution of the American Railway Union in July 1897. The delegates, whose numbers had dwindled from four thousand in 1894 to a couple of dozen voted to dissolve the old order and to found the Social Democratic Party of America. Ginger quotes from a keynote speech made by Debs on this occasion:
‘There is no
hope for the toiling masses of my countrymen
except by the
pathways mapped out by the Socialists,
the advocates
of the co-operative commonwealth’(p.211)
Professor Ginger goes on to explain the changed circumstances: “The new party’s emphasis was on the colonization plan,”
but it also adopted a political platform:
public ownership of all monopolies and
utilities, a shorter work day, public works for the unemployed. . . .
The
actions of the ARU convention brought forth a new storm of criticism by both
radicals and conservatives. The People caustically spoke against the colonization
scheme, while the Detroit Free Press commented: ‘the most obvious intent
of the new movement is the glorification of Debs.’
. . .
When the Social Democracy was first founded, such leaders as James
Hagan, Roy Goodwin, and William Burns had bitterly disapproved any mention of
political action. They had wanted to concentrate on the colonization plan, and
only Debs’ personal influence had saved the political demands in the platform.
By the second convention of the Social Democracy in June, 1898, a deep split
existed around this question. Any attempt to continue the colonization plan was
opposed by Victor Berger, Isaac Hourwich, G. A. Hoehn, and other ex-members of
the Socialist Labor Party who had joined the Social Democracy. Debs, who had
seen a year’s campaign raise only twenty-five hundred dollars, was forced to
agree that colonization was not feasible. A vindictive fight took place in the
convention, with Debs playing a very inactive part. He had no interest in the
sort of technical warfare, however principled, that marked the argument. . . . Charges and countercharges were exchanged
for hours, with an occasional speech about the virtues or defects of
colonization.
. . .
Debs watched in despair while his brother officers from the ARU
endlessly reviled each other. He even went to lunch with Emma Goldman, the
unofficial leader of the colonizers. The young, heavy, rather ugly
philosophical anarchist, who had never joined the organization but now appeared
as a key figure in its convention, found Debs ‘genial and charming as a human
being.’ Debs expressed views which Emma
Goldman found very much like her own. Finally she exclaimed , ‘Why, Mr. Debs,
you’re an anarchist!’ Debs then clasped her hand and said, ‘Not Mister, but
Comrade; won’t you call me” that?’
‘I stressed the fact that political action
is the death-knell
of the
economic struggle,’ Emma Goldman wrote. ‘Debs did
not dispute
me, agreeing that the revolutionary spirit must
be kept alive
notwithstanding any political objects, but he
thought the
latter a necessary practical means of reaching
the masses.’
When
the issue of colonization versus political action came to a vote, Eugene Debs
was not present. He had been again stricken by a maddening headache, and was
forced to remain in bed in his hotel room. The vote resulted in a clear victory
for the utopians, 52 to 37, so Berger and Keliher at once led the political
action group from the convention. The bolting delegates held their own meeting
in a neighboring hall, and decided to found the Social Democratic Party. The
new Party, basing itself firmly on political methods, declared that it was ‘a
class-conscious, revolutionary, social organization.’ A leader of the
colonizers promptly replied: ‘Standing for all men, we condemn the
class-conscious propaganda as a delusion and a snare, as being not only
ineffective but totally untrue.’
With no hesitation, Debs announced his
support of the Social Democratic Party, thus reaffirming his belief in the
existence of a class struggle in America. The battle between workers and
employers had turned Debs against that society which caused so much misery and
pain for his fellows. He did not intend to retreat now. When he was elected,
together with Victor Berger, Frederic Heath, Seymour Stedman, and Jesse Cox, to
the Social Democrats’ executive board, Debs resigned all claim to the fifteen
hundred dollars owed him by the colonizers. But he had no regrets. In an open letter
to his colleagues, Debs declared:
‘The
separation at the late convention was inevitable.
It had to
come. The contemplation of division was painful,
as those can
fully realize who were party to it. But painful
as it was,
the operation had to be performed. And it was a
success, for
the Social Democratic Party of America lives.
All its
members are full fledged Socialists. They are in accord
with the program
of International Socialism. There is not one
in the number
opposed to independent political action; not
one that asks
or expects anything from any old capitalistic
party, by
whatever name it may be called.’
On October1,
1898, The Social Democrats opened their first national office in the Old Opera
House on Washington Street in Chicago. . . . There were fewer than fifteen
Socials Democrats in the city, and at one time the party’s treasury held only
two dollars.(pp.211-214)
In Chicago on June 27, 1905, Debs joined with William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood, James Connolly, Daniel De Leon, Eugene V. Debs, Thomas Hagerty, Lucy Parsons, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, Frank Bohn, William Trautmann, Vincent Saint John, Ralph Chaplin, and many others to form the Industrial Workers of the World. In the Preamble of the new constitution, they wrote:
The
working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no
peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people
and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.
Within a decade the IWW fractured, and the Socialist faction left the association.
Although the
IWW was built on the basis of uniting workers of industry, a rift began between
the union and the Socialist Party. It started when the electoral wing of the
Socialist Party, led by Victor Berger and Morris Hillquit, became irritated
with speeches by Haywood. In December
1911, Haywood told a Lower East Side audience at New York's Cooper
Union that
parliamentary Socialists were "step-at-a-time people whose every step is
just a little shorter than the preceding step". It was better, Haywood
said, to "elect the superintendent of some branch of industry, than to
elect some congressman to the United States Congress". In response,
Hillquit attacked the IWW as "purely anarchistic". (excerpt from Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs)
Later works describe Debs’ unique leadership style. In one famous statement, he emphasized the empathy he felt for the oppressed.
While there is a lower class, I
am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a
soul in prison, I am not free.
I have no country to fight for;
my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
The most heroic word in all
languages is revolution.
When great changes occur in
history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Debs has been described as being “uncomfortable” with the title of “leader,” despite the fact that he had run in four national election as the Socialist Party candidate for the office of US President - in 1904, 1908, in 1912, and from prison in 1920, when he received nearly one million votes. In a recently published Wikipedia article, his leadership qualities are analyzed:
Debs was noted by many to be a charismatic speaker who sometimes called
on the vocabulary of Christianity and much of the oratorical style of
evangelism, even though he was generally disdainful of organized religion. Howard
Zinn opined that "Debs was what every socialist or anarchist or radical
should be: fierce in his convictions, kind and compassionate in his personal
relations.” Heywood Broun noted in his eulogy for Debs, quoting a fellow
Socialist: "That old man with the burning eyes actually believes that
there can be such a thing as the brotherhood of man. And that's not the
funniest part of it. As long as he's around I believe it myself".
Although sometimes called "King Debs", Debs himself was not
wholly comfortable with his standing as a leader. As he told an audience in
Detroit in 1906:
‘I am not a Labor
Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a
Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where
you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I
led you in, some one else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well
as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition.’(excerpt form Wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs#Presidential_elections)
The life of Eugene Debs stands not so much as a model to be emulated in the 21st century, as it does an illustration of how people necessarily evolve over time, following changes in social experiences. The biographies of Debs alert us to the political influences on character structure, and inform us where to look for an understanding of the future.
The 24 + items below reflect views of the dynamics which are shaping our society and ourselves in this time of multiple crises. Ours is indeed an era of “false prophets” and "charlatans". We are well advised to sharpen the skills that enable us to identify the "impostures" and "opportunists" that would lead us in a direction contrary to our own class interests. We should share our experiences and learn from our mistakes, and seek out the opinions of independent scholars, scientists and artists who stand prepared to challenge the dogmas propagated by the corporate capitalist media, and to engage in public conversations about what our collective future may hold in store for us in order to discover what we must do to overcome the obstales to a better life.
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
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Professeur
honoraire de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur de Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
a.
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http://www.ceimsa.org/publications/Scholars/2019.7.pdf
by
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https://digwithin.net/2020/06/03/coronavirus-scare/
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PART OF THAT
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with James Schamus
(6:50)
&
THE SECOND
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with James Schamus
(6:50)
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with John
Perkins
===========
with Taylor
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(9:23)
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by Oscar Genfell
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Capitalism “World
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Becomes the Truth There is No Moving Backwards The World is
being misled concerning the causes and consequences of the corona crisis. The COVID-19
crisis is marked by a public health “emergency” under WHO auspices
which is being used as a pretext and a justification to triggering a
Worldwide process of economic, social and political restructuring. Social
engineering is being applied. Governments are pressured into extending the
lockdown, despite its devastating economic and social consequences. What is
happening is unprecedented in World history. Prominent
scientists support the lockdown without batting an eyelid, as a “solution” to a
global health emergency. Amply documented,
the estimates of the COVID-19 disease including mortality are grossly
manipulated. In turn,
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solutions? The closing
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poverty, mass unemployment and an increase in mortality. It’s an act of
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outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
(PHEIC). The decision was taken on the basis of 150 confirmed cases outside
China, First cases of person to person transmission: 6 cases in the US, 3 cases
in Canada, 2 in the UK. The WHO
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Pharma and the World Economic Forum (WEF). The decision for the WHO to
declare a Global Emergency was taken on the sidelines of the World Economic
Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland (January 21-24). One day later
(January 31) following the launch of the WHO Global Emergency, The Trump
administration announced that it will deny entry to foreign nationals “who
have traveled in China in the last 14 days”. This immediately triggered a crisis in air transportation,
China-US trade as well as the tourism industry. Italy followed suit, cancelling
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as a partial closedown of export manufacturing sector. A campaign
was immediately launched against China as well ethnic Chinese. The
Economist reported that “The coronavirus
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SCMP: “Chinese
communities overseas are increasingly facing racist abuse and discrimination
amid the coronavirus outbreak. Some ethnic Chinese people living in the UK say
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in China.” And this
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before HCQ with zinc was found effective if used earlier enough against
Covid-19. Covid-19 turned HCQ’s effectiveness into a big problem for Big
Pharma’s big profits. The solution
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patients in the sample received treatment too late after the virus had reached
their heart and other vital organs. Most likely the people who died from
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be hospitalized has given the virus too much of a head start. Every doctor, and
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positive for the virus. Many medical professionals who are treating Covid
patients also use HCQ as a prophylactic. The Lancet
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appeared, it was used to close down the World Health Organization’s clinical
trial of hydoxychloroquine in coronavirus patients citing safety
concerns. Most likely, the trial was aborted in order to prevent an
official agency from finding out that HCQ worked. The media, of
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dispensed with foundational international medical ethics standards that were
adopted by the world community following the revelations of wartime Nazi
medical atrocities. The Nuremberg Code of 1947 is part of the legal verdict
against the Nazi doctors on trial at Nuremberg. Vulnerable
elderly human beings are at greatest risk of death; not only from this
unnatural, most likely laboratory-crafted virus, but they have
been subjected to draconian government-dictated inhumane policies that
condemned large numbers of them to death by denying them life-saving treatments
in hospitals. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, issued an infamous March 25th directive ordering ill-equipped
nursing homes to accept infected elderly people; thereby condemning more than
4,500 people at those facilities to die. [NYS Department of Health removed the directive from its website.
See Associate Press, New York Post] COVID-19 has
generated a series of unethical, scientifically dubious experiments in an
effort to invalidate the use of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). The protocols of
these studies were crafted in ways that skewed the therapeutic effect of this
medicine that has been in use for more than 70 years. These experiments
resulted in the predictable death of the elderly human subjects. These
unethical experiments were conducted by dozens of academic scientists. They
were rapidly “peer reviewed” and published in the premier international
scientific journals. Why were
the HCQ studies deliberately skewed? Because this unpatented, cheap (practically free) medicine –
that has been shown to work when administered early and in proper doses – poses
a very substantial financial threat to those who seek to corner the market with
a not-yet-formulated drug and/ or vaccine – that will generate not merely
billions of dollars, but trillions of dollars. Bill Gates publicly declared
that “the Final Solution” for COVID-19 will be
a vaccine. How could the
dubious protocol designs have escaped the peer reviewers ? We salute the
Brazilian scientists and academics who have come forward with a scathing Open
Letter that Speaks Truth to Power. “For the truth shall set you
free”. Part of that
rarely acknowledged truth, is that scientists’ opinions are not necessarily
guided by “science”. When confronted with a strongly disputed issue,
scientists , like everyone else who takes sides, make their choice based on
personal preferences and self-interest. As acknowledged in the Open
Letter bellow: “Scientists are people and people have likes and
dislikes, passions and political party preferences.” Click on the
link for the Open Letter: Brazilian
scientists and academics write an Open Letter on the “science” of the
coronavirus pandemic CONNEXĂO POLITICA, May 25, 2020 + From: Mark
Crispin Miller This latest
declaration is redundant, since the Gray Lady has been dirty-fighting for Big
Pharma all along. MCM WHICH SIDE OF THE “VACCINE INFORMATION WAR” ARE YOU ON? https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/health/which-side-vaccine-information-war-are-you-on/ THE NY TIMES
LAUNCHES THE FIRST SHOT IN THE VACCINE INFORMATION WAR. DO YOU SUPPORT
INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY OR COLLECTIVE FORCE? In a recently
published opinion piece, The New York Times all but declared war against
Americans who question the safety of vaccines. Of course, the war being waged
is – for the moment – a war of words, an Information War. This skeptical
and vocal group – collectively and pejoratively known as anti-vaxxers – have
successfully built a movement of parents, activists, doctors, and journalists
who question the safety of vaccines; the schedule and frequency of
immunizations; the legality and morality of forced vaccinations; and the
influence of Big Pharma on vaccine safety studies. Yet, according
to the NY Times, Americans who question vaccines, or those who simply support
freedom of choice and bodily autonomy, are a part of the roadblock to public
acceptance of a coming COVID-19 vaccine and they must be stopped. The
Times’ piece, Get Ready for a Vaccine Information War,
outlines how “social media is already filling up with misinformation about a
Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists.” The writer goes on
to outline his worst fear – “What if we get a Covid-19 vaccine and half the
country refuses to take it?” + From: Mark Crispin Miller This is the same leader who revealed that a papaya had tested positive
for the coronavirus, and called the COVID-19 testing regimen a
"dirty game": https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=bTU5HXyd9gE&feature=emb_logo. MCM The
President of Tanzania has reportedly banned the use of face masks after noting
that “face mask usage has caused anxiety among Tanzanians.” https://www.rtnnewspaper.com/2020/05/african-country-bans-face-masks-also-reopen-schools-and-shops/ Dr John Pombe
Magufuli, who has been leader of the country since 2015, feels his people
should not have to wear them due to CO2 emissions. In a letter dated 24th
of May, which was sent to media outlets across the world, through the Director
of Presidential Communication in Tanzania, it outlined that he president
effected the ban on face masks as well as giving the green light of normal
operation of public transportation and also the reopening of of schools. =========== COVID-19:
Neoliberalism is not Going Down without a Fight by Danial
Vargas-Gomez + YouTube
took down Michael Moore’s film attacking renewable energy https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270549/youtube-michael-moore-film-renewable-energy-climate-change-removed
by Justine
Calma + We need
a class war, not a
culture war
https://mailchi.mp/jacobinmag.com/chile-general-strike-550470?e=997d6d360e by Dustin Guastella A reply to Angela Nagle and Michael Tracey. With the
defeat of the Bernie Sanders campaign, numerous postmortems have attempted to
diagnose what went wrong and what could’ve, should’ve, and would’ve been. + Jimmy Dore on Bernie Sanders, his disappointment with the “CARES Act”, and more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxIjbulIYDs with Jimmy Dore (54:20) + A radio interview, by John Barkhausen in Vermont with Mark
Crispin Miller (1:20:13) =========== Edward Snowden,
the Surveillance State, and the ‘Dark Mirror’ Still Watching Us All
by Nick Gillespie =========== "Greater
Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East - Global Resear https://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815 by Israel
Shahak and Prof Michel Chossudovsky + THE ANGRY
ARAB: Abbas & His Latest ‘Threat’ https://consortiumnews.com/2020/05/27/the-angry-arab-abbas-his-latest-threat/ by As`ad
AbuKhalil =========== From: Frank Clemente
[mailto:info@americansfortaxfairness.org] While
most families have had to grapple with the difficult realities of the
pandemic, that hasn’t been the case for the 630 U.S. billionaires. A new
Americans for Tax Fairness report
shows that the total net worth of these billionaires has jumped $434
billion, or by 15%, between March 18 – May 19 this year. And, this
report is receiving major news coverage. Jeff
Bezos (the founder of Amazon and the world’s richest person) and Mark
Zuckerberg (the founder of Facebook) combined saw their fortunes grow by
nearly $60 billion during a two month span that saw over 38 million Americans
lose their jobs. Their wealth jumped by an incredible 30% and 46%,
respectively―so OUTRAGEOUS!!! At a
time when Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ response to the
pandemic has been to call for more tax cuts for the rich and
corporations, including cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits,
ATF research is shining a spotlight on pandemic profiteering while
demanding that aid be directed where the need is greatest. The
pandemic has revealed the deadly consequences of America’s widening
wealth gap, and billionaires are the glaring symbol of that chasm of
economic inequality. Immediately,
the “Millionaires Giveaway” should be repealed in the next Senate
pandemic financial aid package, as it was done in the House HEROES Act
two weeks ago―thanks in no small part to your activism. The
resulting $250 billion raised must be used to rescue struggling families
and communities. Post-pandemic, the rich and corporations must begin to
pay their fair share of taxes so we can build a society that works for
everyone, not just billionaires and others at the top. Fight
back against policies that put millionaires and billionaires ahead of
U.S. families in need. Thank
you for demanding a tax system and an economy that works for everyone,
not just the wealthy few. Frank
Clemente + Jeffrey
Epstein: Filthy Rich director breaks silence on disturbing revelations https://ew.com/tv/netflix-jeffrey-epstein-filthy-rich-director-interview/ by James Hibberd =========== Capitalism and
the American Pandemic Response (26:50) This video is a major
departure from the usual content on my channel, but I think it's necessary.
This particular moment in American and world history demands that we all take
an honest look at the trajectory of the United States of America. The current
system is untenable and the Coronavirus pandemic has laid bare how truly
ill-prepared the country is to protect its citizens. When corporations and the
ultra-wealthy are the primary concern of those in power, the majority will
suffer. This video is my attempt to contribute some small amount to the
national conversation about what America is, and what it needs to become. + Global
Capitalism: Corona and Capitalism: Overlapping Sicknesses with Richard
Wolff (1:08:22) + Multinationales et agrobusiness http://www.ceimsa.org/publications/Scholars/ScholarlyEssays2016-25.htm par Christian de Montlibert + COVID-19 is
Laying Bare How Big Ag is Taking America’s Small Farmers to Slaughter
https://www.mintpressnews.com/covid-19-food-supply-big-ag-taking-farmers-to-slaughter/267919/ by Raul
Diego As the door
for greater consolidation across industries opens wider, entrenched transnational
food interests are feeling the heat from American farmers and ranchers to curb
their monopolistic dreams. =========== From: Jim O'Brien via H-PAD Links to Recent Articles of Interest "Trump's Little Big Horn: In the War on
Coronavirus, We needed an Eisenhower; We Got Custer" https://www.juancole.com/2020/05/trumps-coronavirus-eisenhower.html
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment blog, posted May 24 Uses the Allies' strategy in building toward D-Day to critique Trump's
lack of a plan regarding Covid-19. The author teaches history at the University
of Michigan. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/175624
By Selina O'Grady, History News Network, posted May 24 On the differing reactions of Christendom and the Islamic world to the
Black Death of the fourteenth century. The author is a BBC radio and television
producer and author of the book In the Name of God: The Role of Religion in the
Modern World (Pegasus, 2020). "The History of Puerto Rico Shows That
Nationalism Can Be Liberatory Rather Than Xenophobic" By Margaret Power, LSE [London School of Economics] Latin
America and Caribbean blog, posted May 21 On the nearly 100-year history of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.
The author teaches history at the Illinois Institute of Technology and is
co-chair of Historians for Peace and Democracy. "The Potential Risk of Chasing a Covid-19
Vaccine" By Heidi Morefield, Washington Post, posted May 19 Cites the frustrated efforts to develop vaccines for malaria and
HIV-AIDS in warning that the vaccine search mustn't come at the expense of
strengthening the public health infrastructure. The author is a historian of
medicine and technology in the global health program at Princeton University. "America's Immigration Paradox" By David Nasaw, New York Times, posted May 19 A review-essay on new books by Jia Lynn Yang and Adam Goodman on the
history of US immigration policy. The author is a professor emeritus of history
at the CUNY Graduate Center. His latest book, on Europe's displaced persons
after World War II, will be published in September. "How 'Jakarta' Became the Codeword for
US-Backed Mass Killing" https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/05/18/how-jakarta-became-the-codeword-for-us-backed-mass-killing/
By Vincent Bevins, NYR [New York Review of Books] Daily, posted
May 18 A long article on the US-encouraged mass murders of up to a million
Indonesians in 1965-66, excerpted from the author's just-published book, The
Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program
that Shaped Our World (Public Affairs Press). "The Contagion and a Cure" http://www.lawcha.org/2020/05/18/the-contagion-and-a-cure/
By Mark Lause, LABOR Online, posted May 18 Reflections on class and race in Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic
of 1793 and today's pandemic. The author teaches history at the University of
Cincinnati and has written widely on US working-class history. "U.S.
Regional Imperialism: Big Sticks, and Even Bigger Guns" By Danny Sjursen, The American Conservative, posted May
18 "Our history in Latin America is marked by arrogance and
aggression. Is what's happening in Venezuela any different?" The author is
a retired US Army major who served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and has
taught history at West Point. "An 'Illiberal Democracy' If Trump Wins
Again" https://organizingupgrade.com/an-illiberal-democracy-if-trump-wins-again/
By Van Gosse, Organizing Upgrade, posted May 14 Warns that the US is in danger of joining the worldwide trend of
formally democratic authoritarian states seen in nations such as India, Brazil,
Turkey, Russia, Poland, and Hungary. The author teaches history at Franklin and
Marshall College and is co-chair of Historians for Peace and Democracy. "How Covid-19 Exposed the Deep Divide
Between White Rural Georgia and Atlanta" By James C. Cobb, Zócalo Public Square, posted May 6 "In defying the CDC's expert advice, Governor Kemp is employing a
political strategy more than 150 years old." The author is a professor
emeritus of history at the University of Georgia. Thanks to Rusti Eisenberg and an anonymous reader for flagging some of
the above articles. Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com. + From: Of Van
Gosse via H-PAD Dear H-PAD members and friends, It has been a tumultuous but fruitful year since our May 28, 2019
National Strategy Meeting of Historians, and we want to catch up with you. Since 2017, we have focused on the profound
danger posed by the Trump Administration, converting what was Historians
Against the War to Historians for Peace and Democracy. We began
issuing Broadsides for the Trump Era and
recruiting new members. Then, following a standing-room-only forum at the January 2019 AHA Annual
Meeting in Chicago, we called the National Strategy Meeting in New York city a
year ago. Attended by about fifty historians, it has produced measurable
results: The formation of five different Working Groups: on K-12 Education, Palestine, Empire and War, Immigrant Rights, and
People’s History; An entire mini-conference at the 2020 AHA Annual Meeting
in alliance with the Radical History Review; Presenting three resolutions at the AHA Business Meeting (censuring
university collaboration with ICE and the Israeli government’s violations of
academic freedom), and winning approval of the first; Initiating a Liberating History video series, with two already out from Donna
Murch and Irene Gendzier; Finally, early this year, we created a new, active membership category,
and well over one hundred folks have already signed up—feel free to Join Us! The latest news is that, looking towards this
fall’s election, H-PAD is building a new project, the Professors
Network for Student Voting Rights. Expect to hear more on that
front soon! If you have questions about any of the above,
please feel free to write us at van.gosse@fandm.edu. In solidarity, =========== l. Don’t let
Big Tech turn the world into a China by Noam
Chomsky (Published
May 25, 2020) He is referring to China's social credit system that
tracks citizens to award/deduct points on a score determining one's access to
services. New York: The role of
technology in helping push back against the novel coronavirus has been hailed
widely. But it also means that people are constantly being watched by entities
that can set the tone for public behaviour without giving a shred of
consideration to people’s privacy. One of the greatest contemporary thinkers,
Noam Chomsky, warns of the consequences of technology being allowed to control
our lives in the guise of making our lives easier. In an interview with AFP, Chomsky talked about how the dystopian
reality of digital surveillance is already here. “There are now companies
developing technology which make it possible for the employer ... to look at
what's on your computer screen and to check your keystrokes and if you get up
and walk away for a minute, they'll send you a warning.” =========== m. THEY BLOCKED
EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS + Unmasking
The Science You Aren’t Hearing On TV
COVID-19
Facts from the Frontline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgP_Au5RZVw with Tony
Robins (13:07) =========== n. Jimmy Dore
on Useful Idiots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxIjbulIYDs with Jimmy
Dore (54:20) + Aaron Mate on Useful Idiots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqaEBw9Ev0
& https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq1tzjGUgpQ
with Aaron
Maté (1:06:24) =========== o. JIMMY DORE
COMEDY + The
Post-Modern Police Force: ‘Shoot First and Ask Questions Later’ . . . (or is this
civil war in the United States?) http://www.ceimsa.org/publications/Scholars/2015.5.htm
by Francis
Feeley (January 7,
2015) + “Policing the Police” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/policing-the-police/ June 2016 (54 :47) As I watched
all this over the weekend, there was one person I wanted to talk to about it:
Jelani Cobb, historian, professor of journalism at Columbia University, New Yorker writer, and one of the
most insightful voices on issues of race and policing in America.
In 2016, Jelani was the correspondent
and writer for FRONTLINE’s documentary, Policing the Police,
which examined some of the complex issues once again surfacing today,
including the role of the federal government in forcing accountability
and reform. It is a story we are continuing to follow with Jelani and our
other journalists. Thank you. + From: Mark Crispin Miller On Jan. 18, I sent out "Police in the
US Kill Citizens at Over 70 Times the Rate of Other First-World
Nations," a Free Thought Project piece that ran in 2015. (Scroll down
for the link.) Now that the lethality of US cops is in the news
again (to say the least), and since Joe Biden has just shared his thought on how
policing in America should be reformed (i.e., "Aim low"), I feel
obliged to send, again, my own meditation on the subject (even though that
train has left the station, full of troops). MCM If
"our free press," and/or our liberal Democrats, cared at all about
this routine carnage, they would be pushing some reforms that
might curtail it, if not end it. They
would demand a thorough purge of all US police departments,
to rid
them of the white supremacists who have been signing up for years— as
the FBI reported in 2006 (a report that was declassified a
few years later, at
which point "our free press" largely ignored it). They
would demand that all US police departments train their
officers in martial
arts, so they need not use guns (and tasers) as their first means to
defend themselves. They
would demand a crackdown on the widespread abuse of anabolic steroids,
which turn cops (and troops) into rock-hard killing
machines. (On
this lethal epidemic, see John Hoberman's Dopers in
Uniform, published by
the University of Texas Press.) This "war on
drugs" would also benefit cops'
wives and children, since steroid abuse also contributes
heavily to domestic
violence. They
would demand that the recruitment of police officers take place
largely in
the neighborhoods policed, as opposed to having them commute to
work in
areas whose people they don't know or like. [The Black Panther Party had the
right idea.] They
would raise the standards for recruitment, instead of lowering them, and
pay the cops accordingly, treating them as elite public servants,
not as grunts
in place to keep rich people protected and their property intact. Why
is there no discussion of American policing, and how best
to improve it —as opposed
to ritually playing up the most egregious killings in our streets, and
leaving it at that? Why is there so much more press emphasis on
gun control—control
of guns used not by the police, but only those
used by the citizens—than
on the policies that make our cops so dangerous to all
America's have-nots?
Why has no presidential candidate said anything about this
grievous problem,
ever? How many mayoral candidates from coast to coast have ever
said a word about it? Any? The
subject isn't raised by "our free press" or liberal Democrats
because they don't care enough about it—that is, about us—even
to discuss the issue, much less take the necessary steps to make us
safer from those officers who ought to be
protecting us, instead of blowing some of us away,
to keep the rest of us in line. MCM Police in
the US Kill Citizens at Over 70 Times the Rate of Other First-World Nations Matt Agorist January
8, 2015 http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-kill-citizens-70-times-rate-first-world-nations + Police
Repression Backfires As Protests Multiply + From: Marc Becker via H-PAD H-PAD members and friends, Duke University Press has made all of issue 137 of
the Radical History Review "Policing, Justice, and the Radical
Imagination" https://read.dukeupress.edu/radical-history-review/issue/2020/137 freely available for a few months. Duke has updated a previously-published Police
Violence Syllabus https://www.dukeupress.edu/Explore-Subjects/Syllabi/Police-Violence-Syllabus It features the Policing issue as well as two
articles from earlier issues. Also see the Political Protests syllabus https://www.dukeupress.edu/Explore-Subjects/Syllabi/Political-Protests-and-Movements-of-Resistance and Racial Justice syllabus https://www.dukeupress.edu/Explore-Subjects/Syllabi/Racial-Justice-Syllabus =========== p.
q. From:
Richard Greeman Sent: Monday, June 01, 2020 Au Maroc, pendant le
confinement, la répression continue Le Royaume Marocain se flatte d'ętre dans le peloton des
pays qui aurait plutôt bien affronté la pandémie. Les intimidations policičres
ont prospéré durant le confinement. L'association de défense des journalistes
persécutés et harcelés au Maroc: Justice et liberté, vient de publier le
communiqué ci-aprčs, suite ŕ la récente campagne menée contre Maâti Monjib. L’Universitaire et militant des droits de l’Homme Maâti
Monjib est victime d’une campagne sans précédent de diffamation et de menaces
de la part de « médias » proches des services marocains. Ces attaques surviennent dans le contexte de
l’arrestation de Souleiman Raissouni, journaliste et rédacteur en chef du
journal Akhbar Al Yaoum, le 22 mai dernier. Cinq jours avant son
arrestation, Chouf TV (un média en ligne dont la rédaction dépend directement
de la police politique) a publié un article dans lequel il menaçait de “sacrifier”
le journaliste ŕ l’occasion de l'Aďd al-Fitr (fęte du Ramadan) : Une “journée
historique (...), nous verrons si tu vas pouvoir continuer tes acrobaties sur
ta page [Facebook]”. Effectivement, le journaliste passera l’Aďd (le 24
mai) dans les bureaux de la police. Chouf TV était d’ailleurs présent pour
filmer son arrestation humiliante. Aujourd’hui, ce męme média s’en prend ŕ son tour ŕ M.
Monjib. Le 27 mai, Chouf TV a en effet publié un article semblable ŕ celui qui
menaçait Raissouni - portant la signature du męme auteur (sans doute un
pseudonyme) « promettant » ŕ Monjib une vengeance qui aurait lieu le 31 mai
matin. Monjib est particuličrement ciblé car il est membre du Comité de soutien
ŕ Raissouni, le journaliste qui vient d’ętre incarcéré. Ce dernier, connu pour
ses éditoriaux critiques, avait su remplacer Taoufik Bouaâchrine, directeur de
publication du journal Akhbar Al Yaoum lui-męme en prison depuis 2018
(condamné sans preuves ŕ 15 ans de prison pour « viol et traite d'ętres humains
»). Le Conseil des Droits de l’Homme de l’ONU a considéré en janvier 2019 cette
détention comme arbitraire et a demandé sa libération immédiate. Avant Souleiman, une autre journaliste, du męme quotidien
Hajar Raissouni avait été incarcérée (2019) - elle et son fiancé (Rifaat
Al-Amine) - pour "relation hors mariage et avortement illégal", avant
d'ętre grâciée suite ŕ une forte mobilisation nationale et internationale. Les menaces et les intimidations ŕ l’encontre de Maâti
Monjib sont anciennes. Il est harcelé et diffamé depuis plusieurs années ŕ
cause de ses activités académiques et de ses articles critiques envers la
police politique qui rčgne en maître au Maroc. Il est visé aussi pour son rôle
dans la promotion du journalisme d’investigation. En effet, M. Monjib est
membre fondateur de l’Association Marocaine pour le Journalisme d’Investigation
(AMJI) fondée en 2011 - dont les activités sont aujourd’hui interdites [5 de
ses membres sont poursuivis par la justice, un a été incarcéré pour une peine
de 10 mois de prison et 3 sont en exil]. Monjib a subi depuis 2015 des
convocations judiciaires interminables pour “atteinte ŕ la sécurité intérieure
de l’Etat”. Il a déjŕ été convoqué pour un procčs reporté 20 fois au tribunal
de Rabat et ces convocations ne sont pas terminées. Le but est de faire
pression sur Monjib pour qu’il cesse ses articles critiques. C’est une
véritable épée de Damoclčs au-dessus de sa tęte et de celle de ses co-accusés.
Monjib est aussi victime dans sa vie quotidienne de menaces physiques, de pressions
sur sa famille, dans la rue, d’écoutes téléphoniques, et męme d’une
interdiction de quitter le territoire marocain en 2015 (interdiction levée
aprčs une grčve de la faim de 24 jours qui a mis en péril sa vie) Il semble aujourd’hui que le régime marocain envisage de
franchir un nouveau pas dans la répression en profitant du confinement général
sanitaire imposé par le Covid 19. En occupant l’actualité, cette pandémie
laisse toute latitude pour durcir les pratiques autoritaires. Le but est
d’enterrer l’un des derniers médias indépendants et de faire taire les
derničres voix critiques comme celles de Maâti Monjib. Nous appelons donc les autorités marocaines ŕ agir pour
faire cesser les menaces contre Monjib et empęcher toute atteinte ŕ l’intégrité
de sa personne. Nous appelons l’opinion publique nationale et internationale ŕ
se mobiliser pour dénoncer ces agissements, demander le respect des droits de
M. Monjib et exiger la libération de S. Raissouni. =========== r. ICAN France Newsletter =========== s. From: Global Research News [mailto:newsletter@globalresearch.ca] Combat Troops Coming to US
Streets? By Stephen Lendman, June 02, 2020 On Monday, Trump threw more fuel on a
national inferno of public rage instead of showing leadership to
calm things by pledging transformational change to serve all
Americans equitably. Last week, he inflamed things by tweeting:
“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Focus on Looting Detracts
From Racism By Robert Fantina, June 02, 2020 What this writer finds troubling is the
focus away from the systemic racism that is inherent in U.S.
governance, and plainly manifested by the U.S. police force,
toward a ‘blame the victim’ mentality that allows the government
to maintain business as usual. As yet another unarmed,
defenseless Black man is brutally murdered, on video, for all the
world to see, it is the protesters and the destruction resulting
from the demonstrations that are being condemned by all
‘mainstream’ news outlets. By Joachim Hagopian, June 02, 2020 The brutal oppression and slaughter of
darker skinned people on this earth for centuries has colored
human history blood red, the same color we all bleed. Conquering,
colonizing, slaughtering and inhumanely exploiting races deemed
“inferior” or “weaker” that happen to possess darker skin pigment
is sadly an entrenched historical fact. That “the great melting
pot land of the free” called America has always been at the
epicenter of this raging battlefield over race should come as no
shock. After all, America’s roots were founded on racism from its
very genesis, first with the genocide inflicted on the indigenous
race calling the Western Hemisphere its home for centuries, and
then the barbaric uprooting of a darker skinned race from its
African home for nearly four centuries of legalized enslavement.
If that’s not tragically diabolical enough, the fact is, out of
the 244-year history of the United States, it’s been warring
almost exclusively against virtually every nonwhite nation on
earth throughout its entire existence – 93% of the
time to be precise. Anti-Racist Demonstrations
Continue Despite Escalating Government Repression By Abayomi Azikiwe, June 02, 2020 Even though Minnesota Governor Tim
Walz ordered the National Guard into the Twin Cities, it
would take a full mobilization of these military forces which
spread out around the unrest areas utilizing teargas, pepper
spray, igniting concussion grenades and the random firing of
rubber bullets into large crowds of people to clear the streets.
In Minneapolis there has been at least one death since the
rebellion and demonstrations erupted. Many others have been
arrested and abused by the police. Journalists and bystanders are
routinely arrested and held without being charged for hours. By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar,
June 02, 2020 Minneapolis could not have happened at a
worse time for the US elites. While violence perpetrated against
African Americans by White police officers has happened a number
of times before, its occurrence right in the midst of a huge
health emergency that has already claimed more than a 100,000
lives and a related massive economic disaster that has robbed 30
million people of their jobs, is truly unprecedented. The mayhem
and chaos accompanying the violence have spread to a number of
other cities right across the United States of America. African American Mayors and
Sheriffs Stand Among George Floyd Protestors in Central North
Carolina By Danica Jorden, June 02, 2020 Walking in the crowd was Fayetteville
mayor Mitch Colvin. Wearing a promotional polo shirt
and plain pants, he was a nondescript member of the group,
without retinue or escort. With Rakeem Jones’ help, Colvin and a
coalition of other regional mayors and sheriffs quickly decided
to refrain from visible police presence as they organized their
towns’ participation in the mounting protests sweeping the
country. =========== t. The Horrific
Minneapolis Police Killing of George Floyd + How to Start
a Riot? Police Provocateurs Dressed up as "Activists" at Peaceful
Anti-Globalization Rally – + Systematic
Racist Violence in America: Minnesota National Guard and State Police Deployed
in Twin Cities Rebellion
by Abayomi
Azikiwe + From: Mark Crispin Miller As US cities coast to coast lock down all over again,
spectacularly violent protesters having brought on busts and beatings by
police, and mayors announcing curfews in LA, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus, Portland, Rochester, Miami, Salt
Lake City and Milwaukee—and as I sit here in Greenwich
Village, listening to helicopters droning overhead, and police cars
shrilling up and down Broadway —I'm moved to send, again, the link to the video
"Battlefield America," about what went down in Minneapolis
(also under curfew), and a link to a second video, on the very
similar protests that rocked Baltimore two years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmW7z5ewYME&feature=youtu.be https://news.unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com/friends-of-democracy-funded-planned-baltimore-riots/ Things look bleak indeed tonight; but they will be much
worse, and for a longer time, if we don't face the truth, ASAP, about what's
happening here—much as it happened in Teheran in 1953, Santiago in
1973 (on 9/11), and Kiev in 2014. We need to know that history—and that that
past is prologue. MCM + Minneapolis Police Union Defies Mayor’s Order To Be
Less Violent & Continues “Warrior Training” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iim261N9DtI&feature=youtu.be with Chris
Hedges (12:51) =========== u. “Serpico” (1973 film on
police corruption)
https://archive.org/details/Serpiko.Serpico.1973.filmlerbizden.com with Al
Pacino (2:10:07) + Wolff
Responds: “Forced Labor” with Richard
Wolff (6:30) + Wolff
Responds: “Protests and Class War”
with Richard
Wolff (10:30) + “What you're watching is class war disguised
as a race war.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GozPhZq_S2k (1:47) Thus spake Tucker Carlson. (Why is he the only one
who's saying it?) + David
Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles : The Evolutionary Concept of Totality Part 2 https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/the-evolutionary-concept-of-totality-part-2 with David Harvey (audio, 27:30) =========== v. From: Mark Crispin Miller This is from three years ago, but couldn't be more
relevant to what's going down right now. MCM =========== w. From: Representative Barbara Lee
[mailto:Rep.Barbara.Lee@mail.house.gov] Dear Friend, Over a week ago, Minneapolis police murdered
George Floyd. We’ve also seen communities across the country
come together to peacefully protest and demand change – only to be met with
more violence, brutality, and martial law. Police officers are supposed to defuse violence —
not inflict it. We have seen far too many black and brown men, women, and
children be murdered by police over the last decade. George Floyd.
Oscar Grant. Tamir Rice. Philando Castile. Breonna Taylor. Botham Jean. All
killed because of the color of their skin. How many more
times will we have to hear “I can’t breathe” until we stop this senseless
violence? We cannot allow black and brown bodies to be
targeted, attacked, and killed with impunity. The murder of George Floyd and the current
COVID-19 crisis illustrate once again the painful and dangerous legacy that
white supremacy has had on our country, and the desperate need to
acknowledge and understand how our history of inequality continues
today. This inequality is at the heart of every crisis
we’re dealing with right now – police brutality and mass incarceration,
COVID-19 disproportionately affecting communities of color, and the
cycle of poverty blocking so many minority families from the
American Dream. This is
a matter of survival for countless Americans. We must keep marching, peacefully protesting,
working, and fighting for a country that is truly free and equal for us
all. I’m working with my colleagues in Congress to heal
the wounds of the past and ensure that no one else has to feel the
pain of police brutality. Here are some of the bills I’m pushing for
to address this crisis: Yesterday, I introduced my legislation calling for the establishment of the
first United States Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation. The
Commission will examine the effects of slavery, institutional racism, and
discrimination against people of color, and how our history impacts laws
and policies today. Last week, I also joined Congresswomen Ayanna
Pressley, Ilhan Omar, and Karen Bass to introduce a resolution to condemn police brutality, racial
profiling, and the excessive use of force. I'm also a cosponsor of Rep. Hank Johnson’s
Policing Reform Package, which includes four bills: The Police Accountability Act would give the DOJ jurisdiction to bring
charges against an officer if a state fails to do so, when a civilian is
wrongfully killed by the officer in the line of duty. The Grand Jury Reform Act would require a special prosecutor to
investigate cases where law enforcement officers have killed
an individual in the line of duty. The Cooling Off Period Elimination Act would condition federal grant money on the
elimination of cooling-off periods for police officers charged with
misconduct. The Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act would end the transfers of aggressive
military equipment to local law enforcement permitted by the Pentagon’s
excess property, or “1033 program.” Rep. Steve Cohen’s Police Training and Independent Review Act to require
enrollees at law enforcement academies receive sensitivity training on
ethics and racial bias, cultural diversity, and police interaction with the
disabled, mentally ill, and new immigrants and adopt state laws requiring
independent investigations and prosecutions of law enforcement officers in
cases where one or more of the alleged offenses involves an officer's use
of deadly force in the course of carrying out his or her official
duties. Rep. Ro Khanna’s Police Exercising Absolute Care with
Everyone (PEACE) Act to change the use of force
standard for federal officers to require that force must be necessary, as a
last resort, to prevent imminent death or serious bodily injury, and no
reasonable alternatives were available. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries’ Eric Garner Excessive Use of Force Prevention Act to prohibit
the use of chokeholds by persons subject to that provision's
prohibitions. Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee’s End Racial Profiling Act to provide a
prohibition on racial profiling, enforceable by declaratory or injunctive
relief, mandate training on racial profiling issues, authorizes the
Department of Justice to provide grants for the development and
implementation of best policing practices and requires the Attorney General
to provide periodic reports to assess the nature of any ongoing
discriminatory profiling practices. We still have a long way to go in this country to
address our legacy of white supremacy and racism. It’s my duty as an elected official to do
everything I can to keep you safe and healthy. I promise I’ll
keep working in Congress to make that a reality for everyone – regardless
of the color of their skin.
As always, my office is here to help. If you need
help with a federal issue, please call my Oakland office at (510) 763-0370.
I will be posting regular updates on my website as well as on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Stay Healthy, Barbara Lee
100160$+$$] + US Protests
Show Challenge Is How to Rise Above the Violence Inherent in State Power by Jonathan
Cook + Freedom
Rider: Black Misleaders Seek to End Protest https://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-black-misleaders-seek-end-protest by Glen Ford =========== x.
Flash bangs &
tear gas in Washington DC as crowds of protesters descend on White House
(VIDEOS)
https://subscribe.rt.com/preview/jYcVaQ Tensions are
running high in Washington, DC, where crowds of anti-police brutality
protesters have converged on the White House once again. Sporadic clashes are
taking place amid a heavy police presence in the area.
+
"Armed Troops Remain At DC Protest After More Charges In Floyd's Death" + Manipulating the Message: Police Attacks on Free Press and the Fencing in of Humanity Journalists and dissidents alike are being targeted by American police in the land of the free. Is it as simple as an out of control police force, or something more? + https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/03/27/statement-from-striking-truthdig-workers/ by CounterPunch News Service
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020
Subject: [MCM] Sharyl Attkisson nails the US press, Google/Facebook, and
their "fake fact-checkers" for barraging us with outright propaganda.
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020
Subject: [MCM] Brazilian scientists condemn the "science" used
in the propaganda war against hydroxychloroquine
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020
Subject: [MCM] New York Times declares WAR on vaccine safety advocates.
(Which side are you on?)
19
MAY 2020 
POSTED BY DERRICK BROZE
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020
Subject: [MCM] Tanzania's president bans use of face masks after noting
it "has caused anxiety among Tanzanians"
Angela Nagle and Michael Tracey’s American
Affairs essay, “First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: The Collapse of the
Sanders Campaign and the ‘Fusionist’ Left,” aims to give a definitive reply,
casting much of the blame on campaign mistakes and a fealty to left-wing
cultural politics.
While feigning a kind of no-nonsense analysis, Nagle and Tracey’s account of
“what went wrong” is, at root, a cry for better messaging and more responsible
leadership.
Working people themselves — their limited choices and complex relationships
with the Democratic Party — are given only passing mention in Nagle and
Tracey’s essay. Larger historical and structural factors, from the decline of
class voting all across the developed world to the exceptional weakness of the
US left, are not seriously discussed. And somehow the only social force in world
history that has ever delivered victory to left-wing political movements,
organized labor, is not mentioned even once in their 10,000-word opus...
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Subject: Six-hundred billionaires are riding the pandemic profiteering
wave:
Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Subject: [H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 5/27/20: Links to recent articles of interest
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020
Subject: [H-PAD] Summing Up the Past Year in Action
Van Gosse and Margaret Power, Co-Chairs
That’s the conversation in today’s new episode
of our FRONTLINE Dispatch podcast.
Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 outbreak that is disproportionately
killing people of color, Jelani helps put this volatile moment in context,
explaining why we’ve reached a boiling point, and what he says needs to happen
now.
This is how he encapsulates it: “We really need a kind of gigantic
systemic overhaul in so much of the country, things that are seemingly
unrelated, but from our educational system, our healthcare system, the number
of people who didn't have health care coverage in the midst of a pandemic — all
these things that that ultimately culminate in the explosions that we've seen
in the past week. Until we're able to address things in a much broader spectrum
of ways, we won't be able to get policing to where it needs to be, either.”
I hope you find this conversation as valuable as I do during these
difficult times. You can listen to "Race, Police & the Pandemic" on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, RadioPublic, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. You
can also stream Policing the Police
on our website, on YouTube and on the PBS Video App.
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2020
Subject: [MCM] What we never hear about policing in America
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2020
Subject: [H-PAD] Radical History Review "Policing, Justice, and the
Radical Imagination"
Subject: Maroc Affaire S. Raissouni : Intimidations ŕ l’encontre de
l’historien Maâti Monjib -
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2020
Subject: Racism and the Protest Movement in America
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2020
Subject: [MCM] There's somethin' happenin' here, / And what
it is, is all too clear (or should be)
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2020
Subject: [MCM] Chaziel Sunz, former BLM organizer in Ferguson, tells
some hard truth about that movement, and the profound risk in "taking
sides" (MUST-WATCH)
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2020 12:10 AM
Subject: We can’t breathe
In that week, we have seen four police officers fired and one
arrested.
https://youtu.be/oNSRvL846Js
+
"Protestors gather in DC a day after being teargassed"
https://youtu.be/bp32ETq3N3c
+
"DC protests see record turnout"
https://youtu.be/O5GZoisYzYE
+
"New York Live Protests - Washington DC Live Protests - Denver Live Protests - San Diego Protests"
https://youtu.be/H--oMDKOjCM
+
"Data shows majority of looters from NYC"
https://youtu.be/757QnjTGlUg
+
"Thousands march in New York amid curfew"
https://youtu.be/gLhKQQLB1p4
+
"No more tolerance': NYPD breaks up peaceful protests after curfew"
https://youtu.be/DEr54CudSC0
+
"Videos of US lynchings deal blow to US soft power"
https://youtu.be/BsgFq5RrF70
+
"Cops Are The Primary Source Of Social Control"
https://youtu.be/R_-JwLLchrc
+
"Militarized police in America: How did we get here?"
https://youtu.be/YGmgBmC6s78
+
"Cornel West: The Future Of America Depends On How We Respond"
https://youtu.be/BkYJeMwlsto
+
"Economic Update: "Cornel West on Pandemic Capitalism"
https://youtu.be/WQBCmHIJsGc
https://www.mintpressnews.com/manipulating-the-message-police-attacks-free-press-journalists/268236/
by Raul DiegoStatement From Striking Truthdig Workers