Billionaire Wealth Breaks All Records in Crisis
The US billionaire class has grown at unprecedented speed during the pandemic and economic crises, increasing their wealth by over a trillion dollars and adding 46 new oligarchs to their numbers, according to a report by the Institute for Policy Studies. Never has the world seen wealth accumulation at such a scale, said Omar Ocampo, a researcher for the study. âWe need to create an economic system that does not allow for wealth tobe extremely concentrated,â said Ocampo. â This could be done by âgrowing the labor movementâ and instituting âworkplace democracy and worker ownership.â
US Militarists Invent Enemies â and Russiagate -- for Dollars
Russiagate is a fiction concocted by Democrats and intelligence agencies explain Hillary Clintonâs defeat and fuel a New Cold War, said Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst. âYou canât spend $740 billion a year if you donât have a plausible enemy, like Russia and now China,â McGovern told Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal, of The Gray Zone. McGovern is active with Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
Abolish Police, from the US to Nigeria
Crystal Eze, a first-generation US citizen of Nigerian descent and activist with the Assata Collective, supports the abolition of police in both countries. âThe call for abolition is very adamant from the Nigerian youth,â who have launched a mass movement against police brutality and corruption, said Eze, a college nursing graduate.
Anti-Black Racism Is Environmental Hazard
Environmental justice should be put at the cutting edge of the social justice movement, said Dr Ugo Edu, an African American Studies professor at UCLA, and a medical anthropologist who has done field work in Brazil. âIf the police are stopping you arbitrarily, we should talk about that as creating an unsafe environment,â said Edu. âThe kind of anxiety, the kind of vigilance that is necessary to ive inâ such an environment âdoesnât bode well in terms of your health.â
The American Way of Fascism
In an essay for Prison Radio, Mumia Abu Jamal cited journalist Chris Hedgesâ contention that âthe Christian Right is always âready to support repressive measures against all who do not embrace their movement.â American fascism has distinctly Christian characteristics, according to the nationâs best known political prisoner.
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Social discontent rises with the level of fatalities and government incompetence during the current epidemic, said the nationâs best known political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal.
The official US position, that this country holds no political prisoners, is part of âthe lie and the founding mythology of US âdemocracy,ââ said Nyle Fort, a Princeton Univer
âCuba should be a shoo-inâ to win a Nobel Prize for sending doctors to health trouble spots and poor countries around the globe, said Don Fitz, a scholar and Green Party activ
The centrality of race in the development of capitalism continues to be resisted by âthe sort of hardline, orthodox folks who only look at class, alongside the sort of liberals and so-called racial
When Black Lives Matter chapters demand âabolitionâ and âdefundingâ of the police, rather than community control of the cops, they play into the hands of charlatans and misleaders on city councils
