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31Aug

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Politics

Covid-Gate, The Political Virus

By Global Research News A Green New Deal for Workers By Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker, The COVID pandemic and economic collapse have highlighted the race and class inequalities in our society. With more than 35 million jobs lost, millions have lost their employer-connected health insurance in the middle of a pandemic. COVID-19 deaths are disproportionately afflicting working-class people, particularly Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people. The case for universal healthcare through a publicly-funded Medicare for All has never been stronger. UN Says New Polio Outbreak in Sudan Caused by Oral Vaccine By Maria Cheng, In a statement this week, WHO said two children in Sudan — one from South Darfur state and the other from Gedarif state, close to the bor...

Trump Is Laying the Groundwork to Reject the Results of the Election

29Aug

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Campaigns, Politics, USA

Trump Is Laying the Groundwork to Reject the Results of the Election

Donald Trump gestures after delivering his acceptance speech for the Republican Party nomination for reelection during the final day of the Republican National Convention from the South Lawn of the White House on August 27, 2020, in Washington, D.C. BYSasha Abramsky, Truthout Voting Wrongs Last week, as Donald Trump ginned up for the Republican National Convention, he went on Fox News to talk with Sean Hannity about “voter fraud,” be it fraud committed at polling sites or fraud committed by mail. To preempt this, he assured his audience, he would send sheriffs, miscellaneous other law enforcement and U.S. attorneys into polling places around the country to monitor for irregularities. This warning, along with ongoing GOP plans to send 50,000 “poll watchers”...

29Aug

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Politics, United Kingdom

DHL announces 2,200 job cuts at JLR facilities

Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Logistics firm DHL has notified unions that 2,200 workers, around 40 percent of those currently employed on its JLR contract, will be laid off. This comes as a further blow after 1,100 agency workers were told in June by JLR that they would be sacked. The Workers Party of Britain and our members in the north west and the Midlands are ready to support workers and unions who fight any of the cuts planned at Castle Bromwich, Solihull, Ellesmere Port and Halewood. Workers must resist attempts by JLR and owners Tata, as well as by subsidiary companies, to present job losses as merely a response to Covid-19. It was only a year ago that socialists were pointing out that JLR and others in the automotive industry were cynically trying to label job cuts as being...

George Galloway: Labour’s demand for Ofcom review of RT licence is apostasy against democratic principles

29Aug

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Media, Politics, Russia, United Kingdom

George Galloway: Labour’s demand for Ofcom review of RT licence is apostasy against democratic principles

George Galloway was a member of the British Parliament for nearly 30 years. He presents TV and radio shows (including on RT). He is a film-maker, writer and a renowned orator. Follow him on Twitter @georgegalloway24 Jul, 2020 12:24 / Updated 1 month agoGet short URL Ofcom Hq, London, United Kingdom, Architect Fletcher Priest, Ofcom Hq Panoramic View Featuring Ofcom Sign © Getty Images / View Pictures / Universal Images Group The descent to apostasy in the UK Labour Party of Sir Keir Starmer continues at such a pace it would come as no surprise if he were to expel his predecessor in whose shadow cabinet he sat without public complaint. Oh wait... Seems that’s already underway. Full disclosure: I joined the Labour Party at the age of 13, in 1...

Kamala Harris Represents Everything Wrong with Empty Identity Politics

28Aug

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Campaigns, Politics, USA

Kamala Harris Represents Everything Wrong with Empty Identity Politics

by PETER BOLTON Photograph Source: Office of the Attorney General of California – Public Domain Joe Biden’s pick of Kamala Harris as his running mate will surely satisfy Democratic Party insiders who were hoping for him to balance the ticket. As a woman of color, Harris kills two birds with one stone by ticking both the gender and race boxes. But the prospect of her becoming vice president is nothing to look forward to. She’s overwhelmingly spent her career, both before and after entering politics, fighting for reactionary policies that completely obliterate the credibility of her claim to be any kind of progressive. But there’s something deeper going on here. Because Harris represents not just the center-right policy positions of the Democratic establishment. She is also an illu...

28Aug

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Politics, USA

Joe Biden’s Vice Presidential Pick is … ZZZZZ

by TED RALL Most years, the Super Bowl is a dud. Yet the hype machine keeps pulling in new suckers. The quadrennial announcement of the Democratic nomination for vice president features an identical Lucy, Charlie Brown and the football dynamic: lots of hype followed by deadly disappointment. And there’s never been more hype than this year. Not that Joe Biden’s pick isn’t important. If he wins, he will be the oldest person to take both of office by a full eight years. (He’ll be 78. Trump, the second oldest, was 70 in 2017.) Even by the standards that the 70s are the new 60s, Joe Biden’s 70s look more like 80s or 90s. His choice has to satisfy several competing constituencies: women, Blacks, and the progressive voters he desperately needs to show up November 3rd instead of sitting ...

Why Capitalism is in Constant Conflict With Democracy

28Aug

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Literature, Politics

Why Capitalism is in Constant Conflict With Democracy

by RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The capitalist economic system has always had a big problem with politics in societies with universal suffrage. Anticipating that, most capitalists opposed and long resisted extending suffrage beyond the rich who possessed capital. Only mass pressures from below forced repeated extensions of voting rights until universal suffrage was achieved—at least legally. To this day, capitalists develop and apply all sorts of legal and illegal mechanisms to limit and constrain suffrage. Among those committed to conserving capitalism, fear of universal suffrage runs deep. Trump and his Republicans exemplify and act on that fear as the 2020 election looms. The problem arises from capitalism’s basic nature. The capitalists who own and opera...

28Aug

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Palestine Affairs, Politics, ZIO-NAZI

Zionist puppet Alan Dershowitz

Zionist puppet Alan Dershowitz is an ally of Trump and Naziyahu who LOVES to blame Palestinians for the violence and oppression they experience under Nazi occupation. He says things like: “The suffering of Palestinians, which does not compare to the suffering of many other groups, has been largely inflicted by themselves.” And he’s about to celebrate another birthday. What a year it’s been! Zionist Dershowitz ramped up his vile rhetoric last month by comparing well-known Jewish journalist Peter Beinart, an editor at Jewish Currents, to a Nazi – simply for writing an op-ed that affirmed the humanity of Palestinians and argued for an equal, just state for both Israelis and Palestinians. On top of his full schedule of anti-Palestinian hate, he found time to join Trump’s legal defense t...

28Aug

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Human Rights, Politics, USA

White Gunman Kills Two Protesters in Kenosha Amid BLM Demonstration

https://truthout.org/video/two-shot-dead-in-kenosha-as-armed-militias-confront-blm-protests/ BYAmy Goodman & Juan González, Democracy Now! Protests continue in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where police shot an unarmed Black man in the back seven times as he was getting into his car, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Jacob Blake was reportedly breaking up a fight before police shot him, and the shooting was witnessed by his three young children. On Tuesday, the situation escalated further when at least one white gunman opened fire on a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters. Two people were killed, and a third was injured, as police continued a violent crackdown on protesters demanding justice for Blake. We speak with Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, who says the pol...

Kenosha Police Chief Blames Murdered Protesters for Their Own Deaths

28Aug

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Human Rights, Politics, USA

Kenosha Police Chief Blames Murdered Protesters for Their Own Deaths

Police Chief Dan Miskinis speaks at a news conference on August 26, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. BYChris Walker, Truthout After two protesters were murdered by 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday night, the city’s Chief of Police Dan Miskinis appeared to imply in comments to media that it was the murdered protesters themselves who were to blame. Rittenhouse had traveled from his home in Antioch, Illinois, to Kenosha in order to join other militia members who had gathered there armed with rifles and other weaponry, purportedly to defend businesses and other property in the area against demonstrators who were protesting the police-perpetrated shooting of Jacob Blake earlier this week. Late Tuesday night, the teenager shot and killed two protes...