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“Bessemer is the New Selma”: Rev. William Barber of Poor People’s Campaign Backs Push for Collective Bargaining and Union Representation in Final Phase of NLRB Election Ending Monday, March 29; Calling for Black-White-Hispanic Unity, Moral Mondays Leader Barber Explained: “The Whole Goal of Racism is to Keep the Poor White Masses and the Poor Black Masses Separated. If You Can Figure this Out, You Can Build a Fusion Coalition to Lift Up All Workers….Workers Need a Union and a Contract!”; Local Tradition is Militant, Multi-Racial Civil Rights Unionism;
Workers’ Grievances Include Computer-Driven Speedups, Limited Bathroom Breaks, On the Job Harassment and Gaslighting; Ex-Sen. Doug Jones, Union Reps from AFL-CIO, SEIU, AFT, Flight-Attendants CWA, Offer Support; Enactment of Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act Urged, So Call Your Senator;
In Italy, Transport Unions FILT-CGIL and FIT-CISL Lead 48,000 Amazon Workers in 24-Hour Sit-In Strike at Shipping Warehouses Across Country;
North Korea Starts Firing Short-Range Missiles; Japan Commits to Helping US Defend Taiwan against Attack by Beijing; Biden Pentagon Issues Contracts Worth $7.6 Billion to Build Ballistic Missile Defense Against DPRK and Beyond; Next Generation Interceptor Will Help Provide Mid-Course Defense;
Biden Hanging Tough against Regressive Carbon Tax or Gasoline Tax in Upcoming Infrastructure Bill, New York Times Complains
Extremist Cruz Leads the GOP Pack in Slandering Any and All Gun Safety Reforms as “Ridiculous Theater”; If Senate Republicans Now Insist on Carrying Out Their Usual Despicable Routine, Will This Finally Convince All Concerned that “Bipartisanship” is an Impossible Chimera?; Priority Must Be to Pass $3 Trillion Public Works Recovery Bill by Budget Reconciliation, While Ending the Filibuster and Enabling Gun Safety Legislation in the Process;
Eyes of World on Monday’s NLRB Election at Amazon Shipping Center in Bessemer, Alabama Where Jeff Bezos, the World’s Richest Man, Treats His Employees Like Serfs in One of Worst Union-Busting States; Union Organizers Seeking to Win Over Last Undecided Workers;
Biden Should Put Jerome Powell on Warning that Federal Reserve will Be Called on to Help Finance $3 Trillion Infrastructure and Modernization Bill, Even if GOP Senate Blocks It; FDR Did This in 1940 When Fascist Threat Came from Abroad; Today’s Fascist Threat Comes from Within, Feeding Off Poverty and Despair;
Chinese Government Stunned by First-Time Coordinated Sanctions by EU, Five Eyes, and US: This Was Something Trump was Somehow Never Able to Do
In Fourth Israeli Election in Two Years, Fragmentation of Splinter Parties Increases, Leaving Formation of Next Government Uncertain; Netanyahyu’s Likud Party Leads with About Half of Necessary Majority, Just Two Weeks before He Enters the Next Phase of his Ongoing Corruption Trial; Jury Still Out on Worldwide Left Turn Signaled by Biden Win
Biden Administration Reportedly Preparing Next Step in Hundred Days in Form of Some $3 Trillion for Recovery Plan Including Infrastructure, Energy, Advanced Manufacturing, and Human Capital; 1 Million Housing Units, Rural Broadband, Free Community College, Universal Pre-K, Better Child Care and Permanently Expanded Child Tax Credit; Measure to Be Paid for by Raising Corporate Income Tax from 21% to 28% and Hiking Income Tax over for Income Over $400,000; Former PA Governor Rendell Sees Best Infrastructure Bill Since Eisenhower Built the Interstate Highway System;
Mitch McConnell Warns of “Trojan Horse” To Implement Tax Increases for His Donors; Biden Must Hang Tough against GOP Sabotage; Key Points Are Taxing Wall Street Speculators and Forcing the Federal Reserve to Provide 0% Long-Term Financing;
An Historical Pivot Point for the US Labor Movement Just a Week Away: Amazon Warehouse Workers in Bessemer, Alabama Are Voting on Unionizing Their Workplace with RWDSU, with Result Due on Monday, March 29; Implications for 1.2 Million Amazon Employees: Warehouse Workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver, and Southern California Eye Organizing Drives; Mood Enhanced by Biden’s Backing of Right to Unionize; Teamsters Plan to Organize Underpaid Delivery Drivers; Construction Unions May Organize Amazon Building Sites; Time to End a Quarter Century of Union Busting by Megabillionaire Bezos; A Whiff of Strike Wave in the Spring Air!
Sanctions from US, UK, European Union, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand Slam Beijing’s Attack on Uyghurs in Chinese Turkestan; Blinken Condemns “Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity in Xinjiang” by PRC
Increased Belligerence of Moscow and Beijing Suggests Domestic Disaffection After Regime Failures and Crackdowns on Opposition; US Alliance System Emerges as Decisive Asset, in Sharp Contrast to Trump’s Unilateral Rage and Greed; Biden Shows that Appeasement Is Over; Austin Hints US Edge Eroded by Futile Neocon Wars in Middle East
Democrats Must Act Immediately to Disrupt GOP’s Creeping Coup Apparatus Before It Can Consolidate for 2022 Takeover of Congress; Filibuster Must Be Abolished; No More Republican Purges of Voter Rolls and Other Vote Fraud Tactics; Vigilance on Loyalty in Military; House Opens Door to Citizenship for Dreamers by 228-197 vote;
Myanmar Generals Show World the Grim Future that Awaits Beijing Satellites with Over 200 Killed in Anti-Coup Protests and Pervasive Use of Huawei’s Facial Recognition Technology
Michael Cohen Completes Eighth Session with Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, Expects More Visits, Says Charges May Be Imminent in Trump Organization Case;
Tax Wall Street Party Condemns Upsurge in Racist and Xenophobic Violence.
After Defeat of January 6 Attempted Autogolpe, GOP Regroups around Plan for Cold Coup or Creeping Coup Designed to Establish Dictatorship in Two Years; Scenario Includes Subversion of Military Units as Suggested by Army Memo Supplying Reasons to Refuse National Guard Defense of US Capitol; Republican Assault on Voting Rights Shows Intent to Seize Congress through Voter Suppression; Senate Filibuster Can Sabotage Biden’s Measures to Pacify Domestic Privations and Conflicts: GOP Attorneys General Start Legal Challenge to Rescue Plan over Ban on Using Federal Money to Fund Tax Cuts for GOP Parasites;
US Hits More Chinese Functionaries with Sanctions on Eve of Yang-Blinken Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Alaska;
DNI Avril Haines Reports that Kremlin Peddled Slanders against Biden through Politicians and Media to Help Trump in 2020 Election; Biden Repeats that Sanctions Loom Next Week in Solar Winds Hack Attack;
Breaking: Biden Accepts That Putin is “Killer” with “No Soul,” Signaling End of Four Years of Groveling Appeasement under Trump; Russian Ambassador to Washington Recalled in a Huff;
Best Wishes to All for St. Patrick’s Day!
Feeling That Biden Was Chosen to Perpetuate Neoliberalism, Nahshon Says Biden Could Redeem Democratic Party as a Whole if He Delivers Even One Big Ticket Life-Changing Reform; The Self-Described “Bernie Bro” is Disaffected by Neoliberal Austerity Era, Imperialism, Lack of Influential Government Spending and Increased Privatization;
The Neoliberal Era Extends into a Workspace Lacking Purposeful and Meaningful Jobs; Youth Workforce Exploited Despite Higher Wages and Insurance Benefits; Another Dire Consequence of the Neoliberal Era is the Silicon Valley PR Machine Belittling Bachelor Degrees in the Humanities;
Politicians Having Traversed the Neoliberal Era Are Viewed Skeptically Unless They Enact Life-Changing Actions Immediately; Without Radical Change, Left-Leaning Youth May Be Forever Unmotivated to Return to Voting; Rather Than Crumbs, a Few Life-Changing New Deal Policies Will Have a Bigger Impact on Youth Morale;
9/11 a Pivotal Moment of Disillusionment with the Neoliberal Era;
Why Did So Many Young Leftists Pursue “Socialism” in Response to the Grinding Forces of Austerity, Globalization and Our “Gig Economy”, Rather Than Revisiting the New Deal? How Do the “Bernie Bros” Contrast Today with the Biden Administration’s Goals and Priorities, and Is There Room for Accommodation, or Has Demoralization Taken Hold of Young Leftists in the Wake of the Trump Era?
Topics Discussed Include:
$15 Minimum Wage
Abolishing Student Loan Debt in Order to Start a Life
Public Works Most Wanted by the Next Generation
Affordable Healthcare
Private Prison Reform
Government’s Investment in Technocracy
Free State College…
National Mood in Flux as Rescue Plan Kicks In; Faced with the Reality of Serious Cash Arriving in the Hands of Their Immiserated Voters Against the Will of the Party, the Hooverized GOP Falls Back on an Insipid Broth of Wedge Issues and Trivia; They Will Also Block Immigration Reform at Any Cost, Playing into the Hands of the Chinese Communists; GOP Threatened by a Midterm Vote on the 1934 Model, When FDR Democrats Rode the New Deal Successes of the Hundred Days to Expanded Majorities, Gaining 7 Seats in Both House and Senate;
Goodbye, Horatio Alger: New Research by Rank and Eppard Shows that Upward Socioeconomic Mobility, a Vital Ingredient of the American Dream, Has Collapsed: Virtually All European Countries, including Even Britain, are Greater Lands of Opportunity that US under the Wall Street Yoke; In Denmark, Chances of Rising from Lowest 20% to Top 20% Are Almost Twice as High than in US, by 15% to 8% Margin; In US, Top 5% Hold 75% of Assets, while Lowest 60% Own Just 1% of Wealth; Life Expectancy in US Varies by Plus or Minus 20 Years, Depending on Zip Code; So Who Dares Argue that Rescue Act is Excessive?
From The Library: A Late Renaissance Treatise Rooted in Observation of the Roman Republic with Lessons for Political Science in the Early Modern State, Complete with Separation of Powers, Checks and Balances, and a Class Analysis Distinguishing Feudal Aristocrats, Patricians, Urban Middle Class, Plebeians, and Peasantry that is More Accurate than Marx; Class Consciousness is Indispensable for Effective Politics;
Putin Acts Out His Vitriol Towards the West with His Wisecrack that the January 6 Hooligan Attack on the US Capitol was “a Stroll”!
No More Trickle Down, Over-Financialized, Laissez-Faire, pro-Wall Street, Monetarist, Rescue Bills; Demand Now is for Meaningful Direct Cash Payments to those who Need Them, with Built-In Safeguards against Poaching by Wealthy Parasites; The Ideological Hegemony of this New Deal Approach Must Be Consolidated;
Reagan Refused to Admit there was Poverty in US, but Biden Has Launched the Biggest anti-Poverty Program Since Nixon Destroyed LBJ’s War on Poverty; Democrats Mark New Law with Rose Garden Reception at Mid-Point in Biden’s Hundred Days; By Contrast, Trump’s First Big Reception was Macabre Celebration of 1-Vote House Approval under Budget Reconciliation of Repeal Bill to Kill Obamacare on May 4, 2017 – the Last of Don’s Hundred Days; In the GOP Tax Scam of December 2017, Speaker Ryan Bragged that the Miniscule $1.50 Average Benefit to Working Taxpayers would Buy an Order of Small Fries, a Hotdog at Costco, or a Costco Yearly Membership Fee; Biden Bill Offers a 20% Increase in Income for Lowest 20% of Wage Earners, or $5,600 for Family of Four;
Republicans are the Opposite of a Party for Working People: Real Wages Stagnated from 2017 to 2020, while Real Fringe Benefits Fell by $.15 per Hour and Total Real Compensation Decreased by $1.61 per Hour, a Wretched Outcome for the Self-Styled Blue Collar President;
Biden Calls on Traditional Pacific Allies with Re-Activation of Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad, Supported by US Plus Suga of Japan, Modi of India, and Morrison of Australia; Promising Start Shows Sinister Folly of Trump’s America Alone Anti-Diplomacy;
In Brazil, Lula da Silva Defeats Judicial Frameup and Returns to Lead Mass Opposition against “Moronic” Policies of Failed Demagogue Bolsonaro;
Chinese Communists Continue Demolition of Hong Kong Democracy and Threat to Taiwan!
First Direct Deposits Could Start Arriving by This Weekend, White House Says; Lowest 20% of Wage Earners Could See 20% Increase in Family Income; $5,600 Provided for Family of Four; In TV Address, President Promises Vaccines Available to All Adults by May 1, Hopes for Normalcy by July 4; “I Need You to Help Beat the Virus”; 77% of Nation Say Worst is Behind Us, Up 20% Since Inauguration; New Law Represents Biggest Anti-Poverty Program Since LBJ;
New York Times Forced to Acknowledge Collapse of Supremacy of Central Banks over Elected Governments, a Key Ideological Tenet of Globalization: Politicians Now Favor Cash Payments to Individuals, Seen as Far More Effective and Politically Popular than Federal Reserve “Tinkering”; Criticism of Obama for Letting “Pointy-Headed Technocrats Help by Obscure Interventions in Financial Markets” including Quantitative Easing to Buy Toxic Derivatives to Inject Cash in the Overall Economy;
But Public Interest Demands that the Fed Provide $5 Trillion in 0% Multi-Decade Credit Stimulus to Finance Ambitious Capital Investment in Public Works and Infrastructure;
With almost 50 Hong Kong Legislators on Trial in Communist Kangaroo Court, Beijing National People’s Congress Violates Treaty with UK by Ending Any Semblance of Democracy in Hong Kong: 1,500 of Xi’s Retainers Will Appoint One Third of Hong Kong Legislature and Chief Executive; Remaining Two Thirds Will Be Screened to Exclude all but “Patriots”;
Life in a Beijing Puppet State: Mynmar Generals Slay 11 Protesters with Live Fire Today, Total of 70 since Burmese Coup
Once Again, not a Single Republican Vote for Public Health and Economic Recovery; Latest Poll Shows 75% Support for this Bill, including 60% of Republicans, with Only 18% Opposed, Leaving GOP Once Again on Wrong Side of History; Top Democrats Plan National Road Tours to Make the Case for Measure;
GOP’s Chances for 2022 or 2024 Comeback Suffer Major Setback; Reactionaries Talk Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head, not Urgent Needs of Impoverished Voters; Omnibus Measure is Practical Equivalent of Many of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Fifteen Major Bills of the First Hundred Days; Next May Come Multi-Trillion Jobs and Infrastructure Program, or else Schumer’s Plan for US Investments in Industrial Policy, Semiconductor Production, 5G without Huawei, Rebuilding Reliable Supply Chains, and other Ways to Defeat Made in China 2025, Beijing’s Recipe for World Domination;
Biden’s Use of Defense Production Act Allows Vast Acceleration of Public Health Measures, soon to Include Other Nations; Economic Globalization and GOP Free Market, Anti-Government Ideology are in Rapid Decline;
Judge Merrick Garland Confirmed for Attorney General in Senate by 70-30 Vote, with even Mitch Assenting;
From Tarpley’s Library: In Studies of Character Types, Three Recent Categories Stand Out: The Tradition-Directed, Typically Rural Farmers who Follow the Agricultural Year; The Inner-Directed, Strong Personalities who Possess an Inner Gyroscope of Morality and Duty Inculcated by Parents and Educators, which Can Resist Negative Peer Opinion; and the Other Directed, Weaker Personalities Who are Equipped with Sensors to Obey Shifting Signals from Shifting Peer Groups; This Last Group Has Grown in Post-1945 America!
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