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Democratic COBRA Plan Denounced as Costly Taxpayer Gift to For-Profit Industry

May 17, 2020 UNAC Editor Breaking News, Capitalism, Featured, Healthcare, Medicare for All

by Jake Johnson, published on Common Dreams, May 13, 2020 For weeks, progressive lawmakers and advocacy groups pressed the House Democratic leadership to support an emergency expansion of Medicare coverage to the tens of millions of people who have lost their jobs and their employer-provided health insurance during the coronavirus pandemic. But in their newly introduced 1,815-page coronavirus relief bill,[…]

Andrea Circle Bear And Six Centuries Of Genocide

May 16, 2020 UNAC Editor Native American Genocide, Prisoners, Prisons and Prisoners

by Mirinda Crissman, published on Workers World, May 14, 2020 Andrea Circle Bear, of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation near Eagle Butte, S.D., was the 29th federal inmate to die due to the coronavirus in Bureau of Prisons custody. She was sentenced to serve 26 months. Circle Bear was being held at Tripp County Jail in South Dakota up until[…]

Covid-10 and America: The Fire This Time

May 15, 2020 UNAC Editor Austerity, Economics, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Hypocrisy

by Wilmer, J. Leon III, published on Black Agenda Report, May 6, 2020 It is immoral if not criminal for the US to increase sanctions through its “maximum pressure campaigns” against Venezuela, Iran, Cuba and Palestine. “Weaponizing disease for political purposes to bring about regime change is the same as germ warfare and should be considered a crime against humanity.” Time[…]

Mass Unemployment is a Failure of Capitalism

May 15, 2020 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Socialism

by Richard D. Wolff, published on NewsClick, May 10, 2020 The difficulties caused to workers by record unemployment during the pandemic are a product of capitalism. Most of the time, employers decide to hire or fire workers depending on which choice maximizes employers’ profits. Profit, not the full employment of workers nor of means of production, is “the bottom line”[…]

Crushing the States, Saving the Banks: The Fed’s Generous New Rules

May 15, 2020 UNAC Editor Austerity, Economics, US Politics

by Ellen Brown, published on Common Dreams, May 3, 2020 Congress seems to be at war with the states. Only $150 billion of its nearly $3 trillion coronavirus relief package – a mere 5% – has been allocated to the 50 states; and they are not allowed to use it where they need it most, to plug the holes in[…]

The “New Normal” and the Shock Doctrine

May 13, 2020 UNAC Editor Austerity, Economic Collapse, Economics

By Marty Goodman, published on Socialist Action, May 11, 2020 Today only 51.3% of American adults have jobs – the lowest number on record, lower than the Great Depression. We have passed 80,000 coronavirus deaths. But, even human suffering can make a billionaire’s eyeballs bulge when they look at the financial fallout. Why? For those at the top able to[…]

The US Military is Hell-Bent on Trying to Overpower China

May 13, 2020 UNAC Editor China, Militarism

by Vijay Prashad, published on People’s Dispatch, May 12, 2020 On April 1, Admiral Philip Davidson—the head of the US Indo-Pacific Command—told the US Congress that he would like $20 billion to create a robust military cordon that runs from California to Japan and down the Pacific Rim of Asia. His proposal—titled “Regain the Advantage”—pointed to the “renewed threat we[…]

A 21st Century Lynching: Justice for Ahmaud Arbery!

May 13, 2020 UNAC Editor Racism

by Dianne Mathiowetz, published on Workers World, May 12, 2020 In the early afternoon of Feb. 23, shots rang out on the tree-lined streets of Satilla Shores, a predominantly white neighborhood bordering the port city of Brunswick on Georgia’s Atlantic coast, some 40 miles north of Jacksonville, Fla. Afterward, a 25-year-old Black man, Ahmaud Arbery, lay dead on the pavement.[…]

Bolivia: The Open Veins Are Bleeding Six Months after the Coup

May 13, 2020 UNAC Editor Bolivia, War on the Poor

by Veronica Zapata, published on Resumen, May 10, 2020 On November 10, 2019, a violent coup d’état took place in Bolivia, navigated by the U.S., which managed to articulate the racist national oligarchy with the backing of the armed forces, the police and the paramilitary groups forcing Evo Morales to resign at gunpoint. The objective was to regain control of[…]

Whose Crisis? When the People Lose, the Corporate Parties and the Rich Win

May 13, 2020 UNAC Editor The War at Home

by Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, May 7, 2020 The Democratic Party is a servant of corporate capital and cannot possibly be converted to a people’s party. The rise and demise of Bernie Sanders proves the point. “The people were force-fed the reality that the United States has no health care system capable of defending the public against[…]