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Alan Maki

Alan Maki
Doing research at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

A program for real change...

http://peaceandsocialjustice.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-progressive-program-for-real-change.html


What we need is a "21st Century Full Employment Act for Peace and Prosperity" which would make it a mandatory requirement that the president and Congress attain and maintain full employment.


"Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens"

- Ben Franklin

Let's talk...

Let's talk...

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Trump's insane policies pushed by Wall Street towards China must end.

Wall Street is intent on bringing China down even if it hurts the rest of us and the world along with the Chinese people.


What would motivate anyone to want to create misery for an entire nation just to punish the people because of their accomplishments?


But, this insanity has actually been placed in writing and published in “Foreign Affairs Magazine,” the publication of the Foreign Affairs Council which is the voice of the Wall Street monopolists- the imperialists who are crying because Chinese socialism is proving its superiority over Wall Street’s beloved rotten capitalist system which is in a state of collapse. Ironically, the Chinese may be our only hope out of this multi-faceted crisis. But the Wall Street monopolists Gail to appreciate this.


Look at what these Wall Street parasites think is legitimate foreign policy:


“The United States has limited means of influencing China’s closed political system, but the diplomatic, economic, and military pressure that Washington can bring to bear on Beijing will put Xi and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) he leads under enormous strain. Indeed, a prolonged period of strategic confrontation with the United States, such as the one China is currently experiencing, will create conditions that are conducive to dramatic changes.”


What a barbaric foreign policy this government has.


China never hurt us or did anything to us.


This barbaric foreign policy is long-standing U.S. policy towards China... most recently stemming from the repression “The China Hands” were subjected to when they tried to provide us with an honest assessment of what was going on in China dating back to the Chinese people’s struggle against Japanese imperialism and their struggle against a reactionary fascist nationalism Wall Street tried to shove down their throats.


We were told by “The China Hands” that Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party along with the People’s Liberation Army were the legitimate organs reflecting what most people in China wanted: socialism. Yet, to this very day, the United States government which is an appendage of Wall Street’s power, insists that it has the right to cause misery for the Chinese people simply because they chose the road to socialism.


Steve Bannon, Pompeo and Trump are merely extending the backwards thinking of previous administration s which not only rejected the honest information of “The China Hands” but chose to persecute and punish them as part of McCarthy’s red-baiting anti-Communist witch-hunts that have made the United States a rogue nation in the eyes of the Chinese people and most of the rest of the world.


I would also point out that had United States Senator Claude Pepper who was on the U.S. Foreign Relations Committee who had a very healthy view of developments in China joined Henry Wallace as his running mate on the Progressive Party ticket, we might be living in a much saner country with a healthy respect for China and all those choosing the road to socialism.


Too bad Bernie Sanders doesn’t have a healthier perspective towards Chins, too.

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A National Public Health Care System... the ultimate stimulus package

A National Public Health Care System based on the model of public education would create over twelve-million good paying jobs providing the American people with free health care.

Why aren't politicians considering this?

Trump turns everything into a racket intended to line his own pockets.

Everything is about money, money, money with Trump...


This is just now being reported; but why haven’t reporters asked Trump directly about this at his daily press conferences?


“It turns out, Trump, through three separate family trusts, has investments in a mutual fund called Dodge & Cox, the New York Times reported. That mutual fund’s largest holding is Sanofi, a French drugmaker that produces the hydroxychloroquine-based drug Plaquenil, used largely by malaria and lupus patients.”


Trump has stopped Dr. Fauci from answering questions about this drug.


And, the only study available about the effectiveness in using this drug to treat the coronavirus says there is no proof the drug does anything.
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Come on Bernie Sanders... stop using our problems as campaign gimmicks!

I’m glad to see Bernie Sanders finally taking up the demand for $2,000.00 a month after I have been bombarding his email with this for many weeks... but Bernie Sanders has left out payments for children... I think this payment should be at least $100.00 per month for every child in the family while many people feel this should be much more.


But, why doesn’t he put some of his millions of dollars in campaign resources into mobilizing mass action on the part of the American people to demand this? It is only through mass action that we win such reforms not as a result of politicians limiting their talk to stump speeches.


I’m going to keep re-posting this from time to time because people keep asking if they can share it... you can share anything you want from my page:


Republicans and Democrats in Congress backed and bribed by Wall Street are making the decisions affecting working people and working class families without any input from us; this is in no way acceptable. We must let them know by way of asserting ourselves that this is unacceptable. As working people we are entitled to a seat at the decision-making table- this is our lives we are talking about.


It is not right or just or acceptable in any way, shape or form that only our employers have a seat at the decision-making table.


How do we get a seat at the decision-making table when we are arrogantly excluded from the process by politicians who have the unmitigated gall to help our Wall Street employers, bankers and vulture capitalists before helping those of us who create the wealth? We need to raise so much hell until we get a seat at the decision-making table.


Think about this:


Usually a government professing to be democratic will invite all concerned and affected parties to fully articulate their problems through a series of hearings held in locations convenient for many people to attend.


Conclusion:


That this has not been done because the wealthy in power would be embarrassed to hear that they have been selfishly hoarding for themselves the wealth we have created and they don’t want this very fundamental and basic injustice of the capitalist system to be exposed lest they be forced to turn this wealth over for the common good of all in order to prevent mass misery and suffering of those of us who have created this wealth.


We must never forget that it is we, the working class with no small amount of help from Mother Nature who create ALL wealth and we must constantly remind these politicians of this because they would rather all of this not be publicly discussed...


Out of sight is out of mind!


As workers we must never forget this and we must assert our views and our demands for justice...


Right now at this moment of crisis with the capitalist economic system in a state of collapse exacerbated by this coronavirus pandemic we must insist our livelihoods and our rights be protected...


First and foremost this requires every adult be provided by the government with two-thousand dollars a month and every child in the family be provided for with five-hundred dollars a month at least as long as this crisis continues... and, by rights, justice requires this be made permanent.


Let us state in no uncertain terms that we as working people bear no responsibility for the economic crisis or the coronavirus crisis since we have had no seat at the decision-making table when it comes to economic policy or health care policy and this has to change and it needs to change now in order to avoid mass suffering and despair... democracy and the most basic and fundamental rights require no less... so let’s have an end to this hypocrisy of the wealthy few making all the decisions in this country.


Any thinking person, except for the most ethically and politically corrupt, can see and understand there is something drastically wrong with denying the majority of the people- those of us who create ALL the wealth- a seat at the decision-making table.


Instead of him simply calling for this, he should be using his resources to help his supporters and everyone else set up committees in every neighborhood to mobilize the American people to demand this through:


Letter writing.


Call legislators and meet with them and candidates running.


Petitions.


Demonstrations large and small; community based, state-wide and national.


Work stoppages.


And so on.


Bring millions of people into the streets; no let up until the legislation passes.


Demanding a piece of legislation dedicated to just this one issue.

Bernie Sanders should draft this legislation and rally people behind it.



All of this should be building towards creating a huge "people's lobby" comprised of concerned citizen activists.



Anyone have other suggestions?

Nothing complicated or controversial about nationalization.

People keep asking me:


“How do you nationalize an entire industry?”


This is not complicated; it’s been done successfully over and over again around the world and right here in this country... one of the best examples being the Tennessee Valley Authority building, owning, managing and operating a vast network of energy producing plants... very successfully at that.


The government just takes the industry out of private hands and investors and instructs the management to keep operating.


The only thing that changes is the government becomes the owner instead of private profiteers and Wall Street investors.


What is so complicated about this?


The entire health care industry, including the pharmaceutical and medical equipment industries should be nationalized immediately with the intent to create a National Public Health Care System modeled around public education: publicly funded, publicly administered, publicly delivered.
Why is this even controversial given the complete failure and breakdown of this for-profit free market health care system that has collapsed, just like the capitalist economy itself?


The best example of why we need such remedies is that we have a crooked and corrupt president like Trump making decisions based on his own person financial investments using this health crisis to line his own pockets instead of what is best for the American people.

A 'Stimulus Package" or slush fund for a bunch of corrupt Wall Street vultures?

We can sum up Trump’s “stimulus package” approved by the Democrats, thusly:


Too little, too late, too mismanaged with too much corruption.