Yesterday, Trump administration officials met with Martin Kulldorff, the Harvard professor that @jacobinmag interviewed and presented as the leading authority on responding to the pandemic. Kuldorff, Atlas and Azar discussed "herd immunity".
Jacobin, which is affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America, has aligned itself with the homicidal policy of the Trump administration. There has been no statement from @DemSocialists repudiating Sunkara and Jacobin.
This is the interview @jacobinmag published with Martin Kuldorff to demand the reopening of schools under unsafe conditions, a policy he is now discussing directly with the Trump White House: jacobinmag.com/2020/09/covid-…
This is what Scott Atlas said about the meeting with Kuldorff: "Their targeted protection of the vulnerable and opening schools and society policy matches the policy of the President and what I have advised." Jacobin is promoting the "herd immunity" policy of Trump.
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Most notable about the soporific #Debates2020 is that is being conducted as if this is a normal election, that it is not being held under conditions of a massive breakdown of political institutions of American capitalism. What is the reality? 1/
The president of the United States is actively conspiring to foment right-wing violence and override the results of the elections, depending on his position in the White House and control over the apparatus of the state. 2/
A pandemic that has killed more than 210k people in the United States, as a result of the criminal policies of the entire ruling class, with neither party proposing anything besides the continuation of the back-to-work and back-to-school campaign. 3/
1) War criminals and militarists supporting Biden in the 2020 election: A thread.
2) John Negroponte. Former DNI, oversaw vast expansion of NSA spying. Former US ambassador to Iraq. US Ambassador to Honduras from 1981-1985, overseeing US support for the contras' vicious war of disappearances, torture and mass killings against the Sandinistas.
3) Colin Powell, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. At the United Nations, provided the case for the Bush administration, consisting of lies, to launch a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people.
1. On Wednesday, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Michigan denied the Socialist Equality Party’s challenge to the state’s 12,000 physical signature ballot access requirement during the coronavirus pandemic. wsws.org/en/articles/20…
2. Cox issued his ruling as the deadly #coronavirus pandemic is spiraling out of control. More than 61,000 people tested positive yesterday in the US, a new record, and the daily death toll is approaching 1,000.
3. Hospitals in Texas, Florida and Arizona are overwhelmed, and nurses are again facing critical shortages of personal protective equipment and ventilators. Cases are increasing in most states, including in Michigan, where they are at levels not seen since the end of May.
Engels, a thread-quote: 1/ "When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder.
2/ But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; ...
3/ when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live — forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence — ...
First they ignored it. Then they gave themselves trillions. Now they want to return everyone to work producing profits. It is time for the working class to intervene with its own program. It is time for socialism. #NotDyingForWallStreet#COVIDActNow#GeneralStrike
“The cure is worse than the disease.” In other words, the lives of millions of workers must be sacrificed in the interests of corporate profit. wsws.org/en/articles/20…
Wall Street is soaring this morning because investors are happy with the massive amounts of money they are getting and the signal that everyone will be forced back to work soon. #NotDyingForWallStreet