An election of “firsts:” Women, LGBTQ, Muslims, African-Americans and Native Americans score seats in the House and Senate.
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South America, Central America, United States & Canada
![Header photo: School children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance shortly before the military round-up of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, April 20, 1942. Original caption: “San Francisco, California. Many children of Japanese ancestry attended Raphael Weill public School, Geary and Buchanan Streets, prior to evacuation. This scene shows first- graders during flag pledge ceremony. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration. Provision will be effected for the continuance of education.” Photo by Dorothea Lange, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.]](https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/School-children-reciting-the-Pledge-of-Allegiance-shortly-before-the-military-round-up-of-Japanese-Americans-on-the-West-Coast-April-20-1942.-200x200.jpg "This isn’t the first time white supremacists have tried to cancel birthright citizenship")
This isn’t the first time white supremacists have tried to cancel birthright citizenship
Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship is yet another attempt to make the U.S. a “White Man’s Country, and threatens all people of color.
Trump’s rules of engagement for troops at U.S.-Mexico border mirror those used by the IDF in Gaza
The intent behind Trump’s new rules of engagement and considerable militarization of the U.S. border appears to be greenlighting the U.S. military to function as an IDF-style military police force whenever the next “threat” emerges, whether it be “foreign invaders” or “internal enemies.”
U.S. Midterms: Native Americans unyielding battle against voter suppression
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling that requires North Dakota voters to provide an I.D. with a residential address. The ruling has effectively made the process to vote next to impossible for Native Americans, who by-and-large do not have recognized addresses–but that’s not stopping them.
Never have corporate profits outgrown employee compensation so clearly and for so long
Those aren’t my words. The quotation that forms the title of this post is from a recent Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis blog post.
With “Troika of Tyranny,” Bolton’s long standing push to target Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua finally pays off
Bolton’s new “Troika of Tyranny” speech will serve as the foundation for the next and more aggressive stage of the Trump administration’s Latin America policy.
Brazil: Workers’ Party challenges political persecution decree
Social movements and political opposition fear Temer’s security decree will be used to persecute left-wing groups.
Fascism is real, but the “resistance” is mostly fake
Fascism is always a danger under capitalism, with its frequent crises and endemic white supremacy, but the phony “resistance” is only concerned about electing Democrats.
Corporate concentration, intellectual property rights, and U.S. public policy
Dominant corporations have dramatically increased their market power in the U.S. over the last decades, allowing them to boost their profits and, by extension, political power. And, although rarely acknowledged by the media, this trend owes much to the way public policy has promoted corporate intellectual property rights at the public expense.
![LEAKED] Censored Documentary Exposes The Israel-US Lobby Al-Masdar News](https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/LEAKED-Censored-Documentary-Exposes-The-Israel-US-Lobby-Al-Masdar-News-LEAKED-Censored-Documentary-Exposes-The-Israel-US-Lobby-200x200.jpg "Watch the film the Israel lobby didn’t want you to see")
Watch the film the Israel lobby didn’t want you to see
The Electronic Intifada has obtained a complete copy of The Lobby–USA, a four-part undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israel’s covert influence campaign in the United States.
With Samir Amin by our side
Brazil’s election result is appalling. Jair Bolsonaro, who will take office early next year, will be the most extremist head of government on the planet. If he cuts down the Amazon Rain Forest–as he promises–it will be catastrophic for life.
Did fake news win the Brazilian election?
Bolsonaro’s rise to power came with a welter of misinformation, rumour and lies. What role did ‘fake news’ play in the far right leader’s victory?
Neoliberalism in the age of pedagogical terrorism
We need individuals and social movements willing to disturb the normalization of a fascist politics, oppose racist, sexist, and neoliberal orthodoxy.
Maduro slams ‘crazy extremist’ Mike Pence over claims Venezuela is funding migrant caravan
NICOLAS MADURO branded U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence a “crazy extremist” today after Washington accused the Venezuelan president of funding the migrant caravan which has been blocked from entering the U.S.a
The crisis of capital
It may be hard, but I want you to try to think back a decade, actually slightly less than a decade. In 2000, we were celebrating the millennium, and if you remember what was happening at that time, it was an enormous celebration of a new global capitalism, of globalization, of the end of conflict […]
Trump, or capital in the Oval Office
The moment was of course metaphysically necessary—that capital incarnate itself as man and come among us. The question we must ask rather is how this descent occurs, for that determines all that follows.
The great un-blackening: the corporate project to erase black people from politics
Corporate rule imposes a duopoly system in which one party is overtly white supremacist and the other party refuses to tackle racial oppression–but both pursue austerity and war.
Socialism frightens Trump White House, publishes ‘red scare’ just before midterm elections
The White House’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released a report earlier this week on “The Opportunity Costs of Socialism,” apparently based on the fact that “coincident with the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth, socialism is making a comeback in American political discourse,” even though Marx’s birth was in May (1818).
Brazil Elections: a conversation with social leader Frei Betto
The second round of elections in Brazil will take place Oct. 28, and this time two opponents will face off. On the one side is Fernando Haddad from the Workers’ Party (PT) who promises to continue the project started by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff.
Yes, ExxonMobil and Chevron are still distorting climate science
If you look at headlines from the last year, ExxonMobil, Chevron and other major fossil fuel companies have seemingly turned a new page on climate change.
