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  • | Construction workers in Houston Texas in 2021 | MR Online

    U.S. Federal Reserve says its goal is ‘to get wages down’

    Originally published: Multipolarista on May 24, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said his goal is “to get wages down,” complaining workers have too much power in the labor market. Economist Michael Hudson says this is “junk economics,” and corporate monopolies are driving inflation, not wages.

  • | A May Day 2022 rally in La Habana Cuba | MR Online

    Abortion in Cuba vs U.S. shows which country is truly democratic

    Originally published: Multipolarista on May 23, 2022 by Calla Walsh (more by Multipolarista) (Posted May 25, 2022)

    In Cuba, abortion and all healthcare is free, and enshrined in a constitution democratically voted on by the people. In the US, nine unelected, life-long judges control society based on a 1787 constitution written by slaveowners.

  • | Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton economist Michael Hudson | MR Online

    Economist Michael Hudson on decline of dollar, sanctions war, imperialism, financial parasitism

    Originally published: Multipolarista on May 11, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    Economist Michael Hudson discusses the decline of the U.S. dollar, the sanctions war on Russia, his concept of “free-trade imperialism,” and financial parasitism.

  • | Nina Jankowicza | MR Online

    U.S. gov’t creates ‘Ministry of Truth’ run by cold warrior who smears independent media as ‘Russian disinformation’

    Originally published: Multipolarista on April 29, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    The authoritarian Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversaw the War on Terror created a “Disinformation Governance Board,” led by anti-Russia information warrior Nina Jankowicz, who ran regime-change ops at a CIA front, smears independent anti-war U.S. media outlets as “Russian disinfo,” and called WikiLeaks “scum.”

  • | New York Times | MR Online

    New York Times’ ridiculous attack on me exposes its deceitful propaganda tactics

    Originally published: Multipolarista on April 14, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    The New York Times printed absurd claims about Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton in a smear piece, using an image of his face crossed out by a red line, without giving him an opportunity to comment. This hatchet job reflects the newspaper’s long history of spreading false war propaganda for the U.S. government.

  • | The Washington Post | MR Online

    Washington Post calls for censoring Chinese media, praises purge of Russian outlets

    Originally published: Multipolarista on April 13, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    The Washington Post–owned by billionaire oligarch Jeff Bezos, who has CIA and Pentagon contracts–has called for censoring Chinese news outlets on social media, while praising Silicon Valley for purging Russian publications.

  • | A protest against US sanctions in Caracas Venezuela in August 2019 Photo credit Benjamin Norton | MR Online

    Venezuela’s economy will grow 20% in 2022, despite illegal U.S. sanctions, predicts Western bank

    Originally published: Multipolarista on April 6, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    Major Switzerland-based bank Credit Suisse forecasts Venezuela’s real GDP growth to be 20% in 2022 and 8% in 2023. This is despite an illegal U.S. blockade, which starved the government of 99% of its revenue, according to the top UN expert on sanctions.

  • | Farright extremist members of Ukraines neoNazi Azov regiment of the National Guard | MR Online

    Ukraine is brutally repressing the left, criminalizing socialist parties, imprisoning activists

    Originally published: Multipolarista on March 21, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    Ukraine’s Western-backed government has criminalized socialist political parties, while its Nazi-infiltrated intelligence agencies are hunting down leftists, accusing them of being too soft on Russia. This comes after Kiev gave state honors to WWII-era Ukrainian fascists who collaborated with Hitler.

  • | Ukrainian soldiers Photo credit Ministry of Defense of Ukraine public domain | MR Online

    Ukrainian leftist criticizes Western war drive with Russia: U.S. is using Ukraine as ‘cannon fodder’

    Originally published: Multipolarista on March 14, 2022 by Yuliy Dubovyk (more by Multipolarista) (Posted Mar 16, 2022)

    A left-wing peace activist raised in Ukraine explains how the U.S. government created the crisis, backing two coups in a decade, fueling a devastating civil war, and exploiting his nation as a proxy against Russia.

  • | Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab | MR Online

    U.S. kidnapped and imprisoned Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab for buying food

    Originally published: Multipolarista on February 15, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab was essentially kidnapped by the United States because he was buying food for the government’s CLAP food program, to feed the people of Venezuela.

  • | Uyghur diaspora | MR Online

    USA CIA veteran hosting anti-China ‘Uyghur diaspora’ podcast funded by U.S. government

    Originally published: Multipolarista on February 8, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    The “WEghur Stories” podcast claims to speak on behalf of “the Uyghur diaspora,” and uses intersectional feminist rhetoric to demonize China. But it’s co-created and hosted by an ex CIA agent, with funding from the U.S. embassy in France.

  • | Chinese medical workers at the Wuchang temporary hospital in Wuhan in March 2020 | MR Online

    U.S. media attacks China’s Covid-19 policies for saving lives, while Americans die

    Originally published: Multipolarista on February 1, 2022 by Joe Scholten (more by Multipolarista) (Posted Feb 03, 2022)

    The New York Times claims China’s Covid-19 strategy “has set the nation up for disaster.” But here is how Beijing saved countless lives and protected its population, while more than 885,000 people in the US died.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
    Jean-Philippe Stone | © UN PhotoMartine Perret | CC BYNCND 20 | MR Online

    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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