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  • | Exaggerating Chinas military spending | MR Online

    Exaggerating China’s military spending, St. Louis Fed breaks all statistical rules with misleading graph

    Originally published: Multipolarista on January 23, 2023 (more by Multipolarista)

    The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published a jaw-droppingly misleading graph that portrays China as spending more on its military than the U.S. In reality, the Pentagon’s budget is roughly three times larger.

  • | CIA veteran and US ambassador in Peru Lisa Kenna with the countrys mining minister on January 18 2023 | MR Online

    Peru’s natural resources: CIA-linked U.S. ambassador meets with mining and energy ministers to talk ‘investments’

    Originally published: Multipolarista on January 19, 2023 (more by Multipolarista)

    Peru has large reserves of copper, gold, zinc, silver, lead, iron, and natural gas. After a coup overthrew left-wing President Pedro Castillo, the US ambassador, CIA veteran Lisa Kenna, met with mining and energy ministers to discuss “investments”. Europe is importing Peruvian LNG to replace Russian energy.

  • | Nicaraguan families enjoy the weekend at the mirador de Catarina in Masaya Photo by Ben Norton | MR Online

    Nicaragua is world’s #1 country where citizens feel at peace, Gallup poll shows

    Originally published: Multipolarista on January 9, 2023 (more by Multipolarista)

    A poll by mainstream firm Gallup found that Nicaragua is the No. 1 country in the world where citizens feel at peace. Nine of the top 14 countries are in Latin America. But the U.S. constantly attacks the Sandinista government and imposes sanctions on it.

  • | Democratically elected President Pedro Castillo | MR Online

    Latin America rejects coup in Peru, while U.S. supports unelected regime killing protesters

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

    At least 14 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have condemned the coup in Peru, backing President Pedro Castillo. The unelected regime, which has killed dozens of protesters, has the staunch support of the U.S. and the region’s right wing.

  • | Ex CIA agent and US ambassador to Peru Lisa Kenna meets with its defense minister two days before a coup against its elected left wing President Castillo | MR Online

    Peru coup: CIA agent turned U.S. ambassador met with defense minister day before president overthrown

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

    The U.S. ambassador in Peru, Lisa Kenna, worked for the CIA for 9 years, as well as the Pentagon. One day before the coup against elected left-wing President Pedro Castillo, Kenna met with Peru’s defense minister, who then ordered the military to turn against Castillo.

  • | Perus democratically elected President Pedro Castillo | MR Online

    Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia back Peru’s President Castillo, condemn ‘anti-democratic harassment’

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

    Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and Bolivia released a joint statement supporting Peru’s elected President Pedro Castillo, saying he is the victim of “anti-democratic harassment,” following a U.S.-backed right-wing coup.

  • | British empire killed 165 million Indians | MR Online

    British empire killed 165 million Indians in 40 years: How colonialism inspired fascism

    Originally published: Multipolarista on December 12, 2022 (more by Multipolarista) (Posted Dec 14, 2022)

    A scholarly study found that British colonialism caused approximately 165 million deaths in India from 1880 to 1920, while stealing trillions of dollars of wealth. The global capitalist system was founded on European imperial genocides, which inspired Adolf Hitler and led to fascism.

  • | Cubans voting in municipal elections in La Habana on November 27 2022 | MR Online

    U.S. youth observe Cuba’s elections – and learn about real democracy

    Originally published: Multipolarista on December 2, 2022 by Calla Walsh (more by Multipolarista) (Posted Dec 13, 2022)

    A delegation of youth from the United States observed Cuba’s November 2022 municipal elections and offer an inside look into a true people’s democracy, where workers decide who will govern them, not wealthy oligarchs and corporations.

  • | German troops in a NATO military exercise in 2021 | MR Online

    German military preparing for potential war with Russia, leaked internal report reveals

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

    A leaked confidential strategy paper shows Germany is preparing for a potential war with Russia, as it boosts its budget and plans to become the world’s third-biggest military spender.

  • | Frances Ambassador to the US Gérard Araud with President Barack Obama in the White House in 2016 | MR Online

    French ambassador: U.S. ‘rules-based order’ means Western domination, violating international law

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

    France’s ex U.S. Ambassador Gérard Araud criticized Washington for frequently violating international law and said its so-called “rules-based order” is an unfair “Western order” based on “hegemony.” He condemned the new cold war on China, instead calling for mutual compromises.

  • | EURASIA US Russia proxy war risks nuclear apocalypse 60 years after Cuban Missile Crisis | MR Online

    U.S.-Russia proxy war risks nuclear apocalypse, 60 years after Cuban Missile Crisis

    Originally published: Multipolarista on November 16, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    On the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world is closer than ever to nuclear apocalypse, with the NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine and the US military deploying nukes to Europe and Australia.

  • | USNATO exercise | MR Online

    World at dangerous crossroads, only two paths forward: anti-imperialist socialism or fascist barbarism

    Originally published: Multipolarista on November 10, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    The US-led imperialist world system is in deep crisis, so it wages a new cold war to prevent multipolarity, while lurching toward fascism. The left must offer a true alternative path that opposes both the far right and the liberal pro-NATO chauvinists.

  • | UN General Assembly vote | MR Online

    Entire world votes 185 to 2 against blockade of Cuba–U.S. and Israel are rogue states at UN

    Originally published: Multipolarista on October 3, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    For the 30th year in a row, almost every country on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to oppose the illegal six-decade US blockade of Cuba. 185 nations voted against just two: the United States and Israel.

  • | The October 28 2022 UN General Assembly vote telling Israel to get rid of its illegal nuclear weapons | MR Online

    UN votes 152 to 5 telling Israel to get rid of its nuclear weapons

    Originally published: Multipolarista on October 31, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly, 152 to 5, to tell the Israeli apartheid regime to get rid of its nuclear weapons, which are illegal under international law.

  • | economic containment | MR Online

    U.S. waging ‘unilateral’ economic and tech war to halt China’s rise, DC insiders say openly

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

    The Biden administration’s aggressive sanctions aim to “kneecap” China’s tech sector. A former Pentagon official acknowledged it is a “disproportionate” and “unilateral” attack, a “form of economic containment.”

  • | EU confesses our prosperity was based on China Russia | MR Online

    EU confesses ‘our prosperity was based on China & Russia’: Cheap energy, low-paid labor, big market

    Originally published: Multipolarista on October 18, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell confessed the West’s neoliberal economic model was “based on cheap energy coming from Russia,” “access to the big China market,” and low-paid Chinese workers. Europe has now lost that, and is thus in crisis.

  • | EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell says Europe is a superior garden and beacon that must civilize the violent jungle in the rest of the world | MR Online

    In neocolonial rant, EU says Europe is ‘garden’ superior to rest of world’s barbaric ‘jungle’

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

    EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell showed the West’s neocolonial mentality claiming “the world needs Europe” as a “beacon” and beautiful “garden” to civilize the barbarous “jungle” in the Global South. He also called for regime change to create a “post-Putin Russia.”

  • | Denis Moncada | MR Online

    Imperialism and capitalism are ‘bleeding the world dry’: At UN, Nicaragua calls for global rebellion

    Originally published: Multipolarista on September 26, 2022 (more by Multipolarista) (Posted Sep 29, 2022)

    At the United Nations General Assembly, Nicaragua’s Sandinista government called for a global rebellion against the “imperialist and capitalist system” that is “bleeding the world dry.” Condemning illegal sanctions and war, it urged a new multipolar order.

  • | UK Prime Minister Liz Truss meets with US President Joe Biden in New York City on September 21 2022 Photo credit No 10 Downing Street | MR Online

    Britain takes aggressive anti-China line with hawkish PM Liz Truss

    Originally published: Multipolarista on September 23, 2022 by Doug Rooney (more by Multipolarista) (Posted Sep 27, 2022)

    Liz Truss, the UK’s new prime minister, is the most anti-China British leader in decades. In the Conservative leadership contest that brought her to power, candidates competed to show who could be more belligerent against Beijing.

  • | Bots are flooding social media with pro US propaganda demonizing China Russia Iran studies show | MR Online

    Bots are flooding social media with pro-US propaganda demonizing China, Russia & Iran, studies show

    Originally published: Multipolarista on September 20, 2022 (more by Multipolarista)

    Scientific studies show huge numbers of bots are spreading pro-Western disinformation on social media, demonizing China, Russia, and Iran. 90% of bots posting about the proxy war in Ukraine push pro-NATO propaganda.

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