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  • | US Army rocket system used for a live fire event during Balikatan 23 war exercises in the Philippines April 26 | MR Online

    Biden drops ‘One China’ policy, uses Philippines for war drive over Taiwan

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on May 20, 2023 by Scott Scheffer (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted May 22, 2023)

    Pentagon strategists have been beefing up their military presence in Asia and building alliances in preparation for an all-out war against China.

  • | The US is docking nuclear armed submarines in South Korea for the first time since the 1980s Photo US Navy | MR Online

    Biden nukes Korea, builds anti-China alliances

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on May 2, 2023 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted May 09, 2023)

    Although it was widely believed that the U.S. continued to secretly deploy nuclear weapons in Korea, this move by the Biden administration is a blatant violation of the denuclearization treaty.

  • | Rep Zooey Zephyr | MR Online

    #LetHerSpeak: Rep. Zooey Zephyr and supporters defy anti-trans bigots

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 28, 2023 by Melinda Butterfield (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted May 03, 2023)

    On April 26, the far-right-dominated Montana state legislature in Helena censured the state’s first elected trans representative, Zooey Zephyr, after silencing her for several days and threatening her with expulsion. 

  • | Cyclone Freddy | MR Online

    While Biden unleashes climate bomb in Alaska, Cyclone Freddy ravages eastern Africa

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 13, 2023 by Scott Scheffer (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Apr 21, 2023)

    The U.S. corporate-controlled media are concealing the climate crisis’s severity and breadth.

  • | Tasiyah Woodland an 18 year old Black trans woman killed in Baltimore on March 24 was remembered at the Queer and Trans Youth Autonomy March in Washington DC on March 31 Black trans women are murdered in disproportionately high numbers SLL photo Melinda Butterfield | MR Online

    Fascists threaten, Biden concedes: organize and fight for trans rights!

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 8, 2023 by Melinda Butterfield (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Apr 10, 2023)

    The Trans Day of Vengeance was a long-planned protest in Washington, D.C., scheduled for April 1. People were coming to D.C. from across the country to participate. It was called in response to the growing legal and extralegal violence against the transgender community, egged on by far-right politicians and corporate media.

  • | Workers across France continue militant protests against attacks on pensions | MR Online

    France burns as millions protest to defend pensions

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 26, 2023 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 29, 2023)

    March 23 was a national day of action, a general strike, organized by the labor unions in France. 

  • | Drone swarms The Pentagons massive budget includes a new project the Autonomous Multi domain Adaptive Swarms of Swarms AMASS to launch automated coordinated attacks by swarms of thousands of many types of drones that operate in the air on the ground and in the water | MR Online

    War buildup: Biden’s $1 trillion military budget

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 14, 2023 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 20, 2023)

    The White House released its budget request for 2024. For the Pentagon, there is $824 billion. Adding armaments for military operations in Ukraine takes that figure to more than $950 billion.

  • | Silicon Valley Bank | MR Online

    Silicon Valley Bank collapses, the bailout has begun

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 13, 2023 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 14, 2023)

    Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest in the U.S., was shut down on March 10 and put under the control of the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.

  • | Submerged cars on Interstate 5 in the San Fernando Valley Los Angeles County Feb 25 | MR Online

    Behind California’s extreme weather emergency

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 6, 2023 by Scott Scheffer (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Mar 09, 2023)

    While the giant U.S. energy corporations and banks seek out every way to profit from the climate change emergency that they inflicted on the world, extreme weather events are becoming the new normal. 

  • | Dr King | MR Online

    Honoring Dr. King’s legacy: Speak out against racism, poverty and World War III

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on January 19, 2023 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jan 26, 2023)

    A standing-room-only crowd packed St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Harlem, New York, for a “speak out to stop racism, poverty and World War III.” The event honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy on the weekend of the King Day holiday.

  • | In 2020 farmers blocked the parliament building in Kiev to protest legislation allowing the sale of agricultural land | MR Online

    Zelensky complicit in corporate takeover of Ukraine

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on January 7, 2023 by John Parker (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jan 12, 2023)

    “Your money is not charity, it’s an investment.” That’s what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his address to the U.S. Congress while visiting Washington on Dec. 21.

  • | Honor the legacy of Dr Martin Luther King | MR Online

    Honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King: Unite to fight racism, fascism and war

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on January 5, 2023 by Melinda Butterfield (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Jan 09, 2023)

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said in 1967, “The bombs dropped on Vietnam explode at home.” Malcolm X expressed something similar when he said, “Chickens come home to roost.”

  • | Jose Maria Sison | MR Online

    Jose Maria Sison, founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on December 16, 2022 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    The greatest Filipino of the past century bereaved us peacefully.

  • | Epidemic control workers wear PPE to prevent the spread of COVID 19 as they stand next to equipment for cold weather in an area where some communities are under lockdown on Nov 29 2022 in Beijing China | MR Online

    Zero COVID: Don’t be deceived by U.S. reports on the protests in China

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on December 11, 2022 by Scott Scheffer (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Dec 18, 2022)

    The opportunism of the major U.S. media was on full display in late November over the protests against China’s anti-COVID lockdowns.

  • | John Parker speaks at CovertAction event in New York City Dec 1 SLL photo Melinda Butterfield | MR Online

    ‘Challenge the U.S. justifications for this war’

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on December 8, 2022 by John Parker (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Dec 13, 2022)

    If you like horror stories, here’s one for you. It’s the 2022 National Defense Strategy document from the U.S. secretary of defense. This document was blessed by President Biden, who is quoted in the introduction.

  • | South Korean Air Force personnel prepare to load US made and supplied cluster bombs internationally banned weapons during an exercise in 2017 at an air base in Suwon South Korea Photo New York Times | MR Online

    Cluster bombs: Biden considers sending banned weapons to Ukraine

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on December 10, 2022 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Dec 12, 2022)

    CNN reports that the Biden administration is considering adding cluster bombs to the mass of weapons it is pouring into Ukraine. The production and use of cluster bombs is prohibited under international law.

  • | John Parker speaks at Burning Books in Buffalo NY Sept 17 SLL photo | MR Online

    From the Tops Market massacre to Ukraine’s war crimes in Donbass

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on September 24, 2022 by John Parker (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Sep 27, 2022)

    Playgrounds are wonderful. I saw the joy when my child was between ages 3 and 8 playing on the playground. Here we have the science of physics and engineering used for the sole purpose of creating see-saws and swings designed to hold a child’s weight, manufacturing squeals of joy from children, not bombs.

  • | The December 12 Movement held a press conference in solidarity with the people of Jackson under the statue of Adam Clayton Powell outside the Harlem state office building named in his honor Speakers included Roger Wareham and founding chair Viola Plummer of the December 12 Movement State Senator Cordell Clear Bill Dores of Struggle La Lucha and Jason Corley of the Cuba Si Coalition SLL photo Bill Dores | MR Online

    ‘Billions for Ukraine–we say billions for Jackson’

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on September 6, 2022 by December 12th Movement (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Sep 10, 2022)

    In 2022, in the richest country the world has ever seen, Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, has no water for drinking, cooking, bathing, flushing a toilet, or fighting a fire. As of this moment, the situation is predicted to continue “indefinitely.”

  • | Pentagon | MR Online

    Biden to name Ukraine war general

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on August 30, 2022 by Gary Wilson (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Sep 01, 2022)

    President Joe Biden is planning to declare Ukraine an official U.S. military operation, the Aug. 24 Wall Street Journal reports, making it a separate command with its own general.

  • | Screen Shot 2022 07 31 at 41642 PM | MR Online

    Crisis in Sri Lanka: Is U.S. imperialism involved?

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 31, 2022 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  | (Posted Aug 01, 2022)

    The scenes of massive people’s protests that have forced Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee to Singapore have filled the news media. On July 20, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the former prime minister, was appointed interim president.

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