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  • | Il secondo congresso di Syriza apre al centro La Città Futura | MR Online

    SYRIZA is falling apart after 9 more MPs leave the left-wing party

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on November 29, 2023 by Defend Democracy Press Staff (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Dec 04, 2023)

    Νine lawmakers of left-wing SYRIZA announced on Thursday morning that they break way from Greece’s main opposition party seeking to form their own parliamentary group. Early aftenoon, also MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis announced his departure from the party.

  • | Jean Genet Photo Ο Άγιος Κακός της λογοτεχνίας ασσόδυο | MR Online

    Remembering Jean Genet: the United States and Palestine

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on Nvember 21, 2023 by Franklin Frederick (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Nov 27, 2023)

    Genet was one of the most original and combative writers of the 20th century.

  • | Ukraines Right Sector rally in Kiev in 2015 | MR Online

    A letter from Ukraine

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on November 1, 2023 by Maxim Goldarb (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Nov 03, 2023)

    We received and we publish the following letter from our comrade Maxim Goldarb, Chairman of the party “Union of Left Forces – For New Socialism”

  • | US opposes peace as Israel ethnically cleanses Palestinians waging war on entire nation of Gaza | MR Online

    The West’s refusal to call for a ceasefire is a green light to Israel’s ethnic cleansing

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on October 24, 2023 by Richard Falk (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Oct 27, 2023)

    Western states have provided cover for Israel’s lawless extremism and possible end goal of massive dispossession and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.

  • | Rep Rashida Tlaib confronts Joe Biden over the Gaza assault at the Detroit airport | MR Online

    Two-thirds of American voters want U.S. to back cease-fire in Gaza

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on October 21, 2023 by Jake Johnson (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Oct 23, 2023)

    “It’s past time for our political leaders to listen to their constituents and put a stop to this violence,” said a Jewish-American advocacy group.

  • | El unicornio Syriza quiere el poder en Grecia| Desde el exilio | MR Online

    Lacking moral, political and representative legitimacy: the election of Kasselakis

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on September 25, 2023 by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Sep 30, 2023)

    Americans and Tsipras are murdering SYRIZA.

  • | A Beninese soldier racks his weapon during a joint US Benin live fire exercise in preparation for SHARED ACCORD 2009s final field training event SHARED ACCORD is a scheduled combined US Benin exercise designed to improve interoperability and mutual understanding of each nations military tactics techniques and procedures Humanitarian and civil affairs events run concurrent with the military training The exercise is scheduled to conclude June 25 VIRIN 090616 M 3107S 0401 | MR Online

    No to the new war in Africa, stop military intervention in Niger, lift sanctions to Burkina Faso and Niger

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on August 5, 2023 by Pavan Kulkarni (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Aug 09, 2023)

    Nigeria’s Senate refuses to support ECOWAS plan for West-backed military intervention. A day after ECOWAS chiefs of staffs finalized plans for a military intervention, Nigeria’s Senate refused to support President Bola Tinubu’s proposal to deploy soldiers. Tinubu is the current chair of ECOWAS. Meanwhile, Niger has seen multiple demonstrations in support of the coup that overthrew Mohamed Bazoum

  • | Man stands amid ruins of Hiroshima Source timecom | MR Online

    Hiroshima, Nagasaki bombings were needless, said World War II’s top U.S. military leaders

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on August 1, 2023 by Brian McGlinchey (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Aug 07, 2023)

    Mythology about these mass civilian slaughters warps thinking about U.S. militarism.

  • | German Left Die Linke MP Sevim Dağdelen | MR Online

    The German Left on the war in Ukraine (English/German)

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on July 24, 2023 by MP Sevim Dağdelen (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Jul 27, 2023)

    The following is the text and the video of the speech delivered by the German Left (Die Linke) MP Sevim Dağdelen to a debate on the war in Ukraine and its global repercussions, organized by the “Anti-NATO Action”.

  • | Workers at TEPCOs Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station work among underground water storage pools on 17 April 2013 Two types of above ground storage tanks rise in the background Photo from International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA official Flickr account edited from original Photo Credit Greg Webb IAEA Image license Attribution 20 Generic CC BY 20 | MR Online

    Despite warnings, IAEA approves Japan release plan for contaminated Fukushima water

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on July 4, 2023 by Jon Queally (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Jul 10, 2023)

    “Piping water into the sea is an outrage. The sea is not a garbage dump,” said one local fisherman earlier this year.

  • | Red Square Kremlin Historical Museum Resurrection Gate Kazan Cathedral Photo Wallpaperflare | MR Online

    U.S. media promotes absurd claim that Russia staged attack on Kremlin

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on May 7, 2023 by Defend Democracy Press (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted May 08, 2023)

    Following Wednesday’s drone attack on the official residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the U.S. media sprang into action to promote the ridiculous claim that Russia staged the attacks.

  • | Vladimir Putin | MR Online

    Alfred de Zayas on the arrest warrant for Putin

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on March 27, 2023 by D K (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Mar 30, 2023)

    The arrest warrant for the President of Russia, issued by the International Criminal Court is, on one side, a rather ridiculous affair.

  • | Gregor Gysi Photo kettosmercebloghu | MR Online

    Germany: Reactions to peace manifesto

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on February 18, 2023 by Arnold Schölzel (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Feb 20, 2023)

    What happened? Even Gregor Gysi has now signed the “Manifesto for Peace” by Sahra Wagenknecht and Alice Schwarzer.

  • | Nord Stream 2 | MR Online

    Top U.S. Official hails Nord Stream 2 blast

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on January 27, 2023 by RT (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Feb 02, 2023)

    The Biden administration is very happy to know the pipeline is “a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea,” Victoria Nuland said

  • | Alfred Maurice de Zayas | MR Online

    Self-determination, referenda and the rights of minorities

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on November 19, 2022 by Arnaud Develay (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Nov 22, 2022)

    In the wake of the controversies and heated debate generated in the wake of the referenda held last September in the regions of the Donbass, it became necessary to get some clarity on the legal issues surrounding this event.

  • | licence infos | MR Online

    Oil and gas industry’s expansion plans decried as attack on ‘livable planet’

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on November 10, 2022 by Kenny Stancil (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Nov 14, 2022)

    Fossil fuel giants are moving to ramp up extraction as new data shows that the industry has been emitting three times more planet-heating pollution than it claims.

  • | Historia y biografía de Winston Churchill | MR Online

    From Churchill to NATO: How the West built and empowered Italian fascism

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on October 18, 2022 by Mihalis Panayiotakis (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Oct 19, 2022)

    This year is the centenary of the March on Rome, the coup that brought Mussolini’s fascist party to power in Italy in 1922.

  • | European Union flag | MR Online

    2005-22′: The crisis of western capitalism behind the left and far right radicalism

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on April 21, 2022 by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (more by Defend Democracy Press)  | (Posted Apr 22, 2022)

    It is simply impossible to understand what is going on now in the world if we don’t take into consideration the crisis the globally dominant Western capitalism has been facing since 2008.

  • | Governing the world | MR Online

    French ruling elite brays for war in Syria amid U.S.-UK threats against Russia

    Originally published: Defend Democracy Press on March 16, 2018 (more by Defend Democracy Press)  |

    As British Prime Minister Theresa May moves to cut off relations with Russia after the mysterious poisoning of former British spy Sergei Skripal, a debate over war policy is erupting in the French ruling elite.

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    Chen Zhang | Franc CFA pénurie chronique de petite monnaie dans plusieurs pays | MR Online

    The independence of French Indochina after the Second World War triggered a wave of independence in the French-speaking African countries, and it appeared that French colonial foundations had suffered a huge blow in the early 1960s.

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