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  •  | President Donald Trump in 2019 at the International Chiefs of Police Association meeting in Chicago Public domain | MR Online

    Trump’s executive order promises to ‘unleash’ law enforcement and expand police impunity

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 14, 2025 by Ahmed Jaber (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 16, 2025)

    In April, Trump unveiled an executive order titled “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens” that hands sweeping new powers to police, guts hard-won reforms and punishes cities that refuse to fall in line.

  •  | New York City retirees protest attempts to priviatize their Medicare | MR Online

    Medicare Advantage: The $1.2 trillion in government waste that Trump won’t cut

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 9, 2025 by Catherine Henchek (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 12, 2025)

    The Trump administration’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget calls for up to $880 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over the next 10 years to help fund massive tax cuts for the rich.

  •  | Starbucks Drive Thru at the Maypole | MR Online

    Starbucks sued for slave labor

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 6, w0w5 by Shenby G (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 09, 2025)

    Starbucks, the largest coffee chain in the world and the 120th richest corporation in the United States, is being brought to court after being exposed for using slave labor in their coffee production chain.

  •  | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau CFPB Washington DC | MR Online

    Cuts to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau aren’t about ‘efficiency,’ they are an assault on workers’ protections

    Originally published: Liberation News on April 25, 2025 by Cole Stallings (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 28, 2025)

    On April 17, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent termination notices to approximately 1,500 of its workers—these mass layoffs represent a nearly 90% cut to the agency.

  •  | Farmers working in a maize field in San Lorenzo Chiapas Mexico Credit Flickrfaoalc CC BY NC SA 20 | MR Online

    The right to water: A new front in Trump’s aggression on Mexico

    Originally published: Liberation News on April 23, 2025 by Devorah Levy-Pearlman (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 27, 2025)

    For the first time in 81 years, the U.S. denied Mexico’s request to supply water from the Colorado River to Tijuana.

  •  | Pregnant woman sitting on pier | MR Online

    U.S. maternal deaths rise by 27% in 5 years

    Originally published: Liberation News on April 22, 2025 by Alexia Isais (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 24, 2025)

    Recent research shows that the national average rate of maternal deaths is now 32.6 per 100,000 live births, with much higher rates seen for Indigenous mothers with 106.3 deaths, and Black mothers with 76.9 deaths per 100,000 live births, respectively.

  •  | Marco Rubio | MR Online

    Exxon, Essequibo and imperialism

    Originally published: Liberation News on April 1, 2025 by Eugene Puryear (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 08, 2025)

    U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently traveled to Guyana where he threatened military action against Venezuela.

  •  | Stacie Pace talks about gender affirming care at her clinic Spectrum The Other Clinic in Hattiesburg Miss Friday February 3 2023 Credit Eric J Shelton Mississippi Today | MR Online

    Supreme Court could lift ban on dangerous, anti-LGBTQ conversion therapy

    Originally published: Liberation News on March 21, 2025 by Aviva Levine (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Mar 24, 2025)

    The case, known as ‘Chiles v. Salazar,’ argues that the ban on conversion therapy is a violation of free speech and freedom of religion.

  •  |  | MR Online

    Trump, white supremacy and capitalism: The enemies of Black liberation

    Originally published: Liberation News on January 31, 2025 by Liberation News Staff (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Feb 11, 2025)

    The working class is facing a period of grave instability–faced with the challenge of managing rising prices of basic goods, stagnant or even deflated wages, and a future that is increasingly insecure in more ways than one.

  •  | Then president Donald Trump meets with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2019 Meta has donated $1 million to Trumps inaugural committee Credit Flickrwhitehouse45 public domain | MR Online

    Corporations and billionaires are bankrolling Trump’s inauguration

    Originally published: Liberation News on January 15, 2025 by Morgan Artyukhina (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jan 18, 2025)

    Their message is clear: When Trump takes the presidential oath of office on Jan. 20, his job is to work for them.

  •  | Chickens in a factory farm Credit Rawpixel | MR Online

    Bird flu: Another capitalist crisis

    Originally published: Liberation News on January 12, 2025 by Cecilia Paz (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jan 16, 2025)

    Since 2022, the largest bird flu outbreak in history has raged across the United States.

  •  | Abortion access for all sign | MR Online

    Floridians voted to restore abortion rights. Why did the amendment fail?

    Originally published: Liberation News on November 13, 2024 by Harper Cummings (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Nov 16, 2024)

    On election night, despite receiving 57% of the vote, a ballot measure which would have restored abortion rights for Floridians failed. 

  •  | A march for reproductive rights in New York City Liberation photo | MR Online

    Abortion rights landslide at the polls

    Originally published: Liberation News on November 9, 2024 by Jane Cutter (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Nov 13, 2024)

    On Nov. 5, voters in 10 states were presented with ballot initiatives on abortion with seven states passing pro-abortion rights measures, including in states with currently restrictive abortion laws as well as in states carried by Donald Trump. 

  •  | Boeing | MR Online

    The case for seizing Boeing

    Originally published: Liberation News on September 13, 2024 by Liberation News Staff (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Sep 17, 2024)

    Thirty-two thousand workers at Boeing have courageously gone on strike to demand decent wages, job security and the right to retire with dignity.

  •  | Albertsons Grocery Store Henderson Nevada | MR Online

    What you need to know about the Kroger-Albertsons merger

    Originally published: Liberation News on September 4, 2024 by Jane Cutter (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Sep 07, 2024)

    Are you worried about food prices? If so, you are not alone. Some 70% of consumers are “extremely” or “very concerned” about the cost of food at grocery stores.

  •  | Sonya Massey | MR Online

    Sonya Massey: Another tragic murder in the cops’ war on Black America

    Originally published: Liberation News on July 26, 2024 by Tara Sandlin (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jul 31, 2024)

    On July 6, Sonya Massey was brutally murdered by a Sangamon County, Illinois, sheriff’s deputy after she called the police to ask for assistance with a potential intruder. Like Breonna Taylor, Charleena Lyles and Atatiana Jefferson, Massey was a Black woman tragically murdered by police in her own home.

  •  | Paul Robeson at a Civil Rights Congress protest in front of the White House in Aug 1948 Credit FlickrWashington Area Spark | MR Online

    American inquisition (Part 2): What McCarthyism really destroyed

    Originally published: Liberation News on July 10, 2024 by Eugene Puryear (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jul 23, 2024)

    Taking down the “Soviet Menace” in America, (part 1) was, not a response to any real “national security threat,” but a very real threat to corporate profits and neocolonial domination by the U.S. ruling class.

  •  | Sen Joseph McCarthy center during a House Un American Activities Committee questioning Credit Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    American inquisition part 1: The origins of the Cold War and McCarthyism

    Originally published: Liberation News on July 5, 2024 by Eugene Puryear (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jul 22, 2024)

    The ghost of “Tail-Gunner Joe” McCarthy is haunting the U.S. Congress.

  •  | Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Las Vegas Credit FlickrLG Electronics CC BY 20 | MR Online

    What’s behind the rise of AI powerhouse Nvidia?

    Originally published: Liberation News (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jul 17, 2024)

    Nvidia’s brief streak as the world’s highest valued company in the last several weeks has catapulted the chipset manufacturer into the headlines all over the world. A year ago, Nvidia was valued at just under $1 trillion. Nine months later, it blew past the $2 trillion mark, and just 30 days after that, for a moment in June 2024 Nvidia peaked at $3.3 trillion.

  •  | A UN police officer in Haiti Credit US Marine CorpsRawpixel | MR Online

    Imperialism comes to Haiti with a Black face

    Originally published: Liberation News on June 26, 2024 by Nato Koury (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jun 29, 2024)

    The first wave of UN-backed Kenyan police officers has arrived in Haiti with around 400 landing in Port-au-Prince.

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