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  • | Democratic Party offers nothing to the struggle to save abortion rights | MR Online

    Democratic Party offers nothing to the struggle to save abortion rights

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 9, 2022 by Katie Miernicki (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 12, 2022)

    Last week’s shocking leak exposing the Supreme Court’s draft plan to overturn Roe v. Wade has brought tens of thousands of people into the streets in struggle.

  • | Defending abortion rights in Ne wYork City May 3 Liberation | MR Online

    Activists defy bans on abortion pills

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 6, 2022 by Joyce Chediac (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 09, 2022)

    The right wing has passed hundreds of unjust laws to stamp out abortion, but it will not succeed. Women, others in need of abortion services and their allies will fight to stop it. This is the message of the tens of thousands taking to the streets since a media leak revealed the Supreme Court plans to overturn Roe v. Wade.

  • | PanAmerican Health Organization | MR Online

    Killed by capitalism: U.S. government shrugs shoulders as COVID death toll hits 1 million

    Originally published: Liberation News on May 4, 2022 by Sunil Freeman (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted May 07, 2022)

    The United States has just marked a horrific milestone as the official COVID-19 death count passes one million.

  • | Nov 21 demonstration in Seattle against US intervention against Ethiopia and Eritrea | MR Online

    U.S. prepares new sanctions targeting Ethiopia, Eritrea in latest destabilization push

    Originally published: Liberation News on April 4, 2022 by Katie Miernicki (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 09, 2022)

    The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has overwhelmingly approved a new measure designed to impose sanctions on Ethiopia. Known as the Ethiopia Peace and Stabilization Act of 2022, the bill authorizes the U.S. government to suspend financial and security assistance to Ethiopia and to sanction individuals the United States decrees to be responsible for the ongoing conflict in the country.

  • | F35 fighter jets one of the most expensive weapons systems operated by the Pentagon | MR Online

    Biden’s budget cements turn towards war, police

    Originally published: Liberation News on March 30, 2022 by Nicholas Stender (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 07, 2022)

    On Monday, President Joe Biden unveiled his 2023 budget, calling for dramatically increased funding for war and the police while allocating all-too-little funding for social services. Out of the total $1.58 trillion of spending outlined in the budget, $813 billion is allocated to the military while $769 billion is allocated for non-military spending. This is a $31 billion increase in funding for the war machine.

  • | 2015 march in Kiev to celebrate the birthday of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera pictured on black and red flag | MR Online

    Nazis in Ukraine: seeing through the fog of the information war

    Originally published: Liberation News on March 30, 2022 by Gabriel Rockhill (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 02, 2022)

    On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin undertook what he referred to as a “special military operation … to de-militarise and de-Nazify Ukraine.”

  • | Jean Roach at far left Carol Gokee fourth from right Liberation photo | MR Online

    Leonard Peltier has COVID-19: Action needed to get him care

    Originally published: Liberation News on Febraury 2, 2022 by Joyce Chediac (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Feb 07, 2022)

    Indigenous activists and supporters held a news conference in Tampa, Florida, on Jan. 31 to announce that Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier had contracted COVID-19 in prison, endangering his life.

  • | Covid vaccine | MR Online

    Omicron variant exposes danger of global vaccine apartheid

    Originally published: Liberation News on December 1, 2021 by Sameena Rahman (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Dec 06, 2021)

    A new, heavily mutated Coronavirus variant, Omicron, is causing alarm around the world as scientists race to discover more about this new type of the virus and its potential resistance to vaccines.

  • | Sen Joe Manchin at a 2013 event | MR Online

    “Dealin with the Devil”: musicians confront Joe Manchin at Kennedy Center concert

    Originally published: Liberation News on October 28, 2021 by Liberation Staff (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Nov 08, 2021)

    Senator Joe Manchin has emerged in recent weeks as the leading opponent of vital social programs to provide relief to working people in the areas of education, healthcare, the environment and much more.

  • | 2 days ago Liberation News Rightwing Democrats gut social program budget after Biden refuses to fight Liberation News | MR Online

    Right-wing Democrats gut social program budget after Biden refuses to fight

    Originally published: Liberation News on October 29, 2021 by Walter Smolarek (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Nov 01, 2021)

    After spending weeks conducting backroom negotiations with Sen. Joe Manchin, Sen. Krysten Sinema and other right-wing Democrats in Congress over the social program budget, the Biden administration announced yesterday a “framework” that abandons some of the most important elements of the original proposal.

  • | COVID Vaccines Coordinator Dr Miladys Limonta Fernández speaks with Gloria La Riva | MR Online

    Eyewitness report: Cuba’s scientists, medical workers advance fight vs. COVID

    Originally published: Liberation News on October 15, 2021 by Gloria La Riva (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Oct 21, 2021)

    After a serious rise in Cuba of illnesses and deaths from COVID-19 during the summer, there are encouraging developments with a steady recovery and downward curve in illnesses and deaths.

  • | Treasury Department headquarters | MR Online

    How the “debt ceiling” has been turned into a weapon against workers

    Originally published: Liberation News on October 2, 2021 by Katie Miernicki (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Oct 13, 2021)

    Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that the country is now just weeks away from hitting the debt ceiling.

  • | Cemetery | MR Online

    U.S. Covid death toll hits 700,000: A massacre by the capitalist system

    Originally published: Liberation News on October 2, 2021 by Saul Kanowitz (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Oct 09, 2021)

    The United States marked a grim milestone Oct. 1 as the 700,000th death from COVID-19 was officially registered. Since January of 2020 the United States has also counted over 43 million cases, the most of any country on the planet for both deaths and infections.

  • | Climate Strike | MR Online

    Workers refuse to shoulder the burden for the bosses’ climate crisis

    Originally published: Liberation News on August 27, 2021 by Brandon Stout (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Aug 30, 2021)

    The United Nations issued a “code red for humanity” warning earlier this month with over 3,000 pages of scientific documentation saying that the climate crisis has reached a point where we can expect extreme weather including heat waves, flooding and droughts to happen with more frequency and intensity.

  • | Before and after photo smoke and pollution Salt Lake Valley | MR Online

    Worst air in the world? Salt Lake City, Utah

    Originally published: Liberation News on August 21, 2021 by Liz Maryon (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Aug 25, 2021)

    Salt Lake City has ranked first for worst air quality in the world twice in the past two weeks. While poor air quality is not a new problem for Utah, the climate crisis is exacerbating the problem due to the devastating increase in wildfires caused in large part by climate change-fueled severe droughts throughout the region in the warmer months.

  • | Eviction tsunami crashes Democrats shrug shoulders | MR Online

    Eviction tsunami crashes, Democrats shrug shoulders

    Originally published: Liberation News on August 2, 2021 by Nicholas Stender (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Aug 04, 2021)

    On Saturday, Biden’s half-hearted, last-minute plea for Congress to extend the federal eviction moratorium failed and the measure expired.

  • | Alex Saab | MR Online

    Extradition of Alex Saab: U.S. takes effort to starve Venezuelans to new lows

    Originally published: Liberation News on March 28, 2021 by Brianna Griffith (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Jul 08, 2021)

    Venezuelan official Alex Saab was arrested over a year ago in Cape Verde and in March 2021 the country’s Supreme Court approved his extradition to the United States.

  • | Plant over profit march | MR Online

    Is Biden’s big climate pledge real?

    Originally published: Liberation News on April 23, 2021 by Jordan Woll (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Apr 26, 2021)

    Joe Biden chose Earth Day (April 22) to convoke world leaders to a virtual climate summit and pledged to cut U.S. carbon emissions in half by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.

  • | ThenVice President Joe Biden visits US troops occupying Korea in 2013 Credit US ArmySgt Brian Gibbon | MR Online

    Why are hate crimes against Asian Americans on the rise?

    Originally published: Liberation News on March 17, 2021 by Tina Ngo, Wai Lee Chin Feman and Bethie Wang (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Mar 20, 2021)

    Largely missing from this ongoing discussion is the role of the police and the capitalist state. The media has done an excellent job at depicting these violent acts as interpersonal and individual attacks.

  • | Red line denoting the Pentagons first island chain Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Top Pentagon commander requests astronomical sum of money to prepare for war with China

    Originally published: Liberation News on March 5, 2021 by Richard Becker (more by Liberation News)  | (Posted Mar 11, 2021)

    A new U.S. war with China would threaten the world with unthinkable destruction. The danger of such a war cannot be ignored, it must be resisted.

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  • 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.

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  • 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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