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  • | Three massive ways the government wastes your tax dollars | MR Online

    Three massive ways the government wastes your tax dollars

    Originally published: Liberation on April 18, 2023 by Walter Smolarek (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Apr 22, 2023)

    Here are three examples of criminal misuse of enormous sums of money that could meet human needs, but instead are spent underwriting terrible violence and bolstering corporate profits.

  • | Our survival depends on a world without billionaires | MR Online

    Our survival depends on a world without billionaires

    Originally published: Liberation on December 18, 2022 by Tina Landis (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Dec 24, 2022)

    The study looks at the impact of 125 of the richest billionaires globally, whose carbon emissions equal those of France, or 67 million people, and shows that just the richest 10 of those individuals own more wealth than the poorest 40% of humanity. The average billionaire in the study is responsible for carbon emissions over one million times higher than the average person in the bottom 90% of humanity.

  • | Xi Jinping at a BRICS leaders meeting in 2017 Credit Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Why Chinese ‘debt trap diplomacy’ is a lie

    Originally published: Liberation on December 19, 2022 by Amanda Yee (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Dec 23, 2022)

    U.S. politicians and corporate media often promote the narrative that China lures developing countries into predatory, high-interest loans to build infrastructure projects as part of its Belt and Road Initiative.

  • | We Dont Have Time Sign | MR Online

    Socialist planning could reverse sobering findings in new UN climate report

    Originally published: Liberation on March 3, 2022 by Tina Landis (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Mar 11, 2022)

    The latest UN Climate Report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability released Feb. 28 once again urges immediate action and outlines the catastrophic effects that humanity faces with the continued lack of meaningful action. Compiled by 270 researchers from 67 countries, it outlines the impacts that are already unfolding and how these disasters will increase even […]

  • | Yes there really were only two COVID deaths in mainland China in 2021 Heres how they did it | MR Online

    Yes, there really were only two COVID deaths in mainland China in 2021. Here’s how they did it

    Originally published: Liberation on January 6, 2022 by Rosa Astra and Benjamin Zinevich (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Jan 12, 2022)

    As the Omicron variant causes record levels of infection in the United States, the end of the pandemic seems as far away as ever. But far from preparing a robust response to defeat the virus, the Biden administration is preparing to surrender and encourage the public to “learn to live with” COVID indefinitely.

  • | Biden uses first major address to lay out his program for the working class | MR Online

    Biden uses first major address to lay out his program for the working class

    Originally published: Liberation on April 30, 2021 by Walter Smolarek (more by Liberation)  | (Posted May 05, 2021)

    In his first speech to a joint session of Congress on April 28, Joe Biden made the calculation that he needed to directly address the needs of the working class.

  • | Dennis Banks Fidel Castro Alice Walker Ramsey Clark in Havana April 1993 Credit Gloria La Riva | MR Online

    Ramsey Clark dies: an Attorney General who turned against imperialism

    Originally published: Liberation on April 10, 2021 by Gloria La Riva (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Apr 15, 2021)

    Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international human-rights attorney who stood against U.S. military aggression worldwide, died peacefully April 9 at his home in New York City, surrounded by close family. He was 93 years old.

  • | Lulas supporters including PSL members at a demonstration demanding his freedom outside the Brazilian consulate in Los Angeles Credit Ben Huff | MR Online

    Lula’s right to run for president of Brazil restored in major victory for people’s movemen

    Originally published: Liberation on March 10, 2021 by Chris Banks and S. Rodrigues (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Mar 13, 2021)

    In a major victory for the left and progressive forces, all of the criminal convictions against Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have been struck down by the Supreme Federal Tribunal, Brazil’s highest court.

  • | Malcolm X | MR Online

    FBI, NYPD exposed: Deathbed confession shines new light on assassination of Malcolm X

    Originally published: Liberation on February 22, 2021 by Sameena Rahman (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Feb 27, 2021)

    Without any training, Wood’s job was to infiltrate civil rights organizations and encourage leaders and members to commit felonious acts. He was also tasked with ensuring that Malcolm X’s security detail was arrested days prior to the assassination, guaranteeing Malcolm X didn’t have door security while at the Audubon Ballroom.

  • | Liberation News Bidens first directive to the war machine | MR Online

    Biden’s first directive to the war machine

    Originally published: Liberation on February 11, 2021 by Patricia Gorky (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Feb 16, 2021)

    In his first presidential visit to the Pentagon yesterday, Joe Biden announced the creation of an anti-China task force.

  • | Courtesy of commonswikimediaorg | MR Online

    Colonial injustice: the pardoning of the Blackwater killers

    Originally published: Liberation on December 27, 2020 by Richard Becker (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Jan 04, 2021)

    Along with a motley collection of wealthy swindlers and fraudsters, President Donald Trump on Dec. 22 pardoned four former Blackwater private contractors (mercenaries) convicted in the infamous Sept. 16, 2007, Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad.

  • | Officers who murdered Breonna Taylor not held accountable | MR Online

    Officers who murdered Breonna Taylor not held accountable

    Originally published: Liberation on September 23, 2020 by Rachel Domond (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Sep 29, 2020)

    Breonna Taylor was murdered by Louisville, KY, police while asleep in her home in March of this year. Today, the three officers responsible for her death–Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove–were not held responsible for her death.

  • | PSL Los Angeles psl losangeles | Twitter | MR Online

    First-ever U.S. Space Force doctrine calls for space supremacy, further militarism

    Originally published: Liberation on August 31, 2020 by Christopher Banks (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Sep 05, 2020)

    U.S. Space Command was created in 1985 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to manage the “Star Wars” program: a U.S. Cold War plan to use space supremacy to menace the Soviet Union with orbiting battle platforms, powered by nuclear reactors and loaded with space-based weaponry like hypervelocity guns, particle beams and lasers. 

  • | 1863 depiction of planning for the Nat Turner uprising | MR Online

    Revolutionary Black resistance has a long tradition

    Originally published: Liberation on August 16, 2020 by Michaela Warnsley (more by Liberation)  | (Posted Aug 26, 2020)

    As the country faces crisis after crisis–an economic one, on top of a war against Black America all against the backdrop of a global pandemic–a small minority of the rich elite continues to profit off this misery, generating over $308 billion since the start of March.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Ruy Mauro Marini’s Contribution to the Political Economy of Imperialism
    Torkil Lauesen | | MR Online

    In “The Dialectics of Dependency,” Ruy Mauro Marini developed a theory of dependency and unequal exchange that is still invaluable today.

Lost & Found

  • Militarism and the Coming Wars
    István Mészáros | What Did You Learn from Iraq | MR Online

    The dangers and immense suffering caused by all attempts at solving deep-seated social problems by militaristic interventions, on any scale, are obvious enough. If, however, we look more closely at the historical trend of militaristic adventures, it becomes frighteningly clear that they show an ever greater intensification and an ever-increasing scale, from local confrontations to […]

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