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  •  | Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London May 12 2025 | MR Online

    Having sold out on every working-class promise, Starmer finally stoops to migrant-bashing

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 12, 2025 by Morning Star Online Staff (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted May 14, 2025)

    The most productive approach would be to stand up for what most Reform UK voters want and which they share with most people in our country—public ownership, higher taxes on the rich and an end to the privileges of the plutocracy.

  •  | The myth of the Western maintained international rules based order | MR Online

    The myth of the Western-maintained international rules-based order

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on April 17, 2025 by Ian Sinclair (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Apr 19, 2025)

    Despite liberal whining that Trump threatens the ‘international rules-based order,’ the historical record shows Western nations have repeatedly overthrown democracies, backed genocides and violated sovereignty, writes IAN SINCLAIR.

  •  | CRUNCH TIME Voters queue outside a polling station in Nuuk Greenland on Tuesday | MR Online

    The scramble for Greenland

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on March 12, 2025 by John Green (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Mar 14, 2025)

    As climate change makes vast mineral deposits accessible, the island’s 56,000 residents face unprecedented pressure from Trump’s territorial ambitions while struggling to maintain their traditional way of life, writes JOHN GREEN.

  •  | RESISTANCE An anti Trump protest at the White House Washington DC | MR Online

    Socialism or barbarism–a statement of fact

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on February 8, 2025 (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Feb 11, 2025)

    Trump’s return when we already see a world at war, breathtaking inequality and climate catastrophe confirms Engles’ famous dichotomy, writes MATT WILLGRESS

  •  | AT HIS BEST AND BLUNTEST Oberst in 2010 performing at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival in San Francisco Photo danisabellaCC | MR Online

    Where is the 21st-century protest song?

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on February 4, 2025 by John Newsham (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Feb 06, 2025)

    JOHN NEWSHAM draws attention to the uncompromising path of U.S. singer/songwriter CONOR OBERST.

  •  | A young girl walks in the Kaweni slum on the outskirts of Mamoudzou in the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte December 19 2024 after Cyclone Chido | MR Online

    Around 242 million children missed school last year because of the climate emergency, says UN

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on January 24, 2025 by Roger McKenzie (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Jan 27, 2025)

    UNICEF said the world’s schools and education systems were “largely ill equipped” to deal with the effects of extreme weather.

  •  | ROOTS Eleanor Marx | MR Online

    ‘I am a Gazan’: Writing on Eleanor Marx in times of genocide on her 170th birthday

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on January 16, 2025 by Dana Mills (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Jan 18, 2025)

    The youngest daughter of Karl Marx and her unwavering humanity in the face of injustice remain relevant for our times, writes DANA MILLS.

  •  | A firefighter battles the Palisades Fire as it burns a structure in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood of Los Angeles January 7 2025 | MR Online

    ‘The rich are on course to destroy all our lives’

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on January 10, 2025 by Elizabeth Short (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Jan 13, 2025)

    World’s wealthiest 1% have already burned through their share of the entire annual carbon limit, Oxfam warns.

  •  | Western Marxism | MR Online

    The case against ‘Western’ Marxism

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on January 5, 2025 by Richard Clarke (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Jan 07, 2025)

    RICHARD CLARKE applauds the assertion that Western Marxism represents a withdrawal from action to change the world into the academy.

  •  | Israeli soldiers move on armored personnel carriers APC near the Israeli Gaza border in southern Israel December 18 2024 | MR Online

    Israel ‘wiping Gazans out of existence’

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on December 20, 2024 by Roger McKenzie (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Dec 24, 2024)

    Aid group accuses Tel Aviv of deliberate ethnic cleansing in latest damning report.

  •  | The Israeli settlement of Har Homa seen from the West Bank city of Bethlehem December 17 2024 | MR Online

    Annexing the West Bank: Why Israel might pounce now

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on December 18, 2024 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    RAMZY BAROUD explains that with the world already unable or unwilling to confront Israel’s murderous devastation of Gaza, it is likely to seize the opportunity to annex the larger but equally vulnerable West Bank territory.

  •  | PAST INFORMS FUTURE Bronze statues in a free arrangement of four Tikar slaves three men and a woman being marched by a Moorish colonial guard and a Mboum royal guard toward the coast to be exported to the Americas by Nji Gbetkom Salifou a Bamoun sculptor from Cameroons Grasslands Photo David ReedThe Bamoun CollectionCC | MR Online

    A new Pan-Africanism for a new Century

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on December 12, 2024 by Roger McKenzie (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Dec 14, 2024)

    Following the Eurocentric pathways to identity and development are a fallacy that is holding Africa back, ROGER McKENZIE argues.

  •  | The Whole Truth Five from left to right Lucia Whittaker De Abreu Cressida Gethin Louise Lancaster Daniel Shaw and Roger Hallam Photo Just Stop Oil | MR Online

    Climate activists serving combined 41 years of jail time granted mass appeal hearing

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on December 1, 2024 by Elizabeth Short (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Dec 03, 2024)

    What’s at stake in this hearing is not just the freedom of some courageous individuals: it’s the credibility of the British legal system and the lifeblood of democracy itself.

  •  | CND activists blocked the main gates of USAF Lakenheath in July | MR Online

    Siting U.S. nukes at Lakenheath puts us all in danger

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on November 1, 2024 by Morning Star Online Staff (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Nov 04, 2024)

    The Morning Star sends its solidarity and support to those demonstrating tomorrow at Lakenheath, Suffolk, against the return of U.S. nuclear weapons to British soil.

  •  | Extinction Rebellion demonstrators in Whitehall London on the last day of the environmental action groups four days of action that they have called The Big One April 24 2023 | MR Online

    Extinction Rebellion tells insurance firms to cut ties with fossil fuels or face protests

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on October 15, 2024 by Elizabeth Short (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Oct 17, 2024)

    EXTINCTION REBELLION (XR) issued an ultimatum to insurance bosses today as the climate group gears up for a week of protests across the country.

  •  | Peter Sellers left as Dr Strangelove from Stanley Kubricks 1964 film Dr Strangelove and right Brett H McGurk | MR Online

    Sixty years after Kubrick’s film, meet the U.S.’s real Dr. Strangelove

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on October 4, 2024 by Solomon Hughes (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Oct 07, 2024)

    SOLOMON HUGHES looks at the sorry career of Brett McGurk.

  •  | Julius left and Ethel Rosenberg became symbols of the severity of the cold war espionage contest after their arrest trial and deaths in the electric chair | MR Online

    Declassified memo proves Ethel Rosenberg was not a Soviet spy

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on September 16, 2024 by Andrew Tucker (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Sep 18, 2024)

    An NSA codebreaker’s 1950 assessment reveals Ethel Rosenberg knew of her husband’s espionage but ‘did not engage in the work herself’ — despite this, the US sent her to die in the electric chair, writes ANDREW TUCKER.

  •  | French far right leader Marine Le Pen answers reporters at the Elysee Palace after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron who is holding talks with key political players in a bid to form a new government August 26 2024 in Paris | MR Online

    The Macron-Le Pen alliance and its lessons for the left elsewhere

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on September 6, 2024 by Morning Star Online Editorial (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Sep 09, 2024)

    President Emmanuel Macron’s determination to overrule July’s parliamentary election results brings Europe closer to catastrophe.

  •  | CROOKED companies dishonestly presenting their products as safe Corporate incompetents engaged in a merry go round of buck passing | MR Online

    Grenfell report indicts capitalism

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on September 4, 2024 by Morning Star Online Editorial (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Sep 06, 2024)

    CROOKED companies dishonestly presenting their products as safe. Corporate incompetents engaged in a merry-go-round of buck-passing.

  •  | Hoan Ton That CEO of Clearview AI demonstrates the companys facial recognition software using a photo of himself in New York on February 22 2022 | MR Online

    Facial recognition company fined for creating ‘illegal database’ of billions of faces

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on September 3, 2024 by Ceren Sagir (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Sep 05, 2024)

    A DUTCH data protection watchdog has issued facial recognition tech Clearview AI with a €30.5 million (£25.7m) fine for creating an “illegal database” of billions of faces.

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    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

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