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  • | US 82nd Airborne paratroopers training with Colombian troops Credit Sgt Andrea SalgadoRivera | MR Online

    Pentagon to Biden: Latin America a major battlefield in war with China

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on December 5, 2020 by Bill Van Auken (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Dec 08, 2020)

    The head of SOUTHCOM, Admiral Craig Faller, told Pentagon reporters Wednesday that U.S. imperialism’s “competitive edge [in the region]…is eroding, particularly when it comes to the Chinese influence.”

  • | Police walk past evidence markers at a scene Thursday Sept 3 in Lacey Wash where Michael Reinoehl 48 was killed by a federal task force AP PhotoTed Warren | MR Online

    Eyewitness testimony: Death of Portland protester Michael Reinoehl was targeted assassination

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on September 11, 2020 by Patrick Martin (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Sep 14, 2020)

    An eyewitness has come forward to contradict official claims that Michael Reinoehl, a left-wing opponent of police violence who was killed in Lacey, Washington on September 3, died in a shootout with police.

  • | The New York Mets and Miami Marlins stand on the field and bow their heads before a scheduled baseball game before walking off in protest Thursday Aug 27 2020 in New York AP PhotoJohn Minchillo | MR Online

    Boycott by professional athletes expands in second day of protests against police violence

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on August 28, 2020 by Kevin Reed (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Aug 29, 2020)

    The boycott by professional athletes of scheduled games and practices expanded on Thursday for the second day. The boycotts began yesterday with professional basketball players in protest against police violence and racism, in particular, the brutal shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Sunday.

  • | Junior high teacher Angela Andrus at a rally Thursday July 23 2020 in Salt Lake City Utah AP PhotoRick Bowmer | MR Online

    White House brands teachers “essential workers” to force reopening of schools

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on July 27, 2020 by Evan Blake (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Jul 28, 2020)

    The comparison between teachers and meatpacking workers is highly significant and must be taken as a sharp warning by teachers and all education workers.

  • | A federal officer pushes back demonstrators at the Mark O Hatfield United States Courthouse on Tuesday July 21 2020 in Portland Ore AP PhotoNoah Berger | MR Online

    Trump orders federal police to more cities

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on July 24, 2020 by Barry Grey (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Jul 25, 2020)

    The Trump administration is stepping up its unconstitutional moves toward dictatorial rule, tear gassing antipolice violence protesters in Portland, Oregon and announcing the deployment of federal police to three more cities—Detroit, Cleveland and Milwaukee—in addition to Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico.

  • | A father helps his child with a mask in front of Bradford School in Jersey City New Jersey on June 10 2020 AP PhotoSeth Wenig File | MR Online

    U.S. ruling class demands deadly reopening of schools

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on July 13, 2020 by Evan Blake (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Jul 15, 2020)

    The ruling class, having worked out its strategic response to the pandemic in February and March, has carried out an unrelenting assault on workers ever since. The working class must respond with equal determination and ruthlessness. It must fight for the socialist overturn of the capitalist system, which threatens the lives of millions of workers and youth around the world.

  • | Chad Davis Protest Protesters gather in downtown Minneapolis Unrest in Minneapolis over the May 25th death of George Floyd | MR Online

    The police murder of George Floyd sparks mass protests throughout the world

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on June 6, 2020 by Thomas Scripps (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Jun 08, 2020)

    This weekend, hundreds of thousands of workers and youth will protest the police murder of George Floyd, not only in the United States, but in Australia, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, Brazil, South Korea and many other countries.

  • | Protester march down the street while Soldiers from the North Carolina Army National Guard 105th Military Police Battalion stand guard in downtown Raleigh May 31 2020 Approximately 450 Guardsmen have been mobilized due to civil unrest The Guard will support local authorities and help safeguard the lives and property of North Carolinians and the ability for individuals to exercise their rights to peaceful protest | MR Online

    Trump administration deploys military to the capital as nationwide protests continue

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on June 2, 2020 by Jacob Crosse (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Jun 04, 2020)

    On Monday evening, President Donald Trump delivered a fascistic speech from the Rose Garden in which he announced the deployment of military forces in the capital and an escalation of police repression to end nationwide protests over the police murder of George Floyd one week ago.

  • | The new weapon has been rolled out with remarkable speed The Trump administrations 2018 Nuclear Posture Review called for the development of a lowyield SLBM submarinelaunched ballistic missile warhead to ensure a prompt response option that is able to penetrate adversary defenses and close an exploitable gap in US regional deterrence capabilities The pretext for the warheads deployment was the unsubstantiated claim that Russia is developing similar weapons and has adopted a doctrine of escalate to deescalate or escalate to win by utilizing lowyield nuclear weapons with the expectation that Washington would not retaliate with strategic warheads for fear of initiating an all out thermonuclear war The Pentagons argument has been that a lowyield and rapid reaction ballistic missile is needed to restore deterrence The report by the FAS strongly suggests however that this alleged Russian doctrine is a pretext and that it is much more likely that the new lowyield weapon is intended to facilitate firstuse of nuclear weapons against North Korea or Iran It points out that both the US National Security Strategy and the Nuclear Posture Review NPR envision the use of nuclear weapons in response to nonnuclear attacks and largescale conventional aggression and that the NPR explicitly stated that the W762 warhead was designed to expand the range of credible US options for responding to nuclear or nonnuclear strategic attack Washington does not rule out a nuclear strike including against nonnuclear armed countries like Iran The deployment of the USS Tennessee with its new usable nuclear warheads came at roughly the same time as President Donald Trump huddled with his top aides on December 29 at his MaraLago resort in Florida ordering the criminal drone missile assassination of Gen Qassem Suleimani one of Irans top officials The drone killing was carried out at Baghdads international airport five days later In a report Thursday NBC News citing unnamed senior US officials established that at the same meeting in Florida Trump also authorized the bombing of Iranian ships missile launchers and air defense systems Technically the military can now hit those targets without further presidential authorization though in practice it would consult with the White House before any such action The report warned that the two sides remain in a dangerous boxers clench in which the smallest miscalculation some officials believe could lead to disaster In other words for all the talk of war having been averted following the act of war and war crime carried out by Washington in the murder of Suleimani the reality is that the world remains on the knifes edge of a catastrophic military confrontation which could rapidly escalate into the first use of nuclear weapons in threequarters of a century The threat against Iran is part of a far broader buildup to global war through which US imperialism is seeking to offset the erosion of its previously hegemonic domination of the global economy by resorting to the criminal use of overwhelming military force After securing a $738 billion military budget for 2020 with the support of an overwhelming majorityDemocratic and Republican alikein the US Congress the Trump administration is now preparing to push through a 20 percent increase in the budget for the National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA the agency overseeing the buildup of the US nuclear arsenal This $20 billion budget proposal made public this week represents only a fraction of the more than $1 trillion the US is projected to spend on modernizing the arsenal over the next three decadesplans that were set into motion under the Democratic administration of Barack Obama before Trump took office Trump is a war criminal His threats to carry out the obliteration of Iran and to rain fire and fury upon North Korea are not merely hyperbole The usable nuclear weapons to commit such atrocities have already been placed in his hands As the Senate impeachment trial of the US president limps to an ignominious close it is striking that Trumps greatest crimes including acts of war and his threat to drag the world into a nuclear war feature in no way in the charges against him On the contrary the articles of impeachment center on allegations that he withheld lethal military aid to Ukraine and has been insufficiently aggressive in confronting Russia This charge is made as Newsweek pointed out this week after the Pentagon staged an unprecedented 93 separate military exercises between May and the end of September of last year all of them simulating or preparing for war against Russia This includes practice bombing runs less than 500 miles from the Russian border and the steady buildup of ground forces in the three Baltic states and Poland together with escalating US air deployments described as bomber assurance and theater security programs The drive to war has its source not in the diseased mind of Donald Trump but rather in the insoluble crisis of global capitalism There exists no antiwar faction within the US ruling class including its Democratic representatives only tactical differences over how US imperialist interests should best be pursued on the global arena The struggle against a new imperialist world war and the threat it poses to the survival of humanity can be based only upon the struggles of the working class which is engaged in a wave of strikes and social upheavals across the planet These emerging mass struggles must be armed with a socialist and internationalist program to unify workers in the common fight to put an end to the source of war and social inequality the capitalist system | MR Online

    U.S. deploys “usable” nuclear weapon amid continuing war threats against Iran

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on February 1, 2020 by Bill Van Auken (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Feb 04, 2020)

    The Pentagon deployed a new, smaller nuclear warhead aboard the ballistic missile submarine USS Tennessee as it sailed into the Atlantic last month in the midst of the spiraling crisis with Iran. The weapon, known as the W76-2 warhead, has an explosive yield of roughly five kilotons, a third of the destructive power of the “Little Boy” bomb that claimed the lives of some 140,000 people in Hiroshima in 1945.

  • | Wildfires rage under plumes of smoke in Bairnsdale Australia Glen Morey via AP | MR Online

    Ruling class bereft of answers while catastrophic fires escalate across Australia

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on January 3, 2020 by James Cogan (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Jan 06, 2020)

    New fires are expected to ignite, while strong winds are predicted to fan the hundreds of blazes that are already burning. Hundreds of thousands of people were urged yesterday to evacuate the most-at-risk areas.

  • | Bushfires in Australia Photo Wikimedia | MR Online

    Australian bushfire crisis spreads as PM denies climate change link

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on November 22, 2019 by Mike Head (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Nov 26, 2019)

    Even before summer has begun, bushfires and toxic smoke have threatened the lives, health and homes of millions of people in nearly every Australian state and territory this week. The fire emergencies that first erupted two weeks ago in two states have spread across the country, worsened by dust storms, asthma alerts and electricity blackouts.

  • | Picketing teachers and supporters in Chicago | MR Online

    More than 30,000 teachers and staff strike in Chicago, Illinois

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on October 18, 2019 by Kristina Betinis (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Oct 19, 2019)

    Pickets appeared at Chicago Public Schools city-wide Thursday morning as 32,000 teachers and staff struck for the first time since 2012. Educators are fighting for smaller class sizes and more nurses, librarians, social workers and other support staff, along with increased spending to improve conditions in all schools.

  • | US President Donald Trump addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday Sept 24 2019 AP PhotoRichard Drew | MR Online

    Trump delivers fascist tirade at United Nations

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on September 25, 2019 by Andre Demon (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Sep 29, 2019)

    Since taking office in 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump has used his annual speech at the UN General Assembly to denounce socialism, promote nationalism and xenophobia, and bully and threaten the whole world.

  • | Tens of thousands protest at Berlins Brandenburg Gate | MR Online

    Millions march against climate change, capitalism and war

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on September 21, 2019 by Bryan Dyne & Will Morrow (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Sep 23, 2019)

    Four million people participated in the global climate strike across every continent on Friday, many of them students who skipped school on that day. Demonstrations at more than 5,800 locations in 161 countries began in Australia and the Pacific, moved to Asia, Antarctica, Africa and Europe, and then to North and South America. This is the third such climate strike this year, following similar mass global demonstrations this past March and May, and the largest to date.

  • | Financial turbulence continues as major economies move towards recession | MR Online

    Financial turbulence continues as major economies move towards recession

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on August 16, 2019 by Nick Beams (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Aug 19, 2019)

    In response to the Wall Street decline, markets in Asia fell, with Japan’s Topix index down 1 percent while the Australian market dropped 2.9 percent, wiping $60 billion off share values. Markets in Europe also fell before recovering some of their losses later in the day.

  • | Teachers marching in downtown Los Angeles | MR Online

    50,000 march on first day of Los Angeles teachers strike

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on January 15, 2019 by Jerry White (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Jan 16, 2019)

    In a massive display of social opposition, more than 50,000 teachers, school personnel, parents and students marched in downtown Los Angeles Monday on the first day of the strike by educators in the nation’s second largest school district.

  • | Google and Facebook | MR Online

    Facebook and Google outline unprecedented mass censorship at U.S. Senate hearing

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on January 18, 2018 by Andre Damon (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Jan 20, 2018)

    Behind the backs of the U.S. and world populations, social media companies have built up a massive censorship apparatus staffed by an army of “content reviewers” capable of seamlessly monitoring, tracking, and blocking millions of pieces of content.

  • | USLed Coalition Bombards ISIS With 150 Airstrikes Near Syrias Raqqa | MR Online

    U.S. massacring hundreds of Syrian civilians every week in Raqqa

    Originally published: World Socialist Web Site on August 25, 2017 by Jordan Shilton (more by World Socialist Web Site)  | (Posted Aug 27, 2017)

    The eruption of U.S. imperialist violence in ever more bloody forms is a devastating indictment of all of those political forces which have sought over the past quarter century to portray Washington as the defender of “human rights” and “democracy.”

Monthly Review Essays

  • Mapping U.S. Imperialism
    The Mapping Project | US military bases around the world Photo Al Jazeera | MR Online

    This article deals with U.S. imperialism since World War 2. It is critical to acknowledge that U.S. imperialism emanates both ideologically and materially from the crime of colonialism on this continent which has killed over 100 million indigenous people and approximately 150 million African people over the past 500 years.

Lost & Found

  • 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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