Saturday, January 5, 2019
Michael D Yates. [Author’s note: This essay is based upon arguments made in Chapter 2 (“Some Theoretical Considerations”) of my book, Can the Working Class Change the World? Unless…
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Saturday, December 1, 2018
Jessica Barnes. The possible link between climate change and political upheaval in the Middle East has attracted increasing media attention and is generating a new wave of academic…
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Sunday, November 4, 2018
Todd Miller. Research confirms that massive migration, into the millions, will be an inevitable consequence of global warming. Before 2005, when Oxford ecologist Norman Myers announced that there…
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Friday, October 19, 2018
Adam Parsons. When the global financial crisis resurfaces, we the people will have to fill the vacuum in political leadership. It will call for a monumental mobilisation of…
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Saturday, October 6, 2018
John Bellamy Foster. A short fuse is burning. At the present rate of global emissions, the world is projected to reach the trillionth metric ton of cumulative carbon…
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Thursday, September 27, 2018
Benjamin Dangle. Book Review: The Zapatistas’ Dignified Rage: Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos. By Subcommander Marcos. Introduction by Nick Henck. Translation by Henry Gales. (AK Press, 2018)….
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Thursday, August 16, 2018
Mark N Katz. Posted on Lobelog August 15, 2018. Ever since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, the five states bordering the Caspian Sea (Russia, Kazakhstan,…
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Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Helena Norberg-Hodge. Posted on TNI Longreads. For those who care about peace, equality and the future of the planet, the global political swing to the right over the…
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Posted on One Question, May 7 2018. One Question is a monthly series in which we ask leading thinkers to give a brief answer to a single question….
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Monday, June 11, 2018
Robert Fisk. Posted on the Independent June 2018. Rarely are journalists lost for words. But how do you describe the destruction of entire mountains, the slashing down of…
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Saturday, June 9, 2018
Jessica Corbett, staff writer. Posted on Common Dreams June 5, 2018. In what’s being called “hope for a better planet on #WorldEnvironmentDay,” a United Nations report published Tuesday found…
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Thursday, June 7, 2018
Elizabeth Terzakis. Published: International Socialist Review (ISR), Issue #109, 2018. Posted on Monthly Review June 6, 2018 | At the end of January 2018, the rollercoaster ride that is…
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Thursday, April 26, 2018
Posted on BMJ 28 March 2018. Systematic attacks on hospitals, patients, doctors, and civilians in Eastern Ghouta, Syria, have killed nearly 1600 civilians and resulted in the internal…
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Martin Empson. Posted on Monthly Review April 1, 2018. Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capitalism, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (New York: Monthly Review Press,…
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Friday, March 30, 2018
Posted on The Region on March 29, 2018. A number of protests have broken out in Iran since the beginning of the year over water, a growing political…
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Zafar Ugler and Arielle Conclio. Posted on Monthly Review on March 5, 2018. Originally on Left Voice. Zafer Ülger is a member of the Başlangıç socialist collective in…
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Sunday, January 21, 2018
John Bellamy Foster. Posted on Monthly Review, Jan 18, 2018.. Originally published: Frontline India by Jipson John & Jitheesh P.M. John Bellamy Foster, Editor of the prestigious Monthly…
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Thursday, January 11, 2018
Louis Proyect. Posted on louisproyect.org on January 10, 2018. On January 2nd, an NY Times article about the protests in Iran included a couple of paragraphs that caught…
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Isaac Arnsdorf. This story was originally published on ProPublica on November 29, 2017. The overture follows an intense and secretive lobbying push involving Michael Flynn, Tom Barrack, Rick…
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Monday, December 11, 2017
Harry van der Linden Butler University, hvanderl@butler.edu. Interesting article published in: Radical Philosophy Review,Volume 20, Number 2, 2017: 355-365 During his election campaign, Trump promoted violence and appealed…
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Saturday, December 9, 2017
Patrick Cockburn. Posted on Counterpunch December 4, 2017. The final elimination of Isis in Iraq and Syria is close, but welcome though the defeat of these monstrous movements may be, it has…
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Sunday, December 3, 2017
John Laforge. Posted on Counterpunch on December 1, 2017. Call it a nuclear clash of titans — but not the crude shouting-match between Donald Trump and North Korea’s…
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Thursday, November 23, 2017
David Krieger Posted on Counterpunch on November 23, 2017 The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has been working to end the nuclear weapons threat to humanity and all life…
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017
John Bellamy Foster. Posted on Monthly Review, Volume 69, Issue 06 , November 2017. Aside from the stipulation that nature follows certain laws, no idea was more central…
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Sunday, September 17, 2017
The medical journal Lancet (volume 390, number 10100, Sep 16, 2017, p 1083-1464) has published a series of articles on global health 2016 that shows the changing pattern…
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Thursday, September 14, 2017
Ian Angus, Monthly Review Press Sarah Ensor’s review of this book appears on Socialist Review September 2017. The author describes this collection of articles as “debates, polemics and…
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Tuesday, September 5, 2017
A lecture by Dr. Kaveh Madani, November 17, 2016 in Stanford. Despite having a more advanced water management system than most Middle Eastern countries, Iran is experiencing a…
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Saturday, August 19, 2017
Jake Johnson, Published by Common Dreams on August 14, 21 The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday announced that the number of cholera cases in Yemen had reached…
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Monday, August 7, 2017
Michael Pröbsting and Almedina Gunić. Posted on Revolutionary Communist International Tendency, 25 July 2017. The Pentagon recently published a major study reflecting how US imperialism views its own…
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Friday, July 28, 2017
Mark Harris. Posted on Counterpunch on July 21, 2017. “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”—Rosa Luxemburg It was 98 years ago that the brilliant…
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