4 ChangeA Global People’s Bailout for the Coming Crash
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…
Making War on the Planet: Geoengineering and Capitalism’s Creative Destruction of the Earth
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…
The Zapatistas’ Dignified Rage: Revolutionary Theories and Anticapitalist Dreams of Subcomandante Marcos
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)….
New Caspian Accord Resolves Some Issues, Not All
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,…
Localisation: A strategic solution to globalised authoritarianism
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…
Marx on the environment: One Question, Marx at 200
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….
Lebanon’s mountains are being wiped from the map – but does anyone care?
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…
As Planet Chokes on Plastic Waste, UN Report Offers Roadmap to Tackle Global Crisis
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…
Marx and nature: Why we need Marx now more than ever
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…
Systematic destruction of healthcare in Eastern Ghouta, Syria
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…
Marx’s Ecological Education: Book review
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,…
Water crisis spurs protests in Iran
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…
Climate & Capitalism Interview with Zafer Ülger: Ecological crisis and capitalism in Turkey today
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…
‘Socialism a necessity for human survival’ Interview with John Bellamy Foster, Editor of Monthly Review
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…
The role of Iran’s water crisis in the recent protests
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…
White House May Share Nuclear Power Technology With Saudi Arabia
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…
Trump , Populism , Fascism , and the Road Ahead
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…
The Smart Weapons Fallacy: Civilian Casualties From “Precision” Air Strikes in Iraq and Syria
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…
Danger of nuclear war: Retired Nuclear Warriors v. Active Duty Armageddon
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…
Progress Toward Nuclear Weapons Abolition
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…
The Long Ecological Revolution
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…
Global Burden of Disease 2016
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…
A Redder Shade of Green: Intersection of Science and Socialism. Book Review
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…
Iran’s water crisis: A talk by Dr Kaveh Madani
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…
As Yemen Cholera Cases Reach 500,000, US and UK Condemned for Complicity
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…
How the Pentagon Views the World Situation
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…
The Revolutionary Imagination: Rosa for Our Times
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…
Cholera in Yemen: war, hunger, disease…and heroics
Friday, July 21, 2017
Editorial, Lancet Infectious Diseases, August 2017. The harms done by war are many and complex. Death, injury, and displacement are the most obvious, but infection is also closely…
Is Egypt’s water security in danger?
Monday, July 17, 2017
Ahmed Mahdi. This article was first posted on Al Ahram weekly. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi attended a summit of the heads of state of the Nile Basin countries…
Reality and the U.S.-Made Famine in Yemen
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Kathy Kelly. This article was first posted on Counterpunch on March 22, 2017. This week at the Voices for Creative Nonviolence office in Chicago, my colleague Sabia Rigby…