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The CIA and the Cultural Cold War RevisitedThe CIA and the Cultural Cold War RevisitedThe sociologist James Petras died on January 17, 2026, at the age of eighty-nine. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 51, no. 6 (November 1999). Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London: Granta Books), £20. This book provides a detailed account of the ways in which the […]
How Brazil and the PT Can Weather U.S. ImperialismHow Brazil and the PT Can Weather U.S. ImperialismBrazil’s left, headed by the ruling Workers’ Party (PT), has long been a leading voice in Latin America against U.S. interventionism. When the United States launched its military action to kidnap Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2025, the Brazilian government and the PT joined a global chorus of shock and denunciation of this […]
The U.S. Propaganda Assault: A Tale of Two Venezuela(n)sThe U.S. Propaganda Assault: A Tale of Two Venezuela(n)sAfter the Trump administration illegally kidnapped the legitimate president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3, 2026, we saw two distinct and divergent responses from Venezuelans. On the one hand, the Venezuelan diaspora, especially in the United States, celebrated President Maduro’s kidnapping and bombing of their birth country. They congregated […]
James Petras: The Radical Scholar the World Chose to IgnoreJames Petras: The Radical Scholar the World Chose to IgnoreThe death of James Petras—the American sociologist whose writings influenced generations of critical thinkers across continents—passed through the world almost like a whisper. A scholar who spent his life exposing the violence of power, the inequalities of global capitalism, and the illusions of empire left this world with little noise beyond small circles of readers […]
Michael Roberts: Interview with John Bellamy FosterMichael Roberts: Interview with John Bellamy FosterInterview with John Bellamy Foster on his new book, "Breaking the bonds of fate, Epicurus and Marx Epicurus".
