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    Is human well-being comparable with an AI frenzy driven by a massive, speculative pursuit of profit?

    Originally published: IDEAs (International Development Economics Associates) on March 5, 2026 (more by IDEAs (International Development Economics Associates))  |

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the hottest topics out there. And for a good reason. AI is transforming industries and everyday life.

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    From a dysfunctional world order to a sustainable future: an interview with Richard Falk

    Originally published: Global Policy on January 7, 2020 (more by Global Policy)  |

    In the interview that follows, Richard Falk, an internationally-renowned scholar of Global Politics and International Law, offers his insights on the contemporary state of world politics and shares his radical vision of the future world order.

  • Deforestation on the geotrail of Makhonjwa Mountains near Barberton, Mpumalanga on July 3, 2018. WIKUS DE WET : AFP : GETTY IMAGES

    Climate change is the product of how capitalism “values” nature

    Originally published: Truthout on November 18, 2018 (more by Truthout)  |

    Capitalist industrialization has led us to the edge of the precipice of climate change, and avoiding the end of civilization as we know it may require the development of a view in direct opposition to the way in which capitalism “values” nature, according to John Bellamy Foster.

  • An Interview with John Bellamy Foster (for the Sunday Eleftherotypia)

    C. J. Polychroniou

      CJP: What began as a financial crisis in 2007 has become one of the biggest unemployment crises in the advanced capitalist world.  Could this perhaps mean that the crisis of 2007-08 was not actually caused by finance itself but had its underlying causes in the real economy? JBF: No one doubts that it was […]

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    C. J. Polychroniou

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

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    C. J. Polychroniou

    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

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    C. J. Polychroniou

    In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) and Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the Public Banking Institute (PBI) about their past and ongoing advocacy for public banking. Founded in 2011 by author Ellen Brown and a core collective of advocates, PBI aims to break the monopoly of Wall Street’s private banking system by […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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