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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • The True Total U.S. Military Budget

    Originally published: Project On Government Oversight on June 9. 2026 (more by Project On Government Oversight)

    The government has been misleading the public and effectively hiding hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending.

  • President Donald Trump holds a White House press briefing with government officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, to announce he is invoking the Home Act on Aug. 11, 2025. (Joey Sussman/Shutterstock)

    Don’t fall for it: Congress must reject the $1.5 trillion war budget

    Originally published: Responsible Statecraft on May 20, 2026 (more by Responsible Statecraft)

    Trump is using a classic negotiating tactic to pave the way for historically high military spending.

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    The military-industrial complex is killing us all

    Originally published: TomDispatch on June 2, 2024 by Theresa (Isa) Arriola (more by TomDispatch)

    Freeing ourselves from the monster destroying our planet and our futures.

  • The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State

    Do you want a New Cold War?

    Originally published: TomDispatch on October 21, 2021 (more by TomDispatch)

    The AUKUS Alliance takes the World to the brink.

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    175 Years of border invasions: The anniversary of the U.S. war on Mexico and the roots of northward migration

    Originally published: COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) on April 22, 2021 (more by COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs))  |

    Amid renewed fear mongering about an “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border, this week’s 175th anniversary of the 1846–1848 war the U.S. government instigated with Mexico is a reminder that throughout U.S. history, invasions have gone almost exclusively from north to south, not vice versa.

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    David Vine

    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, […]

  • Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
    David Vine

    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 […]

  • The Public Banking Institute
    David Vine

    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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