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  • Oli’s virus ‘situation under control’ remark meets with criticism

    Oli’s virus ‘situation under control’ remark meets with criticism

    Originally published: The Kathmandu Post on May 9, 2021 by Tika R. Pradhan and Binod Ghimire (more by The Kathmandu Post) (Posted May 10, 2021)

    Crisis continues to deepen with over 8,000 new cases and 53 deaths. Many from Oli’s orbit and over two dozen lawmakers test positive ahead of May 10 House session.

  • A COVID-19 patient waits to receive oxygen outside an emergency ward of a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal

    Doctors in Nepal warn people could die on streets amid Covid crisis

    Originally published: Morning Star on May 2021 (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted May 10, 2021)

    Nepal reported 9,070 new confirmed cases on Thursday, compared to 298 a month ago.

  • Free composition - A Critical Analysis Of A Report By The Newlines Institute And The Raoul Wallenberg Center

    The Xinjiang genocide determination as agenda

    Originally published: The Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research, TFF, Lund, Sweden on April 27, 2021 by Gordon Dumoulin, Jan Oberg and Thore Vestby (more by The Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research, TFF, Lund, Sweden)  | (Posted May 08, 2021)

    Because of the world’s fundamental interconnectedness, the increasingly Cold War-like relations between The West and China have negative consequences for both systems and for the rest of the world.

  • How The US Taught Judge Moro To “Take Down” Lula

    How the U.S. taught Judge Moro to “take down” Lula

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on May 3, 2021 by Joaquim de Carvalho (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted May 08, 2021)

    How a U.S. State Department official taught illegal tactics to Brazilian judges and prosecutors that went on to be used to remove Lula from the 2018 presidential race

  • BAR Book Forum: Kathryn Sophia Belle’s “Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question”

    BAR Book Forum: Kathryn Sophia Belle’s “Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question”

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 6, 2021 by Roberto Sirvent (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted May 08, 2021)

    Arendt saw the “Negro question” as a “Negro problem” rather than a white problem.

  • Space Force officer displays new service tapes

    Star Trek: Progressivism and corporatism don’t mix (part 2)

    Originally published: Axis of Logic on May 3, 2021 by B.J. Sabri (more by Axis of Logic) (Posted May 08, 2021)

    What is the point of Star Trek? Is it conceivable that all these treks among the stars are in fact subtle ways to spread and justify U.S. policies, ideology, militarism, and interventionism?

  • Transitioning is possible after going through puberty, but it’s much more difficult for trans people to look the way they want to look. Elena Medvedeva/Getty Images

    Two classes of trans kids are emerging–those who have access to puberty blockers, and those who don’t

    Originally published: The Conversation on May 4, 2021 by Travers (more by The Conversation)  | (Posted May 07, 2021)

    For decades, kids who didn’t conform to the gender expected of them were forced to endure treatments designed to “cure” their gender nonconformity. This form of therapy, called “reparative” or “corrective,” typically involved instructing parents–and sometimes teachers–to subject children to constant surveillance and correction.

  • In 1898, upwardly mobile Blacks in Wilmington, NC were terrorized and slaughtered in a violent insurrection that set the stage for Jim Crow – and the next 123 years. Hardly anyone really knows about it.

    America hasn’t reckoned with the coup that blasted the Black middle class

    Originally published: Institute for New Economic Thinking on April 29, 2021 by Lynn Parramore (more by Institute for New Economic Thinking)  | (Posted May 07, 2021)

    In 1898, upwardly mobile Blacks in Wilmington, NC were terrorized and slaughtered in a violent insurrection that set the stage for Jim Crow–and the next 123 years. Hardly anyone really knows about it.

  • Is Michael Burnham a Mary Sue?

    Star Trek: Progressivism and corporatism don’t mix (part 1)

    Originally published: Axis of Logic on April 30, 2021 by Kim Petersen (more by Axis of Logic) (Posted May 06, 2021)

    The television series Star Trek has appeared in several iterations with a few handfuls of movies thrown in that have fired the imaginations of viewers of all ages for nigh 55 years.

  • wo recent books, including bestseller "Capitalism in the Anthropocene" (R), released by Kohei Saito are pictured on April 14, 2021. (Kyodo)

    More young Japanese look to Marx amid pandemic, climate crisis

    Originally published: Kyodo News on May 5 2021 (more by Kyodo News) (Posted May 06, 2021)

    As the global challenge of climate change mounts and the coronavirus pandemic magnifies economic inequalities, Karl Marx, who pointed to the contradictions and limitations of capitalism, is gaining new admirers in Japan, particularly among the young.

  • Community Infrastructure and the Care Crises: An Evaluation of China’s COVID-19 Experience

    Community Infrastructure and the Care Crises: An evaluation of China’s COVID-19 experience

    Originally published: India China Institute on March 18, 2021 by Ying Chen (more by India China Institute)  | (Posted May 06, 2021)

    COVID-19 has exacerbated the gendered impact of care work globally, but lessons can be learned from countries like China that have relied on community organizations for solutions.

  • CONAIE leader Leonidas Iza — ‘The Correismo/anti-Correismo polarisation only benefits the right’

    CONAIE leader Leonidas Iza — ‘The Correismo/anti-Correismo polarisation only benefits the right’

    Originally published: LINKs - Nodal on April 23, 2021 (more by LINKs - Nodal) (Posted May 05, 2021)

    Nodal spoke with Leonidas Iza, president of the Indigenous and Campesino Movement of Cotopaxi (MICC), in between two elections.

  • Biden uses first major address to lay out his program for the working class

    Biden uses first major address to lay out his program for the working class

    Originally published: Liberation on April 30, 2021 by Walter Smolarek (more by Liberation)  | (Posted May 05, 2021)

    In his first speech to a joint session of Congress on April 28, Joe Biden made the calculation that he needed to directly address the needs of the working class.

  • Shocking Omissions: ‘Capitalism’s Conscience – 200 Years Of The Guardian’ – John Pilger and Jonathan Cook Respond

    Shocking omissions: ‘Capitalism’s Conscience – 200 Years Of The Guardian’ – John Pilger and Jonathan Cook respond

    Originally published: Media Lens on April 19, 2021 by DE (more by Media Lens)  | (Posted May 05, 2021)

    Freedman notes that Guardian editor, Kath Viner, promised that her newspaper would ‘challenge the economic assumptions of the last three decades’, ‘challenge the powerful’ and ‘use clarity and imagination to build hope’.

  • A man carrying wood walks past the funeral pyres of those who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during a mass cremation, at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 26, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi

    Behind the lives lost during the pandemic lie India’s failing public institutions

    Originally published: The Wire on May 4, 2021 by A.R. Vasavi (more by The Wire)  | (Posted May 05, 2021)

    The privatisation model pursued by successive governments, in health to education, has led to the perpetuation of class and caste divides, with the poor often left to suffer.

  • Intellectual monopoly capitalism and its effects on development

    Intellectual monopoly capitalism and its effects on development

    Originally published: Developing Economics on April 7, 2021 by Cecilia Rikap (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted May 04, 2021)

    What is new with contemporary (global) leading corporations? If gigantic monopolies are a repeated phenomenon in capitalism’s history, why all the fuss we see every day regarding high concentration?

  • Richard Wright

    Notes from the underground

    Originally published: Inside Higher Ed on April 23, 2021 by Scott McLemee (more by Inside Higher Ed)  | (Posted May 04, 2021)

    Scott McLemee reviews The Man Who Lived Underground: A Novel by Richard Wright.

  • Protesters wearing masks and holding up signs at a racial justice protest in Foley Square in New York City on June 2, 2020, USA. (Photo: Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images)

    International rights experts condemn U.S. police killings as ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

    Originally published: Common Dreams on April 27, 2021 by Julia Conley (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted May 04, 2021)

    “The world is not only watching, it’s judging.”

  • Julian Casablancas Interviews Noam Chomsky | SOS Earth is a Mess

    Julian Casablancas interviews Noam Chomsky | SOS Earth is a mess

    Originally published: Rolling Stones Youtube Channel on April 26, 2021 (more by Rolling Stones Youtube Channel) (Posted May 01, 2021)

    Julian Casablancas has released a new interview with famed philosopher, linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky on the latest episode of his Rolling Stone interview series, S.O.S. — Earth Is a Mess.

  • Sexed Semen—Why the Technology of Producing Only Female Calves Should be Opposed Firmly

    Sexed semen—Why the technology of producing only female calves should be opposed firmly

    Originally published: Countercurrents on April 29, 2021 by Bharat Dogra (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted May 01, 2021)

    There is a fast increasing trend in cattle breeding towards sex semen technology which will result in birth of only female calves. 90 per cent success in ensuring success (in terms of having only female calves) is claimed by promoters of this technology.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Gendered Violence as an Inextricable Thread of Capitalism
    Maja Solar Graffiti in Mexico City, 2011. It reads: No Mas Feminicidios (No more murder of women).

    The gendered forms of violence in capitalist-patriarchal societies are, obviously, related to what is habitually recognized as violence against women.

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  • End of Cold War Illusions
    Harry Magdoff F-16N Fighting Falcon

    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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