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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Stella Assange

    The true cost of Julian Assange’s persecution: An exclusive interview with Stella Assange

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 21, 2023 (more by MintPress News)  |

    It is now four years since Julian Assange was imprisoned in Belmarsh’s high-security prison in London and eleven since he was forced into hiding in the Ecuadorean Embassy in the same city. But even before then, the Australian publisher and WikiLeaks co-founder has been under relentless attack from powerful bodies his organization exposed.

  • SpyCops: How the UK Police Infiltrated Over 1,000 Political Groups

    SpyCops: How the UK police infiltrated over 1,000 political groups

    Originally published: MintPress News on August 5, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    As part of their false personas, many officers entered romantic relationships with politcal activists, leading to the births of a number of children whose mothers were completely unaware of their partners’ double lives.

  • MintPress podcast, “The Watchdog,” hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey

    A laboratory of empire with Lowkey & Aamer Rahman

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 30, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    In this segment of ‘The Watchdog’ video podcast, Lowkey is joined by comedian Aamer Rahman to explain how Australia maintains close political ties to the United Kingdom, with British Home Secretary Pritti Patel seeing the country’s offshore migrant detention centers, referred to by some as “concentration camps” as a model for the U.K. to follow.

  • Graphic by Antonio Cabrera

    Grenfell Anniversary: Activist rapper Lowkey takes aim at Boris Johnson and UK neoliberalism

    Originally published: MintPress News on June 14, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Four years after the Grenfell Tower fire, rapper and activist Lowkey revisits the tragic fire that tore through the North Kensington tower block on June 14, 2017—killing 72 low-income residents of housing owned by real-estate moguls.

  • Obama Nation

    Lowkey

    Lowkey (born Kareem Dennis, 23 May 1986) is a British musician, poet, playwright, and political activist of English and Iraqi descent.  Check out Lowkey’s MySpace page: .  For bookings, email . | | Print

  • Long Live Palestine

    Lowkey

    Lowkey (born Kareem Dennis, 23 May 1986) is a British musician, poet, playwright, and political activist of English and Iraqi descent.  Check out Lowkey’s MySpace page: .  For bookings, email . | | Print

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • Endogeneity Without Exception: Modern Monetary Theory & The Promise of Heterodoxy
    Lowkey

    Billy Saas and guest-host Will Beaman speak with Money on the Left’s own Scott Ferguson about his essay, “Endogeneity Without Exception: Modern Monetary Theory and the Promise of Heterodoxy,” published recently in the Journal of Economic Issues.

  • A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory with John T. Harvey
    Lowkey

    We speak with John T. Harvey about a new article he co-wrote with Billy Saas titled, “A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory,” out this month in the September 2026 issue of the Journal of Economic Issues. Harvey is Hal Wright Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University. We discuss his recent publication in the […]

  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Lowkey

    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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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

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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