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About Nicolas J. S. Davies

Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist, a researcher for CODEPINK, and the author of Blood on Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.
  • Protest by students in Thailand.

    Ten contradictions that plague Biden’s ‘Democracy Summit’

    Originally published: CODEPINK on December 2021 (more by CODEPINK)  |

    Biden hopes to secure his place at the head of the “Free World” table by coming out as a champion for human rights and democratic practices worldwide.

  • US Marines provide security as members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Forensics Team investigate a grave site in a village in Kosovo on July 1, 1999

    Key U.S. ally indicted for organ trade murder scheme

    Nicolas J. S. Davies

    If the people of Kosovo can hold the CIA-backed gangsters who murdered their people, sold their body parts and hijacked their country accountable for their crimes, is it too much to hope that Americans can do the same and hold our leaders accountable for their far more widespread and systematic war crimes?

  • 'America first' erodes U.S.' soft power

    Could COVID-19 bring down the U.S. empire?

    Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

    With the U.S. failing and China taking a leadership role in the international response to this crisis, could the COVID-19 crisis mark a turning point in the transition to a multipolar world in which China will be just as important as a world leader as the United States?

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    12 ways the U.S. invasion of Iraq lives on in infamy

    Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

    While the world is consumed with the terrifying coronavirus pandemic, on March 19 the Trump administration will be marking the 17th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq by ramping up the conflict there.

  • US Target Outside walls of the Ex-US embassy-Taleghani street-Tehran

    The U.S. is recycling its big lie about Iraq to target Iran

    Nicolas J. S. Davies

    The U.S.’s campaign against Iran has violated the most critical lessons that U.S. and UN officials claimed to have learned from the debacle in Iraq.

  • Iraq–United States relations - Wikipedia

    How Trump got himself into a World of trouble in Iraq

    Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies

    It’s a new year, and the U.S. has found a new enemy—an Iraqi militia called Kata’ib Hezbollah. How tragically predictable was that? So who or what is Kata’ib Hezbollah? Why are U.S. forces attacking it? And where will this lead?

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    Why aren’t Americans rising up like we are seeing across the Planet?

    Originally published: Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute on November 14, 2019 (more by Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute)

    We can’t predict exactly what catalyst will trigger a mass movement in the U.S. like the ones we are seeing overseas, but with more and more Americans, especially young people, demanding an alternative to a system that doesn’t serve their needs, the tinder for a revolutionary movement is everywhere. We just have to keep kicking up sparks until one catches fire.

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • A Rhetorical History of Modern Money Theory with John T. Harvey
    Nicolas J. S. Davies

    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
    Nicolas J. S. Davies

    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”
    Nicolas J. S. Davies

    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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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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