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Raul Diego is a MintPress News Staff Writer, independent photojournalist, researcher, writer and documentary filmmaker.
  • Anthony Plant reads from a tablet at his bunk at the New Hampshire State Prison for Men, in Concord, N.H. Charles Krupa | AP

    Prisons prime testing ground for dehumanizing hi-tech “advances”

    Originally published: MintPress News on February 18, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    A new form of exploitation, known as “stakeholder capitalism,” is already being tested in many places around the world and prisons are among the main targets for its implementation, as they provide an ideal and literally captive market for its proof of concept.

  • Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell fist bumps Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin after a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 2, 2020. Jim Lo Scalzo | Pool via AP

    With rent freezes about to expire, Mnuchin lobbies for more Wall Street bailouts

    Originally published: MintPress News on December 4, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    As millions of Americans stand on the brink of economic annihilation, the money keeps flowing to Wall Street thanks to carefully contrived mechanisms to maintain a dying financial system afloat.

  • Graphic by MintPress News

    From a wealthy socialite to an Israeli Govt censor, Facebook’s new “Free Speech Court” is anything but independent

    Originally published: MintPress News on October 27, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Freedom of speech on the Internet is all but extinct, and on the eve of the 2020 U.S. elections, a de facto “free speech court” is going to make sure it never comes back. On Facebook at least.

  • In an image taken through a window, President Donald Trump, left, and Judge Amy Coney Barrett, walk through the Palm Room after announcing Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court, in the Rose Garden at the White House, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Washington. Alex Brandon | AP

    The Court of God: How a Catholic secret society took over SCOTUS

    Originally published: MintPress News on September 30, 2020 (more by MintPress News)  |

    With his latest SCOTUS nomination, Trump advances the designs of a clique of ultra-conservatives with ties to a Catholic secret society and Cold War stalwarts leading the U.S. to the brink of overt fascism.

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Money on the Left Episodes

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

    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
    Raul Diego

    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”
    Raul Diego

    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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