Geography Archives: United States

The ghost of “Tail-Gunner Joe” McCarthy is haunting the U.S. Congress.

Next week, on Wednesday, July 24th, Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to visit Washington, DC, although he has not yet received a formal invitation.

Jalessah T. Jackson: Rooted in revolutionary love, parenting for liberation is an embodied practice in which, to paraphrase June Jordan, I aim to love and nurture my children into their own freedom.

In his opus ‘The Wealth of Nations’ published in 1776 Adam Smith drew a distinction between the progressive state, the stationary state and the declining state.

As the genocide continued and a few days after the end of the NATO celebrations, an assassination attempt on former President Trump caused President Biden to address the nation and orate that “political violence has no place in America and U.S. politics should never be a killing field.”

Multimillionaires around the world have benefited from the inflation year 2023, while the German super-rich alone increased their wealth by 10 percent to more than €2.1 trillion.

Dr. Issam Khawaja told Peoples Dispatch that by opening the office, the US-dominated alliance is seeking to enhance its presence in the Eastern Mediterranean, prevent the eruption of a regional war, and protect Israel.

Every intellectual in exile is mutilated, wrote Theodor W. Adorno in California during World War II.

The Copa America and the Euro Cup are coming to an end and deserve a reflection, even if this is just a grain of sand in a wave that has moved multitudes on Planet Soccer.

The continent’s most important national team football tournament was overshadowed by serious incidents on and off the field. Many point the finger at the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) and the host country, the United States.

On July 19 Nicaragua will celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution.

News items often seem to slip through the cracks at this point in the summer, and the media’s current focus on the Democratic Ticket has understandably dominated domestic headlines.

The decisions taken as the NATO summit in Washington closed Thursday show the NATO imperialist powers are planning direct military intervention against nuclear-armed Russia. The day before, the NATO alliance had announced the creation of an office in Ukraine and of a NATO command in Germany to coordinate the war offensive against Russia.

Laws like this have a chilling effect on teachers’ free speech. It remains to be seen whether New Hampshire’s win in federal court will become a bellwether for democracy throughout the country.

The concepts of self-determination sovereignty extend far beyond the individual empowerment of self-advocacy, and encompass collective liberation and self-determination. Claudia Jones’ work emphasizes the interconnectedness of struggles and the importance of sovereignty for Black women, which  requires building collective power and creating liberated spaces where colonized communities can exercise autonomy and self-governance.  

Soon after Russia entered Ukraine, the Pentagon corrected Antony Blinken for saying Kiev would get NATO fighter jets. Blinken was applauded at the NATO summit yesterday for saying F-16s would soon arrive in Ukraine. What changed? asks Joe Lauria.

The lodestar of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on July 8-9, it must be the disclosure by the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration in the Kremlin Maxim Oreshkin that the two leaders discussed the topic of cash payments with the use of cards of national payment systems as an important element of trade support infrastructure and interaction in general.

Sam Falcone pays tribute to the great life of Martin Stolar. We at Monthly Review appreciated and loved him, and mourn his death.

Israel ordered the “Hannibal Directive” on October 7 by ordering the killing of captive Israeli soldiers and civilians. But the U.S. media continues to hide the truth.

On July 8, the Russian military launched large-scale strikes on various targets across Ukraine.