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  •    Donald Trump   MR Online

    EXCLUSIVE: U.S. military tells key Middle East ally to prepare for attack on Iran

    Originally published: Drop Site News on January 30, 2026 by Drop Site News Staff (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Feb 04, 2026)

    In addition to military targets, Trump is considering strikes on senior Iranian leaders with the aim of spurring the overthrow of the Iranian government.

  •    Ryan Grim   MR Online

    CBP Agent guns down Minneapolis nurse: video analysis

    Originally published: Drop Site News on January 24, 2026 by Meghnad Bose, Rana Roudi, and Ryan Grim (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Jan 26, 2026)

    Meghnad Bose, Rana Roudi, and Ryan Grim break down video obtained by Drop Site showing CBP’s killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti on Saturday.

  •    A view of the destruction after the Israeli military targeted a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East UNWRA building in Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip May 10 2025 Photo by Mahmoud IssaAnadolu via Getty Images   MR Online

    As Gaza starves, Israel attacked UNRWA Food Distribution Center

    Originally published: Drop Site News on May 11, 2025 by Hamza M. Salha and Sharif Abdel Kouddous (more by Drop Site News) (Posted May 14, 2025)

    Israel is targeting Palestinians’ slim means of accessing food, bombing two makeshift kitchens and UNRWA’s distribution center in Jabalia in the past few days.

  •    Israels Ministry of Defense headquarters in Tel Aviv Photo Wikimedia Commons   MR Online

    Trump’s NSC Director for Israel and Iran previously worked for Israeli Ministry of Defense

    Originally published: Drop Site News on April 21, 2025 by Ryan Grim and Saagar Enjeti (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Apr 24, 2025)

    The story is co-reported with my Breaking Points colleague Saagar Enjeti. We’ll be covering it on the program Monday morning.

  •    Two Palestinian children amidst the rubble in Khan Younis Gaza January 2025 Source still from the film Kids Under Fire Mohammed Ibaida   MR Online

    “The target is unmistakable”: The shooting of Gaza’s children

    Originally published: Drop Site News on March 27, 2025 by Amel Guettatfi (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Mar 31, 2025)

    American doctors who volunteered in Gaza report witnessing a disturbing pattern of children being shot by Israeli snipers.

  •    Palestinians inspect the targeted area on the tents housing displaced civilians after Israeli attacks in the courtyard of Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al Balah Gaza on October 14 2024 Photo by Ashraf AmraAnadolu via Getty Images   MR Online

    Israel is turning northern Gaza into a killing cage

    Originally published: Drop Site News on October 14, 2024 by Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Kouddous (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Oct 16, 2024)

    With international media coverage shifting to potential war with Iran, Israel is intensifying its campaign to obliterate the Palestinians of Gaza.

  •    Benjamin Netanyahu and Antony Blinken on their way to a meeting of the Israeli War Cabinet October 16 2023 Israeli Government Press Office handout via Getty   MR Online

    Blinken approved policy to bomb aid trucks, Israeli Cabinet members suggest

    Originally published: Drop Site News on October 6, 2024 by Yanic Cogan (more by Drop Site News) (Posted Oct 08, 2024)

    From the very beginning of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had his hands on the steering wheel.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield    A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogols play The Government Inspector showing audience members in the foreground and actors on stage in the background   MR Online

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

Lost & Found

  • Dividends Are Not Royalties: The SAT and Surplus Value
    Michael Parenti    A young man at a desk takes the SAT   MR Online

    Michael Parenti, the Marxist author and scholar, died on January 24, 2026 at the age of ninety-two. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 45, no. 5 (October 1993). It has been frequently noted that IQ examinations, while professing to measure innate intelligence, are riddled with racial, gender, and class biases. Thus a low-income, inner-city youth, […]

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