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  • (Photo credit: Energy Transition Minerals)

    Trump-linked oil firm to begin drilling in Greenland without official permission: Report

    Originally published: The Cradle on August 11, 2026 by News Desk (more by The Cradle)  |

    Nuuk states that the landing of the drilling equipment was never authorized, even as the energy company plans to begin drilling in October.

  • (Photo credit: AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    U.S. announces ‘counterterrorism’ push against leftist groups, pro-Palestine voices

    Originally published: The Cradle on July 17, 2026 by The Cradle Staff (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Jul 22, 2026)

    Secretary of State Rubio announced the new ‘counterterrorism’ strategy during a conference in Washington despite the lack of evidence showing a threat from left-wing groups.

  • (Photo credit: Ammar Awad /Reuters)

    U.S. lawmaker harassed, held at gunpoint by Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank

    Originally published: The Cradle on July 11, 2026 by The Cradle - News Desk (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Jul 13, 2026)

    The Jewish settlers reportedly wielded U.S.-made rifles to intimidate the U.S. lawmaker and his delegation.

  • (Photo credit: Oren Cohen/Flash90)

    ‘The ceasefire is a joke’: Israeli soldiers describe continued targeted killings of Palestinians in Gaza

    Originally published: The Cradle on May 31, 2026 (more by The Cradle)  |

    Israeli occupation forces are shooting Palestinians, carrying out airstrikes, and expanding the territory under their direct occupation as if no truce with Hamas has been reached.

  • (Photo credit: Mukhtar Kholdorbekov/Reuters)

    UN peacekeeping efforts on verge of collapse amid global funding crisis: Report

    Originally published: The Cradle on May 25, 2026 by The Cradle News Desk (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted May 29, 2026)

    In contrast, global military spending climbed to nearly $3 trillion in 2025, marking the 11th consecutive year of growth.

  • (Photo credit: Reuters)

    Russia deploys tankers with fuel aid for Cuba in push to break U.S. blockade

    Originally published: The Cradle on March 19, 2026 by News Desk (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Mar 21, 2026)

    Trump boasted this week that he could ‘take’ Cuba and do ‘whatever he wants’ with the island nation, coinciding with major power outages resulting from the blockade.

  • (Photo credit: Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters)

    Israel named top killer of journalists worldwide for third straight year

    Originally published: The Cradle on February 25, 2026 (more by The Cradle)  |

    Since 2023, the Israeli army has systematically targeted hundreds of journalists in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran.

  • Photo: The Cradle

    Stalked in real time: Intellexa, the Israeli Predator in your pocket

    Originally published: The Cradle on December 8, 2025 (more by The Cradle)  |

    Leaked training videos and new evidence expose Intellexa as more than just a rogue surveillance company. The Israeli firm stands as a pillar of Tel Aviv’s global cyberwarfare infrastructure, infiltrating phones worldwide through ‘zero-click’ methods, ad-based infections, and covert partnerships with authoritarian governments.

  • Photo Credit: The Cradle

    Israel’s Biblical myth is burying the West Bank alive

    Originally published: The Cradle on September 18, 2025 by A Cradle Correspondent (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Sep 23, 2025)

    With full western backing, Tel Aviv is entrenching a one-state apartheid system and extinguishing any prospect of Palestinian sovereignty.

  • Photo Credit: The Cradle

    Erdogan’s ‘domestic front’: The dismantling of democracy in Turkiye

    Originally published: The Cradle on September 17, 2025 by Fatih Yasli (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Sep 19, 2025)

    By targeting the opposition and courting the Kurdish movement, Ankara is laying the groundwork for a post-electoral authoritarian system.

  • Gaza - The Cradle

    Gaza Inc: Where genocide is battle-tested and market-ready

    Originally published: The Cradle on September 12, 2025 by Aymun Moosavi (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Sep 17, 2025)

    Gaza has become Tel Aviv’s showroom for privatized extermination, where tech firms, mercenaries, and aid contractors collaborate in a scalable model of industrial genocide sold to allies across the globe.

  • Credit: The Cradle

    The Kurdish disarmament that backfired on Turkiye

    Originally published: The Cradle on September 9, 2025 by Ali Nassar (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Sep 12, 2025)

    Ankara’s quiet agreement with the PKK was never going to hold–not with Israeli-backed Kurdish projects intensifying across Syria and Iraq.

  • Photo Credit: The Cradle

    Israel is not isolated: A global web of oil and complicity

    Originally published: The Cradle on August 28, 2025 by Erman Çete (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Aug 30, 2025)

    Across continents, the occupation state’s energy lifelines are sustained by a network of enabling powers, feeding its war machine across West Asia.

  • Photo: The Cradle

    Iran confronts Europe’s trigger mechanism–with Eurasian allies at its side

    Originally published: The Cradle on July 25, 2025 by Vali Kaleji (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Aug 02, 2025)

    Facing mounting pressure from Europe, Iran moved to reinforce its nuclear position with backing from Russia and China, just days before talks resumed in Istanbul.

  • Photo: Jacobin

    ‘Sanctions as deadly as war’: Lancet study finds U.S.-led sanctions kill over 500,000 people annually

    Originally published: The Cradle on July 25, 2025 (more by The Cradle)  |

    U.S.-led sanctions have functioned as ‘silent killers’ in countries such as Iraq, Syria, and Venezuela.

  • (Photo credit: X)

    Anti-genocide protesters block hundreds of Israeli tourists from disembarking in Greek port

    Originally published: The Cradle on July 22, 2025 (more by The Cradle)  |

    A group of residents on the island of Syros organized the protest and said it was ‘unacceptable’ that Israeli tourists be welcomed as Palestinians suffer from starvation and war in Gaza.

  • (Photo credit: Yousef Zaanoun /Activestills)

    UN officials accuse Israel of ‘weaponizing’ aid in Gaza as GHF massacres continue

    Originally published: The Cradle on June 24, 2025 by The Cradle News Desk (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2025)

    Aid sites operating under a U.S.-backed model are now scenes of repeated massacres, with no pause even amid regional war escalations.

  • (Photo credit: Andrew J. Moseley)

    Arab states express ‘deep concern’ as Iran eyes U.S. bases in West Asia

    Originally published: The Cradle on June 22, 2025 by The Cradle News Desk (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Jun 23, 2025)

    The IRGC said it has identified and surveilled the bases from which the U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear facilities was launched, affirming its entitlement to respond in self-defense.

  • The Cradle

    India and Pakistan lock horns: Who won and why?

    Originally published: The Cradle on May 12, 2025 by The Cradle's Military Correspondent (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted May 15, 2025)

    In the biggest aerial dogfight since World War II, two nuclear-armed rivals test the boundaries of conflict and deterrence–with some jaw-dropping surprises in the mix.

  • Photo: The Cradle

    Diego Garcia: Ethnically cleansed for U.S. forever wars

    Originally published: The Cradle on April 18, 2025 by Aidan J. Simardone (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Apr 21, 2025)

    As Trump threatens war on Iran, Washington weaponizes Diego Garcia–a Chagos island in the Indian Ocean built on ethnic cleansing, British colonialism, and military adventurism.

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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

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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