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  • Photo Credit: Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune

    The Quantum Con: How Chicago’s Southside Became a Sacrificial Altar to the War Machine

    Originally published: CODEPINK on August 13, 2026 by Eli S. Walsh and Giovi (more by CODEPINK)  | (Posted Aug 15, 2026)

    As Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson push this project through, they are continuing to make the people of Chicago complicit in war crimes across the globe.

  • University of Michigan’s Violence Against Chinese Scholars

    Exposing the University of Michigan’s violence against Chinese scholars

    Originally published: CODEPINK on April 24, 2026 by Megan Russell (more by CODEPINK)  | (Posted Apr 27, 2026)

    On Friday night, CODEPINK and the local University of Michigan community gathered to hold a vigil in honor of UM researcher Dr. Danhao Wan on the one-month anniversary of his death. According to reports, Dr. Wang died after jumping from an upper floor of the G.G. Brown Building on North Campus, shortly after being targeted and questioned by federal authorities.

  • Venezuelans preparing Hallacas, a beloved Christmas tradition made together across generations. Photo Federico PARRA / AFP

    Trump might not invade Venezuela yet, but what he is doing is worse

    Originally published: CODEPINK on December 26, 2025 by Michelle Ellner (more by CODEPINK)  | (Posted Dec 29, 2025)

    While military options remain on the table, the U.S. is ramping up economic asphyxiation against the Venezuelan people.

  • Leaders

    When these leaders asserted their country’s sovereignty, the U.S. overthrew them

    Originally published: CODEPINK on December 3, 2025 by Nuvpreet Kalra (more by CODEPINK)  | (Posted Dec 08, 2025)

    From Israel’s occupation and genocide in Palestine, to threats of invasion of Venezuela, the endless proxy war in Ukraine, to military buildup pointing at China–there is one common cause, U.S. imperialism.

  • Maria Corina Machado

    When Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize, “peace” has lost its meaning

    Originally published: CODEPINK on October 10, 2025 by Michelle Ellner (more by CODEPINK)  | (Posted Oct 11, 2025)

    Far from a symbol of peace, the article exposes Machado’s history of supporting coups, sanctions, and calls for foreign military intervention in Venezuela.

  • Protestors throw a blazing garbage bin outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham on Sunday.Stringer/Reuters

    Why Americans should be worried by the rise in British fascism

    Originally published: CODEPINK on August 5, 2024 by Nuvpreet Kalra (more by CODEPINK)  | (Posted Aug 10, 2024)

    The racist pogroms on the streets of Britain are the result of British support for genocide in Palestine and the construction of a “migrant threat”.

  • no war with Russia

    “Let them kill as many as possible”- United States Policy Toward Russia and its Neighbors

    Originally published: CODEPINK on March 2022 (more by CODEPINK)  |

    In April 1941, four years before he was to become President and eight months before the United States entered World War II, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri reacted to the news that Germany had invaded the Soviet Union: “If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible.”

  • 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.

  • Reduce Pentagon Carbon Emissions

    Reduce Pentagon carbon emissions

    Originally published: CODEPINK on August 2021 by Marcy Winograd (more by CODEPINK)  | (Posted Aug 18, 2021)

    The dog days of summer are upon us—and the record high temperatures killing hundreds in the Pacific Northwest and bringing 118 degree heat to Siberia serve as a harbinger of even hotter, more dangerous days unless we address the elephant in the room.

  • Venezuelan doctors conducting a COVID-19 house visit. Photo courtesy of @OrlenysOV

    Venezuela’s Coronavirus response might surprise you

    Originally published: CODEPINK on March 24, 2020 (more by CODEPINK)  |

    Within a few hours of being launched, over 800 Venezuelans in the U.S. registered for an emergency flight from Miami to Caracas through a website run by the Venezuelan government. This flight, offered at no cost, was proposed by President Nicolás Maduro when he learned that 200 Venezuelans were stuck in the United States following his government’s decision to stop commercial flights as a preventative coronavirus measure.

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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