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  • Monthly Review Essays
  •  | Biden | MR Online

    Is U.S. democracy a sham? Biden gave us the answer. Were you listening?

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on December 30, 2024 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    The emperor, we are now told, was naked all along.

  •  | Norman Finkelstein | MR Online

    The Antisemitism Industry doesn’t speak for Jews. It speaks for western elites

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on March 14, 2024 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    Film-maker Jonathan Glazer’s crime at the Oscars was to threaten the establishment’s stranglehold on the West’s narrative about Israel–and itself

  •  | Smoke rises as a result of Israeli occupation army bombardment of the northern Gaza Strip on 15 November 2023 AFP | MR Online

    ‘Are we the baddies?’ Western support for genocide in Gaza means the answer is yes

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on December 27, 2023 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel’s crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that’s been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades.

  •  | Israeli army quietly admitted that it was responsible for killing the children | MR Online

    Israel is caught lying time and again. And yet we never learn

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on October 24, 2023 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    Disinformation over the blast at Gaza’s al-Ahli hospital worked as planned, taking the focus off the victims and lifting pressure on Israel to stop its rampage.

  •  | More than 5300 feared dead in Libya flooding auburnpubcom | MR Online

    Why the media aren’t telling the whole story of Libya’s floods

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on September 15, 2023 by 'Middle East Eye' (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    There are reasons for Libya’s ‘chaotic’, ‘dysfunctional’ response to the disaster. And to identify them, we need to look closer to home.

  •  | Daniel Ellsberg | MR Online

    Daniel Ellsberg is lauded in death by the same media that lets Assange rot in jail

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on June 20, 2023 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    The stark difference in treatment of the two truth-tellers is a measure of how state criminality is now completely unchecked.

  •  | Benjamin Netanyahu | MR Online

    Israel’s crisis is about who gets to play tyrant: the generals or religious thugs

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on March 29, 2023 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    In pushing through his ‘judicial overhaul’, Netanyahu wasn’t destroying ‘Israeli democracy’. He was richly exploiting the lack of it.

  •  | Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader Photo middleeastmonitorcom | MR Online

    Starmer is paving the way for the triumph of dark politics

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on February 27, 2023 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    By waging an all-out war on the left and its ideas, the Labour leader is strangling hope of change in a time of crisis–and risks driving voters towards right-wing authoritarians

  •  | Twitter | MR Online

    How social networks became a ‘subsidiary’ of the FBI and CIA

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on February 20, 2023 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    THE BIG STORY: The Twitter Files have lifted the lid on a secret alliance between Silicon Valley, intelligence agencies and the political establishment

  •  | Julian Assange Photo apublicaorg | MR Online

    Why the western media is afraid of Julian Assange

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on January 30, 2023 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    The shared desire of the security services and the corporate media is to disappear Assange in the hope that his revolutionary model of journalism is abandoned or forgotten for good.

  •  | Deutsch Blick vom Wilhelmturm nach Nordosten auf den Ortsteil Castrop von Castrop Rauxel das Kraftwerk Knepper in Dortmund Brüninghausen dahinter auf die Kraftwerke am Datteln Hamm Kanal | MR Online

    Europe, more than Putin, must shoulder the blame for the energy crisis

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on September 14, 2022 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    The same arrogant, self-righteous posturing from the West that fueled the Ukraine war is now plunging Europe into recession.

  •  | Craig Murray poses with supporters outside the Scottish Parliament Photo The Scotsman | MR Online

    Craig Murray’s jailing is the latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on July 30, 2021 (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    He becomes the first person ever to be imprisoned on the obscure and vaguely defined charge of “jigsaw identification”.

  •  | Seymour Hersh | MR Online

    Useful idiots who undermine dissent on Syria

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on July 3, 2017 by Jonathan Cook (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    There has been much disingenuous criticism of those, like me, who question why the western corporate media have studiously ignored the latest investigation by renowned journalist Seymour Hersh on Syria. Hersh had to publish his piece in a German newspaper, Welt am Sonntag, after the entire US and UK media rejected his article. There has still been no mention of his investigation more than a week later.

  •  | Medias propaganda war on Syria in full flow | MR Online

    Media’s propaganda war on Syria in full flow

    Originally published: Jonathan Cook Blog on June 30, 2017 by Jonathan Cook (more by Jonathan Cook Blog)

    If you wish to understand the degree to which a supposedly free western media are constructing a world of half-truths and deceptions to manipulate their audiences, keeping us uninformed and docile, then there could hardly be a better case study than their treatment of Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.

Monthly Review Essays

  • US Imperialism in Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges to a Global Community with a Shared Future
    Sam-Kee Cheng  | A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory smoking a cigar The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS dollar imperialism | MR Online

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

Lost & Found

  • Strike at the Helm: The First Ministerial Meeting of the New Cycle of the Bolivarian Revolution
    Hugo Chávez  | Mural of Chávez in Caracas Univision | MR Online

    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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  • Activist Greta Thunberg stands near the stage during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Mannheim, Germany, on Dec. 6, 2024. Uwe Anspach | AP
    From media darling to persona non grata: Greta Thunberg’s journey
  • A black and white photograph of Paulo Freire later in life. Freire is bald, bearded, and wears large eyeglasses.
    Pedagogy and Class Power: Reclaiming Freire in an Age of Reaction
  • Senior Israeli official talks with Israel’s Channel 12 News
    Sky News smears Greta Thunberg as a Nazi to justify IDF attack
  • Fire engulfs a classroom at the Fahmi Al-Jargawi School in Gaza City following an Israeli strike, May 26, 2025.
    One day, everyone will have always been against this
  • Grygorii Osovyi, President of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine, arrested, Trade Union House seized.
    NATO-backed Ukraine escalates war on labor: Union leaders arrested, halls seized
  • SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks with a person during a live interview with Ben Shapiro at the European Jewish Association’s symposium on antisemitism in Krakow, Poland, Jan. 22, 2024. Photo | STR | NurPhoto via AP
    Meet the Think Tanks behind MAGA’s new free speech crackdown
  • Colombian president defends social justice and labor reforms amid right-wing threats.Photo: Presidencia Colombia/X.
    Colombian President Gustavo Petro denounces U.S.-backed coup plot and urges popular consultation for social justice
  • BILDUNGSROMANCE: Calam Lynch as Max and Ellis Howard as Byron in What It Feels Like for a Girl [Pic: Enda Bowe]
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