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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • The moment Canada deemed two UN scholars a “security threat”

    The interrogation of Richard Falk: When speaking truth becomes a “National Security Threat”

    Originally published: Medium on November 16, 2025 by Rima Najjar (more by Medium)  | (Posted Nov 17, 2025)

    Richard Falk has spent the better part of a century inside the world’s most serious rooms: the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, the international legal tribunals where the language of war, occupation, and human rights is hammered into shape.

  • USA

    For optimists: On the impossibility of global peace under capitalism

    Originally published: Medium on January 21, 2025 by Murat K.Girgin (more by Medium)  | (Posted Jan 23, 2025)

    Alternative Title: “For Beginners and the Forgetful: Capitalism, Imperialism, and Their Historical Cycles, and the Inevitability of a Global Redistribution War Led by the U.S.”

  • The World’s Most Dangerous Marxist | John Bellamy Foster

    The World’s Most Dangerous Marxist | John Bellamy Foster | #182 HR

    Originally published: Medium on September 27, 2023 (more by Medium)  |

    Foster explains Marx’s ecological critique of capitalism and how the concept of “metabolic rift” highlights the alienation between humans and nature caused by capitalism’s focus on profit over sustainability.

  • capitalism:socialism

    Capitalism: an unstoppable force meets an immovable object

    Originally published: Medium on September 26, 2023 by Tate Green (more by Medium)  | (Posted Sep 28, 2023)

    Ah, money, the driving force behind life in the modern world.

  • Metabolic Rift

    What is metabolic rift?

    Originally published: Medium on August 3, 2018 by Matthew Gindin (more by Medium)  | (Posted Jul 12, 2023)

    The Ecosocialist idea you’ve never heard of and might need.

  • Roger Waters performs during his “This Is Not A Drill Tour.” Photo: Miami and beaches

    Roger Waters added to Ukrainian hit list

    Originally published: Medium on August 22, 2022 by Deborah L. Armstrong (more by Medium)  | (Posted Aug 31, 2022)

    “Pink Floyd” star declared “Enemy of Ukraine”

  • War Propaganda Firm Bellingcat Continues Lying About Syria

    War Propaganda firm Bellingcat continues lying about Syria

    Originally published: Medium on April 30, 2018 (more by Medium)  |

    In December of 2016, the war propaganda firm Bellingcat ran an article assuring its readers that Twitter star Bana Alabed is a perfectly legitimate little Syrian girl and not at all a psyop designed to manufacture support for military interventionism against Bashar al-Assad.

  • The No Cop Co-Op providing Free Goods

    An “Autonomous” three block-long Seattle street threatens America — what?

    Originally published: Medium on June 15, 2020 by Nick Licata (more by Medium)  | (Posted Jun 17, 2020)

    President Donald Trump from his New Jersey private golf club tweeted this past Friday morning June 12, that “The terrorists burn and pillage our cities.”

  • How To Understand All This China Stuff

    How to understand all this China stuff

    Originally published: Medium on May 20, 2020 (more by Medium)  |

    The notion of “pre-crime” is the purview of dystopian horror fiction when applied to individual people, and there’s no reason we should find the prospect of attacking and destroying for hypothetical future offenses any less insane on an international scale.

  • A mobile home on the Navajo reservation in Cameron, Arizona. Photo: Gina Ferazzi/Getty Images

    The Navajo Nation is being decimated by this virus

    Originally published: Medium on May 12, 2020 by Max Ufberg (more by Medium)  | (Posted May 20, 2020)

    The problems facing Native American communities during this pandemic were decades in the making.

  • Chelsea Manning Supporters Raise A Quarter Million Dollars In Two Days

    Chelsea Manning supporters raise a Quarter Million dollars in two days

    Originally published: Medium on March 14, 2020 by Caitlin Johnstone (more by Medium)  |

    In the likely event that you need some news to give you a bit of faith in humanity today, you should know that supporters of whistleblower Chelsea Manning have raised over a quarter million dollars to pay the cruel, draconian fine that was heaped upon her for her principled stand against testifying at corrupt secret grand jury proceedings.

  • A still from The Young Karl Marx (2017)

    A possible Communist redefinition of love

    Originally published: Medium on February 4, 2020 by Ivan emil Labayne (more by Medium)  | (Posted Feb 06, 2020)

    In In Praise of Love, Alain Badiou defined love as a form of “minimal communism [where] the real subject of a love is the becoming of the couple and not the mere satisfaction of the individuals that are its component parts.”(1) Earlier in the book, Badiou provided a more elegant statement, associating the act of loving to “learn[ing] that you can experience the world on the basis of difference and not only in terms of identity.”

  • Credit- Azo, Extinction Rebellion

    Extinction Rebellion: We need to talk about the future

    Originally published: Medium on October 23, 2019 by Sam Knights (more by Medium)  | (Posted Oct 29, 2019)

    This is a love letter to Extinction Rebellion.

  • Sierra Exif JPEG

    Climate change, dust bowls, fishery collapse: metabolic rifts of capitalism and the need for socialism

    Originally published: Medium on February 14, 2019 by Kale Cable (more by Medium)  | (Posted Jul 03, 2019)

    Humankind and the environment are hurtling toward unprecedented ecological crises. Global warming, sea level rise, and weather extremes due to carbon emissions are catastrophic enough, but they will mix and combine with ocean acidification, air and chemical pollution, water shortages, deforestation, fishery collapse, soil erosion, and mass extinction, throwing both nature and society off a cliff into the unknown.

  • New poll: U.S. military occupations supported by far more democrats than republicans

    Originally published: Medium on January 10, 2019 by Caitlin Johnstone (more by Medium)  | (Posted Jan 15, 2019)

    A new Politico/Morning Consult poll has found that there is much more support for ongoing military occupations among Democrats surveyed than Republicans.

  • [Book Analysis] Marx & the Earth- An Anti-Critique

    Marx & the Earth: An Anti-Critique

    Originally published: Medium on October 2, 2018 by David Faber (more by Medium)  | (Posted Oct 16, 2018)

    If there is one thing from which Green thinking and practice suffers, it is the lack of an over-arching historical and socioeconomic conceptualisation of the dynamics making for the trashing of the environment as habit for humans and other creatures.

  • Corbyn speaking to the people

    Delegitimising the British left

    Originally published: Medium on April 19, 2018 by Owen Jones (more by Medium)  | (Posted Apr 21, 2018)

    In the last month there has been a deliberate, determined attempt to turn the clock back on the general election result on 8th June 2017, to back when the left could be dismissed as irrational deluded cultists who mostly existed on social media.

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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