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  •    West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin   MR Online

    Inside the Democrats’ climate deal with the devil

    Originally published: openDemocracy on August 2, 2022 by Aaron White (more by openDemocracy)  | (Posted Aug 06, 2022)

    The new climate package furthers the U.S.’ most profligate pastimes: drilling oil and driving big cars.

  •    NASAJPL CaltechMPIA   MR Online

    Why coronavirus could spark a capitalist supernova

    Originally published: openDemocracy on March 31, 2020 (more by openDemocracy)  |

    There is no magic money tree – the ‘rescue packages’ aim to rescue a rotten system, and won’t work.

  •    May Day rally Jakarta 2019 | Risa KrisadhiZuma PressPA Images   MR Online

    Outsourcing exploitation: global labor-value chains

    Originally published: openDemocracy on August 20, 2019 (more by openDemocracy)  |

    Through their control over supply chains, multinationals based in the global north exploit workers in the global south.

  •    Image  Matthew Hamm CC by 20   MR Online

    Imperialism in a coffee cup

    Originally published: openDemocracy on July 16, 2019 (more by openDemocracy)  |

    Why is it that just 1p of a £2.50 cup of coffee goes to the farmer who cultivated and harvested the coffee beans?

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

  • The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited
    James Petras       MR Online

    The sociologist James Petras died on January 17, 2026, at the age of eighty-nine. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 51, no. 6 (November 1999). Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London: Granta Books), £20. This book provides a detailed account of the ways in which the […]

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