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  • Monthly Review Essays
  •  | President Donald Trump right and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | MR Online

    Trump issues sanctions on Iran, threatens to “obliterate” it if he’s killed

    Originally published: Truthout on February 6, 2025 by Sharon Zhang (more by Truthout)  | (Posted Feb 07, 2025)

    Trump has signed an executive order to exert pressure on Iran while also trying to obtain a nuclear deal.

  •  | Luigi Mangione the suspect indicted in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is seen arriving at the South Street Helipad in New York City on December 19 2024 after being extradited from Pennsylvania XNY  STAR MAX  GC IMAGES | MR Online

    Luigi Mangione’s indictment is another example of the dangers of terror charges

    Originally published: Truthout on December 21, 2024 by Schuyler Mitchell (more by Truthout)  | (Posted Dec 30, 2024)

    The indictment comes as some states expand terror laws to ensnare protesters who block “critical infrastructure.”

  •  | Health care advocates risk arrest protesting care denials at UnitedHealthcare on July 15 2024 in Minnetonka Minnesota DAVID BERDING  GETTY IMAGES FOR PEOPLES ACTION INSTITUTE | MR Online

    Behind UnitedHealthcare’s CEO is a larger system of Corporate rule

    Originally published: Truthout on December 12, 2024 by Derek Seidman (more by Truthout)  | (Posted Dec 18, 2024)

    The violence of for-profit health care’s megastructure can only be overcome through collective resistance campaigns.

  •  | Avis Lee holds a banner for Lets Get Free the Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee which helped with her fight for freedom and with which she now organizes to free others | MR Online

    “To be free is to free others”: Formerly incarcerated women urge decarceration

    Originally published: Truthout on May 5, 2024 by Victoria Law (more by Truthout)  | (Posted May 07, 2024)

    The fight to free women and end mass incarceration is long and ongoing, but these activists aren’t giving up.

  •  | Federal Correctional Institution Dublin FCI Dublin is photographed in Dublin California on September 13 2014 ANDA CHU  MEDIANEWS GROUPTHE MERCURY NEWS VIA GETTY IMAGES | MR Online

    Prison notorious for rape is slated for closure but not releasing survivors

    Originally published: Truthout on April 16, 2024 by Victoria Law (more by Truthout)  | (Posted Apr 18, 2024)

    The Bureau of Prisons initially planned to empty FCI Dublin by April 19. Those inside fear being sent far from family.

  •  | Chris Smalls a leader of the Amazon Labor Union leads a march of Starbucks and Amazon workers and their allies to the homes of their CEOs to protest union busting on Labor Day September 5 2022 in New York City New York ANDREW LICHTENSTEIN  CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES  Truthout | MR Online

    Union organizing surged in 2022: Let’s push for a radical labor movement in 2023

    Originally published: Truthout on December 29, 2022 (more by Truthout)  |

    More workers are forming independent unions, untethered from the AFL-CIO and other established labor groups.

  •  | Protesters gather in front of the US Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments in Dobbs v Jackson Womens Health a case about a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks on December 1 2021 in Washington DC | MR Online

    Unapologetic support for abortion rights must be a pillar of the Left

    Originally published: Truthout on December 6, 2021 by Emily Janakiram, Camila Valle, Christine Pardue and Hennessy Garcia (more by Truthout)  | (Posted Dec 08, 2021)

    This week the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization–the case that will determine the fate of Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, and more broadly, the fate of Roe v. Wade.

  •  | Naisha Wright Daunte Wrights aunt shows pictures of a Glock 17 and a Taser X26P during a press conference at New Salem Missionary Church in Minneapolis Minnesota on April 15 2021 | MR Online

    The Supreme Court is also to blame for Daunte Wright’s death

    Originally published: Truthout on April 16, 2021 (more by Truthout)  |

    When veteran Minnesota police officer Kimberly Potter, who is white, stopped Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, for an expired registration tag, she committed an act of racial profiling.

  •  | US Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Democrat of New York and US Senator Ed Markey R Democrat of Massachusetts | MR Online

    A Green New Deal is the first step toward an eco-revolution

    Originally published: Truthout on February 9, 2019 (more by Truthout)  |

    In this interview, Foster discusses why a Green New Deal is just an entry point to an ecological revolution, and why any economic-social system that hopes to address the climate crisis must transcend capitalism.

  •  | Deforestation on the geotrail of Makhonjwa Mountains near Barberton Mpumalanga on July 3 2018 WIKUS DE WET  AFP  GETTY IMAGES | MR Online

    Climate change is the product of how capitalism “values” nature

    Originally published: Truthout on November 18, 2018 (more by Truthout)  |

    Capitalist industrialization has led us to the edge of the precipice of climate change, and avoiding the end of civilization as we know it may require the development of a view in direct opposition to the way in which capitalism “values” nature, according to John Bellamy Foster.

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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