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Israel’s violence against Palestine survives the ceasefire: The Forty-First Newsletter (2026)
The assault on Palestinian existence is not confined to bombardment. The destruction of infrastructure, Israeli control over Palestinian money, and Western corporate complicity in apartheid are interconnected fronts of the same offensive.
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AI investments lack returns–whatever they do is hard to measure
The money that has been, and still gets invested in them is wasted. It can not be justified by the potential returns.
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Senior U.S. prosecutor leaves case against kidnapped President Maduro and Cilia Flores
According to Bloomberg Law, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald informed the court that Richman’s employment ended on September 25, 2026.
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The world since 7 October
Gaza is a generational touchstone and the key dividing line of politics in the West. It has laid bare the lies of the society we live in. It has exposed the genocidal bloodlust of the political right. And it has tested official “progressive” liberal politics.
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Russia warns Lithuania over potential nuclear weapons deployment
Moscow claims strikes on Ukrainian data centers and military infrastructure.
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Gill: Imperialism—then and now
Imperialism, the denial of sovereignty that underwrites global capitalism, is the primary contradiction.
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Ensuring that the unions’ bark will be worse than their bite
The United States had a Tricky Dick. Canada has a Sneaky Mark.
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Pentagon puts Musk at the center of its war planning
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Palmer Luckey’s Anduril do billions of dollars of business with the Pentagon. Now, the Pentagon has given the two billionaires the job of telling it what to buy.
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CIA report warns Israel could head toward civil war, total collapse
U.S. intelligence raises fears of civil unrest and state breakdown in Israel ahead of October 27 elections.
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War on Yemen exposes deepening Saudi-Israeli military coordination
A ScheerPost analysis argues that Saudi Arabia and “Israel” are deepening covert military cooperation against the Yemeni Armed Forces through intelligence sharing, private contacts, and sectarian messaging.
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U.S. liberal media literacy guide: “This isn’t who we are”
The liberal news media treat U.S. violence and oppression as aberrations from the country’s founding ideals rather than expressions of its fundamental character as a settler colony, empire, plantation, and concentration camp.
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Ansarallah targets Aramco with missiles, drones as Saudi jets launch 60 raids
Yemen announced missile and drone strikes targeting Aramco in Riyadh, while Saudi warplanes launched 60 raids across five Yemeni governorates.
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CIA Director John Brennan pressed Ukraine government to use force in Donbass in April 2014
CIA Director John Brennan was key to U.S. foreign policy strategy that aimed to draw Russia into quagmire in Ukraine and attack its energy infrastructure so U.S. oil and gas producers could take over its depleted markets.
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‘And they call it democracy’
Commentary on social democracy and the current state of the labour movement and its leadership was not as detailed.
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Venezuela’s battle for sovereignty continues
The U.S. attack of Jan. 3 killed over 100 persons and succeeded in kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, an elected member of the National Assembly.
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The critical minerals beneath the Trump corollary: The Fortieth Newsletter (2026)
The imperial drive to monopolise critical minerals unmasks a renewed strategic architecture: securing military and industrial supply chains enforces peripheral subordination, turning sovereign nations across the Global South into captive reservoirs for Western capital.
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Trump amb. to Greece causes stir: U.S. has power to topple governments
Remarks by Trump’s envoy raise fresh questions over U.S. meddling in Romania’s political crisis and the fall of its government.
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An Important Message from John Bellamy Foster
Monthly Review will continue to address the structural crises of capitalism and humanity’s necessary struggle for a socialist world order. But to do so, we need your help.
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Rehearsal for an Afternoon in the Future: Augusto Boal in a Caracas Commune
Rehearsal never really stops: people plan, argue, and intervene in their own reality all the time, so the distance between stage and audience was minimal from the start.
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‘Dumbfounds us all’: Congress struggles with policies rippling from AI development
The challenges and dire threats surrounding the unchecked growth of artificial intelligence appear unlikely to move Congress or President Donald Trump to act as the U.S. Senate enters its last week before the midterms.
