Subjects Archives: Imperialism

Remarks by Trump’s envoy raise fresh questions over U.S. meddling in Romania’s political crisis and the fall of its government.

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.

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.

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. 

John Mullen analyses the French far right and its left opposition ahead of the presidential election in May 2027.

“Insane that we allow this,” one journalist said of the rapidly advancing technology. “Sleepwalking into disaster or worse.”

After relying on an unreliable Trump for defense, suspending normalization talks with Israel, and losing access to the Bab-al-Mandab Strait, Saudi Arabia turns to hesitant allies for help.

There is a dialectics of aggression and also a dialectics of resistance involved here. Imperialism was emboldened to attack Iran because of the relative ease with which it carried out its operations in Venezuela; and had the regime change in Iran occurred as easily as imperialism had imagined, then it would have been further emboldened to carry its attacks immediately to other countries. But the resistance in Iran, which came as a big surprise for it, has stopped it in its tracks for the time being.

The warning signs of the coming crash keep multiplying.

How the Trump Administration is using starvation and misery to achieve regime change in Cuba.

California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered a review of a possible mandatory AI “kill switch,” independent audits and incident reporting amid growing concerns over advanced systems escaping human control.

In a deeper sense, a death from ectopic pregnancy is an indicator of whether a society will defend the lives of working-class women.

Paramount’s purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, which faced legal action and concern that Paramount boss David Ellison may be consolidating too much media power, is now going forward.

When British economist David Ricardo put forward his theory of the international division of labor and specialization based on comparative advantage in the early nineteenth century, it was seen as a formula for raising global output.

Iranian nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami says the IAEA had access to all Iranian facilities.

Whether it’s Macklemore, Hasan Piker, or your neighborhood activist, this is a fight to make sure billionaires and politicians cannot stop free speech and will have to hear the calls to “Free Palestine” whether they like it or not.

The White House began broadcasting on its new media platform, Trump TV, this week, streaming government content, announcements and archived speeches on a continuous basis, days after the country’s major television networks suspended coverage of presidential events.

“After years of corporate greed and impunity, we are holding DoorDash to account.”

Some years ago, when I attended my first NYC Climate Week, I remember leaving one of the many panels I attended that day extremely frustrated and consumed by a feeling of despondency…

The rare announcement from Washington is expected to raise alarm among allies and adversaries alike, experts say.