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Who says a chicken feather can’t fly up to Heaven?: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2025)
China showcases a number of promising developments in the construction of socialism–though not without challenges and contradictions.
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Vilifying the Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy
It is very important to distinguish between the Left criticism and the neoliberal criticism of the dirigiste strategy.
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China strikes Diabetes
Diabetes is a silent epidemic, causing death and suffering on an unimaginable scale.
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Israeli Defense Minister orders plan to build concentration camp for Gaza’s civilian population
Israel Katz says the so-called ‘humanitarian city’ will be built on the ruins of Rafah.
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What is the Trump Doctrine? John Bellamy Foster on U.S. Foreign Policy & the “New MAGA Imperialism”
What is MAGA imperialism? Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster says that, despite its feints toward anti-imperialist isolationism, President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has coalesced into a “hyper-nationalist” form of populism that rejects the U.S.’s post-WWII adherence to liberal internationalism and promotes dominance over other countries via military power rather than through economic globalization.
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The Abraham Shield: Israel’s new blueprint for regional control after Gaza
From Gaza to Tehran, a multi-front strategy of surveillance, subcontracted occupation, and permanent containment.
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The Empire has accidentally caused the rebirth of real counterculture in the West
A real, politically meaningful counterculture has been born in the western world, and our rulers are already showing us that they’re afraid of it.
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How to New York Times-Proof Mamdani’s Playbook: Turning Coalition Specifics into Fiscal Possibilities
In a recent video recapping his primary victory in Queens, Zohran Mamdani did something almost radical for today’s political landscape: he cut through the usual Beltway euphemisms and mapped out the varied, living elements of the coalition that won. Most postmortems stay tangled in polite code. We get anxious talk of “electability,” “swing voters,” whether […]
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Can carbon dioxide removal save the climate?
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the world’s atmosphere is now very close to 429 parts per million.
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The New Silk Road and the threat to American domination
The little-reported opening of a major rail link between China and Iran may upend the strategic calculations behind U.S. imperial policy in the Middle East, argues Kevin Crane.
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Switzerland draws lines and does not collaborate in the persecution of journalists
The Swiss rule of law is awakening. After accepting all EU sanctions against Russia up to now, Switzerland is drawing a line for the first time and refuses to prosecute journalists – bravo!
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The day a nuclear Iran was born
The U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear program marks a point of no return. Trump has permanently altered the foundations upon which the non-proliferation architecture regarding Iran was built.
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Harvard. Renewal of Faculty Instructorship. Case of Paul Sweezy, 1940
The following records come from the President’s Office at Harvard University involving the terms of the reappointment of Paul Sweezy at the rank of Faculty Instructor in the Harvard economics department.
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The grim arithmetic of 377, 000 missing Palestinians
A recent report by Yaakov Garb of Ben-Gurion University presents an data-driven analysis of the new “aid distribution” compounds in Gaza.
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Kerala: Setting a quiet counter-narrative to growth orthodoxy
The southern state spends nearly 60% of its revenue budget on education, health, pensions, food subsidies and rural development.
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The tactical failure of Israel/U.S. attacks on Iran is leading both to a strategic disaster
The U.S. and Israel’s unchecked aggression has plunged the world into a lawless state of imperial violence—yet their latest attacks on Iran have only exposed the limits of colonial power.
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Resistance works
How Small Groups Took on Great Powers and Won a Victory for Decolonization, Africa, Indigenous Peoples, and More.
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Global heating isn’t just getting worse. It is getting worse faster.
Surplus heat is accumulating in the Earth system at an accelerating rate.
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Arab states express ‘deep concern’ as Iran eyes U.S. bases in West Asia
The IRGC said it has identified and surveilled the bases from which the U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear facilities was launched, affirming its entitlement to respond in self-defense.
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Reality is winning: War, resistance, and the reunification of nation and state in Iran
In her powerful reflection, Nahid Poureisa shows how Israeli aggression has catalyzed the reunification of the Iranian nation and state, forging solidarity, resistance, and clarity in the face of war.