New at Monthly Review
- Monthly Review Volume 64, Number 1 (May 2012) The Editors
- The Endless Crisis John Bellamy Foster
- The poor are no longer with us; These bills are long unpaid Marge Piercy
- Marx’s Ecology and the Understanding of Land Cover Change Ricardo Dobrovolski
- Petroleum and Propaganda John W. Farley
- Who Killed Che? James D. Cockcroft
- A Red Robin? Albert Ruben
- Monthly Review Volume 63, Number 11 (April 2012) The Editors
New at MRzine
- Susie Day, Living in Two Cities: Tarif and Evelyn Warren" May 22, 2012
- Samir Amin, "Socialism in the 21st Century" May 19, 2012
- Edgar Nkosi White, "The Montserrat Drum" May 18, 2012
- Costas Panayotakis, "Democracy Imperiled: The Greek Political Crisis" May 17, 2012
- Gustin L. Reichbach, "A Judge's Plea for Medical Marijuana" May 17, 2012
- Thomas Sablowski, "Impoverishing Europe" May 16, 2012
- Victor Grossman, "Some Good News, and Lots of Bad News, from Germany" May 15, 2012
- Mosireen, "Egyptian Workers Speak Out" May 12, 2012
Climate & Capitalism
- The petroleum-powered propaganda machine May 21, 2012
- We will not let this pipeline cross our land! May 20, 2012
- Get the Shell out! Indigenous activists expose dirty oil business May 17, 2012
- The UN’s ‘Green Economy’ plan is a destructive illusion May 16, 2012
- Australia: 7,000 march against fracking May 15, 2012
The Empire and the Robots
A short while ago I dealt with the United States’ plans to impose the absolute superiority of its air force as an instrument of domination on the rest of the world. I mentioned the project that by 2020 they would have more than a thousand latest generation bombers and F-22 and F-35 fighter planes in their fleet of 2500 military aircrafts. In twenty more years, every single one of their war planes will be robot-operated.… | more |
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