http://monthlyreview.org An Independent Socialist Magazine Mon, 21 May 2012 05:11:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://monthlyreview.org/2012/05/01/mr-064-01-2011-05 http://monthlyreview.org/2012/05/01/mr-064-01-2011-05#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 04:15:23 +0000 The Editors http://monthlyreview.org/?p=8295 » Notes from the Editors

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas physicist John W. Farley’s very important review essay on James Lawrence Powell’s new book, The Inquisition of Climate Science, in this month’s issue of MR raises critical questions with respect to science, corporate propaganda, and the future of humanity.… To understand the serious propaganda challenge that has confronted capitalist interests intent on denying climate change and the devious means used to get around this, one needs to recognize that the scientific consensus on climate change is an extremely strong one. Science, which generally encourages controversy, is in this case speaking with one voice. Naomi Oreskes, a professor of history and science studies at the University of California, San Diego…published an article in Science in 2005 studying global climate change articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003. She found a total of 928 peer-reviewed scientific articles on global climate change. Of these 928 pointed to human-caused climate change, while on the “other side” there were exactly zero denying this.]]> 0 http://monthlyreview.org/2012/05/01/the-endless-crisis http://monthlyreview.org/2012/05/01/the-endless-crisis#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 04:14:58 +0000 John Bellamy Foster http://monthlyreview.org/?p=8299 0 http://monthlyreview.org/2012/05/01/the-poor-are-no-longer-with-us-these-bills-are-long-unpaid http://monthlyreview.org/2012/05/01/the-poor-are-no-longer-with-us-these-bills-are-long-unpaid#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 04:13:42 +0000 Marge Piercy http://monthlyreview.org/?p=8317 Marge Piercy, author of eighteen poetry books, most recently The Hunger Moon: New & Selected Poems, 1980–2010 from Knopf. Her most recent novel is Sex Wars (Harper Perennial) and PM Press has just republished Vida and Dance the Eagle to Sleep with new introductions.]]> 0 http://monthlyreview.org/2012/05/01/marxs-ecology-and-the-understanding-of-land-cover-change http://monthlyreview.org/2012/05/01/marxs-ecology-and-the-understanding-of-land-cover-change#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 04:12:42 +0000 Ricardo Dobrovolski http://monthlyreview.org/?p=8319 0 http://monthlyreview.org/2012/05/01/petroleum-and-propaganda http://monthlyreview.org/2012/05/01/petroleum-and-propaganda#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 04:11:36 +0000 John W. Farley http://monthlyreview.org/?p=8322 The Inquisition of Climate Science explains in detail how the global-warming-denialist ideas that serve the interests of the oil companies (and fossil-fuels industry) become sincerely held beliefs for a significant fraction of society.]]> 0 http://monthlyreview.org/2012/05/01/who-killed-che http://monthlyreview.org/2012/05/01/who-killed-che#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 04:10:20 +0000 James D. Cockcroft http://monthlyreview.org/?p=8315 Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away With Murder is their second bombshell book dealing with Che Guevara and the U.S. government’s frequent use of illegal and criminal political assassinations and routine whopper lies in its foreign policy, all in the name of “defending freedom”…. In their new Che book these two prominent civil liberties lawyers present forty-four previously classified documents released under the Freedom of Information Act to show—quite meticulously and colorfully, as if in a courtroom drama—how the CIA, in concert with the White House, masterminded the murder of Che and then tried to cover it up.… For some readers this may seem like an old story, since the U.S. government now openly proclaims the legitimacy of assassinating foreign leaders and even U.S. citizens during its hypocritical “war on terrorism.”… But as Che himself once said in words that Libya’s murdered leader Muammar Qaddafi might have done well to heed, “You cannot trust imperialism, not even a little bit, not in anything.” And there, indeed, is the rub.]]> 0 http://monthlyreview.org/2012/05/01/a-red-robin http://monthlyreview.org/2012/05/01/a-red-robin#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 04:09:35 +0000 Albert Ruben http://monthlyreview.org/?p=8325 Robin Hood: People’s Outlaw and Forest Hero, it is Paul Buhle’s contention that in the almost eight centuries of his legendary existence, Robin has had his time come periodically but seldom more than now. With barbarians, foreign and domestic, at the gates whenever they are not in the palaces, the need for heroes to rise from the ranks of the masses is at least as urgent as it was in Robin Hood’s day.… Buhle argues that the world needs Robin Hood now more than ever. “We need Robin because rebellion against deteriorating conditions is inevitable….”]]> 0 http://monthlyreview.org/2012/04/01/mr-063-11-2012-04 http://monthlyreview.org/2012/04/01/mr-063-11-2012-04#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:15:32 +0000 The Editors http://monthlyreview.org/?p=8052 » Notes from the Editors

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For decades we have been arguing in Monthly Review that stagnation is the normal state of the mature monopoly-capitalist economies. Today the reality of stagnation is increasingly gaining the attention of the corporate media itself.… For those accustomed to thinking of the capitalist economy as either growing rapidly or occasionally falling into a severe crisis (from which it quickly bounces back), long-run stagnation is a difficult to understand phenomenon. [A stagnating economy] neither collapses into a full (or “classic”) crisis, which would allow it to clear out (or devalue) its overaccumulated capital, nor is it able to achieve a full recovery. Instead, it remains caught in a stagnation trap, limping along at a low rate of growth, with high unemployment and excess capacity. Under the circumstances—and without the help of some external stimulus like a major war, a financial bubble, or an epoch-making innovation—the capital accumulation process is unable to move off dead center.]]> 0 http://monthlyreview.org/2012/04/01/the-bull-market http://monthlyreview.org/2012/04/01/the-bull-market#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:14:40 +0000 Robert W. McChesney http://monthlyreview.org/?p=8059 0 http://monthlyreview.org/2012/04/01/sado-monetarism http://monthlyreview.org/2012/04/01/sado-monetarism#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:13:20 +0000 Michael Perelman http://monthlyreview.org/?p=8103 0