February 20, 2024
"...the Marxist dependency-and-rift conception of the relation between capitalist societies and the environment is a better gateway to the Anthropocene than widespread social-monistic tendencies..."
February 20, 2024
What has changed in the old and new Cold Wars is the economic situation of the US with respect to China and the Global South....
February 20, 2024
At first no one would touch Stone’s findings – they were too hot. But Stone got in touch with Monthly Review -- and this was the first book we published. Courageously written at the height of the McCarthy era, officials never refuted nor denied the book’s claims, but Stone’s book still got a real audience due to the durable reputation of the journalist himself. Christine Hong, MR author Marty Hart-Landsberg, and Gregory Elich (each of the Korea Policy Institute) and Time Beal discuss...
February 20, 2024
Tim Beal and Gregory Elich, in the intro to the book, write “There is a certain constancy in human affairs. Deceit, deception, and manipulation are characteristics of power, perhaps especially of modern ‘democratic’ political power—what country does not claim to be adhering to democracy?”
February 20, 2024
This volume is the first in nearly forty years in which Leo Panitch didn’t play a direct role. Though last year’s volume was produced following his tragic death in 2020, he’d been heavily involved in setting its perspectives and goals. The present volume represents both a tribute to Leo and an effort to carry on...
February 20, 2024
Wars never start on the date given in history books. There is always a pre-history, a series of events and decisions that lead to the outbreak of fighting. The war in Korea has been called in America the ‘Forgotten War’ and it is not difficult to see why it was soon shunted out of public sight, consigned to oblivion. It was the first war that the United States did not win and it ended in an armistice, a concession of stalemate, but also an ominous indicator of unfinished business...
February 20, 2024
Watch an incredible community of radical thinkers and doers come together as they convene around "The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era," a new book by Rob Wallace and co-authors....
February 20, 2024
There is no evidence that Vietnam veterans were spat on. Nor could they have been, at least not in the manner described in the most often told stories. Those stories tell of landing at San Francisco Airport and being met by groups of spitters, often hippies. But flights from Vietnam landed at military airbases like Travis outside San Francisco; protesters could not have gotten on the airbase, much less near deplaning troops.
February 20, 2024
(Read on, if you know Indondesian) Dalam ekonomi global saat ini, sebagian besar produksi terjadi di negara-negara “berkembang” seperti Tiongkok, India, dan Indonesia. Namun, sebagian besar keuntungan dari produk-produk yang dihasilkannya tetap menggunung dalam dompet para kapitalis di Eropa, Amerika, dan Jepang. Enak saja! Kok bisa?
February 20, 2024
"...works brilliantly to create suspense and dramatic interest in that the reader is asked to see the world through the eyes of its main protagonist..."
