February 20, 2024
“It seems as if we could write the history of the nearly the whole of the Western World by detailing the history of the island that I believe Cristobal Colon... READ MORE
February 20, 2024
The American Revolution Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook By James Boggs With an Introduction by Grace Lee Boggs and additional historical and personal commentary James Boggs, born in Marion... READ MORE
February 20, 2024
Economics for Activists invites Monthly Review readers in San Jose and the San Francisco Bay Area to save January 25 at 7:00 pm Come to the San Jose Peace and... READ MOREFebruary 20, 2024
Chuck Mertz of This Is Hell! radio (FM 89.3) interviews Henry A. Giroux on his latest book, America’s Addiction to Terrorism “This is Hell is a weekly longform political interview... READ MORE
February 20, 2024
This book should be of interest to anyone constructing an understanding of the causes of violence, particularly as fed by the power motive and influenced by hidden psychological processes. It is a “must read” and a valuable reference for one’s personal library....
I used the 2008 book in my psychology of aggression class and my peace psychology class. I feel that book was one of the best resources I had and an education for our students. I am now making plans to use the 2015 book in adult learning classes.
February 20, 2024
Broadcasting from Berkeley’s radio station KPFA (94.1 FM), January 15, Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff of the Project Censored Show spend the hour in conversation with historian Laurence Shoup Shoup’s... READ MORE
February 20, 2024
Ellen Meiksins Wood, noted political theorist and socialist historian, author of a number of books and a professor at York University for three decades, has died of cancer at her... READ MORE
February 20, 2024
For over a decade, the American Psychological Association colluded with the Pentagon and CIA in endorsing and participating in torture as part of national security interrogations and forced feeding at... READ MORE
February 20, 2024
Far-right forces are on the move in and out of the US. Socialist Register 2016: The Politics of the Right, edited by Leo Panitch and Greg Albo, delivers crisp analyses of this trend.... A recurring theme in the book is the process of political centrism drifting to the right. This move enhances authoritarianism, a cultural feature of modern politics in the post Sept. 11 era.... Hard right politics dovetails with policing of national minorities. Lesley Wood outlines three related trends: “intelligence-led policing, community policing and strategic incapacitation protest policing,” which confront movements such as Black Lives Matter, pushing back for public control over this state function.
February 20, 2024
My interests cluster around understanding and exposing both global power structures and alternatives to the existing system. I approach this from the point of view of someone who wants to help create a socio-economic and political system worthy of humanity’s best inclinations. This would be a society and civilization without racial, class, sexual and gender divisions and conflicts, one based on authentic democracy, equality, civil freedoms, respect for the natural world, generous social arrangements, empathy, peace, social justice, and solidarity.
