Geography
March 1, 2009
As we write these notes in late January 2009 the economic depression is worsening with each passing day, creating previously unthinkable conditions. Even as production sinks and unemployment soars in… READ MORE
March 1, 2009
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is coauthor, with Fred Magdoff, of The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and… READ MORE
March 1, 2009
Michael E. Tigar teaches law at Duke University School of Law, and is the author of Thinking About Terrorism (Chicago: American Bar Association, 2007), and Fighting Injustice (Chicago: American Bar… READ MORE
February 1, 2009
In 1987, in the introduction to their Stagnation and Financial Explosion, Monthly Review editors Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy wrote: We both reached adulthood during the 1930s, and it was… READ MORE
February 1, 2009
Samir Amin is director of the African office (in Dakar, Senegal) of the Third World Forum and chair of the World Forum for Alternatives. He is the author of numerous… READ MORE
January 1, 2009
This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the beginning of the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in the history of capitalism. However, while… READ MORE
January 1, 2009
Diana Raby is senior fellow at the Research Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool (UK) and is also professor emeritus of history at the University of Toronto. She… READ MORE
January 1, 2009
Ricardo Alarcón De Quesada is president of the National Assembly of People’s Power, Cuba’s parliament. He was ambassador to the United Nations (1966–78 and 1990–92) and Cuba’s foreign minister (1992–93)…. READ MORE
January 1, 2009
Steve Brouwer is the author of Robbing Us Blind: The Return of the Bush Gang (Common Courage Press, 2003); Sharing the Pie: A Citizen’s Guide to Wealth and Power in… READ MORE
January 1, 2009
Sinan Koont teaches economics and is coordinator of Latin American Studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and recently spent a sabbatical semester in Cuba studying urban agriculture. Urban Agriculture… READ MORE
