Notes from the Editors, July-August 2008
July 1, 2008
This number of Monthly Review is a special issue on “Ecology: The Moment of Truth,” edited by Brett Clark, John Bellamy Foster, and Richard York. In the present issue we… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
Peak Oil and Energy Imperialism
July 1, 2008
The rise in overt militarism and imperialism at the outset of the twenty-first century can plausibly be attributed largely to attempts by the dominant interests of the world economy to… READ MORE
Framing India’s Hydraulic Crisis: The Politics of the Modern Large Dam
July 1, 2008
Rohan D’Souza is assistant professor at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy (Jawaharlal Nehru Unversity, India). He is the author of Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2008
June 1, 2008
The first third of 2008 should have been a wake-up call to those who, in the short-lived days of capitalist triumphalism, were inclined to lose sight of the immediacy of… READ MORE
No Human Being Is Illegal: Moving Beyond Deportation Law
June 1, 2008
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is an attorney. His articles have appeared in law reviews at Boston College, Loyola University New Orleans, Seattle University, and, forthcoming, St. Thomas University. He can… READ MORE
Remembering Andre Gunder Frank While Thinking About the Future
June 1, 2008
Immanuel Wallerstein is senior research scholar at Yale University. He is the author, most recently, of European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power (The New Press, 2006). This is from an… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2008
May 1, 2008
The subprime mortgage crisis that emerged late last summer in the United States led to a massive seizure in the world financial system that has had capital staggering ever since…. READ MORE
United States of Insecurity: Interview with Noam Chomsky
May 1, 2008
Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His most recent books are Interventions (City Lights, 2007), Failed States (Metropolitan Books, 2007), and Inside… READ MORE
The Subprime Debacle
May 1, 2008
Karl Beitel is currently conducting research for Service Employees International Union, Local 1021. He may be contacted at kbeitel [at] earthlink.net. The views expressed in this article are those of… READ MORE
Sweezy in Perspective
May 1, 2008
This is the foreword to a collection of Paul Sweezy”s essays translated into Bengla, Paul M. Sweezy, Bishshaayan Natoon Keechhu Noy; Nirbaacheeto Prabandha (Globalization is Nothing New; Selected Essays), edited… READ MORE