Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been on an emotional roller coaster ever since they returned to capitalism.
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How Beijing’s severe pollution turned into clear blue skies over a few years
It was no magic wand-the authorities took several tough steps over the years to achieve this miracle.
In His Case, It Was True: On the Death of Victor Grossman (1928–2025)
Victor Grossman, born Stephen Wechsler in New York City in 1928, died in Berlin on Wednesday, December 17. His Berlin Bulletin appeared regularly on MR Online, and in 2019 Monthly Review Press published his memoir A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee....
Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics Requires an Even Bolder Economic Vision: The Case for Democratic Public Finance
The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensions are building behind the scenes over the party’s economic programme. On December...
EU sanctions Swiss intelligence expert Jacques Baud
The European Union is trying to eliminate sources of information that do not confirm with its official interpretation of real world events.
Honduras on the edge: Xiomara Castro calls for popular mobilization to confront U.S.-backed coup plot
Two weeks after elections in Honduras, no winner has yet been declared yet. As the irregularities grow, both the Liberal Party and LIBRE have denounced electoral fraud is being committed in favor of the far-right candidate.
FCC fights First Amendment and ‘democracy itself’
Allowing allegedly local broadcast firms to acquire even more stations—in markets where they already have stations, and in new cities—will put control over news in still fewer, more corporate hands. And it will decrease the numbers of local journalists reporting on...
Blockade is an act of war: Trump escalates attack on Venezuela
On Dec. 16, the Trump administration announced a “total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into, and out of, Venezuela.”
First we end the war, then we restart the factories: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2025)
While industrialization remains a top priority for Global South countries, debt-driven austerity, corporate dominance, wars, and sanctions keep many poorer nations locked into dependency and underdevelopment.
The New York Times ignores an essential part of the Jeffrey Epstein story — Israel
The New York Times has published a major exposé purporting to explain how Jeffrey Epstein rose to the top of the financial and political world, but it ignores one key topic: Israel.
Don’t let the state define what ‘intifada’ means
‘Intifada’ has a range of meanings, and the police must not be allowed to decide what it means themselves, explain Shabbir Lakha and Michael Lavalette.
In His Case, It Was True: On the Death of Victor Grossman (1928–2025)
Victor Grossman, born Stephen Wechsler in New York City in 1928, died in Berlin on Wednesday, December 17, 2025. His Berlin Bulletin appeared regularly on MR Online, and in 2019 Monthly Review Press published his memoir A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to...