Monthly Review Blog

McGuire: Around 2.4 trillion tons of carbon dioxide has been released into the atmosphere in the last couple of centuries. This is acting as a blanket, keeping in heat that would otherwise head off into space.

When a life is lauded by both Henry Kissinger and Boris Johnson, the deceased must have done something very wrong.

In November 2022, most member states of the United Nations (UN) will gather in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh for the annual UN Climate Change Conference.

Dangerous heat waves to hit three times more often than today; tropical regions including India likely to face extreme heat conditions almost daily by the end of this century.

Alun Hubbard: "As a field glaciologist, I’ve worked on ice sheets for more than 30 years. In that time, I have witnessed some gobsmacking changes."

ECONOMISTS distinguish between two kinds of inflation: “demand-pull” and “cost-push”.

Protesters denounce increased power outages, while power prices have risen several times since LUMA began operating Puerto Rico’s electricity system.

WHERE DO AMERICA’S MASS SHOOTERS COME FROM??--It is extremely easy in the United States to obtain guns, to find places to practice using them, and to find trainers willing to teach you to use them.

Jacques Baud (JB): The aim of this book is to show how the misinformation propagated by our media has contributed to push Ukraine in the wrong direction. I wrote it under the motto “from the way we understand crises derives the way we solve them.”

Yves here. There have been a lot of suggestions about how to improve the Biden student debt forgiveness plan.

We will have to answer to the 'law' as 'war criminals'

On the hundred year anniversary of Howard Zinn's birth, Sean Ledwith examines the life and work of America’s greatest radical historian.