Monthly Review Blog

The Trump admin pressured countries to oppose a UN General Assembly resolution calling to end the illegal US embargo against Cuba. Only 7 voted against it. 165 member states (85%) supported the measure.

Trump threatens to go into Nigeria ‘guns-a-blazing’ over attacks on Christians.

Former U.S. vice president Richard “Dick” Cheney died on 3 November 2025 at age 84; his family said he had suffered from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.

New York City baseball legend Yogi Berra said it best: "It’s déjà vu all over again."

I was reflecting on the wisdom I acquired in one of my early college classes, “Introduction to American Government,” and subsequent historical readings. First, the conventional wisdom of American political life was that Vice Presidents are rarely of any administrative...

Goonin: We had a petition for people to sign, expressing their opposition to the contract, and we collected more than 2,000 signatures.

In the pantheon of movies about nuclear catastrophe, the emotional power of A House of Dynamite is rivalled, to my way of thinking, only by Fail Safe, in which Henry Fonda, as an American president, must drop the bomb on New York City to atone for a mistaken U.S....

So the stock market may be booming and the AI hype is still exploding, but the rest of the economy is not so buoyant; and there appear to be cockroaches eating into the clean running of the world of debt. Watch that space.

Prison mirrors society in its hierarchies. Its walls replicate the structures of caste, class, and privilege with cruel precision. This book joins a growing canon of India's prison literature.

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” Thus wrote the famous psychologist Abraham Maslow in 1966.

What Washington is building is not merely a show of force; it is a forward posture aimed at breaking the Bolivarian Republic’s resistance and installing a pliant, pro-U.S. order in Caracas.

AI-powered quadcopter drones used by the IDF to commit genocide in Gaza are flying over American cities, surveilling protestors and automatically uploading millions of images to an evidence database.