That’s what’s different this time: Stuff blows up because of leverage and cascades through the crypto space because everything’s interconnected.
Monthly Review Blog
SPEECH: The Black Revolution is Part of World-wide Struggle, Malcolm X, 1964
Malcolm X reminds us of the deceit of liberals, the power of international thinking, and the coming of Black revolution.
Recognizing Mike Davis, San Diego’s giant of Urban Theory
When the news spread a couple weeks ago that San Diego scholar and activist Mike Davis was going on palliative care, it generated an outpouring of support online. And for good reason.
UK to swap out top sociopath for a different sociopath: notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix
Boris Johnson resigning would only be interesting in an alternate universe where there was some remote chance that he won’t be replaced by another depraved sociopath.
Fueling the Warfare State
America's $1.4 Trillion "National Security" Budget Makes Us Ever Less Safe
Senate urged to block Biden’s pro-privatization nominee for Social Security Board
"The Senate can, and must, block this terrible nomination," Social Security Works said of the administration's choice of Andrew Biggs.
Taiwan and the making of an “Asian” NATO
The United States wants to turn Taiwan into an Asian Ukraine. The goal is to use it as a weapon against a China, a country that has been declared an adversary.
Lithuania’s Brinkmanship
The restoration of Russia’s rail connection with Kaliningrad is urgently needed to avoid a conflict in the Baltics that has worried NATO for a long time.
As anti-BDS bills become the norm, ACLU takes free speech fight to the Supreme Court
In June, a federal appeals court upheld an Arkansas law barring state contractors from boycotting Israel, sparking concerns over First Amendment rights in the United States.
Heroic Oakland community strikes and occupies elementary school to prevent closures
For months, school board meetings have been flooded with outcry from parents, teachers and children defending public education. Since May 25, the community has been occupying Parker Community School to protest its closure.
Biden’s reckless new provocation ratchets up risk of nuclear war with China
Sending U.S. Warships into South China Sea and Taiwan Strait in violation of UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
The making of the Evangelical anti-abortion movement
In 1971, the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, adopted a resolution calling on fellow Southern Baptists to work to make abortion legal under certain conditions, namely, ‘rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal...











