Monthly Review Blog

An analysis of Donald Trump’s attacks on Venezuela, the economic impact of U.S. sanctions, and the similarities and differences with the successful Western regime-change war on Syria.

Trump tried to walk back the importance of the 50-year mortgage plan he’d already promoted online, and that Pulte called a “complete game changer”—telling Fox he just thought it might “help a little bit.”

Our rulers want us dumb, distracted, vapid and dissociated. And they definitely don’t want us feeling the horror, grief and rage we should all be experiencing in response to this nightmare of a civilization they have designed for us.

Richard Falk has spent the better part of a century inside the world’s most serious rooms: the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, the international legal tribunals where the language of war, occupation, and human rights is hammered into shape.

COP30 meets ten years after the Paris Agreement, and Earth is warming faster than ever.

Why do market-centric fixes for “unequal exchange” fall short? Sidelining social relations and production power turns colonialism into a pricing problem—and hides the mechanisms that keep uneven development in place.

Documents released by a federal court provide new and disturbing details of Trump associates’ attempt to orchestrate a coup against a government they clearly did not understand.

The U.S., under Trump, is unapologetically an empire operating without pretense.

More than 1,500 people have been arrested under terrorism legislation at protests against the proscription, many for merely holding signs saying: “I support Palestine Action. I oppose genocide.”

Did 7+ million really leave the country to flee socialism?

Backed by foreign powers, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are locked in a bloody war with devastating consequences for the Sudanese people.

Washington D.C.’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine continues to grind up lives.