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...
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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...
Venezuela mounts full-state rejection to Trump’s blockade threat, gains International backing
“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,” Trump wrote on social media this Tuesday, December 16, adding that “it will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen...
Pundits blame Sydney slaughter on protest slogan
Australian officials are still learning about the individuals who carried out the Bondi Beach attack, killing more than a dozen Jews celebrating Hanukkah in Sydney.
What is at the root of Trump’s hate towards Somalis?
It’s clear that Trump hates Somalis.
U.S. expands military encirclement of China across the Pacific
Chinese leaders have described this strategy as “containment, encirclement and suppression”–a description borne out by the expanding bases, bomber patrols and alliance commitments now taking shape across the Pacific.
Infant freezes to death in Gaza, fifth child to die in days amid Israeli aid restrictions
Civil Defense Spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said Tuesday that winter rains flooded 90 percent of tents in the war-torn enclave, leaving thousands of families without shelter.
The Martin Luther King Center in Cuba: Immersed in the World and the Revolution
Over the years, the Center has trained thousands of popular educators. Marilín explains how the educators often find themselves in complex situations. “The Christians see us as communists, and the communists see us as Christians—though some of the latter recognize we...











